skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
usually I factor cost of data plan into the decision of where I go next for the reasons you mentioned. Since you say you're doing UI and frontend I think this is a big challenge when fetching and pushing binary data like static assets.

To reduce your data consumption and improve load times as well as security/privacy you may consider a /etc/hosts blocklist[1]. It's not going to help with reducing data in zoom calls, Netflix and podcasts but it adds up. Also don't forget application/service specific settings like switching all preferred resolution in video to the lowest quality etc.

DNS traffic can be reduced (and sped-up) with a local cache (dnsmasq - or better yet dnscrypt-proxy[2]).

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[2] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
The classical Swiss variation of this is the urbanites moving into the countryside and telling the farmers to get rid of the cowbells.

TBH, the farmers don't have much except tradition on their side; there is no practical reason for the bells outside the mountains, and research has come to the conclusion that they are not overly healthy for the cows.

Plus it was generally the farmers who sold the urbanites the land to build their houses on.

And for an urban variation: People who move next to a church and want it to stop ringing its bells so often.
Another round of fantastic(al) NASA NIAC awards
The cartoon depiction of sex with minors is almost certainly illegal in many districts and countries.
Any school can teach the same algorithms material, but not every school allocates or requires comparable amount of time and effort to that material. Some schols will just point you at the material and test if you rememeber the basics, and some schools will outright flunk you unless you practice until you can write correct implementations of all that material quickly with your eyes closed.
I used "lately" in order to avoid having a back and forth debate about a specific timeframe. The heavy information manipulation has been happening for years, but it feels especially strong since 2018. I know it was happening well before that but the admins and powermods have been especially craven as of this last year.
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In practice, the biggest difference comes from RAM speed, which Librem 5 has almost three times as fast as PinePhone. Then, the CPU is clocked at 1.3x the speed and it has twice the L2 cache. eMMC is faster too. The difference in every day usage is easily noticeable even just by how fast applications start and, indeed, the GPU performance difference is drastic: https://social.librem.one/@dos/104767475144787918

Recently I've compiled GTK4 on both phones and it took my PinePhone almost twice as long as my Librem 5.

Disclaimer: I work for Purism on the Librem 5, although I'm very excited with the PinePhone as well - I'd say it's good for its price.
That description fits Facebook just as well, which means it doesn’t tell us much about Google.
More discussion on this topic from two hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26567842
Rentals lack equity, which is kind of an enormous thing to overlook.
I'll try to strictly source my remarks and refrain from commenting on the political content of the HK demonstrations to keep this purely factual, as I think this could be a rather controversial thread; however, it's interesting how different the reception to these demonstrations is to the reception to the US Capitol riots and the BLM demonstrations of last year. Hong Kong demonstrators have stormed government buildings[1], thrown gasoline bombs at police[2], attacked plainclothes police[3], and the like. In total, one pro-liberalization demonstrator died after falling from a parking garage[4], and one anti-liberalization demonstrator died after being bludgeoned with a brick by pro-liberalization demonstrators[5]. To keep this in context, the current Hong Kong SAR government is democratically elected[6] according to the provisions of an international treaty signed by the PRC and the UK which took effect in 1997[7].

If these events occurred in the United States, whose government surveils almost all telecommunications[8], what would its government do? One part of that answer is to have the military occupy a city with limited congressional representation (DC)[9]. This is clearly a much more restrictive measure than the measures taken by the HKSAR government, but its presentation by non-Chinese media has been the exact opposite. For what it's worth (zero), my opinion is that both government responses are consistent with what can be expected given their respective situations. Why are they portrayed differently? Is it ideology, or am I missing something that differentiates the two?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Legislative_Co...
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50115629
[3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hong-kong-...
[4]: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3036833...
[5]: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/14/asia/hong-kong-protest-el...
[6]: http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/intro/about_lc.htm
[7]: http://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/jd2.htm
[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
[9]: https://nypost.com/2021/03/09/pentagon-extends-national-guar...
The new design collapses all responses below the second level (and then every two levels) while adding extreme amounts of visual distractions to gilded/awarded/... comments (personal opinion). This annoys me to no end and I presume the grandparent is referencing that.
Reddit protests are always so humorous to me.

For every mod that "leaves", dozens more will gladly step up to take over.

Reddit Admins will also not think twice to remove mods that do things like this to "hurt reddit"
Eh. Reddit is very unlikely to do that. The subreddits would be overrun with trash pretty quickly.
i.reddit.com hasn't changed in 10 years.
For #2, how would you deal with the user moving to a different region?
After having been burned one too many times, I now mentally substitute "lifetime" with "data loss".

Services pitching "lifetime" seem to either wildly miscalculate the effect of pathological usage, fail to do accurate math on support, or are betting on shifts in the pricing of storage/bandwidth or computer that fail to emerge.

There's a lot of justifiable angst around "everything becoming a SAAS" but if I'm comparing services and betting which will be around in a year: I'm paying the monthly fee.
Through don't forget that due to TSCM being overloaded with requests and Intel having their own fabs they can still sell chips for (for them) good prices even if they are worse.

In the end getting a CPU is normally more important then getting the best CPU.
Why would closed source software be safe? Say I copy shared-mime-info completely, compile it, sell it to you as MimeWizardPRO2000, you include it as part of your closed source web framework and sell that. You're still distributing GPL code without making your source available.
I'm guessing you don't use the new redesign.
Yeah I got off it, haven’t missed it. It seems to be a reflection of the Soviet totalitarian mindset the far left is taking nowadays.
I think it's even worse than that.

They'll remember, but still keep coming back. You can't even blame short memory for it. They literally don't care more than the inconvenience they'd face in going elsewhere for forums.

And as long as that's true, the things they dislike will keep happening.
Since much of monetary value is related to scarcity, labor is directed to reduce scarcity, not to actions that produce social value.

The pool of people who are capable of collecting garbage is non-scarce, so the price for labor is relatively small compared to the social value it produces.

Advertising is so well rewarded because the attention of consumers is a very scarce resource, so companies put massive amounts of money into capturing some of that.
Given adequate and safe public transportation I’d love going into an office.

Yet imho that exists nowhere in the US. Companies might as well provide a car to commute in
You're right. I should've just stuck to 'discount rate' instead of interest or inflation. But that's a little too abstract for some.

In finance interest rates are typically used for the discount rate. But discount rates can be something else that's not directly related to interest rates, too.

For example, suppose I buy gold and it appreciates in value by 10% per year. You could in a way call that inflation (inflation of the price of gold, typically due to inflation of the money supply). And if you were to calculate the value of x amount of gold in one year, in this case you'd use the inflation rate of 10% to discount it to the present value.

I should've said discount rates, and in general discussions it's fine to speak of interest rates. Should not have mentioned inflation as it's confusing and often different from the discount rate.
1. Create a collection of addons you'd like to use on AMO (e.g. via desktop mode)
2. Use Firefox Nightly
3. Click several times on the firefox icon in settings > about until developer mode is enabled
4. Click "change addon collection" and enter your AMO userid as well as the name of the collection you created in step 1
5. Firefox is restarted, and you can install all addons from your collection (if this doesn't work, clear the cache via the android app settings for firefox)
6. Have fun :)
Worms! If there are many worms the soil is good. If there are no worms, the soil is bad. Worms like the organic matter and convert it into tiny weeny particles that the plants (bacteria) can absorb, they also open up the soil and create structure so it drains nicely.

Worms!
Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2

However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name.

This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accomplishment is being forced out of politics due to her connections to multiple pedophiles? Why did they taking such extreme steps to hide the admin's name, when they don't offer the same protections to mods or other users of the site? Does reddit have any audit trail or safeguards when admins edit comments? It would be interesting if they did a postmortem on the situation, but so far they seem reluctant to say that anything went wrong on their end.
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Not that it relates to the article (the blackout is a very transparent action) but I agree. The manipulation of content to the front page and /r/all is more and more blatant and without repercussion. And more and more subreddits are becoming "safe spaces" where challenging a narrative gets you banned - See /r/conservative, /r/LateStageCapitalism, /r/OurPresident, /r/BlackPeopleTwitter, etc.

The refrain of "just create your own subreddit" is not practical to combat the indoctrination being manipulated to the top by these orgs. IIRC commondreams.org is behind the /r/AOC and /r/MurderedByAOC subreddits entirely.
Is someone procrastinating on writing their thesis?
Seems like the biggest news here is Intel committing strongly to its fab business. Walling that division off from Intel's own chip design business is critical to giving it a chance to succeed. Having a third fab with competitive tech (along with TSMC and Samsung) is great for the world!

This is pretty bad for Taiwan geopolitically though... once US chipmakers have a plausible local manufacturing alternative, the US is less likely to risk WW3 by standing up to China if/when it tries to annex Taiwan.
So you'd consider it anti-meritocratic?
Immuteable, stateless Linux desktop environments with any distro
Probably because it's all alleged at this point and reddit has a propensity for flipping out over complete misapprehensions.
and whoops it took a reallllllllly long time to identify and fix.

totally understandable, right?

/s
The US is doing similar things, via a combination of long sentences for petty crimes and abuse of arrest and pretrial detention powers.
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> Stallman's only goal has been to develop an ecosystem of free and open software

Why is his goal the only one that matters? Is he a prophet, or is he just a guy who created a compelling idea? Should the movement continue to be centered on him as a personality? The FSF movement is by definition far bigger than him, and it can reasonably contain other related goals. Perhaps those with other goals can make peace with keeping him around, perhaps they can't.
The point is that it's not Android, so you can run whatever you can make run on mainline Linux on PinePhone, with fully supported kernel always available in uptodate state, and without any Android abstractions that may or may not limit what you can do.
The problem with the automated moderator excuse seems to be that it started with a post that was removed that was an article that merely mentioned her name in passing. It was not part of the title and the article was not about her. It was a single sentence in the article itself that triggered the admin action which no one seems to be buying as an automated action. It seems highly suspect that the fallout of an automated moderator is a human mod getting perma-banned for it just for sharing the article
This means there is no reason they can’t support the web if required to do so.

The argument that App stores must be regarded as public utilities because banks don’t support the web makes no sense. Banks can easily support the web.
> In a world full of workers who are emotionally and morally disengaged, just doing what they're told for a paycheck

I don't this is true of software. I live on the West Coast and SWEs are by far some of the most vocal and aggressive voices in a crowd. They seem highly engaged and constantly channeling emotion for what they want. That said, it's a recent trend. When I came into software the attitudes were much more laid back. I'd prefer a return to this.
Because while the plebes have access to data, a lot of that data is biased, misleading, or it isn't and they've been convinced that it is.
Yeah, you might end up with class solidarity and move past racial divisions.
> I'm not sure how exciting it would be.

I'm pretty sure that is a feature not a bug. Kinda like servers... if something is exciting it means something went wrong.
Yup. Markets require independent referees.

Google acts as their own police, judge, jury, executioner, and bank.

Ditto Apple, Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc.

The pro-capitalist position is to protect markets. We need tort, fair and impartial adjudication, and right to appeal.
The articles you are referring to doesn’t show the full picture. In all protests only a part of the crowd is visible on the streets, the majority of the day is spent trying to get up to the streets from the MTR.
Is the nearest star cluster to the sun being destroyed?
Was digg as big as reddit is now?

The issue for me is I don't know of other good places for long-form discussion and good link aggregation in general. Most of the time in smaller subreddits there aren't really any issues.

What alternative is there to /r/AskHistorians? Etc.
This all feels very witch hunt like to me. If there's any evidence that she's a danger to children, I feel like people should put up or shut up. All I've seen is people slandering her for the actions of her father (proven) and some comments that might have been made by her partner about his own interests (completely unprovable). It's kind of disgusting what conservatives are trying to turn this into without a shred of proof.
> I also think he would be fantastic making a cameo in a bit part in Disney's Mandalorian series

The fact you actually want this is beyond cringe.
I would argue they say that in public but massive content manipulation through moderation is not even a secret.
It seems like online companies go through all sorts of contortions to avoid saying what they need to say with respect to content moderation:

> We will try to moderate our platform fairly, but we reserve the absolute right to do so arbitrarily and capriciously. Users are not entitled to any explanation or recourse.

That should be the extent of any social media platform's content policy. I think we'd all be better off setting expectations properly and honestly.
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>somebody is flagging this story to keep people from even discussing the topic.

This applies to your entire comment, but the quoted line is most salient: Be careful not to fall into the victimized underdog mentality. There are legitimate concerns on both sides here, but there is a ton of noise in the form of pointing to imagined persons/crowds and accusing them of persecution. For example, submissions are frequently flagged for the poor quality of discussion they trigger - not simply because "somebody" is "trying to keep people from even discussing it", which is an easy sentiment to reach for, and falls under the category of fallacy that boils down to "our sociopolitical enemies are simply evil - don't you agree, fellow people on my side?".
Western politicians are looking up to their Chinese friends with awe. They feel sheer excitement when they think how much power Chinese government wields. They don't particularly like the concentration camps or child labour (although for sure their rich mates would love to have free labour on tap), but social scoring? Playing Sim City with real human lives? Yes please, sign me up!
That's why you don't see anything done to help Hong Kong. They are trying to go the opposite way to which Western social-democracies are drifting towards.
The lockdowns was like that first taste of human blood and there are already plans how to make our lives a game where the government officials are the masters.
I ended up playing around with D for a bit before moving to Rust and here were my thoughts

Pros

1. It felt very practical.

2. Handling packages using Dub was great

3. The D programming book by Ali Çehreli was a great introduction http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

4. A lot of criticism around D were outdated. Whenever you search stuff about D you still find people talking about the split, disabling the GC invalidating over half the std lib (this has changed a lot) etc, from years ago and a lot has changed since then

5. The forum is very helpful, and I was able to get my issues fixed without anyone telling me to RTFM or being mean

6. It's about 20 Years old and has some very mature libs (like the gtkD lib)

7. Running D code like a script with RDMD was great for rapidly learning D

8. I think having 3 separate compilers is great! DMD, GDC and LDC2 all have their pros and cons

Cons

1. I found the documentation very difficult to grok. I found it more difficult to understand than Racket's or Rust's

2. It feels like lot of the momentum of D is gone, and has been replaced by rust, zig, etc

3. Lack of examples, lack of questions and answers that aren't from 10 years ago

4. Not a lot of intro materials for people who aren't C/C++ programmers

Overall I liked it. Due to a variety of personal reasons I moved on, but if things don't work out with Rust I might be back. I really don't want to try to learn C++ again, I just don't enjoy it.
I mean you ask to see my private twitter posts and such (there's like 5 permissions iirc), when all you really need is to verify my identity.
The discussions these kind of submissions generate tend to get overly political. It's also hard to justify that every internet controversy is suitable content for HN - I think it's more likely that dang et al. allow the submission slide for a while out of "public interest" and to centralise comments on a single submission (before then dropping it off the front page).
I assume that China uses some TSMC chips. Though their “Made in China 2025” plan involves creating more of their own chips.
I guess the outrage is more that someone associated with both him and with her father (who was convicted of acting on those fantasies) was put into a moderation position at Reddit. And people were being banned for calling this out.
We just need a Terraform provider that maps provisioning to launching a Falcon-9, and deprovisioning to firing a photon torpedo at the satellite.
Have you seen the new feature where subreddit visitors get quizzed on whether or not a sub contains undesirable content?
The subreddits I frequent seem utterly unchanged. Reddit is a big place. I understand that people refer to some ambiguous cross-section of "Reddit" as a shared space we are all aware of and can generalize about. But I don't relate to that concept at all.
> the company had “communicated clearly” with the affected party as they resolved the situation

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/mbbm2c/welcome_...

It sounds like things are still very much opaque.
In Australia, and I concur. No one expects you to have OSS contributions and it's enough to have work experience.

Thank goodness. I didn't spend all these years working for it to be ignored in favour of a few hours a month patching people's shit for free. My work experience is also 9-5 week after week of solving real business problems, which can be messy and requires pragmatism. Just working on OSS doesn't prepare you for work, it's a great start, but OSS projects are often very clinical, perfectionist and academic. Work has messy business requirements, legacy code and the need to deliver good work in a timely manner.

If I had to start as a new developer again, I would still just do pet projects, not OSS. You can be very targeted in your demonstration of skill with a pet project intended to get you a job.
Not op, pretty sure referring to the site redesign. If you force to stay on the old design, yes, you noticed nothing different. But the new design, holy shit, unless you want a Facebook's take on imgur experience, it's unusable.
I've wondered this, too. When someone who isn't rich gets cancelled, did something legal, but egregious enough that they can't find a job, or had to "resign" because they oversaw an organization where something bad happens, how does this play out? Can they never find work again? Do they find work and are massively underpaid? In the US, relying on government support isn't really an option.

And that was for people who did something sort of bad. What about people like this woman who allegedly have very controversial opinions? What happens to cops who are fired after shooting someone? That, and what's the right thing to do? Are they unemployable? Does the government provide some sort of domestic political asylum payment?
Someone could make a super-strict android app store where developers must pay $X per year to be listed and every app update is closely vetted. Nobody can make an F-droid for non-jailbroken iPhones.
I miss humor and authenticity from old reddit the most. E.g. the classic: "I also choose this guy's dead wife." or the AMA with the vacuum repair guy.

These days just about any popular thread that I wander into, I see wide swaths of "deleted" comments. I'm sure they were deleted for many good and valid reasons.

IMHO, reddit's aggressive moderation suppresses spontaneous comments and is off putting to lurkers. The wittiest comments are likely spontaneous. And lurkers are not likely to engage in a discussion if they feel it may be off topic.

So we miss out on spontaneous humor and the random insights of brilliant people.

All of this makes reddit a sadder experience.