skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much!

We're happy to help you or whoever would set it up and show you how other teams have been using the tool. Feel free to shot me an email at etai@secoda.co if you'd like any help along the way
I think lots of people are uncomfortable with language being changed in a top-down way by people who aren't particularly democratically accountable more than anything.

To be honest I'm not sure where I stand on prescriptivism as a concept. If there's a genuine organic demand (as opposed to corporate PR people playing tokenism) for it in the context of tackling racism then fair enough I can get behind that, but I don't really like the idea of language itself being used as a political cudgel to beat your opponents with. The word Orwellian is relentlessly misused these days but I think if we are going to forcefully change language it needs to be something done with great consideration and democratic oversight to avoid this tool being wielded abusively. For example, I'd love to abolish all Americanisms from British English which is exactly why I'd be grossly unfit for such a language-defining duty!
> In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson said the company’s rules are enforced judiciously and impartially for everyone on our service.

I don't know the details of why they are blocking the Indian National Congress' account. What I can say is that they really need to stop saying things like this. They absolutely -do not- apply it fairly. Different standards apply if you are a US politician, and even then it's not uniform.
Riot over fuel prices? No, Americans riot over words that hurt. To be clear, the word you’re looking for is protest, not riot. Riots are burning down businesses, shooting people, snd causing mayhem with the intent to destroy. I don’t see that in Europe.

As for gas prices, it’s sonewhat due to do with the market but a lot more to do with politics and policy. You might remember the OPEC embargo in the 1970s. If there is a greater supply than demand then prices should go down, unless policy restraints that by limiting exploration, pipelines, etc.

Im not sure why you use USians unless its an unintended slur?
Accessibility. A fully unambiguous mathematical language like MathML can produce markup for the blind.
Aug. 12, 1981: IBM Gets Personal With 5150 PC (2011)
> “IANAL” is used to avoid liability for offering legal advice in settings where it’s not permitted. It’s not used to hand wave away that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

It's exactly and only the latter, actually. Consider how useful an obscure-to-normies Web-forum acronym consisting mostly of "anal" is going to be at deflecting liability—should such even be possible—if it comes up in court. Not a bit, right? So how could it be intended for that? If that were the purpose, people would write out the words.
They never said they will resist adding a hash. They just implied it with weasel words. They also said they will accept hashes from “other child protection organizations.” Which clearly means each country can define, with its own horrendous laws, what they think children need to be protected from… content showing children being put in unislamic situations (Saudi Arabia), content showing children living happily in a family with gay parents (Russia), content showing a child being abused by being forced to hold a Taiwanese flag (China), etc.
> And not only that, a lot of the improvements in these tools, services, and supply chains means you can design, prototype, and mass manufacture a product without buy-in from a major corp.

A great point. While I'm well aware of it, is there a book or guide to how that is done? 'Global supply chain manufacturing for noobs'? I'm looking for something with real expertise and research behind it, not someone's blog post.

- Another consequence is that everyone can publish, anything, no matter how good it is. Come to think of it, in that example, crap rises to the top much more than the cream.
It is my pleasure!

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The idea itself was not obviously satire to me, sadly. Once I saw the list I realized they were making fun of using version 0 as an excuse for unfixed bugs.
Ask HN: Are there any databases backed by CRDTs?
I’ve come across CRDTs and I’m excited for their potential but I’m concerned that it doesn't really play nicely with databases that I know of. Regardless of whether I use CRDTs during transport, whenever I update my database state, I will still have to do some kind of locking beit pessimistic or optimistic before writing data.

Unless there is a DB which accepts CRDTs, OTs or some kind of patchsets as part of its DSL and it handles the concurrency internally? Are there any such databases?

Effectively a very sophisticated version of the `UPDATE` command.
Take GC/mass spec/NMR to it and find out. The tools are available.

Do it to Coke/Pepsi while you're at it.
Enjoyed that list, but nearly lost me at "leaf blowers" ...
Am I the only one who finds this website hard to read?

Low contrast, huge margins, just not legible.
> 2. Anyway, is that legal ? Even if some crazy store material on his Apple hardware isn't that illegal search non usable in law courts ?

Yes, it's considered legal. Apple reviews the content first. Courts say this means it is not an illegal government search. It's a search by a private party, who then manually decides to notify the government.
Even with user stylesheets targeting elements reliably on social networks is a nightmare. We're approaching a future where the markup isn't even human readable.
It is 1200%, or 12x.

But the point is if you can unload $1B in a week or month without influencing the price, that sets a rate and you can drop $12B over 12 weeks or months or whatever the rate was.
Please link some science papers debunking it, something real that isn't just YesToGas lobby talking points. Don't forget US Federal agency recommendations aren't always trustable, especially with lobbying and lots of money involved.

Here's a recent study from Australia for example:
https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:727186
By that logic, Google will definitely begin selling their treasure trove of user data to anyone with a checkbook, because the fine print WILL change.
5G deployment would be on the range of $2-5k. $500 for the gateway and between $1500-4500 for CBRS antennas depending on the flavor. People in the community estimate you would have to move about 1tb a month at $.50/gb to break even.

Large indoor venues are the best opportunities since they are least served from the usual MNO macro cells. Think clubs, bars, coffee, food..ideally 24/7 foot traffic.
Can't you just use a modern screen recording tool like Screenflow?
Regarding deps, I just saw that you have two setup.py files, and one of them has the `extras` listed. Good stuff!
this function must be weakened where I work. At delve.office.com I only see a couple dozen office documents and how often they were opened.
I'm not surprised that I don't see it all (as I work in Germany) but I'm surprised that there's basically nothing (of value) there. Well, I should be happy about that.
The greatest change to the world from the last X decades is the lifting of billions from extreme poverty in Africa and Asia. Changes to middle class life have been insignificant in comparison.
WhatsApp and other social media platforms restricted in Zambia amidst elections
View any random account. Here's one: https://twitter.com/twitter
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LinkedIn is definitely higher (dunno about GitHub), but in almost every discussion I've seen about comps, LinkedIn is always talked about separately from MS. On levels.fyi, for example, LinkedIn is in it's own section separate from MS.
You can't seriously expect people to continue social distancing. The virus is here to stay. It can't be eradicated because the vaccines aren't fully sterilizing and there are also animal hosts. The vast majority of us will eventually get infected regardless of what infection control measures we take. We'll just have to accept the risk and move on. Fortunately the vaccines are very safe and highly effective at preventing deaths.
Your peer will likely still store the conversation if it is opt-out
And the other ~60% have behavior changes like twice the time not in quarantine, so no real difference.

I think delta is probably at this reproductive optimum and that makes it very hard for a variant that isn't successful in both vaccinated and unvaccinated to survive in a place where vaccination is ~50% that adapts behaviors based on monitoring delta.
From my perspective VR is doing very nicely thank you very much. Just because it's not succeeding in the VC-salivating-as-big-as-mobile sense doesn't make it a failure. Are 3D printers a failure? They've also failed to reach the levels that some people claimed they would. I can think of other examples where a tech happily finds it's niche and is quite happy there.
As far as I am concerned, this is a `bait and switch` tactic. It is unethical. And it is a surefire way to shoot oneself in the corporate foot and destroy customer trust.

Nobody who values security enough to use a password manager would leave their passwords at the mercy of the next corporate turnabout, when said corporation is evidently untrustworthy.

This is the same lizard-brain self-interest unleavened by any shred of higher brain functions that people like Shkreli exhibit: `the suckers have switching costs so let's jack up the price obscenely while reducing the actual customer benefits.` Some people should be kept away from MBA programs.
Next.js is getting better every day!
That is incoherent. What are you talking about? This is completely untrue and doesn't even make sense:

"When considering the price of assets, a generalized rise in prices has the same relative effect as inflation in consumer goods; the decline in the purchasing power of money relative to other assets."

Someone owned the asset before you bought it and that person became wealthier as the asset prices rose.

If I buy a house for $250,000 and suddenly it is $500,000 then I am suddenly $250,000 wealthier. If I buy 2 liters of milk for $6 and a week later I want to buy more but now it is $12 then I am poorer because the things I consume cost more.

Economists use the term "inflation" to refer to the loss of value that some consumables suffer as the money supply grows. But the concept doesn't apply to assets because the owner of an asset can sell the asset and reap the rewards. By contrast, if I buy some milk, and keep it in my refrigerator for 20 years, I can't then sell it and benefit from inflation.

When we talk about economics, inflation refers to a loss of value. Rising asset prices refer to a gain in value.

Under your crazy definition, where inflation applies to assets, there has been no gain in wealth since the beginning of time, since the rising prices of all assets are thought of as a loss instead of a gain, under your definition.

About this:

"than restricting their use to a single "dictionary of economics" definition pointing to a single metric with predefined inputs"

Every profession uses certain words in specialized ways. If you don't like the way some topics are discussed in a given branch of knowledge, then just don't participate in those conversations. I will assume, since you are on Hacker News, that you don't have a problem when engineers give special meaning to "message" or "bus" or "event" or "queue" or "broker".
Would have loved to see the discussion whether this amount of money would justify a hardfork to revert the theft.
One obvious thing: Major US political parties should insist that prospective presidential candidates disclose their tax returns.
Please ready the article! It is absolutely stuffed with absurd comments by the CEO. The only explanation I can fathom is that in the remote-work world someone impersonated the CEO as a troll.

How did the company grow to pay 500employee's wages?
Low Russian salaries and rich American customers?
iMovie can export to mp4, so I don't think it's an attempt at lock-in. I would guess it's just that like a lot of the macOS utilities, QuickTime gets very little development focus as of late.
It's distinctly not the easiest thing in the world, but on a Mac the emoji panel is "tap Fn" and on Windows it's Win-;.

Also, tab completion.
> For example Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is famous

Given the context, I thought for a minute that you were talking about Apple's presentation of the rationale for a successor to Objective-C.
"So, here’s the Cambridge Test: When perfected, what will an automated vehicle do on that nasty stroad in your community, the one where the cars today drive too fast and the drivers are too oblivious, where nobody sane would dare to cross? When all cars are AV, what happens when someone crosses midblock?

The obvious answer is that the vehicles stop and allow the person to cross. They don’t run that person down. They don’t kill them. The automated vehicle will be programmed to always stop when someone steps out into traffic. As a society, we would not have it any other way.

So, knowing this, who is ever going to stop and wait at another traffic signal? What person on foot, in their right mind, would wait for a gap to open so they can cross without impacting the flow of traffic? Nobody."

This is supremely unrealistic. No one on the right side of crazy is going to face the judgement of several of their peers to cross in the middle of traffic. The only exception being drunken friends doing it both to save time and as a troll to drivers.

If self-driving vehicles ever do become reality (i.e. a corporation takes legal liability for mistakes the vehicle makes) it will be a boon for cyclists and pedestrians. Knowing that the vehicle beside you when cycling isn't texting, and knowing that when you're crossing nobody's late trying to beat a red light would make not using a car much easier.
Product Led Growth: A Guide
Ask HN: Nginx/proxy encryption filter module like rclone's?
With the cloud storage companies increasingly snooping on the content on the storage I have been looking at a module for nginx or something similar to do on the fly encryption/decryption

The idea is simple - transform the data on the fly so the storage backend has no ability to extract the unencrypted data.

Has anyone seen anything that solves this problem?
FYI, Hacker News has code formatting if you indent by 4 spaces:

model = NaiveEnsembleModel([model1, model2, ...])
model.fit(my_series)
prediction = model.predict()
Yup. This is a non-story. People always complain when popular apps get UI updates.
Not every thing on the Internet needs its own font.

(I say as the former head of a type foundry.)
Very cool. How much of this working effectively depends on a properly deployed dbt project?
How a Star New York Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered
You may want to reconsider before you step into the time machine. First of all, 1991 in particular is a tough year -- it was a crushing recession in the US, and young people were having a really hard time finding jobs. So you wouldn't be "heading to the recruitment stalls" for any of those companies except potentially Microsoft. And this is absolutely the "why-are-manhole-covers-round" era of Microsoft, and it's the DOS era as well -- so not only is the company smarmy, its products are buggy, demoralizing piles of death-marched junk. Read the (excellent) Showstopper! for a hint of what awaits you at Microsoft.

There's a big difference between 1991 and just a few years later of course, but even when I graduated from college (1996), Microsoft was absolutely suffocating. I had decided that I wanted to work for a computer company and that I had zero interest in working on Windows NT(or Copland). This left one company, Sun Microsystems, which even in 1996 was not really recruiting at universities. I got a job there by cold e-mailing a Sun engineer (Jeff Bonwick) based on a Usenet post in comp.unix.solaris. (Cold e-mailing to get a job was so unusual that a friend of mine who was a reporter for the AP wrote a story about my job search -- and it was broadly picked up nationally![0]) At Sun, I was the youngest person in OS development by a decade, and the industry broadly thought Sun to be foolish for insisting on innovating in the operating system. Conventional wisdom was wrong, of course, and I had a great 14-year run at Sun that I wouldn't trade for anything -- but it would be a mistake to overly romanticize what was honestly a pretty crappy era.

[0] I talked about this briefly in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IznEq2Uf2xk, including an (embarrassing) photo of me ca. 1996 that ran as the front page of many business sections around the US
Mike Lindell's “packet captures” are garbage data provided by serial con-man
That article sounds like it was written by a Marxist anti-anti-vaxxer who doesn't understand how data works. Also, the vaccine kills, period. And finally, COVID will never be cured, just like the flu and other respiratory infections because they can infect animals. The flu is deadlier than COVID but nobody cares about the flu. They only care about instilling fear into everyone to gain absolute control of society so they can inprison us. China literally locks people in their homes and welds metal bars on their doors to prevent them from leaving their homes and many people die from starvation and medical complications when locked in their homes. We don't need your vaccine, and we don't need your fear. We need freedom of choice.
Can you see downsides to that? How do you address it?

I think it's not that anonymity is a right, it's that other rights are strongly impacted by the lack of anonymity.
How so? If you use takeout it’s decently smooth. I have over a terabyte in G photos.
> Computer related products have gone crazy. It's not more for less though, it's "much more for a little more."

I thought we liked Raspberry Pis on HN.
Oldie but goodie. My favourite bit is this:

"The five minutes to destruction are typographically uninteresting. Ripley makes it to the escape shuttle with no sign of the alien."
It's not that hard to go outside to cafes and still social distance - but people are not doing it. That's the difference.
Dart: The Features I Wish It Had
They are certainly different things, but that's why I think more specific language should be used when the difference matters. The other comment was trying to make a more abstract point about what sort of memories an individual neuron can store using DNA, the main point wouldn't really be changed if that was through purely epigenetic mechanisms. I don't think the actual argument he made was compelling, but the claim to be discussed intended a broader definition of "in DNA" IMO. It was focused on the computational implications of the amount of storage a single neuron has.
That’s not just a factor of ten out – it’s also an entirely different unit of measurement.

This is not a problem for multiple reasons. Firstly, if you work in a mechanical field you know that machines regularly combine metric and imperial parts. You may have to use a 3mm hex wrench and then sixty seconds later a 3/32 hex wrench. Right now you're using an OS that labels storage in one unit and storage devices labeled in another, gigabytes and gibibytes.

The second reason is even simpler: the display on the Nostromo's computer is in-universe and the title card for the movie isn't. The title card could label the cargo of the Nostromo as 11.7 trillion pennyweights of ore and it wouldn't matter.

Also I don't know why he thinks "old man" as slang for father is British. It was in common use in the US in the 90s.
Reification is usually a fallacy when we take the abstraction too far. The canonical example being "the map is not the territory" where someone confuses every mark on a map with actual features of the terrain.

One could argue that abstractions "actually exist literally" without being physical. Gravitational fields don't exist physically but do exist and they're a valid abstraction that's useful to measure. Maybe happiness is a phenomenon that could be useful too (though I would say to a lesser extent.)

A little tangential but... even things that we would say exist physically are not on closer inspection. Does a chair actually exist or is it a platonic ideal that we apply to a collection of atoms assembled to form four legs, seat and a back?
What if in the future Google starts selling your location data to anyone willing to write them a check?

Once you open the Pandora's Box of collecting location data, you can't close it.
It would allow me to fake any measured boot attestation. Right now this infrastructure is only provided to companies looking to secure their network[0] but if you look at Android's SafetyNet and the trends in IT, companies may force you to only use software they approve of to use their services.

On android it's already a choice between banking apps or a device you fully control. I fear that this will include all internet connected devices in the future.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/dev...
In a world where old graphic manuals are reissued on Kickstarter and people buy hardcover books or vinyl just to have a beautiful functional object, what needs updating even there? I think it correctly notes that we tend to make new physical artifacts to retain experiences that have become disembodied and abstracted away from us.
I think you nailed it. The virtual world as described here is one designed for VCs to make money. The virtual world that would be interesting is one created by hackers who find it facinating and then those VCs can fund some startup that maybe figures out a way to make money in this world.

When you say sitting at home in a virtual world, I think of online meetings, which could be improved by having a more real-like world, rather than talking to a wall with Harry Potter like moving pictures of people.
It's so hard to say because so many people have been literally paid to look away.

Think about the battle lines

Darryl Morey and the entire NBA

Southpark

John Cena

Many famous investment firms/banks

Our medical/science establishment

Our international institutions (WHO, UN, etc)

Many of our major politicians

Heck even on HN. When I post about HK, Taiwan, Xinjiang, South China Sea, organ harvesting, etc, I'm more likely to get downvoted than anything else here.

At a minimum it's nice to see our media and policy elite slowly start to wake up to the fact that not only is the regime in China an absolutist, tyranical, genocidal totalitarian state, but that they are playing for keeps.

Think the reason we don't want to think about it or talk about it aside from the money/influence campaign is that we literally know how this ends.

Either with a lot of printed money and an internal collapse of their state (aka cold war with the USSR) or a lot of dead young men on a beach somewhere in the South China Sea.
'Personalised credit' startup Keebo raises £5M in seed funding
Ahh yes you mean like having Peter dazick or whatever his name is fact check covid source material on Facebook? When his eco health alliance funded it? Yeah. Fact checks alright. Laughable.
I own kubernetees.com, because that's the way my former boss used to say it.
Apparently I need to look at Gaggenau, which has both knobs on some induction models and a series of models that are designed to be combined together. So I can actually have an integrated workspace with gas and induction options!