skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I apologize if this is the wrong place to address this, but I'm not sure where else to go to get answers.

But where should I go to address people falsely flagging my post? People are abusing the ability to flag posts they don't agree with, rather than flagging posts for not being relevant or of good quality.
Spotify testing auto-mixed playlists that work even on shuffle
first thing that came to mind was how anti-communism played out in vietnam, chicago boys of chile, and the contras in nicaragua

you could also argue the underdevelopment of the third world by washington consensus (free market) policies

oh and banking/finance deregulation (pre/post-glass-stegall) of the great depression, s&l crisis, and the most recent financial crisis

i really don't know how to feel about milton friedman, i like the negative income tax and he support georgism. he's really a liberal, but such a huge spokes person for the seemingly detrimental policies enacted after the collapse of keynesianism in the 70s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOeWoSFIEbI
A friend had one of those white G3 iBooks. It got replaced about five times, and I think they eventually gave him a successor G4 one. Apple's never been perfect.
I don't understand why you would keep doing the very thing people are investigating you for.
I've been saying this for years. Keynesian economics is largely correct, but underestimated asset bubbles from irrational consumers. We either need high land taxes with a redistributive basic income or we need to do away with infinite ownership at time of sale.
Thanks, but I'm not sure I take your meaning. I'd be grateful if you could clarify.
Google Expands Blockchain Push with Digital Asset Tie-Up
I think there are compelling business reasons to use Scala and hope Scala 3 simplifies the language like it promised. I don't personally think modern Scala isnt super hard to understand but there are some unpleasant edges to the language.
For one, prerendered 3D video could go as detailed as the transfer pipe & display would allow.

For another, the worst case cost is $x/45, but I would think that might improve as 3D programmers figure out optimizations in terms of multi angle view rendering.
You joke, but I know a game developer who prefers to wear skirts in the summer.

He's an indie game dev.
What's the reputation hit?
>That's an unrealistic forward standard as society is now.

I agree that it is, and in my opinion that's really terrible.

> There's more money to be made eroding your ownership of your own thoughts...

and what about real value? what happens to our collective hability to create novelty (and new value) if we double down on this path?
Twitter is a public company owned by shareholders, running a private service on their own servers. They have a right to try and control how their service is used by users and developers. If Twitter tells me I can't access their API, I probably won't develop that client not because I technically cant but because it would be an uphill battle to develop and put something out there if it depends on someones third party servers and that person does not want me to use said servers.
Chinese reversing their big US real estate buying spree
The issue isn’t who runs it, it’s that the trains don’t have tracks to reasonably run on. Elsewhere, when passenger trains are delayed, every effort is made to get them back on time again - in America, they’re left for hours in a siding while freight trains go by.
That's correct :(

> 8.2.4 Change user
> passwords/passphrases at least once
> every 90 days.
> if no one tells them that those views are bad then they feel they are ok to keep repeating.

I'd say quite the opposite: the more "persecuted" your group claims to be, the more resilient and special they feel about themselves. This is true in highly manipulative individuals as well as radical political groups.
Ahh, the classic, "We've defunded and gutted this government program. Look! Government doesn't work!" that the American right traffics in.

The private sector is the reason for these delays.

http://blog.amtrak.com/2015/02/message-amtrak-regarding-time...
Ah you’re right. It was buried and non-obvious (to me).
If others agree with the author’s opinion, it makes the case for curation like Apple Music launches with and has been touting as a differentiator.
Definitely interested in a Gmail web client alternative
> Speech must only ever be met with speech if liberals want to keep the moral high ground.

Choosing not to actively expend resources to relay speech is itself an exercise of free speech rights. Private deplatforming isn't oppression, it is free speech. (Now, if a notionally private platform is a protected monopoly on an essential avenue of communication, you are in the domain of effective government action which is why common carriers exist; but while FB may be a popular social media venue, I don't think it reaches that level.)
I've been trying to crack the encryption on this for a while. I want to make a free public train status api (I built amtrak.io). If anyone would like to help improve public open data around Amtrak, please contact me.

Been also digging into making a PDF parser for their very complicated schedule files, not that they follow it anyway :)
I don't know, the /query-livemap.exe/ bit is also a little depressing...
I enjoy how strict r/askhistorians is, but the result of their policies is fewer (better) questions and definitely fewer comments. That won't fly with something like Facebook watching the bottom line, engagement, etc.

Strict policies on a subreddit essentially rule out a huge swathe of people who might be interested, but be unable/unwilling to pose a solid question or have the expertise to respond.
John McAfee and Craig “Satoshi” Wright argue over unhackable hardware wallet
Ask HN: How to improve my Cython / Big Cython repos
I'm currently trying to be better at using Cython.

Since I know Python and C, I can already code in Cython, but cannot say I master it.

What are your recommendations (books, websites besides the official doc,…)?

Usually, reading some open source code helps, but I don't know big Cython projects with advanced Cython features (like classes, weakrefs, nogil, etc…), just Python projects that use a bit of Cython.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback. I started building it to find the less crowded places to get some work done or get some coffee fast haha.
I'm building the site from Uruguay right now, so most of the people trying it out are here.

Geolocation can fail if you are not allowing geolocation services for your browser or operating system, or if you don't allow it on the site itself.
When geolocation fails, the site can't find the nearest places, but you can search them and when you add a spot you can select from a (still growing) list of cities.
So we can easily identify ethnic nationalism as one of the ways in which right wing politics can go very, very wrong. The problem with calling it out on it's own, without calling out something equally vile on the left, is that whoever does it ends up looking very partial to the left as a consequence.

Left wing politics can clearly go very wrong as well, but it's harder to identify what the destructive ideas on the left because they are cloaked in compassion for the downtrodden. Jordan Peterson has put forward the idea that it is something like the trifecta of "equity diversity and inclusion" that we need to look out for from the left, but obviously these are very desirable things on first glance, and so it isn't that simple to just put these ideas in a box that's off limits.
A GraphQL interface for Kubernetes
You start by choosing the right partner. Seriously. No matter how many smart books about parenting you read, you will not have time and energy to follow them, if you are too busy divorcing at the moment your kids need you.

A single parent is not enough. No matter how much you love your kids... being alone with them all the time will drive you crazy. You need another adult person to share the burden, to provide feedback, to make a joke at the right moment and remind you that there is life after parenting.

Time spent with your children is more important than the toys you buy them. (Though some toys are better than others. That would be a long debate, but the short version is "Lego good, Barbie bad" i.e. the toy should be there to teach your child some skills, not just to be admired for how expensive it was.)

Be there to provide encouragement when your child succeeds at something, and comfort when it fails. Try to encourage your child to try new things, but don't push. Sometimes a child fails at something, and then a few days or months later succeeds; that is natural. Sometimes children evolve in "jumps"; for a few months you don't see any progress at some specific area, and then a huge change happens overnight.

Your children will try to manipulate you; probably before they learn to talk. That is also natural. Resist the manipulation, but don't get angry.

Always reward progress with praise, even very small progress. Be specific with the praise, i.e. describe exactly the progress you celebrate. For overcoming difficult problems, offer rewards.

In teaching, I am a fan of Montessori education: set up an environment where learning happens naturally, and then learning will happen. For example, your child is more likely to learn drawing, if they have pencils and paper always available; more likely to get mechanical skills if they have mechanical toys; and more likely to be good at computers when they have access to a computer. (Computers, that is a separate long topic. But again: don't use them as a device for playing shooting games or chatting online, rather use editors or encyclopedias etc.)

As my RPG-playing friends say: "If your child could do something alone, but you are doing it for them, you are stealing their experience points." Teach kids new skills. Yes, at the first time they will be clumsy and likely do it wrong. That's natural. You are investing in the long-term outcome.

The children will copy what you do. That is a f-ing huge responsibility! But also an extra reward for finally getting your own life in order.

Don't ever believe that the school will fix something. The teacher cannot be a substitute parent; they have dozens of other kids in the classroom, lessons to teach, exams to administer, and most importantly a ton of paperwork to fill.

Accept that sometimes you won't do things perfectly. As long as you avoid the worst mistakes, you are still doing a great job.

...you are right, I could probably go on and write 200 more pages. :D
People who claim to be "playing devil's advocate" are either people who just like arguing for its own sake, or use the excuse to espouse their own shitty beliefs.

And instead of actually having to defend the positions they put forth, they claim they're just playing the devil's advocate.
> don’t forget to get your shots, bring your monthly supply of soylent and fill your instagram with the experience to your hearts content.

...talk about projecting!
This is my number one criteria for a job offer. I will not sign anything that brings into question my right to freely pursue creative projects in my own time. I'm fortunate that, as a programmer, I am in the minority of the population that actually has some bargaining power when it comes to employment contracts.

It seems to me time and again that the United States' priorities were in far better shape a hundred or so years ago.
The Walls Are Closing In
I think people here are liable to see Android as a public good, compared to its competition.
Louis Rossmann on YouTube has a take on this "you're using it wrong" culture of Apple products I find interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYHwkIuEMo
I read it when I was far too young to have done so, but thoroughly enjoyed it. After seeing it mentioned twice on this thread and Seveneves mentioned on /. yesterday, I'm more than inclined to reread the former or pick up the latter this Summer.
"Sustainable Energy – without the hot air" is a much better book and available free to read online at https://www.withouthotair.com/

Whilst it's a bit out of date and focuses mostly on the UK, it contains a wealth of figures and references for all possible renewable sources. It covers the topic in a neutral and non-biased way presenting the numbers and graphs to make the point that the transition to renewable will have to require a number of technologies as well as huge energy savings in transportation and heating.
Would it be possible to simply serve employees a hardened email VM on demand which included editing and composition utilities (office, Adobe)? I envision something that could be destroyed after each use to prevent persistence and could be put on a VLAN which included only the email server and specific internal services if need be to make pivoting difficult.
I wonder what amount of money would be sufficient to create the digital equivalent of a foundation to ensure the uptime of a website/project. It would be kinda cool to put away a few grand to ensure something stays up "forever".
I'm not necessarily sure this is the cart before the horse.

Deciding to publish the results can just as easily be restated as "Come up with an experiment with a clear and precise scope"

Where to publish is often determining what audience and what questions to ask. For example, targeting a clinical journal means proofs and analytical results may be less compelling, while a simulation of a study might be of active interest.

Both of those help narrow the scope of "All possible interesting questions" to something tractable.
I find this to be awful and I don't even use Slackware.
Next-Gen Nuclear Is Coming–If Society Wants It
We have an in-house cloud running Kubernetes and we also use Google Cloud with Kubernetes. It is scary to move to GKE in-prem if we do not know pricing.
On a similar note, it'd be nice if there were an arrow indicating it was a dropdown in the first place.
The waste generated by countries that have over 1 billion inhabitants each will dwarf the amount of garbage we could ship them even if all garbage storage in the US was outsourced to them.

It's a simple numbers game. 300 million will never produce as much waste as 1 billion.
Law, but I was teaching forensics students. Law firms and police departments do extensive background checks. I'm now in defense and we do insane background checks. If you say that you don't drink, you better not have a facebook page full of drunken party pictures.
Yep! Expandable to a glorious 8MB.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II
Previous thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11991479
For twits yes, but I don't see how it is relevant to showing how many friends you have for example on FB
> People who claim to be "playing devil's advocate" are either people who just like arguing for its own sake, or use the excuse to espouse their own shitty beliefs.

> And instead of actually having to defend the positions they put forth, they claim they're just playing the devil's advocate.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that meme / idiom / whatever. It's good to know.

FWIW, in my OP, my point in claiming "devil's advocate" was to flag that I wasn't trying to advocate any of those individual positions I was citing. My larger point hinged simply on the sheer number of people holding views, regardless of the views' defensibly.

I wonder if "devil's advocate" was the wrong term for what I had in mind.
Thanks for watching mfer! Kaniko certainly doesn't address all of the challenges with building containers securely, but I think it's the best solution available _today_ that supports the common Dockerfile workflow.

There are a number of other promising tools like img, but aren't readily usable yet because of a dependency on some upstream PR's.

At GitLab, we're trying to think of ways to help developers understand the challenges, as well as provide easy to adopt solutions as these tools become available. Would love your thoughts and feedback: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/48913
> Throughout the book, the author cites a scientific study and article on nearly every page, so you know that these are real hard facts.

This is almost discouraging to me. If spending too much time on HN has taught me anything, it's that citing a study (especially medical, nutrition, and psychology papers, among other fields I'm probably missing), is not nearly enough of a guarantee that some assertion should be called a 'hard fact'.

I tend to depend more on the force of overall coherence in an argument, as well as its fidelity with my own experiences. Of course this is a problematic heuristic in its own right, since it by definition limits your ability to believe counter-intuitive but true results—but I'm not sure what's better.

I think with enough reproductions of results in varied contexts, unintentional reappearance of results in overlapping or unrelated studies, applications being developed on top of results (treatments, engineering applications, other fields of study)—then you can start considering the result to be 'factual'.

But from the above description, the impression I get of the book is that it's probably one of these taking a bunch of new studies which can be read a certain way to push a hypothesis the author is in favor of, but it'll take a decade or more before we have a good sense of whether the whole thing was BS (or at least badly exaggerated) or not.
So if someone advocates ethnic nationalism in a complex and multifaceted way, backed by data and statistics, You would allow it?
The entire genome in each cell contains all of the genes for every type of cell in your body. In different types of cells and in different states certain genes are upregulated and downregulated. Essentially the process for turning a specific gene into the protein it codes for can be turned on or off. That is what is meant by an active vs inactive gene.

Note: the activity of a neuron and the activity of a specific gene (eg rac1) are two completely different kinds of activity. The first is electrochemical activity and the second is production activity. Where changes in production can change the physical number of receptors available for the electrochemcial process.
I understand why you think that, but I actually wasn't joking. I believe people should be able to wear what they like.

Good on your game dev friend. That's not an easy thing to do.

Pacific Islander men often wear what we in the West would call a "skirt". This is all just an issue of culture. Our culture isn't necessarily the best, and certainly isn't "the right way".

In the past I have worn a lava lava in the hot Queensland summer. It's great.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7a/6a/95/7a6a956128892187bba615ec6...
What country are you living where you can't have access to such "old" monitors? An imaginary one?
The Spy Who Drove Me
Except channels. If you use channels it's non-obvious gotchas galore.
A better approach compared to banning things currently needed by disabled people and then, once disabled people object, saying "well, we need to develop better alternatives for disabled people, but we can't let these issues get in the way" would be to first develop alternatives and then, once there are good alternatives that are actually usable and safe for disabled people, ensuring their availability as part of the same policies that reduce or eliminate the use of the environmentally problematic things.

There's no reason why the needs of disabled people must conflict with taking care of the environment. The apparent conflict in this situation was introduced because people developed their environmental policy proposals without any awareness of or care for the interests and needs of disabled people: if we do not account for the effects of policies on disabled people when deciding which policies to prioritize and how to implement them, some policies will look artificially more appealing because of our inattention to some of their costs and the policies we do choose to pursue will end up implemented in needlessly harmful ways simply because we weren't paying attention to whether we ended up causing harm to some people.
It might just be that roaming is being actively throttled.

I get great speeds in the UK, I get mediocre speeds in the EU, I get terrible speeds in the USA. All with the same handset and (SIM) carrier.
> helping in some major way to perpetuate big government

Is that supposed to automatically be something bad? I didn't see anything of the sort in the post.
"They're already a publisher."

Actually, they're a media company. They want you think they're a publisher so they can skirt the laws as long as they can. Media companies are regulated.

Facebook crafts thousands of tiny narratives using their many millions of users as the writers/editors/publishers through posted links, status updates, and media such as live video and photos. Currently, those narratives are algorithmically determined using advertisers and eventually those narratives will trend towards Facebook's nebulous definition of being deemed culturally acceptable, non-threatening, and, most important, the age-old advertiser friendly.

It's a slightly democratically-controlled but primarily advertiser-driven narrative creation machine with each narrative crafted by algorithms that are guided by a set of heuristics augmented after each public incident. It's the same as TV, but because 100's of millions of people/advertisers are involved it still looks like it's something else entirely.

But it's not, it's just another media company.
I don't have the capacity to do this, but I tried a few years ago:

I no longer am in a situation where I need tracking, but a couple of years ago I had the need for tracking my daily commuter train. I had to resort to scraping the website to find the status. If it was late, I had a push notification sent to my phone (a combination of a free app engine deployment and pushbullet). I tried to get integration via Tasker to set my alarm back if the train was more than [x] minutes, but never got to that point.

I really hope that you make some progress on this, though I wish you didn't have to and Amtrak shared the data.
Do you know what the downsides would be of using a t2.micro in production (for a low volume of requests)?
All computers get really hot when doing stuff like video rendering, not really apple specific
Highway Noise Barriers Are a Lie
In which metric? Don't think you get the fastest in all metrics for that low a sum. Especially with all the other top-in-class features that also matter to people.
On the “About this site”, on the right, it says:

> Hi, I'm Steve Purcell - Sanity, Inc. is my one-man consultancy and software house.
Someone was kind enough to remove it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pumpable_ice_tech...
My understanding is that if you ever have considered playing music in a business, you pretty much have to get licenses for all of them. AFAIK, ASCAP/BMI/Whoever don't operate their own services, so you're always at risk, if you don't get licenses from everybody, that whatever service you use will play a verboten song and poof there go your profits for the last N quarters.
Elasticsearch SQL
My understanding is mandatory homework is all the way up to the university level. If I recall correctly its something along the lines of 2 hours of homework for every hour of instruction at the college level. I could be completely wrong and this might only apply is certain situations but it was a topic of debate in one of my college classes years ago.

I know personally, my grades from about 6th grade on dropped a lot because I stopped doing homework. I didn't need the extra practice to excel in the subject. Funny, because I remember teachers saying it will effect my work habits if I keep not doing homework but in a professional setting I have no problem completing my tasks and researching on my own time.

I personally think homework should be assigned based on individuals grasp of the subject. If the individual needs more practice assign it, if they don't... don't. It incentives learning while still providing resources for those who don't learn as fast or well.