skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read all these headlines, but when I then followup to read more about the text of the proposed laws [1], I have a hard time seeing that aside from freedom of speech infringements (and ability to imprison, fine based on those -- which are clearly a bit vague in terms of enforcement, but otherwise as bland as a lot of US legislation), these laws are not egregiously different from what exist in some other countries.

Aside from the symbolism, can someone enlighten me why they have practical, real worries that this is going to cause some massive political or social change over there? Or whether companies will really shy away from doing business when they already face laws like this elsewhere? Or that the economy there is going to dry up because of this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress_D...
Just to add a counter-anecdote, as I see lots of (good/valid) questions about "why do I need this?", here's an anecdote about "yes we definitely benefited from this":

- Years and years ago, we already had a data warehouse (DWH)

- In the data warehouse, you would store data like, each and every order that all customers have made (i.e. up to and including full-fledged facts and dimensions about each)

- Now, let's say axiomatically/hypothetically, a very useful and highly predictive feature for ML is "# of orders made in past 7 days" for each customer

- Can this be computed from the data already in the DWH? Yes, absolutely, but it's a new computation and not an existing column/attribute in the dimensional model.

- What if you need to recompute this feature daily, for millions of customers and orders? Well, we could always just add it to the dimensional model, compute it once, and let people just use it/share it... but why? Most internal users of the DWH probably don't care about something like "# of orders past 7 days" as something to be added to a customer dimension or per-customer grain (too specific or whatever), and moreover, the DS/ML folks want the same feature but for "every 1/3/7/30/90/180/365/730/etc." days breakdown, as well as a bunch of variations about orders and things other than orders (e.g. "average time between new orders, over past 7/30/90 days" or "average $ spent over past 7/30/90 days", as features that serves as a proxy for frequency of activity and level of engagement)

- Hence, it makes sense to keep the "golden copy" of data in a canonical form in the classic/standard DWH as a baseline, and to separately/independently compute features out of that data and to store them in a different system (which can also be optimized for the different query/access patterns that DS/ML have, vs traditional BI). Over time, it also made sense in certain cases to go upstream of the DWH to source data from and process it more directly (for performance/efficiency reasons), though generally deriving features out of the transformed dimensional models was still very useful.

- It took our teams ~1-2 years to really go through this evolution and reach a mature-ish state, but for the past 2-3 years, we've benefited tremendously from having an independent feature repository/store, that is separate from the classic DWH. Benefits came in all the obvious and some non-obvious ways, i.e. in faster iteration/cycle time, in better quality/repeatability, and in being able to automatically discover interesting relationships that no human could have anticipated - simply by having a very broad/large repository of features and running automatic feature selection over it.
Provide gatsby services and tooling for enterprise customers, something along the lines of the wordpress ecosystem?

Seems like they're going the way of meteor though, so who knows.
right, figured in this case were it was "so deep" under ground not sure if you could tell "ground penetrating" but I see your point eg. finding old ruins in mountains/forests
Gatsby.js raised money, Next.js raised money, and then Gatsby.js raised even more money.
Happy I studied engineering in university at times like this.
Also, the dosage may be different
Good point, but by context, wasn't GP talking about the same load?

If somebody says "The battery performance is poor" I don't assume they go from compiling all day to writing in Notepad when making the comparison - I assumed they meant "For the work the laptop was purchased for".
Access control gets complicated though. Maybe a column should be accessible to a user, but only under x, y, z conditions that require hundreds of lines of logic to figure out. Do you really want all that inside the db?
This is how I feel as well. I don’t even mind the shopping part but for a mass grocer, the checkout experience has become unbearable.
> Nice build :) Have you checked out EasyEDA + jlcpcb? It can improve the electronics aspects of robot projects.

Thanks! Yeah, the electronics is a bit gross. This build was probably 6 years ago perhaps? I got it to the point that it worked and then it was kinda "done" and all that was left was polish, but it was really a toy so there wasn't much point and I left it.

Planning on building something for slug and snail control (NW UK, they can be a problem), and cat/badger/squirrel scaring in my garden (they dig up things). Will likely make use of PCBs with this so will check out the links.

> Here is a chinese motor manufacturer that makes more sane motors: http://www.gyems.cn/product.html

So I did some digging and found this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyentificTube/videos

He does a some testing of some Turnigy motors (a bit like this: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-aerodrive-sk3-6374-149kv..., there's a whole range) which looked cool, and he was using an odrive controller https://odriverobotics.com/ which also looked pretty handy, so there's some stuff to check out there, but he also did some tests with some gyems motors and they looked great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQJeg87ff8

> dynamic walking systems are more complex

Given the speed of slugs and snails I am going to probably go for a less dynamic movement style. Less force, smaller motors, longer battery life. Though I like the idea of trying to program dynamic movement. The physical build for my more static movement style shouldn't be too hard to do.

> https://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/

Thanks, this is great!
Certainly, but Boeing stripped down to just its defense contracts would be a huge fall.
Discovery was a real issue. I hope they have improved it now
The Ayn Randian perspective isn’t all that helpful for those in protected classes, and the sunset of her life and career (depressingly) argued strongly against her theories re: ubermenschen...
GE is literally selling the metaphor for innovation and ideas for $250 million. It's also the last Edison original business.

Curious what others think, but I think they undervalue the brand value they are eroding by divesting from all of these low growth business that were the building blocks of their once great brand?
How is this getting a free pass, while allegations about other countries prompt much consternation.

I think it is ethically problematic to assist/work for any espionage/intelligence related work during peace time.
100% agreed re: Spotify, but Netflix's algorithm seems to think that if I liked Annihilation and Arrival then I'll like any young adult or action movie with scifi aesthetic.

Similarly, if I liked The Witch and Hereditary then top recommendations for me must be $5m budget cash grab teen slashers and haunted webcam gimmicks.

I think random selection would be more effective for me than the current Netflix algo(s).
Early user here. Obsidian is literally the best app in 2020 so far IMO.

- Blazingly fast

- Clean UI

- Free

- Sync with Dropbox, Github, iCloud...

- Great community

I have never looked back to Notion and Bear since I found it.

Btw, the Obs team is moving so fast.
> They are technologically quite substantially in arrears to Airbus

Could you expand on that?
If you don’t want to trust anyone with your DNS data, you should run Unbound or Knot resolver alongside Pi-hole.

Cloudflare is one of the world's largest networks, and a problem for anonymity and decentralization.
> I sure am tired of hearing about "the fundamental flaw" in empowering people.

I'm all for empowering people. But adding personally controlled user agents to Facebook is a fundamentally flawed solution. There is no path for that to succeed because the primary content users will want to filter is ads, and the primary content Facebook needs people to see is ads. Thus user agents are an existential threat to Facebook and since Facebook controls all the content, they will ensure user agents are not allowed.

The core business model does not align Facebook's incentives with user's incentives. You can't fix that at the content level.
And then there's intercontinental travel days.

(I try to time them so I arrive around noon at the latest so I can get my bearings and make sure I can reach my accommodation safely no matter what and ideally explore a little.)

At the end of a day like this the memory of having woken up to start that day at some point becomes very distant, like it happened ages ago. At the same time, the day doesn't fly by fast either. I think it helps to interact with the world that much and get out of my head. It reminds me of being a child a little, so many new things to discover and so many things that cannot be readily understood and still trusting that it'll be fine.
Variolation as a term only applies to smallpox. Giving small doses of the live virus as hanson suggests is literally just a lame vaccine. It's also not known to be safe or effective and would have to go through all the trials anyway.
If you start with 1.0 and 1.3, that sounds just fantastic! If you have more time and energy on a later occasion, you can always add to the collection.
This brings up another question in my mind.

You are examining 10 apples, well, so is everyone else. So all that fresh fruit has been held, bare handed, by the person who picked it, the person who loaded it and x number of customers who've examined it.

Not that ordering fruit online eliminates that problem but it seems like it would be a little more hygienic. One picker, one loader/examiner.

Maybe we need a better way to see germs so we know when we are done removing germs.
In other news, that should be front page, but doesn't follow the Google hate that Hacker News accepts as front page material:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322719
I am highly skeptical. The author of that article makes a lot of claims, but doesn't really go into a lot of how the information was obtained.

I'm not denying there's some marketing involved here--I'm sure there is.

But there's also some element of truth here. I've worked at a food co-op and they definitely composted a lot of food. In the article's logic, that's not food waste, but I think that feeding people is still a lot better.
I love this, and used Deft and org-mode for a long while, but formatting and inline images aren't something that's non-hackily possible to do in Emacs. Would love to be wrong about this.
Don't be absurd. One might with equal justice say that yours is the definition of free speech that Stormfront likes.
The average American car is 11.8 years old.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/06/27/record-average-age-cars-...
I always wonder what system the LA area is using for their signage. They seem to have a rule to mark exits as late or confusingly as possible. This leads to people suddenly swerving across all six lanes. It requires a certain skill to mark that badly....
No they wouldn't as the only people who are flying are going to be those who need to fly, not those who decided to hop down to Mexico for a week as it was cheap.
me too, it's a reason to get out of the house, to see other people, to get exercise, and to look at all the food :)
We have been having a good experience with the Walmart grocery pick-up app, good enough that I would consider still using it after social distancing is over. There's a few factors that go into this. First and most importantly, it's completely free with no markups, tips or extra charges. I can edit the order right up until the night before, so it's quite convenient to add things as I think of them throughout the week. I dislike shopping at Walmart but their prices are significantly better on most things than other stores in my area. Their stores are so huge and inconveniently laid out that waiting a few minutes in the pick-up parking spot is massively less time. And though the grocery pickers don't do a great job selecting produce, there's a fast refund process in the app when I receive something that's damaged/rotten.

But all that is only a plausible replacement for a store that I hate. I generally enjoy grocery shopping, especially at higher-end or specialty stores and would never replace that with an app. Even Aldi is a delight in comparison with interesting rotating imports and close-outs.
An Aircraft's lifetime is mostly determined by how often it starts, because of the stress of going to low-pressure high-altitude and back. All these aircraft not flying will seriously cut the rate of new orders even in the months after airlines recovered.
They will stay for 1 to 4 months. Its apparently partially dependent on whether they are prepared to launch the first actual crew mission on Aug 30.

A crew swap would require astronauts that are on station to return on the dragon, something they may not have trained for. So to do a swap, you'd probably have to take more than just the two test pilots up since they are likely required to pilot the capsule back down. Taking additional crew on the test flight would certainly be more risky to those additional lives.
> a net improvement for security that allows sites to put less trust in third-party servers and scripts.

Third parties like Google, right?
A tenant is someone who resides in a building, tenet is the word you want.
Roam is essentially an outliner: every bullet-point has a unique ID and you can't link directly to it. That way you can
a) reference specific blocks of texts (Obsidian only allows to link to headings)
b) display the entire block in the backlinks section (Obsidian only renders a set number of words around that mention)
Astronauts are going to wear the pressure suits with gloves, so it's hard to have such controls anyway. Touchscreens are fine when they are replacing MFD side buttons, which aren't typically haptic to begin with. (as well as most buttons on the Soyuz panel, for example)
This is even more strange than the NBA tweet that started all of the controversy at the beginning of the year.

Censoring messages about an arm of a government where YouTube is banned has me wondering what is going on behind closed doors.
I share a lot of the opinions of @nybblesio. By a miracle, I have stayed employed well into my 50s but I think I am reaching the end of my tolerance of conventional software development.

You simply can't expect to remain employed as a programmer until the conventional retirement age. Especially for younger developers, FIRE (Financial Independence and Retire Early) principles are essential to learn.
250M USD only for an entire division? That's pocket change. I wonder why such a low price.
What I'm saying is that your perception of quality is not actually objective quality.
The main reason I occasionally venture into google is for news -- "!gn something specific" can return better results if I'm looking for a specific article I recall seeing a couple of weeks ago. That said there's also far more rubbish in the google news source, it's far less useful on the whole than DDG, but occasionally it reveals the right result.
Very cool. Your game definitely captures the Flash era (Kongregate!) for me. Thanks for sharing.
According to most of the countries mentioned in the article, trials of HCQ are still going on. The WHO put its trial on pause. Other countries are just stopping the use of HCQ outside of approved trials.
Even though automated grading of produce is not unheard of, it's not represented properly in the market.

I think the first company to offer automated (or just standardized manual) grading and pricing on produce could be a big winner; I know I'd use it. It'd be especially good if the process distinguishes produce that's just ugly, from produce that is flavour/texture- or nutrition-compromised; eventually the latter could become well-defined enough that it goes straight to the compost heap rather than waiting with the produce that will actually sell at some price.

The first one that comes to mind for me is brussels sprouts: there is a huge variety in flavour/texture, nutrition, and beauty, and sometimes I really care about what they look like, often I do not, but also often there is a big difference in other qualities.
Yeah the hiding of the protocol in the URL was a pain to deal with. I updated Chrome today and looks like there's a way to turn this off:

1. Enable chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls

2. Right click the address bar

3. Select 'Always show full URLs'

Instead of seeing: news.ycombinator.com You'll now see: https://news.ycombinator.com

I made a Tell HN post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322705
Pompeo tells Congress Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
Looks interesting! I'll give it a look, thank you!
This looks to just be the "real time" DB? How is this different from using GraphQL subscriptions via Hasura/Postgraphile, or RethinkDB?

Also, it seems like it's missing everything else that Firebase provides. Authentication, authorization, storage, hosting, etc. To me, Firebase's value prop is more than just a database.
There is an old joke about the game:

Capitalism believes you can win the game.

Communism believes you can tie the game.

Religion believes that you can quit the game.

But they are all wrong, because you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't even quit the game.
Anyone with large stockpiles of nuclear weapons that isn't vested in the success of the global financial system.
I find https://cuelang.org preferable to Dhall

Cue also comes from the same family as Go, Docker,and Kubernetes, so good heritage
I've been using The Archive (https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/) to browse a knowledge graph of markdown files i.e. a Zettelkasten. It's one-time $19 and worth every penny.

I use it to browse my notes. There is a shortcut to open them in VIM. It's powerful and simple.

Shameless plug: I created a CLI tool to visualize a set of linked markdown files, print stats, and display orphans. See https://github.com/BasilPH/vizel
Ethnofascism or Ethnopluralism...
Recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264
Yes, but that's the "I'm feeling lucky" button if you often buy the store brand.
>Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit.

This reminds me of the EU Internet Explorer lawsuit, which was peanuts compared to what Google is doing right now. Between Google Search, Chrome, Android, Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, AMP and likely 5 more things I forgot, they've stealth-grabbed so much of the internet, it's not even funny. At least force them to split off their ad/datahoarding businesses.
Did you ever dabble with Flash? I did, and it's frankly amazing how easy it was to make games with it, especially since it gave you tools to draw right there in the app. It had a low barrier to entry and a high skill ceiling, which is why we saw such a massive amount of content those days from high school and college students.

I don't know of an equivalent program to help build HTML5 games. It's basically on you to pick the engine, choose the drawing program, and cobble the entire thing together with only code. The barrier to entry is way over kids' heads.
Tesla's much worse about it than other car manufacturers. Not sure how industrial equipment is relevant here (not sold to consumers).
How it looks today: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.055603,-118.2563622,3a,75y,3...

That part of the LA Freeway System has always been a mess, with the 5/10/60/101/110 all mashing together in one spot.
Shave, especially if it goes with your face.
I guess we all have an incentive to make you go out of business then ;-)

On a more serious note: I see no issue with software being a service and costing money if it's built on a standard that leaves the data in the owners hands and in the owners own structures. I.e. Markdown files synced using infrastructure like OneDrive/Dropbox/whatever with some nice features on top of it and a nice UI can cost whatever and no one should complain. Because if that software goes away the data is in the owners hands and in a standardized format supported by many other tools.

That should be the preferred way we build software btw. And to take it to the next level we should create more general purpose (and standardized) database tools that are user friendly, treat them in similar fashion as files by syncing with user owned Infrastructure and we might just get to the point where more rigid data structures can be used in a similar manner as what I described above for files. That future would be great.
This is a great perspective.

Americans get too bogged down in the muck to look up to realize what's actually going on around them or be aware of just how hypocritical they are.
There was an announcement last week about the Boring Company in Vegas that mentioned Tesla's would be used as people movers.

This has always been part of the plan for the Boring peoplemover in Vegas...
War produces jobs (both at the front line and in the entire defense sector), and producing jobs gets you reelected.
I'm in a country where the right to vote is not under attack (yet at least). The Republicans have been doing their level best to reduce the number of voters and slicing the electorate into favorable lots (gerrymandering). Now it would be nice if the US could just hold elections in a similar manner to (most) European nations and just allow all citizens to vote (no registration needed) and some states are moving that way [0]. This effort is one of the fronts of that war where people want to preserve their right to vote. It's especially relevant now in this strange year of social distancing. The concerns you cite are all valid and some have mitigations. VBM is usually not mail-in but mail-out ballots. You get your ballot by mail, fill it in then go to the post-office or some designated location to hand in the ballot. It has round about the same chances for corruption as a regular paper election. If you could at that location invalidate your ballot and get a new one then voter pressuring goes away too. That leaves secrecy violation. If there's nothing that links serial numbers with voters (it's just the signature that validates the ballot), then there's no chance of secrecy violation.

In a perfect world I would execute elections in the same manner we do in Iceland. Voting booth, paper ballots, pencils for marks. We have a presidential election this summer and everyone was worried if COVID would suppress the vote. Looks like it won't since we only have 2 active cases and new cases are almost none (can't find the numbers atm but iirc we had 7 new cases in the month of May).

[0]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/auto...
In my opinion Netflix tries too hard to make me watch more than I care to. In particular why can't I just by default enjoy the credits of a movie or series I just finished, instead I have to quickly use my remote so Netflix doesn't try show a trailer for something else, and there is no option to turn this off.

Relatedly their tvOS app gets laggy after just tens of seconds of browsing and it's been like this for over a year, how can they not fix it?
yes. we will also all get a 10% raise and a Tesla with our next paycheck.