skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's good to have a head start!

If that is where the world is going, then, yeah I would prefer to have a head start.
I have to admit, this is a bit odd to think about in 2020: 20k upvotes in a system where there is no mitigation, captcha, JS or cookie requirement, being considered high - then I click over to Twitter and see things that have hundreds of thousands of "likes" in minutes from posting.
Can you expand on the "...allows...the ability to edit on iOS"?
With the decline in street traffic and large increase in pedestrian traffic around my neighborhood, I'm thinking about buying a couple of street barricades and putting up "local traffic only - pedestrian right of way" signs.
If you're genuinely asking, Palmer Luckey gave $10k to a group that put up an anti-Hillary billboard in 2016 (with a cartoon caricature) [0]. This group was also publishing stupid pro-trump political memes.

He was subsequently found out and forced by Zuckerberg to publish a letter pretending he supported Gary Johnson (a lie that Zuckerberg thought was more palatable than Luckey's Trump support). He ended up being sort of fired later because nobody wanted him on their team anymore.

The best information I've read about this is in Steven Levy's new book Facebook: The Inside Story [1].

[0]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Inside-Story-Steven-Levy/dp/...
Tracing the trajectory of a 66M-year-old asteroid impact
Most of what common people hear of economics is just partisan political talking points.
May i reccomend "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" - its written by a real economist.
The trouble is that fixing the voter registration rolls means removing names from them, and the other American political faction - the Democrats and all the others opposed to Trump - push a different vote rigging narrative where every name removed from the list is a vote that's been suppressed by the Republicans. This happens even when the supposed voters both haven't voted in years and haven't actually been removed from the rolls or made ineligible to vote.

In particular, I recall there being a very popular article/blog post that went hugely viral on Twitter comparing Trump's election margins in key states with the number of supposedly "suppressed" votes in that election, allegedly demonstrating that Trump won the election that way, where it was clear that the author knew the supposed voter suppression scheme wouldn't even work as described. Part-way through, after the breathless claims about hundreds of thousands of voters, was a careful ass-covering disclaimer about how what actually happened to voters on the purge lists which would supposedly stop them from voting would depend on the state. That disclaimer was because, in at least one of those key states Trump had to win and probably all, being put on the list didn't stop people from voting at all - they just had to confirm or update their address when they went to vote.
Poland was not so innocent, it was an aggressive state actor. Together with Germany, it invaded Czechoslovakia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaolzie#Part_of_Poland_(1938%E...
Same stories I've heard. Many doctors prescribing it for prophylactic treatment to friends and family immediately after diagnosis. Some government officials (in France, notably! While at the same time shutting down public use) taking it immediately after diagnosis.

As has been mentioned elsewhere, we'll have to answer soon, but power speaks with a forked tongue in this case. Too many anecdotal observations to be comfortable in the very loud politicization of the science.

The Lancet study and others cannot be accepted a conclusion to the safety & efficacy of early/prophylactic use. Let's wait for and encourage some proper, specific studies.
An update just now on the radio said the one they were tracking is no longer a concern, and the one over Orlando is expected to be their decision today, and it's getting weaker.

Good news!
You’re right, we don’t have a free market. We don’t have the freedom to leave our homes and shop at will. Stores don’t have the freedom to be open. People don’t have the freedom to provide services. So until our government overlords deem it ok, allowing businesses to fail at-will in the existing climate makes little sense.
"in arrears" is derived from "en arrière" which is still used in modern French. Like most French words, it evolved from Latin: ad retro.

In modern French, it's used both literally and figuratively. A common folk song goes "3 pas en arrière…" (3 steps backward). Similarly, "arriérés" could mean "people with retrograde mindsets", or "arrears", i.e. rent or taxes that should have already been paid. I suppose the English language merged "arriérés" and "arrière" into a single word.
Is that expensive? Back of the envelope, 10,000 one way trips per day at $5 in avoided costs of alternate transport per trip = $18.25M per year, seems like could pay for itself well within the lifetime of the bridge?
> China was given special consideration in the 90s on certain assumptions. Those assumptions have not borne out. This action is one of those special considerations being rolled back. Nothing more.

So do you agree that the current events are more than just special consideration being rolled back? It clearly is not a simple if then kind of deal as your original post appeared to imply.

>Of course it's political.

We are in agreement.

> That component of America's reaction pertains, in part, to human rights concerns. But the trade component does not.

This is where we may be not in agreement. Could you elaborate on the trade part?
So you just go on hn to answer without reading the posts you answer to?
The CEO of Boeing graduated with an accounting degree. He is literally an accountant.
Sounds like a great way to lay the legal foundation for declaring FAANG a government-sponsored monopoly like AT&T prior to United States v. AT&T.
It's because China is becoming near peer and it unsettles people.
Open market for exploits.
Hm.. I opened Obsidian. Double clicked the title bar to make it not full screen (on a Mac), now it's not visible anywhere. It's as if the window is 0 width somewhere on my screen..
I just posted https://github.com/ecaradec/j86 today. Its a compiler for a mini language to optimized x86 assembly register. It does a few optimisations like register allocation and some constant propagation. I learned a lot doing it.
I agree that those factors can beat airplane travel, but none of them really outweigh travel time in practice.

For subway connections, there is no physical limitation preventing local transit from connecting to the airport. Cities of varying sizes have direct connections to local transit (e.g. Chicago, Fort Worth, Cleveland). The fact that New York City got this so very wrong is an outlier. And finally, subway connection is irrelevant to the bulk of American cities that are car dependent. Having a high speed train arriving in Columbus, Ohio won’t fix the fact that you need to rent a car or Uber everywhere once you get there (to the point where, if you’re within a ~6 hour drive, you’re probably better off just driving your own car that you likely already own).

Flight delay problems are overblown and dramatized, most flights are on time. Trains can most certainly be delayed as well (usually not as frequently, sure - depends heavily on the train system).

Thing is, a flight to LA from New York could be delayed for hours and hours and it would still beat the train.
I wonder if they are using an already used Falcon 9 or a brand new one? Is there are statistical difference in the reliability of unused vs reused Falcon 9s?
> The interior design of the capsule looks so futuristic and cool - closer to Star Trek than Soyuz.

Too bad they didn't skin the touchscreen interface to look like LCARS. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS
Technically those are real checks you're making, not forgeries. A depositing bank might refuse to accept them if they don't conform to the technical requirements of automated processing, but they're legitimate negotiable instruments. Also, I could see your bank charging you a hefty fee if they had to manually process one. Does anyone know how this actually works out?

AFAIK there's a huge legal distinction between someone (else) forging a whole check, or stealing your duly created check and just forging your signature. For one, if your checks are stolen you have a duty to notify your bank (whereas you can't possibly be aware of a complete forgery). So you might not want to leave extra printouts hanging around.
Why isn't the snap package signed?

$ snap install obsidian_0.6.4_amd64.snap
error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap "obsidian_0.6.4_amd64.snap"
It switches sides every 15-25 years, as youd notice, surely.

Parties have little in common with what they were even 20 years ago.
proprietary software can totally be extensible, that's what plugin APIs are for. foss is cool and all, but i don't buy the implication that it's some sort of civic duty for developers to release under a foss license.
I have a personal laptop, but before this I didn't have a dedicated space for it.
Does anyone else feel super excited?
I guess this was the feeling my parents had when they watched men landing on the Moon...
I've found that it's a good way to restrict access to testing/staging/dev environments. way easier to set up and manage than a vpn imo.
In my opinion, there are two kinds of people working from home: those who chose to work from home and made a series of decisions based on that goal and people who have been told by their employer that they need to work from home because of the quarantine.

The latter group was planning on working in an office and, perhaps, provisioned housing with that in mind. They may not have a guest room or space that can easily be used as an office. They may be sitting at a dining room table in an inflexible chair, bending their arms and wrist in uncomfortable ways and punishing their backs. They may have a laptop with a display that they planned to use only in meetings but now they are staring at it all day.

It's easy to make the case that people who made working from home a goal during their last search for employment don't need additional income during the quarantine; likely they made decisions about how they would pay for their homee office space and other expenses when they were looking for work and accepted a position.

I do think that employers should be footing some dollars to people working from home for the first time, for any real length of time, during quarantine. At the least they could provide equipment (docking stations, larger displays, keyboards, mice, proper chairs, etc.) to their employees. Whatever these employees are saving in terms of gas and commute time they are losing far more in the space from their home (no more dining room, etc.) and, if the quarantine continues for several months, the risk of RSI and back problems.
> By the same token, the government enacting legislation that gives these same tech companies blanket protection over the clear bias they institute is by extension limiting free speech by government law.

No, it's not. Permitting private bias without government consequence is the definition of free speech. Restricting it is contrary to free speech, and is permitted only to the extent that it fits within recognized Constitutional limitations on the right of free speech.
Here is pretty accurate in terms of spacecraft UI docking simulator: https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

Astronauts will be using similar for manual piloting demo before docking.
Two people in my office were out sick. One came to sit at my desk to help me out with a DB query after she was done with sick leave.

I got sick a few days later.

Went to the doctor who said they couldn't give COVID-19 tests since they didn't have it, but she gave me a regular flu test.

Results came back and I was flagged as positive for Coronavirus, but it came with a note from my doctor saying there was no way to confirm that it was COVID-19. I assume it was given symptoms and timing.
> But the reason why I love Spotify's recommendations and not Apple's is because Spotify focuses on algorithms and does them so well.

The article literally makes the point that Spotify's system is much more human curated than Netflix because it heavily relies on human curated lists that are shared between users.
I said social distancing, not wearing masks. Everyone wearing masks is very, very effective in stopping the spread. I've been saying it for months even when the CDC and WHO said the opposite, and some sheeple started to parrot that malicious misinformation.

Regarding social distancing, which I specifically mentioned, someone put in the effort to calculate a model and simulate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9JQ0iPfgE

Have you done the same or are you just guessing?
> but you cannot hold the phone company responsible for that crime

Sure. But now imagine if we applied the same provisions to twitter or facebook. We could say that if they don't follow common carrier status, then we can hold them responsible for any crime done on their platform.

This is would almost effectively the same thing as forcing them to follow common carrier laws. And it would have the same effect as requiring them to follow the 1st amendment, but doing it in a round about way.

It is not exactly the same as using the 1st amendment. But it is close enough.

Because, TBH, we already use these laws for commication platforms, such as phone companies.
I don't always see eye-to-eye with the President, but closing down social media platforms sounds like a win for the country. Tough, bitter medicine but exactly what we need in the long term.
It's not so much a function of how many Chinese people are using it as how many instances of the word being posted result in a comment being flagged.

Intersections such as "The word is rarely used, but when it is used it happens in a political setting where someone is more likely to decide to hit the flag button" would train an ML algorithm that the word is unwelcome in general.
There are lots of reasons why someone who is qualified to be a principal engineer might have worked for a long time without being promoted. Many companies do not recognize or reward based on technical merit. For example, you might need to be buddies with the right manager or luck into the right high-visibility project. Many people also job hop for the sole purpose of being promoted to a higher level because their existing company won't promote. I've worked at several companies where the inside joke was "It's easier to get hired at Google than to get a promotion here."

I think a lot of hiring companies over-index on "what's the candidate's current job title/function" as an indication of potential.
Is "the right way" in quotes because it's sarcasm? This is a really cool idea, but very impractical. I think most would agree that "the right way" would be to port the game to HTML5, either using straight JS or a technology like Haxe and OpenFL.
Investor turns $100k into $2.2M–now beting on a cruise to retirement
Personally cashed out some of my shares when they rose back up enough to pay off my car. I coulda held on and made a bit more profit but I can't predict the market so I played it safe, from 2 more years of payments to 1 more payment. It's at least one less thing to worry about paying for.

I work for one of the big fortune type companies, but you really never know what can happen.
Did it really happen or did you come up with it?
I have. Ironically, in non-anti-CCP videos, which tend to attract people who are tired of western narratives of China.

Their comments still aren't Hacker News quality, but they are far above the Youtube average.

For example, check the comments at https://youtu.be/ufxfSJgQuSI
I wonder if this will cause any political discomfort in the UK. Everyone knows that the UK is failing to enforce the terms of the Joint Declaration because they have no leverage, but they sort of quietly pretend this isn't happening, which will be untenable after this declaration.
As contentious as reporting bugs can be during the development process, while working at the same company as the developers, I'm not at all surprised that ethical disclosure is terrible, especially with a monetary motivation.
You can't run the latest Xcode versions on Mojave, so it'd already be of limited use and in a year it'd be a very niche thing.
I'll admit I went and looked at SpaceX open positions...
My understanding is the ugly food is often times used to make packaged foods like pre-chopped fruits and veggies, salads, apple sauce, baby carrots.
Failure here is obviously defined as ceasing to exist. Deliberately missing the point of their argument does not strengthen yours.
None until you actually interact with the system. Then, potentially, all of them.
Good question! At the absolute limit, connectors are CPU-bound, but it's unlikely that you would hit a CPU limit before you exhaust all available file descriptors or network bandwidth unless you're using a very under-powered host.

There's a couple other things that help, too:

1) We allow clustering as many connectors as you'd like to help you scale as usage patterns or application needs change. (This tends to be a big problem with VPN as deploying a new VPN gateway is a fairly heavy lift.)

2) Contrary to VPN deployments, which bottleneck all traffic through a single or small number of VPN gateways, our best practice recommendation is that you deploy as many connectors as you have network segments, which also helps spread out network load across multiple connectors.

Because connectors are quite different to VPN gateways, we wrote up this comparison article, too: https://docs.twingate.com/docs/understanding-access-nodes
Note that docking is automatic by default, this is a simulation of the backup system.
A veyron's brake job costs more than a BMW S1000RR motorcycle, which can keep up with that car on most tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujSvsyY15GE And the last time i checked, you had to ship the car to france to have the work done.

I own a slightly less race-specced bike than the S1000RR, but i take a lot of pleasure in being able to get off the line in under 3 seconds at about an order of magnitude less cost than most cars that can do that.

Stating the obvious: hypercars aren't interested in performance-dollars very much.
I'd assume they would just ask them to stop.
So China and Iran are Poland circa 1939 and USA is Nazi Germany? Do you want to go with that analogy?
I'm not excusing it, I'm only being pragmatic. It's well and good to push people to be more ethical, but relying on that trait is a separate question.

The human conscience doesn't do very well with abstractions. The further removed someone's actions are from the damage caused down the line, the weaker that moral signal gets. If we want to improve our society, we have to be realistic about these things and design our institutions to buttress against them.
There was a small resurgence of webrings in last year:

Hotline Webring: https://hotlinewebring.club

XXIIVV Webring: https://webring.xxiivv.com

Weird Wide Webring: https://weirdwidewebring.net

I'm personally more into personal directories and blogrolls than these random clicks - but they still seem to be a good way to put together a small community. (And this post isn't meant to discourage you - but rather to encourage you to form your own.)
Thank you! I came here to ask why there was only one chart. Just wasn’t clear on mobile that it wasn’t the main report.
Extradition of Huawei Executive Clears a Major Legal Hurdle in Canada
Guess what - there are speedruns already :D

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iss+sim+speedru...
I read the tweet you posted about HuXiJin (chief of CCP-backed media), and I LOL'ed very hard on how he responded. (Seems like Xi's 'Wolf Warrior' Diplomacy is true)

To be honest, China really sees itself as a world power. This is only because of the economic affluence it had on every country on Earth. Military wise, they do spend a lot of money but the equipment and training are not quite on par with the top dogs in the game. CCP also has no regards for its people so worst case is to sacrifice a few million population in case of an international conflict.

The problem with China is like a professional boxer fighting on a street with thugs. Your opponent is not afraid of getting down dirty on moves, they are not gonna abide any rules, nor do they have anything to lose.
While I think this is exactly what's happening, it demonstrates that we need more human in the loop interaction verifying the decisions of the machine learning algorithms. I don't think anyone that works in the space would disagree that this method would be highly susceptible to trolling. I mean look what happened to Tay[0]. You have to have some mechanism where humans are checking on how the system is learning.

The big question is: was this a recent effort to flag these phrases or was it a gradual thing? If it is the former, I think it is easy to forgive Google as things move fast. If it is the latter I think it brings questions about fundamental methodologies.

I am being intentionally ambiguous about what is being classified because there are similar complaints about other subjects so I want to generalize.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
This is just the physical equivalent of the same thing we have been dealing with in the virtual world. A utility bill provides no more or less proof than having both my mother's maiden name and the name of my first pet. Most people are good so most companies and organizations choose convenience over security. The end result is that it is often incredibly easy for malicious actors to socially engineer themselves into secured areas both physically and digitally.
Netflix, has low quality shows not because of their recommendation algos. but their business model. serve everyone some acceptable shit with a good chocolate here and there. And mass production. Netflix shows usually suffer from poor writing, poor cinematography. HBO knows how to hire the right crew for a show, besides the clusterfuck called GOT. Year after year, HBO continues to produce bangers, The Wire, Chernobyl, The Plot Against America etc are some of the finest shows ever made. with the wire #1.
This isn't embrace, extend, extinguish, at least at the AppGet scope:

• Embrace: Microsoft privately contacted the single primary developer of AppGet (a package manager; libre, copyleft, Apache-2.0) about potential employment.

• Extend: Microsoft implemented WinGet (a package manager; libre, permissive, MIT) privately on their own, borrowing from AppGet's architecture (design-wise, not code- or library-wise).

• Extinguish: Microsoft publicly unveiled WinGet after providing advanced notice to two external parties, the development teams of the existing Windows package managers Chocolatey (which commercially sells functionality WinGet doesn't subsume) and AppGet (i.e. one person).

None of these are EEE, except arguably Extinguish with AppGet. But you're moving in that case from an Apache-2.0 licensed solution to a MIT licensed solution, when modern Microsoft has proven to have decent respect for their permissively licensed source releases. This is a phyrric victory for AppGet.
I am suspecting this strategy is a profit maximizing move. Instead of recommending 3rd party movie that cost high licence fees, Netflix is directing its users to its own content, where the cost is fixed. Netflix wants vast library to attract users but Netflix doesn't want them watch and only pay subscription.
First they need to make the borrow checker more amendable to something like SwiftUI and UI component libraries.
I am expecting people to become financially conservative over the next few months, so I am going to inverse that and start spending money (new used car, house?). That's just me though, maybe I will be homeless soon haha.
Whether this matters is very dependent on what you're doing. For webdev stuff, for instance, you don't need Xcode—much less the latest version—just Apple's "command line tools".