skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big architectural problem of the Amiga was that so much of its graphics and sound was tied to TV signal clocks. It's not a big issue if you are building a gaming console, but it became a problem for a computer when it was much more complicated to make it output higher resolutions than 400i (and 400i was already quite painful to use). When PCs with VGA cards started to become commonplace, it became abundantly clear the graphical prowess of the Amiga would be surpassed in a very short time and that it's only remaining role would be in the analog TV production niche.
24 hours later, ProtonMail deletes "By default, we do not keep any IP logs".

I'll call that a win for all customers who emailed Protonmail about this.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443449
There's a discussion about this here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647
> The act of analyzing my data is what is the violation.

So to be 100% clear on this: if you tell someone information, and they think about that information, that's a violation of your privacy?

I've definitely always assumed that the right to think about information is intrinsically coupled with the right to know about that information. I wouldn't give someone data that I didn't want them to think about.

> for possible future use and abuse

This is a completely reasonable concern to hold, but surely "they could possibly do something bad later" applies to every email provider in existence.
I'm still unclear, after reading the article, how all this is supposed to work.

My basic question is: are my messages to other users still encrypted or can Whatsapp employees read them? If so, that's seriously scandalous. If not, how can they make reliable assessments from metadata alone?
> Sometimes fixing a bug is a breaking change

Apart from the ABI thing, which is pretty clear-cut - most bug files should not break the public Api - but sometimes the api spec is buggy. Then bug fix becomes a breaking change.

Assume that ssl certs are never actually checked[1] - this is typically a bug - and a bad situation. I would probably assume fixing such a bug would be a breaking change, even though it's a case of "omg, hair on fire this never was working" - and clearly a bug...

[1] yeah that's a real example https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0476/
Is there a way to make it licensed? Like “if you use our paper or data, then you also need to publish yours”.
Ignoring the flowery text here.. this is pretty spot-on. My brother in law is an amazing people person. He's able to convince anyone of anything. He always "knows a guy" and "is that person's second cousin". Never waits on line at a bar, and always the life of the party.

This guy was born for sales.

Perhaps unsurprisingly he also was terrible in college. Just did not work with his brain. He dropped out, worked some odd jobs, settled in to working a tree company, cutting down trees. Dangerous work to say the least.

He finally went back to school and took like 2 classes a semester and graduated with whatever degree he could string together from the local college, and it took him ages, I think he spent 7 years total in undergrad. It was affordable because it was just some local state school.

2 months after graduation? He's a sales rep at a B2B software firm. A year later he's the top of his sales group. His potential is huge now, and that door was firmly shut to him before he graduated. College, for him, was just a piece of paper he needed, and his life took a dramatic turn when he got it.
> If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

>…the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Truth is not determined by a list of approved opinions, it can only be revealed by rigorously disproving everything that opposes it.

All these calls for censorship make me think we really are doomed to repeat history forever.
Socialization is a huge part of it - perhaps the biggest in terms of impact - because students who worked alongside each other during a similar stage of life, living within short walking distance of each other 24/7, working toward a similar goal, develop a bond which can be immensely valuable later on in networking for job opportunities.

Those students are much less likely to develop such a bond with some rando who just walked in off the street to check out what's going on. That person has zero investment in the experience other than expressed interest and would I'm certain be measurably less successful forming relationships with other students who could help their career in the future. They aren't in the same tribe.

It makes me sick to say it, but this can be even more important than the credentialing. There are multiple stories of students dropping out to start companies and still benefitting from their college peer network in ways that wouldn't happen for someone that wasn't actually a 'true peer'.

I think this is simply a biological tendency at the end of the day and don't see any easy way of changing it.
Should it be $LINKS instead of $Links (2x)?
If something is deemed illegal, then you are bound by law to adhere.

Unless there are loopholes in such law, in which case you exploit them.

In the absence of any law that depicts something as "illegal", are you not free to do the thing that is not considered illegal?

The other alternative it to bring about a law that expressly permits such an act as legal.

Lets say, to allow the government to spy on the people of the country or wider, or perhaps to brainwash them with propaganda?

It's either remove a law that says it's illegal, or create a law that permits it as legal. Either way, the people are screwed. /o\
Unvaccinated Australians will be locked out of the economy
The third link talks about it in detail:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/22/132497/sorryorga...

The "natural" pesticides used by organic farming can also bioaccumilate, that doesn't sound like good soil management to me. [1]

As for the rest of it: it doesn't really matter what's possible in theory. Research is awesome and should continue. But like I said, we're losing dozens of species per day. We have to choose whatever is most cost and land-efficient today (else people will starve).

It's true that some organic crops are sometimes environmentally better. But the only question is how much better or worse it is today, on average. Unless you have a cheap and effective way that will guarantee that certain standards are maintained on 90% of the organic farms on the planet. I don't know of such a mechanism. Costs will be minimized and rules that decrease yield will be skirted.

A global carbon tax and some sort of land use tax (I don't know how else natural land could be protected) would solve most of these problems but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

[1] https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/07/23/organic-fungic...
I've used Python almost my entire career, but started with out the UNIX tools. I never found awk interesting, then took a peek at it recently and understood: this was the pre-perl! it had scripting-language hash tables!
So does any non-Google email provider meet your criteria then?
Its kinda crazy how casual people are with their constraints on explantion when the topic is intellectual disparity. Person you're replying to claimed they weren't arguing for a gentic component to another reply but also doesn't do anything to filter any other factor than a congential threshold for learning math. This is absolutely why the Left is generally leary of this type of discussion because it is so easy to use the information for all sorts of ill-informed or cross purposes.
I get stuck in a weird bug on certain Customer machine that suddenly start failing, so I replace the http client library to one that use rustls and gone.

A few hours of work and also the CI benefit!

P.D: Other software also fail the same, but they can't switch so fast... Rust refactoring is golden!
One in 5k: The Real Chances of a Breakthrough Infection
And at least when they're playing a popular song with easy to obtain MP3s, you can use gnuradio to cancel that out of the audiotrack.

Yeah, they're being shitty piggies, but we have tech we can use too.
> A student from Arizona State can be more competent than one from Harvard.

The relevant question from the perspective of those doing the hiring is what is the probability a student from Arizona State is more competent than one from Harvard?

Replace competent with well connected and/or otherwise useful.
HN tends to have waves of (for lack of a better term) "troll hunters" who come here with an attitude that everyone here is commenting in bad faith and must be called out for it. They will do it to commenters from all sides of an argument, even in cases like this where it was clear your comment was simply remembering a past event and not intended to be anything else.

I haven't figured out if they mean well and are just sorely misguided, or are actually trolls themselves here from places like Reddit where such bad faith activity actually happens in every single post.
Indeed. This is a political (since 2018) and mainly financial crisis, and an attempt to adopt some organic practices is one of the effects.

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2021/07/sri-lanka-manufactur...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58390292
I fail to see how something with an approximately US$3 transaction fee is going to be a usable currency for anything other than very large purchases.
Did you really read table 3?

Per output organic vs conventional:

Energy use 15–21% lower a,b
Nitrous oxide emissions 8% higher a
GHG emissions 0–10% lower a,b,c
GHG emissions of organic diet equal to conventional diet d

One 2012 paper (I did not track it) says nitrous oxide higher 8% but GHG less up to 10% or identical, so less air pollution overall.

For reference Nitrous oxide is around 7% of all GHG in the USA, so the +8% by 70% by 7% doesn't amount to much vs 0-10% when you add up, source: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Heads for anyone thinking of applying: I took the half hour or so to fill out their application and was instantly denied. I suspect it was because I don't have a proper CompSci degree (I have a degree in Chemical Biology and have been working as a Software Developer for six or so years).
Still the trouble of learning history to reason what ought to be...
STEM education leaves that out. In the US you need to actively research recent history to even know we did anything in the middle east, barely know anything about the relatively recent Desert Storm let alone Cold War operations.
It's not as off-topic as you might think as critical theory covers a wide range of things.

One of the biggest issues with Kendi and similar works (of which there are many in the academic world) are they paint a false dichotomy and they frame themselves as the only legitimate response to historical racism, etc. That is, anti-racism is the only way to combat "white supremacy". It's illiberal in this regard (and in fact, the entire body of critical theory is not only skeptical to western liberalism but actively attacks it as "the tools of the oppressor") and I hope you find his remedies as totalitarian and insane as I do. For instance, I don't think a "Department of Anti-Racism" which is staffed by "formally trained anti-racists" and not appointed by elected officials with the authority to "clear" all local, state, and federal policies to ensure they are "anti-racist" is a good idea. And to be equipped with "disciplinary tools" to punish non-compliance...

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politi...
Please note that elogind is literally logind amended to run standalone. (I run it as a part of my Void Linux desktop.)
that's what I do, use cryptomator with gdrive.
I think we're also talking about the days when a machine that was swapping extensively was going to be stupidly slow no matter what you did.
FWIW, as a mostly backend/native developer, I know that I've spent way too much time looking for a widget set that works well enough for my needs. These days, if I need a front-end, I'll be targeting the web or Electron.

So, +1 to the developers of Revolt.
Just so you know, chalk me up as an 'anti-woke' leftist. Which might mean "Economist(TM) centrist".

I can be in support of anti-systemic-racism actions that do not act on an individual level. I can support universal healthcare, higher income equality and whatnot, without the binary race worldview that Kendi puts out.
Lots of discussions whether it will work or not. Same as 10k rubles payout for seniors. Likely people are not so much stupid and such things won't work per se. But in Russia there is the second step: falsify the elections and explain that people voted for a fake or for the party they hate because of the payout. A casual observer will have less questions, or there will be an "explanation".
and SIP, and XMPP, and maybe the odd email client
I'm guessing you haven't dealt with the spiral-bound, Kinkos-printed "text" written by the professor, sold for $75, and updated every semester to prevent resale?

My wife had two of these every semester for her last two years of college.
There's an interesting dynamic here where imo the silent majority of progressives don't buy his approach and think it's counterproductive, but any lone soul who says so is called out, which side are you on here anyways.

So this guy gets to represent himself as a spokesman for the movement and nobody really wants to contradict it under their real name.
I think you can usually ignore people who complain about "whataboutism" - on HN at least it usually boils down to someone trying to dismiss a legitimate comparison with "Hey you can't say that, I said it first!"
Eh, no harm, 200+ comments and no one complaining.

People obviously still see value in discussing it
This conversation is super frustrating. This is occurring in the context of compilation speed. So if you're measuring compilation speed by LoC (which is itself just a heuristic), then you should, at minimum, count as many lines of code that are actually being compiled. That's what `cargo vendor` does: it fetches the source code of all dependencies that are needed to build the project.

You are losing sight of the forest through the trees here. This isn't an abstract argument about what is or isn't part of a program. This is a concrete measurement heuristic that has precisely defined inputs.
The negated variant make sense compared to the original, it's really the definition of msub which is strange, I would expect msub to subtract the last operand from the multiplication, not the other way around. The AMD64 mnemonics actually encode this order e.g. VFMADD213PDy is 2 * 1 + 3 (ba + c) while VFMADD132PDy is 1 * 3 + 2 (ac+b).

Though apparently the Dolphin folks disagree either way and interpret nmadd as (nm)add, rather than n(madd).
Years and years ago I was offered a job as an MS tech evangelist for the purpose of pushing Mozilla to use "new" MS technologies coming in what would eventually be Vista. I had a decent repuation in the Mozilla community, and I've always been a good communicator. The problem was some of the things they wanted me to push I knew would never get out the door.

There were three big issues although I can only remember two, which were WPF and WinFS. I said flat out WinFS isn't going to make the cut, the third feature wouldn't, and even if WPF did make it into the final build, Mozilla doesn't have the resources or desire to move Mozilla to WPF, especially since mozilla is a cross platform app. "Yes, we know, but utilizing WPF will make it easier to develop on Windows!" I pointed out while that's good for MS, it provides no benefit to Mozilla's non-windows users, and Mozilla would never do it. And WinFS isn't working at all, so why would they spend even a moment trying to figure out how the new FS would benefit an application?

I think the third leg was Palladium. "It'll make online banking so secure!" I remember commenting that with all the flack it was getting, it'll have no buy in from anyone else, and flop.

I don't think compulsive "tell it how it is" people are good for evangelist roles. :D
Are you referring to base64 here? If so, then you are very very wrong. I've written lots of Rust programs over the years and have needed base64 precisely once IIRC.
Pivotal Tracker. I've found it to be a much more productive tool, and teams using it typically move alot faster and are far happier than those using Jira.
Oh, come on, they can't help it! It's best not to punish their natural behavior
Taliban announce hardline caretaker government for Afghanistan
Yes.

Money printing is a hidden tax that hits especially hard on those that don't have a lot of savings or the ability to invest in appreciating assets.

As technology advances, things should naturally become cheaper. A gallon of milk today is not comparable to a gallon of milk produced 20 years ago due to technological advances. So it should naturally get cheaper. Of course it doesn't because there is more money in circulation.

Think of the extreme, electronics. These do get cheaper for the same capabilities because the technological advancement is so much faster than the technological advancements of milk production.

It's fine if you want to increase taxes to fund public expenditures, but this should be done explicitly through taxes, rather than hidden through increasing the monetary base. I believe a lot of waste and corruption would be rooted out if we were honest about what we're funding and how we're funding it. If everyone saw their tax bills go up a few hundred dollars a year to fund foreign interventionists policies, I don't think it would be politically feasible. Money printing is a way to fund expenditures without being honest about how much its actually costing us.
Correct, it's one of the few good things (in my opinion) to come out of systemd as a whole. It's a valiant effort, and I also use it in Void.
Cool, I believe this could be used for other sports as well!
Yes, there are misinformation "campaigns", but can you prove they are a deciding cause rather than another parallel expression of the underlying anti-authoritarian angst?
There's a spectrum between "natural meadow that replenishes the soil via normal activity" and "intensive industrial agriculture sustained by phosphate mines".

Organic farming aims to fall in the middle somewhere.
This is why, when people start asking for categories or hierarchies, you implement it as tags without telling them, if it's at all possible to do so.

Then when they decide they actually need tags, you either get to be a hero, or to goof off for a couple weeks, depending on your situation :-)

Nesting works the same way. "OK we said we needed N levels but actually we need arbitrary levels of nesting, and also we don't realize it but what we're asking for can introduce cycles to the structure". Every. Damn. Time.
> 2. You implement a basic, fixed (but can be expanded) ACL-type system based on categories such as "hacking content", "politically sketchy content", "sexual content", etc.

The problem: for some of these, the definitions, the legality status and the liabilities (especially around "politically sketchy" stuff) may differ wildly between jurisdictions. And you will always have trolls mis-labeling their content on purpose, or content that is to be classified as "gambling" in the US but not in Germany... the list of issues is endless.

> 3. YOU LET THE GOD DAMN ADVERTISERS DECIDE FOR THEIR OWN GOD DAMNED SELVES WHAT KIND OF CONTENT THEY'RE OK WITH ADVERTISING ON.

And then they will still have headlines "Youtube allowing Nazis, antivaxxers, incels and other threats to the general public". Not to mention the legal issues (e.g. Nazi content is banned in Germany/Austria, LGBT content in Russia, a whole boatload of stuff illegal in India with jail threats for local staff)...

> 5. You stop playing God and pretending that the concept of global "community standards" means anything at all in a world with 7 billion people and hundreds of thousands of disparate interests-based communities, each with their own disparate community standards.

You will always need some sort of "global minimum standards" that ideally is at least somewhat of a common ground in Western-allied nations. And that means: no Nazis/white supremacists, no Qanon, no antivaxxers, no incels, no adult content/gore, no drugs (tobacco/alcohol/illegalized drugs), no gambling, no glorification of violence.
As web developer for over a decade "bits content" doesn't mean anything to me. But I understand what the tool does from the rest of the description. Try running a google search for "bits content," [0] it's not a commonly used phrase in web development or anything. It's a poor choice of words.

0. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22bits%20content%22
It's hard to show causation, in general, for anything, but here's a theory.

Mozilla is making decisions to remove power-user features, which is alienating power-users (we've got a whole comment-section of them right here).

This doesn't directly kill marketshare, because there aren't that many power-users. But every time Mozilla alienates another web developer, one less website works in Firefox. When websites stop working right, that's when marketshare really drops.

Also, I'm not convinced the quality of major studio films has dropped as a result of the Marvel era. It just seems that way because 1) we tend to forget the worst films when looking back into the past and 2) Covid really is hurting studio budgets.
I agree, there was a perception that Mozilla was, not just a browser vendor, but a tech company and an (successful) outsider against giants like Google or Microsoft.

This image was gone the moment Mozilla via its foundation started to push partisan politics after the eviction of Eich. Using Mozilla's Firefox instead of browser XYZ was also a militant (but non partisan) act.

The removal of the Rust, Servo teams and the MDN team, abandoning Firefox OS, all avenues of possible growth, completely mismanaged since Eich's departure, didn't help either.

Management at Mozilla certainly is at fault.
You're right of course, at the time of writing there were only 2 comments in this thread, and both were along the same lines which made the effect seem more pronounced.
Yes but Australia, especially recently is becoming for totalitarian and surveillance oriented. Not really sure why people there are not voting those people and laws out while they still can, but I guess it's tribalism and limited number of parties just like here in the USA.
That does not guarantee mass representation of user interests.

Mostly the interests of those with enough power to influence that corporation, nonprofit, or federal company will be represented. Which is what happens today and we are right back where we started.

I believe that mass representation of user interests for social media could be achieved through popular usage of distributed platforms and popular developing. To have a popular platform nodes must run the mass accepted protocol/version. Else you just have a fragmented network.

The majority could rule in this scenario if we have the right ideological framework to sustain it. What you propose is not a real solution.
Well, tech/protocol/crypto/algorithms require changes to all servers involved. UX is something that can be deployed and iterated upon much more easily. That makes it the "easy bit", for some definition of easy.
Being a ruler in such a manner isn't as simple as you might suspect... there are rules for rulers. CGP Grey explains it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs