skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please talk to real people rather than reading things online and taking them as fact. This is on the face of it a completely ridiculous claim to make. When you announce to an entire classroom that someone is overweight and unhealthy that person becomes defacto target for bullying and abuse, that's probably why this practice has disappeared. Doctors do still tell people that they are overweight, despite your wild assertion that they do not.

I left highschool in the mid-2000s, I was told that I had high blood pressure for my age and to watch out for it. I had friends given advice to lose weight. I was given that same advice by doctors when I was gaining weight after having left school in the mid-2010's.

A young relative who was overweight was given advice to lose weight by his doctor, his parents agreed and made some changes to his diet with his cooperation.

Obesity correlates with a whole slew of different environmental, social and cultural variables, to reduce all of that complexity down to "we can't shame people into losing weight anymore" is absurd.

Even worse, it's not even the first time I've come across this take, so I actually have a link to share with you. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236245/

Read at your leisure, it's not that long.
Hi one of the developers here, bot support does exist, we have multiple libraries in different languages you can use, checkout https://github.com/insertish/awesome-revolt
I regularly see the second fallacy here on HN. It is embarrassingly stupid, but it seems to have some kind of staying power.
Why is SiC a good thing?

1. It has a higher bandgap energy than silicon, which means it can tolerate more heat without breaking down. It also means the junctions can be physically smaller.

2. Smaller junctions mean the transistors can switch faster, which means less time spent in the linear region, which means they generate less waste heat than silicon transistors.

3. SiC also has lower ON resistance, which means less waste heat still.

4. SiC conducts heat better than silicon, so removing its [lesser] waste heat is easier and requires a smaller heat sink apparatus.

All of this makes SiC a fantastic technology for power electronics. (It's less important for signal electronics, but even signal electronics waste small amounts of power so reducing that further is still relevant.)

For EVs, SiC inverters mean less mass for an EV to carry around. Less mass per se doesn't matter as much as you might think for an EV because with regenerative braking you get back some of your acceleration energy when you decelerate. However, air resistance matters enormously in an EV because you can't get back the energy you lost pushing the car through the air. And "less mass" also means "smaller" and "smaller" means "more opportunities to make the car aerodynamically efficient."
People often use "written in" when they are targeting devs and contributors as no end-user cares about in which jargon we write stuff. In this case, I don't get why they brag as this definitely hits my spaghetti detector: https://github.com/revoltchat/delta/blob/master/src/database...
I would strongly urge you to consider migrating to an alternative database, given MongoDB's SSPL license that is difficult to comply with.
What if we make an entire city in one giant building?
As we were a deployment company (ZEIT) our usecase was quite different.

And yes, as the other person mentioned, it was on the wire GZIP, not storage concerns.
This will put many smaller brands out of business, driving up prices on the poor. Most lower end brands barely make a profit as if (often selling at a loss when doing sales).
Good article, but it doesn't really introduce any concepts that I haven't heard (or said) already.

There was the line about "not introducing much process and structure," as basic Agile principles. I completely agree (and have said so, myself[0]), but the issue is that software folks (and engineers, in general), don't like "blurred lines." We need empirical data, measurable artifacts, concrete results, etc., so that "fuzzy logic," (what I consider) "true" Agile really needs, is difficult, in practice.

This is why I think that experienced engineers, that treat the vocation as a "craft," are often better suited to "true" Agile. They understand the ramifications of decisions that need to be made quickly (without having to run a formal risk analysis and methodology review).

Remember that the authors of the Manifesto were all highly experienced and capable engineers. They wrote a document that basically chronicled the way that they, themselves, approached development.

As for bugs and tech debt; personally, I abhor debt, of any kind. That posture has served me very well, in life. Tech debt is just another loan shark.

I like to run on what I call "constant beta." The application is always what I consider to be "bug free" (we all know it isn't, but let me have my happy place). If I encounter a bug, I stop all forward movement, and fix it; even if it is a "small" bug.

As you can imagine, this was not something my managers used to allow, but, as I no longer have a manager, I do it this way.

It works wonderfully.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/
I think the punchline on the FAQ entry is:

> Matrix is incredibly buggy at times and it’s left a sour taste in my mouth.

Speaking as project lead for Matrix... I can see where this is coming from. Were we doing Matrix from scratch again, we'd have a smaller scope and polish each feature more before releasing and moving onto the next thing. However, we're very aware of this, and these days do almost nothing else other than polishing the current codebase - for instance, Synapse's RAM usage has dropped enormously (https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1434912387933560837) - all the main serverside bottlenecks have been removed; we're working on speeding up joins enormously; Element's performance is improving massively; we're working a complete rethink of the client-server sync protocol to ensure that only the bare minimum data is ever synced to clients by default. The only new feature work we have on the horizon is exiting Spaces (groups of rooms) from beta, and adding Threading. Otherwise, it's "just" a matter of fixing remaining E2EE bugs; reworking E2EE onboarding UX, and lots and lots of polish.

Critically, *NONE* of these bugs are due to federation or decentralisation. Ironically, the federation bit of Matrix is one of the most robust bits these days - after we spent ages polishing it in 2018-2019 to fix bugs in the merge resolution code. So I think the...

> Federation and Discord-style protocols are inherently incompatible

...assertion in the revolt FAQ is completely false, and Matrix already disproves it. Residual bugs in Matrix implementations are more thanks to the complexity of federation/decentralisation/encryption sucking a lot of energy away from the more business-as-usual things which you'd focus on if building a Revolt/Rocket/Mattermost style thing.

Anyway: Revolt looks cool, and we wish them the best, and hope that they will indeed bridge into Matrix in future, which is honestly quite a good compromise - https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/07/gitter-now-speaks-matrix#... is the guide to follow to rapidly plug an existing chat system into Matrix, much as we did with Gitter :)
With state cops you are allowed to lie under many circumstances (exceptions: identification, under oath, on reports and forms).

He could have just straight up lied, or interpreted the question in a way favorable to him (I thought you meant millions, not less than $100k).

He cooperated at all points and was doing nothing wrong. The logical conclusion is that being truthful and cooperative is not going to keep you out of trouble.
Electron is MAX_HATE, Rust is MAX_LOVE, but Discord is more Electron than it is anything. As in, I don't care if Rust runs on their servers if Electron runs on my desktop.
> Due to Proton’s strict privacy, we do not know the identity of our users, and at no point were we aware that the targeted users were climate activists

I don't understand what this is about. Would they had refused to comply, was that the case?
screen share wont be a feature for a while, but the hope is to capture game audio as well
I'm not sure how unionisation is relevant, but lots of models of products target different regulatory regimes.
It's mind blowing how much land the US has. I live in India and here finding farmland is not easy to say least, while I see lot of cheap land available in the US all time with much more facilities than a small city in India would have.

I've always wondered why America has not built many more cities with all that available land.
It might largely depend on whether you live somewhere with proportional representation or not. Full-on revolution at the ballot box is rare in liberal democracies, sure, but single-issue candidates get elected pretty commonly and often have outsized influence if they're needed for a coalition government.
Boot: The Book 3.0 way of writing a book
This. And there are plenty of high paying companies that will respect your time better than FAANG.
It's relevant because you pretend you're shocked at the use of the word veteran in headlines when the country you're in does the very same thing. This shtick of "non-US" people is quite tiring.
arguably the same thing. If you want to get pedantic, "ESC" refers to a specific subset of drive topologies that are all fairly lossy on the D axis, meaning the efficiency drops at low speeds or under heavy acceleration.

"Drive controller" or "motor controller" are common terms, and while I have seen acronyms like DCU, nothing really sticks. MCU is already taken as an acronym, which doesn't help.
Personally I see “Written in rust” as more of a meme, often using buzzwords like “blazing fast” and “memory safe.” Electron is definitely worse than rust is good.
Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace (1993)
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/QyjRv
Yep- just did. Took two tries to find a temp mail that wasn't blocked. No phone required.

For those concerned about using a temp mail site, it's only used to verify the account; it can never be used to recover it.

But the account is made and I can log into it just fine, perfectly accessible.
Women's rights actually occurred in defiance of popular numbers by a vote. In the US, the same thing happened for integration of schools.

You do, typically, need a majority of the voters to agree with you. In representative democracy that means you need a plurality of representatives.

Candidates can and do lie. That is something you need to evaluate as part of voting for them.
I think I lost a neuron reading your comment. You think that the state of New York lost all its wind when they built all the skyscrapers in a comparable small portion of the state?
From Wikipedia[0], quoting the Mueller report:

> The Mueller report detailed that the IRA spent $100,000 for over 3,500 Facebook advertisements, which included anti-Clinton and pro-Trump advertisements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Social_media_ca...
I just finished reading The Devil in the White City, which is about the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and intercuts the story with serial killer H. H. Holmes’ crimes. What struck me most was how the event’s success was far from guaranteed, and it took a mix of national/civic pride, hubris, ambition, and luck to pull it off. We tend to think of massive engineering projects as guaranteed successes and scaling to fill their need, but I think we underestimate how much influence individual people have in pulling these projects off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_White_City
The plan is to make DMs end to end encrypted.
so nice to hear,

may y'all have the nicest times
My new companies aren't. Gitlab is the new hotness
I suppose not, but reducing wind energy at near sea level would reduce the energy of weather systems, including hurricanes, that whilst products of climate change are the pointy ends of the stick that cause irritation and woe in humans and other creatures.

Again, probably not much, mind!
Business Language
Bitcoin has not been famous for trafficking platform for the illegal data(yet). But it has its potential. All we need is a visualization tool. A tool that display the interesting data or automatically download data if it looks like URL. Complete with upload feature which spend BTC to record the user supplied data(or upload to somewhere resistent and record URL of it) to the Bitcoin blockchain, it can be a practical platform to trafficking illegal data.

Actually, I think Bitcoin blockchain has accumulated enough illegal data so just a fool-proof visualization tool is enough to make authorities serious enough to prohibit the Bitcoin. It's more of a presentation than technical though.
> Blazing fast

So have you measured it or do you just mean you haven't implemented as many features? -> Usually the latter.
Don't conflate "illegal" with "wrong".

Obviously there is a lot of overlap, but the reality is that civil disobedience is often the only way to force changes in unjust laws, history (even incredibly recently) has proven that time and time again.
Yup, moved from onprem to cloud afaik. Turns out cloud hardware has trash reliability and slow (particularly disk) Big shocker here
A large part was due to confusion with the company that makes League of Legends, from what I understand.
Their marketing copy still says "Anonymous. Opt out of tracking or logging of personally identifiable information".

And "Unlike competing email services, we do not track you."

Nowhere does it say "Unless your government asks the Swiss government then we'll capture, log and report every IP address you use".

Source: https://protonmail.com/security-details

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/gfUcYme

And this marketing copy was rewritten after this incident.

Before this incident it didn't say "opt out of tracking". How does one "opt out", by using Tor?

It used to say, in bold print, "No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information".

No weasel words about requiring the user to take some unspecified action to "opt out". No asterisks or caveats or warnings of any kind.

It also used to explicitly promise: "we do not record metadata such as the IP addresses used to log into accounts".

Now that part is mysteriously gone.

Pretty shitty to quietly flush this down the memory hole, then pretend nothing's changed, blaming and gaslighting users for not understanding.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210607023937/https://protonmai...

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/R1muChN
Oh man, if you think the capitalists are bad wait until you hear about the fascists, the communists and the monarchs!
I don't mean for this to be a loaded question, but isn't it obvious that launching rockets into space over and over again probably isn't good the environment on so many fronts?
It’s not like the term “discord” didn’t invite allusions along the same vector. In this regard, the “namers” chose a name that did a hat tip to the original term and communicated “but more!”

That said, not a fan of either name myself.

The ad hoc poll going forward for funsies could be: if/when you the reader do a discord clone, which language will you be bragging it’s done in, and which name will you be choosing for your project?
It seems that people were not just expecting privacy but anonymity based on the fact that Protonmail does not generally keep IP addresses.

That seems to be an unrealistic expectation. General anonymity is not something you can just buy. It only lasts for a limited time and takes considerable work on the part of the user. It was obvious to me when I encountered the claim in question that it was about preventing the commercial exploitation of personal data and not some fundamental discovery that changed the normal exceptions of what was achievable in terms of anonymity.
"This doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the traffic stop, so respectfully I'm going to exercise my fifth amendment rights on principle".
Cassandra or HBase are not exactly a utopia either though
I agree that it should be possible to disable the default registry, but I'm not sure I agree with allowing you to override it. (These requests appear to be conflated in various comments.) Use your own registry by specifying the domain first `myregistry.example.com/repo/image`; an unadorned `repo/image` being globally reserved as shorthand for `registry.docker.io/repo/image` seems fine. Allowing overriding the meaning of `repo/image` would be a support nightmare for both moby and internal IT, just use qualified names.
Two standard external USB disks of different ages, connected to a powered USB hub attached to a ROC-Raspberry Pi. The older one is the "live" one that serves all data requests. The newer disk is usually attached to the hub, but it's also disconnected during summer.

If the "live" disk fails, the other disk will eventually replace it.

> render backups useless

Like I mentioned, data loss isn't a concern. This is mainly hosting code repositories and media files.

What's my use-case? My laptop, that has a paltry 256GB SSD, keeps running out of disk space, and I often find myself plonking files that aren't super critical on the network drive.
And more legal requests are coming. Protonmail has a target on its back. That 2/day will soon be 20/day.

That means Protonmail needs to stop training users to "trust us". It's a losing strategy.

Protonmail must educate users to treat it as an adversary. And to still provide a product worth using.

Train users to use Tor. Promote other tools for dissenters.
Hi, one of the revolt developers here, we wanted something contained and selfhosted instead of something federated, see https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/federation on why we dont plan on adding federation
Switzerland is outside the EU.
Gratification in the form of working software provides business value. Sooner is better, for some values of working software.

This insight that replanning is easier with agile methods is pretty key.
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I'm suggesting that when companies that print money have so broken AI models that the confuse dark skinned humans for animals we should incentivize them to fix it.

If this ends up giving entry level jobs to people who have a hard time entering tech so they can help testing this, I can live with that too.

But frankly, I don't see your point: is it OK to call dark skinned people monkeys if the system who does it is automated && the company who run it is willing to apologize and stop it after getting caught?

PS: this is a weird situation for me, I'm a normal white bloke, not woke or anything, I just try to push companies to show basic decency.
Re-imagining learning through serious games in banking and beyond
Unless the cop invents a new pretext to harass him. Maybe he thinks he saw drug paraphernalia in the car. Maybe he thinks Stephen was resisting. Maybe he puts his knee on Stephen's neck and holds it there for 7, 8, 9 minutes.

I winced when I read "Stephen did everything he was told" because that led to the police stealing his money. But what else can he do? The cop has the power to kill him and very likely get away with it. And it happens with enough frequency to be a real threat.
The big trick with natural gas, coal and oil energy is that if it exists but doesn't run, it doesn't produce much emissions.

So, if you have medium amounts of solar and wind, it's fine keeping the gas plants in reserve and maybe having to use them on a particularly cold day once every other year. A gas plant is very cheap from investment perspective. From total emissions point of view it is also fine. (These exceptionally cold windless winter days are waved as examples of the unsuitability of wind and solar.)

Of course if your gas pipes leak like crazy, maybe it's best to turn to decommission the plants and network.
As an American not flying simply means not traveling anywhere further than 500 miles from home, or it means an extra 2-3 days to get there. It means never really leaving North America, heck, parts of North America are not accessible but by air.

I don't have high speed rail options, I can either, take the (slow) train (if it goes there), take the bus, drive or fly. Removing flying also removed the ability for the poor to travel. That doesn't strike me as fair or reasonable either.

I do try to minimize my flying time, but, none? That's not a reasonable option for me.
This extension is explicit about scraping and storing data from Facebook, which obviously makes it rather more of a target.

And I'm not sure what the point of bringing up a camera is - obviously Facebook can't stop people doing that, but I can't see why that entails that they should simply do nothing about any scraping of data.
Hillary didn't get hacked, it was one of the other people in her circle who got phished. John podesta I think?

Anyways. Yeah, phished. Maybe it's super secret agents or maybe it was a teenager from 4chan.
On a very local scale, the creation of all those skyscrapers has a significant effect on wind speeds at street level.

As for the energy required to make the concrete, steel and glass that made those same buildings, that has increased the amount of wind that New York has to deal with so indirectly - 'yes', in answer to your question.

I think OP means more 'at the hugely massive scale we appear to need' which I don't think is as neuron-murdering a thought experiment as you so unkindly suggest.
I mean it is a little absurd, when everyone on the planet is using email, which is federated...
The taxi could have been in on it -- its a trick that is normally used in poorer countries but looks like its reached the EU.
When I used to want to wake up the ex I'd just say "order up" and she'd jump up from deep sleep, it was hilariously magical...
In spite of the harsh response of some people to your question, it is a perfectly valid question that has some studies addressing it:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-w...

Basically, yes, wind power can have effects on the climate, and we should be aware of them and use them to weigh tradeoffs with other power generation options. This is a reasonable question to ask!
Well, for starters, I did not claim other things were better at this than Capitalism :).

I don't know of a silver bullet. Planning can probably do it some times, and probably not do it other times.

What I do know is that poverty traps are sort of a curse of short term optimization. So it's imperative to make people feel less precarious or they will not care about these things as much as the elites who like to sit around and mull about abstract world-historic issues.
Ah, thank you. I didn't realise that. Appreciate the correction!
What do you think is funding the DA's office?
Hey all Krishan here one of the builders behind MDTP. we built MDTP as a modern take on the classic MillionDollarHomePage some of you may remember from back in the day. It's build on Ethereum which means each 10x10 pixel block is an NFT you can buy and sell just like any other. Owning the token gives you permission to set content on the page. Have a look and let us know what you think!
The key features state that the language is "fast" and "occupies less memory". Maybe provide some benchmarks/comparisons? Also, more examples would be helpful.

If I look at the landing page from the perspective of someone who either wants to use the language or contribute to it, there just isn't enough compelling information yet. More examples demonstrating that the syntax could be a nice alternative to python or c would help catch someone's eye.