skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy reading The Economist and I’m glad that I’m able to filter out their editorialism from the facts. I think it’s easy to do due to their combination of forthrightness and writing style, plus my own ability to cut through the BS that I’ve worked hard to sharpen over many years.

The one thing I dislike about The Economist is their cover art. I grew to strongly dislike having some caricature of Trump or nuclear blasts staring me in the face all the time. Something something “living rent free in my head.” Except I was paying rent by paying the subscription.

I just want the information, and I’m happy to pay for it! But I reached a point where I couldn’t justify handing over that much money to them any more because it was unsettling having these images barge in at me every delivery or every time I took it out of my bag to crack it open. And they use the same lines other rags do: “if you read the economist, you’ll be informed, and to be informed is to be safe... now look at how the world is going to hell!” I felt like I was being negged as a subscriber.

There is a place for these works of art, I just wish it could be in the letter from the editor or one of their columns, all of which I appreciate.
Life is dangerous as shit. Playing victim is a way to protect one's self. If you let it, capitalism will tear you apart, eat your entrails, and blame you for being weak.
Will this not have some kind of self-reinforcing behavior, as the measurements are biased towards sites that are currently unmuted by default?

According to the MEI it actively measures user behavior and one of the most important measures is that a video is unmuted. From the document:

“The MEI is meant to allow media heavy websites (e.g. YouTube, Netflix) that rely on autoplay for their core experience. It is a non-goal to allow websites with a “good media behaviour” to autoplay without restrictions”

It doesn’t sound too good, and still doesn’t really explain how everything is seeded.
I would throw in that it's very hard to design APIs well and it's very hard to not couple things and include the kitchen sink of features.

Let's say someone makes an XML parser (just trying to pick an example). IMO a bad XML library would read files. Instead it should just, at best, take some abstract interface to read text and outside the library the docs should provide examples of how to provide a file reader, a network reader, an in memory reader, etc...

But, I rarely see that. Instead (this is more the npm experience) such library would include as many possible integrations as possible. Parse XML from files, from the network, from fetch, from web sockets, there would be a command line utility to parse XML to JSON, and some watch option that continually parses any new or updated XML file and spawns an task to do something with it, all integrated into this "XML Library". Parts of it will respond to environment variables and it will have prettifiers integrated with ANSI color codes and you'll be able to choose themes, and it will have a progress bar integrated into the command line tool for large files

And the worst part is the noobs all love it. They down load this 746 dependency XML library and then ask for even more things to be integrated.

Maybe someday there will be a language with a package manager/community/guidelines that mostly somehow rejects bad bloated packages. It seems like a nearly impossible task though.

Note: I don't know rust well but I tried up fix a bug in the docs. The docs are built with rust. The doc builder downloaded a ton of packages which to me at least was not a good sign
I reconnected with an old friend from childhood a few years ago. I knew he was politically opposite from me so I kept politics out of our conversations... do you know how hard that is? It's hard enough that it requires effort, effort that he noted. He accused me of being closed off and never saying what I really wanted to. I made it clear we should not go there.

He told me that several years ago watching the news made him physically ill and his GP told him to avoid news. His health improved. In 2016 he admitted to me he does not watch any news, read any news, but he believes in voting. I asked him how he could vote if he hasn't educated himself on the candidates. How a person like me who thinks you either eat politics or it eats you, sees an uninformed voter, proudly ignorant of the candidates, but voting with his gut, what am I supposed to say? This deeply offended him. He then accused me of living in a bubble despite the fact I read news from all over and he reads none.

I asked him how should educated voters feel about gut-feeling voters with uneducated opinions? I think his response was "Fuck off". We do not talk anymore because any subject he brought up that had any hint of politics to it was an empty conversation. I would bring up things related to the subject and he would default to making jokes. Serious conversation was beyond him.

Tone deaf, dumb, and blind. He eventually said he found all women of my wife's race "unattractive" and then could not understand why I was upset at him. Ex-Navy man, ex-Nuclear Engineer, ex-friend.
Reading too much negative anything is bad for the psyche. It just so happens that the MSM is full-on TDS and they can't seem to let go. Trump is the blackhole for MSM, everything is somehow connected to "Orange Man Bad".

Moreover, the Washington Post reported that 90% of Trump's coverage is negative [1].

Do you know anyone that is 90% terrible? I doubt it. Taking a step back from one's political views, which is hard for a lot of people, it becomes obvious that there's little honest and unbiased reporting going on within MSM.

Sure it's fine to read information with a particular viewpoint (be it conservative or liberal), as long as the reader is made aware that the "facts" are framed from a particular viewpoint. Otherwise it's just brainwashing and intellectually dishonest. I think any rational person can get behind this sort of "zero-trust framework".

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/15/a-broadcast...
Accounts at central banks is only one model of CBDC, called Direct CBDC, which is to my knowledge much less preferred way than a hybrid apparoach (like what’s there today), for several reasons:
- managing a complexity of nation-wide banking for Central Banks is quite early at this stage, being a traditionally a government portion known mostly for policies and economics than cutting edge tech deployment.
- CBs want to keep stability, and breaking down a current model of banking by introduction of a new FIAT model is not one of them

There are key needs and major requirements additionally for the CBDC that are documented in the latest BIS and ECB reports.
That's a very good resource, I find that even if one truly believes that the news or political media is not warping your vision of reality and your beliefs that is not the case. Once you step back and view the situation from the outside, then you really start to understand how people's nervous systems are being regulated and influenced by the media.
1. Can someone explain to me the obsession with rewriting software for, and rebuilding obsolete and con temporarily incapable hardware?
2. Or even simulating such sytstems on modern, 50 times faster, hundred times more memory, $35 systems?
Now that the UK has left you can assume that the main working language of the institutions is Irish English, with the Irish parts rarely used.
Reading too much negative anything is bad for the psyche. It just so happens that the MSM is full-on TDS and they can't seem to let go. Trump is the blackhole for MSM, everything is somehow connected to "Orange Man Bad".
Moreover, the Washington Post reported that 90% of Trump's coverage is negative [1].

Do you know anyone that is 90% terrible? I doubt it. Taking a step back from one's political views, which is hard for a lot of people, it becomes obvious that there's little honest and unbiased reporting going on within MSM.

Sure it's fine to read information with a particular viewpoint (be it conservative or liberal), as long as the reader is made aware that the "facts" are framed from a particular viewpoint. Otherwise it's just brainwashing and intellectually dishonest. I think any rational person can get behind this sort of "zero-trust framework".

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/15/a-broadcast...
> conservative or liberal leaning

But those two terms are also quite relative. A conservative in California might actually be liberal for Texas, and vice versa.
It's interesting that this line of argument perhaps leads to the conclusion "keep libraries small, to allow more granular selection of dependencies".

But this is the kind of reasoning that leads to the situation in npm of thousands of tiny libraries such as "leftpad" that many systems programmers are so derisive of.
PDP11/34 ain’t big iron. An IBM 360-67, or a CDC6600 is big iron.
It may come across as snark, but I happen to believe this quote of Bill Hicks truly captures most of my thoughts on the subject.

“Rock stars against drugs – that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!”

The entire reason for crypto is the already ridiculous level of control exerted over various gatekeepers. How do I know? I am part of the system.
This is the first week the server has felt solid enough to stand up to HN so I figured I'd risk it ;-)

Goal is to play all your tiles on the board. You then draw (assuming everything is valid). Everyone now gets a tile. Last person to draw wins (hence, "rush"-ing to draw).

I'll clarify the rules :-)
Spin Bike. Unbelievable how much my life has changed by being able to exercise while I take calls (at low speeds!), read, watch Netflix, etc.
"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"

"Well, actually, we also sell salty snacks."
It really depends on which part of google docs you're using. Trying to use the presentation system with Firefox is an awful experience for example.
There's no good reason for us to not be able to have 150k (or unlimited) rules now. The fact that we have this completely arbitrary and far too low restriction clearly shows that Google is not making even a passing attempt to enable adblockers to do their job.
I understand that low infection rates don't follow testing. But low infections rates _also_ means there are adequate tests for infections. What I was after was any kind detail about these countries being test constrained. Links, etc. Anything like that?

> The idea that the level of testing required depends on the size of the outbreak is nonsense created to continue the narrative that Western countries like the UK and US are still failing on testing and that's why we have so many cases well past the point it should've been put to bed. It made sense as a metric of testing aggressiveness in February when everyone was looking for cases linked to travel from China, since it tended to indicate how wide a net countries were casting when doing this, and a little bit back in March and April when many countries were only testing people with serious and obvious symptoms. Not so much these days.
Wow, that does look at lot better. Slightly rotated text has always been janky looking on Windows for me, regardless of the app.

EDIT: I think it's just the high DPI which fixes the issue. When I zoom in so that the text is bigger that also makes it look better.
Can anyone recommend the best OpenWRT router that is reasonably priced? 802.11ax supported, but will settle for 802.11ac.
Sir Penrose on Successive Big Bangs, Entropy
https://weekly.hatnote.com/ might be of interest, weekly update with the most active wikipedia entries. Tends to be news events.
Find your SBC – nice comparison site for Boards
To point this out a bit better: There are likely to be more votes for Donny in California this year than the raw populations of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana combined.

A national popular vote would drastically shift the race to the most populous metro markets in the US: NYC (~19M), LA (~13M), Chicago (~9M), Dallas (~8M), Houston (~7M), and DC (~6M). Despite their heavy leanings to Democrats, the raw number of votes in these markets and the cost to reach a voter still makes them competitive areas.

Such a shift in election method would likely move the 'center' of the US presidential political system towards issues that dominate the large metro markets. This further alienates rural voters and less populous states, making Senate policy less representative of the US voter.
I don’t understand how complying with the law and not criminalising their employees is a ding against them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that used as a criticism of any other company, but it’s regularly used against Apple. It’s really bizarre. If you dont want companies complying with the law surely what we need to do is change the law and challenge governments. What matters is what they choose to do within the law, and as a customer I’m satisfied.
Don't worry, it's not always about Rust. Sometimes it's about D :)
Ah, I misread. That's what I get for commenting late at night :(

Thanks for clarifying!
As Lionga says 'just use a sensible time system with 0 to 24 hours for a day'.

This is the American problem again [or more correctly the problem of some Anglophone countries]. It's time they got over this AM/PM stuff and followed the less confusing nomenclature the rest of the world uses.

(It's the second time this matter of 'antiquated units' has come up this week in HN, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777268&p=2 - starting with my comments then onward [currently they're on page 2]
Which speakers did you buy and which would you recommend for someone that feels overwhelmed by the entire industry?
... what?

> Do you ever type "prototype"?

Not every day or even once in an average week, unless you're doing something wrong.

> You would get same result in "dead" files.

You don't understand. You shouldn't even be futzing with these things in _any_ file in the first place. Keep this sort of thing inside your REPL, and keep it out of anything checked into source control or anything distributed to other other people. 99% of ordinary LOB logic simply does not require (or justify) the use of these kinds of meta-programming facilities. Don't start using clever code reflection tricks unless you're writing a reflection framework.

Dropping this highly relevant link here for the second time:

https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf

> straight from io tutorial `Contact = [...]`

Er... okay. In JS:

class Contact {
constructor(name, address, city) {
this.name = name;
this.address = address;
this.city = city;
}

getFullAddress() {
return this.name + "\n" + this.address + "\n" + this.city;
}
}

let holmes = new Contact("Holmes", "221B Baker St", "London");
console.log(holmes.getFullAddress());

Prints:

Holmes
221B Baker St
London
Is there? Take into account that it's the US that is projecting huge influence on the rest of the world, not the other way around. E.g. the covid conspiracies are also finding supporters across the pond, but what foreign-originated conspiracies have entered the US ?
I'm happy they haven't given up on release songs altogether. I can only imagine how much contributor time it takes to make them, but they are a wonderful bit of programmer culture.
> Facebook and it’s messenger platform is likely to be the only one meeting the threshold.

And iMessage! There should absolutely be a requirement to have it interoperate with other platforms.
To this day, I have a subconscious desire to use postfix increment and prefix decrement because of the PDP-11's addressing modes. "p++, --p"
Exactly, compared to what could be the maximum fine, there are no high profile cases. This is the point, GDPR is as useful as much as it is enforced, which is lackluster at best. We are not talking about a one off, for example Google has been continuously violating GDPR for years at this point.
I did not hear of this, but this is interesting. Doubly so given that in the old country, you are required to have a bank account to run a business ( as I understand it, that requirement technically does not exist in US -- technically ). So now apart from fees that require specific amount of balance, negative interest rate will ensure people won't hold too much.
Isn’t this just a specific application of an autoencoder though? Because random noise isn’t learnable, it gets filtered out if you teach the network to compress/decompress a sample with itself as target.

https://blog.keras.io/building-autoencoders-in-keras.html

With that said, it’s amazing how effective this concept is for cleaning up scientific data. Many have also used variational autoencoders to take it one step further and also cluster data by latent space features. I’ve used it myself to uncover various groups of behaviors in time-series from other cellular processes.
> constructing a strawman to insinuate CA is somehow hypocritical.

It is - or at least the leadership is in almost every respect. Politico-turned-economic elites acting as egalitarian champions is par for the last 30 years.

Life-long Californian here.

> Which states besides CA would you describe as "autonomous" vs not?

Massachusetts, for a start, since they don't just talk about what they are going to do. You should visit.

The reality is that the CA representatives routinely declare that they are not going to abide by federal guidelines. Ostensibly, that's the autonomy being referenced.

Totally ignoring the poster's intent and swapping in your own bias as their content is outright trolling. If you don't understand (or can't imagine an interpretation that makes sense) it's rather civil to act in good faith and ask for clarification. SMH
Is it just me or does anybody feel overwhelmed with lists like these?

I really appreciate the effort but as an anxious person I always paralyzed or disheartened by the road ahead.

For instance, one of the recommendations is Learning Python, 5th Edition - Mark Lutz. This is book alone is a tome.

But anyways, it looks very well presented. Much better than plain bullet points. Well done!
There were multiple political murders too. There were fistfights in parlament and screaming. But violence definitely was not just Soviet export. Communists were minority compared to right wing extremists - who started to operate right after WWI.

> But Hitler and his ideology were a product of First World War and not a product of unstable Germany or unstable Europe.

What does this mean? WWI itself was consequence of unstable Europe. Germany was heavily militarized culture even prior WWI. Their imperial ambitions were definitely pre existing.

Hitler tapped into nationalistic, racial and Darwinian trends that already existed.
Surprised that nobody said iPhone yet, given the amount of commotion that exists at every new release.
It is doable, there is both a grid-auto-columns and grid-auto-rows property. I don't think this example contains it.

Grid has kind of two dual purposes: an automatically responsive grid that can change columns/rows as needed, and as a 2D layout spec more similar to how traditional publishing is laid out.
I don't think that's fair. We've all had occasions from time to time when we've had a drink at lunch time or even had to do emergency work in the evening after having a drink.

The bigger issue is the lack of guardrails to protect against accidental damage. This is also a common trait for hobby projects (after all, it's more fun to hack stuff together) but hopefully the maintainer will use this experience as a sobering reminder (pun intended) to put some guardrails in place now.
Who do you think the get out the vote targets? It's people that barely have an opinion nor care enough to get off their butt and vote.

>Just because one has the right to vote does not mean just any vote is right. Citizens should not vote badly. This duty to avoid voting badly is grounded in a general duty not to engage in collectively harmful activities when the personal cost of restraint is low. Good governance is a public good. Bad governance is a public bad. We should not be contributing to public bads when the benefit to ourselves is low. Many democratic theorists agree that we shouldn’t vote badly, but that’s because they think we should vote well. This demands too much of citizens.

>Most voters have no idea what is going on–they may not even know who their leaders are, and certainly do not know who is the best candidate. Imagine that someone asks you for directions to a local restaurant. If you have no idea where the restaurant is, you should not make it up. You should not tell the person some guess that seems sort of plausible to you. You should tell them you don’t know and let them get directions from someone more knowledgeable.

>Ignorant voting is even worse than ignorant giving of directions, because voting is an exercise of political power (albeit a very small one)–to vote for a policy is not only to make a recommendation, but to request that the policy be imposed on others by force.

[Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0004840080258730...
On the same note, 1) Why would anyone be interested in vintage cars or antique mechanical clocks when modern cars are so much better and a $2 quartz clock is so much more precise?

2) Why would anyone be interested in emulating an imprecise analog clock on their smart watch which is perfectly capable of showing Arabic digits and much more?
Twitter lists could conceivably provide the same benefit - curated collections of people likely to enjoy discovering each other – but Twitter's neglect of that feature, and other problems with Twitter, prevent lists from reaching their full potential.

Bundling "hosting server" with "shared interests" and "shared norms" has clearly been helpful to a certain style of Mastodon usage, but in the long-term/long-view, still strikes me as a bug not a feature. It still places such usage, and group-formation, at the mercy of a feudal federation of sysop-lords, "my land my rules".

The creation of lists/communities-of-commonality that can transcend any one server/delivery-path choice seems the purest option, with the most headroom for generative expansions. It should be most possible in identity-based, server-oblivious systems, like Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
Delegability: Yes, please. :) I like writing a small apps that scrape some service's data to my local DB and then use the data locally (being able to combine them in my own ways).

Imagine a postgresql database where bunch of these scraping interfaces load data into per-service schemas, and you can then join/union across schemas, integrating data from several different online services in creative ways.

Too bad this bill is targeted at huge services only. Though those are mostly the ones that try to obfuscate and hinder access to data.

I can already use up one hand counting the webistes that just deleted all user contributed content or disappeared for other reasons where if I didn't do this, the content would be lost completely to me. Or services (like online banking) that just offer 2-3 year history, and you need to pay to access older data.

Just allow users to write their own clients.
Maybe slow down a bit before claiming that someone does not have a clue. The Venezuelan bolivar is not really pegged to any currency otherwise its hyperinflation would not have been possible. That is also the reason why nobody would buy bonds in the Venezuelan bolivar.

Of course the UK is in a different situation than Venezuela, being a country with an advanced economy.

Still the rating will have an effect as a lot of institutional investors are bound to very stable bonds. So the interest rates will rise.

Of course the UK can use inflation of the sterling to get rid of its debt. That would however also reduce its ability to issue low yield debt in the future.

In the end the UK is bound to what rating agencies and the market thinks of it like basically any other country.
Downvotes but no comments for an honest discussion? I'm not surprised given the culture of young, white, male SF liberals :)