skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the fault ultimately lies with the Bush administration for making false claims. However, it is _critically_ important to also place fault with the media outlets who simply repeated those claims, abandoning their duty as a check against the state.
Andrew Carnegie provided far more real, unquestionable value to people too. It ended up being worth it. The same can be said for Leland Stanford or most other monopolies. They didn't become monopolies by not providing value.
>Do you believe that the government should be able to force people to host content against their will?

I am in favor of regulating the very big players like utility companies are regulated: you don't get to refuse customers electricity or clean water just because you do not like them.

In general, you want liability safe harbor (DMCA, section 230)? Then you have to abide by the same freedom of speech contract the government has to abide by. You want to moderate the content on your platform? Go for it, but then you're on the hook for moderating all of it in a timely fashion.

PS: Companies are not people (SCOTUS may disagree). I'd very much differentiate between a for-profit operation and personal stuff when it comes to certain types of legislation.
The difference is that NPM as an org has a lot more to lose if they mess up everyones packages or serve incorrect versions than some random person's website.

Left pad was promptly fixed! That's an argument for a centralized package manager, not against. If it were hosted on some private server we'd all still be screwed.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad
Hey, sorry for the aside - I am a Rails developer since Rails 4ish and we are running Rails 5 at work. I'm using Rails 6 for my own projects and in these side projects, I've been having a huge hell of a time trying to grok "right ways" to do things with webpacker/webpack. I seem to encounter issues every single time with deploys to Heroku because of precompilation issues, or imports not running right. But tutorials get out of date so fast and I'm constantly trying to just remove stuff just to get my builds to work. Are there any Rails focused chatrooms or places where I can get into the nitty gritty of these things without needing to post GitHub issues and piss off maintainers all the time?

I just don't really grok how to use modern Javascript I guess, but also integrating with Rails webpacker has been a source of constant frustration. I can't even figure out how to properly package JS libs without just giving up and using jsdelivr instead. Would love any kind of pointers!
Different people experience different effects. There are some desirable effects most of the people get anyway.
> Moreover, in essentially all cases, the name brand also made the store brand.

Whoa, what? Total news to me. Source? Or do you work in this sector? This is really interesting.
So Hopper is better for c++?
>I don't see evidence that the 2020 election stolen from the Republican candidate, but this is a huge red flag that something might be going on.

The US tech giants have done all they can to back the Democrat party in the last 4 years and now they're seeing through their final act. You can't make all your moves at once, that would play the hand, but little by little chip away at it and slowly boil the frog.

Whether it's evidence of something being amiss, or a red flag that there's substance to the conspiracies, matters not to me. This whole ordeal has proven that the US* and its tech masters are no better than their Chinese counterparts when it comes to propaganda and censorship.

Whether they go the next step further and try to "re-educate" their opponents, as some have pondered on social media, is something we'll soon see play out in the new year.

Conspiracy or not, stolen election or not, the thirst and exercise of information (and disinformation) control is very, very real.

*I have no doubt that the effectiveness of this tech weaponry will be studied and emulated throughout the Western world in the coming years.
I unfortunately did not find a good field to sort by in the original dataset from earlier today [1]. So it's just sorted by text match relevance scores, and then the order that they appear in the dataset.

I'm hoping they publish a popularity metric, which will fix the issues like the one you pointed out. Or, once I have sufficient data on popular searches from this site, I can append that metric to the dataset.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156
Boca chica is in Texas. It’s favorable to SpaceX. It’s favorable for his taxes. It makes total sense and is legal. Good on him. Would bring more tech workers to Texas. Good for Texas.
"Birthright funds", as described by Ackman, are Social Security with more aggressive investments (equity index funds) versus conservative special issue US treasuries [1].

We could just as easily increase taxes progressively (the wealthy derive more income from, wait for it, investments and capital wealth [2]) and increase Social Security payments instead, without the rube goldberg index fund investment component (which would end up enriching someone like Blackrock or someone similar to manage these broker-dealer accounts).

At the end of the day, it's about capturing and distributing the wealth generated by the economy to the citizenry (and where does that wealth come from collectively? labor and productivity [automation and machinery]). We're just arguing over the how. Social Security is very efficient, by the way [3]. It costs only 0.6% of annual benefits distributed to administer the entitlement program. Between them and the IRS (tax collection), is that more efficient than running index fund accounts for every American? I argue yes.

Not following such a course results in disaster [4].

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/25/six-facts...

[3] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-... (Control-F Fact #3)

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/04/baby-boom... (Millions of baby boomers are getting caught in the country’s broken retirement system)
Stop Visiting Social Media unknowingly, Instead do a simple breathing exercise
In this pandemic situation, almost the entire tech industry is working from home. Staying focussed & productive is a constant challenge especially when you are working alone. There are a good number of studies available on the web which show why do we start browsing social media just before 5 mins of a meeting or starting any difficult task.

The answer is - Our brain is wired to get instant gratification and it releases dopamine with constant gratification. That's why Social Media is very addictive.

I have written an article on Medium on how you can redirect your Social Media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, or any other site on which you are addicted, even Reddit :-) to something very simple which helps you bring your focus back to work or let's say help you Meditate.

Article Link - https://requestly.medium.com/overcome-your-muscle-memory-to-stay-calm-productive-fce5ffdf1f8f

Here are the steps

1. Install Requestly from Chrome Store - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect-url-mo/mdnleldcmiljblolnjhpnblkcekpdkpa/

2. Open https://app.requestly.io/rules/#sharedList/1607487126556-Redirect-Social-Media-Sites-to-Stay-Productive-And-Calm (This link won't work if you don't have Requestly Installed)

3. Click Import List

Cheers!
Stay Focussed & Stay Calm
None of what you said conflicts with how the transactions are actually characterized for legal, tax, and financial purposes.

Suppliers often credit stores for unsold inventory if they want to maintain a relationship with the store. As most B2B transactions are paid via invoices on a net-terms basis, this may mean discounts on future orders or credits against outstanding invoices. But you're store already acquired those products.
EU agency in charge of Covid-19 vaccine approval says it was hacked
https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-exchanges-overwhelmed-on-bit...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/05/20/sudde...

https://cryptopotato.com/bitfinex-offline-goes-in-unschedule...
I tried integrating Sorbet into my side project and it was pretty challenging. I gave up. It seems to be super sensitive to small things. Can't exactly remember what made me just rip it out altogether but yeah it was a huge pain. It seems really great though, I should give it another go when I roll out some more features.
b2 backblaze is quite cheap.
I will spare your time, there's no such a research. I've done my research and I'm just exposing your unsubstantiated broad claims about scientific basis of the lockdown measures introduced by the government figures of that locality, as well as your bias and hypocrisy. If your standard is scientific, you'll have no problem condemning the authors of the initiatives that ruin individuals' lives in the name of "safety proven by science".
Personally, I stay away from that entire bag of brain damage and do the asset pipeline with Sass and plain ES5 Javascript.
Part of the reason is because it's a set order. Consider that in pricing his beef normally, the vendor has to account for three things:

1. Beef that sells within 35 days at regular price
2. Beef that sells within 60 days as a discounted price
3. Beef that sells after 60 days for a loss.

The beef's regular price has to be somewhat higher than in an efficient market because some of it will be sold at a loss.

Getting an order for a set amount per week allows him to disregard the losses he normally has from beef that has to be sold for dog food, because the purchaser is guaranteeing their quantity, smoothing their expectations on how much beef to purchase in the future.

It's possible that at $18 a pound, without any waste, he's making the same margins/profit as he would at $34 with some waste.
Data-driven VCs: Why Signalfire spends $10M a year on VC data platform?
sorry but the real “rest of us” is the 70% of the population that doesn’t even have a 401k... and it’s not because they’re bad at delaying gratification
If you'd indulge me, which part of the supposed untruth was blatantly false?

Although I am not sure how fruitful an engagement this will be, given the pedantry[1] you've displayed against users of British English.

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/defence-defense/
You can do what we do in Australia, every employer has to pay 9.5% of your income into a retirement account. It's like a social security tax but it goes into an account you own instead of the the general pension system. If you have a normal career you will have over a million in it by the time you retire. Obviously you will be a lot better off if you also own your home outright by that point.
I think this counts as a rapid scheduled disassembly.
Accepting votes that do not have matching signatures, is diluting the votes that do have matching signatures.
Why should a person that voted in person, in a more secure way, have their votes diluted by a mailed in ballot that does not meet a minimum standard of security, and consequently are much more likely to be fraudulent.

1. Signature match is the minimum filter to prevent outright fake ballots.

2. I believe there was a procedure for rectifying a rejected mail-in ballot. The person still could have voted, if they sent in their ballot on time, and rectified any mistakes.

3. Mail-in ballots are really an assault on the right to a "secret ballot". There really is no guarantee that the mail-in ballot was filled out in secret. An abusive husband could for example coarse his wife to vote a certain way. A union boss, could coarse his workers to vote a certain way...and so on. This has happened in the past.
I think there is a little bit of a difference between a prominent researcher being let go from Google and a revolutionary dictator performing a genocidal purge of people on suspicion of disloyalty.
If you think modern society provides equality of opportunity than you are delusional! There are those whom are born into wealth and those that are born into poverty. There are those who are born into college educated households and there are those who are born into high-school educated households. Some personalities are resilient enough to cope with the short end of the stick and others don’t know what hit them until they are 4 years behind — in math and science — those whom were born into better conditions.

Go volunteer to tutor at-risk middle school students if you don’t believe me. Many of them can barely read. Do you think they have an equal opportunity to successful higher education in fields that are worth getting degrees in?
To be fair to you, that prototype (called MK1) indeed was extremely shoddy and could never have survived today s flight. It probably only existed for the presentation and as a production pathfinder, and indeed failed shortly after during a simple pressurisation test.

Their welding technique has come a long way since then!

Here is a comparison shot: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/j7g07d/compar...

Video of the failure: https://youtu.be/3nTSubYzQOM?t=14
Exactly.

Besides privacy and obvious web-centralization issues, there are bunch of security issues associated with proxying the traffic. Apple and Mozilla brought these issues to the attention of Google during SxG spec discussions. At that time, Google's rebuttal was that SxG is a opt-in feature for sites.

Quoting from [1] (Mozilla's official position on SxG): "Sites opt-in to using this mechanism, and in doing so need to be aware that this comes with some risks, but in doing so they enable a new feature".

This time, Google really did not handle any of the previously discussed security/privacy concerns. Instead, they just went ahead and started proxying the user's traffic without the opt-in from the users or the sites.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ha00dSGKmjoEh2mRiG8FIA5s...
1.5.2 beta is the only Minecraft. Also, I'm an old man.
What if I airbnb a room in my personal property house? Do I get "eaten as a landlord" in case I need to evict a freeloading squatter
Microsoft, Unilever Join Amazon Vow to Fight Climate Change
Yes, the argument is if you split them up their core value proposition is put into question. Apparently a very large group of users are on board with the core value proposition, and you are imposing on that group a ton of assumptions that the regulatory breakup and oversight will end up "working out better for everyone".

These companies are also vulnerable to competition in a fickle market. Tik Tok has gained massive ground and is on a similar trajectory that instagram was on some years ago. For everyone's claiming that FB stifles innovation, we have an obvious counterexample happening literally before our eyes.
Ask HN: Do You Like Agile?
Just to clarify, I'm not asking if you like Agile as opposed to waterfall. Just asking if you like Agile.

1. What was your productivity system on the first thing you ever coded?
2. Did you start coding as a hobby or did you start as a profession or toward a profession?
3. Do you like Agile?

Just trying to see something.
Furthermore, fast iteration that isn't averse to failure. While they do what they can to make each test a success, they don't let it turn into a black hole of time, money, and manpower. They're willing to say, "yeah, that's good enough", test, and make the most of every aspect of the test.

Where a more traditional aerospace company would go out of their way to avoid failures at any step, SpaceX embraces them so long as nobody is endangered in the process.
They are using much bigger panels for raw material now, & have iterated on their welding process.

Here is Mark 1:

https://www.spacex.com/static/images/starship/STR_9.webp

Here is Serial Number 8:

https://www.spacex.com/static/images/crew-1/SN8.webp
Fair enough. I totally respect that perspective, and no hard feelings.

Prop 13 is pretty controversial, and considering it bullshit it not something I would consider unreasonable.

I wish you the best wherever life takes you.
It would be really nice if they gutted out webpack for something like snowpack! Asset compile times kill the overall deployment experience.
That "fire" problem is not actually a problem. It's amazing how something that's straight-up wrong has persisted in popular culture for so long:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Funny, I had a boss do the converse. We were a very young company with zero customer, and we had a small net 30 bill to pay. The boss said: I have to put a reminder to pay it. Well, without any hope of earning money in the mean time, there is no point in trying to optimize the cash flow pay now and be done with it. Free your brain and don’t adopt complex behavior if the reason is not here.
Singapore Set to Have Flying Electric Taxi Service by 2023
Taking your extreme, low population example into account, then yes you are correct.
IKEA still hasn't migrated:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/planner/besta-planner/
Trees Are Not What They Seem
deno seems really amazing. This is essentially single file distribution of a secure runtime for application code -- that is a lot of platform-capability-bang for the distribution-reach-complexity buck! This has to already be the best server container format for typical application code in terms of the security possibilities doesn't it?

I'd almost like to see deno grow some kind of puppeteer based browser api as server-app platform --

http request -> deno server process runtime (with secure sandbox) and puppeteer-like handle to the client browser for state transfer -> client ui render ... it would be quite interesting to
think of the client browser page tabs as a "child process launched by the server" rather than as as a stateless request from an http client -- as most server rest api architectures tend to push you towards ...
I suspect the reason it didn't pass the Senate is that Republicans are in the majority there, and I can't imagine any union having much influence or leverage with Mitch McConnell to even convince him to hold a vote.
I don’t want to sound like I think all of academia is “liberal indoctrination.” (I have traditional engineers’ views on liberal arts majors, but that’s a separate issue.) But the liberal outlook is pervasive. Even when people are trying to be even handed, ideology just tends to give you different perspectives on the same facts, or makes it so you find different facts compelling. Let’s face it—you’re not going to have a robust discussion of religious freedom in your typical political science class, unless maybe if you invoke Muslims as the avatar for your argument.

I also don’t want to imply that o think liberals can’t be good scholars or do good research. But I think the overwhelming liberalness of academia, of the social sciences in particular, creates an echo chamber that makes people intellectually lazy.

To circle back to my colonialism example, there is a desperate need for political theory to help former colonies develop their societies and institutions. And the academic work in this area just isn’t helpful to anyone. Luckily nobody takes it seriously, and the actual work of developing post colonial societies has been ceded to economists and public health experts. But that’s sad. Academia used to matter in this area. The American framers relied heavily on the work of academic writers and philosophers in creating our system of government.
Sure you can - store social graph data on users local machine or some trusted third party, ship the social media application code to the data.
Correct. I have several Win 10 boxes, none have online login.

I use my pre-Microsoft Hotmail credentials for the MS company store.
Wildly different comparison you're trying to make there my friend. Statues on public land very different than a private business doing whatever it wants.
Centrifugal forces of doing the belly flop maneuver. Ever try to flip a spinning object sepaofrom the axis it’s spinning on? Imagine a fuel pump or turbine full of liquid oxygen. The engineering to get this to work is astounding.
Doesn't that only rule out the genetic factor? It doesn't establish causation of smoking -> tar -> cancer.

Like you said, you have to assume smoking causes the tar in addition to assuming that a correlation between tar and cancer indicates causation.

I feel that directly controlling the causative factor is the only way to verify the chain of causation.
I think that is a strong argument for a community immutable cache like Go uses though. Not a centralized namespace.
Maybe.. I see a lot of take out store fronts with food trucks and door dash. I still see restaurants post covid, just at smaller capacities. A lot of restaurants in the suburbs have plenty of space.

Also bars are a major component of restaurants too.
Yep - I'm from the UK :)
Nah, I think the worry from those is like 500 of them chasing you, each with a kilo of c4 in a little backpack.

Only one needs to get through.
The problem is if you try to monetize it, facebook or google will overnight release a 10x better version for free.
> sane countries like France

You might want to look at what's going on in France right now before calling our democratic institutions sane :)
Silicon valley is lost. They're all-in on chinese style censorship, and the DNC is cheering them on.
>I still can’t bring myself to write in books for some reason

A lot of us have been taught that it's defacing (which it is if it's a library book or a friends' book), but really it's an act of love. There's no surer sign that someone has spent a lot of time with a book than to see it well worn and marked up.

I used to take notes before marking it books. I still do a bit, but the proble is that the notes are lifted out of the context of the book. Not so if you write in it :)
Confessions of a Kindle Convert
This isn't far from the Social Security reform George W proposed -- letting people invest a portion of their SS into investment accounts (half of social security is paid by employers).

The political reception was... poor. Had to ditch it under pressure from AARP and attack ads from Democrats.
Not asking with snark, but does that matter if said school demonstrates very little ability to to explain variance in attainment?

I.e., if the school determines network and schools don’t contribute much to achievement, doesn’t it imply scholastic network effects have limited value?

I sometimes wonder is we dedicate too much mindspace to the wrong area and rationalize our choices
Just raise taxes on rich people, use the funds to buy stocks in a social wealth fund and distribute the dividends and some proportion of growth to everyone equally every year.

Plenty of countries do this (even Alaska) it's easy, it's understandable, and it doesn't store away the money.
Nicholas Bloom the author of both papers is British.

Also, it's not like in economics/business science there's a European vs American distinction in publications. The European Economics Association is quite small and most European departments hire out of the American association's market, for instance
> These harmless-looking eggheads...

Isn't "egghead" supposed to be a hurtful name for someone who is bald? Neither of the founders looks bald.
To get a scope of how wasteful California regulations are and positions of people voting to propagate that insanity further:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/san-francisco-school...
Opening up the social graph seems almost exclusively a privacy concern. The examples you bring up between Instagram / Twitter are primarily about marketing and onboarding new users to competing services. This isn't actually going to lead to much user conversion unless the competing service is actually meaningfully more interesting. If it is meaningfully more interesting, then users will share it on their own (see Tik Tok), rather demonstrating that regulating the social graph is completely pointless.
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