skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> *People have different views on what belongs here, but I think it's easy to see why users flagged this article. It's generic nationalistic flamebait, reporting on a statement by a political official, with no significant new information

This is reality, not "generic, nationalistic flamebait". It does not matter if the article is from the BBC, or that the statement comes from this particular Trumpist DNI John Ratcliffe, because the sentiment of "China is a threat" is much broader than one person and one article, and that's what people want to talk about -- various ideas tangential to the reporting and this particular story itself.

Of course for some topics you mods will dig up a "better" source and manipulate the rankings manually, but for others it's straight to flagging black hole... If you can't see what's "interesting" or "noteworthy" about these political topics from a hacker's perspective, that is your lack of imagination and the fault is not mine. Flagging allows the old guard here to plug their ears whenever an uncomfortable topic comes up. I sincerely think this platform would be better if topics that get tons of votes could not be killed so quickly.

Also if anyone really cares about the quality of discussion here, perhaps HN should actually achieve a sane technological solution for displaying a page with more than a few hundred comments. The platform itself is just flat out bad for in-depth discussions. Or give us some ways to sort, like by upvotes only (so I can complain about flagging less). Or actually comply with the GDPR, instead of sinking more time into your shadowy mod tooling.
I'm hoping for vuejs and rails tie together. As a previous rails developer I never loved backbone angular or react but felt at home with vuejs and am jealously watching the laravel community embrace vue
It doesn’t look all that shaky to me.

After being fired in May she allegedly connected back into an account that’s part of the emergency alert system to send an alert message to 1,700 members of an emergency response team urging them to “speak up before another 17,000 people are dead. You know this is wrong. You don’t have to be a part of this. Be a hero. Speak out before it’s too late.”

Jones has raised over $500k so far since she was fired and went public claiming the state was manipulating data. $200k of that in the last 48 hours.
Good advice. But really why do you need 500k extra javascript to play a video?
The law is written that basically emergency powers are granted during a public health emergency, but the emergency powers can only be exercised in relation to the actual emergency. IE Gov Newsom can't declare a state of emergency for COVID, and then force everyone to get TDAP shots (even though it would be beneficial to public health overall), and he can't force everyone to wear two left shoes if science and reason don't support that helping in the emergency(even if he is personally convinced wearing two left shoes will protect you from COVID). So I believe it is that language in the law that the judge is using to question if the measures are actually associated with the public health emergency.

This doc goes into the details a bit in plain language: https://emsa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2019/03/New-...
Stadia as an idea appeals to me but i just can’t see myself signing up for those exact reasons.

I’m expected to pay retail for the games i want but in effect i only get to rent them. Nah, no thanks.
A partnership might have been more valuable! It still intrigues me how it's not the other way round! Anime effect!
If you've been in academia for awhile you've seen this happen time and time again.
Student does excellently in undergrad, masters, phd coursework* but when it comes to making real technical contributions, they hit a wall. It was a clever move by her to use her pedigree to pivot into
"AI ethics" where the standards for publishing are much lower (as we can see from this draft that was circulated).

*Given her background/race, we can't actually rule out the possibility that she got carried through the ranks by AA.
Ultimately monies get paid out if a whiff of wrong-doing is found.

Perhaps not "liable" in the official lawyer sense but expensive settlements paid by the states are definitely fair game.

Some random examples:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2020-...

https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Harlandal...
> The alternative you're condoning is to make decisions for these people and tell them what to think; that is tyranny.

TIL not repeating lies is tyranny.
That's a commitment to resign. Many large companies have a policy of walking out a resigned employee immediately.
MD5 Optimisation Tricks: Beating OpenSSL’s Hand-Tuned Assembly
Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable
It's not bullshit, and it really does apply to anything. Observe people who had only theoretical awareness of some issue (e.g. kidnappings, bad treatment of animals) who shrug off statistics, but if they read a detailed story about a particular example, they're suddenly super upset about it.

The bias itself is probably a cousin of availability heuristic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic.
Broadly speaking, eating cancerous cells is safe, but eating misfolded prions is quite dangerous.
> You really think 20 year olds are that immature?

You will think that too when you reach 40.

> Additionally, when you are young, your financial decisions should be riskier. It's actually the smart thing to do.

Only if you ended up winning. If you lost, then it was the stupid thing to do.
The US state department has said that they have intelligence that tells them that it originated in a lab, but do not believe the release was deliberate. Now, I take that with a grain of salt, state agencies are known to sometimes say what they need to to further their agenda. But it is worth noting.

I've seen a few interviews and articles by evolutionary microbiologists who have examined some of the genetic and behavioral traits and found several that indicate that it evolved under selective pressures of being in a controlled environment like a lab. I don't have links to them, but I'm sure they can be found with an internet search, once you wade through the mountains of bullshit that you're sure to pull up when you do. Two behavioral traits I noted were the significantly lower number of cases that are thought to have been spread outdoors and the propensity of the virus to move across different tissues, a trait that is deliberately selected for in lab testing of viruses because it enables ease of testing in different scenarios.

So there is evidence is came from a lab, but so far no proof that the public is privy too.
Sadly, there is no intellectual freedom in academic world either. These days, the only way to intellectual freedom left is anonymity, and even then you have to be careful to not be doxed by New York Times.
I followed the Hifiberry/Beocreate guide to install a Beocreate amplifier inside an old Beovox CX50 speaker.

https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate/

Inside it runs HifiberryOS on a RPi 4, which I use to connect to Spotify and serve Bluetooth.

It runs pretty well, but the Spotify connection sometimes needs a kick (reboot) after a long idle period.

The main advantage of HifiberryOS for my setup is that it can control the DAC on the amp directly, including installing profiles for my specific speaker and managing the EQ.

It’s a shame the Beocreate amp is so expensive (£150), otherwise I’d set up a few more of these.
> Outside of accounting, there's a tendency to dismiss this nuance as trivial and convergent in the long term. In reality, the future never comes. It's always the present.

So long as you're running a profitable business, cash flow management does seem to be a pretty trivial problem. The difference between positive and negative float is just a loan. And, if you can show a bank that cash is guaranteed to come in at a future date, you will have no problem bridging the gap with a loan or line of credit.
That means web devs can start using those?
I dunno if he has any say anymore given that the company belongs to Softbank who will write the terms of the sale.

And generally, it got passed around because there is valuable research IP that belongs to the company, which given the right market can be valuable, so in the spirit of capitalizing on it if that market realizes, companies either jump on it, or preemptively buy it for a later sale (which is no doubt what Softbank did)
This is not a bet on biochemistry or epidemiology solely, but rather a bet on the likelihood of a tail event happening on a complex intertwined system of health, humans, society, mobility and many other issues.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/22/why-the-f...
Casually surfing around Austin's future Apple headquarters on Redfin, for a Single Family with school ranking scores above 7-8 , I'm seeing 1M+?
It’s no different from people standing in the middle of the sidewalk or people who stand right behind you in line.
> So what is the benefit?

A better type system(covariance, dependent types) than Go's and generics, a richer ecosystem, deploying the same codebase on the server and in the client...
Jottacloud could be a useful offering, but someone considering the best way to balance many drives on a NAS and worried about spending $1000/year to back it up is probably not going to fit into a single account.

zfs.rent is an interesting model, though quite beta and currently not accepting users. And those prices add up pretty fast. Let's say you want to back up about 4 drives of data. That's $960 a year for the first two years, then $480 a year after. Or if you want any redundancy at all, $1200/$600. You'd probably want to find your own cheaper box to stuff hard drives into, and at that point you're far gone from "cloud".
A $200K Launch on AppSumo with Xenia Muntean of Planable
Doesn't AMD mainly exist as it is because US military contracts had second source requirements imposed on Intel? There were lots of lawsuits and stuff as well hat went into their IP sharing, but that military stuff in some ways made Intel+AMD into a partially government-coordinated consortium.

The EU doesn't have a unified military in the same way as the states.
What happened to those 5 robotics companies Google acquired in 2014?
This appears to be some sort of "technicality" narrative that's being used to quickly and without effort/discussion dismiss the election fraud claims arising from the witness affidavits. The affidavits exist, representing people that claim to have witnessed certain things.

So in a reasonable society with good discourse, we should be saying "wow, that looks serious, so many people claim they witnessed crimes." followed by "let's all do our best to get these infront of a court/judge, or get the government entities investigating it so they can be resolved/dismissed formally".

Instead, we get information suppression/dismissal on the part of Youtube and news outlets, and internet lawyers dismissing things because "it hasn't gone in front of a court yet". Come on man, let's solve this and either dismiss them fully or get them investigated. Otherwise we're just perpetuating "conspiracy theories" and then turning around and complaining about how half the population believes in conspiracy theories.
M&A is not exactly decoded by the non-initiated. Maybe the website targets people already in the loop!
I’ll just say as a meta comment that this thread is some of the most beginning-to-end Google frontend development ingenuity and organizational imperatives bashing I’ve ever read here.

There’s not a single poster here that didn’t throw a rock.

In defense of large orgs, faangs and non faangs, from my experience I can tell you that some talented developers on teams will notice exactly what is wrong with a product (frontend or backend). They might know parts of the UI need to be trimmed and made performant, api calls need to be restructured to be made performant, and so on, but don’t speak up.

There’s a variety of reasons here and it mostly has to do with the old adage ‘no good deed goes unpunished’. On teams there are egos, and you will bring out unwanted peer pushback (who do you think you are with your fancy ideas all the time, you don’t think the rest of us thought of this too?) when you take up some of these mantles. This is a dynamic that is coupled with general management issues that come from the product/project management, where your great idea might not be seen as worthwhile. On a team, socially and professionally, it’s better to not rock the boat here because the reward is not fair, and if it were outsized, it could be taken bad by coworkers as grandstanding.

Why bother? Which leads to the manifestation of the phenomenon: death-by-a-thousand-cuts. This is where professionally team members look like people with a self absorbed agenda. Now no one ever takes up reducing the bleeding, and finally, a world class company, with world class talent, builds laughably bad end results.

The only solution to this is for the egos to restructure the direction of their energy into a monomaniacal focus on ‘the final product is all there is’, where a good idea is a good idea. The ego has to be abstracted into the final output, where everyone involved derives their self worth from how good the thing they shipped is, and nothing else matters.
The worry for me is the opposite. I don’t want to experience hallucinations but I want to treat my mental illness. One thing is your imagination, the other is my reality.
Building houses isn't free, and when there's a huge demand for land to build on, and all the land is already taken, prices to build the house jack up, and everything follows. Find me a single city anywhere with similar growth that didn't have housing and rental cost go up and maybe I'll reconsider. But right now, I stand by the most simple explanation as likely the cause.
The list of side effects from the FDA makes me not want to take this vaccine.
I doubt that would be much of an excuse. If she did send the message, she would have known that she was accessing a state system when she had no business doing so at that time. And shared logins are clearly bad security practice, but that isn't against the law. You aren't allowed to break into someone else's house if they don't have a lock on their door, or if the lock on their door is easily pickable after doing a 5 second googling on how to do so. I don't see why the electronic equivalent would be any different.

The guns may have only been drawn because she (again, allegedly) waited 20+ minutes to come down after she knew the police were there with a warrant. If everyone just left the house immediately, I doubt they would have felt compelled to draw their guns (or, they would have drawn them in an empty house, which isn't so bad).

There's no real logic to people who choose to violently resist the police. Officers have been killed by people who they were just going to give a verbal warning to. Or weren't even interacting with. And those kinds of situations are the ones that cops are trained on. So even if they are rare, that is what they are taught to do, because it is safer from the cops perspective to have their gun drawn on someone who is non-violent, rather than not have their gun drawn on someone who may turn violent.

I wouldn't like it if an officer pointed a gun at my family in my own home. But I also wouldn't behave the way she did by not responding fairly quickly to officers who show up with a legal warrant.
Has anyone had a recent good experience with doordash?

I recently ordered from doordash where the estimate was 60 minutes from order to delivery. I wrote in to CX at about the 90 minute mark and they told me that maybe the restaurant wasn’t finished and that they had a person on the way to pick it up (counter to what the app said). Around the two hour mark, I wrote in again and they said the same. I asked if they had a specific person currently on the way and was told yes. We eventually called the restaurant who confirmed that they had had our food ready for hours, at which point doordash said “oh actually, we don’t know when we’ll be able to get it to you, we’ll give you doordash credits in refund.”

When we drove ourselves to the restaurant to pick it up, hours after ordering, they said doordash had kept submitting orders but hadn’t actually sent any doordash drivers in a week or two.

Everyone seems to have a doordash is terrible story.

I can’t believe the valuation I’m seeing.
And I never understood why a company would do that
The FTC is an executive agency with the enforcement equivalent of prosecutorial discretion. It's not a court.
Valce is also probably not for sale.
Does it change anything?
There's also the approach of allowing property taxes to be accrued as liens on the property owned by the government, to be paid on the death of the owner or the sale of the property. This ensures that retired people are protected from paying high property taxes, as was originally intended, while ensuring that there's no actual tax break, just a deferment.
Chocolatey and OneGet packages are usually wrappers around setup.exe/setup.msi with commandline arguments to keep the installer quiet, nothing more.
lol there's no mens rea
I believe management should provide clear and well defined requirements and then leave you the f--k alone to do your job.
This entire thread belongs on https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes
Employment in California is “at will”, meaning that absent extenuating circumstances (such as a written contract) either the employee or the employer can terminate the relationship at any time, without cause. So, it’s not hard to terminate someone in California, but nonetheless employers are hesitant to terminate employees without cause, probably for fear of being sued.

I think it has to do with lawsuits being highly visible whereas underperforming employees are sort of an invisible cost. So, the risk assessment focuses on the rare but highly visible occurrence rather than the ongoing cost of continuing to employ someone who isn’t productive.

Just guessing. I don’t really understand this phenomenon.
What the fuck is my password
Password book when everything all fails.
I can imagine some remix and book covers
There is intellectual freedom if you have enough cash in the bank to last you a lifetime. Then, feel free to offend anyone with your opinions as you cannot die from starvation.
I think you're underestimating the diversity of environments out there. Not everyone's using cutting-edge deployment tech; lots of folks are just SSHing or RDPing into a physical or virtual server, copying stuff there, and running it. Certainly, that's how things were done at my last job. And it can get worse; some of these environments are locked down in some way or another, by security policies that limit what you can do. In those environments, having the executable be fully self-contained is really helpful.

(For the record, I am a proponent of things like containerization and serverless, and generally try to bring them into use wherever I can. This doesn't require me to ignore the reality that lots of places don't use them, and that this will remain true for a long time to come.)
https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes
There is plenty of suggestive evidence the pandemic arose from a lab escape. Novel natural bat SARS-like coronaviruses have been found in caves hundred of miles from Wuhan... but are brought to Wuhan for study.

Here – https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1197631383470034951 – an expert on the topic & scientific collaborator with a Wuhan lab describes research he was proud of in November 2019:

> we’ve made great progress with bat SARS-related CoVs, ID’ing >50 novel strains, sequencing spike protein genes, ID’ing ones that bind to human cells, using recombinant viruses/humanized mice to see SARS-like signs, and showing some don’t respond to MAbs, vaccines...

Lab accidents leading to investigator infection & escape are distressingly common. So why should "wet market vendor" or "wildlife trader" or "farmer" be a more presumptive index-case than "researcher modifying bat coronaviruses searching for those that are most dangerous in humanized animal models"?
> and most folks in Europe are at least bilinguals!

It's mostly northern Europe. Try France, Italy, Spain then you will change your mind.

I'm French, where I work I'm the only one on 200 people that can take a phone call in English.
Python based scripts for obtaining system information from Linux
If hardsub is fabulous yellow impact, that's bonus points for nostalgia.
Well, Hunter Biden smoking a pipe naked photo is legit.
Awesome read, really cool feature for win
Event Driven Data Pipelines in AWS
A look back at Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash [1] written a full 10 years ago:

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100501010616/https://www.apple...
This is pretty rich consider that people don't even hesitate to put your literal face on Facebook whenever they please.

The point is to move toward standards around social data and then force the big tech companies to allow each user to export their own data, quickly, in these interoperable formats.
I’m not arguing that she did or didn’t resign, just that she didn’t say “or my last date is the 10th” or anything else that clear.
I mean evidence they were wrong.
glibc is the problem, other C and C++ standard libraries don't have any issues with static linking since these languages exist for about 40 years now.
Pope Francis gives his blessing to Council for Inclusive Capitalism