skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's definitely noticeable when you try to learn a newer framework with a much smaller community and less opinions. You could end up Googling for what you might think is a common thing to solve only to find zero answers in sight

I have felt this exact way when I'm Googling for problems running Rails in modern cloud environments. It seems like there are loads of problems that are largely unsolved in the community at large when you want to go beyond Heroku and stand your app up in containers against cloud components using best practices. As a Rails newbie it has been downright painful and there have been many cases where I wish I was still writing a language like C# or Java where containers and modern cloud architectures have been embraced instead of shunned.
Deceiving the the other party is a market failure of asymmetrical information. Like being told about a car being all peaches but it's actually a lemon. It's unlawful in most developed countries and is a great way to get a fine and/or a prison sentence.
Perhaps. It's not hard to imagine that having additional competitors to local real estate with the result of driving up prices is not in the interest of the locals, who need places to live.

That one group has less stake and can be discouraged through legislation while another has some constitutional-like protections is not a compelling problem compared to the one in the paragraph above.
CEFC was supposed to send $5mill to Tony and Hunter's company and 5mil to Hunter Biden as a loan. They did indeed never send the money to the company but we know from the senate report that CEFC did indeed send 5 million directly to Hunter. And official documents showing no role for joe biden is expected as this looks really bad for him. We know from Hunter Biden's email that his share was being held by his family members. Again Hunter Biden wrote that not Tony.
I couldn’t find the line item of the google payment for default placement. Anyone spot it?
I notice all the media that says no ads just included it as product placement. Sometimes it’s hidden well enough, but most time it’s a jarring shot of a logo or they talk about the product in a non natural way that takes you out of the story.
My focus on character is in response to OP assuming an article written by a notable author was "garbage," while taking the side of unnamed editors. I focused on a single sentence, and fail how to see this is illogical in the context presented.
Sorry about that! Can you email me any screenshots / info at mike (at) timescale? Thanks!
In amongst a music playlist I was served an ad that was (I think) a full Jeff Buckley song (or someone that sounded very much like him).

Made me wonder if someone had found a loophole and was somehow making money from it?
Yeah, that’s the list I read. As I say, it’s a long list of things where you’ll probably care about a few, but not care about most. But which few matter to you differs from person to person.
The East Siberian see is in a similar situation. The central arctic basin is also having its slowest re-freeze on record.

https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/regional
> > Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' (2007)

> Those articles may still prove to be correct.
Same. I've not normally been interested in medicine, but I'd always read their Vital Signs section. It was almost always guaranteed to be captivating, even if the rest of the articles for the month weren't all that interesting.

But to be honest, that downward trend has been going on across all major publications for decades.
No: https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/whi...
Amazon argues Prime Video customers don't own purchased content
This is pretty cheap if you don't care about privacy
> Conventional market theory assumes that supply will rise to meet demand

The supply of land (in the economic sense) is fixed, and will never increase.

> How do homeless people maintain wealthy people?

It's not homeless people that maintain land wealth, but rather those without land. Land only has any value at all because it commands a rent (in excess of its holding costs), and that is only the case because there are people who don't own in land (in areas they'd like to be), and thus have to pay rents to those with land.

The "increasing supply by increasing density" route will reduce costs on units, but it will leave the portion of wealth owned by the landed class untouched.
Do I understand you correctly that you mean: "Learn automatically without further human input?"

Because in statistics, causal inference is certainly possible without RCTs.
Let's talk about Zuckerberg wanting to rewrite Section 230.
Where is TikTok?
Only if in your mind "VPN" equals "anonymity and privacy" (which it shouldn't).
I haven't been a gamer since Quake was released in the 90s. I switched to Linux and tried steam. THere's another program you have to install like "proton" or something like that which will run the windows-only games on Linux.

I tried call of duty and although I'm terrible it seemed to work fine on my laptop.
FYI, at least one project is doing this: https://projectvesta.org/
A VPN from Google? Awww hell no. I don't even use their DNS. Did they not learn anything from Facebook's VPN fiasco?
I know, I actually laughed out loud.
They could definitely open up the Touch Bar a bit more and let developers build something for it that’s actually useful.
That's just FB, if you include WhatsApp and Insta, that number is 3.2B
I definitely agree with you on the drivers. I will not even consider Nvidia. I have the same Electron breaking bug in two different Nvidia cards (my now dead 970 and the still alive 650 Ti). It makes both VSCode and Atom almost unusable for me.
Thanks! Isn't it a lot of effort to draw by hand? Genuine question, as I'm interested to know if there's an easy to write text format that will get converted to such a neat looking image :)
>I wish you'd observe that none of Earth's lifeforms have colonies on other planets. Goldfish didn't colonize other worlds, is that then a strong argument that Goldfish don't exist?

I would not be so sure about dolphins. ;-)
Hopefully being careful with TAB or anything else somebody might be using for navigation. God help you if you use vimium in that world.
I have actually watched this rite on my front porch between two jumping spiders. The large female was aggressive but a tad slow. The much smaller male rapidly circled her (counter-clockwise?) for minutes like a stopwatch. Occasionally he would jump for her back and she would rebuff him and/or try to eat him. But eventually he prevailed. I'm pretty sure I actually saw him tucking away his sperm packet by reaching underneath her. But once the deed was done they both split in opposite directions. Hardly Romeo and Juliet...
We've lived in a world where foreign governments have interfered in elections by spreading disinformation for literally as long as there's been elections. That doesn't give the media an excuse to ignore corruption across half of the aisle.
> I don't think the emails show clear signs
> of any improper behavior with respect to China.

Yeah, but there was this recent report (https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/10/22/report-on-biden-act...) which does seem to show clear links to the Bidens having received CCP money.
Wait, they count one person using WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook as 3 users? Even when you log in with the same account?
MAU is still increasing at ~2.7B

Does Facebook specify what a "user" is?

Is just it someone with a Facebook/IG/WhatsApp/etc account who logs in?

Does it include someone with no Facebook account who clicks on a link to a page on Facebook?

Does it include someone who visits another web site that has a Facebook tracker on it?
Not scientific, but east Asia seems to be managing this little Virus rather well.
Not yet but it would form part of a future on-prem version of Tara, where privately-hosted instances of Github/Gitlab are accommodated.
"Google will never use the VPN connection to track, log, or sell your browsing activity¹"

"1. Some minimum logging is performed to ensure quality of service, but your network traffic is never logged and your IP is not associated to your activity."

Even with that fairly well spelled out promise, I trust google about as much as I trust $RANDO_VPN, so... hardly at all?
Agreed.

I learned about Wright's Law via Munro Live's (or someone adjacent) coverage of battery day. It's akin to Moore's Law for manufacturing, production. Paraphrasing, unit cost goes down predictably as production ramps up.

Per Munro, Tesla's projections for cost reduction nicely follows Wright's Law and is entirely reasonable.
Kinda, but there's a subsequent phase of maturity where you realise that you are knee-deep in technical debt as a result of spurning the framework and infrastructure and find yourself reinventing relational behaviours such as joins and foreign keys, but badly and expensively and in application memory, because your attributes are a freeform uncontrolled grab-bag of poorly typed whatever, and you'll wish you'd just had the discipline to trust that the framework folks really did know their stuff after all.
> It is built on trust. If you have to build trust with each individual journalist you follow a la carte, then that makes the entry barrier to following the news much higher.

While this may be true theoretically, it's already been disproven in practice. People believe almost anything posted on the Internet, whether it is a no-name website or a random tweet that goes viral.
Practical Clean Code: Variables Methods and Classes, First of He Series
Exactly.

Y Combinator's standard terms are $125k for 7% with an established/trusted brand and deep investor network.

No one should be duped into giving up the same level of ownership for 4% of the capital and (presumably) a less well-known brand.
Do we have accurate estimates for how many of them are real and unique people?
I say "multiple specialties". Seems to be received extremely well.
That’s where I think this article gets weak. It seems to hinge on “nobody else is reporting it so it must be true.” The connection between the Vice President and the company isn’t strong enough. And excluding the possibility this is disinformation just makes the connection that much worse.

I feel like I’m missing about 500 words. If Greenwald would tighten his prose and strengthen the persuasion, this article could rule.
Insider Inc. buys majority stake in Morning Brew in all-cash (~$75m) deal
The P stands for Private so I think privacy would be a part of it somehow.
Love the Rebuilding Rails concept! I'm doing a very similar thing in Ruby, focused more on "web application development from first principles" (https://theodorekimble.ck.page/e0bb43b156). I know I better absorb concepts if I can trace them back to a more fundamental "truth".

Curious to hear if anyone else has found success with Rebuilding Rails, and what they found most helpful.
"On July 24, 2020, The Washington Post settled the lawsuit with Nick Sandmann. The amount of the settlement has not been made public."
"CNN settled the lawsuit with Nick Sandmann. The amount of the settlement has not been made public."
"a judge rejected NBC's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit against it."

How are most of them dismissed if none were actually dismissed? Reaching a settlement is also considered 'winning' the suit in these kinds of cases.
Maybe the rising number of VPN providers is concerning to Google, so it decides to become one.

It you can't beat them, join them!
Lunar explorers will have to battle an insidious enemy–dust(2006)
> Can they be built using only dominoes? The answer is yes,
but then they are much more complicated.

The construction may be found in my paper "Limits of Rush Hour Logic Complexity" [1] that also considers oriented sliding pieces of just 1x1, that turn a sliding piece puzzle into a weird kind of maze.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/orimaze.html
Could you elaborate a bit more on “formalize mechanical devices”? That has really piqued my interest especially since you mentioned dance choreography as an example.
Do you have any examples/prior art you found interesting?

One of the topics I occasionally like to think about is how to formally describe manufacturing steps in some structured/programming language.
Maybe your program could be it. Would love to hear other folks’ thoughts on this too!
Greenwald has done important, admirable work. As has The Intercept. Unfortunately my estimation of both has catastrophically declined. The Intercept outed an important source (Reality Winner) with comically incompetent OpSec, which is unforgivable given their niche. Greenwald was once an important critic from the Left of the Obama Administration---which got a pass on a lot of things (<cough> drones <cough>) that Republicans wouldn't have. Unfortunately (and for some complex and sometimes understandable reasons) he moved away from trenchant criticism and into a sort of foaming unhinged rage at former members of that ådministration. At times, he rivals Infowars performances, except I don't think Glen is just playing a role. He's demonstrably unable to report in a professional manner on Biden, and non-propagandist outlets (are there any left?) are right to decline to publish the article---as is demonstrated by an even casual look at his Twitter feed when Obama, Clinton or Biden are mentioned. Greenwald has some justification for his resentment, but that doesn't make him a credible source.
This 10,000 times. And it’s not just Rails, the quality of the Rails documentation made an impact on the Ruby community that was generally replicated. Compare that to the JavaScript world where cornerstone, insanely popular libraries will have documentation that covers roughly 10% of a library’s API surface area and maybe one simple example that doesn’t cover production use cases. And dozens of out of date Medium blogs.

I don’t understand how people operate like this day-to-day either guessing at APIs or having to dig through large, complex open source codebases just to figure out basic library functionality.

Maybe it’s my conception of how things should work that’s off, because I’ve met developers who actually enjoyed guessing at library APIs and said they don’t like reading documentation. I hoped they were the reckless fringe minority. Maybe they are actually the majority?

I worked so much faster in Rails. The community made that possible by writing well about how their libraries were meant to be used. And if anyone’s response is “well you should read your open source dependencies’s code anyway,” many times I did have to jump into the code of Ruby libraries and it was a lot easier to read the codebase when the library APIs were well documented, providing a context for understanding. I miss Ruby and Rails.
I am hugely optimistic about humanity and technology and believe we will get through this just fine. I say this to qualify my question here:

Our descendants might have terrible lives for a thousand generations and it would be worth it if it means humanity can get to better times on the other side.

Would it be worth it? There is likely no net loss for the universe if we or even the entire Earth disappeared overnight and that might be better than thousands of generations suffering painfully over thousands of years.
On the roadmap but looks like we should checkout WorkOS :)
$10/mo is way more expensive than most VPN offerings. I've been paying something around $2.50/mo for Private Internet Access for years now.
Multi-screening? Maybe. It's a misnomer, though. Multi-crap apps open across multiple devices, I'll buy. It WILL kill your productivity. But take away my multi-monitor setup on my desktop or take away my virtual desktops and I'll go for your jugular.
I recently watched a 30 minute video on a non-adblocked browser. There was 2 ads every 3 minutes.

It's kind of crazy that this is likely the "normal" experience for millions of people. And that's even without considering how many channels also include "sponsored" content within the videos themselves.
Try this 30 second test on WaPo about the "Majority Illusion":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/ma...

Then, with this in mind, look at the fact that almost all media is controlled by less entities than you can count on your two hands (assuming you have ten fingers):

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
sometimes you may need to recrate the "linux" folder - either by "flutter create ." or "rm -rf linux", "flutter create ." (same for other folders, like "web", "windows", etc.) - ideally there should not be code there that can't be auto-generated (but not always)
Jack Dorsey: Twitter has no influence over elections
> you underestimate the amount of abuse and harassment that certain groups of people face

While I don't think this point is necessarily wrong, surely we can agree that in recent years there has been expansion of what is considered abuse. As with any push to change ideas, not everyone is on-board.

Is being subjected to a micro-aggression abuse? 20 years ago you'd only get a "yes" from a few activists / academics. Today you'll find a vocal (and growing) minority claiming it is a form of violence.

We don't all agree on the new rules, and CoCs are a method of making everyone follow them.
It says that personally-identifying information is not present on the VPN endpoint and no user data is logged, only service metrics with no identifiable information. Specific data logged and not logged appears on page 4 and 5 of the whitepaper.
> Is that because you can not replace Facebook, or because it's merely inconvenient to do so

As in it would be much more difficult to replace Facebook as a communication platform for me than it would be for me to be banned from making phone calls ever again.

So facebook is more in the category of "can not replace" than being able to make phone calls.
> Why is that?

Isn't that a question the New York Times should have been answering?

I will admit that I haven't been following the Burisma scandal that closely, but the following post [1] provides sufficient evidence to me to believe that it hasn't been reported accurately in the USA.

[1] https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/10/media-again-falsely-cl...
And the best part is that it depends on culture. In ancient Hebrew, east was venerated for a variety of reasons and was given the distinction as "up" (although I'm not sure that distinction really maps to our concept of up).

https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/philosophy/east-time-eternity...
What should a VPN be for if not privacy?
I wonder how quickly that "we do NOT log" terms and conditions will change after public release.
it looks like the line marked gold metalworking is the same, although hard to tell for sure. But long periods of history were at least pretty close to today's remperature according to that graph
No, the President of the U.S. at the time got us into a multi-trillion dollar war in the Middle East. The NYT simply reported on the documents that the administration used to justify that war.

The "fake" dossier actually existed, as did its contents. What got leaked was an unfinished internal draft that was never meant to be released. Buzzfeed was the company that published the dossier; the NYT simply reported on the dossier after it became a big issue. Given the nature of the allegations, multiple agencies in the U.S. attempted to verify the allegations. They were able to corroborate some but not all of the allegations in the dossier, as discussed in the Mueller Report.
I wonder if you'll be able to sign up for a GMail account using a Google One endpoint?
How Fortune 500 Companies Avoid Paying Income Tax
These are the same garbage attacks that succeeded when the FBI directory came out and said "there -might- be something in the emails" and quietly report a bit after "yeah nothing there" but the electorate who are easily persuaded by headlines were firmly of the idea that Hillary was a "benghazi traitor". The general public is woefully apt to have confirmation bias or just decide an important thing on a whim because they saw a headline.
Super easy to do when you invest into growth and borrow against that future growth. When borrowing, like in the bond market, it is always easy to spend more of other people’s money than the amount you made that year. The market only looks at revenues and hope they increase so you can always keep borrowing greater amounts if they do increase. The government looks at net income and also extends credits for certains ways that the revenue was generated.

The government incentivizes transactions, when you don't conduct enough transactions you pay the government instead.

The people decided that taxes were too hard to comprehend, which isnt true for all of us, and vilify anyone who does comprehend. The collective understanding and reading comprehension is so low that they cant even effectively change the law, getting their representatives to just tax people that earn the same way they do more. Congratulations you taxed the most effective wage workers more you did it!

Its just another perspective on reality that also happens to be more accurate and effective.
I get flagged what a surprise. HN once again shows is bias.
Anyway the evidences are out there. Everyone who wants to see them can. The rest should enjoy their bubble for now. Its gonna pop sooner or later.
macOS ARM builds on conda-forge
> 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.

Without getting into the irony of the fact that the article we're discussing was blocked on social media, I want to make clear: I don't want to abandon editorial rigor.

But I do think that electioneering concerns should be irrelevant to the context of whether you present information in the public interest. Just as reporting on Trump's tax returns or the Podesta emails were in the public interest, so too are the Hunter Biden emails.

There has not been a historical problem of major publications publishing Russian falsehoods. The "fake news" epidemic is mostly quickly stood up sites propagating on Facebook.

Nor did I see any evidence that Glenn was connected to a Russian disinformation effort. If that were to change (say, if he were found to be receiving payments from the Russian government), then I would support removing him as a writer outright.

> an editor still had to find balance and appropriate context.

Agreed. My claim here is that the editorial staff of The Intercept failed at this goal and their suggestions were not balanced.
Never in a million years would I trust google as my VPN provider.

1) No customer support

2) it will probably be cancelled in 18 months

3) they already spy on me enough with search, android, google keyboard, gmail
I wasn't but I gladly will now that you ask.

I used to have a lot of respect for Greenwald, it's been disappointing to see his evolution since the Snowden revelations.

Anyway here's the intercept's response. Will you read it?

https://static.theintercept.com/amp/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
Haha... Sure..
Since this is service you pay for, and not paid by ads
and Google says it will not track, log or sell activity it's probably fine.
The $39.6 per US/CA user is per quarter, correct?
If a person needs a document to tell them how to do their job, then they are not qualified for the job. CTO is highly specialized position that is supposed to be approached after many years as an engineer, manager, director, vp, etc. A person might be able to grow into the job quickly depending on the circumstances. But usually this is going to create lots of strife for everyone else. Usually, this is going to come as lots of pointless edicts and stuff like pointless meetings. I would suggest an inexperienced CTO that did not come up through the ranks needs to find a CTO mentor.
The problem with the tech hearings
What is next VPN by NSA ? :)
"Don't worry we already know everything about you, it is easier this way" :)
I trust VPN providers that have been asked in court to provide data and refused because they don't log more than I trust Google not to log here.