skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, even poor folks have smart phones with data plans now. You'd be surprised how full facebook is with Twitter screenshots and right-wing "news" orgs in the very poor, rural area that I live.

So, no, it's not just middle- and upper-middle class Americans on social media.
They don't need to be at odds with nature either. Think more solarpunk than cyberpunk. Every building should be designed to provide habitat for nature.
I'm not near the space any longer (in a former life, the healthcare industry was a big customer of our computer systems). But a significant portion of healthcare in the US used to use a proprietary language called MUMPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
The languages breakdown is interesting. It seems GitHub refuses to admit defeat and categorises the .m files into various other languages which use the extension (M, MATLAB, Objective-C, Mathematica and Mercury). I wonder if they use some sort of fuzzy ML solution for categorising them rather than conventional parsing.
Do you both know of the concept of out-group homogeneity?

I wonder if that would help. I experience a lot that people expect me to have all kind of weird opinions because they think I'm part of a group which they think holds these opinions. They think I'm part of that group because some of my opinions match with the group.
> burying it deep and forgetting about it for the next 100.000 years is the way to go I think.

Is there a problem with burying it in a subducting plate boundary, so it is eventually pulled back into the earth's mantle? There's already fission going on down there.
1. structs can have methods
2. the primary value of value types is not to use less ram (you just save a pointer, I guess times two because of GC) but the ability to avoid having to GC the things, since they are either on the stack or in contiguos chunks of memory, and to leverage cpu caches are you can iterate over contiguous data rather than hopping around in the heap. Iterating over contiguous data can be a large constant factor faster than over a collection of pointers to heap objects.
The is true and is just more proof of the oligarchy we live in brainwashing us to believe the "other side" is the enemy while the rich and powerful robs us blind.
"Like the other false claims about voter fraud, Mr. Trump’s tweet included a label by Twitter that he was sharing information that was not accurate.

Twitter, like Facebook, has said that those labels help prevent false claims from being shared and direct people toward more authoritative sources of information.

Earlier this week, BuzzFeed News reported that Facebook employees questioned whether the labels were effective."

super creepy- and another reminder that there are so many influential people that want to see anyone they don't agree with de-platformed
There is a big difference between claiming voter disenfranchisement and voter fraud. It's telling that all the proposed ways to reduce alleged voter fraud are actually ways to make it harder for people to legitimately vote.
It's also possible that the US political system is aligning with the rest of the world. The American Republicans now seem a lot more authoritarian and the American Democrats more socialist than they were 10 years ago.

I can't say if it aligns more with the divide in the rest of the world, but saying US politics "spills over" into the rest of the world makes it sound like the US is static. The parties are evolving though: maybe the US is just shifting to toward a more internationally palatable ideological divide.
Australian CSIRO is working exactly on that

https://theconversation.com/csiro-wants-our-laws-turned-into...

https://research.csiro.au/bpli/our-research/reasoning/

https://people.csiro.au/G/G/Guido-Governatori

They are using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontic_logic and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeasible_logic describe laws in terms closest to how it's done in the legal community.

Can't find a link but they codified some parts of the Australian import duties laws that we went through in a workshop of theirs that I had a chance to attend.
These people that are heavily contesting the election results are actually mad at mainstream conservative news outlets, because most conservative news outlets are actually being much more reasonable than I expected. From places like Fox, Sky News Australia, Ben Shapiro, the message has essentially been: evidence of voter fraud isn't sufficient to change the election, there needs to be evidence of voter fraud at sufficient scale to actually change the results, which is highly unlikely. Trump's team is well with their rights to pursue an investigation within the legal system, and it's actually a good thing for democracy that as many doubts are settled as possible, but it is not okay for him to be declaring himself the winner in the absence of evidence.

As others have said, after hearing about Russian collusion for 3 years, as long as Trump keeps his mouth shut about having won the election, I'm perfectly fine with them making their case within the legal system. As I said, I think it's good for democracy if people feel as though their claims were addressed. Especially with a judicial system theoretically predisposed towards favoring Trump, them shutting down the allegations of fraud so far can avoid having been done so we a bias for Biden. The odds of the election results changing are astronomically low, so even if you don't want Trump to win, by allowing this process to play out, you are simply bolstering the evidence of a Biden win.
> Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it does occur to me just how many kindles I see with ads.

True, although the price difference for the Kindle is about 20%. If the discount on a Macbook Air was similar, I'm sure it would be well subscribed.
Well, you definitely don't live in Leipzig. I can tell you that not everywhere in Germany is like that. In some cities, specially in the East, depending of the soccer team, profession or political views, you are simply not allowed to frequent some places.
> In a wide open environment, the minority ideas / culture would not survive, so the participants of the minority views shrink the environment into the bubbles so their ideas don't have as much competition.

How does that square with the commonly accepted observation that "any community without moderation turns into a 4chan cesspool".
That's an interesting point. What can we do as a society to fix this?
Having used both Zoom and Teams, I’m actually impressed at the feature set and granularity of control. Ok sure the UI isn’t great but come on it’s free.
Man, just what I popped in here to say too. Looks like something from the late 80s.
The NYT is a superspreader of misinformation too
Always go the PWA route first. If the idea/app is a bust you've invested in the least expensive type of app to deliver (and the assets can probably be reused later in other ideas).

And if it does take off it not only fully supported on Android and mostly supported on iOS, it will run on Windows Phone, Pine Phone, the Librem 5, and anything else with an HTML5 compliant browser on board.

(And if you need full hardware access on iOS, going from PWA to Hybrid app delivered through the app store is a quick and easy upgrade.)
They used animations as loading times, not bad UX to prevent you from staring at a blank screen, or waiting for an app to open, thinking the phone didn't register your action.
He doesn't deny the existence or unfortunate loss of life that results from the virus. As he demonstrates in the video, it's our response that has made things worse by adding to the death and misery, instead of reducing it.
I was rather thinking about fuzzying it to find gaps in tax laws.
Was exaggerated, but resulted in multiple guilty pleas and convictions of Trump associates and campaign workers.

Not for any actual Russia collusion. Seems like that's an important detail you missed in your yeah, but.
Automating My YouTube Uploads Using Node.js [video]
does anyone know why libgen is still running over http? (But sincerely thanks for the site! it saved me on several occasions!)
It would be cruel if he blamed the Jews. It would be cruel if he blamed the blacks. It would be cruel if he blamed the poor. Somehow it's not cruel if he blames the rich?
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Talk is cheap. For whatever reason, the increased pay and benefits for blue collar workers exists, by far, in Democrat areas, and is implemented by Democrat politicians.
>It's not that people want to create division. But the left becomes upset with your product if you show them rightwing opinions, so if you want to have rightwing content you have to make bubbles so they don't see it.

It's funny, but it's actually the opposite.

The right wing folks using Facebook become so incensed and outraged at being shown left wing content that they complain all the way to Congress, and the radical right-wing politicians who are slaves to the whims of the populist movement then haul social media executives in front of Congress and literally pepper them with ignorant conspiracy theories.

Facebook has notably had to wine and dine famous radical conservatives for years to prevent negative press, something they never have to do with the left.

Facebook notably even created "Conservative-only" high level level positions to ensure that their entitled right-wing users were placated. They added outright propaganda outlets to their "Fact Checking Initiative" not based on any objective metric, but on the political calculus of "Both-sides-ism -- we'll put your fact checker next to this liar, both sides get a spot at the table".

When you look at the radical right-wing populist movement, the search for Parler and more right-wing safe spaces, and how they use their fact-free media and conspiracy theory-friendly politicians to push truly ridiculous nonsense, I think you can see the full picture of a quickly-radicalizing right wing populist base that becomes incensed and even violent when viewing left-wing or moderate/centrist content.

Remember, this is an America where Fox News is currently being abandoned for being "part of the Left", and there are millions who are abandoning Facebook and Fox News for Parler and OANN, so you have to see this as the radical right actively seeking out and creating ever more ideologically pure safe spaces.
China’s coal capacity surge need not be at odds with ambitious climate action
they increase the efficiency of the land too. By doing perfect spacing between plants they ensure optimal growing conditions for each which in turns increase yields greatly. Two plants in the space of one shade each other and the net result is a lot more than half the harvest is lost since each needs to put the same amount of energy into making a plant before they can put any into creating the crop. Too far apart and sunlight reaches the ground uselessly (or worse a fast growing weed that will shade your plants!).
Reddit is for people, not for brands (except ads). Like many other forums, it's better to speak as a person.

I feel like it's the same on social media
Written guide is here if anyone is interested: https://quanticdev.com/articles/automating-my-youtube-upload...

It has the uploader code as well as the design document for the project.
I think there is clarity to be gained from the history of programming.
Programming went from very very hard (punch cards) to write to very easy to write (intelisense). And we also went from code being mostly written to code being mostly read.

With each step there was a move to either make best practices more verbose or terser. Verboseness has been a solution to defects. Better languages have been a solution to verboseness. For example: when typing bugs became common, hungarian notation became a best practice. The noise was an acceptable tradeoff. When better type checking became available, hungarian notation was abandoned because it produced noise. The compiler already did al the work for you. Improvements in the tools happened at the same time as improvements in the language.

All of this was motivated by growing code complexity resulting in increasing team sizes.

Math is also growing in complexity and collaboration is increasingly digital. But so far, I have only seen tool improvements, the language has mostly been stuck. If the language does not evolve tools will evolve much much slower.
Why? The Cold War is over.
Last year: Trump is an ‘illegitimate president’ [1]

Last year: "Trump knows he's an illegitimate president" [2]

Last month: "In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast for the New York Times Opinions network released on Monday, Clinton spoke about losing in 2016 because of a “disinformation campaign” run by then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and “Russian media." She even claimed the election was “stolen” from her...Trump, she said, holds a presidency that has an “air of illegitimacy,” something she has said many times over the past four years." (emphasis mine)

She has been delegitimizing the 2016 election and Trump as president literally since day 1 of his presidency.

[1]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/video/hillary-clinton-trump-knows-he...

[3] https://londondaily.com/i-was-born-for-that-hillary-clinton-...
Modern journalism and social networks in a nutshell. Wonder when the next big thing will be helping people to sort out their differences, instead of pitting folks against each other.

Maybe the latter is what you do after you finished your beer and popcorn, but it wasn't quite clear in that case.
It's probably down to the dataset. I went looking for their source and it's not anything I've ever heard about. Most Europeans would probably be more familiar with Speedtest.net [1], which seems like a closer match to reality (with France having descent broadband coverage and trash mobile).

[1] https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
On Earth all water will boil away, I don't see any plausible way for complex life to adapt.

Likewise if Mars was habitable, you can't adapt to survive there now un less you are a subterranian microbe.

Habitability of planets around red drawfs would of-course change the game, but it's not clear at present.
I understand your argument (but I don't agree with it).

Price fixing is banned by (I think) any reasonable country in the world and there is a reason for it.

There will always be brick-and-mortar stores because some people want to touch and look at the product before buying. Others prefer to buy online for lower price.
The rich don't control the two political parties. Showing that they do would be the beginning of evidence.

In fact, the Dems' agenda is anti-rich (raise taxes enormously, etc.) and the Republicans are currently controlled by non-college-educated blue-collar people.

This is obvious. If Taibbi has a counter-narrative to the obvious, that's fine, but he needs to present evidence.
India really needs a stern kick in the back from the West to stop is continuing authoritarian tendencies and its slide into becoming a nominal democracy like Turkey and Iran.
America is colonizing the rest of the developed world. There are probably at least a billion people worldwide (mostly in Europe, but also among Third-World elites) who act American and are invested in America's issues despite never having set foot in the country. The internet has exacerbated this greatly. Just look at the BLM protests in Poland and Japan... or the Amerikaner "digital nomads" who are able to live in foreign countries thanks to the Anglo Internet's worldwide penetration.

https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/basic-concepts-1kyae
The latest we have is that it will sweat only where the heat shield can't hold up on its own: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1107380559834046465 .
I don't think it's backwards, though the term businessman might be swapped for something better.
If anyone gets around to making this I suggest calling the robot Dewey.
That's the idea of analogy, isn't it? It invokes the listener to ask for more information, so that you can explain the DEPT part aka "the pitch deck".
Small businesses do not operate in a bubble. They have to compete with large businesses. And unlike the millionares who sit atop the ladder of large businesses, most small business owners have their livelihood tied in with their business.

Small businesses suffer much more from a minimum wage increase, so of course their owners are against it. Meanwhile, large business owners benefit from a minimum wage increase thanks to the ensuing reduction in competition.

I'm not arguing for or against a higher minimum wage here, but saying small businesses owners "rabidly vote against" it simply because it "might affect their lifestyle" is disingenuous. Both types of business owners have clear incentives which have nothing to do with altruism or avarice.
The overwhelmingly vast majority of "wealthy" Americans have zero political power. Zero.
There's an alternative presentation of the same facts:

Not being bound by the traditions of the large enterprise they used to work for, they're free to choose a stack that might help them be more productive. As an added benefit it helps recruitment - against the long hours and (relatively) low pay of startup work, they get to balance a mission and the opportunity to work with interesting technology.

My actual beliefs are somewhere in between. I think the 'fast moving' world of javascript frameworks is a major contributor here as almost anything you chose in the last 5 years is obsolete.

Not all tech stacks are predominantly web though. You might decide to build in Erlang/Elixir. You would be using something that's 30 years old, proven, not going out of fashion any time soon and the right tool for a lot of jobs. You'd be more productive in it than C++/Java, but that's what most enterprises would require.
Ask HN: What would Steve Jobs have invented if he'd been alive?
Apple has played it fairly safe under Tim Cook, it's stuck to it's core product lines (bar the watch) and done well. I don't think Steve Jobs would have been able to handle such a steady ship. There was always somewhere interesting to go.

Personally, an area I think he would have moved into is personal air quality. If there was anyone who would make some nasal/facial air quality filter cool, it would have been him (and I'm sure he would have looked like a business god given COVID19, assuming it happened).

Where do you think he would have innovated?
This is because when I was growing up (Windows 95 era), it was normal for a computer to just completely freeze regularly. If I saw a static "processing", I'd assume the computer froze and would rip out the power after like 5 seconds.
>There's just too much of it.

Welcome to the Brave New World.
Your numbers appear to be off.

There are about 25k unique protein coding genes in the human genome, not 500k.

Additionally, there appears to be a size limit to proteins. The largest human protein, titin, is about 40k amino acids. No larger protein has ever been discovered.

Obviously 20^40000 is an incomprehensible coding space, but we can with a few broad strokes narrow that number down immensely.

For starters, Eugene Koonin argues in The Logic of Chance, and elsewhere, that the evolution of proteins is limited by the amount of stable folds available in cell-like aqueous conditions. It's an impossible number to quantify but we do know that even most cellular proteins will naturally misfold coming off the ribosome unless aided by chaperones, so we can assume that coding space is drastically decreased.

Furthermore, because of inertia, there are many combinations evolution simply will not sample. Most genes evolve by genome duplication events. The conclusion of the process is that youre never going to get too far away from what you stated with, and indeed we see this is the case with there only being a handful of true, conserved orthogonal genes (these number in the hundreds).

Obviously, n = 1, but I guess the point I'm trying to make is that once you have stable structure/function chemistry, there's probably many many routes to "humans" or something else able to be self aware. We just see one of them because of we were guided here by earth chemistry and inertia.

What is far more confusing is how the ribosome evolved in the first place, because that's the true de novo lynchpin of cellular life.
Half of all habitable land is used for agriculture. 37% by forests... much of that managed forests which are used for human resources. The ones we aren't managing we are felling, irreversibly destroying million year old ecosystems.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
Yes, I think they view the basic mid-range tower box as a nearly-extinct form. Like corded telephones & CRTs.

They choose to make the mac pro as some kind of halo product, I guess. But really the slice of people who need more power than an iMac, and less than this "Linux tower full of GPUs" or a render farm, they judge to be very small indeed. This wasn't true in the 90s, when laptops (and super-slim desktops) came with much bigger compromises.
I suppose it's slightly more animal friendly. On the other hand it just seems like another step into the direction of turning the chickens into optimized food machines. Would be more interested in seeing more means of producing tasty food without using animals and at reduced costs to the environment. Working towards one final giant culling of all unnaturally engineered animals and just continuing on with a small number of animals to live reasonably natural lives and produce goods for realistic, high, prizes to be consumed as a luxury or exotic thing. Sorry, I'm a dreamer I guess, continuously disappointed by a world that doesn't seem to be able to set any significant goals nor pursue them at large scale unless it's for profit and likely at the cost of the rest of the world.
Obama LITERALLY changed the definition of enemy combatant so that he did not have to report such high civilian casualty rates, as part of the CIA's program to use his popularity to sell endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc.

The definition was changed, essentially, to this: if they were killed by drone, they were enemies.

Didn't matter if they were standing there in the market that day, lined up to buy bread. Didn't matter if they were responding in between the double taps to help their fellow citizens locate their limbs, recover their loved ones from under the rubble, etc.

"If they were drone-striked, its because they were combatants."

Thus, 'Obama killed less civilians' can be sold.

That this was also abused under Trump is not in question.

Comparing these two war criminals to each other to find out which was the nicer is an utterly ludicrous exercise.
> If you’re looking for a convenient lie, there are plenty of sources for that.

Don't be nasty. Engage in legitimate conversation or be quiet.
If there isn't a reasonable timeout set, that does sound like a bug. More than 2 seconds sounds pretty unreasonable to me (possibly should be even less), for a service that is willing to no-op give up when there is no network. Someone would have to do some reverse engineering/debugging maybe by observing/manipulating network traffic to be sure what is going on there, unless Apple wants to tell us but I suspect the suspicious wouldn't believe them.

Missing or too-high timeout should be fixed, but I don't think that'd be enough to to satisfy critics in this thread? Would it you?

[Not setting a timeout on a network request is a common bug in, say, web development. It does make me lose some confidence in Apple's technical abilities if they make that bug in a place with such high consequences. But that's different than ill-intent or a privacy violation]

People seem to object to the basic idea of OCSP, which I think means objecting to the basic idea of app signing.

App signing seems reasonable to me (although it is important to me there be a way for users to choose to launch un-signed apps; there still is in MacOS). And OCSP seems important part of a app signing implementation. Improvements to the particular OCSP implementation for both privacy and performance may be advisable though.
Sometimes exaggeration must be an understatement...
Thanks. I learnt about Poe's Law today.