skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Private companies can remove content on their platforms for any reason.

2) Not all ideas deserve an equal platform for "exchange". Some are egregious enough to just get rid of. Pretending all ideas are equally worthy of discussion is a dangerous false balance that gives credence to incredulous claims.

3) This author seems to think speech has no effect on actions. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me" -- unless, of course, those words encourage my boyfriend to beat me, or the guy at the bar to rape me. Yes, the actors are to blame for that, but the people promoting ideas that encourage those actions are not blameless.

The January 6th insurrection was spurred on by words. The anti-vax movement was emboldened by words. Hell, at the risk of this sounding like an exaggeration (it's not), Nazis were created and controlled by words.

Words exist to communicate ideas. Ideas inform beliefs. And beliefs determine actions.

Words are not harmless, and harmful words should have consequences. Being erased from the record of private platforms is the least consequence that could happen for it.

Lastly, the author suggests the TikTok purge is using facial recognition. I doubt it. More likely, it's just doing video-matching against the original videos Tate uploaded that have been taken down.
https://archive.ph/r6Vno
great narration; quite a terrifying situation, TBH
People want opportunity. Opportunity comes with density.

They don't want density for the sake of density.

NYC has better opportunities - that's why it's denser. It's not denser because it's more desirable, and then it just so happens that it also has opportunity.

This is true for Shenzhen and Beijing and Mexico City and Paris and London and Mumbai and every major city.
Half is basically impossible. That’s not what people mean at all when they say split finances. It means that people retain their own personal money in some form instead of it fully being community property. I would consider having a joint account that’s only used for regular expenses to also be split finances if people have their own savings and investments.

The ratio of the split floats around for us, usually depending on income and desire to pay. The important part is that my money is mine and in my name. If I want to spend it on caviar or video games, good for me. If he wants to spend his on a new car, cool. If he wants money for that car he knows he can ask and probably get it, but then I get an opinion too.
false, banning only pushes those banned closer together.

this became clear as the right became more and more extreme as people had their views censored.

this stupidity only mixes the normals with the crazies forcibly.

people who like tate could soon end up moving to the same kinds of alternative sites that crazies jones now reside on.

this is a dangerous road that ends with the people who feel beaten down eventually popularizing crazy ideas.

its the irony of censorship that too much of it typically causes many of the problems it wanted to avoid.

I don't want to see the outcome of the many impressionable teens who followed tate get exposed to harmful radical ideologies because they followed him to a less savory and crazier site!
So what's your workflow for using it? You mentioned it's saved "content interesting to me". Are you doing directed crawls or...?
Will there be any way to easily download or back up existing apps and their data stores? Something like Google Take Out. Otherwise I'm going to have a lot of apps to go through and see if there's anything important in before this date...
While this certainly sounds like reasonable criteria for rating a take home, does this truly account for general candidate reluctance to do take homes due to the time commitment? Even 2-4 hours is more time than conventional Leetcode-style initial assessments, and many may rather use that time to interview with 2-4 companies instead of just one.

I recently interviewed with Ramp and enjoyed their model of practical problems, like a take home, but condensed into just one hour with less of the end-to-end expectations of a true take home.
Are you truly dependent on a search engine for any new discovery on the internet?
Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js
Hey HN,

We’re Philip, Amby, and Declan, and we made “multiplayer virtual computers” that you can embed anywhere, including 3D spaces. We decided to build this because we noticed that embedding third-party apps and websites can be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult.

On the backend, we’re spinning up a VM and running a resource-optimized fork of Chromium which we then stream to participants via WebRTC. Since we’re hosting the servers running the applications, multiple users can connect and control the virtual computer seamlessly, and their client just needs to handle a video stream.

If you want to add multiplayer virtual computers to your own app, you can sign up on https://hyperbeam.com/?ch=hn&cm=hn1, grab a free API key, and throw the provided embed URL in an iframe in your app.

You can also play around more with the Three.js demo in our interactive sandbox: https://app.sideguide.dev/hyperbeam/threejs/

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to comment or shoot me an email at declan@hyperbeam.com.

Thanks!

Docs: https://docs.hyperbeam.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/D78RsGfQjq
https://archive.ph/kddrv
Sadly, this doesn't work like it used to. On SunOS, running this with no args would result in all processes being killed, halting the system, possibly rebooting it (which would definitely stop vi). These days it just asks for more arguments.
Housing vacancy rates are lower than they have been in a long time. That’s not it.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/housing-vacan...
A walkable city means groceries stores at a walkable distance, which means while walking home from wherever you were, you just buy a couple of things missing for tonight's diner. You're at home, no more sugar for a cake? just a 5 min round trip.
We have very clear evidence money solves a lot of problems. Why doesn't it work here? It works everywhere else in our capitalist economy.

In any case the difference is quite clear. If a school in a rich suburb doesn't get much federal money than, say, a inner city school, that gets a lot. That rich suburb already has money. They obviously wouldn't get further funding - but are likely much richer?
Ask HN: Why GitHub doesn't count forks in the contribution matrix?
When you fork a repository, GitHub won't add any contributions you make to the fork in your contribution matrix. These will be counted only after you create a PR to the original repo and it gets merged!!!

Can anybody explain why GitHub works like this and if there's a way to disable it for my forks?

I understand that instead of forking through github I could "fork" manually by cloning and changing the origin to my repo, but why not make it easy?
also car-oriented planning is a primary driver of high cost of living in the first place, due to its abysmal space-efficiency.
> Open source programs: If you are a maintainer on an open-source project, and would like to request Heroku support for your project, contact the Salesforce Open Source Program office at ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com.

Both the text version of this email (ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com) and the mailto it actually links (ospo@salesforce.com) appear to be invalid.

I tried both and got:

> We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact ($GROUP) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group.
I just got a JavaScript game working on a heroku instance recently, and it looks like I'll be hunting down another hosting option. Sucks, but it happens sometimes.
I mean there are people like that. As someone teaching at an art university this is something I observe frequently.

The caveat being: there are also people who are the polar opposite, so the global scope of that statement is indeed a bit to broad.

Also consider this: we are social animals, but this does not automatically imply that everything we are doing we like to do in a social setting. E.g. most humans will prefer not to defecate in public. Many people instinctively pull back from society in times of shock, grief or pain etc.
It's not, it's an ad hominem. Why, though, I wish I knew.
Love the ideas you mentioned! I agree that AI can help artists with scaling up.
Yeah sadly it's pretty common (not only in the US) to talk about "politics" and people instantly think you mean "party politics".
Hi HN! Happy to answer any questions you have about the demo and the tech.
More importantly, nobody invests with the Piccolo group, they invest with a pension plan that invests with a mutual fund that invests with a hedge fund that has a portion invested with Piccolo.
This is just as exciting as when it came up in 2020.

One of the nice features of this system is that, overnight, the wick self-cleans, diffusing accumulated salt back to the sea water.

Another way to recycle the heat of condensation, in a bigger system not relying on capillary action, would be to circulate incoming brine in the condenser on its way to the evaporator, pre-warming it while cooling the vapor; and run outgoing brine through a heat exchanger to further warm incoming brine.

A key observation in design of low-cost desalination is that there is no need to minimize the amount of brine circulating in the system. So long as heat collected in the brine is not wasted, you are better off circulating more brine. The less you concentrate the brine, the easier it is to get water out.
If you are doing Django or Python https://appliku.com

Free tier for deployments + AWS Free tier = year or free and convenient hosting
Thank you for this! Great work!
Not true. Transmission lines can be made quite efficient especially the really high voltage ones like 345kV look it up. Other alternatives are High Voltage DC which is more expensive but much less lossy. There are solutions, nothing is cheap but these things last for decades and when amortized against losing our planet to global warming have great potential. Sorry but you are wrong.
I feel like I'm in a similar boat. You could characterize me as a car enthusiast; I love driving them, looking at them, talking about them, and a weekend drive across the state to sightsee and go camping is just about as good as it gets.

However, I also don't really want to use my car every single day to commute, or do basic chores. I see my car as an exploration/recreation/hobby, and I love it! But do wish that it wasn't necessary for the more boring parts of life, too.
By the time they figure out the "responsible externalization" portion, competitors (including open source) will surpass their results.

The technology isn't special to Google. They don't control its proliferation.
Does this apply to the Pfizer studies that were going to take 55 years to release?

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fda-requests-55-years-to...
> It renders FX using Canvas or GL

So the text selection is done by javafx too? But the comment above implied that the text selection was done by the browser
How is it full autopilot if it disengages on its own? It will point your car at a child but then turn off autopilot so you become liable for running over a child? it's so absurd, I'm not sure why anyone would support this approach.
Google in 1999 was an upstart search provider promising a clean, minimal, user-focused ad-supported search experience as an alternative to entrenched search engines like Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo.

DuckDuckGo in 2022 is an upstart search provider promising a clean, minimal, user-focused ad-supported search experience as an alternative to entrenched search engines like Google.

I'm old enough to remember when Google was the new and exciting thing (just give it a try and ignore the stupid-sounding name!). For the longest time there wasn't even such a thing as a Google account, it just saved preferences like safe-search locally using cookies, and ads were just a small distinctly colored text bar above the organic search results, directly related to your search keywords.
It looks like there's a, possibly short lived, market for bitter tasting rudder paint.
The “history of the file” is inferred here from the delta of the trees. There is no additional metadata needed to know a conflict occurred. Whereas other version control systems would actually store some metadata that you renamed a file and wouldn’t have a conflict here.
What he’s exploring here is integration in preparation for creativity.

Humans kept in solitude can’t speak, can’t walk on two feet, and don’t make abstract symbols.

But temporarily it can allow you to escape the constant folding-back of social learning and move outside the bubble.

Also, and importantly, this is an all-male interaction.
also he forgot that these stereotypes come in to play at different times.

I have no issue hearing an indian accent when I call in for tech support, but if I here one randomly call and say they are tech support I will hang up.

Its not just constantly used.
I got the same sentiment. Heroku for us was number one because of the free tier.
They could consider keeping an option to have 1-2 free instances for already paying customers. It also feels to me that their business will slowly fade since now.
> ...but it sounds like half the problem is labor shortage.

of their own doing.

"Within two weeks, management laid out plans to significantly cut back nurse staffing."
You can increase your rates and wait until people have lost all their money. then it's more profitable to have people dying.
Yeah it was a bit disappointing to see it. For me I was looking for two important features that is essential for a European SaaS company or in the Enterprise segment:

1) No plans to do regional Postgres backups. Today PG backups are transferred out of the database region and to us-east-1. This is problematic for anyone who takes GDPR seriously and unacceptable for any customer with strict compliance requirements.

2) No possibility of wildcard + ACM TLS. We have to implement our own cert automation using Let's Encrypt instead of relying the fully functional Heroku ACM because we also need to use a wildcard cert. This is something that most SaaS vendors would require.

Heroku are aware of both these issues. For #1 it seems like they don't care. For #2 it seems like it is a result of legacy infrastructure.
Heroku's pg is ridiculously good. I recently wrote a document that demonstrates what Fly's pg is capable of at https://fly.io/docs/rails/the-basics/backup-and-restoring-da.... It obviously not nearly as extensive as Heroku's pg offering, but for some people its enough—for others not so much.
im not the best, but i think if i was better at math id be closer to that no. 1 spot. i think you should learn about how to succeed at university/how to get the most out of your classes. stay away from digital addictions chess, instagram, hn, reddit, dota and from things that will move you away from your goal.
How the CIA made Google (2015)
For just the hosting, maybe. But there's so much more Heroku does, from spinning up test environments for PRs to storing secret keys (across different repos) to being a CI to monitoring to... so so much more.
> A lot of profound knowledge has been lost. People forget that technology and what we enjoy does not magically come out of nowhere. It requires sustained effort and on the ground knowledge that has to be maintained or it will be lost.

This is something that I wish people would understand when it comes to the right-to-repair movement. For example, if nothing changes, in a couple of generations the only knowledge that will exist for repairing farm machinery will be dictated by manufacturers and will only include processes that are profitable for those manufacturers. The worst outcome would be one with parts serialization and keys that are controlled by a foreign country.

A really good example that shows the importance of independent knowledge is board level laptop repair. Until I watched Rossman's YouTube channel I though a bad motherboard was unrepairable. Then, after a bit of watching, I started to realize there are a lot of repairs that are practical, but the knowledge has almost been wiped out by large manufacturers that benefit from whole part or whole machine replacement rather than repair.
I had seen similar things, but slightly different: a user forked our repo (with open PRs), then merged one of the existing PRs from their fork into their fork. GitHub "helpfully" sent mail to the original PR author about it, with the link pointing to the fork (so it shows up (correctly) as _merged_ — in the fork).
> knowing what they are getting themselves into

I've noticed a real hesitancy to ascribe such complex reasoning to cetaceans. But these are thoughtful animals that in one instance led the creation of a complex and astonishingly cooperative co-hunting relationship with human whalers. They clearly understand humans are able to kill baleen whales even orcas can't handle (adult humpbacks, for example). It seems obvious that they also understand the potential consequences of competing with / preying upon a highly social alpha predator.
Yes, the O'Reilly book "Understanding MySQL Internals" [0]

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/understanding-mysql-int...
Yes, house cats are social animals, but solitary hunters. People often get the later confused with the former.
Nature is very, very prestigious
Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596182 - Aug 2022 (67 comments)
Why would they be? They did not write the software, they don't have access to the software.
The keyboard and upper case enclosure doesn’t constitute “vast portions of the final product” to me. That still leaves the display, logic board, audio board, io board, fans, track pad, lower enclosure and all the misc parts like antennas, hinges etc.

Should it be possible to replace just the battery and not need to replace the entire top case with it? Sure. And for some of their laptops you can (like the MBA) and for the others they say they will be providing separate versions in the future. But we should be clear here that you’re not replacing “vast portions” of the laptop even if you did it now. You have to remove those items to replace the component, but remove and reinstall is not replace.
OK, I see.

I tried again to parse it. It's awkward wording, but the "this" has to refer to "helping other people", as the previous sentence is "We should help other people." So then it means "We should strongly consider how much effort we devote to helping other people". Paraphrased, I interpret that to mean, "We should ask ourselves whether we do enough to help other people".

Only in the next sentence do we get to "Some methods of helping people are more effective than others." Only after that in the chain of logic could come the idea "we should put a lot of thought into figuring out which methods are more/most effective". I'd say that the latter idea is presented as being in the next level of the tower, stated as "Utilitarian calculus (eg QALYs)".
I wouldn't say easiest.

Its definitely no where near as hard as a layman can think, but I remember my pc causing me some stress when building it due to fixing random issues or trying to fit things in properly.

Its not very hard but its not easy either.
If I judge by the examples posted on OpenArt, Dall-e is currently perfectly happy to produce art "by [artist name]". What would they gain by starting to pay commissions? I doubt that will happen unless some legal action forces them to do it.

Even in that case, how would you decide which artists get the commission and which do not? They can't possibly track down authors of millions of artworks across the globe they scrapped when training the model. It seems to me that paying commissions to anyone would just mean that they acknowledge the questionable copyright status of the artworks produced by Dall-e.
I really don’t see the issue here. It’s completely understandable that DDG would not want to offer an easy API for this. This is likely seen as a “DDG app” feature exactly like Safari’s Hide My Email and like every browser’s password manager.

They could offer an external UI, but this is a beta and DDG is not an ISP. If you want email forwarding, you already have plenty of choices — and catch-all addresses and plus signs.
No, you're building an off-campus college dorm for ASU. Calling that development a city is a joke. You have fewer amenities within walking distance than the apartments closer to the campus, which have parking.
IME, Fly does not have as good a developer experience than Heroku does. I've tried several of their guides but run into hiccups each time. The web admin UI isn't very useful - almost looks like a simple wrapper around Nomad.
Hell, the RX480 is still holding up absolutely fine in 2022 (I guess it helped that the GPU manufacturers keep distracting themselves with "This time we'll find a use-case for path tracing!"?). These subscription prices are crazy.
> "See what we've done here? We've turned Nineteen Eighty-Four's Room 101 into The Benny Hill Show!"

That's not what Room 101 was about, unless you happen to be someone whose deepest, darkest, debilitating fear is surveillance itself. I'd say it's more like turning 1984's telescreens into Fahrenheit's 451's parlor walls.
GPU mining was a thing long before the recent high ETH valuations
And how do you tell the difference between a black and a white Cuban?
Decentralized Notepad – Your Notes
Hi, i'm developing the first decentralized notebook for web3.

There is no connection point to any private server.

It works like this:

1 - You download the app (Mac, Windows, Android or Iphone)

2 - Generate a unique encryption key

3 - Create your notes normally as in any app and at the time of saving the data is encrypted with your unique key before being saved in IPFS.

Now your notes are really yours!

Anyone interested in being part of the first group of testers, please register your email at the link below. See you soon.

https://forms.gle/V1LyzByGhRXwhyEf8
After scanning the first page, I quickly noticed "Want something unique to your team? Tell us what you need."

I'm not a marketing guy (by any stretch) so maybe my opinion isn't worth much, but I think this is outstanding - provide something already useful, and then invite people to purchase your customized even more useful stuff.

It's always nice to see something well done — kudos!

(You seem to be focused on software development, but if you have anything along the lines of practical math used in a lab/shop/factory environment around machining, mixing, monitoring, testing, etc., It'd be great to hear about it)