skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an aside, I've never understood that joke about Clinton. Was it a reference to something in particular?

It's a reference to his defense of saying he wasn't lying with the phrase "there's nothing going on between us" when questioned about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

He explained that this was true because they were no longer seeing each other at the time of questioning, but the way he said it was striking. "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement"

I think it's easy to see why people would latch on to that and make jokes about it.
Or just go here: https://old.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality
First that's her. Then I am going to entirely ignore yoir pointless jab at developers. The discussion was strictly about Baker 150% raise.

The 2017 deal was a 8% increase in revenue. That's a significant slow down of the increase trajectory of these deals. Meanwhile every other metrics were going down, most notably market share.

2017 also saw the rebranding and the Pocket deal go through. I still don't think it was worth a 150% increase.
or get homeless guy/junkie to buy 10 sim cards/prepaid phones for 20$
ellen can fuck off. some parts of the internet are just meant to be fun and don’t need to be moderated beyond what is illegal content.
>You've now left the realm of science and entered the realm of politics.

All badness is the realm of morality and politics, not science. Science can predict how many people will die, it can't weigh this up against other consequences. Science can't make moral judgements, only inform them.

>"Lockdown badness" is something that is the result of poor government policy and actually has solutions--it is not immutable scientific fact.

A big part of the lockdown badness is the economic damage. This is an immutable economic fact: stopping most people working will mean fewer things are produced, and more of the existing things and infrastructure will be consumed. This translates into worse standard of living and quality of life for people. Weighing this against the health damage from the virus is a matter of politics/ethics, not of science.

What we can see clearly is countries with no widespread forced closure of businesses, like Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Sweden, are having much better economic outcomes compared to countries with strong lockdowns like the US, France and Italy (expected yearly GDP growth of ~0%, vs ~-5% for the lockdown countries).
No, but that's still pretty cool to hear (even though everything else to conduct the experiment was probably a bit pricier if not just as pricey)
In my experience, "masked young white kids who instigate destruction" have been a constant presence at protests for quite a while now, and the same debate about their motivations occurs every single time.

I don't doubt that in some cases, provocateurs and false flag actors exist, but there's definitely a not insubstantial amount of anarchist-leaning folks who are acting genuinely.

The important thing to consider, in my mind, is whether your attention should be focused on a relatively small amount of property damage and looting, or the many, many examples of physical violence against people committed by police. Property damage is almost always a distraction, and is often intentionally used as one.
Find out which games your friends play. Copy that.
Of course they travel, or at least they have a wave function in momentum space which makes it possible to calculate the probability that we will find it at a certain point further away at a later time.

And we have very good ideas. Quantum Mechanics is not something mysteriously handwaving mumbo jumbo. It is used every day to make very precise predictions.
Nice work on censoring the original title HN mods ಠ_ಠ

You asshats completely altered the sentiment of the post. Original title had to do with Zoom CEO saying they are not encrypting calls on free plans so they can more easily work with the FBI.

Does the mod who made that change happen to own stock in Zoom?
Birmingham man tasered by police says he was targeted because he is black
Practice new languages by browsing the web and translating words
The grandson comes across as a nice sensible countryman, no airs or graces despite the extraordinary lineage and the wealth he seems to have, judging by his house.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

-Frank Wilhoit
Observability: Big Fa(C)t Storage Costs
GIT (and github) is a terrible tool for general purpose collaboration of non-technical people.

Something like shared google doc would fit better.

Perhaps google docs, or other collaborative tools are actually able to scale to 30+ users? What is the largest google doc collaboration that you have seen work out?
I don't find that systemic, institutional racism very much hidden.
God himself did not invent the internet, the web, or social media websites. There are actual design decisions that went into their design (eg: https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/). Humans, like you and me, made them, and continue to make them.

Many of those decisions were unfortunate in that they do not hold people accountable when they should be (eg: sociopaths, criminals, psyops, etc) and yet discourage good actors from interacting online (due to reputational damage, persecution by mobs, occasional murder, privacy concerns, etc).

Humans do not behave like walking garbage all of the time in the offline world. They do on social media, because of naive design decisions that we should probably change, if we want to survive as a species.
smalltalk implemented in c++, Alan Kay isn't even in his grave yet and still must already be spinning :)
If it can be done with pressure alone, it isn't unreasonable to consider that a crystalline structure might be able to keep it in this state with no external forces.
So, to get an idea of what order of magnitude you're dealing with, you'll want to run two experiments, at a cost of, say, $1000.

First experiment is to see how large a customer base there is. You want to see how often people are looking for a product like yours or your competitors. Make an Adwords campaign with the right keywords, bid high enough to always be shown first, and then run this for a while to get an idea of what the search traffic is like.

Second experiment is to see what portion of that customer base you can capture. So, continuing on from the previous experiment, you now want your site to be set up, and then measure what percentage of those searches result in people actually clicking on your site. And then what percentage of those clicks result in them actually putting in their credit card information and paying for the first month. If you can't have people signing up on their own, then give them a form to submit their information instead, and then make some estimate on what percentage of those will fall through.

Then, that gives you an idea of what your baseline growth is. And then anything beyond that, i'm sure you would've already hired someone who could give you way better industry expertise than you would find by asking HN.
Ah, so equivalent to asset-stripping/corporate raiding?
Some of these seem to be as much art as engineering.
Didnt it? I remember "reboot in msdos mode" being a thing.
In terms of an actually relevant reply that's not bemoaning browser certs...

Yes I was a bit harsh. But I was trying to demonstrate a point - no one knows for sure until we can look at this stuff in detail. Until the researchers get to pull it apart then no one can verify anything. The little green tick on a zoom call is practically worthless until some external work is done.

The protocol is documented and open. I linked to it in my comment.
And don't forget:

- do and say everything needed to get karma points.
It's not hard to make an analogy work if you want to simplify the subject. Is a series of tubes a better analogy than trucks on a road network?
A diamond anvil makes both of those on the tips of the diamond (briefly)
>It's all about how you may be affected financially and psychologically and may therefore suffer a lower quality of life and lose 2 or 3 years of life decades hence.

It's not affecting me at all; I work in finance, in a role that's fine with working from home. I actually made a bunch of money from the massive volatility that the lockdown announcements caused. If you're incapable of making decisions that aren't solely based on self-interest, that doesn't mean it's correct to project and assume everybody else thinks the same.
The 1619 project has admirable aspirations, but it's maybe worth noting that some prominent academic historians have criticised it for inaccuracy: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians...

Still very worthwhile if you're unfamiliar with the deep and ongoing legacy of slavery in the United States.
As I recall Ellen Pao had her own set of scandals and she was portrayed quite negatively on the news and social media. Correct me if I am wrong but at that time the main issue with Reddit was the "barely legal" content, that is the subreddits with underage girl photos and videos that were shared with obvious pornographic intent but nothing illegal strictly speaking.

At that time some argued that Pao was a CEO hired for one mission: To take down that questionable content.

I don't know how many people are missing the underage girl photos in Reddit but the demand voices for it died of. Maybe it wasn't a free speech issue after all.

Maybe Reddit's or any large community's issue is the disproportional amplification of marginal voices, making them mainstream. It's not really about the idea that these voices have but about the amount of noise that they create giving the impression that there is a large demand for it and due to the mechanics of the community the fake demand brings up the supply. The sub in question, The_Donald, is not a place of free speech. It is heavily moderated to push a narrative but if you don't pay attention you may have the impression that this is an organic forum and people simply arrived at these hateful ideas after a thorough discussion.

Analytics also would catch on this and the obvious business decision would be to amplify that content that appears to be on-demand.
Nix-the-language is the easiest and most pleasant part of Nix. It's basically JSON with recursion and variables.

Grafting Python on top of the idiosyncrasies of how Nix does things would be a nightmare of impedance mismatch.
When did "for science" loose it's practical meaning and become a meme? At this point, "for science" is next to "hold my beer".
When will they sue google for indexing and linking to free e-books?
Well then God should do something about Reddit.
If Reddit wasn't censored, you could use that, but you'd need moderators to manage duplicates and spam. Backing up Reddit pages / posts / videos should be fairly straightforward. If anything it's a lot more accessible to anyone because you can e.g. post from mobile.
Civil torts are a check on the criminal prosecution system when it becomes too lenient.
I want an app in the Share menu of macOS that enables me to send content to any executable (e.g. shell script). Services menu isn't the same and too many steps to set up.
Besides the practicaltypography website, reading Thinking with Type from Ellen Lupton was in my case a short, easy, and educative introduction to typography.
That's really interesting, and something I've been thinking about lately too. I wonder if it would be any better with Guile Emacs, so that you have the FFI.

Does anyone here run Emacs as their only environment?
This comes just after days after Trump tweeting that "ANTIFA" would be considered a terrorist organisation.

If this kind of attitude picks up, of labelling domestic protest groups as terrorists, together with things like these, there won't be much separating the USA from an oppressive state
So why shouldn't grubhub get the fee for making it easier for restaurants to sell food?
A cell is a regulator, something that selectively responds to internal and external signals. It doesn't require new math, it requires modeling the signals and responses accurately. But it is a huge, parallel, continuous "state machine".

The problem with an empirical approach is that, when in one state it might respond to an intervention differently than when in another state. Especially if the interventions are at the same level as the signals it normally responds to. (Eg not drowning it in a chemical that inhibits a certain reaction, that will likely always yield the same outcome. But a regulatory hormone might not always yield the same outcome.)
Brotli vs. Gzip Compression: Performance Comparison
If I correctly understood the video linked above, the primary cause is actually due to the tidal acceleration (e.g. moon's gravity) of objects on sides 1 and 3 (see diagram below), relative towards the earth's surface, being mostly radially inward [1]. The majority of the ocean water along the sides of Earth is being pulled in very slightly, and in aggregate across the massive surface of the ocean, this results in enough pressure to push up the water at sides 2 and 4. Tides are pushed up due to pressure, not pulled up.

The analogy they used is that tides are more like a pimple being squeezed than taffy being stretched.

[1] See timestamp 4:45 in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwChk4S99i4&feature=youtu.be...

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Diagram:

1
4 E 2 M
3

E = Earth

M = Moon

Numbers = 4 "sides" of the Earth, relative to the Earth-Moon line
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Maybe they should do that, but make sure to exclude the ones that are insured. Because that's not a net loss.

Also be sure to include the ones that police are responsible for like this car that the Riverside Sherrif busted out for no reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_XERvsXvSU
Already deleted Twitter and Reddit accounts. Deleting Facebook as soon as I gather alternate contact information for people. Hiding behind free speech claims while profiting off of and actively promoting hate is unacceptable. There are limits to free speech, and while I don't think it's the government's place to legislate or regulate it, I'm not going to support any of these companies any more.

Arguments about a commons, not talking sides, and freedom ring hollow. I don't condone violence, but the kind of speech these sites allow and promote would get you punched in the face at the very least, if you couldn't hide anonymously behind a screen. People wouldn't speak the same way if they had to face their audience in the real world. All these platforms (and others) hand a megaphone to the worst of humanity. It's unacceptable. I'm done.
Heard about cross compilation while learning Go. Go surely made it mainstream and easy. Maybe thats the reason so many CLI's being build in Go. Before that python was mostly used for CLI but windows does not have python installed by default.
This is a little bit off. The only architecture supported by Java is the JVM. It is a fictional CPU architecture with predefined characteristics, such as a memory model. The implementation of a JVM is a mapping from a real CPU to the J
VM's requirements. So no, JVM doesn't mean 'any architecture', it means 'JVM'. It only applies to OSes where a JVM is available.
Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar
Climate change is driven by more than 50% of natural forests being eliminated and replaced with cities, malls and roads.

Planting trees in desert regions like the middle east can and would stabilize climate change if enough volume could be sustained.
What do you mean by "sometimes", does WhatsApp generate a random number to decide what protocol to use?

Do you have better recommendations which use E2E and are also already used by the masses?
>If Zoom provides end to end encryption to its paying customers, it still has to provide access to law enforcement to the content of those communications.

How do you think this works? If Alice and Bob generate private keys and share only their public keys with each other over the wire how does the provider obtain the content of those communications to share? It never had them.

There is no non broken way to provide a backdoor for government while actually retaining meaningful security in the long run. See the extensive discussion on "key escrow"

Lets discuss a very old encrypted communication mechanism. PGP encrypted email. If I Bob send an encrypted email to Alice how does gmail fulfill its obligations as stated previously to law enforcement? PGP came out in 1991 and CALEA is from 1994. In the 26 years since I don't seem to recall anyone shutting down gmail.
Maybe you missed the fact that government spending has made the government insolvent on all levels - from Federal to Stockton.

Promises (a form of vote buying) have been much greater than taxes collected. Government budgets are almost never balanced (deficit) do that spending has been inflationary because it’s financed by debt.
You can also contribute to the press freedom tracker.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/
I just released TitleRun on ProductHunt. Let me know what you think! (and go easy on me, it's the first game that I developed)

Feel free to share or upvote if you like it! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/titlerun
I meant the joke/comment about Clinton being the first black president. But I saw someone else link this, which seems to be the source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/08/toni-morrison-wasn...
That is exactly what is happening. Wake up and stop being in denial. There’s a repo with videos that show you exactly this.
Thats true and the only annoyance I have with Zoom is that its bad for screen sharing. To much of jitter and its terrible for sharing code screens. Microsoft Teams is much better most likely cause its P2P I guess.
It might be helpful if he smote it.
The Mormons believe they can baptize people after their death (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...).

That’s why they collect lots of genealogical information, world wide (https://www.familysearch.org), so that they can baptize all forefathers of current Mormons.

The baptizing leads to critique, for example when they baptize people of other faiths. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/mormons-holoca...:

“Mormons have recently posthumously baptised at least 20 Holocaust victims, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and the Queen Mother, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church’s massive genealogical database.”
haha yes this title change is hilarious. best move the mods have ever made here imo. hopefully they can pointlessly detach and shift things around now and make it look like we praised zoom.
there was an attempt at initial coordination around the DP-3T and PEPP-PT working groups to get a single shared protocol, but that fell apart, while at the same time many countries decided to go different ways.

Timing was relevant, plus different countries also have different regulations that make specific implementations possible or not.

In the middle of this Google and Apple announced their contract tracing framework so some switched once more.

This can be seen clearly in the documents that the italian governmental task force submitted when evaluating the various apps: proponents suggested home grown protocols, reusing existing apps, or deferred to PEPP-PT or DP-3T.

Even the Immuni app which won the selection was supposed to use PEPP-PT, but then switched to the Google/Apple CTF.
The problem stems from interest groups using reddit as a political battleground. This is overwhelmingly evident on election years. Even one of my favorite subreddits of a popular non political podcaster in recent months has been inundated with political accounts who do nothing but try to discredit and bury viewpoints they don't like. Worldnews, news, politics are so incredibly one-sided it feels orwellian and creeps me out.

That's the sad state of reddit today from a user of 10+ years.
I grew up with Times New Roman as the default font in MS Word. It's not the default any longer but I tend to switch to it precisely because it is the font that symbolizes least resistance. "To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void" is often exactly the statement I want to make with my presentation, similar to how I can romanticize the typewriter and not having a choice with font and layout.
The SpaceX mission and why it worries me
The original title was the title of the article, and the submitter editorialized it egregiously, breaking the site guidelines in the process. "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is an extremely well-established rule on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... There are social news sites where the submission title is a sort of mini art form, allowing submitters to frame the article in the most sensational way. HN has never been like that.
yes it does, she never removes it
And only that part of the story would be of interest to the HN community. That was the reason I used that title.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this story slide off the front page real soon.
Clearly Trump and his accomplices are huge fans and admirers of Chinese methods. And they've only just started.
I'm not Robin Hood, but I appreciate that you are looking for a friendly and non-pejorative way to engage someone with whom you disagree.

Those vast resources that you mention (police and military) are at the very core of the conflict. Their use of force has only exacerbated the problem, because people spread videos of unjustifiable abuses (three cops brutalizing one prostrate individual in LA, a cop hitting protestors with his vehicle in NYC, a brigade of cops shooting law-abiding people on their own porch in Minneapolis, etc) that in turn draw more protestors to the fore.

Your A/B scenario is precisely the problem -- you equate the soothing of public anger with "capitulation" rather than "justice," and you make violence an imperative by arguing that the only strong approach is the brutal one.

Not to mention that you express a view that police brutality can "end the source of the problem." What is the source of the problem, if not police brutality itself? Were Americans violating curfews to demonstrate in the streets of major cities immediately prior to the murder of George Floyd?
The example gun-nuts usually point to is that Afghani farmers (and Vietnamese rice farmers) did a pretty good job of giving US soldiers trouble even though the solders were way better equipped.
World's first liquid cooled 5G base station deployed in Finland
> I have not seen

Anecodtal evidence

> said Howard Graves, a research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center

Appeal to authority

Your "source" does not cite sources or factual data, just an observation from someone. Your post and that piece of the NYT article holds no water because of the logical fallacies.
but vote for who? Joe Biden has historically backed legislation for search and frisk, he is only a good choice for people who think "BlueLivesMatter"
> Any suggestions For things that have helped you perform at your best when you’re exhausted?

Don't get exhausted in the first place by sleeping more? If you're still seeing sleep as an inconvenient necessity, I'd recommend reading 'Why We Sleep': https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
Not bad for a bot, tell your master that your coherency levels are well down.
Uh, nobody questioned that you've got trigger-happy and overgeared specialists on a powertrip.

That's not what CRS/Bereitschaftspolizei is though. I've only ever seen them running around entirely without protection or with shields to stop people doing dumb shit.