skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, thanks for the reply.

Just curious, what would be the 'MVE' (minimum viable evidence) such that you would choose to believe?

For example, if instead of flying and zapping to another planet, what if they just fly (without some mechanical invention)?

> Oh, and it should be done in such a way that I can know 100% that it wasn't because of some weird mushroom/drug trip.

How you can you know 100%? That doesn't make any sense. Are you just referring to believing something with faith such that it feels certain?

> God is all powerful

Yes, but he can't make illogic logical. Therefore, I don't see how he could make you 'know 100%' something. He could convince you with evidences, sure.
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so far it seems home prices are still high though. however, the data is kind of unnatural because many are not buying homes right now while many are not listing homes. I'm very interested to see how home prices in markets like seattle, nyc, and sf play out over the next year or so.
Which parts are the media narrative?

The “imperial presidency” is part of an ongoing trend of increasing executive power for decades. High unemployment from Covid is objectively true. Ineffectiveness combating Covid at a Federal level is hard to debate...
I have never heard of anyone doing this.
>has accomplished squat

Accomplished squat? They're building rockets and engines, mostly out of the public eye, with private money. How is that nothing? Because it isn't the exact path SpaceX is taking?

BO wants to land on the moon by 2024. Let's see what happens.
I suspect a lot of people are going to be leaving major cities in the next few months, especially in the US.
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Thanks. I get criticism like "Why even make this? just use React." But it's so different. Yet I didn't want to throw everything away. People forget React came up when there were tons of libraries with similar reactive approaches and won our hearts and minds. It does a lot of things purposefully and it does those things well. We need to learn from the past it we are doomed to repeat it.
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They're also a library, and copyright law has broad exemptions for libraries that enable them to scan books for preservation purposes. So it's not clear that the "tangible medium" issue matters here.
The trouble is these tools all do different things and aren't really comparable. I wouldn't even include Docker in this kind of thing as it doesn't really do anything on its own.

For me, there are two main choices today:

* An ensemble of single-purpose tools: pip, venv, pip-tools, setuptools, twine, tox,

* An all-in-one tool, for example Poetry, Pipenv or Anaconda (or Miniconda).

I prefer the former approach, but if I had to choose an all-in-one tool it would be poetry.
If you have something to say then just say it, these passive aggressive quips don't really provide anything of value to the discussion.
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Lots of employers are remote until the end of the year. There is no good reason to renew or get into a new lease right now. It won't be clear whether rent drop is a real change until things are back to more normal.
i could get on board with this. Its shortsighted when companies are bailed out for being "too big too fail" so then we don't get a bunch of small companies filling the vacuum.
To use your example, I think it is important to know that antivaxxers exist and what their arguments are. This way you dont get surprised when certain events happen that were inconceivable based on your bubble. Fundamentally, the purpose of (non-editorial) news should not be to convince you. It should be to shine a light on things as they are and the converstations ppl in the real world are having.
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Do you mean people borrowing books? I'm not expert but I guess it's not equal. Libraries still have to purchase the books (or a license for digital) and only one person can hold one book (license) at a time. For example, I have to wait for an ebook to be returned before I can check it out to my kindle, it's not unlimited access.
of which TALLY appears to go back to the XIII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally-ho#Etymology
I think this press release is missing an important details. While previously IA only allowed the same number of books that they owned to be lent out as part of their response to covid they've dropped that restriction. As much as I like IA if copyright is to continue to exist that can't be legal.

http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...
I said the article lost me at the first sentence. It doesn't mean I stopped reading there. I still gave it a chance and read the next few paragraphs before finally giving up on it.

I don't mind colloquialisms where they add to the depth of the content.

The article in question, however, is written in a circumlocutory style that suggests more effort was put into the style than the substance.

I admit that it's possible that the signal to noise ratio in the article is better than I assumed, but I don't have to subject myself to tedious writing when there is so much good stuff I could be reading instead.
As a self publisher who’s used Kickstarter for 4 books now, let me say: the creative side of writing the books, doing the layout, getting it print ready, coordinating with artists etc is a beast.

Then when you add on the publisher side of distribution, fulfillment, lost orders, customer service, marketing etc you have a whole other beast.

It’s manageable in the right circumstances, and pieces can be sort of automated or out sourced, but (at least for me) the other grinds begin to absolutely kill my ability to do the creative work. And meanwhile fans are like “omg when’s the next book coming out?!?!?”

That’s said, I think the publishing “industry” needs to be ripped down and overhauled, but the work a publisher needs to do is very valuable and different than the creative needs.
It's an interest-free loan, marketing, distribution, proofreading, cover artists, typesetters, trademark dispute management, copyright dispute management, residual royalties.

So, yeah, it is similar to VC, and just like VC, they expect to profit off the transaction.
> All the major social media sites face the problem of malicious bots, and to my knowledge, all are secretive about how they combat them.

Leading, inevitably, to all the major social media sites regularly banning humans and refusing to say why.
I wrote a comment about a recent article that talks about doing the cybercrimes as non glamorous[0]. Here was my response:

(I bring it up because too many people see hacking as glamorous when it often is not, except for the payoff at the end)

Like anything, it's usually the payoff that is exciting and glamorous. I know the old hacker mantra: 'boredom and drudgery are evil' hence why we automate everything, but I don't think the mantra holds true for most hackers. The best hackers know that programming essentially works against you when you do it, because there's no instant gratification. You have to constantly bang your head against the wall (even because of simple syntax mistakes that make you feel like a n00b all over again).

The payoff is always fantastic though. Whitehat or blackhat, knowing that all that hard work and grunt pays off is a wonderful feeling. I tend to veer towards whitehat stuff though because of the old saying: 'If you can't do the time, don't do the crime'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23355084
Perhaps supply is increasing because owners are converting short term AirBnB's into long term rentals?
We seem to be talking past each other as at this point I suspect we're in agreement. My initial claim was that punching, kicking, and stabbing were ineffective at breaking up dog fights and make them worse. I back-pedaled slightly to say that stabbing (lethal actions) is effective if it's a scenario where non-lethal tools prove ineffective.

My biggest issue from the start was the socialization of "three bystanders took part simultaneously in kicking and punching the pit bull to get it to release," which failed, predictably, and I didn't want anyone to think that that was a good thing to try in the first place.
Not to be pedantic, but more than "6" figures = >6 figures = 7 figures or more.

If you make $100,000 through $999,999, then you make six figures.

More than six figures implies $1,000,000 or more.
New Shepherd crosses the Karman line. It travels into space. I don’t know why you are insinuating otherwise. Obviously, it is quite far from orbiting but it is a legitimate, albeit brief, trip to space.

That being said, I agree with you that their progress has been pretty damn slow. They do 1-2 test flights per year...

As for demand, doesn’t Virgin Galactic, who will offer something very similar, have a customer list with hundreds of people who have prepaid? Demand might be much higher than you are suggesting.
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That's pretty much what has happened at the state level in the US because of term limits: the lack of experience produces a gap that is filled by lobbyists, who wind up writing the laws, because the rookie legislators lack the experience to draft complex legislation. The lobbyists are often former lawmakers who have sold their services to some wealthy industry or company.
>I wonder how they feel about actual libraries, which make published works available for free to many people as well.

If we're talking about "digital" lending instead of physical books, the traditional libraries "play nice" with publishers by buying DRM ebooks and lending out a limited number of copies. This is what they mean by traditional public libraries being "participants in lawful copyright marketplace".

IA scanned books and unlimited lending circumvented all that.

In other words, publishers are ok with limited free lending on their own terms so that it doesn't drastically affect their book sales but they never agreed to IA's unlimited lending which is why they akin it to "piracy".

Not trying to play sides here but if you want to try to understand the nuance of the publishers' position, I'm trying to explain it in a neutral way.
I think real estate will follow later. I've seen price cuts of $100-200K on the units that actually sell. Real estate is sticky - many people hold the line on price hoping that a buyer will come along later - and the economic crisis is just beginning to hit the sector of society that's a potential home-buyer in the Bay Area. There's also a fair bit of pent-up demand that sees this as a bargain-hunting opportunity and will still rush in - price won't drop significantly until those buyers have all bought or changed their minds.

Real estate here bottomed in 2010 after the 08-09 recession. It took about 2 years to make its way from profits to stock prices to layoffs to home prices.
Making unauthorized copies of copyrighted material is infringement. That is why you weren't allowed to photocopy entire books before electronic distribution was viable. IA isn't on solid ground here.
It says that's disabled for shared playbooks. I guess you can step through it, haven't tried.
I am not saying I agree with their criticism of IA, but libraries are quite different.

Libraries pay for each copy of a book they have, and checkouts are limited to the number they own at a time. The IA doesn't pay at all, and there is no limit to how many people can access the content.
We already have that, though.

Elected politicians spend most of their time raising money and the remainder stoking culture war bullshit. The system mostly runs itself.
Elsewhere in this thread you've claimed that demand for news is universal. With such high demand why do you fear a NO news situation? If all classical news outlets die surely something will rise up to fill this void? Sure, it may not look anything like what we currently have, but that's kind of the point.
As a one time purchase?

As a yearly subscription?

As a monthly subscription?

Personally I can't think of anything consumable or any service that I need in that range.
> when anyone can publish content, you have to work harder to stand out from the crowd.

Anyone can publish to YouTube and you can see the likes, comments, and subscribes. Seems pretty easy to stand out.
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This is how I think it should work.

Electors are picked randomly for every election. Lets say 50 for every house seat. They are sequestered like a jury for several days. They listen to every candidate, they (may) deliberate in private, they vote, until they have choice. Then they are dismissed. The chosen candidate holds the seat for three years and votes to choose a head of government.

The advantage is that there are no campaigns, less money involved, less 30 second ads, electors are given the time to focus on every candidate.
Can confirm, I have many anecdotes of folks who moved and regretted it, and people who found new local jobs who were grateful. It was gut-wrenching for almost everyone.

Our department was an exception. We got to stay in NJ (they laid us all off two years later.)
What's up with K-9 Mail?
Since when making points with dirty data is actually relevant ?

We don't even know if the data is representative of anything, there have been millions of layoff, and this db contains 60k of them, and this guy even decided to consider 30 % of it
Once a face is captured that image data can be retained forever while the image recognition continually improves and then repeatedly reprocessed for matches. Best not to show your face at all if you don't want to be held accountable.
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> Coincidently I have been seeing a lot of fully furnished units coming on the market which I assume were former Airbnbs.

I've been noticing this as well (I can still find some of them on Airbnb actually).

I'm currently in the market for a house, but wondering if waiting a year might be a wise move..
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>I won't buy a phone without either

You used to be able to say the same for phones without holes in their screen or TV sets without internet connectivity.
> Coincidently I have been seeing a lot of fully furnished units coming on the market which I assume were former Airbnbs.

Wow. Does anyone have an estimate of the cost of living increase caused by Airbnb rentals?
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As a self published author I have to say that the publishing industry is providing a huge service to me and the rest of the industry here.

The IA blatantly stole the work of thousands of people. They saw a problem and wanted to act - laudable. They could have done that be arranging to buy unique copies of each book they lent out. Or they could have tried to come to some agreement with the publishers. Or a bunch of other alternatives.

They didnt.

They stole the work and thankfully there is some players with enough clout in the market to do something about it.

If the big publishers ever do go away it will be a bad time for those like me who are never going to make enough revenue from our works to warrant a court proceeding while our works are stolen.
I disagree. The good or great performance of the workers is rarely as well rewarded as the good ”performance” of a stockholder.

If I were to demand much better pay as a worker, I’d get treated as a squeaky wheel – making a big fuss and even greedy. Stagnated wages and record income inequality say a lot about which class is being rewarded for performing.
A lot of people are scared of sortition because they are worried that the average person is not up to it - but I think there are ways round that. The best property of sortition is that it prevents clique influence on the selection of representatives. This can be preserved in systems which combine sortition with other mechanisms, for example:

- arrange for the electorate to be formed into groups of 100..200 however they wish.

- each group elects a candidate

- representatives are selected from the candidates by sortition.

This has two beneficial features over pure sortition:

- The electorate has the opportunity to weed out unsuitables

- Learning is still possible (if some rep is manifestly unsuitable, the lectorate can resolve to select no-one like that in the future)

(Allowing groups in the range 100..200 makes it simpler to form the groups, because once a list reaches the upper bound it can split into two, allowing everyone to just join the group they like rather than the last % having to scramble for a place).
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My question to Apple (and others) would be:

Why is in 2020 a "Pro" laptop coming with only 8 GB of RAM?
The cynical part of me is thinking this will blow over in a week or two, until the next time.
Thank you as always. Early days spent so much time justifying things, everything became these expositions. Time to tighten up.
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