skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So maybe the real answer to the question is that European tech companies are just not making a lot of money?
>eminds me of a light novel, where the MC used witches' magics to bootstrap his industrial process, instead of fighting directly with magic.

Out of curiosity, do you recall the title / author?
Except for the Senate run-off and of course the White House, the Republicans actually were quite successful in the 2020 election; they took back 9-10 seats in the House, flipped one Senate seat, and won many state and local elections.

It may be that the people in power will make it harder in the future for the opposition party to win, but at a grassroots level there is still substantial traction for a moderate/conservative party.
My, what a very polite maintainer! It makes me a bit sad that I couldn't ever figure out how to submit my bug report to the WireGuard project (if I recall I had to sign up for a mailing list? but I just want to submit one bug, not become a maintainer). Although, perhaps that added friction is what saves Jason the energy to be so polite when a nasty blog article hits the front page :)

On the off chance this post is read, the bug report is simple: WireGuard for Mac doesn't respect /etc/hosts.
Ask HN: Could anyone provide feedback on this news platform I created? Thanks!
The app allows anyone to post news articles and offers a positive perspective in the way news is shared. (This post has been reposted due to a suggestion)
They don’t vote!
I read that as scarcity of options - your only option is eat junk food and get obese. With abundance of options you can decide to eat healthy or junk.
> If so, then why was the waitress not disturbed? It is not the cockroach, but the inability of those people to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach, that disturbed the group. I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, it’s my inability to manage my reaction to the words around me.

This sounds like a reference to stoic philosophy (of which I am not a fan), but I mean, don’t phobias exist, and don’t degrees of intensity exist so that it’s actually impossible to resist a trigger?

I personally used to be really scared of roaches, too, and I got over it not because I learned to control the fear itself, but because I thought about roaches differently (something along the lines of considering them weak). There is no controlling that fear because fear in this context is intense—I still get jerky sometimes when a cockroach shows up by surprise, or when there’s more than one of them, or worst of all, when they actually fly. I can usually avoid making a scene when there’s room to run somewhere else or if there’s an insect spray nearby, but stuck in a room with these triggers? I might go insane.

The conclusion that the women screamed because they’re not in control is not only lazy and prejudiced, it’s also an arrogant epistemological claim on something that the author doesn’t actually know, which is whether the fear or disgust of roaches is simply more intense for other people.
Until Apple decides to update Safari to block it.
Sounds like a derivative of Wittgenstein's work.
It's unclear whether "1" was actually possible, given the political/legal structure of the United States. Who, exactly, would be promulgating and enforcing such an order?
Why the downvotes for this question? Given recent events, this seems like an incredibly important consideration. No matter your perspective, this seems like something to think about.

If you think Amazon did the right thing, then you would probably want them to be able to refuse routes from networks that are too dangerous.

If you think Amazon did the wrong thing, then you may be afraid that this gives them even more power to de-platform.

Either way, this seems relevant to me. Thanks OP for asking the question.
Would be pretty easy for Apple and Google to remove them from stores
I liked it. Thanks.
How did correctly indicating that us police are unusually violent set the stage for an attack, by various groups, including police officers, on elected officials and the capitol?
Great book! Super interesting analogy to Nantucket being the Silicon Valley of the era, pulling in top young talent from the whole east coast.

Avoid the movie at all costs.
Only for very simple systems. Many are complicated which produce artifacts that are executed to produce other artifacts (which are also compiled). As arbitrary binaries are executed during the build, and the correctness may depend on native execution, this is far from as trivial as you might think. Have you ever compiled Emacs (at least in its 18 version)?

Building under QEMU is obvious, however the native hardware is actually faster.
For me and my company and friends this has meant more realizing the features of things we already paid for (Office 365, etc) rather than paying for Dropbox.

The last thing my free account does is sync my 1Password - and I’ll likely go cloud on that soon anyway
What happens when the government doesn't have enough money to pay for retirement anymore? The system works well when you have growing workforce and productivity. It doesn't work with growing number of retirees and shrinking active workforce.
That’s mind blowing
Nah, it’s a broadcast medium, not a community. Twitter is awful too, just for different reasons.
Please point out which websites have been blocked in browsers.
This isn't about you, but rather about the people who posted video that puts them at the scene of a crime. Parler-the-app doesn't broadcast location information that i'm aware of.
Very cool. I especially like that it still has the mouse built-in. I hate moving my hand to a separate mouse while programming.
this is HN - contrarians don't need to love Trump to love complaining and arguing
> Experts can bitch all they want about how Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't a 'real astrophysicist', but lets see you try to talk to the general public, or for that matter, college students starting their senior year as undergrads in your field.

You mean like Feynman, Hawking, Penrose, Brian Green, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Freeman Dyson, Edward Frenkel and so on?

I agree that it is not a sin to be "just" a science popularizer _a la_ Asimov and people who hold that belief are just being obtuse. Equally obtuse are the people who think "Those scientists cannot communicate with the common man", well guess what, that skill is distributed almost randomly among that lot, so for every scientist with an opaque style there is a wonderful communicator. The same happen in IT/CS and in any other field.
> I have worked 20 years in the same job and so have my colleagues. This is a cultural difference I feel.

I think this is part of your company's culture, not your society's culture. There are also lots of Dunder-Mifflin type companies in America where nobody has any ambition and everyone just coasts until retirement.
Considering left-wing riots are organized and streamed, and encouraged on Facebook and Twitter openly - this is a very weak "explanation".
I wish nest.js could get more love. I love Angular and it is a great feeling using nest.js.
> but the app being censored from Apple Store and Google Play Store prevents them from having a meaningful presence ever again anyway

Right, like OnlyFans has no meaningful presence
While I get that you’re joking, couldn’t Facebook exist for literally decades at their current scale (or near it if stuff breaks) just on the metal they already own?
They have a Progressive Web App, which should be able to be loaded up and a home screen shortcut just like any app would. But it's not straight forward for Android (Parler users were trying to explain how to do it to each other with hilarious results), and I believe on Apple it can't be done.

There have been called for regulating how Apple and Google protect their app stores after Parler was pulled, but I don't think that's the solution. The solution is getting them to integrate PWAs into their ecosystem. They don't want to, because it draws from their app store revenue.
Agreed. We have Office 365 because it was cheaper than hosted Exchange which we were using before. Dropbox needed email/collaboration tools (imagine Teams but years ago) - not dependencies on software that includes the same functionality.
> We need smaller innovative businesses to succeed too. It will be a sad day when a $2B business can't survive and is forced to sell.

That is normal under capitalism; There are some allowed advantages like vertical integration and economics of scale for dominant buisnesses and many recognized monopolistic practices (like bundling across markets, zero-rating your service trough mobile providers, and free-offerings to undercut competition, etc)
My guess is they won't struggle too much to get the site itself back online (they at least claim it was "bare metal", so charitably just containers), but replacing the email service providers and other authentication / SaaSy bits will be a challenge.
Check out solidrun, they have a variety of boards with multiple Ethernet ports.

I used to wonder why embedded boards didn’t have multiple Ethernet boards and why it’s not common to use ethernet to connect to peripherals instead of “old interfaces”. Until I tried it for a project. It turns out Ethernet uses roughly 0.5 to 2W per port depending on speed (that’s 1-4W per connection).
Partisan support for certain industries and business interests is not new. Are you also up in arms that extractive/energy industries lean Republican?
What China’s New Digital Currency Tells Us About a Cashless Future
I think there are a few problems with this theory.

First, what Trump actually told the protestors on the 6th was to go peacefully. His plain language has been analyzed by qualified legal scholars and they conclude it does not meet the very high threshold of “fighting words”. [1]

Second, as we can clearly see, the attacks on the capital were planned well in advance of Trump’s speech and therefore could not have been incited by that speech in the first place.

Third, the violent protesters had already started breaching the capital while Trump was still speaking a mile away.

So I think there are important facts on the ground that do not support the allegation that Trump’s speech on the 6th incited a spontaneous mob.

I think you could argue that denial of the election result and false claims of election fraud — over many weeks and by many people including Trump — led in part to certain people to plan for violence on the 6th.

The people that planned and executed the violence should be charged with crimes and face a jury of their peers.

My understanding is that the laws against inciteful speech require the speech to result in imminent lawless action. If I listen to a podcast on Monday and decide to violently protest next week, the podcast would not be illegal speech.

[1] - https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/01/11/democr...
Read "Sapiens" 35 hour working week as a hunter gather is far preferable to the 60 + home chores of the homo softwaricus.
This is why I shared it! Thanks for reading. It's very crazy.
Just by looking at how easily their entire db was downloaded, wouldn’t be surprise they hacked most things together and hardcoded a lot of stuff to work with AWS
> I don’t think you can, but, so what?

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1347574973972545536

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080
This is an area that's still in its early stage, but yes, it would seem so.

Modules that are a few kilobytes in size have already been tested.

Even taking cryogenic operation into account, memory of this type consumes 10-100x less power than CMOS technology at roughly the same clock speed [1]

This is a very active field of research and there's a plethora of different approaches.

My guess is that 20 years from now there could be three types of computing:

• cryogenic quantum-computing for specialised tasks

• cryogenic ultra-high-performance computing

• high temperature computing (traditional CMOS-based)

with the first two not being available to consumers or small companies. Maybe it's going to be like in the 1970s and early 1980s when mainframes ruled supreme and you would rent these machines or compute time thereon.

People are accustomed to "the cloud" already, so it's not really a regression going back to centralised computing for a bit.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320891331_Experimen...
At this point - do you really think Apple is above this?
Is that based on reading of actual research or is this based on movies?

You know, movies are pretty bad at very easy and tangible things like physics. The can't adequately show very contemporary activities like hacking or programming. How accurate do you think is portrayal of prehistoric cultures in mainstream entertainment movies and TV shows?
Tesla asked to recall 158,000 cars for failing displays
Not sure why the downvotes. This essentially is the same as my take. This is the inevitable result of pushing your brand as "no content moderation" but not actually having any skills or plans on what to do when it eventually caught up with them.

Anyone familiar with 4chan knows that some of the earliest content that was banned on the platform include childporn and organizing raids/doxxing. If you read the terms of service, you'll see that content is still banned (even if not uniformly enforced).

The fact that parler couldn't muster even 4chan levels of moderation shows you that they really had no comprehension of the content creators they would be courting with their service.
Microsoft OneNote has pretty good OCR of documents and full-text search.
Neat! Works well here, it'd prolly look much better w/bilinear interpolation sampling the cell states per-pixel.
Protesters Riot At Inauguration 95 Arrested (2017)
I recently learned, people worked less when we were hunter/gatherer, had more leisure time.

I don't want to skip on modern medicine and shit, but it does make you think...

[*] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I
That's a reasonable point but the context of trying to prevent an incumbent from being turned out of office suggests these insurrectionists were more reactionary than revolutionary - that is, they were trying to prevent rather than institute change. Admittedly, this a rather fine semantic distinctions, and many Trump supporters consider their guy to be fighting against institutional corruption in DC.
Can an Indie Startup Challenge This $14.28B Market Cap Company?
The question wasn't about whether a "consumer group" would be legal. It was about whether a union would. Those are different. I don't know whether there is any such possibility of legal recognition of a "union" of customers having any meaningful right to come to any kind of binding bargaining agreement with these companies, which is why the distinction matters.

And being "below its peak" is completely irrelevant to the practicality of this endeavor when we're talking about a drop from, say, 99% to 94%.

The overwhelming majority of people are not only not annoyed enough by big tech to take action, but would immediately retreat from any such action the moment they realized what it would cost them.

A miniscule fraction of the people who use these services, or even pay for these services, care enough about their misdeeds to stop using them personally, much less to join some sort of advocacy group about it.
Cryogenic memory can be orders of magnitude more efficient than traditional RAM, even taking the cooling into account.
“there is still substantial traction for a moderate/conservative party” which the Republican Party has actively been moving away from since Newt Gingrich intensified the obstructionist power politics that both parties are on rails about.
In contrast, Gab actually owns their own ASN and announces their own routes[1]. Much harder to deplatform. I'd expect no less from a YC alum!

[1] https://bgp.he.net/AS42651
Frankly, its time the coastal populations to start moving in-land and working remotely....amazing a what a small population shift could do for our politics
Huh, the stupid was there before Candidate Trump (before that, he was just some fuckwit from New York hanging out with Epstein), remember Palin and the Tea Party? And the birthers who could never be satisfied with any kind of certificate?

Although, Palin came along in 2008. Twitter got popular in 2007 and Facebook opened to the public in 2006, the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and with it the always-connected world. I guess social media did accelerate the destruction of civilization..
Python community and resources are amazing!

I really don't like Python but I often find loads of code in Python which do exactly what I need, so I prototype things in Python and then port them to whatever language I'm using.

I can't say I've been impressed with Python docs, it's more the surrounding community / blog posts / stack overflow which does it for me.
Post is generated by AI.
> I will do like my parents did and emigrate.

Where to? Nearly every country in the western world is far less absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you'd find them far more socialist than you'd like too.
A larger fraction of Americans have a tertiary degree than almost all European countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

> Personally, I believe letting people leave the US without monetary penalties so they can pursue cultures that more match their own values is the solution.

There are no monetary penalties unless you are both much wealthier than the average person and have substantial unrealized capital gains. The hard part is finding another country that will take you, not leaving.
> I believe on Apple it can't be done

You're incorrect.
"The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with" - that's quite a leap. Isn't it Trump and the republicans who want to repel Section 230 so that all websites are forced to moderate content?
Let's not forget foxnews - the most watched cable news in the United States. It has been spewing republican propaganda since 1996, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
More Facebook users than Parler call for violent and government overthrowing.
https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/10/31/what-is-social-cooli...
If they don't moderate better, I'm sure Apple would love to use that as an excuse to remove FB from its stores. If Apple thought they could get away with it, they would. And they probably could get away with it if FB provided them with a solid enough pretext.

FB is probably praying that the Inauguration goes off without a hitch, or that's the deathnell for the light content moderation regime of FB.
That would make a truly horrifying business book: "The Art of the Deal of Ruin in a Nation"
You don't even need to do that. The actual key to running an extremist / subversive / hate / unpopular website is NOT connecting the site to any in-person activities. As long as your website is just some text floating out there in the network there is a lot of wiggle room. Sure, companies like Google or WordPress will ban you if they don't like you, but you can still get service from Cloudflare, major web hosts, or domain registration without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
That's my point. Things have to be designed with the understanding that "people who won't read the instructions" are the rule, not the exception. That has to be the expectation if anything is ever going to improve.

Unless you know you're dealing with a very specific subset of the general population who loves reading, design around things that don't need to be read.
More than half were inattentive drivers striking a stopped Waymo vehicle, with the majority of that 18 being not at fault. I feel like this is a disengenious article title.
nick, on several platforms you have done nothing but kvetch about your elixir onboarding experience. I think it's pretty good for most people, but at the same time it's just not for everyone, and I can think only one of two things is going on.

1. You drew the unlucky straw and it's not for you, for whatever reason.
2. You have a closed-minded mentality and it's keeping you from learning elixir.
Democrats want to repeal Section 230 for the opposite reason as the Republicans, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-b... where Biden directly calls for this.

Not that that helps the original poster's point. The Democrats have been mad at FB and Twitter for much longer than the Republicans have!
For a few thousand dollars a month I operate my own servers in n>1 physical locations with different companies and different transit providers.

I figured it out. Pirate Bay figured it out. Any company that genuinely cares about eliminating SPOFs has figured it out.
While reading I was remembering the old saying: "If you dont have something nice to say about...", but that is not the point I guess, the point is that it come across as disingenuous and faux-polite.
Tutorial: Sorting ~1761 subreddits to see which subreddits are popular
To be fair, there are a number of companies who have made a go at open source routers but ended up deciding on a proprietary path after all—thinking especially here of Ubiquiti's RouterStation line and the Mikrotik RouterBoard. Plus there are a number of options for open source router OSes that you can install on standard PC hardware.

I don't know that this proves anything one way or another, but I think it's a bit simplistic to imply that this kind of thing doesn't exist purely because it's never been tried.
U.S. executes its first female death row inmate in decades
The CEO only earning a few hundred thousand is mind blowing? Really?
Hahah, I used to do something very similar as a kid, and my parents called me out on it. Having narrowed down my options, I'd announce out loud "I am going to have x". If I felt disappointed at that point, I'd revise it and have the other thing instead.
Partner with Netflix. Offer Dropbox mini+Netflix for $1/mo more than Netflix. Offer upgrades.
I think this hyperbole has more to do with the H1-B caps and the Section 230 saber-rattling than anything that actually happened on Parler.

Trumpism came close to inflicting a hemorrhaging wound on their business models, but it missed, and now it will be eliminated with extreme prejudice.

Then these boomers rode up to DC to unwittingly put more wind in the valley's sails.

Patriot Act II, here we come!
do you feel like the code presented is broken? I don't. Could it be better? Maybe... But how much? Is it worth a whole new pattern to learn?
Yes, my cultural sensitivity training and experience says Germans (let's call him Heinz) are abrasive to Brits and Americans (John). Germans are very direct and mean what they say far more literally than John. Indirect questions and suggestions, that might sound like a very straightforward thing to you are nothing Heinz will understand. John: "Should we talk about this some more?" G: "No, I don't think that is necessary". If John takes up the topic again, Heinz will be annoyed with him, because John asked for his decision, heard his decision and ignored it.

If John criticizes Heinz in the usual english "irrelevant positive, important negative, irrelevant positive" structure, Heinz's takeaway will be "mostly positive with minor problems". All the while John meant the negative to be a major problem and just wanted to cushion the blow. If Heinz wants to convey criticism, he will give you just the negative, nothing else. Whatever isn't mentioned is OK. John will understand this as devastating criticism, because absolutely nothing positive was mentioned. But actually Heinz liked everything and just has this minor nit to pick... If Heinz likes everything he'll say "it's fine". John might be wondering why he didn't mention anything Heinz liked explicitly and if this is Heinz being passive aggressive.

There is a lot more to it, and of course there are nuances to it, e.g. Heinz might come from various German regions that differ in their usual behaviour and may even seem overly rude or overly friendly to other Germans.
Trump's Snapchat account to be permanently banned