skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turing Lecture: Provably Beneficial AI with Stuart Russell [video]
Is there any reason to believe YouTube and not the users posting the comments, channel owner, etc - are not the ones deleting the comments?
If I read all that, do I get my $60 back? No? Then I don't care. It's The Wrong Way.
It’s like Christmas everyday on the reservation I’m at. So much stimulus money is flowing through here, it’s not right
My tech stack: Rust, Redis, MongoDB, is most loved on Stack Overflow, and most hated on HN! That must be a good sign. :)

Rust is a complete breakthrough in modern popular languages as a safe, fast, and expressive alternative.

MongoDB, or really any aggregate-oriented database, is perfect when you’re modeling your domain as aggregates and you align your data access patterns with the design of these aggregates. Do your homework to set the right settings, take regular backups, then focus on what matters (hint: it’s not really persistence).

Redis is a no-brainer, it’s just plain great for managing user sessions.

There’s a place for everything, keep your mind open :) https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html
People who call Trump a racist tangerine [0] and scream about "ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE" [0] are the exact type of extremists that would support election fraud because "it's justified to stop ACTUAL NAZIS", and use their position of power to cover it up.

[0] https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...
Only a civil engineer would create a throwaway account to share such a mild anecdote.
Socal freeways usually have center signs every couple of miles letting you know what named exits are coming up in how many miles, then the named exit sign maybe half a mile before the exit, then the sign that just says exit with an arrow. Highway interchanges have overhead signs with lane indicators (although this particular one was deficient untill guerrila fixed).

It's pretty good as long as you're expected named exits. California built their highways before federal standards on numbering, so they were exempted from numbering exits until about 2000. In 2000, they decided to add exit numbers when replacing signs, and signs have a planned lifetime of 10 years, so anytime now everything should have exit numbers ;). It's gotten better, but there was a while where all the map software would tell you to take exits by number, but the numbers weren't posted (yet), a mix of better databases and more posted numbers and me moving out of CA means I don't recall seeing that in a while.
I understand that a lot of people genuinely do not trust Google. It's been their experience, and thus their priors, that Google is attempting to assert control over all aspects of the web.

Perhaps someone can find some evidence that allows for deductive reasoning on this subject. I would really like it. Otherwise, all we've got is competing lines of perfectly valid incompatible inductive reasoning. Then people choose the one they like or fear the most.

That's a scenario that my priors suggest is not likely to be useful for producing valuable models of the future. Instead, it's a scenario where the primary outcome I expect is for confirmation biases to rule the day.
Not a noob question... I don't know, but was assuming they were not worth the hassle from experience of using them, having lived through an era of binary diffs for old games where applying them seemed to be very computationally expensive at the time - sometimes to the point that it seemed faster to download a whole release, I assumed it was even more expensive to generate them - Those experiences may not be valid anymore in light of faster hardware or better algorithms, but the gains may also be too minimal when compared to highly granular packaging systems that various Linux distributions use these days.

Sibling comment RE chrome is an interesting one, I can imagine in the specific case of very large and frequently updated binaries like chrome it would still be beneficial to use binary patching.
They're positioning Shanghai for that. Shanghai was something like a free city until WWII.

I think things escalated in Hong Kong much quicker than the CCP wanted--Shanghai isn't ready to take its place. But Shanghai is the long game, and business leaders in HK know that.
I've seldom seen people cry at work. I suppose the author could be correct. People thought John Boehner was a little odd for crying in public, but I imagine that a woman politician might be more harshly judged.
To reply to makersofspoons the blog post cited sources the 3 ton figure from a 2011 UN report. The report only mentions the figure in the summary and states "3 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita by 2050 MAY
need to be considered". This seems a little thin for advocating the eradication of aviation in 2020.
Why Are Sports Fans So Bereft Without Live Games?
It really only takes one interested party to start a war.
Free speech means the government can't come after you for statements. Anyone claiming a company is infringing on their free speech is at best ignorant of, and at worst purposefully misconstruing, the bill of rights. You have no right to post whatever you want on a private company's platform, they can ban you whenever and for whatever reason they want.
Do you have a link to a picture of it? I can't seem to find one.
But they are occasionally stripped of their civilian divisions and merged with other defence contractors.
Elon Musk and Jim Bridenstine on SpaceX's first crewed launch
But then the side-effects are pretty low no? How long has it been in the WHO basic medicine category without concerns for its safety, 50 years or so?
The highway construction outfit is some excellent social engineering.

For some reason this reminds me of the stories after Manhattan (?) legalized bee-keeping. People started confessing that they'd had clandestine hives for years. My favorite was the guy who made a fake AC unit, installed it on the roof, and bought a stereotypical AC repairman outfit that he wore every time he went to do maintenance work.
> 40% chance of good weather, if you're an optimist (from livestreamer)

Heh
Accountants? Really? Accountants just provide the reports and do the diligence. Executives are the ones making these calls.
> Consulting is a great play for those who are very experienced.

Ref this classic: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
That's why user-scripting makes sense!

The downside, for the vendor, is that I'd also wind up scripting price-searching at multiple local grocery stores for equivalent items. If I can just curbside pick up what I need at both stores, they're literally next-door to each other.
I still think the design of these apps can be dramatically improved.

I just fired up Instacart now for my local grocery store and searched for eggs. Featured was a dozen eggs for $4.59 (why featured?), and I'm not sure why that's featured when it's a terrible price.

I see my normal eggs at $1.99, but then I can get the "store choice" (not sure what that means... it's not that the grocery store owns the brand) 18 count for $2.89. So unlike at the store where it tells you price per egg, I have to do my own math.

Okay, math done, let me check American cheese next.

There are three "featured" cheeses plus one "store choice." Again, I don't know what those mean. Then I see the deli sliced, but the deli slice is per pound not in ounces like the pre-packaged cheese. Okay, that's the same as in-store, too, so I'll give it a pass.

Then I see a giant list of other brands, but they're grouped in a seemingly random way. It's not grouped by brand, or by count. Is it popularity? Why is there no way to sort by cost per ounce? I can sort, it appears by total cost, except it's not actually sorting by that, either, bc it still has those weirdly labeled featured four items up top.

Could go on, but will stop there.
> DT doesn't "rely on twitter for his political survival", any platform he goes to all his supporters would happily follow while gleefully trashing twitter on their way out the door.

they wouldn't, and even if they did it would be a helpful change. society's legitimization of twitter (a brand whose logo is on so many unrelated products, billboards, flyers, advertisements etc) is what makes his disinformation on that platform dangerous.

if he's siloed to somewhere that is obviously just for his supporters, it will have far less of a dangerous effect. people made the same threat about alex jones, and deplatforming him was absolutely a positive for society.
Yes, but it's not quite the same, because the suicides etc for COVID-19 are not directly caused by the virus, but by our reaction to it, and some believe it's an over-reaction.

I'm not an expert on the actual, real dangers, e.g. how many and who will die, so that's not what I'm concerned with. If they're terribly high, doing what ever is necessary to stop it is right, I consider that obvious. "Flattening the curve" makes generally sense to me, in a "let's make sure our hospital system doesn't collapse" kind of way.

I live in a county of a bit over 300.000 people in Germany. We have 10 known active cases in the county. We're still in a very constrained soft-lock-down, i.e. schools not running normally, half the offices not open, mandatory masks, public services on emergency-only-level etc. We're still taking damage economically, obviously. Lots of people are scared to death in a very real way, and are still afraid to leave their houses.

Is it still the right call to remain in this state today? Will it be when we have 0 active cases, but there are counties nearby that still have more than 0? By saying "well, everything that happens happens because of COVID-19", we're removing our agency from the equation.
Delivery fee + Tip also. Best option is probably pick up as you save some time without getting charged other fees or needing to to tip anyone.
> We didn't have a cold war last 20 years

That's solely because the USSR collapsed and Russia is only a regional power, not a superpower. Russia has a small, weak, backwards economy that is of modest global consequence. It severely limits their capabilities. Russia's position on the global stage is still eroding. Had the USSR somehow survived and continued to this day, the Cold War would not have ended. Putin as an authoritarian dictator-for-life is unable to push his view of how things should be, onto very much of the rest of the world. Putin is boxed in, contained, by Russia's various weaknesses.

The contrast could hardly be greater with China, which is clearly going to be far beyond anything the USSR ever accomplished in most every sense (from financial/economy to technology to military to global influence).

China under Xi has chosen an aggressive authoritarianism domestically and a so-called Wolf Warrior policy internationally. They continue to push forward ever faster in those directions, rather than turning back. The fundamentally conflicting world-views, democracy vs dictatorship, market economies vs arbitrary command economy, liberal vs regressive, human rights vs lack of human rights, is why we're entering cold war round two. China's position under Xi on nearly everything is fundamentally incompatible with the rest of the world continuing to make liberal progress. Something has to give when those two visions meet, and that thing will guarantee a new cold war that will split the planet in half.

Go down the long list of liberal ideas & topics, and look at where China stands, and then consider where the world should ideally stand. China stands opposite nearly every liberal idea you can name. There's your cold war, and nothing can stop it short of China resuming the brief period of modest liberalization they underwent before Xi took over - or the world giving up all the liberal progress it has made post WW2.
Regarding #1, I meant that people can't afford it. Bronze plans are designed to only pay 60% of expected healthcare costs, and still cost $1k to $2k per month per family, and have an out of pocket cost of ~$13k+ per year.

Generally, if your employer doesn't offer subsidized health insurance, then it means you're not paid much as it is, so adding premiums that cost $10k to $20k per year plus needing $13k per year saved for OOP costs (double that if you have a problem at the end of the calendar year) is a tall order.

And yes, you get premium subsidies if you make less than a certain amount, but it's no where near a comfortable life. The government makes sure you are right on the edge of being able to afford the basics.
Looks like this was the intended URL: https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
Archaeologists may have found William Wallace’s hidden fortress
SoloLearn: Peer-to-Peer Code Learning
> If the US really wants to show its support for Hong Kong

Hong Kong is lost.

But its people can still be saved.
In Switzerland it is a valid argument and employers are now being told to cover a portion of their employees rent.

So let's talk about how it can be a valid argument, instead.
My personal take for HK Citizens: Get out!

You are not going to win against CCP in this scenario. They have bigger army diplomacy AND they don't have rule of law.

Continue protesting, but figure away out, and Get out!

By staying, you are helping the CCP. You work, spend, and play in HK, you are giving the CCP money and power to continue doing this to you. By leaving, you take value out of the equation.

When people leave en masse. You can then form groups and communities elsewhere. Tell people of your plight, teach your kids the lessons you learned, and take on the CCP from a better position.
As exciting as it is to make archaeological discoveries, one benefit of not allowing archaeological digs is that you're preserving what's under that dirt for future archaeologists who may have better techniques and tools, operating under a friendlier government.

I say that in a complete vacuum with respect to Turkey. I'm guessing disallowing archaeological digs is has less to do with conservation & preservation and more to do with not getting in the way of real estate developers. I live in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, not Alaşehir), where it's not that archaeological digs aren't allowed, but the trouble is that such digs are not mandated in the historical sections of the city, and as a result, so much history gets carted away in dump trucks.
Building A Squirrel Obstacle Course [video]
> More than eight years after Ankrom’s sign went up, he got call from a friend who noticed some workers taking it down.
Thanks! One of the things that we've really focused on is making Twingate super, super easy to deploy.

From all of our customers conversations we've found that despite acknowledging that a better approach to remote access is possible, most people are really turned off by how hard it seems to be to implement a "zero trust" type solution. Our product goal is a 15-minute deployment, and our initial customers have been really excited about how easy it is to start using Twingate. One of the biggest selling points is that users can keep using the same addresses (either DNS or IP) for their resources with zero application, network or device configuration changes. That's a huge difference compared to every other product that's out there.

As far as the underlying technology is concerned, we're entirely standards-based with all transport encryption done via TLS. In fact, the name "Twingate" comes from an architectural decision that we made to ensure that multiple authorization checks are performed for every single network connection request.

If you'd like to dig more into the details, I'd definitely encourage you to read our "how it works" documentation here: https://docs.twingate.com/docs/how-twingate-works
What happened to Clojure? If I remember, it was in the top 10 for most loved language, and now I don't even see it mentioned anywhere.
>Smalltalk was a crazy-productive programming environment in the '90s,

I did some in college and then professionally in the early 2000s. Easily the most enjoyable and productive tool I used in my software development career. While I understand HNs fascination with functional languages and programming, I can't help but think it is very unfortunate that Smalltalk and it's OOP has been left as a kind of evolutionary dead end.
You can view diffs in SM then make your commits via CLI.
Plotters, turtles, And even printers are great ways to get people interested in tech and math. Software may eat the world but it’s ephemeral and you can’t put it on the fridge.
I honestly didn't intend it as an insult.
Trump tweet throws House surveillance debate into chaos
Haha, damned Poe's law, hope this was sarcasm!

During Galileo's time most credentialed experts believed the sun to spin around the earth.
How you should think about software? (part-2) – BigTimeCoding
This is a great question and I might steal this for future interviews. It's surprising how many of the people responding, despite being told optimizing for engagement is a cop-out, still jump to some kind of metric-based prescription. Or just jump right into throwing percentages for each content type (I mean, it's twitter, so sure, have a go).

My personal stab at this: this is really a strategic question. What are Netflix's long term goals? To be seen as HBO is, as a content-creator, or merely a content-provider? Both? What are the typical engagement rates for Netflix content vs purchased? What is the real, intangible (unmeasurable) objective we are maximizing for? Total hours watched? Or perceived value by consumer? Someone spending 25 hours a week with Netflix on still might perceive it as lower value than HBO that they spend 2 hours a week watching (and thus be more likely to cancel). Some forms of entertainment are easily substituted, as someone who uses TV for background noise wouldn't particularly mind to use Hulu for that purpose instead of Netflix. But a "must watch" show on HBO is just that, a must watch. Which customer do we want more of? More "background noise" customers implies a marginally higher infrastructure cost, while a more content focused strategy implies a higher cost for content production (and possibly a much more variable revenue stream, as people subscribe/cancel as their favorite show starts/stops airing). Maybe we want both, and we want to identify what kind of watcher a customer is, and then tailor their home screen to suit. Maybe one person has 90% Netflix Originals and the other has 10%.

If there is an answer here, it's to carefully weigh these strategic objectives and only then make changes to show promotion. Even then, it would be important to have some system of monitoring in place that allows you to confirm your changes are actually making measurable impact the objective in question (this may be very difficult, given an intangible goal of something like "increase Netflix mind-share". Probably a lot of marketing surveys and focus groups.) Straight-up engagement rate is just one of the many things to track here, and increasing it at any cost might not even be in Netflix's long term best interest.
And still I lose IPv6 connectivity after a while :(
> I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. But isn't the most likely explanation that individual YouTube moderators have been bought off,

Isn't that also a 'conspiracy theory'? What does this term mean to you?
You’re right with regard to your first point: we don’t have directly democratic elections; We have representative (indirect) elections (a la the Electoral College).

With regards to your other point: Hillary did not win the election, no matter how you spin it. She won the popular vote, but that means nothing in terms of who becomes President (read: who wins).

We also don’t “value some people’s votes more than others.” The Electoral College votes based on the way that state’s populace votes, and every electorate’s vote is equal. However, each state can have their own rules regarding how those votes are distributed: some states are winner-takes-all at the state level, while Maine and Nebraska are winner-take-all at the district level.

One can argue whether the Electoral College should exist at all, but it’s worth keeping in mind why it was created: we are a union of states (United States of America), not a homogenous unit (United America?).
Someone getting unemployment in NJ right now for a minimum wage job working 40hr/wk would get $864/week on unemployment for a job that that they normally get $440/wk to go to.

You can probably see how this is a very different situation from something like Yang's proposal, where a person would get an extra $230/wk no matter what they did. That would be $670 to go to work or $230 if they don't.
the 'bottom' quotes are still accessible at ?bottom if anyone misses all the racist ones
I realize that now. One way to mitigate it would be to have the browser somehow tie a given client certificate with a particular website. That is, the client cert for news.ycombinator.com, would only be presented if I try to connect with that server and nothing else.

That way, if I go to a phishing website that pretended to be Hacker News, my client certificate would not be sent and my browser could warn me by saying that the connection is not using a client certificate. Right now, if we only rely on server side certificates, there's nothing stopping a phishing website from using Let's Encrypt to show the secure connection icon in the URL bar and tricking me into thinking it's a legitimate server.
London managed it with congestion charges, and it is not an island with limited entry/exit points. No toll booths required: it is doable within a reasonable timeframe.
Thanks. We've moved the comments thither. I'll probably move the URLs too because the other article contains an autoplaying video.
Right but it's hardly astronomical and something that easily fit on a single array. My 1996 (work) workstation had about 9gb in regular drives hooked up to it. A lot, but nothing astronomical. DVDs were just around the corner, for another point of context.
This is why I avoid online for fresh food, instead getting them to do the heavy lifting items and resilient commodities (eg they can't mess up a bag of flour, bottles of wine, beer, Coke etc; if they're damaged too badly they'll obviously be unable to supply them).

Deselecting the substitution acceptable option is also wise. This was a major obvious flaw even back in 1999 when Shatner was pushing Priceline - obviously they'd have an incentive to pretend they had to substitute a certain percentage of the premium brand stuff for cheaper items and do it sparingly enough that they made more profit whilst trying not to lose you as a customer. My experience in the UK is that Ocado always tries to substitute items with a worse cost to weigh ratio - it's particularly silly because they think I won't notice (feels like they should detect that I'm focused and dial it back!)
As someone who lives in Seattle, and has several friends working for Boeing (I think still?), this comment hits the nail on the head.
The salesman being the medical establishment, and the new improved snake oil being Remdesivir?

I read you loud and clear, buddy.
I see they are using touch screens. What would they do if the screens froze?
It's also easy to configure a Fastmail account to fetch messages from a Gmail inbox and even send messages via Gmail, for a seamless transition while updating accounts.
Ah, thanks. See, too cynical :)
On masks as a good idea, I am still a little concerned with touch transmission. I see people without gloves touching their mask. This is totally contaminating the mask.

I would really like a settled question on whether mail and groceries are safe to touch. There was a study that came out saying the virus could exist on different surfaces for different periods of time. News reported last week that CDC update the website that indicated that the study was flawed. Soon after the CDC added clarification which still leaves the conclusion open. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0522-cdc-updates-co...