skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see. I don't know if the exact policy the maintainer is referring to is only for "people from Israel" or "jewish people in general". If the former, the contributor could be jewish without living in Israel.
I think it's a common euphemism, similar to referring to "subjects" as "participants" and so on.

- https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3...

- https://az.research.umich.edu/medschool/glossary/double-mask...

- https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/glossary/211...
The only cancer is people spewing compost without any depth to their thinking.
Adtech has powered things since dawn of civilization. Here educate yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising

If you just flat out ban shit without nuanced understanding, you hurt people more than help. Facebook will pivot, they will charge people for video or gaming or oculus. But there will be no shopify, no tv shows, no radio shows and no DTC companies which number in the thousands and will eventually be in the millions.
So just becuase you have some vendetta against facebook, should everyone else suffer for your stupidity?
It pays for the modern web. It is probably in need of more transparency and clear user defined controls but hardly a cancer.
That's why allowing the data to be replicated is so important if you care about preservation. It only takes a few happy mutants who think some otherwise boring data might be interesting and keeping a copy for themselves.
Graeber's writing offers many thought provoking left anarchist perspective that's sorely missing in public debate.

I thoroughly enjoyed "Debt"'s perspective on social-economic collaboration, money, credit, debt, and contract arbitration. It's a very informative and thought provoking book.

"Bullshit" grossly misses some fundamental aspects about modern markets and power structures and as a result turns into an insipid, meandering grievance without substance. The commentary mistakes social-welfare states which have monopoly enforcement on: credit repayment (legal tender), and authoritarian control of the means of production (permitting) as capitalism (_private_ ownership and deployment of goods and services). As a result, the entire subsequent criticism that follows in the book is misguided. If I had to summarize it: "Economic (consumer's-goods) producers are supremely inefficient in the deployment of labor, resources, time, production quantity which results in a social malaise". It implicitly pathologizes the choices of people who work in the "bullshit" jobs as unable to make nuanced, multivariable decisions. Yes, it may be the case a security camera would be a more efficient observer to an empty lot than paying a human, bored out of their mind, to sit in a hut. But that critique denies the economic calculus the hut worker made, that this job was the most ideal option out of the many different dimensions available to them.

If the set of available options cannot be combined to produce desired results, it's not possible to combine inputs among a further reduced set of options to produce the desired results ("regulation"). The only option is to increase the set of available options (liberalization, de-monopolization), to produce different outcomes. The entire book fails to address to roll of entrepreneurship, e.g. a speculative endeavor by an individual or group that they can deploy labor, resources, time, production quantity in a more ideal and enjoyable arrangement. The absence is a shame because instead of the book being a diatribe, it could have been a powerful call to action to improve our lot.
That‘s really sad. I thought only a company like Apple has the financial power and the balls to push back the ads industry. Apparently not.
Note that clangd is not a "blessed" implementation of a language server–there are others.
From Chaos to Order: A Brief Cultural History of the Parking Lot
Fiery, but mostly peaceful article, written by an austere scholar and revered military leader.
Yeah I didn’t get the impression that anything here is abridged.

There’s a big difference between that and a translators work for something like The Odyssey.
> One thing that removes a lot of credibility from Apple's "for the good of the user" communication

I feel like taking billions from Google to be the default search engine on iOS also did that
Wow some of the contents of this post scare me, I can’t believe we are at the point where Facebook has to remove content that intimidates election officials. I’m scared both because Facebook has this much power and also because of the issues they’re addressing. I wish our democracy was a little more civil. This is also partially facebook’s fault because they definitely have increased polarization through personalization.

At the same time I think some of these policies are reasonable but I think they should just ban political ads altogether.
If you remove the standard, wouldn't everything naturally be implementation-defined? Like, say, Python.
It’s worth noting that Apple and Facebook very recently sparred over the 30% App Store fee related to donations[0]. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Facebook offered to back down on that controversy if Apple agreed to this, but of course this is pure speculation.

0: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/apple-blocked-facebook-...
The End of Spectrum Scarcity (2004)
AWS has V100's available so most Universities with a decent budget should be able to swing this.
I would first have to find out if I still have that research data
Exactly. When it comes to depression the chemical imbalance theory comes from Zoloft. It is a drug that accidentally had the side effect of reducing depression in some patients. Curious scientists wanted to figure out why, so they examined it. Turns out Zoloft boosts serotonin in the brain. This created the chemical imbalance theory, but since then study after study for decades has disproved this, yet for some sort of reason the theory stays in the mainstream.

Ibuprofen can cause an ulcer. Imagine some primitive ape sees this blood loss and assumes the blood loss is what reduces inflammation. The Zoloft serotonin study follows the same faulty logic.
Good on you, Spain. A study like this could never take place in the USA :(

Too many powerful people are heavily invested in the belief that there is no treatment for it.
Not to forget NOx emissions from diesel motors.
I don't personally agree with the political structure of the U.S. and it's knock-on effects. The fact that the U.S. is one of the few countries without free and universal healthcare is mind boggling. Social safety nets safe lives, but all I hear is that U.S. politicians want to tear them down. Their president is a joke who has a real chance of winning a second term despite the fact that he's the direct cause of substantial reduction in the effectiveness of the CDC and EPA AND absolutely fumbled handling the COVID-19 pandemic in any reasonable manner. Would all of that affect my daily life, living there? Not at all. Neither Canada nor any of the countries of E.U. are perfect but they certainly fit my community-oriented worldview better. At the end of the day, I don't want to live in a country like the U.S.
>Yes, it gains you some of the economics of factory construction and that you can start small and scale a location, but on the other side you lose that again because you lose the economics of scale that traditional PWR gets.

You mean they lose operational efficiency ? Economies of scale come from the ability to mass produce.

You forgot to mention the largest differentiator - eliminates the possibility of a global catastrophe.
I am less concerned about security updates on Android phones these days because a great deal of the relevant updates take place in the Google services that are now updated through their normal app store updates. For example, a recent s curity bulletin I came across said the latest security update would fix it, but it would also be caught by Google Play Protect as well, so even if my phone no longer received official updates I'd still be protected from the major source of vulnerabilities: installed apps.
> If you just flat out ban shit without nuanced understanding, you hurt people more than help.

Absolutely. We should have understanding and we ban shit that is harmful.
One could argue that the initial policy was anti competitive because it artificially inflated Apple's offering over its competitors...
Certainly seems to open the door for some creative PR campaigns by impacted apps.

I'd personally prefer not to have any of the ad tracking stuff, especially at the OS level.
While the delay does disappoint me as a user, I can definitely understand the "give developers more time" angle. It seems doubtful to me that big ad tech hasn't already been working on ways to circumvent this policy and it feels like a few extra months won't exactly make a world of difference for them. I do hope this gives the "little guy" more time to rethink Ad strategy to not involve tracking.
Here is what goes on in a day:

1.) Bad things
2.) Good things
3.) Things that might be both bad and good

Thankfully we live in the safest period of human history. Thankfully many smart people want to focus their time on doing good things.
Probably was.
What projects on the roadmap were affected by Mozilla layoffs and to what degree?
> So what you get is lots of interesting small to medium size companies - often started in concert with the strong UK academic sector, and/or diaspora from previous successes - and very few transitions to global players.

In my view the biggest reason for the difference in success between UK/EU tech companies and US ones is simply the sheer size of the US market. Particularly for the current set of big-tech incumbents which are largely consumer focussed.

The creation EU Single Market (in which ironically the UK played a large part) was an attempt to compete, but while larger and having greater regulatory uniformity in many areas than the US, different EU countries speak different languages and have a less integrated culture than the US. This makes it harder to grow companies to the size they might in the US.
I am Iranain, and the regime does prosecute people on any bogus thing you can imagine. But in this case, the owner of the repo looks very suspicious to me. Maybe he had his own prejudiced, or he has some relationship with the regime.
I find Project Owl an interesting thing.

https://twitter.com/projectowlosint an OSINT initiative.
We all do google stuff. The part that requires training is knowing what to google for and how to interpret the results.
I find it quite hard to believe that this obvious question wasn't challenged by anyone. To me it is like questioning if any of the people involved prior to publishing this news are capable of solving 1+1.

It's basic. I don't think of the relevant people as idiots.
> "have skin in the game" is code for "don't want to work with poor people."

No, it certainly is not.
See? You're kind of making my point.

You're the kind of person who's trying to virtue signal, it's too much to read a comment if it's kinda long...

or imagine gasp legislation limiting the discretion of police?!?!?!

But you want to wax poetic about "really" solving problems and "fighting authoritarianism" (like limiting the scope of police initiated interactions doesn't go to the core of that lol)

I guess it's different when you actually have skin in the game, no pun intended.
Real time electrical grid of small country Faroe Islands
dwheeler's Steelman bibliography is also useful:

https://dwheeler.com/steelman/
The quality of posts at the top of HN has really tanked over the last 2-3 years. Falling from high quality to “programmer clickbait” like the OP here. It’s a little better if you use /classic as a path, which I understand is only calculated by upvotes from users from the first couple years of HN, before the startup boom. Occasionally /news and /classic are virtually identical making me wonder if there are a lack of active OG users and the algo falls back to default during a lack of classic participation.
It's a psychological thing. When you go to the gym, you are significantly more likely to focus on diet(and finances, and self improvement) as well.
Showing some ads is one thing. Tracking every aspect of people's lives is another entirely. And that's what adtech has only become since the internet enabled it to do so.
That's why I said in my original post as long as the bread is made in a sanitary fashion. You can have health codes and food safety without requiring years of school. And your final point of flour exploding, that's a issue for flour mills not little bakeries. Most of the world does not require such extensive training to become a baker as Germany and the rest of the world is doing just fine.
A cheque? Unlikely. Was this a part of a closed door negotiation? Likely.
That's likely how things started. Retail management was hired from other stores (e.g. Burberry), and followed their preexisting understanding of appropriate legal policy.

But at some point the issue went up the food chain. Corporate had many opportunities to step in and make things right before the suit reached the 9th Circuit.
Good riddance to that, I say. Ad tech is bad user experience, period. We don’t need it. Don’t try to belittle someone for their opinion. Ass.
I'm not planning to open source the complete tool, after all I have a hard time to find similar open source projects which earn enough money (would love to be proven wrong here).

But I fully agree that the security and network stuff needs to be open sourced to be verifiable. My plan is to release the related sources together with the protocol specifications, need to refactor a few things first but this will happen.
Just barely too big to go on a standard tractor trailer. But small enough to be portable by a oversize load tractor trailer. Kind of like the blades for very large wind turbines in west Texas.
economic engine !== automatically good. The Triangle Trade was an economic engine, too.
And the modern web is a giant mess and an awful user experience.
What I really love about vim lately: Termdebug.

Its such a joy to have cscope bindings and gdb-based debugging direction within vim itself.

This has been a joy to re-discover after forgetting that vim has a great integrated debugger now. I keep forgetting it, but man has it been great to use lately.
The average opinion of 10k people in SF
you forgot to mention that those 23 m high containment vessels are places in in a pool which of course have to be much bigger than that: "The reactor and containment vessel operate inside a water-filled pool that is built below grade."

We'll see of this is in any way or form sustainable, especially since uranium is also a finite ressource.
A diesel-electric freight train locomotive can use dynamic braking by dumping the electrical energy into a bank of resistors (known as rheostatic braking, opposed to regenerative braking, but collectively called dynamic braking.) However apparently this form of braking is only a small portion of braking that freight trains do since only driven axels can participate in it and most freight cars are unpowered. I didn't consider that.
Seems like a ridiculous claim when I'm sure almost absolutely everyone would like to get out of this mess.
I loved, with eMule and/or Kazaa (don't remember anymore which one), the feature of being able to get the list of all what the remote host was sharing => my idea was that if that person was sharing something that I liked, then that person might have other interesting stuff which I might have liked => from time to time that was the case.

1 or 2 years ago I installed it, connected to the network (nodes? meganodes? forgot the terminology), and activated somewhere the parameter to be verbose about the incoming search queries => A LOT of nasty porn stuff being searched (I therefore quickly shut down and uninstalled everything, brr) => it's a pity, but thinking about that later maybe they were just automated queries or similar submitted by police & Co. to search for illegal videos, who knows.
Do you realize the number of free services that one uses thanks to ads? Not everyone can afford to pay for these. I for one use gmail, google maps, google calendar, google docs, etc. Every day
I said Toshi (testnet version) to you yesterday on status. But maybe I'm wrong.
Let me come at it from another angle. I'm a bit too blunt. I'm not saying people discredit his work. It could be beautiful and elegant. I'm saying his work isn't accepted in the mainstream meaning generally people don't know about it, nor do people study it and contribute to the theory.
One, if not the main, feature to upgrade to iOS 14 is now delayed to any of the 365 days of 2021. Clear message: "Save adtech and continue to screw your customers". Bravo Apple, Bravo!!
One idea would be removing apps from the "Connect Apps" list after I've connected them.
Also app requests:
- Digital Ocean
- Wordpress
- Ghost
- Basecamp(?)
- Signal(?)

Exciting stuff, web interfaces can suck.
Electrified rail also gives the promise of eventually being low emissions when we switch to greener power plant. So it benefits from scale economics twice right now, and will seamlessly switch to entirely green when the power plants do.
Good point, I'm sure there would have been some quid pro quo there.
As a developer with 15 years of JavaScript experience who has recently had to learn React & React hooks:

They're fine, but weird. There's a lot to like in React, but I constantly wonder whether I've joined a cult. Somebody learned a couple of cute tricks and wants to use them _everywhere_, no matter if they fit the situation or not. Because of this there are a lot of do's and dont's that probably could be avoided with a different design. And there is a lot of gray area in between, specific things the React manual wants me to avoid but in the end I cannot (and I have to quote a whole lot of blog posts from various known React developers to my code reviewer to prove they were really necessary).

Classes have their failings and inexperienced (or overzealous) developers can often turn them into a big mess. These are also well known problems to the computer science community that has come up with a number of ways to manage the mess. Hooks are just a completely React concept where no previous knowledge has any use. Despite looking innocent they have a load of problems and peculiarities, just like classes and methods do. I constantly wonder why they had to go and reinvent the wheel and currently still do not feel like it was worth it.

Learning new things is great and I am glad I got the chance to learn React and its hooks. Now that the project is slowly coming to an end however I am also glad I will soon start learning something else, perhaps something a little less specific to a particular ecosystem.
400 minutes is plenty to decide if you need to pay for the service, and they need to stay in business. Eminently fair, and still far better than the typical 1 month free.
On the contrary, I thought that photo showed him with a quizzical, skeptical look, which is something I would bet he'd appreciate were he here to do so.

Any chance we can get a black bar for him? His ideas were so interesting that I think it would be appropriate, even though he wasn't involved in the history of computing per se.
By your logic the conclusion is that the modern web is heavily cancerous, which arguably it is. There are other ways to pay for innovation and tools, to be preventative-proactive so cancer can't exist or at least not thrive.
Appreciate the feedback. You can pay for phone support (indeed, you get it for free, though you can pay extra for a premium support package if you like). We think that our PCI compliance functionality is best-in-class. And we do negotiate price for larger accounts, as indicated on stripe.com/pricing.

More broadly, Stripe now works with a long list of businesses that are processing more than $1B/year or more, and that list is growing quite quickly. Indeed, there are more enterprises using Stripe than Adyen, which is often cited as an ostensibly enterprise-focused competitor. Larger companies using Stripe include Amazon, Shopify, Instacart, and Peloton. (There's a longer list at https://stripe.com/customers). That's all to say: we're very invested in this enterprise thing.

If any enterprises you work with have had a bad experience, would welcome any details. patrick@stripe.com
> You could barely rent a dedicated server for that amount of money

You can get a Ryzen 5/64G for like $40/month on providers like hetzner. While I get your point about maintenance, it's not right to say that dedicated servers are that expensive (you also can't compare the performance of 2vCPU/4G with a dedi but that's beside the point)
Maybe also because staying inside makes it easier for the virus to spread.
I am slow and likely missed the joke. Does an organization like Wikileaks ring a bell? Public reaction to that definitely keeps these sort of reporting funnels useless, get tortured at best.
Yeah but they'll skew it based on their political leanings, too. They're just a little less invested in the geographic details. But ideologically, they want to convince/captivate people to their point of view.
>> I think it's useful to just see the news for what it is: a timely first rough draft of history. First rough drafts are always going to have errors, but you'll be the last to know if you wait for those to be corrected before reading. If you keep up with the rough drafts, you'll see the corrections as the stories unfold.

> Only, it's not what "the news" are. One can reconstruct the history using "the news" as source material, but it's a grave error to think that "the news" are "a first draft of history."

> Try to find how the media covered the claimed "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq in 2003, and how they wrote many years later about the same events. What you believe to be a "first draft" was historically completely false. But it was at the time used as an excuse to start the war, which are both now verified historical facts -- both the fake "news" in the major media and the start of the war.

I don't really see how that contradicts the idea that the news is a rough first draft of history at all. First drafts have errors, and you've pointed out some errors. Similar things could even happen with established history (for instance a later discovery proving some document that the old history relied on was a forgery or some account unreliable, etc.). You shouldn't expect perfect accuracy with the news, and to criticize it for not being perfectly accurate is to misunderstand what it is.
I used Unity's layers system (more on that in sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24367460).

I have zero experience with WebVR, but solution you linked seems sensible.
And what have we gained from it? Toxic unconstrained social networks, more methods to make everyone feel uglier and worthless, endlessly consume random crap without producing anything of value, and robotic hamburger making shops that no one asked for and are somehow IT related?
Terminator is my window manager -> Ctrl-Shift-E / Ctrl-Shift-O .. (Ctrl-Shift-N / -P) ..
Google does not provide that service for free. Where do you think the $27 billion Google search revenue comes from ?
Also you might want to read https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit...
The reason Amazon an Google are successful is that they are unopposed monopolists that acquire or destroy any business that might pose a risk to them.
I'm not trolling. I'm serious. You'd be warned if Dang saw that comment. Not even kidding.
CLion (and other IDEs) have pretty good vim plugins: IdeaVim, VsVim , Vrapper.

They're not perfect, but I also made the switch from vim to CLion and never looked back. With a half-decent plugin for editing text, there's not much value in using a more minimalist vim setup IMHO.