skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> well it's a good thing we have social safety nets then. because we do and that's exactly what they're for.

Hahaha, yes the US is well known for its social safety nets. Like universal healthcare, paid maternity leave, or free contraceptives.
Microsoft solicits Clippy comeback by asking for votes
Lots of people talking about photo retention policies here, but for me the issue is videos. We have little kids, and that means lots of cute videos. It's harder to scan through them and see what's useful versus what isn't. I try to remember to delete videos that didn't turn out when I take them, but that doesn't help with the videos that I shoot that are 2 mins long but only have 20 seconds of something worth keeping.

So far I've been able to get by with retail HDDs; I have a 5TB drive at home and another that we keep off-site and refresh a couple times a year. This seems to be a sustainable strategy for me, as affordable (~$100) portable HDDs are growing at a rate that is faster than my storage needs. I don't know if it would be cheaper to pay for iCloud, but for whatever reason I feel safer having two HDDs with my media than trusting Apple's (or anyone else's) cloud.
MPs call for complete reset of music streaming to ensure fair pay for artists
Say you have a household budget, and you have separate "accounts" for different purposes.

If you pay money "to yourself" for groceries, sure, you can always take it back, but you still have to feed your family.

Writing down that your budget for groceries is $0 (or less than whatever is needed) doesn't give you additional freedom.
Its' not a bad article. I had long ago heard about the hypothesis that women have a more complex immune system so they can carry a pregnancy to term and not reject the baby immediately as something invasive. (And that's a hypothesis that makes sense to me.)

But I would add that we already know that female menstruation impacts certain specific disease processes, such as heart disease. Men get advised to donate blood to lower their risk of heart disease. Women who are still menstruating don't need to do that.

Covid is known to impact the blood significantly. Blood differences between men and women could play a role in difference in outcomes between men and women for this condition.

Women who have been pregnant become chimeras. They get cells from the baby that stay in their system. They also share a blood supply with the baby.

I have a serious and incurable congenital disorder. I'm convinced my two pregnancies were hugely beneficial to my long-term health for a long list of reasons, possibly including having cells still in me from one child who did not inherit the disorder.

So I'm interested in this topic for personal reasons and I've read a bit about such things over the years and I think it's probably hugely more complicated than this article suggests.
> So using "foreign" as a pejorative is cool as long as the foreigners are Americans?

How did you extrapolate that ? No

I really don't get your second point. You can't sell me a car without seat belt, you can't sell me weed, you can't host a jihad video platform.

You're already restricted in many ways. The world doesn't have to kneel in front of YouTube &co and accept all their bullshit.

America isn't a role model, neither in politics nor culture, the world doesn't need to conform to what America think is right.

Also, YouTube doesn't exist to serve the people, certainly not, it exists to make money and uses tax evasion to pay as little as possible in most EU countries, if they wanted to serve the people they could start there
> Plus, the ideal stereotype is usually there for a reason.

Is it? Is it true for the body shape stereotypes I mentioned? Those change over time. Is it true for common racist stereotypes?

> We're social animals. A broken bond is a broken bond, whether it's with parents, community, friends, or our own family. We can pretend that we're fine, but then we don't get to be a society full of self-reported depressed people, with great levels of psychological brokeness, addiction, and so on, and have a big majority lamenting how they are "so lonely".

This is a huge leap, that also takes on only one half of the equation. Some bonds are better off broken, and that has surely been true as long as there have been humans. I don't deny there are many self-reported depressed people, but do they constitute a higher proportion today, or lower, now people have more freedom to make their own way?
I met Dick Lewontin a few times circa age four. Somehow a lobster buoy found by my older brother in Gloucester was placed from the hanging lights above the conference table in his laboratory which eventually became a massive trash sculpture famously known throughout the scientific community in the late 70s until the fire department requested it removed for reasons. I remember being sad when I heard that news as I'm saddened by hearing of his passing now. I know how much he influenced my parents not just as scientists but as people. I've gone through my entire life thinking that there should be sculptures above every conference room table -- that particle board and fluorescent lights unadorned is drab. Now I'm wondering how much my drive to do things for the only reason that they are f&@king cool might have originally started being a toddler in his laboratory.

Sad we lost one of the great original thinkers.
Usually canvas hardware acceleration is not taken advantage of unless you do CSS tricks like setting an element with another depth order.

https://www.programmersought.com/article/58016098343/

In any case, given how browsers black list drivers and GPU models, even WebGL isn't guaranteed to be accelerated.

With these constrains the Web will never be as fast as native for graphics programming.

They took us Flash away, but forgot to ensure the same capabilities were kept.
Running multiple websites on local development machine
The good old malware.cx is completely secure and trustworthy as long as it has a https cert warning.
I argue there are plenty of competent Excel alternatives - you need only look at Excel’s embarrasingly long UserVoice page to see the myriad of small little bugs and missing functionality that make it extremely painful to use, but will never be fixed because it breaks backwards-compatibility or just because “reasons”.

Amongst my personal peeves are: inability to do non-integral scrolling; no multi-statement functions or inline-variables; still no sane and consistent CSV support; and still no TryParseDateExact and TryParseCurrency functions - using Excel when you want to use ISO 8601 consistently is painful.

https://excel.uservoice.com/
I like you analogy, but the way I see it is rephrasing it as:
Q: Why don't we hear about fire stations burning to the ground?
A: They do, but the people running them are for the most part, experts in putting down and avoiding fires
1. Government sets/increases minimum wage.

2. Price of everything increases since people have more money, without corresponding increase in wealth/value.

3. Government: pikachu face
Netflix will start publishing video games, has hired former EA exec
Apple Keynote is good though.
+1 for shucking the drive. I got a few WD externals (14 TB). They exhibited the exact behaviour described by OP. Essentially the drive slept every 15 minutes or so.

Smartctl on a timer didn’t work. Touch on a timer didn’t work. I can’t recall if hdparm or some other tuning of sleep and head parking settings worked.

Taking the drive out of the enclosure worked. It got so much quieter too.
Mac OS 8.x and 9.x shipped with both Netscape and IE4, 4.5, then 5, but IE was the default for the "Browse the Web" alias on the Desktop of new installations. Mac OS X 10.0 shipped with a very early Carbonized IE 5.0 that was unstable enough to earn a "prerelease" label on the startup screen. At the time I remember a lot of people did actually prefer to use the Classic OS version of IE 5.0 over the IE beta, at least until OmniWeb 4.0 came out around the same time as OS X 10.1 https://www.macworld.com/article/151892/omniweb.html

Announcing the browser deal is the only time I heard an entire crowd boo Stebe https://youtu.be/WxOp5mBY9IY?t=154

It's also amusing how Steve was still obviously using Concurrence instead of a Mac to do these early iCEO-era presentations http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...
There are already plenty of 3rd party services to auto-delete tweets after any condition you can want to specify.
It might be gambling I suppose, but it's actively encouraged by the VC companies who put a little seed money here and there. They want you to work yourself to death just in case you happen to get further investment. You may have no choice other than being first in a market - you don't always get a choice to be second or third when you see an opportunity.
“Neuroprosthesis” Restores Words to Man with Paralysis
So you would be ok with a phone company that doesn't allow certains groups of people to make phone calls? For instance, people whose political views it doesn't agree with? Or even worse, people with certain ethnical backgrounds?

Of course now you might say, if such a phone company existed, those people who were denied service could just choose another one. But if this company would be the one dominating the market, this would mean they couldn't reach all the people they would want to anymore. This is the analogy with Facebook.
Time to plant trees
The CPU in a real machine makes a huge difference: the last video I shot on my phone went from 3.9M → 1.6M, ~59% compressed. (With no noticable quality loss, but the original isn't winning any Oscars…)
This seems like it must be an issue with the drive you're using. I use a mix of Western Digital and Seagate USB drives and have never had a problem like this.
I think I recently read that browsers plan to make no visual difference between an EV certificate and a normal one
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Show HN: ICanHasDomain, why not. Letting my creative soul do a little more
Trees definitely do capture CO₂ and sequester it away - that's why we also support them. However planting trees does not make up the majority of offsetting projects. Offsetting can and does include things like "not cutting down these trees", or "using drones to check trees are alive". Non-tree based offsets include things like "greener stoves" as you mentioned.

These all get certified that they do _something_ however the quantity of CO₂ mitigated is vague. Bloomberg actually did a short video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20xMbGkEIQI) on how tree based offsets can be abused within the rules set out by the verification systems.

On top of this trees take time to reach maturity, die from disease & wildfires releasing their CO₂ and in some cases encourage farmers to deforest to replant for the offset credits.

This is all very negative but I am trying to provide the other side of the coin.

Trees are not enough to reverse the impact we, as a society, have had on the climate, but they are a very important part and should be supported. Our approach is to use forestation (we also double plant and calculate carbon sequestered over 10 years) in combination with much needed technological solutions to help develop them and bring them down the price curve.

Thank you so much for this discussion and your luck. Keep up the great work learning and doing good for the climate.
The problem with digital storage is the immense difference in filesize.

Removing those tax-forms isn't going to help you at all in freeing space, they are probably compressed XML or just PDFs. Yet, for example, that single slideshow for granma's 90th birthday gobbles up 95% of all the diskspace all your presentations combined use.

It is far more effective to hunt those large files and go through those only. I have largest.sh and baobab for that, but there are numerous other (GUI) tools for this.

Less fun, though. But after seeing my wife spend an entire afternoon sifting through her files (look! I already deleted 22 GB) and me going: did you see the 'Photoshoot 2012-04-01 waalkant (kopie)' full of Raws? That is 210GB. Can it go? done! Then I realised we need better tools and educate people a little here.
Probably a good thing, because otherwise anything on GitHub would count as using company equipment if you're at Microsoft
ICanHasDomain is a site where I post premium available domains. There are many sites (some really cool once) to search for domain names for your startup; but many of us struggle to create names. I think automation here is great but you need a human touch to name something important to you.

Site has 2 sections; home page lists the hand picked domains which are still available at the time of posting (updated every 24 hours, I have long list waiting) and a premium page where I will be selling my own domains at a fixed price to fund other projects.

Hope it's useful.
You say that China's current policy towards the Uyghurs is the "best of a terrible situation". The word "best" implies a search through all possible alternatives. So walk me through the optimization process that recommends the current policy, if you will, because it seems to my naive intuition that there were plenty of better options. Terrorism is the killing of civilians as an act of war, i.e. it's a subcategory of murder, which is highly illegal. Why were the usual law enforcement and justice systems ineffective here, lack of resources? Building large numbers of concentration camps seems very expensive, why not devote those resources to beefing up law enforcement and security? Also, Tahir Izgil and his friends and family don't appear to be mass-murderers, so what's the anti-terror benefit in locking them (and so many other innocent people) up? For that matter, what's the anti-terror benefit in making it so hard for them to leave China? If Uyghurs are considered to be such a problematic minority, why not let them simply leave?
I heard years ago that titles are heavily A/B tested.

I.e. the title you see might not be the one the poster saw.
Sorry, but I don't think that ANY big player, especially from the US, can/may resist NSA/FBI requests to access customer data. And we know from Snowdens leaks that those requests don't just come for criminal or terrorist cases but are routinely used for economic espionage.
Yeah, guessing that it's the URL. Beyond that, it looks like a basic spreadsheet of weather-data.

Kinda neat to see how much attention such a URL can draw to an otherwise-unremarkable page.
Each tab is a checkbox (selected or not), an input field, a drag handle for the page and a drag handle for the window, depending on how fast you start dragging and in which direction. If you hover it it shows a set of buttons, but if it’s focused the buttons disappear entirely and can’t be dragged or closed at all.

They hid a few buttons in a tiny dropdown that appears on hover; They kept a completely useless clickable lock icon in the middle-ish of field so now there’s a little chance that, while trying to do any of the above, you’ll end up with a popup that you have to close instead.
Ive been on both ends of the hiring process and probation periods, and they are, IMO, are of absolute necessity.

The fact that there are horror stories, as described by the author, should not hide the fact that a resume (or even a reference) is a shallow metric for a match between the company and the employee.
Slide presentation software in general - or PowerPoint specifically?

I think PowerPoint has simultaneously been the best - and the worst - thing to happen to academia in the past 100+ years, and PP has only been out with good MM projectors for only the past 20 years - it has tremendous value. It’s only a bad thing when people aren’t using it correctly - though I appreciate that good software should be difficult to use incorrectly.

(okay, next worst thing after Blackboard).
Convenience.

And the promise. Edit: since this is transparent Twitter we could even get an high level explanation on how to make sure such pseudonymous accounts technically cannot be linked back unless three persons in three jurisdictions - of which at least one is a customer ombudsperson - agree that there is a valid request from a law enforcement agency and then electronically sign it.

Seems a tall order when you can just create more accounts? Well creating new accounts forces you to give up your phone number meaning you are a sitting duck the moment anything gets leaked.
This is so weird. I have a few of the 10TB and 12TB WD EasyStores. I've been using them regularly for years and have never experienced anything like this.

Just to be clear, the drive does go to sleep when it's actually idle. Not while it's being used, though. IOW, they work as expected.

What distro/kernel version are you on? I mostly use Debian stable, which means a pretty old kernel. I wonder if it could be a regression in more recent ones?

I also use the drives with FreeBSD and have never had an issue there, either.
That's fine. There just seemed to be an unnecessarily large amount of tugging of Apple's dick in the top of the thread, and I wanted to suggest an alternative.
Gambling is illegal in Japan so there are many forms of gambling disguised as other stuff.

Notably pachinko parlors, gashapon, trading card games, loot boxes in video games.

https://www.serkantoto.com/2012/05/05/japan-social-games-reg...

And other than gambling, there are auctions... for the weirdest stuff... koi fish, mango, etc.

https://www.kodamakoifarm.com/shop/live-koi/auction/
I've never had any objection to a probation period. However, I'd never enter one that was asymmetric or with reduced pay.
> But baling, that needs a machine, right?

Probably. Guess I'm not old enough to have ever witnessed manual baling then! That's a TIL for me :)
And your phone is already pretty well off. Cheap dashcams spit out awful quality video with large file sizes since they don't have the benefit of expensive encoder chips.
I thought it was useful. Put some places on my map that I hadn’t thought about visiting before.
Again, which community are you talking about, exactly?

I only know of two - the contributor community and the actual user community.
I was in the Carpathians 3 years ago for vacation. I remember being amazed that they still built haystacks and used scythes all over the place. Truly a gift for an American to witness.
Inefficient but cheap.
Aaaand there we are: The days of a dumb terminal hooked up to a Mainframe are back again
God dammit our government sucks.
When Software Development Goes Wrong, Leaders Hide Under the Covers and Hope
Do you have a metric for when you give up on something? I'm 4 years into something that is a grind of epic proportions and wondering whether I should just shelve it and move on.
In my Fortune 500 employer, we have pan-regional task forces/committees people can join for collaboration like this. I'm on the Engineering Training Taskforce in my region. We meet an hour a month to plan various events, including "Tech movie nights". Pre-COVID we'd get upper management to approve a small budget for popcorn during movie showings, etc. We also have a few (infrequent) long-running series of invited talks on a theme.

Follow-up discussion from earlier in a series is good, but you need it to not interfere with people being able to selectively attend events. Presumably, you'd want to budget some time after the video screening to discuss the just watched movie, followed by some budgeted time for discussing the previous video. If you start out with discussion of the previous video, you're going to scare off newcomers. Or, you have a Slack channel (or similar) for the series and have drawn out asynchronous discussion.

At least until you have critical mass, you need your series to be like an easy-watching low-context series with relatively self-contained episodes. Think The Simpsons instead of something that really requires investment to keep up with the context, like Game of Thrones.

Being on a taskforce/committee does take extra time and effort, but does show initiative and can get one valuable exposure/mindshare from upper management. At least in our organization, cross-team collaboration looks good at annual review time.
> They do seem to hold rather a lot of patents (https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation), though I don't have the domain knowledge to know whether any of these are "unavoidable" in the domain in the way that e.g. software engineering process patents tend to be.

Some of those patents like the one about dual substrate TFT seem vaguely broad to me, but it doesn't even seem to be a display technology related patent to me. In fact it seems to be about microfluidics which is an abandoned area of research in display technology, at least in the commercial sense. As for "a lot of patents", just how many patents would you expect a company to have? How long has eInk been in business? 20 years? 30 years? I think I first heard of them in 2000s so at least 20 years it seems like.

More importantly, why would we assume anything perverse is happening? My point is that HN commenters seemed to have a strong foundational belief (as shown by the original comment I responded to) that something perverse was happening. OP was effectively claiming that eInk would try to stop this electrochromic nanostructure display tech from succeeding, and now that I've challenged that claim, I don't see any OP or anyone else provide any sort of factual basis for it. So if you'll allow me, doesn't it kind of sound like a bunch of software guys shitting on a niche display company that failed to achieve their lofty desires?

As a display guy, can I just say I have perhaps analogous despair at how terrible the software for everything I do on a daily basis is. I'm forced to reboot my desktop pretty much on a monthly basis. PLC controls that suck. Interfaces that are so horrible. Is that all Google's fault? Microsoft's fault? Is it all due to patent trolls? Who do I get to blame? You guys tell me please.
At the point where a collective asks for the special privilege of forming a limited liability corporation?
> with office, adobe, and other stuff installed.

It will be interesting to see if Adobe's activation/licensing copes with this, or every time you log in the software needs a new activation as it detects the underlying machine is different.
For 19 people on a 100-mile route, they may as well schedule a bus.

(For example, my parents would take a direct bus a similar distance to Heathrow or several other airports. It saves parking costs and driving while tired.)
by the way as a designer i love this
Am I the only one here wondering what the fuck Fleets even is? I have never seen or heard of such a feature before LOL
I'm not sure I'm fully understanding what you mean by "valid" here, because there's lots of emotions that seem obviously wrong and controllable.

The most obvious example is a fear of public speaking. Everyone I know who's struggled with it (including myself) has resolved it through the perspective that it's wrong to be afraid and you've gotta figure out tricks to get over your irrational fear. It's hard to see what a more "validating" approach would look like.
> it requires thousands (tens of thousands?) of simulations, each of which need to happen in real time on an actual dota client

Wonder how much more optimized the core Dota rules could be made without having to worry about rendering, and pushing yourself to not be satisfied with "good enough for real time performance"?
Unfortunately, I can only agree. I like the cause the FSF is fighting, but e.g. 'Decepticor' comes from a 7 year old cartoon, and the whole thing had the lack of subtility of WW2 war propaganda.

You can't get sympathy for your cause by treating your audience like children, and messaging to them that they are easily manipulated. And this blatant style is used regularly with FSF propaganda.

I love what the FSF stands for, but I personally would not like to be associated with any organisation behaving like this.
Does market timing ever work? [video]
While being careful not to change the albedo too much, or you make things worse.
But if you look at the choices, it feels very arbitrary. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv aren't on there.