skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For starters, I'm a little disappointed that that's the only thing you decided to engage with. That said: this isn't actually terribly complicated. This isn't medical malpractice, where some degree of risk is an inevitable side effect of any medical intervention. Police in the United Kingdom shot one (1) person to death in 2018. He was carrying an airsoft rifle that looked like a real gun. I still think that's terrible! He should be alive. But still: one person, in the whole year. There are countries where the police don't kill anyone. This is the healthcare conversation all over again; Americans insisting that some goals are impossible while other countries that have already achieved those "impossible" goals look at us with a mix of pity and disdain.
While the term open-source is a bit more vague, I'd argue that the software he's developing fits squarely into the term "free" (as in speech), as the FSF defines it. The source code is available to modify and fork, even if you must pay to access it -- which is allowed while still considering it "Free". I've always wondered how the FSF thought that would work exactly, since it seems weird to have something be forkable to only a select group of people, but this makes a lot of sense; it will be open sourced to everyone after enough people pay for it.

I'd also argue that this is one of the most ethical ways to pay developers fairly for their work, even if the author wasn't able to make that much money from it. The product the developer creates is FOSS, available to everyone after some time, and they still get paid for it (bonus; they're paid by the open source community for their work, rather than from one person/corporation that dictates their salary).
>if GSM downgrade attacks are your primary concern in your life you can move to Japan and get contract on au by KDDI as KDDI flat out ignored CSFB to CDMA2000 and went all VoLTE

Wouldn't it be easier (at least on android) to go to mobile network settings and change it to "lte only" or "3g only"? As for using au by KDDI, I'm not even sure whether using their SIM cards will prevent a downgrade attack. It's possible that they still support 2g for roaming use, for instance.
We impose many restrictions on individuals in the name of protecting others. Off the top of my head, my city doesn't allow driving under the influence, discharging firearms within city limits, public nudity, yelling fire inside a theater. We also vaccinate to build up community immunity, not just to address the health of an individual person.

And as far as COVID vaccinations go, you're trying to have your cake and eat it. Either COVID-19 isn't risky/dangerous for young people, (meaning we can safely vaccinate them), or it's dangerous to them. If you're trying to say that a vaccine for COVID-19 would have worse effects than the disease itself, I think this would be extremely unlikely, since it doesn't occur with other vaccines.

If a COVID vaccination has a 1 in 100K rate of deleterious side effects (up to and including COVID-19) in the general population, then vaccinating the US population (330M) would result in 3300 cases of COVID (or bad side effects). The benefit of this would be saving roughly 2M people from death, and countless others from hospitalization and long term complications.
I presume Sweden is on the list too, since their numbers are worse per million inhabitants than the US.
The previous version required JS to view list of commits.

New version displays them all.

Thank you.
I wouldn't want to litigate durian, as I am too chicken to try it. I have general sympathy for fruit enthusiasts and am inclined to believe you about their virtues. Good on you for acknowledging the hyperbole; I just thought the background would help.
Are there tools that can build a diagram automatically by looking at your AWS account (or some sort of export) for the truly lazy? Asking for a friend...
>Incentivizes technical innovation.

>Directs the Attorney General to create a prize competition to award participants who create a lawful access solution in an encrypted environment, while maximizing privacy and security.

Is this a joke?
I think the icons are a little less legible. Not a lot, but just enough to wonder if I've screwed up my browser's zoom level whenever I see them
That is in poor taste. Or at least from a point of view that is failing to grasp the concept of racism. It wasn’t Virgos who enslaved Black people / redlined neighborhoods / segregated schools.

edited to remove analogy because it distracted from the point
You're right it may not be his fault, but that is why all sites should be https, and sites should have the hsts header set.

Essentially if you are using http:// anywhere on your site (including transitively loaded resources) you are putting your users at risk - the same thing was exploited with the great cannon or whatever that DoS from the Chinese gov was called.
I read an essay about Mongolia. When China locked down Wuhan they closed their borders, closed schools, and because they also had a shortage of masks simply told people that they had to save the N95 masks for healthcare workers. And had seamstresses sew cloth masks and sell them to pharmacies.

They did this without having any detected cases.
The writer sounds like a dick.
I've been a MacPorts user since the days of Fink vs. MacPorts and tried and failed to use brew many times.

The biggest argument at the beginning for Homebrew over MacPorts was binary distribution and now MacPorts has that and can still compile custom versions if necessary.

MacPorts is always the first thing I install on a new Mac and has been for over 15 years. The several times I've seriously tried Homebrew, I get frustrated (terrible jargon, missing packages, spewing files all over my system, lax security) and go back to MP.
Didn't you read the article? The reasons listed made good sense to me.
This was among the first things I noticed. Here it is with vertical lines added https://i.imgur.com/EVSTdLA.png
1. Apple banning this app is absurd.

2. The claim that "white men don't like astrology because women and nonwhite people do" is even more absurd.
Is this really an article about how it's sexist to be skeptical of astrology? At what point are nonsense conclusions evidence per se that that the underlying worldview is nonsense?
In the UK, if you call the emergency services and tell them you believe someone is likely to commit suicide, there's a good chance the police will turn up at their door. The police have a dual role, ridiculous as it is - they are meant to both be community workers capable of handling a wide variety of people and situations, and investigate crime, sometimes at the same time.
>unlike an app, where too often uninstalling the app simply means an icon is removed from your screen, but some data is still retained as a file somewhere on the device.

What is this referring to? On iOS at least deleting an app means the app and its data is gone for good, except for keychain data. Same with android, except for on sdcard/internal storage. But in either case the developer would have to go out of their way to store data there. If they're being malicious they might as well upload the data to the mothership to begin with.
Did y'all wear helmets?
Likewise I hope they (or someone) keeps making segway style wheelchairs.

They make it possible to navigate stairsn and include a lift to let wheelchair-bound people to access high cupboards.
I would regularly wow people by showing them the language feature existed. It was obfuscated in the old layout and now it's readily available without any additional clicks. Yes, my eyes have to scan to the side now, but to call it "completely terrible and useless" is ridiculous. More users will discover this feature now that it's been moved and made visible.
Sure, but to be clear, I meant physical modeling which includes real-time modeling of all salient objects and surfaces in the immediate and foreseeable environment. I mean going as far as creating a physical model for deer, their range of behavior and speed, weight distribution, predictive modeling for subsequent behavior, etc...
The locals aren't trying to maximize the value of their limited vacation time.

Yes, do as the locals do is a great way to go about actually knowing a place. But if you want to spend one day of your multi-day trip ticking off things to see in a more efficient fashion-- on a "hop-on, hop-off" bus or Segway or whatever-- go for it. I've been on several trips with my kids (youngest, now 6) where a day of easy sightseeing in the middle has been a lifesaver.
It's both. Hospitalization is up, so it's really unlikely infections aren't also up.
Whether you're American or not is irrelevant. Your comments make it amply clear that you're a xenophobic bigot.

And, yes, actually I feel more than 100% entitled to live in a country that has been my home for my entire adult life. I don't care if xenophobic bigots like you don't. I also support how most undocumented immigrants feel -- that they have a right to be here, and that they belong here. I condemn your miserable, nationalistic, bigoted, hateful, xenophobic and insulting attitude towards the right of people to live where they chose. Screw your attitude, and hopefully once Democrats fully win, both myself along with millions of other undocumented folks will be able to reside without being hated on.
While those are good options for going from point A to point B, you lose a lot of the qualities of just wandering around a new city and exploring new things.
Right, you know Eric Gardner's name, which means that he is one of the people cops have killed that many people generally consider more of a murder.

You add up all those people and the ratio is about 100:1.
This generally comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer legal requirements, for preventing money laundering.
On a more practical note, why is the NYT insisting on their idiotic policy? If you want to make sure no one ever speaks on the record to your newspaper ever again, ham-fisted policies like this are a great choice.
These sound like hardware driver issues with your Windows 10, these are not normal experiences.
This reminds me of the james damore debacle a few years ago[1]. He simply wanted to discuss facts. Those facts were seen as being too dangerous for others' feelings and the feelings won.

America is quickly turning into personality cults and being dismantled into a set of ideologies. The illusions required to make the ideologies true post facto are being made into the "facts" and world views like science and logic are being dismantled.

[1]:https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
I do like that the page does a better job of filling the window; nothing irks me more than wasted space.

I also like that it's a lot friendlier to narrow windows (no horizontal overflow/scrolling); makes it more convenient to put it side-by-side with something else.
I mean, preferences kinda are what they are. You can convince people their preferences are stupid, but preferences in dating are amoral.
Having a mustache isn't an innate trait. A person could shave or (possibly) grow a mustache, but they cannot change their date of birth.
This article says they remove CO2 and water because they freeze solid, and it implies oxygen remains in the mix: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19785689

I am guessing they pump the liquid air and then “boil” it, so there is no risk of selective vapourisation as they are not boiling the bulk liquid within the tank.
Wow that is unfortunate, thanks for the clarification, I'm not familiar with the area or Segways, though I do go to DC every few years for the museums.
Try 1Blocker, you might be surprised what it does offer:

https://1blocker.com/
Wow, that one looks like a SourceForge clone.
At some point, isn't this just Shannon coding that takes advantage of higher-order probabilities?
Making excuses for one's own bad behaviours has nothing to do with the context, it has to do purely with the individual's integrity and holding oneself accountable or lack thereof.
I love how most of the comments on here are already proving the author's point by just picking on the irrationality of astrology.
The basic problem is exactly "missing context and drawing conclusions from incomplete information" and that every person could fall victim to that sort of attack and misunderstanding.

You can try to defend against it by hiding from it, or you can try to defend against it by overwhelming it to show that everybody is "guilty" of one thing or another. It is entirely reasonable to have good justifications for hiding, but it is also something to strive for, a life situation where you don't have to care about idiots and pitchforks.

What I think is vital is convincing everyone that a single piece of context-free information does not demonstrate the value of a person's entire life.
Most of the discourse motivating what's going on is in the English language, so perhaps that's a factor.
And I’m not defending people who do that. But this also kind of proves the point of the article that we are quick to stereotype folks who do astrology, when it’s likely a very diverse thinking group. I know a few friends into it and for them it’s a bit real and a bit tongue in check. Ask your friends who are into astrology, I bet not all use it as a tool to dismiss actions or predestine things.
> I'm a gay man of color

What is the connection here? What does that have to do with linking relationship dynamics to astrology?
The article says 25%.
People choose to grow and maintain mustaches, they are choices not an invariant.

But point taken.
>A more appropriate analogy would be “I won’t date anyone with a mustache”,

You can choose whether to have a mustache or not. A better analogy might be something like eye/hair color.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more people talk about source hut (https://sr.ht) on HN. If you're a github/gitlab/git* user it does all the things you want, has a lightweight text focused interface, it's run sustainably, que demande le peuple.

I am not affiliated with Source Hut in anyway other than being a satisfied customer.
> I can't help but think that this effect isn't what I want from this community, however. I want reasoned discussion that helps me to see issues from various points of view, but instead I get a bunch of uninformed opinions from people who didn't even read the thing they're opining on.

Some of the absolute best discussions I've read and sometimes participated in on HN have been tangents or inconsequential to the article they were attached to. I would miss those types of discussion sorely if they were gone.

There are tools to help manage this though. You can collapse comment threads, and if you find a particular vein of discussion not really to your liking, I suggest doing that so you can focus on what you do enjoy (and others can do the same, even if the items they read and ignore are entirely different than yours).

Personally, since these comments aren't the comments of the article in question (usually. Sometimes they just refer you here!), I think of it less as comments to the author when posting here, and more like a discussion in a group examining that article. Sort of like a book group, where people splinter into subgroups to have discussions that interest them, and even those that failed to read the book might find a place to contribute.
Has the Co–Star app been ban then too?
I think the era--to the grandparents' point--was a significant factor. Back then we still believed in immediately transformational technology. There was a widespread belief that an aviation or space-travel breakthrough was imminent. There was hope for incredible new energy sources. Effectively, there was a collective hope that there were undiscovered realms of physics that would unlock a completely new period of human history.

We have made amazing technological leaps in the last 20 years, but you don't have to go far searching Hacker News to find articles complaining about evolutionary progress instead of revolutionary.

I wonder what Gen Z thinks about technological progress. As a millennial that straddled the analog-digital divide, I took huge leaps of progress for granted. My friends and I compared American and Soviet fighter jets, we compared horsepower in muscle cars, we compared specs on processors. We also tinkered with everything, and nearly every system could be easily understood by poking at the internals. Now, what's the point?

Anyway, that's a long way of saying that the Segway hype is a generational thing, I don't think we'll ever see anything like that again.
True. I edited to reflect personal preference.
Thanks for your question!

The main value proposition is raw performance which translates into hardware efficiency and ultimately, costs at scale.

To get a rough idea of how we compare, you could try to running `select cab_type, count() from trips` and `select passenger_count, avg(total_amount) from trips`. They are the equivalent of queries (1) and (2) of this benchmark [1]. In this benchmark, BigQuery took 2 seconds for each query.

Our server runs both in hundreds of milliseconds. And this is actually slow because this is the same server which is currently being hammered by HN users. Also, we are scanning more rows. Our dataset contains 1.6 billion rows while the benchmark attached runs on 1.1 billion. Lastly, we only use one 24-core CPU from one server while the top of this benchmark is clusters or GPUs.

Of course this is only approximation but I hope to be given the chance to feature in this benchmark when we are ready.

[1] https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
Yes, I was really impressed to be contacted by a genuine developer with sensible questions when I gave feedback on the GitHub Android app beta a little while back (funnily enough, given other comments here, my concern was it had simplified away something I found useful!)
I find the type system and the errors difficult. The basics are easy (like you would use in Elm for example) but once you are talking about types that are related to other types, GHC extensions and all that, I quickly run into inscrutable errors that might take 1-2 hours of Googling to resolve.

Basic Haskell is lovely though. It's why I liked Elm initially although it does take it a bit too far in the basic direction.

The problem with Haskell is it's purity and thirst for abstraction means more and more complex type definitions and ideas - monad transformers (yes I know they are supposed to be 'easy') - and GADTs for example. And if you want to use libraries, you need to get these concepts to merely be able to read the example code. It's table stakes like known what "npm i" means when looking at a node module doco.

Javascript on the other hand, for all it's warts, allows you to cheat by wrangling directly with the data. This has a lot of issues but it is a lot easier to grok - to the point where non programmers use it as a scripting language. Sometimes people do some weird shit with proxies/promises - and you'll get that type of code in any Turing-Complete and useful language, but on the whole most libraries do keep it simple and scrutable.
That somewhat exaggerates things. There are fewer "deaths" over the weekend due to reporting delays. It's still 500+.
I'm struck by this in TFA:

> In effect, Scott was trying to erect a firewall between his Internet persona and his personal and professional identities, and was relying on the entire world’s goodwill not to breach that firewall.

And it obviously did matter to him, because he took his blog down over the coming NYT article.

So what I wonder is why he didn't erect a far more effective firewall, one that didn't rely on goodwill. If he was writing pseudonymously, I don't get how his blog's credibility would rely on his true identity. But perhaps it did, in a subtle way.
There is no reason to disbelieve the subjects of this potential story got the impression the story is going to be positive. This happens a lot and sometimes turns out to be inaccurate, it's at the center of lots of post-publication journalism kerfuffles. But we haven't seen the story. We haven't heard the journalist's description of any of these interactions. All we have are the impressions and recollections of one side.
> This doesn't make sense - the writer is hardly going to say its gonna be a hatchet job

The writer doesn't have to make any representation at all that it will have a spin.

> and if he said it was going to be anything other than positive then Scott Alexander would have mentioned that as it would have made his caution all the more understandable.

It would have made his projected sense of betrayal after cooperation in the piece less understandable if the journalist hadn't explicitly promised favorable coverage.

To characterize intended tone before research is complete is to hold oneself out as doing propaganda (promotion, specifically, when what is promised is positive coverage of a subject) rather than journalism, and it's obviously a betrayal if someone offers you promotion and then turns around and reveals information you'd rather not have revealed, whereas a journalist doing neutral journalism revealing facts about an active participant in public debate that that participant doesn't want publicly disclosed is...not even remotely noteworthy as such (though the facts so revealed might be.)
Go or Nim.
What does Apple hope to accomplish with this overreach?
1. People who really do believe in astrology are not likely to stop doing so, if anything, being marginalized is likely to make them more extreme in their beliefs.
2. People who just want to have fun with yet another twist on a dating app are, you know, just having fun.

But I think this article is unfairly conflating astrology with LGBTQ or POC issues.
Many countries had local versions of Sesame Street. I watched the spanish one when I was a kid and felt totally identified with the people and scenarios there.
Neither all the characters had high pitched voices (just rewatched a bit to confirm my memory :)
Yep. A lot of people call pumped storage "water batteries" or the like[0]. It baffles me as well, but now that language is evolving to redefine a battery as pretty much anything that generates electrical power than can be recharged with electrical power, I guess that's the world we're walking into and I should get used to that.

[0] https://www.hydropower.org/sites/default/files/publications-...
You're complaining about astrology preferences which are, for all intents and purposes, a micro-niche of dating.

Wait until you find out the importance of how tall a person is (specifically, how tall men are). You're in for a surprise.
I wasn’t familiar with Judith Shklar before reading this article, but her insights seem both timely and worthy of further consideration.
I’ve read most of what’s been written on SSC for the last several years, so I don’t exactly think of him as an anonymous blogger. And the Times is made up of people, most of whom I’m sure are very talented and conscientious, but people nonetheless.

Journalists, as people, make mistakes. I suppose I would be equally incredulous if I hadn’t read so much of what Scott has written. And I think you have a very good point about “real journalism,” which is why I’m very interested to see what happens.
We might intentionally choose to quell the infidel, but the quelling-urge is implicit to ideology-attachment, I think.
So yeah, bad analogy from the parent poster. But what's the point of quibbling?

There are other innate traits that might factor into who we date, something about how they look, perhaps?
Maybe not from NPR, but it's hard not to see a cynical motive here. If you incite more and more escalation, you get more violence and unrest which means more clicks and views.
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It's all fine for me except:

main repository view on widescreen puts all the "Code, Issues, Pull Requests etc..." buttons way over to the left. Why not just centre it like the repository files view below it? Seems completely bizarre and adds extra mouse movement between files and the buttons above.
I love it! It is finally usable on mobile.