skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does 'alt' mean when added as a prefix to left or right to you?

What % of people on the right would you consider alt-right?
What % of people on the left would you consider alt-left?
Oh boy! I can't wait for this to start actually operating. Hopefully it's ready in time for us to exit the COVID-19 situation since the only reason I use these ridehail things is when I'm going to be drunk or on drugs or both.
another example is a company which is highly specialised in making a certain thing. (for instance some kind of widget for a specific kind of industrial machine). usually demand is stable enough to keep the company healthy for a long time, but scale up is not necessary because the demand isn't there.
Do you want to lose weight, while still eating the foods you love?
Right, TX is just impacted by its own mismanagement of its grid.

Most companies that have and need DR put them in locations with independent power, not based on which grid they are in.
The value of Bitcoin is driven almost entirely by speculation. Speculative assets are not known for their stability.
This is an interesting case of a great team, great idea but no follow through. Question - why does Google want to slap its name on things? Why not just make these things offshoot startups with a little seed money and a lot of shares for said seed money - let it do its thing in the wild and collect a nice cheque if things work out and let it die if things don't workout.

One of the reasons the gaming community and tech in general seemed somewhat repulsed by the Google brand and how they treat their products. At this point, everyone is sliently praying Gmail survives whatever internal war Google has when it comes to axing products.
> The McCarthy era was again a matter of government action through government processes with at least some level of transparency, democratic representation, and accountability. It was not spontaneous mobs of individuals without leaders or any kind of accountability.

How were the perpetrators of McCarthyism held accountable?
Barracuda Networks Inc, hiring remote Golang back end developers
Facebook's audience does not reflect America's population. It is older and more conservative so I'm actually surprised by it's only 68% of the links.

Young people stay away from Facebook by the droves... that is until they get married and start having kids. By then they're older and <gasp> more conservative.
In the US, iOS has 52.4% of the mobile OS marketshare, and Android has 47%[1].

In the US, Apple's App Store makes more than 100% more revenue than Google's Play store does[2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/
That quote didn't do Malcolm Turnbull any favours.

He was certainly one of the more forward-thinking, progressive PMs we've had. As just one example, he actually believes climate change is real.
Also a good point and not something I had considered. Thanks for that. I agree this wouldn't hurt my feeling either and would make the most sense. Problem being when it goes before the court as it appears it will soon, there is no telling where regulation might fall especially with this kind of money involved. Hopefully a rational outcome like you've stated will prevail.
One has to compare the risks of not testing against the risk of testing.

We can now tell that testing, up to now, results in over 2 million deaths. What would the risks have been for not testing?
So then Facebook did us all a favour? Is this what the legislation was meant to do, stop all news on FB?
Yeah, we have more than a few dirty little secrets re PoWs, even into WWII. And later. We say a good game, but sometimes the walk deviates....

(Did you know that one of the few if only cases of an ally firing on - and I think killing, but I cannot find the reference - a Soviet in WWII was a Canadian? We'd been ordered to take territory they'd been assigned. They requested our withdrawal. We demurred. We can only guess what they were thinking when they chose to press their case, but it was apparently withdrawn quickly when triggers were squeezed. At least this is how it was described in the one source I came across some time ago and cannot find. This one at least covers the basics: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/canadian-parat....)
at least that voting was in 2020 not 2021.
Ben Shapiro is definitely a fascist and most certainly a racist but that doesn’t make him alt-right.

What the hell is alt-right anyways? As in, what are the fundamental principles of its ideology?
My goodness a coordinates based layout system would be an enormous step backwards. We’d be back to `m.` subdomains and horizontal scrolling as the norm.

The CSS layout standards are certainly not all ideal for my preferences. But the adaptability they afford in fluid layout is far better for real end users than any kind of absolute layout predetermined on a server.

We’ve reached a point I can use most of the web on my phone without compromise and I’d hate to lose that for some development convenience.
Why wouldn't they be able to look themselves in the mirror?
as a data point: the entire Bank of Italy consumes around 700Mw/year, 100% of them comes from renewable sources since 2015 (vs at least 100Tw for bitcoins, it's 140 thousand times less energy).

the whole Bank of Italy emits 14.8 thousands tons of CO-2 a year, the equivalent of buying 185 Tesla in bitcoins.
I believe it was this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
Nopes. Full nodes.
They built the most expensive solution (significant dependence on LIDAR) that scales the poorest (requires centimeter-precision 3D mapping of every street it drives on). Google Maps cars would need to do significantly more than they already do today on an even wider scale, and to be profitable it'd likely have to inundate you with ads on top of being the most expensive service.

...Meanwhile, the ADAS in many new consumer cars can pretty much drive itself already.

Waymo has to convince you their way is the "only" way to do self-driving cars, because nobody in their right mind would chose their solution otherwise.
It's only hypocritical in the hypothetical situation you created. It's very disingenuous.
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It's really tough, but this thread has lifted my mood. I hope I can find something, too! It seems there are a couple leads so far. I hope you are doing well. It's a tough position to be in, but we have to do it.
Shapiros history of consistent homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic vitrol sure do seem consistent with everything I hear from people in the alt right movement and validates them.

He also claims he is not alt right, not homophobic, and not racist. So there is that.
Just a suggestion based on personal exp...

I started writing paid articles on medium on developing mobile apps:
1. My first 2 weeks doing articles daily has given me:
- 90% of my articles curated by medium staff for
inclusion in people's feeds that do not follow me.
- inclusion the weekly FlutterForce Newsletter every week.
Yes at this point pay is low at about $5 total but it gets interesting in that it's the same ratio of free value and small paid value as you would do with free features in a mobile and paid features in the same app.

If you already have a small audience to grab somewhere which for you seems to be the case AND if you can make the stimulus checks yet coming stretch IT MIGHT BE THE PERFECT REMOTE FIT.

In my case I know it will even though I have reddit karma of several K in the flutterdev subeddit that it will take me 6 months to get the 500k monthly views on medium that generate on average $25k and so that plus me self publishing my book in 6 months is what is allow me to leverage to other things.

I cannot promise that you will also have the 500k monthly views on medium in 6 months and $25k monthly but I think you could get close.

As I get to the 500k monthly I also plan to start developing video course which will put me at the million in views and revenues.

Oh yeah, the best writing tool for dev notes and articles and books is a tool that has been highlighted on HackerNews before namely Zettlr.

If you feel the need to reach out my email is in my HN profile.
Want to launch your Internet startup the right way.. the most profitable way?
The defense I saw here was that Apple protects its value by offering a curated platform and that letting in the riff-raff would be detrimental for the users. Quite mind-boggling to be honest.
Holography 'quantum leap' could revolutionise imaging
If you're dealing with anything Apple you're probably running macOS VMs on Apple hardware. At least for things like build servers, signing and such (CI/CD) when the projects start growing.
only if caught
Just to give an alternate take, I think you can get pigeonholed as a QA person and if you want to be a developer it may be a better route to look for positions that are going to give you practice developing.

That being said, the reality of job market these days might be that entry level positions are too competitive and this just isn't practical in which case getting your foot in the door with a QA role is still a much better option than nothing. But I would say it is a fairly indirect route to where you want to go.
How do you determine who is a fascist?

Do you take into account any counter-evidence when making such a deduction?
Python 0.9.1 Release (From 1991)
That's pretty cool... 32kbit/s... Or 2MBytes if they use the orbiter satellite... Available for 8 min a day...
"winter weather" is a stretch
Well, you blame the black box algorithm that nobody can predict or understand, and you just call it an "accident".
I don't see that changing. I see K-pop fans worshipping the companies as much as they worship the artists themselves.

It's a bit dystopic. As much as the old music industry sucks, at least established artists had power.
The airbag-suit still wins if you can't get out of the plane in time.
You're really referring to these generalization structures like Gervais principle which should be considered at least as a sarcasm? There is nothing wrong with people who care to work for companies Google, I know many and I'm one of them. Your comparison with Philip Morris is way off, Google produces so many things at once serving so many people and communities every day. Honestly, your comment reads as if it was written by burnt out corporate worker – very negative and arrogant.
Boycotts are typically aimed at companies, not individuals.

Boycotts are conducted by people with an existing relationship with the target.

Boycotts are usually seeking to inflict financial damage, rather than primarily reputational.

Boycotts are addressing an issue directly, cancel culture is addressing systematic issues with selective enforcement.

Boycotts are trying to change the behaviour of their target, rather than make an example out of them or as punishment.

Boycotts are typically temporary, not permanent.
> They shouldn't be able to force every company in America to dance to their beat to reach 50% of American consumers.

This reason is exactly why I'm paying Apple premium.
Worth nothing that the article clarifies that this is in reference to driving — as in "nearly a quarter didn't feel safe on San Francisco's roads at all"
Oh no! I'm forced to sit in my climate controlled, comfortably furnished apartment with my big screen TV, high speed internet access, video games, and food delivery for a few months so that I don't die of a horrible plague or otherwise spread it to my friends and family! I'm losing my sanity!

People seriously need to grow up. If there's anything I've learned from this ordeal it's that we are so insanely coddled in western society that literally no one knows what true hardship is in life anymore. We are truly screwed if things actually start hitting the fan at some point.
I'll look into this. My thinking is that there weren't be anything for my area. But I am willing to check out anything at this point, because I'm on a time crunch. I'll pull up it after I follow up with those who have potential job leads. Thank you!
I made an app to show the books you have lend at a public library

And to make sure it can be used with all existing libraries web sites and all opacs, you can enter any url and an xpath expressions, and then it runs the xpath expressions each day and shows the result as list of books.

And since I wrote it 15 years ago, there were no tech libraries for headless browsers available. So I wrote half of my own browser, and an XPath interpreter. (Modern XPath is actually Turing-complete, and with the EXPath file module, it can read and write to any file)

So, if the store does not allow custom browsers or Python interpreters, those are two reasons it would not allow my app.
>"maybe we should come up with a better incentive system than patents".

Patents are on ideas. Does anybody in this planet actually believe that, without an artificial incentive, ideas won't happen?
Notice how we no longer back currency with metals. Again, hyperinflation does exist, and I did mention in my reply, liquidity crunch does not exist given current policy.
Why wouldn't it be economical?
I would hire you. In a junior position. The software engineering job market is inefficient in ways that work in your favor and against it. Good luck.
There's a lot of teaching jobs available, and if you think about it there's a lot of skill overlap. Students are an audience you have to keep engaged.
> I've been on the lookout for a sort of Node equivalent of Rails.

May I ask why particularly rails?
FTFY: This asshole move from Lastpass just seems to be a promotion for BitWarden.
Heh I mean SF winter. So you know, slightly cloudy with a bit of water on the ground sometimes.
I recently dropped out of nursing school (BSN), its not quite as intense as an MD but working full time and then putting in another six to eight hours on clinicals, labs, lectures etc on top of the realization I would be taking a significant pay was untenable. Paramedic training is much more feasible and may be able to scratch that medical itch.
Just don't lock your car
im glad someone said it!
>> One side believes that government can be, and should be, improved by collective effort.

>> The other side believes government cannot be improved because government itself is per se bad.

> I know this is usually how americans explain democrats vs republicans, but is it really how the parties function? As an outsider (not american) looking in, and judging by the policies of the last couple decades, it seems republicans always increase government spending (therefore they don't actually believe in "small government"), and democrats pretty much rule for the oligarchs (therefore they don't really believe in the better of the "collective")?

IIRC. Republicans pretty much always try to cut or reduce social spending, regulation, and programs meant to help poor and middle class Americans; and their stated reasons are basically "government itself is per se bad." They don't mind military spending, and tend to increase the deficit through tax cuts (despite making a big deal about how deficits are bad whenever Democrats are in power).

The Democrats generally believe the government can perform useful social functions, so they pursue social spending, regulation, and government programs. However, they're often milquetoast about it and tend to preemptively cave to anticipated Republican objections.
> He also claims he is not alt right, not homophobic, and not racist. So there is that.

Would you claim you're not alt-right, homophobic or racist? You seem like the kind of person who would deny all those labels to be honest.
Some of those are useful, many are absolutely awful from the viewpoint of leaving in debugability.
PWSD - Post Weinstein Stress Disorder
Common sense would be not saying or thinking or acting on reprehensible things that someone would be afraid of having on record.

An email that, for example, threatens bad performance reviews if an employee doesn't show up at an optional after-hours company fundraiser, is something someone wouldn't want on record. That doesn't mean you should say it in-person in the break room where you're not on record instead of emailing it. It means you shouldn't use performance reviews as a weapon to coerce things you can't or won't contractually demand from employees.

Two tools are great for combating this sort of malfeasance:

First, slip an acknowledgement for the verbal request in an email. Something like "Hey, the company event Friday night which you mentioned was critical to my performance review. Is that business casual?" or "You told me to get this internal request for your project done before taking care of my urgent customer tickets, here it is." can help you keep a paper trail with implicit acknowledgement.

Second, as long as you're not in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, or Washington, and you have an Android, install a call recorder app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callrecord... was an app I used for a while in a sensitive situation. Even if you never use it, it's nice to have if something was to blow up.
Facebook is also not a US-only site. And the international audience almost certainly leans (heavily?) anti-Trump. So there's that.
> I agree with you but I am still scared of racism.

My suspicion is that the concern with machine learning over racism is rooted in two things. The first is just the general modern trend of accusing anything you don't like of being racist, because everybody hates racism and wants to fight it. And the second is the fear on the part of people who make a living fighting racism that machine learning might actually put them out of a job.

Because machine learning is basically a paperclip optimizer. You tell it to maximize a thing, it maximizes the thing and minimizes everything else. Racism isn't paperclips, so the paperclip optimizer will optimize for smashing it in favor of making more paperclips. And then they're out of business.

Because when you look at the criticism of this stuff, it generally looks like this. ~12% of the population is black, only ~5% of the selected applicants are black, the algorithm is accused of racism.

But nothing is that simple, because all kinds of things like income and education level and so on correlate with race, so you have to take all of those things into account before you can tell what's going on. And taking into account all of the available data is how machine learning works.

Which isn't to say that you couldn't make an algorithm racist. Tell it to optimize for applicants with a particular skin color and it does. But then your problem isn't with the algorithm, it's with the jackasses who asked for that.

What to optimize for is a much more general and difficult question. (Hint: Not paperclips.)
Has 'sideloading' taken on some other connotation that I'm not aware of? (It wouldn't be the first time.) I thought it was just a neutral term meaning you didn't download it, you didn't upload it, you sideloaded it - you transferred the binaries from some other device nearby and connected by (probably) USB cable. Perhaps after using said device to do the downloading part. I think that concept came from Android though, so if anybody succeeded in warping our perceptions, it was Google this time!
As a HM if a candidate showed that on their github - it would be a yellow flag (nonsense changes for the sake of changes).

Just my $0.02.
the humans that designed the car? to be clear, computers don't intentionally do anything. if an engineer deliberately programs a car to hit pedestrians for no reason, they would be charged with murder. if the car hits a pedestrian as a result of an engineering mistake, the company would be liable for damages, and if particularly egregious, engineers might face manslaughter charges.
> This analogy is a bit careless.

I disagree. The OP was essentially arguing that being offensive to a group of people is okay if that group is a minority. I was simply demonstrating how absurd that argument is when directly applied to a specific group of people.

I honestly don't even understand your analogy, it isn't similar to what I was saying at all. It is pretty safe to assume the author of the article was saying offensive things to a group of people, not having an unpopular opinion about something in general. These are two very different things that any sensible person with empathy would be able to differentiate. So, because of these inherent differences, your slippery slope argument makes no sense and is not be reflected in actual social interactions
The phase 2 and 3 trials actually involve injecting ‘volunteers’ with the vaccine. There is no other way to test.

I don’t quite see the fundamental difference between injecting 15000 people or 150000. Or 1500000. Especially if they really want it.
I'm actually surprised by amount of hate to FAANG people here at HN. It's like each and every one of them contributed to each and every worst case that happened to the company. Many of us are actually doing things to change for better inside of the company. If you leave you can't fix things any more.
You can, unless I am misunderstanding you. When I paste a link the preview pops up and I can hit the traditional (X) in the top right to remove it before posting. It will display the URL in text as a link without a preview.
I'm just finishing at Slack app to reserve his place at the office. It will be available in a few days ;)
Also given the fact that Trump's rallies were attended to in extremely larger numbers compared to that of Biden's, and the new White House videos being downvoted heavily in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos

*edit: Responding to a comment below,

> I very much doubt he even won the election

We have to be extremely careful when alleging election fraud. I think that may be perceived to be divisive. It would be more fruitful to directly link to the individual allegations instead:

https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/12/what-youve-been-asking-f...

In 2 days, SCOTUS will hear some of these cases:

https://visiontimes.com/2021/02/17/the-supreme-court-will-lo...
Is that traffic safety or other safety ? I honestly go to SF all the time, and it doesn't feel unsafe at all, unless I am in TL and some parts of SOMA. Places like Marina, Crissy Field, North Beach, Valencia, Noe, Richmond, Sunset just feels like beautiful suburbia with nice retail corridors, with a ton of people out and about.
It's quite frankly fantasy level absurd to use the past to try to predict the future. The past was not recorded in detailed resolution, it was written by victors, it was not recorded in the first place, it was lost to time, it was the lived experiences of hundreds of millions of people...

"History" is at best a crude model of things that happen. Barely useful for describing the past and of zero value to predicting the future. This is applying technical analysis to humanity.
Possible yeah. Though I don‘t see this happening for a while yet. It‘s certainly marginally more secure than not having biometrics (3 instead of 2 elements).
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The "Society of the Spectacle" is a wonderfully enigmatic take on media and tech. Highly recommended.
I generate random Bitcoin wallets as my lottery tickets.
We may never actually know, but I have my doubts anything like that was ever fielded. You're talking about beam-expansion over thousands of km for a sat-to-sat weapon instead of the tens of km for the eventually de-funded ABL/YAL-1 (some two decades after the suggested Soviet space-based system.) You avoid the atmosphere in space but you can't avoid diffraction. Teller's original concepts for SDI space-based lasers proposed literal nuclear bombs to provide the necessary energy density at range; neither those, nor the other host of exotic 80s-era directed energy weapons concepts seem to have made it into operation.