skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not joking at all. I realize it sounds crazy and conspiratorial, but like I said, if you watch sources like Jimmy Dore over a period of months, it starts to become obvious.

Jimmy Dore isn't the only one, there are lots of other great commentators such as Kyle Kulinski, Rising With The Hill's Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti (this one may be more your style, Krystal is left-leaning and comes from MSNBC and Saagar is right-leaning. They don't agree with everything but they cut through the BS pretty well).

I would just say be open-minded and simply start watching one of these sources, it's good to be skeptical. You probably won't agree with them much in the beginning, but when you start seeing how things play out over months, it starts to make a lot more sense, then eventually it becomes obvious.

Note: I am not a conspiracy person AT ALL! Having been captivated by Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World over 20 years ago, I'm actually a big skeptic. Huge James Randi fan, etc. So, don't think that I'm some conspiracy hack, quite the opposite.
"Whoever assassinates my political opponent gets a pardon. I also pardon myself for saying that."
I don't agree with that. I don't think people choose their ethics based on their politics, but I do think they compromise them in the name of political tribalism. It's a mistake to ascribe the personal ethics of a specific party member to the ethics of the party platform, particularly when there is limited choice of parties.
> >I think the fact we are talking about your tone and not your points about functional programming speaks to this by itself. You weren't heard. You were felt, though.

> The world moves through feelings. Not for all cases but oftentimes to get heard you need to get "felt" first.

This is true, but you have options in terms of what feeling you're aiming for.

There is a world of difference in the response you're likely to get from "When Z you should do X because Y" vs. "We had a Z problem, it turns out that Y was the issue, so we did X."

The former will probably get you an "uh-oh" and the latter an "a-ha" or "hmm". Big difference.
Ah, I should have paid more attention to the question. Read it as "are they enabled?" My bad. :(
There’s a bit more detail in the accompanying press release: https://usa.oceana.org/press-releases/new-oceana-analysis-fi...
As lmkg pointed out, leaking memory is considered safe in Rust. There are a number of factors here:

- Leaking memory doesn't cause Undefined Behavior. It might eventually cause your program (or your whole machine) to lock up or crash, but there are many types of bugs that can do that.

- Categorically preventing memory leaks is difficult without a garbage collector. The biggest problem is that you can use reference counted smart pointers like Arc<T> to create reference cycles. Preventing you from doing that at the language level would be too constraining for a lot of real world programs. (In practice, those programs need to break cycles manually using "weak" references.)

- The difference between "reachable" and "unreachable" leaks isn't so big in practice. For example, if I'm caching some data in a global HashMap, I might forget to clear that map, or I might not clear it frequently enough. If the map ends up consuming all of my memory, the effect on my program is the same as if I'd just leaked all that memory. Either way, I need to debug what's going on and make a code fix. (In fact, at least some of the leaks that the Actix post is referring to are this sort of reachable leak.)

For all these reasons put together, Rust allows safe code to leak memory. In fact, there's even a safe standard library function for doing it (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.forget.html). But it's quite rare to run into unreachable memory leaks in practice, because destructors almost always free memory for you automatically.
This is economic liberty, not freedom of speech.

Are you saying if the US puts a tariff on aluminum from Canada we’re not holding ourselves up to our ideals of freedom?
Here is a recent review with open access:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6787585/pdf/dia...

It's been a while since I left virology so I can't comment on the veracity of the article. It does look pretty comprehensive though, and a bunch of the articles I remember to have read a decade ago are referenced.
Yeah, I can't take you seriously. GL with your blackouts and energy quotas, oh, and reliance of fossil fuels. Where do you think the energy is going to come from to perform electrolysis for hydrogen? solar? You are nowhere near meeting basic needs yet with solar, wind, tidal, geothermal combined. (3 out of the 4 can be intermittent/dependant on environmental conditions and are not reliable). Remember, energy demand is going to continue increasing. By the time your renewable utopia exists, you're going to need to double or triple its capacity.

Perhaps I'm unaware of some technological breakthrough which can produce hydrogen using little energy?

Nuclear is great once up-front costs are paid. Most future energy demand will be met by nuclear. Cleaner renewables will be there to provide additional capacity above baseload, but I wouldn't depend on them to meet basic needs.

I have pondered whether it would be possible to generate hydrogen more cheaply via concentrating solar or geothermal. The hotter you can get water before performing electrolysis, the less electricity will be required. Above 3k Celsius, the atoms in water will dissociate without electricity. You might have a reasonable argument against nuclear if you don't need to spend 3x the electricity creating the hydrogen than you'll get back from it.
100%.

Our supposed difference is that we have a system of laws and accountability and doing business with the US isn't at the whim of a manchild like China.

This is not a good thing.
From YAGNI to YDNIY
they are, aren't they?
Well, getting certain infections as a child will cause permanent damage that continues into adulthood. And increasing the likelihood of getting infections also increases the likelihood of getting a particularly bad one.

Also, if living in a dirty environment led to better immune systems, we'd observe people from developing nations with poor hygienic standards growing up to have super immune systems. Or people that work in hospitals would never get sick after so many years on the job. But neither of those are the case.

Vaccines are a much, much more effective way of building immune systems than doing it "the natural way."
Forget the Stock Market. The Rare-Plant Market Has Gone Bonkers
Trump has had multiple women accuse him of rape.
I know it sounds tin-foil-hat-y but I don’t trust western media coverage on Russia or China

This is a good principle irrespective of coronavirus. Western media has incessantly lied about Russia and China since the start of the cold war.
Sure, Nike can sell them shoes, but anything which involves free expression is certainly not welcome. So, in practice, many technology and social media companies are effectively banned.
I think it's not clear if Google or Apple can keep distributing WeChat and TikTok outside the US.
The real lesson of this presidency (Which I sincerely hope will end soon), is really how fragile democracy as a concept rather than a moral for the political parties. Although I assumed they've discussed it, it is at least unlikely that he can fiddle with the election and refuse to leave (Roger Stone suggests declaring martial law) - the checks and balances in place are far too dependent on good faith from those they are overseeing. Flynn was charged with perjury and now what?

We saw it with the Brexit campaign and now with Boris Johnson over here, it turns out that if you spew as much dishonesty, jingoistic bile, and corruption as possible you can win an election. Think about the debates in 2016, where do you even start when arguing against "No puppet, No puppet, you're the puppet, no puppet" constitutes a debate.
WatchOS 7: The MacStories Review
Seder's Grab Bag
Is CIA in the business of lying and propaganda? Yes. But things need to be taken in context. The CIA is under the executive branch, and therefore at the mercy of the political whims of the president.

Saddam's non-existent WMDs? Reported by the CIA under an presidential administration that was clutching for any reason to go to war with Iraq.

Gulf of Tonkin? Again, the CIA reporting on something that buttressed the case for war. Again, aligned with the then-presdential administration's desire to escalate things in Vietnam.

The DNC hack is reported by the CIA to be Russia. The current presidential administration has full-throated in their bias toward Russia and against any supposed pro-Trump Russian interference in the 2016 election. And the CIA still says a highly-damaging (to the Democrats' electoral chances) email dump was orchestrated by Russia.

One of these things isn't like the other.
Show HN: A simple GPU price checker
Show HN: Dendron – open-source, local first, anti-roam note-taking tool
>Anyways, if you're interested in non-corporate news, where if you watch it over many months, thing start to become obvious to the point where you can't unsee it anymore, I recommend Jimmy Dore.

Why take it from a comedian? There is a much more reliable source that knows all[0], sees all and reads a lot.

More details[1].

#WWG1WGA

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904237192/journalist-enters-t...
Uneven distribution is kind of the point?
Anything less than a sale will not assuage concerns, and the Chinese government has prevented TikTok from being sold. So no, it's dead.
Wow, this thread just turned into bookmarked resource for file sharing. Best compilation I've seen recently.

I get CPU usage with both Chrome and FF, running a consistent 10-20% for what seems no good reason. Windows task manager "power usage" also indicates FF as "very high" in "power usage", which might be related to GPU use. Windows seems happier with Chrome's power usage. I detect no difference between the two in my Z-book's fan or CPU temps (which are always warm, and warmer if I don't run atop a cooler base).

FF has significantly improved over past 18 months in response and load times for a complex heavy front end UI for Siebel, matching Chrome's response time.
[Dendron](https://dendron.so) is meant to be the fastest way for people to create, reference, and collaborate on knowledge. It is based on a [hierarchal first approach to note taking](https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/3dd58f62-fee5-4f93-b9f1-b0f0...).

Hierarchy first means that Dendron helps you effortlessly create, manage, and reference your notes through flexible hierarchies. I call it anti-roam because instead of having every note be everywhere, every note is exactly in one well defined place (which you can change over time).

You can read about our principles [here](https:/dendron.so/notes/7fcebd7d-6411-4c9d-8baf-65629dc018a1.html)

I use Dendron to manage a corpus of 20k+ markdown notes. When I need to lookup information inside Dendron, I know I can either find it in a few seconds, or if I don't, to know for certain that it is not there. This is an incredibly empowering feeling of control in an age of information overload and it is an ability I want to give to every person in the world.
On Monday, will you be able to download TikTok in the USA? If not, how is that not an issue of liberty?

You may be willing to give up liberty in exchange for some leveling of economic advantage, but you cannot also say that you are not, in fact, giving up that measure of liberty.

I don't actually use TikTok, btw.
It's a pedantic answer but... 0%. ;)
Aren't the vowels of English "cat" and "bet" are pretty much allophones of German /e/ (which written either as "e" or "ä")?
We could reason about sites that index https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle
according to our own and others' observations.
Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and Meta all index Scholarly Articles: they copy the bibliographic metadata and the abstract for archival and schoarly purposes.

AFAIU, e.g. Zotero and Mendeley do not crawl and index articles or attempt to parse bibliographic citations from the astounding plethora of citation styles [citationstyles, citationstyles_stylerepo] into a citation graph suitable for representative metrics [zenodo_newmetrics].

bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf does not have a DOI, does not have an ORCID [orcid], and is not published in any journal but is indexed by e.g. Google Scholar; though there are apparently multiple records referring to a ScholarlyArticle with the same name and author.
Something like "Hell's Angels" (1930)? No DOI, no ORCID, no parseable
PDF structure: not indexed.

AFAIU, Google Scholar does not yet index
ScholarlyArticle (or SoftwareApplication < CreativeWork) bibliographic metadata. GScholar indexes an older set of bibliographic metadata from HTML <meta> tags and also attempts to parse PDFs. [gscholar_inclusion]

Google Scholar is also not (yet?) integrated with Google Dataset Search
(which indexes https://schema.org/Dataset metadata).

FigShare DOIs and Zenodo DOIs are DataCite DOIs [figshare_howtocite, zenodo_principles]; which apparently aren't (yet?) all indexed
by Google Scholar [rescience_gscholar].

IIUC, all papers uploaded to https://arxiv.org are indexed by Google Scholar. In order for arxiv-vanity.org [arxiv_vanity] to render a mobile-ready, font-resizeable HTML5 version of a paper uploaded to ArXiV, the PostScript source must be uploaded. Arxiv hosts certain categories of ScholarlyArticles.

JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software) has managed to get articles
indexed by Google Scholar [rescience_gscholar]. They publish their costs [joss_costs]:
$275 Crossref membership, DOIs: $1/paper:

> Assuming a publication rate of 200 papers per year this works out at ~$4.75 per paper

[citationstyles]: https://citationstyles.org

[citationstyles_stylerepo]: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles

[gscholar_inclusion]: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#in...

[figshare_howtocite]: https://knowledge.figshare.com/articles/item/how-to-share-ci...

[zenodo_principles]: https://about.zenodo.org/principles/

[zenodo_newmetrics]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2017.00013...

[rescience_gscholar]: https://github.com/ReScience/ReScience/issues/38

[arxiv_vanity]: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/

[joss_costs]: https://joss.theoj.org/about#costs

[orcid]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID
Testing Database Migrations
It’s quite exciting - replacing existing overhead lighting with 222nm lightbulbs could make public spaces inhabitable again.

Alas I couldn’t find any 222nm light bulbs for sale. I imagine hundreds of Chinese companies are setting up production lines as we speak.
The History of Book Burning
I was in the same place you are, brushing up on CAD w/ a 3D printer. OnShape is a web based CAD service from some of the original technical creators Solidworks. I found that going through their tutorials helped a lot in understanding how the tools think.

Not open source like the other options discussed here, but free for hobbyists.
Google is giving them so much money, for such a long time, that it is hard to replace. Golden handcuffs. Donations and $10/mo "Firefox subscriptions" aren't going to make up for it.

There are ways they could make money and leverage their browser, such as becoming a certificate authority (they're literally outsourcing profit) or making their own search engine (which would probably be a bad idea for other reasons). Nothing else is going to replace $400m/year.

Their real problem is not "making money." It's too much easy money making them go soft, and then wasting it.
I'm the opposite. I'd rather China have my data then the NSA.

China has less incentive to go after me, and what are they gonna do to me? It's not like the United States will extradite their own citizens to China or anything like that.

The United States could easily use my data to come after me at some point, if they decide to. They could make my political viewpoints illegal (like the McCarthy Era) and find evidence of my views from my data and throw me in jail or worse.
Briefly I was looking for an addon that completely disabled tabs, and removed the tab bar. Every action that would normally open a new tab would instead open a new window.

Since I use a tiling WM, the idea was that this would make it easier to navigate through my tabs, and also keep my attention from branching so often. If I had something that I found useful enough to keep around, I can move it to another virtual desktop.

Unfortunately, I never found such an addon, and I'm still not set on that workflow in general.
I think I had nearly 5k keywords. I know it's a lot, but the form/page specifically mentions that I can go up to 5000 keywords.
Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis(2014)
Here is the Rust book explaining ownership with lots of syntax-highlighted code examples:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-01-what-is-ownership.htm...

The 2nd search result for "golang goroutines" is gobyexample.com, which is 1 page, half of which is code:

https://gobyexample.com/goroutines

I need to see code to understand semantics. Otherwise I'm being asked to visualize something that is better displayed on-screen. Why am I doing the computer's job?
Fun fact: The director is Alex Winter who played Bill from Bill and Ted. I guess he got his buddy Ted to narrate.
To people upvoting the parent, do you really believe that the half of the population who don't have the same politicals views as you could only possibly be motivated by hatred? It's not possible for you to imagine anyone disagreeing with you might have a legitimate philosophical difference?
As realistic as this is, it seems like contempt for mediocrity
It is called/translated (percentual) administrative costs.
> It's more likely he was murdered for doing something he shouldn't have been doing rather than anything else. The area where he lived had no shooting in the past 16 years or so, and this young guy gets clearly murdered for no reason and not even robbed?

There had been a string of armed robberies in the area, which residents had been complaining about.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/bloomingd...
https://www.popville.com/2016/07/two-more-armed-robberies-in...

It also simply doesn't fit the mold of an assassination attempt.
Seth Rich was shot (twice) in the back, not the head, without a silencer.
In fact, he was conscious when police got there, and didn't succumb to his injuries until he was in the hospital 1.5 hours later.

Conspiracyland (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYWNhc3QuY29...) did its season 1 on Seth Rich murder. I highly recommend it.
I've used File Pizza to share files with friends, but it feels like the upload speed is being bottlenecked by something that isn't my ISP (I have synchronous upload) - is there an inherent speed issue with using WebRTC for this?
It's true that initializing camera hardware takes noticeable time. We had the same complaint from app developers in Firefox OS and we implement a small trick to improve the experience: when launching an app that has the "camera" permission listed, we start to initialize the camera hardware in parallel with other app startup tasks. That doesn't trigger stream acquisition so it's fully safe, but we gain a few hundred of ms overall when the app actually needs the camera preview.
Bush was unwilling to trust the U.N. inspectors. The CIA had also thought that there were no weapons. Bush took this as evidence that Saddam was hiding weapons. Literally, on 9/12, Paul Wolfowitz asked for intelligence that Saddam had WMD and there wasn't any. With so much pressure from the top to find evidence for WMD, the CIA started to cave.

(Saddam had incentive to pretend he had WMD. He certainly didn't want Iran to know he didn't. He obviously didn't want inspectors inside his government buildings. But Bush and his team used Saddam's behavior as evidence he was hiding WMD, rather than the fact that he was hiding the lack of WMD.)

Once the CIA realized that war was inevitable, it went into cover-your-ass-mode and said Saddam might have chemical weapons so that US soldiers wouldn't go into Iraq with insufficient protection in-case there were chemical weapons after all.

Bush was unwilling to listen to counter-naratives. If Condi Rice or, more likely, Colin Powell had been willing to say "I don't think war is such a good idea" maybe it wouldn't have happened. But Bush surrounded himself with yes men. If Powell hadn't supported the war, likely he and his entire staff would have had to resign. If that had happened, Bush would have lost Tony Blair's support and with that, any international support. Bush probably would have at least thought twice about going to Iraq alone.

So in this case, it wasn't so much that the institutions weren't trustworthy, it's that they fell in line with pressure that started from Bush. It doesn't do any good to have experts at your disposal if you're not going to listen to any of them.

Source: Robert Draper's exhaustively researched book on how Iraq happened:

https://www.amazon.com/Start-War-Bush-Administration-America...

Interview with the author:

https://www.vox.com/2020/9/2/21417224/why-did-america-invade...

(Also, the U.S. media didn't do its job. The cynical side of me says there's money to be made in covering war. But probably, it was just incompetence. I still haven't forgiven the NYT though.)
The people I'm referring to are the "I'm alright jack" Trump supporters who basically will do anything if it means owning the libs. Also people who thought he would be non-interventionist (I have seen this on HN this year i.e. after Soleimani) despite "I'd bomb the shit out of ISIS"
Maybe they don't want people who refuse to spend 5 minutes on reading the docs, where they would find 3 complete, runnable examples.
Twitter is amazing — it’s a company that exists in spite of itself.
Doesn't Firefox searches through open tabs while you type in the (indeed) awesome bar ?
I don't see where the problem is really. Plus the session manager extensions I have tried are not "stiff", they work well.
But it's in the software which ships with this chips and is meant to be used by everyone using the chip.

> Many such devices on the market today are based on HiSilicon (a Huawei brand) hi3520d ARM SoC running a special Linux distribution called HiLinux, with a set of user-space utilities and a custom web application on top.

(emphasis mine)

So while this is not a hardware backdoor it's in no way less problematic.

EDIT: Which you never said it was... Anyway it's useful to know that it's the software which is chipped alongside with the chip and not some arbitrary 3rd party software some arbitrary OEM put on-top of it.
> Without being a C-corp there’s nothing in which to have equity or rather “equity” doesn’t mean anything much.

Completely unwarranted rudeness notwithstanding, this comment is still 100% false.

You brought up C-corps, and legal/accounting structure isn't mentioned in any of the parent comments. Which is fair, but like I said nobody first starts a business by filing paperwork to incorporate a C-corp. They work as an LLC or sole proprietorship, and if/when they reach a point where it makes sense, they restructure. I even alluded to that in my sentence you took issue with, "or until we get investment." Yes, you'll absolutely restructure as a (Delaware) C-corp if you take venture investment, and this minimum wage law would apply - but not to the co-founders, as @adventured noted.
Compaq spoiled IBM plans.
You have absolutely no basis on which to make that statement. There is no data about the vaccine (and about the virus) to reasonably assert that the risk of the vaccine is lower than the (low) risk of infection if you take mitigation measures such as wearing masks and limiting interaction.