skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that the BBC's reputation has also been harmed in the course of the divisive debate over Brexit with commentary that has kept neither side of the debate happy.

On a lighter note (which I admit reflects my personal inclinations): they should buy back live coverage of Test Match Cricket from Sky - a series of broadly unifying national sporting occasions that used to have distinctive BBC coverage (and still does on the radio of course). Good for cricket too.
Ideology is when you disagree with the status quo, and the more you disagree with the status quo, the more ideological you are. And when you disagree with the status quo a whole lot, that's dogma.
At the time of writing, "Arms" was muskets.

So you've already stated that it isn't reasonable to allow the other "arms". So why is anything more than a single shot barrel-loaded rifle allowed?

Of course the reason is that there is a massive industry in making guns and a rabid source of people that can be scared into buying their wares. The reason the laws are the way they are is because of the economics of the lobby and not any principle.
It's costs money to do things with people. Friends want too go places, do things, activities. I can't imagine you'll be hosting guests in your studio eating beans and rice. Life can be so much more interesting.
If your model of the future of the BBC is that the license fee, which costs about as much as Netflix, should give you a comparable product - then if Netflix have 10x the budget, the BBC's going to have a tough time competing.
Re >> credentialing racket - I agree. This is an aspect of higher education that's made me sad for some time. I've seen too many college-aged kids who's perception of University is that it's simply the way "to get a good job with good pay". I've known the engineers who gripe about taking a history class, or history students who gripe about taking a math class, etc... Not everyone, but more than I'd hope.
> You can’t have actions that call other actions

As of August 25, you can! https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-25-github-actions-redu...
It’s possible for both to be true. Humans are complex. Motivations are often a mix of factors. Why would billionaires be different?
Yeah, this is a thing of human nature. I'm sure if we rolled back to ancient Greece we could find no shortage charlatan oracle-soothsayers who put on a good show but deep down knew they were blowing smoke.
Rustacean Principles
Don't block the spinny thing. Don't leave anything where it can fall through onto the heating element and start burning. Make sure things can't flip over and fill with nasty greywater that sloshes onto everything else.

The number of times people have done me the "favor" of loading my dishwasher and broken these rules has made me sweat it too.
jlokier, if you're assuming I'm in favor of software patents, you haven't been paying attention.

Developers have been writing screeds like this for almost 40 years, but nothing changes. That's because the people in power don't want them to change. Do you want to just keep complaining, or do you want to do something?
when my wife puts my nice knife in the dishwasher, it ends up with gouges in the blade. It's not particularly high end but it is quality steel. The washer has never done anything to the handle or the connection between the handle and the blade (I expect this knife to last 30+ more years. Good deal for $150). The dings in the blade- that is fixed by routine periodic resharpening.
Fair perspective, I grant you. I just don’t think it’s particularly well suited to the HN that I want to see. It seems more fitting for a philosophy board than a startup/technology board.

I do realize that politics is sometimes ok on Hn. I’m just saying I think that degrades the quality of the forum, and dilutes the topics I prefer.

Each unto their own.
Count of total death is just a 'metric' and something that can be 'optimised' and done 'cost benefit analysis' upon, unless it is your child or family member who is the casualty.
I would like to understand how okay anybody would be when told that their daughter died because the government felt it was a waste of money to prevent it.
Definitely black people's fault... hey you coming to the meeting next week? we got a lot of crosses to burn, could use your help.

Good to see you creepin in homes listening to black mothers not give enough praise to their kids, thats great research for the cause.
Show HN: SWR(stale while revalidate) library for JavaScript apps
You probably would have to ban entities like corporations, partnerships, and non-profits from endorsing a candidate. It would essentially extend and make permanent the concept of Purdah to those entities. Purdah is the state of affairs during the pre-election period in the UK where entities like local governments and the Civil Service can't say anything that might prejudice the outcome of an election, though I can't argue that it wouldn't be a very draconian policy and doing something completely different to the original intention of the concept.

I don't think having very strict rules about the relationships between corporations/non-profits and politicians is necessarily a bad thing in itself, in fact many would see it as a good thing that further protects democracy from manipulation by private interests. However, I do see the other side of the argument in that it would probably open its own can of worms especially in areas like freedom of speech. The whole idea does start to unravel if your conception of free speech applies to entities like corporations as well as individuals. Unsurprisingly I lean towards the idea that it doesn't, but I can also see some very valid arguments for the opposite as well.

It could well be a moot point however, I'm not sure how well these "not-parties" would do once society had got used to a few elections without parties and experienced the relief that would come from making politics much less adversarial (I suspect arguments between friends and family would be less common without the tribal labels backed by billions of dollars of "enrangement is engagement" for example). We can probably get some idea by looking at extant "not-party" political entities like charities, NGOs, and lobby groups to see how effectively they influence elections today.
I signed up and paid for an analytics tool subscription by simply clicking “connect with metamask”. Another two clicks to send the payment and I was done.

No email accounts, no sign up forms, no credit card info, nothing.

I’m a lifelong convert to this tech now. I can’t ever imagine going back to sign up forms or sharing my personal data.

I can’t see how anyone who cares about their privacy isn’t hyper bullish about this.
I can't think of a single thing that has more power to make or break the end of 2021 than this launch. Can't wait!
This reminds me of the time I got free data transfer on a major cellular carrier by writing a script that would take large files, split them into 1MB chunks, prepend a PNG header to them and send them through said carrier's email-to-MMS gateway (a corresponding script on my phone extracted the original file. My carrier's email-to-MMS gateway didn't re-encode images and I had an unlimited texting plan, so this was a nice setup. There was a de-facto transfer limit of 500MB/day (Gmail limits you to 500 emails a day, with 1MB/email, and the email-to-MMS gateway rate-limited smaller email servers after 100 messages)
My 6 year old thinks that the screen goes black in some shows because that's when the exciting part is about to happen. Of course, it's actually where the program would normally break for ads . On Netflix/Disney+ this doesn't happen (yet!) so he's come to the conclusion that it's just a signal of impending excitement :)
This is nifty. Is there any similar tool that presents the UI as a web page, rather than a GTK gui?
Steam isn't exactly "stored", but the pressures involved mean that any small breach of confinement becomes dangerous.
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> "oh my god please don't actually use this for anything real"

Dare do explain why? If all you need is a form to pop up and some way to save the data, this is probably the least steep learning curve for anyone who already has to work on a UNIX but is clueless about it.
FD 100
I'm fine with vaccine boosters every six months. Please! Sign me up!
The 18th century "regulated" means "well trained" today. What implies that any restrictions on the type of arms which may be possessed would be Constitutional? Where is the ambiguity outside of misunderstanding the contemporary meaning of "regulated"? "Bearing" doesn't mean using/firing weapons, of course, it's about preventing any authority from monopolizing violence.

Certainly the founders—you know, the violent, enlightened revolutionaries who lead the first colonial overthrow in history—wouldn't have favored limiting certain arms to only thugs of a future tyrannical government. Why would they write the first Constitution in history to enable future state-sponsored goons to persecute the people of the United States?

After McDonald v. Chicago, no restrictions on arms appear Constitutional (hence the collapse of intrastate weapon laws over the past decade), except, I suppose, as punishment for a crime due to the 13th.
As someone whose first Real Job was sanity checking and transcribing registration requests received by fax, setting up nameservice and then sending a properly-formatted email to have it installed in the root servers ... Network Solutions' behaviour makes my skin crawl. It didn't have to be this way.
yup travelling to the US from Canada just to see a comedy show i needed to tell them how much money i have in my bank account and what i do and how much i make... what on earth... they couldn't understand why i would only stay one night...
"Everything you tweet can and will be used against you"

I do wonder what they would do if I refused to give them said info. Is it resisting arrest if I refuse to answer such idiotic queries?
A lot of activity... from a birds eye view, there is always a lot of activity in the swamp below. Paraphrasing an ancient.
> I really wonder why would anyone self-host GitHub. Gitlab has a much more feature rich, mature and cheap offering.

before i understood your comment i was going to reply "security, data security & control" -- as a reason orgs might choose to self-host vs outsource hosting SaaS github.

But you're probably arguing for self-hosted gitlab over self-hosted github.

Good question! i've worked somewhere with self-hosted github, but they were using it prior to github actions / workflows, so it was a combination of self-hosted github and N different CI and deployment automation tools ( bamboo! GoCD! udeploy! jenkins! google cloud build! poor bloody operator manually copying deployment payload onto jump box as the bureaucracy won't approve automation!)
The irony for me is I watch zero bbc content but I love Radio 4 comedy.

So my BBC content consumption has gone up over time not down.
didn't know the competition was over. We're still at less than 1% adoption. Thats like saying that the results speak for themselves about AOL winning the ISP wars in the 90s.
Seriously are you an idiot. Try the FIRST PAGE of The Securities Act of 1933
Or vice versa. Think about how many fully functional keyboards, screens and laptop cases are tossed because someone wants a slightly faster CPU.

I like the idea of a SoM in a laptop shell, but TBH it doesn't look like this laptop shell (as a MBP knockoff) will be particularly repairable.
What about e.g. https://wryheat.wordpress.com/2018/03/14/multi-shot-assault-... ?

It's unreasonable to restrict ownership of arms unless you want to restrict violence to the government and organized criminals, which the founders most certainly did not intend.

Police killed more Americans in 2019 than mass shooters, how can you make an argument in favor of the cops and courts controlling weaponry? Did you miss the police brutality protests last summer?
It took a whole mess of domains getting stolen for them to add even some token level of 2FA, too (mine was one of them and it took nearly a day to get it back; others like Perl.com weren't so lucky). I have only one domain left with them and I don't intend to renew.
Wow this was a great read! I remember taking a kubernetes class in late 2015 and the instructor then was saying that Kubernetes had already won over Docker Swarm and Mesos.

If I were at the helm of Docker today, I'd focus on Enterprise customers. Provide an on-prem version of DockerHub and you'll convince thousands of companies tired of Artifactory to switch immediately. Don't get me wrong Artifactory is pretty nice, but it's a bear to run at scale on an enterprise level. DockerHub already is handling that traffic, so there's no reason to think they can't port that to an on-prem offering.
> Let's hope this is not vaporware.

I sincerely approve of the skepticism. I can assure you there is already a very large fire under my ass to get this shipped.

To provide some more context, here is a snippet from the latest release notes[0]:

> Having a package manager built into the Zig compiler is a long-anticipated feature. Zig 0.8.0 does not have this feature.

> If the package manager works well, people will use it, which means building Zig projects will involve compiling more lines of Zig code, which means the Zig compiler must get faster, better at incremental compilation, and better at resource management.

> Therefore, the package manager depends on finishing the Self-Hosted Compiler, since it is planned to have these improved performance characteristics, while the Bootstrap Compiler is not planned to have them.

I can't help but mention, I am incredibly excited about how well the self-hosted compiler is coming along. Progress is swift, and all the ambitious design decisions (fully incremental compilation[1], extremely fast debug builds[2], low memory usage, multi-threaded) are intact. I anticipate it to make quite a splash once it becomes generally usable.

I don't expect the package manager to take nearly as long to develop.

[0]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#Packag...

[1]: https://vimeo.com/491488902

[2]: https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1416485475125141504
Where do you live that you don't have the freedom to do that? I'm trying to get a read on what mandates various people are seeing in various locations.
There’s a gas field in disputed area in East China Sea, which some says could produce hydrogen at scale, and energy self sufficiency had been an ambition of the country for … some time. There’s no equivalent oil field or Uranium deposit.
Do you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

Or something else? I guess that's the closest thing that would qualify.

But compared to the anti-government protests that have probably happened in half the countries in the world during the same time period, it's peanuts.

Example from Romania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932019_Romanian_pro...

Half a million people protesting out of ~18 million or so. For reference, that would mean 10 million people protesting at the same time in the US. I wonder if even the civil rights movement during the 60's ever got that many people out on the streets at the exact same time.
Won't argue with the your observation on consumption: I see the same with my children.

However: there's nothing intrinsic to the BBC that requires linear delivery or consumption. iPlayer was, after all, one of the first streaming services: a genuine bit of innovation from the Beeb.

I dearly want to see the BBC not only survive, but to prosper.

That may be rose-tinted/delusional/whatever. Why? Because it represents a collective service for society, by society. I don't watch all the content: not even some of the big stuff (Strictly). But I really value the breadth of content: that it caters to interests - people - that are diverse. It can do that because it doesn't have to slavishly chase advertising in a race-to-the-bottom death march to mediocrity.

Similarly, its aspiration to impartial news coverage - to inform and educate, not impose a political doctrine - should be invaluable. It certainly hasn't always achieved that (and sometimes by a long way) but at least the aspiration is there. It would be greatly helped here by some structural protection from government meddling, but that's another story.

Like the original article, I see the writing on the wall. But I don't think it needs to be a death spiral. In a world of hyper-targeted-advertising-driven-sensationalist-fact-free-fake-news in 140 characters or less, I want to believe there's a market for diverse, challenging society-enhancing content. I can't think of an organisation whose charter would better fit with that aim.
>The parallels between COVID and our post-9/11 reaction are eerie.

Are they?

Complaints about post-9/11 "security" have mostly been about the ineffectiveness of steps that are clearly security theater, or the boondoggles of things like the x-ray scanners. Input from security experts was widely ignored in favor of, well, dumb ideas.

The COVID remediation steps we've been asked to take -- masks in public, social distancing, taking the vaccine once it's available -- are exactly what epidemiologists would've said were the right steps if asked about a hypothetical pandemic 25, 50, 75, or 100 years ago. They're directly in line with expert advice, and provably effective.
> they're leveraging their insane capital to succeed in areas they have no experience in.

This is nothing unique about Apple and Amazon, leveraging insane capital is the name of the game.
Spoiler alert: we’re all bullshitting our way through life, in one way or another.
www.wordpress.com

Yes, can have your choice of domain. Costs a bit. Check in their pricing section
Unfortunately the principle does not hold up for software development. If people made discoveries every time they encountered some strange code, we'd have The Matrix running in no time.
their point is that a university hasn't really any reason to accommodate someone who publishes low quality research, which seems pretty straight forward.
Or just do it to do it. Doesn't need to be a progress thing.
The criticism of this ecosystem is just absolutely short sighted.

When I first got internet, it was 56 kbps, a single page took minutes to load, and it was so expensive that I couldn’t stay online for more than 30 minutes per day.

It took 5 years for my town to get “broadband” at 256kbps, and another 5 years to get 2mbps.

Maybe I should have given up on the internet back in 1996 to…
But if Protonmail can be compelled by a proxy foreign government to start logging an individuals IP, they could easily collect your decryption key and therefore your emails with a targeted attack as well.
What type of text is this? A parable?
All systems programming languages need the ability to do unsafe stuff, the big difference between C , C++, Objective-C and all the remaining system programming languages since JOVIAL and NEWP, is the explicit unsafe code blocks that make that visible.

It is a big difference to have it on your face that something might need to be properly double checked and having each line of code as possible security exploit.
It doesn’t take 8 years to build a battery factory. Kicking things off with new models that need extra battery capacity and a factory to manufacture them is a larger hurdle than scaling things after everything is in production.
Making difficult decisions became so much easier when I realized:

a) that the fact that the decision was difficult meant that either choice had a close likelihood of turning out well.
b) that the biggest mistakes I have made tended to lead to my biggest successes.
Middlemen? Since when is a cluster of decentralized nodes a middleman?

Yes, it turns out that making a decentralized system both secure and scalable is a difficult problem, so people have been looking for ways to deal with it and improve on the original solution of Bitcoin (which, by the way, as I'm sure you know, has incredible energy consumption just to validate less than 5 transactions per second. How is that global?). I don't think that organizing decentralized nodes into some sort of bottom-up structure takes away from the P2P nature of blockchains. Just because a solution to a problem is not trivial and easy to understand (which Bitcoin is from the point of view of many more contemporary protocols), does not make it invalid.

At least Solana is a level 1 protocol, as opposed to some other solutions like sharding or zkRollups which add even more complexity.
Garbage article that totally misses the point. The reason the BBC is doomed is because it is metropolitan elite trash.

Emily Maitlis talking nonsense, mad transgender propaganda antics, etc.

DEFUND THE BBC.
we will be far better off without it
I need to get the food encrusting off the cutlery or I’ll get scorched remains of them when the washing is over.

But perhaps I’ll stop wiping the plates and leave more of that grime for the sensors
The country is already at the point where a single natural disaster can cause regional short-term fuel shortages and price spikes because refineries are located in geographies susceptible to natural disasters.

It is not unreasonable to work under the assumption that temporary petrol shortages become a annual or semi-annual event in a future where the gulf coast is hammered with ever more frequent and powerful hurricanes.
I have been thinking similar things since 2016. Apparently, Twitter created the verified profiles as a response to Tony La Russa suing them over impersonation accounts [0].

Oh, and I like the opening summary of the 2009 article:

> On the company blog, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Tony La Russa lawsuit over fake tweets borders on "frivolous," but details plans to prevent such abuse of the service in the future.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/twitter-to-r...
That’s worse than the McFlurry machines. There was a big push for hydrogen when Schwarzenegger was governator, but the infrastructure for hydrogen hasn’t expanded beyond that. Fuel cell technology for cars, like its emissions, are vaporware.
Not to mention the fake fullscreen mode that is actually windowed borderless with the compositor disabled.

You used to be able to "disable fullscreen optimizations" in properties to get real exclusive fullscreen mode, but now you have to edit a registry entry for that binary, and even that doesn't work most of the time.

I have this beautiful 144hz monitor for a reason: latency sucks.
We permit a restaurant to be suggested a second time, but only by the person that vetoed it. Suppose someone vetoed the Cuban place, but no other idea was agreeable to the group. If they just didn’t want to go there but could do it, they can suggest it again and that’s usually where the group goes (when this happens). Otherwise we use the same process, it’s very effective.
They've been like this as long as I can remember. Whenever we onboarded a new customer in IT one of the first things we'd do is transfer their domains off Network Solutions, even Godaddy was never that bad.

I would pressure Snapnames to partner with a less trash company.
Images take up way more space than HTML documents… actually, what with how bloated most “websites” are these days, that's probably not true any more.
It could be something specific to your position. Afaik h1b sponsorship is still ongoing for software roles.
Try Firefox Beta on Android, it has the about:config enabled for advanced users :)