skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just a few years ago the vast majority of people received their TV through over-the-air broadcast. It's instant and scales infinitely, kind of beautiful simplicity, technically speaking

"Scales infinitely" is underspecified. Over-the-air broadcast scales well with the number of people who want to receive a particular broadcast. It scales very poorly on some other dimensions:

- Over-the-air suffers from congestion when many parties want to send a broadcast simultaneously. There's only so much spectrum. In a wired network, you can just add more wires.

- Over-the-air doesn't scale well at all when people want to receive the same broadcast from farther away. In a wired network, you can use longer wires, or relay data from one wire to another wire. (Relays will work for wireless too, but they make congestion that much worse.)
Then we would need to train everyone to be essentially an ubermensch - they need to be able to operate on meta-levels and use metacognition all the time.

This is a hard task, you need cognitive resources (which means you have enough sleep, food, resilience, mental energy and a stress-free environment) and a lot of time and it's also very demanding to doubt essential beliefs about oneself and ones' own values.

So I don't really think that most people will do it. It's just too cumbersome and frankly, they have other things to do and the current mode works for them most of the time. When it fails, something like the Nazi regime happens (for various reasons, not only due to lack of advanced metacognition), but high expectations won't help us, anyway.

- - -

I think a good solution is to build a system which generally uses balance mechanisms to keep power divided - we can't expect all people to be highly self-aware and self-critical. Unsurprisingly, that's exactly why we use democracies. Unfortunately, those systems stop to work when the majority of people lack advanced metacognition or don't have the required cognitive resources or lack information and understanding. Unfortunately, this can happen pretty fast.
There is _no_ objective measure of quality when it comes to whisky so all we have to go on is personal preference. When Murray benighted the 2013 Yamazaki, that was _his_ personal preference against _all_ whiskies reviewed, peaty, smokey, or otherwise.

And you can _absolutely_ compare a peaty/smokey whisky to one that isn't. Why can't you? Peaty/smokey isn't the sharp divisor of preference that is insinuated in yours and other comments. Peat is delivered in very unique ways across distilleries and in my tastings I often have folks strongly dislike Ardbeg Corryvreckan but adore Lagavulin 16 (as an example).
That's because it's meant to look at other legal systems -- ones very different from the ones its audience are familiar with, i.e. those.
Internet multicast turns out to be hard. Now that streaming video is popular enough maybe it will be deemed a problem worth solving. I'm sure it's solvable. But it's hard. Also the trend for most things is video on demand, simultaneous viewing of a live event is rare.
I like this part:

> Capitalists are by definition not only personal risk takers but, more to the point, cultural risk takers. The most creative and daring of them hope to exploit new technologies to the fullest, and do not much care what traditions are overthrown in the process or whether or not a culture is prepared to function without such traditions. Capitalists are, in a word, radicals. In America, our most significant radicals have always been capitalists - men like Bell, Edison, Ford, Carnegie, Sarnoff, Goldwyn. These men obliterated the 19th century, and created the 20th, which is why it is a mystery to me that capitalists are thought to be conservative. Perhaps it is because they are inclined to wear dark suits and grey ties.
Why do you say that? It’s certainly in line with the spirit of the ADA, and a cursory Google suggests that lawsuits related to dietary restrictions have been successful.

For what it’s worth, I’m a vegetarian and broadly in support of this policy, assuming it can be made compliant with the law.
Thanks for clarification and the examples. This makes sense. Cheers.
I've read the book and can confirm that you're exactly right.
So has the dept of commerce, or homeland security, or whoever is responsible in gov't for suppressing counterfeit goods ever raided an Amazon warehouse? Does there need to be complaint by the manufacturer first?
I've tried 3 kinds of kale chips and disliked them all. Then again, I really dislike kale. And I like just about everything. I refer to kale as fart lettuce.
FYI: nobody does asm in 2018
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What do you need it for?

If money if not an issue, buy Swissbit S-45 cards from Mouser.
> sending the same broadcast to millions of receivers. That's already an unusual requirement, though

Broadcast television isn't particularly unusual, surely. Millions of people watch live, primetime TV every day.
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm thinking of making Canada's only mail-order DVD/BR website.

Netflix bought Zip.ca but then they shut down mail orders. We don't even have Redbox anymore. It's sad that there are a lot of great movies you can't legally stream online in Canada - can't even torrent them - but we have them on DVD in high quality.
Ardbeg An Oa if you can find it, the regular Ardbeg 10 is good too. High West Rendezvous Rye is lovely. For mixing Rittenhouse 100 Rye is inexpensive but yummy.
I hope so. it's almost useless as is
I'm not sure if you understand what commingled inventory means.

When inventory is commingled, Amazon puts all of the sellers' products (for a given product ID aka ASIN) into one urn. When a user makes a purchase of that item from any of those sellers, Amazon retrieves an item from the urn and ships it to the purchaser.

As a purchaser of items sold by multiple sellers with fulfillment by Amazon, it's not possible to know if each seller has their own urn, or if it's a single urn for multiple sellers. The distribution of the urn by source is also unknown.

I won't purchase easily counterfeited objects from Amazon, unless there is only one seller listed, and if that seller is either Amazon or an account that seems like the manufacturer. A random Samsung sd card[1], though; who knows . Something like this Anker usb car charger [2] looks reasonable (I'm not specifically endorsing Anker, usb chargers are just a product in a crowded, junky space, and Anker is a brand that's trying to present itself as selling good products.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B06XX29S9Q/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00VH84L5E/
I used this back when PayPal did it. Wonder why they stopped.
It's not really HIPPA. I think it's more things like a lack of price transparency, the 'customers' of health care being disconnected from the users of health care and so on. Kind of like how B2B software is often horrible because the customers are disconnected execs and the users (employees) pay the price. This goes into more detail:

http://abovethecrowd.com/2017/12/18/customer-first-healthcar...
I went with Parachute after looking at a few other brands. I wanted Egyptian cotton/percale - I have no idea how it'll work out, but given their responsiveness on review sites to defects it should be okay. Not an endorsement, I honestly don't know whether I'll like them.
Actually I like having a unified store...helps provide competition between the marketplace and amazon's own.

Anyway, if you want to avoid marketplace, in the left column, under "Seller", check the box next to "Amazon". (Maybe they could provide this as a permanent setting via preferences.)
> What would the alternative be if Amazon never adopted the 3rd party Marketplace or added the international sellers?

Most likely that traffic would fall to Ebay, which would then be a not-so-distant #2.
That URI syntax is just a convention used by some web frameworks. You can just as well write

https://example.org?foo=bar&foo=baz
The other thing that gets missed in debates about vegetarianism is that it's not necessarily a binary thing. Just because you don't eat meat in some of your meals doesn't make you a vegetarian. There's a continuum between eating meat with every meal and never eating it.

This is most frequently missed when people bring up historical justifications for eating meat and cite that we're evolved to eat it. But that ignores that eating meat was, for most of human history, a rarity. For the majority of human history, we didn't have the tools necessary to hunt animals with weapons. Instead, we chased them on protracted persistence hunts that would last many hours, if not days. This made meat meals a once-in-a-while thing, not an every meal thing.

Too often, extremists on the vegetarian side advocate total meat abstinence and meat eaters think nothing of eating meat with every meal. And advocating meat abstinence works just about as well as advocating sex abstinence. People just aren't ready to give it up entirely. But many of the benefits of vegetarianism, both for the eater and the planet/animals, can be had by simply reducing meat consumption and eating vegetarian more often. Eating meat occasionally also simplifies a number of the malnutrition risks that can be a concern for people who are completely vegan.

I see policies like the one in this story being beneficial not because they're going to turn people into vegetarians, but because they're going to realize that they can have satisfying meals that don't include meat and maybe they'll make that choice a bit more often. No one has to become a vegetarian for this policy to be good.
> People wonder why [Millennials] aren't more up-in-arms about data breaches and identity theft, and why they prefer [pseudo-anonymous] currencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum over the real banking system with its KYC requirements.

As a millennial, I've always wondered about this. I'll hear coverage on NPR fairly regularly about the latest data breach, and I always feel like NPR is either a) pushing the outrage on me or b) assuming that I must be outraged, because I'm never outraged. I see pretty much everything I put online as public, even if there is a veil of privacy (like FB for example).
Russian hackers used Bitcoin to fund election interference, so prepare for FUD
How do you decide what level of wealth inequality is acceptable?
Here's the TOML parser in Nim language: https://github.com/NimParsers/parsetoml.

It works great based on my small amount of testing, and TOML is awesome! I wish more people start using it.
My observation from tastings is that many people do like peated whiskies, but few people like all peated whiskies.

The biggest hits I see in tastings are Talisker 10, Lagavulin 16, and about any Kilchoman. I haven't kept track but I'd say 70% of people find themselves really enjoying one or the other (Tally is pretty lightly peated). Ardbeg 10 and Laphroaig 10 are the most divisive...people love or hate them, and to that point yeah, maybe 40% of tasters love one or other. Bunnahabhain, Bowmore, about 50/50.
I see what you are trying to say: "Do your research somewhere other than amazon", but one of the major problems is if you order from amazon you risk receiving a counterfeit item(whether expensive or not).
How to create persistent website?
I would love to pay some fixed amount of dollars to have some website hosted into practically eternity.

Is this actually possible or viable? I know that there are some solutions like IPFS or just inserting metadata into blockchain but I'm looking into something that will just work.
That's "just" a problem with unicast though. Lots of different media houses are working on getting multicast support over the internet, by which point IP streams will behave a lot more like OTA's one-to-many relationship.

I couldn't say how close they are to getting that working - nor if it even is possible - because I don't work on that specific side of things. But I do know there used to be multicast networks over the internet back in the 90s (IIRC David Bowie even streamed one of his concerts over it) so it strikes me as a solvable problem.
It wasn't an argument. It was a messenger bringing bad news they didn't want to hear. And with other messengers who were actively telling him untruths about reality. And he wasn't sufficiently technical to go evaluate the claims himself; he -had- to decide who to listen to. So, unsurprisingly, he listened to the one that felt better.

You seem to believe that everyone is mature enough to hear bad news, delivered objectively, and accept it without blaming the messenger, and without dismissing it because it doesn't conform to their wishes. I wish I had your luck in bosses.
I used that site, but was dismayed to find they didn't have cal king in most of their recommendations.
iPhone User with a $900 phone switches to a $60 phone and frustrated that it doesn't perform as well a $900 phone while trying to use it like a Premium phone?

I am surprised :).
How to Fix Microsoft.online.reporting.monitoringagent.startup High CPU
Damn, I'm glad I'm not on this drug.
Raise your hand if you're old enough to remember either Michael Nesmith or Liquid Paper.

I don't remember where I first heard that bit of trivia, but it sure is interesting.
Challenges productionizing embedding engines
Or at a minimum let buyers know which sellers have opted to not commingle their inventory.
CLI tool lets you quickly checkout Git branches
Well, I agree that I'm not the best HN user, but I'm not a young inexperienced person: I survived few assassinations, and lost few friends, which were not so lucky. I also quite busy with my work, my startup, education, science, history, politics, and some other topic, so I will not post something just to insult somebody.

IMHO, HN can be improved to automatically filter out discussions. Imagine, we have a magic system, which automagically labeled all comments as a) on topic or not on topic b) improvement, critics, opinion, correction, controversy, alternative view, support, trolling, joke, fun, suggestion, discussion, flame, etc. c) history, politics, physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, programming, etc. Then we can just place some labels on top of each submission with number of comments for that label. By default, only on-topic comments with good labels should be enabled. But user should be free to enable other topics as well.

Now, we need to imagine how to implement such automagic labeling system with minimum of up-keeping cost. IMHO, first we should allow user to label his comments himself. If comment is labeled properly, then user will not punished. If comment labeled incorrectly, then other users can vote to change label with cumulative score (if user has higher rating, his vote worth more), and user will be automatically punished if label changed from good to bad.

On-topic/off-topic should be implemented as checkbox on submit form. Other labels can be implemented as hashtags or collapsible boxes. Users should be able to add or remove labels to other posts, if necessary, when they have high enough rating for such action and label. Users should be able to chose which labels they want or don't want to see with reasonable defaults.

IMHO, it's much better to be constructive ans ask user to label his post as "#politics #flame" instead of forbidding him to post.

Example:

A post title.
yyyy.mm.dd hh:mm
on-topic(12) off-topic(21)

vlisivka x hours ago | off-topic(up dn)
#hn-site #suggestion (add label)
I have a suggestion about how to improve HN.
I would imagine Mr. Bezos figured out how to navigate Washington successfully long ago.
There are plenty of (mostly older) Christian denominations that keep to vegetarian or vegan diets for large parts of the year. (This is why Ethiopian food tends to be so vegetable-heavy.)
It is funny, they could feed it into Twitch and have a 5-10 second delay.

An idea which makes me incredibly curious as to how well Twitch would handle that type of traffic!
I remember buying a burner phone in India once and it hurt my ears when I received calls. It turned out the phone only had one loudness setting which was at a level able to pierce through the din of Mumbai. Ear bleedingly loud.
I find the opposite. Things often repeat with the algorithmic feed when I open the app again, things from days or weeks ago, while there is already fresh content that was posted minutes ago. But since it's not in time order, I miss the new things.
Note the sibling thread saying RefControl is broken.
This is exactly how it works, other than it's based on ASIN, not SKU.

The only way it changes if if the person sending their inventory to amazon chooses to have their inventory not commingled for a premium fee. Seller that do not commingle their inventory have no way of advertising that to buyer right now though.
I wholeheartedly endorse this. For the money Corry is the best bottle coming off the island.
What about fault-tolerance though? That's definitely a single point of failure scenario.
This is the tech equivalent of slum tourism. News flash: poor people deal with crap that rich people don’t have to.
typing BASIC code from Byte magazine into a Vic20 all Sunday, then debug into the evening. then joy! a game to play! No storage, keep it in ram until I get back from school.
Maybe it's not a thing any more? Or maybe it's not as clever as scanning multiple frequencies? I've not listened to analogue radio in the car for long distances in a while but I do remember there used to be a big problem with national radio spanning multiple different frequencies and your signal would drift out as you changed regions. This problem seemed to solve itself when RDS and "smart" radios started becoming a thing. However my experience is with video broadcasting rather than radio so I might have gotten some of the details wrong.
Allow H4 visa holders to work and see how that number shoots up. Also what minorities are they talking about ? Jewish, Hindus and Muslims are very well represented in tech. Blacks and Hispanics lag behind in all STEM in general but they was substantially better in other areas such as sports where you dont see a Asian or Hindu.
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With all the mess that keeps getting added to insta, I would love Twitter to add a basic photos thing that was just the Instagram feed without all the Snapchat rubbish.
Your Haskell code doesn't quite parse.
But the following works:

import Data.List
primes = Data.List.nubBy (\a b -> gcd a b > 1) [2..]
findTwins primes = [(p,q) | (p:q:_) <- tails primes, q == p+2]
main = mapM_ print . take 10 . findTwins $ primes

Finding primes arbitrarily far apart can be done in Haskell as

findBigTwins gap primes = [(p,q) | (p:qs) <- tails primes, let q = p+gap, q `elem` takeWhile (<= q) qs]
This can be taken as conspiracy theory territory, so before it gets there, let me phrase it in a particular way.

I have no doubt that some people in the mental health care industry have entertained thoughts about how some mental health care medications can be used to make people more docile and obedient.

I'm not saying that is the intent. But the fact that such people have that kind of power without necessarily having all the checks and balances in place needed to ensure such scenarios do not occur, is concerning. At the very least, there should be ways to provide easy and accessible ways victims of such circumstance may challenge such treatment.

There often aren't ways, because once you are labeled crazy, most people in the mental health care industry think they know what is better for you than you do.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Meaning, it's easy to exploit a power dynamic when society assumes one side is good, and one side is bad.

I'm trying to be very delicate in my phrasing, because this is not a conspiracy theory. People can and do exploit such circumstance and pad it over with good intentions. And challenging these types of situations requires extensive care, rigor, and transparency - and a willingness to look at oneself from all perspectives.

And that's often a very difficult thing to do, for anyone.

When people are forced to examine themselves from sides that only tell them everything negative about them, the individual ego fights to survive. This is the case for anyone who has experienced stigma and discrimination. The choice is always, obey or be punished. And that's not fair, because the judgements that lead to these decisions are often collected from a one sided perspective.

It's a hard problem, but it needs to be discussed. I personally hate having this problem bottled up in my head. Because I know, how easy it is, to sway it back to good intent. Intentions are garbage if people keep judging you and placing you beneath them. Actions matter. Even if those actions are as simple as, judging less.

Honestly, I think most conspiracy theories stem from people's real life experiences, but because of judgement, disbelief, and stigma - the truth mutates. The moral of the story is retained, but the person dissociates from the trauma of not being believed and being mistreated, over and over again.

People can easily become convinced that they have little recourse or options left. It's not always brain damage. Sometimes it's just getting stuck in a pattern of perpetually perceiving judgement from everyone around them. I personally don't know if having to think that way changes the structure of the brain. Furthemore, I don't know if having the brain restructured in such a way indicates anything defective. It may just be different.
Thank you for your comment!

The power of Egison's pattern matching becomes more obvious when we consider more general pattern such as (p, p+ 100) not only (p, p+2).

We can write the first 5 prime pairs whose form is (p, p+100) with a small modification for pattern matching for twin primes.

(take 5
(match-all primes (list integer)
[<join _ <cons $p <join _ <cons ,(+ p 100) _>>>>
[p (+ p 100)]]))
;=>{[3 103] [7 107] [13 113] [31 131] [37 137]}
Wow. Dude, how many of the HN people are running their own servers in order to bypass FOIA compliance at the State Department?

Yes, I do know how IMAP works. Why were classified files being forwarded to Wiener's laptop? He didn't have clearance for that information to be on his computer. Do you know how security clearance and handing of classified documents work?

I'm trying not to be aggressive with you, but man, that was some flimsy argument there.
I personally don't see the point of memorizing font types, but I like to use fontninja / chrome debugger to find out the font https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fontface-ninja/elj...

My personal favorite webfonts are proxima nova (for commercial) and roboto(for free google fonts) for modern web typesetting
>I also applauded Starbucks with straws like most others here.

Why do you hate disabled people?
Thank you, some of the references were helpful!
Don't underestimate the power of subconscious processes, e.g. we like things we already know or even words that contain letters of our name [1]. There exists an incredible amount of these biases.

> There are a million guarantees that what is being done is thoroughly and totally meaningless.

There are a million subtle ways to influence behavior and thinking. It's very likely that the scientists aren't able to properly measure the effects (because it's hard to isolate the control variables), but the resulting knowledge won't be zero. I agree with you that many scientists overestimate their understanding of the underlying mechanisms - IMO it's still too much hand-waving - in reality our knowledge about social psychology is very limited.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
> (10,000 of agriculture is blip on the radar for our species)

Just to point out, those 10k years of agriculture are actually the most recent 10k years, with potentially huge selection pressure for periods during that time.
When the Commodore 64 came out, I ask myself what in the world would anyone do with all of that ram.
> Until it is regulated, you can get away with insider trading

You would have criminally mis-used Coinbase’s information which properly belongs to its shareholders. There is no statute against insider trading. It’s all a breach of fiduciary duties.