skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better statement would be if you want to syndicate the POTUS or VPOTUS or SCOTUS justices then like any broadcaster (who, let's be honest, is profiting from ads on top of what they are selling as a partial public service.) They should be bound by a contract subject to some form of arbitration. At this point those platforms have become the defacto public square imho. They can't lash out on a banning spree and subject public political figures to the memoryhole without some form of legitimate debate.

Again, Facebook has carried multiple live streams of shootings- YouTube has carried plenty of abusive videos and videos supporting violence and terrorism.

From a political perspective they are setting themselves up for attack with this response. Like, still waiting on details but Ron Paul got kicked off of Facebook. How in the heck did that goofy little ol dude incite this?

I also am beginning to notice that with every major act of terrorism in the past couple of years, may God help you if the lunitics used your platform and you were not Google/Facebook/Twitter. If you were one of those three you will just claim oopsie and move on. If you were a small platform then the entire weight of the corporate oligarchy will come down on you while never picking up a mirror.

I also think Fox news and CNN should be held accountable for their radicalization of both sides- hear me out. You have one half of this country that is convinced Trump was literally Hitler, not only that he also was elected by election manipulation via Russia. You have the other half of the country, that lives in a reality where the election has been stolen from them and they're being censored on all major forms of media. They believe the election was stolen by the Chinese.

At some point the media has to be held accountable. Fear porn may sell, but it has a damned high cost.

Please understand I love this community, hacker news is one of the few places I can make a statement like this and expect reasonable and civil responses. And a no way should anyone take what I'm saying personally, I feel the system is broken- I don't think we can survive as a nation with a fractured worldview perpetuated by a 24/7 news cycle amplified by short-sighted memes and microblogs.
I think they could be fine if companies were flexible. Too often a tool with finite options is chosen and then the people who selected the tool want all sorts of things it was not designed to do.
Yah...shrug. Are we clear now?
You're definitely correct about bank employees. I know people who've been required to take vacations as a matter of policy, and fraud prevention is how they explained it.
I work in IT, and I and several others use UBNT. I have not had any reliability issues, but you do not want to be hasty with version upgrades unless you need it to fix a bug. Read release notes.

I have an Edgemax ER-Lite router and a UAC-AP-Pro access point, and a security camera for testing.

If you can, it's best to stick with one lineup of products. Unifi is one line, edgemax is another, amplifi is another, and so on - having one management plane is optimal. I have thought about getting a Unifi router so everything is done through one control center, but I don't need to.

tl;dr - I think they are great for the money. You can do advanced stuff with the routers as well, like VPN gateways and BGP if needed, but not always easily in the GUI.
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> The public has the right to know.

Why? Some of the UFOs are undoubtedly military projects. Making them public reveals their existence to other countries.
Webflow has been around for a long time though. They're doing something right.

There was an explosion of these tools back in 2012. Products like Easel[0] and Macaw[1] came and went. Webflow is still here.

0 - http://easel.io (link is dead, I know)

1 - http://macaw.co
AIG Cancels Customer's Insurance Due to His 'Social Media Profile'
> Perhaps a new anti-monopoly law that prevents orgs from entering into competition without any potential for profit?

That's an interesting idea, but if you think about it, a lot of companies are in the same boat. How long did Uber go before making a profit? Amazon?

Heck, Microsoft spent eight billion dollars until Xbox started turning a profit for them. Xbox probably would have never existed if not for Microsoft taking a massive loss to make it happen.
Israeli fintech company Rapyd raises $300M
I help support SQL Server on Linux for which we provide a number of official containers. There are some limitations, but these have been pretty useful for a number of customers. Also, my understanding is that volumes are pretty mature these days.
> And the answer is ”yes”.

I disagree (without downvoting). I have some downvoted comments without replies that I suspect I'll never now why they were downvoted. So, if there was anything wrong with my opinion, or the way I expressed it, I won't correct that.
How much storage do you get for $27/year, and where? (just curious)
The Scientific Method Isn't an Ethical Framework
> If you say there are civilizations thriving somewhere in the galaxy, you're Carl Sagan.

Modern thinking is it's more likely there were civs that thrived, but they are all dead now. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9kbcGfX35M

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-spacecraft-discovers-the-univ...
Firefox – we’re finally getting HW acceleration on Linux
> I think it's <~£3k.

Do you have any more details? If this is indeed the price and it's a one-time cost without costly maintenance overheads (such as ongoing audits) I might just pay that to be able to release simple money management or just better UIs than the existing banks (even modern bank's apps have gotten worse lately as they try to push their "premium" offerings - looking at Monzo specifically here).
I can't agree. We choose what goes in cameras, phones, etc. Technology is just technology, humans choose where to place it (surveillance, recording activities).
> If my Airport Time Machine and Extreme die, I’ll probably switch to premium Netgear equipment.

Why just replace them with second hand units?

Apple may no longer sell them, but they are still widely available.
I'm quite excited about vector instructions. The approach used in RISC-V is very refreshing coming from SIMD. But I would not expect an instant impact from a user point of view.
The Riddle of Boredom
LOL, Yeah like all the open-source software that drives 95% of the Internet?

If this could be done, it would have been done already.
The most common cultivation medium for psilocybin mushrooms is brown rice powder mixed with vermiculite. I wonder how that matches up in terms of pH and nutrients.
still rocking the wrt1900 and openwrt/lede
If any UFO actually visible then news will start surrounding in every channels. There always some intentions to Wandering off from some topic that are going on any country. That is clear politics. People always jump on some topics even though they know that it's politics.
> Dropbox and Evernote, for me are two very similar companies.

I was also going to comment on their similarities. It's not mentioned as often, but Evernote's biggest selling point in the beginning was that they figured out how to make multidevice sync work. The product was good, but not unique. In the early days there were no competitors that could offer the comfort of Evernote's sync.

Unfortunately both companies still have a 2010 mindset, at least when it comes to setting price. Neither seems to understand that their pricing is insane in 2021. $120/year is just too much for Dropbox (and nobody's going to fall for the 2 TB thing). Neither has a competitive free offering, so they're dropping off the radar for anyone looking for a free plan. Anyone working at either company that's not looking for a job should be.
Developers make up Apple's largest "pro" market, which is part of what makes their treatment of developers confusing. Especially now that they're transitioning to ARM, using a Mac is just an outright disadvantage to developers today.
Ledger Adds Bitcoin Bounty and New Data Security After Hack
You might try ipleak.net
You have my upvote, but not my agreement;

We have min wage in the US, and even that is not equal across all states - we do not have UBI or universal health care, we have shitty industries, such as insurance (forced hedge funds) and in general, we have brainwashing people to accept it as normal.

fuck that.

YC even wants you to think that all VC is all-truistic NOPE.
How is respecting the licence of software you use an accident and a problem? The managers who believe that are completely insane. Even the market segmentation theory: you can not just sell perfectly capable hardware but artificially limited by software to a very narrow set of features and pretend you care about e.g. limited natural resources. Likewise attempting to limit the hackability (and reparability) of devices is starting to look criminal in my eyes.
True dat.

(Message sent via WRT54GL)
What I would want, and what makes sense to me, is a system that uses online material and lectures in conjunction with an in person, immersive physical meeting place where questions may be asked and problems worked through or tips given. I think that's the best of both worlds and utilizes the low-latency environment of a classroom best, while still capturing the in-person benefits you mentioned.

Unfortunately, class time is generally largely spent observing lecture, and the real meat of the learning is generally spent alone in a high latency environment (with feedback available via email or forums). I don't like going to class just to watch a video, and going home just to do problems out of a book (by myself), and that has been my experience so far.
Well, the original WRT54GL (Linux version with 8MiB RAM) cost me ~$50 when it was new, the WRT3200ACM is offered for $250. A descendant perhaps, but no replacement.
Isn't this just it? There's no doubt that there's value and that the software is excellent in both cases. I'm just not sure we should try to turn every software project into a moonshot and expect anything sustainable as a result. It's not sustainable in most industries.
> it's a nudge in a pitch black cavern that you're somehow expecting them to navigate and learn from

Exactly. I expect in the end, downvoting without any explanation will just keep people in their eco-chambers, as at least there they are not downvoted.
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> Second, if you do intervene ...

Bear in mind that intervention doesn't have to be obvious. In our current networked world, there's a lot which a more-advanced-than-us group or civilisation could do without needing to reveal themselves as such. ;)
Winforms works with ARM on Windows - as long as you doing it in the context of .NET 5. WPF is coming later this year afaik.
>The current narrative

According to whom?
The ubuntu on bbb team keeps up to date with the latest LTS kernels. There is 5.4 support and 5.10 support is in progress.

The price wasn't so bad if you're in for the feature set (mainly the IO features). Using the embedded PRU controllers can replace the arduinos ones typically connects to their RPi.

However, BBB is very old now. A single core cortex-A8 is abysmally slow.

Getting the GPU working was always a pain. But I always used them headless so it wasn't an issue for me.
Jevons Paradox would predict that we’ll end up using even more energy on computing.
Some news reporting on the scale of the detention camps in Xinjiang, with satellite images [1], an account of a survivor [2], and how the 1 million number was estimated [3].

I think it is nowhere near zero evidence.

[1]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/xinjiang...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/uighur-xinjian...

[3]: https://qz.com/1599393/how-researchers-estimate-1-million-uy...
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How do you personally use mutation testing? In my experience it gives noisy results, so it's most valuable when I have a lot of time to personally examine the output -- contrasted with tools like property testing which can be trivially integrated into an automated pipeline.

As one class of examples, a ton of numeric code works by iteratively finding better solutions till some stopping condition is met, and since such algorithms are by design robust to certain kinds of perturbations a mutation testing framework will find a ton of mutations which don't meaningfully affect the final output. Interpreting such a report requires spending time to figure out if any particular perturbation should or should not have been detected by your tests.
Having used it and subscribed, after their last round. I will not be renewing. Cost is too high for a such a buggy product that continues to not implement features. So little as improved or changed. The most frustrating thing for me is how they deal with different screen sizes and overrides. They made CSS worse, it is beyond frustrating.
EdTech startup Prodigy Education raises $159M CAD Series B round
If you forget your password, you lose your files. There is a 'forgot password' option which you can disable when signing up.

https://www.sync.com/your-privacy/

Figure out what you want from the page.
The Botched Vaccine Rollout
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Pick the better investment: personal finance or career progression?
I know the answer will be “it depends,” so let’s consider my situation. I’ve been in the workforce for over a year now and am well adjusted to the daily routine. I have paid back all my debts and substantially contributing to retirement using the common vehicles. For the last few months, I’ve dedicated a significant amount of my free time to researching investment opportunities and very little to becoming a better software engineer. However, I am realizing that this time could be better spent advancing my marketable skills, which could have financially outweighed the gains made from researching how to diversify my portfolio. I (and I imagine others) would greatly benefit from hearing about other’s experiences with this dilemma, so thank you for sharing!
You could certainly take that approach, but then why have a voting system at all? My understanding is that the voting system for HN comments is intended to promote the best comments to the top.
How do you propose countering Trump's power to whip up anger and hate on the far right with his lies?

COVID has taught me that single-minded commitment to human freedom is harmful in the long run, and that the curtailment of freedoms and exercise of power -- even absolute power -- is necessary to preserve the public good in certain situations. A dangerous demagogue like Trump, allowed to run loose on private platforms, presents a huge risk to those platforms and the nation itself.
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I use only their online app and it's where their UX got much worse recently.
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Python does have a "partial" function which does currying:

from functools import partial

a |> partial(zip, b) |> partial(map, func1) |> partial(filter, func2) |> partial(forall, func3)

Obviously it's a bit more verbose than if the currying was done implicitly, but it's not too bad, I think. You could also import partial under a shorter name if you want.

partial does have an advantage over implicit currying in that you can use keyword arguments to neatly curry on a parameter other than the first, although this isn't properly utilized by Python because most of the built-in functions have place-based rather than keyword arguments. In languages with implicit currying you have to use anonymous function expressions or functions like flip (flip(f, x, y) = f(y, x)) to deal with this.

It might also be worth noting that |> doesn't essentially need to be an operator, it would just be syntactic sugar:

def chain(x, *fs):
y = x
for f in fs:
y = f(x)
return y

chain(a, partial(zip, b), partial(map, func1), partial(filter, func2), partial(forall, func3))

Obviously having it as an infix operator is nicer, and produces less parentheses.
Aren't the people inside the system the ones you should be listening to most? You talk about surivivorship bias in university students, but I think it's a lot more likely that the survivorship bias is really, "people who value education". That is, the people currently in traditional university are by and large the majority of the people in whatever hypothetical online next-gen education system you're imagining.

I think it's really unlikely there are a whole lot of geniuses for whom school, "just doesn't work". I've met a lot of people who think of themselves like this, and honestly, they're usually just stupid or lazy. High achievers figure out ways to take advantage of the systems that are in place, they don't admit defeat and blame "the system" for their failure.
Worked at a startup once and they rang a gong every single time they made a sale. You could be having a bad day and hear that gong clanging all day long and feel better about your efforts.

Then 2008 came, the gong would go weeks without ringing and you couldn't escape the fact that things were not going well.
> Under what logic does that make sense, that you get insurance coverage for a procedure but only if you don't really need it? Does it work like that anywhere outside of the U.S.?

A screening procedure is considered preventive. Obamacare requires preventive care to be 100% covered. Before that, your plan might have also charged for preventive procedures.
It has been one for a long time. I'm afraid all countries are headed in that direction and will only stop it if they wake up and realize that surveillance is bad without due cause (a warrant for example to stop a terrorist action). Government is much like a corporation, it's end goal is to maximize control (corporations maximize earnings) however. Only checks put in place can limit that along with resets (elections) which allow a constant purge of individuals seeking to gain too much power and citizens educated in the value of that. That's one reason I've always supported term limits of 12 years across the board, except -maybe- the supreme court.
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A few more I can think of, Laser Doppler imaging of blood vessels, and certain types of oxymetry also use laser diodes instead of LEDs.

Laser is pretty much everywhere.
"Innovate or die" seems to ring true here.
that could be helpful. Are you looking at launching this on PH? I'm see people can contribute.
It doesn't have the same ecosystem. Which is half the point of the rpi to start with.

But if you vouch for it I'll take a closer look.
That's why it's called climate change and not global warming. More extremes.
> The ISP often doesn’t want the end user to be able to do things like enable IPv6 and things that could boost the effectiveness of Bittorrent.

In what country are ISPs blocking ipv6 because it makes BitTorrent effective?
I assumed I wouldn't easily find them, but I will get them if I can!
On the contrary, I think it's good marketing for IronKey if their bruteforce/tamper resistance has held up in the face of someone with that much motivation to bypass it.
Wouldn't that depend on how it's done?

eg A "War of the Worlds" style announcement probably isn't something to hope for ;)
I've always thought that an interesting theory is that some of what people have seen out there is the result of particle beam weapon testing. I have no idea how probable that is, but it sounded plausible. Here is a gem from the old web [0] laying out the argument.

[0] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
This is a fact many take for granted: the association between government jobs and inefficiency is not an inherent part of government as much as a reflection of the fact that nobody with options is going to choose a job which pays far less.
What does this mean for VMware? By all accounts, it seems like Pat was well liked at VMware.
> They just have a better marketing / PR department about it.

The fact that opposing views could be brought into public discourse, not silenced or censored in QQ or Weibo, makes a huge difference.

It is not just marketing or PR. It is allowing the civil society to take part in public discourse, much like the recent debate on censoring Donald Trump.

> if you speak against this in the US, you’ll commit suicide

Not to the same extent in China, far from it.
It seems likely that the more efficient our processors become, the larger share of the world's energy we'll devote to them [0]. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, if we're getting more than proportionally more utility out of the processors, but I worry about that too [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
These illustrations are gorgeous; i could look at them all day. Luckily there are hundreds of additional journals at archive.org to keep me from doing actual work this morning. It's interesting that the cruelty and brutality of the hunts isn't recorded in these journals. Hard to believe that wouldn't have weighed heavily on these Nantucket Quakers if they were so committed to nonviolence and pacifism, as the author writes.
That was and still is a terrible take. You don't get to an annual revenue of $2B and market cap of $10B with a "feature, not a product".

In recent years Apple itself has started purchasing a ton of cloud services, including Box, for its own employees.
The ironic thing is the places who keep talking about seceding being the answer are the places that can’t make it on their own: the rural areas that are dependent on federal funding to survive! Look up the State Of Jefferson for a laugh.

I say for fun let’s let rural America secede into its own country and see which country “cries uncle” first. I know who I bet on.
Qualcomm CPUs for both mobile and non-mobile should be even more compelling in the near future with this acquisition. Apple has a legit competitor here.
It depends a lot on what you mean by successful. Was the WRT54G successful in terms of sales numbers and value delivered to users? Absolutely. But in terms of internal hype, ever-increasing revenues, and executive promotions? Probably not.
If it ever gets to home computing, it will get to data center computing far sooner. What does a world look like where data center computing is roughly 100x cheaper than home computing?