skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do not worry. .NET is a good choice independent of this hickup. The maintainer will change their foundation backing and the .NET Foundation will serve its original purpose: owning the core .NET runtime so AWS, Google, Samsung and Microsoft can take save bets on it.

JavaScript had it nodejs drama, Perl its community drama, Swift it's drop of support from IBM, the Linux Kernel has Linus, etc. They are still there and strong.

Let this fold out for a while and reassess it.
Is there a distinction between the entropy of a message and the impact of a message on the entropy of the system? Where inputs tend to increase system entropy?
U must be fun at parties
You can't keep calling something a choice when people decide on the option you don't want
The solution is to set FB's incentives right, which can be done by banning ads from social networks. With this solution, no other type of censoring is necessary.
I appreciate your considered and nuanced reply to my fairly stark comment. My position on Facebook is that it is so awful an entity that it is not moral to work in any position in the company. And I don't buy the excuse of working for an immoral company (if you recognise it as such) because you need the money. But I recognise this is a fairly absolutist position.
It's a good thing they have any credibility left after giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger in 1973 (!) or to Obama in 2009.
In the end I don‘t see how hiding value somewhere can be stopped without total surveillance.

Maybe we are getting there.
This is actually were the often cited Popper quote become relevant. "No tolerance for the intolerant" - On itself it is a concept prone to failure and you should be careful about the context it was ushered in and his personal history.

Right now CRT is a lens that allows racism and discrimination, the oppressed is allowed to oppress the oppressor, even if that should be impossible.

But it is well known that CRTs followers do have some kind of problem with freedom of speech. Comes with forcing prescriptive language maybe.
Also June 2021:

""It said on the can 'you've won a £15k 24 carat gold Hazy Jane can'. Once I'd got over the shock I wanted to cover it on my house insurance. I got in touch with the can's makers, Thomas Lyte, who told me it was actually brass with a 24 carat gold plating." [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57650685
I think part of the disagreement here is you see a whistleblower, but I see an activist. One who frankly, if I were Zuck, I would have fired or simply never hired in the first place.

Arguing that Facebook causes tribal conflict in Ethiopia by not "policing aggressively enough" or "understaffing" teams is not, to me, the argument of a whistleblower. It's the argument of someone who has totally lost perspective, of a totalitarian who believes that any and all of humanities ills can be fixed by manipulating communication platforms. It's no different to saying "if the phone company cuts off any phone call in which people are arguing, there will be no more arguments and everyone will be happy". When phrased in terms of slightly older-gen tech it is obviously absurd.

"Were they to tweak the IG recommendation algorithm so that an interest in healthier eating did not lead to anorexia content, people like myself would applaud"

Good on you for being consistent then! Sadly it seems to be very rare. Look at Zuck's post. He points out that Facebook did in fact make changes to prioritize stories from friends and family, even though that reduced their income and reduced the amount people used the site i.e. a lot of users were actually people who don't care much about their cousin's cat pictures, but do care a lot about civics, or phrased another way, "divisive politics".

Yet it doesn't seem to have done them any good. For people like Haugen and a depressing number of HN posters it's not enough to re-rank nice safe family stories about new babies. For them Facebook also has to solve teenage depression, war in Africa and probably world hunger whilst they're at it. And if they aren't it's because they're "under-staffing" or refusing to "adequately police" things.
Baffling to me hearing about Americans in SV who can't afford to live on their own on over $150k, that would easily be a top 1% salary in the european city I live in
You can at least turn off iCloud entirely on Apple devices. I have never enabled iCloud and I only get these screens when I update the OS to a new version.
Are you sure about that? I certainly don't recall that, and it seems like it would be a bad UX idea anyway: you can't clone a repo via SSH without having an account (and a pubkey registered), so showing the SSH string to people who aren't logged in seems counterproductive.
My speed of writing code (or anything else really apart from commenting on random websites) is limited mainly to my thought process about the logic I'm about to write. If you can code so fast that fractions of a second make a difference then more power to you but most people probably can't.
The Google app is responsive on my Android phone to the system setting for dark or light. Google.com Mobile's website is not. The desktop version is.
I think in addition - depending on where you live - controlling surface water would be a factor. Don't leave water to go stale in puddles or containers, and if you have something like a pond, either treat the water with something or get plenty of mosquito-egg-eating fish.
End corporate taxes and all of a sudden the whole scheme becomes unnecessary.
They look like tiny dragons :)
Fuel shortage: petrol station deliveries barely fell, panic-buying caused crisis
Digital colonialism: Analysis of Europe’s trade agenda
And above those: Don't do a crime that will get you executed.
Although I support the idea, the web site seems a bit … sparse … to me.

This is an area that I know well. I’ve been working with folks like this for decades.

One huge problem with rehabilitation and reentry programs, is a fairly significant level of sketchy behavior. Many times, these efforts start from a good place, but fall victim to corruption.

It’s difficult to work with folks that have criminal backgrounds, but it can be quite gratifying. The challenges are real, but there are many, many people that are willing to work hard to climb out of a hole. It’s incredibly rewarding to help those folks.

But there are always a few that have no interest in changing their spots, and they can really piss in the punch bowl. It’s important to be ready for these people. This kind of work is not for the faint of heart. Tough room.

Also, I’m not too thrilled about the site conflating “disadvantaged” folks with ex-cons.

They are quite different. Although ex-cons are a subset of disadvantaged people, they are a pretty small percentage, and present radically different challenges from other folks that suffer from things like poverty, prejudice, and lack of opportunity.
I think the google maps screenshot is poison?
It's also part of a resurgent, currently-trending meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2184135-scorpion-and-frog
> I just don't buy the premise that I will profit from spending a lot of time optimally customizing a text editor to my supposedly very unique and special needs.

> Seems more like a weird para-work hobby than an actual productivity hack.

Because you will use the skills for forty years throughout your career?
> No one is forcing you to go to USPS.

First, the government does force you to use USPS for some things. The USPS has a monopoly on the delivery of certain types of mail.

Second, we all pay for USPS as taxpayers regardless of whether we use its ancillary services. Well, we won't pay if check cashing is a profitable program, but we will if it's not -- and I'm skeptical that it will be profitable given you have fraud costs, training costs, etc.

> Walmart may subsidize the service assuming you’ll spend money in store and they’ll get several more dollars out of the transaction. Even less expensive, grocery stores have long done cash checking for free when you check out at the store.

To me these are both reasons for the government not to get into this business. If Walmart offers a lower price, whether that's a loss leader or not, it's great for consumers.

IMHO govt services make sense when private industry can't provide them effectively. That doesn't seem like the case here.

> It is hard for me to be upset about a new service that is less expensive than the set of companies gouging people, but has some competitors that are cheaper.

Zero qualms about other companies offering new services. If they work well, those companies will succeed, and if not, they will fail. And success is based on making customers happier than competitors do. That's not the case with government services. If they work well, great, and if not, everyone subsidizes them. For example if a startup launches check cashing and loses $10m because of fraud, they go under. If the USPS ends up losing $1b due to check fraud next year, I'm guessing they'll just ask for $1b more in funding the following year.

And if check cashing seems like a good direction, should the government develop its own reward credit cards? Buy now, pay later? Crypto exchanges? Etc.
I don't understand. Cannot you create a PR and fork the project (and use your fork in the meantime until the PR is merged)? This is what I do when I use opensource libraries. They being opensource shouldn't mean that you get blocked by them.
Maybe this approach will help, as suggested in the article:

The applications are not limited to quadrotors. The researchers explain that the same approach could be useful for improving the performance of autonomous cars ...
My 2018 SEAT (VW group tech) has twice saved me from an expensive mistake by slamming on the brakes rather than reverse into an obstacle.

The first time I'd only had the car a couple of days and had accidentally engaged reverse when I thought I was in first (the previous car had a different gear layout).

Another couple of times it's squeaked at me at low speed for no obvious reason. On balance, I'm extremely pleased with it.
Rohit Misra Launches Earkart.in – Stalwart or Scam Artist?
After the announcement of http://earkart.in, Hearing industry is feeling the heat of upcoming battle. Multiple allegations have been comings out alleging Rohit Mishra pointing towards his dark past during his regime as the MD of Staykey Technology.

As per a key insider of the industry, Mishra was involved in a major scam during the period of 2018 when he was the managing director of Starkey Hearing Technnologies.

"He launched a campaign named Ashwamegha that promised to sells hearing aids worth 3Lakh at a nominal price of 28,000. They were low quality products with absolutely no lifespan. After 3 month when the customers realised the scam, he launched another campaign claiming that the old models have become obsolete", the insider said.

"It was a daylight robbery as the warranty claims were neglected with an excuse of physical damage. This whole scam not only disreputed the company-customer trust but dealers network also got affected"

Even Starkey Technnologies felt the heat and their revenue fell sharply from 127 Cr to almost 60 Cr, eventually causing Rohit Mishra to leave the organisation.

"The fraudster mindset not only caused losses to the industry but many senior officials went jobless afterwards. He has entered with a new brand name but no sane dealer would associate with him. it is unfortunate that he is now trying to dupe end users."
A dealer told when asked about this alleged scam.

Since the launch of the website, EarKart has been getting notices from leading brands to put down their logos which explains why brands are skeptical about their association with a name.

"The industry is in awe to learn that a reknown startup has decided to back Mr Mishra despite a shady history in the industry whereas it is known that many hearing aid manufacturers have denied his funding requests", the insider added.
> VSCode has it's own key binds for various movements (like indenting a block)

Like tab or is something more elaborate?
>Except your scientist(s) were wrong this time and killed 10 times more people by not implementing quick and mild restrictions and letting the disease spread.

This is the dumbest hunk of shit I've ever heard. We have the exact same death rates and infection rates as the rest of Europe.
I think they mean the clock involved with replacing the image every X ms + the clock in your python code. You could remove the python clock code in favour of being notified when the file changes.

That's my tired understanding, anyway.
Some leaders just need to issue “all hands” commands every now and then. These commands often make little sense to those at the receiving end. But those leaders need this to have their leader status confirmed. It serves also as proof of authority to their superiors.

This is particularly frustrating when an organisation switches leadership and goes from participative to hierarchical. I think this is what happened here: .NET Foundation leadership must have changed and with it came a new, hierarchical leadership style.
That's correct in the most of the English speaking world, apple juice is what it sounds like, cider is fermented apple juice (as far as I'm aware, it is in the UK). In American English cider is apple juice, and hard cider is fermented, alcoholic apple juice.
All: please don't post if you have a reflexive-indignant reaction rather than a curious one. This site is for the latter, not the former, and the former tends to drown out the latter.

I'm not saying you owe Nobel Prize committees better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
I seem to post this in every tiling window manager story comment section but if you are on Ubuntu an extremely easy way to try out a tiling WM is to install Regolith and select it at login (you can always go back, but you won't want to):

https://regolith-linux.org/

From their homepage: "Regolith is a modern desktop environment designed to let you work faster by reducing unnecessary clutter and ceremony. Built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3, Regolith stands on a well-supported and consistent foundation."

I'm not affiliated with the project, just a happy user.
Extremely bizarre that the main concern in this thread is with GitHub, even though they did absolutely nothing here: the repo that was transferred had given admin rights to the DNF account for a bit. What the DNF did here is questionable, no doubt, but seeing people here claim this portends the death of GitHub is disappointing.
The EU solution for this was legislation that mandates that banks can not refuse a basic payment account. Being able to participate in electronic settlement is necessary to participate in modern society, so even a bankrupt person convicted of felony fraud should have a right to a bank account somewhere, and it's the duty of the society/government to ensure that they can obtain one.
Kissinger helped establish a ceasefire in Vietnam (although it didn't stick). I don't know why that would be more surprising than Obama's prize. Kissinger donated the money to charity and didn't turn up to the awards ceremony, he didn't think he deserved it. I don't understand why Obama was awarded the prize at all.
>The country’s analysts were reportedly also able to track the location of the hackers' offices down to a university building next Moscow’s Red Square.

When I lived in Moscow my location was often misidentified as next to Red Square on various sites that tried to guess my location by IP or whatever else they use. I hope the analysts didn't use same tools.
‘It was a nice break from everything’: two men rescued after 29 days lost at sea
In a similar vein, swap out the grinder for a shredder/wood chipper-type model. You will no longer have to cut the apples open, and you can fill it by the bucket rather than one-by-one. Much higher throughput.
> but every time there's huge blowback from users and developers because "they're trying to take our file explorers" or whatever.

This is a justified blowback. The file explorers and system utilities (apps users actually want to access the whole file system) should be given full rights. Access rights should be managed, not denied for all the apps altogether. I would introduce separate permissions for full file system (incl. OS and other apps files) access, access to user files space only, access to specific directories.

PS: Can anybody recommend a really good file system explorer for Android? I would pay any reasonable single-time price but no ads and no subscriptions please.
How Do You Pay for Your Modafinil Online?
This webpage is about Modafinil, a medication used for medical purposes. It is also used off-label for smart drug purposes. This article will discuss how to buy Modafinil online.
E-Health, Digital Health, Telehealth, HealthTech – Whats the Difference?
As I have no idea about .NET development, I don't really understand the relation between these projects and .NET Foundation.

Is .NET foundation paying them money? Or what is the relationship between the projects and Microsoft/.NET Foundation?

Reading the "apology" on github, it seems that .NET Foundation/Microsoft thinks those projects are essentially theirs, and they are free to put them under their enterprise account to "simplify billing"

https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39

But reading this article, and the one below, the maintainers think otherwise?

https://www.glennwatson.net/posts/dnf-problems-solutions

There are also some notes about copyright that I don't understand. Who owns the copyright? Microsoft or the maintainers?

edit: From the github "apology":

> Projects might not fully understand what joining the .NET Foundation means. We share a checklist with project maintainers on project changes they accept as part of becoming part of the .NET Foundation. That’s obviously not sufficient. We will post a new document that describes what you can expect when your project joins the .NET Foundation. This will include changes (observable or legal) and new benefits. It will also include changes that could occur later.

....ok? That seems scary, coming from Microsoft
Mixpanel Product Analytics – iOS 15 adoption
Yes! It's end of life and has been for almost a year. No one should be online with this operating system at this point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797040
>What on earth did Brexiteers think was going to happen?

I assumed this sort of thing and worse, and thought that on balance, it was worth it.
Isn't GH's PR some awful sugar around the concept of merging a patchset?
When you join the MVP program you are an evangelist. You are briefed, you are under NDA and you start to have a very different view that the broader community. Not every MVP is like that, but while I like the content they create I see them seriously disconnected from many .NET developers and actual use cases.
Wouldn't you have to rescind the concept that corporations can act as individuals as well?

I'm not sure whether this is a legal, moral or philosophical position but in the spirit of no taxation without representation then it seems right that all political lobbying by corporations would have to be ended as well.
I don't know why this is down-voted. It happens literally in formerly open projects like Python:

https://discuss.python.org/t/all-hands-on-deck-the-release-o...

Python is fully corporate now and free spirits have been removed.
I firmly believe that for any meaningful change in tax exceptions for multinationals one needs to bring it to the masses, like you say.

For example by creating a multinational entity that swallows you all the small shops, while letting them be the owner as they were before. But they now use a service that consistently costs so much that it's not returning a profit. While they also start a new business through a foreign Enterprise that is stationed in any tax Haven you have your eyes set on. When on scale this will drain the tax income of most small shops and must force the government to shut down these constructs. Challenge being that in doing so the precedent crested will also force the multinationals, like Shell, Unilever, etc. To shut down their unfair tax advantages.

I don't think the idea is novel, and I think it's extremely risky, but something worth chasing I believe.
If you wanted, you could call it a major disruption.

I don't know exactly what makes an event a "real disaster", but I agree that suddenly being isolated from your family is a significant event, and if anyone wanted to belittle your characterisation, they should probably recallibrate their understanding of the world. (And they should also be careful to distinguish their oughts and their is-es.)
> because Apple is traditionally very pro-Consumer

That highly depends on the lens you look through. To say Apple is pro Apple is more correct although they understand they must make some concessions here and there.

But if you look at repairability and generally lock-in, Apple is not pro-consumer. In the end the consumer also pays their store fees of course.
Many despise the fact that they gave Obama one, too. I think there is a misunderstanding here. In my opinion that prize really went to the American people, who elected their first black president, which the Nobel committee saw as a great step away from racism, towards equality. So, it was symbolic, in a way it was like the Time Person of the Year 2006: You, except they had to put the prize physically in the hands of someone, and the choice was obvious.
I don't see why getting it wrong sometimes discredits them for all eternity. That doesn't really make much sense.
Tesla headquarters will move from California to Texas, Elon Musk announces
It can be surprisingly difficult to get an account in the US between KYC rules, credit checks, balance requirements, and limitations on funding sources. The fees banks charge can be really significant to a low income and it’s often not worth risking your food or rent budget. The fees are often tailored to be very aggressive in low income or heavily minority areas. Even if you get an account open, many banks are super aggressive about closing accounts with low or no activity.

There are “millennial” banks which are very customer focused but to get accounts there you have to have a computer or a phone with a data plan — and believe it or not those are still luxury items for many in the US.

Living in rural areas where you only have a post office box or rural route address often excludes you from credit and banking products.
California companies can no longer silence workers in victory for tech activists
Mercury retrograde happens every few months and lasts three weeks. And it's also "bad news" for travel, change, decisions, activity...

I'd get chills too, tbf, but your MIL's gnostic pronouncement is total foofoo
Maybe you should try to see why :)
Two or more things might be at play here with regards to why people are more hesitant to upgrade than before, here are my guesses:

- tech people/early adopters are worried/annoyed by Apple snitchware

- it-departments, business people and technology-conservative users choosing to stick with security updates on iOS 14 now that it is an option.

Edit: I'm in the first category so for me this is kind of good news.
So this is misinformation that wasn't caused by social media.
I didn't know arXiv actually rejects papers based on content. I thought they just have a quick glace to see if it looks like a paper.