skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No there is not. There is no competition for Google ad words, just like there is no competition for Facebook. They set the market prices, the middle-men add to that cost and sell their services based on value add...
The Trigger one really resonated with me. I've been desperately struggling with getting tasks done - I thought it was Motivation mostly (and a good deal of the issue is, quarantine is sucking my energy). But when I think back to all the times I was successful, it was the presence of good triggers.

For example, I did a coding bootcamp, and it was the most productive part of my life, because in my opinion of the powerful triggers. I show up, I do a coding challenge. Every day. That's how it worked. Then at 9:30 or whatever there's a lecture. I go to it and I take notes. Then there's a pair programming excercise... etc. All I had to do was plug myself into the schedule, and the motivation and ability basically came for free. It was a sort of freedom - sorry brain, we don't really have a say in this, gotta follow the schedule.

Recently I've been struggling to work out as frequently as I did when I was working. Before, I'd bicycle to the gym, and then go from there to the office. Obviously right now that wasn't happening - but functionally I had more time to work out now. I have more freedom, so why am I working out less? Then I talked to a therapist about depression etc, and she said "well before we can do anything else, you need to start working out again. 30 mins cardio a day, elevated heart rate and sweating." Suddenly it was easy. Suddenly it was like Freedom again. Sorry brain, we gotta just run, doctor's orders.

Interestingly, for the first time in my life (big weightlifter, never a big cardio guy), I could do a 30 minute run without stopping. Sure, a pace of 11.5 minute mile, but before I couldn't even do 20 minutes without interspersing walking (about 12.5 or 13 min mile for a 2 mile run). But day 1 after doctor's orders, I just did it? It's completely fascinating. I obviously always had the ability, the restriction was entirely mental.

So I really like how this author put the Trigger into words. It reflects my own personal experience.
THANK YOU!! I have been saying this all along. Glad others feel the same way as I do!
Your anti-argument statements are what have no place here. If you don't like what the person is saying, you need to either engage with them, or downvote and ignore.

> x is NEVER okay

is a just-so assertion, not an argument.
I've actually not been an actual user besides running a random repo to see how it all fits in nicely. But... i've been playing more with F# and it really is a fun language to use and capable.

I was able to compile a number of F# applications to "native" or as close as possible and they ended up getting significant performance improvements.

For instance a ray tracing application when compiled to native had improvements of 50%.
It's really simple and sad: he has been in power since 1995. God knows what he has done as an absolute dictator. Also, to stay in power, tens or hundreds of thousands of others have helped him and they have their own fiefdoms.

Losing that and risking jail, isn't going to happen because people want change. So people better be lucky, because if they lose this revolt, they will be crushed mercilessly. Not sure EU /USA has any say over him, after all staying in power is his goal.
Tuscany's medieval 'wine windows' have reopened
Google is way too innovative to be relegated to public utility status. Much better would be to consider an antitrust breakup.
I love the P53! I got one to replace an X1 Carbon after I kept thermal throttling when compiling Rust.

I run NixOS on mine, and it's almost perfect.
Hopefully, with this official Fedora release, I'll be able to change the screen brightness when using the Nvidia GPU - it's currently stuck at 100%. Damn Nvidia + Linux :(
Never underestimate what hipsters will pay for kitsch.
No, Ram is consistently below 50% usage. and cpu is below 10% usage. only HDD becomes 100% usage, and even task manager does not tell me which process is doing it.
Are we really at the stage where we argue about if we should have area-wide censorship?
It was hard to jam radio transmissions in the past, but these days it's common. Russia did that to Ukrainian channels in Crimea and Donbass and Belarus has access to the same Russian technology.
I reacted to previous posts about this by installing Element (was Riot.im; search for both words) matrix client, setting up a periodic donation to privacytools.io, and making accounts with that as homeserver (chat.privacytools.io) for me and for the rest of the family.

(Previously, I had a Librem.one account, but they don't maintain their server, so I dropped it.)

It works... Still waiting for anyone else I know to come over.

Element really needs to set up as an optional SMS handler, on phones. Probably building in a Signal gateway is needed too. Signal would be nowhere today if it didn't also do SMS. Separate gateways are too clunky.
I don't disagree with your concept in theory, but I also don't think there is any evidence to suggest that MoCo's trademark royalty payments (as IIRC that's how they are structured according the financial docs) to MoFo are adjusted based on MoFo's donations.

Has that been mentioned in a meeting somewhere?
Marinus Analytics uses knowledge graphs to combat human trafficking
are you asking me why it doesn’t make sense to write a check for every small purchase you make?

if the Fed’s faster payment network goes live and makes ACH instantaneous can payments can be done with a QR code or something similar then that is viable but not right now.

beyond that, almost no e-commerce store accepts ACH. It also doesn’t benefit the consumer to bother with the hassle of ACH vs card when there’s no discount...you’re just saving the merchant money. Amazon is the only one I can think of.
That was sort of the idea of their old Touchstone Pictures brand. It let them do movies that weren't on brand for Disney.
If you don't mind sharing: what benefit do you get from this configuration vs using the features of 1Password.com that are included in membership? - Ben, 1Password
Have you got a link to anything that someone interested can read that tells your side of the story? I'm okay with reading something partisan if it's not egregious and sheds some light on how people are actually experiencing this where you are.
Can't you set up some sort of foreign subsidiary to do it for you? Apple already uses this model for storing icloud data in china, to comply with chinese laws.
> Has that been mentioned in a meeting somewhere?

Not explicitly, but I do recall meetings where the announcement was along the lines of "we are choosing to make a dividend payment to fund the Foundation work..." which implies some amount of adjustment based on needs.
While the administration could say that Apple only has to block wechat from the US app store, it's not what they have done and they have not indicated that they want to go that way; the currently announced prohibition, as far as I understand, would prohibit Apple to support WeChat anywhere no matter if it allows installing WeChat for a US phone this way or not.
Pinterest might be bidding very high for that phrase, or maybe other consumers prefer Pinterest to the manufacturer's site.
> You agreed to their terms and services.

Search engine web interface doesn't require users to accept anything. Search crawler indexes the web without any contractual relations with web site owners.

> you can use a competitor

As a search engine user, I can and I do.

However, the party most affected by the monopoly is web site owners. They can't do that.

> start with the ISPs and restore net neutrality

Where I live, I have a choice of 2 wired broadband ISPs, 3 wireless with comparable speeds (30-40 mbit/sec in practice). To my knowledge, none of them filters or prioritizes traffic. I generally support net neutrality but I'm not affected my the lack of these laws. This is unlike search engine monopoly: despite I don't personally use google search, most other people do.
or maybe people want different things from their products...
I think there are definitely things that could be improved in the release process there. The project is mostly run by volunteer contributors as there are limited things we can focus on, and currently we're very focused on React itself. If someone were to volunteer to streamline the release process and improve it, I'm sure the maintainers would have been appreciative.
Most of the time SSR gives massive web accessibility benefits. Ignoring web accessibility because you don't want to implement SSR is likely a worse solution for a large portion of your userbase.
Um, yes? Nothing is off the table for discussion. If you don't like it, don't participate in the discussion, or downvote, or move on. Don't police other's willingness to engage certain arguments.
Well, you seem to be trying to implement microscale censorship, and the other poster seems to be able to post, so I'm not sure what your deal is.

I mean, you probably participated in and even supported the Coronavirus lockdowns, yeah? Why is a terror lockdown so philosophically different?
I only use phone calls (sync) and e-mail (async) nowadays.There's no other communication channel I would need. I'd only be willing to substitute them with their encrypted, P2P, and open-source counterparts, if they ever come into existence.

Texting, on the other hand, used to be the bane of my existence, as--especially in its current form (free, nested layout, etcetera)--it's one of the most distracting, inefficient, absurdly redundant and useless communication mediums I know.
What if you wrote the following? (I'm being serious): "I don't agree with CubsFan that information restriction in the South Side of Chicago is a justifiable way to reduce the looting downtown, but I think HN is exactly the sort of place that tolerates this exact kind of viewpoint, especially directly underneath a comment that argues the opposite."
Beyond that plank, it's important to note that these same politicians are often bought out by lobby money from the private institutions who stand to benefit. They stand aside and let people from private industry, like TurboTax or H&R Block, write the laws that make things harder on their constituents, and then turn to them and and go, "See, government is inefficient!" It's a complete racket!

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
Pop made Gnome exactly what I wanted out of the box. Plus the new tiling was the icing on the cake. Minimal tweaking to start doing what I want it to do.
Does anyone have a detailed analysis of why we believe we have the technology to detect distant alien civilizations? Given interstellar distances, travel between stars seems unlikely without some new science we don't know yet. Also, do we know we would be able to detect our own radio transmissions with our own telescopes from lighyears away? I think the great filter hypothesis always relied on the assumption that intelligent life would eventually develop Star Trek level technology and be extremely detectable, but what if we're near the end of what's physically possible with respect to energy production, speed, radio astronomy, and communications? What if the aliens are out there, but statistically so far away that we will never detect each other?
"Reason" was/is an inspired name for this kind of programming language. I mean, here's what the dictionary says:

reason [mass noun] The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements logically

--

Alice: What are you using for that project?

Bob: I'm using Reason
I like Fred, he cares about doing stuff the right way rather than get work done, with Fred our Operating-system's would be much better/faster and easier to maintain.
thanks, I will pay extra ttention to this.
I am willing to bet the App Store is an Ireland based entity with contracts back to Apple to provide service aka generate expenses for Apple's US entity. That way Apple can book all the app store revenue in Ireland.
Correct. This is for our dev/stg environment and desktops (where they aren't laptops, which are nice because they have their own UPS :-). But, our city has all underground power infrastructure, and the number of outages we've had has been very, very small. We do have BBUs on RAID adapters, but we also rebuild almost all our machines every other day, and have backups of everything as well.
Can't really live in a REIT though.
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> Curious indeed that other nations were able to progress and modernise through trade and exchange without compromising their sovereignty

Where, exactly, did this occur? I suppose one could point to the United States as an example but that's an edge case: a new nation splitting off from an already industrialized nation. Japan might be cited as another example, but they notion that they didn't compromise their sovereignty is not entirely accurately. Japan had contact with Europeans since the 16th century. They didn't industrialize until Western powers used gunboat diplomacy to force favorable trade deals. Furthermore, this was in the 19th century, decades after Europe had fought the first Opium War and colonial conquests in Asia had already begun.

> but that wouldn't be enough for African nations for some reason. What exactly would those reasons be?

Africa isn't being singled out here. The rest of the world didn't industrialize just through commercial contact either.

Europe had been trading with Asia for centuries before colonization occurred, and despite that Asia did not industrialize. These regions had greater centralization, urbanization, and rates of literacy that most other regions of the world. I could flip the question around back to you: what makes you think that trade and exchange would be enough for Africa to industrialize through commercial contact when other regions of the world did not?
Firefox was big because the alternative was dysfunctional.

Mozilla cannot really competitively compete with Chrome on features, not for long. Anything new they put out that can pull in a meaningful usershare increase will be replicated by Google. And all the niche features they want to push (privacy et al) aren't going to cause major market swings.

Firefox circa 2004 was dominating because IE was a steaming pile of garbage and Apple had no market share at the time. If you wanted a usable browser it was your only option and even then they were still a minority to the installed by default broken trash.
Russia registers virus vaccine, Putin’s daughter given it
I've used & loved Mozilla forever but at some point I am starting to wonder: when you fire 1/3 of your workforce & have obvious mismanagement problems, how can you still guarantee the security of such a complex piece of software?
Yes. Isomorphic code was always about having to prove the correctness of a smaller body of code.

Web assembly will see a whole new round of people trying to do monoglot programming. Which I welcome, because I like JavaScript well enough but I don’t like writing it all day, every day, for years at a time.
Ethereum is the one that is generating more fees right now. 3.6M just in fees yesterday

https://coinmetrics.io/charts/#assets=btc,eth_left=FeeTotUSD...
You can enforce attendance but not intent nor performance.

"They pretend to pay us. We pretend to work."

Challenging to put together the kind of MMT jobs program you described. One possibility to explore is find the smallest grouping of Dunbar's number-quantity groups that can independently deliver some core set of livable quality standards, with a core set of raw material and energy inputs. This only works if the emergent redundancy is encoded as a national security policy. The redundancy is interwoven into the defense posture, making it extremely tough to hurt the nation economically or militarily. In the worst case, individual groups revert to independently supplying their own needs at a "good enough" level as long as specific raw materials and energy are nationally available.

Then individual members can be voted in or out of such groups. As long as you're in such a group, the core living standard is supplied without monetary exchange. But piss off enough members and you get voted out, and you're on your own unless you can find another co-operative to accept you (with a blockchain registry of rejected members, you'll have to be pretty convincing), and you'll have to enter the more conventional monetary exchange system we're familiar with today. Basically, the vote is an evaluation of whether you fit within that specific high-trust environment.
That's why I said "typically". One of the biggest complaints about SPAs is the perceived slowness due to the app loading and rendering assets in the browser, as well as the typical HN noscript complaints, as well as accessibility issues, SEO issues, and other problems related to back button behavior and url routing. SSR solves all of these troubles.
Matrix does pretty well in terms of privacy these days.

As for privacytools.io, I can't really agree. They have made a number of suggestions which are less about actual privacy and more about a trend I've come to think of as "privacy roleplaying" - trendy software & services which use privacy and security as a selling point but whose implementation doesn't back it up. An example is Protonmail. When it comes to the privacy vs usability debate I come down hard on the side of privacy. Doesn't matter how pretty it is if it's going to get you rubber hosed.
> Case in point, DuckDuckGo etc

You're missing the point. The anti-competitive behaviour isn't harmful against other search engines - it's against companies in the other domains where Google can leverage its nigh total search engine dominance to push its other products, e.g. Google Flights and Google Shopping. How is a flight booking service supposed to fairly compete with Google Flights when Google owns the top of the funnel where users go to search for these services? It's exactly the same thing that Microsoft did with Internet Explorer in the 90s: leverage their control of the platform (in that case, an OS) to exclude competitors for their other products (web browsers).
Despite it being (2018) the "in the future" part still holds.

Not sure why, but since customer acquisition doesn't seem to be limited by it, it's probably not their top priority.
If you can store the entire BTree a bloom filter is useless. Bloom filters are compact caches for very large DBs with high negative lookup rates. Think instead of N cache misses, it's querying a remote database vs a local vector lookup.
I generally disagree with these kinds of models. Not because motivation, triggers, etc. aren't real things, but because they couch the problem as being either outside of us, or quasi-genetic (ADHD, etc.), instead of a choice that we make and own.

Taking action has varying degrees of difficulty for every person. The factors are numerous. But in history, in life, in every scenario I've ever read or studied or watched, there's only one factor that matters: regardless of conditions, health, limitations, weather, whatever--the person made a decision and took action, over and over. In my experience, it's as boring as that. No mental hack, no shortcut--decision and action.

Sure, you can work on 'clearing obstacles' to getting things done--mental models, physical problems, whatever--but you don't wait for this to be 'solved'. You have to act. And do it again until you're done.
Doesn’t Uber decide who to route which ride?
Unfortunately it's very easy for governments to make ownership of unblockable receivers illegal and to simply jam appropriate wavelengths on top of that. Just look at how radio was regulated after its invention.

Usually there is no proper technical solution for a political problem.
Elixir does this via Phoenix + LiveView, tho it's not quite as fully-featured as Rails.
> these have low credibility

Lower then low, to the point that whenever somebody mentions them, I believe there was just a "wish to be true" and then stop.

When checked, it was just a "rerelase" of the old already published material (one can also think about to whose benefit that distraction was) which was already carefully debunked by Mick West:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus

Mick West's full playlist with explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-4ZqTjKmhn5Qr0tCHkCV...

An article mentioning Mick West:

https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/that-navy-ufo-footage-has-a...

Also, one day after NYT published their article "No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public" they published a correction too:

"Correction: July 24, 2020
An earlier version of this article inaccurately rendered remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the retired Senate majority leader from Nevada. Mr. Reid said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades. An earlier version also misstated the frequency with which the director of national intelligence is supposed to report on unidentified aerial phenomena. It is 180 days after enactment of the intelligence authorization act, not every six months."

Emphasis mine, now imagine how many articles in how many media were written before the above correction, and it will explain what most of the consumers got as the message (namely, the first, utterly fake version with fake "crashes").
Google clearly meets the definition of a monopoly. It comes down to 3 things: Market power, Exclusionary Conduct, and Business Justification (1). Microsoft was charged as a monopoly but you could always just use linux. Ultimately it comes down to the fact that Google is harming the consumer by using their dominate market power in search to push their own, worse products.

(1) https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
https://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/banks-building-societi...

You are protected up to £85k per bank.
Yes, there is nothing wrong with that statement.

Arguing in favor of censorship is not the same as censorship. The whole point of free discussion is that you can talk about the philosophical merits of anything, regardless of whether or not the argument itself is "correct".

On the flipside, policing other's willingness to engage certain arguments is itself a form of micro-censorship. The pushback is against arguments like "This argument has no place on HN", which is not a useful argument and doesn't address the merits of GP's comment.
... because the current admin is not exactly in the habit of thinking ahead. I see no reason they intentionally want to hurt the goose laying golden eggs. I’d be happy to learn valid reasons why though.
ive never seen any evidence of gov intervention resulting in a better outcome for anyone other than special interest groups.
I don't know what the criteria are for defining a planet (and I know that there is a great deal of controversy), but "rounded by its own gravity" seems like a good dividing line to me.
I'm afraid we're looking at a great filter event very soon. We're doing nothing about global warming, we've demonstrated that the United States has a significant fraction of its population which values short-term pleasure over the most basic work to prevent the spread of a pandemic (and we're likely to see these sorts of things happen more, not less frequently as we continue to encroach on wildlife habitat). I'm increasingly skeptical of the ability for civilization to make it into the 21st century.
I'm sure I could look it up, but maybe it would help people interested if each company in the OP could be given a 1-2 sentence blurb to say what the company does, not just what the talk will be about. I'm guessing not everyone knows the 1-word Silicon Valley company names as if they're household words?