skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cite a source where the NSA is shown to have records on millions of US citizens please.
CV seeing your own troops, ouch
It would be healthier to not know the identity to avoid introducing unnecessary bias in the decision.

It shouldn’t be like: oh it was Joe the grocer, yeah he’s okay, let ‘im go. Vs, oh it was Ernie the latrine digger, he always makes my skin crawl; throw the book at him!
Current vaccines aren't optimized for the currently dominant Covid strains, they're optimized for the Covid strains that were around a year and a half ago.
I went to school in the 90s and two kids shot up their high school. They murdered 12 students and one teacher. It was called the "Columbine massacre" after the name of the school, Columbine high school in Colorado.
Well, there was one friend of mine who I convinced to keep a fire extinguisher in her car, and a week later on her commute she was able to hand it to man who then saved his car from total destruction by engine fire.

But I too also know more people who've been threatened with lethal force on the streets than have had reason to use fire extinguishers. Doesn't deter me from keeping a big fire extinguisher wherever I live.
Unlimited PTO is widely adopted because companies now know that people statistically take less PTO and the less ethical of those companies would like to exploit that.

I would rather work for a company that gives a generous amount so that I can work within the parameters / not feel guilty. It also allows me to put a total value on a offer as well.
> surely the idea that YouTube, which reduces down to a bunch of people sitting behind desks, should get to decide what others watch is questionable

That's been the value-add of YouTube since the day they implemented preference-learning and recommendations, and it continues to be one of their distinguishing factors in the marketplace of alternatives.
People have different expectations to computers nowadays. They aren't isolated curiosities any more, you can't capture the environment of the 1980s home computer revolution.

If you do want a similar experience (at least superficially) to a spectrum 48k, get a Pi 400, don't connect it to a network, but don't expect the same outcome as you had -- the world is different, there are very different things competing for attention, and different rewards for time spent.
It depends on the company. I worked at a place with unlimited PTO where taking time off was encouraged and people typically took 3+ weeks a year. It was great being able to take long well deserved vacation without worrying you wouldn't have the days to cover getting sick or a family emergency.

tl;dr unlimited PTO can be great, just make sure to ask lots of follow up questions about culture.
Greenwald has this: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/strengthening-substack-jour...

Even hosting a tiny bit of video slurps up bandwidth pretty quick. I'm a severe advocate of self hosting, but its just not viable for any video content, gotta farm it out.
My 8 and 10 year old kids have just discovered the Roblox editor. They are building mutiplayer 3d worlds.

The 8 year old is the most enthusiastic about it. He is second grade at school and knows addition, and subtraction, and his times tables but has not started multiplying more than single digit numbers.

Right now they are mostly placing blocks around and decorating the world, but they are very interested in the lua scripting. I have no doubt that they will soon be attempting to read that read the Roblox API docs. Actually, they'll be watching youtube video tutorials.

Anyhow, I just wanted to point out that while the old 8 bit days are gone, there are plenty of ways kids can build things and tinker with computers and software.

PS: buy your kids a Steam Deck.
It can never be okay. What an astonishingly absurd and gruesome notion.
I live in San Diego and two people were just shot on the same block as my house. One of them died and he was exactly my age. It's where I do regular walks, next to a nearby Pokemon gym.
I've heard this stuff literally my entire life, and it has me pretty jaded. Democrats in office do nothing but increase firearms sales because a lot of gullible people still believe these chicken little stories.
You're coming off a bit worked up, but I'll humor you anyway.

I'm not going to type out a bunch of SQL as an example. SQL vs HCL isn't the point and they basically break even on expressiveness. After you've typed out your pseudo-JSON, what exactly are the existing tools saving you? From having to use some wrapper around the cloud API? That's the easy part.

By overly focusing on SQL you're missing the forest for the trees. The point is relations and RDBMS features such as constraints, triggers, stored procedures. Such a platform would be always online rather than just a tfstate file waiting for humans to munge it. It's also time to stop thinking about the cloud as literal resources like current tools do and start moving to more abstract concepts (more on that later).

> No, I’m not. There isn’t a difference between creating and ongoing maintenance- it’s the same thing.

I run very critical infrastructure for a living and there absolutely is a difference. Creating new resources is easy -- they aren't being used and the world doesn't have any expectations for their performance or reliability. The bacon is made in evolving existing infrastructure without impacting user experience negatively. Terraform and other such generators give you very little in guard rails or help and silly outages happen all of the time because of it.

Database engineers have been creating sophisticated execution engines for decades. The creator of SQLite cites treating every SQL query as its own program to be ran by a byte code VM as a key design decision. Writing Terraform or what have you is like programming in an AST (sorry Lispers). To date query execution engines figure out how to manage on-disk structures. There is no reason they couldn't be creating smart plans for infrastructure changes at a much higher abstraction level than "glue this KMS key to this bucket."
It's almost as if algorithms and procedures aren't enough, that values and judgements matter.
Designed for serendipity indeed. Tried a few searches, results are quite fun, but none of them relevant.
The tweet seems like sinophobic garbage, sorting by absolute numbers instead of per capita. Of course a country with four times the population is going to have more papers. Sort by per capita and see where the numbers come out.
“Stun guns” are in the headline as an example
but the article also describes conventional firearms like handguns and rifles.
Chesa Boudin and Crime in San Francisco
Sometimes you want to watch video, but you don't want to lug an 80-inch TV into your room.
I think Apple's silicon runs a very high margin, I imagine. Will the savings from running datacenters on their own silicon be big enough to offset the lost opportunity of selling more M1?
As an 8yo, I thought ZX was a German computer, because like every other home computer of the time it came from a shop in Munich’s Schillerstrasse. Somehow it found its way into Eastern Europe that wasn’t too keen on importing computers.

An old joke says it was passing through customs as a “washing machine programmer, not a computer, see, its all rubbery”
The more specific a CoC is, the more loopholes there are that people will exploit. We just expect "professional behavior", and for those who want to argue about what that means, we refer them to Emily Post's books.

This works out quite well for us.
@FiloSottile will ktls make it some day in Go crypto/tls ? (https://blog.filippo.io/playing-with-kernel-tls-in-linux-4-1...)
And if you don't land a disabling blow, could well be lethal, and they step outside your extended reach and use their handgun, then...?
People just don't like change. There will be lots of weeping and wailing an gnashing of teeth, then people will grow accustomed to it. Same happened with 8 and 10. The furor over 8's missing start menu was intense, even though it takes literally seconds to install Classic Shell and get a better start menu than Windows 7 ever had.

In 3-4 years the cycle will repeat again with Windows 12.
I only dislike it when its asymmetric. Our policy says intent doesn't matter for you, but the policy itself is vague and only works if you trust the implementers intent.

I don't see anything obvious in this policy that would cause such an issue.
I leave my guns around the house when I'm home, but I don't have kids. When I do, the guns will be locked away safely, either inside my waistband or in a safe, and the dog will be the first line of defense until the safe is opened.

This is standard practice until kids are old enough to learn gun safety and be trusted around guns, so 6-10 years old, depending on the kid.

Please note that I'm predicating this on the kids receiving actual training, not saying "don't touch". Children should be able to fully field-strip every gun in the house as soon as they can handle it, and the 4 rules are paramount.
> The murder rate varies widely by state/area

Everytime I see this line of reasoning I'm utterly shocked at the lack of understanding.

What you said applies equally across any other country too. So France's 1.2 is an average of the entire country.

Yes, half of any country is below the average!
Steven Pinker and the Problem with Rationality
This is soooo good. I'm finally finding sites I haven't heard of with good content.

I didn't realize how much I missed this stuff.

The popular web has become so bad nowadays.
So if the hate brigades were being launched by a group with a long track record of bad-faith and abusive behavior, you don't think that should inform your decision making?
Has a subscription-only social network ever been successful?
There is no such thing as a bot which can identify misinformation with 90% accuracy.

Google has some very advanced natural language processing technology. Try this Google search: "What year did Neil Armstrong land on Mars?"
Why doesn't the data back that up then? Do you really think that toddlers blow their own heads off because America has an iherently murderous identity and it has nothing to do with reckless access to guns?
It's not that unique in the computer business. I used to build PCs for a shop during the 90s internet craze. When we got a box of Quantum Bigfoot HDDs we'd be lucky if half of them worked. Someone who cared about quality wouldn't put that crap in a computer. But it was cheap. The soundcards we sold were so cheap they were cut diagonally to save on PCB material.

Though this shop just did it for profit margin. Sinclair did it to make computers available to the masses.
Agreed, there is not enough context to even know why this is newsworthy. Why should we care?
> Fast forward a year later and we were hearing things from executives and managers like, "you know you don't have to use all you're PTO, right?".

Funny, they might as well suggest that you don't have to take entire salary you agreed on.
> our new moral arbiters

Can you be specific about who you are referring to and what your concern is?
No. "don't save" does not mean "don't send to google".

All geolocation based on GSM cells and wifi sends your location continuously.
The "you didn't mean to hit someone with your car" thing is certainly a fun way to look at it, but what about people only get tapped by the bumper and then act like they flipped through the air 500 times before slamming their head into the concrete? And before anybody pretends like these people don't exist, let's think about the football(soccer) players that act like their leg is broken when someone sneezes near them. And if ppl will be that petty and insincere in a professional sporting event, it's fair to say that ppl will do it on the internet.
Another option is if you can alternate every other friday and monday you'll get 4 day weekends every other weekend. This can really be refreshing too.
Plus the arbiters tend to be the least moderate, and most forthright in their views.
It’s considered ridiculous when a small town dweller attempts to force their morality on the world, but apparently perfectly fine when it comes from the Californian chattering classes.
That's helpful context. I'm happy to support an open platform that helps creators monetize. For me however, I just need a place to serve videos from.
Seems like bootstrapping isn’t just about the money for many bootstrappers, perhaps including you. There’s a type of person who would much rather grind out $150K ARR at something they create and own than pull down $450K/yr at Netflix.
Yep: from being given a +2 when I was 9, I don't think there was ever much doubt what my career would be.
"Fortran is the oldest high-level programming language that remains in use today"

This is like the ship of Theseus, except where the ship has changed from a fishing vessel to a dreadnought.
Vanilla HTTP should be fine. I think 80% of the urls are HTTP.

If you're getting no such domain, it's either blocked because it looks too much like a spam domain, or it simply hasn't been discovered yet.

What's the TLD? I severely restrict some cheaper TLDs because they gave so much spam.

For example, cr.yp.to is an example of a baby I know I've definitely thrown out with the bathwater.
>Avoid snarking (pithy, unproductive, sniping comments)

On the other hand...

9 out of 10 really skilled devs/engineers or profs that I met had tendency to be kinda snarky, especially when somebody's trying to do bullshit

Is lack of subtle/direct snarkiness a good thing?

It's like putting constrains on language/tools to express yourself, maybe too harshly?

Maybe it's considered normal in "cultures" where people are more straightfoward
"There is no scenario in which any citizen with a gun in any country defeats their government."

In case you haven't seen the news, ~75,000 militants with AK-47s just conquered a country of 30,000,000 persons in a matter of weeks.
Tech workers need unions. Most have benificent funds to support people through hardship too.

UK: https://utaw.tech/about
USA: lots here https://organize.fyi/#tech
Aus: https://www.cwu.org.au/
I think social media has proven pretty conclusively that giving the general population unfiltered information and enabling everyone to promote whatever they want is in fact a terrible idea
How often do you make use of your freedom to make meaningless antagonistic gestures to Muslims or Christians? Would you rank it as more or less important than the freedom to go for a run in public without being shot or harassed (which is not really afforded to Black Americans [0])?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/sports/running-while-blac...
Sure you are buddy, keep dreaming. One day you'll learn enough Java to upgrade your POS legacy codebase so you're not on-call 24x7.
I've rephrased the wording for that one a bit.
I’d add marketing for startup is not the same as marketing for big corp. And skills are rarely transferable. But if you’re looking to add a marketing specialist to your team, you’re inevitably going to look at someone with established history at a big corp marketing.
> These communities never seem to actually say they want less policing in them.

They do! They've been saying it a long time, but no one paid them any attention until George Floyd's life was slowly and casually extinguished by a police officer on camera. Go ask any black male from New York in their 20s or 30s what they think about "Stop and frisk" and the sense of being violated by over policing.

Before you accuse me of having a "white saviour" complex, I'm black. Speaking of "saviour", I'm curious to know if you have experienced american policing, outside of youtube? No snark at all, this is a legitimate question.
needs a freemium model, also android and desktop versions
There is a reason why you have to resort to "pure hypotheticals" and you should dwell on that.
> It seems like a regrettable situation where your distrust of your fellow citizens is so strong that you are comforted by the ability to kill them with minimal effort.

It's usually the opposite sentiment for gun owners- I trust my fellow citizens with arms.

Guns are seen as an integral part of self-reliance by many. They provide you with a reasonably effective defense. One way to significantly erode individual's/citizen's power, and in turn give power to government, is take away their ability to defend themselves. People worry that as government becomes more powerful and citizens more reliant there is greater likelihood of oppressive government, in other words disarming populace is step down a slippery slope
> attack on coastal elites

I'm surprised and not surprised that you think this is fine.
can you provide a screenshot (or link to a theme) so I can see how it looks like? All of the windows classic themes I've seen for windows 8.1+ have been pretty meh.
Well along the lines of h2odragon's comment, you would have to estimate your user-base and calculate what hosting providers can give you the bandwidth you need, or find a CDN that can cache your videos but those get expensive quickly. If you have a small user-base, then just about any VPS provider will do.
iOS users are likely to be much higher value than Android users.
>Speech are only potent in the hands of those willing and able to say destabilizing things. For those unwilling to do so, they are massively disenfranchising. They essentially tilt the balance of power in society decisively in favour of those most willing to do this, and most enthusiastic about preparing to do so.

It's really not that different; speech, much like guns, is capable of bringing an entire nation to its knees and setting neighbor against neighbor (every Western country is a blatant example of this, for obvious and recent reasons), to say nothing about its general life-ruining applications. Is it really right to hand an implicit veto on opinion to those that speak?

>Is it really right to hand an implicit veto on opinion to the violent?

Is it really right for the [pick your favorite minority] to do violence to the [member of society that is coming to do some nasty thing to them]?

And if so, at what point does that change?

Is it when they're about to seize your children and make sure any culture you gave them is beaten out of them?
Is it they're about to bulldoze your ancient burial grounds to make room for a new golf course?
Is it when the Grain Commissioner takes the food you needed to survive?
Is it when your neighbors have come to kill you for wearing glasses, or [insert your favorite characteristic here]?
How about just levying usurious taxes for the same crime, or enforcing the law unevenly against them, or a state-sanctioned "just let these two groups fight it out since we hate both of them anyway"?
(and the list goes on)

Once you take that implicit veto away, these abuses happen (of course, society has investigated itself and found that it has done nothing wrong). It's not a bulletproof defense, of course, and it's certainly less likely to work unless properly coordinated, but it doesn't hurt your chances. And unless you think society should get away with everything just because it's society (which is the majority view, so nobody will hold you accountable for it)...
Welp, I guess it’s time to finally give the Culture series a go.
Yes!

> In December, a jury in Corpus Christi, Tex., acquitted a 48-year-old man who spent 664 days in jail after being charged with attempted capital murder for wounding three SWAT officers during a no-knock raid that targeted his nephew. The jury concluded that the man, Ray Rosas, did not know whom he was firing at through a blinded window.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/forced-ent...
The author conflates two things. The right to biohack at home and Youtube's alleged obligation to let him broadcast his material.

The first one is okay, as long as we're not talking about experiments that may be dangerous to the public. (which he seems to categorically reject for some reason, while home made bioterrorism is a real threat), the second one just doesn't follow at all.

Youtube has no realistic way to tell whether someone producing home-made science on youtube is a phd ex-nasa biohacker who follows best practices or just a complete quack who tries to sell dangerous fake remedies to vulnerable people. In practice the incentive to promote the latter probably far outweighs the former in number given the huge, generic audience on Youtube.

77% of the Youtube audience in the US are 17-25 years old, it's not some niche forum for engineers and the notion that they can read scientific papers and weed out legitimate science created at home from misinformation is absurd. The correct platform for something like this is a separate forum or community where enthusiasts meet with some barrier to entry, not the mass media.

I immediately question the motive of someone who promotes individual science or 'hacking' and seeks the largest mass media audience. I think the motive is much more straight forward. The author has a company that sells genetic engineering kits to people and by banning him from Youtube that impacts him financially. I personally think Biohacking and eccentric science is cool, but the appropriate audience for the kind of things he did, like treat himself with CRISPR or replace his entire microbiome to treat IBS is probably a community more self-selected than HN, not Youtube, which is mainstream television for young adults.
I agree that cancelling someone over an accidental transgression is a vengeful overreaction. Separately, let me ask you this: If I step on your foot, does it hurt less if I didn't mean to?
Having visited the Baltics several times, I wouldn't call Latvia a 2nd world country. For starters, they are a member of the EU and have been using the Euro for years...
Where is Satya lately? The last few years his face was everywhere, doing some very common sense things that got MS back to being a leading player. What the fuck is with Windows 11? Some common sense judgement could be used here.
How is Rumble more censorship resistant?

"Like Substack" is he kidding? As soon as Substack gets big enough they will no doubt prune creators just like YouTube does.
What's a good solution then? Who should be the judge of right vs wrong if not for actual judges?

Or you think no monitoring is the best scenario, even with evidence of how speach has been weaponized on social media to push for conflict.
Consent is not a simple binary thing.

Creating expectations around accepting surveillance is not healthy.
I know of one which was blatant second degree murder, but the perp was a "friend" visiting with a few others to the victim's home, all around 14 years old. Taking a gun on its way to the safe you found in a part of the house no one was supposed to be in, pointing it at your "friend's" head and pulling the trigger was ruled an unfortunate "accident."

See a bunch that just so happened to occur while the gun was "being cleaned," you can even begin that without emptying the chamber so you can work on the barrel.
Why do they keep pushing this crap?
I've been using win 11 for the past couple of days. Biggest annoying thing is the right click context menu in explorer. First you right click when selecting a file and then have to pick additional options in secondary menu to get to things like 7-zip or any other context registered app. If Microsoft doesn't provide an option to disable it , then I'm staying with win10.
Jesus H Christ, this comment section. What has happened to HN? I think I'm done for good this time. Peace.
I think there's going to be two major sources of differing experiences on this:

1. Where you live. If you live in the suburbs and drive everywhere, there are just very few opportunities for you to get "attacked on the street" as you are hardly ever walking down the street.

2. Disagreement on what situations necessitate a gun. I know a lot of people who think that e.g. robbery is insufficient reason to defend yourself with deadly force.

Similarly I've seen people astonished that someone might choose to defend themselves from an unarmed man with a gun, even when that man is larger and is not allowing them to leave.