skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! The fact HVM can apply a function 2^N times in N steps is still mind-blowing to me. I think solutions to important problems might come from exploiting this fact. Keep in mind you need to use some techniques for that to work. In special, there are 3 important rules. I've just written an overview here: https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM/blob/master/HOW.md#bonus-abu...
This is exactly my concern for today's content and it puts us in a place where future content is at risk. Removing select episodes of sitcoms because they aren't politically correct means current shows self censor before creation. Removing back episodes of podcasts can cause a chilling effect on newer content and new creators. There is additional concern when the government is encouraging private companies to silence content. We need to decide if we want to live in a monoculture of thought pushed down from the political leaders or if we want to live in a diverse culture of thoughts and ideas pushed up from the individuals.
I'm on your side, let's strip jre listeners' voting rights
In less than 2 days, AssangeDAO has raised $12.5M to free Julian Assange
The 180 days might be nice if you’ve already consumed your 90 Schengen days in Iceland or in another Schengen country. So I guess it’s one way to extend your European stay to 9 months, and then you might have another 90 Schengen days available. Could do 90d Portugal, 180d Iceland, then 90d Portugal?

> It’s basically like applying for a B1/B2 visa for the US if you’re from a VWP country. You can do it, but why in the gods name would you?

If your esta gets rejected.
Factorio Friday Facts #367 – Expansion news
The footbridge between the Charles River Bikeway and the Longfellow Bridge has make it a lot easier to get between Boston and Cambridge/Somerville.

https://goo.gl/maps/1hSgt2Q6PRSqbH6Q7
https://goo.gl/maps/AjdNAhQAjXeDcuTj8
I agree that Spotify has the legal right to stop distributing any content they find objectionable. Anyone arguing that Spotify’s action is a first amendment violation is simply wrong. A private entity, like Spotify, can decide what content to distribute at their own discretion. I don’t think many people are making this argument.

Instead, I think many of us are arguing that Spotify shouldn’t exercise that option just because of an outraged online mob. That includes those of us that aren’t particular fans of Rogan and wouldn’t be affected if we couldn’t consume his content anymore. Many of us are arguing that as a general principal; don’t give in to a short-lived and irrational angry mob.

I am arguing for Spotify and other content distributors to ignore angry mobs because I worry that eventually such a mob will come for something I do value. E.g., I listen to plenty of music that includes gratuitous levels of profanity. I imagine that such music greatly offends many people, chiefly culturally conservative prudes. Should such an online mob form and demand Spotify stop distributing some of my favorite music then I hope Spotify resists that mob.

Maybe one day I’ll even be a member of such a mob demanding that some platform stop distributing something that offends my sensibilities. While my emotions of hate and outrage may cloud my rational judgment, I hope the platform will have the courage to tell me and my compatriots to pound sand. If we don’t like the content, then we don’t have to consume it.

*Edited to fix a mistake as pointed out in a reply.
> I can complain to my hosting company and hope they evict the bad user from the network. But then why should my hosting company do so?

The answer to this is the other option, leaving the hosting company. In this manner, every hosting company gets a choice - either they will kick out legal-but-immoral things like spammers, or they will not and rightly lose their above-board customers.

This is essentially how the global e-mail community self-polices by establishing a norm that a host either has to work to exclude bad actors or will get boycotted/excluded for allowing them.
I take your point. These situations look very unjust. But for every example you've provided here there is a counter example of passengers who demonstrate that they simply are not fit to be civil members of an airplane flight. It's just not an easy situation. I get that the "customer is always first" but it makes me angry to see so many waiters and flight attendants treated like complete trash these days, by sometimes belligerent people who are simply not civilized. There is a reason why businesses have a right to refuse service. But we don't live in a utopia and mistakes do happen. We need to work to prevent and reduce those mistakes.
Beijing 2022’s first gold medal won by convicted doper Therese Johaug
Notes from “Where is my Flying Car?”
In this case your argument has great supporting points as this is driven by blackstone&blackrock capital funds using their assets, music and stock, to do culture war to force Spotify to suppress viewpoints these fund managers find inconvenient for their agenda. That’s not free market.

https://youtu.be/tLwVvtL4mTI

These funds subscribe to and push a China style system in the USA, as evidenced by their leading role in pushing ESG. There is little good about this abuse of what’s mostly either pension fund money or fed stimulus money.

Blackstone through its Hipnosis subsidiary has spend tons of capital to buy up 50% of Neil Young and much of other music, books and audio book rights

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/cathyolson...

Blackrock, that also destroy single family ownership by buying up homes and is run by the same people, also hold a lot of Spotify stock.
You're right, I don't care much for mainstream news either, especially pundits who are just noise making machines with zero added value.

But yes, as a user and subscriber, Spotify's business decisions matter to me. Because of their decision to host podcasts, which are low-content content and have nothing to do with music, I can't listen to artists who choose to dissociate themselves with that.

It's a loss for me, and the culprit is Spotify.
What does qcd mean here? It’s not quantum chromodynamics for sure and for quantum dots there is a c too many.
mm is mille mille, meaning a thousand thousand. 1,000 * 1,000 is 1 million. 1mm to mean 1 million is common outside of the United States.
The Triumph of the Will comes to mind. Political propaganda films can be effective ways to change the world for the worse.

Many documentaries end up effecting permanent changes that may only be noticeable to people who live in a certain place or work in a certain industry. The Cove and Blackfish had a pretty direct effect on how SeaWorld treats its animals, but that doesn't quite rise to the level of "changing the world" as most would see it.
Interesting. They made the episodes they didn't delete much more valuable now.
Were I to crack Photoshop and provide it to 10s to 100s of business in my local city, should Adobe stay quiet and not complain, because there are people doing the same and uploading it to pirate bay where it's available to millions?

I think the answer is clearly not. There is no reason why it should be invalid to criticise any act, just because it is not the worst act.
What kind of similar weather risks do the Nordic countries or Germany experience that would be an equivalent to the tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires the US experiences on a very regular basis? I truly don't know what kind of similar risks they face and would like to rectify my ignorance.
The majority of software advice online is lacking the information about the contexts where it works.
Yeah, tech companies still need product managers, project managers, designers, marketeers, sales people, recruiters, accountants, people ops, lawyers, and a bunch of other non-technical people. Of course, then there's a lot of non-tech companies that also need workers.

I didn't start learning how to code until I was 27. Ideally, our education system would prepare children to have multiple careers as adults. Focusing on specific skills early on may make it hard for them to transition to something later on in life when those skills become obsolete. That's the idea behind a liberal arts education--focus on critical thinking, communication, and learning a broad set of topics and they will be prepared for anything.

People get upset when they look at someone two years out of a liberal arts school who hasn't found a career due to lack of hard skills and has $30K in student loans. That college grad is going to be in the workforce for 45 years though...
Ask HN: If Apple integrated Time Machine with iCloud, would you use it?
It blows my mind that Apple, increasingly a cloud services company, has let best-in-class-by-a-mile-when-it-isn't-broken Time Machine basically languish and deteriorate and never integrated it with iCloud storage. It feels like they could dominate a many-billion dollar cloud backup industry over night if they wanted to? I would happily pay another X dollars a month to them for proper cloud backups of someone else if it meant getting the unlimited retention and interface functionality of Time Machine. Am I crazy? Would you? Would your families?
> But what if instead of looking at the number of users, we looked at the efficacy of users on a social network? We can then see how the productive power of a social network can indeed increase combinatorially, and to our great benefit.

I don't think this is "combinatorial growth" either? The number of possible networks is the same as the number of possible subgraphs, so should scale as 2^2n.
Wordle and Grep
Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?
Which software do you use frequently and are unable to replace (either at home or your company) despite thoroughly disliking it?

What makes it so bad? Are there alternatives? Why can't you replace it?
> But to someone at a true startup, the two kind of look the same. Both will succeed without you.

This core criticism is exactly the point. Not everyone wants responsibility for the company's success on their shoulders. It's kinda nice to work a 9-to-5 and not have that stress in your life, while still having a cushy income.
This post meanders between complaining about RBLs and vaguely whining about the big email hosts, but I don't see the connection. There is zero useful information contained in the RBLs and the big hosts don't use them.
Quaternions are "non-intuitive" for people without a math background. If you're a professional software engineer, you should have a CS degree which includes a math background. I found 4x4 matrixes trivial in a computer graphics course because they were taught with proper examples in terms as they applied to camera and transformations. We re-implemented a subset of the OpenGL pipeline. If you don't understand the math, you can't hope to possibly understand how a 3D rendering pipeline works.

Cartesian <--> polar coordinate transformations applied to the real world must be done carefully because of the magnified error potential at boundary conditions. Again, heavy mathematics as a foundation are necessary to avoid major harm. Honestly, I don't think anyone except Professional Engineers should be allowed to work on critical flight control software. Boeing has been farming out software development to overseas contractors because they're cheaper ($9/hr), not because they're better.
I would say when ever it is reasonable to thing it up.
One example issue is that cygwin tries much harder to enforce a «linux / chmod» view of file permissions, which it tries to map onto the underlying windows/ ntfs permissions. This can cause issues like creating files that won’t (easily) be deleted and other yak-shaving-inducing problems.
The Invention of Battlezone
First, it is already beginning of February, so those predictions were false - nothing happened so far. Second, it would be more appropriate to quote more recent statement by the president of Ukraine, who denied that the attack is imminent and said that these statements only create unnecessary panic.
Whatever links you refused to post, they cannot possibly deny that this official position did exist just a week ago.
Are any emulators set up to properly simulate these persistence effects? Seems to me that it would properly involve passing in the last N frames to a shader to allow for time integration. I don’t think that’s how RetroArch works but I could be wrong.
Is it legal to be forced to pay a fee that was never on the screen?
Disgusting. What you should do is call your bank and reverse the charges for fraud. Unless you bank at Mercury in which case customer service will just laugh at you because they’re a shit bank (that I’m ditching today)
> What happened to doctor-patient confidentiality?

It was cast by the wayside long ago. First it was the "mental health" exemptions, then various law enforcement provisions, then third-party "office solutions", then transcriptionist services, then private medical databases...

You might as well assume that anything you tell your doctor is going to be recorded and (eventually) used against you.

And then, as was alluded to earlier, there's the problem of incorrect information in those databases... and your only recourse is to give them more-accurate information to sell.

All the dice are loaded against the patient. And as anyone online for long knows, data is forever.
The most important (not to mention blindingly obvious) rules of running a subscription based business are "make sure the customer knows exactly what they're signing up for and on what terms" and "make it memorably pleasant and easy to cancel", so it's pretty funny to see big names like Adobe and the NYT be too scared and insecure to live by these rules
> Pardon my sarcasm, but Freedom of Speech is fundamentally tied to the right to be (reasonably) heard

At least in small-l Enlightment liberalism, there is no such "right to be heard" except in the context that people have a right to petition and speak out against the government. You can't compel an audience -- this is why there is a corrolary freedom of association.

I agree with you that what tends to foster healthy social relations and civil society is where there are social norms that encourage debate and opportunities for people from different backgrounds and experiences to interact.

There's a lot of scholarship on that topic and where those spaces exist there are freedoms associated with them, but I think it would be extreme to say that people have a right to an audience.

>The reality of the situations is that these private platforms are the public squares of today, and like it or not, they represent the vast majority of communications.

Internet platforms are a cheap imitation of the town square and I don't see why we should effectively compel speech in order to maintain something like this. Even talk radio is closer to the public square in that much of the programming is live and they take (curated) calls from the listening audience.

The Internet has failed as a viable alternative for the public sphere for a number of predictable reasons. If your argument is that we should have a public square where ideas are openly contested, it's far easier to do that when the decisions are made locally in a manner that's closer to the public.

>Are there significant barriers to a left wing talk radio show? From what I understand, the issue isn't in institutional barriers, but instead a lack of a market.

Talk radio used to be closer to a public square but due to consolidation of local stations under basically a couple of owners starting in the 1980's, right wing shock jocks dominate the schedule. So, to the extent that there isn't a "market," it's for the reason you complain about regarding tech platforms and the result has been the absolute opposite of your complaint -- right wing speech is constantly present there. And frankly, take a look at tech platforms and you'll see that there are huge volumes of right wing content.

>However, we've very much seen the inverse for right-wing platform, with anything from payment processors to cloudflare and other core infrastructural components locking them out.

Those platforms are the opposite of a public square where ideology is contested rather than explicitly defined.

To directly address your point -- a lot of those were shut down for reasons beyond their politics. You can find any number of expressly right wing forums and websites on the Internet. As I've pointed out, talk radio has far more reach and impact than some of these tech platforms for better or worse.
> I would never support censorship. And because I am a writer, I know that language matters. There’s a difference between censorship and curation.

Is there a name for this "appeal to dictionary" fallacy? I've seen it a lot recently where people think that offering a contrasting definition somehow means they are doing something different. Maybe it's just a variation of straw man?
Classic blockchain startup in the 2020s: put a cool name on your version of sharding, act as if it were already live and being used by governments / corporations, and hope enough people put rockets in the discord to keep the VC money coming in.
>...Likewise if the free market is used as a way to reduce the availability of content,

That's literally the whole premise of things like copyright and patents. You can't just run out and start distributing NFL streams, copies of movies, or Disney labeled memorabilia without the expressed permission of the people who own that content.
What am I missing here? It’s a 7-day free trial, but if you go 14 days into the trial, you have to pay 50% of the remaining contract.

I mean, that sucks that you can’t cancel without having to pay the remaining money, but the “7 day free trial” part still seems honest enough, right? As in, if I cancel before the 7-day period I don’t get charged anything?

I was expecting “tricks users into a 12 month contract” would imply the “free trial” part was a lie, but it isn’t. It’s what happens after the trial that is sketchy.
> Compare that with the Netherlands, where 27% of the country commutes by bike.

I hate this statistic, because while it's true, it doesn't tell the whole story.

There's an interesting (and recent) study which presents transport modalities in various European cities:

https://www2.deloitte.com/xe/en/insights/focus/future-of-mob...

If you look at the two Dutch cities there, you'll see that 40%+ people still drive!

That's low by American standards, but more than e.g. in London or Paris.

On the other hand public transport is less utilized and walking is unpopular.

Now if you look at e.g. Zürich, few people cycle there - they mostly walk:

https://www.eltis.org/discover/news/zurich-plans-make-walkin...

Turns out that cycling just replaces walking and public transport.
That’s also due to the H1B visas. Many large companies bring people over to do lab jobs and pay them low wages. I have a Chem degree and work in IT for this reason. I knew some people who went into sales for companies that sell analytical equipment and do well with that, but sales isn’t for everyone.
Yes?

In a system based on permissions (which is basically what a capability system is) somehow applications need to gain those permissions - so it makes sense that an email client will need to request them. Otherwise how is it going to work if it cannot access the internet, the address book or any other functionality it might need?

BTW the ILOVEYOU virus example is what the linked page brought up, not me. They call it "Love Bug" but that is just another name for the same virus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU
As far as I'm aware stone doesn't erode in space, so we could always just laser in bumps on a stone and read it like a CD. The primary concern then becomes avoiding getting hit by micro debris.
Not sure why you are bringing in android into this, but things are fairly okay in android-land thank you very much.

Have been scammed twice, both times on App Store.

(Funny enough, best support experience was on Microsoft store when I wanted to return something, but maybe that time was an outlier)
Show HN: SpacecraftOS – Open-source project to sample-return from Martian soil
Git bash will translate /c/ to C:\ so that’s only sometimes true. But it won’t translate //c/ or if you set a certain env var… etc. Having to recall all these rules is one reason I dislike working in git bash on windows.
> My opinion of him attracting more conservative (not just US by the way) audience is based on his antivax stance, which is very popular among them, and he seems to shoehorn this topic quite frequently in his recent episodes.

I listen to another newscast frequently and I completely disagree with the host on vaccines (he is anti-vax, I am pro). You are assuming that people won't just skip that part of the podcast. People are willing to listen to people they deeply disagree with if they believe that person isn't being disingenuous.

Just because someone has some view point held by another group holds it doesn't mean that his existing audience is going to abandon them.

> I'm not taking this argument from older media, I don't read it. I have visited /r/JoeRogan a lot over the years, and the discussions there changed quite a bit. The difference between new and old listeners and the discussions/opinions they have is quite palpable, although not scientifically admissible sadly.

This is a complaint of many people that as the fanbase grows that the fanbase is of lower quality. It is a common complaint and you are not the first to complain about it.

That doesn't mean that his audience has become more conservative. It just means you have noticed that there are more conservatives present. Which ironically might indicate that his fanbase is more diverse, not less.
Sure. But they could have asked for the additional clarifications or context to be added to make this clear, instead of requesting a bunch of stuff be removed because they’re concerned it’ll paint them in a bad light.
I used to get a funny look when instead of a choice of music I opted for silence in the headphones during an MRI. Then I think I started to say it dismissively enough with conviction and got nonreactions.
Indeed. In my life I haven’t used Photoshop more than like two hours or so. In my youth I used Corel Photopaint and PSP. Then Gimp, and now Acorn.
Or you can just block the recurring payments and wait for them to come at you?

Anyway a "free" trial that asks for your cc number is obviously not free. Better to stay away of those to be on the safe side.
If you’re a public figure, yes.
At work we are limited by whatever is in the enterprise catalog offering (very old school traditional public sector environment). So I end up hating a lot of software simply because we are forced to use it beyond its design parameters / intended usage. I.e. We took a quality management / testing scenario tool and repurposed it into a general knowledge management AND ticketing tool. So I can hardly blame it but dislike is there nonetheless.

At home, Light room and photoshop. I swear they are getting slower and more bloated all the time and they keep changing UI for no reason. The subscription model is what rises my hate though.

There are alternatives of course but

I have 15 years of catalogues

I have limited faith anything else will read is own catalogues 15 years from now. How do you pick stable software now (and one does need updates as cameras change etc)
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