skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a problem, because it doesn't end here. Even if you make your own service, once your "club" gains too much traction you are still going to be deplatformed by domain registers, DDoS protection services, payment processors etc.

It's also a free speech issue. The main purpose of free speech is the ability to criticize your government and social media have obviously a huge influence on elections. As we move towards more and more lockdowns, where you won't be even able to just go out and speak your mind to the public, the social media will become the only way of communication. If you are not allowed to speak freely on those platforms and be able to actually make a change, it will render the free speech laws completely useless and you might as well repeal them at this point. Free speech laws should apply to social media.

You might not agree with the ideas that are being censored right now, but sooner or later they will come after you too.
I got into Linux from a networking background. Windows just didn't have the same network tools available, and they were all expensive. At the time I was mostly doing non-profit sysadmin work.

It took me about 5 years to transition from nano/pico to vi/vim. I'm still learning, but I recently loaded Debian on a VPS I use and was surprised when visudo defaulted to nano. It seems so much less powerful and actually more difficult to use.
As a rule everyone is quick to point out the failings of others, but be blind to their own. Such is the nature of the world.
From what I've seen in r/Oculus, complaining in a very public way is the most effective way to get your FB account unbanned
For me, when the disagreement is about turning the planet into a hollow cinder for naked protection of wealth accrued in an unjust system and justified by Puritanical memes of free will and individualism, it's either a naughty word ascribing malice or one ascribing stupidity.

(Consequentially, the difference is sadly zero.)
Perhaps someone with some experience dealing with violations of MIT licenses can chime in on this.

How different does one project's code have to be from another similar project before you can claim copyright and slap your own license on it?

If a dev simply copied the entirety of someone's code and simply renamed some variables, could they claim it's their own original work (without worry of legal recourse)? I'd figure not, in which case, how much of a difference is different enough?
Checked it out. I like the simplicity of the design. The font/size is a little odd for my eyes but I can get used to it.(maybe because I am seeing it on my phone)

I am unsure tho how to navigate to get to the chat rooms.

ETA: ahhh! I got it! Will there be some form of indexing?

Eta2: can I describe it this way: the author of a topic of discussion is the moderator of the topic?
> However, it was mostly smiles, laughter, and happy people. Indeed, the locals were actually dancing in the streets, to the sounds of multiple sound systems blasting music around the ‘hood. Invitations into homes and yards were being extended, food and drinks were constantly being offered.

Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAgPnsaxdsk
UK going away from fossil fuel-powered cars will not affect climate change in any mesurable way. The way to go forward is to get everyone (or at least a majority of countries) to agree on a reduction program. Otherwise, UK's population will suffer for nothing.
I never met a Sinti or Roma, but many eastern europeans, and they all had nothing but hate for this group, based on stories of crime and theft.

Ticked me off a bit, since that was exactly the prejudice eastern europeans faced and face in western europe.
See a transcript of Alito's speech this week.

It's a hour of ranting against democracy. He didn't even hide the fact that he doesn't care that gay marriage or other issues were approved by voters; he would judicially end gay marriage in the name of "religious freedom." But this freedom only extends to particular forms of Christianity, as Alito is quite comfortable with restricting the religious practices of Muslims and Wiccans.
Ah yes, Top Gear, the foremost trusted source in the electric car industry. Like how they faked their Tesla running out of battery when it didn't and then getting sued over it.
There's a commit in the React Native project where they switch from the OP's tool to their own, which has the same name. I'm not sure there's any other way to see it.
Partisanship is a mistake in general.
What you address is not circular logic, it's just paraphrased "the proof is in the pudding".
Shortage of oil for China and Germany would mean they would raise the prices of Venezuelan and Canadian Oil at home in the USA.
Instead of writing a blog about balconies, I think realtor.com should post about how realtors across America fleece the consumer for 6% thanks to their monopoly practices (just because they can, on an infrequent but important purchase) and keep on charging a percentage of the transaction value when in fact all they do is provide a fixed quantity of labor for selling/buying a house no matter what the size or cost (and by the way, all the while colluding between the seller and buyer's agents to inflate purchase prices).

How about that for an FAQ?
In a 2007 interview, Buffett explained that he took a survey of his employees and compared their tax rates to his. All told, he found that while he paid a total tax rate of 17.7%, the average tax rate for people in his office was 32.9%.

....

So why is it that Buffett himself doesn't pay more tax? It's because the bulk of his income comes from dividends and long-term capital gains, which are taxed at a much lower rate than ordinary income.

https://www.fool.com/taxes/2020/09/25/why-does-billionaire-w...
Around being open-source, the short answer is not yet.

I'm working on this project alone right now, so I don't have any immediate plans to open source things. But I've been keeping my code clean and modular behind the scenes. :)

I've abstracted the core logic out, which includes the blockchain and indexDB/reactivity layer, which is written in Typescript. Then the app itself is built with Svelte.
What on earth does it mean to "out" a trans person? The whole point of transitioning is to be perceived differently. I can't hide my trans status from my parents or a school that I attended pre-transition.

This is a totally disingenuous answer.
>a different flavor to "Jews are secretly lizard people manipulating the elections".

ahah, just a little funny because it literally is ironically "Jewish people keep us down because reasons" - admittedly, I don't know too much because I didn't get into it but its still just as absurd.

If you want just a taste, look at how much "support" Nick Cannon has on twitter.

I just typed on twitter "nick cannon fired" and like the 3rd tweet down:
https://twitter.com/UGHKYNZ/status/1290516640925442048

Someone complaining he got fired for racism, then they literally just say "I hate white people"

this is the 5th tweet:
https://twitter.com/answerasiaf/status/1295029696896409600

Thinks nick cannon got fired for "telling the truth" -- and what is that truth? Apparently it is "Jewish people, white people, Europeans" — “are a little less" and have a “deficiency” that historically caused them to act out of fear and commit acts of violence to survive."

It gets worse the more you go down the rabbit hole but I'd argue this is just as bad as the lizard people stuff because it is less outlandish, perhaps making it more "believable" for some.

If you really want, I can go through and find the tweets that had thousands of upvotes, defending the antisemitism and "discussing" how Jews control everything (especially sports and music).

>There's an important difference between the mere existence of an echo chamber and the contents of the chamber. Let's not "both sides" this when comparing to anti-semitism.

I can agree on this. The problem is the contents of the twitter echo chamber are pretty bad too and its only seems to have gotten worse.
Anyone claiming facebook horizon is a ripoff of recroom has no credibility in my book unless recroom has a patent on the entire social VR space
> I hope that in the coming years that would be treated as a racial slur.

It won't. Perhaps you should do some research and not try to object to or ban more language, as the term is not always used negatively. While some Romani are opposed to it, others use the term in a positive light to promote their culture

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

Many on social media today claim to be gypsies in a positive light (however, they're more claiming to adopt certain culture aspects they appreciate).
Could You please add a single example for faster solutions to modify several (text/source) files' contents at once with mouse and/or touchpad mainly (or any other already existing HCI interface)?
Nobody who lives in a city can do this. I can't even do jumping jacks in my apartment without pissing off my neighbors. And this time of year, it's always raining so I can't do it outside. It's incredibly depressing.
Try Mobaxterm on windows, it give you vim, grep, awk, xwindows and Linux Land tools in a nice single installation.

Current versions of windows can do scp, ssh, rsync out of the box in the windows console, but I believe that is less then a year old and many people don't realize it.
This reminds me of the so-called City of the Dead[1] in Cairo.

It's an ancient cemetery which has basically turned in to a giant slum, with poverty-stricken people living among the ancient tombs.

There are a number of interesting videos on youtube about it, such as [2], [3], and [4], but it's the first of these that I found most fascinating, because not only did it show and talk about the City of the Dead, it also shows Zabbaleen.[5]

Zabbaleen is much like Stolipinovo, with people living among mountains of garbage.

The people who live there grow up there and are traditionally tasked with dealing with the garbage, which is shipped in to the neighborhood for them to live amongst.

It's clearly a miserable, nightmarish life.

As the narrator in the video says at about 9 minutes in, "I don't care how essential what they do is for Cairo. Cairo needs to get its shit together.. it's not ok."

I highly recommend watching this video[2]. The part on Zabaleen starts around 4'48".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Dead_%28Cairo%29

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8KiBycJi9I

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeystshWL2I

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYzKdf33AJg

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen
The value does not moon over night but rather the value increases as the product improves and your skills become more valuable. The same as a job.
Symphony of Ideas
This still allows Apple (and ISPs, employers etc) to correlate very sensitive information: developer certificates and IP addresses. Plenty of developers only create one application,
and most Macs will be used most frequently on a small number of (ranges of) IP addresses. In essence that still let’s Apple see way more than a self-proclaimed “privacy conscious” company should.

Why not take a more privacy-centric approach? Antivirus companies have been working with “virus definitions” for ages. Ad blockers use the same model, but for locally stored blacklists. Why can Apple not regularly download a list of revoked certificates and maintain it locally?
Which Apollo documentary are you referring to? There were a few last year according to IMDB
I definitely agree that when writing Rails at scale, it's extremely important to view ActiveRecord as just another tool in the toolbox, and not always effective for every use case. I've worked in places that had a dogmatic aversion to ever writing raw SQL, and to a one they always suffered for it in performance sensitive code.

At the places who did handle this well, the "high-performance code" that needs to be hand-tuned SQL is usually much smaller than you think (a few queries here and there), and ActiveRecord is still great for your simple queries or for smallish tables.
I came here to write pretty much this. Here's a picture to clarify even further. https://imgur.com/m88rKwx
> That would be having it work they wanted it to work.

That's a consequence of the engineer implementing the same idea, not of publishing it to Marketplace.
I suspect their basic service is to outsource responsibility.

If each lender does their own due diligence and risk ranking, any lender that has an above average failure rate will take a lot of flack from their investors and regulators.

If they say "We use the same scoring formulas and credit files as everyone else", they can push the blame back to the bureaus.
Those are all reasonable comments, I have spent the last two years doing up my own house, but that is NOT what robdobson.com did.

Note: "Since Lorenzo (the sparky) was replacing most of the wiring in the house I managed to get him to bring a lot of the control cables together in around five separate locations."

Granted, not ALL the wiring, but enough that there are "at least three (control) units lost in the walls" that don't control anything.

The lack of access in a house to critical infrastructure is why that critical infrastructure has simplicity and reliability as its primary characteristic, and if you are going to experiment, maybe consider redundancy? The writer appears to have a lot of hardware expertise, and almost none about systems. Single point of failure? Check. Closed hardware systems that might be unsupported sometime soon? Check. No diagnostics? Check.

This was a fascinating project and I commend the writer for posting all the hairy details, but I am slightly appalled at the wastage.
Most quad copter blades won’t go through your skull:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/minute-mechanical-error-led-teens-...

Proper helicopters also require a complicated control linkage on the main rotor and a separate tail rotor. Quad copters (and other multi-blade devices) only need to modulate power to the rotors for control.

I would never ride a quad copter, but they’re better for unmanned use.
The economy in general, with the variability we've seen in our lifetimes so far: yes. But specific opportunities come and go, the current situation can certainly make some ideas sufficiently profitable to succeed in the long run when they otherwise wouldn't be.
Joe Rogan joins the chat
Ask HN: How do you review large changesets?
When code branches get large enough (>= 4k LoC), I feel like the only way to review them is through functional testing.

Basically, I find that I need to breakpoint each changed line, and have both the stack and the line's diff available at each breakpoint. That's the only way I can see the context of what brought me to the change from the code history and runtime contexts.

What do other people do to review large sets of changes? Have you found any good ways to make both the code-history and runtime context changes available while debugging?

(On a more practical note: are there any good ways of going from a diff to a list of breakpoints in VS?)
At least one more!
I am the maintainer of a library called "pdf2image" on GitHub, I've been maintaining it for well over 3 years now. At some point in the past a few other projects with the same name appeared for different languages. I didn't go on a long rant on HN about how other people where taking my "IP" because it's a generic name.

On top of that, GitHub Actions have been up since November 2019 and as such, OP had around 11 months to register his project. The name being generic it's only expected that someone ended up taking it.

Now the only thing that makes people all up in arms is that FB is the employer of the dev that did this. Since we all hate Facebook, we support the underdog in this. Repost the exact same post while removing the name of the company and it would not even be close to trending.
My husband and I took a road trip of 4,682 miles in a Tesla, with a dog. We stopped every 3 hours and charged for 30 minutes. It was not only possible, but easy, because those stops corresponded to lunch, coffee, dinner, and sleeping. The dog needed to be let out, I needed to stretch my legs, etc.
Tales of a mobile developer on consumer growth
Yeah, aborting in some circles is the same as murder so the "ethics" is a bit blurry here. The crossed the line by creating life and then they killed what could essentially be something that could have had the intelligence of a regular human being.

I'm not an anti-abortionist but I can't deny that the ethics in this area is blurry. Even worse is when you're aborting genetically modified life.
"OMG! I was wondering you might be proposing this. You should not be using "new" keyword anywhere in your code"

That sounds like dogmatism, and I'm going to take a special note of the emotionally charged language you're using here; it's symptom of some of the underlying issues I see in our industry (more to be said on this).

That said, I do agree with the sentiment in general, but you can (and sometimes should) use the `new` keyword in your code, especially when writing tests. In some cases, it makes testing so much easier and helps with the maintainability.

"I hope you'll not reply-with saying "don't write unit tests"

After 2 decades in this profession, the only think I'm sure of is there is no "silver bullet". Of course, as a general rule, it's a good idea to have a test coverage of your codebase but sometimes it's not valuable and not worth adding it. So it's a "it depends" from me!
Originalism seems to go hand-in-hand with religious fundamentalism, i.e, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it".

Edit: for the downvoters, please let me know how Scalia's religious beliefs were completely compartmentalized and had no influence on him outside of a church: https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/justice-antonin-sc...
I think someone could build an innovative electrical power plant using this technology at Relampago del Catatumbo (Venezuela's everlasting lightning storm): https://www.atlasobscura.com/videos/see-venezuela-s-everlast...
You can not find a reasonable explanation of why those who deem Shrier's book unworthy of existence because those who voice such opinions do not believe in dialogue or dialectic. They are the victim of a group hysteria which claims whatever opinions the group espouses - which can vary over time and more often than not contradict earlier held opinions - are the absolute truth which shall not be strayed from. Those who dare to dissent are excommunicated. In short, they are part of a cult, a secular religion with its own martyrs, its own saints and its own devils. It is as if the church of Scientology suddenly had gained mass adherence and started espousing its value system on society.
> to live off interest for Y years

You don’t have to live off interest to retire. 4% withdrawal is good enough [1]. You might be lot closer to retirement than you think.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Safe_withdrawal_rates
The source is this article: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/546

The gene is ARHGAP11B under the control of its usual human-specific promoter.
You should build a mock-up and then get some presales. I've seen this work for non-technical leaders. You can then hire devs / find a CTO.

Mock-up can be slides, figma, a website. Something fantastically cheap to communicate the value prop.
But you surely can on the computer simulating that single neuron :)
Because it's missing half the country, many of whom are not part of hate groups.
WRONG

https://science.thewire.in/health/india-life-expectancy-birt...
Anecdotal, but I’ve worked with dozens of PhD data scientists, and not one of them had a CS PhD. The most common one I see is physics, followed by math. (And I don’t work in a physics-related field.)
Typically they will use Caspar, now called Jamf Pro.

https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/
Thanks for the reply, the file-based stuff makes more sense now, I kinda understand where you wanna go with this. A way to keep up to date with project updates would be nice. :)
In Bulgaria, Gypsies are viewed as a huge problem and people are often openly racist against them, even on national TV. The stereotype is that the gypsies will steal whatever they can, trash and start fights and many other things. My grandma would hide her stuff if sees a gypsy, on the other hand there's a subset that she would adore. The subset, according to her, are the "tradesmen" gypsies and she would often buy services from them and would trust them. Also, the gypsies are quite often the musicians at the Turkish minority weddings. Bulgarians would also often complain that gypsies are making Bulgarians look bad in the EU.

I have relatives that live in a region with a lot of gypsies and I am endlessly fascinated by the success of their phone scams. As I visit them annually, I witnessed gypsies getting rich and building huge houses, collecting scam money from the local western-union branch almost on regular basis. Since they speak Turkish too, women call random Turkish numbers and ask men for money(claiming that they are coming to Turkey for them but an issue come up at the border) and their husbands collect the money from the western union. Sometimes it's very theatrical, the husband pretends to be the "evil Bulgarian police officer". I've seen it with my own eyes.

Just next to Bulgaria is Turkey and in this country the Gypsy image is drastically different. In Turkey gypsies are musicians, dancers and overall free soul people. Much less negative connotations overall. The exception is "Conolar" or "the Jonos", a clan in a major Turkish city. They are known for their temper and originalit. Here is a local fight, quite amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaNj4RQC4Ec

If I lived only in Bulgaria I might as well be a racist but I have seen enough to believe that the Bulgarians need to look in the mirror if they are looking someone to blame about the situation with gypsies. It doesn't have to be the way it is in Bulgaria.
Gov. Inslee orders new lockdown as Covid-19 cases surge in Washington State
I do not think they would be friendly to any local Bulgarian that wandered into the neighbourhood.

Also "many children don’t attend school." is rather a problem, isn't it. And though I do not know much about Bulgaria, I doubt it's because of the money. I'd assume Bulgaria has free schools and probably social support for financially struggling kids.

There are so many different nations in Europe, some with their nation states, many without. However, Roma or Travellers seem to have the same poor opinion almost everywhere - which is not really shared with any other people. Maybe it is not that fair to picture Bulgarians as the only source of the bad situation in this neighbourhood. Isn't there a way for the community to organise anything, even some basic cleanup?

I didn't particularly care for the quote (from comments):

> I generally try to avoid Western Europe these days – along with most of the Western world, people their are (in general) just trying to convince themselves that the little bubble they exist in is all that matters.

A bit rich coming from an American, but anyway I do not understand what it that supposed to mean. I'd believe it's rather Western Europeans that try to care for the world as the whole, rather than do the least immediately necessary.