skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in this case politically motivated would mean something more like "Assange is a journalist sympathetic towards Biden so we're trying to get him for tax fraud".

In this case it's "Assange is working for Russian Intelligence against the interests of the US let's get him for a specific crime he committed towards that end".

You can of course disagree with the Russian asset part of the statement, but I don't think that qualifies as "politically motivated" in the kind of sense it would (or should) bother an extradition hearing.
Thanks, I’ll have a look
Watch This Please
For the love of all that is holy... please release a reading/writing course that looks this good.
U.S. Border Patrol Bought 'Unlimited' Use of a Nationwide Tracking Database
Did you notice it's missing the final 'i'?
Best Places on the Planet for a Deep Sea Fishing Yacht Charter
What's great about it? Is it great because it makes the world a better place? Seems like the opposite might be true if capitalizing on the choice to use private education creates a less educated population in general
Civil servants are renowned for those things in every country.
I'm in my 50's... and I remember filthy air you could barely breath and horribly polluted rivers that caught on fire. I remember people tossing trash on the side of the road without regard. I remember trash floating in our lakes, which were so filthy you were scared to let the water touch you, much less eat the fish (if any) in them. I remember when all cars belched clouds of black smoke. I remember national parks with no wolves and no bears.

Today, the skies and rivers are noticeably cleaner. There seem to be more large wild animals (wolves, bears, buffalo, cougars, elk) in national parks and forests now than when I was a kid. And you can eat the fish in the Great Lakes now. Wild deer are, seemingly, everywhere around here and rise to nuisance levels. On the other hand, there seem to be less earthworms in suburban areas, somewhat less bugs and less birds. But that may just be related to where I now live (a much more urbanized area than that of my youth). Or it may be a harbinger of doom. I don't know.

Of course, my perspective on this is rather limited since I can only say what I've seen. Larger wild animal populations in Western Europe, for example, are essentially non-existent in comparison North America. I suspect that most or all of the decline described in the report happened in what were pretty poor regions of the world 50 years ago. But now that some of those nations are approaching the levels of wealth where they can start to care, I'm confident they'll start to clean things up over the next half century like most of the developed world did over the last half century.
Video game advertisement disguised as hacker news post.

>As much as I enjoyed my time with “Metamorphosis,” I should note that its stiff character animations make the human characters look like eerie-looking puppets.

The only thing remotely Kafkaesque about the whole game, it sounds like.

Would it even be possible to make a truly Kafkaesque game? The primary elements of Kafka are all directly opposed to an enjoyable experience, if done right. The only way I think you could do it would be to focus on some minor quirk in Kafka's writings which doesn't directly lead to soul-sucking anguish. I think the best such quirk would be the tendency for rooms to be dominated by beds. So maybe make it a game like Katamari Damacy except instead of a katamari ball, your character is bed-stricken and is moving the bed around by wildly jerking their body, and their bed consumes things and grows like a katamari ball, eventually dominating the whole room, after which point the character's jerking movements cause the whole room to move around, to suck up things from the surrounding town and allow the room to grow bigger while the bed inside it also grows too. Until the character is barely even visible on their giant overgrown bed, which they are still somehow causing to move around with difficult jerky motions.
I mean if your message is "too many humans are bad for the planet, so if I die of Covid, so be it" at least it's mostly consistent.

The part I object to is the lack of masks leading to spreading CoV2 to those who haven't volunteered to get out of the gene pool.
It's exactly the opposite. Whenever you see 2K you have to check what they actually mean with that. I can be ~2000xAnything or they can blatantly lie and name 1440x1440 2K.
FHD however is defined its exactly 1920x1080 and nothing else.
Glad to be a part of the team and thrilled to announce the launch. We decided a pre launch to get more feedback from our users. So, please use the product and let us know what you think of it.
Unless it's for something fairly trivial, I generally don't use free apps.

When I do buy an app and have a choice I generally will go with the iOS version. I haven't given it a lot of thought, but I suppose it comes down to a couple of reasons.

1. I have never really trusted Android. Probably because it's made by an advertising company and as time goes by, the ad supported business model is starting to feel more and more unhealthy to me.

2. Android apps are rarely as polished as similar iOS apps. Even for relatively basic things like layout or color scheme, iOS apps seem to have more care put into them.
When you get a coffee-based drink at Starbucks, you can get that same exact drink anywhere on the planet at Starbucks and it will be nearly the same.

And that factor is important to many people. Maybe surprisingly so to people who don't get that particular aspect. Example: a few years ago I was a consultant for a while, and I traveled a lot for work. Lots of time on airplanes and in airports and a lot of dragging myself off of airplanes late at night, jonesing for a cup of coffee, or dragging myself into the airport late, jonesing for coffee. And then exploring a new city on the first day, after dragging myself out of bed, jonesing for a cup of coffee. In all three cases, I knew that if I saw a Starbucks I could walk in and have a perfectly predictable experience.

And on those occasions that was exactly what I wanted. I didn't care about finding the "best cup of coffee in Portland" or "the best coffee shop in Chicago", etc. And I didn't have time to run around sampling all these little boutique places, hoping for some spiritual / transcendent experience.

Sure, the hardcore coffee snobs are gritting their teeth right now, and that's OK. What I want from a coffee shop (at times) and what you want are two different things. And that's OK.

That's not to say that there isn't a place for wandering around, exploring all the unique local coffee shops in whatever town/city you happen to be in. The point is just that the ubiquity and predictability of Starbucks is objectively a Good Thing to a certain group of people.
I don't think you quite understand what happened. He did not commit a crime unless you somehow accept that the USA is the world dominating power that it arguably is. Assange is not a US citizen and he simply published things that were given to him, which is not a crime unless you also accept that the vampire squid that is the transatlantic ruling class power structure can just convolute and misapply laws as they wish.

You seem to be one of those people that still has not come to the realization that the whole system of western government has become inherently illegitimate in and of itself through its own actions and words. It leaves people like you still saying things akin to "well, the dictator did pass a law that he can apply to anything he wakes up one morning not liking" and it placates you, as the "laws" are meant to, by implying a sense of authority through process.

What should have really happened in a sane and healthy society and civilization, is that 1) the things the people that did commit crimes by stealing and handing over classified information, should never have had to do that because the system would have harshly punished the perpetrators of the violations they exposed with execution and, 2) it would have led to the prosecution of the people who were responsible for the information and systems that allowed the release of the information that was deemed classified, again, with execution.

But instead, we have a clearly broken and systematically rotten system that is violently persecuting and prosecuting the messenger, because they did not like that they were exposed as the evil people perpetrating evil they were and that their incompetence also led to that being revealed. What this is all about really, is vengeance for exposure, for embarrassment, for disclosure that the many little dictatorial emperors don't have any clothes on and are just LARPing with way too much undeserved and unearned money and power.
> Knowing all along that I am not the best at what I do by a long mile

Being aware of this gives you a leg up on a lot of people. The fact of the matter is almost nobody is the best at something. Which is totally fine!

Don't discount the things you are good at. Most projects do not require the best. You deliver value without being an overconfident know-it-all.
I worked remote for most of the 90s. Wooo 9600 baud!

Competency was probably the most important trait. A boss without a clue was easy to dupe and avoid, but also a pain when you were actually doing plenty of work. A boss that knew what was what would be on your case if you slacked, but also super relaxed if you were producing to expectations.

Clear communication was also critical but it was even more important to be measured in the volume.
Just buy a used vive for that.
The 1GB RAM limit for apps seems tight, but ultimately seems like a good UX decision.
I think this is dependent on where you live. If you're near a city-center or urban area at all, I believe you're right. With development being what it is, I believe you absolutely would see fewer animals in that setting.

In my rural area, though, there are much more animals, of a much varied type than ever before. I saw a badger this year for the first time, ever. I think this is partially because of conservation efforts actually working, and partially because animals are being displaced by humans/climate change now.

We have armadillos now, too. Midwest Illinois/Iowa area. We should not have armadillos.
I understand, but 35 years have passed, no need to stick to the original implementation that long.

I'm a super basic user and nowadays basically have Emacs open all day just for org-mode. Nothing else.

To me it seems a terrible text editor and has an UI that's foreign on macOS and Ubuntu. It's unclear to me under what OS/Window manager/etc Emacs fits right at home. It seems out of this world.

I can imagine there may be some configuration that would fix some of these problems, but I just use Emacs as it comes out of the box.
https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/blob/3f3b2fea87172f155e5f...

It's defined in Evil (which Doom uses directly).

Seems like you just need to figure out your bug.
My main monitor is 5120x1440. Is it 1440p?
Didn't Teach Us Anything
How to create AB test campaign in GetResponse and why do you need it
>During recent elections, I didn't go to bed fearing that the country wouldn't be a democracy in the morning (helps we're not in Poland or Hungary)

As a Pole, man that comment hurt me
That's super-interesting, thank you.
>Many of us are more concerned than we can publish.

Maybe you should be a little braver? As in, let your work be actually scrutinized by your peers (isn't that what tenure is for?) instead of scaremongering anonymously and accosting others for not understanding the science you are not willing publish? Seriously, what is the public supposed to take away from that kind of statement? Especially given that the public cannot ascertain the truth value of your Earth-will-turn-to-Venus theory. Are you trying to convince the public (on this forum no less) that this is a reasonable hypothetical situation to worry about? Come on. Put it to your peers and if they agree, then sure, let's talk policy.

>Will the Earth definitely turn into an out of control hothouse with a Venus - like climate? Very probably not there are many differences between Earth and Venus.

Didn't OP say that? Didn't I say that? What is it that you're arguing? Saying that we don't understand fully how our climate works and how many of the systems that drive it works is reasonable and nobody will dispute that. But you can't just use a lack of knowledge around an low probability event to drive global policy that could potentially be disastrous in all kinds of other ways. That's all I'm saying. We have a well-defined problem of ecosystem collapse and climate change, such as it is, don't muddle the water by coming up with new hypothetical problems.
Fortunately the references are free to view.

"Table 4 – Correlation of Development Phases, Coping Stages and Comfort Zone transitions and the Performance Model" in "From Comfort Zone to Performance Management" White (2008) tabularly correlates the Tuckman group development phases (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning) with the Carnall coping cycle (Denial, Defense, Discarding, Adaptation, Internalization) and Comfort Zone Theory (First Performance Level, Transition Zone, Second Performance Level), and the White-Fairhurst TPR model (Transforming, Performing, Reforming). The ScholarlyArticle also suggests management styles for each stage (Commanding, Cooperative, Motivational, Directive, Collaborative); and suggests that team performance is described by chained power curves of re-progression through these stages.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C43&q=%E2...

IDK what's different about online teams in regards to performance management?
A couple of years back I was on a flight from the UK to Sicily and it flew down the coast there and so much of what you can see looked volcanic - Ponza in particular.
Reminded me of this article on rain water effects: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...
It's the same almost anywhere. The greeting question doesn't matter. It can be Hi or What's Up. People open up to people they trust.
I've always wondered why we can't just use the pixel count.
Not animals in particular but it was Earth. They were charging the guy who liked American action movies and getting stoned.
Can one person run an open source project alone?
Where's the chocolate?
> The advertisers react to "wrong" coverage by withdrawing support

Easily attributable to business decisions / climate.

> the chief editor is very attuned so he assigns the right people to the right jobs before trouble starts

Staff assignment as a smoking gun? That's going to be a stretch.

> and the journalists so assigned naturally work quite sincerely

Indeed, just people doing their jobs.

Who, pray tell, is going to leak what?
2-3 years ago I was working on a large project in Go with many dependencies. We moved in the span of 12 months from go get, to glide, to dep, and when vgo was announced I realized I was on a pointless treadmill, despite community assurances that the current package manager is "blessed" and will be maintained. I then decided that Go is actually quite unstable and is not yet ready for enterprise projects, and recommend against it despite the fact that I really like and agree with the design philosophy of the language.
>they'll degrade your life

How so?
Interesting how somebody else claimed about the same thing.

Yes, but eons have passed, things are different. Should everything else mold to Emacs or should Emacs fit into the overall OS/window manager/etc.

Maybe Emacs really is supposed to be an OS. I'm now wondering if there's a way to boot straight into Emacs. Clearly we could have a slimmer kernel /loader for that. :-)
Ask HN: Motivitating employees to work harder through project bonus?
I lead a remote team and give each individual the flexibility to choose their own working hours and capacity—"your work speaks for itself", etc. We're working on a long-running software project with a deadline that's fast approaching.

I want to ask my team to work a little harder to meet our goal. However, I find it unethical to require people to work overtime, in return for pseudo-glory or empty promises of growth. I want to instead reward them with something tangible.

I'm considering a project bonus: if we ship by this date, everyone on the team gets $X USD.

However, I'm reading that money isn't always a good motivator. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this, or any other strategies for getting teams to work harder than usual without encroaching on their right to live and work on their own terms.
There was a brief period of sanity in the late 90s early 2000s where resolution used actual numbers (ex: 1024x768)

Otherwise it is a mess. There is the letter soup (WSXGA+, WQUXGA,... ), the lines (1080p, 720i,... a throwback to analog CRTs), the HD (Full HD, HD ready, ultra HD,...), the K (4K, 8K,...)...

Is it that hard to use 2 numbers?
If that's the case where you work then I wish you good luck!
With Intel stuck in process hell for a while longer, I primarily hope AMD can gain ground on Nvidia. They are pushing a lot of innovation and gaining market dominance, both in the ML/GPGPU space and gaming (with ray tracing, upscaling, etc).

We need some competition to keep prices low and innovation high medium to long term.
Hundreds of bizarre ads are popping up in Google Adsense, advertising nothing
Can you please help me take a look and give feedback about my first side project
Can you please help me take a look and give feedback about my first side project. I 've start to work on a side project for 2 months, about english test online
Url: https://naenglish.io/
Ken has been retired for years.
Affluenza?
I'm on 300 and it's definitely bright enough for my needs - so your mileage may vary.
I niche product I know would generate some money, but just don't have the time or energy right now.
Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser
Code never lies, documentation/comments/etc. sometimes do.
I never got that into Civ, so maybe it is mostly my ignorance of 'proper' play speaking, but I actually rather liked the change to non-stacking units as it seemed to make the combat more tactical and less an exercise in simply who had the bigger numbers.
> Dumb business logic is not the point. One of the benefits of HATEOAS is that it allows REST clients to be loosely coupled with REST services, in a way that APIs can change freely change (i.e., change endpoints around, break away functionalities into other services, etc.) without requiring clients to be updated under the penalty of breaking compatibility.

There is a very limited amount of useful things that you can do here without breaking "conforming clients", at the cost of forcing those clients to implement much more expensive and error-prone logic in order to not break.

In reality, clients aren't going to conform, they're going to hardcode logic and they're going to break if you do any of the things that "shouldn't break conforming clients".

This means that in practice, on top of being more annoying to use and implement, REST APIs are more likely to break than RPC-APIs, which you can trivially extend with optional parameters or additional procedures.
"There is a clear distinction between data I share publicly, data I share explicitly with US Facebook users, and data that I share in a limited setting not involving any US users."

can you cite where the european laws and/or relevant rulings make this distinction?
This is dismissive in the form of "Other people suffered, why are you complaining?"

Nuclear war is still possible. Acid rain is still bleaching forests and marshes near me. Our economy is kinda hosed at the moment. Endless conflict in the Middle East/SW Asia. Uiyghurs are enslaved. And of course resource depletion and climate change.

It's not sunshine and lolipops.
At the beginning of the year I thought AMD were going to have an amazing year. I think they’ll probably continue beating Intel but the new nVidia cards look really good, and very good value.

I hope AMD still have an ace up their sleeve.
Same things, though no kids. Super lucky to be remote and working a decent job, and reconnecting with a lot of family and friends via text/skype, but also trying to hold on in a rocky industry and not sure of the next steps.
I'll just put a link to this 1996 game - Bad Mojo

https://store.steampowered.com/app/255960/Bad_Mojo_Redux/
Modelling marriage as an unhedged call option, interesting.
Funny I just posted almost the exact same. Seems like we all have a soft spot for AMD!
thenk :')
Now this is downvoted? Looks like someone's irrational and taking an unfounded emotional stance on the legal issue of marriage.
I don't really think cloud vendors are holding their breath to switch to ARM, they are all heavily invested in X86. All their code has been built on it for forever, and there's a big advantage to having your dev machines running the same architecture as your cloud production machines. I think desktop ARM adoption would have to happen before the server market moves to the same.
I mean, there are still monarchies in Europe. How are you suspect of the US and not the british if you are concerned about an over powerful executive.
The rich “we” typically don’t clear land for agriculture anymore (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.ZS?end=2016...)

Also, forestation is going up in many rich countries (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?end=2016...)

That doesn’t imply we aren’t killing the world, though. Agriculture in rich countries often needs fertilizer to get the higher yields it gets, newer forests aren’t as diverse and often never will be as the ones that were torn down, etc.
At least for a couple of days. You can't just punt things down the road indefinitely. I was remote for a while before COVID and trust me, I've played myself that way in the past...

To the parent's point: 100% agree, you essentially need a different style of communication. Has to be more explicit and include some built-in check-ups and dates. It's easy to pop in and see if someone is frustrated, a lot harder to see them failing remotely.
Haha yeah I also never planned, I hated it. Still do actually.
But one day I was fed up with the chaos in my life, dirty house and minimal productivity that I decided.. I need structure. I realized that the time I invest in structure pays itself out, because I spend less time goofing around. And so started the great journey in finding the best todo system. I started with paper, then google calendar/tasks, todoist and load of other apps until I finally went back to paper. The apps were just too cumbersome. Paper was simple and worked, but unfortunately paper itself is difficult to organize.
I always avoided orgmode because well.. I was scared of emacs but eventually decided to give it a go, see what happens. And it was what I have been looking for all along: a simple and flexible system. And vim keybindings are a big bonus :)
I don't think that's a contrarian view. Engineering time vs. BOM cost has long been an understood trade-off in component selection. It's even becoming a common position in software-only projects to scoff at the idea of performance-oriented design decisions; without doing so much as some quick napkin math to evaluate impact to hardware cost. They just buy more AWS time.
Haha, I don't see how your comment should be embarrassing. So often when something seems "obviously wrong" for , the reason for that is not because it is actually wrong, but because it only appears so for non-obvious reasons that elide those without subject-matter expertise.

So even if the conclusion is right, the fact that the person drawing it is uneducated is not a justification for it. After all, the same justification could be given in a case in which that conclusion did not hold.
Graphically much much better
It's pretty annoying that the location of the "next" link keeps shifting as I turn the pages. It seems like it would be better if the navigation links were at a fixed position so you could easily flip forward or backwards several pages.