skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record, I read the email exchange Greenwald published and I am a little more sympathetic to the editors now. I don't totally agree with their criticisms, but I think Greenwald unnecessarily escalated into ad hominems before even giving them a chance to reply, and I think there was a valid discussion to be had there before there was no choice but to throw in the towel. He should've just kept the part of the email with the editor comments vs. article comparisons and left out the rest. I understand why he felt like he was being pressured, though.

I still don't think there's anything like blind acceptance of disinformation in the article, but he could've hedged certain parts a bit more.

Also, I kind of regret some of my earlier comments. I still think the way the media and Twitter handled this is absolutely ridiculous, and I really don't think there's a disinformation aspect to this article (bias and dis/misinformation are very different), but I kind of jumped to the conclusion about the rigor of the article after only reading about half of it (mostly the parts about the media). I think the truth about the article's rigor probably lies in the middle between your and my initial opinions of it, and similarly I think proper rigor kind of lies between Greenwald's and the editor's opinions. I prefer Taibbi's reporting on it (and Taibbi's reporting in general).

And to be clear, as I mentioned in my other comments, I've never seen very good evidence of corruption on Joe's part; my concern is pretty much just with the emails and the media's handling of them.

edit: Actually, I just went ahead and removed my very initial comment and another one. I was kind of shooting from the hip, though I definitely still stand by the parts about the media, and probably most of my other comments so far. But I might change my mind tomorrow about some of the other comments, and this definitely isn't the ideal platform for an extremely lengthy and careful debate.
One day this metal object will be harvested in space for the construction of a large space vessel.
That paper is also talking about doing it at the stable lunar Lagrange points. So it would not realistically be possible to remove the dust once it’s in place.
Imagine medieval peasant, which was most of the population ever. What they would give to live our lives! Toil? Are you kidding me? We have it better than some 120 billion human being before us. Concepts like basic freedom, education, healthcare were not a right that most ever had.

Watching half of your kids die before age of 5 from something a set of pills cures now? Your wife risking her life with every delivery? Dying of very minor wounds, when flu is killer that covid can only dream about?

I could go on like that for very long time... No, our life isn't a misery and toil in any western society, unless we make mistakes and chose such a path. My isn't for example, nor is most people I know.

Its kind of sad to see how weak we have become. 100 years ago a mutated flu killed 100 million people which was significant chunk of global population, right after the most horrible war mankind has ever experienced, and people got through. We can get through almost anything. Its properly sad what's happening. As a nature, travel and adventure lover my heart weeps, but I have no doubt mankind will get through this. There is still so much beauty out there. I am not naive anymore we will get much wiser while getting through this, but somehow we will manage. Till then, taking it day by day, enjoying the little things life so often gives us, enjoying friends and family... that's still a great life to live. Only few in the history had such a luck. I am definitely not terrified for my kids.
Infinitely scalable's a bit of myth in my experience. We've switched firebase app to a small postgres instance and have seen all of our performance issues magically melt away.
At what point should a developer be expected to develop? How much incompetence is acceptable before it becomes too much in a high paying job?
so how much revenue of this 'tech' giant come from the tech? 1% or 1.4%?
The proposed solutions are political. When someone tells me I need to stop eating meat, pave forests with solar panels and stop flying, I know they're talking politics, not climate change. I hate ideologies trying to control my life. What happened to nuclear, geoengineering, fair revenue-neutral carbon taxes - those are reasonable solutions. Instead, I have to chew on a slimy paper straw...
Go to https://github.com/google, but sort by language:

- C: https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=c

- C++: https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=c%2B%2B

- Go: https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=go

- Java: https://github.com/google?q=&type=&language=java

Google's style guides: https://google.github.io/styleguide/

Hand-picked: https://source.chromium.org/chromium, https://android.googlesource.com/, https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/

Filter by subject: https://opensource.google/projects/explore/featured

Also you can do the same for https://github.com/microsoft and https://github.com/facebook
I like the grammar, which makes it much easier than PEG.
But there really needs to be a C implementation sooner or later.
Salt Lake Tribune to stop printing daily newspaper, ending a 149-year run
gcc is not supported on the Apple Silicon yet. So anything that relies on that is going to be an issue.
I would drop coldfusion from your CV and simply include modern relevant languages. Don't mention cold fusion during your interviews. Cold fusion should no longer exist for you.
"It sure sounds like he's trying to paint it a way that makes him look good and the Intercept look bad."

omg you caught him!
I agree: this site, despite its many other good qualities, is a freaking disaster regarding these nonsense "censorship" claims, either regarding the NYPost story, or this one.

All these BS stories are coming out right now, with days to go in the election, so that they can't be debunked and/or placed in context. It's "but what about her e-mails" all over again.
It was intended to be a pun on the addictiveness of gaming, but point taken.
Totally agreed! I use one for work and seriously considered buying one privately.

Pros:

- It doesn't have the new square styling I find ugly

- The trackpad is reasonably sized

- It already has the force touch trackpad

Cons:

- The bezels are looking a bit thick nowadays (though not preposterously so)

- The processor is getting a bit slow for heavy tasks

- It can't output 4k@60hz via HDMI (only realized that one recently)

- It doesn't have USB-C

This model with upgraded internals, ports (and upgradability, come on) would be a very solid offer.
In case you haven't noticed, most youtube content is marketing something.

Sometimes it feels like the overt ads trivially overcome by adblockers or youtube-dl are there just to be something extremely obnoxious you can circumvent and feel relief from while still consuming marketing that is only made desirable by contrast.
Being able to have defense/discussion about your documentation edit is something sorely lacking on wiki platforms that you get in pull requests.

Frankly, I always felt the wiki model pretty much a show-stopper to making any real edits with no good UI for commit review and a good UI for having a granular discussion about your changes. Instead the UX is to burn a lot of time getting a large change through a bunch of potential reversion cycles while trying to communicate through talk page(s). It's a hoop that selects for die hards.
Don't you mean NVIDIA vs RISC-V? ;)
From the linked pdf in the footnotes, looks like they are rolling their own network protocol:

"At launchtime, the VPN protocol will be a Google proprietary protocol; however, to ensure a high throughput while minimizing battery consumption, we will soon adopt IPsec as the data tunnel protocol due to its native support in Android.

We may eventually use other protocols, such as Wireguard, as their native support improves or on platforms where no specific protocols have a specific advantage."
I don't think your analogy fits. If someone who was known to be in Trump's presence produced a journal entry from a third party, also known to be in Trump's presence, saying, "Dear Diary, Trump wore a full body costume today...", and you then said that the sourcing of the journal had been "debunked", I'd expect something more than just the naked assertion that the journal was not legitimately sourced, with no serious investigation of the claims of the party producing it.

At least two recipients of emails from the laptop have confirmed their authenticity. Now, maybe there's still some forgery happening here, I don't know. But the idea that it's made up from whole cloth is no longer plausible.

Can you point me to a specific sentence in the Greenwald piece that you think is "debunked"?
Nothing busy settlers with space habitats can't fix. Wait a few hundred years and you might get a place even more vile than Tatooine! ;-)
Wikimedia/Wikipedia show that people do translate for fun (I do it myself on the wiki software website), so I'm not sure how you have that blindspot.

Your comment is the same as people who saw the launch of Wikipedia and wondered who could possibly write articles and find citations for fun.

Hell, who would write hundreds of thousands of wiki articles about The Elder Scrolls universe for fun? https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page
this could perhaps actually be useful at the molecular level as a mechanical computing system. I wonder what possible advantages might be found for micro-mems computation?
>When I want to reply to someone, do I email the list or the person? How do I make sure the emails are threaded properly?

Most people will (and you should, too) use reply-all when participating on a mailing list, which should land the replies straight into your inbox. Just reply-all to these normally, making sure not to top post. If someone makes a mistake, and you weren't subscribed to the list, the web archives usually have a mailto: link somewhere that you can click to reply to the thread.

>The git email client seems to have support for message IDs.

You should never have to directly work with message IDs if you're using git-send-email and letting your mail client handle replies.

>Also, gmail has moved on to newer authentication mechanisms.

They should still have support for SMTP PLAIN authentication unless you use gsuite and your admin has turned it off, if I understand correctly. I have written a mail client which has support for OAUTH, however, which you might find useful:

https://aerc-mail.org

I don't use gmail so if you run into problems, please reach out to the appropriate mailing list - I won't know how to help.

I would also, of course, strongly recommend that you ditch gmail ASAP.
At the very least it seems the opposite of what Republicans/Conservatives espouse.
1.1.1.1 is faster anyway :)
Not sure if you want an answer, but there was study that suggests vitamin A and E are also helping to fight respiratory diseases.
Look what has just been released :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906218
Got it thanks
I’ll post there
Correct.. BUT whoever bring up the nazis first loses the argument sorry ;)
Getting Started with DAML
> Rising temperatures will lead to huge portions of the planet that are currently densely populated that will no longer support humans.

This does not seem likely, the bar for a region being "unable to support humans" is very high. People already live in cities that need to support themselves with food from elsewhere, and worldwide calorie production per capita is increasing.
But why tax corporations on income at all? All of that money will eventually be income for an actual person (employees, shareholders) who will be taxed on it, most likely at a rate above 24%. And don't forget that sales taxes and VATs exist.

Corporations don't exist, so they can't "pay" for the tax. With a corporate income tax, the incidence is out of policymakers' control and some percentage will fall on consumers. Just tax who you want to tax.
you have to apply the same standard to other stories then. If you wait until everything is 100% verified you'll publish nothing
The first table in the report says that FB's effective tax rate in 2020 was 4%. The same chart says that in 2019 their effective tax rate was 17%.

Can someone with insight explain this discrepancy? Is this some accounting artifact, did FB get a COVID tax break, or is it something else?
To expand on the coral example: before fish get large enough to catch and eat, they start off as little hatchlings. Coral reefs are fish nurseries that offer protected environments before setting off for the deep blue seas, where the fishing boats find them.

Something like 40% of humans worldwide rely on fish as their primary source of protein. What happens when there's no habitat to support that food source? Mass disruptions and migrations.

So yes, the earth was warmer before, but that warming happened over geologic timeframes that allowed ecosystems to adapt and change. 100 years is long on human timescales, but it's an instantaneous disruption on geologic timescales.

And despite the convenience of your neighborhood supermarket, we are not that detached from our ecosystems. The empty shelves at the start of covid should have been a wakeup call that our supply systems are still interconnected.
Tucker Carlson? What a crock. He's now on TV claiming some agents of the Deep State are breaking in to his mail -- "the Deep State ate my exposé!"
Reads to me that Glenn flew off the handle pretty fast. Imagine this was a PR review:

Editor: Extensive feedback, but couched in a professional way

Glenn: I disagree, professionally

Glenn, a few hours later: Your review comments are solely because you are biased and you're accusing me, someone who has never made an error of making an error.

Editor-in-Chief: You're out of line.

Glenn: I quit.
This is a bit of a meta-discussion (apologies to the people at Tara, they did a fantastic job!), but is the market really large enough for the insane amount of productivity tools that have been released over the past few years? From Airtable, to Monday, to Hugo, to Tara, to Asana, etc., etc.

It feels like there's a lot of stagnation here, also. If I was building a product management tool, I would certainly not make it anything like Jira. Jira's a bit of a "dirty word," anyway -- it's a monolithic system that seems to suck more productivity than it generates. Where's the innovation? The last truly revolutionary productivity tool was Slack, and maybe Dropbox before that.

I don't mean to throw any shade at the Tara people -- it seems like a ton of work went into the product. But I guess I just don't really get the state of the market (even though I work as an engineer and am often-times force-fed these kinds of tools).
> Which for some reason I don't expect Google's VPN to help you with at all.

They explicitly say that the VPN will choose the nearest exit point for best performance so, no, it won't.
Longer term you might even meet aliens - completely foreign and different from yourself! Only to find out afterwards it's just some other human colonists that have adapted to their favorite environment.
^^ this is really spot-on advice
when was the last time you experienced true joy?
It's unique visits on the site in a given period. You merely have to click on a link to the website, or open the app on your phone, and you count as an "active" user.
We ditched kotlin as a server side language.
We initially were very enthausiastic about it, but it turned out to have quite some annoying bugs.
On Android it works probably pretty ok, but for serverside I would not recommend it. Not in the current state.
There are a couple of crucial outstanding bugs already open for more than a year.
Rust is designed to be a serverside language. Kotlin is designed to be a multiple platform targeting language. Well it turns out only to be working in Android. Thats it.
Claim it for Murica then pay off the national debt.
Because the bumbling relatives of powerful people exaggerate their connection and involvement all the time. Without further evidence of Joe Biden's involvement, this amounts to hearsay.

That indicates the media should probably ask Biden about this and almost nothing more.
A room, a bar and a classroom: How the coronavirus is spread through the air
I don't know, I'd almost prefer that. Gives you an easy signal to ignore.
> sit white-knuckled until I die in a food riot.

This is nonsense, food production on a per-capita basis is increasing and population is leveling off.
Not was, is. I was curious about that as well.

https://www.fq.math.ca/list-of-issues.html
Reddit's automatic locking of threads after a few months is extremely annoying.
> Error establishing a database connection

Hugged to death :-(
All that misery just to be shot by a mugger after all. Wow...
Dogs are humans' oldest companions, DNA shows
Very clever! I guess it's a JavaScript redirect right?

The config file could probably be simplified even more to be simply:

offer2020: http://mysite.com
blog: http://mysite.com/blogs/23

Just an idea
Exactly this. I never see ads on youtube from my desktop, and I don't use youtube on phone. When a friend wants to show me some youtube video they like on their phone, its always a bit of shock how annoying those ads are. I don't have any premium account, just usual set of blockers.

I've became super allergic to ads generally quite some years ago, not watching any channel on TV, just movies/tv shows streamed from PC. Can't and won't go back, ever.
what do you mean by hearsay? There are videos and pictures of him doing this stuff: sex with what looks like prostitutes and hard drugs (you can find them too on the internet). Those don't make the emails real, and it might still be a disinfo attempt, but the sex and drugs part is real for sure. This should warrant some reporting on it's own.
And there is also much much more resources that we have on Earth - space is big!
This quarter had no new iPhone release so it doesn't make sense to compare the two.

And if my memories serve me correct iPhone 11 did very well in China. It was the iPhone XR, XS that tanked, which was a year earlier.
Of course Facebook is making money ... Manipulating the election is very profitable ... Nobody bothered ... of let's be ruled by dodgy algorithms until we die.
This is fantastic. I would have absolutely loved this as a kid. Thanks for all of your hard work!
Yes, that's a good point - the global cooling effect IIRC was largely based on the emissions from burning cities, not the direct effects of nuclear explosions. Still, in an India-Pakistan war there would be much less burning cities than in the hypothetical cold war turning hot, which would burn the urban areas of the whole northern hemisphere.

It's a bit weird to guesstimate about so horrible hypothetical events, but perhaps the consequences of such a war might be comparable to all the many cities burned in firebombing and otherwise during WW2 - which, again, did not trigger a global cooling that might threaten global agriculture.
I'm not sure companies like FB or Google would be viable at all if R&D investments weren't tax deductible. If employee salaries weren't tax deductible either (which is the main expense for R&D at these companies), it would create a lot of incentive not to hire people and not to do R&D.

Additionally, that money is being taxed in the end via income tax at a comparable rate.
What Kushner did disassembled something like 30 years of UN effort in the region. He enabled an alliance between two bullies who could agree on a couple of things, and will now use that alliance to beat the shit out of people that disagree with them, to the detriment of, say Palestine.

This "accomplishment" is the equivalent to smuggling some dinosaur embryos to a south american island in a cryogenic cylinder disguised as shaving cream. It's not so much that career diplomats COULDN'T do it, it's that they understood why they SHOULDN'T do it.
Why wait for an “eventual” trickle down effect?
Jumping spiders changed my mind about spiders in general. Anyone who isn't familiar with jumping spiders should find one or watch some videos. They're unbeluevably observant, and not just reacting to movement like other arthropods. Their vision and their behavior in response to their environment is very sophisticated, which I think might be why they don't rely on website to catch prey.
I think it definitely depends on the channel. Most of the videos I watch only have one or two ads.

What I really hate are the very long ads that you have to skip manually. Sometimes we play something on the TV while we're cooking so we're not by the remote to skip them, and they can be really egregious, like 15 minute ads.
I think I got lost on how exactly SUBRs and FSUBRs are different. Is it that SUBRs still get evaluated forms of the arguments in an assembly-accessible form, while FSUBRs get reader output as linked lists?
Privacy enthusiasts often seem blind to this risk. I think it's quite likely that virtually all of these VPN providers are run by either state agencies or organized criminals. As the person who personally ran almost all Tor exits for a brief period in the early 2000's, I am here to tell you that if you cannot definitely identify the operator of your VPN or proxy service, then you probably should not use it.
I'm simply looking for a more thorough explanation of the claim that "the entire spectrum of claims regarding Hunter Biden has been roundly debunked".

Bubolinski, a recipient on the emails recovered from the laptop, has confirmed that those sent to him are genuine. Has that claim been debunked?

If you are simply saying that the evidence isn't strong enough to say one way or another, fine. But "roundly debunked" means, at least to me, that there has been an investigation and that the factual claims have in some way been shown to be false. That, to my knowledge, hasn't actually happened.

And sure, "anyone can make up random nonsense", but these claims aren't being made by "anyone", but by people with closeness to the situation that not just anyone can claim. And they aren't random nonsense; they are part of a pattern of explaining how a family has become fabulously rich on a 176k salary.
I pay for YouTube Premium and find it and, especially, the content on YouTube to be indispensable.

I choose not to log in on my work machine though, and the YouTube experience there leaves me with such a bad taste in my mouth.

Most recently, adds that don’t go away without user input. Ugh.

I’m not ready to cancel my personal Premium subscription, but it does have my considering how I can decouple myself from the platform moving forward.

And yes, Adblock, but not the point here.
It was never listed and included as part of the services revenue.
The difference is in the “it throws an error” bit- if you’re including lines of code because it makes your program work but you don’t know why, you’re also potentially introducing side effects and other behaviours that you don’t understand, which will bite you later.
> I'm also sure to fail googlable technical questions so I was wondering how others might approach this.

I would do the minimal amount of studying that's required to pass this hurdle, and then you'll probably be great at acing the rest of the interview.

Pretty much no matter how good you are, you're going to have to pass some classic interview problems, so it's worth the hoop jumping investment. Leetcode is a good place to start on algo problems

Also would recommend refining your pitch / resume to 2-3 large technical problems you've worked on and the outcomes of those. Something a hiring manager reads and thinks "okay they know what they're doing". "Jack of all trades" is sufficiently vague for them to be like "i have no idea what this person works on"