skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just off the top of my head, Puritanism, Prosperity theology, and Mormonism all strike me as very American phenomena.

Puritanism obviously isn't particularly American (nor is it a thing anymore in any coherent, nonmetaphorical sense), Prosperity theology isn't broadly characteristic of American Protestantism (though, yes, it's origin is within American Protestantism and it is more common within American Protestantism than elsewhere; OTOH, many of it's fiercest opponents are also within American Protestantism)—and, moreover, it's a component of a belief system, not something that could be shared with another group outside of the content of beliefs—and Mormonism isn't a subset of Protestantism, or, at least by the shared definition used by Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianity, even strictly Christian (religion doesn't use cladistic taxonomy, which you can tell by the fact we don't refer to all Abrahamic monotheists as “Jewish”.)

EDIT: To tie this back and summarize my objection to the description, “American Protestantism” is a broad, diverse group united only by a small subset of the content of their religious beliefs, so saying that some other group ends up creating something that looks just like American Protestantism except for the content of belief is using lots of individually meaningful words to concoct a description that says nothing at all.
My most charitable thought is that the city attorney assumes school kids in SF go home to a household where they have two parents in their twenties/thirties. And that's it. Vs a kids that goes home to a multi-generational household. Or a kid being raised by his elderly grandparents.

My less charitable thought is Dennis Herrera's kids have a private tutor and he doesn't care at all that a kid will bring covid back from school. Which then kills his grandmother.
Also instructive to see prices of altcoins in terms of BTC. Barely anything moves up. There are very temporary spikes, but mostly it's all one giant opportunity cost compared to just holding BTC.
Interesting discussions over on Twitter about the new parser might be letting out the complexity genie and how some think that might not be the greatest. https://twitter.com/ramalhoorg/status/1358168753100496907
> Do identity politics help or hurt racism?

Racism is identity politics.
I am now retired after 40+ years mostly front end coding and the only examples of my work still running are some plain old javascript game sites from 2005. I switched frameworks/languages/toolsets about a dozen times over the years and finally reached the point where I was too old to learn the new stuff (React and its evolving ecosystem). Some tools have a longer than average shelf life - things like Unix utils, jQuery, git, node - what are your favorites?
> This is not accurate about how much I’ve heard and am familiar, or used it, or my bubble. It’s kind of astoundingly wrong to the point that it makes me wonder why you would assume that about a stranger.

Because your posts are saying/implying the r word is less hurtful or offensive than other now taboo words. That is the reason I infer you are more familiar and comfortable with the word than the other taboo words. Is that really a strange conclusion?

And you say “also weird how you think think you know how some words are vs others”. Isn’t that the core of your argument as well? So you get to judge whether the word is offensive, but I don’t?

And one doesn’t have to be alive during the civil rights movement to know many average Americans found it objectionable they couldn’t use whatever language they grew up using, as if that prior use made terminologies that should never have been acceptable, acceptable
Related to this, has anyone compared the performance of flutter desktop apps to electron apps? I’m not experienced in flutter/dart, but would love to see an accessible & performant alternative to electron on the desktop.
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Wow, been a while since I've seen an article constructed almost entirely by stringing together strawman arguments.

Is this the output of one of those new GPT algos? Or is it just a markov chain trained on snippets of reason.com articles?
It never ceases to amaze me that people who should understand the magnitude of this technology the most are sometimes the slowest to get it. It's programmable cash. Uncontrollable. Dis-intermediated.
Really cool what you did there! One idea that comes to mind: Would it be possible to implement wake-on-(W)Lan so that the image updating can be triggered by the device that generates the image? Or would that be too battery intense?
So, you are a Linux kernel programmer and you want to do some automated testing
An F1 fan at the time, since his death I haven't watched a single race. Enough said...
Seems like a market opportunity for someone to start building simple tractors.
Best Alternative to Great Suspender?
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> people were given the option to join and watch only, or present

That's literally what they said. What's your objection?
I don't know if that's fair. It certainly can be that, but it's also nice to be able to remove things like:

- blogspam

- flame bait (with the obvious caveats)

- excessive reposts

etc.

It just sucks when something like this gets swept up.
> I'm really masculine. I'm tall, reasonably heavily muscled, assertive, hyper competitive, dominant, etc.

Yup, sounds like a Grindr bio all right.
On the other hand, is this process really that different than the usual process of legislation being crafted in private by people who aren't the Queen before it's presented?

It is worrying that the Queen can just say no before legislation gets off the ground, but that's true of many of the more powerful MPs, too. I'm in the US, so I'm not exactly familiar with the process on your side of the pond, but over here, we have legislation stopped before pen hits paper simply because it's clear that the current leaders will never allow a vote on it.

That is a broken system, yes, but given the length of time people in those positions tend to serve (and I use that term lightly), it doesn't seem like the Queen's influence is much more. And at least her input doesn't suffer from being completely partisan.

To be abundantly clear: I don't think this is right, I just don't think it's very different than any other politician impeding democracy. Kings and Queens can and have been voted out, too.
Hi everyone, thanks for the enthusiasm so far!

We are going to make the repository open source next week and, for those who haven't listened to the podcast, I want to align everyone's expectations and say it is very early material. Expect bugs, breaking changes, etc.

On the other hand, it is also a great time for anyone who wants to jump in and help shape things, so feedback will be very welcome!
It is usually a case of "the lady doth protest too much". They project their own emotionality onto others while professing to follow logic and restraint. I'm not a trained psychologist by any means but is the modern cultural obsession with image a kind of widespread narcissism? I see these self-professions of rationalism as just another flavor of the same thing "look at me, I'm special, I'm very logical". Furthermore I speculate if the modern world with the gray dullness of equality, democracy, and mass culture drives people to find ways to differentiate from the rest. I'm interested on what's your take as I too have seen religious thought in the loudest atheists.

One interesting essay on the history of some philosophies and worldviews you might like is Eric Vogelin's Science, Politics and Gnosticism (1968). Here he traces a lot of modern thought back to the early Gnostic religion. The lack of self-reflection and particularly the righteousness I see today makes me think his point is very accurate.
In some cases yes. In others they were just used for energy to turn a flywheel for sawing wood and no electricity was involved. For the electric ones they may have been able to generate 200MW at their peek just after they were built. But after a hundred years of sediment they may peak out at 50. If the cost of fixing is more than it would generate in say (pick a number) 10 years they may decom it. Which is its own set of challenges. Most of the documentaries I see start off with 'this dam has been here since 1930 and the company went out of business in the 50s'. As most of the reason for the smaller dams to exist have been superseded by better tech. These things are typically 5-10 ft high. They are not much. But there are thousands of them.

Also many of these things are not 'automatic' they need care. Such as switching things at the right time, replacing parts, etc. You may not even be able to buy the correct switches or motors anymore (the NY subway has this issue) and maybe you can get one used from some other dam that is being decommissioned. So they just turn the thing off and walk away. Usually they cut some deal with the local gov to take control. Who think they are getting a 'free park' when they are getting a giant mess. Sometimes they even say 'you do not want it' and the local gov is dead set on getting it for a park. So you end up with things like love canal.
Our team played Among Us during our last team social. I think I'm going to suggest Golf With Your Friends next, I played it with a different group of people and it was a ton of fun, very silly especially if you turn on collisions, jumping, spin, etc.
Parliament is sovereign.

This is always a fun start to any argument about the constitution of the UK.

The thing is, you're building on a foundation that could potentially be challenged. As we discovered during the Brexit debates, people are happy to use words like "parliamentary sovereignty" when it suits their purposes, yet clearly many of them have never actually read Dicey, much less understood its entire argument or what the resulting concept of parliamentary sovereignty really means. And of course Dicey himself was not empowered with any special authority, but rather assembled a rational argument based primarily on historical precedent, which has subsequently been broadly accepted by figures in authority in the UK but is still, like everything else about our constitution, more a matter of convention than clear popular mandate.

Perhaps more importantly, if Parliament really is constitutionally sovereign, in the sense that its rules are supreme over all others and nothing a current parliament does can ever bind a future parliament, then we can never improve our system of government by adopting a formal written constitution, even if doing so would have overwhelming public support at the time. If you're going to make any argument about improving the constitution, starting from a foundation that necessarily precludes the single most important improvement that could be made might not be the best idea.
A local build of Firefox can use any profile you like, but by default, the “mach run” build script will create a separate new profile for testing.
Could a Single Vaccine Work Against All Coronaviruses?
Though short, that was a really nicely written piece. As a major fan of R&T since the 60's, I've lamented the magazine's long decline. It's great to find writing talent like Kyle Kinard planting a flag there once again.
We sometimes play fun multiplayer games online (+zoom for talking)

1) https://garticphone.com/en

2) Among Us (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innersloth...)
There's no reason to post in the fashion of a glib marketing department person if you're not. And I don't think ANYBODY finds requiring a phone number "because it's discoverable, familiar, usable" is convincing especially when considering that dissidents are apparently one of the major groups this is marketed to.

The whole thing smells funny, there's no reason to require a phone number other than Rosendfeld WANTS it.
Kubota and New Holland seem to be popular in my area, to the extent that I used to drive past a Kubota dealership on my way to some high school extracurricular or other.
Was it optional? I find it incredibly invasive to force someone to present something for the sake of presenting. At best people choose something boring and bland as an excusem And similarly invasive to force people to sit through such presentations.
Clubhouse monetization strategies
I listened to my first full Clubhouse chat today. It was not recorded. Does in vanish into the abyss? I ended up asking myself if I would pay to have certain audio conversations available to re-listen!

There are quite a few loops to get as many vetted people on the platform now while it's free. But what are the future monetization strategies for the app? Are they just selling data? The inability to invite someone without giving them access to all your contacts is pointing in this direction. Other ways are maybe ability to create podcasts or just paying for recordings and sharing a % with the creators.

Anyone else have a take on this?
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Well, if the JS is to connect to an end-point on their server (eg. Google Analytics) if they remove/deprecate the old API the JS file won't work anymore as it might not be compatible with the new API, so the JS file would have to be updated.
Every Thursday at 5 EST we have company "pub trivia" over Kahoot. Folks take turns as the host and coming up with trivia questions, and as we've grown we have a healthy set of inter-team rivalries going.

For ad hoc events we've played Among Us, had a tarot card reader come read fortunes, had multiple chefs do cooking classes, and had a few musicians do amateur concerts over Zoom.

Agree with others that work hours is best. We have standardized on around 5 ET for most things, which is not too late for the East Coasties and not too early for the West Coasties.
there are arguments for/against. it's nice that a work event during normal work hours doesn't cut into my free time, but it does cut into the block of time that I've already set aside to, you know, get my actual work done. I generally don't attend optional events scheduled during work hours unless I think attending will directly contribute to the work I am responsible for. "virtual happy hour" doesn't meet that criteria. on the other hand, I might hang out in a zoom call after hours if I don't have evening plans already.
> B interacts to A through Facebook, do they not?

And what impact does that have?

> its Facebook's job to figure out if A is more at fault (and should be sued) or if Cambridge Analytica is more at fault.

No, it's not Facebook's job to figure that out. If this was an investigation, then it would be the investigating office's job to figure out that. But it's not an investigation, it's a lawsuit, an accusation by one party against another party. The only thing to figure out here is if the accusation is legitimate. This thread started with the GP remarking that the accusation shouldn't be found valid.

To say that it should be found valid because the accused can then separately try to sue another party is not a proper evaluation of the accusation, nor is it demonstrative of a productive legal process (at least in my opinion), nor is it "the entire point of the justice system".
Because this era of "separate parts" comes to an end. Now everything is single SoC that are only compatible with big tech proprietary OS.

Google has on purpose made Android different enough so that no Android SoC could run mainline Linux.

Today, no decent SoC can run real Linux, the "best" SoC that can run mainline Linux are :

- Rockship (PinePhone) which is reversed engineered so only old SoC have support and it require massive effort from the community.

- NXP (Librem 5) which are thick power hungry slow SoC (because they are made for automobile I guess)

- Broadcom (Raspberry Pi) which is still super slow compared to most modern smartphone.

In any case the manufacturers of decent SoC don't give a crap about Linux, they only support Android and any Linux support must be done by someone else, often through reverse engineering.

This is a totally anticompetitive situation which is far from what we had on the desktop side.

But even on the laptop/desktop side, this is also coming to an end : Microsoft custom chip & Surfaces, Apple M1, etc. Soon this will be the same as on mobile.

FairPhone makes no special effort about the choice SoC, they just use a SoC which supports Android and which obviously doesn't support Linux.

On the other hand Librem & PinePhone use the only SoC that have Linux support, and they often must develop support themselves through reverse eng. because the manufacturer doesn't care.

Unless we pass laws about it or unless Pine64/Purism become very successful, it is the end of any hope for alternative as no mobile device is able to run anything else than IOS & Android (or HarmonyOS, Fushia or whatever next privacy hell OS is coming from those big tech)

Even in Planes & Cars , the entertainment systems are now powered by Android and not Linux.

Mainline Linux will disappear until it only exist in a emulated VM running on a M1 mac, or on a headless datacenter server.

Purism & Pine64 are currently our only hope for alternative and I encourage anyone to support them. They represent the ugly reality of what is available to the competition, it is slow, thick, power hungry and old but that's all we have.
I like rust, but I detest cargo. I don’t like that it forces a particular structure that makes every project feel like a visual studio template. I also don’t like that it has an single authoritative registry that it pulls packages from on build. This means that someone somewhere has too much control over the build process, and that I can’t work where there’s no internet access.
Except she has been repeatedly caught using the situation to her advantage and she presides over the whole mess...
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The important thing is how probability of BTC tanking to $500 compares to probability of USD tanking in BTC terms in the next few years.

Historical data hints that we are not close to the peak of the current bubble and when BTC drops it probably won't be lower than today, or at least, not for a long time.

Of course there is also probability that the 12-year trend will crash into zero, but that probability dwindles with every year Bitcoin isn't broken and every popped bubble that lands on an even higher low.
> Is it too early to show some screenshots?

LibreSprite already ready[0] to use! ;)

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1333738121364709376
Great work! One minor nitpick would be to move the "In-place editing with fileinput" section to "Dealing with files" as it seems only tangentially related to command line arguments. At first glance I thought it was put there in error...
You have a weird definition of "inappropriate".
Black Box Algorithms making its way into social systems with Mass Surveillance where authoritarian Regimes use it to oppress people (minorities) without anyone saving then is definitely one of the biggest concerns of the next few years.
It depends on which branch you checked out before you built. By default you'll normally end up with a checkout of 'mozilla-central', in which case it will use a separate profile.
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Interesting, does that mean that the Queen has implicitly agreed to a lot of controversial legislation (e.g. Internal Market Bill, and Brexit more generally), or the process of the proroguing parliament last year? It seems she might be a lot more conservative (lowercase) than many might like to think.
It's an overcollaterized position, so you have to put at least 150% of the money you're trying to borrow.

Now you might ask, if I already all that money, why the hell am I borrowing it? Because your asset is going to appreciate in value (like a ton of appreciation) whereas your debt is only going to go up 4%. So you want to hold on to your asset, yet you need cash to spend. Also you want to avoid capital gains taxes which happen when you sell the asset.
Tom Hanks’ Covid-19 Diagnosis Likely Shaped Public Attitude Toward Virus
So long Senator Shelby: Key architect of SLS rocket won’t seek reelection
The answer is to give a 5 star review, the first paragraph with usual blah blah, the next paragraph with the actual feedback. Even better if you use the coded ways to provide negative feedback. The goal is to make it expensive to distinguish true good reviews from fake good reviews.
Internet is a Kondratieff cycle: It’s a long economic cycle. 40+ years.

- At the beginning, you innovate, and there are 100 car manufacturers in your city (Lyon, France) and every employee can build a car from A to Z.

- Then you mature. You need to build the petrol station in every corner of the city, and put pollution everywhere especially on cathedrals (and passwords spill all over the place). Employees have a scope and become replaceable, but at least it’s a skill that _can_ be taught at school so you build schools to output a nation’s worth of engineers, not PhDs.

- Then it concentrates. You still make more and more cars every year, but legal requirements rise and less than a dozen manufacturers per continent make it, it is extremely capital-intensive and return on investment is around the interest rate. Employees have a mundane job, there is even a job description, which would be an insult to most of the previous generation.

- Then global warming comes and you need to remove petrol stations and cheat on tests to prove that you comply to regulatory emissions.

Startups are at phase 2. Regulatory burden is so immense that the only way to comply to SOCs/PII/Health/GDPR requirements is to build inside of AWS. The job is becoming 1. either work for Atlasssian or Amazon 2. or be independent and built a toy inside their containers, with pre-approved APIs that insurances cover you for.

Your comment is a sign that we’re entering phase 3: It’s hard to launch a startup and comply by the correct security and redundancy requirements, the talent has to be great, funding is absolutely necessary to have enough lawyers and designers, it’s capital intensive but still has excellent potential growth.

But soon, launching a startup will be as hard as launching a clothing brand: You’ll need support from stars to get famous, advertising power of the soap industry, and you’ll only make 4% above market rate.
My team of ~10 had a pretty good time with a D&D one-shot session using https://app.roll20.net/ . Bonus was that enough of us enjoyed it that we could pick up where we left off and hold successive events. Caveat -- the DM (and at least a couple more people) were familiar with the website, and were able to help newbies set up fresh characters.
This is the sort of thing I'd have acquired if I'd known it was on the market. Things like this never appear on the usual marketplaces for side projects in my experience, so do such sales tend to come from cold reach out?
Interesting tool, I'm intrigued. We recently started using Dovetail as our research repository. It allows us to collect interview recordings, tag transcripts, surface insights and share findings within the company. It's been a good experience and we're pretty happy with it, but it doesn't handle the recruiting/participant management aspect.

Is this a competitor to Dovetail, or a complement to Dovetail? You mention Great Question can store video files, notes, etc - does that include analysis tools? I could definitely see value in both, but since Dovetail is working well I'd love to see the research participant management side just get nailed - recruitment tools, participant management tools, incentive management, even follow up tools to close that feedback loop if possible. Even integration with tools like Dovetail, so I can keep all my user data here, and anonymize info in Dovetail so I can share insights, without broadcasting personal info.

Also - and it looks like you know this - privacy tools and managing PII are super important here. I would love to see SSO capability at the Plus level.