skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few contracts I have done in the past I got the terms through and had serious issues with so just ended up blacking out and initially it or adding in an appendix. I don't think I have ever seen a company say a thing about a unilateral change to the contract I just made without negotiation, they like most simply people sign it and accept it without reading it.
It was an hour long talk with falsehoods and telling people to go to Congress and act with the people there. The demo plans were known in the community and his lawyers and family chimed in.

Intent and collusion is clear. There were words used to supposedly disarm all the other vitriol, which is for a court to decide.
One of Trump's greatest successes has been to co-opt the term away from it's first popularized meaning: fabricated articles created (e.g. by a teenager in Macedonia) for the primary purpose of capturing views and add clicks.
This posing of the problem is not the interesting part of the article. It’s the proposed solution that should be discussed.
Parler is the right starting their own company in response to Twitter censoring/banning some of their discussions. Parler's current deplatforming indicates that "start your own company so you're the governor" is a borderline unrealistic point of view, since the internet and especially mobile phones are run by mega-corporations that don't support an open platform.

If we look at Parler being dependent on other companies, there are 3 dependencies that bit them in the last few days:

(A) running servers on AWS

(B) distributing Android app through Google Play Store

(C) distributing iPhone app through Apple Store

Parler could and should have avoided the dependency on AWS by hosting with a company more aligned with their views or outside of the US.

However, I cannot in good faith say "Parler should have written their own mobile OS if they want people to use their platform from their phones". I believe Android supports app installation without Google Play. It's a little inconvenient, but I think an extra minute or two of clicking around is an ok price to pay for access to unpopular speech.

However, as far as I know there's no way to have an app on iPhones without Apple's approval. This is a strong point for "even if you start your own company, you're not the governor - 45% of America's phone users can only access your service at the mercy of Apple".
It's what I use - but it's a degradation of E T C "ea tea sea" where you combine the first two to "et sea". At least that's how I believe I came around to it. Seeing it spelled as etsy confused me at first.
Stupid clickbait article.
I think its a combination of both your thoughts and the OP. Using words like “collapsing” is sensationalist garbage for something that happens most years and instills fear regarding climate change. But now we have names (as in proper nouns) for every small drop of precipitation, thats purely for selling eyeballs. Also missed calls for lots of snow have been a thing forever. The exact line between inches of snow and a little rain or nothing is tough to pin down. I remember 25 years ago being off school because of a big snow that never came. Thats not a new phenomenon.
A “no math“ (but seven-part) guide to modern quantum mechanics
You can disagree with a course of action and still implement it in a way that won't gut the company. This isn't that. But let's give it six months, assuming they'll make it that far.
One of the cool features of SSB is making actual P2P a first-class feature. It works just as well on an isolated private adhoc network as it does over the web.

I wish more dencentralized/federated services operated this way.
Covid-19 forces Swiss army recruits to train at home
Indeed, but with the typical HN audience that has a higher anti-ad bias than the rest of the population, I was thinking it was important to remind that merely switching to Ecosia will not totally help them
I saw this done to beautiful effect at a pub quiz once.

Far more common in the UK than anywhere else I've lived, pub quiz is the time honored tradition of drinking in a pub while a guy on a microphone gives everyone questions to answer on a piece of paper. Each table is usually a team, and the winners split some small prize. It's the best.

So one night at the Edinburgh University pub, the quizmaster asked a really obscure and weird question, like what was the name of the dog of some character that appeared twice on TV show off the air for twenty years.

Naturally, the answer was on Wikipedia. Naturally, the host had changed the answer the day before. And any team that gave his wrong answer lost half their points and were publicly mocked.

It was a great night.
That would be very odd because YouTube definitely supports H.264 videos in higher than 480p resolutions. VP9 is only exclusively used for some formats/resolutions (e.g., HDR is VP9-only, I think).
The Brave browser for Android is chrome-based and blocks ads by default. There is some controversy here on HN around Brave for other reasons, but I found that it works well for this purpose.
See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

It should be noted that there was 'work ethic' thinking around before Martin Luther showed up, but it's just that Protestantism turned the dial to 11:

> Andersen et al found that the location monasteries of the Catholic Order of Cistercians, and specifically their density, highly correlated to this work ethic in later centuries;[18] ninety percent of these monasteries were founded before the year 1300 AD. Joseph Henrich found that this correlation extends right up to the twenty-first century.[19]

Even if Luther hadn't shown up, no doubt there would have been something else that would probably have achieved similar things:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren_of_the_Common_Life
That's because the weather in Norway is predictable. It doesn't snow heavily once every few years, it snows heavily most years. So there are systems and equipment in place to deal with it. And drivers have experience of difficult conditions.

The UK is mostly temperate, but occasionally it isn't. Buying snowploughs and using them once every five years is a difficult ask for constrained council budgets, and drivers might get a couple of weeks of heavy snow every few years in which to practice their not-sliding-into-other-cars skills.
How come there hasn’t been a single really good implementation of it (besides defunct google chat), with presence, synchronized read receipts etc in the past decade?
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Adults creating fraudulent college degrees are not minors.
In a few days, Parler is going to find a new hosting provider, and the networks (also private companies) will refuse to route to that hosting provider and the banks (also private companies) will close their accounts, unless they fall in line and ban Parler as well.
What happend to good ol validations?
Can we build a bit harder these servers.. These services are cornerstone to many people. These days you have to be so so carefull with everything.
Critical thinking seems to be crime these days to our police state lovers.
Ask HN: How do you stay fit?
On the topic of untrusted executables, is there a decent GUI to run arbitrary programs inside the MacOS app sandbox? Last I checked, users still had to fiddle with config files and command-line incantations, but at least it was possible:

https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/how-to-run-your-...
And 10-bit color.
The way website.com will start dealing with that, is to block end users to spend legally minimum amount of time on ToS.
I don't. But I'm curious how others do.
I am red-green colorblind. I was able to see the changes on the yellow car drawn by SVG. If there were lots of other changes, I couldn’t see those.
What do bans of radical political groups amount to?
I think it highly unlikely that weather.gov is faking it's forecasts in either direction.
I'm afraid that Trump's case is exceptional to the point that it's only hindering the discussion about what Twitter(/Facebook/YouTube) should be allowed or not to do.
Have you heard of Vietnam or Iraq?
A student has no expectation to know everything. A good test is impossible to score 100% and has a curve, to avoid ceiling effects.
You don't consider death, drought, and flooding real consequences?

Why not?

The insurance industries already disagree with you. Trying getting flood insurance in some parts of the UK now. It wouldn't have been a problem thirty years now, now it's impossible.

And try selling a house that can't be insured. But perhaps you don't think losing that kind of capital investment isn't a real consequence for everyday life?
Twister – P2P Microblogging Platform
If I were to attack the Tor project that's one of the cards I'd want in my quiver to mix metaphors with a blender; assume there's a deficiency in v2 addresses; having a weakness in the protocol that allows someone to "crash" v3 addresses and force everyone back to v2 for a period of time might be a one-time shot; but it could be worth playing the card if the stakes were high...

The coincidence of this with Parler and all the hoopla going on right now is interesting. Nothing to see, citizen, move along.
> all(map(func3, filter(func2, map(func1, zip(a, b)))))

You definitely wouldn’t do this in “traditional Python”. You’d use a comprehension of some kind, or even the walrus operator, which is quite possibly faster and more readable than several chained lambdas.
In a way that just makes it even worse. Because a newbie that lands in a situation like that might be excused, a former team member isolating himself from his own responsibility by asking his computer who he should fire is an even bigger insult than if he came in as an outsider.

This company is dysfunctional. They have a CTO that doesn't report to the CEO but where the CEO will cross their lines of command to give direct orders to the CTO anyway, they treat their employees like they treat their docker images (like cattle, instead of like pets), they promote people internally and make their first marching orders to take the axe to the org chart, specifically the team from which they got promoted out of.

This won't end well.
I've found most of them to have absurd black and white plots that lack any intrigue.

In particular, Charles and Elbegast stood out for me how none of it made any sense and how the final conflict of deciding whether Elbegast or Eggeric was truthful was decided by having them fight to the death, with the winner declared veracious, not to mention being gifted the loser's spouse, of course.

I was told it was one of the apices of Middle Dutch literature but found it rather wanting, and so asked my teacher if he knew of any Middle Dutch literature that was not considered an “apex” — he could not provide me with such and I still can't find much myself so I'm left to conclude that anything that survived the ages is automatically called an “apex”.

I wasn't impressed and suspect that it is not valued despite being old, but singularly due to that it's old. Had it been written yesterday, it would certainly not be so well received.
> Parler has users who are actively trying to overthrow the government,

Twitter has plenty of people who supported this on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone

Are you in favor of banning Twitter now as well?
Apparently social media hasn't quit them.
Is it still profitable to mine Siacoin locally?
Lots of people dunking on this guy may have missed the fact that this was day 2 on the job. I don’t necessarily agree with his approach, but it is an impossible situation to be in.

Thanks for sharing.
What violent conspiracy theories is the left exposing people to?
Most clients I’ve worked for are fully aware of this and want maintenance contracts in place to support systems before go live.
Of course that doesn’t mean they are happy to spend even more it upgrade systems later.

But what the author is proposing would automate and reduce the cost of the support. A company that could achieve this cost saving and market or successful would have an advantage. Unfortunately it is a very hard problem abs many upgrade transformations can’t be proved to be correct with good automated tests. And then you have the problem of how do you automated the maintenance of the tests.
lot's of people say they read Karl Marx, but in reality they read Lenin, Stálin, Trotsky or Gramsci. and the original is so superior most of the times!
> pronounce ps as in "pissed" without the "i", instead of just the "s" (the "p" is silent), which is the correct way to pronounce it in English.

I'm genuinely lost reading your comment as neither the p nor the i are silent in pissed (/pɪst/). The only weird part is the "ed" pronounced "t" but that's fairly common in English.

I also don't get the part about "ps" in romance languages. There is no special pronunciation rule regarding this group of letters in French. Are you sure it's not specific to Italian?

Edit: I think I now realized you might be talking about the pronunciation of words like pseudo and psyched where the p would indeed be pronunced where it French (and I guess in the same way in Italian).
If they use any definition at all, that's what matters. We've crossed that rubicon long ago. Platform centralization + corporate privilege gives no lever to challenge definitions at the enforcement level.
Twitter and facebook have troves of child porn. They should be absolved and permanently wiped from the interner
Could you share more about your opinion on why this makes a horrible leader?
The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too (2017)
That’s indeed a fun implementation. Most of my shareware memories consist of dark patterns and purple gorillas.
I don’t get how you can cry for free speech and ban anyone on the app who doesn’t follow the party line. There is no arguing or debating with these people.

I got banned from the Donald subreddit for saying the aclu does a lot of good things. It wasn’t spam. It wasn’t even controversial.
Calling Ecosia a search engine is like calling yourself a "restaurant" when all you're actually doing is reheating factory-prepared meals.

You might be surprised how many restaurants do this. Even in the days before ghost kitchens.
> I don't believe in free speech without limits.

Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance[1]:

> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I don’t disagree with your above claim of people trying to get a rise out of others with inflammatory speech online. I have seen it too but... it sounds like the rest of your argument is very politically motivated (and anecdotal).
And that's exactly why middle managers in large companies have zero power to fire. They can't be trusted to fire for valid reasons so they don't get the ability to fire.

Gotta go through HR and due process, that typically sets the bar to assaulting coworker and stealing from the company.
Since when are tests about examining vital real world skills? If tests were about that, reference lookup, team work and phones would not be against the rules. You can and should always do that in the real world.

The truth is tests are merely a game between student and professor. A game born of arrogance and gatekeeping. There are even metagames being played as exemplified by this article: would the professor really ask such as question?
Governor Schwarzenegger's message following the attack on the Capitol [video]
> That sounds a bit broad. In the general aviation world, engine designs from the 60's are still in widespread use.

As is leaded fuel, to the delight off everyone living within a few miles of airports. Old can be good, until it's not anymore. There's often survivorship bias involved as the worst--or unadaptable--designs have naturally fallen out of use or been supplanted.
Even a rear wheel drive sports car can do well in the snow if it has stability control and you put good snow tires on it (and take things gradually).
In my head I pronounce fsck "fuck" because that's normally what I say when I realize I have to use it. Around people? fs check or filesystem check.
If this was being handled honestly and straight forwardly this would just be a preference set in the browser they complied with. Then someone who was never accept could just be that way, someone else could always accept and others could choose once for each site. But then we had that with headers and such and we all know they just ignored it, because the entire point is to steal the data as often as they can.
Directory servers, the DNS of Tor iirc, are a central point of failure I believe. I would guess it's hard to distribute this and keep queriers anonymous. Can do a DHT over Tor, but you still need known address list to bootstrap.
If your project can to use old-CPU servers with TB sized drives in them (DIY bare metal), three providers I've found with the lowest prices: dacentec.com, joesdatacenter.com, nocix.net
What I wouldn't give to go back to the Internet as it existed when I was an undergrad in the early 1990s - Usenet, IRC, and Listserv.......
US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs
Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform
Usually, they are patted down. Not as in full on frisked, but pockets and shirts checked. Women check girls.

Even pen / pencil boxes or pouches are not allowed.

Bathroom trips are usually not encouraged.
Can you elaborate? Are you saying foreign automotive components are needlessly complex?
Impractical isn't the right word. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is still working, and it's practical.
I understand the unpythonic nature of Arrays may startle some hardcore pythonistas, but ability to chain functions was one of the main reasons why I wrote the package as I find nested function calls ugly and sometimes rather hard to decipher.

Regarding the perfomance, Arrays aren't meant to be super high performing but rather a simple way to manipulate sequences. For the best performance you should go with generic python, toolz or other.
That's exactly what I'm saying. XMPP got attacked a lot because of how XEP support was lacking in certain clients, but was implemented in others, yet nearly every federated system out there has the exact same, inevitable problem - email, Matrix, ActivityPub are no exceptions.
Thanks for the explanation. I suppose that's close to how TOR nodes work from a liability standpoint.
Well if you read the article they mention these things.

> Far more typically, I was three years too early in the Japan bubble. We at GMO got entirely out of Japan in 1987, when it was over 40% of the EAFE benchmark and selling at over 40x earnings, against a previous all-time high of 25x. It seemed prudent to exit at the time, but for three years we underperformed painfully as the Japanese market went to 65x earnings on its way to becoming over 60% of the benchmark! But we also stayed completely out for three years after the top and ultimately made good money on the round trip.

It’s really really hard to call tops and bottoms but that doesn’t mean I just blindly invest no matter how irrational the market has become. Some of these things are just plain math, something Hacker News readers should be good at.

> As a Model 3 owner, my personal favorite Tesla tidbit is that its market cap, now over $600 billion, amounts to over $1.25 million per car sold each year versus $9,000 per car for GM. What has 1929 got to equal that?
I think I see it slightly differently. People have a shifting baseline of expectation around software that isn't present in "traditional" tools. The hammer you inherited from your grandfather still does what it did the day it was made, and so do ls and grep. It absolutely does not hammer nails at 10000x the speed while talking to every new kind of hammer made around the world, but somehow software is expected to gain that ability without any additional effort.

I don't really have a solution for this, I think tech consumers/clients are just always going to want what they want and not care so much about what it takes to make it happen. Thus they will always be surprised and grumble about the price. That just seems like human nature to me.
Putting aside how good the actual predictions are, I really enjoyed how this was written. It explained things in a manner that I could understand, and I don't have meteorological knowledge beyond what I could glean off a weather forecast.
The discussions mention this. Any such system would likely need to interoperate with existing building system, and serve as the leaf nodes wherever possible.
How about something new: release only backward-compatible updates unless absolutely necessary.
Nice coincidence running into you here. I did come across your blog while researching! Thanks for that.

I agree 100% about the real estate issue. Physically larger monitors with equivalent real-estate don't make much sense for me personally.

I wish there were more 27" screens available since 25" looks too small to me and 32" requires some neck movement which I don't like.
While I agree as a matter of fact that these organizations exist I was asserting a preference rather than an understanding of the world as it is. I view the above list ranging from misguided to shameful stains on our history.

Further I want to draw a distinction between a rating group which certainly encourages censorship but does not have the ability or authority to carry it out and what we are seeing here. The Comics Code Authority worked by voluntary agreement of mainstream distributors and the underground comix scene immediately popped up to challenge it. The Hays code was enabled by a (IMO) bad supreme court decision and after that was overturned quickly crumbled to a more reasonable (again IMO) system of rating. The Parental Advisory labels, despite the intentions of their founders, were reduced to being audio nutritional fact boxes. Any traction they might have got was granted them by distributors like Walmart and collapsed shortly thereafter when the internet changed music distribution.
Hetzner SX - you get 40 TB storage for under €80/month, transfer included. It's hard to beat.
The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
We really don't need any more fake science spread on the net.
Trump Twitter ban 'raises regulation questions' – UK govt minister
This is not legal in the United States. Intentional jamming of mobile phone signals is against FCC regulations and federal law. Schools have tried jammers in the past, but they have been forced to take them down. Prisons have wanted to utilize them, and have tried to get exceptions to FCC regulations, to no avail.

As for handing over mobile phones: that is a prudent step. One of my professors took them up before the exam without advance warning for the final exam, where restroom breaks were definitely going to be utilized due to the length of the exam.

Obviously it does not solve the problem. But, according to far more than a few studies, having the phone out of sight raises exam scores. Having the phone in a completely different room raises the exam scores even higher. Basically, your brain treats the phone as an extension to your brain, and in its presence, your brain effectively goes on holiday.
He perfected the art of postmodern jargon before it was cool.

Make no claim at all, but be sure to include all the buzzwords that signal to the audience that whatever vague theme one is describing probably sits well with it's politics, and instant success is achieved.