skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit already has investors, Chinese censorship champion Tencent among others. I don't see what public ownership could do that would make things worse than they already are. See for example: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

This seems like they're cashing out. They were never able to properly monetize the site for whatever reason, now they're pushing their shares off to anyone naive enough to buy into it. I'd stay far far away.
Apollo is exactly how I want Reddit to work on iOS. Can't imagine it being any other way (though I admit I haven't put much imagination into the matter).
Near miss.

"Step one: Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are definitely dumb; it does not matter who gave them to you. It’s particularly dangerous when they come from an intelligent person, as you may not question them enough. Everyone’s wrong. No matter who you are, everyone is wrong some of the time. All designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong."

https://mondaynote.com/what-makes-elon-musk-move-so-fast-8e7...
did you use the awful web framework?

http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/awful
Would they really need many resources to take legal action? What you're describing is illegal. They could simply call the police if they found you out.
What is a good auto formatter for Scheme and Lisp languages?
It might be an interesting project to build your own in this case.

If you want to trust them I would have as much redundancy as you are comfortable paying for i.e. the software in these products is often dogshit so one failure or bug shouldn't let your car end in a scrap merchant.
Sounds like https://sxmo.org/ & https://git.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-docs/tree/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
Yes, I am aware of the difference between high and low level fuel and the stew of different half lives of the constituents of higher level fuel.

There's 47 k tones of high level waste in the US alone [1].So I think it's fair to assume that your 80 000 tonnes world wide was high level waste.

Which has to be kept far apart from each other since they decay and at the very least generate heat. Therefore, apartness is an integral part of repository design. Yucca Mountain has a capacity for 70 000 tonnes. That is, its not big enough to store the world's waste despite nuclear power having a small fraction of the overall worldwide power production over the last 60 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...
All of these diseases are either much less infectious than Covid or much less dangerous, or both.

> I see, so you are claiming that governments in Australia have always dealt with infectious diseases using oppression?

Ignoring for the moment the prerogative term "oppression", using the rule of law to stop the spread of hazards is pretty common.

In South Australia we've had to throw put fresh fruit when bringing it from interstate because of the risk of fruit fly infection, and there are currently strong restrictions stopping movement of fruit between postcodes because of an outbreak, eg: https://fruitfly.sa.gov.au/outbreak-restrictions/red-area

This is a restriction on movement of potential infection vectors. SA remains free of Covid, and until we can get our vaccination rate up I'd prefer to have this restriction than a lockdown.
The investigations aren't why it's newsworthy. The fact that Apple employees are being bold enough to file complaints is. They're quite unusual, especially in tech.
As someone who's worked a fair bit now - coding has absolutely no value to any company. What delivers results is deploying solutions - whether those solutions are powered by hotpockets and red bull at 3AM or whether they are entirely composed of meetings discussing how to inform customers of the change - it is never "coding" that solves a problem. "Coding" is at most the effort of transcribing a solution from your brain to a computer - most devs will iterate over several drafts during this process. If, instead, you iterate drafts on paper and then just type up the solution when you're happy with it - it makes no difference - you've still delivered the solution.

The author is conflating coding with solution planning in a pretty minor way - you're more seriously conflating coding with solution building.
TV streaming service Locast suspends service after court ruling
I’ve done that before, for working with multiple email accounts, and don’t remember it interfering with system memory needs.

Although google has had a huge problem with keeping accounts separate in the same browser, but that’s not a gmail thing.
So why does it matter who is executing the trades? You can get the low tax rate for investing in shares that are brought and sold 100,000 times a day, but only if someone else decides which shares to buy and sell when? And that's somehow better for long-term investment? What nonsense.

Tax all income at the same rate and you'd eliminate this whole class of problems. Get rid of the idea of choosing when to realize your gains while you're at it.
I saw that, but I'm not convinced that the course deviation endangered anyone on the ground. It might have screwed up the landing, but that's not the same thing.
tos ? porn rss?

I'd like to have something like this where the up down votes started to put people into groups so that tribe A's likes were shared and tribe A's likes wouldn't affect the view of Tribe B, tribe C doesn't get affected by A or B and so on.
> "turn garbage data into non-garbage output through the power of Machine Learning somehow"

Yeah, i was pretty turned off by this in the lab i've worked at/contracted for.

A lot of support for this kind of stuff wrt EEF neurofeedback while ignoring the physics of what could be done with the raw data (if the PI actually understands or had a E&M class at least). Ppl in charge of getting the grants don't really care about the fact we do not gain any insight into whats going on when we use black box systems… oh well.

I'd be happy to play around with biosemi 128 electrode cap+array + dsp + beamformers[0] and openemu[1] for two decades, deff not gonna happen in academia though.

[0] https://github.com/cinquemb/LCMVBeamformer

[1] https://github.com/cinquemb/OpenEmu
This has been posted here a few times, but one interesting exception is what systems these were tested on. The author prefaces their analysis by comparing a mysterious 'Kaby Lake' system with their Mac, then proceeds to crown the Apple HID as the winner.

An easy way to cook the results would be to test the Apple peripheral on a Mac and run everything else on your Windows desktop. Frankly, the BSD I/O stack will destroy the one on Windows any day, so it would stand to reason that it might be more of a software bottleneck than a hardware one.

I'm not accusing them of getting anything wrong though, I simply assume they aren't withholding any important testing info.
I genuinely think HN's emergent property of discouraging jokes actively encourages this kind of misunderstanding and inability to process ambiguous titles using common sense.
Everyone is wondering how Reddit can be valued this high despite the fact they don't data mine as much as Google or Facebook, and a good amount of their users aren't even using the official site or app, and instead use alternative apps that don't serve ads.

My guess, based on just how horribly censored and astroturfed their subs have become over the last 5 years, is that the targeting of banner ads and stealing personal data for "analytics and sharing with data partners" is not their business model. Instead, they're paid big money to push narratives to the masses of 16-30 year olds that flock to the site religiously.

The group-think on Reddit is far greater than any other site I've ever seen on the internet, including very partisan forums and "media" outlets. And even the tiniest bit of disagreement from accepted narratives - e.g. small subs that wouldn't have even been noticed ten years ago - are crushed and removed without mercy.

What's more insidious is that it isn't just the typical corporate "sponsors" who are pushing sneakers or phones or mobile games. I'd imagine it's deep-pocketed NGOs, state controlled PR and propaganda agencies, and worse.
Yes, It's hard to think of a developer putting much effort into anything involving the Reddit API at this point.

Interestingly, Twitter went through a phase where they killed off any and all 3rd party enhancements but they just recently seem to be reversing policy to encourage more participation (within limits) with a new API V2 released in July.

But Reddit's value is in the huge long tail collection of micro-interest subs built up over the years so it would be a shame for wall street to come in and mess things up over a few short quarters as they tend to do. I'm not even annoyed by advertising - Reddit is one of the few places where super specific targeting may actually work - it's just their native user interfaces are so unusabley bad.

Maybe we will go back to Usenet Groups.
Yeah super bizarre. A few weeks in, has anyone seen a good take on it being local besides the "it's because ECEE is coming" fanfic? Like why not do this in the cloud. Leave my device out of it.
I run a company that builds security awareness training software. While we don’t do any hands on hardcore stuff that this hardware would be used for, I still have an interest in keeping up with it, understanding it, and working that understanding into our training curriculums.
Nothing but Sheer Racket: On the Music and Mind of Franz Liszt
> NSW edging close to numbers in other countries

NSW (a state of 8.1 Million) had just over 1000 new cases today, and 12 deaths - and that is the worst day of the whole pandemic.

That's... not like other countries.
They do, unless you have additional circumstances which qualify you for aid (such as being a single mom, or having a disability).
We use this when we are at amusement parks, museums or in the city.
We also have a piece of white tape, with our phone number, on the kids so that if they get lost, and someone finds them, they can call us up.
"Population control" is a popular topic for the WEF. The WEF was started out of the Club of Rome which published "The Limits to Growth". Gates' family has deep ties to the Eugenics movement, which is now rebranded as population control. Likewise for the Rockefeller group.

Indeed, they all advocate for lowering the world's population. Today this is rationalized through the lens of climate change, but the goal preceded the climate scare.
What Australia purchased was human lives, and not temporarily if the vaccines hold.
> "I used a prepaid card to buy their $16 per month plan and then after that was done it let me steal numbers just by filling out LOA info with fake info," Lucky225 added, referring to a Letter of Authorization, a document saying that the signer has authority to switch telephone numbers.

From 2021:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-1...

EDIT: yea it's not 'registering' the number but rather rerouting a copy of all messages to another number.
I would love to see this kind of application but I hate the way it's marketed here as something as "simple" as an informatics problem. I've seen phD student spending multiple years of their life dedicated to express one specific protein in one bacteria and it never worked. Saying that you can design a software that can do this for you in an universal way for any gene / pathway is a just a blatant lie to oversell another product which come from a non biologist who think that biology / genetic could be easily solved by good software practice and new technology.

I love that more and more companies are trying to resolve genome editing or related stuff, but it might be also a good time for people to accept that sequencing (the human) whole genomes was just the first step to a very long journey before fully understanding how it works. And that biology is not that easy.
Uh, what's wrong with teens using sex toys?

I mean, it's widely agreed that people under 18 cannot consent to sexual contact, but this is the first time I've seen someone extend this to sexual contact with themselves.

(Sex toys are largely used for masturbation.)
If you're ever in Santa Barbara, check out his band: https://chillpointband.com. They rock.
Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
This is for a 3y/o and a 5y/o
Putting aside the politics of it for a second, all clearence stems from the executive branch which stems from the president. Saying the president shouldn't have clearance doesn't make a lot of sense, he's the one who authorized it. He's the one who decides who gets it.

Anyone who thinks differently is arguing for a shadow gov, i.e. unelected bureaucrats who answer to no one and can make decisions unilaterally without consequence... not exactly democracy.
What is the carbon impact of Orchid?
Exactly, VG is trying to go too fast to market.
Missing ( 2017 )

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485672
The only true defense is a paper and pencil (why pencil: Disappearing ink).
It’s immortal and cyclical. There is no beginning or end. Popular focus is obviously on one part of that cycle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)
This is crazy! Everyone can be James Bond today
Hey Hackers,

The main concepts of this app are

1. Take notes in a tree structure.

2. Test immediately without wasting time and effort to create flashcards separately.

3. Review with the optimal learning cycle calculated by the SR algorithm.

This is probably the question you are most curious about.
“What is the difference with other competitors?”

The long and nerdy answer:
https://learnobit.postach.io/post/to-everyone-who-showed-a-p...
Does the "Appendix: experimental setup" section at the end address this?
> I keep mentioning this like a broken record. In most western democracies we have a disconnect from the will of the people and what legislation gets implemented, caused by representative democracy. We need a more direct way for people to influence policy

I don't think you understand.

In Australia, the strong lockdowns are widely supported. There was an election in Queensland during 2020 where the Queensland government bore a lot of criticism from NSW and other governments for their restrictions.

They were returned with an increased majority.

I'm in South Australia and I support the policy outlined in this piece.

It's a freedom tradeoff - we are lockdown free, can go about our business without getting COVID.

Until the vaccination rate is high enough, I support measures our goverment is taking to keep it like that.

It's true people are getting tired of this. But in general people (correctly) blame the slow vaccine roll out rather than the lockdown policy for their unhappiness.
The federal government have been frothing at the mouth to get states to open up since the start of the pandemic, especially focused on VIC. They've only changed their messaging temporarily to be pro-lockdown recently when NSW initially dropped the ball, and then pivoted again to focus on vaccines and "living with COVID" when it was clear NSW couldn't recover.

https://twitter.com/joshfrydenberg/status/131622619140619059...
How far did Trump go to overthrow it? You seem to think it's all Trumps fault that a mob of people that spent a summer watching people riot all across america looting and burning down buildings...without any concequences, show up at the capitol to protest, get carried away then riot, and bust into the capitol.

Trump probably did enjoy watching congress cowar in fear and flee, but in the end he told them to go home, he didn't say "now I'm incharge". You only think that way because the sleazy media propagandists have told You to think that.

Maybe You shoukd try looking at it another way, or don't ignorance is bliss after all.
> Salaries and prestige are relatively low for developers in Japan, so it's relatively easy for other jobs to compete for prospective workers and draw them away from technology.

Another aspect to this is that IT is one of the few fields where there is a low tradition lock. Getting into the more prestigious and high paying areas can require either a better diploma, stronger adhesion to stereotypical profiles, or working way longer inside to climb the ranks.

In comparison IT companies will be more focused on competence, accept lower social status in exchange for performance. I think this is true in other countries as well, but Japan looks to me like a poster child for this bias.
> "if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be afraid". While the point is valid the issues are more based in the principal of the matter.

An important detail here. Technically you are kind of correct, but sadly there are plenty of examples of people who should have nothing to hide who have rightly had reasons to fear.

I.e. many people have reasons to fear without having anything to be ashamed of.
Then just fake the first and last characters, not much of an additional challenge, few people compare all characters, they compare the first and last few. I bet that would have even caught you unaware in some moments.
How cheap can one be? The amount of hours one must put in to get a 100K and then they can't send you a coffee mug as a simple thank you. Not impressive
But they patented it, so other companies (Fidelity, Schwab etc.,) can't use it.
The Airmega 400 for the main living room and a pair of AW-1512/Airmega 200 (they're the exact same unit with cosmetic differences, get whichever you can find in stock unless you strongly prefer the look of one). Surface area wasn't my main focus. I'd rather change filters more often (not that that's a huge issue outside of wildfire season) and deal with a quieter unit.
Basically, every ICO, only with much bigger numbers.
Nit: the rationals are dense in R.
Also anecdotal but I haven't seen a single person who thinks Reddit's new web UI is good and I've seen many people complaining about first party mobile apps.
As a general rule, you want flights to be safe by sticking to their agreed plan rather than by being lucky that there wasn't something to hit.
Reddit (at least the version of it that created its popularity today) died ages ago, and now it's just being propped up weekend-at-Bernie's style while the owners suck out every possible cent they can before losing the final remaining iota of user-devotion.
Nah, carbon rationing is socialism. The neoliberal version will be something like very high carbon tax so poor people will just be starved out more than they already are. There's no need for the boot of authoritarianism when the invisible hand of the market will produce the same outcome.
> Huh, I recall people saying this 5 years ago only to be shouted down.

It was seven years ago, it was (among others) Sen. Levin, and they weren't shouted down; six years ago the IRS publicly agreed that the tax treatment was wrong and notified people how similar cases should be treated and must be reported going forward. What has gone on in the interim was Renaissance fighting that decision being applied to them.
Cryptopunks
Her story about having to turn over nude photos of herself, stored on her personally-owned (edit: apparently a work phone) phone, to Apple lawyers sounded very awful.

She's got a summary of it all here: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

She also appears to have a few smoking guns, like this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8o4fb3VEAEDVHM?format=jpg&name=...
How networks of consent can fix social platforms
Still using OpenJDK 6 and feeling fine!
I ended up just using a personal git server. I believe the company dissolved not long after I left, so those private repos may be all that's left of it.
The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real
In my experience, gRPC FUSE[1] volume mount improves performance quite a bit, and we only observe up to 10% performance decrease when using volume mounts instead of code living on the DockerForMac VM.

However, I do wonder, if Docker Desktop performance is worse than running Docker on VM in multipass/VirtualBox/VMWare, even if there is no file sharing from host OS.

[1] - https://www.docker.com/blog/deep-dive-into-new-docker-deskto...
Those are called "consequences." You make your choice, you are responsible for it, both the unvaccinated and the "vaccinated socialite" you want to demonize. Do you think you, or the "vaccinated socialite" should be able to opt out of your responsibility to participate in a common sense public health measure without consequences?
Coppermouth would be a good code name. Cottonmouth? Meh.
Per-Project Postgres (2019)
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Ah, the famous second amendment, meant to allow the people to prevent a hostile takeover of the government.

Funny thing is, all the people who are most fervent about it are the people who think trump won the election and yet they lay down and took the loss, the exact thing that the amendment is supposed to prevent, like impotent little children.

What a very effective amendment! /s
I don't know anyone personally who has been able to convince an anti-vaxxer/vaccine hesitant person to get vaccinated. My friend's unvaccinated sibling died of Covid-19 a few days ago. Sibling wasn't high risk or older. They had argued about it last month. Sibling was consuming conservative media and surrounded by similar folks.

The vaccine didn't work on my Dad. He's on immunosupressive meds so he doesn't reject my kidney. There are hundreds of thousands of American organ recipients just like him. And cancer patients. And HIV+ folks. Etc. He got the newly approved 3rd dose within 24hrs of it being approved. We're hoping he has some antibody response to it.

I understand the death shaming, at least when it comes to people who were actively spreading misinformation. As an example, the conservative radio host who dubbed himself "Mr AntiVax" who just died of Covid-19. The ones grifting off human suffering. It's a place for your anger at the unvaccinated to go.
Can IT Happen Here? Improving the Prospect for Managed Retreat by US Cities [pdf]
Wolframalpha is great for things like this

7.7B usd in 2021 is equivalent to 6.33B usd in 2010. [0]

Or the inverse: 6.8 (2010 usd) is 8.28 (2021 usd) [1]

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=7.7+usd+in+2010

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6.8+2010+usd+in+2021
The test setup here doesn't involve a computer-- the keyboards are connected to a logic analyzer that's used as the source for timing.
Hard to inspect account metadata / have chats with your engineers to learn how to build a better competitor if they do that.
My quick summary of sm3/sm4 is:
- sm3 is pretty trivial to implement
- sm4 is about 1/16 the complexity of the spec's aes implementation (one box lookup per clock rather than 8 and no inverted version)

So if you want to court the (giant) Chinese market it's kind of a no brainer
There is too much emphasis in this discussion on a plan to track a very small number of people who would normally be locked in hotel quarantine and not enough on this:

As it turned out, the bet paid off. Had it behaved rationally and adequately valued liberty, a rich nation like Australia would have spent lavishly—before knowing which vaccines would turn out to be most effective—to secure an adequate supply of many options for its people. It could afford to eat the cost of any extra doses and donate them to poorer countries. Australia then could have marshaled its military and civil society to vaccinate the nation as quickly as possible, lifted restrictions more fully than Europe and the United States did, and argued that the combination of fewer deaths and the more rapid return to normalcy made their approach a net win.

Instead, Australia invested inadequately in vaccines and, once it acquired doses, was too slow to get them into arms. “Of the 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that have been released to the government by manufacturer CSL, only about 8 million have gone into the arms of Australians”

The federal government is incompetent and lazy and thought because they had dodged one bullet they were bullet proof.