skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I'm not arguing one way or another, I just want to try out the following for the sake of discussion as I haven't seen it elsewhere: if we consider Amazon to be an infrastructure provider, and that by doing this they have a duty of neutrality, instead of shutting down Parler directly the approach would be to send a complain to a relevant federal authority (not sure which one that would be, maybe the FBI? please correct me) and let them do their investigation. If they find something considered bad enough to take the platform down, they would ask Amazon to take it offline. An argument for this is that it gives elected or at least government-related people some overview over the process instead of giving full power to private companies (which will backfire against the good people if normalized).

Please tell me why that would be bad, I'm interested to know.
the rust community is about as bad as it gets
I downvoted your comment to demonstrate that, in a hypothetical system with commented downvotes, if you add an unhelpful response with your downvote, that response itself can be downvoted as not contributing to the discussion.
As a parent, the moment my kid qualifies for a vaccine, they get it and will be off to school! Remote learning is slowly making this little one crazy. It hurts to watch.
I think it depends on what you're doing. Are you developing native apps with one or two person teams? iOS seems easier to start. Are you developing multi platform apps with teams of hundreds of engineers? Well, Android is much much better.

Just to give an example, it is quite easy to build Android apps in a CI, while iOS is a pain (specially because there is no way to build an iOS app in anything other than a Mac). Also, most bugs specific to a platform happens in iOS (they happen in Android too, but my experience is maybe 10 bugs in iOS for 1 in Android).
Good, let me tell you some unemotional things, facts, if you will: Almost every article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is violated here by the Chinese Government.

The legal system in China is extremely new. Even stuff like contract law has only existed since the 1990s and onwards. The Chinese constitution foresees no separation of powers, the court system is not independent, it is under the influence of the party.

Their Constitution states:

> Article 4 All nationalities in the People’s Republic of China are equal. The State protects the lawful rights and interests of the minority nationalities and upholds and develops a relationship of equality, unity and mutual assistance among all of China’s nationalities. Discrimination against and oppression of any nationality are prohibited; any act which undermines the unity of the nationalities or instigates division is prohibited.

> The State assists areas inhabited by minority nationalities in accelerating their economic and cultural development according to the characteristics and needs of the various minority nationalities.

> Regional autonomy is practised in areas where people of minority nationalities live in concentrated communities; in these areas organs of self-government are established to exercise the power of autonomy. All national autonomous areas are integral parts of the People’s Republic of China.

> All nationalities have the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages and to preserve or reform their own folkways and customs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China
Indeed. We lack all the delicate little signals of disapproval here, the sighs, eyerolls, refusal to make eye contact, edging away. All we have are the two reward/punishment levers for our fellow rats in the cage.
It seems like there were some death threats on Twitter as well. Most of them were removed so I can't find any direct source.

> When the rioters could not find and fulfil their ill-formed dreams in the real life, they took to Twitter to express their wish to hang Mike Pence, and soon the phrase started trending on Twitter. [0]

0. https://www.wionews.com/world/twitter-blocks-phrase-hang-mik...
We must hope civilization doesn't collapse before then.

If it does, population will decline faster, but much less comfortably.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745549
The key thing you've said though is "comments that provide value", a metric by which both up and down votes are important.

In the perfect world, I'd come to HN and the top 2 voted comments would be the most succinct and well argued sides to the discussion (assuming there's a traditional for+against), then the top voted comments the tier down would be the best refutations of those points. That way I can read both and get to my own balanced view quicker. If all the voting system tells me is "this is what the average HN reader agrees with" that's far less valuable.
Dropbox had a discontinuous price increase a couple of years ago that soured me on them. I'm still a user -- the price is still a couple of notches below marginal utility. But I no longer recommend it.

Something similar happened to Evernote -- I stopped liking the brand when I started to feel price-gouged. And then I quit on them shortly after when the apps were not snappy and well-organized to my liking (at the price they were charging me). I was a bit of an Evernote evangelizer too.

For a while I was storing fiches de police (what's the name for that in American? Light cardstock with lines?) in shoe boxes, but I ran out of shoeboxes. I've begun using cans from canned peaches and pineapples.
Ohio researchers identified 2 new Covid strains likely originating in the U.S.
You don't use the web interface much, eh?
Understood, the annoying part of NFS is that some operation can not be interrupted when the network is not healthy, and we have no way to kill it.

We have put lots of effort to make the operations interruptible when either meta or object store is slow or down. There are a few cases that the `close` can't be interrupted, we can still abort the FUSE connection or kill the JuiceFS process, then all the operation are canceled.

In general, JuiceFS is built on FUSE, so we can have more control on it.
I would have appreciated it if he posted the exact configuration he bought.
FOSS developers should simply stop developing good software for Apple devices.

The absolute opacity of Apple's technical policies and their arrogant i-dont-care/its-your-problem approach against developers are quite renewed in the community. This ends up costing a lot of development time to developers who mostly work for free, who struggle to reverse engineer or debug what happens on MacOS/iOS, and (like Wireguard's case shows) it harms the reputation of their software because people tend to blame the application rather than the OS when things don't work as intended.

If people want to use FOSS software, then they should be able to do so on systems that support the FOSS ecosystem, that provide developers with appropriate tools to debug what's going on (ON ANY PLATFORM) and sufficient documentation for them to understand how a certain component of the OS is supposed to behave.

I know that in the past 15 years lots of tech-savvy people have opted for Apple products because "they're still UNIX under the hood, and unlike Linux they just work out of the box". But being Unix-like DOES NOT mean to be developer-friendly! Apple is still an opaque developer-unfriendly company even if it provides you with a native bash!
I think one of the problem is when networks start mixing topics and people.

If it focuses on people, you can meet with real friends, and that's fine, because you get along.

If it focuses on topics, it is also fine, you meet people you don't know, but because you talk about subject you all enjoy, that's fine.

Problem starts when the two mix. If you enjoy astronomy for example, the other guy may be an asshole, but you probably don't even know and you get along fine, because all you do is talk astronomy. But if the network thinks that because you like the same thing, he must also be your friend, then your feed starts filling with assholish things.
I would have much preferred if this action occurred due to a legal order, not a few CEOs making unilateral decisions. If they were bound to go through a form of due process before nuking people off of the Internet based upon speech which is assumed to be illegal, my guess is it would be much less likely to be abused. It certainly seems like such a system would have worked just fine in this situation and could be made extremely efficient.

I've argued for years having a few companies mediate all consequential human communication was going to be a big problem, so this happening to wake people up of the dangers isn't a surprise to me but just another stage of the process of people realizing it.
The parent post is a really stunning example of why more STEM majors need required humanities classes. Without knowledge of history, you get Elon Musk inventing a worse subway system from first principles and nerds holding him up as the next Steve Jobs because they don't know any better either.
I'll take that as a yes. TL;DR
mkl runs fine on amd now once you un-handicap it
I'd have thought the very point of git would have negated the need for Dropbox or network file systems.
Maybe it's just me, but I got really surprised when it was "revealed" that Parler was using AWS.

Creating a public forum marketed towards "free speech" seems to me to fall into roughly the same category as a torrent tracker or other file sharing service. Not exactly illegal (maybe), but definitely not something that the cloud providers want to be associated with.

In Sweden we have Flashback.org, an old school PHPBB/vBulletin-looking forum with a very strong free speech stance (attracting all kind of people, including those you can imagine being enticed by those rules). It's of course not hosted on any cloud plattform, or using services from any big hip tech company.

Honestly it seems like a strange misstake for them to do, if you are dealing in one of these gray areas, you should probably find some hosting provider / ISP actually interested in hosting you and just do it yourself.
> Most if not all UFO sightings that gets reported around the world comes from the US.

This seems like a sort of sampling bias as a consequence of America being really good at exporting its culture.
> But I also choose to keep using their product.

I think the issue is less people who understand the tradeoffs and decide that the Mac platform is still worth using -- it's people who do not understand that there is a tradeoff at all, or who think that the root cause of all of this is just the developers being lazy.

If you're aware of the reason why Wireguard can't do updates while it's running, and you say, "that's fine, I still want to use it on Mac", that's a very different reaction than saying, "the devs don't know what they're doing."

I suspect that average nontechnical users are currently in the latter category rather than the former, but I could be wrong.
>“The steps we’re taking today are painful, but necessary,” Dropbox CEO Drew Houston said in an employee memo Wednesday.

Did they consider the "painful, but necessary" step of not paying the CEO $110 million salary?
Nobody cared about what's on the postcard because you couldn't easily scan every postcard sent and mine its contents. The average social media post has even less content (especially sensitive content) than a postcard, but the ease of collection and analysis means that if there is smallest iota of useful information on the card, it can be mined and exploited.
My guess is that “tens of thousands” is the rough SELECT count(*) from their systems. And I’d bet most of these experiments are old Boolean feature flags that were essentially acceptance tests, the final hurdle before global launch. For example, seeing that your new Gmail POP3 settings workflow drives engagement down 50% is a pretty clear indication you’ve got a bug that wasn’t caught in development. The interesting tests would be buried between such mundanities.

This kind of information would also be highly proprietary so I doubt such a list would see the light of day.
Wait, what did the NBA and NHL do?
A random thought.

Snakes could also carry around random objects by coiling their bodies around them and then slithering along, dragging the object with them. They could for instance do this with rocks, carrying them around and stacking them up in piles to form complex structures.
That gnome doesn't really listen to end user feedback? I think this is a pretty great example: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/244

Patches are available for type-ahead, in particular the gtk-mushrooms fork. If open source is about "scratching your own itch" gnome is making it really hard for developers to do that. There was discussion of burying that features somewhere deep in the gnome registry, all kinds of options, but it's clear that pull requests are not welcome, even if the option is buried deep in some config file somewhere and is only accessible to power users.

That seems to be the case a lot of the time when outsiders try to solve their own problems with a pull request. There's just no room for compromise or for solving your own problems.
I mean, you can try and hold back the tide but the world changes. Take control of your section of it if you want control, but you can't stop change. Perhaps try to become as relatively unpopular as Common Lisp so that no new standards are ever made (though the community continues to extend the language environment with things like QuickLisp and Alexandria). Or as truly unpopular as JOVIAL so that there really are no more changes.
It’s a complex question but the problem is that _everyone_ that points out one reason or another is usually right - we disagree upon which factor is the biggest. Malpractice, bloated administrations in insurance and hospitals (just like our educational and corporate systems), a dysfunctional market leading to profiteering, bad / outdated regulations, Medicare being unable to negotiate costs, bad patient health across the country, and so forth. What I will argue against is that we have the best healthcare - maybe only if you exclude the outcomes for our poor, but even the outcomes for our wealthy are no better than the middle class in other developed Western countries.
This reminds me of the Lenin was a mushroom hoax[1] where Lenin, a psychedelic afficionado, consumed so much mushrooms that he turned into one.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom
Out of curiosity what education/career path did you follow to get to your current position?
That was in response to the Broadcom bid I think? Corporate vandalism.
The detail is that you have two people: one is paying for the product and one is not. The one who is paying shares a file with the one who doesn't pay. Dropbox provides a worse experience for the person who doesn't pay.

This is in contrast to services like Zoom or Google Drive where part of the sales pitch is that you get a seamless experience when communicating with people - even if the person you're talking to might not be paying, you can guarantee because you are paying their experience won't be impaired, at least for the duration of your interaction.
I don’t see what is so bad faith about his post. His response and his intent are not malicious.

On principle he is against proprietary software and he wants to make sure it remains as difficult as possible for proprietary software to exploit GCC for their own means.

He doesn’t seem to be rejecting the code or suggests its deletion because he wants to do unnecessary harm to the author here. His intentions seem rational and consistent with his past remarks.

As an aside and for comparison, proprietary software companies are just as defensive or more with other companies using their IP without compensation. The compensation RMS wants here is code reciprocity.
The trillion dollar question is:

Is the board leaning into the usual MBA moves 101 and turn Intel into a "services company" gradually going fabless and milking those sweet patents OR will they put the work boots on and start building an actual tech company with the people who actually can save them on the payroll? cutting on the usual contractors meat grinder and invite the vast armies of middle-management and marketing drones to leave?
I reserve downvotes for comments that harm the discussion. Usually this is because of spam or needlessly inflammatory remarks. Though some people have managed to present arguments that are not otherwise objectionably but so utterly wrong I'll downvote them anyway.
> 1. You don't know how "toxic" people really are. Some of them are nice, but just put no time/understanding into their internet communication. They write and forgot what they wrote a minute later.

A bit of a cop-out, IMHO. That's also true of real-life interactions: most people you'll talk to, you'll forget about 5 minutes later. I honestly don't remember if I said anything in particular to the corner store lady just yesterday, and I see her every other day. If I was a jerk to her, putting in thought or not, I was the asshole, final. Seriously, it's not that hard not being an asshole, just... don't be.

> 2. If they really need to learn something, talking to them politely "Thanks for the suggestion but...", "Could you please..." etc. will help over time. Not doing something in the fear of rewarding their behaviour is way too complex to understand.

Sure, treat people with respect. However, I'm not convinced it would be that guy's responsibility not to hurt someone's feelings, especially when that person was a jerk in the first place. I don't think we owe respect to someone who was disrespectful. The whole point is that dealing with it is a chore; having to take the time to educate people on their own behavior doesn't make it easier. I just think it shouldn't be _expected_ of maintainers to have to deal with it at all: simply closing the issue or ignoring the request should be seen as a fine response to asshole behavior.
If that's toxic (I said please, in fact), then the OP is too thin-skinned. Why signal that you work on a popular software title (you've all heard of it...geez), but then not name it?

I'll assume he worked on Hannah Montana Linux[1] /s

[1] http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/
VLA has been "dropped" from C11 though (made optional), so it's essentially been degraded to a compiler-specific language extension.

IMHO VLAs were a "misfeature" that shouldn't have slipped into the standard in the first place.
Not the parent but pretty sure they intended to use "regime" in the other sense, as it fits here much better.

> Contemporary academic usage of the term "regime" is broader than popular and journalistic usage, meaning "an intermediate stratum between the government (which makes day-to-day decisions and is easy to alter) and the state (which is a complex bureaucracy tasked with a range of coercive functions)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime

Our dead and flagged parent probably thinks that there will be some broader paradigm change in the social justice approach between the Trump and the Biden administration and that the latter will be more supportive on affirmative action.

I think that's not particularly controversial.
> overall it is rosier in every aspect

It's definitely rosier in most aspects insofar as protection of employee rights is much better at a legislative / public level in Europe, and therefore there's more supports available.

These may however often be your company's HR dept. ticking boxes (HR departments of course by and large existing to protect the company from potential employee complaints first and foremost, rather than to protect employees). In the case of a US-based office where such state-mandated supports are absent, and the employees have put together a body to enable collective bargaining, the supports—while less official and state-supported—may be of more immediate material benefit as they practically address current grievances.

> some EU countries mandate also union members into those

Do you have a reference for this? I'm curious to know which do and which don't (it's certainly not anything that's been brought in at a Directive level).
Command line tools do not use notarisation at all.
Submissions like these make me think that Slashdot's moderation was ahead of its time, even ahead of the current time.
Microsoft Office 365 with 1TB of OneDrive storage per person for up to 6 people for €69 a year is almost impossible to compete with.
You're right, it was a singular person. It was the writing style (is there a better word for that?) That I was using.
19" TFT monitors can often be had for free on sites like ebay or craigslist - I'd say they make for a more practical "cheap & simple" second (or third, forth…) display.
While I mostly agree, there needs to be some function to filter out trolls and lies.

But I do agree that simply disagreeing with someone shouldn't work the same way.
The author did address this later on, saying he was sorry for not adding a comment.

Anyway, no software development process is perfect, but sure the Apple ecosystem make everything worse.
I love how even the DoD won't pay for YouTube Premium.
The wallet is stored in a Kingston IronKey [0] secure USB flash drive. The hardware encrypted USB allows you to enter 10 times a password before its rendered useless. It has hardware tampering and you can't make an image of it so that you can try more times. If you put the password wrong 10 times you lose all the data but you can erase/reformat the drive and still use it. Original tweet of Stefan: https://twitter.com/justmoon/status/1349069290587058177

[0] https://www.ironkey.com/en-US/
For the reasons stated in other places. Seeing a company that's cutting a large portion of their workforce is just bad optics. Yes, YOU may perceive it as wise business, but those who are looking to have a job in a year might not feel good about hiring on with a company that just had a layoff of a significant part of their workforce. What's to stop them from laying you off when their new plan doesn't work out as well? Companies that are doing well do not do large sweeping cuts.They tend to do smaller more precise cuts. This one seems like desperation.
I think you might over estimate the prevalence of video editing software like this. Adobe don't appear to sell consumer versions anymore, it's only pro subscriptions now. Magix is sold at a "vacation video friendly" price, but doesn't mention Intel in their marketing material.

I just don't think the market for home devices is thinking about their video encoding time when they buy a laptop, but I do think they'll use an M1 Mac and find it surprisingly fast, or hear from a friend or family member that they are really good.

Intel just haven't been optimising for the main user experience seen by these people, or those writing "normal" server software either. They've been pushing AVX512 instead, which looks good for video or things like that, but not for regular use-cases.

Another good example is how fast the M1 chips (and the A chips in iPhones) perform at Javascript benchmarks. Those benchmarks look a lot more like what most people are doing most of the time than video encoding benchmarks.
Cheap, slow (as an operating system medium at least), and unreliable. They're the modern day floppy disk. The one upside is that the space is cheap and quite plentiful.
In the UK the post-work beers is where you find out the juicy stuff. Hell, I got my last job thanks to a chat in a beer garden.
You can certainly use the PCIe support on the RPi 4 CM with a SATA controller. Either with a PCIe SATA card on the IO board you linked, or by building a custom board.

The Turing Pi project looks to do that with their next version: https://turingpi.com/v2/

Should be much more stable than a USB3 connection.
Haha, I love Svelte! I’ve been using it for at least a year, it’s my favorite JS framework.
I don’t know that it’s accidental. iRobot really promotes hacking their devices even going to the extent of making non-vacuum devices similar to their base units that are designed to be modded. https://store.irobot.com/default/create-programmable-program...