skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think that the "voters" should decide what is acceptable speech. Just by consensus, "acceptable free speech" can be determined by 60% of the people in the society.

Merkel's government proved nothing. Certainly not that government-mandated censorship is any more altruistic than regular government censorship.

There's a strong fear right now that the EU countries are devolving right back into their old authoritarian ways.
The tricky bit is that offense and defense actually require the same knowledge. A 0-day is immediately applicable for offense and must be immediately patched for defense.
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I've read a rumor here of AWS S3 silently dropping objects when your collections get to really gargantuan sizes (billions of objects), and now I wonder if the people who ran into that are using PAR2 to compensate.
I've brought this up at work many times, and even had a team adopt it for a 6 month period - but there were so many people on our team that didnt want to do the work of filling out a simple checklist, it was amazing. Great idea, and this is one of the few books I truly remember, and try to apply, all the time (Checklist Manifesto) !
Hopefully I'm not too late to spark some interest, but have you seen Pony[0] yet? It's a mix between Rust's safety & Erlang's concurrency (actors).

[0]: https://www.ponylang.io/
I've recently also heard "the email address is not visible by default" in a postmortem. This is a UX problem which leads to increased vulnerability. It needs to be fixed.
Meanwhile, coming from the other side, I would love if I can get a waiter to discuss something else I need (more mayo, a napkin, etc) without feeling like I need to either wait for half my meal, yell across the restuarant, or go wander through looking for it.

You went out into public to have a meal, why are you expecting privacy? If you wanted privacy, get takeout and eat at home.
Maybe Rust makes newtypes _easy_, but certainly C supports similar idioms by way of wrapping data in a unique struct.
Does anyone know why more people are not being pushed into the dark web? I don’t know what to call that, but using Tor and other functionality to bypass main stream censorship.
Rejecting Unwanted Romantic Advances Is More Difficult Than Suitors Realize (2018)
Agreed. I have one of those fancy 32gb optane boost drives that supposedly does smart caching.

Can't really tell a difference in performance regardless of whether it is activated or not.
New state of matter in one-dimensional quantum gas
Well, in some sense, I say that due to Hindi Journalists like Ravish Kumar at NDTV. The Hindi news media is strongly insulated from western media due to language differences. This affords them a certain independence and humility that the English wing seems to lack. Their fates are more directly coupled to India and its concerns. Eloquence and virtue signalling don't matter as much. They NEED to have a better finger on the country's pulse than English media. Lastly, the hindi and regional language press is distributed. There is no geographical power center and there are too many outlets. Thus, it cannot be controlled in entirety.

The Indian English news media is consumed by an incredibly small fraction of the population. Nepotism is rampant and tiny cliques determine your fate. While Hindi media affects politics, English media affects global outlook and economics. They wield a disportionate power for their size and this power is lent to them because the West reads these outlets.

This made it the one that was most important & possible to control. The Indian English press rose in the era of Congress domination. These select few journalists, all owe their fates and meteoric rise to currying favor with the Gandhis and the bias shows. There is also a strong faux-left bias (Vox esque) but I would not blame them for it if they were transparent about it. Their 30 year track record on the Gandhi Family, Anything Hinduism related and Communists is proof of it. It is no surprise that Narendra Modi had a US visa ban, but terrorists and genociders from India and around the world never were.

These people live their lives out of Luthyens Delhi, completely out of touch with India. Their bad takes are never scrutinized, because the West and hyper-urban Indians have no idea what the rest of India looks like. Lastly, there is an offensive level of Elitism and need to associate with the Elites (NYT, WaPo, UN, Diplomats and the Glitterati) that is completely absent from Hindi media. This debacle epitomizes it.

Their opinions appear to be handed down from NYT and college campuses. They never bite the hand that feeds them and worst of all, they like to act smart while making lazy commentary.

Recently,I have been digging what ThePrint and Caravan magazine have been producing. Both are run on subscription models (yay) and take journalistic values seriously. Even when I disagree with them, I get something useful out of it.

TL;DR: Old Indian English Media is like MSNBC, Vox & CNN, but shallower, more elitist and nepotistic.
> The benefit is that I don't have to write these boring, but necessary pieces

The component graph of your application isn't boring, it's the most important part of the thing, and the starting point for anyone trying to build a mental model of the thing. It should be front and center, never hidden away behind generated code.
> It also has the same performance curve as OpenResty these days

Any data for this claim?
Discussion with the paper's author: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809530189/hidden-brain-how-eg...

Excerpt, regarding a person who asks a coworker on a date:

> And what we found is that people who ask somebody out at work and were rejected thought that it was pretty easy for that person to reject them, right? They didn't think that that person experienced a whole lot of distress. And they didn't think that they changed their behavior very much after being asked out.

> When people recalled situations where they were asked out by someone at work who they weren't interested in, they described feeling obligated to say yes and feeling much more uncomfortable saying no to the person. And they reported doing all sorts of things to try to avoid that person that the other person didn't realize that they were doing.

> So in fact, this little request, you know, we tell people to just go for it and ask this person out. It actually puts a lot more pressure on the other person than we tend to realize when we're the ones doing the asking.
Unless you are talking about very stable countries(where this is not even an issue to begin with), we have already seen a few(russia, india etc) doing this without a second thought, not just china. The damage can be attributed to someone else when you own the communication channels.
I have friends with 4 kids under 10 and they live up in the Tesoro section of Poblado. Lots of gated house / apartment communities. Colombia is family oriented, so it's easy to find great housing and fit into the culture with a family.
Those posts are not conflicting. The first one is about checking the result of malloc, the second one about checking a pointer argument to your own function. They're both correct.
My personal criticism of the web FE community is not that the tools haven’t solved problems, it’s that these problems have been solved before and that is not acknowledged.

For example, a single-page app is the exact same thing as a native frontend. It’s a stateful, long-running process that communicates with a backend. This is not a new paradigm, but it is treated as one in the web community.

Another example is declarative UI. Microsoft had XAML and data binding well before Backbone, Angular, and React.

I personally love where web UI is at today, but I get the sense that we think it’s full of these unique problems when it’s really not.
DNS-based ad blocking worked pretty well, and DoH breaks that.
Compared to other chat services, Signal sadly doesn't offer a feature rich/ergonomic chat platform. I am actively using it but I feel I have gone backwards in terms of user experience.
Mine's not a side project, but I think its as interestint. After working on json-dsl for recommendation execution planning and carried that design to our search middleware, now I'm working in a "CQRS+Eventsourcing like" solution with dags-driven extendable state machines that gives a git-like vensioning view of some business entity. The chalenge is to guarantee that it'll work in a very efficient way (cost x latency) and be a good high-level abstraction platform for many product teams to work on in a safe, transparent and productive way. When being locally successfull, as it does not carry any business-specific code, we can plan to make it open-source. Looking forward to share the details with all comunity.
This is so frickin' cool.
Ask HN: Advice for a beginner freelancer webmaster/graphics designer?
What would you recommend to someone who wants to launch a new web/graphics design service offering page.

I want to make a good template, copied from people who know what they’re doing and then heavily edited. But it should adhere to the maximum possible device accessibly standards (to ensure me and my US buisness clients don’t get snared up with legal landlines) and it should also be light on system resources(only using the original web safe fonts and colors) but still look modern and good. I was thinking about copying off a government accessibility program webpage. Maybe I will not even use JavaScript and do all html page rendering server side for maximum accessibility. Ideally I would like the homepage to have that golden amp symbol on Google and instant page load. Ideally I would like to even support the system light/dark theme. I want the best of both worlds, accessibility and looking good on both legacy devices like old phones in India and also the state of the art 4k-8k monitors. Is such a thing possible? Is there such a golden layout? What would you recommend? I am a notice html/css site builder (and a pretty good copier), and I’m a pretty good Java programmer. I plan to do all dynamic page generation using Java servlets since I’m most familiar with Java. What general advice do you have for a web dev doing this for survival in uncertain economic times?
Honest question - what’s the difference between this and Hotwire?
Why? What is the complaint? What needed to change?

Lots of fear mongering here without any actual detail of changes requested or made, and the reasons.
Should also add that an inefficient solution for a mostly fixed input size is still going to be efficient. If you have to write a double for loop but the outer loop is iterating on a 1000 element array and the inner one is operating on a 26 element array (e.g alphabet), it's still a fast and probably good enough solution.
Even within FAANG companies, developers still don't know how to write Sql.
Select it, then it takes you to the page to customize - you can add more RAM, more disk, AppleCare, and accessories.
> > especially if it's only reserved for the local in-group, see: southern "hospitality"

> can you explain that?

I think you touched upon it in your last paragraph acknowledging being white and kiwi.

It is such an overwhelming force of human friendliness and welcomeness, that you assume it must be genuine human connection.

Except try being gay, black, or an atheist, and see how quickly all that turns...

As far as the rest of your points, I think you're exaggerating a bit. Most people (at least in north america) don't mind being micro-friendly as part of a service job. Sure, yes, it's "required", but the ratio of monstrous leering arseholes is not high, and while it's tiring to be friendly by the end of a long workday at a grocery store, people don't feel it to be a fundamentally dehumanizing act.

I think the bigger problem with tipping is situations where it allows employers to pay less than minimum wage - that is abhorent. Getting a tip shouldn't be a requirement to get to a living wage. But as an incentive to being a little more engaged with your job? I think it's good.

> Edit: in my experience Canadians and New Zealanders have similar outlooks.

We are alike in many ways. We both live in the shadow of a larger, brasher arrogant power who dismisses us, and people on the other side of the world lump us in together with them.

But no, when it comes to restaurants, service culture, tipping, and micro-friendliness in public Canadians are much closer to Americans than to New Zealanders.
This is what happens if you link to his website from HN. Arguably NSFW: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/
I would hope it’s due to infrastructure changes required to keep the lights on, not code changes. Concerning at first glance, but less so if I think about the problems they’re likely facing with regards to scaling.
I definitely recommend the series. Excellent excellent series. Coincidentally, I was out tonight at a used book store and I found and bought a copy of Red Mars (Book 1) to replace my lost copy. Ha!
Out of curiosity, is there a good way to control for the time window in situations like this?
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Let’s note that while a bar has to allow the public entry, if your speech or actions inside the bar starts a fight, they can bounce you. No written terms of service needed. Just threatening the bartender might be enough.

People might be deplatformed, but they can still write, publish anywhere that will accept their writing, call people on the phone... do anything they could do in the year 1999, 207 years after the Constitution was established.

Shunning might be just fine in society, it always has been accepted. Look at the racial history of Chicago in 1919 and early 1950’s. Shunning after norms have been breached AGAINST STATED MORALS has been perfectly fine. We’re not talking races or creeds being deplatformed here. It took a lot of provocation.

Maybe we’re being inconsistent and expedient. Soul-searching is called for. I support the ACLU and admire their consistency, they’ve supported the truly reprehensible. Not sure if they’ve ever been called on to defend the deepest taboos, but they’ve gone deep enough. Yet it would be interesting to work through them defending the speech that, for example, exhorted people to kill ACLU attorneys. I imagine there are limits somewhere.

Trumbo breached someone’s norms and was deplatformed. He forced the world to allow his redemption. Let’s see the deplatformed show themselves worthy of redemption.

And there need to be some well-thought-out movements to address aome of the causes that get folks to go so over the edge. There are many causes, economic, educational, societal. Flat-out bigoted neighborhoods are more likely to crank out flat-out bigoted generations, that’ll be a hard one for a long time. But less “us” v “them” could be accomplished.
How Brain Navigates Where You and Other People Are
How would the actor model replace Kubernetes?
I would give up my entire salary to be able server render views again. It is more than twice as efficient.
I don’t get it, how would you even discover a pigment? How would you know what you’re looking at is novel?
I'm just surprised because somebody said that the concrete soaked up so much carbon that the trees alongside it in the biosphere were unable to grow.

That sounds like a lot of carbon. Like, a lot. I'd expect that it would have to absorb enough carbon that it could displace some amount of the volume that it would have appeared as in tree form.

Can you fit a third of a small forest into the concrete around that small forest? It seems unlikely.
You might benefit from looking through recent conference talks, they are nicely organized in https://pyvideo.org/

Search topics you want to find out and see what’s being presented in the years you’ve been out of the loop.
Why make a pass-through instead of a luggage compartment?
There are a lot of patents for things that are not yet known to work, but are plausible. Things that are in study stage often get patents if they are novel enough, to avoid someone else coming in and getting rich off your research before you've even had a chance to pay back your investors (let alone yourself).

It's not a patent troll thing. It's protecting your investment. A lot of money goes into research, and there is no reason to begrudge them the initial benefits.

Yes there are patent trolls. But they are usually identified by their habit of buying other people's patents and then following up with legal threats on anything that appears to infringe. This isn't such a case, as far as I can tell.

He has a novel theory. He's designed a theoretical device that is based on that theory. It might feel to people "not in the biz" to be on the crazy side, but absolutely everything about quantum computing was considered fringy only a couple years ago. The relevant patents in that area are now being put to use, and the holders are definitely not trolls for doing it.
Sorry, 1559 won't solve this problem.
Lighthouse Reports as GitHub Comment
Take a look at ZIO Actors (https://zio.github.io/zio-actors/).
You're so certain. :(

I studied music theory and composition in college, so at one time I was at least somewhat practiced in reading and writing scores. My impression is that when you hear something aloud it's nearly always different to some degree from what you imagined in your head — and I don't think even someone like Beethoven escaped this entirely. I feel confident that he would have made minor adjustments to many of the late works he was never able to hear — he was known as a "reviser" in his working methods anyway.

My best evidence for this is the weird harmonic rhythm of the second movement of Sonata #32. ("Harmonic rhythm" is a technical term having to do with where we perceive a move from chord to chord.) The harmonies change at odd points. I don't believe that the effect was entirely deliberate — I think he meant for the harmonic rhythm to be straightforward and merely to anticipate with some melodic gestures. He was probably experimenting, but when you do something unusual, that's when feedback is even more important.

When I read that sonata, though, the harmonic rhythm I hear in my head doesn't seem off. The barlines provide a downbeat, and the apparent harmonies from the melodic gestures don't override it.
According to the article "YInMn Blue has been approved for US use in industrial coatings and plastics since September 2017", so saying that it has seen zero years of human use is not quite true.
I don’t get it, how would you even discover a pigment?

I suspect it starts with "this compound has a nice colour, how about its other properties?"

How would you know what you’re looking at is novel?

There are extensive lists of existing pigments.
Fascinating article.

One question remains unanswered though - how did Valve afford all of this? Given Half Life was their first game, where was the money coming from to not only produce an entire game, but to then scrap it and redesign/rewrite from scratch?
Chemistry - either organic or inorganic. We already know what is responsible for the colors of molecules. So you can build new molecule or complex based on those principles and some of them turn out to be scientifically interesting or commercially valuable.
I think it's possible the discoverers looked at it and said they had never seen such a colour before artificially
HedgeDoc – a self-hosted collaboration platform
Check out Artifact for inspiration. They're doing something similar with audio recordings.
When you setup Microsoft Authenticator, it defaults to a QR code that will be invalid to standard TOTP apps. However, that's because it assumes you want to use the push notification of the app. If you click a button like "key without notify", it will give you a different QR code which is fully standard and works with common apps like this.
That was my first hands-on computer as well. No disk drive, though the teletype had a tape punch and a tape reader.

I was fortunate to have such an experience. I have had a satisfying career writing software for embedded systems and medical devices.
Canter and Siegel would approve of this law.
It's still going up though, bicycle modal share is over 50% at least since 2017, going up abit quicker than Copenhagen which is still barely at 40%. My personal feeling is that the cities still feel very much car oriented, I guess that in it self is a great testament to the space efficiency of bicycles that they are so invisible in those cities...
This worries me. Intel was never very clean, but it's so much more open than every other option. There's even complete GPU documentation.
Still no Node or npm compatibility? Not even on their roadmap? Still think Deno is DOA, then.

TypeScript is great, sure. I love TypeScript. But I wouldn't touch Deno for just about any serious development if I couldn't be certain that I could search npm for a library and use it without a potential hassle.
They have tried. Here in Japan they have traditionally had an unassailable position as a domestic champion. The only serious competition was from other domestic companies such as NEC, Hitachi.

This model has been very successful for them domestically, but it also makes them uniquely unsuited to competing in global markets where they have no brand to speak of.

Another issue is cost vs. quality. Japanese manufacturers including Fujitsu despise low quality and assume their customers are always willing to pay for the best. Don't break things, even if at the expense of moving slow. This assumption generally holds domestically, but not in global markets.

What I said above may be changing. But slowly.
This was the case with railroads too, only a few controlled the biggest and most transforming and business-integral tech of 1800s.

Prior to that it was those that controlled the printing presses.

...

History continues to repeat itself.
Valve was started by two Microsoft Millionaires. Money wasn't an issue.
I can't tell if you're gaslighting me or not.
Sure the power train is simpler, but how many ICE cars never have powertrain issues? It's not unusual at this point. And if the issue is manufacturer defect, then EV cars have that same risk.

Sure you might be replacing brake pads less, but is there anything to suggest the braking system is less prone to failure? Say from rusted parts or bad seals?

And LED lights aren't unique to EVs. You can put them on ICE cars too so it's a wash.
Nope, existing messages are kept.
> we have already seen a few(russia, india etc) doing this without a second thought, not just china. The damage can be attributed to someone else when you own the communication channels.

Russia might fall under the category of "regimes...where their power is so secure they couldn't care less about the damage," and it appears they did in fact see a lot of collateral damage during the attempt. India's blocks look to be localized an temporary.
This is an interview with an actual working and deaf composer. Read the article for her actual words on the matter. She talks about things like

"From the time I was a little girl, I have been fascinated with how deafness affected Beethoven. If you look at his piano sonatas, in that first one in F Minor, the hands are very close together and the physical choreographies of the left and right hands are not that dissimilar. As he gets older, the activity of the hands become more dissimilar in his piano work, and farther apart."

and

"I think it’s fascinating, too, that as Beethoven’s hands stretched for lower and higher notes, he demanded pianos with added notes, elongating the pitch range of the keyboard; he asked for physically heavier instruments that resonated with more vibration. More pitch distance and difference, and more vibration and resonance, create a recipe for happiness for a hearing-impaired person, trust me. A more dissonant and thick language, with clashing frequencies, also causes more vibration, so the language does get more physically visceral that way, too."

It's a fascinating article and people should try actually reading it instead of jumping to conclusions about it.
Can, I agree. They also can take you into real guru territory, I think that’s the angle to work.