skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what email in [1] on page 301:

> There are a few blog posts--none of which are written by archivists or historians--that use circular, strawman arguments to attempt to exculpate Webb of his involvement in the Lavender Scare. These arguments focus on misprints in non-peer-reviewed sources. These blog posts fail to engage any of the existing peer-reviewed historical research and archival evidence regarding the period that positions Webb in a leadership role regarding the LGBTQ firings as early as 1950. I would like to imagine that these bloggers have their hearts in the right place--that they aren't intentionally trying to erase LGBTQ history--and that their errors simply stem from their lack of training in historical and archival research.

Well, these blog posts engage with the arguments made in major newspapers and articles, I don't think that's a "strawman argument" at all. If these arguments are bad then the fault is entirely with the people making the bad arguments, not the people replying to them.

I don't really have the time – or interest – to dig deeper in the matter to find out if the gist of the email is correct or not (there's a lot of information and not everything is easily accessible), but I found this a very curious paragraph which needlessly and unfairly attacks people. Also not a huge fan of the credentialism and rather patronizing language. This makes it pretty hard to have honest respectful conversations, and in that sense the author of the email is "part of the problem" (that is, the problem it's so darn hard to have reasonable honest conversations about this).
Hmm nice. I'm on X because I run freebsd. But nice for when Wayland comes to it.

Apparently Wayland already works on FreeBSD but support for KDE is currently broken.
Amazing. No comments so far. This is not the first time a topic of this nature was posted on HN. (Or perhaps my search skills are poor).

Anyway, what speaker suggests for now is that companies take a collective small-action that improves the welfare of these workers.

But on a side note I would say we need more sustainable stuff that goes into our technology. It might take a few decades for cobalt mining to stop due to depletion. Then what?

But bottom line is I am appalled that it still happens in our civilization.
https://forward.com/culture/13721/how-did-jews-choose-their-... describes reasons how and why Jewish people chose names in Europe when Joseph II enforced them. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/importa...
I don't know why anybody would ever get the LicheePi Nano instead of the 4A or the regular LicheePi, because these two boards' main selling point is that they're RISC-V which the Nano isn't.
You can run GPT-J and GPT-Neo on (2) 24Gb GPUs, like a pair of 3090s. Not to mention Stable Diffusion which has much lower requirements to produce amazing AI images. Now, if you want to train a huge model from scratch that’s a different story, but running your own server is definitely possible and improving every day.
I was under the impression that, like chicken, cows became less edible as time passed?
Keep everything clean. Have accounting setup correctly with PnL no matter how small. Then calculate Seller's discretionary Earnings (SDE) for 12 months and multiply it by 2x-5x usually to get a price. the multiple depends on tons of factors. rarely it will be over 5x SDE if your SDE is less than 500K.
> Meta and Alphabet have lost their dominance over the digital advertising market they have ruled for years, as the duopoly is hit by fast-growing competition from rivals Amazon, TikTok, Microsoft and Apple.

When are people exposed to Amazon ads other than when they are on the Amazon website itself?

When are people exposed to Microsoft ads?... Bing?

When are people exposed to Apple ads? The Apple app store?...

You've got television ads, social media ads (Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook).

You've got Google/default search engine search result ads

Is it kind of disingenuous to say Google is losing search engine market share dominance if what's really happening is, new avenues for ads are being created? Scrolling through a timeline full of platform-specific ads (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok) is kind of a "new thing".

Is Google losing dominance or is the digital ad market getting bigger/more diverse?
> This GPT stuff is perhaps a better view into human psychology than a useful tool

It would be a great search engine if it cited its sources (but then people would notice it's basically copying code from the internet). It is actually good at getting you the names that come in a certain context, so you can search them. But only if you know enough to establish the context.
Obsidian has been around for years at this point. It's completely free to use without limitations on functionality. They make money by charging for sync, but are happy to point out that there are free options to sync data.

So where are these anti-user features? Why does the business model lead to them? "Not open source" doesn't count.
Joplin is my personal wiki
Sounds like something to overcome boredom. Think how much free time they'd have without all that creative work.
There's a brazillian song called Tédio (Boredom) that was popular in the 80's. It talks about not withstanding boredom inside home, while life goes on out there. It's curious how the depicted feeling is so unrelatable today.

I think boredom is a real force that pushes ourselves to the edge, to hopefully make a change in life, like going out to see real people.

Social media creates this cozy, safe place to keep your mind occupied, letting life pass without realizing it.
The oath is "Do no harm." Unloading a "procedure" that's unacceptable in The First World on other markets is unethical. We're not talking about cars, etc.

There's no shortage of alternatives. There's no lack of manufacturing capavity. Etc. All there is is shoddy rationalization that the poor get what they deserve.

Pray you're never on the wrong side of such ethics.
I'd be curious to see how WebRTC's media channels do in addition to the data channels too. Nacks might be faster than the retransmission interval.
From the Wikipedia entry:

"A director's cut of Dark City was officially released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 29 July 2008. The director's cut removes the opening narration, which Proyas felt explained too much of the plot, and includes approximately eleven minutes of additional footage, most of which extends scenes already present in the theatrical release with additional establishing shots and dialogue."

I originally saw the director's cut, then went back and watched a video with the opening narration. I felt that my viewing of the movie was improved having seen it originally without.
How do you get transactions if you are air gapped?
Visionfive 2's SoC has 2x GbE, so they have to keep up with the joneses.
Nothing on The Onion is unintentional.
How do smelling salts work?
Perfect for lawyering.
Those poor miners without their primary source of heat.
Ritalin is one form of methylphenidate - a short-active version.

Formulations with longer dose/release profiles exist - Concerta XR and Elvanse/Vyvanse are the same active stimulant (methylphenidate), but spread over the course of ~12 hours.

Personally I've found that Concerta has a ramping up and ramping down, with peak effects kicking in around 4 hours, whereas Elvanse kicked in relatively quickly at the same constant level.

Having to take ritalin (and adderall) multiple times a day with the risk of crashing in between sounds like a nightmare, and I'm glad at least here in the UK one of the first thing psychiatrists suggest trying is low dosages of the longer-acting methylphenidate derivatives.

It takes a lot of messing around with different meds and formulations to find one that works for you. It's like incredibly individual/personal; people seem to have wildly different responses to the different families of stimulants, different dosages, different delivery methods, different times of day etc etc. Takes a lot of educated effort.

It really sucks how it's so damn variable between countries or even within countries - national policies on ADHD meds and amount of knowledge your average doctor has in each country on those meds. Wildly and unhelpfully variable.
OpenWRT-on-whatever-with-dual-eth-as-a-home-gateway gained a lot of popularity in China during the last two years. Besides the usual hobbyist use cases, it is particularly useful in China as people run VPN or those bizarre transparent proxies on them for getting around GFW. There are enough copy-paste ready tutorials that even "power users" are tempted to try doing so.

Sure, this sounds niche enough to be negligible, but SBCs are always niche products.

Currently the most popular "whatever" is $100 mini PCs, but <$40 SBCs have a significant price advantage.
Orthogonality expected at higher dimensions
Steller Jays are also approachable. I'm a camp host. One started aggressively seeking food from campers. I took a close look at it and saw the one of the recent forest fires had damaged its feathers. It was desperate for food. I respected that bird. It did what it had to do to survive. I started feeding it. Next year when I returned to the campground, it showed up within an hour calling for food, and its feathers had been replaced.
Biosphere destruction is not something that can be ignored forever, prioritizing consumer's preferences is not a feasible strategy. Eventually all the finance talk will be replaced with practical environmental strategy, even if it means some of the middle class is inconvenienced.
Thought experiment: play a video and close your eyes. You will know when the ball's in play by ear.

I think the best bet would be sound event detection. What's associated with players actually playing? Both sounds of ball/racket and ball/table contacts and impacts.

From a whole video, you cut out the segments where there's no impact plus a few seconds (end of play) and minus a few seconds (before serve).

A crude approach/proof of concept would be a simple (sound) peak detection which could go a long way in my opinion.
> I wonder how profitable mining Bitcoin is these days at any scale.

They have calculators for this [0]. The summary is that assuming mining difficulty, electricity rate, and bitcoin value hold constant it's a 10+ year return on the most energy efficient miners, so you're probably better off buying bonds. If you don't have access to very cheap electricity ($0.06/kwh or cheaper) and don't have an efficient way of handling waste heat then it's a non-starter. Even then the price of bitcoin and the mining difficulty are likely to move considerably in 10 years so it's a very risky business plan.

[0] https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/calculator?hs=80
Thanks, that makes sense. So the core problem it solves is preventing the need for polling for feed consumers and apps, allowing for real-time notifications of updates. In theory, people could use rssCloud to adapt blogging platforms into microblogging use cases, e.g. using the simplicity of an analogy, Mastodon use cases built atop WordPress infrastructure.
Using git is like tactically rock climbing a 5.11 slope, except for nerds?
With this particular set of extensions, I would not assume bad cryptography performance.
It would probably have just fine encryption performance for majority of uses. Hell, wireguard isn't even using AES in the first place
I get that, but that's poor design on the tool's part, not Python's problem. Hide your imports behind functions, don't import at the global level, unless it's needed globally.
For those who couldn't be asked to learn how to "Print to File" I assume?

In fairness, save as PDF is more intuitive, but let's not pretend this is anything other than a UI change for functionality that's always been there. A good one, sure, but nothing more.
A common assumption, but it is actually from Шпола, a city in the Ukraine.
From what I can tell from a brief googling, the term "social media" was coined (or at least an early documented use was) by an AOL executive in 1997. I think that refutes your assertion. AOL usernames tended to be pretty pseudonymous.
These sites are complete dross.
So odd ... the regression of usability in the 'Preview' app in recent OSX ...

(EDIT: nevermind ... was mis-remembering ...)
That may all be true and yet it wasn't individuals choosing to be unethical that ended (or dramatically curtailed) child labor. The federal government stepping in and disallowing it did.
Im not saying the Russians have weather modification tech but... someone has been poking the sleeping bear.
> WE CAN'T OWN

Ownership isn’t predicated on physical custody.
Your salary has very little to do with your credit score.

Length of history + history of repayment.
Casinos Target a Vulnerable Clientele: Older Asian Gamblers
Power substations vandalized in Washington state, over 14K lost power
DDR Type 2 – Short-wave spy transmitter
ME TOO!!
how would I print a file on Android?
This works in Nightly and has for years; it's a little bit klunky but absolutely necessary for using, say, Bypass-Paywalls or Ublock Origin.
IT has a cost center.
> Apple is buying up its supply chain AND other platforms copy Apple's tactics

Do they? Has Google/Android (or even Apple for that matter) gotten much worse in that regard over the last 10 years?

You can switch to making desktop, web, enterprise, video game etc. software. Or something more specialized. I mean yeah, I understand the issues you're talking about and I don't think they are not important. However it's not entirely black and white. And I don't think the situation really comparable to low wage/skill gig-workers who generally have almost no real choice whom to work for.

Are there really less viable (openish) platforms to build your software for than 10/20/30/40 years ago? I'm pretty certain that the answer is not that obvious as you seem to be implying.
> You – and you alone – decide who may know what about you.

Why would someone think this is true or even could be true?
> As far as I know, migrating servers is in fact very easy. I haven’t done it myself, but there’s a big button to click in the interface to do so.

i have, in fact, tried pressing that button. the experience is pretty terrible.

i made a backup of my original account's data, as suggested. went through all the steps. despite that, i lost all my posts, and all the accounts i was following that did not also follow me back. and that information did not exist in the backup i made.

(i am not arguing against mastodon, by the way! i am still a happy user. but it has a lot of warts.)

this is making me think that my contribution to the fediverse might be to write a tool that does a real migration, the way you would expect it to be done.
There's Ubuntu support as well.

https://ubuntu.com/raspberry-pi
In the winter the firewood should be stored right next to the house, some of it inside the house. In fact the wood that you intend to burn now should be inside the house otherwise when you put it on the fire it will depress the fire. I have one day of firewood stacked next to the woodburner and several weeks in the vindfang (an unheated porch with doors both sides). The rest is stacked at the back of the house and it would be accessible even if a drift buried the house assuming that we are just averagely fit.

We aren't preppers but it makes no sense to rely on just in time deliveries in midwinter so we buy or otherwise obtain the wood for most of the winter in October or November
Looks like you have do that via React Native components: https://hyperview.org/docs/reference_custom_behaviors
Let me guess, garage kept?

There are plenty of first person accounts on YT, Twitter, and other social media where people report being unable to charge their EV because the energy needed to keep the battery warmed exceeds the available power for charging

Please stop blaming everything on some kind of conspiracy by the evil oil industry, you sound like qAnon when you do that.
One task force out of Japan is probably insufficient against the entire PLAN
It is a self regulating problem, bored people create entertainment until there are no other bored people left. Modern tech makes that process more efficient so you have less bored people, I don't see why that is a problem.
The evo-bio story of alcohol is confusing though, since fermentation has been present in East Asia as long as anywhere, and there's a large part of the population there that has the alcohol flush reaction.

You could tell the story as like, alcohol puts pressure on a population to evolve better responses, and with enough time the flush evolves and that helps limit drinking. But that's pretty just-so.
https://archive.vn/UG8fM
Documentary heritage: fungal deterioration in Compact Discs
With a network printer for example.
Here is another benchmark from running Discourse:

https://twitter.com/rafael_falco/status/1607395317661458432
What is the purpose of the growth of civilization?
I'm curious because I suspect it just wasn't all that horrific.

The quote is often used to defend any speech at all, and I wonder what its author would think of some of the applications it has been put to.
Or even if you don't care about recent transactions, at minimum you'll need to either own >50% of the hash rate and just make your own chain (good luck) or be online every couple minutes to find the longest chain's block hash value.

You don't need fiber internet but just a DSL modem with most-of-the-time connectivity to do mining for contributing to the network's safety, but doing it offline altogether indeed does not really make sense. (If you're doing it for the moneys then you probably do want to get information early (stable, low latency internet) so that you don't waste hash cycles.)
Which part of ops statement is Russian propaganda?

At the onset of the current war, Russia and Ukraine met in Turkey immediately to begin diplomatic talks. You do realize we intervened and told Ukraine to walk away?

This whole narrative that Putin is irrational, that Russia is just plain evil, and any contrary perspective is “Russian propaganda” reminds me of 2003 when questioning the Iraq war effort would get you labeled as a terrorists sympathizer.

This war is far more nuanced than the US government-backed narrative being pushed in the mainstream media. That itself is propaganda.

And what’s truly embarrassing is people like yourself actively try to shut down any discussion or contrarian views. If it doesn’t conform to your view of the world, it’s propaganda.
Seems interesting and is apparently built on top of React Native. Obviously this is billed as a “server side streaming UI”, but it’s already possible to chunk the React Native bundle and deliver portions on demand (per route/screen, for example). Of course that’s a bit different than generating the XML for the screen on the fly, but more or less gives most of the benefits this would offer in terms of small initial downloads and OTA updates.
Why would you try to spread obvious lies like this? Have you ever actually tried driving an EV in snow? I literally just got home from driving my EV around in the snow and it handled great.

I also rarely charge anywhere other than a regular 110V line at home, no need for hanging out at any charger station. Please stop spreading misinformation.
The most rewarding calls were those helping either very young or very old customers who just needed help getting started. I recall a grandfather calling in with his grandson, trying to figure out the new Windows machine he had just bought him. Being patient and understanding was all it took to make a difference.
>To what extent alcohol was completely new etc I do not know

Kind of a tricky question that is somewhat covered in my link. Alcohol was definitely brewed in the Americas pre-Columbus, but by the seventeenth century alcohol was largely unknown to the Natives interacting with the colonists.
Is IKEA now considered mid-priced and not low end/budget? Really puts into light how bad things have gotten.
Yet here you are on HN ;)
No idea what you mean. I'm on Ventura (13.1), just opened Preview and under File there's still 'Export as PDF' alive and well.
Two crows. Rick and Two Crows.
Tell HN: Thank You
On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.

Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people/families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.

I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.

Thank you everyone.
As my quote points out, the US has a long history of abandoning ‘friends’ after they’ve outlived their usefulness. I’d be surprised if Ukraine is any different.
Ask HN: Is there a OS tool which queries MIDI datasets by chord progression/key?
I'm about to build a MIDI data query tool if it doesn't already exist. I need a simple tool that brute-force searches midi clips from public domain datasets. For example, I want to say my progression is in `C - 4/4 - Am7-Am7-G7-Dm7` And the system offers midi clips that match that exact criteria.

ps - I'm fully aware of generative music AIs (in fact I maintain one: https://signalsandsorcery.org/ , but in this case I'm interested in brute-force searching datasets.
Perhaps. But I think some of them were actually more senior techs calling in and messing with the new guy.
I've always found banking things after people to be kind of silly. Far prefer a name like HMS Formidable over USS Nimitz.

But should we name it after someone it's obvious what we're doing: removing the complexity of the individual to reference the aspects we desire. Suppose John Muir were a racist. Suppose he liked dogs and his eggs fried and writing poetry about unrequited love. His statue might have a plaque that references none of this.

And that's because we don't care about this fellow in his whole sense. That Muir is forgotten and irrelevant. He is useless to us.

But a fictional Muir who we invent based on this Muir - his soul removed and turned one dimensional - is what we'll remember.

The only danger, of course, is that people might mistake our glorification of this fictional man for the real man.
Dr. Prasad is a running joke in COVID policy editorial pages now, and I thought this forum was well aware. Every single thing he posts is wrong in some way and is basically just virtue-signalling to diehard libertarians. Look at the responses to his latest tweet: https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1606740677915971585?...

Here he is pretending that the former director of the NIH asked for people's careers to be destroyed even though any of us with at least fifth grade reading ability can read what Dr. Collins wrote and properly conclude otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33257352.

He consistently asks for RCTs and pretends that without them the conclusion should be that they don't work when we have laboratory studies showing their effectiveness, so our prior should be that they do work, just like parachutes, which have also not had RCTs. (According to Prasad, there might be second order effects of parachutes that make them deadlier than they are life-saving, so we should wait for RCTs before recommending them.)

His hardcore libertarian virtue signaling has drawn admonition from his professional peers:

https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20211008_4/

https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20211008_5/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-vinay-prasad-echoes-the-...

In this very article, he pretends that adding the vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which makes it free for patients, will cause more people to stop getting other vaccines and hurt public health than it would cause people to get this vaccine and improve it. The assertion is ludicrous to anybody who gives it even the barest thought.
Wow, fantastic project at first glance. Really looking forward to trying this out since I was about to update my gaming rig, so it is perfect timing to test this as an alternative.

Curious if this opens up cross-platform potential since it is browser based, that would be a game changer if so.