skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrorists often kidnap people and demand ransom, so I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
Sad that this will never get as much views as the original complaint by Greenwald. He played his hand well.

Reading the "article", all you see as evidence from him is "Biden did not dispute this"... that's his evidence.

This is the final nail in the coffin for me. Greenwald is officially a wacko.
Regardless of your position here, that statement is definitely not a good look for the Intercept. Immediately attacking a former employee and making numerous typos in your statement as the editor in chief? Good lord. Capitalizing the name of your own publication three different ways in three consecutive sentences has to be a record.
So you're saying you feel they cried wolf before, and you'll never believe them again?

Do you know what happens at the end of that fable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
sure, let me know when you can learn programming, build a house, fix a car, decide which product to buy, or some of the greatest interviews and infinitely many things that are only on YT.

Bottomline, people who don't like YouTube are seriously underutilizing it's potential to change your life, make money, learn something
The end tag is pretty comical in this context

WAIT! BEFORE YOU GO on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadn’t done it?

As the pandemic worsens, it’s not just the virus itself that threatens human life. The corruption, cronyism, and incompetence of those in power is adding fuel to the fire. The public deserves to know more than just case counts and death tolls, which is why our reporters are digging deep to break stories on corporate profiteering and political jockeying that undermine public health.

The kind of reporting we do is essential to democracy, but it is not easy, cheap, or profitable. The Intercept is an independent nonprofit news outlet. We don’t have ads, so we depend on our members — 55,000 and counting — to help us hold the powerful to account. Joining is simple and doesn’t need to cost a lot: You can become a sustaining member for as little as $3 or $5 a month. That’s all it takes to support the journalism you rely on.
Finally a way to know if you should try to reset your password before creating a new account. It sometimes happens that I don't remember I've already signed up for some site and forgot about it entirely.
So the solution is for consumers to read a 60 pages legal document written in font 6 for each service they subscribe to, and which may change on short (or no) notice?

Of course people make their decisions based on trust.
> Why can't we just look at each other and imagine the child that person once was

As hard as it is to generalize, I'd say it's because sometimes our needs aren't getting met, particularly our need for safety. When we feel like we're in danger, it's very hard to appreciate wonderful things. ("This person feels like they're in danger" is also a decent way to broadly sympathize with other folks, along the same lines as "imagine the child that person once was.")
Wow, I thought he would have left this limited hangout a long time ago… not surprising since most of the snowden "leaks" remained behind closed doors…
The Paris Agreement is non-binding, virtue-signaling nonsense, thankfully we withdrew from it.

> While the USA slowly is slowly led into international irrelevance by the Republican Party

Anti-US, Anti-Republican bias is becoming very tiresome.
From the evolutionary point of view, if some people are susceptible to believing in harmful ideologies that lead them to die off, maybe it's better to let them to die off instead of spreading their mind-virus further. There are many smart people who have many children like Elon Musk, Antony Davies or Kirk Sorenson.

Edit: some people interpret this as saying that not wanting children is a genetic trait, but what i was trying to say was that it's a counterproductive idea which will eventually burn itself out, and there are many smart people who are not suffering from it. So we won't run out of smart people.
You said, "I don't know any polyglot programmers who would consider javascript better than at least one of the other languages they use, and would [not] ditch js for those if they had the option."

Now you do.
> the percent change here is very small

How are you measuring this as a percentage change? What's the denominator?

The Earth's atmospheric CO2 is up about 30% since 1900.
I'm just perplexed by the idea that he gave up that much control of the publication he founded that senior editors are able to dictate what he can and can't publish, on his own publication. You cant be giving up that kinda control.
A friend of mine works at the Intercept and has said that Glenn has been going off the rails for the past half a year and has alienated the entire staff at the Intercept, not just this specific editor. Apparently he's been planning to leave for a while, and from my friend's POV, this is Glenn's way of making himself the martyr and getting good publicity for himself and his patreon.
If we knew that (let's say) the Mexican government was trying to (let's say) keep Taylor Swift from winning a Grammy, and then a video of (let's say) Taylor Swift's cousin kicking a kitten mysteriously materialized the week before the Grammys, the reasonable assumption to make would not be that it was a lucky coincidence.

To continue this ridiculous metaphor, Glenn Greenwald is the guy arguing strenuously that this is a huge story, and anyone not covering it must be in the bag for Beyonce, because the video is authentic, it's been triple-checked, and just look at how her cousin refuses to deny it! And the rest of us are over here like, "Right, but did Tay-Tay herself actually do anything? Kicking kittens is indeed bad, but her cousin isn't the one running for President. Er, excuse me, her cousin isn't the one who's up for Best Female Vocal Performance."
Thanks for taking the time to share that!
Lenstadt – The easy yet imperative programming language
NYPD deploys robot dog after woman shot during parking dispute
Neither is criticizing the media for a hypothetical scenario that didn't happen.
The "Vitamin D Lamp" sold by Sperti is FDA approved:

https://www.amazon.com/Alaska-Northern-Lights-Sperti-Sunlamp...

It has a 5 minute timer and the instructions say to use it twice a week maximum, unless directed to do otherwise by a doctor. It has four flourescent tubes tuned to optimally emit UVB for vitamin D creation. It comes with safety goggles that have to be worn when using it. You have to stay 17" away from the lamp when it is on. Sperti says it is the only FDA approved vitamin D lamp in the USA.
It's expensive but apparently the only one of its kind at the moment, until the UVB LED's take over the market.
I think the fact they're not allowed to take money out of China makes it laundering by definition. They're hiding illegal money from the Chinese government (once it leaves China it's illegal to hold as I understand it) and legitimising it in Canada. From Canada's perspective, it's probably not laundering depending on how it was originally earned.

> next to the sea and the mountains

Next to the US is probably another big reason but I'm not sure how much that matters with planes.
Users decide what platforms they use and therefore it is the user's deciding what platforms to give attention and revenue to that are influencing the elections. If users aren't happy with how a platform governs itself then they should change to a platform that will impact (through algorithmic decisions, moderation actions or lack thereof, etc) how they feel is acceptable.
Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)
The issue with your ISP example is that all of them depend on public resources to function both directly and indirectly: They lease public land and right of way on utility poles, often with government-sanctioned monopolies.

The same is true for cellular providers: They lease spectrum that is owned by the public.
What isn’t “politically sensitive”?

If you create a git repo, the first branch’s name is a controversial political issue.

“Everything’s political” ~ What’s-his-face the communist in Fiddler on the Roof after introducing “Will you marry me?” as “a political question.”
Sale prices are part of a feedback loop with taxes.
The concept of TLS certs validating the identity of a business entity--rather than just ownership of a domain name--has merit even though the implementation of EVs was poorly considered.

A system that presented the end user with a business card of relevant information regarding a given website could be very effective if done properly. Presenting a list of industries and trademarks that the site does business under in the user's current jurisdiction would be a good start.
No, it is not safe. Read my post above about the Sperti vitamin D lamp and it's safety requirements.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

Now that the article and the email exchanges are released, it's clear to me that Greenwald once again used his popularity to peddle conspiracy and victimhood. In my opinion he has lost all his credibility.

I am angry that he did this and many people on here bought it.
Well, you have great alternatives. ProtonMail is rolling out secure storage, they already have VPN service that I am currently using, and some calendar support. FastMail is also a very good all around service.

Plenty of room for people to make their own choices.
They're the worst
HN is overrun with Trumpalos.
Yes, overlay network's configuration will be somewhat different, but physically it will be the same. It's like you're rearranging apple bits in a pie to save them; the pie will be sliced and eaten anyways.
Wow.. Why isn't this #1? 743 points...
I always wondered why don't browsers highlight the address bar with the color sourced from the domain hash? If my bank's site is always pink but after clicking a link it's suddenly teal, could it get any easier?

When https green shields and locks appeared at first I thought it's something like that, only to be disappointed.
Land that is underwater would count as unable to support humans, I think.
You don't need a map from MDN accounts to GitHub accounts. You just need email addresses.
Travel to Africa, India and South East Asia some time. The world is a big place outside of California, and the hardware available to many is not what you'll find at a cafe in San Francisco.
What’s your usecase for it? My work laptop has one and I use it to change the brightness of my screen and to lock it. That’s it. I really miss the physical escape key, especially when using vim...
Well said. I can't believe people agree with this rationale. And he completely missed the part where the article states "these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication. " ...yea so its pretty clear what their agenda is
Yeah, this is a real problem. Scientists closest to studying climate change phenomenon are falling into despair. IPCC reports also systematically shy away from considering potential feedback loops like Arctic methane. Plotting IPCC predictions against reality for the past few decades, we've been consistently hitting the high end of the predictions.

20 years ago there was room for doubt. I was out there in the trenches arguing against global warming, because I was, in retrospect, a denialist. Now, frankly, I'm terrified. We are in real trouble.
They don't want to be known as the platform where hackers dump their leaks without repercussions. Not everything has to be about the US presidential election...
This look very interesting. How would you describe and what does A12 do? It looks like a desktop being able to move apps between devices technology.
The problem is that journalism as a gatekeeper is intended to buffer this by applying robust fact checking.

In the age of social media nobody waits for that and it becomes a race to publish, well, anything first. The filter is gone.
Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
Can you do Machine Learning in a Database
I’ve started using Coffiest as a substitute for Soy Milk and protein powder.

Coffiest
Frozen Bananas
Ice
Frozen Cauliflower & Avocado
Chia Seeds
Hemp Hearts
Cocoa
Cacao
Assorted nuts (Cashews, Pistachios, Walnuts, Almonds)
If transpilers are not a good tool, what about compilers? Do you want to stay on assembler?

IMHO transpilers, generators and compilers are the standard tools for developers today and abstraction level is the key to become better... I cannot imagine, if we still have to use Assembly lang to program today...

It is definitely difficult to build a good abstraction level and the compiler / transpiler / generator which fits the requirements. But this is the best way to bring the abstraction level up...

Just my 2 cents.
And upvoting would be good as well! Not sure how you'd authenticate or maybe allow anon votes?
Does the intercept publish stories about Vlad Putin? Just wonderin....
My son have been programming since he just got 2 years.
Started with code.org, then codeSpark and now scratchJr on iPad. Everything have to be visual, and small doses every week.

Love your work from the little I have tested now.

Anyway I can contribute for translating into other languages?
You can use email addresses, but you can also append a profile page URL to the commit message.
The people earning high incomes from their labour are typically the most productive members of society. They need to be able to enjoy the fruits of their labour without needing to resort to elaborate tax schemes.

Part of the reason the USA is so much more successful and wealthier than Europe is because the taxes are much lower and simpler.
I use Chrome, Sublime Text, Terminal, WhatsApp, Messages, Skype, Discord, Hex Fiend, Calculator, AnyDesk, Ghidra, and Notes. What would I be waiting for port wise day 1?
I will agree that people intentionally misuse the word "fascism."

For example, the people in this comment thread claiming that editors making editorial decisions are the "fascist left" are pretty clearly misusing the word.
HN guideline is a set policies and conflict resolution document. The purpose of those are to define the community focus and get people back to cooperation if members start to falls into argument and conflict.

An CoC on the other hand is exclusively about removal of members to achieve additional goals set by the CoC. It identify who is an "other" and gives power to a small group to opaquely remove the individual without constraints or liability. It also usually supersede any existing rules, goals and processes already existing in the community.

The distinction is thus in purpose, methods and results. If we imagine that we replaced the articles CoC with the HN guideline, we can read this: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument". The Code of Conduct Enforcement Team could have talked to both Jeremy Howard and Joel Grus and steered the discussing on the factually arguments in favor or against the use of a Jupyter Notebook. They could have reminded both speakers to assume good faith, respond to the strongest plausible interpretation, and avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. It could remind them to focus on the purpose of the community, such as having a curious conversations with thoughtful and substantive comments.

Instead they exercised the power granted by the CoC.
I like this, reminds me of a recent article from harvard business review about generalist. Something along the lines that generalists were better at making connections across domains and can come up with promising solutions to problems.
Then how does 1/8 become 0.125?

If you do the calculation, with each step it goes towards 0.124999999999
And then he was fired. :D
I'm going to swim upstream and say that age, in and of itself, isn't a problem, but complacency and self-satisfaction are. You can be 80 and learn something new if you really want, assuming no mental problems, and you can be 20 and think you know everything there is to know and be resistant to learning.

The subsidiary problem, which can be remedied as long as the people want to learn and think they aren't too good to learn new things, is familiarity: It is hard to know what regulations will mean in a practical sense if you leave all your social media accounts to interns and suddenly have to bootstrap your way up from email all the way to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram.

Being old can be a handicap when learning about technical fields, but the old have no monopoly on smug, self-satisfied idiocy.
2016: "Zuckerberg: the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election is ‘crazy’"

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13594558/mark-zuckerberg...

2017: "Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook's effect on election"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/mark-zuck...
We won't throw in the towel, but there will be casualties. I'm not terribly worried about humanity, I'm concerned about quite a few humans though.
Databases in Coding Schools, Yay or Nay?
I don't think it does, from the slides: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2020/q3...

> We define a monthly active person (MAP) as a registered and logged-in user of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and/or WhatsApp (collectively, our "Family" of products) who visited at least one of these Family products through a mobile device application or using a web or mobile browser in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement.
Are there any sources for this? I'm not saying what you're saying is true, but I have a hard time believing the majority of scams and spam out there is state-sponsored as opposed to independent bad actors, and if accountability can at least weed those out then that's still a win.
There were a lot of teething problems with the first generation of Intel Macs. The Mac Pro had 32-bit EFI, which was a strange choice (it was a 64-bit machine), and which they then pretty quickly decided they didn't want to support anymore. The first x86 Mini was a 32-bit CPU with the same result. They required specific GPU firmware, so you couldn't just take a GPU out of a PC, but one of the GPUs they shipped with had a high failure rate (bad capacitors) and consequently became rare and expensive.

Who knows if they'll do better this time. But the not knowing in itself is a pretty good reason to let somebody else be the guinea pig.
Also I will add Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, by Sandi Metz (https://www.poodr.com/). It was a great help to me when I was first beginning to self teach programming years ago. A lot of it applies no matter the language; I haven't written Ruby in probably 4 years but the principles in that book guide my programming to this day.
To elaborate, go down the top 20 projects on DefiPulse.com and use each one. Forget about what each project’s website says, just figure out how to use them. Forget about their tokens except as for inventory to use their product, if the project has a native token remember that it is not a surrogate for you to express your excitement about the project, you are here to learn how to earn more things that can be exchanged for goods and services, food and shelter, not here to use your existing capital for trading. In fact, consider all of it as existing for entertainment purposes only. Say you work in entertainment to nullify the utility criticisms others might have when you utter the word crypto.
influence and reputation are orthogonal
> As cynical as I am

okay ... are you ready?

> She doesn’t understand racism

give her and her friends blue t-shirts and an equal number of other kids red t-shirts. do this for several weeks. lo and behold the basis of racism unfold.

racism is an inherent human feature which can only be overcome by education. something adults have to provide for children.
> That's not how this works.

It is when it's a media outlet you yourself founded and (according to Greenwald) the other editors were contractually obligated to publish what he'd written, uncensored.

Regardless of whether or not his article is good or bad, it seems like that is indeed how it should have worked.
> widely regarded[1]

By whom? Weasel words.

Are the Nazi's actions bad only because of the "widely opinion" other people held?
The same author appears to have also implemented Puyo Puyo in Vim, and it looks a bit more sophisticated.

https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-puyo

Very cool.
So uhh, did you build the computer you used to post this comment from first principles? Do you grow all your own food from scratch? I'm not really sure where you're coming from with this disdain for people participating in the economy.
> Hell, who would write hundreds of thousands of wiki articles about The Elder Scrolls universe for fun? https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Main_Page

70k articles, not hundreds of thousands,[1] and of those 70k fewer than 1/3 are translated to any other language.

And speaking as someone who was a system and content admin for a MediaWiki-powered fiction wiki of about 15k articles... there are not many people relative to the amount of content who are actually interested in contributing anything, much less improving or maintaining what's already there. It's a very, very small core of contributors.

Toward your example, the 161 "active" users[2] (meaning any number of edits in the last 30 days) as of today on English UESP combined for 5,974 edits in that span. Of those edits, 4,779 were from 13 users. 3,039 — more than half of the last month's activity — were from the top 5 users.

On the non-English UESPs? No active users in Portuguese, one in Italian, none in Arabic.[3][4][5]

From my experience at least, it's because it's work — fun work, at times, but still work. Translating MDN content is also work. Doing _any_ documentation of _anything_ is work. Hell, I burned out on fiction documentation work before I burned out on paid work.

Some people do enjoy it! But voluntary documentation is still going to attract a small, specific core group of consistent contributors (if it attracts any at all).

[1] https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:Statistics

[2] https://en.uesp.net/w/index.php?title=Special:ActiveUsers&of...

[3] https://pt.uesp.net/wiki/Especial:Utilizadores_activos

[4] https://it.uesp.net/wiki/Speciale:UtentiAttivi

[5] https://ar.uesp.net/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%...
What is the difference between a “grown-ass dude throwing a tantrum” and a “grown-ass dude vociferously disagreeing with the ethics of his former employer”?

I’m not asking to make a point or take a side in this via a pretense of Socratic method, I’m asking to try understanding the motivations and intentions of how Greenwald is being depicted in terms of ‘throwing tantrums’ as a non-journalist fan of journalism.
On an "attitude" level, it's very useful to understand the doctrine of Ruby on Rails (RoR), as written by DHH [1]. Especially if you're coming from some other paradigms / languages etc., RoR can feel quite different. Understanding the philosophy is a nice window to kickstart the "way" of RoR.

On a more practical level, I've found the official Ruby on Rails guides [2] to be super helpful. I started a RoR job almost a year ago without having done any Ruby at all (I had a Python background). I probably should have gone through the tutorials in the OP and in other comments (rails tutorial book comes to mind). But since I didn't, I used the RoR guides A LOT. And they were super useful. Everything from routes, to controllers, to ActiveModel and migrations. They give you a good starting point to get most of the job done. Highly recommend looking at the relevant guides if you are working on specific RoR things!

1: https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/

2: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Because cheap labor.
I've since moved my ruby projects over to asdf for its simplicity, and the fact that you're going to be stuck using something to manage node anyways.