skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had heard of it before this article was posted, but hadn't seen it, and probably never would have seen it but for this negative publicity. Of course, Youtube took it down, but it's available on Bitchute[1].

It looks like nonsense to me, conspiracy theories and exaggerations, but preventing people from deciding for themselves is censorship, i.e. the suppression of free speech, and that never ends well.

1. https://www.bitchute.com/video/MXyKqZ201Dj5/
Squalor because of the virus?
> not every item in the marketplace of ideas has the same value

Very true. I just don't appreciate being told to think about things before I have a chance to evaluate them myself. It seems impossible now to get media coverage that doesn't have a clear agenda. But maybe a clear agenda is preferable to coverage with a hidden agenda.

On the surface, the claims raised by Judy Mikovits (who would be a more interesting subject of this same article) seem outrageous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Mikovits - but I note that the wiki lists her as a "former" research scientist ("discredited"). Again, an agenda is apparent here. Wikipedia's article on Flat Earth theory is more generous and less biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

Why would Vice even shine a light on these people, particularly if their ideas offer nothing of value? What makes Flat Earthers "less discredited" than these so called anti-vax people?

It seems like a lot of the claims raised by these people are _unverified_ not _debunked_, and there's a big difference in my mind (eg. it is neither proven nor disproven that face masks amplify the virus and reinfect people). But breathless media coverage trying to impugn people on a personal level makes me emotionally more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling this way, and I'm not sure it's a good thing.

I'm not sure how claims like Mikovits' are any less outlandish than New York Times raising the idea that estrogen could be a treatment for COVID-19 in males: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/health/coronavirus-estrog... - another unverified (not _disproven_) claim, yet notice the lack of torches and pitchforks.
I'm talking about the centralization of software packages(Go, Deno) on GitHub as it applies to dependency resolution.
People who avoid ads aren't even considered a target audience. They exercise too much critical thinking for advertisers who want to grab people by the feels and get them to buy their product for a dopamine rush.
"In 2013, Yahoo Inc. decided its lax policies on working from home had prevented it from innovating and required everyone to come back to the office."

-- and now in 2020 Yahoo is an innovative power house...
How we use Heroku and Git for continuous integration and deployment
Cuda was also a response to ATI's own efforts at a proprietary effort which they eventually have up on.
How did you learn to do all those things? I would have no idea where to even start.
This is not a useful comment. You are suggesting a world where no platform is extensible, which isn't realistic nor desirable.

When you are building for an extensible platform it's entirely reasonable to be surprised when the vendor sabotages you. Platforms like this are good because they help both parties, so there is an expectation that one side won't sabotage the other in general. When it happens it's surprising, and usually not a great outcome for the platform provider.
How do you think that will change things this time around exactly?
Yes, Creative Cloud also vomits a bunch of random stuff everywhere. Right now I can see 5 launchagent/launchdaemons just from having Photoshop and Illustrator installed, which seems insane lol
1 / 2 / 3 - I think they should be terminal in some manner, myself I have told anyone who will listen, when I cannot do the basics on my own (like go to the toilet, have a conversation), or have a terminal (painful) condition, and there is no prospect of improvement, please let me die some how. Do not keep me drugged up.

Mental illness is a different kettle of fish. I supported taking Terry Shivo of the equipment that kept her alive.

4 - I expect when I would want to go, I would not have the physical capability to do it.
It's currently not the best experience as the temporary containers addon creates a container per browser tab which bloats the sidebar.

But there's a github issue for it and I've received a couple of requests regarding this today, so I will tackle this ASAP.
Well to some degree it actually happened. All the activity in the first dot com book was in the Valley. Afterwards a lot of it migrated up to San Francisco. Now that both places are saturated. It's starting to happen in the East Bay.

After San Francisco and the East Bay have started saturating, other places were put on the map like Seattle, NYC, Austin and Pittsburgh.
I think they will continue to exist if they focus on their unique strengths that online cannot compete with. They'll never compete as a place to get a good price on a commodity widget. They'll become places for things where experience, sensation, or interaction are important.
Joe McMillan was one of my all time favorite character arcs in any show period. That final scene in the series is something I'll never forget.

Given what we've been told about Jobs, it's very unlikely he achieved the same degree of self-actualization by the end of his life. And, if I had to guess, it's because he, quite ironically, never quite found the "thing" that computers get you to. He was perpetually chasing an elusive frontier of progress, at the expense of his soul.
It costs someone less to live in a cheaper city so businesses don't need to pay as much to hire workers in that city. The employee's choice is to take the pay cut, or to take a lower-paying job at another company in their new home city.
>> Like a mindless drone?

Mindless drones do not get assigned software development work. It is thinking-work by its very nature.
Hi all! Kathy Pham here, another mentor and founder of Mozilla Builders. Looking forward to answering questions and sharing ideas. I've built/worked at products, organizations, companies, startups across private sector (Google, IBM), government (White House), non-profits, startups, healthcare (Harris Healthcare), AI, etc and Mozilla Builders Fix the Internet is one of the most rewarding, energizing movements I have ever helped build. So thrilled to hang out here with everyone. Currently a fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, teach a class on product management, and spearheading Responsible Computer Science, and Ethical Tech. My favorite Hackathon has been "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" at the MIT Media Lab! Love tinkering, building, going to the community, designing for equity, and so much more. Ask us all the things, and then apply and come join us!
People are going to be moving Mountain House or Reno at farthest, not Cleveland. Though the thought of buying a literal mansion near Boise with your techbux is amusing.
Yes. I'm thinking of the old saying about no one ever arriving at his deathbed wishing he'd spent less time with his kids.
I had to run my modem at 300bps on my Apple IIe because the built-in serial terminal was "too slow" (scrolling up one line took so long that the buffer would overflow and the beginning of each line would be missing). I ended up talking to the Proterm developer at AppleCon and he said he solved it by using buffers and interrupts, which I knew nothing about.
I love this kind of stuff. I’m always amazed about how small we can operate.
You can't really predict the future if a large tech company will properly fund an open source project to reproduce what they have internally, and if that will be any good in time, especially if none of it exists. In the mean time, you need a solution to problem X.

I've even written a few libraries like that, and still stuff out there isn't that good or does not exist years later, because it's too niche, yet still a generic issue in the industry. Can't open source it although.

In an alternative timeline, Buck for example could of been the OSS solution that google decided to devote their resources to, and then in the end it would of been a good idea that FB created their own version of it.
I'm happy to see this. There is a lot of potential for new growth in this sector and woefully insufficient ongoing investment. It seems like a tremendous opportunity for them.
==reduces office space needs==

While increasing their employees home-space needs. People will need bigger houses and apartments if everyone is going to work from home long-term.
Really cool to see this here!

I’m currently a participant in the Mozilla Builders’ Spring MVP program working on our recommendation-as-a-service platform www.chestnutai.com, and so far, the experience has been amazing! Each week, we get half an hour of dedicated mentoring session, and the mentors are super responsive on Slack as well. They give you great, tailored advice on how to validate your idea, gain tractions in the super early stage, and prioritize on what to build. Shout out to our mentors Bart & Patrick for being so helpful!!
Thanks, I understand you. Perhaps it was too harsh in the correspondence, I apologize.
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here:

They say that people think they're smarter than they actually are. Similarly, I think most privacy advocators think their data is more important than it actually is.

This is not to say that ditching Google is wrong; all I'm saying is you better start asking yourself "why do I not want Google to know more about me?". Unless the answer is something along the lines of "because I'm the CEO of a huge conglomerate" or "because my product is competing with one of Google's product", you're fine.
I know one piece of evidence contrary to that - the time 4chan used youtube videos posted by terrorists to find one of their training camps.
Hi! My name is Emma and I am currently participating in Mozilla's Lab as a member of Ameelio. Our mentors have been incredibly helpful and I highly recommend joining this incubator.
Hi,
The programs looks great!
I couldn't find on your website so I will ask here: can we attend the program (MVP lab) remotely?

Also which channels of communication are used to communicate between the teams and the mentors?
Would you accommodate with a team using mostly asynchronous communication (written, non-chat) channels, because according to our experience it's the most effective way to communicate in a small software company?
This isn't true for publishers. They want everyone to see ads so they can get paid.
For occasional power outages, it definitely makes sense. But what toll that would take on the batteries?
I agree with you, caveats abound. (As a Permaculture enthusiast the whole agricultural system looks like one big caveat to me! But that's a tangent.) I hope people and information come together well enough to mitigate the worst of the waste and shortages.

(Frankly I haven't heard enough Americans saying, "Let's roll!" on this. We should be nailing it down and positioning ourselves to be ready to help the harder-hit nations in the next few months. That's the American way!)

All the noise about "sacrifice the weak to save the economy" (coming from about ~15% or 3/20 folks only) is IMO a distraction from focusing on the vital systems and figuring out and doing what has to be done to keep things stable.

As long as people don't starve we can sort the paperwork.

If you have a bunch of hungry people and a bunch of food in fields there has to be some synergy there, eh? (Not trying to be flip, just upbeat.)
Fair enough, but I was also assuming that integrated circuits wouldn't wear out from sitting in a cow pasture quite as fast as a steel engine block would. Software doesn't rust.

Then again maybe I'm being naive. Lightning strikes happen, power supply glitches happen, and the lack of schematics and source code would indeed be a huge barrier to debugging. Unless somebody develops AI-enabled JTAG reverse-engineering systems in the future.
Of course you could have dozens of mac users working from home during the crisis, where a minor version VPN update requires an os upgrade but if you upgrade the os some other software won't work.
Viacom Forced Internet Archive to Remove Hundreds of Hours of MTV Broadcasts
Is it possible to have the hierarchical structure of tabs like in tree style tabs (so I can see which tab spawned which tabs)?
Surveys are fine and all but in some industries/companies, workers are not going to have much say in this. When it comes down to cost savings from increased productivity and reduced/eliminated office space, the decision is very easy for some. Not to say it's the right decision but it's a decision some are going to make with some limited data at hand.
I'm pretty sure I saw this at some point in the last few weeks, either in sf or LA
> legislature passed a bill that granted this power to the executive

The legislature granted specific emergency powers to the governor. Based on the decision, I don’t see the scope of those powers being met. (Specifically, the criminal consequences and open-ended timeline.)

And it’s the legislature, today, bringing the case against the executive.

> democratic process has checks and balances for dealing with a rogue executive - but it requires an overwhelming support of the legislature

This is true in no system with the rule of law. The judiciary also checks the executive.

[1] https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?cont...
Reassessing Brian De Palma’s “Dressed to Kill” and “Body Double”
> After a decade of experience working on Node.JS and growing the community, Dahl decided to create an alternative Javascript (and Typescript) runtime in mid/late 2018 called Deno which is now v1.0.

Just to nit-pick: Ryan Dahl had stepped away from node and the surrounding ecosystem in 2012. So for the vast majority of node's lifetime, he hasn't really been involved. Node in 2012 was a very different project.

(That doesn't take away from his observations or from the things that deno does differently. Just trying to reduce confusion.)
Back in 2009, I used Paul Graham's Arc language to do some simple genome analysis of XMRV [1], the virus (wrongly) claimed to cause chronic fatigue syndrome. That virus was discovered by Mikovits, the star of this video. It's kind of bizarre for her to reappear a decade later in a conspiracy video.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2009/11/simple-genome-analysis-with-ar...
Just dealt with this yesterday. It’s too bad because I really like the signatures I have saved under Preview.

So I sign all signatures on a lease with Preview except for the very last one, which I did using a digital signature under Adobe Reader. it was a self-signed one certificate but the goal is still to have the other person feel comfortable with doing a contract over email than in person anyways.
> …not make the kind of unsupported blanket claims about its obvious superiority, like you just did…

Not what I said. Let’s move on.

> That's a dangerous philosophy…

Go pick a fight with someone else.
Are there not any alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader on macOS for editing fields and other use cases listed in the other comments?
I'm making high power LED-based home lighting. I was inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660718

Basically our hourses are 1-3 orders of magnitude dimmer than the outside; this is not good. Ben Kuhn's approach was to buy a big 30k lumen LED bulb for $100. I am doing a more DIY approach with a number of small LED COBs. Each finished module will output 13.5k lumens for a bit less than $100 (so multiple will be needed per room), but it comes with a number of benefits:

- The light is extremely high quality, almost the exact same as sunlight. Fluorescent bulbs and normal LEDs do not give off the full spectrum of visible light we get from the sun and incandescent bulbs. In fact I tried growing some plants indoors a while ago, and even though they were seemingly well-lit they ended up dying due to a lack of light.

- The light can be dimmed to warm. Each module has four LED COBs. Three are bright white and put out 13.5k total lumens. The other one is a warmer white which should be useful at night - like IRL flux/redshift. And these can all be dimmed smoothly from 100% to 1% brightness.

- The modules are controlled with an ESP8266, so they have WiFi. Aside from controlling them via a phone/computer, I am going to set up a Raspberry Pi running some timed scripts to automatically adjust them. For example they can all turn on in the morning as a natural wake up alarm (I have a separate alarm clock project I'm working on to give this a normal physical alarm clock interface). And I'm going to investigate using PIR sensors to make them automatically respond to human presence.

In the end this method is a bit more expensive than just buying high power bulbs (and more expensive than buying normal bulbs, but you would need like 70 of them in a room to match the total light output), but it has a number of seemingly useful advantages. Right now I'm working on the second (and hopefully final) prototype; the first was electrically OK but had thermal issues (LEDs still get very hot!).

It's an interesting break from normal software engineering. There's a huge emphasis on getting it right, and on getting it right the first time. Since there are a couple of amps of power running through the system, it needs to be well designed and safe from the very beginning. And $6 shipping every time you order from DigiKey punishes iteration heavily, since if you're making small iterations then your shipping will be much more expensive than the parts. I spent probably around 60 hours researching before making the first order. After finding out that the thermal solution was inadequate I spent a bunch of time theoretically fixing that and finishing up every single loose end (up to well over 100 hours total now). So now my second order will very likely result in a 100% complete, functional, and safe (I think!) product.

The only thing left is to design a lamp-style enclosure. The module is small enough to replace a lightbulb in an overhead socket, but the wiring would need to be changed slightly and working through a small hole in the ceiling is not really practical.
Neither do I, but does it have to? Like any business, Reddit has ways that it makes money and ways that it spends money. This could be considered valuable [0] enough to the site that they continue to cover the costs of running it.

[0] - By driving more traffic, more engagement, better content, and/or other intangibles.
Yea, for founders going down a traditional VC path, there is some what weird but actually sensible logic to the idea that "being good at pitching VCs" is actually a useful skill to filter for. If I'm a Seed VC, assessing how well the founder will do at raising from Series A-F investors is actually part of the game.

We do "funding for bootstrappers" so most founders that work with us don't really plan on needing to raise more capital (it's not prohibited or anything, just not Plan A). So we and they don't really care about how "good" they are at playing the game of pitching.
"[Living in] a one-bedroom rental in South San Francisco, a short commute from Facebook Inc.’s offices in Menlo Park"

-- might want to edit the "short" part. I think that's at least a 1-hour commute, EACH way :)
Congratulations to the team !

2 questions:

- What is the difference between dat and hyperdrive ?

- I see hyperdrive manages hyper:// urls -- what about dat:// urls ? Will they be still managed ?
> people who are fully remote are going to fall behind in promotions,

Unfortunately, I have to agree with that. There is also the case that if you have to work from the office. Make sure your boss is not remote.

I had that experience, and it sucked.
The problem on Reddit is the problem of all social media. HN is better simply because it is too small to be targeted by the bigger more well funded PR campaigns.

Also, it probably helps that this community is not particularly demographically diverse compared to the average. There is less value to a PR company in sockpuppeting here, unless they are specifically trying to reach tech workers specifically.
> apparently someone made it so on purpose [2]

This is terribly unfortunate, given that there are many active bugs associated with this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479858 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500991 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538069

I've read the thread you linked and I still don't understand their reasoning for this.
Gitlab famously does this, is very open about it [0], and in general has enjoyed more praise for their all remote structure than hell for their differing salaries. Maybe the companies won't rush to cut salaries of current employees who go remote and move elsewhere. But I fully expect them to offer new hires different salaries based on their location. After all, they already do that with their non-remote offices. It's not like Google is paying the same salaries to workers in their SF office and Toronto office.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Promise.all vs. Promise.allSettled
> This state supreme court could have delayed.

If I understand correctly, the winning side asked for a delay (in a different form than you're thinking). They wanted the case decided, ruled on, with the ruling to take effect a week after the decision, so that the governor and the legislature would have time to work something out. That is, they wanted the governor to have to follow the proper procedures to continue the stay-at-home order, and wanted the court to give time for that to happen, because they didn't actually oppose the stay-at-home order, just the way it was done.

The court didn't do that. It revoked the stay-at-home order, starting right now, not a week from now. That's something neither side asked for. That's either the court following its own agenda, or the court being stupid. I'm not sure which.
I'm not able to view the link due to HTTPS errors.

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
You believe that language is prescriptive -- that there are 'correct' usages of words. [1] I believe that language is descriptive -- that dictionaries follow common usage rather than define the usage. Depending on your cultural heritage, one or the other may be more common.

Descriptivism allows for expressions like, "To boldly go where no man has gone before!" which is a split infinitive, and an 'incorrect' use of language. If a native speaker would say a thing in speaking, then it's valid. Native English speakers use language in all sorts of ways that would be 'incorrect' -- from jive to rhyming slang to 1337 sp34k to adoptions from queer culture like 'shade' or 'yass'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription
> inductive reasoning is still a validate tool for understanding the world.

And here it has led you astray. Terrorist organisations have propaganda mouthpieces, and use social media like any other. One of my previous jobs involved building network analysis tools to identify and locate terrorists combing through their Twitter feeds.

For some, you could easily identify the point in their lives when they were radicalized, and trace connections to others who were also, and identify the people they had in common.

Inductive reasoning opens room for questions, not answers, because it does not account for unknown information.
Right, that's one strategy, but then that means you lose out on strong engineers living in expensive areas. And since the major tech hubs are mostly very expensive, that means you're missing out on a lot of potential candidates.
How to maximize cybersecurity while working remotely
If you're willing to go whole-hog, I've had good experiences using EXWM for this.