skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I would disagree with that.

It is amazingly easy to lie with statistical "facts", through careful sampling, use of technical language, and overly broad or narrow definitions: https://medium.com/@hollymathnerd/how-to-defend-yourself-fro...

I could write a "factual" article claiming hundreds of mass shootings in 2020 (obviously false). I just need to define a "mass shooting" as an incident where four or more people are injured (no deaths required).

Or an equally "factual" article claiming that zero mass shootings in 2020 (also obviously false). I just need to define a "mass shooting" as an incident where twenty or more people are killed.

Exact same dataset, two different and mutually exclusive "facts".
GitHub Codespaces for Machine Learning
Nice, though aggregate data doesn't allow for third party analysis, only the analysis presented by YouTube, which if you suspect YouTube's analysis/handling, isn't that useful.

That said there would be some privacy concerns if that data was just floating around out there.
How long until AMP is stAMPed out with a good ol' Anti-Trust
on a mac those are the same thing
I see you understand.
Did you like Google News content better? If not, why wasn't content quality a reason to switch before?
The Navajo Nation is the largest and most populous tribe by far, but it still wouldn't be one of the 100 most populous cities in America.

That said, I've only been on reservations in the Midwest. Other tribes may not face the same terrible conditions.
Yeah, this title is currently overadvertising the product. Without even getting into the non-OLTP DB parts of Firebase, Hasura is much further along towards being a Firebase replacement. It already handles auth and a basic admin UI for both the schema and data. I respect the vision and welcome more competition, but this seems to just stitch a "push" system to Postgrest for now (with no auth to boot).

Hasura also some limited support for generated multi-table transactional APIs, which Postgrest doesn't. Meanwhile, Firebase supports arbitrary read-modify-write transactions.

This team has its work cut out for them and I can see a fierce competition with Hasura and Firebase.
Twitter's leadership is a bunch of cowards who are only now taking the smallest steps to do something about Trump's lies and demagoguery. They should have banned him years ago.

I stopped using Twitter on January 20th, 2017. I had been a user since they started, but I went through and programatically deleted every tweet, like, follower, etc. I now just have my name and I never use the site. I wish more people would do the same. Don't delete your account, just stop using it.

If Twitter had just held everyone on their platform to the same standards, I would be somewhat accepting of them as a neutral platform for free speech. But they decided to ignore the threats, lies, bullying, name calling, racism, sexism and more coming from not just Trump, but all of his followers. So they can go to hell for all I care now.
w.r.t ". As an employer if I allow you to change your permanent address to France am I bound to manage your employment under French labor law?", IANAL either, but I know for a fact that this is the case. The tax man wants his cut, so the employer would have to establish a (subsidiary) company in France, and that becomes the local employer. There's absolutely no way you could be an employee (in the French labor law sense, which is very specific) of any foreign company while working in France (that would be "clandestine labor", see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travail_dissimul%C3%A9_en_Fran...).

It's not specific to France, either. All countries need their tax base (well not just taxation, there's also retirement/joblessness/healthcare contributions, etc...).
Let us not forget that Heisenberg did his PhD thesis on turbulence, probably found it too difficult, and then went to do easier things: winning a Nobel for the creation of quantum mechanics, building the Leipzig L-IV atomic pile, etc. etc.
Yea, I don't think there's nearly as much of a stigma against being bald/short cut hair any more. If anything, I know plenty of younger folks who keep their hair pretty short these days.
yeah, git isn't really meant to handle binary files
There's another easy fix here too. It doesn't solve the whole problem, but it makes the problem less chronic. This shouldn't happen more than once... once a human does review it, it should be nearly impossible for the automated system to override that decision in the future. Then if someone really thinks the content needs to come down then it should be reviewed by a human before it comes down.
I feel the same way. The new wave of remote work and, hopefully, the normalization of remote will mitigate against the bad effects of ageism. People seem to care less about working with a person older than them (and more about that person's skill level and merit) if they are not in the same office with them. Maybe that's because a lot of younger workers have bought into the idealization of the "young, hip, uber cool SV office" with skateboards, pizza, and ping pong and so if the older worker isn't in their office there's no "danger" of spoiling that vibe. But I'm only guessing here.
Most of the US is definitely very regular, the exception being Boston. There was an interesting article about city street orientations.

https://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/comparing-city-street-orient...
I'd be interested to see the metrics for a browser game site. When I was a kid, Flash games were our go to when we had time in class, or even at home. I can remember my sister and I crowded around the family computer playing countless Flash games.

But what about now? Now that phones are so common among children, and they offer such a large library of free games (granted, many are packed with ads and micro-transactions), is there still a large market? I don't have a modern perspective since I don't really play mobile or web games anymore, but I'd be interested to see how websites like this are doing in terms of traffic.
Yes for Firefox mobile.
There are a few projects working on an next-gen agent-centric distributed web. Holochain is my favourite

"Holochain is an open source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications.

Holochain is BitTorrent + Git + Cryptographic Signatures + Peer Validation + Gossip.

Holochain apps are versatile, resilient, scalable, and thousands of times more efficient than blockchain (no token or mining required). The purpose of Holochain is to enable humans to interact with each other by mutual-consent to a shared set of rules, without relying on any authority to dictate or unilaterally change those rules. Peer-to-peer interaction means you own and control your data, with no intermediary (e.g., Google, Facebook, Uber) collecting, selling, or losing it.

Data ownership also enables new frontiers of user agency, letting you do more with your data (imagine truly personal A.I., whose purpose is to serve you, rather than the corporation that created it). With the user at the center, composable and customizable applications become possible."

http://developer.holochain.org and http://holo.host
Apps building using the Holochain framework/pattern: http://junto.love using

Also great are http://scuttlebutt.co.nz and https://docs.datproject.org/. Fritter is Twitter built on the DAT protocol (Paul Frazee) https://twitter.com/taravancil/status/949310662760632320
Random Worldbuilding: The Nation in History
You're assuming that people are expecting a monetary return on their investment. I suspect a lot of Tesla investors are expecting a return in the form of reduced problems due to climate change.
Age bias doesn't only present itself at the interview stage, it presents in all aspects of work.
The user is the product. The user doesn't get a say in how the product works. Don't like it? Don't use the site.

Or, you know, ask the site to stop using Google.
Work sucks. Fuck work. 3 day weekends for memorial day weekend, as a proxy for the start of summer are not new.

Yes, we all know that Garfield hates Mondays.

News is a joke. This article is bullshit. Corporate media outlets are just advertorial opinion columns in a pay-to-play world, where who you know matters more than anything else.

Fuck you. Suicide is painless.
By default, macOS ships with a Screenshot utility (Applications > Utilities > Screenshot).

It can capture PNG files or record the whole screen or a portion of it and generate a video file from the whole session.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-screenshots-or...
What Is Nix and Why You Should Use It
It all depends on what you mean by "native." :-)

Our products are implemented in C++, and we utilize platform-specific APIs to integrate with the OS in the ways that make the most sense.

In terms of the UI, however, we have a custom library with our own controls, control structure, event handling, rendering, etc. We only use native UI for menus, file pickers and title bars. We do, however, use OS-provided font layout and rendering APIs so that text looks like other apps on your OS.

By implementing only what we need, using a language with low overhead, and making a point of writing code that is efficient, we can generally accomplish excellent performance. This, combined with trying to following platform conventions and taking the time to integrate with the OS APIs, provides a UI that feels snappy and generally doesn't look out-of-place, such as most Java UIs.
I'm having the Groundhog Day experience: every day is the same. I'm having difficulty determining how long in the past any given event occurred, presumably because normally that process is aided by time anchors (e.g the week before spring break). That said, it feels as if this "every day is the same" situation is better somehow. Less cognitive load in figuring out "what to do"; less effort expended planning future activities; much easier to work consistently on projects (all sorts of home improvement projects that have been on the todo list for years are now completed). It feels like being 12 years old to some extent.
> I once got a strike on social media for posting an article about a German doctor that recommended whiskey to cure covid19. It was a joke, and any reasonable adult would know this is false.

There are a heck of a lot of non-reasonable adults on social media.

Unless something is very explicitly and prominently labeled as a joke or satire, in a way that won't get separated from it when it is re-shared by your downstream viewers, there's a good chance quite a few people will not catch on that it is not intended to be true.

Social media can be particularly bad in this regard because it often encourages only spending a short time reading each individual post. It pushes breadth over depth.

> 12 years ago we didn't have this problem, and I think that's mostly related to the fact there was some UX resistance to hitting the "reahare" button.

I'm not sure that is most of it, but it contributes to increasing volume in people's feeds, pushing the breadth vs. depth balance toward breadth so makes things worse.
A similar story that I love regarding the infamous Van Halen brown M&M contract rider:

“Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.

The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function. So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say “Article 148: There will be fifteen amperage voltage sockets at twenty-foot spaces, evenly, providing nineteen amperes …” This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was: “There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.”

So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
Wake Up Call: The Consumer Revolution Is Here to Stay
You can improve comprehension by reading aloud.
Thanks to legislation, not to Tesla's magnanimous nature. Several states (notably, MA) had to wave increasingly large sticks at Tesla to get any traction there.

You couldn't even buy a screw from their online ordering system. "Price: Not listed". "Order: Contact Tesla" (who would then say "not available to you".

Even their service manuals. Make an appointment, in MA. Pay a fee. Go to a specified location, weeks later. Go into a room with paper and pencil, no cameras, phones, or computers allowed. Be given a time limit.
> A lot of past US Presidents were likely no more competent.

I haven't seen the current president be competent in anything. What a difference with Obama.

Even his "business" instincts he likes to claim is nothing more than a name licensing scheme and a "mommy foundation" ( * ) sponsored with daddy's money.

* Trump organisation used to be called " Elizabeth Trump & Son" in 1923 :)
Anyone know of any other tool like this that might give an idea of where in the sky to look based on your location?

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink-lat...
A paradoxical blend for me too, but interestingly opposite to yours. Week seem to drag and months seem to blaze
In case of a popular channel: maybe the subscribers to a channel could be 'polled' in order to vet a channel's content?

If the majority of subscriber's vote confirms the content then the channel owner could be given a 2nd chance?

Just an idea off the top of my bald head.
Opt in like HTTP/S was? Look what happened when Google decided to threaten the ad/ranking tap if websites refused to move to HTTPS.
This is your brain on carbon emissions
It just alpha/beta male posturing. A receding hairline makes a man look old and pathetic, but baldness can project power and virility.
I've been an Apple guy since 1984 when I was 12, and Catalina has finally pushed me to Linux for my daily driver. I'll still keep Apples around due to Apple's mostly excellent ecosystem execution, but... something has gone missing lately
I don't know how the implementation of mail-in voting is in the States. Here's how I would implement it:

1. Ballots contain: a ballot, a serial number, a small envelope and a large envelope.
2. The voter fills in the ballot and stuffs in the small envelope and closes it.
3. Voter now needs to get a code from a webpage and add to the serial number card. Here's the part where infrastructure in Iceland is excellent. Nigh everyone has personal electronic certificates on their phones so authentication is easy. I must admit I have no idea how easy or hard this would be in the States.
4. Puts the small envelope and the serial number card in the large envelope and closes it.
5. Mails in the large envelope.
6. Precinct opens the large envelope and validates the serial number. If it is valid, puts the small envelope in box headed for counting.
7. Count the votes. Declare results.
8. Investigate the "bad serials and validation number".

There are fun things to think about doing to increase confidence in the voting process. In this scheme I describe the validation code could be a hash of the serial and a salt. Then you could actually release all the validation cards so voters can actually verify that their ballots were counted.
Here’s some information on the Space Shuttle Weather Launch Commit Criteria. There are probably some added bits for the water recovery incase of an abort with Crew Dragon. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/pdf/531435main_weather-...

Edit: and for the falcon 9 (non crew) https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/649911main_051612_falcon9_weather_c...
Sharing AMP links is the worst. I probably wouldn't mind if they had a way to provide short links that cardified okay in slack, but lately I've been just sharing the link to the original.

if anyone else prefers to share the original link, you can probably find the article by searching on duckduckgo. Using their search more often now these days.
Researchers use drones to detect dangerous 'butterfly' landmines
Use firefox or brave. I solved this problem. I'm only waiting for a proper alternative to Android, I'm so tired of google and its swallow way of doing things...
OMG! Why would Mozilla kill extensions on mobile (android)? It would make mobile unusable for me. In fact that's the reason I barely browse the internet on my iPad: Firefox never had add ons on iOS due to Apple restrictions. I hope that's just FUD!
After the "get back to work" fiasco Musk is dead to me
Well the iPhone is doing this online. While Pixel is doing it offline. Which is why the latency difference. ( Specific to English only, some languages still requires connection on Pixel )

I think dictation on iPhone is good enough, at least 10 times better than pre iPhone / Machine learning era. But it is also not as good as google. Partly because Google has more Data and started research way earlier, and partly because this isn't a fundamental strength of Apple.

I am pretty sure Apple is working on Offline Dictation. If Google can do it with Snapdragon on a much smaller transistor budget, there is no reason why Apple cant do it with more transistor.
Over-the-air (OTA) software updates in embedded MCU based applications
I too have a project on firebase for a small business which costs me 0 but is vital for this business. I use firestore, cloud functions, auth and cloud storage for this project. Very nice for small apps.
Firefox Mobile can do this.
This link will probably not work once his exclusivity deal kicks in.
For instance, they took a hard line on international travel while WHO was still saying such bans were counter productive.

Thanks for the details on Taiwan vis a vis the WHO.
the only gripe i have with DDG is missing 'site: "somewebsite.com"' option. Is there a way to achieve it?

I mainly use it for '*.countrydomain' to get results for a specific country.
On top of that, I wonder how much these statistics are influenced by the ridiculous student debt burdens the U.S. education system saddles their youth with. Getting a master's degree will easily have you graduating with six figures in student loan debt. In a sibling comment I see a mention of Denmark - a country where not only is higher education free, the government actually pays students a monthly stipend to help cover basic living expenses.

The U.S. is an extremely backwards country when it comes to taking care of its people, with city streets literally lined up with tents of homeless people in some of its biggest cities. No universal healthcare, low social mobility, it's not the least bit surprising to me that a third of the country is depressed. It's just sad that our government does nothing about it while our president is busy tweeting conspiracy theories.
Imagine if a U.S. president were to flagrantly make up a claim that some other country was developing weapons of mass destruction. Imagine that there was no way to verify this claim. Imagine that the president insisted on invading said country on the basis of the unsupported claim.

Do most people still expect that someone in that position will not post clearly false messages, specially when those messages affect something as fundamental as the death of thousands of people and the overthrow of a government?

Iran contra, Watergate, Vietnam, ...

Is there any trust left?

It's bewildering that the answer is, "Yes". It's discouraging that so many presidents have so often deceived the people so horribly. It's much much more discouraging that the people don't learn.
It's always interesting to explore how far a thing can be pushed software-wise. Copying bits is free and small AVRs are literally cents per piece in large quantities.
AWS Deep Racer League Will Compete at the Upcoming Online Summit
AWS published an overview of the upcoming online summit (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/developers-guide-a...), AWS Deep Racer, their autonomous vehicle racing league, will still be included in the virtual format. Races will be done in a simulation.
iPhone is doing this online, sending data packet back to Apple.

Pixel is doing this completely offline.
"machines" ;)
Thanks. I got to visit as a student, in 2008/2009 I believe, and it was a great time. Seeing ATLAS and many other experiments.
Post-COVID19: What the best SaaS companies are doing to Get Ready
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs...
Actually, no. Even the composition of the picture is dictated by fashion. Even pure landscape scenes change over time.
Performance Comparison Between Apache Pulsar and Kafka: Latency
Why, so you can quarrel with each one and dissemble at every turn? Everyone knows what GP is talking about. If you don’t think it’s a risk, then enjoy!
The phrase is purported to be Communist Bandits or 五毛
I couldn't agree more that AMP is terrible. I do everything I can to avoid it. Using DuckDuckGo certainly helps, but I will still occasionally stumble on an AMP site. I've created a hosts block list to help me avoid AMP as much as possible. It currently has 3,569 unique domains (works great with a PiHole!). I'm really concerned about Chrome's 'signed exchanges' where they can fake the URL completely. I hope Firefox will never support it.

https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/
Upwork forbids any off-platform communication prior to opening a contract
Some of the most intelligent and thoughtful comments I’ve read on are on this thread. Sometimes the most vivid dreams are the early ones, before people adjust to the possible. There are a whole host of ideas of days passed that deserve revisiting. I wrote a little about them here: https://blog.eutopian.io/the-next-big-thing-go-back-to-the-f...
Covid-19 will change online learning forever
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I'm right there with you in my 40s. Not sure I was ever on board with the open-office and the managerial mayhem. This has kept me in contract work and startups. The general stability is lower with the rare but occasional lull between projects, but my overall happiness with my work and career is extremely high.
I've taken multiple ethics class as part of my degree, and to be honest, if you don't already understand morality, you need the course. But I don't believe that those courses really have the desired impact, cheaters will cheat. It is more like these courses are created to cover the institution against the risk of appearing to not be graduating ethical individuals, but they can't actually make moral people beyond catching people who break the honor code and expelling them.
He wasn't saying high intakes of vitamin D would prevent or treat COVID-19, he was alluding to a belief that vitamin D deficiency reduces the chances of recovery from COVID-19. Obviously to correct vitamin D deficiency people require high intakes.

It's not good for people to be just advising "eat vitamin D" though.

People should consult a doctor to determine a) to what extent they are deficient (or not), and b) that they have no health issues that make taking vitamin D dangerous.
Some applications have noticeably better keyboard latency than others on my Linux system. Kitty, Emacs and Chromium beat most QT apps and Firefox by a mile. Also, latency is much better for me in Wayland than in (composited) X (sway vs i3). Not sure why that is.
I was so fascinated with the story that I read all 3 books in 3.5 days.