skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richard Stengel was just appointed to Biden's transition team:

Stengel wrote last year in a Washington Post op-ed that US freedom of speech was too unfettered and that changes must be considered:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/29/why-ameri...

Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley warned about Stengel’s appointment in a column Tuesday: “It would be difficult to select a more anti-free speech figure to address government media policy, one has to assume that Biden will continue the onslaught against this core freedom as president.”

He noted that Biden himself had publicly advocated restrictions on speech during the campaign: “Biden called for greater speech controls on the Internet and denounced Twitter for allowing others to speak freely.”

One side of the political aisle rallies against social media for censoring their posts while the other side says social media don't censor enough. I feel there is a simmering battle over a lot of our constitutionally protected rights which is about to reach a crescendo depending on what the Biden administration does in the next few years.
There is no theoretical reason I've seen Fake News should only apply to politics. People here aren't critical.

This story will be a mix of machine translations and bad sources.

But there might be a interesting story if you can track it back. It's roughly possible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science
I think one of the root causes of this is the increasingly partisan behavior of the "mainstream" media. People are sick of having their opinions dictated to them, they're sick of media outlets that all push the same narratives 24/7 (Russiagate, anyone?), and they're desperately searching for any outlet that will objectively report "all the news that's fit to print" (as the NY Times likes to say).

In the past year we saw Andrew Sullivan leave New York Magazine[1], Bari Weiss leave The New York Times[2], Matthew Yglesias leave Vox (which he founded) [3], and Glenn Greenwald leave The Intercept (which he founded) [4]. All of them had one thing in common that Greenwald summed up well: "The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles."

The mainstream media has created an information vacuum, and the spread of disinformation is a direct result of that.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-...

[2] https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-a...

[4] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...
Wow, the OP's reddit history in /r/PurplePillDebate is fucking cringe.

https://www.reddit.com/user/aoeusnth48/
I've caught errors about my field (engineering, not software) in other publications, even Popular Science, but the handful of Economist articles on the subject have been spot-on correct on details/nuances. I remember an old hiring ad of theirs. They were looking for "science writers," and they emphasized "scientists who can write, not the other way around."
This article is interesting, I see the echo chambers of all ideologies.

I have the time to look at both sides of a given issue and do not fall on either side of any political or social group.
I attempt to post moderate reasonable ideas that are well vetted. But this gets me called a fence sitter.

But what is scarier, in my opinion, is the idea of censorship. I would rather wad through crap than see anything censored, aside from clear incitement to commit violence.
The author was positing a question. You cut off the very next sentence:

> But if it's just to "be happy with the person you love?" Then why not?
Yeah I have same-ish battery life. I pretty much live inside Chrome + VSCode though. Bare Node dev server, no Docker.
I think its better characterized as making the meta-level point without specifics as various people's disagreements on the object level would drown out the meta-level point.

FWIW, I think he made the right decision.
Some form of C FFI has been standard for most languages that appeared after C became ubiquitous. Even something as dynamic and high-level as Python has ctypes.
I would be surprised if Orwell had read much Wodehouse, but I must admit I have no idea of his wider reading habits.
A lot of news aggregators and RSS feeds will default to the AMP URL. People post and send AMP URLs all the time. You can see it more and more on reddit lately.
Twitter doesn't include ads in their API, so all 3rd-party clients are ad-free (unless they include their own ads)
Its nostalgia now. I remember running Seti@Home from my dorm room back in the day and thinking about all the data this satellite was capturing.
...again my friend, that is the revenue number. Searching Youtube revenue 2019 gives you exactly that number.
I'm sad as well. I was lucky to visit the site 2006.
i can see that forums getting excited about the foo fighters and discussing minutae would go past their use date and be replaced by Facebook groups, but how to/where to find/what to do wiki and forum info on mechanical and electronic topics still seem pretty healthy and invaluable repositories.
The lack of social media search makes it useless for this type of utility, despite the endless facebook groups dedicated to attempts at this
> "discover the pricing model" is information a customer needs to know in order to make a purchasing decision

Tell that to AWS
Most businesses don’t give away products or services away for free on a mass scale despite being able to afford to do so.
Election misinformation often evaded YouTube’s efforts to stop it
I think to allow small business and startups to flourish. It is important to not subject all companies to the reporting requirements of public companies, smaller organizations just don't have the spare resources and it really would hurt them being nimble and getting established.

This of course means that any investor into such a company needs to have a more intimate relationship and understanding of the company despite the lack of detailed reporting, which is at least one reason to have accredited investor rules.
> People are sick of having their opinions dictated to them

I'm fairly sure my family's opinions come straight from the media.
There are generally two classes for FDWs: Postgres<->Postgres and Postgres->Everything else.

The first one is generally suitable for production and is very useful for sharded Postgres when you want to communicate across shards without having to go back out through the application.

The second one's mileage really varies. Some implementations might or might not be prod ready or mig target only specific version combinations. Can be very useful for data engineering or analytics use cases for quick ETL into a staging database. Or for data migrations between database vendors.
They are using the colloquial expression of not finding it appealing.
This could be of interest to you:

Ville Tuulos - How to Build a SQL-based Data Warehouse for 100+ Billion Rows in Python

PyData SV 2014 -
In this talk, we show how and why AdRoll built a custom, high-performance data warehouse in Python which can handle hundreds of billions of data points with sub-minute latency on a small cluster of servers. This feat is made possible by a non-trivial combination of compressed data structures, meta-programming, and just-in-time compilation using Numba, a compiler for numerical Python. To enable smooth interoperability with existing tools, the system provides a standard SQL-interface using Multicorn and Foreign Data Wrappers in PostgreSQL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnfnv6WT1Ng
Thanks -- I will have a look to see whats going on. We definitely want to have you on board!

There will be a free ad-supported tier for users, along with some form of paid add on, that we are working on now. At the moment, the main consumer offering will be mobile, but if there is interest, of course that is not set in stone.
I think if you look at "excess mortality" rates from other countries and average them out, the 14% increase of deaths in 2020 might make more sense [1]. A +14% increase in mortality rates is statistically significant when compared to the UN projection of +0.44% made before covid-19 [2].

Looking at one county's stats and ignoring all others is making a fragile counter-argument on worldwide death rates.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/death-rate
Then perhaps there is no utility to the law?
From the unique email address breached, for example example.com@mysubdomain.com.

Curiously the breach included my direct personal email address that I have only used for a handful of sites in the last 10 years.
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I don't (or no longer) have a Linkedin account. :-( But I'll remember if I ever subscribe, promise.

Seriously though, you're a role model to me.
Apple reaches $113M settlement over claims it slowed down older iPhones
They don't need the mainstream media to spread their nonsense. It spreads on FB and Twitter quite well, and was the reason I stopped following (and unfriended) a lot of people over the past several years.

Hell, a few years ago my bartender tried to sell me on their nonsensical ideas.
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>This isn't about covering expenses that they couldn't afford otherwise. This is about making enormously rich people even richer.

So you truly believe people should be entitled to free video hosting?

It literally costs money to host content. If you make the platform no money, Youtube has no obligation to keep you around. Just because I pay for my groceries doesn't mean you get yours for free. Just because one person is paying doesn't mean an equal numbers of others don't have to.
It would be wonderful if sftp was included in windows distributions natively
I've been looking at some FBX files and came across a FBX to glTF converter that's maintained by Facebook: https://github.com/facebookincubator/FBX2glTF

At the time, I didn't understand why Facebook maintained this project but now it makes a lot more sense.
That is the sign that world might need another youtube
Shareware had this right: Feature-restricted or time-limited demo; Pay to unlock; Pay for upgrades; Release fixes often and upgrades occasionally.
You can use the kcmp system call with KCMP_FILE argument to find out if two fds point to the same files structure (of course you must use this as the custom comparison function of a sort algorithm so you don't end up with quadratic run time).

Linux has a project called CRIU that can save and restore processes to disk without needing additional kernel modules, so pretty much all state is already gettable and settable from user space.
Ubisoft, Epic and Embark are funding Blender. Not sure about Epic but Embark Studios do use Blender for sure. From their blog:

"Many of us at the content team at Embark use Blender daily, and our long-term ambition at the studio is to use Blender as our default program for 3D and environment art."

Ubisoft Animation studios are using Blender and there were some rumors last year that Blender is used in some capacity in game studios too. They definitely did a lot of work on making their content pipeline agnostic to the tool used. Transition will be slow but it's happening.
What’s the best open source forum software out there right now that’s easy to deploy and maintain?
Fantastic, thank you for those kind words!

And great idea to integrate with PT Lightning. I just opened an issue: https://github.com/replicate/replicate/issues/367, feel free to add more detail and comments! -andreas
And you can assign a hotkey to open the docs in the browser for the symbol under the cursor.
Substack is a great development. Mostly news consumers seem to be drifting to much worse and even more partisan news "sources" if they leave the mainstream media.
I guess the solution here is to not use your main Google account with youtube vanced?
https://medium.com/bad-practice

I write about things I've learnt from my own startup and working for a startup both as a product manager and software engineer
Ask HN: Is Facebook a good company to work for?
From the outside working for FB seems like a tradeoff between great engineering culture and good compensation versus working for a company that's been associated with many privacy violations, disregard for its users and pretty mediocre products.

Is it worth it? If you work there or have worked there in the past, what was your experience and how did you decide whether to work at FB (or eventually leave)? Do you think that having FB on your resume helps or hurts you in the long run?
Absolutely. I don't think developer ergonomics should take priority over absolutely everything (the modern web arena shows why this is bad) but there are some great technologies that have lost out or are relegated to incredibly niche use cases because their ergonomics are bad to the point where you just can't afford to deal with them unless you really have to.

Ada/SPARK/Ravenscar are a perfect example -- they provide incredibly powerful tools for proven correct programming. They are open source. The ergonomics are nowhere near what you're probably used to having, and that's why odds are very high you've never used them.
I think you'd probably find Urbit interesting - its goal is to solve that problem from first principles.

User IDs that cost a small amount of money, P2P by default baked into the OS design without the user having to deal with running a server.

It's still early, but it works and I've been playing with it.

I found this to be a decent introduction: https://hyperstition.al/post/urbit-an-introduction/

I've also commented about it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24379319
This was a somewhat interesting problem for the emoji-only chat service "Emoj.li"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyhGHUEt-k
I would think the number one reason to join an indie game studio is because they have an interesting game you want to work on. Recognizing not all studios have material for that but... I would try any information about the game itself front and center before you click into the role.
Can you please tell me what "my version" of free speech is? Is this different from the normal understanding of free speech? Because I haven't actually said anything about "free speech" other than quoting Jack Dorsey.

While I do believe in the necessity of freedom of speech (not just the first amendment, but a particular set of cultural values) those abstract values aren't my primary concern here. My concerns (across the various tech platforms out there) are:

* the disruption to peoples' businesses that result from the opaque and largely incontestable content moderation process. This is mainly a concern where the content in question does not violate either the law nor the TOS.

* The exploitation of consumers through the gradual degradation of privacy.

* The attempts to undermine consumer rights by removing users' options for legal remedy in the TOS

Basically, if users' are providing value to these platforms through advertising revenue, mine-able private information, transaction fees, etc. what expectations can the users' have with regard to the value they receive and how they are treated by the platforms? I do not think the answer of "nothing" is acceptable.
Imagine thinking Greenwald isn't trying to push a narrative.
Russia decided to just stay on DST with 6 weeks notice a few years ago, thereby instantly creating half a dozen new timezones. And now they're discussing going back to normal time/DST...
Exploding Topics: TimescaleDB, Backyard Offices, and Two More Growing Trends
This is awesome. Where did the data come from?
Indeed, but you also get more bang for your downloaded buck.

My toy project https://k8.fingswotidun.com/static/ide/?gist=ad96329670965dc...

Gives you an emulator, an 8-bit AVR Assembler, and an IDE for just over 500k transferred. Almost all of it JavaScript.

Using math.js is by far the heaviest part but at least your Asm already knows things like solarMass and planckConstant :-). CodeMirror comes in second heaviest but for user-experience-per-byte you're always going to be streets ahead of a gif.
You have a good point, but we also have many decades' worth of engineering improvements that could likely be used to mitigate some of the risks.
...ah. I forgot it was open source. Stupid me.
> I would be fine if google disabled formerly free videos until someone agreed to monetizing them

That seems worse? All these videos that I uploaded become inaccessible just because I'm not around to approve monetization?

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Extremely good point. Small forums self-govern as a community and generally just make money (or take donations) to keep the lights on. With big platforms, you are the product and they want you there so they can monetize you. Pursuant to that, the kinds of content they allow, encourage, and prioritize in algorithms and interfaces will be that which maximizes engagement with the platform rather than the community, and advertisers sensibilities rule in terms of what is allowed on the platform altogether.
It's still smaller than a Cray 2.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151342
Yup, the data is right there. HN commenters just want to "but aktsualllly..."

The spike in deaths from the UK's first wave is pretty visible in the graphs, and the spike from cases we're seeing now will probably take a few weeks to show up in the data.
I definitely think they are used in production though I haven't tried it myself.

But I can find ancedots of people using it production on the web[1].

1: https://carto.com/blog/postgres-fdw/
I've had a very different experience here in Sydney. Though the pay is not as high as being in the US, it's decent. The lifestyle is good. The people are great. The tech punches above it's weight. There is a good focus on success through numbers, vs too much talk in the US (my impression anyway).

When you're talking about contracts, that makes me think you're working for a consultancy, or similar job shop. That's not where the good work is.

A "tech backwater"??? I'm a bit jaded because I worked at CSIRO, met a few Atlassian people before I moved here (and before it was big), saw friends and co-workers become early hires at Canva, OneLogin, Propeller, etc etc.

With the new tech we've been working on in the health space, my co-founder and I were surprised to discover one of the bigger BCI companies does all their R&D in Sydney! We commented on how big things are quietly being done in Sydney. But hey, our old boss invented WiFi, so we are looking at things through that lens.

Australia punches above it's weight for tech, perhaps you're just not in the right circles.
To a lesser extent, they do care about risk, but only risk with systemic level impacts.
They seem to offer different use cases - I'm not sure you can say one is better than the other.

rsync.net is more expensive, but has included snapshots and better fault tolerance/data retention policies. It's also been around for nearly 20 years, they own their own datacenters, and have a proven track record with thousands of users.

This is cheaper (maybe, depending on your bandwidth usage) and gives you better "ownership" of the hardware, but because it is hardware its just as likely to fail or corrupt data as a hard drive sitting under your desk. This service is also in beta with just a handful of users.

Both companies seem to have really good policies and to be unix user-friendly.
Ask HN: How much of your time at work as a software engineer is spent coding?
very curious how different types of software engineers spend their time.

i'm working at my first big company. even within the company it seems that our engineers have vastly different types of jobs. some spend a lot of time writing application code. many others doing devops and configuration/deployment (and just justifying the work they're doing or waiting for answers).
Sounds like total bullshit. There always is this style to East and South Asian bullshit in English. It's written like a twelve year old telling a lie.

I wonder if making people answer questions in a second language is an effective lie detection method.
One of those things is not like the other.
They have plenty of corporate sponsors already:

https://fund.blender.org/

I'm generally a Facebook doomsayer but in this case I don't really see them being able to throw much weight around.
There are a few different concepts going on here:

1) Which metrics get used in the algorithm? My list was tightly scoped to a process/ecosystem about tracking the metric of page speed.

2) How is that metric used in the algorithm? Boosting in the score in general? Is the top carousel treated differently?

3) It's also possible the application of the metric can change what is required from that metric. For example: Google regular results require one page speed option, but Google mobile carousel requires a more stringent page speed option.

Personally, I am fine with page speed being used as a metric in search results. Context: The main usecase for AMP, and the publishers who support it, are related to news (versus stack overflow, etc). So there is a lot of room for "kim kardashian birthday party" to have very similar content where page speed is a great metric to optimize between them.

I am less fine with Google requiring their hosted version of it - especially in the medium/long term once the project has gotten over its experimental phase and proven market adoption.
People use the downvote on HN for disagreement all the time. People don't like critiques or dissenting views, and some fraction of OPs will downvote a critical response. Some other fraction will downvote maliciously or selfishly.

I think the downvote should be for low-effort or low-contribution comments. I abhor "^this" or "lol", nevermind trolling or unfounded disinformation.
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That’s good too: just because they sent you some bit doesn’t mean you are obligated to read (/watch/parse/etc) them.
What in the hell is Russiagate?

If you're referring to Russia actively interfering with American elections through a pointed and state sponsored disinformation campaign that continues to this day... then that's not a narrative? That's a thing that's happening that matters and is one of the principle sources of bad actors behind this very article
Using an open source Flash emulator written in Rust and exported to Webassembly[0].

[0]https://ruffle.rs/
> The point the authour is trying to make is that guard clauses convey a different intent from a standard branch.

This is a matter of idiom and convention, and I disagree with the author on the specific point in Ruby. Were it Python, I would agree with it. (Well, not on "guard clauses" per se, but the significance of an implicit vs. explicit nil/None return.)

It is certainly an issue for polyglot programmers that as well as differences in syntax and behaviorally-visible semantics, language communities have different idioms that impact the communicative semantics of code (having been deeper into Ruby before getting more into Python, it took my a while to stop writing Python with Ruby conventions.)
Congratulations on the launch. I have worked in open source and public record research for the last 15 years, and your coverage is extremely impressive.

Do you have any long term plan for the site? I can see this going in a lot of different directions depending on your goals.
Over a stable population of 10s of millions of people, it's unlikely to be notable.
Quantum software startup Zapata Computing reels in $38M round
Why not derive UTC from TAI (via a table of leap seconds)? Then apply the TZ rules to DST to arrive at local time.
Will there be a way to get notifications when programs change state or when a file appears in a folder ? I'd like to get notified when my sparks pipeline produced a model and thus finished computing.
Of course, once data is replicated and distributed around, it's very hard to put the genie back into the bottle.