skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dawkins has always stressed the divide between the way things are and the way they should be from a moral or ethical standpoint. Describing reality for what it is doesn't imply endorsing it: murder is a natural human act, cancer is a natural occurrence in our bodies, etc

This seems to be exceptionally hard to grasp for a lot of people.

Here is a little theory/ observation (sorry for the very broad strokes, just an idea): right-wing ideologies tend to justify ethical positions with contingent realities (for example "natural family" vs "marriage against nature"). Left-wing ideologies tend to deny reality when it goes against some perceived value (for example, the natural tendency to work for personal gain, when collective ownership for the common good is the value to be promoted).
When they were doing comm checks I noticed that they were being pressed right before the astronauts would talk.
Sure. And if Trump only meant that people will campaign against him he sure has a roundabout way of saying it.
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> Playing devil's advocate: an enormous amount of food waste is caused by people simply refusing to buy ugly food

It's said to be 31% of the retail and consumer food in the US[1]. While that is enormous, I don't think it necessarily should be considered unacceptable. The food supply chain is a system we want to have a lot of slack in.

So what level of food utilization would we have to have for someone to deliberately buy a very bruised apple at full price? I don't know, but I'm guessing it's too high to prevent a food security issue in a crisis.

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/food-loss-and-waste
It would be so cool if this turned into a movement. Kind of like open source public works.
> Our political structure makes it seem like they do, but that's a bug in our political structure, not an actual necessity.

Again, "no decision" is a decision, especially in the presence of alternatives.

> If "experts" is defined as "people who have a demonstrated track record of making accurate predictions in the past", then yes, I agree.

How good must their track record be before they warrant more weight? 100%? 75%? 5% better than an average person's? I think each level warrants different levels of deference. If a perfect oracle speaks, you do what they say. If someone who spent a long time studying a very complex problem has an opinion, you listen carefully, and ask follow-up questions, but you don't pretend that the Google University™ twenty minute crash course on the topic is as informative.

I recognize it's not simple (and it's fraught). But saying "there are no experts" when people dedicate their lives to studying a lot of these phenomena is only true if you demand 100% accuracy.
And yet you will find countless examples of republicans/conservatives explaining how people can "live on unemployment", stories about "welfare queens", and accounts of people leading the high life on their (presumably unearned) social security.

None of these stories are true in any meaningful sense of that word, but this culture does contribute to the idea that maybe it's no so important to save. Or maybe it doesn't. Either way, Americans don't save enough, neither via personal savings nor via taxation-driven social security systems.
How often are people bootstrapping a social media site? That's not something you rollout with a tight budget. Most websites do not allow user-generated content. This won't have nearly as big of an effect on the sector as you think.

Whether they are paying people or writing automated systems to remove content they disagree with, these companies argued for this legal protection on the grounds of protecting free-speech, and now that they want to restrict it they don't deserve those same protections.
There are companies that come close to that point (Google comes to mind), but Twitter certainly isn't at that level.
Well, has Trump learned his lesson?
There's no mechanism to make it happen.

It would have to happen through the courts, and the courts won't allow it.

They can bully Twitter and threaten to e.g. withhold federal contracts (though even this runs into legal trouble) but how does the executive branch just "shut down" a platform?

You can't just send in the FBI and put a halt on things.

This will just be more of his mindless rage that a certain portion of the population gobbles up. His real goal is to discredit Twitter et al, which is unlikely to have much impact.
(I think we need a semantic refactoring tool for threads like this one to extract the minimal graph of argument-and-counter-argument; DRY for discussions.)
Attitudes towards tattoos have changed a lot, perhaps especially in tech. Go back a while and visible tattoos (and, indeed, probably tattoos at all) were a pretty clear indicator that you weren't a "white collar" worker or destined to be one at least in the US.
There is about 70 years of established case law on this. For a primer, read Technologies of Freedom. (https://www.amazon.com/Technologies-Freedom-Belknap-Press-It...)

All that said, the concept of where and how to apply common carrier is of course controversial, hence the entire net neutrality debate. If an ISP isn't required to carry content the idea of an information service (ie Twitter) being required to is borderline absurd.
This is not a charity
There was no WW3, however, it certainly was not peaceful. See Vietnam and the various coups in South America for example.
Mostly of the "software/tech as an unrespected cost center" kind. Ties in with my other bit about "must wear business casual". Now I know not all companies using .NET are like that of course, but a huge majority do seem to be. Disclaimer: I started my career, and spent most of it, as a .NET dev.

Does anyone really use .NET Core in production? Maybe in certain locales and industries only? I've been on the job hunt for a while, talked to and interviewed at numerous companies, and I've yet to encounter a single company advertising that they use .NET Core.
It looks like the launch will be scrubbed due to the weather, lightning risk during propellant loading is too high.

edit: yep, launch scrubbed. Too bad! But better safe than sorry, especially today with a crewed vehicle. Does anybody know if the crew dragon comes with different weather restrictions for LOX loading?
This is the first semi-serious code I've open sourced.

I'm mostly a sysadmin, and not a particularly good programmer, so if you see anything done badly, please let me know. I know that I did a bad job with error handling, I couldn't quite grok how to do it properly.

edit: changed word.
GE is practically a bankrupt company. They are planning to survive by selling assets and using the practically guaranteed bonds provided by the Fed. Nobody knows how long this will work out for them.
You’re conflating removing illegal content with removing legal content that someone doesn’t like.
Typically it's the military that holds the real power once a coup starts.
> Those space suits look so cool, don't they?

That was the aim:

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-crew-dragon-spaces...

The Dragon's interior was also built with that in mind, its less NASA and more Hollywood, throw Ripley and Earth Plushy into the mix and this how you do get regular people into Space [1].

1: http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-030219d-lg.jpg
> All of this while marginal revenue per customer declines as your scale goes up.

I don't know about that. Just a few bad actors going after a small site can be an utterly ridiculous percentage when compared to the abuse a site like youtube gets.

> If you have one person [...] If you have 10000

All of that sounds sub-linear to me. If 10000 support staff require 1000 direct managers and 200 people working on policies and training and 100 people working on development and 100 upper managers, that's still O(n).

> All of this while marginal revenue per customer declines as your scale goes up.

If some of your customers are higher revenue, and some are lower revenue, I'm not sure if that's really a scaling problem. But even with that consideration, it's not an excuse for being unable to give proper support to paying google customers, or youtube accounts with 100k subscribers.
Every C# project (and programmer) I've ever worked with has been obsessed with "Enterprise" code laden with boilerplate, excessive use of design patterns, and hundreds of tiny 3 line classes that force you to jump around in the editor.

Generally these projects are not fun to work on and having colleagues that spend significant chunks of time "refactoring" or talking about refactoring is not fun.

Even saying this is going to open a bunch of sealioning from these types ( https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/873260-sea-lioning) but that's just my experience.

C# has pretty good support for lambdas and implicitly typed variables these days, so a lot of the enterprise stuff is overkill. Implementations in C# could look more like Python while being more type safe but they tend not to.
> Participants’ responses regarding their sexual orientation are consistent with previous years.

This is ridiculous. The left is going too far with identity politics.

> For example, developers who are men are more likely to want specific new features, while developers who are women are more likely to want to change norms for communication on our site.

I wouldn't be surprised if this caused some outcry from a certain group of individuals since they will claim it "re-enforces gender stereotypes"
A new controvery for Trump so people ignore his previous Controversy of the Week. More airtime for Trump, it's a repeat of 2016. Unfortunately.
which part of that is delusion?
Sad to see that the only way to use it for work related note taking is a subscription. I know a lot of people will just ignore the license and happily use the personal or catalyst version, but I wish there was something in between the $0 one time fee and perpetual rent payment.
I’ll pass.

https://obsidian.md/pricing
On Leadership Debt
It appears like you are conflating the removal of illegal content with the censorship of legal content. Two very different concepts.
There's ample for why it's illegal to discriminate against classes of people. Imagine business in the 20s with signs saying "Irish need not apply" or "No dogs or Jews". The recent case with the baker was extending the protection of human rights to gay couples.

Any "conservative" content that has been kicked off of platforms like YouTube has been specifically targeted not for political reasons but because they were spreading hate speech and/or dangerous disinformation. Things like racism, sexism, religious intolerance, specific accusations (ie Joe Scarborough is a murderer) or dangerous disinformation (ie 5G causes Coronavirus) are not intrinsic to any group of people. There's still plenty of content around mainstream conservatism that can be viewed freely.

I think any attempt to argue a slippery slope isn't valid. People aren't computers and just because you can't apply a mathematically rigorous distinction between these kinds of speech doesn't mean that a reasonable person can't easily distinguish them.
Apple News is kind of a meh walled garden of itself.
"Modern capitalism" might be better called "managerial capitalism". It is different from entrepreneurial capitalism, which preceded it.

Entrepreneurial capitalism was a constellation of small private enterprises, often family-owned. Managerial capitalism is characterized by the dominance of firms publicly traded on capital markets, and managed by professional managers who are often distinct from the shareholders.

Entrepreneurial capitalism, I believe, better aligns incentives by combining the shareholder and manager role. It also reduces dependence on capital markets, which can become a single point of failure during a financial panic. Lastly entrepreneurial capitalism makes coordination between competitors less likely, whereas such coordination is embraced by the mergers and acquisitions arms of banks in a mangerial capitalist system quite openly.

The only advantage of managerial capitalism is scale. Pooling capital in public markets permits massive economies of scale and their efficiencies.
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

–Stephen Colbert, at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
If Trump started learning the local dialect (English), that doesn’t suddenly make him legitimately represent all English speakers.

And actually the last of the British governors tried to increase democracy. While the PRC blocked it because it was in their interest to do so, the HK people didn’t exactly fight for it or make it easy.

I can stand behind a Democracy movement, but find it harder to palate a political power grab.
FCM is part of the core API now. They don't want other shitty solutions constantly waking the device up and eating your battery. That is why only FCM i.e. a trusted source is white listed. It's easy to peddle half truths hear just give it an anti Google color and carry your pitch forks.
I had one at work. Thankfully it wasn't my main dev machine or main laptop. Whenever I used it my typing precision took a huge hit. The lack of key travel really messed me up in terms of "did I actually activate that key?" I was perpetually missing A's in my typing.

Maybe other people were able to get used to it, but I couldn't.
The key detail you missed is One Country Two Systems, which is what allowed Hong Kong to have a financial system integrated with the Western world's, and a legal system that works more or less the same as in London and New York.
Ruby: Tool for the Automation Job
If you think that the US is doing this for the protesters, I have a defense contract to sell you. This is in retaliation for China breaking international agreements.
Why do you feel as if it does more harm than good? (Genuinely curious.)

It's a measurement that I am certainly curious about.

I do not belong to that most popular demographic, and have a passive interest in that demographic distribution becoming more proportional to its global distribution.
I’m more into the tracking / local sky view!
You said "LED flicker usually has nothing to do with AC power." But most LED lighting flicker is the result of using a capacitive dropper power supply. These are cheap and efficient, but produce a lot of ripple at double the line frequency (with full-wave rectification). Filtering the output enough to make flicker imperceptible would cost more, and not everybody notices the flicker so it's easy to get away with cutting corners. See:

http://www.bigclive.com/ledlmp.htm

Better and more expensive LED drivers use a switch mode power supply, which does not produce visible flicker.
I gave it a try, not much success for my taste.
Because that would be the territory of authoritarian kings, the ideological reason the US was founded. Trump sees himself king, not president.
> they still want to invest in our companies.

Who wouldn't when they can't fail?

> All of this stuff ends up benefiting the US job seeker, and the American family

Since the last downturn, roughly half of the jobs created have been approximately gig-economy. An expansion of the precariat isn't helping me, it's not helping my parents, and it's not helping a lot of other Americans. It's actively immiserating people. But, hey, the number went up, so we must be resilient.

> because it means that there are jobs

Unless you're part of the 12% and growing portion of the country that are out of work today, and the 42% of jobs that won't return after.

> stability

Unless you're part of the gig economy workforce or you live in a right-to-work state. So, you know, everyone.

> and the ability to pass monetary policy that protects them in times of crisis.

Nothing protects me like a small business loan that I wouldn't ever qualify for and virtual money printers running full speed.

This is such a deeply ideological take, so i guess it seems in-line with linking to foreignpolicy, but the gist of it is: the American economy is resilient because it has been resilient in the past and we can make this claim by removing the current historical context of the moment.
I believe outlook & yahoo mail also have real aliases.
(looks like they scrubbed today's launch...)

I was never really excited about space shuttle launches when I was kid. After the challenger disaster (i was in middle school at the time and remember my science teacher in tears), I just didn't care about space at all.

But something happened watching those two falcon boosters land... i don't know, i got real emotional. Yes, I'm excited.
Yeah I just got screwed and got zero bonus this past year. Apparently the recruiter told me this. She basically did a play on words.

Where are you at though? This is 130k in nyc which is super expensive.
launch aborted :(
> Add a separate GUI for a workflow-y like list-editing (that saves as a markdown list format) and you've got a serious competitor to Roam as well as beating out more traditional competitors like Notion, Boostnote, etc.

FYI, they're the ones behind Dynalist.
I use incandescents at my home because the alternatives are very RF-noisy. GE's incandescents are (were?) among the worst for life. Thankfully there are American companies making quality incandescents right here at home now.
Of all the crazy shit Presidents say on the path to literally murdering hundreds of thousands of people in other countries, it amazes me that the thing that upsets people is Trump bloviating about doing something to a big evil capitalist mega-corp which he is clearly not going to do.
when you mentioned a tweet i had a feeling it would be by dr sarah taber, and she was indeed quoted in the vox post. i highly recommend following her on twitter; i have learnt a startling amount about food production and the realities of farming in america.
Because they instead decided to invest their tech money into autonomous floor cleaning robots, if the Giant stores near Harrisburg are any indication.
Of those listed, yes, but SCOTUS has ruled that speech whose expression causes harm is not protected by the first amendment - i.e. your photos of children performing sexual acts are not protected by the first amendment.

The first amendment is not a blank check to express anything you want in the U.S.
Oh the automatic substitution non organic to organic is not much of an issue. But I have had food items like oatmeal auto replace with ice or a sponge. I don't know what is worse honestly the fact ai is so bad or that a real person will buy the insane replacement.
launch abort ... pffffffffff
Agreed. There's also a clear incentive for companies offering the bounties to downplay valid bounties.
In your use case is a feature store roughly a collection of incrementally updated feature tables + time/version meta?

We've been storing our features in RDBMS/normalized with each feature table having a run_id column (run_id is unique to pipeline version + timestamp of execution if batch processed; if streaming there is run_id for pipeline version but the date comes from interaction date, which is part of the raw data already]) and I'm curious what we're potentially missing..

In this sense you can query features for given users generated by particular version and/or date but it does involve potentially lots of joins (to get a collection of features).
I'm more concerned about quality in terms of minimal errors, good references and correct content. Not worried about popularity at this moment. The problem I have is I write something and I keep iterating over and over and try to find ways to improve it.
The over-optimization is a part of it. But millions of people livelihood being dependent on, as someone posted above, "the same $300 moving from one person to another over and over again" is also a big contributor.

We also have so little in the way of economic self-reliance anymore, at almost any scale. Certainly not individual or familial (which might not be a good goal anyway), but also not at neighborhood, community, city, state and to some extent even national scales.
Yes, the House impeached him, but the Senate did not convict and remove him.
Can someone ELI5 why they sometimes need to have an “instantaneous launch window” that can’t be pushed even by a few minutes?
> Sounds like a beaurocratic nightmare

Okay, give me the keys and Ill do it.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322948.
Not everyone spends 60+ minutes in a car? My commute is a 20-30 minute bus ride, which is just long enough to mentally separate "home" and "work." Plus since someone else is driving I can do basically anything I want to pass the time, other than reading a book since that gives me motion sickness.

I still have the same meetings I had before, just now I get to stare at a tiny 13-inch screen and squint instead of having it projected onto a wall at a reasonable size.

In general I would like offices to move to "remote if you want so long as you're meeting your work KPIs", but I would hate fully remote work.
But isn't that what all the tweets under the tweet from president probably do? They correct him? What would be the difference?

The difference would be one is a company, the other a real person. No need for the company to get involved.

People who ignore the correctios and other tweets will ignore the company anyway.
Tell HN: SpaceX Launch Scrubbed for Weather. Delayed for 3 days
Not as bad as some others I have tried. Disney Plus gets on my last nerve at times. Just try to rewind like you would in other apps with a bluetooth remote.
> You're arguing for unbounded trolls, spam, and the complete destruction of all online communities.

Nonsense. The Internet in general, and YouTube in particular did quite well for themselves for most of their existence, without any significant moderation.

You would have to pretty new to the internet to think that it would all collapse without heavy handed censorship.

I remember very clearly that up until about 2015 there was almost no moderation outside of spam, copyright infringement, or blatantly illegal stuff.

It would probably benefit these online communities to stop moderating and censoring stuff so much.

YouTube clearly is trying to gentrify their platform, and turn it into a sanitized short-form Netflix.

They pay media companies like MSNBC and Fox News to post clips of their shows, and heavily promote them.

They've driven many of the best content creators off of their platform. I used to really enjoy YouTube, but my favorite channels are constantly having to worry about their videos being deleted. They've been removing their old videos for fear of getting too many strikes, and moving to other, less good platforms.

> I don't understand what worldview leads to the conclusion that any moderation of a private platform by a private entity is equivalent to government censorship.

Well, when a platform becomes ubiquitous and powerful enough that only government can restrain it, then the question of people's general welfare comes up.

America has had these discussions before. We used to let oil companies, coal companies, rail roads, and phone companies become aggressive and destructive monopolies.

I think that at this point, calling YouTube "private" is not really correct. Not just do they heavily benefit from many government protections, but they are so big that they are not bound to market forces, and are essentially unaccountable to the public.

Corporations have no right to exist. And corporations that do not follow the rules certainly should not enjoy Section 230 protections. I don't think it is too much to ask that we be allowed to sue them if they don't follow the law.
As I understand the timing, they scrubbed around T-15:00, and the first stage propellant loading started at T-35:00.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/
> For starters, their highest selling plane, the 737 series, is a six decade old obsolete fly-by-mechanical-cable design that sits too low to the ground to fit large modern high efficiency jet engines.

This is an absurd statement. Boeing is still using the same design not because they're behind technologically, but because their customers do not want the newer 737s to be different enough to warrant new type-rating for their 737 pilots.