skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great ones are great but there is the most incredible amount of dross.
The world is a better, more interesting place when we try to see people for who they are in the wake of the forces that shaped them, instead of judging people for how much they are like our ideals.

Why? Because we like to be surprised on the upside, and there is rarely an upside to judging people on how they live up to our own ideals.

Why? Because we each come from different places, all of which are invisible to us, yet have the same name, just to confuse and mislead us. Home.
Sadly Linux users are like 1% of the market, non-ext4 is even less (and I am a full-time Linux user and big ZFS fan). They actually restored support for several non-ext4 filesystems over a year ago[1].

1: https://hub.packtpub.com/dropbox-walks-back-its-own-decision...
A bit like making it hard for potential arsonists to enter an already burning building.
This should be worryingly obvious, with former Democratic Party staffers filling FAANG ranks, e.g. Andy Stone who is now Facebook’s policy communications manager:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-18/facebo...

And former FAANG execs filling the Biden transition team, e.g. Zaid Zaid, Christopher Upperman, Rachel Lieber, Deon Scott:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/30/biden-transition-fa...

https://twitter.com/StevenOverly/status/1337545418838831104
The most peaceful "insurrection" in history and Parler is the sacrificial lamb, because they're conservative and therefore an easy target. Twitter, Parler's direct competitor, gets away with de-platforming major figures like the President, though they keep the account of the head of Iran, a state that is at this moment on the verge of creating an atomic bomb with the stated purpose of annihilating one of our closest allies.

Apple and Google, with control over 99% of the app industry, ganged up and eliminated the Parler app. When a tiny number of companies collude to destroy the competition, it is known as a "trust", children. And colluding to destroy a company is known as "racketeering".

The Biden Administration is hiring several people from these companies: Jessica Hertz of Facebook and Emily Horne of Twitter.

It is highly unlikely he will turn around now and push the Justice Dept. to go after these companies. He's glad they banned Trump; it benefited him. Now he has to pay them back, if he knows what's good for him.
Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to Insurrection Posts
This is a great response to what happened. Twitter is perhaps justified in banning Trump, when there were no more options. The Parler move on the other hand was a cowardly abuse of power disguised as a display of virtue - and it will be seen as such by anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty.

Twitter is a net negative force in the world but Jack Dorsey is a principled man. Maybe he can fix it.
middleclick - Your original comment was fairly clearly against HN guidelines for posting. Your comment about votes is also against their guidelines (I feel for you I've broken this from time to time myself).

If you'd commented on the substance of the person's argument instead of attacking them personally based on ideology, I think your comment would have done much better. You could have even presented evidence from the persons twitter feed on this topic and used that to further clarify their opinion and how you felt their opinion in more context was wrong.
I remember:
how much it sucked none of the radio stations around me played the music I liked.

how I wanted to learn advanced math topics, foreign languages, etc, but there was no way for me to learn it.

How amazed I was when our school library got those encyclopedia disks and we can look up a lot of things

how I use to dial home with 2 rings to signal my mom to pick me up at school. Telephone company eventually gave us a huge bill.

when I wanted to experiment with linux and other various tech, but getting ahold of hardware to experiment with was too expensive for me.
> Furthermore, just because you compile it from source and put it on your phone does not mean that you can reasonably stay aware of or understand all the internal workings that happen inside the app.

Can you elaborate on this? That's exactly what I'd expect of an app I compiled from source.
Is it not integrated into their mobile OSs?

Not to mention its use for SSO.
“Hundreds of emails” seems like a poor reason to revoke all activities.

It’s hard to say without seeing the actual text but unless they were saying to burn down the capitol, I don’t think political emails saying the election was stolen are noteworthy. This is based on my own experience of getting large numbers of spam letters making all sorts of stupid claims “Jane Doe is a terrorist” “Nancy Pelosi is going to take your guns” “Trump is going to put your kids in cages” “Biden will destroy America”

While I would like to block all this crap, if Salesforce is going to drop RNC over “donate to us because the election is stolen” they they will need to drop many other people.
Catalytic static mixers – game-changer for mixing up chemical manufacturing
I run OpenWRT on my Archer C7 and I'm very happy with it, though I actually don't even use it for wifi— it's a wired router only, with Unifi APs in the high traffic areas.
Trump foreign policy was to stay out of armed conflict and that's about as moderate a policy as you can get.
You just Open Safari, go to your web page you want, click the share icon, and "Add to Home Screen" for iOS.
“The defendant faces up to six months in prison”

It seems like this scientist was basically acting as a foreign spy... for which he could face a laughable 6 month sentence? seems far too light of a sentence to deter this behavior in the future.
You are simply uninformed.

It is well documented that ISIS recruited people through Facebook and Twitter, and even YouTube.

Remember: before the terrorists get those encrypted apps, they need to be radicalized first. That step is done on public social networks, where network effects help spread their message to a receptive audience.
Are those wealth or income coefficients?

My impression has been that wealth inequality in many places in Europe is much higher than income inequality, as a factor of it being an older society.

The places in Europe I'd want to move to are really no cheaper to buy a house than the places I'd want to live in the US.
I set up an account this evening and it’s unusable due to loading times. They’ve added 1.7m in 4 days which may explain it. Be interesting to see how long it takes them to scale
I got the sense while crawling data from their API that the engineering quality is poor at Parler. Dates were represented as strings in "YYYYMMDD" format (so today would be "20210113053923") instead of UNIX timestamps, certain fields were duplicated for no reason (e.g. every object would have an identical "id" and "_id" key), counts of impressions/comments/etc would be the display strings rather than raw numbers (so "2k" or "5m"), and various moderation flags were in place like a boolean "sensitive" which was always false, even for posts that had been downvoted significantly.
I missed the part where they were directed to do so by the then-sitting president who then told them that they were loved and very special.
Congratulations! I wish you long to remain in the life situation where you can freely trade time for challenge ;)

Also I wouldn’t call QT ‘misery’. Drudgery maybe?
Everyone dismissed them apart from all the states that held recounts, 60+ court hearings, endless media appearances aso on. They're being laughed off because of things like press conferences held at 'Four seasons total landscaping', attorneys making wild claims in press conferences and the meekly walking them all the way back in actual courtrooms, and bizarre public and private statements - like the President calling state officials in Georgia and spending an hour begging/threatening them to find votes for him.

Your downvotes aren't proving a point. Trump's and his supporters' complaints about the election were given extensive public airing but none of them have been sustainable under closer scrutiny, and many claims about procedure, constitutional law and so forth have ben flat wrong. I don't understand how you can claim Trump supporters don't feel listened to when there has been a non-stop barrage of accusations from them over the last 2 months. Why don't they listen to the opinions that come out of the courts?
"We don't condone gun violence. We believe that the world needs less guns, not more of them. We believe however that these prints will stay on the internets regardless of blocks and censorship, since that's how the internets works. If there's a lunatic out there who wants to print guns to kill people, he or she will do it. With or without TPB. Better to have these prints out in the open internets (TPB) and up for peer review (the comment threads), than semi hidden in the darker parts of the internet."

-The Pirate Bay

https://thepiratebay10.org/torrent/28522986/Liberator_-_Firs...
I've entirely replaced my usage of Dropbox within the past two years with Syncthing. It works great if you're on Android. Doesn't have an iOS client though.

Nice thing about Syncthing is you can entirely configure what you are syncing and how. I literally press one button on my phone, it creates a backup, and that backup is sent to my server.

I would go as far to say that Android's killer app is Syncthing. Yes, I'm putting this on the same level as iMessage for iOS. It's that good. If I ever switch back to iPhone I will really miss it.
> As long as your website is just some text floating out there in the network there is a lot of wiggle room.

What does this even mean? Text has to be stored in some physical location, or set of locations.
One plus of this over just using old PC hardware is that you have a proper physical serial port and no video interface at all— there's no failure mode which exists on it that will have you dragging over a monitor and paging through BIOS screens or whatever in the corner of your basement.
The Pirate Bay people are such heroes... for allowing people to download garbage Hollywood movies without paying the 10 dollars required to view them.
>It’s absurd to think that anyone was trying to murder anyone and you can’t actually believe that.

Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick died from injuries suffered in the Capitol attack, apparently from being beaten by people in Trump paraphernalia.

The US Attorney's office has opened a federal murder case.

So yes, I can believe someone was murdered.

In fact, under the doctrine of felony murder, anyone comitting a felony during the act in which someone died can be charged with felony murder, so prosecutors are considering charging everyone in the entire attack that committed any felony with felony murder. So there may be hundreds eventually charged with felony murder from the attack - all were complicit under the law.
Not just population. Shifting economic activity to the interior would be incredibly beneficial.
Regulatory Overload Report – American Hospital Association
The effectiveness of thermal insulators and heat pumps. If they make the cost difference negligible then other costs will dominate. We're talking about future decades of material science advancements here, a lot is possible.
Right, thats why uber recently discovered that massive fraud in ad spending did not affect their sales
Most mainstream passenger vehicles now have a 5 star rating. It has ceased to be a meaningful differentiator.
I grabbed these from FRED and it looks like they use the income version, not the wealth version. [1]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINICAN
I just recently started trying to get my note-taking together and build my own personal knowledge base (or at least stop trying to remember everything and instead store it somewhere to refer back to).

After trying a handful of the usually mentioned tools, I've been very happy with Trilium Notes [1], which seems to share some of the same concepts as this project, but providing rich-text (including embedded images).

As much as I like the flexibility that flat files, markdown, or Org-mode provide, I also really like the extra built-in functionality that comes along with Trilium.

I'm not wild about having the data tied into a single program, but the data is at least accessible and documented (if primarily through the open source code), so I know my data's not entirely locked up.

Trilium says macOS isn't supported as the author doesn't have a Mac, but it works 95% like you'd expect with a few small quirks.

[1] https://github.com/zadam/trilium
Can you paste the quote where Trump told protesters to do anything illegal?
Perhaps after moving, those people would realize that the people in-land are happier and have better run societies? :shrug:
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Yarh.io Micro 2 Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hacker's Linux Handheld
where they a spy? I was trying to glean the ramifications from their actions but couldn't tell from the article. It sounded like on face value, they accepted grants to be in china's good graces? It didnt explain what that meant I thought
The existence of Raspberry Pi as it is, Raspberry Pi 4 in parricular, is is a huge leap forward for the humanity already. The next leap is going to be the same kind of board but with no connectors besides an increasing number of full Thunderbolt 4 ports letting you connect anything you can imagine (incl as many GPIO connectors as you need). There is no need in a zoo of connectors like M.2, U.2, SATA, HDMI etc when we can conduct PCIe, DisplayPort and USB over a unified standard wire.
Countless Democrats directly called for censorship, even before the alleged incitement. [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/4/21549859/twitter-suspend-...
If you do just make sure you create volumes to the host for the data to be saved, but yeah as a general rule no.
Ironic the article is in Vice considering one of its founders (Gavin McInnes) also founded the Proud Boys.
I consider the code and data on my DO droplets to be secure as long as I've done a reasonable attempt at server hardening.

If nextcloud gives you any attitude, you're welcome to try out PhotoStructure. It's much more focused on managing just photos and videos. https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
Then you get people like me who prefer to read words, but are utterly baffled by the user experience on modern social platforms... like, how do I log out? Oh, the smiley button, duh.
You are reading too much into my comment. I only asserted there is no need for "magical explanations". Of course fields are not a trivial idea.
Lower income tax allows high earning engineers to found their own companies and become angel investors. This builds the startup ecosystem and makes it more self sustaining; new startups receive angel funding from prior employees that are moderately wealthy, and when they get big they fund the next generation. A social safety net is not a substitute for this because you can’t invest government welfare into your company.

As for regulation, [1] suggests EU employment regulations for performance can require documented performance improvement plans before firing an employee is permitted. This basically makes early stage startups untenable, as you can’t easily remove employees that are incompatible with the company’s goal. For example, if you suddenly pivot you can’t just let go of an entire product line’s employees in a week. A recent example of this happening that made it to the HN front page is Gumtree laying off most of their employees a few years back. The trade off is obviously employment stability for employees, but in a hot labor market like software engineering there is not much downside to decreased stability.

Ultimately startups provide competition for big tech and drive up salaries, since if big tech doesn’t pay high enough people will flock to startups that will eat the big tech company’s lunch. That ecosystem doesn’t exist in Europe at least partially because of high income taxes and burdensome labor regulations.

[1]: https://www.saplaw.co.uk/brexit-articles/669-dismissing-an-e...
I think big tech is heading for a rough, dark time, once trump is out and vaccines are widely available I think a large majority of folks will not be glued to their screens consuming media. I know for myself I plan on taking a huge break from news. Expect netflix use to drop like a rock, along with amazon usage, people will be excited to go into stores again. Facebook is looking at antitrust issues regardless of what happens, (FTC, every state is suing it). Also I think you will have investors cycle money out of that sector, especially if the economy picks up and Biden/the Fed decide to raise rates.
When a mob boss tells his underlings that he wants a certain "problem" "taken care of", is he doing anything illegal?
From RAF Russian Linguist to Diplomat – The Journey
I understand that the average internet user might think that Facebook and Twitter apps is just about everything that is available for social networking. However, there is very exciting list of high quality alternatives, from general-purpose to subject-specific apps that offer the ability of connecting with people with similar interests. From Keybase, Discord, to Telegram, MeWe, among others.
Work to live, don't live to work.

Your company at the end of the day doesn't care about you, those 5 weeks you could've spend on a trip doing a hike or just chill on the beach. That is what you'll remember later in life. That deadline you crushed, your boss enjoyed but won't be remembered in a few years, and if your "team needed you" comes up, your company overworks you and needs to hire additional staff.
The powers that be are now trying to “deplatform” Gab through their landlord... Crazy.

At least in the Soviet Union, or in China today, people were less hypocritical about censorship.

It’s my core political belief: you can believe in anything, but own that belief. Don’t use weasel arguments like “but it’s not censorship because it’s not the government”.
Speaking of low salaries, I saw a $30K/year job ad in a western EU country for a research engineer who will need to build a secure and scalable infrastructure - and I laughed hard. It wasn't even scam, quite to opposite.
Come on now, if the other events you mention had caused major fear you should be able to find some news stories or personal testimonies documenting that. Are we to believe that the incidents you mention were actually deeply traumatic but nobody bothered to say so?
Seems reasonable to me! If your reason for existing is that "information wants to be free" but then you start making exceptions when it conflicts with your politics, people might think your real political philosophy is "pop music wants to be free."
A confounding variable better explains the simultaneous action of tech companies in this situation--the confounding variable being a violent insurrection. This is just more conspiracy theory nonsense. People reacting simultaneously to an emergency doesn't mean there's a conspiracy, it's what people do when there's an emergency. If you want to make an argument of conspiracy, particularly in this case where simultaneous action is expected, then you should present actual evidence of conspiracy.
I'm starting to think hacker news needs a temporary ban on these capital riot articles. They do nothing but devolve into flame wars filled with emotional responses. They seem to attract the most hostile commenters
The thing is the websites are not moderate fairly thus editorial decisions are made. "Hang Mike Pence" is allowed to trend on Twitter but "1984" is not allowed to tend on Twitter. Facebook & Twitter stream violent acts & allow violent rhetoric from certain political groups but not others.

Fox News has been moving left & was the first network to call Arizona for Biden very early as a suppression tactic. Conservatives are moving to Newsmax, OAN, & independent journalist outfits.
Only if you can successfully avoid rosetta 2. The battery life shrinks considerably otherwise.
‘Emotionally uninhabitable’ is a very useful phrase I’ve never encountered before
We left "normal" behind a long time ago.

Telling me to google a single word is not an argument or a citation. If you have an argument to make or a source to cite, go for it. Otherwise you are just making stuff up.
My _anecdotal_ understanding is that _generally_ on _average_ for identical as they can be targets, gcc compiles faster but generates slightly larger artifacts while clang would compile slower but generate slightly smaller artifacts.

This makes me wonder if a comparison not using the same compiler really reveals enough of the story here.
If I had to guess: Release that Witch
> My point is that it is possible to receive a very good salary while still receiving many of the benefits you claim.

A lot of things are possible but not probable.
This is not a good argument, please go back to the drawing board.

You are making the extraordinary claim, so you are the one that needs to provide evidence.

No browser vendor has blocked any sites in the way you are describing. Not Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or IE. At best, you'll get a warning when you are about to hit a malware site, but that's about it. You can click right past it.

So no, what you are saying is ridiculous, and you should really feel uniformed and silly for suggesting it was likely.
In so far as the driving rationale for Elixir is not needing to learn Erlang, this seems like an odd criticism of the author.
> Maybe my naivete but it seems that online discussions are much less nuanced compared to face to face discussions we had when growing up.

How often did you talk with complete strangers about politics when you were growing up? Are you now having more intense discussion with your relatives? Do you think it is can be attributed to Facebook?

> Do you have any recommendation on how to lessen this gap? I live in a major metropolis. But I keep getting a feeling that such a widening chasm can not be good for the society.

Uniform education with officially supported views on main topics will bridge the gap and, also anti free speech laws. Neither European countries nor China have such divergence of opinions. All of them police speech and ban certain viewpoints. Of course people from different stratas of society will always have different opinions: small business owners, industrial workers, intelligentsia, government workers, non-working people all have different interests. But common national viewpoints keep the fabric of society intact.
Everything Is Upside Down
The Electoral College was supposed to prevent a populist demagogue from being elected.

A populist demagogue was elected.
Hah, you've lost perspective mate..

Trump and friends talked about being defrauded ("stolen election!") for an hour, and then said "So we are going to--we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give--the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote but we are going to try--give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help, we're try--going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue." (and then he took a limo back home to the White House), does that not sound like "let's intimidate them!"? And considering his audience, he must've known that they're ready for violence.

As grandparent post said, Trump never asks anyone directly to avoid breaking the law (he did something similar with Comey, and on the "find me 11780 votes!" phone call).

But well, you seem to have lost perspective...