skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you don't seem to get is that Facebook and Twitter have censored Trump 65 times according to this study compared to a total of 0 for Biden. You keep ranting about lack of evidence but when confronted with it, you can't register it. Having a large community is NOT evidence of impartiality. For example, /TheDonald was the largest subreddit before it was shutdown completely because it was not inline with the ideologies of China's new asset. So you can take your argument and put it in the garbage where it belongs.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/19/facebook-tw...

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/19/new-study-shows-faceboo...
I use Bing almost exclusively, and find it to be very good. Maybe a few times a year I go to Google to try and find something that Bing isn't finding, and it's very rare that Google turns anything up either.
Money is a social contract.

'Most' of those things that we do to manage it, particularly around fraud, insurance, reporting are to maintain the real integrity of the currency and system.

If you are concerned about the integrity of a currency due to 'money printing' then simply don't hold it as a store of value - just use it as a currency (as it was intended!).

Crypto currencies, without the systems in place to back the fidelity are toys - neither stores of value, nor currency.

Other than perhaps some of the ugly, bureaucratic cobwebs of financial regulations which have not caught up with the times ... there's no point at all to cryptocurrency, it's just a novelty.
You can make your own if you like. I think you can get the iso here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Just a note - in Canada there is a party generally called the Liberal party and another called the Conservative party - I've been careful in the text below to differential Liberal from liberal and Conservative from conservative - it can get a bit confusing (especially when the Liberals aren't liberal) but that's just Canada being confusing.

As a Canadian - Canada is slipping into a two party system. There are, weirdly, regional variations of parties - that tends to lead toward the appearance of wider representation. I'm in BC and our conservative party is the Liberals while our liberal party is the NDP - with the greens eeking out a few seats on the sunshine coast and occasionally vancouver island in most elections - it's basically a two horse race provincially between the Liberals and the NDP. Since the Conservatives have essentially no chance of winning all their voters jumped on the Liberal bandwagon and made that party conservative (as evidenced by the pro-life Liberal candidate who recently described contraception as a form of eugenics).

BQ is an interesting party that mostly exists because QC still kinda wants to be independent, and the greens essentially don't exist. The same is essentially true of the NDP when it comes to the national elections - please just look at these results[1] with the Liberal party at 157, the conservatives at 121 and the next most represented party at 32 (up 22 seats over the last election) - Canadian elections are essentially a two horse race and a lot of Canadians that aren't already in "safe" NDP, BQ or Green districts end up voting strategically for Conservatives or Liberals - whichever they hate less.

Oh also there's the PPC but honestly they're a joke - I still think they should have a few MPs though (technically, five seats) - they did carry 1.62% of the national vote in a country where an MP represents .3% of the country. Here's a graphic demonstrating the full skew of voting in Canada, it's not nearly as minor as you might think[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Canadian_federal_election

2. https://www.fairvote.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Canada-vo...
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Without running again using GraalVM EE which TruffleRuby needs for things like Partial Escape Analysis these benchmarks aren’t very useful. I’ve made the same mistake myself before when benchmarking TR.

Crystal has wildly different semantics to Ruby, so it’s not a good alternative at all.
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Ask HN: Will you send your child to Khanacademy instead of a physical school?
Khanacademy has maths and science for K to 12. Harari's free and open YT course on Sepians is enough for world history.

So except for local geography, local history and local civics and polity and the art of making real life friends, there's nothing a physical school offers that Khanacademy + YT doesn't. So would you send your kids to the internet for school?
The only replacement for centralized market dominance you're willing to accept is centralized market dominance with another brand?
And don't get me started about the concept of first and last names outside the US...
We shouldn’t need to engineer around this. The fact this is needed shows Facebook wrongdoing.
I think PG12. You can force no inlining using MATERIALIZED CTE.
You don't 'believe' an IQ range of 20-34, labelled as 'severely retarded' [0] is relevant to one's ability to be informed?

https://paulcooijmans.com/intelligence/iq_ranges.html
Haven't published it! If nobody else has a good one, I'll post mine; the only reason I haven't is that it's janky as fuck (it installs extra stuff, and I pull a lot of my own kernel BPF header deps in).
Think of it as an SMS app first with upgraded capabilities if the person on the other end has an iPhone.

That seems reasonable to me. Everyone with phone service can use SMS.
Does changing things often also help? Like, if there was a way to set things up so the browser would randomly change (on every request, or maybe every N minutes) bits of your user-agent, font list, screen resolution, etc., would that make it harder for sites to track you?
This is a tired cliche that needs to die: Americans of voting age are the most educated they have ever been in history.

The problem is corruption and collusion between the parties to maintain the two party tyranny.

You can educate everyone to a PhD in political philosophy or political science for free and it would not noticeably change things unless they're willing to coordinate to vote for a third party (assuming that they can get the votes to change the system everywhere, which they probably can't) or pick up a rifle to break up the two party tyranny by threat (or enactment, should the powers that be not go peacefully) of force.
DDG had a period a few months ago where when I toggled on my country-specific search, the results were _spectacular_, language specific, relevant. Then it went away again. :/

It did make me hopeful that they're working on something to improve this.
Should work for any UDP. We can do the same thing for non-UDP protocols, I guess, too.
Mirage Men: UFO researcher Mark Pilkington on deception and psyops (2010)
> humans invented, created, and placed the other 8 bits,

Humans did, but not you or me. What if they lied to us? What if we believed in those lies and never checked? ;-)
I'm furiously working on a project that I want to do a Show HN on at some point that's relevant to this.

I'm basically making a Lovecraftian text editor / puzzle game / walking simulator(?) where progress is gated by writing. My goal has been to nudge players into being more prolific writers.

There's little content aware changes to the environment based on what you write, and lots of little touches intended to spark ideas.

If you play it "right", you'll have a pile of art you created that's yours, that you can export. It's not opinionated on what you write, there will be some prompts you can take advantage of if you want, but players can type nonsense if their hearts and souls are truly, irredeemably empty.

I apologize for the shameless self promotion. My suspicion is that my target audience is rare and razor thin. I feel pressure to evangelize for a genre that to my knowledge doesn't exist. ( latest tweet showing this crazy thing. https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1316830278644531200 )
Web developers participate in the negotiation process.
It's not (just) a matter of whether or not Covid is worse than other serious illnesses. It's that whatever existed already, Covid adds on top of that. So if there were X people that experienced significant health problems before, now there are X + Covid.
It would be easy to argue that more accidents but with fewer human injuries is still a net win.
FYI, what you wanted to say was 1 for 10, not 1 to 10.

Like craps odds when betting on the don't side, where you win less than what you bet.

But it's important to point out that even with 1 for 10 odds, you still get your original stake back plus the extra 1.
Almost unusably slow in firefox on a decent macbook pro, it looks nice though.
In tribal cultures, "medicine men" are both doctors and spiritual leaders. Historically in the Western world, doctors were some of the best educated people in town and some of the wisest people in town and everybody knew each other in a small town. The doctor made house calls with his little black bag.

Now doctors mostly don't make house calls because we use so much tech for diagnostics that you can't carry it with you. Star Trek's Dr. McCoy and his tricorder was modeled on the "little black bag" pattern of medicine and it married the idea of tech to that model and he could diagnose anything with the super advanced gadget in his hand while going to where the patient was. This is not how it has gone in real life.

In the process of making house calls, a doctor casually picked up a lot of information by observation that didn't require him to ask questions. He saw how clean your house was. He saw if you lived alone or with family. Etc.

Medicine has moved to a place where we treat people like specimens in a petri dish and as if their physical health is a separate question from the rest of their life. The reality is these are deeply intertwined and cannot be neatly separated.

The systems we need to be looking at are not just systems within the body but how the systems those bodies exist within impact the human body. And we aren't even really thinking in that direction yet.
Thank you thank you! That's fantastic! I wish I didn't have to manually assign containers but ya know what, good enough.
That's what probationary periods are for.
Comes and goes for me. On an average technical search these days I'd say DDG is easily equal to Google and on the rare occasion I still have to switch to Google.
"There are lots of things out there that have little to no intrinsic value (like currency)"

??? Most currencies are backed by something. USD's are backed by TBills, Euros are backed by some kind of asset.

"There's lots of things with fundamentally no intrinsic value " like what?

Gold and Diamonds people wear as jewelry, and they have other uses.

Platinum, were it plentiful, means we might have all shifted to fuel cells 2 decades ago.

Gold probably has an inflated price due to it's historical value as 'money' - but outside of that, there's basically nothing that people put significant amounts of money in without some kind of intrinsic value.
It's troubling to discover something that's been there for thousands of years, right behind our noses.

Haven't we sliced a couple humans to sub-millimetric resolution?
I wish the technology existed so they could just correctly bill you when you get back to your car and you drive away with a receipt instead of a fine... the idea that you have done something wrong and you deserve a financial punishment for it is ludicrous.
I apologize, I wasn't very precise in my wording there.

The parent post expressed approval of the Pope's support of civil unions. The pope, he said, was refusing to pressure the state to adopt a policy in line with church dogma (i.e. opposed to tacit approval of homosexuality by the state). This as though the Pope were embracing the separation of Church and State.

My point is, the Pope has a history of pressuring the state to support his religious/moral agenda (re: poverty) and has even gone beyond that to pressure the state on points outside of church dogma (re: his statements on wealth inequality and tax cuts). With that in mind, it seems odd that the Pope, who presumably believes in the infallibility of scripture[0], would feel that it was somehow wrong to pressure the state to support his moral agenda on the (alleged) sin of homosexuality (by opposing civil unions).

It makes perfect sense from a humanist perspective, but from the Pope it seems arbitrary and internally incoherent.

[0]https://uscatholic.org/articles/201611/is-the-bible-infallib...
Well, they are going after them, if you read the article:

> The resolutions do not include the criminal release of any individuals, including members of the Sackler family, nor are any of the company’s executives or employees receiving civil releases.

That means Justice is leaving open the possibility of bringing criminal charges against the Sackler family.

The felonies they mention in the article are felonies committed by the corporation, which cannot be jailed, but -- due to the fact that Justice has forced the company to dissolve in its current state (pending approval) -- has been essentially sentenced to death. The company's assets (which are valuable and vital to public health) will be owned by a new legal person, a trust operating a public benefit corporation.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ this?
Too true. I only found out what primaries were in my late 20s when I started getting interested in politics.
> check for label/folder name collisions and deal with it then?

How?

> Alternatively save all the built-in labels (Trash, Bin, etc) as reserved

So now all localizations are reserved words? And ultimately, this may be a reasonable approach from the beginning, but how many people's accounts are you willing to break to institute this change now?
When google made Chrome, they already totally dominated the search market. Google search was launched 1997, Chrome was launched 2008.
Yes Arbitrary. Why 100k? Why not 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 1,000,000? Oh because 100k makes the stats look the best for your argument.
That sounds like an extreme interpretation that would put the issue forward as a straw-man to be knocked down. Instead, I would just say that COVID is a virus that causes cognitive deficits even in people with little/no other symptoms.
Only get married if you've been with the same person for many years and there's a legal reason to do so. Use a prenup that is video deposed with an admission of a lack of coercion and explanation of each term. Palnup if living together similarly.

Also, it is worth considering extended adolescence, economic, and other factors are leading towards a Japan-like population crash of native-born US citizens.

I get that. I'm from the US and will be looking overseas for a wife in Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Czechia, and similar because American girls just aren't educated, skilled, dedicated, or adult enough to survive in today's real world. The entitlement, poor attitude, and ignorance are painful and obnoxious to the point too many are liabilities compared to females elsewhere where they actually know how to let a man be a man.
The concept of marriage is an outdated concept. If people want to enter a mutually beneficial union, pre nuptial agreements should be a standard and not left up to courts or whatever archaic laws are on the books. People should be educated on what the union encompasses should it fail.

The biggest issues are that health care and taxes are tied to the idea of just being in a union.
I'm your target market. Twitter thread looked messy. How do I sign up?
Looking back to the last decade, I cannot remember a single project I worked in that relied on YAML that didn't have at least one incident from its users or developers dealing with the files and messing up. Just some months ago a team I was working with lost almost a day on a misbehaving software module. After serious detective work it all came down to whitespace in a YAML configuration file.

I remember being pretty excited when I discovered YAML and even pushed its use in some projects trying to avoid the verbosity of XML. These days I will never trade accuracy for conciseness, in particular if its form relies on whitespace and there is not enough redundancy in the specs for consistency checks. Yes, syntax matters.
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The USD is backed by the US governments ability to pay it's debts, which is a legit financial instrument of value. It's not a 'fiat' currency in the sense being described here.
Well the concept of economic rents was created by economists to describe reality, but I think most economists view the majority of rents as being 'bad'. I also think you are overestimating how 'free-market oriented' and self-interested most economists are, and would recommend that you look at a "Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy".

The current system is really optimized to maximally benefit the FCC; it gives them huge revenues without much cost to administer. Existing mobile carriers are also probably beneficiaries of the current system, but it's hard to blame them for that, as they've structured themselves to conform with the government's system.
What Kazakhstan really thought of Borat
We are working on the future of http1, 2 & 3 in the web-server-frameworks team. You can find our progress here: https://github.com/nodejs/web-server-frameworks

TLDR: we are a few years out from this being anything but experimental in node.
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from
Can you link the article? Thanks.
It's just a simple fact of polling. Your conclusion also completely ignores the influence of money and lobbying in setting party platform and policy.
I have high hopes for asciidoctor as in the text processor/converter, and the sooner I can have one less thing I need TeX for, the better.

AsciiDoc the language though, like RST, has lost the popularity contest to Markdown I'd say - everyone around me knows what .md is, but ask about AsciiDoc and you're most likely to get "Ascii what?".

That doesn't make it objectively worse, but I think allowing Markdown syntax as input (with metadata/annotations where needed) would give the project a boost.
Best solution is to use all labels for the trash in all languages as an alias for the same trash folder. The problem here is the tight coupling between the name and the functionality.
Yes. The Internet-side client and the proxy server can use different protocols and versions that they can negotiate however they like, receive the HTTP request over those, and the proxy can use a separately-negotiated connection to your server to send that request over.

Essentially, the core of standard HTTP requests and responses (method, path, headers, response code) is fairly unchanged since HTTP/1.0, and what's changed is how those requests/responses are encoded and carried.
Yeah, that rebuttal paper of Scott's was what I had in mind as well. And that Hitler parody was surprisingly funny, thanks :D
Linus Pauling was pushing Vitamin C quack cures most of his life. Shockley was a believer in scientific racism and eugenics.

Perhaps the proper term is fachidiot.
iPhone Health Records are about to change how your doctor talks to you
I like how it plays nice with linux pipes.

I've used this on macOS before to accomplish the same thing:

`afplay ~/song.mp3 & do_something_slow; pkill afplay; tput bel`
This is quite timely: https://chris.partridge.tech/2020/extensions-the-next-genera...
The thing that's annoying about this is that some sites trust the browser's report of your timezone and don't let you change it.

When I tried enabling this, Slack, despite having timezone settings in the preferences dialog, showed me message timestamps in UTC, and there was no way to change it.
Why not? They're not a party to the transaction; it is the vendor selling cryptocurrency that is taking on the risk. Paypal can reverse the transaction and the vendor has to eat the risk, same as for any PayPal transaction.

If I buy a sweater from some company through PayPal, and the company sends me the sweater, they're out the sweater if they get a chargeback. They can fight it, but PayPal is just the middleman.

Cryptocurrency vendors would have to figure out a policy to deal with it, so it might be that nobody would be willing to sell crypto for PayPal, but there's no reason for PayPal to block it.
this sounds incredibly misogynistic.
This is splitting hairs.

It has an 'intrinsic value' in the context of this discussion if it's useful as something other than a currency, obviously.
The quality of google search is good for consumers, it also isn't anti-competitve to improve the quality of your product, even if you're using resources and knowledge from unrelated businesses to do so.
I remember that. A 36 bit computer makes no sense until you realize people used octal a lot back then. And grouped switches in 3's instead of 4's.
The next question: should we force Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. to submit their platforms to open protocols the same way Mastodon is?

Maybe the answer isn't getting everyone to use Mastodon; maybe it's using anti-trust law to force the big centralized companies to operate more like parts of a federated system.
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I've seen Vimeo start to have a bit of a niche where professional animators post there, musicians too. It's like where people put things they need online but not with the intent of being an influencer. I believe it still has to potential to grow.
AI service has transformed thousands of women’s photos into fake nudes
In absolute numbers, the rural population in the US has remained fairly steady. It's only decreased as a % of the total population: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/...
It HAD to be Lisp... :-)
Or thee might not be. If your burden of proof is that no data is valid because new data might come in that disagrees, then sure it's easy to see why you can't acknowledge that someone has disproved the theory. It also makes the theory unfalsifiable ie meaningless. So we are right back at it not being meaningfully true.
"Person, woman, man, camera, TV"?
Who disable UDP in 2020?
I hope this doesn't turn into what their domain service became...which feels like a complete after thought. I was excited about it at first but it's been a year now and it feels the same as day 1. Incomplete and abandoned.
Desktop browsers on Macs also report as 'Apple' devices.
cppreference.com only covers the standard library, docs.rs covers (almost) the entire library ecosystem.
I read that comment as saying it doesn't require touching fiat. Bitcoin is a currency, so doing any sort of store-and-forward of it makes you a money transmitter.

> For traditional Bitcoin mixers as in this case, someone receives money from users and then transmits money to many users. This is money transmission and requires registration with FinCEN and sometimes requires registration with states (though some states have exemptions for completely crypto to crypto transmission that doesn't touch USD or other fiat).

Some states having exceptions for pure crypto transmission implies that most states don't.
How much of this can be solved by using a linter like yamllint, or a a mode that validates the data via a schema or dry-run mode? I'd think it would knock out most of the low hanging fruit.
Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life
Most of the time DDG is good enough for me. Occasionally I'll make a long tail query that only returns a handful of results on DDG and it's hit-or-miss that Google has anything better.
Yeah, my stupid, diphenhydramine-popping stepfather walked away from my disable mother after her stroke and a forest fire while she was away without anything but an email. He took almost everything and just left, and is now trying to cheat her out of spousal support and the many tens of thousands she paid to fix their retirement home. She is currently being kicked-out (move) during the pandemic is and forced now to leave the state.