skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement is true. However, I think broadly, control is important. In this case, we are talking about Founders maintaining control, creating mechanisms to avoid a loss of control, under circumstances where control might be at risk. This seems reasonable. I am also not aware of how Founders maintaining control is a threat to liberty.
Dgraph is actually very different on many aspects like data model, query language, even overall focus & target use-cases.

In my opinion it will be tricky to have a fair comparison. You can have a look at the benchmarks they published against Neo4j. It seemed like there was a lot of disagreements on both side.

What other graph databases would you like us to have a look at?
This was an interesting read, but to me felt like a focused/narrowed view on very specific phenomena.

If you've ever taken psychedelics, you are familiar with time dilation. In a dose-dependent manner, (external) time ticks slower and slower.

The classic joke is "Two friends are tripping together, one puts on music, and they listen. At the end, one says to the other 'Hey that was great, what album was that?' To which the other replies 'Huh? That was just the first song.'.

It's possible to experience time dilation so intense on psychedelics that external progression of time halts completely and you're sort of "suspended" in a moment in time. (I know it sounds ridiculous and completely impossible)

So I'd be really interested to see research on how it is that psychedelics impact time perception and what the brain activity looks like.
I very much hope you're correct. I don't know where the submitter lives, but we've had a few small marches of angry young men with guns here.

And Atlantic writer Barton Gellman said this in a radio interview yesterday:

This is the first time in 40 years that we're going to have a presidential election without a court supervising the Republican "ballot security operations" on Election Day. Republicans were caught doing all kinds of voter suppression and intimidation in 1981, and a lawsuit against the Republican National Committee placed the RNC under a consent decree, a court order, that forbade it to use many methods of voter purging, voter intimidation. The Republicans had rounded up large numbers of law enforcement and former military people wearing armbands and guns, carrying radios, confronting voters and demanding evidence of their right to vote, warning them that it's a felony to vote when you're not eligible in the correct neighborhood, confronting poll workers who tried to help voters as they're legally allowed to do. This was in New Jersey, but it was a nationwide consent decree. And the methods that had been used in New Jersey were widely known methods and had been used for decades to suppress, in particular, the votes of people of color in this country. ...

And there was a consent decree here that lasted for decades, and it expired in 2018. And this time the Election Day operations of the Republican side are going to be free of court supervision. They're going to be able to decide for themselves how they operate that day, and maybe they'll be sued after the fact, but it will be too late to make much difference in terms of the outcome. The Trump campaign is recruiting what it's calling "an army for Trump." The president's son [Donald Trump Jr.] has gone on television calling for "all able-bodied men and women" — Why able-bodied? What kind of physical confrontation does he have in mind at the polls? — "all able-bodied men and women to stop the election from being stolen by Democrats."

Source: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919023364/trump-will-not-acce...
Embedded.
Using `-:` to build long-options on top of the short-option-only `getopts` builtin is a great hack.
"I have 3 work and no money, why can't I have no work and 3 money??"
All of the responses to human_person and pm90 are being flagged and killed.

Anyone care to explain what's going on?
Yes, but this should be an option all the time. Not every country has 100 airports.
Try accidentally moving /bin. A buddy at work did that not too long ago. There was panicking involved.
How common are moves like that, really? Sure, it must happen since people keep bringing it up, but how many businesses actually avoid rewarding individual contributions that have had a measurable, positive impact?
> We also know fossil fuels mostly run out in around 2050-2060.

We don't know that, it will just get more expensive to extract it. And given that beneath the ice shelves of the arctic are untapped vast reserves of oil, we cannot even expect that to remain true anymore. Norway and Russia are already preparing exploitation of these reservoirs.

> So we are going to peak about 1.4celcius warmer.

At about 1.5 to 2°C we're going to see the methane in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf starting to be released. We were expecting this to start in the 2040ies, but guess what; it already started and we've seen the increase in CH4 ppm from 2018 through 2020. And while CH4 quickly degrades in the atmosphere, the release will very likely trigger a feedback loop that at about 3.0 to 3.5°C will start melting the suboceanic frozen CH4. This will then kick us easily up to 5°C (or above).

The IPCC models don't include any trigger points or feedback loops because our models are just not sophisticated enough.

> The climate changes, we shouldn't try to prevent it.

The climate change we're currently experiencing is human-made. It's orders-of-magnitudes faster than anything we see in the records. To say that this is just the same as the natural fluctuations of climatic behavior over tens of thousands of years is false equivalence. We definitely must do something about it or face extinction as a civilization (and possibly even as a species).
I think the ponzi scheme refers to the amount of money flowing around in financial schemes that isn't actually "money". By creating numerous financial products and valuations that aren't actually based on assets, the banking system has been able to "print" more money than the central bank would ever allow. And that "money" is what's propping up the stock market. That's why the stock market is no longer representative of the economy: "money" has become an economy in itself.
The EU wants to limit which apps Apple and Google pre-install on your phone
>First, in most companies it's very hard to say who exactly managed to increase the profit.

It isn't that we need to decide exactly who contributed proportionally and how much of the profits we get. We're really just reaching for something that increases wages faster than raises.

And really it highlights the issue that not only is it hard to get fair profit-sharing, it's also hard to get market-competitive raises.

But of course a company is going to say it's hard to decide who gets how much, because they have an incentive to pay their employees as little as possible, regardless if it's through base wages, raises, or profit sharing. There always seems to be an excuse.
The End of Banking
Author of Zola, who used to have sites in Pelican, here.

Pelican is way more customisable, you can write Python scripts to do whatever you want. The downsides: you need to have a virtualenv and that it is pretty slow (especially syntax highlighting). It is awesome overall though, my favourite after Zola ;)
You don’t see an issue with google scraping news contents out of the news articles and displaying a large snippet in the search results that eliminates 90% of the potential visitors?
That is exactly what happened with cable TV. Their main selling point was no commercials because you were paying for it. Now just sitting down and watching something on cable is a chore. I gave up and built my own library of things to watch. Was visiting some family and was watching a marathon of some show. It was the same 10 commercials over and over. Each break was usually 3-5 mins long. It was a good reminder of why I buy my own media.
In my other post I put a link [1] to pelican internal model. You can customise it the way you want as it’s a simple model. It’s not restrictive. You can write a plug-in to do what you would like and it’s easy with version 4.5.

[1] https://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/internals.html#overall...
I think what’s specific to Palantir is their insistence on working with only organizations like DHS and law enforcement. Intelligence data fusion centers are used to compile data from various agencies and they’re stocked with tools like Palantir and Dataminr but IBM, Microsoft and all the usual players also offer fusion center data management products which I would consider to be just as harmful.
> the proportion of 25-year-olds that can afford to buy a house in the area they grew up in of some reasonable size is about the same as it was for boomers

OK, first, boomers aren't relevant here. The people buying houses in anything like OP's timeframe were GenX, not boomers, and I'm going to stick with that timeframe.

Second, I just don't think your claim is true. For example, in Massachusetts (where I live) median income in 1990 was $62K and median home price was $162K for a ratio of 2.6:1. Today those numbers are $77K and $408K for a ratio of 5.3:1. That's all of Massachusetts, not just the high-demand areas. Even your source admits that Seattle, Portland, and Ft. Lauderdale show much larger ratio increases, but casually dismisses them as anomalies instead of considering that they might be the tip of the real iceberg. I believe that any scientific sample would show a very different picture than that derived from cherry-picked extremes.

It's practically all because of wage stagnation BTW. That's a 3.1% annual increase in home prices, vs. a paltry 0.7% for wages.
But you went from an anectodal note to the conclusion "This virus isn't something you want to mess with even if you are young and fit." as if it was an universal truth, whereas if you're young and fit, the virus is at 99.9% something you can mess with without any consequence.
Samsung's site selling Ads to those who buy them states clearly that TV's, Phones and Tablets are all monitored and viable options for delivery of ads, and the accurate determination of those who use them.

See for yourself: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/
> "Hey, that story about Polish people reminds me of those scurrilous Romulans!"

Heh. You wanna guess where my ancestors come from? :)
How to make a MOOC “MBA” using free courses from Top business schools
I used to have one, it lasted ~5 years before the display stopped working due to some sort of internal electronics failure. IIRC, the reason they're cheap is because they're off-brand Samsung TVs that failed QA testing.
95-130ms on mine, it just depends.
Rich people don’t go to prison for crime in America. America attracts rich people from around the world. I can’t see the Germans wanting to start the reverse trend.
You are right. Specially in today's extreme JIRA culture where a day delay in 2 week work cause projects go red and 3 level reporting need hour long meeting on what's being done to remediate the situation urgently.
“This tool works best on Google Chrome and mobile.”
It can dynamically link within the container, but as far as I know the container as a whole does not dynamically link with the outside world. Its effectively a chroot with a full system image inside that root filesystem.

And that's what we're talking about, effectively; how self-contained and sandboxed the package itself is.
> There is no notion of time at the level of molecular biology, organs, systems, etc.

Explain apoptosis without change over time.

Explain radioactive decay without change over time.
Faster Than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Can you point me to the swift docs for that? I don't understand what you are trying to do.

You can bind references to what you are matching with @name. You also don't need to take ownership of a value. You can match on a reference to it with &.

However without understanding your example it is hard to say for sure.
What’s y’all’s opinion on this?
Likely just a prejudice, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238326248_Swearing_...

http://www.seth-smith.org.uk/images/laughter/expletives.pdf

https://www.businessinsider.com/brainstorming-sessions-begin...

http://keele.ac.uk/media/keeleuniversity/facnatsci/schpsych/...

https://www.medicaldaily.com/bad-words-people-who-curse-and-...
Excel is the world’s most popular programming language, isn’t it?
Pulsar seems operationally quite complex, as it has a dependency on both BookKeeper and ZooKeeper (which BK also needs). ZooKeeper is particularly notorious for being difficult. What's your experience been like?
Do you have kids yourself? How much control do you ultimately have over them? How long should this metric haunt you?

When hearing how US credit scoring works I do not think it is a system worth striving for.

This quickly becomes analogue to another HN discussion today about job opportunities for felons. That is hard threshold - it is easier just to skip them.

Should we let the market forces rule freely?

If not totally free then how big a pooled risk is acceptable to you? A pool for those with kids and another for those without?

I have no kids and personally I prefer one pool. Even with those unruly kids upstairs!

When I see a society with gated communities I feel sorry for them. I live a place where we do not have them and I am grateful for that. They might be happier than me - but I do still not envy them.

I often find people who argue fair pricing are the ones who think they are in the sweet spot.

The example seems a little contrived as well. If Evans kid stains the wall he would fix it. If not - then it is when you have the deposit to mitigate that risk.

I do however get the gist of it. And personally I like the pooled risk. I think that we do much better together than as individuals. The pricing might seem unfair but sometimes it in your direct favour. And the "insurance" feels nice too.

Naturally it comes down to your own philosophy.

So while I agree that it could give a variant of more accurately pricing I do not think that kind of "precision" is healthy.

I am afraid that the privacy ship has sailed but I still think it is worth fighting as the current course have a high risk of a truly dystopian future.
>HTML could be so much more useful and time-saving if more functionality could be built without JavaScript.

I wish there is a movement for this. But unfortunately the Web Standard today is pretty much dedicated by Google. ( Although Apple and Mozilla still has some leverage )
It seems most people's concerns are around obtrusive ads on the home screen. Which I agree with, as those are very annoying and takes up way too much sense.

However, there is another component to Samsung Ads - the video ads on their Samsung Plus Channel. For those that don't know, this channel consists of free content (usually B-level movies, old TV series, etc).

Why does anyone have a problem if Samsung puts ads on this content? After all, it does cost them money to license most of this content, and if you don't want to watch those ads, you simply don't watch that content. Not to mention Youtube and everyone else has the same business model.
Netflix will only stream in 4K to Macs that have a T2 security chip
No one cares about who you’re voting for, stop thinking social media is real life. The polling booth was a ghost town in 2016, probably the same in 2020 (make sure to early vote)
Mammoth – a type safe query builder for Postgres
Can books compete with Netflix?
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Yeah bazillion dollar fine would be about right. People died because BMW lied.
> Why is CSV support in Excel so poor?

CSV isn't a proprietary Microsoft format. In fact worse: It competes with Microsoft's proprietary formats.

Microsoft would like everyone to be sending data to one another using xlsx, but not so much that they'll make generation/processing libraries and tooling free cross-platform, just enough to sabotage everything that isn't that.

Microsoft made these decisions during their "evil" years, and never back-tracked. So regardless that CSV is used in multiple industries for data exchange (e.g. financial, order/invoicing, scientific, etc) they'll just keep on corrupting them until you use what they want you to use.
Haven't used the others but pelican is rather slow. For be blog, it takes a couple of minutes to generate the site and around 10 seconds to render any changes. That's my main complaint of pelican.
As the article states: those without means and power are the most vulnerable to their privacy being taken away and the information being used against them.

Also: I hate your use of "priviledge" to argue anything anytime in any context without a proper thought. You haven't even made a point.
I think that statement is inaccurate. They do not work with only organizations like DHS and law enforcement. In general, I think roughly 40-60% of their work is with what you described and the rest is commercial entities. I imagine many vendors service organizations like DHS and law enforcement. Are they all threats to liberty?

In concrete terms, what is the threat, or why are they a threat to liberty?
I will absolutely agree that America's economic system is nothing close to resembling capitalism.

I view capitalism the same way I view communism -- both are bleeding-heart idealism that never works out in practice.

But hey, at least on an individual/personal level you can pick that hill to die on, however futile it may be.
GoG doesn't let you download without a username and password tied to a license. Neither does Humble.

The App is just a cdn api wrapper.
When the author says "size" they mean "length", not "area". I too thought it was odd for an article about 2D shapes to use an ambiguous word like this.
Cash Cow Revisited. (Agenda's take on a subscription sales model)
This is also interesting, because people (mostly my friends) also use Facebook as a tool to share pictures and other PII about me without my consent. In that regard, I don't know if there's a clear difference between Facebook and these extensions.
I agree! Glad you enjoyed, have a great day
good luck Airly
Oh, gotcha, yeah maybe I'm just lucky like that haha
Good luck Airly
That is literally what the poster originally described.
I would posit that the current state is good and we should in fact further optimize it. Imports are a benefit and exports are cost in real terms. The point of an economy is to maximize consumption. Its costs labor, raw materials, and even pollution to produce IPhones and Mercedez Benz.
The problem is everyone wants to export and only America wants to import. Is that a bad thing for America ? I don't think so. If you give me an Iphone and I give you a piece of paper, or, better yet, a debit on a spreadsheet, who is getting the better deal here ? Why do you want to horde that piece of paper? You can't eat it or use it for shelter. So why not have fed policy that optimizes this rather than calling our trade partners currency manipulators .

Certainly we need to protect industries that are vital to national security and that list has increased with the pandemic. Wouldn't put iPhones on that list.
Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
This, with "FeedMe" on my Android.
You can 'npm install' any of the google fonts, there are a variety of options like webpack plugins. The only thing you miss out on is apparently they serve slightly different variants to different OS/device types if you use google directly.

Personally, I avoid third-party requests. CDNs are so HTTP1.1.
I'm currently looking at some 4k 50+ inches PC monitors, and I don't see what the downside is doing this instead of getting a TV.
"Of our time"...

Famine, debt, etc are well known issues but we know about them from bygone eras.

Privacy is changing in ways that are only apparent recently. Who'd have thought 20 years ago about your personal data being mined for profit? Apart from a few forward thinkers, probably not too many.
This seems like a fair question. Is hn no longer a space for discussion?
I'm Greek too (γειάα) but live in the UK. It's a cultural thing here, too. Just imagine everyone around you constantly trying to pinch every last penny off your purse, in any way they can think of.

Or, look at the way the Brexit campaign convinced half of the UK citizens to vote for Brexit with unsubstantiated claims like "350 million to the NHS" or "Millions of migrants from Turkey coming over" etc.

In general, I think both OP and you are making the same mistake: assuming that because we're citizens of once or currently very poor countries, we're doing something different than the more affluent countries, or are somehow backwards, more corrupt, etc.

Far as I can tell, rich countries are rich because they're better at this game of taking as much as they can from everyone they can anyway they can, than we are.

Just think of who is associated with "move fast and break stuff". Is it an Indian startup? A Greek startup?
This posting says North America remote, but the site says US Remote. Can you clarify which it is?
I've always thought that Excel is the greatest piece of software ever written. The ease of entry, the extensibility, the impressive collection of built-in tools/formulas/charts. It gave regular people the ability to do data analysis and in so doing became perhaps the most ubiquitous business tool in the world aside from email. Happy birthday, Excel.
PCI Express variants are $8300 individually.
Not only did it work well for the linux kernel, but it also worked well for the gcc, blender, gimp, inkscape, vlc, and so many more.

The GPL works.
I dunno, if it wasn't for Safari we'd all be Progressive Web App developers, but they're years behind on implementing common sense standards.
Spraying gas and catching fire is precisely what it won't do. The spec is conservative about capabilities; assuming devices aren't out-and-out lying about physical capacity (which is out-of-spec), it's designed to err on the side of safe conservatism.

If you plug the lamp into the gas hose plug, it just won't turn on.
But volatility of income is higher, or at least it’s perceived to be. If you think the future is volatile, you need to be in a place where you have multiple options for income as backup, and that is why people will put up with cities even if they prefer other places.
I really can't wait until US election season is over. You've all gone absolutely insane.
Or at least fine the people involved in making this decision instead of fining the company.
This assumes you already have a lot of people coming to you with attractive opportunities you can say no to.