skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's hard to ascertain because it's a drop-in replacement for react. I assume you mean hyperapp instead of hyperlink.

It gets around a half-million downloads per week according to NPM stats while hyperapp gets under 3k per week.
Parler users wandering around the Capital sucking on their soda pops are different than those wanted by the FBI for breaching the building...
Ability of Living Cells to Sense Magnetic Fields Verified for the First Time
I've picked up Elixir in 2016 and have started freelance work around 2017 doing Elixir and Phoenix exclusively. For me it is the best platform for web development and I'm very grateful to everyone involved (erlang/otp, elixir, ecto, phoenix teams and everyone else).

Happy Birth Day Elixir!
I think this analysis is completely spot on. Personally, I have had the same thoughts for about a year and I have just switched from a 'pure' ML/DS' to exactly the hybrid engineering style role you describe.
So why not give users the option to encrypt everything if they want to?
My interpretation is the results are about as trustworthy as if they were using shiny hair in Instagram photos as a proxy for vitamin E levels.
65% LTV is completely unobtainable to most people, and definitely to most first-time buyers.

The average house price to earnings ratio in the UK is over 8x, so your 65% loan becomes 5.2x earnings, which is actually higher than the 4.5x that mortgage lenders are allowed to lend by regulation (only 15% of mortgages can be lent above this).

So let's be generous and say your 65% loan is 4.5x earnings. That means the other 35% is 2.4x earnings.

2.4x earnings is equivalent to saving something like at least 15% of your gross salary for 10 years, assuming a 7% annual investment return (which in itself is unobtainable, but lets be generous).

15% of gross salary is going to be 20-25% of take-home for most people...not exactly obtainable when you're already spending 40-50% of your take-home on rent.

When you finally get the mortgage the monthly payments might be affordable, but getting there is the problem for the vast majority.

So no, most people are still looking at 3-4% mortgages with the equity they have at hand.
A Rare Tour of Masdar, the Failed Smart City in the Arabian Desert
"When it was conceived over a decade ago by the Abu Dhabi government, Masdar City was envisioned as a blueprint for the sustainable city of the future. The plan was to combat the United Arab Emirate’s large ecological footprint with a completely carbon-neutral metropolis: it would be a global hub for the cleantech industry, powered by solar panels and wind tunnels, with a system of driverless electric cars taking the place of mass transit.

But building the 'city of possibilities' proved to be, well, kind of impossible."
And this is also what most people want, most of them don't care about security, privacy and safety. It's convenience and accessibility.
>You'd think, but we subvert and bomb Iran every time they get close to enriching uranium, so there are precedents, if perhaps not on the same relative scale.

But Iran, short of nuclear weapons, is essentially at exactly the same Technological level as the rest of the world. Humanity can barely get to our own Moon reliably so to think we are even remotely close technologically to civilizations capable of FTL travel or something similar is silly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/orwell-19...

https://forward.com/culture/461861/no-the-trump-twitter-ban-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/books/orwellian-1984.html
JavaScript survey: React everywhere, Jest, Webpack on the up
Staten Island == Staten Italy

Staten Island has a very large population of Italian-Americans. Italian-American culture pervades many facets of Staten Island life and culture, even among non-Italians — so much so that many residents (and former residents like me) sometimes jokingly refer to it as Staten Italy.
> I am super happy with my Fitbit but given Google I assume it will be "sunset" within a year or two

I work for Fitbit. I don't speak for Fitbit, but now that the deal is closed I can share my own opinions and ask my own questions.

What makes you think Google wants Apple to have the only good smart watch? That would be the main effect of sunsetting Fitbit.

Nest still exists after their 2014 acquisition by Google, and Nest is not as important to any other part of Google as Fitbit is to Android. Why would they be more inclined to sunset Fitbit?
Well in that case the person would be going to jail because he can't be trusted with not exposing private information, so another form of protection
Its an interesting question.

My kids cant wait to finish their school day (remote) and jump on to Roblox, Playstation, etc

I'm no programmer, but surely there is scope to gamify parts of the curriculum.. I'm trying to imagine some hack'n'slash dungeon crawler with lessons included by stealth.
Are you suggesting that Dropbox could better monetize their free tier users by trying to not monetize them?
> I don't really have an accent which sucks. People just think I am a stupid French person who makes grammatical mistakes here and there and has a more limited vocabulary set.

I recently stumbled across a French/English comedy special which has a bit specifically about this, and how much French people judge other French people's French.

I have absolutely zero experience with French and I still found most of the clips entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqVY1SwXls
It is false that parler doesn't moderate its content. The details of their deplatforming are coming to light and subject to change. My intel may be false about those details so as a courtesy to you I called that out. What's the confusion?
Storing JSON blobs in the database can be the best option if you are careful with your domain modeling.
Thanks Jose! I picked up Elixir as my first language and have really enjoyed it.
Title is missing "reportedly" before "scrapped".
Presumably this change will impact Amazon's hosted Elasticsearch service, but why would it impact Open Distro?

Although, I guess there will not be much of an incentive for Amazon to continue development of Open Distro after this change.
Sure, but what about at $80k?

None of this discussion is helped by the fact that companies want to get into data science without actually having much data strategy.
Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 Released
I've seen this in leadership who want to move to "Devops", its the classic "if we find this one person who can do everything we will have no problems!"

The reality is of course, nobody can be amazing at the full lifecycle of an application. Some do better in infra, some better in backend, front end, etc.

A successful leader must find what is needed for the product/application pipeline and hire appropriate skill sets, trying to find the one candidate to rule them all is giving up on planning IMO.
That's jQueryUI rather than the base jQuery.
Fossil HR Hybrid ticks most of your needs. It isn't waterproof as a Pebble, though buttons on my Pebble 2 disintegrated (I also had a Pebble 1 KS edition). Doesn't have touch screen. Battery life 2 weeks (approx). Shows notifications, can control music, doesn't have color. You can even put the smart display off, or customize it (slightly). It has 3 buttons. What I miss is an option to put Bluetooth off.
The Voronoi partition is the top view of a set of spheres centered at the points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfQgc7VzzQ
It's far from ideal, but I can live with it since I can still backup my phone locally and have those backups be encrypted.
changing accessibility doesn't mean less use.
And Flemish people have a totally different accent when speaking English than Dutch people. TO my ears most Dutch people have a distinct English accent; some more than others, but almost always identifiable as from Dutch origin.

Walter Lewin (as in e.g. https://youtu.be/sJG-rXBbmCc) is a quite extreme example, despite the fact that he has lived in the US since 1966. Carice van Houten (Melisandre in Game of Thrones) has it too but less pronounced.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Flemish people have a distinct English accent too, and that I simply don't notice it as much (being Flemish myself).

Germans speaking English are often recognizable as well.
And as Tesla is finding out when you have critical safety systems such as wipers or defrosters attached to a touchscreen and that screen can fail- then you will face a mandated recall from the us government. Hell even Honda's trash infotainment system got hit this year because their gauge cluster and rearview camera could fail. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/honda-re...

Screens are much more likely to be tied to complex systems that could fail. Buttons talking to a BCM by grounding out wires is pretty simple and if there were ever a recall on a switch the part would be cheap.
Jail is used for a lot of "non-violent" crime, such as fraud if the judge/court thinks it's warranted. Jun Ying, Equifax's previous CIO did 4 months in jail and another did 8 months of home confinement.

Handling data is a privilege, not a right, and can come at a huge cost. Just look at Parler for example, they weren't even stripping EXIF data which depending on how you look at is is either great for those involved to be tracked and arrested or a terrifying oversight that will lead to huge repercussions...

Data can end lives, this has been proven time and again, it's just as dangerous as a knife or gun in certain circumstances and the crime of having it leaked must have an appropriate punishment
> you probably need to make the interact of the many-worlds be wavelike.

Yes

> At that point you probably have a more complex model than admitting the photon was not a particle.

Yes again. But then why a more complex model? To be able to deal with interference of complex systems of entangled particles.
As Telegram and Signal users surge, so do E2E encrypted email providers sign-ups
>There was not a peep about their content until from their reps until 1/6

According to Amazon's response to Parler's lawsuit, they were warned for months about their content.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...

There is a handy summary of this on Ars Technica as well. That article also says Parler was relying on volunteer moderation to clear their backlog of over 26000 posts.
> it's not like you're setting your dinner table with handguns.

This would make for an interesting dinner party. Does any of Agatha Christie's stories start out like this? Or one of those murder/whodunnit dinner theater type of events where the dinner guests are part of the play.
>Personally, I'd rather see a more aggressive AGPL where REST calls are considered linking and trigger virality

That's why I never understood the point of SSPL. Is this exactly what AGPLv3 is supposed to be for?
Kaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack
Because of the FBI, obviously.
Retailer Primark refuses to go online despite £1B lockdown loss
The clever (as in, psychopathic, but clever) thing for Facebook to do is for them to show you more crazy "The lizard people are taking over, and they're going to eat all of us!" newsfeed stories so that you actually get brainwashed, join the other side, and buy the body armor to join the "Intifada". This way their paying customer, the advertiser, is satisfied...
Hackers used 4 zero-days to infect Windows and Android devices
They're not referring to domestic dogs. Dogs must mean something else in that field. They state that dire wolves split from the common ancestor with wolves about 6M years ago and didn't interbreed. That makes them about as related to wolves as we are with chimps.
Theory: Apple has a deal with the government to not properly encrypt iCloud backups in exchange for the government not regulating them through antitrust.

This is pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is why the government has been so lax on antitrust regulation with Big Tech.
Not really. I'm not sure where I got it from but I have several Netsurf versions on my Amiga, including a crash-prone 3.10 build. The last official release is 3.6 I think.

Even so the 3.10 build I have isn't built against current AmiSSL so TLS sites fail. It is slower than say, Voyager Browser and much slower than IBrowse. Netsurf 3.6 is usable if you're patient on an 060/50. Performance is around what I'd expect from a Pentium 75-100 maybe?
Here is a question posed by the article:

IT’S HARD TO DETERMINE the extent to which Facebook caused this hyperpartisanship or simply stumbled into it. Did Facebook cultivate more extreme beliefs or simply take what was already simmering and thrust it into the open?

Mr. McGee argued that he always thought this way. Before Facebook, he said, he watched conspiracy-laden videos on YouTube. Facebook merely helped him find his people.

“People are engaging me, encouraging me to share what I think, but these are the inner workings of my mind,” he said. “I’ve been feeling this way for years. That’s why it’s so easy for me to make posts, because I’ve been suppressing this stuff forever.”

And yet when he talks about Facebook, he focuses on algorithms and optimization, not community or ideology. It’s worth considering: Would he be attempting to influence others so forcefully without Facebook’s incentives?
Snaps work under Arch and under Fedora, and many more. They are only actively blocked for philosophical reasons on Mint (an Ubuntu derivative).
As the saying goes:

If you're looking for a data scientist with XYZABC skills, that's not a data scientist, that's a data science team.
As a Flemish person, I wouldn't say Flemish and Walloon have the same accent in English, but I guess I'm not the one to judge. What is funny though, is that _in English_, you can sometimes detect different Flemish accents, i.e. when someone is speaking in English, I can tell whether they're from West-Flanders, from Antwerp, or from Limburg (in the east of Flanders). Their typical Flemish accent seeps through in their English. Also, the Dutch have the same accent in English as they do in Dutch (compared to the Flemish variant of Dutch).
Not selling it doesn't matter to me because the company that I'm afraid of ending up with my data -- ie the company I don't want others to sell their data to -- is Google itself.

You have to ask yourself, why don't we want companies to sell our data in the first place? What's wrong with a third party having it? Its out of fear of them abusing that data. So then you have to ask yourself, what counts as abuse? To me, its any time a company uses the data against me, in order to make me spend money or buy products. This is EXACTLY what Google does with my data. They use it to find out what the best adverts to serve me are, that give the highest likelihood that I will click on them and buy something. Given the amount of garbage adverts they have, I do not trust Google for a second: I've seen plenty of Google and Youtube adverts for outright scams, exploitative garbage like Raid Shadow Legends, have heard reports of malware being served, etc. As long as Google happily serve these adverts on their network (and they don't even respond to reporting the adverts, as plenty of HN submissions have shown), I don't believe they can be trusted, in general and certainly not with my data.

Therefore, I do not want Google to have any data on me and that's why I am against this and other acquisitions.

Besides just the data, its also Googles record for shutting down services they buy and their non-existent customer support.
I truly appreciate sharing this. Thank you so much for this.
100% this. Working at AWS, I've dealt with (presumably) IT professionals who couldn't understand why we don't backup their KMS keys in case they delete their key and data gets orphaned.

This sort of encryption bears a heavy burden on the customer. And the customer often doesn't want to accept that burden.
'Magic mushrooms' grow in man's blood after injection with shroom tea
For folks looking for the link:

https://www.phiar.net/#careers
Google closes deal to buy Fitbit as Justice Dept probe continues
As long as we call this an insurrection as well then: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/416411-youth-p...
These are Amazon reasons for why they shut down Parler as response to Parler: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...

The reasons are not "they were too much right wing for us". They had multiple reasons, but it is not that long to read.

> On the internet there are calls to violence in any political group, even vegans and cat lovers. We ignore that because they aren't relevant. But if you seriously crack down on cat lovers, you might need to expect real violence.

And vegans and cat lowers do seriously take them down in their forums when those cross the line. And when they discuss cats and food on reddit and reddit deletes accounts of those who threaten violence, the vegans and cat lowers are happily continue to discuss cats and food.

This is bad analogy.
Didn't load for me first time in Firefox. I refreshed and it worked.
Political alignment or ideology is not a protected class - that's the lone reason they were able to do this. If they would have shut down or refused business to say, a company promoting the interests of Hispanics, the platforms refusing business would have been sued into oblivion. "Private companies can run themselves as they please." is disingenuous, and tossing that statement around carelessly is not aiding discourse. Private companies have rules they have to abide by, just as restaurants do at the moment.
I assumed the post was referring to the annexation of Crimea, that was mostly bloodless.
As another anecdote, I've had the same ad targeting for this last week or so. (Which is really unfortunate timing.) At some point I must've clicked on the wrong article while seeing what the "other side" was up to. And now my feed is full of tacticool insurrectionist chic.

The most disconcerting to me was an ad showcasing a "tactical hooded trench coat"[0], with the model holding an AK in the FB ad. I mean, nobody is going hunting, or defending their home, with their tactical hooded trench coat. Seemed pretty squarely targeted at the aspiring insurrectionist crowd.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for letting people buy whatever strange clothes they want. If I have any point here it's that maybe FB doesn't get to claim the moral high ground when they're pushing ads using AKs as props, targeted at the crowd that stormed the capital (also, they need to fix their algorithm if they're pushing them to me).

[0]https://imgur.com/gallery/bxcK7zb
Stealing web browser history with W3C ServiceWorkers [pdf]
>"the largest market" always reminds me of "Bin Ladens right hand"

People need promotion.
Last paragraph:

> Yet we can turn to these greats to recover the “aim of art”—which is to “ask the big questions,” such as “how are we supposed to be living down here?” Although I cannot assent to a number of Saunders’s answers to that question, I am grateful for his reminder of the goal of art. In an era diseased by “facile, shallow, agenda-laced” information (“as you may have noticed,” Saunders says, tongue-in-cheek), A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is especially welcome.

The book is a literary analysis of seven stories from four Russian masters to examine story-craft.
"I'm more inclined to believe the decision was made out of convenience for the end user."

Bingo. We have a winner.
Or you can recognize that they're the characteristics of a unicorn and split the role into multiple positions.
It’s becoming more inherent, especially as the field is populated with people who have no experience with the “science” part. That is, with the very real and ubiquitous problem of collecting and cleaning data to make it fit for scientific study. Even theoretical physicists, for example, participate in and rely on empirical data collection, and understand deeply how messy and fraught with error it is.

I don’t see the same appreciation or consideration in general in the field of data “science.”
Most likely you'll be charged by your hosting provider for instances that exist even if they aren't running, which how they would preserve your content and setup in between. That would make it uneconomical to charge your customer only for a few hours at a time. Also, if you take the money you will be the one providing support -- and there will be support issues because there always are.
The part about guns and bullet proof vest being marketed as survival gear is rather comical in itself
Only if we could remove and permanently prohibit what we currently think of as "social media", which in my opinion would include things like Discord and Reddit as well as Facebook and Twitter. A full-on Butlerian Jihad aimed at reverting the species back to traditional modes of human interaction. We clearly can't handle this drug.

But that won't happen, obviously, so we need to figure something else out.
Yeah I hate it, I do have some friends who have upgraded their head units with canbus interfaces that allow aftermarket head units to control things like heated seats and climate. To them the cost was worth it- I am still too cheap.
Ok - those were likely Facebook users also, maybe on Twitter, maybe they used Gmail.

Guilt by association is something we should avoid. It looks an awful lot like a witch hunt.
but then again, who's going to be using it? A sibling comment mentioned that you can still do local backups which are encrypted and don't leave your device. What's the intersection of people who cares about their backup being encrypted, but can't set up itunes sync on their computer?
So, this is the claim I thought was interesting:

"Every paper is SOTA, has strong theoretical guarantees, an intuitive explanation, is interpretable and fair but almost none are mutually consistent with each other"

How can that be true unless the "theory" itself isn't really worked out?
1. Do you earnestly believe the people around the Capitol were "sucking on their soda pops" during a large protest? As someone whose been around several protests in Seattle, there's an overwhelmingly small number of people that close who are not directly involved.

2. The gps data shows them being inside the Capitol building.
Tracking web users with favicons supercookie [pdf]
Deadly assault and destruction of a federal building is a protest to you?
It's January 14. Winter can't get any more here (I got the game of thrones reference.)
the teenage users of marijuana in Amsterdam might argue against that. This sort of simple logic doesn't actually hold up in practice, because the world is complex and not simple.

If you go out of your way to tell people that "drugs are bad and will kill you", and then those people find out you lied (see: every drug PSA ever), they may be inclined to seek proof, whereas they wouldn't have bothered if it weren't taboo
Thanks, good point!
Are you against jail-time for all non-violent white collar crimes or just negligence in the realm of technology companies?

Please don't assume that anyone with a different view hasn't considered the significance of their position.
Stock market is ridiculous right now.

Maybe most people aren't flush, but the people with most of the money are.

That's not the truism it appears. I mean they don't just have more than you, they have more than they themselves did yesterday.
We just hired a SWE turned Data Engineer. You don't need to handle massive data to make the transition. I believe all the person did was build a small but robust pipeline that took some API response data, cleaned it, populated some sqlite dbs, replicated it for a small team to use and kept it updated every few days automatically.
I pay $500 a year and get $100 a month on Azure in addition to Enterprise 365 (5 users) and numerous licenses for Microsoft software. I host all my sites there and have spending capped just in case egress or database goes out of control.

Microsoft partner program. Anyone can join.
> Are those vendors at liberty to discontinue service?

Depends on their contracts and that’s all it depends on.
Why is "nop" your personal favorite? I don't get it.
Have you ever gone to Quebec, or heard that accent?