skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the overreach of the executive branch is a response to the political deadlock in the legislative branch.

Disagree. The political deadlock of the legislative branch is by design. Only things that are truly broadly supported should pass through the legislature.

The overreach of the executive branch is a response to complete and utter inaction by the states to reign in the federal government.
It's what happens when legal gives the web team a word document and they don't feel like spending the time to make it look nice. Been there, it's awful.
I use it too! It's fantastic
"These backwards-looking representations aren't terribly useful when thinking about the future. Financial statements now account for only 5% of the information that investors use to evaluate companies, and key accounting metrics, like Earnings and Assets, have stopped correlating with stock prices. To fill these gaps, almost all companies report custom non-GAAP metrics in their financial reports, to paint a better picture of their business. WeWork famously defined a Community Adjusted EBITDA metric that ignored most of their costs to suggest that they were actually, sort of, profitable. You can decide for yourself whether WeWork's metrics made sense. But that's precisely the problem — without consistent standards, "creative accounting" can cloud our judgment and our economy suffers."

This has been a topic i've been curious about for a while now - if the way business performance is measured has changed, why have the standards not evolved as well?
What's with this puffery about C-level people "departing" from their jobs?

While the rest of us, you know, just "leave" or "quit"?
Are these the small, tasty blueberries, or the giant not-so-tasty (but instagram friendly) blueberries (referred to as "american blueberries" in Europe)?
Parcels of land don't operate news orgs people do. Even when you break it down to say towns smaller populations have fewer news orgs like they have fewer gas stations.

This is probably why there have historically not been more deeply conservative papers compared to centrist or liberals let alone 95%.

Its a transparent strategy by a small number of actors to influence people on many fronts.
You can always analyze Bible as any other book. In Poland (which is mainly catholic) I've read Bible in school only:
1) to compare the description of biblical creation with the greek mythology (just comparative analysis, without implying the creationism, rather otherwise)
2) next to some famous poem based on the biblical story to understand what is the poem about.

I'm always surprised that any school would teach creationism. Even catholic priests don't preach creationism as an alternative to current scientific theories. USA has to be a strange place :D
Agreed, came here to say the same:

https://contrastrebellion.com
but you didn't say that. you said you could get labelled.

so instead you want to discuss

1) firings: which firings? people have been fired for political reasons for millenia. do we recall mccarthyism? of course, that doesn't make it right, but i'd much prefer to see a list of actual firings and an explanation of how they were not done in line with pre-existing policy by the employer.

2) de-platformed: so you don't to speak at the student union because the people there don't want to listen to you? cry me a river. you have a right to free speech, but not free speech on any private property that you choose.

3) removed from society? seriously? like, vanished? like disappeared? in the USA? please, name some names.

[ note: i worked to avoid whataboutism here, but there's no shortage of cases of progressives/liberals/leftists/radicals being fired or "de-platformed" for their speech ]
EVs are much safer than gasoline cars because of how the mass in the car is distributed. Gasoline cars have a giant brick in the front (engine and transmission) which moves back into the passenger compartment in a frontal collision. Automotive engineers have to work all kinds of magic to stop the engine from smashing passengers. In an EV, the big sled of batteries in the bottom causes the car to rotate away from the crash energy, and makes it almost impossible to flip. Plus EVs can use that frontal space for energy absorption.

It's actually a big deal.
Maybe your model for the state of humanity is being manipulated by people who stand to make a profit by making you feel this way.
> I need to actively make sure the car doesn’t kill us

Same experience here. Why people say this is relaxing; and takes the stress away from long distance driving is beyond me...
What if someone disconnects it from the wall?
She never said that "management should tell" employees anything. It's intentionally vague and not at all clear the NYT didn't take that action, if the story is even totally true, and it's just an open-ended legal threat.
Just like the last one in 2018-19, under Democrat President Trump.
> "Rooting people out to be more inclusive" - Paging George Orwell

As someone who had to create this second account because I feared stating my politics on my mail account which linked to my work would get me cancelled, I can sympathize with her a bit.

However, I also think she's herself played part in creating the very culture she's complaining about. She claimed to be a "conservative" but she's far from that. Listening her on the Joe Rogan Podcast, she's a liberal on majority of the issues. She seems to be masquerading as a "conservative" imo.

Kind of reminds me of how Tulsi Gabbard was cancelled by the left, the media, censored by Google and smeared by Hillary as a "Russian asset". That's only when Tulsi complained. She never complained when conservatives had been screaming about censorship, media bias and "russian asset" smears for the past 5 years. Seems like people only wake up when the mob comes for their own head.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23836616
Only four days after the major facebook SDK crash.
Maybe print out the data to show them the difference?
Ill admit - ive never actually understood fines against companies - meaning the economic benefactors of said fines.

I never hear where those fines go and what is ultimate the outcome of them.

So, ok - company A gets fined N millions of dollars.

You never hear anything like:

“Googles $600k fine was used to finance school supplies for 3 million students! Yay!”

Im not being flippant - in just pointing out that there is never(?) any followup as to what happens to said “fines for transgression”
gRPC is actually pretty nice. It's simpler than COM. More complex than passing JSON around but also less bug prone.
My local courthouse is rated on Yelp. In a shocking turn of events nobody could have ever predicted, it has 1 star.
> To me this adds to the picture of an administration who is about to loose the forthcoming election

I wouldn't be so sure, there is still a lot of time before now and the election. We saw the lengths the administration is willing to go to in order to win. Blackmailing the Ukraine to make up lies about their political opponents is just the worst thing we know about, and as disgusting as it was, the aftermath of that shows that half the country supports this type of behavior as a means to an end. I seriously doubt we'll see a transition of power during this election.
> probably because it took a while to get the OS and Rosetta ready.

I think you're making a big assumption here, and ignoring that shipped ARM chips haven't been tailored for this kind of load until recently -- and the cat's not out of the bag yet for Apple.
I know that it’s difficult for you to discuss anti-astroturfing methods without disclosing information that could make circumvention easier, but can you give us an idea of how much effort is put in to detecting this kind of activity on HN? You seem very confident that this doesn’t happen here; is that because you’re doing something to prevent it? We are, after all, talking about an entity that is known to use these tactics on pseudonymous forums at extraordinary scale.[1] With that in mind, writing off these concerns as merely “nationalistic” comes across as dismissive.

I guess the real question is: could you really detect well-executed astroturfing here, even if you tried very hard? I worry that authentic discourse on high-traffic pseudonymous forums is basically impossible if someone is determined to sew an opinion and has significant resources at their disposal.

[1] https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf
Can you expand on this? What service do you use to store your secrets?
Why do they call it "auto steer"? It's a much more misleading term than "lane centering".
A quick reminder - this is the same game which had a ring-0 anti-cheat system installed and run with the game. They stepped it back a bit after the outcry (and install on people's system), but IIRC it is still installed and run if you play Doom Eternal multi-player.

So, it's entirely conceivable that this very "covered" data was collected and pushed up to their systems as a part of their "anti-cheat" detection, either from a HD sweep or from in-memory data in other applications (like the browser).
The "oblivious approach" is "just a different heuristic to apply", yes. It's just one that happens to work especially well for HTML rendering, given that large resources tend to be depended upon in a way (e.g. an img or video tag) that gives them a pre-download bounding-box size, allowing the rest of the page to render around them and to not reflow once they're loaded; while the types of resources that tend to be small (like CSS or JS files) are mostly depended on with the semantics that they can potentially reflow the page entirely when they finish loading, which means the browser completely inhibits interactivity (and/or rendering, depending on the browser) until those resources finish loading.

The only things that kind of break this heuristic are:

• large single-file Javascript SPAs. These are usually just marked with the `async` attribute, such that the initial DOM of the page can first render, then be gradually enhanced when the SPA loads. But with HTTP/2 + ES6, you can also just not pack the SPA into a single file, instead relying on ES6 modules, which will each be individually smaller and therefore will end up being delivered first by the content-oblivious round-robin chunk-delivery strategy.

• web fonts, which are large and will necessarily cause a complete reflow of the page once loaded. Currently, browsers make a special loading-precedence exception for web fonts; though it doesn't matter as much right now, as they're still mostly served from third-party CDNs rather than as first-party HTTP/2 flows.

AFAIK, for regular web-page retrieval, these are exactly the total set of things that currently benefit from being server-pushed along with the first response; everything else just gets handled well even without server-push.

(If you're curious, server-push is really designed for the use-case of pushing secondary API responses along with an initial API response; to allow for GraphQL-like "single-round-trip resource-hierarchy/-graph walking" in a way that's more friendly for caching layers than comingling the results into a single resource-representation. It makes the most sense in a Firebase-like system, where un-asked-for server-pushed resources can be obliviously accepted and dumped into the client-side in-memory set of synced entities asynchronously to the parsing of the initial response; and then, once the dependency is parsed out on the client side, the client can discover that it already has the entity it wants in its in-memory entity store, and doesn't even need to make the request.)
From the context of your comment, it seemed as though you meant to support the notion that Elon Musk was working as a scientist, not a businessman.
"Because the text was so light it was difficult to read"

Snark aside, it's quite a good list.
Nah, they just disable all the features that aren't shared by the little cores.
Years ago I spent a lot of time in helicopters in remote Alaskan mountain ranges with pretty high-end helicopter pilots and got to know some them pretty well. I think the "brooding introspective anticipators of trouble" is a good description.

I know that many of them practiced autorotation nearly every time they left a mountain peak to descend back down to the glacier floor.

I also once got to fly a 400+ mile trip over rugged wilderness and the pilot was always thinking about the next possible emergency landing spot. The flight altitude was often adjusted for this as well if over terrain where options would be limited (such as water). Well maintained helicopters - nothing wrong with them - just always being aware of your options when in the middle of nowhere.
> And ironically enough, the fast developing era of taiwan, south korea, by today's standard, are not under any form of democracy.

This is I think an under-appreciated point... Taiwan and SK both made the most economic gains under military dictatorships. Social liberalization followed economic growth.

Something similar might have happened in Singapore, they're technically a democracy but have been governed by the PAP forever and don't really subscribe to freedom of press in the way the US does (but have their own ways of building accountability).

All very fascinating stuff. 10 years ago I would have said that China would follow the same path but in that case social liberalization still hasn't come yet. Certainly the GDP per capita has not yet caught up but the PPP was pretty close last I checked.
>But perhaps that says more about online discourse than it does about any left vs right debate.

By Jove! I think you've got it!

Btw, any time I used to try to contribue to bona-fide conservative, right wing media (e.g. redstate), my account would be cancelled as soon as I asked any question that indicated I might be not completely bought into the nominal worldview of the medium. I hate whataboutism, but let's not pretend that this sort of thing is the preserve of the left/progressive part of "online discourse".
If you are using Java or a JVM language (e.g. Ruby, Clojure, etc.) it may be worth checking out Apache Calcite https://calcite.apache.org/.
ELI5 anyone ? where would these be most useful ?
Interesting - I live in Oregon where we grow tons of blueberries but not the wild kind. I always wondered how they are different, apparently mostly grow in the Northeast US and Canada.
Google will prioritize the video that gets more clicks from their results page. If I search for something and see both YT and FB links, I'm definitely going to YT, because I know it'll work (vs FB links which sometimes ask me to sign in, sometimes give me a vague permissions error, sometimes give me some other error).
Even "autosteer" is more commonly called "lane centering" by the industry. A term that provides much more clarity to the user.
It wasn't even DRM, it was anti-cheat that only ran when you launched the game, and it's not like it was a secret that it was added in an update. Your comment is pure FUD.
Here is one: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/
Isn’t Etcd Apache licensed? Don’t like the direction it’s taking? Fork it.

Is your fork not getting much traction and community support? Maybe you’re the edge case.
Yeah, it is pretty darn complicated!

A couple of things that helped us with the rate limits are:
* Limiting most of our graphs/reporting to the past 3 years (some repos are pretty old)
* Fetching the data incrementally - namely, the first fetch is kinda of large, but then we're only trying to get the minimal set of changes/detla to a repo on a regular basis!

That sounds awesome, I can't wait to see the product when it goes live!
I think the issue is that things that can not encrypted because of protocol requirements is enough to be dangerous

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-...
A lot of the complexity is just intrinsic to working on distributed systems, and if you're doing that kind of work, then these products really can help reduce overall complexity by giving you an admittedly complex solution that is at least robust and pretty well tested; that tends to be better than constructing your own.

I think where a lot of the pain comes from, and the article hints at this, is there are a LOT of problems that do not require a distributed solution, and while you can totally solve those problems with a distributed system, it's not really useful to do so in a way that dramatically increases complexity.

This is a known issue, and there are simpler models for these simpler cases. I think the problem is all the hype around k8s has driven a lot of square pegs into round holes.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833140
>The system worked this time.

I view the phrase "the system worked" as a red flag indicating that things went wrong in a way they shouldn't, not a positive thing. A successful outcome doesn't necessarily indicate things are fine.

A canonical example is the Space Shuttle boosters. The O-rings were supposed to block all the hot gases, but there was some gas leakage and erosion of the O-rings. Nothing bad happened and officials said this showed there was a sufficient safety factor. In other words, the system worked. They kept launching shuttles until an O-ring eroded all the way through and Challenger blew up. They should have recognized that erosion shouldn't have happened at all; successful launches despite erosion were an indication that things were dangerously wrong, not an indication that the system was working.

(I hope I haven't gone too far on a metaphorical tangent here.)

Reference: Feynman's report on Challenger: https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge...
I would also have a single 6-year term for the President. No more re-election campaigns mid-presidency.
It's certainly a valid position to interpret games as text to be interpreted. In fact, if structuralism and semiotics have taught us anything it is precisely this.

In danish education we have the concept of an "udvidet tekstbegreb" that means any references to texts can also refer to any other kind of cultural medium.

If we look outside Denmark, the European institutions also have this view. If we, for example, look at the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), they give us this exact definition of text [0]:

> Text is any sequence or discourse (spoken and/or written) related to a specific domain and which in the course of carrying out a task becomes the occasion of a language activity, whether as a support or as a goal, as product or process.

[0]: https://rm.coe.int/1680459f97, pp. 10.
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I sure hope the law treats these cancerous contracts of adhesion with the full contempt they are due.

Somehow I doubt it does, though :/
At least my publisher (Apress) is pretty open to giving away free copies for review (everything that helps bring reviews on Amazon is a plus), and limited discount vouchers etc.

But yes, you don't have all the freedom that you have with leanpub & co.
technical question -- I'm really impressed how OBS is able to abstract the "screen recording" functionality across different OSs (it works the same in Linux, Windows and OSX, with no difference in behavior that I've noticed).

How does screen recording work? Is it easy for OBS to just capture the video output buffer and start encoding it, regardless of the OS? Or do different OSs have very different strategies for this? What about hardware-level cursors? (I think that's a thing?)
Trump administration drops plan to deport international students
I have lots of friends who play shooting games semi-competitvely (they're all in the very high ranks of overwatch/csgo/etc). They are all very, very, very excited about Valorant's ring-0 anticheat. Lots of people want features that can't be achieved with a sandbox.
Surely this is a joke right? The white terror in Taiwan on a per capita basis was more brutal than anything in China. People were summarily executed, jailed, and robbed for even the slightest hints of anti-establishment sympathies.
Or just never bring this up again so you don't receive downvotes from people for simply pointing out a piece of information. Wow!
Not yet.

We do hope to integrate with Open Collective and others to fetch some of that data!
This isn't quite right. Technically it's carbon neutral, but the alternative method is carbon negative, as a larger portion of decaying matter will sequester carbon into the soil than would if you didn't burn. So the reality is that this is not carbon neutral compared to the alternative.

Of course, there could be some hidden factor I'm missing, as biological systems are complex.
and with deepfakes and the likes getting every day less distinguishable from real footage, the situation can be much, much worse
In fairness, the company set incredible records for fundraising and lines of credit every quarter to offset massive losses, ignores basic safety concerns in production, ships beta software, sold still non-existing products ( Roadster 2, Semi, Autopilot LV5) with a promise they would ship them, took reservations for cars at false prices they would eventually never ship or make hard to get [35K model 3 which was briefly sold, $39K Model Y which they cancelled in favor of a base $45K Model Y, $40K Cybertruck which they don't even know how big it will be or if it will pass any safety tests] and then used reservations numbers to leverage raising capital.

If Tesla acted like a normal responsible company, they should have been out of cash like all the nay-sayers said. Instead they frauded and scammed their way alive.
What are you using for this? This sounds like a neat setup.
Same with 2 year cycles for the House. If the newly elected government acts in a way that the public doesn't like, we can partially replace it pretty quickly.

Four year cycles for the house would mean we would have no way of changing course for four full years (other than impeachment, and we've seen how ineffective of a check that is if the president's party controls the Senate)
That's a unique case of the executive shutting itself down.
DRM is definitely a big offender, the other one off hand that is amazing is anti-cheat systems. Both types of technology for PC games basically are predicated on the concept of "if we monitor everything it's remotely possible to monitor about your PC, we can detect if you do something bad with it".

It's probable that Steam would not be remotely as successful if it interfered with DRM and anti-cheat strategies on privacy or security grounds.
It's kinda unfair as you can write off part of your rent, but not part of your liveaboard, even if it's your abode.

That said if you live as vagabond and don't have primary residence, wonder if you can get away from paying taxes at all. After all you are not using any countries resources.
Not really any difference with Fox News.
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I'm not saying they're wrong to be careful. If my words could shift the share price of an entire enterprise, I'd have them damn carefully vetted, too.

I'm saying that their words are very carefully crafted, and should be engaged with as the product of artifice, not genuine expression.