skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you pay each committee member $400_000/year, you’ll save $100_000/year. Sounds like a good move to me.
Apple iPad Air 4 Specs and Prices in the US and UK
Ballot initiatives aren’t commonly getting random people fired for political wrongthink, so yes.
Physicists Argue That Black Holes from the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
+1 on citing reasonable references. I think articles, posts and even daily news briefings should explicitly cite referenced articles, sources or briefings. Of course, there are cases where news papers may not want to disclose their source. It should be marked accordingly.
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Hi all,

A week ago I've had the task to implement Intercom in one of the React Native apps that I'm working on. Since Intercom doesn't have an official RN SDK and the existing one requires a lot of steps for configuring and it's not up to date, I've decided to write one that can easily be installed and used.

So, I present you React Native Intercom Native.

It's still in its early stage, I still have some work to do (tests, add more features) but for basic stuff with Intercom it works.

It's available on npm as react-native-intercom-native or on GitHub https://github.com/mateioprea/react-native-intercom.

Thank you!
jp0d, are you non-white? I suspect that many (US) readers may assume that as an immigrant to Australia you are white, having immigrated perhaps from the US or UK, which would make it odd to also name your roommates as such. When in reality most immigrants to Australia are from south- or east-Asian countries (as I'm guessing you may be), making the shorthand "white = natural-born, non-aboriginal Aus citizen" totally natural.

Sorry if I'm off-base… just my guess that this is a miscommunication stemming from the US-centricity of these forums. It's natural after all for a reader to put themself in the shoes of the writer (as did I on first reading of your comment), which can occasionally lead to misunderstandings when race, gender, etc. do not match.
Elop ("Need more money after a painful divorce") style!

Respectable.
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In WWII we tooled up to make tanks, ships, and planes in less time than we've now failed to tool up just to make masks. Which, needless to say, are less complex than tanks, ships, and planes, and our level of manufacturing technology is now much higher too.
It's free money so it's no surprise publishers are growing, but that doesn't mean the Brave user base is growing along with it.
I'm not a Biden fan, but Biden has since been a decent supporter of LGBT rights and pushed Obama on the issue. Eich never showed any kind of contrition like that. People can change. I am friends with a number of formerly homophobic people. However, Eich, at least in 2014, displayed no evidence that he had.
This is the original referenced article:

https://www.ft.com/content/c5336824-140c-49ee-85a4-c8197f829...
Oh so it's even more silly and blown up than I thought. I'd go back to correct myself but unfortunately I can't since the post is too old. Thanks for correcting me!
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Or people have multiple interests!
Rewarding is a bit of a stretch. My understanding is the people of Florida had an up down referendum on restoring voting rights to felons who’ve served their time a few years back which passed.

Then the GOP down there did some maneuvering and introduced this “pay off all debts first” clause which I believe is fairly unpopular down there (although I cannot cite anything for that).

Bloomberg is rectifying what many consider to be a wrong down there and reenfranchising (not a word) these 32,000 voters with this gesture.

Given the incredible disparities within our criminal justice system I sincerely doubt most Black people are sitting there mad that the right to vote is being restored to these persons, especially since apparently the idea is popular enough that the referendum passed.
I thought we were against billionaires buying elections?
If you say "no", you say no to only one option. If you say "yes", you say no to all other options.
I remember Roger Penrose talking about the mystery of anesthetics, how they may target the vast "microtubule" network in the brain, itself a pretty surprising and unknown structure.

So little we know I suppose.
Exactly. Its not your job to make all the decisions. Its your job to make sure all the decisions are informed decisions.
50 First Dates... Much more fitting comparison, at least in terms of waking up to the "same" day over and over (as she too had some sort of amnesia).
What if the stress level affects the dopamine level and that affects the stutter?

I have a stutter too and this was a very interesting article to add to my "head-canon" on why people stutter. My stutter is also affected by moods. Maybe we're living -- or rather, speaking -- on the edge of the brain-body connection.
Agree with this - minus the naive part. I think you can dream and you can have "something better" but you risk all the good work that has been put in already which might put you in a worse spot. If you ran a hypothetical model on what the future outcomes might be the likelihood of something better is probably pretty small. That said, we can always dream.
I've made a single file python library that implements an idiomatic shell API in python: https://github.com/tarruda/python-ush

One nice thing about it is the overloading of pipe operator to allow easy creation of pipelines and/or redirection (plus it is cross platform, so you don't depend on the system having a certain shell).
This was in the BSD C Shell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell) way back in the early 1980s!
> Of course, just as with #1 politically connected people will protect themselves first, and their wealthy benefactors.

The inner party, as it were.
> Government certainly can change this reality (perhaps via the defense production act) by agreeing to buy masks off the line for a time after the immediate demand has been met. Or whatever.

Of course, but it seems the vaccines had priority, to the point of ignoring masks:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/08/feds-sp...

August 8, 2020: "Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion, spread among 7 companies"

To compare, the OP article writes:

"Why is the world’s richest country still struggling to meet the demand for an item that once cost around $1 apiece?"

The sad aspect is, if it turns out that even vaccinated people can spread the virus (as in: "they can still become infected and only get less sick"), and that is estimated as very probable by the experts at the moment, the existence of other vaccinated people will not protect the high risk groups -- the so-called "herd" will never protect them, only the vaccine, and only if it works for them. Which they won't know in advance:

The experts also don't expect too high protection of the vaccine, as it is known that vulnerable are only some percentages protected by the similar vaccines (sometimes even less than 50%). So the masks can turn out to remain more important than we hope at the moment: then, the estimated protection if both the infected and the vulnerable wear a good mask could be higher in many circumstances than a vaccine. That was the sound basis for this claim:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/cdc-director-says-face-masks...

In Redfield's own words:

“If I don’t get an immune response, the vaccine is not going to protect me,” he said. “This face mask will.”
>No, it does not matter. If you are on the wrong side of history the size of the company you keep is irrelevant.

Sorry, that sounds like something Nazis or the Maoists in the "Cultural Revolution" would say. "Wrong side of history" is historical determinism and teleologism.

Who is on "the wrong side of history" determined by consensus itself. And it can be as fickle and temporary as anything.
> Since then, he has been unable to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. So while he can still tell me about the first time he met the Duke of York for a briefing at the Ministry of Defence, he can’t even remember where he’s living now; he wakes up every morning believing he is still in Germany in 2005, waiting to visit the dentist. Without a record of new experiences, the passing of time means nothing to him. Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his wife have written detailed notes on his smartphone, in a file labelled “First thing – read this”.

This almost perfectly captures the premise of the movie Memento.
The thing is that everyone does this and everyone is paying to do this (as stock photos are not free). I assume it is passing A/B testing.
Why Mobile Dev IDEs Are Bad
Agreed. So popular back then, but gorgeous and neat. Their flag set was also my go-to choice until I switched to Apple Emoji flags as images.
What about procedural issues such as the bundles of documents in the morning?
Makes me livid just reading about this, and other such happenings in my country - but as just a regular Northern tech worker, what on Earth can I do about it? My mother was in London at the weekend and said there were people outside the Old Bailey chanting "Free Assange", but not many.
What can one do in the face of what seems to me to be flagrantly violating our own "justice system" to pander to the Americans?
> Historically, you can’t cure fascism by voting, even in situations where the elections haven’t been compromised.

Could you show/explain what kind of data do we have on this? How sure are we of this result?
The drama here is not from people asking for clarification. It’s from the people who are somehow bothered by people asking for clarification.

You’ve now finally offered some clarification, although honestly I still don’t really have any idea what you meant. But your initial response was to act as if the very act of asking the question somehow victimized you. Your original post lamented “PC culture” but no one actually criticized your post and you didn’t provide the asked for clarification.
In this case I think browser market share is a good example of overall company performance.
Yep, it's more like a post justification bullshit. I believe the more realistic reason is that N95 masks are produced by a monopoly that doesn't want neither expand production to satisfy short term rise in demand nor give up its monopolistic position for others to do it, hence the shortage of masks in the country where it has monopoly. (There isn't a shortage of masks in my country and hasn't been for months.)
Yes, pls, the original link is really really badly formatted.
correct me but those features are denied by apple and mozilla for very good reasons (privacy and security) besides beeing anything but 'basic' (midi anyone?)
> fault

This is where you begin to introduce your own ideas rather than talk about mine. I didn't use that word and certainly didn't imply that anybody is at fault here. Sometimes things are just true. It doesn't mean anybody is to blame or that anybody is "better" than anybody else.
It's never been about protecting people, it's about power. What is the source of most power? Knowledge. Knowledge about anything and everything. It's unimaginable what you could do with access to every conversation ever had, retroactively at your fingertips.

Power is neutral, it's users are not. We have already seen the dangerous precedent China has set with it's all-encompassing surveillance and human-rights violations.
Indeed. Both of our statements are true!
> Eich should have realized that his actions as CEO of a highly visible entity would be viewed in a different light than if he were merely just another nobody. Missing that was his crucial mistake, he could have made the donation anonymously, but decided to do it in his own name making it a given that this would be associated with Mozilla. That was stupid.

You do realize that all political donations in the US are not allowed to be anonymous right? This was years before citizens united, the only way to donate was through your own name.

Nothing you’ve said in this entire thread has made any sense, please reconsider demonizing someone you don’t know about issues you don’t understand with arguments that are false.
Here's the associated HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24549701
Seems like nobody really cares about tax evasion, though. But maybe only if you're big enough... ;-)

I also think I still have some legal headroom for optimizing my tax return forms. Maybe I'll have to try an accountant next year.
This.

See my comment above :)
The invisible hand is reluctant to make the face invisible, too :)
How long will it take to build all those nuclear plants? Not sure there’s enough time. It seems rapid deployment of solar where its most effective would be the quickest route to effect change.
This is a nice reminder that the EU isn’t some benevolent defender of human rights; it’s a surveillance state bureaucracy like all the others. They’ve done a spectacular job at branding, I’ll give them that.
I like TFTD, but it has some flaws:

- weird research paths. It was possible to ruin your game by doing the wrong research in wrong order. Also, you need a lot of luck to get some techs, e.g. to get early armor you need to kill a Deep One, which usually are only found in the beginning of the game and near the end of it. Similarly to get a vibroblade which is very useful against Lobstermen, you need to kill a Calcinite, which is a very rare spawn in the game.

- maps are too big. I like the variety, but the maps are just too big. Also they consist of tight tunnels providing perfect shooting gallery opportunities for the aliens

- tentaculats are badly balanced. I fear no lobstermen disruptors, I fear no tasoth mind control, but a one or two tentaculats can destroy your team in a single round. And they can fly across half the map to get you.
Hacker Laws – All models are wrong, but some are useful
This was not a useful comment. How is it a mess? What changed?
Leather goods made of fungi are versatile and sustainable, new study finds
I wonder how much of a difference it would make if Intel made and sold boards that were identical in size and price to the Raspberry Pi and were full systems for hacking and/or IoT development. I think that would be a wildly popular item.
https://www.amazon.com/Om-Mantra-Chants-417hz-Negative/dp/B0...
If you're cheap there's unsplash though, nice quality for the pricetag (free)
Let’s say they ban end to end encryption tomorrow in their save the children and puppies act. Guess who is still going to use it? The criminals are of course. You can’t ban math.
>Leather-like material biofabrication using fungi

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00606-1
How is this even slightly consistent with their stance on privacy?
Based on another source, it's expected that people are generally trending from looking 10 years older in this generation to 15-25 years older.

Melatonin (sustained-release) is the big secret weapon against aging, especially when started younger (right after growth years). And eating the last meal 3-4 hours before bed or earlier. And meeting all RDAs with just a variety of whole quality foods (most don't meet all RDAs, especially with just food). 1:1:1 calcium:phosphorus:magnesium.
For me the best part of X-Com is when you actually learn the mechanics of the game. When you learn the missions that aliens do, recognize how the ships look like. If you see three-four supply ships on the ground you know they're either resupplying or building a colony. Do you attack the colony, or harvest the supply ships that come regularly?

Look at the chart. Seeing extremely high alien activity in some remote country? High odds there's an alien base there.
Well, if you sit so close to someone's opinions or comments on the Internet, wouldn't you have to smell whatever whether you like it or not? ;-)
Unix: Making Computers Easier to Use (AT&T Archives Film from 1982, Bell Labs)
Poll sites, yes. Though adding provisional ballots, which are adjudicated later, did create a spike in problems.

Central count for postal ballots, however, absolutely will take days. Please see my other comment.

Many jurisdictions have automatic recounts at certain thresholds. Another delay.

And IIRC there's 3m overseas voters. Those ballots trickle in.

Also IIRC, most jurisdictions certify their elections 3 weeks after the election day.

Given all that:

Most candidates will concede prior to certification when defeat is obvious.

And corporate media will do whatever to boost ratings.

And everyone will whine about bias, coverage, not getting enough ice cream.
> I wish as a community our reaction to Mozilla's troubles was "let's all start donating!" instead of "screw those evil pigs".

But what would that change? You're not donating to the makers of Firefox, you're donating to the entity that owns the makers of Firefox. They'll spend the money on whatever they find interesting or lucrative or politically wise. Firefox might or might not be among them.
The difference may be those with auto contribute vs those that directly contribute. I have auto contribute off because I don't see much benefit if I can choose to directly contribute to those that I felt created great content, not just happened to have decent SEO.
It deeply pains me that String is only a concrete type and that Object.toString() does not implement an interface.
I would pick nginx in the first place.
I got my first paid programming job after 12 years of side projects.

Maybe it's too soon. After 6 years of programming I had made pretty much nothing useful.
It looks more like between 3 and 5 devs, who probably came on at the same time as Lattner. It's roughly the same as the Java interface for TF has, and much smaller than the microcontroller TFLite team.

That's lost in the TensorFlow team budget.
Look deeper at the first photo. That isn't even a real dentist. Those are not medical/laser safety glasses. They look like they came out of a carpenter's toolbox. And look at the tool in his right hand (camera left). We have all been eye-to-hook with the various dental implements. That doesn't look like any tool i've ever seen. I think it is a prop, a blunt tool so that actors don't cut themselves.

If the BBC is going to use a stock image, at least use the one of a real dentist.

(I can forgive the faked scratches on the glasses. That was probably done so we don't see the reflected image of the camera lens.)
I left the UK specifically because of the UK government trying to mess with encryption in a very stupid way (amongst other things), with an act of Parliament that violated EU law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_201...
And also a type of intense mental exercise that is probably healthy
I am surprised to see this point being made. The government has one of the worst records on data privacy of all democracies. It's laughable to think they won't proceed with this and go further, again, before long.
Used the same one every time. I founded the easiest one to use was based on my house. The shorter the distance between objects the better.
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It's not like e2e is heavily utilized must-have for crime either. Tons of crime happen through regular unencrypted text messages, and nobody gets caught. But this isn't about protecting in the first place, so it isn't all that relevant.
A trip to https://time.gov/ on a device that I trust would convince me.
Revolution in the back. Pay wall in the front
cf. https://www.eteknix.com/david-cameron-declares-war-encryptio...
There's a time and place for this technique. I do it on my posts where I'm showing you something as it evolves - usually an electronics project.

Long running narratives are usually not the place for this.
Thanks, ldez! Top level traffic shaping via Pilot looks like the future. Keep up the great work!
I don't either. You'll have to get a better sample representing bengali villages and older people to conclude that casteism is dead.
Apparently the BBC has a bulk deal with stock photo agencies where they basically get unlimited usage for £££ every year. I found this out when I asked them why they were using a Getty image of Broadcasting House (in a story about BBC office moves) rather than just stepping out into the corridor and taking one...
Well this has become an....ironic post *laughs sadly

It looks like it's back up now.
> Given the evidence, Burgess instead suspects the answer may be hiding in the thicket of tiny neural connections we call “synapses”. Once we have experienced an event, the memories are slowly cemented in the long term by altering these richly woven networks. That process of “consolidation” involves the production of new proteins to rebuild the synapses in their new shape; without it, the memory remains fragile and is easily eroded with time.

I was reading the other day about a study that's checking to see if injecting BDNF [1] into a patient's cochlea will help improve their hearing. In animal studies it helped rebuild broken synapses and led to better hearing. I wonder if injecting the brain with the missing proteins (or as the article refers to them, "ink") would help with the formation of memories? Though maybe this is too simplistic of a view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fac...
> he still tended to forget where he put his car keys.

I find it just easier to develop a protocol on where the keys go. In fact, I organize my entire space so that everything has a place and as soon as I am done with it I put it back in the place. Reduces cognitive load. Since a thing is in a place every time, eventually my brain builds a detailed map of exactly where everything lives, even down to the inch within a shelf, drawer, etc. At this point I could almost operate blind.
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This is the same EU that came up with GDPR? Where is the right to privacy thinking on this? Encryption is essential to having freedom. It is simply the electronic equivalent to being able to meet in secret, a right that all humans can and should have.
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There are shortages everywhere... a surgical mask used to cost ~5eurocents here, now it's ~60 for "non medical", and 1eur+ for medical masks. N95 go even higher in price, compared to very cheap before.

Yes, they're available, but at that price, noone buys them (they improvise or buy washable).
Let’s say your problem is time: you agree to too much. I struggle with the balance of helping others and getting my own stuff done. My stuff gets done, but may take longer than I would like.

At work yesterday, I was helping some other teams and saw they were going down the wrong path. I had, at this point, already told them I had to stop helping to get my own stuff done. But I couldn’t just let them waste hours doing the wrong thing when I popped back into slack during lunch. Queue my need to help, and I was reengaged to avert lots of wasted time on a time sensitive issue. Now I’m a bit behind today. My manager would likely say to let them worry about, do my stuff. But that feels wrong to not support others where you can. This is my “saying no” problem.
If they wanted to stem the ARM tide they would do exactly this. Unfortunately they don't seem to be able to see the value in anything beyond direct profit ventures. The Pi foundation has deep ties to Broadcom, so Intel would have to start something from the ground up. I still think it would be immensely worth it.
Just remember that people here expect the owner/founder/whatever to show up and answer questions.

Also, the mods have secret tools for voting rings, sockpuppets and other similar stuff.
Slavishly copying Google's plans to nerf the addon interface isn't "the right thing". Thankfully, Google has gone too far by crippling ad blockers and Firefox is unlikely to fall on that sword.
Yes, and Rogan would fall into the healthy part of that spectrum. People who say he's totally passive or unchallenging aren't actually familiar with the show - they're just echoing a tired tribal talking point.