skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I click on the ads of products I dislike so that the company gets charged for the ad. If you wanted to inflict the maximum damage, then click on the ad and install the app. Uninstall it later. I think the ad gets charged more as a "conversion".
Does anyone need this clarification? I feel like this is like trying to stop a discussion on self driving cars and bringing up the trolley problem. Everyone knows it. No one (serious) is saying that private companies have a legal responsibility to host everyone's speech lest they be guilty of violating the first amendment.
I would say the extremes are between no design and some "perfect" design.
I get routinely modded down on this site for pointing out issues that are ostensibly too political, like workplace discrimination.

But on this same site, somoene can literally carry on a discussion echoing the (proven false) propaganda points ("biden crime family"? dear lord) and it stays up without downvote for (checks watch) an hour and counting.

Everything this past week has been a chest x-ray of our collective spirit, and it came back solid white.

This is vastly smaller in degree but not in kind.

Time for some introspection, dear readers.
No, the version of macOS on M1 Macs is the exact same version as on Intel Macs. They don't run absolutely every piece of software that Intel Macs do, but it's pretty damn close. It's certainly not even in the same category as something like ChromeOS and ARM Windows.

It sounds like you may be pre-judging the M1 Macs based on your past experiences with ARM desktops/laptops. I strongly suggest that you put those experiences aside when looking at these, because Apple has gone to a great deal of effort to ensure that the experience is as close to the previous iteration as possible, with the benefit of the extra performance and battery life the M1 gives. It's really nothing whatsoever like the comparison between Intel and ARM Windows, or Windows and ChromeOS.
Given how desperately most people want to be thin and beautiful, if our standard answer of "calories in and calories burned" as our sum total understanding of how weight gain works were accurate, I imagine we wouldn't be seeing stats like "nearly three fourths of Americans are overweight."
No question about it, when he thought he might lose the first election, he already complained that the result would be fraudulent, before it even happened ;) But after he won he didn't mention it again.
I invented a service nobody uses
I think the cycle will be devastatingly hard to break once an entire country is fat.
What happens when you're in some sort of accident, need treatment, but that treatment is slowed because obese people are clogging the health care system?
> Does FOSS mandate that anything and everything must be open sourced?

That is not the argument you're seeing here. There is no claim that any portions of MS's other IDEs (like the older, unrelated Visual Studio) be open sourced. This is only in the context of MS playing the façade that VS Code is "Open Source" and "Microsoft hearts Open Source" that such decisions fall under scrutiny.

> And no, I didn't imply that FOSS supporters are freeloaders in any way. You got that impression probably because of loss in translation.

Perhaps, but I don't see how else to interpret "he will hate you for not giving enough".

> trying to force a company or anyone to totally comply with their moral standard.

1. I don't see force. I see criticism.

2. The criticism draws its legitimacy from an action MS took: they're the ones claiming they "heart" Open Source and that VS Code is Open Source.

Sure, MS doesn't have to Open Source this specific extension, or any part of their IDE. They don't even have to keep the IDE Open Source. But then, they need to stop calling it so when it isn't: https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-ar...
Just a random thought (lived both in the US and in the EU): could it be that US ovens are more often gas ovens while in the EU it's mostly electric? (might be easier to get higher temperatures with gas).

Couldn't find statistics on this with a quick search...
Had any politicians at the Capitol been caught I'm sure they would at a minimum had been very hurt. I wonder why the Republicans also ran? Wasn't this their friends? Or did they wake up in the last second?
>Also, real programmers don't say DWORD.

Laughs in Turbo Turtle.
Does Thinking Hard Burn More Calories?
I worked as a line cook for half a year, changed my life. I learned how to live on $10/hour and how to cook anything quickly and have it come out tasty. And I only cried in the walk in occasionally.

Cooking well is mostly attitude and confidence. Prep and cook everything at the same time, figuring out the order to do it all in parallel is a fun puzzle and executing it gives you a rush. I never measure any ingredients and improvise recipes constantly.

"Don't cook everything evenly" is very good advice. Let things sit at appropriate heat, amateur cooks are too touchy. But I disagree about recipes, they are just suggestions to me, good to know the outline and then leverage your general knowledge of cooking to get it done.
I love this game so much. It's a masterpiece. I played it episode by episode first on PC and then again the whole game over a weekend on a PS4. Fantastic.
The book is pretty much a thesis on why code is law, and therefore very political.
Interesting, what the author describes has been the norm at every company I have worked at, and I've never worked for an SV company.
Can we break this down by race even further? Do Indian doctors perform worse on with black babies than Jewish doctors, or better? Where do non-Jewish and non-Hispanic whites fall on this?
> I personally haven't seen such dumb arguments even on the internet.

A Critical Race Theory lecturer teaching that "All white people are racist" and "white people are born into not being human": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nupaP3IQwM Critical Race Theory is not just on the internet but receives government funding and is taught in schools.

It's interesting that "white people are not human" doesn't seem to violate any content moderation policies, or perhaps it's merely selective enforcement. This makes it very hard to believe that censorship is anything other than a power grab for political purposes.

We're closer than we've ever been to an ideal of racial equality. The last thing we need is a New Racism that glorifies racial hatred and segregation.
My 15" 2015 MBP was the best bang-for-the-buck Mac I've owned. Got it used (to avoid getting a butterfly keyboard MBP), almost max CPU, max RAM, swapped in an NVMe SSD and a semi-permanent microSD card.

I love my 16" MBP but wasn't blown away by the upgrade. Touchbar is meh and mostly in my way. Speakers are a big win. Keyboard is a tossup but at least I avoided the butterfly era. Everything else is just noticeably better but not a "wow" better. My biggest annoyance is fan noise when attached to a monitor. Running at native panel resolution seems to help.

I'm looking forward to the 16" class M1.
Kind of off topic, but I would love to have NixOps (https://github.com/NixOS/nixops) as an abstraction layer for every type of cloud service, and not just virtual machines (e.g. queues, object storages, etc).

There is Terraform and Ansible, of course, but Nix seems like it could combine the strengths of both of them.
Are you replying to a comment? This appears to me, right now, as the top one in the thread and is unconnected to any others and seems to me to be orphaned.

If it's in direct response to the submission, I cannot find anything in the submission that might give rise to a clarification
In a past life I worked on a COBOL compiler for IBM.

There is a COBOL specification, but AFAIK nobody actually implements it fully. Implementations pick and choose new features based on customer demand.

Also, COBOL is dominated by large legacy codebases, which means that if there's a discrepancy between an implementation and the specification, the users normally don't want it fixed, because they may have written code that depends on the "incorrect" behaviour and it's a lot of work to audit.

IBM built a new backend for its COBOL compiler using the optimizer from their JVM. IIRC by the time I left it generated code that was ~2x faster than the old compiler, but uptake was still slow because of migration concerns. In particular, we spent a lot of time working on features to help guarantee that code with some forms of undefined behaviour would have the same result as the old version.
This appears to be what it would be in C or C++.

float f(float t)
{
return sqrt(abs(t)) + 5 * pow(t, 3);
}

void tpk(void)
{
int i;
float y, a[11];
for (int i = 0; i < 11; ++i)
scanf("%f", &a[i]);
for (int i = 11; i > 0; --i) {
y = f(a[i]);
if (y > 400)
printf("%d TOO LARGE", i);
else
printf("%d %f", i, y);
}
}
Compared to other professions? maybe SV is just treating "Engineers" more like other older professions and has less of the class distinctions you see in the UK for example.
It can be done even better. I read an article about that recently.

Nowadays pointers are 64-bit. So the simple xoring already saves 64 bits.

But, in most cases allocated memory blocks are close together, so that xoring of those 64-bit values gives a 32-bit value. So if you ignore the upper half and store the result in 32-bit, you basically save 96 bits. For the cases where the upper half matters, you can store it in an additional hashmap.

But it goes even better, if you allocate blocks and store indices. Like if you allocate blocks of 512 objects each. Then it is likely that the next/prev index is also in that block. Then you can store those indices in 2*8 bits (or just 8 bits if xored again?). In case it is in another block, you use the hashmap again. Then you save up to 120 bits.

The question remains, how do you find that hashmap? The article had a really clever solution. You allocate the blocks as 4K-aligned pages, e.g. by using mmap rather than malloc. Then you put a pointer to the hashmap at the beginning of the page, and when you have a pointer inside the block, you can find the hashmap by rounding the pointer down to the previous aligned position.
AWS monitoring (and billing) is garbage because they make an extraordinary amount of money on unintentional spend.

"But look at how many monitoring solutions they have in the dashboard! Why, just last re:invent they announced 20 new monitoring features!"

They make a big fuss and show about improving monitoring but it's always crippled in some way that makes it easy to get wrong and time-consuming or expensive to get right.
I've long imagined a position just above the scrum masters: the scrum lord.

I see this position as a critical component of any agile strategy that seeks to maximize scrum master productivity, while still allowing scrum masters all the autonomy they need for their day-to-day duties.
Agreement, and conclusion should be reached by applying procedures to which sides* agree: be it a coin tossing, asking oracle, or voting. Opposing side won't magically disappear when your side achieves power over media. What will likely happen instead they will get more reasonable motivation to wrestle this power from your hands with any means possible.

*Btw, usually there are more then two sides: it's just stale majoritarian system which leaves people just two unsatisfactory choices in US.
I agree, but I think you inverted it.

"Exploitable people are pushed into sex work" is closer to being true than "sex workers are exploited," only because almost no one starts out as a sex worker if they have better opportunities.
I wish somebody made a text-based assistant that has similar functionality. As a non-native English speaker I don't think voice assistants will ever become accurate enough to be usable by me.
I was about to say in my post, "Our standard of living has become so high..."

We have so many resources that for the first time in human history, this is actually a viable option for people. It's wild to think about. I wish you could travel back in time and explain this to someone a century ago, their brains could short circuit.

Obesity is a symptom.
>Trump never called for any violence

Alright, so finally after a few seemingly innocuous arguments you took your mask off. A person who believes storming the Capitol was not organized by Trump at this point would be able to find a justification to anything he says or does.
This comment makes it sound like while Americans don't belong to gyms, tons of them are into fitness. This is absolutely not the case and seems rather disingenuous to suggest.
It's also not helped by the graph for the USA the article uses. Sure, you've got three spikes of race-related events at half century intervals, but all the other time series are uncorrelated (and even for race related incidents there's an obvious structural difference between centuries).
Silencing other side means you claim power over them, put them below you. And if you believe that's way away from polarization, and violence - I have very bad news for you.
Does this mean that compilation target currently supported by GCC would now allow rust to target that architecture? Specifically I'm thinking of PPC cores with the VLE extension, which LLVM does not support (as far as I'm aware).
The reaction to a message often depends on the messenger.

My understanding is that Whole Foods is a premium supermarket, so perhaps some people feel he is being a bit out of touch with a large portion of the population. A bit like the famous "let them eat cake" suggestion...
Ive been working remote long before the pandemic and cant stress these points enough. They might seem silly at first but they really work. At the bare minimum, no slack or work email on your phone.

I've also learned to over communicate. Usually when I step away I leave a pretty detailed overview of where things are and the feeling of "leaving the team high and dry" diminishes.
Interesting to see this on the front page! I spent a year in a monetary mostly cloistered. While I'm glad now for the life I ultimately chose of having a family, I often draw from the experience, especially the discernment process (the Ignatius Exercises) and the meditation/contemplation practice.
Isn‘t mrustc already able to compile rustc?
It was just an example. If you look at all the data together, the trend is clear. Both median temperatures and variance are increasing. Same for other extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts.
I want to say something stupid and cheeky like, “I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain.“ But really, the answer doesn’t fit as a comment.

All I can truly say is that if history teaches us anything, then it tells us that the last 40 years doesn’t predict the next 40.
Fair enough. The US was obviously much further ahead than the global numbers and which throws off the timing of any potential link between a transfer away from an agrarian society. Americans by and large stopped farming decades before we all became obese.
People in general or people in tech? Well what’s the typical mortgage multiple, 6 or 7 times salary? So for the latter, it seems pretty attainable to get an apartment at the lower end of the market to start out on. Correct me if I’m wrong, though.
AWS Lightsail + S3
http://finepeople.org/
Sure, but finance is the exact last place we want to look for sustainable, value-producing business models.
same here, that would be so much fun!
Maybe, but negativity towards BMI is a very good predictor for BMI :-)
Knowing me I'd still buy it no matter the cost and just end up poorer.

I'd prefer unlabelled products and no advertising etc to a tax. I dunno. It seems healthy living and the current food industry are perhaps fundamentally incompatible. I would support some form of regulation aimed at improving public health outcomes, but struggle to see a tax as the answer for me personally, though it may work for some.
Trump organized a demonstration. That's the American way of voicing political dissent.

If a politician organizes a peaceful rally and violent people show up and do violent things, and you blame the politician for the violence, then I'm curious about something.... Do you hold the Democrats responsible for all the violence of 2020 when we had cities burning down, and the MSM saying things like "Who ever said protests had to be peaceful"

The Democrats calling the capitol mob a "coup de tat attempt" is absolutely hilarious and just shows their complete lunacy in their attempt to vilify the other side, even when they're clearly just being absurd. It was a mob who were let into a building. Hell they didn't even damage any of the priceless paintings. If anyone's to blame is was the security who let the doors get breached when their job was to guard the building with machine guns.
An electrical utility is a utility. Should I be able to draw more current than they allow, even if I pay my bill?

There are rules. Some made by the government, some by businesses.
> GNOME doesn't support fractional scaling (last I checked)

It does, but is hidden behind dconf key; except maybe Ubuntu 20.10. It works nice for Wayland applications, but X11 ones are blurred (as in upscaled from @1X). X11 includes Chrome and all the Electron apps, so I it would not be a popular choice... hence it is hidden by default.

If you want to try it, it is `gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"`
High risk small cap stocks
I find this to be a bit strange from a marketing perspective and the cost to run this campaign has to be non-trivial. If someone searches for Signal, what is the likelihood they don't already know what Facebook Messenger is? What is this ad supposed to convince someone of? Like you see the ad after searching for Signal and go "oh I have Facebook Messenger"?

I guess maybe there might be some who don't know about Facebook Messenger and so they heard about this new Signal app and now they see a new chat app that works with Facebook.

I'm sure there's analytics and testing behind the decision to support it.
Ask HN: Which operating system is privacy-oriented?
Hi!
I would like to ask you about operating system focused on privacy. What do you recommend in this matter?
Many of the problems do stem from the fact that bubbles are so easy to create. Social media has brought us the ultimate dream machine of living in your own world, where what you believe is a truth, and not only that, the algorithm will give you more of it!

If we want meaningful dialogue, we need less bubbles and better avenues for discourse. Facebook and its ilk is the worst of humanity if used beyond keeping in touch with friends.

The issue with Parler only gives more fuel to the ones in this particular bubble that they are being persecuted. A bubble they already believe in, a world they already mentally inhabit.

We must keep striving for what you address in your comment, and for platforms for meaningful discussions, with ample focus on material truths.
I was thinking more about the bind dns server when I made the comment, but yeah. Just thinking that verbally referring to the “bine” folder might cause confusion in certain contexts, where “bin” pronunciation avoids it entirely.
For non-businesses, I think one thing that would make donations a lot more attractive is if they could be made to a tax-exempt org (that means I can donate more at the same cost to myself, or donate the same at lower cost). But I get that something like that is hard to set up for someone who is already under water funding-wise. It would be great if there was an umbrella org that could handle this, perhaps for a fee/percentage much lower than what is usually "lost" to taxes.

patio11's comment is about donating vs. paying by a business entity. Something I hadn't considered is that a business (even if it's just a one-person developer who has incorporated) can pay for software tax-free to any org as long as it's an actual business expense, since businesses (at least in the US, and I assume in Japan as well) are taxed on their profits, not on their gross income.

Patrick's issue with donating as a business makes sense: the tax authorities will look at a donation and think it's a part of a tax-avoidance scheme, but if the business pays for a license to software (even the payment is essentially a part of a custom license, and the software is also available for free under the same or similar terms), and has that payment documented, it's fine.
https://scratch.mit.edu
Who would win in a deplatforming food fight? Google or Apple?

Google's union now, right? And Apple fires people in elevators and vowed on their deathbed “I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

So. Not saying you two should fight. If a fight did break out, who would win?

And now that I think about it, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, all have their strengths and flaws. Amazon is hell for suppliers. Why should Apple get paid so much for something they can buy out of China? And does the AWS UI "just work"? Does it really?

Facebook keeps files on people like some secret police intelligence unit. And Twitter's long term vision just won't work unless you have no mouth and must scream. Tweet for a subway door to open. How stupid do you have to be.
I assure you that 27" 4K at @2X (i.e. 200%) is perfectly fine... with macOS ;).
"The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees."
>I realize it's a touchy subject, but I think it's a mistake to not stigmatize obesity

Where do we stop then? Depression can often be avoided or cured by changing to a more healthy lifestyle. Should those with depression and a not-so-healthy lifestyle also be stigmatized and have no health insurance?
There were all kinds of hacks around this in practice: see https://youtu.be/zz0y1d6IIpY?t=437
Effectively read logs using vanilla vim
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...
> What kind of an idiotic argument is this?

Convincing retort there, I should have realized my argument is idiotic! Consider my mind changed.

And I bet you’ve convinced everyone else reading this thread too.
Solar Panels on Canals in India
https://qubes-os.org with Whonix: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes.
Actually, that honing rod is very useful to keep that nog big blade serviceable for longer in between sharpening. I do agree with the mvs though bear in mind that having a few of these will greatly speed up cooking times.
but you can't interoperate with the Signal server - it is a separate silo.

It is like using two different messengers then
Depending on your budget the min SAG rate can be anywhere from ~100-1000/day so many sw engineers in fact make much more than most actors
There is a massive business opportunity here.

Funny enough Gab is probably best positioned to take advantage of it. It has been deplatformed years ago and survived by basically building whole stack from scratch.

There were many many many millions of American citizens who voted from Trump. None of this changing any minds. At this point for purposes of political speech Twitter, FB, Amazon have decided to abandon almost half of US market. If you think that chunk of the market will remain underserved you deluding yourself.
This actually reminds me of Tim Sweeney's tweets regarding stores policies[1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/101985252700794470...
:)

I appreciate you attempting to 'set me straight'. All the best.
No, they got it right the first time. "Everything is political" is a reminder that we do not exist in a cultural vacuum. More pointedly, the simple act of existing in a space as a minority invites what you'd call "politics".

If your existence has never felt "political" to you, cherish that. I've been on the receiving end of many slurs and the occasional attempted assault, and I've watched politicians and pundits debate on cable TV whether I deserve to have the same rights afforded anyone else. I didn't choose to exist "politically", but I sure do notice when folks don't speak up against challenges to my existence because they view it as "politics" and therefore not worth their attention.