skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do find it funny how "this site is filled with a lot of rape and child porn" is being framed as "it's being cancelled for no reason."

It's because this is the wrong way to deal with that issue.

The fairly obviously correct way to do it is that you have law enforcement investigate instances of child pornography, arrest the creators for it, and then issue a court order to the hosting sites to remove the specific instances that they've found.

The content gets removed. The correct people to go jail. If there was a mistake, the site and the uploader have standing to challenge the order.

Who ever thought it was a good idea to turn websites into the police? It's not their job, they're bad at it, don't do that.
not much 10 cents per hour https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/fdgblk/google_g...
I’ve always said etsy, but I was exposed to that pronunciation first in the Windows world as in Windows-wack-system32-wack-drivers-wack-etsy to find the hosts file. While I used VAX systems around the same time, I never cared about /etc until using linux distros. I just assumed that efficient two-syllable pronunciation was the logical choice.
The banking/payment industry is acting as a cartel to shut down certain activities. This is what antitrust law is for.
Already been quite fruitful

Once again it's been proven that, even after facing the worst case so far, presidents using their platform to threaten nuclear war... people still have to resort to embellishments and straight up fabrications to support doomsday theories that just haven't panned out.

Twitter did not falter in their dedication to avoid censorship until people's blood were quite literally on this person's hands before finally taking a stand.

It's probably been a difficult 4 years for some people at Twitter turning cheek after cheek, they're earned their extra 11 days of rest.
Yeah, you potentially could.

Generally you don't specify a specific version as a dependency unless it's necessary, but when 'building' the system, specific versions are used. If things break during an upgrade you can roll back to the previous version. Keeping those older builds around will mean keeping older versions of the packages used in those builds (libcurl, for example). Periodically, you can purge older generations (i.e. builds) and collect garbage, which will clear out packages that aren't used anymore. It would be very strange to end up in a situation where you had dozens of instances of libcurl _being used simultaneously_ (though I guess that would be possible if lots of packages had very special requirements, and ended up building libcurl with different flags or something).

There may be circumstances where you have a _specific_ version dependency, and you can specify that too. That would mean having multiple copies of the same package, even in a single generation. Obviously this usually means major versions, so you don't usually see _dozens_ of them. Having specific dependencies on minor versions would be a major code smell IMHO.

Anecdotally, my NixOS systems (both desktops and servers) can grow up to, say, ~50 gb of system files in a few months, at which point I'll clear out older generations and GC, which gets them down closer to a typical Linux distro size. Once or twice, I've seen a system balloon up over 100G when I was doing a lot of experimenting with packages.

Oh, and incidentally, most of the different versions are only visible to the packages that depend on them. Your 'default' environment is one such package, and only sees one of each of it's dependencies. It's not like you have dozens of instances of packages crowding /lib or anything (since /lib doesn't exist in the first place). You have to go looking in the Nix package store to find the actual files.
Pkgsrc-2020Q4 Released
> So in self-preservation people become dishonest. And I mean I’ve seen it first-hand. Their beliefs haven’t changed, but they have to say certain things publicly in order to keep their status. And other people who also don’t believe in the things they're saying will express their disappointment if they ever deviate. It’s an amazing circus show. Things have gotten very perverted.

Preference falsification. Its getting worse. and people who falsify preferences still act like radicals. They haven't internalized the values so they imperfectly carry them out.
The panic articles were primarily drawing on statistics provided by groups that want to eliminate sex work entirely.

Last thing I saw from sex workers rights groups was roughly "Pornhub are far from perfect, but moderation at scale is hard, and they're actually talking to us and trying to improve, which is far better than most other platforms."

So I suspect what would be ideal, honestly, would be "let the sex workers rights groups lead the way rather than panic articles placed by people who hate sex workers" - and that includes disregarding my opinion just as much as yours ;)
>tox was accused of having a poor crypto implementation

The actual flaw: If _your_ *private* key is stolen, your friends can be impersonated to you.

Hardly worth the infamy.

There's a bug open on this, the solution is known, the opportunity for a fix, and when it will be made live, will be the next time a protocol break ("flag day") is necessary for other reasons.
In response to a few things in your comment:

I was actually in the same opinion as you about remote storage and always on wake detection, and I actually found out that it's possible to make one without all of this!

There are "offline wake work detector libraries" like Snowboy.ai that prevent one of those things, and you can also get self hosted versions of even popular language parsers like the Azure Speech Recognition that you can run in a docker image and have everything stored locally (or not at all!)

Not suggesting you have to go make your own. It just makes me hopeful for the future where we can build useful assistants that don't need all this privacy l-destroying crap in them :)
A protein bar, the taste of which you will love
There's a difference between you saying what you want on the cake (if they had self-service), and the biz having to write what you want written.

That said, agreed. Big Tech and Fed Govs working in concert is not a positive. Anyone cheering on FAANG's recent decisions is naive.
"in each case they believed that “the facts” existed and were more or less discoverable"

I recently found a graduation card, which an old classmate gave me:

The front is a picture of some abstract art. The inside says, "Yeah... I don't get it either."

Underneath the pre-printed punchline, my friend wrote, "But that does not mean that it cannot be gotten!" I could use more friends like him these days.

"This prospect frightens me much more than bombs" Me too, and that's why 1984 was too scary for me to finish. Bombs occupy physical space, they can't be nowhere and they can't be in two places at once. They are pretty easy to understand, and they can explode once. Mind-viruses don't kill as quickly, but they aren't subject to any of the limitations of a physical weapon, either. They can't be captured or destroyed, and as far as I know, dogs cannot sniff for them.
I’m an Australian and as much as I want an Amex I’d have to change banks to get one, it’s quite rare over here and in a number I’d other countries from what I’ve been told by other people.
Poll: Should Parler be banned from App Stores?
Not sure what Buffett saw in BYD, maybe consumer market

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/30/warren-buffett-backed-byd-st...
Ask HN: How to find product focus for your own projects? Freelance PO? Other?
I've been working on my small project for about half a year now. It's slowly coming together but the progress has slowed down considerably.
Not so much due to technical debt or pesky problems, but rather something more annoying: I don't know what feature to work on or what direction to take the project.

Of course I'm eating my own dog food, but my own use-case gets me only so far. How did you get a product that interests people?
Ideally I'd like to charge money for this, but I think I'm still far from that point in time / functionality.

My project is about tracking your net-worth so you can map out your own road to FI / FIRE. So far I have portfolio managing / stock tracking / FI goal setting.
I have a rough roadmap that talks about tracking your cash / bank accounts ideally via PDS2, but other than that I'm kinda drawing blanks.
The main issue that I have right now is that I don't want to start at adding bank accounts because of all the manual work for the user, at least until I get automated syncing set up but for that I need to register a company etc with each bank. That is a step too far right now because I have only one user: myself.

If you want to check it out and give some constructive feedback, I would hugely appreciate it. Feedback about anything at all: Design, functionality, ease of use, language mistakes, etc.
You can find it at https://my.roadto.fi/#/
On Ubuntu:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/logind.conf

Looking for HandleLidSwitch, options are lock, hibernate, poweroff (might be more that I am unaware of)
Use American Express or ACH or wire transfers or cash or Paypal/Venmo/Cashapp or bitcoin.

As to your other point, an alternative to Twitter was made. Then it was banned by Google and Apple from devices, and then Amazon from computing infrastructure. It's no longer about an alternative of the primary service but all through the stack and that is much more concerning.
I always liked this quote by Jamie Zawinski, from Coders at Work

"I know it’s kind of a cliché but it comes back to worse is better. If you spend the time to build the perfect framework…release 1.0 is going to take you three years to ship and your competitor is going to ship their 1.0 in six months and now you’re out of the game. You never shipped your 1.0 because someone else ate your lunch. Your competitor’s six-month 1.0 has crap code and they’re going to have to rewrite it in two years but, guess what: they can rewrite it because you don’t have a job anymore."
Ask HN: How do you manage your ML experiments?
For work, I need to run many PyTorch/TF/MXNet experiments in parallel on a cloud instance with multiple GPUs. Currently, I use Tensorboard (and its variants) to log results and tmux to run experiments simultaneously on multiple GPUs.

However, I often run into these issues:

1. Some experiments fail due to run-time errors and tmux allows them to fail silently

2. Some experiments cause a GPU to run out of memory, and I have to dig through many tmux sessions to find and re-run that experiment

3. If many GPUs are close to full, I have to revert to running experiments in sequence, and have to wait until experiment_i is over before running experiment_i+1

4. When running different experiments, I have to manually estimate how much GPU memory a specific experiment will consume before I can deploy them onto multiple GPUs

5. When doing a particularly tedious task (eg. hyper-parameter search), there will often be on the order of a hundred experiments; this becomes extremely difficult to manually maintain using tmux

Ideally, a perfect solution for this workflow would be a tool that could 1) profile memory consumption for a set of experiments, 2) automatically deploy experiments onto a cluster of GPUs, 2) re-run, queue, or re-assign experiments to other GPUs if needed, and 4) send notifications/keep track of all experiment progress.

I currently know of other tools like PyTorch Lightning (which only works with PyTorch and requires a significant code restructure) and Weights & Biases (only has experiment progress/logging ability), but I have yet to find something that is lightweight and flexible enough to handle all of these requirements.

What's the best way to manage experiments like this?
i chuck it in the dishwasher, comes out brand new! try it. It'd even "reanneal" the plastic if that's the right term lol. The bent brushes will return to it's virgin position, try it!
Paris mayor is currently completely destroying Paris.

Often you see great announcements and projects like that, but it is green washing. Everything is stupidly implemented and more on ego/click bait designs than on real engineering and study of the needs and impacts.

If you ask common Parisians that have to live and work there (ie not the rich ones and foreigners living in the center),they will tell you that life is hell now in Paris.

And that is a lot worse since a few years as Hidalgo took random political decisions without really consulting impacted people.

For exemple she rebuilt place de la Republique and Bastille main areas. There you don't see greenery anymore but huge area of concrete. And that was done pretending to do a more eco friendly Paris.

Like this, for the champs de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower. She planned to built an ephemeral palace to use for bullshit events related to next olympic games in Paris.
For building that, she took a major space of the existing park that she replaced with concrete and the situation at the place under the Eiffel Tower is not better.

Sadly I can only see this promotion link in english about the project:

https://us.france.fr/en/paris/article/grand-palais-structure...

Still a link in French about the kind of horrors that they already did or are planning to do there:

https://fne-paris.fr/2020/07/19/le-champ-de-mars-et-les-pied...

So, make no mistake, the Champs Elysées and Concorde will have the same terrible futur despite what they are advertising in newspapers...
I disapprove. AWS is an internet utility. The media knows nothing by themselves, they only report what sources say. After proper discovery, arbitrators can decide if a law was broken. Here's the deal. The people see through the pretext. That guilt is what is driving these type of decisions.
" but prevent any other editor from reusing it. That doesn’t sound very open at all."?

How so? language server is a standard.
I'm a huge fan of savory fried any-cake (e.g. hoecakes, [0]). Just because something is normally made one way is no reason to limit ourselves.

You can make sweet or savory crepes, so why not pancakes?

But then, I'm not a big fan of actual-cake and don't have much of a sweet tooth.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnycake
Clip of it within another clip of an interview with Michael J. Fox:

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_fQ3VLSvfI
That's desirable for some rooms, not on every room and definitely not on private conversations.

Matrix handles that well, by having a setting per-room regarding handling of room history.
What you described is how many founders envisioned the US. Granted some weren’t for benign reasons. And I think that’s an important point...many of the civil rights advancements made in the US might have only been possible because the strong federal government was able to drag many states kicking and screaming away from immoral practices.
Having a big thermal mass in the oven doesn't hurt, either.
So perhaps a better claim would be that the new discourse is unduly confined and the older modes of discourse are gone.
As long as what you want to do is already in nixpks it's extremely easy, once you stray from that you need to start learning how all of it works, it's not the best in terms of documentation & straight forward concepts, but I've been running it at my main desktop for 6 months now.

Sometimes it shines ex:

I messed up my x11 config as well as drivers and just booted into the previous generation like it was no big deal

I needed to install a version of electrum that was only available on a specific git commit. I just specified the commit and booted into a shell with it

Sometimes it sucks:

Learning to package arrive 3rd party software can sometimes be really complicated and it might be the only way forward.

Lots of steam doesn't work out of the box compared to Ubuntu.
Okay, thanks. Just got a chance to look it up and indeed, beginning with the Apple A9 processor, there are H.264 and H.265 hardware decoders.
The Tiobe index is meaningless (2008)
Some wackos disable the safety latch and then cook pizza in their ovens on the self clean cycle:

https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=268.0
Of course it's a problem. However, thinking that people won't believe in it is also a problem. It's kind of like rule 37 of the internet, if you can think it, it exists on the internet. with nutters, whatever the looniest thing you can come up with that you feel nobody would actually take you serious, there will be people that will grab on to it like it is truth incarnate.
And "Results by Microsoft". Uh, okay.
Rights = Duties

You lose your freedom of assembly if you use it to form mobs with the objective of perpetrating crimes.

You lose your freedom of speech if you use it to form unlawful assemblies with the objective of perpetrating crimes.

Trump was banned because he sent a mob of Q-indoctrinated lunatics to the Capitol with the likely objective of kidnapping senators and staging a coup (they were photographed carrying zip-tie handcuffs in Senate chambers).

It was a good idea to ban Trump, let's keep it that way. He rarely said anything of value anyways, only reality show trash talk, hate speech and pseudoscience.
However, the accusations were made by anti-sex-work groups, not anybody who genuinely cares about the performers' safety or livelihoods.

It's generally advisable in cases like this to go find what the sex workers rights advocacy organisations are saying, because mainstream reporting is often puritan trash.

(also, so long as the performers were well compensated, I don't honestly see why we should care about "rape-related" given e.g. 50 Shades of Grey was very much 'written porn for women' and while I don't understand that particular kink I'm unwilling to judge what people want to fap/schlick to)
The word Cabal comes from Hebrew. It probably grew about because outsiders perceived the people who studied Jewish mysticism as being part of some secret society.

See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal
I have Parallels and my experience on my intel MBP is gaming is not very good on it. It's mostly graphics support that is lacking I believe. I'm not sure how M1/arm support would make it work better but I sure hope so.
> There was a massive increase of money supply last year. That combined with the restrictions imposed on our economy by the pandemic means prices will certainly go up and purchasing power go down

People have been saying this for ten years:

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

> Gold and BTC as store of value to protect against inflation, not so risky

The volatility of BTC is ridiculously high. It is not a good store of value. There is very little evidence for gold as a hedge against inflation:

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2078535

Or of having any practical investment utility:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/will-gold-save-the-day/

> Silver, oil, and other commodities, not so risky

Commodities are volatile. Very risky. Oil went negative in 2020:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055237

TL; DR: do the opposite of what this fellow is suggesting.
Wow, so the solution is for workers to do as much work as possible to "help" management hiring less employees? Do you think that when they save money, they set it aside for employees bonus? Or may be employee compensation is driven by supply and demand and has nothing to do with you working overtime all year long...
Microsoft looks at recent language survey lists, sees Python on top and wants to make money. They are only 'open' if it benefits them, not us.
If you want to get in to Nix I think two important things to note:

1. Nix is not a "package manager" and I think it's better at first to not think of it as one because you'll assume how it works incorrectly. It is a package manager, but it doesn't have the same workflow as yarn or etc. That trips a lot of people up.

2. You need to read the Nix Pills documentation. It is not long and guides you through every abstraction so you understand from the basics how it works. Nix is actually pretty self descriptive. I setup my home's Linux Router entirely by just hacking and searching through the nixpkgs repo without understanding things, but if I'd read the Nix Pills things would have been so much clearer to me. Especially when debugging or reading through what a derivation was doing.
God forbid developers and companies try to make money off their work!
I started using it as desktop os two weeks ago. I've been quite happy with it. Fast and snappy gnome desktop. Took half a day to install and get comfortable

Then anouther half day to get comfortable with home-manager to configure my user settings

If you're willing, its worth the effort
IPhone12 will stop your implantable defibrillator
Right linode is basically old school dedicated servers afaik but DO should be in different class
Firefox mainly for work and testing apps. Brave for using Tor.
> or a terrorist thing

yeah the banning of the extremist groups is a bit close to the mark but do you think they'd be able to plan and execute something of this nature in a few weeks?
It looks like we're at an impasse: you believe I lack objective awareness, and I believe you lack the willingness to recognize the nuance of human communication.
It's not really a secret. Even when actual "trafficking" charges get filed in court, the most common type is prosecuting a woman for trafficking herself.
For another approach: I built a didactic text editor to teach "value oriented design" and immutable data-structures in C++:

https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig

It's design is covered in these talks:

- Postmodern immutable data structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q

- The most valuable values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBx_NbLghY
Because tools and businesses are not titles that qualify for intellectual property, a piece of software is.

I do not italicize Google the company either, but I do that of Google the search engine.

The titles of scientific research papers are also typically italicized.
I’d love to plant a few ecosia-sponsored trees in my city. but, of course, it’s not possible do that here because they’re not _actually_ planting trees. They’re just giving money to someone else.
Looking at the PR history for the vuejs repo, I can't say that I'm surprised. Holy hell, what a wasteland.
It sounds dangerously like “bind”, so that might introduce some confusion in a circle that is accustomed to “bin”.
On top of that, anti-trafficking NGOs tend to be unnecessarily friendly with law enforcement groups and both get more funding by exaggerating the problem.
The python language server does not cost any money.
Agreed, what has been happening lately (Wednesday) is a symptom of wealth inequality
>But the fact of the matter, is that they just don’t excite us the same way as sending a human to explore it ourselves.

Yeah, I don't think sending humans excites enough people anymore to generate the broad political support required for doing that. Over the past ~20yrs, America has cannibalized our middle class to enrich the 1%. Expensive, manned Mars missions are an absurd luxury to the many who can't afford healthcare, whose small business has gone bankrupt due to COVID, or has to wait in food lines to feed their family.

It's quite possibly the case now that manned Mars missions will have to be handled by the private sector, which as someone above commented, is already working towards that.
In addition, Microsoft refuses to open source their remote VS Code implementation: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release

See issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/17...
I typically take a book like this and read it. Then I think about it. I also think about it as I read it. I ask my friends in person and online if they've read and talk with them about it. Sometimes I'll look for online forums which discuss the book. This is how I make the most out of books like these.