skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I know several people and also companies who would like to support Open Source financially, but don’t know how to do it in a fair way. Usually, there is just one approach, pick the most important library/project you depend on and donate some money to them. I asked myself if there is a simple method to support more maintainers with one donation, especially those who are further down the dependency chain and, thus, lack visibility. If you want to donate, for example, 100$ to 100 libraries, it is almost impossible to do it easily. You have to investigate for every single project if they accept donations, what platform they use for it, split the money, pay in the worst case 100 times transaction fees (credit card, bank transfer fees), and finally initiate the transactions.

I envision that you can donate on one platform and the donation is transparently and automatically distributed to all maintainers your project depends on. On the contributors’ side, this means that even if you are a small library down the dependency chain and don’t usually get a lot of visibility, you receive a small amount of the donation. I built a small mock up to demonstrate how it could work ... https://recursive.gives

As there are a lot of Open Source enthusiasts here, I would like to know if you think that it can work or if you have any other suggestion to tackle the problem.
> You should see some of the crap that comes through in some of the lower-impact journals.

Thank goodness that "healthcare professionals are TRAINED to interpret studies."
So the pre-print servers are better because not a lot of people read pre-prints?

> arxiv has been running for a long time with much success in certain fields, and hasn't been overwhelmed with nonsense, your characterisation of pre-print servers is poorly calibrated and hyperbolic

I just said that the level of quality control on pre-print servers is extremely low - which it is. They check for very little beyond blatant plagiarism and obvious junk (determined within minutes).

I didn't say that pre-print servers are useless. They're very useful, but it's undeniable that prestigious journals apply an additional filter, which is much more exacting.

If you were to pick a random study from a pre-print server, and a random study from the Lancet, which do you think is more likely to be reliable? Which do you think has undergone more thorough peer-review?
Tech moved a bit in that timeframe!

> We leverage C#/MVC4/EF/SQL; Javascript/Knockout/Handlebars/LESS/etc and a super sexy REST API.

Nowadays it would be ".Net Core/SQL; Typescript/React/GraphQL"
While I agree with the overall sentiment, the idea that we are capable of creating a society where all basic needs are met entirely through automation is a pretty damned bold assertion.
Here's a non-paywall article about the matter: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...

I think it's worth noting the class-action lawsuit is asking for at least $5 Billion

I'll also encourage the use of DuckDuckGo.com for your search and [1] uBlock Origin, [2] Searchonymous (it prevents google from tracking your searches if you're logged in to an account), and [3] Google Search Link fixer (removes link tracking from Google Search links) in Firefox, but would happily update if anyone has better recommendations.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchonymous...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
~/Documents/$(YYYYMM)/ mostly for personal stuff. I have a Makefile rule in ~/Makefile that moves ~/Desktop/* there periodically.

I also have ~/Documents/eeqj/$(YYYYMM)/ for my revenue-related files, and ~/Documents/eeqj/$(YYYYMMDD).$(PROJECTNAME)/ for specific projects.
The touch-screen buttons in many cars often do change meaning, even if they don't change position within a given context.

I first experienced this on a Prius back in the mid-2000s, where the touch-screen was in one of several modes (climate, radio, navigation etc) and even if one can remember where the controls are, it's necessary to look before touching. That car had more physical buttons than is generally the case now and was still difficult to operate.
Before they scrambled the police radio in Norway, they would sometimes phone in stuff to the central when they wanted to deliver personal or protected information. Sometimes they'd omit the phone-in, though, to save time.

Interestingly, tapping in on mobile phone conversations, and de-scrambling them, is legal in Norway, at least for the state. AFAIK they still don't need a court ruling to do so, like they do when they want to wiretap someone. This is because the radio waves aren't regulated the same way as wired connections in Norway. I suspect this might be similar in the rest of the EU as well (of which Norway is merely a de-facto member). It might also be something to look into if you're an American, to check whether this is also reflected in either federal or state laws.
Microsoft’s new Edge browser now rolling out via Windows Update
Obviously this article is written for the general public and not in legalese. But this line gives a hint:

> The suit includes claims for invasion of privacy and violations of federal wiretapping law.

The claims Google disputes is that they are breaking the law.

> I wonder what it is they actually dispute, when the claims are so basic.

The claims can be summarized basically, but proving that someone has broken the law in court is not basic. This basic overview of federal wiretapping laws is over 70 pages[1]. Laws are filled with specific minutia. Here is another good overview of privacy law[2]. Even though the statement "Google violated my privacy" seems simple and self evident, to prove it in a court of law there are tons of very specific criteria you have to prove.

[1] https://epic.org/privacy/wiretap/98-326.pdf
[2] https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/legal-right-privacy
Sorry but a citation is not needed, they have poured vast amounts of money into IT infrastructure, logistics, supply/demand, warehousing, POS, RFID, the list goes on. How do you think they became so large? Technology you take for granted everyday started out funded and developed by Walmart (usually in collab with IBM, TI, etc). They have brought money and the desire to the table in tech for over 40 years, often pushing the envelope of what's even possible.
This is such a stupid assertion and attempt to control others. The world isn't going to sanitize every terminology word because you say so. Get a grip.
> If someone is giving you bread for free, you can be sure it's because they don't want you to rebell.

There's no other reason you could think of to feed a hungry person?

> That is why an economy must rely on the basis of voluntarily offering something of value. Because the alternative is literal enslavement.

You don't see the irony in saying that a person must volunteer their value or be enslaved?
I've spent my entire career being told that pointing out problems doesn't help the situation, having these problems blow up and having the same people say they wish they had listened... and being told that pointing out problems doesn't help the situation.

I had a real heart-to-heart with the CTO where I worked since he only gets along with one of the managers and doesn't like his directors. He said the only reason he approved my promotion was because he was tired of hearing Yes Men telling him things were fine right until they blew up in his face. He's a tech guy, not a business guy so probably outside the norm.
If the issue is on the collection side, what technical mechanism does Google have for identifying incognito traffic? There's already a game of whack-a-mole being played because news sites are detecting if you're in incognito mode, but that's in JS, so the access logs were already collected, and the the hacks for detecting incognito are slowly getting fixed, so it's not a viable solution.

DNT is a header, but it's a preference and not legally binding.

The only thing Google did that was "wrong" is that incognito gave uses the impression that they weren't being tracked externally, when in reality the only thing it does is not save your history and start with no cookies.
Many people don't support 100% of their party's policies - they just agree with them on the 2 or 3 things that are really important to them. This is a normal state of affairs in a two-party system.

For example, maybe I really like my party's stance on abortion and energy policy; I'm indifferent to their stances on farm subsidies, gun control, and immigration; and I feel their stances on trans rights and corruption could be improved a fair bit.

That would mean, when I meet someone from a different party, we could actually agree on a great many issues.
> Not sure what they could do besides asking for card over the phone

They could use a website or an app and accept secure payments there - that was the whole point of this thread from the start.
Yes, it seems that the weirdness of the mentioned interactions does not mainly stems from the confusion of the faith. It's based on people expressing their judgement of you as a person in relation to their perceived faith.
That number can't be interpreted without context — how many of the top 100 most highly cited papers are in the Lancet? If it's ~30 then your data point doesn't mean anything.
How exactly does US sanctions restrict/constrain a Chinese or any other nationality company from doing business with Iran? Do China have sanctions on Iran?
we are a design driven e-commerce. we could really use a service like this, however, since we need 3D models in large quantity, our number one concern might be cost. You said "3D renderings without creating model", but behind the scenes, do you still do manual modeling?
To add to this a bit, one thing that I haven’t noticed anyone talk about is that to a huge degree, programmers are supposed to manage themselves. It may not seem like it to those who have worked in tech for a while, but as someone who is in a different field where it’s not the norm (Academia), it makes a big difference in efficiency.

In my corner of academia, programming is almost always seen as grunt work and delegates to undergrads and junior grad students. Of course students aren’t trusted to actually manage the project so usually mid-level scientists or post-grads are assigned to oversee and manage them. The managers usually have no idea how to program or what it entails, nor do they have any interest in the project. At most they’ll want to use the software after its finished. If agile/waterfall programming annoys anyone, just be thankful you have a methodology for software development at all. Since literally everyone is senior to the programmer, but nobody else knows how to program, everyone just justifies their time by suggesting new features. Since no one knows how long anything should take, all new features are accepted into spec at anytime. Eventually, the project starts to run long, and since nobody knows why, management responds by adding more layers of management. Finally, the programmer either quits or graduates and the grant for the project runs out. The final product usually either has no resemblance to the proposal or only works on sample data. If it’s a website, no one bothers maintaining the server. If it’s a package, all dependencies go out of date within a year of release. The PI, or a PI down the hall gets a new grant to do basically the same project again, and the cycle repeats itself.
Does anyone really believe he could be elected president someday? (mentioned in the article)
Yeah, they're all covered with safety covers to avoid bumping.
Literally heard this story 100 times. Remember Obama and how he was going to change the world? The way it turned out, he basically changed nothing. Couldn't even get a proper health care bill passed.
Makes me wonder if you could slingshot around the sun towards relativistic speeds with thermal power. At the very least it could save fuel on the egress, if not the second half.

Can you aerobrake around a star?
Then again it might be more due to the change compared to the baseline.
If ROI goes down, fewer miners will mine.
When all blocks are mined, transaction fees will be the main source of incentive to mine.
With the blame games, polarization and mistrust simple problems aren't getting solved. Forget about big ones.

As Herbert Simon in his Nobel speech pointed out, if you can't solve 2nd grade problems don't run into the 10th grade classroom and cry about what's on the blackboard.
I've not had the same or similar experiences, I am a pale ginger with a big ginger beard, but I have been treated like and told that I look like a homeless man by strangers, friends, and even family. I've had a (medium or large) beard since 2006, I shaved it completely off exactly once in all of that time, in 2008. It was short for my wedding but I brought the length right back. I like it, I hate that I used to make excuses for it.

> I think it must be a lot easier to be a weird misfit now than it was in 1935.

This is probably true in a general sense but people still suck as much in 2020 as they did in 1935, which is evidenced by current events and this very comment thread. The big difference being that there's so many more people today than there were then. Maybe that indicates that we've made some progress but I'm less hopeful.
What non-photographers don’t know is that iPhone pictures only look good on iPhones. That amazing shot you texted me? Yep it looks great. But if you ever print it, or look at it on a computer monitor, it will look like a sad joke.
But that doesn't match the "In fact Trump merely tweeted that HCQ was promising" of the person I was responding to.

Is it media spinning a simple fact, or some sort of presidential war with the media that uses bait and ploys?
You don't think black leaders are already doing that, and have been forever? You defeat racism by defeating racists: removing their power to advance their ignorant agendas.
I mean you can't customize it.

instead of having to interact, make the side button "camera" full stop.
My theory on how to fix this is to maintain the adversarial nature of the courts. Don't force the DA to prosecute cops. Have them maintain the relationship as it currently works and let the DA become the the cops' lawyer by default while the Public Defenders' office take over the role of prosecuting police.

Since the PD and DA are already set-up this way in relationship to policing, this makes more sense than trying to wring impartiality out of the DA; they have to work hand in hand with police to convict criminals and need to maintain a cozy relationship. The simplest solution would be to keep the dividing lines the way they are.
It is fascinating just how poorly modern touch interfaces do compared to older vehicles. As an example, with older cars with vacuum controlled HVAC, the sliders and such were very, very "notchy" and you could change all the settings without taking an eye off the road. In the 80s/90s the buttons change to electrical instead of mechanical and you start needing to glance, due to the lack of haptic feedback. Fast forward to the modern era, and you generally have no way to control anything (other than the volume) without a full look at the touch screen, plus a longer look to make sure your finger hits the touch target.

I will admit that the touch screen in my new VW is fashionable and I love all the data screens -- but I have had near-misses due to having to stare at the screen to do stuff like hit touch targets for changing my spotify playlist. It has nothing to do with responsiveness either -- the screen has no perceptible lag, its all to do with lack of haptics / feel.

edit: I drive both an early 90s truck and a late 2010s car. I don't miss the touch screen when I drive the truck, I only miss Spotify / Google Maps.
Benchmarking OpenTelemetry SDK
Fair. There's a lot we could do.
They already pay for VxWorks, I’m sure they can afford the QT license, if they even need it for a system that only made for SpaceX.
Sure, there are pretty significant differences in the day-to-day conduct between the two parties, but it is true that both parties are beholden to major corporate interests and are decreasingly supporting positions held by the public at large.

The centrist wing of the Democratic Party refuses to seriously consider universal healthcare as a platform while we all watch the current healthcare system fall further and further into dysfunction via private bureaucracy.

Numerous progressive policies have wide support across the political spectrum, but aren’t being seriously considered by either major party. And that is something that both parties are very guilty of.
You're right, they're more polite, and yet much more consequental bad actions.
What you're saying only serves to support the argument that the tracking is wrong in the first place, IMO. Google doesn't have a right to follow everyone around the web and flex their muscle just because they can. Since they have a monopoly and nobody is even close to challenging them, someone needs to step in and regulate them.
Democrats haven’t had the courage to take a real position for a long time. Their program is basically to run as the slightly better Republicans.

Obama wrote a really nice article a few days ago. But when he was running things he basically did nothing to improve the situation although the issues with police were well known.
I’m certain _he_ does.
That racism somehow doesn't exist in your company is both unlikely and impossible to prove. It's almost certain that the situation is worse that you believe.
If a channel advertises snake oil supplements and products then that should be a valid reason to criticize them.
Yes it matters that it's planned. There are permits, detours, announcements and emergency response planning for all of the above. Here's the process for getting a parade permit in NYC

- https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/services/law-enforcement/perm....
On Mac, I don’t really bother with too much file organization. I have some broad categories but really not more than 1 or 2 folders deep. Stuff that doesn’t fit into those categories just goes in the folder with everything else. Although, I put all presentations in the same folder. I mostly use spotlight for files navigation.

On Windows, I find I need to spend more time organizing as the search seems to be substantially worse than spotlight. Search is still my go to though.
(Disclaimer: I have a big personal gripe with Google, but I don't hate the company in general)

Something has been on mind for a while.

I see lawsuits against Google collecting / selling personal data and ideas to combat its monopoly in search. What I don't see is a discussion about regulating companies that have data on the majority of the population.

I know for a fact that Google used search insights to inform strategy. By knowing what people search for and modeling our behavior, they have an unprecedented ability to forecast future events. I expect that Facebook and other, lesser-known companies do the same. I believe it is dangerous for a company to have this ability.

I am not an expert in public policy and politics. Would it make sense to have regulatory oversight over all companies that have data on, e.g., over 50% of a country's population?
These two comments remind me yet again how our appearance is "marketing." I recognized at some point mid-highschool (10th year of schooling Age 15/16) that the way people dressed was being used as a signal by other people on how to treat them.

Because I found this interesting I created an arbitrary taxonomy and then talked to people I knew who fell into different branches and tried to understand if they were actively or passively participating in that branch of 'dressers.' Not surprising to my older self, a large number of people conformed to the taxonomic dress code due to external factors rather than internal ones. I suspect the adage 'you can't read/judge a book by its cover' is an expression that suggests a lot of other people found the same things my young self did.

As a result I try very hard to not "see" (and by that I mean color my perception) of someone by what they are wearing or how they present themselves. But I also recognize how difficult that is.
Of course there is more to the story. But think of it as "Sir, you need to leave this establishment" as merely the punchline to the tale.
Keybase died when they added bitcoins or whatever it was. Zoom kicked the corpse.
Aeronautical Engineer Fills Notebooks with Sketches of His World Travels
This is an argument a lot of non-authoritarian socialists make: democracy only governs the few hours when people are not sleeping or at work, so a deeper, fuller democracy would include running workplaces democratically as well. Whether by employee-elected boards, cooperatives, democratically run unions (a necessary distinction), or some other form of collective control, that the consent of the governed is a question for all situations in which people find decisions about their lives being made.
But you're not using the IP addresses in the logs to circumvent the fact that cookies are being deleted by your user's device right? Because it looks like that's what Google was doing, and that's actively circumventing the decision of the user not to be tracked which is illegal in many places.
I've been torn for similar reasons over the last few years: Should I take my camera when the phone in my pocket is good enough?

Photos I take from my Pixel are 90% there - the automatic processing is excellent. But sometimes the white balance is off or sometimes it exposes for the wrong thing. I can correct these things in lightroom but the adjustability is limited compared to files from a dedicated camera. And then there's other issues with phone cameras like a limited buffer and rapid battery drain.

Ultimately similar to the OP I've decided to not get rid of my dedicated camera. Instead, I'm consciously keeping it out and nearby so I get to it quickly when I need to.

FWIW, I'm on the m43 mirrorless system - awesome balance of portability and quality. Unfortunately companies behind these systems were struggling before phones got so much better. The current economic environment isn't helping.
Deutsche Bank doesn't let any dark business go by without a bite
> if the police are less militarized and have more personal liability/responsibility, it will reduce the level of interest in the profession somewhat

I would think it would change the TYPE of person interested in such a job. I wouldn't be interested in a job where I'm just beating people up but I would be interested in a job helping people.
Sure: https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-neil-cavuto-shocked...
Ah, so if I understand the Zoom CEO correctly, "protecting" pedophiles is fine as long as they pay Zoom. It's only an issue when they try to use Zoom for free.