skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi. I made that image. I was searching for 'rails documentation' and accidentally hit the 'Images' link. That photo was in the first page of results. Its presence was so absurd and out of place that I felt like I had to do something with it. It was made in an era before actual Nazis had re-entered the public dialogue, so it felt like Google Image Search was denigrating Ruby on Rails by including this sort of imagery in the results.

Generally speaking, 4chan types read it as an endorsement, which sucks. More recently, people who are not assholes have also begun to read it as an endorsement, which is even more unfortunate.

I had a conversation on Mastodon with the author, where I explained some of this, but the author's followers filled my client with Nazi (and more) accusations, and then the author started demanding names of responsible parties and I didn't really feel like he was engaging in good faith. Probably could have gone better, but here we are.

This whole sort of thing has led to much confusion, which is why over the years the project home page has sprouted explicit anti-Nazi and Black Lives Matter links. As far as I am aware, there are no anti-semites (or other brands of racist) involved in the project.

and an edit: A couple of replies here ask the reasonable question: "why not just remove the image?" Bluntly, if we removed everything that confused or angered people, it would be a full-time job. It's more likely that we'll include some version of the above in order to further clarify our rejection of Nazi values and provide the context that was missing.

Besides, if we just delete the damn thing then the next message will be "9front devs are secret Nazis, look at archive.org" -- we've been down this road before with other contentious content.
I think this is a good answer.

I'm not sure that I've personally bought in to the AI revolution, but it sounds like it's generally agreed to be the future.

At the same time, there is so much room for basic improvement in the defense space. I have a hard time believing 5nm vs 10nm is a serious problem when half the vetronics system is analog.

But yes, in a big picture strategic sense, AI capabilities seems like the area most likely to pose a serious risk by not leading the world in chip technology.
Who stays behind Alpine?
Yep. The key is really software skills. If you’re unable to even filter the data yourself, you’re also probably unlikely to be able do implement novel analysis techniques, especially if the analysis algorithm has many complicated steps or is computationally expensive.

In all fairness, it’s basically impossible for a new grad to have those skills. 4 years of a bachelors in any field isn’t enough to cover such a wide area. Even for people with graduate degrees it’s a stretch.
I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle. If FB was forced to shut down tonight, there would be a new FB-clone in a few weeks gaining traction. It's fairly trivial for a bunch of coders to re-implement something that's already been done multiple times.

The only way out is some kind of a healthier platform that people move willingly to or maybe social media will just lose its interest at some point. It's hard to see that second option though since it gives people such strong emotional rewards.
Georgia Rep Pledges to File Articles of Impeachment Against Joe Biden on Jan 21
FUCK BIDEN!
I can't put my finger on why I dislike 5e, other just having a "corporate polish". Maybe the rules are too articulated, over-specified, or maybe it's just too clean and modern.

In any case, Dungeon Crawl Classics[1] is like a mainlining RPG nostalgia. It's the one product that put me in the back of the bus with my 4th grade buddies working their way through the Caves of Chaos. The art, rules and just general vibe are so Old School metal, you can practically hear Zeppelin playing in the background.

Magic is uncertain and rare, and death in DCC is the natural result of real danger. Encounters are not gradually scaled to fit the current Challenge Rating of the party. Can't say enough about how much fun this game is. Great community too.

[1] https://goodman-games.com/dungeon-crawl-classics-rpg/
I'd say it's the publishers who cause the problem and which need to be disrupted. When scientific societies ran most publishing, journal prices were quite reasonable.

BTW, you have to thank Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell and friend of Jeff Epstein for the state of affairs: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
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Or we could do nuclear instead for a vastly smaller footprint.
Some programs in Linux fail to limit FPS
TSMC doesn't design chips, which is the stated goal. China wants China-designed chips, not just "China" manufactured chips.

(ignoring that TSMC is Taiwanese and not currently under PRC rule but is instead de-facto independent and mostly internationally recognized as being independent...)
Could you say what country?

Because I might even bet that yes, you most definitely can buy an AR15 or any semiautomatic rifle just fine.
These people are known colloquially as "ass lickers".
> Have you ever considered that what is illegal can be changed, and that the commenters you are replying to may feel that some part of this industry should be made illegal?

Sure, and I’ve seen plenty of decent arguments for moving the line of legality on the main content (less so on the content of the ads at issue, though there might be some.) Feel free to replace “should be illegal” for “is illegal” in the grandparent post.

Doesn’t really change the basic point, which is that I fail to see much argument for why the juxtaposition should be of concern that doesn’t depend on one of the items (most likely the main content rather than the ads) being of much greater concern to start with.
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Any company can ban anyone from their platform if they violate their ToS.

If you don't agree, then you can go to court.

Eg. Otherwise Twitter would have to go to court to remove potential bots. Which would result in millions of lawsuits across countries.

That's not realistic
That's about 0.00003% of all U.S. farmland.

EDIT: I failed basic arithmetic, apparently. It's 0.03%
You can make a lot more money by owning a lot of small patches of land than by owning one large piece of land.

Unless you are actually using the land for farming, of course.
I mean, even if they had a signed letter from Trump saying "this is bigly good, do this" that doesn't stop it from being super-illegal. He's not a dictator; he can't just give people license to do illegal things. As they should know very well.
Are presidents entitled to be broadcast on private networks?
I'm speculating here, but they probably asked the FBI or some US agency for help tracking crypto transactions. The IRS probably got involved by those agencies with the excuse that people may be hiding income from the illicit transactions... but also because the IRS is, besides maybe the intelligence agencies, one of the agencies with the best crypto-tracking technology and capacity in the US.
You seem to conflate the right to speech with the right to be heard.

No one in America has the latter.
I would love for Alpine to progress to the point where it's a realistic desktop or server OS, rather than the OS for the containers that run on an Ubuntu or Debian server.

Edit: Just got inspired and went to the contributing page.

Think I'll start using it to develop with Vim in a VM locally and see where things go from there.
I have Office 365 running flawlessly with the most recent version of Crossover on Ubuntu 20.10.

The installation process seemed to fail after what felt like an hour - but the whole suite of apps just worked after a reboot - no fiddling required.
macOS on M1 provides an x86_64 emulator called Rosetta 2.
How can energy “physically” be fed back into the grid?
> This makes programmers sad, because by nature we love to brute force trial-and error our code, and homey don't play that game with machine learning.

Huh? If anything I would say ML is way more trial-and-error focused than imperative programming.
No that's not how it works. Apple will never give up the hardware sales driven by billions of Facebook users worldwide. Apple will bend over backwards and make exceptions to their rules in order to keep Facebook, at least until users switch to different social network.
Yes. Source: last name is single syllable and ends in -es. Also I googled it to make sure I wasn't making things up. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-happens-t...
That's big, but so is the western hemisphere. 58 trillion USD to power the entire western hemisphere seems... Pretty reasonable? Assuming it depreciates over 30 years that's about 2 trillion per year, or "only" about double what the USA spends yearly on its military.
Economies of scale is a real thing. There will always be large farms for food security. Food is too important and essential to be handed down to small farmers. Small farms are super-inefficient.

Having said that, we can’t do away with small farms and family farms. The only way to save it is with automation and labour cost saving tech so it provides enough to be considered a career like any other.

I see it as forming co-ops and co-op hubs. Jellicles Farm is creating Hundred-Acre-Hubs and then co-ops of clusters hubs. I want to focus on small acreage automation. Small robots/cobots swarming in small acreages managed by individual farmers. Labour is 40-60% of cost. And it’s becoming increasingly unreliable and unavailable and expensive for small farmers. Automation is the only way. It will satisfy local food security and niche crops. Commodities will still be grown in large commercial corporate farms as they should be..
Why then are a data Scientists paid a ton more? Seems they are in more demand.
While those might be private companies and therefore not required to air anything from anyone, the same goes for the people that would watch/read it: even if someone were to post something on twitter, nobody is required to then actually read it.
The biggest land owners in the US own forest land, where there is no agriculture (and for good reason). The land is owned as investment and for the possible resource exploitation, like oil extraction or logging, for example.
Google Completes Acquisition of Fitbit
Here's the tricky thing:

I love your post; I agree with your post; but it takes a 90 degree turn at the end:

"My number one advice to entry level data scientists is to not be this guy. "

Everything most people are saying here indicates it's GREAT to be that guy. You're paid, you're respected, you get the fun parts, you love your job and it's pretty safe. It just happens to suck for everybody else including team and business... but it feels that in a practical sense, gist of everybody's actual unwitting message is "BE that guy, if you can" :-<<<
Man you picked the wrong analogy for this forum! Guns are a form of self expression here, so it's like the 1st and 2nd amendment added together
I don't think the utility had sent out any community notices. So when helis loiter around a little lower and slower than normal I think it's natural to be curious. Particularly when they show up on a daily basis for maybe a few weeks to a month.
> In terms of syntax flexibility, Ruby has a similar issue where a lot of popular libs implement their own DSLs.

Of course in ruby, nobody is actually adding new syntax, although that's a common misconception. Ruby DSL's are still just ordinary syntax for method calls and block parameters, there's no new syntax at all. Sometimes it can look like it, maybe because ruby method calls don't require parentheses? But no library truly adds syntax to ruby, they just define methods that can be called.

I am not familiar with elixir, I am curious if what we're talking about is an ability in elixir to truly add new syntax, or something more like Ruby so-called "DSLs".
sorry for the late reply ...

I have been using emacs for org mode and common lisp coding for about 1 year ... In my (very limited) experience I've noticed these differences:

- TUI can't display images

- Some keystroke combinations are "absorbed" by the terminal so are not available. I believe they are shift+alt key combinations. A little annoying, but not a huge deal-breaker.

... and that's all I've encountered so far.

I don't think TUI is severely crippled compared to the GUI version, but the GUI version is nicer to use.
This is a rational and reasonable point. BUT, let me muddy it and make it harder to make your point feel so confidently clear-cut:

Scenario. WhatsApp groups begin to be used as gathering places. Open secret. Bomb or explosion or storming of a government building ensures. Question: is it a question of national security to investigate and pressure to censor or eliminate the platform, and if not why not?

Scenario. The bomby extremist-y people on Parler make up .05% of user base. 99.95, while being mostly right-wing, aren't bomby or national security-threatlike. Question: is the tradeoff of punishing the platform by making it disappear, worth it as the only alternative platform to Twitter (which is relied upon by government, health authorities and journalists as the one true place)?

I have no problem with arguments in favor of censorship. I DO have acid reflux when I see the lack of nuance, the strong confidence and wording like "pretty clear."

No, censorship is never pretty clear and always warrants skepticism and conversation.
TFA's original title "Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner" seems fine. Did the submitter editorialize the current title of "Bill and Melinda Gates revealed as largest private farmland owners in US" or was there some other reason for changing it?
That is straight up at odds with American (or Canadian, or for the most part, UK) history. In the United States Trump is the first "war-time" president to blow re-election during an active war, and his term was punctuated by attempts at troop draw down, coupled with inflammatory rhetoric towards Iran when he was low in polls.

Engaging in something that can be spun as a just war is a viable re-election tactic.
Are you saying that 25-30 year old helicopters from eastern Indiana are now circling LA?
For ownership purposes in most jurisdictions in the US, private ownership is anything that's not government.

It includes individuals, privately-held & publically-traded corporations, and most trusts or other legal entities that aren't government controlled.

There might be different tax polices and exemptions carved out for the different entities, but the legal structure of ownership is the same.

This does not include anything federal, military, state, or local (including tribal) government, or is otherwise a special case, like some conservation non-profits, or things like public land trusts.

But if any part the government wants to expropriate or otherwise seize privately held land, it has to go through the same process no matter what type of legal entity.
I mean, currently one 'side' is lead by a guy who's still in complete denial that he lost the election, against all available evidence, so this may not be as 'both-sides'-y as you seem to believe.
Stripe for Visual Studio Code
And they should legalize all drugs..
AMP so obviously was better than ginormous ad filled sites that jank and jump like crazy it wasn't even funny. The idea that there was no user benefit was just a HN view - out in the real world plenty of people learned the lightening icon meant both faster and usually much cleaner and easier to browse.

I think in part a fair number of HN folks maybe do web dev work, and having google restrict the junk they can dump on users was annoying to them. A fair bit of the anti-trust rhetoric is not coming from consumers or consumer advocates but other businesses - some of which have just horribly seedy business models (the recommendation engine searching sites with all the auto-generated fake reviews complaining of de-prioritizations etc).
Is that still accurate? You don't use iTunes to sync the phone anymore and I don't think the encrypted backups could be done via WiFi. If that's changed, then that's awesome.
I've had a fantastic boost in productivity lately due to paying some unemployed homeless people I know to watch me programming.

It's somewhere between rubber duck and pair programming. They might be learning a bit, and explaining things really keeps me on task.
Blender 2.8 and above needs newer hardware and I Know for certain that Under Linux Mint 19.3/Mint 20.0 that on an Intel Arrandale(Mobile Westmere) core i3 that's 1st generation Intel core i series that only Blender 2.79b/earlier will work on my Toshiba Satellite c655 s5061.

Now Blender 2.8 will install and Run on my Intel Sandy Bridge core i series generation based laptops and on my HP Probook 4540s laptop(Ivy Bridge core i7 3632QM) laptop under Linux Mint but under Windows Blender 2.8 will not run stable on Ivy Bridge/earlier laptops when they are Booted into Windows 7.

Linux has better OpenGL support on Older hardware than Windows 7 and really none of the Intel graphics supports Blender 3D's GPU accelerated Cycles rendering so Blender 3d will Default to CPU based Cycles rendering(Takes forever compared to GPU accelerated cycles rendering)
It is highly non-trivial to extract private key from Apple encryption chips, last time I heared the price is at least 100K USD, and probably much higher now. So unless one values own secrets that high, a short password could be OK.
My condensed point is that it would be both a lot more clear to users and a more powerful middle finger to Apple if projects just dropped support for macOS.

Apple isn’t feeling the heat for the dumb decisions they make with their platform, users are because they get berated as idiots for ever owning an Apple device by frustrated maintainers.

I mean I’ve seen things like “the problem is not the $99 developer fee, it’s paying it to Apple”. If that’s how you feel then my offer to cover the fee so your project can publish notarized releases isn't going to go anywhere and your project wont ever properly support macOS. Sorry.
I worry about it because unlike most other things, land is a zero sum game.

To my mind, corporations are only good if they 1. provide value 2. capture some fraction of that value, because you have a win-win situation on your hands.

This applies well to production of products, which is obviously not zero-sum. Land is, however, so whenever a corporation is making a profit off of land ownership, it means an individual (or government) is not.
LOL! I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional comedy and it makes it even better
Repeal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and additionally add weapons of any type and in this case add military style gear - e.g. the storm trooper stuff. Add more advertising regulations like alcohol/tobacco.

FB already prohibits weapons, alcohol, tobacco ads etc..

Gun manufacturers would have to KYC like banks, probably have to add big insurance costs and ultimately charge (significantly) higher prices which should hopefully reduce the amount of weapons in the US which is already ridiculously high. The tobacco playbook I'm talking European increasing costs.
Do we only have 60 harvests left?
U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
Well one is supposed to implement cooperatively scheduled coroutines, and the other is pthreads.
Ah yes, I'm from Portugal!
I've seen a lot of reports published lately that indicate that 2020 saw massive purchases of guns by people who weren't already owners. Its been a rough year with a lot of uncertainty and plenty of motivating examples for people of most political leanings to justify buying one, or two or some level 4 plates and Nods.

Ammunition has been difficult to get since April and its going to stay that way for some time I think. Lots of popular models of firearm have been non stop sold out. The tactical gear industry has seen a huge boom in sales. What used to be very small and niche is now massive. Before 2020 most people already in the hobby didn't own plate carriers, battle belts, helmets etc. Now that stuff is just as scarce as anything else.
Yeah, but anyone who knew a thing about Usenet back in the day knows that was false.

I mean, it was a theory that was popular in the 00s, mostly because a ton of people at that time didn't have experience with Usenet.

But a lot of vile language was used in the clear, signed with the real names of many individuals. Anonymity doesn't seem to change much. Humans will be humans, whether or not they're anonymous.
> 2/3rds of millennials have not heard of Auschwitz

If this is true - which I very much doubt as a millenial, isn't that a giant failing of the US school system first and foremost?
“Fight like hell” is very common language in politics.

A lesson all politicians need to take to heart is that there are people running around in our population who take everything very literally and very seriously. The hyperbole of political rhetoric needs to adapt to the deinstitutionalization that is modern society. But an accounting of politicians using this kind of hyperbole would show no favor to either party - in fact IME more often than not it’s the party not in power at any given moment that uses the most impassioned rhetoric.

We can scold Trump for using playing with matches in a dry forest, but let’s not pretend this is uniquely inciting language. That standard would convict politicians of all stripes.
Unlike Google, DDG doesn't filter out StormFront and other similar sites (Bing also doesn't, apparenty). I think that is good because tech companies shouldn't impose politics on very basic tech like search indexes. I wonder how long it will last though.
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That's what I'm complaining about...

Facebook is allowed to show adverts and related links next to conpiracy theory content that just dends the readers deeper into their rabit holes.

They should be mandated to advertise educational and mental health support services next to such content.

What is happening now is like advertising best shotguns, gas ovens and sleep pills next to suicide apologetics, but on societal level.
This is a pretty reductionist view of war. You can't reasonably deny the importance of economic factors, but attributing all of war to economics is a very opinionated view and I would argue pretty specific to a particular academic school of thought. I'm reminded of Stringer Bell in "The Wire," trying to use his business school lessons to evaluate every part of the drug trade. Avon stops him mid-sentence and says, "String, this ain't about your business class. This ain't that part of it. It's that other thing." Sometimes that's true of war, too.
RICHARD SCOTT, DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH & QUEENSBERRY owns 280,000 acres of the UK. A country 40 times smaller in area than the US.
I'm not sure why a court would have to 'allow' a company to enforce their own terms of service. The other way around would work: if a court finds that the terms of service are in violation of the law then an action can be reversed and terms can be revised.

It seems that courts are now being used as some sort of universal arbiter in every disagreement instead of using them for what they are for: decide on legal disputes. Not ever disagreement is a legal dispute but treating it like that makes society brittle and dystopian.
No, not in the same way. Convnets and lstms worked great when they were invented in the 90s. Yes, they were limited by the available compute power but they did work well right away.
That's good elaboration I would say. Thanks
Amazon started bringing Parler's attention to serious contract violations back in November, which Parler failed to adequately address. Amazon says that in fact the situation at Parler got worse, not better, after their months of warnings.