skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a materialist, and as such I see that the "right" to own and use weapons in this way is conditional on things outside the control of individuals. What do you think happens to a black man who shoots a cop in self defense?

We depend on us to protect us from bigots. And it's more effective and less morally compromising to do this when the bigots don't have guns. As it is an honest self defense class for my people starts with "have someone who knows how prison commissary works" and ends with "get right with the lord" because that covers the full spectrum of likely outcomes when a nonwhite person defends themselves with a weapon in the US.
Usenet is and remains, if not entirely dead, at best a zombie. Killed by spammers first, AOL second and the people that would subsequently ruin BitTorrent, like, forever.

Technology choices inspired by nostalgia are not always the best bet, but if you're going all the way, I suggest a return to FidoNet Echomail.

http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-0004.001 should get you started, and I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make node assignments decentralized.

2:285/11.2 signing off. But I still have some bad C code implementing an Echomail processor, if you need it...
You seem to be conflating economic growth with population growth. Also the concern is not that Korea's population is failing to grow, it's that it's failing to stabilize and will soon shrink significantly.
I think you are seriously underestimating the impacts that worldwide crop failures in the next 20 years are going to have as far as global human catastrophes go.
Not joking, my first reaction to the title was absolute shock, thinking this is about the X window system.

Fortunately it is only about the text-first social media platform turned dumpster fire.
Docker Compose is contained in Docker Desktop.
So who fights who in this block? China vs India, Iran vs UAE, Pakistan vs India?
How to get your app completely banned in the EU?
I think what you'll find is if all the developed nations believe their very existence is at stake due to actions of the un-developed, it will result in war/the end of the threat very quickly.

Case in point: the fabricated idea that Iraq had chemical weapons that could hit western Europe. There wasn't a lot of debate on whether or not the western world was willing to eliminate the threat if it existed.

(note, I'm not trying to turn this into a discussion of the fabricated information, simply using it as an example that war is always on the table if a country feels its existence is in danger).
Ever wonder why a post is stuck at the bottom of the front page or falls off so quickly? There are stealth censorship controls built into the platform to adjust or remove discussions they do not want here, often times, discussions about censorship. Bias is present in moderation most places you go.
My understanding is that "typical" Mastodon/ActivityPub instances limit you to on the order of 500. Certainly true for Fosstodon.
> humanity overcame bigger problems

Like?

I tend to agree that humanity will eventually overcome but the question is also when and at what cost?
> The problem is Twitter doesn't have a critical mass of users

Twitter might have had. X no.
Don't get all this constant bashing of Goodreads. Not that I am an active user: I tried but decided that the books space is way too big for a working recommendation algorithm. The website's design is a bit old and could use some improvements, but it basically does the job. If anything, it feels like a relic of a better past, more careless, less monetised and less gamed. I sometimes use it to check reviews and I usually find good content.
So he’s a chinussian puppet. Got it.
No one ever gets fired for choosing IBM - the results do not matter.
And how did you come to discover this “reality”? You are just projecting you opinion on everyone. Some people don’t think like you.
> One example is the whole plastic straws debacle

That demonstrates not only that governments are unable to solve the problems at the production side but also that they're choosing the minimum they can do to pretend they're making an effort, all while minimizing disruptions to the markets. I'd argue that the capitalism and the need for growth is the problem.

> In reality more than 50% of the plastic that ends up in the oceans is from commercial fishing nets

> This needs to be done systematically and at policy level considering a multitude of social factors. Telling everyone how bad beef is?

It's the same problem as with beef. If everyone insists on eating beef and fish, governments won't regulate the industries or remove their subsidies. The population has to want those regulations, otherwise it won't ever happen.

So the solution is the same as with beef. Switch to plant based diets personally, then demand changes on the political level.
Yep.
I'm hired by HN to keep you guys engaged on different topics.
Honestly, just do it the manual way. Have three free-form fields: "Full Name", "Preferred Name", and "Formal Address". Yes, it'll mean more typing, but it's the only way to deal with several cultures.
There are a lot of people who have children even though they can't afford it. Most of them muddle through somehow.
I've tried a number of tools that promise to "automatically" pull all of my transactions and assets in and create a dashboard for me, but I always end up back with a group of spreadsheets. My current setup is:

1. Overview spreadsheet that shows my current net worth (fed from my other spreadsheets), a monthly snapshot of spending, income, and assets, and number of months until FIRE based on my trailing 12 month spend and income.

2. Spreadsheet tracking stocks I own + their current value

3. Spreadsheet tracking my crypto transactions (that I run a script against to get the cost basis and current value to plug into spreasheet 1)

4. Lunchmoney.app - website that I use to track and categorize spend. This data fees into my overview spreadsheet.
Do you have copy-paste and shared folders working in Fusion (with a Windows ARM VM)? Last I checked VMware Tools did not support those features yet.

Edit: The Fusion 2023 Tech Preview [1] installs the full VMware Tools and supports copy-paste.

1. https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?do...
I want them to not have that data for the same reason.
That is a very real risk, but I suspect that's partially because these people have been contanstly berrated or ignored. Let's look at it this way. They felt something was wrong. Couldn't tell what but they felt it was (well some things were obious - massive job losses, ignored by the government and the media, etc). Heck even we, "highly paid" tech workers are now facing the same issues - housing is expensive, corporations want to squeeze every penny out of us, we are being manipulated, etc.

Then there come people like Jones, and fill in the void, and suddenly name the issue (naturally they name a false issue, but nonetheless it sounds plausible to the untrained), and they do so in terms easy to understand. Now if they do this for a decade or longer they've successfuly radicalised people and polarised society just like we have been radicalised into thinking that these folks are just idiots and have no value.

That's why we need patience, active listening to their concerns, and actual real solutions that take into account the needs of both sides.

> people think it was a conspiracy and Epstein didn't kill himself

The guy is not interesting nor is the gossip. What I am worried about is that there is a climate that can even lead to a conspiracy theory. It means a good chunk of people don't trust any of our institutions (EU/US/UK) - the police, the government, the media, the prison system, are all rightfully prone to being suspected of dubious acts. We haven't been therein that cell, and the revelations surrounding Epstein have shown that even people that once were considered to be trustworthy beying doubt are now less than 90% trustworthy. Us saying he did kill himself is as ridiculous as those saying he didn't. We simply don't know, we paid investigators to do their jobs with no room for doubt. Why aren't they doing it?
I agree with you. However, now that you bring it up, I wonder what the law says? My guess is it's technically still not legal, at least in the US. :(
I think this thinking tries to obscure an immense yearning that is buried within people who may want families, but do not feel it is realistic for them. I know this because I post a lot about my own children on twitter and some of the DMs I get are essentially confessions from men and women saying exactly that.

In survey data completed fertility is usually way lower than desired fertility, and even then on surveys we cannot expect people to necessarily say what they really want if they do not think it is achievable for them.
Wrong. You are the one making strange assumptions.

For one, your narrative fails to explain why such a drastically disproportionate number of Indian migrants are from upper castes. This is difficult to overstate since nearly all Indian-American migrants are from upper castes that collectively make up only a few percentage points of the total population of India. If you can't explain this, you're obviously missing something or choosing to ignore it.

A college-aged upper class Indian whose parents are alive would have significant wealth and mobility without having investment funds, obviously. As such, their expected path would be through attending American colleges and work visas.

The cost of migrating from India to the US is tremendous. In addition to the more obvious tuition costs and practical costs of uncertainty/risk, the corrupt market for work visas is favored by upper class Indians specifically because it allows them to leverage their family's wealth in what is effectively a black market for access to US employers interested in hiring Indian migrants, and in-turn access to work visas.
I'm surprised nobody made fun of you with the typical ageist-conformist fashion nonsense that permeates tech discussion these days
I've actually worked on a failed-ish (or at least put on pause) development for a government (no names!).

There's plenty of other explanations that don't include corruption.

Lack of scope, mismanagement, what's developed isn't what they wanted, the people who decided the specs aren't the people using it so it's useless, etc.

We actually ended up delivering the first phase of the project (well, the 2nd iteration as the first was completely fluffed up by other developers trying to make a really complicated SPA that wasn't needed), but declined to bid on the second as we actually lost money and it was by that stage obvious they wanted the moon on a stick for phase 2 for very little money.

One of the Big Four were looking over the architecture in the 2nd iteration to make sure it could "scale" appropriately. But they knew exactly the load the app would face. 120,000 applications every year in the space of two months. It would never increase significantly as it was a factor of the total population. And it was basically a glorified 10 page form (admittedly each page had some complicated question routes depending on answers).

The architecture, which included event-sourcing, API gateways, load balancing and an inexplicable use of the mediator pattern (didn't make the slightest bit of sense), was utterly pathetic. Yet signed off as "best practice" by two separate software architects in the big four.

Within weeks I was pointing out serious bottlenecks in the code plus violations of GDPR that the client had explicitly said to watch out for. Any time we had to add a new property to the most important classes we had to change about 30 odd files, it was "best practice" gone nuts.

All that crazy architecture when a simple, normal, sane, "monolith" web app could have handled that load easily on a small VM. For a lark I refactored the DB saving code to see how much simpler I could make it and think I got rid of 25 of the 30 files and thousands of lines of pointless code in a day or two. Of course, it wasn't signed off by the "architects" so I didn't bother trying to check it in.
That's pretty hilarious. LinkedIn will be forced to respond by attracting loud chuds writing problematic screeds and complaining that they get blocked.
Well South Korean is a peninsula, effectively an island, so you're probably fairly safe there if you don't agree to get on somebody's boat or plane. Accepting a plane ticket to a country like South Korea just isn't very risky. Where you might get into trouble is accepting somebody's invitation to smuggle you across a border, or being taken to a country where the rule of law is in doubt or where you could be driven across a border into such a country.
Well, Twitter doesn't need it, but they clearly want it! I do see synergies so in case Tesla goes 100% key-less...
Do you work for a corporation? Most likely you do. What is a corporation made up of but the people themselves?

We all have a choice. It's just a hard choice that you are not willing to make. You aren't willing to sacrifice.

If the corporation made the choice for you, you'd still be paying the same cost. It's no different. You either stop buying oil or they stop selling oil to you.

It's just a blame game your playing with no solution.
Musk’s Twitter Takeover
https://archive.ph/nvw8j
If this article is concerned about ethics at IBM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust might be an interesting read for people who haven't yet.
Adding to that, alcohol is worse in these categories.
Cheers! It looks to be slightly more limited compared to Goodreads (e.g. no expanded series/universes, no different reading orders, etc.) but its the best alternative so far.
And downright dumb-sounding.

"Todes"

Please stop.
There are many Indian languages where verb conjugations are either male or female and there is no neutral option.
Skype consumer (skype.com) has nothing to do with Teams, Skype for Business, Lync, or Office Communicator. People are getting this very confused in this thread.

They shared a name for a handful of years. That's it.

Teams does not share components with Skype consumer; at most they both used SILK, but Teams moved to Satin in 2021. It does use [backend] components from SfB as it is the evolution of that service.
As someone that lived there with a kid a while back, I agree, and it's only gotten tougher since I left.

> What's the solution?

Let's start by identifying the problem. The problem is that everyone wants to live in Seoul, or even in particular parts of Seoul. Is there a solution to that? Hard to see what it might be.
But it costs extra, no? It's not included by default with Teams, Excel, PowePoint and the others, right?
> is that the professional journalism you speak of

No. Obviously not.

> It takes zero years to be a modern journalist

Yes. That's obviously not what I meant by "professional journalist." Most web "journalists" are professional journalists in the same way the Kent Hovind is a professional scientist.

There isn't a sharp distinction, just like there isn't a sharp definition of what pornography is. But most people can nonetheless recognize it when they see it.
Haha, that must have been every start-up at the time.
I really dislike how you jumped some conclusions on implementation.

Nobody has any clue how they will gather this data or even if it is for android or iOS.

It could be part of the X phone. X could use the camera and implement their own face unlock for X. X could use voice.
It's surprising that "least requests" is still so less commonly used than random or round-robin. It's a simple metric and yet it handles work-sharing remarkably well, without any need for servers to communicate their load back to the LB. (As you correctly say, the LB needs to be aware of idle/keep-alive connections in order to balance properly)

[Also, to be pedantic, it should really be called "fewest requests" - but I've never seen a product call it that!]
An airliner being diverted for a kidnapping might happen if a country were trying to nab you, but that isn't a realistic scenario for a criminal gang to orchestrate.
Are you serious about this? This climate doomerism is frankly ridiculous.

Do you have any genuine studies that show such impactful effects?
It doesnt matter how we developed. My city developed for walking first. I can and do walk to places like 10 mins to the grocery store. The problem is for most people, if they have an easier choice than physically moving they take it. So they would rather drive two minutes than walk 10. Its also evident whenever I see an escalator. The escalator will be full of able bodied people while the stairs along side it that take as long to get up as standing still on the escalator are empty, because people chose the option that involves the least effort every chance they get. Never mind getting a little bit of leg exercise on the stairs. At work I routinely see healthy people take the elevator 1 floor instead of the stairwell right next to the elevator.

We have to be taught the value of exercise and being physically active because most people don’t default to that.
The actual title is "The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover". HN automatically removed the first 4 words.
Or just tax the shit out of the rich until they can't afford to flaunt their wealth as status
Yes! My wife and I live in a rural mountain area in California. We only have one car, and it's a car because that is what is most practical for 95% of what we do. I'd love to have a kei truck for a second vehicle. Mainly for little runs to the lumber yard or to the local green waste disposal site after clearing our property to reduce our exposure to wildfires. And it's small enough to be out of the way when not in use. The one pictured in your link has 3 tail gates (back and two sides) that can be opened to make it a flat bed when needed. It won't haul multiple tons, but I never need to do that. Alas, they are very hard or impossible to register in many US states, including California.
As others have mentioned, this is impossible to get right -- for the simple reason that there is no consistent order -- not for the same country, the same geographic area, the same culture, or any other marker you can possibly think of.

Example: in Malaysia and Singapore, Chinese people can have traditional Chinese names -- SAA for surname and 2 characters that's their "given name" so to speak. Some have an English name -- but it's written ESAA. Some only have one character names, so it's ESA. Some surnames have 2 characters, so ESSA/ESSAA.

When filling out US forms, ESAA usually turns into Englishname Surname, and SAA turns into Givenname Surname. So the display order for the first is firstlast, but the second is lastfirst. Same country, same culture, different display order depending on whether their parents gave them English names or they chose one later in life.

When there's a middle name field, often ESAA names turns into E AA S - first middle last. This display order is wrong. It should be first last middle.

As you can see, even within the same country, same culture, same neighbourhood, you still don't have a consistent order. It's simply not possible to do this in a consistent way.
HN doesn't want to hear that.
I haven't tried every single one, but the AWS public ECR has a bunch of the "library" images from Docker Hub (e.g. public.ecr.aws/docker/library/golang:1.21 ) and as the "public" part implies, no creds required to access it

They do have a search interface, if one wanted to look for their favorite: https://gallery.ecr.aws/
I didn't think Google as comparable, since there is fully featured free tier for documenting.
For Word, Teams and so on, there is not.
Cops are by and large right-wing, not left. Historically, progressives have gotten the sharp end of the bayonet more often.
How does this compare to Beancount + Fava?
Norwegian Government Funds Elfly's Noemi Electric Seaplane – FutureFlight
Had a similar experience. Came in to college with very little programming background and wasn't sure if CS was right for me. Truly enjoyed CS61A and how simply it worked up from primitives to explain more complex concepts over time in an approachable way. The best part was no hand waving and everything was fully explained.

I had previously tried to learn Java as my first language and never could make sense of all of the "public static void main(String[] args)" and handwaving involved to write a simple hello world.
I have been suspecting this for a while. I am a Christian, and YouTube regularly recommends channels about atheism with provocative titles not long after I watch a few videos on theology. Facebook has been doing similar things for the last decade, monitoring likes and reactions to determine what makes a person the most upset and engage the most. It would not surprise me if Google decided to do the same to drive engagement.

The rage train is profitable and has no breaks, after all!
Typescript tells me that it will start to break soon if it ever gets abandoned.

JavaScript packages are one of the fastest routing rotting set of dependencies.
Is democracy the only acceptable endgame? I worry we're mixing up ends and means. Democracy is a means, and "good government" is the end.

In the last few decades, the overall Chinese population has seen dramatic upticks on all sorts of quality-of-life measurements. It doesn't look like an obvious kleptocracy. The surveys we have, regardless of how much it can be claimed they're cooked, indicate the public is broadly happy with the government. Maybe a single-party system works for them, at least at this point in time. I'd argue if you have multiple diverse functioning government types, that's worth preserving. Ecosystem diversity is valuable, just from a perspective of "when we get the next big crisis, maybe one has better tools available to solve it."

There's nothing wrong with dangling Western style democracy as an option to the Chinese-- "if and when you want to try it, here's a body of experience and we can consult", but treating it as an end-all-be-all for an audience that broadly isn't begging for it is asking for friction.

This, of course, assumes a level of good faith which I suspect is delusional. The real narrative was always less about democracy and human rights and more about property rights. Saudi Arabia has a terrible human rights record, but the West feels safe enough that they're not going to nationalize their investments, so it all gets swept under the rug, alongside bits of Jamal Khashoggi's corpse.
> 99.9% of people won't ever get colon cancer, and therefore won't ever benefit from a colonoscopy.

But they may have complications from a colonoscopy, that's the idea. No test is completely harmless, even a blood work. You save some lives but may loose others, that's the point of the paper. And of course you waste resources that can be used to find a cure.
Oh, sure, this _can_ work (particularly as a throwaway joke, as in Bottom - "Any relation?" "Yes!"). However, in the case of the above show, it... didn't. The pilot's available on Youtube, or at least used to be. It is Not Good.

Hitler in sitcoms is a bit like brain surgery. When done carefully, judiciously, sparingly, by highly skilled professionals, it can work well, but the haphazard amateur approach is quite undesirable.
Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way
Climate change (ice age), epidemics, war, famine…
My original point was meant to nod towards survivorship bias. I won't argue that choices are great now, with tons of niche offerings that are a delight for many. But using Stardew Valley as an example doesn't hold up well for creator success; many (if not the majority) fail in the Steam store despite their efforts and quality.

I think this is generally true for much of the gaming industry in general. There are indeed so many titles that several very big releases years in the making can drop off the scene shockingly quick, if only because new ones show up so often now.