skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't represent Twitter, nor do I have any influence on their decisions. I simply corrected your misconceptions about the data present in the dump.

However, there is a big difference between posting the information on a single named person and in effect blaming him for the COVID-19 pandemic, based purely on speculation and hearsay about the supposed origin of the virus, and dumping the publicly available data from a website that provably hosted and tolerated (perhaps even boosted) conspiracy theories and incitement to overthrow the results of a democratic election.

Zero Hedge does this a lot, they latch onto wild theories and present them as if they are factual. Their hit:miss rate is absolutely atrocious, they are not a reliable source of news.

As for @donk_enby's political views, her profile says "Meiklejohnian absolutist. free speech as in free-for-everyone.", for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiklejohnian_absolutism

"Therefore, all speech, even criticizing the established government, is healthy to the life of democracy. In essence, this means that free speech must be protected not for those speaking, but for those who should hear what they are saying."

This is not a left vs. right thing, it's an issue of Parler('s users) wanting to stuff the genie back in the bottle, they want to unsay what they have said and unpost what they have posted, because after the 6th it is extremely compromising for them to have said/posted it.
I meant to write "publications and/or public speaking"
Yes, developers on Apple platform need to be more vocal with their criticism and, if necessary, even boycott their platforms to be heard.
space lab space
Not yet but I am working on it!
The point of unions is that workers are the ones keeping a company afloat. If they act in sync and decide to stop working the company is screwed.

google can very well ignore a union of consumers. The most they can do is stop using the services in sync, and arguably the fact that they're trying to organise a consumer union rather than take their business elsewhere is a red flag that they'll find it difficult to do so.

To put it another way, assuming that the sum of all workers is as important as the sum of all consumers, there are ~150k google employees and ~4.5 billion consumers. since these numbers are several orders of magnitude apart, to have a real effect you'd need about 10k members of a consumer union to have the equivalent force of a worker union with a single member.
> Because calling for violence, or at least encouraging protests that often end in violence is something that the American left has been doing since June.

Accounts that were calling for violence were closed regularly, especially during protests. Both twitter and on youtube. I am not aware of left wing equivalent of Parler that would emerge as results, the mainstream left seemed to be ok with those missing, through some grumbled a bit and called it unfair.

Note that encouraging protests was not censored, but the fact is it is not censored for right wing either.
Regarding that GNOME update, do GNOME developers just don't have any competence in UX design? That screencast is suggesting you need to click the activities button in the top left corner to be able to reveal a nav panel that's all the way at the bottom.

Similarly, right now, in current versions, in the file selection interface the Select button is in one corner of the window and Cancel all the way in the other.

Or the annoying unnecessary dialogue when you uncompress from an archive (no I don't want an app-blocking notification that the file extracted successfully).
Show HN: Turn image into optimized pattern for fuse beads (e.g. Perler)
> Is having DNS changed for your network a huge risk?

Yes, of course. An attacker can now effectively serve malware of their choosing, to network clients of their choosing.
I can certainly see YouTubers starting a union.

I can see Apple developers starting a union too.

Basically anything that's a platform where people make money could rightfully have a union.
To be fair, Microsoft has plenty of bad rep, stemming from decades of abusive behavior, to recover from.

Also, a megacorp is not a person (no matter what the law may say).

Being abusive towards individual developers should not be tolerated, but leveraging fair or unfair criticism towards an amoral entity? Eh, whatever floats your boat.
Sidenote: I really like how this stops playing sounds when I change the tabs. It'd be nice to have browser setting that does it.
The challenge is that reformulating problems to parallel computation steps is something we're in general still really bad at.

We're struggling with taking full advantage of GPUs and many-core CPUs as it is.

FPGAs is one step up in complexity.

I'd expect JIT'ing to FPGA acceleration to show up other than as very limited research prototypes after people have first done a lot more research on JIT'ed auto-parallelisation to multiple CPU cores or GPUs.
GPS metadata of 68k videos uploaded to Parler
> C# to add loads and loads of syntactic sugar

well some is necessary.
example: init-only-Setter, was impossible to do before. You could not write the same Code, without it. No matter what you did.

using declarations where also necessary to increase readability.

and nullable reference types also were important!
I wonder how they plan on dealing with all the children who claim they are older than they are. TikTok is very popular in the 10 and 11 year old age bracket: an age bracket that already cannot formally use the app, but they do.

All the articles aimed at parents about the child-modes where only safe content can be accessed and no videos of themselves can be posted mention that these are not interesting to these teens at all, and go on to mention that the age limit can be subverted.

In the EU the minimum age to use WhatsApp is 16, yet nearly every teen from 10 onwards has it installed. When it comes to the bottom line, it's just not in the company's interests to block these users except when explicitly pointed out. They have disposable income (or will have in a few years), and they are influenceable. Advertisers love them.
How Dangerous Are New Covid-19 Strains?
I don't need a union if i can pay $250 to have a human pick up to help me with my problem(1). but since we don't do that i guess a customers union hasn't been tried afaik. why not? i mean voting with our wallet is kiiinda like collective bargaining but idk how effective that is with googles reach.

(1) my first gmail address, opened when i was 10, forwards messages to my current gmail, but both recovery emails are for a domain my dad no longer owns and the last passwords i remember are no longer valid. i answer enough security questions to make them say 'let us look at it' but my hopes are not high...
To save people the click and search: Someone from Google who works on compiling Linux.
probably one of the few cases where agpl is not that bad.
Are couples with daughters more likely to divorce than couples with sons?
"Leela Chess Zero is losing with quite a gap"
Check https://tcec-chess.com/ ATM Leela is in front again.
That being said it is not clear which approach is better e.g. a very smart but relatively slow evaluation function (Leela) or SFs approach to use a relatively dumb eval function with a more sophisticated search. It is pretty clear that Leelas search can be improved (Check https://github.com/dje-dev/Ceres for example)
So, lab space in a space lab?
Amid Nile dam tensions, Egypt recalls Aswan 50 years on
Intel’s Mobileye Plans Self-Driving Cars for the Masses by 2025
We are doomed if more people think like you.
- Svelte is a compiler that generates fast code, small bundle size and doesn't even need a DOM.

- Svelte embraces HTML and CSS as-is (no JSX, yeah!)

- Svelte reduces boilerplate and is easy to start with

- Svelte is elegant and needs less LoC

Svelte is great and will inspire a lot of other frameworks. That seems to be mirrored in the scores shown at StateOfJs.

Hopefully there will be more institutions to help Svelte with professional adoption.
Also, in 2005 the "Attorney General of Israel
" removed the restriction that the JNF could not sell to Arabs. https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3037805,00.html
It makes sense this is happening. In my opinion, the barrier to entry for using Svelte is lower that for React or Vue, yet it still achieves equal -- and in some ways better -- results. To me, it provides what was promised by Web Components, but was never delivered on. From what I've seen, Rich is pretty open about discussing the good and bad of Svelte, and he seems committed to continuing it's improvement for years to come. Thanks Rich, Svelte gets my vote, and I look forward to using SvelteKit...already having "Great Success!" with svelte/sapper.
> I worry that if governments can force companies to publish all opinions including the ones they don't agree with, then they can also force them to publish propaganda.

Now do wedding cakes!!
Mea culpa: I should have been aware of that.

I'm looking at
https://status.nixos.org/

Are the 6-12 month old releases more stable than the 0-6 month releases? (i.e., is 20.03 more stable than 20.09?)
A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
Apparently nobody at Apple realized that high-end respirator could be a big seller. Apple designed face maks for their own use and face shields for doctors but nothing like this.
New method helps pocket-sized DNA sequencer achieve near-perfect accuracy
That's not a problem for me ... it's all the other issues: the crappy/buggy frameworks, the crappy store experience, no Test Flight, removing the app for a donations page.

Apple's overly protective threat modelling/mitigation is a selling point and not a "flex" for me.
>Google's customers

For the search engine (e.g. not GSuite), Google's customers are actually the advertisers and not the users. This is not meant to be a cynical take but just stating financial reality. The advertisers are the ones paying billions into Google's revenue to maintain the expensive data centers and host petabytes of disk space for Youtube videos. Because money flows from advertisers to Google, the advertisers are the ones that caused Adpocalypse[1].

The websurfers querying the search engine are users or consumers and not the paying customers. Not sure how a users' union would have much leverage since they don't pay. If they're unhappy, they can use another search engine (e.g. Bing) or influence indirectly (e.g. boycott advertisers which causes Adpocalypse.)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+advertisers+adpocaly...
But the definition of differentiable did not change, did it? RELU is not differentiable (or - in other words - is differentiable at all points except 0). Not nitpicking, just trying to improve my understanding.
Practical discussion should should be aware not to cherry pick quotes :-(

"All Jewish citizens get to vote (and all Jews can become citizens), but less than a quarter of the Palestinians under Israel’s rule have citizenship and can thus vote. "
Signal isn’t an individual developer, so what about the sort of comments highlighted in the original article?

Or is it just 'be nice to developers in small companies, but you can say anything to developers in big companies'?
No it is not solved. E.g. SFs recent inclusion of a NN has shown that it can beat Leela (which should be superior to AlphaZero).
What you are describing is a perfectly typical (and expected) behavior for a user of a commercially-licensed library/server software.

Many developers/admins use both FOSS and COTS, and feel the same low-effort interaction with upstream is okay in both cases. It's possible to educate a small number of your users (and to a some extent, you should try - for example your post here is a small step in that direction!), but that work is even lower-reward than answering those half-baked reports.

To deal with low-effort, good-faith user reports, in COTS scenario, you'd hire a support/TAC person (a team, eventually). For a popular/accessible FOSS project, it is possible to have something similar on a volunteer basis:

- set up IRC channel/slack/forum/mailing list for that;

- display a prominent banner asking to "please try support forum first" on your bug submission page;

- encourage people who want to contribute, but are not quite acing your codebase (yet), to hang around in the forum, help others.
I maintain or contribute to various FLOSS projects. The day FLOSS becomes profit-driven is the day I stop contributing.

Profit and user freedom are two different priorities. Sometimes they are compatible, more often they are not.
> even with multiple parties there is always a Right vs Left battle - or better "If you don't think like me then you're the enemy".

It's harder to blame someone of being "the enemy" when there is a half-dozen other parties on the other side.

Yes, there still are rivalries between left/right and authoritarian/liberal parties, but having options takes some of the edge off.
FYI Leela is in the lead ATM
> I may not know exactly where these things are

I've never judged any user poorly for saying "sorry, you asked for XXX, but I'm not sure where it is; here's my best effort bug report anyway". But "it's getting late" is not an excuse; it's getting later for people who need to read your crappy bug report. If you can't file a best effort report, don't.
Maybe in the future we'll see regulation in other countries forcing manufacturers to phase out less efficient lamps in favor of these 1,2,5W lamps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
> I made a donation to WireGuard last year, I'll be doing the same this year and I encourage others to "put their money where their mouth is" and show a little support

Imagine, Apple even wanted 30% of any donations!!

> We faced rejections in submitting the app, because they decided to change their policy on the app having a link in the "About WireGuard" tool window to www.wireguard.com/donations/ (which they previously had allowed explicitly; now they want 30% or something), and then after removing that ... Well, finally they approved the fix ...
If you have any idea what 4chan already survived you know they aren’t going to fall over this.
How would that be different from customer advocacy groups that already exist? Is the concept of a customer union similar, or is it something else?

First time I read the term, and online searching doesn't give me relevant results.
Zero Halliburton
Both Apple and Huawei do R&D in Europe at a massive scale, hiring the top researchers and the best minds from universities, research labs and from the competition (Nokia, Ericsson, ARM, Imagination, even intelligence services) with top pay to boot.

While Apple is nowhere near as evil as Huawei, it's sad when you think about it, that EUs best and brightest minds, educated with EU money are helping strengthen the Chinese and US tech titans instead of the domestic ones but Europe dug it's own grave here by not funding its domestic tech sector enough and sleeping at the wheel while US and China were stealing their lunch from underneath their nose.
Zero population growth would be a terrifying dystopia. Have you read /watched the Handmaid's Tale or Children of Men?
Your attitude is a deep part of the problem. Reporting should be objective and even handed. The media immolated their credibility by constant editorialising and selective reporting, and now (absurdly) try to blame the resulting crisis of confidence on peripheral nonsense like QAnon .
The reason anime sells so well is because it is deliberately designed to be like visual crack. I'll admit that if the Seals raided my house they would find the same type of stuff
One problem/feature with email is that that new collagues do not see historical conversations. While the typical chatroom is searchable.
> What bothers me is that I’ve experienced an increasing number of maintainers of supposed cross platform projects simply not care about macOS anymore to the extent that they’re openly hostile towards macOS users

This is not bothering. This is a very fortunate situation. I hope this process happens faster!

What I don't understand is your point of view. It is not these sane developers who are "hostile" towards users. It is Apple who is callously hostile towards users and developers. By degrading the macOS experience, these developers are making the world a better place.
You can, but it's illegal. You're only allowed to virtualise MacOS on MacOS host. You also have to obtain the system which as far as I can tell you can't buy anymore - you can only upgrade to.
The only dangerous snakes in California are sea snakes, which live in the waters off Southern California, and are rarely seen; and rattlesnakes, which tend to give you a warning before they do anything. Both kinds of snakes would rather leave you alone, as long as you leave them alone. Bites are rare for this reason. In all honesty, a rattlesnake is probably more dangerous to a curious dog than a human.
Should have been 18.
The 33% solution. Add a group equal to 33% of representatives and senators to both congressional chambers that are filled via a jury-pool like system of common people with a term of one congressional session. Participants would earn equal pay as other representatives and service would be equivalent to national guard duty, where employers have to hold your position open for your return. Would need to apply at state level as well for full effect. Participants can serve only once and must not have an active affiliation with one of the other political parties. It eliminates majority party leadership as the entire body has to vote on a leader they all can get behind, which allows for a less obstructive path for legislation and fair debate for all policy and spending.

Such a change would force traditional parties and this neutral group of citizens to compromise on all legislation removing extreme policies from the equation. Because legislation has a direct effect on this neutral body and there terms are short, career politician agendas and "loss of connection" to the common needs of citizens is virtually eliminated. It would also eliminate the us vs them ideology, as common citizens become an actual party to the governmental process and have skin in the game from their own participation in the process.

The 33% solution provides the biggest bang for the buck with the least impact to current government structures and election processes.
The developers of git are working on moving git to use SHA2 and have already mitigated some of the concerns around using SHA1: https://git-scm.com/docs/hash-function-transition/

SHA1 hash collisions are hard, especially when the data you can inject needs to look like code to a human and compile correctly. But the concern is valid so it's good that git is improving in this way.
There are so many things wrong with this comment.

First, it's unbelievable human-centric.

Furthermore, out of ~3000 snake species, only ~600 are venomous and only ~200 are dangerous to humans. That's 7%!

"Sinister" implies intentionally evil-doing, which is something only advanced primates are capable of (maybe corvids and some other mammals, not sure).

It's not even the most creepy/disconcerting kill mechanism. Apart from competitors like the Komodowaran (bites you and then stalks you for days while you are slowly dying from the cocktail of bacteria in its mouth), what about stuff like viruses? They don't even live, yet they are highly effective in an evolutional sense and very good at killing lots of stuff in lots of disgusting ways.

If you have a phobia of snakes, ok, but please refrain from turning that into some pseudo-intellectual wisdom...
I know I should hate them because they spread malaria and kill people, but, as someone who grew up near a swamp, fuck mosquitos. I never got any sort of disease from them, but their bites can be annoyingly itchy.
IIRC the Russian NotPetya attack on Ukraine was disguised as ransomware requesting Bitcoin, so there is some precedent for a state sponsored attack pretending to be criminals trying to make money.
Just because something is unauthorized or breaks EULA (mostly void here in EU anyway) doesn't mean it's illegal.
Does that actually matter? Since a while now I minimize my use of Google services when I can, but I still have to be part of their ecosystem because I interact with others. For example Google still has access to almost all my emails, and is very likely to harvest the data, even if I'm paying for a dedicated service to avoid using Gmail.
The course of action for humanity is determined by the same physics that makes your cells act in a certain way.
But cells don't question themselves.
That being said, assuming you can fully saturate multiple GPUs then the SF approach has the disadvantage that it cannot use the performance improvements for GPUs/TPUs which still are growing fast, whereas CPU performance only grows slowly these days.
Antifascist Cyber Vigilantes from Canada
Fun hunting down rioters using flesh search engines
The site is interesting, but the navigation is confusing. First I thought I must register before seeing the courses, but it is possible.

After a few click I reached https://marshallyin.com/courses/alphabet-course/ It has three buttons: "Overview", "Curriculum" and "Complete".

I thought that "Curriculum" would show only the list of topics, but not the main part of the curse. I didn't understand what "Complete" mean, it is very confusing. I did't know how to continue and see the content of curse.

After reading the text in the page, I understood how the buttons work, but don't expect people to read the text.
Or, in a competitive market price = marginal cost of production and the marginal cost be 0. Value to customers is a separate thing.
EU Food Watchdog Approves Mealworms for Human Consumption
The BMLT, I guess: https://bmlt.app/

The Basic Meeting List Toolbox (BMLT) is a full stack, open source solution for managing Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
> FOSS for goblins?

More like Uruk-Hai
It's called a "consumer group" or "consumer organization". These already exist. [1] In the EU these groups already take action on behalf of consumers. [2]

That doesn't mean they don't exist in the US. They do. For instance Consumer Watchdog. [3] This group does critically look at business practices and models of big tech. [4]

Another example would be the Consumer Federation of America. [5] This organization is an umbrella that federates plenty of local and regional consumer groups. [6] The CFA also does a ton of lobbying with the FCC and other departments. [7]

Those are the more "generic" consumer groups. Looking at specific "consumer groups" that lobby on behalf of technology consumers, the most visible organization would be the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [8]

If you want "discussions with Google" in the most broad terms. That's what Congress and the EU Commission have been doing with their string of hearings last year. Both public bodies are still build on the idea that they represent millions of people through the vote. If consumers want to engage in a discussion with a multi-billion dollar industry on equal footing, public hearings and investigations would be how that goes down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_organization#United_S...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-privacy/europea...
[3] https://consumerwatchdog.org
[4] https://consumerwatchdog.org/privacy-technology
[5] https://consumerfed.org/
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Federation_of_America
[7] https://consumerfed.org/issues/communications/
[8] https://www.eff.org/