skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gotten to the point where whenever I setup a Windows machine, I tell it I have no internet connection, because that seems to be the only way to get it shut up about using a Microsoft Account to log in, configuring OneDrive, etc. Then once everything is setup I'll connect it to my home network. I recall years ago when I did my Windows 10 box they didn't push the Microsoft Account on you so hard during setup, but when doing newer laptops for family members that's clearly changed.

I've basically demoted my Windows 10 box to headless status. If I want to do anything I either use Remote Desktop or Steam Streaming to access it.

Interestingly OS X also has plenty of Cloud services, but Apple seems to have at least figured out how to sell them in a less intrusive manner while letting you feel like you're still in control of the machine. Just little things like you setup a local account and then Apple sells you on "Hey want to link your iCloud so you can remote wipe this machine if it is stolen?" vs forcing you to lie about internet connectivity so Windows 10 gives you the local account option.
My (Android) phone is de-Googled, so no apps except from F-Droid, and I only use the one-time pad for the national SSO solution. Following a recent change, not having the SSO apps means I have to have use an extra password + SMS 2FA on many sites when I want to pay by credit card (the alternative being the SSO app).

I don't drive, so I don't know for a fact about the parking situation, but people tell me some places are app-only.

On a few occasions I've had to get my wife to pay for something using the app I mentioned, but it is becoming increasingly "weird" not to have it, and I see many classifieds specify that they only accept payment that way. I was almost cash-only for day-to-day stuff until Covid, but that's been the nail in the coffin. Technically businesses can't refuse cash, but many places will have signs asking you to pay by card, and I'm not going to be an arse about it to some 17-year-old behind the counter like an anti-masker. Thankfully almost everyone accepts credit/debit cards, but the alternatives are cheaper for businesses so maybe in a few years that will also become problematic, and the app-based solutions will have fully overtaken government cash.

I feel like there should be an addition to basic human rights: Participation in the economy. It should not be a requirement for day-to-day life that one carries some tracking device and accepts thousands of pages of ToS from a private company. I can accept giving up many conveniences, but I feel like I should be able to have a place to live and buy food without a Google account.
It isn't expected. But I have noticed the issue as well, and I'm looking to fix. I think it may have to do with how note lengths from beats are being calculated.

The Handel interpreter uses Tone.js for scheduling and playing notes. But because there is only one Tone.Transport per page, changing the bpm of the Transport would change it for all tracks.

So instead of using Tone.js for setting bpms, the note lengths are calculated based on the bpm and amount of beats, and scheduled in seconds. Which could lead to greater imprecision over time
Isn‘t this just the typical oscillation from virtue ethics (mindset is most important) to consequentialism (results are most important) and sometimes deontological ethics (acting itself is most important). This seems to swing like a pendulum every few decades into the „mainstream“. Depending on how/where/when you grew up, one of these is your „moral compass“ (which lead to preferential world views like individualism, utilitarism, ...). This „moral compass“ often changes over time and your own kids will probably have a different starting point.

„Moral“ is just an ordered set of values that feels „obvious“ or „innate“ to you, but other people (especially from different ethical axioms, see the three above) have other ordered sets.

All of them have their downsides and have been en vogue since Aristoteles, still societies (or political parties) basically argue over the exact same stuff for millenia without any progress whatsoever.

Why the long intro? I basically consider the concept or even discussion about „moral“, especially „which would be better“ not only pointless but actually harmful.

(not a perfect analogy: asking „what was before the (original) big bang“ makes no sense assuming our concept of time started with the big bang. But this question probably killed/tortured less people in history than confrontations resulting from conflicting sets of moral values).

Escape hatch from here? Nietzsche actually saw that coming, dont just stay at nihilism/absurdism but maybe read „beyond good and evil“... :)
Tue, 14 Aug 2018. Email from GoDaddy:

Brexit is coming, and it brings changes to .eu domains like (mydomain).eu

"Now that the UK has voted to withdraw from the European Union, the registry for .eu domains (EURid) has decided to revoke domains registered to UK residents, and prevent them from purchasing new ones.

In light of this decision we will no longer offer .eu domains to UK residents. EURid may act as early as March 30, 2019, but the deadline might shift as Brexit negotiations continue.

You still have options, though. You can either update your registrant address to one outside the UK, or replace your .eu domains with another option."
Since I can’t edit the comment, I want to paste this here so readers are informed about the extra mile Github travelled as well.

Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648585
Inference and Prediction Part 2: Statistics
gRPC-Java: Netty is significantly slower than OkHttp
Fines are issued to players, coaches, and the team depending on the severity and type of offense.

Examples:

Mike Tomlin fined for blocking an on-field player, the team may have been penalized by forfeiting draft picks: https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-tomlin-fined-100-000-for-actio... They weren't: https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-won-t-lose-draft-pick-for-...

Coaches fined $100k for not wearing face masks, teams fined $250k: https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-fines-broncos-49ers-seahawks-fo...

Saints fined $500k and stripped of draft pick: https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-fined-500k-draft-pick-patrio...

Controversial team fines: https://www.nfl.com/news/draft-picks-that-have-been-stripped...

- Falcons for fake crowd noise

- Patriots for "deflategate"

Saints were fined as a team, head coach suspended, players suspended for "bounty gate": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints_bounty_scan...

Team sports can be lost by a player, but must be won as a team. E.g. Kyle Williams of SF 49ers muffing two punts in the 2012-Feb-22 game against the Giants (off his knee, and the strip).
Sometimes I don't know why I bother talking about Go.

It's proponents are so quick to go defensive that no one is capable of reading any complaint in an even mildly charitable light.

I mean I shouldn't literally have to say "I'm not saying you can't use Go for real work before someone flies at me." When talking about a language as widely used as Go right? Like that's common sense!

And yet of course I'm getting replies that do exactly that because of how darn defensive people need to be about it.
Spiked is a really weird publication, formerly called living Marxism they’re now funded in part by the Koch brothers. I guess they’re exemplars of the horseshoe theory of politics, after the radical left collapsed they decided to got to the other extreme.
yeah, and it is entirely possible that developing mRNA technology simply wasn't a good fit for Penn, even if it was long term viable and within their ability to fund.

It it seems pretty unfair to say that "the school wasn’t very supportive of the scientist who led the charge."

They gave her 6 years runway while she tried to find external funding and get the technology off the ground before kicking her off tenure, and kept her on payroll until the she made her breakthrough another 10 years later.

If I understand the timeline right, she started at Penn in 89, was kicked off tenure in 95, published her major mRNA paper in 2005, then left Penn to be a senior VP in 2013.
Exactly. I was going to write a note to my House representative in support of this bill, but I absolutely will not do that with the text unreleased and "for other purposes" in the title there.
> - Ticketmaster management was aware of this and rewarded that employee with a promotion and additional responsibilities.

At some point the employees involved were fired. So there was some short term reward, and long term... I don't know.

Also, the article says that Zeeshan Zaidi, plead guilty to 26 months ago. So obviously this is the last in a series of consequences.
I've never understood this take. Suppose in the far future some super corporation owns all property on Earth and facilitates all communication through any channel.

Would you still believe "you don't have to interact with Supercorp?" If so, the same is true trivially with a government as well. It's very easy to leave the United States if you want. Even if you couldn't leave, you don't have to speak. After all, you have the right to remain silent.

That aside, you would think a sensible government would prevent a private entity from reaching the heights of its abilities in any area.
> I've talked to a thousand people like this and generally they seem immune to logical conversations.

Are you talking about me? Which part of my posts is not "logical"?

> If you are in the 1% who gets a nice fat check thanks to IP laws, hurray for you.

I'm not. Some people are able to hold opinions that don't directly benefit them. Inconceivable, right?

> You can promote the Big Lie all you want, but any smart honest person will figure out eventually that IP is evil from every angle.

That's not even an argument. And you're accusing me of being "immune to logical conversations"?
I think this article conflates freedom of speech (which the hate speech law infringes on) with freedom from the consequences of speech (which cancel culture deprives you of).

It’s not clear to me how the government (or anyone else) would even go about protecting freedom of consequences in public perception to your speech, without limiting other people’s freedom to not associate with you. I’ve also never heard a convincing argument that this is socially desirable.

Overall pretty substance-free article.
They cancelled .eu domains for all registrants who reside in the UK, irrespective of their citizenship. That is not a speculation. They ask for those people to prove their citizenship before the end of March. Why doesn't the EU first ask for the citizenship proof before harming its own citizen? It's kind of dumb to think that the EU happily harms its own citizen and don't even realise it because they think the only harm UK folks.
Reinventing the Python Logo: Interview with a UI Designer
> Leafs and Bolts were sold out (or leased out) almost everywhere they were available before the Model 3 was released.

That's not true, people were leasing Leafs for tax credits the dumping them as soon as the lease expired. There was a glut of off lease Leafs on the market as early as 2017. I picked up a 2015 Leaf with 15k miles on it for ~$14k off lease in 2017 before the Model 3 went into production.

Nissan started manufacturing Leafs in 2010 and it wasn't until fall 2020 that they managed to build their 500,000th. By comparison, the Model 3 went into production in 2017 and they built the 500,000th in March of 2020.

Tesla managed to build and sell more EVs in under than 3 years than Nissan did in 10. Either Nissan was stifling production or there was no demand for the product.
I use Twilio for the text messaging, and so they can handle up to 1600 characters per outgoing message request, and larger responses could also be broken into multiple response messages. Users can define LiquidJS templates on the system so that you can cut down the size of the response message if you only want to see certain fields.
I don't think that there is a lack of material, almost every new language has an extensive documentation. I did have to learn how to read something that takes more than a couple days/weekends though, but now I mostly have no problem with documentation.

I do still have trouble with standards or other huge documents, e.g. the Arm Architecture Manual. The kind of documents that are huge, yet assume a lot of previous knowledge so a lot of googling has to be done.
Does anyone have any resources to practice back of the napkin type of capacity metrics that are often asked in these interviews?
JPMorgan Says Bitcoin Could Surge to $146,000 in Long Term
The true cost of chemotherapy in the UK
Thanks for the thoughtful counter arguments. I concede that there is a false extrapolation into the internet at large (or private institutions at large). I argue in his favor though that these social media platforms are, for many, their main sources of information. Hence his argument that we should, as a culture, focus on "improving our ability to tell the difference" between information and disinformation.

When I hear friends and families share conspiracy theories with me and I read that many people are deeply hesitant to become vaccinated, they cite these instances of YT or FB squashing posts as further proof of the legitimacy. All this is to say that these tech companies simply should not get themselves involved with answering the question of "what is true?".

I suspect that disinformation spreads faster on FB/YT/Twitter than information because it is sensational. Humans love to hear stories and are compelled by them more than facts. I second Ben Thompson here that we should focus on learning how to learn and how to parse information. We should learn how to tell when an argument is bifurcated or someone is appealing to ad populum and learn to accept nuance and disagree respectfully.
He's dead right about free speech, but not about cancel culture.

Cancel culture is not a "medieval mob" - because there is no physical enforcement. It's simply a further expression of free speech. No one has to obey it.

If you are ok with with giving your $100 to someone like C.K. after it's been revealed that he pulls his penis out in front of random females, you totally can. I would prefer to make a less funny comedian wealthy whom doesn't whip their penis out at random.

I have the freedom to not participate in making certain individuals or companies wealthy, and I have the right to call for their "cancellation". That's MY free speech at work. If you want to un-cancel them, well, that's YOUR free speech at work.
I think this separation falls down badly in some cases: after someone claims a method worked but it's a dubious model, you can't possibly reproduce their results then there's no way to know that their model actually even worked once when they did it or if they just made an entirely stupid mistake (like using the complete data set for training).

Concretely there's applied ML papers on confidential military data, where I'm fairly sure the results are just bogus or cherry-picked or done with incorrect procedure, but with the data being unobtainable (even to those with clearance the data isn't materialized in some DoD database for reproducing) it makes the published results entirely unreproducible and unchallengeable.
>> Maybe that chain of reasoning is only comprehensible to an artificial intelligence which we have yet to invent, involving us inhabiting some element of a vast fractal structure subject to some sort of anthropic principal?

And we will call this AI Deep Thought and it will finally provide answer to Life, the Universe and Everything ...

Sorry I could not resist myself.

But Your whole obsevation is spot on - so many people here is missing forest for the trees - arguing about pointless details. I would even dare to say that they are sitting in local minimum of all possible discussions that could be derrived from this article.
Haha, they are up for a good joke it seems!
I think this analysis is a bit oversimplified. If your goal is to build houses, then local labour is clearly better. But if it's to recruit lifetime donors, then perhaps shipping out incompetent (but fabulously wealthy) Americans is the way forward.

Similarly for advocacy, our model should perhaps be that seemingly extreme proposals serve to stretch the Overton window before the middle-ground wins out.

Naively disregarding approaches that don't myopically optimise for first-order impact seems likely to have harmful reprocussions.

That said, lots of donations are deeply ineffective, and if you want to prioritize I'd suggest the excellent guides from https://www.givewell.org/ , who reach many of the same conclusions as you do, after more detailed reasoning.
Then on Tue, 27 Nov 2018:

"In 2016, the United Kingdom voted to withdraw from the European Union. Soon new .eu registrations will be restricted to any natural person, company or organization residing in or established in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway. This means that customers in the UK will no longer be able to register new .eu domains. Plus, .eu domains that are currently registered to UK addresses will be revoked.

These changes may take effect as early as March 30, 2019, but the deadline could shift as Brexit negotiations continue.

In light of these new policies, we're no longer offering .eu domains to UK residents. We also urge UK residents with .eu domains to consider their options: either update your registrant information to an .eu-compliant address or replace any .eu domains with other available options. "
Pence faces pressure from Trump to thwart Electoral College vote
Really interesting idea. As someone who has been in a data analyst role for roughly 9 years and frustrated by the lack of effort others have to learn SQL or even a BI tool for reporting needs it sounds like an interesting idea. Would be interested in learning more about how you are tackling the issue. Career background is Marketing & Analytics, but I have been doing development work for 6+ (NodeJS,Postgresql,Python) Any preferred method to connect?
Epic seems to be the one company in the Research Triangle that's been making the news often, recently. Wonder how the startup scene has been in Raleigh–Durham–Cary.
Link to Levine's piece:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-05/dystop...
Microsoft's ambitious AR game Minecraft Earth won't survive past the pandemic
> Countries in South America locked down hard and early but it had no effect on the pandemic spread

No they didn't
It's just so variable across the board. Chicago is doing a _wonderful_ job; Florida is apparently botching it.

I'm legit surprised Trump didn't hand the whole thing to the military. If there's one thing the military is good at, it's freaking logistics.
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Many states in the US do this too through registration. The cost varies by state. In my state, total gas taxes would be about $200 per year for an average driver, with the registration fee being about $50 ($90 for pickup trucks).
Yet as I see now the title in HN has been changed...
It is just a name. No one has cared about solar noon since the 19th century, when every town set their own clock. The point of timezones is for everyone to work from the same reference with respect to train schedules, originally, and now flights, phone calls, bank hours, etc.
They've already rebranded alot of roles, no longer is there a "TAM" role.

Product manager/Program manager next it seems...
Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)
I would guess that all or nearly all residential IPs are marked as at least 'low proxy' risk because of the risk of malware on personal devices.
Sure, but that just requires them to finish migrating the UI; it does not require yet another UI overhaul.

(And in fact, the latter is probably worse for completing the migration!)
> I don't know how / can't believe how in the 1980s we had the era of 15% interest rates, etc (ok, I have some idea, central bank policies, inflation, etc) -- but it seems now we're in a "forever-0%-interest" situation.

Yes, 17-20% interest rate was not unusual in 70s, 80s, but home prices were much much lower back.
This point is moot and off-topic.

termux is not perfect because it is already a compromise!

When google scammed us and sold android devices to all the hackers here and then surreptitiously removed our access to the terminal, we said "that's fine, we can still package this as an app like so and so" and termux was born.

now they are removing access from running any code not signed by their store, even if you install termux from the appstore and compile some code yourself, you can't run it. where are we drawing the line?

99% of people cannot use postmarketOS, either because their market do not have access to devices with unlocked bootloader or because their live depend on some bank/school/work app that checks the OS.
That's not enough. I had a client have a commercial CNC project screwed up because Windows decided it was done pausing, or didn't give them the obvious option.

I wasn't onsite to pause it myself.
No offense to the author here ... but I need to vent some personal frustration. Every tutorial goes through these exact same motions for learning a new language. It sucks! Programmers can figure out what a variable is, or how to use an array or a map. Those things really don't change a whole lot between languages. What about how to import code from different modules? Best practices for organizing code? How your language differs from its competitors as far as usage. Testing practices (which often influence how your code is written), etc...

Learning Elixir was tough for me until I found Dave Thomas' "Elixir for Programmers" where he skipped all of the basic stuff that every programmer is assumed to know and went right to what makes Elixir unique and how to leverage it correctly. (https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...)

I have been hunting for the same thing for the Go language for years because frankly I haven't been able to grok the appeal. I am hoping to find a 'Go for Programmers' one day. I asked on Reddit a while back and was pretty much handed the "what are variables" document.
> “ I read the "morally incompetent" as just short hand for "not being honest about current state of mind".”

That’s a great way to put it. I think “incompetent” is the correct term because aside from not being honest with one’s self on these “do good” issues, people can also just be very ignorant about it.

Being ignorant about the actual, measurable, demonstrable humanitarian side-effect of your beliefs and actions is rightfully seen as moral incompetence and should be harshly criticized.

I like a quote from Robin Hanson about this (paraphrased):

> “I wish people felt more of a social obligation to believe accurately and less of a social entitlement to believe whatever they want.”
Because Crimea isn't part of Russia for the US and much of the world.
Crimea should stay under restrictions until the end of the occupation.