skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually strombofulus is, knowingly or not, correct here. The oversight board is theoretically independent, but was created by Facebook. If the fail to reinstate Trump, there will be questions about their independence (despite the efforts taken by Facebook to make them look independent). If they do reinstate Trump, there is a real chance that Facebook will decide that they are not actually a good idea.

Either way their legitimacy has yet to be proven.
I looked into it and got a bit scared about charging it. I don’t have a garage and I do street parking and it didn’t seem like I had many options. For road trips it seemed a bit scary too, do I need to stop somewhere and wait for hours to charge?
8/10. I tried to focus on eyes as a heuristic, for whatever that's worth. I also recognized Guido.
Most of the price is in the copper inside. Walk around with an insulated bolt cutter, and you can make a lot of money. Alibaba will sell you a device to get the insulation off the wire. Plenty of scrappers bring copper into the scrap yards already.

I wouldn't do it, but it is easy to see how a dishonest person could make it work.
A can of this should do it: https://www.holtsauto.com/holts/products/tyreweld/
The 1983 utopian fantasy "Bolo'Bolo" proposes an extremely workable strategy for a better ordering of the human species: bolos -- that is, micronational formations of 300-500 people. I've been trying for the last ten years to create an MVP for such a bolo, and will continue to do so until a more viable path presents itself or, I find myself living in Bolo'Bolo.

https://libcom.org/files/pm_bolo_bolo.pdf
I don’t see mass adoption being realistic until people can charge on long distance trips that they take few times a year in a reasonable amount of time without congestion and waiting lines at the limited number of charging ports available. Then there’s the question of what people in rural areas or trade jobs or other situations will do, given their needs may be different (working vehicles like pickups may see different adoption rates or constraints). There’s also the question of whether the power grid is ready. And finally I wonder if all the mass mining of lithium and other metals will create its own problems. If all things are better in moderation I wonder if a mixed end state with ICE, EVs, and PHEVs all available is the best equilibrium. Personally I think aggressive bans on gasoline vehicles may be short sighted, apart from being another reduction of individual freedoms.
People are rehashing the same myths about ISA written 25 years ago.

Variable length instructions are not a significant impediment in high wattage cpus (>5W?). The first byte of an instruction is enough to indicate how long an instruction is and hardware can look at the stream in parallel. Minor penalty with arguably a couple of benefits. The larger issue for CISC is that more instructions access memory in more ways so decoding requires breaking those down into micro-ops that are more RISC like, in order that the dependencies can get worked out.

RISC already won where ISA matters -- like AVR and ARM thumb. You have a handful of them in a typical laptop plus like a hundred throughout your house and car, with some PIC thrown in for good measure. So it won. CISC is inferior. Where ISA matters it loses. Nobody actually advocates for CISC design because you're going to have to decode it into smaller ops anyway.

Also variable length instruction is not really a RISC vs CISC thing as much as also a pre vs post 1980 thing. Memory was so scarce in the 70s that wasting a few bits for simplicity sake was anathema and would not be allowed.

System performance is a lot more than ISA as computers have become very complicated with many many I/Os. Think about why American automakers lost market share at the end of last century. Was it because their engineering was that bad? Maybe a bit. But really it was total system performance and cost of ownership that they got killed on, not any particular commitment to a solely inferior technical framework.
Facebook is a private company and can do whatever they want.
Some Reddit users reporting the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/l346n3/did_anyone...
Freelancers, what do you think, how important from 1 to 5 is it to have a nice website with all relevant information about you?
This is a contrived fantasy, or a realistic question?

We have a system of justice, you get to defend youself, judged by your peers and posting general BS about politics is not a crime.

Youtube, on the other hand, will ban your channel without any recourse, so if you are earning a living from it, you kids might be on the street because something in a mysteruous machine learning algorithm got triggered.
maybe creating a file system makes people... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This was a cool AlphaPhoenix video doing a large-scale crystal growth simulation that looks amazingly similar:

https://youtu.be/06TscuHNvGQ?t=305
Absolutely one of the best mushroom/thc enabled TV shows. The fuzzy abstraction layer that all these other comments are mentioning basically glues the universe together when you are tripping.
Someday I want to make a version called Startup or Indie Band.
Isn't this a problem for gasoline cars too? Hence battery heaters?
Swift AsyncSequence
Bournegol – Algol-like C dialect that Steve Bourne used to write Bourne shell
I think it’s a legit question. The answer is: yes. Short GME and be rich in a week.
The other answer is: no. Buy call GME and be rich in a week.
The whole market is irrational in the short term, maybe it’s luck, serendipity or genius.
You’ll find the same pattern at your local casino.
Put less than 5% of your net worth on this bs if you don’t want to FOMO. Otherwise just disregard, it’s 100% gambling.
I'll be honest. I'm that guy with the hearing accessibility issue. That's why I'm mad about people who refuse to be seen.

If we use MS Teams or Google Meet, then it's mitigable because those support computer generated captions (albeit not perfect). But other technologies like Zoom, Webex, etc. don't have that feature, so literally, if there are no captions and I can't see you in order to lipread & read some body language, then we are unable to have a productive meeting. You might as well be speaking a foreign language.

Even if everyone has normal hearing, it's still a good thing to be able to see each other to check-in on everyone's body language and well-being. If someone looks really unhappy or looks like they're not taking care of themselves at all, then this is information that they need help with something.
Part of the joke is that's it's NASA.

(NASA stands for Not A Standard Acronym, of course.)
Favor composition over inheritance!
This ain’t the PRC mate. Try again.
I'm 21; I can survive not seeing people physically for a year or two. If I don't…well, there are people who are actually going to die.
Analog is more characteristically described as the values between 0 and 1.

Whether the infinite values of voltage between 0.0V and 5V ( infinite as measured by a digital system requiring significant figures represented in floating point math.

Anecdotally, Film photography is not accurately called "analog" as it is not electrical, and does indeed break down to fine grained 1 and 0-like activation of silver halide crystals.
It's a bit tactless to post this while Brad Cox's obituary is the top post on HN.
I strongly disagree. Government control should be as minimal as possible, otherwise it helps a pitfall of potential tyranny. The people need to "vote" by using platforms that they respect the governance of. If they don't like how/who the leadership of Facebook is moderating, they should go to another platform; there does need to be better data and network portability laws/policy, so users are mobile and can leave any platform easily. This still doesn't solve the filter bubbles that get created in digital communities.
I would maybe buy this, except that

1. Back when scroll bars were fixed width and consistent across all applications, I would instinctively tune them out when I wasn't using them; I don't need the application to do that for me.

2. More importantly, many websites are adding some kind of progress indicator on the page itself (perhaps because the scroll bars are no longer obvious enough?). These are way more in-your-face than the scroll bars of yore.
Well that is unfortunate.
Ironically, Steve Jobs supported USB, the Universal Serial Bus ;-). Maybe we could agree that Jobs wanted to kill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature ? :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_limit
> Obviously it's not acceptable to make threats to heads of state or ex-heads of state, but still I think that's a State Department, Secret Service and other governmental entities that should handle this decision, not Twitter.

> Twitter should not be making these calls that have international relations implications.

Wouldn't it be blatant First Amendment violation (from multiple angles) to have the government making such decisions? You're proposing literal government censorship.

I think I made this point before: person or group should feel pressured to disseminate some foreign state's propaganda unless some government bureaucrat gives them the OK not to.
> I'm honestly saddened by the lack of progress in space in my lifetime

I just told my youngest kid this the other day:

When I was his age (~25 yrs ago), my dad told me with a bit of a sad look on his face, "I hope we return to the moon within your lifetime." At the time, I kind of laughed because, hey, we're sending people to the moon CONSTANTLY. It took me a minute to realize that I was sorely mistaken and that we haven't sent a human to the moon at ALL in my lifetime. I was taken aback.

All this history about Neil Armstrong and the Apollo missions and the space shuttles -- we even got to see from Cocoa Beach a shuttle launch on a family vacation. So much of it even from MY DAD's youth, him telling us about when he got to hear the famous "One small step for [a] man" live from his Scout Jamboree trip. All of that, and we haven't actually been to the moon in decades? It totally blew my mind.

I think before that moment, I must have assumed that it was Real Soon Now before we'd have a permanent base with people living and even being born. And to learn that we sort of gave up...

It's not unlike when I was six and remembered reading about fully autonomous cars that were coming Real Soon Now, too. Thirty+ years later and that reality actually seems farther away than I had imagined despite the actual progress we've made.
The demand side is where it gets tricky. If there are only a few gas stations in your state it doesn't matter that the list price if oil is cheap. Gas stations will tear out their pumps as demand drops.
This reminds me of Cringley's theory that there are two main types of programmer, hippies and nerds. Hippies do big picture stuff and are good at UI/UX etc. but their low level code is sometimes untidy, nerds are great at fine detail and micro-optimization but can lose sight of the overall goal.
Northern Michigan has lots of trees, but deer browsing has a big impact on what species regenerate (so for instance, there is little young cedar).

We have a few cougars and wolves and a pretty robust hunting season and it doesn't make much in the way of a difference.
We desperately need a decent desktop operating system. After that basic need is satisfied, fixing the problems in the upper layers will be easier in comparison.

To develop any kind of software, you need to do so in a desktop operating system, so it's important for it to be reliable and usable.

I think the only viable way to achieve this is to create a Linux-based OS. Not another Linux distribution, but something consistent and well thought out and that solves the problems that no one in the Linux space wants to solve right now.
> ASCAP isn't even exclusively licensed

I think this might actually be the innovation here. Artists can use their normal distribution channels, and also sign up for ASCAP because, why not, it's free money. If enough people do this, they become a very useful distributor simply due to the size of their catalog.
> He underscored that air loss due to the crack are insignificant. "This leak is like as if you’d drill the hull with a 0.2 mm diameter drill. I’m not sure such drills even exist in household.

I had to check my collection of PCB drill bits when I was reading it, and yes, I confirm that I'm a proud owner of a 0.2 mm drill at home, it was the smallest one in the box ;-)
great list. i wonder how long it would take to get through if you watched 2 hours of video a day. I linked to it from https://bitchin.net
It is commendable work for someone of any age.

But I think we undersell the abilities of college-aged adults in modern times. Watch some top violinists or gymnasts at that age, or just someone who had a couple of kids as a teen and held it together.

The young have unbounded ability; it is only wisdom and experience that they may lack.
I'd assume many people here interpreted it as a test of general knowledge rather than a test of ability to divine someone's homicidal tendencies from their mugshot.
Sate Affairs/Secrets override the 1A because the fate of the country may be in the balance, so I do understand that need. I mean this is state-state business and communication, not Jack and Joe Nobody.
I did emphasize the criteria, and it seems reasonable to expect any informed person to already know that there was violence from police, protesters, and counter-protesters. But the Guardian source says "All but one were killed by fellow citizens.", so I didn't find it particularly worth emphasizing that 4%.
So do rats with abundant food in an enclosed environment, it doesn’t end well. https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1962-calhoun.pdf

Which isn’t to say the same rules apply to humans, but it’s also critical to get this right.
I was not very happy with the ownCloud product and this rewirte was very much needed. I seem like they were just adding feature but tons of it just didn't work well at all.

I'm fine with less features, add them when they are ready.

I would maybe try it again after a rewrite.

Anybody have good alternatives? For me most important was exposing my files to other users and giving them access selectively. Also syncing files to the app would have been a great feature for me (this caused the most issues for me).
> And diplomatic channels including back channels are the gold standard for diplomatic and undiplomatic communications. Let’s not ruin a good thing by replacing them with Twitter.

To even confuse Twitter with a diplomatic channel is a bit mind-boggling. It's a PR/propaganda channel and sometimes a way to distribute informational notices to the public. That's it.

Edit: Yep, we agree. I was just amplifying the point a bit :)
They have put tape on suspected leak areas in Zvezda before.
Ceramics That Won’t Shatter
> Is it really so historically significant it's worth the amount of effort you're describing?

Space launches are getting a lot cheaper, so moving the ISS to another orbit might not be such a big deal as it used to be. We don't really need to keep the ISS around forever, but on the other hand, losing it would in some ways be similar to the burning of Notre Dame in 2019 (I can't believe that was less than two years ago). It's mankind's first permanent foothold in space. In that sense, it's irreplaceable.

Let's say moving the ISS at the end of its usable lifespan costs a half billion dollars. That's like asking every U.S. taxpayer to pay about two dollars. Is it worth it? To me I think it's worth a lot more than two dollars, even if it unlikely that i'll ever actually be able to visit the ISS in my lifetime.
Gatsby and Next solve this issue quite elegantly.
We are in agreement then. :)
I'm not saying it's a good goal but it is clearly the goal.
also input latency is worse
Interesting.

This borders on a bit of a conspiracy theory if not looked at intelligently.

It’s best summarized that as of late US politics especially on the right but on the left too (see: gerrymandering) has been reduced to a zero sum game where winning and power is more important than service and truth.
Here's the difference: I don't think that being unable to repair your own car engine makes a car less useful. Sure, if your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, you might be stuck there for a while until you can get it towed, but that doesn't happen too often, and besides, what are the chances you'd be able to repair your car on the side of the road without special equipment or replacement parts?

But the number of things you can do with a computer expands enormously when you know just a little bit of bash scripting, or python, or even Excel!
How much of the herd to they kill each year?

Google says there are 100,000 deer, 200,000 reindeer and ~1200 lynx. So there's enough that they could make a difference (but it matters a lot how often they would take a deer).
I used to work at a company where I'd write and maintain multiple microservices, so I was dealing with dozens of small and big ruby applications across different language versions and different frameworks and dependencies. It was two years ago, but I did experience a ton of issues between different versions of Bundler and rake and rubygems. I'd absolutely go full docker if I was still working there.
Ye, I pushed it to the extreme and back ported a good chunk of the STL to C: https://www.github.com/glouw/ctl
Open-source is still not a business model
We have not shaken hands with our representatives because we capped the size of the House of Representatives because they felt it would be awkward to have so many Representatives in a single hall, or some such. Hard af disagree for me. I want to know my Representative, and in the modern era, there is no reason why we can't have a house of 1,000s of members, or some such. Our congressional districts are much too big.
Fear Is an Illusion
Check your biases.

https://oversightboard.com/meet-the-board/
Hike Messenger Shuts Down, Dark Side of India's Fintech Boom and Nazara IPO
I don't see how this is significant given this program was created to give Facebook political cover and is entirely funded and controlled by Facebook.

It's about as independent as Facebook's ad and security divisions (that is to say not at all independent, the ad team has free reign to 2FA data for ad purposes, for example).

Facebook and its mock "independent" board cannot be trusted.
Objective-C, at least these days, is plenty fast, with a the cost of a message send being comparable to a virtual function call. The fast path of objc_msgSend is just over a dozen instructions.
The thing is not everyone is able to manage it. By not providing for those people you ensure the parking problem becomes someone else's problem.
I responded to Stretchcat with extra detail because I am that guy with a hearing accessibility challenge.

In response to what you said, I will add that I live by myself. If I can't see a coworker such as yourself over video, when am I going to get to see anyone? The only in-person interaction I have had since March outside of a neighbor on the sidewalk/going to the grocery store and seeing the cashier/going to the doctor, has been only my mother and only 3 times. This is pretty isolating!

You are helping me out by feeling a little bit more connected to people if I can have a video chat with you.

I'm very used to isolation, but I can also tell it isn't ideal for my mental health and 2020 hasn't been excellent.

Make an exception for me please.
The "compel" part is what pisses me off. Google absolutely respected the letter of the law, then the Macron government got mad because the spirit of the law was "we want to extract money from Google without giving them anything in return".

This is pure regulatory capture from media corporations.
I went through a very similar experience. I burnt out trying to balance work and family, and trying to give my 110% for both. I also started taking it easy (at the expense of career growth), started sleeping better and exercising. I am mentally and physically better now. But I am unable to bring myself to work hard as I used to do in the past. I am scared I will burn myself out again and won’t survive that.
I get to write code, coach customers, help drive products and influence how big companies use Kubernetes as a solutions architect. Love my job, and I’m paid really well for it. It’s not low stress all of the time but it’s chill compared to the ops jobs I had back in the day.
Not to sidetrack the conversation, but I found your typo of calling a drone an unmanned navel vehicle quite apt!
I thought Apple was pushing FireWire at the time?
> I mean this is state-state business and communication, not Jack and Joe Nobody.

It is not state-state business and communication. That kind of thing is not done on Twitter. At all.

The closest is propagandistic back and forth needling, but that's not diplomacy, it's PR/propaganda: the real audience for that is the public, not the other state's government.

Even when two states lack official diplomatic relations, they don't resort to Twitter. There are other mechanisms for that (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_power and agreements brokered through other 3rd party diplomats like http://www.parstimes.com/history/algiers_accords.pdf).
Middle doesn't have to mean 100% pro-establishment or pro-status-quo. And the illusion of choice applies to the falsely compressed, single-issue, single-axis left/right extremes, too.
Perhaps not but we are at the point now where it is not economically viable to buy new IPv4 blocks. Many smaller (and more recently established ISPs) ISPs have given up on buying IPv4 addresses and are now running CG-NAT behind the handful of IPv4 addresses they still own. Even big (especially older) ISPs with large IPv4 blocks are experimenting with CG-NAT (e.g. I know one large ISP who is doing it only for wireless broadband probably because it's a easy test market). Either they're looking at selling part of their blocks (since they could operate out of smaller blocks with CG-NAT if they downsized) or they are genuinely predicting that they will eventually run out of space in their existing blocks--and these blocks are huge.
No, the argument is that there's plenty to learn, and it's all very interesting, but it doesn't stand up against people's very real needs here on Earth. I'm about the biggest fan of space you'll find, but even I, sadly, find the ethical calculus unassailable. Manned spaceflight won't accrue material benefits for ten generations or much more, and meanwhile human beings are dying of treatable or curable diseases, suffering under poverty, and living without access to clean water.

This spoken-word work from 1970 conveys the sentiment well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
I found it interesting that 48 year old Anders Povlsen is using his fortune buying up estates, trading with the state to get large adjacent areas to rewild - to the point where he’s now the largest private land owner https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Holch_Povlsen
Given that one of the earliest comments on this post was:

> Wow, the company created, funded, and used exclusively by Facebook re-affirms Facebook's decision to do something?

> Truly shocking

i.e. someone blindly adding to the anti-tech dogpile without even bothering to click on the article and, you know, read it, I'd hold off on any diatribes about how SV is a monoculture. The anti-SV crowd seems to be afflicted by a similar rabid tribalism that makes nuanced discussion very difficult.
I never thought I would own another vehicle, then I saw Nimbus: http://nimbus.green

It's a tiny car that fits in a motorcycle parking spot, charges via a wall outlet, has AC, and is 15x safer than a motorcyle or scooter. Just preordered one.

I think not needing a supercharger will change everything.
As there continue to be more and more federal programs that will pretty much be the case for any individual portion of the federal budget - smaller proportionally but larger over all - so that really doesn’t say anything