skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Junkie criminal” as if you knew him personally

I did not get that. Do I need to know him personally to know that he has junkie and a criminal?

> And to think the protests were about a single person

Sure protests were for all good and against all bad.

But there were too many posters about George Floyd and other black criminals, there was too many lies in crime statistics posted by left-wing media supporting these protests, so let's say these protesters were misinformed at best.

> clearly you don’t care enough to be informed.

Well, you have formed your opinion about what I know and what I don't (not the first time in this thread). It's not my job to convince you otherwise. Continue living in an imaginary world where everyone who disagree with you is literally nazi.

> I am of the opinion that you should not be on the side of nazis, ever.

Thank you for your opinion, but I'm not on the side of nazis. I'm on the side of freedom of speech and other human rights.

> Siding with people who want to take away the rights of everyone who doesn’t look like them is kind of a little hypocritical on your part

I'm not "siding" with these people. I try protect their rights and freedom as well as rights and freedoms of anyone else.

I'll try to explain the difference, but it is so obvious, so explanation might be hard.

There are two reasons: humanist and practical.

First, even serial killers and rapists deserve humane treatment, right to fair trial etc. Including free speech. Abandoning eye for an eye principle is also a great achievement of the western civilization.

Second, if society today decides it is acceptable to take speech rights from nazis, tomorrow it will decide it can take speech rights from communists, day after tomorrow you won't be able to talk freely. It happened too often throughout history, even in modern times, literally in the last decade (I'm not talking about the US, but it applies to the US to some degree).
However brain simulation isn't on a par with life extension. with brain simulation you still die. You're just replaced by something extremely similar to you with all your memories. There's a distinct break in continuity. At that point i can just create clones of my consciousness, the original consciousness does not want to stop existing.
"smarter" an "should" are key words.

Not everybody buys the best hardware in class. Most hardware is cheap Chinese garbage for which the only qualification is that it isn't bad enough to be brought down from Amazon.com.

Go explain your grandma or girlfriend why the charger they bought damaged their laptop irreparably.
What about MGM’s back catalog makes Apple TV+ qualitatively more compelling to your marginal subscriber? Versus say spending that same $8.5B on new content?

There’s not much “forward looking” IP of value tied to MGM except the Bond franchise, and it sounds like the Broccoli’s aren’t giving up control of that in this deal.
You might not know in advance which is a problem but it seems pretty trivial issue. Just test it and see if it works, if it doesn't return it and get a different one. Then repeat the process until you get the one you need.
if you are paying money for a gaming laptop, you probably aren't tolerating the teensy unidirectional laptop speakers, and have some serious cans on your head for gaming that mask the helicopter on your desk.
Could be the same timeline, but would still need a mostly new cast. Stargate SG-2 just doesn't have the same ring to it!
These are just little tremours before the eruption of public discontent once the reality of climate change sets in.

Once we have 100 million refugees because half of bangladesh is underwater, it will get urgly and all the fuckerage will come back to haunt them.
Django IRC Channels Migration to Libera.Chat
I've worked in what you could call "data science" consulting for about 6 years. I also know data scientists that work in-house in data centric businesses, and have some acquaintance with in-house data science groups in bigger traditional businesses.

In all honesty, almost all firms that are hiring consultants to do data science projects (based on the sample I've been exposed to) fall firmly into the situations the article describes. It's all about appearance and justifying existing decisions or plans, and even the suggestion of changing something swamped out of existence by the bureaucratic immune system of these orgs.

On the other hand, I see (especially in advertising but also e.g. fintech and others) cases where an internal data science team really does drive the agenda, and thing like AB testing are used for real in order to make changes that result in more money.

Lastly, the in-house team at a legacy company. Although I have less experience here, the ones I've seen closely mirror "innovation" or transformation groups that are supposed to come up with new initiatives or changes but inevitably are ignored because they have no links to operations.

So over all, the article resonated. As a data scientist , there is meaningful work at companies where data is closely linked to operations, mostly in "new" businesses. As a consultant, I find it interesting to understand legacy businesses and their data, and learn about what potential upside there is, even if I know they won't listen to me.
I just got lsp native set up last night, and I think it's great. It replaces a few manual steps and plugins that were necessary, and it seems to be pretty well integrated. I'm not sure about the performance or resource usage, but it feels pretty snappy.
Crypto currency chia blamed for HD’s shortage
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Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210524233617/https://thehackpo...
Exactly. They all emulate up to a point, and that point seems different with every emulator. Then slipping out of vi mode to do something specific to that editor/environment ruins the flow.
First of all, it should be regulated one level above, like not having Big Sugar/Corn syrup put into every single edible thing, to a point where the population is literally addicted and feels food without it bland. That is a crime against a whole nation.

Second of all, yeah, cheaper product at the expense of the consumer’s health is not an okay step. But yet again it is supposed to be the government’s job to blacklist some ingredients, mandate proper labeling of them, as well as the amount of energy/minerals contained.
Any recommendations today for hosted vpn?
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

Just so that you have the ability to fully ruin your day
In my opinion, the takeover happened for three reasons:

1. unclear ownership

2. the only official structure being a for-profit, with over 50% owned by a single person

3. lack of transparency

The first two are solved by being a non-profit with equal stakes from all staffers. The latter is a work in progress: https://github.com/Libera-Chat/libera-chat.github.io/issues/...
U.S. Officials Press for More Thorough Inquiry into Virus Origins
Thanks for making your configuration available, I want to try out Neovim because it's an exciting project and having carefully constructed configurations available as a starting point will make it easier. Your configuration doesn't look too long to me, my own Emacs configurations are much, much longer and not at all stable--every so often I declare Emacs bankruptcy and start over.

Now, some off-topic musings:

I switched to Emacs from vi in the 80's, and I put up with it for the many powerful packages it has. Lisp as a configuration language has served Emacs well for decades, but I've always been aware that it narrows the number of contributors to those that are comfortable with Lisp. Progress towards modernizing the Emacs extension language has been slow...and it will still be a Lisp like language (Scheme).

I'm rooting for Neovim and I'd like to see a project like this for Emacs that would modernize it's UI, UX and underlying extension language. This will likely never happen while I'm still programming. Imagine the difficulty of recreating just the org-mode package!
Wow. Who could have foreseen this? I suppose that's different from "Who could have stopped this?" Our economic problems are not easy ones to solve, but when trillions of dollars of are created out of thin air and distributed to the populace, you had to know this was coming.
Ah! I'm not sure he would really like the comparison with geohot.
why would they add benzene to products? how does adding it make it cheaper to increase profits? Its not like some shady benzene dealer pays J&J to sprinkle it in, but only at really low levels (2-6 ppm). Its not like they chose benzene as an active ingredient over zinc oxide.

Engineers are asked all the time on ways to save money. Did they skip a processing step? is their process control not optimized? Of course they are pressured to improve. Lower costs drive down consumer prices and increase profits (thanks 401k).

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9279...
Inflation is here, it will get worse, the Fed will surprise you by over-reacting with an unscheduled rate hike.

For some weird reason, HN threads on this topic are immediately flooded by comments trying to debunk inflation...I suppose even HN isn't shill-proof.
Awesome-public-datasets: A topic-centric list of open datasets
He still writes about this sort of stuff if anybody is curious: https://countercraft.substack.com/people/2796313-lincoln-mic...
TCP/IP stacks vulnerabilities are a wake-up call for embedded software
May be silly but I like to join slack channels of technologies or things I’m interested in and seeing the discussions in the advanced topics. Even if I don’t get it I can figure it out and learn.

It’s how I got into programming years ago (not on slack back then ha) and throughout since then to learn new stuff and make connections.
> Google has more than enough power and leverage to solve this problem.

Yep. They are using their power and leverage to stabilize the kernel driver interface so that this just stops being a problem.

> Literally just make it a requirement for Google Play services licensing or something.

Google already has enough trouble keeping manufacturers on Google Play without giving them even more incentive to develop alternatives like microG.

https://wccftech.com/oppo-vivo-xiaomi-and-huawei-band-togeth...

https://wccftech.com/huawei-executive-says-the-company-wont-...

Android really needs the chip makers more than the chip makers need Android.
So they don't have flu epidemics?
> I predict BRTFS or another "modern" filesystem like XFS will soon be supported out-of-the-box.

I've been using Linux with ext4 for quite some time. Am I missing out on something by not using BRTFS or XFS?
OK, call up the USB-IF and ask them a question. A simple question. When USB-PD was developed in the ancient year of 2014, was it truly unforeseeable that, you know, laptop GPUs use a lot of power, maybe we should support more than the arbitrary 100W number on this connector?
We went through a similar search recently. Part of the challenge is that the US rules are well behind Europe and Asia in terms of whats OK or not ingredient wise. With the new push toward reef friendly ingredients, it also complicates things. Physical barriers like Zinc generally offer reasonable UVB (this is the SPF rating) protection, but poor UVA (not sure there is a rating in US, but you'll see PA++++... on imports).

Ingredients approved in EU and Asia that offer solid UVA and UVB protections are not yet legal in the US [1]. So we get older 'less good' or 'less reef friendly' ingredients instead.

We ended up buying some imported from EU sunscreen. The US market formulation was actually different and lacked the UVA protection.

[1] https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/official-correspondence/co...
Apple and Microsoft's Surface had (does the Surface still have?) the perfect connector - the Magsafe. The more we dig into this power over USB-C garbage, the farther away we go from that perfection. The patent expiration cannot come soon enough, I seriously hope all portable device vendors bring it back.
Mind reading is a typical example of not seeking facts. You know the US was the lighthouse of education when I was in school? My teacher used the US as an example to show how important it is to be truth-seeking and to avoid logical fallacies like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Appeal_to_motive? Oh well, I guess attacking one's motive just serves all the progressives so well.
You can often fix it with `:syntax sync fromstart`, but Vim's syntax highlighting just keeps being a bit weird.
Forced diversity is one of the big issues with modern media. Instead of making an actually diverse character, yano, with human thoughts and feelings, they just tick some skin and gender boxes and leave it at that. It's just another form of stereotyping.
Most devices of meaningful value build in USB-C port protection parts specifically for this reason. Here's a popular one from NXP: https://www.nxp.com/products/power-management/load-switches/...
Capitalism requires constant expansion to function, largely by super-exploiting its periphery. Poor countries are kept poor in order to exploit cheap resources and labour, which enrich a few in the rich countries. Some crumbs are thrown to the workers of rich countries in order to prevent them from rebelling.

Millions die every year due to poverty, through lack of clean water, lack of food, disease, etc. Wars are also used to prevent the poor countries from rebelling, which kills people too. In many cases the two go together, like the starving of Yemen. The attacks against Iraq or Libya or Syria are also good examples. It only takes a few years to get to 100 million if you add all of that up.

It doesn’t look very good historically either. The slave trade was essential to the initial accumulation of capital. In settler colonies like the US or Australia or South Africa or Israel indigenous people have been displaced and killed. WW1 started over competition for colonies in the global south. Later on the invasions of Korea or Vietnam, etc.
> Shopkick, which produced the report, is a shopping rewards company. The company provides tracking to monitor consumer engagement along the path to purchase. The company has a pay for performance model.
>one employee one vote

So, the janitor has as much say as Elon on which rocket architecture they should be pursuing? Which projects to pursue and what timelines they should be pursued on? Sounds like the Janitor is under-qualified to have an opinion in this matter.

>you don't like democracy

Yup, see the above example for why democracy is a dumb idea. That's why in the US we don't have a democracy, we have a democratic republic. I know I am not qualified to vote on every issue, that's why i elect representatives to make those decisions for me. It's their full time job and is also why America is one of the greatest nations because we don't have a system like China.

> Being dumb doesn't mean you shouldn't have a seat at the (decision-making) table

Yes - That's exactly what it means. If you are not qualified to answer basic questions on the subject matter you should defer to people who are more versed in the matter than you are. You should have no right to argue on technical matters you don't understand.

>China is building a system like that

No they're not. They are building a totalitarian dictatorship in the form of an oligarchy.

Not everyone is equal. That idea is easily falsifiable. Some people are inherently more intelligent, can contribute effectively (Sometimes having an inordinate impact than their peers)to design issues.

one question; Should the sales guy who's brought in $2M in sales this quarter be paid the same as the guy who brought in 50k? Should they both be on equal footing in being able to decide the sales funnel? Should they both be Co-Owners, with no difference between them even though one guy is obviously much better than the other?
do those screens need to be 'thunderbolt' as well? or can they just take a usb-c connection (but ... not be thunderbolt?)

I have a 2019 MBP 15". Every 'dock' I've looked at seemed to indicate that "you will see mirrored screens on multiple displays" - which is not what I'd want.

Perhaps all of this is because I'm 'only' using a 2 year old MBP, and this is somehow all Apple's fault?

Would love to know what specific $100 thunderbolt 3 dock you have. It seems to be a confusing mess of half-information whenever I go to shop for stuff.
Surface still does have this connector, but can also charge from USB-C at reduced speed!
No, because they will keep adding features at the high end as the previous high end features get cheaper and new high end features become possible
Immunocompromised people always have been at risk and always will be at risk. The presence of one more endemic coronavirus doesn't really change anything. Other endemic coronaviruses already have a high fatality rate in that population. I don't mean to minimize your family member's situation but that's just medical reality.

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/223/9/1564/5899001
I want this same concept, except you have to learn vim commands to win battles
I love how the term "break up big tech" includes "break" in it. Kind of makes you realize what's really at stake here. Sure, you don't want monopolies, but is breaking US companies going to actually prevent monopolies, or are you just shifting the balance of power from US companies to Chinese companies? Because you sure as hell are not going to break those up - and Tik Tok has demonstrated what should be obvious: we are already neck-deep in the water trying to fend off Chinese companies from taking over the US market, and our competitive margin is only getting slimmer every day. A family member works a lot with Chinese companies and predicted this 13 years ago, and I remember laughing him out of the room. I am no longer laughing today, and I think most of us won't be with each passing day.
And every time I buy a new device and think I'll be able to use my existing USB-C cables I'm met with a new standard. Bought a new external GPU enclosure? My macbook charging cable wont work I need a 40gbps thunderbolt THREE(not 2) cable. Bought a new Oculus Quest? Neither my egpu or macbook cables work I need an $80 LINK cable.
They used to not allow gambling products, which required a specific license, but that restriction was removed from UE4 at some point in the past couple years.

On the other hand, Unity does still require a specific gambling license.
We've banned that site and changed the URL above to the article it ripped off and didn't link to, which is like 95th percentile blogspam shamelessness. In this case they even lifted the title as well. That clears 99.

Submitted URL was https://thehackposts.com/news/greenlands-ice-sheet-is-releas....

By the way, for anyone interested, an easy way to bust these is simply to pick a likely-unique string from the article you suspect of being a ripoff and google it with quotes around it. If there's a more original source, it will probably come up:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22It+is+a+region+that+conta...

Sometimes I have to do this a few times before hitting the jackpot, but in my experience: if content looks copied, it probably is.
I tried it on Firefox Android, the text I write doesn't appear until I close the keyboard or press space. It is also extremely slow, like 5 FPS slow, scrolling is painful and the ripple animation in buttons lags too much. Long press to select text doesn't work, double tap selects a single word but doesn't use the native selection that gives me two handles to select more text to the left or right, the navigation keys on the keyboard are all disabled and so are the select and copy buttons. Line splitting is a mess and not properly done, here's a screenshot of some of the issues https://i.imgur.com/ApHDGuQ.jpg
> I've officially banned the word "REST" from being used in technical discussions.

So if I want to refer to the architecture of that name described in Fielding’s Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, what is the approved circumlocution?
Yeah, geometry compression is definitely still a thing. The main reason is that the relative gap between compute speed and memory bandwidth is still growing. It's pretty common now to bump into situations where redundant computation is faster than reading saved results from memory. Compression is perhaps ironically or surprisingly getting more important as GPU perf increases...
It's important to note MGM went bankrupt not too long ago, they also sold a lot of their original releases to Warner Bros and others. To put this in perspective MGM is more and more just a shell company or just a brand that you use (by posting posters of James Bond franchise, which btw they only partially own) to lure in subscribers to your Amazon Prime service.
A lot of information has been released here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/RenderingFeatures/Na... and here https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/RenderingFeatures/Lu...

There is also a source code release if you want to dive into that level of detail: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/5.0.0...

I don't think the released details are that surprising to those working on realtime computer graphics, but the engineering details and tradeoffs are certainly interesting. Epic has the budget and business case to allocate a team, including some of the best graphics engineers in the industry, to do R&D for over a year to make this a reality.
The leaks say MagSafe is coming back on the MBP 14" and 16" laptops coming, possibly, at WWDC next month.
We've banned the originally submitted site as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27293941.
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First time that I've heard of this. I love this kind of writing hack - I used the Hemingway app for years when writing an opinion column to keep my sentences short, and my readers seemed to appreciate it.

Of course, the art lies in knowing when to break the rules for maximum effect. That's always fun :)
meh, it's a problem of their own making. I used to torrent tons of music. now that I can just buy unencumbered flac files (bandcamp) and stream the rest in good quality for a reasonable price, I don't torrent music. I have room in my budget for a $50/month or even $100/month service where I can stream any movie/show I want. I don't have room in my budget for 5-10 $10/month services where I have to keep track of who has what content and use a bunch of different UIs. it's not even about the money. it's that the paid service manages to be less convenient than VPN+NAS+plex.
It is free, but there is also a paid option. The free software has limits.

Dropbox is centralized (with some p2p for performance gains on local networks) whereas this is entirely p2p
Logic and emotions are almost diametrically opposed, as far as our intellectual understanding of them can be concerned.
zinc sunscreen rubs in if you keep rubbing. it takes longer, which i guess most people just shrug and give up and assume you are coated in white film, but you can in fact rub it in.
Yes! When I first came from Sublime 2 I thought Vim was irritatingly difficult but hoped it would be worth it. Now I wouldn't program without it.
Ask HN: Need ideas to deliver 5x growth in SaaS
we are a low code platform like retool, bubble for building web and mobile apps and tools.

Targeting SMBs in North America.

we are currently ~10k MRR; launched in mar 2019.

I am trying to solve the growth problem and my goal is to deliver 5x growth in NTM.

Some of our activities:
1) outbound SDR (not very suu
2) inbound, digital marketing (PR/Webinars/email marketing/etc)
3) channel building

some of the things we are working on to kick start:
1) developer advocacy program

Need to know what things we should be adding to help us grow north.

thanks in advance.