skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the assholes too often don't face repercussions.

If you have the right to refuse to unlock your phone for a cop, then a cop that demands it even after the suspect has actively refused it should be reprimanded.

The meme of "We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing" runs rampant because it's often true. Police have literally gotten away with murder, either because the DA or whoever decides to not press charges, or the prosecution literally sabotages their own case to protect the police, as in the case of the shooting of Daniel Shaver, where the prosecution and defense attorneys asked the judge to not show the bodycam footage to the jury [0]. Anybody who's seen that video knows how damning it was, and it's absolutely reprehensible that a prosecutor would want to not show it to the jury. What made it so much worse was that the police department released the video only a couple hours after the trial had completed with the Not Guilty verdict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver#Body...
That is a pretty elaborate excuse for the 100s of pages of whale taxonomy and physiology that interrupt the narrative.
When are the other two parts coming out? :)
Diversity-conscious admissions/hiring is essentially about trying to compensate for past disadvantages. Gender and race are used as proxies, but they're obviously lacking in many ways (the woman's parents could have both been engineers, she could have been surrounded by pro-STEM culture, the native pacific islander could be a millionaire, he could have been to the most expensive private schools in existence) - so I think the right thing to do would be to detach disadvantage estimation from narrow self-reporting and base it on credible signs of disadvantage, like growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of crime.

That's probably never going to happen, though - anything that cut across the real lines of advantage and disadvantage would mean the Google executives establishing the policy would be hurting their own kids the most.
Pork shoulder in the slow cooker is great - lots of sub-par cuts are great in there.
I didn't know about pip and setuptools being separate packages. That explains some things.
The idea is to get Taiwan during the tail-end of the USA's upgrade cycle.

China is building new ships today: roughly 3 aircraft carriers, and a huge number of Destroyers that will (on a tonnage basis), outnumber the entirety of the US Navy. They aren't capital ships, but a mass of lower-quality ships would probably still work if those hypersonic missiles can really kill our capital ships. (A big question in of itself: do China's hypersonic "ship killing" missiles work? If so, can the USA's defense systems shoot them down? If not, then why wouldn't China attack Taiwan?)

Meanwhile, the US Navy is just about to upgrade over the next 15 years. This means that a number of our ships will be docked, and the ships that are remaining will be older designs.

If China times it correctly, it can attack Taiwan and force the USA to defend with its obsolete ships, and before the new ships come online. In effect: the USA has already "spent" our money / resources on the upgrade process, but we haven't gotten the benefits of it yet.

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This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to attack. Once the USA's fleet is upgraded, the opportunity closes (as USA will have newer / better technology ships, while China's old Carriers/Destroyers will be at the disadvantage. And China won't reclaim the advantage until it spends a huge amount of time and money on their own upgrade cycle).

Furthermore: this "delay in upgrade cycles" was caused by Bill Clinton's budget in 1996. It takes many years for a budgetary issue to come up, and the USA has spent huge amounts of money on its military from 2001 onwards (because of Afghanistan / Iraq). As such, no such "upgrade gap" will exist for 20+ years at the minimum after this opportunity passes.

Will China be willing to wait another 50 years for another opportunity like this? Or will China actually go for it? And remember, China has already dedicated incredible amounts of money towards building a new fleet. China's fleet is a "sunk cost", their only decision now is whether or not to use it.
I guess both work. On Instagram and Tumblr I can follow people and hashtags, on Twitter I can follow people and topics. On forums, you basically navigated by topic, without following any specific person.
But they won’t need to delete anything. Imagine the storage and data science in 500 years. Probably the whole internet of 2021 will fit into a 2521 usb stick
I know this might come off as adversarial, but might that say more about your metrics for trustworthiness than the party at question? Which bullets from the article would you consider untrustworthy?
I wasn't really asking how many people do line-by-line commits in general. Obviously it's useful for all the reasons you said. But it's particularly masochistic to do it via the CLI rather than through a GUI or editor.

The hunk algorithm is not very good in my experience and following the prompts to split them is just about as nice an experience as editing files with `ed`.

Have you tried using a GUI or an editor that supports staging selected lines?
Yeah I get that, but you still probably are not going to want to run desktop apps on that thing. It doesn't have a keyboard or mouse. It looks more suited to running tablet apps. And regardless of that, my point is that the status of gaming APIs shipped by one vendor on a proprietary bundling of Linux has little to do with the status of the rest of the platform, which by the way is also woefully inadequate for shipping tablet apps. And also: Linux still is not able to adequately run the majority of desktop software for Windows that people actually want to use, which is all proprietary. Progress has not changed or increased here, Wine is still about as far behind (relatively speaking) as it's ever been. AFAIK the only reason Proton is able to work is because support for Direct3D 11 was added, which at this point is a 13 year old API, and it still doesn't work perfectly.
I noticed better performance using native-comp in magit (and the rest of emacs for what it’s worth) on macOS. Might be worth a shot!
Many ransom payments don't even release the ransom.

If paying in secret is a crime, with whistleblower opportunities, then paying in secret is not so easy. Forbidding payments will massively decrease the value of doing the attacks and reduce the number of them.
Isn't the idea to arrive at a salary that is fair to all parties? If you are good at negotiating, then perhaps you can be a voice for your workplace as a whole, instead of leaving the less gifted negotiators lacking. Even if you completely despise your co-workers, the idea and support for unions is about systematic worker influence rather that "everyone will get a raise".
I assume this is mostly so they can have a relationship with another supplier and in future get offers from both BYD and CATL for more supply.
I imagine, Colonial would have restarted the pipeline without billing and figure it out later.

Probably similar for beef suppliers, although I didn't read any media about what systems were impacted there. Assuming some of the labelling or other food safety things were impacted, you would need an FDA waiver of some sort.
Maybe he'd be doing something more useful elsewhere, who knows.

One thing is certain though; Carmack is an inspiring role model for many developers. Facebook is not a great direction to lead smart people towards.
> Many of my favorite images come from paintings that are about 100 years old, such as the Futurists.

Sounds interesting! Mind sharing links to some of your favourites?
I was gonna suggest, instead of relying on your descendants/lawyers, “simply” avoid physical aging and death yourself, then you can continue to maintain the website.

Good starter resource: https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Aging-forthcoming-extension...
I wouldn't say religion has stagnated, it's more of an invisible force. For example in the quote "like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children" it refers to the Roman God Saturn, a God of a religion that had been dead a thousand years and was never followed in France. Of course much like Indo European language descends from a common source so do the Gods, so the Celts would have an equivalent. This shows that Religion never disappears and only morphs with time. Atheism as practiced by the Sam Harris types is an appeal to rationalism divorced from any semblance of community and thus doomed.
> Camera technology can overlook and exclude people of color. We're committed to reversing this bias with #RealTone on #Pixel6.

I had heard that film was, in the early years of color photography, biased to correctly capture the skin tones of its inventors. But I was not aware any smartphone cameras suffered the same bias. Does anyone have a source for this? Google didn't bother with one, apparently thinking simply bringing up the possibility is enough:

> A lack of diverse testing means that today’s cameras can carry that same bias, delivering unflattering photos for people of color. - https://store.google.com/intl/en/discover/realtone/
I mean thats the majority of smoking meats (and providing longevity).
> The only legitimate risk I've heard about 'curl | bash' is that web servers can detect whether the site is being accessed by a browser versus curl, and serve different content

This is the reason why you shouldn't do curl ... | bash, you should do bash -c "$(curl ...)"

The former is truly vulnerable, for the exact reason you mention, while the latter isn't.

> With curl | bash, the URL of the bash script is right there. I can copy it, plug it into my browser, and inspect with ease the shell script that will run

Not exactly, see http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

More savvy users might have set their shell up in a way that mitigates this risk, and some users will, as you mentioned, copy and paste URL, but go ahead and try that with the command in the link I provided - note that if you copy just the git URL, it only copies that bit, and then you can paste it into your browser, and not realize that there's a malicious bit before it

Of course, copying and pasting a command involving apt/dnf/etc is also vulnerable to that same attack :)
Please make your substantive points without crossing into name-calling or personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Brex CTO here. I completely agree with you, the issue isn't that we expect something in return. When you invest in a new language community, it's not about expecting something in return, you're investing in its growth. We've sponsored several core language projects and maintainers, and have open sourced many libraries, and we did it so that the ecosystem gets more fuel to develop and grow.

But that also doesn't mean we never evaluate what makes most sense for us as we continue growing ourselves. We have >400 engineers at Brex, so many things internally have had to evolve over the years, including our decision to build things in different languages (we now additionally support Go, Kotlin, Python & TypeScript, each for specific domains).

Even as we write more backend services in Kotlin, Elixir will continue existing for a long time, and we're continuing to work close with the broader community.
The two are not comparable in form, nor function.

There is nothing instant about the Linux variant.
I want someone that can sell what I've built.
I just spent all of mine on yours a csee's. ;)
To be clear, the quote implied the protestors weren’t being violent at all, right — at least in their view. Are we on the same page about that?

Edit: I guess I’m not understanding your point. To me the protester’s narrative is “This is a nonviolent protest of a faculty’s exclusionary viewpoint,” which doesn’t seem that abnormal to me. What do you think I’m not seeing?
> Religion is simply the name we use for the foundation of the basic human values

Is it? Doesn't religion imply belief in some kind of deity? Whereas you can have values without such a belief.
I doubt the little guy acquiring patents at behest of some corporate initiative from executives actually necessarily gets told the real reason. It would leave an paper trail for antitrust. "Would give you a better negotiating position if you were sued" is the exact kind of generic motivation you'd want on something that's real purposes could look worse in an antitrust trial.

Especially in light of stuff like "Google training documents advise avoiding monopoly language":
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/7/21358441/google-alphabet-t...
What you're describing reminds me a lot of the following:

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Seriously a compelling piece of writing

I imagine it's longer than many HN readers will feel they have time for within whatever routines they incorporate browsing HN into, but it is worth bookmarking and returning to
One system based on semiconductors will eventually fail, as their failure rate follows the bathtub curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

As much as I call cryptocurrencies a cancer, I admit storing on Bitcoin blockchain is probably the most resilient way, as its constantly being replicated across a huge amount of machines around the planet...
My daughter sealed a cherry tomato in a tiny jar at the start of the pandemic, just so we could watch it change. It's been just a parchment of skin floating in a pool of yellow liquid for months.

I'm not going to taste it, though.
Every Linux desktop environment I've tried all have unnatural mouse acceleration compared to Windows. Their support for non-uniform sized multi-monitor setups is also pretty awful.

With WSL, I don't think I'll ever be using Linux on my PC
Why cant a book be a slog and be loved? Being somewhat painful to get through is the price of admission for most classic works. Even the most diehard David Foster Wallace fan wouldn't challenge someone who said Infinite Jest was a slog to get through.
> Which is why I refuse to travel outside of the Schengen area.

Just one data point:

A few days ago was pulled over in Germany, I assume, for travelling on foreign plates from a small (Schengen area) country. Initially we thought we must have broken some traffic rule we weren't aware of. But it seemed more like an immigration check. Asked for passports, searched the car and asked a lot of questions. Didn't even check the driver's license and the likes, so definitely not a traffic stop.

Not particularly paranoid about this kind of stuff and they seemed nice, but I'd certainly try to push back if this has happened in the US. Don't know much about German law, I may be wrong, but I'm assuming like in most of Europe you don't have much of a right to refuse unless it's a very unusual ask (which searching a phone may be)
> gross negligence by the user

Not having tested, well scoped, and reasonably frequent backups for business critical corporate operations is gross negligence.
Yeah, many of them were incredibly racist organizations focused on keeping black people from doing jobs. Easy when they cartelize labour and use violence when required.

E.g. https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/charlie-walker-mov...

Yeah they were fantastic for the majority because they allowed the majority to retain a tight grip on work.

If your preference matrix prefers that racist workers get better gigs while other workers don’t get work at all, fine. That isn’t my preference matrix.
Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer
Think I may be mistaken here. Would be good if ""Intel 4"" can compete!
Who said anything about modifying our existing genome? Perhaps in the future we’ll be able to add extra biologically inert genetic material solely for the purpose of permanently storing information, passed from generation to generation.
It sounds a lot like there's a compressor driving things in the background, and a lot of servo operated valves controlling flow.

I bet the "muscles" themselves are quite quiet.
Things like OIN[0] didn't exist when MS and Google bought companies to strip them of their patents. They do exist now, and it's basically a truce over fighting on patents.

The Bork view on anti-trust definitely has favored these companies, and Apple and Google can absolutely be accused of having and using monopoly power to keep competitors out. Google pays to be the default search engine on iOS (keeping competitors out), and Apple denies fair platform access to software it thinks has a chance at competing with it's ecosystem (Tile, etc..). Amazon and Facebook can be accused of this pretty easily too (restricting 3rd party sellers, restricting API access respectively).

The law[1] is pretty clear on this, but bills exactly like [2] and [3] would clear it up more, which I believe Cory Doctrow supports, at least from reading his Twitter.

[0] https://openinventionnetwork.com/

[1] https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3825...

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816...
The only thing that's keeping me on Firefox is the lack of persistent pinned tabs In Chromium.

Vivaldi supports it, but it's too slow.
Right.

But thinking of Rayon and viscose as ‘synthetic’ means people assume it is not biodegradable, which isn’t the case. It’s about as biodegradable as cotton, or cardboard.

In fact cardboard and paper are good analogs - I think people are comfortable thinking of them as ‘processed’ natural products, but not ‘synthetic’. There is value in getting people to think of rayon as more like that than true synthetics like nylon and polyester, which create non biodegradable micro plastic pollutants.
This is 100% a bad faith question. And even if it's being asked in good faith, it's entirely irrelevant. It's essentially whataboutism. But I'll address it anyways.

If I have an abusive co-worker in my tech job and my manager and HR refuse to do anything about it, it just makes work suck.

But an abusive cop ruins lives with bullshit charges and bullshit handling of innocent people. In worst-case scenarios, they're murderers that get away with it.

So yeah...it's a pretty clear distinction, and I refuse to believe you're asking this question in good faith.
> That a union can lead to negative outcomes is not an argument in favor of no-unions, I think, it's an argument that that union should be improved.

Can't the same be said about companies that aren't non-unionized?

> It's literally giving yourself up to the whims of your employer for no gain.

You could just as well say you are giving yourself up to the whims of the union leadership, which is just a parallel management structure. Sure they are supposed to represent your interests, but they're also supposed to balance that against the interests of the company and what is practically possible. So is there really much of a difference?

I feel like the bigger problem is the exclusivity. Anytime there is only one option and competition disappears (whether for an employer or for a union), the incentives get corrupted. People shouldn't have to join a particular union. They should have the right to optionally do so, but being obligated means there's no competition incentive.
So instead of me choosing how and where data is stored cloudflare decides whats best, cool.
But its not edge anymore. Instead of may be, cloud flare may choose to store either EU or US because it can’t store in the Atlantic for now. So its no better that us-east-1 or eu-west-2. Its not like Cloudlare can transmit data faster than GCP or AWS.
It all turns down to
If you need edge and distributed you get it, but its eventually consistent, which is cloudflare KV.
If you need strong consistency, you don’t have edge and is not distributed, which is durable objects.
The general push here seems to imply, its distributed, edge and also strongly consistent which is wrong.
Also worth saying that durable objects doesn’t implement any rdbms/nosql db but rather expects us to build a db on top of it.
I don’t know how if its better to maintain an inhouse DB monster and outsource server configuration or maintain a server config but have a good DB.
If you are using a hosted Postgres/mongo DB, at best you moved your server near to the user but DB is still far away, which would not improve a thing.
Workers are a good fit for stateless or async apps, tho.
that would be 38% bamboo then.
T'was not intentionally misleading. Sorry. It's not that difficult to load the page, hit the End key and see the paragraph I referred to in its raw form.
Interesting, Runbox is under attack too apparently
Would lignin-based glues be a suitable alternative in terms of cost, effectiveness and long-term reliability (stability) or hasn't there been sufficient development to make them viable yet?

Alternatively, could we revert back to safer traditional animal-based glues as a practical/viable option? That said, I'd guess that these days cost would be prohibitive as well as having environmental concerns not to mention their long-term reliability in that composites made with them may be prone to delamination, etc. (my experience is that animal glues get brittle with age).

In a similar vein, one of the major problems with MDF, medium density fiberboard/particleboard, is the fact that the amount of binder used is quite inadequate which means that it has limited durability/lifespan. This is a two-edged sword of course, the more binder the more expensive it will be but its durability will be increased; on the other hand, unless the binder is environmentally friendly then sooner or later we'll have a polution problem. Nevertheless, the high-grade high-density stuff can be extraordinarily durable (thus it's much less likely to end up in landfills). It seems to me that we urgently need new very durable glues and binders that are also cheap, safe and environmentally friendly.

That logically segues into the matter of artificial wood. I know, that process has been pitifully slow for obvious reasons but it seems to me we need a solution urgently as we're fast running out of both building and cabinet-quality grade lumber.

(Whilst, we may be able to keep up supply with fast growing building-grade lumber such as pinus radiata (and importantly bamboo), quality timbers are in desperately short supply and will continue to be so into the foreseeable future. For example, we've precious little of timbers such as sandalwood, lignum vitae, ebony, and various Dalbergia genus rosewoods (retusa/Cocobolo, nigra/Brazilian rosewood, melanoxylon/African blackwood, etc.), as many take several hundred years to mature and no one had the foresight to plant forests of them back in the 18th Century! Thus, all of them are on the CITIES watchlist for good reason and have been so for decades.

Moreover, they're essentially unprocurable for any practical purpose, and even if you can buy small quantities of them legally, then they're hideously expensive. For instance, African blackwood costs a fortune at well over $10,000/cubic meter, and when it comes to sandalwood we actually buy it by the gram ($85/100g): https://ventured.com/most-expensive-woods-in-the-world/

Thus, there is no solution other than to artificially manufacture† excellent, high quality, chemically-similar (complete with lignin, cellulose, etc.) facsimilies of these wonderful and very beautiful timbers.

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† Even if we're still a long way off from having artificial timber as a practical reality, there seems to be an obvious way forward for at least part of the manufacturing process - that of additive manufacturing/3D printing, as the number of textures and designs it affords are essentially endless.
What you describe is the primary motivation to the genesis of French cuisine: how do we take this crappy cut of meat or unpalatable vegetable we can get on the cheap and make it edible?
The death of Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (1871)
I'm looking forward to the day he does it for Oculus Quest 1. I haven't used mine in a year because Facebook.
Aren't solar panel lifetimes in the decade range?