skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it's not really monopolistic, but there's definitely a trend towards concentration. Think about the number of unique farmland owners as a percentage of population, compared to 50, 100, or 200 years ago.
The other day, I tweeted out my tin-foil-hat theory that the recent BTC runup was partly due to alt-right interests, expecting the events on the 6th to go very differently.

This kind of makes me wonder even harder.
So just use the glibc compat layer, or also install glibc.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs
Your app becomes smaller and easier to maintain and understand because it has fewer dependencies.

Of course if you need much of the functionality of JQuery then it is a perfect fit for you.

Note there is a cost to JQuery associated with learning and understanding what exactly each function of its API does. If you have paid that cost already by using JQuery and thus learning it, and you need it, then it makes sense to keep on using it.
Inertia.js – The Modern Monolith, Build single-page apps, without building API
Uh, fake news?

From reading the article, the donor sent $500k to 22 different parties. Some of these parties include Luke Smith, a popular Linux youtube personality, the guy who runs cock.li, ruqqus (a reddit alternative), various right wing websites including amren.com and unz.com (which didn't promote the protest). 45% of the donation went to Nick Fuentes, who was at the capitol, but denies entering the building.

And according to the article:

>While we don’t know if these donations directly funded last week’s violent gathering at the Capitol or any associated activity, the timing certainly warrants suspicion

I think we need a new headline.
You think people who can afford to fly on helicopters can't get a covid test?
Rioters were bailed out and cheered on by our new VP. They nearly burned down the capitol in June, yet are not even mentioned today.

Edit: ....Just like I thought
So it's not a campaign contribution since the insurrectionists weren't a political campaign. If they were involved in supporting a candidate by taking out ads, there are requirements about declaring the foreign support - but they didn't seem to do that.

There is a separate set of laws for conspiracy to commit sedition. If the donor was donating to forment unrest (knowingly) then there are charges that can be pursued, but would likely require extradition.
This, and they want to hire the talent that built the product. If Fitbit were already a sinking ship for too long most senior folks would have left.
Why I will not finish my Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
alert alex jones
I agree with PG. Twitter could've taken a stand. But as it seems now they are too mired in partisan politics and grandstanding to pay any attention to other news.

I think Jack Dorsey should step down. Twitter has become a magnet for trolls with an axe to grind. He inserted himself far too much in the politics of the day and got just what he wanted it seems. What a negative and dark place Twitter has become.
I hope calling him a “con” wasn’t intentional.

He speaks French after all...
People who aren't self obsessed are becoming rare. It's an interesting development. I guess it must be hard to find a friend who listens and give feedback instead of talking about themselves.
It's illegal to donate to election/political campaigns, technically this is not illegal as the insurrectionists are not a discrete political entity that could be proscribed or tagged as political. This assumes, of course, that there was no foreknowledge on the part of the donor about anything untoward.
It's a two way street. SWE need to learn some data practices and data folks need to learn some SWE practices.
You don't typically fund peaceful protests...
Logging is agriculture. This is why the US Forest Service is under the Department of Agriculture.
Unbound dns resolver.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/
They are not dishonest, this is just bad faith argument. Platforms were not passive regarding Parler for long time trying to make them comply with TOS. It is not true that they would ignore issue before.

And the real world violence significantly raised the stakes - both legal and practical.
Vertical farming doesn't work out in general. Plants tend to be limited by light, so when you go up you shadow horizontal land. There is some efficiency gain because solar panels -> LED can convert light wave lengths, but I don't know if it is enough to overcome the losses in the system plus the cost of the building.

Vertical farms are all niches: lettuce is high value, and spoils fast. Thus they can get closer/faster to market by going vertical. They convert electric (coal and natural gas) to light, so they are not very environmentally sound.
I'm late to the comment party, but: this is classic "commoditize your complement".

This guy would have you believe that Pytorch has Solved the entire, vast field of data analysis as inherited from Newton, de Moivre, Laplace, Bayes, Fisher, Neyman, Pearson, Wald, Savage, Jaynes, Breiman, Pearl.

This is a lot like saying that photography has Solved art, and now we need people who can climb ladders and glue the posters on them big billboards. It would be delusional if it didn't have a self-interested angle.

What, we with math degrees are fully confident that the plumbing problem is easier to commoditize than the problem of making sense of data.
I believe that the ban on donations from foreigners relates to electoral campaigns and political parties.
Google closes its Fitbit acquisition
I don't think many are saying Twitter's decision was illegal. They're just saying they don't think they should have made it.
"The purpose of a corporation is to..."

...insulate management and shareholders from losses and litigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" (also expressed as "troublesome priest" or "meddlesome priest") is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. While the quote was not expressed as an order, it prompted four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket. The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates.
You can not buy semiautomatic rifles in Portugal, even if you are a collector I think but for that you might need to have some sort of special requirement.

These are the types of licences we have: http://armas.mai-gov.info/obtencao-de-licencas/

Now you can buy weapons of the same caliber, for hunting (but you need hunting licensing).

Edit: Ok I need to clarify this. Because we have a different name for specific weapons.

Here we can sell semiautomatic rifles (we call them "carabinas", I didn't label them as rifles so my bad), for hunting (a specific class, for boars, deer, etc). The thing is every weapon that's imported in Portugal gets and inspection and a classification if it's a military weapon or not. An AR15 is considered a military grade weapon by our government standards.

So yes, you can buy some specific models of semiautomatic rifles (for hunting), but you can't buy military grade semiautomatic rifles.

You can't buy an AR15.
I am on my third attempt of forcing myself to use DDG. Been back on DDG-only now for about 2 weeks and all i can say is that it still has a long way to go to be a viable alternative to Google. In my experience, even Bing provides significantly better results.
I see plenty of open positions on stackoverflow jobs. Try there. You'll probably find a suitable new role.

Edit: You can search here on who's hiring? with remote as a keyword.
> This very submission notes that it is not just from "twitter.com", but from "twitter.com/paulg",

That's not because it's PG. The change was made relatively recently to include usernames for some sites, I think github too. Otherwise "twitter.com" is too uninformative.

Here's the announcement for that feature:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456
You're overlooking the existence of extradition treaties and the possibility of sanctions applied on persons in jurisdictions that don't have extradition treaties.
It's insurrection. Terrorism would be if it was against civilians with the intent to cause terror and mayhem.
Sure, and where you can get 10 acres and a livable house for 100k or less, you can't find work .

My wife and I just spent 178k on just over a half acre + house in November. We don't get residential mail delivery, closest grocery is about 15 miles away, closest gas station abut 6 miles away. Our town is a little over 300 people, with no police, the fire department is volunteer, and if we had to call 911 for a medical emergency an ambulance is probably 15-20 minutes away. All of those sacrifices just to be able to afford a half acre.

The appraiser refused to agree to the listing price, so we had to scramble and get cash gifts from family after we'd already made an offer. Two offers before us fell through and we were in a 24-hour bid war with another potential buyer.

I make 36k a year and my wife is a public school teacher, we consider ourselves to be doing very good compared to many we know and this is the best we can do.

Here is a little less than 20 acres within a half hour of me, just land, no buildings. It is 6.91x my gross annual income. Just about no one makes land loans so I'd need to have 249,000 USD as cold hard cash just for the land, then need another 50-125k to build a house. Then I'd have to drill a well, then install septic, then get it changed from light-industrial to residential. All in I'd need 350-450k dollars to make it work. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/7700-N-Cou...

Similarly close is this one https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/959-E-Coun... for 400k USD with 10 acres and, admittedly, an absurdly large house.

No one is going to give a guy making 36k a 400k loan, and there's no realistic way I, at 35, can realistically save 350-450k cash to buy land and build a house before I'm too old to do a lot of the initial work the land would need for my purposes.

I'd love to know why I'm being downvoted too. Is it because I don't earn as much as you so my opinion isn't valid? Is it because I wish I lived in a world where I could afford 0.004132231% of the land that Bill Gates owns?
Hard to say. Farm subsidies have limits to discourage this. There are a ton of loop holes, and not all crops qualify for subsidies. There is also debate about what even is a subsidy.
Portland didn't have helicopters that I'm aware of, but at the height of the multi-month riots over the spring, summer and fall, the Air Force was flying one of these[1] Special Operations Surveillance Planes that they denied were doing any "surveilling." It's interesting that the flight paths happened to coincide with the locations of where the riots happened to be occurring that day and Portland had a No-Fly Zone restriction in place.[2]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/air-force-surveillance-p...
[2] https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-protest-flight-res...
Is it still running ok. Didn’t the main instance shutdown or something? Sorry, I forget the specifics.
This is a well documented tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto
What are investors looking at when they review a deck?
>28.15 BTC — worth approximately $522,000 at the time of transfer

Worth about double that, now.
Interesting, I didn't know that the Russian vaccine was using m-RNA tech similar to Pfizer and Moderna. Also the extra trick of using the different adenovirus for the second dose. I assumed they were using deactivated virus particles like the Chinese vaccine.
This is the persons very first comment. Assuming good faith on their part, and that they are new to HN, there's no need to be rude.

We want to foster a friendly community here.
I absolutely agree with this line of reasoning. Thank you.
I think it's pretty clear they are saying people would say you're a nutter for saying unmarked helicopters are used by government agencies yet he knew them to exist even back then. Not sure where you picked up that they were the same exact helicopters.
Yet another symptom of the obesity epidemic.
People fund peaceful protests all the time. Those huge banners, custom-made t-shirts, etc. that you see at big protests cost money to make.
Repubs always hated public broadcasting, championing the free market to take care of journalism.
Companies think Trump is toxic for their brand- surprised pikachu.
Chalking this up to declining physical activity amongst young U.S. men.
There's no substance to the tweet. It wouldn't appear on HN except for the person that posted it. It's hard to see how something like this is going to generate useful discussion.
I can literally hear La pizza song [1] in my head as I read your comment which is pretty much all I remember from elementary school. It was only in my final year of high school that our teacher who was from Paris really pushed us and it didn't involve us singing awkward songs.

Now I have PTSD everytime I see or eat pizza, the song plays in my head, like some sick Pavlov experiment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j3hPW3pvOw
> the 5e material does feel much more narrowly focused on creating “adventures” rather than creating a world.

I have the same feeling; I had it with 4e as well. I can see why, given that the target audience is much wider and, as you point out, often has much tighter time constraints. I can't even begin to estimate how many hours I spent as a teenager doing world building for our D&D campaign (which started with 1st Edition Advanced D&D), hours I couldn't possibly spend today.
Thanks for the insight, I thought that might be the case but didn’t know.

(I also felt it would be an Apples-to-Oranges comparison when the alternative was a single account tweeting to a million followers).
I’m not looking to replace them. Logging onto those products doesn’t seem to make my life better. Seeing my friends rant about politics doesn’t seem to make us closer. Having only politics on my mind isn’t a good thing so I think I’ll be better off with not relaxing them.
Dubya could have easily cheated, given the wealth and power his family has.
Pimp My *Nix
And Janet Yellen received millions from wall street prior to taking over the treasury department...

what has that to do with anything.

Nick Fuentes is despicable, but this whole article is innuendo, the title on HN included.
No farm land was rich fertile land at some point but due to non-sustainable agriculture a lot of this land is no longer qualified to be called "rich fertile", maybe it still "fertile" or "somewhat fertile" but that's it.
What Does Plaid Do?
I wonder if hormones will ever become widely available for personal use, or if we will just accept a changing hormonal landscape for men and woman. I doubt any of the underlying causes of "obesity/BMI, assay variations, diet/phytoestrogens, declined exercise and physical activity, fat percentage, marijuana use, and environmental toxins." will actually be fixed
As recent events have indicated, denoting something as 'illegal' means nothing without rigid enforcement.
Given the popularity of Alpine it is important to update images as soon as possible given how many significant updates are there. Services like [1] help a lot for that...

[1] https://newreleases.io
> You don't typically fund peaceful protests...

That's not really true. Many organizations charter buses, print signs, provide assistance to people in getting to such protests and a host of other activities that require funding.

In fact, that's almost de rigueur for large, peaceful protests.
Lots of people give food, money and supplies to protestors. There are orgs that give water to almost all protests just to prevent heat stroke cases. This can include donations of sign making materials too.
More evidence that anything Google does is inherently bad for HN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...

This list would suggest that there are many countries in Europe with a higher home ownership rate than the US, the UK or Australia. Surely that says something about valuing it.
> I mean, even if they had a signed letter from Trump saying “this is bigly good, do this” that doesn’t stop it from being super-illegal.

It can make it impossible to prosecute, because the President is the Chief Executive and ultimately the authority to which all federal law enforcement answers.

(1) Honest, even if mistaken, belief that action is taken in cooperation with the government defeats the mental state requirement for most crimes.

(2) The doctrine of “entrapment by estoppel” bars criminal conviction where a defendant reasonably relied on misrepresentation of law by an official in undertaking action that is prohibited.

(3) The more common doctrine of entrapment bars criminal conviction where a defendant was induced by a government agent to commit a crime and was not otherwise inclined to commit the crime.
I don't think ranches count as farmland -- I mean, ranches aren't farms in any meaningful sense.
When I lived in Northern Virginia I saw a lot of helicopters flying over my apartment building, and not just the usual news and police helicopters. More than once I saw 4 uh-60s flying over in formation, and some uh-60s and uh-72s with a distinctive black and gold stripe color scheme. I did some research online and found that there were people in this region fascinated with identifying and cataloguing all of these aircraft, almost like bird watching. I found out they were likely stationed at the Pentagon. The black and gold ones are VIP transport helicopters, meant for transporting members of congress and cabinet members, particularly for evacuations in an emergency. I also saw marine one a couple times, though since it was alone I believe it didn't have POTUS in it at the time (when POTUS is actually in there they fly several identical helicopters in formation so you don't know which has the president). My apartment was roughly under the direct route between Andrews AB and DC, and pretty close to the pentagon, my guess is it was a convenient route for training and drilling.
He is probably leasing it to local farmers. Most farmers only own a portion of their land. I know of a few farmers who inherited land and got the courts to transfer that inheritance to the grandkids , but (living far away) because they didn't want to have more land in the farm even though they have been farming it for years. (this is also a transfer of wealth to the kids, but your accountant will explain in detail why is is bad to own too much land even if you have no kids)
I can recognize Italian accents and words that are distinct between towns that are < 20 km apart.
Would "people who bought this book also bought books X,Y,Z" count as microtargeting?

Because I actually find these recommendations valuable.
I think after two we would probably be able to make our own fusion reactors of whatever size desired. This would avoid having to waste precious terrestrial area or deal with space power transmission.
Exactly. Reminds me of “Tear down this wall”. Nothing came of that. /s
I spend time on gab and parler (I'm not a believer, I'm just curious). It really looks like it's people who genuinely feel Joe Biden will be the end of america. They think the stock market will crash and dollars will be useless as Biden ushers in some kind of communism. From the volume of comments on the posts, there's quite many of them.

This run will probably last as long as their finances allow. I don't think it'll end on January 20th. The delusions have held this long, it's probably going to continue.

It's terrible. Not only have these conspiracy theories led to isolation and a destruction of their social networks but soon it'll also lead to their financial ruin as bitcoin will inevitably crash once again (I'm holding tens of thousands in crypto. I know it's a day at the casino. My fear is about those that don't. The current flurry of nonsecuritized uninsured bank looking companies that have surfaced in this crypto bubble isn't helping one bit. Stable coins are fine, but give the depositors some security)
Yes, the overall algorithm will do something much more precise and comprehensive, so it's not like this scoring function needs to be perfect. Still, it matters in a quick evaluation so I'm surprised it isn't in there.

A few examples come to mind where, for instance, white has a bishop and knight attacking f7 and it's black to move. If black castles nothing interesting happens and white is likely overextended. But if black cannot castle white will win a rook.

I can make up a similar situation with en passant, and this does come up, but a lot less frequently.

So anyway, surprised you wouldn't toss a few bits in there, at least the 2 for ability to castle by each player.
Yes, and my comment is an extension of the thought exercise...
I used to drive Uber as a retired programmer and found out I have a talent for putting people at ease. I've been told I'm a calm person. I've also been told I'm kind and a good listener. I quit Uber because of the pandemic. Maybe after I get vaccinated I'll give this a try, but I don't know how well it would work in Silicon Valley because everyone is in such a hurry.
I guess it'd help to explain why I, Joe Farmer, would care if I'm renting land from Acme Inc or Bob Gentry. Basically, it sounds like you believe there's differnet incentives for individuals vs corporations here, and I'm not entirely sure there is.
The ones staying inside all day playing Cyberpunk and not moving from the couch all day? Surprise. We've turned ourselves into actual couch potatoes. Wall-E was prophetic in this regard.

I would love to see this on a chart next to video game and netflix original series releases.
@mywittyname Nay, you MAKE the factories.
Corporatism?
There is this kernel of my soul that dislikes how things are worse when they happen to politicians than when they happen to fellow citizens, or to political buildings rather than family-owned buildings. One part of me likes to believe it’s a reaction to the affront to something representative which matters to a broad collection of people, but that nagging kernel also reminds me that it conveniently prioritizes the interests of those with power over the individuals, even to the point of being dismissive of the daily crimes suffered by a great many individuals.
> But we were talking about Parler and Facebook. I am sure some people have used Parler for things other than far right propaganda, but can you honestly make the point that it wasn’t its primary use case?

The truth of the matter is that, unless I was actively watching those conversations, I can't make any point about its primary use case.

I'm definitely not arguing it's not; but, I have heard a call to action to get Telegram taken down from the App Store because "that's where the alt-right is going now", but there's plenty of other conversation types going on there.

Just because you and I had no interest in being a part of the communities we know are going on in Parler doesn't mean that people of those persuasions didn't primarily have friendly conversations about knitting much of the time.

I'm not sure that we can go just by volume of conversation, either. I imagine the vast majority of Twitter messages are spewing hatred, too. Maybe not the top-level comments, but there are hundreds if not thousands of people that previously responded to most every Trump tweet in a way filled with hatred for him.

As I was not a member of Parler, I can't really tell what kinds of conversations that place was designed and had in a way that's meaningfully distinct from Twitter.
Just to be clear, I don't think 5e is a bad product, it's just not for me. My friend's kids are all into it, and in forty years they'll probably be griping about whatever new fangled trash 10e has become.
Yeah right, I didn't' think of that!
Which part of the headline is not supported by statements of fact from the article? The article's own headline is about 5 times too long to appear on HN so I had to abbreviate it.