skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is though. Imagine if every online forum was forced to promote government propaganda. That's not free speech. So to some degree, forum discretion is speech.
It’s looking likely that the EU will force them to add other stores. Don’t know whether that’ll apply to the US if they do.

Also the EU isn’t in Apple’s top 3 priority markets, so we’ll see.
Now the negotiations start -- which means FAANG paying off, and playing one off the other, each party to water down the actual legislation. If they manage to get this passed and signed, politicians get to claim "bipartisanship" (or not), FAANG will get the regulatory capture they're seeking, and the media will convince the public that everything has been done in the public's best interests.
It can be tough no doubt. I like to view it as the cost of being the kind of person who helps. It takes an excess of strength to help, so you can see yourself as being strong because of that. You have an excess of capability in some dimension and you're willing to share it. Sometimes a person may take advantage of you, but that's a commentary on them, not on you.
It's really fascinating to me as well that a lot of men would be that way. I understand "why" but for myself personally I can entertain my own thoughts alone for an extended period time. I've always been that way since I was young so the thought of shocking yourself because you're bored with your own thoughts still is an odd concept to me. How can you despise your own inner monologue that much? Is introspection really that unmasculine of a task to some men? Many people to me seem so focused on the present and engaging without considering possible outcomes before acting. It's one facet of humanity I still don't understand outside of justifying that it's another irrational thing humans do for the sake of irrationality.
That is going with the times then. Feels like covid politics. So why arent people loving Lee for what they do? After all, "shut up and comply" is the new wave of democratics.
I don’t know much of the field of rationality, yet I can’t help but think that you confirm my idea that rationality is subjective. You determine rationality based on probability, so essentially when you’re saying something is irrational, you mean it is improbable (or in your words realistic).

Taken further, is it not then irrational to think that the earth arose out of absolute nothingness, to become the perfectly aligned world we know? Is this realistic? Is this probable? (Not saying the alternative is necessarily more probable, just asking)

As to your default sentence you might want to look into the discipline of Harmatiology (the doctrine of sin), for you do not understand the commonly held view of Christians on this point.
Maybe if the SEC came down on every VC who "unintentionally" pump-and-dumps crypto...
I had a job where I worked in a cubical next to the main door, unfortunately also next to the head of engineering's office. I actually got in trouble with him because I would frequently walk by* and also a lot of people would talk to me as they hung around the area (literally the water cooler...). The experience completely soured me on the whole company, and as soon as I could I found a remote working job and am much happier now!

*after I was told I walked around too much I kept an internal record of every time I left my desk and for what reason. It turns out, the main reasons I walked by was 1) meetings, 2) lab work, and 3) bathroom. I was hoping he would bring it up again so I could show him the Excel sheet!
Can you describe the kind of work?

This is exactly the experience we are having, especially on new projects.

I’m starting to wonder if this is a high/low tech issue - maybe WFH works great for tasks that are common but not particularly challenging technically. I can tell you point blank that ASIC, systems, etc. work WFH is super broken when people can’t get face to face on a whiteboard or otherwise.
And you wonder why Ford stopped making cars and switched to only trucks (except for 2 models)
I'm not convinced. I'd love a Linux phone but there must be some standard that ensures apps are easy to develop and the apps must grow significantly for this to catch on. Otherwise it'll be just like Linux on the desktop. It'll become a mess of 15 different standards and apps devs will not bother with that.

I really hope it'll work out, but we'll see.
Bullshit. We have the same anti-trust power over foreign companies operating in America. We've never used it because we've never needed to. For the companies that don't operate in America, but import into America, we can and regularly do impose import restrictions and quotas.
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What the hell happened to Slashdot? I was on it from 1997 until about 2010ish, and now it is pretty ugly.

I think /. cratered due to poor moderation. It's just toxic. Digg is now like Axios for people who think link I do, so I check it daily. And reddit is, well, since the Digg/Reddit wars, its just become all-consuming and too noisy for me.

I'm guessing HN has remained civil because paid mods--who strive to be objective--really do make a difference.
Mentioned on an earlier thread, but this is part of the reason I started my book "Visualisation with D3.js"[1]... it's early access and I'm trying to find more time to work on it. It's entirely separate from Observable, and it's my way of formalising my D3.js learning journey whilst producing something I can refer to in future.

[1] https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/visualisation-with-d3/
A single mistake can only impact one service? If a microservice depends on said broken microservice, you could experience a cascade of failures, or possibly data corruption, because microservice development is typically predicated on trusting the other components following their API spec.
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Well, you're wrong.

A value system is not a set of beliefs. I think it's important to treat people fairly. But I don't believe that the "universe" or whatever cares about fair treatment of people. What matters to me personally or what I find ethical has nothing to do with any sort of deep truth about the world. I like ice cream, that doesn't mean that I ascribe any metaphysical importance to the taste and texture of ice cream.

I also don't have "deities" or anything that affects my life in a supernatural way, and I'm not sure what gave you the idea that secular people (in general) do - maybe you talked to a bunch of esoteric-minded people, or to the kind of environmentalist that turns nature into some sort of mystical deity, but that's not every secularist (nor every environmentalist).

Maybe you should try talking to actual atheists instead of strawmanning them.
A phone can only last for so long, I imagine their number would be significantly reduced after 4 years of not selling them.
Meh. I've been watching porn since forever. My taste in porn has informed my real-life taste, and vice versa (in particular, I detest make-up / fakeness, both in porn and in real life).

Still, I find real people infinitely more fulfilling and have always put effort into seeking real relationships, sexual and romantic.

(I estimate porn is similar to gambling - some people's psychology makes them more susceptible to addiction of any kind.)
I want the PinePhone to work. The Librem too. In fact I had preorders for both. I canceled them looking at the performance.

They’re excellent toys. Great effort to ship such a difficult product. But if your phone is going to struggle with running things besides terminal, it’s not going to be a great daily phone.

I’d love them to be on par with the latest Android flagships in terms of power. Cost is not an issue. I just want to be able to actually use Linux on a phone, rather than just run it.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Windows side of things. Windows 10x looked really promising on top of the Surface Neo, but both seem to be shelved. Now the closest alternative is handheld devices like the GPD Win 3, but that lacks LTE unfortunately. No ditching Android just yet.
Relevant passage:

> Completing the Schengen area

> The Commission considers that completing Schengen requires taking the necessary steps to follow up on the legitimate expectation and the legal obligation of those EU Member States that are not yet fully part of the area without controls at internal borders to join. Bulgaria and Romania have been positively evaluated within the framework of the Schengen evaluation process already in 2010/2011. Concerning Croatia, on 22 October 2019 the Commission adopted a Communication which stated that Croatia had taken the measures needed to ensure that the necessary conditions for the application of the Schengen acquisare met which was reconfirmed following a targeted revisit toCroatia’s external borders.

> The Commission considers that is it now high time to follow up on these positive evaluations and therefore calls upon the Council to take the necessary steps for Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia to become part of the area without controls at the internal borders of Member States.These Member States are effectively implementing most of the Schengenacquis, but without the full benefits that comes with being part of the Schengen area, and this needs to be rectified.
I think parents stance is pretty extreme, but wouldn't the obvious choice be faculty in concert with state boards?
All marketing is a scam to sell something. The only cryptocurrency that exists is Bitcoin. All else below it, including Ethereum are scams. They are not decentralized, and anything using Proof of Stake is just as bad as a fiat currency. Every banker here commenting as usual about how Bitcoin is boiling the oceans and only for criminals will feel free to censor me and downvote my post but should also realize they are a fake individual who parrots for an oppressive state. There is no future without Bitcoin. The US is now at 5% inflation and rising. Keep saving those paper IOU's and we'll talk again in a few years.
I'm a liberal and it's clear that big tech is suppressing dissenting voices. It's not targeted at conservatives specifically, but it captures them in larger number because tech and corporate media is mostly liberal and progressive. As such, conservative is by default a dissenting voice.

Edit: See the lab leak hypothesis where big tech was suppressing and even banning people last year for questioning the approved narrative. And here's an example just yesterday with old school progressives being silenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27493994
These are all great criticisms, but I struggle to agree with you that they make these projects "scams".

By way of analogy, I remember the ruby on rails really struggled with scalability for a long time, and it was a big problem that lots of people, both proponents and opponents, talked about a lot. Nonetheless it turned out to be quite useful and definitely not a scam. I saw similar dynamics in both AngularJS and React. I'm trying to think of a good example on the other side, something that was hyped but criticized and didn't really succeed due to its criticisms being right ... maybe something like Meteor, it seemed promising but flawed and never really overcame its flaws. But none of these were "scams", just different flawed projects that succeeded or failed despite or because of their flaws.

By my lights, the top two you mentioned (I don't know enough about the third to say) fit very much into this same mould, I think they are flawed projects that will succeed or fail despite or because of widely recognized flaws which are or aren't eventually overcome. But not scams.

I think scams have to have a component of intentionality, that all effort at appearing legitimate and promising is conscientiously only for show. Contra that, I think lots of people are making a good faith effort to make bitcoin and ethereum useful. They may very well fail, but I don't think most people involved are conscientiously doing the work just for show.
Because integration is very difficult to achieve in one company (just look at Google vs Apple products), let alone across multiple. I don’t see how that has anything to do with buying small startups.

However since you mentioned that, preventing M&A will not only prevent our bigger tech companies from being globally competitive by restricting their access to talent, it’ll shut off one of the main exit routes that’s made doing a startup far safer. It’ll mean failures will end up in $0 for everyone, less money in returns to a VC, which will mean less money in returns to the retirement funds and whatnot that invest in VCs (which is bad for all of our 401ks), so VCs will be even more careful about who they invest in, which means less capital going around for startups generally. That will reduce American competitiveness.
I have been asking myself lately:

Without considering resources or practicality, if we were to re-design computers and servers from security-first principles, what would features like management of secrets look like? Secure enclaves are wonderful but the secret still has to be propagated or used. A ground up computer design might greatly embellish on the idea of a secure enclave.

Linux seems a bit of a dinosaur in this regard.
Well I guess I will have to transition to another DE in the future. I'm curious which DEs people are using with Debian.
I for one would love to be a bohemian layabout all day doing nothing. Like a cat staring out a window listlessly wasting the clock.
As the maintainer of one of the more popular IRC server implementations I know a giant chunk of the Libera Chat (formerly freenode) staff pretty well and whilst we may disagree frequently on technical choices they're decent people who were appointed based on technical merit. They pretty much didn't have any say in rasengan seizing control of freenode as Christel sold out the project and lied to the other staff about what what had happened for several years. After Christel was ousted they reorganised and elected teams internally and after the network switch have developed a governance system which requires strong consensus to avoid this ever happening again.[1]

OFTC and Libera Chat aren't as different as you seem to think. There is also a lot of cooperation between the two projects which has been going on for years. Solanum is being developed as a joint project and some staff members are involved with both networks.

1: https://libera.chat/bylaws
Regulatory capture is still a possible problem on the other end of the spectrum that needs to be countered with effort.
Using voice recognition to automate drive-thrus...

Seems like they could've added QR code + online ordering to each of their parking spots instead but I guess AI is cool too.
Because economies of scale, automation due to use of software, and near zero marginal costs mean the bigger you are, the more you can offer customers at a lower price.
Will read it, until now, for me,git feels like it tries to get in my way (probably because I think differently). I heard about fossil,(https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki) does anybody have experience with it? Does it suck less?
Assuming you have USD

I was assuming US persons doing a transaction in the US. If you are in another country, there will be other retailers that offer services in your currency. Also NewEgg supports transactions in many currencies.

you might not be a US citizen

Citizenship is not relevant to purchasing items for online retailers.

assuming you have a credit card

Debit cards can be used just as easily. Fewer protections, but it works just fine. Also PayPal, etc.

Proof of payment is basically instant, is globally accessible

This is true with credit card, debit card, paypal, etc.

I don't have to jump thru the 'verified by visa' bullshit

This is hardly an issue. Takes a few seconds, a total non-issue for 99% of people who just want to purchase something.

Also, no spending limits - I've ordered equipment from newegg and payed for next day delivery, only to have the equipment show up late because my visa 'helpfully' twigged an 'unusual purchase'

Yes, there are fraud detection features for credit cards. I'm pretty sure this occurs very rarely. If you don't like this, use a debit card or paypal with a bank account.

I've also had banks tell me there are daily spending limits on debit card that are too low to buy a high end system

I have never run into this because I never use my debit card, ever. However, it seems this be fixed by calling your bank and raising your limit permanently.

Bottom line is - one size doesn't fit all...

That's right. Crypto might be right for you. But 99% of consumers who want fast, easy, and simple mechanism for purchasing items at any retailer, credit or debit will be the best choice.
>> So Stellar, Cardano and XRP are all scams?

When Stellar started, they were all about 'Quorums'; trying to imply that this was the secret sauce which would allow it to scale unlike any other blockchain. I initially thought that quorums were like separate shards but after asking around years ago, I found out that it was not the case; all transactions pass through all nodes; exactly the same as a plain old blockchain. These days they barely even mention the concept of a 'quorum' because it was never anything more than a scammy marketing tool.

I don't know too much about Cardano so I won't criticize too much but when I skim-read their whitepaper about 1 year ago, it sounded over-complicated. This is a red flag for me. Also, they are yet to implement smart contracts; so there is a long way ahead. I don't like that they keep bragging about their all-PhD team. In my experience, PhDs aren't good at delivering good developer experiences or limiting the amount of complexity.

I wouldn't say that XRP/Ripple is a scam; but only because they don't make it a secret that they are essentially a centralized crytocurrency with multiple nodes for redundancy. But some could argue that they are a scam based on the fact that they don't solve any of the problems that a cryptocurrency is meant to solve (this critique pretty much applies to all top cryptocurrencies BTW; they don't solve any significant economic problem aside from upholding the status quo; the opposite of what they claim to do).

>> So it's a scam because it doesn't exist yet and it's planned on the roadmap?

It's scammy because they sell it as if it already exists, but it doesn't.
It could be hard if you never took Discrete or another course that introduces graph theory. Or if you cheated your way through or barely scraped by. I can see how a CS freshman or someone from another field might struggle, but even then it's more comprehensible than any of the alternatives.
A clear instance of NIH-Syndrome. Besides, admins want something to admin... Moving to a new home and loosing your status as the guy who is allowed to set the rules isn't very atractive to most... And I even understand that. There must be some motivation to do volunteer work, even if the actual motivation is irritating when actually voiced.
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You used to be able to find high quality information, by people who loved the topic. Now the top search results are SEO commercial sites; the old sites are gone or filled with ads; and the new sites... there aren't any new sites like this. Maybe stackexchanges are the closest (recently sold).
Not the author but I bought a book about assembler for my Sinclair ZX81. I just discovered it's got a Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_the_Z80

Edit: wow, see this comment of elvis70

> The author has made his book freely available : http://www.z80.info/zaks.html
Apparently the assumption in this title is already date: https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1404057396293550082?s=1...

@nntaleb comment:

> First, learn to tell the difference between inflation and congestion.
Inflation: price rises cause prices to rise.
Congestion: squeezes are followed by series of price collapses.
As others have pointed out: it's simply because Observable is where they will eventually make money. Both belong to the same author, so their coupling has incentives.

If you could entirely self-host the whole Observable experience it wouldn't be so bad. But you can't.
… charged with 17 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and one count of obtaining information from a protected computer.
This case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Edited to protect the innocent!
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'Mount Recyclemore' of G7 leaders made from electronic waste in Cornwall
Not to mention a country where tech moguls are under far more heat than they ever could be in this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448998
> Prices flat with decreased supply and increased demand isn't really flat, especially with the additional trillions of dollars added to circulation.

Yes, it is; supply and demand (and money supply is part of that) are price determinants. A flat output is a flat output regardless of the inputs that produced it. And, anyhow, most of the additional dollars were added after the brief period of flat overall price levels, and explain the return to inflation.
From the thread:

> If you've never had to configure a sendmail.conf you've had it easy.

Been there, done that. Even with the usual .mc files and m4, once I had to dive deep into the rabbit hole of sendmail.conf to figure out what was going wrong.

Nowadays, I just use Postfix. :)
Do you find meditation “narcissistic”?
Nothing about Gemini prevents you from linking to images.

Furthermore, nothing prevents Gemini clients from eagerly fetching linked images (based on the URI) and displaying them inline- if the user chooses such a client.

Being strictly text-oriented is simply the default, and a default that must be taken seriously by anyone writing a page.
Agreed, it's not a perfect analog, but for me it did work out as a roughly equivalent replacement for what I used the back button for in Android. I've also had really good luck with most apps supporting the convention.

But YMMV of course, this is going to be largely dependent on your own usage patterns, app choices, etc.
There’s always a lot of criticism when it comes to books like these. For those of you critical, I would encourage you to ask “what do the anecdotes in this book say about universal human patterns” instead of “what is the recipe I’m supposed to follow to be successful.”
Calling it "not forking" (saying what it's not) instead of what it is adds some unnecessary cognitive burden. (It might be hard to find a good name, still.)

The overall kind of situation it offers to solve is somehow familiar, the questions are relevant. But the way the tool works is unclear. Hints about what it does are in the last section of "Why Not Just Use Git/Fossil/Other VCS?" part.

It might be just me, but perl + "fossil instead of git" skews my bayesian expectations.

Gut feeling is: perhaps the tool was used for a long time, grew organically from a local hack.

Reworking that page in clear sections might be best. Most information is already there, just it would be nice to reorder in very clear sections:

* what problem developers face (is there, in the beginning, not in its own section)

* existing solutions, and for each how it falls short (only hints in "why not..." near the end, mixed with examples)

* the principle of the solution to be put forth here (this part is mostly missing, probably a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge )

* how this tool is used in practice. This is missing and would be best served with simple but real-worldish examples

Hope this helps.

Since I'm not sure upstream author will see this, reported there as https://lumosql.org/src/not-forking/tktview/f99ea3a437d0a77c...