skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do we assume everybody in politics has sinister intentions?

Over the last 30+ years I've seen both parties flip flop on foreign military intervention, gay marriage, states rights, big government, judicial appointments, filibusters, corporate bailouts, government surveillance, militarizing the police, etc. and the list goes on. Both parties have been rhetorically and legislatively on both sides of these issues depending on their position of power.

The one thing that is consistent is that the two parties blame each other and the party that's out of power tries to complain and obstruct until they get back in power.

So, after a while it is easy to look at millions of donations following in to influence elections and the flip flop of positions and be skeptical of anyone who thinks they can affect change without changing the way government and elections ultimately work.
I'm pretty sure the argument "if you invite someone into your house, you're responsible for their illegal actions" is plainly incorrect, but I'd be happy to see a citation of that statute.
What's all about this alpha version from Bootstrap?
New Zealand: Two new Covid cases were allowed to leave isolation early
> Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer Grant Napear, who’s been calling games since 1988, was forced to resign after saying the words “all lives matter.”

I thought 'All lives matter' was commonsense.
Veneur[1] can compute approximate global percentiles (among other things) during metric collection, and the percentiles can be stored and queried in even in a datastore that doesn't know anything about distributions.

[1] https://github.com/stripe/veneur
How could possible China manipulate the RMB relative to the USD but the USD be worth exactly the same everywhere in the world?
US Space Force Satellite Surveillance UI/Framework
I am troubled by your use of a problematic word.

(See how that works?)
r/anarchychess if you like this sort of thing :)
I think that there are some half-measures that can help, especially with the in app purchase 30%:

1) Make it required to be transparent about where the pricing goes: All in app purchases must break out Apple's share and the developers share. The idea being that it becomes more difficult for Apple to sell such profiteering to the general public... who actually have the ability to vote with their wallet and move to another platform.

2) Make it illegal for apple to force subscriptions to external services be available using the in app purchase framework. This allows developers to avoid the fee (at the cost of the convenience to their users).

3) Make it illegal for apple to prevent the disclosure of cheaper options elsewhere, perhaps while allowing them to prevent directly linking to such options. (Allow the statement "Go to our website for 30% off!", but actually linking to the website within this statement is ok for apple to prohibit)

4) Require the same fee and enforcement for all developers.

The combination of these puts downward pressure on Apple's fees by forcing transparency and putting the cost of high fees on Apple, rather than on the individual developers. It also evens the playing field by preventing sweetheart deals with large companies.
Hate to be this guy, but it doesn't work with unicode.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...

Still not seeing it.
The only reasonable anti-trust regulation would be to allow competing app stores to be installed on ios devices. there is absolutely no reason why a device should be locked down to a single software purchase system.
I personally don't trust Five Eyes any more than any other country.
Both are the same thing essentially - improvements to the efficiency at the cost of upfront capital above and beyond "the norm" for such tasks. There are other variables in play too - stoves that boost fire efficiency are tech available centuries ago while electric cars are still progressing and have R&D baked in. Stoving everyone up would hit its limits for enviromental improvements before electrification of cars.

It is a matter of proportion of use as a whole that they become comparable. A single wooden shack with a camp fire produces less air pollution than a coal power plant and a single concrete tenament but ironically if you have enough campfires concrete tenaments with coal fired electric burners and heat it becomes the cleaner and more efficient option compared to many wooden shacks and firea even before you start adding scrubbers.
The problem with this narrative is that it really doesn't fit. When you encounter situations like this, it's good to ground yourself as close to reality as you can get. Ie, ask questions such as: How has the guns? Who has the money? Who has the media? The clergy? etc.

In the case of the The Cultural Revolution, the answers were simple. Mao had it all and he cracked down hard. In the case of the Soviets, the answer is also the same - the party had all the guns, all the money, all the media and the clergy were irrelevant.

This situation is nothing like that. Conservatives control the guns, both officially (executive, half the legislature, most of the courts, most of law enforcement) and unofficially (the right-wing militias, which can show up anywhere and demand anything with guns and get treated deferentially). Money and Media are split, with everyone amassing on each side. The clergy is very heavily on the conservative side.

So no, this is much closer to the Prague Spring than it is to the Cultural Revolution.
Not maintaining a backlog doesn't necessarily mean you cannot collect ideas etc. anywhere. I think the two main points are:

* putting effort into preparing proper tickets for all these ideas is likely wasted time as 90% of the ideas will never be taken on
* keeping all the ideas together with the issues that are actually important creates noise and makes it harder to identify the actually important stuff; also having a backlog with thousands of open tickets puts loads of emotional pressure on teams since they are always feeling like they lack behind while in reality most of those thousands of tickets are irrelevant anyway.

Also I'm not sure what the point of being able to say

> "see, it still hardly ever happens, but here's another one".

would be really (except for being right about the existence of something) – if the decision is not to fix the bug it's irrelevant still.
Another recent example - https://twitter.com/BenjiBacker/status/1273042888864206848
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Maybe you aren't a moderate? I mean, you literally are calling anyone who participates in the internet these days insane. That hardly scans as a moderate take.
If you agree to not side-load software via some EULA, does that change the moral calculus for you?
Let’s not forget the guest book.
Are you using some local milk?
I use "bio" milk and I'm pretty sure (by the expiration date being at least a month into the future) it is UHT, so no need to boil the milk?
But Apple is not a monopoly.
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there are lots of existing code that one could build on (e.g. https://github.com/quasoft/backgammonjs) but it probably makes sense to start from scratch, and use the gnubg smart game format ".sgf"

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/manual/gnubg.html
Akon: $6B to build a cryptocurrency city in Senegal
> And this is how many times we're allowed to use the dereference operator: one time

Then you come across

extern int *(*f)();
int *g = f(0), h = *(******f)(*g);
> why bring your political baggage into the mix?

That is my point. People were having a discussion with content and you dropped into a stock political response.

Leave your baggage out of it with your claim that people espouse anti-racism for the money, your shots at high tax countries and your need to link to political dogma.

I get that it's free karma on HN, but it lowers the quality of the discussion.
First, I don't know what people I belong to in your little fantasy, but please be so kind as to share.

Second, there is a difference between a space in which you can say anything and a place that you can say only the things you are allowed to say. In the first case you have a public discourse, in the second you have public outrage. Essentially HN is becoming a safe space for woke people.

Do you not really see anything wrong with stalking people online, or for that matter even in real life, just because they have different opinions than you?
Yes but remember, hating on React developers is the what is cool at the moment, thus the project is cool.
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Show HN: We’ve built a procedural advertising banner generation platform
I think it depends on when he's streaming and which platform he's on. I've found that many of his BanterBlitz sessions on YouTube are super interesting and accessible.
Hierarchy of Marketplaces
The problem is that Apple imposes a tax on _competing_ services, and has similar offerings and doesn't allow other payment options.

Even if the fee is only 1%, it will still tip the scales in favor of their products and services. That's 1% more that Apple can use to get better deals, better marketing, better prices. Long term as the market matures they should win.

They can impose any fee they want, but they should not actively obstruct different revenue streams and different payment mechanisms. I'm OK with an in-app Spotify subscription being €14.28 if it clearly communicates that €4.28 is the store and payment processing fee (VAT included), and allows for different payment options. It's no different when I choose a Paypal vs Credit Card vs wire transfer. Sometimes the consumer may go for the convenience of the more expensive payment mechanism, but that should be the buyer's decision.
Off topic, doesn't Twitter use their own data centers and GCP? When did they start using AWS?
That's like saying a Camry is better than a Ferrari because it has more cup holders.
This is how my mother does it too.

You just need good bacteria to start with, called the "culture", for your next preparations you can just get a sample from your previous yogurt.

The yogurt you get from stores with preservatives and ultra long shelf time, a.k.a. all bacteria is cleaned up to prevent it going sour, wont work, find someone that has real yogurt.
Roam research
> If the EU's laws are so burdensome, why is there a thriving startup ecosystem in the EU? I have read about EU's stances on hate speech, defamation, and libel (though I wouldn't call that hobby reading research), and I am fine with their stances.

There is nothing particularly thriving about it. There are just a lot of them because it costs almost nothing to incorporate a company and 'startup' sounds cooler than a 'small consulting business' or a 'software house'.

Can you name many EU startups that IPOd or got acquired for an impressive amount during the last decade or were even considered "unicorns" at any point by anyone other than themselves ?

In any case, Section 230 isn't about startups per se but specifically about 3rd party content providers - know any such companies that are EU-based ?

> I think we could use more hate speech protection, when I see reports that as much as 60% of the tweets in the current U.S. political conversations are done by biased bots.

Have you considered the possibility of those reports being disseminated by biased bots ?

> And no, I am firmly against EARN IT and the other 230 attacks. We need internet legislation that is thoughtful, created by technical SME staffers and constitutional law SME staffers, not broad-brush legislation pandering to votes, FUD, or special interests.

You sound confused. How do you expect those hate speech protections to materialize if not by modifying or cancelling Section 230 ?
I mean there's always the option of cancelling the 1st amendment - no one seems to like that pesky thing anyway today.
I'm with him - the internet somehow works as competition for who is most extreme. Sane, healthy people neither have the need nor the time to engage with this.
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The current presence on Twitch of young, funny chess masters like the Chess Brahs and the Botez sisters with top level talents like Nakamura crossing over with famous xQc-types is maybe the best thing to happen to chess in recent years to showcase it as something fun loving young people can enjoy, not just the dusty old men and social incompetents of caricature.
It would be great if it encourages new people to come in from esports and elsewhere, and bust through the gatekeepers and play this brilliant game.

https://www.twitch.tv/botezlive

Botez Compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VVcrwQGqU

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https://www.twitch.tv/chessbrah

ChessBrahs Nightcore Bullet Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCYEUQvjq4

(comment reposted with video links from a submission I posted on the subject the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397314)
I don't have a good proposal really, but I agree that "politically appointed board" is exactly the worst thing we could have. That's the point where true free speech advocates will have suffered total defeat.
Why are people entitled to a positive return on capital, a particular form of unearned income?
Some did invest their spare $ into liquéfiable assets, at a lower return, just in case they needed to access that cash.

Then there are those that bought chalets to put on Airbnb and rubbed their high returns in everyone’s faces until March.
The silent majority is bigger than any of us think. Angry twitter mobs give misleading impressions. Watching company after company, institution after institution cave to demands from the outraged woke-culture has completely pushed me the opposite direction.

I will never post any of these beliefs online under my real name. But I will vote.
I wish something similar would happen with cryptic crosswords, some of the old-world news papers have rea··y fiendish cryptics solving which almost looks like a black art, compared with sudoku, since it seems to require knowledge of many arcane things and conventions.
I don't have any hard data backing this up, but in my experience most moderates who are exposed to the state of discourse on Twitter agree it's kinda crazy.
Multiple “CIA failures” led to theft of agency’s top-secret hacking tools
This tracks with my observations. Perhaps the rise of remote work will move this needle a bit, but what you said has been true for at least a few decades. Canada has excellent execution ability (open secret in the industry) but too few companies to leverage that ability, or at least they're narrowly focused in certain industries like banking and natural resource extraction.

That said, if you roll the dice enough, you get lucky sometimes. Tobi Luetke (Shopify founder/CEO) is an immigrant from Germany. Mike Laziridis (Blackberry founder/CEO) was born in Istanbul of Greek parents. Michael Cowpland (Corel founder/CEO) was an immigrant from the UK.

Many of these outsized successes were low probability, high impact.
Researchers still don't know why this Atari 2600 game works
This sounds brilliant - I'll give it a go tonight!

On a different note, I grew up in Eastern Europe before it became capitalist and used to spend my summer holidays in the countryside. Needless to say,almost nothing was pre-packaged or ready made and everything was made from scratch, including yogurt. I can't really remember exactly how my grandmother made it, but I think she followed a similar process. I remember very fondly how it tasted, cool and slightly tart on a hot summer day; obviously these memories make me want to try it even more!

Somebody once told me that smokers smoke hoping that each cigarette will taste like the first. I can't really comment on that, but personally, every time I eat yogurt I hope it will taste like it did in childhood.
I'm surprised SponsorBlock didn't blow up on here again. In all seriousness, it's a terrific add-on.
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"We have been taught that ignorance and hate lead to racist ideas, lead to racist policies,” Kendi said. “If the fundamental problem is ignorance and hate, then your solutions are going to be focused on education, and love and persuasion. But of course [Stamped from the Beginning] shows that the actual foundation of racism is not ignorance and hate, but self-interest, particularly economic and political and cultural.” Self-interest drives racist policies that benefit that self-interest. When the policies are challenged because they produce inequalities, racist ideas spring up to justify those policies. Hate flows freely from there.

The self-interest: The Portuguese had to justify their pioneering slave trade of African people before the pope.

The racist idea: Africans are barbarians. If we remove them from Africa and enslave them, they could be civilized.

"We can understand this very simply with slavery. I’m enslaving people because I want to make money. Abolitionists are resisting me, so I’m going to convince Americans that these people should be enslaved because they’re black, and then people will start believing those ideas: that these people are so barbaric, that they need to be enslaved, or that they are so childlike that they need to be enslaved.”

https://theundefeated.com/features/ibram-kendi-leading-schol...
Sorry I don't agree.

Not only have whole sectors such as travel, entertainment, retail been directly affected (ie closed), it seems they will continue to be affected by the changes (investments/costs) they need to make to comply with the post-covid world.

The markets have remained levitated by govt. stimulus - the Cantillon effect.
Facebook has been (successfully) evading ad blockers for a long time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21688816

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367
Our bugs are in a self-hosted Bugzilla: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/
"Flagged".

We need to at least listen to opposing views. The sanctimonious silencing of non mainstream views is scary.
> Sellers of guns and ammunition assumed they were protected from liability by the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

On that angle, why are the folks arguing "a few big tech companies have had immunity for too long, they have too much influence," not also arguing "a few gun manufacturers have had immunity for too long and have too much influence?" To me, providing a tool to kill and facing no consequence is a lot more influence than Twitter enforcing their terms of service.

To be clear, I don't think weapons companies should be responsible for what people do with their products. I certainly don't think tech companies should be responsible for what people do with their products, either.
> people assumed that anyone accidentally using those words had ill intent

That's becoming a thing at my current job. I'm just accepting that I will eventually slip (or even just fail to keep up with the trendy list of bad words) and get fired.

Guess it's better than being eaten by a bear.
fixed. Thanks.
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CERB is most definitely not a UBI. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/cerb-applicati...

The Benefit is available to workers:

* Who have stopped working because of reasons related to COVID-19 or are eligible for Employment Insurance regular or sickness benefits or have exhausted their Employment Insurance regular benefits or Employment Insurance fishing benefits between December 29, 2019 and October 3, 2020;

* Who had employment and/or self-employment income of at least $5,000 in 2019 or in the 12 months prior to the date of their application; and

* Who have not quit their job voluntarily.

Because it's not a UBI and government programs have the tendency to multiply like rabbits, we also get the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) to cover different groups.
Then you are using the wrong tools. I still remember the first time I got to use a drill press. I totally could have drilled holes in stuff all day. Two thumbs up, would drill again!.
Be careful of what you ask for.

Section 230 exists because the courts punished Prodigy because they tried to moderate their forums but did it imperfectly, but didn't punish CompuServe because they let anything go. The idea is to allow imperfect moderation in addition to both zero and perfect moderation.

The internet without section 230 isn't a bastion of internet freedom. It's 4chan and 8chan. It's a shithole.
> The Times can claim that a harsh tone and a small factual error in Senator Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed was the reason the entire paper had a meltdown, but the staffers who revolted initially claimed that Cotton’s argument for bringing the National Guard into cities put black lives in “danger.”

Cotton’s entire argument was that the military should be sent into the cities to crack protesters’ heads, which is something significantly more aggressive than “a harsh tone.”

If I were to take to the op-ed page of the Times with the argument that national stability requires that we send the military to crack the heads of everybody who writes for the National Review, I suspect they would waver somewhat in their commitment to unlimited free speech.
Check out the configuration for a masked attack [0]. You could create a custom character set with the portion that you know and then brute the rest. You could then rent a p2.16xlarge [1] from AWS at about $15 per hour. If you know how much coin is in there you can do a cost/benefit analysis.

[0] https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack#custom_char...
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p2/
Cancel culture in action.
Someone correct me if wrong but I think phone co's can get away with it as they're deemed an information carrier instead of a host. Besides, calls and texts are rather benign, it's visual media that tends to attract the most calls for censorship, not to also mention that real-time censorship of text and voice would be infeasible but much more viable for an information/media host.
I've recently been told at my job that it's a firing offense.
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Japanese culture is quite different from American culture.

We did rebuild them, and McArthur is revered as a god, over there.

But they really have their own culture, and some aspects can strike us as quite strange (as, I am sure, some aspects of our culture weird them out).

I worked for a Japanese company, and went there, multiple times a year, for about twenty years (all Tokyo, so I can't speak for the rest of Japan). I think that there are a number of Japanese and US/EU expats that live in Japan, on this board.
normalized, not normal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_vector)

theoretically if you add the value-vector of all people together you end up with a long vector that represents the direction of society (even the opposing ones), and you can then normalize this to have the unit vector of society. i.e. what is the "direction of society".

Your skew wr.t. this one (inner product with, or projection on to this) will be some number between -1 and 1 (if we account for opposition I guess)

Basically if both vectors are of unit length, you get the cos(angle between). Completely off kilter would be a score of 0. While "opposed" would be -1
It's one of the largest industries in the world. They have offices, and use software too!
I see vertical integration increasingly as the only viable Big Tech strategy. Chat apps have existed since the early internet, but never one as popular as WhatsApp that can make payments. The outcome if this trend were to persist would be a small group of WeChat style omni apps.
> Yeah, seeing the headline of this article made me think of how I've never heard a carpenter exclaim what fun it is to use a cordless drill.

Strange analogy. Many people go into carpentry because they like working with power tools. It's fun.

Programming is the same. Many of us were drawn to it because we like it. It's fun.

If you go through life doing a job that you don't enjoy a tiny bit, you're going to be miserable. Why not have some fun?