skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone can believe in free speech while choosing to censor their own platform - free speech doesn't mean every venue, platform and publisher must proliferate all speech. And as far as advocacy goes, I didn't see any mention of it on David Duke's Wikipedia page. Although nowadays every racist and anti-semite is a self-taught Constitutional scholar and friend of Voltaire. But advocacy is orthogonal to political belief, and plenty of people advocate free speech as a proxy for their own unspoken views.

Ben Franklin certainly believed in free speech, but he also wouldn't publish content he considered libelous and slanderous in his newspaper, rather he would tell people to take such stories elsewhere.
I don’t think life will get back to normal for at least 5 to 7 years.

And even with mass vaccination, or herd immunity, you still need to wear a mask in public. Or in the office. Or when you’re in a small meeting room, crammed full of people.

It only takes one sick person, and the virus will spread like wildfire like the flu. The vaccine only protects you from the deadliest of results, but you can still get sick and contagious.

And with news of all the mutations, 4 of them now, that I think we are seeing a new normal with remote work.
Wohoo one more mac copy for who knows who
absolutely not, Torba just wants to profit from neo-nazis
Yeah, not everyone needs custody of their own money.

But those of us who do, can.

Under fiat, we can't.
>It will harm Apple iPhone sales if these apps are no longer available on iOS

I don't think so, Google needs to be on iPhones much more than Apple needs Google to be on iPhones. Gmail works with Mail and I don't think many people are going to switch to Android just to use a native Gmail app.
It's Normal Behavior with Chinese Characteristics
I am sad that one of the top comments on a feel good story is a feel bad rant. What does "coastal preference" have to do with dinosaurs and 8 year olds?
Over two months? This policy was announced last June, they've had almost eight.
FBI may have tool to access private Signal messages on locked iPhones
The sad thing is that Bell Monopoly 1.0 could at least have been seen somewhat benign by comparison.

Ma Bell's network was a remarkable feat of reliable engineering. They provided generations of high-quality unionized jobs and bankrolled the sort of green-field research you can only afford to do when you know you've got a well-protected revenue stream.

I wonder what things would have been like if we had chosen regulation or even nationalization rather than sharding the business. If nothing else, we would have been spared decades of inane commercials for competing long-distance providers.
ah ok, i never cited the thought as anything other than speculation, but I'll still unquote you in my article.
Do you want a dictionary definition? Here’s the one from Google’s built-in dictionary.

de·moc·ra·cy

/dəˈmäkrəsē/

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

You seem to think that you have some technical claim to correctness. You are in no sense correct, technical or otherwise. The reason that people probably get annoyed by your claim is that nobody likes a pedant, but a pedant who is not even correct by some pedantic argument is particularly irritating.

Moreover, nobody ever seems to subscribe to this weird definition where democracy is conflated with direct democracy except people trying to argue that the United States is not a democracy. I suspect motivated reasoning.
Interesting, this definitely would increase innovation, I think. More space to try things and not worry about non-compete clauses maybe?
Second that. When I watched it as a young adult back in the time when it came out, I was thinking "great, a film about porn". However, it was actually thought provoking and ended up shaping my views about censorship in general.
To borrow a phrase from the investment industry, the fact that a ticking time bomb has never previously gone off is not always a reliable indication of future performance.
>The unceremonious dumping of A Prairie Home Companion, which wasn't exactly my schtick but provided a little variety at least, made their coastal preference clear.

What in the world are you talking about? Why is your post laden with so much angst and victimhood-language, without any real reasoning at all? Do you really think this type of post contributes to an HN-worthy conversation on any topic?
Dolphin started this tradition years ago and now many emulator projects are doing it
What about Facebooks 2006 redesign (although to consider this case study, we have to put aside the HN cultural disdain of FB and look at the situation clinically)

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/facebooks-news-feed-i...

Lots of people hated it can claimed in the moment that corporate ruined everything. Then it went on to become one of the most successful products of all time.

Even if you hate FB today, you have to recognize that FB was beloved between 2007 ~ 2011 by pretty much everyone.

How was anyone to know, in that moment, whether the G+ name thing would be a major flop or a world changing product?
Woman finds rattlesnake guarding her food delivery
Yes but the point is that lots of people became disenchanted with ruby because it was notably harder to get this sort of thing right than it was for the alternatives with more built in support for in-process concurrency. Maybe it's not the case anymore, but back around 2010, the only people who knew what they needed to do to configure a rails app to scale decently were those who had battle scars of the kind in the parent comment. And nobody came out of those battles feeling all sunshine-and-roses about the platform.
The quickest way to become a millionaire is to start as a billionaire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085515
Interesting story. Would love to see how they end up feeling about it in an year or two
I have and use VR. It is not a casual experience. I set aside a good portion of a day off when I use it. Most of the time when I game, I’m tired after work and just want to unwind with some exploration or creation.
I dont think the OP’s original point was primarily that the defaults are terrible, in any case. Its that the management of keybindings is godawful. The configuration fix you linked makes this point precisely. In order to have consistency in a basic systemwide function like “copy” you have to dig through forums or bust out your terminal emulator’s man page.
The equity / social justice movement in the U.S. represents a drag on progress. We will be overtaken by much worse governments like China as a result.
> Threads are lighter weight than processes they're still relatively expensive to switch between and to maintain in memory ... context switching between processes is pretty expensive

This is a really common misconception. Both switching between threads and processes is _extremely_ fast compared to what web applications do.

An exceptionally fast web response is generally <1ms. Linux thread context switching takes ~2 microseconds. Forking a new processes takes ~20 microseconds.
Are we taking about drug addiction or food "addiction" here? Because despite using the same word, those are physiologically very different things.

I think I'm familiar with the consensus views. What am I saying that you feel is unjustified?
I was fully mouseless with a tiling window manager (larswm) back in the 1990's. It was very nice, but these days I am very happy with my mouse and graphical tools. Maybe it's senility.
I would love to see some sources on this.
The CONS:

Greek bureaucracy is well known to be pretty bad (a lot of announcements on the news, but a much slower and messy application); the language is too hard to learn and web gov. resources in English are generally scarse (bad done, not updated... and so on), so you sure need an accountant or an agency for it, which costs, hard to find a reliable one, maybe absent far from Athens and takes energy.
Winter (nov to feb/march) is not hot at all.

The PRO:

Greeks are great! they really are! Foreigners are very welcome everywhere, English is spoken by old people, too (you'll not have a language issue at all for your everyday life), and of course the season (sun, light, temperature, sea, islands, scenario) is top in the world for 7 months a years.
The internet (with the ex state owned company Cosmote, I would forget about the others) is GREAT even in very small islands (and in almost every bay of them, especially if you are on a boat/beach).
Then, the sailing context: it is one of the best spot in the world for it (and so many "round the world" sailors end up realizing it was much better just to go there, once they reach the Med back from the read sea, and 'discover' Greece).

Interested? My suggestion is to try some 3 months in low (but still good) season: March to May (included), or September/October; forget about the winter. Choose a little island (yes, much better then the mainland) in the Aegean side (the southern the better).

Are you a sailor? lucky you! buy a sailing boat and live aboard! Sooooooo easy, a paradise, and soooo cheap, too! :)

Anarchist's mind? lucky you! you will love Greeks!

Good luck!
PBS has a show called "Dinosaur Train" that kids seem to love - https://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain
Thank you! It says it's the largest privately held software business. Why is it that it doesn't go public?
Ruby had support for in-process concurrency via threads for the last 14 years.
This strikes me as a terrible argument. Yes, Visa is a small part of the whole system. It's also the only part that Bitcoin does anything to replace. Moving numbers from one column to another is trivial. If that were all the banking system needed to do we could run the whole world economy off my laptop with software I wrote in a month.

You can't do "non-final credit transactions" on Bitcoin.

You can't take out a mortgage.

You can't manage investments.

You can't pay for groceries without waiting a half an hour.

You can't buy a $1.25 pack of gum.

Bitcoin is complete and self-contained because it is inextensible and feature-poor. It cannot solve the problems the banking system solves. Its solution is the classic "you didn't need it anyway".

And then Bitcoin fans realize that yes, they did in fact need those things after all. We can watch them reinventing the entire modern banking system before our very eyes. The main differences are that they run everything on the world's worst database, they insist on calling their banks "exchanges", and that they think it's OK to have all their money stolen every so often.

(Bitcoin also lacks the ability to prevent money laundering or to enforce judgments. I'd consider that a bug. Other people might consider it a feature. In either case, it means Bitcoin is solving a much easier problem than normal banks.)
I’ve been a remote contractor for almost 10 years and we never used video conferencing. Pandemic hit and boom, everyone’s using their cameras. Except me. I’ll turn it on for 15 seconds to say hi or introduce myself to someone new, but no one needs to see my face/body to communicate complex ideas. In fact, I find myself closing my eyes and just listening. It’s like story time but with people who pay you money to write the next chapter. I just don’t understand why everyone thinks video is necessary. It’s way too distracting. It’s detrimental. It wears people out.

And ditto on the CO2 meter. It’s required gear in any office setting - home or otherwise.
This is awesome - thanks for sharing. Sometimes it's the simplest things that are the most useful.
Clubhouse for Android
The companies that Epic acquired to do this do use GANs to create the character. It's not hand crafted. This is a lot of training data feeding an algorithm that decomposes captures down into the constituent parts that you see here.
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Per-transactions costs matter a lot, you can’t just hand wave that away if you’re hoping to actually persuade anyone.

As far as scaling Bitcoin goes: prove it. It’s been a decade and it still does 4tps.
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Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully
That's strange, I live in flyover land, never thought any of that about NPR... quite the opposite. I always felt like I heard more of a variety of content from all sorts of places on NPR compared to other media outlets.
The one that bothers me the most is the portrayal of overpopulation as something caused only by people in developing countries, as if the first world wasn't part of the total count.

FWIW if you ignore immigration, nearly all first world countries are gradually depopulating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

Of course, that doesn't mean for a second that the solution to the world's problems somehow involves population control in developing countries.
More knowable question: who actually uses the lightning network to accept payment for goods and services?
There’s a certain irony to NPR doing a “we talk too much about politics, his something else” story, and all the comments here being about how npr is too liberal. Deep down, everyone wants a politics story
System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code
C# and the CLR
Same here. High school English was traumatizing.
The iOS app may collect data, so ads would be displayed in Chrome on another device. The actual scheme is probably much more complicated.
Wish we had classes like this back when I was doing my CS degree. Not saying that algos/ theoretical / systems stuff isn't valuable, but if you want to build anything that reaches real customers, then knowing how to build for the Apple Ecosystem is essential!
Ruby 3 seems to be going the way of Perl 6, ie. always about to be more efficient/faster sometime in the future. I hope not but isn't there a limit to how much you can re-jig an interpreted language designed in the early 90s? The same applies to Python.
Deadline to force apps to use it was 2 months ago.
Unfortunately for Bitcoin, it needs more than “many multiples” in order to actually handle function as a currency. At 4tps they’re several orders of magnitude short of what the market actually needs.
Exactly. It is more lucrative to provide a product for free and make money mining data rather than providing a paid product, and this is even making it harder for competitors to enter the market and not die instantly. The next logical step is not paid products, but rather open source ones with distribued data storage.
Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime.

>On a similar tangeant, how are these able to compete with similar manufacturing done in Asia or Africa?

Because it is all high skill labor. Techs that are able to strip down a 10 MM machine and identify the source of sub micron particule contamination are worth their weight in gold.
You can't directly measure the number of transactions happening on lightning network unless every non leaf node publishes it's numbers, and even then you'd have to trust they're telling you the truth.

And it's even more complicated than that, because you'd have to take the data from every node, and reconstruct complete paths to identify a single transaction.

And yes, I personally use the Strike app + Fold app to collect satoshi rewards by buying gift cards for shopping. Strike also has a beta app that uses lightning as the rails for global p2p transfers, e.g. you can instantly send USD to EUR. https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1346867753253220356
I don't see anyone asking for professional knitters on Etsy
Process per core with threading for parallel IO has been the default for almost a decade now.
How much extra memory overhead does it come with, though?
This isn't a new provision, and is reflected in most CA employment contracts.

The problem is clause #1 - "Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer". If you work for a big company - Apple, or Google, or even IBM - they tend to claim that their business is "anything computer related". And so they claim ownership over anything computer-related that you do. It's debatable whether these claims would stand up in court, but do you really want to go up against one of these company's legal department as an individual? Particularly if you're no longer employed by them and trying to get your own thing off the ground?
> XMPP, meanwhile, seems to have been shuffling along slowly for 20 years without many users or features that appeal to a mass audience (GIFs, etc)

GTalk was based on XMPP and for many years supported federation with XMPP servers, even for a year or more after Google announced it was going to end federation. (IIRC, it supported XMPP almost until the day they pulled the plug entirely, circa 2016-2017.) Because of its integration with GMail[1] and GMail's prevalence, XMPP (both the protocol and the network) was one of the largest, if not the largest, IM network.

Matrix is a nice protocol but at the end of the day it's biggest differentiator with XMPP is using HTTP and JSON for transport. Theoretically that means it should be easier to implement Matrix clients and servers, but in reality AFAICT the XMPP ecosystem is still richer than Matrix. Worse, Matrix deployment still seems far more centralized than XMPP ever was. I'm curious, by show of hands who in this forum runs or has run for any significant amount of time their own federated Matrix server? XMPP server? I ran my own XMPP server for years until GTalk dropped off.

I would love to see Matrix achieve widespread federated deployment. Personally I think XMPP stands a better chance, if only because it came tantalizingly close to critical momentum, joining the ranks of HTTP and SMTP, before Google killed it[2]. But I really couldn't care much one way or another which protocol wins so long as we see a real, federated solution.

I would try running my own Matrix server but I'm still confused whether I need to register my own user ID or my own server with a central Matrix authority (other than DNS), which seems like it defeats the purpose of traditional federation. Running an XMPP server was easy--once DNS records were properly published people could just contact me at my e-mail address.

[1] You could chat with anyone logged into the GMail web interface.

[2] IIRC, the official reason was because of spam, though Google seemed to have had basically solved that by the time they ended federation. The real reason seems to have been that other IM networks, like MSN, abused XMPP GTalk federation in an anti-competitive manner, so Google decided to take its ball and go home. Also, GTalk apparently worked too well--after GTalk was a series of horrible products and services that ending up destroying Google's position in the IM space.
Why would you require the article to suggest this? It’s an uncontroversial consequence of subjecting plastic to a continuous barrage of abrasive forces.

Similarly, if rain is expected, I don’t need the forecast to tell me that rain makes clothes wet.
That sounds like a very interesting story. Is she willing to do some sort of AMA? (Either here on other forum)
So the options are either "mug for the camera" or shut off your camera completely? You don't think there's any middle ground here?
Good point, thank you for the correction.
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Accepted: Golang generics by type parameter proposal
I can't imagine messing with pointers and ending up with something anywhere near as productive as Rails. Rust and Ruby target completely different domains.
I mean, to be fair, the use of “hustler” in the SV way predates the use in pornography. The latter adopted the former, not the other way around. Even still I agree that at least in the US if you have any kind of interest in speech law, you should be familiar with Hustler/Flynt.
This is really good stuff! I’ve found much of Apple’s documentation on how to use SwiftUI to show samples without really explaining how they work or why they are the way they are.

I’ve only spent a few minutes skimming through the slides for this course but I already feel smarter than I was after spending hours slogging through Apple’s docs and samples.
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Breached water plant employees used the same TeamViewer password and no firewall
I work on about 30 different power plants for which I have written software in the control systems. I can access all of them remotely, no way i’m flying/Driving to middle of nowhere to make a change, and no way those customers are going to pay me for three days what otherwise takes a few hours.
> The key point is that a BEV and PHEV can provide similar environmental benefits.

Yeah, this is dangerously bordering on falsehoods.
IE isn't even in the top 6 in any of the regions you can click on this website: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/europe.

I feel sorry for the people who continue working on IE because they think it's just as important as Edge/Safari/Firefox. :(
'The system worked as designed’ is bad news
At this point it's not innovation, just American politics.
I think Chapter 96, The Try-Works, is an amazing piece of writing:

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/777/chapter-96-the-t...
Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
Some days ago I found a comment here in HN talking exactly about that, how siblings want to differentiate from each other. It would be nice if someone finds an actual research paper that delves into this.
https://foldapp.com/

https://store.blockstream.com/

https://acceptlightning.com/list.html

Several major exchanges have announced that they are implementing LN support. Still very early days.
All the more reason they should have used the six months prior.
> I don’t think life will get back to normal for at least 5 to 7 years.

I'm in the south of Thailand. We've not had a case in some months where I am, and Thailand had managed to get down to zero cases before some infected people walked back over the border. Pretty confident they're going to get back down to zero cases here again.

Life is ... pretty much back to normal? There are some situations where you need to wear a mask -- many stores will require it (+ a temperature check) and on public transport, but people are back in restaurants without masks, people are back in offices without masks.

It's back to normal + people always have a mask on them for the situations when they need one. Led to believe this is pretty much the same situation in Oz and NZ too.
Different instructions sets? Where can I read more about this?
The OP said "All the keybindings are wrong", so I responded with the assumption that they intended to complain about the keybindings (e.g. the use of Ctrl instead of Cmd). If we assume otherwise, all bets are off.

In any case, I think you're assuming too much about how intuitive the system you've grown accustomed to is to other people. I accidentally kill programs in the terminal when I use macOS, because I can't keep the Cmd and Ctrl shortcuts separate in my head. Is that Apple's fault, or is it just something I'm not used to?

IMO, desktop UI designers would like to have three things. The issue is that they're mutually incompatible.

1. Continuity with the ancient tradition of having Ctrl-c send a cancel/abort (or SIGINT) signal.

2. Having the common operation of copying some text mapped to [modifier]-c.

3. Having the most common modifier key be the key in the bottom left corner of the keyboard, which is Ctrl on most PC keyboards.

You can't have all three at once in the same application. macOS solves this problem by abandoning 3, and using Cmd-c to copy text. Most Linux / Unix distributions solve this by partially abandoning 2, by prefixing the shortcut with an additional modifier in terminal applications so that the normal shortcut can continue to be used elsewhere. In my opinion they're both valid approaches. Personally I detest having to grope to find the Cmd key and remap my modifiers using Karabiner on macOS.