skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, they're arguing that it much harder for a private entity (or even a group) to block distribution of information in the late 1700s.

I think this is a argument is incorrect. You can still print flyers and hand them out (or even mass mail them!) and none of that cabal can get close to stopping you, this argument assumes/pretends that the internet eliminated all other forms of communication, it didn't. Those methods still exist and have a larger reach than they had then. Communication is more resilient than it was in the 1700s, not less.

> I'd like to know how you're going to do it.

I'd make it look like an email chain and forward it to my grandma.
Suggesting McDonalds is only half the insight - and contextual, anyway. Instead, give an arbitrary binary choice. "Would you like tacos or sushi?" will often elicit (1) a choice or (2) a third option ("I kind of want a burger"), which is now the default.

A binary choice gets you to a default.
By less than 1 month vacation, I think it's closer to 1-2 weeks/year and that's at big companies. Most of the startups will give you grief if you take more than a week of vacation on top of the holidays.

Not all engineers are at FAANG, we can't compare the average to the top tier companies.
> Certainly a step up from normal consumer grade stuff

Same mass-market Qualcomm SOCs as the other mass-market vendors, just better packaged and marketed.

Smallnetbuilder consistently found them middling in performance.
Realistically, you can serve pages from a RasPi
> The parking lot was full of restaurants, but there were no healthy options.

I've found one can find healthy options at most places. It's definitely not the easy path, but it definitely can be done. Plus for most people their weight issues could be mostly fixed by controlling calories. No, you won't get the instagram body that way, but you can be in the high-normal BMI range quite simply

EDIT: ok, little caeser's maybe an exception. But here's an example from taco bell.

https://www.tacobell.com/food/specialties/power-menu-bowl
Add a diet drink or have water
I could be mistaken, but I'm not seeing a connection between that and third party app support.
This is based on a Hacker News comment I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24457170
If all else is equal, I opt for the smallest contender (in terms of minified size). I also check the dependency graph and nope out if it’s unreasonably large.
racist, these programs only benefit blacks, while the rest are left out.

disgusting work by apple and that homo tim cook
Yes, we're going to be moving to 2+ control servers for HA + blue/green reasons pretty soon here.
Any thoughts on airvpn.org?
There are plenty of Emacses programmed in C-like languages. Oldest I can remember was Epsilon. "Epsilon was first released in 1984, long before Emacs was available on personal computers, and modestly priced, so it provided an attractive alternative to the usual DOS editors for those accustomed to Emacs."
They most certainly did though.

This was setup in front of the mayor's house in Portland OR:

https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1297421944799686658

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I am starting to question if people do not realize this activity has been going on for many months in cities across the country.

Why the media kept this relatively quiet (now and previously) is beyond comprehension for most people aware at this point.

The media is divided and therefore, our people are also divided.

If two people can’t agree what/when/if past events occurred, how can anyone discuss, much less agree on the current events?

In other words, perhaps people should consider that any opinions formed re: politics were likely formed from/by the media they consumed.

If we know the media has lately been “one-sided” (yet coming from all sides), perhaps we should be a bit more vigilant to not make assumptions about “another side” if we are unwilling to look at that side - outside the lens of the “great filter”.

IIRC, the great filter is what Elon Musk calls it, at least that’s my understanding of the meaning.

The instant outrage of today - solely based on what the media is presenting - is at the very least - a possible attack vector for outside or even internal forces.

It is my opinion that folks need to better understand this before becoming immediately outraged.

It’s up to a person to determine what side they want to present to others politically, but having an understanding that most people won’t review “all sides” before discussion can help keep “toxicity” in-check upon the inevitable disagreement that will come after posting any political statement.

This is why it’s an attack vector, and why the attack works. It works based on the likelihood that most won’t even look, yet will make assertions as if they did.
"Who does it better" is not the right question here since the problem is not related to other actors being "better" but to NPR (and PBS) not fulfilling the mandate of being politically neutral. Commercial actors do not have that mandate since they are not publicly funded, they can be (and most certainly are) as partisan as they wish.

As to the supposed difficulty of being neutral I'll just state that it is actually quite easy, all you have to do is make sure that your programming represents the political diversity of the region or country. Given the near 50/50 split between those who align themselves with the GOP and those who prefer the DNC it would be simply a matter of having half the programming made by "progressives", half by "conservatives". Both groups should have essentially the same amount of influence on what gets put on the air. There should not be room for shenanigans like having a station master from party A who does his best to put all programming which aligns more with party B in the nightshift. Throw in a few Libertarian/Green Party/etc. people in the newsroom to give them a proportional voice and you're well on your way to political neutrality.

Maybe you're confusing being politically neutral with being politically centric? They're not the same. It just means that the net average political stance ends up as a weighted average of the current political spectrum.
> "that guy's an idiot and he can go to hell his own way, I don't have to follow him down"?

doesn't work when we basically live in a hive-mind
Yes, and implementing that is exactly the point of Tailscale, with the added advantage of not relying on a centralized proxy.
> On your Android phone, only app installations from verified stores, like the Google Play Store and your device manufacturer’s app store, are allowed.
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I like this reason because you don't need to know anything about tech at all to be able to understand this. You also don't need to trust or like Snowden. If you view Snowden as a hero or a traitor, it changes nothing. All you need to trust is that he's got no reason to lie about using Signal, and neither does Elon Musk.
Disclosure: I worked at AMD for about a decade, although that's a while back now. It is traditional in semiconductor companies (or was, anyway) to have a triumvirate:

1) the "outside" guy (sales, know the customer)
2) the "inside" guy (operations, now the employees)
3) the "tech" guy

Any of these three can run the company, but whichever one it is, they need to have the other two near at hand, and they need to listen closely to them. The problem comes when, as at Intel and perhaps also at Boeing, you have options (1) or (2) in charge, and they're not listening to the person who is position (3) in the triumvirate, or they don't have a triumvirate at all. If the person in position (3) is in charge (as at AMD currently), they will still need to have experts in (1) and (2), and they will need to listen to them.
I wonder if that means it's being upvoted without anyone trying to read it...
> The Ancient Greeks would be proud of our new developments

I don't mean to be rude but that's not the best ideal: they had Socrates killed for "corrupting the youth" among many many other things nobody would consider democratic. Plato's Republic is also not very democratic to say the least.
I’m using it on my current project. Loving it.
How private is Nextcloud instance on Digital Ocean?
Long story, but I want to share some pictures of my kid with my immediate family( one of the aunts insists on internet connected frames and since they partner with Google and Amazon, I would like to avoid that ( their privacy policy was very.. unassuring ). Digital Ocean seems reasonable in the sense that they don't access individual droplets based on their own FAQ ( https://www.digitalocean.com/trust/faq/ ) with exception of legal requirements.

I get it is a little like trying to control the weather ( I mean she could do w/e she wants with the pics after she accesses them anyway ), but I am hoping honor system prevails.

I am not sure how common use case that is, but since those are my kid's pics, I don't want them floating around willy-nilly. If you have a better solution, let me know what you think. I will admit that I am not too keen on trying to run my own server from home ( my ISP made it a little difficult ).
Testing Complement Cross-Entropy Loss in Text Classification Tasks
It is not because you are pregnant or because there is a baby on the way. It is because, during this time in a woman’s life she is very open for changes in her daily routines. Everything is interesting: from breakfast brands to shampoo brands, type and brand of car, even housing.
Well that’s just social convention, and I don’t place much emphasis on that. I reserve the right to address anyone I choose as “doctor”, and if Stallman prefers to be addressed that way I’m happy to oblige. He has certainly earned it in my book.

Same goes for Benjamin Franklin btw, whom I see you left out of your list.
I mean .. isn't that obvious that obesity goes with abundance ?

I'd love to see an staring obese person.
You can even buy one of these ready-made boxes and slap on pfsense.

https://smile.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-Gigabit-Celeron-...

I use this exact model + RAM + mSATA drive and its more than powerful enough to sit in front of my SMB gigabit fiber connection while running DPI/OpenVPN/zabbix/etc.

pfsense is awesome and the learning curve is pretty reasonable if you understand basic network theory. I love it.
Don’t American companies have facial recognition software to identify brown people, or black people, or Asian people?

I’ve been seeing this lately. But I fail to see why China or Huawei is getting hit by it.

Unless it’s just blind hatred by the HNers here about anything and everything China related.

I’m sure the FBI is employing facial recognition software that delineates between black vs. white people too.
You might not have a need for it but others do. It really sucks to buy a new game after work and see that you won't be able to play it that night because it has a 5 hour download time.
Being deep in the cloud world right now, with aws and terraform and kubernetes cli tools, etc, not having to install third party tools on my machine does sound pretty great, but also entirely unrealistic.

Managing local DBs once new versions are out and your server isn't upgraded yet is irritating, but when I'm using a Mac I'd still rather use a native DB than Docker because of the VM overhead, since I've not yet run into a bug caused by something like "my local postgres was a different version than the server was." (Closest I've gotten was imagemagick for mac doing something a bit differently than for linux, about 10 years ago at this point.)
> We will likely buy a pile of them to do Fedora builds.

Do you expect a lot of things to break on RISCV?
From memory, in Postgres, you could also have a copy of your base database and then copy it in for each test, which is seem to recall being fairly fast. It includes the data too.

Create database test_db template initial_db;
I think the graph shows two probability distributions.
The EU has the GDPR, which protects consumer's privacy. And, yes, some tech services don't serve EU citizens.

Repealing 230 would have a similar effect, but with the focus on protecting people from corporate censorship. If this means Facebook/Twitter/TikTok et. al. become unprofitable, I'd consider that a double win.
Seattle and SF are great examples of why public drug use is not a crime that doesn't inflict harm on the general non drug using public.
"""Even with fast NVMe drives and splitting the database into two halves (important data vs. ephemeral data that we could lose on a tmpfs), things got slower and slower. We knew the day would come. The file reached a peak size of 150MB and we were writing it as quickly as the disk I/O would let us. Ain’t that just peachy?"""

Uh, you compressed it first, right? because CPUs can compress data faster than disk I/O.
[Impeachment] CONVICTION requires a 2/3 senate majority, impeachment just a half of the house. That's why it didn't happen last time. That's why it won't happen this time.

I'd like to see him sacked too, but it seems mathematically impossible at this point.

Edited to correct my confusion of impeachment and conviction!
You do you, but I like having a list of stuff I want to watch separated from a list of stuff to watch with the family. I’m not planning to memorize those lists and search every time, that would be insane.
I teach CS in college. I've had kids. My daughter teaches in high school. And I'd like to say that I find it very shortsighted to think that remote learning for 6-year olds is even remotely comparable to remote learning for 15 year olds or 21 year olds.

They're very different age groups and please recognize that they require different approaches both to learning in general as learning online.

There no way you can discuss online learning in a generalized way across all age groups.
He made that statement in this interview to a Harpers contributer in 1994: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
I tried a deno port, but lack of crypto support was a showstopper. I think I could’ve done it if not for that. It’s quite a lot nicer than node, though, and I definitely will give it another go when it’s further along.
I honestly thought when they said "rising stars" they meant new, awesome projects. Instead it's the same old stuff everyone knows ranked on a metric that is tenuous at best.
> ...to shut those lunatics up.

Does that work?

One of my brothers thinks the world is 6,000 years old and intelligent design and so forth. I still have no idea how to respond, because he feels I have to learn this truth too, if at all.
I have to wonder if the author's judgement is too heavily impaired by his own lived experience as someone with the chops rise to a position of success. He claims in the prologue to be a responsible recreational heroin user. Sustaining this without sliding into an ever-worsening spiral of addition would require an immense amount of willpower. And as someone with a PhD in neuroscience and a tenured position at an Ivy League institution, he clearly has plenty of personal willpower.

The typical person doesn't have that sort of willpower.
Anyone using React Query in production?

I've got ongoing projects using redux+axios, apollo client, and roll-your-own data fetch hooks. No clear winner in my book. React Query looks neat but have yet to try it.
From what I can glean from the docs, you run the UI locally which reads from experiments from `.aim/`

The experiments results could be populated by running the training job remotely and committing the `.aim/` directory afterwards.

It's kinda like a UI for DVC
Just imagine if they had used all the propaganda to promote exercise and healthy eating to the population while handing out free bottles of vitamin d3 instead of the opposite (stay inside, don't sunbathe, don't exercise, eat poorly due to depression and economic hardship)

1) this is Sweden 2020 death rate compared to other
Scandinavian countries (no lockdown, no masks) https://preview.redd.it/jujfoejeqwa61.png?width=1024&auto=we...

2) these are some of the effects caused by lockdowns worldwide https://outline.com/JKgfuv
Thanks for digging that up - as mentioned, that is certainly more than the cost of a server, or a laser printer.
Drat! I went looking for people doing something similar when I sat down to design our client, but did not find your package. That's a real pity, I would love to have collaborated on this.

I guess Go package discovery remains an unsolved problem.
I use a pfsense box (check comments for link) but Ubiquiti gear for WiFi APs/controller/PoE/switches. Been very happy with the setup despite the latest concerns with them posted here.

Their security gateways are universally hated on, and for good reason - one major one is that enabling DPI causes a ridiculous drop in throughput rate, even on the newer machines (which also have faulty firmware). Stay away from them.
Market is simple and effective.

Shining examples of unicorns? Then they need to prove they can indeed exist in real world. They shouldn't be treated differently.
Good thing Dan Aykroyd got an honorary doctorate (Carleton) to back up Doctor Detroit.
It’s almost a reflection of framework trends, which is not interesting.
If you don’t care for something then why even buy it? If you need something inferior quality will have an effect on your life. There are some things where quality differences are imperceptible though like sugar.
"Dirtier power generation doesn't work because physics. Frequency gets too high (a few Hz or so), turbogenerators/turbines blow up. Frequency gets too low, resonances destroy them."

You very obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
Turbines blowing up because they spin a few Hz faster? Mine never did. Turbine destroyed because of "resonances" when freq too low? Mine never did that either.
Not the 1100MW one at my old job, nor the two 500MW ones at the job before that and also not the 12MW one at my current job.
Money Lessons from the Guy Who Threw 55,000 Bitcoins Out the Window
This is freaky, with this data and a rough identity (ads wise) you could literally AB test what ads / suggestive content affects someone's mood and relationship. How bone headed do you have to be to actually ask "what could someone do with this info, seems innocuous to me"?
All of the other fabs are so busy they can't handle Intel's chip production plus Intel's technology is wound around their own labs. Switching wouldn't be easy and might end up being a failure and taking the company with it.
Lot of good that does innocent children fed bleach by their parents. If you don't think stuff like that happens you are naive.
https://www.pharmacypracticenews.com/Covid-19/Article/03-20/...
I’d say the internet has obsoleted earlier forms of communication. Twitter and the use of the phone keyboard as many people’s main input device has mainstreamed a discourse of extremely short communications, “snackable content” has diminished appetite for longer writing (which is often referred to as a daunting “Long Read” even if it is merely the length of an ordinary magazine article from a few decades ago).

If you examine some of the late-18th-century pamphlets created by social agitators and revolutionaries, they were often extremely dense text with elaborate argumentation. That kind of writing would not have the same impact on the public today; most of the people given such a pamphlet would bristle at having to read all that.
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Of course they could control working conditions if they wanted to, Apple and Tim Cook are world leaders in logistics, they probably have the most well-managed supply chain in the history of the universe.

They have complete control over every detail they care about and can demand whatever they want from suppliers. If Apple wanted Foxconn workers to wear polka dot hairnets they would be manufactured and distributed within 48 hours.

Their competitiveness relies completely on suppliers NOT providing Western level working conditions, then their phones would be way too expensive.

Having said all this, it's also important to keep in mind that working conditions in other factories in China are not necessarily better.
He apparently has 14 honorary doctorates, maybe after receiving 10 it's ok.
A significant portion of the risk of using opiates recreationally comes directly with interacting with the black market. Opiates sold ‘on the streets’ are more expensive, adulterated, and inconsistent. The risks of taking opiates with access to a safe, affordable, unadulterated, and consistent supply are significantly more manageable than the current state of affairs in the US.
It's not that old, works tolerably for a small household if the link speed is below 100Mbps. Freshtomato worked fine last time I checked. Too bad these chips suffer performance loss with OpenWRT, though.

The sad thing is ten years later the market is still dominated by devices with half its RAM.
I used these before I switched to pfsense at my SMB. They're great. I use the WRT3200ACM at home + a UniFi AP for better range upstairs and have been very pleased.
I've always felt this, I've never seen a business actually _do_ this. Why don't businesses just stop employing so many people? Stop expanding? Stop trying to acquire more users?

I mean, I know from my economics studies that businesses kind of have to keep competing or they die. It's just really sad.
markets are dynamic, but not so chaotic to swing brutally (among attractors), as you put it. certainly some markets are in that stage now, but certainly not all or even most.

early on, markets tend to grow to an unsustainable number of participants, and then as participants figure out marketing and their own strengths and fits, they start to whittle down. in the best markets (for consumers; but that are also sustainable for providers), you'd have maybe tens of competitors (i.e., not 3 or 300), depending on market characteristics (like being capital-intensive or not, free cash flow restricted or not, etc.).

the problem with our markets is that we've long given up on providing the right amount of regulation to maintain that consumer-optimum, which can be stable in isolation, but for which the highly dynamic politico-social context often destabilizes. so it takes work and vigilence to maintain the optimum, and we don't have that in most (all?) markets.
Well, you made me visit it... :/

No, it's on the open Web.
> It still wasn't fast enough, and placed onerous (or at least annoying) dependencies on future employees.

Did you configure the Postgres (or MySQL) database to be entirely in memory, e.g. by using a tmpfs Docker volume?

As for being onerous or annoying for new employees, which is worse: having to set up a Docker environment, or using a relatively obscure data store in a way that nobody else does?
Focusing on the brief itself, I can see merits for injunctive relief (breach of contract). Bear in mind I am sure there are clauses that Amazon is going to cite against -- we only have access to this document. (It also appears hastily written a bit, which I can guess was the case.)

I would hold my breath for Sherman (Anti-trust) Act being applied. (Especially, as there is the whole people stormed Congress elephant in the room.) But in summary, the perception I get is that this is a strictly business to business lawsuit, contracts were signed etc.

I am curious if some Washington knowledgeable in the area lawyer can provide any insight and their point of view.

P.S. Of course this is just the point of view of one-side and we can not say anything concrete until this is litigated.

N.B. I am not a lawyer, not familiar and not licensed to practice in Washington.
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