skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you agree that your earlier statement "That goes well beyond the remit of the FBI and violates numerous norms of law enforcement influence over public speech" is wrong and baseless, given the legal context that I have provided.

No I don’t agree. “Norms” are separate from the legal context you gave.

If no coercion took place, that doesn’t make what the FBI did “ok” even if no laws were broken.

Like my earlier analogy, if my local cops started asking businesses to kick people out (and the businesses agreed) that’s a major problem, even if not illegal.

Law enforcement’s job is to identify crimes and arrest people.

When their scope starts expanding into working with willing private companies to silence individuals who have committed no crime, that should worry everyone, whether it happens with Twitter or your local bar.

It’s amazing to see a normally anti-law enforcement HN suddenly rally to the FBI’s defense.
Not sure I’d trust someone who mixes up ‘their’ and ‘there’ to interpret data proving or disproving some strategy. From the looks of the product, I’d say he was probably right on whatever that stuff was.
PHP is ultra slow anyways.
My LCD doesn't flicker either. Some LCDs use pulse-width modulated backlights, which do flicker, and there are gaming LCDs with optional strobing to improve motion clarity, but these are not inherent to the LCD technology.
Because that same issue happens today with the current welfare problems.

People like to pretend it doesn't, but it does.
And two years later, your idea fails and your boss says:

> A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it.

So serious point: if everyone is ruthless and tries to push their own ideas through, how can a manager know who is right and which direction to follow?
Who said humans always do the right thing? Who said California is going to always do the right thing? Science is never settled by definition but look, the evidence is there - go look - you don't have to rely on 'our media' - implied as corrupt. 100% know that you already have your mind made up.
Even if the statement were true, it’s not like they hired some anonymous guy, they knew what they were getting. Don’t hire a passionate guy like that if you don’t want him to concern himself with your company.
Show HN: lean Busy build system now has a Qmake back end
Does it boil down to physicians and other care staff not being paid enough?
Great point. And, imho, funnier :^)
maybe even separate heat from polar solvents from nonpolar solvents? (ok, the last separation would make recirculation difficult, unless they're miscible)
They did, that’s why I chose it. So maybe the site is doing a good job for its audience after all.
The FBI doesn't get to decide what's "important in the context of an election."

The contents of Hunter's laptop didn't stop me from voting for Biden, but that's because I'm a cynical jerk that already thinks politicians are corrupt by default.
If your language matches ocaml's runtime semantics, then sure. It means uniform representation, 63bits integers, etc. but can be quite useful if your language is ML-ish.
I published a children’s book written and illustrated by ChatGPT and MidJourney
IP interface module PC-PIGE502-GBTE
This is an interesting comment. In my experience most people were right in their way of thinking. Even if they come to vastly different conclusions, most of the time they are kind-of-right. This continues until objective reality hits as in "can we ship" and "does it make money". And even then it depends on many factors with many people involved. For a vision like VR this is far into the uncertain future and "being right" can mean many different things to people. Data doesn't help much if it is biased, if the analysis is biased or if you just have different definitions and priorities.

At the end of the day the real struggle is achieving alignment on business goals and priorities across the whole team. And also aligning them with reality. This is usually where you elect one leader to define those things and the others to follow those definitions.
It's actually good that there is transparency and oversight but this is a study in journalism and populism more than anything.

The media is under incredible pressure to make stories, particularly in the US.

All of us have seen how MSNBC veered politically over the last 15 years - as have other news outlets.

Matt Taibbi is a good guy, smart, down to earth.

But he's a 'lone warrior' now, his income comes from substack subs, he has to make noise just like any other entity.

The substack people tend to market themselves as 'alt something' which is legit in some ways, but they push it pretty hard.

Taibbi has really been ginning it up lately.

It's a bit sad really, but we see this happen all over - I think most of our 'venerable' media institutions are at the same level so we can't fully blame him.

All of that said this is a legit story and there are 'kernels of truth' to this notion that Twitter is doing things maybe it should not, or inconsistently etc.

Elon is not wrong to be suspicious, of course now he's banning actual, legit journalists who dare to question him, in a feat of absolute hypocrisy that should completely undermine is 'free speech' credentials. Sadly I'm doubtful his fanboys will care.
Any voluntary request from the government comes with an implied consequence for refusal or an implied benefit for acceptance. They don’t have to say it out loud for the message to come across.
Maybe you're misunderstanding the usage of "flicker" here. I'm not saying that I can see my monitor flickering, because nobody can past a certain refresh rate. What I'm saying is that any monitor inherently flickers because of its refresh rate, independently of our perception.
You're right, this isn't unexplored. The ACLU says this specific example is unconstitutional. There's also been legal cases about this in the past. It's illegal for the government to do this.

"They could sue if they don't want to do it" does not make the request legal.

https://twitter.com/aclu/status/1587198479608303622

What's shocking is that people's perceptions of what's legal have changed so dramatically in just a few years. I can't imagine anyone making these arguments in 2005. It seems some powerful interests have been able to successfully co-opt SV companies and change the entire public conversation about what the First Amendment means. I would like to know a lot more about what's going on here. I don't think the same tired arguments about "disinformation" and "social harmony" that have been trotted out for centuries against free speech have suddenly gained all this credence by accident.
Why is it called blink like the browser engine?
Generally no, they’re not different. For example, the consumer Twitter apps; or when I worked there, Depop.

The situation may change if you also add internal tools to the mix, since they’re often operating on a superset of data that the consumer apps might have access to - though still not necessarily the same model as the persistence layer.
The main problem with VR is that it is a gimmick that people don't want to use as their main medium of interaction whether with games or job communication.
I finally had some time for hard numbers. (I hope I didn't mess the units.)

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

> In 2019 TES was 606 EJ and final consumption was 418 EJ, 69% of TES.

It looks like 75% of it is from fossil fuels. In a power plant that produces electricity, the output is less than a half of the heat produced by the oil/coal/gas. So 606 * .75 * 2 that is like 1000 EJ. In a simplified world, all that energy becomes heat that escape to space after a while.

To get the mass, you must divide it by c^2 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1000+ExaJoule%2Fc%5E2 and the result is 1200kg (24000 pounds) per year. That's like launching to deep space an elephant per year or a small car per month.

The total mass of the Earth is approximately 6×10^24 kg. So per year we are "launching" 2×10^-21 of the mass of the Earth, that is impossible to notice.

Fake Edit: I just noticed that I forgot to include the heat produced by natural radioactivity that is higher than the energy we use. It's probably also a small number compared to the mass of the Earth, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
a different approach: analog television
The calendar for me is a coordination tool between me and many other people. Other people can see my calendar, too, and see whether I am available or not.
ChatGPT Passes the Bar Exam
Weren't he rather addressing the "throwaway" user's comment?
Isn't soft core porn full nudity but no depictions of sex? I wouldn't classify these ad porn in the same way I wouldn't call the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue soft core porn, though the purpose of both is titillation.
At risk of upsetting this thread’s balance and reducing it to negativity: I prefer your parent comment’s interpretation of the Go. “Ahead of its time”? Technology is the last space where a newfangled product would lose momentum by being released to early.

I’m open to being proved ignorant here. Can you think of some examples where tech was obviously ahead of its time and not accepted?

Subscription music services like Rhapsody provided what Apple Music does now 15 years ago, and they died out (similarly Microsoft’s Zune service). Maybe this is what you’re saying? - All the same, I would trump these examples up to poor marketing, management, and product specifics. Apple Music isn’t releasing their service at a better time. They just put a lot more effort into it, and it provides the service better. (Their phone ecosystem plays a big part in this.) This example could be extended into saying that the Go just wasn’t good enough (thus: Carmack failed).

FWIW: I’m a Carmack fan, and I base a lot of how I use Emacs on his wisdom accumulated over the years. For example, his recent shift to VSCode has inspired me to think in that direction.
Silicon graphics workstations?
Looking at the repo, seems like it doesn't receive many commits within the past week beside documentation improvements.
ChatGPT is a tipping point for AI
Too many interdependent services and superfluous wan connections that can't be disabled already on windows 7, 2K was the pinnacle of usability and system configurability and sparse use of system resources, with XP closer to 2K than to 7.

7 Mostly was allright because of huge increase in availabe RAM on laptops.
Refresh rate is not the same as flicker.

Refresh rate is the rate at which new information is displayed. Flicker is things turning on and off.

As the parent mentioned, some screens use fast cycles of turning on/off to modulate perceived brightness, but this is not always the case.
If governments can’t afford health care, how can individuals? Will medical care be limited to the wealthy? Or, as others here say, is it just a not terribly transparent effort to privatize and thus profit from the the problems of others?
I don't work with John Carmack, but I had a meeting with him once. He is brilliant, no doubt, but he is exactly like every single engineer with no professional communications training. He struggles to make his points in everyday developer language, when he needs to speak more calculated, more measured, and with significantly more audience empathy. Just like 99% of us technologists. We're an industry of weak communicators, and it is hurting all of our careers.
> not inherent to the LCD technology.

actually they kinda are

Blue light from close distance screens is the enemy of your eyes and has many other side effects.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/blog/cultivating-health/blue-ligh...
Really? I Haven't had a show stopping issue with linux for over a decade.
There's perfectly good food and then there's food that rots in our fridge, or food that rot before being harvested.
Yes, and it’s unix, but it’s not proprietary.
I wasn't talking about the FBI, I was talking about Hunter Biden's laptop, and what an entirely bullshit story it is from start to finish. Read the comment I was responding to.
With wife and 2 kids who have activities now and then I cannot imagine a life without a shared calendar. Not sure how that would work. Perhaps with rigorous phone calls during the day to so sync up, but that's unfeasible for me at least
Which kind of scheduling? My task list is on paper (and in the issue tracker, sometimes at a far less detailed level). But my dentist's appointments and the rare meetings (we do async text comms 99%) are on my phone because it can SCREAM at me when neededd.
GPT-3 happened and showed that by throwing more computation at the problem you have better results.
Unironically this question could deserve its own thread.
I’m in my 40s and don’t get these. How old do you have to be before they set in?

I have glasses— without those, I’d probably get a headache. I also use a very high quality 5k monitor and proper lighting. Maybe those make a difference? Maybe I won the genetic lottery? Dunno.
Zoom has by far the best feature set out of any videoconferencing system - Zoom Rooms work almost seamlessly, and the core product is pretty user friendly and incredibly reliable from my experience - something I've never been able to say about Hangouts, Teams, Skype, GoToMeeting or Webex.
But making them harder to heat in winter.
That depends how stretchable your price point is. I can greatly recommend Basler cameras from my endeavours with those at work, complete C/C++/Python SDK and extremely thoroughly documented. USB and IP, HFR and High Resolution.

After working with cheapish cameras before, I won't ever look back.
Does anyone else feel that gtk4 adwaita looks significantly worse than gtk3?

they seem to have simply removed the gradients and it just looks half baked with only flat colours
> There is no unused arable land on a planet that’s already struggling to support a human population that cleared 8 billion last month

The amount of this land that is dedicated to growing food for livestock and the livestock themselves is simply astounding. Reducing meat consumption is a much simpler solution and I believe the one that will win out anyway. Complicated solar systems like this will only become relevant once we’ve addressed the low hanging fruit (pun intended) of overproduction of meat.

Even precision fermentation is an easier to implement fix for land use, which looks increasingly like it can reduce our need for land to grow grains. See Solar Foods for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods
Keen Technologies. That’s a great name.
His story is slanted, but it's not fair to suggest he is 'cherry picking' - that's what the press does, they 'find the stuff that matters' and filters out the stuff that does not.

It would be 'cherry picking' if the result was something out of context and therefore misrepresented.

There's a legit story here, probably not to the extent made out to be but it's newsworthy.

What could be 'cherry picking' in the grand context, is that SpaceX has 'deep ties' with state apparatus, even the military, and we just don't talk about that. So by highlighting 'this thing over here' and not 'that thing over there' we lose context that Musk is in bed with the Pentagon while lambasting something happening with the FBI. And I'm not suggesting working with either is wrong, but that it's a bit hypocritical.
By this logic the government can’t use the Report Tweet button either, right?
Treat metrics like automated tests - if they are not green you have action to take.

You can thus have thousands but hardly ever will you have thousands all red.

And when you create a new metric, TDD style, the company will not be able / designed / changed to make it green.
As one of my AI profs said: it's like trying to teach pigs to fly, and say you're progressing because you're building higher towers.
I mean, read the comment chain you were responding to?

How about this: you don't get to decide what's remotely important to people in the context of the election?
I wouldn’t call it different in operations as much of difference in culture/environment. WeWork level office spaces/amenities are less common in india where it provides just a small level of improvements over other options in US.
It's fascinating and revolting at the same time how the essence of your comment is once again the "everything sucks" garbage.

There are billions of lines of top-quality code in existence, and millions of lines that should be counted among humanity's great works of art, but no, it's all "Lego bricks".

Most artists don't produce anything remotely like Michelangelo or Picasso, yet Michelangelo and Picasso are what people think of when they hear the word "art". No one says "art is so terrible, just stick figure drawings everywhere".

The perception of software engineering reflected in your comment is not grounded in reality but in culture. An ultimately destructive culture of negativity and self-deprecation. And I'm so fucking tired of it that I wish I had chosen a different profession.
Please drop the background music. It takes the attention away.
I have no idea what this is...
Shell Quest – New online magazine
> If your LCD is tiring your eyes, it's set too bright.

The race for brightness considered harmful :)

The problem that LCDs have and CRTs didn't is that you lose color reproduction/contrast if you turn down the brightness to healthy levels.

Hopefull OLED fixes that and becomes affordable. But I'm afraid manufacturers will still race for brightness even on a technology that doesn't need it.

> E-ink has the advantage that it automatically shows the correct brightness for the lighting conditions

Tbh I find eink very readable in bright sunlight and it's all downhill from there, to the point that i prefer reading on a tablet with brightness way down and the lights off to eink with a lamp on. But that may be a consequence of staring into LCDs most of my life.
Destitute people have always been heavily taxed, since the beginning of civilization. It's called interest on farm loans, rent, work duty, soldier duty, etc.
How exactly does the FBI asking a private sector company to take down posts violate this amendment?

In our system, law including the Constitution is interpreted by the judiciary. You could as well ask "where is the Miranda warning in the Bill of Rights?"

The actual precedents around "jawboning" are murky and contradictory, but it's well-established that the government can step over the line in violating constitutionally protected rights via informal coercion.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/informal-government-coercion-and...
If Elon Musk is legitimately afraid for his or his family's safety, it is strange that he did not file a police report and blocked people on Twitter for suggesting he do so.

https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRmtBR0FsUGFjQUE4MjQzL...

https://nitter.it/@ZacksJerryRig/status/1603286484785586178

Moreover, the narrative he's presenting doesn't make sense. Not only did the @ElonJet account not tweet for over 24 hours prior to the alleged incident, but people have determined that the location doesn't make sense for what he's claiming.
I don't know about that. I use xmonad on linux and it completely dominates anything windows could ever try to bring to the table.
Risk.

The company takes the risk rather than you personally. If it fails but you maintain good relations with the rest of the company you lose nothing and just transfer elsewhere (I guess, I’ve never worked at a big company preferring to go it alone)
I see it more as the simple truth. There's only so much influence you can wield working one day a week as an executive advisor. By his own admission he could have steered things better if he'd been more involved, but he didn't want to be more involved. He's got his own startup to work on.
Not really torturous, you can still find many FreeBSD 5 components in modern macOS, two decades later.
I think you may be surprised at how many 'TERFs' are dyed-in-the-wool socialists. I know it's convenient to paint this as some left-right political split, but the truth of the matter is quite different. Look up the history of radical feminism - it didn't originate on the political right, quite the opposite.

Meghan Murphy in particular is a left-wing, socialist, radical feminist, who was raised in a Marxist household. This is no secret, you can search her work online to confirm all this, she's pro-unions, pro-socialism, and speaks against the right on numerous political matters.

Her ban from Twitter was caused by referring to a male (Johnathan/Jessica Yaniv), who was suing female beauticians for refusing to wax his bollocks, as "him".

Now I don't know about you, but I would think if you're going around flashing your testicles to women and demanding they touch them, that is very much a proof of being a man. I mean, you don't find women popping their hairy balls out to be plucked, and haranguing women who politely demur, do you?

Nonetheless, Twitter moderators disagreed. To them, this was the bushy scrotum of a woman. So Murphy was canned.
Not the data, but one concern is that China may decree certain topics boosted/diminished. My understanding is in the Chinese version of the app educational content is boosted for instance, and things having to do with Hong Kong are essentially shadow banned.
I'd say that Terence got the investment from world renowned mathematicians because he was unusually gifted even at such a young age. It appears that some people are innately adept at mathematical thinking but as you say, people can still learn and contribute even when they don't have such a spectacular start.
In Poland we have waiting list for more than a decade and recently private sector pricing accelerated wildly while any complications are being sent back to public healthcare.
Google just wants more data, and wazes systems are too detached from the rest of google's infrastructure, consolidating everything in google maps is more profitable for data-analysis and advertising
I'm not deciding anything for anyone, I'm merely pointing out a fact. Also, you're presuming the truth of the allegations that the FBI did anything to materially suppress this story, and that's not in evidence, Musk-driven hyperventilation aside.
The amount of blue light emitted by an LCD depends on the backlight used. Some brands advertise low blue light. You could even build an LCD with zero blue light emission if you wanted to, at the cost of being unable to display blue. And even with a conventional backlight, you can reduce the blue light to very low levels in software, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift_(software)

E-ink reflects light over a broad spectrum, so the amount of blue depends on the amount of blue it's illuminated with. It can be higher than the LCD in some conditions.
It's not just tricks, there are also real efficiency gains from not having duplicate efforts (double HR department, double finance, etc).