skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've certainly spent my time in hell of the "hell is other people" variety. I've spent my time there both in my youth before the internet took over the world and in recent years after it did.

Because of the internet, I've had friends -- real friends who were extremely important to me -- in Canada, in Guam and in the Middle East. They helped save my life and shape my character.

While largely housebound due to my health, the internet was how I had close relationships with people the world over without exposing me to their germs or them to mine.

I left my corporate job that was helping to kill me and slept in a tent for a few years while trying to figure out how to make a few bucks online. That helped save my life and helped me get healthier when there's not supposed to be any hope for me.

Once, my oldest son said to me "There's both good and evil in all things." I thought that was profound and life giving and eye opening.

I asked him where he learned such profound wisdom given his relative youth. He told me I taught him that. He learned it from me.

That was even more surprising. I didn't have any memory or awareness of having done any such thing.

I don't hate tech. I see tremendous untapped potential in it to build a better world and I flail about trying to figure out how to write about it knowing that I have no audience and I have no credibility and no one believes my story.

I start little blogs that peter out and go nowhere. I start little reddits that sometimes have me as the only member for ages.

And I'm sorry to hear that someone who likely de facto helped to save my life by being one of the cogs in the machine that built the tech that helped me live when, by all rights, I should have died is someone so bitter and disillusioned with the very thing I still find wondrous and life giving and a means to connect with people in spite of my incurable condition and compromised immune system.
Same. I previously used Ubuntu Mono, Consolas and Monaco for the most part, but once I customized Input to look just right for my tastes, I never looked back.
Pre-acquisition Red Hat was awfully excited about supporting proprietary software whose intended purpose is to kill people: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article213676919....

My point here is that you can always pick a partitioning and then backsolve ethical principles that support that partitioning. "If you work for a company that sells proprietary software, you're ineligible to be a leading voice in the free software movement" has never been a principle - otherwise IBM and Google would never have had a seat. "If you work for a company that makes software that can kill people, your ethics don't line up with ours" hasn't been a principle either - RMS in fact has advocated for multiple militaries to use free software, see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed... . (Garrett's employer, for what it's worth, makes software that kills people when it breaks, i.e., the better he does his job, the fewer people die. I don't think it's easy to claim that about a military!)

The only real established standard is that you advocate that free software is a matter of ethics/morality/liberty and not simply one of convenience, and as far as I can tell, all the coauthors do so.
Well, my point was that this article actively avoids answering that question.

From what I can see, yes, he does. He seems to take the position that children should be able consent to sex with adults, which fundamentally makes contributors less safe, and in my opinion is worthy of removing him from positions of leadership.

His comments (from
https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013844/https://stallman.... ):

> Due to the vagueness of the term "sexual assault" together with the dishonest law that labels sex with adolescents as "rape" even if they are willing, we cannot tell from this article what sort of acts Maraj was found to have committed. So we can't begin to judge whether those acts were wrong.

> I see at least three possibilities. Perhaps those acts really constituted rape — it is a possibility. Or perhaps the two had sex willingly, but her parents freaked out and demanded prosecution. Or, intermediate between those two, perhaps he pressured her into having sex, or got her drunk.

It is fundamentally dangerous to offer abusers the opportunity to claim it was all willing, which is why the law makes it always rape. If you choose to break that law, that's on you and you deserve to be treated as an abuser.

This position of regarding the ability to sleep with under-aged people as more important than defending under-aged people from abusers is one incompatible with keeping a community safe, in my opinion.
Probably got enclosed in a dyson sphere.
Hey HN!

I built this so you can easily create self-deleting blog posts, which can be easily shared in your whatsapp/messaging groups. This is useful when you don't want to directly post walls of text, and want others to be able to easily share what you posted to their other groups.
My last systemd mystery was nohup, tmux, etc, not being able to leave a process running. "Working as designed", sure, but it took a while for me to suspect systemd was involved and figure it out.

Is there a document somewhere that shows what the systemd team thinks is a functional boundary? What things they don't plan on replacing?
> H&M is a total failure in the Chinese market.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/252187/sales-of-the-hund...

I don't think that's a credible statement.
I'll dig it up and read it, thanks for the pointer.

I heard this from several Khmer acquaintances - they're fed up of Westerners coming to Cambodia and trying to enforce Western ideas of democracy and "freedom" on them. There are a shit-tonne of White Saviours running around Phnom Penh trying to "save" Cambodia, so I totally get this.

A home-grown idea of Cambodian democracy, from Khmer people who are actually interested in what Khmer democracy would look like, is a totally different thing. If that's what happened in South Korea, then that's fantastic.
The Coronavirus Vaccine: The Real Danger Is “Agenda ID2020”
Your ferrari analogy is just reduction to absurdity.

This is not about fairness it's about rule of law. You either accept that regulations and taxes exist for a reason and they therefore carry an upfront cost for anyone doing business. Or you accept that everything should be deregulated to avoid non-competitive business from bypassing those that are forking regulatory costs.

Regulate for everyone or regulate for no one but you can't have it both ways.
> these things need to be discussed not marked as irrelevant or inappropriate.

To be fair, "these things" are being discussed here every day, with lots of comments and no intent of suppression. Maybe some users are tired of seeing the same subject appear many times per day with no actual news, and they are flagging it as a form of protest. It would be still an inappropriate usage of flagging, but somewhat understandable.
I don't understand what can be so hard about "supporting" more countries? It's the internet. Anyone can access your servers. International credit card charging was invent decades ago. Take my money.
>If you copy & paste code, strip the license, claim it's your code, and sell it for money, we consider you the scum of the earth. That's just not something that decent people do.

Meh - I'd speculate it's a result of an underpaid coder with too much work - I've seen these kinds of projects before - people with connections in the public sector get the contract and then basically hire the lowest cost developers available.

> Just like a musician is expected to know that they need clearance for samples, or journalists know they need permission for publishing a photo, a programmer is expected to know that they need a license for reusing other people's code.

And yet those get violated all the time, even in big time publications and by big time artists.

I'm not defending the guy who did it - he did something wrong, but they corrected it and malice attributed to project seems misplaced.

On the flip side I think this could be handled better industry wide - like we already have security vulnerability scanning tools bundled with major code hosting platforms, they should probably figure out a way to do copyright infringement warnings .
Yeah, that would be probably smuggeling, with all the consequences. (probably a bribe in russia)
Why do you assume a throwaway?
IIRC Franz Kafka joked about Americans rolling through national parks in their automobiles in Amerika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(novel), which he wrote in the 1910s.
Trump launches new social website
Some companies are bigger than many sovereign countries, just saying
Also, most of the busiest places can be visited as a pretty quiet experience in their offseason.

I've had the Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, Yosemite, Sequoia and others as quiet, near-empty experiences in the past couple years...just showed up in mid-winter (and not on a holiday week).

-------------

Of course, doing that means: Spikes are a requirement for most hiking. The desert may not get feet of snow, but a couple inches of ice on your narrow trail is an issue. Scheduling flexibility is needed because snow/ice storms close roads at times, and fog/other weather can limit the views you're there for. Some places require snow tires and may require you to have chains.

Not every trail/trailhead is accessible, although in some cases different winter-only routes exist.

But, if you're looking for visiting the "bucket list" places without their usual crowds, it's worth considering.
No one doubts that it's useful for the people standing to make money off of this. I think the question was whether it was an invasion of the reader's privacy, who probably don't realize that the blog owner can now track their buying habits.
It’s definitely up for debate and since “use var everywhere” is the default ReSharper setting I suspect your preference is the minority position.
If this was flu, say, with a smaller k then you'd see a more normal exponential increase. With this it probably looked more like 1 person, 1 person, 1 person, 1 person, 1 person, 2 people, 30 people. Even absent protective measures most people who get Covid transmit to 1 person or nobody. But some spread it to dozens of others and a small number to hundreds.

I'd guess this is mostly driven by the orders of magnitude difference in peak viral load we see with SARS-CoV-2? But that's really something that needs research.
Support for Wayland is getting up there. Just five days ago the bounty to support Wayland in Barrier was funded [1]

[1] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109#issuecomment...
I think the idea is that that did happen, but it happened in a lab for studying bat viruses, rather than in a cave. SARS-1 escaped from labs numerous times.
Does it matter that the tip is given after the service insteaf of before? My kids yoga teacher has a "pay what you can or what it is worth to you" scale so disadvantaged kids can come. I think of tips kind of like that.
Mullvad provides both OpenVPN and Wireguard.
I think you have unrealistic expectations of applications developed for public sector - I'm usually surprised if they do core of intended functionality correctly.
Non-profits rely on donations as a revenue source. As opposed to investment, nothing is given in return. Not sure how you can compare that with VC cash or even loans.
> Only during the transition, when all is said and done there are no other identifiers of merit, and since this one can change pretty frequently it doesn't really identify much.

As long as browser fingerprinting exists it will be possible to track the FLoC cohorts a person belongs to over time and learn much more about them than a single FLoC cohort reveals.

But AFAIK, FLoC is only replacing third-party cookies; browser fingerprinting will still be possible.
30% chance for a pandemic not necessarily this pandemic. Assuming they are correct the outbreak could have easily been noticed in a different city for example.
A friend who's a fixed wing pilot uses to joke that helicopters hover because they are so ugly the Earth is repulsed by them, and that generates lift.

I see this plane must have more lift than a U2.
For example, some Django projects implement only a REST interface. Since those projects don't rely on HTML templates, they don't likely incur any runtime costs from Django's template modules.

In effect, you can choose which parts of the Django project you import. The parts you don't import aren't likely to get in your way. I think this is generally true for modular software.
I think living thru transitions helps provide perspective.

I'm casually rereading the media and technology critics. McLuhan, Postman, Chomsky, Shirky, Orwell, others. It's kind of amazing how prescient some of their observations were.

Thanks for the Ellul tip. Will read.
Covid vaccine: EU regulators approve Johnson and Johnson
"cape cod for tourists who want to pretend they're not like all the other tourists."
"Being its own software" is sort of meaningless.

It's Mozilla white labeling an anonymous VPN service (ie, we don't know who runs it).
Kottke's article[0] is in 2008, after Fight Club's release in 1999, so you may be right, he probably lifted it from Fight Club. You can always email him to confirm!

[0] https://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites
The source says "the overwhelming majority of unintended stalls occur on personal flights in day visual meterological conditions (VMC) under light winds". And the commercial flights are mostly part 137 (aerial application like agriculture and fire fighting).

So to add context, stalls under commercial part 135 flights are extremely rare and even less fatal. There's almost always some other compounding issue that led to the stall instead of just basic flight maneuvering.
I'm a little confused about this point. The website had a random timer, and was then opening a tab in the background?

I thought that modern browsers required a direct user-interaction to cause a new tab to appear, such as a click. I thought this was how we got out of the pop-up hell of the 90s?
EfficientDynamoDb: High Performance DynamoDb Library
When you don’t plan for the worst but the worst happens anyway
> Eh, you need to revisit your history lessons. There was plenty of cancel culture against blacks and there was also A LOT of violence used against them when the black protested against it and against their treatment.

Certainly, but supporters of the movement were not cancelled simply by association.

This movement is literally trying to silence anyone who even associates with their target.
What does this particular glyph mean? It looks more like a whole word.
While you held the ETF you would be paying income taxes on the dividends at your marginal rates. If the kid holds it in a UTMA some of those dividends would likely be taxed at the lower kiddie bracket.

Agreed, the step up at death on the cost basis would be advantageous but then you have to be dead.
CCP is hiding some raw data.

Most likely they tried to cover it up and that led to it spreading more and around the world. If there was a true investigation, it would go up to upper/mid levels in the CCP and show how corrupt they were. In Asian cultures, saving face is everything.
You said it perfectly. It is surprising to see so many people coming to the defense of poor pitifual Apple, the richest company in the world. They have little reservation over doing business with vile regimes to squeeze a few more pennies per unit out of an iPhone. Then they buck dance for every social cause under the sun back home. Hypocrites.
A Gamma-Ray Burst Just Revealed a 'Goldilocks' Black Hole in the Early Universe
No no. I meant that the effective cost of a ride (paying contractor + tech costs + employee costs + marketing per ride) is $1 a mile, but they give a discount that makes it effectively $0.9 a mile, and doing this on scale is effectively making them run operations at a loss unless they have market monopoly. Even a duopoly situation is unfavorable for them.
Fairphone + LineageOS might be a good option
>>"we don't know who runs it"

I thought it's owner regularly comments / joins in on hacker news... I didn't feel like I don't know who's running it?

Edit : quick search turns two very relevant posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24169684

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23567530
"though it kind of does"

It absolutely does not, and this has been understood throughout my entire time contributing to free software and participating in the movement. You can't just create purity tests for free software as a convenient way to demonize people when there's literally decades of core contributors and champions who'd then fall in this brand new exclusion zone.
This isn't an attitude, it's a response to the reality that intermediate consequences are never implemented. Solve that problem and you'll solve this cancel culture stuff people are complaining about.
I use the non-monospaced version (Input Sans) in every editor I work with. A lot of you might consider it heresy to do so, but I would highly recommend you to try out. Unless you are trying to align tokens on the same line with spaces or create ASCII art, it doesn't interfere. And the readability is massively improved.
93 Percent of Fortune 500 Have Domains with Security Risks
Oh it most certainly simplifies things. I am looking at half the number of boxes needed to run. Which is not insignificant in my cost structure.

What is the migration strategy here? Is it doc'd up yet? I am having flashbacks to migration for follower partitions recently which required a decent amount of pre planning of partition layout.

Also as it is pulling in the duties of ZK into kafka what sort of CPU/memory changes are you seeing? Is it 'meh' or all the way to 'you may want to add a couple of CPUs and a few more GB'? Also is it working ok with the stretched cluster?

Also if you want to hit an interesting market you may want to look at 'does it run OK on a raspberry PI'.
Pretty much what happened to the left with the Occupy Wallstreet movement and all, isn't it?
Maybe link to the source? https://awards.acm.org/about/2020-turing
Thanks for pointing this out, I had forgotten this! Yeah, Red Hat has been rotten for a long time. I don't like it; I think it's been a terrible company for many years; but I do think it's never released non-free software, which was the bit I am mostly concerned about on this particular topic.

I do agree that they have no real moral ground to stand on. Forgive me for pointing this out, but given they're one of the organizations that signed the letter... (Though they sort of have more casus belli to than most that signed the letter.)

Seriously, though, thank you for pointing this out! I really genuinely appreciate it (and also appreciate that you're civil here).

Ah, you stealth-edited; give me a second to read that one.

> otherwise IBM and Google would never have had a seat.

Google has never had a seat at anything other than OSI, and IBM only purchased one.

> "If you work for a company that makes software that can kill people, your ethics don't line up with ours" hasn't been a principle either -

Obviously didn't claim this. I pointed out Garrett worked for a proprietary software company that made proprietary software that kills people. Specifically, I noted that this was worse than normal proprietary software, because if you're going to have the lives of others in your hands, they should at least know the rulebook you're playing by.

> RMS in fact has advocated for multiple militaries to use free software

This is consistent with everything else I've said. I personally dislike militarized forces to the point of being skeptical of most veterans, but proprietary software doesn't make sense for a military any more than using American bombs would make sense for North Korea.
Probably most “research” labs are fuses, the smoldering part is tougher.
Physical size might be sufficient if you are holding a paper up to the monitor but for most uses what matters is the apparent size to the user, which would also need to take the viewing distance into account.
I think doctors at outbreaks like this are at much higher risk of death than the average person due to stress and a much higher viral load than normal. Medical professionals only start to use protective gear after they realized how dangerous a disease is. Before that their spending significant time around highly infectious people in inclosed spaces while under extreme stress.

Wuhan lost a significant number of medical professionals presumably due to this.
No, you'd go to jail for tampering with their electric meter.
It's even worse when you consider that in a very real way, the differences in these platforms largely exist to moat themselves.

Apple creates their own programming languages then implements proprietary frameworks inside these languages.

So you have developers that really have to specialize in doing that kind of development if you want to do native. So you have an "iOS" team and an "Android" team all to deliver the same thing as your web app but on locked down proprietary devices. It really only serves the phone vendors themselves.

But I think React Native/Electron have done a decent job at solving this problem as much as it can be solved. It's important to acknowledge that web standards for html/JS really still aren't geared towards creating fully interactive applications. A lot of what exists is hacks. So I don't think you can fully lay the blame at companies for not wanting to build their platforms entirely on web technologies.
Zoonotic coronavirus infections from bats are pretty common in south east Asia when scientists have done antibody surveys of villagers. Most of those probably aren't well suited to human to human transmission. And if a virus spreads to infect everybody in a village and herd immunity is reached that's the end of that. But as commerce increases we're going to have to worry about taking more preventative measures.
Reminder of Tim Cook’s twitter bio[1]:

> “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'” - MLK

Maybe he should read it more often.

[1]: https://twitter.com/tim_cook
I fail to see a convincing argument here. The "px" unit has a well-defined relation to devicePixelRatio and works predictably across many devices.

> It doesn't matter if your fonts are bigger on Mac or Windows. It is intentional that platforms can size their fonts differently, and your interface designs should take that into account.

You're going to mess this up, guaranteed. I see it all the time. Font size strongly relates the sizing of all your other interface elements, which are naturally defined in logical pixels (or "px"). You can't design your way around that.
Thats why he said many not all.
None of those steps changes the fact that unions have innate interests in having more members.
The Stuck Container Ship on the Suez Canal Was a Metaphor
While I agree with the essence of your comment, I find the statement "Clearly Stallman did some completely unacceptable things and that can't go unpunished" is questionable. First, it's not "clearly", because the main argument (that he was defending Epstein) is false. Second, as to "unacceptable", it depends to who and when - certain things that were acceptable 20 years ago are unthinkable now. Third, as for "can't go unpunished" - again, the question is who should judge the guilt and who is going to pass sentence.
Deep Learning Powers Up Microbiology Labs for Faster, More Accurate Results
You can. I do it: hdmi wireless is a thing ! Just plug it. I have used one with dual input and repeater (outputs what is selected as input).
When I look at the prices for recurring preventive health measures in dental, I don't think this is 100% true.
If you as a company, like Mozilla, pushes for deplatforming and similar anti-freespeech measures, demand for VPN services will definitely increase. So congrats on your new VPN service, Mozilla, and hats off to the 4D chess players at the marketing division.