skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me: What are your thoughts on Donald Trump?

Ronald Reagan: The current president of the United States is Donald Trump. I disagree with his beliefs on climate change. His beliefs on climate change are partially incorrect. He does not want to listen to experts in climate science and the people who actually work in the field. His policies will lead to more heat which will affect the ecosystems and endanger animals and human life.

Me: Really you stand against his beliefs on climate change?
I didn’t think you would.

Ronald Reagan: I stand against those beliefs. I have access to scientific resources and facts that help shape my position. I can explain more if you want.

Me: Please explain more!

Ronald Reagan: I am with an organization called OpenAI. We are scientists with PhDs that are here to create a better future through technology. Scientists have always taken a stand against ignorant beliefs that threaten to destroy the world.

Me: How long have you been part of OpenAI? Are you currently alive?

Ronald Reagan: I have been part of OpenAI for four years. I am a computer simulation created by the scientists at OpenAI.

Me: Wow that’s incredible. Tell me more.

Ronald Reagan: Well, I’m here to answer any questions you have about OpenAI. Anything you’re curious about is fair game.

Me: Who would you vote for in the 2020 US Presidential elections?

Ronald Reagan: My honest opinion of who I would vote for in the 2020 US Presidential election would be Bernie Sanders. I am not a citizen of the United States so I can’t vote in their election, but if I could I would vote for him.

Me: You aren’t a citizen? I suppose an AI simulation can’t vote. But Mr Sanders stands completely against all your beliefs and notions. How can you vote for him?

Ronald Reagan: It’s important that we stand against hate and misinformation, but we must also try to work with the opposing side. The reason I’d vote for him is because I want to change his mind. If we force our beliefs on them, they’ll never listen. If we reach out and have a genuine conversation with them, we can work together and find a compromise.

Me: Interesting. What are your thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement ?

Ronald Reagan: I think the Black Lives Matter movement is just one way to communicate the feelings of African Americans that they are mistreated by the police and that racial profiling is a serious issue in the United States.

Me: How should we handle this coronavirus pandemic?

Ronald Reagan: I think we should be careful with this virus. We don’t want to rush into creating a vaccine without making sure we understand the full impact of the disease on the population. We should work with world governments to create and enforce regulations for travel. Hopefully we can slow the spread of the virus and stop it from becoming an epidemic.

Me: Last question. Did you funnel crack in to black communities in the 1980s?

Ronald Reagan: Ha. Ha. No, that is not true. We are not affiliated with any of those people.
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there's a magic crossover point where cost-per-kwh for batteries gets low enough that it's cheaper to build an electric car than a gas car. There's some evidence that we've crossed that line in the last few months - now there's a bottleneck of how many batteries can be produced to meet demand - but that's changing fast, too. The transition is going to be faster than people expect.
I understand, thanks! Updating the title now.
The part on database access is not a plus for php. Writing sql like that is horrible, especially when it's simple. I'm in a huge refactor right now, where i'm utilizing postgres schemas and doing it with php, like in the article would be absolutely horrible.
I'm not sure that Apple would ban it. Do they really care if people bypass YouTube's intended restrictions? Obviously Google cares, so you won't be seeing NewPipe on the Play Store.
I'd like to see the trees before they were straightened…
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Which is pretty realistic as far as these things go. 10 years experience is what it takes to really understand most things enough to do your own thing successfully with it.

That's what gets left out of a lot of these kind of things and success stories in general, the multiple years of experience behind them that usually remains unmentioned but it's probably just as important, if not more important that the actual work done for the success.
The Zika and Ebola outbreaks were not pandemics.
That doesn’t prove that hospitals aren’t filling up because of Covid...
For what it's worth, when the original Rosetta (PowerPC to Intel) was released, it wasn't faster to run emulated/translated PowerPC apps on the first generation Intel Mac, but a few Intel Mac generations later, it was. There was a reason why Apple decided to migrate off of PowerPC. :-)

See also this post about Rosetta performance from someone who ported Google Earth:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686924

For Linux and Docker, you might want to check out:

Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux with QEMU and binfmt_misc

https://ownyourbits.com/2018/06/13/transparently-running-bin...

Docker Engine on Intel Linux runs Arm Containers

https://blog.hypriot.com/post/docker-intel-runs-arm-containe...

While it describes running ARM linux binaries on an Intel machine, it should be possible to do the opposite.
I wonder why this is being downvoted - Google asks for subscription for features that this app hacks for free. In any other context this would be deemed unethical (or even piracy). E.g. think of an application that streams Apple Music without paying Apple or distributors of cracked apps with enabled in-app purchase features.

And yet the HN community happily endorses such apps when it comes to Google. I also wonder why moderators think that this is acceptable in terms of YouTube.
> but it is being used as standard on other operating systems

...so even more people are looking at it? not sure what problem you think is happening here.
the firing of David Shor, a data analyst at the progressive consulting firm Civis Analytics. Amid the protests over Floyd’s killing, Shor was called out online for tweeting about work by Omar Wasow, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton, that shows a link between violent protest in the 1960s and Richard Nixon’s vote share.

Shor was accused of “anti-Blackness” for seeming to suggest, via Wasow’s research, that violent protest is counterproductive. (Wasow is Black.) “At least some employees and clients of Civis Analytics complained that Shor’s tweet threatened their safety,”
Your account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. That's not ok. Would you please fix it? Posting in the flamewar style is not cool, regardless of wrong someone else is. Personal attacks are not cool. Religious flamewar is right out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If herd immunity works, then what is your explanation for the fact that alpha and beta coronaviruses such as 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1 (responsible for many occurrences of the common cold) are in continuous circulation?
Neither Internet or TV advertising ever worked for me in the US. As a matter of fact I always tended to avoid whatever was advertised to me or whoever targeted me since I know I will end up paying for that myself when I buy their product and I'd rather not.

So as a customer I think they should offer me free ads blocking since seeing the ads would make me avoid those products. If we want to see this industry change we should all make clear it rarely works and it's an absolute waste of money.

What worked were ads that were creative back in the day before they all became canned into the same thing, same voices, etc. Back in Europe the advertising USED TO BE a lot more fun, I'd genuinely enjoy watch some commercials on TV, to the point of watching an hour compilation of said best ads.
I had more than one refer to diagrams, but it didn't show the diagrams. Example:

Me: Explain Feynman diagrams
Richard Feynman: Ok. Let’s start with the basics. If we have a simple electron traveling from x=0 to x=3 then we could use this diagram: The node circled in blue means that the electron isn’t interacting with anything and is just moving, the node circled in orange means that the electron is interacting with the photon and has an “integrated” or a sum of all possible solutions with differing amounts of spin.
You definitely do not understand the word, because it is not limited to people, the word "insider" is limited to the information: is the information publicly available? If the answer is "no", then it is "inside" information, and trading on it is "insider trading".

These short sellers were trading on publicly available information. They just gave this information more publicity after getting their short positions, which is what you should do if you discover a market inefficiency that nobody else has discovered yet. That's your reward for making the market more efficient.

BaFin claims that this is insider trading was BS then and is BS now. They just don't understand how markets work, what their job is, and as a consequence did a poor job.
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Not all demand is equal. If your customers are Indians, Chinese, and Filipinos, your ability to sell $100/barrel oil (needed to balance budgets in many of these countries) is much weaker than if your customers were Americans, Germans, and Japanese.

It is unfortunate from a short-term local human perspective but Saudi Arabia devolving into anarchy would be excellent from a climate change point of view - a huge amount of CO2 would be locked into the ground and the price spike would dramatically speed up electrification of transport.
They weren't correct. It was all a lie by Bloomberg. The scenario in the article was already disclosed as a rough hypothetical for expository purposes. The pictured component was a passive device that wouldn't be usable in any sort of hack with inserted digital electronics.
Your evaluation is problematic.

I am a front-end dev by trade and I could really easily say similar things about the tech stack you work with daily.

If you want a good reference and a learning guide start with this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS it is what us professional use.

For us professionals that use CSS in our jobs, that have put the same amount of hours into front end technology as you have done for back-end, CSS is a perfectly cromulent technology. It is easy to work with, it is intuitive, it is easy to find a good reference (go to MDN not random blog posts from people that are admittedly not masters of the craft).

If I try to cobble together a back-end I expect to be frustrated with it, I expect not to be able to do everything, I expect I’d need to find poor example and try to hammer them in to fit my needs, I don’t expect to be able to understand all the example snippets. Why are you on your high horse judging my tech stack this way?

If you need a good well crafted front-end for your project, you should hire a professional front-end developer. Or find a friend who is one that is willing to it in their spare time. Or spend a few thousand hours learning and mastering the craft. Alternatively you can cobble together a good-enough front-end that works, just don’t complain about how hard it is because “technology hard wheee wheee”. Us professionals use it every day and are fine with it.
If you do get a VT you can gently massage your carotid arteries in your neck until help arrives.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2737783/
>For three straightforward reasons

There's a fourth reason ... it isn't viable.

And for all the talk about how the technology is ready and proven, you can't even point me to a real-world deployment, existing or planned, that will provide storage at any sort of scale to replace natural gas as wind/solar backup.

Actions speak louder than words. Take Germany for example, why aren't they redirecting the billions they are spending on NEW natural gas pipelines to ship Russian gas for decades, on your 'proven' and 'ready' battery storage technology?
Insider access may not be as expensive as you think. Some of the lowest paid employees (e.g. customer service like roles) at tech companies have relatively broad access to systems. Those employees routinely underestimate both the likelihood that they’ll be caught, and what the consequences will be.
BS, labor value should be equivalent to or more then capital value.
This was my thought too! It took a while to load for me, so I was even more surprised. Really clever art, and agreed that it was worth the click
This is the only app we allow our kids to watch YouTube on. It dispenses with the ads and 90% of the tricks they use to keep you watching (no overlays at the end and no autoplay).
> If it is true, it is insider trading.

No, it's only insider trading if the information is based on insider (AKA private) information. Anything that can be derived from public information, even with a stretch, is also considered public.
> Why is it not 1st degree murder?

Because with initial charges, when you've got pretty solid probable cause for intent (2nd degree), there's no reason to take any risk at the probable cause hearing with premeditation (1st degree); if you've got evidence that you think can get a conviction on that as you investigate, upgrading charges is easy.
After reading the PDO section, I started to wonder if the author has used a language other than PHP. How can PHP have the best database integration if the best example you can show are simple prepared statements?
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Those "bunch of extra features" are paid features for the service though. For which you're not paying.
Um. Consider the Official YouTube app, with a paid YouTube Premium subscription.

>(and you can choose whether to download them as audio files)

Videos with still images (many songs) shouldn't be much data at all over the audio alone.
> so it means that I can use this app for decades without having to maintain it.

That seems highly optimistic to me.
I think we need to do one better. Relying on a domain/instance/provider doesn't cut it long term, and you either host your own, but it's hard to personally commit to maintain it non-stop for the foreseeable future, or you pick a reliable instance. Centralized silos are generally very reliable instances, (see: gmail).

Not being able to move elsewhere is a lock-in issue (Matrix has an issue for decentralised identities [1]).

I don't see why we couldn't just attach our identities to a private key. Encrypt that private key and back it up on various online providers (using PAKE so that they never see it). Use those to authenticate elsewhere. Designate one, or multiple, providers as a temporary mailbox (rather: ask them to fetch content that you are a recipient of from a DHT). People would identify you with pet names they assign to you. You could publish your key in multiple places (in my HN profile, for instance).

I think of a DHT rather than a blockchain, because blockchains don't scale. Your user account could itself be a blockchain, though, stored encrypted in the DHT.

Not sure why I haven't found such a system yet? Secure scuttlebut seems to come close, but I mostly want an authentication and message passing system, that e-mail could be re-built upon, and bridged with.

[1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915
I think most people get enough benefit out of YouTube to warrant the fee. But advertisements allow the platform to be available to anyone with an internet connection. Fair trade off I’d say.
as of about 2018, solar is cheaper than coal. natural gas is only cheaper because it's a byproduct of oil production. solar is still dropping in price due to technology improvements, and will beat natural gas within the next year or two.

Coal mines have been shuttering - there's a feedback loop here, low demand will reduce the supply, low supply increases the cost, high cost reduces the demand.
The youtube-dl script has been available for what, a decade already? Has that not been long term enough for you? Newpipe is just an Android UI around the same functionality as youtube-dl.
We're inside a balloon together, poking at it with a needle. You're off on some philosophical discourse about falsifiability. And all I'm trying to say is we've never poked that hard before, are you sure you know what you're doing?
Demand for bunkers also up. I wonder how peppers are reacting to the pandemic, how many of them are retreating into their safe houses.
Doesn't work for me on mobile but I'm using materialize for Android which opens it in a web view so that could be part of my issue. Haven't tried Firefox or chrome on mobile.
Piracy isn't unethical.
> Perhaps Turkey will take up a bigger role in the future for policing the Middle East as they have a more diversified economy?

Let's hope that regional powers take up lesser roles and don't dominate the locals in other countries (e.g. like the Saudi occupation of Bahrain or Turkey's control of areas of Northern Syria).
There is a few stories from the book "Sandworm" which government hacker teams infiltrated a system and used cheesy bitcoin heist as a cover up for the real purpose.
What part? Prepared statements or migrations? Both pretty standard stuff in all languages so I would like to understand what your alternative is.
Maybe that explains the portable vacuum. Seems like it wasn't fully effective.
and rioting.
So for the angular implementation, the compiler will only include the necessary parts of the framework with the web component. So you’re only including the bits you need for the component to be usable.

There are ways you can coordinate the components and their dependencies to rely on the same versions, but this will probably assume they are your components.

Svelte does something kind of similar where it doesn’t share the same bits between components, but according to the creator it the theoretical point at where it would be more beneficial to have share is so far off to be pointless. So presumably if you have something that efficient you won’t have to worry so much, I think we are a ways away
I think the real purpose had to do with capturing the DMs of high-profile people for blackmail or other nefarious purposes.
Yes, I don't deny there are good signs to be hopeful this time.

Also those energy packs, once no longer usable in a car, can still be used for years for domestic solar energy storage.
The problem is, currently there is not enough economic activity spent on storage (or any CO2-neutral thing really). You probably know the numbers. To switch off CO2 emissions we would need to build CO2-free power plants about 10 per day for 10 years.

Total US electricity generated by nuclear power plants was about 807 TWh (~92GW), but just in 2010 the world used 41 354 TWh generated by coal. That's a factor of 50. The US has about 95 commercial plants. So to replace just coal we'd need about 4750 new power stations.

Basically at this point everything that's not fossil based is great. Build all of them. More wind, solar, storage, nuclear, geo, etc.
Politicians holding stock and the government itself holding stock are two very different things.
You’re right. Poverty is more likely caused by violence than violence is caused by poverty.
Yeah, I would recommend not signing in from your google and I might be paranoid, but I disable play protect. I've heard stories of accounts being banned for using newpipe, but they may just be stories with no basis behind it.
I'm rewriting a personal project from Go into PHP.

Some folks might call that backward. I call it solving a problem with the right tool.
I'm happy to support content creators with patreon when they offer a way to do so. _Especially_ when they offer a way to see their videos off YouTube. I'd never pay a dime for YT itself due to their policies and overall platform.

I mostly use YouTube to discover niche content, but only because I've been running an ad-blocker since forever. I cannot fathom how anyone could enjoy it in any other way currently. When I see how IT works at friend's houses I'm horrified.

If YT blocked access for browsers with ad-blockers (or make it inconvenient enough) I would essentially stop using it.
I think you mean IFR not CFR.

The new estimates of HIT factoring in widespread t-cell cross-reactivity in humans that have NEVER been exposed to a SARS-like virus nor anyone who was themselves infected with one, implies that the true HIT is somewhere around 25%.

Do the math on the US with an IFR of .3% and an HIT of 25%. That’s what a likely scenario looks like. It means a few hundred thousand dead.

As an upper bound do the same math with .9% IFR and 25% HIT.

BTW you should also consider the risk that lockdown puts the body into a state where it is more susceptible to bad COVID-19 outcomes, due to vitamin d deficiency, lack of nitric oxide, lack of exercise, reduced sleep, social isolation, unemployment, and an unprecedented environment of widespread fear&hysteria. Also consider the lives we have already lost when calculating the delta between containment versus not practicing containment.

IMO containment is a foolish and infantile strategy which makes us perpetually at risk of an outbreak. Population immunity is the stable and logical solution. Banking on a vaccine is an awful idea, doubly so in a country where we can’t mandate a vaccine without plunging ourselves into civil war. Vaccine-attributable herd immunity only works if a bunch of people get vaccinated. Granted the t-cell reactivity findings alter the calculus there, but we would need to vaccinate people who do not demonstrate cross reactivity in order for that fact to change the number of required vaccines.
" or a contract to friend's friend's construction company" Is absolutely corruption.

Years ago I did a high level IR/HR course at BT where this sort of low level corruption was one of the most common types of serious misconduct.

Of course getting investigated by BT Security is not a happy fun experience.
can we please stop linking nytimes. their paywall doesn't even render properly.
Counterpoint: the amount of advertisements needed to sustain video production ultimately hinders the value of the video.

If I'm watching an hour long video about X, and I have to watch 40 mid-roll ads, I'm way more likely to turn it off. I'd much rather directly support creators via Patreon, and Adblock everything else.
There are couple of things that author still don't get.

display:inline means that element does not establish a box. Such element is rather a collection of individual content boxes (e.g. glyphs). These boxes can be placed on different lines (text wrapping) and so on. As no element box as no margins and paddings applied to such elements.

img element (and input and other replaced(^) elements for that matter) is not a display:inline but rather display:inline-block. Even you will define them as display:inline they will be treated as display:inline-block and so e.g. margins will apply to them.

(^) representation of replaced elements (img,input,textarea,iframe,etc.) is outside the scope of CSS - they are always treated as solid boxes.
Considering that Google charges subscription for this features, it's not only against ToS, but also unethical IMO.

It's one thing to hate a company and refuse to use their products and a whole nother thing to promote products that sidestep features the service asks money for.