skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the personhood and rights that the unborn have are hotly debated, the term genocide, as defined by the person who coined the term, points out that it doesn't mean the immediate murder of all people in that group:

>Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups
The current anti-trust doctrine in the US has a goal of protecting consumers - not competition. What Google is doing is arguably great for consumers but awful to their competitors/other organizations. Technically, companies can simply block Google using robots.txt - but in reality that will lose them more money than the current partial disintermediation by Google is costing them - and Google knows this.

It's a tall order to convince the courts that Google's actions consumers, or is illegal: after all, being innovative in ways that may end up hurting the competition is a key feature of a capitalist society - proving that a line has been crossed is really hard, by design.
I've been mostly trying to get my friends and family onto Signal. I really want to ditch FB messenger.
How is 4 CONSECUTIVE years of solitary isolation not "cruel and unusual"? I'm not asking rhetorically, or to start some kind of debate or discussion about the state of incarceration in the US. I am literally asking on what legal basis those who have fought such things (I assume that they have) have lost those cases.
Generally speaking, who wins are single suppliers, at least until alternatives are found.

If you had to buy air to breathe, and it came from a single supplier, that supplier would have you by the lungs, which is like by the balls, only worse.
It had notifications when YC was funding Notifo, but they went out of business.
Research Project: How AI Can Make Digital Cultural Records More Accessible
The Navy has a strong preference for two engines (and so would you, if you were flying at sea), so the F-16 was never an option for them, anyway...
This weirdly reminded me of how Michael Bluth fails to realize his girlfriend Rita has a learning disability because of her aristocratic sounding British accent in the show Arrested Development.
The little guy can ride the coattails as long as the behemoth allows it.

The behemoth can get "safety" regulations passed that only the behemoth can satisfy- basically pull the ladder behind them.
but lisp has homoiconicity so lisp factories create 1st class objects at runtime, including new 1st class lisp factory factories.
They want you to pay them to "research" google's web crawling monopoly. It's really just a donation, but they don't frame it like that. Probably more credible than using a crowd funding website, because it sounds like their pushing for actual legislation.

> Meet with legislators and regulators to present our findings as well as the mock legislation and regulations. We can’t expect that we can publish this website or a PDF and then sit back while governments just all start moving ahead on their own. Part of the process is meeting with legislators and regulators and taking the time helping them understand why regulating Google in this way is so important. Showing up and answering legislators’ questions is how we got cited in the Congressional Antitrust report and we intend to keep doing what’s worked so far.
I’ve heard such ideas proposed earnestly for a while now: https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2020/06/25/billionaire-seasteadi...
Big agree to everything here. I've seen my fair share of office romance, and wow, folks, it sucks. When your work is your family, friends, your whole life, it's gonna be a dating pool for people, too. When you start sleeping with one of your "family" members, that's fine, whatever. But when you inevitably split, work becomes a soap opera, everybody feels the need to pick a side, banal decisions (like attending a meeting or not) become political. Shit.

And to think, I've been told by a department head that the way to get business done with a certain co-worker is to go out for beer with him. So that's my fault for not knowing / doing that. No matter that I don't drink. No matter that I'm not cool enough for this dude to want to go drinking with. Big ol' fuck off, loud and clear. Wouldn't it be better if he could just respond to my emails like everybody else is expected to?
China has a branding problem. Instead of garnering support, building rapport through collaboration and mutual growth, their PR strategy is immature and misplaced at best, damaging and crippling at worst. Lashing out, isolationism, asymmetric trade, human rights issues and generally going against democracy is putting them at odds with everyone else.

China could have played this so much better.
I wrote a Gimp python plugin for my spouse; I was rather dismayed at how hard it was to learn what I needed to do, especially when what I wanted to do was relatively simple. But in the end, I got it working, and the second time wouldn't be so hard. I did have python distribution issues between my dev environment on Mac and the production environment on Windows.
I'd be curious to hear the official reason too! I don't miss the feature, really, I don't necessarily want push notifications for HN activity, but am just curious!
Sounds like nasty gossip, did anyone actually verify any of this?
Is it wrong to say they look alike? There are just times where there is such commonality in a group due to genetic abnormalities and other factors that descriptions are more a fact than a stereotype.
Ok, that's fair, I agree.
On the other hand, I do not want my site to go down thanks to a few bad 'crawlers' that fork() a thousand http requests every second and take down my site, forcing me to do manual blocking or pay for a bigger server/scale-out my infrastructure. Why should I have to serve them?
Makes me feel lucky to be in my job, and a jolt of gratitude every-so-often is a welcome thing, so thank you.

I work with 8 other senior or senior-ish engineers, we are all basically taking a slight paycut (not too much, maybe 80-90% of rates we might get elsewhere) to work for a non-profit making interesting stuff for kids, and everyone is genuinely nice and fairly hard-working.

I wonder if the "taking a paycut to do something actually interesting and worthwhile" is part of it.
Or for the example of word frequencies in the article, a prefix trie.
But I think the parent comment's point is that this can be a very challenging job. A good manager's task is to absorb the chaos of the outside world, and give the team a calm, structured workflow. It's easy to see where a manager is failing, but if they're doing their job right their work is invisible.
Electricity is less than 20% of the world energy consumption.

I find it fascinating that a tech focused forum like HN is so intent on taking an inferior solutions like wind and solar which literally can't provide enough heat for the majority of needs we have, can't scale, requires insane amounts of land, requires complex daisy chains of different solutions to work, isn't reliable, requires absurd amounts of resources, needs backup from oil, coal, gas or nuclear and won't be able to deliver anything even close to useful baseload and most importantly is so inadequate when it comes to thinking about any future civilisations energy needs both in scale and density. A forum like this people still clings to these Rube Goldberg constellations and think they are somehow supportiing progress. Especially since 3billion people still don't have proper access to energy. Oh well.
Back few years ago after MS purchased Skype they did add support for MSN/Live accounts in that messenger and ultimately, at some point user was forced to log into Skype with MSN account and merge contact lists.

But it seems even today it's still possible to use Skype with old native accounts, along with Microsoft account and what I just discover... with Github accounts. So if they do purchase Discord it might be possible that in future this IM will get support for MS accounts (I wouldn't be surprised if also Github ones) and users will be also offered merge and login with MS account alone containing "old" Discord accounts data for MS definition of "convenience". After all Microsoft account it's their single sign-on feature.

If purchase will take place, I think the question is what they'll do with it: keeping Discord as exclusively game-oriented IM that will somehow be merged with their Xbox infrastructure or abandon Microsoft Teams/merge it with Discord and keep it as business/professional oriented communication platform. Discord might be left alone for a while but I think MS will eventually give it a special place somewhere under their umbrella of services.
Solution: eliminate state and local regulations that restrict the building of housing, especially in places where demand is high. As supply rises, prices fall. California's CEQA should be the first to go: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...
That is unless we all sign paperwork saying we won't use these big huge wastes of GDP we've stockpiled like someone with a hoarding complex, and resume war as usual.
Google meet crashing is interesting. I use it literally every day for meetings and I run Firefox as my primary browser (on Linux though, if that matters). I can't recall ever having a crash from it.
True, it shows I'm missing the 40-70k range experience. 100k is thriving money for sure.
I remember when in Germany some budget airlines used to say they'd fly to "Frankfurt" (FRA) but actually flew to "Frankfurt-Hahn" (HHN) - 115km away. After arrival in HHN they put you on a bus to FRA that took about 2 hours.
Is the Lockdown Over, Yet?
It is interesting how deep introspection and observation usually leads to Buddhist like ideals.
Well said. The biggest products I've designed for my employer came from times when I could sit around and think. Being a little bored means having time to try things and build some MVPs. Having every minute of my day scheduled means I don't do anything creative.
Christchurch Report Points to Better Avenues for Internet Reform
You seem to be thinking of the abstraction as a concrete thing. A code point is like LLVM IR; an intermediary language for describing and converting between encodings. It is not a concrete thing in itself.

The concrete thing we're encoding is human readable text. The atomic unit of which is the user perceived character.

I'm curious, what use is knowing the number of code points in a string? It doesn't tell the user anything. It doesn't even tell the programmer anything actionable.
Nice. Yeah, looks like it's in section "6.6 Table Lookup", and it implements a simple, fixed-size hash table (array size 101) of char* to char*, and it handles collisions via linked lists.
"Conservatives" have pretended to be "libertarians" for so long that neither term really has a meaning anymore (in USA). Those who actually value freedom are anarchists. ISTM "conservatives" were always happy to oppress unfortunates, and likewise happy to enlist the help of the state in doing so. They invented police and FBI for that purpose.
Congratulations on the launch!

You are addressing the need gap - 'On-demand Hacker News notification'[1] posted on my problem validation platform. You're welcomed to explain how you're solving that problem with the link to your extension.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/144-on-demand-hacker-news-notif...
>After all, many investors invest without themselves having a majority stake. If you own 3% of a company, the other 97% might be other investors, or might be some other investors and some worker-owners, you still only own 3%.

That's not exactly the same. If you invest in a regular company, the other 97% of investors contributed capital, making the company worth more. On the other hand, in a owner coop the 50% (or whatever % share allocated to the workers) is essentially dead weight. There might be some value that the workers add (increased loyalty?), but I doubt whether that has actual value in the context of a ridesharing platform where turnover is high and the workers are more-or-less replaceable.

>But also investors sometimes invest in worker coops because they want to support a worker-owned business in addition to make money, some kind of values-based investing: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/worker-cooperatives-are-fin...

>Look, all I can say is this is an actual thing that happens, there are hybrid ownership worker coops taht also have investors, it literally exists in reality.

It's hard to infer motivations here, because what they're doing is blending rational investing (eg. maximizing risk adjusted returns) with philanthropy. While it's technically true that worker coops can find "investors", having to rely on the generosity of others isn't exactly a sound business strategy.
the grid is quite reliable in most of the world and provides as much power as you want whenever you want.

I much prefer simple dumb appliances than smart crap that is garbage after 5 years. If the price is high like in Texas recently I can decide to not use the dryer.
I just turned this off today, after one too many "an extension is slowing this page down" warnings from Firefox, always from Dark Reader. It's a pretty useful addon, but there's enough websites that implement their own dark mode that it's less necessary these days (I hope), and possibly making it not worth the slowdown.
Well yeah, there are smaller and larger bribes... OTOH "Baksheesh" for me is more like a tip that you would give to a waiter in a restaurant, which is the mildest form of corruption possible (if it can even be called that).

A fee to get your passport quicker isn't the same as a bribe for me - after all, you can also pay extra to get a better seat on a flight, better service and be able to board sooner, would you consider that bribing the airline? Whereas paying someone at the gate to upgrade you to business class would be bribery...
Agreed this seems like major overkill, but then again so does writing your own hash table from scratch in C. :shrug:
Neither code points nor units help upper casing ß.
Same for Windows Terminal:

https://i.judge.sh/sentimental/Lotus/WindowsTerminal_fyi7k86...
I wonder how much of this is due to supply/demand and the simple fact that more people want to live in about the same number of dwellings. Even if population growth doesn't explain it, urban population growth might. e.g. San Francisco has seen huge growth but constructed basically no new units. So it's not exactly surprising the prices go up.

The funny thing is, all the rich people living in these cities would never be able to survive without all the poor people commuting into the city to support them. The more expensive the city gets, the longer those commutes get. It's a horribly regressive system because now the poor people are spending multiple hours a day commuting, which is a huge opportunity cost of time that they could have spent advancing their social mobility.

At some point something has to give. You can't just keep filling cities with rich people if nobody is there to keep them running.
Couldn't you make a similar argument about for-profit uses of free/libre software? The software serves a useful purpose, who cares where it came from?
> The first is useful for basic string operations.

The only thing it's useful for is sizing up storage. It does nothing for "basic string operations" unless "basic string operations" are solely 7-bit ascii manipulations.
You can try to polyfill that with something like https://github.com/pagedjs/pagedjs
What kills me is I recall the mobile browser experience being better in the 2012 era than 2021. We've moved from alright 3G to widely available 4G with populous areas having 5G, and with home internet connections generally being much faster. The same website code could provide a much better experience simply from more bandwidth availability. Instead we've regressed because everything needs an app now.

Some forum software allows the owners to create an app then prompts you to install their app. Not sure which it is, but it's super annoying.

Over the last couple, reddit has significantly limited their mobile website utility, requiring login (like Instagram) and nagging you to download the app.

Marketing metrics seem to have overcome usability in terms of relative importance. It's really frustrating to see what the movie computing environment has become.
I just checked the cookies on hn and there's only one, with the format of:

user=gruez&[redacted]

Are you sending the entire session cookie, or just the part with the username?
Governments have realized it's easier and more politically favorable to pay and train local militias to shoot each other. It's taking a page from the corporate playbook of creating a shell company to hide liability.
That lists a web UI. Is Element just a front-end to Matrix much like TheLounge [1] is a web front-end to IRC? If so, then you would first have to set up a self hosted Matrix server. Not a big deal really but getting people to set these up and plumb them together is probably just enough friction to prevent migration.

[1] - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge
How about psychiatric data from the area around Washington DC? Hospitals/practices that are frequented by New York CEO-types? I can picture that being quite valuable to the right parties.
How much would you have to save? For me it is thousands I can’t be bothered to delay kids bath times to save five bucks!
> EDIT - your link says "These days, it is rare to obtain planning permission to build right up to the boundary"

Not all structures need planning permission. Someone can build a 2 metre wall right on the boundary. https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects...
A quick DDG search turned up a long list of SCOTUS decisions related to this, which might be interesting: https://solitarywatch.org/resources/u-s-supreme-court-cases/
I use S3's static site hosting. works great.
The Darkhad valley where they live is incredibly beautiful and remote. In the summer the slopes bloom with alliums and rhubarb while the riverbanks are crowded with their famous white horses. You just have to watch out for the horrific grasshoppers that eat almost anything, including plastics.
hope these guys team up w/ archive.org
Sounds like a perfect fit for https://signals.numer.ai. If you have any questions there's an active chat community at https://community.numer.ai
I did attempt to read the paper but it's $400. It would be interesting to see where Houston falls in all this. The city has nearly zero zoning laws and has continually grown at the edges for the last several decades and has also traded single family lots for higher density housing in the inner and near city. In other words for people who say "well just let you develop more" it's happened here.
It's honestly unconscionable.
It's not contributing much to the discussion to just say "This." but man I really just want to say, indeed as someone who isn't originally from an American culture but now resides in America: the observation you make is profound and so important, and I hope everyone considers this and thinks about this.

Because I know exactly what you're talking about and I'm struggling with this so much, about being supportive of our friends on various decisions they make sometimes even when we don't think deep down it's the right thing in some situations, but we're afraid to say it for an increasing amount of reasons: criticism from woke culture, being afraid of being seen as bossy, party-pooper, disagreeable, puritan. But friends are friends, give them honesty, show them the doubt you feel, tell them your gut feeling. Yeah it'll take some work to make it palatable, but do it, give the hard take that you really should.
How does it work in other professions? I think in most professions once you have some experience you don't get tested in every job interview, people just rely on your history and their impression. I have decided to hire like that, just look at people history of work and talk to them in an interview and I think the rate of success was not worst than any other method. People got pretty good intuition in general for other people capabilities.
Again, with critical context.

This isn’t illegal and it isn’t Google’s fault, but this monopoly on web crawling that has naturally emerged prevents any other company from being able to effectively compete with Google in the search engine market.
Thanks! Like you mention on that page, the ability to follow threads without having to comment on them would be great. It’s next on our list of features.
Then be specific in your criticism. There is a very clear sugar coating of terminology that I think is worth pointing out. There are no guns blazing. I struggle to understand what you take issue with, if not my point.
Idk. while banks have to report on this they are (as far as I know) still free to publicize details.

We normally don't hear about this things not because they can't speak about it but because they don't want to speak about it (bad press).

My guess is that it's a company which takes security relatively serious, but isn't necessary very big.

> hot target [..] else big enough to be a target

I don't thing you need to be that big to be a valid target for a attack of this kind, neither do I think this attack is on a level where "only the most experienced/best hackers" could have pulled it of.

I mean we don't know how the dev laptop was infected but given that it took them 3 month to reinfect it I would say it most likely wasn't a state actor or similar.
How much total throughput can your wi-fi router really provide?
Enterprise Cybersecurity Measurement
Bramble: A Federated GraphQL Gateway Implemented in Go
The Autograph Fiend
Also don't forget all the blog posts about how hiring is broken, particularly because high school dropouts are able to put hundreds of hours into the game while senior swe are busy with their jobs and families.
> 4. Journal The greatest gift I gave to myself while in solitary confinement was the gift of journaling. I poured my heart and soul into my notepads. I wrote about all the experiences, life choices, and traumas that led me to prison. I was lovingly honest with myself. I talked about all the things I had stuffed deep down inside, and it was the most liberating experience I had

There is a Hindu practice that is similar called Vasana Daha Tantra. "Vasana" meaning imprints, "Daha" to burn, and "Tantra" meaning method - i.e. "the method to burn away imprints". The method is the same as the author has outlined above, except that when you're done you "burn the papers in an inauspicious fire".

I have personally found the act of burning the papers very liberating, because much of cathartic writing I would never want anyone else to see - somethings just need to be written without any discrimination or self censoring, and knowing that it will be burned really aids to release it all.

There are more dimensions to this practice however I'm sure even from a secular perspective it would be helpful, as Shaka explains.
>Not all of us are interested in doing that. Not all of us care so much about "disadvantaged" people, especially in the area of open source which has been as close to a true meritocracy as the species has ever created.

>I don't care what RMS thinks of women, honestly; I care what he thinks about code and computers and freedom.

God, I love it when the mask comes off completely.