skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It did seem somewhat reductionist to say the "elites" are banning free speech to control the narrative.

Here’s a hypothetical to illustrate how this makes sense in my view: the incumbent is always going to control the lions share of the so called free media. Two or three elections cycles ago, the average campaign didn’t know about a/b testing much less how to leverage social to level the playing field. Now everyone knows... now the incumbent no longer has the home field advantage... except.. twitter just changed the rules. One less platform that the challenger can leverage to play up to the incumbent. And let’s see, everyone thinks Jack is great so maybe some of the other platforms follow on... now technology is basically useless for the challenger.. so we are back to the old system where the incumbent takes the free media attention. A return to the status quo. Now why would social media have an interest in that? Oh I don’t know why does anyone have an interest in seeing entrenched politicians staying in power and yet that’s the system we’ve made for ourselves... oh I know pac money / citizens united are all code for republican money so I’m sure a lot of the commentators on here are thinking this will suppress that because that is the “only people who buy political ads” these days... but I’d ask you this - what if some challenger out there might have a chance of flipping a red state and changing the composition of the senate in 2020... except now one of the tools they could have used just disappeared... how do you feel now? Maybe political ads aren’t so bad if they keep incumbents from sticking around so long.
> "free will" as would fit a layman's interpretation of the term is already incompatible with physics

That depends on which layman you talk to and which theory of physics you are using.
> No, money doesn’t easily solve anything

Anyone who has ever had an unreliable car begs to differ. Among a million other examples. Not being able to just solve unexpected problems is the worst part of being poor.

> Envy of other people’s wealth and taking it away by force is at the forefront of every catastrophic economic outcome.

I didn't say 'taking it away', it's more a comment on how taxes should be more progressive.

But if you did knock every billionaire down to 100M... nothing bad would happen. It's less than one percent of one percent of people going from "filthy rich" down to "still filthy rich".
7-year-old boy wins £30M after wrongly accused of being naughty at school
IMO we need to repeal Prop 14 / 2010, the “Top Two Primaries” Act. I’m not saying Republicans are any better than Democrats. I’d pick neither if there was an actual choice (there isn’t thanks to that law). What I am saying, the current SuperMajority has substituted “collegiality” for critical thought and imposing tough choices, and chooses instead to vote as a bloc, called by the Quarterback of their house. The Capitol is literally full of mostly empty suits. Empty until some agenda to benefit their corporate donors is in play.

Having lived through it, I can say the gridlock of the past was preferable to what we have now.

The bad part about Prop 14, it’s only reversible through another ballot initiative. Without a groundswell of support to get this changed, someone is going to have to raise tens of millions to pay for the signature collection and the media campaign.
That kind of reminds me of the old Microsoft CodeView.
In my experience, web interface is much more usable and pleasant than Apple TV app, which is just plain hostile.
That's not the reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587230
Could you please review the site guidelines (all the way to the end!) and stick to them when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They must have some reason to think it's possible. I've also always wondered if Coral Castle was really constructed using some ancient lost technique to harness this power. Takes foil hat back off...
Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde tweeted a reply to someone who asked this question:
“hi - here's our current definition:
1/ Ads that refer to an election or a candidate, or
2/ Ads that advocate for or against legislative issues of national importance (such as: climate change, healthcare, immigration, national security, taxes)”
The weird part is how the California's Republicans have yet to tack to the left. Per Durverger's Law, it has to eventually happen, right? I'd love to know why it's taking so long.
Except "panic" means an ultimately self destructive overreaction.

At least in my personal dictionary.
You just need to combine a harmless virus with a deadly one, such that the whole thing gets copied, but the deadly part remains dormant until it detects a particular sequence in the host.

I'm sure that's easier said than done, but it seems plausible that genetic engineering could progress to the point where targeted bioweapons become a real concern.
And why not contribute changes made to these projects back to the community? This is robbery at best camouflaged as benevolence.
They can’t be in violation of labour law if they fire all their moderators for refusing to comply with the mandatory pronouns CoC!
Which is totally a coincidence that that's around the time of the Roswell crash.
i made 1500$ from my Nokia phones related blogspot.com site before 2013,then Nokia lost market-share i lost my visitors & revenue.

before panda and hummingbird(mostly panda), SEO is very easy for self hosted WordPress blog, create some post and make more tags ,you easily ranked on google search.

*sorry for my english
This is certainly, on the surface, a great leveling of the influence between oligarchical interests and the people. I'm hopeful it will play out that way. I suspect that the oligarchs will simply redouble their efforts on buying bots and influencers instead of clearly marked adverts.

This is certainly more expensive for them, more uncertain, and more likely to blow up in their faces if someone is determined to have been paid. Certainly it may also reduce attainable reach.

It's difficult to see how this will play out even though the alternative strategy is obvious. Hopefully the people will chalk some advantage.

EDIT: As others have noted, corporations, which are inherently right wing, will still be able to promote their messaging, so there is some disadvantage to the left. Marketing pay-day loans? That's a right wing exploitative program for example.
I second this - migrations in Rails are fantastic. Even if you aren't using Rails you can get the styles and source code here https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations....

Large open source projects such as GitLab source code are also treasures to discover migration rules.

If you have a millions of users with high traffic tables you may want to check some migration guides for downtime, data migrations and batch processing here https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/migration_style_guide...

If you want to have some concurrent ways of DDL operations you may benefit from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/lib%2Fgitla...
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Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. Such discussions are predictable and predictably get nastier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe we need to bring back "web rings" and blog rolls.
India's supported and does support BLA, TTP and LTTE.
Federal student loan guarantees and subsidies complicate the economics. Lenders are prepared to provide larger and riskier loans than the marker would otherwise support. Universities can handle only a limited number of students, so they have no incentive to lower prices until it would result in a marginal slot going unfilled.
Step one: don't get paid for showing non-genuine search results.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended?
Just to let you know, the word you meant to use is “ravaging.” It’s almost an antonym to “ravishing.”
Not just the nuclear program. The space programme at ISRO has also been constantly been threatened by foreign powers, often acting with political powers in India. The case of Nambi Narayanan is by far the most infamous, where the Kerala State Govt. was actively conspiring (with what circumstantially, and in Nambi's opinion, appears to be US) against Indian state interests. Imagine the furore that would be caused if Texas were conspiring with the USSR to overthrow the republic, but of course, in India, the media remains mum for reasons unknown.

This shouldn't be surprising - Mitrokhin notes how Indian ministers were falling over themselves to inform KGB/CIA for financial gain, and how Indira Gandhi herself was on KGB payroll. The media (nor the elite) is very different, as many recent scandals have shown.

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

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-kgb-papers-it-see...
Note that this is "in 2019" though. Fox News hired Donna Brazile, who worked as head of the DNC.
QID Emoji Proposal
Johannesburg’s network shut down after second attack in 3 months
The article has little to do with his book.
> I don't think the implied ad hominem is necessary or useful here

Sorry I guess I was unclear. I didn't mean to imply you were virtue signaling. It's just I tend to notice that when someone uses the phrase "social justice <anything>" the phrase "virtue signaling" isn't too far behind. It was still an unkind comment from me, just not in the way you thought. My apologies.
Point 1 is not an issue IMO, you definitely don’t need to model anything schema-wise into SQLAlchemy ORM to make Alembic useful, since Alembic operations translate pretty much directly to SQL. I’ve just built a project last month that uses Alembic but otherwise connects to the database and issues SQL directly.

Point 2 is indeed a big factor though. Alembic doesn’t have much first-class operation support beyond data storage constructs, and if most you need is op.execute() (which runs plain SQL) one might just as well build their own tool like you did.
Do you mean something like this? It doesn't go into exact details, but it does exist...
https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...
Press Releases for Startups: How to Write a Great Press Release
Interestingly, we recently rented a new Ford Escape with radar-controlled adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping. I was pleasantly surprised that it worked as well as it did, and didn’t try to steer me off at exits, etc....

Obviously, it only works when the road is well-marked. And I did find that it usually put me a little further to one side of the lane than I like, but maybe it’s just me that’s off and not the car.

Overall, I had a good enough impression that this is now a feature that I will actively look for on any new car we might buy.
Significant Why Trick or Treating Is a Dangerous Activity
Pakistan and NK relations have basically been non-existent since the early 2000s. On the other hand, India has had relations with NK fairly recently with trade being quire large, ambassadors visiting late last year etc.
I wholeheartedly agree.

Why do you think no other toolchain has come close to this for other languages or frameworks? It’s a very common problems
that needs a solution no matter what you are building and what you are building it on.
He's saying that the schmucks who created the open-source software are not smart enough to operate it or make a business out of it. Only AWS with all its operational expertise is capable of operating it. The open source developers shouldn't even try to make a business out of it. Rather than going to Confluent and saying "I don't want to worry about Kafka again", they want the customer to come to AWS which is fine except that AWS did zilch to contribute to Kafka. If the creators of the open source software want to make a business out of it, who's Amazon to come and say that they don't have operational expertise?
Ok, we'll give you some scare quotes to get some ironic detachment in the title above.
Quite. It's only a cultural production. We certainly can make it go away. It's an critical part of an ecocidal system of production that is incompatible with a living planet. It's also incompatible with healthy, clear-seeing minds. Was it Adbusters who referred to marketing as 'mental pollution'? That almost seems too narrow - I think of it as a cognitive & cultural pollution: the manufacture of desire, for the purpose of cancerous & unsustainable fake economic 'growth'. It will have to go.
I suppose this applies to people who think of "retirement" as being sedentary and not challenging your brain. We need a word for what people in my social group who no longer have to collect a paycheck do, which is embark on things that either teach a new skill, have low probability of payback, or are intellectually challenging for the fun of it.

It isn't "work" in that you don't have to put in time at someone else's business and sign over all your work product to them, but it isn't casual leisure either.
We have something very similar, written in Java. Our extensions specify whether the migration is run pre-release or post-release, in order to facilitate no-downtime releases. The pre-release migration is responsible to not break the running code. The released code is responsible for detecting (if necessary), the pre- or post-release state and behaving appropriately.

Sequence is to run pre-release migrations, deploy the release, then run post-release migrations. Sometimes days apart, in case things need to be stabilized. Testing environment runs only pre-release migrations, until some time before the release, then runs post.

We also have a handful of keywords to run operations in ways that don't lock large, frequently-used tables, or do other environment- or application-specific operations in standard ways.
Aside: that page loaded crazy fast but is anyone else seeing bad scrolling performance? It's strangely choppy on Chrome using my original Pixel XL in a way that HN and other sites are not.
Neither party is for stronger US labor unions. Both parties are pro-globalism and pro-free trade.

It was under a democratic president that China attained Most Favored Trading Nation status. It was Clinton, in the 90s, who did most of the legwork to get China into the WTO - though they officially entered under Bush's term in 2001.
People always prioritize the remembering self over the experiencing self :). Like someone else pointed out, you can strike a balance between the two.
>"make a product and sell it."

So put journalism behind a paywall? That was suggested yesterday and was highly downvoted. People on HN hate the idea of paywalls.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393146
Capitalism is amoral

Edit: This wasn't posted as a judgement, it's just an observation of a trend.
I think they are, because at the end of the day what a society needs if a fairly small group of people doing knowledge work, and a fairly large group of people facilitating that.

The industrial revolution changed that. We now need relatively few people growing our food.

At one time, you needed like twenty farmers for every non farm job to feed that non farmer. Thanks to modern technology, modern farmers provide food for many people per farmhand.

This frees people up to be teachers and scientists and any number of other things that are about developing new knowledge or preserving and passing on existing knowledge.

There is a long history of human cultures collapsing. Some of them collapsed when people no longer knew how to effectively maintain extensive irrigation systems that supported farms and helped keep the people fed.

If our current system collapsed, the sudden die off could be to the tune of billions of people.

There is no shortage of work that can be done. What needs to be done varies as cultures evolve.

There are endless people with problems too trivial to address in a subsistence culture that can be worked on by more advanced cultures that have freed up workers to do things more trivial than just try to come up with enough food to not die of starvation this year.

Sexual satisfaction.

Emotional contentment.

Good social relationships.

Health issues.
Do you prefer discord or slack closed discussion channels that cannot even be searched without being part of their closed community ? There's no sharing there. Reddit shares with the rest of the world.
The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain
It probably should be pointed out that most French-educated famous mathematicians actually came out of schools that pay you to be a student from the undergraduate level (actually third year out of high school).
QID emoji is a proposed mechanism for additional interchangable emoji that is not required to be accepted by Unicode Consortium and yet semantically stable. It makes use of Wikidata subject identifiers (Q12345 etc.), hence the name.

There had been multiple proposals for vendor-specific emojis: coded hashes of arbitrary images [1] (analysis in [2]), private use emoji [3] and now this (originally [4]). Two Public Review Issues ([5] and [6]) are open for this mechanism right now.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16105r-unicode-image-hash.p...

[2] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18203-coded-hashes.pdf

[3] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17375-remaining-tag-seq.pdf

[4] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19082r-qid-emoji.pdf

[5] https://www.unicode.org/review/pri405/

[6] https://www.unicode.org/review/pri408/
Did you ask about dilution and things like what happens to your shares if the company sells for 3x or .5x etc? There’s a number of things to know before hand but 1.5% seems nice to my uneducated eyes.
Slightly-faster-in-Fortran. But it wasn't just a slight gain. The system I'm referring to is a multi-national system that processes somewhere in the order of 50-100 million transactions a second (depending on the time of day, and the day itself).

A slight performance gain of 1% by using Fortran has a noticeable effect on long-term economic gains. (It was usually in the range of 5-8% performance improvement, but at the worst was 1%).

Thankfully, the reason I can tell you this, is because they tested it in the real world, splitting all transaction across a large-scale A/B test.

The real-world economic gains from the faster performance more than paid for the occasional development costs of a Fortran-familiar developer, hence why those systems persist in Fortran. They also scheduled re-assessment of this once every five years, knowing it might change one day.
Ask HN: How do you study/learn new topics for competitive exams at a fast pace?
Some context, I did my bachelors in Electronics Engineering. In my country, we need to write an entrance exam (called GATE - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) to do a masters. I want to get a masters in CS.

Syllabus for entrance PDF - http://gate.iitd.ac.in/Syllabus/CS.pdf

[Previous year question paper PDF](http://gate.iitd.ac.in/OldQP/2019QP_CS.pdf)

I can see that the syllabus revolves around a bachelors level CS education.

I read many success stories online about people who are able to prepare for the exam alongside a 9-5 job. But somehow I am not able to follow the pace at which they might have prepared/learnt the topics. [This](https://gateoverflow.in/blog/8146/gate-overflow-schedule-for-gate-2020) is a sample timetable that is popular online which is recommended to follow.

I notice in [reddit OMSCS](https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/) people are able to balance 1/2 classes alongside of work, 12-16 weeks per sememster/class which seems realistic to me.

I have the last spent 3 months learning Discrete mathematics from Rosen. The past 2 months with Data Structures and Algorithms using CS61B (still ongoing).

I am trying to understand what I might be doing wrong/different compared to the success stories. Maybe it's the lack of background, maybe they're smarter. I don't know. What I do know is that I would like to learn CS both for the purpose of knowledge and for the purpose of the exam. I would appreciate any help/pointers from the HN community regarding this. Thank you.

EDIT: If anyone can point out how I can make the urls clickable, that'd be a huge help.

EDIT2: New to HN, I don't understand why I can't comment on my own post to make my urls clickable
It would have been nice to see what particular plants were used in this study. I somehow doubt that all plants react this way. Considering some plants grow under water, others such as sequoias are dependent on fog for their irrigation. Interesting article none the less.
Web rings were indeed great.
"Sites similar to ..." queri3s in search engines are not a good replacement.
It's not "obscure" TLDs in general you need to avoid (although, .com really isn't that hard. go with getname.com or nameapp.com or something if name.com is taken for you) it's cc. There used to be a company that offered free subdomains on .co.cc and they were heavily used for spam. The vast majority of .cc sites you encountered were spam. It was a while a go but it made a noticeable ".cc = spam" impression in a lot of peoples minds.
Is it due to Elizabeth Warren complaint?
It's as good as it ever was. If anything, it's probably better since 8ch imploded.
Bias and Generalization in Deep Generative Models
Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to build prod desktop apps?
- Anyone using flutter in favour of electron for side projects for desktop apps?

- If so what is your impression especially if you have used both?

- Do you have all that you need out of flutter for desktop that you could have gotten in electron?

- Is it faster to build in flutter or in electron?

- Do you have all the components you need?

- Is there enough support?

- Do you find easily answers in google?

- Do you feel like it's immature?

- Do you regret and wish you used the other?

- In terms of development speed is one 1,2,3X the other?

- Is tooling mature for any?

- For CRUD applications what would you recommend?
With rising Chinese sales makes you wonder if the trade war isn't doing more damage to the us than China. If it was about more competition that should also hurt overseas sales.
Its noticeable on my chromebook as well.
I can't help but think the author has recommended (1) storing backup keys (presumably in 1Password?) (2) storing OTP key generation QR codes in 1Password, so it can generate OTP codes for you.

Doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of "two"-factor authentication? If your 1Password gets hacked the attacker has both your passcode and one-time password?

You should consider keeping these two separate: If your 1Password unlocks with FaceID, do not make your Authy (or etc.) also unlock with FaceID. Otherwise, you're defeating the purpose of 2FA (something you "know" and something you "have"), I think.
I know it's payware, but shout out to Redgate SQL Compare (SQL Server for sure). I managed schema comparison from dev, staging, deployment for multiple clients - I would have gone nuts without it.
We use flyway for the biggest monolith database in our company. We also use alembic for some microservices.

Alembic is extra convenient if you're already invested in sqlalchemy.

I've tried yoyo-migrations[1] once, a while ago.

With yoyo, like flyway, migrations are written as SQL queries. However, they're expressed as SQL steps in python files. Might worth a look if you're using python.

1. https://pypi.org/project/yoyo-migrations/
> Lenders are prepared to provide larger and riskier loans than the marker would otherwise support.

The only lender that has benefitted from federal guarantees/subsidies for a number of years is...the US Department of Education. Whose lending is directed by the same laws that provide the guarantees and subsidies, and so are not incentivized by them.