skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best-of-ml-Python: A ranked list of machine learning Python libraries
GitHub apologizes for firing Jewish employee who warned of Nazis in U.S. Capitol
I guess that Apple and the the rest of the pack had no say in that. Maybe they will find out about Foxconn's plans from this HN post.

Ignoring everything ignorant with your comment you should know that Foxconn uses that factory to manufacture computer devices for U.S corporations just like they've been doing in China for decades.
10 years ago no one was running in cloud. Internet still works outside of big tech data centers.
Not enough data yet, as that's a recent thing.
Yeah I lived in cuba for a work project. I travelled to another city for a month, and when I came back the head of my host family said “you’ve gained weight”. Was probably five pounds or so.

Was motivational to stop that weight gain in its tracks! At that level pretty simple diet changes will turn it around.
It also shows the resiliency of the internet. Parler's ability to build their own failsafe network rests on them. I learned a lot of hard lessons with my first failed startup. One of them was not to rely on another platform for my success. If TPB can do it being enemies of nation states. I think Parler will be just fine.
I appreciate that you're trying to improve your skills as a designer by practising at designing things. That's good. However, to be a great designer you must recognize the difference between a design that is trendy (dark mode, lots of blank space, low contrast text colors) and a design that is great (actual measured usability).

Keep in mind the phrase "the customer is always right". This was written down by a product designer early in the 20th century (whose name I have sadly forgotten). This was the pithy phrase he used to summarize his primary point, which was that a product designer cannot allow himself to be angry at consumers for purchasing his competitor's products. If you think that your competitor's products are ugly or badly designed but consumers are purchasing them any way, you cannot simply write off the consumers as uneducated or lacking in taste. Instead, you have to recognize that you are the one who is wrong. Perhaps your elegant design has hampered the actual usability of the product, or increased the cost of the product beyond what the market can bear. Or perhaps your taste is simply different from the tastes of most people. Regardless of the reason, the consumers are spending real money on things so they're the ones who have the right to decide which design is better.

Now let's look at what your source for short line lengths says:

> It turns out that the subconscious mind is energized when jumping to the next line (as long
> as it doesn’t happen too frequently, see above bullet point). At the beginning of every new
> line the reader is focused, but this focus gradually wears off over the duration of the line
> (“Typographie”, E. Ruder).

This must be the funniest thing I've read all month. The "mind is energized when jumping to the next line"? What tripe. If that's an accurate quote from something this E. Ruder wrote, then I know that E. Ruder is purely a BS artist. If it's a bad summary of what E. Ruder wrote, then the author of this "article" is a hack. It is quite probable that both are true. You're not going to become a great designer by reading this pre-digested pablum. You must perform your own research, or at least read the primary sources from people who have.
I Lost My Sense of Smell in My Twenties. Here’s My Advice to Covid-19 Survivors
There are thousands of colo centers out there that will take your business. Sure you have to buy the hardware up front but in the long run it'll be less expensive. The scary part would be fiber/backbone providers denying you a connection.
I'm a brit, around the same time a US based charity set up here that paid drug using women to get (temporary but long term) Birth Control. I thought it was a good idea but it was (is) very controversial. They started after a similar experience.

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

The kids I worked with were so lucky to get a nice loving family, a very strong community to support them, lots of opportunities for socialisation and education etc.

God knows what happens if you're not that lucky.

Edit: I have to be honest, I enjoyed the work. I wouldn't have done it otherwise. :) the kids had their moments but mostly they were really excited to do anything and getting male attention was a big draw for them (one they got over the fear of men they all arrived with).
Does anyone really believe that the bulk of Bitcoin mining energy is coming from renewable energy sources that would otherwise go to waste?

Obviously some of it might come from such energy sources, but the idea that Bitcoin is somehow mostly powered by green, renewable energy that would otherwise go to waste is a massive exaggeration. I know Bitcoiners want to believe that Bitcoin has no harmful energy impact, but we need to be honest about how a system that incentivizes increasing energy consumption is not a sustainable solution.
"Spyware" has a specific meaning and shouldn't be applied to any instance of data collection you disagree with.

That you can point to their documentation about their data collection practices, which are explained in concise English with opt-out instructions, and that this is apparently detailed to the user on install, strongly suggests Gatsby is not spyware.

Telemetry can be very valuable to open source projects which have extremely limited resources. The Adium project used telemetry to decide when they could drop support for PowerPC processors and old versions of macOS[0]. Homebrew uses it to track which of its thousands of packages are the most problematic to install[1].

0: https://sparkle.adium.im/?year=2020&week=*&graph=bar

1: https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/
Even the best hospitals make mistakes, malpractice is not just some cudgel used to beat good doctors over their heads, and America has some of the most comprehensive malpractice law in the world.

That said, if I'm wrong about that I'm interested in learning more.
For other space related content, check out The Orbital Index: https://orbitalindex.com

A nice newsletter about space stuff (I have no affiliation, just a fan)
How is it possible that this was not required before? I am so glad that we had Trump, even if it was just for 4 years.
epik, apparently.

at some point too when you notice that everyone thinks you are horrible maybe the problem is you.
Oracle, IBM, Alibaba.

On the smaller but still “millions of virtual machines” end of the scale: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode. Still have APIs and can give you instances in minutes.

Hetzner and OVH also an option for the scale of infrastructure that Parler appears to require, although their “Dedicated Server” offerings (Bare Metal) often take 24-72 hours to deliver to customers.

Or one of a thousand places to rent a rack and “DIY” with hardware from a vendor like Dell, HP, Supermicro, Lenovo, ZT, ...

Plenty of examples exist of sites which have spent years or even decades online despite being unpopular or illegal, e.g. The Pirate Bay.
I'm talking about an electric kettle, just like the parent comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between any two given gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic expansion whereby the scale of space itself changes. The universe does not expand "into" anything and does not require space to exist "outside" it. As the spatial part of the universe's spacetime metric increases in scale, objects move apart from one another at ever-increasing speeds. To any observer in the universe, it appears that all of space is expanding while all but the nearest galaxies recede at speeds that are proportional to their distance from the observer – at great enough distances the speeds exceed even the speed of light.
You mean Walmart Health?

https://one.walmart.com/content/usone/en_us/company/walmart-...

:-)
For every COVID vaccine, how many BS "re-patented" medications == harmless vitamin + actual_medicine?

Or medications that don't really work (p-hacking) but are prescribed anyway?)

Or manufacturers that buy out all US competitors to have a monopoly of a particular medicine?
Someone should ask Peter Sunde. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an7pn/pirate-bay-founder-th...
Came here to post the same. My guess is he will go down as the worst president in US history, but even a terrible administration can have a few noteworthy accomplishments. This and the airline reforms (1) will probably be remembered as the best things that came out of the Trump administration.

1: https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/president-trump-just-sign...
No, because only about 10% of normal (baryonic) matter is actually in the form of stars. The rest is mostly in the form of hot, dilute gas in intergalactic space.

The idea that about 5% of the total mass-energy budget of the universe is in the form of baryonic matter is well-determined by cosmological observations (including the relative amounts of hydrogen and helium formed in the Big Bang). It if turns out we've overestimated the amount of baryonic matter in stars by a factor of two, that just means that 95% of the baryons are in the hot intergalactic medium instead of 90%.
All the stable millennial are past the age where they can produce children. Its a madhouse.
I had an experience not quite as concrete but similar. I had a recurring dream where someone or something was banging on the door. It wanted in, I was holding the door shut, and I was scared to open the door. But at the time I was really into Jordan Peterson, who talked a lot about "embracing your shadow", and "integrating your shadow", concepts that Carl Jung came up with.

The last time I had this dream, rather than fight it, I flung open the door, and said "come in, come in". It didn't go well. It was like a demon had crept into my mind, corrupting everything I did. I got fired from work because I'd leave whenever I felt like, couldn't concentrate at all, I recklessly racked up credit card debt, I was just in general acting like a shitty human being.
Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI
I think this also might be an interest to you

https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile_preliminary_components/
When it comes to data wrangling, one huge advantage of Julia over tidyverse/R dataframes/Pandas is that you can write a damn for loop and it won't be brutally slow.

It's so much simpler and faster to use a loop that says "pick this row only if this and that and this other thing are sometimes true" vs having to construct an algebra of column filters to do the same.
You might find what you are looking for by googling "register renaming"
Biden Expected to Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline Permit
Birth rates in Bangladesh are also down below replacement level despite the traditional culture you keep mentioning.
Looks like modelsim

https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF-wiphy/blob/main/fpga/models...

https://www.mentor.com/products/fv/modelsim/
WFH linked to better mental health but worse relationship with colleagues
The thing is, you're always going to dependent on someone in the mainstream economic world if you want to have a web presence in North America. Even if you run your own servers, you're at the mercy of your hosting provider, your ISP, your DNS registrar, and even browser level things like Google Safe Browsing. Any of these can be major points of failure.

So yeah, not using AWS would avoid being dependent on AWS, but you're going to depend on someone. In this sense, inclusion on the internet ultimately has a political dimension. I think that's just how it is — we live in a society with politics.

(I'm omitting commentary on Parler in particular because I have no sympathy for them in this or any other case.)
lol i lived there for a few years - these bulbs are the least of their energy waste. outdoor air conditioning at bars was not as wild as you'd think (it wasn't _normal_ but it was common).

Also, the flat rate on your power bill is 5% of annual rent (split over 12 months) - it was a hidden tax that was 3/4 of (at least my) power bill. so i don't see how they're shaving 90%, unless they mean the variable part. In which case my water heater (in non-summer months cos tap water was HOOOTTTT), washing machine, fridge, etc, begged to differ.

Air con was a separate bill due to district cooling.
The stability and benefits are just another currency. The article, though, wants to pretend that only inequality of money matter. Somehow giving someone extra benefits because of honor is great but giving them money is tacky. In any case, people will find a way to "monetize" other things. That's why the verb "monetize" exists.
Your case is a bit weird. You're looking for a specific niche codebase, whose authoratative source has disappeared, and end up at a non-authoratiative archive. That's Google on hard mode. If you knew you wanted the reference converter, a more specific Google search would have worked:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ttf2+to+woff+reference+conve...

A more in-depth research effort into the solution space also turned up things like FontForge and github.com/google/woff2, neither of which showed up in the GitHub results, but depending on your use-case are likely to have been compelling options.

I think it's more important to use FOSS infrastructure for FOSS projects than it is for those projects to turn up in a search result. I also think that projects can and should market themselves in a manner which extends beyond appearing in search results. However, I do acknowledge that GitHub search can be useful. I have been thinking about letting you link up repositories hosted on not-sr.ht for your sr.ht projects, which are indexed here:

https://sr.ht/projects

So you could, for example, have a GitHub repository, a GitLab repository, and a sr.ht mailing list, all under the same project, indexed in one place. This would go a long way towards establishing a single list of FOSS projects. It would be centralized at first, but I have also been thinking about using RSS to federate the project list across many independent sr.ht installations: centralization gone.
> because there is no way to make something executable, but readable.

Did you mean to say "there is no way to make something executable, but not readable" ?
I gotta say, recent events have left me shaken to my core. I thought I believed in free speech, to the point where I started a company dedicated to providing privacy and communications products that were not subject to control by any central authority (that turns out to be very hard!) But watching the events of the past few years unfold I am no longer convinced that this would really make the world a better place. I always thought that in the end cooler heads would prevail. But we've now done the experiment in a big way and the results seem overwhelmingly negative to me, to the point where they present a credible existential threat to civilization, on a par with climate change.

Maybe someone here can talk me down from this new position. But the evidence seems pretty overwhelming to me right now.
IIRC I'v read the same thing about golf. There's something about us humans and long walks. Almost like we're made for it...
>but since nothing changed since a week (when I wrote it), this probably means that LD_PRELOAD'ing your steam is not a good idea :).

Welcome to the "knows too much to be trustworthy" category of perceived-troublemaker.
If I'm reading your post correctly... yes. I think you've got it.
Tesla is trying to make cars with unibody casting just like toy cars are made
>Don't yell at people doing something to help (as it happens, probably the _only_ way they know to help) because some other people, with some other expertise, could theoretically do it differently/better/more human.

This seems to rest on the premise that doing something is always better than doing nothing, which may actually not be the case. It's possible that the "solution" just makes things worse/complicates implementing better, longer-term solutions.

The "_only_ way they know to help" part especially raises red flags, because it's exactly that narrow-mindedness and ignorance of context and alternatives that leads to "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" thinking. A big problem with "technosolutionism", as the article calls it, is precisely people forcing complex social, political, economic, cultural, etc. problems into the technical paradigms with which they are familiar, and then attempting to solve those problems as if they were technical or engineering issues.
Hey man! This is a great comment. I work with Turquoise. We're actually building some stuff where patients can collectively bargain outside their insurance. But for now, it's most useful to people with insurance that see that one hospital down the road has a lower rate for their given insurance. (EG, the blue cross rate is better the next town over). We're going to make it easier to filter for insurance shortly.

Also, very useful for cash pay.
It's always fascinating to see that even compared to prices you pay as a self-paying patient in Germany (which are already 1.5x - 2x higher than what the "public" insurances, ie. 85% of the population, pay for the same procedures), the prices in the US are about 5x to 10x higher. The standard of care seems to be quite comparable if you look at outcomes, so there must be huge inefficiences in the American system (doctors in Germany are consistently ranked as the highest paid academics, so I guess it cant be doctors' salaries alone).
Astronauts are experts in isolation, here's what they can teach us
Just wondering - how has your experience with obtaining and aggregating relevant data like sleep duration and quality, heart rate, physical activity,... been and which sensors are you using? I was considering Empathica e4 + Freestyle Libre for a similar research project seeking to quantify influences on BG levels.
The hacker named bitcoin strikes again
Slack let’s you create your own sections. The default layout has channels on top and DMs on bottom, but you can put them anywhere.

And that kind of thing is my run with Slack. It has answers for many UX complaints, but they are buried in settings somewhere or behind a paywall.
> Add to the fact, often the most impoverished countries tend to be more religious.

Which way does that correlation run? Maybe impoverished countries are especially in need of the social organization provided by religion because, unlike rich countries, they can't afford to "f--k around?" They can't just spend government funds to deal with the negative social consequences of out-of-wedlock births, divorces, etc.
Wow, GitHub's head of HR resigned over the matter. This seems like it might run a bit deeper than firing a single employee.
Hindsight and all that. Parler has hosted content no worse than Twitter or Facebook or thousands of other sites. Their banning from AWS could not have been reasonably anticipated. It was an unprecedented act of censorship in response to an unprecedented moment in American history. The world will learn and AWS will likely loose a few customers though not enough to change its policies.
That's a good point, I don't follow specifically vegan groups. Usually more on the left / right part of the spectrum.
Do you really not know what GP is referring to?

Regardless of your political leanings, cancellation is an action, not a neutral position.
Hetzner has usually 10 minutes for bare metal.
An "orbital Starship" plus a successful orbital refueling is the real game changer. Goes from 150T to LEO TO 150T anywhere in the solar system. SLS block 2, which is another decade (?) away, can only send 45T to Earth escape velocity.

And orbital refueling only costs six (?) times as much as a LEO flight.
Authorize.net and Telnyx (cheaper too)
No, I’ve never been to an airport. Could you condescendingly tell me more about them?
Very cool, well done!

It seems to crash (white page) if you cover the destination point with the constraint box.

You may want to look into (lazy) Theta* next
I'm also happy to wait. I just want my parents and older relatives (all 75+) vaccinated sooner than later. That will make me worry less. If for some reason I can get an appointment sooner, I'll obviously take it, but I'm not counting on it. Unless the pace really picks up it's going to be a while...
It would be cheaper than prison. We do so little to support foster families that I don't know how we know that it's not sustainable... we just haven't tried. It's a cliche but if we spent 10% of of what we spend on Nukes or drug enforcement on this it would be a game changer.

This is a question of priorities.
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Man I'd love to see what you think is TWO tiers above a tabloid.
This is neat, but almost no startups of any kind, even mid size corps, have such complicated and intricate plans.

More likely: OpenAI was a legit premise, they started to run out of money, MS wanted to license and it wasn't going to work otherwise, so they just took the temperature with their initial sponsors and staff and went commercial.

And that's it.
TBH most "Free speech" platforms will allow anything except fraud, child porn, and calls to violence that violate criminal law. Baring all of that. There are still places online to host whatever you want.
Very little Julia hype comes from JuliaComputing.

The buzz you see is almost all from people who switched from other languages and found that Julia was a gigantic breath of fresh air. I can say that for me, it completely changed my attitude towards programming in general. Before, programming was something I did sometimes as part of my physics research. Now, it’s also my hobby that I probably spend too much time on.

It’s hard not to get a little evangelical when you go through a change like this.
The answer to technosolutionism will be more technosolutionism.
I have to concur, it really does make sense to me why both France and Germany ban things on eBay that is ok in the US.
A specific use case would be recessed ceiling lights, which are not uncommon in this nominal wattage.
Deep Thinking
If you still want to remain in the cloud? Shell game. Contract another company to setup and run everything on the cloud side and mask the traffic. Hiding the traffic can be as simple as front end proxies into a VPN to AWS. Or even just SSL traffic. AWS or what ever cloud provider would be none the wiser unless they are actively looking inside everyone's boxes. Which I highly doubt they are.
Of course it is. Just not within the parameters of how we've defined family and parenthood.

There's a reason societies used collective parenting for centuries and only recently with the push towards individualism that has stopped. There's still collective parenting in places of the world that don't have that same desire of individualism.

We've built our society and economy around the idea of 2 parents and some children. This is an arbitrary decision we've made and it wasn't how we came to this point. A push for accepting multi-node families would help nudge us in the right direction. Just changing the tax law to support and provide the same benefits to a union of multiple parents would be extremely useful.

We've codefied a single way of living. Maybe we should change that and allow for more dynamic family structures.
I wrote about why free speech is still important here: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/recommendations-and-radicali... .

Basically, the problem is not free speech. It's the social media drive for addiction.
Surgery Center of Oklahoma (hospital that lists all procedures with total price)
> Parler has hosted content no worse than Twitter or Facebook or thousands of other sites.

I disagree. There were open calls for murder on the platform where Parler was notified by Apple, by Google, by Amazon - and nothing happened. Which is the key thing here.

Twitter and Facebook are extremely fast with the ban-hammer, in contrast.
Isn’t this the reason why Github Discussion exists? To basically become an internal StackOverflow for the repo?