skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just as plausible that it was a boys retreat for friends and that is the point.I don't discount powerful people could have been involved, but the reality is it could be a conspiracy either way but the mere mention of conspiracy makes one a kook when they happen all the time. I mean the literal definition of a conspiracy is people conspiring to do something. Every revolution that has happened at some point was a conspiracy, but people will take the very strange circumstances that circle around this man and say that there is no conspiracy to look into. That is the point we don't know if there was one or not, but no one is interested in looking under the covers.
There is no privacy in a Smartphone owned by the duopoly. I refuse to own one entirely owing to this in part.
> Then it becomes a race to the bottom indeed.

The article used that wording, "a classic risk of a race to the bottom", but it doesn't feel entirely accurate to me.

A classic example of a race to the bottom is when jurisdictions compete to attract businesses by lowering their corporation tax rates and regulations. The end result would be zero taxes and zero regulations (unless a country offered a negative tax rate or other incentives).

For censorship, though, I don't see there being a "race" between countries. Just because Austria bans defamation doesn't mean that all other countries will try to out-compete Austria by banning something even less objectionable. What would "the bottom" even be in this "race"? Banning all speech from the internet? Internet companies would simply avoid having any assets or presence in any country that tried that.

Perhaps a better analogy would be "opening the flood gates" or "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link", suggesting that the strictest set of rules would be the one that ended up being implemented.
He can sell the business or still run it in retirement, McKinsey employee works 25 hours a day and is a slave to his boss
I wonder what the author thinks of the practice of "tipping," which is extremely common in the US?
When my friends' parents started getting microwave ovens (late seventies, early eighties I suppose) the received wisdom was to leave a cup of cold water in there when the oven wasn't being used. Does anyone else remember this?
If this is just retirement money, so what? It rebounded pretty well since.
This is a good point.

However it just means that once the industry decided to allow some DRM-free distribution of most/all content, a DRM boycott worked.

Unfortunately it is still true that where the industry does not allow any DRM-free distribution of most content, no DRM boycott has occurred.
I needed to rewrite this. I mean something like if I select an individual, uniformly at random, after conditioning on industry and Harvard degree I would expect the salaries of most of the individuals in both industries to be about the same. However, I think tech is closer to a normal distribution and finance is heavy-tailed around tech's mean.

If you do something like conditioning on a CS degree, finance probably mops the floor w/ tech.
I don’t really believe you could do such a thing empirically. I mean it just depends on scale as you indicated. I have never been a fan of ‘social’ sciences either.

Just like Christensen’s Dilemma books are mostly just anecdotes combined with patterns in history. As many such business books are.

But in my short time on this planet I’ve seen it in countless forms where I strongly believe it deserves such a title as “iron law”.
I work for a well known media company where I live, a brand, our grad scheme is really good (disclaimer I'm a small part of that) and attracts the best of the best out of colleges, people like having my company on their CV, it doesn't do any harm, our allumni typically go on to have good careers, or stay for the long haul. We love it when our people take the skills we've honed into, for example, Amazon, JP Morgan and amazingly often return to the fold and are welcomed back with open arms. There isn't a prestige trap really, but maybe we just think we're the best of the best and going anywhere else is just for rounding out experience.
Evil as the Left might be, they do all the arts and entertainment. And I'd go as far as saying it's genetic.

The Conservatives will not be able to make a sustainable platform.

The divisive politics is the addiction part, but the entertainment is what feeds you. Reddit without the memes is boring.

And until Libertarians can compete politically, it's all a two party system.
Can we end 2020 on a high note?
Dear Hacker News readers,

Twenty-twenty has had some major issues for numerous people, but could we end on a humorous note:

Would somebody with DeepFake experience produce a parody of Drew Cary's sitcom opening scene (Cleveland Rocks) and replace in the following way:

Cleveland > Donald
Rocks > Trump
Ohio! (Exclamation at the end) > You're Fired!

I believe the outcome would be what we all want.

Sincerely,
A Normal Republican
Imagine you've never heard of Gmail before. How does "I generally steer them towards the Gmail clients" sound if someone asks you about email?
More to the point you are comparing something that's only just been released and probably hasn't been tuned yet against something that has. The title on this post is extremely misleading. It should read "mature timeseries storage code outperforms immature timeseries storage code". But then, I guess no one would click on that?
It's probably a safety requirement. The door has to close firmly and evenly to keep microwave energy from leaking, and there are (sometimes multiple) interlock switches to keep the oven from turning on when the door is open or even partly open.
Faster and not a single purpose device.
But that’s just the issue we already have most of this freedom available yet hardly anyone takes advantage of it.

Heck how many people do you think install SailFish on their phones? You can buy pretty decent Android phones with AOSP and even SailFishOS builds yet people aren’t taking advantage of that in any particular manner.

If almost no one uses it, even amongst those who claim they want that freedom why will build a business model around it?
In this case it’s a legitimate national security subsidy. Even if it’s perpetually a few nodes behind, the US military needs a high-tech fab company headquartered in America, staffed mostly with Americans, that does at least some of its manufacturing in the geographic United States.
So opaque that this journalist figured out what it is and what it stands for in a few hours.
LinkedIn has similar dark patterns. They send me lots of fake push notifications... These companies are motivated by user engagement, so getting users to open the app again is important
It's too dangerous for anyone to go there. They should just launch missiles on any address 911 is called for.

There is always risk.
> Last i remember, there was the idea to have a coat of carbon fibre enhanced ice

It may be used (probably with low profit) for small vehicles/boats, but not for big ships.
I own my Mac. I can do anything I want with it.

How is that not ‘buying’?
I meant digital purchases with DRM or inside a digital store like Vudu or Amazon Prime.
Oh, this is perfect! Thanks for sharing!
By default, Android logs every app you use. You have to disable - bafflingly - features including saving locations in Google Maps and fully-functional voice recognition to (supposedly) disable that behavior. What I'm saying is: don't look so surprised.
The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998)
Everything You Need to Know About K0s, Lightweight Kubernetes Distro
That LEGO treehouse looks really great though! :D

I understand why it would be an impulse buy - it looks like the perfect toy to build, redesign, and play with during lockdown, and even better if you have space and compatible foliage.

There's definitely something nice and relaxing about doing things with your hands; LEGO pieces have a nice feel also and are fun to snap together (but incredibly painful to step on!)
What has this got to do with a certificate revocation server performing poorly?
And moreover, is going to be instantly destroyed and unrepairable.
Why bother interviewing them at all?
I have a hard time understanding what these statements are talking about.

> to fight less wars. That's a lofty goal, and maybe attainable, but probably far off for humanity as a whole.

It's not only lofty and "maybe" attainable, it's already happened, beginning decades ago. You're living in the most peaceful time in human history. There are almost no international wars (maybe Armenia and Azerbaijan count?). The great powers fight no wars with each other. War is almost unimaginable across vast geographic areas: Europe, especially sans Russia. North America, South America - the entire Americas. South and Southeast Asia, with the possible (and significant) exception of India and Pakistan. East Asia except North Korea. Etc.

It's not an accident or luck; it was a program of the early 20th century to make war illegal, and that came to fruition after WWII when the victors (who were not daydreamers - they knew more about war than we can ever imagine or want to know) formed the UN and the roots of the EU explicitly to prevent future wars.

It's like saying that extending human average human lifespan past 50 years is "a lofty goal, and maybe attainable, but probably far off for humanity as a whole."

> Critical to any military, much less society, is the concept of a warrior class.

There is no "warrior class" in the West or in the democratic world. For most of American and democratic history, wars were fought using draftees and citizen soldiers, like the Minutemen - everyone, not a class. The current American and most wealthy country militaries are filled with volunteers, people from all walks of life - not a class, unless we redefine the meaning of "class" as 'any group of people in the same job'. They are not trained over generations; in fact, many in the U.S. military are immigrants and the children of immigrants.

A 'warrior class' doesn't have a place in U.S. society, which is explicitly anti-class. That doesn't mean there is perfect social mobility, but generally we expect and encourage individuals to follow their own paths - not many reading this follow the family profession (especially in IT!) - and to succeed or fail by their effort and merit. If Mary's mother was a farmer, we aren't shocked if Mary becomes a programmer or doctor or artist. Obviously, we have much work to do to achieve those ideals, but the ideal is certainly not a caste system.
Nothing is ever enough. The article is bullshit.
> Furthermore, Capsaicin is anti-fungal so I can't see how it's possibly all that great for the gut microbiome

Fungi tend to compete with bacteria; if modern lifestyles generally tend to result in a overly fungus-heavy gut biome, a food with anti-fungal properties could restore healthy balance.
What's great about ships compared to for example buildings is that some serious design thinking goes into ships.

Especially modern buildings seem to have very little thought hours per cubic meter spent.
I see it as a stepping stone for global “real id”. In this case centralization is a feature, not a bug.
Calling Apple's privacy stance PR is extremely misleading.

It's been engrained in them since the 80s and with the growth of Google, it became fun to vilify Apple because of it.
This is a very interesting take. In Nokia's defense the incumbent leader of the PC market was Microsoft Windows and their phone efforts were not successful.
Custom DNS servers are available on Big Sur. My home network uses pfSense as a gateway for LAN. This gives more options blocking outbound connections or routing connections thru a VPN connection based on certain conditions.

https://www.pfsense.org
That sounds painful in so many ways...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzlHucbD76U
I seem to recall Intel was working on a few mobile chips over the past ~15 years. Or was it all part of the same drawn-out failure?

I also seem to remember shopping around for a new phone a few years back and coming across android phones running on what seemed like a Frankenstein Atom processor. At the time I thought it was a promising concept, though benchmarks weren't flagship quality. But I'd hoped to eventually see dual-boot phones I could slot into a shell of a laptop to have access to a an ultraportable low-end windows box when needed. I'm kind of disappointed that never came about. (I know there's some promising "shells" for android phones, but I'd really like an OS I can fully control for my desktop experience, and Linux phones don't quite seem mature enough)

Anyway, any insight on the above from your unique perspective would be welcome.
Email addresses are not public in general. They are not supplied to every site you visit automatically, and should not be manually supplied to every site you visit either. Whether it's a unique per-site address or not, it only makes sense to give it to people/organisations you want correspondence from. Therefore, sites that ask for it when you start reading an article seem really sketchy.
If Cairo is not to be adopted, then Linux doesn’t have a good option right now.
Tell me more about the future?
Fortunately ASML is in the Netherlands.
I think the central banks and government will prevent any future collapse of that scale. Don’t fight the fed. They have more money than you.
They backup the private key to iCloud unless you manually disable backups. So even though iMessage is advertised as E2E encrypted, for the vast majority of users, Apple can read each and every message.

(And even if you disable backups, Apple can still read most if not all of your messages, because the persons on the other side of the conversations have not disabled backups)
I don’t think it’s actually just in Big Sur. At the bottom of this post describing how to stop them from hiding traffic, they mention someone did a test on Catalina and ran into an issue with the Messages app:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it....
Just tried, that works too! Thanks
> For the instant pot. It’s just a regular pot. Take it out and stick it in the dishwasher.

The problem with cleaning an instant pot is not the metal pot itself, but the body and lid.
A new museum to bring the Benin Bronzes home
> Imagine if web-browsers have automatically generated password-protected self-signed certificates that could be used to authenticate to web services without need of any third-party.

What should be done when creating a new account is that, in addition to the username and password, the website should allow for uploading a certificate signing request. The web browser should then allow the user to create one and upload it. The website should then return the signed certificate to the client and the browser can then store it to use during subsequent connections.

Doing something like this would allow for two factor authentication without the half-baked solutions like sms or email based 2fa.
VisiData – Excel/CSV/JSON/DB in terminal - Data science without the drudgery
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25078317
It could be a foot pumped bellows. Release the bubbles when you really want to go fast...
Discussion about when this originally surfaced, but was thought to only affect Apple apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
We’ve been hearing that for years, yet it hasn’t happened. Apple seems to recognize the value of the Mac as an general computing platform.
> If my model logic is happy to be modified by any page, and if there's a bug in my model logic, then I have no idea where to look.

I don't mean this sarcastically (hard to convey tone in written form), but is this genuinely something you have encountered with Elm in practice? Even with the time-travelling debugger?
> Chili peppers originate from South America

No, they don't.

They originate in North America, specifically, northeastern Mexico.
> Is this a new trend of some kind, or has it just become more obvious to me lately?

It is a classic trend. Anyone writing a book or trying to reach a wide audience has to cater for the fact that the audience has none of the skills required to assess complex claims. Most of the readers aren't going to be good at maths, are not going to have a grasp on the nuances of human behaviour and incentives, struggle with science, don't read history, etc, etc.

What most people are good at is copying successful people. So it is extremely common for people with large audiences to converge to a "Here is an example of a famous person, here is what they did. Here is another famous person, they did the same thing" style.
Apparently when I was a little kid, maybe 6 or something, I figured out how to deal with this. I was too short to reach the back of the microwave, so if I put something in the front, and it finished in the back, I'd have to call my mom over to help me. I figured out how long the microwave took to do a full circle, and how long it would take to do a half circle. So when I knew it would finish with a half circle, I'd push the food in as far as possible, I'd nudge it with my fingertips. When it was done, the food would appear in the front and I could grab it.
> They are differentiating themselves from the Googles by taking user privacy seriously.

Then please explain how that is consistent with Apple setting
Google as default search engine in Safari (
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/1/21310591/apple-google-sear...
).

As always, Apple only aims for environmentally-friendly actions
and privacy as long as they profit from it and it makes a good
news article. But then they ignore privacy when you're not
looking, and making it unnecessarily hard to repair your
devices.
Hopefully without windows. It would be nice if we could get our own little *nix corner.
Just a quick browse, but this is really awesome! Thank you for sharing!
The Wii U kind of took the same idea and ran with it.
I think bubblers are just common in icebreakers in general. It's because you want to reduce the friction between the ship and ice.
Granted, I'm a germophobe. Doubly so after my transplant.

VitaMix

There are two hard to reach cavities.

The outer ring of the top plug fills with debris. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/vitamix-062984-lid-plug/HP7... This one really pisses me off. It'd be so easy to redesign the plug to eliminate the cavity.

The second is the underside of the pitcher, between the side wall and the center spindle. This one is only annoying. Can't find a pic, but this is the pitcher. https://thingsaroundthehouse.com/vitamix-7500-vs-5200/

I use looped pipe cleaners to scrub these cavities clean.

I could fully disassemble my former KitchenAide's pitcher to clean every component. Alas, the Vitamix does better with all the big leafy greens I now consume.

InstaPot

I like the cord unplugs from the appliance. This should be the norm.

Where do I put the cord? Inside the pot? Great, now I have to clean the cord too. Or rinse the pot before using it again. Sometimes I kinda fold the cord and stuff it thru the top handle.
I lost a small number of games due to PlayStation support not being able to get around the fact that although I purchased some of them via PayPal, I also bought other games with a credit card. They could verify I owned the actual account and I answered all security questions but they still wouldn't fix whatever issue I had (this was at least 5 years ago so I forget particulars).

That experience forever turned me off to relying on digital-only.

To your points, having a PSN account is necessary but I can always create a new one if need be.

Whenever possible, I prioritize non-DRM media for purchase.
Logging and telemetry are completely separate use cases. For example to do some kind of battery use accounting you need some record of when exactly which app was active.

And no, it's not widely known or documented - there is no good description of what telemetry exists or contains on iOS that I know of.
It just comes down to noise. If you can detect X levels successfully 1 out of 1x10^Y times, then you can ship it. Just set X and Y to whatever your specs should be.
That actually looks amazing to me. Add a popcorn button, and I'm sold.
> app-based, not SMS-based two-factor authentication)

How does that work when using an email client and connecting to the server and using SMTP and IMAP?
Quick question on that.
Has anyone tried disabling SIPs (csrutil disable), allowing the Little Snitch kext (spctl kext-consent add MLZF7K7B5R) and just using Little Snitch 4.6 in Big Sur?
> Maybe because they have a sense of ownership over it by virtue of merely using it

As a remark: I've been accused of feeling ownership over Elm. What I actually felt was investment in Elm, which is different. And I think it's an entirely reasonable thing for me to feel.

I know you used the word maybe. Still, I'd generally be wary of attributing motives like this towards people.
But this thing frezzes your whole computer, it happen to me while switching internet providers, I could have worked perfectly fine offline, but I've lost hours, which I'm not getting back.
I don't know if there has been an apology but I would like to see one.

Edit: By saying this I'm not endorsing OP exact words, but the failure is not a minor, besides hours of work lost, it was a major stress, as I though I would have to take the computer to repair, or replace it, and I can still manage, but many people can't afford it right now.
I hope you have developed good coping strategies for this. It’s really hard to navigate in the moment! But if you have a good structure for how you approach it, it can really help. For me personally:

- I have a very large set of (recurring, time specific, urgent, and lax) reminders

- I have very clear expectations of removing myself physically from situations that make me feel stuck, and taking dedicated and time bounded breaks

- I have a very internal/non-verbal separate monologue for forgiving myself, particularly when the harm I may have done or be doing is to myself (I’m a very verbal internal monologue person otherwise)

- I reset and recalibrate goals/ambitions/expectations frequently

- I find ways to allow myself helpful fictions and know I’m lying. (Side note: it’s worth noting that many neurodivergent disorders commonly overlap; I’m not diagnosed ASD but strongly suspect I’ll get a positive diagnosis when I’m able to seek one; lying to myself is generally only possible when I acknowledge the falsehood somehow)

- And as mentioned, I create artificial rewards that unblock when I feel blocked. Being (now based on comment feedback) hesitant to describe this as relating to literal dopamine... I give myself invented victories and milestones that are only meaningful and exciting to me, so I can carry on to the next step or stage of a thing I need or want to do

I have no idea if any of this will help. But even just getting external validation of your experience can help. It’s awful to feel like something other people find easy is difficult, when you know you’re generally a capable or even talented person.

I hope however you navigate this, you know you’re not navigating it alone and the things that seem impossible inexplicably aren’t because you’re doing it wrong.
Is there any credible evidence of anti-conservative bias in FB or Twitter behavior? Can anyone point me at it?
You can get a kettle for £30 now with temp control, albeit you choose from 4 temps - 40/60/80/100 (low-mid range, low prices are around £12; mid would be £30-50 IMO): eg https://amzn.to/2Us6fPP [aff].

Strangely all UK stores (Tesco, John-Lewis, Currys, et al.) appear only to sell the traditional boil-only ones, which is curious.

As I drink primarily instant coffee I'm in the market for a temp control kettle, hopefully with double-wall insulation. Open to suggestions!
Wouldn't most employees fall under the first category, and managers and executives the next? And employees are paid to carry out goals. while employers take care of the organization and set the goals. With this modeling of the situation, the second group always had control to begin with. They're management.

And there's always corruption and politics where there are humans, be it in the mailroom or the boardroom.