skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that happens regularly

It happens in a token way in infrequent and extreme circumstances. But there's nothing even remotely comparable to the fact that Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter, that numerous internet powers worked together to shut down Parler, that the NY Post was locked out of Twitter for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop, etc.

the top performing posts on Facebook are almost exclusively far-right demagoguery

Popularity despite censorship just goes to show how the operators of Facebook are in a different narrative bubble than a sizable portion of their users. The notion that Ben Shapiro is far-right is just demagoguery of your own. Shapiro is a pretty benign and centrist-sympathetic conservative.
This sounds like a Reddit-wide problem. I stopped going to Reddit years ago because of this.
Gmail certainly does scan and process language in email, because they generate reply suggestions, and who knows what else behind the scenes.
Do you have case law for that?
Beats announces $149.99 Studio Buds earbuds with active noise cancellation
I paid a friend ~6 XMR to take out two 50' fur trees, I removed a sink and related plumbing for .3 XMR, and another friend paid me about .1 XMR as a thank you for hosting all within the span of a week.

You have to find the directories in your area, but I've been amazed how many capable freedom focused people are now not only accepting crypto payments, but prefer it.
From what I can see in the thread (and I'm not very familiar with the tech so I'm working off of inference here) it looks like the library fetching tool is well equipped to fetch the freshest branch from his repository directly. His responses are very minimal but it sounds like he's objecting to older versions of his library being bundled in and causing breakages on the client side - forking would potentially just make this problem worse from his point of view if his primary concern is the fact that users get out of date code - compared to the concern of code maintenance.

Daniel Stenberg creator of cURL has famously gotten a lot of weird support requests and emails over the years due to his license being shipped with an insane number of different utilities. He has handled them gracefully and with good humor from what I've seen, but not everyone is comfortable with fielding questions from random non-technical users - if that's where this dev is coming from then forking the project would probably let him dodge a lot of the responsibility. I just can't clearly tell due to how terse[1] his replies are.

1. I would say succinct here due to the fact that it lacks the negative connotations of terse, but it also implies a completeness of information which sadly isn't here. Please don't read terse as insulting or negative in any way.
God, tiny piece of code. Rewriting would take less time than arguing.
> Buddhists in Jordan must not eat in public during Ramadan

That is very different! Buddhists in Jordan a legally barred from doing so, whereas there's no law demanding that you actually celebrate Christmas.
That’s just untrue given they didn’t have the house or senate in 2017.

They didn’t even spend 2019 doing it, even after the Mueller report. When they did impeach him it was on the narrowest possible scope and they got 1 bipartisan vote for removal.

And that’s before the second impeachment which had several Republican backers in the house and senate.
The author's "expose" / investigation into the glitter industry is another favorite: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.htm...

Although it never was actually determined which industry exactly is buying up all the glitter. My personal theory is boat paint. With the "conspiracy" being that the plastic in the glitter is contributing to microplastics in the food chain as it degrades off the boats.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/duw480...

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2019/11/08/the-great-glit...
Didn't Marta extensions get voted down by those same suburban counties?
Emotional Teens Survived Handled Loneliness, Fear and Forced Isolation
It depends on your field. I know people whose industries have been on a hiring freeze since last march, and have been applying for almost a year and a half now to the few openings that do appear during this span. Must be a nice time to be a software engineer, though.
Apple doesn’t control the exit point (that’s cloudflare?) and if cloudflare wants to block access to something they already have a huge swathe of the internet under their control, w/o needing a proxy in the middle.

Finally you can always just turn it off - it asks you the first time as well, it is explicitly opt in, and isn’t available in countries that have strict censorship laws.
I wrote Pong in Clojure back in 2009 in <200 lines. https://imagine27.com/pong_in_clojure
ah yes, the token characters, there to either not alienate a foreign market or to meet some superficial diversity quota.

the point is that in a world without significant bias, we'd expect to see many more people of color and of other religions (to name just two aspects) being represented because of sheer numbers and because talents are distributed widely.

but that doesn't happen in this world.
I would assume that the appropriate exercise regime should be determined by sex rather then gender?
When such ideas become mainstream enough to start influencing politics, it would be a good idea to try to understand why those ideas have taken root and grown to that level of influence.

Even when such ideas are batshit insane, they are almost always indicative of some severe underlying issue. If that issue isn't addressed, then such ideas keep growing and growing and could eventually lead to disaster.

That Q Anon and the like are taken seriously by as many people as they appear to be, enough to start influencing mainstream politics, should set off all sorts of alarm bells about the state of our society.
I think they proposed this:

> Would you be happier if we forked your upstream source to provide our own, or provided a similar Python package with an identical API that we can use as a drop-in replacement?

Wouldn’t this remove the burden of support from the author? Or it might be that I don’t understand exactly their proposal.
I agree.

I don't want to rehash it here, but if you look at my reply to your sibling, you'll get a better insight into my reasoning.

Basically the TL;DR version is that there are some absolutely asinine conspiracists who literally think that government agencies can extract all of their data while the computer is powered off using IME/AMT.

Obviously, there's a lot more to it, but I do agree that I don't trust Intel, and IME/AMT are dangerous.

I'd link one of the posts I ran into that made this claim, but I don't really want to give the idiots who peddle this garbage any more exposure than necessary, because they appear to be into the 5G "mind control" conspiracies as well.

No, I'm not kidding.
Pretty good.

Documentation was part of the Framework, and accessible through Project Builder.

You could also package a Bookshelf and search from a Service.
Follow the link and enjoy

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/06/to-be-clear-the-whale-did-n...

edit: maybe jwz took the image down?
Channers and leaving NEETdom the normal way? Yes. Channers hiring other channers? That’s called company culture. The customers in the latter scenario are either also channers who appreciate the toxicity or the company makes the software equivalent of ball bearings and does not have enough public presence for consumer boycotts to have any effect.
>It's difficult to have civil discourse with someone who says your identify (or the identify of those you love) should be outlawed or otherwise severely restricted by the state. That's been a core tenet of conservative politics and policy for several years now

On the far right yes, but not in mainstream conservatism. For example, a recent poll shows that 55% of Republicans support gay marriage (https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004629612/a-record-number-of...). And that is even putting aside the question of whether wishing for gay marriage to be illegal really constitutes a severe restriction of someone's identity or the identity of those they love.
That clearly isn't what GP was taking about. The point was about what % of film characters are identifiably Christian, not what % of film characters hail from a country with Christian heritage.
Yes, I found a job in chicago while interviewing from nyc. It's a great time to find a new job.
I mean, maybe, but only for right now. Almost all mortgages are fixed-rate and virtually every rental increases every year. The very short article glosses over the tax advantages and security of owning but skips basically everything important.

Most leases are written to convert to month-to-month, and in most states this is the default if not written. In all states but 3 + DC landlord can unilaterally terminate month-to-month tenancy with proper notice. Usually this is 30 days or one calendar month, in 9 states it is less than that (lowest is 3 days in CT, 10 days in Louisiana) and in 6 states it is always or sometimes more than 30 (e.g. 60 days in NY after 1 yr, 90 after 2 yrs).
There is a considerable difference between getting requests and providing support. You don't have to provide support, but it's a little hard not to get requests.
What about 'encryption'? It apparently part of it, but the examples were using a plugin written by a third party.
Yeah, while I get the maintainer's point, the conversation rapidly devolved into giving the Nix maintainers a hard time.

I mean, c'mon, Nix is a tiny niche. It's not like the support burden will be colossal.
Well, I think I'm like most people in that I think one side is okay, but the other is absolutely evil. Definitely don't agree with my side on everything, and they're far from perfect, but I feel I have to support them because the alternative would be a genuine threat to the country.
I think the greater context is that the Home Assistant developers are somewhat hostile to people running, and especially packaging, their software outside of their own supported methods (which are Docker containers or their own full OS). It's somewhat understandable as it creates a support burden for them, but especially given the enthusiast nature of the community this doesn't seem like a smart decision. There's been some outrage in the community about the developers deprecating platforms before.
I can see the headlines now. "Apple relay is down, millions without internet access."
> I lived in Europe in de-jure religious nations. The fact that you find these comparable is exactly my point.

You're extrapolating an awful lot from a joke, but in any case if Europe fails your test for secularism then what countries are more secular? China?

> The so-called separation of church and state is held up on as much of a pedestal as “freedom” with predictable effects: evidence contra these principles is ignored or considered a threat.

The principle of separation of church and state is the foundation for American secularism. It's strange to me that you're appealing to it as evidence that America is particularly religious. Do you reserve "secularism" only for polities that forbid religious practice?
How do you keep effective version control of your desktop files?
I have tried dropbox (with its version history feature) and traditional naming and file management strategies. I was wondering if there were any more efficient, user-friendly ways of keeping track of your desktop files and their respective versions? Almost a GitHub for desktop files.

I have in mind a solution where I will have a hosted repository of all my files, and once I select one file (eg 'Sales Deck') it would show me all versions (past commits) of the 'Sales Deck' file, from both myself and anyone else I share that particular repository with.

I know dropbox and (kind of) G Suite have this baked in as a feature, but find it hard to use as the UX isn't tailored towards this feature.

If I can't find anything that better suits my needs, then I may have a go developing something that does!

Would love to hear your thoughts.
My Hindu American family "celebrates" Christmas (tree/lights/presents/big meal)
I'm assuming the offensive password works in a situation where you have a deadman's handle. So then a month later you can say "I told you my password was '$offensive-phrase' and can prove it was, now you need to release me" (presumably after your lawyer acquires the audio from the interview to back up your assertion).
This is more entertaining than anything hollywood has put out in awhilw.
No trabajo de gratis para multinacionales cuiquito. Tu credencialismo barato y sobrador lo puedes archivar donde mas te convenga.No se si es la respuesta que estabas esperando.
Lysander Spooner was happy to say that.
In my experience, even having access to all the medicine you need doesn't really make things that much better. Sure you can force yourself to work or sleep or smile for a day, but you can't do it every day.
100%.

My "independent consulting" time was a mask for burnout. I certainly did consult independently, right down to paying too much for health insurance. My time off was extremely valuable and made me realize I needed to rest and reinvent myself. Plus, as I get older I realize I can use the b-word at certain stages of interviewing as a way to filter out toxic people and institutions.

But yeah, it's all a big game. Nobody is owed a tidy explanation of this.
Just to be clear, there’s a big difference between China and the rest of east Asia in terms of hiring. So it might be good to edit that and differentiate.
Get W. Sidney Allen's slim text _Vox Graeca_. It goes over not only how Ancient Greek was pronounced but also how we know. The evidence includes explicit notes from grammarians and other writers, graffiti, borrowings, puns, and later forms of Greek. Allen also has another book _Vox Latina_ which does the same thing for Latin.
There’s a difference between open source and counterfeit chips. If someone wants to make alternate parts with similar specs, that’s fine and a normal art of business. The issue here is chips that look genuine but aren’t.
This seems like the best approach. No doubt people will continue to kick and scream about their first amendment rights being infringed upon but as long as they're not actually banned from talking it seems perfectly constitutional.
Have you watched Too Big to Fail by HBO films? It has some great actors (Paul Giamatti fan club here!) and is really entertaining and well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXQ5VfBTNpg
Some past threads:

Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206198 - Sept 2017 (65 comments)

Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12799637 - Oct 2016 (1 comment)

Main is usually a function – when is it not? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8951283 - Jan 2015 (60 comments)
I personally frame any cancelled perq as an effective pay cut. Usually portrayed by management as somehow expected, & as if unearned in the first place, which I find galling. I also had an experienced coworker who pointed out that when the water cooler went away, the company was circling the drain, which my limited experience has borne out.
Contrary to this, I think we do see FOSS authors post every now and then that when their packages explode in popularity, they can't provide meaningful support, and end up closing down their FOSS project instead.

I think it's entitled to want to use someone's free work against their wishes. Why is he the bad guy? He acknowledges the licence allows it, but wants to change the licence in response to people wasting his time. That's surely fair game too.
Sure, Apple Mail uses about half a GB, too (same mailbox as I just loaded in Gmail, even). But that's the whole program, with several HTML emails open (a large thread) and my entire inbox scrollable instantly at once. Major view-switches take maybe 300-500ms, and its idle CPU use sits at 0.0%, not a constant 0.4-2.5%. And it doesn't have to reach out to a server to search, so some of that (I'm guessing quite a bit of it, actually) is likely in-memory search cache. That with what amounts to two of gmail's pages open (an email thread view, and a mailbox view, side-by-side—I only had the latter open in Gmail to achieve this much memory use)

Unlike Gmail and other google properties, I can leave it open for weeks and forget it's there. It doesn't affect overall system performance—because it's not demanding CPU time and forcing context switches when it's not doing anything.

[EDIT] incidentally, has Thunderbird bloated a ton or something? I used to use it on machines with 256MB of memory total and it was not the only thing I had open, and it was totally fine. And yes, HTML email existed then. I was under the impression it was—thanks to neglect, basically—still on good, old tech and the plan to "improve" it to ditch that for bloated modern junk was still on the drawing board.
> Am I missing something?

If you're making tech salaries and not spending all of it, you can easily save enough to not work for a decade in just a few years of work. Anecdotally I worked for three years at a big company and then didn't work for three years until those savings ran out, and that wasn't really even trying.

Of course the calculus changes if you're married or have kids. But living in America in a cheap town is not expensive compared to income in this field. You can live comfortably on 40k a year (lots of Americans do!). And a 200k+ income like you see in major tech hubs can easily translate to 100k+ of savings a year.
Obamacare, for all its controversy and limitations, removed the ability to screen for pre-existing condition which was a very important feature. Prior, some people who weren't covered by an employer's group policy simply couldn't get insurance for any amount of money.

Now, yes insurance is expensive, but anyone can get it for about 2x what most people who get healthcare as a benefit are paying into an employer's health care plan.
Ask HN: Why do Product Managers avoid writing detailed requirement docs?
It seems like most PMs prefer coming up with a high level spec, let the engineer ask questions and then figure stuff out as you go.

I have not really seen a PM who makes an attempt at flushing out most details ahead of time. Do other engineers have the same experience?
I agree with elmomle, but mostly because I've had a number of customers many years ago (back when I worked in tech support) who were older (70+, sometimes 80+) who were absolutely willing to learn new technologies and were generally sharp people.

The difference is definitely much less about not finding new technologies useful or irritating; it's a difference, I think, between people who are genuinely curious and interested in learning new things and those who aren't.
Liz Cheney was in party leadership. She was unable to lead since she couldn't stop attacking her own party members. That is no different than firing somebody for failing to do their job which nobody would consider the same thing as canceling.

Trying to end a career of people because they donated to some politician or said some inappropriate years ago (that very often was accepted back then) is completely different.
Compared to AirPods/Pro, these have some advantages (USB-C charging), and some disadvantages (no wireless charging). For me, the most interesting part is that they offer ANC and transparency mode for significantly less than the AirPods Pro ($149 vs $249).

It's also interesting that they can get firmware updates directly, for the benefit of Android users. Anyone know how they would do this?
U.S. Covid-19 deaths cross painful 600k milestone as country reopens
> Now, you might say, "Microsoft shouldn't count!" but Edge's market share is bigger than Firefox

That honestly surprised me, but you're right [0] - though only 0.01% (StatCounter) or 1.65% (NetMarketShare) in it, depending who you listen to.

I'm not sure about the latter, but I'd have thought 0.01% is down in the noise of misreported user agent, which FF users are probably the most likely to be doing.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...
Surely changing how tabs look in the latest update must be gaining Mozilla mad points by now. \s
Perhaps I didn't read the article closely enough.
I don't recommend using the Economist as your only source for international news. It's very deeply ideological in a way that is almost invisible if you can't easily compare it to a known truth.

It's certainly not only interested in solutions that can be implemented. It's interested in solutions that enforce the free market, and it paints non-market solutions as infeasible, even though they often work and are implementable. But this is invisible ideology and very easy to mistake for pragmatism, because a pure pragmatist will certainly appreciate many market solutions.

The final synthesis is not after having treated both sides. It's after having treated two sides, which are editorially chosen.

As far as dialectics it would be much more interesting if they could dialectically analyze their own internal contradictions between democracy and interventionist realpolitik, or between free-market fundamentalism and concern about externalities. But it doesn't really grapple with those, which is a sign that it's only applying dialectical thinking in convenient ways.

In any case, the Economist is not any worse than any other mainstream publication. Often they do pretty good reporting. But you absolutely must not rely on it solely especially for foreign reporting where you don't have bearings.
> Living in the city with children can be very desirable. You may have a small (or no backyard), but the city is your playground. Public parks, pools, trails, and so much more.

Have you been to the cities lately? We just left Seattle; the public parks and trails were overrun with tents and needles. The school district is allowing homeless drug addicts to live on school property. The city council appears to have no interest in the quality of life of children and their families.
This issue may only affect a minority of users, but it's a seriously frustrating issue for us. I'm currently unable to use any modern Mac, iPad, or iPhone (Same with PCs) due to whatever flickering they've got going on, it's actually ruining my life here (My job requires a computer). I understand that most people have no issues with flicker, but I hope the tech develops to a point where these companies don't need to rely on it.
More likely, a keychain:

https://www.amazon.com/Keychain-Ryzen-Threadripper-Computer-...

https://www.amazon.com/Keychain-Intel-Core-Computer-Chain/dp...
There is always an Eternal September.
I wonder if the other Home Assistant (https://github.com/home-assistant) contributors know that their dependencies are not open source?
> uses cases for Reed-Solomon at the application level

Hadoop has an RS implementation inside the filesystem (called "erasure coding"), instead of storing 3 copies of the same data, it can actually instead store ~1.5 copies as (6+3) or (10+4).

Previously, I've run into this tech in satellite internet gateways, but distributed filesystems is where I've gone through the math & probabilities of failure properly.

I work on perf & the extra network hops (with 3 replicas, you read 100% of data local, when you stripe it that doesn't work) and math for the error correction are hot spots when you are trying to keep all cores busy.
You didn't like my comment, so you went through my post history?

Recasting criminals as innocent angels is a disinformation tactic. You don't get to accuse people of laziness when they correct the record.
My take is that if you need it, Stripe will be better and more secure than rolling your own
In Haskell, main is a value, not a function. This is sometimes overlooked because in Haskell "values" can be thought of as 0-parameter functions and functions can be used as values, so everything sort of blends together, but I find it gives some fascinating insight into how lazy programming changes things up.