skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do "you" (as in PrivacyGuides) keep ProtonMail on the recommended list of email services after it was revealed the company disclosed IP information on a consumer to French authorities?

I would think this would be an important consideration in your assessment of the company.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659861/protonmail-swiss-...

At the very least mentioning this information would be beneficial to your readers.
> Fourth - why stop at one specific class of crimes? Let's throw out everybody with a record. Tax issues? Stealing candy at a gas store when you were 12? Bad divorce?

This is really disingenuous. When you're interacting with a stranger, and you find out they had a bad divorce, do you suddenly feel concern that they might divorce you?

Let's go in the other direction. Do you believe child sex offenders are suffering injustice when they are not allowed to interact with children? How about drunk drivers that are permanently banned from driving (hypothetical though that may be)?
I found a GitHub repo but no code in it.

https://github.com/pacexy/lota/
The thing is most companies don't want the extra work in finding who they don't want to be associated with. They would much rather the platform didn't allow the possibility of their ads being shown next to content of a specific type.

YouTube isn't banning the content, they're just saying they can't show ads next to it which honestly, seems like common sense.
> What is special about Figma? Collaboration. Community. Nothing more.

I disagree, I first heard about figma while browsing cutting edge WASM/WebGL work, not through any product channels. I found Figma through discovering their CTO's impressive work. Some of this work dates back nearly a decade.
https://github.com/evanw?tab=repositories
https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
Nuclear does indeed not require sacrifice, but it does require things like manufacture, transport and use of dangerous materials. (And not just radioactive, it's also a matter of poison, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32613470 has numbers.) Handling dangerous materials is expensive and IMO likely to grow more so, as our societies seem to grow more risk-averse. We didn't have policies to avoid all traffic deaths a few decares ago, for example. And with many voters being opposed to nuclear, I think states will be less likely provide free insurance cover in 10-20 years than was the case 10-20 years ago. This too increases the costs to nuclear power operators.

An increasing cost curve that faces a decreasing cost curve for solar and wind isn't something about which you can say "is the best". You need some solid arguments. (FWIW, I think nuclear has no hope.)
Perhaps in the technical definition of political, but not in the layman's definition of political.

The definition of political used by the populace is almost always the narrow subset of societal/cultural fights that are actively being argued. Generally speaking these arguments are headed by politicians.

There is also a space in the definition for arguments directly impact the structure/scope of the government. Although this may be separate enough that it may warrant being considered a second definition instead of an additional category within the first definition.
>On most air conditioning compressors today, a scroll plate compressor is used, which doesn't have the unloading problem of the piston type of compressor.

Just replied to the same comment wondering if this has changed. I used to help my dad install residential and commercial HVAC systems and all of the compressors back then were piston type. I would tick him off by getting impatient when we were testing by calling for cool too soon after shutting it down and tripping the thermal beaker. (Come on dad it's hot up here!!! lol)

I imagine the scroll type are probably quieter as well and probably work nicely with inverter-based drives.
Gets murky when we're talking about prostitutes that funnel their money to/get it stolen by pimps. Also gets murky when we're talking about drug addicts who are going to use that money to buy drugs. Also gets murky when we're talking about people that are under the influence of drugs. They probably don't want a video out there of them blasted to the moon if they ever get clean.
So there's an article in Dutch reiterating all the expected slightly “simplified” talking points for the laymen, an article in Finnish doing the same, and I have even seen a decently sized article in Russian that also copied all the descriptions of that supposed battle between good and evil verbatim. Who coordinates all of that? Please don't tell me that some Twitter drama queen has such abilities, even small local media outlets know there's always a steady supply of internet users demanding something, and it's best to ignore them.

Last time such internet lynch mobs with a touching story and progressive slogans appeared with such support from the media, the whole thing happened to be staged by porn studios to remove all the competing content from porn streaming sites, which they now have all to themselves because only they happen to have papers to prove the legality (or “legality”) of materials.
If your stove has a catalytic converter then the oxygen-starved combustion is also very efficient at producing heat. It's common to put some pieces of wood in at night, turn it all the way down, and still have enough in the morning to keep the fire going.
>What I found is that there's much better content overall one tier down

Which school's content are you talking about?
Queen Elizabeth II is dead, but will live on as cryptocurrency
Are you saying that the vector data structure is stupid?!

And, moreover, that it's an opinion shared by the python and c++ communities? I'd love to see evidence of that. I'd also love to read arguments about why Vec/vector is stupid, it's certainly the first time I read that.
I don't think that two ways to do something is too many. It's nice to be able to just throw a plot on the screen with plt.plot(), but it's also nice to have the extra control the figure/axes OO interface gives you. Matlab works the same way.
He's also saying on the video linked by OP, that he donates 100% of all revenue back into these troubled communities.

I get a feeling a lot of the people criticizing him haven't watched the channel. I've seen about 50 videos, and honestly cried with a lot of them. They've made me reevaluate my own life and reconsider how hard life is for others. It has also nudged me to donate time and money to particular communities that struck a chord with me.

I think it's great content.
Wow this is a stunning look in a different way, I can only imagine all the strange beauty in old arch top guitars.

Also totally agree on the expertise in the lighting. Makes them vibrant and feel lively like caught in a break in the action. Would love to see if he could do time lapse too that’d be neat too. What an artist.
SMIC Mass Produces 14nm Nodes, Advances To 5nm, 7nm
>If all you're doing is making a core with a little ROM, a USB interface and a flash interface

An interesting observation is that RV32 has excellent code density. Meaning, in this sort of scenario, the ROM could be much smaller, or fit way more code at the same size.
So what? Smart pointers are not a superior alternative to raw pointers. They are a memory management device that you may or may not want to use.

For example a pattern that I think is common in low level game programming is to allocate a big chunk of memory containing a many objects and deallocating them all at once when you are done with them, let's say a level with its maps, textures, entities, etc... It doesn't really make sense to pass individual objects (ex: a single texture) using smart pointers because you can't delete them individually, in fact, unless you have overloaded the delete operator, it will crash if you do.

In fact, if you never use raw pointers, I think that you are better off using another language than C++ if you can. Manual memory management is a big part of what gives C and C++ its performance (at a cost). If you don't do that, there are languages with well optimized garbage collectors that will outperform you.
I mostly agree, but I also think this wouldn’t be obvious or even hinted at without YouTube running this experiment. Also, most of these creators would never have started without the YouTube model.

So I feel like, using the YouTube model, should be used more as bootstrapping step while you find a more sustainable revenue model. Or you’ll forever be subjected to the whims of the algorithm.
Yes, even for their intro course 15-122 the course notes are excellent.
Good memory. I wonder how often things like this happen. hmm
Readers may enjoy the portmanteau that came from Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_on_Rules_and_Priv...
> absolutely no one remembers who the fuck Edmund Wilson was

Can’t we strive to be more civilized on this site?
Nearly all those recommendations have effectively been implemented in modern boats... Not sure if the law requires it, or boat designers just see it as a sensible design.

Quite impressive for someone to read an incident report and actually implement the recommendations - so often they sit in a filing cabinet forever.
The last paragraph of page 111 is interesting because I don't think the majority opinion tries to rebut that criticism, and it destroys the premise of most of their arguments.

It's also interesting to compare the tone of the two opinions. The majority is theatrical. That's not what I want to see from a court. Unfortunately, it's hardly unique to this court.
Jealous haters are jealous. There’s not much depth to be found here I’m afraid. You see it with every successful person or thing: it’s easier, cheaper, and better for clicks to rage and attack than to provide a nuanced discussion.

If you can’t identify the good qualities of something popular you’re an idiot. You don’t have to agree of course, but you should be able to assess it (and not assume everyone that likes it / cares about that quality is also an idiot).
>Creativity is a big part of what I feel defines me, and if that loses all value then it will surely affect me.

Isn't that the whole problem with these tools? That they can't capture creativity and context, and therefore only work as augments to competent users rather than replacing users entirely?

>What will be a viable career in 20 years? Will the concept of a “career” even make sense by then? I have no idea, and I am uncomfortable with that.

Which is why society should answer this ASAP. It's evident that putting the means of production in the hands of a few becomes a problem for the many, once the many are no longer necessary. This has been going on since pre-industrial. The premise has always been "we will make more jobs than we remove". What if that premise is no longer true? What if that premise wasn't true to begin with?
Your characterization of Section 230 is the opposite of what it does. From the Wikipedia article [1] on Section 230:

> Section 230(c)(2) further provides "Good Samaritan" protection from civil liability for operators of interactive computer services in the good faith removal or moderation of third-party material they deem "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
Exactly, grey zones can happen really quickly. For example if someone says "I think Candidate X from Party Y is a total a-hole." Is that a political statement or a cesspool comment? I see legitimate arguments for either.
You seem uninformed.
I also dislike Adobe and many of their products. But my impression is the majority of Adobe apps continue to dominate their market sectors.

I use the Affinity apps (Designer, Photo and Publisher) but even Affinity have made little dent on equivalent Adobe apps. However, Affinity have carved out a slice of the market with apps that are successful, profitable, and no subscription.
How DARE they try to prevent the extinction of the human race!
it is if people are given UBI.
> Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike MongoDB?

That should be: Why do so many people on HN dislike MongoDB?

MongoDB is the #5 database on DB Engines and has been in that position for a number of years. [0] In the general developer population it is quite widely used.

[0] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend
I use a different name and email address on every site. I lurked on this site for many years, not being a fan of social media. With time I found the moderation here made for good discussions most of the time and there were some questions/discussions about Linux. I have a proclivity to bend Linux and Linux applications into doing things they were not intended to do. I also like the character "Bender" from Futurama so I combined them to have a name that might be unique.
I too live in a country in EU, the forests of which are being chopped down so british chicken farms can claim renewables subsidies.

But a quick search will return these things https://theconversation.com/british-power-stations-are-burni...
Public Transportation still has many issues, with the largest being it doesn't make enough money for the rich.
Now maybe we can finally get our hands on the unpublished work!

(This is a joke, but something I used to hear in philosophy is that kripke felt some of his drafts were “not ready” despite circulating since the 70’s. The John Locke lectures are an example, I believe.)
It's a bit out of the way for North Korea to operate and I don't see any news of a lost sub recently or ever in that area. I'm also not sure if the value of getting a NK sub is worth the effort.

Other NK subs have been recovered in shallow waters off of South Korea because they were easy and had some intel aboard. Those factors don't seem to apply here.
Thank you for this! I just wish it had an offline version so I could play it during the 9 hour flight I'm about to board.

EDIT: what’s with the downvotes? I’m confused.
“Algorithmic advertising placement at scale produces weird edge cases.”
I recall being able to view guest reviews around 3 years ago when I last used airbnb.

A quick google shows complaints of dodgy hosts who do a "snipe" nasty review just before the feedback window ends if the guest has not left a review.
No, he's saying that Haskell, C++, and Python proponents have each admitted that they were wrong about separate things.
> I don't think the platforms should be allowed to censor user content, if [...]

All these arguments end up having that complicated "if" clause, though. Because you have to squint very, very hard to find a way to understand this ruling as anything but disallowing content moderation.

This very site. Hell, almost certainly this very thread, has copious dead comments suppressed precisely because of their undesired content. Accounts get banned here repeatedly. How is exactly is this legal in Texas? Yeah, you have to construct an "if".

And let's be honest, in almost all cases that "if" is going to be tantamount to "they are moderating content I disagree with".

And that's how you can tell this is a terrible ruling. It grants the government broad ability to disallow moderation without giving anyone a clear set of rules for which moderation is acceptable beyond "big tech bad".
I think their point is that a Peltier refrigerator will be much less efficient than a compressor refrigerator.
so, like a worse version of public transit, except only for people who can afford to spend 80k on a car?
Advanced auto-complete and sort-of right concept art is not going to disrupt the world nor the software industry. We have had algorithms trained on machine learning do IMO way more socially affecting things like decide what news and videos we watch, who gets approved for loans, what politicians say - but this gets way less press or thought.

You will never replace software engineers just as you will never replace writers and artists no matter how “good” the machine generated stuff gets. There is no soul there and it only appears interesting at a superficial, “that’s sort of neat” level that doesn’t hold up. No one is buying master works of AI, they spend their weekend reading real books and blogs from real people.

It’s 2022 - where is my self driving car? Where is the tens of millions of job losses from AI predicted that necessitated UBI (see the entire presidential thesis of Andrew Yang)?

It does get a lot of hype and raises a lot of VC money though!
Did you factor in electricity costs?
It looks like there is really no reason to use Feedburner anymore. It seems that Google just implemented the bare minimum to avoid completely breaking URLs (or at least they tried and apparently missed some cases). It seems that it is now just a bit-for-bit proxy of the original feed. There appears to be no WebSub support anymore, no stats, no "feed preview". Really all it does now is change the URL (and maybe some caching?).

It would be nice if they added an option to redirect the feedburner URL to an external feed to aid moving off of it but that doesn't appear to be an option at the moment. Although with the `self` link preserved a few readers will likely attempt to migrate to the source URL, however the vast majority probably won't.
Thanks! While this feature isn't really in the scope of Lunar, it can be achieved with a more automation generic app like Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/)

I created a simple script here that does just that: https://f.alinpanaitiu.com/UigtG5/xdr.lua

And you can install it with the following commands:

mkdir -p ~/.hammerspoon
curl https://f.alinpanaitiu.com/UigtG5/xdr.lua >> ~/.hammerspoon/xdr.lua
echo 'require("xdr")' >> ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua
Computing is full of metaphors like "kill".

My 7 year old niece looked over my shoulder as I was writing this and said "kill!?" with a look of disgust! Disgust! I suspect that this reaction is typical of many females getting started in computing. Could it be a small part of why there are so few women in computing?

My niece gets very excited when she sees me use commands she knows like ls, cd, cat (especially cat!). The fact that she could grow up to become a DBA and won't have to talk about "dumb slaves" is something I celebrate. It's not nearly as important as <insert whataboutism here> but it's progress.

(If you or someone you know has been victimised because they're comfortable with existing terminology then I'm sorry for that, really. If you feel that changing terminology is a waste of time that is OK. If you don't want to rename your branches then no-one should give you a hard time about it.)
By your logic 50 Shades of Grey is also above criticism.
not all those who wander are lost ;)
No, you collect the samples and bring them home for a far far better quality image, lighting, and stable video recording.
>What will be a viable career in 20 years? Will the concept of a “career” even make sense by then?

I think AIs have made some amazing incremental process, but I feel like the fears of being made obsolete are still premature. If you needed to pick though, learning the thing that's replacing you is a good start, so pick AI research or development. For that to be non-viable as a job or career, AIs would need to have the ability to build and improve themselves, and at that point, it's game over, man™.

None of these AI things are going to replace politicians, governments, or economies, and so you still have a vast amount of soft skill careers available as well.
I think they mean on a per unit basis, not total from all burnt wood vs. all burnt coal/lng
It’s interesting that meta programming, one of the main selling points of lisps, is actually pretty common and possible in other languages as well. Lisp’s “code = data” achieves meta programming in a straightforward way, but this link shows that it’s not necessary. In fact, Python’s way might even be better because the language sorta “gets outta the way” because it’s really darn simple.
The majority shares your layman's understanding, but the dissent does not. Last paragraph of page 111 basically says that the whole point of 230, as confirmed by the person who wrote it, is to avoid the either-or mutually exclusive choice.

https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-09-1...
1. Sorry, it's not open source now.

2. Yes, we have a privacy policy, you can find it on the website footer.
The UK needs better housing policy
The Reception section of the Wikipedia article[0] for this film is a real mix. I kind of want to see it, partly because I'm a sucker for both Vikings and airships, but also to see how critics could be so scattered in their opinions of the film.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_at_the_Top_of_the_W...
any sales-based industry is suspect in this way, though.
None of those goals are set by algorithms. They're all in heuristics. All machine learning is heuristic. You never know for sure. If the goal were set by an algorithm that would therefore mean it was airtight. That would be like religion or torture, or both. Walking in the footsteps of Jesus.

Despite not actually being algorithms, but heuristics, the demand for those heuristics is insatiable. And it's verifiable, if you eg send two factor matrices here for me to create the product and send it back, you can check a statistically overwhelming amount of them with a laptop in a second.

http://fgemm.com, coming soon.
UBI recipient
Yes, this empty repo is for feedback and discussion.
I'm just getting into wood burning as an adult, but the rule of thumb I've heard is that you need about one acre to sustainably produce one cord per year. So if it takes 4-5 cords per winter to heat your home with a newer gasification-type burner, then you'd need to be in an area with an average lot size of 5 acres to consider that sustainable. That's decidedly rural, but practical for many, especially with even better insulation. Save the higher density, cleaner burning energy sources for places with denser populations and shared walls. Although unfortunately with nonsensical zoning policies, city buildings tend to be older and poorer insulated.

Obviously we'd be better off with heat pumps run by renewable electricity supplying most heat. But lack of storage seems to be the missing piece right now - peak solar production and peak heating load are on opposite sides of the day, unlike air conditioning. Nuclear would be capable of generating electricity at the right time, but it's presently stalled for many reasons. But even if we had widespread nuclear, that wouldn't help from the individual perspective of still needing a heat source during a power outage.
The Apple Watch dont last more than a day has nothing to do with ARM the ISA.

I expect a lot more on HN if you want to suggest something controversial.
The only major downside I see to this is preserving and quick retrieval of knowledge. It's a well known fact that many luminaries over the course of several centuries had systems similar to a Zettlekasten, most notably, Niklas Luhmann, the prolific sociologist apparently had several thousand index cards preserving info.

While it's commendable, it should also be noted that all this was done prior to the information age we're living in. These are physical objects that at the end of the day take up sizeable space in your house, gather dust, need cleaning/dusting etc. And you can't throw a computer at the problem of search and retrieval, at least yet.

I wish there was more research into active learning by typing as well. Typing does force you to think, especially if you don't type something you learn verbatim but actively try to process info and possibly summarize it in your own words.
https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-forecasting-one-year-in/
You've made a useless semantic argument between using the word "wall" vs "membrane".

A membrane or wall regulate the input/output of everything in/out of the cell - from water to proteins to everything else.

A cell without a membrane dies - immediately.
Good. I'm very confident the local response would've been catastrophic if not for people such as Gates and their efforts.