skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think you underestimate the gravity of this.
A thoroughly corrupt money laundering Biden family machine (which also involves children of other previously high profile politicians) -- may become the presidential family of US.

And the social networks in the country, have chosen to do what they have always done with anti-left news -- they censored them.

My view, make the execs accountable now.

They have to be ones explaining why they apply one set of rules to one side of political opinion, and then another set of rules to the other side. [2]

If they are biased, than they are not a neutral platform.

A person who establishes a Charity non-profit, to hide taxes, launder money -- will be held accountable in a just system.

So should be Twitter, Facebook, and others for hiding behind 'neutral platform and section 230'.

Bring them to justice is the only solution. And do it now, before they buy/lobby their way out...

[1] See my comment here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797602

[2] https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why...
Do you know of any reputable ones with a sustainable source of IPs that can be used for scraping?
Anyone else getting "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource. Please refresh and try again." when trying to sign up for email notifications for MacOS?
If a US citizen blew a whistle on some abuse in Russia or China, would you be in favor of handing them over to be tried by local authorities?

How much of this argument relies on "we are the good guys of history, so we get carte blanche and if you disagree you are bad"?
I look forward to seeing these markets settle. I really like that Filecoin actually seems to be pegged to a real-world asset, i.e. storage capabilities.
I think it’s not just that there’s more art now, it’s also that the systems we use to consume it (spotify, Netflix, etc) shape that art, sometimes for the better but often for the worse.

It’s like when the CEO of spotify said recently that “you can’t make an album every 3 years and be successful anymore.” He’s mostly right, but he skips over the part that he is probably the person most responsible for that fact. He also skips over the fact that cranking out 3x as much music is unlikely to result in higher quality art.

So I guess all I’m saying is that I agree with you, but it’s not inevitable and it doesn’t have to be this way if we don’t like it.
> I'm sure if the United States government did a strict lockdown and welded the doors shut of COVID patients and left them to die

No country did that, why are you making things up? China stopped people from leaving their houses but at the same time provide supplies and delivered food through organized effort for weeks. That was well documented by even foreigners living there.

Hell, let's not use China's example, what about countries like Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, etc all managed to be both democracies and selectively enforce rules at the same time?
Thank you for your detailed feedback,

Out of the ones mentioned, we are probably closest to Bubble. However, as you rightly said we are currently focused on the backend API building problem.

As we've been pivoting to be a more citizen-first non-tech friendly platform, frontend on Canonic is something we have been discussing and debating frequently.

The main concern with a frontend builder for us is the need for it to truly be as close to a design tool as possible. The frontend of an application frequently ends up being unique to accommodate branding and creative freedom and becomes hard to fit in a traditional drag-n-drop tool. We just want to make sure, we are truly solving that problem and not just making another frontend builder that people have to wrangle to get their designs to fit.

As for lock-in, we do want to avoid it all costs and our working on strategies and features that would allow you to migrate in and out of Canonic with ease.

Currently, Canonic is a great fit for anyone who wants to build a backends quickly and without writing code. Some level of technical know-how is, however, required. We do hope to eliminate that soon.

P.S. Canonic plans to have a free forever plan for getting started and hobbyist projects
These are truly the worst. I remember management being very upset when they switched from hipchat to slack as they no longer had such fine grain controls over visibility. Its somewhat inconceivable to me that, by now, they haven't realized it will only backfire.
Ask HN: Would you pay to get rid of Google ads?
(first post, be kind if i'm doin' it wrong)

Google used to be the Ferrari of search engines.

IMHO, it is still the best, but good results are hidden under a pile of garbage. Ads, nudges, and all sorts of way to make money.

I wish Google offered a paid subscription for pure, unadulterated, straight up great results.
All the monetization ripped out out of the results ranking algorithms.

--

Speculation:

- Guess: it's a lot of work to "strip monetization from the current engine", which works great (makes money). So no incentive there.

- I wonder: how much does Google make off me? $20 a month? $200? $2000? I doubt anyone would pay that much for slightly better results.
> but the questions that were provided were not the ones asked

Oh come on, the 2016 election is in the past, you don't have to spin it. The questions asked were similar enough and it can't be denied that Clinton got the questions in advance, but not Sanders.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donna-brazile-wikilea...

> An email later obtained by POLITICO showed that the text of the question Brazile sent to the Clinton campaign was identical to a proposed question Martin had offered CNN. (A similar, though not identical question, was ultimately posed to Clinton at the town hall).

> In the newest email, sent one day before the March 6 Democratic primary debate in Flint, Michigan, Brazile tells senior campaign staff that “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash. Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.”

> The next night, a woman named Lee-Anne Walters asked both candidates a very similar question.
Chromebook lifespans creeping upward: some models get 9 years of OS updates
The issue is well-documented. Here's a variety of articles on the issue:

https://moneymorning.com/2017/07/07/why-china-is-snatching-l...

https://time.com/4455462/china-agriculture-food-security/

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-china-has-the-worst-farm...?

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/02/22/china-syngenta-sm...
If anyone is looking for how interaction between teen girls look like, this parody made by The Onion is the best depiction I've ever seen: https://youtu.be/XUT8ec24anM
That's a great idea, and I think if private individuals (either businesses or open-source hackers or whoever) want to do that, they should!

But I think if private individuals (again, including business) don't want to do that, they shouldn't be compelled to! No law makes an email provider use SMTP; they do it because the industry / the market has settled on it.

(Imagine if nobody could use STARTTLS until it got approved by the government!)

Twitter is running a product, which includes broadcast communication as a component, yes, but also includes lots of other components: the idea that the product is structured as short messages with "retweets" and "likes" (distinct from Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, email, etc.), limitations on message size, the idea of "Verified" and the choice of whom to verify, the discovery page and curation, showing "Who to follow" and curation of that, the data model of threading, the whole concept of hashtags, a "Home" view where the timeline goes sideways, images and video and audio and alt text and link previews, encrypting traffic to their site, not encrypting DMs, etc. And part of their product is determining what their rules are about what's on-topic and what's off-topic (whether you count it as spam or as harassment or as whatever else).

Absent a compelling reason otherwise, I don't think the government should be in charge of any of those decisions. I don't agree with all of those, and I certainly don't think it's impossible for them to make better-in-my-opinion decisions. But that's not for me to decide, nor is it for the FCC to decide.

Come to think of it, that's probably the underlying principle behind the US (and many other countries') political philosophy: the default is that choices are in the hands of individuals, including groups of individuals who make a company, and the government overriding that is an exceptional case that requires a strong justification. It's not the only model - monarchies and authoritarian states follow the approach that everything is in the hands of the ruler / the party, and liberty is granted as an exception when there's an argument for it.
Good point about Backblaze's costs vs. consumer pricing. I was actually citing their cost as a reference for a lower-bound on how much storage can cost nowadays per TB. I wanted to compare that to the Filecoin network. However, your comparison is better anyway. Filecoin is basically operating as a network in the same capacity as B2 (i.e. as a storage service provider) and we should compare prices accordingly.

Also, good find on the filecoin deals link. That's exactly what I was looking for but never found.
I think this is early, but great idea. The founders definitely have a big vision to bring to reality.
Uber is hiring hundreds in India to cut costs
Just once, humming (not particularly well), not singing.

The song in question is sung with a very clear voice, with minimal instrumental backing. That may suggest the limiting factor is Google's ability to parse songs, rather than users' ability to hum them.
It’s also the fourth state in pedestrian fatalities per 100k pop. Coincidence?
Kotlin made this explicit by calling the void type Unit, where it is a class that has a single instance with the same name.

So when you define a function:

fun foo(a: Int): Unit {
...
}

You can actually assign a value to the result:

val x = foo() // x now contains the value Unit

There is another type which does not have any instances, called Nothing. Declaring a function to return Nothing indicates that the function will never return. Other than that, Nothing is a regular type, but code that uses it will be unreachable (and flagged as such by the IDE) because you can never create an instance of it.

fun foo(): Nothing {
throw SomeException()
}

This leads me to the question. Unit is obviously the mathematical Unit type, but is there a way to model the Nothing type in mathematically?
No, it doesn't work either
You mean a broadsheet vs a tabloid?

Some newspapers are in a broadsheet format, others in a tabloid format (and some, in other less common formats).

The tabloid format is often used to shock.

Is any of this in dispute?
A good Romanian dev is about $60k. Maybe more.
Also:

"There was an extremely low risk. This is the second time this year LeoLabs went on their own to declare an emergency and spin everyone up. Our crews had to increase radar coverage and write up multiple reports to the highest leadership for a non-event. "

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=52100.msg2...
Probably only useful for a non precise GC with ffi calls, when you don't know if the value on the stack is a large integer or a pointer. (For tagged values you know it, but for ffi callbacks the stack can have non-tagged ptrs). But for this it would need more validations, if we own the vma region of not. Like inspecting the /proc/<pid>/map_files

Windows has a similar hack via IsBadreadPtr()

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4595675/determining-whet... has some other answers for this problem.
On the other hand that Biden doesn’t deny the meeting or that the laptop is real strongly points to it being true.
Seems reasonable enough to ban that. Might confuse a tired human too.
I actually don't think I would need to make a ridiculous amount of requests. The project is a pinning service where people submit a video URL so they can do things like manage lists of the videos they watch (think goodreads for web videos). I need to scrape the video description and tags for each submitted URL. It would be nice to just do it from the user's browser, but the same origin policy won't allow that. A browser extension is the next obvious route, but that has its own issues. I was thinking to first attempt the request via CloudFlare workers, then fall back to a residential proxy service. No idea how usable workers would end up being for this sort of scraping.
They pay it, just not directly. The percent borne by them vs the landlord will depend on how elastic the supply of housing is in that market.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-microeconomics/chap...
Pup – Like Jq, but for HTML
cool concept, very meaningful for users!
If HN, or Twitter or FB, selectively apply their 'Terms of Service' in a way that reduces access to pro-conservative positions -- then they are not a neutral platform.

If they are not a neutral platform, they cannot claim shields of section 230.

It is like for a business that hides money in a Organization with a Charity status. We would have that business facing criminal charges in no time.

Why the execs of these platforms demand something different ?
Time to remove Nano Adblocker and Defender from your browsers (except Firefox)
Great question. I never thought of this!
50/50 of a voter turnout around 50%. If half the country doesn't bother voting I doubt this is alienating them.
CodeRunner, group scheduling features for interview grading, batch capabilities with mastery grading, and customizable grade aggregation, to name a few.

Canvas core is AGPLv3, but many important plugins are proprietary so I'm not aware of universities self-hosting.
But now that you have legal access to the book, you can publish citations from it under fair-use doctrine.
It varies from state to state, but in general, people with uncontrolled seizure disorders are barred from driving. They're able to drive if their seizures can be controlled with medication and if they go a certain time period without having a seizure. They're often required to submit medical reports to the state to prove that they can drive safely.
You don't need to know it's a "car" or a "cow" or a "corvette" to know that the flat surface you are on ends in less than your stopping distance.

Semantically, it's a meaningless distinction. But in implementation it's much easier to detect the shape of the upcoming terrain using, say, lidar or regular old multi-camera disparity. Flat and following your map: that's driveable. I'm guessing many take this approach, but it's seeming more likely that Tesla does not, and instead trusts monocular or arrayed cameras to track objects though frames from detection-first regimes. Seems dangerous.

I'm glad you were interested.
I'm not sure, but that's a different issue. The latency problem with everything except linux is we can't tell the OS to elevate our audio apps priority above the rest of the kernel, so operating system calls randomly happen and jump in front of the audio callback, hosing latency. I used to get 0.7ms latency on linux with the CPU at over 90%!!! I'm lucky to get 7ms on OSX with the CPU at 30-40%ms, sigh. It sucks so bad, it's like being allowed to use 1/4 of your computer power for real time audio. Even Windows 98 was better, you could tweak it pretty well. If you put your audio latency down to 2-3ms nowadays you can use very little of your CPU without under-runs. :-/
>macos apart from 4

AppleScript?
i3 came out in 2009..
Well, I propose that FB and HN either apply ToS rules uniformly, or stop claiming a 'neutral platform' status.

Another analogy: if you are a for-profit business, do not claim Charity status. It is criminal if you do.
With a $693,058,000,000 annual budget, might as well just make everything out of titanium.

I'm assuming the original drawings weren't used for the same reason you can't trust most contractors documentation. Emergency bugfixes get pushed to production.
I wonder if there are equivalent figures in other fields that we never hear about. Reminds me of László Rátz, who taught high school math to luminaries like von Neumann and Wigner (whose work forms the foundation of the math behind quantum mechanics, later worked on the Manhattan Project). Then again, Budapest at that time period produced a great many other world-class scientists and mathematicians (von Karman, of JPL and Karman line fame, Teller, from the Ulam-Teller nuclear bomb design, George Polya, Dennis Gabor), so maybe there are confounding factors there.
How do I keep software I don't want to run from shipping on the phone?

How do I keep an ad company from building a profile of me from my phone?
We don't have extradition treaties with those countries so that hypothetical would never happen. It is the same reason that Snowden isn't facing trial in Russia.

Part of being a "good guy" is standing by your word. We have extradition treaties with the UK. Unless there is some belief that the wanted person couldn't get a fair trial in the UK, we would follow the same process that they are putting Assange through.
These cars don't have blind spots. They setup the spinny lidars to get almost 360 degree coverage and also dedicated lidars that are for nearfield detection. It's very hard, if not impossible, to sneak up on these cars. There are also techniques to drive defensively/safely if there is uncertainty about the scene. For potholes, it's a function of detection. You can't rely on mapping data, because potholes aren't something that might exist at the time of mapping, so you have use lidar/radar to detect a hole, but depending on angle, if there is another car in front, time of lidars, etc. it might be difficult to detect. My speculation is that the cars just ram through it.
The "ban-worthy" remark was linking the article.
The NYC Club Owner Who Helped Multiple Comics Find Their 'Signature Move'
Production Users – Rust Programming Language
The ivory tower is undercutting this at $0/month though. You can often find full courses and lectures on YouTube, and edX offers more than that.
Don't Copy Paste into a Shell
In Linux we see that even in a federated model, particular instances matter. Is there a server, or set of servers, we should coalesce around?
> But what if self-driving cars were 10x safer than human-driven cars?

But there is no evidence of this, or that they're even as safe as human drivers. In fact, Teslas are involved in more accidents than other luxury cars.
The questions have much different answers if you accept third-party software as part of the solution.
But does it know Your Monkey Peed on My Table?

This is a very old joke that has the punchline of, "No but if you hum a few bars I can fake it"
> I always found this argument lacking, like what is that supposed to show me... that there were these 20 times he denounced them and then this VERY publicly one time he didn't?

Yes. This tells you his public stance is that he's anti white supremacist and willing to denounce them.

Do you honestly think he chose the debates as a the best time to secretly signal his base that he's a closet KKK member?

> like imagine this was like child trafficking or something. you denounce that shit heavily each and every time, no ambiguity, no question. even if you're asked to do it 50 times it should be 50/50. the fact that people have to pull that as a "defense" is ridiculous lol.

If my wife asks if I love her 50 times and I say yes 49 times, but once I get distracted. Which is more likely I secretly hate my wife or I just got distracted.
Almost free speech isn't acceptable.
> Twitters official policy is to not allow publication of hacked material or information with Personally Identifying Information

The root of the issue here is that Twitter is the one deciding this in the first place. What appears on their platform influences large numbers of people. I know it, you know it, and know it too--influencing people to e.g. buy stuff is how they make money after all. It's not hard to understand why a company with such influence making such large impacts without being accountable to the public scares people, particularly those who evidently think differently than those who run these companies.
Why was this down voted? It was enough to prompt Senate activity. I myself thought the timing was likely related.
Probably a tech we'll need again.
I mean, that isn't exactly hideous code. Sometimes you need to check a variety of different conditions in sequence, and I don't think a switch statement works here.

So what if they're different types? It's not like your passing those variables to functions right there. And are we really so robotic that we can't understand different types in a conditional?

Except the recursive function bit. Why bother if its always false...
Please keep the Slashdot-era cutesy nicknames off HN.

They undermine your argument, degrade the discourse, and have no place here.
> NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER

That's obviously untrue, so I'm not sure why you'd write it, but well done with the capitalization. "Pay me or I will continue to publish this blurb which is damaging to you" is as clear a threat as can be.
Hey, this helps a lot. Thanks for the detailed response.

I use a lot of caffeine, so if it’s comparable in terms of the “mental lane”, then I think it could put for me. The increased working memory leading to more connections sounds perfect.
Show HN: CovidExpertTweets – Covid links and tweets from over 500 scientists
Chicken is notorious for developing bad bacteria when it gets old. I know two people who got badly sick from eating chicken, and so they'll never ever eat it again. I like it though, but I'll never eat it past the expiry date.

AFAIK if meat products start smelling, especially ammonium, then it's time to ditch it.
Take a look at what 3GPP release 17 and 18 are working on.

https://www.3gpp.org/specifications/67-releases
Better article: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-autopilot-phantom-...

Original research: https://www.nassiben.com/phantoms
Mold on meat == bad? Not entirely. I'm fine and I've on occasion and unintentionally eaten moldy beef jerky. Probably the water content determined mold strain prevalence.
I think you've made a sound point with good examples. The parts that do worry me are things where you wouldn't expect that to happen. For instance, in this post¹, you will see where many people have interacted with the comments. This is just the /r/bayarea subreddit so doesn't specifically select for 'stupidity'.

Now, set aside the actual proposition and read the comments. Most of them are trivially wrong about:

* What a California Ballot Proposition is

* What the role of the legislator is wrt ballot props

* The text of the proposition

Now, this would be a problem if the text was particularly hard, but it really isn't. Someone in the comments there pointed out that this was the same as the infamous Prop J and K pair where one raised taxes to provide funding for a thing and the other provided the thing but only if the funding was there. The funding failed, the thing passed. The thing never came to exist. Afterwards, on Reddit, I read commenters describing how they didn't know the two things were linked.

This is a pretty common pattern on forums like this. Even HN suffers from it where people avoid primary sources only to intentionally play telephone and get bad information which they then convincingly repeat. I've definitely seen folks confidently bullshit something they just learned from another comment instead of reading the primary source. As an amusing coincidence, one of these was about the ridesharing min wage law that Seattle passed. The primary source was very clear, but most comments argued about a thing that wasn't a failure mode of the actual law - but was a failure mode of a non-existent law that they had manufactured from thin air.

¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/j6c4lv/im_a_softwa... it's deleted now but the same text as https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/06/im-a-software-engineer-at-...