skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears the author wants to convince us of his credentials as a progressive and then use any good will that generates to try and persuade us that environmentally progressive ideas are wrong. He claims we have been 'badly misinformed' by people with 'unsavory or unhealthy motivations'. But this synopsis of his book makes it look like it could have been written by a coalition of lobbyists from the meat and nuclear industries. Who are we to trust?

Also I think it's interesting that the only positive review he includes is from Richard Rhodes. I have never read anything from Richard Rhodes, but the second amazon review of his book Energy: A Human History has this to say 'the author is highly skeptical about renewable sources like wind and solar, waxing instead about the lost promise of nuclear'.
If you buy a house, this situation is hopefully only temporary. If you rent, this will just keep going or get even worse.
Mobile apps are designed to be used on mobiles. But what about web apps? You need many versions of the app, from smart-watches to desktop monitors and smart TV's. And then they will be crippled by the web chrome/shell, so we are stuck with Electron/NW.js apps if you want it to blend in to the OS.
What's nice with web apps though is that they are sand-boxed, compared to Electron/NW.js apps that get full system access.
What needs to be done is to give better design/layout possibilities for web apps once they are installed on the "shelf/desktop", for example transparency, able to design the top bar, able to have a window menu.
Or maybe the future is UI toolkits like Flutter and React Native ?
If Linus wants a maintainer he can just sign kernel maintainership duties over to the entity that will end up with them anyway: Red Hat.
I was excited hearing that. But seeing the pricing.. yikes.
The web subscription for 50$/year requires a iOS or mac standalone license for 50$ one-time.

If I would be able to use the iOS/Mac native app, I wouldn't even need the web version....

I understand that focusing on Apple(OS features) is what makes these apps so great. But it's sad to not beeing able to use these apps, even when they finally offer a web version.
As a person that makes decisions based on data, rather than emotions, it would be interesting to see a comparison of the volume of such incidents on both sides. Is there a similar repo of the looting and violence committed by protesters? I think that would give a more accurate picture of all of this. We would then know if the police brutality incidents paled in comparison to violence/looting by the public, or vice versa.
What is truly criminal is many judges retire with seventy five percent to up to one hundred percent of their salary plus benefits.

I really wish people here would understand the real fleecing of America isn't by the CEOs of the country, they cannot make you pay their retirement but public servants can and those at the upper levels easily pull down one hundred thousand or more per year when retired!
Isn't that only getting halfway there? No one could "make a bundle" from copying my work if everything could be copied freely (including me, without some other way to get paid). I agree that authors (and musicians, and artists, etc.) would like to be paid for their work, though currently it seems like publishing companies manage to channel most of that money into their own pockets instead (and the costs of 'publishing' and 'distributing' a digital work are certainly a lot lower than a physical copy, yet somehow their prices are often the same).
Then disable it. Judging from comments in this post, there seem to be numerous people who like it. And given Mozilla owns Pocket and a small amount of revenue is coming from it, what is wrong with pushing it?
That's absolutely correct I don't seem myself as the judge either. I can however decide on my own what I want to read/hear/see and what not and I make use of that. I have no need to brush things right or wrong for others I want to decide for myself and I want other to be able to decide for themselves. The order of priorities is quite clear, its choice and freedom on top and not correctness as defined by whoever is in charge at a time.
Because it’s a nice and fast browser for someone in the Apple ecosystem. To me personally I really like the synchronization of my history, bookmarks and reading-list between all my Apple devices.
Last I checked, GitHub lets you create projects that span multiple repos. But it’s still a good point that you shouldn’t be mangling your source control system to be a customer-facing support portal.
I’d be interested to know this as well. In the case of the SAFEnetwork, I believe smart contracts wouldn’t need to be part of at2 as they have BLS-DKG integrated into the system which can enable smart contracts that could interact with a wallet no problem. I’m certainly looking forward to how at2 works on a live network. AFAIK Maidsafe are the only ones to adopt this solution, so far. Could really disrupt the disruptors.
This comment reads like it was written by one of those Chinese social media comment farms.
Four streams of defects for prioritizing bugfixes
I enjoy Times Square.

I remember Times Square before it was "disneyfied".

Everyone bemoaning the loss of the "real and gritty" Times Square is either a:

* hypocrite,

* amnesiac, and/or

* idiot

The "real and raw" parts of the internet are only enjoyed by people whose lives are so pathetic that they have to fill the emptiness with conflict and bigotry.

Prohibiting hate speech against minorities, homosexuals, and transexuals (and for some reason it is always transexuals) is not "corporate approved" it is basic human decency. If advertisers dropping out is a necessary catalyst to spur the faux-libertarian techbros into action, so be it.

Like with codes of conduct in open source communities, the bigots can't stand when they are told that they have to act like human beings despite the fact that they are on the internet and think that the rules should be different and self-righteous (but ultimately futile) bitching will always accompany the implementation of standards on the internet that are already used in every other facet of life.
Reminds me of the Paradise papers leaks and how the journalist uncovering an international potential money laundering operation got car bombed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
The whole thing there can be reduced to the observation: why does society let foster care and youth protective services exist?

You might say "well to protect kids". Except, there's a massive body of research proving that they make things worse, certainly on average:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583

Massive negative effects, from reading scores, to later earnings, to subjective happiness (yes, really, kids report more happiness while being abused than in youth services), to later crimes.

So no youth protection is better for everyone. This is obvious in the case of scandals and the many "accidents". But it is true in general. And it is true for everyone. No child protection is better for the kid, for families (obviously I guess), and due to the increase in crime if we destroyed youth protection causes, it is better for society itself. If you start checking, you will find that youth protection is involved in the raising of many of the worst criminals we've ever known.

Even child psychiatry and "special needs schools" ... well. Comparing symptoms upon entry and symptoms upon exit paints a very clear picture that really questions why they're allowed to exist.

https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007...

And then of course there's the many scandals that these people keep and keep and keep producing. Abuse within foster families is higher than in families in youth protection services. In institutions it is a lot higher.

So they don't protect kids.

And crimes are astronomically higher in both foster care and institutional care (and youth psychiatry).

So they don't protect society against those kids either.
This too good!
I‘m working for 2 companies atm where one uses Jira and one uses Linear.

Doing anything in Jira / confluence is really slow. It’s a nightmare to navigate and it seems like every time I click on anything, it takes 2-3 seconds to load.

It’s really hard to explain but I guarantee you that if you tried linear out, you’d “get it”.
Feds aim to bolster data encryption practices for .gov websites
> Or maybe safety net is not so much about user safety as it is about platform lockdown and vendor safety.

Sadly, it's exactly this. It's not for your safety at all. It's for keeping stuff on your phone safe from you.
> "Lawful orders to disperse" is there such a thing?

Yes there is such a thing in Seattle. See https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code...
Oh yeah, I used to work with a guy who left our suburban telecom equipment installation company, to take a position maintaining remote cell-site equipment up north. Got a company truck and a company snowmobile.
This may be a bit too "abstract" but using mathematics to think about mathematics (ie metamathematics, philosophy of mathematics ...which is just more mathematics) is definitely the way to go.
> It is not the prisoner's dilemma at all. If everyone gets big cars then everyone is equally as safe.

All the pedestrians and cyclists they mow down are less safe though.

And everything becomes more polluted, which is presumably also not equally safe.
The fundamental issue with our copyright and patents laws are the length of validity. This in turn breeds more issues (with patents in particular) encouraging frivolous patents because there is such a long potential return on investment period.

I recommend we decrease patent durations of all varieties by about 50% (patents should never last longer than 10 years as they do now [0]). For copyrights, there is some merit to not allowing others to take over your work during the life of the author. But for anonymous works, works that have transferred ownership from the author, and for copyright terms after the death of the author, I would agree to a similar limit of 10 years of copyright.

[0] https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/patents/duratio....
Interesting indeed! I’ve heard the same concept called “nano deaths”
> forced to use proprietary phones and software, just to live here

That sounds doubtful. What kind of "phones" and what kind of software does the Swedish government require you to use?

Note that I agree with your general point of locking people and power users out of the hardware they are supposed to be the owners of, it's just that part that kind of detracts from the point (I'm going to go ahead and assume phones and software are not actually required).
The problem is that people don't recognize the efforts of the ones who do it. Antirez did it for years. Do people expect someone to have the same very high-profile job with constant overtime and the same project for their entire lives? His efforts to stay on that project were heroic.

There are lots of other people who want to maintain it. Let them, and if they screw it up that is not his fault. He finished his project. Give him a break.
I remember reading about this in "Sapiens". Suppose there were indeed women leaders many thousands of years back. Due to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, they would not have had any opportunity to both bear a child for a couple of years at least (9 months of pregnancy, breast feeding afterwards) and be a leader at the same time. Add to that the high rate of infant mortality and you have vastly diminishing chances of a leader-woman passing her genes to baby girls. Now compound this over thousands of generations and you will have the society of early-20th century, before infant mortality rates started going down and societies started becoming wealthier that a leader-woman has to invest only a few months at most for a child by outsourcing most of the "gatherer" duties.
It's Okay to Panic – 2020 Climate Documentary
Subtitles in English, Spanish, and Russian are available.

"There is a popular TV show, “Air Crash Investigation.” Many situations it presents apply to any type of disaster. Various small things happen. More and more of them occur. The situation gets more complicated. At some point the pilots lose control of the aircraft. Then there is no way to avoid the catastrophe. The moment when the disaster can be averted occurs a bit earlier. Many of us don’t realize the climate catastrophe is coming, and this is this very last moment when we can do something about it."
There’s no need to speculate, we know from the enquiry reported in the article he had no good reason to impose such a harsh penalty on this, or the other hundreds of people he did this sort of thing to in violation of judicial codes.
JavaScript User Authentication Libraries (2019)
$779.88 a year? Yikes. That's a lot of money.
> both sides

On one side you have police brutalizing journalists and shooting people in the face.
On the other side you have not people getting brutalized by the police.
Fair and balanced, I'm sure. Or do you think that shooting people in the face is the appropriate police response to property damage?
There's a Monty Python and the Holy Grail joke in there somewhere but I can't quite reach it.
That's the thing... just forward that site down to UberEats's site for 2 hours with an HTTP Header of "X-WANT-MORE-MONEY-CALL-ME: phone number" and you'll sell it
I don't think world can prepare for nuclear war or pandemic that's dealer than COVID-19. Our systems will break down and hopefully people will figure out how to move forward.
RIP Omni group. They will be missed.
Honestly that is exactly what I would expect China or the US to do. The process of producing the vaccine should be shared with all countries and perhaps enough vaccine samples set aside to help kick other countries kick off producing it. All countries should be trying to develop vaccines and sharing the knowledge but should also reserve production for their own citizens first.

Also the 500,000 is not just for July it includes %90 of production for August and September and of course can be used whenever before it expires. Also it is not a single does per patient more like 11 for a 10 day treatment program. So it's enough doses to treat about 15,000 patients per month for three months. The rate of new cases is accelerating and currently stands at 40,000 new cases a day and Dr. Fauci expects it to hit 100,000 per day. So I would not classify it as unnecessary hording.
If they keep increasing the price every time they add more channels pretty soon it’ll end up being the same as the old cable subscriptions. What happened to a-la-carte channels?
They recently stated that they have no intention of doing so.
I think the ethics are still different. In the case of the water heater, they deceived the test to make their heater seem more efficient than it really was. However, the heater still does its job, it just costs a bit more to run (and emits some extra CO2).

What VW did was to take a clean-burning car and disable the pollution controls under normal driving conditions, for performance reasons. So while to the consumer it seems deceptive that VWs get better performance than they should, given how clean they’re supposed to be, in reality the cars are illegal and spewing toxins they were supposed to be removing from the exhaust. This makes the cars not only a pollution source but a health hazard to people living nearby.

To get on the same level of VW, the water heater would have to be doing something like emitting low levels of carbon monoxide into the home while having a feature that avoids doing that in the laboratory. In other words, reckless and willful disregard for human health and life.
JEP Draft: Windows AArch64 Support
What Are the Hardest Parts of Kubernetes to Learn?
for a minute I thought I had notion app open due to novachat using same favicon.
Is this repo limited to police violence against journalists? I didn't pick up on that if it is.
> I will argue that Linux is successful because there's a dictator at the top that enforces a direction, a long term goal, and most importantly, says NO.

Linux is made because of many people all over the world, but it is successful because of the BDFL at the top. A consistent sense of mission absolutely benefits a project in the long term. There just isn't anyone that's going to get your idea better than you, when you're doing something that you know enough about to seriously get started on.
I believe Jail time should only apply to people who are actively a threat. I know it's not popular, but I am in favor of some form of corporal punishment over jail time, and even over fines. Fines are meaningless to the wealthy, and devastating to the poor, but getting flogged feels the same to everyone.
To some extent. https://superuser.com/questions/1121980/lto-tape-speeds https://www.quantum.com/globalassets/documents/lto-tech-brie... If these are representative, then you get about a factor of 3 to vary the speed, and the minimum is still way too fast to record most live drive use.
Been using Linear everyday for the past few months and love it.

For many that may find it interesting, here is a recent conversation I had with Linear co-founder Tuomas Artman about how they iterated by listening to their users: https://www.heraldhq.com/userstand/how-linear-leverages-thei...
> Is this repo limited to police violence against journalists?

No, but it does _include_ it. Is it your opinion that only journalists should not be shot in the face? What are your feelings re: knees on necks for 8 minutes and 46 seconds with hands in pockets looking around like nothing's wrong even though the guy with the neck went completely unresponsive minutes before the knee moved? Maybe we should ask how many police necks George Floyd put his knee on.
There is no such exception. Banks are free to do business with whomever they wish. Direktbanken are usually probably the hardest to open an account with if you are a resident abroad.

Deutsche Bank is well known for offering accounts to non-residents. Pretty much any Sparkasse will open an account for you if you walk in even without a German address.

The list of banks that don't offer accounts to non-residents is probably shorter than the other. Granted, these are mostly the ones with the best offers.
CxJS JavaScript Framework
You appear to be admitting in plain — though horribly ungrammatical — English that you don’t care about the difference between right and wrong. Why should anyone value the opinion of someone incapable of making simple moral judgements?
Every drug gets banned different though. Alcohol prohibition was a cause championed by wives and family of alcoholics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Psychedelics were banned because they got linked with the counter-culture movement in the 60's. Even coffee got largely excluded from the middle east in medieval times because it was deemed against the quran's restrictions on intoxication.
What parts? Been using it for months on Firefox.
The Decline of the American World
This seems to fit in a similar niche as ExtJS does / did.
Somehow they are still around. https://blog.trillian.im/introducing-trillian-6.3
To give some honest feedback, I think you need to put a lot more work into explaining what geometric algebra is and what the code you show in Grassmann.jl does before you can expect to get any serious funding. If nobody understands what you're talking about in the README, why would they want to fund it? Even looking in the comments here, currently the two comments complimenting you are two people who have no idea what it actually is. That might be enough to garner a passing interest, and maybe pocket-change donations, but it's not enough to get serious investments.

Furthermore, the sorts of sketchy compiler abuse being done in Grassmann and your refusal to address it until someone pays you to do so does not send the sort of message potential funding sources or people evaluating whether or not they should adopt your software want to hear.

To be clear, I do think you've done some seriously impressive work on Grassmann.jl and I wish you the best in pursuing this. I hope this is taken as constructive feedback.
>And you tell me US is the same as HK?

You are comparing what happened in one city against what happened across the entire country. Look at the actions of the NYPD during these protests. They have also received virtually no punishment despite their range of heinous acts.

An occasional incident nationwide that drives up enough outrage to force a punishment doesn't grant us some moral high ground.
You don't need to worry about a meteor taking out us-east-1 because us-east-1 will take itself out several times over before a meteor ever shows up.
If you think there's missing context, submit a pull request with a link?

Here in philly, police insisted they tear gassed protestors because they were in imminent danger. Two weeks later, they failed to find any evidence to support that, despite many camera angles. Finally issued an apology. Turns out the other side of the story was actually the same as the protestors' side; they just didn't want to admit it.
That pattern is mainly used to open an app to a specific activity. eg. opening google search to a particular search phrase, or opening the dialer to a particular phone number. I can't see it working for when you're writing a email, and want to include a link/quote/image.
Five years ago! The GTI was my late brother's (now my parents'), and he was on top of that kind of stuff. Of course, we got a recall notice last year for it, way too late. And since we did it ourselves, I don't see that VW would reimburse us for the work.
Without any content or a portal on the site, I wonder what the traffic numbers really look like right now. How many persons are manually typing burrito.com into the browser address bar every day? I've no idea.
I just setup my homeserver as was going to add a FB bridge. That's an interesting thing to note. My server is located in another country so I was weary of launching the bridge to being with since that would probably immediately trigger a security alert. Not sure if it's worth it having my account continually locked out and needing to change my password.
That level of ignorance should disqualify someone from running a tech company.
I don't like this US attitude where people think that once police has given an order to do something you have to comply immediately or you can be shot or run over no matter the situation. I just saw a video where protesters were crowding a police and suddenly the car sped up and ran over people because the cops felt "threatened". Thats just not OK.
AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified over 100 Politicians as Criminals
Another example that is my favorite post on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
I am made worse off if you steal a copy of my book though. Suppose I sell the book for X dollars and the probability that any person without my book will buy it is Y. People who don't have my book have a value to me, specifically, YX dollars.

When you steal my book, you directly cost me YX dollars, which is probably an infinitesimal amount, but if everyone was allowed to freely copy the book, then it would be approximately 100% of the money to be made by writing a book.

Of course there are complications, like, you might buy it after pirating it, or, you weren't going to buy it anyway, or maybe you'll recommend it to a friend, but I think those considerations should be evaluated by the people with skin in the game - i.e the people who will make or lose money if they get it wrong.
It walks like a duck and sounds like a duck. You can call it whatever you want, the ethos is the same.