skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty cool! It seems like a weird mixture of physical contraptions (lego/meccano etc) or minecraft redstone circuits, and something you'd see in Media Molecules' Dreams (especially the graph-motion).

I just watched the Tetris video and it reminded me of this mechanical pong game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBoe3yM9IKs

What inspired you to create this?
I wonder if one can create a browser plugin that judges the similarity of a domain to a set of well-known domains and warns the user when the URL they clicked on has a domain that is very similar but not the same? Maybe use levenshtein distance or some kind of visual similarity measurement? The downside is that it would obviously punish a legit website like googie.com but perhaps one can whitelist it if one explicitly enters the URL?
Yes. The second point I made.
Polynesians?
Prolonged human suffering is almost always worse than a quick end, at least from an individual perspective.
I'm not saying the Comey letter was a lie; I'm saying media organizations made mistakes in how they covered it. If you prefer:

"A fact that's missing critical context can travel half way around the world while the full context is putting on its shoes."

The same fundamental concept is at play here.
...showing one emotionally distraught person is not a planned attack on an entire hospital. Please.
>Someone just needs to write tslisp that converts the TypeScript AST into s-expressions...

Well, this is actually a very good idea!
Did you know that cow milk contains actual estrogen and other hormones?
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His point still stands though, we are doing things to maximize money because we are hugely indebted from students loans, rent, and medical bills. Scott Galloway mentioned in a podcast how he went to business school and paid $1000 in tuition and got a job after graduation that paid $100k. That's a 100:1 ratio that you can't find today. Today that same business school charges $70k and you get a job that pays $140k, that's a 2:1 ratio.

He also talked about how he was able to buy into amazon stocks when it was $60. If you are just starting your career you're jumping into a world where everything is at an all time high, that includes housing as well, every decent asset is currently at an all time high and we know that there's no room for us.

So we're left out of the big party, and we're scrunching to try to survive as we cope with our depression and anxiety about what an insecure future we have with climate change looming in the distance. Yes, take a job for the money. It's the only chance you have.
On paper, but like all things in China enforcement is a completely different thing. There are many ways around it and it's much easier when Canada's AML and KYC requirements would make a 1980s' Caribbean Banker blush.

China's been pretty heavy-handed in its enforcement of these rules. As noted earlier, they basically killed off Chinese cash buyers in the US market in California, and have done the same to Vancouver.
Very sad to read this. Glenn Greenwald is one of the few journalists well known for his integrity. He's famous for the Snowden revelations of course. I don't doubt his story.

I hope he will manage to start another organisation soon.
> Hunter took a plane trip with his dad in 2013

Flying with your dad, Vice President of the United State, to raise a billion dollars from senior party members from an adversarial country isn't a good look.

Taking a well-paid board seat on a Ukrainian gas company... despite knowing nothing about energy and while dad, the VP, is managing affairs with the Ukrainian government also isn't a good look.

"Just taking a trip with dad" indeed. This is clearly graft -- and condemning it should be bipartisan.

I don't expect everyone to be as pure as Obama -- but, "C'mon, Man."
Tell me something: if I'm sick at home, am I allowed to get a friend to go purchase take-out for me? And if I don't have someone who is able to do that for me, am I just supposed to starve?
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> I'm pretty confident that most of the services he is complaining about will last longer than his own blog post.

Ironically, I can’t actually read this blog post because it has become unavailable. I suspect that undermines his entire point.
previous discussion from glenn's substack post can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24933054#24933602
> Our free forever plan has unlimited tasks, sprints and workspaces, with no user limits.

If so, what obstacles prevent from open sourcing it? At least the the part of functionality which is declared to be free forever?
I’ve hosted over a million forums over decades, and even after we sold to Tapatalk, posts were transferred and even those from the 1990s still exist.

BTW: Tapatalk combines their own hosted forums and those they don’t host but implement APIs for, so it both centralized and decentralized.

https://tapatalk.com
Yeah, pretty much. Obviously you'd need to able to create your own units, in addition to e.g. the SI system.
That's a discussion on the efficacy of representative democracy, which is a whole other thing in my opinion.
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Director of National Intelligence a.k.a. Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe. Do you see the problem here?

"John Ratcliffe, then a lawmaker from Texas, promised senators skeptical of his vocal support for President Trump that he would be “entirely apolitical as the director of national intelligence.”

A few months into his tenure, Mr. Ratcliffe has emerged as anything but. He has approved selective declassifications of intelligence that aim to score political points, left Democratic lawmakers out of briefings, accused congressional opponents of leaks, offered Republican operatives top spots in his headquarters and made public assertions that contradicted professional intelligence assessments."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/john-ratcliff...

Just last week he had the FBI director stand behind him while he ad-libbed about how Iran was attacking our elections to help Trump (an off the cuff assertion that he didn't clear with the FBI director when he was shown the prepared remarks). He is not credible.
Yeah same here. I admit I'm real jealous of the M.2 drive...
Ps the benchmarks cited in [1] for TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB were actually updated in August 2020, so the numbers are fairly recent :)
> in 2014 predicted that by 2020 "summer sea ice to disappear

And what could the human race have done in 2014 to prevent that?
In another piece, he says he’s voting for Kanye.
What's your take on changing the status quo around unique task/issue ID's?
These kinds of posts always make me think of Jay-Z - "What you eat don't make me shit"
Its true. You could do a talk on primitive art influence in modernist sculpture and find African tribal art, and cave painting from france so implicitly could do a talk on African tribal art, but without reference to south America or Asia or Inuit art, it was plainly incapable of doing a wide ranging talk on folk art in pre modern times.

You could do a talk on images of x in medium y, but only indirectly do a talk on x itself and no context not captured in images of x in medium y. Thats a fundamental limit.

If however there was no index to x in y, it relied on personal knowledge x in y existed. So there was a lot of path casting inside her head, to recall states to determine if the effort of an exhaustive search was justified.

Isn't that true of any pre index scheme?
Here's the response from the Intercept. https://static.theintercept.com/amp/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...

> 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.
No. Responding to smears gives them more attention than they would otherwise get ruminating in the bowels of the internet. Those who are calling for Biden to deny them really want him to legitimize the content by addressing them.
Because they are true
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Off the top of my head, an auto-updater in a legally hostile environment could work through a hard-coded a network of mirrors updated in every new version, torrent protocol, etc. It’s a feature, even if complex it can be addressed with development effort, and it only really becomes impossible if development is not happening.
You are trying to frame these two quotes as being contradictory by leaving out the words preceding the first quote. Why would you do that?

It should read: "If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story..."

Looks like including the entire sentence makes it pretty clear that this isn't a self-contradicting position to take.
For their centralized service.
His "uninformed blabbering" is simply the truth.

Tesla has more Autopilot-related fatalities than the entire rest of the industry does for their self-driving or advanced cruise features combined.

And to date, Tesla is still the only car manufacturer whose self-driving system can't tell the difference between the sky and a gigantic semi trailer.
Why are you optimizing for the length of time your content exists rather than the number of people your content reaches? Sure, entropy will get as all in the end including Reddit. But will my comment on Reddit reach more people in its lifespan than my comment on some federate alternative with a [potentially] longer lifespan but with a fraction of the audience?
> if you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues

yes, but more often than not, those colleagues best interest is not YOU but their employee referral :) .

At least in my experience, they often try to oversell the company they work at, as the best place to work, trying to get you to join, even if they know it is crap.

I do my own research and always take "ex-colleagues" advises with a grain of salt, basically I mainly trust my judgement, balance sheets for public companies and buzz around like glassdoor, blind, etc .. :)
Mostly because it's so much more expensive to move supplies there to build and sustain infrastructure.
Maybe ... if this was 1990. This is 2020, they know that their actions will cause a streisand effect. I don't think people are watching mainstream media narratives with bated breath , as most journalists think.
Yes, but Einstein was able to learn cause and effect by interacting with the physical world as a child. Without being able to interact with an environment, the I believe the ability to learn causality is limited if not impossible
Maybe not, but people say that Jeff Bezos is worth $186 Billion even though he'd never be able to sell enough Amazon stock at current prices to come close to getting that amount of cash.
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It's right there in the 2nd paragraph of the article: "Just three days earlier, the Republican Party announced some of President Donald Trump’s priorities for a potential second term. The first two priorities listed were to “Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon” and to “Send the 1st Manned Mission to Mars,” coming in ahead of “Develop a Vaccine by The End Of 2020” and “Cover All Pre-Existing Conditions” in health care."

Orange man like space travel. Orange man bad. So space travel bad.
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In context, many had, and continue to, misconstrue protests as riots. As such, a call to send in the military against rioters cannot be differentiated from a call to send in the military against protestors, unless you can get cotton and the protestors to agree on what the differences between protest and riot are.
> Even otherwise, the fact that some of them may not exist at some point in the future is a terrible reason to not use them at all ... I'm pretty confident that most of the services he is complaining about will last longer than his own blog post.

I can't say I share your confidence.

Take Google Groups as an example.

Were it not for archival work being done by various volunteers, the content on Usenet was at real threat of vanishing from the internet.

This is hardly unique. We've seen the same thing happen with Geocities and Myspace, for example. Another poster also mentioned G+, which is an excellent recent case.

Is this a reason to not use these platforms at all? I don't think so.

But it is a reason to retain your own copies of the things you care about, hence why, for my own blog, I follow the POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) pattern:

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
> I'm pretty confident that most of the services he is complaining about will last longer than his own blog post.

And yet years of fantastic RPG community contributions on g+ are absolutely fucking gone. At their best they got taken out into barely-accessible formats, so they technically "exist", even if you can't find any of their content anymore.
If the article contains the truth and is about some serious misconduct, wouldn't influencing the election be a good thing? This is the very role of journalism. It's important that the public makes a decision based on all the facts.

I can totally see his point with journalistic bias and the money strings. The ideal of independent press has long been dropped, and now we have news agencies of every political denomination. Sometimes it feels like objectivity isn't even a goal anymore.

I'm not a Trump supporter in any way. Still, I do want the truth to be known even if it's about a person I support.
Yes, based on my experience with discussion email lists, the data-driven emails have a better chance of getting through.

Meanwhile I'm grepping through mailing list server logs and going "your provider accepted it without error, don't know why it's not hitting your inbox."
This is a fantastic deal, even if I weren't already a Google One subscriber at this tier. Google is one of the few companies I would trust to provide VPN service.
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>If they were a fabrication, the smartest thing to do would be a vehement pronouncement that it's all doctored, fake bullshit

This is false, and rather laughable. If he addresses them directly, then that gives legitimate news organizations license to report on his denial, including reporting on the accusations. By not denying them he puts the onus on those pushing the story to demonstrate its legitimacy first.
It's not accidental, that is actually the result of a well-known propaganda technique known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
I think you may be right. People are always a mix, and can produce really great things even if they don't always have the best judgement. Just got to get it right some of the time to make a good contribution.
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Then two "anti"s cancel out, and you just call them "fa".

Pronounced like the Yiddish word Feh.
It strikes me that, perhaps, someday, people will look back at these times, and recoil seeing how we had to post content, opinion, data and speech through -somebody else's- site / property / business / systems, as a savage and barbaric proposition.-
part of the latter, since we can wrap arcan, x11 and wayland clients this way, in a world of remote work -- well.
> It's never been wise, so far, to pay in Bitcoin for pizza.

Given that Bitcoin is currently worth less than its highs in 2017, 2018, and 2019, I can think of at least three times in which it would have been wise to pay for pizza in Bitcoin (as opposed to holding it).
Semi funny that this exchange is kinda like proof of why JS catches the hate it does.
Ex-migration will find SF strapped for taxes. They will find it hard to layoff workers or reduce their wages/hours to what their reduced sources of taxes will support.
This a rock and a hard place problem. Their loan rating will come under downwards pressure. The state has similar problems - it depends on far they move? City and state sales taxes will decline.
This come from decades of excess wages and benefits that are already unsupportable - it will get worse. If the remote work reality becomes nation wide, many smaller cities will enjoy a re-birth. This is good.
Are out of context comments useful?
It isn't, and in due time enough people will get tired of this and form some kind of an HN-meets-lobste.rs-thing that is more oriented towards diversity of opinions, with less of a fuck-you to everyone who disagrees with the groupthink of HN.
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It's exactly that - special relativity for example does great at the big scale but fails at the small scales where quantum physics take over. This disparity between the two signals there is lots still to discover that will paint the whole picture.

Similarly Newtonian physics was also well understood and worked great, and still does; but as it turned out, there is a bigger story. The way things go, i think it's reasonable to suggest that current physics is just another stepping stone on our way to something even better that will unlock much more capabilities. It's been what - ~300 or so years since Newton and ~100 since quantum mechanics. We're basically in our infancy, can't draw ultimate conclusions about what is possible for our destiny. What will happen in the next 200 years?
No, the ideology is using an idiotic personification of Darwinism as a guideline for major life decisions like “do I want kids.”

I am not engaging with your blatant eugenics and ignorant Redditor’s understanding of intelligence and heritability. Needless to say, two commenters who don’t want kids does not mean that the unwashed hordes of dumb dumbs are going to take us over.
Generally, unverifiable information is not given much airplay. Not even Fox News or the WSJ would touch this one.

Making an outrageous accusation and then demanding that the accused defend themselves against it is an old Glenn Beck technique. Sort of like the question, "Are you still beating your wife?"
The author makes a great case for the Indieweb principle of POSSE, which he added at the bottom from a commenter on his site.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

If you want to own your own data, post on your own website first then syndicate anywhere else.
Maybe we will be the pets. Kept as zoo exhibits.

Ethics gets weird when the other side decides it doesn’t apply to you.
That's a big charge to say someone's not commenting in good faith. Kind of insulting. I'm commenting the way I see it. Suppressing a story is kind of the very antithesis of open debate. And its not just the Intercept, this is a pattern across like-minded partisan media. I understand you don't like the story - which is fine - but, please, just don't say I'm operating in bad faith.
Go ahead and address the part of my comment that talks about the use of the term "FUD".

I am also a fan of critical thinking, so I'd love to hear your opinion beyond nitpicking over words (knowledge vs. belief). What do you think about how fear and uncertainty should be incorporated into diet or, say, what kind of predatory animals a human being approaches?
The difference is you know you're buying from the bookshop and not from the publisher. And the publisher knows the bookshop is selling the books under its own name, not free-riding on the publisher's name and brand recognition.

Lots of people have already explained this to you on many different comment threads in many different ways.
He co-founded The Intercept, for one thing!
I think you're very wrong. I'm the opposite of a Republican, and I think this scandal (the media's and Twitter's behavior, not the emails) is big. Matt Taibbi, a very definitely not-Republican journalist, agrees: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/with-the-hunter-biden-expose-s...

I think the main reason it's not a big controversy elsewhere is due to exactly what you mention - both bubbles absolutely reject anything negative about their side and absolutely accept anything negative about the opposing side. So of course one bubble won't care, or even be aware of what's going on.
Discussion 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19265788
"This is generally trotted out as an argument that we should continue with the status quo..."

And that is generally trotted out as an argument that we should ignore the facts. If it "sounds" bad to work towards the most accurate understanding of an issue, we should be striving to change that bias, not surrender to it. Otherwise we veer towards dogmatic interpretations that inevitably become false or contradictory, which I would argue is ultimately a larger deterrent to swaying hearts and minds.
No, it's a reminder that you have work to do.

You know when people say, "marriage is a lot of work" ? Meaning the relationship needs to be tended. Same here, when maintaining connections.
Define "interfere" what specifically did Russia do and how did that quantitatively effect the election results.

I'm willing to put serious money down that the vast majority of people like yourself can't answer that question without linking to an op ed piece.

Come on people we're engineers think about it...

Ask yourself why that is.
Does this mean that the movement does not mean anything specific?
It's better than the boomers cult-like lack of critical thought.
Maybe she was. We used to talk sometimes about the value of a library catalogue as a research tool, and she'd worked in publishing so the concept of an index as a key value store was pretty apparent. The memex talk is maybe a stretch?
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The is a hard to fix problem. It is always centralized somewhere. The only way this could change is if everybody was assigned a static ip and could host their own content from their own home server.

There is one overlooked aspect of public web forums like Reddit. Although it is temporary, you can get the results you want now by getting the word out to as many people as possible.
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