skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the lines that Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, is trying to draw in this interview with Stratechery, https://stratechery.com/2021/interviews-with-patrick-colliso....

I believe Collison's argument is that certain organizations affiliated with ex-President Trump should have been and were suspended from direct use of the Stripe API for "incitement to violence" in the time surrounding the certification of Electors by the U.S. Congress, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_St.... But other organizations that were allied in some way with Trump were still able to use the API. So in effect, the Trump-related organizations could use the API indirectly.

With that reasoning, shouldn't there also be organizations on the left in the United States, which is defined as the progressive / liberal / socialist part of the political spectrum, that should have received the same treatment during the period of the George Floyd Protests, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests?
Horses aren't the center of the economy, though.

It's fundamentally different. Horses might always want more and more things no matter how much they get. But they don't create demand in our economy, so we'll never know.

No matter how much humans get, they'll always want more. And other humans will have to come up with ways to meet that demand.

Sure - if we ever reach a time where the entire human race says "this is enough" and everything is automated, then there won't be any jobs. But we're a very far way away from that point. In 2013, 60% of people on the planet didn't even have a toilet [1].

There are obvious problems. In the Western world, it certainly seems like we don't have enough jobs for workers without certain skillsets - or at least jobs that employers are willing to pay minimum wage for.

But there are also lots of jobs available.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2013/02/60-percent-of-the-world...
The "official" Swift LSP was begun in 2018 but there doesn't seem to be much going on there these days. The readme still says "SourceKit-LSP is still in early development, so you may run into rough edges with any of the features." That hasn't changed since the first commit. I can't help but feel that part of the problem is that the language is too complicated.
What you're describing as a "simple" system is simply a system that doesn't meet the demands of the public. It's not simpler, it just provides less. Either you provide everyone with enough - in which case you're masssively over-spending since you're giving everyone the amount that's required by the most needy, or you're saying that you're going to save money by cutting benefits from those that need them. You can't have it both ways.
Thanks for killing Dejanews google. :(
I'm tempted to agree with you because the BLM non-profit seems to be an extremist political organization, and most people are not extremists. On the other hand, that does not explain why so many of those selfsame people become very defensive when you criticize the BLM non-profit organization.
I’m saying:

1. Recognize human nature.
2. Plan for human nature; both mitigate it and incorporate it where possible.
3. Expect people to eventually break whatever you come up with because they’re people.
4. Take part in that system; don’t expect others to think of you on your behalf.

Legislatures and governments are made up of people, and any system which doesn’t recognize this is doomed to failure. You go through life doing what is best for yourself, your family, your community, why should you expect any different from people with more (or less) power than you? Why should they care about you if you’re not even there asking them to care about the things you care about?
There are a handful of sites I've encountered that do this and I hate it. Feels like a violation when I can't select text the way I normally do, for some reason.
Tesla May Have Sold Prototypes as Production Cars, Says Gruber Motors
This is an argument. My elderly parents are stupid argument. for why you should buy iOS. No- its not signalling at all.

iOS is just as confusing as Android. Its a matter of which one you use first or regularly. Just as Linux is confusing to non-linux users.

Also. Android works on the dodgiest mobile hardware available to mankind. Something not a lot of HN users seem to know - from tractors in farms to research equipment in the arctic. I dont know about space, but if we are going to use a modern OS on space craft - I'm willing to bet it will be an android fork.
But in The Culture series humans have no meaningful role and everything that humans can do machines can do better. Some extreme edge cases may apply to very specific things, but even then, it's one or two individual humans being useful contributors out of countless trillions.

I agree that The Culture is the science fiction future to aspire to - but the place for humans in The Culture is just enjoying how good society is once machines and AI do everything for you. Importantly, the AI's of The Culture like humans and want to promote human flourishing.

If human+ level AGI is achieved then I think it does have to work out the way the parent is stating. There will be no useful role for the vast majority of humans. Humans are intelligence plus the physical capabilities of our bodies. Machines can already exceed our physical capabilities in most things, and if artificial intelligence exceeds ours - what will be left for humans?
That's exactly how distributed filesystems are built.

Systems such as HDFS use the NameNode for this task, but depending on the exact characteristics of the fileSystem a multi-master setup is often used. I know of at least one NFS implementation which uses postgres as its metadata layer.
All-weather tires will definitely be safer, since you will be less tempted to venture out into the apocalyptic hellscape that D.C. metro area roads turn into the second that drivers see a snowflake.
The 1963-64 world's fair shaped my entire life. My earliest clear memories were from that fair, and ever since I've been fascinated by "futurism", technology, computers, space, architecture, etc.

Every school and career choice I've made was based on some inspirational spark that hit me there.
China blocked Signal.

Is there a legal reason why US cannot block TikTok and other Chinese apps?
Did it have auto-updates enabled? It might have just been doing what it had been told, and updated itself at some point.
If someone says Animal Farm is a good story, but it wouldn't work if the animals were humans, I would say they didn't get the message.
Okay maybe it won't overtake the tech giant but what about just providing a private choice? And what about Startpage?
1. Startpage provides Google results while protecting privacy.
2. So far, contextual marketing has been profitable for both Startpage and DDG. It's not Google level revenue, but interest in private search is growing significantly.
Open-Source Security Key Helps You Ditch Software Authenticators
Design your user interfaces for idiots (Rant on UX and design) [video]
Dover (YC S19) is hiring our first Growth Product Engineer
Essentially, we're looking for a scrappy founder-type engineer to build MVPs of free products for that we use for lead gen.

https://www.dover.com/open-roles/growth-product-engineer

We've grown from 5 to 25 people over the past year, but this role will report directly to the me (CEO) and have a ton of autonomy.

Message me directly (max@dover.com) with a cool side project you've worked on in the past to apply.
Wall Street Journal after teaser is $468 per year.
And most insane thing I find it that sometimes it works over Operating system that is from VirtualBox to Windows...

That level of VM to host integration is though 10x innovation.
Because distributed part is library not language feature?
Our backup strategy is to periodically snapshot the entire host volume via relevant hypervisor tools. We have negotiated RPOs with all of our customers that allow for a small amount of data loss intraday (I.e. w/ 15 minute snapshot intervals, we might lose up to 15 minutes of live business state). There are other mitigating business processes we have put into place which bridge enough of this gap for it to be tolerable for all of our customers.

In the industry we work in, as long as your RTO/RPO is superior to the system of record you interface with, you are never the sore thumb sticking out of the tech pile.

In our 6-7 years of operating in this manner, we still have not had to restore a single environment from snapshot. We have tested it several times though.

You will probably find that VM snapshot+restore is a ridiculously easy and reliable way to provide backups if you put all of your eggs into one basket.
Your reasoning does not make sense at all. I hope you're just missing GP's point. Maintaining a 1 meter distance has been shown to reduce the likelihood of contagion by 80%. Using a face mask has been shown to reduce the likelihood of contagion by 40%.

With that in mind, and knowing that these were only two of the many measures made to reduce the infection rate, your parahprased statement "the measures were meaningless because they didn't stop the epidemic" is completely incorrect.

An epidemic isn't on or off. It develops at different rates, exponential->logistic if R>1 and exponentially dampening if R<1 for each area. A very steep exponential phase will obviously cause the problems we have been trying to avoid, and it's similarly obvious that the defensive measures have prevented that outcome most places.
>Funny how it turned out to just be a driver thing.

sort of makes one wonder how many whizz-bang hardware features get advertised that are little more than just software, but are oversold as unique physical engineering methods/techniques.
Google to offer gigabyte of free email (2004)
Yaphet Kotto, Star of ‘Alien’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ Dead at 81
C++ has had two-word keywords since the beginning, static_cast, dynamic_cast, etc.

What I truly don't like is C's propensity to add new keywords that begin with an underscore and an uppercase letter. Like _Bool, or _Atomic. (I know the rationale, these can't be used as identifiers due to UB, but it still looks weird to me.)
thought CCC is the worlds fair of the 20's ... :)
On the flip side, it'd be interesting to know how many AWS instances are primarly VMWare instances hosting Microsoft Server solutions (or just directly hosting Microsoft Windows products)?

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/learn-why-aws-is-the-be...
Don't assume that Cole Memorandum covers all relevant interactions, though. Aside from the more obvious federal laws that directly criminalize use of drugs, there are others that make other activities illegal when drugs are involved. It's not just the DEA that's on the bandwagon.

For example, when purchasing a firearm, one of the questions on the form that has to be filled is this:

"Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?

WARNING: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside."

(That disclaimer was added long after the memorandum you mention, by the way.)

The ATF has since decided that a mere possession of a medical marijuana card constitutes prima facie evidence of being "unlawful user of".
Most of Samsung's fabs are in South Korea; the Austin fab is a minority of their production.
If you could restrain those pesky humans or prevent them from reproducing then it would be a valid concern.
Ok, we've killed the plants and unstunned the scientists above.
You won't be able to change the brightness or use the keyboard shortcuts by default, but it's pretty easy to use mainline to get the latest kernel which will support those features.

This would also work for Ubuntu.

https://github.com/bkw777/mainline
Depends on what your job is. There is no way teachers are just as effective over a zoom call as in person. Especially for younger kids.
`git repack` is an operation that is fairly specific to git's default file format: if they were storing objects in any (other) database, it is very unlikely that they would experience blocking repack operations, as that is an area where databases are highly optimized to execute incrementally.
Is that sarcasm? American nationalism and over-the-top expressions of patriotic pride border on the jingoistic.
Standard Oil and Microsoft in the 90's/00's were both wildly successful, too, yet they still engaged in anti-competitive behavior to the detriment of the market and consumers alike.
When Steam first started being a thing, I decried it as the death of physical media and fun game inserts. I vowed never to use it, because of what I perceived as the locked down steam launcher controlling access/ability to shut off access to games that I purchased with my own money. It seemed like too close to a 'license' to play.

Then I used it for the first time and realized how stupid easy it was compared to managing all of the physical disks and keys and what-not.

I mean, I wasn't wrong. But it is easier to use.
Postfix. It's the only software package that I use where I am consistently sure that any issue I come up with is me making a mistake in configuration or me not having read the documentation closely enough.

It's stable, it has good error messages, it supports all the different ways to send email. And it's documentation is just really well and precisely written.

It's just really good.

It's not that I think that Postfix is 10x better than other email software that I use - it's 10 times better than any other kind of software I have used in the 20 years that this has been a relevant question.

Thank you Wietse, thank you Viktor, thank you Ralf and thank you Kyle.
Turbo CSS is Tailwind on steroids
It's especially bad when they killed the ability remap keys with the extension update in 2016 and haven't replaced the functionality since.

(Extensions can do it, but they only take effect after the current tab is loaded.)
The NEO2 layout has the numpad on another layer under the right hand, no numpad needed.
Go is good. Based on decades long research and experiments of Rob Pike and others.

It's interesting to read comments by employees of american corporations that act like members of a national-socialist organization(of workers).

There are people from Europe(not western) that became almost suicidal after working in those environments in US. Main principles of some organizations are pathological lying and suppression of free speech in any forms.

That banner is like a test of obedience. Anyone who questions it - is problematic, "toxic". It doesn't matter what that banner contains.

Obey. "They Live" movie.(1988, John Carpenter)
I imagine it's intentional irony, given that that message was composed by the solar server administrator.
Right because we don’t have enough panels for cars and roofs, and must choose one.
Hey guys- This data leak looks like the work of a misinformation campaign. The very first thing this article says is the data is from a cyberattack on European Medicines Agency (EMA), and the data was sent anonymously to journalists. A Reuters article claims that the Russian and Chinese are behind this: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-cyber/russian-chinese-.... May be it's true that there is mRNA instability, but the efficacy data says the Moderna vaccine works extremely well. mRNA in intrinsic in your cellular biology with all of its instability, and your body manages to deal with it just fine.
> In practice, this means you cannot actually put GPL applications on iOS unless you get a CLA from every developer on the project.

Again, simply not true. If you obtain the source code, build, and run your own iOS apps on your own device you have no issues with GPL compliance. Honestly I'm disappointed that more open source projects don't go this route. Blender could easily provide an xcode project that anyone can build and run on their device outside the app store. They choose not to, but there's nothing stopping them.
Exactly as predicted the day the NVidia announcement came out.

And a good thing too.
It's a level of lifestyle that allows a person to donate his personal sports car to replace an inert mass, because he'll buy another car.

While he and many others could buy personal space launches, that launch is not a demonstration of such. He wasn't paying for it, and it wasn't for him.
Taxis would be at least twice as expensive, for a service that couldn't rate their drivers and customers and sometimes you'd have to wait in a queue to have your call taken so you could get picked up.

Currently there's only one disadvantage to ride-sharing apps, you can't wave down a car if you see one. You have to open the app first to request a ride, and that car might have driven away by then.
Approximate ML is a hot research topic.
> For search: Use Startpage - gives you Google results with privacy.

FYI, Ads company brought up Startpage. Despite their public statement with privacy for Startpage, I don't trust them since they can 180 it without any repercussion.
Language as a Cognitive Tool: Dall-E, Humans and Vygotskian RL Agents
1) VPNs only hide your IP address. They don't make you anonymous. Search engines and websites can still track you.

2) If it's non-private, it still collects personal data.

3) Or Startpage - HQed in the Netherlands, hides IP address, Anonymous View feature lets you visit results in private, and Google results.
In terms of inaccurate sensors, all of them have inaccurate sensors. They are all taking an educated guess. If you need accurate sensors, you have to buy dedicated sensor for what you need (heart rate, oxygen, etc).

It also depends on what you value. I use a Fitbit because of the sleep data and the long battery life, where I don't have to charge it every day.
> Funny how it turned out to just be a driver thing.

Marketing dude lies through his teeth, news at 8.
It seems like copyleft is a solution to that sort of problem in the software domain but obviously not really in this context.

Another issue is that animal researchers are at risk of being targeted by a smear campaign by anti-animal research groups as they often take advantage of sunshine laws to cherry pick less than flattering footage.

This has led to a weird culture of where scientists are very hesitant to share any data with other scientists at public universities.
The only scam has been Wall St and the corporations that created a slave wage system out of an entire country.
A lot of people dislike it, but Maven was a massive productivity boost.

A tool that automatically downloads dependencies, manages their transitive dependencies, resolves conflicting artifact versions, is able to check for changes, constructs proper classpath, standardizes builds, compilation, testing, artifact storage and versioning.

The onboarding went from days of fiddling to "just download Maven, run mvn install and off you go"
Bring back Usenet Performance Art: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk.

See also The Meow Wars.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow_Wars
There are plenty of alcoholics who can show up to work and wait until afterwards to get drunk. There is a certain level of choice to being so egregious about it that you reek of whisky at a meeting, even if that choice is just saying "f it."
You didn't like debugging with window.alert()?
What version has your fix?
Yes, but also pulling your laptop to where the cable is taut and having it yank out. I realized this is more of a hardware innovation
>I built a zero-cost, ad-free alternative to LinkedIn

Zero-cost and ad-free FOR NOW you mean. At some point you're going to have make money and the only viable options are 1) charity/donations 2) subscription 3) ads and data selling. #2 means you're not 'zero-cost' and #3 means you're not 'ad-free'. So you're going to rely on donations?
Any more, all I care about is how searchable the name is. That's something to like with Debian and Ubuntu.
I convinced my mom to buy me a beta invite for $5 on ebay and then spread my invites out to my family and friends.
I think you missed the biggest value proposition of Kubernetes: the scheduling and container orchestration are nice, but that's not why you use it. Portability is the killer feature. Being able to stand up reproductively a clustered application without relying on custom-made sh script and ansible playbooks is a godsend. Using ECS goes against portability and just coerce you into more vendor lock-ins.
Apple actively bans GPL software from the App Store because the GPL precludes distribution of GPL apps under the App Store's terms.

Distribution under the App Store's terms is a GPL violation itself.
Knowing doctors, this comes down more to Hanlon's razor.

Many don't know any better and have a poor grasp of the scientific method. For many being a doctor is more of a trade than a profession.

Their scope of work is too broad and they're far too busy to keep up. As a result, they're perhaps even more susceptible to marketing than average people. They don't have time to dig into pubmed and deeply understand something they see (generously) 1% of the time.

They have to rely on people who otherwise get paid to do the research. If there's no money to be made from a treatment, it won't be able to donate to universities, fund studies, or pay for advertising.

Doctors won't hear about it.
> people might interpret it as

Unfortunately we/they are in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If it was published, you can be sure the misinformation around what it meant would be through the roof. Having it hidden, and now come out may end up lending more credence to the conspiracy theories.
I also (even though it was a form of DRM) miss some of the cd keys that existed. My first, favorite game was Hillsfar on windows 3.1 or DOS, I don't remember which.

To play you had to have the little spinner 'secret decoder'. It seemed part of the game, but was obviously just to keep people from playing pirated copies.

But I miss that kind of neat little gee-gaw that used to come with games.
What's wrong with www.ExpertSexChange.com? People deserve to hire experts for that don't they? /s

Somewhere out there must be an RFC that discusses the original thought process behind designing for case sensitive vs case insensitive domain names, or why domains should be case insensitive while URL paths should be case sensitive... Ironically this SO post seems to be a decent starting point for my curiosity: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7996919/should-url-be-ca...
Regarding transmission though, why hasn't the automatic transmission handly beaten the manual transmission in the rest of the world? My guess is because of the increased cost of maintenance and repair. I guess people are more willing to pay for support when abtracting the internals of their VCS away compared to others who understand it at a low level.
I think this is a good take- Having things be better for horses was never the point of the economy. In fact horses were probably the main driver for developing mechanical solutions since horse ownership is expensive and time consuming. There was no incentive to make life/jobs better for horses, and as soon as a better replacement was available horses were not necessary for most people.

So you cant swap out horses for humans as they analogy is completely flawed.
Study warns it doesn’t take much sugar to fuel surge in fat production
WireGuard is gone from the kernel in 13.0-RELEASE. Given the choice between "buggy" and "less than a week old", we're going with the third option of "you can ship a kernel module via the ports tree".