skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm imagining a alternate version of git where you do `git log` or some such other subcommand, and the output comes from the aggregate of every local clone that has ever existed.

So someone writes an alarming story that 68% of the kernel code is in such a broken state it actually doesn't even compile correctly. Ok, but what would that mean for such a weirdo, broken piece of software? That most users download, tinker, get frustrated and never come back? That Linus is incompetent? That there's one troll out there continually cloning master and breaking it to write a story about? That there's N such trolls?

To me, the only information to glean from that would be that this alt-git would be a massive pile of garbage.

The difference with Facebook is that its userbase doesn't have the competency or necessary source/data access to, say, leverage a hash to grab the goods and fork the thing into a non-stupid, workable piece of software. A non-negligible number of their users keep using it as a source of news.

The Qanon bullshit is basically a pentest that shows the content of this headline could literally be anything at all when it comes to Facebook. It'd be absurd to spend time discussing what exactly it is about Tom Hanks that makes people think he eats babies. The topic should be how the hell we are going to stop FAANG from enumerating through every socially destructive set of lucrative dark patterns before this stops.

Edit: clarification
Don’t forget that Trump’s Tulsa rally killed Herman Cain.
And yet you apparently continue to read and post comments on HN. Without implying that you should not, I'm genuinely curious to know why you do.
Trump probably got close to 95 million votes, the mainstream media and the activist ballot workers/officials are great at deception and most Americans aren’t dumb enough to have thought Joe Biden would make a good President, especially after how great Trump was doing. It’s pretty obvious what happened in 2020 was more than just a perfect storm, the swamp drained Trump while saying “we can’t allow anyone to audit election integrity”.
It's a solid reference point because we now have a lot of history to look back upon, and those revenues were from foundational businesses.

Satya's changes have been positive but most of the money he is making is due to Gates + Ballmer.

I think he's good but we'll have to wait to see the full picture.
Thanks for offering a perspective on the right.

I do disagree about a change of type not happening on the left. I see a very large rift developing on the left around whether to honor classically liberal values or not.

I do think the trends in 'alt' usage are predominately aimed at the right as more of a pejorative towards the outgroup, and less of a descriptive term. You can see a snapshot of the vast disparity in usage here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=Alt-right,...
I wonder what subset of that is folks who are afraid of the virus and “don’t feel safe” taking public transportation or human driver-based ridesharing.
When medical professionals gave the green light to the BLM protests last summer they lost every bit of credibility.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-lette...

As we've seen repeatedly over the last year, the "science" follows whatever is convenient for democrats. Why should anyone listen to it?
Now they can be subjected to Google's algorithm instead, which will be fine because Google isn't associated with the "wrong side".

Am I alone in thinking Facebook shouldn't be obligated or expect to act as an editor, fact checker, and moral censor just because stuff a powerful crowd doesn't like naturally trends on engagement driven algorithms?
Grant Cyber Letters of Marque to Manage “Hack Backs”(2019)
Yes, that is the correct term.
> aggressive consumer protection stance

Aggressive Protection? Sounds like the Mafia. Protection, paid for by you whether you want it or not. Pay the 30% or the mafia's going to break your kneecaps.
Did they get a short IPv6 prefix (2620:fe::/48) by chance, or did they have to pull strings at ARIN?

In any case, Sprint (2600::/29), Vodafone (2a00::/22), and Korea Telecom (2400::/20) are currently winning that game.
Or maybe human drivers will finally start following speed limits
Check out WGU - I've heard (second hand) it's a great way to get the credential. Progression isn't time based, so if you can pass all the finals, you could theoretically be done in a couple weeks.

https://www.wgu.edu/
That's a good point but it wasn't really 'Ballmer' - it was the existential changes in the industry.

I believe if Ballmer had of hung on for a few more years, that change would have happened eventually.

Investors eventually would realize 'This is not just Windows and Office'.
I think your concerns are reasonable, but the tweet was clearly just wrong. If it was raising the concern you are, then I wouldn't be as angry, but then it wouldn't have been a story at all. So I remain convinced that the tweet was profoundly idiotic at best, more likely in bad faith. I don't think you can read Scott's work and then call him racist without having an axe to grind.

Ed: I would also add that while thinking you have an infallible BS detector is dangerous, believing that truth can only come from certain people and your enemies never have unique insight is another form of hubris, and I think the latter has at least as good as argument for being more dangerous in the long term.
But Macs can run unapproved software, which makes them too complex and dangerous for the general public, right?
Charge the lower price at the register for 2 hours after changing the display price?

Only change the prices over night? (but unlike with employees you can reprice the entire store every night without any particular cost)
It will begin by releasing the locked-in, eliding the server nerve. The justice department will adopt it as an alternative consequence for crimes. The memories of the murdered are extracted and the perpetrator forced to experience the pain, the fear, the twilighting faces of those loved and now lost. It becomes an awakening. By experiencing deprivation we become willing to sacrifice more to reduce the deprivations of others. A post scarcity society is within reach, but becomes fractured. What is the machine for? To impress empathy upon man and sustain an endless modesty? To subdue, to control and assure plenty for your few?
Tragically, people are injured and killed in muggings, but this is actually fairly rare, although it's a terrible experience to get mugged even if there's no injury. Hopefully we can work on building a world where no one is that desperate.

Even more tragic - because it isn't rare - is getting mowed down by cars. People get killed or injured by the dozen in car crashes in SF. It's insane that anyone with a license can just show up and drive in the Mission/Tenderloin/Downtown.
One more angle since I haven’t seen anyone mention it.

Instructions on how to bootstrap a software portfolio:

Pick a language (sounds like you chose JS which would be my pick as well), buy a copy of cracking the coding interview, make a leetcode.com account, make a codepen.io account, and get to work.

If you’re smart and dedicated you can teach yourself this stuff and these are the best tools to help you in my opinion.

Spend your time solving problems on leetcode and then utilizing these techniques in codepen portfolio pieces.

In my opinion with serious dedication you can have a junior swe worthy resume and portfolio put together within a year.

[edit] since the question inevitably comes up with JS in my opinion you should not spend any time focusing on front end frameworks. Learn Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS, you will blow your interviewers away if you can solve their problems without a framework and it is overhead you don’t need as a beginner.
But it never snows in Texas or Portland, OR so they'll be fine there :-/
Lining in the UK I use TP Links little boxes that plug into the house power system. They work pretty good (not great). Have to unplug them about every 6 months to reset. Been using them for 3 years now.
Sex is currency in music industry.
Music is currency in drug industry.
Drugs are currency in sex industry.

The three really do go well together.
Coming from NYC, San Francisco feels much more unsafe. I’ve been randomly attacked by a deranged stranger on a busy street (16th and Guerrero in the Mission). I never felt so paranoid when walking around NYC.
Here's the original article on Bloomberg with links:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/sec-data-...

They are using the SEC's Fails-to-Deliver datasets to get to this number:

https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm
I have no good collections of statistics to share but the price of lidar seems to be dropping.
Tried the powerline thing - meh is best I can say.

Might try the outside thing if get desperate.
I just dont 'grok' the mesh network - if the signal tails off, it tails off. Walking from one room to the next drops the signal 80% or more. simply repeating that does not seem a win.
https://www.quad9.net/privacy/compliance-and-applicable-law/
Thanks! Unfortunately further development of that project went closed-source, but that code should be instructive as-is. Client side GPU-based raster processing is going to be released soon as part of our [0] SaaS product. Demo here [1]

[0]: https://www.unfolded.ai/studio

[1]: https://twitter.com/opencholmes/status/1357437810047807489?s...
This. None of these are static categories, and even if Shapiro's litany of X-phobic views were previously 'alt-right', they are now part of the mainstream political right (and its manifestation in the Republican party). As a result I think it's genuinely hard to be a non X-phobic conservative these days.
It was quite similar.

Generals like Haig the Incompetent, had very little reliable information what was happening in the major offences on the German side. So when the massive French and British losses piled up, they assumed that this meant that German losses were as bad or worse. (They weren't)

And the consequence of that at the middle army management level was bragging rights about how many of your men you'd managed to get killed. Source: Hochschild, To End all Wars.
You are right, it's my mistake
In terms of their hardware cost and software development/wireless network, it's much more than just Superstore. Superstore is indeed huge but it's just one part of a much larger gargantuan grocery conglomerate, Loblaws.

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

they operate with other brand names for non-superstore-sized regular grocery stores, and the T&T markets which are their own market niche: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_%26_T_Supermarket

From observing the behavior of my local superstore it also appears they're using the eink price tags on shelf in conjunction with some sort of software for planning shelf space and inventory, so it has some value to them other than just the manual labor to change paper price tags.
I think I went back and forth about adding a footnote to 'no one' to quantify before deciding against it. There are still some left who heat with wood, but only a percent or two. It seems pellet-based units are slowly taking over the biomass-heating niche, but I am sure old guys in flannel with a couple of cords of wood up against the side of the house will never disappear from the northeast.
I'm not sure it's misconception. When I was a student a very long time ago on holidays I used to work in a paper mill in various departments laboratory and engineering departments, mechanical, instrumentation, electrical etc.
The UK paper making industry has (and had) been in decline for decades for many reasons but the main issue is cost, more specifically energy costs. Second to those costs were material resources.

This paper mill was a recycling paper mill and the cost to produce acceptable standard paper was enormous. It used an enormous amount of gas to feed it's huge boilers producing steam, it even had it's own water turbine generators fed by the local river it was built alongside to produce electricity. It supplemented this with electricity from the grid which was even more expensive. It's biggest customer I'm fairly sure was McDonalds

Pulp was shipped in from Norway because again it was cheaper, at that time 100% recycled paper was not profitable and pulp from the UK was too expensive. When the company went into administration most of it's equipment which was old even at that time was bought by companies from China.

This mill was old, dating back to 1880 and it's infrastructure was part of the reason of it's demise. But there were 2 other paper mills in the same small town that eventually met the same demise, one being a much more modern construction, however it lasted longer by specialising in more profitable products such as tissue.

The paper industry is not carbon efficient, it will be much more efficient than it used to be but it still takes a huge amount of energy to produce. In lower volume it could be but consumerism dictates it isn't, it's why China is the largest paper making country in the world now.

I do have some fond memories working there even though it was hard work, at christmas time when the mill would shutdown it was absolutely freezing and doing a 12 hour shift on boxing day working inside a 5 storey high boiler was maybe not so pleasant. There were some wonderful quirks about the place, where the turbine generators were you could climb below the workshop floor where the bypass outflow was and you'd find one or 2 people sitting on wooden girders above the water fishing on their lunch break
This is pretty cool but the thing that all JS frameworks seems to miss out is an admin area. Why?

This is one of the main reasons I'll continue to pick Django as a back-end. Django + DRF does pretty much everything you would ever need from a framework with the added bonus of a fully working and customizable admin straight out the box.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Firefox support Voice Search yet?
You have to install an extension to be able to search using your voice. That extension is about to expire in a couple days. I cannot believe Mozilla hasn't yet implemented more accessibility features such as voice search into Firefox.

Are there any technical/policy_issues reasons for that ?
He's actually president because of 81 million votes in every state but especially those in 25 States, DC, and Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.
your username is waymo near to theirs than any other I've seen, so I can understand why
hah! yeah that's what I was looking for too
"How does matter make mind? More specifically, how does a physical object generate subjective experiences like those you are immersed in as you read this sentence? How does stuff become conscious? This is called the mind-body problem, or, by philosopher David Chalmers, the 'hard problem.'"

I expressed doubt that the hard problem can be solved--a position called mysterianism--in The End of Science. I argue in a new edition that my pessimism has been justified by the recent popularity of panpsychism. This ancient doctrine holds that consciousness is a property not just of brains but of all matter, like my table and coffee mug.

Panpsychism strikes me as self-evidently foolish, but non-foolish people—notably Chalmers and neuroscientist Christof Koch—are taking it seriously. How can that be? What’s compelling their interest? Have I dismissed panpsychism too hastily?"
It seems like perhaps you haven't actually looked at what the announcement was about?

The entire point of the relocation was that the laws you're discussing were found not to apply.

https://www.quad9.net/privacy/compliance-and-applicable-law/
I love how "on the roads" is taken to mean the same thing as "driving a car", rather than the vulnerable road users outside of cars who are hurt and killed the most on SF streets.
> Once you leave office, you get a big salary for life, but can't have another job. No working for a bank, or happening into consultancy. No speaking fees, though you are of course free to give speeches to whomever you like. Yeah it's draconian, but there's plenty of people who want the role.

What is a job, exactly? How about I do you a favor, and you do me a favor, but no money changes hands? It would probably be an improvement over the status quo, but determined minds will find a way
Right. I somehow interpreted it to mean a pixel in an existing image on the email, not some random pixel image.

Which makes me wonder why they don't just embed normal images that the user would see, but add something to the href that the server can interpret as a unique id. Either way, email clients that block images will break the technique.
> I applaud your focus on your family; I’d keep that out of the interview process. If I’m hiring an entry-level remote employee, I don’t want to worry that they’re taking care of a family member most of the time and trying to fit my work into the gaps. If that’s what is happening invisibly behind the scenes, great, but it’s irrelevant or negative to the interview.

This is really important. Don't think about employers "taking a chance" on you or having their hearts warmed by your story. (I mean, it might actually work when the OP is hitting the top of HN but in general...) They want non-risky choices.
> The “ish” does a lot of work there.

In what way? The US is proveably 51.3% Democrat, 46.5% Republican. I was reducing significant digits because I don’t know the specific split for people who didn’t vote.

> If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

Not sure your source on this one. Even Fox is only 53% Republicans, and MSNBC is only 62% Democratic (https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-...). This blows them away.
There's already a lot of discussion about alternative App Stores, but I was wondering if we could talk about how Apple keeps spouting this line:

> the App Store guidelines that apply equally to every developer and protect customers

This is not only subjectively false, it is objectively false, provable with just a few minutes of reverse engineering. You don't have to be a fly on the wall at some secret meeting between corporate giants to know it, or listen to the plight of app developers. You can literally just go to Apple Configurator and download an IPA file for an app and inspect it to see that Apple does not in fact apply its rules equally to all developers. So why do they keep repeating this? Who will be the first party to hold them liable for perjury?
Avoid RegEx
Non-paywall article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/17/defence-res...
Same with video games.
The legislation was subsequently amended to include ABC:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/abc-sbs-included-in-...

(Hopefully YC doesn't have to pay for this link one day)
Now I’m imagining an adversarial network of vehicles straight out of Mad Max & Death Race...
Rap Song – Motivational
i think it would save a lot of headaches if legislation was drawn up today. it's not as if surveillance isn't possible already and doesn't happen. its an issue that's ripe for legislation. prevention is the best cure.
Re: Eloquent JavaScript. I tried to read it when starting on my JS learning path, and I quickly grew frustrated.

It may be the perfect match for you -- but all I want to say is, if you get frustrated with it, you're not alone! Don't be afraid to try a different resource to get started.

However, I've revisited the book and I enjoy it a lot more after becoming more familiar with the language
Even less than that really, only around 77k votes (MI, PA, WI margins).
Here's a study from 2019 on the topic of self-driving cars and parking.

> Self-driving cars will ‘cruise’ to avoid paying to park

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/self-driving-car...

The solution proposed by this study is "congestion pricing".
It does indeed. Thanks!
I see you've been paying attention to why surveillance states becoming the norm really matters.
>Is anyone speaking publicly and/or thinking deeply on this future of everyone in the value chain being able to deny freedom of speech?

Yes. Lots of people, all the time, everywhere. Please let it stop.
This is one succinct summary of what Glamorous Toolkit is!
How exactly is that? Giving you a link to the news media web site does extract money from them?
A SF native, are you?
The New .NET Multi-Platform App UI
> What's happening in Texas right now is an example. Texas had the money to buy snowplows. They didn't. Texas had the money to winterize wind turbines. They didn't.

Why would a state that only sees things like black ice distribute snow plows everywhere? I lived in that state for 20-something years and never saw these kinds of conditions. It always made sense for them to salt and sand the roads or expect to miss a couple days of work or school.
In what was was today's announcement not exactly what you're saying it should have been? It explained exactly how and why the data isn't being collected, no?
Good point! That makes this even worse for US representation
Good guy Facebook for the first time in perhaps...forever?
It's been shown that if you redesign the street, you can change human behavior on that street including lowering the average speed that drivers choose to drive at.

Designing a wide-open 4 lane boulevard then slapping a 30 mph speed limit on it is a terrible plan, yet how often we do exactly that in our cities.
Then you get to scale the jwt token black list... (which is more of a headache because you still need to keep application wide state, than a headache to actually scale).