skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uhuh, how about those power shutoffs from PGE?

California is a fucking socialist shithole.
WSL 2 is making windows one of the best operating systems to run linux applications on.
how do you cool a gas while increasing pressure? by PV=nRT you have to reduce volume linearly.
Moodle is GPL. The expensive part is training, not the license fees. Lots of teachers really need extreme amounts of hand-holding, even younger ones who have been using websites for their entire lives. (And you can replace "teacher" there with any other profession, including "programmer".)
newer stepper drivers have dramatically reduced noise. There have also been some pretty dramatic speed improvements made with newer motion control systems like CoreXY and Delta.

its still several orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than sending a schematic out to a traditional manufacturing prototyping shop, at least for parts that are appropriate for this particular method of manufacturing
Upvoted for fascist reference.
I agree with you, I think it's beautiful too. I'm a strong advocate for universal human rights - and for improving on the set of rights that we agree on.

> my native country of Iceland came within 5 minutes of breaking a month ago but the children were safely hid from the authorities who were going to unjustly deport them

A fine example answer to "How does the immigration system violate human rights?"
It should be obvious, but here are things from your comment that are very different from my or saagarjha’s version:

“we still want you to take the blame”

Neither I, nor saargarjha nor Apple are saying anything about blame.

You are putting words into Apple’s mouth here.

“Don't even dare”

There is nothing in my, or Apple’s or Sagaarjha’s comment that has this connotation.

You are adding in the idea that Apple wants developers to be afraid.

“merely following Apple’s guidelines”

Again, not something that is true, and not something reflected in either my or Sagaargarjha’s comment. If someone actually complies with a request from Apple, there is a lot more going on than ‘merely following guidelines’, an obvious one being that there may be a real problem with the content behind taken down.

By saying this, you exclude the possibility that Apple is acting in good faith.

To summarize, your comment was in no way a fair rewriting of Apple’s comment.

You introduced a set of additional content that weren’t in anyone else’s version, and which give the appearance of Apple’s actions being the meritless bullying of a bad faith actor.

That is the entire substance of your comment.

It’s certainly possible that Apple’s actions are disagreeable to many people, but HN shows that they are not universally considered meritless.

It’s also possible for Apple to act like a bully uninitentionally, or to actually bully developers. They are not above that and we should discuss it.

But those facts don’t make your ‘rewrite’ a fair reflection.
This is simply not true in my experience. Most prominent example is Youtube, where there is an option for an ad-free experience which is decently priced. And yet, the adoption is very low and you still see people complaining about ads on Youtube all the time.

I guess a vast majority of people simply don't want to pay if there is a somewhat acceptable free alternative.
Yeah, I'm 7 months into being forced to WFH and I still hate it. I like the work/life separation going into the office brings. I actually liked my commute since I took the bus, so it was time to read and decompress. I like seeing and talking to my coworkers. I like having the variety of simply being out of the house. I like not having work stuff at home, so when I'm home, I don't have the temptation to do work. I'm glad WFH works for so many people, but it sure does not work for me.
I just don’t get it, what is Twitter so afraid of? It’s already a cesspool of flame wars and misinformation, I’m growing deeply concerned about their need to interject themselves into news stories like this.
I always love HashiCorp products!

But...

This feels like Otto v2 to me, and it seems like it hasn't actually solved the underlying problem with Otto: that it was simpler to just use and learn the underlying tools instead of a very specific DSL that transformed into them. If I have to look up how to use Waypoint to create Dockerfiles/Kubernetes manifests anyway, why not just learn how to use Dockerfiles and Kubernetes manifests?

I'm pretty excited by Boundary, but I don't really see the point of this.
Company size is measured in revenue, not valuation.

Tesla is not small anymore by revenue but it's not in top 100 US companies either.
Problem is Ubuntu’s desktop. Try with a recent Fedora with Gnome, will prob work fine no tweak required.
Wifi Dabba (YC W17) – Own a Piece of the Internet in India
The thing is, the west has chosen the "Christian, white identity" for its "us vs them" political discourse.

Yes, their democracy does strive to push multiculturalism today (it didn't in the past), but politically this identity is important as only that spans borders and allows them to forge strong political ties. They need to because older civilizations like in Asia and the middle-east out number them. Apart from this, it's basic politics that you have to seem superior than others to wield power. Thus, imperialism spread the idea that the white christian was put on earth to educate the rest and even rule over them. That is why white colonies - like the US, Canada, Australia etc. had more freedom and rights than the occupied colonies like India, China, middle east, Africa etc whose citizen where heavily discriminated against by the conquerors.

In today's modern world, this superiority is showcased through technical advancement, peace and prosperity - thus, US and UK made a concerted effort to ensure that conflicts among European countries ended or became minor irritants, and they appeared united. Thus the US, Canada, Europe, Australia all together project a united front through a strong economic and military alliance. And they also make sure that their close allies (that allow a military base) also flourish economically - that is one of the reason why Israel, Korea and Japan have a thriving economy (but a not so independent military).

To reinforce this perception they also cause conflict among the weaker nations. The old British policy of divide and rule continues to strive as historical grievances between countries are used to keep them fighting each other - thus today conflicts continue in South America, Africa, Asia and Eurasia. And they are fueled by the west taking sides as they please.

Another major reason for creating conflicts is to ensure that their military continues to have fighting experience - thus they are also regularly send to these conflict zones. (Afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria being current examples. While it was Vietnam and Korea in the past).

The biggest fear of the west is an Asia without conflict - If India and China and Japan resolve their differences, and work together, the age of the west as we know it will be over. Hence their desperate attempt to manipulate and push China into more and more conflict with India, Japan and Korea. And try to get these countries to agree to a military alliance with the west (the quad alliance - US, India, Japan and Australia ... India is the only holdout here).
This is perhaps the most scary thing. Dying is scary but it's final, imagine surviving only to find yourself lost.
Hi, thanks I did not know Readwise. I signed up for an account to check how it works. It uses a browser extension to sync the highlights instead of using the API. It can sync automatically but your browser must stay open (which is OK IMHO). Readwise can sync much more sources also.

Thanks for introducing me to Readwise, I might use it :)
This is supported by Terraform Enterprise deployment policies.
IBM calls it hotelling. You can book a desk and check in at any office.
I don't want to start a distro ware here but... Ubuntu is really opinionated about the UX and if you want to change or fix anything you have to get kind of hacky. Sometimes when I woke my computer of from sleep it would ignore the keyboard and you had to use the mouse to click and slide the screen upward as if it were a tablet. Multiple workspaces only worked on the main monitor, side monitors would only show Workspace 1. There was a workaround for this, but it was a little bit buggy. When I want to drag a window, exit a window, or minimize, I usually just slam my cursor into the top of the screen. On Ubuntu there's a thin black status bar at the top of the screen, so you have to aim your cursor carefully instead of gesturing your mouse upwards, and it was a huge pain to try to remove that.

I started a new job and my boss installed Linux Mint on my work laptop because that's what he was using; after a month I installed Mint on my home desktop. The defaults are sensible, there's tons of customization options, and I don't have to hack my way into really simple and obvious changes.
Well, "crypto" is an energy-intensive store of value and "phones" are internet access terminals, so why not?

I get grumpy about semantic drift, too, a consequence of age.
> else we'll endlessly repeat ourselves rewriting the same programs over and over again

Doing this is ok. We are also rewriting the same books all over again. Knowledge is forgotten and reinvented and rediscovered. You see this in computer science and programming all the time, but also in other fields. Rather than the programs themselves, preserving the concepts and learnings is much more important. Don’t get me wrong, I think vintage computing is great, but we shouldn’t necessarily solve todays problems with it.
Congress should write laws which are like open source software.

Branches.. revisions.. being ran through a legal interpreter to ensure there are no logical errors.

There is a movement for plain english bills, which the average user(citizen) could read. I'm for that too.
Debatable.
Venture capital in the technology market hasn't shown consistent return on investment in terms of revenue.
Contrawise, the interstate system and the CCC were effective government investments.
In particular:

> A key architectural feature of the Chromium browser is its use of the Skia graphics library. Skia is a widely-used cross-platform graphics engine for Android, Google Chrome, Chrome OS, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox OS, FitbitOS, Flutter, the Electron application framework and many other products. Like Chromium, the pervasiveness of Skia ensures ongoing broad hardware and platform support.
>I'm running Win 10 2004 on 1GB of ram and it's absolutely fine.

Maybe if all you do is stare at the desktop all day (or use your computer as a dumb terminal).
I personally think that this is now a war for democracy

In this war for democracy, which side of the war do you think wants everyone to be able to access any information and which side do you think wants to control the flow of information?

How can we value each and every voter's input if we don't value their ability to filter for themselves what is true?
Anecdotal, but I never had a single issue with kernel update and I manage many ubuntu machines. Got a link/proof/more info on that?
Well, you can't file patents for ideas. You have to show how they work.
>The real intent of those messages probably has more in common with Steve Jobs's claim that FaceTime was going to be an open standard that any serious commitment to openness: all of the hype, none of the deliverables.

Apple were hit by patent and had to change the way FaceTime work. And they it ends up never opening it.
One thing (out of many) I always hated about linux is the upgrades. I have to reinstall the entire operating system just to upgrade.

I'm using manjaro now, I want see what happens when there's a big version change.
As someone who actually runs a private PvP server, I think your drive-by reply missed the point I was making there.
Hi HN,
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I only have an undergraduate level understanding of the physics but, an object falling into water should be comparable to water flowing over an object. There's a certain flow rate at which the flow around the object becomes turbulent instead of laminar, an actual transition point at which point you might as well be hitting concrete.
I once took an Africana Studies course at UMass Boston and the professor taught us that the noses were broken off the statues due to the hatred of black peoples by white explorers over millennia. She also taught us that the ancient Egyptians were black and that it was black people that built the pyramids. When I innocently asked her why the slides she showed us seemed to show Egyptians as having more middle eastern appearance, she scolded me on my prejudice and denial. I dropped the class shortly thereafter.
I’m not a historian but I would have thought that open borders were the norm not that long ago. I would guess that immigration restrictions wouldn’t have started to be commonplace until at least industrialization.

But regardless if that is right or not, siblings have pointed out that open borders are in fact common-place in many parts of the world today, e.g. EU and USA’s internal borders are open. And (as sibling has also pointed out) historic precedent or existing examples are not necessary to justify any belief. Abolishing slavery did not need a historic precedent, neither did gay rights, and theoretically neither does open borders.
Stephen King sits down every day and writes x amount of pages. 10 or 15 maybe, been awhile since I've read on writing but he talks about it in there. He is not super concerned about the quality of it, he just wants to get it out there. If those pages end up as part of an actual book then he'll obviously be going back over them etc. I assume Sanderson operates very similarly.

GRRM on the other hand agonizes over writing out perfect rough draft pages and thus never gets anything done.
There’s a photo of Hunter Biden with a crack pipe in his mouth, and emails discussing his father while he was vice president and the exchange of money. That’s not a conspiracy theory.
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Sure but I presume you aren’t running a platform like Apple’s.
I'd say on top of that, remote work comes with some of the same communication problems as social media platforms. Without facetime, the assumption of goodwill starts to wear way.
I'm not saying that yours is a bad idea, but the lobby for companies who make the existing software in that space would likely disagree with that position.
There is really no reason at all that any government database should be a commercial database. I'm looking squarely at you, Oracle.
There was also an Alistair Reynolds book in which the protagonist wears earrings that are earphones. I read that after I started working on my idea.
>Would not be the first time the US government has transparently tried to lie about and smear families of government critics.

While the leak is obviously timed to directly impact the election. They no doubt have been sitting on the information for months or longer.

What do you think about Twitter outright censoring the entire subject? It only makes me want to know more.
some comments on the site, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22415735
You're exactly right that we don't have a single important principle we need to protect, we have a complex tapestry of many that we need to balance.

Total censorship with total security isn't the answer. Total freedom with the total loss of truth is also not the answer. As anyone should expect, the ideal is not at either extreme.

Is it messy trying to sort it out, will mistakes get made, will some decisions make some people unhappy? Yes. But it's where we're at. It's the price we pay for living in a society that's nurtured fraud and money-driven nihilism for so long.
Jet: A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

The 'jet' in 'turbojet' refers to the stream of hot gas coming out of the engine. The 'turbo' in 'turbojet' refers to the turbine. Not all turbine engines are jet engines, and strictly speaking not all jet engines are turbine engines (though by convention 'jet engine' is taken to mean an air breathing turbine engine specifically, excluding rocket engines which also use jets of hot gas for thrust..)

This naming convention is also broken by ramjet and scramjet engines, which breath air and produce jets, but do not have turbines.
It's about right if you grew up poor in that time period, and bought something secondhand. I was part of a small club out in the (impoverished) country where we were learning on DOS computers using Qbasic in like the early-mid 00s.
I've been toying with this library for the last month or so. Nim's standard library and compiler now have a basic level of support for any FreeRTOS & LwIP based system. It integrates nicely. My goal is to wrap the ESP-IDF libraries to make them easier to use.

You can see what the programs look like here: https://github.com/elcritch/nesper/blob/master/esp-idf-examp...
How about streaming a whole OS instead of just the browser?
> when dealing with someone who is responsible for evaluating your job performance, it's unwise to volunteer reasons for them to doubt that. it's hard to judge productivity, especially for engineers. if you go through a rough patch but say nothing, people might never notice that you were less productive for a month or two. if you tell your boss you're having an issue with alcohol/drugs, they might perceive a drop in productivity that didn't even exist!

My boss and I have a good enough relationship at work where I'm 1000% confident this wouldn't happen, and if said boss did "perceive" some kind of drop in productivity, their response would be to help me with that rather than turn it into a negative. Indeed, during COVID when I expressed to my boss that I was having a tough time, his immediate response was to ask how he could help and to offer me a couple days off to recharge.

And the reason we have that relationship is specifically because we treat each other as friends that also happen to have a working relationship, rather than letting the work relationship dominate all else.

Not everyone will have that kind of relationship with their boss, but I believe it is something everyone should aspire to rather than immediately rejecting it as even a possibility.
Woah! Very cool. I hope to see something like that in the U.S. soon. The voluntary line strikes me as a little odd -- but I think that's because I believe soon, employment contracts will start mentioning "x days WFH per week/month" as a perk.
Unfoturnately, Amazon does not sync highlights on books that have not been purchased on Amazon. This is also why Readwise cannot automatically sync those highlights.

https://help.readwise.io/article/67-some-of-my-kindle-books-...
I find this expectation really strange. It's like 'violence in games', if you refer to it everyone will nod, but how it became such a widely accepted fact is at best unclear.

I'm sure some cases of it happened somewhere, there are some papers, and some appeal to authority is a given, but do we really know if WFH equals mental health issues en masse?

For example, I wonder if: long commute, all the preparation before/after a work day, and resulting overall diminished free time causes more mental issues or not.

What about constant interruptions, loud neighbours and that white light above you, even though you'd rather have it yellow? All the inconveniences of sharing a place with other people, wouldn't any of this take a toll?

Seems to me when "office" is heard everyone thinks of that one nice summer evening after work and had a few beers yada yada, nobody seems to remember that cold-ass winter day where you would rather stay in 5 levels of blankets yet had to go to office, then slipped on ice and landed on your ass.

Maybe it's true and WFH will turn most people to madness. I'm just saying it's not an established fact of life, and opposite is also very much possible.
I am intrigued about "technically simpler." Can you elaborate?
The Lasting Harm of Microaggressions
The Republican House Judiciary Committee posted information on their website and their Twitter. Twitter is now listing it as an unsafe link:

https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1316752470484410370

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1316724949428600833

Rudy Giuliani has also come out and made the following statement about his involvement in the chain of evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZasrHQeKiY

I did read the article. This isn't trivial. This is big, really big.
This feels a bit like that XKCD strip about fourteen competing standards.

But I'd love to be proven wrong!
I suspect it is. Nigeria is a huge country and it's really starting to boom.

It's a small data point, but I'm amazed at both the number of people in Nigeria going through my Elixir tutorials and the rate individual learners are progressing through them.
As an econ major, it seems to me that you're only getting downvoted because HN is a typical place full of engineers with little econ understanding but lots of opinion.

Whether a country is developed or not is defined based on their standard of living per capita, not their absolute size. A country with a billion poor people has completely different social, demographic, industrial and political drivers than a country of 300m high I come people.
What is it with people registering domains and building websites around single concepts? I don't get it.
>Unfortunately, Ubuntu at least cannot handle using Intel graphics with Nvidia graphics in a mixed-DPI setup (one monitor 1080P, one monitor 4K)

Yes, this is unfortunate and means I don't run Linux at home much. IIRC it's an Xorg issue though, and Wayland supports it. I got it working on Wayland, but then there was a different issue with Wayland that I don't remember so I went back to Windows :\

It's unfortunate because even my usual reason to use Windows (games) doesn't matter at the moment, Overwatch runs perfectly on Linux with Wine.
> There is a widely held belief that because math is involved, algorithms are automatically neutral.

Is there?
No, they should invest in FREE (libre) software. There is a difference.