skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Free" is the worst pricing of all.

Open-source is great. One time purchase price is great for products that don't require maintenance. Subscription pricing is perfectly valid for online services that are not open-source.

Free? Free is the worst. I don't get any trust that the service will stay around, it can completely change along the way to "paid", and I don't get to keep anything in that case.
The article that Greenwald resigned over was just published: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
She attacks him personally without ever refuting any of his points. She hand waves that they will correct the record "in time." Her response is riddled with sensationalist language.

I'm gonna go with Greenwald's version of events on this one. This person seems fully compromised.
If you can figure out which book, chapter, and verses you refer to, I would be interested to know. Maybe Proverbs chapter 6 [1]? I think that would enhance the discussion (even if this subthread would become a bit of a tangent). It's generally good to go to the primary source even if you don't follow the religion in question.

If we are talking about Proverbs 6, then -- what it has to say /could/ be spun as misogynistic, but it isn't very, really: The message (in regards to women) is to avoid adultery; the metaphor is that practicing adultery will cost you much more than visiting a prostitute (of which it presumably also does not approve). It is the kind of thing you could imagine a mother, nanna, auntie, or babushka giving to a young man as advice. Seems commonsensical enough.

If you had something else in mind though, it would be great if you could share.

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+6&vers...
The Intercept has long been an activist paper. That's why Glenn joined. That doesn't mean they care about revenue over truth though
How does the First Amendment come into play in a situation wherein a private corporation making an internal decision regarding a corporate asset?
I hope the following doesn't sound pontifical: Even if this is legit, USD 10T would hardly be enough to cover the life expenses of a single founder in an average western country (not super-expensive like London, NYC or Swiss) for mabye three months. Or a team of three for one month.

You should fund at the order of USD 100T to feed a small founder team for one year to make an impact.
This sounds like a tantrum. Without knowing any of the facts (or being a US citizen, so not taking sides), Glenn's story seems more credible.
"The problem with this line of thinking — and the Trump administration’s ideological and monetary support for NASA exploring the solar system — is that it perpetuates the myth that, through technological developments, humans are destined to leave Earth and find a utopia elsewhere."

No, the problem with this is the "monetary support" line. NASA's budget has been relatively flat and was increased by Congress over the requested budget in 2018, IIRC.
The Economist is quickly losing that reputation. I cancelled my subscription. The FT is still pretty good, though they shy away from anything critical of powerful corporations/individuals.
the important part is they are all "elites", and whether their work is productive or not is not that important. they are separated from the masses at lagre by something. it could be college education or senatorial status or a noble title the details doesn't matter. they are elites doesn't mean they are "evil", and all societies need elites. there are just some positions they compete for and if there are not enough to go around sociaty can pay for it. the important part is not to overproduce elites
> That would work if, like golang, bazel was the "default" package manager for everyone. Right now it's not easy to get, for example, vulkan or muslc or qt as a bazel package.

I agree, but I don't think a "Bazel management system" would solve this issue, because the problem is people buying into bazel in the first place

> It's also not easy to publish a version of your package (A) that depends on another package (B). This would create a diamond-problem like situation where your package (C) depends on both packages (A->B, C->A, C->B). So, some code needs to resolve these issues and reproducible identify the exact hashs of everything to pull in to make it a not-manual process.

This is a good point. However, I think realistically, effort would be better spent currently on making it easy to bazelize existing code. I have (unfortunately) never been able to pull an external library without manually bazelizing it, and this only actually ends up becoming a problem when bazel picks up enough momentum in OSS that you are likely to find a external library that is already bazelised.
All of the devs on my team would rather maintain docs in markdown documents with pull requests versus in wiki form or in google docs. Yes the bar for contribution is slightly higher. But barely.

Did they confirm you have to write raw HTML? Markdown seems vastly more likely to me.
I for one refuse to play this game anymore. I don't want to be part of a game where words can be arbitrarily redefined by one party to mean exactly what they want it to mean now.

It is enough now.

And this is coming from someone who wasn't allowed to play in the schoolyard as a child, someone who was knocked in the head by an older classmate, got beaten etc while teachers looked the other way. This went on until I learned to fight back and I got a teacher who didn't care that I was outgroup and stood up for me.

My mind and body knows a bit about this and I'm confident that what we are seing here isn't a solution rather than extremists making things worse.
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My VDS died a couple of weeks ago, taking my email server and blog with it. I've switched my email to a third party service, and if I restore my blog it'll probably be to github pages.

I spent 16 years maintaining those things in the decentralized style, and I think it's fair to say that effort was of literally no benefit to anyone, other than the hosting company I paid hundreds of pounds to for the ultimately doomed VDS. It's a relief to have finally handed them over to people whose job is to maintain them.

Edit: Also when my blog had a comments section I got like 10-20 legit responses to posts and hundreds of spam messages that were a huge pain to manage.
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> He has stuck by his claim -- despite the findings of numerous national and international intelligence community investigations and even a Republican senate investigations -- that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election.

I think you're grossly misrepresenting his opinion on the matter. No one denies that Russia made some half-assed attempts to influence the election. Every country tries to interfere in every election. Hell, we even bragged about it at times: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

Even Biden himself brags about interfering in the affairs of other governments: https://youtu.be/FdHWU5jDQ2w?t=46

But did Russia conspire with the Trump campaign to rig the election or provide dirt on Hillary Clinton? No, and he's right for standing by that claim despite the immense pressure from partisan hacks who have effectively smeared him as some kind of Russian puppet. Your post is evidence of how effective that smear campaign has been.
Bitwarden. Works everywhere & has OTP on the super affordable premium plan. Could not do anything without it now.
I have looked, many times, and I have not been able to find a single institution I would trust to keep me broadly informed. I do not think the problem is lazyness. What would you recommend for US coverage?
I don’t think I would agree. There are so many many different topics on Wikipedia. I think in all likelihood there is an enormously bigger amount of topics on Wikipedia that could lead to far bigger problems than some days of time wasted for a software developer, if the pages were to contain seriously bad information.
> that some of them may not exist at some point in the future is a terrible reason to not use them at all

the reason is that the longer I use them the more I pump data into it and the more I am getting suckered for when they shut them down. this is exactly the justification for why standards should be open.
Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept
This tweet which includes a statement from Intercept EIC Betsy Reed , and it says it all:

https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is really incredible. Most people don't understand it's consequences.

Think of numbers as resolution as well as quantity. Zooming in and out of a screen. What happens if you zoom in all the way? Well that's a lot like derivatives.

So at infinite resolution, if you sum up everything in the past, you can predict one step in the future. And the inverse holds. If you are perfect, and zoom in all the way at one point, you can know the entirely of the past. That function line is not just a bunch of dumb dots. Zoom in all the way, and it's a miniature function line.

With integrals, I remember wondering why a first power function integrates to an ellipse instead of a circle on my graphing calculator. r^2 is the area of a circle right? What solved it for me was seeing the output value of the function as the area. And looking back, what would have worked is if my calculator went into polar coordinate mode, with input as the radius and output the area of a sweep. From there I went on to seeing squares as the output of controlling two legs of input, and pressure and velocity in fluids really made sense. To go forward, you need to get the pressure to hit all sealing surfaces.
I feel like the response from the Intercept should be part of this thread:

GLENN GREENWALD’S DECISION to resign from The Intercept stems from a fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship. Glenn demands the absolute right to determine what he will publish. He believes that anyone who disagrees with him is corrupt, and anyone who presumes to edit his words is a censor. Thus, the preposterous charge that The Intercept’s editors and reporters, with the lone, noble exception of Glenn Greenwald, have betrayed our mission to engage in fearless investigative journalism because we have been seduced by the lure of a Joe Biden presidency. A brief glance at the stories The Intercept has published on Biden will suffice to refute those claims.

The narrative Glenn presents about his departure is teeming with distortions and inaccuracies — all of them designed to make him appear as a victim, rather than a grown person throwing a tantrum. It would take too long to point them all out here, but we intend to correct the record in time. For now, it is important to make clear that our goal in editing his work was to ensure that it would be accurate and fair. While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign — and launder them as journalism.

We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be, and we remain proud of much of the work we did with him over the past six years. It is Glenn who has strayed from his original journalistic roots, not The Intercept.

The defining feature of The Intercept’s work in recent years has been the investigative journalism that came out of painstaking work by our staffers in Washington, D.C., New York, and across the rest of the country. It is the staff of The Intercept that has been carrying out our investigative mission — a mission that has involved a collaborative editing process.

We have no doubt that Glenn will go on to launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors — such is the era of Substack and Patreon. In that context, it makes good business sense for Glenn to position himself as the last true guardian of investigative journalism and to smear his longtime colleagues and friends as partisan hacks. We get it. But facts are facts, and The Intercept’s record of fearless, rigorous, independent journalism speaks for itself.

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
He stopped being a credible journalist because he broke ranks and deviated from the liberal orthodoxy?
Sorry, can't edit the comment from here, those italics make it seem snarky. Should have been an asterisk after proving and before the next sentece that I forgot to escape.
After power-down, the system reboots, and the process needs to restart. All in-progress activity is lost. There's no suspend; There's no hibernate. There's no "modern standby."

There's "The system was powered off, soooo... we're going to let the glass furnace cool down, and in a few hours when it's sufficiently cool and everything else in the plant is ready, we're going to start up the process again."

Needless to say, this isn't the sort of behavior that'll pass the HLKs.
Shouldn't people contributing to MDN be fairly comfortable with writing HTML? You could make the case for github and git but those aren't exactly uncommon for developers either.

This is a strange thing to gripe about.
> Sorry to say, but almost EVERYTHING big that happens on this planet helps to perpetuate the current socio-economic system that is designed for the one percent to stay in power and the working class to stay working.

Sorry this is false.

The top 1% owning everything has been since the beginning. Pareto discovered this last century. It doesn't matter what the socio-economic system is. It is just a reality of life.

> One of Pareto's equations achieved special prominence, and controversy. He was fascinated by problems of power and wealth. How do people get it? How is it distributed around society? How do those who have it use it? The gulf between rich and poor has always been part of the human condition, but Pareto resolved to measure it. He gathered reams of data on wealth and income through different centuries, through different countries: the tax records of Basel, Switzerland, from 1454 and from Augsburg, Germany, in 1471, 1498 and 1512; contemporary rental income from Paris; personal income from Britain, Prussia, Saxony, Ireland, Italy, Peru. What he found – or thought he found – was striking. When he plotted the data on graph paper, with income on one axis, and number of people with that income on the other, he saw the same picture nearly everywhere in every era. Society was not a "social pyramid" with the proportion of rich to poor sloping gently from one class to the next. Instead it was more of a "social arrow" – very fat on the bottom where the mass of men live, and very thin at the top where sit the wealthy elite. Nor was this effect by chance; the data did not remotely fit a bell curve, as one would expect if wealth were distributed randomly. "It is a social law", he wrote: something "in the nature of man"

This is known as the "Iron law of oligarchy". Elites will always end up running everything and collecting everything. If you remove the current set of elites a new set of elites will take their place. Unfortunately these facts forms the basis of fascism. However that doesn't mean the observation isn't valid.
$10k for 6% of a company should be criminal.
> ...a new intern named Bob. Bob raised a finger and said "Yes, I have a question...

Damn those smart-ass interns!
It hasn't but people like to pretend it has

Good journalists tend to not rely on on one anonymous source, they check with other sources and available evidence. The thing is this white house is extremely dishonest and corrupt and leaks like a seive hence a lot of anonymous sources
Now nothing, youre entitled to your opinion. Cheers!

But from your comment above, can you please let me know why the WSJ says there is no connection between Hunter's company and Joe Biden despite Hunter's texts discussing Joe's involvement?
This person seems upset that NASA has a budget of $22.6 billion. Apparently he or she has never seen the US annual budget. $22 billion is a rounding error.

The US spends $3.6 trillion per year on health care expenditures. If we shut NASA down, and diverted all of their budget to health care, we could pay for ~2.5 days of health care for everyone in the US.

I mention health care only because the article also laments that a GOP "priority" is not "cover all pre-existing conditions."

Perfect is not the enemy of good.
>In the long long term, isn't it reasonable to assume that Earth may end up losing mass due to space launches?

No. It is much more likely that Earth would become a long-term importer of space manufacturing for quite some time. It is much cheaper to drop stuff down into Earth's deep gravity well than to hoist it up into space. Pretty much everything in orbit (except for the Moon and mass where the Moon's gravitional influence dominates) will eventually come back down to the Earth's surface, too
$10,000.... geee thanks.... We can afford electricity this month!
Not sure why Lisp is actually relevant IN THE REAL WORLD.
His argument: Try his website again, and if that doesn't work:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201029194008/Karl-Voit.at/2020...
I think the point is that a self-interested/amoral person would be unlikely to leave a career as a lawyer to become a journalist.

I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by this. some people value influence more than money.
Lol interesting point. I guess might be just totally different perspectives of thinking about it. I know whenever I write a troubleshooting question on reddit/forums etc, I try to include multiple forms of the same keyword (writing ”hackernews”/”hacker news”/”HN”) that’s relevant to what I’m talking about, in my post, with the idea that maybe it’ll help more search engines parse it for a greater variety of similarly-related queries. I know whenever I search google I often try multiple successive searches using variations of the same word(s) to try & catch any missed gems in the results.

So like, maybe you sound like the type trying to build a brand or something, and would benefit from more eyes on your content in a given time? Maybe some people are apocalypse preppers and like the idea of if their posts had a greater chance of surviving among the limited number of digital archives left standing in the ruins, lol
Just skimming, some parts stand out. Like this one:

"The Washington Post on Sunday published an op-ed -- by Thomas Rid, one of those centrists establishmentarian professors whom media outlets routinely use to provide the facade of expert approval for deranged conspiracy theories"

A self-respecting school newspaper wouldn't publish that. That's "longform Twitter", not journalism.
What amazing comment.
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Having picked up Rails 9 years ago and having been using it literally daily ever since, it's joyful to read from someone that is just starting.

I also started with https://www.railstutorial.org/book, highly recommend it.

I also loved Metaprogramming Ruby (Paolo Perrotta) - it's more advanced and starts to open your mind to how Rails magic DSL's were built.

I just bought today "Rebuilding Rails" (https://rebuilding-rails.com/), heard great things about it.

Ruby and Rails are amazing, and I wouldn't trade it for any other language/framework out there.
> Does the project owe its contributors anything? Legally, no.

Uh, what? Legally, yes.

Why are so many people (see sibling below: "Perhaps legally, in this case, they're owed nothing") just rolling with the suggestion that this is a grey moral issue and not a legal one? It's more than a moral issue. This is Creative Commons content. Mozilla doesn't acquire ownership of project contributors' work...

Once again, we have another Mozilla-related thread where we find two "sides" of an issue, with both offering takes that reveal that neither has any idea what they're talking about. What is it about Mozilla that attracts this sort of thing?
Those articles may still prove to be correct. Several Pacific Island nations (Marshall Islands, Maldives, Tuvalu) are indeed drowning, as predicted.

At least to me it seems the greenhouse effect now is out of human control. I do not see mankind preventing it from raising much higher, for years to come, before we'll do anything about it.
You're fishing for deal flow, in competition with YC, on the YC board? Bold.
1. CAD to USD devaluation is largely a function of the price of Oil & Gas. The lower the price of oil & gas the lower the CAD to USD ratio, it is not attributed to the BOC monetary operations.

2. If Canada was serious about taking on Huawei it would have done so when Huawei allegedly stole IP from Nortel back in 2008-2009. However the Harper conservative government at the time did nothing in fact only bailed out auto companies during the financial crises instead of helping out tech.

3. And yes, of course Canada is standing up to China because one of the benefit of Canada is that the US us their closest ally.

4. Can't speak to your first statement but it seems hyperbolic ("Caribbean Banker blush") - and like I said earlier not going to do the research given the other statements.

5. Yes MVT is an added cost of doing business that can tilt the scale to the point at which it isn't worth doing the business anymore for foreign buyers. I did read that the Vancouver and Toronto market cooled significantly after that was implemented. It is can also be construed as a signal that the behavior is now being watched and monitored.

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Trump probably illegally cheated on his taxes what's wrong with Nytimes reporting that

Oh you meant the more recent taxes expose.
Impossible unless you have a thorough map from MDN accounts to Github accounts in advance (because once published the repo can't really change much, especially in this case).
In order to be misinformation it has to be false. The emails are inconvenient for one political party, not false.
No prob - I know a bit more info than I'm mentioning in public, just didn't want to overly distract here. Feel free to drop me an email if you want or something
> Hm, let's do a comparison. Do you think trust in the media would have been better or worse if media outlets had received leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign during the summer (some indicating, for instance, that some members of Hillary Clinton's campaign had conspired to acquire questions ahead of the Democratic debates), embargoed them until after the election, and then released them?

It depends! What is the source of the information? Does the source have incentive to fabricate or exaggerate their claims? Can other trustworthy sources confirm the information? Does the information hold up to critical scrutiny? Does the information matter?

If the answer to these questions are all yes, then I think the media acted in a trustworthy way. If not, then I don't think so.

My argument is not that embarrassing information should be withheld because of an an election. Instead, my argument is that news media should not publish any and all information without the due process of journalism. If the claims hold up to scrutiny, then sure, publish it! If the claims don't hold up, then don't publish it.

> "bad-faith actors are afoot (which seems the case here)" -> I don't see why the 'faith' of the actors really has any relevance as to whether the information is in the public interest to know.

No, but bad faith actors have an incentive to inject noise into the news cycle, and in turn, have incentive to fabricate or exaggerate claims. Journalists and their editors, when they believe information is given in bad faith, should hold it to a higher level of scrutiny so that they avoid mischaracterizing a story.

edit: typo