skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, not really. That's a very convenient story but an outright fabrication. Greta Thunber's document clearly did not laid out any plot. Greta's doc provide
suggestions on how to protest the upcoming agriculture reform law, and the persecuted activist was jailed for editing two lines.

It's a fact that the document had a plan for 26 January and it's also a fact that violence at a large scale took place that day in the capital. It's a sufficient ground for the police to pursue the people involved to investigate the links between both.

> The lack of self-awareness and desperation in your comment is very telling.

Injecting ad hominem in your arguments weakens your position. It demonstrates that the self-awareness has taken over by insecure ego, a sign of the conditioned mind.

> screams of the
doingd of a fascist regime dedicated to oppress their citizens if they propose any form of criticism of the ruling regime.

This comments certainly seem to come from a parallel reality because in the reality that I live, I come across media entities, people, leaders and even students, openly criticizing the so called current fascist regime, almost on a daily basis, even some times going to the length of threatening to harm the PM physically or break the nation.
I haven't come across even a single incident where people just got into jail for criticizing the current government.
Obviously when some violence happens and you're suspected to have some links, police will arrest you with charges it seems fit, but the law will take its own course and proceedings in the court shall decide eventually.

IN the fascist regime, judiciary won't have the freedom to let go the people the regime doesn't like; even in communist countries (good example is China), there's no independence of judiciary.

On the other hand, Indian judiciary takes pride in asserting its superiority wherever it can (just stating as a fact to demonstrate the independence of judiciary). I have only seen increased judicial activism during the current regime and certainly not decreasing of it.
I think this is a common failing for legal analysis of tech problems. Some years ago Lessig made the argument that radio bandwidth should be unregulated and belong to all, instead of licensed to cellphone carriers. The technical basis for the argument was that's how Ethernet hubs work, and they work great. Of course, nobody uses a hub today.
Yes, 32x32 is typically used by higher density displays (more pixels in the same space, relatively speaking).
Background: I discovered that pip's search was down, so I decided to make my own API. I then discovered that pypi.org actually has a JSON API, so I should probably scrape that and provide a proper CLI utility.
Yep, that's why Instragram will never work, no one will ever steal user share from ICQ, and Myspace will be around forever.
In Polish Sejm (the "lower" but actually more important house of parliament), there are a few restaurants and they sell alcohol. So a deputy can just step outside, have a few alcoholic drinks, and vote. People in other professions would be fired on disciplinary grounds.
You can get a pretty good idea of quality of project management based on how well or poorly they estimated project baseline costs at outset.

These are linked - incompetence in estimating costs / complexity = incompetence in execution = insane cost overruns.

And you would get far more science with 5 $2B projects then one project like this. And if this thing has a launch of deployment problem all eggs in one basket. If there are cost overruns and delays, also all eggs in a basket and no other options.
MGT is limited to the light that filters through the atmosphere. JWST will be tuned to longer wavelengths (redshifted older objects) that can only be seen in cold space.
One does not simply create an APFS snapshot using tmutil.
Using tmutil means Time Machine creates a snapshot for me. It also conveniently earmarks the snapshot for later removal at Time Machine’s own discretion.

That’s not what I want. I want to have a say in snapshot retention, not have some tool make the decision for me.

Specifically, I need precise control over snapshot retention so I can maintain several off-site replicas of my backup.
It's an unworkable idea.

What is an ad, exactly? You cite Consumer Reports as a model - they have affiliate links on their reviews. Is that an ad? Is a sponsored social media post? A celebrity endorsement? Free products given to athletes in the hopes that they will be seen using it? Logos on clothing? Is the standard just "I know it when I see it"?

Also (in the US) it almost certain runs afoul of the First Amendment.
I agree with your overall point, but I believe that this could (and hopefully will) change without any top-down mandate. I think we just need a minority group of people who are unbreakable in their intolerance of ad-funded services, much like RMS and the first FOSS developers were intolerant of running any type of proprietary software.

It dawned on me with the whole WhatsApp thing of fucking around with the privacy policy: I didn't mind using it before, but that was the final nail in the coffin. I uninstalled it and I told my friends/family that whoever wanted to reach me could do with Matrix, phone or plain email. I also would gladly help set an account for them on my communick group plan. Of course not all of them did, but the ones who did realized that it was not the end of the world to use a new app and were glad to be able to say that they were not enslaved to whatever Facebook had to offer. Some of these friends even signed up for their own plan, so they could invite more people on their own, etc...
Issue is common carrier vs publishers.

Common carrier: service provider is not responsible for any information customers transmit.

Publisher: service provider is responsible for which customer-supplied information is transmitted.

Section 203 bends the line between these, absolving service provider from liability of content while allowing good-faith effort to cull bad content. T/G/F broke that line by conflating “opposing views” with “bad content” unto sociopolitical ends.

At some point a court or legislature must clarify that making bad-faith deletions of content nullifies the 203 protection. Here we go.
>Windows only dominates in Office and gaming, neither of which are apparently worth fighting over.

Everyone and everything is worth fighting over.
You can violate a TOS that encroach upon your rights granted by the government you know.
Hey Google, if you’re still into this, how about disabling autosuggest and autoplay for anyone on youtube?
You've just described the job description of "politician" ;)
Because it’s a valid image.
I originally launched FC on HN in Feb 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209411

It's evolved a lot since then!

After launching the redesign - I honestly don't know how our previous design got any customers, let alone the ones we have. :)
All such companies, large and small, were granted freedom to not be responsible for their users comments per US law. That doesn't mean they have to leave them there if they don't want to.
To me, the question is how a common carrier status can coexist with content curation and promotion.

Looking at the ur-example of the phone company, AT&T doesn't try to preemptively place calls that a household "might be interested in based on analytics."

The modern social media landscape, however, is dominated by "the algorithm." Youtube lives on its recommendations; Twitter wants you to keep refreshing its feed; even Hacker News tries to sort the front page by a combination of novelty and interest. In my opinion, this is a continuous, editorial judgment by the outlet, and it is very different from the idea of a "neutral public square" that exists as an objective point in space.

The fight isn't really about whether an individual person should have a right to send messages to other individual people on social media platforms; it's about whether the media platform has a responsibility to actively promote views without regard for their content. It's not about forcing the "shopping mall" to allow protesters (PruneYard, from the article), but instead it's about forcing the "shopping mall" to advertise that it's hosting protesters and include them on its maps and business lists.

(Edit to add:)

The article discusses this point somewhat in its section E, related to compelled recommendations, but I think the topic deserves much broader analysis. A "legally viewpoint-neutral Twitter" would be a Pyrrhic victory for proponents if Twitter could still restrict user's visibility to direct subscribers/replies only, denying the public part of its platform.
Slightly related to the lack of a standard library is that a lot of these 3rd party packages come from random people in the community. It’s great that people are so willing and able to share code, but it also means that as a community we put a lot of trust into code that may not be vetted or funded properly. I think we assume that because these packages are open source that someone is making sure they are safe to consume, but because there’s so many of them it’s hard to verify them.
One feature I rather like in Haskell is being able to zip with list comprehension syntax[1]:

λ> [(x, y) | x <- [1..] | y <- [1..3]]
[(1,1),(2,2),(3,3)]

This example is a bit silly—I would just write zip [1..] [1..3]—but it makes more complex expressions involving zips much easier to read at a glance. I looked through some real code I've written, and being able to do things like this is definitely nice:

toHashMap values = HashMap.fromList
[ convert name value
| name <- Schema.fldName <$> Schema.fields t
| value <- Vector.toList values
]

Of course, this particular example would be nicer if Haskell had something like dictionary comprehensions for building hash maps, but this isn't an awful substitute, and zipping multiple sequences together is useful in a lot of other configurations as well!

[1]: I should add that this requires enabling the somewhat misleadingly named `ParallelListComp` extension. Frankly, I think extensions like this should just be added to the language—this introduces new syntax, so it never changes previously valid code—but the Haskell community is very conservative about making changes to the core, standardized part of the language :/.
Looks like for at least one of their apps, other than jumping through some extra hoops they work on the M1 today: https://sixcolors.com/link/2020/11/rogue-amoebas-apps-update...

I know they are having a dialog with Apple about what's still lacking for them to do it the new "right way" but I think for now you sill have to basically do what Jason outlines.
> The "common carrier" designation is easy to implement when communication is point-to-point with paid subscriptions (e.g. telephones) -- instead of broadcast funded with ads or government taxes (e.g. Facebook/Twitter, BBC). There is no government in the world that allows broadcast of any topic without interference.

The paper deals with the supposed distinction between point-to-point and broadcast. In brief, it's not very clear. Consider the postal service: If millions of people subscribe to a magazine, is that point-to-point communication or broadcasting? How is it different from millions of people subscribing to a youtube channel? Or following someone on twitter?
Mind-reading? You know his motive?
Nice post, thanks for sharing it.

From personal experience I can only agree with their choice to pick Nomad. At the place where I work we have been running Nomad as our main container orchestrator for around 2.5 years now. It's rock solid, very easy to set-up and maintain and overall not too complex to understand in depth.
I just recently saw this on this as an example as a Recency illusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_illusion

It has a few references there that I have not confirmed myself but it does list a reference to Shakespeare.
"He and fellow researchers eventually learned that these creatures and their snot palaces play an outsize role in helping the ocean remove planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — one more part of a vast and underappreciated system that makes the ocean an unsung hero of climate change.
Covering more than 70% of Earth’s surface, the ocean has absorbed more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide released by humans since the Industrial Revolution, and about 90% of the resulting heat."
I'm a maintainer of a few of the larger packages on npm. This is generally pretty accurate. Snyk Security seems only to find regex DoS bugs and I'm a bit disappointed in them being classified as high severity, and they're the only ones submitting reports right now.

They seem pretty adamant on filing CVEs despite what the owner says (It's normally fine but these DoS vulns require very large input to be handed into the function by untrusted sources, which given how these libraries work isn't going to be very common).

Now, I have people yelling at me about dependent packages not being updated because they don't understand version ranges, or because some audit states they are high vulns, or whatever.

Super broken, everything related to npm's package lock stuff is broken by design. I've been saying it for years now and it seems people still cling to blindly trusting what corporations say.
What I’m Teaching My Daughter About Living in Extreme Heat
Highly recommend this pertinent and brilliant talk from several years ago:

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpl0QVCr6U

text: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
The weirdest thing I have done in Emacs is using it to generate WAVE files, with a visual interface. The music loops, so you can keep playing with it. I've given talks about the package at !!Con 2021 and EmacsConf 2020.

Info about this at https://zck.org/bangbangcon2021. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeTDIrJeriI. Bonus: the presentation itself is done from within Emacs, in another library I wrote.
Yeah, I don't think our opinions diverge too much on that. My ideal world wouldn't feature much of either of them—I think well-marked, in some standard and easy-to-spot way, ads in publications aren't so terrible, for instance, provided it's made clear up-front, say with some kind of cigarette-box style notice or warning, that there are ads in it. Though, again, if paid advertising just went away, in all forms, entirely, tomorrow I wouldn't be sad about it. But, as far as online ads go, it's the surveillance part that bothers me more than there being any ads at all, and that worries me way beyond its use in advertising.
If they're unbelievably boring, I guess they're not cut for the job.
I'm just a rube but in general there are two issues:

1 - the atmosphere distorts and filters out a lot of light in various wavelengths. MGT likely has better resolution, but only for light that reaches it.

2 - JWST is primarily for infrared. Given blackbody radiation of the equipment itself can create a bunch of noise there, it's important to keep the equipment as cool as possible.
Hi, I'm curious to know if there's anything that you don't like about ActivityWatch ?
This is great news. I heard that from this season in England there will be full stadiums for football matches again. So the world is slowly coming to life. True, business affairs can be conducted online, and with the help of sites like https://www.aetrust.com/ not to miss moments in business development.
Depends on the fuel, though. Ion thrusters with a solid propellant are becoming popular in the smallsat business.
I don’t understand if you are pro having a kid, against, or “if everyone else is doing it, so am I”. But if you are saying everything around us is worsening our future, I would think you’d be wary of putting a kid in that environment for the next 100 years?
I remember getting excited about this telescope a decade ago. I haven't heard of it since; but I thought it's budget was cut and it was over.

I'm excited NASA is finally going to get it up in space!
This is something which comes up a lot: people simultaneously complaining about invasive ad-tracking and all the ads they see suck.

But it's the truth. e.g. I visit the website of some weird brand of coffee. Suddenly, I get spammed with ads about artisan coffee, even though I could care less. Both intrusive (you took data from somewhere way outside of your domain to guess something about me) and annoying (you guessed wrong).

Moreover, this tends to happen very often for gambling, porn, weight loss, pregnancy, etc. all things which are very private, because they also happen to be stuff people spend a lot of money on. So I want to avoid those sites, not just because the government or insurance could use it against me, but because my ads will get even more annoying.
I think you're getting downvoted because what you're saying doesn't match up with the wiki article you linked.

The original estimate was for $1.6 billion, in I'm guessing the 90s, and the estimate had been updated to $5 billion by the time it was formally confirmed for construction.

> The telescope was originally estimated to cost US$1.6 billion,[102] but the cost estimate grew throughout the early development and had reached about US$5 billion by the time the mission was formally confirmed for construction start in 2008.

So yes, it has been over budget, but by 2x-3x, not 20x, and that isn't adjusted for inflation.

Also, everything is just a money pit until it's launched/finished/etc.
I know right? "Let users know how long of a commitment they're making" and then not one progress bar or slide counter like 1/23,085 .
What do you use ? iPhone ? Is it the default option, or you had to configure it that way ?
Many retail stores price certain items at a loss, called loss-leaders.
I really like the new Instagram and Facebook messengers because of how rich they are: you can send text, audio, pictures and video, and links get nice previews. You can control how long your messages stay around, and you can react to messages with the full emoji set.
You're correct about the control of speech. At the moment at least Twitter, Google, and Facebook are private companies, and under the law and in the eyes of the Free Market, they can choose what they want to show and what they don't. It's their product, their rules. They kept the former occupant of the oval office on their platforms for as long as it was profitable to them.

The solution entails more than questioning the philosophical idea of "Free Speech", it involves considering the nature of government and human rights in an entirely different light than the currently dominant neoliberal economic consensus.
Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
Let's try it out with HN? Maybe start a petition to demand that there is no more flagging/banning, etc. Anything goes in this marketplace of ideas, right? Let's stop letting dang tell us what we can and cannot say, eh? Let's stop the censorship now!
I’m sure that in the time leading up to Trump’s ban from Twitter & Facebook, the companies had multiple C-level meetings and spent countless personnel-hours coming up for a plan outlining if and when Trump would be banned from the platform. I’m sure that legal counsel was deeply involved in the decision-making process, as well as PR.

Twitter & Facebook were waiting for the perfect storm:

1. Their decision had to have good optics—the company had to appear, to the public, that it was doing the right thing.

2. Their decision had to be consistent—the relevant policies had to be written down and enacted long in advance.

3. Their decision had to have the right timing, politically.

I’m also sure that there’s a massive stack of CYA documentation that these companies can produce on a moment’s notice. It’ll be interesting to watch the court case, because I’m interested in seeing what kind of CYA documentation these companies produce. They knew that Trump is eager to litigate. They knew this lawsuit was coming, and they were preparing for it long before they banned him.
You can complain to a developer in the company you follow on twitter. It's a perfect system! /s
That's not how laws work.
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I suspect she meant they can't hide "behind" the first amendment.. but otherwise that word salad makes as much sense as the typical Pam Bondi speech.

For the 1 millionth time - the Fauci-Zuckerberg emails not only took place during the Trump administration, and were shared with the White House comms team, but they were also were released under FOIA during the Trump administration. All of these were released in 2020!

His government redacted the emails that he's complaining about being redacted. He's literally suing Facebook for colluding with his government and his attorney is using the redactions that his government performed as evidence of that collusion.

Just an astonishingly incompetent lawsuit and I hope the lawyers who filed it are sanctioned.
Sounds like academic research publications. Sure, that will totally be a key step toward cancer therapy or better biofuels (realistically, the PI gets his jollies by shoving aldehyde groups onto random molecules)
And you'd be more convincing if you hadn't just said, "You didn't phrase your argument in a way that suited me, therefore I am going to ignore the problem you just raised."

It's not the worst time ever. There, I said it. Happy? Now, are you going to say "'Not the worst time ever' can still be pretty bad and in need of fixing"?
Wow, that was really an excellent review. It is pretty spot on.
Many wavelengths of light are simply blocked by the Earth's atmosphere. If you want to see them you have to go above the atmosphere.
It is possible for Facebook to simultaneously vacuum up large amounts of personal data and still serve trash advertisements.
People keep on talking about (prefers-color-scheme: dark), but it isn’t what they want it to be—never has been, and probably never will be (though I will admit that prefers-color-scheme could theoretically be special-cased for favicon rendering).

For example, in Firefox, I use the dark theme for the UI, but that’s completely unrelated to the content, and prefers-color-scheme matches the content, not the chrome. Content I keep normal, light.

It’s quite possible (not uncommon, even) for the active tab to have a light background and inactive tabs to have a darker background. (A decade ago, this is what would happen by default on the default Windows XP theme, though it was the XP blue rather than anything dark dark.)

Or Chromium: like Firefox, it has themes; but beyond that, incognito window chrome gets a dark background.

Admittedly, (prefers-color-scheme: dark) matching makes it almost certain that you’re rendering against a dark background of some form, but it not matching tells you absolutely nothing about the background.

The fact of the matter is that your favicon could be rendered against absolutely any colour, and you need to make sure your icon will work on very light colours and very dark colours, and not be too bad on anything in between.
Ransomware-hit law firm gets order asking crooks not to publish stolen data
Believe me, 90% of people who find bugs for a living are perfectly content with keeping them to themselves and/or selling them privately.