skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't explain a recent change, but the label "flag" does imply calling something to someone's attention, and that someone would presumably be a moderator. Whether or not not stories are killed immediately by flagging (and it makes sense to me that they are), would it be reasonable for a moderator to eventually review everything that is flagged, or at least everything flagged by more than one person? I don't have a good sense of what the volume would be, but I think it would lead to better results than allowing a tiny number of of users to suppress stories without administrative review.
My understanding is that it is Gnews that is publishing these photos, not NY Post. NY Post is publishing screenshots of emails.
However, people who call are not necessarily people who would commit. There is little correlation between phone calls and actual progress, if not the usual « giving an impression of progress, while the problem entrenches itself. » Those may be two groups with surprisingly little overlap. I’ve called 6 numbers when I thought about it, none of them answered (turns out in France they’re all closed after 9pm, badly staffed, or reserved for teens or women), yet I didn’t commit suicide (I did commit criminal activity though, as a revenge for society not returning my call to this day, and generally society being vengeful towards men because supposed ancestors were supposedly mean to women).

People who commit have real problems that a phone call generally doesn’t solve, unless your problem is just about feelings, which is... let’s say it helps those who call for attention a lot, and who would end up with a failed attempt to call for attention, which will attract attention, but it will hide the real x5 numbers behind the scenes of the other gender who actually commits suicide when they try.

It’s time to stop with the « let’s speak about it » attitude, and start with the « let’s give you funds/education/solve your parental problems/throw the book at your boss/mandate your wife to let you see your kids/stop sidestepping you at work/fix the VA together » attitude.

Men are not an option.
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Well, ok, but can you find any other instance of a story that could have used some verification being suppressed by Twitter and Facebook at the same time?
Yes. You only need to look at the power draw of mid to high end desktop CPUs to realize that’s not feasible to power or cool on a laptop.
You can take the concept even further. I made this about 4 years ago now: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
> I wouldn't be surprised to see established companies expand on cheap real estate and start offering closed offices to employees.

As much as I like closed offices, I think that companies that want to save money still won't offer them. The cost of closed offices isn't just more square footage; they also incur construction costs that open office space don't: walls, doors, their own heating/cooling/ventilation ducts, their own lighting and electrical wiring, etc. And an office layout with closed offices is more expensive to modify.
Especially good if the converted office space also provides a good work from home environment. Everyone is working from home and those that can are scrambling to expand their houses to suit a new lifestyle.
Normally liquid hydrogen. Just pass the hydrogen past the reactor. Cooling the reactor and heating the hydrogen. The expansion due to heat send the hydrogen out of the nozzle at high speed, creating thrust.

More efficient than a chemical hydrogen and oxygen rocket due to the high energy to weight ratio you get from nuclear fuel.
As someone reasonably versed in OCaml but knows nothing about SML, what are primary differences? Given that OCaml has much better tooling and more of a community, what draws people to SML still?
> Yes, I still buy CDs. So shoot me now.

No need. You still buy CDs, you're old enough that we can wait.

;-)

(I still buy them, too.)
Sure. The NVMe that gives you 2GB/s write may throttle to only 500 MB/s after a few seconds of writes, but--

How often is that a problem, really?
Not to mention bicycles are designed for converting rotary motion into, well still rotary motion, but forwards travel; not electrical potential.

I haven't done any research or taken measurements, but particularly the low-end style tyre-on-roller that I have must be awfully inefficient.

It's been briefly popular (to some extent) a couple of times to power a light while cycling. These things don't typically have large capacitors or batteries to store surplus charge, because powering the light is about all you can do! (Ok not totally fair since you're also cycling, but still.)
You'd be surprised how far you can get with printed reference material. And especially if you're using mostly "boring"/"mature" technology.

There probably are machines connected to the public internet, but if you need to lock your workstation, walk over to the designated unclassified machine, log in to that, do your search, write down or print the answer, log out of that machine, walk back to your workstation and then unlock it - every time you want to look up a CSS thing - you'd probably just ask your boss to buy you a dang book.
ISPs are private companies, too. Should they be suppressing political information as well?
Just calculating, $400 extra means doubling the price for most of the corporate laptops (I checked the prices, my laptop was a bit cheaper than that).
And I guess the OP was already spending more for a better spec'ed laptop, not buying the cheapest junk, so doubling up the extra is easy to speak about, harder to do, especially if you don't work for big money and you are in the rest of the world outside USA, Canada, Western Europe and Australia.
Also, humans created all the text and the language and structures used within, for the purpose of communicating - so it is likely to be a good match for our cognitive systems.
Why should one country not allowed to enforce a policy for companies/individuals who live in/are incorporated in that country against another country, without the UN being involved?

This whole article is about a US company enforcing US rules.
So how do you give effect to people's legal rights under less controversial conditions? And how do lawyers make their livings, if it's never worth hiring them? I'm confused...
If there are only two sellers of mobile apps, you can't just "give your money to someone else" because no one else exists. That's the essence of antitrust, whether it be monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly. I'd agree with you if there were a free market of device OSes and app stores, but a market of only two is fundamentally unfree.
To have a sensible conversation, we have to acknowledge what the alleged Biden emails are: at best, stolen information; and at worst, intentionally manipulated or fabricated information. In either case, the information is being released now for the explicit goal of altering the outcome of the election in favor of those who are releasing it.

We haven't had this issue in history before: it's never been so easy to reach so many people with such bad information. This places intermediaries, including Twitter, in an awkward situation: they can "censor" by restricting access to intentionally misleading information; or they can release it, and thereby become pawns of the bad actors who propagate it.

As has been pointed out, this is a moral issue. We should step pretending that all censorship is bad, and that compelling intermediaries to publish literally everything is a moral good.
How often do you use an optical drive and for what?
I never moved away from desktops. It’s too much fun to spec and then build the beast of your dreams. I have a cheap laptop for web browsing and low power tasks.
My laptop (16" MacBook Pro) can allegedly drive four 4K monitors. I currently use two 32" 4K (landscape) and one 24" 1440p (portrait). The additional portrait 1440p is totally silly, and it was because work happened to send me it for WFH.
> analogy to a cruise ship heading toward shore at full speed. Everyone knows this means the ship will run aground, but few appreciate that given the mass (and thus momentum) the ship would travel far inland just scraping across the ground.

Are you sure you aren’t basing that analogy on the movie Speed 2?
Here is a paper[1] written by Andreas Rossberg, specification author of Web Assembly, that discusses the defects in the definition of Standard ML. I believe he tried to address many of these issues with Alice ML[2].

[1] https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/papers/sml-defects-2013...

[2] https://github.com/aliceml/aliceml
That would require someone claiming to own the photos, which would likely hurt that person quite a bit.
I think you're stretching the idea of compelled speech to the point where it loses its essential meaning. Compelled speech is when someone forces you to say something, not when you are prevented from disallowing someone to say something under their own name on your website/property.

When I comment on HN I do not comment as HN itself.

What you're talking about seems like an application of the idea of private property rights (i.e. kicking someone out of your house/office for saying something you don't like).
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> I'll never understand why professional embedded developers just suck this up

Had this sort of argument during an interview (I was applying for a junior embedded C developer position). I was talking about the fact that I had experiences building cross-compiler, that could come in handy with embedded development.

The guy stopped me right there and said, basically: "Just no. Let's just not. We're not doing that here and have no intention of starting doing that".

He went on to explain about it and basically it boils down to the fact while technically possible, anything outside the bsp (board support package, that is IDE + compiler/linker/debugger/programmer) is unsupported. The vendors just won't support anything that's not built with their tools (in retrospect, that's very reasonable).

So the practical reason is support.
As someone who moved from a large small city (300k residents, 100k students, 300k daily commuters) to San Francisco ... yeah the density is totally worth it. Back home we had restaurants and cuisine and all that. It wasn’t a wasteland.

But SF has more high quality restaurants within a 20min walk of my apartment than my hometown had in total. Average restaurant quality is higher too. Just because there’s more competition.

Another fun example: in SF we have 5 grocery stores within a 10min walk. Back home the nearest grocery store was a 3min walk away, great. But the next one after that was 10min. To get to a proper supermarket size grocery store ... that’s a car trip. In SF it’s a 15min walk.

Density is wonderful. There’s economies of scale that you get at 18,400 people per square mile that you just can’t pull off at 4,500.

The ultimate test for a city is this: Do you have 5 “asian restaurants” or do you have 5 south vietnamese, 3 north vietnamese, 10 cantonese, 5 ramen, 6 japanese grill, 3 sushi, 4 dimsum, etc

For example back home we had the mexican restaurant, here you have 10 for each type of mexican food.
[I posted this comment as a child of another comment below, but I think it's important enough to this discussion that I'm reposting it here.]

To have a sensible conversation, we have to acknowledge what the alleged Biden emails are: at best, stolen information; and at worst, intentionally manipulated or fabricated information. In either case, the information is being released now for the explicit goal of altering the outcome of the election in favor of those who are releasing it.

We haven't had this issue in history before: it's never been so easy to reach so many people with such bad information. This places intermediaries, including Twitter, in an awkward situation: they can "censor" by restricting access to intentionally misleading information; or they can release it, and thereby become pawns of the bad actors who propagate it.

As has been pointed out, this is a moral issue. We should step pretending that all censorship is bad, and that compelling intermediaries to publish literally everything is a moral good.
SML’s compilers and implementations are state of the art. Advanced optimizing compilers and multicore are already huge differentiators.

Also, Standard ML is, well, standardized. The standard isn’t perfect but it at least allows for a strong ecosystem of independent implementations.
This. Employers tend to give out laptops for home use, not desktops. I'm not about to use my personal desktop for work, or my work laptop for personal stuff.
What happens when the rector runs out of fuel? Control rods permanently insert or it just, you know, proceeds to melt down once arrived at Mars?
I've used Anki for language learning but didn't find it that useful. A problem I encountered was that while I could remember words and expressions in the Anki environment, I couldn't do it outside of it. Or I could memorize an expression exactly as it was written down, but if I saw a little variation then it was useless.

For language learning I found it works way better to use another technique: ridiculous imagery and word association. Higher initial time investment (have to spend some time for each new word in the first time I see) but after that I don't EVER need to recall it again. It just sticks. I also used that to memorize different alphabets and it's WAY easier and does feel like a superpower as opposed to just brute force memorize something by repetition and recall with no other brain connections between what we're memorizing and what we already know.
Are you claiming that the content that has been published is manufactured and bogus (aka fabricated)?

I don't think anyone has actually claimed that. What makes you say this?
The contradiction is that "freedom" is paradoxical. It is impossible for everyone to be free if any two individuals disagree.
I switched to a Linux desktop since wfh from a MacBook Pro. It’s superior in every way except portability - but there’s nowhere I could take my laptop right now anyway. I can get tons of NVMe storage, lots of fast memory, a wildly powerful CPU with 8+ cores, an unfathomable GPU(coming from laptops) for the same price as that laptop.

None of this is news but it definitely makes the development experience so much nicer, and I can play any game with max settings on it too. Building desktops is also just a lot nicer than it used to be. There are tons of quality of life improvements in the cases, PSUs with detachable cables, silent fans and cooling solutions, etc.
It depends, and whilst San Francisco can’t be compared to Harlow there can be some tragic ramifications:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47720887
That's pretty funny, I've moved around SF and different neighborhoods had very different NextDoor cultures.

Some neighborhoods would never be accusative of a drug dealer, but would definitely like a review on the quality of what they are suspected of dealing.

Other neighborhoods would appreciate the warning about the coyote and move on.
> there's this question of whether a country should have the right to influence another country to begin with

Are sanctions influencing another country, or limiting how companies and people from the sanctioning country interact with foreign entities?

> They should only be part of an incentive system

Has an incentive system between countries ever been implemented and worked? For a specific what-if, is there a way that we could have realistically "incentivized" Cuba to disassociate with the USSR?
No, what I am saying is that if you want complete privacy you can't have effective care.

Effective care requires knowledge of patient history, co-ordination between providers, etc. Your general practitioner needs to identify you to a downstream specialist using a strong-identifiable source. Your hospital requires knowledge of your allergies, of your heritage, of your past medical history, etc, in order to ensure you receive the best therapies and medicines. This does not even touch of things such as funding models or holistic healthcare plans.

The best any care provider would be able to do, in lieu of a trustworthy patient data source, is to offer general medicines and stabilisation.
These "open" vendors are selling you machines with a very, very closed Intel Management Engine (IME) or AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) in it.

They're distracting people from the real problem, and doing so is harmful.
Putting in a plug for a startup working on solving the Varroa mite problem by zapping them with lasers - https://www.beecombplex.com/

Hasn’t officially launched yet, but the early trials are promising.

(Disclosure: I have advised the company)
As long as you happen to be a liberal American, I suppose you’ll never be concerned with letting Google be the one that makes the decisions.

Or, you know, unless they happen to ban you for absolutely no reason.
The author is referring to the rise of crime and homelessness in San Francisco. The Walgreens comment is referring to how several Walgreens are shutting down in San Francisco, partially because they have been unable to stop shoplifting.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Another-San-Francisco...

Many San Francisco residents are very opposed to any language that smacks of anti-homelessness - arguably anti-homeless language is promoting systematic racism - which encourages a certain crypticness in commenting.
I’m licking my chops and hoping the SF bay does get cheaper; I’d love to live in the city or in Berkeley if the prices dropped significantly. Especially if commuting isn’t a big part of my life.

Meanwhile, you couldn’t pay me an extra 100k a year to consider moving to the Midwest or Texas. I just value weather and nature and outdoor activities far too much to deal with those places. I guess if your family is there or something, but most of the year is unbearable away from the west coast.
I do not find these funny.

I think for these to be found humorous, you have to have a bunch of pretty crappy attitudes.

Like the mask hero one. To find that funny, you have to feel that the rules to wear masks are infringing and unnecessary, ridiculous even, thus you enjoy them being ridiculed.

Every time you laugh at something, try to ask yourself what exactly you're laughing at. Or don't bother. Stupid snowflake libtards tryinna tell you what to laugh at amirite?
> Unfortunately, that forbids general-purpose screenshotting and key-rebinding programs - but there is no sensible middle ground.

Unfortunately, this makes it unusable for 98% of the population. Wayland also breaks screen sharing programs, which are essential for most, especially now during COVID.
I think it just comes down to how important you find the convenience of using the same machine when you're at your desk and when you're not.

I used an external monitor, keyboard and mouse when at the desk, even when I only owned a laptop. But I also use the laptop a lot on the couch, not just for traveling - so I wondered if I would find it annoying to have a separate desktop machine.

So far it's been well worth it. The desktop performance is much better (especially for gaming) and Dropbox, git, Chrome sync and VS Code sync make having multiple machines relatively painless.

Edit: I see in previous comments you were looking for a full sized bluetooth keyboard. I recently got a Logitech G915 [0] and I'm pretty happy with it. Expensive though.

[0] - https://www.logitechg.com/en-eu/products/gaming-keyboards/g9...
This is definitely not true for me or most anyone I talk to. In fact, I was incredibly glad when my university created an agreement with Zoom, and am now often the one asked to create the meeting when communicating with friends and family (including on FB Messenger which has video calling built-in) to use Zoom and avoid the Free plan limitations.
Speaking of GCHQ - this is an excellent movie starring Keira Knightley and Matt Smith that got way too little exposure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_(film)

(Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 89%)

> Official Secrets is a 2019 British-American docudrama film based on the life of (GCHQ) whistleblower Katharine Gun who leaked a memo exposing an illegal spying operation by American and British intelligence services to gauge sentiment of and potentially blackmail United Nations diplomats tasked to vote on a resolution regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun

> Gun's regular job at GCHQ in Cheltenham was to translate Mandarin Chinese into English. While at work at GCHQ on 31 January 2003, Gun read an email from Frank Koza, the chief of staff at the "regional targets" division of the American signals intelligence agency, the National Security Agency.

> Koza's email requested aid in a secret operation to bug the United Nations offices of six nations: Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, and Pakistan. These were the six "swing nations" on the UN Security Council that could determine whether the UN approved the invasion of Iraq. The plan might have contravened Articles 22 and 27 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which regulates global diplomacy.
GitHub should stand up to the RIAA over YouTube-dl
My bad, I didn't realize this was one of those types of places.
Not sure what this means. FWIW, I'm in the UK, and short brown-outs are not uncommon if, for example, the national grid is adapting to a failure somewhere during severe weather. For a while when there was a recurring equipment failure a year or two back, my whole area had several full power cuts, even lasting for multiple hours once or twice, until they finally figured out the root cause and fixed it.

The UPSes we have all our key equipment running on have been some of the best tech investments we've ever made, even if they did cumulatively cost over £1,000.
My elderly parents and all their neighbors got blanketed with mailers that showed am elderly couple on the cover and stated prop 22 was going stop senior citizens from getting their meds delivered to them. The is pure evil and totally legal to misrepresent the issues by pulling on voter's heartstrings. My parents were duped and they will win with these slimey deceitful tactics.
Many (most?) bathrooms in the US have more than a single, lonely bulb.
Yeah, I don't use pollen traps, propolis traps, nor queen excludes. I'm not sure how they would effect drones. I know drones can fit through 3/8 inch. I'm not sure what size the hornets can fit through. If they are the same size as cicada killers, I would guess 3/8 is too small for them.
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Content moderation isn't free speech, it's freedom of association, or in constitutional terms, freedom of assembly.

Consider that Ben Franklin wouldn't publish libelous or slanderous material submitted to his newspaper - clearly a form of "content moderation." He believed in the right of the people submitting such things to express them and would suggest they try elsewhere, but also believed in his right not to publish those views on his "platform."

I don't think anyone would accuse Ben Franklin of not believing in free speech, so clearly a reasonable person can square the apparent circle. Freedom of speech isn't the only right relevant to speech, and freedom of speech doesn't guarantee a right to speak on all platforms.
> It was less efficient, because you had to carry your documents around yourself, but I'm not sure that the care was significantly less effective.

Also your healthcare providers kept their fully-identified records.

And, yes, it was signficantly less effective with higher error rates, etc.

> How many people will simply not see a doctor because they're worried about this?

Very few, I suspect. None that I have ever heard of outside of people with significant anxiety disorders (this is literally true, and not my implying anything).
Concrete separation also acts as fire barriers, which is very important in areas where people will be cooking stuff. Office buildings don’t typically have stoves with open flame everywhere.