skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been printing blogs for hundreds of years. See "Common Sense".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense
We should used the captured carbon to make the fabled nanotubes that we're all going to be using, wearing and living in.
Wrong. Cisco WebEx does have E2EE for free users!
I rename files and folders a lot. I.e., I fuss over the names I give files and directories a lot -- including directories containing downloaded software, so I was very discouraged recently on encountering software that breaks when you rename any of the directories above where the software is installed. (Specifically, if you rename any element of the path to node_modules, packages installed by npm break.)

To effect this renaming (and for general care of directories) I use Emacs's Dired mode except for directories containing image files, for which I use Mac's Finder because it is better at displaying images files. I resisted embracing Dired mode for many years,
but stopped resisting immediately on discovering dired-hide-details-mode.

Although I have a directory of PDFs, I strive to keep as much reference material as possible as plain text. Most of this plain text was obtained by selecting all the text on a web page (with Command-A), copying it, then pasting it into a text editor, then manually removing the illegible passages. I sometimes wonder whether I spend too much time making such copies and keeping them organized on my computer.
I believe Chromium uses the under-development trunk of Clang, and bumps it forward every couple weeks - and that’s probably one of the most heavily used code bases in the world.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...
[not defending patent trolls, just poking what seems to be a hole in the concept]

> Its okay if they are actually still in the process of building the thing

what should happen with a patent holder who sells off their R&D department, and thus stops "developing things"? should they be allowed to keep their patents? (to keep receiving e.g. licencing fees for the stuff they did develop; i think that's how it works?)
Show HN: How Netflix Aggregator Model Works?
Maybe because it's A German bank.
> SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is launching a $100 million fund to invest in “companies led by founders and entrepreneurs of colour”,

> Named the “Opportunity Growth Fund” and focused on African Americans and Latinos in the U.S. it is, SoftBank says, the largest fund of its kind.

Kind of implied there.
Facebook Software Engineer Resigns over Zuckerberg’s Policy on Trump Posts
> surprisingly easy to stop the spread, but the death rates are higher.

Are they? The current IFR estimates (general, not counting age divided groups) range between 0.2 and 0.9%. That might still include a significant number of individuals, but it's not very high (of course by age groups, this changes).

I still wonder whether the high death rates in some countries, including my own, were not due to the virus itself being very deadly, but because it found "niches" of vulnerable people (hospitals, nursing care homes). I don't think anyone has yet studied these dynamics in depth.
I assume you've never looked at a Swedish newspaper then, they've all been full of criticisms and discussions since the start.
Hope I get to use this in a project one day!

Declarative systems always seem to feel good (SQL and React come to mind)

Vega-lite is the underlying standard (A Grammar of Interactive Graphics ): https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

I used altair in a hackathon interview and got the job:
https://github.com/DustinAlandzes/drchrono-hackathon/blob/ma...

sadly not hosted
>If a farmer has a tractor stolen from him it is not acceptable to track the criminal down and use force to take it back, that is the job of the police.

That's just hiring someone else to use force to take it back. So we at least agree that taking it back by force is the right thing to do. I'll even go so far as agreeing with you that it's morally justified to hire someone else to do it for you. I suspect our area of disagreement is really narrow on this issue.
Not only do they not deal with the problem at the core, these types of well meaning but misguided ideas often end up perpetuating the very problem they are meant to address.

So much of the policies from the left on race are examples of the shirky principle in action:

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

This is a great article from Shelby Steele, an African-American senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute on the issue:

http://archive.is/EXl8N#selection-1951.267-1955.491
I would like to have the possibility to discuss certain posts, that have been flagged to death, because they talk about sex or racism. I know that HN is not the best place for such topics, however I would like to read what HN folks think about it.

Is there some way to do so?
When has AWS killed a service? Usually that does not happen. SimpleDB had been deprecated for years and is not even shown in the console or marketing pages and yet its existing customers continue to use it. This is just one of the examples.
I have sticky modifiers on the top alpha row on middle fingers. So E+JK give me (), E+M, give me {}, E+UI give me [], E+H gives =. I+QWERTASDFGV give me numbers, I+U gives & and so on.. (actually I use a custom dvorak, but it's probably less confusing to explain this in terms of qwerty). Every symbol is bound this way. Shifts are also sticky so I don't need to tense up my hand so much for every capital letter.

I'm still using too much pinkies for ctrl, but I think only a new keyboard will fix that (I need a proper thumb cluster, kinda like I had on my kinesis advantage).
I tripped up on this part as well. I've been using colemak for many years, and I don't enter "the" the way described.

When your hands rest on the home row, you left pointer finger is already on "T" and your right middle is on "E." To enter "The" you only need to move your left pinkie 1 cm to the left-shift key and your right pointer 1 cm left to "H". It's so little movement you can just about smash all four keys at once.
For most of my adult life (now I'm 34) I have spent 30-50% of any paycheck I've received on rent.

In my country (Ireland) over the previous two generations, houses went from dirt cheap to extremely expensive. In the generation that came of age in the late 80s and early 90s, you could work a normal job and buy a house, easily. If you had a good job, you could buy several houses.

Now, my generation. We came too late. Houses now cost so much that you will be en-debted to a bank for life if you buy one. Now we have a rent crisis. For many people, they can barely even afford to rent a house and buy basics like food. Meanwhile, anyone who was lucky enough to be a bit older and smart enough to jump on the property wagon when it was cheap, they are rolling in money. They earn thousands of euros from doing essentially nothing except be born in the right generation.

It's very hard not to look at them, look at the hardships of the people my age who struggle to pay rent, and not think of landlords as social parasites.
But its a known and well studied fact that people of color are discriminated against in all areas of life, what this means that white people experience special advantage in all areas of life - so all the other startup funds are for white people (especially men) ahead of people of color.
It will serve its purpose, which was never really about skin color (e.g. VCs are already very active in India whose inhabitants have a dark complexion).

Supporting BLM seems like a net positive for companies, there’s no marketing downside. It’s perceived as The Right Thing. I’m sure more companies will follow.
I don’t think SQLite is literally vetting every commit. (Although kudos to them if they are!)
Indeed. Even little frictions like these can go a long way to curb such spamming behavior. As evidenced on HN itself.
Asians do not have a historical baggage in USA. Do they face similar racism/bias in general (ignore temporary surge like now by Corona)?
This is one of those cases when delaying solving a problem can turn out to be a good thing. And in the end, a jubilee (debt forgiveness) might be inevitable. Which is likely to be a good thing too, especially if it covers student loans and other things that aren't cleared by bankruptcies.
Death rate is smaller than it was initially thought to be afaik. Under 1%.
> 1. Hopefully none of your users run an unreleased clang from head, so you're not using anything a user will run into.

Yes, but clang eventually gets released. You want to catch bugs in clang and get them fixed before that release happens.
This wont work because real child sex offenders would never give the key to the FBI. The reason I don't provide a solution is because there isn't a good compromise. However you slice it normal people will end up getting their communications monitored while the real bad actors will be one step ahead. You also can't effectively ban e2e encryption because there will always be a new software that pops up to do it. The end result is always normal people get surveiled and the real criminals are still shielded. That is why I'm saying it's a red herring. They will not be any closer to catching these people by opening up one app to surveillance. Maybe they catch one or two lazy ones but then it will dry up real quick.

If as a layman I had to guess another way to catch them it would be to go to the source. Follow cases of missing children. Investigate reported child abuse. Once you have caught one of them you are free seize their computer and use it to honey pot all their contacts, with e2e encryption so the contacts believe it's person you just caught.
That's a vague and unsubstantiated statement. Can you provide examples and evidence of things you think the OP does not see.
Yeah, if a student is taught Github as part of their curriculum they're more likely to stick with it.

I can't really knock it, but at the same time, this has been Microsoft's strategy for a long time, with students learning Office in school but no competitors, so they take it with them in their private and professional life.

It's a difficult one though, given that both github and office are pretty standardized / ubiquitous everywhere.
It should, but I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s a huge issue. Perhaps it’s just highlighting an area of improvement for the test suite or perhaps a need for more caution when working in that area of the compiler.
A ‘full’ test suite? I’m not sure that one of those has ever existed for any large program, let alone one under active development. We have to work in the real world here!
Not sure, maybe you're supposed to create an organization just for classroom?
Does it support group threads? That’s one of the biggest limitations to Tesla’s implementation of this.
So does Sweden. The public health agency also reports weekly on excess deaths. About 80% of excess deaths are captured in the official COVID-19 statistics.
One argument goes: Stenographers need to optimise for input speed, almost everyone else doesn’t have that requirement.

Another argument goes: we don’t know what creativity might be enabled if everyone had that option / ability.

I’ve always thought fingertip and finger joint implants would make good contacts for chord-like input. Ideas are cheap though.
I agree, but both from a technical and a social perspective, a) Norway is in a stronger position to mitigate the economic impact of the crisis and b) Norwegian politicians will have a harder time to spin up an austerity narrative.
In this topic I also highly recommend "Proofs and Refutations" by Imre Lakatos
I'm excited about this... But I wonder how much resources it requires to stream 720p 30fps into my older Macs without jitter and dropped frames. I had higher hopes on Elgato Cam Link, if it was in stock anywhere, since it does the processing on chip, but it's just speculation since not a lot of people measure performance on these setups either because it all works so well on Windows and/or they have high end machines for gaming (also Windows). Very few streamers/reviwers use Mac as it is underperformant and undersupported in the video streaming arena. It's really frustrating to realize this right in the middle of this "new normal" where webcams and video capture devices are all sold-out globally and one finds himself with a couple of video-worthless Macs.

Ironically Apple came up with FireWire a long time ago to bring (mostly prerecorded) video faster into Macs and now they lag far behind in every aspect related to video. This includes their webcams, which are terrible. Now that's a different story on iOS devices...
I hear you. But so what if it’s inconsistent? Why does it matter?

It’s a bit like criticizing SpaceX for spending so much money going into space when that money could be used here at home, to solve real problems.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like the root cause of the frustration here is what you pointed out: Right now you can create a girls-only club, but not a boys-only club. But the truth seems to be that you can create a boys-only club, and people do. They just don’t call it that.

If the objection is that you can’t openly do that without being criticized, then that’s valid too. But that’s how people feel right now. It’s not possible to say “Well, you should feel differently.” Or at least not effective.

If an initiative is helpful, why not let them? After all, we don’t know if this will help.
I know this comes from the Github team, but I'm not sure if I want to grant this permission:

Delete repositories

Ability to delete any adminable repository

This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.
Data Scientists Are Data Garbage Collectors: Bill Inmon
> 90% of the people might already have an iPhone

85%+ of the world's on Android, think outside your social circle =]
I use netlify. Server static pages, has good integration with lets-encrypt and even supports the 'point me to a github repo and I will rebuild for you' workflow. I am in the free tier, and there is no hchance my blog would ever get out of it (unless the free tier gets nixed)

For static sites you can emulate this workflow fairly cheaply, from github-pages, to serving with aws s3, or simmilar (I have an abandoned blog on s3 and pay ~cents a month, but I never fully grokked aws pricing)

If you need people that wouldn't edit text/markdown/html directly, there are even git-based cms, that can abstract away the dev-friendly 'edit text, commit, push to repo' to more user friendly 'login somewhere and click a button to change content'.
Can we not have this mindkill of a line posted in every frigging thread on HN about Google or FB?

Google IS interested in making Google Analytics better, because that ensures that more people use it on their websites, because then, with your cynical framing, Google can use it to sell you better ads.

It's bizarre how people here pretend like Google is simultaneously zealous about selling you ads but also stupid enough to not realize what parts of the Google eco-system synergize with the whole machinery.
Mistakes is how you learn, and (unfortunately) how you prove you're doing the work (read: the learning) yourself and aren't just copying answers or having someone else do it for you.

In a classroom setting, you don't have to pretend to be perfect. You have to learn. Perfection, polished history, etc is something you can save for your future career.
I think you can have different initiatives targeting different issues. Like many have said, being a minority itself is a disadvantage. Cristian Cooper (Harvard grad) is an example.

But I also understand what you mean about people ignoring socioeconomic status or other issues when they are not at the center of the spotlight. I think it's quite clear most companies doing this just for PR. BLM movement has been going on for years, yet these companies never care to actively support it, until now that they've seen "oh shit, people actually care - better get on it now." Let's see whether this is truly a wake-up call for people to address injustices of all kind, starting with racial problem, or simply a 'trend'.
There was an article a while ago asking why stock prices have not priced in climate change, and I think this is why. As much as we hate to admit it, the solution to climate change will be as industrial as the industries that caused it.

I'm planting trees whenever I can, but on a planetary scale I think this is going to be fixed only by manufacturing zero emission transport, and negative emission machines, all of which will increase stock prices of industrial companies with factories.

Fusion will be the ultimate solution to all problems if it happens – we'll have enough effectively free energy to scrub the atmosphere to our exact specifications with this or any other halfway efficient method, and enough cheap energy to flood all land including deserts with desalinated water.

We engineered our way into this problem, I don't think we can kumbayah our way out of it.
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>Many Trump supporters, and racists, are extremely well-armed in the USA.

Yet they are not bestowed with the power of self-policing, and are still subject to a higher authority which regulates what is and isn't acceptable defense of self or property. Who would regulate their behavior? Instead of a small subset
of racists having power, you would have ALL racists having power. I think they would love to have the ability to police their own communities without having to go through the trouble of becoming a police officer. There would be George Zimmerman to type situations happening every other day since they know police are not coming. Last year 9 black and 19 white unarmed people were shot by police out of a population of 328 million people. Any number may be unacceptable, but that number would certainly be orders of magnitude higher if untrained citizens who do not have the protocols that police must follow are given the power to self-police.
I've tried to use it once to teach group of 15 students.
But I left it in favor of just public GitHub repository for each student.
It just felt too heavy for the task.
DON'T DO IT*

I absolutely love Workman. It's gorgeous. I spent months learning it, getting fast with it. I even got the supercool matrix style keyboard, I was so into it.

But now I use QWERTY, and I sold my matrix style keyboard. Why?
1. Using the standard is useful. Other people's computers use QWERTY. Terminals for typing things in airports use QWERTY. When you have to do first aid stuff on your system, you're not going to get to change the layout.
2. QWERTY actually isn't bad. Yes, the home row is largely wasted, but other than that, it's not as ludicrous as you've been reading. For evidence, look up who the fastest typists in the world are - plenty of them use QWERTY.

* if you think it's going to make you more efficient. If it's for fun, go for it. For me, it was worthwhile, because I got to forget QWERTY and re-learn with proper touch typing, not whatever 3-finger nonsense I was doing before.
Is this limited to a particular organization or complete account?
Counterpoint: Most smalltalk topics actually get people to give an almost pre-rehearsed response.

For example if someone asks “What do you do for a living?” I will give the same answer I have given 1000 times. Ill ask them and they will do the same. There is nothing unique here.

Each to their own though.
Interestingly (to me anyway ;-) ) I recall when I heard about the Japanese government's plans (where I live). They had a whole special about what the plan was, what the rationale was, how they thought it would go, etc, etc. I thought they were bonkers. "This is going to go down badly", I thought.

But, looking back on it, I'm pretty impressed with the results. Good foresight? Luck? Not really sure, but you can't really argue with results. As time goes on, you can see that it's a bit like surfing those huge 50 foot waves. If you can manage it, everything will be fine. If not, you are crushed. Fingers crossed.
Giesecke has no official position. He's an attention-seeking troll.
Neo and FLETA collaborate on trial data registry platform launch
That's fine, as the measures can be tightened again if a new wave starts to rear its head. We can see this much earlier now with all the testing so the dampening measures will be much shorter and cheaper and more localized. Until the vaccine arrives.
There is a real problem with the situation though. And I want to distinguish between the decision you've made, which are savvy, and the broader picture where this showcases some of the more unfortunate elements of socialism.

It is a terrible outcome if millions of Americans are about to go broke and the relative winners are people who (a) totally rely on government handouts and (b) rely on people who are totally reliant on government handouts.

This story points to a situation where a rational person would rather be involved in ventures that produce less resources than they consume. That will really start to hurt the absolute measures of prosperity if it persists for long.
Ah yes, that is nice - thanks for the info. So many interesting things using Lua ..
> My argument was that drawing a distinction between a "site" and modules that are part of that "site" but are from other parties is dubious.

It is not only not dubious, it is in fact enshrined in law. I brought up the GDPR explicitly to highlight this. Specifically in the context of tracking and personal data, there is a distinction between the site I am visiting and the legal entity that is controlling it on one hand, and other entities that it contracts to achieve its purposes.

If your understanding of 'a website' includes all of the 3rd party trackers that it may be using, then the wording becomes obviously correct. I would venture though that this is not the common connotation of the phrase 'you may still be tracked by the website you are visiting', which I believe most people would take to mean more 'the origin server', i.e. 'I may still be tracked by the 1st party entity who owns the site I am directly visiting, but I will no longer be tracked by other parties'.

In fact, by your definition of 'the site I am visiting' , incognito mode offers no more tracking protection than regular browsing, as I can never be tracked by anything but the site I am visiting, including Google analytics, Facebook, and any other ad networks that they chose to use; I am never tracked by any site that I am not currently visiting, obviously.
Take an Ancestry DNA test and the idea of races quickly goes out the window. Most people can then credibly claim to be black and/or Hispanic.

That test may be the highest returning investment of your life.
> with the benefit of getting some returns.

I've never understood this argument in the context of investing. If there was an opportunity to get outsized returns by investing in the people this targets, then investors would already be going after these opportunities, motivated by the returns alone. They wouldn't even need the social signaling aspect of announcing a fund like this. If anything, they'd probably keep such details of these good deals to themselves to avoid having too much money chase after such deals and raise the price of the deals and make their investing terms worse.
> Asians do not have a historical baggage in USA.

They were pretty abused and stereotypes in the 1800’s. The transcontinental railway was built in large parts by Chinese workers, but if you look at the famous photo when the two lines come together and are joined by the Golden spike, there are not present. Also, there were some pretty racist cartoons about Asians in popular periodicals. Not to mention the interning of Japanese Americans during WWII.

So I think it would be incorrect to say that Asians do not have a historical baggage in the USA.
Tegnell has been wrong about almost everything. Hard to see for me why that level of incompetence deserves respect. But he seems to have a lot of charisma so many people mistake that for brilliance.
In one Swedish podcast, he was described with the analogy of a “manipulating boyfriend”. Quite fitting.