skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to chime in here as well. Jason's attitude here is commendable. I am going to add this to my collection of "things to read when I am unreasonably mad at something". Here is one from Greg K-H in case anyone is interested [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515566
Inequality is mostly about not being able to compete for local goods such as homes or healthcare. When others can outbid you by an order of magnitude there wont be anything left over for you. In this sense Jeff Bezos doesn't matter, he wont buy a hundred thousand homes in the bay area even though he could afford it.
I would way rather program 60 hours a week than live as the hunter-gatherers did.
IIRC, one of the poor design choices was making their resource URLs (videos, pictures, etc) sequential - this reduces the effort of crawling everything down to a 'for' loop; no need to get the actual "db" for references. As a bonus, those media resources were not stripped of metadata (EXIF data in images was present)
If you don't mind reading something in the liberal media, the Wall Street Journal had an article "Trump and His Allies Set the Stage for Riot Well Before January 6" that might shed some light [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-his-allies-set-the-st...
I was not aware that "Remember the photographs from inside your home while you slept? Yes, that close. You will die a sudden death!", "We are going to fight a civil was on the 20th", "we need to start systematically assassinating #liberal leaders", or "shoot the police that protect these shitbag senators" were conservative political opinions.
So... are you talking about Twitter and Facebook?

Your comment is short sighted and shows a possibly too eager willingness to accept the media and big tech narrative at completely face value. What if you are wrong?

At one point saying “We shouldn’t own slaves”, or “the Indian has rights to the land they live on”, or “women should be allowed to vote”, or “no taxation without representation” were all insurrectionist comments.

How do you propose we only stop “the wrong” insurrections? We should probably ask you first.
Or, human readable.
I do not know if it was the original intention of the founders, but you can't ignore that the people who are/were funding it are influential far-right figures.
Does your definition of the West include Latin America? Because law enforcement in Latin America kill far, far more people than law enforcement in the US.

In the US (pop 330M), law enforcement kills about 1000 people per year (about 34 people per 10M pop per year). [0]

In Honduras (pop 9.1M), law enforcement kills about 40 people per 10M pop per year [1]

In the Dominican Republic (pop 10.7M), law enforcement kills about 130 people per 10M pop per year [1]

In Brazil (pop 210M), law enforcement kills about 275 people per 10M pop per year [1]

In Jamaica (pop 2.9M), law enforcement kills about 470 people per 10M pop per year [1]

In Nicaragua (pop 6.2M), law enforcement kills about 530 people per 10M pop per year [1]

In El Salvador (pop 6.4M), law enforcement kills about 950 people per 10M pop per year [1]

In Venezuela (pop 29M), law enforcement kills about 1830 people per 10M pop per year [1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
> Unrelated to my post :)

Yeah, you're right. My diatribe near the end was something I had to get off my chest, but looking back there was nothing in your comment that it was responding to. I should be more mindful where I tote my baggage around, lol.
'most were mediocre and doing jobs that could easily be done by local talent.'

I think most people are mediocore, and doing mediocore jovs -thats ok

Keep in mind that this allowed some compabies to afford half-decent engineers whereas they would nornally only be able to afford junior talent. Whether that works out to a net benefit is ofcourse debatable.

I personally find that a lot on management of engineers in UK is shockingly inefficient. I dont kniw what its like elsewhere, but i recon average 'efficiency' is under 50%
Those people over the summer were't protesting for Kamala Harris or Biden, dude. Try again. Like, they aren't even comparable. Trump told these people to gather, on a lie, and fed them nonsense.

Bringing up BLM as a counterpoint to these terrorists is the weakest argument I've heard in a long time. Whataboutism to the max. Pathetic. There is exactly 0 connection to the two events, yet you people seem to keep bringing it up to distract from the right-wing terrorism you seem to support.

Also, the looters during BLM were not connected to the message - they were thugs looking to take advantage. Not the same of last week. But, you must have known that, right? Since it's pretty basic knowledge. Ignorance is bliss, I guess, right?
I'm 29 and have a question for those older than me. Until about 10 years ago, I dont remember ever hearing anyone arguing that we should limit free speech. I remember being told that the only limit was that you couldnt tell "fire" in a movie theater unless there really was a fire. This was a common refrain. I remember people talking about how free speech was what made America different. Everyone on both sides of the political aisle was proud of the first amendment.

However, I was pretty young and my memory may be wrong. Has the discourse always been this way, or has it changed significantly in the past 10 years? If it changed, when did this start? After 9/11? After Trump?

The current discourse is crazy to me. We have to remember that free speech is literally the FIRST amendment. Our founding fathers thought that basically nothing was more important than this. So we should err on the side of caution. It's east to restrict freedom and almost impossible to win it back. Although if you want to go a little bit further, they also would have had, as individuals, a higher tolerance for violence in the event that people wanted to "petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Anyway, just curious to hear other people's opinions on when the importance of free speech started to diminish in our collective mind.
For any interested a new book about him came out a few months ago called The Dead are Arising. Very well researched
Whose code is it anyway?
i.e. this kind of thing - Big Data or Pokemon? https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
I think most JSON libraries encode dates in something that's closer to what Parler is doing than when you think is correct (e.g, using ISO 8601 or something)

I could see the argument for representing impressions as a string (especially if it's updated asynchronously and denormalized like that). The major downside is localization.
Web Fonts in 2021
Intel is dying and we can’t save it
CP is one of the very few things where mere possession is illegal. It makes sense that TPB, which is mainly against copyright and IP, would not allow it.
> is a valid answer but needs to be explicit

Honestly, it doesn't even need to be explicit, they just need to not be actively implying otherwise. (Eg, like gnome/gtk from the sibling thread.)
Obviously Parler didn't consider censorship as part of their threat model, while TPB necessarily had to. Moreover, I'm pretty sure TPB has gone down here and there, probably for weeks at a time. I don't think Parler's problems threat model is that bad; just maybe don't depend on companies that are liable to peer pressure. In the worst case you just get hosting from someone who isn't going to dump you because of social pressure (even going out of country if you must).
Demoted, doubted & rejected. Now, her work is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine
People that can ask the right question are much more impactful than people who can “only” find the answer. (NOT trivializing the smarts it takes to find the answer. )

My Pat Gelsinger story: I worked in a successor org to MIPO, in those days called MPG. One day during pre-silicon validation on the Pentium II, one of my NCG’s came to me and said: “An old test from the historical test archive is failing in the simulator. I want to find the author and ask him about it. Do you know a Pat Gelsinger?”

Me: “Well, he is an Intel Fellow now, so he might not remember what that test was supposed to do. “
A few seconds ago while looking up the various definitions I found out that a German mile is apparently about 7500 meters (with three different definitions existing, all around that length). There are about 60 other definitions in Europe.

I would have expected it to be most closely associated with the roman mile, which is around 1.5 km.

Given that this is the very first time I've heard about the German mile, I would assume that <1% of the population knows about it, and they'd probably consider a "mile" either the US thing if they are familiar with it due to travel, or most likely with "some archaic unit that's somewhere around 1.5 or 2 kilometers long, no idea, why would you use that".

The first association that I (as a native German speaker) when I read "Miles" in the German context wasn't distance units - I interpreted it as a given name of English origin.
I remember getting my first WRT54G it replaced Freesco running off a floppy disc on a Pentium.
Fringe Groups Splinter Online After Facebook and Twitter Bans
This is such a fantastic example of what’s possible in the browser. Awesome work!
I hate the feeling of "not done" and plus as a BA we have tons of ad-hoc things, so I typically work till 7pm and more everyday. I also work on SAT and SUN sometimes. The work is 33%-40% enjoyable as I'm transitionting into a BI (data modeler + a bit of data engineering) role.
Hopefully tailscale gets to the size where kubernetes is worth it. It's a complex thing to run and understand but in the end I think it is worth it. It has certainly made my day to day life a lot easier and allowed our tiny team to build out a solid platform. It has greatly reduced the amount of time that our developers need to get a service up and running our new features out.
I think it’s totally clear that in the court of public opinion Trump is guilty of inciting the riot.

In the context of a court of law, if we’re speaking about the actual limits of free speech in America, I think Trump’s speech does not meet the threshold.

So I’m not trying to make a political point, but I think there’s an interesting legal discussion to really understand that just because violence happens after a speech, or in this case concomitant to a speech, there’s still a very high bar - very direct language that has to be used for that person to be guilty of incitement in a court of law.

I completely agree it’s totally up to Twitter to decide to ban Trump from their platform. They likely don’t even have to give you a specific reason under their ToS. I wasn’t speaking about the Twitter ban in this case.

Lastly, I’d agree completely that context matters. Interestingly, the context of Giuliani’s “trial by combat” statement was discussing some hypothetical investigation that was supposed to happen over the next 10 days that they were going to “stake their reputation” on;

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1346847382768676864?s=20

Again, this is a kind of statement that politicians make all the time, and is not illegal.
If you don’t mind when platforms get rid of spam, child porn, normal porn, doxxing, death threats, ISIS recruitment videos or assassination contracts, then guess what: censorship has value to you, too.
Gab is #537 highest traffic website in the US, up from #647 yesterday.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic

I agree with you about the political agitation but I would say its becoming less of an issue on Gab. Parler was quite toxic. However, I prefer MSN messenger style chatrooms, so I use Telegram mostly which has now reached 500 million daily active users.

These platforms aren't just filled with people banned from facebook anymore, and will become less political as time goes on
I think the display strings thing is because exact number of impressions etc is slightly sensitive information. The whole site was "gamed" from the start, but providing exact vote counts makes it easier for other people to game. I guess. Don't really know, but I do believe that the numbers given by reddit, for example, are exact, but fake. Fuzzed a bit. HN also hides some of this, or behaves misleadingly, your downvotes don't always count, I think.
If you know everyone in the house is absent during working hours (a reasonable assumption) or that your target has children and they need to pick them up from school at a certain time, just reboot it during that window. Eventually they will forget to check that the microphone is still off when they get home (if they ever check in the first place).
Cloudflare has been quite neutral for now, but there are communities of people who daily devote themselves to harassing everyone from Cloudflare's support team to the mayor of Sammamish, WA (where Epik, one of Gab's webhosts, is headquartered) to try to get Gab deplatformed[1].

I can only imagine how many of these emails per day Cloudflare's support team is deleting.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GabWatch/
Session is a signal-derived app that attempts to mitigate these types of information leaks.

https://getsession.org/

Edit: see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690036
The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.

That just shows how dangerous the "if you're not against us, you're with us" mentality can be.
No, poster mentioned restaurants & bars, which generally are card present.
Also embarrassing:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv...

> donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 million photos and more than 1 million videos. Each of these had embedded metadata like date, time and GPS coordinates—unlike most social media sites, Parler does not strip metadata from media its users upload, which, crucially, could be useful for law enforcement and open source investigators.
Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
>Even the readers of HN do not owe the blog writers anything, nor are they beholden to them to give them the votes/comments they like.

The difference being authors and posts can exist without caring about HN, but HN can't exist without content to link to. So I'd say the reverse is not true, except to individual authors. Authors dont owe HN anything, but HN does owe authors that make it to the frongpage something.

On the matter of clickbait, let's agree to disagree.

To me it's only "bait" if the result is the fish being hooked, taken out of the sea, killed and/or eaten - or, in this case, a person served BS and ads in exchange for their link clicking attention.

If the fisherman just tries to grab the fishes attention to feed it instead, and the fish even likes the food, it wouldn't be clickbait, or it wouldn't have the negative form. And same if a post author wants to use an attractive title (it's not as if all titles should be utilitarian description by decree).

Now, some decide to downvote a (IMO) good post, on the grounds they didn't like the title. I find that shallow. And I'm with the post authors on their right to give whatever title the want (but I don't agree with the readers right to complain about it when the content is good).
That would be an environmental disaster
This is the correct answer. To put it another way, US companies are more productive (in the economic sense) than EU companies, and that gap is even wider for tech companies (& those that rely heavily on employing software engineers). Putting aside the question of whether EU companies have higher overhead per employee (probably true on average), they also derive significantly less value from their employees. This is the same effect which explains why the few "big" tech companies in otherwise low-paying regions will pay above local market rates (e.g. Shopify, Spotify, etc).
We should have abstracts instead of titles on here.
Which will not provide you service unless you give them Russian phone number and scan of your Russian passport.
This article is not less toxic as it claims Parler was.
Okay, but let's set a consistent standard then: all the rioting and looting over the summer should be blamed on politicians who didn't condemn them and in actuality pushed protesting over COVID lock downs and the shooting of Steve Scalise is the fault of Bernie Sanders. All of which of course is insane and should not happen.
Only the original reporter gets to bump/reopen. Which they are sure to give up doing after a few iterations.

In addition, it's just plain rude. If you don't have time to fix it, that's valid, but what makes you presume you community has time to deal with constant bot reminders on order to keep the bug open?

You don't have to deal with it, that's fine, leave it there. Or get some more maintainers on board to help with triage.
Not OP, but long time (and current) Emacs user and fan who also doesn't recommend it to new folks:

LSP.

Language servers has made most of the heavy features in dedicated major modes in Emacs sort of redundant; servers provide error checking, warnings, refactoring and so on. The gritty bits are in the server, leaving editors to do the syntax highlighting and project management.

This sounds great, but Emacs doesn't ship with support for them, and Emacs' built-in package management is kinda unfinished.

To get good C support, for instance, I would;

1. Install straght.el for its use-package implementation

2. Pull in the lsp-mode package (or eglot, I suppose)

3. Install ccls somehow, because Emacs won't

4. Pull in the projectile package, because the built in ede is kinda cumbersome

5. Pull in magit, because the built in vc mode is nowhere near as good

6. Configure lsp-mode to grok ccls

7. Pull in emacs-gdb, because the built in gdb-mi is cumbersome

8. Finally get to work

With, for instance, vscode I would:

1. Open a C file

2. Install the recommended extension

3. Get to work

And then C works well, the debugging is ok, and so on.

At the end of all the steps I find Emacs superior to use, but most folks will have higher productivity with vscode.
We see a lot of SMBs using Dropbox and have rarely encountered Box out in the wild. In both cases, they are often converting over to OneDrive - the Office Suite is still a very, very strong play in that most companies need/prefer it to alternatives, and since OneDrive is bundled the question inevitably gets asked, "why am I paying for DropBox if I have OneDrive/SharePoint included in this cost over here?". No good answer, really. I mean there are things that DropBox does better, but for a lot of businesses those strengths aren't valuable enough to pay the premium.
Honestly this feels like engineers that spent too long in FANG and get completely burnt out on dealing with SRE and HA requirements... so decide to built a setup so prone to 2AM pages even a PHP webshop would frown at it.

Curiously though its a pattern I've seen twice in the last 12 months, there was that guide on the good bits of AWS that also recommended starting with a single host with everything running on it.

Maybe we should all move that host back under our desks and really be back to basics!
You quote me yourself saying ‘some paths’- I was deliberately excluding H1B and stating so.
I’m not sure I agree that’s virtue signalling. It’s quite a few paragraphs into the article and gives context on the actual crime committed.
They do also discuss arguments against her execution, including mental health and an extremely traumatic upbringing.

I agree with you that it’s tough to codify when the death penalty is appropriate.
I mean if we're going to cherry pick statements then this is going nowhere.
You mean a site that enables event coordination and sharing as well as private conservative groups might be culpable alongside a site that has neither of those things? Color me shocked.
Trying to call yourself "Dr." when you don't have a real PhD is the worst kind of credentialism.

I call my friends with real PhD's by their first names and they're fine with that.
> and it's an increasingly difficult case to make for a home user, as all of the alternatives are pretty good.

Yeah, this. I've found myself drifting over to OneDrive for personal use; it's pretty good at least on macOS, and Dropbox is just one-more-thing running all of the time.

But also, almost every time I log into their service I get popups bugging me to upgrade, it happened just now. I pay ~ $100/yr at the moment and I guess I've been too lazy to eliminate that expense by moving everything to one provider. Today might be the day to change that.
What current discourse ? The impeachment, and a lot of the current discourse is that Mr Trump did basically yell fire in a crowded theater (he told his supporters to march to the Capitol).
I am actually sympathetic to the Trump ban. I think what he did was pretty close to inciting violence, close enough, specially in the hindsight, that a temporary ban was justified. I agree on the hypocrisy of the Antif/etc stuff.
Arnold Schwarzenegger links Capitol attack to Nazi Germany in powerful video
And if it was indeed 70 TB downloaded and they were serving it off AWS, they're getting at least a $5600 bill as a last fuck you on their way out, just for that single download.

If you have enemies on the Internet, having anything on one of the cloud providers that charge an arm and a leg for traffic seems like asking for a financial DDoS.
If I remember correctly mongo stores the id in “_id” and has a getter for “id” so maybe they just iterated all the keys of the model when they stringified their output
Email service providers?

What’s that?

sudo apt install postfix

Configure DMARC and SPF and you’re fine.
I don't remember Dem politicians lying for years about how the police had children locked up in pizza shops (Republicans get to own this now that they ran and had elected a full-on QAnon congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene), how much police hate America, how much the police are stealing from you, how much the police want to destroy America, how the police are un-American, how the police are socialists trying to turn America into Venezuela. And then suggesting they take a stroll to downtown Seattle. You know, for some peaceful protest.

Frankly if they had, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. I've watched a ton of Fox over the last few years, and what the Republicans and also very explicitly Donald Trump are saying, is genuinely terrifying.

I wish the Democrats would speak out about how 0.7% of America is in prison right now - the world's leading jailer per capita, how the long-term recidivism rate is over 80%, about civil asset forfeiture turning small-town cops into literal highway robbers to fund their departments, about how private prison contracts have minimum occupancy clauses, about how socioeconomic dysfunction leads minorities to interact with police 7X as much as white folks. How police shoot 10X as many people per capita in America as in Canada. They didn't say a thing early on. If anything, some of this anger towards the police came from Democrats not saying what they need to early on. Not doing what they need to early on.

From that perspective, I do believe Democrats share some of the blame.
The guy in the video says people played, made art and fucked. Humans are not predators, we're opportunists by evolutionary trait turning hunters rather recently.
Right. The mask data goes back a century and very good studies were published re SARS and masks after mask data was discarded and ignored by many during that illness. Quarantines and social distancing aren't new, never were.