skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that didn't make a different entity. Sure the Principate differed from the Dominate, but it was all continuously the Roman Empire. At the time the Western portion of the Empire fell it was legally controlled by two emperors in two capitals. The Eastern capital and emperor persisted. There's really nothing more to discuss.

The US Constitution has also undergone a number of changes since the founding, and society is very different than it was 300 years ago, yet it would be absurd to say it's not the same entity.

Internal changes are just that: internal changes. The Empire itself never fell until 1453.
Yep.

There are two sides to any story. We only get one anymore; which one depends upon the political affiliation of the media organization or author and how it relates to the subject. The other side of the story is immediately dismissed as either a smear job or puff piece by partisans.
> I'm not labeling his actions astroturfing because he's biased, I'm doing so because his bias is paid for...

I understand that, but I'm arguing that the bias from financial incentives are just one form of bias. (That's why I said "or whatever".) I mean that it's not useful to divide the world up into no/negligible bias and bad/paid bias, regardless of what you call it.

> ...and undisclosed. That's a textbook definition of both astroturfing and acting in bad faith.

In fact, as stated in the article, the payments were disclosed. Do you have other reasons to think he's acting in bad faith, or just your mistaken belief that the payments were undisclosed?
I think you mean: you speculate that the GT and Taycan will be in same category as the Model S and will be nicer than the roadster. Since literally nobody outside of VAG has sat in one.

You may also want to walk back the claims about overheating. In one of the press videos, a Porsche engineer explicitly says that the number of hard accelerations over a short time will be limited to 10, or so.
Counterargument: consumers are free to switch their entire phone to enjoy the rent-seeking behavior of another party on another platform.
The author lost credibility by describing statistical significance as unecessary for making informed decisions.

In this context, that’s just not correct.
I have. My gross is now about one-third of what it was a few years ago. Briefly, a really ugly divorce that I didn't see coming pretty much sucked the life out of me.

I'm inferring that you have a family to support. (If it's just you, I'd seriously consider declaring bankruptcy.) I can relate. For what it's worth, this can be the lot of men in our society. I don't think it's an indication that you did anything wrong. Good luck.
> Yes they want their cut from Spotify. I don’t understand the Apple exceptionalism about this though.

No Spotify's letter put it very clearly, they want to take their 30% cut from Spotify while putting their own music service on the market undercutting their prices. This is blatantly anticompetitive and is rightly being slammed by Congress.

Apple's response to this has been shrug. I don't think Apple shouldn't be allowed to offer their own music service but they shouldn't use anti-competitive practices in order to stifle competition.
On that scale I doubt you pay the same as your average Shopify webshop.
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> you have no right to both keep secrets and allow other people to know them.

But presumably one ought to have the right to not be charged an outrageous fee for someone to keep their secret.

It shouldn't be illegal to share someone else's secret.

It should, however, be illegal to twist that secret to your advantage by exploiting the vulnerable state of the person to whom the secret relates.
Higher egg and cholesterol consumption hikes heart disease and death risk
> and then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to.

I'm confused... Doesn't that also apply to career lawmakers? Is there any statistically meaningful data to suggest it's better to have a lawyer or a judge than a hacker in a position of power?
Hey, just so you know, it seems that you've been hellbanned/shadowbanned. So when you're posting, most people can't see you or respond to you, and your posts are automatically flagged and "killed". It looks like it happened about 7 months ago when you posted some comments about not liking Nazis. Very strange that you're being punished for being vocal about disliking Nazis!
This is even worse because has the same bones as a well known telephone scam.
1. Which "side" do you think I'm on?

2. What am I gloating about?

I posted this link because reddit is a YC company that makes money hosting a lot of hateful content. If it makes you feel better, I'm sure it does so on all extremes of the spectrum.
Cool, link to repo? Oh...
Argument 5.

5. It is especially wrong to gain money by hurting someone.

As long as the blackmailed keeps paying, the blackmailer doesn't do the hurtful thing.

But then I suppose the very act of blackmail is considered a harm. But if that is true, then it should be illegal. Like assaulting, raping, robing, stabbing someone.
Sancho will join man United this summer
>> what he really intends to do

Doesn't matter to his voting base. See e.g. Obama. Obama did very little of what he promised in the first term, got re-elected anyway (heck, even I voted for the guy). But unlike Obama, Beto is not going to be the president, not after losing the race to one of the least likeable candidates in his own state, and not with a DWI on his criminal record.
Thanks for pointing this out. The wording there didn't quite capture what it was supposed to. We've gone back and adjusted the language to reflect this (I helped edit this post with the OA).
Trauma from the civil war sounds much more plausible than Buddhism or emotional restraint. Twenty-five years of war is bound to leave a generous portion of the population with PTSD and grief of loss. People suffering from PTSD or grief tend to have higher suicide rates in other countries.
Front-runner in what sense? I don't think he ever led in the polls, did he? e.g. https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-...
If you ever meet someone from mainland China, such as university students, they take criticism of China very seriously. For example, mentioning Taiwan as an independent country is an offence and will shock most Chinese mainlanders. But this is similar to foreigners criticizing the 2nd amendment or similar parts of American culture. It will create the same passionate response in most Americans.

The more Chinese students learn about websites such as reddit, the more you will find these responses. You can't just expect them to just sit idle. The fact that English is not their native language will however make others qualify them as trolls/bots
No doubt many people will turn out to be wrong about this. You simply need to make your points without breaking the site guidelines, as do we all.

You've unfortunately broken them again just now. It's explicitly against the guidelines to insinuate that people you disagree with are astroturfers. Would you mind re-reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following them carefully when posting here? We don't need you to change your views, just express them within the limits specified. We have those limits because we're trying to preserve the commons for everyone.
This probably reads to some like "debate over its legality is unimportant because it is illegal". I think it's not known by a lot of people that it is illegal (in many places), and not initially clear from the article, with it appearing to argue that blackmail should be made illegal.
It definitely would not. "Entertainment" to me would include industries like sports and gambling, which are, to most people, not art (although some gambling could be argued to be art).

I'm not sure why some people in this thread have such a strict definition of art. Hollywood blockbusters are just as much art as poetry.
Building more water storage doesn't address the fundamental problem that California uses more water than is actually provided by nature (on average).
Has Apple ever tried to defend their rule that apps can't link to or even inform users of the existence of off-site registration or payment methods? That has always seemed like the most absurd thing to me and the most blatant example of Apple's true intentions with their app store.
Is anyone aware of tools/research on instrumentation of such activity on social media? I don't mean text mining or semantic analysis of trolly content but the patterns of activity and interaction. At present I use directed graphs with k-means type clustering/community detection algorithms but that can lead to difficulty seeing the forest for the trees.

Imagine, for example, that Hacker News members were grouped in different teams - red, greeen, yellow, and blue - and that the teams competed to dominate discussion threads and grow their own discussions as semantic 'territory'. Imagine further that you had to represent this without any text, using only the time, post size, and threading structure, but with prior knowledge or manual curation of team membership. I'm particularly interested in how a thread could be represented spatially, but not as a time series (ie viewing progress over time would require animation). It's easy to visualize the ebb and flow of territorial conflict on a geographic map, with armies crossing borders and territories expanding or shrinking over time, but how to do that for emergent 'territory' like the expanding and branching threads of a busy discussion topic? I sometimes imagine it like a growing plant or tree with different colored leaves to represent competing affiliations, but there are surely better approaches.

tl;dr how can you visualize evolving discussion threads without using text?
Who's hyping things up here? Musk.

No-one made him promise (sorry, offer a "goal") of coast-to-coast driving but himself and his ego.

He even admits that _he_ missed the mark he offered, but still you blame _us_ for having unrealistic expectations.
Publishing and/or otherwise mishandling classified information isn't a crime unless you have (or had) a security clearance.
I should probably start making my "Psychedelic Warlord 2020" lawn sign now.
Ask HN: What are CS topics covered in school, that aren't learned in the wild?
I'm a self-taught dev with a solid understanding of a broad scope of CS topics. However, I've recently learned that some companies filter during the interview process for CS-grads only by asking topics that specific to CS in school, but aren't necessarily learned in the wild. A good thread example is the one from yesterday about DP problems[1].

So what are some CS topics/concepts that are covered in school, but aren't learned necessarily as an Engineer at work.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396042
I can't tell if they included video games / interactive entertainment in this. If they didn't, it would be an even bigger figure.

There is a huge bias against the entertainment industry in a lot of America. On Fox, if they use Hollywood as an adjective it is a pejorative. Meanwhile our culture exports are the envy of the rest of the world, who subsidize and protect hoping to catch up.
> Stardew Valley was released for Android yesterday - $8 purchase, best money you'll ever spend

I agree. Stardew Valley is one of the rare modern games that is actually wonderful and a joy in pretty much every respect.
That's just how it goes.

Revenue streams never go away. Government becomes dependent on that revenue and continuing to collect is it easier than re-shuffling other revenue around or choosing what to de-fund so the revenue gets kept.

Get used to your drought surcharge. It's not going anywhere.

Edit: Based on the popularity of this comment one would think government revenue streams go poof all the time. If anybody has evidence of this I would like to know more about is to I can advocate for replicating those circumstance in my state.
But.... volkswagen can?
I noticed certain builds of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 offer an electric motor assist that also includes idle engine shutoff. We can only hope that is becomes a standard feature, electric motors in traffic jams would be wonderful.

http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/gm-engines/l8b/
> in a business setting where the very nature of what you build has to be arbitrarily mutable—

I just don't use Haskell there. I personally use OCaml for my data in, data out problems (compilers, generators…), but for inherently interactive and mutable stuff I just do imperative programming. Of course the type system (and the performance characteristics of the runtime!) must be suited to the problem domain.

> burying details deep in type class patterns, relying on dozens of special case compiler directives to enhance Haskell...

Looks like someone went overboard. I think you (your team?) should have been more conservative with the compiler directives, and less abstraction loving with the type classes.
You should have a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/ it reminds me of a communist times I was living years ago.
Residential water use is minimal. Most water is used for irrigation.

Further, cheap water storage results in increased evaporation, it’s a net loss over time.
> Sanders was the frontrunner last time

No, he wasn't. Ever. Clinton was, consistently, and at a similar point to where we are now with respect to 2020, Biden was (slightly, but pretty consistently across polls) in the number 2 spot. And both Biden and Sanders were somewhere around 50 points behind Clinton.

> and they kneecapped him.

The “they” that did (the Clinton-allied team that was in control of the DNC leadership in the years before and through the 2016 primaries, and had a fanatical commitment to assuring her nomination) isn't around any more, nor is a parallel group committed to any other candidate in a similar position.

Nor are many of the rules which facilitated they and their media allies efforts to do that, in no small part because of the substantial influence of Sanders allies in the DNC since the 2016 election; most notably, superdelegate voting privileges have been curtailed.
> A terrible experience all around. It was a threat to induce action, but neither extortion nor blackmail.

Pretty sure that would be illegal under, for example, German law (§ 240 StGB, Nötigung); delivering a threat in order to have you do something (or not do something) that, when implemented, would create an [severe] disadvantage, is punishable even if you could not actually implement the threat (like the guy in your story).
Goals that they are willing to charge customers for, make statements to the SEC about, and we want to hold them to those things? Shame on us.
Your personal accusation of disingenuousness distracts from what would otherwise have been a good point. Let's see what a barebones setup costs for developing with a solid IDE on each platform:

macOS:

$800 Mac Mini (Apple's most affordable offering that runs macOS)

$90 Acer SB220Q Monitor

$FREE Xcode

Total: $890

Windows:

$200 Dell Inspiron 11 3000 (Most affordable Dell PC I could find being sold new)

$1200 One time payment for Visual Studio (but you don't get updates)

Total: $1400

So if have to both buy a computer and need a full featured IDE then Visual Studio's license wipes out any savings you get from avoiding the "Apple tax". It gets even worse if you want perpetual updates to Visual Studio which cost $800/year but come free with XCode.

This is counter to what I had expected beforehand myself, I expected the "Apple tax" to make the bar of entry much higher than PC development.

If, on the other hand, you can get by with a less advanced IDE or are developing in a non-proprietary language like Java, Python, or Scala the cost goes way down:

Cheapskate Option:

$200 Windows/Linux laptop

$FREE Eclipse/JetBrains CE IDE/Visual Studio Code

Total: $200

This is certainly more affordable than the $800 macOS alternative. Although one could debate whether the above mentioned IDEs are on equal footing with XCode/Visual Studio.
Using that interesting measure of charge speed Tesla used in their new V3 super charger announcement a few days ago, MPH (miles per hour of charging), the new super charger does 1000 MPH.

US gas pumps are limited by EPA rules to 10 gallons per minute. A gas pump that is going top speed, filling a 25 MPG car, "charges" at 15000 MPH.

A lot of pumps seem to go at half that or even only a third of that, which in practice can cut that down to 5000 MPH, which is still much much faster than the V3 super charger.

On the other hand, I think I'd be much more likely with an EV to overlap charging with getting a snack from the convenience store (assuming EV charging stations have them like gas stations usually do...), whereas I prefer to stay with my car while gas is pumping, and so can't overlap that with the snack acquisition.

So maybe it evens out somewhat.
Yep, or you could describe the physical product and make sure it's clear what people are putting their email address in for.

Like "we ship a box of surprising Japanese candy to your house every month" then explain why you need the email.

If it was my lander I'd experiment with showing prices before you ask for an email. Just from my experience people are reticent to put in an email without knowing what the reason is.
It definitely seems to be happening here too, I've noticed it as well. Articles about China get very strange activity, including a lot more green names (new users) than you'd see in any other posts.
It finally happened. I had to sign up for Hacker News just to give props. Very cool and inspiring project. Thanks so much for posting.
https://prism-break.org would beg to differ.

Signal was created and enjoys popularity as a high security messenger thats easy for average users to adopt. Google upped their certificate sizes in response to snowdens releases. less trust was placed in NIST/NSA partnerships with technology and several weaker ciphers were outright rejected from the kernel for lack of transparency. Hell, theres an entire laptop manufacturer that sprung up due to it. https://puri.sm/

TLS adoption on websites also increased markedly and the HTTP2 spec made it mandatory. TLS1.3 PFS was also much more voraciously fought for, one could argue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_effect#Technology_indu...
4chan and 8chan have been linked to almost all of the white nationalist and incel shooters of the past decade.

At some point, you need to recognize that what's happening on those boards isn't "free speech", it's "incitement" to commit violent acts, and that has never been protected by any of the free speech regimes, even in the U.S. New Zealand's free speech rights are not as broad or strong as they are in the US.

I wouldn't be surprised if 4chan and 8chan find themselves blocked across most of the globe by the end of the year.
But not 8chan? Where he was a user?
Yeah... I've never heard VIBGYOR. I did a double-take because this was supposed to be "easy to remember" and that didn't strike me as such, but then I realized it was just ROY-G-BIV backwards. Is this a cultural thing?

EDIT: I find multiple Wikipedia articles[1][2] for Indian organizations/events with the VIBGYOR name, which suggests it's cultural. Some guy's/gal's blog[3] also suggests VIBGYOR is from India.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViBGYOR_Film_Festival
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIBGYOR_Group_of_Schools
3: http://nerdruid.com/druidcraft/science/physics/optics/vibgyo...
You don't need to answer every hater speech, your new product/project/success will do it much better.
>They got large because they built things people wanted.

Yes, but since then they've all made some public missteps. Facebook has repeatedly abused user data, Amazon routinely sells counterfeits, Google leverages user data for advertising and has a questionable track record with China, etc... People see that and feel like they want to switch to some competitor, but they don't know of one because Google, Facebook, and Amazon are the dominant parts of their experience of the internet.

What I think most people don't realize is that the world does not in fact revolve around Google/Amazon/Facebook and despite their market share, they don't actually have monopolies in their industries. *diaspora is a thing. So is Duck Duck Go. So is Ali Express (or, you know, just buying stuff at a brick and mortar store) And so on.

In the context of this ignorance, I think it becomes easier to sympathize with some pitchfork rattling.
First, my condolences to all the affected. Nobody should experience a shooting, least of all a mass shooting in a place of worship against innocent people, including children, in a coordinated attack by foreign organizations. I hope the NZ government will grind the organizations responsible for this attack to dust, with help from their friends and allies and our taxpayer dollars.

Second, it's very important to not be taken advantage of. Whether it's funeral homes raising the prices of coffins, or governments taking away civil liberties, people have a habit of accepting bad outcomes because they (very understandably) can't think straight. Oftentimes, those decisions are very difficult to reverse when things calm down and the scales fall from your eyes. An alert, vigilant citizenry is the keystone for a democratic society.

If I was the NZ government, I'd be very interested in screening foreign travel into NZ and banning firearms on arrivals. I'd also be very interested in what the AUS government will be doing about domestic terrorism and spillover, and would scream for greater intelligence sharing. I'm highly skeptical that banning a website will even partially address this issue; I'd rather honeypot it and trace any terror cells for physical locations. And I would increase funding for domestic security, and demand machine-readable receipts for said funding available to anybody with the proper security clearance.

There's no unicorn technical solution to the problem of terror and fear. Technical solutions must be weaved into an overall change in social paradigms and political strategy to address the task at hand. I do think that's our place in this world.
> Why should this person receive any coverage at all?

In most polling (see https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democr...), if the poll includes O'Rourke he consistently pulls about the same amount of support as Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, and more than Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar or Kirsten Gillibrand. So there's definitely enough demand for him out there to make him worth covering.
Well I agree people should work locally and communities should be organised to facilitate that.

> Moreover, the usage is different.
What I am suggesting is in an effort to force/encourage different usage (que communist/fascist labels).

But in answer to your question. Take tram/bus, change to train, change to tram/bus. Pain in the arse. Yes. Maybe that is what is required to re organise around more sustainable communities?
And that's the beauty of electric charging -- you actually CAN go do something else for that half hour, whereas with gas you have to stay in attendance of the pump (safety reasons).

Which means that you can top off your charge while at the grocery store, or work, or whatever.
According to the article at least, all his suggestions have been disclosed following the Wikipedia rules.
conflating employees of propaganda machines with "watch the world burn" in bad faith circus-goers is an unfortunate abuse of language. i mourn for our loss of a good word that used to mean something.

whatever they are, they are much closer to shills than trolls.

do words with specific meanings usually become meaningless when they become global mainstream? the world picks up a communities word and doesnt bother to use it in the old context? reminds me of decimate maybe?
This may not be the most helpful reply but I remember having to use some "importing tool". Wikipedia provides you with standard SQL dumps yet simply importing them into the DB is not going to cut it. The community has created import scripts which simplify the process to a degree.