skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not see your own bias? I'm criticizing both sides for using a pandemic for political gain while you openly shun one side and trivialize the same behavior of the opposite.

Sure, I shouldn't have said reform. But are you seriously going to pretend that it isn't a political move by the Democrats when they were so vocal in 2018 in their opposition? [1]

Money quote:

"""
Cuomo said New York will challenge a provision of the law that limits how much Americans can deduct from their federal taxes for payments made to state and local governments. Many of the people most affected by that provision live in states run by Democrats, which tend to have higher state and local tax rates.
"""

The irony in all of this is that I'm not a US person. I can't vote and am not on the path to residency. I have no dog in this fight. This is a literal replay of the silly argument that I got into recently that started this thread.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/03/cuomo...
A municipality local to me (New Lebanon, Ohio) "just did it" and hung 150 banners honoring local veterans from power poles. The local monopoly power company threatened the municipality with >$300 per-pole hanging fees and demanded they be removed. There was some back and forth but eventually the power company gave-in to public sentiment (honoring veterans and all). I would suspect "just doing it" would put you on the business-end of civil, if not criminal, litigation.
You can minimize a bit of the manual installation of Docker by leveraging the convenience script that's maintained by them [0].

[0] https://get.docker.com/
> It's all secure, and when they pass, the next of kin receives the login and that person will get to read the deceased person's confession. I got 8,000 uploads in one week and it's just gone from there. There's some really funny stuff, but I would definitely contact the police if something was posted on the site that I felt was a serious crime that needed to be reported.

Evidently not that secure then, if he's reading through people's confessions. And worrying when the site explicitly encourages "graphic images, confessions of a crime or something [like] an extra marital affair".

Keep in mind also that it costs $9.99 to upload your confession, with "no guarantees" that the service will actually exist long enough to deliver it.
> or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner?

If you include using 3rd party apps like AltStore, then yes it meets a reasonable definition of convenient, imho.
Even if such wisdom had indeed become common knowledge (which I doubt, but don't have time to draft a proper response), just being exposed to a piece of information doesn't do much for the individual. As I said above the goal isn't to stack up books and be briefly exposed to many ideas, but rather to have some ideas become a part of you.

Or, put more pithily, it is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you'll be when you can't help it.
Verizon has started rolling out 5G home internet. It's apparently pretty fast - not fiber fast, but still pretty fast, and with truly unlimited data for $70 month. Really exposes just how absolute bullshit their mobile plans at roughly $10/gb are. I've heard good things about it, and looking at their 5G map it's been installed in areas very close to my home in Chicago, but the stations need line of sight for internet and I'm about half a block out of the service area.

The 5G coverage maps are pretty revealing on just how limited the coverage is: https://www.verizon.com/5g/coverage-map/?city=chicago

Click on a neighborhood and look at the dark red areas running on top of the streets. I have no idea how they're going to get 5g base stations covering all of the smaller residential streets; right now only the bigger streets & downtown are well covered. And even then the internet requires an antenna unit in a window with LoS to the base station, which is OK, but not sure how 5g is going to be practical for phones indoors.
It only amazes if you think everything in first world has to better than third world. And IMO it is about as immature as first worlder who thinks that everything in third world has to be crap.
Very cool. Is this entirely donation driven, given that it is a nonprofit? Are there prisons or public jurisdictions that support this program?
Tech Veterans Hoffman, Pincus Plan $600M Blank-Check IPO
Did you do the test? It seemed very basic and simple, to me. I got 13/14 which it says 'may be a superrecognizer', but I definitely don't think I am, so assume the test isn't much good. Curious to know how others fare.
We Built a Voice-Activated H.P. Lovecraft Adventure Game
This would definitely "benefit all mankind," as the CEO claims, if all mankind was wealthy.
Ah, that's right! I should have remembered, I have about 5 of them in my home shop setup.
They should buy a company that has already built integrations with most of the services users would rely on.
I imagine they will have to do so. I cannot see how having a major antagonist group that uses women as breeding equipment and plot to undermine and take over the entire galaxy that traces its origins to Islam will be palpable for a modern commercial enterprise.
Is this the same guy that lied to the crowd at defcon?
"We believe that Pro’s price of $9.99 per month is money well spent. However, because Pro is new and will evolve in response to your feedback, we wanted to provide some payment flexibility. Our introductory set your own price subscription allows you to choose your monthly payment for the first year of Pro. This special offer expires in 4 weeks, on Wednesday, October 7th."

Interesting approach. I wonder what users will pay on average during this first year.

If they give me a full blown console where I could run lambda-like python code on top of all the existing device integrations they already have, I'd be glad to pay the full $9.99/month. But the product would have to evolve a lot versus where it is today.
Thank you. I thought I was being direct but I’ll try to be more so.

Just to be clear, I don’t doubt you personally in any way, it’s more that I think it’s an enormously difficult problem to get a group of people to take action on something when they will receive a lot of money by NOT taking that action.

More specifically: companies are already supposed to take the wishes of long-term shareholders into account, and boards are supposed to enforce this, yet in practice this doesn’t happen much because, well, incentives dictate otherwise.

Can you share some of the checks and balances that would stop the exchange itself acting in its controllers own short-term self-interest?
Same here. I don't want the system to even try to recognize me. No one's doing this stuff on site, which means that they'd be uploading my face to a cloud provider and using their system, which means they'd be doing the things people are having a problem with in the first place.
What @satymein said.

Life isn't a snapshot, it's a movie. Two year olds think that the universe came into being at their birth and will end at their death, and so nothing else matters. You should consider whether that describes your childless-by-choice attitude.

I mean no offense, but you're free-riding on the child-rearing efforts of others past and future, whether you want to admit it or not. (I'm guessing you might not quite understand "pay it forward" either.) Your ancestors didn't free-ride on that score, yet you seem to think you're somehow privileged to do so without a care.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin... ("Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be")

> The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious. This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are. In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.

> ... One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus. Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said. Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said. A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on.

Every published "case" should include the PCR cycle threshold to enable statistical analysis.
Our app (https://about.domestica.app) uses a yearly subscription model for both SaaS and self hosted users. For self hosted users, the licenses are permanent/perpetual, but tied to a minor version (i.e. the last release before your subscription runs out is 1.1.0, you can get 1.1.1, but not 1.2.0, etc).

We've played around with different pricing (monthly, tiers) and none of them changed conversions much. What did help was replacing the free trial (no CC required) with a free tier, as it provided more of an onboarding journey and the subscription purchase becomes the next logical step.
Yawn...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=grammarly+spying
> Dismissing legitimate concerns by calling them "lazy" and "sceptics" is unhelpful

Agreed. I have significant experience in this field and I’m having difficulty making heads or tails of half of the company’s explanations here. I can’t tell if it’s an attempt at watered-down explanations assuming a non-technical audience, or if they’re simply trying to change the subject whenever the difficult questions come up.

Now that they’re resorting to ad-hominem (“lazy” comments to legitimate questions without even attempting to answer the questions) I’m becoming even more skeptical.
> In Tarkovskian terms, they have no soul.

Isn't that basically true of every modern mainstream director? I can't think of anyone I would call Tarkovskian.

> whilst technically impressive, lack something fundamental and come across as sterile.

I try not to be curmudgeonly about big-budget filmmaking - I don't think there's anything inherently bad about it, but surely there's some truth to the idea that Villeneuve "sold out" starting with Sicario, right? I'd say Prisoners, Enemy, Incendies, and Polytechnique are all extremely good films, but they're precisely the ones that most people haven't seen. I don't think there's any way you could call those films "sterile", though Enemy certainly has a dry intellectual air to it.

I think what you might be latching onto is the aesthetic of Villeneuve's films. They tend to be gritty and realistic, which can read as soulless but I don't think it's quite the same thing. Calling a movie soulless speaks to its (lack of) spiritual / emotive vision, and while none of his films have the slow pacing of a Tarkovsky or their sense for atmosphere, I would say his early movies (and probably BR2049) don't lack a vision. They have something they want to say, and that message isn't a nihilistic or misanthropic one.
Unless I'm creatively remembering, Dave Moon's EGC (Ephemeral Garbage Collector) in Symbolics Genera in 1985(?) had three generations.
Invoke HTTP without waiting in AWS Lambda
Show HN: Pygumroad – A Python API Client to Interact with Gumroad's API
A very beta Python API client to interact with Gumroad's API for sweet automation workflows. Not all of the endpoints and HTTP verbs supported by the Gumroad API have been added yet.
I think abstracting YAML generation to a tool is a good idea. Let the tool handle the underlying abstraction of converting the parameters to YAML.

If k8s changes notation having a layer of abstraction (hopefully) allows me to run the same command to generate new YAML (very helpful in automation)
>and this is a way for the dead to cut into the lives of people who now get to move on.

this is why I absolutely love this, it has a Diogenic quality. I've always really disliked how churches and funerals lull people with their bog-standard speeches and an hour after the funeral everyone's bickering about the news or who gained ten pounds of weight.

A death is a great opportunity to shock people out of their everyday stupor, and when my grandfather died who was always somewhat of a trickster, he asked to put a recorder into the coffin with a sort of knocking sound that should play when he was lowered into the grave. Obviously everyone completely freaked out and half of the people were mad but I laughed my ass off.

I think this is life affirming and when you can shock some people and have something they ought to be reminded of a funeral's the time to do it, they'll probably remember it for a long time.
Still, $1.60 isn't bad for a 68000. Some of the chips in the article are spins on the 8051, so the 68000 is a big step up from them. Now, true, you can get every peripheral imaginable in an 8051 spin, and often for that $1 price, but the 68000 has a lot more functionality as a CPU.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
I’ve been working on a project to facilitate brainstorming sessions around a specific use-case and target user. It’s very much an MVP right now, but I’d be willing to share what I’ve built so far if you wouldn’t mind offering some feedback.
How did you determine the posts are conspiracy theories ? Is that your personal opinion?
Need to diversify != anything that is diversification is good.
Thanks, but that doesn’t really clarify anything about your technology.

What end-to-end efficiency are you getting and at what distance?
Is their a decently affordable type of tool for measuring or capturing em radiation in the WiFi frequency range? I suppose I could glean a lot from running a logger on an ESP32 and walking around, but I have to imagine EE folks and scientists have better tools for the job.
IANAL, but I think "distinctly private" here means your house, or the private clubhouse you rent with some friends, etc. In other words, places that the general public isn't welcome to visit (as opposed to even a gym where anyone with $100 can sign up).
> The Republic never really solved the problem of making sure you get a philosopher-king instead of a tyrant.

I disagree.

"train the guardians through a prolonged education that involves not just academic education but also character-training designed to ensure that guardians put the public good above private interests"

"the guardians should be banned from getting married or owning private property in order to focus their minds on the common good"

The point is that you don't just give any idiot supreme power after they win an election. The guardians go through lifelong training for rule, and only the best of the best, the most thoroughly tested, are left at the end of that process.
I mean, it's still running WebKit (most likely through a WKWebView) at some point to render any HTML mail.

There truly is no escape.
> But lets not pretend companies were really trying to choose between dividends and buybacks

I’m not pretending. And most companies eventually are designed to return capital to shareholders - otherwise why would anyone buy them?
Yes, Victoria has managed to combine the economic catastrophe of a New Zealand lock down with the death rate of a Swedish no lock down.

And this will continue for at least another month. All in all it's rather amazing how by trying to do everything right the Victorian government has managed to do everything wrong.

At least the current government gets to wag its finger at people for wanting such unreasonable things as jobs, leaving your house after work, or sleeping with your partner for the first time in 3 months.
That’s not a translation, whatever the publisher is calling it! A translation attempts to accurately portray the original piece as written in another language. Not every word needs to be literal, but moving around chapters is clearly out of bounds!
Juesus. Um, just don't sign up for the service in the first place if you're incapable of replying to the check up emails? That seems really obvious. And this is coming from someone severely ADHD. I know I would never be able to keep up with a system like that so I would never sign up for it.
My very first thought when they were doing this remake was literally that word.

There are times when words change for PC reasons, but this isn't one of them. 'Jihad' is a very potent word in the modern lexicon and it would just be unnecessarily out of bounds to use it. It would have the wrong context and be a huge distraction.

'Crusade' is fine, and not 'unPC' because it has Christian connotations, so few care, and creatively perfectly fine ... but I feel is actually a little hypocritical in a sense to use it, in lieu of 'Jihad'. But it's a hard word to replace.

Already, the culture wars are starting, with industry people on Twitter indicating this is a 'move about Middle Eastern culture with no Middle Eastern Actors' type thing, comparisons to 'God's of Egypt' - when of course, this is definitely not a movie about 'the Middle East' rather, that's only one of many cultural artifacts borrowed for the setting.

As for the trailer:

The music is absolutely terrible, it's going to ruin the film for me.

Otherwise, it looks 'contemporary' i.e. it will be 'good' but not 'timeless'. David Lynch's version was a 'flawed masterpiece' - the characters really embodied the 'realpolitik baroque noir' of the book. David Lynch used a lot of serious actors with stage backgrounds, who could also evoke and embody the very cold 'old world' callousness of the nobility. Jason Momoa does not.

In the trailer there are just too many standard Hollywood, familiar faces, Timothy Chatalet feels like a 'regular gen Z kid', relatable, but doesn't have the 'weight of the soul' on his mind.

The aesthetic is 'of the Villeneuve style' but it's definitely not exciting or novel, I feel Villeneuve & Co. have 'operationalized' their schtick and it lacks enthusiasm.

If we can judge from the trailer it will be 'passable' for most fans and regular people, but it won't be great at all.

I predict this will be about as good as his Blade Runner remake.

I am disappointed because there is huge opportunity for creative expansion - instead of 'standard remake for 2020' they could have actually tried some art.
I can’t completely blame the writers. Since Dune was written, a few things such as 9/11 have happened. Radical Islamic terrorism was nowhere near what it ultimately became after the book for dune was released in 1965.

Prior to 9/11, I think the majority of the public probably had a very different association with the word “jihad.” It pretty much conjures the image of crazy bearded Muslims in Afghanistan strapping bombs to themselves and blowing things up.

That image simply does not describe precisely what happens in the book. I think the word “jihad” also creates a jarring interruption and a distraction also.

“What the hell, why is this white guy talking about jihad?” It feels like a non sequiter and a distraction. Do white people jihad things? What???

The media will jump on it and start calling this a racist tv show which perpetuates stereotypes. It’s also cultural appropriation by modern standards, which are crazy.

HBO has had a HUGE blowback to Game Of Thrones on this topic in a dozen ways. I think the blowback was so bad they changed their entire programming to be more diverse and inclusive (Watchmen, Lovecraft Etc). George Martin has been constantly pestered with questions from concerned audiences about white saviors and other such things.

Long story short, the term jihad is an unwelcome distraction, too loaded, opens HBO to criticism they don’t want and it doesn’t accurately describe precisely what happens in the book.

I think crusade is correct and doesn’t create this interruption.
The East also has this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/eb/48/45eb48b4c51715abecdf...

Somewhere in the middle is probably a happy medium.
I’m a senior software engineer and software architect at a tech giant that has been lucky to have the experience of launching a new product twice, operationally treating it as a well funded startup and growing it to multimillion dollar revenue while instilling development practices that ensure quality while also being adaptive to change. I read the job description for the senior software engineer posting, and at first thought I might be a good candidate.

I generally want to dedicate my efforts to long term betterment of humanity, rather than “we make the world better by making a mobile app for dog walkers” sort of thing, so this position is attractive to me. However, this “full stack” position mentions only JavaScript and Rails as required experience.

Is your entire stack Rails and JavaScript? That turns me off entirely (and makes me unqualified).
And no one would ever lie about such things for a profit.
Some strings start live as part of multi-megabyte text files that get slurped in. Happened quite a bit with HTML/XML parsers. Workaround was to do new String(s.substring(…)) about everywhere. Real world case (with few details) at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10951812/java-not-garbag....

Also, using slices doesn’t come for free; it makes all String objects larger because, apart from the reference to the underlying character array, an offset and length must be kept around.
Locking people in their homes, which lowers Vit D especially as they are S hemisphere, will increase mortality rate. These are bureaucrats and thugs enforcing this, not nutritionists or medical doctors. I expect their rate to mirror NYC with their tactics for combatting a virus as if it is a bacteria.
I'd rather not pipe to bash from curl.
This is not quite the same, though: it is not a matter of finding a new pattern that may be illusory or not of any significance; rather, it is a matter of recognizing the similarity to a real, known pattern that is of a type that is known to be both very familiar and very significant to us. Most of us seem to have this skill to a considerable extent, even when the image is presented from a perspective and in a context that differs from what we have seen of the subject before, and the claim is merely that some people do it quite a bit better than average.
One needs to build meaning in their life and find purpose to ward off depression. Setting goals, making plans, and working at something meaningful will greatly help generate the necessary conditions for drive and emotional stability.
Where's your constitutional right to photograph me and use my photo on your billboard if you see fit? If you don't believe that's OK, and it's clearly not, then we can agree that there are limits to your right to use photographs you've taken of someone.

Also, I've heard approximately zero people from Portland calling for more police presence, even if it would cut down on the non-Portlanders traveling there to start problems. From what I can tell, they're not asking for or welcoming of that kind of "help".