skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really championing public broadcasting here either.

But in an internet-enabled world, in a country that values the right to free speech, there should be wholly unbiased platform that allows anyone to promote their speech to anyone else who wants to listen, as long as it is not speech that is already considered illegal (as decided by the courts, not unnamed corporate arbiters of truth).

People keep making the argument that "free speech isn't the same as right to have a platform / be signal boosted" or whatever, and I think that was true in the past. When the most you could do to broadcast was stand on the street corner and yell out your speech, that idea applied. But in this day and age, information flow is so strong that someone who has their broadcasting ability cut off effectively has their speech cut off.

Imagine trying to exercise your free speech in a world where, whenever you tried to say something, there was someone there to just yell 1000x louder than you so that you were totally drowned out. In a world where so much of our communication is happening over internet channels, this is essentially what we're talking about when we "deplatform" someone.
All Trump has to do in order to gain a press audience is pause while walking to his helicopter.

Your link says that one agency (CNN) declined to broadcast one press conference. What about all the other statements and speeches? What about all the other media outlets?
Covid-19 pandemic has affected incomes across key African economies
From wikipedia:

The plant will be able to store solar energy in the form of heated molten salt,
allowing for production of electricity into the night. Phase 1 comes with a
full- load molten salt storage capacity of 3 hours. Noor II, commissioned in 2018,
and Noor III, commissioned in January 2019, store energy for up to eight hours.

Very cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station
> Designing new syntax
As in a DSL?

> It felt like each library had its own idioms and syntax rules
This sounds like the way software should be. No? Domain-driven design? Or are you saying that they don't follow industry nomenclature?

> It was hard to have consistent architectural patterns across a team
Is this a symptom of everyone being new the language on the team or the language itself? Elixir is a very simple language compared to Python and Ruby in my experience. There are certainly way more people that have done the latter two. What's comfortable isn't always better.

I'm wondering how aware of the trade-offs you are in using an imperative language as compared to one that's functional. If the nitpick/gripe you're having is around readability and syntax, I'm sure there are enough counters in other languages that you've worked with where the code was just spaghetti and hardly testable

Have you considered that productivity comes more with time? I get the sense that you've worked in a team with very few experienced developers that have either worked with Elixir/Erlang or functional languages. My experience has been that those with extensive experience in OO or imperative languages w/o ever treading into FP have had a much harder time adopting Elixir and it has resulted in slower development early on, but those willing to learn, march much faster after ramp-up.

But if you value correctness, less bugs, and easily testable code, it's hard to beat functional languages in this area, and I'm not even talking about just Elixir

> I've seen an elixir/phoenix backend rewritten completely in python/django and it was a big improvement in developer productivity.
Is this really a better idea? If you're mentioning "consistency enforcement", why not use Golang? Elixir also has a formatter built into its toolchain.

Take my responses with a grain of salt -- because if you're just doing a CRUD app and not buying into what the BEAM gives you from an operational perspective, it's probably not that worthwhile?
Take a look at the book "The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism," https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Bitcoin-Right-Wing-Extremism...

David Columbia, the author, provides evidence of right-wing associations with cryptocurrency.
> it (subjective) felt like the PCs were overpowered early on

I think that's it: the stakes are too low. You don't have to ration your spells, there are few constraints, and your investment in your character is so great it's customer abuse to write them out of the story. Which is not say I don't get attached to my DCC guys.
In the interview with Kara Swisher, the Parler CEO said explicitly that Parler does not have paid moderators, but instead uses 5-person “juries” recruited from the user base to adjudicate content.
Google has enabled end to end encryption of Android backups.
Ah, the slow creep back to agricultural serfdom, where the rich own the land the serfs own nothing.
Show HN: I made a search engine for you to find foods that fit your diet
Isn't it a fair question to ask though whether the average BMI of those with a "normal BMI" (18.5-24.9) changed during the time frames of interest? And if it did, couldn't that still be a cause?
This is in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25780482, because I can't reply there.

> what's the thing about zip ties?

I think that's in reference to participants in the capitol attack that were photographed carrying zip-tie cuffs (examples: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/ and https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/01/11/retired-air-force...). Basically, its proof they were prepared to take prisoners/hostages.
Meanwhile they’re still hosting all sorts of accounts of hackers, jail breakers and many people obviously breaking the law.

It’s a slippery slope and they’ve started slipping. Now how do you stop?
How much cash did the Clinton Foundation receive from foreign donors ?
In year 2022, YC will 10x profits, all ran by a python script:

0. You got in "Mr. Carrot Top" with idea "Uber for cats"!

1. Here is $5k (amazon gift code attached) and a link to a bunch of youtube videos

2. Work hard.

3. Give us 7% of anything you do. [Docusign enclosed]
My city council meetings feels like echo chambers for people to spend their time backstrokinh through a cesspool of whatsbouts and conspiracy theories too. And we elected the people on the podium. So there’s that..
The Navarro Report Volume III [pdf]
Again, I follow the theory of honeypot when it comes to cryptocurrency. The participants believe that they can evade law enforcement scrutiny but they have no evidence, only what they are being told by "gurus" and "experts".

Likely the value here is counter-intelligence. You know that unsavoury characters like to hide their transactions. Now throw cryptos in the mix which becomes the weakest link.

There used to be more secure and traditional ways of laundering money like inflated real estate. Good example is Vancouver, BC which actually got a money laundering technique named after the city who has for the most part been unwilling to investigate because almost the entirety of their tax revenues come from the real estate market.

The Vancouver Model's rise [1], bitcoin, real estate market, gang activity all seem heavily correlated. But Mark Twain said something about people looking the other way if they were paid to.

[1] https://complyadvantage.com/knowledgebase/vancouver-money-la...
The donor was obviously struggling with both internal and external issues as the suicide note talks about health problems as well as George Floyd and the Coronavirus. At one point in my life I had zero hope as well, and I can say it was absolutely the worst feeling I have ever felt. If anyone is struggling with hope, feel free to reach out.
> Firstly, love hotels are a sign of not being lonely.

My observation from travel is that love hotels are a sign of multigenerational housing. Young adults need somewhere to go without their parents watching.
> The article didn't make me think that it is specifically a "listening service"

Yeah, I agree, but it seems like people are drawing parallels to emotional support things like that rent-a-family thing. While they are both extremely unusual gigs, it seems like this guy's interactions would at best be just nodding along, rather than reciprocating (even if in a fake way).
Increasing or lowering iron absorption is easy. Increasing iron is also easy.

Lowering iron however, is not easy. Preston Estep, in his book, "The Mindspan Diet", made a convincing argument, in my opinion, for higher iron levels being extremely harmful in the long term, to the point where he considers high iron to be perhaps the largest Alzheimer/dementia risk, even with levels of iron that are considering "normal".
> "To solve this problem many firms have their own internal programming language."

Any examples other than Jane Street?
You need more money sloshing around as the economy grows or you get deflation.

Really, I'm gonna post 'borrowing is fine' in reply to lots of messages that act like the US government is running a household budget.
Except it isn’t actually a thing. The people who loudly proclaim ‘snowflake’ invariably have zero personal resilience themselves.
>> about how weird Japan is (especially the Japanese)

Like countries where you can rent young girls to help launch your latest computer game? There are people in LA that can provide babies for TV/film appearances, preferably twins, with only a few hours notice. That's how the Olsen twins got started. The entire entertainment industry, from strip clubs to hollywood, is premised on renting people to pretend to be something they aren't, to provide personal appearances in places they would otherwise not. It only become weird when you describe it in non-industry terms.
> Even 1 acre near any kind of town is currently out of my reach as a lower-paid software engineer.

I'm sorry but I don't believe that, unless you have some specific personal circumstances such as very high debt or something.

If you're ready to go near any kind of town, it is absolutely possible to find 1 acre on a lower-paid SE salary.
After Barring Trump, Facebook and Twitter Face Scrutiny About Inaction Abroad
this page really should be updated, at this point all you basically have to do is `apk add gcompat`.
it mentions that they controlled for that.
Yep! I was actually the sole dev working on it, both server- and client-side. I'm working on a post for our public dev blog talking about why I chose Elixir and what my experience has been. It'll eventually be available here:

https://developer.x-plane.com/blog/
North Dakota is a bit strict on corporations owning a farm. "... since only a farm limited liability company may own or lease land used for farming or production of livestock."

https://sos.nd.gov/business/business-services/business-struc...
nothing like a good dash of ableism to drive your point home.
Depends on the town. I found a job in the middle of nowhere where I can afford 1 acre of land, and walk to the bus stop. I'm not a lower paid software engineer, but the lower paid ones should be able to afford the payments if they are careful.

There are not many such places in the world though. If my city was any smaller it wouldn't have bus service at all. Good luck finding one.
> In long-term, this creates a massive divide in the society. Conservative-minded people that are happy with what they have find this childish. Emotional people feel that conservatives have some unfair advantage and try to attack them for it. The recent election is just a good indicator of the divide, since the conservative vs. emotional groups clearly have opposing opinions about it. The corporations are simply supporting the side that costs the less to them, it's business and nothing personal.

I think conservative/liberal and emotional/stoic are orthogonal. I think there's a lot of mis-identification of other people who don't match one on one or both of the spectrums with attribution of more difference than is warranted.

For instance I am liberal and left-leaning but I think my best efforts are spent working hard and advocating for people less fortunate than me who haven't had the same opportunity that I have.

Privilege has given me a pretty easy life and not everyone gets the same chances. You don't have to participate in social change if you don't want to, but at least don't hold it back out of fear that we'll destroy your prosperity. As I understand economics the only way everyone succeeds is if we grow the economy as a whole. That means giving people meaningful, well-paying jobs especially if they don't have the ability or desire to find a way for themselves. We can't let people starve or die of easily curable disease and so the cost will be there regardless of whether a person is doing low-value work or high-value work.

Perhaps that is in a sense a mini-death of the American Dream? That particular dream never existed for everyone anyway; factory workers, miners, farmhands, and other laborers were never assumed to be part of it. That nature of production efficiency and capitol allocation requires a pyramid of workers, at least until automation takes over. This is especially true during the rapid rise of the middle class in the 40s and 50s. However, it was generally assumed that every citizen could at least have a pretty good life. If the economy starts to squeeze laborers into poverty then it's broken and needs to be fixed.
This is true and visible in the Bay Area. There are a number of large properties where the owners have a vineyard. The vineyard is really so some of their land can qualify for agricultural proprietary tax rate.
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I didn’t understand the comment. Can you rephrase it please?
>My point was that developers filed feedback about this issue during the betas, yet Apple did not address that feedback, and thus "That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX" is not a valid point in this context.

Well, to that I agree.
No, there are only 330M acres of US farmland according to the USDA:

source in blog post sorry

https://thinkingagriculture.io/incentivizing-regenerative-ag...
> “Everyone” collectively knowing someone incited violence unequivocally is very different than proving, in a court of law, that said person incited violence. As another commented, it’s actually really difficult to do because you must prove intent and state of mind. It’s part of why I’m surprised that’s the only charge on the impeachment, despite there being a potentially more clear cut issue, legal wise, that happened the weekend before (call with Georgia election officials).

Impeachment may be shaped like legal process, and the final act may be called a “trial” and supervised by the Cheif Justice, but its a political process, and the difficulty of proving things “in a court of law” is pretty much irrelevant except to the extent that comparisons to a court of law may be provide political rationalizations for actions in the impeachment or trial process.

(IIRC, one version of the bill of impeachment had a second article related to Abuse of Power with regard to the Georgia election call, but that was eliminated in favor of making the issues regarding the call part of the context for the insurrection charge, rather than a separate charge.)
But the inverse is not true.

My wife just got her psychology PhD. Thankfully it was in clinical psych (which from an observer's point of view is the "best" of the psych programs) and she abandoned academia so she has a decent, well-paying job.

America mints way more liberal arts PhDs than we have jobs for. Being in debt w/o a job at 30 is not a great position to be in.

Also, getting the degree (aka being a low-payed servant for her PI) wasn't far from misery. Just one datapoint, but it was not unique among her cohort.
Yeah, all that soy lattes start to add up :)
I agree that Dorsey should step down, but not for that reason. Twitter has been in the very center of the political and media zeitgeist worldwide for the last decade – and there's nothing wrong with that – but they still haven't managed to convert that into a sustainable business.
Cool I’ll check it out thanks
The problem with such a figure is people assume that means we would become energy sustainable, but there are tons of non-electrical energy usages that also need to be replaced with electrical processes. And unfortunately those processes that aren't electrical already are that way usually because it is way less efficient, and thus requires significantly more electricity generation to make up for the loss in efficiency. Fertilizer production for example uses lots of natural gas, replacing that natural gas with an electro-chemical process is possible and we know how to do it, but it also means the energy requirements rise nearly 10x as much, thus requiring significantly more panels to make up for it. And that is the same for the majority of chemical reagent production and material processing methods.

So while im all for solar and hope we build tons of it, I don't see it becoming the primary energy generation source of the world any time soon. The solar farms that we would need will be the biggest man made wonders in the world, which I don't see as all that feasible in our economic and political environment.
He's the only president that ever donated his entire salary - every month.

Facts matter folks.
Bill has been known for getting in on buying vast amounts of resources that underpin society. He's the single largest shareholder Canadian National Railway, who owns most of the rail infrastructure in Canada.
Work in the Ag business without losing what savings? The people who drive those $100k tractors are paid just barely over min wage. The migrant workforce in the fields are paid less than minimum wage.
Why does it have to be toxins? What about diet?
They said that they controlled for that in the study.
Most PVs nowadays are guaranteed for 25 years and expected to last well north of 30 years. Some Chinese cos give 30 year warranties. BYD on its site also mention 50 year lifespans.
Thats a little over a 1/4th of the size of Rhode Island.
I've looked into Garmin as they seem fairly rugged and seem nice for hiking/biking/running, but wow are they expensive. I struggle to pull the trigger on what is essentially a computer with a limited lifetime.
Thanks for the feedback! Seems like you and I both have had a bit of experience being first engineering hires at startups but have had very different experiences when it comes to rolls or a data scientist. I appreciate that.
Raku definitely embraces multiple approaches and syntax, continuing the “There is more than one way to do it” motto of Perl. In addition, Raku aims for consistency and composability while introducing new language constructs like laziness, gather/take, async/await, hyper operators, grammars and more.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Mastodon appears to solve all the moderation problems I've seen raised about social media.
I imagine if you had a million bucks you could set something like that up.
I run Alpine on bare metal as my home server, very happy with it. I do run Ubuntu on my laptop/desktop.
Exactly. Constant complaining doesn't show much resilience.
I was taught the same through Shotokan Karate. The credo spoken at every training (called "Dojo Kun") starts with "Seek perfection of character" and ends with "Refrain from violent behavior."
Sorry, not an actual map. Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation. I'll try to find it.
They're not a monopoly in the strictest sense, but they are extremely powerful. People go to Twitter to see what their representatives are saying. Journalists use it almost exclusively to discover what's relevant. Yes, they're a private company, but when a private company reaches a certain level of influence they become a government of sorts, just not one that owns a standing army.

I think you underestimate the power that social media has. The mass 80% doesn't give a fuck about Mastodon or even leave the domains of Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Amazon. This isn't the year 2004 - getting anyone to use a shitty knockoff of Twitter or the like is always going to be an uphill battle. It's due to a few things, namely an accumulation of wealth and confluence with the mainstream media apparatus that wants access to that wealth by proxy. Go ahead and make your own competitor to Twitter and report back to us in a year. Don't be surprised when the MSM labels it in a way that scares off the 80-90%.
Yes, it's silly to call an order to stay home (unless you need food or to go to work or feel like exercising) a lockdown. And then the other side of it is the (very lax) enforcement. People leaving home for other reasons aren't getting fined or otherwise punished.
You could also receive funds linked to terrorism if you’re using any other form of currency.
Is Mobile-First A Good Idea?
Interestingly we have more land now than the previous generation did. (5,237 new square miles of land since 1985)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-coasts-idUS...
> earlier, less complex editions of D&D

I'm not sure I would characterize 1st Edition AD&D as "less complex". In many ways the evolution of the D&D ruleset has consisted of removing unnecessary complexity to make the game easier to manage. For example: a standardized simple formula for computing attack rolls instead of pages and pages of "to hit" tables (I remember when bootleg copies of the tables in the 1st Edition DMG were passed around in my school because the book had just come out and not everyone had it yet); standardized experience points to gain each level instead of class-specific; a more standardized pattern to class progressions instead of a hodgepodge of ad hoc rules; standardized mechanics like skills and feats instead of class-specific ones.
Digital Agility: The Auth0 Point of View
Apps are becoming componentized and API-based to facilitate reuse and agility; Identity management cloud services will help
I'd appreciate "even more so" over of "not exactly", as this confirms the point: Unix programming means to use the C library, even plus a bit (superset).

Thanks for adding nuance and dental.
> I found a job in the middle of nowhere where I can afford 1 acre of land, and walk to the bus stop.

It isn't the middle of nowhere if there is a bus stop. If there is a bus stop, it's a city. Most of the United States (by inhabited area, not population) doesn't even have public transportation.
Same with a bas of cash, or just a transfer to your account.
Google, Alibaba, Global Antitrust Standard
Combating climate change is my immediate thought as well. Gates is highly dedicated to reversing climate change. My suspicion is that good farmland is also very suitable for green energy production.

Plus, he can dictate terms of use for the land, preventing leasees from spraying harmful pesticides and using practices that destroy the productivity of the land. It's possible he could ban beef production from his land, preventing some volume of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.
Intel does have government contracts today[1][2], however, so some aspects of that situation may have changed with time.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-intel-manufacturing/intel...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-chip-makers-including...