skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the goals here are laudable, but the cynic in me worries about the details.

Data portability is easy to implement (and has been by some companies).

But back-end interoperability and delegability are tricky not just because of technical challenges (those can be solved), but mainly because of abuse and spam.

If, all of a sudden, any other service can like and comment on Facebook posts without having a Facebook account... I don't see how this doesn't become a spam/abuse-fest overnight.

My $0.02 is that there's a much simpler solution hiding in plain sight: just stop giving legal copyright/hacking/ToS protection to sites with third-party-generated content that the site didn't license.

In other words, if someone wants to build an app that downloads your Spotify playlist data by impersonating you... or scrape Craigslist listings... or copy Yelp reviews... then nothing is legally in the way. Not copyright, not anti-hacking laws, not ToS.

Services are free to rate-limit or ban you if they catch you... but if you can get around that then the information/interaction is yours.

This feels like a much more "free market" approach. It doesn't rely on trying to build laws that will be bad compromises and outdated by the time they're passed. Rather it involves undoing existing laws and protections that are producing harm.

(To be clear, copyright still applies to things that are paid for or licensed -- movies, songs, articles, etc.)
I'm curious, this site is mostly making "tables", which is static. Usually when using grid I want something that flows nicely as the page resizes and as the content grows or shrinks. Is that doable here? How does it make sense to specify the number of rows? I guess the "apply repeat" checkbox maybe does it?
If it's not possible, it could just be plain old fraud.
I see your point. But so far we didn't hear many complaints about this feature from the users. The main problem is in forgetting to version code that changed. But the system has protections against such cases.

It doesn't end up in spaghetti code as old branches are proactively removed after they are not needed anymore. Temporal provides APIs that allow to count number of workflows using each version.

I don't think it is a leaky abstraction as it is indeed a part of the business logic of deciding how old version of the state should become a new one. I don't think there is a generic solution that allows implicitly migrate old state to a new state on any long running computation.
The Economist does a good job of judging each case on its merits. A socially liberal, pro free-trade publication taking issue with Brexit or the actions of Donald Trump seems perfectly consistent. Fully in keeping with its heavily “partisan” coverage of the USSR in the 80s & 90s, the regime of Robert Mugabe later on or the current perspective on the CCP.
I visited the city for the first time last year and noticed some issues, but my main thought was wondering if affordable housing is widely available, not sewage transport/treatment.

(Knowing, of course, that affordable housing is not available. Public defecation is just one of many symptoms, that have root causes in the lack of societal support for universal housing and mental health care)
u/GovSchwarzenegger

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74% left

91% lib
Less of a safety net is more accurate. Medicare, MediCal, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security, public housing, welfare, etc. It’s the majority of US federal government spending.
I listen to NPR often. What they say is generally factual and true; however I often note that a bias shows through what they do not mention when covering a topic. That's why we have the concept of the truth and the WHOLE truth.
The relative outflow is .25% ( quarter of a percent) which is pretty nominal by national levels. In addition if you understand the counties you'll see that some of the story is rather thin (e.g. deeply republican Calaveras county had a net inflow, and is colored blue).
It's totally possible if it was spread out. $924,000 worth of quarters over 10 years is only 37 rolls per day. That doesn't seem to hard to smuggle out, especially if you have accomplices.
My rant? The Swedish epidemiological team didn't think your ideas were worth addressing at ALL!

If there are abundant studies on the subject why can't you produce ONE actual SCIENTIFIC PAPER?

P.R. webpages, opinion pieces, anecdotal evidence from random "experts", are not science!

You would fail my high school science class with the weak citations you've produced so far.

Because you can't. Because you're wrong.

Yet you sit there in your smug arrogance patting yourself on the back for giving it to the 'dermb anti-merskers'..... All the while we have more deaths per capita than Sweden and Norway both who had no mask mandates and who haven't had significant numbers of corona deaths in months. Meanwhile 75% or more of Americans support mask usage and we're entering a third wave of Coronavirus.

Might be useful to re-evaluate who is spreading the disinformation about putting plague vectors directly onto their respiratory tracts and killing people.

Thalidomide was supported by a ton of health experts too until the flipper children started showing up. Oh and that oopsie Tuskegee study! Other than that though!
What do you expect when governments do everything in their power to penalize savers and make debt ever easier to obtain and service? Delayed gratification and sacrifice are anathema to the government. Individuals with long time horizons and the ability to acquire assets will continue to get more and more wealth while marginal people suffer.
That's certainly the intent, but as it's written, (by my lay-reading) it appears that the burden of proof would rest upon a single change, and not a sequence of changes -- any one may be innocuous, but their sum may not be. And where a single actor may not run afoul, I can imagine a conspiracy of big players making changes which collectively burden smaller players. I would greatly prefer a consortium or better, an independent standards body.
I am very curious to know about this as well ... hope someone in the know would provide some clue ... :-)
Based on that comment I was expecting to find an article that was either written by someone from an app company, or that heavily talked about a particular app and its benefits.

Nope. Here's what dingle3 is complaining about. After 8 paragraphs on white noise and its affects on sleep, the last scientist they quotes this in paragraph 8:

> Prof Christian Cajochen, who heads the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, said: “I think the better [forms of] continuous white noise mask highly intermittent background noise, which is why it is recommended for nightshift workers who often need to sleep during the day in a ‘noisy’ environment. There I can see a benefit, but not when sleeping in a relatively quiet environment. Any acoustic stimulus being continuous or not has the potential to interrupt the sleep process.”

they have one more paragraph, a single sentence long, where that scientist says that he'd rather recommend mindfulness apps that are based on good evidence from research, and names on particular app as an example.

> He added: “I would rather recommend mindfulness apps like Sleepio, since they are based on good evidence coming from research in sleep medicine, particularly cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.”

That's the entire mention of mindfulness apps in the article.
You're getting downvoted for being needlessly snarky and constructing a strawman to insinuate CA is somehow hypocritical.

Which states besides CA would you describe as "autonomous" vs not? A Federation of independent states unified under a federal government is kind of how the whole U.S. thing works, no?

You also seem to be trying to make a political statement. Should a "red" state like TX not request disaster relief funds (say, after a hurricane) if a Democrat is president?

Also, keep in mind that 57% of forests in CA are Federally managed. Only 3% is managed by the state.
If your response to "I don't like X" is "everything is at least a little bit X" then you should read "I don't like X" as something like "I don't like anything more X than necessary" or "I don't like anything unless its in the bottom 25% of X".

This feels like a version of the continuum/heap paradox.
This is a very strong response to what seems like an obvious point clearly laid out at the start.

This is a tutorial and set of examples, and it comes with a fully working environment with example data exactly setup to work. No difference between gsort and sort, no version issues or whether someone is using brew or macports or anything else. No python environment problems or pip Vs pip3 or whatever other random crap you need to deal with when trying to do something simple with lots of varied setups people have.

You are entirely free to not use docker.

> In order to use GNU/Linux one must

Nope. You can. You don't have to.
But Garry, why not both?

I concur, however. Like others, on this thread, I (slowly) eliminated nearly all news from my life over the last two years. Doing this has had a profound effect on my perspectives, but has also ruined a lot of "conversation" for me. Previously, I played along in various forms of political shittalkery, but now, I find it disturbing to hear/see.

Increasingly, I am concerned by the tone, content, and purpose of many (American) people's strongly-held positions. On occasion I have found that voicing a contrary opinion results in estrangement, but more worryingly, merely not voicing a validation is enough to achieve some alienation.
Amartya Sen
Very telling that literally all of the links you posted are either opinion pieces or editorial articles, and not a single article is an actual scientific publication.

I think you're getting 'overwhelming support' by the media confused with overwhelming support by actual scientific data.

The last article literally has a giant red warning at the top "This version is not peer-reviewed" or the second and third to last articles have a giant red "Editorial" warning at the top. Or the fourth to last article that is called an "Online Report". A blog could be considered an "Online report". LOL

I was literally laughing as I went through these.

Do you seriously think this is what actual scientific publications are?

Is this view of what a scientific article is widespread?

This explains a lot to me about why America is being crushed from the inside out by ignorance.
> You present this as a fact, but it would be absurd that Google would use such a cheap and easily detected trick to increase CTR.

3 years ago and I wouldn't believed it at all but around 2 years ago I saw it happen consistently with a colleague at the desk next to me.

I cannot say for sure that it wasn't an extension in his browser but I can say for sure that I think Google has been really busy tearing down the mountains of trust they had before 2007 - 2009.
Bitcoin is not 'electronic cash' as you define it here - it's a shared ledger - there are no coins. The only difference with a current account at your bank is central ledger vs distributed consensus ledger.

Also why would a bank require physical cash? Banking is based on savings and loans, debt and credit, not cash. The money in your bank account is not backed by real coins somewhere in a vault.
Yeah, pricing is a little up in the air. And yes, very early on in the grand scheme of things. :)

> (2 minutes per game!)

Sorry, I was creating short games so we could get people in and they could try it out. About 20 tiles per player. You can go up to 75 or 100 tiles per player, and those games tend to go on for a lot longer. Playing with friends for an hour or so usually places us around 10 games, we usually do about 50 per player. YMMV of course, depending on your host, your group of friends, and what letter distribution you use. :D

Thanks for playing and the feedback though!

> - Is there a chat? I might have missed it. It seems like an important feature if your goal is to have far away friends play together.

Not yet, working on that :) Figuring out how to integrate Jitsi into another site is a fun challenge that spans multiple weekends.
That won't replace the utils though, will it? You get ones with a g prefix as far as I remember.
If you lost the primary key to a database row, how would you find the data? You’d have to iterate over every piece of data you have. For a physical operation this can be as good as permanently lost.
Chromium is the open source bit, Chrome is Chromium plus a bunch of proprietary changes that google adds. You can run Chromium- it is a browser by itself- but it's not the same thing you'd download and run if you grab Chrome.
added to my list of layout tools - please recommend more if you have them https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#lay...
To be clear, I'm not 100% convinced that any of it is true. I think it is likely that the emails are real and very likely that the photos are.

As for the FBI - it's at best circumstantial evidence. If they had stated there was no open case I would have considered it to be strong evidence that it's all disinformation. The two possible outcomes from that facet are "disprove"/"not disprove".
I think this is entirely too simplistic of an analysis.

In the same way that a carpenter does not need to know how to derive moments for static equilibrium of a 2x4, the application of stoic philosophy need not make reference to the original writings or the teaching of the philosophy itself.

In fact I would argue that Stockdale's "compression" of the philosophical principles into something tangible and actionable in such a scenario - which both articles demonstrate he did - meant that he had a fundamental understanding of the applicability of Stoicism.
Dissolution of the US into Red and Blue sovereign countries isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future. The blue and red portions of the US are too economically interdependent for dissolution to be readily feasible absent a catastrophic political crisis, such as a military coup or a Republican president declaring himself dictator for life.

However, if dissolution did happen, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Most of America's current political strife and dysfunction is caused by incompatible, and increasingly divergent, visions for America's future. Splitting the country is the only way for those two visions to get what they want without persecuting (or killing) large numbers of people.
> Others are rightly pointing out that only #3 is fundamentally unique to Rust. All of these other things could be done for C++. But, importantly, they haven't.

Except they have, but some people aren't keeping up with C++ news, only bashing it.

1) can be easily done with bounds checked enabled STL, like modern C++ compilers do in debug builds, or force enable them in release builds.

2) Conan, vcpkg, and better than cargo, because they support binary dependencies.
Interesting. Here, in the US the gold wrapper is salted while the silver wrapper is unsalted
Have you considered going vegan? In a recent Oxford study across 119 countries, they concluded that the "single biggest way" an individual can contribute is cutting animal products out of our lives[1]. It is getting easier and easier if you live in the developed western world. And the bonus that if you are already against animal cruelty, then it is probably something that already aligns with your morals too.

This is easily something you could do alongside your professional contribution too :)

[1] https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-01-new-estimates-environme... - see the link at the bottom for the full study.
We picked d) ban travel from one of many countries with active infections to score political points.

We didn’t even do that properly - American citizens were allowed to return, weren’t screened, and were asked to observe a “voluntary” quarantine.

We wound up mostly getting it from Europe, where we similarly didn’t restrict until it was far too late.
Weird Antarctica – the truth behind secret Nazi bases and aliens
I've read some stories about juvenile justice in Texas, you know, when a seriously underage - like, 10 yo - has to answer to a judge. No links now, sorry, but it left me wondering how different societies can be structured - and so in places where you don't always expect them initially.

To compare California and Texas, one would need to look at a range of factors, not just house prices or even BOTE cost of living estimates.
I guess, but that's generally illegal, and if it became common & easy then casinos would simply require bets to be placed before the ball is dropped.
Twitter used to be like you are describing 10-12 years ago. At least in my country, which is not small, it kinda felt like everybody knew everybody. With time it just turned into... well, what Twitter is now, so I left years ago. I've wanted to find an alternative to it (and IRC), but I don't think a clone with even more draconian moderation rules is the way to go. Also, as I get older I just don't feel like dealing with this kind of stuff.
Temporal is a company/project to watch. The founders know the problem space with as much depth as might be possible. They were responsible for AWS Simple Workflow, then built Cadence Workflow at Uber to solve Uber's workflow/orchestration issues - and later formed Temporal and forked Cadence to build a company around.

I'm excited for Maxim, Samar and team :)
Yes, Chromium has this same behavior.

ungoogled-chromium is a project that removes Google integration from Chromium. Here is the patch they use to remove this special treatment of Google sites:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/pa...
Less than 500 acres planted using sewege water from cities. The rest (planting millions of acres of forest) is just a wishlist and the article is short on details.
I think it's because Rust was started by a high-profile, respected company specifically because they felt C++ was inadequate for their use case, and they had the expertise to be authoritative about that inadequacy.

That means Rust is a technologically natural counterpoint to C++ because it was literally designed to be a C++ replacement, and coming from a high-profile company means its entire target audience found out about it very quickly, so any discussion relevant to Rust can find plenty of participants. The rest is just due to all the usual reasons programmers bicker about things, and we've seen this language bickering again and again before, it's just a different language's turn in the spotlight.

I'd love to see these discussions include a more coherent analysis of when a language is appropriate, instead of assuming everyone should always make the same choice. If I'm starting greenfield, when should I pick C++ over Rust? If I'm looking at C++ alternatives, how would I choose between Rust and Golang? Is D ever a better choice? When? Why do we act like you can only pick one, when IPC and FFI and microservices mean you can split the difference if a language is only best for a portion of your project?
I am glad people are comfortable moving around -- that helps the economy balance and is one of the advantages for the US economy over, say, Europe's.

That being said, I wonder if the impacts will be as described in the article. Having lived in MA, NY, TX before moving to California (and having lived in Europe): the people who live in hyper conservative counties in CA are still used to conveniences and government services that don't exist in places like Texas, Utah or Idaho. I suspect they will change their new home states as much as they will relish the new environment.

(and statistically, as I mentioned in another comment: 100K net is about a quarter of a percent of California's population -- hardly a significant number overall).
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??? This is false. Look at the top researchers in US companies and universities and a massive share is from Europe.
Settings one is interesting, it does appear that you cannot block it[0] and that is sad.

The other two appear to be safe browsing and automatic update related. Those two services can be disabled form the regular settings UI, I think? Have you found that to not work?

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
Ah sorry, I need to make that more clear. Currently you need to sign up to create a new game or a room with multiple games. Guest play is only for joining an existing game.

Join this one: https://willowpatchgames.com/?code=rc-ahuhe-9yk1m-ocjm1-3242...

:-)
Great suggestion! I’m going to try this as well.
The OP link is to September, but if you go to the main/parent link, it’s always the current month, which conveniently has today’s news at the top (reverse chronological):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
The "proprietary changes that google adds" are API keys[1], branding, and external plugins like Flash/Widevine. Other than those, the source code is identical.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys
I think the argument here is that yes, people in the Bay Area don’t have power some days. AC often isn’t available in their buildings. Drink water at your own risk due to earth quakes, etc etc. air quality is notoriously poor in LA and recent fires have made the whole state have poor air quality.

While it’s fair to say it’s not “3rd world” it’s fast approaching.
The problem is that walkdir isn't really an alternative to globwalk. It's only a good alternative in this specific simple case. globwalk even depends on walkdir. :)
This perennial story pops up regularly whenever there is news someone powerful doesn't want people to see.
Actually, watching “news” on TV is even worse that reading news. I spend five minutes every morning reading The Guardian’s morning email to US subscribers and I think that is time well spent.

I have fright spend a couple of hours a day obsessing and watching the news, and I politely tell them their behavior is idiotic.
This coming from a highly partisan outlet.

To me all sides are a joke with both of their arbitrary soap opera drama (Hunter Biden, the Impeachment, the russia collusion junk, PizzaGate (lol that one). Stop with the madness and made up crap... tell voters what you will do for them and the issues that matter! Politics doesn't need to be reality TV but that's what it has become and not just because of only the reality tv star in office; again both sides feed this madness/reality tv drama b.s.

The Atlantic ... is a joke just like the majority outlets feeding this reality tv narrative! Which is just about each and everyone of them; most local news isnt as bad, though.
> especially if you have accomplices

Or if you're one of several people all independently stealing quarters.
Great, thanks! Seemed like a fun idea. The goal / scoring seemed a big vague to me.

An option to click on a letter piece and then click on a tile to transfer it to that tile would be cool. Drag and drop works, but felt like a hassle at times.
>They are buying customers

What? No they're not.

They're buying everything: customers, IP, tech, you name it. And you can see that by a simple Google search.