skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they do not control public discourse, why were there allegations that misinformation on those platforms can affect elections? Isn't this new policy of Twitter an admission that they do affect discourse, and thus need to be more responsible?
In some sense they are all sides of the same fiasco, like Google's Allo and Duo.
A quick Google shows that paper ballots have a 1-4% inaccuracy rate in correctly recording voter intent. That's about 5 orders of magnitude higher, so we should stop using paper ballots entirely, since any amount of inaccuracy is unacceptible.
You say that as if it COULD have been contained. What is unique about the USA compared to every other country that locked down?

Whose fault was it that Italy, UK, Spain, Belgium, Germany had to lock down?

This election year absurdity has warped the reality of this virus.

The virus is insanely transmissible with a long incubation period and high percentage of asymptomatic carriers. It couldn't have been contained in a free country.

The "had to go into lockdown" is debatable for most of USA. NYC needed a lockdown. Rest of US probably not.

Remember when Sweden was going to be a disaster a few weeks ago? Georgia and Florida? Yeah, they ended lockdowns, moron journalists pretending to be epidemiologists predicted doom.

All wrong. Sweden is fine. Georgia is fine. Florida is fine.

Why? Because they aren't the same as NYC and shouldn't be treated the same.
Imagine a future where billionaires buy stakes in twitter to influence their "fact-checking", corporations use their ad-spend as a lever to get twitter to "fact-check" stories critical of them while various levels of government try to use everything from privacy law to building permits to pressure them to "fact-check" their opponents more and themselves less.
>If increased voter turnout helps your political party, you are likely to support it. If it hurts your political party, you are likely to be against it.

If you care about democracy in the slightest then you support an increased voter turnout regardless of how it affects your party.
As someone who speaks to women, I can confirm this.
Really ? Maybe this was an option but I thought Silverlight was generally sandboxed. ActiveX could do native though
Thank you, this is a nice quote.
This seems encouraging a fair rebalanced on works between the server and the client, looks promising
For me it involves scrounging around for anything related as a jumping off point, and sniffing for important keywords and concepts to look up and branch out into learning. Usually it takes me a few days of exploration before I stumble upon a really good or authoritative resource of some sort, and I end up mapping out the internet locations of related communities and resources in the process.

Of course, it's much faster when having experienced friends or acquaintances to help you navigate.
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The anime K-ON! helped preserve the small town of Toyosato
This feels a weird position to be in as a liberal, but:

You're ascribing to conservativism what should belong to a particular political party at a particular time. Yes, the current Republican party does intend to limit franchise by minorities, and this has literally been stated ala Hofeller.

That is not a conservative position and many things the Republican party does are not actually conservative.

Just as Democrats at their worse can be about finding equality by restricting rights and treating people like zoo animals, the Republicans at their worse are about winning the power grab ethics be damned. And at those extremes, neither party represents the values of liberalism or conservativism.
I hated, loathed, and despised doing the shopping for my wife at Whole Foods. It’s not the store that’s the problem, it’s that she wants to graze the entire bloody flipping hot bar, and she insists I get a bunch of stuff they don’t actually have in stock, or where they ran out of stock hours ago.

She can shop for herself online, either via Whole Foods Market on Amazon, or Instacart.

Either way, I’m done.
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/livermore-californ...

...what the fuck is this?
>I love the theoretical situation that doesn't exist as a justification

You must love philosophy. Is this really the first you have heard someone use a hypothetical in an ethical argument?
Sometime after Win8 release it was suddenly the recommended desktop dev platform. Until it wasn’t a while later and UWP came along.
Oh well please keep checking for us, since all of us do not have access to Google Chrome source code. Thank you for taking on this responsibility, sure hope you don't get hit by a bus.
There are no facts to support your principle though, just your imagination. For example, Oregon, where I live, has, in reality, been doing mail in ballots for nearly two decades. In those two decades there have been hardly a hand-full of convictions for mail fraud related to ballots that entire time, with millions of mail-in-ballots cast. And there are no indications or notions of any subversive fraud.

There is simply nothing that indicates voting by mail is less secure than our wonky voting machines, but there is plenty of evidence that ballots by mail help more people vote.

The only reason to oppose mail in voting, much like supporting rejiggering districts (gerrymandering), is to rig the vote. Your feelings of insecurity simply don’t matter, as they are entirely unfounded as well as flat out wrong.
Spotify wants to be the go-to for podcasts. Creators and audiences should worry
Basic income and automation. That's the real transformation, this is just the human side of a process that is and has been occuring. Temporally accelerated to some degree by covid.
Hi! I am not sure about your background--which matters for explanation. I cannot speak to 6 feet in particular, but the basic idea starts with the assumption that the primary vector is large respiratory droplets. If that's the case, imagine you are a droplet. You are acted upon by gravity and by air/temperature. As you move along, you will fall. At some distance, most droplets above a certain size will have settled. That's the basic reasoning. You can argue about the particular cutoff, but the bigger question is how relevant aerosols are. But, the problem is that in the early spread of a virus, the growth in infections is very fast. Someone has to guess. If you wait for perfect knowledge, a lot of people will die because you are taking a linear approach to an exponentiatial problem.
Under Ballmer, Microsoft was very much under the impression of “if you build it, they will come”. Silverlight was released because Microsoft didn’t own Flash. Keep in mind this is pre- or maybe circa-iPhone and the canvas tag has only recently been trotted out as a WebKit feature, mainly to support Dashboard on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. YouTube was still brand new too, it wasn’t owned by Google yet, and Silverlight was going to be the basis for developing apps on some version of WinCE whose precise name and version number escapes me. To be honest most of my memories of Silverlight run together and primarily for two reasons: while I thought it was cool tech, there were very few sites which used it. I recall a Microsoft video site and almost nothing else. The second reason is Microsoft never fully committed it to any one application other than as web plug-in. I remember the bit about using it in some version of WinCE and I don’t remember if they ever tried to push it for desktop Windows at some point, but I think that was at least on the agenda at some point, with significant overlap with WPF.

I am struggling to remember actual Silverlight applications, the Playboy Archive, and I think the Library of Congress at some point offered part of its collection as a Silverlight application.

It was also a backdoorsy kind of way to limit cool new web applications to Windows. The Mac version was a feature laggard, when it did finally exist, and I don’t know if a Linux version was ever developed, but I’m pretty sure the answer was no for several years. Of course back then Mac and Linux support was considered irrelevant, and the idea of making a native app into a web app to support them wasn’t really taken seriously for a while either. Silverlight would have seen to that cross-platform future never coming to pass had Ballmer had his way, but well, a combination of market forces from iPhones, to HTML5, to Mozilla and eventually Google Chrome really kind of made something like Silverlight and eventually Adobe Flash moot. Flash at least had legacy applications and video streaming that kept it around, Silverlight had to bet on its own future and to a web surfer it just wasn’t different enough from Flash nor did it ever have the install-base of Flash.
The extra voting comes from giving them enough legislative say that they can negotiate for their own benefits in the Senate.

The Senate is a counter-balancing force to the population distributed House of Representatives. The Senate is meant to represent each state as an equal and autonomous member of the union.

Your snark aside, horse-trading in the senate seems to be what accomplished small state agendas.

The US government was never meant to be a democracy, and certainly not one with fully equal representation across states.

The majority of the country already has a majority of the representation — only 1 in 10 states has the minimal representation, thus extra voting. The majority of votes in the House, by a wide margin, are distributed based on population with less than 3% going to minimums in excess of population.

But if you truly believe this is a better way, implement it on a regional or state level first to model for the rest of the country how well it works. That’s the beauty of autonomous states — we can try before we fully commit.
Arizona sues Google, alleging they illegally tracked Android users locations
This is from 2018.

Useful if you happen to know the carrier (like, if you're sending sms alerts to your own phone). Not as interesting though, if all you have is a given user's phone number, if I understand.
Meltdown/Spectre and other flush-based cache attacks made more practical
Aarogya setu app goes open-source
> We thought the Internet was going to be a global library but then it turned out to be a global bookstore instead. Nice coffee tho.

https://twitter.com/earthboundkid/status/1095385048008798208
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I think the key point here is that selection for form need not be intentional. Taller plants are able to collect more sunlight, and collecting more sunlight means they are more likely to have many descendants. This does not happen because someone had the intention for the plants to be taller, but because of the physical fact that sunlight will hit the leaves of tall plants before it has a chance to reach the leaves of short ones growing below. Natural selection only cares about form insofar as it affects reproduction, but since form absolutely does affect reproduction, the result is that natural selection acts on form.
> GitHub

Pagure[1] is a good option here.

> TypeScript

You could just use JavaScript?

> npm

There aren't any at this time, as far as I know.

> Visual Studio Code (besides Atom)

Sublime Text[2] is a favorite of many, though I use Emacs[3].

[1]: https://pagure.io/pagure

[2]: https://www.sublimetext.com/

[3]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
I mean, getting an email like that is bad, but it's better than not getting an email like that :D

Last year a huge game company released something built on my tiny open-source game engine (uncredited), and I only found out about it later from a kind internet stranger. All things considered, better to know in advance so you can at least have your own response ready, so you can comment in the relevant HN/reddit threads, etc.

That said, the "keep it secret" part of the mail here does sound weird, but given the other history there may have been an NDA in place.
CO2 emitted high in the atmosphere has a stronger warming effect. I've seen factors of 2x-3x for airplane emissions[eg 1]. I underestimated per capita emissions for US people. A German only emits 9t, a French person only 5t.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
How should this work exactly? In addition to the reply system - someone can post a reply, to which others can in turn reply - we have a fact-check system - someone can post a fact-check which others can in turn fact-check? Isn't that kind of redundant?

The entire point of the "fact-check" - and what people object to - is the privileged position, that makes direct replies impossible.
Shift from browser? Are they insane?

The browser is the only reason Mozilla is still relevant. In the grand scheme of things, their other projects have near-zero impact on the world.

Mozilla’s current strategy is very stupid in my opinion. They should be putting all their resources into the browser, the only space where they have an advantage (because making a browser from scratch is hard and they already did it) and where there’s potential money to be made.
> Also, should Condé Nast ever screw the pooch here, plenty of clones are waiting in the wings.

I'm really hoping they don't, because I don't think a replacement coulg gain traction as long as reddit is functioning.
One of the big problems with InstaCart is that they own the relationship with the customer — all the store knows is that InstaCart shopper #76957831 bought certain items. That’s it.

And InstaCart keeps your history, so if you want to buy those same items somewhere else that is cheaper, then InstaCart makes that easy.

These are not problems for the customer, but they are problems for any store. Any store worth doing business with should want to fully own that relationship.

InstaCart is also not tied into the back end inventory system. They know, from previous shopping trips they’ve done, what is commonly stocked where, and what might be low on stock. But they don’t know for sure until the shopper gets there and starts going down the aisle.

So, a bad experience for the store, unless you really can’t do anything better. And not a great experience for the customer.

HEB has recently started doing curbside service in our area. IMO, it’s much better than InstaCart. If they could hook that up with a delivery service, I think they’d have a goose that lays platinum eggs.
I am not sure the point of this rant. Anecdotally, it seems that countries where mask wearing is common are doing much better with respect to this virus.

Particularly, in Asian countries where mask wearing is already a somewhat common occurrence in public during the winter months.

Whether or not states should mandate masks is one question but businesses are entirely within their rights to require patrons to wear masks.

Whether people wearing masks for the right reasons or the wrong reasons doesn't seem that relevant to me. Shame is a motivating factor in many behaviors.

In short, wearing a mask is probably a good thing in the short term while we learn more about this virus.
I like your list, though I would add Pagure[1] as an option for a GitHub alternative, simply because I like the "open data" principle also applied to project data. And extensibility is nice if you want to support custom workflows. :)

[1]: https://pagure.io/pagure
Fact checking content will forfeit Section 230 immunity in draft bill proposal
MacPorts (né DarwinPorts) was created by Apple engineers long before the App Store existed. IMHO it’s superior to Homebrew in just about every way, existed long before Homebrew and targets the same audience (unlike the App Store which is targeting a very different population).

If you haven’t looked at MP lately, it’s worth reviewing.
It's not just you, though my LEDs do on average last longer than incandescents, it's just that quite a damn few die in under 6 months. Not like CFLs, which gave off terrible light and failed very fast— I was very unhappy when it seemed like those would be what replaced incandescents.

Now I just need LEDs to drop to 1/3 their current price for the nicer-quality (might outlast an incandescent) bulbs and I won't feel like I'm getting ripped off in this whole deal. If I buy the ones that are a mere 60% the price of nice bulbs then they go back to the CFL behavior of dying constantly and quickly.

(I've used LED bulbs across three houses with build ages between 20 and 0 years at move-in, so I don't think it's something wrong with my house, and incandescents have done about as well as they ever do in all three)
Can you explain? Every time you search, do you want all of the publishers who appear on the results page to know that you were searching? Or is it that you don't want snippets to appear in the search results and just want a list of links without any evidence for why they might be good matches for your query?
I can also recommend Programming Phoenix. I've also heard good things about the LiveView courses on the Pragmatic Studio.

"Programming Elixir" and "Designing Elixir Systems with OTP" are also good, the former more so if you get started. From what I remember "Programming Phoenix" was enough to get started though, and these two books are better at getting deeper knowledge of Elixir/OTP.
Norcal Doctor's “Year's Worth of Suicide Attempts”: Wasn't True
Transformers for Object Detection
Exactly. I live in a HCOL area (not SV, not US). Local salaries are very competitive with SV and I need to know that the salary offered for that remote position makes sense compared to a local job.

But companies get cagey when asked directly and usually says something like “we don’t discuss comp before you take our code challenge/first round of interviews”

Well I’m not sinking 5–10h into your process only to find out you’re offering 1/3 of what I can make working 5 minutes away from home, wasting everyone’s time.
You are putting a large focus on something that most people would not say is the important and interesting part of the question.

Regardless, the actual storage of phone calls, or tweets, is not the reason that most people would say it is important for these things to not to be discriminated against or for.

Or another example, it is arguable that the water company stores water. And the storage of the water is a part of the transportation of it.

To use the example of phone calls, most people would not be OK with the phone company choosing to read your voice mail, and determining if you are allowed to store it based on the contents of it.

Regardless, the storage part is not the actual interesting part of the question here.
In what way has our society decayed?
Technical interviews aren't a hazing ritual that we should all suffer equally out of some misplaced idea of equality. They're just one way of informing the decision of whether to hire someone.
Unless you follow the semantic wiki model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki) rather than the plain wiki model what the user is building is neither a knowledge base nor a second brain. Nearly all software in this area makes this mistake so it's not your fault. Links in human brains are typed (not untyped) and the regular wiki model (and web, and Obsidian) only support untyped links. If you are truly aiming to deliver software that allows users to create a personal knowledge base then please consider spending some time researching semantic web technology.
Fraud should be prevented. Inaccuracies should be improved.
And yet no one has built anything like it since. No one has even built a tool that’s has as low a barrier to entry for either of creating animations or making games, never mind one with both that low barrier to entry and no upper limit to the quality of what you can make with it.
I'll also plug a little tool I wrote to supplement asciinema: asciiscript [1].
Basically if you get tired of watching yourself fix typos in your recordings, you can script stuff ahead of time and then record it automatically with asciinema. Although I don't think it works with programs that take input, like a REPL unfortunately.

[1]: https://github.com/christopher-dG/asciiscript
She is my role model and I am a 30 year old man with a beard!
Since immigration is such a long, complex and expensive process, going where you have citizenship first makes perfect sense.

I am personally biased against London and I believe it is a vastly overrated bubble, and I much prefer small cities and large towns. Rural areas can also be, unexpectedly, much easier places to make friendships if you are ok with picking up volunteering, and would be much more comfortable and picturesque than London.

I'm assuming at your age you're not doing late-night entertainment frequently - in that case you can live a fairly long way out of London and still make good use of it. You can be 50 minutes from London Bridge and live surrounded by green fields.

For the longer term, Australian state capital cities are probably the most liveable locations in the world. There is little demand for apartments, so small-space urban living is comparatively affordable.
If you're already paying the cost(both engineering time and compute wise) for EMR, I can't imagine it takes more effort to create a new Flink job than a new Glue job?

The advantage of Glue or the corresponding serverless GCP ETL option (dataflow) is that it's serverless elastic, but it sounds like their workload wasn't applicable.
Ironic, since it's even more dehumanizing to blithely expose another human to a potentially fatal virus.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/hon...

Trading volume with US is just a fraction, and US actually has a surplus. It's unlikely for US to change the status quo in HK which would hurt US companies more.

> Most of the imports are purchased by China because it cannot buy them legally and has to use HK's "autonomous" status to import.

This is simply groundless speculation without concrete data.
My workflow is latest Python 3 installed through Homebrew, then pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv on top. Projects each get their own Python version and virtualenv independent of the Homebrew Python.
From the article:

> Clicking through the new prompt from Twitter brings users to a fact-checking page debunking the president’s false claims with the header “Trump makes unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud.” The page also offers a summary of the issue with bullet points providing context for the misleading tweets and links to stories by CNN, the Hill, the Washington Post and other news sources. Still, the prompt itself stops short of calling the tweet’s claims incorrect or misleading, instead opting for neutral language.
Why would they send you a compromised password and disguise it?
Populations in these states have 100% power over their government and are already primary drivers of political decisions that do not affect other states. However, why people in California should have to be the primary driver of political decisions affecting people in Montana? This would be a good thing how exactly?
It is a fun choice and hopefully it'll stick in people's minds! :)

It's hard to please everyone with the names.
I surf, and I suppose that is why "surfboard" carries a stronger meaning for me. You took our word!! :)
Someone was suggesting that we discourage people from doing something because of "risk", and that thing is not significantly more risky than other things people commonly do.
Generally you want to put things too good to be true…
It's pretty typical of corrupt demagogues to commit crimes to call others corrupt while they imprison dissenters, etc.
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The world in general is more bubbled than the web, and most people spend their whole lives not having substantive experience with people from other countries. And where does a gay individual find alternative stories in a world without the web? The world before the web was a terrible fishbowl for anyone who didn't have money or access.

The web gives people choice where before you either had the money to live a "broad" lifestyle or you didn't. That some people choose to stay within little boundaries is the way the world has always worked, but at least they have a choice.