skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I’m not so sure we should allow people to sell fentanyl pops or cocaine to kids without going to prison. Not arguing against your point broadly, but that’s exactly the type of response that would sink an effort to remove imprisonment for non violent drug crimes.

As I see it, we need both a propaganda campaign pointing out how nuts the drug laws are in addition to some recognizable way of incrementally easing the laws and adjusting to it. That’s the rational thing an individual would do anyway; i am more aware than ever you need to parcel these things into 2 year steps for american power transfers between parties.

To the person who downvoted me, this is distinctly less useful than contributing the conversation in a meaningul manner.
lol, I guess there are three or four people in the world willing to pay that price. I'll be interested to see if this ever gets sold again and at what price.

I'm guessing the buyer (if it's a single person) is a royal, oligarch (could even be Putin) or someone in China.
> What else is there?

Storage of value. If you want to diversify, you may want something easy to move/hide for some scenarios. I'm not saying this painting works great for that purpose, just that that's one of the things that may make people want to buy it.
Ohm's law was not derived. It probably shouldn't be called a law either. Capacitance, etc. can be found in Introduction to Electrodynamics by Griffiths, which is a standard E&M college text.
Munich will move back from Linux to Windows in 2020
I have a contrary anecdote: for the sorts of work I do, having to distinguish between strings and bytes makes using Python3 more difficult, and more prone to errors.

I mostly deal with network protocols, lots of numeric content, and scarcely any non-English text.

But I appreciate other people have different needs.
I was an outsider to the Ruby changes between 1.8 and 2.0, so thanks for the perspective. My sense was that, like modern JS programmers, they were used to constant churn and breakage, so having the language break as well was only a minor additional nuisance. Most of the stuff they used with 1.8 would be "obsolete" in a year or two even without 1.9.
You're right, it's just too hard. We'll leave it to the billionaires to solve - I know one who says he's the only one who can fix it.

Sorry, my cynicism is showing. But we already have the organisation (IRS) in place to regulate people's income, and they already do exactly this job. Yes, we do need to find an impartial way to redistribute the wealth, but we have working models of an array of options around the world. With functioning government, this is really not that difficult.
Yeah, automation will reduce jobs in the space that it's automating. It would be pretty absurd if it didn't reduce the number of jobs for that situation. The thing is that automation in one space increases jobs across the economy. A good example of this is how the vast majority of people used to be employed farming but as it has gotten more efficient the economy has created jobs in other sectors. Short term destruction of jobs is obviously an issue while the economy adjusts but long term the main concern would be that the economy stops having the ability to create new jobs at all. That long term catastrophe hasn't happened yet when we were in similar situations in the past so my guess would be that it won't happen this time but I'm not sure.
I suggest uBO's medium mode, this blocks 3rd-party scripts by default.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
Legalize heroin and then nobody will peddle fentanyl. Crises solved, see Portugal for an example in the real world. Making drugs illegal only really benefits drug dealers by putting the competition in jail and raising prices. Education and laws seem to fare so much better. See alcohol now and compare that to prohibition days rife with organized crime. It's political suicide to legalize street drugs in most countries - so it's a hard sell, but it's the option that makes the most sense.
In some way the aim here might to counter cyber squatting...
A Wavenet for Speech Denoising
that's daft.. you might as well ban writing on burnable materials and while you're at it burn fire...
Bail Bloc is a cryptocurrency scheme against bail
"the old masters market is contracting, because of limited supply"

Can someone familiar with the art market comment on how that works? That seems contrary to what I know about markets. I mean, I understand that the volume is contracting, but the context is that such "[high] price is remarkable".
Good point, I didn't realise Perl6 was in a similar situation. However it seems that adoption of Perl6 is very low, so I suspect Perl5 isn't going to get killed off any time soon.
The issue here seems to have little to do with exception handlers; see that

head [0, throw E]

also produces such an "indeterminate" answer depending on order of evaluation, as long as you define things as you have here.

The solution in a lazy language like Haskell is to be specific about when things get forced, which outside of explicit overrides only happens in response to actual usage of that expression, eg. when the value is printed. At this point you're naturally forced to introduce either sequentialization or explicit parallelism; in the former there is no issue and in the latter you still need to explicitly sequence the results, of which the exceptions are a relevant part.

In a strict language like Rust, of course, you never aimed to have this property anyway.
You can just build a RPM package with your dependencies and another with the dist result.

We have something like that,

node_modules for some project goes to a rpm called $project_name-devel

and the result goes to $project_name

Is not really that complicated and then we don't rely on anything outside of our control (e.g: github, npm)

We never had an issue with this workflow. Our dependencies (the devel package) changes maybe once every two months if so?
And relevant in how it'll be interpreted by the courts.
With an anti-science regime in charge of the government, America will only continue to see its technological lead decline.

Brutal to be confronted with such a cutting opinion in an otherwise congenial article and to have no thoughts of disagreement.
> the work of a follower of Leonardo and not the work of Leonardo himself

How are they certain now that it is indeed Leonardo's job.

Also if the exact same painting is sold for $60 when it is thought to be work of a follower of Leonardo and $450m when it is believed to be Leonardo's work, what does this say about the collectors?
Ponzi scheme is a scam where buyer is fooled into buying something that has no value. Here if the painting is used as an apparatus to move money, it becomes sort of a currency to move $450 million dollars. As long as the big money movers honor its price it could be used for such purpose. Almost like Bitcoins!
Isn't he an odious prick? Have you not read what he wrote, before his firing and afterwards? Do you understand that “feedback” does not mean “rubbish”?
Still absurd to not discount when the price gets so high.
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Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity
does that change what I just said? you don't even acknowledge it, neither that it was gotten wrong the first time. like that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what he did, it matters what you think he wanted to happen in response, and then you can just shorten and jumble it like you want.

Complete with more abuse, victim blaming, that poor little alt-right guy who actually wanted this. He totally planned it!

HE didn't leak it. People opposed to it leaked it. He didn't go public before losing his job, did he?

So, my point still stands, and you added to it. Abusive intellectually dishonest people cheer this kind of stuff on.
[Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, the makers of 1Password]

Thanks. I (as you'd expect) agree with both points.

The second one is particularly challenging. Deterministic builds are possible for some categories of software, but it will be a long time in coming. And for software that is updated frequently, it is even harder for people to practically check that what they are running is the reviewed code. But the technology is improving for this to be more practical. On the other hand, app stores move things further away from having the ability to distribute determinist builds.

This is not an excuse to not seek openness, but it does point out that there are lots of things to do that most people don't to get the benefits of that kind of inspection.
Worth noting that this is a case study about one child. I'm not saying the science is bad or that you should blow cannabis smoke in your baby's face, but if the headline made you think there's an epidemic of babies dying due to exposure to cannabis, that's not the case.
> Allowing

One word in, and already the same inverted burden of proof problem as the comment I replied to.

> people to become billionaires is a hideously inefficient way to solve hard problems

It's a good thing that's not the reason, nor is any reason required, and that's not your choice to make. And, also critically important: it's a great way to solve specific hard problems that aren't the ones most people are focused on.

Over the course of my lifetime, I expect to donate 99+% of my lifetime earnings towards specific charitable causes that are not something that the vast majority of people care about, though I believe they should.

> If even a fraction of that money funded university research departments, say, we'd get far more problems solved.

University research departments are a passable way to solve some problems, motivated by the ability to attract grant money and publish papers. Many problems are far more efficiently and quickly solved when motivated directly by producing a product or service people will pay for.

Again, the problem is not that we have millionaires and billionaires. The problem is that we have people with nothing. Let's fix that.
There's an inmate in LA County jail who has been there 9 years awaiting trial on attempted murder. He is completely and totally institutionalized. A very nice guy but intimidating.

Cops can arrest you for any reason, and if you can't make bail, then they place you in jails with convicted violent felons, some on murder trials.

In LA jails, you have to be racist. Depending on your pod and program, you have special requirements.

You often have to fight, especially if you are black or Hispanic. If there's a brawl inside the pod, you have to fight other races or you will be beaten by your own.

I sat in a tiny room for 11 hours with 50 inmates, half of which had face tattoos and were gang members. A room where inmates had been beaten to death and the others just cover up the cameras.

Multiple times I wasn't called to court, they were "dry runs". Mental torture and real risk required just for due process.

These types of systems only create more criminals.

The deputies act like psychopaths, taunting and roughing up inmates. But not as bad since now the FBI has cameras watching them.

The person who interceded in my misdemeanor case and put me in jail was the former head of California Homeland Security.

His lawyer, also a former federal prosecutor, was in every court appearance lobbying the prosecutor. He also represented the Chief of Police, the City Council and the Sheriff.

Their boss is a secretive billionaire whose former lawyer became the new Supreme Court Justice this year after he lobbied He is a very powerful person who hires former federal officials as political mercenaries.

This all happened because they wanted to protect a wealthy sex predator. In 2-weeks, the Homeland official is actually testifying for the sex predator for his civil trial. He is presumably testifying against my credibility.
So 1 baby dies and because myocarditis is rare and they assume "cannabis exposure" is rare that they are probably linked? This seems pretty far from anything like science.
This has been going on for a while but all the way down to the web host it seems like companies are on board with this stuff. I've found that terms of service for web hosting companies generally includes a clause that specifies one of your users harassing another one of your users.

As if you can prevent that as a website owner. Especially since such a thing would be totally subjective to judge. What it means is they are purposefully giving themselves any reason at all to shut off your site.

I asked one of them about it, I got directed to their legal department. I asked the legal department about the clause and they told me to look for hosting elsewhere given what they assumed was the way in which I conduct myself on the internet.

There is no legal reason. They just want to control information.
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”

― James Gleick

We've come to a point where we're inundated with everyone trying to push their own agenda that it is difficult to both sort the BS out, while also becoming impossible to really appeal/reach out to the people who would appreciate and benefit from what one has to offer.

>I think in the next years we will see rise of companies that help customers make decent choices that are not solely based on advertising.

I'm skeptical. It all comes down to money. The big boys have a lot to spend. Sure, there will always be someone somewhere doing something, but coming out of a niche and reaching out to people is difficult. It is easier get subconsciously influenced by billboards and banners than being aware and knowing what you really want. Especially since no one seems to be aware of if they really need something. Something to watch - https://www.netflix.com/title/80114460

Case in point - is the 'undisclosed buyer' really benefiting $450.3 mil worth? Money has diminishing returns after $70k/yr/person (from the doc above) but people just want more. So we're ready to listen to what people say would be nice to have. Another part is how they've become status symbols.

>For tech stuff there are reviewers out there who test many things and which you can trust

I'm just going to link to a site which I think is very impartial for as long as I've known them and have excellent reviews with their methodology outlined.

It was called thesweethome(.com), but I guess now it redirects to their other website, thewirecutter (was tech stuff only). It has reviews of everything from knives to dishwashing soap (the long read on that was interesting[1]).

https://thewirecutter.com/

It was acquired this time a year ago by NYT and I haven't been too keen on buying stuff in general for a while (again, minimalism) so can't say if anything has changed since then.

[1]: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-dish-soap/#are-green-...
> I’m not so sure we should allow people to sell fentanyl pops or cocaine to kids without going to prison.

You don't need specific drug laws for that. Child endangerment laws are enough.
> Even the most invasive surveillance system is more humane that the US prison system.

They don't have the easy access to guns that we don't want to get rid of in the US. I've asked a few people this question: "If it could be so that you were allowed to kill anyone, anywhere. Nobody will stop you. You will face no legal consequences. You just have to produce a list of no fewer than five people you would definitely kill. Can you do that in the five minutes starting now?" You'd be amazed by how many answers I have gotten in the affirmative.

I want to believe that most people don't commit violent crimes because doing so is against their moral fabric. That is not true in the world (or at least the country) we live in.
Mmh so this seems just a coincidence and they re saying it's happened because of cannabis?
For anyone paying attention, the seller of the painting is Dmitry Rybolovlev. How did Rybolovlev amass so much money? Through pollution. His company Uralkali is listed as one of the top polluters in Russia. This is how externalities work: He keeps the profits, you (literally) eat the losses. Perhaps this detail is the biggest story here.
You can see some of the debate in the articles linked from here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=art+market+money+laundering
In 642, Alexandria was captured by the Muslim army of Amr ibn al-As, a contemporary of Mohamet. Amr destroyed the library by order of Caliph Omar, who reportedly stated: "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them."

According to the annual "UN Arab Human Development Report": 65 million Arab adults are illiterate; only about 300 books are translated from English to Arabic annually; even Greece translates 5x more books into Greek each year than are translated into Arabic (5x with a population ratio of 1/30).

Here is another, detailed report: Illiteracy in the Arab World. [1]

Aside: I just noticed some countries have incredibly low literacy rates. The worst is Niger with 19% [2].

[1] https://www.dvv-international.de/adult-education-and-develop...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_...
“Experts” Won’t Be First
there is no such thing as meritocracy
State of Haskell Survey Results (2017)
That's...kinda weird, right? The before and after are clearly two different paintings. Hair is different, mouth is different...I would assume, as a layman, that restoring a piece of art the goal should keep it looking nearly the same just cleaning it up and removing damage. This looks like they just straight up painted over it.
It’s a balancing act. Breaking compatibility creates work, unfixed bugs and design flaws create work, which is more work varies. Retaining compatibility can be, in sum, a harmful decision.
> I wouldn't spend more than 10% of my wealth on a single painting.

Well I guess it’s easier to spend 10% of your wealth if you know you still have $4 billion left.
Rybolovlev was the seller, the question is who is paying him and who did he buy it from for $127 million in the first place? At this high a price it seems more like money laundering than painting the tape, but who knows.
Genius Gene
Is there or is there not a "genius" gene ? Why is it that in practically every field of endeavour, there are 99% who perform normally while 1% perform exceptionally ? This seems to apply in sports, science as well as in fields like art, music, chess ...
Thanks for correcting me - after excitedly checking the docs, the "flexible" service indeed supports 3.0. The managed service is still 2.7, however.

The flexible service is basically running your own instance of appengine on a VPS, which means you have to provision and support the infrastructure. To my mind, that negates most of the advantage of Appengine - if I was happy to do my own system admin, I'd build my own stack on VPS.
The Python developers plan to never break syntax or stdlib compatibility again. Core developer Nick Coghlan wants to see 4.0 within the decade but he wants it to be "uneventful". [1] In that way, it would be a lot like Python 2.0, which only broke compatibility in obscure ways, but added new ways to do things.

Here are some of my wild guesses at what features Python would want to commemorate with a 4.0 release:

- An easy, Pythonic way to opt out of the Global Interpreter Lock. (The GIL clearly isn't going away because so much extension code needs it, but that doesn't mean all code has to suffer from the GIL for eternity.)

- UTF-8 as the guaranteed default encoding, instead of trying to infer anything from stupid locale shit. (This wouldn't break any code that wasn't broken already.)

- More built-in syntax to support NumPy.

[1] https://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2014/08/python-4000....
Musings on Kotlin Ranges
Some ideas are ancient. The painting doesn't have to move. The money doesn't have to move. We just all agree to assign it to someone else.

"Because these stones are too large to move, buying an item with one simply involves agreeing that the ownership has changed. As long as the transaction is recorded in the oral history, it will now be owned by the person it is passed on to and no physical movement of the stone is required."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
If you have $4bn, unless you're investing in Beanie Babies, you really don't have to struggle to find stable stores of value.

At that stratosphere of wealth, an art piece is not about diversification. It's a bit like buying a 200m yacht to surpass all other private yachts.

What I find amusing is that even the ultra rich people are statistically NEVER the richest people. There are perhaps 5 people in the world who could be debated as one of the richest people in the world. And their individual wealth exceeds the "poor rich" such as this person by a factor of 20+. To people outside their bubble it just looks "sad" (pardon the Trumpism).
Holy shit, I totally missed that this was the Fertilizer King!

That eyesore of a house was actually torn down.

Back story:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-donal...
Well here's a person that could benefit from an internet where both the protocols and platforms were anonymous.
I haven’t looked it up but I’d say there’s anectodal evidence of couples that conceived with different partners after having trouble conceiving between them.
iPhone X Face ID Hacked with Mask
Show HN: A Twitter bot to auto-colorise your old black and white photos
Ask IH: What is the best way to find a startup that solves a problem?
It doesn't get ugly fast. The tax rate for the wealthy used to be 90%. There was a time in the country where it was recognized that robber barons were not in our collective interest. This is not an unsolvable problem.
I can name a half dozen without googling. But, I'm kinda old and I remember when IBM was the dominant force in computing at nearly all levels.
You should give Python 3.6 a try and you will see.

There are many minor improvements and new functionality that working with it is so much enjoyable and make code more readable and shorter.

I got to a point where it feels like a chore whenever I have to use Python 2.7.
How did CalPERS dig a $153B pension hole?
The pattern I noticed is that with small amount of tabs Firefox can consume more RAM, but the situation quickly changes in favor of Firefox when opening more of them.
The implication this infant died of myocarditis due to cannabis exposure is horrifying. If I'm reading correctly, the cause of myocarditis is unclear but the association is confirmed.

Which leads me to wonder what was the mechanism of exposure? Was the infant given something to eat, inhale, or something worse (if such a thing is possible)?

I'm struggling to believe that this infant's caregivers did not knowingly dose this infant with cannabis.
Your summary was a little too clever for its own good, and I'm having trouble following. But I do find the idea intriguing that rare art presents a unique and seemingly-safe, almost "perfect-crime"-level opportunity for money laundering and bribery. Could you dumb it down a little?

Who are you alleging was the ultimate source of this money, and what was their real objective?
FCC plans to kill Net Neutrality rules in December vote
We are governed by people who have trouble agreeing that 30 year olds propositioning minors is a bad thing.

I just think broadening the concept of liability in our industry to the point where some company's negligence is finally made an example of has a much better chance of improving things than a panel of regulatory agency appointees that have either already been paid as industry lobbyists, or are operating under the carrot of a future position as a highly-paid exec--just like the FCC, or Robert Rubin, or any of Trump's appointees, or so many others...
Just met an airbnb host with the exact same story. Tried for years then broke up - both had kids right away with their new partners
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'