skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so too. Though I have a different theory on how the public would react. Australian users of FB/Instagram can't share links to any news website. But they can share screenshots and memes about the news. Even videos. The other thing - many summary accounts just popup who would give their version of the news in text or video. Why? because the news is paywalled and not everyone pays.

This is a rabbit hole, and Australian govt wont let it go easily. They will next complain about screenshots being shared - tough to monitor but they are literally taking away the traffic from news sites. People move away from a website if it can't fulfill their needs. But, if they have all the needs (wants?) fulfilled except the part about news, they won't go to another site, they will just find a hack to fulfill the news bit. How far can the content moderation go? Given the motives of publishers are not noble here, asking for money for something they should be paying, not having traffic would hurt them badly. This is what Facebook is betting on, but given the size of the issue, it would be embarrassment for the govt to walk back the proposals after FB has withdrawn. Give it a year, they will come to an agreement where both parties win.
There's a metabug on HTML at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5880 about defining how various platform-exposed features behave in the face of a bfcache (backwards/forwards cache).
Yeah, I think you're probably right about that, but that's not always easy to see at the time. Especially if it's a little earlier in their career.
>I used this strategy before Covid, had money to buy stocks last march, and it's worked beautifully. I moved some positions back into cash over the summer. Portfolio up over 100% in 2020, even with the cash.

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

It's great your strategy has worked for you, but we've been in a market that has done nothing but climb for over 10 years, and the last couple of years have been absolutely insane. "Buy buy buy" won't work forever.
Here is a challenge for you:

After you're done wiping as thoroughly as you will, run your hand or another piece of toilet paper through your butt and smell it.
> If she broke the diet code she was threatened with immediate dismissal from the MGM roster.

And yet... given her level of fame even early on, I think she was far more valuable to keep on the books. But... I doubt she (or those around her) were able to think that strategically in the moment.
Fundraising for Space Elevators
Users have even less choice then developers.
Why would you be surprised that people at a company where working more doesn't increase the stock price don't want to work more?

Do you want them to work more for no benefit?
makes sense. could also explore versioned routing, where you detect multiple versions based on filename (e.g. *_v1), folder name, or some export naming convention.
"Enforcing"?
Totally this. I have a little (uniformed) ramble I do when explaining 'Vision' over 'Mission' to people.

In that putting a man on the moon was just the mission, we don't actually know the vision. The vision statement (if there was one) could well have been 'win at space, and therefore have the most developed scientific processes' 'beat the damn Russians' 'show the world the superiority of capitalism'

(then you can rattle down the vmost pyramid - the objectives (bring them back alive, broadcast it in real time etc) - the strategies (a pure oxygen environment simplifies some things for engineering - and is far too dangerous... ) and the tactical day to day/week to week decisions that had to be made. But all the 'MOST' are easier when people on the project understand the vision.
Yes, they are equivalent to boycotts, but think about how hard it was to organize a boycott. They were done at large scale to protest things like “black people must sit in the back of the bus.”

Now your career can end because “You encouraged too much forgiveness for a girl who attended the wrong kind of party at 18.”
Sure, it isn't that cold when you have heat and proper clothing.

The power is out - there is no heat. For a lot of folks, this is more akin to camping without proper gear, during the winter, and without a fire.

There isn't much infrastructure to deal with snow and ice, either, nor are most folks going to be prepared to deal with frozen pipes.

The folks in Texas don't have the same sort of house insulation either: Since it doesn't get that cold, but it does get hot, the houses are designed to keep the house cool. And since this cold is very rare, folks aren't likely to have actual winter coats. What makes the cold tolerable for me - in Norway - is that I'm fairly prepared for it. They aren't.

-6 is really darn cold for the unprepared.
Japan:

- rapidly aging population (senior citizens don't buy anything, don't participate in labor force)

- women with a job have zero incentive to get married or have kids because of many cultural restrictions on married women (historically they lose their job, and husbands are home very late.) They buy their own condos now and stay single.

- consumer companies missed the Internet boom (Apple stole Sony's lunch)

- Japanese are legendary savers, not spenders. (It's considered shameful to not have $100k in the bank at all times.)

- govt is holding trillions in corporate stock and bonds to prop up their capital markets.
I've been around long enough to know, given enough time, we'll find out Rust isn't the panacea to all our language problems - just like what the parent pointed out about Java and it's memory safety promises back in the day.

It is indeed quite possible to write memory safe C/C++ code... and it's done every day. You never hear about how memory safe and performant all that code is... you only ever hear about the rare, high profile mistakes.

The problems with languages like C++ are more about how bloated it's become. There's 30 ways to do anything in that language, and 24 of them you're not supposed to use anymore! This leads to all kinds of problems as more people touch the code over many years and C++ standards.

I'm very interested in seeing Rust mature in this space... if not for memory safety promises, then for it being a "fresh start" for systems programming without all the legacy baggage C++ has.
You can abuse your market position without being a monopoly.
Free clue: they probably already know that, and don't give a damn.

Learn to distinguish between ignorance and indifference.
> What makes you think Android is a 'mini-IT' project?

My first one. HTC when 4G first got hot. It was a horrible shitshow and soured my taste ever since. I can see that was a combo of manufacturer, Sprint as my carrier, and early Android OS but that spoke a lot to my understanding of the ecosystem and how incentives were set up. My follow up experience with phones for my kids or staff has been better but I've never gave them the chance for daily driver again. It's a system I tinker with but not depend on. I understand that's anecdotal and YMMV, but then again I'm not looking for validation of my opinion. Is what it is, just stating what colored my purchasing decision.

30% is crazy. I've said the same about Steam for years and you'll get no arguments from me there. Does it makes sense from the standpoint of the developer? Not at all but my opinion there doesn't matter as I don't develop for iOS nor am I very concerned with 3rd party apps. As a customer, I don't care. The idea of curation may be placebo but even the placebo effect is measurable. It may dissuade malware developers from the platform at first principles. That 30% may serve as a soft barrier to entry from race to the bottom competitors even if that isn't its intended purpose. I can admit Play Store has cleaned up its act a good bit since its inception but first impressions are hard to get around.

End of day the reason for me buying an Apple phone as my daily was for reliability. I can't remember the last time I had to restart or tinker with my iPhone to get it to work, but I can't say the same for my kids various Android phones. It wasn't for the robustness of the platform or marketplace cause I would've just bought an Android. Also see my other argument in this thread about being the actual customer and a few other points. Fair payment doesn't really factor in for me, that is a business decision for someone else to make. For me and the choices that I have in front of me, this seems like the best one for my goals even if those differences are limited in scope. The fact that we can choose between them on these differences is a good thing. To get back to GPs point, if this doesn't work for you then don't buy it and let the free market do its thing.
If it were cheap, it'd be amazing for displaying artwork
I agree on the Ikea furniture bit, and the impact it has. The catalog is only the beginning.

I can't do anything about what our governments support. I can do something about what I support and what I am complicit to.
> That's literally a major reason why people buy Apple products, though. If you can't sideload things, there's literally no chance of your phone being compromised by those things.

False. People who don't want to take risk simply don't sideload, most people don't know how to anyways even on android - having the /option/ to do so is not a negative.

Android allows is and there's nearly no malware https://duo.com/decipher/google-data-shows-tiny-fraction-of-...
Terry Crews is 6'2" and 245lbs. That's an obese BMI at 30.6. Does he look obese to you? Fat is heavy, muscle is even heavier, both will cause your BMI to go up. Obviously most people don't look like him so really the BMI figure kind of stops being useful when you have significant muscle.
Some people in this thread are saying we should have allowed challenge trials in February 2020, soon after the initial vaccine candidates were developed. But reading TFA:

"The drug Remdesivir will be used as soon as volunteers start developing symptoms."

Remdesivir broadly wasn't available in February 2020 as an approved drug. It still isn't in the EU, and broad US availability didn't come until the fall. It cannot be overstated how new are many of the drugs involved in the Covid response. It's not just the vaccine platforms, of which at least 2(!) are seeing their first use.

Accepted therapeutic options have AFAIK always been a part of challenge trial protocols. The difference is that in e.g. March 2020, the doses given to healthy challenge trial participants would have been quite literally taken from a hospitalized patient on a respirator. That's obviously unethical.

(The other option is to ask physicians to violate their Hippocratic oaths during the trial, which is a slippery slope.)
Yes, seems sort of non-orthogonal.
The Reports of DevOps's death are greatly exaggerated
But why would there be liquidity crunch? March 2020 showed us QE to fund a credit backstop works wonders. Maybe inflation is the way things go south but definitely not a credit crunch.
Laws are never necessary where economics or physics already lead to the desired outcome.

So, arguing that “these politicians don’t understand economics” is like saying “laws against theft don’t understand how easy it is to break a window”.
You can Google Netflix and still have to pay for it.
Well, on the bright side, we've already skipped the pre-pandemic World War...
It is sad, and as a Californian (SoCal) with family ties to the valley from that golden era I hated the SV post 2000s and what it represented.When my time came I left for Boulder as the system there looked entirely alient to me made up by only money hungry people willing to defraud useful idiots at VCs. Again, Silicon Valley hits too close to home if you've ever been there for a reason.

But I always thought giving them the benefit of the doubt was the best strategy only to see how absurd it was for being so trusting... still I think it doesn't matter, we have so many of the Silicon Valley king makers on our side, YC included, so they will just follow when the time comes.

I wish I could find the academic research paper, but their was study on massive paradigm shifts throughout History and it concluded that in some of the most momentous, from things like the US and French revolutions to the migration of users from Myspace to Facebook, it was only between 5-15% of a studied populace to make them successful, and the rest just follow what those aforementioned do.

This is incredibly sad to me, because while I detest the spying business models this generation of SV guys work under, I always respected their intelligence which is why I keep coming back here, now I'm seeing they are susceptible to the same rationalizations that we see in the so called 'normies' that made ultimately made us bond despite disagreeing on talents/skills/interests as technologists.

Still... I think we're only now entering the enterprise and institutional adoption curve, they have a chance to pivot and use their immensely bloated salalries and still do ok, but I don think that is what is the core issue: they have delusions of being Chamath, or Elon being some low tier coder not realizing that the paradigm they function in is antithetical in ever creating another wave of Chamths let alone another Elon.

They will sabotage you and your startup, and even short the living fuck out you if you're already public while praising your efforts in public, if they have the slightest chance and fund both sides so that at best they will use you to get a fat IPO exit for something as stupid as doordash that relies on consolidation of any Industry for Megacorps.
That's funny, I've always thought about a project that does the opposite since I love newsletters but not ever RSS source supports them
I can see why this might be considered debatable, but I firmly agree with the parent comment here.

People who do vile shit should not be celebrated at all. To me, it's a requirement: if you want to be considered a person of great accomplishment, then you should be an upstanding citizen.

I also think that celebrating vile people is a reflection on the "jury" here as well. If I discover someone celebrates the works of Hitler, Stalin, Mengele, Saddam Hussein, etc, then they are definitely knocked down a few pegs in my book. I wouldn't go so far as to call them vile on that alone, but I definitely question their moral compass.
The low interest rates fueling a market bubble seem to align for sure.
It's important to think about the "spendy" / "thrifty" thing as being partly-- maybe mostly-- demographics. Young people are spendy, borrowing against future earnings, old people are thrifty, counting on assets to support them.

Japan is in demographic decline. The US keeps growing demographically, but it does because of immigration. If the US has less immigration the chances improve that it will stagnate economically like Japan.

I don't know if any of the things I am describing are good or bad. But a lot of our assumptions about how the US economy "always" is are based on 300 years of population growth.
I heard that it was usually not a good choice to use useMemo unless you measured that it improved performance in your specific case.

But I like the benchmarks in this post; now I’m more sure about it :)
The loans are being repaid but they're being repaid tax-free from other sources. If you own multiple properties and one of them sits vacant, you can count the 'missed out on income' as a loss against your company. The amount of income you write off as losses is based on the rent you were _previously charging_. IOW I have no incentive to rent my unit at a lower cost if it's basically acting as a tax shelter for my other properties. If the combination of those two things goes negative then yeah, the world gets interesting.
lol. sorry, but that reminds me of a skit by an Australian comedian:

male guest: "now first of all, let me just start by saying I'm not racist..."

female guest: "pfft..."

host: "ah see you made a noise there, but a lot of people accuse him of being a racist, so I think it's very helpful to know that he actually isn't one..."
$2000 feature bounty to build an event tracking WordPress plugin for RudderStack
IMO, anybody who takes Charles Murray seriously needs to be hit upside the head with a hardcover of Stephen J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, which exposed race-and-IQ studies for the racist bullshit they are in the 1970s, years before the publication of The Bell Curve.
Yeah, I'd be all over this service, but I'm a Feedbin user.

I'm reminded of 15-20 years ago, when there were services to create RSS feeds of webcomics that didn't have them.
When it's against individuals it starts to become harassment and bullying, depending on the severity. These are not things we generally care about protecting organizations from, just individuals.
It only seems like we’ve always had them because most people want books from this century. The further back you go the harder it is to find any type of book, even mass produced dime novels, because a lot of them have rotted away.

If you actually want books to last a long time, they must be stored under controlled conditions by an actual archivist.
This is a fairly important stand Facebook is taking - I'm glad they are doing it. The precedent set here is uncomfortably close to creating a liability simply for linking to content - something that would quite literally destroy the very fabric of the internet if it was applied generally. In Facebook's case it is even worse because they are not the ones creating the links - their users are. If internet services have to assume liability for not just actual content people post but content within things they link to it will create a situation that is simply untenable.

The fact that this law is applied only to two cherry picked companies selected at the pleasure of a government minister does not change the nature of the precedent created, and creates an enormous risk that this will now be lobbied to apply to numerous other industries and circumstances. I would fully expect that to follow in short order if Facebook folded on this - and it probably will happen anyway.
"UPDATE: we are coming back online slowly (as it’s a DNS issue it may take a while to propagate). We apologize for the disruption and are working to make sure it does not happen again."

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1362139948694966272

Insane that this exact thing happened a few days ago and they still haven't switched from Godaddy. Hope this really inspires them to take their customers seriously. This was really painful. Service disrupted for many thousands of customers.
Judging from the data requested, there are essentially either prerendered blocks of data, or they're live API calls. So there's still a data transform step.

The data that's coming down looks to be bigger than I'd expect for a PNG tile.

On the other hand, it's a pretty cool way to do a multiband raster.
If this were a typical end of market cycle, I'd say spot on. However, the Fed owns 30% of US mortgage backed securities. The last time they tried to reverse QE was 2019 when we had that liquidity crunch and markets crashed.

I think this will be the end of many market cycles. This type of ending is much more uncertain. It happens every 80 years or so. War, a new economic structure, or a new currency are all on the table. I don't think deflation is possible without completely imploding the global financial system.

I'm really just parroting Lyn Alden. Check her out if you're interested. She writes great stuff.

https://www.lynalden.com/fiscal-and-monetary-policy/
> Sleeping your way to the top is a very separate debate

You keep saying that, but it's actually the same thing. One cannot exist without the other. You need both kinds of people for the phenomenon to exist. If a boss hires only people who have sex with them, and nobody is willing to, they will not hire anybody. Conversely, if a candidate is willing to sleep their way to the top, but no boss partakes in that, then they are not hired.
Nice straw-man. Keep HN being HN, two thumbs up.
How? The vaccinated individuals would come into contact with lots of people who are not vaccinated. How do you track all of them to determine if vaccinated individuals can transmit the disease? That seems like a much larger logistical problem that differs from the existing (and challenge) trials in very material ways.
Flee to where?
a11y was mentioned a bunch of times and we’ll take a look into how do better support it.
I let algorithms randomize my life for two years [video]
You can recognize the art, while condemning the artist.

That's the post-war treatment given to studies of hypothermia that came out of Nazi Germany - because the means by which those studies were conducted was by putting Jews and PoWs into barrels of ice water, and measuring how long it would take them to die.

You recognize the results, while condemning every single person involved in the methods.
Begun, the social media government wars have.
So if you take some studies on time theft, it looks like it amounts to $400 billion annually, which is far and away in excess of the figure that the original poster said was the largest type of theft. This proves my original point.
You're saying that if you were an SEC prosecutor looking at these public facts, you wouldn't be interesting in investigating? Really?

Again: I admit that the innocent explanation is possible. I just don't think, given the circumstances, that it seems likely.
Kotatsu does add some space to the room, since it's a table - you keep your legs under it and now you can put stuff on top.
You’re point about cancel culture being against _private_ individuals is new to me.

Where I think of people who have been cancelled I only think about celebrities.

Reading about Justine Sacco’s story was interesting. Do you know where I can learn more about private individuals being cancelled? (Googling only brings up celebs)
I personally find this study totally ethical, but I guess the counter-argument would be “How risky is an experiment allowed to be before it’s considered unethical, even if people are volunteering?”.

Like let’s say we wanted to verify if some liquid was a poison, and we thought it had a 50/50 chance of killing someone, and we offer someone £500k to drink it, is that ethical? Probably not. I mean ethics are always subjective, but I don’t think that’s right. Does it make it ethical if it will probably save two lives? Uhh, I’m still uncomfortable with it...

So after that point you are just arguing about how risky the experiment is allowed to be before it becomes unethical, and what benefit it will have for other people in relation to that risk.

Again, I agree with you and the trial because the risk seems low enough and the reward seems high enough - this is just the counter argument.
While the US does have a lot of no cell zones, those areas do have coverage. I wonder if your phone operated on GSM bands that didn't cover those areas. For a while in it was pretty common that if you wanted coverage in rural areas you opted for Verizon's CDMA network.
> You would have us use IP addresses instead of domain names?

I mean... that's essentially what phone numbers are, and even non-technical people get by surprisingly fine with those.
It sounds like it only has a color depth of 4096.
Inflation means holding cash actually devalues it. Assets are better protection mechanisms. Real estate, precious metals, crypto maybe, fine art, etc .
> but it felt so outside the Pixar brand, like something Disney or Dreamworks or any other studio would make.

Maybe that's why they wanted to do it, to try something different?

I have always found the Pixar Shorts to be some of their best story telling. They don't have a lot of time, and don't seem to be afraid of trying new ways to tell a story, or a different type of story.
The key word is “I’d” which is the contraction of “I would”, which indicates a hypothetical situation separate from the commenter’s ego or self-image.
It takes enough natual gas to heat three homes in order to generate the electricity to heat one home.