skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure. These are all really interesting topics. We have thought about a lot of this, but would love to chat in more depth. Shoot me an email at adam@withyotta.com and let's connect to talk live.
"Privately built", so it's technically accurate, even if there's still an elephant in the room. Similar to that amusing SpaceX marketing speak with the Falcon Heavy being "the most powerful orbital rocket since Saturn V", which was also technically true because both Energia flights were payload-assisted. (they changed that line since then)
> what if the court were being intentionally obtuse and kept interpreting laws in face of the facts and the intent of congress?

Arguably the court has been doing that in many cases for a long time. But I don't think the court was doing that in this particular case.

The only recourse is to change, over time, who sits on the court.

> The judicial branch de facto has the most power of any branch in the US.

Yes, agreed.
I've definitely had this happen on occasion. There might be interesting ways to solve this problem, like showing the level of "delivery risk" associated with an order given the user's distance from the restaurant and time of day.
That's... an unfortunate name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
I think the problem is that we have a very weak understanding of "better" or "worse" or "use cases". What would a better database look like? Maybe it's faster, or more stable, etc. But if what makes it better is that it is a better model, you end up with religious wars - it's the same reason why no one can really agree on whether a static or dynamic language will lead to "better" code, it's just too hard to tell.

As a user of KV stores and graphdbs myself I would have to use a traditional rdbms. It's been an absolute breath of fresh air being able to express queries in a graph-oriented way. For me the combination has been totally "better", but of course, that's not evidence based! Nor, really, could it be.
There's some confusion we probably need to clear up on what our "rate" is. Our base rate if you win no prizes ever is 0.20%. Including the expected value of prizes it's above Marcus today.
Legitimate students are being forced to leave the US because of remote classes.

Remote classes are not as good as in person classes.

These two things are unrelated.

If the students choose not to continue their education because the quality is degraded by remote learning, that is an entirely different matter.
A "cabal" is by definition a secret political clique or faction which is unknown to the outside world.

It's therefore a big reach to call the Supreme Court a "cabal".
There is a difference between what you are saying and saying that "money buys happiness". The research (if you read it) always maintained that there was a correlation between "happiness" (which is also not what is studied but usually 'subjective well-being') and money up to a point where the correlation leveled off. The idea being that money to that point was instrumental in securing those basic necessities you mention. What does not follow and yet is implied is the notion that if you want more happiness, just get more money.
In a private company, there is also a mechanism for collective bargaining, without a union. The workers could just buy up all the outstanding stock, and replace the board.

And yet, nobody considers that to be sufficient to deny workers their right to organize.
Are you volunteering to amplify the opinions or marginalized coworkers, or are you just trying to get people to stop protesting?

Why not both? If your way gets better results then I'm sure people will stop the exhausting and dangerous work of protesting and civil disobedience.
I'm banking on a political wind-shifting event where suddenly the vogue thing to do will be to allow all commerce to proceed like normal and social distancing will suddenly be relaxed. Not sure what political events would cause that to happen but it is within the realm of possibility.
Yes. And their other south of them as well.

All of them the result of US interference, both directly and indirectly via The War on Drugs™.
Not everything open sourced is a corporate decision. Frankly, a lot of employees have 20% pet projects, and smaller open source projects tend to be engineers pet projects and the individuals releasing them tend to not care about the business use case, they tend to want to share and show what they have written to the external community.

And having worked on Google OSS projects, the 'unpaid labor' aspect often doesn't materialize. Looking at GWT , J2CL, Closure Compiler for example, 99% of all commits are from Googlers, very few outside contributions, despite for example, a peak of 150k MAUs for GWT in its heyday.

Google has 10s of thousands of OSS projects, only a small fraction of them are related to any kind of strategy. Most are people scratching an itch and throwing a codebomb over the wall onto GH.
There's nothing abstract about that query. You can easily confirm it by looking how you described it exclusively by business terms.
Instead, it's the most concrete component on your comment, and it's not prone to unit testing in any way.
Yeah, I swear. They're a hardware company more than a software one... it shows in their utter lack of imagination for their software. Even their UI/UX design is really suffering compared to their competitors.

Disclaimer: I continue to use an iphone primarily because I'm happy and fine with the walled garden.
It’s unclear, but it sounds like you’re saying that Texas law expressly allows this. Isn’t this the opposite of what happened in Oklahoma, i.e. there never was a law that reduced the government’s treaty obligations, so the law as written still stands?

In other words, in both cases the laws, as written, were followed.
The EV on an annualized basis is around 3% right now because we are subsidizing some of the prizes currently. In the long run we will aim to match Marcus and Ally, which right now are at around ~1% but go up or down depending on market cycles.
If you read the Heller decision, they go back to original intent and the common meaning of the words at the time the 2nd was ratified. This idea that we've only had gun rights since Heller is itself a modern invention.

On your automotive analogy - anyone can own a car. I can gift one to my 5 year old and so long as it stays home, he's 100% legal. Driving it is a privilege that's regulated. Likewise, carrying a gun is often regulated as you wish - and beyond reasonable levels in several states.

The "gun show loophole" is nonsense. Very few guns are transferred that way, and essentially zero "crime guns" were purchased this way. They were all either acquired via straw purchases (already highly illegal) or completely above board in a state with lax reporting requirements to the background check system. Ironically, the gun industry and gun community are, generally, huge supporters of addressing both of those issues.
Would you get on a train right now, during a pandemic?

I wouldn't, and I like trains more than most people do. I'n sticking with my own car for transportation for the foreseeable future, and everyone else who owns a car is doing the same. I'm not going to put myself in a large metal box full of other people who might be sick.
I really would love something like rofi for macos
Those aren't the "latest and greatest," and they didn't die per se, they're just slow for some workloads (some of those workloads that they're marketed for.)
That suggests we should block Google Fonts, not disable web fonts entirely.
Controlled Evolution of Epitaxy in In/In2O3 on Graphene Heterostructures
I'm so annoyed my OS doesn't integrate with DDC :/
I believe humans do look up tables. If pattern X, then deny possibilities Y and Z. And then you more or less consciously choose one of the remaining options.

If you can avoid making "obvious" (in retrospect) mistakes, you will be a competitive chess or go player.

And given that we have millions of neurons to suppress activity in one node if activity was high enough in another node, I would summarize the brain as effectively a huge chain of look up tables.
User upvotes are not publicly exposed AFAIK, though favourited comment/posts are.
theyre not classified as a terrorist group, antifa (a far more ambiguous group) which was at the protests is.

the inaction toward the KKK is implicit consent toward their activities.

I’m not certain how you could draw a connection given the two groups respective statuses.
Yeah, that's how the left operates now. There are no facts, the only truth is they only operate in good faith and their opponents only operate in bad faith. Therefore anything they say or do is just and anything their opponents say or do is evil.

Peaceful marches become nazi rallies while arsonist riots are stirring protests. Scott Alexander is nice to the point of stupidity, but he is the enemy therefore his actions are inherently nefarious, while the nyt - who recently accused Noam Chomsky and a black academic of white supremacy - become saints harassed by evil incels.

A hacker news thread about it spends god knows how long arguing about the definition of ad hominem, and even though the leftist is just plain fundamentally incorrect they refuse to back down and accuse others of bad faith for not buying their fantasy definition.
Plenty of states do effectively ban guns. Like states that don't let you leave home with a gun except to very narrowly defined shooting ranges. Or states that require guns to be secured, even overnight when you're in your own home. Hard to use it for anything in those cases, let alone self-defense.
> Adverse possession is a specific thing

I know what adverse possession is. But there are specific conditions attached to it, which will depend on the particular statute in effect in the particular jurisdiction. For example, if the poster I responded to were to tell in court the exact story he told here--"I didn't realize the fence was on my property until I had a survey done, now I realize it and I'm bringing a challenge"--would the statute in effect in his jurisdiction bar him from seeking any relief?
If I recall correctly the Concorde used about 2 tonnes of fuel rolling on the ground alone.. I wonder how this new aircraft fares for fuel consumption?

I believe the Concorde is a marvel. You could travel faster than the rotation of the earth in it! However I don’t think we need more environmentally unsustainable travel.
Please don't let COVID-19 kill this thing. They're going to need a lot of money to build the full-size plane and it's going to be hard to get it if airlines are cancelling orders and not placing any new ones for planes: https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/wordpress/2020/05/19/a...
Then there are better ways to make those arguments. Recounting stories about being "young and stupid" is not one of those ways.
No, being that the KKK is a domestic terrorist organization.

One citation of many possible regarding police malfeasance: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/history-united-states-go...
The way I read the Backblaze stats is opposite - could you clarify?

* most reliable are HGST drives (model number starts with H, formerly Hitachi, such as DeskStar, UltraStar, etc., now under the WD brand), sub 1% AFR;

* then Seagate (model number starts with S), still pretty reliable at around 1% AFR, with a few exceptions;

* while the original WD (model number starts with W, such as WD RED etc.) drives are quite terrible with AFR from 2% to 5%.

(I'm looking mostly on the long term statistics, spanning at least a year, and older stats regarding WD drives, as they don't use them anymore.)
>I get the sense that most HN commenters are against having police surveil this kind of event in the U.S.

Look to your left and right. The people building this dystopia are right here on this site.
Well, as far as I know, all of these countries have political systems in which representatives are supposed to act on the behalf of the people. Basically, we can't all work full time to understand every political thing, and vote on them all, so we have someone do it for us: a representative.

Representatives very rarely represent themselves, and are almost always representing either powerful people ( often through lobbying) or citizens.

Given that an absolute minority of citizens are asking for this, it's fair to say it's a top down decision. Most citizens are concerned with things that aren't changing at all, if you'd like further proof on who the representatives work for.

By virtue of it being a top down decision, it is almost certainly being pushed by a small group of very powerful people. When a small group of people have all the power, that's called an oligarchy.

So the question is, why is the oligarchy pushing so hard for control of the internet right now? Well, it's probably not for fun.. so they are worried, I suppose.
Oh another key downside I remembered of the template mechanism, at least with Postgres 9.6, is that you can't have any connections open to the source database when making a snapshot copy.
Yeah they are always loser drives in the back blaze report, but so far it's been fine. No more than an expected level of loss.
With ‘judges judging judges,’ rogues on the bench have little to fear
European encrypted messaging system (EncroChat) was hacked by police
Oh, It's just a joke (with some meta-ness maybe). I was referring to how HN often likes to cling to some "classics" (like SSH in this case) and how a lot of HNers seem to be against any "web" thing by default.

I don't mean to criticize (or make any statement about it at all), it's just opinions after all. I just wanted to tease a little bit with how this comment includes a lot of HN-isms :P
Public knowledge of doesn't define a cabal, only the secrecy of its decisions and who it benefits. The Supreme Court hears arguments with no recordings allowed, then makes its decisions in secret. What do they have to hide? And the only thing we ever get from the Court is the hundreds of pages in reasoning as to why they made the decision.
Bulgaria is in top 10 EU countries by area. It contains the entire Balkan mountains after which the Balkan peninsula is named.
I have not yet run into that. So far they've all been fine.

The shucking has gotten harder for sure, I need a lot more force to pry them apart now. So much that I worry about damaging the drive.
You aren't missing anything, there is no logic here, only ideology.
"As if that's not disgusting enough, this op-ed's undercurrent seems to be that black Americans are disproportionately engaged in violent crime, and that media figures are simply too afraid of appearing politically incorrect to acknowledge the "truth.""

This is literally true though.

"As a result of decades of policies like broken windows policing, whereby some neighborhoods receive disproportionate levels of police attention and minor offenses are heavily enforced, the reliability of crime rates, as an objective research measure, can be called into question."

You are so dishonest, differences in crime rates are based on victim studies, not arrests and prosecutions, to account for specifically the issue you cite. Most of the stats about black violent crime come from reports by THEIR BLACK VICTIMS
We've asked you several times to stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. Please actually stop.
I figured that it would allow my name to be shown upon winning any prizes, although there being a threshold doesn't impact my feelings about it. Either way, I'm not interested in people knowing anything about my savings, and I was surprised that this was default-on and buried in the Privacy section, where I only had clicked out of curiosity.
I had my pay triple at the beginning of this year, 75k -> 230k. I’m working a lot more, I have not increased my lifestyle in any way (my rent is now 7% of my salary), and I’m happier.

For me it all boils down to a feeling of stability and hope for the future. Houses here start at 700k and retirement is expensive.

I also did just pay off my student loans this year after a decade of grappling with them. So that’s probably contributed to my increased happiness as well (I would have paid them off this year even if I hadn’t gotten the raise).
Web fonts are no different from any other resource—you can easily serve them in privacy-friendly ways.
It will recover. The current investors might not.
If you want to look at the poster child for holding back innovation in order to protect an outdated business model, then look no further than the film and TV industry. You could replace the restaurants in this story with the MPAA and the delivery apps with Netflix, and you’d have a story with exactly the same parameters, just with the heroes and villains of the narrative reversed.

If the apps charge too much the restaurants should leave. If that means they end up not delivering what consumers want then they should change their business model or go out of business. If the delivery apps can’t survive under those conditions then they should change their business model, or go out of business.

The hospitality industry has always been ultra-competitive and low margin. Bad restaurants go under all the time. The only thing that is different now is that they have somebody else to point the finger at. The other thing I think they all miss is that without these apps, most of the businesses would have had to immediately go under when Covid hit. Those services were the only thing that gave them a shot of keeping the lights on, and for the ones that can’t find a way to make things work, consumers can do without them.
3) Randomly selecting citizens to serve (like jury duty).
How come Debian can package chromium but Ubuntu cannot?
My point is that they are both engaged in protected activities of free association and speech. If the standard is that the government should not surveil people engaged in those activities, then the KKK would have to be exempted too.

Or, alternatively, you could formulate a more nuanced criteria for when the government should or should not surveil people.
https://archive.is/KXh7w
Other public sector workers aren't issued guns. Other public sector workers don't fight against any transparency into their actions. Other public sector workers don't murder people on a regular basis and get away with it. Other public sector workers don't seize assets from people unconstitutionally under civil asset forfeiture. Other public sector workers don't regularly lie under oath to keep their buddies out of jail, or to put people they don't like in jail. Other public sector workers don't kill a dog every hour.

The entire point of unions is to empower the oppressed. But the police have over and over demonstrated that they are not the oppressed, they are the oppressors.
If there was something like that, congress can impeach judges.
Plenty of software companies provide their own Apt repositories. Adding a repository is usually as simple as copying a single file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Sometimes you may also need to add a GPG key, which can also be as simple as copying a file to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ (though most instructions seem to favor a manual one-liner that imports the key to the global database[1]). Technically you could automate both with a one-time deb install, though I'm not aware of anybody that actually does this. In any event, after that `apt-get upgrade` will upgrade third-party packages just as well as Debian or Ubuntu packages.

I much prefer Debian packages over RPM, and Apt over Yum/DNF, but unfortunately setting up a Debian package repository is more difficult than for RPM. The tools exist, and are more sophisticated and capable--for example, Aptly--but there's a higher learning curve. Also, good luck using them outside Linux. Years ago I published Debian package repositories from OpenBSD, but I had to manually hack the relevant tools to build and work on OpenBSD. For RPM/Yum I could have more easily written (and at a different job later did) an indexing tool from scratch.

The problem with Debian packages and Apt repositories isn't that they're not capable, it's that they have high learning curves due to the slow accretion of features that obscure their potential. A better tooling story would help, particularly for repositories. Better tools for initializing Debian package builds exist; the problem is more a surfeit of choices.

[1] It's more complicated and creates unnecessary headaches than dropping a file into trusted.gpgp.d, but the practice seems to reflect the opacity of the Debian packaging ecosystem. There's a better, simpler way to do it, but everybody cargo cults the same old solutions and then complains that it's too complex or inelegant.
> As a user of KV stores and graphdbs myself I would have to use a traditional rdbms. It's been an absolute breath of fresh air being able to express queries in a graph-oriented way. For me the combination has been totally "better", but of course, that's not evidence based! Nor, really, could it be.

Well, it's anecdote. But if a statistically-significant number of people feel that it's "an absolute breath of fresh air", that's totally "better" in a very concrete sense.
It certainly makes sense for government/crown land to be given back to indigenous nations that hold title.

You could do the same thing I suggested albeit free for the Nation and the private landowner seller could be compensated by the government (which stole the land and resold it in the first place).
"antifa" is boogeyman designed to spook the cattle. It's at best a label, and on its face, a noble label.
Can they reduce it enough that it would be acceptable for flying over land?
There is no such thing as a 'domestic terrorist organization'. It is illegal to classify any domestic organization as terrorist. That's why the KKK isn't one, and it's why Antifa isn't one either, Trump's blustering about it notwithstanding.
And _your_ fallacy was https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division

Yes, I know. Mine is https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
Getting in and out of trouble with Rust Futures
The KKK was designed to be a terrorist organization.
Antifa is considered a domestic terrorist organization to the trump admin.

Even though being antifa is simply being against fascism.
Indeed, it presumes innocence of the police, a standard that is rarely applied to any other group, especially not protesters. That is precisely the problem.
Um... There's actually quite a bit. What is the basis of your claim?

The most famous is the limits to growth model (developed by the Club of Rome in the 1970's, which we're unfortunately tracking quite closely). You can read about that model here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth , though there are many academic articles about. That is a quantifiable, falsifiable model that has had about 50 years of predictive power. The next 30 years according to that model are horrific.

Another scientific effort is what is being calculated by the global footprint network - https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/climate-change/. We've been in a deficit also since about the 1970's, and that overconsumption is directly connected to the current scientifically documented biosphere collapse which suggests that we're in the middle of the 6th mass extinction event on earth.

Lastly, a number of independent modellers have attempted to show what the world looks like. Here's a brief article with a map. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/what-the-world-will-look-l.... From the article:

> Micronesia is gone – sunk beneath the waves. Pakistan and South India have been abandoned. And Europe is slowly turning into a desert. This is the world, 4°C warmer than it is now.

90% of where humans currently inhabit would be inhospitable to human life. That's about 6-7B people that will have to move across 1000's of km on the order of less than a decade. Likely into the Arctic and Antarctic ... where .. topsoil formation typically takes 100's of years.

Moreover, if you think xenophobic Europeans or Americans are going to allow Africans, Asians and Central Americans in, when they're putting existing climate refugees into concentration camps RIGHT NOW, you should perhaps rethink your worldview.