skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon tried auctions so did Yahoo...

https://www.cnet.com/news/merchants-pull-out-of-amazon-aucti...
Great article! Although it's definitely more likely (6 times) to have two investments fail and two succeed than all four succeed. Of course his point still stands that there's luck involved in investing.
California Supreme Court takes three-state initiative Proposition 9 off ballot
Why filing taxes isn‘t easy
Debt provides a perspective unlike any in the established economic liliterature. It's perspective is anathema to the Austrian and Keynesian economics most in the cryptocurrency world have. The fact that he read the book means he has a wider perspective than most.
You don't; unless you talk to each of them and try and figure out if they are worth their salt. You should assume they don't know anything until proven otherwise.
Solving the generator functions of human existential risks
Literally a straw man attack. Facebook is a private platform and they can do whatever they want with their business. I was speaking specifically about freedom of expression.
They just have too many employees. They make plenty of money. If they get lean, they should be fine.
Elon Musk Walks Back ‘Pedo Guy’ Attack on Thai Cave Diver
I applied with the low character requirements; I assumed you were encouraging brevity for the sake of the reviewers. Should I reapply or will it not have a large impact on admission decisions?
If the doctor appointment costs $100, the ministry pays $90. If OP negotiates the price to $90,OP pays nothing. Ministry still pays $90.
Heh. I’ve thought that myself once or twice.
In my limited experience, the robots.txt is helpful, but not a stop all. The big G still indexed a bunch of my pages because a certain group was creating (off of my site) links to the spammy pages - which makes G index it; however if you have like:
Disallow: spamresult
Disallow: search

They can still end up in the index, just with a not that says "no description is available for this page"

I remember years ago the debate Matt Cutts asked if G should index and pointed out that other engines were indexing pages that were robots.txt blocked.. meh.

I had to setup a 301 to homepage redirect system to zap all the pages I took out... although some other engines still spider looking for those pages even though I removed them with 301s over a year ago - perhaps the spammers still have links going to them?

I started just blocking all indexing from sogu or whatever it's called and similar bots in the robots.txt and then started to look at ip / cidrs to block further after thinking they would get the hint after several months.

Hope your situation is different.
We are here, so why can't aliens exist, right? I don't think it's as simple as the drake equation suggests. There are trillions of variables that life on earth has had to overcome with relative success. Even this is abstract and is in turn subjective. I speculate that if we repeatedly redefine our assumptions on how unlikely it is for life to arise in our part of the universe, we still only have a potential baseline for life in the milky way; this is again skewed by our position in the solar system and cannot be reasonably accounted for by an algorithm. (We don't know what we can't test)
It's particularly interesting in that Finnish is non Indo-European. You'd think it would be a IE speaking country, particularly a Romance one, that would be into Latin, but no.
Thank you for mentioning this. It gives a much better perspective.
Try https://camelcamelcamel.com. It shows you the price history of Amazon items and can alert you when they fall.
> because of ATT Mobility LLC v. Concepcion

Then perhaps your ire should be directed at the politicians responsible for appointing judges with more acceptable leanings on civil liberty issues like this, and not at some random local magistrate who failed to rule for the gambling rando who lost $4500 on kickstarter.

I get what you're saying. This isn't a good example of the problem, nor a productive location to whine about it.
If I'm understanding correctly, those five players are for the match in early August.

They'll still have a match against top pros at the International in late August.
I keep thinking about this tweet from Musk... and his recent explosion on live TV saying "don't buy our stock"...

And the only rational conclusion that I can come to about the both of those outbursts is that it seems like Elon Musk might be suffering from some sort of drug problem imho.

I am sure he is extremely stressed out in his day to day life, so that could account for the outbursts as well... but not the "pedo guy" comment imho... that was just purely unhinged hatred which I have only seen in the eyes of drug addicts and the mentally ill.

The seriousness of that "pedo guy" comment and the levels of bad that it does for his image and his companies in general is unimaginable.

What on earth was he thinking?

Did he actually just call all of Thailand a safe haven for pedophiles? As in... what on earth could a british expat possibly be doing in that country besides having sex with children.

That was what he was implying.

So he not only insulted that man (who just saved children mind you), but an entire country at the same time.

And then he was backing it up and laughing about it to other tweeters saying "I bet you a signed dollar it's true".

My god.

I lost a massive amount of respect for that man with that single tweet of his.
It will run out of gas way before then.
Same here. I went from front end when Angular was starting to pop up, but Angular never really clicked with me for some reason. I went into backend and platform development. Popped my head back into front end development recently. React is just such a pleasure to work with and exactly the way I've always wanted to be able to build front ends. (This sounds kinda dramatic, but it's true...)
Cincinnatus, Washington, de Klerk... probably a handful more
I've had Kilchoman's port cask and loved it, and brought a bottle of their madeira cask to take with on my vacation --- I like it a lot, though not as much as the port cask. I feel like --- but am probably wrong --- super fancy casks are a relatively new thing in Islay whisky.

I think NAS is a positive step for the whole industry.
I agree about flat Earthers. It’s moronic but doesn’t esslly hurt anyone.

I disagree about the holocaust.
It's been said before, but it bears repeating: Bezos and Musk are literal Bond-villains -- freaky looking billionaires building ICBMs under our very noses -- and no one is doing anything about it.

Where is the gadget-laden, womanizing secret agent who will save us?
$250 for a bottle of Macallan is insane. It's not worth it. You're paying for the name.
Yeah...its all about the money. I have mild allergies in the spring that don't really bother me... Last year I did my appointment for my annual in the spring. Doctor goes, you have allergies. If I write you a prescription I gotta charge you as a problem visit. I recommend you try over the counter Claritan and if it doesn't help, come back.

Now this doctor didn't own the practice, it's a decent size local franchise. Maybe that's their policy. But atleast the doctor told me up front. For my wife...we didn't know till we got the bill. Funny thing is the doctor signed paperwork that my wife did an annual (i get $$ from work if we do annuals)
I agree you have to draw a line, however they can’t seem to draw one and stick to it.

I think they would just deserve strong criticism for this incident, but the reaction is certainly worse given everything that’s been happening for the last few years.
They are far, far more open than iOS. You can actually replace the built-in apps.
My immediate reaction is that some places have a lot more people visiting on a daily basis than live there.
Glenmorangie isn't sherried unless you get the "La Santa" version, which I don't think is as good as the original, and then it's only finished for two years in sherry casks after the usual maturation in bourbon casks.

Aberlour A'bunadh is great, as noted, as is Glendrodach, but they've run out of 15 year old casks, and the 18 isn't enough better to justify the price hike.

Another favorite is the Bunnahabhain 18, a non-peaty, sherried Islay whisky.
I'm just glad no other industry operates this way.

"oh need new tires? We can't tell you how much it costs till we actually install your tires"
Right, the casks still work, but it's not like aging scotch in William Larue Weller casks works any better than Jim Beam casks. It's just a source of oak.
I tried out one of their pillows and i couldn’t stand the smell. :(
There's over 500 of then working on the project. It feels like you're seeing the props department and talking like it's the whole team grinding to a halt.
I surprises me that the author doesn't list XML as an option. XML has been used for configuration for 15+ years where I work with little or no issues. It is easy to use and easy to read and because of that I will continue to prefer XML over the alternate format listed in the article.
There are disagreements, but let's put it this way: If even the FSF would call it okay, then it's almost certainly okay. And the FSF will tell you that the kernel license doesn't infect user space.
You can also get out on a payment plan that lasts for like 20 years. Then after a few years the hospital writes off the debt and says you don't have to pay - assuming you haven't declared bankruptcy yet.
Not modern adulthood, but electronic dance culture in the 1990s probably (from my point of view) was possibly close. Of course, I really don't know the early punk scene firsthand, which I heard was way more DIY in say the early 1980s, kind of like what you are talking about, vs when I played in a punk band in the 2000s (this is the impression I get when I talked to some guys who were in relatively known local bands in the 1980s).

I also don't know mmuch about the 1960s hippie culture firsthand, of course.

But my "impression" of the 1990s rave scene was that indeed it was in between the punk ethos (DIY, warehouse takeovers, some aggressive music styles like gabber/hardcore) and the hippie ethos (bohemian, some psychedelic influence, etc.) At any rate you did get that sense of "for the scene" with the rave community, something that is indeed special when you can find it.

For all I know there are some scenes similar to that still, but it's hard to keep up with this sort of thing -- it's hard to reconcile a late-hours youth culture with responsible 9-5 job culture. :( It would be interesting to know for sure what has taken its place.
> I don't know why that effect is not present now

Inelastic demand. Whether you have a debilitating/life-threatening illness, or are worried whether the lump in your throat is heartburn or the cancer that'll end your life, your incentive to engage with competing market presences is massively diminished for several reasons (urgency, many people have a desire for their life-or-death decisions not to be commoditized, etc.).
Head over to their website and take a look. They have some of the most seasoned game project managers on their books.
Total control of information is the best way to differentiate ourselves from the Nazis?
Averaging about 4.5h of sleep per night (down at around 2A up at 6:30A without fail — #noSnooze). I’m in my 40s, and was the kid that l watched David Letterman at 1AM in junior high, and an avid coffee drinker by early high school. Every time I read an article/study on sleep I get inspired to tack on a few hours to reap said benefits, but never follow through.

Based on what I’ve read, I’m writing waking hour checks that science says I can’t cash. And apparently, after this study, will do so unhappily.
That's a dark thought.
But three legs makes sense given you are only seeing one side. If you showed a person from one side it's likely you'd only see one leg. It's the 5 legs and 4 legs that don't make sense.
At the moment, it's just a friendlier alternative to sed's range ability. I have a couple of additional features I'd like to incorporate, such as multiple ranges, that I think will add value for users.
I personally like ucl[1], but toml is pretty decent too.

[1]: https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
not always true, sometimes they use better data structures

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
I like the "late Risers Club" on MIT radio. 10am -12 EST. They stream and have archived shows.

http://wmbr.org/www/sched-mul#show5756

and http://laterisersclub.org/
C# C# C# one day?
Adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> to each page should work. Also as a heads up, having an entry in robots.txt to disallow is not enough since pages can still be indexed if they can be navigated from anywhere else on the web.
It's pretty great if you're Zaphod Beeblebrox, though, since then it just confirms that the entire universe centers on you.
I looked at Bauer's 'Decrypted Secrets' and when it gets to this it goes - something, ADFGVX, something, Kriegsmarine-modified-Enigma, Shannon and then Suddenly, Horst. It's been a long time since I've read any of the relevant history but it's kind of coming back to me that in the period you picked, cryptography wasn't really a field of significant public research. The Codebreakers was published in '68, just a couple of years before Lucifer. It doesn't even cover the Enigma breaks at all and the publication was considered a national security concern. It seems like not an awful lot about the classified research has come out, even in the decades in which it's surely been publicly replicated and superseded.

I thought they'd be more directly published (rather than inferred) about the technical methods of VENONA but even there, there's very little. Like, they haven't even released the raw decrypts, just translations. And a bunch of papers congratulating themselves on how awesome they were.
Where Healthcare Startups in USA need to spend more attention?
REST was never about CRUD
Former Valve employee details his experience at the self-organizing company
> If it was, it'd be provided.

That's a faulty assumption right there. Usually, people providing workers with their computers and software have limited idea what those workers actually need to work efficiently. This works out fine when workflows are defined so well a trained monkey could do the job, and fails miserably when the worker needs any sort of creative control over their workflow or work output (programmers, designers, all sorts of engineers and technicians, etc.). Most corporate work is probably closer to monkey level than to creative level, but enterprises love to do company-wide policy changes, making all work conform to lowest common denominator.

> You may have experienced poor IT departments in the past, or thought you experienced poor IT departments because you didn't understand the other considerations in play, but that's hardly an excuse to assume any given IT choice is some sort of attempt to prevent employees from doing their jobs.

I've experienced one competent IT department in my life, and their best quality was helping shield our programming team from policies like application whitelisting or limiting admin access, that they were forced to deploy company-wide. For other IT departments I dealt with, most of their actions were explainable if viewed through the lens of caring about the infrastructure to the extreme - that is, "if no one uses it, no one will break it" approach.
Gracefully Scaling to 10k PostgreSQL Connections for $35/mo, Part One
I agree. Afaik the core of the editor logic in VsCode is all typescript.

There are some native parts, like obviously electron. And I think the find-in-files function uses ripgrep, which is written in rust. But that's a far stretch from "increasing parts of it being re-written in C or C++".
Interfering in your customers' dealings that have nothing to do with you sounds morally awful to me.
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning security and pen testing?
You're saying that you hold these two circumstances to be of equal importance in regards to freedom of speech?

If I have to choose one of your suggestions to put time and effort behind having properly defined by governance, I'm going to go with Facebook's authority in determining a "potential for violence" threshold.
I seem to remember that the old-school method was to auction off a bunch of small-ticket items like shareware/freeware CDs, bumper stickers, etc. to build up positive reviews.
That also fails.
The debate again, goes to the platform and a determination as to whether or not they've become something of a "common carrier".

ISPs can make the same argument against Net Neutrality.
Angels Envy - port barrel finished - is one of my favorites.
I'm pretty sure that's undisputed, but it also doesn't address the concern of what happens once a customer finds themselves in that situation, whatever the reason.

Furthermore, this response could be construed as reinforcing the OC's precise concern regarding Google's attitude:

> that you are probably wrong.
somewhat OT, but fwiw I recently stumbled upon the Fonduer project which does some interesting extraction methods beyond just OCR. https://hazyresearch.github.io/snorkel/blog/fonduer.html

They have a pdf-to-tree package which i haven't had good results from but perhaps i need to finally learn ML and try to train models for this a bit: https://github.com/HazyResearch/pdftotree
A civilization with the kind of industrial base and know-how to build Dyson swarms probably also has the ability to create smallish self-sustaining colonies, in space or on/within uninhabitable planets. With enough of those floating around, even if most of civilization was wiped out, it seems likely that someone, somewhere would survive... and potentially be able to reseed a future civilization. So there’s hope.
Fortnite Playground LTM Postmortem
Dismissively Stubborn
/First of all, I wholeheartedly reject the idea that giving to a civil rights organization should be treated the same as giving to an organization meant to downplay climate change./

Only because YOU believe it. Others don't agree with you, and therein lies the problem: You wish to weaponize data against people because you disagree with them. You're taking this much too personally, which signals that you have an emotional fixation on a specific ideology, or position, and anger at those who you disagree with. That's not how a democracy works.
What are the recommended background readings to best prepare founders for this program? IMO it helps a lot when participants already use the same framework and speak the same language, so that more time can be devoted to specific problems.

Obviously for people that hang out on HN, we already had some shared understanding. But a list of recommended readings to make sure all gaps are filled would be very useful as well.
This is not really surprising since parking is designed for maximum capacity, not average capacity. Parking lots for stadiums and shopping malls are mostly empty most of the time.

A city could have 10x the number of parking spaces as households and still not have nearly enough parking spaces available for, say, downtown parking.
go broke as you mention, and often go without care.

Sometimes being dumped from a hospital in the middle of the night drugged at some random location.

Often times a small problem gets put off and becomes a much larger problem.

It becomes a burden on family and friends, sometimes leads to amputations and other surgeries such that otherwise could of been avoided with better care.

This a huge problem for a lot of people, especially if you add in the dental care that is needed and not obtained around the country.

ymmv
I honestly don't know why it's better to ban denial rather than trying to engage and educate. It's been very confusing to me. Could you please explain?
One place to start: https://www.startupschool.org/library
Unveil(2) – Unveil parts of a restricted filesystem view
React Suite v3.2.1 Release Overview
The Fermi Paradox makes me remind of https://xkcd.com/605/ . Would that extrapolation look normal for an alien or for someone of a radically different culture? Oh, even a child from our culture would argue that you just can't marry twice not each day, but for total outsiders it won't be so obvious and even some may think that it should happen.

We are outsider ones in this Fermi Paradox extrapolation. We are very far from being able to do interstellar travel, specially in scale, tripulated, or thinking in some way of colonization, even for our closest star system. Like with the weddings, we are extrapolating without knowing anything about how it is really in practice interstellar travel and colonization, specially in big scale.

And more than just about physics, it assumes more things about intra/inter alien culture. They must expand as much as they can, and they must do visible for everyone things (dark forest? nah), and interstellar travel/colonization is possible and desirable... those, besides the Drake equation, are the axioms of it. And they may not be true or at least give another big factor to consider in the Drake equation.

Not knowing is not equal to knowing that not. You must leave space for things that you don't know that you don't know.
I'm also an incredibly light sleeper, even when my system is OK letting me sleep it's always been hard for me to fall asleep. I've been wearing a sleep mask to block out all light for the last 15 years or so.

About 3 years ago I started using a program on iOS called Brainwave, I haven't found anything that works on Android. I use my old 3GS and very small inexpensive in-ear headphones, Philips SHE3590BK usually around $9. They fit completely inside my ears so I can sleep on my side. I use the Deep Sleep option, with the Medium Rain Ambiance, I keep the volume very low for ambiance and brain wave, just enough so I can pick up the lower tones for the brainwave.

When I started using Brainwave I needed to use the Deep Sleep/Wake up option, and I needed the volume a bit louder because it would still take me a long time to fall asleep. Wake Up mode means it's running until it's time to wake up. After using it for about 9 months I was able to switch to the Deep Sleep option and have it run only for 60 minutes. Now I'm down to running it for 15 and 95% of the time I fall asleep in less than 15 minutes, if not I just pull out the 3GS and give it another 15. Once I fall asleep the in-ear headphones block most sounds, like my wife's snoring.

I don't think it's good for my hearing/ears to run the program in Wake Up mode, which is why I switched away from it as soon as I could. I've recommended the program to normal sleepers for the napping option, so far everyone has said it's great, it lets them fall asleep fast the program wakes them up and they feel refreshed.

The program is supposed to be binaural beats, but I'm sure people on this form can explain why it's not, but I don't care. The program disrupts the constant dialog in my head, quietening my brain, allowing the sleep process to kick in. The program has been a god send.
On iOS, using the date input field gives you the date wheels which work well https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/user-interface/...

On desktop the standard for forms seems to be either 3 text fields (Y/M/D) or 3 dropdowns with the possible Y/M/D numbers in them
That's a good question.

Relatedly, assuming it's wrong for Facebook to host this content, where should the line be drawn when it comes to systems that are already decentralized? Is it wrong for email systems to transport emails with such content? Is it wrong for a browser to render such web pages? For a feed reader to allow subscriptions to such a feed? Does the answer change if a "centralized" component is involved (eg: webmail, a vpn or http proxy, or a web based feed reader)?
NASA did a study in about 2010 of electric aircraft where they concluded that battery energy density needed to be just 3 times the current state of the technology before it would become economically viable. [1]

[1]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20110011311

(this is not the actual paper I remember but it is very similar)