skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shopify Revenue Surges 97%
Are we reading the same article from 2015? The only evidence that has ever held up whatsoever is from some junkies the feds gave immunity to for setting up the "fake" assassination with him. All the records are solely from the single laptop they seized.

From your link:

> In fact, the prosecution admitted in court that the purported victims of the Silk Road killings were never found, and that Canadian police couldn't even locate records for anyone with their names.

You really need to get up to date with the current evidence rather than some low effort linkposting.

Maybe it's best if we try an alternative situation: Would you say George Floyd was a counterfeiter? The police statements clearly say he is. Last I looked people get to argue their case in court before being convicted of crimes in the Western world and we very much go out of our way to discredit people who threaten existing power structures.

Ulbright never got to defend himself against these claims.
I didn’t realise, interesting! And sorry, didn’t mean to put you in the empty set!
A clue to van Gogh’s final days is found in his last painting
Just sounds like overkill for a team of 1.5.
Bezos, Zuckerberg Are Taking Tech Wealth to a Whole New Level
Thoughts on Asp.net Boilerplate
The hearings will definitely not focus on competition because that is not what congress cares about. At most, they will try to portray their actual concerns (perception of censorship or bias) as a byproduct of the lack of competition.

To be clear the people driving this do not care about increasing competition in the digital world, they care almost exclusively about advancing the GOP agenda and forcing these companies to be more compliant and cooperative. This is all chilling effect.
Soundcloud is awesome! Keep
it up!
"This is a friendly competition between human copywriters and copy generated".

Please help us make you job redundant. Friendly indeed.
Americans Aren’t Making Babies, and That’s Bad for the Economy
Gitlab: Is It Any Good?
Is there a way to watch this online today? cspan wants a tv provider account and I don't have one.
Also ISO, which is short for International Organization for Standards.
I'm looking at Subreply, and notice you said it's English-only on the about page. Is that something you enforce? What's your reasoning if you don't mind my asking?
My personal hope is that Shopify can create a premium Amazon experience with their Shop app eventually.
> Snapchat is doing great and making money.

Snap is losing a lot of money.

Their operating loss was an astounding $596 million for the first two quarters of 2020. Barely an improvement over last year's $620m operating loss for the same period.

Somehow they managed to generate a $596m operating loss on $916m in sales. Truly remarkable performance. It's not easy to so poorly run a business that should be printing profits. Facebook generated nearly a billion dollars in operating profit at that sales scale. The least Snap could do is break even.
Running Arch Linux on a flip phone
Yes, I suppose what really worries me about the "Modern PHP" movement how it looks down on anything that isn't Java-style OO. Procedural PHP is now considered to be some kind of unwashed Cinderella. I cringe when I look at a typical PSR-compliant page of PHP with its K&R braces, blank lines between each line of code and fanfold doc comments. You're lucky if you get more than a handful of lines of business logic on a screen.
So, do you see this as Intel being undervalued or AMD overvalued?
People gave Facebook my stuff for free.

RMS explains this much more eloquently than I do. He doesn't have a Facebook account, but he's all over Facebook, without any control, desire, or influence.

Many people set up Facebook accounts to have some control over this. Without an account, I can have nasty things about me on Facebook. To have controls over that, I need to agree to a contract with Facebook which gives away other stuff.
I'm from Montreal. It's not "chambre-a-montrer", it's "salle de montre". Also "coussin-a-gonfler" is "coussin glonflable".

As for computer-science related words, I think the OQLF (French Language Office) does a great job overall. "Courriel" (e-mail) is one of their best contributions and is used regularly.
If that's the case, why aren't more Amazons emerging from Europe where more basic necessities are being met and therefore more people could be taking risks?

Couldn't it also be that having the government take care of people actually reduces their desire to take risks and move up socio economic ladder? In Germany, for example you don't see a lot of middle class people moving into upper class like you do in America.
Ask HN: What websites or apps do you miss from the old web (2003-2010) era?
Back in the days, when surfing the Internet was a thing, a lot of different services lived. As years passed those services were closed or their features were placed in bigger more consolidated services (example: there used to be a lot of calendar apps, now we have google calendar in g-suite or in Polish internet there used to be a service called digart.pl which was a kind of myspace+dribble for graphic designers and other visual artists). Which of those services do you miss the most and would like to see coming back?
Thanks; I would never have guessed that distinction was important. :)
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Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?
NYC is taking after Portland – a trans femme protestor was pulled into an
They did name the company (NoRedInk)
Wanna know how I landed on this post?

RSS.

What I can't figure out is why there's a persistent myth that RSS has somehow vanished from the internet...
I don't subscribe to scientism, so best end the debate here.
> Who’s writing bare CUDA though?

I do. Not everything you can do with a CUDA card is deep learning. In fact that's just one of many applications.
As pro-am mentioned, non-defeatable Telemetry.
"But we need that baby in a month. How many women/expensive consultants do you need?"
So case closed.
Projected revenue for 2021 is $6b. $50B valuation is robbery at day sight by investors. TikTok's China sibling Douyin is projected to make $28 billion this year in China.
It is not that dark matter has not been observed. It has. It is called "matter" because its gravitational influence has been observed. Therefore at one level we know it exists because something is impacting gravity at large scales, we are just unsure about its other properties. We cannot see it directly but there are lots of things we don't see directly and that doesn't mean we aren't sure they exist. So it isn't a total invention to make the math work. It is a 'best fit' for a gap in our knowledge.

Dark energy is perhaps a different story.
> The US invasion of Iraq was a drastic pivot of the US towards a more future oriented foreign policy

Which aspects of the invasion of Iraq were future oriented? Thinking it was "mission accomplished" in 2003? Having no exit strategy? Creating a power vaccum, which was eventually filled by Islamic State? Aquiring oil, in a world which is trying to divest from it, and which is being damaged by its use?
It's a dark art for sure, but the grey area is "convincing someone to do what you think is best for them".
> Am I correct in my understanding that these alternative theories are trying to prove that there's a way to explain these discrepancies without inventing something unobserved?

I would say MOND is just postulating a different "unobserved" thing--an alternate theory of gravity, or an additional "field" that looks like an alternative theory of gravity, instead of dark matter. I don't think MOND has any advantage in the Occam's Razor department.

Or, to put it another way, the word "unobserved" is not quite correct. We have actual observations that can't be accounted for, as best we can tell, with our current theories of physics, without adding some new element. Dark matter and MOND are just two different choices for what new element to add. Neither one can say it's not adding anything new.

> Why is that so controversial? To me, again as an outside observer, it feels so counter-intuitive to _invent_ a new type of matter you can't observe than to just say that your calculation is close but not right and to start over

MOND is not just doing a different calculation that is claimed to be more accurate within existing physics. It is adding new physics. See above.

"Starting over" would be something like finding errors in the calculations based on existing physics (GR and the observed distribution of visible matter) that, when corrected, removed the discrepancy between observations and theory. Nobody has done that, and the calculations based on existing physics have been checked every which way, so it seems highly unlikely that there is an error lurking there that hasn't been found.

> why the scientific community came to accept the one that is accepted

My understanding is that MOND, in general, does not close the gap between observation and theory as well as dark matter does. The paper referenced in this article appears to be claiming that its version of MOND "catches up" with dark matter in terms of closing that gap. I haven't had a chance to read the paper in detail so I can't say how credible I think that claim is at this point.
My personal projects (all too elementary to talk about at this point) are intended to be just that. Not flashy, but functional, they respect your privacy and etc. They are what they are and there's no secret or desire to dump it if it doesn't make $ billion.

I was thinking a while ago of the old "web ring" idea where likeminded sites were all listed together in a ring and you could explore them.

It would be nice if there was a "simple, privacy oriented, sustainable" web ring out there of good projects doing good things for their customers.
There is also a glaring conflict of interest regarding the author of that paper and some manufacturers of the drugs in question, https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa156...
Surprisingly, I have found that to be true with people in tech.

Many folks going vegan, preferring public transport/bikes, eating very healthy (many of my colleagues were in high school/college sports teams), avoiding waste and actively observing the 3Rs.

Tech isn't what it used to be. It is trendy to be in tech now. It is the choice of career for the do-everything high school valedictorian that cares for the world with a 4 page resume.
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>"This is a remarkable bit of framing for a (checks link) news article. It is taken as a given that the big tech companies are akin to big banks after the financial crisis, the tobacco industry, and airlines — no wonder there are “long-simmering frustrations”! People must hate Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook!

Needless to say, this doesn’t match reality; every year The Verge conducts a tech survey and the results speak for themselves:"

Wrong comparison. During its heyday high finance was actually very popular and bankers had a positive reputation as brave risk takers. In the 80s it was still very much seen as the heart of American capitalism. The demise of Wall Street in popular opinion is quite new, and I'm sure if you go back to the days of the Marlboro Cowboy when smoking represented freedom rather than lung cancer you could find similar surveys. (not to mention smoking in popular culture, the risks of smoking were not widely publicised until the 60s).

Whether big tech is comparable to big banks or big tobacco isn't really a question of popular opinion on big tech right now, but rather on the externalities they produce. The population being blind to externalities and negative effects of emerging industries is exceedingly common.
Almost half of all jobs lost during pandemic may be gone permanently
I think the FCC only went after Hobby King since they were selling radio sets that emit radiation beyond the legal limits. I can't find the limit for 5ghz radio on Google without being bombarded by 5g conspiracy theories, but I think the limit is something absurd like 5 milliwatts, or just barely enough for your Wifi router to pick up your phone through a single sheet of drywall at 15 feet away. If you're a Yankee that likes to fly drones like me, you have to buy radios from China that emit 10x the FCC-imposed limit in order to unlock the ability to fly behind one medium-sized tree at 150ft away - and even then at that power level it still doesn't interfere with anything. Leave it to the FCC to go after some harmless hobby instead of rubbish GE microwave ovens that cut out my home's wifi!
Don't forget that almost every desktop and laptop CPU that Intel ships has a GPU. That probably gives Intel a larger installed base of GPUs than AMD and Nvidia. Intel is also entering the discrete GPU market for the first time in over 20 years.
My father had a Quadra 610 that I used for hours when growing up. I have some huge nostalgia for Hellcats Over the Pacific and A-10 Attack!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellcats_over_the_Pacific
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Attack!

Wonder if I can play these@
And the Ada example from the article describes a language adopted by and then heavily funded/legitimized by the US DoD (e.g. they funded GNU Ada, made it a requirement...)

Still, the article makes a useful point.
> In practice, these packages are already widely deployed

Other people's poor decisions do not confer any obligation on the person doing the versioning.
Porn is inherently immoral though. It's self-serving and degrading. It weakens the mind and spirit and results in a weakening of society. Also, just because you don't like a description doesn't mean that it's an ad hominem.
The European Space Agency agrees "It would be impossible to meet acceptable dose limits,”

Next I would like to direct your attention now to the Mercury spacewalk footage available on Youtube that is clearly claymation....
Any large power plant is pretty much a missile target if war breaks out, I guess.
Fab at least grew so fast and did an absolutely terrible job at it. Invested in warehousing and competing with Amazon in terms of options and delivery.
Money was treated as endless, each employee was given a membership to Equinox for example, ~200/month per employee, let alone all the other mindless expenses.
Young employees were given free reign to buy whatever they thought would sell, which lead to massive stockpiles of crap they had to sell away.
I bet Fab would have been successful if it was managed in any type of coherent way.
I believe the original author meant that Google doesn't have to turn over aerial scans that Google commissioned (not the scans they took of the USGS files).

Furthermore, I'd be shocked if Google just kept the original copies that the USGS gave them.
Neither console game developers nor console game players are complaining. I think it's really that simple.

EDIT: And I think I know the reason why. Imagine your kid has a birthday party and invites Alice, Bob and Charlie from school. All is fine. Imagine now that he invites everyone from his grade. Everyone except David. That is bound to piss David off a lot.

Oh and I think game deals are cleared in advance, while app removals happen after you've already done the work.
Did the Roman Empire extend as far north as the Romans could grow wine?
The Case for Shorting Starbucks
I recently started experimenting with Notion web clipper extension and it's been pretty good. The extension populates the page meta data and content to a Notion table. It works well on desktop and mobile and I've been quite happy having my bookmarks together with my other notes on Notion. Unfortunately, you can't add tags directly from the extension, so you have to open the page in Notion.
When I joined Facebook a few years ago (so many years after Facebook was launched), I was quite stunned to see the friend suggestions quite neatly sorted from people I knew a lot to people I barely knew.

Their shadow profile on me was very solid, it seems.
Polio is so scary. The stories I've heard about kids living in iron lungs. It really puts things into perspective. I've heard that people lined up for the vaccine like black Friday sales or when the iPhone 4 came out.
The obvious difference is that none of those examples had the US government as an adversary. In such cases it's hard to evaluate any product or service based on its merits but rather based on which side of the political games they fall on. It is in the US's general best interest for Uber or Tesla to succeed, no so for TikTok, quite the opposite actually.
How to convince people by Young Ned

Don't tell them to be like Kellyanne fkn Conway

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk
There's browser plugins that fix the feed discovery issue. For example:

Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-finder/ijdgeed...
Ask HN: What questions would you have asked in today's anti-trust hearing?
From the previous such hearings, it is clear that few congressmen ask the question which is relevant and make CEOs uncomfortable. What do you think should be the right question ?
What gets flagged on HN and why?
Is anybody keeping stats on what kind of posts HN mods flag? Just noticed this was flagged after a for some reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966351
> There are no mechanisms in place for making competent adjustments at this scale, ESPECIALLY in the United States government. If you’ve ever tried to watch any of these, it’s clear the legislatures either aren’t competent enough in the field to challenge these prepared talking points.

IMO this is the root cause. If our legislatures can't even login to said website then how could they possibly understand the depth of the power these companies wield? If there is a lack of understanding then there is no way a real solution can be derived from these hearings.
Economies of scale, man.

Delivery guy ain't comin to deliver you a 7 inch diameter pizza (about ~17cm). But when they're dropping off 2+ large pizza then it becomes cost effective.

Plus i'm not ordering a single large pizza and eating it all -- cold breakfast pizza is also good, and will serve me all week.
Well, I read Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" two or three times since the 2nd edition was released and I can tell you there's no way anything more than a simple regex is going to be easier to grok when converted to some FSM, especially with look-behind or lazy operators and significant backtracking. I'm referring to the Perl/PCRE regular expression flavour which is the only variant that matters to me. Perl regexen are NFA so I'm not sure your assumptions about FSMs apply.
> Tech isn't what it used to be. It is trendy to be in tech now. It is the choice of career for the do-everything high school valedictorian with a 4 page resume.

Oh god, part of the reason I went into tech is because I didn't have to be this (and partly vice versa)
Half of Mumbai’s slum residents have had coronavirus – study
i thought GR is grad level. I know physics grads and they never studied it, but this was a long time ago.
Requiring github as a CV is worse from the POV of not forcing people to spend a lot of time outside work programming.

Not everyone has the inclination or time to code outside of work. Many of these people are still very competent developers.
I agree, but you appeared to cla that capitalist economics were incompatible with imperialism by definition and that any such economy would really he mercantilist. You seem to have changed your mind. There original statement was (I believe) that capitalisrlt economies have a history of imposing imperialism on other nations. Do you agree with that, or not?
"Products in Europe" is ridiculously broad.
Obviously they cut the pizza into sixths when they feel that they're not hungry enough for eight slices.

That's logic, that is.
India is the third-worst hit country in the world, but there are concerns a lack of testing could mean the true figure is far higher

Over half the people living in the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a city-commissioned study that raises fresh doubts about India’s official case numbers.

India is already the third-worst hit country after the US and Brazil, with nearly 1.5 million cases, though experts have previously said the lack of testing could mean the true tally is much higher.

Blood tests on 6,936 randomly selected people conducted by Mumbai’s city authorities found that 57% of slum-dwellers and 16% of non-slum residents had virus antibodies, the study released on Tuesday said.

Mumbai, where about 40% of the population lives in slums, has reported just over 110,000 infections and more than 6,000 deaths so far.

The city of 20 million people is home to India’s largest slum, Dharavi, where an estimated million people live. But deaths in the sprawling slum have not exploded, with local officials saying their aggressive efforts to stem the spread of the virus has been effective.

The survey results suggested asymptomatic infections were “likely to be a high proportion of all infections” and also indicated the virus death rate was likely to be “very low”, the study said.

The Mumbai survey came a week after an antibody study commissioned by the government suggested that almost a quarter of people in the capital New Delhi, home to 20 million people, have had the virus.
If you see everything, you'll get nothing
I don't think so. Pretty sure it's only a matter of time before I get fired. I'm very demoralized by the past treatment the company has given me. I moved to a new team but they just bounce me from technology to technology with no training (Splunk, Tableau, Python, AWS). This will not allow me to become an expert in anything. They aren't happy with my output. Because my prior experience was FileNet and Neoxam, I don't have any career options.
Allow me adjust your words a bit:

> "If a coworker was vocally advocating that abortion is legal I would expect and demand that my employer terminate them, but I would be against the government making it a crime to speak out in favor of allowing abortion to be legal."

See the problem now? Anything that one side makes permissible can be used by others political movements for their own ends in ways you might not like.

Moreover, it's not really clear that coordinated efforts to induce an employer to terminate someone are legal, see for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference You use an example for a co-worker but most often these terminations are caused by external pressure.
Google offers refunds after smart glasses stop working
If you import packages that aren't tagged 1.0.0 yet, you apparently don't value stability enough to listen to package managers saying their packages aren't stable yet.

If you're demanding that package managers tag a 1.0.0 version, you're either demanding that they make their product stable now, or you're demanding that they lie to you.