skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an amazing career. I was curious about this:

>"The late Steve Jobs', NeXT, licensed the Objective-C language for it's new operating system, NEXTSTEP. NeXT eventually acquired Objective-C from Stepstone."

Does anyone what NeXT paid to acquire the Objective-C license?
There is no false equivalency. Deplatforming is wrong, left or right, rich or poor. Disenfranchised people not having a voice is a cause of radicalisation and violence. If you don't believe me then talk to the Black community in America.

I defended Parler in another thread and I'll defend the SWP here, despite not particularly liking either group.
That's a great question... I wish I could find an old disc!
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace
Please don't do this. Nothing good can come of it—it's the oldest and most extreme move in the internet playbook, and its meaning has been diluted to the point of being just a point-scoring status move, and a cheap one at that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Next thing you know people will be trying to reintroduce Wooly Mammoths somehow.

Yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_woolly_mammoth
That was never really possible, or certainly wasn't ever since the laptops went to HiDPI displays. There were just a lot of teenagers showing off their ability to make gamer PC parts lists and claim that it's better than a Mac, but the value of the display/trackpad/integration have been good for a long time. It's just now the quality of the SoC is that good.
Since there are many webcams available for over $150, I'd say the market for "good webcams" is big enough. If people spend $150 on a webcam I think they expect it to be good.
Interesting. I had not seen aircrete before. It apparently has about 50% of the strength of concrete and has been used since the 1920's. [1] Being very light is a great property. I can think of many uses for this.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_concrete
Did Trump Have a ‘Diet Coke’ Button in the Oval Office? [True ]
The example given (Vultr) is equivalent to a Starbucks card. You’re prepaying a company for a service. The transaction is the prepayment. How you use that balance is now irrelevant.

Micro transactions to a range of different independent businesses requires using existing payment networks (visa / MasterCard / etc: relatively expensive; crypto: lack of widespread adoption) or building a new payment network.

> If you are willing to trust an intermediary (and most people are)

We already do. It’s called the bank. We also have regulation that helps. How many people keep real money in their personal PayPal accounts? How many people can even afford to?

EDIT: I retract my Vultr / Starbucks equivalence.

> At the end of each month, Vultr tells we what's due if I exceed what remains in the account. If necessary I load more money in

Starbucks will not let your spend exceed your deposits on your card. Your statement suggests Vultr will. Credit accounts are a whole other risk. What happens if you don’t pay off your balance after you’ve already consumed the service?
The thing is, they're not "ludicrously expensive". Sure, Teslas and Porsches and Jaguars are, but you can also get a late-model used Nissan Leaf for under 10k, or a brand new Kia Niro for ~30k after tax credit. That's well within the bell curve of what people spend on ICE cars, used or not. A Leaf might not meet your needs, but it's not like there aren't other options out there. If you factor in longer-term costs like fuel cost, maintenance, and wear-and-tear, the equation tilts even further towards EV.

Not to say they shouldn't be cheaper, but they'll definitely get there. We're pretty close to price-parity as is (just not tons of options).
Liberal Lefties Are Not Right-Wing (2018)
If a Tesla battery is 100kWh and it gets like 350 miles - and you can get 6 hours of sun on a 350 watt panel per day on average - that means 2 panels could charge your car about once per month, right?
I loooove Lagrange points
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. That just disincentivizes people from participating here, especially on topics that they know about. You can make your substantive points without that.

That goes 10x for nazification.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here issue is not with React but classic case of poor leadership, architecture and project planing.
All issues and road blocks could be avoided just with adhering to a few guidelines.

Roadblock #1: I am not even sure why does it matter what is behind the curtain, only important thing are REST contracts, everything else is splitting team front-end / back-end. Everyone can have what ever naming convention they want. If project is enterprises it means that has more than 11 people or what is considered as a high number of SCRUM team, so spiting concerns is important and necessary. Everyone does it all (all full-stack devs) just does not work.

Roadblock # 2: This is due to experience, and it is up to UI team lead to decide, rest they follow. Sorry, in enterprise projects democracy does not work, maybe in the first few meeting but there you need to draw a line. Regarding dependencies, this is strictly role of one person, everyone else works on 'git pull' forbid everyone else to fiddle with package.json use lock file strictly and package versions, and you will not have any issues, each machine will have exact copies.

Roadblock # 3: This is not a blocker and Hooks have solution for any kind of pattern, it is still possible to use Redux pattern without issue.

Roadblock # 4: Machines can get slower, and in my team we had similar issues, but hey you cannot expect to work with 2GB in 2020, not realistic especially with Chrome sucking memory with 34 tabs open. Don't forget VS Code is built based on Chromium so basically you have two vampires on you computer. And having virtualized environment is even worse.

Roadblock #5: Saga in my case was relief, if you structure correctly Redux Actions and Reducers in neat way, and if you split your concerns, you do not have any issue, in fact it was working as a charm.

Again there are multiple approaches how to deal with this, even split project in multiple smaller SPAs if necessary, but at any point not issue with React but more
case of PEBMAC :/sorry.
In my view, there is one antidote to arguments that centralize a minority viewpoint, to borrow from the terminology of the article: People vote. I think this is one of the side benefits of democracy. When a party gets more than, say, 10% of the vote, then it can no longer be dismissed as a fringe party. Granted this is complicated by a two-party system giving people only two realistic choices, but the primaries within each party can similarly serve as a barometer of sentiment within that party.

If a "wing" of a party gains more than, say, 20% of the primary vote in that party, then it can no longer be dismissed as a fringe.
I don't think mens rea is particularly relevant when it comes to the actions of corporations. It's not at all clear to me what it would mean for a corporation to have intent.

We could certainly say a 'corporation intended' to do something if we found an email from the CEO commanding it, that much is trivial. But what if we think of a corporation as a 'slow AI' or 'China brain'? Might the corporation, viewed that way, have intent that transcends the individual thoughts and desires of the constituent employees? The system may be structured in a way that rewards low level employees for doing things the individual executives would never consider acceptable (for instance, 'lying to the executives'), and which the low level employees don't think is a good idea either. With all the humans personally opposed to some business practice, it might still occur due to the structure of the system. If we personify that system, we could perhaps say the system itself has a will of its own, with objectives alien to any of the humans involved.

A harsh example far worse than Facebook: the Functionalism-Intentionalism debate (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism–intentionalism...) At the end of the day, does it really matter? Whether you subscribe to functionalism or intentionalism in that case, the horrible end result is the same and people need to be held accountable for it.
Developers still do this with editor themes
Especially for "cold butter" metals like aluminum and copper.
Yeah, this is sort of a deal breaker. Another response to my original comment was a link to Flattr and from wikipedia it's a site "that records which websites they frequent and shares this data with Flattr" -- no thanks.
That is already somewhat the case in China. Meaning, it is not a possible dystopian future... it is the present in some parts of the world.
> That it is the Russian Zvevda module that is leaking/cracking is likely related to the fact that it is also the oldest module in the ISS.

Definitely sounds like it. They can't identify the leak on the inside so it doesn't sound like a micrometeoroid impact and they suspect a second leak that is so small they need a microscope to verify:

> "So far, we have found one place and suspect another, where as some kind of leak exists. We must bring a powerful microscope on a cargo spacecraft and use to examine this place. We are not totally certain so far," Solovyov said.

IANAMS but that screams microfractures. The Zvezda is made largely of an aluminum magnesium alloy [1] that has a fatigue limit so even small repetitive stress can cause it to eventually fail. I'm curious whether this is wear and tear from just being in space and getting irradiated or if its repetitive mechanical stresses like a small tidal force as it orbits the earth.

[1] https://weebau.com/iss/zvezda.htm
I was surprised to find many of the newer chat systems supported by Pidgin plugins: Discord, Facebook, LINE, Signal, Skype, Slack, Telegram, WeChat, WhatsApp.
Maybe because it requires the content provider to join a new ad/payment network and most haven't.
I see several problems with this idea:

- EV battery recharge resource is not infinite. Spending it on grid stabilization could be quite costly if you'll factor in cost of battery replacement. In the long run it could be cheaper to build mines for hydroelectric/compressed air storage.

- It will require huge capital investments. You have to equip every parking spot with inverters which can both charge EV and supply power from it to the grid and invest into upgrading grid to be smart enough to work in such conditions.

- What will happen on low-energy days? It's fine to drain most of power from hydroelectric storage or from stationary flow batteries, but you simply can not do it with EV. Imagine being told "sorry pal, you have to walk home today, power from your EV was used to stabilize the grid".
How U.S. CDC missed chances to spot Covid's silent spread
Anything that is not federated is out of the question. There's is just way too much risk involved. I don't care if the clients offer integrated GIF meme search.

Actually I would even rate decentralization as preferable over encryption.

And if you ask me I had never heard of jabber.ccc.de -- never saw anyone from there. I would have said that either jabber.at or xmpp.jp dominated the network.
(second reply)

Are their some good examples of censorship from before the last 2 weeks I can cite?

It might help a more friendly discussion too, people are already down voting randomly it seems...

I remember when Joe Rogan went to Spotify and there was something of a backlash inside the company. I vaguely remember some of his episodes (discussing trans athletes rights) weren't hosted for a while.
Not folksy enough. Just like we use Libraries of Congress to measure information volume, we should rate our chips in terms of AGC/mm^2

(Apollo Guidance Computer)
> debugging / error messages

I think its still quite bad for debugging. I get a lot of "look here" for errors, but there are still times I set breakpoints on the internals to try and figure out what is going on. Usually in combination with some babel plugin messing things up, or some webpack caching issue, etc. I still think more could be done here, but adding the necessary debugging stuff would bloat the core.

> Redux is king

Redux is quickly going out of fashion. Interested to hear your thoughts on how long you think it will remain around though or evolve. When I look at redux-saga/redux-observable projects, its incredibly verbose for such simple things. And there seem like very simple solutions on the horizon with suspense resource fetching stuff.
There's a common theme in a lot of these "you can't trust what you see" replies that it's specifically being amplified by the liberal side, to make conservatives look stupid.

If you take that one step further down the sequence of events, though, we'd be aiming that critique at the Christian side of the media that's been making hay about the "War on Christmas" for decades. Find one person saying something, or one company doing something you can take the wrong way, use it to tell your audience they're under attack; lather, rinse, repeat. Growing up in it, I'd hear about this stuff in youth group, in chapel in school, even in not-officially-religious classes like History. Before the internet, it wasn't easy to escape that bubble if your parents were deep into it.

Or do posters here really think there really are a lot of people out there trying to eliminate Christmas?
What do you mean? Chance in what way? I like cars so my wallpapers are usually like some nice photos of sports cars or my own car in interesting locations. It's perfectly inoffensive. And I mean even some landscapes, geeky wallpapers with cheesy matrix letters etc....literally anything other than the stock windows wallpaper would be an improvement.
Technologies like IOTA aims to solve similar (and more) problems. And probably other crypto coins/networks.
Relative to the population buying new cars regularly..? I'd guess a lot.
Simplifying PCI Compliance for E-Commerce
I haven’t thought about it enough, but the other comments talk about credit card fees. And then browsing the internet becomes like a utility. Hopefully the amount you net from (mining - cost of browsing) offsets the extra power usage cost
Opposite experience in 2020 here at EA: sure, I've seen stalls that don't work a few times but it seems to be well correlated with their app showing you they don't work, and most of the time it just works

That is in California, did around ~40-50 charging sessions.
Are Tass articles always translated this poorly? I'm just surprised that a state owned news agency would put something like this out.
> ...that will be paid by generations to come...

I think the lockdowns could be revealed as a costly mistake and there is a great hubris among the well off in thinking that because they aren't struggling everything is fine.

But this is particular argument is unsustainable. A lockdown can have generations of consequences - what doesn't? - but it cannot be paid for by generations to come. It was paid for now, resources were reallocated and consumed.

The risk is more subtle. If a group of people develop who have nothing to lose, then they lose nothing by being very violent and destroying stuff. Physical destruction of assets is something that can cause long-term damage. The lockdowns take away options from people who don't have many.
out of the French control given that Google is an American business and it doesn't look like the US is ever going to seriously bring anti-trust to bear on tech. So countries have to do what they can locally.
It's not a modern language, so appreciating it has to be in its original context. I think it does an admirable job of augmenting C with object-oriented capabilities. It's certainly easier to master than C++.

I'm not an expert on this, but I suspect that the main reasons it was chosen for iOS were:

- The technical limitations of the original iPhone meant that you needed to use a low-level language.

- The legacy of NeXT at Apple.
> Maybe the author wasn’t able to decide this, but I wouldn’t consider an SPA for an enterprise app unless there was a very good reason.

I’m on a team that has (I feel) been relatively productive with SPAs backed by serverless microservices in an enterprise environment, but its largely greenfield. And, frankly, at this point, the major SPA frameworks are really “boring stuff that works”.
Based on the articke NOW. My comment is based on the PAST experience.
>Citizens will require a personal licence to access the internet, and anonymous use will be illegal.

I mean you already do. What do you call a signing up to an ISP?
What is NSAID? I recall some warning on Advil (or Tylenol)?

Does this mean this is a typical of someone to be prescribed with autoimmune disorder? I was curious to know how one might discover on their own if they have it. As well as the effects of how someone feels (or changes) by taking NSAID ...
> We have no idea how widespread the disease is, but it’s certainly less spread and deadly than feared.

These 2 statements seem to contradict each other. If it's less spread than feared / reported, that would mean it's more deadly than reported.
> the 5th season was also quite terrible

With the exception of the final episode, which was filmed along with Season 4 before (as you said) they knew they would get renewed for a 5th. Absolutely gut-wrenching episode.

Still, season 5 does have its moments, like the "We are one" declaration from G'Kar...
It needs to be broken up or shut down, it's that simple. Facebook is a voice used for hate against LGBT / socialist / communist groups
The flaw in your reasoning, and most people arguing against BEVs is they envision the demand for charging stations is going to be in any way similar to the demand for gas stations.

A regular 120v charger can put 60 miles on an EV overnight which is more than enough for the average commute. I did this for 2 years with a 50 mile round-trip commute. I started each day with 100% charge on my Nissan Leaf, arrived home each night with ~35 miles of range, and plugged it in.

When we got our Model 3, we charged exclusively on 120v for about a year and only used a Supercharger on road trips out of state.

We're a BEV only household and have used a charging station once in the last 6 months. I took the Leaf out to empty a storage unit 40 miles away and I only stopped for 10 minutes to put enough range so I wasn't coasting home on fumes.

I realize that not everyone can charge at home, but a large portion of the population can and that will dramatically reduce the demand for charging stations. When you realize that anywhere you stop for long periods of time (e.g. restaurants, grocery stores, office parks) can install chargers, then you quickly realize that charging stations will only really be needed along highways.
> Someone should tell the FTC and SEC

I concede your point regarding the FTC, and to modern consumer protection regulatory systems in general (though I have other problems with those). But the SEC is an exemplar of how our politics cripples agencies which can only function well by peeking behind the curtain, so to speak. The SEC has neither the resources nor mandate to match the power of the industry it regulates, which is why it mostly just goes around issuing the financial industry equivalent of parking tickets. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would be another great example, but it barely even got off the ground before it was almost completely neutered. Beyond the FTC, most consumer protection regulation successes have been at the state level.

The IRS is a good example, especially of the dynamic in evolution. It has to walk a fine line between applying consistent, clear rules and catching tax avoidance schemes by looking to the underlying substance of financial schemes rather than just the mechanics. And for the past couple of decades it's increasingly struggled to do that effectively, though mostly for political rather than legal reasons (taxation is one of the few areas where courts still accept intrusive, individualized examination by regulatory agencies as a matter of course).
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

Considering that, in the Firefox article, this links to an article [1] by The New York Times lamenting with no self-awareness whatsoever that Facebook reversed its temporary signal-boosting of The New York Times... I'm really not comfortable with how "factual" is being defined.

Like, I'm all for researching new ways to share and promote information and fact-checking.

I just don't want them to stop at "We should all listen to what the mainstream center-left media says".

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/facebook-rever...
Disarmament isn't going to happen but maybe setup several redundant globally accessible early detection systems based off common technologies, so everyone can be absolutely sure launches are not malfunctions. This may involve unpleasant tech transfers, but eliminating any opportunity for miscommunication seems worthwhile.
> I mention regulations in general and not particular one, because the context that you are talking about is placed within bigger context of everything around changing. And once law is put in place is almost never removed.

But you can't connect abstract "regulations" to any kind of bigger context for a cost/benefit analysis. You can for a particular regulation or a particular set of regulations, though.

I believed stuff like "regulations are only added never removed" and "government always grows, never shrinks," but that's empirically false. I read all about how the ICC's regulatory regime was awful in Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, but it turns out by that time it had already been abolished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission....

I don't think it's a bad thing to periodically revisit regulations and revise/abolish them if they're no longer needed or can be improved. However, I think it a lot of cases, regulation is actually a set of solutions to problems, and repealing the regulation will just unsolve those problems.

> Re forum, collecting emails seem to count as personal data, maybe the amount of work wouldn't be high, but researching what do I really need to do, how to register personal data database etc. was high, there were not much info available at the time. AFAIR changes were pretty brutal to me since I was miraculously running on some very deprecated phpBB with a few manual patches which kept bots away.

IIRC, I think they do, but from my employer's GDPR training, all you'd have to do is not use the emails you collected for a purpose other than what you obtained consent for. E.g. if you collected them for account maintenance notifications, you can't turn around and build a marketing list from them without getting additional consent from the user.
This was proposed in Brazil, but was repelled due to backlash. Some ISPs still technically have data caps, but it's illegal to enforce them.
This may be clear, but:

> guaranteeing that a faction which got floor(1/n+1)+1 votes in a district with n seats

should be:

> guaranteeing that a faction which got floor(1/n+1)+1 votes in a district with n seats gets a seat
Virustotal is one such site that has a massive database of checksums. I have no idea if they will share it or if you have to pay something. [1] There are also threat intel sites that manage databases of known bad things, but AFAIK they all cost money to access.

[1] - https://www.virustotal.com/
Be brave at work, Push your risk tolerance. Be brave with your transactions, push your risk tolerance. Don't push your stress limits, it will not end well. Having said that, work your butt off.
I've been doing this for a few years now so I don't usually have too much to give away these days.

This year of course was weird, but for various reasons turned out to not be hugely different in terms of old clothes with one exception -- slacks. So I'm currently going through a triage of slacks and wearing one per day for fit and to check for problems to find any to toss or give away.