skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revenue is a laggard metric. Amazon's sideways share price should be more eye opening.
Are we made of math? [video]
The only people who think Trump was the source of the division are out-of-touch liberals. I don't even mean this pejoratively. I just encourage you to look beyond the current predominant media narratives. This society has been breaking apart for a while. All the signs have been there. Trump shocked the liberals, but Obama shocked the conservatives before him, and we can ping pong back and forth for a while I'm sure.

(And yes, conservatives who believe Obama was the sole source of division are also out of touch. People really need to try to understand the other side).
Senate parliamentarian rules against including immigration reform in $3.5T
Amazon and Walmart do not have the money printing machine.
Ha, thanks! That's a nice thing to say.

I think a lot of times, persistence can be confused for genius.
Do you have a couple of examples for well-designed UIs?
Most people I know would say it's idiotic to use "horse paste" as an early prophylactic against covid, despite how much context such a statement obscures.

You are making a mistake generalizing the case of your aunt to the rest of society. You come off as quite emotional about it, frankly. Sure, maybe you can psychoanalyze her accurately given your close relation. It's not helping your argument in a public setting like HN.
Maybe they want to show problematic videos to security researchers
Given that science relies on communities to verify each other's work, it is inherently a political enterprise. Politics is the study of the 'polis', or an organized community. Given that science itself forms an organized community of scientists, science is an inherently human and political endeavor, even if it's oriented at finding natural truth.
I totally agree. These are emergent settings. Setting is one small part of a narrative. I feel like this actually was a goal game developers were trying to hit in the 90s and there really hasn’t been much progress…
There is a correct truth value to the claim 'SARS-Cov2 leaked from a lab', but the value is currently unknowable, and reasonable debate can be had to the evidence in either direction.
> Microsoft Teams on Windows never seems to work with a Bluetooth microphone

You aren't even scratching the surface of how bad Teams is. It's haemhaerrhoids on disk.
This is what the libre ethos is all about, so proud to see people putting their values and morality before profit!
You're using the term "walled garden" incorrectly. A public repository is the opposite of a closed ecosystem.
> The scientific community is doing the studies, all the studies, every possibility is be analyzed & tested, even the most outlandish claims are being thoroughly tested in many many scientific studies/trials

This is misinformation. A group of prominent virologists wrote, early in the pandemic:

> The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.

It's nice to _believe_ that scientists are pursuing every possible theory. But in actual reality, some scientists are demanding that other scientists not pursue certain theories. That's what's happening in the real world that we live in. Don't let your idealized mental image of "science" blind you to the facts.
I should look into Elm's approach; tbh I've been looking to Elm for battle-tested answers to lots of these questions, even though I'm also doing several things very differently from Elm

With that said- I'm seeing this as purely a `console.log` feature, not a generic logging feature that could go to some arbitrary logging service. And become a part of a company's infrastructure. I guess in a server context even console logging could be abused that way... but at a certain point there's only so much you can do to protect the user from themselves :)
To be clear, while many of the common people who are taking the largely anti-mask/vaccine messaging from the big voices in their camp aren’t doing it because they’re evil, they are being selfish regardless of the fact they’re delusional and misinformed.

To be even more clear however, the kinds of people pushing these viewpoints within their community are actually evil and doing it in bad faith for their own self gain. Even the mainstream conservative voices like Tucker Carlson, who is vaccinated and works at an institution with a vaccine requirement, is using his platform to deliberately cast doubt on its efficacy and safety. He knows better, but he is sending the message his supports want to hear. This is evil. Senators who are going out of their way to make sure nobody can be made to wear a mask in certain settings are doing it deliberately for political points and are objectively evil for this.

I don’t fully spite the average person who is listening to and hearing all these voices that align with the rest of their politics and choosing to take the position for no other reason than it’s being fed to them, but there is a limit. And maybe I’m just not aware enough but there is a ton of intentional gritting in the conservative/right-wing space now intentionally pulling on the talking points for a profit motive that I don’t see in left-wing spaces. And that might be okay even, except their also a total scam and bullshit. Selling people a “freedom phone” which is just a rebadge of a cheap Chinese phone (the irony) for a huge markup because it won’t let you be censored. This kind of behavior. Preying on their own audience that they’ve cultivated to specifically exploit them.

There is a lot of evil there.

I don’t think it’s appropriate to dunk on people dying. But it isn’t really surprising that there is that level of response among some people on the left-leaning space. It’s equivalent to the “owning the libs” on the other side. I’m not in for it personally, but I don’t think it’s any more or less popular on either side. Just the general shape of overall disgusting polarization we’re at now.

If people want to live in their own version of reality I don’t care. But when their version of reality is ruining it for the rest of us, it is a problem and there isn’t a lot of room for discussion with someone who isn’t willing to engage with reality.
Well, the US media could report on it and the actors in government that funded GOF research in china, and their political supporters so that they could be voted out of office.
Yeah you can definitely do it yourself! Usually they give homeowners "courtesy cuts" for showing up. Or sometimes they do stonewall them.

Either way, many of our clients prefer to have us do it since we do that all day, every day, every year.

A lot of people view it as found money. Sure they could take an afternoon to pull comps, go to the district, wait for the appointment, and then haggle with an appraiser for a small cut, or... they could just send us! Each person values their time differently.

To quote Big Tom Callahan: Of course, I can get a hell of a good look at a T-Bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it.
> I'm in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn't as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies.

In Berlin, you could see graffitis such as "we will vaccinate you all!" or "covid deniers out". If there was any way to measure it, I'd bet that the net effect of that is negative.
Forget Twitter and YouTube. Plenty of scams come by email, text, and snail mail.
Global warming equations in the Paris metro (2015)
What kind of dystopia is the world going to be with climate change raging, disease and poverty wiping out hundreds of thousands, lack of access to healthcare by millions while the rich and famous play moonball on the moon?
30% is not nearly enough money! Just look at all this shit that gets through! /s
Of the video, of the channel, of the instance or of the app?
By taking on poliovirus, Marguerite Vogt transformed the study of all viruses
Is the neural network actually adding any value here? I suspect they could have achieved equivalent accuracy with simpler deterministic statistical methods.
Question is, when do you get to practice this? And, what is the downside when you get it wrong, the first few times?

This reads a lot like the fabled "three-point landing" that used to be a staple of early tricycle-gear fiction. Which did exist.
> You mean that helping some cold-blooded killers is okay, but after their percentage reaches some tipping point, it becomes too much of a headache? I can't say that I agree with that moral.

Participating in society inevitably helps some cold-blooded killers.

But I wouldn't deliberately help out a group made of cold-blooded killers.

So I think that moral makes sense. Which part would you disagree with?

> If we followed that path, all bittorrent clients would get outlawed long ago (we all know certain businesses have always wanted that).

Well, if I was strongly anti-piracy I sure wouldn't run a bittorrent client that helps relay anonymous chunks between other users. I don't think we need to involve legality in this discussion, that just complicates things.
Ivermectin is safe in humans, and it isn't difficult to find that out.

I'm ignoring your speculation about me and plan to continue to do so, so let's not bore each other.
We could do away with cellphones and the always present cameras but addicts act like addicts and will explain how that’s impossible and would be really terrible etc. Because teenage girls really need Instagram or all human progress is nullified, or something like that.
OK, nice.
By clicking hamburger button in left top corner?
Good idea, but I've already filled all available slots for working on projects with no upside for me or my company.
That's fine. Your plane won't work any less efficiently and it'll be ready/dry overnight unlike we crazy aspheltum users who require at least week for it to cure.

If using engine paint, you can have choice of colors which we're denied. My Record No 7 came out of the box brand new and it's a light sky blue. I've also a Stanley No 4 clone from some European manufacturer and it's original color is a Ferrari red. Looks good too.
Oddly enough I've received fake handwritten letters for a long time, they're always junk mail, so like a lot of advertising ideas, the novelty wears off quickly.
Nice to see they implemented [1] it in a much better language than Freenet or I2P - Rust.

[1] https://github.com/maidsafe
Not a youtuber, but I had a successful art/webcomic-related patreon once before deleting it precisely because of ideological reasons. (Or as I prefer to call them, ethics.)

I would much rather the old internet come back where "content creator" was never a word that existed, or could exist.
We live in such a chaotic time. How do you even give someone useful career advice these days? Algorithms pump random things and accounts from 0 to millions in revenue overnight. You have no idea what advice is good, bad or paid for. Your financial advice might be sandwiched between a video of a punchup in a carpark and a lip sync with millions of inexplicable views. Even companies clearly have no idea who is promoting their stuff cause everyone's a freelance advertiser now.

Does anyone else find it paralyzing just trying to decide what to invest time in each day/ week/ year when you see stuff like this? Which lottery do you buy tickets in? (metaphorically speaking)
> I was responsible for internal IT infrastructure and operations such as maintenance of LAN system, DNS configuration, back up of internal services, data redundancy plan, and even printer issues. I was also responsible for bringing in businesses; meeting potential clients, pitching and talking about our solutions and liaising with existing clients and making sure they are happy. Then I was responsible for technical design and architecture of web applications; making sure they are robust and secure. Lastly, there is people management aspect; hiring, growing and providing suitable assignments for my team members.

...

> I resigned because I felt lost. My wish then was to have someone show me the ropes, walk me through step by step, share best practices and point out the pitfalls so I could take the quantum leap to a smarter, sharper, wiser CTO.

It seems further confirmation this person should not have been a C-level of anything and did not know what she did not know. After a year of feeling lost, resigned, and wrote a book to tell other people how to be CTO.

> I have come to realise that leaders don’t want someone who would just execute without questioning. Leaders want someone who would come back with research, data and finding on whether something is worth doing or not. Especially at a small startup.

A CTO is a leader, not a gofer.
How this startup used partnerships to raise $1M and gain thousands of followers
Ivermection has backing from credible scientists in India.

So does Hydroxchloroquine from credible scientists all over the world.

You're just picking and choosing who you call credible.
Ivermectin is safe. It's an anti-parasitic, not an anti-viral. Is it effective against covid? There are very smart people out there who have serious concerns with the primary study Ivermectin proponents point to showing effectiveness against this virus.

In all fairness, my entire qualm with you is the way you've needlessly personalized this discussion. We could have discussed the issues at hand directly. Alas.
Primarily that it can hold temperature extremely well but its significantly slower at changing temperature than a conventional AC system. Our early attempts to use setbacks resulted in more energy usage as it shifted into more intense stages more often. At this point we basically touch the thermostat once per season change, when we shift from heat to cooling or vice versa.
Nothing. There is just no competition to be able to do so.

You definitely don’t need to fake anything about nasa to get a job there either.
It's surprising, because many politicians and many newspapers and magazines spent months publishing articles that such a system was firmly in the realm of crazy conspiracy theories. Stop gaslighting.
The whole point of the present article is that the "current consensus" has been astroturfed, and is based on no evidence whatsoever. If you allow me to get more cynical, several journalists have now written about how (1) natural origins was initially popularized as a "consensus" view by just a few scientists on Twitter an effort to smear Tom Cotton. Due to the political valence, this messaging caught on with journalists.

(2) The correspondence of the authors behind the initial Lancet article which dismisses non-natural origin investigations as conspiracy theory (seeking to build the consensus view and much cited by the above jornalists) has been obtained by FOIA. It reveals the authors engaging in conspiracy and collusion: the managing editor bypassed the normal editorial process, the authors decided not to have some people sign so the statement would look less partisan and chose wordings that they knew were not supported by evidence, in particular deciding to ignore concerns about the very unlikely codons at the furin cleavage site. Moreover, none of the authors declared conflicts of interest. (And still, after much outcry, only one has made such a declaration.)

In short, any consensus for a natural origin is very much artificial and should be considered irrelevant.
It appears not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28582695
> But even if you go by this arbitrarily restricted definition, there's still one item on my list that is not legal in most countries.

The harmless substances? You can't ingest those via ethernet, so I skipped that one on purpose.
The need to post this on twitter and here seems to demonstrate a deep failure of process at Apple.
C# was designed in a way that makes it very hard to run on the JVM in a performant way. It has slightly different scope behaviors, slightly different asthmatics etc. Source: worked on a JVM running on C# which was hard, I think the reverse is even harder.
Indeed. Perhaps a simpler formulation is that once we've achieved the enlightenment of understood something in depth, we forget why someone new to it does not yet understand it. We have difficulty understanding why they don't understand it, and explaining it in such a way as to fill in their gaps.
Blockchain tech will disrupt the banking industry. Only a matter of time before CBDC (central bank digital currencies) become a reality and exchanges such as Coinbase or Kraken applies to become banks.
Engagement == enragement

A very simple cause and effect that nobody will do anything about because dollarinos.
Nice try, Steve Tribler
One the one hand it's sad, on the other hand I understand why they did it. Astronauts are, for better or worse, the public face and PR of NASA, which is a an agency subject to social and political winds of the times, but has for the most part placed itself apolitically and kept astronauts as heroes that both sides can agree on (as long as we can forget a short period where adult diapers where in the public consciousness).

The thing that makes it such and achievement (that it's a select group of exceptional people) is also the thing that puts extra expectations on how you can act or what you can be involved in. It might be better if it were not that way, but the reality is that astronauts are not chosen based on skill and capability alone.
If the answer is "no", it's probably you.
Unlike the inquisition, everybody expects Black Mirror these days.
In my locale, the assessment is pegged to the sale price, so if you buy a house for $X, the assessed value becomes $X. The city assessor also inspects the house shortly after the sale. In an area with a lot of turnover, the assessments tend to be fairly accurate. A major renovation (requiring a permit) will result in a re-assessment.

In subsequent years, they're supposed to apply a formula, but of course "drift" can occur. And then there's an appeal process.
Eve Online is the king of emergent story telling; a notable similar predecessor would be Cave Dog's galactic war for Total Annihilation.
Iiuc no, because a requirement is a characteristic of a piece of work. A tenet might guide you to stipulate a req.
Freenet does not give you the decryption keys to the data you host, you don't know what you're hosting, hence you're not responsible for what it could be decrypted to.

And even if law enforcement could successfully convince a court that you're doing something illegal by hosting data which you cannot look into:

They couldn't first acquire the necessary search warrant because they couldn't prove that you are the one who is hosting the particular piece of illegal data: Freenet's routing algorithm is anonymized, both the people who retrieve data and the people who store it are anonymous. (Disclaimer: The security of the anonymization depends on how you've configured Freenet. In the less secure modes a well-funded attacker can de-anonymize you.)

So if law enforcement knows a certain file is evil then they cannot easily find out the IP addresses of the people who store it, and the people who store it don't know that they are doing so.

Hence it is censorship-resistant :)
That’s what happens when a problem isn’t black and white.
The dynamics are such that bad reviews are rarely given by host or guest. The flow is carefully tailored to produce this result. As a guest especially, why complain about a place you’ll never revisit when the payback could be a negative review of you that makes it more difficult to use the service?
I trust Gorhill more than I trust Mozilla... let alone makers of a Firefox fork. Of all of them he is the only one with years of proof that he explicitly doesn't want money involved in the work. This project is already promoting sponsorship and Firefox is an entire organization that lives on selling their userbase.

These things don't make them inherently evil, the world isn't black and white and people doing good still need money, but it flips your idea about singularizing trust in the browser maker on it's head.
There is Lbry as an alternative to YouTube as well. It seems interesting. https://lbry.com/
This predates covid though. It just got worse because of covid. The tech has been there all along.

And to be transparent I’m pretty much ready to homeschool my kids. My kids are actually in this district.
A curious game. The only winning move is not to play.
The proc/func dichotomy is a really interesting idea! I'll be interested to see how that plays out. How do you see those fitting in as class/object members? Presumably both types would have to be able to access instance fields. Any other restrictions that crop up?

Or is the "possibly nominal types" bullet an indication that you don't plan to have things that can have members at all?
Cellphones shouldn’t be that important, but they are. 12 years is light given that increasingly phones are identity. Imagine stealing 2 million people’s SSN information.
(Replying to myself.)

Washington didn't think the militia helped:

>To place any dependence on the Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender Scenes of domestic life; unaccustomed to the din of Arms; totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves, when opposed to Troops regularly trained, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge and superior in Arms, makes them timid, and ready to fly from their own shadows ... if I was called upon to declare upon Oath, whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole, I should subscribe to the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)#Confed...
Hoping he demonstrates the multiplicatively disastrous effect of failing to maintain the billionaire's countermeasure after civilization collapses. And the collapse of the global ocean ecosystem (and with it much of the world's protein source) as carbonic acid levels continue rising throughout, making it impossible for sea life to form shells.
If the 2nd Amendment is preserved then the 4th Amendment should be as well.
I had the very same experience. It made me realise I couldn’t run a node in good faith because I did not want my computer distributing such stuff or aiding people that want to do that.

It’s a shame but it’s a pattern - if you make untraceable communication platforms, people will use them for that.
Trump has been spouting anti-vaccine rhetoric since before has candidacy. He dismissed the seriousness of the disease, and called other's response part of a hoax. Before the vaccine he made unnecessary endorsements of alternative treatments.

His push for vaccine development and encouraging people to get it might be commendable, but they ring hollow and lack effectiveness because of his past stances.
For those wondering about NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Architecture) here is an explanation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk
They might own the legendary key that turns your seemingly random data into very illegal data.

plot twist: It's an one-time pad to xor your data against.

(and of course, they wouldn't generate it from XORing your data against illegal data...)
That's great, I guess you could have a normal printer do the same and make it look like it's handwritten using your method. The only thing left would probably be the pressure applied to the pen while writing if you can vary that.
Look at 1/6. Look at how people can be spun up into a frenzy based on bullshit. It's not innocent. And it's not just Trump (or the right). Look around, you'll start to see it.

If it makes you upset to hear that, then I've touched a nerve you needed to know you had.
Telegram has been succumbing to the pressure left and right for years now, from US and EU to Iran and Russia. Don't worry, it will always manage and find the compromise between its PR bullshit and corporate and state level requirements.

I can't even imagine how many secret services monitor what's going on right on Telegram servers.