skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off friend, I appreciate you - both for taking the time to engage and teach, and also for how well you articulate your arguments. I realize that this entire thread has become polarized, but if you would like to continue this conversation, my email address is in my profile. I can't promise to agree with you, but I will treat you with the respect you're due and try to better understand your point of view.

As for the comments about downvotes, call me naive, but I yearn for a world where we comment when we disagree but reserve up and downvotes for statements about the quality of a comment. I don't agree with you, but I upvoted you because you made me think. Ultimately, that's what I really look for from Hacker News. I don't know everything, but I have my own unique experience. If I'm wrong, please correct me....:)

Incidentally, if you want to continue this engagement off site, let me tell you a bit about my perspective. I used to publish an indie magazine that ended up winning some awards. At one point, I was tasked with editing a submission by a high ranking gang member who wanted to write about why he doesn't like the police and why his gang is a better choice for kids. I had to tell a story to make advertising dollars and it was a hell of a story. But our magazine ran contrary to a municipal bylaw so I had to somewhat tone it all down. It was complicated and to this day, I believe that I failed the story. Anyways, I think I bring a slightly different perspective (as do you) and I would appreciate the opportunity to learn from you.
They don't work, do they? I tried a few but nothing works. I'm on Chrome on Mac.
What is the furry shit all over this website?
I am really bad at this, but have gotten four jobs because I knew one person who really liked networking and thought I was really smart and convinced companies to hire me.
I learned about 1/7 back in my youth, and it's just been one of those things that I enjoyed knowing as I went on in life.

Imagine my amusement when I ran across a Project Euler problem where those digits were the answer. I recall just looking at it and thinking I __know__ this one, there's no need to code anything. An easy point, but I didn't feel like I cheated on it.
That's their position, but he has is his.

This is a strawman. Greenwald didn't say that editing in general isn't ok. He didn't argue that all editorial disputes at all times must be resolved with critical articles alongside controversial ones. He suggested it as a solution here. It's not nonsense to suggest it, whether or not the editor accepts it.

Maybe they did see it the way you outlined: "garbage story dropped a few days before the election." He clearly sees it as censorship of an article that needs to be published. This is a resignation, so sure, the dispute was not resolved. Calling it a nonsense argument though, that takes a good squint.
Trump bragged incessantly that, unlike Obama, he wouldn't have time to play golf if elected President. Instead, he's spent about twice as much time on the links as Obama did, including during various crises that would demand a normal president's full attention.

If they didn't report how the President was responding to a given crisis, you'd criticize them for that. So I don't see how they can win here. They keep pounding the "Orange Man Bad!" drum because yes, in, fact, Orange Man is Bad, and people need to know that. It may not be news, but it's fit to print.
yeah super cringe.
And yet it overspends on those goals and can’t do them effectively

None of the ideology matters if it can’t budget and where we are now, no taxation will fix its budget unless it resorts to full on expropriation of property
Just FYI, this is mostly the content creators doing this. They pick the frequency and places in the video where they want the ads to play.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006

The reality is it takes so much time and energy to produce content and the bar is high that creators make it their full time jobs.

So either, they have YouTube monetization with ads or they do in-video ad rolls, "sponsored by Squarespace", yadda yadds. Or they literally include some product into their video and it acts as a hidden ad because they generate a story around that product.
I think ad-blockers are bad for the web. Their proliferation will create an arms race that will end in more DRM.

That's my reason.
I think you answered your own question
And considering that a lot of shows that get a strong fanbase of followers get cancelled, I don't think their price is "too low."

It especially doesn't make a lot of sense to have "tiers" of subscription. Why would you allow your users to get a worse experience from you? That seems like a good way to associate "lower quality" with your brand.
HN moderation is an example of a tech company controlling what is shown on its infrastructure, and also depends on Section 230 protection.

“Unproductive and incorrect” is not patently unlawful, so censoring it would open YC to liability for everything posted here, under your proposal.
> editing is supposed to be the art of removing words, after all!

By whose definition? I always viewed the reporter–editor relationship as a continuous bi-directional thing, e.g. suggesting different angles or stylistic changes. A person who takes an author's words in a one-way direction and decides which ones I'm not allowed to see is more accurately called a "censor".
Behaviour change is just a political. You are hammered every day with political advertising spread as astroturfing via social media and even the regular news.

Everything involving money is political.
“It would be nice if our species didn’t go with it?”

On a semi-facetious note, why would it be nice? If the species did the annihilation, isn’t that just good galactic hygiene? Or perhaps humans are just a beta version of a dodgy app. It goes down the “why is there something rather than nothing” rabbit hole, but the post started it...
Come on friend, if you're going to pick and choose from my words, please be true to my original point. I feel that this article is missing about 500 words of facts, but that length could be trimmed down by removing some extraneous words. I'm more guilty of using extra words than anyone so I'm not qualified to judge, but I am qualified to recognize it when I see it. Crap, I used to publish a magazine - I have a little more experience in this area than the mean.
Not on your life it was 30,000. Lack of diversity cheap wages no unions lacks culture identity oh wait Michigan Militias. My masters degree will set n the stoop 4th and South st Philadelphia
Yes. I would use the tooling inspired by the Ruby tools like factory boy and stick with pytest over behave, personally. I’ve not used pytest-bdd.

In JS mocha or jest are both great.
It could be respect, or it could just be the realization that he could not take such actions without them coming to light, and that would likely be the death of his reputation as a serious journalists.

I think they got it right when they set up the intercept. A journalist without an editor is hard to distinguish from a blogger. Part of the editors job is to say no. Sometimes, "not yet, this isn't ready". Sometimes "no, this isn't good enough". I suppose sometimes also "no, we aren't that publication" which is more problematic.

You can never really be your own editor.
This is by far the most interesting piece of info to me. Greenwald seems off his rocker and I'm shocked that he is the one publishing this thinking it backs up his case. What censorship? Not once did they say this couldn't be published elsewhere.

> I have to add that your comments about The Intercept and your colleagues are offensive and unacceptable.

That's putting it gently.
As always: show us the source code if there's nothing to hide.
For non-Canadians here: Shoppers is pharmacies and LCBO is provincially-controlled liquor store that has near monopoly on hard liquor sales.
I think this definition of "data intuition is a resilience to misleading data and analyses" is an elegant attempt to describe a notoriously fuzzy concept. Well done to author on this one.
As a trained teacher, I believe this is one of those soft skills (or aspects of tacit knowledge) that is notoriously difficult to teach or train someone.

I often say to people that the difference between an average person and an expert is that an expert knows which shortcuts/compromises you can make that will only have a small effect on the outcome, and which shortcuts will come back and to shoot you in the foot (and thus should be avoided from the outset). I like that the author's concept of data intuition neatly covers this scenario.

One might say that the author's definition is a negative definition, inasmuch as it is the ability to identify/avoid mistakes, but I think an equally important component of data intuition is the (positive) ability to identify implicit strengths and insights within the data (or data processes) that is presented.

I believe this skill is also very closely related to the ability in identifying which paths of data/statistical/scientific exploration are more likely to produce results than others. And as other commenters have said, this in turn is related to the ability of 'second-order thinking'. That is, connecting the dots where the there is no obvious or explicit connection.

As the saying goes, "sophistication is subtle".
I think it's great and full support it. Cool art imo
> It was my example, that I chose at the start. So yes, that is relevant.

It's not relevant because you're ignoring the fact that "the phone network" doesn't primarily mean "phone calls" it primarily means "internet access".

> The fact of the matter is, that me being banned from ever making phone calls again would absolutely be a larger problem for me

Yes, you keep repeating that over and over again (3 times in this response) but what you don't seem to understand is that nobody is forcing you to rely exclusively on a single website for all your communications, that is a self-imposed restriction that isn't meaningful when trying to decide if a website meets the definition of a utility.
The form of your comment is a continuation of the censorship trend he is referring to.

Rather than engage his writing and journalistic perspective by providing your own, you have pigeonholed and dismissed it outright without even reading it.

And rather than back up your own argument, you have chosen to attack his character as your support.
What Is Consciousness? – Theory: Human Mind Is Electromagnetic
This is probably rarely mentioned, but Apple TV+ is another great alternative for quality (not so much for quantity at the moment). A friend group of mine with a preference for hard-hitting HBO shows has been alternating between the two.
North Korean state-sponsored criminal fraud activities:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/north-korea-s-apt38-hacking-gr...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/politics/north-korea-cyberatt...

Connections between specific Russian financial crime organizations and the Russian government are much harder to pin down as people who try to investigate ties between the Russian mob and the Russian government often wind up dead. However, the Russian government is well known to be tightly linked connected to Russian organized crime[0]. Given the sheer scale of Russian financial fraud operations--Carbanak stole upwards of a billion USD[1]--the balance of probabilities suggest these operations exist with the tacit approval of the Russian government.

[0] https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2019/12/16/gangs-and-gulags-how-vla...

[1] https://securityintelligence.com/carbanak-how-would-you-have...
I always thought creators made roughly as much or more from the promos they embed in the videos. See the LTT video about how they make money: https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=505

The time code takes you to a pie chart breaking down their revenue. YT ads are 26% and in-video promos are 27%
What does "osborne" mean here?
There is no other side. We've used all of the easily-accessible high-energy-density resources on the planet -- once technology drops below the critical level necessary to produce wind/solar/hydro/nuclear, we'll never be able to recover a high-energy society. We'll never get off the earth, let alone out of the solar system. And even if we waited millions of years, bacteria has learned to digest lignin, so there will never be another Carboniferous Period.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/29/tony-bobulins... includes what the WSJ found:

The Wall Street Journal reviewed his documents and found no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden — or that he was active in his family’s foreign business endeavors, as Bobulinski claimed.

Bobulinski’s overarching claim is that Joe Biden was involved in, and may have profited from, his son and brother’s business dealings in China. He called Joe Biden’s claim that he never played a role in Hunter Biden’s foreign business endeavors "a blatant lie."

But the Journal reported that the text messages and emails Bobulinski shared from 2017 "don’t show either Hunter Biden or James Biden discussing a role for Joe Biden in the venture."

The venture in China "never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals, according to people familiar with the matter," the outlet reported. "Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden."

The Journal also quoted Gilliar, the British national involved in SinoHawk, as saying he was "unaware of any involvement at any time of the former vice president." Gilliar added that "the activity in question never delivered any project revenue."
They explain their reasoning in the "about" section of the blog. I personally think it makes it hard to focus on the technical content in the blog, but to each their own.
Where are these jobs at? I have a pulse and can do most of the white boarding tests and have been “upskilling” on these things simply because that’s what interviewing is about these days. I’d like to think that it has not been a waste of time learning how to implement a dual pivot quicksort but it sure feels like it.
Hey folks! As mentioned in the post: file level dependency inference allows for dependency lists that are 30% smaller (improving cache hit rates), even while removing 90% of boilerplate from `BUILD` files.

Happy to answer any questions!
It really depends on the experience. If you're a beginner and it's your first web job, sure, that's harsh/unreasonable. If you're coming from years of python/JS like the author and soon for a senior-ish position? I don't see anything wrong with it. (As a task itself. As part of an interview... that's complicated)
I don't have an explanation, but there was a measurable improvement in my workouts.
- One tap to enter Picture-in-picture mode in Safari when watching YouTube.

- Choosing an emoji in WhatsApp Desktop.

- Pausing and seeing a podcast's listening progress in Apple Podcasts, even when the app is in the background.

- Compiling in Android Studio.

I have a physical ESC key, so I don't have a problem with the touchbar.
After a bunch of churning I just realized I'm not currently subscribing to any of the services, and I'm okay! There's not really any/much new content now anyway, due to the covid shutdown in Hollywood.
Its much more than that. Have you seen how many ways there are to write html? So you have to learn their flavor on top of providing the actual information. Thats a good chunk of time that can be used elsewhere. People don't contribute to projects that have bad levels of entry and artificially difficult participation requirements.
It "doesn't work" on ARM simply do to the extreme heterogenity. To ask for otherwise would be asking for AMD drivers to work for an Nvidia graphics card.

Additionally, PCs do in fact of tons of glue and support systems that match how ARM style SoCs work. They paper over it with ACPI which is based around a VM that has to be run in the kernel that's basically a giant binary blob, in contrast to device tree's description of the components and how they're connected.
https://i.redd.it/4by1ithm81a51.png

Summarizes the author's stance on comments about his fursona
> Today, taking the picture of someone = taking biometric data like fingerprint or DNA. This allows you to have a total control over that person.

How does a picture grant total control? Let's say I have a picture of you right now. How do I use that picture to either force you to do something against your will, or prevent you from doing something?
RSpec is definitely better, but I've mimicked it this way with
pytest because I didn't like each Given/When decorator in pytest-bdd requiring a separate method to setup. It was way too verbose. I want to be able to quickly nest them, like in RSpec.

So I do:

TestSomeMethod:
TestWhenDateProvided:
def test_it_does_not_use_system_date(fixture, ...):
assert ...

TestWhenDateNotProvided:
def test_it_uses_system_date(fixture, ...):
assert ...
I don't understand these supposed single-series diehards like The Office fans that make their cancellation ever known every time Netflix comes up.

If you're obsessed with a single show, isn't it time to own the whole thing digitally? Why would you even settle for needing an internet connection and service subscription to watch the one show you care about? It's like being annoyed that Scribd stopped hosting your favorite book.

Reminds me of the small brain panel of that galaxy brain meme.
NewPipe works on the TV too, if its AndroidTV based..
Apparently I did not read back far enough! (And now can't, ironically, because I'm pretty sure the first comment that started it off is flagged.) Grumpy parent comment retracted.
Here's a quote from the WSJ:

“Text messages and emails related to the venture that were provided to the Journal by Mr. Bobulinski, mainly from the spring and summer of 2017, don’t show either Hunter Biden or James Biden discussing a role for Joe Biden in the venture,”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/is-wsj-editorial-boa...
Their statement on Greenwald publishing elsewhere was:

"It would be unfortunate and detrimental to The Intercept for this story to be published elsewhere."

To me this is clearly saying: "that would suck but we can't stop you". Otherwise they would have told him not to publish it instead of just describing the ramifications of him doing it.
> When in American history would all of the major book publishers refusing to print someone’s words mean the publishers should be made legally liable?

Major book publishers are legally liable, which is fine because they decide what they publish, e.g. they refuse to print some people’s words.

The tech industry was given immunity from that liability, with the idea they acted more like a common carrier than a publisher.
Why are you typing this message on your computer or phone? You are not maxing the CPU and drive out to 100%.
It's atypical, but I can dig it.
I was not saying that the idea of not having children is genetically determined. (There might be some genetical component related to being susceptible to depressions, but that's not the point).

I was trying to say, that the idea itself is often passed to children, via non-genetic means, and it will burn out the part of population bearing it.

But that's not fatal for humanity because there are many smart people who have multiple children, so independently of exact percentage of heritability of intellect we are not doomed.

And regarding to the snide comment about Elon, independently of his opinions on any issues, he have done enough to prove that he is smarter and vastly more useful to humanity than average people.
I read it, but did not see any new reporting. It makes a bold claim in the lede - "a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories" and offers no specific evidence for it.

It seems like Greenwald's gist is that circumstantial evidence is enough proof - that this story is so obviously important that not covering it prominently is <i>prima facie</i> evidence of bias. That's a reasonable opinion, but that's all it is, and if you didn't already believe it, I don't think there's anything here to change your mind.

Personally, I don't see the bombshell part. All I see here is that most journalists want Biden to win, and sometimes politicians' kids get sinecures they don't deserve. I knew both of those things last year. The whole debacle like an obvious attempt to smear Biden Sr with salacious stuff that his kid did, and the only reason it's getting this much attention is that, unlike Trump, Biden doesn't have any other scandals to talk about.
It's just a matter of objective fact that the world does now have a kind of 'public square' and it happens to be Twitter.

Thru a series of events no one planned we just evolved into a situation where a public figure's main way of reaching out directly to their audience is over Twitter.

The correct analogy here is the phone (not TV networks). When the telephone system was originally a monopoly (or even today) imagine if the phone company had started disconnecting lines or censoring calls? Alexander Graham Bell would've been hanged from the nearest tree.

But if you want to use a TV Network analogy it's not like canceling an Anchor, it's like canceling a 'viewer'. It would be like if CNN had the power to stop any individual from either consuming CNN content or creating CNN content. Total Godlike control over the individual.
Why is the author so fake-surprised that the source code isn't available on the internet? Zoom isn't open source software, and has never claimed to be. The title is also pure clickbait, since the article itself comes to the conclusion that the design is secure and the oddities are likely due to the need for legacy support.
> If you don't think Bezos influences what WaPo writes

For example, "Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours": https://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-storie...
And I submitted it in 2017 but it didn't get any traction. Glad to see it again!
> Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.

Sounds like they are taking the path that academia took.
Why should someone running a website be able to moderate without fear of litigation when someone publishing a print magazine is not able to moderate without fear of litigation?

Did 230 say anything about that or did the law have no stated reason for that difference?
Greenwald has in his contract that he's not subject to editorial oversight. It's not a "tantrum" to expect TheIntercept to honor that.
Explicit partisan bias is protected speech; it's protected speech in newspapers, radio, tv, and also websites. I think it's interesting that people only want to rescind those protections for websites, and only a specific handful of popular websites...
Oh, much I wish there was a re-release of original Blair Witch game (and Nocturne as well):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjOEWP_Zl_g

Those games are very hard to get by legally, and it takes plenty of effort to run them on modern systems.
A nice library that's super small (embedded into a 16 bit PIC chip) and works pretty nicely is lzfx https://code.google.com/archive/p/lzfx/#!

but it got abandoned, though the code is still completely useable for small micro controllers. It works pretty well for small ish payloads
Hi, the lecture notebooks are in our research_public repo, at https://github.com/quantopian/research_public/tree/master/no...

Hopefully that helps! We'll be keeping these OSS projects online.

(I work at Quantopian)
Finally! I always knew my 7th grade science teacher was full of shit on that one, she was so adamant about some things that turned out to be wrong.

This one was maybe more excusable because it was common to teach at the time. Maybe it ended up making us better students in the end because we learned to fact-check our teachers, and not to be adamant about things we only think are true (though I'm still guilty of that myself sometimes)...