skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a problem with having advertisers require to have references or sources to any quotes or facts they represent. The sources would have to be credible and shown in context (no sound bites) and perhaps view-able by the users easily. Facebook or a third-party should be required to make sure the sources look credible and all reported facts or quotes have sources attached. Such a system would put most of the leg work on the advertisers and make the process easier to administer.

I have no idea if Facebook already does any of this, but from their policy about fact checking, they do not require any political ads to go through their third party fact-check. Otherwise the third-party fact checker appears to do all the research themselves or they may reach out to the advertisers for more information.

https://www.facebook.com/help/publisher/182222309230722?ref=...
_Wage war. Die trying._

Yes. That's ultimately why the Cataluña thing is a paper tiger issue: Catalans are too rich and too soft to really break away.

I'm not saying they're not allowed to have grievances, nor that they don't have any legitimate ones, but these people live extremely comfortable lives in a highly (_highly_) autonomous part of a relaxed, modern, Western nation. The independence stuff is mostly posturing. There's a good saying in Spain about this these days, roughly translating to "Catalans don't want to secede; they want to be secessionists."

It's cosplay revolution, and the rest of Spain has a good case for losing its patience with it. They want to break away, but no, sorry, the rest of the country is not allowed to have a say in the matter? Some Catalans (a minority, everyone seems to forget!) want their own country, but they also want it to be handed to them voluntarily by their "oppressor" in Madrid? They want to commit crimes but they expect not to be sent to jail?

At this point I'd almost be grateful for a Catalan Lenin of some sort; at least then we'd know there's an adult in the room.
Yeah, it would be weird if the moon was not a moon.
Eh, yes and no.

I see discussion all the time about rejecting pre-ordering, rejecting games that are beta-quality at release, rejecting microtransactions and predatory mechanics like loot boxes, rejecting companies that abuse their employees, rejecting games that move core features into paid expansions, rejecting pay-to-win, rejecting invasive rootkit-style DRM, rejecting single-game-store exclusives, and so on.

And yet, games companies continue doing all those things regularly - giving me the impression gamer boycott attempts don't have much impact.
What technologies did you use to create it?
Not specified enough, I think you mean:

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...
Aren't you basically describing SSPL? That's MongoDB's license that does pretty much what you're describing, except it's not considered open source [1]. And in response, Amazon created an API-compatible alternative called DocumentDB [2]. There's also the Commons Clause [3], which I think Redis Labs uses to license its Redis satellite products.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-sid...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/

[3] https://commonsclause.com/
> punishing, champions of their tournaments [...] for supporting a good cause

Which makes this headline framing by the LA Times even more upsetting. I mean, yes, it's a PR disaster, but even in context that's not the important fact to convey here. They're dealing with outrage because of an expressly political act they took, not merely a mistake in the management of "Public Relations".
> Actually not a single game made pro player realize something new about the game. Which is really embarassing, because it suggests that the AI just was able to correctly reproduce existing strategies and build orders, that it probably "learned" from existing pro games in the training sample.

Why is it embarrassing if the AI behaved like a collection of all the knowledge of existing pro players?

Obviously it'd be more interesting if we also learned something new about the game. Or AI, or both.
I think you might be confusing the First Amendment with the principle of Free Speech.

Per the First Amendment, Zuck can do whatever he likes with his platform. He can refuse to broadcast whatever he wants, just like CNN and other news networks. But just as important, he is free to NOT refuse to broadcast whatever he pleases. There are no legal consequences for that (outside of the narrow exceptions in Brandenburg v Ohio).

The argument that he is making is that he wants Facebook to be a platform that upholds the ideal of free speech. Whether or not Facebook follows through and actually practices this philosophy equally, remains to be seen.
Dear Airbnb,

You have destroyed the rental apartment market in my city. You profit from taking advantage of loopholes in legislation, legislation which protects consumers from unscrupulous, dangerous, and untrustworthy properties.

The sooner every city enacts laws limiting "airbnb" apartment rentals to 30 days per year per apartment, the better. Otherwise it is abused at scale.
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Not programming is impossible. I have practically integrated my routine with the command line. e.g diary is a command that will directly lead to editing today’s diary.
Schulz should have quit in the 70's. He dragged it on for far too long.
I have a chili plant at home with 4-5 baby chilies growing. Once those have ripened, I'm going to do this experiment.
Google Photo is good at this, picking past photos from these thousands and surfacing them at random times.

This effectively motivates to also take photos of mundane day to day moments, that will feel so far away in 5 or 10 years.
You don't need a PhD to find market fits for these types of products. They are self aggrandizing.
Be a male at school today, in most of the Western world, and you will experience misandry by your teachers.
The key distinction here is starting a company vs leading a company. To just walk in and lead an established company - you'd be fine with a better than average understanding, as long as you trust the experts in your company to do what is right.

To found a company? How do you know where to start? If you are hiring PhDs to come up with the idea for you, how do you if their ideas are novel or worthwhile?

Not to disparage SaaS founders, but I think it's somewhat easier to look about and say "there is no app for sending texts via REST API" and do that, than it is to look at say "no one has found a way to selectively target cancer cells for CRISPR" and then go do that.
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> Are hotels really about the same cost?

That's a fair question. I may have generalized a bit with that statement, however, from what I have seen lately if you use a hotel deal site, it has been about the same cost. On my recent vacations, after looking at options like Airbnb vs hotels in popular US cities, it has been an easy decision to get hotels over an Airbnb with the price difference averaging around $25-50 (esp. after you factor in all the crazy fees Airbnb does now, that you don't see until checkout). However, you do make a good point for your specific needs of the kitchen, that will obviously change a lot in terms of a hotel pricing with that amenity.

For what it's worth, I've also only ever had good experiences with Airbnb in the past when I have used them, but still my main point was if I was the author, I don't know how I could ever go back to using Airbnb after that.
If a streamer had said something, for example, anti-LGBT, Blizzard would have shut them down the same way and everyone would be applauding.

Depending on your personal politics, any given corporate action is either 'brave, standing up for principles' or 'obviously a sellout to the corrupt bad guys'.
Cirrus announced their version of this yesterday for their Cirrus Jet, they are calling the feature Safe Return. Also incorporates 7700, TAWS escape, wind check, pax 121.5 simplified radio controls, everything.

https://cirrusaircraft.com/cirrus-aircraft-revolutionizes-pa...
Degrees of truth aren't some option you can choose, it's just an observation about how the world already works, where information is universally not perfect. The point is by acknowledging it, you will be more willing to update bad information and bad conclusions as you get updated information.
I'm not ignoring facts; I agree we're probably never going to get away from a society where the "real" free speech is a privilege of the wealthy. I only seek to remind us of the principles which run deeper than the specific challenges of this moment.
I’ve worked on similar systems, never again. God objects are something that should be avoided so that code is readable and maintainable.
I highly suggest doing some digging into the rocketry hobby (especially high power rocketry). Or, as my wife would say, "go down the rabbit hole".

It's like software development, there's some heavy duty stuff being done by incredibly skilled and talented people outside of work hours.

For example, this guy put a rocket over 200k feet altitude on COTS motors
https://mach5lowdown.com/2018/11/07/phx4-rocket-launch-to-20...

Also, check out the engine this guy is building
http://www.watzlavick.com/robert/rocket/regenChamber3/photos...
Facebook won't let candidate for California governor run false ads
And a system with restrictions like you want favors the authoritarians, those with the best real world bullying/harassment operations, and those who are well connected.

I’m sorry but liberal democracy isn’t the best form of government because the people are smart (they never have been), it’s the best form of government because the alternative is recurring political violence.
To be fair they may have customer service, but you are not the customer but the product.
> Questions about the afterlife are not answered in this kind of thinking

I would argue that questions of the afterlife can be answered in this kind of thinking, specifically practices like long term meditation, self-inquiry, use of entheogens, etc. which can cause direct experience of afterlife, and direct experience of the mechanism behind things like reincarnation.

(appeal to authority: my own direct experience)
Ah, 'you' being 'the passenger and/or the incapacitated pilot' rather than the regular and healthy variety of pilot. Ok, now I understand your comment. Thank you for clarifying.
That's essentially what I was thinking even when reading the article. Get a good credit card company that's on your side (Amex has been best for me, Discover too), and let them deal with it. They absolutely will not screw around with stuff like this.
Check out Benchling! YC company (S12), founded by a CS undergrad from MIT. [1] Learn more about their story. Biotech is growing so fast. There’s tons of room
for scientists and non-scientists alike. Programmers have a lot to add here, even with zero bio background, the power of a fresh mind. Talk with scientists and learn what problems they have.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sajith-wickramasekara
You can add a static "InitTest" method somewhere which initializes the modules. Use a double checked locking pattern [1] in there to make sure, that you instantiate and assign the modules used for testing exactly once.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-checked_locking
Which is why I always stay at hotels, proper and good hotels that have reputation at stake, where upon checking in I do a cursory check and promptly but politely report if I see any issues. Upon checking out I request a person to actually sign-off on the room.

Works like a charm, never had an issue!
It might be making money, but I wouldn't say re-releasing an old version is progress.
I like to use https://www.are.na/ to collaborate and collect ideas, knowledge etc.
Free != gratis

Free means legally unrestricted by the state here, not free of payment or of private guidelines.
Digging a game out of the archives is pretty stale imo
Airtable is only a part of what access can do today. I'm still a fan of airtable for all of the connectivity it provides to other online tools.
Ironic we are calling not stale a company that rereleases a game after 15 years
Indeed, sorry. I focused on "higher up" while the important part was "gravity well"
> The case Zuck wants to make is that he should be free from the consequences of choosing to take money to distribute lies.

The "free from consequences" argument is a thin rationalization for political thuggery. You can't make your case intellectually, so you're going to go after people's livelihoods.
I'm not sure how that is relevant to this essay, which I found almost unreadable.
They already curate questions asked from the public. I remember reading that the guy who asked Diablo devs if "it's an early April Fools joke" actually pretended to want to ask a different question.
> The biggest example in recent history was the kneeling movement in the NFL and the NFL's stance of blacklisting and penalizing prominent players won.

Did it? I'm genuinely asking and seeing contradicting results trying to search. At least super bowl stats look like they've lost quite a bit. [anecdata] I know myself I quit watching football as a result of that and the injuries.
> 97% of climate scientists believe that the earth's climate has warmed as a result of human activities and continuing emissions will increase the likelihood and severity of global effects

Citation?

I see this number stated a lot, but the actual polls that I've read don't agree with it at all.

Where are you getting this number? (Original study source please, not circular news citation)
FWIW, that sounds relatively similar to the licenses that Redis Labs, Mongo, and Elastic recently applied to their software. I have no problem with that, but judging from the discussions here on those licenses, lots of other people did.
We've had truly autonomous long-range flight since 1998 with the RQ-4A Global Hawk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_H...

A couple highlights from the Records section:

> On 24 April 2001, a Global Hawk flew non-stop from Edwards AFB to RAAF Base Edinburgh in Australia, making history by being the first pilotless aircraft to cross the Pacific Ocean. The flight took 22 hours, and set a world record for absolute distance flown by a UAV, 13,219.86 kilometers (8,214.44 mi).[97]

> On 22 March 2008, a Global Hawk set the endurance record for full-scale, operational uncrewed aircraft UAVs by flying for 33.1 hours at altitudes up to 60,000 feet over Edwards AFB.[98]

Unlike Predator/Reaper/etc. drones, the Global Hawk is autonomous, there is no pilot sitting in a faux-cockpit stateside.
Citation needed, since all reporting has said the opposite.

Players want to be able to speak freely. Many of them have started their support for the Hong Kong protests.
Yep, compiling Fortran right now with GCC 9.2.0. Modern Fortran is wonderful, and CUDA Fortran is a blast.
It looks like you've misrepresented not one, but two arguments.

> No one is saying paid speech is not free speech.

The parent to whom I was responding said "It's interesting how hard Zuck is working to try and conflate the idea of 'free speech' with paid advertisement", implying that they believe that paid speech is not free speech.

> The flawed argument Zuck made is that in order to have free speech we must have paid speech.

Zuck never said that. From the article, he is quoted as having said: "Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates,"
It's becoming very clear why the company has resisted going public for years. Increased scrutiny and visibility is going to show everyone exactly how shady their business is. You can almost guarantee a FTC investigation within a year of going public.

Also, why don't people issue charge backs with their credit card companies? Airbnb customer service might suck, but credit card companies almost always side with their customers if there's a modicum of proof showing something henky.
That highly depends on where that circle is.
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There have been a few threads about AirBnb lately with a lot of people reporting negative experiences so I will add my own $0.02. I have stayed in many AirBnbs. The reason is, I find it is the only way to have a tolerable family vacation is when everyone has their own sleeping quarters. When we are all piled into one (often overpriced and not so clean) hotel room, it makes for less than ideal sleep and everyone ends up grouchy. Plus when you travel with children, it is really nice to have a kitchen and a way to do laundry. At any rate, my observation for all my AirBnb stays is most of them are quite nice. Many hosts go to great lengths to have their guests have a nice stay. There have been a few crappy experiences, but not many. The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.
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The EPM is particularly worrying as AlphaStar can focus on multiple areas of the map at a single time.

A common strategy in GM is to attack on one front with your main army and drop a small amount of units into the back of their base. The opposition has to decide between spending their focus on the main battle or the dropped units.

AlphaStar doesn't have to worry about this - there's no gap between focusing on the front and the back at anything similar to a human.

Players usually use add hotkeys for camera positions to allow them to move around the map fairly fast. We can imagine a human player in this scenario responding by going

* Some actions to move army/setup
* Use pre-existing camera hotkey to go back to base, view situation
* Setup a new unit group
* Move unit group to base to head off attack
* Move workers to avoid economy loss
* Go back to battle
* Setup camera hotkey for battle
* Flick between two battles as needed
* Move workers back

If AlphaStar can view the two locations without that lag or without setting up new camera hotkeys for movement, there's a definite and sizeable advantage before we get into the amount of EPM involved. An action that is setting up a hotkey is significantly less valuable than one using a spell/moving a unit/attacking.
I don't think Twitter actually hade much political advertising at all before tbh. It's like Bing traffic compared to Google.
Just curious, this post has more points in less time or about the same time as other posts that appear higher.

Why is this not the number one post?
I agree it's just a rehashing of information they know will get a lot of clicks. I have a vested interest in this topic so I've been following it closely and I don't see anything new here.
Agree, it reduces boilerplate and prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to writing testable code.
It looks very similar to the Volkswagen xl1 [0], even has a similar bar across the front. If you believe Wikipedia, the xl1 also had a much better drag coefficient of 0.186 [1].

[0] https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15112331/2014-volkswag...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car#2011_...
Taking a political stance is quite literally within the definition of public relations.
I like to map tilda, tab, and caps lock to 0, 9, and 8 so that my left hand doesn't have to reach as far.
It's still a net positive, and assuming shades are deployed, it would at least reduce the number required.

Reflectors in on the ground also have the benefit of being controllable.
> If a guest stays even one night in a rental, for example, it is difficult to obtain a full refund, according to Airbnb’s rules.

You don't even have to stay one night... I ran into this exact scenario where upon arrival, the place had no electricity, wifi, and construction for a few blocks outside. I was unable to contact them until the next day since my first instinct was to look for another place ASAP and rest from the long flight. Sure enough, they threw their ToS at me and stated that I wasn't eligible for a refund. I contacted AMEX, but they partner with AirBnB so I was denied a credit there as well. I ended up paying an entire week for a place I didn't stay at.
Founders generally don't start companies in vacuums. They are the result of communication with other people on the viability of ideas. They meet a subject matter expert in a field, they get to talking, they come up with an idea. The idea gets floated around to other subject matter experts. If something seems viable then prototypes are made to gauge market fit.
I think you could power an electric drone from an internal combustion engine + generator. Also, nothing forces the drone to depart and land from the same base, so it can cover a large area and land on friendly locations for refuel.

Large drones can pack multiple pretty decent imaging and radar sensors and store the images on board for later processing.
That's consitent with parent's point. The act of shutting down is very often a political act claiming no politics is allowed is hypocritical.
Re-releasing your old content to spike subscriptions with a nostalgia crowd might be the very definition of stale.
Not all localities make it illegal to do so.
> merging into a lane of car traffic is dangerous as a cyclist.

Not really. You really only need to check your mirror, then look back and be certain drivers approaching from the rear see you and slow down. Only then should you change lanes.

> People look in their mirrors for cars, not for cyclists.

That would only apply if the cyclist was overtaking (which isn't a common situation). Besides, motorcyclists ride in traffic and Ste seen.

> In general you want to separate traffic that goes as different speeds.

Limited access highways/motorways accommodate traffic going at significantly different speeds. For example, on uphill grades, trucks can be going as slow as 60 km/h whole faster traffic is going 120 km/h. On the unlimited sections of the Autobahn, trucks are limited to 80 km/h and faster traffic may be going around 150 km/h.

Given those examples, there should be no issue with cyclists going 15 to 40 km/h among faster traffic going 30 to 80 km/h.

> There's no good reason to mix bicycle traffic into car traffic: there are alternative solutions that avoid doing so.

The only solution that would work is a completely separate path with infrequent intersections and little to no pedestrians.

Once there are frequent intersections, then there are conflicts unless separate traffic signals with exclusive phases are used (which leads to more delays and noncompliance).

Side paths van work at lower speeds (15 km/h or less), but those speeds won't work for the distances people need to travel unless they're willing to invest significantly more time in traveling compared to other modes of transportation other than walking.

For example, my bicycle commute in the afternoon involves riding from work to my childrens' school, picking them up, taking them to an after school program, and then riding back home. The total distance I have to cover is 15 miles. While moving, I average about 11 mph. My lowest speed up hills is about 5 mph. My top does downhill is about 27 mph. Almost all of my commute is on roads with traffic where I take the lane while riding.

If I rode at 16 km/h or less on this commute, them I would never be able to get the kids to their destination on time.

So, from a transportation point of view, using the roads where I can ride at higher speed safely is the best and safest option.