skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to have a healthy democracy we first need the rule of the law.

Constitutions are made to define the foundations of those laws and protect citizen minorities against majority abuses: what if 80% of the population of a region decides to expel the other 20% because of whatever reasons?

The fact that the state tries to preserve the integrity of the country is necessary to keep the rule of the law. For if it just renounces to a region, its power to enforce its law is lost in such region.

Now let's assume a particular region decides to secede. That region's people, industry and such is the product of a historical process: there has been some migration, investments in the region and outside the region, etc... Thus, in case of secession under what law its decided how that secession is done? Who has legitimacy to define the rules of the law?
Opinion differs, but many ad-supported sites would say yes. I'm not sure if it has every been tested in court. "Fare dodging" might be a better concept to compare this to.
Starship is a devastatingly powerful space access and logistical transport mechanism that will instantly crush the relevance of every other rocket ever built.

If I am a launch provider other than SpaceX, I'm out of business in probably 3-5 years.
How can serverless improve? – A free webinar happening in 2 hours
What’s my grandpa’s 32” worth anyway?
the ugliest part of the site imo is the super dark borders around the code snippets near the bottom. Should have kept it simpler
Yes and that's pretty much the definition of volunteering too.

Volunteers get laws and protections to prevent exploitation, which is what the NY laws were probably created to prevent.

Turns out that the genuine and thorny question of free labor keeping Reddit/FB and other platforms alive is going to be tackled via NY laws.

(Yes, FB also has its own paid moderators and outsourced staff who suffer PTSD etc.)

I for one think this is a great conversation - moderating isn't cost less, and takes a toll on the moderators, for which there is little recognition.
Well, I started with Angular and couldn't make any sense of it. It had two versions with huge differences between them and React offered a more concise path for learning.

But I found JSX hard to read and there was no consensus on how to write CSS and some people were saying that it was ok to use inline styling. WTF? The web design community have been telling me the opposite for years!

Then I started working with Vue and everything fallen in place: no deprecated lifecycles, CSS into style tag and easy to read markup with no Array.map() returning HTML tags.

Fragmentation is bad, but is nice to have a balanced option between extremes.
"Even though Man is responsible for a lot of ignition, he's not responsible for all of them. Even if you completely removed civilization, it's still going to be a fire."

Actually, other than a one-in-a-billion naturally occurring compost pile that, by chance, falls into place and reaches burning temperature, internally, the only natural source of wildland fire ignition is lightning.

Which is interesting because in many parts of coastal Marin/Sonoma/Mendocino/Napa counties, there is, essentially, no lightning. I have lived in Marin for ten years and have seen lightning exactly one time - and that was during the rainy season when ignition would have very low consequence.

Wildland fires in the north bay / Sac Delta / Wine Country are ignited by people ...
> the key left of A is ESC if tapped, but CTRL if held down.

Ooh, I like that. Despite using a keyboard for many many hours every day, I've yet to build my own that exactly fits my needs; rather I remap and/or adapt. Gonna have to look into this.
Russia Tests New Disinformation Tactics in Africa to Expand Influence
Biotech venture has actually outperformed tech venture in recent years. But the venture firms that have done well are specialist venture funds that only do biotech.

I'm writing some detailed articles on the topic, but check out this chart from Previn on the top performing funds from 2007-2015: https://mobile.twitter.com/zavaindar/status/1159660549615116...

All the $100M+ funds on this list are biotech funds: The column group, flagship, orbimed and foresite

Tech VCs have seen these returns and want in, but they have not been major players to date. In 2018 less than 10% of series a rounds in biopharma were led by tech VCs [0]

These days biotech startups can get very big very fast on comparable amounts as tech startups. But he structure in returns is such that you need more concentrated portfolios and low loss rates to do well

I think the narrative about biotech becoming more like tech is a way for tech investors to try to fit more power law driven portfolio strategy into biotech. Bioengineering advances have been incredibly important the last few years, but it is not really correct to compare the pace of product development and value creation in bioengineering to software engineering. I also think it's a bit of a red herring. Biotech VC has done fine on its own. If anything software VCs should take some tactics from biotech funds

[0] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/top_vcs_2018.html
There are some good examples of what not to do. Your button state example is the best.

I agree with you that they've turned the dial too far.

I'm hoping someone has a good collection of examples where the designer chose obvious interactions and visuals instead of something "clever" and it turned out well.
A lot of these tools have very little money or support. Some of them have had 1m+ views last election.

If something interests you, you could offer to help the developers involved.

(disclosure: I am involved in the project)
I think the current Nokia phones are one of the best on the market. Clean Android distribution, solid hardware. Maybe not as successful as before, but certainly competitive at least.
A sunshade seems like a horrible idea. There are obvious implications from the increased motivation to use fossil fuels. Biodiversity will continue to plummet until there is an ecological collapse. The people with the keys to enable or disable the shade will be influenced by short term profit. Then once fossil fuels are gone there will be a giant energy crisis. Buying time is good only if that time is properly paid for. And there is the risk of unintended consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
Platforms far offshore.
No it wouldn't. It's not just the fact that people are doing unpaid work. There are a number of other requirements that have to be met, which SE seems to meet with regards to how it handles moderators. Just being an unpaid moderator doesn't run afoul of the laws.
This reminded me of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy - an awful lot of it is about the technical processes and political issues presented by terraforming, and one of the techniques explored is the use of giant space-borne mirrors, both for shading and increased insolation, depending on the target body.
Right to exit is an important foundation of legitimate rule. Plato's Crito has Socrates make the point that, even sentenced to death, he was bound to respect the laws of Athens as he was someone who had made the voluntary choice to remain in the city all of his life until then and under those laws.
After using Flex for a couple of years I have to agree. There always seemed to be two ways to do things: 1) Through the XML 2) Through the code. That may seem appealing initially but gets really ugly when certain developers do certain things with XML and others code. It basically doubles the API space and syntax.
> Wouldn’t social networks fall under a similar category?

Most social networks I'm aware of pay moderators.
Caught in U.S.-China Crossfire, Eastman Orchestra Cancels Tour
While I appreciate your compliment about my prose, it is no less factual for being "poetic". The Inquisition was established as a genocidal institution against the Jewish and Muslim populace of Iberia, many of whom fled, and was later extended to serve the mission of obliterating the native religions and cultures of the New World; the price of this dominion, for Spain and later Italy, was the intellectual degradation and descent from greatness into mediocrity, as learning could only flourish outside the Catholic world. The burning of the Mayan codices and of the khipu were fruits of the Inquisition, losses of learning whose depths we will never fathom.

For every Giordano Bruno burned at the stake, a thousand monks prudently refrained from exploring controversial issues, and a hundred thousand loyal Catholics remained fettered in an intellectual darkness so profound they could not even see their chains.

The cost of the Inquisition is not to be measured only in the smoking corpses of scholars and Jewish and Muslim people, or even those falsely accused of practicing Judaism, but in the lost memory of entire civilizations, and in the books that were never written. It is to be weighed by the end of Galileo's scientific career, in Descartes' cowardly refusal to publish his greatest work until after his death, and in his inability to learn from the criticisms that ensued. It is evident in the near absence of Iberian and Italian philosophers from the birth of physics, chemistry, and the calculus; even Lagrange left Italy in the end.

That today we fly through the air like birds; that we live in artificial mountains of glued-together stone; that we walk on the moon; that we use precious steel where our great-grandparents used wood; that only one in thirty children die before reaching adulthood, instead of one in five, as through all human history; that we routinely cure cancer; that I am writing you this note in letters of lightning playing over the surface of tiny stones from the other side of the world — these miracles are all thanks to the fact that the Inquisition did not reach England, or Prussia, or the Low Countries, except briefly. These miracles are thanks to the noble fruits of free inquiry.
Look-and-Say Sequence
Those are quite obviously buttons. The difference is the design is flat versus the style in the post.

Those are a thousand times better than "buttons" that are just underlined text.
Do you truly believe that retro gaming provides higher value than providing unconnected communities with access to Wikipedia and associated knowledge sources?
But Bell Labs is remembered for things like the transistor, which had huge impact.

There's a basic assumption you're making here and which underlies a lot of the writing on this topic - that it's desirable, even morally virtuous, for research funding to be disconnected from application.

Bell Labs funded the transistor and not radio astronomy because apart from making cool TV documentaries, radio astronomy isn't actually useful for much. If we knew how to travel faster than light and explore the universe it'd be extremely useful, but we don't, so learning things about what a remote corner of the galaxy looked like a few billion years ago is easily argued to be a rather absurd waste of limited research dollars.

It's exactly what this op-ed in the Scientific American is talking about: a research field optimised to produce papers independent of any concrete economic utility function. In a world where such things get funded, what exactly should scientists be measured by? They can't be measured by market success because nobody cares or has any use for their output: their work is pure academic navel/star-gazing. So they pretty much have to be measured by volume of output or respect of their peers, both of which are closed and circular systems of measurement.

In my view the right fix for the science crisis is not to pay scientists to research whatever the hell they like with no success measurement at all: that really is directly equivalent to just firing them all and putting them on social security (or "UBI" as HNers like to call it). The right thing to do would probably be to just slash academic funding dramatically and reduce corporation taxes so corporate research can be given more funding. The net result would still be a drop in the amount of science done, but as Bayer's study makes clear, "not enough science" is not the world's problem right now.
Interesting. Just tried PaulStretch.

While it sounds more "logical" without the strange micro-repeats, it takes all of the punch out of the music.

On youtube, at x0.25 a drum hit goes from KABOUM! to something like:

KAKAKABOBOBOBUMUMUM

While with PaulStretch, it goes to something like:

FFHHAHAHCHCHOHUHMHH

No kick, no pressure behind the lower frequencies anymore.

It sounds like it is far far in the distance.
Maybe Reddit should be turned into a shopping mall type of business where subs can be run however the sub mods want, but they have to pay a monthly rent to Reddit. I wonder if that would make things better or worse there?
Notepad++ new release “Free Uyghur” edition (v7.8.1)
>Following the judge's veredict of the Catalan politicians

Not just politicians, but activists too. Jordi Cuixart is doing 9 years for organizing protests.
And then you can just travel through Boring tunnels.
I haven't been paying too much attention to the whole thing, but is this related to the transphobic moderators who resigned a few weeks ago? I don't understand the motivations of all the players in this game--people would really try to shut down SO rather than just address each other by their preferred pronouns? That's wild to me
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. The ship hasn't flown once. Also, there is an design issue with the Starship, there is absolutely no redundancy with the fins on the ship. If any of the fins aren't working as planned, prepare for a disaster.
It's not launched yet.
Moderating is very different from a letter to the editor. A moderator is making editorial decisions on behalf of the company using company guidelines and standards. They are held to a set of standards as well, and released from their service if they violate them.

Contributions are more like letters to the editor. The content has value to the company, but the company doesn’t exert control over either the asking or answering of questions.

The whole point of Stackoverflow, which was pretty clear if you listened to the podcasts that described some of the early planning aspects of the community was that it would be self-governing. Decisions were later made to implement a Wikipedia-style moderation system, which is problematic at a for-profit company.
That was indeed my point - whereas one can't in JSON.
I don't remember people being treated all that well when the state is powerful either (see: the CCP, USSR and sadly its successor). The best times have not been the anti-capitalist ones, but the ones where people take care of themselves and hold people who get in the way of that to account within the law.

If society is unable to prosecute criminal negligence, that's another matter; it's not about a mantra or ethos or something, we just have to do our jobs, and things will get better like they have been.
It was a warrant issued by a Spanish court that Github legally had to comply with. So Github did the minimum it could do, which was to block the website within Spain.
Xkcd: Emulation
This is spot on, I graduated with a degree in genetics and cannot articulate this any better.

Biology is very hard, it's more about discovery and iteration and a lot more deeper than tech.

Very few understand this, so it's been amalgamated with tech to promote the narrative.
So our solution to polluting our planet is to pollute the space around our planet as well?

What happens when those space shades get hit by micro meteorites causing them to alter or de orbit?
The APIs are broadly equivalent, see https://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/09/03/

What unfork does is more complicated than a mere read, though. I'm still not entirely clear on its use case, but it does all sorts of tampering that the code comments describe as "cursed." It also seems to be specifically targeting applications which have anti-debug measures.
I would think that pre-existing contracts would keep competitors limping along. Add to that pre-existing relationships + a bit of nepotism, and they might last quite a while.
technical beside, I'm worried about the hit-by-a-bus factor, even though Evan is no longer the sole developer, he remains to be the crucial single point of failure. for that alone I chose React, yes it's harder to start there, but the job market and a large company devoting to it made me sleep better.
It would indeed be nice to see a comparison between Inferno and Oberon. From a distance, Alef and Limbo (the system languages used in Inferno) look like obvious predecessors to Go.
Thanks I may give this a try. I desperately need to get off Juuls. I went from smoking a pack every 1-2 weeks to ecigs (20% down to 5% then quitting completely). Got hooked again at some point down the line (I still enjoy nicotine when my tolerance is low) and didn't want to deal with ecig drama (juice, batteries, etc) and tried a Juul. Loved it. Did zero research and didn't know that Juuls were nic-salt, I didn't even know nic-salt was a thing. I went from a pack a week smoker to practically one 5% pod a day. So now I'm basically a 5 pack a week smoker. Contrary to what every article I saw about it said "It's clearly labeled that a pod is a pack of smokes!" I have bought tons of Juul 4 packs that don't say that. It's my fault for not doing the research, of course. I honestly thought the 5% was equivalent to my ecig juice 5%.. Don't make my mistake. Now that I'm looking at this caliburn it's clearly 25mg-50mg. I never smoked anywhere near that.

I've been trying to use 0 nic pods but they don't hit your throat at all so it's really not got the effect I need. The flavors great but it's the equivalent of eating dessert and blowing sweet air out of your mouth afterwards.

To add even more pain to this I'm sitting here smoking mint pods which are what this articles about..

edit: I grabbed a Caliburn, if anyone is having a hard time finding lower mg nic salts I found that www.cloudberryvapors.com will make them to any of your specifications. I went with 12mg and got a sampler pack.
... and was, as far as I can tell, shut off completely unnecessarily.

Forecasted and actual winds during this entire period, in Marin, did not exceed normal, seasonal winds and I don't believe the populated areas of Marin (San Rafael, Mill Valley, Ross Valley, etc.) get their transmission through the wildland.

I will be interested to learn the rationale for the Marin shutoff when I call my county supervisor and state reps, etc., next week.
As a ux designer it can also be incredibly hard to find a job that's doing actual ux research. When I worked as a UX designer every boss just wanted me to confirm a design is "user friendly" instead of taking the time to research user flows and designing behaviour.
This kind of worship of heinous warmongering is disturbing. Is HN really the audience for military-industrial agitprop designed to boost the CIA in the eyes of the general public?

It is, literally, one of the most evil organizations that was ever built.
If you can get your hands on the original game, it runs excellent in a Windows XP VM. Just played it a few weeks ago.
I've found products are hard, but services can be easier especially ones with free trials/free tiers. But like, I had one going pretty well and then it dried up. For me personally, I find it harder to want to do affiliate programs because it seems more like a personal endorsement of the product/service than Adsense.
It was a warrant issued by a Spanish court that Github legally had to comply with. You can be angry at the court for issuing such a warrant but you can't be angry at Github for complying. They are not above the law, even if they may disagree with it.
Since the threat is so imminent, are there specific climate change predictions that have come true?
It's probably worth knowing that Buzzfeed News is a different arm than the Buzzfeed "listicle" notorious for crappy clickbait.

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
All this attention.... and yet billions of cigarettes are smoked every day, and one could say every single one of those cigarettes has been "contaminated" for 50+ years.

Why are we not stopping cigarettes from being shipped around the U.S. immediately under these exact same concerns?
Because merging two address spaces together is akin to the act of spooning.
the quoted sentence is false. The tsunami democratic has not been confirmed as a criminal organization.
So does msgpack
The point that you and GP are missing is that these CRTs are what they have lying around in their area already. They aren't coming to the United State and such to buy up CRTs. The could just as easily use flat panels if they are available.
Google rejected my very organized site(https://www.nmmapper.com) for now good reason at all. And yes I got an alternative which has good payout.

Now I use revenuehits.com
How much of the worlds fuel would be used doing hundreds or thousands Of launches a year
We remove it?
Wouldn't solar radiation pressure blow them all over the place?
Ha, didn't think of that when I wrote it, that's a good point. I looked at it from a Talebian perspective, so to say, and forgot about that approach.

In any case, I stand with what I meant: that complex systems should be treated with the highest degree of care, and with a "not-do-anything-by-default" mindset. The ramifications of interacting with it can, and surely will, be unpredictable.
A friend of mine was one of the metallurgists who worked on raptor. It wasn’t like that... They went through dozens or hundreds of incremental improvements over years with lots of time in the lab looking for micro fractures and other issues after every revision. In typical SpaceX style, the team was working 70+ hour weeks in burnout mode and my friend promptly quit after the alloy was “done”. She seems much happier now.
This is so incredible and well executed. It's crazy to see how quickly GANs are moving (e.g. check out this tweet [1] by Ian Goodfellow on 4.5 years of GAN progress) ... excited to see what they can do a few years from now!

[1] https://twitter.com/goodfellow_ian/status/108497359623614464...
"Most" would be more accurate.

Flights that want to orbit over the poles take off aiming perpendicular to the rotation instead. A few satellites have been launched backwards intentionally.
My browser is not reliably auto-completing URLs to specifically post a new tweet, or create a new calendar entry, or write a new email, etc. Those URLs are often long and bulky.

The intent of .new is when you know you want to perform a specific action (like write a new doc), you type in the first few characters of the related .new domain name, let the browser autocomplete do the rest, and now you've already got the new thing and are working on it instead of having been deposited at the home page of the site in the question and then have to navigate through the UI to make the new thing yourself.
I believe one idea being explored is offshore platforms, a few km from the coast in harbours and things like that. This would theoretically be a pretty safe (and quiet) way of getting very close to a large city, with only a short boat ride to get to the shore.
I would be so down for a risc-V laptop running redox
This shouldn't be such a big surprise to those who inform themselves about the war business and its criminal usurpation of democracy in the West.

The same legal machinations that are used to suppress free speech in the West, especially regarding Western military failures, are also being used to suppress reporting on Julian Assange's torture in Bellmarsh today.

We have well and truly slipped.
For programming related websites, CodeFund[1] is an option. I tried both Carbon and CodeFund for one of my websites[2], and CodeFund paid out significantly more.

CodeFund is also open source and seems committed to desirable principles, like not doing any user tracking through cookies.

In a feedback survey, I said that I hope they can one day expand beyond programming websites and become a general alternative to AdSense.

[1]: https://codefund.io/

[2]: https://www.makeareadme.com/