skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of the replies to this are missing the point. Capitalism is the best we have come up with so far. There's less of a praise for capitalism but more of a fear from change. When systems like that shift to others, it can be very hard to predict which system it will shift to and if it'll be better. It's the fear that, yes if we do switch from capitalism to some other system, can we trust this new system will be better? Because it also has the potential to be ten times worse. People like to say capitalism is evil and it's causing all of these problems but what would a reasonable alternative be and what would be a reasonable way to obtain that alternative without making live much worse for everyone?
> "Young people own nothing"

I wouldn't say that. I am 24 and I have some pretty incredible tools in my pocket right now that someone in 1991 couldn't have even dreamed of. The problem is, instead of owning a good car or having an apartment to live in, I have the pinnacle-of-technology swiss-army knife of information processors (smart phone, macbook pro, desktop computer) within reach. That is where I think the value of things have changed over time. It went from the opportunity to _have_ to the opportunity to _learn_
eh? for the same reason any company, saas or not, needs public capital.
Go backwards. How many IPOs have not had VC backing? Obviously maybe they grow slower, or maybe IPO bound tech firms are oversubscribed so it’s only an individual VCs prediction ability that’s wrong not the asset class as a whole, but still.
FB asks you explicitly if you want to upload your contacts as part of helping you find your friends. That's a far cry from "scraping your data everywhere on the internet" from the your grandparent post.
As long as people keep buying it, what incentive to stop doing it?
The President contracting covid19 is a major National security crisis
I'm confused - are you saying the looping was in perception, or did you believe you actually were? Given you were actively imbibing mind and perception altering chemicals, isn't the easier assumption that your ability to form memories was impaired to the point where the order got jumbled? Your perception is imperfect at the best of time, which we all know, and so what you're experiencing is an at best imperfect representation of what has, is, or will occur.
Agreed. We have to have manufacturing insofar as its needed for national security and this should be subsided by the fed to provide the incentives which kind of is the state we are in, isn't it ? Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, et al.

It doesn't need to be internationally competitive in terms of price.

Again, we should optimize our trade advantages, not condemn it. It a case of financial literacy in the political policy and financial press.
> Why is Trello being blocked?

Imagine a hospital or law firm putting sensitive data in Trello boards, for example. Or details about a new product.
> America’s is segregated by race.

That was not true in any of the prisons I was in in Texas. There were four that I lived in over ten years and several others that I traveled through. I've heard about it being the case in some prisons, but to present it as a universal truth is wrong. The most strictly segregated prison system I've heard of is California's, but it's based on alliance rather than race alone. The AB-aligned whites are allied with Sureños (a Hispanic group) while blacks are allied with Norteños, and fraternization is fine within the alliance but not outside of it.
> I don't disagree with anything you said here, but it does not seem it contradicts what I am trying to say. Probably my article was a bit unclear on this point.

Maybe, maybe not: it always also depends on your reader how your message is read :) I only wanted to point out that the broad freedom of speech debate is by itself very complex nowadays. People have different stances, even if they think themselves broadly liberal (in the political science sense). I think there's some value in keeping the cause of privacy mostly unbundled from all this mess in the public conversation. This is a strategic opinion, not some profound philosophical disagreement, I think.

(I certainly see the problem that it's hard to show to many people convincingly, in their face, the importance of privacy. It's an abstract thing, like freedom or equality.)
Excel - the ultimate gateway drug to RDBMS
The Bancor is a nice idea but cannot work in practice without a strong transnational institutional backing. Most countries would never cede their sovereignty to the extent that's needed and recent trends arguably point in the opposite direction.
What? the Atlas thing is recording what a set of people do, passively. These extensions are actively scraping extra data from web sites beyond what the user is doing.
that's not quite an answer to the question I asked. people don't always behave in a way that's consistent with the privately or publicly held beliefs, and I think it would be foolish to expect them to.

suppose you have a hiring manager that's secretly a racist, but nevertheless hires a diverse group of talented engineers because that's what's in their job description. doesn't it only become a problem if people find out?
I don't think it's correct to say that they sell surveillance services. When I think of "surveillance" I think it means data collection. Palantir doesn't build data collection tools, they build data visualization tools. The government already has the data, Palantir builds a tool to better browse that data. The tool Palantir replaces if often Microsoft Excel. Does it follow that Excel is a digital surveillance tool?
A frequency generator is the essence of a clock. Why do you think we talk about clock speed in computer science? I'm honestly not sure what other definition you would even use in this context. And certainly, given that these "frequency generators" synchronize, divide time into repeating windows of roughly the same length, and are used to schedule and regulate biological processes, it is a bit bizarre for you to say that they somehow have nothing to do with timing.
Hmm. I thought the IMF and World Bank were there to make sure dictators run off with billions, scott free, and the citizens of the countries that they "ran" are stuck with the bill and the lovely austerity measures?
It sounds to me like you have built a very successful proof of concept. Revel in your success and hopefully it will afford you the opportunity to harden your offering over time.
I hope that is "/s"
The throughput limitation is 1MB/s per ordering key. The number of unique ordering keys allowed on a topic is limited only by what can be represented by a 1KB string, so very high throughput on a topic is still possible.

Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Pub/Sub and am the primary engineer on the ordering feature.
The Islamic world in the Middle Ages had a system of decentralized money transfer (hawala) where capital could be moved virtually across any region that had a trusted hawala intermediary. European aristocrats in the 1700s (and probably before) from different countries were also able to open lines of credit in other countries. It’s actually referenced in Count of Monte Cristo.
They just have the wrong ptxas - needs Cuda 11.1 and properly set $PATH.
Just sent this to my wife. She's gonna love this.
well ... it was wishful or hopeful thinking :-) I do hope to see better performance but I'm not as optimistic now as I was at first (got some pretty enlightening comments on the post)
Conflicts from Global History – Visualization by TerminusDB and Jupyter
That was in the context of attending an event primarily by and for that community. For example, a straight person dressing as a LBGT person (however you would do that) to attend a Pride event.

Your second and third are examples of the blending of cultures, which tends to be associated with multiculturalism which I would argue is generally a positive thing.

However, assuming that in your first example someone is trying to impersonate a Mexican person by wearing a sombrero, that could well be insensitive. My main point is that it does depend on intent and context, but at face value that is stereotyping, and not really very far from blackface. Hopefully we can all agree than we don't really want to go there.
They pandering to affluent professional-managerial class people, very much not the same as power users - although there is some overlap.
My entire organisation speaks English because of one person who does not speak our native tongue. Or at least when he is in the office, and in all our online communication/documentation.
Very cool. I wasn’t aware of resource and data forks, having grown up coding on DOS and then Linux. It’s pretty neat how stuff was loaded in as needed and then freed afterwards (eg. that list def he mentioned, with the assembly language icon graphic).
The Israeli Unicorn Landscape
You'll see highly targeted ads on all Roku devices -- like based on what you search for and which show/movie listings you view. However, AFAIK ACR is only on when Roku the TV OS. AFAIK, for ACR, it's on when Roku is the TV OS but off when Roku is a standalone device. They don't make that totally clear, though, so you should check the device.

That said, even for standalone devices, there's plenty of other data to target with. You can see the marketer-facing view here: https://advertising.roku.com/, https://advertising.roku.com/advertiser-solutions

On all Roku devices, these are collected and can be used for ad targeting (https://docs.roku.com/published/userprivacypolicy/en/us):

> We receive information about your interactions with the Roku Services, such as your browsing history, search history, search results, audio information when you use voice-enabled features, channels you access (including usage statistics such as what channels you access, the time you access them, and how long you spend viewing them), interactions with content and ads, and settings and preferences.

Like Samsung, TVs running Roku's OS use ACR and target ads based on that data:

> When you use a Roku TV with the Smart TV experience enabled, we use Automatic Content Recognition (“ACR”) technology to receive information about what live television content you watch via the Roku TV’s antenna, and what you watch via devices connected to your Roku TV, including cable and satellite set top boxes. For example, we receive TV viewing information such as the programs, commercials, and channels you view, the date, time and duration of the viewing, and how you use the on-screen TV guide. We receive TV viewing information both when you access live TV directly through your Smart TV’s interface and when you access live TV from within a Third-Party Channel. If the Smart TV experience is enabled on your Roku TV, we will use this information to personalize your TV viewing experience and ads.
This was meant to say center right.
I can't comment on it's security, but all of the snap apps I've used have an insanely high start up time that it's genuinely confusing how it could be so bad.

On my laptop with a latest gen ryzen cpu and nvme ssd, the Chromium Snap takes 30s-1 mins to launch, while the .deb launches in under a second. Same for Spotify, Discord and others that I've used. The start up time is so bad that I replaced them all for .deb versions which has been much better.
Ask HN: Why are you using Wordpress?
Since the jamstack + headless cms is gaining popularity these days, for those who are still using Wordpress, why? I'm currently trying to decide what CMS to use. I'm pretty introverted so posting this question was kind of intimidating, thanks for your help!
The case you mention is one-half of the picture, and I feel it's important to mention the other half.

The White Pages are not copyright-able, which is what your case describes. But the Yellow Pages are copyright-able (somewhat). This is because grouping the businesses into categories clears the bar of "minimal degree of creativity" that you mention. However, the individual listings are still not subject to copyright so there's no problem with taking them and re-arranging them.
There is one other weird aspect if you compare millenials with GenX.

Millenials spend a lot more money on a lot of stuff that didn't even exist in the period in the 1990s the blog author was talking about.

In the early 1990s if you were young & working you:
* Possibly didn't have a TV

* Were extremely likely to not own a computer - They were REALLY expensive, most people who had them had them because they were in tech and the employer gave you one to take home

* You didn't have a $900 smartphone and pay $100 or more a month to use it

* Definitely didn't pay recurring software subscription fees, very likely didn't buy any software

* Probably went out to eat far less than today

* Were less likely to work/live in the Urban core.. you might have needed a car but everything else was cheaper

* You weren't going to Starbucks or other Cafes and buying $3-4 Coffee drinks, cause most places didn't even have cafes like that

* There was less pressure to keep up with the joneses since Social Media didn't even exist

There was a lot of stuff in Millennial culture in the 2010s that was downright expensive.
Sometimes, yeah. Comedy is one such example: it gives huge rewards to a few celebrities, while a lot of other equally talented people just never manage to be in the right place at the right time.

It's perhaps especially true for comedy. You can see it when you watch a comic on TV: they're much less funny than in person, because you're not surrounded by a lot of other laughing people. The same routine by the same person can get little more than snickers when done at somebody's open mic night -- unless somebody recognizes that they're famous. Celebrity reinforces itself.

Burnham is very talented and I'm sure he worked like crazy to market his work. But he will also tell you the names of a hundred others who are equally talented and worked equally hard, but you've never heard of them. The market for celebrity is very fickle, heaping huge rewards on a few, but drop off rapidly for people who aren't in the hump of the long tail.

Warren Buffett isn't profiting from celebrity in the same sense, but there's a similar effect where the biggest winners are lucky as well as smart. Their advice often doesn't take that into account, and it's important to measure that in your appetite for risk.
Try using Slack. Not quite the same, but interesting.
This was made with TerminusDB, TerminusHub and the TerminusDB integration with Jupyter Notebooks. It is part of an entry to the DBpedia hackathon 2020. It brings together the polities from Seshat, The Global History Databank and conflicts from DBpedia. We are working to enrich the Seshat data so that we can better understand conflicts in the Antique Little Ice Age that followed the cataclysmic events of 536 (think 2020 on steroids with an 100 year Ice Age tail). I just thought this was a beautiful graph and wanted to share with the community.

Full instructions so you can recreate:

https://terminusdb.com/blog/2020/09/30/dbpedia-hackathon-ter...
Sorry for off-topic, but is anyone similarly aggravated by some of the MacOS behaviors? Switching between apps with `command` + `tab` will focus but not maximize a minimized application! When you have Zoom in full screen and switch back to it via keyboard shortcut it will not show the window! Every day I experience pain using MacOS and it baffles me this UX persists for years!
This is a complete non-sequitur and a terrible apologist argument for a bad practice. Apple is literally stopping their phones from being recycled to a willing customer base. If there was no market for those phones then this wouldn't be an issue. Also, software is, and always has been, written to satisfy the capabilities of the hardware. If the market decides to stop upgrading, software will continue to work.
GitHub doesn't allow you to disable pull requests, despite many project (including notable ones like Linux) asking them to add this feature.
Though their primary testcase was just ResNet, at first glance the results here are encouraging. They claim a fairly staggering performance increase:

"Compared to leading GPUs [42], [44], [59],the TSP architecture delivers 5×the computational density for deep learning ops. We see a direct speedup in real application performance as we demonstrate a nearly 4×speedup in batch-size-1 throughput and a nearly 4×reduction of inference latency compared to leading TPU, GPU, and Habana Lab’sGOYA chip."

It is challenging to directly compare a GPU vs an ASIC style chip like this. I would like to see more detailed performance comparisons vs something like Google's TPU.
Working link: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/swearing-parrots-moved-pa...
All of the uses of Kafka I have encountered in my professional career have been deployed simply to make something asynchronous, that is, kafka exists to be a low-impedance sink of things to do later in some other process. I've not run across one that actually needed those items to be processed in order. Therefore it is my impression that ordering can be a false requirement.
I saw an interview with Jerry Seinfeld once and the interviewer asked him something like, "What's your most memorable interaction with a fan?"

He described a moment when he was in a tiny midwest town, walking down the sidewalk, and a fella passed him and said, "Hi Jerry." very casually and kept walking. He said that was the greatest thing ever.

- - - -

You're right that "something" is threatened. I once tried to offer to help people quit smoking on a "quit smoking" support forum and my God did they ever give me hell for it. I'm sure that if it had been IRL I might have been in physical danger.

I had found a technique that helped me quit smoking and I wanted to try it out with other people. The folks on the forum were outraged. Howling mad. They called me a scammer and worse, and clucked to each other about "how dare he?", and basically did their best to make me feel like shit.

It was shocking, I was shocked.

I can't imagine (despite being something of a "fringe" character) what it would be like for a major portion of your life to fall into the burn-the-heretic category. You have my sympathy! Hang in there! "Don't let the turkeys get you down!"
Buy-and-hold investors aren't usually spooked until bankruptcies start rolling in. Think about how long the GFC was brewing before the stock market took a hit. You could see the problems for years, but it wasn't until the fall of Lehman, AIG, etc that people really began to panic sell.

Bankruptcy is the one situation where buy-and-hold doesn't work. So until we start seeing large bankruptcies, I doubt the stock market will really panic. And let's be honest, the likelihood of any of the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 going bankrupt right now is nil. And that's >25% of the total value of the index right now.
Maybe you're thinking of the mean? BG shouldn't shift the median much in the situation you described unless the income distribution is really weird.
By the way, how did a luggage company convince the world they are a tech company?
> And also the system that everyone else accepts because they hope that, one day, they'll have the "hugely disproportional wealth" and be able to do twisted unethical things, themselves. Or, am I wrong?

I feel like most (capitalist) people don't actively spend their existence in a driven pursuit of excessive wealth with the intention/moral imperative to fuck everyone else over to get there or stay at "the top".

Or at least I like to hope.

Also, here's the thing about "liberty": If you're not a hypocrite, you don't attempt to control other people or decide what decisions they're allowed to make (barring things that would directly harm others) whether you agree with them or not.

I do not agree with the behaviors of these hyper-capitalist, exploitative people.

But it would make me a massive hypocrite with double-standards to say "Well, actually now I think you have enough, you don't get to have any more money."

If you spend your life getting to this position (legally), it's not my right or place to take it from you.

And this philosophy of "Okay fine, but I don't necessarily condone/agree" is the difference between freedom and oppression.

I VERY FIRMLY believe nobody has the right to push their ideals on others.

This kind of thinking is how you get things like gay marriage being illegal, preventing women from having abortions, and all numbers of unsavory things.

Genuinely believing in liberty, individualism, and personal freedoms means standing by those ideals even when you don't agree with the way these freedoms are exercised by others.

Anything else is being nothing but a hypocrite.
Depends on the dev. I fully understand. But then I'm a minimalist by nature so maybe that has something to do with it. The more knobs and dials there are, not only the more chance for something to break, but more chance for an inconsistent user experience. The latter drives me nuts usually more than the former.
I've wondered if something like this was coming for honey/joinhoney extension..

Sure pulling info from PortalX that us public is on thing - but what if Amazaon starts adding coupon codes for logged in users only? or even if not logged in, but recognized user - adds special promo price for doing thing Y.. at that point they are scraping non-public data.
They would also be using that data for other purposes than just the single user who is accessing it - most likely..

I find the lack of privacy discussing in the joinhoney ads I've heard to be a bit distressing personally.

Just looked at their privacy policy, and I wonder if "Honey does not track your search engine history, emails, or your browsing on any site that is not a retail website (a site where you can shop and make a purchase)"

Is purposefully trying put into user's mines, retail, you know like home depot, bed bath, etc.. but the way it's written can include online retail portals.. but with "(a site where you can shop and make a purchase)"" added as a qualifier - wouldn't this include pornhub and similar places?

Fingers crossed the browser makers will include on-off toggles for extensions soon - similar to how uBlock origin has - would be great to have a whitelist list of sites that I could have my browser remind me that I can turn on SpyShoppingExtensionToCheck - then auto turn off when leaving set list..

I avoided so many chrome extensions that said 'perms to view / change all web pages/ - even though I may have really wanted to use them on blankTube and yaddaTube - I didn't want them reading all web pages, and the current UI for turning off and on is not optimal imho.
The US is far from the only country with farm subsidies. Some of those countries (e.g., Switzerland) are in fact not self-sufficient.
The Social Dilemma: We’re Victims of Stockholm Syndrome
Lets say you buy one of these recycled phones that Apple has already deemed unfixable. Maybe it mostly works, but the screen occasionally blacks out or there's a bunch of dead pixels. Maybe the battery dies almost immediately.

It's Apple's reputation that gets tarnished by this.
I really hope this makes the news internationally because it’s shameful on Apple’s part. The best way to recycle is to reuse.
Bill Watterson didn’t just quit on a whim. He had been making cartoons for years and had received feedback that he was at least half decent at it. And at the time that he quit, “newspaper cartoonish” was an actual career too.

He wasn’t saying “bet it all and jump off a cliff and hope you’ll land”. He just said “feel free to stake your own path”. The quote you link also includes staking your own path as a homemaker.

The central takeaway from his advice was to try to find meaning and happiness in what you do. It worked out extraordinarily well for Watterson but his advice applies to far more pedestrian cases too.
I also experienced this on mushrooms, and found it quite traumatising as well, though I was already (I think) in a bit of a dark place when that part of the trip began, so that probably influenced my perception of it.
US stocks are up because the federal government is buying stocks (illegally) for the first time in history