skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Linux will always be behind commercial/proprietary platforms. One could arguably say that the iphone is a multi-billion dollar platform

One could have expected the same wrt. proprietary *NIX workstation and server hardware in the 1980s and 1990s, and where are those today? Linux is dominating that market. Embedded brings more trouble because the hardware, far from being a "multi billion dollar" endeavor, is all-too-often entirely undocumented and sloppily hacked together, where a barely workable state is considered "good enough" for shipping. But even there, Linux is easily gaining ground over proprietary OS's. The underlying dynamic is clear enough.
I don't understand how to read some of these graphs, especially the Globally Online Users Trend. It says "NOT TO SCALE, PAY ATTENTION TO AXES", but the numbers don't even seem to add up.

The Freenode Users line is around ~48k right now according to the hover-card and sits at 48k on the graph axis as expected. The Libera Users line represents ~31k users according to the hover-card but sits at 54k on the axis. I've seen stacked graphs before, but 48+31 isn't 54 so I am not sure if that's what it's trying to show.

Maybe I need more sleep :(
You mean like the tech savvy people that ran the encrypted platform Anom?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-sting-using-anom-platform-l...
Ask HN: How does your browing loop look like?
So i usually check my news feed, 5 news sites, 1 blog and then browse HN until i am bored.

What sites are interesting enough to be part of your daily loop? Looking to extend my pool of daily visits.
And I disagree with you. And it’s not because I think KDE is horrible… it’s not. I prefer the Gnome style but KDE is quite polished.

But I disagree because it is really rare to have a completely unified UI with Linux. We have separate applications for Gnome and KDE for most tasks. Sometimes one is better than the other, or one has a feature you need, but you have many different competing applications. If you want to use the “best”, you end up with a mix of different styles.

Or, if you want to use an office suite, Libre Office is a different style altogether!

So, you say KDE has a unified style. That’s great. But KDE != Linux. And Linux is never going to have a unified style. That’s just the nature of the beast. There isn’t one group out there that can make UI/UX decisions for all of Linux. No group that can set priorities and make decisions about what features stay and what can be removed.

But that’s okay. That’s the trade off we get when working with FOSS software. We get to make those decisions for ourselves. But it rarely results in a “unified” UX. Powerful, yes. unified? No.

I am interested to see how the new KDE/pine64 relationship plays out though. Hopefully it will be great. And maybe I’m just a bit pessimistic after the last time with Nokia/Qt.
There are parts of the world where that is illegal, yes.
There's a very common misconception that libertarians believe that what should be legal and what is beneficial are the same thing. It's not difficult to believe that YouTube should have the ability to remove these people from their platform, but also that they're wrong to do so. The libertarian preference for decentralization actively presumes that many actors will make poor choices, but that because it's not enforced top down it will be easier to persuade them to change those policies. New competitors are one way that you can create that pressure, but it's not the only one, simple dialogue is another viable avenue and the purpose of critiques like this one.
This 90% figure includes core beliefs of the world, right and wrong, history, epistemology and so on.
> I wouldn’t be so quick...

I was a big fan of Louis CK, it took me about five days to internalize what he did and decide that his career was over as far as I'm concerned. It broke my heart. The guy is a creep and I can't watch him anymore.

Compare and contrast with what happened to Paul Reubens. He was arrested for masturbating during a film at an adult movie theater. He didn't force people to watch him like Louis CK allegedly did. It took eight years for his career to revive, and he arguably never fully recovered.

> In July 1991, Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure in an adult theater in Sarasota, Florida. The arrest set off a chain reaction of national media attention that changed the general public's view of Reubens and Pee-wee.[3] The arrest postponed Reubens' involvement in major projects until 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens#1991_arrest_and_r...
> You are now ready to begin writing. You will probably use Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, or XML

I though you are working on technical books? Word?

What do you offer to someone like me, whose trying to self-publish[0]?

[0] https://deploymentfromscratch.com
And wasn't already in the midst of a decades-long decline in casual users.
It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of voting by age. Environmental destruction has a much greater impact to the young.
Don't try to suck off IRC users too hard... The protocol and clients have been designed with this in mind. it's not like IRC users are so much more intelligent than others...

I feel IRC is better, but it's not because of the average intelligence of users & opers
I like LSD quite a lot but have a hard time talking about it. I find it kind of highly embarrassing for some reason. Afraid of being judged a freak (I look and act pretty odd, but it's not because of LSD).

I am baffled how open some people are. I guess this is the curse of having conservative family you'd not like to upset.
Why would it? Are you reading the replies here? Most people want it. I doubt that management will be able to continue keeping it down.
Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science
> How can one determine if they are at risk of psychosis prior to consuming LSD?

Family history of mental illness, particularly schizophrenia.

> I've heard many stories of people who were "never the same" (in a bad life-outcome sense) after having bad LSD trips.

I think those stories are overblown. People like to have something to blame for when a loved one goes down the wrong path.
That account always brings me to chuckle. But the biggest joke actually comes from myself, being a person who owns 10 smart bulbs at home. This smart home thing has just stalled:
* At least several times a week my hue bridge is not found and I lie for 10 seconds in bed repeatedly tapping the "off button" like a dummy.
* Sync to music is still increadibly limited and just doesn't work well. Arguably it was better 7 years ago when streaming was less popular and apps could analyse the track waveform, instead of relying on microphones.
* Sync to games and movies is also still fairly poor. If you're viewing a scene during broad daylight and in front of you a red van appears, the whole room goes red instead of maintaining the white daylight.
* Dynamic light scenes are very cool but are also just a pain to use. It shouldn't take me 30 seconds to set the room to a certain mood. I sometimes feel like the developers of the dynamic scenes apps don't use their own products.

All just my experience.
I'm sure they would if it were national news that they weren't. Just because they haven't taken it down doesn't mean that they approve of it. You're just resorting to whataboutism.

"You didn't catch my mate Dave when he murdered that guy so I don't see why you should care about this little stabbing here..."
along this line of thought, using a library written for one use case for a separate use case could pedantically be considered a 'hack'.

I simply share the opinion that the people writting tbe laws should recieve the heat, not those doing what they are legally allowed to
That may be true but would the transition imposed by the extreme measures required end up wrecking the current young? Telling the young they can't fly anymore when they're older as I've heard on here a million times is probably not going to get you votes. But that's just a stupid simple example, I can't really fathom how more complex laws will change the world.
Merck can't get an EUA for their new drug if there's an existing treatment that works. If Ivermectin works, then their other drug becomes worthless.

Same thing for the mRNA vaccines. They're all under EUA. It would've been impossible to get them an EUA if we had found out Ivermectin worked.
Adding onto this, this article compares various approaches to getting money “early” out of a 401k/tIRA (Roth conversion ladder as said here, 72t SEPP’s, early withdrawal penalty), and has the surprising conclusion that even the “just pay the 10% penalty” comes out ahead of regular taxable contributions, at least in some situations.

https://www.madfientist.com/how-to-access-retirement-funds-e...
It's that the discovery that our personal coherence and experience is very narrow, is very jarring when we haven't experienced it before and haven't developed cognitive tools to manage that. It's like discovering that from some other perspective that exists in the substrate, it's likely that your entire experience of the world is as bounded and low-entropy as a drawing or a song. If the sudden apprehension that we may be this absurd isn't belly laugh funny, I am confident that someone else especially finds this fact of us not finding it funny even funnier. There's nothing we can do about it, so you just appreciate it for what it is, relieve suffering where you can, and be excited about what else you couldn't have known.
Unity support tells people all sorts of things that aren’t true about the licensing. You have to press them, then they ask legal, and then they backpedal because it was all a mistake, and one that you are on the hook for
* Swiss CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita): 4.17

* US CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita): 15.5

Switzerland is already among the lowest polluters in the EU and much lower than Australia/Canada/US. Just for context.
I don’t understand the irony
There so many individuals who think that cynicism or even criticism is a sign of intelligence, but it's actually a sign of ignorance.

For whatever biological reason, humans associate those who do that with being more intelligent than everyone else.
> even a $100 Android phone creams the Pine Phone

That $100 Android phone is going to be carrier locked (subsidized by the carrier) and probably an older model where the R&D has already been paid-off, not an all new device. Once the Pine64 has been out for a few years, it's possible its price will drop to similarly competitive levels.
Smart, in my opinion. Industrial producers are engaged in a massive and well-funded propaganda campaign aimed at distracting people from the fact the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions are from industrial and commercial sources. Even in a car-happy country like the US, personal vehicle use including commuting only makes up 16 percent of carbon emissions.
We need more referendums in the US. It would nice to see the people rebuke the far left and right more often.
I'm sure it's not really the projects. I have it on good authority that these are all splinter groups of provocateurs just trying to make people believe that projects are leaving, in order to harm Freenode and, by extension, all of open source.

Also, they must have hacked the FSF's web page. Can't see any other explanation for what's going on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299933
Thinking about it more - this focus on removing commercial threats instead of security threats is what bugs me.

If your screening efforts remove 110% of all apps that break your commercial terms of service, but only 50% of all apps that harm users, how is that screening a "good faith" attempt to protect your customers?
Stop using inefficient server side languages in the name of “developer efficiently”? That could cut some CO2. AWS doesn’t run on magic dust.
Is there a certain point where we say “it’s going to be worse case climate scenario, let’s prepare?”

I’m asking for a friend from a different planet …
Depends on how you define standard.
"Fighting" climate change on a national level like this is disingenuous. It is not going to accomplish anything.
There needs to be global agreements involving the biggest players. Else it is just a self inflicted penalty that accomplishes nothing.
I would say it's quite wrong to think of crypto as some sort of stock.

Stocks are ultimately anchored in a company, and it's ability to pay dividends to it's owners. The historical average of the value creation for S&P 500 for dividends are about 40% so it's not an amount that can be disregarded.

Since crypto doesn't have any similar mechanism, and all of the value is instead tied to what other persons want to buy it for, I argue that it's better to compare it to an online casino rather than an stock market. That would be more fair for those that are new to investing.
Meh. I've been going to bars since forever. I'm not like that guy over there who pounds a 12 pack every night and has no standards for what he funnels down his gullet. Despite my habitual usage and inability to refrain from the activity for any extended period of time, I estimate his psychology must make him the addict. For me it's a matter of refinement and my consciously-engaged frontal-lobe awareness of the fine hops and spirits that elevates me to a connoisseur of the boozy arts.
Nice visualization...

Please, which tool(s) did you use for the charts?
(I’m Swiss)

This was a question of money. The Swiss were asked to be taxed (even more than they already are). They voted against the costs.
Votes need change from INT to FLOAT, so old people get 0.75 of a vote and young people get 1.5 ... because <lots of reasons>

[edit] downvotes! Why? Is it a crazy idea that young people should have more of a say about their future than old people? Where I live the old generation are fucking over the young generation in a big way.
We have to kill freenode, or else it'll die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJKUQ0dDoU
Note that in most modern IRC networks (such as freenode), klines are also applied to all servers, because it no longer makes sense to ban only from the local server.
Switzerland, a beacon of common sense!
Looks like its finally time for me to switch to windows...
Not sure where you live but that is a rip off. You can get a better plan than that in the private market in my state.
We need more things like this: tools that extract valuable info from the overcrowded internet.
He's the one whose tweet was linked.
Not sure why you have a hang up about this.

I enjoy drinking alcohol and have no issues with it, but that doesn’t mean acknowledging that alcoholism is a thing is a problem or some judgemental act.
Psh, that was the least interesting vote of all of them. Even if it was passed, it's a rounding error in global climate. Talk about the insane police law and the Covid law that were accepted. Now there's a catastrophe for our children.
It's exactly as instant as Strike.

Further, both will be totally instant vis-a-vis your actual bank account in a few years as RTP rolls out. No crypto needed. [1] I'm led to believe the delays in implementation were ensuring small community banks had a risk model.

> This is akin to all of us submitting to google and gmail, its great unless our account gets flagged by an algorithm by mistake. No mistake, i would be screwed.

Have you met typos?

[1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
The proposed measures were not going far enough. Not by a long shot. For example, all (larger) companies were excluded from paying for CO2 emissions. Also, there were no measures targetting agriculture and food systems in general.

A big chunk of the revenues would have been used for a "climate fund" which is supposed to invest in tech climate solutions (whatever that means), and another chunk invested into health insurance. Another part would have been invested in renewables directly (which is great).

While one could argue that this would have been better than nothing, I hope that this rejection leads to a better proposal in the future which targets big polluters (although I don't think it will, one can still hope).
See, there is an S in IoT. Still doesn’t stand for security though.
There is no point in introducing a CO2 tax unless the government provides actual alternatives that consumers can switch to.

And, no, wind and solar and battery-electric vehicles are not viable alternatives. Solar and wind require backup plants and EVs have inadequate practical use and cause much more CO2 emissions during production.

If you want to effectively decarbonise as an industrial nation, the first path to be taken must be nuclear.

Thanks to nuclear, the emissions in the French energy sector are just 1/7 of Germany’s despite the latter having 50% solar and wind.

Moreover, the nuclear phase out causes Germany to build new natural gas plants: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Mediathek/Berich... (p. 66).
Intro: https://wattenberger.com/blog/d3

Book: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3
I agree, but my memories are still from irc ;)

I'm glad they moved to libera, but this shouldn't have happened like it did in the first place.
The Swiss rejected some taxes.

I think this is an important distinction compared to "climate change measures". The (very slim) majority may feel that such taxes are not the best way to deal with climate change, and support other ideas instead. There are a lot of politicians presenting the false choice of wealth redistribution or climate change apathy. There are other ways of looking at this, which I don't think are captured by framing it as them having rejected climate change measures.
Their phones used to be great. I had many Cybershot and Walkman branded Sony Ericsson feature phones over the years. The Walkman ones had good media features/speakers, and the Cybershots gave you good optics, a real flash, and generous megapixels for the time. Second only to the high end Nokias, until Apple started to eat everyone's lunch.
Firstly, the context of what I wrote was building trust and team cohesion within the organization. I don't think having or not having friends and family is relevant to that.

Secondly, we spend a lot of our finite lives working, do you want that part of your life to be cold and robotic? Wouldn't life be richer with a wide range of human relationships?
I didn’t realize clowns weren’t allowed on YouTube, I’m surprised so much discussion on this thread is whether Eric is right or wrong and not whether YouTube is right to remove him.
The profit margin on Ivermectin is likely nothing, while the margin on Merck's upcoming drug is likely very high.
Numbers please. Where do they come from?

Also, it doesn't matter how many food animals we have, what matters is how the majority of them are treated. And the majority are not meat and dairy cows raised in feedlots in the US, because that kind of farm animal is a small proportion of all meat an dairy animals bred the world over. From Our World in Data:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-meat-production-by...

You can see that pork and poultry make up the largest amount of meat produced. Though the plot shows meat rather than number of animals, remember that it takes seveal pigs or goats to make the same meat as one cow, and many more chickens. There are way more pigs and chickens farmed the world over than there are cows and cow farming (cow factory farming) is concentrated in the US, Argentina, Brazil and China:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/beef-and-buffalo-meat-pro...

It is those places where the images of tortured cows, that live their whole lives connected to milking and impregnating machines come from. It is such conditions that have to be eliminated. But in most of the rest of the world, those are not typical conditions and the numbers of animals raised are many, many fewer.

Edit: which is not to whitewash the pig and poultry industries. Chickens in particular are treated horribly, even the so-called "free range" ones (in many places it's enough for the chickens to be kept in a gigantic barn with a tiny bit of yard outside for the chickens to be considered "free range", legislation is often an absolute scandal). And there are many large pig farms were pigs are kept in absolutely inhumane conditions.

But, again- that's true in some places, not the world over and not for most animals.
The market doesn't reward those who optimize their code.

Fastest-to-market and slow beats second-to-market and optimized every day of the week.
Sorry if it seemed like I was conflating the two, I was just trying to compare one facet of each. My use of the word ‘like’ was supposed to be an allegorical one.

(Assuming, by conflate, it is the combining two into one, per definition).

‘God is Love’ doesn’t seem contradictory.
How High Can You Toss Your Phone? (2013)
Wow. That’s a lot of deep insight. Thanks for sharing!

Ad point 1): didn’t that change a bit over the last 1-2 years? I have heard from founders that they have increasingly the upper hand due to the massive capital inflow. This had also led to the fact that founders can now cash out much earlier than let’s say 5-10 years ago, through so called secondaries (?).

Ad point 3)
I thought a fund first raises x dollars and then starts investing? There is no more joining in after that, until the next funds starts?
FYI UUIDs are 128bits but only have 122 bits of entropy. Still not going to get a collision with a good implementation.
Ah, thanks for that. These seem fairly harmless to me
but I'm not so knowledgeable, what do you think?
Have you read the FDA's article? Let me summarize. Thou shalt not use Ivermectin because:

> Ivermectin tablets are approved [...] for some parasitic worms.

> Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.

(Unlike any other drug.)

> There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin.

...while also...

> The FDA has not reviewed data to support use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients to treat or to prevent COVID-19; however, some initial research is underway. Taking a drug for an unapproved use can be very dangerous. This is true of ivermectin, too.

> Ivermectin Products for Animals Are Different from Ivermectin Products for People

Scientific authority is an oxymoron.
"Team cohesion" can work against you if you don't fit (which can be caused by a large variety of reasons). So maybe people estimate it very well, and calculate that less interaction is better.
Stealing signs IS part of the game.

It’s common, even in little league to try and pickup bunts and steal calls.

The Astros however used the home field advantage and centerfield camera to pickup pitch signs, and then relay that to batters so they knew when a pitch with minimum movement was coming.

That’s cheating through and through. The visiting team is straight not on the same playing field there.

Doctoring the ball, similarly has been a thing for a long time. But only those most obvious (pine tar on the hat) generally got smacked. And even sometimes not then. But generally it’s a level playing field.