skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damned if you do, damned if you don't in that case.

A lot of the 1st generation open source CoCs were not hypotheticals, but "here's things we wish Richard Stallman would stop doing". As head of GNU/FSF, he had tremendous influence in shaping the culture of open source, and one result of that was that it ended up a lot more male-dominated than other areas of "tech": one figure I've seen was around 2% women in prestigious open-source projects vs. around 20% in programming as a whole.

Open source CoCs started as far as I can tell as a combination of a reaction to specific incidents and to address the general problem that women were [choosing to stay out of the community](https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/09/moat/). That link talks about CoCs specifically, but note that her argument is not "and therefore they should be shamed in public" but "and therefore I'm staying out". Hence, 2% vs. 20%.

So yes, CoCs can have downsides - what happened to Jeremy here could well be one of those - but the pre-CoC open source scene had a culture that ended up with 2% women compared to 20% in programming/tech in general. I don't think it's the right solution to simply roll back the change so we're not disadvantaging people like Jeremy any more, and return to disadvantaging people like Alice and Sarah and Rachel and Yasmin.
Yes, I wrote about this not too long ago: https://goel.io/drm-ownership

The issue is that they are selling you something to "buy", when really you are renting. They are lying and deceiving.

No one's going to hold them accountable.
We're moving to a world where we have to deal with unaccountable HR departments and policies like a regular job, but do not get compensated for our contributions like a regular job unless we are already employees of a significant corporate contributor.
It really needs a hotkey to always start at the root search.
Like many on HN, I admire the simplified language guidelines [0]that the UK GOV network of informational sites imposes on itself. A government has a civic duty to make regulatory and legal information as easy to understand as possible, for the widest gamut of possible readers who are subject to the laws of the land.

However, those sites have a captive audience: anyone smarter than the 'lowest common denominator' UK GOV target reader, any reader who might have appreciated a more concise and less 'hand-held' style, is going to keep reading anyway, because the information is important and non-negotiable.

Outside of that context, most pieces you might like to read were commissioned with maximum word-counts, varying levels of assumed readership skill and prior knowledge, and diverse other factors that defy any 'universal style-guide', such as TFA is trying to formulate.

For instance, I write about technology for a living. Those commissions have word-count restrictions that force me to either:

- Say less, so that I can maintain a level of English suitable for a moderately-skilled non-English speaker (As you can imagine, the editor does not want me to 'say less').

- Use more compressed and concise language that may be more challenging for the non-native reader (because concision can be antithetical to simplicity [and my editor also wants prose that is accessible to the widest number of readers without alienating the target demographic for that particular piece]).

- Write boldly and use footnotes and references to justify the claims I am making, because:

a) I don't have enough word-count for 'explainers' and 'box-outs'

b) I'm expected to deliver a lot of information, and

c) I'm expected to write in the simplest style available, depending on the intent of the commission.

It's bad enough that the dictates of SEO have dumbed down so much content from once-great news and analysis providers over the last ten years. Let's not support any further race to the bottom, but rather aim to write lean and information-rich material in a style that's matched to the readership.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-u...
While there are isolated use cases for returning multiple values (quotient/remainder being a good example), all of the real-world cases I've seen where the author tried have been a serious code smell, a missed warning that the encapsulation was weak. Refactoring to use single return values or coherent value objects almost always produced cleaner, more readable, more testable code as a result.
Power Up Your Java Using Python with JPype – Episode 286
i should object to this strenuously as someone with mediterranean heritage, but this is absolutely not the bay leaf take i was expecting and i have to admit that astrigency you hate is like the whole point and i would never eat one by itself so i am torn here.
Companies like Netflix use Chaos Engineering to break systems in production
How I built a dashboard template and sold it for $90k
Yes, they are lots more. The doctor needs read and write to access patient records and also log stuff for insurance info, that kind of thing.
I thought Nixon started the war on drugs?
If you want more file-format goodness, check out Ange Albertini's Corkami Project:

https://github.com/corkami/pics

Here are Windows and Linux executables:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corkami/pics/master/binary...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corkami/pics/master/binary...
Governments May Make Private Gold Ownership Illegal
I agree, and frankly I understand why Chinese people want to get here. It's a great place!

But we can't have vast sums of capital, of unknown origin, flooding our country and pricing out our own citizens.
The village or town..?
Cloud Native Data Security as Code with Cyral – Episode 156
Especially when we have groups trying to convince swathes of the population that public health matters are not public health matters, and that we're against each other rather than working together.

Unfortunately, that is the reality facing us right now.
15 years back you had to buy a $20 CD to get access to 1 song you liked...

Today for $9/mo (or nearly free with Amazon) you can listen to almost any song....

The lowering of costs, and easy access is what is driving lower use of p2p not RIAA lawsuits and more restrictions
Not a comment on the benchmarks themselves, but why not pre-compress the assets, and let the server simply pipe the data directly? Probably increase your throughput not insignificantly (given how prevalent compression support is in modern browsers).
Yes I remember reading an article posted here before on using Facebook to ddos
> The three sellers were led by Jake Greenbaum, a “blockchain entrepreneur” who uses the Twitter handle JBTheCryptoKing and was billed as Logan Paul’s “personal Pokémon consultant”.

https://twitter.com/JBTheCryptoKing/status/11076091803645665...

Oh wow. They didn't even check his tweets to see if he was real
> my point was more about how far you can get with the core structure before having to dive into code. Whereas any React tutorial starts with code. You don't really start by laying things out and connecting the dots as such, you start by typing.

I agree, this is a good point and a strong contrast.

Given how the React model is a relatively simple and specific one (DOM being a tree, data bindings forming a DAG), I'm somewhat surprised how little we seem to have in terms of UI builders. React seems to yield itself to visually constructing working, interactive sites out of pieces. And yet, as you note, everything about it starts with code.

(I guess we may be in the "startup phase", where all GUI builders are SaaS tools made by companies, who try to vendor lock you.)

> I think this is the promise of computing that we've failed to reach yet. Any person has a problem, and with a little effort, they can code up a fix. Coding as a skill like putting up some shelves, rather than engineering an entire house.

100% agree. That's why I cheer people who solve their personal and professional problems with an Excel sheet, or a half-baked mix of scripts. That's why I love tools like AutoHotkey (Windows) and Tasker (Android). Coding is a specific mindset, but that doesn't mean that you have to be either helpless about computers, or a software professional. Much as a carpenter or a remodeler would cringe at the way I fix up things around the house with judicious application of duct tape and power drill, but as long as they work, are safe, and my wife doesn't complain about aesthetics, I'm happy (and get to save money).
It’s amazing to read comments like that! Disgraceful
NL-7546LE#14
Supposedly the story is: Tesla bought a car back then sold it to an auction house and enabled FSD as a "demo". The auction house mistakenly listed the features as being enabled, and when the car sold Tesla never disabled the FSD demo. When the user then privately sold the car to a new owner, the new owner performed an ownership transfer - when they did this, either a human or some automated system saw that the FSD demo was enabled and disabled it.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-disables-autopilot-on-...
very recently someone created a method to encode files and data into videos - this video could then be uploaded to youtube, and distributed / stored permanently there.
Launch HN: Cohere (YC S20) – Real-time user support for web apps
Hey everyone! Yunyu, Rahul, and Jason here. We're co-founders of Cohere (https://cohere.so), which lets you see what your users are seeing on your web app and remote control their browser with their permission. This requires zero setup on their part, which is particularly helpful for less tech-savvy users.

Pointing things out over Zoom screenshare is highly time consuming ("click the 4th checkbox on the right", "click the handle and drag"), and trying to figure out what users are doing over a live chat or phone call typically leads to endlessly frustrating back-and-forths.

When COVID forced all of us into remote work, we found ourselves spending a lot of time in screensharing sessions. We were tired of choppy frame rates and blurry text, and realized that we could get around this by sharing the user’s screen in a different way. Rather than video streaming, which is how it’s usually done, we could send over diffs of their webpage’s DOM representation and reapply those in the viewer’s browser – this is similar to how virtual DOM frameworks like React work.

We first used this technique for an earlier project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363250) that rendered React apps on the server (a Node equivalent of Phoenix LiveView). This reduces development complexity for web apps by completely eliminating the need for RPC layers (REST, GraphQL) – for instance, you'd be able to write to the database directly from your React component and share state across sessions with a single hook. It works by sending DOM updates from the server (e.g. insert a node, change an attribute) in response to input actions sent from the client (e.g. click a button, type a character).

This approach uses significantly less bandwidth compared to traditional
screen sharing solutions, and gives us a semantic understanding of the webpage (e.g. a button is sent over as a <button />, instead of a blob of bytes). As a result, we can selectively filter out sensitive content and allow viewers to scroll and type on the webpage without any perceived latency.

To solve our screen sharing problem, we initially built a Chrome extension that let users browse web pages collaboratively. During YC, we saw that our early adopters were primarily using this tool to walk through their own web apps with their customers, so we decided to refocus the product towards helping companies onboard and support their users.

Because we're focused on the real time use case, we only record the DOM when a session is being viewed. This means that no data is sent to our servers unless Cohere is actively being used. Additionally, we don’t persist or retain any session data.

Thanks for reading our story – we'd love to get your thoughts, feedback, and ideas!
Denying its a kafka trap only proves that it is.
Not sure :) but I also get a feeling of uneasiness, particularly after reading the site. There's a sense of commodification of our personal lives. Like a Hallmark card, except the company also gets a copy of the private section.

That said, I'm sure that's unfair - I could see myself working in the team and feeling well about providing this service. And it does sound appealing to get a recorded memory of a loved one. Plus I'm also the kind of guy who feels uneasiness at uploading photos to the cloud, and there aren't very many of us.
I think this is a fairly common reaction (maybe overreaction) when people first notice an addiction, or that something toxic is in their routine. It's like an attempt to regain control, I think.
I don't really get how you could possibly be a sysadmin or a system engineer or an SRE or $WHATEVER if you don't use Jenkins or any other CI tool, if you don't use tools like Terraform or Ansible (which personally don't like at tool for infra mgmt but it's OK for config mgmt or image baking) etc etc. I mean, I was a sysadmin 15 years ago moving pizza boxes and cabling switches in a cold datacenter and gradually my job changed to this new reality (while moving between 4-5 small/medium companies, no corporate or FAANG). Is there really somebody out there whose job didn't change like this?
But look, this is exactly because Spotify/Amazon/Netflix are responding to reality and providing media at a price point that reflects it.

That's a desired outcome.
Hasbro in NA, Mattel internationally.
Fun fact: several Central European countries are being quite often (wrongly) described as East European. So while at it, in that part of Eastern-ish Europe where I'm from the ZIP codes do matter :)
They have an answer in the FAQ.
> This is what terrorism looks like in 2020.

Given the (extra-)legal powers that are activated by that word, I'd be circumspect in using it.

Many crimes are "horrifying, terrifying, [and] disgusting" without rising to the level of terrorism.
Any Canadian should be well aware that the CBC is not a unified voice, and will publish a broad array of Canadian perspectives.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929467
Somewhat click-bait title, but still interesting given some similar-ish historical precedents - TLDR is “No government is suggesting it yet, but it’s something they might start to suggest, says hedge fund manager”
First of me hearing about this.
$25 sounds a bit high for a rapid test. [1]

[1] - https://www.rapidtests.org/
Second question:

No. I think I know where the original idea came from. Racism against the majority group is relatively benign compared to that against a minority. It is unlikely that racism can phase them to a relevant degree. But that stops to be the case when you have companies and media personalities starting to discriminate on the basis of skin color. Furthermore I think the most racist people are those that have no problem with being racist at all and those that believe there needs to be some compensatory justice. And this is far more pronounced racism than bias in any form.

first question:

Yes/No. I think there is an initial bias that is quickly overcome on contact because the other one is not you. Same prejudices can exist against unknown people in general. I doubt it is too relevant in exchanges. It can however be the reason for prejudices against people against other that they not ever been in contact with.

I also believe that you need different types of people in a functioning society. For disabled people it might be advantageous to have people ignoring their condition and just pretending that they belong just as everybody else. But you need also people that know that isn't always the case. Everyone wants to make things accessible but if you ask yourself if you always keep that promise the answer is probably 'no'. That is why the latter group is also needed, but there can be conflicts if a differing context isn't cleared up. The first group might have a problem with 'political correctness' in this context.
If platforms tighten the noose, you'll see people gravitate back towards p2p.

People stopped torrenting because Netflix and company made it extremely easy and more affordable to consume a wide range of media. Affordable enough that the hassle of torrenting was no longer worth it. If that changes, you'll see a resurgance.
My understanding is that much of the reason for parking money in these properties is to get around local (that is, their local, our foreign) tax laws and wealth regulations. If that's the case, it's not different from money laundering. "Tax avoidance" is tantamount to money laundering.
Wow, Europe's investment in renewable energy has really collapsed.

Part of the problem is that people think a Malthusian catastrophe would play out like a Hollywood disaster film. That's extremely unlikely. The word "catastrophe" encourages this thinking. A better term might be "Malthusian crunch."

It would be more likely to play out very gradually over decades. We would see gradual inflation in the cost of anything requiring energy, water, land, etc., and a gradual reversal of progress for the world's poor and middle class. The upper middle class may barely feel it, but they would notice it as they tend to live close to other classes. The rich may neither feel it nor notice it unless they eventually get caught up in rising political instability or populist revolutions.

... which looks a bit like today.

If it eventually results in widespread death most of that death would be due to war, genocide, and disease, not direct starvation as you'd see in a Hollywood film. Most of the death would be proximally caused by political instability, and it would be lost on most people that this political instability was ultimately caused by resource constraints.

There are two places it could eventually go. If technology keeps advancing while population growth slows, we might eventually balance out and even reverse the trend. The crunch would be a kind of narrowing passage through which we would eventually pass. If technology stagnates, population growth accelerates, or political instability causes vital systems to collapse, the result could be extremely ugly.

Decarbonization should be a big priority because climate change adds yet another drag on the system in the form of massive damage to coastal cities and possibly decreased food production or increased cost, increasing the likelihood of the worst outcomes.
That's not investment, it's a gamble/speculation.
Chevrolet readies an electric crate motor for homebuilt EV hotrods
I wonder if a better solution would be allowing people to really own digital goods they buy the way you do physical copyrighted goods. Someone tried to let you "sell" your iTunes library by deleting it off your hard drive and then giving it to someone else but they lost in court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDigi....
Rapid, inexpensive paper strip tests can tell you whether you are contagious
Tips. How to Launch an App?
Development is not the main. And here is why
Relevant: https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundr...
I felt the same way about Obsidian. It seemed really helpful on the surface but after a few days of using it, I realized I was spending more time recording everything and making sure to use the correct backlinks than I was actually learning anything. Just bookmarking pages gets you the majority of the benefit of meticulously organizing your notes, while requiring next to zero effort.
The article headline was pretty misleading, the team they chosen has self-described as having the "Google SRE model", which doesn't really speak to what non-SV companies are doing, if they are just copying SV companies.
For me it's a quite distracting experience (the whole AR part, with glitches and lack of background). I think that well-done animation could be much better (and would't require more effort)
Cool demo. I tried using manim a while ago but struggled setting it up and creating anything worthwhile. This looks like a solid and simple starting point to expand from, thanks!
Alaska Purchase
Yes, I hope they introduce some measures to keep utilization rates low. Maybe say that you can only transfer it once a year or something like that.
I used to hack around with GBA programming too, but I started much earlier on an Apple ][.

My first serious attempts at assembler programming were on the TI-85 graphing calculator which had a Z80 processor (same as the original gameboy). Later, I bought a programmable GBA cartridge and a tool that could write to it. There were a Z80 emulators on the GBA to play the original gameboy games, and there were packagers available to make your Z80 programs, so I ported over my "columns" clone I made for zshell on the TI-85.
Agreed. We definitely need New Zealand style property ownership laws, this is getting out of hand.
The word count is interesting. Presumably that's to approximately fill a "page", and provide a "familiar feel" to all articles on a site written by different authors?

That's a good link and states what I was trying to say:

"""Good content is easy to read

Good online content is easy to read and understand.

It uses:

short sentences
sub-headed sections
simple vocabulary

This helps people find what they need quickly and absorb it effortlessly.

The main purpose of GOV.UK is to provide information - there’s no excuse for putting unnecessarily complicated writing in the way of people’s understanding."""
Yes but fairly easy to use houses to launder Mony (if you have enough clean Mony). It's also not to hard to abuse houses for speculative investments and houses if well invested are lastly not prone to turn worthless if there is a big crash. So in the right areas they are a "I lose at most a bit but never all" safety investment you can also use for Mony laundering.

Very attractive for certain kind of wealthy people.

So even if a price rises for normal reasons that people tend to always mingle and drive prices even more.
> Do you think your kids will want to read their ancestors’ books?

Maybe they will and maybe they won't, but how are we to know that with certainty today? The whole point is that if the opportunity is taken away now, then that guarantees that they won't be able to in the future. Beyond that, they would also lose the possibility of otherwise sharing them with someone else who might be interested in reading them, and I think that would be a loss as well.
For me the first google result the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum) which offers several explanations, including actual measurable man-made external sources, a type of tinnitus, and some more rare or speculative circumstances.

My understanding is that hum-like low-frequency tinnitus is not all that well documented. Feel free to provide links to sources to prove me wrong.
Why don't they ask for city/village/town then? Why always ask specifically for a city? Many people don't live in cities. Some don't live in any kind of town or village or anything.
That's one part of it, but the real innovation in remote care is RPM devices (Remote Patient Monitoring). These can be anything from blood-glucose sensors, dialysis machines, blood pressure sensors, etc, that have an internet connection and send data live to a physician or nurse.

The struggle with these devices is that they're often cheap embedded systems that never receive firmware updates, so they do present a security concern. However, they're also immensely useful and have without a doubt saved lives.
I work at a bank. Our primary SRE practices probably consists of throwing overwhelming amounts of bureaucracy and red tape to make any change difficult. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.
It's available to everyone with a Google account, but not for all videos.