skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the entire value of a (voice) assistant is that it can quickly and reliably deliver results. You don't need Data, but the system needs to be robust enough to work quickly. If you have to ask five times or spend minutes thinking about how to phrase the question, it's not assisting you in anything but wasting your time.
I feel like there's a difference between...

> Right now the nation's top entomologists are watching the situation and beekeepers like myself are not worried.

... and ...

> It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.
Well, that, and the fact that anyone who buys a house pretty much anywhere will eventually be hit with higher taxes and fewer services. So for a lot of people, that's probably not being factored very highly because the same thing is happening everywhere. It's just the nature of the fire/teacher/police contracts that were given out all over the nation in preceding decades.

So the deciding factor becomes something more like, "How much is the job I'm being offered going to pay me vs the cost of living?" They may also think about personal contacts, and the future opportunities a city is likely to provide them? I'd imagine it doesn't go too much further than that though.
The joplin API works pretty well from my experience, although the note to note linkage is not great.

The export of notes dumps as guid.md file name.

I personally like it because it has the features I want, works well on mobile, local first backed up by sync (you provide the target) and the API isn't hard to use.
There is a single problem with this line of thought: you cannot raise taxes over 100%. Yes, more taxes gives you better services and it benefits the society more (not the tax payer), so increasing the taxes is the logical way to go... until you reach 100% and you are stuck. At that point one can still argue taxes should be increased for better services, but it will be harder to do it. Then people will start thinking about how to limit the spending and how to get the most from less money, maybe even to reduction in taxes.
Very important context.
big fan of FPH?

e: Sorry that's a bit weak of a comment.

The deal with reddit authoritarianism makes sense. They don't want to support hate-filled communities that promote violence, crime, or misinformation. They are free to do whatever they want. Most of the people I see complaining about reddit had their favorite hate-filled subreddits banned.
Does France also charge people with crimes for liking Weegee photographs?
Obviously all people have different kinds of policy opinions, and the "R" and "D" buckets are way too coarse to describe everyone. Someone who is gay can just as easily be a fiscal conservative (for example) as someone who is straight.

But what I can't understand is how someone -- even if they agree with most of their chosen party's platform -- could vote for a party whose leadership largely wants to erase them. I just don't understand someone who is gay voting for people who believe that their sexual orientation is a "choice", many also believing that it's a "sin" that should be forcibly "re-educated" out.

Certainly calling them "nuts" is dismissive, disrespectful, and doesn't help us understand what's going on, but... really, I do not at all understand what's going on.
"Several knives and other weapons were found at his home" What kind of horrible person would keep knives in their home?
You can nationalize companies.
> Christians no longer kill non-Christians on the streets for blashpemy.

Tell this to all the gay and trans people who are very much killed in the streets in places like the US. (I'm not saying Christians do all the violence against lgbtq people or that all Christians are complicit in said violence. I'm just pointing out that the parent's claim that Christians don't do this any more is not correct.)
What do you mean by the other side?

Biological immortality (negligible senescence) would not prevent suicide, homicide or accidental death.

Why should we be bored?

The universe is a large and complex space, And there are many mysteries to solve...

And when the real world is too boring it is always possible to create/explore virtual worlds.
Any fundamentalism be it Islamic, Christian (Klu Klux Klan, westboro baptism, lgbt murders), Buddhist (Rohingya killed by Buddhists in Myanmar) is incompatible with the modern world. Not just Islam.

The problem is not religion, it's that some fundamentalists who are not right in the head use it as an excuse to commit horrifying acts.
Because it's substantially more deadly than the flu. (That's not counting the survivors who suffer permanent organ damage.) Please update your facts before posting in public on this topic again. I suggest sources other than Fox News.

If you're about repost right-wing canards about how it's less deadly for children, please review salient facts about infectious diseases, such as the fact that they are infectious. The goal of vaccinating younger people is to protect those whom they might infect.
>Twitter is a private company. They constantly, if unevenly, exercise their right to ban hate speech and what causes it.

So is Verizon. Do you want to live in a world where your phone gets turned off if they don't like the conversation?
> suppress them ... by force

The trouble is deciding who gets to wield that force
Good, they shouldn't have tried to spread garbage, unvalidated information in order to try and undermine Biden's campaign. I guess they'll just have to stick to the fox news crowd and Trump followers.
It seems the referenced URLs in question in the source are part of unit testing.

Aside: Wonder how gitlab handles DMCA requests.
This an interesting original take, bravo.

Death is clearly an evolutionary result as species all live in a different range of lifespans. It can neatly argued that we are now seeing consequences of this just by extending lifespans from 60 to mid 80s in both economics and governance.

It's always nice when HN truly shifts a perspective.

Have one internet on me today.
Ray Tracing Disney’s Moana Island Using RTX, OptiX, and Owl
I'm looking at it on my Xiaomi Redmi 8 (maybe?) generic mid level Android phone. I recognise that I'm not very discerning in these matters (and no doubt many others) but by way of compensation I suspect this makes it easier to be happy and content.
How is Twitter equivalent to a newspaper?

Twitter is a platform everyone gets to post stuff by default. You and many others make it sounds like Twitter has to deliberately to give permission to someone to make a post, so Twitter has no obligation to allow anyone to post. This is such a B.S. argument. Twitter doesn't deliberately allow someone to post. No. It deliberately bans someone from make a post. Banning is its action.

The question is why Twitter bans NY post and this action needs explanation.
Ask HN: Does unorthodox language structure confuse algorithms on social media?
you are making a couple of assumptions that will probably not be true for immortal humans: 1) you are assuming people will continue to behave the same way (reproduction, consumption, learning, jobs, etc). 2) you are assuming population increase 3) you are assuming that we will continue staying on Earth (immortality has some advantages when it comes to space travel) 4) you assume science will progress at the same pace as today (i think it will go much much faster) 5) you are assuming that our final form is biological

also, how do you know there is another side?
Someone made a tool that automatically generates those Twitter link previews
I completely disagree, I think life would be much more meaningful if the potential to fully experience was not so time-restricted.
"Don’t people at least want to see what is at the other side?

Sure, but I want to do it on my schedule, and it would be nice to have some level of understanding of "what's next after death" before I choose that option.

Do they think they will never get bored from material existence?

Oh, probably; but I think it will take me somewhere north of 500 years before I tire of being alive. Even if Earth is boring, I'd rather move to another planet rather than just off myself out of boredom.
Google Cloud Run is better than traditional FaaS offerings
I think free speech stops at the point where a photo of a severed head is posted by the murderer and people “liking” it as well.
I don't even keep most of the videos I downloaded due to that, as they are not worth watching more than once anyway, so it could be argued that it's no different than how people usually use YouTube.

AFAIK, (good) browsers still give you the direct links if you know where to look, but the slow boiling of the frog is really evident with things like hiding View Source and such (often under the guise of "usability".) The demise of youtube-dl, along with Google's pushing of their proprietary protocols and other continued user hostilities surely paints a sad picture for the freedom of the Internet...
Whatever happens with the youtube-dl case, it's a good reminder to take perception seriously.
I'm slightly cynical that Microsoft will actually listen, but applying pressure from inside seems like useful advocacy.
It does matter! Twitter and Facebook swore that they would limit this kind of garbage rumor mill information for the election. if NYP would have showed how they verified the information then twitter would have let them spread the info. Twitter is a private company and they are trying to be more responsible about slowing the spread of disinformation. This is a good thing and not a bad thing.
large enterprise deployments of phones or company owned desktops/laptops, etc, very commonly include what would be called "network admission control" software. The device needs to meet a certain defined state of patch level/servicepack/antivirus scan/other things (like GPO registry settings on a windows machine) before allowed to sign on.

it's all good to theoretically say that smaller companies should adopt a 'beyondcorp' type approach. but at a certain point of threat model on the client device (keystroke loggers + tools that send screenshots somewhere else, as is found on black hat remote access tools/botnet tools), you need to have specialists in endpoint/workstation device security keeping on top of threats, and defining the security policy.

what sketches me out about this particular article is that they're essentially trusting any client endpoint device that has the 2FA hardware token, and has a working browser. you could have a totally screwed up windows 10 laptop riddled with some very nasty RATs that would work fine to use the 2FA authentication tool, and sign in to their service with chrome in a browser. there's nothing about verifying the state of the software and trustworthiness of the operating system of the client device which might be potentially accessing very sensitive internal information.

i see literally nothing in that article about inspecting or trusting the state of the operating system or software on the client device. does it have a bunch of malicious browser plugins? who knows. is it running a remote desktop tool that's linked to somewhere else? who knows. is it infected with an advanced remote access tool? who knows. is it six months out of date on windows updates? who knows...

the article's assertion that a vpn based approach is like an eggshell is false in my opinion. you should not have an environment where simple vpn auth allows you in to the squishy inner center of private data. a belt and suspenders approach is needed.
i am going to guess you are somewhat young (<60). watch how your opinion shifts as you get older
I love that this is your reaction to that story, as I believe that is the only valid reaction! I also love being reminded that every day someone gets to experience something new that I've already taken as fact.
By definition it’s the state (whomever the state allows), since they have a monopoly on force.
Don't you think it's too soon to play the blame game? Both of these groups were just following incentives (both to make money and also just survive in a competitive landscape).

On top of that there's also two other groups that further complicate the picture: end users and advertisers.

It's not clear to me that we need to go through the motions of trying to persecute one of these groups in particular, since the situation is already evolving. End users are starting to become wise to the ways in which they are manipulated by all three of the other groups, and not necessarily always in a conscious way -- I personally had a turning point where I was just tired of the cycle, it got boring, and I didn't even have to try to consciously cut out these things, they just kind of fell away while I spent my time elsewhere.
Now that would be a nice MS :heart: OSS statement.

Because what's MS to gain from this, other than some goodwill from some subset of people, if they did it specifically to stand up for OSS?
It does make me think whether GitHub is fitting place for open source projects anymore.

I think GitHub is fabulous. I love the service and I think its great as a central place to look for and contribute to open source projects better than options we had before.

But issues like this does clearly show an area of misalignment and conflict of interests.
Is that even legal? Most companies have a "yes, that person worked here" policy.
> They are ultimately guilty for the damage they have wrought on our societies.

What damage? The stuff people wrote on it? That's the people.

That's what I love about people who think everyone should vote. But just look at Twitter. Most people are poorly informed idiots who are hyper-emotional and inclined to mob-think.

I'm all for more direct democracy but that doesn't mean I want anyone and everyone to vote. We need informed voters.

Which is why I despise the drives to get random people out to vote for whoever they heard spoken the loudest about in relation to their issues.
Pretty pathetic attempt at trolling
Yes. Section 230 doesn't require a platform to be neutral. But Twitter insists it's neutral, so it MUST be neutral.
This is a perspective I have not seen before. It's very interesting. I've always viewed freedom of speech from a purely personal liberty perspective but you are right that it also creates an opportunity for the rest of society to hear and react to that speech. For better or worse.

I'm not totally comfortable with this because it creates a situation in which people may be compelled to speak or reproduce the speech of others for the supposed benefit to society.

This is a very interesting perspective I will continue to consider.
No, gay and trans people are not being killed for blasphemy.
Do you have any data on that? I’m very skeptical that this could be happening without the media blowing it up.
It is bloated. High latency, uses unnecessary disk space, high on resources. My default editor is either Sublime or Vim (usually Vim but sometimes I prefer Sublime). VSCode as dependency is a dealbreaker for me.

So I was happy to read this on Dendron website (author linked it elsewhere):

> That being said, the core dendron engine is not vscode specific and there are folks that are experimenting with porting it over to other editors (eg. sublime, vim). We also have plans for a standalone editor in the future (most likely, this will be a fork of VSCode optimized for note taking)
If you have the opportunity, please find a way to be a whistle-blower. IANAL, but this seems like a textbook "hostile work environment" and there are lawyers out there who are definitely interested in fighting this nonsense. Your sympathetic back story would definitely help.

There's also push back at the federal level against this, and public awareness is growing.
I think that using youtube-dl to download a video that a suspect has uploaded to YouTube, and presenting it in court is an example of doing policing right.

If you don't want your videos to be used against you in court, I would recommend not publicly broadcasting them to the entire world.
This is important. Without any of the other context(that could be found in the article), this case sounds absurd. What does it mean to like something on social media? Am I liking something because I endorse x, or because I abhor x, and want more people to see it? I think a distinction could be made by having a "bump" button in addition to like/dislike.
> Imho because it is highly opinionated and the designers of the language also suggests best practices.

In my experience this is actually a plus. I've lead a department that made the transition from Java to Go, and one of the really noticable things were entire classes of fruitless (and frankly, unnecessary) discussions disappeared. Having an opinionated language that comes with a canonical formatter and lots of established idioms made it easier to scale up to more people because more of the code looked homogenous more of the time.

However, with any new language someone takes up there is the risk that people will try to bring along their old habits from other languages and be unhappy if they can't just continue writing C/C++/Java/Python/C#/JavaScript/Lisp in Go. If this takes hold, you will waste a lot of time having fruitless discussions.

It is easier to adapt to a coding style that is shared than it is for every project and every team to invent their own. For instance, I've worked for only one company where using C++ was even somewhat pleasant: and it was in large part because a) the company had a very strictly enforced code standard for C++ (and other approved languages), and b) you had to demonstrate you could stick strictly to the code standard before you were able to approve changelists. At the time that company had some 7000 developers, of which probably 3-4000 had "C++ readability" rating.

The upshot being that after getting used to it, it was pretty easy to understand other people's code. And you would spend a lot of time reading other people's code.

I suspect Go being opinionated is a direct result of this experience.
i think the answer is yes. there is also an argument to be meant for healthspan vs lifespan (ie you don’t necessarily live much longer but the quality of life is dramatically improved)
Think of tolerance not as a virtue or an obligation, but as a peace treaty. The limits of tolerance become pretty clear then.
I use it a lot with FPGA vendor tools.
Given that it was just revealed that Apple was working on secret project that no high level executive knew about, it's very likely the story was true and was hidden from top tech execs.

https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ip...
Bastion of the Turbofish
There is one correct move. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

As they say, if you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
I'm surprised that Urumqi (the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) doesn't show up on this list, given
how serious the CCP takes security there [1]. Maybe the study's authors simply didn't have access to data for that region.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/10485129
This sounds great in theory, but in practice julia-1.5.2 still takes 10 sec to start when I use a medium-sized package including its dependencies (16 compiled files in total). If julia is loading cached files, I would expect something below 1 sec.
Eh, yes and no.

Few times I've been on there, I've experienced similar to what you've mentioned.

But another few times, I've had some great experiences with clearly adults - notably, playing pickup HORSE basketball games in the lobby.
I want to agree with your cynicism.

But I lived in Mountain View. Decent internet is more or less not available there. Your choices are comcast or DSL.

Maybe they just don't remember the last time they had a waking hour out of the office ... :)

It's clear to me that whomever is making these product decisions has a very different relationship with computing and their data than I do-- but whatever the reason is, I don't think it's because they have a much better internet connection.
I've had similar issues on a recent camping trip since the switch from google play music to youtube music... when I lose connectivity, there's no buffer, and seems to be no songs kept to be able to play anything, and it was a really crappy experience.

May have to go back to spotify or offline mp3 files, I don't miss having to manage my own playlists tbh.
"The crucial question about a computer used to be "But can it run DOOM?". Later it became "But can it run Crysis?". These day it is "But can it run nytimes.com?". To which I am happy to report I was able to browse newspaper websites without burning myself."

Is there something I am missing with newer laptops? I have a 2008 Thinkpad x200, and I was able to do this just fine.
You mostly just restated what I said. The decision merely requires the copyright holder to consider fair use. It doesn't require them to accept that the alleged violation is fair use or even to do a detailed analysis:

In order to comply with the strictures of § 512(c)(3)(A)(v), a copyright holder's consideration of fair use need not be searching or intensive. We follow Rossi's guidance that formation of a subjective good faith belief does not require investigation of the allegedly infringing content

As for the quote, Fair use is not just excused by the law, it is wholly authorized by the law

The court is referring to 17 USC 107. Fair use exists in the context of whether something is a violation of copyright, in the same sense that self-defense is authorized by the law but is still a defense to criminal charges. Notably, I didn't call it an affirmative defense because it is not one.
> Twitter is a private company. They constantly, if unevenly, exercise their right to ban hate speech and what causes it.

It's actually the uneven enforcement of their own terms of service that is primarily of issue and further whether their actions constitute an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats by way of their intentionally tilted censorship.

If the DOJ were doing its job, they would be crushing Twitter right now with lawsuits over how Twitter selectively applies their terms of service to different groups when they feel like it. The Feds could make it extremely expensive to behave the way Twitter is. There are several other federal agencies that should be pursuing Twitter as well, that likely have legal ground to do so over these matters.

It's quite simple for Twitter: stop the intentionally selective application of your terms of service. Stop letting one side get away with constantly violating the terms of service with no consequences, while only aggressively punishing the political side you dislike.
There's a reason I have several backups of code that I care about, hosted under different usernames on different platforms.

People end up getting banned by these companies without any notice, and sometimes without cause.
It depends. Are those butter spreading knives? They mention other weapons as well. I don’t have enough info but I’m sure there’s some rule of law involved there so any innocent party has a chance for a fair trial
I miss those snappy chat boxes so much.

messenger.com is as ugly and slow as F5.
Indeed, and the industry term for this is posture assessment. And many companies take this a step further and permit access only with organization-issued equipment, even if you possess authentication credentials.
I’d like to read up more on this. Do you have sources?
Probably same reason we don’t treat social media as tobacco companies and same reason psychological abuse is treated differently than physical abuse.
Relevance is "Having said that, can we please stop pretending like any of us weren’t using this to infringe copyright?"

I'm not pretending if I'm not violating, even if I'm downloading the copyrighted videos.
Gitea/Gogs are great (self-hosted) alternatives. They preserve GitHub's UI and more importantly are just as fast. UI and speed are usually most people's complaints about Gitlab.
So basically you are writing tests that break things, and then keeping that code in the final compile?
Here is the real test of Microsoft's resolve in their desire to woo the developer community.