skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am yet to see evidence of Nazis being at the protests - I don't think anybody openly displaying support for Nazi ideals would find wide support in a pro-America crowd.

In this classic picture https://news.yahoo.com/q-shaman-stormed-capitol-upset-192631...

the guy in the yellow shirt is Jason Tankersley, founder of the Maryland Skinheads. The guy to his right in the mask is Matthew Heimbach, former leader of the Traditionalist Workers Party (a neo nazi org).
I’m so dumb - this never occurred to me, and I’ve never heard anyone express it this way. This makes so much sense. Thanks.
I wish Delta Chat would get more mentions during this period

It is nicely decentralised. Nice UI. Run your own server. Deserves more love!
Open source doesn't really help. Like the sibling post said, you can just host those libraries, but people don't. Why? No idea.
My favourite thing about the 2020s is when the historical oppressors are the bearers of the one true way of thinking and everyone has to conform to that.

A lot of Indians have an issue with Gandhi, Hindus and Muslims. India is a huge country and for every Gandhi that took the spotlight, there were thousands of people that will be forever forgotten.

There were huge disagreements on how freedom should have been gained, and what to do afterwards. The suffering is still real, and the partitioning of India is still taking a toll today.

The west may have chosen their hero but India is still working some things out.
Even more mind boggling, in Canada you can find bedrock that is 4.28 billion years old and have survived bombardments, erosion and plate tectonics. I'd like to have one of those rocks one day :)

In my country (Norway) the oldest rock is "only" 3 billion years old, life was well underway at that time.
> How would "random" bag checks be milder than video surveillance?
>
> - They're typically not going to be watching it 24/7. They'll only look at the tapes if something occurs.

And they can claim they didn't watch it at all? Total surveillance without specific reason and without information and consent is exactly what the law is trying to prevent.

> - Random bag checks, like in programming, is not really random. You either have a particular target or type in mind or you apply it to everyone and bag checks are a lot more invasive than video surveillance.

And that's the whole point. If there's a reasonable suspicion that someone stole something, they can ask to check the bag. The Person has the right to refuse that his bag be checked by company employees and ask to involve the police.
You don't need land to have fire. It's enough to have photosynthesis producing free oxygen. That produces an energy store at the water-air interface. That would lead to life forms evolving to take advantage of the benefit of living at that boundary and that would eventually lead to the formation of biological rather than geological land masses.

Hm, sounds like a good premise for a SciFi novel. :-)
It’s not trading. It’s gifting.
Everything’s fine until you want to pay an entity your bank or government has decided you can’t pay.

In the US, people who wanted to donate to Wikileaks were forbidden to do so.
I see a lot of mentions of GDPR in the comments, but the fact is that the sensitivity of personal information is an older mindset(not only a law) in Germany.

It is called "Datenschutz", and you see people proactively adhering to it, needed some time as a foreigner to get used to how rigorously they apply it, but when I got used to it, felt "safer" knowing whoever handles my data, knows how sensitive it is.

See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenschutz for more information about the history.
There's also M-x emacs-init-time if you want to know how much a change to your configuration impacted start-up time.
I always enjoy to see the details of boards
> Many people charge their phone off their laptop using the (USB-A) cable.

Why would you do that? It's going to be super-slow - I don't believe it supports Fast Charging as the port can't handle the minimum 20 W.
Does this fit the description? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shir...
> There is no "main" server. matrix.org is the biggest one, but it is circunstancial.

It's not circumstantial at all. You can't send off people to random server without telling them it might shut down because no one knows the owner or when he's going to stop paying for his experience. @matrix.org is the only place where I'd feel safe sending relatives if they want to onboard because it's the only place I know the matrix guys are going to keep running. Most posts I am seeing on HN these days stating registering a matrix account was easy did it on matrix.org.

I believe they should charge a fee. To avoid the GMail effect that got everyone a free email but trapped them in the end. And no, you can't jump as easily from one @something to @somethingelse because you lose your message history and attachments (that's where the often cited mail analogy fails us: with email you can take your email with you when switching). If this chat history doesn't matter BUT you have to find a way to export your contacts then I don't see why it's better than Signal for regular joes.

Two years ago I could run my own matrix instance on a small VPS. Now it requires too much resources, especially when it's federated. Also, the mail federation analogy falls short here because nothing prevents mail from circulating between @something and @somethingelse while matrix has it in its design to whitelist some federated servers.

> https://communick.com, there you go.

Not what I mean. I am not looking to forward this to people asking me "hey, how do I get on matrix ?" "here, set up or buy your own server". Where can I send them when all they want and need is a matrix address ? Where can they pay a small fee to keep their matrix address longterm without going through the hassle of maintaining/renting a server ? Matrix.org But we don't see a rush of new users on Matrix. I wish there were though but I am convinced Matrix and Signal don't address the needs of the same people. And that's certainly why every signal thread seem to attract matrix supporters and we get into that federated/centralized debate. Which has been beaten to death.
I get all sorts of ads from defense contractors when I am in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

I think they are just intending to target lobbyists/politicians.
The woke eating the woke is just beautiful to watch.
FYI, ioutil is deprecated in Go 1.16. :-) They copied everything out of it and into io and os. It’s much cleaner actually once you get used to it.
New Drug Therapy Approvals 2020
That's not really how the employer-employee relationship works, at least not in today's world.
Thanks for mentioning this story; I just finished it and it's a great read.
If you are getting rid of unused things at your home by giving them to a hoarder, you are only shifting the problem from your home to the hoarder's home, isn't it?

I guess we could debate it either way. It comes down to personal preference.
Have you tried having a partner? Children?

Works like a charm for me.

But the really rich can't get by so easily, so some of them practice charitable giving of various sorts, the ultimate anti-buying experience.
Bitcoin is the equivalent of heating your camp by setting a forest on fire. "Look ma, radiative heat bouncing off the hills will keep us warm for couple of days, and when we come around here next year, the animals living here will be easier to hunt!".

Sure, we used to do that, before we learned how to write. But holy hell does it not scale.
Spanner is great for Google, and other companies at the scale of Google. For the other 99% of companies, it's way too expensive, with too much lock-in (even SQL-based DML is a new addition), and has too many limitations.

There are dozens of managed database vendors now along with self-service deployments like Kubernetes operators that can scale standard databases as far as you need.
Based on the wikipedia page it looks like Virgin Orbit is it's own separate private company held by the Virgin Group. It was spun off of Galactic.

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

> Now Virgin Galactic officials have decided to break off the satellite launcher program and make it its own company. Called Virgin Orbit, the California-based firm is seeking to enter a market that has attracted a lot of interest in recent years as satellites, once huge and expensive, have shrunk in size and cost.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/02...
amen. I've found that pushing on all these levers to improve things makes me happier and more productive, and to a lesser extent everyone else happier and more productive, too.
Citing Security Issues, Joe Biden Can't Bring His Peloton to the White House
> truncated cryptographically hashed phone numbers

These would be equivalent to phone numbers, for all intents and purposes. The number space is trivially small.

This kind of obscurity makes it unnecessarily hard to understand what the argument really is.
Yes absolutely. I've found that putting up microbarriers solves this. In your message ask them to reply with what they will use it for and a specific time they will be over to pick it up. This stops the emails I used to get that just said "WANT" and also the "my second cousin may drive in 3 weeks from now can you put it outside under the full moon next to the Starbucks store that's 27 miles from your house" type replies.
Is Cloud Spanner the only managed option? Why would you compare to a dedicated engineer?

AWS RDS or GCP Cloud SQL or Azure Managed SQL or IBM Compose or Aiven or any number of other vendors offer managed databases with more features, much higher performance, and far less cost. Even CRDB has its own cloud offering that's cheaper and more flexible than Spanner.
Damn. Talk about killing your competition off with a monopoly. Break up Big Google.
Love the screenshot.
Homer Player: audiobook player for the elderly and visually impaired
A multi-cloud strategy is generally not a good idea.

Some links that will hopefully explain it better than I can:

* https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/multi-cloud-is-the-worst-...

* https://www.infoworld.com/article/3428682/your-multicloud-st...
Bitcoin has value because people want it. People want it because they predict it will increase in value. They predict it will increase in value because it increased in the past.

I have no idea if or when that circle will break but I can't believe that it will last I definitely.
Spectrwm – A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11
> I am yet to see evidence of Nazis being at the protests - I don't think anybody openly displaying support for Nazi ideals would find wide support in a pro-America crowd.

The "Camp Auschwitz" shirt strikes me as pretty clear.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with VSCode as far as I know. When I started using Magit, VSCode didn't exist. If the text editor you use isn't a hindrance—regardless of what editor it is—I'm not sure it's ever worth switching. It seems like all of them can be made to do pretty much the same things these days, which is nice because colleagues can trade tricks without having to migrate (or help others migrate) between editors.
If you like to buy stuff and think giving things away is a bad idea isn't your tiny apartment completely full?
I used to look at these ideas with puzzlement. Why the hell do you earn money if you don’t spend the money on things that you enjoy?

Later, I realized that it has a different audience. There are people who genuinely have too many things in their home. I have visited people who had three full shelves of dishes (it was not a big family). Those things take up their space, give them no joy nor practical value, and are better given away. Bird feeders without a bird. Piles of ropes, for absolutely no usage.
I didn’t see anyone else mention AWS, so let me add: AWS is a tire fire of bad API design, in both v1 and v2. Just awful, awful stuff. Read it and weep.
You can criticize something without having a replacement.
Are they selling the book or giving it away?
Another solution is for them to just delete that old device.

Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Check the box next to the old device -> Delete Session
Amazing!

I’m very happy for them. The more competition we have in this space, the better. (pardon the pun)
The problem I have had more with "free" on Craigslist is that I get a lot of super-flakey people who reply immediately and then don't show up to take the item after a bunch of coordination effort. I've stopped listing items for free on Craigslist, and I either (1) list it for a more-than-fair but nonzero price, or (2) put it out on the street with a sign that says "free' (only for items that will obviously disappear quickly). Adding the price on Craigslist seems to weed out the worst flakiness-offenders.
Making an unfounded assertion that long lines cause eye strain doesn't make your css any better. I certainly don't suffer from such a debilitating limitation. Anyone who does can just make their window narrower, or bump up the font size in their browser.

Also, if you're looking to reduce eye–strain then you shouldn't reduce the contrast of the text with the background color.
> But I do think there are quite a few conservative, non-fascist, anti-Nazi people who will read a "employees can call out fascism!" comment and feel at least a bit like it's meant toward them

That's a problem for the definitely anti-fascist, anti-Nazi to sort out with themselves. Why do they identify with fascism in this context? Is it because they have openly labelled the BLM movement as a terrorist organisation? Is it because they cheered when protesters were deliberately run over or shot?

> I think [Trump has] done 10x the damage to conservatism than Nixon ever could have.

IMHO this is because of the number of Conservatives who followed him. It's not Trump's fault, though he's an easy scapegoat. Trump certainly empowered a lot of people to express opinions and perform actions they otherwise wouldn't have, but Trump didn't make those people say those things or behave that way.

If Trump is prosecuted and imprisoned, that will be a great start. There will be many people who will see Trump imprisoned, dust their hands off and say, "well, job's done, that's fascism in the USA dealt with," only to be shocked when it turns out that jailing Trump didn't actually solve anything and the USA continues to suffer problems such as entrenched white supremacy in the police forces around the USA, crony capitalism in all levels of government, and political parties acting in their own selfish interest.
Unless they can solve the refreshing rate, I won't be too thrilled about this.

In fact there are so much more content nowadays are developed/created beyond text format isn't good news for E-Ink. They are risking solving a problem that people would soon forget why it worthy solving in the first place.
Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts
Fly Wheel, a term people used to describe Amazon.

Imagine 100x of that, and that is Samsung.
I'd say so.

How many people like that do you think are bumping around having a meaningful impact on people's belief systems (versus just being ignorant in their own little bubbles)? I ask that because the level of fervor and fear around Nazis these days makes it sound like they're goose-stepping around in large groups.
Yep. It's easy to imagine how many of these will be electronic waste in not that many years.
My wife participates in our local Buy Nothing group and it’s fantastic. They have a couple of rules that seem to help make it work:

1. Hyperlocal: your local group will he made up people near your house. You’ll get to know them. When the group gets too large, it’s split into two smaller groups.

2. Not bartering, not first-come-first-serve. When something is posted, the person offering is supposed to wait a while, then decide who to give it to. I don’t participate in the group, so I don’t know why this makes a difference, but my wife says it does.
Would you happen to have a source? The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed, does not give credence to your statement. The general position in the field of Russian literature studies (non-native speakers) is similar to mine.
> seems to attract people with a hoarding problem

Are you sure these people aren't collecting all the free stuff in the neighbourhood, then selling anything of value and hoarding the rest?

Those hoarded items are usually unsellable in their current form, but with a bit of restoration could become sellable. Some items are faulty, but are still hoarded for parts to help repair other items.

Overall this behaviour is probably very good for the planet - many items end up seeing far more use than they would otherwise.

It's questionable if its good economic use of these people's time though. Is it worth them spending all day collecting and repairing a $150 TV, when they could have gone to work in a factory that can turn out a new TV every 30 seconds for far fewer dollars?
Uber’s Lawsuit Against Ad Fraud Comes Full Circle – They Won
When was the German Democratic Republic a dictatorship?
Right but your example is still intentionally bad, no one is going to put an inaugration t-shirt ad as the contextual ad for a news article. An ad on a general news site can be related to the preferences of the readership of that paper, like how it always worked in print. Or it can even be targeted based on information about you that is gathered first-party, from the patterns in your use of the news website.
It'd be ironic if they sold it!
> ..., largely at the request of the right

Operation Choke-Point was actually an Obama era policy.
Performance should be listed on there too. Without it, none of the other features matter to me. If I type a character I would like, ideally, 0 ms lag. That has to be a starting point. THEN, you can add the additional layers of niceness (while keeping the performance, of course). VSCode certainly does not achieve this (gorilla is being polite).
One of the engineers who helped benchmark and compile the Cloud Report. You're right in noting that the statements aren't mutually exclusive. Our overall takeaway was informed by each Cloud's performance on the individual benchmarks as shown on page 4 of the report. The results were quite close though, as each of the Clouds had specific benchmarks they did excellent in.
I've heard that cameras aimed at cash registers are quite effective at stopping employees from stealing. From my observations of where cameras in shops are pointed, that seems to be their primary purpose.
yes i use freecycle but that one i couldnt see what they offer as it is behind facebook (lack of) privacy wall
Depends on what you count as long term, but based on the 10-year graphs on WolframAlpha? I’d prefer Lira.

It’s not that I don’t regret not putting £10,000 into BTC when it was worth $250/coin (I absolutely do!) it’s just that I expect that degree of variability to work in both directions.
> WW2 legacy resulted in two major additions to the foundations of new Germany: spying on citizens is highly regulated

How does it reconcile with it taking nearly 17 years for Germany to outlaw BND from wiretapping DE-CIX?
lcd screens didn't fall in price because of an international criminal price-fixing conspiracy. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT-LCD_(Flat_Panel)_Antitrust_Li...
There was a similar Novell NetWare bypass that allowed admin access to local and all the shares via help to explorer
I enjoy biscuit videos, but I think the code is very hard to follow. I've been a follower for over 3 years now. Exceptional programmer
Phil Katz - not sure what to say. I use him as an example of how good things dont always make ones life better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815452
No no, you see, when a scientismist/materialist believes something, that makes it true. Unlike when anyone else believes anything! What else is "truth" supposed to mean?
While receiving analog radio is trivial for the processing required, it is fairly low frequency transmission which requires antenna sizes which are not entirely practical for phone-like device. I would even assume that many phones contain the required hardware (which usually involve using headset cable as antenna) but don't have any kind of software support for it because of combination of minimal demand for such a feature and the fact that the entire experience is not exactly user friendly. Notably, Raspberry Pi uses wifi/BT radio which apparently either includes FM radio or used to in previous revisions (and apparently the radio chip is capable of receiving FM and directly sending the audio to BT headset, which is somewhat interesting feature given the usual requirement of wired headset as antenna).
That's really a shame for ambitious learners trying to achieve more with less time, wealth or pedigree.

It completely makes sense from the university's perspective, though.
This would most probably benefit big cooperations more than smaller ones as they can use money to speed up RnD and time to market.
I can think of 1000 ways to make the patent system more fair but also 1001 to game each approach.
It's a tough but to crack.
Thank you! An FAQ is in progress; it will address the questions you and others posed. I'll post a link under the top comment here when it's ready.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379

Also on the drawing board is a live demo of the client in a webpage, with canned data.

All this -- TMTP, client, server, website -- are a work in progress (and a solo effort). This HN item is the first time any of it has received significant public attention. No one should be disappointed that it doesn't look polished!

I'm not concerned by the pessimistic comments, considering that it got 300+ up-votes :-) A lot of comments are from folks who didn't get a clear picture.

(I'm the author.)

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Just because it's in quotation marks doesn't mean it's a direct quote.

The comment is clearly a statement by the commenter of an imagined subtext of the GitHub public statement.
Yes, I do like giving things away but it matters to me that it will be useful to them. I generally give away my tech (gpus, keyboards, computer parts, kindles, headsets) to friends and coworkers, which usually means through previous conversations with them that I know they'll use it. I think that's the motivation for me.

It's also a good way of introducing them to tech that they wouldn't normally get for themselves. The best example is mechanical keyboards; most people don't think they want one until they've used it regularly. And kindles.
I actually like the video of the author writing in the source better than the ray-tracing. What kind of editors is he using, anyway?

What I _don't_ like is his coding style. If he's writing C++, let him use modern C++...

* He should use C++ standard library header names, not C library headers.

* He should use std::array's rather than plain arrays.

* He asks whether there's a way to define arithmetic ops that's simpler/shorter than using macros - perhaps not, but using lambdas, `std::arrays`, and `<algorithm>` and `<numeric>`, you can get pretty close.

* Way way way too much magic numbers.

* Seems like a bunch of wheel-reinvention. Aren't there libraries for raw interaction with the hardware? e.g. EGA/VGA palettes?

etc.
LauncherOne costs $12 millions per launch and delivers 300 kg, which means $40k/kg. Compared to $4k/kg of Falcon9, this is... uhm... They definitely gotta optimize things
Former ACLU Head Ira Glasser explains why there’s no such thing as “hate speech”
And soon to join will be Astra, who made it very close to orbit recently.
In this classic picture https://news.yahoo.com/q-shaman-stormed-capitol-upset-192631...

the guy in the yellow shirt is Jason Tankersley, founder of the Maryland Skinheads. The guy to his right in the mask is Matthew Heimbach, former leader of the Traditionalist Workers Party (a neo nazi org).
Hmm, interesting. I wonder why they spun it off — doesn't seem to make sense from Galactic's POV. Leadership dispute?