skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure exactly what you’re describing. If the iTunes api was constantly changing that’s sort of an issue in and of itself, beyond whatever database you’re using.
Humans dont understand causality at all and yet they are considered intelligent though
I personally don't mind not getting the entire season at once. While I do want to binge, I also like the delayed gratification you get from watching a series spread out. Part of the reason I want to binge everything is because there is no new content. It's self defeating insofar that new content becomes old the same day it comes out.

And for a production company, churning through years of work in a day only to start demanding a second season has to be rough. I can't imagine it's helped studios in terms of timelines.
The effects of those small number of extra investors isn't huge however. In London it was 20% of the rise, but not most of it. It does fan flames, but there's got to be a spark to be fanned.
Species survival requires looking much farther ahead, but it’s harder to do, and even harder to monetize.
Pepsi, or something else?
Seems really cool but it doesn't look open source, there's any security guarantees within the app? I'm really paranoid of where a put my Google account credentials
Those who censor journalists because they won't adhere to a political narrative are un-American. We need to hear from all sides in order to make informed choices, particularly with an important election happening soon.

Unfortunately the people who control our newsrooms and broadcast networks don't agree. They are all partisan political operatives now and their objective is to control the narrative.
Fincher has said that it was too expensive to create, but he also felt like it was consuming too much of his energy. I got the impression from his interview that he didn't want to pursue it.
US CO2 per capita is down 1/3 from peak. Europe is way down. China is peaking out. It's a start.
There is a concerted effort by the establishment through PR campaigns by think tanks, bot networks, and major media outlet connections, to push the narrative that free speech is dangerous and should be curtailed. They are first starting with pressure and leverage on private outlets, while simultaneously floating the idea that there should be legal limitations on online speech. It's all part of the same effort.

Furthermore there are a few private outfits that have near a near monopoly on public speech, so they have the effect of censorship.
Has Greenwald done much journalism since Snowden's revelations? I stopped following him a long time ago as he was using his platform to advocate his own social justice agenda.
> I’ve stopped using YouTube because of the crazy ads.

Why not pay for YouTube Premium?
At the end of the day, you need to pay in some way to fund the creators making new videos for you to enjoy (+ YouTube for hosting one of the biggest services on the internet).
> Isn't that basically saying "just pray that it's not that bad, and that you can react fast enough if it is bad"?

No. It's basically saying "do not erode the public's trust in you by making frightening predictions that probably wont come true".

> Yes, people are bad at dealing with probability.

I rarely see climate change projections tempered by probability. I'd be much less concerned about overly-alarming predictions if they were published with an associated probability and margin of error.
Or an ad blocker...
I have two Chrome browser personas (actually quite a few more for work reasons, but two I have open permanently). One with adblock the other without (also due to work reasons). If I use yt on the adblock free one I am bombarded by ads. With adblock? All is fine.
A perfect static type checker would distinguish between valid and invalid programs in all cases. In practice, static type checkers are conservative and occasionally reject valid programs. Gradual typing gives you a way out in these situations -- just like how macros in C can provide type-generic functionality.

A sufficiently rich type system (with tuples, union types, traits, generics, higher-kinded types, etc) can lessen the need for a dynamic escape hatch. In the end though, the occasional use of dynamic typing can be easier to reason about.
MAU is still increasing at ~2.7B. World Population without China ( Where Facebook can not be used ) is 6B. That is nearly half of the world on Facebook.

I know people on HN hate Facebook. But it is truly quite amazing looking at those numbers.
> baselessly insult people who discuss things about Mozilla...?

It's neither baseless nor is it an attitude that is not "helpful"—I laid out exactly what the basis for the comment is, which comes almost directly from Frank Hecker's post a couple months ago after the most recent layoffs:

> Incidentally, doing a Twitter search on ”Mozilla” gives a good feel for public perception of Mozilla among technologists, but unfortunately most of the people commenting have no real idea what they’re talking about.

https://civilityandtruth.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-f...

On the other hand posting false or simply misleading information, whether intentional or unintentional, is unhelpful. And if it's unintentional, there are a few different ways to respond when someone points it out. One way is to feel insulted and post an emotional response. Another is something like, "Oops, my mistake. I wasn't really thinking about that when I wrote what I did, but on second thought: good point!"

I don't really know what your first two sentences about human organizations and context are supposed to mean. Mozilla does have a legal obligation to abide by the license terms—in contrast to what you wrote—and that's pretty much that.
I am. The Burisma affair was genteel corruption and I don't care about it at this point, especially since the Senate majority didn't give AF about corruption that made that look quaint.

Right now it's an existential referendum and if we choose survival we can return back to to such matters.
I've come to suspect a major reason people make silly non-falsifiable claims on the internet is to feel good about themselves and pat themselves on the back about how clever they are, though they may not acknowledge it.

Maybe I should try it more often. Definitely feels good.
I think you'll have more constructive conversations on this topic if, instead of disagreeing with an analogy wholesale, you seem to understand _the ways in which it is accurate_ and then respond to those. Yes, of course, the internet is not outside. It's an analogy that illustrates a broader point, that what you consider a reasonable expectation of privacy looks to others like tin foil hat wearing.

The truth is, despite all of the analogies you've presented about neighbors with security cameras and clingy spouses, most people do understand that and they simply don't care. What realistic future so you see where that comes back to bite them, beyond feeling like it's creepy?
I think I've had the same AirPods since '16 or '17. They last more than a couple years if you treat them well (my cats chewed on them, though, which has made one of the earpieces more hit-and-miss but still functional, can't run with them because the sweat will get inside now). I'll likely replace them in '21, giving me 4-5 years of life out of them. That's probably a better life span (but not better cost wise) than most wired headphones I've had (suffered various fates from loss, theft, to cat vandalism).
Agreed, but I pay for YouTube Premium. Now it's one of the last things I would cancel. Instant videos on every single device I own including TV.
> I think if I had to do it again I'd just store the entire API response in a single "document" column and query it dynamically as needed.

You'd quickly find that it is a lot of code to parse that column and read and write data to it, compared to a normalized database wrapped in ActiveRecord. I've done just that, and it's just a lot more work in the long run. A relational database really is a good thing when you want to slice and dice that data and keep it consistent.
I think the reason they're being ignored is because the required solution is now political, and our governing institutions are inadequate and unable to address the problem.
You could trigger on any keypress on a first-time site.
YouTube Premium covers both ad-free YouTube viewing and YouTube Music. (so that number is likely for both)
It's published: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

My take: it's a garbage opinion piece that's peddling his own political views a little too hard. I think the Intercept is totally 100% justified in refusing to run it.
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the other alternative is that the founder is Elizabeth Holmes and imagines enemies everywhere to prop up her image. Greenwald did good work with the Intercept but he's quite obviously not the only writer at the paper, just like founders aren't necessarily the person carrying companies forward.
> Would be curious to understand more how much ROI they're seeing on hardware investments, like in Portal + Occulus.

It’ll be negative, both Oculus and Portal are sold at a significant loss. Of course, FB’s perspective is that the positive ROI won’t come until further down the line and it’s necessary to avoid the situation they found themselves in on mobile.
Only very indirectly. Progressive taxation would reduce consumption of everything, even things that had minimal carbon impact, whereas a carbon tax would reduce specifically consumption of polluting behaviors.
Greenwald posted some emails he says are from his editor at the Intercept. [0]

Reading the emails, his editor sounds pretty reasonable. And I think it's ironic that a journalist would cite ethics as his reason for being so hell-bent on publishing an article that does nothing but repeat and amplify unsubstantiated suspicions about a candidate a few days before the election. Greenwald's point-by-point attempt at rebutting his editor supports the editor's perspective, in my opinion. He describes the lack of evidence in a way that conspiratorially suggests that the evidence exists, and his takedown of the bigger media outlets consists of noting that they investigated and ran articles that failed to produce any damning evidence... which is exactly what his article would do, except his article would frame the lack of evidence as evidence of a bigger conspiracy.

I think his faith that there's a story there is exactly what you need in an investigative journalist, and I think stopping him from publishing anyway when he doesn't find it is exactly what he needs in an editor.

[0] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
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edit: never talk politics on HN, how many times must I tell this to myself
The issue is that we're not privy to the editor and their motives or the strength of Greenwald's evidence. It could very well be that he has a solid story. In this case you have a well known journalist claiming that his editors are censoring him on an important story.

The editors can run the story with a disclaimer outlining their concerns as Greenwald argues.
Also take note of the latest post on author's blog, "I've Joined the 1Password Board of Advisers"

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-joined-the-1password-board-of-a...
Lofi hiphpop radios got too far
Right, I don’t want to take the accounts’ karma (certainly not more than they’ve gained from the submissions), I just want to lower the prominence of the links funneling traffic to the unethical and deceptive post.
you can't get a paid youtube music account without youtube premium, so i'd assume that the premium subscription numbers include all the music subscribers too.
I think yes, there is no ambiguity that is being communicated.
Furthermore, it is common knowledge that sufficient corporate structuring efforts can permit this despite a track record for profits. Where is your confusion?
Oh dear. Looks like after hours has punished this little blue bird. [0]

> https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWTR
The funny thing is, this isn't a new insight at all! Early capitalist thinkers such as Smith and Ricardo already came upon the insight that the fixed supply of land means "regular" market forces don't work.
This is among the most naive comments in this thread. You clearly know very little about the about the history of military personnel, their credibility, and their political affiliations. You should look into Seal Team Six as an example. Some of them have turned out to be rabid crackpots.

Being associated with the military confers absolutely zero marginal credibility over any other citizen. If anything, it's the opposite since there's a known conservative bias in military and law enforcement - dovish liberalism threatens their values and their power.
Serious question, the laptop story... The quote was data recovery from 3 laptops for 85$ ( Apple).

Is that even possible? The quote for 1 laptop for data restore is at minimum 300$/laptop from everywhere I can see.

It's one of the reasons I consider it misinformation by default.

Another reason would be that the FBI already warned for Russian disinformation about the Hunter Biden emails since Burisma got hacked way back in January 2020 ( and they warned the White House in 2019)
A VPN w/ Google seems like a rather counter-privacy move... I wonder if the Google ELU gives them the rights to everything on your computer as well. Either way, don't care... this is a big NOPE from the onset.
In his resignation email, Greenwald refers to the story as
"an opinion column."
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Mostly we enforced it adhoc. It helped that the whole design team was pushing for print standards at the same time.

It ended up being a bullet point that needed to be talked about during sprint planning. It helped that designers were part of some of these meetings. If our company had been bigger it would have certainly been more challenging.

Mostly we tried to make it part of the culture that we stick to what’s in the style guide. And anything that deviates had a task of adding it to the style guide.

I have to say, that I wasn’t completely on board for a long time, since I was sure company culture would make it hard to succeed. We had a champion who got us about 90% of the way there before leaving. But there was enough momentum that another dev managed to bring together the right personalities and solidify the mechanics of dealing with the style guide that it was a no brainer to make it part of the work flow.

We used git to store the html and css examples. Made it trivial to copy. And since devs controlled the repo, devs controlled the pull requests as well, and required review just like other PR. It helped that the designers we had/hired were willing to deal with git, even if they had low tech knowledge.

I’m not at that job anymore, so I don’t know how long before entropy wins. It’s the type of thing you have to keep tending for it to continue to be useful. But enough process was in place that it will likely continue to be useful for them for several years at least.
What is a SuperPAC? And would mind explaining what you're talking about?
Anything next to core advertising will look completely insignificant, both in terms of revenue and (hopefully also) in terms of costs. Same for Google, though the cloud revenue numbers are starting to be meaningful. BTW, Ruth just said on the Alphabet earnings call that they'll break down cloud numbers in Q4 (expenses; revenues are already broken down), retroactively to 2018, that will be interesting to look at.
Hahahahahaha,

No. We'll get drought, famine and resource wars, take it or leave it
Is there really a place on hacker news for accounts that constantly interject inane politics?
I’m an iMac guy and firmly in the second camp. I also want to be able to dual boot into a windows 10, and be able to run Windows and Linux VMs, so the recent iMac update was a no brainier. Should last me 6 to 8 years. I’ll worry about VMs on AS Macs then.
The wikipedia 'graph talks about one scientist who made an over-aggressive estimate... And then lays out the more 'conservative' estimates, placing the BOE sometime between 2022 and the 2030's or 2040's. That sounds like the process working, to me; there's a range of estimates, and it's foolish to disregard honestly-obtained outliers just because they are on the outside.

As it is, I don't think even the over-aggressive calls have "totally missed the mark"; what we're seeing now says maybe they were off by a few years. In terms of global risk analysis around climate change, that error doesn't really matter all that much. Calling to address a major tipping point a few years early is arguably a feature, even.
Is this a some kind of sick, sarcastic joke?
We have active reporting that facebook undermined liberal media orgs.
Is that what the wing of the Democratic party does?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/facebook-news...
Interesting example.

Not super familiar but that’s a licensed activity right? As in there’s some training and/or test administered upon gun purchase? Sorry if that’s not the case. But that feels marginally different because if you had a handgun and you knew this door sign governed whether or not you could bring it into a premise, you would look out for it.

No one is staring at the door of the drug store, because we are not trained to do that.
They're just changing I feel.

Maybe it's too slow but the end is near for fossil fuels, it's either because humans will end up extinct if we keep burning it at the current rate or because it's not economically competitive anymore.

As corrupt and as rotten as politics is, there is a limit to how far you can push for coal and fracking before it just becomes silly.
Rubymine really is a fanatastic IDE.
I vaguely understand the paternalistic side of your argument, but if you want to abandon editorial rigour, we have something already built for that. It’s called social media.

If social media doesn’t turn your crank, start your own publication and establish your own editorial fiat. HOWEVER, there’s a problem - if your editing sucks, you won’t attract enough readers to maintain high standards. That’s kind of the shit part of the free market - you can’t just go push a substandard product and scream about “my freedom”.

Ultimately, this draft needed some work and if you go through this thread, you can read some of the Intercept’s own comments. Personally, I found the section about possible disinformation to need more meat. The connection between the Vice President and the company is too tenuous. The article needs to cover WHY experts think it is disinformation, even just to strengthen the claim that it isn’t.

It doesn’t much matter what you want to read, but an editor still had to find balance and appropriate context. Otherwise, publications suck...
Paypal used to be great, but look at it now...
Will Google monitor visited sites?
Diversifying your net worth internationally to create an insurance policy against worse oppression by your regime is a first step towards fleeing.
What is wrong with the NYTimes's reporting on the Steele dossier?

Shortly after it was published by Buzzfeed: "How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/donald-trump-...
I wonder what percentage of the online population (excluding China).

75%? 80%?
> cities have, what, three days of food on average?

This is a widely held belief, but I would need to see some solid evidence to believe that its true. Anecdata: Shelf turnover from the brief period when I worked retail, and the typical contents of my pantries. Also, the panic buying at the beginning of the pandemic stressed the system, but certainly didn't crash it.
Edit: Comment removed so removing response, leaving link to the censored article.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
> provide net benefit at all to the people of Earth.

Are you saying there might be an overall net benefit, but not a net benefit to everyone individually? I'm fine with extra support for the disabled even if everyone else doesn't necessarily get an individual net benefit from it. Everything doesn't need to be pareto optimal, it is just a no brainier when it is.
Ice Worshippers by any other name, a new religion.
Actually that’s the only reason I buy Apple after being fed up with a few androids, so surely it mustn’t be that big of a problem?
What you are describing seems to be essentially the process of science: Develop, step by step, the causal mechanisms at play until you solve the problem.

It should not be underestimated that our collective knowledge of causal inference with statistical methods is good, but still improving.

I mean, in that sense, ML is helpful. Heck, it is already used in causal inference in two-step estimators and the like.
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YT is much more valuable to human civilization in general

Netflix might be a safer bet, for that reason. I think many people, including people with standing and influence, would prefer Earth's public repository of historical video not be under the control of one amoral, ad-driven monopoly.

Netflix still has competitors, and the stakes are lower.
Anyone spot the line item where they pay Apple the billions for default placement on iOS?
> This was a calculated move to paint all the protesters as rioters

I don't think this is true. Quoting from his piece:

"Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn’t be confused with bands of miscreants."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...

He clearly says in plain words that the majority are law-abiding protestors. I suppose you could argue that the piece actually means something other than the plain words that it uses, and you could certainly argue that he's drawing the line between protestors and rioters in the wrong place, but at no point does the op-ed make the claim that all protestors are rioters.
If you count WhatsApp and Instagram, that number is not surprising at all.
You still have ads with YT Premium. Most creators place multi-minute ads in their content.
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And if you had taken the effort to scroll down one or two months more you would have found: https://imgur.com/dSz0iCg

The Intercept has been consistently critical of Biden and other establishment Democrats which isn't surprising given its progressive slant. The difference, in contrast to Greenwald's framing is just, that this story he wanted to go with is complete and utter rubbish.
As an embedded developer and system designer with many years of experience with Broadcom SOCs, I largely share @centimeter's sentiment, and would likely use similar wording in a private conversation.
I'd bet on bot-busting or possibly something that de-ranks stuff with political keywords close to the election to avoid spam and noise. Human moderation and content curation is a lot rarer than people think online. Primarily because it takes a lot of labor and and response times tend to be slow compared to how fast things go viral.
>If you asssume the mean population supported by a planet is within an order of magnitude of what Earth can support the math holds

Theoretically if you shred earth for material and build habitats from that, it can definitely support much more than a magnitude more.
> The tax code rewards corporations for R&D investments. I think it's working.

I'm fairly confident FB would be making R&D investments regardless of the reward from the tax code. But for change in behavior due to the tax code, the tax credit is a windfall.