skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's well-intentioned, and I know American society has very real structural race problems which shouldn't be ignored or denied, but articles like this really risk being patronizing, and worse, implying that most or all black childhoods are as flawed as the one described.
The question OP suggested was "given that sometimes we regulate, should we also regulate against some amazom practices we deem bad".
Nah, I think you haven't been following the permabears.

A lot of them talk about crap like the price of gold, the use of BTC as a hedge, PE ratios, "technicals", candlesticks, simple moving averages, charts, commodity prices, QE, negative bond rates, near-zero interest rates and the like. Some get political even, talking about presidents or policies they don't like and why they'll cause a crash.

Its pretty easy to weave a story around ill-defined feelings, because none of these things determine the market trajectory. You can be 100% correct in your facts and/or analysis of the present but still make terrible predictions of the future.

The permabears always have a good story. They're really good at making stories for why the crash is going to really happen this year.
The hivemind practices humility.
There is nothing preventing an autocracy from doing the same thing, right? In fact, history shows that autocracies are more prone to doing that.

And who are we kidding here: the West is not against democracy in MENA because of some deep care for minorities or individual liberties. The West is against democracy because it’s more unpredictable and opens up the possibility that the people decide to take control of their resources.

Feel free to believe otherwise if it makes you feel better, but it’s not the truth.
If you click the button to get rid of the cookie prompt on the bottom of the site while on old.reddit.com, it redirects you to new.reddit.com. Amazing.
Wow... I forgot how much better reddit on desktop used to be.
Airbnb plans to temporarily house 20k Afghan refugees
I don't have a twitter account because I have nothing I want to say or post in the twitter-verse. I do occasionally read threads on twitter when they're the primary source of something significant. E.g. when they are linked to from a news article or HN. I ran into their block a few days ago and my gut reaction wasn't to sign up and keep reading, it was to leave. I doubt I'll be back.
can confirm.

-austin (murmur author)
The faster society learns to ignore these pitches (preferably while mocking whoever came up with it) the better society will be
> Electron has been really useful since it allows us to build apps for different operating systems

But you don't support Linux?
For the same reason you don't see a lot of carrier pigeons anymore: it's been supplanted by something easier requiring less training.
Obvious to a human manually looking at the account isn't obvious to a computer system that has to pick them out a huge dataset. You will never be able to ban Fiverr type accounts because for the same reason residential VPNs work well. You're paying someone who has a clean record and will send all the right signals.

HN works because it's niche. It can be moderated by a handful of people. Once you cross the "can't be moderated by humans" threshold of size you're solving a completely different problem.

I won't knock you for saying "well then you shouldn't exist at that scale" but that's a non-answer for the real world where giving up PII in exchange for participating in a huge social network is a trade enough people are willing to make that you feel pressure to do it in order to get in.
Okay well for others it's not. Did you mean to add to this?
Coinbase slammed for terrible customer service after hackers drain accounts
why is this even on HN?
> The apartheid-era strategy of placing so-called townships, where many Black citizens were compelled to live, on the periphery of cities also makes it difficult for residents to access the formal jobs market.

And the new regime couldn't mitigate that problem in almost 30 years?

There's a word Bloomberg didn't use: corruption.
What essay? My Econ, English, Writing, and policy professors would’ve given me at best a C for that draft.

There’s no actual argument, thesis, or contextual background.

And yes, the irrelevancy of his department is contextually relevant to this discussion.
Yes, that's true. A war machine requires surplus value. One reason why feudalism developed in Europe was for mounted warriors to be able to supply their warhorses. Facing constant violence, only super-appropriation of peasant surplus could give local lords and warriors enough resources to hold their own. And much of the success of many of the empires of history lies in their ability to requisition surplus value and use it to hire enough military labor. Rome could muster more soldiers than Carthage, for example.
> unofficial APIs (fancy word for scraping)

Using a non-public API is not at all the same as scraping, which refers to parsing a rendered HTML page for the content you want.

Both have this maintenance problem, but one's not a fancy word for the other.
It seems that, at least in reddit's case, the issue is preloading a lot of stuff that on the old website wasn't preloaded. Like videos.

Ben Awad[0] made a quick technical comparison between the two websites and this was his conclusion.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkSiIBDDZ8
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Logging and converting the trees into lumber for building isn't free from a carbon perspective. A modern logging operation typically has several large diesel-powered heavy machines to cut down and move the trees. Then the logs are transported by diesel-powered semi trucks to a mill. The mill has many machines to move logs, cut them, and remove some moisture (kilns). Once they are cut, they are loaded onto more diesel powered trucks and delivered somewhere to sell.
Back at the site of the cut, piles of slash (all of the branches) are left on the ground to rot, or sometimes piled up and burned.
How long will the buildings made of wood last? Eventually they are bulldozed and hauled away to a landfill.
Getting OnlyFans to ban sex videos isn’t something to be proud of
When Heroku removed support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 this year, I was surprised at how many of my customers were effected. I didn't give the deprecation much thought, assuming everyone was using a secure TLS version, but I guess enterprises like their legacy technology.
It's going to be tough because of how much of the Internet treats Twitter as a primary source. So this in effect becomes yet another stream behind a pay-wall (in information, not in money) that balkanizes people's view of "what is happening" in the world.

The first place I knew about the January 6th riots was from Twitter. I guess I'll learn about subsequent such events from other sources after people on Twitter do.
Probably just classifies webkit based browsers as Chrome.
> the ball will deposit that on the wheels inside the device that transmit the movements

This was my experience in the 90s, but my kensington expert uses lasers for tracking position and this is a non-issue.
You can request phone numbers when creating a certain number of tweets, or trying to reply to a well known account, or if upvoting a comment that is controversial or reported as spam.

It's a lazy solution that pushes spam control costs onto the users.
I will note that the two concrete examples in this article on what “Low-Code” lacks are a single flowchart of unidentified provenance and the serialization format of Jupyter Notebooks, a decidedly-not-low-code tool.
+1 on this. All the good stuff is in the comments.
That would complicate hot-reloading though. Currently you can just modify a function and reload it by re-executing its defun. If you implement smarter namespacing, reloading it would require knowing what namespace it belongs to. You'd have to do the modification in the original file instead of anywhere (like the *stratch* buffer), or put the modified definition in some kind of construct that specifies the namespace it belongs to.

Also, finding the documentation and definition of a given symbol under the cursor would also get more complicated.

Having everything in one global namespace has its perks.
Exactly. It is ok to compete but announcing your competitor project is dead to promote your own, it is a little sketchy to say the least.
are you even aware of your own history? Genocide, slavery, segregation, oppression of religious and sexual minorities etc ? You did wars to spread christianity. Even now gays don't have equal rights. Whatever little rights they earned was just recently. Bill of rights was in the 1700s. Genocide, slavery and all that rest happened while your bill of rights was in full force.

How do people write these shit with a straight face knowing western history? especially United State's history.

As for the topic in hand, the Bahraini govt is accused of doing to select people what US govt does to everyone, and you are getting self righteous? Lmao this is hilarious.
The sooner reddit dies the better. What a toxic and manipulated hellhole it has become.
Yeah, my partner's family have a "family whistle" which is often employed to find one another. It's useful but also feels a little disrespectful.
I would agree with you with the gay and LGBTQ community, but I think you're off base on the rest of it. Also I wouldn't put Hollywood up as a good example as what's good with the US culturally.

I mean we don't lynch black people anymore, so hu-rah USA? We don't use child labor anymore (at least in country) so hu-rah USA? Instead of brutalizing black protestors, the police brutalize protestors in an equal opportunity fashion. Hu-rah USA. We're only as economically inequitable as the 1920's robber baron era, hu-rah USA. I suggest you try to expand your view a little and see what the WHOLE country really is like.
I see a lot of folks here saying they wouldn't know what to do with this much memory, but I can say as someone who was able to successfully use RAM disks in the past, that this would be /amazing/ on a desktop doing typical desktop tasks, including things like gaming.

Back when 32GB was a lot (about a decade ago), I had 32GB of RAM in my desktop and would take whatever game I was competitively focused on at that time and install it to a RAM disk which would be written out to SSD occasionally and loaded back from SSD on boot. Loading times were essentially non-existent since it became an in-memory copy. I was limited to games under 12GB in size requirements, which now a days is nothing. Most AAA titles are 200GB+ on disk.

With 1TB of RAM you could set aside 128GBish for use as normal memory and 850GB as a RAM disk you can use for copy-back installations. Combining this with the fastest available PCI-E 4.0 nVME SSDs, it would even be pleasant considering the "long" boot times. You could have a 1TB fast SSD set aside just as your copy-back target.

Even though SSDs have gotten much much faster than they were a decade ago, they're still slower than RAM. Obviously for server uses with databases there's a need, and large numbers of VMs / containers for density, but in a more desktop-oriented use case it's not that you "need" this much RAM, but you can certainly find really great ways to use it to make your life easier and put you to the next level of performance.
There are no worthwhile tourist attractions on Hollywood Boulevard, it's more known for selling apparel to "exotic dancers". There are also no movie studio activities there, outside of that one theater that does red carpets. The stars in the sidewalk are not worth visiting. Anyone living in LA knows this, but it still traps tourists all the time. Please don't generalize Hollywood Boulevard to say much about the greater LA area.
I'm currently using it to download a youtube video. If it still works for it's main function, maybe it's just not a high priority project until something breaks?
I agree with you that this is something that should be served either publicly or with extremely strong regulatory oversight.

I was pointing them out more from a product perspective, I think the fact that it’s so genuinely useful product validates everything you said.
But all I want to do is read the tweets? I'm not contributing to spam if I don't even have an account.
another bs article from CNN
1. Sure, it's a figure of speech. And the number is way greater than two, if we're going to be nitpicky.

2. My point is that there's way more people entering, leaving, and going from A to B for whatever reason. Not trying to judge people, just stating a fact here.
>"You seem to give enough fucks to come and rant on a thread dedicated to an Apple device"

I discuss lots of things that I do not loose my sleep over. This whole HN is just an entertainment for me. Distraction from work so that my brain does not melt.

>"Maybe just use whatever you want instead?"

I do use whatever I want. And what I rant about is not for you to decide.
Just find whatever is being ridiculed on HN and that’s the alpha bet
That used to be true, but today, with so many websites operating as SPAs against undocumented APIs, I think it's reasonable to redefine "scraping" to mean extracting data from unofficial APIs in addition to extracting it by parsing HTML.

After all, what is a scrapeable HTML page if not a grotesquely convoluted undocumented API with an unstable output format?
Just as the SWIFT system are 'choke-points' of sovereignty.
Fascinating and very sad. Photojournalists like Danish Siddiqui are incredibly brave.
While the German constitution says that all Germans have the right to resist against anyone seeking to abolish democratic fundamentals, there's not really a provision for it to be by violent means.

It's not "militant democracy", it does not point to the means, but to the idea that it's not possible to abolish democracy by legal means. It's a legal concept, not a plan to follow in case of emergency.
That's not true. Projects, internships, and interviewing skills are how you get into companies as a uni student. GPA is maybe required for some, but it's definitely not the only thing a uni student should be showing.
Good thing we have SSD, so we can swap faster ;)
Good twitter is probably the worst social media out of the lot and the only reason people use it is because famous influencers use it to get publicity. If they go walled garden that kills twitter usp vs facebook.
But we do make such jokes about meteorologists.

I suppose it's the matter of media exposure: unlike economists and meteorologists, seismologists aren't constantly on TV telling us bad times are coming soon.
They've already rejected doing nothing, as it doesn't work.

I want Tesla to give me a free car too, but it ain't happening. At some point a company makes decisions you aren't gonna agree with and your only recourse is to not use them. If that means you can't read Twitter, then that's the price you pay. You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account solely on your own personal terms.
Welcome to the American Media Establishment. It's better to just read FT and SCMP while only skimming the NYT/Fox/etc.
I'm confused. That's what the article is about. The quote you chose is 1/4 of the way in and then they spend the rest of the article explaining why those details are misleading. I don't understand what you're objecting to.
Having contributed to youtube-dl in the past, long turnaround times from the maintainers was pretty normal. I've had (and still have some) open PRs that have been ready to merge for going on a year. The two months is really not that big of deal.

That being said, the project probably could use some reorganization. It requires a lot of community contributions to keep all the extractors maintained so long turnaround times for reviews isn't ideal.
My favorite writings on the topic of consciousness are by the philosopher Daniel Dennett with his books like "Consciousness Explained". He provide such fun thought experiments, and brings together so much science - it's a treat!
TLDR: No one has had contact with maintainers for 2 months. Unknown if it's now abandonware.
He eternally curses whole cities in Matthew because they got sick of him bugging people on the street and told him to leave.

Shrug

The Bible's pretty weird.
Yeah, once you start throwing VMs into the mix, it's really easy to burn through 16GB of RAM.
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It doesn't achieve the stated goal of rate-limiting individual people, which sounds like an instrumental goal for an actual (unstated) business objective.
Surgical masks are designed to stop droplets, not aerosols so they're pretty loose. The mask is not form fitting around the nose. OR's also have dedicated filtration/HVAC systems with HEPA filters. I researched this when I was looking for a filter system for wildfire smoke.
Note "cpu load" — Cincom Smalltalk provides a way to use multi core.

Note as-of July 2021 on Quora — "… started working together on Sista in 2012. We were able to demonstrate speed ups of around three fold but it remains a prototype, needing about one or two years of development to yield a production quality implementation."
And John Oliver went as far as doing an entire piece on how ridiculous they are, which kind of proves GP's point.
Thank you for this.

I am actually surprised as it seemed that with IBM, Yahoo, and various other companies dragging everyone back to the office in 2017-2019 that remote work was in retreat.
I've always found the complexity was implementing business requirements. for example if field x is "y" then fields g is required, and field f can only be these three choices. and if field g is filled in, then field x can not be y

Stuff like this is where a lot of no-code stuff falls down.
Reforestation is an extremely time-consuming affair with many, many possible ecological and economic downfalls and/or environmental harms. As a sidebar to your suggestion of using more wood, perhaps a partial step in that direction is greater recycling of unfinished wood products into chips and dust for use in engineered wood outputs. Similarly, a change in the chemistry of wood finishing products (stains, coatings, paints, adhesives) to 100% removable or neutralized state would permit discarded finished wood products to be recycled rather than dumped. So, to directly reply to your question, cutting down trees and replacing them with more is not a quick or necessarily successful strategy.
There is a huge market for this.

People have been doing informal versions of this for a long time.

ie, a well off family will have a second home, but it's actually shared between 6 families in the family (second generation) who use it in various ways. Grandparents go up, kids visit with grandkids, then kids and grandkids stay etc.

Boats are often bought in a partnership - and frankly it's more fun becuase your budget for ownership is literally 4x - so you can do / pay for whatever, cleaning, maintenance etc.

Various forms of fractional aircraft ownership.

Folks with money are not total idiots. A fixed asset sitting is a waste.

In the house case, you want a place that becomes a regular part of your routine, a place your kids know, a place your friends start to know. 1/4 ownership is not 1 week a year. It is months in the year. You know the local restaurants, the hikes and bike rides etc.

I've independently been sent hey, look at this place, from two different people now who are on this app. You can get a MUCH nicer place than you can get alone for $400K. A place you could have a big group over to visit etc, a place for families to get together.
Naive, but would love to hear from whoever is more knowledgeable if this is more an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type situation, or these nations are building warm, long term relationships?
I think that you may be somewhat combining Calvinism and the Prosperity Gospel.

Calvinism teaches that, although salvation is freely available to everyone, human nature is such that no one would choose salvation on their own. Therefore, God chooses to intervene to cause some people to accept salvation.

The Prosperity Gospel teaches that God rewards faith and/or good deeds with worldly blessings like wealth and good health.

I actually think that some of the problems that America faces are due to an overreaction by Calvinists (and other conservative Christians) to the Prosperity Gospel. That is, in their eagerness to avoid the Prosperity Gospel they overcorrect and deemphasize the parts of the Bible that teach that God cares about the poor and meeting people's physical needs.
AirBNB is a parasite on society so my suggestion is to delete your account, forget about "hosting your valuable property", and advocate for the end of AirBNB.
Ask HN: Why retail franchises are still huge?
For quite some time, at least decade and half (in Poland), retail franchises (e.g. Żabka, the biggest one, like 7/11) have been a matter of controversy. The press reported unilateral, unfair practices of the franchisors that tie up franchisees, such as buying mandatory equipment, loans, fees, treatment of unsold inventory. Many franchisees who didn't succeed end up in huge debt despite working their ass off 12+ hrs a day.

Essentially, people become business owners only on paper, in practice they're worse off than employees who can more or less walk away. A franchise is all of the downside risk without much upside potential except at top-performing locations.

Considering the above - why do people still sign up for them?
Having more memory to address means you need more circuits that direct your reads/writes to the right place. Travelling a longer distance / through more complicated routes means the latency for each request will be higher on average.
I want to go further here.

- Combat spam.

- Be large.

- Allow (pseudo-)anonymous accounts.

A social network can only pick two.
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Unfortunately, given the nature of network effects, I suspect those who use Twitter will continue to use it, news media will continue to treat it as a primary source for comments from people, and those of us who wish to refrain from using it just... Won't have access to that channel of data. I don't see a scenario where a mass-walkout happens... Certainly not from this.

It'll be like the good old days of only finding out what's happening in the next town over because you read the paper's account of it, only now the next town over is just a site we could create an account on but refuse to.
The US moving out was part of the agreement, made by you-know-who: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-F...

> The United States is committed to withdraw from Afghanistan all military forces of the United States,
its allies, and Coalition partners, including all non-diplomatic civilian personnel, private security
contractors, trainers, advisors, and supporting services personnel within fourteen (14) months following
announcement of this agreement

Perhaps they could have changed their minds and stayed, but then what? Really the evacuation plan should have been clearer from an earlier date.
I'm fine with this, I'll just never look at Twitter again.
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Posting this since this one was paywalled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28284620
We had Ultra gear and even a Classic and an IPX running until 2019.
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I always interpreted digital nomad to be a Tim Ferris type person working 4 hours a week and living off relatively passive income or some kind of online self employment, not employees.
Doesn’t Twitter report that they have north of 500 million dormant users (people who use Twitter without an account)?

Given how much shit they get from Wall Street due to their super weak user growth, I’m suprised they didn’t do this long ago.