skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The population of Norway is literally 1% that of the US. MAYBE 2% if we're generous.

When you're a small, homogeneous population, you can make systems like that work. Things break down, however, for larger, more heterogeneous populations.
As a citizen of Tunisia, a former French colony, I’m going to have to wholeheartedly disagree with you on this :)

Firstly, your experience does not automatically discount the experiences of countless people from the many European colonial projects. Statistically speaking, the fact that you’ve never met a Bangladeshi who disagrees with you tells me more about the company you keep than what Bangladeshis think about colonialism in general.

Secondly, disconnecting from colonialism is a logical continuation of independence, and a form of building a country’s identity. Yes, colonial powers did some good things, but everything they did was ultimately for the benefit of them and the citizens they forced on us. I assure you: had it not made economic sense, they would have burnt everything down when they left. If you do some basic research, you’ll find that many African colonies got the bare minimum of development required to extract resources, simply because the colonizers did not intend their citizens to relocate long term.

Finally, eschewing the colonial past does not mean that you need to throw everything out. Rather, you take control over the narrative: (1) take what benefits you, (2) be proud of your heritage, especially that which your colonizer tried to suppress, (3) throw out the nonsense, and most importantly, (4) explicitly condemn the atrocities and injustices perpetrated by your occupiers. Forgetting and forgiving is not how you build an independent nation; seeking truth and justice is.
RUD is very much a euphemism that has I guess drifted a bit from it's initialism; I'm pretty sure in this case the disassembly was planned and the survival case would have been unplanned.
It does. You can also use toys on her.
‘Warp speed’ for the coronavirus vaccine ended when it reached U.S. regulators
The way facebook is different is that it isn't just a social network, it IS your online identity. The fact that they make you use your real name rather than just some username is what made it work. And what continues to make it a more permanent part of who you are digitally. Facebook login makes it even more intertwined and hard to remove.
>One of those has the potential of causing very immediate panic and potential injury or death as people rush to escape a non-existant fire. The other leads to people thinking dumb things about politics.

Thinking dumb things about politics is how you end up bringing your AR-15 to investigate a pizza parlor... or trying to kidnap the governor.
I was also thinking of https, yes. The Wayback Machine uses https even if the sites in its archive originally did not.
No state income tax, but the property taxes in Texas are brutal. Typical sales taxes as well.
>the “loss porn” regularly posted to r/wallstreetbets has firmly convinced me to stick with index funds

Same here. I know that I'm neither smart enough nor willing to dedicate time to micromanaging my portfolio. Index funds/ETFs are the way to go, and I only invest in individual stocks (no options/puts for me) if they catch my eye and the research of others has a positive outlook.
Cory Booker had the same idea in 2018, with more detail on how to pay for it.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/412594-booker-bill-would-...
Funny side-note: Sweden never registered Swedish as an official language to the EU because they thought it would be a waste of EU funds to translate all documents to Swedish, since most people there can get along in English.

Then Finland went ahead and ruined it by registering both Finish and Swedish as their official languages (they have a Swedish minority there) :)
Disfavored and inaccurate dissenting views are to be censored? What could possible go wrong with suppressing diverse - even if entirely refutable - speech?
1. Focus for long stretches 2. Profession 3. No

The impasse goes something like, programmer says "it gets done when it gets
done," and agile wonk says, "I can't tell higher-ups that," programmer
conjures up some mumbo jumbo to make wonk go away, agile wonk then constructs a
narrative around "story points." End result: it gets done when it gets done,
and agile wonk remains on payroll.
So same as ETrade, Schwab, TDAmeritrade, Vanguard, Fidelity, etc.?
All you have to do is bring a specific claim with credible evidence to a court. If after 5 weeks you still cannot do that why do we need to continue to entertain these doubts? How long must we doubt? Is there any possible way Biden could have won this election without these doubts? The president began making these claims at 2:30 AM on 11/4 when he didn't know anything except what Fox News had told him: he was going to lose. And that was all the proof required for him and his followers to determine "a massive fraud" had been committed. So how could it have gone any differently?
5.5 sec for that link to show anything other than a blank white page on a Pixel 4a.

I thought it was a broken page at first.
The alternative is "games don't run on Linux at all". The Linux desktop market is tiny as is, the alternative isn't developers suddenly investing in native Linux ports. Even the more popular Macs OS gets severely neglected.
I wonder if it's possible for TypeScript to be a .NET CLR supported language. It would be great to have a powerful scripting language for the .NET Ecosystem.

I know C# can be used for scripting, but I want something like Python, an easy to use, dynamic language that has the performance of the .NET VM
So the state of California loaned him money and he hasn't paid it back? Otherwise he doesn't owe anything.
It really is when you're the kind of person who routinely builds multi-billion dollar companies. You're talking about capital for several more moonshots.
Well, you could also phrase it as “You need more than 500 karma.” :)
> What happens when an adblocker is sold and the new owner secretly installs spyware to steal all of your passwords and cookies?

That's not a reasonable argument because it could be used to justify the removal of any and all extension APIs.

The solution to that particular problem is to prevent ownership transfer without review, not to cripple powerful addons.
> Certainly Google has the power to decide what they think is true or false on their YouTube service.

And half of America that politically was skeptical of anti-trust has the power to rethink that as well. (And they will, and Google will find out if the juice is worth the squeeze on that.)

Because of COVID-19 and the huge increase of mail in ballots, there is good reason to believe that fraud was higher than other years. Biden's margin of victory in key swing states is smaller than Trump's in 2016. These are not unreasonable things to discuss and I find unfathomable that this policy would be something Google would apply to say, Iran, or any other country where there was speech skeptical of government.

Acting as if speech discussing this on their platform is beyond the pale is ludicrous. It shows a sheltered, fragile group of people who think their views are more common than they are.
>And there was no pee-pee tape

You haven't seen it?
But its not a valid criteria - If tomortow it somehow dissapeared, another app would take its place immediately
That's okay. After he makes his money he can move back to California and pay lower property and sales taxes.
Given that the age of politicians has been increasing over the past few decades, and the median wealth of a Congressperson / Senator has also been increasing, I'm less and less optimistic as I get older that this would ever happen.

I tend to believe that rich politicians aren't going to vote to raise taxes on themselves - they're going to instead gut the middle class (hence the trends you see today.)
Heh! The site could have “vintages”.
Retail stores are not paying upfront. Name a single major retailer that does this. I've yet to hear of a single one doing this.

I don't claim that the companies "pay upfront" because that's not how B2B invoicing works. Companies pay invoices on a net-terms basis (ranging between 30 and 180 days after the underlying good or service is provided or received). But they have signed the legal contract agreeing to pay before they received the inventory (and indeed before the inventory was even queued for delivery), and so legally, they are required to pay.

For financial and tax purposes, they are treated as having paid (because the expense has accrued) even if, economically, they have not actually forked over the money.

And yes, the local bookstore can return the books. They are generally not taking inventory risk

This is not true. The local bookstore has taken on inventory risk. B&N takes on inventory risk. They can, however, ask the publisher for discounts or credits for unsold books, and publishers generally give those out like candy.

Same thing with a grocery store. Want to get on shelf? Pay a fee? Want to sell in store? Until you prove sales volume so risk is gone, you will need to be willing to accept product returns and pay fee to cover whatever you replaced.

Yes, and I've never claimed otherwise. If you want to replace items on the shelf that are selling, you need to pay the store for the risk of your replacement product not selling. But once you have established that record of sales, they buy future inventory. Note that for most retail stores we are talking about here (grocery, gas stations, Target, Walmart, etc.), these trials last a day or two; maybe even a week for slower-selling product types; trials may last longer for specialty stores.
It's also a maintenance burden and a loss leader for Adobe, I'm sure. It can't possibly be making them much money anymore.
But he's not even ethnically White. And it wouldn't justify your subtly racist jab at White people anyway.

No.
Two kids talking. "If you had 1 million, would you give me half? Yes. If you had a bicycle, would you let me ride it from time to time? Yes. If you had an apple, would you share it with me? No. But why? Because I do have an apple."
I agree tremendously, same experience. It’s depressing that it’s 2020 and what seems like a trivial problem is still fundamentally unresolved. It’s the sort of thing Siri or Assistant should be designed for, but are not.
I want to know which pages are performing the best but for the life of me I can't find anything to do with pages. Even just a table of "page | views" would do it.

Am I just being completely incompetent? This feels like it should be a front and centre stats table somewhere

e: oh I was still on the old stats, same bug others reported.

Side note I don't believe for a second my personal blog has had 500 unique visits in the past 24h. I've never really trusted Cloudflare's ability to count visits properly, gotta be miscounting assets as unique visits or showing me Google bots or something there.
this is an imposition of bounds on acceptable political thought; kto kovo. "misinformation" is a political label created to influence political processes. that is not to say that there is no truth, but rather that there is an official truth which is subject to the contingencies of power.

the implicit justification for censoring this idea is that it delegitimizes the democratic process; it is ridiculous on its face to assert that overt censorship is any less delegitimizing. this is an expression of ideological power upon an opponent.
TBH I genuinely thought it was EOL years ago. Can't remember the last flash I saw. Years?
The encryption is not broken. The protocol is broken. Modern ciphersuites (AES128+SHA256+ECC) are bulletproof. The problem is the protocols for storing keys, which is every single attack.
"Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."
I get your point, but given the proximity of Obama, Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party as a whole to Google/Alphabet and subsidiaries, it stands to reason that there's not some wall of separation between Google/YouTube management and the US government. This doesn't seem so hard to believe: we all saw that leaked video after the 2016 US elections where Sergey Brin and several other executives clearly aligned themselves with Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
I would think being a billionaire, there isn't significant difference in quality of life living in California vs. Texas either. The "I'm ok paying them what I owe" also overlooks the public spats on Twitter and with re-opening the Fremont factory which got shutdown because of covid.
According to Musk, yes: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336818987389181952

The orientation change just prior to shutoff is also a clue: https://twitter.com/joebarnard/status/1336820348071849986
Ackman is a big backer of Booker.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-10-28/ackman-mo...
Data and Tech Company
I think this is the most accurate answer. If he was white guy from the right family, he would be a hero for exposing flaws in the financial legal systems. But he is son of brown immigrants, doesn't sound like he had any high level connections, so he is the villain.
Robinhood has been criticized a bunch for taking payment for order flow, but I've yet to see someone actually make a quantitative case that if you make an $x trade you will lose $y on average because of PFOF. The argument instead always relies on a zero-sum figuring that if someone else is willing to pay for the order flow it must be costing you somehow, but that's not really how it works.
This take is disconnected from history. The Spanish-American war is famously known as being push to the American people by the also famously known “yellow press” (a term over a hundred years old now).

Malicious journalism and misinformation is not anything new. If anything our desensitization to news and our constant skepticism is a much better state of affair than the hundreds of years of all media being ran and filtered by the local authorities according to their version of the facts.

In early Modern Spain, all books needed a license to be published. Also, I believe crown copyright is still a thing in Australia.
Ah, yes, I remember I have facepalmed big time when I did run into it ~1 year ago.

I'm wondering if the IT team which produced that pice of software is gone since years.

Edit: I somehow missed that my spell checker replaced "have facepalmed" with "gave poisoned"...
Not actively anymore. In fact, you've reminded me I should shut down and clear out my account.

I only really used the cloud drive type capability, which I've replaced with Sync Thing running on a handful of devices.

The thing I will miss is the identity assertion chain. I'm not sure of the best alternatives for asserting that the same person controls accounts on different platforms.

I didn't really use the chat or git functions.
Would you be able to explain how the killswitch is actually implemented? It sounds like you may know! :)
> Now the GOP seems to be arguing in court that there wasn't even fraud, but they just don't like the outcome and want to reverse the will of the voters in swing states based on weird technicalities.

Interesting, do you have a source for this?
Yeah, I removed that. It was too snarky and detracting from my main point.
Several colleagues are planning on relocating because of the state’s incredible failure to handle homelessness and mental illness.
Sports, shows, movies, and games are all essentially free (or already paid for via a handful of subscription services).

Travel, concert tickets, expensive restaurants, and wine are not free, and are all currently cancelled.

Most high-income millennials I know (including myself) spend a lot more on airline tickets than movie tickets.

So it may not be an entertainment vacuum but it is an entertainment spending vacuum.

Your point that most investors still are not individuals is fair, but that doesn't explain Robinhood's growth specifically.
Semiconductor design and manufacturing: Achieving leading-edge capabilities [pdf]
I wouldn't consider Andy Ngo to be the good source for unbiased information, he's known to selectively edit and splice videos[1] he posts.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-n...
That one's not actually true though, e.g. the lowest-altitude formation-flight record currently stands at -422m (over the dead sea).
Er, you say sexual activity, but I was talking about sexting, which generally means partly or fully nude pictures of oneself—taken by oneself, alone—which don't depict sexual activity (except possibly masturbation). Those pictures will generally be classified as pornography—as my link said, they "constituted child pornography under relevant statutes according to respondents [law enforcement agencies]"—and producing them is an offense for which one can be and sometimes is arrested, and it is up to the police to decide not to enforce it (similar to speeding).

Then, if, say, someone still has naked pictures from age 15 (of herself in her bedroom alone) when she turns 18, and decides to start selling her own pictures online (or even posting them for free), and some guy buys them, and at some point the guy gets raided and the police find those pictures... I'm pretty sure the guy will get charged for possession of child pornography based on those pictures (assuming one can tell by looking that the girl was 15), and "no one abused this girl in the process" will not be accepted as a valid defense in court.
I love how you call me, a white guy, a racist towards another white guy.

Or are you implying that “rich” is a race of its own now?
Because it is not the responsibility of the police to protect you [1], [2]. Their primary job is to protect the wealth and power of certain classes by delivering punitive measures for all sorts of things (like morality crimes [3]) to keep the lower classes in line. Those upper classes want LEO to have every available tool in their power, regardless of legality. Even worse, LEO is now being infiltrated by militant partisans, so there is even more motivation for them to ignore laws. [4]

[1] https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-y...

[2] https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp...

[3] https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/

[4] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/09/oath-keepe...
Please don’t sue me like you are doing with Facebook. Pretty please!
They might try, but they'll still be focused on looting the .gov & first try success. SpaceX will still be 2-3 decades ahead of them.
Value investing is quite interesting, but when trying to come up with "value" picks, I wind up finding out about companies I'd never heard of in my life before. I do a tiny bit of this.

Mostly, I invest in companies whose products I'd love to buy. I buy Apple gear, I bought a Tesla, I buy stuff on Amazon all the time and I love CloudFlare. Simply following the products I'd like to buy in the future and ignoring P/E ratios and ignoring the screams of much more experienced investors (who all hated TSLA because "they lose so much money!") has worked out gang-busters.

I find it hard to square the "value investing" concept with the idea of following my own product instincts. What publicly traded company has products people DESPERATELY want, but fails to make profits eventually? Are there... any? That's a death only start-ups who don't know enough VCs ever face these days. There is close to unlimited liquid cash in the world - but there are very very few interesting products.
I think the idea is the same. Instead of censorship, simply attach an indelible warning. Free speech but not without informed comment...
"the military in the past 40 years has largely been a successful jobs program"

Well, among other things, like participating in mass murder.
On mars there are no taxes of any kind.
It’s not a question, it’s a statement and my opinion on the matter. I respectfully criticize that your comment isn’t helpful at all nor a counter argument and is therefore useless as well. Please read my comment more carefully next time.
And yet, Facebook is untrustworthy, unsafe, and had developed AI that amplifies controversy...

The Facebook purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram were not innovative and should have triggered antitrust at the time. There is no healthy competition when you buy Any worthy competitors.
It's a crappy source but I'm busy and noprocrast will run out soon. It's other places too and was all over hackernews when it happened.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7178881/Undercover-...
> By abused, do you mean prolonged use over many days or large one time dosage or both?

What I mean by abuse is use over multiple days.
Because that de-incentives people, entrepreneurship, and stifles innovation and growth. @pavlov per your profile, you work at Facebook (which I assume making well over $250k a year) and yet your pushing for a socialist agenda? Seems very hypocritical.

I've said this before here on HN, but Naval Ravikant (of AngelList) nailed the problem with government pay subsidies and universal basic income on a podcast with Joe Rogan.

"The moment you start having a direct transfer mechanism like that in democracy, you're basically doing away with capitalism which is the engine of economic growth. You're also forcing the entrepreneur out, or telling them not to come here."

"People who are down on their luck, they're not looking for handouts. It's not just about money, it's also about status and meaning. The moment I start giving money to you, I've lowered your status and made you a second class citizen.”
Hedge fund manager wants the markets juiced even more, what a surprise.

At this point seriously just let us pay our taxes directly to Wall Street, cut out the stimulus middleman.
This is a common complaint but I don't really understand it: American healthcare doesn't really seem to need to be "more diverse" than Nordic healthcare to me.
anti-cheat should not exist for single player games.
No, I'd say it was an almost-complete success. The point of this was to test several things which they've never tested before and gather data to drive design improvements. They successfully tested: ascent under three engines, flap-controlled aerodynamic descent to the landing site, the landing flip maneuver - including drawing propellant from the header tanks - and final landing burn.

They didn't stick the landing, but it looks like they got test data from all the planned test activities. The explosion will prevent gathering some data from post-flight inspection, but other than that I doubt it has much affect on future development.

To look back on SN5/SN6 testing, they stuck the landings with those prototypes, but the prototypes themselves are now obsoleted by the new prototypes in production (up to SN16?!)
Reexamining the history of our founder
"The market is effectively a free money machine"

That's clearly an absurdity and not physically possible.

Whatbwe do know is that every time we have QE 90% of the money ends up in financial markets, not real economy. This is a well known problem, and Yanis Varufakis has talked about it at length
Others have previously responded to you reposting this link with this commentary, noting that the numbers included there are the result of a tabulating error.

Continuing to attempt to use it to push misinformation after being informed is not acceptable.
On the Joe Rogan podcast he has said he rents now.
Wait how did we went from adobe is finally shutting down flash (which was pending since years) to us presidential elections.
You agree that set lookup is O(1) and we need to do it N times, right?
Ancient Chinese law worked that way; people whose acts were considered blatantly unethical would routinely be charged for violating an imperial decree. Not an actual imperial decree, but everyone acknowledged that the Emperor would have made such a decree if he'd been aware of the circumstances.