skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts are being discussed. They’re being discussed on CNN. The New York Times. Fox News. In courts of law.

And actually, when the facts are discussed in courts of law what we find every time is that there is no evidence of fraud in any meaningful way. And, that the legal arguments being made don’t make any sense and may actually be asking for something illegal.

The question of a private company choosing to censor right wing anti-democratic propaganda (I think that’s a precise description even if it’s an unpalatable one to you) at the urging of some politicians is a different and tricky question.

I think it’s important to note that there have been threats of violence against state-level civil servants and their families. Threats which YouTube videos like the ones we are discussing foment.

But to say it’s not being discussed is just another lie.
The article title's is:

Sudden unexpected death in epileptics following sudden, intense, increases in geomagnetic activity: Prevalence of effect and potential mechanisms
But it comes from observing what the Linux community did and giving it a name. It wasn't an ivory tower meditation but a field observation. I don't know how one can then turn around and say that it is not how the model works. Was the original observation incorrect?

It might sound like I'm being pernicious but I think fuchsia is great tech and I want it to succeed. I feel compelled to cheer you on in seeing the bazaar model as very real and good thing to pursue.

On the topic of more community engagement... despite Zircon not being an outright microkernel, maybe it's still appropriate for someone in the Fuchsia community to submit a talk to the FOSDEM 21 Microkernel devroom

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/microkernel/
Just s/Aerodynamically unstable/unstable/ on people's comments and it's fine. Unstable as in not kept stably in the air.
Indeed. I miss when it was turtles all the way down :):).
Wow... then you haven't heard of Steven Pinker. He is seriously interesting to hear, and lays down very convincing, rigorous arguments. Out of his field? I don't know if it is such a thing. He is careful to not get into discussions he hasn't spent a lot of time thinking about.
> GPT-3 has more data than us.

The model shouldn't have any data.

> I've heard they run a computer for something like trillion years.

I don't think so, the project started only a couple of years ago.
How do you think a level 4 biosecurity lab ends up in a place like Wuhan? That lab is there because Wuhan happens to be a hotspot for dangerous novel tropical diseases. Regardless of the direction of causality for COVID, the original reason the lab was put there was to look for things like COVID. Your implied argument is bad. Link bombing with some random powerpoint may support direction of causality between the lab and COVID, but it does nothing to support your insuation of the lab being there in the first place.
Money is historically cheap, it is time to leverage that and buy whenever it makes sense. That drives a lot of M&A.
Ask HN: Hadoop Distribution 2021
Now that Cloudera has eaten Hortonworks what opensource Hadoop distributions exist ?
Remember the Russian election manipulation? I firmly believe any doubt would have been censored because it didn't align with the narrative for which there was zero evidence in the end. Indeed, this was a false balance as it was political propaganda for a party to safe face and explain defeat.

This Wikipedia article is bad and it should be removed as it doesn't do anything to further knowledge and the message of the sources was daringly misinterpreted and would not constitute anything different than the anecdote I mentioned in the first paragraph.

The article is hostile to thought, thoroughness and honesty at the same time, that is only topped by the shallow word creation that is "bothsidesism", which should constitute assault if written down in earnest.
It is already effectively thus in practical terms, sorry to disappoint you. Any time two random Europeans meet and do not speak each other’s language, the first option they’ll reach for is basic English. There are very, very few localized exceptions (some Eastern Europeans will reach for German).
IHP Casts: Learn to build type-safe web apps with Haskell and IHP
Example for Germany: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2020/10... (German language)

See the line chart at about the middle of the page, with three lines in black, blue and red. The chart shows net migration Germany <> USA. The red line shows German citizens only, black shows people formerly living in Germany, but without German citizen status. In 1998 there was peak in emigration to the US, but from then on the trend moves towards net immigration from the US.

I'd love to look at your data, but that migration DRC link points to an apparently empty wordpress instance.
No outrage. Co culture is definitely a thing however.
I’m not sure this should be encouraged...
> YouTube is run by a private company

Sigh. YouTube is run by a public company, has been for many years.
The article title is actually:

Making the world fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable
The Caldera announcement you’re referring to does not use "open source" as a term. They write "open (source code) model", not "(open source) (code model)". It’s an important distinction.

And yes, Christine indeed invented the term, and folks from OSI gave it the current meaning by clearly defining it.
What are the characteristics of an innovative person?
TIL there are a lot of people whose keeps their browser closed
You’re probably right, but could it also be that mainland China isn’t getting an update at all?
Neuropathy Revolution Review, Legit or a Scam?
No, "the chief executive" refers to the CEO, and it's particularly likely to mislead people in this case since one of her titles is "president", which can be the top position at some companies.
I hope someone is archiving this and prepared to hack the binaries so they still work after Adobe's deadline.
The fire after first engine cutoff was just extra gases from the cutoff engine getting trapped and burning off.
I take your point but if this flight had landed they would have probably kept test flying SN-8 until it did crash. There is really no other use for it.
He appeared on stage, during the election, and cheerled a series of email hacks conducted by the Russian government that almost certainly determined the outcome of the election. I accepted the results of the election at pretty much the same time Clinton did, the day after election day, but the accusation is colorable. Unlike birtherism. And no, the latter is not an amplified version of the former!
> then why is it okay for a single company to have that access?

I'd say it's not ok, but people keep on giving Facebook all that information (and it's very tempting to do so). There are technical solutions which anonymize/privatize social network information, and then no entity has such access.
You have a good point, but I think you're downplaying the power of clickbait. I consider myself a relatively smart, educated, and rational person, and I can't tell you the number of outlandish headlines I've clicked on just to see what they say.
Gotta have a time to call "I won, you lost.". 2020 is arbitrary... but if you had a bioterror attack before the bet... would you guess that another is not going to happen in another 10 years?
Considering how awful the unilateral design changes to Facebook and Reddit have been, I for one sincerely hope that Hacker News never changes. Its UX is perfect.
Irrational optimism is far more likely to lead to irrationally optimistic outcomes. Today is a good example. Space exploration gives people hope for what is possible. That is very, very important.
What's 'ridiculous' is this notion that the state is using police powers to force people into zoning - or any other laws.

Zoning is an important and foundational aspect of civil governance, and works well for the most part.

If SF residents in any clear majority wanted to have zoning laws changed, they probably could, there's a fair component of democratic impetus here.

Most importantly - it's essential to recognize that points of property are not fundamentally discrete from one another.

The value of one piece of property depends a lot on what's around it. Large buildings vs small ones, noise vs quiet, density vs. green, sun vs shade, - there are major externalizations to every property, and zoning helps establish parameters for those things.

Go ahead and put a 50 ft flag pole on our front lawn with a flag on it and see how your neighbours react.

There are innumerable situations wherein tall towers would go up beside homes - they exist in droves in literally every city. Go to any North American city, go to where there are tall buildings - and find homes nearby. Those homes are likely there due to zoning.

There are even more instances wherein homes would be knocked down to put up all sorts of other things - office buildings, industrial facilities, retail outlets, clinics - whatever.

There is in general, no interest in that. Not even the folks wanting to build 80-story towers want it really, lets the autoplant be built across the street and destroy their own property value.
Indeed. But to be more precise: Christine invented the term and Bruce precisely defined it based on the DFSG.
Which URL?

For reference:

The GitHub repo: https://github.com/camsjams/rust-coal

The Documentation: https://camsjams.github.io/rust-coal/
CSS: Working with Links and Images
I think it is telling you specifically mention "Islamic terrorist" twice in your brief comment. It would seem you are OK with censoring that (I agree), but given your very narrow focus, seems you are not OK with banning "terrorist", which is revealing.

Since you took the extra effort to exactly specify what exactly should be censored, under your definition, would you be OK with Anders Breivik's manifesto?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

It is also the problem -- when people want to use censorship as a tool to selectively ban some bad but leave other bad alone. Who decides which bad is bad, and which bad we should conveniently ignore?
One can still download the standalone player and download old games and animation to play them.

I do this from time to time since some of the old games were rather entertaining.
The idea that human muscle cells are supremely intelligent is ridiculous. We're not talking about eating lab grown human brains.
Google is lifting a ban on political ads tomorrow, about a month ahead of a Jan 5th runoff election in Georgia that will determine which party controls the Senate.

Perhaps the message here from subsidiary YouTube is that potentially viral videos that could damage voter confidence in past elections (and thereby affect their responsiveness to political ads for future ones) will not be tolerated while parent Google is trying to sell political ads for the Jan 5th election.

How much money will Google make selling ads for this runoff election in Georgia.
Great article. One thing that it made me think about - instant payment clearing will have an enormous impact on cash flow, and thus on the wider economy, if the US can ever get it together and finally deprecate ACH.
They could release it as open source, for history preservation reasons.

But the greedy fucks they are, they won't.

On the positive side, at least open implementations won't be dealing with a moving target anymore.
I kind of follow this...but Sony pictures and Sony records are still huge players in the western creative markets.
They are currently building like 10 other Starship prototypes.

Even if this model had worked perfectly, it's unlikely they ever would've flown it again. Remember, SpaceX's goal is to mass produce these.

Much better to fail hard now and in many different ways, as the more problems you can find with your expendable prototypes the better (before your manufacturing process starts to ossify).
At least we still have Sliverlight
> all of this information exists in your head because of online articles

And first person accounts from people I trust all confirming things along the same lines. On the other hand there are people defending Tesla or Musk because they genuinely haven't observed such issues but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In practically all such cases it just means they never got on the wrong side of your company or CEO. A company should never treat you like garbage because you pissed them off. Or ever.

Imagine sexual harassment cases where the vast majority of men will genuinely say they haven't witnessed any foul play. But it's clearly not a sign the issue doesn't exist, just that some people never got to see it.
Exactly what is it that the Democrats did in 2004? I worked that election, in Ohio. It was over early morning of election night, and I don't remember anyone litigating anything.
My first (immature) thought was: can they make it a reality TV show?
What is the relation of Ubisoft with Cyberpunk?
The Forbidden Mathematics
it is a driver and software problem with compute, the hardware is fine. things just don't work right
A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About
So who am I supposed to argue with here? The other guy that said "affidavits aren't evidence because they haven't been submitted to courts", or you that say that "things have been submitted to various courts and dismissed". Which one is it?

Either way, I'm not going to stop arguing for reasonable discourse and getting to the bottom of things.
The BikePaper Project
> Personally I appreciate being able to choose my linter, compiler, dialect etc. (...) Deno running the entire environment is a negative for me, at least for now.

Nobody forces you to use the deno dev tools. You can still run eslint, prettier and closurescript, if that's your sort of thing.

Personally, I prefer deno lint over eslint and deno fmt over prettier since they are much faster. I'm even using dprint (which is a standalone project for code formatting, https://dprint.dev/) in Node projects.

Similarly, before deno test, I created my own deno testing tool. Now I use deno test instead since it's just better - not because anyone's forcing me to use it.

The integrated dev tools are a convenience feature. I hope that's kinda obvious.
As if a doctor is going to say "sure, it's ok for you to take MDMA" under any circumstances...
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
Is this about the environment or about labor rights?

And if Elon "solar panels, electric cars and in-house batteries" Musk doesn't contribute enough to save the environment, what exactly are you hoping for instead?
This UX may be bad, but the current hackish solution of a parent comment being posted with link to the other pages is the worst.
Western governments support religious Muslim groups against secular fascists in Syria and people at home complain about religion and conservatives. There is an educational deficit somewhere and these censorship ambitions are not only counter productive for foreign policy issues, they seem to be more of a crave to control a world that isn't understood in the slightest.

If we censor fake news, I am also in favor of censoring you.
> It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

So you’re saying that C.S. Lewis would have voted for Trump? ;)
It is based on my experience of using this site for 12 years. You can huff about it all you please.
"Our theory begins with a new fundamental idea – that energy always “flows” through regions of space and time."

New fundamental idea? This is as old as the earliest theories of radiating bodies, at least. Heat flow and heat transfer, the most fundamental and solid science that exists. Heat flows everywhere in the universe constantly, and at all heat sources in space, gravity is heat´s companion making matter flow in the opposite direction.
Well Ruffle is already well on the way to providing a viable modern flash player https://ruffle.rs/

Using Rust and wasm for browser. They have browser plugin and desktop versions too. I've been trying to contribute, and it's really already able to play a large amount of content well.
Every keylogger protection technique failed
Fantastic. Very useful and I have a lot of trust in the company sticking around.
Edit: sorry I made you angry. I didn't know that people are still sore about Flash. My memories of it were that it was buggy, made my computer overheat and crash.
Good analysis of the flight from a knowledgeable commenter on r/spacex:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ka34n6/elon_musk_fu...

And an analysis video from Scott Manley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHxiX40eJY
I'm in two minds about this.

In favour: TTI and similar metrics are really important, not just for SEO but because Google and friends base these metrics off actual user behaviour: if your page takes to long to load, users will go elsewhere. Lazy-loading for features that are rarely used (and you've actually done the analytics to justify this) can be a valid trade-off.

Against: this behaviour in some form has made it even into Microsoft Word. Click the "select font" dropdown and it can freeze for a couple of seconds to create the list, especially if you have a big document open. The same, if you're unlucky, for the styles dropdown, the "insert special character" button because it insists on showing you the most-recently-used ones in a menu it has to build on click (as well as in the dialog box), and a few other places.

I expect better than this from a desktop application, especially as I remember these things being almost instant back around WinXP days. Sure it didn't come with Bing integration, but I can live without that.

And web sites and applications should aim to emulate the responsiveness that we used to have on the desktop.
This doesn't account for cost of living (I mean running costs), right?
You know, I feel myself more "free" when using MS products then when I use Linux.
Digital Twins, a Requirement for Industrial AI
Modern browsers support `scrollTo(options)` that allows you to do it with a single line. For slightly older browsers, such as later IE releases, you need to try-catch that and use `scrollTo(x, y)`. And for older browsers still, not-the-latest IE, Opera mobile, that's the rest of the 7KB — polyfills, hacks, wrappers and more. Shortly, for browsers that don't have an animation API nor a proper scrolling API. It may be disproportionate, but for sites that want to target readers all around the world, on all devices, it can be a sensible tradeoff.
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Your view of the EU “wants” is laughable.

The EU exists to matter on the global stage in the age of superpowers, to keep alight the flame of European economic imperialism that was being smothered bu US/USSR (and now US/China). It just so happens that most people here think the best way to go about that, without massive societal upheaval, is to guarantee prosperity for all. There is little “cute” about the project, any “cuteness” you might see is the result of strategic positioning.
> With that said, the Wuhan lab had both BSL-2 and BSL-3 units studying bat coronaviruses before the pandemic [1].

That's interesting indeed. Thanks.

> I mean, none of them should leak.

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

BSL-3 shouldn't leak, yet we don't put super scary viruses in there, because we know the probability it could happen isn't that low.

> I'm not sure why a secondary leak after a pandemic already began would be just fine though.

Fine isn't the word. It's still an industrial accident, but not necessarily a catastrophe. Do we even have an example of such leak that would have triggered an epidemic in the vicinity of the lab?
This.

The counter-argument to this is having the government provide the graph and an API to allow networks like Facebook connect to it. This should rightly terrify just about everybody.

I like the concept Diaspora had back in the day, it just wasn't workable really as your mum/aunt/non-tech friend wouldn't be able to understand how something like that works and would ultimately lose/delete/corrupt their tokens.
When interest rates are low it makes sense for companies to acquire companies. COVID also exposed some companies, so the acquiring company can get a bargain.
It’s totally applicable. Crunchy Roll are a media aggregator - the more aggregated a service is, the better value. Consider consumer unwillingness to subscribe to 5-6 different streaming services, but toleration of having 2-3. In fact, consumers would prefer just to have one that does everything. In other words, a direct connection between consumer demand and monopoly creation.
Don’t forget talent. I personally would never move to Texas as there’s not nearly enough job opportunities
If a game runs fine with Proton, what does it matter if it's not native? Either way you get an experience that's tested against a Linux based system.
Unless it harms consumers, that is not an anti-trust issue
The logic isn't sound though, that's the issue. Let me try to simplify it even more and annotate

1. Not raising money give you more skin in the game (valid observation)
2. Skin in the game is an advantage (valid observation)
3. There exists at least one advantage of not raising money (valid conclusion)
4. You should not raise money (NOT VALID conclusion)

You can't go from a single argument in favor of something to that thing being favorable overall.
I love this idea!

I've also recognized you. You're the duo from Mailbrew and Boxy Suite!
I wonder, how do you find ideas for the great apps? Looks like you start from a need but at the same time I feel like you must be data-driven.
Skip intro, games, interactive CDs (Director), weird UX (like 2advanced) - that was a big part of web's middle ages.
IMHO, nVidia has fallen into the very definition of a monopoly - They have instituted practices where they've cornered the industry in a variety of ways through..strategies that have made them a monopoly. I choose not to give them my money for this reason right now.

I have no doubt they will redeem themselves, but right now, I'm not excited about supporting them.

(Yes, my $10 a month doesn't have an effect, but meh)
Definitely planned. If you look closely at the SpaceX stream, the first two engines that were shut down were the ones restarted during the landing flip maneuver.

Too bad about the loss of fuel pressure from the header tank. SN8 wasn't quite on the landing pad, but it was close.

We also didn't see the landing legs deploy, not sure why that didn't happen.
This is ridiculous, both sides should be left up so people can make up their own minds - even if one side happens to be total bullshit.
We have an attention economy and you only hear about anti-vaxxers from people that like to distinguish themselves against the most basic fantasies. Grow some standards and it will solve itself.
I don’t think “work” will ever end.

Normally we dread this coming from the supply side, “will we end all possible work through automation?”

But if you think it from the demand side, people will always need something like “work”: structured schedule, socialization, ways to differentiate yourself from others through “achievements” that not everyone can do, etc.

Even in an utopian society where all material needs are covered and wealth redistributed, people would create and consume art, “fight” for relevance, create petty politics... and gladly “pay” for part of that. So we will end up inventing new jobs in any case, so we can keep on using the same old concepts and social structure, just not for food acquisition.

If you think about it, this sophistication has been happening for some centuries already.