skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does a "delegated type" work with preloading associations, ala "includes"? This remains a pain point with many polymorphic associations in Rails, but not sure how the new functionality handles if, if it does at all.
The Trump campaign did not coordinated or conspire with the Russian government in its election-interference activities.
I happen to think the problems with VR are rooted in the laws of physics, or at least human physiology, rather than the limitations of hardware.

Can you trick my eyes into focusing on infinity when the actual focus point is three cm away? Maybe?

Can you trick my inner ear into accepting the virtual reality? Ok, how?

AR is a different story, but Oculus would be starting from zero on an AR play, the only company with a genuine head start is Apple.
Yep, they keep them in concentration camps, which is totally different.
Glad you created an account for this contribution.
That's a lot of words for "How dare you not be tolerant of intolerance".
If we're looking at what things have control over our bodies, the Youtube Sidebar cannot be dismissed as inconsequential.
Also, Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on VR - there are several competitors in the market, like HTC and Valve.
Running effectively a MITM service for SSL then blasting private keys all over the internet might be a good example.
I still question the viability of the delivery apps once the pandemic is over. In that sense, this is a great timing for their IPO. However I wouldn't buy. I am happy to lose any potential gains if I am wrong but I am way too skeptical to jump in. I really think the market for delivery is not there to the extent we see now. In fact they will have a severely depressed couple of quarters once people get the vaccine. It will take some time for it to pickup and even then I would expect the traffic to be around 50% of what it is now.
"If Texas voters will finally vote in someone who is more like Ann Richards than Greg Abbott, I will believe the mindset is changing."

I think the problem with this is that it rests on a fundamental assumption that someone's primary motivation for voting Republican is bigotry. Polls by the Pew Foundation do not bear this out. Non-college educated Democrats and Republicans have equally wrong knowledge about what people on the other side of the spectrum believe. College educated Republicans match their numbers. The outliers are college educated Democrats. They, by far, have the most distorted view of what right wing people ACTUALLY believe. It goes both ways of course, with conservatives dramatically underestimating the patriotism of liberals, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/21/democr...

When I lived in Arkansas, the voters simultaneously voted for a Republican governor and state house, AND a ballot initiative to significantly raise the state minimum wage, as well as a ballot initiative for medical marijuana.

The GOP politicians were all against these measures, but the voters approved them by large majorities.

The point I'm making is that the politicians on both sides aren't in step with the electorate, even if they are chosen by the electorate. People are voting for the lesser of two evils a lot more than we give them credit for.
"rafaelfranca released this 1 hour ago · 324 commits to master since this release"

That's the sign of a very actively maintained project!

(To clarify: those 324 commits didn't all happen in the past 60 minutes, but it does show that there's a huge amount of development activity going on around Rails core)
It very well might. Doesn't mean that it turns it into a long term business.
Yes. You aren't me; you don't get to sue on my behalf (unless you're my guardian or something).
There's more than one licence that's open source.

Is there a reason that a new style of licence that prevents the "fork and suffocate" approach of these large companies can't be ratified as fitting with core open source values?

Being dogmatic about the definition of open source, and not allowing that to evolve over time, feels like hard times ahead.
Just to emphasize something thats generally unstated but I think pretty important: the only reason this is even remotely newsworthy or controversial is due to how large and influential Youtube is.

If I could choose between two worlds, in the first there is a single mega-platform that is moderated ultra-fairly so all people can use it, and in the second there is no megaplatform but a lot of small platforms that each moderate with nakedly partisan editorial lean, I would much prefer the latter. It would be more free both for publishers and consumers, in my opinion.

Right now we are all stuck trying to act like megaplatforms can house everyone fairly. They can't. Current events prove it. Facebook tried, Reddit tried, Twitter tried, and Youtube tried, and all ended up taking editorial stances that are often construed as partisan.

If we had a competitive landscape of smaller platforms, everyone could have a platform that works for them, with editorial decisions that work for them. This could all be decided by the free market instead of everyone collectively wringing their hands about freedom when a tech giant makes a stand on misinformation.

I don't know how society can deal with the tech giant's moats, but I think that's the real demon to slay.
Thanks for this. We could post stuff about previous commenter, based on literally nothing, doing bad stuff to little kiddies and they would be deleted by HN. That commenter would probably be alright with that because those types of comments are not ok. For some reason, however, these people are never ok with censorship by anyone if it impacts their beliefs.

I find this highly hypocritical.

The Reddit hunt for the Boston bomber is a perfect example of how this type of unbridled free for all posting can lead to very bad stuff happening.
IMO the difference between a drug, a medicine, and a psychedelic is behavioral more than substantive, although different substances do have more or less tendency for abuse.

Morphine is a medicine until you take like a drug. MDMA is a psychedelic at a rave and a medicine on a therapist's couch. By all reports, there's no possible way to abuse ayahuasca.

You will have more mileage with someone experienced, and more still with a professional, just like you would with other therapy practices that you can teach yourself, like meditation and yoga.

AFAIK addiction is mostly about a person's life, and not the things they ingest. That's why rehab clinic success is so heavily dependent on the support network (or lack thereof) the person returns to. You have to have something to avoid in the first place to turn to substances to avoid them.
What you call Traffic stats is what most people are concerned with and the reason they add analytics.

That Google Analytics offers more in depth features is irrelevant for most people.
I agree, and it's probably becoming a problem, but... I don't think this is a good example of that.

I mean, we're talking about the value of a business. Boston Dynamics is more of a research lab. They don't really have much in the way of revenue streams, customers, products, etc.
He can just stick a few livestock on a corner of his property and get an Agriculture exemption.
It's been a massive windfall to people who have been homeowners for 40 years in California. High rents due to the fact that you're not allowed to build new housing, high property taxes paid by new residents, while old residents pay nothing, high income and sales taxes to paper over the gap in the budget left by the lack of property tax paid by longtime residents.

The whole system has been optimized to milk as much money as possible from newcomers. The people in power in California even scapegoated the newcomers for a long time, and pretended that they were unwanted. Now that the system has finally become unsustainable, we get these ridiculous takes about how somebody "extracted wealth" from California.
The article is very good, but to me it is normal finance. Many points raised by the author are discussed in undergraduate business classrooms every year. Very good application of existing theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...
> Trump saying that neo-nazis and white supremacists are "fine people" hoax.

I have personally watched a press conference where Trump said that live on TV in front of millions of people. I don't understand how you can call this a "hoax" when it came from the mouth of the POTUS himself.

> Trump recommending people "inject bleach" hoax

I have personally watched a press conferences where Trump embarked on an embarrassing, demented, rambling adlib where he has suggested injecting bleach. I watch some of these, and I genuinely have to wonder about both his mental capacity and his mental faculties.

TBH, your comment is demonstrating the problem facing the US just now - you are asserting that easily demonstrable facts are a "hoax", even when they have been broadcast by Trump himself to millions of people.
YouTube is already exerting immense control over what information people see and hear. That's the status quo. If you're arguing that YouTube should have no recommendation algorithm or any feature whatsoever that make it more likely for any person to see any one video than any other video, and should not censor any uploaded content, then that makes some sense. That would make YouTube essentially a web hosting service (many of which already exist, of course).
Leading with Data – Cascading Metrics
$10 head-tracking app for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Well, there seems to be a clear downward trend in car purchasing, if you look at demographics (e.g. the move from suburbs back to cities)

Renting a service + car together via rideshare does have some fundamental economic efficiencies (depending on where you live, and other aspects the situation)
Microsoft files patent to create chatbots from your dead loved ones
So therefore the OP must be secretly racist??
I feel like instead of pushing for the companies to separate, congress should pass laws mandating [adversarial interoperability](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...). Then the data (including the social graph) really would belong to the users, and facebook would have to compete with multiple other “social network clients” that would rapidly emerge. Facebook would lose some monopoly profits, but in the long-run they might even make more money - they have a lot of very smart practical engineers (at least based on seeing their approach to writing libraries e.g. react vs angular, pytorch vs tensorflow etc.) So if forced to compete, I think they would do just fine, particularly because I believe that the ecosystem would develop faster in the presence of real, and actually grow the market beyond what it would otherwise be.
I am curious what these laws are, and what constitutes involvement. Am I allowed to comment on American elections even if I am not American?

A lot of people here are talking about interference, which sounds like a very nefarious thing. But in reality, what they mean by 'interference' is just posting on the internet about why one candidate (let's be real, probably Trump) is better.
There’s some interesting history here where the courts definition of caucasian used to include south Asians and was subsequently changed to prevent their naturalization.

As an aside, I often cringe at arguments involving skin-deep diversity. I’ve lived in towns that bragged of diversity when in reality they tended toward the same monolithic affluent culture regardless of skin tone.
He's just moving out of California as part of a tax avoidance strategy.

The end.
BTW your phenomenon of 1 lb/wk is quite sustainable. Trying to lose significantly more than that (more than say 5 lbs/2 kg per month is not only hard to achieve but usually results in vpreverting to the prior weight.
Really? YouTube is essential? Essential to what? And how was that service made available before YouTube existed?
Seems a bit short-sighted because if Oculus becomes the dominant VR platform that Facebook envisions it to be then it's going to dwarf instagram in terms of economic importance (for advertisers and users) over the long term.
Yes. End of uBlock, end of Twitch adblock, end of any blocker requiring in flight header modification to work.
My family went through some pretty tumultuous times that created a giant rift where there was no communication from my early adolescence into early adulthood with one side of my family and one night of taking mdma with my closest cousin from childhood was able to facilitate a remediation. However when I’ve taken it recreationally without a goal in mind it has been such a painful experience in the following days, which isn’t every users experience, but for myself without meaningful emotional resolve the drug left me feeling incredibly depressed. With that being said, I hope anyone who wants to experiment with it invests in a safety kit ( https://dancesafe.org/product/mdma-testing-kit/ ), no matter your intention
What about the iphone POWER+VOLDOWN thing that flushes the biometric keys and requires the pin?
They tried this and had to stop after “I trust Cambridge Analytica, so please send my data there”...
This is the algorithm's job. It's built to make sure you're watching more videos and making sure you stay on the site as long as possible.

YT isn't propagating it. Its a result of people searching for, and watching conspiracy videos. If you watch a lot of Alex Jones videos, then the algorithm by design will recommend other conspiracy videos as well.
Anti-capitalists, socialists, police defunders, censors (they can be also far right wingers), haters of every western thing, etc. You can easily identify them inside the democratic party, they have a lot of power now.
>Error Objects

Active Model’s errors are now objects with an interface that allows your application to more easily handle and interact with errors thrown by models. The feature was implemented by lulalala and includes a query interface, enables more precise testing, and access to error details.

This has been in the work since Rails 5.x and I believe Lulalala extracted it from his work on Gitlab. And it was lot of hard work.

Since both Github and Shopify now runs on Master, I dont think there are any other open source web framework that is more battle tested than Rails.

Still waiting for New Magic though.
I have looked into a couple datasets purporting evidence of fraud, but they are fallacious. This is much more effective at disabusing me of election fraud conspiracies than censorship. YouTube's latest move has raised my skepticism all over again.

Furthermore, YouTube must know this so there must be some really damning material they are censoring to make this risky move, which ultimately leads me to conclude there is widespread fraud.
I'm not trying to troll but the reaction to "It's my f*cking data!" should be to seriously look into projects like Urbit. Where you do in fact own and control your own data.
You are talking about a president that is not accepting the result of a democrating election, exactly like he announced 4 years ago, and the republicans almost fully cooperating with him in trying to destroy the democratic system. That's way past the point of platitutes like politicians and good vs bad liars. This is Weimar.
> while old residents pay nothing

This is patently false. Property taxes can and do raise 2%/year.

California does need to build new housing.
I'm engaging in democracy suppression and other nefarious deeds after being compiled into a database of gullible chaps.
By this metric, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are greatest leaders the world has ever seen.
> What happens when an adblocker is sold and the new owner secretly installs spyware to steal all of your passwords and cookies? This has happened multiple times already with extensions in the past.

This idea that we need to keep locking down markets because one day things go bad is really really not good. We should not deny ourselves software because there are bad usages of it.

These fear-inducing scenarios are all bad because they are low information marketplaces. The consumer has no idea what extensions really do, they don't see when major changes happen to the software they use, they don't see ownership changes, they don't see what data is gathered, they don't see where data goes. And yes, we can't expect consumers to watch & attend all of these things. Which is why it's important consumers be able to rely on each other, to have some way to signal danger & emergencies to one another.

Instead of trying to create a marketplace where information & understanding can flow, instead of allowing genuine competition based on markets, we continue building markets assuming every buyers is & forever will be a totally blind idiot with no help, no friends, no other voices to help them make their decisions.

I'm so fired of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. The security apparatchik of the web today terrifies me. Deny deny deny. Close down close down close down. Severe connections, pull up the draw bridges, flood the moats, send out the alligators. I tire of these defensive wars, I tire of giving up ground, because the web has some pretense of being a perfectly secure place. I would much rather us be intertwingled, allow bold exploration of systems, mingling together, & while doing that figure out ways forward that permit some risk.

Extensions are the most vital & powerful capability on the web. They are what make it better than everything else. Keeping the user sovereign, giving them amazing mind blowingly powerful extensions, is how the web keeps from becoming just another app. Those great powers can be abused. But we need to find ways to permit these powers to exist anyways.
The two things aren't different if Musk actually doesn't set foot in California, just like the employees of your company.

I'd imagine the commenter that said he'd still have to pay income tax in California assumed that Musk would still need to be in California, to manage his companies there, and would have to pay California tax on a corresponding proportion of his income.
Show HN: I built 9 datasets with companies buying ads in newsletters
Let's discuss that at the WEF summit in Singapore...flying in on private jets that is...less of an uproar around it than in Davos anyway...
"The lawsuit is about Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram effectively roping in users from other platforms into their advertising ecosystem"

I don't use Instagram and have used Whatsapp prior to FB acquiring it. There has been no "roping in" of any sort that I have noticed, and while my experience is clearly anecdotal, there doesn't seem to be anything to link to that that I've observed. Perhaps I'm naive, but it would be good to see something concrete in this regard.

"The monetisation of your data in exchange for adverts can be seen as the cost of the platforms. By aggressively increasing advertising on Instagram and attempting to take steps to monetize WhatsApp, Facebook are raising prices. As far as I understand the question is whether it is their abuse of monopoly power that allows them to do this."

I guess I would call that profit-making, not "aggressive monetization". The alternatives exist and they are all easily accessible. Put yourself in their shoes - would you run a non-profitable enterprise? At what cost? Let's not lose touch with the fact that this is still a capitalistic economy.
This is some solid capitalism. Never let a good joke go un-monitized!

As an outsider, how accurate is the kit in this package? Is this the culture of silicon valley today?
While they crush local competition, they also crush it in other countries. Google and Facebook/Whatsapp own a sizeable chunk of Internet interactions in just about every country except China, which in turns means more revenue which can be used to pay these insane Silicon Valley salaries to their workforce.

While I don't like these monopolistic practices, they have given the US a tremendous amount of power over communications abroad.
Can you show that a significant % of the public/swing voters or sitting out 'Dems' swayed by Russia?

Most Democratic political workers would tell you that Comey and the emails is the #1 factor. It amplified built in brand of Clinton corruption and Comey broke long standing policy at basically the perfect time to do perfect damage.

Sure some of this was amplified by Russia but I don't know a single professional that would say Russia had a larger impact than the emails/Comey.
Can't wait for more reasonable platforms to take over. I'd rather have some clarity and honesty than a stack of sneaky fee and not knowing who gets paid what.
I have been pretty much only doing pick up orders (from the restaurant's site) since the whole tip stealing debacle. I know that some people would like jobs in the delivery space for flexibility and extra income but it seems too dishonest of a space for me to caution. Just my feeling tho, plenty of no-car downtown life friends who order and that's their choice :).
I disagree with this. Privately owned threats are still a big deal, even if government threats also exist.
I’m not sure how being able to use a specific app on a specific phone is a freedom
>> Besides, what are the other options?

How about fund university research in related technology, reduce regulation that inhibits free enterprise, open financial markets to support capital formation, lower taxes on capital gains, enforce anti-trust regulation, and cross your fingers and hope some comes from it in 20 years.

You could also spend trillions of dollars on a high tech military industrial complex. That helps also.

This is not going to do it.
Doing this without being noticed will be somewhat difficult to do though.

Passive sniffing is likely not going to be enough since opportunistic TLS usage is on the rise..
Your #2 point is definitely the root of it, I think. The shit sandwich is sort of a shortcut to establishing the good feelings of a trusting relationship.

I guess the question is whether someone who already has a trusting relationship with the person they're critiquing should still go for 2:1; personally, I lean towards yes. I think regardless of how well you know someone, it just makes for a nice environment when you start and end with some positivity. But you're right that there's not always gonna be enough positive things to praise for that to be possible.

It's a balancing act -- how do I distribute the thoughtful praise I do have so that I can create a positive environment for my criticism?
VSCode Tinder a.k.a. VSinder
How many people involved in Trump's campaign went to prison or were otherwise convicted of doing shady shit with russians and money?

Wasn't it close to 20?
> What if instead, it's the company which is telling the truth, but the government which is malicious, and wants to censor them?

This is not hypothetical, you can see this in many countries today like North Korea, Iran, India, etc.

Government censorship is extremely dangerous because it is backed by the power of the state. ISP censorship is extremely dangerous because there are very few options and circumvention requires expensive physical infrastructure. YouTube not allowing certain videos on their site… doesn’t seem to me to warrant these histrionics, since there are multiple other channels for video distribution (Vimeo, Twitch, Dailymotion, BitChute, Periscope, Twitter, and Facebook all come to mind off the top of my head). And, if there were no other channels for video distribution, a $5/mo server gets you one of your own.

Is it a huge bummer that we can’t have nice things and that the ‘free marketplace of ideas’ concept is fraying at the edges? Yes. Is this the end of the world, or even a slippery slope to a dystopia? Seems pretty unlikely. Distributors have always been allowed to choose what they will and won‘t carry; Barnes & Noble won’t sell books published by Amazon[0], and you know what you can do? Just buy them at Amazon. YouTube won’t carry your video? Fine, post it somewhere else.

[0] https://business.time.com/2012/02/06/in-latest-moves-barnes-...
> with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here.

I don't see many "opposing viewpoints" in Palo Alto either.