skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit 2: Ironic, assange supporters shooting the messenger for exposing truth. I get downvoted for making a statement supported by hard evidence provided by a linked source. Because you want something to be true does not make it so. Assange supporters like shooting the messenger now? Ironic.
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> Assange case is indicative of what might happen if you enter into the business of exposing corruption, and not restrict your exposures to one direction only.

This doesn’t square. Assange wasn’t exposing everything he got, nor was he interested in looking for info on all countries.

He was primarily focused on exposing info in one direction, the US, and actually had expressed indifference to exposing info on Russia.

So it is impossible for his treatment to show anything about what happens if you exposure corruption equally without direction, because that is not what he did.

He only shows an anecdote of what happens when you focus exposing corruption in a single foreign country, and go beyond that, to strongly support certain candidates in their elections due to personal grudges.

Edit: proof -> https://www.businessinsider.com/assange-turned-down-document...
Can anyone recommend any good resources to learn DDD? I'm a visual learner, so videos or codebases with a detailed architecture plan help me the most. I have yet to come across anything other than small-ish examples.
0.4% (yes, really) of library funding comes from the Federal government. Cutting that spending is literally a rounding error for libraries. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/library...

Only 8% of public school budgets comes from the Federal government: https://theconversation.com/federal-spending-covers-only-8-o...

The impact of Federal spending cuts on these programs is overrated, and one good-faith reason for cutting that spending is to federalize (I.e. decentralize) the administration of those services.
i think it depends on what type of learner you are. i learn much easier through video than through text, so for me a well made presentation, that i watch with my full attention while taking notes (i don't generally look at the notes after, but it helps commit things to memory), is a much more efficient way to learn about stuff. shame that there aren't that many videos beyond basics stuff

bad audio is a killer for sure, though.
This might give out information about the device we used. That should be a secret.
Of course that's what they'll use it for. Don't worry -- the terms and conditions that nobody reads or could understand even if they did read, says they just send "metadata" back to improve the user experience.
The best way I found to learn git is to read the first 3 chapters of Pro Git. Yes it's a pain, yes you're going to have to sit through the "distributed source control" speech again, but the enlightenment of realising why it works like it does is great.

When you realise it's nothing more than commits and a bunch of special labels it starts to make sense.

EDIT: Meant to add that sites like ohshitgit might help in a crisis but you're only a few hours reading off working out WHY those things work.
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I don’t think it’s about holding yourself up as better

Ther must be an objective goal beyond being “nice”

One goal is reciprocity - you want your citizens to have the benefit to study abroad therefore you reciprocate to foreign students

Another aspect is getting access to the best talent on the planet, then getting them to stay and advance technology in your country

There needs to be a balance where admitting foreign students does not displace local students.

Maybe cap the number of foreign students or use their tuition money to increase seats for local students?
Boy I wish there was a way to do that in iOS Safari, where they only let you disable it for the entire browser and not just for a single website.

Maybe once Apple allows a default web browser to be set, I will finally get this ability on my phone. I might even build my own web browser!
Filecoin 101 [video]
They were not elected to government,i.e. the cabinet and office of prime minister
Everybody knows that the treatment for MS is Linux
At $250 more people will get them. People waste money on more useless garbage than this. Home invasions and breaking into garages has gone up significantly in SF —if they already have Ring, which many do if I go by NextDoor, I’m sure a few will pick this up.
People were saying similar things about newer Roomba vacuums that have the capability of mapping out your home and are internet-connected.
It sounds like you got infected with adware. Maybe next time... don't turn off the updates? :)
Numpy Nature publication and the diversity concerns
I don't read my medical info in English, generally. And as i said, the acronym in my native language is different.
Yeah this is definitely try to push that dream of not having to upload/download software and doing most if not all things on the browser itself
> I'd infinitely rather use the work of a competent asshole than an incompetent saint.

As would I. On a higher order of infinity, I'd use the work of a competent saint over a competent asshole.

Let's not make false dichotomies.
I recently encountered a small area where there had been a brush fire (could have occurred long ago). I was able to crumble off the outer inch of blackened tree branch stubs and the charcoal seemed fairly consistent. I would have to burn it to test how thoroughly it had been cooked - good charcoal does not give off much smoke because the heat burns away most everything but the carbon.

Charcoal for water filtering, cooking, and smelting is probably very abundant in the Pacific Northwest right now....
I use Due on iOS for this, it will also nag you on a given interval until you complete the action. OmniFocus also supports recurring actions, but IMO not as elegantly as Due.
Exactly, and I use it for the other things, now. Just not reading.
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May be mumbo jumbo but when folks I've talked to had this sort of "phantom illness" they figured it was probably mostly in their head/trauma - this is a resource I've heard multiple people swear buy, though they've said not to get too deep into the dogma of it and if it helps it helps...

https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain
Enabling the reader view in Safari also shows the whole article.
True. My point is that Mercurial has a more coherent set of commands that usually, in my experience, give you an obvious way to do obvious things.

Git has (although it's gotten better!) functionality spread haphazardly across different commands, and many commands can perform several seemingly unrelated tasks depending on the flags. There are lots of command to give you the hash of current commit, all with different combinations of bonus features, and in this particular case we use describe (which really seems to be for finding tags reachable from particular commits) because it happens to support the right combination of features.

(Perhaps I should mention that I'm currently migrating to Git. Git is fine. Many things are better than in Mercurial, just not the UI.)
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And this is exactly why flu comparisons are apt, even though they are ignored and ridiculed.

Most people have no idea how bad a flu can get if you get it; they hear “flu” but think about the common cold.

The lesson from comparing COVID to flu (with all similarities and differences) is not “just ignore it, it’s nothing” but rather “it’s serious and potentially life threatening, but we do have a couple of millennia of experience dealing with it, let’s learn what we can and remain factual”
Do most folks in Silicon Valley actually make $500k/year?
Hillel's book is good, as is his online tutorial (https://learntla.com/introduction/).
> EDIT: Just to clarify, FB doesn't take a cut of the money earned, so the Apple 30% was coming out of money that would have gone to the businesses.

FB doesn't take a cut of the money, they take all of the data. Strangely enough, the latter is probably more profitable/valuable than the former.
Did the same at a school trip, after taking off the film I thought I could tear the camera apart, thus exposing the cap connection. Left hand fingers would lean peeerfectly on these metallic parts when playing with the flash.

It became a game between kids. The shock was more intense than harmful, although I saw two white dots on my nail that I assumed was due to the shock.

Today I rip microwave ovens, but I carry gloves and remove caps before anything else.
My read of Islamic extremism is that it's largely funded by arab dictatorships, either the elites, or the governments themselves. At the same time, the basic recruitment pitch is usually grounded in popular dissatisfaction about these dictators.

So you have people like Osama Bin Laden, an elite Saudi funded by other elite Saudis, with a recruitment pitch that was heavily dependent on the intense hatred many arabs have for the brutal dictatorships of the middle east, and their American backers.

America is more or less the sole reason why dysfunctional dictatorships like Saudi Arabia survive. They provide the arms, the intelligence, the diplomatic cover, and sometimes the military assistance these states need to survive. The same states then fund the most intolerant forms of Islam, while radicalizing their own citizens and those of neighboring countries through intense repression and military adventurism.
This is the same as saying "Elon Musk is successful because he started with $100m".

While that's true, it's at most a necessary condition, not close to a sufficient one. In particular, there's at least another billionaire who's been funding his own rocket company (probably burning much more money than SpaceX) with no evidence of success.

Same with YC vs other incubators & VCs. There's a lot of them with money. Few succeed.
That question was on my 2019 returns. Not sure why wsj thinks it's new.
Be Skeptical of Ring
Right... they were elected to be... the opposition. Isn't that what we were saying?

You sound like you aren't aware that Leader of the Opposition is actually an official paid position, listed in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937. You can only get this official position by being a member of parliament (voted in all practical modern cases and in this case), and representing the minority party.

So they're in an elected official position, sworn to the Crown, with actual responsibilities and pay, set out in concrete legislation - and that's actually pretty rare in the British constitution!
I swear I'm not trolling but I keep seeing this "K-shaped recovery" term and I still don't understand how I'm supposed to see a K in these plots. Am I supposed to ignore the bottom-left leg of the K? Or was COVID initially benefitting low-income people somehow?
The full conversation can be seen here on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5g4Zl8ppQA
> but it's due to the math indicating that it's an advantageous spot to do it, not because of anything he's observed about his opponent.

I wonder about this distinction. This seems it would make sense if all the players played the GTO strategy. Suppose one agent were to play the GTO strategy, but an other player was vulnerable to bluffing. It seems reasonable to "tune" the bluffs to that player.

In an extreme example, suppose every time a certain player would fold 100% of the time when another player played a certain way. It seems it would make sense for that other player to play that way when they wanted that player to fold, even under normal circumstances that play would be suboptimal.
I am using Calibre since a good few years. It works perfectly and has helped me immensely.
As a software developer I can only imagine the amount of work that went into it.
Espionage is also not theft in a legal sense
> i'm suggesting ECC become the standard with non-ECC being dropped.

I think the cost pressure is too high. Early IBM PCs required parity ram (a 9th chip to store if the sum of bits was even or odd), and would fault if the value was incorrect on reads. Ram module manufactures made innovative fake parity modules that calculated the parity value on access, replacing the 9th ram chip with a very simple circuit and saving money.

It would be hard to convince the whole industry not to make fake ECC ram, if ECC was mandatory.
>;Damn right. The treatment of Assange has dealt a terrible blow to the possibility of exposing criminal doings in the military, corporations, political parties, whatever. It sets the example that whistleblowers will not be protected.

This is the part that worries me the most - how the hell did we end up in a situation where exposing war crimes by a western nation is likely to have the whistleblower tortured and left to rot in solitary confinement for the rest of their life?

And how the hell did we get to a place where few people seem to even care about the war crimes, and where the powers that be have been able to spin this so most people think the whistleblower did wrong?

The whole situation says a lot about the current state of the US and the rest of the 5-eyes. Honestly, it's fucking terrifying.
My bet is the more likely use-case will be using it to check on pets.
It's in capitalists' interest so the pressure often exists prior to the ideological goal.

Keeping in mind that I'm not "both sides"-ing this, consider that neither party actually uses their power to address the deep systemic issues in education. While it's easy to point at one and note their overt rejection of the entire idea, you don't have to look hard into the other one to find widespread pushing of the charter school system (something that works way differently than most people think) and zero attempts to force equitable funding of education or solving poverty.

This is also because it is in capital's interest to oppose these things because it increases their taxes and removes opportunities to sell things to schools/kids/the poor. They don't even have to coordinate outside of industry lobbying groups. Their influence and money captures both parties, promoting the destructive components of the one overtly opposed to public education and controlling the opposition of the one ostensibly in favor of it.
You are displaying a total lack of understanding of the USA. The USA has a long history of charitable societies and social organizations; many of these were destroyed by (well-intentioned) government programs, but the USA still has one of the highest rates of private charitable giving in the world.
I have dealt with Oracle in the enterprise space, and endured their audit-turned-blackmail monetization strategies. They have a mixed bag of tech, some excellent, some mediocre - but their business practices are absolutely revolting and predatory.
I personally have no idea what painting accomplishments exist and how much they mean, but I do have a vague idea of what RISD is, so that's more useful to me.
A few clicks and XP SP3 looks exactly like 2k, with a few useful features thrown in.

A decent number of not-ancient floss software supports it as well. Not so with 2k. Add thousands of security patches and firewall, and the choice is clear.
You never need to stop learning. I can say with some confidence that the author of this article had not used TensorFlow.js 12 months ago.
>But it is nearly functionally identical, that's the fact of the matter

No, its not. Its superficially similar (in much the same way that, say, the Constitution of the USSR was superficially similar to a liberal democratic constitution), but not having key commercial uses reserved for a rent-seeking copyright owner is central to the function of F/OSS.

> It's open source with one tiny restriction that matters to nearly nobody.

It matters to lots of people; sure, very few people are likely to directly exercise it, but that others are free to exercise it is central to the value proposition of open source for other users.
Kovid Goyal does great work, but this remains the worst program I use regularly.

He's chosen for himself the unenviable task of delivering software most people who use it consider irreplaceable, and trying to satisfy every feature anyone could ever want, which means it has many, many, many features most users don't want. BUT we all want a different subset of existing features, and are annoyed by a different subset of other features we don't use, making any replacement nearly impossible.

Me, I maintain a library large enough that my metadata.db file is 40,116,224 bytes. The library lives on a NAS, and I run the program on a MacBook, which is not recommended, but seems to be the best choice available to me.
this guy was eating a bag of sweets (candies) a day. had recently started a licorice binge and collapsed eating a fast food lunch. I think his nutrition was all sorts of fucked up and if the licorice didn't get him the coronary heart disease would have
Some doctors have an xray on site in their clinic. He is presumably billing an extra 250-500 every time he takes a picture. Doctors that have diagnostic equipment and thus benefit from usage are much more likely to order an xray than doctors who wouldn't profit from it.
> From what I've read, PG wasn't about the money he was all about helping people realize their ambitions.

BS. If that was the case, then YC would be a non-profit and they would accept everyone.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money AND help people, but pretending like PG/Jessica are some benevolent leaders is disingenuous. You're falling victim to some of the cargo cult nature of YC.

As PG has said himself (paraphrased) "I think most tech entrepreneurs want to become incredibly wealthy, not to simply be wealthy, but to work on things they truly want to do". My interpretation is that he is no different and he gets personal enjoyment out of helping others (the financials give him the freedom to do this without ever having to worry about financials ever again).
I never predicted that we’d end up actually paying to build a corporate controlled surveillance dystopia, but here we are.
Well, I don't wish to drag this into highly opinionated territory, but 2 points:

1. Has there ever been a nasty shock to economic systems or unforeseen circumstances that do not affect the poor disproportionately? Of course the poor are more affected, that's always the case.

The issue is how effectively (and quickly) government and people create the circumstances to recover from the situation, and how well they choose to target those who are disproportionately affected.

On that measure, we are not doing a great job with top-down spreading money all over the place -- mostly to those who are know how to take advantage of it. Fed, I'm looking at you.

2. On the topic of education, I really object to people saying that the education system or government is willfully neglecting or trying to "keep down" the already disadvantaged. Effective public education is a very challenging thing to administer, and it also has such a strong component of parental and family and environmental contribution.

Much of the failure (or poor performance) of the public school system for low-income children is also a fault of the breakdown of family discipline and emphasis on education in the lower/poor classes. The classroom + teachers cannot take the place of parents, who are the main enforcer of childrens' progress.

If a family situation is falling apart, an education system cannot patch that hole. And in fact, schools are almost prohibited from playing the surrogate disciplinarian now, out of "equity" concerns. Further, they are handicapped by having to cater to the lowest / most unruly child in a classroom because they have to serve everyone and cannot kick out kids who misbehave and distract everyone else in a classroom.

Our unwillingness to confront these truths means that education will always be failing the poor, and these "K-curves" will be with us for a long time.
I wonder if this could be used for Corona contact tracing?
Swedish-American astronaut Jessica Meir makes Times 100 Most Influential list
Edge, or at least the Chromium version of it, has changed the navigate back key to be ALT+Left Arrow instead of the backspace key. It was annoying at first because I have over two decades of muscle memory for hitting backspace to go back. After a couple of days I got used to it and now am happy I can backspace without accidentally navigating away because focus wasn't where I thought it was.
cargo cult entrepreneurship
Recovery talk already?

Does this account for the impact of COVID yet to come?

Foreclosures and etc?

I feel like a lot of businesses and various efforts might be running on fumes hoping to see how things play out.

Now maybe they take their losses and they can mange to tread water long enough to get back in the game... but i'm not sure we've got a real handle on what the impact even is entirely yet, especially with no obvious end in sight for COVID itself...
Not that I don't empathize with your sentiments, but this is common literally in every industry. Larger the MOQ or volume, the better the price. From cotton to silicon to software, it is fundamental in business dealings.
> It's not that you need money to say no to evil orders, it's that when you say no to evil orders, which anyone would do anyway,

Orders aren't black and white evil. If you have an insecure situation, and especially if you have dependents, than it's very natural to let lighter shades of grey slide.
On the left side, the label says "Click or Drag to upload", and at the bottom there is a label saying "Your files are not uploaded anywhere".

If you have control over the left file picker, it might make sense to change the label to "Click or Drag to pick a video" or similar.

Really great to see this -- I once worked on a cloud-based video editor and the cost of running ffmpeg in the cloud was surprisingly prohibitive.
> Doesn’t reality suck the same?

To me, software is as if when I open a book to read it, then, the book suddenly snaps itself shut, hurting my fingers.

Thereafter, the book gets wings, tries to fly away, but bumps into my coffee mug on my desk, so coffee spills on the floor. Then the book does fly out through the closed window — smashing the glass into pieces — and gets larger and larger wings, flying higher and higher until it disappears into the blue sky.

It's as if software was alive, and does random things I don't always agree with.

But actually — the bees building nests on the balcony: That feels pretty close to misbehaving software. Or the cat, bringing in a snake from outdoors. Or a squirrel shewing through a power cable, shutting down a city.
Yes. PRC has a couple of diplomatic red lines, which have been consistent since 1949, and Taiwanese independence is one of them.

It seems that otherwise, unless the US militarily supports Taiwan, the PRC doesn't care whether Taiwan is de facto independent as long as they don't declare so.
I would think it would be more for things like "Did I leave the stove on" then "Is someone breaking in".

That being said, I will never buy this because Ring is untrustworthy.
First, the high federal taxes preclude it. The federal government has set itself up as the collector of most taxes, which it would then dole back out to the states with various strings attached.

Second, a significant source of federal funds is newly printed money, which the states do not (currently) have the ability to do.
People like Glenn Greenwald...

Greenwald went on Tucker's show, to beg Trump to pardon Assange. [0] The theory is that this is the surest way to communicate with Trump. Snowden just appeared on Rogan to argue on Assange's behalf. Those who actually respect Greenwald's and Snowden's judgment, join them in supporting Assange.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4qCvxghNMo
Apple's mentality it seems is to not care about you or your small development company. They don't care if you're a large app developer, and they never have. From antenna gate to the butterfly keyboard, Apple does what it wants and if you don't like it, well, tough.