skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s been a conflation in this thread between suffering and struggle. It’s possible to have one without the other. Struggle is a requirement for learning very useful things.

It’s entirely possible to learn modal editing without suffering but it’s not likely to learn it without struggling, given how most people are raised on the mouse.
In early 2000th I used to admin quite diverse network, including rare and exotic *nix systems, early Sun machines and HP-UX. One thing I was sure about - every of them had 'vi' after installation.
No. That’s not what Twitter does. That’s something some clients do , unfortunately including the official Twitter clients.

I just see tweets from those I follow, in chronological order, with no ads.

If I saw ads, “recommended” or “trending” etc., I’d get off that client in a hurry.
> Your assumptions are wrong, because when you run jBridge A B and C are sandboxed.

Even if that is the case, it doesn't change anything about the point I was trying to make... I acknowledge that jBridge gives you a performance boost, but you're wrongly attributing it to sandboxing. That's all I'm trying to say.
I don’t want to second guess technical decisions I know nothing about but: no, Rails shouldn’t be streaming video. But 2k requests per second with mostly text content being shuffled around sounds absolutely doable with Rails. The cost benefit of easier development should definitely not be understated as well.

But that being said, the primary driver for tools should be what the developers know and ease of access finding developers who know this technology. If the city you work in mostly has PHP developers, PHP is a great choice. Similar for Java, Haskell, Lisp, etc. My point is that the tool ”Rails” definitely is adequate for this problem (minus streaming video...). Look at Shopify, Github or any other massive Rails app
Have you talked to AWS about why that's the case? AWS Lambda should handle that order of magnitude just fine, as you have an initial burst concurrency quota of at least 500 requests per region (which you also can request to get increased). After that scaling should be additional 500 concurrent requests per minute. [1]

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/invocation-scal...
I'm a single developer and I'm glad I chose serverless for my project. I never have to worry about scale, and for a single developer that's important, as there aren't 10 other developers to leverage when scale becomes an issue after the fact.

I also don't have to pay for what I'm not using, also important for a single developer. If I had chosen a more traditional approach of using EC2 to host a server, I would be paying quite a lot more for my project to sit idle on an EC2 instance 24/7/365 if I'm not getting enough traffic to support paying for the idle server.
USA population apparently increased by 8 millions between 2016 and 2020, so that's a lot more voters contributing to these numbers… The percentage of people that can vote is more interesting I think.

To me it's like the record of the Box Office that is measured in dollar amount. It doesn't make sense as the ticket price evolves over time and the value of money also changes.
Computer Scientists Achieve the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography
Going from something like Puppet with a few VPSes to CloudFormation with serverless is a huge jump in complexity and boilerplate.
The Webpage. RSS reader styled after print newspapers, now open source
This is like the “#alllivesmatter” response. Sure, there are other giants and all too big companies should be improved with various interventions. But the article is about google and eu, so bringing up that this also applies to all big giants is not very interesting.

Of course google has unique problems that no other tech giant has since no one else controls search.
I don't really subscribe to any channels or particular people. Do a few searches for the model number + words like "repair" and "DIY", and skip anything where the production value looks better than your 1992 summer vacation VHS tape.
It looks like their business model isn't to sell to consumers at all, but sell to big urban property development. This implies they don't do one off installations, but negotiate to get these in many/all units in a new or renovated development. I'm sure they would build one for an individual condo unit or homeowner for the right price (which might look like the same price as a 15 unit installation or something...)
yup, bug report itself is an open-source contribution.
> Poor countries have always been a testing ground for vaccine...experimental vaccine

These vaccines were first deployed in the United States in the 1950s (Salk) and 1980s (IPV) [1]. The oral vaccine, which is cheaper to administer than injected vaccines and has been around since 1988, is used when governments won’t pay for injections. It causes side effects once every 2.4 million doses [2].

The two countries with wild polio are Pakistan and Afghanistan. The people rejecting the vaccine are poor, illiterate, uneducated and distrustful towards their society’s failed institutions.

The rich world administered itself these vaccines long ago. It is the poor and uneducated hurting themselves with rejection.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication#Vaccinatio...
Star network topology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology#Star

Each endpoint connects directly to the hub, rather than as a ring, daisy-chain, tree, or mesh.
My mother passed away two years ago, while I was an expat far away from home. a day later was her funeral, which I couldn't attend. She was a true friend to me. She hasn't lived for herself even for a moment. Losing her was the the most painful event for me so far. I can't even describe how painful is this. I can say yes I am depressed since then and maybe forever.
General purpose != free. Totally separate categories.
Cool. So, funds have been appropriated to complete a national grid upgrade to support the switch along with a charging station network compatible will all manufacturers too?
Author here! the source can be found here: https://github.com/arussellsaw/news

I'd love any feedback, i've addressed a lot of the issues people had when this was posted ~7 months ago, and added dark mode as well.
I agree, but if a person is too busy to even look at project things, I think they should make that clear. It wouldn't take long to throw something into the README.md or CONTRIBUTING.md explaining the situation.

They don't though. My speculation is because if they did then nobody is going to use the project.
Always good to know. Thank you for it, I am a happy user myself!
I think you are probably correct about creating an easier to fly helicopter using a intermediate processor.
I also think the argument of longer flight times due to less power draw may be true also.

But cheaper and fewer parts I'm not so sure, part of the reason drones are so popular is the low parts count and part price.

Most low price hobby copters use 3 motors, driving two opposing rotor blades for stability and a tail blade for steering. There are also several gears and bearings to support their functions. Far easier to strap 4 motors with props to a cross and drive them using a solid state SBC integrated with RF,6 axis gyro and 4 power transistors.

Many of these new hobby drones use all the same parts across several different manufacturers so there is an economy of scale to considet too.
That's true, and it's a standard grief-mechanism to try to look for a cause. Especially people with an analytical personality. Their go-to emotional coping mechanism for bad feelings can become to try to analyzed and problem-solve. And while you can do that if your depression has an obvious cause. . . there are tons of people who are depressed for no obvious reason - OR - there is no way to get out of the situation that's causing it.

The solution in those cases is to not try to solve it, but instead to let the 'emotional' part of the brain do it's natural function and simply process the emotions. It's difficult because the emotional part of the brain does NOT have the ability to use language. It evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, and is the deepest part of our central nervous system, and absolutely necessary for our survival. It can not be shut off or ignored. And in the case of depression, it may or may not be "normal" - but it is doing it's job.
There's a similar list of left wing politicization of life backed by... less than objectively verifiable facts. And standards being selectively applied. The gaslighting about the right being the only subculture with problems being an example.

If you want to talk about covid, there is a demonstrable double standard about social distancing guidelines. There have many "but this is historic!" moments, recent celebrations about the election results included, that don't sit well with folks that have been delaying or scuttling marriage ceremonies, memorial services, and the like.
If we're not striving for some modicum of cultural unity, then yes, we need to get over our insistence that every solution be implemented at the federal level.
I had to stop and think about that, too :)

I think what the poster meant was "My partner is a vegan (implication: they would never eat anchovies), but they just made me an anchovy pizza so that I can eat my non-vegan food happily." I.e., their partner doesn't eat animal products but the partner isn't judging their choice to eat animal products.
I agree with your statement, but took a long time to decide whether the best way to endorse it was to upvote or downvote your comment. (For what it's worth, I went with upvote).
Problem is picking up those gratis things from the table has a cost to the maintainer. And sometimes those gratis things are worth less than that cost. Multiply this hundreds of times and the cost to the maintainer for picking up free things can quickly add up.
The lights are just gravy for me. They're super cheap, and it is handy to be able to turn a bunch on or off with one command. Or have them turn on when you get home, etc.

What really keeps me going with home automation is the door & lock control. Being able to monitor the status of the garage doors and the deadbolts on all doors is worth the price of admission. The kids each have their own code to get in the house, I can lock the doors from afar if they get left open or unlocked, I can check the status at any time, etc. I have the system close & lock everything at bedtime if it isn't already, and it communicates status to me as things are opened/closed/locked/unlocked.

I could give up the lighting if I had to. I could just use the built-in scheduling on the thermostat. No biggy. But the locks and doors functionality is worth the effort.
> I did all that work myself because the electrician didn't understand words like "crosstalk" and I didn't want to find out after I moved in that the wires in finished walls didn't work.

You hired a bad electrician. Any good electrician knows you can’t run power and data in the same conduit or pathway. NEC requires a divider in any junction box that contains low-voltage and line-voltage power, and also requires separate conduits/pathways for low-voltage and line-voltage power (can’t use the same stud hole to feed both through)

Spend more money on the electrician, and they’ll be better at their jobs.

Edit: I run electrical work
It's not enough to make them artificially expensive - the rich still aren't suffering.

They have no choice but to completely ban them!

The serfs are already down to just one choice (public transportation) so that' been taken care of.
Google patches two new zero‑day flaws in Chrome
Oh yea. I have a long list of things I'd be doing if I wasn't filling out TPS reports 5 days a week. Some of them I've already started, but on nights and weekends. I can't wait to retire, and know exactly how I'd take advantage of the time!
The fastest... of the ones measured.

The comment you’re responding to specifically calls out Gitea, which isn’t measured in forge perf. (Most likely because there isn’t a major, permanent, public instance of Gitea... it seems to currently be targeted at self hosted instances, and then its speed is obviously dependent on the hardware it’s hosted on.)

Gitea and SourceHut can both be very fast, from what I’ve seen, but I haven’t seen any objective comparison numbers.
Secure by default – Growing a new engineering practice
This is the style I have. I bought it last year, first microwave oven I have ever purchased.
10 years are plenty of time to get ready for that, hope they manage.
>The fact that hazard rather than ability plays so large a role is not alone or even predominantly owing to the 'human, all too human' factors, which naturally occur in the process of academic selection as in any other selection. It would be unfair to hold the personal inferiority of faculty members or educational ministries responsible for the fact that so many mediocrities undoubtedly play an eminent role at the universities. The predominance of mediocrity is rather due to the laws of human co-operation, especially of the co-operation of several bodies, and, in this case, co-operation of the faculties who recommend and of the ministries of education.

from Science as a Vocation, by Max Weber (1918) (american.edu)

Bureaucracy costs more than money, how much bureaucracy would you like?
This can only lead to a further bifurcating of the electorate, and exacerbates the echo chamber phenomenon. I'm not conservative, not even close, but I do blame Facebook and Twitter for picking winners and losers and alienating conservatives.

A free speech obsessed person myself, I've been keeping a close watch. In the old days, hate speech to block meant, imminent harm. Today, someone saying I don't feel Safe has become an acceptable argument. The argument was made against a liberal signatory of the Harper letter, the argument was made against the editor of the NYT who published the Cotton piece. We've rapidly descended to calling disagreement Hate Speech. And we have double standards like the NY Post Biden debacle, where it was clear that Silicon Valley can rationalize away the most basic values of journalistic freedom. Hypocrisy does down the memory hole, it's tossed into that chute like in 1984's Ministry of Truth.

It didn't have to come to this. For those who think squashing dangerous right-wing views is good and just: what do you think will happen on Parler? Moderation? Lessons learned?

What is the end goal here, Facebook and Twitter? How do you see online discourse in ten years time?
Also, reviewing the PR and doing the people management along with it is a lot of work. And more work than doing it yourself.

It’s certainly not free labor that costs maintainers nothing like people suggest in these comments. It’s more like having to work with a coworker who was employed for a couple days in difficulty and credentializing in what they left behind.
I disagree with pretty much every statement you've made here.

Extremist views on one side do not "balance" extremist views on the other side. "Left" media is already more Centrist than Liberal/Socialist. Centrist views are already the majority held beliefs. 42% of registered voters are Independent. More Independent/nonpartisan news organizations would definitely improve the political/media landscape better than more extremist organizations.
You know how these projects go:

Rich people: meh, this won’t change our lives much

Poor people: SOL
Rails is great if what you’ve got is read-mostly cachable content being served up. In an environment with high rates of incoming data, most of which can’t be reliably cached, things get more interesting and you start needing to scale horizontally a lot more and leaning on the database.
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You cannot operate on the internet and drop google. This isn’t possible because you live in an interconnected world.

Unless you’re a hermit who disconnects entirely from the web, you can’t drop them.

You may cancel all your accounts, but you’ll still visit sites that use google analytics, interact with hosts that use Google’s registrars for their domain names, be profiled by google and included in targeted advertising by web sites that you don’t even know.

You’ll also be impacted by the incentives google puts on content creators through their de facto standards of chrome, web video, drm, etc.

I’d say it’s easier to drop the EU than Google. You can move to Britain or elsewhere and escape EU laws. You can’t go anywhere on the internet to escape Google’s laws.
> what are some problematic "unhinged" popular left wing places? which major politicians back them?

Start with anything related to BLM (notice the capitals, I'm talking about the organisation, not the fact of skin tone not being a factor in whether your life matters), anything related to Antifa to make it easy. The former is supported by a vocal minority of the DNC, the existence of the latter is denied by the current president elect while his running mate called for her supporters to supply funds to bail out its members after they'd been arrested. From there you might want to go past organisations like Extinction Rebellion for another example of polarised rhetoric which is supported by a vocal minority of the DNC.

> and why are they anywhere as near a threat to civilization & order as the divisive gun toting pissed off angry conspiratoroal rhetoric as is so widespread on the right, that even Fox News batshit crazy is no longer sufficient?

Have you not followed the news - and with that I do not mean just what CNN and MSNBC say - for the last 5 months? A simple count of victims of violence would answer your question.

> it is one side. the lefties hanging out in cities are not busy making new media outlets to invite ourselves into violent revolutionary overthrow & conflict.

Either you're ideologically blinded, or you're intentionally talking falsehoods. The lefties hanging out in the cities are the ones who have been or have been complicit in looting and rioting. They are the ones who have tried to start actual "revolutions" - and failed horrendously since it turns out they had not really thought it trough.

Do you know the concept of "steel-manning"? It is the opposite of "straw-manning" in that it is a way to see the opponent's point of view from as strong a position as possible. It can help you to see the opponent as something other than an object of hate. It can also help you find weaknesses in that opponent's position. I think you should try it instead of simply throwing well-worn epithets at anyone who does not share "your" point of view.
If they want to throw their reputations in the trash pushing get rich quick schemes, they probably would already be doing that instead of all this hard work.
> Any good electrician knows you can’t run power and data in the same conduit or pathway. NEC requires a divider in any junction box that contains low-voltage and line-voltage power, and also requires separate conduits/pathways for low-voltage and line-voltage power (can’t use the same stud hole to feed both through)

Sure, but aren't those rules for safety purposes and have nothing to do with crosstalk/interference?
That's because depression is deeply tied into the Kubler-Ross model, and the natural first response in the process of grieving is denial.

It's really amazing how easy this is to understand, if you've been through it.
For anyone who uses Apple Pay: I had trouble at the pine64.com website using Apple Pay (kept getting “invalid shipping address“), but when I checked out via their normal CC checkout it worked fine.
If someone wanted to learn all this stuff in a "for dummies" class, what course would they look for, among the MOOCs?
Yeah the guy in the article went farther than I would. I have a lot of connected switches but they are still functional as dumb switches. If you moved into my house they'd all work like normal, you might notice they didn't feel exactly the same as an old-fashioned switch but when you push up they go on, down they go off. I'd of course let the buyer know they had options to connect them, but they could just forget about that and go on with their life.
It worked out fine, imo. The wikipedia page isnt about a popularity contest, per se but I can follow that parallel line of thinking.

Trumps behavior hasnt changed before he was elected or after the last election. As PotUS Trumps behavior was a bit less popular than another choice (not a relative landslide like 1984, 1972, 1964, etc). Granted, the political money machines have a lot to do with spinning the viewpoint of Americans, so it is possible that the election was not a good representative model.

I dont think the 2020 is a compelling single indicator of policy effectiveness on either side.
Poor people aren't going to be affected by this. They're not buying new cars. This ban us on the sale of new vehicles, a second hand market will exist after the fact.
I have added a Sonnoff mini with Tasmota to my light switch in my room. Whenever I cannot see my USB ports on my computer at night I just press a macro button on my keyboard, and without taking off my headphones I can see everything. Kinda dumb, but it makes me happy every-time I don't have to move my ass.

Nevertheless sometimes (once every 6 months maybe?) the Tasmota box looses connection with my WiFi network and I have to power cycle it via the breaker box to reset it.
In general, you're free to donate to the maintainers of a project. And arguably it would be "basic human decency" to do so, especially since the maintainers have to spend time reading your issues and PRs. The argument presented here smacks of the type of entitlement that led many other open source developers to leave
Meta, because I know Cloudflare people come by here often:

Your blog loads its CSS by JavaScript, which means that, although the content is all there in the HTML, the page’s appearance is rather wonky when the JavaScript doesn’t load (either by deliberate blocking or just because it fails for whatever reason, which isn’t quite as uncommon as most imagine), especially (once you’re past the header) as regards images, which end up inordinately large (e.g. 2000px wide regardless of screen size).

It’d be nice if this could be fixed so that the CSS was loaded normally rather than by JavaScript.

This has been bothering me for a while, this is just the first time that I’ve mentioned it.
Even if you aren’t using conduit you cannot use the same pathways for line-voltage and low-voltage wiring. You need to drill separate holes thru the studs to run NM in one and Cat6 in the other. You also need a divider in a multi-gang box if it contains line-voltage and low-voltage wiring.

Source: US National Electrical Code
Thanks for proving my point about "pretzel-like justifications"! The downvotes are also helpful since they clearly demonstrate the refusal of one group to engage and simply censor differing viewpoints by greying them out.

I hope your last sentence is made in jest, because that is not a good basis in which to engage with the world.
macbooks are not several orders faster than other laptops. where did you get that idea?
Second this. I did rails for years and liked it a lot, but there were pain points, particularly as a project scaled.

Elixir/Phoenix solves a lot of these pain points and is a joy to work with. If you like Ruby/Rails then you already know quite a bit of Phoenix. Schedule yourself 4 hours to follow a tutorial or book.
Seriously? I run a GTX 770 and get by fine with most games I want to play. I’ll upgrade eventually but don’t feel the need right now. Maybe CPU is the bottleneck for you?