skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users flagged it. It seems weird to me to call that censorship but the word has become diluted enough that people use it for whatever they dislike, so have at it I guess.

Some users flag these things for political reasons while others flag them because they lead to crap threads, like the current thread, and because these discussions have become so tedious and predictable that there is no curiosity left in them and no learning possible.
> animals presumably outrank plants in terms of moral standing.

In aggregate I probably agree but one thing I've wondered, especially in the last year as I started gardening during lockdown, is if that's really universally true. Large, long-lived plants - redwoods, oaks, saguaros, and so on - seem very close to the same niche in the plant kingdom humans occupy in the animal one. They exert significant energy to cultivate and modify their environment; they gather and store resources they do not immediately need; they change "behavioral" patterns significantly and cyclically over the course of their life; they maintain vast communication networks.

I have no doubt a pig "outranks" a mosquito. But I also suspect a redwood outranks a mosquito. The middle is all fuzzy though - where does my cucumber (which exhibits relatively complex reproductive behavior to attract pollinators, and expresses significant "wants" in terms of vining and leaf facing) lie in relation to mosquitos, or aphids, or bees?
Topology-Aware Service Routing on Kubernetes with Linkerd
They didn't get a copy of your messages with a report until today. This is a meaningful change.
reCaptcha has also gotten increasingly annoying lately.

I forgot my password to one site and tried about 2 or 3 different passwords and in-between each it asked me to do about 7 or 8 of those labelling exercises. I finally just gave up and left the site.

Not only that, but the labelling exercises weren't clear. It wanted me to label a "公交車" which means more like a public city bus and there were also school buses which would normally not be called that in Chinese so I didn't label them but Google thought they were part of that class, and wouldn't let me proceed without me labelling them, and furthermore, punished me with more "hard" exercises like that. I guess they are trying to turn me into a stupid bot.
Because it uses jQuery for its plugins?
This is mostly true, however laws are are already generally written as (legal) diffs, and many agencies issue regulations as diffs as well.

Cornell Law has providing version control releases of the federal laws for some time for free, and Lexis and their competitors have been doing the same for decades for commercially.
The type of work required to monitor covid patients can be done by semi-skilled workers for the most part. The army does this, it works.
Salesforce has approached Slack with an acquisition offer
You wouldn’t know it by reading their periodicals: cancel culture, right vs wrong thinking, evil multinationals, class struggle against the exploiting "rich", the inhuman capitalism, the wonderful socialist utopias and it goes on and on...
> don't want them dealing with non-profitable sales to hobbyists

Have said hobbyists pay an appropriate amount of money. If an expert of TI can help me get started I'd find something like 100-200€/h reasonable.

> or buying small quantities to poke around and copy IP

Anyone wanting to steal IP for profit can already do so, most datasheets are available on pirate sites.
Does it still look young and human?
Isnt it opinion like any other then? Just from someone with better platform. You dont need to be general arbiter of truth ro be like "wait, election law is actually different".

Just like Trump have better platform then me.
They'll say the physical version is a fake too.

Though I say for really important works, having a physical copy in addition to the digital one is a must. Digital data is easy to copy — and easy to lose. And bit rot is a thing.
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I’ve been using Borgbase and rsync.net for a while now and have been happy with both services. However I am really impressed with the speed that borgbase answer user requests about their products and general queries. Rsync.net seem to ignore emails or are generally difficult to get a response from. Both have similar price levels and speeds, but it’s the small details that often swing it.
In my experience (on Mac), OBS is pretty fiddly and has some sharp edges. While editing layouts, I have to make some changes twice because they don't "stick" the first time.
Yeah, that's what's so incredibly powerful about nuclear energy, e=mc^2 of a grain of sand is a huge amount of energy.
Not sure what you mean by "The HN Community" (users? moderators? both?) but there have been countless discussions of both media and Silicon Valley here—so many that the reaction among a large segment of users here is "oh no, not that again". Meanwhile others are so eager for more more more of this that anything less than "all of it featured" counts as "suppression and censorship!"

I can't tell which side you're claiming bias in favor of or against, but both sides get pissed off when they see something from the opposite point of view and, once they've seen two or three such things, fixate on seeing HN as biased $opposite-to-me. What's ironic is how identically the battling sides mirror each other this way.
It sounds like you want to take a core function in financial services and turn it into a Saas. Seems like a good idea. The hard part is picking one and executing on it.
There was a display replacement program for 2012-2015 MBP13s, due to the staingate. Though I recall that it was for 4 years since date of purchase, or so.
Just because it has a lag from “issues reported” to “confirmed outage” doesn’t mean it’s useless. Non-green means there are issues and Amazon is aware of them.
> Nothing's ever enough for vegans.

Just to jump in with an additional point, vegans would never be ok with this. I believe you might be thinking vegetarians, which as a vegetarian, this is good news, and is enough for me.
I think 3 months of full-time study is more that enough time to get the fundamentals of software development and land an entry level dev job. This is especially true when paired with a career preparation program.

Many bootcamps have 90+% verified placements rates after graduation
I think it might depend on your goals - the old, "The Journey is the Reward" chestnut.

She mentioned a couple of times that she went into the tangle because she wanted to, that she hadn't had to "bail a loom out of a major temper tantrum" in a while.

To be sure, recovering the 1 1/2 yard Shetland warp and other materials would in no way compensate 10 hours of labor - but that presumes there's nothing to learn from the process.

I want to say something surly about how accountants have driven software development to losing its soul in pursuit of dollars but ... that's not going to end constructively. =D So instead I'll just say I really admire the attitude of, "I can fix that. It will take more time than it's worth but screw the economics of it all, I'm going to do it anyway. Fsck you, entropy."
Yes, I agree with that for the case of AJAX spinners. A lot of web software fails to handle errors (resulting in the AJAX spinner spinning on — I think we've all seen this all the time¹) and most don't connect progress events to the animation in any way. There's no reason web-based libraries couldn't provide utilities for that, other than they don't, the existing code is of poor quality, and the APIs that browsers provide don't really push one towards the high-quality solutions in any way (since you really have to either get this level of functionality from some sort of library, or build it yourself).

My point is that good UI is possible, there is even precedent for it, and that while we definitely need to do better perhaps with available APIs or tooling, that is not an excuse for the moral failing of lying to the user.

¹and I'd say that's even the mild case. A number of high-profile websites that encounter even edge cases — not even errors — just simply fail to render at all.
That's not the premise at all.
That's a disingenuous strawman that anti-vegans would say to eachother about vegans to rile themselves up. It shows a total lack of understanding of what they're really about.
That’s actually not true. One of the things we understand about suicide is that it’s often an impulse decision, and access to immediate and reliable means of suicide has a huge impact on overall suicide rates. Even moderate barriers to suicide can actually permanently reduce the rate of suicide in a population. It’s been repeatedly shown that when one method of suicide is made harder, the decrease in that method are not completely offset by other methods.

So when we do seemingly minor things like eliminating CO in domestic gas (“head in oven” was a common suicide method due to CO), increasing the height of railings on a bridge, or even making someone purchasing their first firearm wait a few days, this can often have a significant impact on whether someone actually ends up killing themselves. Suicide isn’t at all inevitable like you say.
I admit to vast swathes of ignorance in many areas of expertise required to accomplish what I'm about to put forward, but...

I'm hopeful for what silicon like RISC-V and languages like Rust/Zig mean for the future of OS research and development. I feel like things have been stagnant in that realm for far too long.

Example -- super excited for the M1 chip and what it means for the future of computing. Not super excited that I can't actually own it or run my own software on it without approval from Apple, who's software I'm trusting less and less these days.
That distinction is already blurred beyond recognition. There's nothing that makes a phone app more or less "web" than a SPA, for example.
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Steps for Disagreeing Effectively – By Julie Zhuo
I vastly prefer hCaptcha to recaptcha because it doesn't treat me any differently just because I'm using Tor. Recently (last year or so), Google has started to explicitly refuse service to me when I use Tor (only after forcing me to solve a CAPTCHA for 3 minutes).

Question for dang -- why does HN continue to use recaptcha? It's impossible to signup via Tor, and Google is a user hostile company.

One thing I will note, is that hcaptcha seems to be more loose in what answers it accepts. Sometimes I click random images and it still lets me pass.
This might be an opportunity to trigger rethinking of how we handle some of our labor pools. Stress is extreme with the medical sector now, but there are signs of similar related stresses in other sectors also. Construction, Education, and Software Engineering all site high labor costs and low labor availability. At the same time the number of adults of prime working age looking for work and not finding it is at record highs as is the number of frustrated working age people that have left the labor pool.

If we had more onramps into these generally lauded labor markets then there might be greater flexibility and humanity in responses to stress, especially really serious stresses such as we see now. Make it possible to get limited training for some kind of assistant position and people can gain experience and potentially move up the ladder or simply serve as useful fodder that insulate better trained and more experienced workers from the worst stresses. Instead potential workers are eliminated early on by requirements that are often old and limited in proven relevance.

And apart from all that there are cultural limitations. It isn't some weird mistake or detailed physical evaluation that keeps female participation in construction at extreme lows and male participation in education of the young similarly low. There are serious social barriers involved. Up till now we have had the luxury of setting up expensive many years long training gateways and arbitrary cultural barriers with these fields, but this isn't necessarily rational and forces limitations which are contributing to dangerous overload.
Julie Zhuo with a framework you can follow when disagreeing with others. I think it's helpful to understand which "hat" you want to put on when providing feedback: are you the (1) Owner of the task (the one who should get it done and care for it in the long run, the (2) Consultant (an expert with no direct ownership) or the (3) Preacher (you have some interest in the domain, but you neither the owner nor the expert). Understanding your role is where I'd start, as it will help to set the context in which you see the contradictions with the other person.
They can be hard to read, but I don't think they are deficient, on the contrary I think they are very elegant

Stephen Cole Kleene was a brilliant mathematician and when he invented regexs in the 50s of the past century, he anticipated a lot of concepts that became popular in computer science, such as recursion (which he also founded as a branch of mathematics and computer science together with Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing)

Java on the other hand has some deficiencies here and there and it's not really a modern language free from old cruft
Europe to prohibit political microtargeting and disinformation
I don't disagree with you. But it is not like first world countries are inmune. Just look at a current president whose lies, cheating and incompetence are inexplicably excused by 70 million first world voters.
I'm hoping for more than "it kind of works." <grin> Ideally, I'm looking for cool things that organizers have done.

For instance, my editor told me about attending an online event run by a winemaker... who spoke from the vineyard. Meanwhile Tom was in his own kitchen with a glass of wine. That would be a better experience than he'd have had in any hotel conference room.

And another friend wrote about a conference he attended:
> I think anything online is almost by definition ‘short attention span theater’ and the organizers took note of that with shorter panel sessions. Instead of a half hour to 45 minutes, these ran 10-15 minutes with four panelists. Extremely brief introductions, right to the point, on-topic questions, and so it went. Pretty effective even for fairly weighty topics like impact of AI on business.
nursing is “not that complex” in the same sense that programming is “typing characters into a file”.

my sister is doing critical care work as a nurse in a covid crisis zone earning less than 60K a year. this is with a decade of experience in some of the top hospitals in the country. i think HN has a very California/New York view of nurse’s compensation and status.

her previous hospital responded to covid by firing a lot of nursing staff (grandma’s couldn’t get knee replacements, but covid wasn’t super bad here yet so hospitals just shed resources only to need them again in two months).

hospital administrations responded to the crisis by cutting staff, cutting pay, and increasing their own salaries, while taking months to procure PPE for their workers. at the height of the iraq war, it was a big news story that soldiers had not been receiving adequate protection and that some of the vehicle and personnel armor they had received was defective. if we want to make a war analogy, this is blackwater contractors getting paid millions to play at war games geared to the tits and barely ever leaving the green zone while the soldiers doing the real grunt work are getting shredded by mandatory redeployments with no leave and issued substandard gear.

on top of that, covid has been functionally live clinical experimentation at mass scale. a lot of medicine has been made rote, so i think jaded people think it is just a big book of instructions. this pandemic was figuring things out live at runtime.

the compassionate response to a massive crisis in healthcare worker morale brought on by burnout due to extremely fast paced, high risk, high stress, highly specified work conditions during a global pandemic is something like “i hope this can be managed so that care can continue to be delivered” and not “they should get a new job”.
I think they have the problem that if they come out and admit that they're going to invite a lot of protests and negative media, which they don't need at the moment since they're facing a demographic shift in the lab with a bunch of people retiring now. So they need to attract and hire a bunch of people.
There was a lovely quote in another essay linked to on HN recently:

"The cure for loneliness is solitude". [0]

That could considered a little glib, but also gets deeper the more one thinks about it (or tries it)

[0] https://www.outsideonline.com/2418783/my-priceless-summer-ma...
I was comparing specific lines of drives -- mainstream lines from a major vendor (WD/Sandisk).

SSDs also go way up in size, but prices spike after you hit a corner.
They do have a partner system however which is widely used, you need a number of staff who are atlassian certified on your staff then you become a <some level> partner, and get a cut of the sales you make.

A lot of small(ish) firms are making reasonable money doing this sort of thing; I'd count them as enterprise sales ;)
Emacs has had an Emacs Lisp version of this for a long time. It's implemented as a macro so it can build the string regexp at compile time.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx...
The interface is much cleaner than you can expect, it's the Pepper API that Google engineered for NaCl. That idea was not successful in the end, but the clear interface stayed. The old NPAPI would have been more messy, but still doable.

The crucial problem is that the Flash runtime is incredibly extensive, and vaguely documented as well. I started the Lightspark project many years ago, so I know this from personal experience.

OSS Flash has value in itself, but to accurately preserve any SWF content, the original binary is the only feasible solution in the medium term.

And of course, our VM (CheerpX) has many other use cases, so it has value beside this first Flash oriented product.
I don't see why those particular magnitude calculations are relevant to this analysis.

> economics has nothing to do with investing, and is worthless

Is it worthless because it has nothing to do with investing, or has nothing to do with investing because it's worthless? Further, why do you think the Federal Reserve hires so many economists if economics is worthless?

> And yes, there is easy money laying around if you know what youre doing. There are dollar bills laying on the ground for smaller scale strats. People just arent taking about them

Isn't that like saying, "Winning chess tournaments is easy if you know what you're doing."? If something requires expertise, then it isn't easy. If finding these smaller scale strategies requires expertise, then the expert probably has better things to do with their time. I suppose that holds to arguing with idiots on Hacker News.
Dislike it, to say the least. Since it doesn't seems to remember that I'm a human (reCpatcha did), now I have to constantly solve captchas on CF sites.
You have completely missed my point.

I am not commenting on the actual scientific merit of the field, I am only commenting on how the science is communicated to the public, and how that has impacted it's credibility amongst certain (rather large) groups of people.

Predictions of climate catastrophe have been heavily promoted with the public for decades, and typically in a way that either implies or explicitly states a very high level of confidence. Anybody who's lived long enough will have seen multiple predictions of this nature fail to materialize.

It's pretty clear to me at least that the rationale behind this style of science communication is that it will scare people, which will motivate them to take action, which will result in better outcomes. So these misrepresentations (or lies depending on how you look at things) are entirely justified by the desired ends that the people who propagate them hope to achieve. However, one of the other outcomes they achieve is that some people notice this and come to the conclusion that the field simply lacks credibility and can be safely ignored, or even that public derision of the field is justified. Such people can easily point to the historical failures of the field to justify their position.

A lot of people will say that the people who hold these views are simply stupid, and that their views are incredibly harmful. While that might be true, it doesn't mitigate any of the harm that has been caused by the (what I would see as) highly irresponsible communication strategy employed by many of the fields scientists and advocates.
Well, the point is to avoid automated abuse.

Your Apple account on your Apple device doesn't stop you from unwittingly being part of a botnet, for example.
Agreed. Let’s avoid avoid becoming another Twitter please
Almost none of my programs on Linux do that by default, because they're handled by my package manager.

Programs like Spacemacs (updating ELPA repos on boot, which I actually kind of think is a mistake) and Calibre (just kind of doing its own thing) are the exception to that rule, but they're pretty rare in my personal experience. Even Firefox doesn't update itself on my Linux box.

That's kind of why I was thinking of Linux as cheating on some level. Windows/Mac programs basically can't do the same thing, since they don't have the same infrastructure.

> I just meant to point out that programs using the Internet are probably a fairly considerable majority for most regular users.

I would push back a tiny bit on this -- I don't think regular users would be surprised by a native program contacting the Internet, but I do think they would be surprised if that rest request failing meant that the program couldn't launch.
Do you think that any newspaper with headlines other than "News Story Number 3742489" is similarly "clickbait"?
Who knows, may be they can start to send id too by a special request from the server or send those hashes by other channels in addition to this one, but much later. And server can make such request based on some heuristics or based on some 'black list' of hashes. How can you know for sure? We can only guess to the certain degree without looking into sources.
The Brahmins eat steak bare-faced while you sip insect-protein soylent in your shipping container.

You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy, you fucking pig.
> If people would simply eat them more they also don't have to be killed.

... Unless you were contemplating eating them _live_, I'm not sure how that works.
More than you wanted to know about the Reversed Phi illusion:

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

https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2121864

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6661801/
That's fair enough from a political perspective (after all, as they say in the article, >70% of NIF shots are going to [nuclear] stockpile stewardship now) -- but just to give NIF a bit of credit on the "basic science" front, it has turned out to be quite good for studying the properties of matter under extreme compression more generally.

Some mineral physicists I know have used this to write some cool papers about the properties of natural materials at conditions replicating those expected in the cores of giant exoplanets [1-3], for example.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0437-9

[2] https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00023

[3] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaao5864
Coronavirus is mostly a performance. The governors perform it on camera. This is similar to the security theatre performances after 9/11.
People made the claim _while_ ignoring the evidence. And as I went on to argue, if you really want to play it safe and assume plant sentience, you would still adopt a plant-based diet.
Maybe the user should have the option to choose which CAPTCHA to solve.
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I spent new year's eve 2019/2020 with a group of weavers. The jargon is strong in them and to make matters worse, IT borrowed a few terms (like "thread"), so their conversations were especially confusing to me.