skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing!

You write: "all the events in all GitHub repositories since 2011"
I have a question:
When was the data loaded?
Will the data in https://gh-api.clickhouse.tech/play be updated?
I'm sorry no one appreciates your hero.
If you're right about what the market should, rationally do, and it does something else, you were still wrong.
What makes you think that Tesla would be able to do that, given their reputation of not being able to manufacture cars that don't fall apart immediately upon rolling off the factory line? They kinda have to be able to build cars in the first place in order to build them faster with more robots.
I fall in this same bucket. I still refer to the old railscasts now and then. I use rails for my hobby projects.

Currently, I depend on Rails Guides, and I think they do a pretty good job. Would be good to know other resources.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Video material is going to lose its value, like many other kinds of evidence before. Just think about your own judgement about pictures nowadays and you can probably apply it to videos in 10-20 years. Neither of them will lose all of their value as evidence, but they will be adjusted as technology is going forward.
Skip over the year 2020 and go directly from Dec 31, 2019 to Jan 1, 2021
And just to build on that thought.

(IMO) The only people who really care about open source are us, the philanthropic builders of said software.

If we shout down those in our community who question the status quo, by simply stating "it's not open source", then we lose those people.

Given the hard stance we see on open source, it's very seldom that the reply to that is "but why can't it be".

An analogy that springs to mind is jslint (bear with me here..). A great idea that had true belief at heart, but was just too strict for mass adoption.

JSLint started a wave of enforcement that was needed, yet the far more flexible jshint (and subsequent eslint) won out in the long run.

I'm fully onboard with truly open source, and think there will always be a place for it. But feel that being all or nothing suffocates the discussion.
77 year old man attacked for wearing MAGA hat
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/77-year-old-veteran-attacked-f...

Man sent to jail for attack on man wearing MAGA hat:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/man-who-attacked-maga-hat-wearin...

And an article about other incidents around the country:
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/attacks-trump-supporters...

49ers hats are not bright red, and tend to be fairly distinctive.

Anecdote time - my buddy sometimes wears a red hat with the California bear on it, and he regularly (as in without fail) gets dirty looks because of it. I personally stopped wearing my red Nike running hat in public last year because of the reactions I'd get. For context, we live in a relatively conservative East Bay suburb of Northern California.
This is what makes askhistorians nice. There 20 year real I think. I look forward to checking this out.
Has everything to do with margin, one of the biggest drivers of value.
>I have personally watched a press conference where Trump said that live on TV in front of millions of people.

Thank you for bringing this up. This is the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8E12bs

At time 1:58 Pres. Trump specifically excludes neo-nazis and white nationalists from his 'fine people' description: "And I'm not talking about the neo-nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally."

https://youtu.be/JmaZR8E12bs?t=118

You're experiencing a false memory, which is completely normal for anyone, even intelligent, well informed and accomplished people.

It's my personal opinion that this false memory was implanted in millions of people by corporate media and big tech.
I stand corrected, I mistakenly thought that was part of the lithography machine.
DoorDash doesn’t intend to be a “food delivery company”. Listen to their CEO in interviews. His catch phrase is that if you solve food delivery, you solve some of the most challenging aspects of last-mile logistics.

I expect they will transition away from food and into other verticals soon.
Miami?
I would say it's probably more than five times deadlier than the flu. In 2018 about 60k people died because of "influenza and pneumonia" [1], so 300k deaths due to Covid is five times worse, but that's with some quite strict lockdowns. Without lockdowns it's anybody's guess, but twice as many deaths doesn't appear outrageous.

That said, what "flu multiple" would have scared people into action? Even now, in December there are surprisingly many people in denial, up until the last moments of their lives. There are people who think this whole Covid is only a conspiracy (did you hear the one about "Gates' vaccine" which is actually just a way to inject people with nanorobots?). If Covid was only twice as deadly as the flu, would the Congress have passed the CARES act in 2 weeks? Maybe they would've if it was exactly 2.85 times as deadly as the flu, but we'll never know.

What we know is that we all die one day or another. In a regular year 2.8 to 2.9 million people die in the US. 300k is 10% of that. That's bad, and every single death is a tragedy, but this was no Bubonic Plague.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
It can be surprising. Hell I'm from Louisiana and find it funny that people are just discovering how much White Supremacy took off in some places like the North West US. They somehow think we kept it all contained here for the last 120 years.
Interesting.

How do you reconcile the fact that slavery was once widespread and morally acceptable by the majority of society, and defended by the church, with your position that morality does not improve over time?

How about the fact that interracial marriage was once considered sin, and that women allowed to own property or vote was also morally acceptable?

Would you prefer a return to the morality of the 1800s, since in your view morality does not change, where women and dark skinned people returned to their "rightful place"?

Even the Church has undergone massive reformation over the centuries, and what was considered morally acceptable in the 1200s is not acceptable to modern Christians.
Most healthy young people won't be vaccinated in the long run, I suspect. Those most at risk, the health workers and those who are most likely to spread it will get it, but everyone else will be kind of optional.

That companies are advocating for "passports" is more than likely an expression against anti vaccination sentiments and a desire to open for business whatever the costs.
I think you've successfully argued against your own point.

With open source, developers are paid for ∆V -- the amount of value added to a project. Companies are paid $0 in most models but it's backed by a monetization model that's non-zero. Basically, more work == more value == more pay.

With proprietary software, developers are still paid ∆V, but companies are paid for V∆t -- value times the duration of usage. While some of this is just compensation for risking investor money, the ultimate model is rent-seeking and lock-in. This is extractive because the company keeps getting paid even when they don't add value.

You may raise concern that volunteer developers don't get compensation, but use that a problem for a voluntary activity? People program as a hobby, to scratch an itch, to develop mastery, to solve a problem they already have, to advance an ideology, or for a chance at recognition/popularity. Only that last one is anything near a problem, and it's the same boat as first time authors or artists.
The Quirk That Stuck Facebook with a Robust Antitrust Case
Understood, I tried to be funny and failed. Will try to do better next time.
> you ought to know how valuable someone who can fix bugs, especially arcane ones, can be.

This is very true. It's easy to ship new features; that's creating something from scratch, you get to make up the structure to suit your needs and introduce the tech debt that suits the project. Bugs show up in a constrained design space; to fix them, you have to operate within the architecture of the system that already exists, which can be much more difficult.
"genuinely harmful" and that's how it's sold
“Basic mathematical calculations and the laws of nature cannot be suspended, even in the GDR [East Germany]. Two and two makes four, even under [the former East German leader Erich] Honecker.”
That was a state court talking about a state constitution, not a federal one. It had nothing to do with the first amendment to the US constitution.
If I were a product manager at Google working on solving that real problem, I'd ask, "What are the APIs and permissions an ad-blocker needs to be able to function performantly?" And that would typically then involve going to stakeholders, i.e.: people who actually write adblockers, and asking them what they need.

That is very, very obviously not what happened. And any attempt to spin this as "solving a real problem" ignores that Google employs tens of thousands of professionals who are trained to follow the approach above in response to solving problems. This is a business decision and the stakeholders aren't ad-blockers, they're ad networks.
>Ruby 3

Oh shit, I didn't realize that that's the scheduled Christmas release. Finally, all strings frozen by default!
It's been sad watching Silicon Valley evolve from Apple's 1984 Super Bowl commercial to this.
Nothing results in seeing more 'dirty looks' than a persecution complex.
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Yeah, I figured that would be mentioned. I just personally don't agree that it's OK to say "well, everyone means 'empty' when they say 'full'".

When the phrase you are using quite literally (hehe) means the opposite of what you mean, that's just abuse of the language. Unless, of course, you are trying to be sarcastic (which is never the case with saying "I could care less").

I feel the same way about literally/figuratively, and at least figuratively (hehe-2) roll my eyes on that one regularly.
I think your criticism is totally valid. Angular should take a look around and see the real-world uses of their framework and see how they could get so slow. Ultimately, the onus is on the Google Cloud team to prioritize and deliver performance. Perhaps part of the problem is that very large customers use the automation APIs, so they don't make the complaints that get heard. ("Platinum" customers have a strong impact on the roadmap.)
> This is an action that could have profoundly disruptive effect

If FB is doing anti-competitive things than disruption is needed. It's not meant to be comfortable.

Companies are really good at learning the playing field and then gaming it for their benefits. Tweaks to laws are often easy to work around. Disruption that stops an illegal monopoly is going to be uncomfortable. Especially at first.

But, it opens the door for the future in ways that aren't options today.
Yeah, MDMA is a heavy 5HT releaser, which is the cause of post-MDMA depression after as little as one dose. I wish other relatives to MDMA were investigated, too, like bk-MDMA. It results in less 5HT release, has the same effects as MDMA, but doesn't have a come down with depression as a symptom unless abused.
>We're not intelligent enough to view a video and decide for ourselves what is fact v. propaganda v. entertainment

Um, it's pretty clear that this is literally true. Most people are too ignorant to reject absurd conspiracy theories.
What does Oblivious DoH do that a plain HTTP proxy can't?
Germany is roughly 1/3 catholic (south and west predominantly), 1/3 protestant (north) and 1/3 atheist (east). Regional specifications are very rough, often there is actually a village-by-village variation between catholic and protestant due to cuius regio eius religio in the middle ages. Atheism/agnosticism/dontcare is on the rise roughly everywhere, but has a head start in the east/GDR due to GDR politics.

And I guess you mean to say germany has gone farthest in christianisation, with the least of old german or old norse cultural remains? I guess that might be true.
The future of DevOps: 21 predictions for 2021
Thanks for the context. I wasn’t really involved in WordPress until a few years after, so the early history is foggy to me.
A 2% tax rate on a home in Texas is much less in dollar terms than a 1% tax rate on a home of equivalent size in California
This description of California reads like a description that somebody that has never been in California but watches fox news would give.
> For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.

I've never heard anyone in Tyler scream at random strangers calling them "f*t". But that does seem to be a pretty much daily occurrence from the illustrious cast of characters that hang out around the Powell Street BART station.
IG was tiny at the time, not the behemoth it is today. They hadn't even released on Android yet.
It's normal to get the glowy MDMA feeling in a good "breakthrough" therapy session or deep conversation with a friend. So yeah if you just take a pill and look at the wall you'll know, but in a very warm social context or a good therapy session you may get the serotonin rush out of a placebo.
But my point is "it's the norm".

Either you use WhatsApp or you don't talk to people.

And I'm not saying this is a bad thing, really.. I think "monopolies" have their place in standardizing things that we do and it makes it convenient.

(Side note: if fucking Apple would open up iMessage on android/windows they would OWN the chat market in a matter of minutes in the US)

But there does get to a point where you cannot say "people use it because they like it". Most people use it solely because everyone else uses it.

Just like Facebook. There is no "alternative" for real-life profile social media. If you want to use that type of social media, Facebook is the only thing whether you like it or not.
Corporations with monetary incentives (i.e. all corporations) should not be the entities responsible for deciding what information can and cannot spread within a democracy. I don't care what side of the fence you're on when it comes to censorship - allowing corporations to wield power previously solely held by the government is a step in a dangerous direction.

What to do about it? This is very tricky. The best solution I have been able to think of, is inline with "anti-discrimination" laws that exist with hiring. Corporations should not be able to discriminate in terms of what information is spread via their platform. If the government can enforce that law when it comes to hiring (even if that restricts a private company's "freedom") then they can certainly do it for information.
That same perspective shows that the industry has evolved since then. If FTC can't be held accountable for not predicting the future neither can Facebook. Of course, I don't believe this at all since anyone in the industry knew exactly why Facebook would buy Instagram, especially the FTC.
> it seems like it's trying to solve a real problem

People aren't mad that the Chromium team is trying to solve a real problem, they're mad that the Chromium team is utterly failing to solve that problem, and introducing new problems in the process.

Under Manifest V3, requests can still be monitored, they just can't be modified. So this isn't really helping with spying.

And even if the change did help with spying, adblockers help with spying. Firefox will solve this problem better than Chrome or Safari by hopefully balancing the relative privacy risks from extensions and from ads and not by making clumsy fixes that introduce additional problems.

We all recognize that extension security is an issue. The question is how to make things more secure without introducing additional privacy risks by weakening adblockers. If adblockers legitimately need full access to the page in order to work effectively, we can't just stick our fingers in our ears and pretend that they don't need that access. We can't just pretend that declarative blocking is good enough just because it would be more convenient for us if it was good enough.

I would welcome a security model that made adblockers safer without making them less effective. Does anyone have one to propose? Because I don't want a half-baked solution implemented in my browser just because "we have to do something" -- and that's what I think Manifest V3 is.
It very much should mean that.

Modern capitalism has replaced the public square and a huge number of face-to-face communication opportunities with communication mediated by private corporations, and it uses those (and they take liberties themselves to for their own purposes) to outsource censorship and stiffle public discussion...

The idea of restricting freedom of speech to the state is an antiquated idea, belonging to pre-internet times, when a huge part of social interaction didn't happen through social media...
I wish somebody would give me millions of dollars. Until then my freedom to do what I want is being infringed.

This isn’t a very useful argument when balancing the rights of multiple entities in society though.
The biggest problem is identification. The latest Android system update for the low-energy bluetooth support which was needed for those tracing apps, added the generation of the random id centrally.
Which is security nightmare, like registering your private SSH key at Google. So Google knows now your health status, and via Google the NSA, and via the NSA all their partners.
I often see in twitter bios disclaimers like "opinions are my own" and "retweets are not endorsement". I'm guessing people should now start putting a new disclaimer, them simply being retweeted by someone else doesn't mean that they have anything to do with that person.
Mongo is also proving the success of vendor lock-in: you (or the engineers before you, and the engineers before them) make a mess in Mongo, because there are no relations and no schemas [0], and it becomes really difficult to get off it.

The effort required just to get your data in a state that's clean enough to consider moving to the RDBMS you should have started with can be overwhelming.

Then you have to rewrite your queries out of their custom query language.

Is it Mongo's fault you made a mess in your database? No, of course not. And their dashboard is actually pretty nice. But you are massively locked-in.

Source: own a production Mongo DB with years of accumulated mess in it. Desperate to get off it. Paying customer of Mongo's hosting (it's one less Mongo thing to deal with, at least).

[0] There is schema support now, but it's only JSON schema and it's relatively new in the scheme [sorry] of things
If you are an executive, are you really playing devil's advocate?
Note it is backwards to think that if a platform _fails_ to carry the regime's message then _the platform_ is impeding freedom rather than noting that it is _the government_ that is applying anti-freedom pressure on a dissenting _non government_ organization.

Youtube is _not_ the government but by reigning in falsehoods, is acting in _opposition_ to the government here. So what Youtube is doing is the very definition of _freedom_ of expression. A government pressuring them to carry pro-government messages is the crime, not the other way around.

You are now having the government and pro-government voices pressure non-government organizations to publish pro-government material while claiming that it "protects" freedom of speech. This the exact _opposite_ of freedom of speech, it is in fact forced propaganda.

So indeed there is no "but" because it is _the government_ that is in the wrong by pressuring publishers in what they must include.
Every benefit mentioned in CF's post seemed achievable with a plain old HTTP proxy. Why bother with ODoH at all? Am I missing anything?
I had one-off experience recently: tried to add IPv6 CIDR for accessing k8s master, and FE validated it perfectly but somewhere on BE they validated it with regexp that accepted only IPv4 CIDRs, but at least up to 999.999.999.999/99, so not that bad. /s
Your answer sidesteps regulatory capture. These big companies wield massive power in Washington, don't you think any regulation and law that's actually passed will benefit them and prevent competition?
Google Cloud expands edge computing to help companies leverage AI and 5G
I'm all for this but... Google, anyone?
The city of SF is approximately 40% non-hispanic white, 34% asian, 15% hispanic, 5% black, 5% mixed, and 1% other.

Other Bay Area cities have different distributions. For example Oakland is approximately 29% non-hispanic white, 26% hispanic, 23% black, 15% asian, 5% mixed, 1% other.
Theres also different levels of trust. I think my wife and I have a very trusting relationship; the way that she criticizes me would possibly be inappropriate in a professional setting, and definitely raises eyebrows when overheard by others.

She is able to not beat around the bush with criticism because of the relationship we have, and it's good that she doesn't because with kids, household &c. there's a lot to communicate and often not a lot of time to do it (plus any time we spend on necessary communication eats into our leisure time together).

With my boss of many years, the conversation is a bit less intimate and frank, but still fairly to the point: "[foo] sucked. You need to figure out how to make it suck less. If you need resources to make it suck less next time, let me know. [Peer A] is quite good at [foo] so maybe you can reach out to [him/her] for some tips."

If it's in the context of a periodic review, there will probably be lots of positive comments too, but that's more natural because (hopefully) no period of work goes buy without both good and bad things happening.

When I got a new manager, the relationship was newer so there was a bit more beating around the bush for things just because the relationship is not as sussed out. This is natural.
I find it amusing because they find someone who has some sort of a problem with tesla and make them the jesus of their crusade against that company. "How could Elon (or Tesla) have done this?" in order to sway public opinion. They did this with when the plant sabotage employee a few years back, the diver guy who Elon called a pedo and every self proclaimed "whistleblower" as far as I can remember from 2015 when this stuff really got crazy.

They just want to make a buck and posture as if they have some moral quandry with the company or their leadership.
Why are you linking to a news report on the preliminary summary released by Barr? It was clearly crafted to drive an initial narrative of exoneration. The actual Mueller report is much more damning for Trump, including findings that were redacted for many months, after public attention had died down.
2. This election turn out was 2 standard deviations above average. That has never happened in the past.

3. Detroit region of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Oakland had a 15% increase in turnout compared to 2016 and Macomb was up 18%. More black people came out to vote for Biden than Obama in these historically Black counties.

https://www.mlive.com/politics/2020/11/see-2020-election-tur...
Depending on your patience you can go and take a look at a real life implementation of it at https://app.hey.com since they enable source maps.

What the actual developer facing API is going to look like however is another question. I do kind of worry that given how much is has been talked up by DHH in particular that it is going to struggle to live up to the hype.

Either way, I am excited to see something new in the Rails front end space, that has felt like it was lacking a LOT of structure.
You should be able to.

And people should not be idiots to be panicking from someone yelling "fire" when they can't see one in the theater...