jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You cannot tell the real age of visitors to a site. Any requirement of age is security theatre, it will be lied about.

Coppa applies to any content that may be directed to children. There is no requirement that only made for kids videos apply.

The ftc is very vague on what applies, and from their list I don't doubt that they'd consider hazbin hotel to be for kids because it's an animated cartoon.

The only way to enforce what the ftc wants is to force everyone into accounts before accessing YouTube. Which won't fix the supposed problem, and hichly encroaches significantly on their business in a way I have yet to see justified.

It's also should not be the ftc's job to police the internet in these ways. If cookies and persistent trackers are a problem, install a browser extension for it. That should be the parents responsibility.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/...
There is a paper on "balls of mud" that I feel is essential reading for our discipline. http://www.laputan.org/mud/
> I am cynical of the "mission", and I can't connect my work to people I care about. How do I know what the source of the problem is?

You just answered your own question. You see that the work you're doing isn't really benefiting society in a way that's meaningful.

What you have is wonderful: you care about people, and want to improve people's lives, and not just superficially. Please don't ever lose that!

It sounds like you already have the money to just quit for a while. I suggest "taking a sabbatical", in other words just quit and spend more time with the people you care about, learn more deeply what are the source of their problems, and figure out how you can help solve them. Then start working full time at that.

And the solution usually isn't technology.
Yeah I’ve seen this twice now for the portal (some CNET article saying people shouldn’t buy it, but not actually reviewing the hardware).

It’s annoying because the portal hardware is actually really great. I got the big one for my mom and I have the TV one and they work extremely well. I was looking for something that did what the portal does on the consumer market about a year before it came out and nothing existed.

This anti-Facebook stuff is mostly just politics and most of it isn’t particularly in depth or accurate.
I think it's kind of funny how burn out was previously described and how it really is. I think that if I had challenging interesting work, and my work reviews also matched my efforts, I could come into work every day and work really hard. But if either of those things are out of balance, it gets really hard to keep motivated and wake up in the morning.
That's not the argument tho, is it? I think Russian speakers in Ukraine were pretty comfortable themselves.
Exact income is irrelevant here, all you need to know is if you are above or below the ACA subsidy line. Having been self-employed in Washington State both pre-and-post ACA, the actual $$ per family member hasn't shifted greatly, but choice of plans became more limited. Currently paying ~ $375/mo for myself (ACA Bronze equivalent), with minimal (~$10/mo) increase for 2020. When I had the kids on my plan, they were a bit less - last time I paid for a full family plan (two years ago), it came in at approx. $1100/mo.

I've been with all of the major carriers in the state. Cost differences are minimal and any coverage differences are impossible to compare. Health insurance in the US has become exactly like auto insurance - you pay cash out of pocket and just pretend you don't have insurance until something really bad happens.
Yes. Yes, I'm working on an actual technology startup now vs. defense contracting. It is difficult to quantify how happy I am to not be in Iraq/Afghanistan/Kuwait/etc. anymore (or, for that matter, living on a 10k sf 60 year old disintegrating concrete platform). I am in Thailand and Bali for the rest of 2010 SCUBA diving, but after that will move back to the US to be near customers.
I always wanted to read that book - do you take preorders?
The Github link is dead, DMCA or incorrect link?
What was the function of that piece of silicon?
I may have read that article and thought they nailed it.
In the paragraph you’re quoting, I’m talking about what you call transitory economic status above. The point is that if you’re trying to address that, it makes no sense to lump poor Asian kids in NYC together with wealthy white kids. Or to treat poor white or Asian kids differently than poor Black or Latino kids.

I address systemic racism in the second to last paragraph above, and I agree that in that context, everyone but Blacks and native Americans should be in the advantaged group.
It seems like tree tabs in browsers, except limited to three levels.
I wonder if the list was much shorter at release and wasn’t super slow on Developement systems.
Its behind a paywall. Archive link https://archive.is/aYpCn
I think you have to ask yourself - why are you running Nomad locally as a dev environment? It's indeed very useful to test running jobs on Nomad just to learn it, but to develop using Nomad would be defeating the purpose. Just develop your own code as usual, e.g. with a Python stack you end up with a docker container and on Java you end up with a JAR file you can run from Nomad.
If you prioritised developers over everyone else... who do you think the developers would be developing for?
> This idea that hedge funds are pure evil is getting a bit old

Why? Aren't they useless?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchelltuchman/2013/07/18/hedg...
How does any of this prove they are a good candidate? All this proves is they can remember things. When coding all if not 99% of these questions are a 4 second Google away.

And most of them are also opinions which tend to lead to bias. "Oh this user doesn't like Xcode, while I only use Xcode, so nope to him".
I've been using WhatsApp for a similar length of time, maybe since 2010 or so - I had no idea WhatsApp even had such features beyond messaging, file sharing and videos calls, and I've no idea what "stories" or "statuses" even are. All I want is those core features.
The only way we can limit these network synergy based monopolies is to force some level of interoperability.
"I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr."

"Amzn came within a few quarters of going bankrupt around this time."

"Amzn nearly died in 2000-2003."

Current Google's CFO Ruth Porat saved Amazon during dot-com crash [1] , she advised them to go to Europe to raise money otherwise they would face insolvency.

[1] https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/5/15190650/amazon-jeff-...
I think that they are using "gradient descend" when they should be using "space of the problem". Otherwise is a good comment.
A human (Dylan) performing a Fake-Metallica song with lyrics and music generated by AI. Welcome to a new age! Hilarious!
> no free healthcare means you initially had to pay to get tested

Varied from state to state, no?

> underdeveloped healthcare system (initial wave saw NYC overwhelmed)

New York City was not overwhelmed in the first wave, and had both Javits and the Mercy as unused spare capacity.

> lack of labor laws means that you have few rights: no sick days and can easily be fired with no grace period

Varied from employer to employer. For example, my employer at the time added Covid-quarantine-specific PTO, full PTO for high risk groups that felt uncomfortable, and bonuses for those who chose to work during the pandemic.

> polarized political environment means that government help takes a lot of time and has to be executed in mammoth size packages

This has always been true of the federal response. States can't typically defecit budget, by law, so the federal government typically allocates money for them in chunks.
There are lot of comments like: 'I do not support him but...'.

I'm not from the US so will use example from my country.

I do not mind if my prime minister was banned from Facebook even though I'm ok with him (didn't vote for him, but we have more than two parties).Facebook is just some private company for me. It is monopoly in a way and pain that most of my social circle is locked there. But for any public figure? There is public broadcaster. It already is not good that he is not using his PR team that much.

You have put too much power in to the hands of private companies. Public broadcaster can be (and often is) misused for propaganda of ruling government. But so can be private one (and often is). But at least there is stil this balance of public/private spaces.

But I know this is irrelevant in the USA which tries to implement some utopias (like free speech) but others are considered as immanentization of the eschaton.
>So what good is basic income of $1000 if a burger costs $100 or rent costs $3000.

Basic income would only become a reality when the costs to produce goods significantly decreases due to automation. If the price of a hamburger is $100, then the price for a machine to automate production is going to be insane, at which point hiring people would be cheaper, meaning there would be jobs and no need for basic income.
Gummicube launches Datacube to give developers more app store intelligence.

Venturebeat interviews Dave Bell, discussing the launch of Gummicube's Datacube Platform for app store intelligence.
If you sympathize with the tax code it's probably because you've never bootstrapped a start up. It's hard enough to make it, even without financing the government. A high quality of living is enabled by technology and innovation, and the process that stifles innovation - taxes - should be regarded with extreme caution. If trading with each other is a taxable offense you can expect a severe impediment on innovation. Does anyone really need examples of the failures of centralized economies?
Perhaps this is a startup idea for the ambitious types on HN. There are literally 1000's of very successful blogs making some marginal amount of money from ads on their site. Most of these bloggers are not in it for the money and would like a publisher to take care of the business side of things, including the taxes. Perhaps this already exists but I am not aware of it.
Well, I was talking out of my ass then. I was under the impression that places that had a large set of ip's (such as a few universities and corporations) would make a bundle leasing those to other people when there was more contention for addresses.
linkedin, hulu, rapleaf, flixster, zillow
Java has a strong background in enterprise solutions. So, e.g., if you need to build some sort of high performance distributed system then it's not an entirely wrong choice to go with Java. Java is good at that stuff.

A web application is often more than the choice web framework. When you choose Java as your fundamental technology you could build your business logic e.g. in Java/Scala and your web tier in Ruby on Rails which you can run on JRuby.

At least, that's probably the choice I'd make... :)
I'm guessing that it's a technicality. i.e. instead of saying "the property tax rate for a house with value X is Y*X", they say "the property tax rate for a house with value X is 2Y, but house value assessment for market-value X is X/2". Possibly because the 2Y legislation was difficult to change.

> At the end the tax you pay is still the same.

So, no. That is, IIUC, the tax rates are what they are based on the 50% assessment.
I hit a deer on my motorcycle. I remember nothing between the initial impact and finding myself on my back looking up at the sky. I had been separated from the bike and slide on my side for a considerable distance (only going 30 mph, luckily). Perhaps the flash of life experiences doesn't happen for everyone.
There's definitely a deletionist vs. an inclusionist school. And even if most of us agree that either taken to an extreme is problematic, many of us would also argue about where that line should be drawn. And, in practice, a lot depends on how much has been written about them/it in relative accessible literature or even whether someone at some point cared enough to create an article with good citations.
> how long do you think it would have taken Van Eyck to get the prayer beads this right?

Not the parent poster, but: check out some YouTube videos on realistic painting. A professional artist would probably get them to 90% finished in like an hour or so with some fine tuning later.

It doesn’t have to be perfect raycasting, it just has to be convincing/good enough.
As a somewhat related aside I find the use of mills and other archaic units in this space to be kept around for no other reason than to confuse people.
Google One is cheaper at $99/year for 2TB it seems (and you can share it with up to 5 people—for the Dropbox plan you need to pay more for family).
True, but if you're ideologically against DRM, it doesn't make sense to buy DRMed media even if you'll break it later. By giving them profit for DRMed media, you make it less likely that a non-DRM system will come about.

(At least, that's my reason for not getting a Kindle)
Some people take long-exposure photographs in a dark box. Yes, really.

Of course, electron microscopes and precisely-aimed laser pulses are more... geeky.
These are some of my positive mantras I got from a book that had been very helpful.

Replace

"I have to" with "I choose to"

"I must finish" with "When can I start"

"This is so big" with "I can take a small step"

"I must be perfect" with "I can be human"

"I don't have time to play" with "I must take time to play"
So reading more about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_gas , it looks like a scenario where a blackbody container was created, with a Boltzmann "temperature" peak equal to the energy level of the incident photons. Thus, all absorbed photons would be re-emitted at with the same distribution as the blackbody walls. And apparently, this phenomenon was tested in an ultra-low temperature scenario.

Still, I wonder. Given the low temperatures, the Boltzmann distribution suggests photons in the microwave or lower frequencies.
I don't encourage it because I think it's a nice thing to do. I just have zero faith in niceness, or the general public's perception of what is nice, to keep them secure.

If all parties were transparent about their self-interest, the nature and scope of the problem would become much more clear to everyone. Instead, we spend all our energy going after the occasional red herring with a curly mustache.

Facebook looking at your referer header? Evil!

Google sniffing open wifi? Dastardly!

Gmail scraping email for adsense keywords? Insidious!

Anything that contributes to this theatre is just helping to keep the masses ignorant.
Blackberry seem to have the finances to sponsor Mercedes F1, that cannot be cheap, however it probably points to their future with QNX in the automotive world.
If you're interested in making both forward and reverse geocoding better, please consider paying attention to a project I started and help maintain called OpenAddresses:

http://openaddresses.io

The goal is to collect address datasets so that forward and reverse geocoding is an easier problem to solve. A contributor wrote an excellent overview of the project the other day:

https://medium.com/colemanm/creating-an-open-database-of-add...
The confusion obviously comes also from the different definition of "religion" for different people. Religious people see the "religion" as their "identity." But realistically, a religion is a specific set of beliefs and rituals of worshiping one or more gods.

In reality the "religious" people from one specific religion are the "unbelievers" for people of other specific religion, unless the later religion actually allows different gods at once.

Abrahamic religions have the particular problem that they have that concept of "have no other gods but me" and the concept that "others" will actually suffer for not honoring that very god:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions

The exact definition of an atheist, seen from the point of view of any of Abrahamic religions is: "he believes in just one less god than we" but they don't want to confront that fact.
Glad you are not homeless. In school, I read a short story written by Jack London about what it feels like to be really
cold--turns out he wrote it on a beach in Hawaii. Forgot the name of the story. When I read the story, I thought it was great literature, but I read it knowing I would never be homeless. As I have aged, and feel more financially vunerable--and sometimes close to being Homeless--these stories about being cold are too close to home.
I don’t want to name any companies here, but CNAME cloaking is also commonly used in ad-tech for conversion tracking pixel urls.
How do you view your Netlify usage while on the free tier? Your comment made me curious about my own usage, but I can't see a way to determine my current usage through the Netlify website.
One can say the same thing about C++ ever since 0x version
That niche specie that we let go extinct because of 'naturality' could have evolution advantages over humans that would prove very useful in biological research. They could be especially hardened against cancer for example, but end up being wiped out by disease and famine rather than old age.

Not to mention humanity has a global effect on species population, it would be hubris to assume a species going extinct nowadays is separate from that, even if they have been in a steady decline for quite some time.
From my recent Twitter mentions: Build Systems à la Carte (2018). This presents a theoretical analysis of build systems (which they have defined broadly enough to include Microsoft Excel) and how to pick and choose the various properties they provide.

This came up because I am promoting a conceptually similar unified theory of Reactive UI, which also has things in common with build systems. In fact, Svelte also happens to cite Excel as an inspiration for its approach to incremental updates. My blog post on this went live yesterday, and a birdie tells me it will hit the HN front page later today.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
For a while, yes, but then they get over it. If the person would continue to be nonproductive (or in the situation being discussed -- feel they are being nonproductive) for years then there is a clear benefit to their death.

Does suicide have place in a modern society? Probably not, but at the same time the fact people continue to kill themselves show that people really don't care about the issue. Actions speak louder than words.
I'm not sure whether I'd actually meet the criteria for a depression diagnosis anymore. I haven't been severely depressed since starting CPAP treatment, but my emotional experience is still very flat and I still have difficulty processing social interaction.

I've heard of Feeling Good and CBT in general, and without going into the gory details, it really doesn't sound like it's the right approach for me.
Yeah, emacs with the evil (vi emulation) package would probably be the better way to go.
Fortunately there is a "2.25." OID block, for use to assign a OID from a UUID, without having to call anyone else.

But is there a similar thing that can be done to make a PostScript XUID from a UUID? PostScript supports only 32-bit integers and not 128-bit integers, but you can use four 32-bit integers, with some prefix.
Long overdue but going to donate to Sci-hub today, first time since I started using in 2014, it’s an invaluable resource for independent research.
Question is, in the ~13 years since, was ICQ worth its $400m price? Is Twitter really worth x2.5 that?
As a colorblind myself I don't think this app is really useful.

Most of the time I hardly notice that I'm missing something because of my colorblindness and when I do notice it 99% of the time it's because someone pointed it to me because they think I said something stupid (like calling a sweeter brown when it's actually green).

I just can't see myself trying to view my whole life through an iPhone to see if I'm missing something..
Dr. Ben R. Rich former Lockheed Skunk Works CEO:

1. There are 2 types of UFOs — the ones we build and ones ‘they’ build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “hand-me-downs.” The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon “purge”, administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector…

2. Nearly all “biomorphic” aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft — from Kelly’s SR-71 Blackbird onward to today’s drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft…

3. It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth — ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the “international corporate board of directors” dealing with the “Subject” could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”
You'd think, wouldn't you. Or instead simply blacklist Baidu's analytics code completely. That will only hurt Chinese businesses using Baidu's product, and no-one else.
So is it the first "killer app"?

I've previously heard something like:

God made men
Sam Colt made them equal

But Colt itself says[1]:

Abe Lincoln may have freed all men,
but Sam Colt made them equal

[1] http://www.colt.com/Company/History.aspx
Except that we have free speech in this country, so Fox can be, and is, heavily and freely criticized freely all the time.

And because we have free speech, there are multiple alternatives that act as checks and balances across our culture as a whole.

In other words, comparing Fox to the media situation in China or Russia is just ridiculous and irresponsible.
Another problem is the lack of marketing.
They might release a post-mortem once it's over, but I wouldn't expect any transparency during the attack itself.
> I thought it was only people outside China who are being
> giving the poisoned javascript, and the requests are
> being made on the client-side from them - which would
> appear to be just random traffic

I would have thought you could usefully heuristically look at the referrer header.
Good winter tires can make the difference between life and death (ie: sliding under a car).

My recommendation: Don't trust your life to a couple dozen plastic zip ties. If you're dealing with ice on a regular basis, pick up some Schwalbe Ice Spikers. 304 tungsten steel studs per wheel. They're expensive (about $100 each), but I've never had a fall or lost a stud in 4 years of daily winter biking... and I live in Ottawa, a city that regularly experiences -20c weather (cold enough to make plastic very brittle).
"Google's satelite photography on the other hand has never been merged into one huge image."

[citation needed] How do you know that? What are the odds someone in their organization has done that for kicks at some point? Or anybody else with a similar dataset.