skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Github for discovering new software, and more. And a trending algorithm is of no use to me. I use search and filter based on practically applicable keywords and other facets that are relevant to my need at the time.

The author uses the phrase `the new JavaScript “hotness”` in the context of this somehow being a positive. Engineers going after libraries because of their "hotness" instead of because of their utility is exactly the problem with the Javascript (and other "cool" / "trending") ecosystems.
It's always fascinating to me how the most liberal and progressive areas of our society are the ones who exhibit the most functional racism.

This is the manifestation of the bigotry of low expectations that is so engrained in Silicon Valley. When you live your life grouping people of a certain skin color into a protected class that you the hero white person need to save, you automatically assume that every person you see of that class is of diminished status.
And yet another company that builds its own (time-series) database. Why does this keep happening for such a narrowly defined use-case at similar scales?

At 1.5 petabytes, they could just dump this in Google's BigQuery for the cost of an engineer and have full SQL power.
Official government numbers (the full report can be found here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-..., race starts at page 15 of the PDF):

- Percentage of adults affected by hate crime by ethnicity 2015/16 to 2017/18: White 0.1, Mixed 0.5, Asian 1.1, Black/African/Caribean/Black British 0.6 and other 1.0

- Same, by religion: Chistian 0.1, Buddhist 0.1, Hindu 0.7, Muslim 1.5, other 0.5, none 0.1

All adults: 0.2

Conclusion: White christian are by any number underaffected by hate crime in the UK

Additonal numbers form London's MOPAC for victims of racist hate cimes in the 12 months up to June 2017: 56% male, 30% black, Asian 25%, White-North European 25%. Obviously, percentages cannot be summed up here. Again, whites are underaffected. perosnal view: Numbers in London might be higher than elsewhere for whites, I don't have a source for that, so.

Anyway, both numbers are an order of magnitude away from the 50% you mentioned.
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> So it's always the left attacking and it's always the right being attacked, but never attacking back.

Please tell me this is satire. Because I don't think being calling eachothers bullshit out on the internet is an issue. The problems begin when people take actions on it. You talk about 'attacking' but I can give you 2 examples from 2019 where right-wing extremists literally attacked. Those ideas were perpetuated in right-wing echochambers and eventually led to the deaths of many.

- Christchurch mosque shootings

- El Paso shooting

Both had right-wing extremist motivations, citing garbage such as 'the Great Replacement'.

But yeah, go ahead and crawl into the victim role because we don't want to read racist bullshit.
I wrote a book teaching developers how to create an App's Back end in 12 minutes
I created the backend for my app in 12 minutes it deals with users, database and storage. Then I decided to teach people with a book.

Website: https://leanpub.com/appwrite-up-and-running/

Highlights:

- Aimed at people who have previous web and mobile app experience.
- Working wiht a Free open source app development platform.
- Readers are encouraged to create something following the book's project.
- Platform introduction so they can create backends for any kind of App.
- Instructions on how to self host the backend server.
- Includes source code.

If anyone has ideas of how to reach people who are getting into webapp or mobile app stuff and struggling with backend programming, would love to hear them!
> They are rapidly becoming the next FAANG.

Shopify isn't remotely close to joining the big tech club, outside of their comically inflated bubble valuation (trading for 56 times sales).

Let's compare, trailing four quarters.

Amazon, $296b sales, $14b operating income

Apple, $268b sales, $65b operating income

Alphabet, $166b sales, $35b operating income

Microsoft, $138b sales, $52b operating income

Facebook, $73b sales, $26b operating income

Netflix, $21b sales, $3b operating income

Shopify, $1.7b sales, negative $178m operating income

One of these is very much not like the others. Investors think they've found the next Amazon, it's not. It's a slightly better Etsy as a business, and if they're really lucky, in 10 years they might be an eBay. Amazon is only what it is today, thanks to the AWS margins and op profit (not because of its retail business, which has very low growth and terrible margins). There's no evidence of stellar margins hiding in Shopify's business. 14 years, zero profit, and a weak gross profit margin (eBay's gross profit margin is 2x that of Shopify, and was even better in years past; even Etsy has a far better gross profit margin).

Compare Square to Shopify to further amplify the obviousness of the context:

Square has $5.1b in sales (3x larger, trading for 8 times sales), an operating profit for 2019, still growing fast, and is worth about 2/5 what Shopify is.

SHOP's valuation is obviously lunacy, which is quite common in this market at the moment (the Dave Portnoy market). See: Nikola or most any cloud company. It'll end in tears or a decade-long stagnation in the stock, there are no other possibilities. How long will it take SHOP to generate a $3b annual profit? That's the future stagnation clue, their market cap represents a decade or more of returns pulled forward (if everything goes right for them). The only thing qualifying SHOP for consideration among big tech, is their market cap.

If we were going to spread the insanity around more evenly, ETSY, adjusting for its slower growth rate relative to SHOP, should have a $25-$30 billion market cap. Every investor generation thinks their bubble is the one that is different and is going to last.
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I find HN and Reddit largely useless for finding new and interesting code.

The Reddit python subreddit is truly awful - it's just beginners sharing their first projects.

Whereas HN is largely biased to what's extremely popular and/or "cool".
I've sworn off Github for my own toy projects. The code I write off the clock is a form of escapism, I don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity, nor do I want to triage issues from people taking issue with how I've named things, or forcing me to adopt an ultimately meaningless boilerplate CoC. I don't want to have to write a novel on why I'm not a racist or a fascist like Antirez recently had to.

I'm not implying that I would face all of these issues on Github currently. But I don't want to run the risk of being in that position and getting into a shouting match with someone - and then having to deal with all of the consequences.
Which will have the effect of depressing wages, increasing housing prices, and increasing social tension since the majority of those immigrants will be culturally alien.

Canada is a high-CO2 nation, more people = more emissions. It should be restricting migration to only other Western countries (where migration flows are likely to be two-way instead of one-way).
The javascript ecosystem is great (choice is mostly a good thing) but it has a really bad rep because of all of this nonsense focus on early-adoption of "cool new thing". That kind of problem is only exacerbated by `Trending` features like this. Good riddance.
It is possible to individually block "activists" on FB.
>Smartphones are now pretty essential.

If you didn't notice, you switched the conversation from "Apple iPhone" to "smartphone".

In any case, I didn't get an iPhone until 2012 and for the entire 7+ years of ownership, I have never installed a single app on it. I just use the plain vanilla functionality. An Apple product like the iPhone and the Apple curated App Store is not essential to life.

About 90% of my friends & family use Android (the more popular smartphones) because they cost less than Apple.

EDIT to downvoters:

- gp comment (rahkiin) of Walmart-restrictions analogy is about Apple (not "smartphones" in general)

- followup comment (jfk13) is also about Apple iPhone and not smartphones

- pentae's comment that switches the subject from "iPhone" to "smartphones" ... to try an win an argument just confuses the thread
Your clash with the conventional usage and connotation of these terms was probably intended, but how is browsing repos active consumption (and vice versa)? Isn't creating and collaborating on projects much more active than just looking at interesting stuff?
Can't find it now, but there was an article (the guardian I think? follow the money) that stated that the owner of zerohedge was getting divorced and that was causing his financial details to become public. The journalist then started to receive threatening calls from the owner's father (from an eastern European country.. Bulgaria? Can't remember). But basically the details becoming public, or her testimony basically revealed that the change in tack by ZH was due to the fact that it paid better than simple financial blogging, now that the Financial crisis was over. So ZH now actively courted right wingers and possibly Russian financiers.

Really need to find that article again, it was a real eye-opener to the motives of people financing these sites.

I used to read ZH a bit during the FC, but recoiled in horror the last time I was there.
> terms such as blackmail

Isn't it weird that people that don't know words etymology want to decide what they mean for the rest of us?

> 1550s, "tribute paid to men allied with criminals as protection against pillage, etc.," from black (adj.) + Middle English male "rent, tribute," from Old English mal "lawsuit, terms, bargaining, agreement," from Old Norse mal "speech, agreement;" related to Old English mæðel "meeting, council," mæl "speech," Gothic maþl "meeting place," from Proto-Germanic mathla-, from PIE mod- "to meet, assemble" (see meet (v.)).

In 1550 USA didn't even exist, not even in the form of colonies, that formed after 1600.

The first known settlement in what we call US today is by the Spanish in 1513 that reached Florida.

So no, blackmail doesn't mean what you think it means and doesn't come from where you think it does.
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"Eat shit! Millions of flies can't be wrong." I prefer critical thinking over appeals to the majority.
"victory"
There's a difference between the world as we know it cannot exist without banks as we know them,and banks cannot exist without the people who led us into this mess.

There must be strict liability against those whose bad decisions lead to incalculable suffering for countless people. Hard stop.

We can debate the specific consequences (banned from positions of authority, fines, debt, prison, etc). But we must not allow those with demonstrable bad decision making abilities to continue to play roulette with the lives of others. Likewise, good decisions cannot be allowed to justify or excuse bad ones.
In most e2ee threat models the biggest source of threat is the server that mediates the data exchange. Other threats are sufficiently thwarted with TLS, so ... ... these Briefing guys should better bring on these password protected rooms if they want to put this end to end encryption claim on their website.
Although I do not disagree with that definition I think it is valuable to make a distinction between government politics and "every day" politics.
What do you use then? Gitlab? Personal servers?
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Only the operators know for sure, but the site is so extremely contrarian one cannot always read a negative ZH headline and infer an intent that traders sell, or a positive headline and infer an intent that traders buy. Often the intent seems to be just the opposite, i.e., sentiment is awful, trade accordingly.
I switched to Bitwarden for similar reasons. Seems ok though I haven't checked the latency.
These articles attempting to incite conspiracy theories of massive banning fraud at every corner are getting tiring.

CrossRiver Bank is a FinTech focused bank with a focus on providing and servicing loans.

As a FinTech, they most likely had the PPP application process in the pipeline much quicker than traditional banks. Wells Fargo didn’t even get me the application until the same week when the first round of funding ran out.
Organizations can be really stupid. There is some test about delayed gratification. If you wait you get two candies, if not you only get one. Apple is currently a one candy company. You see this in how it deals with the Mac and in the policies about IOS Apps.

Please note this is not to say the people at Apple are stupid, but rather there is a very, very low level of organizational intelligence at work here. Very. Low. Sadly.

The article is great, well worth the read and written with great clarity!
On the other hand, brain as a computational entity is a theory that's been around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind

> Despite being vigorously disputed in analytic philosophy in the 1990s due to work by Putnam himself, John Searle, and others, the view is common in modern cognitive psychology and is presumed by many theorists of evolutionary psychology.

The theory is quite foundational for cognitive science and popular in a number of other fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science#Computationa...

So it's not like he's doing anything fundamentally new. He's maybe come up with a new computational model that might give new insights.
Don't take ISO. Let the market sort it out, after the governement provides the right incentives, and maybe provides some minimal baseline.

For example, the gov gives huge fines, and pierces the corporate veil.

Then insurers insure the risks for a data breach. They calculate the expensive premium, and lower it if you do what the consider the right thing, e.g. some ISO guidelines.

Now incentives are aligned: Corporations secure their infra to avoid expensive premiums.

Insurers give correct security guidance. If they overbear, they lose customers. If they are too lax, they pay huge insurance claims.

The governement's job is to make sure nobody is asleep at thehelm. After a while, make the insurance mandatory.

Basically, it's what works for fire insurance.
Apple is facing rage from developers over the commission on the App Store
Video games are not essential services, even if video game industry dies tomorrow nothing much will change. Smartphones are not the same, Apple can easily wipe off half the companies on top 100 list if they decide to shut down their app stores. That is too much power in the hands of a single company with no regulations.
The point of the “trending” page wasn’t that it always showed you React. It showed you tiny repositories that had exploded in popularity that day.
> Since we're talking about making modifications to the words we're using in English

We are actually not.

Master and slave will continue to exist in English.

Besides, your numbers are completely wrong, India and Nigerian have English as one of the official languages, if we sum them there are more people speaking English in those two countries alone than in the entire US of A.

Even in Europe there are more people speaking English than in the US.

EDIT

I ran the numbers

These are all countries where English is an official language

India 129,377,965
Nigeria 114,172,822
Pakistan 94,300,000
Philippines 70,371,000
United Kingdom 59,600,000
--------------------------
Total 467,821,787

US 283,160,411

Only considering these 5 countries (excluding the entire continent of Oceania)

Maybe it's time that US people drop the attitude, because that's the main problem in their society: the feeling that they are on top of everything.

It doesn't surprise me at all the rampant racism in a society shaped around the illusion that you are the best and all the others can't even compete in the same league...
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It has been spotted at Spacex's Boca Chica location that's building Starship

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/haiwhj/boston_dynam...
sorry to see your other post removed from here.
seriously what the hell was wrong with it? did anyone give you any reason?
Wanted to learn more about how Chrome Extensions work and decided to just build one over the weekend.
I don't think we "need" to do anything. You are projecting some arbitral expectations on the world. Why do we need some quotas? Why people cannot be free to chose whatever they want to do with their lives? You assume that everyone is equal, that's your mistake. Once you take that out of the equasion, you might realize that people have different goals and aspirations. The male/female ratio is skewed very far in favor of women in IT. You could not possibly do anything more to give women unfair advantage in recruitment, maybe except outright banning male applicants (which a few of the major players were accused of). As a guy who had to scrape by to live through college I find it sexist and racist when someone makes claims like that. I was erning aroung 500$ per month getting every possible scholarship and benefit I could, while you could get 1000$ for having a vagina alone. Bonus points if you were born with some additional melatonin in your skin. I'm looking at the generation of white males in their 30 and it is just sad. What was done to their dreams and opportunities was a crime. Years of promoting every possible minority and imaginary gender possible lead to nothing but a waste of intellectual potential. People that otherwise would contribute something meaningful to the society are doing manual labor instead. It is truly a lost generation. I'm strongly rooting for China, because even a communist regime knows better than to do something like that. It is just inhuman.
> In some sense, this is an argument in favour of bitcoin

If you see the link from the poster I responded to, you will see that s/he is likely a Bitcoin maximalist, so the only argument they can have is in favour of Bitcoin/"the one true chain".

The link is trying to make the argument that layer-2 projects are not "real cryptocurrency" because the transfer of values are not happening on chain. This is what I was responding to.
>usually the black person will happen to be the one pulled over //

Which country are you in? Have you checked that statistic or did you assume it?
Computational modelling is already something that's fairly widespread for trying to understand the brain. The only novel thing here might be how his model is designed.
Man, this is a great read and probably the wrong day to read it :). Hit home harder than it should have haha. Have fun in your new endeavor!
A mixture of both actually. I'm a big user of Gitlab private repos which I'll sometimes make public.
> all under the auspices of a hard line Republican administration

This only means "socialism for the rich, brutal unregulated capitalism for everyone else, because it's their fault they aren't rich anyway".
As a former senior structural engineer turned software developer, I just wanted to comment regarding the glue +/vs nails. Although glue adds rigidity to the whole board, glue does not add strength, meaning their strength is not additive. The glue needs to fail in order for the nails to provide their function. In tension, the glue prevents two pieces from separating, and the nail just sits there not being engaged. In shear, the glue prevents two pieces of wood from sliding past each other and therefore prevent the nail from being engaged.
The idea behind this "turning off political ads" is to prevent the masses by being fooled into voting for one party over the other due to "fake" news.

As someone who was born and brought up in a third world country, this is my observation because I have a different perspective on this.

People like Donald Trump have won elections despite severe personal and public failings. And the reason they win is because they are demagogues. They have the ability to connect to voter's emotions.

Obama is not a demagogue but he dripped with Charisma and had the ability to connect to everyone and share his vision for a better America. Likewise for Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan had immense Charisma.

Hillary Clinton is not an inspiring person. She did not have the same kind of Charisma or Vibe that Obama had.

All of this started because Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016 to Donald Trump. If Hillary Clinton won the election, this wouldn't even be a discussion.

There is this quote from Rocky Balboa:

Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you!

If Obama contested in the 2016 elections, there is a good chance he would have beaten Trump. It is true that there was fake news. We can't assume that the fake news was the sole cause for Hillary Clinton's defeat. This is a media narrative which was unable to come to terms with the fact that a racist narc like DT was able to defeat Clinton.

DT would have beaten Hillary regardless of the "fake articles" on Facebook. Blaming it on anything else is the same as not taking responsibility for being wrong about the election.
Both men and women of all kinds are used, not as norms, but as fantasy in art and advertising. And it works because people are attracted to this fantasy and the very few who can attain something close to it.

Natural attraction is not something we can just "get past" unless you have a way to change human nature.
Only morons think the master/slave paradim is racist. Some black people onwed slaves. Maybe CNN rules your neurons. Im not white and my ancestors were slaves. This only bothers weak people.
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There are a bunch of similar projects where such people could (and likely already are) move: I2P, Freenet, GNUnet, and probably some others. So closing (or not supporting) Tor just because some bad actors are there is pointless. Every tool can be used for both good and bad things.
Sentences made for eternity:

"Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people, of Russians or Americans, Jews or Turks, of alternatives or conservatives, blacks or whites. Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other."
> OVH, Hetzner, ColoCrossing

Maybe a third or so?

> Azure, AWS, or GCP?

0.1% at best
I done that for some persons, and for people that post religious stuff daily. I hide all from them.
But there could be a solution, like say I am a honest person that I want to get elected in a possition in my little village, can I post things and somehow mention to show it only for people that are in the same village as me, so my friends in other locations don't have to see the local stuff.

I am not a big FB user, but FB is the only way I can keep in touch with some of my colleagues from school/university , sadly soem of them are not on FB and the old phone numbers are not valid so they are just gone, no idea if they are still alive
Stars are a way to bookmark and discover repos in the open source world. No stars doesn't mean no development - I am not denying that and appreciate your concern on how much vanity is in it. (I guess it is better than vanity of likes for a photo on instagram).