skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact NPR and every other news source had to break it down for begrudging acceptance really hurts it's message.

Not necessarily. Provocative statements can drive engagement by the extremes without costing you the moderates. This has worked really well for the right wing in the US, whose moderates flocked to a candidate who often offended them and worked against their stated priorities, rather than vote for a moderate candidate from the other party.

Moderation is good governance but often bad politics. It's boring, and people can't be enthusiastic about it.

The left and right are not symmetric with respect to that, and it's hard to tell whether "defund the police" is a slogan that usefully shifts the Overton window or merely demoralizes the center-left. It is certain, though, that it doesn't really matter what it does to the center-right: they are very unlikely to vote for even the most centrist candidate from the nominally left wing party.

So you could say that the fact that NPR has to explain it is more useful than more moderate measures that would get less airtime. It's nearly impossible to quantify that, but it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, either.
>The opposite force (motivating you to buy now) is that interest rates are very low, and that will probably change in the future.

It's low for you, but also low for everyone else. Low interest rates push purchase prices higher because people care about monthly payments, not the final price. Overall it's a wash and you don't gain/lose for buying in a low/high interest rate environment.
The article briefly touches on this, but my belief is the one thing that may eventually "take down" cryptocurrency is ransomware.

That is, ransomware as it exists today is only possible because secure, anonymous, non-reversible methods of payment exist in the form of cryptocurrency. Things like bearer bonds were outlawed decades ago because of a similar desire to make large anonymous, easily transportable payments impossible.

Honestly, if anything, I see ransomware as probably the primary use case today for crypto besides speculation.
LumiCube: An LED cube kit for the Raspberry Pi
Is he that great at writing free software? There are certainly a lot of important, great, useful, projects coming out of GNU, but how much of the code has he personally had a hand in writing?

I'm honestly asking because I'm not sure. I don't know if he wrote all of it himself, or none of it.
Ahh, that would make sense; it didn’t occur to me to check the paper. I was mostly curious to see at a glance how it would visually compare with the addition of sharpening. Ultimately, it ends up looking pretty good.
IANAL: In the US, doing something destructive [at work] while intoxicated can be "gross negligence", which is criminal if I remember correctly. Example... you show up to work drunk, get in a forklift, and drive through a wall causing damage.
A bit of A/B testing could help figure this out?
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1. USA only finished its trials this past week of AZ's vaccine, and those trials took place basically the same time as the UK's. In contrast, UK approved the vaccine in December 2020.

The 3-months of difference between the two countries is pretty pronounced, no matter how you look at it.

2. https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-approved-pfizer-covid-19-...

I remember articles at the time that highly criticized the UK's rollout of AZ vaccine.

3. It probably doesn't matter: the USA has found AZ to be very safe and highly effective: in fact, the USA's trials suggest a 79% efficacy rate (while the UK's own trial numbers were in the 60s). So if anything, the AZ vaccine has been proven to be safer and better in the tests on our-side of the Atlantic.

The issue is that extra 3-months of difference. Whether December 2020 approval was premature or not.
Eh, that's a bit problematic — there's no standardization in what's in a standard library.

Some languages have stdlibs that just contain "stuff everybody needs" — stuff every app or library written in the language will use (common data structures, concurrency primitives, etc.), such that anyone who "knows the language" would also be expected/required to know (or at least know of) those components, if they have any hope of being productive in the language.

But other languages have huge stdlibs, that include a bunch of stuff that almost nobody is even aware of, such that most developers won't actually need to know about it in order to effectively maintain other people's code in the language. These are essentially just weird niche libraries that happen to ship with the runtime for some reason.

Examples of weird niche libraries that are technically "stdlib":

• PHP has an Ingres driver built in. That's Ingres, the predecessor to Postgres.

• Ruby ships with a CJK character-normalization CLI utility.

• Erlang/OTP has "Megaco" (http://erlang.org/doc/apps/megaco/megaco_intro.html) — an H.248 media gateway daemon library.

Admittedly, languages do tend to gradually factor these weird niche bits out into separate packages. (Ruby just moved almost all of its stdlib into ecosystem packages in 3.0. Some ecosystem packages are just now install-by-default — but maybe won't be in the future.)

Also, the behavior of these weird niche bits is not usually specified as part of the language's spec... but that doesn't mean much, as often, these languages don't even have specs. In those cases, the reference implementation is the spec — and so, if the reference impl includes these libs, "the language" includes these libs.
>In its appeal to the Supreme Court, Facebook said it is not liable under the Wiretap Act because it is a party to the communications at issue by virtue of its plug-ins.

That would be kinda scary if allowed. I would think / hope that as an individual that I would need to actually know that someone is a party to the conversation... the idea that Facebook could just say "well you logged in this one time so now we're party who god knows what ..." would be pretty horrible if legally accepted.

Granted, from a tech standpoint, that's also kinda how it is :(
My point is you take the money from the top, you kick it some distance (but not that far, generally) down the ladder and then that money inevitably makes its way back up.

The problem isn't that we don't tax rich people enough. It's that the way the system is built, rich people become black holes that suck in any wealth that enters their orbit. Once they have it, it's effectively locked away from everyone.

Taxes are one way to try and slow that down but it's clearly not a perfect solution and simply turning up the amount of tax isn't going to stop it.
"Youtube wages" can be ~$5k/1MM views just from Youtube ads, without even getting into monetization via third party sponsorships or merchandise.
My understanding as well.

It never made sense to me for Google+ but it broke that feature.

Lately it seems + might be working on DDG and maybe Google as well, only I have to use it in combination with double quotes like this:

+ <some search terms including a +"weiiird" one>

Edit: Can't say for sure if it is a feature or if I just knock out the dumbifier somehow :-P
More or less infinitely better, yes.
Here is the MR for 13.10 What's New Content. You'll need to update to the first point release after 13.10.0 to get this content. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/57119
For every release I just go straight to performance improvement

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/22/gitlab-13-10-re...
I'd just say that both contribute and stop this whataboutism.
The simplest solutions are the most effective, until you realise it isn't at all simple to match the 200-500% pay increase they're emigrating for.
I don't think Stallman actually wrote a lot of software in recent years (decades?). As far as writing "free" software, he literally stole other people's code for use in Emacs [0].

[0]: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
Also yelling at someone who is the only person who can solve your problem is not a good negotiating strategy, especially when it reminds them of why they left.

Walking away from a toxic situation is not "psychopathic." It's common sense and if we all did it more then the psychopaths who expect us to stick around through it all would finally learn how to treat other people with respect. It's a job, not a marriage.
“Facebook was not an uninvited interloper to a communication between two separate parties; it was a direct participant,” the company said in a legal filing.

There's gotta be some existing legal doctrine on what constitutes a "direct participant", right?

Suppose I visit the website of Company A intending to do business with them (perhaps this is the only way to contact them). Their website contains the Facebook "like" button somewhere on the page. Is Facebook really a "direct participant" if I have no way to know that their widget is even on the site until I visit it, at which point they have already participated and I have no way to avoid it?

Likewise, does the law/precedent on "expectation of privacy" have anything to say about who specifically I should/shouldn't expect privacy from?
>commission is problematic as it incentivizes them to show you the most expensive houses

Don't know everyone's experience but Realtors show whatever house the client wants to visit and clients can and do find houses for them selves.

>flat fee or a flat hourly rate

Does the client still pay this flat fee/hourly rate if they don't buy or sell the home? I'm sure a realtor would have no problem showing you up to X homes for $Y,000 paid upfront.
I think that in the case of Public activities you'll be missing one end.
Yep, not a new concept-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many
Once you work in a large corp and see parallels with government, you start to realize it's just organizational theory all the way down, except some use physical violence, others don't.
You’re right that nobody (hopefully) is transmitting sensitive information in the clear, but having a network layer that you don’t trust fundamentally changes your security posture for the worse.

For example, consider the possibility that your 5G equipment might go down at an inconvenient time if there’s an actual military conflict.

Also, it’s not always clear what information has strategic value to your rivals. Even simple metadata, like which political leaders are talking to whom, can be revealing if collected at scale.
All GitLab notifications are via email unless someone explicitly @s you. Furthermore, there is no api to notification. Basically, unless you monitor email, you don’t get notifications. It’s horrible.
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Sure, thanks for putting in the effort.

By the way, Java, Python and .NET ones top the C++ one.
Most amazingly the worst thing about it is they killed it after it had become nice :-)
Schools, kindergartens and parents have a legal responsibility for children under their protection. However it has been repeatedly proven that businesses who allow enormous amounts of user's personal and financial data to be leaked will suffer no meaningful consequences. See: Yahoo!, Target, Experian, etc.
My point is about comparing accelerated code behavior to the standard java Double.
Got 500, hug of death?
All new features target Free/Premium/Ultimate. Starter customer are still getting new features, improvements and fixes — they are the same features that are also available on the Free tier. For Starter customers who elected to upgrade to Premium for free, they will also have access to the new Premium features.
I think most people would agree with you. Often called "build the life you want, then save for it"[0]. It's not as sexy, though, probably why the extreme outliers are more written about (or vocal).

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/58j8...
There are a LOT of industries with this problem. Specialist stuff like military shipbuilding is an example, but also things like precision ball bearings. Knowledge gets lost all the time and old timers have to be brought back in after the fact. Or the technology is just lost and a replacement has to be reinvented (famously, the production of tamper material for the US thermonuclear nuclear weapons).
Respect is earned, not innate.
I don't know. I'd love to have a basic level of income and then be able to dither around with random jobs. I'd love to be a bartender for 6 months, work in a bookstore for 6 months, become a carpenter for a year or two. I'd probably feel differently if I actually had a trust fund since my upbringing would be different but it does feel stifling that in order to have a financially rewarding career one has to stay on a relatively narrow path.

And I say this as someone who has made a major career change during their life.
If your content is that important for those users, they are free to choose a less restrictive instance.
Now I'm waiting for your Show HN curated list of alternative search engines
It's definitely becoming more bloated and slow with every release. I hope to see them focus more on optimizing performance soon.
Sounds like OP's spouse was the tipping point. If they stayed on the same page, I wonder if things would've gone differently (ignoring the medical issues which aren't trivial, of course).

The OP seems content to live a life without work. For him, by far the main reason to work was for income. If you don't want to work, then why keep doing so when you no longer need income to fuel your lifestyle? Obviously people are different here, and many (esp. on HN) derive other values from work.

The wrench comes when you're surrounded by people who aren't on the same page. Like OP pointed out, you become more disconnected as you both can't relate to the other's chosen lifestyle. OP sees their peers' lifestyles as consumption-focused. And I'd bet those friends couldn't relate to OP either.

OP's spouse probably felt caught in the middle between freedom and social inclusion. If you can't relate to your peers, early retirement could feel more like stagnation than freedom. Social inclusion is a hard thing to give up.
yeah, there is- I don't have $20K
As a system administrator, I never, EVER encrypted data at rest. Stupid policy I know, but encrypted stuff tends to be unrecoverable when you need it.

I had an Exchange Server that had issues, and I didn't have enough hardware to try a backup, I kept telling management... it died, and I was able to recover most, but not all of it.

Shortly thereafter they outsourced IT, and I assume the new crew was able to get the resources to actually fix it.
ClickUp is astonishingly good. Our whole team (devs, sales, CEO, everyone) absolutely loves it.

I have had two truly delightful, joyous SaaS experiences in the last few years: ClickUp and Retool.
There's no export restrictions in the UK, they just ordered vaccines earlier and in bigger bulk than the EU (comparatively).

One of the many spats about this between the EU and the UK was when an EU functionary incorrectly claimed the UK had export controls and they had to back track[1].

As far as I know, the EU gambled on a French vaccine that unfortunately failed, then ordered other vaccines much later than everyone else.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6d28903d-3723-45cc-878a-21e1f2d39...
You do realize criticizing Elon in erroneous ways will in no way elevate yourself, right? You're still going to be the same person who has achieved nothing and complains about others who do stuff.
Ask HN: Best sources for a new search engine
I think it is common sense that search engine results have been declining in recent years. To counter this problem, I considered the possibility of a search engine that indexes only sites linked from a few 'seeds'. Maybe a good set of seeds could be:

- Wikipedia

- HN

- StackOverflow

- Slashdot ...

What other interesting seeds do you think would be interesting including?
It's really not that simple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_proof
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Till one day they pull the old UI and theres nothing you can do about it
> alternative healthcare

I don't blame Google for this. 99% of alternative medicine is quackery and it's almost impossible to separate wheat from chaff in an automated way.
I'm wondering if they also have Scrum Masters and other consultants.
I was with the story until I clicked on the link to the discussion with the partner and there was the sentence about how she "learned French last year." That description really tells me something about the person who wrote this.

First of all, you can't "learn a language" in a year. It takes multiple years, and it's really a journey not a destination. I guarantee you his partner doesn't speak French at, say, a C1 or C2 level. Impossible.

Second, I feel like it exposes something about the writer here. Too much emphasis on state, too little on the transitions between state.
Sigh. You're not wrong.
I’m suspecting that they generate results from statistics ahead of time and just serve you the closest cached result, unless it is strictly necessary to do an actual search.
I spoke with a CISO of a large F500, his biggest gripe was that he has a team of 30 that can barely keep their heads above water, let alone respond to incidents
I meant it as a random example. I do not dislike go. As I've stated below, I actually am learning it (more like, the conventions around it), just for fun.

I find it especially powerful for writing tools.

That doesn't remove my rights to nitpick its shortcomings though.
This. I actually think just documentation is, well not completely worthless but close to. Imagine telling someone they could learn to weld airframes by reading. Just no.
My rule of thumb is, nobody works for the buyer or the seller. They work for the sale, because the sale is what pays their commission.
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Both theory and data overwhelmingly support delaying second doses in favor of getting first doses to more people, e.g. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/fi.... Notably, the "recommended" 3 week delay wasn't the result of determining the medically optimal interval; it was chosen to reduce the time needed for vaccine trials.
Nobody is suggesting that anyone is suggesting that the poop startup is not at fault. Rather, the original suggestion was an interpretation about the relative black-heartedness of bad behavior in the healthcare industry:

> I don’t think the alleged crimes committed by them or Theranos are nearly as bad as the ones committed by big pharma and uspto and the rest of the healthcare industry

This pivot is why, I presume, there was an initial response that touched on whataboutism.
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I like the general thrust of this text, but not all of the individual pieces of advice, e.g. the go sexy, go work for a FANG company advice.

Aren't FANG companies fairly aggressive in their employment contracts with regards to side projects?

What are the chances that a Google employee can work on something on his own time that lawyers won't be able to see as reasonably related to one of the lines of business or research of Google?
Ever grab a coffee and have a chat with your friend in a library? In my part of the world, you'd be asked to stop or leave within a few minutes.
Ouch! Sorry about that. Still seeing it?
IIRC, QOP/QH though requires the somewhat unfortunate way that tables are laid out and initialized in SQLite, so it was my impression that QOP/QH are the highest order problem that needs to be patched; after all there are other types of vulns that aren't memory safety problems that are reachable with QOP/QH.
The 20% gain is 100% a consequence of the Fed and the market mania. This experiment attempted in another 5-year span would have worked out totally differently.
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One interesting question is how much of this is pulling in activity that would have played out in a similar way over the next few years. For example, it's not uncommon for young people who get married, maybe have kids, to move out of a city to the suburbs for more space and better schools.

To the degree it's actions that would have happened anyway, it probably implies there will be something of a dip after the current spike.
For you the problem is the very fact you're able to pass values through context transparently or that some people abuse it passing all sort of data that should be passed in better ways?
As a counterpoint: I also write Go in this same space. I like Go - I find most of its design goals align closely with my personal preferences (avoidance of syntactic noise, fast compile times, right-sized standard library, sufficient control over memory without having to worry about memory safety).

If I kept a similar counter for the past 3 years, it would be at least five per day.

Every time I `return x, err` and it's not a true tuple - and it almost never is - I wish I was returning an `Either<X, error>`. That's constant.

Every time I use atomic.Value (often) or sync.Pool (less often) or sync.Map (almost never because I end up rolling my own stupid map+mutex).

90% of the time I want to say a pointer can't be null. 100% of the time I want to handle optional JSON or SQL fields.

Fairly often, like > 30% of the time, when wrapping serdes or DTO conversions around data streams.

I don't believe the level of generics required to support these use cases requires compromising the other goals of Go. The deficiency should have been obvious as soon as they introduced `sync.Map`.
Jira seems not to scale to 1 user in 1 department (which is actually a regression from the way it was a few years ago), so I don't think this is the right question to ask.
"These "investors," who have zero industry skills or expertise, take advantage of a [insert economic activity]-as-a-service (?aaS) model to gain sophisticated capabilities"

The type of billionaire individuals who by virtue of inheriting billions upon billions, don't ever have any real skills (nor the need to develop any) and yet, they live in societies (subcultures) which expect that they keep having (and making) billions upon billions.

Think of descendants of descendants of founders of what are now giant corporations.

They fund VC-backed startups, which they then own (by proxy). They can barely use an iPhone; let alone understand how it works or is made.

Except the business being funded is a criminal enterprise, maybe their riches originally come from "shadier" dealings?

My point is that the underlying principle is the same, it's a very powerful principle. This is how the market enables societies to build super complex stuff. The marketplace abstracts away the complexities. This 'principle' is a technology, it's ethically neutral.
112/100?
What do you expect to gain from setting up ActivityPub for your website?

ActivityPub requires some semblance of interactivity for some operations, I'm not sure just a static site would qualify.
>1st is to tell what value you provide to your customers (Mario analogy https://twitter.com/GorvGoyl/status/1334116488349827072)

Their example is a product that is so universally well known that everyone will know what it does. So they do in fact explain what the product does in a single word right at the top: "Colgate". They don't need more. You do.
2-doses needed per person for Pfizer, Moderna, and AZ vaccines.

So 200 doses per 100 people is the finish line. (Except now that USA just released J&J's single-dose vaccine, things got complicated...)
Keeping your phone on you or at your side to respond to notifications and alerts means you are generating surveillance data the whole time via the accelerometer, mic, camera lighting changes, reachable bluetooth devices, signal changes, wifi availability, and every other onboard sensor.

Having alerts off means you relate to the device differently. Would be curious what you suppose I misunderstand about surveillance and security though.