skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's just hope there is a "load and execute random code from the network" effect that you could disable.

NetworkAccess Effect wouldn't be that strange for a logging system that supports multiple networked log managers like syslog.
Even a public university can decide what they want to do when it comes to punishment for students they admit. You aren't owed an explanation no matter how much you pretend on the internet to care.
Our economy seems really good at producing cheap garbage that's hardly worth even their low prices, expensive shit that actually works (expensive in part because the cheap garbage eats into its economy of scale by taking market share), and, for some product categories, super expensive shit that exists for the sake of being expensive (as in, conspicuous consumption).

Absent is any ground between cheap garbage and expensive shit that actually works. Some products are in that middle-ground price range, but they're actually cheap garbage that's been marked up to rip you off.

This seems to have increased over time, especially as factories became better able to produce goods that use barely enough material to work at all, without a too-high defect rate. I wonder sometimes how much inflation this is masking—goods stay the same price or even get somewhat cheaper, but are significantly worse than before.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. I've written extensively about the fact that A) Redux _has_ been overused, B) that many of the complaints were really more about the standard code patterns needed and the "boilerplate" involved, and that C) "modern Redux" with our official Redux Toolkit package and the React-Redux hooks API has solved those "boilerplate" concerns.

Redux is still by far the most widely used state management tool with React apps (my estimates are around 45-50% of React apps use Redux), and we try to give clear guidance in our docs on when it does and doesn't make sense to use Redux.

FWIW, we get highly positive feedback on a daily basis from users who tell us how much they love using Redux Toolkit.

Resources:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/05/state-of-redux-may...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/05/learn-modern-redux...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/index

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-2-app-structu...
Different ethics? You are very open minded. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. Totalitarian governments busy themselves with editing history and skewing the narrative. I've been there, growing in a communist country liberated because the USSR went bankrupt. So, thank you USA. Now we can hold views critical of the government without being arrested, tortured and sent to forced labour camps.
Why would a newspaper article that regurgitates the Twitter thread be any better?

If the source is Twitter then I much prefer a link to Twitter.
Ask HN: How did it fell inside Apple when Android pivoted to be an iPhone lite
I had this interrogation when reading the thread on Google rebooting its AR initiative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29566313

We often talk about business consequences of a company "stealing" your ideas/features and their defensibility, but for the teams involved in innovation at such high competitive level, it must be soul crushing to live through it.
I know how to look up words, thanks. You do need to de-obfuscate, though.
> The definition of "freedom" should begin with the freedom from others pushing their negative externalities onto you.

While I (European) generally agree with you, this could also be a point against public consumption of alcohol ;)
Go read stories about neighbors eating each others children to survive. It is pointless to compare tragedies as to which is worse, but it is worthwhile to recognize the magnitude of the (unimaginable) suffering caused by bad policy. The point is you wouldn't want to experience either -- neither is a better choice, they were both disasters worthy of keeping in memory.
That’s part of it. It’s similar to China from the 90’s to the 2020’s. Likely Chinese will not see real wages go up at the same rate in the 2039’s as they did the previous decades.

That said, what’s eating real wage growth is outsourcing. It’s simple. If I can build a fridge by paying workers in China or Mexico $2/hr vs paying a US worker $22/hr in a manufactury plant, my competition will eventually lose market share and shutter if they don’t also move manufacturing to a cheaper labor market.

Without any import taxes to adjust for labor conditions and costs, thus will put downward pressure on stateside labor markets.

People know this. But they ALSO complain of stagnating wages, while at the same time NOT wanting their US manufactured good to be more expensive than those made over seas!
Is there a way to buy oneself out of GPL license? I beleive there's not.
Yes I certainly do too, but working with ladder logic can force you to think very differently and solve interesting problems in different ways. You can monitor exactly how the code is running at any given time, you can directly edit it while it's running, and you set the value of any variable at any time.
If you achieved the exact same end state, then by definition all of those paths would have the same subjective memory. The only way to achieve the exact same end state is if you actually didn't observe the qubit in two different states, or if you forgot about it. Your brain would be the same at the end.
Also, they don't have the money to comply with the EU's GDPR from a legal requirement, so this is really a result of the EU's laws.
From the HN guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I love Nim's syntax, but is there a specific reason why e.g. the SFML binding cannot imitate C++ RAII approach of handling resources? There is .close everywhere.
Oh it goes a lot further back than that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29593432
Even if we entirely ended the manufacture and sale of guns, there are far too many guns already in private possession for it to matter (I.e. there are more guns in circulation right now than there are people in this country). As a gun owner, it is obvious that to eliminate mass shootings we would have to eliminate private ownership of all semi-automatic firearms. That is so incredibly far outside the realm of possibility. The ability to engage in a mass shooting is not going to change; we need to engage the issue from other angles.
I'd like to see Twitter threads go to Threadreader as its easier to read. For example, this thread would be https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1471494415306788870.html
I had a bit of struggle to understand precisely how this works. I haven't had a need to use similar technology...But at least one mechanism seems to be:

1. Data submitted by end user

2. Intercepted by an Evervault Server and encrypted

3. Hits my Application where I utilize the encrypted data without being able to see it

4. Submit it to some other service (Twilio say)

5. Relay intercepts request and decrypts required fields before data is sent on to Twilio.

6. Presumably response from Twilio is also encrypted? Or it's optional?

I'd be interested to hear from anybody who has implemented these kinds of flows to better understand uses cases and the complications etc...
A Covid-19 'viral Blizzard' is about to hit the US, expert says
> most Americans are significantly worse off since the 1970s

I wasn’t around in the 1970s, so can someone explain to me how great it was with some examples that would make me want to go and live in the 1970s?
Run over by tanks doesn't quite cover the brutality of that night. The tanks repeatedly drove over and then reversed over the same bodies until they were pulp on the streets. What happened that night was ni unspeakable, yet we must speak of it or we risk it being forgotten in history.
In the U.S. there's a hierarchy of freedoms. Fundamental rights, like speech and the right to a fair trial, are necessary to secure other "lower" freedoms if you want.

You can drink outside in some places, like Las Vegas. The fact that you can't drink outside most places just illustrates that the overwhelming majority don't even want to do that.

Drugs and booze are cheap freedoms that don't do anything to avoid repression.
Do you really think that Apple couldn’t port Linux to an M1 chip without outside help? If Apple wanted a server product, they wouldn’t need to rely on outside volunteers and they would be more actively helping. Apple used to make servers, and hardware wise, they were great. Software wise, it was more of a mixed bag.

If Apple wanted to help push a server or cloud product, do you think AWS would be racking retail Mac Minis?

This has informal geek cred motivation written all over it. More of a good-will measure than anything else. If this was an explicit market/new product motivation, any assistance would look very different and be more formal.
I suppose they'd be best off asking for a raise (easy) than applying for jobs and interviewing (a lot more work).
Heh, glad to hear that RTK is an improvement there :)
Bunch of addicts. The lot of ya.
>So.. how does that imply that people are worse off now than in 1970? Your entire thesis seems to be that the jealousy people will feel from seeing others have things they don't will outweigh all of the material gains of the last half century.

As an American, I don't subscribe to that thesis. At all.

What I do see (as someone in his mid 50s) is that the biggest difference is that folks back then believed (and it actually happened for many) that they would be better off than their parents.

That's no longer the case. There are a variety of reasons for this, not least of which are the systematic[0] changes to our economy that pushes wealth and resources to the top, at the expense of those at the bottom.

This didn't happen by accident, and I'm not really surprised that folks here on HN aren't focused specifically on that issue -- primarily because most of us are beneficiaries of said systematic changes.

The worst part (IMHO) is that these changes will only benefit those at the top for a limited time. Given that 70% of the US economy is consumer spending, taking purchasing power away from the vast majority of consumers is a recipe for a bad economy.

Increasing wages and safety nets makes good economic sense, as it broadens the market for consumer goods, makes it easier for folks to act in entrepreneurial ways, and in the medium to long term expands the economic pie, creating a healthier, more resilient economy.

Pushing wealth/resources to the top just doesn't do that at all. How many yachts/houses/cars/dresses/suits/pizzas/kale smoothies/etc. can one person reasonable purchase/use?

Even if you spread the money around more broadly, the wealthy will continue to be wealthy, and the rest won't have to work two or three jobs just to feed their kids boxed macaroni and cheese five times a week.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/systematic
Personally I'm against the death penalty, so I don't think we should listen to people that call for any ones death, for any reason.

Reading between the lines, however, I do think people have a right to be upset due to indirect evidence.
I got comments from neighbors for going into the street with a cup of coffee in the Netherlands. My Dutch wasn't that great but I picked up they were busting my balls in a friendly way - guess it looked funny to some.
I also sometimes would get uncomfortable stares whenever I came down to throw something in the garbage room - the old guy looking was making sure I'm not gonna put garbage A in a B dumpster.
Now every society has some kind of norms police citizens, but I feel it's quite worse in places like Germany/NL/Switzerland etc.

Not really much substance to my argument, just sharing. Also I'm not criticizing these countries, their culture is just different than what I was brought up with. Where I live if you start correcting everyone around you you will be the one corrected eventually. That's why where I live looks much worse than Germany I guess.
Why risk getting entangled in weird foreign laws that might still have consequences here? The simplest solution is the best, just say no thanks in a simple redirect.
Summing up this response as

> you accuse people of this while you do that

Assuming this is right (and even if it's not), do not confuse the values and actions of a government with the values of its people. The CCP has gone out of its way to remove Tiananmen from history. Many bureaucrats in the US government wish they had the power to erase points in history as what the CCP wields.
Yep. "available on request" is perfectly allowed, there's no requirement that it be on a publicly available webpage.
This may have security implications, I highly doubt they would be authorized to make such a change without consulting anyone.
> That irrecoverable failure mode is one of the core design flaws of cryptocurrency

No reason it has to stay that way in all cases. There are many solutions such as layered approaches, semi-custodial services, community forgiveness.
So Goodyear has kind of proven they are viable.

The problem is that helium scarcity is an issue: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2020060...

If we suddenly built thousands of new helium blimps. We will be back to having lots of trouble. It's not really practical to goto scale.

Hydrogen blimps? Well that ended with the hindenburg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg#/media/File:...

The interesting thing. While hydrogen is dumb for cars. It is technically super brilliant for blimps. Not only is it for your lift, it's your fuel. Blimps are slow, instead of a few hour flight from nyc to la. it's like 2 days.

The thing is, we are going to see this resurgence. Materials science has greatly improved since 100 years ago. Hydrogen will almost certainly be safe to do. It'll be a huge cost though.

I wonder if this would be possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship

Maybe with modern tech we could make it happen. No risk suddenly of big fireballs. Could be a big deal and better yet maybe even solar panels all over the top of the blimp.
I'm equating standing on little circles and walking in proscribed ways with docility, yes. They are not safety measures, they're some bizarre form of religious ritual / cargo cult like behaviour.

Motorcycle riders don't wear little pin badges for good luck, tape toilet rolls to their knees, or simply look at and polish the bike, they wear real protective gear, practice evasive maneuvers, look for escape routes, etc.

It's not at all "safe" to run around like a headless chicken panicking for years on end; it's a mental disorder. Intelligent people owe it to themselves and others to protect them from maladaptive thinking and help them to develop mechanisms for operating normally in society.
Whaaat? Link please
Show HN: Web3-Single-sign-on: A private forum for the verifiably rich
That doesn't solve the problem that Twitter is, in fact, a popular link destination and a giant pain to load on slow devices.
There is also a large contingent of young english speaking CCP loyalists who go around liberal American social media and absolutely shred the US about everything (to much applause). It just looks like typical, albeit extreme, young liberal anti-establishment (and race centric) rhetoric. Dig through their profile though and you'll see they are oddly sympathetic to China.

These are people who are simultaneously calling for America to be dissolved on the grounds of repaying for slavery while also arguing that the youth of Hong Kong are confused and mislead.
This student is a grad student, so if anything, he is the exploited one here.
The authors can re-license right, even for one (paying) customer? They could also pay for the promise not to sue? IANAL.
It's concerning how many self-labelled software engineers on Twitter are chipping in with comments like "it's open source so it's fair game" or "they just need to add attribution".
Vaccines aren't 100% effective. They are still necessary.

What a weird argument you are building, suggesting the vaccine wasn't good for him because he got bad covid and didn't die.
This doesn't ban discussion of the sort we're having here.
US (and European) companies are typically a lot better about it, precisely because they fear lawsuits, they fear the consequences.

China and its large companies don't fear lawsuits the way US corporations do. That's how Jack Ma was able to steal Alipay from Yahoo shareholders and laugh all the way to the bank, there were no consequences to worry about. It's why Yahoo capitulated in dealing with Alibaba as a major shareholder, they knew the end result would have been their ownership stake could just be zero'd out at any time. That's why China can arbitrarily point at Didi and tell them to delist, regardless of what it does to foreign shareholders - there's nothing to worry about, there will be no meaningful consequences.

You can't get at them domestically if they don't want you to, because they're a nation that operates by the shielded, arbitrary dictate of the CCP rather than laws, and nearly everyone is afraid of their retaliation (including the richest corporations in the world like Apple).

Nobody much fears the US will retaliate the way China does. That's why the EU has been pounding US tech companies with mega fines, and wouldn't dare behave that way toward China. It's why the green virtue signalers are so very scared to publicly lambast China, and they'll harangue the US and EU all day. It's why the NBA will intentionally ignore any and all atrocities of China (they're intensely terrified to utter even the slightest of negative words toward China), yet they have almost zero fear of jabbing the US 24/7 - it's because for the most part nobody is afraid of the US.
I'd really like to hear people's thoughts on this.
I seems like a lot hinges on "The identities of the bullies is well known."

The President's letter says "If those students who issues the threats can be identified, they will be subject to appropriate disciplinary sanction." Have the threateners been reliably identified in, for example, press accounts? It seems very possible that in some communities on campus "everyone knows who it is" without the administration actually knowing, or being able to reliably prove, who it was.
1992: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1347
Do we really need legislation that digs so deep in the implementation details of computers?

I would think at most something along "systems should respect user preferences where available", but definitely not "systems should never override a user preference", since there are valid cases for the latter.
> more of a pseudo freedom than actual freedom

My experience of the US is similar to yours.

Note that the USA is rather special in how it encodes freedom. There is, after all, literally a big list of guaranteed freedoms. In practice, if something's not on there, then every government and quasi-governmental entity assumes you are not free to do it, or at least, they believe they can decide to stop you.

This is the inverse of almost every construction of freedom that went before it, and your experience arises from that difference. The notoriously vast & byzantine scale of the US Code is another emergent property, it being essentially a salami attack on its own fundamentals.
There was an IETF draft for this as well, but doesn't look to have really gone anywhere https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chimiak-enhanced...
Paying for a license would be nearly impossible, as the OBS team would need every contributor to sign a CLA to give the OBS team the rights to relicense/dual-license the OBS code base.
No need to be snarky, I didn't know what term to search for.

This is the first actual bill that comes up from those search results - https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/234...

Now the problem is I'm not a lawyer or expert in reading laws or understanding how they would be interpreted. The bill aims to prevent the following kind of theories being taught, ones that say:

(A) any race is inherently superior or inferior to any other race;

(B) the United States is a fundamentally racist country;

(C) the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States is a fundamentally racist document;

(D) an individual's moral worth is determined by the race of the individual;

(E) an individual, by virtue of the race of the individual, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; or

(F) an individual, because of the race of the individual, bears responsibility for the actions committed by members of the race of the individual.

This sounds pretty good to me. B and C could be controversial in that those things were true in the past, but they seem to refer to the present tense. So the letter of the law is okay and the rest of the points are banning racist theories which is good, so the spirit of the law seems reasonable too. I don't see how this would be interpreted as banning the teaching of past racism like slavery or segregation or that massacre. But as I said I'm not an expert so I would be interested to know whether that's a real concern.
It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.

What is needed? I mean, if she's a straight shooter and your salaries are competitive locally, does that mean you'll have to up up and move elsewhere? That costs time and money, and to be honest, wages are low nation-wide.

This does highlight the fact that wages are kept low almost by a concerted effort among employers. They aren't going to change out of the goodness of their hearts. Change has to come from the government (don't hold your breath), or from workers acting collectively.
As Vendan said, the point is to get explicit acknowledgement that you're aware of something and have either mitigated it or accepted it. Which sounds kind of dumb, like ISO9000 certification, where the joke is "it doesn't matter how bad our processes are as long as we write them down!"

I made that joke to a VP once, and he brightened up and said "Yes! Exactly! Because until you're actually following explicit processes, you don't even know what you're doing wrong, in order to fix it!"

So I'm a lot less cynical about auditing certifications like this now.
They do not. I'm trying to find a simile that will facilitate the perspective that the size of the number and the goal of making a living from it is more meaningful when you compare it against the amount of capital that people typically use to make a living from investments.

For concrete thinkers: people who live off investments usually need more than $600k, so the question is how to use that money to grow it into an amount similar to what said people live off.
The point in 1984 is that *everyone* can fall victim to mental manipulation, and an observer can discover the manipulation easily. Like American sees the hypocrisy of Chinese democracy, and, equally, Chinese seeing the hypocrisy of American one. They are virtually identical in the observation, and both sides can easily convince themselves of their own conviction.

God, I only wish this time the leaders from the both sides are responsible ones, people like Trump on both sides can easily make wars in a wink of eyes with both sides seeing each other this way.

The sideline point is that one is the worst judge of themselves...