skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I also agree, and would argue that it applies more to "the cloud" groupthink, than it does to the election riot, or Parler. After all, the Trump/Parler supporters, can hardly be claimed as self selecting balkanisation, when they've been made into pariahs, and deplatformed every which way from Sunday.

The "cloud" has always had a funny smell to me, even when it first started to become popular. All tech companies should attempt to be in charge of their own destiny, by creating their own infrastructure, where at all possible.
I agree, the inability to differentiate between "agreeing" and "supporting" is the real reason everyone is so divided over everything!
Ranger announces its Swift SDKs for dynamic, cloud-hosted geofencing
This is amazing work, I'm very happy that this was uploaded!
We're excited to introduce our Swift API and Tracking SDKs for iOS developers looking to quickly integrate Geofencing into their mobile apps!

In addition to the the SDKs - which are available via Cocoapods - we are also releasing a Demo app to quickly get developers up and running.

Read about the SDKs and download the App from https://rangerlabs.io. Or view the source on our GitHub, https://github.com/rangerlabs.

Feel free to contact us with any questions at support@rangerlabs.io. Happy Geofencing :)
His is a much more advanced post than mine and it touches on the potential extensions I mention at the end.
This and similar support jobs (mental health type jobs) are probably the hardest jobs in the world. Not only for the person doing it, but the requirements for such a thing are just astronomical and not really something you can learn. You can learn aspects of it, but to excel it requires a certain type of person.
Thanks for the clarification, Luke.

For a bit more background for the HN community:

When we initially launched the Timescale License in Dec 2018, we didn't relicense any of our Apache-2 code -- that was and has always remained licensed under the Apache 2 license. Instead, we effectively were "pre-announcing" that some future advanced features (yet to be developed) would instead be released under the Timescale License or under a paid-only commercial license (although still source-available).

Fast forward to September 2020 and Timescale 2.0, and we (i) made some aspects of the Timescale License more permissive (e.g., "right to repair", "right to improve"), and (ii) moved all the previously enterprise (paid-only) features to be available for free under the Timescale License. Hope that helps!

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...
I can't imagine buying a car with DLC/microtransactions. I wouldn't even buy one.
You said it yourself, Apple, Google, AWS are "the law" now.
Well, my point was not about accepting or not accepting it. I have no issue with that.

My issues is that it would be hard for me personally to write an Email to several different people with different gender pronouns. I was asking if there are alternatives or maybe even similar situations in other cultures/languages that might hint to a more general solution.

It seems I was not clear enough, hence the downvotes above.
> Simply deleting their posting accomplishes nothing.

If it does "nothing," then why is it bad if it happens?
Ultimately, perhaps some of these people are really looking for a therapist.
I am not concerned with the code of other users' management layers. I am concerned with being able to use the code of this product in the way I want to use it. Copyleft is not important to me, I see permissive licensing as being a bigger priority for freedom.
It's funny you mention English class. I've often wondered if people reading too much into things, seeing patterns where there aren't any, or thinking there's some grand design happening is in-part caused by all the reaching and looking for hidden meaning we've been taught to do from English classes.

Don't take this hunch too seriously. I have no way to prove it and it's only food for thought.
Has anyone reported these tweets?

(I ask because of the number of times I've gotten calls from my neighbors asking "Is your power off?" and learning that no one had reported the outage.)

Edit: I'm not a Twitter user, so I can't.
LearnXinYminutes has a great tutorial. The main raku.org site already has incredible docs.
The volume of domestic mail in most countries is huge, it's prohibitively expensive to check all packages. International packages from suspect countries (e.g. The Netherlands) might be checked more frequently. As far as I understand, in the case something is caught by customs it's possible to just deny you ever ordered anything and I doubt law enforcement or customs would bother taking it any further unless it was a huge amount, they'll incinerate it and move on.
> What’s the argument for banning one social media and not another.

The argument for Parler from at least some platforms seems to have been that they were unable or unwilling to police content after they had actual notice. Whether it is as sufficient or not may be debatable, but Facebook has at least visibly made steps to address the problem as attention has been focussed on it.
You might be interested in Hong Kong's "functional constituencies" system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_... Half of their legislative council is selected by voters in specific constituencies. Among them is specific rural constituency ("Heung Yee Kuk") and one for agriculture and fisheries, but also various more-urban constituencies like tourism, IT, and healthcare.

I don't have a good sense of how well this works in practice, and of course it is confounded by Hong Kong being a very unusual jurisdiction to start with. But yeah, I think it would be a more principled approach than having this one feature in our government to nominally give extra voting rights to rural populations in particular. It's difficult to figure out what those importances really are and it's unlikely everyone will agree, but I think everyone can agree that the answer is not that rural voters are the only special constituency.

Alternatively, there's a simpler argument - those things that are important in society are important because everyone cares about it, and therefore an urban legislator is unlikely to say "We don't need farms," because the urban legislator needs to eat. If the agricultural constituency says they need some measure, they already have the ability to convince the general voting public in proportion to their importance in society.

(Also, it's not like our current system effectively gives rural voters an additional voice. California is our top agricultural exporter, but it tends to vote in the opposite way from the smaller-population states. And even if you did give a specific voice to California's agricultural interests, it's highly likely that they'd disagree with the policies advocated by smaller-population states to reduce immigration and increase deportations, for instance.)
I think this misses the point, which is called out directly at the top of the site:

"jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency."

If you're shipping a big application and need to use a large number of these utilities, by all means use jQuery. But if you're shipping a small library and only need one or two of these functions, you might want to forgo the dependency. Using jQuery in your library forces it as a dependency onto everyone who uses your library, potentially making them deal with version conflicts if your version of jQuery doesn't align with their version of jQuery (or the version that another dependency wants).
This is an illuminating example of Silicon Valley(CA)vs Silicon Alley(NY) of startups.

I guess in this particular case, Gab vs Parler. Access to capital isn’t enough. Companies also need good legal advice, scale strategy and testing. Etc.

A teachable moment.
How I launched a 5-figure business while working full-time. You can do the same
The link is actually referencing Germany in WWI, not WWII.

For context on that, Bismarck's abdication in 1890 left a leadership vacuum that was was gradually filled-in by military elites, who were more interested in the mechanics of warfare than the nuance of politics. Where Bismarck used military force as political tool, in his absence every problem began to look like something that only the military could solve.

Although, it's worth taking this opportunity to repeat: the same military elites responsible for the tragedy of WWI and the Dolchstoss myth were responsible for appointing Hitler into power and legitimizing his militant tactics. Hindenburg and Ludendorff created Hitler, from inside and outside the establishment, respectively.
Honest question: don't we (the world, I am a brit) rely on China for rare earth metals for a lot of electronics (presumably including US Military applications)?

I know rare-earth metals aren't that rare and we could ultimately supply them locally but the lack of any open mines or refining setups is just as big a strategic hole as losing domestic Fab isn't it?

I am happy to be corrected.
HCP Vault Public Beta
>Obesity is primarily a result of corporations not being adequately regulated

What would such regulations look like?

>In short, high fructose corn syrup leads to obesity.

Is HFCS a worldwide phenomenon? US isn't the only country with obesity problems. eg. kuwait, egypt, UAE, jordan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...
I read a quote once: "What I eat becomes my body. What I read becomes my mind." (I would give credit where due, but I can't find the attribution at the moment.)

Social media becoming a higher percentage of our environment means that it becomes a higher percentage of our reading. That means it becomes a higher percentage of our mind. That's... rather disturbing.
> I don't have a solution, but Amazon + Apple + Google coordinating to shut down a platform for communication - even a platform that contains expression that I strongly disagree with, I might add - is a problem that requires a solution

Did they actually coordinate [1] or just come to similar conclusions based on similar facts, in the context of the same cultural zeitgeist?

[1] e.g. Bezos, Cook, and Pichai (or subordinates) on a conference call, deciding what to do
> While emacs has parts written in C, that portion really exists to enable elisp.

You should do a line count; GNU Emacs has more than 250,000 lines of C.
> "I get upset when people simply tell me keep on trying. When someone is trying to do something, I think the best thing to do is to help lower the bar for them by staying at their side"

This is brilliant.
iOS has an option to wipe itself after 10 incorrect passcode entries. There are lots of warnings, I think most people get the idea that this is opt-in.
A good gauge of how much a publication or individual supports last week's insurrection against a legitimate presidential election is the amount of "whataboutism" and "free-speechism" they engage in now. If you are talking about BLM, free speech or bitcoin and you think that will solve the Real Problem, you are ignoring a clear and present danger.

Last week, the president of the United States participated in an invasion of the US Capitol in order to disrupt the orderly transfer of power. It was not a spontaneous riot and it was not mere incitement of a mob. It was sedition and violence. The people who invaded the Capitol carried weapons and wore merchandise that announced their plans; e.g. sweatshirts emblazoned with the words "Civil War." They discussed those plans openly and stupidly on Parler. Some of them appear to have coordinate with Republican members of Congress, such as Gosar and Brooks, who were giving "reconnaissance tours" in the days immediately before the invasion.

Dem lawmaker says panic buttons were removed from office
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/13/nation/it-was-like-lo...

Mikie Sherrill says unidentified lawmakers led ‘reconnaissance’ tours ahead of Capitol attack
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/mikie-sherrill-capi...

Kapernik is not the issue. China is not the issue.

The issue is whether we want a democratically elected president to take office in the US, or whether we should tolerate speech that incites people to violently oppose that transition.

Free speech has never been absolute. It is one right among others. We have always drawn lines around it, including on the platforms that are banning Q and Trump now. What are some other forms of speech we banned? Various kinds of gun and drug sales, as well as speech and images related to human trafficking and abuse. Those lines were always there. The people who wanted to discuss those things did not have a right to do so under the US system, or on social media. The social media platforms are currently drawing a line to exclude the incitement of violence, the enabling and activating lies that led to the insurrection last week. They are fully within their rights to do so. Trump does not owe it to them to change his speech and behavior, and they do not owe him a platform. That's called freedom and it works both ways.

The good news is, most of the people dumb enough to believe Trump and Q are not smart enough to navigate the Dark Web, and encryption apps will weaken their performative feedback loop. ISIS was undermined in a similar way by deplatforming.
The role of government is literally to establish rules for fair play in a free market economy. Like that’s the point of the United States code :-) that’s what being a rule of law country means.

Regarding the rest I’m not saying don’t talk to them, By all means invite crazy Susie over for dinner. Have those conversations. It’s tilting at windmills as long as they continue to get their reality defined by what they’re going to react to online and in media.

Humans aren’t really able to process an objective reality, we live in a world of abstractions. Our preconceived notions of what the universe and objective reality are define are personal realities. Reality is all around each and everyone of us, if objective reality were all it took, we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place.
What happened in the Seattle tech market last year
I'm going to assume good faith on your part with this question.

This hashtag was used, almost exclusively, by people discussing the chants of "Hang Mike Pence" last week at the Capitol.
I honestly don't know. I worked with a company once that had regulatory burdens. They were young enough that they hadn't yet hired the first IT person, let alone a security team, so it was just regular devs trying to comply. Needless to say when I came in (as a regular dev that happens to specialize in security) I waved the red flag and pointed out the possible jail time to the executives, and they were not concerned, even though the laws explicitly lay out that "because your employees made a mistake" was unequivocally not an excuse (and this has held up in court by the way). I'm being ambiguous intentionally here so I can't give details.

But regardless whether there is a deterrent benefit, I think the reality is that jails effect non-executives and normal people (especially the closer to poverty you get) far more than they ever would executives. A much better approach IMHO would be to develop alternatives and phase out incarceration altogether (or at least as much as possible) by rolling them out broadly, would be a better, more humane solution.
This is the company that you all trust with your privacy. Good grief.
Samsung Announces Galaxy S21, S21 and S21 Ultra
Good to know there are employment prospects for me if I ever decide to move to Japan.
Who gets paid more? Maybe the question to ask is why market forces are not naturally producing more of what is needed?
Plan9Port works on Mac OS, Linux, several BSDs etc, and I'm nearly 100% certain existed before Russ moved to google.

It pre-dates Go by a bit for sure, and Go was already underway at Google with Rob Pike before Russ came over (per my recollection).

That said, I too use plan9port, on my mac, for Acme mainly.

Russ just fixed up the thread library so it works more uniformly (and correctly) on all platforms - including Apple Silicon.
I wanted to make my own apps on a cheap smart watch that I don't have to charge every day and came across http://banglejs.com/. It has some small bugs, but the battery life is incredible and they have their own nifty app store.
Good luck.

A lot of "if" statements in your comment.

The ones I saw were clearly not manufactured in the USA, and based on the comment sections were clearly understood to be suppressor components.

Lots of YouTube/internet "I'm not a lawyer, but..." comments floating out there.

Even if we were being extraordinary charitable, all plausible deniability goes out the window with even a cursory reading of the the description and the comments for these items.
How is someone supporting and fostering a bad act not also to blame? I see from your profile you work in adtech, perhaps rights shouldn't be decided by people who seek to avoid blame because they profit from it.
the article is long overdue.
so many times i have seen data scientists glue together non production ready code and libraries expecting someone else to finish the job and put the project to production. in various places i worker at they have soon realised that we mostly and exclusively needed data engineers - glorified DevOps people that make production ready data pipelines - more than we needed data scientists to do “modelling”
apparently one of the things people hire this guy for is just to wave goodbye when they move away. I agree not just anyone could do that in an appropriately sensitive way, but to say the requirements are astronomical seems like an overstatement.
He plays a little trick by saying "ultimately it should be the users themselves who decide what is acceptable or not". This has two meanings, somewhat contradictory.

The straightforward meaning is that ultimately I decide what is acceptable or not for me, and you decide what is acceptable or not for you. We can, and likely will, have a different opinion on different things.

But the following talk of "governance" and "democratic control" suggest that the one who ultimately decides are not users as individuals, but rather some kind of process that would be called democratic in some sense. Ultimately, someone else will make the decision for you... but you can participate in the process, if you wish... but if your opinions are too unusual, you will probably lose anyway... and then the rest of us will smugly congratulate ourselves for giving you the chance.

> Democracy and majoritarianism are (in general) quite different things.

Sure, a minority can have rights as long as it is popular, rich, well organized, able to make coalitions with other minorities, or too unimportant to attract anyone's attention. But that still means living under the potential threat. I don't see a reason why online communities would have to be built like this, if instead you could create a separate little virtual universe for everyone who wished to be left alone... and then invent good tools for navigating these universes, to make it convenient, from user perspective, to create their places, to invite and be invited, and to exlude those who don't follow the local rules (who in turn can create their own places and compete for popularity).
That's one of the main reasons why gambling is so addictive.

More precisely, people (and animals) are more likely to take an action if the reward is variable rather than fixed. Enjoyment is a separate issue. The explanation in the article is also extremely oversimplified and there is a lot more research on this out there.

I also hope people don't artificially add randomness to their products just because they read an article online.
What turned me off about elixir was not the syntax, it was the flexibility in designing new syntax. It felt like each library had its own idioms and syntax rules, which just adds a huge amount of variety and difficulty in a codebase. It was hard to have consistent architectural patterns across a team. I've seen an elixir/phoenix backend rewritten completely in python/django and it was a big improvement in developer productivity. I think elixir may work better for small teams. The learning curve and the "consistency enforcement" of languages really does make a difference on big teams.
I 've seen people react with a "oh so wacky japan" attitude when something like this pops up. But I agree with you, this is nothing more than a form of therapy.

> Another reflected, "I had been slack about visiting the hospital, but I went because he came with me."

I have seen multiple people be much more eager and diligent in taking a pet to the vet, than taking care of theirselves (due to fear, shame, and an if you ignore it long enough mentality) this hits hard.
Coraid produces ATA over Ethernet storage platforms shipping their own fork of Plan 9 on the devices.

If I had a need for it, or could justify the cash, I'd get one just to play around!
> I have saved nothing for my children’s education. If they want to attend college, it is on them to pay their way just as it was for me.

That's a pretty scuffed mindset, man. Set your kids up for success. There's no virtue is going head first into crippling debt.
I worked in investment banking (as an analyst, not an engineer), so very different part of finance, but this was my take as well. Companies might love to talk about how important engineers are, but at the end of the day, if you can't directly link someone to revenue, they get viewed as a cost center and take on second tier status in the organization. Then the same companies complain that they can't find enough (or retain) engineering talent. Not many places get the balance right. Silicon valley treats engineers well because for the most part, the value they bring is more obvious (and also, they don't threaten the existing hierarchy in the company). Curious to hear if anyone has had the opposite experience.
Turns out the most famous article about this was based on a hoax: https://newrepublic.com/article/160595/new-yorker-japan-rent...

"If Japan’s family rental phenomenon is “well documented,” as The New Yorker claims, it is not well documented in the article itself. Despite describing a “wave” of rental families beginning in the 1980s, and noting their prevalence in literature and movies, there is no concrete sense of how many people have actually used these services. Other recent articles about the phenomenon almost invariably cite Family Romance, which appears to have been thoroughly discredited. As Hiroko Tabuchi of The New York Times noted, “[W]hile it’s unclear it provides ‘family rental’ services on any significant scale, it did run a wildly effective media campaign, feeding false anecdotes to outlets looking for a wacky story.”"
> For context on that, Bismarck’s abdication in 1890 left a leadership vacuum that was was gradually filled-in by military elites, who were more interested in the mechanics of warfare than the nuance of politics.

The significance of that, while it shouldn’t be dismissed either, often exaggerated; while, yes, that absolutely did happen, you see in the entirety of Europe, no matter the role of military vs. civilian authority, the myth of offense dominance, aggressive mobilization plans and hair-trigger activation, etc.

Basically everyone, civilian and military, had drawn the wrong conclusions about the direction of the evolution of warfare, and it affected every major powers diplomatic strategy, military posture, etc., because everyone saw the other side getting ahead of them as an existential threat.
CMake and the Future of C++ Package Management
You can (and should) get your stuff tested.
One of my physics professors liked to say that a photon is an event. The particle we know as a photon is a point in spacetime where there is some sort of interaction, but the electromagnetic field is closer to a wave.