skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking for government support is really an admission of failure.

It is an admission that the open source concept cannot survive on it's own merit in the marketplace.

It is asking government to pick winners and losers by way of funding, instead of the marketplace.

What could possibly go wrong? Everyone knows that government lives on the cutting edge of technology and will always respond instantly to the open source community --- rather than say corporate donors and lobbyists. They would never demand things be steered in their direction.

As they say, be careful what you wish for --- you just might get it.
From what I’ve seen in San Francisco, the biggest decreases in rents have been in the newer upscale construction in SOMA. There’s nothing to do in SOMA other than walking to your tech office job and most of the restaurants around there are specifically for business lunch so many of them aren’t open now with the offices are be closed. Given all that, I imagine that area has seen the biggest exodus in the city. Plus the rents were stratospheric to begin with, so even a 30% drop is still ridiculously expensive. In other parts of San Francisco prices have dropped but not nearly as much as in SOMA.

This is all from my casual observations on craigslist and Zillow, I would love to see broader data and analysis if anyone has any
Yes, it's sketchy. I'd rate it as slightly more plausible than the gang rape allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, which Twitter had no problem with.
I like the thought about positive alternatives. I have not heard of KEXP, but I will look into it now. Based on how your describe it, I think we need to stop relying on 'free' sources. If we sufficiently care about information, we should pay for it ( mostly because then we can at least demand value for the money ). The ad supported web does not work well for society as a whole.

I am not against doing the things you mentioned ( adding friction, limiting conflict of interest and so on ). There is a clear need for that. And there are real business interest that would put up a big fight if there was a real threat of implementation.
Online EndPhoneTax protest against a new mobile phone tax in Cameroon
Maybe Cleopatra thought that these statues had way too pretty noses and had them removed.
"spaCy is a free, open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python. It’s designed specifically for production use and helps you build applications that process and “understand” large volumes of text. It can be used to build information extraction or natural language understanding systems, or to pre-process text for deep learning."

https://explosion.ai/software#spacy
Readability is a big priority for us, we'll keep working to make it better across all devices. Yes, the web version is only resizable with the browser itself. For more control over the app dimensions, consider using Openland for Windows.
This is more or less how PayPal started, yeah.

(When they sold the $100 for $80 they also onboarded them to do other things, once there were enough of them. Eventually they reduced the payout to selling $100 for $95.)
Desktop 3d printing gives ~everyone the ability to have their CAD models manufactured into parts, practically for free, and with same-day delivery (for most things).

IMO it is a stunning success if your biggest pain point is around the delivery time of the parts.

(Not necessarily disagreeing with you - it would be better if the parts were made faster - just lending my perspective).
The Biden campaign explicitly did not dispute that the emails are real when asked (only that the meeting mentioned in the emails took place, which is... an odd distinction). Twitter does not claim that the emails aren't real. In short, the emails are real and everyone admits this... except the people who have fallen for social media giants' propaganda in this case.

Twitter claims that the justification is that the emails are "hacked" and/or "leaked" (they're inconsistent), even though (1) this is patently false since they were found on a hard drive which became property of the repair shop; and (2) Twitter has no problem with, say, Trump's tax returns and other "hacked"/"leaked" materials.
>With the stakes being as high as they are, wouldn’t we want to know if there’s a crumb of truth to the allegations?

Sure, but this will not be adjudicated on twitter. Letting the unverified and extremely suspicious story spread on twitter does nothing to bring us closer to the truth. On the contrary, the truth is harmed by the unchecked spread of misinformation because the truth doesn't have the same viral quality as lies.
Try to use KDE/Kubuntu
LiU researchers first to develop an organic battery
One wants to get something that is worthwhile, of course. It would be fairly easy to vet existing projects and codebases for their quality at a high level. Mostly at a binary level, with the goal to weed out total junk.

Like a license, I think it would be nice if projects adopted a development guideline, code formatting, the commit, code review, merge process, etc. So that everyone can have a common set of known operating norms around how that project is developed. It would be a lot easier for a funding organization to review if that were in place. The Robert's Rules of Code Review. Bonus points if this were all encapsulated into an automatic process.

I think there is a ton of value in funding projects (Apache,Rust,Blender,etc) as well as individuals. It would be wonderful if someone could go on sabbatical, full or part time and get paid to work on OSS. Maybe you apply for a grant, show them the git repos (process above analyzes), one has a plan (fix bugs, new features, evangelism, tPM, etc) for the time and with time with the bare minimum of goals. Like an agent can watch your activity log and do a roll-up.

I think 50k a year would be a number that many technical folks making much much more would jump at the chance to just work on OSS.
Canada is one of the top destinations for immigrants from all around the world.
If the populace as a whole thinks large corporations have too much power and want to spread the power out more, that’s certainly a coherent position. Run your email servers and lobby for anti-trust suits. The internet can certainly support a distributed model.
Hot take: they should do more of this, not less. As a medium it’s fundamentally distortionary, what is popular on Twitter is as much a function of the peculiarities of its ranking algorithm as it is of the material significance of the information. The less people trust twitter popularity as an indication of importance, the better off society is, and the more diverse the online media ecosystem can be.
Why does this absolutely need cookies to work?
I'd also note that we just learned of this Virus at the end of December. We were and are still learning new things about how the virus spreads and how we can effectively fight its spread. The fact that some of the early guidance has been reversed is evidence that scientists are learning more about the virus, not that we shouldn't listen to them or that their advice is 'obvious bullshit'.
Can you explain how apple is paying employees to block / assault you from getting Microsoft apps on your iPhone?

I'm not following this analogy
How does Angie's List perform in this regard? The user (i.e. review writer/reader) pays, not the business being reviewed. In theory, that forces the incentives to align correctly.
Here's a list of various hoaxes/leaks/etc. that the big tech social media companies allowed and did not censor, even though they took action in this instance: https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/11-hacks-leaks-and-hoax...

This list seems like strong proof that the we cannot trust these social media companies to be neutral actors. They shouldn't be given controlling power to the digital public square.
What I find offensive is the idea that groups of individuals decide what information is good or bad for everyone. That implies we can't decide for ourselves, that experts should filter information before it gets to us. How naive is that, is there a lack of civic education and history in the dangers posed here?
Instead of blaming fake news and misinformation for the 2016 elections outcome, maybe the Democrats should look themselves in the mirror.

I have yet to see a clear decisive causation link between the Russian interference (e.g. bot farms) and the outcome of the election. Of course there was interference, nobody denies it. But show me that these trolls swayed the election. There is none.
I think he's saying the long play has a lot of risk right now.

Congress doesn't seem too eager to pump the market right before election either.
Black-box algorithm is pay cut for 40% of workers, MIT finds
Leverage does have a specific meaning in investing: it means using debt to amplify returns. This means if the market increases by X%, your investments return >X%, and the same in the negative direction. Having the same returns as the market is not leverage.
Yes, people don't realize that truckers (who are transporting goods and equipment) still use paper a lot for official permits and info. In my country, they were among the earliest demographics to adopt pagers, then mobile phones, but at the same time, they all have a steel clipboard that opens to a storage compartment for a stack of paper permits (one or more for every state in the USA you are driving across), log sheets (for state and federal government, job sites, etc). And while you must file things with some government offices electronically, you better have the paper copy for the cops and Department of Transportation inspectors in various states as well as for mandatory road-scale-houses on interstate highways.
Stanford Study Shows Motion-Tracked VR Data Can Be Identifiable
I don’t get the lisp thing? I thought lisp lost because of lisp weenies and worse (simple) is better as far as writing maintainable code bases?
The “professional journalists” aren’t that great either. The field has been overtaken by 20 year olds. Even Matt Yglesias, who has spent most of his career to the left of Democrats as a whole, has been grumbling on his podcast about journalists these days failing to respect the difference between journalism and advocacy. Matt Taibbi (who I don’t like as a person but who is at least a real journalist) has written an entire book about it: https://intpolicydigest.org/2020/02/19/review-matt-taibbi-s-...
You should probbaly spend some time outside
That we've never made a hole that deep does not mean we know nothing. We know a great deal by measuring seismic waves as they pass through the earth. That's how we know the earth has a solid inner core, despite the temperatures.

It's fantasy given what we understand about the earth and about superconductors. That's not impossible, but like any highly improbable claim it requires extraordinary evidence to take seriously. Otherwise it's like claiming there's a teapot between the earth and the sun, or some kind of invisible deity. We've left the realm of science and the natural world and entered the world of fantasy.
Just to be clear about the law, there is a limit of a couple thousand bucks on campaign donations under the federal election campaign act.

The issue is under the first amendment, the government is not allowed to curb speech by people or organizations advocating for a candidate as a third party (which people can contribute to instead).
What about Angie's List?
Tone down the entitlement and the attitude, and think about what the linked article is exactly. It's a bunch of release notes for the 3.0 version.

If I click back to the actual homepage[0], it says:

spaCy is a free, open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python. It’s designed specifically for production use and helps you build applications that process and “understand” large volumes of text. It can be used to build information extraction or natural language understanding systems, or to pre-process text for deep learning.

[0] https://explosion.ai/software#spacy
When you're laughing at how wrong someone else is (or you assume they are) on the internet, the default is that this is a snarky way of putting them down.

If your intention is different from that, this is good, but then the burden is on you to express your feelings in a way that disambiguates your comment from the default. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Just curious, what do you make of the Biden photos with a crack pipe found on the laptop too. Are those fake?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8842709/Joe-Bidens-...
We've come full circle. The web developers are starting to realize there's a whole operating system underneath the browser that might actually be of some use.
Well, multiple members of the Trump campaign have literally pleaded guilty to lying about involvement with Russia; that story does have that going for it :)
Now we're all playing "what is (s)he talking about?"

I'm gonna go for: "spyder"

Final answer
> VS Code is now available for both Linux ARMv7 and ARM64 architectures. This means you can now officially use VS Code on a Raspberry Pi, Chromebook, and other ARM-based devices!
Mandating something to be unimportant probably won't have the effect you desire. But allowing them to dig their own hole is probably the best outcome, allowing people to see the consequences for themselves. Hopefully the side effects are not too disastrous in the process.
The customers for online review sites (like Glassdoor, Yelp, BBB) are not the people that leave reviews.
Their customers are the business that pay them to host the reviews and show featured reviews. Every business needs to tak care of their customers. That is what they are doing in this case.
This. Their ad interface has been a complete mess ever since its inception and the fact it has never received the attention the users' frontend gets, is indeed a suretell sign of a monopoly.

"Good luck using a better ad platform with no users to target your ads to".

The real alternative is simply not playing their game which is essentially an arms race with other advertisers anyway.
That doesn't work. My kids are literally being assigned to watch specific YouTube videos on their Chromebooks and then answer questions as part of the ridiculous "distance learning" nonsense that the school district came up with. I can't review and approve each video. And downloaded videos won't be available on Chromebooks.
That is a good point - that is, because of the fallacy of composition, what is financially prudent for each individual show, as a strategy for all new production, slowly erodes the platform. I'm not sure that's proven but it certainly should be accounted for.
Did you see the photos?
> And the knock-off effects of this will be even more damning. Even if Trump loses, many other countries will take a big, hard look at the possibility of regime change and political interference being done by a bunch of Western Activists. Especially in Asia and Africa, where the memories of Western Imperialism have not yet faded and the wounds are still raw.

Political interference isn't new or particularly hard. We decades of playbooks dedicated to that courtesy of the CIA, KBG/FSB, etc. In more modern times, we have the Obama State Department (led by Secretary Clinton) working with Twitter to support the protests and overall idea of regime change: https://www.mic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-th...

The goals and tactics aren't different, just the target.
Areal Density (Computer Storage)
The Journey to Isomorphic Rendering Performance
Internet service providers should be common carriers. If they were, your whole argument falls apart. And that is what we should be fighting for. It would be the easiest to do, with the least odds of bad side effects.
Interesting idea, though I’m not sure this is a good idea. Exposing one’s nose defeats the purpose of wearing the mask.

As an aside, I’m super curious to see whether Face ID works with the transparent PurME masks.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/purme-a-gas-mask-you-can-...
When Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd that was a failure on Floyd's part, right? He was a citizen of the democracy and citizens are responsible for what is done in their name. Boy Navalny sure did screw up when his Russian democracy poisoned him. And don't get me started on the Jews killed by the Nazis. Sure, the Nazis came to power by a putsch and other nefarious means, but you can't hand-wave away their responsibility for the democratic elections which put the Nazis into position to seize power.

Yes, I take responsibility for US actions, and that consists of voting and otherwise using my power to steer the government towards moral choices.
Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac
Serious question - How does that make it legitimate? In our eyes (the viewers) or twitter's terms&cond?
The universal trick to understanding who's side somebody is on is to see who pays them.

Companies are made to make money and if you are not a paying customer, you're the merchandise. And since these days most consumers don't expect to pay for online services, it's no wonder these services are not serving the interests of consumers.

That said, based on the recent posts on HN and many other resources, more and more people are awaking to the fact that letting a bunch of monopolies decide who's voice should be heard is not a great idea. We might see a rise of some great decentralized alternatives in the near future.
Count me in. Already brainstorming ideas for safeguarding review integrity. Email in my profile.
You sir are the problem.
I recently pinged 2 co-workers for Friday afternoon remote "water cooler calls". I could send the relief when they had some informal time to vent and freely chat. I can recommend it wholeheartedly.
>Content that disputes the efficacy of local health authorities’ or WHO's guidance on physical distancing or self-isolation measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19

How about this? Can reasonable people disagree about distancing and isolation measures?
Of course there is no "scientific evidence" for exactly what it will take to drive humans to extinction seeing as that that's never happened yet. But some things we need to consider even if we can't "scientifically" define their probability, and many people who are quite well versed in scientific thinking don't think the probability of human
extinction as a direct or indirect consequence of global warming (especially combined with other forms of environmental destruction that are also happening) is too low to bother talking about.

Anyway, even if "human extinction" is unscientific, the rest of your comment is rather even less scientific than that. Let me see now...

1) "We don’t need a biosphere to live in a 5C warmer planet."

What scientific evidence is there that we can survive without a biosphere (regardless of temperature for a moment)? I know! We'll do it just like the Martian colonists did it. Oh, wait! (facepalm) Or are you saying that a 5C warmer planet will making living easier, because somehow agriculture will work better when it's warmer even without the "natural" biosphere? It's a bit hard to understand what you really meant with that statement, but I'm pretty sure nobody who studies agriculture or ecology would agree with that statement any way you parse it. So: unscientific, I'm afraid.

2) "we can lose 80% of the population and barely be set back 1-2 centuries."

Oh, so that's what happened last time we lost 80% of the population? Oh, wait! (facepalm again) Seriously, if you want a scientific, or at least scholarly take on that question, read Joseph Tainter's "The collapse of complex societies"... sometimes when societies collapse they settle on a lower level of complexity, but other times they just disappear. Also, there simply is no such thing as just being set back 1-2 centuries... we no longer have the technology of the 19th century and it's nowhere nearly as easy to recreate as you might think. And we no longer have the same resources; in your scenario fossil fuels would be gone, at least those that can be accessed with 19th century technology, and that 19th century technology ran on coal. Go back to wood and charcoal and you have to go back more centuries, too.

3) "massive unrest and famine due to crop shortages leading to a significant population decline"

There's another problem with this... you know what usually happens when you have massive unrest and famine? Especially when some of those people who are starving happen to be heavily armed? I'll give you a hint... they don't just starve to death quietly. Again, there are quite a few illustrative examples from past civilizations in Tainter's book. Human extinction may have war as its proximate cause and still be due to global warming at the same time.
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Banks Are Paying Negative Interest Rates
Depends on what do you mean by "reinvest". If you have $1b in profits and build a $1bn factory you still have to pay almost the same taxes.

If you increase payroll in the current year by $1bn you won't make a profit and you won't pay taxes... but it may not be as good an investment.
Not sure what front page you are looking at. First thing it says on spacy.io is

Industrial-Strength
Natural Language
Processing
in Python

Followed by some decent descriptions and code examples.
This is a great example of the dangerous syntax of Switch statements in C. However, I do think programmers should not reflexively avoid Switch/Case statements in their code. Polymorphism is often a way of writing switch statements that looks very clean, but hides some of the same spooky branching behavior. The nice thing about a switch/branch is you can see where the code might go from the text in front of you.
Is it just me or is that white text on light green background really hard to read.

I just checked the Firefox console and it's showing a WCAG-accessibility contrast score of 2.1 with a red exclamation so I'm guessing it's not just me..

That blue text under the Submit button is even worse.
A modern macbook pro has a T2 security chip and disk encryption on by default. It's possible that a random repair shop owner could read your emails if you turn off disk encryption or disable password auth, but that's even more far fetched.

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It seems this particular mac doesn't have the T2 chip. It would still have disk encryption on by default.
Unfortunately, if you really stopped there, then you don’t understand what I mean when I say that.

But, since you have such a black and white view:

Can you quote a single comment from this thread in which I defend Apple?
Pre- political cults, white nationalism, weakness, incompetence, immorality, corruption, laziness, and pettiness were not a "political side". If you want to call the Republican party a "side", then you need to disentangle these things first. Otherwise opposition to Republicans by any decent/educated person is easily explained.
kk58 : Awesome to hear! Tabs are on the way, and a big overhaul of caching for 2021 too :) Would love to hear your thoughts. Email me at my first name at streamlit.io?
Exactly all the sheep follow and believe what their side says.

To me from pizzaGate to RussiaGate to the impeachment to this Hunter Biden thing is all junk ... arbitrary distractions to the issues that are important ... the economy, healthcare, equality, etc.

Each side will do whatever it takes/strategy to try and win and too many sheep follow along/get soaked up in the soap opera drama.

For me it's all transparent and tiresome!
>Overstock.com (+1055%), Tesla (+429%), Peloton (+348%) and Moderna (+285%)

One of these is not like the others.

I honestly don't understand how a retailer of surplus/returned merchandise that's been around for 21 years is viewed as some sort of growth company. They had one great quarter after a couple years of dismal performance, so what.
No, it’s not fake. You can’t provide proof that it’s fake. You’re going off a political agenda. There’s a picture of hunter smoking a crack pipe!