skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> we want folks to be secure in their whistleblowing

People are not. I'd advise against it in almost all circumstances, unless you're 5 minutes from retiring anyway.
Consider replacing your Youtube subscriptions + watching in the browser with RSS feeds of the channels + youtube-dl. [1]

My setup for a few years has been to have a "virtual desktop" for "media" that has the video downloads directory, RSS reader, and a terminal running a script. The script is essentially:

while read -r url; do
youtube-dl --... "$url"
done

The RSS reader is configured with feeds of the channels I "subscribe" to, and configured to only show the titles of the articles, not the content. (I use newsboat with a custom article list to aggregate all articles from all feeds.)

Every so often during the day, I switch to that virtual desktop, check if the RSS reader has new unread articles, copy-paste each URL from the reader to the terminal, delete the articles from the reader list, and then leave the terminal downloading the videos in sequence.

I have DSL but even then videos download faster than I can watch them (which is something youtube.com in the browser is unable to do, even though I configured youtube-dl to download the highest quality <= my monitor size). So I just make sure to queue the videos from the channels that make smaller videos first (ie live action stuff rather than video games), so I can start watching while the rest are downloading in the background.

[1]: Of course you can remain subscribed to the channels on youtube.com if you wish to contribute to their subscriptions count. I assume youtube-dl'ing a video counts towards its views count too.
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> to bullshit us that any new union (and it's negotiated contract) isn't going to end up looking a lot like the unions around it

Any new organization in human society is going to be the same as previous ones? Does this apply to unions only? Or no progress ever happens in any organization?
As I understand it, Atlas does a few things:

1. They automate the process of establishing an LLC within the US

2. They provide a lot of boilerplate legal documents (formation documents, tax registration, etc).

3. They partner with banks and legal services to get Atlas customers a discount on auxiliary services (layers, accountants, business bank accounts).

There may be more to it than that, but that's all I've seen of the service thus far. My incorporation needs were pretty simple and I'm already a Stripe customer, which was the main driver for me to try out Atlas.
The investors weren't operating the fraud, they were being defrauded...
If there was, we would have already hit it.
"It is a shame that there still exist people out there ..." is not exactly ambiguous. People, then Exist.

If you want to be taken with as much charity as you think you deserve, try "it's a shame that person holds that opinion" and then go on as to why. But you didn't, you went straight for "exists" and left it there.
There are other vaccines such as the polio (the one which was swallowed) which had a similar mechanism. You could even infect others with it (which has benefits for herd immunity). But the chances of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis was extremely low 1:2.700.000 (it was not given to people with immunity defects).
You can! You just need to replace your Smart TV every couple of years to keep up with the software updates.

The expensive LG TV I bought ~5 years ago was snappy and fast when I got it, but today it's extremely slow and unresponsive. That's my fault for being a bad consumer and not buying the latest model every year.

On a serious note, I wonder if there's a jailbreak scene for smart TVs? It'd be awesome to be able to replace their spyware garbage with a basic OS that only lets me change inputs, or maybe something like Kodi if I'm feeling fancy.
How cities and states could finally hold fossil fuel companies accountable
This is basically how I hope to tackle the problem. I’d like to try and fill my own life with more practical endeavors and then weave in intentional/intellectual/thoughtful moments where we (me and kid) consider whatever slightly more abstract principles are in effect at that particular time. I’m having a hard time believing this is not much much much easier said than done though.
Augmenting RGB with a normalized X/Y location for convolutional NN
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Here's how I approach art criticism: It used to be intimidating for me, because I worried I was failing when I didn't understand some 'great' art, or when I liked a less appreciated piece. Art isn't technical writing; easy understanding isn't the goal. It's made for exploring and growing; if I already knew it all and understood it all, it wouldn't be art (arguably); it certainly wouldn't be the art for me.

I don't see art experts "classify" art as good or bad; they aren't scoring art like an Olympic gymnastic performance. What they do is provide a way of looking at a piece of art that may open your eyes and show you things you might not have seen, like a tour guide to ancient Rome. The guide necessarily makes value judgements about what is most worth seeing, which is helpful to me - if I chose by myself, I wouldn't chose nearly as well. And the guide can give me context and perspective and point out details and patterns that I might not have noticed. The guide has a lifetime of studying and touring Rome; I just visited for the week.

When I read an art expert say, for example, that a piece is a 'great art' and I don't grasp it, now I think: There's something here I'm missing, something to find that's wonderful. I don't always find it, sometimes it takes decades; there's no rush. I've learned to see much that I couldn't before, and it's indeed been wonderful and life-changing, and I wouldn't have looked in many of those places without someone who had already been there telling me about it.
The usage of Safari is 3-5x that of Firefox.
Fire ants found to create 'appendages' on self-made rafts when put in water
> I wonder if this might have been someone famous for whom 6 figures is expensive but not worth the PR damage?

This is in Northern Ireland - being outed for a political disagreement on Irish Nationalism vs Unionist sentiment goes way beyond mere "PR damage" and may easily threaten life and limb. (see The IRA, The Troubles, Good Friday Agreement, and the current debate of the GFA brought on by Brexit)
What is MongoDB? A quick guide for developers
It's their platform they can censor who they want. Same concept if you had a personal blog and deleted certain comments and banned posters for posting things you disagreed with. Sure, some people may complain and say you banned X while allowing Y but at the end of the day its your blog and you can do what you want. The government certainly should not be able to come in and fine you for deleting comments on your blog.
Designing with screenshots. Are you an idiot for not doing it?
Was going to add this. No IE support.

The polyfill below gives a similar example with a caveat of adding a content-type header.

It looks like it does escape at least a few ~( etc with function encode. But there are a billion emojis, unicode whatever to escape?

I've read in the past that browsers have all kinds of URL quirks, and I've seen examples that i've copied into my own code which base64 encode / decode before sending (or GET an image pixel with params).

https://www.npmjs.com/package/url-search-params-polyfill
From what I've dealt with so far, two things complicate this process:

1. Hiring any employees in addition to yourself.

2. Incorporating in a state different than the one you operate in.

Things are much simpler if you don't do either of those things.
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"Certainly, to some extent, unity with slavers was needed to gain independence,"

No - this is note true.

America was not founded on a special 'Faustian bargain' with the slavers in order to obtain independence.

The Founding Fathers of America themselves - the originators of the 'Constitutional Values' - were slave owners.

There is an unambiguous dissonance between the 'Constitutional Values' and 'Actual Values'.

While the new 'Constitutional Values' were a nice intellectual foundation, they were secondary to the real power dynamic: that the American Colonial Nobility / Landed Gentry didn't want to take orders or pay taxes to the Empire, even though they benefited from it for the most part i.e. Royal Navy facilitating commerce, and geopolitical protection from Spain/France.

First you have a Landed Gentry who wanted 'most of the power', Second, you have a 'Populist Narrative' of the 'Evil King George' (who really was not evil, frankly) - which is necessary to rally the plebes so that they fight to the death for something which may not really improve their lot. Thirdly, this is supported by 'Constitutional Values' but that's just part of the equation.

More obviously - how do these 'Constitutional Values' line up with the fact that slavery was abolished in the supposedly 'Unenlightened, Evil Empire' long, long before it was in the US? Among other things.

There was effectively no slavery in Canada or Australia.

How would you tell a Canadian that the 'American Constitution' is an effective tool of 'Enlightenment Values' when Americans are the last one's to get the message?

Everyone in Canada and Australia has better personal safety, they face much less crime, have a much more consistent and fair judicial system, they even have healthcare. They didn't have a revolution, or some special document.

One can only wonder if the 'Revolution' were to have happened in the Canadian colonies, while the US remained part of the Commonwealth what history would look like, but I suggest not hugely different.

'What America Is' (or anywhere else) isn't really well explained by the intellectual narrative that it decided to tell itself and it's people. That's a narrative not a reality. They are related, but not the same thing.
In every case, he is pushing the argument on behalf of industry profiteers. You make it sound like he is just arguing what he thinks is right.

I'll lend an ear to good faith arguments about why we shouldn't be regulating sugar in foods. But it is disingenuous for the sugar industry to secretly fund and amplify those arguments.
they only had 13 employees and now they have something like 500

They are not all engineers. I’ll bet most are account managers looking after big advertising spenders.
Just like any non-founding CEO, this guy is on the ropes. If anything (numbers) slips he is gone immediately. So status quo and PR juking are the game.

Jeff gets the praise for founding Amazon. This guy gets the blame if ANYTHING goes wrong. He may not even be able to control the company (see Jeff Immelt).
I'm not seeing contradictory statements?

- The legislation compels providers to host speech that violates their standards—speech they otherwise would not host

- and forbids providers from speaking as they otherwise would

These aren't contradictory. If a site does want to host a politician's speech then they can?
I remember seeing their first public demo at LA Hacks in 2014. Seemed like a couple of kids right out of college. They had the iPhone's screen hooked up to the projector and one of their friends kept sending them silly text messages the whole time that they had to dismiss. This was before the Do Not Disturb feature came out.

I remember wondering how it took so long for someone to make a half decent stock trading app for the iPhone -- all the other apps at the time sucked (and they largely still do). I was on ETrade before but signed up for the Robinhood waitlist immediately -- haven't left since being allowed in early 2015.
Like the U.S., Canada has been removing statues of its founders
The space between "this shouldn't be happening" and "here's exactly what's going wrong and the steps to fix it" is at least half of the intellectual content of software engineering. If you really want to have comprehensive, actionable runbooks then you need to budget at least as long to develop those as you did to develop the software. I think it's actually pretty reasonable that this is usually computed "on demand" for the failures that actually happen. Unless you're doing the Space Shuttle or something.
> The "art critic" is there to foster consensus on the appreciation of the art so that the market can more easily set a price tag, like an erudite stock analyst.

Most art criticism is for museum shows, where the work is not for sale.
Ok let's see.
Average funds per user in custody is 4500$.
Organic or referred new customers 80percent is an incredibly misleading number.
I know that in this industry lead generation, rev share or signup deals are very lucrative/expensive, only crypto exchanges and online casinos pay out more.
If they are holding 4500 on average and and we assume 2 percent commission fees, then that will be 90 use life time value on average, let's not even calculate the acquisition costs, might well be that 80percent come from referrals.
That will be 1.6 annual revenue before marketing cost, salaries, referrals, rent etc.
Maybe they sell some customer data but what would a good stock price estimate be here?
How many shares will be issued?
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I made the opposite argument in an earlier reply which was also downvoted. Can someone tell me what opinion is the correct one?
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Not having a whistleblower would be like if someone stole your bike, got away with it, then went on to have a long, successful career in stealing bikes.

The crime has already been committed. The whistleblower is the reason you're getting anything back.
Judge peoples actions. Their words, from a pr department, what do they mean?
Stocks only go up
> you are just as used to hex.

I do 6502 ASM with bit tricks and all and i can tell you straight up that hex is never as intuitive as decimal IMO.

Base eleven sounds like the stuff of nightmares =)
What's the difference between Replicache and Firebase
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See also this prescient issue
https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/24026
Don't Be Evil was always on the cynical, "words over actions" side.
Sounds about right - I spent ~50 hours building and memorizing these stories so surely they leak out elsewhere.
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I work in politics. We used to buy data from them. You would build a petition, they would promote, and then you got the data from signers on a /per basis. Was pretty expensive I don't remember but I think on the range of $1 or something.

BUT they don't do that anymore.

So maybe their revenue is now just advertising or % of donation processing?
Cult. Run.
Most people in this thread discussing change.orgs business model instead of unionization. Most tech business do indeed thrive on continual exploitation of their workers while those on top make huge sums. Tech also has the added bonus of providing useful colorful apps that are used to exploit more workers: instacart, uber, etc etc. And also building the shiny weapons of future and existing police states.
Good point. That's possible and could've made the things easier. I tend to forget that authorities can request personal information from companies (and that the companies don't mind sharing most of the time).
Solar and Wind have recently hit economies of scale that they are already outperforming many past fission plants in year-over-year growth, power output, etc. Solar is fun because it's the cheapest "fusion" system possible, just using some of the waste fusion from the big ball in the sky. It is a sort of "fusion magic".

There's a lot of hope that solar and wind installations outpace a lot of other energy investments and do offer us a road towards "saving us" from climate change. (Though how dirty we generate power is still only one part of the climate change problem, we still need a lot more solutions to carbon capture the dirt we've already emitted.)