skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today I asked the public transportation company here to either enforce their mask mandate, or to let it completely be so people who actually care can decide for themselves how big of a risk they are willing to take. By having a mask mandate which is not being enforced many customers might get a false feel of security.

Same goes for Facebook. If people think that everybody is being fact checked and false information content is being taken down after being reported then stuff that doesn't get taken down must be true.
I think you would agree that there aren't very many nationalized industries other than weapon systems research/development ("weapons" as in cruise missiles, fighter jets, air craft carriers, etc.) I think you would also agree that the on-paper-private companies that do this work are effectively nationalized would perform much worse if they were selling to citizens rather than nations.

As far as services (rather than industries), those that I mentioned are perfect examples of nationalized (or at least "shared" as opposed to owned by a single company) services that perform well: Highways, USPS, TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP.
Though, I do admit that despite being built on publicly developed shared underlying technology, the actual deployment of DNS services or of devices that use TCP/IP or similar technologies is done by private companies.

This is also sort of adjacent to the debate of whether or not broadband access should be considered a utility and how utilities should be delivered.
You haven't really spelled out the issue, though. From your comment it sounds like nationalizing something is bad because the entrepreneurs won't make money?

If the business being nationalized is one that is a drain on the economy in some sense, then why wouldn't it be good for the country to nationalize it? I say "nationalize" broadly here, not necessarily in the way China implemented things. It could even be the creation quasi-public organization like Amtrak.

Obviously the key here is not to be as heavy-handed as China and to not nationalize everything, lest we be a communist state. However there are definitely things, like banks, that should have a public competitor.
I did not say "I want my pal to define it" at all. My main thrust here is that no one organization, let alone one person, gets to define what Rust is. And that we have a situation where one organization is gaining a significant amount of power very quickly, and using that to gain even more power.
This sounds really interesting! Do you have any links where I can read more about this power starvation attack?
That's a decent balacing mechanism as a starting base. Your link raises interesting points though.
There are probably business journals that put this better, but the issue may not be that these creative people will vanish if we directed them to serve a need. Rather, the issue may involve willingness to take risks to try crazy new ideas because the potential reward is great. Ownership in the results may be much more powerful than a static unchanging government salary. I'm not sure how this may translate to an organization level, but suspect similar dynamics at play, along with a good amount of competition to move things along (edit: that is, when there are multiple private entities vs a single state entity doing the directing).
The Mug of VI from No Starch Press[1].

Why my favorite? It's not really -- I don't put that much effort into thinking about a coffee cup.

BUT, I haven't lost this mug in 20+ years and I take it to meetings with outside contractors and orgs and it kind of operates like a shibboleet [2] prop and fast tracks certain processes. It was also handy back when I was learning vi and i still, very occasionally, refer to it.

1. https://nostarch.com/

2. https://xkcd.com/806/
And Midgley should also have known better, with the lead poisoning and all.
Again, if you only need common sense to spot a very bad idea, there is just no excuse.
Your argument has no legs to stand on.
Ashley has been really great for the Rust community, isn't currently employed by a massive corporation, and has some really solid views & principles on how to empower open source work. (See some of her talks) Empowering open source work on Rust is exactly what the Rust foundation is supposed to do, which is why I'd really have preferred a Rust foundation with Ashley as ED.
Nope, this excuse does not fly.
First they do things clandestinely, then try to prevent any court case, then drag the court case out as long as possible and then it's supposed to be ancient?

So you are saying the new c level are something like angels and saints?
https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/uber-officers-and-board-memb...
Ha, got the Hail Mary ref.
> I'm OK with Amazon taking over. Maybe they can make the language really successful and a proper replacement for C++. The current team failed at that.

What positive reasons can you offer that suggest Amazon will be a good steward for Rust's continued success?

You think Rust has failed? Wow. What are your expectations for a new language to 'overtake' a behemoth in terms of adoption? Can you share any examples that underlie your expectations?

I admit ignorance when it comes to Amazon's contributions to the open source community. This is not willful -- I just have not noticed much discussion or mention of them. (We all know about their contributions to computing infrastructure of course.)
It sounds like you are describing morals, not ethics. Unless, I’m mistaken, morals are a personal feeling of right and wrong, while ethics are the codes of conduct in a society or, in the business world, a specific industry. A person working in finance can be perfectly moral and well meaning but fail to adhere to the governance and regulations of the industry — this must be taught.
Please allow me to direct you to an active, ongoing history of refereed journals, academic chairs, and professional study which you may even see discussed at great length on Youtube, such as is cited in a sibling reply.
We handle line-endings while using SubGit
Is this not just the continued dismantling of Jack Ma's Ant?

This company is completely doomed because the founder is basically treated as an enemy of the state.

"China plans to break up Ant" could have been a headline nearly every week/month since Jack Ma dropped out of the public sphere.
From nuclear fallout shelter to data center (Paris)
People always say this but it's simply not true. My local water authority has been operating for decades and I've never heard a single person complain. Ditto for the municipal gas company. I can't say the same for the local electric company (owned by Exelon) or the local cable company (Comcast) or the local garbage collection service (owned by WM).

If anyone is guilty of "bloat" that harms the end user it seems to me it's the private companies.
If vaccines are accessible to poor people leading to more vacinnated populus, why are vaccine passports needed?

I'm not anti-vax but I don't understand why people think vaccines are going to solve everything, isn't covid here to stay? why make it another control measure?
So you're saying there isn't an issue with the Rust foundation's governance then?

Now I'm assuming you just jumped into the comments without understanding anything no?

EDIT:

> We shouldn't be giving corporations too much power by letting them buy board seats in a foundation to steer the language, in this case Rust.

@stale2002 I already mentioned this issue. However the user @secuthro22 continued trolling further with: "WhAT cONCerns?"
It's worse than that. It's not possible with any type of rocket. If you are accelerating by pushing mass in an opposite direction then you'll never build a ship that can accelerate at 1G for years at a time.

Unless we invent a reactionless drive the idea of traveling between solar systems remains a pipe dream.
Too many bots, that's the problem.
Figure, NY Community Bank debut blockchain payment processing, secondary trading
A white male All-American athlete attending arguably America's most prestigious university isn't elite?
It's distro-specific, for one.
Remarkable lists "Wi-Fi / USB-C / Accessory port" under "Connectivity" for the Remarkable 2, and "USB C connectivity for fast file transfer and charging" in its comparison. The device also does have the necessary hardware to be capable of acting as host, and connecting keyboards.

But of course, Remarkable don't actually state that the port is certified, and so it turns out that it doesn't behave at all in the way a normal person might expect.

File transfer is implemented, not via any usual method, but by having the device act as a network adapter, and having a web interface accessible at a fixed IP address, behind a setting that seems to reset itself to Off at various times.

While the port would support OTG, Remarkable has added a kernel module that, amongst other things, breaks the detection and switching needed for that to work automatically. You can configure it manually, in which case the port won't provide power, though a keyboard with a Y-adapter will work.

However, next to the USB-C port, there isa a set of five exposed contacts that appears designed for a magnetic attachment, and Remarkable notes that it's there to support potential future accessories. People investigating them have found that it's a USB interface. It supports OTG, will provide power, and can have a keyboard attached.

On the Remarkable 1, which doesn't have the accessory connection, and thus doesn't have the potential for future products, keyboards can apparently just be attached to the USB port.

>What are "e-ink device companies"?

Remarkable / Onyx / etc: companies that are built around e-ink devices.
I got banned yesterday for quoting a nazi official on propaganda:

“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”
- Joseph Goebbels

Yeah. Facebook fucking sucks.

Oh, the reason? Encourages danger and violence (which in their broad definition now includes quoting individuals who were associated to dangerous regimes). Welcome to the day and age in which another organization now decides you are dangerous and censors your presence from the internet independent of what you say.
I chose to write Pixie in Nim because I really like Nim:

* Nim very fast. I can beat any C/C++ program in performance using same tricks as they do. Cleaver Memory management, inlining, static analysis, SIMD. There is no wall that you run where you need to drop into "C".

* Nim is very easy to write, I came from Python/CoffeeScript and it was a very easy transition. Nim feels like Python with Types.

* Nim is very powerful with generics/templates/macros allowing you to write DSLs quickly.

* Nim has very easy interop with C. So its very easy to use existing C libraries or low level operating system APIs.

* Nim works everywhere: From Desktop Windows/Mac/Linux, to mobile iOS/Android to embeaded devices. It even compiles to JavaScript (like CoffeeScript/Typescript or WASM) or GL shader language. It run anywhere.

* Nim has a smaller community that has not been overrun by complexity or apathy. Everything feels green and fresh and everyone helps everyone else. But still big enough that there are libraries for most things.
Maybe if you don't include deserts and Alaska in the density calculations you would get comparable numbers.

- Why don't big american cities have trolleybus?

- Because density , imagine putting those buses in the desert, would be stupid

- But why not put the infrastracuture starting from high density areas ?

- You are making sense now, let me find other excuse ... it is because culture/freedom/short history/ the constitution , the yellow party

- I don't have time to logicaly analize all those excuses, next time maybe
If you look at police shootings, the bulk are police killing people brandishing guns or other weapons, who express intent to or are in the process of using those weapons on either the police or other people.

The vast majority of these incidents happen to hardened criminals that almost no one in their right mind would support. A small fraction of these incidents involve innocent people, or people involved in situations where violence is not the answer and de-escalation would have been a better outcome.

The police have a large amount of support because the people involved in these incidents are, generally speaking, bad people that the majority would prefer to be in prison. Most people don't think the police are an oppressive force that should be fought against with lethal violence.
I seem to remember a checkbox during install for this. Though if you use winget/chocolatey, unsure of how to do it after the fact.

Though, 99% of my VS code use is launched from terminal anyway, and I can always right-click. That said, the Win11 right-click menu buries most of the options.
It's been a long time, but IIRC you could still group units in SC1 and bind them to number keys. So maybe only 12 at a time, but you could still navigate multiple groups of 12 with just a few keypresses.
I’m terrible at real-time strategy games, yet the campaigns in CnC1 and RA1 were among the few (possibly only) I was able to complete. I really enjoyed the theme and wanted to see all the cutscenes, which might have helped with motivation.
I wouldn't know. There might be, which is why I've asked you multiple times to explain the issue to me and yet you have neglected to do so.
15:1 odds are definitely high enough to address the issue in triage.

Perfect is the enemy here, we just need to do the best we can, given the moments and information we have.
IIRC Confluence defines its own dialect of Markdown as well, but I don't think the issue is the tech so much as enforcing some minimum discipline in encoding knowledge formally in a central, organized repository. That takes building a culture which in turn takes investment from management to acquire as far as I can tell.

Until then, I'd rather have things decentralized in their appropriate Github/Gitlab repository with issues and a wiki. At least this way you have all functional blocks of knowledge absolutely in one place since you can get code history, closed issues, and the wiki history in one place. I'd even go a step further and have design/UI as a directory in the repo.
Methodology has at least two major flaws.

1- They say they only consider what the root of a domain is using, ignoring subdomains. Speaking for my own org our real work happens in subdomains running Django apps. Our www is just a WordPress site because we don't want to spend cycles writing/maintaining a simple blog engine.

2- For a lot of sites using e.g. Django there wouldn't be an automatic way of determining what language was used.
From https://planetfriendlyweb.org/mental-model :

> When you think about how a digital product or website creates an environmental impact, you can think of it creating it in three main ways - through the Packets of data it sends to users, the Platform the product runs on, and the Process used to make the product itself.

From https://sustainableux.com/talks/2018/how-to-build-a-planet-f... :

> SustainableUX: design vs. climate change. Online, Worldwide, Free. The online event for UX, front-end, and product people who want to make a positive impact—on climate-change, social equality, and inclusion
I quit social media for a year and nothing magical happened to me. I think it's because I never really had a problem with it, since all my feeds were heavily curated and I didn't scroll through mountains of noise. The content I consume is always high quality, because I made social media work for me. I avoid Instagram since it's too visual and full of posers. Twitter is more real and authentic. Facebook is mostly for the family group chat which I enjoy more than the timeline. You have to make it work for you.
>Will nobody rid us of a corrupt collusion between government and corporation?

We could by changing who we vote for.
> That is the crux of it though; we're seeing the same effect as every time a new strong player arises.

Ok, I agree with you there. It's like AlphaGo is the next in the line of Dosaku -> Shusaku -> Go Seigen. These types of players that have revolutionized the game have been very rare, and I see AlphaGo as fitting into that mold.

> That doesn't scream "wow, this is like when chess engines discovered impossible new lines!".

I admittedly don't know enough about chess to understand this aspect of the discussion.
OpenRA is currently my favourite free/libre computer game. They've done a fabulous job at keeping the feeling of the original game while updating things like cross-platform support, screen resolution and network play and added build queues (and waypoints, I believe) that was present in later C&C games. They've also tweaked the game play, making thieves able to hijack vehicles and cloak (They are probably the most fun unit to micro around) and radar jammers able to deflect / confuse missiles, and added per-country special units like in RA2 (The French invisible phase transport is wild), and changed the tech tree so medium / heavy tanks require service depot.

I remember in the original Red Alert, if you ordered an airplane to fly into the shroud, it'd just disappear into the darkness, but in OpenRA you can actually use them for scouting (which totally makes sense). OpenRA also has fog-of-war which suddenly makes planes and helicopters key units for ground support.

I don't like war. The arms trade should be abolished. We should help refugees get safe passage and eliminate borders rather than build walls or drop bombs on them. Anyone working with defense in any capacity, like militarizing borders with drones or whatever, should immediately quit or turn whistle blower. Still, I find this war game incredibly enjoyable. Applause to the hackers.
Oddly enough, the post you linked to is from the blog of Fundación PostgreSQL, which is also being discussed on HN today due to a dispute with the PostgreSQL core team:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28512274
The possibility to perform manual or semi-automated (QR code) key verification is still useful.

1. Those who care about encryption are able to verify their keys.

2. The service can't implement mass-surveillance in secret if there are at least two random users who verify their keys.
Census Bureau’s Survey Shows Significant Increase in Homeschooling Rates
Given the tweets, I think we are past the point of no confrontation.
Yes, it would be unfortunate to be on the wrong side of that.

But triage isn’t about being perfect, it’s about doing what you can quickly without second guessing it.

15:1 odds are good enough for a quick decision about who to prioritize.
Unfortunately it seems like skepticism is increasingly being branded as lunacy.
This is exactly the solution. IF tons of people are reporting Steve Newscaster because he posted a status about how his team won, then he shouldn't become immune to criticism, those people should lose the privilege of having their voice heard.

Just send them a little message saying "Hey, you've falsely reported a bunch of posts/accounts lately, so we're restricting your ability to report content for 30 days." and if they keep doing it, make it permanent.
Everyone's anecdotes will be different (and may differ along generational lines.) For a more concrete example of users seeking non-standard software, within a few years of it coming out Chrome became the most popular desktop web browser, surpassing IE. People perferred the experience on Chrome over that on IE to a considerable degree. On the privacy front, 96% of users opt out of surveillance-based advertising [1] when empowered to do so.

The longer we consider concepts like user freedom and privacy as only things that "HN elites" would appreciate, the more tolerable user-hostile design choices will be among HN types.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-o...
I assume that Amazon getting too much control is a real problem. But also suspect that deep down the true concern Klabnik has is that Steve Klabnik thinks Rust is about him, or at least he is the one that is supposed to write articles about what Rust is about. Not someone from Amazon or anywhere else.
While we could certainly use FAANG-level $$, situations like this make me glad Haskell has especially little usage in SV.
> Those attempts happen because he’s a celebrity. His experience is objectively different because of who he is.

Then the rules should be different, like Twitter giving a blue check mark. If there are accounts that need to be treated differently then it should be clear why and how the rules are different. Fixing problems with tech (like not allowing Zuckerberg to login) should be the exception.

Twitter caught hell for letting Trump break their rules because they pretended the rules were the same for everyone.
Would be nice to have the original discs with videos &c.
What dustup around end-to-end encryption? I'm only familiar with ProtonMail's IP logging controversy. I was unaware it impacted E2E at all?
One big mistake in the article: ExpressVPN is in no sense a "US company". It is officially headquartered in the British Virgin Islands, but its operations are run by Chengbao Limited in Hong Kong, which was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2008 https://crhk.guru/company/chengbao-limited-1251650
Bitaddress – Open-Source JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator
Securing Netflix Studios at Scale
I agree with this. I'm white from Toronto, Canada. A decade or so ago I worked in Saudi Arabia and as I was walking out of a coffee shop I saw another white guy walking past... so of course he stood out by the way he looked and the way he dressed.

But not only that, he was someone I met up with at 2600 meetings every month in Toronto. We chatted, and he was staying in a compound that I had stayed at a number of times before. It was a total chance meeting, as neither of us knew the other had even left Toronto for any particular gig. Prior to that I didn't even know what he did for a living.

So chance meetings certainly can and do happen. In this case it was actually someone I knew. But we initially noticed each other because we similarly stood out in the surrounding population.

Likewise, during prayer times (Saudis pray 5 times a day!) I would stay in whatever restaurant or cafe and they would shut the window blinds so the religious police (Muttawa) wouldn't see us and give us grief for not being at prayer. Every time, the place always had numerous other white people whom I didn't know and didn't meet. But you could be sure several of us bumped into each other repeatedly at these cafes, despite not knowing each other at all. Our only connection was being white and non-Muslim. Exactly the reverse of what's being touted as suspicious coincidences here.
Honestly this is what I was afraid of when Mozilla backed off on Rust support and Amazon and others stepped in to fill the gap. One of the main selling points for me to start learning Rust was the truly open-source pedigree - with Mozilla backing it there seemed to be very few perverse incentives going against Rust's goals of having a great developer story.

If Amazon would be in the drivers' seat, that incentive structure would seem much less clear.
To pile on to this thread on how hard it would be

My understanding is that most of the cost of analog chips is the time in the testing machines to characterize and bin them. I assume the same is still somewhat true for CPUs, etc.

If you were somehow to acquire old CPUs that were up to the task in old modules, you'd have to remove them, clean up the leads or solder bumps, and then test/bin them before you could trust them enough to send to manufacture.