skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"intense preferences of the minority" are enshrined in the constitution. The senate, the electoral college, and the states themselves are designed to protect the minority of property onwers. It's designed to slow progress. Read Madison.

Also, I'm sure Bloomberg writers LOVE attempts to replace Democracy with some weird economic neo-market model.

Coins...get a grip, man. EDIT: Sorry. "Tokens". Whatever.
When I worked for a german research institute we had this policy for all US travels. They did not see a necessity to do this for any other country.
> Call me a dreamer, but I believe unbiased reporting should be the goal of journalism and I associate a "political bent" with poor quality.

If you want "unbiased reporting" you get articles like: Angela Merkel ate Aspargus yesterday.

That's unbiased. It's also irrelevant. Anything more interesting will always have a bias as long as it is written by humans.
Running Your Company, by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison (YT Video Summary)
> The Times is taking down its paywall from May 3 to 5 so everyone who registers can browse as many articles as they like

> everyone who registers

Nice move, to celebrate “freedom” by collecting personal data that will most definitely be used for marketing and upselling subscriptions.
"Don't let the stats sway you - think of the propaganda!"
To be clear. I don’t support this policy. What I’m suggesting is that by misleading/lying to an agent you might make it worse.

This sucks and is stupid, all forms of dragnet type operations are.

In this particular context, you could specifically discard 2fa tokens, etc., such that a password isn’t enough to login to these accounts. Now this might mean that your entry will be denied, but you will be incapable of giving them access to what they’re asking for.
Thawing permafrost, faster even than climate models predicted, could release so much carbon that feasible reductions in human carbon output will never be enough. [1]

A similar worry is methane hydrates. [2]

It seems that the only remaining hopes are rapid progress on carbon sequestration on a vast scale, or risky geoengineering.

[1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-06-24/thawing-permafrost-co...
[2] https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/energy/methane-hydrate...
> Couldn't the same argument be made about why it made no sense to create the Linux operating system, since there was no business case to do so?

But there is a case to do so: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

> we can be more nuanced here and keep a lot of the business benefits while caring more for users.

If you are talking about "business", then we should not talk about "users" but "customers". And it so happens that most "customers" (so far, at least) consider it more valuable if the business also is responsible in keeping (and securing) the data. For these customers, putting the responsibility of controlling the data on them is a burden, not a privilege.
I think what would stop it from being effective is that an opposing team could do the same, so they’d have to guard against that. It’s just not a silver bullet I mean.
macOS Falcon Sensor Hack
No, they should not have forced to allow all comers to air an opinion (not that that would necessarily have been a bad thing), but the situation you've given is one of a time with healthy competition between a plurality of media outlets. If any one of them a) was a monopoly in its sector, and b) was also providing a platform initially to anyone that wanted one, then I would agree with the comparison.

Considering the Patreon fuss and now Mastercard's "human rights committee", it's not only "build your own website", it's rapidly moving towards "build your own bank". It's not realistic.
What field are you in? This applicability of this strikes me as wildly different depending on the field and the standards of the university.
Razorpay has been such a terrible experience for me as a consumer, that I'd actively avoid using it as my payment processor.

I know at least 3 scam operations having their payments processed through razorpay, and these are proper scams selling non existent products. So far all my complaint emails to razorpay have gone unanswered.
You comment would have been more well-received if you explained the issue, rather than just linking a page that doesn't.

Anyway, it's "could/should/would have" which in its contracted form is "could've" / "should've" / "would've".

If you were going to only include a link, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/could-of-or-could-ha... would have been a better choice, for example.
Sure, that makes sense. I was just pointing out why ITV specifically doesn’t mind: they’re getting the money!
The one thing that really makes a difference for me is having an agenda for the meeting a few days or week ahead of time. This allows me to really reflect on what part of the meeting is important to me and how I can best contribute.

If you get an agenda same day and everyone is super busy, the meeting tends to be unfocused and a real waist of time.

Meeting length is another important factor. An ideal meeting is 15 minutes and should not exceed 30 minutes. Anything longer causes fatigue.

One other thing I think is important is to really have one person drive the agenda. If two people start getting into a detailed discussion, and these details have no bearing on the rest of the attendees, the person driving the discussion should step in and ask them to take it up outside the meeting.
Funny how an article popped up on HN last week that mentioned table inheritance in a list of obscure Postgres features you should try out.

If I'd read this first, I wouldn't have wasted Saturday finding out for myself why you shouldn't use it.
Even if people in cities weren't using cars it would still be a problem if they were designed badly, and worth discussing. Conversely, even if cars' electronics were designed well, that would mean very little to the discussion of whether they are optimal transportation in cities. In summary, your comment is in the wrong thread.
Alibaba Aims to Prevent Retail Fraud with Blockchain
The thing about subscribing the New York Times - is that you still have to deal with a tremendous number of ads, seemingly every other paragraph. The solution is simple, just install an ad-blocker. But then why not use that ad-blocker to just bock cookies and bypass the paywall, since I’m gaming the system anyways? I guess I could consider my subscription a donation because I’m going to use an ad-blocker either way. But why can’t I pay to have a great experience? I considered subscribing through the iOS app, but of course there is no way to block ads. So unfortunately, I don’t receive any breaking news notifications.

The browser experience is ok with an ad-blocker. But why not reward your subscribers with a great reading experience? Remove the ads, focus on good typography, etc, and I would pay whatever you ask. Preferably through an app.

Edit: I’ve been a subscriber for years, and I’m willing to pay regardless. I just think they could improve by making the subscription meaningful to a generation that doesn’t want to see ads.
There are literally millions of single issue voters who vote for conservatives because of abortion in the US. Literally millions of people.
TL;DR: A company pays their employees $20/hr for open source contributions done on the employees' own time with no strings attached. They also expand this to community promotion such as technical book writing and mentorships. They find this program to be wildly successful and highly encourage other companies to implement the same programs.

I for one am extremely excited that this is reaching front page of HN and entering a broader mindshare. OSS represents everything I hope the tech industry may become someday in the future- high quality work produced by intelligent, talented people for the benefit of all.
> So the business model is asking users for a donation ?

Well, in some articles the donation box is bigger than the article itself, so it's apparently an important part of their business model
None of those were on the questionnaire. The minor difference in wording is significant.

> The best bullshitters think they are telling the truth.

This redefines bullshit so broadly that we're not even having the same conversation. It's also an uncharitable way to view people who are just wrong, as we all are about many things.

How would you feel if someone said that to you the next time you were wrong? Or are you the only person who gets to say things they believe without being accused of lying?

Either way, marking an answer on a private, anonymous questionnaire is very different from lying for personal gain.
> From economical point of view it's catastrophe today (just stopping using fossil fuels cold turkey will destroy the economic structure of our civilization) versus catastrophe tomorrow.

I think this is a false dichotomy, and so do many economists [1]. We can start phasing out out the non-essential use of fossils and come up with replacements for the remainign parts in the coming decades.

Painting it as this kind of desperate dichotomy is generally playing into the hands those who don't want us to address climate change.

Remember that the changes aren't only chilling on the economy - the energy overhaul is an enormous global public works project.

We are using energy and energy-intensive products in really wasteful ways because of their low cost in our everyday lives (consider oversized cars and low occupancy, available savings from turning heating & cooling to lower levels, going veggie in food, cutting air travel, not to mention all the wasted energy in commercial/industrial side due to low energy costs).

[1] See eg https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/opinion/paul-krugman-coul...
Next to the other suggestions there's evozi's apk downloader that generates apks based on pasted Google Play URLs[0] and the ability to download apks in the proxied Play Store replacements 'Yalp' and 'Aurora' which are available in F-Droid

[0] https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/
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"All largely propaganda" is a Hafler Trio piece that mostly consists of a soundbite of a BBC (state media of the UK) journalist describing the state media in another country as propaganda, repeated over the longer extract from which it was sampled, so that the effect is to underscore a message that the journalist probably never realised they were communicating - isn't this ALL just propaganda anyway?
My sentiments about this issue are mixed. I don't really like ISIS using our networks and our services for their propaganda. Should those who promote the sexual exploitation of children be given a free pass, too?

What concerns me isn't censorship, it's that LEGITIMATE speech is being censored. I'm not sure where Alex Jones falls on that spectrum, but labeling him as a hate monger is just an easy way to quell that speech and make it unavailable. I don't see that man as a neo-Nazi, although I don't think neo-Nazis are any big threat versus neo-communists or whatever the actually violent groups who have large numbers of followers are out there. One thing is certain, far right violence is not a problem in the US, despite what the media wants us to think. The truly violent mob behavior is on the left and it has the approval of the media and many large city councils and mayors. How else could ANTIFA have such free rein across the Western US?
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I think they are actually receiving the funds.

It is worded quite ambiguously, but I think what it actually means is that they receive GBP25-30 million a year from the Scott Trust, which they use for expenses and capital costs.

The article on the same topic in the Guardian itself a couple of day ago states:

"Guardian News & Media is owned by the wider Guardian Media Group, which in turn is controlled by the not-for-profit Scott Trust, named after the newspaper’s former proprietors.

The Scott Trust endowment, built up through the sale of former assets such as AutoTrader, produces an annual return of between £25m and £30m without depleting the main investment, which it allows to be spent by Guardian Media Group to subsidise ongoing operations."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/01/guardian-break...
Agreed. The amount of books at these stores has drastically dropped, and they rarely have what I'm looking for anymore. The crap they do have is now devoted to targeting a demographic I don't belong to. It's hard to argue with their success, but it's just no longer a store for me anymore.
>I guess you are hung up on the fact that OP used hyperbole to say that "nobody" is going to focus on local-first software and you are trying to win an argument by taking this statement literally.

Well, I was mainly responding to the closing paragraph.

>So yeah, sure, if you were to build a piece of desktop software from a clean sheet of paper today, this is a really good guide on how to do that. But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.

I could be more charitable and invent other things that I think they meant to say rather than focus on what they said. You are not the first to suggest it is a failing of mine that I do not do this.

Personally I think that if someone says say "But nobody is going to. Because it makes no business sense to do so.", it is reasonable to point out that there are plenty of motivations beyond 'business sense', and to point this out is fair comment, rather than getting hung up on anything.
Arguably censoring them does expose you to something worse: it establishes a bureaucracy and social norms that are perfectly fine with crushing unpopular and diverse opinions. It's a simple tyranny of the majority.

Sure, you consider this speech abhorrent, but switch the scenario around and consider how enforcing these types of norms stalled real social progress in the past: gay rights, women's rights, rights for visible minorities. You're dreaming if you don't think these new norms won't be applied against you.

So I disagree, not deplatforming does protect you.
> Consensus shouldn't be the goal.

Not for everything, correct. But there also are ideas that can hardly coexist and areas were consensus seems necessary. Politics is an obvious one, since at the end of the day the laws we make will govern all of us.

> You google it, read the arguments of the vaccine-autism connection people and decide that - no, they probably don't. You're now free to vaccinate your children with confidence.

It'd be great if the world / human nature worked that way. But then we also wouldn't have got to a point were falling vaccination rates are a problem.

> [..] If you post about it online then you'll be banned [..]

Simply banning everyone doesn't sound like a good way to form consensus, doesn't it? That's a bit of a straw man, isn't it? Have you ever seen someone advocating for banning someone for genuinely asking questions? Do you think the people this article is about were just asking questions?

But yeah, determining who is a bad faith actor isn't an easy task. Especially in highly divisive times.
Hey, thanks a ton for this! Is anyone persecuting The Guardian for this?
On top of that, you can easily emulate non-determinism in deterministic systems and vice versa. So why would it even matter?
It's not absolutely impossible. DXBC was well reverse engineered, and DXIL could also be a direct target for translation. It's up to future work, which for us also includes writing an in house shader converter as a substitute to SPIRV-Cross.

This isn't a big concern at the moment though, since most of the shader loading/compiling time is spent by the driver receiving the result, not us translating it.

Generating a text shader at packaging time is certainly an option to explore, especially for self-contained users like WebRender. The trouble here is that we adjust the shader code based on the pipeline and pipeline layout, so we can only really start translation at the run/init time, unless we start pre-packaging a set of "popular" configurations (which is feasible for WebRender).
"Pumping to the cloud" is not compatible with my idea of not wanting state or other nefarious actors to ever have any access to my data, ever, whether I'm crossing a border into a hostile state or otherwise.

I'd rather see some kind of application which takes my data and replaces it with pictures of kittens and other harmless things, using steganography. If the fascists want to see what I'm doing with my own property, they're going to have to look at some pussy.
Glad to hear they're finding a way to make money.

My impression is that Indigo is a seller of physical books at a time when reading is increasingly going online, so they are turning into an odds-and-ends store for the people Stuff White People Like was written about.

It's as if people started drinking less and less coffee and Starbucks slowly morphed into a kitchen-gear store.
I don't really get this "have the old media survive" stuff.

Media always need resources to get produced, no matter which format. So they are never independent. Whoever provides these resources has the power. But that's not a big deal because it applies to almost everything. And if you say profit is the master ,then you need to do attention whoring and advertisement. If politics is your master then you do propaganda. If a super rich is your master, then you will keep silent about their allys and denounce their enemies. All that is normal. It's not perfect but it can't be improved either. You can only exchange one master for another.

And you also don't have to worry that there won't be a master. Of course there will always be people who want to reach out to N other people for a number of reasons. Some people just like the attention, some use it for power plays, some use it to convince people to do something.

And no matter what's in it, there will also always be consumers. Because they too like a good show and some attention.

So honestly we should simply not mind. If you work in the industry see where things are going and develop skills in that direction. If you own a medium, try to innovate and/or buy developing new media. If you are a consumer simply consume what you like the most.
I suspect the "point to a worse medium" request was for a medium today, not the 1890s.
The growth of M-PESA and the challenges it faces in Kenya
A sales pitch accompanied by a tragic photo is in poor taste also.
But in meatspace?
> You make your money when you buy, not when you sell.

That's a false dichotomy - we should "buy low, sell high." Obviously both events contribute to your total ROI.
I have two young kids and we probably did 50% of our Christmas shopping in Indigo last year, the rest being on Amazon.
Oh my, don't show me that. My son is going to college next year. I don't believe that the situation with alcohol is so awful. I'm sure such habits are taken from his surrounding while growing up.
This book might be worth a look: http://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/istc/html/index.html
From the article:

> Contemporary photographic convention denotes lens apertures with a slash, such as ƒ/22 or ƒ/64, but in its writings the group always used a dot or period instead (as in "f.64").

Edit: then again at another point the article says:

> A small poster at the exhibition said:

>> Group ƒ/64 —
>>
>> ...

Either I'm misunderstanding something or the article is a bit confused.
Women Scientist Wikipedia Pages Being Attacked
I can only guess... when you buy the actual paper there's still ads. In the end they are an advertising company. They write things to increase circulation (hits and copies) so they can get more people to see more ads. That's how it's always worked. That "subscribe and you won't see ads" probably makes no sense at all to company that spent decades selling paying subscribers printed ads. People spend money to buy print ads, why wouldn't they mind paying money to see ads on their electronic device as well? They (The Times) and most subscribers probably don't think it's any big deal to pay to see more ads.
Indeed, that is the reason character fields have traditionally had a length in RDBMS. However, many of these optimizations get broken by unicode support.

Consider a CHAR(1) field. Without unicode support this field is always 1 byte, and therefore easy to store. With unicode support, however, the value that fits in this field is actually between 1-4 bytes. However, in many cases users will only store 1 byte in this field. Storing this field as a fixed length 4-byte field will in many cases result in a 2-4X increase in size and hence waste a lot of space. Thus even with CHAR(1) it is usually better to store the strings in a variable-length manner to avoid wasting space; and CHAR(1) is the absolute best case for this type of optimisation. This gets way worse with larger CHAR lengths.

It's also worth noting that even if we could store a fixed one byte that that is likely still not the best way of storing a CHAR(1) field. A CHAR(1) field is typically used to store types or categories. Typically, a column like this would have few unique values (~2-8 values), which means we can reduce the size of these values to 1-4 bits using dictionary compression instead of a single byte, resulting in a size savings of factor 2-8X over storing a fixed one byte length.
I've noticed they can catch Chrome in incognito, but it doesn't catch Firefox in private mode.
It's unclear to me if this addresses the spoiler effect which I see as the single, biggest issue in US elections right now.
The money one is a bit worrying, at least if "numerical" includes floating point types. It's almost never a good idea to use these for monetary values.

If you are going to have different currencies I almost always would go for integer types (I don't understand the "rarely" advice here) as the fraction may vary greatly for different currencies. It's better to derive the fractional from the currency.
The U.S. Constitution grants most of the same rights to non-citizens within its borders that it grants to citizens. Things like due process and legal representation are guaranteed to non-citizens within U.S. jurisdiction. There are of course exceptions, like voting, but none of those exceptions are relevant here.

Homeless people also don't have a legal address, but a homeless person won't be imprisoned for a year pretrial and separated from their kids for speeding in the car they live in.

And no, if you get arrested for most misdemeanor crimes, you will usually not be imprisoned and separated from your family for sometimes over a year with no planned method to ever contact each other again. You are just wrong about this. I'm aware of (and rather outraged by) cases where people convicted of serious felonies (in one case, assault with a deadly weapon) are given sentences that still allow them to live with their children most of the time.
It's an esoteric language, they usually aren't designed with any practical application in mind. They're more like art projects.

Despite that, I can think of one interesting use case: steganography, to hide one program inside of another. Kind of like whitespace[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
I'm a fan of anything that helps open source, but in my experience it's more effective if the employee is able to work on open source projects as part of their job. Then again, maybe that's just my current evening burnout talking.
It's not pressure from society, it's pressure from specific activist groups like the SPLC.
>realise that reducing our collective carbon footprint will result in considerable reductions of one's individual standard of living.

Given that there are significant disadvantages and the benefits are entirely collective, why would anybody agree to that?

We need to accept that climate change is a thing and deal with it, as a thing.
If the Sulzbergers or Jeff Bezos were interested in journalism, and not propaganda, they would endow their papers as non-profits and walk away.
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