skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it possible that they could in fact produce this data but were prevented from publicly saying so due to a gag order?

I'm asking specifically because I remember Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, also being tested in court in the past [1], and because of this I've chosen to trust them despite them falling under Five Eyes jurisdiction.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
Their device limit gave me my reason to leave them. When they started haemorrhaging corporate customers, they attacked their consumer users. I can't say I find the result hugely shocking.
In theory HN already has the perfect implementation of this: you can turn on "showdead" in your profile settings, then flagged posts should become visible to you on the frontpage (as long as they are highly upvoted like the rest). This approach solves the problem for those who dislike flagging, without inconveniencing those who like flagging. But I'm not sure it actually works, can someone check?
Maybe really old, but things are definitely more centralized then it was at the peak. IRC and forums are dead. Everyone has moved to things like FB and reddit, who have then killed off and censored many of these communities.
If you're a workaholic but your job is less than useless to the point that society would be better off if you didn't work, of course that will lead to mental health problems...

That said, the fact that someone would be willing to do overtime to harm society is probably a sign of mental problems to begin with... There is nothing more ridiculous than the idea of harming society though charity work and yet many people are doing it these days.
Welp, on a second look it turns out it wasn't you who made that accusation. I, uh, could probably have spent a few seconds checking that.
Oh man, even more conflict free and passive aggressive as well! The NPC's should love this. Then someone can build a scraper, and bam, here is your social credit score!
Yes, the US's industrial policy over the past several decades has been a disaster that squandered most of the benefits we accrued from being the only major country that didn't have to rebuild after WWII.
Hitler called his party socialist too. I'm not sure if anyone fell for it in the US then and it's really a more 1940s type corruption.

I'm probably saying the obvious but fun fact: These communist and fascist countries called themselves socialist and advertised themselves as such because it was socialists that fought against them the most. Socialists were the opposite to their authoritarian ways, so they lied to the people saying they were the same as their competitor.
As much as I love Apple, they can't even get Siri to work right, how would they be able to do proper Tesla level AI is beyond me.
Yes please change this URL!
As someone who was impacted by a past round of Uber layoffs, seeing this kind of messaging from the top is refreshing.
High-level designs of the SoC, not of those cores themselves is public for some platforms.

Based on whatever for the core doesn't matter, as the cores themselves in any case diverge quite a lot from Rocket.
I have no problem with that conclusion if it is supported by evidence, but I see a lot of people jumping to that conclusion without any substantive evidence.
> can't justify wasting that much time and stress on a platform that clearly is more concerned with meeting the needs of casual users and media professionals rather than developers

It’s because Apple prioritizes users over developers that they have so many users.
We don't have a Cursus Honorum.

Even before the Roman Empire, all people in public life had to spend time in the military. In the Roman Republic you were elected to office, by a very limited voting pool, which included your military connections. It was thought of as more civil than the Roman Kings, who got to be in charge by right of military force.

The Empire grew out of the Dictatorship, which had been a title you were appointed to for a limited term. The term limits went out the window, and they never really established an orderly transition. It was ad hoc for four centuries. They had hardly two successions in a row decided the same way.

Americans, by contrast, prided themselves on their rules. They explicitly contrast themselves with the UK, which had a hereditary monarch. They pride themselves on their orderly democratic transitions.

It helps that George Washington voluntarily limited his term. I believe that his decision not to run again is one of the most important events in history. Americans have almost literally deified Washington; there's an incredibly embarrassing statue of him dressed as Zeus in the Smithsonian.

Washington was a military leader who respected the orderly transition, and that had been a huge part of American self-image. For a military leader to use the military to seize power would be almost unthinkable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum
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Nix seems to effectively have solved this, by more or less vendoring everything, but in a way that still allows shared usage. Having made a few deb and rom packages in my life, I don't miss it. At all.
Wait you actually login to a bank using a password? It’s all single use codes from a booklet or two factor application here in Finland (and has been for decades now)

(And the two factor is the kind where you input a pin code every time)
Though a bit narrow, I have found desktop (menubar) timers with ticking in the background to help a lot. As a matter of fact, I see mine counting down from the 5 min I allocated to check out YC and I can hear the ticking. What has surprised me most is that I haven't yet developed the ability to tune it out - so I always hear it. It also acts like a metronome and I believe it makes me work a bit faster.
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When someone proposes censorship (whether by government or by tech companies), notice that it's never their speech that will be censored. It's always someone else's. It's not even "both yours and mine". It's just someone else's.

That asymmetry should make one question the justifications given for censoring people.
The American inventors thing could easily be a result of the population of websites that Google is sampling from. Culturally, "African-American Inventors" is a much more common topic than "America is so great, look at all of the inventors that live here." So if you randomly and fairly sample from every web page, you are likely to end up with exactly what you end up with.

(Disclaimer: I have not actually checked to see what the baseline distribution of websites is, I'm just guessing.)
I think there's a problem with this though: people aren't always in the mood for the same stuff. The easiest distinction here is 'inappropriate' content from the rest. Sometimes the user is interested in that content, but not every time they open the app. It might even be that most of the time they don't want to see that content.

I experience this with politics videos on YouTube. Sometimes I'm in the mood for that. One evening I'll watch a few politics videos. The next day, my recommendations are filled with politics. Over time my recommendations get back to normal. Then I'm struck with the politics bug again, but my recommendations don't give me an easy way to find more politics content. They're recommending the type of stuff I'd normally watch. The day after that I'm annoyed again about politics being all over my recommended lists.

It feels like I should have separate profiles based on the topics I'm interested in. The platforms don't seem to really support that though. Even different users seem to influence each others suggestions.
We are certainly diving into the lattice of this subject.
Apple dropping them?
If it doesn't make the DC protests more difficult, what's the point then?
3 is the key step. It's the issue the school I work at has seen. Most of our students don't see any reason to learn and so they do none of the activities, even when they know their grade depends on it. Unless you can fix that problem, which is a cultural problem, then remote education can never replace in-person education. In-person education works around it as the teacher is there to force them to be accountable and at least attempt to learn.
You haven't said anything about SiFive.
Any references on the Pope blessing a wafer? I really want to see this but can't find it
Yes but that US planes being tested over US soil. Later on they were used to spy on USSR. But why would Russia or any other country spy on the us coast and let US detect them.

The only explanation that to me is probable is those are US UFOs being tested/interacted on with unaware normal troops.

But then again, why? Why test them out near and airforce/navy exercises?
Raspberry Pi is sold in millions but still on 28nm
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Imagination GPU :( Notorious for being hard to support in open source. I'm not even sure there was a single free driver for those.

That likely means those devices are going to be stuck on an outdated kernel, unless Imagination steps in and provides ongoing binary support for newer kernels for their GPUs like x86 GPU manufacturers do. However, this being RISC-V with 2 existing devices total, I don't count on it.

So close, yet so far.
I've frequently felt that HN could be (even) more engaging if we could see a 'controversy' score of some sort. Simply put, the % of upvotes vs. all votes for a comment.

I feel this would be interesting because with the current approach, a comment can have +1 (yay!) upvotes, where in reality, 61 readers voted, 31 up, 30 down. Knowing that, I'd see the comment and discussion with more depth.

Thoughts?
I visited my GP in July. She had a 10% hours cut along with a 10% pay cut on top. People during COVID really stopped going to check-ups and pretty much all elective things were cancelled and that's the bread and butter for them. Even ER visits were down for heart attacks then - people are not using medical care at the rate they were before. That was especially true last spring and summer.
In the context of recent events...

If there is a planned demonstration of some uncouth people in a certain place, will your Apple Car simply refuse to drive you there? Or will it stop serving you once your GPS coordinates from your iPhone show that you were actually there?

These would be absurd, almost troll-level questions a year ago, but I feel that now they must be pondered.

Edit: from 4 to -2 points within two minutes and zero reactions.

I do not think that this scenario should be taken lightly. The trend towards "you do not really own this thing" has been unfolding for a long time and there is no obvious red line where it would naturally stop.

Edit 2: OK, let us ponder another scenario.

Someone in China buys an Apple Car and, after some time, loses enough social credit that the government decides to deprive him of the ability to use his car. Will Apple comply with the demand and disable the car remotely or will it risk loss of the entire market?

If Apple was ready to let you completely control your Apple Car, warts and all, those scenarios would be null and void. But given how tightly they control all the other hardware, these scenarios are possible.
No, SAP is more like an Operating System for your factories. It contains EVERYTHING, from payroll to inventory management. Think of it more like an Exchange server plus all Microsoft office apps combined. To connect to the Exchange server and get all features, you need Outlook. It's the same with the SAP database and SAP client GUIs.

The official GUI is C++ and Windows only. They do have a Java port for other OSes, and some 3rd party GUIs, but none of that is feature-complete or even halfway there.
Gonna have to skip this because it does not have Apple silicon. Intel has lost it
We have IMAP URLs that address some of this.
Unity is available for Linux. The beta has been available sincle like 2015, but UnityHub for Linux is an official release nowadays.
I actually switched to OneDrive when Dropbox changed their pricing a while ago. Microsoft's offering was way more competitive on both price (€100/yr for 5x1TB) and features (Office access and integration, etc.)
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What law would you propose to block private companies from deciding who they do and do not want to serve?

I see the obvious slippery-slope argument being made all over the place but the comparisons to the bakery refusing service to a gay couple are apt.

The concerns are over people who clearly want to leverage the platforms to induce violence (read: QAnon). If there are legitimate concerns over imminent violence, there is no legal obligation to halt service but there is absolutely a moral one.

And the free market allows others companies to continue providing service if they want. If the concern is over companies with massive market share then wouldn't your concern better be addressed by antitrust laws?
[I'm being polite :)] I've been unable to find anything to make an informed opinion on what they mean by end-to-end encryption, which is prominently mentioned on the home page etc.

[I'm not being polite. #BeingThatGuy :)] My best guess is that they're using their own definition of end-to-end encryption. i.e., SSL for transit + encryption at rest = "end-to-end encryption". Whatever.
> more technology & wealth

the exact things Ehrlich and his colleagues would like to prevent

EDIT- from the horse's mouth:

- If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000

- giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun

- Too many rich people in the world is a major threat to the human future

- Technology does nothing to solve problems of biodiversity or living space or arable cropland

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich
Haven't they been promising that since about 3 years?
As far as I know, that never materialized.
It's not like there's one ecosystem your software runs in. Sure, they could add a Debian mode. But you'd also need a Red Hat mode, Apple mode (and I don't know - do you need a homebrew mode that's different from the default mode?), Windows mode, etc. I think it's equally fair to say that the ecosystems just haven't solved the dependency management problem flexibly enough for everyone. Not everyone needs to or wants to support things for 10 years in order to have a Red Hat mode unless Red Hat is picking up that burden for them or paying them.
I'm a long time user and when people talk about the UX (many, not just you), I am always puzzled. What UX are you speaking of? For me, Dropbox is just a folder on my hard drive with no real UX to speak of. It's the ultimate "gets out of my way and just works". Are you talking about the web site?
So there are legally enshrined advantages for certain racial groups? That’s astonishing to hear.
I don't see this as any sort of law or pattern. Just a few cherrypicked observations shaped to validate his worldview.
Great writeup!

One thing I don't understand is why it would be smarter to augment the inputs with some of the missing board information - particularly the availability of castling. Even though this network is a quick-and-dirty evaluation, seems like there's room for a few additional bits in the input and being able to castle very much changes the evaluation of some common positions.
This is an instance of fungemia, which is the fungus growing in the blood. Candidiasis is a kind of fungemia caused by a particular fungus family that isn't Psilocybe Cubensis (the particular kind of magic mushrooms in this case).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungemia
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It's always a chicken vs the egg scenario.

While the initial steps into workaholism may be from other issues, eventually it can become the cause of many others.
As I understand it, you need collective bargaining against insurers to keep individual premiums down. Employers do that today, and if employers just pay out their insurance spend to employees, the employees will get less insurance as a result. A single payer system means the government negotiates on behalf of all of the citizens, allowing it to keep costs down much more than our current system.
Part of me expected the message to be "Your storage is running out, upgrade to dropbox pro"
I think when VR technology improves a bit more it'll be the superior learning experience.

Imagine learning history interactively. Don't just read about Julius Caesar being stabbed, why not stab him yourself?

You could explore physics in a sandbox environment. Learn geography by going there. Practice theater by performing.

Grabbing a cup of coffee is fun but so is hopping into a game of virtual paintball.
I found it interesting that you put a price tag on it. Also, $200k is about $150k more than most people make, but if you look at just the workaholic population and isolate for industries such as finance and law, many people in that group are going to be within the shooting range of that threshold. And there you have it - even within your own framework, it becomes understandable why we have so many workaholics.

My point is - the moment you put a price tag on your work-life balance, it becomes very difficult to escape the rat race. You really have to be quite militant about it or otherwise it won't work.
> I think more people should see this

I'll often upvote posts I disagree with if I feel others should see the the counter arguments..
I know we're drifting further and further away from the subject of the original article, but when I quit drinking I threw myself into music pretty hard. I had a nightly practice routine that I did to a metronome's ever increasing tempo, until one day I realized I had just traded one obsession for another and was starting to resent playing my guitar.

Once I recognized the pattern it was easy to break, so when I find myself working longer hours or getting too emotionally involved in my work I take a step back and try to figure out why I'm behaving in this manner in hopes of preventing future burn out.
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I understand it's a management decision, but I'm curious as to why companies don't really start with "hey, we need to lay off 11%. Who here would like to volunteer. Here are the perks we are going to offer"

See how many that gets you. Then again, that might get you more than 11% if you aren't careful.
They don't but their mission statement states:

> Airbnb's mission is to help create a world where you can belong anywhere and where people can live in a place, instead of just traveling to it.

How does blocking people staying in DC help Airbnb mission? Freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and mission statements are ideals to follow - no matter where you are in the society - or it's just hypocritical.
absolutely. I used to use alcohol and other drugs to escape...whatever that is, I haven't figured it out. now that I'm dry - I use physical labor. just as at one point in my life I used programming.

at the studio where I work nearly everyone is 'in recovery' and everyone is quite open that the work is filling that hole.
It's the provider coding the visit as diagnostic vs annual preventative though, not the insurance company.
> So if bigcorp wants OS X WireGuard support, they should be able to pay handsomely for it.

Who says they're not? A lot of the companies on https://www.wireguard.com/donations/ ship their own macOS software. Just because the Wireguard Mac app is free doesn't mean nobody's giving them money that's earmarked for Apple development.
What is indefensible, letting users post this garbage, letting it linger too long, or not removing it?
It’s the same reason battery life is so critical in EV’s. Smaller batteries need to be charged more often which eats up more of their remaining lifespan. It’s a downward spiral that means a 50% extra lifespan up front can be worth 100% extra lifespan in 3 years.

Laptop batteries are also expensive in terms of money, weight, and bulk which puts Intel into a much larger bind.
> However , I find myself not particularly wanting to get into a relationship again. Felt like a very painful experience. I'd rather make music instead .

Totally normal and healthy, I felt like that when my relationship fell apart in 2014, didn't start dating again for about a year, met the woman I'm still (and plan to spend the rest of my life with) the year after that, the societal pressure to be in a relationship is real.

Just remember to take stock occasionally and seek professional help if you feel like something is wrong, otherwise enjoy your music.
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But then again, the current version of SAP is S/4 HANA, and unless you are a developer or admin for that, you will be using their Fiori based web clients, so a normal browser is enough. I am a developer in an S/4 rollout project in a Windows-only shop, but for our future system landscape I could see the normal people using the SAP systems using any kind of laptop or tablet. Even we are testing iPads and laptops at least.
Aren’t there consumer advocacy groups, like the EFF or the ACLU? There are also legal avenues likes class-action lawsuits people will invoke to protect themselves and others harmed.

Still, it’s private enterprise. If public exposure doesn’t work on certain issues, I think some kind of regulation is ultimately required.
Blink is the name they gave the fork of the webkit core.
This advice does not scale. At scale, exploitation and abuse require structural mechanisms and a culture/mindset to combat it.
why is everyone so naive and expects a regular car? i will probably be some kind of 3-wheeler for 1 person or some gadget thing.
Agree, when it comes to desktop development (WinForms, WPF). But once I saw some Web API stuff, there is just too much of a ceremony and boilerplate, no?
Agreed, but they are a leader in industrial design and user experience design, so they might have some really compelling concepts for the interior/exterior design, ergonomics, storage, seating, user interface, etc.
I don't think they've been a startup for quite some time. They are a mid-sized tech business, and sometimes businesses have to lay people off. It's the cycle of nature and inevitable as the competitive landscape changes.

Dropbox was a great startup, and is a mediocre corporation.
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For this reason I chose to send them to Telegram instead of Signal.

It's true that Signal's privacy is better. But if you trusted WhatsApp up until now, and you use Gmail, you are no worse off with Telegram. And it's far more usable, I don't fancy having to explain to family members why they lost all their Signal chat history and can't get it back.
What’s the difference then?
I just read that they were mandated in Germany at Amazon's FCs. Is that not true? (Sorry, original article in printed Swedish.)
If you still want to live that WRT life with something like OpenWRT/LEDE (I think they re-merged now just under OpenWRT but I'm running LEDE currently) then I can highly recommend this [0] updated version. I have it and I can get gigabit speeds (wired) through it just fine and don't have any issues with the wireless other than at the far, far end of my house and only sometimes.

My next router will probably be a Ubiquity setup so I can setup 2-3 AP's for full coverage and coverage out to the (detached) garage but that setup is not cheap or simple and my current issues are so minor that it will be a while before I pull the trigger on that.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JOXW3YE/