skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently reading Blind Watchmaker. Dawkins repeatedly says the most important thing about evolution is that it is unguided. Then he proceeds to demonstrate how evolution works with a guided computer simulation. I think I'm missing something.
Are you using Soylent as your only source of food? I have Soylent for breakfast most days and it has done nothing to decrease the amount of choice in my groceries; it replaces cereal and milk but I still have to go shopping for everything else.
I've been hearing for almost 20 years now that "we're going to war with Iran <soon>". What's different now?
And if he decided to "close" Twitter, it would actually be a clear case of censorship from the government and a violation of free speech.

Twitter is merely labelling a tweet as being factually incorrect, it's not hiding the content.
That difference isn't enough to support a significantly different discussion, so I don't think it counts as SNI (Significant New Information), which is the test we use. See past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The current submission is a nice test case actually. The comments here are no different than the ones in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219, which had over a thousand comments and was only a week and half ago.

Btw, since someone always wonders: no we're not doing this because we're communists. It's a question of curiosity and repetition not going together (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). HN is for curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Would an AP article similarly critical of the president's remarks been more acceptable?
I have tried and barely succeeded, I just hope those are not real controls. Those should be either automated or they should consult someone from gaming industry. Sorry to say UX controls are terrible (saying from gaming position).
If Upwork is considered a gig economy, then I disagree. Upwork (or Odesk as it was known back then) really flourished and grew substantially during the last recession in 2008-2009.
Why is this called Demo-2?
Totally! We've seen some nightmare configurations around separating dev/staging/prod environments involving scripts to change /etc/hosts back and forth and some funky VPN configurations.

This is such a common use case that we wrote up a brief description of how to approach this: https://docs.twingate.com/docs/access-control-for-staging-en...
Didn’t geico get sold to buffet?
I watched the first Space Shuttle launch live, I watched Challenger live. I watched the last shuttle launch live. I was sad then, realizing that America was losing launch capability on that day.

I can't tell you how exited I am to watch America's return to launch capability.

Edit: Disappointed at the scrub, but I know a lot of these weather rules were put in place because of Challenger, so I understand. Looking forward to Saturday!
Dewatering is not going to remove the flavor and sugar in vanilla yogurt.
I understand the reasoning behind this, businesses are in it for mostly profit and not people. Of those people that have had their salary cut, have you also reduced your work performance/output as well? I think that is fair, albeit risky. But when you were hired for the job, you agreed to the offered salary for the work level. Now that the salary is reduced, how many people are going to reduce their efforts in exchange? If none, or little... then the employer has once again won, in taking advantage of employees in a desperate situation. Less pay, same/more work...
Canada has spent the last 2 months building a supply chain for PPE in China. That's likely to be dismantled now as retaliation. It's also possible that the CCP will engage in further "arrests" (kidnapping) of Canadian citizens in China.
With 20%+ unemployment, you'll probably take any job you can get.
Honestly, it's hard for me to take anything meaningful away from this survey.

For example, it groups technology as "web frameworks" that just are not equitable [e.g. rail != express != jquery != react] and compares things like react native to node.js [makes no sense].

Personally, this survey feels more like a marketing handout than anything else and I would take it all with a giant grain of salt if at all.
I'm arguing against the idea that a decrease in aviation is on balance good, and I was trying to avoid just making the economic argument.

However, there are tons of economies that rely on tourism to function. There is no clear way to make up for that in the short to medium term. It's generally agreed that economies need to decarbonize energy production ASAP, and that takes money which has to come from somewhere. For many economies less air travel directly means a diminished ability to decarbonize energy.

Now let's turn our focus to the nations that originate the travel in question. These places generate a lot of economic activity from travel as well. Now laid off employees of Boeing do not pay income taxes, and use public money in the from of unemployment services. If they were still employed their taxes could go to any number fo climate initiatives, their pay checks could purchase more efficient vehicles, and they could retrofit their homes.

Diminished economic activity doesn't position any nation to take active measures towards climate change mitigation.
It's the second test flight (demo). The first was an uncrewed flight to the International Space Station last year.
That's mean
The New Theatrics of Remote Therapy
Common carrier laws apply to the unbiased transportation of information over networks, they do not guarantee hosting of information by private parties or access to their audience.

Example:

- CC laws guarantee that if you are able to host your speech on your own server that ISPs have to route information requests to it.

- CC laws do not guarantee you can force Reddit to host your speech on their own private servers or force Reddit to give you broadcast access to their audience.
The Product Is the Resume of the Team
Updates about government-backed hacking and disinformation
How do you objectively report on trump without it painting him in a bad light?
Replacement cost tends to factor greatly into how much things stick around. Cheap stuff gets replaced over the years, expensive stuff gets maintained and fixed up so you get a lot of survivorship bias.

Additionally, labor becomes cheaper relative to materials the farther back you go in history so older stuff has proportionately more labor put into it. Having a bunch of fancy ornate wood work in your house was the 100yo equivalent of having a bunch of granite countertops.
It's the sugar and vanilla flavoring that I find offensive -- are you suggesting that both would be addressed by dewatering? I can imagine it taking care of the sugar (with several washings, I suppose?) since it's water soluble, but I think that the vanilla would be irredeemably dissolved into the milkfat.

Alas, I've gone back to shopping due to these experiences, so I've got a tub of the good stuff already. So on one hand this is all academic, but you've caught my academic curiosity :)
I get what you are saying but those countries were more like colonies than a part of Russia. My opinion is that they should have been left alone, like every country should, especially in that time when technology wasn't so hazardous and so widespread.

The fact that you managed to understand that I decry the collapse of the Soviet Union when my post said the exact opposite, namely that I can't see how in China an event like that could take place -- and this was the foundation on which I based my affirmation of Russians having a soul -- tells me that your agenda stands firmly on the side of the CCP, in detriment of everybody else. Quite sad, really.
There won't be any global havoc. It is in the interest of all states[0] for the financial services of Hong Kong to continue functioning. Hong Kong's future is not bright, but it will fall into irrelevance before it explodes into a catastrophe. It will simply be outpaced by the other financial centers in Asia with political stability.

[0] All states with any influence in the matter, China and Hong Kong SAR
We have helped liberate countries seeking democracy before. Was that just political cover, or would we help HK if they reached out?

Who, if anyone, should be 'world police'?
Despite what the CCP would like you to believe, being ethnically Chinese is not synonymous with supporting the CCP, anymore than being ethnically Syrian makes you a supporter of Syria's Ba'athist Party. This is not a "fine hair to split."

Whether these political organizations adhere to their own professed principles is completely irrelevant; neither do. Whether these political organizations tolerate opposition is completely irrelevant; neither do.
Sans paywall https://outline.com/VKPeR4
We're way past that. The home-delivery services in the SF Bay Area were hugely overloaded a month ago. Now I can get a grocery delivery from Safeway or Smart and Final the next day. Doordash works fine.
I would also add that the main stream media and social media don't help. Everywhere you turn, you're being conditioned to be in fear and social media amplifies that negative message.
I mean by that logic you could say that China has free speech but anyone who speaks out against the government just has to 'face the consequences' of being put in prison.
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I'm super picky about my apples after growing up near an awesome apple orchard. I only buy a few types unless making a pie or similar. Each type has certain features I look at. I like eating crisp Fuji apples the most and usually only buy those based on coloring, shape, and the sound it makes when I pop it into my hand like one might a baseball into a baseball glove. The sound is critical to finding a crisp vs soft apple. No way I'm leaving fresh produce/meat selection to a random staffer, especially not apples.
I've been using a Fandom Wiki [1] to hold my world-building notes, since I couldn't really find anything better. It's pretty annoying though, I might have to really think about using this instead. Although, getting my work out of the Wiki might be annoying.

[1]: http://ceremony-universe.fandom.com/
Show HN: To Listen to Any Page Prefix the URL with Playthis.link
I was tired of having to constantly scramble to find a podcast I want to listen to when going for a walk or just running on the treadmill. I, however, usually have an abundance of blog posts or articles around the web that I'd like to read. The problem is walking is not very conducive to reading. So I made this quick and dirty site that pretty much works anywhere, no app install, no copy paste, no nothing. Just add the domain playthis.link before any URL in your browser and hit enter. It will redirect to an audio file that automatically starts playing. You don't need to click a 2nd button to play the file either. It just starts reading the text right away. You can do this on your phone and just pick it up and go for a hike.

Example:
Amazing blog post: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
Audio version: https://playthis.link/https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
It's not the central point of your argument, but it bears calling out - there is plenty of body language on the road. I can see these and more:

- Drivers turning their heads to check side mirrors before changing lanes.
- Swerving slightly when making blind-spot check.
- Front wheel turning before the vehicle turns.
- Drifting side-to-side within lane, signifying the driver
is distracted (or drunk).
- Speed discrepancy signifying the driver is possibly lost and at risk.
of making a sudden turn.
- Tailgating or excessively quick approach, indicative of possibly impulsive behavior.

Predicting behavior of other drivers on the road is key to survival.
Demo 1 launched last year. It was an identical mission, docking with the ISS, but with no crew (only supplies).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-1
> also the one that the supreme court has upheld

the Supreme Court certainly has not upheld compelled speech. And internet theories about private services as de facto public forums continue to be defeated in court (PragerU v Google being the most recent example).
What's incredible is that #4 itself was a fact-check by none-other-than the World Health Organization, back on March 29th -- https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898

Now in fairness this was before airborne transmission was as well established [1]. The Tweet came 45 minutes before the LA Times article documenting airborne transmission at a choir practice. But still -- it is unforgivable that they said, "Fact: COVID19 is NOT airborne" rather than saying, "We don't know."

And it really shows the dangers with Youtube's policy of banning coronavirus related videos that contradict World Health Organization advice -- there is no magic pixie dust that makes the WHO an infallible authority, and like any bureaucracy, they are subject to increasing rot and incompetence over time.

[1] Actually, to be more specific, it seems this whole "airborne" versus "droplet" transmission distinction that the WHO was adhering to is a false dichotomy and that it is much more of a messy gradient than sharp distinction.
Doubtful. The United States is a high immigration priority among the Hong Kong chinese.

Vancouver (and Australia) received the bulk of Hong Kong immigrants because, during the handover exodus, the US imposed extraordinary hurdles on immigrants from there.

This turned out to be a really, really stupid thing to do. The Hong Kong chinese are essentially the ideal immigrant: extremely industrious, very well educated, highly motivated to integrate their children, possessing unusually strong international business and finance ties, strongly law-abiding and highly family oriented, and a great many speak flawless English. So... Canada got them.

HongKongers are a unique breed. We would be wise to not repeat our past mistake.
I personally don't use sites that don't have HTTPS.

Then you have chosen to exclude yourself from knowing a large chunk of interesting information that was posted on web sites before the web went fully corporate.
FWIW, the BBC World Service podcast "The Compass" [1] has an excellent series on free speech by the veteran BBC journalist Robin Lustig. I highly recommend it. He covers tech companies, universities, blasphemy laws, etc.

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035w97h/episodes/downloads

For me, free speech is fundamentally about trying to rectify the injustice of an imbalance of power between those in authority and the ordinary citizen. During the Enlightenment, the authorities were monarchs, but even before that, the origins of free speech can be seen in the Reformation, the authorities being the established Church and the battles being eg the right to a Bible in your own language or the right to worship without priests.

In modern times, authorities can be just straightforward, well, authoritarian. Global leaders & business people who tweet or post on FB carry an authority ex officio that make their proclamations much more acceptable to the neutral reader. That in itself is a dangerous situation and Twitter or FB absolutely need to take control. If these companies want us to take them seriously as champions of free speech, they have to play their role to help restore that balance of power, by being far more stringent about fact-checking the tweets of those global leaders than they would be for ordinary posters.

Those right-wingers who love to proclaim themselves champions of free speech are really objecting to the Tyranny of the Majority. That is not an authority that requires a rebalance of power. It is just an established opinion.
Yes, but it's uncertain when those vaccines will be available or whether they will work. Even as a backup plan, it makes sense to me to evaluate variolation. With millions of lives worldwide and the entire global economy on the line, you do not want to put all your eggs into even ten baskets.

As for the time and effort, I'm assuming that the existing vaccine developments are adequately staffed. There are many other medical researchers that are working on other things that could work on this.
Pushing Pixels
Wikipedia says that Amp first started appearing in search results in February of 2016. Some random websites tell me the average Google product death happens about 4 years after it launches (not counting anything that hasn't been killed at all and with some huge error bars). So we should expect AMP to be abandoned sometime between now and never.
Seems like a pretty elaborate ruse to plant a mole/spy at the very top of one of America's biggest tech companies just to enable the dastardly plan of ...shadow banning YouTube comments/videos.
There are a few ways of making announcements in screen readers and handling SPA changes. I haven't tested them thoroughly, but had to implement a few aria alerts in a SPA.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...
Memories of the first few Space Shuttle launches. I was lucky enough to see STS-3 from Jetty Park when I was 12. Today I'll watch from home on YouTube with my own kids (16 and 17).
Can you please link to the hate speech definition that's being referring to?
> I’m in the EU so my opinion scarcely matters, to be perfectly honest

That's not really true (I say this as an American). Sure, the US government is highly unlikely to change their policies based on what people living in the EU think. That doesn't mean the EU can't legislate such things within their own borders though. There's no technological reason a search engine or social media platform couldn't be based in the EU; for example, Qwant exists (https://www.qwant.com).
I noticed this as well. Living in California, it’s like the passage of time seems to have halted since not much outside changes day to day. It’s so strange compared to having seasons, where it felt like each year had a well defined start and end. (Not that I’m complaining; I prefer the sunshine.)
The fact that I prefer other DNS software over dnsmasq should not have any bearing on anyone's decision whether or not to use Pi-Hole.
It isn't that he has a special insight into his base, he is just willing to abandon any sense of truth or decency to flame it. That is what is remarkable about him.
Commercial aircraft used to be the juicy part. In terms of actual military aircraft, Boeing now only has the P-8 (success), C-17 (success), KC-46 (debacle), F-18 (success), and F-15 (success). The P-8 is a limited contract, the C-17 is out of production, the KC-46 is just a joke, the F-18 program is winding down, and the F-15 is hanging by a thread. Boeing also sells the AH-64, but it too is a old system that doesn't generate a lot of revenue.

The Pentagon and Congress pushed for defense contractors to consolidate, in the hopes that the skills needed to produce military grade aircraft would be preserved. The US went from having Lockheed, Martin Marietta, Boeing, Hughes, Vought, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Raytheon, Northrop, General Dynamics.

All of these contractors were merged under Pentagon guidance into Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon. In the US, these three really have no competition since most military contracts prohibit foreign companies from entering bids.
When I lived in Brooklyn, the standard at most fruit/veg vendors was to have the best stuff inside and the bruised stuff outside (e.g., at 40cents/lb discount.) We usually brought from the outside and did the math on whether the recoverable portion was worth the discount.

Unfortunately the supermarkets do not work this way -- they seem to have one class of goods. I'm not sure what happens to their bruised goods, but I do wonder if they offload those items to other stores? Does it really go straight into the trash?
Because it's the second demonstration flight before certification for regular rotation. Demo-1 was 13 months ago, flown without a crew.
This article claims that a non-AMP page can be faster than an AMP page and rank lower (all other things being equal, I assume). Is that correct?

(I know Google says that implementing AMP will make your pages rank higher, but Google also says it'll make your pages load faster, so that's different. What Google says is that AMP pages will be faster and rank higher than non-AMP pages.)
The Netflix algorithms are so good though, more often than not it recommends me something that I am glad it did. It almost, almost, makes up for not being able to easily look up content by genre and such.
Google Maps is making it easier to support small businesses with donations
> I have a pet theory that a large portion of the decay in our society can be traced back to the layers of abstraction between stakeholders and the things (and people) they have power over.

My pet theory is a specific instance of yours: MBAs wielding spreadsheets (and, more generally, analysts wielding databases) is the abstraction layer.
This isn't really news because Trump doesn't have the power to do this, and none of the people with the power want to do it. I think people really need to learn to tune out (and not amplify) Trump's ravings.
This will become a lot more obvious though; the government will probably start feeling emboldened to do things like revoke media licenses.
This is what sold me on an Apple Music subscription. Apple Music's human curated playlists introduced me to a lot of new music that I liked, and hadn't come across by any machine generated recommendation, e.g. Genius.
The Veyron was built for speed not the track. It goes 65MPH faster than a S1000RR, but made huge sacrifices to hit those speeds in 2005.

PS: The pre-production Chiron Super Sport 300+ hit 304.77 mph showing how far things have come vs the initial 253.81 mph speed of the Veyron.
Can anyone working in HK startups comment on how this law impact their business? Talent acquisition, morale, anything?

I am working in one of the HK startup so am eager to learn what do you guys think
Reminder: China (nor CCP) is not "the devil". This Chauvinism is a manipulation that, among other things, draws attention from the violent authoritarianism that US is still propping up (or trying) in South America (Bolivia, Venezuela) and the Middle East.

And the US "conflict" with China will never be direct. China is a superpower.
Airlines given $123 bn in state aid: industry
Not sure how often this is followed but I read once while studying Roman history that best practice is to only excavate part of a site so that future generations can access it with better technology.
I thought Philips Lighting didn’t exist as a company name anymore, but that lighting.philips.com URL seems to indicate otherwise.

Googling taught me it was spun off from Philips and later renamed to Signify, with “Philips” one of the Signify brands (https://www.signify.com/global/brands). That Signify page links to a philips.com URL, so it seems the two companies are intertwined, the brand name was licensed, or whatever.

I don’t think they were too successful. It’s more that former giants in electronics can’t/don’t want to compete in low-margin markets, and focus on higher-margin ones. Philips itself went even further, and spun off commercial lighting, focusing on health, where it thinks it can get even higher margins than in commercial lighting.
Italy?
Please excuse me as I'll be a tad fussy. You're welcome to pay me back in my own coin with my approximative English.

The right expression is la porte arrière (not "en arrière"), which usually means the back door of a vehicle. Some will more correctly say la portière arrière. It will rarely endorse the other meaning of "back door". Out of context, absolutely no one would see anything sexual in this expression.

On the other hand, la porte de derrière will point to the door which is on the back side, for instance the back door of a house. In some contexts, it may convey some sexual innuendo.