skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very interesting that you delineate a line between freedom (you can say nazi stuff in the usa without going to jail) from liberty (that doesn't mean you won't get kicked out of walmart for saying nazi stuff inside the store), but then you turn around and say

> As a result, laws that constrain liberties along traditional lines have been eliminated over the course of the last century, replaced with new ones reflecting leftist norms.

I have no idea what "traditional lines" could mean here. Cause I could take it, for example, the traditional values of women and black people being less-than and thus their liberty to vote being illegal, has been "eliminated." Is that what you mean? What "traditional constraints" are being eliminated, and why do I get the sense from your post that this is bad? Furthermore, what new laws are being passed that "constrain liberties" along "leftist norms?" For focus, maybe we can stay on-topic in the USA, where I can only think of the removal of restrictive laws across the board: gay people can get married, more states have laws explicitly allowing open-carry, for a brief period women's bodily autonomy was being restored (though this is being restricted again) (I'm talking about abortion here), etc.

> As people are booted off YouTube and Twitter by an increasingly severe leftist standard, a new market opens up for alternative services.

Do you mean services like Voat? I mean... I guess if that's the ideological standard you want to align yourself with, go for it lol.
> What if you just gave each person a way to censor the content they don't want to see?

>

> Something like show dead posts on hn.

Or a killfile in a news client. While usenet was to some extent full of troll posts and spam, with the right filters, the signal to noise ratio was very high.
This is a really good move. A lot of people have been offering Jupyter Notebooks along with their Books. This should bring down the effort in getting the book out. An important note though, R world has for something called 'bookdown' for quite sometime and many R developers have used it to write books. https://bookdown.org/

The only worry is that now a lot of data science enthusiasts are going to try to publish their Jupyter Notebooks collection as Kindle books!
hey, i appreciate that you have an opinion on this matter, but the scientific evidence decidely does not support that opinion.

[1] limited, controlled experiment =/= real-world effect. every researcher knows this (even if they sometimes don't want to admit it). at best, you have a line of inquiry to follow, not a conclusive policy measure to enact and enforce.

> "For the sake of easy numbers..."

frictionless point-masses are pretty amazing too. an idealized 2d planar diffusion model ignores the very important 3rd dimension, not to mention a large part of the time dimension too (as well as many other significant variances in the real world).

> "...will be breathing in..."

potential exposure =/= ingestion =/= infection

> "...in real-world studies, when the use of face masks and/or social distancing... 2% decline..."

confounding explanatory variables. it's the distancing, yo.

that study summary [3] even says "estimates suggest..." up to 2% (at a population level), not we found undeniable and replicable effects across a variety of conditions that control for confounding measures.

[4] "...could confer..." == we don't know yet. it's the distancing, money!

even your selectively chosen citations show that research has yet to reach conclusive positions on the role of masks on real-world effects (and they don't contradict the idea that masks may be additive but marginal), and certainly not lockdowns. they do show decent evidence that distancing works as the primary mitigation (at the very least, not contradicting that position).
Huawei doesn't need "backdoors" for the CCP, because they are CCP. The higher-ups are undoubtedly all party members.
Except in this case they make it less fair, safe and non-discriminatory because those in government think they can ignore basic economics.
He is awfully repetitive and his earlier videos on the subject are more informative, but he's basically right. If the basic science disagrees, it must be a scam until proven otherwise. Plenty of studies were done on the accuracy of labs done on finger sticks before Theranos, but investors were not paying attention.
The app doesn’t publish any personal information and complies with every Twitter rule. It was suspended soon after someone used the app to get information on a van that was used to abduct a protester[1]

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/29/twitter-mysteriously-...
This is yet another way how the CCP will steal IP.
Using differences to avoid non-linearity is a pretty common technique used across EE, especially circuit design. Transistors are very non-linear and circuits like amplifiers have problematic squared terms. However, they're almost always built "differentially": there are both positive and negative input terminals, and positive and negative output terminals. The difference of the output voltages is an amplified version of the difference of the input voltages. Because the squared term at each terminal is the same polarity, subtracting them cancels it out very well. In practice, you're limited by how well the positive and negative paths match, and the mismatch allows some second order term to leak out. Unfortunately, this does not help with the third order terms.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_amplifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-order_intercept_point
I have in the past but I probably won't again. It seems like they have enough money and they can pay their staff more than I make.
When you go off the gold standard and inflation really kicks in (really though, the money is worth so much less), the NUMBERS go up and everybody thinks they're doing well.

However, PURCHASING POWER rapidly falls away even as the NUMBERS are increasing.

The lack of purchasing power in later years is why back in the 50s and 60s, a factory worker who was the sole breadwinner for the family could afford a house, car, holidays and other middle-class goodies. To day however, families need both parents working and just manage to struggle along.

Did you know that you could buy a Rolex Oyster Watch in 1970 for $210? That same watch today will set you back about $9000-$10000.

Did you realise that $210 in 1970 was the cost of six ounces of gold? Those same six ounces of gold today is around $11000-$12000.

So the 1970 dollar was worth roughly $52 in today's money, or conversely today's dollar is worth less than 2 cents in 1970 money.

If you assume a guy in a factory was earning $50 a week back then, that same factory guy should be earning over $2600 a week now, or over 130 grand a year.
According to my (possibly flawed) understanding it doesn't eliminate it exactly, but does cut down on it a lot by doing as much work at compile-time as possible
You do understand that women were not allowed to vote during the hatpin panic, right?

Perhaps that fact will provide some context as to why women were stabbing men with hatpins for sexually assaulting them. They didn’t have the same rights that men did!
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It's only $100 more than a Note 20 Ultra while effectively being even bigger when needed and much smaller when not.

Compared to other folding phones such as the Z Flip, the Fold, and the Razr, the Surface Duo is actually $100 cheaper.

Can the IPad make and receive actual phone calls when not co-located with your actual Iphone?

I have waited for a phone like this for a decade.
Microsoft Surface Duo first impressions: first-gen device, immature vision
“Either Microsoft is terrible at selling its vision and its new hardware, either this vision and this device form factor suck.”
Donald Trump is emailing his mailing list more than 10 times per day
We don't know for sure so does it hurt to make the world a little more representational? I would doubt it has any harm, unlike the alternative.

Yes, teachers talk a lot about the lack of diversity too. If you spend a little time with some of them you'll find out. The teachers I know around the world genuinely want the best for their kids.
Which it should. I was confused because I really thought from the title that this was some new initiative from Mozilla. It's not affiliated; just trying to preserve the Old Boy Network.
Id say with their monopolization, they have that obligation, otherwise they should be broken up
Yes, but that doesn't make it any more reasonable to beat someone in the face with an umbrella for saying something you don't like...

Also, as a separate point, it was only in 1868 that all men were able to vote in the United States, although it seems most men could vote by the 1820s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_t...

Would it have been acceptable for a non-property-holding white male in 1820 to beat another man with a stick if the other man offended him, on the basis of the first man lacking voting rights?
What makes you think social media keeps you informed? (Honest question)
Also check out HAKMEM [1] [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM
[2] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6086
If they wanted to do mass device fingerprinting (minimally, de-identified by default, not shared, etc.) they could do that already without a smart city so that's completely orthogonal.
>You never get the full reward

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
The US government pours tens of billions into food production.[0] Direct subsidies account for 15% of agribusiness ("farm") revenues and the US government both underwrites and pays 63% of the costs of crop price insurance.

Every developed country subsidizes their food industry to some extent or other. In the EU, the Common Agricultural Policy is the largest item in the EU budget.

Food subsidies seem to be economically essential for a stable food supply, and politically essential to ensure stability in rural areas.

Shelter, for its part, is heavily subsidized through the GSE[1] system. The GSEs underwrite mortgages, lowering interest rates for homebuyers, and stabilize the mortgage system by allowing mortgage issuing banks to offload the costs of internal failures onto the public instead of locking up the mortgage lending system.

Tighter government regulation of internet availability, including public or quasi-public ownership, would be far from exceptional given the degree of government involvement in other essential economic areas including food and housing.

[0] https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-sponsored_enterpris...
I am not connecting random people via video chat (the site generates a unique url that is meant to be shared among friends). However, even if I was connecting random people, I think it would have been appropriate for them to specify why they suspended my account.

I doubt it had anything to do with the video chat aspect though.

This is the link they pointed me to in their suspension email https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/2375414
Given that I received no warning, they must have suspended me for an "egregious violation" of which they define five:

- Circumventing systems

- Counterfeit

- Promotion of unauthorized pharmacies

- Unacceptable business practices

- Trade Sanctions violation

I am really curious what their algorithm saw in my little chess website that suggests that I'm peddling pharmaceuticals, counterfeiting money, or selling banned technology to unsavory regimes. Heck, I don't even accept payments!

My best guess is that their algorithm panicked because I have that automatic redirect to a new unique URL when you click to start a new game. Apart from that, I have no idea what it could possibly be.
It's non-issue in any case. Quite a few people on the planet really need to sterilize their plates, spoons, and forks just to have a lunch. And with rare exceptions 60°C + soap is more then enough for all that stuff to be safe.
For privacy reasons best not to use photos.

Also, for these sorts of apps, probably best to choose a plain generic name, e.g, John, Sally and just say it is your middle name and that you go by your middle name.
It comes from years of observation and study of the structure of the government and society. If you're interested there are many books about this from Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman to critiques of the academy that shut up after the state started funding them extravegantly after WW2, to the current ossification that is easily observed where no policies are allowed to shift that benefit the wealthy at the expense of society. It is so extensive that one or two citations isn't sufficient and deserves a lifetime of study.
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You're assuming that women and men are on equal footing, physically. When you politely ask someone to stop invading your space, it's backed by your ability to push them out of it.

If you're 6'2" and the other guy is 6'2" you're on pretty even footing. But if you're 5'1" and the guy is 6'2" you're not on even footing and shouldn't be expected to act like you are.

This is to say nothing of how physically intimidating it is for someone to just enter your personal space like that. And when you're in an enclosed space like a carriage, you have no escape route. So in my mind stabbing the guy in the arm was pretty mellow. There's no telling where things would have gone from there.

If you're at all concerned about getting stabbed in the arm, maybe get to know the other person before you invade their space.
> Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.

I wish people would follow this rule and just let stuff work. I recently encountered the most extreme version of this I've ever seen in my career: a design review where a guy proposed a Redis caching layer and a complex custom lookup scheme for a <1GB, moderate read volume, super low write volume MySQL database. And of course he wants to put the bulk of the data in JSON fields and manage any schema evolution in our application code.

Can't we just let stuff work? I'm no fan of MySQL, but can't we admit that a ubiquitous and battle-tested piece of technology, applied to a canonical use case, on tiny data under near-ideal circumstances, is probably going to work just fine? At least give it a chance before you spend days designing and documenting a bunch of fancy tricks to save MySQL from being crushed under a few megabytes of data.
Have you ever talked to a woman before? Because I’ve asked plenty about what being a woman is like with regards to harassment and unwanted attention from men, and what they described to me might surprise you.
I can only go by using Overcast which uses it and listening to Marco Arment’s podcasts - the author of Overcast.

He frequently complains about Apple’s APIs and posts about technical details about they could be improved, but he has never complained about the podcast API.

What it doesn’t do I assume is give you a list of podcast episodes. That would make sense since Apple’s own player actually polls individual RSS feeds as does Overcast.
I read about this a few days ago. It seems that the app doesn't send any unique identifier from the submitting user (no registration required I guess, but I didn't check). Good for privacy I guess?

Also, the researchers (original source at [0]) admit that you can't create an unsafe situation, the worst you can do is sort-of-DoS by causing the signal to minimize the green-cycle for the cars to it's minimum allowed value.

[0] https://zolder.io/2020/08/06/hacking-the-traffic-light-of-th...
Columbia MD is pretty successful
Yeah, if you get a 4-day week job or a remote job you can work a lot fewer hours and it’s much easier than FIRE. Other people are ‘hustling’ or scrimping and saving nonstop so they can have leisure time later. Why not skip the hustle and go straight for the leisure time? Like the old story about the fisherman and the businessman. Works great for me.
That’s the point; I don’t give dollar bills because that is money. It’s not like you couldn’t pay these people in dollars instead of “time credits”. Why use time credits? Because they aren’t really money and may or may not be worth anything at the end of the day. Show me a community where someone can meet their day-to-day needs exclusively with “time credits” and I’ll concede that it is money.
> Despite all the issues with the current situation, there are still a lot of obvious benefits that these workers do get like the ability to set their own hours, not having to work exactly 40 hours every week, and being able to work on multiple platforms.

None of those are linked to being an employee or contractor.
The day I drove into Mexico it was a huge shock to see so many people around just enjoying their time - paying with their younger relatives on the beach, playing guitar, singing and dancing. My fascination and disbelief at the amount of leisure time everyone has continued for two years through all of Latin America, and then for another three years when I drove right around Africa.

Having come from years grinding at a desk job, it was startling to see that many millions (probably billions) of people live extremely happy and fulfilled lives without the need for menial jobs and "a career". Money is useful, but if you can shortcut straight to happiness why bother with the inefficient middleman.

We in the West tend to think our way of life is the "best" or the "only", but that is very far from the truth, and I urge anyone who is curious to spend time in parts of the world where work is not the meaning of life. Spend a summer in Spain and enjoy siesta.
This release makes some pretty meaningful improvements to the linker, making it both more efficient (in memory and CPU) and making generated binaries smaller.

>The key contributors to better linker performance are a newly redesigned object file format, and a revamping of internal phases to increase concurrency (for example, applying relocations to symbols in parallel). Object files in Go 1.15 are slightly larger than their 1.14 equivalents.
>
>These changes are part of a multi-release project to modernize the Go linker, meaning that there will be additional linker improvements expected in future releases.
The same reason MySQL is one or two orders of magnitude more popular than PostgreSQL.

Thinking it is a good idea to leave Windows users behind. You don't hurt Microsoft by doing that, you hurt yourself.
It certainly wasn't true for me. I'm a westerner who spent my childhood in undeveloped parts of southeast asia. If I didn't learn to apply the all-asian-cast stories I heard and read to my own life, I'm sure I would have felt very put out. But, that never happened (and never even crossed my mind as a problem to have) because both my parents always emphasized the universality of the human experience.
This makes sense to me. A flat box design will push a thicker pillow of air in front of it than an angled surface. I wouldn't expect it to matter for a bumblebee for example, but would think the small mosquitoes get pushed away more easily with airflow.
Performance is good, but I would only use it on well-bounded target audiences. Anything over 10000 simultaneous users on a single instance would probably start to concern me. It is perfect for any internal or B2B UI you might want to build.

That said, combine Blazor with other Microsoft magic like Orleans, and you can start to horizontally scale. Might even be possible to make Server-Side Blazor viable for mass public consumption using this approach.

Edit: It does appear this would be fairly easy to rig a test for as of latest versions of everything. Should be able to throw Blazor and Orleans on top of the same IWebHost instance.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/orleans-3-0/#co-hostin...
The author (Masha Gessen [1]) was born and raised in the Soviet Union, moved to the US in 1981 as a refugee, and returned to Russia in 1991 and lived there until 2013. That sure makes them seem qualified to make this comparison to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Gessen
> Why not just tell him off and walk away?

It's very simple to find many, many anecdotal cases where doing this does exactly zilch to actual stop harassment, and sometimes instead results in a man aggressively insulting and harassing the woman for daring to refuse his attention.
Exactly, it's simple risk assessment. As much as people try to stay politically correct nowadays, it doesn't remove the most basic system we have, called survival. Life experiences and situations, creates these "stereotypes", and becomes widespread, because they are actual issues people try to avoid talking about, to not come off a certain way.
People are volunteering to get Covid-19
> as interest in passive entertainment has skyrocketed

I would like to see some data on this. It may seem like it but I would say it's quite the opposite.
The point is some places in some cities at some times carry high risk to whoever drives there. I consider it immoral for the company to force an employee (or contractor) to go to such high-risk place, and for that person I think makes complete sense to refuse going to such place and risk their assets (e.g. car) and their health for a relatively small payment.

Portland, Seattle and Chicago are examples of the cities which had recently well-documented examples of some areas being dangerous and carrying risk of violent encounters.
MSI installers can be automated with PowerShell. They can be pushed system wide in a Domain.

I am sure there are other reasons, but these two are the important ones.
The article sets up a bit of a false dichotomy. It's partly inherent in using idleness as the alternative to economically productive work. Did Russell himself use that term (edit: yes :-))? I'm guessing it's supposed to be provocative, to make it stick. But I'd imagine that's part of the problem. Many people would balk, and I think rightly so, at the connotations. There's nothing positive about undirected free time over a long period. And the article doesn't help with glosses like "Netflix in pyjamas."

The best alternatives to economically productive work are equally productive in different domains. For example, take gardening. You might be surprised at the quality of aerobic exercise you get working a large yard and garden. I recently took a heart rate monitor and found I could replace my morning jog. My heart rate was actually higher on average, and the sense of purpose was a welcome distraction from the work.

Unfortunately few are taught these kinds of healthful alternatives. I can only imagine what a difference in health and cognition there would be if schools taught hands-on agriculture and gave students garden plots.
Uber/Lyft/Via absolutely necessary in NYC and other cities in USA because the taxis overcharge, especially in NYC which has ridiculous rates. Before Uber/Lyft came along, Medallions were on the market for $1.2 million and could be paid for by the cash flow of the taxis.

Now Uber/Lyft, esp Uber has raised its prices in NYC and now I rarely take them, mostly Lyft.
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