skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recognize him for his efforts to bring Go to the enterprise world with https://gokit.io/ and public speaking, rooting for Go, when Go was not as prominent as it is today.

I don’t know the reasons why he got banned, but it feels irritating to ban such a prominent figure.
They have precisely as much control as anyone familiar with US law and business practice should expect: total control.

As for censorship, I'm sorry but I don't consider what even a corporation whose operation is on the scale of YT or FB does to be censorship.
" They provide you with a reasonably effective defense"

No, they don't at all. Just the opposite actually.

I get the 'Guns to defend against Tyranny' argument, that's kind of reasonable.

But as 'personal defence' they don't work nearly as well as having strong gun regulations which keep guns out of the hands of the morons. It's much safer walking down the street in Canada where you can't legally carry a gun, because there are just so few guns the baddies have a harder time getting them, and use them much less.

I do think we ought to be more concerned about authoritarian creep ... but guns are probably not the best solution to that either, as if it gets to that level it's very, very bad. Legislative, civic reform, voting, literacy etc. would be more helpful there.
FTFY: Windows. Just say no.
I work in financial services we have set time off and managers are punished in their performance reviews when employees don't take their time off because it accrues as a liability and means that salary costs are 1/13th higher than they should be due to the liability.

I think that a mandated minimum PTO allowance + discretionary 'unlimited' PTO would be better at a large organisation. Eventually a company grows to such a size that the influx of assholes is inevitable, mandating the minimum and accruing the expense aligns incentives better in my opinion.
I'm not sure if this is useful at any capacity. Sorry to be hard on that.
> As soon as Substack gets big enough

... while I have to agree with you; is permanence really part of the spec? Is that a realistic ask? what's a time horizon to expect a webhost to be viable?

I'd say 5-10yr is as long as one has any business planning for. History seems to show that. Its better to assume you'll have to solve the "where do i host stuff" problem perennially. The more controversial your content or marginal the host, the more frequently you have to switch.
I remember reading a book about the auto industry in the late 80s, and it described the typical German car factory: There was a large re-work area at the end of the assembly line, where skilled technicians discovered and repaired defects. This was better than sending out defective cars, but it did not catch latent defects or correct those defects through better design.

I think different countries acquired their own stereotypes early in the industrial age: German perfectionism, Swiss precision, Italian style, American ingenuity, etc. Those ideas continue to be marketed after they have ceased to be relevant, at least to the original degree.

And granted, I know nothing about luxury / sports cars.
I can't open links from thunderbird in chromium snap, I have to copy and paste them. I also can't open progressive web apps from the menu. I have multiple other integration issues with the snaps that are forced upon me, which for now is just chromium, but I do also use firefox
I also worked at Uber as an engineer and could barely take off a few days to visit my family during Christmas. I'm not even Christian but I at least thought that would be a good time. I guess it was very dependent on department.
No, I get your point. Your point is a red herring. You're arguing that "Because law is arbitrary, police powers should be restricted."

That's not a valid argument. You don't get to pick and choose law. You either get the whole package, or nothing.

Police powers are completely orthogonal to this question.

The reason they are restricted by law is not so that law is more difficult to enforce. The barristers that have drafted all this precedent over the centuries did not do so with the goal of 'Man, wouldn't it be great if we made a copper's job difficult!"

The reason police powers are restricted by law is, as said earlier, to reduce the impact on how much police work should harass the innocent. The law doesn't recognize that there are parts of it that are arbitrary and optional. It either applies in its entirely, or doesn't.

As long as you focus on the harm to the criminal, you're framing your argument in an odd way. You're much better off building your argument in a way that focuses on harm to the innocent.

> I noticed you didn't address my point around erring on the side of not infringing on privacy however. Does this mean that you agree?

I didn't address it, because your argument lacks qualification, which makes it possible to take it to absurd conclusions.

If you believe privacy is an absolute good that cannot be infringed in any situation, then you get absurdity, like the police being unable to search an apartment that the neighbors have reported hearing gunshots from. (Because, heaven forbid, the occupants thereof may not be actually guilty of any crimes.)

If you don't believe that, then you're going to have to quantify your argument, with a basis for when you believe it is appropriate for the police to infringe on someone's privacy. You're then going to have to explain how its consistent with actual pre-digital legal precedent. You're then going to have to explain how your scaffolding leads to an outcome inconsistent with how policing is currently done in the digital world.

You've got a lot more work to do to make a coherent argument then simply saying "I believe privacy trumps solving crime," before I can respond to it.
I'm far more worried about not being able to get a gun once supply chains break down and there are hungry people roaming the streets.
> SKS rifles cost over US$600, a $200 licensing fee isn't infringing any rights compared to the right to a fair and speedy trial.

$600 for an automatic rifle? I will literally pay you as much just to connect me to the seller.
I tested this with "Caribbean Vacation" and wow what a difference. Everything on Google is "TOP X LIST" and "BEST XYZ" which are just the worst when trying to find real interesting information about experiences you can have on vacation somewhere. I had used those as starting points then searched for long-form blogs of real experiences people have had. This surfaced those kinds of things immediately. I love it.
There at plenty of people in the US who have certainty in their faith, whether it be Christianity, or the desire to confront oppression.
Remember, the US Government only needs a warrant if you are a "US Person" (which is a US citizen anywhere in the world or a person of any nationality physically located within America).

We learned from the Snowden leaks that the US government constitutionally doesn't need a warrant to request any of this information if you are outside of the US if Google is holding the data domestically on servers in the US. And it makes so many of these requests Google has self-service systems for the US government to access accounts of non-US-persons directly.

This is probably happening all the time for non-Americans.
Gigabyte Z590 Vision D
No.

I don't believe for a second you enforce those rules equally anyway. Otherwise you'd have done something about the flagging years ago.
I think the current AI threat is less "it's too intelligent and takes over", but rather "it's too stupid but we force it to take over anyway".
Nature is messy and organic because no one needs to understand how it works in order for it to work.
I was on the core team that built the platform underlying version of the cloud systems.

Many of my peers had kids, as did many people who moved to Australia to work with us.

I can’t speak to your circumstance, however in 13 years I’ve never seen an instance of what you described.
It is broke - badly. But because they no clue what they're doing they just keep making it worse.

There's surely a management book to be written documenting the dysfunctional processes that result in disaster after disaster.
I’m not sure how you go from word to url range? Range implies contiguous, but how can you make that happen for a bunch of words without keeping track of a list of urls for each word (or URL ids, the idea is the same)?
and no longer is.
Android has a larger user base, and it's not like Apple bribes developers to be iOS-only. I'm curious what kind of regulations are needed here. Is the idea that developers should be forced to launch on at least two mobile platforms? If so, that would kind of suck for hobbyist and independent developers who may not have the skills to launch on Android.
> And it’s increasingly common that the code is written in TypeScript, which has tons of static analysis potential.

It's probably worth noting that TypeScript's type system is deliberately unsound in a couple of corners that make it hard for a compiler to rely on the type system for optimization purposes.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as the saying goes.

Any system is going to be imperfect. The question is, is it better than things currently are?
I’m not hostile towards it, but so far i see no reason to upgrade. What new features does Windows 11 have that Windows 10 doesnt?
It also makes it more likely that innocent people gets shot by police because they could have a weapon on them, and this is not hypothetical.
PeerTube is open-source with a pretty forgiving license [1]. As you mentioned, you could run your own instance of it.

I'd also point out that PeerTube instances aren't run by the organization that "owns" the software. They're run by people like yourself that want to own and operate their own video hosting platform. Any censorship on those instances is up to the person running that instance.

>There's still an "organization" that can choose to censor content.

This is true of anything you don't self host. Any time you post a video to a platform that someone else owns, it could be subject to censorship at any time.

>some kind of self-hosted YouTube, complete with play controls, thumbnails, upload interface?

That's what PeerTube is. You can self-host an instance and allow other users to upload videos. You can go look at some other instances to see what the interface looks like.
but I sure would not want to see it "democratized"

Nuclear power is already "democratized" by design. The basic framework of the non-proliferation treaty is that signatories get to use nuclear power (and receive international assistance developing nuclear power) in exchange for a commitment not to develop nuclear weapons.
EPA Confirms Lucid Air Gets 520 Miles on a Charge
this is so true!

apple podcasts is a fine example, among others, of this conundrum. on every iteration an "improvement" makes the app less usable. on the last iteration they decided that i should now "follow" shows and not "subscribe" to them. what's worse is that some screens had the old and the new names resulting in extreme confusion. on that same iteration, someone decided that the way i was deleting episodes wasn't cool enough. so they replaced a working feature with a half-working one!

please leave the podcasts app alone.
But your value add is that they are unregulated, right?
American Seafoods Company Fights Giant Jones Act Penalties
Revenue per Employee for Big Tech
Sad, but even saying that Gambia has a plan is overselling. Gambia has a population less than most US states.

Not to mention having a plan and actually following or meeting the deadlines are two different things.
How did you determine that these messages are through Twilio and not one of the dozens of cheap unscrupulous knockoffs? This is very easily identified, and you are are slinging serious accusations.
I agree. You're not wrong. Us niche groups care, see how the tech works or learn how it works, see what happens with our data and see the possible use cases with some of these systems. That's why I think the whole data collection and privacy war is already over. Until the common user gets affected personally they think data collection is good, have nothing to hide and like it's being used to catch criminals.
If you say you meant to, I will exclude you from my dancing events to protect the other dancers' feet. If you say you didn't mean to, you know, my foot still hurts but you're still welcome to my dancing events because it probably won't happen again.

My foot hurting actually has no bearing on whether or not you're welcome.

Conversely, if you say it's an accident but somehow you have a conspicuously high foot-stomping incidence among many dance partners, I probably will exclude you because I will stop believing the foot-stomping is accidental (or you're just very unfortunately clumsy, terribly sorry, but I still have to protect the other dancers' feet).
Yeah you're not alone there, the stupid idea that windows now needs to be fully tablet capable without a keyboard to the detriment of everyone else using it normally. Literally making the interface less informative and adding clicks, waiting and gestures to achieve actions that should've been a single point and click.

I call it the "BIG BATAN" ideology, as everything needs to be a clean oversized button without any extra options or functionality. Stupid mobile OS features creeping into desktop for no good reason.

I swear if MS eventually removes the don't group fallback I'm finally ditching Win for KDE and never coming back.
It's definitely a lot easier for anyone to create a fingerprint with today's technology and will get easier as time passes.

I still think the author's main point stands, it's way easier for them to remember a pin that they observed and unlock your phone when you're not around versus the recreation of a "perfect" fingerprint
we also have the following constraints:

- The game is still being changed regularly.
- The game is huge and not written in a uniform way,
with many different styles and paradigms being used.
- The game uses many dynamic JavaScript features such
as monkeypatching and eval.

<shudder>

Really, though, this sounds like very impressive tech. But woe to anyone who has to deal with that game code.
Many people in the US cannot afford that. It’s an arbitrary 33% increase on an already expensive purchase. That’s a pretty strong disincentive for a lot of people. Not to mention people who would prefer to engage with the federal government as little as possible, for a wide variety of reasons.

As for the definition, if you read the definitions of the prohibited components, they are broad enough to ban essentially all rifles, which is likely the goal. For instance, “pistol grip” seems like a well defined thing at a glance, but it is later defined as “ 45) The term ‘pistol grip’ means a grip, a thumbhole stock or Thordsen-type grip or stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip.”

That last clause especially is extremely broad. Define functioning as a grip. Is that any piece that enables holding the rifle?
It's still censorship even if it's not the government.

User A posts content. User B subscribes. Entity C decides that B is not allowed to read what A has to say.

C is a censor.
> I really don't see myself using my .blackfriday domain for anything.

Well, there's about a 1 in 7 chance that it would be the perfect domain to host your obituary. I'm sure you could make a smart watch app which detects when/whether to make the site publicly visible.

(I apologise if this dark humour offends anyone.)
>This sounds good in theory, but when Microsoft did just that in 2011 with Windows 8, it ended up backfiring on them big time.

the problem was that while windows 8 had *somebody* with a vision behind it, the vision never really made it through to the product. windows 8 was obviously the product of a dysfunctional system that was pulling in two completely opposite directions - the consumer devices side who wanted modern touch-friendly designs to compete with iPad, and the business customers who wanted the windows they were familiar with and didn't want to have to re-train their employees. and what we ended up with was a half-assed implementation in the middle.

"we want to do the best possible job of supporting the huge number of existing applications and users on our platform" is a perfectly valid vision for the future of windows. vision doesn't have to mean change. The problem with there being no vision is you get both the change and the hesitance to change.
I remember when I got my first programming job out of college in 2000. I ended up being responsible for maintaining the Fortran 77 bindings of our software at the company.

"I was born in 77," I thought... this was trippy.
Ok so we agree blockchain and blockchain are different. Also private blockchain would be a 3rd definition as that's another nonsense word that people use
So you can't even begin to fathom why it's called "the Bill of Rights?" Not in the least interested in the historical claims I made?
The 'highly trained' part I doubt. Our military has been crashing its destroyers into cargo ships and bungling withdrawals lately.
Table of different models and their EPA ranges, from the article: https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images...
States have different laws. Some states are more strict about guns while others are more lax.

States in the US have significantly more difference than the regions in France (or whatever they are called). It is probably more accurate to compare the US to the EU and France to an individual state.
The only people that say Win32 apps are scalable are the ones that haven't dealt with legacy code. There is jut too much legacy code that either doesn't work, or doesn't work correctly with HiDPI screens.
You had me worried for a moment with "I like to believe". I considered suggesting the litany of Tarsky, where you basically want to believe whatever is true, and not get too attached to beliefs you may not want. I now see it was just a figure of speech.

Now, would I trust people who would behave dishonourably around people they deem dishonourable? Well, probably less. I’d fear they might flag me as dishonourable, and one sidedly turn what could have been a tit-for-tat into an eye-for-an-eye. I’d be cautious for sure, but I’d most likely still give them the benefit of the doubt until they give me concrete cause to write them off.

Whether that’s a good strategy is another question, though. (For instance, Littlefinger did tell Ned Stark not to trust him, and Ned, being the bloody paragon that he is, trusted the sleazy bastard anyway, and lost is head for it.)
Call of the Void: The feeling of what if I jumped
Aircraft Carrier of Theseus it is, then.
Can't think of a single "MASSIVE" update since transition to win7 64bit.

It's all fluff for what it is.

There basically hasn't been a good reason to upgrade windows other than arbitrary security update cutoffs, and mostly arbitrary caps to max DirectX version you can run.

I wouldn't be surprised if it would be a downright downgrade overall performance and responsiviness wise.
What did the Googles of the past use before they got to be the Googles of today? Agile in the purest sense - a couple people hacking something out. I think at the end of the day, a group of capable people with no strictly defined process will always win out over less capable people that follow some process to a T.
(Replay engineer here): We don't currently support inspecting network requests, but that is something we plan to support in the future.
FWIW, I have a DSLR (used to be semi-pro, now just a hobbyist). I use Lightroom and Photoshop on my iPad. I never touch my desktop anymore. Clearly, your workflow may require desktop software. But I believe it's possible to create high-quality work without a desktop these days.
Your 10% sales tax is robbery. Where is that ?
I mean, have you bothered to look? It's not a secret nor in private.

Defending eugenics in the comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20210419141913/http://esr.ibibli...

Claiming black people have a lower IQ than everyone else (in an argument that black people shouldn't own guns as a result):
https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

Claims LGBT people are making it up:
https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/769730601872044032/photo/1

Lots of racist comments:
https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/780839196231630848/photo/1

This is what I could find in less than 5 minutes of searching - the receipts are there, it is not "a wild exaggeration"
Yes, W10 is/was kindof a garbage. W11 is going to be worse. The only reason I still use Win is for work purposes, otherwise I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole
Migrating from AngularJS to React: Untangling the injection problem
reports on the ground say people are back, rents are coming back up fast (aside from maybe the SOMA areas, as offices are pushing back their reopen dates)

Same with NYC, same with most cities.

"reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - every city that had an exodus that lead people to think that city's finished
> the tragedy isn't the gun, but the necessity for one, and it's a tragedy inherent in our mortal existence.

Well, they're sure not necessary here in Australia. I don't think I've ever met someone who owns one, certainly no-one has ever mentioned owning a gun to me. It's just not a thing. Seems to be just "a tragedy inherent" in the USA.

I was watching every day, and supporting, the George Floyd protests, and after a while those in Seattle and Portland.. until Raz got machine guns from his car and starting handing them out. WTF?! That was the plan?! I switched off, disgusted. That suddenly all seemed insane.

Like it does hearing people from the US on HN talking about guns. It just sounds crazy. I read on HN someone from the US saying Australians wouldn't be under lockdown if only we had guns etc. It just sounds insane, disturbing even reading that. What am I gonna do with a gun?!

But maybe, when everyone else has a gun, you feel you need for one too. Just know that it's not like that in every country.

Although if my country had spent most of the last 120 years invading other countries, subverting their politics, stealing their wealth, like the US has, I'd have urges to defend myself from it with a gun, too, maybe, I don't know. It's weird though. US violence has been focused outwards, on other countries, yet to hear people from the US, they never heard about that, don't feel involved or responsible, yet are obsessed with the possibility of US government violence happening to them one day.

I don't claim to understand the situation, just I'm very glad not to live in a country where everyone has a gun. OK, now I will stop reading gun stories/comments on HN. Good luck!
I doubt they would’ve without political and media pressure.
If privacy is a concern for you, you should never have accepted Windows 10 in the first place. It's very likely that the same reasons that made you tolerate Windows 10 will make you accept Windows 11 as well.
Not when at 1gig data used they drop you down in speed for the rest of the month.
This article thinks you need to be physically present to steal a fingerprint when OPM stores them on hard drives by the millions that have already been hacked? I’m confused about the conclusions.

“It’s okay - you’re not worth hacking enough to worry about weaknesses in biometric security” seems like a better title for the assertions made here.
The weird thing is they don’t redesign the old UI as much as put new “simpler” UI over it with the option to use either. I’m pretty sure there are like 3 levels of UI between Windows 10 and the classic Device Manager.
jw.org appears to be the kind of modern web design this is trying to avoid. I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the cult.
Afghanistan showed that a people with the will and some handguns and rifles can face the greatest superpower the world has ever known, and win.
The argument of private ownership of guns as protection from the government is a perfectly valid one.