skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying it is because of the discovery of America (apart from the unfortunate choice of words wrt "discovery"; it was already discovered) completely discredits and discounts all the importing of e.g. spice from Asia.

Example: Dutch speculaas cookies [1].

"Speculaas dough does not rise much. Dutch and Belgian versions are baked with light brown (sometimes beet) sugar and baking powder. German Spekulatius uses baker's ammonia as leavening agent. Indian, Indonesian, and Mediterranean spices used in speculaas are cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cardamom and white pepper; these were common in the 1600-1700s due to the Dutch East Indies spice trade. Family recipes may also include other small amounts of spices like anise, etc." [emphasis mine]

I don't know what's been more important for which cuisine, but not mentioning say VOC's imports and only WIC (which was smaller and came a good ~20 years later) is inaccurate. The WIC was more into slave trade, especially after conquering of Angola and Brasil from the Portuguese.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas
> Poster is implying it's a dichotomy by pretending that better women's rights is proof that sexual expression has improved.

No, they are specifically saying that expression has improved because the improvements in women's rights are more important than the restrictions or regression of nudity. There is simply no dichotomy there. In fact saying that it is "more important" suggests that restrictions in nudity is also a factor. Again, not a dichotomy.

> The implication is that you either admit expression is better because we have women's rights or you admit you were wrong.

No, you can acknowledge that we have women's rights and still think we have regressed. But for that to be true you would have to argue what is more important than the improvements in women's rights. Otherwise you would be the one making a false dichotomy by claiming that things can't have improved because one thing hasn't.
Opiod Shortages at Hospitals Lead to Patient Pain and Medical Errors
You come across as someone who is too calculating of dating and marriage, treating it like a engineering or mathematical problem. Sure, selecting the right partner to spend the rest of your life is very important and anyone should put some thought into it, but imo should not be treated as a game of calculation and trade, to me that really loses the sense of what makes us human. The part where you said have moved to east coast for a few years where the dating pool is not a problem, and yet you haven't settled on a long term partner makes me think the majority of the problem isn't with the dating pool itself (not that there's anything wrong with this lifestyle if that's what you like).
Meanwhile, his second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg has been pushing FOSTA, and thus destroyed personal ads on craigslist. [1] When will they publish an apology for that?

[1] https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA
> it provides a pretext to suppress speech that one admits is not even false

That’s the opposite of what the linked article says. Tumblr wrote in their statement “Disinformation campaigns work because they know people don’t fact check.”
> what criteria were used to select the user.

One of the "failures" of modern AI is "human-friendly explanation": how do you explain the process behind a decision when it was based on a very complex model? At least, without having to explain the entire model being employed.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16601883
would go with Ghost or Hosted Jekyll, `Contentful` is not a good solution for individual/small/medium teams.
This is called ad hominem. No matter how tempting it is, it's better to refrain from it.

Focusing on superficial and peripheral qualities like use of particular words, instead of the claim being made, is fundamentally anti-intellectual.
Hey, I remember this project! I had the chance to give a bit of advice to the creator, Zach Scholl while I was working at Duke's Co-Lab [1]. It was cool then, and looks like it's only improved in robustness since (and it sounds like HN has plenty of ideas for PRs).

Although I no longer work/learn at the Co-Lab I'd love to plug the value of these sorts of programs at schools. They give encouragement with money and publicity, and most importantly, tools (VMs/APIs) and advice ("why won't this compile?"/"where do we start?"). I had a chance to see and help with a lot of projects that wouldn't have otherwise been possible to get built. Hopefully it helped a few people get into hacking that wouldn't have otherwise too!

[1]: colab.duke.edu
I'll never understand how people live without ad blockers.
Curious to hear your critique of prefabs.
> Hosting providers vary on this issue, but they're a commodity and some do take a hard non-censorship line.

Nearlyfreespeech and Gandi comes to mind here, I'm sure there are others who try to set as clear stance about their TOS. In general for web hosting though you should research that they have good connections, don't over-provision and have competent staff.
Thanks for this really nice comparison!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-fosta-will-get-hol...

"The not-so-secret goal of SESTA and FOSTA is made even more clear in a letter from Oracle. “Any start-up has access to low cost and virtually unlimited computing power and to advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and filtering software,” wrote Oracle Senior VP Kenneth Glueck. In his view, Internet companies shouldn’t “blindly run platforms with no control of the content.”

That comment helps explain why we’re seeing support for FOSTA and SESTA from odd corners of the economy: some companies will prosper if online speech is subject to tight control. An Internet that’s policed by “copyright bots” is what major film and record studios have advocated for more than a decade now. Algorithms and artificial intelligence have made major advances in recent years, and some content companies have used those advances as part of a push for mandatory, proactive filters. That’s what they mean by phrases like “notice-and-stay-down,” and that’s what messages like the Oracle letter are really all about."
Thanks for the info. I tried not to pay much attention to the tax news before it passed so my head would not be filled with ideas of "what might be in it" that get converted to "is in it" after it passed. I guess one (probably more) got through.
That is the whole point of socialized medicine. The point of insurance is that you pay slightly more than the expected value of your claims. So if you know you need $5000 worth of medical treatment for asthma, your insurance premium should be definitely more than $5000.

This bizarre obsession with using the phrase "insurance" and insisting on a product that is not at all insurance is probably why the US health-care system is so fucked.
I used to run my own Zimbra email server - it was slow, kept crashing, and had all sorts of weird issues. It also was less than straightforward to get going.

I jumped over to iRedMail and LOVE it. exactly what I wanted. Super fast to get going, easy to config.

It's true getting things setup can be a pain though - with DNS and all that. But you can use mxtoolbox to resolve them - but it can take some work.

Still, I love having mail on my own server. Being able to spin up new domains and easily add email is great. Not having to pay for anything but the hosting is appealing too.
“Market Research: How do you identify a company's expensive problem(s)?” –  MaMO
I think every major economy has an income tax. There's quite a bit of syncronization between political systems, because political and cultural trends tend to transcend borders.

There are quite a few countries which do not have global income reporting requirements. Singapore is probably the most notable example.

Some European countries absolve non-domicile residents of the requirement to report global income in exchange for a flat annual fee, like 100,000 EUR.

So it is possible to live a life without being forced to surrender your natural rights like your wealth and your privacy, but it's expensive.
It’s just experience in dealing with people online. I apply the same filter to “cuck,” “Overton window” and “Hegelian dialectic” for example. Offline it’s much easier to ascertain intentions and attitudes, and there aren’t millions of people all screaming at once. Online you have to filter, and alt-right buzzwords are excellent components of a healthy filter.
It dosen't matter which model were used or which algorithm, what matters is based on which information about this particular user it was decided what to show. If you only have his IP then ok, but if you have his browsing history then you should disclose that your targeting was based on exact browsing history or any other data you have concerning this user that was used.
> "Mastodon really is a twitter substitute, not a FB replacement."

That's interesting, because I'm one of those that never really 'got' twitter. I _think_ the main difference is the distinction between the relationships - 'follower' is different than 'friend'. Following seems to be more impersonal, and so Twitter seems to be more about public information feed from people that think they have something interesting to say (like an rss feed on a blog). Facebook seems to be more about sharing things/stories/events with your friends/acquaintances, although it does have the extra layer there of corporate and celebrity accounts that are followed as well. For me the second category of stuff has been in the 'nice to have' category; it's not why I log on a check my FB feed. I just never found any content worth consuming on twitter - I go to other communities (like HN) or use rss (Feedly) for that sort of stuff.
Hi, migra author here. I wrote migra partly out of frustration with Alembic and similar migration tools.

Some of the problems:

- Annoying version number management

- Management of long "chain" of migration files

- Unnecessary coupling between ORM and migration tool

- Heavyweight process to generate and run each migration, which slows down local development

- Bad testability

I talked in more depth about this topic at last year's PostgresOpen, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr498W8oMRo
The fact that these things are extremely volatile is not the IRS's problem. You are the one responsible for recording the details of your trade.
Curious why no one mentions this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/15/mark-zuckerberg-could-be-run...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/mark-z...

Etc...
Not so difficult to connect the dots IMO
1. You sound like an advertiser.

2. When I first discovered Ghost (last year) and I heard it's using NodeJS I was expecting a beautiful, responsive, SPA blog engine that is fast. After reviewing it and even trying to use it as a platform for a newspaper I found that (It's just wordpress and it's not using the power of javascript to it's full extent.)

Fast => I could and I did built a faster wordpress site.

SPA => Nope

Customizable => Nope.

For me it's not worth the extra capabilities instead of a static blog.

I found gatsby(1) great for all my use cases and with some extra work[2] is more dynamic that ghost.

1. gatsby - https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby

2. netlify + contentful - https://www.netlifycms.org/ + https://www.contentful.com/

(I would love to see a CMS that embraces SPA/PWA. On the other side I would hate to serve 1mb of JS just to show 4 paragraphs and 1 picture)
Visualize Valgrind Massif memory consumption online
Seems very good for a weekend -- for an year, even.

How do you do it?
Samurai Siege developer Space Ape Games raises $7M in latest funding round
Translation: "Dear customers, we're willing to sell your data for $$$$, and take newspaper ads out for $$ for the ONE TIME you came home to see our hand in the cookie jar.

We Promise not to take any more cookies."
> then doing so without the server being Javascript is more complex.

why? What does the server being javascript do for you that no other server can do to reduce the complexity?
Of you need help with your UI (and you do...) check out: http://fairpixels.pro

It’s not about making just look nicer. But the product needs to be at the very least understandable. Simplicity is hard, but core to succeed.
Does it work with vim plugins? How much of my pre-existing vim configuration can be transfered onto oni? It's currently about 500-1000 lines in .vimrc and ≈50 3rd party plugins.
I want to upvote you more.
Noting that it's Cloudflare who are switching and not twitter...
Have you ever taught a class of 35? About 5 of them can't even log into a computer - forgotten passwords, broken mouse, a locked computer that needs a reboot.

What email have they entered? School or personal? Or their apple email?
How about the much simpler and safer solution of just adding some external storage?
> Medium is in business of driving traffic...

It always puzzled me how did they manage to get the amount of visitors they get? Is it just overabundance of marketing type people among Medium users that would spam their blogs to all corners of the Web?
Like when you slammed everyone's (already posted) profile picture into public visibility?

It's been downhill ever since.

(Yes, newer FB users; you used to be able to determine the visibility of your profile picture. The whole "my dog, my baby picture, this pretty flower,..." profile picture thing really took off at the time of this change. No "opt-out" on this change, either. Not to mention the "opt-in" type of change most users actually prefer.)
ha! I thought like you, then I became a teacher.

Stuff like logins are so inconsequential compared to the rest of the lesson.
I've set-up Keeppass for my girlfriend a few years ago and she stuck with it. She uses the (original) windows app and Keeppass2Android on, well, Android, with the DB synced on Dropbox. It just works.
Are you an Englishperson in San Francisco by any chance?
People who think like this should be VP of anything, I’m not surprised he’s at Oracle.
Japan Slowly Challenges China's Dominance as an Investor in Africa
Ryan’s point was that Obamacare’s guaranteed-issue requirement means that exchange plans can only be viable if they attract enough healthy people to cover the costs of the currently or chronically ill. Both groups must be offered the same rates.

Surely you can see how that is different from (say) fire or auto insurance, where no one would expect to pay the same to insure two houses, only one of which is actually burning at the moment.
Of course it is. How dare you threaten short term corporate profits. /s
That doesn't seem like a sufficient story to explain most kinds of advertising. What perks do all the local grocery stores get from mailing me leaflets about what's on sale?
Suicides are not restricted to purchasers, but anyone suicidal that may find they have access to gun, like the purchasers children.
> It's crippled without JS

Fun Fact: A single Medium blog page downloads more code and data than a multi user ERP & Accounting system I wrote for a large company back in the 80's (in terms of MB).
China's Push for Tech Self-Sufficiency Threatens Asia's Exporters
I tried to follow the article, but I don't get what the blockchain technology has to do with a social network.

Also, given how innefficient Bitcoin became with just a few transactions, how could the thing handle the billion of pictures that get shared every day?
So you turn up at a new school, they give you a temporary user name, password. You use this to get into the PC, then you use another teachers password to get into google classroom to read the lesson plan. Then I use my own to get into my work email, then my personal one to get into messenger to talk to my child care dude.

A password manager is just another point of friction.
I had completely forgotten about Banished. I started playing it a lot about a week or so before an unexpected life changing event that made me forget about it. I do know I strongly liked it, and its mechanics.

You're not fighting other intelligent agents; you fight yourself and your environment. It's a very intriguing concept.
In http://www.techiedelight.com/count-set-bits-using-lookup-tab... , the solution does not appear to be portable, that is, it uses the right shift of a signed number, and the C specification says (from http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1336.pdf )

> The result of E1 >> E2 is E1 right-shifted E2 bit positions. ... If E1 has a signed type and a negative value, the resulting value is implementation-defined.

In practice it isn't a concern, as the most common compilers (gcc, clang, MSVC++) do what we expect.
I am reminded of the issue of the local maximum. Pretty much sounds like the "collapse", which as you say is never complete, is the action required to get out of a convergent state of society/being
I can think of three relevant regulations for (large) internet companies

1. Strong anti-monopoly regulation. There is no reason for Facebook owning Whatsapp & Instagram.

2. Once your revenue exceeds x million USD on ad supported services that are free for end users, you must offer the service also for money with reasonable margin on top of the actual production costs, with strong guarantees that the data of end user who has opted for paid service is kept private and not monetized anyhow.

3. Once your revenue on ad supported services that are free to end users exceed y million USD, you must make easily available every single usage of the end user's data. Also, user must have right to prohibit any specific type of use of user's data.
ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard
I'm still using my 17" MBPs. The prospect of replacing them with newer models becomes less appealing with each new generation.
How to unleash Japan’s animal spirits
It's a very anti-intellectual approach to dialog. It explicitly ignores the logic of the argument being made. It disqualifies any language containing words that are allegedly associated with some ideological perspective from even being considered.

It creates an ideological echo chamber, as it is completely intolerant to any view that even hints at falling outside of it.

If you do utilize such heuristics, at least don't brag about it, as if it's something reasonable.
In investment parlance the government would build them a moat. Companies with capital to maintain compliance will have a head start on any startup looking to unseat them. Should this come, it will be a lot harder to start a startup.
" The point of insurance is that you pay slightly more than the expected value of your claims. "

Not true. Car liability insurance is very similar to health insurance. A lot of people never get anything out of it.
Do people who run the centralised, private Signal app have more power over the user than people who run decentralised, non-private Mastodon instances?

Or do Mastodon people say it's strictly for broadcasting and encourage people to use proper end-to-end encrypted messaging apps for private communication?
Chat apps for undocumented vietnamese in uk
If I keep reinvesting am i fine as long as I am not taking out profits?
I don't have any problem with 1000 line files in Atom either. It sucks at 100,000 line files, but I only ever open them in an editor by accident (Atom gives a warning). That is what grep and tail are for
privacy regulations = Facebook loses.
compliance regulations = Facebook wins.
Google now blocks GApps on uncertified devices,but custom ROM can be whitelisted
Go is not memory safe (though is certainly safer than C++). Various Go constructs like interfaces and slices are implemented via non-atomic multiword structs, and data races may result in invalid values leading to memory corruption, etc. See https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...
Well, technically we do things like ban outright lying in advertising already, but it's called regulation. Usually when people talk about "bans" they mean blanket bans for an entire industry, like, banning guns, banning fast food, banning drones, etc.
Privacy regulations have value independent of its effects on competition. Making a Rube Goldberg argument about how it might end up benefiting Facebook ignores that fact.

The solution to market dominance is antitrust enforcement.
Did you tried qwant? (best use lite.qwant.com the main sain is a bit overloaded with info) They have their own crawler apparently.
Ask HN: What company mission do you find inspiring?
Thank you. I'm using Firebase as a database and for hosting, which makes development really fast.

For getting the data, I'm using a worker written in Python, which queries the Twitter and Reddit APIs and does some regex filtering before writing it to the database. In the future, it could be interesting to experiment with more advanced NLP techniques for filtering/grouping/classifying.
Do I get to report my misplaced cryptocurrency wallet password as a loss?
I am arguing that fighting the US government with violence is unwise to the point where it indicates a lack of rational thinking: first, the US government is very good at violence, and second because the US government doesn't seem to be so good at responding to non-violent attacks, both in mitigating the effects and in retaliating against attackers.

The "From my cold, dead hands" was perhaps a bit of a jab at my own fellow citizens who seem to think that a gun makes you more effective when fighting a enemy so overwhelmingly powerful as the US government. (I mean, I interpret the phrase to mean that they will resist law enforcement officers with violence if said law enforcement officers try to confiscate their guns; it's possible they mean it in a different way, but that's my reading.)
Ignoring people is part of life; I’m not interested in every random I come across on the net taking up a little corner of my head. My goal isn’t intellectual purity, it’s living my life. Fortunately though, as your argument(s) seems to be largely logic-free, it turns out to be very helpful. I can understand why being dismissed without the hearing you want is frustrating, but I don’t know you and don’t care.
China’s Vision for the Next Generation of AI
> You sound like an advertiser

Great! I'll happily advertise for Ghost. As I said I'm not affiliated but I am a fan. I especially am a fan because I have a huge respect for open source organizations that run their business like they do.
Hadoop Superlinear Scalability (2015)
Landfills are the main source of most raw materials in the near future — perhaps 16–64 years out. Here on Earth, with the exceptions of tiny amounts in experimental nuclear reactors, we really only consume helium and free energy. Everything else, well, we just convert it from one form to another. Some of it, like phosphate lost to agricultural runoff, is converted to a much more dilute form, and therefore one much more difficult to recover. But almost any landfill has a higher concentration of valuable elements than the original ore from which those elements were mined.

Garbage mining, of course, is nothing new — there are tens of thousands of cartoneros both here in Argentina and in Brazil, the figure of the "rag and bone man" goes back generations, and automotive junkyards are nothing more than open-air landfills to "mine" for specialized parts. But improvements in robotics and AI will make economic the recovery of valuable materials from increasingly dilute waste streams, as well as those that are too hazardous for human mining.

Once we have von Neumann probes, it seems likely that we will do some asteroid mining. I don't know what effect that will have on the markets for raw materials, except that it will almost certainly make the platinum group cheaper.
chroot into /emul/linux directory/jail with GNU/Linux libraries, headers and GCC toolchain as Linux binaries, not BSD ones, then build.

There are probably obvious reasons this wont work but without trying I do not know what they are.
> He is a decent person like any other

Except that his behavior over years seems to suggest that he isn't. Maybe that's why people don't like him much?