skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seem to be quite some people in here feeling the same
about USENET.

I had a quick look around, and the tools aren't trivial to
set up. If someone who has experience with NNTP servers could bundle things as nice Debian packages with easy setup
then that may help spread it again.

Spam can be reduced by using moderation, I wonder if there
are new ideas around for countering spam in non-moderated groups?
LPT: firefox on mobile allows you to install extensions such as ublock
I'd argue if a "dev" doesn't need more compute than a "creative", he or she is doing obsolete work.
yes, and? earnings are material events that often move share prices considerably. there are implied moves based on options prices for earnings events.

the actual stock market rarely functions like the one you read about in a CFA textbook, especially this year.
I think that's a very forgiving take. I recognize that climate change is extremely complex and it's a huge accomplishment for our models to be as accurate as they are. However, they are clearly not accurate enough to be making statements like "2016 ±3 years". Statements like that are easy ammunition for climate change denial.
Not sure what you're on about but I wasn't complaining about my karma.

The moods and necessity for sugar coating everything has only gotten worse - exponentially so, if you ask me - in the last decade.

Karma is a reflection of that. I don't care about fake internet points.
there are solutions to that too
And when you pay there's no ads (hulu has two options, but one is ad-free).

That's the biggest bit - with cable you pay a ton and still have to watch a crazy amount of ads.

I will never pay for a service that includes ads even if you pay.
This is really brutal, and without knowing 'the truth' it's pretty rare for entities to use these kinds of harsh words and it won't land well him.
Congresswoman Cortez said that the world would end by 2030 if we did nothing. Later, she said only a sea sponge would believe her.

Presumably, she is arguing that hyperbolic proclamations are a valid way to get people to listen and engage in political discourse.

Of course, I presume that by "serious people" you are referring to scientists, but it definitely creates a mixed message from politicians- you know, the ones setting government policy.

At what point is it not hyperbole, but actual serious discussion? Should we treat everything as hyperbolic? All this does is confuse the problem (making it more or less drastic than it actually is).

In my lifetime, "serious people" have often made predictions about drastic things and were completely wrong- and they had models to support them! This is true about many things beyond climate change as well. Why should this be any different? Why should I believe that I should act, or believe that there is still time to do so? Is this a new hockey stick graph?

If you don't invest a lot of time sorting through all the BS, most people I think end up flipping a coin, picking a side and just going with it.
I agree. Especially as a developer. Even migrating to a new version of MacOS makes me nervous, let alone new hardware architecture. I’m excited for the future, but I’ll be late to get there.
I frequently get double ads nowadays, they are really pushing to a Youtube Premium signature
I don't know, I don't think we give network/cable TV enough credit.

I'm pretty intrigued by stories of how certain shows flopped in their first season (or two) but managed to persevere through some persistent TV exec who kept it funded until they got the story right.

Plenty of examples of mainstream TV shows that went this route. Seinfeld, The Office, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the list goes on.

TV execs really care about the product. By contrast, I don't think Netflix cares about the product. I think Netflix cares about the data about the product, which ultimately means dropping an original after 2 seasons.

It works I guess, but I've haven't had a Netflix subscription in a while, and on those occasions where I do renew it I just take a peek for a month before leaving again. More than enough time to watch 2 seasons of TV.
If other outlets want to put their reputations on the line for something you can't vet, do you want to jump into the mud with them? The intercept decided no, seems pretty simple.
I don’t know. I really liked the Boys on Amazon Prime. Except they now release one episode at a time. And Disney did the same thing with the Mandalorian. So yeah - I can’t binge watch new series. Watch anytime is more like a DVR feature.

Netflix has other problems. If there’s one or two seasons of a show, you don’t know if the show had a proper ending or if it was just cancelled.
Is that because you can not replace Facebook, or because it's merely inconvenient to do so?

Because the law doesn't protect convenience in these contexts.
The PDF: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2020/q3...
I think there is fault on both sides. Can’t just punish the ransomware authors.

1) Security in healthcare is a shit show. If there are lots of open exploits, there needs to be a fast way for them to get fixed and the software vendors shamed on.

2) when someone discovers an exploit, they shouldn’t have to fight lawsuits. The response to security flaws should not be suppressing them but fixing them ASAP.

3) people shouldn’t have to lose lives to make a point that security is weak and you better pay up for disregarding it.
You'd think as a former opiate addict you might have a little more understanding and less emotionally negative response to something as mundane as shopping. If you feel this way about people who got to malls, how should I feel about junkies shooting up in my alley?
I'm reading the emails and they seem to be perfectly reasonable edit suggestions (I'm a person that's familiar with the editing process)- it points out that the article is attempting to accomplish too much with evidence that is actually vague and suggests increased focus to critique that liberal media isn't holding Biden's feet to the fire. Asking for an article to be narrowed down in scope is a perfectly good suggestion as an editorial board, especially in news articles where too much stuff can make the article ineffective. Furthermore, the editor is nothing less than professional/polite, while the response is full of wild accusations like "What's happening here is obvious: you know that you can't explicitly say you don't want to publish the article because it raises questions about the candidate you and all other TI Editors want very much to win the election in 5 days."

It looks like a tantrum to me.
I think it's completely clear from context that the references are to the project as a human organization, not its content. Obviously recognition is given by organizers... not by Creative Commons-licensed content, ha! Unless text has become sentient now. :)

But I don't know why you're then choosing to baselessly insult people who discuss things about Mozilla...? Call me crazy, but I don't think that's a helpful or constructive attitude here...
Neither the parent link nor the post I linked are from accounts with an inordinate number of posts for Troy Hunt's blog (I count 1 each). I don't think he's breaking HN rules, I just think he's being deceptive and unethical.
Remember, that 2+ MB is the download size of a bare-bones application. Relevant sizes for real-world applications, obviously, would be bigger (though, depending on the total size, the Blazor part might or might not be essential).
This non-response comment perfectly illustrates the point being made. Well done.

Did you have something of substance to add?
Once you start getting past mars the effectiveness of photovoltaics starts to drop off. We have used them out to about jupiter for probes. This asteroid sits between mars and jupiter. However to power a mining operations you would need a massive solar array. I mean massive. Same is going to happen to a large mirror array for a solar furnace to use for a thruster. It's going to be have to be huge.

It would probably be better to use nuclear. The energy density is high so you don't have to launch as much material to get your mining infrastructure in place.
Thank goodness for Newpipe, even if they get broken way too often in between updates.
Fingerprints are much more reliable than photos.

I was watching a show on TV last night where they were minutely examining a newly discovered photo of Lincoln to see if it was really Lincoln or someone else. One analyst gave it an "85% probability it was Lincoln".
If you haven't, you should join the CouchDB slack. People there are quite helpful. https://couchdb.apache.org/#chat
Link to presentation which is easier to digest

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2020/q3...

Edited to correct the link... I blame my mistake on how the design of their IR page totally guided my eye to the top of the list of "past events"... https://investor.fb.com/investor-events/default.aspx
I got really far in reading the comments in response to this before I realized Doom Emacs wasn't an implementation of the video game in emacs lisp.
Tiffany and Co – The Rise and Fall and Rise Again
This doesn't really strike me as a cheap attempt to sway elections. Rather, it makes IMHO a pretty reasonable case for the idea that media - even independent publications - in the US are extremely polarized and biased when it comes to politics (albeit that's kinda beating a dead horse at this point).

With all this said, IMHO the style of the narrative also contributes to the ever increasing aggravation: why are people so focused on what can or cannot be construed as fodder for character assassination, when ideally an election is supposed to be about discussing the merits of different platforms. Investigative journalism certainly has its place, but in the context of the imminent elections and the political landscape, it would do a whole lot better to simply publish a down-to-earth for-dummies side-by-side comparison of candidate platforms, to dissuade pitchfork-induced action and encourage proper level-headed consideration by undecided voters.
Maybe that will be MAD for the 23rd century - you blow up our habitats, we'll drop rocks on your cities.
https://vancedapp.com/
That statement reads, to me, as unprofessional and petulant. What kind of editor makes a personal attack on a former colleague in a public setting in the name of a journalistic organization? It simply drives home to me the idea that it was the editors, not Greenwald, who are being petty dictators.

I guess how this whole debacle is received will probably depend on one's life experience.
When you died, you had a 10 second phase in which you could enter coins to CONTINUE at the current level of the game, or you would have to start from the beginning again.
It's clear you've had experiences that have caused you to feel unsafe at times in your life. What's stopping you from having empathy for people that feel that way currently?

One aspect of this newfangled definition of safe is that women can feel confident existing in a space without fear of being sexually harassed. Is that worth considering? Is that a political game?
Is that "Too Long Didn't Listen" or "Too Lazy Didn't Listen"?

Serious question. I'm also in the boat of I'm usually in a position to read something, far less commonly in a position to listen to something.
Still profitable.
I would love for something like Zerotier's Earth network to be more popular.
> Fox New's most popular show, and as far as I know the most popular cable news show there is

Carlson's show doesn't even pretend to be a news show, in the sense of something that communicates what is even purportedly actual facts about the subjects it discusses, it is a vehicle for presenting hyperbole and non-literal commentary which is recognized as such by any reasonable viewer.

That's not just me, that's Fox News's own successful argument defending the show against defamation claims.
At this point I'm forced to conclude that there is more evidence pointing towards the authenticity of this information than pointing away from it.

Consider:

- The FBI came out and said there's no evidence of foreign disinformation.

- As has the DOJ.

- As has the director of national intelligence.

- Hunter's lawyer contacting the shop owner to ask for the return of the hardware

- The FBI's grand jury subpoena for the laptop

- The Biden campaign's weak (those meetings weren't in our schedule), later walked back to non (they might have happened anyways), repudiation of authenticity

- Travel mentioned in the emails matches up with Secret Service travel records

- The absurd volume of pictures of Hunter Biden in compromising positions

The argument against authenticity, at this point, falls deeper and deeper into conspiracy theorist territory. At the very least, it fails Occam's razor. The best argument I know of against authenticity is the lack of release of any raw messages with headers, but even that is pretty low-impact in the face of FBI/DOJ/DNI confirmation.

I've collected what I found so far here, both arguments for and against, with sources where possible: https://www.kialo.com/are-the-hunter-biden-emails-as-release...

If the raw messages are later released in whole, and the DKIM is validated, that's the smoking gun. A number of media organizations are then going to have some very uncomfortable questions to answer. The same later applies to some of our three-letter agencies if they turn out to be bogus. That would mean our investigative and intelligence agencies are both tainted.
I remember thinking when I first saw Marko it's kinda crazy how unknown Marko is given how well they've been doing streaming SSR and Partial Hydration for years. At production scale at eBay.
There’s also no evidence yet that Donald Trump wore a full body costume and pretended to be Hunter Biden while typing these emails.

Guess that can’t be called debunked either.

“No evidence yet disproving...” is not a standard of evidence for an extreme assertion. It’s ridiculous to act like it is.

The number of logical fallacies in your reply is alarming - and most regular citizens are susceptible to these same fallacies, especially when spammed out in high production infotainment.
Have you looked at ThingLab [1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThingLab
I have written a guide for emailing patches:

https://git-send-email.io

And also for configuring your client for plaintext, which is strongly preferred by most mailing lists:

https://useplaintext.email

If you or anyone else reading this is ever anxious about making mistakes in their early posts on a mailing list, feel free to send the email you'd like to write to me first - sir@cmpwn.com - and I'll look it over and make any suggestions if necessary.
Our docs cover some of the data node management [0] and native replication [1] particular in more detail.

Right now you can use Postgres physical replication for the access node, with one as the primary (and handling DDL/writes), while Access Node replicas can scale reads to the rest of the cluster. As alluded to in the blog post, we'll probably look to enable clients to write directly to data nodes as a form of further scaling writes (so that the AN "primary" would only be strictly required for DDL), as opposed to a multi-master approach.

[0] https://docs.timescale.com/v2.0/using-timescaledb/distribute...

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/v2.0/using-timescaledb/distribute...
I think this is an interesting article about an under-appreciated detail of what a compositing window manager does. Lots of links and details for anyone who'd like to learn more about Mutter.
While true, in relation to the stories about Russian collusion without any credible evidence, I think this criticism of editorial decisions is very, very one-sided. Especially considering publicly available evidence.

It is true that it might not be the right thing to publish, in context of current smears in politics not exceptional, aside maybe violation of privacy which also didn't get much focus as of late.

He also seem to have contractual rights to publish it, so the editors aren't responsible. The effectiveness of this censorship is a large concern aside from the story.
"offline-first system with mandatory redundant caching and no unattended cache flushing."
Something like email
"Ideally it should also intend clients to distribute seen messages between each-other."
Maybe a mailing list
"overquoting tradition"
Like I'm doing on this UTF-8 enabled page with compatible HTML. Yes, quoting can be redundant but on email it preserves sometimes valuable context in a redundant way.

Aren't you reinventing email exept its compatibility to every device on the world? Compatibility and availability are sometimes more usefull than the tax of legacy systems.
The link is for Q2.
That would indeed be a dream. There is definitely a space in the lineup for a machine which does offer reasonably upgradable components, like battery, memory and storage, as well as better repairability. There are enough professionals, who would be willing to pay for such a machine and bear it, it if gets larger than the current machines. Maybe in an 18" form factor as the followup to the long-discontinued 17" MB Pro.

I can understand that Apple has a tradition of being an extremely streamlined company with a small lineup. That was essential to its grows in the early 2000ths. But it is now a 2 trillion company, so they should allow for a bit more variety (how many different iPads do they sell?) just to make more customers happy/able to choose Apple hardware at all.
Does that includes Youtube Music? Or is that a completely separate user count?

Spotify seems to be doing rather well in tough competition, I am happy :)
AFAIK it's zero-party consent for video in Canada. So, I'm not seeing the issue (in terms of legality anyways)
The Tamil Nadu state government (and a few other states), in India, did something like that - when the real estate market fell a bit, the government noticed that the developers were still holding on to many ready-to-occupy flats (condos) in the hopes of getting a higher price later. The government immediately issued a notice that once a residence is constructed by such developers and is ready-to-occupy, property tax and utility bills (for water) has to be paid for it whether it is occupied or not. Thus builders stopped building in excess or holding on to it to cut supply and artifically raise demand (and thus prices).
Even for uncontrolled crashing you still need to use fuel. You need to use energy to slow the object down enough to fall into earths gravity well.
In my country (Scotland) hospitalisations really start increasing in the 45+ age bracket: https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker...

Scroll down to “Hospital Admissions by Age Group”

Sure, it’s mostly old people who die (my parents age group actually) but I’m not sure how you tackle the problem of overflowing hospitals.
Ok... Let's fly to the moon!!

Look at this puppy - it can walk on its front legs!
Here is a take. FB seems to be doing pretty well:

a. Both DAU and MAU continue to grow. FB now has 2.7B MAU and 1.8B DAU. Combining across all their products (WhatsApp, Insta..) the DAP is 2.54B

b. Ads is the source of income and FB makes $39.6 per user in the US&CA and $7.89 avg. world wide

c. Operating expenses are kind of stabilizing which is a good thing for FB.

The presentation is a good easy read. I like how FB define the metrics like DAP etc.
IIRC Microsoft a few years back decided to throw in with MDN as THE source for web API docs: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-redirect-7700-msdn-pages-m...

> Microsoft is joining Google, the W3C, and Samsung to make Mozilla’s MDN Web Docs as the single place for web API reference.

Now that Microsoft is on Chromium, and THAT is also documented in MDN, and Google and Microsoft both own public cloud providers.. I feel like this move is more a step in the evolution of MDN rather than Mozilla simply sending it out to pasture.
Rails is in a really good place.

When I learned it back in 2015 there were so many resources for learning, it felt like every time I had a specific problem related to a feature I was implementing there was either a railscasts or gorails video on it, along with 10 blog posts and stack overflow results. I can only imagine how much better it is now.

It has been one of the only semi-modern learning experiences where I was able to go from ground zero to building a real application just by reading the docs, getting started guides and Googling.

Opinions combined with a massive community are an awesome combo.

It's definitely noticeable when you try to learn a newer framework with a much smaller community and less opinions. You could end up Googling for what you might think is a common thing to solve only to find zero answers in sight, or there might be a few scattered posts that are outdated and partially implemented because everyone has their own opinions and go off in their own directions. It's just dead end after dead end and getting stuck trying to pioneer stuff without a strong grasp on how things work.
Verneshot
More people will read a good reddit post in a week than will read a 2020 nntp post in 1 billion years. Yeash.
Yes, TimescaleDB plays friendly with most PG extensions.

And Timescale Cloud comes pre-loaded with many of them - https://kb.timescale.cloud/en/articles/2754991-supported-pos...
I bought the first white x86 MacBook on the day it was announced, and it went pretty well. There was one design issue that needed fixed in the first year, but other than that it was a solid laptop for 5 years or more till it finally died. I would have waited, but I was extending the life of the previous tibook for a year prior.

I’m not in the market for a laptop now, but I’m really curious about what’s in the pipeline. Oddly enough, My MBP is about as old as the tibook was in that transition, but it’s not feeling slow or ole enough to replace yet.
There are many co-incidences that seem to be so strange that you start thinking they can not be co-incidences, until you take into account that there are an infinite number of facts which do not seem to be co-incidental at all. But beware of untrue facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Kennedy_coinci...
that depends on who operates your email.

Twitter censors direct messages, why can’t Gmail censor who can email whom?
I doubt the number of nodes is important when you can split a large group of them into a few subgroups and analyze them or alter how they interact with each other, then repeat subdivision; because again, them overlay networks are like smaller sandboxes inside the big one.
Last I checked Apollo had a persistent cache but not true offline support.
The premise here is evading capital controls. It seems like that would be a crime in Canada.
Machine learning: Pinpointing sources of most common cardiac arrhythmia
Wrong link. Correct link to Q3 https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2020/q3...
"Our third quarter 2020 effective tax rate was 4%" [down from 17% YoY]. Numbers like this sure support the "rich corporations don't pay taxes" narrative with average Americans paying a 24% effective tax rates.
Very interesting - I'm going to show it to my 11yo son and see what we can build.
It’s not about who Greenwald is, it’s about the quality of reporting & the evidence they have to support their claims. You can’t run big stories based on the reputation of the journalist rather than the quality of the reporting. You’re basically suggesting they should get out of the way of Greenwald because he’s a celebrity journalist.
I think you are too pessimistic. This year is bad, but most recent years have been much better. And in most places on Earth, the new generation will have a better life than the last one.
You have the entire back catalog. Obviously if something hasn't been released yet, then you can't watch it. If you wait until the episodes are released, then you can binge watch it.

That situation is unchanged from cable days.

And the Netflix issue is also unchanged from cable days.

My point is being able to click on something or search it and watch it is most definitely better than flipping channels and dealing with tv schedules and all that crap.