skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah definitely the Merc News was a pioneer on the web and in many other ways: https://archives.cjr.org/feature/the_newspaper_that_almost_s...

It's hard to imagine now, but papers like the Merc News – thanks to basically having a virtual monopoly – were basically printing presses for money. They most definitely had the capital to fund ventures that could save the company, such as their own Craigslist or Groupon. And I believe they and other news companies did blow a good chunk of money on failed tech ventures. In hindsight, they should've continued throwing money at greenfield projects, since just about any longshot success would've been better than the current state of things. But it's too easy and reductive to say, "Well the news industry should've just invented Google/Facebook if it really wanted to survive".
And a lot of that 31% is churches members paying their own dues -- as though me paying for a gym membership were a charitable donation.
They do, they've been dogfeeding on their own platforms for quite a while now.

One of the main advantages that I've heard people talk about is the high bit rates, making their 1080p look smoother than YouTube 4k in some cases.

Somewhat strange that they lack a free video preview of the quality of the website, but that might just be because launching a service like this with a high quality video front and center might ruin their networking when a giant wave of new people come in.
If the government is jailing people for not attending religious events that counts well enough - and they potentially were in this specific case. That said, I don't dislike religion. I'm privately faithful but my parents are religious and a lot of my friends have been, the father of a good friend of mine growing up even managed to keep his alcoholism under control with faith - so whether it's a community or a support I'm happy with that.

That said, I really despise hypocrites and the biggest ones I can see today are Prosperity Gospel preachers and that Evangelical voting block that support the "good christian" in office today. I have no problem with faith and churches, but when they start getting political or taking advantage of the needy then they've got to go. Lastly, it's getting a bit weird with religious institutions fighting against women's health organizations - and that discussion is a pile of snakes so let me just say I understand where both sides come from and don't really care to discuss the topic.

It is highly likely that the religious institutions you're thinking of aren't these partisan televangelists or con-men but those guys have left a sour taste in my mouth for religious institutions in general - I default to spurning and distrusting them until I've seen an organization act in a beneficial and ethical manner. I trust them more slowly then I trust secular charities.
No i don't have books sorry :(
Actually getting fired by the VCs might have been a blessing for him.

He can liquidate his holdings without worrying much about misleading the market and a potential law suit from shareholders if he was still the CEO or a director.
What is missing is a way for one's wasm code to make WebGL or 2D canvas calls (or even write directly into a bitmap canvas), without writing a bunch of Javascript trampoline / thunk / whatever code. If I'm mistaken, a pointer to some C / C++ / Rust code that compiles down to wasm that actually touches a canvas that's being displayed in the browser would be most appreciated.
It’s both 1m upfront and 1m every year after that. So, buying a second car for 20k every year is a different story.

Put another way, someone making 100k/year could send their kid to prove school for 20k/year, but it’s a major expense that would impact their lifestyle or savings significantly. It’s possible, but not affordable.
> > people might be reluctant to jump through the precise hoops you've laid out for them.
>
> Garbage. What 'precise hoops'?

Might be worth asking yourself whether "Garbage" is a worthwhile contribution to the discussion here. In this thread you stress that you have "a perfectly open mind" and yet when people disagree you seem to take it extremely personally.
Made one for myself: https://feed43.com/3068865104604836.xml
It's for a direct audience like we don't spam with unuseful or annoying stuff, they actually want real updates lol.
Playing Tetris while wearing an EEG shows human like AI is impossible
Intel significantly delays its server roadmap
> Utah in particular loves to under-fund programs, and let the church pick up the slack.

But does Utah give that money to the church programs instead? It’s not clear from your comment.
Ring Account Breaches and Why UX over Security Is Dangerous
Oh no think about the cpu cycles.
The next step in authenticity will probably be devices that cryptographically sign media with the device id, author, time and place.
There are variations of this in the Bible when talking about transactional religious behavior; they have their reward.
I don't the think ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" was meant to cover this:

"Each had been fined between $25 and $75. Five of them were sentenced to time served, while one twice served a single day in jail."
We use it for the end-to-end encryption implementation in Riot.im on Web; from memory it sped up the asm.js emscripten based implementation by a factor of about 3x, and also is a (slight) improvement in terms of risk of timing attacks.

Edit: here's the PR for switching from asm.js to WASM, in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/pull/7385/files apparently it merged in Oct 2018.
Sorry, I probably wasn't very clear - I'm not arguing that a try/except MUST be very targeted.

> without an understanding of IF it should and WHY it might

rocqua explains it best - the API handler is an "input" to the overall system. That input may be "invalid" in that it fails to handle its own errors. In that case, you should catch a general exception rather than crashing. In this case, you know that it might raise an error, why it might raise an error, and that it's OK to ignore (well, log/alert/whatever.)

The situation I was responding to is very different - it's basically suggesting rather understand what the API you're invoking may be trying to tell you, just try/catch anything it throws and ignore it if you didn't expect it.
Semantic Versioning Sucks! Long Live Semantic Versioning
For those of us on debian based distros:

https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/systemd-swap
Welcome to Mac OS X 10.9?
Just to play devil's advocate, Tenacious D doesn't use imagery that, say, evokes ISIS.
Treat others as you want to be treated.

...unless they're gay, atheist, or some other out-group.
It's the first amendment of the US Constitution.
Those secular places have high taxes and social services, which is secular charity.

Mississippi and Alabama need religious services because religious people suffocated the government. I'd much rather be poor in San Francisco and enjoying public services than be poor in Mississippi hoping for religious services.
Before they'd be affected by Route 53 outages, Cloudfront outages, and S3 outages. Now they can add Lambda outages to that list too.

It's also unclear how this actually solves the problem. Now if S3 in _either_ region is unavailable they'll start to fail 50% of uncached requests. I'm guessing they're using Route 53 health checks with some cloudwatch alarm to cut over to one region when they think the other is unhealthy. Presumably this is covered in the unavailable part 2.

I'm mildly skeptical that this is worth the increased risks plus the increased cost from running Lambda@Edge on cache misses.
There's a school of therapy/psychology that has a rigourous epistemological basis and gets repeatable results. (I.e. an algorithm for eliminating phobias that works quickly and reliably with durable change.) This school gets panned for not being scientific, and I have to admit that that's not undeserved, however, as I said, the underlying conceptual structure is solid and the results are repeatable. I myself was cured of a deep and lifelong depression in a single session of hypnosis by one of the co-founders of this school. So not only can I vouch for its conceptual integrity, I can also vouch for its dramatic efficacy. (This isn't "my cousin", or "some guy I heard about", it was me. I lived the anecdote.)

FWIW, some books. "Structure of Magic" I & II are the first two books and are a good place to start from to see the origins of the latter work. TRANCE-Formations is a rich text on theraputic hypnosis. And then there's the Core Transformation Process, an algorithm for profound spiritual growth.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/964154.The_Structure_of_...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821993.The_Structure_of_...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956297.Trance_Formations

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369813.Core_Transformati...
We could do what the Midwest does with their homeless, but in reverse: we buy them bus tickets back to home and let their home states deal with it.

Expect a lawsuit.

Both Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey are suing New York City for busing its homeless over the Hudson River.

California has a long history of doing the same. It wasn't that many years ago that Los Angeles agreed to stop busing its homeless people to Nevada.
If you log in you immediately get brought to the list of (6) available channels. The videos then become visible after subscribing to a channel.
Maybe it should be changed to "know how to do their job well"
Fewer requests maybe?
I don't mind if charities are provided by religions, but I find it detestable that they would force you to listen to a sermon before you could eat if you are hungry.

I use to donate to a large homeless feeding / sheltering place here in town. When I was told by someone who was asking for food money (that I told about the free food at the mission in which I donate to) - that the place forced you to listen to religious sermons before you can have a plate, I was flabbergasted.

I no longer donate to that place.

To those who are all bent out of shape about 'why not religion charity' - hey I don't mind them doing whatever they want to do - but be transparent about it to everyone.

I think if your religion group is good enough, you can give free food and offer another room for sermons if you want to check it out, another area with pamphlets about your gods, whatever, if it's good - have religious counseling available, that's all fine - but don't force people to listen to your cult leader espouse some kind of brainwashing, magical spells, incantations or whatever to starving people in order for them to get some bread.

Have another room for the kool aid, if it's good and welcoming, people will go there. No need to force it.

imho.
No offense intended by outrageous characterizing - from what I have seen, some places are offering both without going overboard - and that's great.
The point is the government is doing it. Boise Police to the homeless: Either be prosecuted as a criminal or attend mandatory religious indoctrination.
He died in August and there was a good thread about him back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20689675
When you have $0, a $25 fine is cruel and unusual. Especially since not paying that fine that you can't pay means you go to jail.
I posted this in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796211), but the ruling is specific to sleep much more than homelessness, let alone camping on streets indefinitely.

Here’s most of my other comment:

The decision was that because sleep - not camping, but sleep - is a biological necessity, there must be a practical way for homeless people to obtain it.

If that method isn’t shelters (because they’re full or inaccessible), then there needs to be places and/or times when sleeping is allowed and practical. The justices explicitly noted that this doesn’t mean municipalities can’t enact and enforce significant restrictions on when, where, and how (for example, no multi-day camping or no erecting structures) this can happen, including when no shelter beds are available. There needs to be a viable way to obtain sleep, though, whatever that way is.

https://sccinsight.com/2019/04/08/what-the-9th-circuit-actua... has an excellent unbiased explanation, though the core part of the decision is not that long. Here’s the footnote which explicitly carved out this stuff:

> Naturally, our holding does not cover individuals who do have access to adequate temporary shelter, whether because they have the means to pay for it or because it is realistically available to them for free, but who choose not to use it. Nor do we suggest that a jurisdiction with insufficient shelter can never criminalize the act of sleeping outside. Even where shelter is unavailable, an ordinance prohibiting sitting, lying, or sleeping outside at particular times or in particular locations might well be constitutionally permissible. See Jones, 444 F.3d at 1123. So, too, might an ordinance barring the obstruction of public rights of way or the erection of certain structures. Whether some other ordinance is consistent with the Eighth Amendment will depend, as here, on whether it punishes a person for lacking the means to live out the “universal and unavoidable consequences of being human” in the way the ordinance prescribes.
The delegitimization didn't come so much from the forged documents themselves. It came more from, after the whole scandal erupted and it became blatantly obvious that they were faked, not only CBS and Rather, but the entire Mainstream Media doubled down on them being real, and the narrative being real. They all still, to this day, insist that they were real. That's what couldn't be engineered or tricked.
yesyesyesyesyes

agree 1,000,000%
I'm not really posting to refute. Just a few scattered thoughts, I guess.

Anywhere you have trust, there's a potential for abuse. A seemingly natural response to abuse of trust is to find a lapse in the victim's vigilance and start strapping on your own armor. I listened to a podcast this fall (sorry, I don't recall for certain--my best guess is that it was peter pomerantsev on Ezra Klein's podcast) where the guest suggests that some institutions/relations (like markets) depend on trust to produce value and may be undermined or degraded if enough participants take an individualist caveat emptor approach.

It is hard to know, in a complex adaptive system, what new equilibria will emerge downstream from a big disruption. We certainly could emerge through the other side with better epistemologies. But I don't see it as a given. Thinking is hard. Proving anything is harder. Skepticism can be good (and I suspect we need more--though I don't think it's terribly well distributed or applied at the moment...), but it's also easy; it requires no trust, knowledge, thinking, rigor, logic, or proof.

So, I'm troubled by the possibility we'll dig ourselves into a deep world-shrinking skepticism (a callous) of anything we didn't/can't personally experience. It can be well-founded on real abuses of trust. It may even be the sum of individual rational choices.

Neither would necessarily keep it from unmooring things we mistook for solid ground. And, when someone finally notices one drifting, there may not be enough trust left to agree on fundamentals like: is it adrift? is that a problem? was it ever tied down? is there anything we can do? should we wait for a bit to see if it drifts closer first? should we act?
As far as I know, they don't get any public money[0]. It comes from donations from their membership.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_The_Church_of_Jesu...
Yeah, we are kind of running low on actual high power devices to plug into residential outlets these days. Those that remain are pretty much confined to specific parts of specific rooms. Various stand alone cooking things on the kitchen counter. Hair dryer in the bathroom by the mirror. The vacuum cleaner seems to be the exception and there is a tendency toward built ins.

Heck, I don't know that there is even much need for high power ceiling lighting any more. Everything that people want to see with any detail is self illuminated these days. Just scatter some low power LEDs around (you don't even have to provide a way to turn them off) and you are done. If you actually want to read a paper book or do some knitting then an appropriate lamp is not going to take hardly any power as it would only have to illuminate a small area.
My own experience with CBT is that the diagnosis of the correct anxiety is the biggest weakness. Too often we listen to our thoughts in our minds too directly (e.g. "I'm not good enough") instead of understanding that the current anxiety has a function, and that is to protect us from what we are really scared about (it is useful for me to feel like I'm not good enough because it stops me from standing up for myself / risking a conflict with others). When I started to apply standard CBT techniques (face your fear) to the deeper anxiety, I found the surface anxieties vanished (i.e. practiced having and surviving conflicts got rid of "I'm not good enough" feelings).

Diagnosis of the deep anxiety is probably the biggest challenge. On a side note I found my dreams were very good at helping me find them by presenting situations which encouraged non anxious behaviour, which contrast to the anxious behaviour I would take in the dream - this disparity between what the situation demanded and how I behaved would highlight the deeper anxiety. I got very into the subject and wrote a paper on it: https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz, which was discussed in some depth on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19143590
I don't think it's that rare to have a UI element that's intended to be draggable and sometimes contains text.
Startup School 2020 Slack Chat
Today, YC announced the start date of the winter session of the startup school, which starts on January 20.

I created a slack chat. Here is the link: http://bit.ly/StartupSchool2020
The thing that's glutted is the savings themselves - the number of dollar bills that have been scanned in and put in spreadsheets. That the spreadsheets are in the name of a small fraction of the population doesn't change the fact that there is a glut of the dollars.
See also: XKCD's "Ballmer Peak"

https://xkcd.com/323/
This seems like the worst possible name for a potentially nice tool.

Quoting:
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific editing platform designed to create beautiful technical documents.

It provides a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content, slides, etc.

TeXmacs can be used as a graphical front-end for many systems in computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc.

Documents can be saved in TeXmacs, Xml or Scheme format and printed as Pdf or Postscript files. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and Html/Mathml. Notice that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX.

Its rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop.

New styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language.

Runs on all major Unix platforms, MacOS, and Windows.
Because GPT-2 in its current form isn't that great at keeping track of facts (like the player's inventory or skill points) over the course of long conversations, or at consistently enforcing rules (as the OP's blog post demonstrates). Allowing a more logically stringent system to handle those parts of the game might produce more realistic results.
> > Total revenue was less than a couple million dollars.

> I think you mean that the revenue of a 2 guy company was _over a million dollars_.

No. It is meant as a comparison with Netflix which has a revenue of 15.79 billion dollars.

"They have more content, but make less money," works, but "they have more content, but make _over a million dollars_," doesn't work as well.
With this you can refer to a machine in the IP6 space without setting up any DNS yourself. In some situations a hostname works where an IP-Address doesn't. They gave one such example: Getting SSL certs.

Clearly it's not a good idea to rely on this for anything serious so the value is mainly convenience during prototyping.
Sure, it's true that religious charities are expending far more effort in helping the homeless. That is largely because we've set up our society in a way that is much more favorable to private charity (religious and otherwise) helping than to tax revenue helping. In fact, the more people donate to private charity, the less tax revenue the government gets.

I'm not disputing whether religious charities are working more effectively now. I'm disputing whether that is the right strategy. If, in 2000, you were to argue that an open-source web browser is the right thing for the world, "Most people use IE, which is closed-source" (though true) would not be not a counterargument.

It is not obvious to me that nothing can solve the problem. (To be clear, I take Jesus' words about "you will always have the poor with you" as a statement addressed to the people there at the time, not to humanity forever, but even if not, a passing comment from God still seems like an inappropriate basis for public policy in a non-theocratic society.) Even if nothing can solve the problem, it's also not obvious to me that we're anywhere close to doing as good a job as we can at reducing the problem.
The Constitution. But, that only applies to charities receiving state funding. If you want to self-fund a dinner-for-calculus program, you are free to do so.
Very true. Even if that HTML is a document describing an authentication failure.
Car manufacturers have absolutely no incentive to care about anyone outside the vehicle until they start being held liable for collisions and that's why any talk about self driving cars being safer is naive at best or disingenuous at worst.
Made a habit of writing regularly. This was something I wanted to do for a while but I had only sporadic output until I gave a group of readers (almost none I personally knew) the expectation that I would email them weekly original posts related to understanding systems. I've been doing this for over a year now here: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/blog/
> The thing that bothers me now about the homeless is how many of them appear to have their basic shit together.

Hmm? I think there's a typo in there. Did you mean that it bothers you about homelessness (not the homeless people) that people with "shit" together still have trouble getting housing?
I disabled the selection of various components in apps along the years when I simply find myself accidentally selecting things in regular use that break things or creat selection states that are hard to exit. Most recently it was in a modal-heavy media gallery SPA. If you click and drag outside of a modal when you mean to click, it highlights a grid of media elements that’s hard to exit and really makes for a wonky experience. Like all UX work, you don’t notice it when it’s done well.
Not entirely.

What about the employees of WeWork? They lose their jobs because "a bunch of rich people paid for a guy to live like a king."

They lose their homes, access to health insurance, the ability to retire someday.

There's a big difference between some billionaire losing some rounding errors and someone trying to provide for their family.
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
How about we rehabilitate them, teach them skills that are needed in the workplace in order for them to be a productive member of society and stop enabling.
Was going to ask in the main thread but perhaps here is a better place. For someone just starting with programming, but targetting WASM, which would be a good first programming language? Java?

In my particular case, I've been learning Python for Data Analysis for about one year, and a few months of Haskell (love Haskell so far, but my interest/job is related to data analysis and web dev). I've heard bad things about Python as first programming lang (weakly typed and bad OOP implementation).