skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decided to give it a try, and it's almost a 100MB to download. Due to being unsigned, Mac OSX blocked running this web app. Why isn't there a demo online that I can try in my web browser? Isn't this supposed to be a simple electron app?

Anyways, I went to the trouble of unblocking it. This involved going to OSX's settings dialog and finding the Security & Privacy window to unblock.

The text rendering is awful. It's blurry and smudged on my non-retina display due to not using subpixel smoothing. Here's a screenshot comparing Atom (top) to Mark Text (bottom): https://imgur.com/UEJbsl4

Highlighting and pasting text is totally unpredictable. Try pasting in 10 * characters and you'll see that it's almost impossible. How are you supposed to do this? Sometimes it replaces * with \*, sometimes not. And sometimes it replaces it with - ??

I tried to copy paste a few paragraphs of text a few times, and once it turned into this strange highlighted text that when I started a new paragraph, deleted all of my newlines. What's going on?

This editor does not seem ready yet.
Some of us do, as we come from (or work with people who come from) states that will perpetrate violence against dissidents.

Unfortunately, there still aren't enough of us. We're trying to change that.
That's documented though and since the ISA client is working well below the prevailing wage the ISA originator could take them to court/arbitration and prove they're acting fraudulently absent any explanation of why they're working for so much less than they should be.
This is most likely aimed at Enterprise customers. The main benefit of this seems to be rapid scalability, compared to provisioning each laptop individually, setting up VPNs, etc.

It's similar to how cloud hosting is often considerably more expensive than a full server with equivalent specs. You pay a premium for flexibility.
American city designers love the von Neumann bottleneck! They see two problems. Jobs and homes. They solve them independently and then connect them with a central bus. The end result is that everyone has to cross the central bus to get from one to the other.
But what if (UK citizen) fred smith writes a piece in the new york times? I don't think you can sue the NYtimes, or that NYtimes will care - I bet they receive a ton of legal complaints from foreign countries every year most of which are readily dismissable by US law.
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If Google were working on their own operating system, say, one that could replace Android and/or ChromeOS, then dart2native would be a very handy tool to have...

What is the status of Fuchsia, anyway?
Right now, sure, but 50-100 years from now?
Gannett is a sleazy company--burning the last bit of credibility off of newspapers that had been storing it up for generations.

This kid needs to man up. Providence has severed him from this corruption. Rather than hamster about the aftermath to CJR, he should just thank God and move on.
I kind of like transparency, so no. Facebook lied enough, and if those lies will only get out by leaks, so be it.
> GSK actually used GEDmatch

GSK did not actually use GEDmatch, but his 4th cousins did.

The website identified 10 to 20 distant relatives of the Golden State Killer's (sharing the same great-great-great grandparents)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Killer
There are loans you can get without collateral, they're typically pretty small loans with higher interest and are only issued to people with good credit.

The problem with student loans is students typically don't have any credit, don't have any collateral and what they're seeking can't be repossessed if they default - banks know that issuing loans to these people without the backing of the government is financial suicide, in other words the free market says these loans shouldn't exist at all.

The student loan crisis was caused by government intervention, guaranteeing loans for people who otherwise wouldn't have even been eligible to receive that type of money allows institutions to jack the price of school up infinitely and banks to keep allowing it because neither can fail - in the long run it's only the student who has to bear the cost long term.

We need to allow institutions and banks to fail again, that's the only way you correct this problem. As soon as you stop guaranteeing loans banks stop issuing them and college's are forced to bring prices down. That would hurt some students in the short term who wouldn't be able to afford college but eventually the free market would do it's work and make college more reasonably priced again.
When they say "simple markdown editor", they're pretty obviously not talking about implementation details. They're talking about it being easy to use.

As far as the argument goes, I'm not sure they're really separable. If you have an Electron app that markets itself as being simple (as in "easy to use"), and someone says, "No it isn't, because the stack it's built on is complex", their unstated major premise is that implementation details are more important than UI. Leaving it unstated doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed head-on. One of a syllogism's legs can easily be both tacit and the crux of the argument at the same time.
Seems like you're solving political problems with technical solutions. One could similarly argue a USB stick or shared drive with infinite vetted piece of software is superior to a single additional text editor pre-installed in the OS (which only solves a single, niche, use-case).
There is no legal distinction between a 'platform' and a 'publisher' that compels a business to conduct its activity in any particular way. That is a falsehood that has somehow wormed its way into the general discourse.
>more students sending out far more applications (out of paranoia? Pressure?)

Many college systems (e.g. UC) have a common application. Applying to more colleges is just checking more boxes. There's another common application I just found on google that advertises "Explore nearly 900 colleges and universities using Common App." If it were me, and it were just another check box, or even checkbox + $50 or something, I'd hit a ton of them. Back in the day, I think I applied to every single UC for that reason.

As it is, it's not quite that simple (different essay questions, etc.), but the barrier to more applications has absolutely gone down.
I think so, too. It's just asking something that humans weren't designed for.
This isn't anything new with Walmart, and it's pretty obvious that's going to happen if one retailer becomes your main customer. Walmart isn't forcing anyone to sell through them, or even to have different product lines (one crappy one for Walmart, another for other retailers), or even different brands. Basically, if you want to sell stuff to Walmart buyers, this is what you need to agree to. If you want to be a higher-end company, then don't deal with Walmart.
>Uber is worth billions with the only real debate being how many billions.

Assuming Uber ever turns profitable.
What are you looking for to pursue? While not free, community college is a great resource to look at to get a lot of the core requirements out of the way, and they try to hold a lot of evening classes for working individuals.

In addition, it wouldn't surprise me if there are some sort of merit and/or other type scholarships for folks wanting to go back to schools. You just have to look.
This is simply disgusting, imagine the amount of hurt and harm to those people deliberately chosen to be rejected!
As a pragmatist on this matter, I believe the solution here is scale. The control I have over a phpBB forum is that if I don't like their spam policy, I can leave, and either join another or form my own.

We're not talking about a phpBB forum or a little blog with a few thousand commenters. We're talking about single companies with very significant fractions of the total discourse flowing through them. If Facebook blocks something, it affects a massive number of people, and "just go make your own Facebook" is not a suitable recourse. Scale matters. Small entities can do things without being a threat to the body politic that large entities can not.

As I've said before, I'm not entirely convinced that something the size of Facebook can actually work in the long term [1]. Trying to jam everybody into one set of rules may simply be infeasible, for reasons not entirely related to "rights". If you look at the current conflicts over Facebook through this window, you may find it makes sense over the conflict. Especially if you are one of the majority here on HN who are kinda lost over the idea of why so many have become anti-Facebook, when you just see Facebook imposing your perfectly sensible, obviously correct values on the world, why is everyone complaining? Well, it's that whole diversity thing you may have heard rumors about. It's real. It may not be the case that you can get everyone into one community with one set of standards, regardless of how "obviously right" those standards are.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20146868 - in fact, I'd amplify the original post I made by also pointing out Facebook is international, so we're not just trying to stick the diverse cultures of the US in there, but trying to stick all the diverse cultures of the world in one big pile. When I put it that way, does the idea that such a thing could work in the long term even pass the smell test?
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>Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would.

It sure is nice having a powerful developer machine with 16 or 32 gb of RAM. Just remember there are a lot of people out there running on 4gb laptops or even less. These days, the OS, web browser, and Slack alone are already enough to max it out and start swapping.
I like it but the x is a little unfortunately swastika-shaped at high casual and high slant.
> There's not a lot of ambiguity about spam so it's not a real issue.

People say this, I don't think it's true.

I think there is ambiguity around when marketing crosses into spam. If you look at different communities, even HN and Reddit, you'll find different opinions about what kind of promotion crosses that line.

Individual communities need to be able to make their own decisions on that, they don't need blanket rules applied across the board to all platforms.
> If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

-- John Stuart Mill
This can happen in DE and AT as well, especially in expensive regions.

Developers simply have the money/the better leverage by buying in bulk. Then there are developers that simply sell you the (tiny) lot for a premium, and let you choose between something they arrange, or building yourself. And the good lots are always gone long before the project is announced anyway.
The consternation and blame direct at Boeing, while appropriate, distracts from the real source of the problem: airlines. And Southwest Airlines was possibly one of the largest sources of the 737 MAX negative incentives, by having a contract reportedly require $1 million per airplane if a certain threshold of pilot training was exceeded

Well, in this case I'd argue that it was totally Boeing's responsibility to communicate to such customers that they couldn't do it.

Instead they nodded their heads, demanded the impossible from their engineers, demoted or fired people that questioned it and in the end offered a hacked solution, which killed over 300 people.

I don't think that your argument excuses their culpability in any way, shape or form.
> when he was in custody in Camp Bucca

OK, thanks, I was unaware of that. You've changed my mind on the issue that we don't really know who the guy in the tunnel was. So we really did get him.

Captured Feb. 4, 2004 as a civilian and released that Dec. 8 as he was seen as no threat.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jun/19...

https://www.businessinsider.com/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-declass...

> "Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Al Badry, also known as ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’ was held as a ‘civilian internee’ by U.S. Forces-Iraq from early February 2004 until early December 2004, when he was released," the Pentagon said in a statement. "He was held at Camp Bucca. A Combined Review and Release Board recommended ‘unconditional release’ of this detainee and he was released from U.S. custody shortly thereafter. We have no record of him being held at any other time."

This is also interesting. He didn't start at Bucca:

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/25/u-s-military-now-says-is...
It's like these investors never learn that the "our unit economics are horrible, but it'll be worth it when/if we become a monopoly!" philosophy rarely plays out well.

The same industry that harps on about how disruptable old school monopolies are, is somehow buying into that? I don't get it.
Censorship that’s dangerous is usually against an unpopular idea or opinion to the group. Usually when censorship is being discussed, the kind of speech or topics it applies to are already allowed in that forum or venue and there is selective filtering of the content going on outside of what the users themselves choose to entertain.

For instance, if there were a forum specifically about penis pills, and the discussion centered around penis pills, if the moderators selectively expunged certain pill brand mentions or alternative ideas about penis pills from the forum because they personally preferred a over b, or had a personal or business investment in a over b, that is censorship. If you wanted to discuss canaries or automobiles in this forum, they may tell you to move it back on topic. That isn’t censorship.

Similarly, many broad online platforms allow political speech already, it’s just some ideas and people, typically conservative, are being selectively filtered out of the conversation because they don’t want the greater exposure to the alternative but legitimate and contextual ideas or opinions.

That is dangerous. If the shoe was on the other foot politically, it wouldn’t diminish the severity it.
I think the full answer is to never trust anything on a page that isn't from the host domain: achievable via the uMatrix plugin. I dont understand why anyone would trust random scripts from a random company (and sometimes just an unnamed cloudfront endpoint).

A less intense version is to use a PiHole or otherwise block bad domains at the DNS level via a regular ad blocker.
Soooo...it's now okay to run over people (5 seconds is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON-crash! time), as long as you have an excuse? Go watch the scapecam footage: even with the horrible picture quality, you can see the victim walking (in a straight line across the road, no less!) a very long time before impact.

Perhaps you could also argue "if she were wearing a helmet, it would have conferred +1 to CON and perhaps saved her", for what it's worth - makes sense in the crudest of simulations, but not in RL.
I had never heard of godot before. When I clicked this link, I was expecting something golang related (possibly something that processes dot)...

how wrong I was.
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I've tried looking the website on my iPhone SE with Firefox. Sadly the website isn't responsive at least on my phone.
Just like when developping an API, you build changes in backwards-compatible ways for the most part.

If you have to make a backwards-incompatible change, you probably need to make your service support two different API versions for a while, and hunt down services that are calling old stuff for a while.

This is basically how you can move forward on improvements without coupling "improve this microservice" to "update every single other microservice that is calling to it".

Though I believe part of the theory with microservices is that since you are working on such tiny surfaces, most services will never need to roll out a backwards incompatible change
It was vague when I replied, and has since been altered. It read "The source code" now it reads "You source code."

PS - HK needs a version history/edited marker.
People are dumping Uber with over 79 million shares traded already. Compare that with an average of 10 million traded daily leading up to this.

Also weigh this against the fact that Uber had a relatively small float from its IPO compared to the shares coming free now. They had about 200 million shares available on their IPO and 4x that coming off restriction which is a huge ration.

They tried their best to boost their IPO at the expense of their employee's and the results are.... well not great.

I guess the good news is that with this lock up expiring 90% of the available Uber shares will now be available to trade so within the next week or so we'll find out what Uber's new price equilibrium will be.

Lots of open interest on the weekly $26 puts at the moment with nothing coming close on the call side, which indicates that not too many people expect a pop.

I guess the one silver lining is that Softbank probably won't be too active of a seller which should help employee's jumping ship.

Will be interesting to see the staff turnover at Uber in the next 6 months.

uber just had a big block trade one at a 4% discount, this is a pretty big discount from what a block trade would normally cross at which indicate that the buyer expects a larger drop to occur.

So looking at their cash position, they have about $12.5B in cash wich is good and total debt of $7.8 so lets call it $5B in cash on hand with free cash flow estimated at -$3.8B a year, so charitably 1.5 years of cash flow remain if the losses don't increase/decrease which isn't a very good assumption given that the losses have accelerated from 2017 and 2018

For something positive East is about 13% of revenue and "other" is 2.3% of revenue so they are starting to diversify their revenue, though at tremendous cost to their profitability.

Revenue is also pretty diversified by country with the US being only 53% of revenue which is a big accomplishment!!!
I have sympathy with, and am open-minded to, the conclusions of this article - even as a die-hard, true believer in the filesystem (esp. ZFS) as a useful foundational building block.

However, I hope that these conclusions do not lead to the intentional deprecation of support for filesystems in projects like Ceph. If a non-filesystem backing store is superior, then by all means do it, but I hope the ability to deploy a filesystem-backed endpoint will be retained.

In a pinch, it's very flexible and there are a lot of them lying around ...
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Told you so.
Whether or not you checked that box to opt-in/out, you can still get lots of these marketing materials. The SAT is not the only source that colleges and universities use, many or most purchase lists from other sources as well. For example, if you ever sign in to Peterson's or any of a dozen other "help me search for a college" services, you're probably on lists being sold for this purpose.
This is simply not true, there are many alternatives.
Honestly, byte order didn't matter much. There were so many more dimensions of incompatibility available that byte-order didn't enter the picture when you were choosing a processor for a product. Most data was exchanged via files written to floppy disks, and you just wrote conversion utilities (or programs dealt with save formats on the fly).
iPhones randomize the MAC address when connecting to hotspots (on a per-ssid basis, I think?). Other platforms do too (Windows 10 now has an option to do that automatically as well, but I can’t recall if it is enabled by default).
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And that line will always move depending on the moderator motives and societal acceptability.
> It's pretty rational to focus more on the sites that have the most traffic when discussing bias, isn't it?

I feel that if a person is making an argument from principle, then that principle should apply everywhere and not just where politically convenient to them.
> I went to the trouble of unblocking it. This involved going to OSX's settings dialog and finding the Security & Privacy window to unblock.

The "right" way to do this is right-click on the application, and choose "Open". This allows a one-time bypass on a per-application basis.
It makes me think about how very close the assassination attempt on Archduke Ferdinand came to being botched. The initial attempt, tossing a bomb at the motorcade, failed, then as the Archduke was leaving, his driver took a wrong turn, coming to a stop right in front of the shop that Gavrilo Princep had gone into to get a sandwich after learning about the failure of the initial attempt.
And if they properly configured their MX records, they may be able to contact them.
Frank Herbert's novel, The White Plague targeted women only (and had male carriers). When I read it in high school I realized targeted assassinations would eventually be possible.
This is just plain wrong. Not to far from where I live, there's a Walmart and a Target in the same shopping center. There's a huge, clear difference in shopping between the two. The clientele at Target is clearly more affluent, the store is cleaner and nicer, the carts are nicer and roll silently unlike the beat-up squeaky Walmart ones, I could go on and on. It has nothing to do with "permits" or NIMBY when the two stores are almost right next to each other. I've seen this in other places as well where Walmart and Target were not very far apart.

As for "incidents" with shoppers, I'm not sure what you're talking about there.
Let's not mince words here. The person who recognized Ebola and thought it was worth analyzing is a man who holds a phd in virology in microbiology and to this day contributes and advises on Ebola research. Saying he's essentially just a black guy (or an idiot, as another comment here did) is massively downplaying who he is and what he does.

He identified Ebola by being aware that it was different from other diseases he had dealt with and sent it off to a lab for further examination. By your argument the only people that would ever get credit are the people in the labs, not the people doing fieldwork and recognizing new diseases as they appear.
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They are not useful at all, or else when we first had permissionless distributed databases in the 70s we'd freaking keep using them to this day. Regular databases like we have now are more robust and reliable, don't eat up a ton of energy like distributed permissionless databases (Bitcoin eats up an estimated 34TWh per year and growing as of 2017, there's no other database on the planet that consumes so much yet does so little) and regular databases don't need fucktons of environmentally-wasteful hardware to operate.

We figured this out in the 70s. That some idiot resurrected the idea in the '00s and got a bunch of people to buy into it tells much about the state of "technology enthusiasts" on the internet.
"In a soda locomotive, the boiler was jacketed by a container loaded with several tons of caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide. Water was added to the caustic soda to start a violent exothermic reaction giving off enough heat to boil the water inside the boiler". Um, yeah I bet it did!
What is FOD in this context?
Now I would need to consult a lawyer. I don't know US law on libel and defamation.

The fact that stories like CA and Snowden have been jointly published in the US, rather than say Canada or France makes me suspect that chances of a successful suit are low in the US. That's probably the point. :)
I am long on Uber: taxis are dead, it will not go anywhere. The only problem is that the board made a strategic mistake that felt good short term. They tried to retain users by pushing the founder out, and hiring a diversity CEO. This failed long term as any populist board move does. But they still have a chance to have their NeXT moment and bring Travis back.