skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unbelievable how much the US populace has been gaslit by liberal media if you _still_ don't know it. This refers to "fine people on both sides" comment deliberately taken out of context. Here's what Trump actually said:

"So you know what, it’s fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly."

Direct quote, you can easily find a full transcript and see for yourself. Yet you didn't even know this existed. You're being lied to every day and you don't even know it.
How does this reconcile with the laws of many euro countries compelling website forums to delete content that they deem objectionable? Most recently France passed such a law[0].

> There are multiple levels of fines. It starts at hundreds of thousand of euros but it can reach up to 4% of the global annual revenue of the company with severe cases.

How can these euro countries claim to be free societies when they restrict the most basic element of personal freedom?

It's not just France. Several of the euro countries have laws like this.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/france-passes-law-forcing-...
Would it be acceptable to you if your ISP inserted warnings for emails you sent? I understand we have "spam" classifications but this goes beyond that and is done client-side and I can modify my client to not mark messages as spam. Would you consider the addition of a warning to all emails you sent a modification of your message?

Your point of "toxic" labelling is interesting. I think there is a difference in the non-physical realm though as "toxic" as it applies to ideas is subjective.
I don't see APFS there. Regardless, I doubt if there is a real community of developers working on the Darwin code base. Contrast this with Swift on GitHub, which is very welcoming project with a high level of developer participation.
>A lot of traffic laws are essential to the distributed consensus algorithm that allows people to get where they want to go mostly safely.

I take the opposite view. Traffic laws are just the distributed consensus that's dumbed down enough to codify into law. The traffic participants mostly agree what is ok and what isn't but it's so nuanced and complex that we can't legislate it all so we just write imperfect rules for the big stuff like "thou shalt drive on the same side as everyone else" and mostly ignore edge cases like all those situations it's perfectly acceptable do something that isn't within the letter of the law.
>Denmark's quality of life is coming at the expense of the future, as they load up massively on debt today to fake their standard of living.

It's probably worth it in the end. How much longer do we have to endure low quality of life for the sake of some future? Let's say you endured and now your son becomes an adult. Is that now the time to start improving things and enjoying a better quality of life? Probably not, people will say it isn't time yet and we aren't ready, therefore your son will have to sacrifice his happiness and wellbeing too, for his children.

The average person in Denmark will probably die of natural cause, after a relatively happy and fulfilling life. Doesn't seem like they're getting any worse either for it.

What do we have to show for our sacrifices? Nothing it seems. The powers that be will cry about muh inflation all day and won't bail out people, but they're ready to bend over and print money if the corporations and ultra rich need it though.
How in the world is that possible with 97 million+ songs in existence?
AFAIK Firebase doesn't actually offer any real authorization do they? It was some time ago I last built a project with them, but I remember having to create a custom "roles" attribute in the Realtime DB for users.
Apple’s Radical ‘All-New’ iPhone Suddenly Takes Shape
Off-topic, but do you really view that "we're in the middle of a disaster of epic proportions"? I can think of a huge number of actual disasters of epic proportions (full-scale nuclear war, 100 kilometer asteroid impact, yellowstone super caldera explodes, an actual pandemic that has 99% effective death rate arises, etc.) The current situation seems pretty low-key compared to a real disaster.
Oh no! My son and I thoroughly enjoyed it when we toured last year - very nice collection and well-displayed. If you are planning a visit to the Seattle area and into military museums definitely put it on your list to see while you can.
You would be an unethical hacker I suppose
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I'm making up for a terrible math education in Khan Academy and take notes in org-mode using org-roam. Here's an example file, in .md. If you click this link, a download dialog will launch, fair warning http://calebjay.com/examplenotes.md

To answer your question re: search engine. I can't just google, like, every single elementary math concept up through calculus to magically know it. I need the learning/notetaking process to get Chunks of math knowledge in my brain and begin forming neurological patterns between those chunks. This is so I can later apply these chunks during my self-teaching of computer science (another thing I'm very elementary in despite my profession). The notes help me do things like create anki decks and etc as well.

I don't want to know all math, just the very good curriculum that Khan Academy has set out.

Please don't make fun of how elementary my math level is lol. I'm trying.
If every piece of software I use day-to-day cost $4/mo, I'm not sure I would even use computers.
Would have appreciated a snail mail version of this for my wedding ...
This is a step in the right direction from coding first and then hoping people will come.

I think you need more than a count of subscribers to validate your idea though. Ideally you can engage them so you can have conversations will a decent sample size (see the book "The Mom Test" and similar on what questions to ask), and you will know a lot more than just "I got 318 subscribers from HN" or whatever. I can't tell you how many hours I've wasted trying to sell stuff to uninterested lists of even 3000 people and getting nothing.

I'm in a different country to you, and sample size of 1 speaking here, but I'd never sign up your page because you are dealing with money and stocks and I don't recognise you as a banking institution. So I wouldn't waste my time. I've been stung enough by trading platforms run by pig players. I'll use the boring big banks thanks. Things might be different in India though. Unless you are the ex-CTO of Barclays and have $100M in funding or something. Plus its such a competitive landscape that unless you are paying me to trade I can get very good deals out there.

However I might sign up for a tool to help me calculate options prices, or can tell me which shares internationally have falling the most since the COVID pandemic started. That's safe, I'll soon know if it doesn't work properly and it might be handy. Having signed up for that I might answer a survey you send me, and then you'd know more about me. Maybe I'm happy with my broker but I have a big problem with X that you can solve.
Not a Firefox issue. The same happened to me in Chrome.
Hah, I list my occupation as IT THUG.
Not all people are living in an environment where they have an income that allows one to afford this. For some $4 is a lot, for some it is peanuts. Context matters.
Microsoft releases Windows 10 update with Linux and Notepad enhancements
I believe the existential crisis so many are experiencing has been caused by the pandemic, but perhaps not in the way one might expect when approaching the problem rationally. Yes, we are more isolated, and perhaps concerned for the safety of ourselves or our loved ones, or even for some abstract concept of community or society, but depression is characterized by anhedonia: the inability to feel pleasure. Are we all sitting around, so preoccupied by the crises of the day that we have become numb to pleasure? That doesn't describe depression, although perhaps anxiety. I would describe depression as the loss of most strong feelings, not only pleasurable ones, and that is why death becomes so alluring: fear of death has been numbed as well.

No, an existential crisis is rooted in the meaning, or lack thereof, we are able to ascribe to our lives. And the pandemic has in many ways restricted our connections to those sources of meaning. Whatever stories we were telling ourselves about our life's purpose, the plotlines we imagined for ourselves, have been disrupted. The student has had their university all but taken from them. They cannot experience it in quite the same tangible way as they once did. The same is true for the worker who derives his meaning from labor. For many, that connection has been damaged, if not severed. It is the loss of meaning that accompanies the dawning realization that our sources of meaning were nothing more than illusions to begin with.

We realize now that life goes on without these guiding influences; that the rituals we perform do not in fact earn us the favor of the Gods. We come upon the idea that perhaps life really is meaningless and that we were in fact only existing previously because of a foolish, irrational faith. It has been thrust upon us, entirely by happenstance (and not because of any rational deduction or brilliance on our parts), that we are fools, rubbing our prayer beads and voluntarily deluding ourselves into thinking that some bit of our finite, meaningless lives could somehow persist alongside the infinite.

"For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite."
This isn't about who is persuaded by what. It is about what responsibilities the media has to the public.
Exactly; this would - if done correctly - result in Google collapsing pretty much immediately, as they should have done a decade ago.
Funny thing about this - I'm an American and I started to answer your message "I'm with you brother, let's go to Canada!" only to realize you are fleeing Hong Kong, not the US...
Reminds me of the Office 2013 ribbon bar - users preferred it apparently! They couldn't find any of the options they'd used for 20+ years but somehow preferred it!

Thank goodness menus for Office still existed on the Mac.
I'm in my mid to late 30s and I'm with you on agreeing with Clint Eastwood. I used to joke that I'm 30 going on 60 (with many friends in their 60s and 70s), but these days I've updated the terms so the kids can understand and say that I'm a transboomer.
"American Columnist Blames China For British Decision"

In 1960, China was in the middle of the Great Leap Forward and like 40 million people were starving to death. The rest weren't doing great, either. Maybe the Brits were really worried, maybe it was a fig leaf. Maybe they were scared communists could win an election.

To be fair, China did almost invade in support of communist protestors in 1967 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Hong_Kong_riots -- but that was during the Cultural Revolution when they were a lot less starving and a lot more psycho. And they still thought better of it.

In any case, the UK still ought to own their decisions.
This is a self-defeating cycle.

You cut salaries because you see less demand. People have less money so they consume less and you see less demand.

We will definitely need a some kind of a new New Deal when this is over. We can't count on the usual way to inject money into the economy. What happened after 2009 shows that this money doesn't trickle down enough.
They’re in separate bins at my local store and each bin has a sign. Since I know which fruits they separate out like that I just specify when I order online. They even put a little sticker on the “ripe today” produce if you order a mix so you know which to eat first.
Downloaded this a few hours ago, and ported all my notes about my novel over to it, and I have to say: this is a really great piece of software. The interface is intelligent, ergonomic and fast, and it does a lot of things automatically which I really like. It cuts down on the boring book keeping.

I was also able to move my plot outline into this, which was a godsend for me because previously it was in a word document, meaning I couldn't check things off. Now I have an interactive task list for it! And everything is all in one place!

One small suggestion: I would really like some place where it lists all the key commands (for instance, are there key commands for making headings? what about the key command for Replace, which I couldn't find?). Also, it would be nice if tags weren't necessarily represented inside the document from a viewing perspective. Maybe as a bar along the bottom, which is then copied into the markdown document transparently?

Thanks for making this!
Obsidian folks: please don't use any of the aforementioned licenses. The reality is that they're _not_ a good fit (although the author would probably love to get you as a client to handle your EULA and convince you to use one of the others for your eventually-open-source plans, and that would be an even worse idea).
https://vtomole.com/

I created mine 4 years ago so I could write about quantum computation. That was before I started contributing to Wikipedia. Now I mostly post non-quantum computation stuff on my homepage.
Java/Android is basically gibberish to me as is - Maybe it is obfuscated sometimes. But strings themselves (API endpoints) have to be present some way or another.

There is also something called "smali" which is an intermediate representation - You can edit it following something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31101740/method-to-add-a....

Finally, there are occasionally native ARM libs included in the jar - You can get these with tool "retdec" or just run strings on it to find interesting stuff
The roof being original is a bit more impressive imho.
I wish it would become more common to put a lot of different spectrum LEDs on a bulb (really on the PCB that has the LEDs since the 'bulb' is just a diffuser).
Virtual Minecraft protest demands Microsoft address the game’s predator problem
Then what is the engine of evolution? This is a point that I see repeatedly glossed over. First it's random mutation. Then random mutation is mostly bad. So, then the secret is natural selection. But what is natural selection? Is it merely survival and reproduction? Finally, when the author gets around to giving an example of 'natural selection' that actually works, they always give an example of human (livestock breeding, biomorphs, etc.) or animal driven selection (Koonin's lamarckianism or Shapiro's natural genetic engineering). This is always directed and purposeful, the very thing that evolution is not supposed to be. It seems the authors cannot get their story straight for whatever reason.
How do you know that they aren't just as critical of their own government?
> Google discontinues so many services, why is AMP not one of them yet?

Because Google only discontinues useful services, and AMP is actively harmful (aka of negative usefulness)?
Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri
> Drew's post made me realize that I want to give my users - not passive - an application experience so it's okay to stick with the current setup.

Yup, and I think that's fine! I love using the web applications that I do use. I think we just need to take a hard look at what should be an application and what shouldn't, especially given the target audience. Having SPAs with infinite scroll to display a blog post really is just unnecessary.
About substitutions, I'm guessing they haven't explored what all they can do with that and there are probably some easy wins still available.

Right now it seems to be pretty capricious and up to the whims of someone who is in a hurry and whose primary responsibility is pulling things from shelves.

They could use software to make educated guesses. Random ideas:

(1a) Allow customers to rate substitutions after the fact as bad, OK, or good. Then learn which substitutions customers generally like, and try to do those. The goal should probably be to avoid bad substitutions, so 10% bad / 60% OK / 30% good is preferable to 25% bad / 25% OK / 50% good.

(1b) If I myself rated a substitution as bad in the past and you need to substitute for that same item again, try something different.

(2) Look for safe choices in order history. If vanilla yogurt isn't available today, but blueberry and coconut are, and in the past I've bought cherry and blueberry yogurt several times but never coconut, then give me blueberry.

(3) Get fancier and try to model features of products that a customer does and doesn't like. You've got metadata like keywords from product names, ingredient lists, brands, packaging type, and size. I bought this ice cream, those bagels, that coffee creamer, and that applesauce, and cinnamon is the common thread in all four. So when you're out of brown sugar oatmeal, give me cinnamon spice even though I've never bought that before because it looks like I like cinnamon.

(4) Model based on similarity to other buyers. I often buy these 5 items, and someone else also buys those same 5 items, but they often buy a 6th one that I don't. So maybe I'd like that 6th product too as a substitute (provided it's already on the short list of reasonable substitutes).
We'll add an option to disable auto-update soon!

If you don't trust us, technically you can also use firewall rules to block internet access (or monitor network and see what Obsidian is doing).
Oh please no, LCM is the coolest museum in the world. Is there nothing we can do to save it? I'd be willing to pay several years advance membership. I have so many great memories of that place. For a long time I was an organizer for the local mechanical keyboard meetup and they were the best venue for that by far.
The Pixels get a lot of hate from people who haven't used them though I think they are great phones and I'll never buy a Samsung phone again.

There are so many nice software touches on them that you just have to experience to appreciate.
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Nothing. The correct thing happened last time, too.

See, "incompetence" doesn't mean blundering. It means senility or insanity. Firing Comey may be many things, but it's not incompetence.

You want him gone? Get in line; a lot of people want that. But you're going to have to either vote him out or impeach him. And to impeach him, you're going to have to persuade more than one Republican Senator that he's crossed the line - which means you need something that the other side recognizes as an actual case.
I looked at the wiki for §230 of the CDA.

It appears that removing the liability shield for social media platforms[0] is a popular position for both Republicans and Democrats by a wide margin. Nothing has transpired, yet.

However, the §230 is nuanced. There's case law where the liability shield defense has been rejected. See the defamatory information issues [1] where the site merely editorialized the headlines and was deemed a publisher.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
> push a different vote rigging narrative where every name removed from the list is a vote that's been suppressed by the Republicans

Politics gonna politik. Neither team red nor team blue is above slimy tactics. That's not an excuse not to push for a viable, non-partisan solution.

I personally don't think periodically scrubbing rolls is either the right solution nor a good one. When they are scrubbed, the scrubbing is usually done by elected officials (who are almost certainly not above the corruption temptation) and who generally choose to over-scrub given too little confirmable data (causing false positive to be removed and increasing the burden on the average voter who doesn't know what happened or how to assure that their ballot isn't invalidated).

Citizens should demand that the government actually use the data is already has on us and keep our address and eligibility current. One simple PubSub system with {Post Office, DMV, Credit Bureaus} as publishers of address changes and {Elections, IRS, etc} as consumers would fix this pretty quick.
I fondly remember Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the Macintosh, and software that followed it. Even if you'd never seen a given application before you could easily discover its features and how to operate it.

Having said that, I think CLI programs tend to not get enough credit for discoverability. It's just a different kind of discoverability (man $program, $program --help).
> However, using Ferguson20’s stated assumptions, I calculate a 30% higher death toll of approximately 660,000 people (Column A7), implying an IFR of 1.23%.

Now what?
I'm guessing the distribution of reviews was bimodel. Ideally, people should use a 5-star system in a way that it provides a normal distribution. Most content should fall between 2 or 3 stars.

But it doesn't actually work that way, 4 star uber drivers get kicked off the platform, 2 star Amazon products suck, 2-3 star movies suck. 4-star movies are okay.

As such, I think we can conclude that people don't actually know how to use a star rating system and we should just get rid of it.
If he doesn't like it, he could easily have one of his supplicants build a twitter clone for his rage tweeting. There is nothing hard about building a twitter clone, the only hard part is getting the users in the door, but that'd be easy for him with 40% of the country treating him like he's a god.
I recently discovered: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy

It takes a lot of the legwork out. Obviously you're referring to the likelihood of a major email provider marking you as spam, which is pretty likely if you're sending much volume. But if you have all your ducks in a row, you just might be able to make it work with this.

FAQ: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy/blob/dev/docs/faq.md
Yes.

The carnivore diet stuff is just straight up garbage fad dieting except it sounds cool or whatever so it appeals to insecure dudes. No real substance to it, and everyone I’ve ever seen promote just spits out the same bullshit claims as every other fad diet testimonial (“no more brain fog”)

Unless you’ve been instructed to by an actual doctor, switching to a meme internet diet promoted by morons like Jordan Peterson is probably not a great idea.
no paywall:

https://archive.fo/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/202...
When does imagination become appropriation?
Cultural Intelligence (2004)
Hmm? Highway means "public road" (and sometimes private) pretty much everywhere, legally, since before the US existed.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/highways_and_motor_vehicles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway

"Freeway" is the term for the kind of road that has "highway" in its official name. Also "parkway", from the era when there was more landscaping around freeways.
1. No. In my opinion, zero can never equal non-zero.

Otherwise you could be 'only a little bit' pregnant.
they didn't police anything; the guy's tweet got posted without any sort of gatekeeping

they didn't edit anything; it was very clear what he posted and it was his exact words as written. there weren't even any dark ui patterns to make it look like the fact check was part of what he said.
Edwin from Stripe here. I’m sorry for the trouble—could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can dig into this? (There may be times we have to evaluate how much credit risk a business poses, but we wouldn’t freeze an account just for growth–in fact, we encourage it.)