skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm assuming you're referring to the royal you here.

Yes, definitely. Would you like to compare our e-p3nis?

> I suspect you're in favor of making all opiods [sic] legal as well?

Nice fallacy, but I'll take the bait.

Yes, in fact I am in favor of decriminalization of these substances, and Portugal is a great example of how decriminalization does not lead to anything you so anticipate. It does not lead to increased drug use, and leads to decreased drug-related injuries, and so on and so on. You can look up the evaluation of drug liberalization in Portugal. Decriminalization works and is effective, with its evident positive consequences. How about the war on drugs? How is it working out for you?

> California's Legal Weed Is So Heavily Taxed and Regulated That the Black Market Might Survive (source: https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/04/02/californias-new-recre...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_cartel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War

While we are at it, let's ban Kratom, too. Gotta support the Big Pharma, gotta eliminate the competition to make people with chronic pain wait and pay more. FDA claimed Kratom is an opioid and it has no medical value, and at the same time they are trying to extract the alkaloids from Kratom to make a prescription drug out of it. Fuck!ng A.

Anyone here with chronic pain that would like to see Kratom banned? Please speak up! Who wants to destroy their safer and cheaper route of management of their pain? :D

chuckles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_liberalization#Portugal

https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...

https://mises.org/library/mises-explains-drug-war

https://mises.org/library/war-drugs-war-freedom

https://mises.org/library/nullify-war-drugs
This is largely theoretical now, as there's a single bit difference in definition (or implementation) of a NAT. (Leaves unknown untouched, or drops them.) But you are right, that thinking of a NAT as a pure transformer that cannot drop packets results in a better model.

> deploy a pure NAT setup

Is that even possible? I mean, sure, get a PC with 2 NICs and use raw sockets, but with a simple off the shelf network gadget?
There's also a comment thread curiously missing. Are there rules about what warrants the deletion of a thread? I doubt the participants deleted their comments individually.
Ask HN: Did you incorporate in Singapore? How did that go?
I'm thinking of incorporating in Singapore just to get access to Stripe but I'm unsure what exactly that would entail.

I've read about how Ghost did it(https://blog.ghost.org/moving-to-singapore/) but still have some questions.

Have you done it? What exactly did you have to do? Did you have $50K to set it up? How did it affect your company and personal income taxes? Was it worth it? What's the food like?
But the difference between 10 cards and a virtual object is very small. At least for small children. They can understand that a big object (a bike, a big Lego building, etc) must be expensive but I believe children are not really able to understand that a few cards are so expensive. Even rational people can't understand the physical value of a very small pack of cards -- they can only appreciate the virtual or artificial value, so the difference between a few cards (which hold a virtual value) and virtual loot boxes is very tiny.
yes it is another instance of ad hoc after the fact "I know it when I see it".

Since the problem does not affect me specifically (not a child nor a gamer, nor a parent of such a person) I can see why this seems ammusing in the sense that we see lawmmakers drown in their own rules again, even though I don't think it is amusing in general.

In fact it bothers me, because I am very much against "void for vagueness" rules, while in this case it is very hard for me to formalize a general prinicple differentiating good and bad (although I consider a lot of the insurance stuff nonsense tbh...).

If I had to formalize a principle, I think it would start from informed consent: i.e. a lottery ticket should define exactly the probability of each possible return scenario, and also the expectation value of the return. And then in order to legally buy lottery tickets you would need a non-expired certificate that proves you understand expectation value, where the certificate is issued after passing some automated exam say at the city hall. Just passing it once should not suffice to gamble the rest of your life after forgetting how expectation values work.

In this way children, or uneducated adults, or elderly with dementia are prevented from gambling unless they "regularly" prove to society that they understand what an expectation value of return of 50% means (if you buy $1000 worth of lottery tickets with 50% expectation value, on average you get $500 dollar back, and that is already taking into account the cases you win the top prize), and how to calculate this in general...

All the places where the tickets get sold would have to be mystery-shopper checked by the government so that if a place sells a ticket to a person without the valid certified status, they get a big fine.

If the same was done for insurance etc, then at least the consumer can be said to have given informed consent to the transaction. But don't get surprised if suddenly a large part of the population stops different kinds of insurance, or at least systematically en masse switch to whoever has the best offer, putting pressure in order to get democratic pricing of insurance etc...

Not just licenses for the gambling houses, but also for the gamblers, like driver licenses...
Ah, i've probably heard a mangled version of that story!
I stand corrected.

Although if birth-related mortality is rising while home births are dropping, doesn't that suggest there's something else going on? The relatively high age of Dutch mothers may also be a factor (I believe the average age at which women have their first child is around 30).

Having read a bit more about the issue, it appears the jury is still out.
Compiler for objective c (iPhone) development?
Yet it's still a path worth being followed for its long term effects.
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Out of interest, where in Berlin were the rents so cheap? I recently moved to the Berlin area and found rents to be on par with London for a 3 bedroom place.

I have been visiting Berlin for the better part of 8 years and I am astounded at the increase I have seen in living costs. Food and entertainment has also gone WAY up.

In my opinion Berlin is by no means the "cheap" city that it once was. When you combine that with the average salary in Berlin being lower than in other big German cities (and a lot lower than London) then it has become a real issue as of late for most people.
Shorter identifier names take longer to comprehend
Ah yes, training up people to handcraft html every time a new press release needs to go up on the site, or a VP changes on thecabout us page. Not fun.
Not the same type of scooter, but here in Amsterdam they put them on the bike path a few decades ago. And it's a major nuisance for cyclists. They are not compatible modes of transport and it's dangerous.

So the city passed a new law last year to start transitioning them back to the road.
There were a lot of problems at Uber beyond #deletuber. He probably would have gone anyway.
I guess you meant homophonic.

Anyway, for example "a" and "à" are homophones. As are "la" and "là".

A nice one is "chasse"/"châsse". Both are pronounced \ʃas\ but the first one means "hunt", the latter one means "reliquary".
11.5km at 70kph is 10 minutes. That's on the aggressive side (but plausible) for peak-hours frequency of the most popular bus routes in the top 5 American cities for public transit. Just to break even with car traffic. That was my point.

60m following distance is quite optimistic, the bus's stops count for something, and the only way you're getting 150 people on a bus is with the majority as standees, so you're comparing luxury living-room couches to a sardine can, and the sardine can isn't even doing that well on capacity.

I agree that in a theoretical universe with i.e. 2-minute bus headways, the bus wins hands down, but I'm not optimistic that any American BRT project will even try for better than 15.
The landlord knew exactly what he was getting into buying a tenanted property rented by someone on WBS social housing. Using your sister to evict your existing tenant is dodgy. I have zero sympathy for trying to game the system and getting caught out by your sister inconveniently dying.
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I found the same. Eliminating the blue light was all I needed to make a big impact.
Your site on mobile has a few issues:

1) the typing thing you're doing continuously shifts the page when I'm scrolling through, regardless how far past I am from it. Really annoying.

2) The fonts don't seem to scale well to smaller screens (weird word wrapping)

I'm on an iPhone 5s.
I’m in favor of this, and not just for Medicare. Medicare pricing is extremely low because doctors can’t turn down Medicare patients. Medicare pays like $8 for a physician visit, which is, quite obviously, not sustainable for the physician. I want to be able to comparison shop at the very least for routine stuff that’s not customized patient to patient: yearly physical, blood tests, chronic disease care, etc. Combined with ratings this should reduce the current extreme information imbalance and drive the prices down.
Can we agree that refraining from consciously speaking outright lies for profit is at least a requirement for ethical behaviour?

Whether it's sufficient is a different story.
Grew up in the country, and I sleep with earplugs in to boot. City noises punch right through them, amazingly enough, traffic rocks the foundation of my house enough there's no escape.

Planning the purchase of somewhere peaceful and remote as we speak.
To be honest, I thought that website was great. It's very close to the aesthetic of a lot of contemporary internet art.
"train for speed" so it's not transport...
Is this illegal, to represent opinions through pseudonymity?

Can a pseudonym legally advise someone?

My opinion is that the pseudonym is a clever way to share things that you don't want directly associated with yourself, or things that are embarrassing, etc.

It should be allowed, pseudonyms have been used for thousands of years in literature.

If you're not face to face with a legal adviser and able to ask for ID, then you DON'T HAVE a reasonable expectation of authenticity, although I don't know if that factor matters, by the letter of the law.

This is thought provoking stuff!
Exactly. Came here expecting an article on someone who used sunlight only and how that affects life, ability to do work, sleep, health... And found an article on someone who removed blue light, while keeping artificial candles for dark times.
To add to your position on the subject, when I was on holiday in Kazakhstan, I'd say 90% of the young ethnic Kazakh I met in Almaty didn't speak more than very basic Kazakh, and 100% spoke Russian (at least better than me, I'm A2 at best).

I guess the number would be lower for rural areas, but even in Kegen (don't ask) I found my way speaking Russian without issue.

The only place in CA where I found people with whom I couldn't communicate in Russian at all was in Tajikistan, including Dushanbe(!).
As an outsider with casual knowledge of Czech, I totally agree that the Czech orthography is logical and consistent (which is beautiful :). It makes it so much easier to learn to pronounce words, because the spelling tells you how - like it should. There are (almost) no surprises like in English, where the language is a hybrid of rules/exceptions depending on the etymology of each word. The reason for orthographic consistency in Czech could be that they were able to standardize it more recently? I also find Czech typography wonderful.
A typical example is "I want to keep my JavaScript code secret. How do I disable the 'View source' menu item in browsers?" This is a very frequently asked question. What would be the most helpful answer, if you imagine you are a newbie asking in good faith?

1) No answer

2) A technical explanation of how the 'view source' menu item can be suppressed (e.g. iframe, overriding right-click events and so on) which may at least work in some browsers some of the time.

3) An explanation why it is simply not technically possible to hide code sent over the wire to the client, and a suggestion to move sensitive code to the server if this is possible.

Clearly (2) is closest to the technically correct answer to the question... but it is it really helpful? Option (3) do offer unsolicited advice, which could be construed as condescending since this is not what was actually asked. But I will also argue this is the most useful response in 99% of cases.

But there might be some specific cases where (2) is actually relevant. E.g I'm building some kiosk-style console to provide an interactive quiz, and I don't want users to cheat by using view source to see the answers. In this controlled environment, it might be possible to completely disable "view source". So providing both (2) and (3) is the optimal answer, and should get the green checkmark.

But I simply fail to understand how giving no answer could be better for anybody?
Are toys in cereal boxes gambling? Are fortune cookies gambling? Are mystery flavor candy gambling?

I find this a mind boggling decision

Disclaimer: I don't know jack shit about Belgian legislature history
>Will formal verification reverse the trend of old root bugs as a law of nature?
>We applied the D6 patch immediately,

Formal verification can do nothing to help people who run software that's been outdated and unsupported for several years.
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And people say devs are not grounded in reality - how dare those fat car plutocrats force workers to show up at 9. What is this, the mid to late 90s?
This tries to mimic the sort of pitch dark we would get at night living in the middle of nowhere.

However, it fails when sunrise comes and none of it goes through the blinds. We then open them up abruptly and sunlight floods our eyes, which is not a very smooth transition in my opinion.
Yes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632070...

But more broadly, that's likely also true for culture and knowledge.
One tiny practical suggestion:

Add some basic CSS to the site such as lightly shaded boxes for paragraphs.

The stark red and black styling defaults on chrome leave an unsettling impression.

As others have commented, your best practical course would be becoming an independent contractor and providing your services remotely.

If you provide your services as SD Consulting LLC it should open a few more doors.
Someone should adapt it for TV. It'd be a great episode for a Black Mirror or something similar (and, at least, it'd have a happy ending, which is rare in BM)
Its Oland in English.

Do you mind that SVT doesn't say Helsinki or that it doesn't call Bejing after its proper name 北京?
That's true, but I cannot recall a recent instance of "cooked books" since everything started moving to centralized databases. The blockchain keeps looking like a solution in search of a problem that could be solved easier by other means.
Nothing really. If you don't want to sacrifice productivity then you go the electron way.
Java/Swing has horrible UI/UX and doosen't offer any real benefits on RAM.
QT is good if you are willing to pay for the licensing costs for commercial use or you open source your app.
Everything else that is cross platform works, until it dosen't. Good luck debugging gtk on windows.

If you can spare the resources, create per platform apps. If not, then electron is your only headache less option.
Even if they didn't have room for script codes, they could still use zh-CN / zh-TW.
There are two reasons: (1) electricity can be, and often is, produced using methods such as hydro and nuclear that use less carbon and produce less pollution, and (2) pollution control on carbon-intensive sources can be more effective at a central location.
I am a big fan of very warm light, but i'm struggling to find LED with a low enough setting here in Europe (at an affordable price). Maybe i should just use real candles :-(
If I understood it correctly, the datasets being used are all in the order of ~20 hours. Could the results be improved with a different dataset? Say, Mozilla's Common Voice[1]? They are already at 350 hours of labeled speech.

[1]: https://voice.mozilla.org
Once I'm asleep I can sleep through a lot (and even if I do wake up, get out of bed, and put the kids in the shower after they've been sick - I have no memory of it in the morning)

However getting to sleep is tricky. I've found two things that seem to work.

One is listening to Legally Blonde the musical on repeat with headphones on -- on a plane even where I don't get a bed this allows me to sleep for a good 6 or so hours on an overnight flight. It's weird, I think I had it on once some years ago and fell asleep, now my brain feels to be "conditioned". If I listen to it I start feeling sleepy.

The other is at home where it's quiet, dark, and no movement. I start thinking about orbital mechanics (at least as much as KSP has taught me), and I usually fall asleep fairly quickly.
You're right about that. London does public transport much better than most other cities.

It's also been measurably more successful than many other cities in driving cycling adoption. But if your argument in support of that (overall relatively minor) success involves statements such as "define London", and cherry picking particular suburbs, then I think that speaks to the strength of it.
Everything you said about scooter applies, and has always applied, to bicycles. This is not a new problem. It's now more prevalent because more people ride scooters. It would also have been a problem if more people rode bikes.

The solution is consideration and attentiveness from pedestrians, people riding scooters, and people riding bikes.

If I ride my bike on the street, I pay attention to the rules of the road as well as possible dangers. These include cars ignoring the right of way, pedestrians walking onto the street suddenly between parked cars, and people opening car doors.

If I ride my bike on the sidewalk, I ride slower, and am attentive to people walking unpredictably, coming out of doorways, or coming around corners full speed.

I would like for pedestrians to behave more responsibly, both on the sidewalk and on the street. I am doing my part. No one is "king of the road/sidewalk". You can't put all the blame on any on party. Everyone needs to adjust their behavior for a safe society.
> who turned out to be not such a cool guy.

Only if you believe anonymous smear campaigns. None of the alleged victims ever made any effort to start a proper investigation and one of the claimed victims (some of the stories were written by people who thought they witnessed something) came forward saying that she was in fact not a victim and that the allegations were all bullcrap.
30 seconds of Googling suggests (and a comment upthread) suggest that a defense based on reasonable expectations and circumstances beyond one's control is available to drivers in The Netherlands. The stakes are also much lower when the thing you're assigning is an insurance company payout. Cyclists presumably aren't insured when they hit pedestrians. If there were no defense available, cycling would be a bad idea.

Found this: https://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/wiki/dutch-cycle-because-...
Not sure on the illegality from pseudonymity - I'm fairly certainly you have the right to call yourself what you want, and as long as it isn't a contract, can live happily with a made up name (and nothing stopping multiple people having the same pseudonym).

Potential issues are more around advertising standards, disclosure etc...

Once pitched a similar idea (without the fake persona) in a previous role - we create a separate news source for the industry, and post the occasional "sponsored update" about our company. I scrapped pursuing it as the CEO didn't want the disclosure statement that it was connected to us prominently on every page. No way I was going to do it under the table, for exactly these kind of reasons.
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Your kids won't be able to use your money to buy loot crates which contain items that are either unknown or known, but have no way of knowing which you'll receive after opening the crate.

Look, they say it's for the safety of your kids and vulnerable individuals: it must be good and do not dissent!

The Government has good intentions. /s
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Vive la différence! (French)

¡Viva la diferencia! (Spanish)
While I agree that, on the whole, Overwatch's model (cosmetic only, non-tradeable) is less negative than those in which there is a secondary market, I'm still not a fan of including unregulated gambling-like mechanics in games with a demographic of primarily teenagers. However, this is entirely my view on underage gambling at work.

From a less personal perspective, Valve's products are much more blatantly akin to gambling; I see very little reason not to apply the same regulations to Dota or CS:GO loot boxes as would apply to any online casino.
I filled up for less than a dollar in AZ in the very late 90s. It was a temporary phenomenon though, and may have never gotten that low in some parts of the country.
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Thats a bit of a straw man. Most people even Pinker would agree that there are limits to growth they just don't agree that we are currently at the limit.
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If you get a yeelight bulb, you can adjust it down to 3000k, which is a deep orange. Although I guess you can set any rgb color, so you can just make it red if you want.
Top end of the market here for skilled C++ developers is more like €100-120k. So it's possible to earn a lot more 60k than but you won't do it building CRUD apps for a poorly funded copycat startup.

SoundCloud had plenty of engineers on €90k+. HERE Maps also pays very well. Even a lot of the startups are openly offering ~€80k on StackOverflow and AngelList for genuinely skilled Ruby/JS developers and you can always negotiate a little higher.
I think that we lose credibility when we speak of the end of civilisation.

It won't take much of a change in the climate before we see significant conflict over access to water. India and Pakistan have a treaty they both signed in 1960 regarding access to water from 6 rivers they share (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Waters_Treaty). These are two nations that have nuclear weapons... if that treaty fails and results in a war, that'd almost certainly end up being World War III, and could very well result in the end of civilisation.

This isn't speculation on my part. We're already at the point where nations have civil wars over access to natural resources like water and agricultural land. It was a key factor in civil war in Sudan. Wars around the middle east between Israel and it's neighbours are rooted in religion but are often also about access to water from the Jordan basin.

Climate change isn't simply things getting hotter and sea levels rising. People literally go to war over resources. It really matters.
Expressiveness of the language is one thing. Does it have the vast numbers of quality and well tried and tested libraries that Python does? That's generally more important than expressiveness.
Make your font color darker.
Live in the future
> One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route.

That's a jerk thing to do in uniformly bad traffic, but it actually makes sense if traffic clears up ahead.