skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why ousting Linus puts the long-term health of the kernel at risk. It’s very difficult and expensive, at a personal and professional level, to tell colleagues to “fuck off” if they are submitting low quality garbage for reasons related to their salary. Linux was Linus’s baby, he had nearly absolute control, and he didn’t care too much about politeness - this was a magic recipe for him to be able to stave off garbage patch requests from motivated corporate peons.

Now, if the people approving patches are just normal employees who can get fired if a kernel sponsor complains enough, it’s going to be much harder for them to successfully deflect all the bullshit without ever caving in.
> mods across the entire Internet

I think Among Us's mod support is underrated for a multi-player game, and I think it did a lot to improve the game's longevity.

I'm hesitant to make broad sweeping claims about the game, but I agree that looking purely at streamers is probably underselling its success, even though streamers did obviously play a big role in bringing it to more people's attention.
Sure, but would you support a generic global statement like this?

> "Gamedev has got to be the most rewarding type of software coding there is."

I am also a game development enthusiast, but I would say this is the reason why it feels so rewarding. The way of programming is not the reason, in my opinion.
I want it to be true. Are we are there already ?

"The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen...

"Estimating The Carbon Footprint Of Utility-Scale Battery Storage"
"...there have been few studies to characterize emissions associated with battery usage in storage applications..."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/02/16/estimating-t...

"The CO2 Impact of the 2020s’ Battery Quality Lithium Hydroxide Supply Chain"

"Volkswagen recently claimed that they need to emit 2.5x more CO2 to manufacture an EV compared to an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle"

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c9aa323c46f6d499a2ac...
On the next installment of speculative FUD, mainstream media, agenda-driven reporting:

Do the Chinese subsidize supervillains' labs to manufacture pandemics to kill themselves and the world?

Do the Chinese drink the blood of young children? If so, what does it taste like and what food pairings work best?Does the dog Fluffy get to have a taste?

What should we do to thwart the ascending Red Menace while America crumbles from within like Rome 2.0?

This isn't about news, it's about yellow (no pun intended) journalism to serve Western corporate interests.
ok, this is the guy we want to hire.
I understand this argument. But if we separate out the mass screening/data-collection approach from its practical constraints (undue stress, overwhelm medical system), I think we can both at least agree that it is a correct direction to head towards? Or is the status-quo already as well optimized as it could be?
Lol. Slack uses Chime SDK for voice/video calls [1]. That is partly why Amazon uses Slack in the first place.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...
>When developers - professionals who enjoy royal treatment on the job market at the moment - are too afraid to upset their employers over an ethical question, it makes me mad.

I feel like a lot of people saying this lately haven't tried to get a job since the pandemic.

Invitations to apply from recruiters whose job it is to get people in the door are not job offers, nor royal treatment.
Gets harder when you take labor into account.
i use golang on and off and i always have to remind myself the difference between GOROOT, GOPATH, and GOSRC. the seeds of confusion was sowed from the get go.
From my experience the products work fine, but they much more complex than they need to be (and than competing products are).
They have a lot of weird constraints that make it hard to be really productive.

That said, when you've setup a build/pipeline, it mostly just works as it should.
If you look through the technical details this proposal, it 100% allows for money printing.

El Salvador isn't actually giving people Bitcoin. It's giving people records in an SQL database that supposedly correspond to Bitcoin in a government wallet.

The government can just edit that SQL database to print money.
> these cures are often brutal

Heart disease is a huge deal. It ruins your life. (Maybe not in all caps.) Nevertheless, we regularly test for it, including with techniques with high rates of false positives. Few panic because almost everyone knows someone who got a false positive and didn't promptly keel over and die.

If healthy adults are screened for cancer, there will be cultural memory of people who got a false positive. The response to a positive test result won't be chemo. It will be further testing, if non-invasive, or suggestions of lifestyle changes and increased monitoring of the suspected system.

People aren't too stupid to understand an early test with a high false positive rate. People with family histories of cancer don't wake up every morning screaming. Some may. But barring everyone because some people will overreact is why orthodox health policy is losing public trust.
In some places, like Massachusetts, happy hours (happys hour?) are illegal, I think the on the theory that they promote binge drinking.
Happy hour is when drinks go on a huge discount for a set time period. You get a lot more seriously drunken people since it encourages binge drinking. I would assume that just carries a higher insurance premium to have one.
Fighting Anxiety with Science
There is no difference, Slack itself tied up with AWS to use chime for their own voice/video calling [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...
Chime is a (crappy) zoom clone.

Our AWS account manager pushed us hard to use it for our checkins.
> That should be acceptable to everyone.

I used to build things with frameworks and languages with yearly upkeep requirements.

> And those who prefer to live in rot,

What rot? If my application didn't change I'm not sure why my dependencies should need to.

Regarding golang, I hated go get and the go workspace idea when I first started with go.

Then I got over it, now I try to use modules and I just get annoyed, the whole system is confusing and flaky.

All this change is doing is pushing me further into rust. It has problems too but they tend not to do this kind of hand wringing.
Teaching Bravery
Wasn't trying to derail conversation into ad companies. Just used some examples on how laws aren't always about public interest, but more the interest of those being affected by the law so the effect is the least disruptive as possible.
I'd need to know more about the specific types of cancer this screening covers to say anything for sure. However, the errors that cause cancerous growth are more common than most think and many are not life-threatening. I think that's what the other commenter is talking about. The intervention for these types of cancer may be more damaging than the cancer itself. If these are detected by this test, the patient may not understand that intervention is not necessarily in their best interest and may have increased anxiety or demand treatment when it is not needed.

This is just the first article I ran into.

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-evidence-finds-numerous-can...
There's no doubt that if everyone had the issues I did, OnePlus would fix it or there'd be a louder outrage! But the point being that there's clearly a change (for the worse) in their drivers that affects some handsets (examples below of various reports), despite working fine in earlier versions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/ldg7gn/op7pro_open...

https://old.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/mvddho/android_11_...

https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/lock-screen-scaling-is-wr...
You Need Friends Not Slack Groups
Honestly, I wonder if remote learning couldn't be better for at least some student populations. I have family who were bullied terribly (think on the level of "attacked by a crazy person with a knife at school" and "sexually harassed by teachers") and they probably would've benefited from an easier way of getting away from their tormentors instead of having to quit school and get a GED.

I know that's not a one-size-fits-all thing, people are social after all and isolation causes its own issues, but I sort of wonder if remote learning can't become an option for kids, especially those who are poorly-served by their local schools.
Signal is entirely independent and hasn't been acquired by Amazon or any other big tech company. It remains the gold standard for security/privacy technology (whether it's packaged acceptably for everyone on HN is a different question, and I'm not saying you have to use it).
If I don't get billed for my power usage then I'm 100% craning my AC, as will everyone else.
These aren’t mutually exclusive, it’s not like there was enough time to come up with something better.

Wealthier households with a well functioning family unit did well perhaps even better than normal, poorer ones and or ones that had family issues most likely resulted in a much poorer outcome than normal schooling.

How much did it actually impact children we won’t know for quite some time, it would all depend on how many of them will catch up and how the education system would adapt to the new gap(s).
I've been getting obsessed a bit with guix (and learning a little Guile, of course), mixed with trying to sort out the Haskell stack/cabal situation for some complicated projects to package in Guix. Guix is very cool, and looking to build my next system with it. Any excuse to do more things with anything Lisp. In the meantime I've already submitted a few patches to fix bugs in some packages and the Haskell build system, first time I've done that in such a large project. A good learning experience so far, just hope those patches get picked up!

(I know it is supposed to be pronounced 'geeks' but I can't help but want to say 'goo-eeks')
My kid is <6 and goes to a private daycare run by a publicly traded company in partnership with my wife's employer, a large biotech.

They figured out PPE and distancing protocols about six weeks after initial shutdown and all kids were back in class. To our knowledge, there were no known covid outbreaks (all parents and staff are emailed when a staff or student is diagnosed).

Capitalism wins again.
Increasingly clear that, at Amazon, the most passionate path to getting bigger is obtaining access to tax dollars.

... but Amazon's stock would be 1/4 the price if it were valued like Lockheed Martin.
Shouldn't that be <insert_different_british_comedy_troupe>?
I remember I heard about something called Russiagate, but history never-ever repeats itself. EVER.
And ironically, earned 3 points of HN karma kreds for this very tiny contribution to the discussion. Oh the deep irony in this particular context of KPI spamming.
> magic carrots could be used as hackerrank/linkedin/hiring

Please god no. We have enough terrible hiring practices as it is, we don't need to make every other tech company a sweatshop like Amazon is.
My experience with people working under these kinds of arrangements is that they absolutely do think of their PTO in monetary terms, and manage it with an expectation that most of it will be turned into money at some point, and that anyone past the first couple years on the job has quite a bit "banked", so that "fining" them some PTO isn't preventing them from taking time off, but is taking (future) money away, and the employee would understand it in those terms.
Apple and Snap Pick Up Where Pokemon Go Left Off
I actually think this release is different. Killing off VR is a big one; while it was used by a small percentage of the player base, they were the ones who were really into the game and kept the community alive.

And more than most games, Elite basically requires you to use third-party tools built by the community to do the more complex stuff like long-distance navigation or trading. Many are already long in the tooth, and Odyssey is rapidly pushing away the most dedicated part of the community.
One 45 day loss was for breaking a restroom door with a battering ram in a practical joke... pretty harsh punishment.
- Solidity and writing about it on my blog as I am getting more inquiries about work related to it.

- Exploring Manifestation and subconscious mind.
I've spent the morning digging into this, and find it frustratingly controversial (in the proper sense, of being murky and divisive). I admit I like the story of the defense you've sheared, that it was an aspect of the times, but can't deny the concerns raised by his relationship with Alice in particular (see their kisses, letters). My SO says there was a documentary which featured condemning letters from one of his yiuge girlfriend's nannies, but I haven't seen these, except perhaps in a passing mention of contemperary gossip. I do find it interesting to read mid-tentieth century psychoanalysis of his work, because it kind-of reads like the sensational speculatuon in online forum comments :p
Maybe a little off-topic.

You wanna solve or avoid millions bugs? Instead of hiring people capable of memorizing how to invert binary trees and similar bs, companies when interviewing and hiring should focus on real hands-on experience, should value developers who empower and demostrate best practices and good code craftsmanship.

Ask candidates to write and review real production code.

It is just unbelievable how low is set the bar when it comes to writing high quality code even at so called FAANG. You can just imagine how bad it gets for any other random company out there.
Understanding the Laws That Govern DL Data Processing
Clever idea. How do I get my harvest once it’s ready? Does someone have to harvest the plants for me and mail them to me?
At other jobs, even committing an infraction that didn't injure nor kill anybody but was against company policy is enough to get terminated. It's often a liability issue for the company.
A popular referendum that was held _after_ the Russian military, with their national insignia removed, occupied Crimea en masse, just to be clear. If Mexico invaded Southern California, and then held a referendum with suspiciously high levels of voter turnout and a nearly 90% yes vote, don’t you think people would find that suspicious? Can’t you imagine why Ukraine and its allies think this was an illegal conquest?
If the regarding company is EU based or offering their services also in EU you are obliged to report them to data protection authorities.
AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
If a civilian broke down the door of a precinct bathroom with a battering ram, what do you think the consequences would be? I'm guessing more than 45 days in jail and they'd probably get fired wherever they're employed.
They would get your email according to the Spotify sign in. I didn't mean to imply people would be giving their credentials (hence why I said details but I get why you misunderstood)
so close but alas … no Python support.
Which of course, is completely different from what you get with the US in the lead...
That would be a very crackheaded thing to do, taking pictures to blackmail yourself for having sex with a dog.
This won't work.

If companies cannot be bothered to make their websites user friendly in the first place, why would they do it in this new and obscure way?

It's like the episode on Dragon's Den where someone tried pitching a service that would call companies on your behalf, and would only call you to connect both ends when the music stops and a call center agent actually picks up the phone.

It's the job of the company to fix their long wait times, not of some 3rd party service, which may or may not work with a specific customer service number.
That's true, and I think FD knows about this. After all, it took many years for them to deliver it, and it's pretty much presented as a hame of its own.

But they had to develop this. The fans have been asking for it since forever. I think that what the fans actually really want, isn't just the ability to walk around their ships and look at space stations up close. The FPS game that is built around it isn't actually that interesting to most ED players, and I think the people who will be playing it is a different category of people.

I haven't done much walking around since it's giving me single digit performance on my 4k screen, so I need to get a new graphics card. The flying part is perfectly fine at 60 fps at 4k.
Then presumably people would stop using these services and use others/make their own. Its not like google has a monopoly on running a public dns resolver.
I just hate how much they say "screw you" to those who want to get money through combat and how freaking grindy the game is. They've taken the freemium model of "basic advancements should take weeks to save up for" instead of "players should get to have fun"
Well, yes, it's only worth running a screening programme if you have a usefully accurate test and if you can then make some useful intervention after a positive result. Is anyone here disagreeing with that, though?

Maybe we interpreted OP's comment that you quoted differently? I read it as being in favour of preventative medicine as a whole, not necessarily endorsing this specific test at this specific point in time.

Maybe I'm also interpreting some of the other comments in this discussion, including yours, differently to how their authors intended them. My concern is that as written they appear to be criticising all use of screening, regardless of its efficacy, which is extremely dangerous.
No mammograms? No pap smears? No prostrate screening? That's shocking.
How does "resource exploitation on their land" play a part in this discussion. Seems like quite the non-sequitur.

The way the residential school program was implemented was gross (it was massively underfunded leading to absurdly neglectful conditions and crowding, should never have been put in the hands of people who felt that Christianity was the purpose, and most importantly should have been voluntary), and was driven entirely by prejudice. However if you have essentially a people that time forgot in far flung locations while the rest of the world is rapidly progressing...it's a tough situation. There are people involved in the residential school program who probably really did have good intentions. They weren't a part of some broad "steal `their' resources" evil plot.

And we face the echos of this problem to this day. Remote, extremely low density aboriginal groups. No, they don't want to "live off the land" (and the reserve is full of snowmobiles, pick up trucks and guns, and we have regular newspaper articles complaining that watermelons are expensive or that there isn't piped water). Suicide and substance abuse are endemic -- up to 9x the non-aboriginal rate -- not because people are sad about something that happened a hundred years ago, but because they live in the middle of nowhere, with no prospects, and suddenly the things that amazed and entertained their ancestors four hundred years ago isn't engaging to kids who have an awareness that the rest of the world exists.

In a normal, functioning world, yeah their "indigenous culture" wouldn't be so defensively guarded and a part of their identity. I come from Scottish and Irish culture. I have never worn a kilt. I have never played a bagpipe. I have never eaten haggis. I have never flown scottish or irish flags, or concerned myself whatsoever with whatever happens there. Because I'm a part of a multicultural, rich, integrated society. I identify with the whole, not for some uniqueness that I demand be identified.

And I'll take the inevitable downvotes by the "yeah you're white you don't have a say" crocodile tear crowd, but this is all spot on.
> You know what? I know that scraping is currently legal, but then we end up with things like that company or Clearview AI. We need some laws, ASAP, prohibiting data for being scraped for specific reasons.

I don't think there's anything about scraping that makes this disgusting. It would be equally bad if individual people uploaded compromising photos of their exes.

The issue here is that people need control — not ownership — over their image and personal data/information. (The difference I intend to draw between control and ownership, is that the legal notion of control would be written in such a way that the fine print is irrelevant. Most online systems have some fine print somewhere giving the site owner certain rights over your content. Such fine print about a person's image needs to be rendered such a risk that if a business owner suggests including something like that to a lawyer, the lawyer starts quivering in their boots. "If I include such a clause, I will never get paid, because within half a nanosecond of it being visible you will be sued into kingdom come and your great grandchildren will still be paying off your debts."
The python language developers absolutely did do it wrong. You could not run mixed python2 and python3 code. Either all your dependencies were migrated and you could flip the switch and try things out, or some stragglers kept you running code with compatibilities for 2 and 3 while you waited.

And if one of your dependencies started using new features from 3.x it would break everyone stuck on 2.7, so you can't even use the new features in your library. So why would you bother migrating? So everyone was stuck in a game theoretical position where there was no first mover advantage because one straggler would invalidate all the investment.
CBD Oil During Pregnancy: Is IT Safe to Use?
I've seen that post repeated before but there's little evidence to corroborate it. Corporate acquisitions have to be be announced (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) and there's only one acquisition that I've seen news of E-ink making. Moreover, if "forget about getting any detailed datasheets about how to correctly drive their displays to get sharp images" were true, then this product and Dasung's similar product wouldn't even exist.
I would love to a see a cost per watt across all renewables. is building a hydro and geothermal plant much cheaper than solar given you have the right conditions for solar?
Speaking of misinformation and speculation, I see you and others are still pushing the "ingesting bleach" blatant falsehood. You do yourself no favors.
> When developers - professionals who enjoy royal treatment on the job market at the moment - are too afraid to upset their employers over an ethical question, it makes me mad.

Sure, that’s understandable.

But to be understand it, also remember that when highly paid experts that get royal treatment so long as they conform confront employers over ethical issues...you get the Google Ethical AI massacre.

“Royal treatment” isn’t unconditional, and means you have a lot to lose.
> If I don't get billed for my power usage then I'm 100% craning my AC, as will everyone else

Sorry, in what relevant scenario does the power company never get paid?

OP pointed out a potential feedback loop between the cell network going down and the grid failing. Are you suggesting everyone will crank up their AC when the network fails because the power company will have some difficulty collecting metering data that day?
I feel lost/scared just thinking about this world we have built, with all its perverse incentives.
Metadata stuff? They still require phone numbers(unlike wickr)
I assume they mean that you don't gain much privacy from Google if you still have one of their phones. See also: the location tracking stuff lately.
My own anecdote tracks. Never thought about the age correlation but most of my team are early 30s and younger. That group has been very negative about the remote experience. I'm much older and while I didn't like it at first, I'm in the camp of people who don't ever want to go back to an office. The people who are in between age-wise are a bit of a mix.
Open source doesn’t produce military advantage.
Ah you're right - not sure why I thought that Protonmail was Russian, but they're not.