skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That helps, but you also have a lot of bad data at the extremes that are still within the bounds of plausibility.

For instance, nine out of ten 122" TVs might actually be 12.2" TVs that got misinterpreted or typo'd to 122", because small TVs are so much more common than large TVs that there can be more malformed small TVs than well formed large TVs, but you can't necessarily discard all of the 122" TVs as outliers, because there are actually valid TVs in that range as well.
Audience Network to Become Bidding-Only Beginning with iOS in 2021
Metered connection setting + GPO setting say otherwise.

I haven't had W10 reboot for updates without me explicitly doing the updates on my time since...that one time when I first got it and forgot to tweak the GPOs.

Pro and Enterprise are also largely intended to be used with AD and a domain, and thus even more control can be exerted onto them via the controller.
postgresql can use ICU and on some platforms it's the only way to get utf8 collations.
Or conservatives:

https://www.psypost.org/2019/05/underlying-psychological-tra...
That's not the issue. The issue is that the devs who wrote this will be retired by then ;)
The key difference being that if an individual disagrees with Twitter or FB's fact-checking, they can respond by ceasing to feed the beast.

Moving out of a controlling government is much harder than ceasing to go to facebook.com or twitter.com.
I agree. You can extend this idea to the idea of freedom of religion - the goal isn't to have some Free Market of religion where the "good ones" win and the bad ones die off, it's just a fundamental human right. Same as speech.
Not clearly enough. Multiple people (including the President) have been tripped up by Bee "news."
This is what the typical hacker News poster says. It is a lot of work and will take a lot of time.

An other way is to get in touch with your contacts working in companies that have problems you can solve.
Diplomacy, Science and maybe Aviation. I believe that the entire world would benefit if Esperanto were adopted as lingua franca in these three fields, especially in Science.

It's hard for the members of the "linguistic status quo" to realize the huge amount of contributions which are not made, how huge is the amount of super intelligent and talented people who don't take part in the game simply because they don't have the resources and the access needed to become proficient at English.
Probably worth keeping in mind that what you're seeing is sequestered, out-of-work, bored, angry people who still have to make ends meet in a hyper-capitalist society without some kind of guaranteed income.

In general, it's not people with time on their hands who pick up a brick and huck it through a store window; if it were, you'd see more millionaire looters. It's people who don't have anything to lose.
Tove Jansson wrote some books for adults. I very much enjoyed "Fair play", which has a great English translation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Play_(novel)
https://www.nyrb.com/products/fair-play?variant=1094929573
Nice, thank you.

Perhaps the Tucows link should redirect to an archived version from 1995.
> Where did I say discussion of certain topics should be banned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797649

> Do you agree that there are objective facts that should be accepted by the society for the well being of the society?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24795296

> They should be cancelled if they are proven to be dangerous to the society

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24795078

> I do not believe my unlimited free speech rights is of higher priority the health and wellbeing of the overall society.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793340

> The whole "absolute free speech is a sacrosanct human rights for everyone" is an ideal that simply would not scale with the 21st century civilization.

> But we can all agree that freedom isn't free, at one point in the future the cost would be so high that the whole civilization would be facing a "give me freedom or give me death" moment.

Feel free to clarify what you meant, which is precisely what I was asking about.

> Where did I say people should be killed for believing different things?

I explicitly said that was an example, not something you specifically said.
I'd have to go back and look, but his initial publication, hyped by him and team in the media before peer review, had the upper bound below 0.27% and below the then-current state-wide fatality rate of New York.

> his IFR estimate could be off by a factor of 2 or 3,

His early opinion piece I think opined it might be as low as 0.05%, when we had very good reason to believe that not to be the case:

> That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.

> Could the Covid-19 case fatality rate be that low? No, some say, pointing to the high rate in elderly people. However, even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes. In fact, such “mild” coronaviruses infect tens of millions of people every year, and account for 3% to 11% of those hospitalized in the U.S. with lower respiratory infections each winter.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

He was one of the big sources of credibility for people that extrapolated that to "just a normal flu".

> If he says the IFR is 0.27% and it is really 0.6% that is only off by 0.33. Anyone who thought it was 1.5% or 3% would've been off by a much higher amount.

Remember he was against most actions at the worst time for people being unprepared and hospitals potentially getting overwhelmed. IFR would increase with overwhelmed hospitals and without the time we've bought to develop better treatments and protocols.

There was lots of fishy stuff going on with the later seropositivity study:

Sample bias:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ioannidis...
That's missing the point. The point is there is precedent to control how companies design and manufacture products when it suits us as a society to control them.

As such, I do not see why it would be wrong to impose additional controls on Apple (and other companies -- I'm not singling out Apple) to such effect. If you really need a way to spin this as a net positive to society, how about that we would throw away fewer phones and thus do less damage to the environment?
I really wish people (and redhat) just stop using XFS altogether. I have seen it break multiple times with two different scenarios:
1) Backup system with external media (usb3) on XFS. The USB link goes down, the kernel panics inside some XFS code. Hard reset needed.
2) Production system with <1M files being actively read by apache http. Hot updating this folder via rsync randomly panics the system.

After a couple of times you just migrate to something sane, like ext4, and everything works flawlessly.
Really enjoyed reading this.

I have a problem with articles that usually either try to bash or over-romanticize Japan. Could definitely use more articles like this one.
I moved to the USA myself from London. Based on my experience it is totally worth moving to the USA if you see your long term future as a software engineer. Pay aside, the choice and types of projects you can work on are more interesting too in my personal opinion with more opportunities to work on a wider range of technologies.

Yes you will need to get a visa. There are many visa options available to you. H1B is just one of them and the most popular one for getting a visa via work sponsorship.

Looking back at my time in London to be paid well you need to avoid being a permanent employee and work as a contractor, but not all software engineer roles are in demand as a contractor so choose something that there is :-) A good contract in the city will make you a lot of money :-)

Of course with Covid, I am not sure how things will change so you may want to wait for a post covid era before deciding to move.

Of course this my personal opinion from my experience of making the move and my knowledge of London work life is based on my experience from when I lived there. Hope you will find my comments helpful.

On a side note, you may want to explore remote opportunities with companies outside the UK as so many have moved to that model.
Tesla has its problems but these are mostly just click bait stories. The PR team is just under some "community outreach" team or such thing instead. Logistical problem at a construction site. So what?

Continued quality issues and pulling the return policy are the real stories.
The long and short answer is: there has been a terrible collapse in the intellectual life of the average American person. Note that "education" is not a prerequisite for a rich intellectual life.

In the pre-industrial era, yeoman craftsmen (think Paul Revere) would hire a person to read them history and literature while they worked. In the early industrial era, factory workers imitated this tradition and also published/read dozens of leaflets we might call newspapers. Because this active intellectual life produced crazy ideas like "maybe let's do a union", it was quietly eliminated.

As time passes, we are increasingly conditioned to respond only to "expert" opinion (always conclusory, never persuasive), or emotionally potent oversimplifications intended to manipulate opinion in a particular direction.

When you condition a population to respond to propaganda, and only propaganda, you get predicable consequences.

The remedy is to encourage critical thought by socially rewarding activities like reading and reasoned dissent. Reasoned dissent is particularly unwelcome in communities of highly credentialed "intellectuals".

Could you imagine the Federalist / Anti-Federalist debate playing out today? It's unthinkable.
I think some concrete examples would be nice.
As a French guy, I like the "grater" knife, I may even buy one, but the "right angle" one feels weird.

But I may have an alternative explanation. The article talks about order and Japanese sensibilities, but to me, a right angle cut in a butter slab doesn't look particularly pleasing.

Instead, what I think it is to make precise cuts easier when the butter is hard, for example if it came out of the fridge. In this case, it can require a significant amount of force to cut through the slab, and making a straight cut can be difficult. With the tool, you push straight down, so you can use more force. And the right angle shape stabilizes the blade during the cut.
> not on Galaxy S10

Seems to be working great on my Galaxy S9. What isn't supposed to work?
Two wheelers are inherently difficult to balance/ride design than a four wheeler.

Ex- vehicle engineer at a three letter company.
Months of lockdown have destroyed somewhere between a quarter and half of all small businesses in Canada.

The resultant unwinding of commercial real-estate debt hasn’t even begun. The deflationary spike and follow-on “riding the dragon” of inflationary response by central banks hasn’t even begun.

When we finish consuming our personal reserves, and begin in earnest to try to supply food and lodging to the, what, 50% of the population not “employed” by government, what do you guess is going to happen.

It will be illuminating, at least, to those who think they understand how civilization works...
The Weekendest – real-time New York city subway map
As a developer at all the jobs I've had, I've never even had access to the production database, full stop - only the server admins did. If I needed something from prod I'd go through them. I don't even consider it inconvenient.
Which reminds me that even Techrights (formerly Boycott Novell) had Google ads almost 15 years ago. Which is part of why I wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008... in the first place.
I agree with a lot of this in principle, but there are additional factors at play when it comes to police scheduling and deployment. Serious crime isn't evenly distributed over time, so a police force has to have enough armed officers available on duty to handle spikes in demand. Statistical modelling is getting better, but the failure scenario here of "oh sorry, we couldn't respond to your home invasion for an hour because we were busy" is absolutely unacceptable to the general population. Here's an example of this, where the police were pilloried by the media (https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/intruder-with-knife...). On a typical quiet day though, those officers will end up handling lower severity incidents to keep busy, by taking statements, directing traffic, etc. Just like all redundancy, this looks wasteful until you suddenly need it in a low probability event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#MIPS32/MIPS6...

It contains "possibly via trapping" which I am not at all against of. What is interesting there that MIPS introduced BALIGN instruction which reminds me of first generation of Alpha ISA.

Alpha did not had byte or word (16-bit) memory access. These should be provided using 32-bit word access and some shuffling. They walked back on that for code size reasons and later Alpha ISAs had byte and 16-bit loads and stores. I do not have reference ready but I believe they were aligned accesses.
People overestimate their own humour and wit, and underestimate the provocations they supply to others. I don't mean to pick on you personally—we all do this. But it's certainly a thing.

I'm well aware that you've been posting here for 13 years. I think that's great. Unfortunately your recent comments (say, this year at least) have been full of swipes at other users—not all of them (fortunately!), but enough that you've been doing it routinely. That's just not cool. Would you please edit those out when you post? I certainly don't want to ban you but we ban others for that kind of thing and at some point we have to apply the rules fairly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Literally almost everyone except you. Even my far left friends agree it is far left.
https://twitter.com/search?q=(to%3Aelonmusk)&src=typed_query...
News stories from satire sites routinely get shared across social media with little context and, very importantly, without anyone clicking on them to check out the source. It may seem absurd to "fact check" them, but it really isn't, particularly ones that aren't very well-known to a wide audience -- which essentially means "anything but the Onion and even they get quoted straight-faced on occasion".
Butter also lasts longer when it's covered, as long as the ambient temperature doesn't get too high.

We generally keep at least 100g of butter in our butter dish (i.e. under a cover) on the kitchen countertop, more if it's not summer.

As a child in the west of Ireland, we'd go through a pound of butter a week. I can't even find butter sold by the pound (or 500g - I'm not fussy) in the UK, blocks are generally 250g.
I read the article you linked and the article didn't dispute any of Tuckers claims, what exactly are you claiming he said without validating it?
This makes me feel very frustrated. Facebook logic seems "As we have to remove QAnnon posts, we will also remove Extinction Rebellion posts.

They are NOT equivalent! One is a anti-paedophilia movement the other one is a environmentalist death cult that calls for the end of civilisation. One calls for people to stop having children, the other exchanges messages on social media. One calls for economic decline the other on saving children.

Both are in the "extremes" of some political compass but are not equivalent by any sane interpretation.
> Note that it would have been trivial for us to force our users into a relationship with us by having to make an account and we made a very conscious choice not to do this.

Bravo! Well done and well said - I really wish more projects and systems were developed with this mindset, viewing users as people to be empowered rather than as resources to be captured and exploited.
Control from Within
Curious, why CentOS instead of Fedora?
Larger companies (public) are great for career growth, finding a mentor and learning proven business processes
This was a surprisingly good read.

> What can we learn from this? Be clear about control. Don't assume that people with MBAs know a thing about business, let alone technology. Don't throw out your prime source of revenue before another one is in place. Fashionable programming languages don't equal useful software. Don't lie. And steer clear of General Atlantic Partners and Greylock

The last bit... What are some VC firms to steer clear of today? Asking for a friend.
I think the experience might benefit from showing the mouse pointer, or some other cursor that actually tracks your mouse and shows the blobs current "target". You will undoubtably lose something in the process, but I think it would be worth the tradeoff.

Right now, it feels difficult to control. I can never quite get the blob to do what I want, which is crucial for an interactive experience.

(What you have is already neat though!)
I thought so too, but after rereading both comments, he does respond to a rather central point

> has coalesced a community infused with something of the “let’s build” optimism

with

> among the most active Esperantists who attended the annual European congresses (...) Those super-idealistic Esperantists (...) were seen as weirdos

Thus saying that such a community has in fact not coalesced.
Well in Japanese it's the same word but now you have to know all about Chinese for Japanese words, not to mention learning to write the characters, which is just a big hurdle you don't have to worry about with Western languages. And beyond that, yeah, Spanish words you might need to know about Greek and Latin morphemes but my point is those exact same ones are all over our language already so they're familiar. I already know that "geo-" means "Earth" and "co-" means "together" from my native language.
Wowza! Takes me back to lava lamps and those pin mould things back in the 90s! Kudos!

I’d love this on a touch screen picture frame in my house were folks could play with it! I’d easily pay $150 for that.
COVID isn't the only barrier to access to health care.

> There isn't a social safety net in the world you could construct to suddenly handle millions going out of work because of lockdowns.

I disagree. Seems easily doable, given the wealth and capacity of the country. Just a matter of political will.

Why have other countries managed to take care of their workers? Maybe we can ask Canada for pointers?
But in the medieval period, when Latin was actually used as a lingua franca in just the way you suggest, it continued evolving, not just in vocabulary, but also in grammar and pronunciation, to the point where Latin users from different countries struggled to understand each other. If Latin today is really unchanging it's probably because there are few people who aren't classics scholars or in the Vatican who actually produce anything in it.
Nice work, and I think the price is fair for such a small but useful feature
I've seen this in the Mediterranean quite a lot. Particularly in Spain. Beads do not need to be transparent, and it works well.
> I clocked in 106 hours for $1,703 in my first month on Upwork.

So $16 an hour. There is a lot of flexibility of course, but this person does also sound elite for that pay scale. They are even making sure the opening of their proposal has a punch to it.

Are there low time commitment opportunities out there that pay way better?

My company has one, just a few hours a week, higher pay, and it eventually is even more economical, not needing proposals etc. Just wondering how common those low-hour part time jobs are.
Comeback City Wuhan Was Most-Visited During China’s Golden Week
For a post detailing the modern data infrastructure I'm surprised they intentionally leave out SaaS analytics tools. I find this especially surprising given a16z has invested >$65M into Mixpanel.

Based on my experience working at an analytics company and running one myself, what this post misses out is that an increasing number of people working with data today are not engineers. These people can range from product managers who are trying to figure out what features the company should focus on building, marketers to figure out how to drive more traffic to their website, or even the CEO trying to understand how their business as a whole is doing.

For that reason, you'll still see many companies pay for full stack analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap) in addition to building out their own data stack internally. It's becoming more and more important that the data is accessible to everyone at your company including the non-technical users. If you try to get everyone to use your own in-house built system, that's not going to happen.
> > In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will encourage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they woud go.

"expected" still has a 'c'
Thanks! HN sarch tip for those who don't know: you can also do "comments>N" (and/or "points>N") to filter the search, like this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I didn’t say anything about liberal / conservative. I’m talking about anyone who is a censor.
If you create small articles, transclusion helps creating bigger meta articles with selected chunks from the small ones.
This is not a criticism, I think there is a place for visual languages, and I hope somewhere out there in idea space is one we all could use. I'd love to code on my tablet with a stylus.

But personally I find these very hard to use. Scratch drove me insane, I couldn't work out which order things were getting executed, it was a real pain.

Despite this, non-programmers actually seem to like visual programming systems. So my question is, what aspect of programming is the visual system removing (or adding) that makes it appealing to non-programmers? The syntax is still there, the semantics are the same, all the usual variables, conditionals, loops, functions, etc, are there, just harder to read.

But something must be changing, or maybe it's just a perception thing? Or is it the removal of text? Or maybe it's the bricks, you can't accidentally plug something in the wrong place.
Interesting, I didn't realize it only took over from that part of the communication. That would certainly be a nice to have thing then, maybe use the current kernel key management stuff so that it could even be done in a way that the process never actually gets to load the key itself but it's instead loaded by something else and given the id needed to tell the kernel that the socket should use it. I do wonder how this would play with SNI and such which might make it a non-starter for a lot of cases.
as a fan of Kerrygold, I respect Irish butter. For some reason American butter doesn’t even come close. French, perhaps.