skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customers tend to be insanely price sensitive when it comes to low-end food such as pizza. So you can’t just raise prices because there is a certain limit to what people will be willing to pay before they decide to get pizza from one of the five other pizzarias on that street.
Of course a land value tax would apply to farms.

If rich people want to move out to rural areas to lower their taxes, that’s fine by me.

The main difficulty with land value taxation is deciding what the actual land value is.
The youngest chicken possible, pumped full of saline and water so that when cooked and you cut it with a knife, the cross section looks like playdoh. It has no texture. There is no "grain" to the meat.

A chicken breast today (not fed on chemical feed) is £8-£10 each from a decent butcher or a farm.

You can get chicken breast from a cheap supermarket 10 for £2.99.

These aren't the same thing.
JSON as a Service with RediSQL, Redis with SQL Steroids
Will investigate, never tried it out, is there an automated part available? I always thought whatsapp API wasnt public.
UPX – The Ultimate Packer for EXecutables
Firefox simply uses the Disconnect.me tracker list, and prevents connections to anything on it. It's basically a DNSBL.

I want to know how it compares to the EasyPrivacy list.
> materialized views

Yes, although not in the initial release. EdgeDB _does_ support regular views, which, like the queries, can define arbitrary data hierarchies which can be treated like real object types. This topic deserves a separate blog post.

> built-in versioning

Not planned as a native feature as of now, although that's something that can be implemented on top with the query rewrite system.

> story on how to play it nice with backend languages

Immediately, EdgeDB supports a RESTful protocol with JSON as the exchange format. We will be adding native protocol implementations for major languages as well.
Yes -- Sadly this was "confirmed" this week when Zuckerberg said "In general we collect data on people who are not signed up for Facebook for security purposes,"... “We need to know when somebody is trying to repeatedly access our services,”[0]

When a congressmen asked about collecting data on non-users and building "shadow profiles"

> Zuckerberg said he was not familiar with the "shadow profiles" term

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-11/zuckerber...
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Also CoffeeScript and TypeScript
Does anyone have any experience with the Fluent Forever approach? Their Kickstarter campaign received more than twice the amount requested[0]. Their book is currently selling for $2 on Amazon[1], and has some glowing reviews.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498952
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fluent-Forever-Learn-Language-Forget-...
love "Layer Cake". Sienna Miller at the peak of her powers.
Why should all these things be centralized, though? Before Reddit, there were disparate forums with different rules and structures - Reddit organized and unified them, but is now applying changes that make forums non-viable as a reddit use-case.
The disc of the Galaxy forms due to the self-interactions ("frictional forces") of ordinary matter. WIMPs shouldn't have those forces and therefore the dark matter halo is probably spherical. If we assume that the dark matter and ordinary matter started with the same angular momentum, then the rotational velocity of stars in the disc should be much faster than the WIMP halo.
Irreducible complexity doesn't go away, and needs orchestration no matter how loosely coupled the parts are (which usually turns out to simply be a conversion from control flow to data flow, with little else added).
Sometimes I get upset that my favorite pizza spots in NYC are cash only and non-delivery but after reading this I’m sure the quality wouldn’t be the same if they switched.
git log --all --ancestry-path ^<COMMIT>
The standard library is improving a lot.
“One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.”

- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

I would hope science has evolved were we could devise a test without having to resort to such a method. Maybe I am too far removed from such things, out of sight out of mind.
Cremains are kind of distinctive, though. In fact, once you know what they look like you can find them at waterfalls and mountain tops all over the place.
It might not be 100%, but it is probably safe to assume that their hands weren't on the wheel because they went head first into a concrete wall.
The only slice worth a damn in SF is Golden Boy.
There's an apt CCC lecture that makes a similar argument - all corporations are essentially paperclip maximizers.

>The automobile industry in isolation isn't a pure paperclip maximizer. But if you look at it in conjunction with the fossil fuel industries, the road-construction industry, the accident insurance industry, and so on, you begin to see the outline of a paperclip maximizing ecosystem that invades far-flung lands and grinds up and kills around one and a quarter million people per year—that's the global death toll from automobile accidents according to the world health organization: it rivals the first world war on an ongoing basis—as side-effects of its drive to sell you a new car.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
My apologies :)

Incidentally I wrote a whole series of blog posts a while ago where I cast a critical eye over the whole n-tier/3-layer architecture and explained why it isn't all that it's made out to be.

https://jamesmckay.net/category/n-tier-deconstructed/
How many times have NaN semantics actually broken your code? My guess is never.
Here's a 'C' without the white cut out using a transparent border-right.

https://codepen.io/jeremyyeo/pen/eMaZmb
C O N T E N T
Backpage.com Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking in Texas
I care to explore this comment it should not be ignored. The confidence ultimately comes from the trusty aspect of the suit, not from any inflation of the ego. The pride associated with wearing suits and ties is a rookie phenomenon. Anyone who wears suits long term realizes it's a humbling display of modesty and equality in actual fact, contrary to conventional wisdom.
My parents' Chinese restaurant sold sushi. The Thai restaurant in our town sold both Chinese food and sushi and was run by Laotians. In a small town like mine, Asians are pretty interchangeable and sometimes it can be to ones' advantage.
The components of the drugs are individually not generic and very expensive in the US. Sofusbuvir was discovered in 2007

Sofusbuvir is combined with other drugs (specifically ledipasvir) because it improves cure rates. Because the individual components are still on patent, prescribing each individually would cost more than prescribing the combo
Why? Ability to disable prefetch, Referer spoof to top domain and other privacy related stuff.

I love Firefox - it’s my default desktop browser for many years. The about:config settings gives you that old Amiga feeling (like Netscape also had) where you can configure a system to your liking. I change/review/edit some advanced settings for new installs. Nerdy? Yes!
I think you would love to read this article[0] about the confluence of antibiotics abuse in cattle, Zoroastrian sky burials and the declining vulture population in India.

[0] http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/sil...
Mostly laziness. The restaurants push it because it makes upsell easier.

Try one of the touchscreen McDonald’s order kiosks. You need to navigate many dark patterns to order anything that isn’t a meal deal.
If this is true then how can we have had Collision Avoidance systems[1] in cars for years that are able to automatically apply the brakes to prevent this sort of accident? And If the answer is 'autopilot doesn't work that way' then why not use both systems, with the collision avoidance system taking precedence as it deems necessary?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system
Nice to see Intercooler getting some recognition. I haven't done much front end stuff for a while but I always intended to do a deep dive into it.
True, but I've never seen software open a physical hole to the machine. That is, air gap means there's no physical way to access the machine.

But this exploit would create, out of thin air, a physical connection to the outside world using the power outlet the machine is connect to.

So unless data centers become powered by solar panels or generators that are themselves under the same level of physical security as the server racks, then this is a pretty serious exploit.
So was MLK and people made the same argument and (horribly and sadly) he was.

Obviously, copyright on publicly funded research isn’t the same priority as civil rights in the US, but hopefully we learned enough so we don’t make more martyrs for just causes.

The “dumb law is illegal, therefore let’s follow it anyway” is not something I agree with by default. There are quite a few laws that need fixing.
True, but what did doctors do before these new drugs? “Fuck around” with “inferior” products... reason I’m cynical is because many new drugs that hit the market are not novel - for example loteprednol (older drug) vs difluprednate (newer): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28628490/

By the way, some of these newer drugs don’t have to be “superior” to be approved, they just have to be none-inferior to current therapy.
https://www.raps.org/regulatory-focus™/news-articles/2016/11...
actually, TPROXY is very very lightly coupled with iptables. In fact, you can directly use TPROXY without iptables.

here's a 50 line kernel module that uses TPROXY to do the samething without touching iptables.

https://pastebin.com/uxUf6MFS

looking at the nftables code, I think the only reason nftables doesn't support TPROXY is that no one wrote some of the config parsing / seralization stuff.
I learned that when pointers were 16 bits wide. You should never assume the size of your words or addresses. Ever.
> Customers tend to be insanely price sensitive when it comes to low-end food such as pizza

Then he’s in the wrong market or marketing his product wrong. Lots of cities put a premium on well-made pizza over cheap, “I’m drunk” pizza.
omission, possibly also a joke: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_surrealist_alphabet_as...
That's what I thought as well, because that's what's being told. However, Microsoft recently released the experimental Blazor framework, which is C# + Razor on WebAssembly. Among others things, it actually is for "making a modal pop up". Still early days, but I have to say I'm impressed.
Sounds like a FOSS problem.
>> Could be a defense mechanism to keep yourself from feeling like you’re failing, always working on something you perceive as hard without actually finishing anything.

This seems spot on, never considered this.

>> Hypotethically, do you end up learning either or do you find something harder and move on to that?

A few I've stuck with, but the vast majority I stop pursuing after gaining a basic understanding.
What’s wrong with that exactly?
So terribly sorry for your loss.
I really can't understand why they don't provide the grammar notes in their mobile apps. If it's trivial things like table rendering then I'm sure they can come up with something. It's such a crucial part of learning another language and it's completely ignored.
very difficult against a state actor with effectively unlimited budget?
“The idea that criminals need education is actually pretty racist”

Lolwut. Education is a great way to spend time. Anyone can benefit. I said nothing about “need.”

But go on, call me a racist and lecture me condescendingly about why we put criminals in prison, that’s a super convincing.
You only have to look at a management salaries at any large defense contractor to find counter examples.

And even if this were a problem, there are so many easy fixes to this that it makes me think you weren't really thinking it through when you listed it as a reason to prevent public funding of R&D.
While the git-completion.bash [0] function isn't short, this small addition to my bashrc has made my life much easier:

if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
. ~/.git-completion.bash
fi

[0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...
Every 2-3 years this gets suggested again. Somebody builds something to "compile" their pet language x to JS. At the same time 3 new JS libraries or frameworks come out to abstract an abstraction. I've been writing JS since '94 and I'm sorry but at this point all I can muster is an eye roll.
They could just operate a .onion to work around the whole thing. I think they already do?
I see. I typically pay with cash, however whenever my trip to an ATM is overdue I pay with credit and they have my number (and delivery address, and typical pizza order) on file, correlated with my phone number. The pizzeria I most frequently order from is a loud bar and I hear the din of the bar noise in the background quite clearly, but I've never had to repeat myself when talking with them over the phone.

Often times I can order a pizza over the phone using nothing more than three words "yes ... yes ... yes", in response to the questions "are you still at [address]", "same order as last time?", "cash?". Certainly a website can remember such details as well, but poking around at a webpage that remembers such details isn't nearly as straight forward in my mind as simply talking to a person for a few seconds.
"It might have something to do with people, but I haven't figured it out yet."

Wanting more (which can be positive) paired with lack of empathy (which is not). People having both those traits should never ever put in a powerful position because they will eventually abuse their power for personal gain harming others in the process.
Not having numeric types is a real issue - but on the plus side BigInt is advancing quickly https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint
> The entire article is about changing various browser APIs, not Javascript itself

No, it's mostly about browser languages, specifically, extending the declarative languages (HTML and CSS) to reduce (And ideally eliminate) the need for the imperative language (JS).
One consumer centric argument that I've heard is that some people like targeted ads.
From what I gathered, it was more effective than the cheaper options, not that it was chosen because it was new and shiny.
All the systems which work on radar have similar limitations. More details: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Their HQ is actually in Ann Arbor which is nice so long as you don't want big city accoutrements. Pay isn't terrible especially considering cost of living. As far as I can tell their recruiting problem is how many people want to work for pizza corp?
Why Chinese Speakers Cut Their Hair Before New Year’s
Or if you specify that your employment history is outside the US, and they still require a W2.
It has also grown unbelievably well. ES6 alone has added in so many quality of life features that I find myself using fewer and fewer libraries every time I go to do a project and check compatibility.

I just need full module support and I'll be laughing.
that is raddle.me BTW
This would be amazing for detecting people with multiple accounts.

However it's only limited by the amount of effort a malicious actor wants to take. I'm sure a machine learning model could be generated to fudge your typing to match any other profile, or to just make it look like any other person.
I think this op-ed is very relevant to this [1]. There's no doubt the internet companies will aggressively oppose any attempt to pass privacy legislation in the US, but there's no reason why that needs to be all tech companies. Apple, Microsoft, IBM, etc could play a major role in balancing their influence.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/opinion/silicon-valley-lo...
> You might believe that 'estoy caliente' means that you're feeling really hot, because you learned that 'estoy' means 'I am' and 'caliente' means hot, but you would be confused when the room bursts into laughter and won't tell you what's so funny about it.

That's pretty funny - I was taught in my german class that "ich bin warm" directly translates to I'm feeling hot, but colloquially it means "I am gay". And here, the same phrase in spanish just means horny.

Transliteration is definitely littered with booby traps.
> NaN behaves as it does in any other language with IEEE 754 floats

Yes, but most other languages don't use IEEE 754 binsry floating point as their only numeric type. Or even their primary one.
Rescue on the Killer Mountain
Browser-based ad blocking is pretty easy to bypass for companies like Facebook if they really want to. They already have their own ad network, so they will start serving all content (messages, ads, videos) from the same server with no way to distinguish between them programmatically.
Zillow Launches Home-Flipping Program in Phoenix and Las Vegas
wut? I lived 7 years in SF, and 5 in NYC, and there is no comparison.

SF has good deep dish (Little Cesar and Paxtis), and maybe one good true Italian/wood/brick pizza in Northern Beach but that's it.

In NYC you have good pizza every other block (as well as crappy $1, or $2/slice type of places ).
Once you try few places, you find which ones are good/legit, and stick with them, and avoid the crappy ones.

For pizza and bagels there is just no comparison between the two places.
What do you mean by "nuke the phase information"?
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint/blob/master/README.m...
French: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. It was very awkward. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. Some of them even wrong.

This is interesting.

I took six years of French in high school + college, and did immersion in Québec. I had not spoken French since then, so a couple years ago when I was planning a trip to France I got Duolinguo and worked through the French course to refresh. I didn't notice anything odd about it. And in France I was able to communicate with people, though one person asked if I was Canadian -- apparently I have an accent.

Did I perhaps learn French incorrectly?
I remember the Slashdot redesign and the Fark redesign too, and now this one. The general pattern is the site owners’ unwavering certainty that the redesign is great and everyone is wrong, in the face of vocal criticism from users. Remember “You’ll get over it”?

EDIT: I’d love to see actual measured metrics published showing a particular design change actually making sense. Is the new one faster for any particular task? Does it generate more signups? More revenue? Not saying these guys didn’t measure this, but publishing the results would be fascinating.

Is there an example of a site who rolled out a big redesign and then actually reversed course based on end user feedback?
People have shown an impressive ability to figure that kind of advertising out. A lot of native advertising on sites like Reddit is outed almost immediately, and then the discussion turns on the advertiser. We could also add protections as they are in the UK requiring “sponsored content” to display clearly that it’s an advertisement.

In short, there’s nothing inevitable about advertising models as they exist today, and people who try to convince of you that they are inevitable are peobsbly trying to sow apathy.
Since you're asking curious, see some ideas for dressings here:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wfpb+salad+dres...

The salad underneath the dressing is usually WFPB as it is, so needs little adjustment.

I also like just salad, with a little salt, pepper and balsamico. But tastes differ. IMHO oil is still not a health food, no not even olive oil. There is science to back it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtwwZP4Yfs

My personal conclusion: i eat very little (<1tblsp/d) and very high quality coco or olive oil.
Ok yes!! This is perfectly clear now, thanks.
I didn't know, very interesting and a smart optimisation of cache lines use!

I've also read that the processors are able to ask words (of a cache line) in different orders, and so ask for hot words first. It may help a little if this kind of structure was not aligned in an optimized fashion. Doesn't work for HW prefetch, though.
I'll take the other side of that argument. Search engines should put the most relevant products at the top of the page because they are the best fit, not because someone paid for them to be there.

If all advertising disappeared tomorrow, the world would function better. Consumers would not have advertisers trying to manipulate them, and they would more rationally allocate their resources.

Advertising is a tax placed on people who have already bought a product, which made it more expensive, to manipulate other people into also buying that same product.

Without it, good products would succeed on merit / independent reviews / word of mouth.

* The one exception I can think of is possibly during the scale period of startups, helping them scale faster (artificially) than if they just followed the "be the best and it will catch on" approach.
How would a Wikipedia DNS work? It seems like this would be a useful service as people move toward some weird morality-based instead of law-based way of living life.

This is a topic that I want to see if transhumanists have researched as this becomes really important post-singularity.
I was going to mention the same thing. Wouldn't using a UPS mitigate this attack?
I've been considering a 40" 4K screen for some time now.
Plus if you get fired or don't like it, how many other employers are there? If you're in SV or NYC, endless.

I get that certain types of firms just don't sound like they have interesting work though.
Agreed. The fact that JavaScript lacks reasonable numeric types means that I never use it except when there is no alternative.
Sure, but how does working less closely with Tesla result in more unbiased people?
Pay as well as FAGAM and you'll find a lot who would love to get the FAGAM pay while living at Ann Arbor costs.
Can you get grant funding without them?
Hormone based contraception apparently increases the risk of breast cancer by about 25% too.

>And that's if you're consuming 2-3 drinks a day? Doesn't seem all that significant. //

That was my take away, that's pretty heavy drinking, surely?

Per your last para though, we can address more than one health situation at a time, and need to, it's not just USA with an obesity crisis; UK is deep in to that as well, and probably a lot of other countries.
>But only a 3% increase?

25% increase. 3 percentage points increase.
JS clearly has issues and I wish some of these issues could have been alleviated when ECMA introduced "use strict". It was a one time opportunity to correct the language at its core, AKA remove a bunch of features and behavior.
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