skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same group that classifies Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam as a hate group (the SLPC) is also saying that the idea that there is a liberal equivalent to the alt-right is a misconception. And you disagreed with what I was saying, but then yourself also stated that there is a large difference between the people who were banned and extreme leftists: the size of their audience.
> ... everyone else in that country also did.

They really don't, most of my generation and their parents do everything they can to avoid it, but that aside:

I am all fine with serving my country, I would love to go back for e.g. 2 month per year or biannual to teach what I have gained to the next generation at a high school or university whatever even village schools.

The problem is military is not the one I could be the most useful, apart from the ethical questions. And they don't give you a choice about how you serve your country.
Theoretically, yes. But you are already limited by the position knowledge of the OneWeb satellites themselves. Currently they rely on on-board GPS receivers for their position knowledge which is quoted as 10m (1σ) [0]. Timing knowledge is quoted as 50 ns (1σ), so when calculating time-of-flight from the satellite this will add another 15m of error. So you won't be able to get better than that number, and it will likely be significantly worse than that and you could get errors up in to the 100m range.

With regular handlheld GPS receivers or smartphones you can usually get an accuracy of a couple of meters under open sky [1/2]. And if you get precision GPS receiver units which can use dual-band and differential GPS you can get down in to the centimeter accuracy range [3]. So there is a very big orders of magnitude difference with what you could do with the OneWeb satellites right now.

[0] https://onewebsatellites.com/arrow/

[1] https://activelivingresearch.org/positional-accuracy-six-por...

[2] https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/

[3] https://r12.trimble.com/
I believe Switzerland is a Galileo member: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_13_...

Plus, millennia of mountain living have provided us with an unerring sense of direction anyway.
I don’t know where this is going but my uninformed hunch is going it alone is not going to save them. They need a savior like Bezos who will squander money if necessary to keep it afloat.

But who knows maybe they have an ace up their sleeve.
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Doesn't the question mark at the end make up for the arrogance of the rest of the title?
For the MySQL folks, see Vitess as an example on how to run Kubernetes on MySQL: https://vitess.io
If I was going to choose a potion, I think I'd stick with garlic. Old-school, but can be labelled organic in 2020.

You should check out the Youtube videos on plague in the 1500's. Exactly like the response to corona today - it's eerie.

Just like China welded residents in their apartments, they used to nail your doors shut. Oh, and the 1%ers ran for the hills, too.
Ask HN: What are some books like Getting Real?
I just finished reading Getting Real, it was an interesting book and I find the idea is somewhat opposite to "how to build a billion dollar app" book, or most of the product development books I've found recently.

I wonder if there's any other books that has the same idea (about product development, don't tell you to aim high and wait until you have a multi-billion idea before you build,...)?
> stateful services

yeah either these services support natively partitioning, fail over and self recovery or you have to be extremely careful not to cause any eviction or agent crash ever.

even something born for the cloud like cockroachdb can fail in interesting ways if the load order varies and you can't just autoscale it because every new node has to be nudged into action with a manual cluster-init, and draining nodes after the peak means manually telling the cluster not to wait for the node to come alive ever again for each node, wait for the repartitioning and then repeat for as many nodes as you need to scale back
Many (> 5-ish?) years ago, Spotify required Facebook login
It's disgusting to see racism, transphobia, misogyny, and general hate speech spread by Molyneux and others be normalized as 'opinions'.

They aren't interested in discourse, they only want to spread their garbage while cowordly hiding behind a dated concept of free (hate) speech. Molyneux especially dodges every debate where his oposition is somewhat knowledgeable.
I wonder if Apple would be ok with asking them to give up their email?

Apple clearly likes the idea of the hide option... personally I would expect a less than positive reception from Apple.

I get where both AnyList (if they asked) and Apple (if they didn't like it) would be coming from here.

It does seem to be a shortcoming here where outside of a user one time sign up situation... you don't want to have to burden the user with coming up with silly names and codes to use social like features that require someone else knowing an identifier for you that isn't email.

I don't want to go back to a time where we have to remember / pass along everyone's ICQ number. ...
Deploying Racket Web Apps
That special flair thing is amazing. I had no idea. I wonder how long before we see forums using it for other skin colors and genetic types. It's exactly the opposite of the trend of text-oriented interfaces democratizing access.
Ok, what if this person were a thug and he advocates for a "thug life" (as an arbitrary example, a gangsta rapper)? And let's say he committed a lot of crime and physical harm to other people?

Would you issue the same behavior towards him? Would you be very vocal about it?
Didn't say he was alt right, but he doesn't use his massive platform responsibly. There's a difference between interviewing a presidential candidate and interviewing a white supremacist.
It’s easy to do. You should get at least some more handy friends — or become one yourself: it will broaden your understanding of your environment, most things are very easy to fix and change.
Please Find Mistakes in This Proof
Crimea was on their doorstep and Assad already had strong ties to the Russians.

The US Navy and marines are the 2nd largest Air Force in the world, the first been the US airforce.

Russia is clearly a regional power but it is not a superpower except in nuclear weapons but it would cease to exist shortly after using those.

I’ve no dog in the fight, I’m British but the US military is vast, it’s so mind bogglingly big that it’s just taken for granted at this point.

In tonnage of combatants the US navy is larger than the next 8 combined, 6 of who are allies.

It’s crazy how over gunned they are tbh and they spend less as a share of GDP than the Russians do.
This is suspicious. So much for free-speech and open debate. Just let people hear both sides and make up their own minds.
The thing about Alex Jones is that he takes about 18 hours of reading and condenses it into about 7 words.

Turning the frogs gay

Evidence suggests that pharmaceuticals are making their way into waste water and altering the hormones of amphibious animals.

They're reading all our emails

The NSA turned off encryption methods on American communications, which were previously in place, after 9/11 with the implementation of the patriot act

Interdimensional space vampires

Elites believe that the world was 'seeded' by aliens, they are pagans who have two kinds of holidays. Those that require sexual sacrifice, and those that require blood.

Parroting communist propaganda? Remember the "dotard" remark that was literal propaganda and was picked up and parroted by people who knew better?
From the OP: "You can expect to see an AnyList app update soon that removes Facebook Login."
There are already an open issue about it : https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/26
> One problem is that most Apple IDs are tied to an iCloud email address. So most accounts created via Sign in with Apple will use an iCloud email address. But many of those iCloud email addresses are unused and unchecked, because a customer’s “real” email account is their Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account.

Wow, this is a really good point. I just checked and yup -- my AppleID is directly linked to my icloud email, and I've never once checked my icloud email account. I wonder what's in there. Meh, too lazy to go check it
Chinese period drama reverses gender roles
Lot of people on this thread are saying that put these behind permissions and call it a day!
You people don't understand that not everyone is tech savvy and understand permissions well.
My dad keeps giving on permissions on any website asking on his Android device as he just wants to get rid of them.

Think about how many websites you visit and how many apps you install. I bet second number is way smaller than first one. When installing apps - you put some trust into app and lot of non tech people understand same (thankfully taught by antiviruses to not install random thing). People are not willing to install lot of apps but always willing to visit websites to "check it out".

Privacy fundamentally limits UX and there is direct trade-off. I believe Apple is doing right thing to protect privacy of millions of non tech people.
I think it's mostly engineering, somewhat mathematics, and a little bit science.

CS papers introduce new ideas, often with proofs (maths). They also incrementally improve the way things are done (engineering).

CS practitioners try to solve real-world problems to maximise value and minimise costs (engineering again).

Science is about investigating the unknown, formulating hypotheses and checking them against measurements. While measurement is done in computing, it usually boils down to a fairly engineering-centric set of metrics (how fast is this algorithm and how much memory does it use?)

Here are some made-up sciencey-type headlines that we don't see:

* Scientists closer to understanding how a CPU works.

* Researcher discovers first non-Turing-complete programming language.

* Macs transmit 10% more JSON data than PCs.

* Replication study fails to compress data using tar.
How to Stop Your Phone from Spying on You [video]
Thanks for sharing. Will read this up. Hope that helps lose some of my disillusionment with Stratechery.
I don't know if it has a particular name, but it is a common problem: fast average case, slow worst case.

A common example is the quicksort algorithm. It is often considered the fastest sorting algorithm in the general case but it is still O(n²) in the worst case. According to statistics, it should never happen in practice, however, with cleverly ordered data, it can. That's why some libraries prefer to use a slightly slower algorithm (ex: heap sort) but with a O(n.log(n)) guarantee, so that it can't be DDoSed.

Unbalanced binary trees can have the same problem, on random data, they work fine, but improperly used, they degenerate into much slower linked lists. Hash tables can also be exploited if they don't used a cryptographically secure hash function, and these are rarely used because they can be so slow as to negate the advantage of using a hash table in the first place.
This example doesn't feel very "arbitrary."
Politics is much more nuanced than Left and Right. Plus, a person can have multiple identities depending the question to vote on. So, while it's interesting to correlate emotion with voting outcomes, it still assumes that Far Left and Far Right are different people, instead of schizophrenic blobs as they actually are. At least that is an alternative way of looking at it. This assumes people are consistent in their personal views, and I find that to be a very dubious claim.
A year or two ago, Canadian conservative professor and YT superstar Jordan Peterson announced he was going to free conservative and "alternative content producers" from the yoke of Valley owned online media companies by creating his own, conservative media platform. What ever happened to this? Vaporware?

It appears conservative content creators knew their days were counted on advertising-financed mainstream media outlets, yet they did not prepare accordingly. Obviously there is a market for their content, what is so hard in organizing and creating their own media outlet?
Propaganda is powerful. If China wanted to send a message to change public opinion around the world tweaking the recommendation algorithm to do that would be a very helpful tool.
No... corporation and dividend taxes require companies to be making profit, and companies almost always need working employees to do that, and sales tax only exists when people buy things - that's not happening anywhere near as much when everyone is only earning a basic income. What did I miss? And let's not forget there are still all the other public services to pay for.

I can certainly see potential in the idea of UBI, but primarily as a means of support when it's needed, not as a spur to retirement at 35.
Part of it is a flip side of hiding comment scores. I think it's helped, but it also means that horrible comments that are too young to have been modded down yet are just as prominent as comments that the community agrees with. (If not more, due to the comment-order-semi-randomizer.)

One thing I have noticed in that vein is that it's impossible to tell whether a particular thread of comments is representative of a commonly held viewpoint, or if it's one commenter with an axe to grind. And if it's one commenter, they may have an entirely valid axe to grind! And then, even if it is valid, that axe may be totally off-topic for the post and dominate the conversation, retreading tired old ground and sucking up all the air in the room for interesting, relevant, new conversation. (Collapsable threading helps a lot though.)
> What am I missing?

No laws or "due process" are being broken when Gab—a social network created to host as much hate speech as possible—is denied access to Visa's financial network.

I'm not suggesting we "subvert the rule of law", I'm suggesting we use the existing laws (and pass new ones when needed, like Biden wants to do) to disarm racist Whites before they attempt to kill vulnerable minorities.

Literally yesterday there was a racist White couple in St. Louis [0] pointing guns at peaceful protestors—safeties off, fingers on the trigger. Under Biden's proposed legislation, they could easily be given a (well-deserved) hate crime misdemeanor and then have their guns taken away. That's "due process" and "the rule of law" at work.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/us/st-louis-couple-protest-fi...
Tinder’s.

Their whole point was that you could be confident the people were real because they were tied to a real Facebook account.
If they do they will be called racists and white supremacists.

And I'm the crazy one when I say social media is only banning right wingers.
How does this pan out for major sci libraries, like NAG, IMSL/MKL, GSL, BLAS, LAPACK etc.? Do distributions control the optimization levels used with a particular compiler, or just make sure it simply passes the tests?
Who are these people, and who is telling them that? Cite sources.
For a time I believe Spotify required a FB login. I recall not using it early on because I couldn’t create an account without connecting it to FB.
I'm not sure the distinction between logical discourse and life advice is a useful one to draw. The reason that ad hominem is considered harmful is it leads to dismissing ideas without considering their merit.

Dismissing advice out of hand purely based off of the source seems like a dangerous shortcut to espouse, as it's likely to lead to groupthink and echo chambers. I think, when looking for advice, one should go out of ones way to solicit different backgrounds (dare I say, a diverse set of opinions) and then synthesize them into a course of action.

See also, taking the other side to lunch.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/505588812
I like this approach. While I don't use it for any Rust programs I'm working on, I do use it for certain java reflection based things.
> Wait, what?? Why on earth would you use an app with ads for health devices?!?

GP said they want to _write_ a web app that talks to health devices. And that they like the web platform because it's easy to block ads shown to you by other web apps.

I will add that it's also easier to detect/block tracking. Browsers such as Firefox even try to do this for you these days. And to generally examine what the app is doing (e.g. by running it in JS debugger).

Yes, paid apps usually (but not always) remove ads. They keep the telemetry, though.
ooh! I've been running the Zalando operator in production on Azure for ~ a year now, nothing crazy but a couple thousand qps and a tb of data spread across a several clusters. It's been a little rough since it was designed for AWS, but pretty fun. At this point, I'm 50/50, our team is small and i'm not sure that the extra complexity added by k8s solved any problems that azures managed postgres product doesn't also solve. We weren't sure we were going to stay on azure at the time we made the decision as well -- if I was running in a hybrid cloud environment I would 100% choose postgres on k8s.

The operator let us ramp up real quickly with postgres as a POC and gave us mature clustering and point-in-time restoration, and the value is 100% there for dev/test/uat instances, but depending on our team growth it might be worth it to switch to managed for some subset of those clusters once "Logical Decoding" goes GA on the azure side. Their hyperscale option looks pretty fun as well, hopefully some day i'll have that much data to play with.

I can also say that the Zalando crew has been crazy responsive on their github, it's an extremely well managed open source project!
I think it is the sum of the two. They don't want the Chinese government to have that much influence over their population.

It is an extreme move, but I see the logic behind it.
The ranking algorithm is the least of anyone's worries in my opinion.
That seems like a good weekend project idea if there is no such system now.
I've been using Azlo and it's been great for my business.
Yes and it applies to them too
Has anyone built a bridge that mirrors issues between Github & Gitlab? (the codebase can obv. just be synced via git itself)

Would be awesome if you could pick your platform without losing all the devs who only use one platform or the other to discuss issues.
The German state has been banning and imprisoning sympathizers of white supremacist groups for a few decades by now. I'm not seeing a mass censorship of non-hate-based ideologies there.

I'm not seeing the slippery slope. To say that purging one ideology is the same as all means that you see no difference between hateful supremacist positions and any other types of ideas. Which is ridiculous.
So the financial center is moving to... 4 places? I know nothing about banking, but that's generally not how centers work.
Mercury has been great! Used SVB at my last company and it's a big improvement.
Funnily enough, Alex Jones' statement is mostly true:

"Hayes and his colleagues raised 40 male African clawed frogs in water containing atrazine, from when they were larvae all the way up until sexual maturity. The atrazine levels were about what the frogs would experience in environments where the pesticide is used, and below levels that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for drinking water.

They compared this atrazine-exposed group with 40 other male frogs reared in atrazine-free water.

At the end of the experiment, all frogs in the atrazine-free group remained male, while 10 percent of the frogs exposed to atrazine were completely feminized — their genes said they should be male, but they had female anatomy, including ovaries. The feminized frogs were able to mate with males and produce viable eggs."

https://www.livescience.com/10957-pesticide-turns-male-frogs...
I'm going to be fascinated to see what this does for conversions. My company built the Neil Young Archives, when doing so we initially launched with Social log ins and at one point Neil decided Facebook and Google were evil and wanted to remove the access. According to our logs a full 2/3s of all users were registering with a social account and we were having great success getting folks to log into a free service (We had 250k sign ups over the first weekend, we thought Auth0 might turn us off as we started on a tier capped around 40k)

We assumed this success would quickly taper off if it wasn't "one click" to sign up with your Google/Faceboook account an talked Neil off the ledge.
I suspect that many genuinely kind hearted people think they are doing the right thing by silencing the speech of those whom they find repulsive but have never stopped to ask themselves “Why are the oligarchs on my side?”
Project Dragonfly is alive and well and unfolding before our very eyes.
This is how democracy dies.
> ... web pages that talk to ... health devices ... there is no way to block ads in an app

You’ve selectively mixed two paragraphs to change the meaning of what I actually said.

I did not say I want to use apps with ads with health devices, at all. That’s a complete straw man.

I said I want to access my own sports equipment via Bluetooth from a webpage I’ve written myself.

I also said that I dislike apps because the user looses control over things like tracking, selecting text, zooming and whether adverts are shown.
That's right, including Russian sauce:

https://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday

3.9M subscribers, so they're pretty popular.
Wind and obstacle motion affect honeybee flight strategy in complex environments
What is your theory, that no one has ever declined to do business with a rapper? You might want to do some fact checking on that.
I don't understand this. For all of my life I thought racism = discrimination against someone due to their race. In the same way that sexist = discrimination against someone due to their sex. Ageist = discrimination against someone due to their age. Is this not the clear cut definition anymore? At what point did it diverge?
> You mean the same way you are in control over what data tracking you allow

I am still confused. How is it different from the native app situation? How can you be sure which of your data is being tracked by the Facebook app, or Twitter app, or Instagram app, or whatever the cool kids use these days?
Remind me when was the last time that an organized revolutionary Marxist movement openly defied the US government in its own soil.
My mind is blown that the CEO, legal, public relations, and any other higher ups approved this. It can be spun in so many different ways and opens up a huge can of worms. Asians are the majority group globally, so is reddit saying it's okay to be racist towards Asians?

This particular sentence is something that anyone who has taken a single public relations class or law school class (or really just has any common sense) would read and immediately cross out from the announcement. Even if this is indicative of how you operate internally, it just isn't something that anyone with half a brain would include in an official public policy announcement.

That means that either 1) nobody reviewed this, 2) people reviewed this but didn't think this huge dumpster fire of a statement was a big deal, or 3) people reviewed this, caught it, but then reddit decided to keep the statement in.

I honestly don't know which is worse.
> India is absolutely right in banning TikTok as it is a significant national securities threat.

This is just a lame attempt at economic warfare and "misinformation campaigns" is a very weak excuse.

What concerns me the most is that in 2020 people are overwhelmingly in favor of governments and corporations controlling what their people watch and read and think.
Come on... It's not so simple
>All American companies move in lockstep. We see one company after another pull out of facebook advertising very quickly last week. They work together as a group with a consistent goal.

Sounds like they're moving in lockstep in response to public sentiment. Is that a bad thing?
And the 50+ Chapo Traphouse related subs?