skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are goats everywhere? The handful of places I've lived (Central Florida and SF bay area) I've never seen a "wild" goat. Deer, sure. But deer seem to be much pickier than goats when it comes to their diets
Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening
Any chance you could share a link to a relevant paper?
I do have to admit, he has a way with words.

"It’s how homeopaths, anti-vaxers, eugenicists, raw milk pushers and other members of the Paltrow-Industrial Complex played the BBC and other sober-sided media outlets, demanding that they be given airtime to rebut scientists’ careful, empirical claims with junk they made up on the spot."
Given this angle I wonder if Roblox is actually hoping for rampant falsifications so they can keep their underage players but also tell regulators that they are protecting minors from possible exposure to harmful content.
Glassdoor reviews of CouchSurfing are an entertaining read: https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/CouchSurfing-Reviews-E56...
> I assume that if Google wants to continue to do business in Russia, they have to fulfill some amount of requests from the Russian government.

On the other hand, it seems to me that if Google wants to attract and retain talent to build out a "viable cloud", they're going to need to continue standing up to tyrants, as they did by exiting CCP-controlled territories in 2010 and reconfirming their integrity in 2019 with the cancelation of Project Dragonfly.

> they have to fulfill some amount of requests from the Russian government

They need to bow to dictators? Why should they give in to requests to remove legitimate content from political rivals? And, honestly, come on here: why are you posting apologies for authoritarian?

> Google got out of China with a lot of noise about human rights and IP, but they plan to stay in most other countries, even ones with corrupt governments.

Why? CCP-controlled territories are a much bigger market than Putin's territories. The article points out that Putin's federation is a relatively minor, regional market:

"Google doesn’t disclose sales in Russia. Next to the U.S. and Europe, Russia’s online ad market is relatively small -- analyst EMarketer estimates $3.82 billion in digital ad spending, with more than half going to search marketing. Yandex NV, a Russia search and internet service, reported 56% national market share in web searches in 2019, making Russia one of the few countries outside of China where Google isn’t the leader."

> Already Google is being fined for not being able to store sovereign Russian data in Russia.

Disingenuous to mention the trivial fine without a figure:

"Meanwhile, in July Google was ordered to pay a fine of 3 million rubles (roughly $41,000) for refusing to store Russians’ personal data on servers in the country."

That said, it sounds like Putin is going to start imposing fines of up to 5 to 20% of annual revenue for companies that don't bring down "illegal content." So, anything pro-democracy (in the sense of legitimate political opposition) or pro-homosexuality would be out, right? Why stay?
Deer aren't everywhere.
I live in a city where I see deer literally every single day. Multiple times a day.
I've never seen one in the forest here. Not once.
Cougars come into town regularly because that's where the food is.
Yeah I saw that, though I found it confusing considering the complaints op had with American cities later in the post, which I was responding to.

Asian and European cities did not make themselves more hospitable to families by adding wider roads and providing parking spaces for cars like op was talking about, they did it by doing the opposite, which is what I was commenting on.
We can test this hypothesis by looking at fatalities per mile driven, aaaaaaaand humans are still better drivers at this point.
Ha ha, thanks for the appreciation!
I don’t get why there is so much negativity on Django when Instagram and other large websites still use it.

I used it a few years ago for a startup and I liked it. It also has a user management system built in also .
I suspect this means they will be downsizing in SF. NYC has a far, far more reasonable tax regime.
For me, that is a selling point! Widescreen is nice for movies, but when coding or browsing more lines is way more useful.
The same configuration is $873 without Windows 10. Even with HDMI, MicroSD, USB-A, Type C and a power cable its under $1000!
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I think a big issue with these is that for one people are buying them with cash, for two the used market is questionable owing to battery/abuse/etc and overall not much cheaper than new, and three they aren't insuring them. in an urban area, this means if someone steals your ebike, you are out like over $1k sometimes with no recourse at all. We have systems to deal with this for car theft (insurance, cops that care more about car theft than bike theft), but nothing for small transit like a bicycle. Most people will probably give up after a single theft if they have a car still in their garage. $1000 is a lot of money for the vast majority of people.

To make these sustainable they either have to be cheap cheap, like less than $100 cheap because for some people that's over a days wages, so that when they are stolen they can be replaced rather than alternatives sought, or we have to invest heavily in securing these bikes and going after theft. I'm not sure if the latter can actually be done considering I've had my own bike stolen in my city from my underground, gated, surveilled apartment parking garage, and I'm not sure what's left to prevent that from happening to anyone again short of a guard standing watch 24/7, and you can't practically have that on every corner of the city.
I've had deer eat potato and tomato plants, and marigolds.
They don't see particularly picky. They don't eat lavender...
DOJ sues to block domestic alliance between American Airlines and JetBlue
Although I agree that playing the meta game is important, I do still think that playing the meta game ~exclusively~ in certain contexts is just flat out corruption. Especially in business, politics.

With video games and sports, there is less at stake - but the example in the article with cable companies shows how, if all business played the meta game, every customer would have miserable service in that case.

In sports or video games, I can give examples of how it's annoying, and ruins the whole point of the game too:

1. Tennis:
If a tennis player takes long bathroom breaks when they sense their opponent is ahead (so that their opponent cools down, looses momentum and also gets frustrated), and also texts their coach to get advice while in there - knowing that nobody can confirm this.

This has nothing to do with the skill of the game. It annoys the crowd, it reduces opponent's in-game advantage, and potentially increases their strategic advantage illegitimately.

They aren't breaking the rules, but is that tennis? I don't think so

2. Mortal Kombat:
Back when I used to play against my brother, I would use a "cheap" move that when done in succession, it was almost impossible to defend against.

My brother would get upset, but I would keep using it until he stopped playing.

In this case, fine - the game is implemented this way so you can't argue against it. But in retrospect, this is just the game's poor design coming through, since the outcome is that the game is not entertaining to watch, doesn't require any skill (so it isn't fun for me), and is frustrating to the opponent, and hence not fun for anyone.

3. Diablo 2
I have a friend who, in university, was playing Diablo 2 in a lab. He found a cheat online that would allow him to farm XP (or gold or something - not familiar with the game). It was completely automated!

He was playing the meta game very well - he completely automated increasing the stats, but he wasn't playing at all. To this day, I have no idea why he did that :P

So I guess in conclusion - the rules of any cooperative game are designed to get some sort of outcome before receiving a reward. If the outcome can be circumvented, but you still get the reward, then the rules of the game are not well defined.

In terms of business and finance, playing the meta game too hard will corrupt the outcome.

However, since there will always be someone who exploits the lack of definition to the rules in specific cases, everyone needs to break the rules to compete. The only solution is perfectly defined rules - which don't seem to exist when the games are more complex.

So moot point lol
The main issue with Jira is it allows you to build far, far too complicated workflows. And Jira + someone who believes in job security via complexity and obfuscation can be a horrific combination.

The best part of Jira is because it is so flexible, no matter how your process slightly deviates from a basic trello-like board, you should be able to make one or two adjustments in JIRA and have it reflect that.

That's not true of literally any other workflow piece of software I've used, and I've used a ton.

That said, because all the other types of workflow management software I've used are significantly more opinionated and limited, they also limit how bad of a process a bad project administrator can create in them as well.
I did like my late-90s Dell Latitude where I could replace a CDROM module bay with a 2nd hard drive or battery. It was even hot-swap if I recall correctly.

That said, these days I know exactly what I want in a laptop and most mid-spec+ laptops have an abundance of what 90% of users need.
"MIT finds water is wet; HackerNews disagrees"
I wonder why the F-Droid version hasn't been updated in almost a year.. The Google play version is from 2 weeks ago.

I would expect for the privacy conscious community that F-Droid would be a big plus?
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i still have my first macbook. i was able to upgrade the HD and RAM. its sad that you can't do that anymore.
> but it's still better than a currency that loses value in long term.

Why would BTC be imune to that?
UK salaries are a lot lower than US salaries but every country has lower salaries than the US and the UK fares better than most. I would guess this means brits have less incentive to emigrate than people from India or somewhere were salaries are even lower than the UK.

It’s also quite difficult to move to the US from the UK, a lot easier to move to Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the rest of Europe.
>Given new entrants into the backend space, like Supabase (for a Firebase-like open source alternative), Hasura (open source GraphQL on Postgres), etc, how viable is Django and similar technologies like Rails these days? It seems like the former are PaaS which you can simply drop into your app but the latter are more so full on backends that let you control everything.

How viable? More viable than the newer systems you mentioned, clearly.
Indeed. Plus even if they "hard guarantee" it at service launch they could and likely would quietly change it after the press has moved on, with a TOS update on line 194,404,4008 that nobody will read.
Internet-providing satellites will soon streak across Canada's skies
I'm pretty sure I'm not playing the actual game.
Embedded systems
Ah, right. I just checked the S-1.
Ignoring that you're ignoring the "almost" in that sentence...What's the "objective good" in the retro-internet obsession? I was there, I enjoyed it, too, but there was no objective good to the gatekeeping, there was just a very small, blinkered culture that thought it would be able to enforce its standards on everyone who ever showed up.

If anything, the objective good is that rather than a toy for people mostly at universities, we now have an internet that's a communications medium for most of the people on the planet.
Using that logic, the government should be eager to keep covid around as long as possible because of money being saved by people dying early.
Perth has the highest per capita percentage migration from the UK, compared with the eastern states of Australia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Ancestry_and_immigrati...
I dislike when people make comments like OP's.

This is not an unsolvable problem. We will still have plenty of petroleum products for applications where petro-(bi)products are not able to be substituted for other technologies. For the rest of the things we do, our lifestyles will either change based on the environmental situation or get more expensive.
I’m still confused as to which iPhone the cool one is
Extremely low compared to what? I’m in a competitively paid position as a principle developer for a large London technology company. Not renowned for high salaries, but also not bottom of the market.

Most people I know in basically any other industry make less money pre-tax than I have left over after tax, deductions, rent, and bills. I’m sure I could find things to do with more money, just as anyone can, but I definitely hit the point a while ago where more money would significantly improve my level of happiness.

Given that, why would I pack up my entire life and start over in another country?
I also was confused about that part but for another reason: The whole post is basically "despite go having a GC we had to manually manage the memory to make it work" and then the anti-rewrite is "go does memory management for us". IMO people sometimes have really weird ideas what is and isn't part of managing memory.
This is not true, and the rhetoric on this thread is descending into byzantine logic.

If you fail to do your duties, you can (or should) be fired, that's of course legal and reasonable by any measure.

Any arbitrary means that the government provides for beyond that is a 'positive right' (i.e. you can't be fired if the union goes on strike, even if you fail to do your duties).

My direct family member belonged to a large well known union that controlled all aspects of hiring, firing, promotion and job duties. Promotion and layoffs were based entirely on 'time in'.
its the ERP software that we use. people needs to do report with data from NetSuite.
I've held shares in Roblox since ipo. This is concerning.
It sucks that I absolutely love what Framework is doing but also absolutely love macOS :(
But the underlying airlines don't, so just find the flights on Kayak then book direct bypassing this invasive measure.
Yeah, I don't do this.

If your service demands my ID, I'll close my account.

If you have KYC requirements, I'll meet you in person or find a different vendor.
Looks like a really good laptop hardware.

It would be great if the windows is not pre-installed, and let Linux lovers have the opportunity to opt-out and get dollars back (the windows os license fee)
I'm not sure what was meant by "between 1960 and 1960", so I'll assume you mean the period 1960-70. A tripling in a decade for the behavior of a fairly stable population can't be real, so this was probably more closely related to effort devoted to policing, changes in classification policy, etc. If you linked to something we could consider it.
This is a good point. "Repairability" is a lot less important to me than lifetime. Right now, I have a MacBook with AppleCare. The author's criticism with AppleCare is that it can take a week for Apple to repair the computer. That's reasonable for me.

So the real test of the Framework computer is not in the first week. (Although the initial impression is very impressive!) The real test is whether I can, 3 years after buying the computer, replace the battery more easily than Apple could replace the battery in a Mac. Modular hardware is limited by the availability of the parts, and Framework doesn't have the brand to convince me that they'll be around for longer than I can get my computer serviced by Apple.
MacBook Air would be a fair comparison. The pro is pretty pointless at this point next to the Air.
I'm always surprised how quickly "hacker" news is to promote apple hardware and tear down anything linux related.

Any thread about linux or a linux machine turns into this. People promoting macs.

The hacker culture really has changed a lot in the past 10 years.
No. The Port Authority building they bought in 2008 or 2009 had (still has?) a huge telco exchange space, which was why Double lick had been there. 60 Hudson St is the other bug exchange point, it’s maybe a half mile from St John’s Terminal.
Considering NYC recovered economically from 9/11, which made parts of the city uninhabitable. I don't see this being as big of a concern, though it would be tragic if something like this happened.
The problem didn't materialize in crash data, eh?

It absolutely did.

Why we're not talking about it is another issue.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/25/ntsb-teslas-a...
Can't someone train a GAN to do this-id-does-not-exists.com?

I would use it quite often for this kinds of things.
Thanks for pointing this out, I initially thought they were talking about an alternative network.
Have you considered that the current landscape is a product of a competitive market? Historically laptops were never as repairable as desktops. Most parts of those bulky 1990s Powerbooks, Latitudes, and Compaqs were hard to access due to proprietary screws. Every laptop manufacturer had non-standard components and non-standard ports and those components and ports would evolve every 6 months. If you wanted replacement parts and you weren't a corporate repair shop, you were shit out luck before Ebay existed. The adhesive-sealed laptop that you resent is a product of the standardization that corporations and suppliers eventually sought after going through the Wild West phase of the mass market PC.

A competitive market isn't a marry-go-round where every idea gets its turn under the sun for all eternity. It's an arena where some rise and many perish. In the '90s and '00s, many ideas fell through, many companies collapsed, and many technologies become outmoded. What has come out of that is the sealed computer of today.
I concur! I have about 3-4 different usb-c to what ever cables and one usb-c to female A port for thumb drives. My thinking has always been that having all usb-c “future-proofs” for future configurations… maybe I will have two HDMI external monitors in the future, rather than display port and DVI? Easy, just get two usb-c to HDMI cables when that scenario arises. With cables it allows for so many different configurations rather than proprietary modular adaptors that any given company might give up on, decide to sunset older versions for new ones with more features. After living what you just described for the last few years I can’t for the life of me fathom how this modular approach will gain mass appeal. USB-C with cables seems far more flexible to me.
Some applications do require this level of identity proofing (scanning your passport in an airline mobile app to book an international flight comes to mind).

I don't know about presently but historically, you didn't need a passport to buy an international ticket. You needed a passport to get on the plane at the airport. So if you buy a ticket in a fake name, it's your problem if you can't fly and tickets aren't refundable for this.

Which is to say that no app space comes to mind when I think of something that needs id scanning - or the only apps like this are extensions of state control to the virtual space (virtual parole hearings or whatever).

Basically, anything that isn't the state should use it's own fricking account system to relate to people online. And the state itself is kind of iffy.
As a Googler who wants to work remote, in my personal opinion I think this makes a ton of sense. Focus on providing offices in major urban areas for people who want an urban lifestyle, and then offer remote work for people who don't.

NYC isn't for me personally, but I absolutely see the appeal for others, and I can see why Google would want to expand proportionally there.
I was going to go with no p probably indicating an enlarged prostate.
They bought Chelsea Market, which is a one avenue by one block building opposite Ninth Avenue from 111 Eight (former Port Authority Inland Terminal building).

Edit: forgot they also have bought the Milk building opposite Chelsea Market across 15th St, it’s the building the air bridge connects to.
I've seen goats eat trash so...
Similarly, I bought some adapters that I carry around. I travel between a couple of locations, and I bring just one charging wall plug, and one 10-foot USB-C cable.

I have adapters that convert the usb-c to micro and lightning, to also charge my airpods, flashlight, etc. Each adapter is about 3/4" (2cm), female USB-C end, and male end of lightning/micro. I've glued them together so that it's just one little thing to take.

I hated carrying around 3+ cables, so this has been a welcome change.

It's true that I can only charge one thing at a time, but that's not an issue for me except in rare circumstances.
just seems to happen more often in JS... :|
Surely its the middle-ground between your point and what you perceive GP's point to be?
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I agree with your honeymoon phase comment but if Framework followed what Lenovo did to ThinkPads, there would be no reason to buy them.
Yup that’s the one
"but I also know that keeping an open mind doesn’t require that you open so wide that your brains fall out."
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Probably the majority of European children have one, or an equally valid national identity card.

But at that age, it's going to be kept somewhere safe by parents. The passport probably costs more than the budget airline holiday flight.
I think the real situation here is that people are becoming more aware of the profound lack of freedom that already existed. Much like we've become aware that our "free press", for example, is just a propaganda bullhorn to sell us on bullshit multi-trillion dollar wars and other giveaways to billionaire donors to politicians.
Pro-tip #2: if you insert the belt buckle into the clip before getting into the seat, the system thinks you have buckled up, it's not even noticeable
Despite this being absolutely impossible (they can pry my node from my cold dead hands), even if it was it would not achieve what you think it will.

Ok lets say you banned BTC. What about: BitcoinCash/BSV, Litecoin, Ether, Monero, Zcash.... and lets say you ban all classes of software that mint coins using Proof of Work (because Proof of stake is much easier to subvert), SuperSecretUntracableCoin will take its place.

Basically, any fool that is saying dumb stuff like "Ban Bitcoin" is living in an authoritarian dream. It is not possible. It should not be possible. Bitcoin was precisely invented to prevent such authoritarians from getting their way. Get out of here!
Yep. It's absolutely brutal. Ex: EA Play won't work with XBox Game Pass if it's on a child account.

All the kids I know just use fake info with fake birthdays. There's a huge risk of losing the account, but who even knows what to do. Obviously these companies don't want to invest in moderation, so I think they should focus on moderation tools and leave the parent/organizer account holders do the actual moderation.

Microsoft does the money handling on child accounts really well, but the family sharing is absolutely brutal. It's an insanely bad user experience.