skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be bad to have the CDC, the WHO, and political figures apologize for the environment of misinformation and division they enabled (and possibly created) through these means?

I feel like a given citizenry can tolerate in-the-moment-incompetence, but they expect to be validated later in turn, and not just in the history books.
open source projects that want public funding should do stuff like that in the open. and record it.
> But that only applies to targets who are "in the game."

The problem is that any entity in a nation that you're aggressive with can be "in the game". You can steal IP from foreign companies, damage foreign infrastructure, and find the personal data of high-value persons in the datasets of otherwise "boring" companies.
Isn't this expected? The "real world" is heavily regulated but the internet is open and free (not always in a good way).

It makes it really difficult to deal with crime, cyber warfare, and illicit content. We need "something."
"Industry critique" fills virtually every HN thread. With suppression like that, who needs amplifiers?

Most people who see a moderation decision they dislike leap straight to the idea that the moderators secretly hold $VIEW, ignoring (or not noticing) all the moderation decisions going the opposite way. In reality, we just don't care—
I don't have words to describe how profoundly we don't care about commenter opinions. All that was sandblasted out of my brain years ago. The weariness that arises at the thought of caring about commenter opinions is enough to make me want to lie on the floor for a week.

The only thing I care about is trying to prevent this place from plunging to the bottom of the internet barrel, and that only because it's my job. That's the true answer, by the way, to all the accusations of $BIAS that people fire from all directions every day: existential weariness has destroyed the ability to care. It turns out that's a decent proxy for neutrality. Not perfect, of course, but enough as a first pass filter.
Agree - the idea that R v. D alone has serious explanatory power is silly. It's naive to think that money does not have the greater effect on politics than the converse. This is a power issue not an issue that arises out of political planks of ideology.
They does seem to do the trick. I’m ok with using a service like that to find a phone, but to utilize the devices of others (while a noble idea) creeps too far into the scary for me.
Nice to see that it's not just another VS Code spin off. They seem to be finding a nice middle ground between the very basic Arduino 1 IDE, and an over-complicated all-in IDE.

Plus, debugging, woo!
I stand on the position that hierarchy is innate to human beings.

im not sure, but isnt he conflating "division of labor is necessary for well-functioning projects/teams" and "human nature" ??

maybe im missing something...
I remember when Microsoft had its dominant position with Windows[0] in the late 1990s; sentiments along the lines of "this sucks, but we're stuck with it" were common. I do not hear that sentiment from Apple users often today. Even when they have complaints, they typically like the hardware and/or software better than alternatives to which they have been exposed.

In case that seems like something a fanboy would write, I should clarify that I am not an Apple user, nor do I have any desire to buy Apple products (though I do hope somebody else manages to build a fast, cool-running ARM laptop soon).

[0] Windows still has a very high market share for desktop operating systems, but there's much less lock-in for most users.
Mirror/archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210511210021/https://blog.ardu...
Those are orthogonal. Whether a policy is reasonable or not does note necessarily relate to whether it was achieved through corruption.

Corruption is about why, not about the outcome. It's possible for a policy to be enacted through corruption that is good, and it's possible for a bad policy to be enacted with no corruption at all.

While corruption often leads to bad policies and outcomes, what this actually means is that you can't point to a bad policy and know it was bad because of corruption any more than you can point to a good policy and know it's good because of lack of corruption.
That, my friend, is called a privilege and a filter bubble.

I envy you how you have no idea how many devs are almost literal slaves. Not me, but I know plenty.
Challenge accepted! I'll order one and post a pic of an airtag hidden in my dog's dog collar if you post one of a GPS tracker hidden in your dog's collar. We'll then compare which one is not even noticeable and which one is a giant block hanging off your dog's neck. Deal?
Loving the slice feature. Able to make some nice rolls.
There is lots of potential. I'm working on a startup idea around Cloudflare at the moment.

Here is something that can help with Cloudflare horrible tooling: Use wasm/Rust. You'll be able to compile and run most of your code locally, and then when you deploy you have more odds of your code not bugging on the cloud.
Ha, hard to please! I guess building and executing a billion dollar company on those exact words isn’t enough for you.

I agree the journey probably wasn’t as 0 or 1 as my comment makes it seem.

But in all seriousness, it’s okay to relax a little, not to be negative, and concede some things to be inspired.
>[KRACK] easy to exploit in a lab but very hard to exploit in practice

How so? Even I have done it (on my own AP). Unless you own a big property that the WiFi signal cannot reach outside it's as easy as pressing GO in one of the hundreds of script kiddie tools.
You also need to trust that your criminal middleman with $100M doesn't just abscond with your money.

With cryptocurrency when its in your wallet, its yours, and the risk of relying on a 3rd party to transport your ill gotten gains is much lower.
I prefer a race to the bottom rather than a race to the top.
Actually it would be much better if they just invested in VSCode for that.
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Submitted link is incorrect, just a link to Youtube. The correct link seems to be this one, and is starting in 50 minutes, at 4pm Mountain Time, FYI. https://youtu.be/suARFQUhq60
Very cool. How about a shuffle/swing mode?
>sanctity in something that is 'published'

I'm not quite in my 30s yet but "published" in general vs "published by a specific publisher" (like O'rielly) seems really odd, especially after some of the absolute garbage we were forced to buy in college.
Any social network tied to Donald Trump's name would be a PR disaster because you'd end up with a ton of trolls on it and every controversial post, big or small, serious or not, would be something his opponents would demand he disavow. But strict moderation would also defeat the purpose of the site and alienate his base. So I think the ultimate choice was to have a social network of one person - a blog page on his website. And that's his "platform" now.
What possible advantage do subscriptions have for users over license upgrades? The incentives of license upgrades are much more tuned towards developers adding meaningful features, and also more tuned towards developers finishing development on a product when it is mature. Beyond that, license upgrades allow users to actually keep what they have paid for.

I'm convinced a major reason Adobe made the switch to a cloud subscription was because they recognized their products were maturing and the window was closing on locking in recurring revenue before the licensed product was so mature there would be little incentive for users to subscribe.
Thanks! Aly described most of this in a post below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27119947

The scalability our volunteer training effort is definitely something we're actively working on figuring out. We're trying out peer mentoring between volunteers and that has gone really well.

It's also a major reason we are chat/whiteboard only.
Right, quantum jumps as used here is actually a specific technical term. It seems like the parent comment takes it to be a lay analogy, but it’s from a formulation called quantum trajectory theory [1]. Rather, the result is about the electrons in an atom jumping between energy levels and experimentally observing a continuous evolution.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Trajectory_Theory
As Poincaré said a while ago:

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful;
he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because
it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and
if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

On a separate note, Arabidopsis isn't that pretty yet it has been The Model System in plant science for years..
Smart home alliance from Apple, Amazon, and Google called Matter
It's a very hot political topic; but I made this submission about footage of the rockets not what happening on the ground.
> Facebook’s WhatsApp unit called Caspar’s claims “wrong” and said the order won’t stop the roll-out of the new terms.

I don't understand how Facebook says this order will not stop the roll-out. Are they implying that the authority has no power to implement/enforce the ban?
Yep. Anyone who's spent more than five minutes watching an anthill should understand that more or less intuitively.

We're just bigger ants, is all.
As someone who has spent a lot of time programming Arduino I welcome this new IDE. IMO the thing that has always held back Arduino was the programming interface and the lack of tooling to write correct code. This is super important since this is targeted at students who will shoot themselves in the foot when they forget a letter in a function and they have to wade through gcc error codes.

The arduino CLI is always very much welcome.

It's sad that this is all coming out in 2021, rather than 2014 when Arduino was on a fast adoption trajectory. I feel that the lack of good IDE/tooling really hurt the adoption rate.
1. I suspect that you don't realize that Taiwan is a (to
many) surprisingly first-world place. "environmental and human rights externalities" is not a very large issue in this context. It's not like mainland China/PRC.

2. I think both e.g. US and EU should have their own chip-manufacturing infrastructure. We need more robustness at a global scale in this area.

3. Taiwan needs (and deserves) US/EU support. TSMC has turned into a geopolitical play - it seems like Taiwan feels like they need it to avoid a PRC invasion.
Not sure where your assumptions about HN are coming from but there's plenty of us around here who don't know the dynamics of being a shareholder simply because we are almost always at the bottom of the food chain.

Or do you think HN is an exclusive forum for actual business owners and shareholders?
I would like to know as well. Depending on the size of the company it may be easier to get special treatment. We’ve heard from top-down that we need to be back in the office and there’s been no special treatment given other than some allusions to a hybrid workweek compromise. The only way I think it would be possible at a large company would be to engage in some sort of wfh soft-strike collectively. With enough employees, leadership will listen. I think that if you don’t organize you’ll have to go along with the rest of the company. This is of course something dangerous to even discuss if you value your job.

On an individual level, JP Morgan will not let even their top employees wfh just because it will weaken their stance.
> Doesn't it just mean that the meaning of the word has changed?

...I do feel a bit bad amount mentioning it, because it's pretty tangential to what the article is actually about. That said: Changes in meanings of words often go hand-in-hand with broad-based changes in the way people think about something, and it's useful to reflect on whether or not one wants to go along with that thinking.

There is even a bit of a clichee anyway around sciency-engineeringy folk falling within the "obsessive" range of the personality spectrum in the very original sense of the word where it might be something that a psychotherapist might work on to try and rectify. So when I see it in this particular sphere being attached to a positive value judgment and even with slightly prescriptivist overtones, then it's something that to me really "pops" and it's been happening to me more and more lately.
All of the new items are in "core", e.g. https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/convert/trait.TryInto.html
I always recommend either assembly, as it is the root of everything. Kind of like learning to build your own computer. After that even micro code.

Or I am a fan of LISP as it is a completely different way of thinking.
Some people have been working with Photoshop for decades, it's integrated into industry wide workflows. For me some complex 4-key shortcuts (the legacy save for web claw) are second nature. It's the devil we know very very well.
The Demise of the Nation State (2018)
They’d use something visible or their process is borked and not transparent and not welcoming to new users.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a listserv, or an IRC channel, or a GitHub issue. But it does matter if the collaborations are invisible to the team and to others on the project.

It’s their project so they are welcome to organize as they wish, but for a healthy open source project, I think having some collaboration method where newcomers can understand all the meaningful and helpful discussions is a good thing.

If a super awesome person is doing 1:1 calls/DMs/Emails all the time, that’s going to be tough to maintain. Not to mention a pain for any work where it’s multiple people collaborating and coordinating a changes that impact each other.
I'm not an unequivocal fan of cryptocurrencies or any particular cryptocurrency by any means, but it appears this author really hates cryptocurrency and this is just an opportunity for them to argue that governments should ban cryptocurrency. Which is completely understandable and obviously in good faith given ransomware is bad and they think cryptocurrencies are bad, but I just wanted to point out their stance and that this is an anti-cryptocurrency blog rather than a security/tech blog.

Every blog post they've ever published is about why they think cryptocurrency is awful: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html

>The Oncoming Ransomware Storm - May 11, 2021

>Et tu, Signal? - April 7, 2021

>The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban - March 30, 2021

>Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi - February 27, 2021

>The Crypto Chernobyl - February 10, 2021

>Gamestop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage - February 3, 2021

>Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound - November 2, 2019

I think they make many valid criticisms, but they remind me of the inverse of the standard Bitcoin maximalist. It seems there are a lot of people who think Bitcoin or Ethereum or something else should become the universal currency of the world and is the best and most innovative thing ever, and a lot of other people who think they should all be made illegal and are the worst thing ever. Also somewhat reminiscent of pg's fanboy/hater dichotomy: http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
"Illegal" and "without legal ramifications" are very different things...

Or, as I tell my kids: "Just because you're right doesn't mean you won't go bankrupt proving it in a court of law."
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A noble sentiment but I found that nothing polarises opinion quite as much as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Technology aside, it's a terribly sad situation with no easy solution in sight.

...and to play devil's advocate: if I'd chose a place to have a "political" discussion, I guess HN would be the place, since the level of debate is a cut above the rest, and the comments often well informed and eloquent.
How about this article, titled "The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban"?
https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/banbitcoin.html

The author is extremely prolific and vocal about his support for outright banning cryptocurrency. It's all over his blog, it's all over his Twitter. He is proud to admit it. It could have taken you 30 seconds to verify what I was saying, but instead you chose to double down on your ignorance.
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It's based off of Theia, so isn't it another VSCode spin off?
I'm a little more optimistic in that I think decentralized networks will disrupt all these centralized monopolies (ex: imagine a social network where you own your data and can access it through various frontends, rather than one company owning it all). Hopefully, all the rewards will also get re-distributed back to participants in the network rather than one entity.

People are starting to realize what happens when a central entity can just "cancel" you and as that keeps happening more often (ex: youtubers getting de-monetized, people getting locked out of their google accounts, Trump twitter cancellation, etc), people will be pushed to these un-censorable decentralized alternatives.
Depends, if I get something delivered, the sales tax can be based on my home, but if I pick it up it's based on the seller's location.
And if they run it through a coin washer?

https://bitcoinlaundry.online/en/index.htm
Is it possible to use entanglement for communication? I could be incorrect, but I vaguely recall reading that researchers were pursuing it a while ago. Even if it's just information, being able to communicate faster than light would be neat and have some big implications. But in the article, it sounds like it's not instantaneous.. so if it's faster than light, but not instantaneous, that sounds like some kind of new speed limit?
Duncan McGreggor: Erlang Music Systems Programming with Lisp (Live)
How Does a Dry-Aging Cabinet/Salt Chamber Work?
Threaten to leave and leave if they force the issue.
Plenty of places where everybody gets the same raise and no bonuses each year especially outside of tech companies. My parents both worked for the government. Their raises were entirely based on multi year schedules in the contract the union had negotiated. E.g., everyone gets n% raise on year 1, m% on year two; once you have n years of tenure, you get an extra m%
There is - on one occasion a submission of mine had the capitalization automatically changed (incorrectly as it happens). I don't know if this is what happened to you, but it seems likely.
How so? Seems it's spot on. Since the birth of the internet companies haven't given a damn about leaks and there're no real consequences. Now they care because it hurts them instead of just us.
German Regulator Bans Facebook from Collecting WhatsApp Data
Been looking into it. Looks like it's an old safari issue related to Media Recorder (for downloading your sequence.) I'll play around to make sure the ux is right regarding this bug.
What a mess. The fact that SASS is the defacto choice over LESS feels like VHS beating BetaMax all over again. @extends doesn’t work as you’d expect if you come from a traditional programming language. Setting default values and overrides is completely backwards. The syntax is longer. And in the early days One had to have Ruby set up and running the exact version for each project or nothing worked right. Node-sass was a saving grace. Now a port to dart offers these two new commands that are completely unnecessary in any project I’ve ever worked on.

LESS can do everything SASS can do and supports plugins for additional functionality. It’s massively more intuitive and still actively developed. I just wish it had broader adoption.
The State vs. Instagram for Kids
> what's the difference between it having discoverable sexual content after you download and install it, and Reddit in the Apple Store have the exact same thing?

Because they're working practically as I described. It's very clear how they operate on this front.

It's like Twitter saying they treat everyone fairly. Sure Jack Dorsey says that on interviews and cross-examination but as a practice Twitter certainly doesn't [1].

[1] Maybe they do, but my point isn't about Twitter specifically but how these large organizations act.
Thanks a lot, I resubmitted as I can’t edit the link anymore.
> The games industry also has lots of good examples of creating new works using existing ideas without violating copyright.

Games are interesting because games copy each other incessantly but almost never sue over copyright.

The actual source code and art would clearly fall under copyright, but not the gameplay. So when PUBG discovered the popular battle royale genre, everyone rushed to copy it and now we have Fortnite, Apex Legends, Call of Duty Battle Royale, etc. When Dota was popular, it spawned tons of clones. Minecraft spawned tons of clones. In some cases where the clones are too similar, the original creator may have legal grounds for suing, but they seldom do so.

Short of blatantly stealing assets from another game, it's hard to get in trouble over another game's copyright.
> we’ve seen the entire NHS hospital service shutdown

We have? As an NHS user, how did I miss this this?
They incorrectly assumed (like much of the media) that this update was about sharing data of personal messages with Facebook, when it is in fact not.
What a strange construct.

The article is about war by an Army associated with war crimes.

Let's keep it relevant to the article and discuss said army.
If your argument is that "the iPad is great for puppeting other machines to develop with", I'd honestly rather just carry around a laptop.
It's amazing sometimes to see how much modern software compiles and runs without fuss on UltraSPARC systems. Projects like LLVM still include UltraSPARC, even if Solaris on UltraSPARC isn't horribly popular these days.

The number of packages for NetBSD on UltraSPARC is huge:

http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/9.0...

And while you wouldn't want to run stuff like Rust on a machine with 192 megs of memory, it's impressive that you can run Rust on a machine from 1995.
It's funny how the ability to swipe around has me putting odd rolls in places I wouldn't think to as a drummer. Glad you like it.
Fauci must answer for his role in Wuhan’s Covid lab
I guess you can't work for Amazon then.

You'll never get passed the Customer Obsession LP
What Is Preston Model?
They still pay the annual property tax but avoid the real estate transfer tax and the speculative tax, which can be 5-10 years worth of the property tax.
"Although the coronavirus pandemic derailed plans and typical course credit could not be offered, students signed up for the excursion anyway."

Kudos to these volunteers!
I don't know if that's the sole reason that smaller mills have been going out of business... As far as I know - we've had a massive amount of consolidation in mills under a few major corporations. (Same as anything, really) I agree with exporting whole logs as that seems very wasteful.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the reason boutique mills can't buy logs as easily is because there are contractual agreements with larger suppliers. That isn't really anything new in any industry... guess you need the government to step in to prevent that.
But that's exactly what makes you different, according to the medical literature. Normal people deal with their personality quirks without thinking about it. That's what makes them normal. With you, it required an act of willpower. Just like, if normal people wanted to innovate, it would require an act of willpower on their part; whereas for you, you've been doing it your whole life.
> This is of course something dangerous to even discuss if you value your job.

If you cannot even talk about your work environment, that must be quite the dystopian workplace. Most decent places I've worked, that is one of the most common topics when talking to your boss. Maybe those talks don't go anywhere, but if it is a taboo topic, it might be better to work elsewhere.