skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My local library is gigantic. But there are hardly any books in it. The shelves are low to the ground, the aisles are wide, and the shelves only occupy about a quarter of the floor space.

I don't even bother looking for scifi there, as there's pretty much nothing. Most of the rest of the books are clearly targeted towards young readers.

Where I browse for books are thrift stores. Some deceased person's books get dumped there, and I've found and bought a ton of cool books there. Being a thrift store, they're cheap as dirt, too. Lots of old scifi, too!
as a European it makes sense if you view it as the people in charge of reddit are just thinking that reality is the USA. They are not thinking of the rest of the world. Perhaps this is why Facebook and Google is more sensible here?

it makes sense if the lawyers and PR people are american and the focus is what is important to them - where they live: America,
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How the Apple Watch tracks sleep – and why
I use jf as escape in emacs/evil ;)
Could you elaborate? Doesn’t this require users to have telegram installed?
I think cockroachDB is designed for this.
Visualizing the Rise of Digital Payment Adoption
Excellent. Look up Yakub, light your torch, and begin that purge.

You will do that, won't you? It's about racial superiority, after all.
This is a fallacy, I'm sorry. It's true that it can be impossible to determine what the specific characteristics of a belief that make it okay to silence, but that _doesn't mean there aren't differences_. We don't know when an acorn becomes a tree, but we know there is a difference. We can safely say that a tree is not an acorn, even though we don't know when that transition occurs.

We _know_ it's wrong to advocate for the ethnic cleansing of people. We _know_ it's wrong to talk about how Blacks are genetically inferior. We _know_ it's wrong to spread lies about how Jews control mass media. We can silence these evil, ignorant beliefs without being afraid that all other beliefs are at risk of being silenced.
I am wondering, Wikipedia claims that the active metabolite of this drug is a medicine for cats sold on black market; what is the price? I am sure it is way less than the ridiculous price they want for Remdesivir.
Even at a fancypants place like where I work, where they can definitely afford to replace your machine early and often, we have 36 month lifespans for our laptops. I'd expect "universal" amd64+aarch64 binaries to be available for almost all relevant software for at least 5 years from now. This article is not thinking clearly
Not the author of the slides, but know him well. A number of things to chime in on. First thanks for the kinda words on the Crunchy operator.

Second, on the earlier question higher in the thread about why would you choose to run a database in K8s. In my experience and what I've observed it's not so much you choose explicitly to run a database in K8s. Instead you've decided on K8s as your orchestration layer for a lot of workloads and it's become your standardized mechanism for deploying and managing apps. In some sense it's more that it's the standard deployment mechanism than anything else.

If you're running and managing a single Postgres database and don't have any K8s anywhere setup, I can't say I'd recommend going all in on K8s just for that. That said if you are using it then going with one of the existing operators is going to save you a lot.
The biggest problem with remdesivir is that it is administered intravenously. That makes it very hard to administer unless the patient is in the hospital. What would be ideal is if they had it in pill form, and then anyone with early symptoms could get pills instead. But without that option right now it makes it too late to administer unless the patient is already in severe condition.

They are planning on testing an inhalant version but who knows where that will land in terms of effectiveness. It might make things worse so that is much further out unless things are really lucky, which we haven’t had a lot of with coronavirus.
thanks for that. what would you point us to if we were interested in learning political science? (e.g. books, courses, communities, podcasts, blogs, channels?)
>Private corporations can and have done the same things you accused state actors of doing

I mean yeah, since those corporations were acting like a quasi-nation state. If you're willing to go back far enough, you could also point to the East India company as evidence of corporate power, although in those cases they pretty much were the state in the areas that they operated. I'm not sure whether you could say the same about corporations today.
I'm from a western country and I know for a fact that homicide rate in US is 6 times worse than China

(6/100,000 in US VS <1/100,000 in China)

Maybe US has some problems on its own...
That's a great point, however, I don't think it challenges the findings, rather, your points go some way to explaining some of the drivers.

I should add the Elephant in the Room because nobody has yet - which is social media:

Twitter and Facebook are 'primary drivers' of this division, because of 1) the pervasiveness of content 2) the low quality, non-factual nature of the memes and 3) the natural polarisation of such memes.

More controversially, 'campus politicisation' is another primary factor. Students have been protesting for some time, but now the Faculty, Staff, Students, Student Unions and government grand associations act in concert to promote what they see are important issues, but which really represent a politicisation of the situation.

There are innumerable cases, but just one anecdote: The University of Ottawa recently banned the Yoga class because of concerns over 'cultural appropriation'. Never mind the fact that 'Hatha Yoga' in the North American terms was literally created by Hindu leaders as a form of their theology more amenable to Westerners in the first place. The replacement Yoga teacher was of 'Indian' origin, of course. Nobody complained, rather, someone on faculty out of either fear or oppression decided that it would be the case.

Finally, and maybe most controversially because its more subtle - is the politicisation of corporate culture and brands. It's one thing to have internal dialogue and programs, this is fine and good, but when they're hustling products based on highly visceral movements ... it's going to help stoke division.

It's not well understood by most people that products and services are sold mostly on the basis of emotional aspiration. Nike has great shoes, but that's not what drives sales. They didn't really make money until they had 'Michael Jordan' on their shoes, after which, they made bank. Starbucks sells a total commodity: coffee - what they really sell is a brand and an experience. Right down to the naming of the water 'Ethos' as in 'I'm ethical for drinking this water'.

But the recent foray of brands into taking sides on social issues, which many who are supportive of such issues might admire, should be viewed cynically: in the end, they're just trying to sell you some crap. If you 'feel strongly about this issue' - and they can map those emotions into sales by 'siding with you' - they're going to do that to make money. Again this is separate from things like material action such as ethical supply chains etc., but when Nike pays people in Vietnam 50 cents an hour who can't take a bathroom break to make 100 shoes a day, and then sells them to you for $200 'because they care about this issue' - we should be cynical. This action contributes to increasing polarisation.

In a way, some political issues are 'metastasising' into so many areas it's getting to be like the Twilight Zone.
Yes, it’s the ads that are the problem, not the blatant racism. What the fuck is the matter with some of you...
I don't think you'll find an answer on HN. Funny enough, even spez can't answer you or rather, refuses to clarify that clause. I'm sure you've read the thread.

It's vague enough so Reddit and the powermods can have an easier time banning people who post unfashionable opinions.
I wrote out a long response and only then starting researching Gab. So instead of my own words, here are some excerpts from their terms of service. If you don't like the counterarguments you're encountering here, you should consider that Gab feels the same way:

> if you don't like what we're doing on Gab.com or simply want to manage your own experience, you can spin up your own Gab Social server that you control

> We have the right to disable any user name, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time if we believe you have violated any provision of these Terms of Service.

> You agree not to use the Website... To engage in any other conduct which, as determined by us, may result in the physical harm or offline harassment of the Company, individual users of the Website or any other person (e.g. “doxing”), or expose them to liability

> the Company reserves the right to take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion

> User Contributions must NOT...be obscene...

And of course all the usual legalese like indemnification and arbitration.

AFAICT, the only difference between Gab and Twitter is that Gab has orders of magnitude less users, and if they ever reached the usership levels of Twitter/Facebook/Reddit I have no doubt they would behave in ways they currently enjoy denouncing. I think they just want to have their cake and eat it, too.

edit: grammar, again haha
You are not as subtle as you think you are.
> Web you can get started "instantly". Your browser covers most of the tooling you need and you can tweak any live site.

Obviously you can splat some HTML into a browser and get instant results, but once you start talking about apps with even moderate amounts of interaction, the simplicity of web apps falls away quickly. If you are talking about a sophisticated app, I don't think the complexity is any less when you are using javascript/ React versus Swift/ UIKit. The big win I've seen for javascript/ web apps is the fact that you are reasonably platform independent, obviously if you use Chrome and Chrome specific APIs, that falls away too.
- Banning TikTok would move traffic to Instagram, not a “local Indian entrepreneur”

- the Indian startup ecosystem is dependent on external capital, a lot of which comes from China. This protectionist attitude will lead to a overall negative sentiment about investing in Indian tech.
Yeah, I think they kind of mixed up there with the DDR, as West Germany is the only exception.
How many people have revolutionary Marxists murdered in the USA in the last 25-50 years? I'm sure if you dig you could find one, maybe two. If you dig into far right ideologues involved in murders and shootings you will find hundreds and hundreds.

I am not a fan of revolutionary Marxism, but in terms of actual danger to people I don't see them as nearly as much of a risk. They also have far less funding than the extreme right and seem to be far fewer in number.

If revolutionary Marxists start killing people or conducting acts of domestic terror, then yes ban those people. Let me know next time a revolutionary Marxist shoots up a school.
Here ya go: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

>Days of Rage is important, because this stuff is forgotten and it shouldn’t be. The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about.

>One thing that Burrough returns to in Days of Rage, over and over and over, is how forgotten so much of this stuff is. Puerto Rican separatists bombed NYC like 300 times, killed people, shot up Congress, tried to kill POTUS (Truman). Nobody remembers it.

>Also, people don’t want to remember how much leftist violence was actively supported by mainstream leftist infrastructure. I’ll say this much for righty terrorist Eric Rudolph: the sonofabitch was caught dumpster-diving in a rare break from hiding in the woods. During his fugitive days, Weatherman’s Bill Ayers was on a nice houseboat paid for by radical lawyers.

Bill Ayers bombed the US Capitol building, something completely forgotten today. You might remember him - he was Obama's mentor. Someone tracked down a rare first edition of his manifesto and reviewed it and scanned a bunch of pages in.

http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/

>Page 40 of the manuscript is typical: It outlines the Weather Underground's strategies for overthrowing the United States. Among the many strategies are: eliminating the feeling of patriotism among the general public, destroying the government from within, and starting a mass insurrection among the lower classes.

"Our final goal is the destruction of imperialism, the seizure of power, and the creation of socialism."

The following quote is taken from page 128, from the portion of Prairie Fire having to do with the Middle East. I include it here to show the amazing consistency of the radical left-wing view of the area -- the issues and arguments remain almost unchanged from 1974 to today: ending Zionism, no "war for oil," stopping U.S. support for Israel, etc. Aside from a few current events details, this exact same text could have appeared in any contemporary left-wing essay about the Middle East. This shows that what once was a radical communist view has now become mainstream: http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/pfpg128_2.jpg
Coming from someone at Crunchy I don't disagree on the notion of managed service being easier than running/managing yourself inside Kubernetes. Clicking a button and having things taken care of you is great.

Though personally I do feel like much of the managed services have not evolved/changed/improved since their inception many years ago. There is definitely some opportunity here to innovate, though that's probably not actually coupled with running it in K8s itself.
I mean there's the problem right there — you're talking about Bernie Sanders and Ben Shapiro as if they're two people equally deserving of equal space on an enormous platform of listeners.
You two are in agreement, but have different levels of trust in the government. One of you feels that the government will use proportional levels of violence to reduce the number of firearms in this country, and the other thinks the government won't. One of you is envisioning an Australian gun buyback, and the other is thinking Waco/Ruby Ridge.
I don't think Apple would care about asking for email for legitimate use. I thought the point of Sign in with Apple is that it decouples giving away your email from signing up. Not that it bans apps from collecting emails in any way.
Why? So you pay more money to AWS? Deploying databases is a solved problem. What's the point of the overhead?
When you use Apple's Sign In it flat out asks whether you want to use your real email or an anonymous one. The user is purposely says, "Hey, Apple get in the middle I don't trust these clowns."
> Where I think a lot of folks are missing the point is that this is also a tremendous boost to local Indian entrepreneurship.

Last I looked, a good portion of the funding for Indian startups is from China.
Liberapay[0] is my favorite. They're a nonprofit funded by donations through their own platform, and they don't charge any fees.

[0] https://en.liberapay.com/about/
It's possible to be against abortion and be willing to compromise on it because there are much more important issues for you to consider.

Political parties like to pretend they have monopolies on certain positions, but that's just wrong. You'll find lots of gay rights-supporting Republicans and a whole mess of pro-gun Democrats. Some voters are rational enough to realize that they should put more weight on the issues that directly effect them than the nice-to-have emotional stuff that doesn't.
> Apple controlling the hardware makes it way easier though.

I'm not sure that's really relevant.

Rather:

* apple has resources, lots

* apple wants to promote the use of swift, making it easier and more convenient is a good way to do that, binary dependencies reduce the complexity of the build process because you don't need to build dependencies

* apple has a vibrant ecosystem of small closed-source shops, binary-only distribution is useful for those, as well as for themselves

* promoting binary and eventually dynamically linked dependencies might mean the ability to dedup' on-system dependencies
Then the outcome is that a country can claim to support free trade while deliberately not supporting free trade, since "it's the other countries' fault."
What sort of interest rates do you offer for folks who are conserving cash right now? I realize interest rates are low in general, but it seems foolish to be getting literally zero from my current bank.
I do understand the concept of taxes. We as society fund police and defense. That could even be argued to be a definition of society. While taxes are still theft, this theft appears to be necessary.

It's an entirely different thing to steal from almost everyone in order to fund what most consider bullshit. You have no business even thinking about what other people should do with their time (remember, money is a proxy for time), just because taxes are a concept.
Any thoughts on why the Klan hasn't yet been banned outright?
> This is a false equivalence. The worst of the alt-right are far, far worse than the worst of the extreme left (antifa, maybe? Though there is no alt-left).

Nope it’s just equivalence: https://panampost.com/panam-staff/2020/06/23/the-links-betwe...

(FWIW: I’m quite pro-BLM. I don’t believe in guilt by association. My point is that there are high-profile people in relatively mainstream organizations that are proponents of murderous leftist dictators.)
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My understanding dates to the 1990s but a covered company does not get to pick and choose what areas a protected class may be discriminated against. So, if a class is considered protected from labor discrimination you cannot discriminate against that class in any of your business areas (based on membership in that class. Basically: if someone is a member of a protected class, you cannot discriminate against them, you cannot foster discrimination against them by your employees, products, or services.

My personal opinion is that a candidate who said that veterans should lose benefits as part of their campaign would probably slide through this sort of prohibition, however if that politician called for some sort of action against veterans then they would get censored/banned/whatever.

Again, not a lawyer.
It's funny I see this comment all the time on HN, but in a very similar scenario recently, where DHH launched Hey app and was stonewalled by Apple, I didn't see a single comment saying "hey just go build your own app store". Telling someone to "just go build your own" is lazy and weightless.
Woops! I left off the word "don't" in regards to those features being necessary to be considered PWAs!
A "purge" sounds so scary.

But this is a purge like being asked not to come back to target is a purge.

And it's just as much of an infringement on your rights: none.
Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures
"The leftist elites are out of control" is not even close to a new idea, and it's not exactly an apolitical viewpoint. AEI is hustling goods on this one.

The thesis is plainly wrong (or, at least, wildly incomplete):

+ On most social issues, for example, the country -- all of it -- has moved substantially to the left since 1973. The sort of rhetoric regarding homosexuality that was commonplace 30+ years ago will get you side eyes at all but the most fundamentalist churches these days. Quantitatively, there was a 30 point swing in opinion polling on gay marriage just from 2002 until 2018 [1]. Support for gay marriage was so radical and fringe prior to the 1990s that it wasn't even polled. And even a lot of the early polling in the 90s asked only about "acceptance" rather the marriage. Homosexuals were still being charged with sodomy in the 1980s [2]. It's impossible to understate the shift in opinion on homosexual rights between 1973 to today. And the shift to the left is even more pronounced in gender politics sans abortion. Stuff like [3] is unfathomable today.

+ Ditto drugs.

+ The country has moved substantially to the Left (or, anyways, away from the 1970s Right consensus views) on trade issues. It's easy to forget that pre-NAFTA it was overwhelmingly the leftists who opposed free trade. The development of a left-leaning bloc that is liberal on both immigration policy and trade policy is very much a Clinton-era thing (that, perhaps, might already be in retreat within the Democratic party).

+ And there are a lot of other issues where movement is more leftward than not. E.g., race. Remember that actual segregationists were out of national majorities but still held considerable regional power throughout the 70s, and some even held onto some elected offices into the 21st century. Strom Thurmond was still serving in the US senate in 2003, and his electoral support eroded monotonically throughout the last two decades of the 20th century.

The country hasn't moved to the left on every issue, but saying it's slightly right of where it was in 1973 is, for most of the biggest issues in contemporary politics, absolutely false.
It's my experience that discussions of the Pauline Kael Syndrome are mostly ahistorical or even anti-historical. Which is somehow quite ironic.

Also, 2 of your 3 links are broken.

[1] https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-ga...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Hardwick#Background

[3] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forty-years-ago-wo...
> racist subreddits like /r/blackpeopletwitter and /r/fragilewhiteredditor.

lmao give me a break
Me too. One of my favorite thrift store finds was an ancient copy of "The Nemesis from Terra" by Leigh Bracket. Inside the front cover was written:

"This Book Belongs to Ken Xxxxx for you see no other human being would read such trash. - Guess Who"

followed by, in another hand:

"your just jelous because you don'T UNDersTaNd IT!"

Best book review ever.
> Emacs was invented for a world where Text was everything.

Text still is mostly everything for all of my backend programming, note taking, etc.

> The other problem is speed of typing is irrelevant if you are working with libraries all the time, which is basically what most of the programming world does.

Typing speed is far from the most important part. It's the consistent interface for everything, reduction of cognitive load, and everything being available at your fingertips in emacs.
Icicle Tree with static JSON data
Ah, this helps quite a bit. I sometimes take a stab at UI/icon/character design with Sketch. What helped me a lot was https://bezier.method.ac/ and redrawing characters from Headspace. I've also used Figma here and there.

So your tips are quite helpful since I've never tried to start from a blank canvas. Also, dribble.com is a really cool tip.

Thanks! :D
What are you trying to say here? That the DoD somehow was able to pressure the US media into supporting the Iraq war? Funny how they were able to do that, but wasn't able to get the "MSM" to get off Trump's back during his term.
And, sadly, the author of that last link was out-grouped right off the internet.