skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't be a jerk in response to other people's work. If you see a weakness or something missing, point it out in a way people can learn from. Just spraying bile on things makes this place meaner.
> anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now)

Not just HN. Almost all tech companies are HQ-ed (at least for policy making purposes) in and around San Francisco. And they ALL behave the same way - impose their world view with impunity on the rest of the population, at a scale unheard of in human history. Just ponder for a moment that some overpaid Mozilla censorship committee employee, enjoying his/her/zi $20 soy latte in their $4000/month studio in San Francisco got to shut down an entire community's online presence with a single click, because they found the speech there disagreeable (not illegal)
9MJ is roughly 2kg of TNT.

I'm not so sure that kind of energy release would be entirely harmless.
E.g. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A...

The article says 22.6% of Russians don't have access to central sewage according to the official data and seven children have been found drowned this way in 2018.
> pavement (sidewalk)
footpath.
> Everyone with mens rea is guilty of conspiring, not just the person who committed the actus reus.

That's not strictly true; the agreement is the individual actus reus.
What value to the public came of his targeted weaponizing of information?

Nothing illegal or particularly surprising was revealed in the 2016 emails; the only illegal act involved here was (presumably) Russian hackers committing several federal felonies in order to get access to those emails.

Yes, they were embarrassing, but any political organization, or indeed any organization at all, will have mundane communications that seem shocking to an outsider. The RNC almost certainly had more shit talking about their candidate in their emails. Assange had access to those RNC emails, and chose not to release them, even though they'd be, if anything, more interesting than the DNC ones. Assange is no information freedom fighter; he amounts to a political operative who collaborates with criminals to ratfuck candidate he doesn't like, for whatever reason.

He has a similar history with e.g. refusals to release Russian state secrets. Why should we celebrate a hypocrite who is motivated primarily by petty personal feuds?
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Maybe we could have political candidates who aren't criminals so then foreign powers couldn't tilt our elections by revealing the truth about them.
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Militant leftists wanting to outlaw certain speech are no different then the alt right. It’s not as if more reason is necessary for regulating tech. You want to be the new commons, you get the responsibility of the commons along with it. Can’t have it both ways.

Note we heavily regulate private companies in many US industries when we deem it necessary.
This still looks like sci-fi to me.
Integrating and Using CSS Frameworks with Vue.js
> I'm not sure why you think 20% of costs are fixed and 80% are variable

This was based off the "Core Platform Financial and Operating Model" chart in their S-1, which states 75% of gross revenue is attributable to driver compensation. So, I imagine 80% is the low end.

> I'm not sure why you think the elasticity figures are what you suggest they are

I'm not sure on the elasticity figures. It's a guess based on running many pricing tests for my own business in the consumer services space.

> If Uber raised prices by 10% and Lyft didn't, wouldn't bookings decrease further?

This could be solved by acquiring them for $20B (or less, now).

> Realistically, Uber has a higher cost basis than a taxi because taxis cut down on insurance and fleet expenses through pooling.

I don't have too much insight into the taxi business, but in San Francisco, Uber Pool is substantially cheaper (<50%) than taxi fares.

Again, I'm not saying my numbers are right -- only that it's plausible they can be profitable without SDC's.
Sure, but they have probably on-prem git then anyway, now they need two on-prem things?
serious question: would you throw an exception if T2 cannot be created ? or use a variant data-type ? or something else altogether?
Something I've been very unclear about for a long time: to what extent does the EU have jurisdiction over websites hosted and operated in non-EU countries, who don't do any business with the EU beyond serving web pages to EU IP addresses?

Presumably, if China asked Wikipedia to remove something, Wikipedia would say no, regardless fo whether doing so violates Chinese law... right? What makes China different from the EU?

This question applies to GDPR as well.
Why is stocked taxed at the IPO value rather than the current value? Relatedly, what happens if you simply sell the stock? Seems to me like that would just generate income you owe taxes on.
I’m Proposing a Big New Idea: The Real Corporate Profits Tax
Decentralize means a lot and has a lot of impact. It's not as easy as "installing the blockchain".

Instead, it might be more fruitful to take regular archives of it. Indeed, that is a supported action (wikipedia is intently copyleft) and many people already do it.
For all your apology, you're still basically arguing that since a few cyclists flout the rules, we should actively make traffic more dangerous for them and encourage them to drive more.
Unscheduled lithobraking manoeuvre.
No you misread.

> that Facebook is the sole perpetrator of this issue

Perpetrator. I'm saying we should hold the organizations publishing articles about this kind of stuff accountable as well. They use Facebook tools (like buttons, share buttons, login integration, etc) and encourage use of Facebook to interact with their articles. This is how Facebook sips up and tracks a good portion of the web. The orgs publishing these articles are also perpetrators.

> The logical fallacy is your own, nobody in the article, or the comments believes Facebook is the only party doing this.

I'm not proposing there's a narrative convincing society that Facebook is the ONLY organization tracking us, that's just silly. I'm saying there's a narrative that is similar to "tracking people is so shocking we just don't know what to do!"

Today it's Facebook, tomorrow the article will be about Google, Microsoft, or maybe Amazon. Can you believe no one's going to budge a muscle about it?
Ecuador's embassy is their country so the UK police have no jurisdiction. Assange's barrister should file for illegal arrest and get him freed.
This is really cool and I really like the keybase idea, however it's really hard to get people to convert from say Telegram or FB Messenger - the features are so on-par even the lack of dark theme is a deterrant. Point being that I hope you/they implement the most commonly used features other messaging systems have in order to make conversion possible.
MIT News Release about Black Hole Image Algorithm (2016)
How did you get those hashes?

What did you (intend to) do with the resulting passwords.

Luckily, intent still counts for something legally.
they can't break there law and get away with it. what gives them the right to decide what's secret or not? the state is not wholly good, nor are people. but that's okay, a lot of good still gets done. attacking such a system is wrong. attacking it under delusion of moral righteousness, then continuing to live in the shadow of the freedom it provides, is morally bankrupt. it's also stupid. I totally have the authoritarian mindset you refer to, and it's a good thing.

now we just have to get Snowden and Kim dot com.

isn't supporting these idiots the same as supporting me to break into your house, install a monitoring product, go through how you act in your relationships with your spouse and kids, what you do in private, then decide which of that I personally am offended by or think is wrong or you would be embarrassed by, and publishing it?

it seems so obvious to me that idiots like this are driven by ego and arrogance, and the hunger for power they hope to achieve by holding the powerful hostage. it's also obvious to me that they will fail.

finally it seems highly likely to me that these useful idiots were used as pawns by factions within the intelligence community to be the mouthpiece for deliberate leaks. The funny thing is these people thought they were revealing secrets about casualties in wars, but in the end they are just casualties in a political turf warf that made fools of them.

they're not heroes they're idiots.
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Just so I'm clear, are you saying then that it's not possible or desireble to have Rust 201X code link against Rust 201Y STD? Or would that work?

Sorry if I'm not making my thought very clear.
Far, but if Bezos were to incrementally sell off 15-20% of his total Amazon stock, he would still remain ridiculously wealthy, and could pour nearly unlimited amounts of funding into Blue Origin. At least enough to get New Glenn flying reliably in a reusable format and probably enough to fund a Super Heavy size successor to New Glenn.
Is there any reason that Wikimedia does not mention the name of the person in question? Historically, Wikimedia has been in favour of free speech to the detriment of all else, so it can't be out of consideration to the article's subject.
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By net migration per 1,000 population, the countries with the greatest in-migration are:

Country Total pop. net migr. per 1,000

Oman 3,545,192 1,211,000 341.59
Lebanon 4,924,257 1,250,000 253.85
Qatar 2,015,624 363,500 180.34
Kuwait 3,419,581 517,500 151.33
Luxembourg 530,946 48,704 91.73
South Sudan 10,980,623 865,000 78.78
Singapore 5,312,437 397,936 74.91
Macau 557,763 35,000 62.75
Switzerland 7,996,861 382,267 47.80

None of the ten lowest are Communist or socialist, though most are former-colonial and/or failed states, greatly disrupted by "free market" countries' interference: Grenada, Timor-Leste, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Lithuania, Samoa, Tonga, Georgia, Micronesia, Libya, Syria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_economic_...

Your premises are false.
Admitting to being a miscer might put you on privately run HN blacklists.
I love writing Web Components, but they're never going to really be a thing. The promise was that we could create native components without any dependencies at all but it just hasn't worked out that way. Shadow DOM support, the real killer feature, is patchy at best without polyfills. Orchestrating them into any kind of complex app still requires some kind of framework to handle things like passing down props and event binding, which at that point you might as well go full on (React/Angular/Vue) + Webpack/Babel. The dream of being able to share reusable components breaks down the moment your designer wants an extra 5 pixels of padding here or there. It's fun to use them for small things but it's just not viable as an alternative to frameworks.
I have a question:

It seems to me like the rocket lifted off quite quickly, like the acceleration at first (right at t=0) was very rapid compared to other launches I have seen, especially launches with big rockets.

Is this because it's a satellite that can take higher G's? Is it because they're launching a payload with low mass so it has low TWR? Do these engines spool faster than the engines used in other rockets (like the ones used for Apollo or the space shuttle)?

Or, am I just incorrect that this one is faster...

Jealous of everyone who could witness this up close, as usual.
I suspect this is where some of the bike-hatred comes from. People are afraid that somebody is trying to take their car away from them.
...except the Russian state was undermining the non-criminal to aid the known criminal?

Please, point to any "criminal" act that was revealed in the emails (that were stolen and released to Wikileaks by Russian security services).
Do you think Ben Horowitz will give you $50mm just so he can hang out with Nas?
I wish Keybase has a second factor for authentication.
Fashion isn't based on personal taste. It's based on emulating other people and fitting in crowds.

It would be better to train a classifier to learn what clothes fit the current trend.
Background:

https://thewikicabal.com/2019/01/20/waibel-v-wikimedia/
Nope. I meant I'd buy it as a consumer.
It makes absolute sense considering the live video feed is probably coming via a motorized 3-axis tracking Ku-band maritime VSAT system. If you look at aerial photos of the drone ships you can see the radome.

I suppose if they wanted to keep a feed up it would be possible to connect the cameras/network equipment on the ship to something with an ordinary 10Gbps 1310nm LX fiber SFP+ in it, attach 1 km of submarine rated fiber optic cable to a series of floats, and run a fiber optic cable to a small nearby ship with the satellite uplink mounted on it.
On Dropbox, for context when a tech company IPOs there are typically "ratchets" in place that prevent all shareholders from selling stock right away, so initial investors, founders, and employees often each have their own 'hold off' time that can be anywhere from 3 months to a year.

Because of this dynamic, the stock price of the company a year after they IPO is a really interesting indicator of the 'retained' value of the company. Which is to say after anyone who has a big chunk of the company could sell (and that drives down the price) versus how many people are selling. This is where the float is maximized so the stock price is more closely tied to the market value rather than a scarcity value.

Dropbox's performance has been pretty solid in this regard, especially compared to things like GroupOn or Zynga (notable problem children) or SNAP (current poster child).

I don't own any DBX that I'm aware of (I may through an aggregated ETF so for the pedantic folks I leave that disclaimer in) but it wouldn't seem to be a "bad" investment for holding.
It does by the fact that you trust your new device on first use to be yours. You can wipe application data once you close the app if you want to go trough 2FA every launch.
Decentralization has been thrown around as a buzzword for the past year.

I can see a strong case for decentralizing Wikipedia. Or a comparable offering.
It happens right as the spacecraft is recoiling from the separation impulse, so I'd guess it's something coming off from the top of the stage and passing by the camera.
I got lots of question, got bit excited while glancing thru docs.

What is the minimal system requirements?
And what about partitioning, replication, event log, etc.

Is there a native way hook to graphql resolvers?
I really like it either way, there some tools for composing and stitching schemas.

plans for hosted and managed solution?

Did you consider "pageInfo" type, maybe it is just me, but it proved very useful on frontend.

instead of `Movies: [Movie]`

Movies {
pageInfo: PageInfo # { hasNextPage, endCursor }
nodes: [Movie]
}
Is it really cheaper to get deuterium from Mars than it is to refine it from water on Earth?
I really disagree with the consume daily part. I consume news most days, but why can't I just spend some time doing research on the various candidates and what they did over the past several years that was newsworthy in the few weeks immediately before an election? If anything I'd think that would be better as they won't have to worry about having forgotten some dick move some candidate pulled three years ago
According to your logic there is no such thing as an actual millionaire. No sane person keeps a million dollars sitting in cash in a savings account, they invest it somewhere (equity, bonds, real estate, etc).
What was revealed in the 2016 election wasn't criminal, so what exactly are you talking about?
Matrix.org Security Incident
If you miss too badly, you hurt your ability to go to the market in the future. In the extreme you open yourself to lawsuits and activist investors.

In general the big Pops only help the banks and their top investors.
Yeah, it’s kind of funny. But it does seem to indicate that he’d rather cause a fuss than convey the truth.
I like that so much more!
Airtable Expense Logging with Ledger Mode
The shadow dom is just JavaScript, HTML and CSS. For any significantly sized component I would want a framework to wrangle all that.
Are there any healthy, major, "planned" cities? It seems to me that the vast majority of successful healthy cities just spring up naturally at a time and place that makes economic sense. Humans tend to gather and live in groups that are either near a resource or in a location that serves as a hub between resources.
How many paid miles you do a day. Deadheading is not good.
Apparently the game he's worked on made at least 300k $, to split between the publisher (WE Games) and the guy and his two collaborator. And he used a good chunk of his share to fund games on kickstater
It's not about implementation details, it's about programming paradigm. In the case of React, it's

- Declarative, functional API to write reuseable UI.

- REAL reusable business logic with React Hooks.

- REAL universal data fetching with React Suspense.

- REAL error boundary with Error Boundary.

- Learn once, write everywhere!

Do Web Components have the above benefits (yet) ?
Your replies have all been about what these interviewees think about this stuff. It’s quite explicit. You repeatedly refer to “what people think” and such.
But those aren't (imho) compelling arguments for charging Assange with a crime. Press protections should not be contingent on making a judgment of whether a journalist's work is deemed "good" or otherwise noble. Also, being a "private entity" is not a litmus test for whether an entity is public and newsworthy -- news orgs aren't barred from publishing secret/confidential material from corporations or entertainment celebrities.
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So I tried web components two years ago, and it was very painful, and I crawled back to react.

Why should I invest my time in it now?

IE support? Are you kidding me?

I really wanted web components to take off, but they didn’t.

Without a new compelling narrative, I fail to see how they are “the future” in any meaningful sense.

Releasing an early version of something that is bad and doesn’t work (and let’s not pretend the shadow dom polyfill works, it doesn’t)... it’s just, not the right way to do this sort of stuff.
The purpose of an index fund is to buy the entire market, under the assumption that an active fund will not outperform the market (after costs). If you want to avoid certain companies, you should buy an actively managed fund.
I've been in correspondence with a member of Matrix's team, who messaged me under the condition of anonymity that the hacker accessed 7 TB of data including messages. The gravity of this situation is being downplayed, and we deserve a better analysis.
Microsoft: WinRAR exploit gives attackers 'full control' of Windows PC
This is an issue in my field (Engineering) as well.

Most people in my field (materials engineering) are not programmers either they are lucky if they've done one intro course 10 years ago (which was probably done in a language like Java or Visual Basic).

Even then what gets taught in an intro course at university is not the type of code that is written "on the job". I did two semesters of programming courses when I was at uni (as electives) my courses were taught in Java and focused on stuff like object oriented programming and memorizing stuff about "the waterfall model"

There is a pretty big gap between this and my first experience which was being sat down in front of some 30 year old Fortran code which had no objects, no classes etc.

The goto at least in my org when people are trying to understand scientific code - write their own algorithms etc is the 30 year old "Numerical Recipes" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes) textbook. The explanations in this textbook are best and simplest I have come across by far.

I know I personally referenced this book heavily when I was writing code in C to do Spline interpolation/smoothing. I am unaware of any other reference for a lot of algorithms/techniques than this book.

Only other thing I am aware of is the GNU GSL library which in my experience is harder to understand for beginners - even it's example code is "for loop based"

For example:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/bspline.html

If I had to convert this code to R (which I do know) or python (which I've never written) I'd probably write it this loop based style as well it's what I know and what makes sense to do me and the people in my org I'd expect to be interacting with my code. (the "Engineers can write Fortran in any language meme" is a real issue).

Maybe someone should write a new textbook on "modern" way to solve these sorts of problems if such a thing exists I am unaware of it but would certainly be welcome.
The new Proof Integration Guide explicitly says that a Keybase account can only be linked to a single identity on your identity service (but that you can link multiple keybase accounts to that same identity if you want to).
Ahoy ahoy.

I'm a single cyclist and I agree with that statement. Separated bike lanes, as implemented on my commute in Seattle are the places where I'm most concerned about my safety. I'm not yet to the point where I just bike with cars to avoid them, but it's probably going to happen. Some of the separated lanes are nice though, Western ave by the market, going uphill is a long stretch with pretty inactive driveways and it's nice to have space to go slow; although, the separation means street sweeping doesn't happen, so glass from broken bottles stays on the ground for weeks.

We could have a true scottsman argument about well implemented separate bike lanes vs vehicular cycling, but I don't have the opportunity to use a well designed system, I just have the system that's in place. Putting me on the wrong side of parked cars, so I can't see traffic, and traffic can't see me means instead of worrying about doors, I need to worry about whole cars taking my lane to turn right. If I needed to turn left at one of these intersections, there's no way for me to get in the right lane position at the right time, unless I avoid the lane for the whole block.

For me, biking is utilitarian; it's literally the fastest, least hassle way for me to get to the office, given I take a ferry to Seattle. Forcing me into a bike lane where I can't make turns, or pushing me onto a multi use trail with pedestrians slows me down and reduces the utility.
And the instant they become profitable someone will undercut them. Thanks VCs for subsidizing my rides!
Don't forget about the underwriters (investment bankers) who will be paid a hefty sum by Pagerduty (despite underpricing the IPO) and who also just got a ton of goodwill from their top trading clients who got those IPO allocations
I am interested and sent a message, but have not heard or received anything back. I would possibly even pay, if it was a high quality.
It's not only direct contact with the fireball you have to worry about, a large amount of the energy in the explosion would be coupled into a pressure wave and infrared radiation.
Try hiring great talent with a tanking public stock.
> Massachusetts needs to invest in that infrastructure

And that is the crux of the problem. Cities across the US don't have enough funding to maintain the infrastructure they currently have, let alone try to build anything new. Their only hope is to get a grant from the state or federal government.

None of this is sustainable.
this is exactly the kind of thing a nazi would say
What's the status of third party, unauthorized firefox extensions these days, didn't they ban them or make them a pain in the arse to use several years ago?

They might not have to host it, but if they make it hard/impossible for others to host and use it then they're certainly violating the first of the four freedoms of free software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html