skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that last point correct? As I understand it, the US does not protect threats as free speech.

"Threat" seems no easier to define than "hate speech". I'm not a lawyer but I imagine that boundaries of "threat" exist as a long series of judicial decisions, many of them containing the word "reasonable person".

The US does not ban hate speech, but I don't know precisely what protects hate speech but does not protect threats.

As I said I'm not a lawyer, so I can only observe this from outside. I remain baffled at the way lawyers talk as if they have rigid interpretations of the law, which as a scientist and programmer I find unlikely.
Could always ship your browser.
I think YC has the companies best interests in mind because that's just who they are how they were built.

But I don't think there has to be much alignment at all. One unicorn every couple of years is all that YC needs to "make their fund" since they don't have LPs to satisfy. And one every few years will also keep the applicants coming.
Glad to hear you put morality on an objective footing and we no longer have to waste time debating thd difference between good and evil.
TIL, or maybe relearned. Thanks :)
> English has male, female, plural of people that is explicitly genderless (but not singular), and singular only of inanimate objects (but not plural). We don't have a pronoun that can fit a singular third gender or genderless reference.

Except that we do. Singular "they" has been used since Shakespeare. And you likely use singular they in your normal speech. When you don't know anything about a particular person, you ask about their attributes. Who they are and what they like, what their name is.

> Adding additional words to English may be required to deal with people who do not wish to use male or female pronouns, but also do not wish to be called an it

Indeed, and we generally do this by asking what those people want to be called, not by prescribing what they are allowed to be called. Prescriptivist language is both ineffective and rude, much as you trying to tell me what my name is is rude.

That said, even if you're interested in prescriptivist approaches, Merriam-Webster[0], and the OED[1] recognize singular they, as do the APA, NYT, and WaPo style guides.

Singular they, for a nonbinary person who prefers the pronoun, or for a person of unknown gender, is the standard. Stallman is the one causing needless conflict by trying to push a different approach when there already is a standard.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...

[1]: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
I gave it as an example to close the debate fully, because I'm aware of this line of arguing. The point remains, (1) life will not be possible without the universe, (2) the universe exists, and (3) we do not have access to the knowledge about how the universe was created, nor before it was created.
The FSF needs to harden up on this.

The OSI symbolizes the takeover of the free software movement by corporate interests.

Without Stallman, Moglen, and the GPL, the open web would not have come into being.

Stallman still has the surest instinct on how best to move forward.

This statement comes across as a pure power play by the corporate interests: “We won, and we’re not ceding any power back to GNU or the FSF. We will destroy you first.”

This is not about Stallman’s actions or private opinions, which were blown far out of proportion during the witch hunt in 2019, which was obviously driven by ulterior motives.
and now a retrospective with big point "hey, we made it to 1# on HN at least"... facepalm
‘This Is My Person,’ CIA Director Allegedly Said of Anwar Al-Awlaki
The person who several years ago and unrelated to this incident wrote the code that penalised threads with too high a comment:vote ratio?
If they shed less then they are less transmissible, it's in the article. It isn't about completely erradicating tranmission but bringing it to a level where the problem receeds. It's statistics, not a binary thing.
Oh wow, and now it’s flagged.

If there are Reddit employees on HN that, for example, would cause threads like this to get buried, that should be looked into.
Based on the feedback, I updated the post with one more approach based on the idea from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554476#26556540. The second approach avoids Rails UJS in favour of Turbo Frame.

Of course there are even more ways how to do this kind of thing. Keep sharing!
I would love to learn more, please share any relevant useful links.

Edit: Cursorily googled and did not find a reference for usage but plenty of papers talking about potential applications. Might be wrong though.
I think the solution is TLS-PSK[0]. But browsers don't support pre-shared key mode. If they did, each IoT device (or consumer router, NAS, etc) could ship with a unique key which your browser could prompt for on first use. These could be even be managed by password managers, so you'd get the trust on all your devices.

Why isn't this a thing?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS-PSK
Never heard of either of those, but I absolutely agree with the Ellis guy. My family runs a successful czechoslovakian wolfdog kennel, I have been interacting with this (rather difficult) dog breed since I was a baby and this is how I was taught to train dogs. When you're a ten year old kid, forcing (or fighting) the animal is not an option.
This sucks. All over a few comments people didn't like (from a person who comments on the news publicly online every single day for the past 20+? years) about the scandal regarding Epstein and Minsky.

Stallman thinks both men are criminals and serial rapists, and yet, still the OSI thinks he's dangerous because he made an off-topic comment about what "assault" really means (off-topic because it does not lessen the illegality or the seriousness of the crimes).
Similar to real-estate to a certain degree. A lot of it is based upon prior experience and having sold like businesses usually. Many also belong to trade groups or similar organizations that provide deal information that they can look up anonymized deals and find like values etc.

It is hard to hack your way through this one if you want accurate information to maximize your valuation.

I'd also encourage the potential buyer to value the business first, with providing only some basic data points, and that way you know if there is even a real opportunity for both parties. Cause if you are thinking you are getting some multiple of revenue (or net) and they are saying the book of business is worth $50k, you could be off by an insurmountable number and better to know that earlier then later.
I'd assume part of the artistic statement being made here ties exactly to your point about land. It's ultimately just ALL certificates that are unconnected to possession of the physical space. The difference between owning the NFT and owning the bridge is a matter of scale; of how many people buy into the worth of your scrap of digital paper.
Agriculture itself has been industrialized for a century in the developed world. It's increasingly industrialized all over the world. Only a small part of the world's cultivated land is worked with techniques recognizable to the farmer of 1850.

If agricultural productivity declined to pre-industrial rates, many people would starve to death. The good news is that population growth is slowing and will probably reverse in the present century. It's still going to be a while yet before widespread de-intensification can be embraced without widespread starvation.

In the mean time, microbial production looks like a good option to provide food for growing populations while limiting environmental damage. It can produce food with lower demands on land, water, and artificially fixed nitrogen than ordinary agriculture. It's resilient against extreme weather events and pest outbreaks.
> In order to get that much volume of honey that looks and tastes the same, you're going to need giant fields of monocrops, or maybe blending a massive collection of honey together.

… or add plain old sugar. Which is what most honey what comes from China (they produce & export a lot of it) contains. They are so good at it now that you can't even tell just by tasting it, you need to do chemical analysis, and there it's easily visible if the honey was stretched with sugar or is all natural.
Watches have complications, but people have complications, maaaaan
It takes the place of TSC as a compiler which is a significant speed-up. You still need tsc for the actual type-checking.
I couldn't be more opposed to Stallman's radical views on software but I find his cancelling/silencing more disturbing than his words.
The worker API in Javascript is quite a pain to use, but needless to say multithreading is invaluable in many contexts, both in the browser and in Node. I haven't used this library but it seems to solve a similar problem to other ones in the same space — make writing multithreaded code sane, allowing you to avoid writing a bunch of repetitive boilerplate.
> My point was that people who care about fixing problems in the security domain will look to fix the biggest problems they can in the security domain. They won't look at it and say "no, I can't fix this because C/C++ is unacceptable to me."

Sometimes that's true, sometimes it isn't. It's a cost-benefit analysis like almost anything else.

Everyone is free to disagree on this -- or like you, misinterpret my motivation as "caring more about the tools than the problem domain". Quite the contrary, I want the problems solved but I also put deadlines and energy budgets on trying to solve problem X with tool Y and if it doesn't cut it within the deadline and/or the budget then it's out. Sure, that means more C/C++ work for you. I am OK with that.

But let's not pretend that OpenSSL can only be written in C or C++ now. We all know that's not true.

> Blame the carpenter, not the tools.

It's no accident that professional craftsmen utilize innovation in their tooling as well, like Sushi chefs using ceramic knives for some fish and steel knives for others. Ceramic knives weren't that popular some mere decades ago.

Your black and white philosophy makes no favours to your argument.

It seems you take an issue with the rising popularity of Rust. But let me ask you this: if you are so confident in C/C++'s superiority, why are you bothered?
Everything in the photo is real except for the facial appearance. This is simply a bike rider and his bike travelling across Japan while taking selfies. Mistaking it for a bike rider and her bike should not change much.

If an heterosexual man pleased himself while watching that totally safe for work content, it's on him and no one else. The body did not even change and the photos are not suggestive at all.
I like Moka pot coffee, but cleaning it sucks, so I got myself an Ikea French press. Still keep a jar of instant just in case.
How could it possibly still be secure, then? Also, I've never heard of that theory and it sounds interesting. Source?
And those fields will have plenty of capable people who don't get a shot with the best firms because they didn't go to the right schools, or know the right people, or use the right buzzwords on their resume.

The coding screen is a less dirty shirt in a pile of dirty laundry. At least it's an objective measurement, even if it doesn't measure precisely the right thing.
While that might be the case currently, the capital efficency of DeFi is miles ahead of any traditional system.
Admittedly, it's not a gate-model system, but at D-Wave we've been able to scale up to 5,000+ qubits now, and the future is promising for further advancements in qubit count, noise, and other advanced features.

The gate-model systems have shown that they are pursuing a much more difficult path, one that may indeed be fruitless for years or decades before they can approach our raw qubit count. We also have examples of nontrivial, paying-customer use cases that become more compelling with each new announcement. Factoring integers is indeed an interesting hard problem which would have a massive (negative?) impact on the world if realized, but besides Shor's and Grover's algorithms, it's not like gate-model QPUs have a ton of use cases significantly better than what a quantum annealer can accomplish.

I like to think of it this way: we're basically at the point of an ENIAC scale machine, if you liken quantum computing progress to classical computing. Fills up a room, very specific environmental and power requirements, little or no "memory" to speak of, esoteric and hard for anyone without years of training to master. Only a few decades later, the state of the art machine was thousands of times more capable, far cheaper and smaller, more reliable, more accessible in every way. Imagine describing the Internet as we use it today to an ENIAC operator, or a speculative investor considering IBM, Honeywell, etc. - it would sound like an impossible, Asimovesque dream, not something that children would literally be playing with sixty years later.

The only difference is that so far, we don't really seem to have a real exponential Moore's Law effect in quantum computing. Google et al. still have very low numbers of qubits without any real promise that they'll be able to deliver more of them in any consistent timeframe. At D-Wave we've done better on the scaling front, and we've been trying to keep up to our former founder's "Rose's Law" of qubit scale growth, but fabrication is an incredibly expensive, complicated, competitive endeavour that necessitates incredible quality control in order to produce processors that are up to spec. There are also other factors beyond the raw qubit count; the bigger advantage in our latest Advantage chip may actually be the higher connectivity between qubits on the graph, rather than their raw number.

Of course, we expect that we'll continue to push the envelope in this regard, and given enough time and investment, some of the early applications we're seeing now may well eventually be integrated into large scale products people use every day.
The primary purpose had nothing to do with the specific idea of getting East and West to the same table. It was a reaction to the horror of WWII and the failure of the League of Nations. At is founding the path of Cold War was not clear. The charter was signed by the 51 members in June 1945 in San Francisco (the meeting started in April). I am very familiar with the history as I learned it on my grandfathers knee. I have pictures of him at the first full security council meeting in 1946.

If the UN is unable to censure / expel a member for a threat on a UN staffers life as a matter of government policy then the UN should just not even spend the time on these type of issues. The reality is for all the good it does, it powerless in most things because the member states do not stand up for the basic founding principles. I think that the western democracies would be better off building their own replacement where membership is predicated on a shared set of rules around freedom and human rights. Neither Russia, China or Saudi Arabia would qualify.
They have also shown an impressive 1000-machine kubernetes cluster running on GCP for analyzing data (they did a live demo at KubeCon in 2018 I believe where they ran the Higgs boson data analysis during a panel).
That's what i thought also which is why I was curious it was considered top performing. I suppose there are metrics other than profitability to define performance.
> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them.

WTF. Don't do this! That's a complete sin, don't modify the device of someone else when they trust you to enter your contact information! You're violating every social expectation when installing something without their consent.
When you have a two party system and no one outside of their narrow policy definitions can be elected (not as it's illegal but as in not one can overcome the completely biased system) you vote for a representative is a de-facto vote for policies. If you vote R it's an anti-aboration, gun rights, anti-immigrant vote. If you vote D it's a gun control, immigration, climate change vote. Sure you can say we vote for reps but in reality you have the choice of R or D and nothing you say or do really changes the policies that you are voting for.
Maybe you should go find yourself another place to play if this one distresses your delicate sensibilities so much. I promise you we will not miss you.
Real hackers are not limited to numbers that are powers of two.
Core game code commonly uses custom allocators that do provide those semantics though.

A bump allocator that you reset every frame is O(1) and a dozen or so cycles per allocation for example.
Maybe the family is already desperate because the breadwinner goes to work every day as a manual laborer where the boss steals half his wages, the most common economic crime in America. That's something the cops can find out by visiting their place of work. You can't expect the cops to be effective if they aren't allowed to make contact with people in the social circles of known criminals.
Awesome news! Can't wait to test it out :)
In the UK you can (sort of) text a landline. It's been a while since I've done it but I think the person receives it as a call and then an automated voice reads the message.
So he is not a useless guy then? Your comment itself is contradictory.
Huh, it's been along time since I heard the name Josh Alman. Last time I heard about him he was cheating in academic trivia. Looks like he's managed to contribute more positively to society since then.
Well I watched this documentary about honeybee treatment in the US and I came away believing it is a highly abusive and exploitative industry to the bees. Take a look:

https://youtu.be/n4ddWBEHlpo

EDIT: I should add that buying locally produced small batch honey is a good thing as it supports beekeepers that actually tend to respect the bees. The big industry stuff however is bad news as is the case with all animal industry in the US.
> I've lived most of my life without a credit card

> This is all a result of me living responsibly within my means.

Implying that not using credit cards is how one lives responsibly within their means is kinda weird and wrong. Yes, you can live irresponsibly with a credit card. You can also live responsibly with it too. And it will give you extra consumer purchase protection (in case of a fraud or a bad fair vendor), as well as 1-5% return on purchases.

Some would argue that missing out on that 1-5% return and extra consumer protections is the irresponsible move. But either way, the whole "using credit cards means living irresponsibly and outside of their means" is absolutely nothing but a complete lack of understanding of how credit works.
What spice? The US is a net exporter of oil, these days.
In a multi-core system, it may be, since you're not really accessing main memory directly, but you're going through several levels of all kinds of caches, some shared and some not (L1 (instruction, data), L2, L3, TLB, ...), and sometimes competing with devices that access the memory "directly" via DMA.
Same with cars. I fail to understand why anyone would spend 20k on a brand new Focus, for example, when for the same money you can get a 5 year old Mercedes c (also an example)
Exactly, OSI is going to happily go to conferences at MIT and Harvard without mentioning anything about those institutions' multiple, documented actions to protect child rapists when they attend, but they will essentially do a social boycott of RMS because his comments were a bit rude.
Yes, but I was saying earlier that I didn't prefer the use of the word "capital", because it is abstract - a thing (money), not an actor. And I mentioned human nature i.e. people, who are real actors. Your use of the word "newcomers" (who are people, not money) says the same. Maybe just a matter of wording or interpretation.
Wow. It's nice to know where OSI stands. I feel that their response shows that OSI is an ideological organization, which does not believe in giving people second chances, does not investigates the details of the allegations and does not take into account the individual circumstances. Richard Stallman contribution to the Open Source Movement is hard to underestimate. I am really impressed with the courage that it took for the Free Software Foundation to reinstate him. Also wow for the FSF.
Is your base moral code to do what is popular? Because lets be real, this thread would not appear for any of the other companies that do the exact same thing but aren't currently in vouge to hate on.
It seems like his main reason for getting rid of his smartphone was because he was unable to not use social media apps on his smartphone.

For me, I have achieved mostly the same goal by just not using social media apps. No reddit, no twitter, no fb, no linked in, no whatever. I browse reddit and HN on my computer, thats pretty much it. I use my smartphone pretty rarely but when I do need to use spotify or maps or podcasts or some special app, I still can. And you can still text, which like the author noted, is important.

So, I say to the author - work on your self control and discipline! Just don't use social media anymore! It's really not hard! I think the trick is to not use it at all. You can't just "use it in small amounts".
>I wish there was a solution for those of us who develop web interfaces for embedded products designed to live on LAN, often without any internet access and no well defined domain name.

Don't use the browser?

I understand the temptation to use the browser, but this is the price you pay for using someone else's platform: They're free to close whatever door they want.

HTML renderers are dime a dozen. Electron is a thing. Serve the HTML using _another_renderer.

JavaFX isn't bad either but I'm not gonna sell anyone on that front because I don't even do it, but the option is there.

Please stop using my browser in obscure and painful ways just so you can (understandably) avoid having to write a native UI.
I'm trying to get rid of my news addiction (so far failing spectacularly...), And one of my plans would be to have a couple of sources that do not push a constant stream of crappy news, but occasional selected high quality articles. At the moment I have Quanta magazine and The Economist Leaders on my RSS reader news section. Does anyone have any improvements or additions to this list - the niche of the articles can be almost anything, as long as it is only a few per week and quality is top notch?
Is this referencing quantum cryptography being used in banking? Any good sources for more info on this, it sounds really interesting.
Yep, we realized early on that this is a challenge. Does Runway try to be more of a plug-and-play solution for teams that need to get a basic release pipeline spun up quickly, or does it focus more on flexibility for more established teams with stronger opinions and preferences on the individual parts of their toolchain configuration?

So far we've tried to hit a balance between the two, informed as much as possible by our pilot teams and our gauge on what will most effectively serve the most teams to start. Will definitely be an ongoing conversation.
Displays of anger usually involve violent imagery and rhetoric, so it is usually protected by the first amendment. That is why US politicians are allowed to be calling for additional unrest during riots and protests.
This is useful for processing large chunks of data like audio files (look at Superpowered sdk) but breaking em down or when processing multiple files.
It's really incredible that we just let ourselves slide into this surveillance dystopia, isn't it? I yearn for the halcyon days of August 2001.