skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great to hear but I'm guessing your wife's school is located in an upper class neighborhood where there's plenty of room and time for homeschooling, at least one member of the household can take care of the kids at any time, and in general education problems are no issue. The reality for not-so-well-doing families is a very different one, starting from there being no quiet place in the apartment, let alone for multiple kids at the same time, no equipment for home schooling, and parents being busy with work and not able to take care or help. These problems being amplified by the pandemic is tragic, to say the least, for a whole generation. It's also extremely frustrating for those who've fought for inclusion and against social determination in elementary schools for all their professional life. This problem will definitely come back biting society.

There's no lack of schooling software. In fact, preparing high quality digital materials for education in a "literal" style such that attendees could comprehend and change those themselves has been a major use case for 1990s (HyTime and SGML) media authoring systems, with high profile figures (TechnoTeacher/Dr Macro) being editors or sitting on the board of said standards. But the truth is that as long as public schooling doesn't get properly funded to pay many more teachers, there's no chance to maintain education standards. Right now, in my country teachers are expected (or at least were expected in the latter half of last year) to be present in school and organize home schooling at the same time, all the while being exposed to Covid, which can't possibly work. The priority of the school administration/government seems to be to avoid giving any legal reason for a right to repeat years or appeal final exams because that would break HR and financial means.
As a Russian movie quote goes, [after someone disapproves of a pair of boots] "Aha, so the boots are good, gotta buy them".
Sure, on any particular day it could be more or less helpful. But It if they weren't experimenting for years prior it would probably be even less helpful than a bad experiment of today.

(Of course this depends a lot on how your definition of "helpful" aligns with Google's)
and vue was 3rd. but that's besides the point. my point is svelte has an advantage in such metrics as anyone who is slightly less than enthusiastic would ignore it and move on.

as such, it won't remain constant as svelte community grows
Thought this was interesting given they just announced their series B. Per the announcement email: "Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised an additional $140 million in Series B funding, bringing Webflow’s valuation north of $2.1 billion."
More likely what is happening in the investment part of this is something similar to what's happening in the other components of the announcements. Which is investing in geographic areas that typically are not places where white people typically frequent (and which often get shut out of other investment opportunities). Edit: to expand on this a little: if you solicit investment proposals only from businesses headquartered in downtown Detroit, you will get a different makeup of founders than if you only solicit from those within an hour drive of e.g. Sand Hill Road. This is legal.

Investing in HBCUs isn't racial discrimination because any student is welcome there. And obviously anyone can go to the Developer Academy in downtown Detroit, but Detroit is obviously an intentional choice.

And choosing to invest in "companies with diverse founders" would seem to be more defensible than what the Northern California VCs typically do. Read it as "invest in Black and brown companies also" as opposed to the prevailing standard of "invest in Black and brown companies rarely."
Some of these comments feel like astroturfing, doesn’t feel like a regular HN thread
I was pondering a less organized approach: What if we could persuade 'everybody' to take an #InternetDayOff every once in a while? If enough people thought it was a good idea and could step away, a full 24 hours without traffic to some of the big popular services might give them pause.
Attack ideas not people. I'm sorry you're offended, which is an irony given that you're arguing for free speech.

From a neutral perspective, members of a government should support the institution of that government. Failure to do so undermines them. Deliberately attacking the institutions of government is quite literally sedition.

If you wish to discuss how the US deals with violent protesters then I can't help you. Neither of us are there! The only reason this is relevant at all to anybody outside the US is the out-sized influence their government has on the world and the out-sized influence their corporations have on citizen's lives outside their own borders.
The Apple guidelines clearly state that donations through Safari are allowed. Nobody's being a special snowflake here, much to your chagrin I'm sure.
I’m absolutely sure this is true.
What you described isn't necessarily positive. If you are depressed or self harm, maybe keep watching those videos are bad for you.
"... therefore we should take our cut."
>Ideally, face representations should be 3D stereoscopic

I read this and thought of how under used classic side-by-side stereoscopic imagery is. Then I imagined a Zoom meeting where everyone is slightly cross eyed. Just wanted to share this picture with you.
correct, but the tuition is peanuts compared to US or in some cases places like India.
Indeed the fact that, in many cases, one has to compile software themselves just to get a reasonably recent version of it is one of Linux's most colossal and inexcusable failures.

Fortunately people are starting to come around to things like AppImage, FlatPak, and (to a lesser extent) Docker in order to deal with it.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got kicked out of a lot of places.
What's the recommended Redis configuration for JuiceFS?
I think it helps motivate beginners if you pick a stack that allows them to create a modern UI, even if the functionality is something as useless as a vuvuzela app.
The Histogram Diff Algorithm
Sinister could mean left-handed. Even more sinister: snakes could all be left-handed, and we'd never know! O_O
Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
Don't want to be doing whataboutism but I have hard time taking this seriously give in last two months apple was caught,

> knowingly used child labor. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...

> Using forced muslim labor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...

These are like the worst things a corporation can do. These seem a bit more important to address. no? Apple is a multi trillion $$ company, is it really that hard to create "no child labor in our supply chain" policy.

These racial justice initiatives are just a marketing tool to increase their USA sales ? Muslim slave labor doesn't buy iphones so its ok?
Is this a way to get enough brownie points in the eyes of public and Government, so that they won't end up getting broken into separate hardware and service companies due to Epic lawsuit, anti-trust legislation, etc.?

EDIT: Changed language with unintended connotations.
OK, maybe I'm ill-informed on this issue. So Europe's problem is that we've got neither petrodollars nor CCP?
>Court has nothing to do with elections, and never should.

>Further, if the Court's took a chance to make a positive impact by defying tradiion, slowing things down, cracking open every last detail of process

Do you see the inconsistency here?
Putting 503 as the intro screen really ups the difficulty.
App Store gatekeeping needs to burn. It may be helpful for the tech-illiterate who want simple and safe apps, but it's not a viable for a healthy ecosystem of broad ranging applications. It's crazy to think I can't install an app from a developer I trust from their website.
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-afte...

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/11/china-surveillance-googl...

Google is a private company, so don't you dare to criticize them.
So many questions. Would this be a union for all search engines, or just Google's?

Why is it needed?

What enforcement would there be, if the search engine were not performing to the union's expectations and needs?

Good old fashioned competition has usually been the way people deal with a service or product they didn't find satisfactory. Try DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Baidu. Vote with your feet.

I still think Google is the best general search engine out there, but DDG is my daily driver because it's good enough and provides a bit more privacy (or so I imagine).
I'm OK with government getting AI tech first. In my country I have say in how my government works. If I don't like what they are doing I can elect better people, even run for office myself if necessary. I don't have any control over tech companies or other private actors out to make a buck.
> Government regulations setting limits on the powers attached to AI might.

This only works if all governments agree on this rule. AI is an economic competitive advantage, and it’s in every countries best interest that advances in AI are developed in their borders.
Think of it as MP3 vs Ogg Vorbis. It's equivalent, slightly newer and a bit nicer, but really the benefit is that it's patent-unencumbered and you are free to tinker with the ISA and build your own versions at will.
How is Apple giving 100MM to "invest in Black and Brown companies" discriminating against anyone?
Fair enough.

I mean, it could be both, no? Maybe it was gradually adopted and changed from another technique. But maybe it is just one smart guy.

The interesting thing is whether the species (or even other species) will adopt this over the next 50 years, I suppose.
I generally agree.

There's a good trick that works around the majority of the problems of handing out your cell phone number: People rarely do it and most are not aware of this, but you can use landline or SIP numbers as well for Signal and Whatsapp and probably others, for which neither SIM-swapping nor SS7 attacks apply. Instead of an SMS, you can receive an ordinary phone call, and you only need to receive it once (and can then disconnect your phone [client] again).
> I have a silly question.

I have a sillier answer. You could put it on github and invite any volunteer
with an Apple developer account to fork it and cope with Apple on your behalf.
You could also pledge to do it yourself if you raise $99 plus the cost of
your time in sponsorship.
Pat was fairly effective at VMW. The fact that he himself is not new to Intel is probably beneficial for the company, but there's a pretty substantial difference between being CTO and actually steering the ship.

I'm not comparing Gelsinger to Steve Jobs in a general sense, but Jobs wasn't new to Apple when he returned -- and yet Jobs' return to leadership was transformative for the company.
Cool. Happy to see that they're putting their weight behind an important cause.
I also got the BSOD in both firefox and edge.
This won’t change anything, by the time Intel gets back on it’s feet, big techs will be building their own silicon and AMD will have eaten up whatever is left of Intel’s lunch.
I've heard people describe a situation in ML (could be hill climbing) where an optimising algorithm will get stuck in a valley. At that point it will try various things in order to get unstuck, often involving a good dose of randomness. What's to say this didn't happen to op or that you really won't start seeing recommendations for Indian train death videos?
I think that's a distinction without a difference. Low quality coins and low quality information are both easier/cheaper to produce and so dominate. It's the same effect.
Connected. My IP is German when I use the VPN.
Interesting that an app is not needed...
I downloaded an iPhone vpn profile and it simply worked.
what do you think about that?
So TikTok is to help LGBTQ children find wholesome content? Wow. Just wow.
WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
Text is recorded, it has to if you want persistant chat.

Audio maybe - but stored indefinitly? No.
This spoils any optimism I may have had for Intel. Reading that this came due to a search for "Strategic alternatives" is damning. Intel is like Boeing. They make one thing and they used to make it very well, silicon. If Boeing told you they were looking into alternatives to making planes would you be optimistic?

It feels like they're throwing in the towel on being the leader, giving up on trying to catch up process wise and will look to maximize their existing revenue. RIP
Right you are, thanks.

I thought "this word is so absurd nad definetely not German, no need to translate it". And I was wrong. Leaving it up as a fun fact.
We've finally found a more insidious argument than "think of the children": "think of the gay children"!
Really fun, unfortunately it froze during second covid phase.
I don't know, there's something reaaaaally dystopian and weird and fun but concerning about the chain of events that led to that situation.

I personally use ublock to correct in real time my world lenses.
Right. And Rachelbythebay is way more technically inclined than most users; if she wasn't able to correctly apply the blame to Apple, then normal users are definitely not going to be able to do that. Developers need to be more up-front about why these issues exist, we need an education push.

For all the criticism about how Fortnight framed its issues on iOS (and some of that criticism was warranted), coming out of the gate strong with a consistent message that Apple was to blame was likely the only way to get any 'normal' user to even consider that there were multiple issues and viewpoints at play. There's no such thing as subtlety or nuance when you're trying to talk to that demographic about why their phone/desktop doesn't do the thing they want it to do.

In the long term, I don't know. On one hand, these issues do affect final users, but communicating with final Mac users is difficult.

But on the other hand, Wireguard isn't going away, it's a clearly better protocol. So right now, final Mac users assume it's the devs' fault. But are they going to assume that when literally everyone around them has decent VPN clients and their Mac experience is just miserable? Mac users aren't completely isolated from the Linux/Windows world, at some point they're going to realize the pattern if all of the software on their platform is just worse.
http://archive.is/ERYQ5
Apple how about you let the social justice fight to the NGOs and the political parties and instead you announce:

1. A less blood-sucking fee structure in your app store.

2. A chance to install 3rd party software from outside your official channels if an user so decides.

3. Let your workers to unionize without any repercussions

4. You only will manufacture in contractors with a public verifiable record of complying with the labor laws.

5. You will not ban apps for ideological reasons, unless you are required to do it by law.
> I live in a big city and most of the feed is highly sexualised, highly political, or highly prank-related.

More anecdata: I also live in a big city - London - and I don't see this. I joined TikTok just a few weeks ago and I was surprised at how overwhelmingly positive and fun it all is.
Mine is mostly jokes on tech or politics. Lots of fun. Absolutely enjoy it.
Joe Biden, the president elect, just gave a speech saying "Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses..." regarding pandemic recovery. This is a very popular approach with a large cultural group in the US.
I think you can replace EU with "the rest of the world". In Asia, we are also jealous of Silicon Valley.

Obligatory article: https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/11/why-the-canadian-tech-scene...
China used to have something quite similar to Twitter
Sentiment Analysis: First Steps with Python's NLTK Library
SiFive CPUs are just as closed as Arm ones, you just pay a royalty to SiFive instead of Arm.

Only the ISA itself is open, (fast) implementations are not. (for any commercial-grade one instead of academic projects)
If it puts a focus on Engineering leadership, it could work.
Show HN: VisChip8 – A cross-platform visual Chip-8 emulator
Apparently gab mirrored his entire Twitter feed.

https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump
Google is silently censoring search results
Apple and Huawei are very recent phenomenons in Europe.

GSM, and today's mobile networks, are essentially products of subsidized European national telcoms.

The problem is rather that Europeans have historically been ineffective or slow at understanding end-user "cultural" products. American pop culture still dominates, while locals usually seem like poor imitations.

But the value produced by FANGs is essentially cultural, rather than technological or industrial. This thinking is suspicious and foreign to European engineers. Boomer engineers and industrialists really struggle to grasp this and it's still a point of contention even though few know how to articulate it.
My doctor requested that I get a diagnostic colonoscopy. Because I needed one under my insurance plan I had to pay the full cost, over $3k. If I didn't need one it would be a "screening" colonoscopy, and covered in full by the insurance.

Under what logic does that make sense, that you get insurance coverage for a procedure but only if you don't really need it? Does it work like that anywhere outside of the U.S.?

The colonoscopy was completely clear. Two years later I was having constipation and bloating problems and went to a gastroenterologist. He examined me, asked a bunch of questions, and I asked for his advice. He said he really couldn't tell me anything ... without a colonoscopy. The two year old one didn't tell him enough, he said.

Now I'm supposed to drop another $3k, very likely for another clear test result, just to hear what the doctor says I should do about my constipation and bloating?

It felt like a scam. Instead of getting advice from a specialist M.D. I was driven to get it from the internet. And dang if it didn't work. I went on a low-residue diet that resolved my digestive problems almost immediately and has had numerous other benefits. My diabetes is in complete remission, I've lost weight, etc. But when I asked the gastroenterologist if diet changes would help, his answer was short and simple: "No."

So I'm very happy to see far less expensive alternatives. One less leverage point for the health care system to empty my wallet.
> Do you not find it suspicious that on election night four states where Trump was ahead simultaneously decided to stop counting, something that has never happened before, and Biden had huge spikes after they started counting again.

You mean when they started counting mail-in and absentee votes, a voting method which Trump had been arguing against for months, and that Democrats had been pushing? No, that isn't surprising at all—that what you should have expected to see.

> They only did a random sampling of signature checks in one county in Georgia. That's not a full audit.

"The recount was the third tally of votes in the presidential race in the state. After the initial count following Election Day, Raffensperger selected the presidential race for an audit required by state law. The tight margin meant the audit required the roughly 5 million votes in that contest to be recounted by hand, he said. That count also affirmed Biden’s victory." - from https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-tr...
Which Are the Best Served Software Categories
Maybe a suction cup phone holder, if the back of your laptop is smooth enough...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
Hi there, Signal Android developer here. I'm sorry if you've had any sort of negative interaction with Signal in the past. I would personally never dismiss anyone's feedback on the grounds that this is a free app (the linked post was written by a very kind community member, not a Signal employee, but I also don't believe they were being dismissive either). Given that Signal has no metrics, feedback provided online is one of the only tools we have to know if we're working on the right things.

That being said, we do have a lot of feedback to comb through every day, so if you don't get response (or get a short one), the intention is not malicious -- it's sometimes just a result of having too much to read and too little time. But we truly do read nearly everything (particularly on Github), even if we don't have a comment on everything. I hope you continue to provide feedback!
> People say things like this in an attempt at shaming the original poster but one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok.

That's a good point. I was wondering about the initial seed of the feed.

It wasn't my intention to shame though.

Until tiktok has something like channels or theme/tag subscription it will remain a problem.
Second question is: Do HR departments record employee race?
Apple is owned or controlled by the US Government?

Apple has the JP Morgan handing out cheap loans backed by the Fed to it's customers?

Apple works in perfect sync with the US Government and execs 'disappear' when they don't?

What happened when Jack Ma dared to disagree with Xi?
True indeed! MS SQL Server is derived from Sybase, but the fork occurred decades ago. I don't know exactly when, but probably in 1990's?
Like anything else, the more you do it the easier it gets. Its not going to be instant but you'll get used to it.
Technically, isn't there an option in IPv4 for actual "one-to-many" broadcasting ? (Is there in IPv6 ?)
1. Does JuiceFS support TLS encrypted Redis?

2. Is there any access control and if there is who enforces it?
Not sure if the brightest minds end up at Huawei, because while the pay might be good, bright people might know that they need to expect different standards. Some do it for the money for a few years of course.

Often when we talk about tech, we talk about pop-tech. Aside from social media, chip giants like Intel or TSMC are the topic. The machines they use are build in the Netherlands by a company very few people know by name. Sure, the chip design is perhaps the essence, but I believe that US companies are just good at marketing, Chinas companies are good at scale.

Europe has many world market leader in the middle class. It is a misconception that you end up with a business titan in such a position.

It doesn't generate press, but I believe this is a far better foundation for an economy compared to having some superstars.

Although the US has certainly a lot of really good high tech. For example Texas Instruments has incredible tech just in their drawers, but they generate comparatively few headlines.
The UI looks a bit outdated, but it's so fast and usable that I don't mind the aesthetics at all. It had some annoyances like the inability to move topics, bit AFAIK they solved that with the latest release.

There isn't really much else I don't like about it, I never stop being amazed by how great the keyboard navigation is and how much the "river" of messages improves usability.
Publicly stating that investments from a fund will only be given to particular racial groups likely meets most people’s definition of “discrimination on the basis of race”.
With IPSec native client in MacOS, there are several problems:

- multiple users on the same machine cannot have their own credentials for the same tunnel; you have to create several tunnels and each user sees all of them. Obviously, you cannot save password then.

- if you want to setup routing for your L2TP split-tunel, you have to create bash scripts (ip-up, ip-down) in /etc/ppp. Not even Linux makes you to do this by hand.

Compared to this, Wireguard for Mac is much more polished.
Sorry, I was just responding to your comment on general:

> IIRC there is no other option if you want to include animation in a GitHub readme

Not the parent.

In any case, I wonder if it can be done with an embedded `video` tag. Maybe if the video is data URI encoded it could work?