skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
President Camacho delegated to experts, led people to keep them cohesive, and actually solved a problem. No, this demented clown is something else - a manifestation of hyperpolarizing social media driven by longstanding authoritarianism. It seems that absolutely nothing matters as long as the "other side" is upset, even while it hurts everyone. Responding to a public health emergency shouldn't even be a political issue, but it's been dragged into this post-truth realm where everything is up for debate. And so the Party continues to line up behind a "leader" that led us straight to catastrophe. Meanwhile 100,000 Americans have died in the real world, with the economy in shambles for the next year as we're stuck distancing.
I think we're trapped in a structural innovation problem. Social media, no matter how it started, is now the pipeline for information. The internet is displacing old media forms but stalling out on that development.

The system is stuck in two local maximums: news publishers which use their own web properties as some kind of newspaper/television hybrid, and social media platforms which conceive of media as only posts, votes, & comments. They're both "monolithic architectures" (so to speak) which lack the kind of modularity or extensibility that would enable innovation.

On the Internet, we should be looking at information within the context of general computation. There are data sources (reporters, individuals, orgs) which get mixed with signals (votes, fact-checks, annotations) and then ranked, filtered, and rendered. An open market would maximize the modularity and extensibility of each of these components so that better media products can be created.

The social platforms are in a difficult position because they have total control over what's carried on their platforms, and so they want to assert a position of neutrality -- which is why they're adamant they're not media companies. But if they're controlling any part of the pipeline other than compute and hosting, they're not a neutral platform. They're a part of the media.

The way we've historically walked the tight-rope of misinformation vs censorship is to create an open market for journalism so that there's accountability through the system. I don't think we'll have an open market until we componentize social media and stop seeing journalism and the design of social media as two distinct things.
How do you get AMP pages? Do they appear in Google search results when you look stuff up on a mobile phone?
I think it's quite saturated and the success depends on how well you can attract companies who already use some other stock.

Currently, the best-paying stock is Adobe. Getty isn't as bad as "new" Shutterstock but they also lowered their rates years ago. The same portfolio earns 52% at Shutterstock, 25% at Getty/iStock, 12% at Adobe, 6% at 123RF, 5% at four more small stocks.

On Shutterstock more than 50% of sales come from outside the US, so it doesn't seem like there's much room to grow globally. The problem with Shutterstock is being a public company with growth expectations while not diversifying whatsoever.
I find the overall Amplify offering to be a mess. The hosting and authentication works pretty well but the rest of it just feels like they put duct tape in front of a bunch of existing AWS services.

I’ve found Hasura+Cognito+S3 as the closest equivalent to Firebase. It’s not as neatly wrapped up into a single product but it’s pretty close.
Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity
My MBP2019 running 10.14 also freezes if left on clamshell mode connected to a USB-C (U3818DW) monitor overnight.

After discovering this, I now put the macbook to sleep and remove the USB cable. Haven't had any issues after this.
Only a little under 25% of the US affirmatively voted for him in the 2016 election (a little over 25% voted for his opponent, and roughly 50% chose to not vote at all). Included in that 25% would be people who either voted against his opponent, or voted on a single issue that overrode all other considerations (in the US, blocking legal abortions is the single biggest driver of these voters).
Most wastewater treatment systems require ongoing lab testing on a regular basis. This is to test for bacteria and treatment chemicals to ensure the system is cleaning the water effectively and not dumping harmful chemicals into the water systems. I'm certain these tests could be modified to check for other chemicals.
I am surprised how people can still have this simplistic, lazy view. Including most "journalists".

Anyways, by downvoting you already showed that you don't care about open discussions. Good luck with that.
my guess is the service http call chain can add up. common call chains are 3+ services
It's a convenience and mental thing. I am more likely to go on long tours/holidays with my S knowing it's free (and bragging about it), so the calculation doesn't really work out.
I would just settle for a full pipeline of replacement parts!
> Turbulence is far more important than HEP

maybe ("importance" is somewhat subjective and I think it's totally valid to have that opinion), but I would argue HEP and maybe early universe cosmology are more fundamental meaning they study the most fundamental building blocks of physics itself. But "fundamental" is not the same as "important" so I'm not trying to suggest these fields are more or less important than others.
Facts can be inconvenient and falsehoods comforting. We are dealing with people after all...
That isn't the bias, check his Twitter history there are links all over this thread
You don't see how attempts to shut down travel within one's borders being challenged by governments with significant clout affect the rate of infection and spread?
Because what they don't say (at least always; some will) - "they are for personal freedoms _they_ believe in, not necessarily _all_ or _yours_".
Not for an individual, they won't.

They don't work for you.
Seems nonsensical like most of what Trump does, until you accept that he operates on the third axis of the political compass: how flattering or critical something is to Trump.
I switched to a XPS-15 9570 from a MBP of roughly equiv spec, but previous gen, after the last round of laptop shuffles at work - I went from MacOS to Windows at the same time in order to feel the pain of our environment under Windows.

I'm not saying that it's a bad laptop. But there are just so many little annoying things about it after coming from the MBP and MacOS;

* Trackpad is subjectively worse, but I can't tell you why beyond its just smaller - but I am objectively much less accurate with it and trigger tap-clicks when I don't mean to. The trackpad positioning is also slightly uncomfortable to use.

* Fan noise - the fan curve has it ramping up earlier than a MBP

* Windows was hosed out of the box (fine, fixable, but it wasn't a good start)

* The "soft" covering results in so many fingerprints

* Webcam on the bottom bezel is an awful angle

Pros;

* Great screen, touch is a nice add-on but found I rarely use it now

* Keyboard isn't terrible

* Power adapter isn't a brick

Would I do it again. Honestly, not sure. My daily driver isn't the laptop and I just deal. If I had to use the laptop daily, I'd probably reconsider.
This is such a bizarre and useless take. So now I can claim that gravity will turn off tomorrow, and because you don't know the future you just have to sit there quietly and let me spread obvious misinformation?

Trump is making an extraordinary claim. He must back up that claim, whether that's by revealing that there's a true plot against him; referencing historical data; or something else.
Ironic, isn't it?
Only way to remember what you read is to read the same book multiple times. It’s like how people get encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars.

The real trick is figuring out what’s worth reading twice.

There’s no value in reading fast or shallowly. Bill gates does not remember 90 percent of what he reads, urban legend.
No doubt, I'm not asking about causality here, just wondering how their project margins are going to be affected.
His claim wasn't that there will be some amount of fraud... it was that they won't be "anything less than substantially fraudulent" (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12652558351245393...).

Claiming mail-in votes will be majority fraudulent, and by implication that the entire vote is invalid... is a much stronger claim, which IMO requires much stronger proof.

Given that mail-in ballots have been in used for a long time, there's a good history of data, so it's not predicting the future out of nothing, but based on past evidence.

The twitter fact-check link in fact goes into that precise thing.
Since we are talking about CERN let me take this opportunity to invite, whoever is interested, to visit the laboratory.

Beside the stop imposed by COVID, CERN organize guided tour to the laboratory and when possible the detectors.

If you are around the area of Geneva or you happen to be around, I really suggest the visits.

The guides are usually people working at CERN so they are quite knowable about it.

It is necessary to book the visit in advance.
It was mostly like that for me prior to coronavirus except for the the weekend which provided me with enough novelty to break the monotony of the week.

But yeah stay-at-home destroyed that, everyday is effectively the same, and despite me planning some grand productivity at the beginning of it all, I've basically done nothing.
Response to Covid-19: A Fully Automated Health Check Station
"The complaint, which was obtained by The Washington Post, includes dozens of pages of screenshots of opioids and other drugs for sale on Facebook and its photo-sharing site Instagram, with some having seemingly obvious tags such as “#buydrugsonline.” It also notes that Facebook has a pattern of taking down content when it is pointed out by media or activists, only to have it reappear later."

Not a good look.
This in specific is because so many people have gone from using their laptop battery to keeping their laptop fully charged on the plug all the time due to WFH. That can be unhealthy if the device keeps the battery topped off.
> It started with the claims of millions of illegal voters in 2016

No, it started long before that. Trump's political profile came about from being the most famous advocate of Birtherism[1] -- promoting the idea that Barack Obama is not American and demanding his birth certificate.

He later reached a plurality of Republican primary polls by saying that undocumented Mexican immigrants are rapists and murderers[2].

Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years now.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_consp...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/...
Twitter hasn't been trying to be impartial since the time they chose not to enforce their TOS when the US elected Trump, so that's nothing new.

The difference is that Twitter's editorial voice differs from the voice of some Twitter user.
Except that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho had the capacity to realize there was someone smarter than he was and appointed him to solve the problem at hand.
Yes, being AMP also grants you priority ranking in certain parts of their UI
It's certainly not a solved problem when the "Head of Site Integrity" has a history of anti-Trump tweets and called the President a Nazi.

And that's just the head of the team. You can see the hard-left and pro-Antifa affiliations of the team outlined here: https://nickmonroe.blog/2019/11/28/dear-jack-twitter-is-poli...
"Logical" HNers will say that those bullets don't amount to a bad faith attack on the election. They basically give Trump the benefit of the doubt.

You can't give authoritarians the benefit of the doubt. They'll take that inch and turn it into miles and miles.

Trump is well beyond benefit of the doubt bankruptcy.
> The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone..... ....living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one

This is also patently false - they're sending out ballots to registered voters, not everyone regardless of how they got there.

> That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!

Who are these "professionals"?

I thought that according to the right, Americans were perfectly capable of making life / death decisions for themselves and those around them during an active pandemic. So a trivial thing such as misinformation should be easy to deal with for them.
I absolutely do. It's why I was so quick to jump on that with this.

My personal belief is that every undergraduate degree should include these subjects. That's what separates an undergraduate degree from a bootcamp--in theory.

But I think it's especially important for engineers and scientists, because it is very often overlooked or discounted by virtue of the fact that there's so much "technical" stuff to get into.

I think schools should try to counteract that by producing more team taught material. e.g., let's not just do a regularly philosophy course, let's do a philosophy for engineering and science course that takes you through the same general philosophy, but with readings that focus on engineering and science related ideas and themes.

But we should also have courses, and woven into our courses, discussions of these larger issues. Engineers, especially, have such a profound impact on society. It's important for us to be trained to think about these things. Not what to think, but that it is necessary to do so, and perhaps some tools and reference points for being able to do so in a cogent manner.

Lastly, I think it's important for undergraduates to get some exposure to the ethical issues related to work: the relationship between the employee and employer, the intellectual property, integrity in science and methods, etc.
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My ideal would be sqlite in the back, sqlite in the browser, with a sync table that uses database triggers for managing a log of the normal tables.

I've written a few more thoughts here: https://github.com/ericbets/erics-designs/blob/master/funcdb...
Elements.envato.com has moved to unlimited subscriptions. I expect shutterstock is responding.

Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material.
The phrase does indeed say something. "anything less than substantially fraudulent" means near and total fraud. Claiming ~100% of mail-in ballots are fraudulent is baseless and untrue.
Check out the top Porsche 911 vs the bottom. There is a six figure difference!
ExpressJS for Deno
Obscuring sourced and information has always been part of sales. Amazon obscures its sources. So does walmart. So does McDonalds. Literally everything on earth would be less expensive if the customer could buy directly from the manufacturer or source. But distributors exist to create efficiency and scale which benefits both buyer and seller.
A discussion of the Hashlife algorithm in DrDobbs, https://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/an-algorithm-for-compressing-spa...
I think you can, but it does involve a configuration switch [0]. The index accessor for arrays has always been allowed to be of type long, the runtime was the one causing the trouble. As for List<T>, it's still problematic since all the methods still accept an int.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/configure-...
That would be in violation of electoral law, and the moment Twitter does that, I'm sure there will be a repercussion. It's also quite the leap, even from here.
Please do! I'm scared to sign-up with all the unknowns in your "Privacy and Ownership" section.
It's pretty obvious that DT is not going to shut down the very platforms he relies on for his political survival. Even he's not that stupid. Nor does he have any real regulatory authority that could be employed that wouldn't also bite him back. So this is just him trying to bully the platforms into letting him say whatever without being exposed to any criticism or being called out for bullshit.
I think it is somewhat incorrect to call this vaccination, because the proper term for what was available in Benjamin Franklin's time was variolation, or inoculation.
i think one of the main advantages of zshs aliases (compared to bash aliases) is autocompletion, so I would not count regular functions as a kind of alias. But I can see the similarities.
I love when the "Good Mythical Morning" guys demonstrated the effect for entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB2rEddp-Oo
> and the social infrastructures that have been deliberately set up by both dealers and drug/alcohol/pharmaceutical companies to get people addicted.

I indirectly mentioned that in my post. There is a solution to this problem, but it doesn't sit well with the foolish and the greedy. There is a vested interest that it doesn't get solved.

> Okay, cool, let's ban heroin. It already is illegal, but whatever. We'll super-ban it.

Should also add alcohol to the list.

> I still don't see anything that would make a drug addiction different from those scenarios.

It's very different. In the activities you mentioned, there is a positive outcome involved, or it is a natural part of growing up (kids do stupid things, but that's where the role of the parents come in). Whereas in doing drugs and alcohol, the risk/benefit ratios are so skewed, it's irrational to engage in them in the first place.
Anecdotally, my father has had an early (2018) 3 for the last 2 years and hasn't had any issues. The only service done so far has been recall work for the frunk latch (I guess he doesn't use it much and didn't notice the defect that the recall was supposed to fix).
>just like adding authentication isn't an optional feature.

As an added note, authentication can be and should, for most cases, be done on a session basis, when establishing the session key (which should also, by the way, be generated with care to provide forward secrecy).

The idea is that if individual messages aren't signed, there's the advantage of plausible deniability to third parties. You know who you're talking to, but you can't take a message go to a third party and claim "hey, this person has said this. See? This message is signed by his key.".

This is the level of privacy generally expected in a conversation conducted within the same room in meatspace, and most people would be uncomfortable with any less than that.
The difficulty here is that Congress has, for various reasons, not stepped up to do its job.

There are millions of people better-qualified to do the job of President, but a sufficient number of Congresspeople have decided, for reasons I only partially fathom, that Trump is somehow preferable to Pence.

Responsibility for America's debacles, and now, in part, the death of a hundred-thousand people, lies at McConnell's feet, not Trump's. Trump's lack of qualification for the job has been on display since before he took office. McConnell, on the other hand, clearly knows exactly what he is doing.
This was posted a bit early (it wasn't posted by us), but see my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443

tldr: > We've been building furiously since January but (not surprisingly) we haven't yet reached feature parity. But we will :)
I just don't see how you can go from "anything less than substantially" to 100%. You can't go from "substantially" to any percentage.

For an example, I could pull the same trick on your comment. I could try and convince people that "does indeed," implies 100% confidence, and then I could point out that since from a Bayesian perspective you should never reach 100% confidence, you can't know what you're talking about. Obviously nobody would buy that, because it's not you that wrote down 100%, it was me.
I did the same, and am slowly switching over other computers too as I remember. The quality of search result is high enough that I can't tell the difference.

Search engines are too important to leave in the hands of one company. Especially a company that, though it was founded as a search engine company, has that search engine as only a tiny part of its people-tracking machine.
I have Catalina on a iMac Pro, a 16inch and 15 MacBook pro and for what it worth have hit zero issues.
Social Autopsy: Anti-Harassment Startup That Descended into GamerGate Trutherism
I was thinking it would be a great time to form a co-op. Submit to Shutterstock as a collective and you’ll reach the higher percentages faster. Get large enough and you can cut them out and compete with them.
Photos get dated extremely quickly. And if you are creating marketing material the very very last thing you want is to look dated.
I think it is to some extent. The "Tyranny of the Majority" on internet forums pushes people to finding safe spaces for them. It's great that you can find subreddits for your interest and I even think they should exist for political ideologies, but I think it would do us a big service to see the main political arena to be more like the US House of Representatives.

For me, I see the main problem is that we need to create demand for fair and balanced news sources. I really don't like when you only hear about perceptions of other perspectives from pundits/activists, instead of hearing the opinion from its source. I think this is breeding prejudice. I think there is a vast amount of misrepresentation and the backlash we see is from people who often don't feel like they have the proper avenues to express themselves.

I try to be part of the solution, by paying for subscriptions for Bloomberg and WSJ. Its a hard problem, that's for sure.
You are absolutely right, but it's also not as bad as it was before. You can now buy "unrestricted" parts. Before, you couldn't even buy an air filter.
> This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

A lot of money simply isn't useful for anything interesting or valuable. Surviving is great, some comfort is nice, but after a certain order of magnitude, it's not so much people having money, it's money having people. While large scale projects are also important and those need money and other resources to be pooled in some form, but they don't require any involved person to be filthy rich.
I always chuckle to myself when people are quick to attack amazon/facebook as being the real evil companies....while google has been slowly taking over the internet these past 10 years.
Yosemite is where OS X started getting out of hand in general, though it took a while for the papercuts to add up.
>I'll use r/politics for example, I currently do not think there is productive or rich discourse being had there. If you have had a different experience please let me know.

The top post on r/politics on Super Tuesday was about Sanders winning Vermont. There was no discussion to be had about Biden absolutely cleaning up.
>the nationalism is a bit more race-based

You could almost say it's a white nationalism. But really I think it's less about race and more about capital and political fealty. Loyalty to the seats of power above all else, and your value to the party and its "society" determined relative to your capital holdings.