skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of great discussion in these comments about the topic at hand (exercising), which is great, but the article is actually about a book titled "Exercised" and I don't see any comments at all about the book.

Has anyone read and have a review of the book? I'm curious to hear other's thoughts on if its worth picking up.
The people I work with are insanely smart plus they are free thinkers.
That core group of enraged users will move elsewhere. Parler is a tumor, and Apple has loped it off. What tumors will rise in its place? If hate is widespread and has metastasized, the US will not last much longer.

But optimistically, 80% of Republicans surveyed said they opposed the break in (88% overall). If promoters of hate have to go underground, fewer people will follow them. Not only because of the hurdles to get there and broadcast their message, but the hate will be more concentrated and vile.
Note that when people speak of colour contrast ratios, they’re looking at a painfully simplified model that is useful, but nowhere near sufficient. The most significant way in which it is insufficient is the consideration of font weights: thinner fonts need higher contrast to be legible. This is particularly seriously demonstrated here by the use of the monospace font-family: some platforms have a default monospaced font that is way thinner than others (like, weight 250–300 instead of 400), and so Solarized, which I find unpleasantly low-contrast even with a fairly heavy font, becomes positively awful.
I didn’t mean you specifically. But for those super motivated to use a Parler app the ability to sideload probably trumps the factors you listed.

I agree they’re not fungible. I like being on iphone for all the ecosystem aspects you describe. But if android worked for some key feature I’d switch, and keep a secondary iphone for my apple watch, imessage etc.
I've read comments saying, "if you don't like Apple's policies, build a new smartphone." Are these people aware that that the same type of argument lead to the creation of parler: "if you don't like twitter censorship, build a new platform". It will be built. What then?

At this point we are heading towards a complete mitosis of our information channels based on political ideology.
Every place has the right to self determination, but secessionists tend to be treated as criminals. When the Southern states left the union, the world's oldest democracy went to war to prevent it. So it's a bit hypocritical of the US govt imo.
Yeah but as hacker types people here should be looking at the fundamentals of the problem. I don't support free speech just for the sake of it. It serves a purpose to make society better off as a whole. The market place of ideas.

We well now know, and you can see it play out since the internet showed up - that content The ideas that win out are the ones best designed to encroach on the hind brain and avoiding the parts that analyze using reason.

Cat pics out perform everything.

Images beat long form arguments.

Machiavellian emotional constructs co-opt human brains, and a lawyer level eye for rhetoric, or blanket, unhelpful cynicism is needed to protect you.

If you actually want that market place to work, now we know that we have to act on speech that destroys reason.
Um, er, uh, um, did Fox News headquarters get nuked while I wasn't looking?

Let's not pretend that this content is hard to find. It's not.
Good luck with that, Safari only started supporting WebP in June. Chrome has supported WebP since 2012.
Corporations with the ability to freely serve, or fire, people for wrongthink has the inevitable outcome of people only parroting what their employer tells them to. Support our cause or be expelled. It's happening slowly, but expect it to ramp up in coming years. Is that a world you want to live in? All in the name of those damn nazis again.
Origins of Cyberpunk [video]
He instructed them to cheer on the delegates, and not be too nice to Pence.
I really don't think Rust MAKES you think a lot about memory management.

You CAN think a lot about memory management if you care about performance.

If not, you can throw `clone()` around everywhere and still have a very fast program.
It never was.
Show HN: Design your own iOS 14 icons
For now. When h.264 was new, I remember my dual G5 Mac taking 2-3 times the duration of a 1080p video to encode. Today, my phone can encode video of roughly equal resolution in near real time. It would be unsurprising to see the next generations of processors include optimizations for AV1.
It’s telling when people are more scared about some people being banned from a an online forum than they are about an insurrection and death threats toward the Vice President and members of Congress.
Could you at least try to argue in good faith? Speculation that email and text messages will be banned by Apple isn't in good faith, or even minimally interesting.
Wait until you hear how many perished under left-wing extremism under Soviet rule.
No law says Apple has to allow side loading afaik. Twitter isn’t mandatory. You choose to install it and create an account and tweet. Seems like a bunch of Trumpers hijacked this thread to argue in favor of punishing “someone” because Trump got booted. Apple isn’t obligated to “distribute” Parler via their App Store. Just because you can’t come into “my house” and scream your bs, doesn’t mean you’re being censored. How about that?
Perhaps the crowd smells truth...
I didn’t think “don’t lynch the Vice President” was an extreme position, but maybe I’m out of touch
What are the main historic arguments against singular they?
Please keep in mind, when Haskell introduced some of these features they decided to take existing terminology from theory rather than make something up. The big benefit from this is that people already with the theoretical terminology have an intuition to start from, plus, users of the language also build some intuition for the theory. Win win. Given that they often broke ground on the features and couldn't borrow from other languages can you say this was a bad decision?
They already have - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
I used to feel pretty strongly about the CCP banning Twitter, Facebook and Google. Not any more.
The parent post is objecting to a statement from Mozilla opposing "the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy."

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
So, help the multibillionaires, then?
Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS
$9k buys a three zone ductless multi split heat pump, installed, in a area with very high labor costs. This heats and cools and can modulate to a reasonable degree. (This price is for a Fujitsu system — I don’t know the price for other vendors.)

Maybe you can install a cheaper FIR system, but that system is actually just electric resistance heat. Sure, maybe you can operate in a regime where the mean radiant temperature where you are is enough higher than the actual air temperature to save some power, but that had better be a pretty big effect to overcome the 3-4x efficiency improvement of a heat pump. And did I mention that the heat pump can cool, too?
Posting a link to some personal information about some person in the news is a stretch to call doxxing in the first place.

(I think it's reasonable to look at that Twitter thread as activist journalism)

Doxxing would be if you posted a picture to imgur and then posted a link to that picture along with personal information about a person depicted, or if you posted personal information about a user here or so (that wasn't already clearly public).
Technically, they primarily recommend not chewing gum at all. The “9 out of 10 doctors agree the 10th is an idiot” is a meme.
Undercover Founder
> I’m curious what a non-animal heart rate looks like.

Most sources consider animals as separate from humans, so non-animal would mean human. In general poor treatment of animals is considered a lesser offense than one commited against a human, as an illustration of the separation of categories.
Download Parler for Android Using APKPure
HN won't let me post this as a link but here is the URL:
https://m.apkpure.com/parler/com.parler.parler
Hi HN,

I built a tool that lets you customise your own iOS 14 icons and download them for free.

What do you think?
Hmm! Interesting. I'm wondering if adding a test framework like kubebuilder is on the agenda. I'm not a great fan of it (kubebuilder) but the simple-to-use (in a relative term, i.e. as simple as it can get with Go) is a huge benefit. So you won't have to deploy after every build to see how your changes look like.
That's an anarcho-capitalist, free market purist position. Most people agree some regulation is needed to prevent bad actors. Social media keeps changing their policies, while not really adhering to it, not to mention it is intrusive to begin with. It is only consistent to regulate them like we do other large sectors like food, and energy, plus there is precedent for breaking up big tech from a couple decades ago.

There's also something not mentioned very often, these apps are "free" and lose money at first, but they sell your information and now they control the conversation, something most people are not in a position to decide or even know about, of course until it's too late and you have your life in their servers. Imho, this is a conflict of interest similar to private healthcare insurance, where the profit and the wellbeing of the human involved (sometimes the customer, sometimes the product) is not the #1 priority, and as a result a large enough company has the scale to damage a large number of people.
It’s high cost for both reasons. If you wanted it in quantity you probably need to built your own cement factory. So at least a nine digit figure to get going. For smaller scales there’s a wide range of possibilities. You would likely need concrete, cement, and earth aggregate experts on staff to ensure you got it. The code issue would be dependent on your jurisdiction. How much would it cost hire the above + a code expert for say a hundred hours where your at? That’s a good starting figure.
It's not so black and white is it though? What kind of violence? And against who? And who's committing it? For instance just a year ago it was totally acceptable (in the West at least) to incite violence in the form of a coup against the democratically elected leader of Bolivia on all major platforms. To the best of my knowledge no one was suspended and there weren't any calls to de-platform Twitter, Fox, CNN, etc. Probably for the best.
What is a good reason to use parler? It seems worse than reddit IMO.
The Intellectual-Yet-Idiot (IYI) Physician
> If the US has "lost" Asia as a partner, can it maintain its supply chain dependence?

The US hasn't lost Asia as a partner and it's not going to in an absolute manner. The US is losing its hegemony over Asia, which it has had since WW2. Those are two very different things.

Can the US keep Asia as a partner? Yes, mostly, through accepting that it will have to be less of a dominant hegemony in Asia and more of an at-the-table partner with the other nations in Asia that are not very willing to capitulate to China (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Vietnam, India, etc).

For example the US is intentionally flooding Vietnam with trade right now to build it up and working with them militarily to improve their positioning vs China. US imports from Vietnam are now equal to 23% of their economy; US imports from Vietnam will have increased by about 21% in 2020 (despite the pandemic). That will rapidly improve Vietnam in the same way it did China; in the next 20-30 years Vietnam will become a middle income nation comparable to Thailand or Malaysia. They're a quasi perma enemy of China, which is why they're so happy to be a strategic partner with the US (and why next to Israel the people of Vietnam like the US more than any other nation, accoring to Pew Research). The US can maintain supply chains with countries like Vietnam quite easily. The US will pull some of its dependency away from China and relocate it to other nations (whether Vietnam, India, Mexico, or similar).

The US can also simply increasingly accept its real context in Asia and cede more ground to China in exchange for maintaining trade with them (the EU is showing that it's happy to follow that path for example, it's plausible the US will partially capitulate in a similar manner). The US and China may continue to be quasi-enemies and competitors for global positioning, that trade with eachother, for a long time (and who knows what comes after Xi).

For their own self-defense, both South Korea and Japan should acquire nuclear weapons (if I were them); I wouldn't count on a receding US military superpower to come to the rescue, nor would I count on the thrashing-about-in-agony US population to take a self-interest in what China does in Asia (the growing stance in the US against foreign military adventurism will only increase by the year, as the US population demands an ever-increasing re-focus onto their well-being).
> Much of the “cancelling” going on now is strained deliberate misinterpretation of intentions/statements of opponents, a power play for a political purge.

Citation needed. Alternatively, did you forget to add "in my opinion" somewhere in that sentence?
Right, but they just put a huge target on their back for something that was already an issue....being a monopoly/duopoly. Whatever you want to call it nobody can effectively compete in the app store territory.
Why don’t you boys go outside and sort yourselves out there? Please don’t disrespect the establishment.
When I found this out about jpeg, I was quite amazed. Things could look okay pretty much right away, then get sharper if you give it a second. Shorter loading times and a reasonable image pretty much no matter the size.

In practice, I never really used it. I toyed with it once or twice, I turn it on every time because with jpg it often yields marginally lower file sizes anyway (in gimp you can preview file size and looks), but never heard anyone say "what was that magic" and whenever I see it on websites I think to myself "yeah okay that 20x20 pixel image, it could have saved a render cycle, this is useless and looks terrible" before it downloads to 100% before the next render cycle.

So I'm not sure it will really be missed, even if you saddened my inner nerd. I really do like the feature, it's really neat to just load as much as you wish and get however much 'quality' fits within that data size.
> Twitter/Facebook are virtual social-media monopolies

People repeat this a lot which is ironic because they’re doing it on HN. Or Reddit. Or Disqus. Or innumerable other special interest forums.

I don’t even have an FB/Twitter account but spend plenty of time interacting online.
> The real problem is not so much that they can do this, which is of course entirely legal...

Not "entirely" legal. All these companies claim to be neutral, and while I think they genuinely try to be, for various reasons they aren't able to stick to that standard.

The point of contracts is that you give up certain rights. On Monday, I can't sleep in all day because I've got an agreement to work. I have to set aside some money for rent because I signed a lease.

What these companies are doing may be legal in practice, because of the difficulties in litigating, but it's never entirely legal to make promises and then break them, whether they're through contracts, terms, or even marketing claims and advertisements.

When they make those claims, they voluntarily give up their right to say anything they like. Being able to give a right up is part of having it in the first place.

Twitter could change their terms to say, "we will ban or block people we have political differences with, or when bad PR is making us feel uncomfortable." Then banning people for those reasons would be 100% legal, because they would have reserved that right.
> I wonder what the solution for that is, though.

Ironically, maybe Trump showed us the right solution with his tirade against section 230. i.e. the end of the social media platforms.
I am a little disappointed with this article. Most of the 12 tips are basically: don’t actually travel. Abs there was no mention of carbon offsets. (No, they aren’t ideal, but they are better than nothing.)
All roads lead back to about half a dozen companies. The concentration of power is astonishing and terrifying. They have all of the US, maybe even the world, checkmated. Nothing good will come from this.
Also, perhaps, difficult to come by:

"...Though the company removed cocaine from the carbonated concoction over 100 years ago, coca leaves are actually still used to flavor Coke. The soda brand has an exemption with the government allowing them to import coca leaves into a decocanization plant in New Jersey where cocaine is removed so the leaves can be used in Coca-Cola for their natural flavors."

https://www.foodandwine.com/drinks/55-million-worth-cocaine-...
They could have used the audio part of the lightning plug
Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. Wouldn't put much stock in that for now.
He's not. But he loves to portray himself simultaneously as a "tough guy" and as an "constantly and unfairly persecuted victim".
I just went and drove an X3 Hybrid based on your note - I actually quite liked the interface. The options are still a little overhwhelming, but it's far less invasive than most of the other cars I have been looking at.
Not really, you can still choose to have whatever views, you can walk into the town square and shout your views, you can pass out flyers, you can do a lot. You can still vote for whom you want, without telling everyone, you can run for office, you can start a petition, etc.

The newspaper was never forced to print whether was sent in. A book publisher never had to publish a book they didn't want to, and a social media site isn't required to host your content. They're no political freedom being taken here.
No, it doesn't bring up a good point, and your analogy is poorly drawn.

The situation with Parler and Apple is analogous to expecting a Ford dealership to sell, and promote, Tesla's products, or another car-maker's products.
> Frankly I find your dishonesty unacceptable.

Hilarious if you're being serious.

Read the transcript. Those 'peacefully and patriotically' disclaimers are surrounded with language like:

> We want to go back, and we want to get this right because we’re going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed, and we’re not going to stand for that.

> But this year using the pretext of the China virus and the scam of mail-in ballots, Democrats attempted the most brazen and outrageous election theft. There’s never been anything like this. It’s a pure theft in American history, everybody knows it.

> Our media is not free. It’s not fair. It suppresses thought. It suppresses speech, and it’s become the enemy of the people. It’s become the enemy of the people.

(followed by his supporters assaulting the press)

> We won’t have a country of it happens.[sic]

> So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

Read the whole transcript of that speech. It's loaded with clear, unambiguous "fighting words" (to use the legal term) with a bare sprinkling of disclaimers to offer some fig leaf to what he's inciting.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-sav...
“Overthrow the government”

We are living on different planets. This perspective being is being pushed solely by people who hate trump and his supporters. It’s clearly not true, and it blurs the lines around what happened. If it were true, there would be an actual civil war.

Claiming this only serves to increase the ever-widening divide in our country. There appear to have been thousand of people at the protest (I haven’t listened to any pundits yet, so unsure of the exact estimate), and a small handful participated in this disappointing display.

Be part of the solution, not the problem.
This is not true. Firefox readily supports blocking all video autoplay (Permissions → Autoplay has three choices: Allow Audio and Video; Block Audio; Block Audio and Video), which I gladly use. And I really wish animated images were treated the same, because it’s a bug that they’re not, but a well-entrenched one that’s nigh-impossible to fix.
Issue in question: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/issues/5210
I can't get AVIF images to open in the latest Chrome on Android, pages with fallbacks use the fallback as well. My guess is it'll be enabled when AV1 is (which should be soonish now that devices with hardware AV1 decode are starting to be shipped in volume).

Apple added AV1 hardware decode support to the A14 so I wouldn't rule it out in the future.
I'm sorry but it's not 'bad faith arguments' to take the word of the mayor of DC at face value.

Nobody seems to have provided here any evidence against the fact that she has very publicly stated that she was prepared, two days before the event.

Just the opposite - the 'convenient' 'bad faith' argument is to blame racism without a single iota of evidence, and cover up possibly the negligent actions of a mayor who happens to be Black and Female. In the eyes of CNN, no female of colour will ever be blamed for anything - that is a problem.

I have no stake in the game - I don't care one way or the other.

I don't doubt for a second that a kind of assumptive racial issue could have led to less people on the hill, that it could have been a more general misunderstanding, but it's entirely possible that the major really screwed up (among more complex conspiracy theories which I highly doubt).

But the National Review using the Mayors own signed and publicly projected document is not even bias frankly.

It looks really bad for her at first glance, and it seems blatantly biased of CNN not to highlight her public statements and have her on to talk to her about what happened instead of 'blaming racism' which is really lazy.

I'd love to know more actual details about the situation instead of lazy propagation of bias.
Major power breakdown plunges entire country into darkness
Trump won in 2016 because the "mob" was already revved up and angry at a lot of the unfortunate legislation and narratives that already existed. He just capitalized and preyed on the existing outrage.

Yes, he and Fox and many other grifters added fuel to the fire, no question. But it's a mistake to just write off the millions upon millions of honest and good people who have been shafted by the system and are rightfully pissed while neoliberals and neocons crap all over them.
> if (a == 0) assert(b == 0);

Even on x86, you can't make this assertion without any synchronization primitives (mutexes, etc.). Without synchronization, the a = 1; b = 1; can run between the (a == 0) and assert(b == 0).
> Every interview with a centenarian asks "what's the secret of your longevity?"

Just like every interview with an Apollo astronaut starts with "what's it like walking on the moon?" I would imagine they get soooo tired of that one.
So will PeerTube just become a tool for extremism?

Or is that a feature? Are humans actually ready for the internet? I am not so sure. Just visited parler, and imagine a whole world filled with bat shit. Crazy, right?
Thanks for the insights. I was curious about this however:

>"But operating with CRDs at scale is a different story and suggests careful testing with the specific applications involved."

Do you mean the number of different CRDs deployed here or just the number of custom resources created? Or is it the same concern with either? I'd be curious what you are defining as "scale" as well?