skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at BBC and was part of the team that split the BBC News website up into UK and International (UKFS and IFS) and some of the early advertising additions.

BBC Worldwide is an independent for-profit organization and, for the most part, responsible for the commercialization of BBC assets outside of the UK as the BBC itself is not able to commercialize.

Assets like Top Gear are an example of that - the show's production budget is(/was) unusually high because the BBC produces it for the world market where it knows it will generate a significant return selling the licenses (or broadcasting on BBC America etc). Compare that to domestic shows, such as Have I Got News For You, which is not shown abroad.

The advertising on BBC Website is placed by BBC Worldwide and they receive the money from that.

Profits made by BBC Worldwide are dispersed back into the BBC itself.

Aside from Worldwide the BBC has split up and sold or commercialized other assets. Much of the technical infrastructure it owned became RedBee and was invested in by Castle and/or Siemens (my memory is fuzzy). They also broke off their studio facilities into BBC Studios which I believe now operate commercially.

The BBC has been pushed considerably by Tory governments to becomes smaller over time which has resulted in these sell offs and break offs.

I've not worked at the BBC for 15 years but follow it closely and can probably answer other questions you might have.
I'm proposing talking about these issues in terms of the actual (largely commercial, on both sides) interests involved, instead of amorphous terms like "protecting our freedom". In the name of protecting "freedom", the United States has propped up totalitarian and brutally oppressive regimes in countries all over the world. Maybe it's time they start using a different buzzword to describe their goals.

IF the US does that right, they might even get the chance to stop arming, training and empowering the next generation's enemies.
I tried running something like this on my own, but I got OOM errors pretty quickly. 4 gigs isn't a lot when it comes to video processing. Hopefully wasm64 and WebGPU will make it a lot better.
Let's get it straight, in your opinion a simple unilateral designation of a foreign government as "oppressive" is enough to justify actions which will help to overthrow it (including black flag operations and general destabilization), to fund and train militias which will fight against it, and even take a direct military action against the government forces?

Do you think that Russian support of Donbass rebels in the Ukrainian civil war is justified?

If your answer to the first questions is yes, and no to the second one, then I am afraid you think in terms of the mainstream propaganda, so the further discussion between us will be fruitless.
is part of this due to all the current unofficial policy of "deliberate ambiguity"? If the DPP does officially make a move to state that ROC is Taiwan and a sovereign entity, would that be one condition that might prompt a PLA invasion?
There's a few reasons, among them to attract certain kinds of investors, and certain types of potential co-workers, and to mix with whichever crowd the "startup action" is happening in.

If you want people to think of David to the incumbent Goliaths, something with a mission to introduce something new and breakthrough to the world, a conduit for the wild dreams of youth to come alive, call it a startup.

If you want people to think stodgy, established, nice stable place to work and pay your mortgage off for 30 years, but no changing the world, call it a business.

Like any branding, that will affect who approaches you and what opportunities you end up with.
You should check out Singaporean English or "Singlish", which uses a lot of Chinese grammar and Hokkien and Malay vocabulary in English sentences. It's a wonderfully efficient dialect taking the best from all of these languages.
I agree that censorship is likely not the way to achieve this, but the current social media model propagates the most absurd garbage exponentially while science / reality is left behind because of "low engagement". I feel there must be some way to address this without censorship.
>It would be best if nobody went

That seems like a pretty radical thing to say. Sure, some people go into debt for degrees with questionable job prospects, but you really believe that the world would be better off if nobody went to college?
If you do what you're told, you're paid too much
Additionally, much of the interim unemployment benefits were explicitly designed to keep people from wanting to go back to work -- if my choices were back to work at a job without adequate social distancing or design of safety screens and blocking for workers or making 150% of my former salary staying on unemployment, guess which one I'd choose?

I strongly expect to see the lower income unemployment rate drop pretty hard in the nearer future, given that not all states are using the FEMA assistance for their unemployment systems, and even with the number that are, that money will run out and benefits will go back to pre-COVID levels of lower-than-your-original salary. Once that really starts setting in, and with the high job posting rate, employment will jump up.

This ignores the group of people who have pre-existing conditions and really can't go back to work without possibly even excessive social distancing, but I'm unsure the magnitude of impact that will have on the labor force...
To be fair to Kanye, he was absolutely correct. Single Ladies is one of the greatest videos of all time. Does anyone even remember what Swift's winning video was? The only reason not to give it to Beyoncé was she had just won something else and "they" were trying to promote Taylor Swift. It's a case of being technically correct but at the wrong time and place.
Yeah, indeed many things about that transition could have been handled better. E.g. it should have been more small incremental steps, the version 2 should have been phased out quicker, there should have been tooling to help transitions like these etc.
And Osama bin Laden was a "freedom fighter" in the eyes of the West once.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anti-soviet-warrior...
If a rich guy's willing to pay a lot of money to get his dumb kid into a university, enough to fund scholarships for two or three smart-but-poor kids, what's the ethical problem?

I see no problem with universities having an admission tier for rich people that's like 10x as expensive as normal tuition, but completely bypasses the application process.

Or maybe they auction off 5% of their seats and let the market set the price for those no-qualifications-required seats.
Former YouTube content moderator describes horrors of the job in lawsuit
I take issue with this:

> But the thought of "What would I do if I didn't have this job? I've got rent and food and car payments and bills, I'd be homeless and never work again!" works against this advice and so people compromise their principles or their morals or their willingness to do harm to others, because they are just doing what the boss told them to do and they really need this job."

This seems so out of touch with reality and totally ignores the day-to-day struggles that many people have. PG (I'm not sure about Jessica's situation at the time) was doing well financially after having sold Viaweb. This doesn't take away from PG's desire to help or his accomplishments, but most folks are not rich or making $500k/year working in Silicon Valley and can't afford to throw away their jobs.
Some ways this article could be improved:

- /et/... should be /etc/...

- not assuming your editor is neovim.

- not assuming those fonts are installed.

Some people like the font hinting and antialiasing in macOS. I don't. Fonts get really thick and hard to read.

Retina mode makes fonts vastly more readable but it requires a $1000+ Apple monitor. On Linux I can plug a $300 monitor, switch resolution to 4k, set display scaling to 2x and save myself $700+.
This is genus, all it needs is an airsoft gun and it would be perfect!
> Or will they have to concede like opera and edge did.

I am sad to say this, but I think it's only a matter of time. At this point, the list of parties driving Web standards basically consists of a whole bunch of organizations that rely on Blink, plus Apple and Mozilla.

WebKit can probably hang on for a good long while because ~15% of user-agents are required by fiat to be WebKit.

Gecko? At 5% marketshare, I fear it's dropped below the point where web developers are well-incentivized worry too much about making sure their sites run well on it. Which means that it's going to get increasingly costly for individuals to continue using Firefox.

And, at the same time, actually making sure your site runs well on it is getting increasingly difficult. The rise of client-side JavaScript frameworks like React means that cross-browser issues have moved beyond easy-to-perceive things like ActiveX controls not being supported, or CSS rendering badly. Now the big problem is differences between JavaScript engines leading to annoying performance problems. And, if a developer is planning on doing the sane thing and relying mostly on libraries for their heavy lifting, there's just not that much that any individual can do about it.

My sense, at this point, is that, going forward, the Internet does still have room for free, open, community-driven standards that aren't tightly controlled by a small number of massive corporations. However, the Web (i.e., HTML, CSS and JavaScript) does not.
I've only used a couple blade grinders (think like a $19 Hamilton Beach grinder) so I can't speak to if there are any super fancy ones, but it is inherent in their basic design that you won't necessarily get uniform coarseness from the grounds. The blades chop up the beans basically at random as they fly around in the grinder. Compare this to a decent burr grinder (like a $99 OXO) which the beans all fall through and get caught in the burrs in the same way. $80 is a big difference (to me, anyway), so I feel bad suggesting someone else spend that, but I can say I taste the difference between the two, and I've made up for it with the fact that I no longer feel the need to treat myself to a nicer cup of coffee from a coffee shop on a Friday morning.

The other benefit of getting a burr grinder is that you can dedicate the blade grinder to whole spices. Having a little residual cardamom in your coffee might be agreeable, but that's not the case for cumin or cayenne. :)

Good point about the beans. I didn't think about that because I've been buying the same beans from my grocery store's bulk bin for years. These same beans have seen every grinder and brewing gadget that's come through my house.
What recent scummy business practices did Apple do?
It's implicit in the verbiage of us being in "recovery" that the worst is past, no more lockdowns are coming, etc, all of which are... debateable, especially where the US is concerned.
To be fair, it can happen when the kernel is very busy, for example while paging.
Even with a SSD and 16 GB RAM, it happens regularly for me due to bloated webpages, or apps like VS Code.
The short answer is that we don't know the exact meaning. There are similar finds of dental modifications scattered across the Southwest. However, it's important to note that the Southwest was in active "cultural communication" with its neighboring areas, including Mesoamerica. Plenty of ideas went both ways, especially iconography. People like Lekson are still arguing that Chaco was at least partially an experiment/imitation of more Southern political systems.
Paul told me directly back in 2009 that YC had to be in SV and he had a bunch of reasons for it. Whether those reasons are still true today could be debated, but it was clear to him, at least that location mattered. Like most things it's a combination of factors that give the best result.
the moment i saw something along the lines of "use Shazam on this ad spot to find out more" i was pretty certain where they were heading to.
If you're part of a larger corporation, observe both your own units profits and revenue, and that of other units. Know where it comes from, and how long it can be sustained.

Circa 2009 we had a layoff (we weren't the only ones) despite being profitable. The warning signs were obvious (to me at least, everyone else seemed caught off guard). We were profitable, but our most profitable project was coming to a close (a massive retrofit project for US military vehicles, they'd nearly finished retrofitting the entire fleet so the amount of work was due to drop massively). Despite that, we were still very profitable but without the same margins. The other divisions, however, were all losing money. Corporate didn't want to lose them, it was better to scale them back and rebuild after the recession (a large amount of other revenue our division was in both new construction and renovation of office and industrial buildings, which obviously weren't happening as much in 2009). Knowing where money comes into the corporation is critical for understanding how national/world events will impact it.
> There's a big difference between not caring and making a tradeoff. You can care about A and B but decide B is more important than A. But if you don't care about A, then there's no tradeoff, you just choose B no matter what.

fair enough, I probably overstated my point with some of the wording.

> The question is, why do we make consumers make that tradeoff? Why are we shipping junk at all? There shouldn't be a reliability tradeoff. All products should be reliable. It ought to be a bare minimum standard.

everything in life is a tradeoff. we could make software more reliable, but then we would have to spend less time adding new features, or we would have to hire more/better engineers and charge more. maybe we even get to pay down tech debt and gain the ability to add features faster in the long run. doesn't really matter if someone else dumps a bunch of buggy new features in the meantime, converts our customers, and forces us out of business. in the absence of some industry-wide gentleman's agreement or regulation, we have to observe the behavior of customers and do what their behavior (not words!) indicates they want.
> Restricting ourselves to the scarcity of a single namespace seems both sensible & practical, like a straightforward route towards adoptability, towards a more likely to be impactful protocol. But I do hope some of the wilder, less restrained options for how we do naming get a chance, are a part of our broader experiments in naming.

Do you have some particular options in mind? Practically any example I am can come up with ends up devolving to a single namespace.

The least restrictive one I can recall is the Usenet namespace where the equivalent of a subdomain didn't — at least in principle — require permission from the domain "owner" to establish (eg. alt.comics.superman.dies.dies.dies). In practice this required coordination and consensus among various administrators for a new group to be established, and under various scenarios existing "owners" could object.
> What your are basically seeing as a complete failure of all government programs and safety nets.

Not to get overly political, but I think this was the goal, at least for one of the US's political parties.
All of those are not caught from the air.
There's literally nowhere else to leak things like this without removal (major platforms) or tampering by the administration (wikileaks et al).
It's not clear whether education inequality is the cause or consequence of wealth inequality.
I use Adobe Source Sans and Source Code.

With Inter, I'd probably use Hack, an update on the great DejaVu Mono which was also the source of Apple's Menlo, their previous default. It shares some features with Inter like a single-story g.
Trouble with events like that is that it encourages people to travel, stay in hotels, and 'socialise' (in the "drinking large amounts of inhibition-lowering alcohol in the company of others" sense). The event itself would probably not be that dangerous; it's everything around it.
One thing that gets lost in this is that YC had money to begin with.

It's like saying that Kylie Jenner is a self-made billionaire.

Which isn't a criticism of PG or Jessica or YC. They had money because Paul had built a company and sold it. It was money worked for.

But to say that "YC worked because of PG and Jessica and that's it" is rather disingenuous. Money grants you time to invest towards the long-term and to make mistakes. You can have a family atmosphere that invests in/bets on people if you have enough money to sustain yourself for a while. And you can equally afford to experiment on new models when you need less from outside parties.

Again, this isn't a criticism.
Many people are badmouthing Mozilla because they disbanded the group working on their pet language, Rust, as if this was synonym for Firefox technology. There are many things that Mozilla does beyond working on Rust.
Maybe the opposite: Someone mentioned up above that crows and larger animals sometimes team up to hunt (they mentioned coyotes), the crow finding prey and the other animal killing it for both of them.

Maybe staying away is the default state, but the grocery store is a hunting ground where they're teaming up with humans in a similar way?
Ah yeah. I recently switched from ADSL to fibre. Speed-wise, it's full joy. However the now incredibly advanced modem/set-top-box/DVR is an utter mess.

There are two boxes : a network server/DVR/router and a TV set-top-box. The server part so far behaves reasonably well (apart for a couple of interface quirks). But the set-top-box is a nightmare.

It all started with networking. The system ships with PLC adapters. It turns out that nothing reliably works with these. I switched to WiFi. It's worse. I finally gave up and now have a 15 m ethernet cable going around my living room.

You have random error messages every time you turn on the set-top-box. When switching from the TV function to some other (like chromecast, or youtube), half the time the sound from the last TV channel you visited can still be heard. You have to hard reset the box to solve the problem.

Once the bluetooth remote stopped working. I tried everything (swapping batteries, resetting everything, etc), no luck; finally I had to do a full factory reset of the set-top box and pair it again with the remote (takes about 30 to 40 minutes I probably could have enjoyed more doing anything else).

The box has an integrated chromecast. However it can't be seen on the network about half the time. I've found that by turning the box off and on, then going to some network app (like youtube), it's back.

Then half the time chromecast playback is choppy and unreliable. You have to turn it off and on, etc.

Then you have the same sort of weird behaviour with Youtube, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc you name it. Not a single app works reliably (i. e. the first time, and most of the time).

I complained on the forum. People yelled at me because literally millions of people are using the same setup as I am, and don't complain, so it's probably that I'm too fussy. I'm not. It's really awful. Fortunately I don't watch TV anymore, but I must intervene at least once or twice a week to sort out bugs for my family.

What's surprising is actually that millions of people probably have a hard time now simply watching TV, because all of these "smart devices" are so broken.
Sure, here there is the full list. https://www.youtube.com/user/antirez
What Are the Benefits, Harms, and Ethics of Infant Circumcision?
Masks gets moist over time and virus will build up in it, are there any tests checking how well they work after a full workday? It wouldn't be strange if the virus buildup on the mask pretty quickly makes you start spreading covid, and then the false sense of security would actually cause them to increase spread rather than reduce it.

Edit: Also that is for surgical face masks, most people just put a piece of cloth in their face. I would like to see a study for a piece of cloth in front of your mouth for the entire day and see how much virus there is after that.
Nearly all of those programs listed are funded and administered at the state and local level, which are run by both major political parties.
I don't want to sound snarky or overly skeptical, but I've seen a lot of people say that the trackpad under macOS is a lot nicer than that under linux, but I don't see what they mean. I have a ~6yo linux laptop as my primary machine and I pretty regularly help my mother-in-law with her ~1yo macbook pro and, other than the mac's trackpad being quite a bit larger, feel no difference between them. I grew up using macs, so I get that they often have that extra bit of quality that's not always easy to put into words, but I just don't feel that with the trackpad. Just curious what the difference is for you?
I’ve been on macOS for 16 years. Never has it forced me to restart or update (not counting panics or other bugs).
So basically you install a snitch for the biggest corporation on earth that does not needs a warrant to share any of the recording with the police so you can have a neat toy. And I thought ring was creepy.
In the hope of starting something:

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
4. Wu-Tang clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
> This ignores the group of people who have pre-existing conditions and really can't go back to work.

...and the group of people who have pre-existing conditions, but can’t afford to miss work, get sick and go bankrupt, become disabled or die.
The analogy is purposeful. Medicine is an older field that has had time to develop societally-necessary protections. Whereas computing is young so there is an overriding call to burn the witch, exemplified by monstrosities like the CFAA.

I was specifically responding to the idea that telling someone about a program was furthering a crime. You're arguing a different point. And to me it's completely uninteresting to argue over what USG can technically charge him with, because we already know that USG is adept at crafting and twisting law to justify its own actions.
This seems like a much more useful usecase to me than burglars, but apparently you can't manually control the device beyond automated paths, which makes this almost useless I think.

But even if you could manually control the device, I'd be too afraid of having Amazon capturing full video of all my belongings. They have the resources to easily hook up the feed to an object detection ETL or some other AI system to extract a ton of information about the owners, and then sell that as specialized advertising intelligence. All of a sudden my mailbox fills up with lots of high focused ads.

OK I realize that's probably going down the conspiracy theory path a little much :), but I don't think it's too far off.
According to the CDC [0]...

"We currently don’t have enough information yet to say whether someone will definitely be immune and protected from reinfection if they have antibodies to the virus."

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...
I've never had any real issues with the UI. I run it locally, and sync it to a cloudserver where I run it headless.
Both the local and web ui are fine IMHO. They allow me to get things done and the work.
Personally, I think it would be really hard to just meet someone whom I share no common ground with, and meeting someone who's taking the same course makes things a lot easier. I see that discovering other students based on personal/professional/academic interests could work, but then I would just join a club in that case.

My cohort is based on major + year (eg. Mech Engineering Class of 2022) And the Discord server is cohort wise (eg. theres different message channels for different courses, a few lounge voice channels etc.)