skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would a direct democracy be an ideal one?

I fear that would be even worse. People, as a whole, are necessarily ignorant creatures of id, and to me it seems like expecting millions of them to agree on and solve difficult, complex problems (i.e., anything costly, inconvenient, and not immediately urgent to their well-being; e.g., climate change) is just collective malpractice. xD People mean well, but they're lazy and dumb. We didn't evolve to expend frenetic effort superspecializing in all the fields you need to know about to have well-informed opinions about complex problems. We need to appeal to authorities on subjects, trust those authorities, and then do what they say. Many people fail one of those three steps. So just design the system to preclude the failure: autocratic technocracy. It's probably the most painless system in the long term by far.
If you are adding Auth the Firebase way, remember to add an UI for JWT claims. Right now Firebase does not explicitly expose the list of claims UI through the dashboard so everytime you change permissions you have to programmatically iterate through everything if you want a holistic overview.
Facebook is actually a lot better than others on this issue: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/men-are-scum-inside-...

Obviously they can make mistakes, but I’d also be curious about your specific usage.

Someone must have reported you.
Perhaps. I recall articles about how expensive NYC Subway projects are...

OTOH how much more expensive is running international aiports, airplanes, and jet fuel?

Plus flying sucks, even at the business and first class. Amtrack wasn't amazing but I had way more seat space with a basic ticket and didn't have to get irradiated and searched just to get on a plane.
TL;dr the European Commission proposes a 750bn Euro rescue fund - bigger than the GDP than Poland, Sweden or Belgium - to help countries finance the recovery. Many have described this as Europe's 'Hamilton Moment' as it's the first joint debt issuance for the EU countries.
We're in 2020, this is way overdue.
That's their problem, not mine. My concern as an owner is whether I could reasonably sell or trade the car for a new one after I drive it 3-6 years and that's been satisfied. The point where it's difficult to unload a used Tesla is when I question whether it's worthwhile to buy a new one. As long as you can buy one, take it somewhere to get it repaired, expect reasonable resale value and then easily sell or trade it in, that checks the important boxes for most buyers. Tesla has achieved that. Is there room for improvement? Sure. Is it turning off a few potential buyers? Maybe, but not enough of them that it hasn't become a mainstream car.
Hmm. What was collecting the Common Lisp's garbage then?
How's that different from each CPU core?
Man if only they had 2 of the most experience pilots in the world that could test and validate ever one of the design decisions and could influence the design to their liking.

If those guys had also space flight experience and could review all the engineering done on the capsule, that would be the way to do it.

Oh, that is exactly what happens.
They can't. For one thing they desperately need the dollars that flow through Hong Kong.

The GDP size is now among the least valuable aspects of Hong Kong as it pertains to China. That has never been primary.

Hong Kong is the economic staging point that much of the world uses to enter China's economy. Think of it as a translating middleman, that the world uses to convert from foreign market-based economics to China's domestic way of running things as a rigid command economy that is operated by fiat and is often hostile to foreign operators/owners/investors. Hong Kong's role in that respect has been critical to China's economic rise.
"Republican bandits."

Does that offend you?
Why have your expenses gone up? That's unusual.
Looks great. Would be amazing if I could use it as an alternative frontend for my vimwiki, which is also markdown.

Only thing missing is that links like these should work:

[anchor](path)

As that's the way vimwiki generates them :)
If a master cabinet maker's work is indistinguishable from an apprentice's work is there not a problem?

If you spend 20 years doing the same work, do you have to be a 'brilliant outlier' to have insights a junior person doesn't?

edit spelling/punct.
Will you provide a Postgres instance too?

If not what provider would you recommend?
Also things like 401k matching, etc. Seeing a lot of that too.
To a certain level this is true and important when dealing with situations where someone making the wrong decision can have dire consequences. The comparison breaks down though when the added complexity only serves to increase the amount of control over processes which are meant to be accessible to casual users and experts alike, e.g. an audio-producing device offering a simple volume control to the casual user with an option to access a multi-band parametric equalizer to those who want or need to have more control over the device.
I read it as a suggestion in the middle: you don't have to dress over, but you shouldn't dress "under".

Some people will benefit from rising to the middle.

That said, one of the most influential people I know at a FAANG dresses like a mechanic. But he already has the juice.
Catalina has been fine for me (old macbook and a new iMac), but I do miss some of the old Steam games that no longer work with Catalina (was it a 64-bit thing?).

Is Steam or Apple going to offer some kind of virtualization thing to allow this old apps/games to run? Or did we really just lose these forever without using your own virtualization (VMWare etc)?

(Or is there some news about this that I just missed?)
Some comments after testing it for the first time:

I am looking for alternatives of Typora since it is not open sourced. Obsidian is new and close to it (same feature to paste image from system clipboard) but still needs more work -

1. Font size and equation font size are not easily configured.
2. Inline Latex is not supported yet.
3. Equation numbering are not supported yet

And it is not open sourced either. Good work and keep going!
People are not cheaper in space, by no means. Robotic things can be easily prepared well in advance, on planet Earth, where sitting a bunch of programmers by the computer is much cheaper than training and sending actual bag of mostly water into space.

If you are still not convinced, we have sent a robotic missions to almost every larger body in solar system, yet we are excited today we can send two people to LEO. Just look at costs involved...

Humans cannot do anything in space without tools and tools in space is a bunch of electronic signals that are either processed locally or sent to Earth. The things people do in space is either trivia (yeah, have fun with this ball of water in zero-G) or studying behavior of human body and mind in space to be able to send more humans to do the same.

We have learned how to do very complicated things without humans involved. Hovering a craft in Mars atmosphere? Orienting craft with extreme precision? Running complicated manouvers at the ends of solar system?

Look at missions which are only possible because we can send a craft on decades' long journey. If people were necessary we would not be able to do anything of that. Any human mission is limited to short hops from Earth to Moon, maybe Mars, until we advance our science and technology way, way past current level.

Sending people to space isn't really advancing science (except studying how people fare in space). It is another token achievement. There isn't physics we are learning IN ORDER TO or BECAUSE we are sending people to space. Physics is advanced by physicists. There might be some technological advancement necessary to send humans that would not be necessary for robotic missions, that's all, really.

Take a close look at what people in space are doing. Find anything that requires humans in space?

Don't get me wrong. I am all for human presence in space. Just be realistic about why we are doing it.
I couldn't disagree more. I didn't find the borrow checker rules that hard to learn: they all seemed pretty sensible and intuitive (and I came from a JavaScript background, I hadn't done any low-level programming before). And all the little details of the language are wonderful: Enums, Traits, expression-orientation. It makes for a very expressive language.
As the article notes, the MUTCD defines the right way to mark roadways, and generally most states follow it, or something based on it. Of course, in particularly... unique... roadways, the guidelines may need a bit of a tweak to handle it well. And of course, sometimes mistakes are made.
Yes. So should the upvote, downvote, and unvote links, because these things don't go to nw pages, and the voting links take immediate action.
To me at least, the GP's comment read more like a shallow aggrandizement of SpaceX, whose successes and failures can stand on their own.

To connect the current layoffs at Boeing to the competition in the commercial space launch industry really seems to be motivated reasoning that focuses on irrelevant minutiae while the whale in the room is the impact of the pandemic.
They specifically list three (not two) companies, but suggest it's happening on other earnings calls at well. I don't know that they need to make a giant list of every company. Others, below, list additional evidence in the article.

They say, in the second sentence: "The hard numbers won’t be in for months, but anecdotal evidence is piling up." Anecdotally, I've heard similar from friends and family, too.

Is there a single quote in the piece that you think COULD be inaccurate? I think it smartly distinguishes between what we know and don't know.
This is probably the opposite of what would happen. If you have free living wages, especially for low level jobs, you're incentivized to try and get a better job rather than working minimum wage in unpleasant occupations. That is, now that avoiding starving to death is off the table the employers need to increase the leverage of their compensation enough to offset the opportunity cost of learning a more valuable skill, so wages will increase.

The problem is that the increase in wages will necessitate higher prices to the point at which the UBI is not longer sufficient on its own, so the above mentioned effect falls off, and you find some sort of equilibrium at which poor people still need to work to survive.

It's not crazy to imagine the long term impact being what you suggest though. Right now you need, say $100 paychecks to survive. In a universal non basic income, you might only need to earn $50 + your UnBI. The cunning capitalist observes here that the poor need fewer wages to live and so they get... fewer wages.
Tesla is bending on price
It's a much different threat, however. As I've covered in other threads, CCP action against Taiwan will result in an actual war which may or may not involve the U.S. and to an unknown degree.
I wish it would be the case but for instance in France the drug authority seems to be determined to stop all trials [1]

[1] https://www.midilibre.fr/2020/05/26/coronavirus-lagence-du-m...
It much be nice to be able to read the minds of non-voters and decide how they would have voted if they had bothered to.
Yea but you're saving money on commute costs (gas, insurance, maintenance) and time...

I'm not sure you're entitled to more money because you need a chair and a desk. Maybe could make an argument your internet connection should be paid for though.
I don’t think that should be a factor. How many people stay at a job longer than 5 years in their 20’s these days?
I think GP comment about communist parties is not really what the heart of the matter is here: business owners are probably not excited to deal with the opaqueness of the mainland China legal system since it's apparently prone to disappear booksellers over the border and force confessions out of them.

That said, maybe the exodus is overhyped: a lot of businesses are already dealing with the mainland government and certainly that's where a lot of them see where the money is, so they might just be forced to play by these new rules whether they like it or not.
What was the exact comment?
1) This isn't even true in general. Aside from optional things like cosmetic surgery which you need to pay for out of pocket, the people on the taxpayer-subsidized obamacare bronze-level packages have access to the same doctors, facilities and treatments as people with high incomes and high quality employer-sponsored insurance plans. The only difference is deductibles and copays, which might vary by a few thousand dollars in the event of major surgery.

2) Even if it was true, is a society where freeloaders are rewarded equally to those who contribute a good thing or a just society? Healthcare, like all goods and services, comes from the labor of the working classes. It's perfectly fair and reasonable that the people working to pay for this (whether through insurance premiums, taxes, etc) receive the fruits of their labor, rather than having it siphoned away by non-contributing people.
Poor guy probably got fed for free at the office. I can’t think of any other reason, aside from more toilet paper usage at home.
More likely the clever part will be you will get more ads for spy cameras and the like.
Nope. Web development could (and should) be much cleaner. But it doesn't get there by tirelessly adding to the list of curmudgeonly comments over and over and over. As a web developer who made zero choice for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be in the position they are today and who is wholeheartedly open to seeing the chances that things like wasm could bring it is honestly more tiring reading yet another derisive comment about JavaScript fatigue than it is actually dealing with the churn in the ecosystem.
So can older users with more rep vouch for pages to pull them out of the queue?
Sets and Probability
For you with a technical background, it's different. For Bob the marketing guy, it's just another tool to create a website.

There's indeed little magic involved so Gatsby has to do a really good job to keep customers both integration and speed wise.
How does distrust create trust exactly? I give out trust freely (within reason) until it's broken. Gaining back trust is hard. When I find out you went through my mails to find out if I'm trustworthy, you loose my trust.

When I learned of the BND's Crypto AG involvement I felt a deep sense of shame. All the CIA's fuck ups in south america for example. Not only the CIA anymore, we where involved too. Which makes me loose some trust in my government to act on my/our behalf. There is a cost to it and the benefits are questionable at best.
May 7th:
Boeing has raised $25 billion in a massive debt sale, allowing it to avoid tapping a $17 billion coronavirus bailout fund meant to shore up businesses critical to national security.

https://metroairportnews.com/boeing-passes-on-accepting-fede...

[edit]

"That stance concerned lawmakers from Washington state, who urged Calhoun in a letter to “consider utilizing the economic assistance provided by the Cares Act to safeguard thousands of jobs at Boeing in Washington State and across the country.”"

These corporate only care about bottom line
Though they might gravitate towards Canada which has the highest population of Hong Kong citizens outside of Hong Kong itself.
At first I thought this would just be a cynical joke, but there are a lot of super interesting points in there. Thank you.
> After years of searching, the floor with the well-preserved tiles was finally discovered in the vineyard in northern Italy.
> 3. As extensible as possible.

The app would need to be open source for this to be possible.

It's still possible to make money with an open-source product. When you're targeting a developer audience, it might even be more profitable to be open-source.
Most of GE's consumer lighting business had already been sold off. Also, Lighting was never a super large part of GE by revenue or profit.
Why? I am sure self-driving will have regulations around it for specific performance guarantees.
Coalition Inc. a cyberinsurer has raised $90M
> American office-workers now work completely from home; this policy will last until the end of 2020 for many and will likely shift millions of office jobs to fully-remote workers.

Justifying the word "likely" is key here, surely?
I don't think the US has anything like furlough in Europe. Also, Boeing just fired their employees. Nothing to be done about that now.
Yes, as you say, Integrity is preserved. However, Confidentiality is also another important aspect of Information Security. Making a 3rd party appear as a 1st party, is a privacy and confidentiality violation, which is why I do not like AMP and signed exchanges.
https://archive.md/wsonA
Except after 20 years in the industry, there's a vast amount more work available...And the industry is still running at a shortage of tech. people.

(oddly enough, the 'average' programmers entire career was 10 years last I checked. People seem to burn out and move on..)
Yeah it's definitely part of a pattern of behavior that started with the ouster of Immelt.

Basically the start of their downfall was Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 billion of GE stock in 2015 with the express goal of GE taking on a ton of debt to do share buybacks and raise the dividend

https://steveblank.com/2017/11/01/why-ges-jeff-immelt-lost-h...
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. We can do a few things at once.
We have a microservice for this which we use. It's internal and was extracted from systems/practices that grew over years. Basically it works like Auth0 many of the bells and whistles, but it's just a service in our network. And, probably not a surprise, TCO (cost of running/maintaining it) is a rounding error (few $100/month) for millions of users.
> Google can choose today which site (original or AMP cache) to show in their search results. Today, as an end user, I know, via the URL, when I land on a Google AMP site.

Ok why is this an issue? Note that HN is a bad place for this kind of socratic method discussion, we'll both quickly run out of the ability to post replies. Assume I'm someone who doesn't share whatever values you share about the purity of the url bar or whatever. Why is you being unable to know whether or not the content came from Google's IP or mysite's IP relevant to anyone as long as it's the same content (which signed exchanges ensure)?
That could be just strong signal from folks who have used both Postgres and MySQL and who don't want to go back to MySQL. An object store like MongoDB might not even be a consideration. At my current client, there is zero chance of going to MongoDB, so it's not dreaded.
That's utterly beautiful. I really lost it at:

alias vi 'rm \!*;unalias vi;grep -v BoZo ~/.cshrc > ~/.z; mv -f ~/.z ~/.cshrc'

...which is of course utterly evil:)
I find it amazing how much good companies will sacrifice for a good quarter or so of "growth". Great R&D can be unprofitable for a long time until it's suddenly Bell Labs. That doesn't happen without some infrastructure, but an accountant rocks up and suddenly the company is a husk, time and time again.
even better! (although you may want some steps in between)
2% of CO2 emissions is a lot when you consider the number of people who produce it. For anyone who flies regularly it will typically make up the lion's share of their carbon footprint.
https://twitter.com/DapperHistorian/status/12654268574465146...

"Old maps showed that a villa was in the area, but of course they didn't use scale until much later, so the exact location had been lost. This was the result of a long search to finally pinpoint it."
How many accountants are making these executive decisions?
2 years, mailbox.org has worked well for me, and has active-sync support.
The actual question is whether that model is the same as the wordpress model.

I dont know if you read my comment to which you replied, but my point is that if you look closely they are completely different games. If the VCs thought they were getting into Wordpress2.0, they will find that they were terribly wrong. It's a completely different market with completely different market dynamics.
I store the notes in Dropbox and use iA on my mobile. Works well enough.
Keep in mind that there are all sorts of odd circumstances and that the rules surrounding this stuff are necessarily inflexible, so there are lots of different arrangements.

That said, in the US, the janitor is probably a contractor. Typically ex-military, they have to pass a background check and are cleared to work in public spaces. When cleaning secure areas, they're escorted and watched.
I've worked on many cost cutting projects in the past, in consulting and private equity where cost-cutting was the norm. These statements very easy to say in retrospect.

Many studies show that private equity owned companies, which typically run businesses the leanest, actually perform better.
Thank you for a delightfully clear explanation.
>If the wrong person did it I could see this leading to people getting hurt (falling off the catwalk) or damage to cars (improper fastening)

I really don't like seeing this sort of whatifism whenever a story about somebody doing something that is not their day job comes up. It's amazing it's still considered safe to file your own taxes. The dude had the skills and he did the job and did it well. Hand wringing over what-ifs adds nothing to the discussion.
Security Lessons from Hacker-Themed Board Games
While I agree the risks are higher than Soyuz, there has to be an acceptable risk threshold, in order to build the safety record of a new platform.

Both the Saturn 5 and Space Shuttle had far fewer unmanned launches than Dragon, before the first manned flight. The Soyuz booster started as an ICBM, and thus has a harder to compare track record. Here's a graphic for the booster family historically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_R-7_launches
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I prefer https://www.paulaner.com/our-products/salvator/

Hicks!

edit: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/387/
Had this happen as well. My ex, who had quite a sense of style, dressed me like Yahoo Serious or something for a FB interview. Felt like a complete fraud, but they were clearly entranced by it. (Not enough to offer me a livable wage in the BA, though.)
Amen Brother! I had the same revelation, that things have simply changed and I'm not willing to change with it. It ain't worth it. I made my move at the beginning of the year to a new career and while there are moments where I miss the cerebral joys of software, good riddance to the rest of it. Wishing you a bright future in whatever direction you go.
the worse the economy is the more Fed will intervene and the higher the market will?be. same thing happened back in previous QEs.
Neither of those issues surprise me, from what I've seen of the project.

I'm not familiar with the project historically, as I've only been using it for about 2 months, but it seems to me like there's been an increase in activity since the start of the year - like the package modularization, new UI components, and new docs (which are still pretty bad to be honest). I totally agree it's sub-par to Firebase, and if you stray anywhere off the beaten path you're completely on your own (i.e. not using React, seemingly (!!)), but I do think it has the potential to become a viable alternative.

My primary issue with the platform is the choice of a NoSQL database, which, in my view, just doesn't match the majority of application requirements - if you want to do any sort of text search, you have to spin up a whole sodding Elasticsearch domain, which are expensive as hell for a new product and take literally 20-30 minutes every time they're updated with an `amplify push` command. I also waited over a week for one to be deleted not too long ago. That's why my plan is to replace the API with a Lambda function running Postgraphile with some JWK logic to use Cognito for authN, while keeping the idM and file storage stuff.
Audubon Statement on Incident in Central Park’s Ramble