skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian blood, helped by western weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#Significance_of_Len...:

“Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs:

I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”
That is why I literally said in my second paragraph that "hosting [...] your own server would probably be the best choice". Also, I was replying to somebody who complained about connection issues on his phone. He probably doesn't want to have a random timeouts when he travels from one place to another and potentionally miss important messages...

Furthermore, IRCCloud is not centralized in the same way as Discord is because you are not forced to use it. IRC is still an open protocol. For example Matrix has a big chunk of people using the official "centralized" Matrix server and the same is true for Mastodon with mastodon.social. Some prefer to self-host, others do not. I don't see the problem here. Gmail wasn't the downfall of email either.
I'm not aware of BBC leaks, but there was this:

"In a debate on the Falklands War on 3 April 1982, Rowlands revealed that the British were reading Argentine diplomatic traffic"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Rowlands,_Baron_Rowlands
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Do you want to join your average toxic internet group?

Or a small group of friendly and like-minded people?

Sign me up?

Look, Facebook groups are super-easy to join. Even subreddits are easy to join. But they are all becoming awful experiences for the "average user". Maybe one day people will look for something different.
Yes, maybe. That enforcement policy is at least consistent with their guidelines, at outlined in the e-mail their received, so it shouldn't come as a surprise:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules/

Though these rules are a bit wordy and sound legalese rather than guidelines.

It might have been easier if the Pi foundation was named differently, but I understand their position, though IMO a disclaimer that this is an unofficial website (as if the -spy didn't give it away) should be enough.
> An average person doesn't even have a...

An average person has whatever perception the market and product communicate. If you are banking on perception alone the current approach is good enough. The only way to push through that is to provide new capabilities or solutions to old problems other approaches refuse to provide.

You aren't selling privacy. You are selling a product with privacy included.
I often walk out of stores when that happen, and have more than once stopped to tell them that is exactly why I'm leaving.
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I don't remember this time. I remember a time when we blamed the operating system constantly for what was just as often an application memory management failure and thought that rebooting 4 times a day was normal.
There was a userscript that forced 30fps but it stopped working recently.
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clickbaity title.
not announced yet.

> The Turing Pi 2 is more functional than V1 and we also expect it to be cheaper to manufacture.
This man had a huge impact on my outlook to life as a youth and helped create a framework for me to disassemble difficult issues in the world around me. Picking through arguments and finding the absurdities is an artform, turning them into compositions is pure genius. I learned that scary things could, and should be defanged, dried and hung for public display rather than feared in the shadows.

I love you Tom, I always have. This move is one more song, one more satirical poke at the music industrial complex
The phase transition takes place when open infrastructure, bandwidth and compute capacity together reach a critical threshold; new ICs will emerge through virtual infrastructure and resource sharing.
My above comment was directed at the two parent comments who were variously referring to public school conditioning as "indoctrination" or "social cohesion". Whatever you choose to call it, public schools (in the United States) do not teach critical thinking - quite the opposite.

Whether or not critical thinking is on the agenda for a homeschooled student depends entirely on the teacher and the curriculum.
I was following Red with keen interest, waiting for them to add Postgres support.
Unfortunately this never happened, I think they got sidetracked by over-enthusiasm for crypto tools and thus lost momentum.
Out of the blue, after 8 years..
> I would just say, antagonistic comments like "the Brits barely mention" and "they can't give credit where it's due" is nationalistic nonsense which has no place here.

It is an empirical observation. So not sure is expressing "nationalistic nonsense".
I noticed that the fans on my PC (Core i5-4570, GTX750TI) started spinning loudly yesterday when watching a 1080p livestream in Firefox on Linux, which I think didn't happen before. Granted, that setup is getting old and I'm already planning a replacement, but still.
Yup, I didn't even bother to read the article. I went immediately to the comment section to complain.

It's really weird that people actually spend hours and days on implementations like this because they and are seemingly the only people that actually find enjoyment in it. If you were to talk to your friends about it they would probably say "it's cool" but many of us are still going to say "Why?"
https://schwartz.world/blog/archive_bookmarklet/

I found this bookmarklet code here on HN
Only huge ones where you can "broadcast" messages to all users or a huge amount of them will become that.

Tightly knitted, invite-only groups shouldn't have that problem at all.

A more real-world like experience needs to be created. People don't meet other people in the real world only at huge parties that can be crashed by anyone at any moment. They tend to be invited to dinners, etc, where the groups are usually small.
Visual-only means no lidar or radar (most satellites just have cameras, so most of the satellite imagery is like that).

The resolution of that one is 10 metres per pixel, so of course buildings are blotches. 12 bit to 8 bit doesn't affect the resolution or hide anything significant, it just makes the brightness a bit more quantised, and the brightness will have already been adjusted to equalise between adjacent sections photographed at different times anyway (that's the "modified" bit). They also have the 12-bit data available.

I never mentioned any mental illness (I doubt most conspiracy theorists have one), and it's nothing to do with patterns, it's "apocalypse projects" that is conspiracy nonsense.
I went to the developers site from hnreplies.com and an advertisement opened.
Hoping this site's revenues ain't ad driven.
Plus, you could cite your reference with style, i.e.: "I got this information straight outta Compton... you are about to witness the strength of street knowledge".
And I am a little hopeful (but doubtful) that might be starting to change. Massive numbers of houses have been consented to be built (especially in the last few years). But just building more probably won't be a permanent solution.

https://www.stats.govt.nz/topics/housing
https://www.hud.govt.nz/news-and-resources/statistics-and-re...
https://www.imf.org/external/research/housing/index.htm
On similar posts, people have pointed out that this is something trademark holders essentially _has_ to do in order to protect their trade mark. If there's a history of trademark infringements and you haven't gone after them, apparently your trademark rights gets weakened somehow?

IANAL, etc, maybe someone can clarify.
IMO, reply notifications (configurable on per-thread basis) should have been a part of HN from the very beginning.
Encarta was the main reason I managed to convince my mother to get a loan to buy our first PC. Look at me now, ma!
As a boss once told me, trademark law requires you to be a litigious arsehole, and to act as soon as you become aware of the issue.

This may not seem friendly to you, but the default is a heartless C&D with the letterhead of a legal firm and starting something like “our client…”
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Don't forget the brilliant introductions and epilogues that accompany his songs. They're just as smart and funny as the songs themselves, with not an ounce of fat on them.

> There's just no one like him and the way his songs have remained so relevant up to this day is something I find myself in awe of.

Much of Bob Newhart's comedy holds up very well today, but of course it's not music.
I think this article misrepresents the state of UK internet.

Most of the population are wired for fibre and have been for a few years now. This typically starts at ~35Mbps, ~70Mbps is very common, and a few providers will do 200-300Mbps but in more limited areas. Some suppliers do 1Gbps, but these are often limited to apartment blocks in cities or towns that invested heavily in infrastructure.

This quote is misleading:

> Found some data about internet speed in the UK, wasn’t easy to come across, that puts 45% of UK housesolds have < 8 Mbps connection.

The graph below shows that this is a survey of ADSL2+ users where the technical cap is 20Mbps. They obviously can't get any better. Anecdotally this matches my expectations.

I think the reality of the current state is that most of the population can get fibre, but many haven't bothered upgrading from their ADSL/ADSL2+ packages. When I've done price comparisons there's typically not a lot of difference in price mid-market, but there are some very low end providers who will do ADSL/2+ for ~£10, where typically home broadband/fibre is £20-40.

Lastly, with things like home internet it's not useful to talk about area coverage.

> I moved to a newer home earlier this year and like most places in the UK (even in London) it only had broadband internet aka slow ADSL over copper.

Yes, most of the UK does not have fibre, but a significant part of that is fields. In reality most of the _population_ have access to fibre, but of course they are not evenly distributed. Area coverage makes a bit more sense when talking about wireless/cellular services because people move about.

There are a few areas of London that were wired up in the late 90s/early 00s in such a way that they are very hard to re-wire for fibre. The Surrey Quays area comes to mind as one. Those areas have essentially skipped fibre and are moving straight to 5G.
> The edge cases are where millions die because of lies perpetuated unchecked

When did this happen? The Holocaust? If there weren't blasphemy laws then the Bible could've been challenged and you wouldn't have rampant anti-semitism waiting to be pushed into something far more abhorrent than nasty speech. Same goes for the cause of the pogroms, free speech would've been more likely to end them before they had begun.

There are plenty of other socialist movements that ended in genocide of many more millions - would you say they existed in an environment of free speech?

> "Freedom" is the ability to say whatever you want without the government getting involved, nothing else

Freedom of speech is the ability, without interference by government or society, to say what you want, to whom you want, at the time of your choosing; and to listen to whom you want, when you want. The US government is restrained in interference by the constitution but that does not mean other entities don't interfere in others' speech. Was there no racist action before racist action was defined in law?

> If a private party doesn't like what you say, tough shit get off their property. Otherwise you're impinging on their freedom to keep anyone the hell they want off their property.

There are exceptions to every rule - arrest warrants for certain classes of crime are one example, you cannot simply tell the police to go away if you're wanted for murder. When the application of several entities' rights butt up against one another then one right or entity's rights may have more merit than another, which is why we have courts to decide on such novel moments or for legislators to define the sensible limits of rights.

Since you're really talking about social media though and not physical property, I would agree except in the case of monopolies. If HN wants to kick someone off, no problem. FB or Twitter or Google are different propositions.

> Overall, I find it hilarious in this whole discussion that conservatives appear to be arguing for more government interference in private property rights and freedom of expression.

I'm not a conservative, nor an anarchist. Regardless, government is supposed to interfere where rights are being impinged in order to protect those rights. Hence, you've got the wrong end of the stick, we "conservatives" are arguing for government interference against censorship.
This one's actually a bug
https://twitter.com/azumbrunnen_/status/1318493410848890880
Or Madagascar, or Iceland! Having the foresight to occupy an isolated location with a small population is really paying dividends. All those incompetent countries, with their highly interconnected economies and lack of natural barriers... Real 4d chess, keeping their GDPs low all these years - but they won, not just internet points - but maybe a monopoly on the world's supply of elderly!
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YouTube does plan for the worst, you can even watch on a <100kbps connection if you're okay with 144p (and YouTube will downgrade to that automatically).

It seems that OP defines downgrading to 720p60 (?) as "broken".

I do support bringing back the 1080p30 stream though.

Edit: Tested in Chrome with the "Slow 3G" throttling profile. YouTube automatically falls back to 240p with some buffering.
That's a wonderful way of supporting people while also taking care of brand, styling recommendations etc. Kudos to Arduino!

Maybe RPi just hired some <profanity-word> lawyers that need to justify their salaries by doing same-old, before somebody in the top level wakes up and goes "maybe that's not the best way of doing things"?
Yeah, it certainly didn't break only for the UK (though it might be a rolling change)

But yeah if you're assuming every user has the same bandwidth and latency a Google office (in SV) or employee has you're going to have a bad time

Depending on the app it's easy to trigger JS errors with latency problems and some things happening before others
That’s not the case here. Think of this as each app having a folder in your iCloud disk without being able to see other apps from different developers. As long as you don’t delete the app, the folder comes with you as you move from device to device so the apps installation is not required each time.
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This world view assumes that Britain was a tiny island with little to no influence.

The GDP of the british empire was totally astounding, the navy was bigger than any other country.

The british _funded_ the US war effort. it paid for the factories, the tooling etc. Lend lease was basically the british transferring its vast wealth to the USA in exchange for materials.

The myth that the battle of Britain was the last line of defence is laughable. The RAF was the first line. To invade, the germans would have had to have eliminated the RAF, then eliminate the navy (bear in mind that at this point its still twice as big as anyone elses, and that uboats are still not very good at this point)

Not only that they'd have to somehow get across the channel (which given that the germans didn't like standardisation and were nowhere near as mechanised as the french, would have been a challenge)

Plus they'd have to over come the anti air defences.

The _only_ doubt about WWII is whether britian would have signed a peace treaty.
> That's amazing. I've seen similar things the other way around. Someone didn't use Facebook. People didn't switch; they got left out and forgotten.

I probably should have said it was a tech-savvy academic community, and a somewhat small one (ca. 50 people).

> Another one was Google Groups (a type of mailing list). Someone didn't want to use a Google account. They couldn't figure out how to subscribe. Was the group willing to switch to another provider? No of course not. In the end an admin manually subscribed the person with their non-Google address, but if that hadn't been possible, the group would have let them go rather than switch service.

Google groups was what we ended up with, after facebook caused resistance. The thing with google groups is, it's not really a walled garden -- it's just a mailing list; you have all your data archived in your email unless you choose to delete it yourself, and if it fails for whatever reason, you can just manually send an email with a huge Bcc instead. Google in generally is pretty good at "export all your data"; while partly due to antitrust pressure, I think that this is mainly a way to keep the techie audience semi-loyal. I am more worried about github/lab, ironically, due to the "superstructure" they add on top of the repositories (issue trackers mostly). In theory there are tools that can export all of it "back" into the repository, but in practice people are loath to use them.

> Yes and no. Everyone uses email, but many only use it inside Gmail, which is a bit of a mess if you're subscribed to a bunch of mailing lists, and trying to keep track of events you've been invited to.

Anything is a mess if you need to keep track of lots of events. Has Facebook figured out how to make calendars non-confusing?
Underground wires are the preferred choice for most of the EU as far as I know (at least in western Europe). There are also much smaller countries in the EU that provide far better internet than what's available in the UK, apparently. There must be some other reason.
dumb question: What percent of videos can the user actually detect 60 fps vs 30 fps?
Surprisingly nice tool, thanks!

One seemingly major feature missing: ability to change the font size.
> It's a shame they have a messy pile of API-specific hacks to propagate the "user gesture". Chrome solved this problem with a change to the spec

If Safari had changed the spec that comment would probably have begun with "It's a shame they had to change the spec..."

> Safari's approach means you have very specific codepaths, and if you do something async...tough luck

I'm no expert on it but this sounds more secure, no?

> APIs like clipboard (want to copy something

On a side note, I really wish non-explicit copy/pasting/clipboard snooping would die.

iOS 14 has exposed a bunch of apps that read your clipboard without any explicit paste action. It's creepy and we can only hope that it's not malicious. A bunch of big names including Discord are guilty of this.
After reading title I hoped for some insights on changes in HTTP/3-spec which delay finalization. Alas
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“Transfer the domain to us” seems like a surprising and weird demand, is that normal?
They just posted a response: https://twitter.com/Raspberry_Pi/status/1318494942478635009
So instead of giving a phone number I should register my Name, Address, Phone Number?

Sounds worse than buying a prepaid SIM if you ask me.
"transfer the domain to us"

I read as:

- We will be taking over your business that you worked hard to build using our products and promoting our brand.

I feel that they betrayed the open source and maker community, may sound harsh, but limiting the usage of the image/brand like this is not justifiable.
IMO the report from 2017 is the latest that was reporting on ADSL speed and didn't artificially inflate numbers like crazy.

If you look at this 2019 report, they first say that only 1% has less than 10 Mbits on page 20, then 13% have less than 10 Mbits on page 22.

Problem, metrics are like are so out of touch with reality, they're just made up. People actually use ADSL (copper) and it can't do more than 10 Mbps if you're a mile away from the internet center, that's the case for way more than 13% of the population. You could think that people have switched to fiber but they have not, I live in central London and it's hit and miss if you can get fiber at all in an apartment block.
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Why is it broken?

It's clever to push lower quality, but here they push to a lower quality than what was achievable so far before the "upgrade". So from a user standpoint, YouTube have downgraded the service overnight for all low speed connections.

The more frustrating being for users that could sustain 1080p yesterday and are "upgraded"(?) to 720p60 today. Roughly same bandwidth but much lower resolution for what? better frame-rate? Not sure why anyone would prioritize frame-rate over resolution with all our fancy HiDPI screen.
@Discord Team

• Why does Discord snoop my clipboard/pasteboard without any explicit paste action from me? (iOS 14 has exposed a bunch of other apps that do this. I can only hope this is not malicious.)

• Why can't I mass delete my own messages?
I think decoding performance is something to consider, too.

This might be anecdotal but when we switched to encoding videos in 60 FPS on a channel I was involved in ~4 years ago, some users complained that their Android TV sets (afair a Sony model was mentioned) weren't able to play our new videos stutter free anymore.

30 FPS should stay the default option. At least YouTube should make the FPS setting manually configurable independently from resolution.
The point of the quote was to show that the image has been manipulated, it is not what came from the camera, and therefore isn't a useful reference in your post. It's useful for some things, but not this thing.

The mental illness you seem to have not realized you referred to is when you said "you've been listening to too many conspiracy nuts."

Now saying "conspiracy nonsense" is way more inline with reality. It's very much just idle thinking on my part with brief injections of conspiracy editorial provided by any of the articles found by doing a search for "billionaire apocalypse homes".
This greed is something really incomprehensible for me.
> I do support bringing back the 1080p30 stream though.

Wait, what? Why would 1080p30 be gone?! I don't like 60fps, it looks weird, so now it's either 480p OR I'm forced to watch 60fps?! WTF?!
I've watching/studying Red for a long time. And it is a very legitimate effort to be honest. However, when trying to do too much at the same time (and attempting to build a full-stack, do-it-all language would surely qualify for that), you can easily get sidetracked.

My attempt here is nothing too bloated. I just needed a super-flexible, easy to use (and tweak) programming language for me (automation, templates, typesetting, "quick" scripts and webview-based app publishing). So, I created it.

It's by no means "complete" - yet. Although, after months (to years) of hard work, I think it's ready to get a bit more known. At least, my personal goal has been achieved: Arturo is the language I personally use for my everyday scripting. :)
What about AWS or blue-ocean, can someone use their GPU for free?
OP is defining a downgrade that 40% of the UK users now have to fall back to 480p since 720p60 won't work and 1080 won't work. OP wants 720p30 back since it s the highest resolution that 40% users were able to use before the change. 480p, seriously?
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