skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (it’s a straight improvement on SHA-2 in isolation).

That's debatable.
How to create coverage maps for radio coverage
Also I have heard multiple youtube videos publicly state (maybe speculatively?) that opting out of mid-roll ads will make Youtube reduce the rate at which their videos are presented to the audience.

The Youtube ad experience has become almost intolerably bad in the past few months. I’m considering just always downloading their videos to my local machine before trying to watch them, even though it’s substantially less convenient.
There is corroboration of at least some of the laptop's from Tony Bobulinski, who worked with the Bidens and has turned over devices with copies of the emails to the authorities.
So the sun is more active but irradiance is decreasing?
I think there's only so much time children can spend on learning all their subjects, so they learn Mendelian genetics, Darwin's evolution, Rutherford's atomic model because they're easy to understand, and close enough approximations for everyday life for non-specialists.
> FWIW, they explain exactly how they'll make money in the website (under Pricing) and in this thread.

No, they explain how they currently hope to make money. That's a long way from being the same thing.
Quantbase – Deploy your own algo trader in 5 minutes with 0 code
Can the iMacs be used as an external monitor for other computers?
Bats on the Ceiling: The Forged Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
> also seen healthy but less able older folks put in homes so that their kids could collect their inheritances and sell off everything else...

Not sure what you mean by this, but putting someone in a skilled nursing facility costs about 10,000/month nominally. The "Deficit Reduction Act" of 2005 (thanks Bush), requires a 5 year look-back period for transactions to family members. Meaning that if a resident spends down all their money and needs to go on medical assistance, the family members are on the hook to pay the equivalent of whatever property or money they received from the parent going back to 5 years before the application of medical assistance (yes, they look at taxes and all bank account records). This stuff is effectively a financial trap for middle class families that has caused immeasurable grief and hardship. Consulting with an lawyer who specializes in elder law is super important.

As for nursing homes, they are sometimes the only option left. It's heartbreaking to put someone in a nursing home. I have done it but it was absolutely the right thing to do for my family. Everyone's situation is different, every nursing home is different. While I am sure that there is no shortage of greedy people, it's unfair to suggest that every person is equipped to give up their employment and take on 24/7/365 nursing care for a loved one and that not doing so is somehow "greedy".
this is almost a description of a type system
Token-based authorship information from Git
And that any set of primary colors includes both "yellow" and "blue".
Can Twitter remove a tweet because advertisers don't want to appear next to it? Can Twitter remove a tweet because it suspects it is an action from a bot? Is it censorship to rank a post lower on someone else's feed? Section 230 is absolutely the crux here because it's about what we expect from internet platforms. Do we expect them to be moderated or not? If we expect them to be unmoderated entirely they would look nothing like the current platforms.
I'm not saying any of Django, Rails or Laravel are fast compared with Node, ASP.Net or Spring but what surprised me was how PHP 7, which is a lot faster than Ruby or Python, somehow managed to fall behind when Laravel was added into the mix. It's as if PHP's performance gains only really apply to raw PHP or lightweight frameworks.
Sure, there's TONS of things that are 'not fascistic' but are bad.
Open Source Needs Open Tools
> Soylent Founder's Politics Rant Shows Tech Execs Don't Understand the World

(1) Founders aren't representative of execs,

(2) Human chow is “tech” only by a definition so broad as to encompass literally any business

(3) Even without 1 & 2, that's a pretty strong generalization to draw from a single example.
Is the little hump inn temperature in the 1940s interpretable? Is it possible this is from the mass industrialization during WW2?
... I'm not convinced.

You can continue an existing thread with known individuals without the mailing list, true. And that undeniably has value, and can be used to re-form connections after loss of the mailing list, and that's great. It both adds value to ongoing use of emails and adds value beyond its lifespan (compared to not ever existing).

But the list is how many people contribute. The list is how general discussions occur. The list is how new contributors join and contribute, as they lack other connections. Without the list, which can be censored just like github, a massive connection-increasing piece of the community is still gone. I feel pretty confident arguing that that is the feature that separates git from github, and email from mailing lists, and it's no more resistant to censorship than any other centralized system.
Pull yourselves together. The previous century had trench warfare, famines, WWII, The Khmer Rouge, the cultural revolution, the Spanish flu, polio, threat of a nuclear holocaust, threat of overpopulation, AIDS, Imperial Japan, Apartheid, lobotomies, etc. Most of that stuff is now under control and probably will be for your kid's entire life. There's no chance global warming will be anywhere near as bad as many of those things for anyone alive today. For even further in the future, we have no idea.

Your despair is probably a result of being fed emotionally manipulative stories from the news and social media for too long. The real world has never been better, and it hasn't stopped improving. Try looking at some of Bill Gates's writing for inspiration. That's somebody who's not afraid to see the bright side of life while not ignoring the dark.
New Material Help to Expand Volumetric 3D Printing
What makes you think I expect them to make an accurate prediction down to the year?

The last prediction from that quote was made in 2013 and predicted 2016 +/- 3 years.

Inaccuracies aren't the issue here. The problem is that well-intentioned scientists and politicians are making overly-alarming predictions that keep eroding the populations trust when they keep failing to come true. How do you convince someone to believe you when you say climate change is a real, serious, and immediate threat when they have been lied to about the subject over and over again?
Back then we didn't have 8 billion people and nuclear weapons.

Consider the impact of ecosystem-related consequences others mentioned on habitability and food production. Once mass migrations and food shortages start, and starving migrants show up at the borders of higher-latitude/elevation countries in amounts orders of magnitude larger than before, what do you think will happen? Will these countries, worrying about how to feed their own citizens as crops fail due to weather anomalies, open up the borders and accept doubling their population? Will the migrants just accept being refused to enter? In the meantime, powers will be jockeying for mining rights of newly-unfrozen, but still not habitable lands. With all that pressure mounting, how long it'll take until someone starts shooting, someone else shoots back, and we'll have a WW3 on our hands?

If climate situation degrades fast enough, we'll wipe ourselves out way before the changing weather does.
The issue is not everyone can afford to pay for real unbiased journalism
> This may be the gravest source of conflict, because there are some countries that are going to want to geoengineer a lot earlier than others, because they’re in deep trouble now.

> If you’re Bangladeshi, and you’re standing up to your knees in water and starving at the same time, when you want to geoengineer is right now–“and I don’t care about your reservations, scientific or otherwise. I don’t care that it still feels okay in Canada–we want this fixed now.”

> Perfectly reasonable position, I would say, but a possible source of international conflict of a very grave order.

> I talked–actually, the head of the Bangladesh Institute of Strategic Studies about this (you didn’t even know that existed, did you?). Well, there is one, it’s quite serious–run by a General, bright guy. I said, “have you heard about geoengineering?” and he smiled–seraphically–and he said, “Mmm. Yes. Your question?”

> And I asked the question, “Do you think that this is something the Bangladesh government might want to do a little bit, before, let’s say, the US government or the Chinese government?”

> He said, “yes it has crossed our minds.”–and then he stopped talking.

~ https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...
And it seems the number of ads has increased a good deal. I tend to get a 2 ad block about every 4-6 minutes now.
What about the economist made you cancel? My impression is that they're still doing a great job of providing trustworthy news which avoids sensationalism
Humans don't seem to require much in the way of a push before racist tendencies emerge:

https://exploringyourmind.com/blue-eyes-and-brown-eyes-the-j...
Yup, kept my 2015 13" pro till I bought the 16" a few months ago. The touch bar is meh for me though. I find it quicker to change volume with physical keys than touch bar but it's not a huge issue. However, love that the physical escape came back. That was big.
Don't let anyone else control your email. Use a personal domain and offline backups (eg: mbsync) for email. That should give you enough portability to dictate your own terms for the service. This might sound like an overkill - but email IDs are too important these days to let anyone else control it.
Cancelled today.
Sure, but some of those things they used to teach us about aren't heritable traits at all. The article recommends studying examples that fit Mendel's model.
The Difference Between Feeling Safe and Being Safe
> Peter maas' arguments seemed quite reasonable

Reasonable, yes. But sufficient to warrant the sweeping changes for which he asks?

His best (and, to my reading, only very solid) point is that Greenwald's article didn't make plain that the full archive is apparently only possessed by two media outlets, who have (in an act of their own tendency to act against the public interest, to be sure) not yet provided it elsewhere.

His assertion that the other media who have juggled these questions have done so with dispassion and exhaustion ("doesn’t explore how major news organizations have done significant stories, and those stories, such as the Journal’s, have not found anything of significance. The Times has also reported on the China deal and found the claims wanting. There are other pieces I can point to...") is a view with glasses so rose-colored as to be a political fiction in 2020 America.

Moreover, Greenwald's response is substantially more sophisticated and convincing.
Which is still good, ad spots are like slots. Google increases the number of slots possible, and content creators choose how many slots they want.

This means more people trying to advertise things can buy those increased numbers of slots which get consumed more frequently and are.
>for at least a year, a prominently displayed donate button.

Just to be sure, are you referring to the "BuyMeCoffee" button on the GitHub page for the extension (https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim)?
Where's their source code? I don't see anything open-source
> and not take out loans.

That's always a good idea if you are an individual, and not a business.
What are the real growth areas? I'd welcome an exit from web development but as a freelancer it seems to be all there is.
It's a placeholder. It's meant to fill in before actual addresses are filled in. But all the call targets are relative addresses.
US Dept of Justice Sues Google for Violating Antitrust Laws
Anecdata: COVID-19 has also been very helpful to a lot of people I know who are in faith transitions.

For example, it was suddenly way easier to stay away from high-pressure faith environments. It also became even more inappropriate for missionaries or members of clergy to show up at the door.

Not giving a huge percentage of one's income also became easier to justify (or just try out, see how it feels) because church-owned infrastructure wasn't being used.

With road trips and much of travel out of the picture, family tradition pressure also dropped for many.

So I'd guess that for a lot of people this has been a life-changing / life-exploring opportunity in the other direction too, whether they resume normal faith-based activities later or not.
Well, Geoff Lawton famously said, "You can solve all the world's problems in a garden." But do you really want to do without dentists?
I've read lots of the history, and it's uncivil to assume otherwise. Limited liability has its place, as a deal by which something gets done that neither the government (because of resources) or the private sector (because of risk) can do alone. The classic example is shipping canals. But those corporations were given time limited charters for specific purposes, and didn't have many of the rights since granted to corporations. You're playing an excluded middle when you assume that contempt for corporations as they exist today implies contempt for corporations in any form whatsoever. I for one would be fine with corporations in their original form, without the later extensions.

> When you can lose all your possessions if an investment you made fails

This is not about an investment failure in the sense of not getting the expected returns. It's about incurred liability. Why should individuals not in general be liable for the choices they make? Ever hear of moral hazard? Any exemptions, as with corporations in their original form, should be very limited and balanced by some public good.

> There’d be no mortgages, no college loans, no car loans, and zero growth.

That is simply not true. It's your claim, so you provide some evidence. Then I'll show what's wrong with it. Even without limited liability, those with assets will assume risks if the potential returns are commensurate. Always have, always will.
Rough place to be. Point well established.
This is the list right here. Particularly the emphasis on story telling; if you've done anything interesting in your past work, your future employers want to hear about it. You are the one who can overcome challenges and pull off a victory!

Nobody wants to listen to a dry list of technology proficiencies - but they LOVE hearing a good story about how you solved a real world problem.
I think that's worth contemplating, but I think the conclusion of that contemplation will be that less technology is not the solution. I think it's pretty obvious that reducing technological progress cannot possibly lead to solutions to big, extreme, but presumably inevitable problems, like impacts from celestial objects, supernovae, etc. It's true that some technologies could cause or hasten extinction, stasis seems to guarantee it.
It's especially delicious that the right have been making fun of "soyboy leftists/liberals" for drinking soylent and such for the last 4 years or more. Turns out the soyest of them all is voting Trump.
Juul Cuts Valuation to $10B
All the low budget productions that used to fill out Blockbuster Video are now filling out Netflix and Amazon.

I always wondered who actually rented those movies and how they made money. I guess the formula still works because people must be watching them on Netflix...
i mean i don't think they might be flat out offering 20% or over, but i have realtor friends that quite commonly do the whole "closed in X days, 15% over asking cash!". so obviously people are coming in with high bids intending to just push out other people quickly.

and i wasn't claiming that paying more prevented you from getting caught purely from a price perspective. i meant more that maybe there are mechanisms at play where this premium is somehow built in. like say you have a shady developer that caters exclusively to this type of clientele. why buy 10 units in a normal complex and invite scrutiny, when you buy this multimillion dollar unit in a boutique building and everything is setup to help you and all parties get the benefit.

manhattan real estate at the top end (i'm talking like 10M+ price units) are absolutely "tanking" during this pandemic.
those prices are not subject to the typical market force.
i'm just speculating of course, but i see it like how people speculate on art as laundering. the value is completely just whatever the heck these rich people say it is as it changes hands.
That's not geoengineering, that's geo-move-fast-and-break-things. A completely thoughtless process.
The critical mistake was made very very long ago, when they didn't pursue becoming a platform aggressively, at all other cost. They decided they want a big cut and were brazen to think they owned enough mindshare to draw all the eyeballs. Always pursue dominance. Sow, sow, sow, and more sow. Then reap. Amazon was already an object lesson for them, but they ignored it.

In hindsight, of course it went that way. Have you seen the culture deck?

They've been on AWS forever haven't they? Long before prime video. I very much doubt that it reduces their cost, even at the pricing they must get. It lets them focus their effort.

Ok lastly you're wrong on their longevity. Yes some people will cancel but the vast majority will not, and they will see more revenue. I don't 'get' Netflix (the content sucks and they are like Google -- your favorite show is likely to get canned, simply because the very best shows are almost by definition "uniquely" appealing and TV, er streaming content is too expensive to generate many such shows) but every remote has a NFLX button. In the end there will be netflix and disney.
The UN was doing such a great job with Middle East peace... such a shame that Kushner and the bad orange man ruined all the great work they had done.
No, the little hump during the war is caused by the fact that before and after the war there were various groups sampling sea surface temperatures with various techniques, but during the war only the Americans kept recording these temperatures.
Netflix raises prices on standard and premium plans
This explains a lot. I was confused by these numbers. So they're expanding rapidly internationally.
On the upside, modern tech is a potential antidote to this. Some elderly are able to keep their freedom and the dignity and quality of life that go with it by using tech to stay connected, provide reminders and alarms and so forth to mitigate some of the issues that cause us to think they would be better off with supervision in a nursing home.

If this concerns you and you are a programmer or similar, you may be able to contribute to such solutions.
> exercise and eating healthy now as insurance against a future where I'd be stuck in a nursing home in my final years.

We would all like to think that "the end" would come at a ripe old age with a peaceful death in one's sleep. Sadly that's not usually the case. People who live a long time can expect a cascade of long-lasting chronic health problems leading to their death.

If you're going to focus on diet and exercise do it for your quality of life NOW and not for the distant, unpredictable future.

There's something to be said for dropping dead at around 80 of a massive heart attack.
On Life in the Shadow of the Boomers
I would expect them to be aware of and communicate their uncertainty.
Exactly what I did too! 2015 MBP -> 16" MBP. Couldn't wait for the ARM Macbooks but super happy about the physical escape button :)
> Modern JavaScript is pretty sweet to write compared to pre 2015.

That's damning with faint praise if I ever heard it. JavaScript has more or less caught up with the lowest common denominator of other languages. But I've yet to hear anyone make a good case for actively choosing to use it.
Most of that goes into the mode of "straw manning" my words, or switching topics, rather than addressing my points head on. Have a great night.
Good bye Watergate.
> The emails exist and I think have gone through the same amount of due process as other leaked documents.

I'm not convinced. The story was initially rejected from several outlets and even struggled to get a byline in the NYPost. This is on top of the questionable provenance of the laptop and the lack of metadata on the files. All of this for a story that, at least in my view, isn't even very remarkable.

> Here's NYTs David Barstow (who broke the Trump tax returns) discussing why the faith of the leaker/hacker does not matter:

I think my point isn't clear—a bad faith actor doesn't intrinsically make their information less truthful. The veracity of the information is a completely independent factor. My argument is that, when someone brings new information, and you expect this person to be acting in bad faith, you should evaluate that information with extra scrutiny, because they have incentive to fabricate and to stretch the truth. The information may, ultimately, be truthful, in which case good! check it, double-check it, and publish it! But their word shouldn't be taken for granted just because the story is exciting.
Content you see is based on where you are, not where you’re paying.
YAML is for Computers. ksonnet is for Humans (2018)
I will continue to pirate Netflix originals until Netflix officially supports 4k on Linux.
I had an electronics professor who in 2012 was adamant that in five years smartphones would be using x-ray transceivers to communicate with cell towers.
I think what this mostly shows is the unimaginable complexity that many parts of life carry, even if I myself may not have insight into them.

And it's probably an alright source for people whose geo data isn't looking right.
I actually do wonder though if in the end, it really matters?

Everyone with power ends up losing it, or acquiring some strife, maybe if we cared less we'd find out it wasn't that much of a concern anyway.

I mean, do people chose power or does power choose them? Would you appreciate it if you had it?
It's a test. Do HN readers evaluate articles purely on the quality of their contents, or do we also judge on the basis of the author's identity and associations?

For example, I found this conversation to be rather interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078739
There is plenty of broad, global data demonstrating climate change, and that data makes it even more clear (although it is less "dramatic"). But it's also true that climate change will make the "dramatic" events more common.
But then there's soil depletion. Also, whatever food we won't be getting from the sea will become an extra strain on agriculture.
They don’t seem to apply this rigor to stories that are engineered to make the orange one look bad... the NYT “anonymous” piece, the hit job re: Trumps taxes, dishonest articles about border separations (who built the cages?), etc., etc. it’s become clear that the media is absolutely biased to the core. This coming from a 2x Obama voter.
If you're actually using that configurability (i.e. your method actually instantiates different implementations in different cases) then no - that's the same thing you'd do in any language. If you're pre-emptively defining factory methods that actually just call the normal constructor then yes (a lot of Java bloat is like that - see also getters and setters on every field for the sake of the 0.01% where you actually want to do something other than just read/write the field).
see the link IvyMike posted below from the same group
The last solar cycle was extraordinarily inactive. I'm not sure why this bubbling to the top - the title even with the (2004) is misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_24
A lot less misery and toil than almost everyone that came before them.
We hired a great person to help take care of a loved one during the day but it was complete luck that that person was available. It was still awful and if he had become any harder to take care of, we would have had to put him in a nursing home. Its a no win option.