skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so weird to see people like you write opinions as if you're speaking from a position of authority.
> "Can you ask him the name of the company that provides these?"

"Sorry, we keep our suppliers secret. It's strategic information."
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hie is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -E. Snowden
> Dates might have gone out of fashion

I don't believe so... have you ever heard of Larabar or RxBar?

There is also Fig Bar from Nature's Bakery.
> With unwanted pregnancy ...

s/pregnancy //
right, and i countering your first sentence. Not everything has to be binary. One can be bad and other can be worst.
I'm curious what people think about protest commits. Would it be unethical for a group of employees to get together and push an update to put up a protest banner across some google software? Much like a picket line across a factory entrance?
Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security
I guess I mean, changing environments after rehab.

The problem many recovering addicts face, is that even if they get to go to rehab, they return to the same stressful home life/enabling friends/underemployment that pushed them into addiction in the first place.

I guess what I'm saying is that rehab without job training/support and relocation assistance of some kind is doomed to high recidivism. (If the word recidivism applies to rehab, not sure if that's proper usage here)
> The primary device contains the key, that the attacker can possibly extract and use, setting any arbitrary counter he/she wants.

Again, not saying it's impossible, but with the existing implementation, it takes considerable amount of time. I should be able to get the backup token faster.

> I don't really see any big benefit in having a backup vs a secondary device.

A big benefit for me is not having to add my backup token to every single service. It's both more convenient and more reliable (since I can't forget), and also more secure, because I can take my backup token and brick it into the wall. If this benefit is not a benefit for you, then, fine, we're not going to agree.
How was it?
here is a cool and interactive version:
https://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/
> but then the government pays...

That's my point. They have the money, but something-something..."policy"...something-something.... It goes to corporations instead of people.
It's not an argument against it. Its a theory why the federal government isn't pushing it anymore -- the carryover military benefits are not needed.
You're describing the system we currently have, one of many possible systems, not some natural law. Our system is rigged to require people to work in order to survive, guaranteeing a perpetual high supply of labor, which, not coincidentally, guarantees a race to the bottom in terms of wages.
Let's not forget that there are over 85,000 Google employees. And it's news that 1,000 of them signed a letter?

If you get 85,000 people together you can get 850 of them to agree to just about anything.
Shameless plug, but I run https://www.menutail.com which creates nutrition facts labels when you are ready at that stage of your business.
Everyone's overthinking this:
I think the answer is as simple as "9/11 and its global aftermath." What do we have? Wars, astounding national Debt, and the political divisiveness and uncertainty being fueled by the several crops of politicians. Well, that and the natural cultural end-game of global banks looting western civilization.
It's so natural for an economic center to become a political center (and vice versa), and so common in the US to see the opposite, that I always assumed it was intentional. I could be wrong though: Can you elaborate on what kind of historical circumstances might account for this happening across so many states?
Every day I fight the urge to tell people to get out of the elevator. The doors open, and 5 people are staring into their phones. It is like being in an episode of The Twilight Zone. I dare not speak ill of peoples fondle slabs.
There are cases where zero-based indexing is more natural than one-based indexing. An example is naming the centuries: It would be nicer if this were called the twentiethan century instead of the twenty-first. When people talk about the fifteenth century, I have to think for a bit to understand what they mean. As such, I propose adding a suffix "an" to the end of any ordinal number to indicate a zero-based convention is being used -- this century would then be the twentiethan century [twεntiθən] as well as the twenty-first. A bit like degrees vs radians.
For me, figuring out how to implement A* on a world was one of those programming milestones along the way of me grokking how software is put together. In fact, I see there's a Stack Overflow question from me still online with an implementation I wrote in Python eight years ago (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4159331/python-speed-up-...), and I have sometimes wondered how many people have then used that old snippet as a reference.

Amit's articles were online then, and definitely helped me think through these problems, and their main strength is just how visual the explanations all are. I'm pleased to see they're still online, being updated, and no doubt benefitting others, I know that personally Amit's effort was one of a number of things that has allowed me to be a full-time indie game developer all these years later.
I’m not sure that ethics aren’t valued on an individual-level by tech employees, so much as they’re denied opportunities to coordinate and express them.

Google, because of historical quirks with its culture, has provided employees a platform to do this, if only in a limited form. And what we see there is workers using it to organize and impose change from the bottom-up.

They’ll probably soon realize the limits of acting without a parallel power structure, such as a union, when executive power crashes down on them to curb this growing rebellion. But like I said, I’m hopeful that all the very smart people at Google will come to understand their true class position as labor relative to management and build something more durable that can help put the company back on a better, more ethical track.
"With Blind, users are completely anonymous, but are required to submit a verified work email to join a company channel."

That sentence seems to contradict itself.
> We are not in a Democracy. We live in a Republic.

The Soviet Union was a nondemocratic federal republic—a federal republic that is not a democracy.

Many Americans would prefer the US to be a democratic federal republic, that is, a federal republic that is also a representative democracy.

A nondemocratic republic is not a goverment of, by, and for the people. It is, at best, just the last of those three.
The second image in the post gets me thinking about another possible path finding algorithm which would take into account view distance. Most path finding I've seen either has infinite foresight (to get absolute shortest path) or no foresight, it goes super deep before having to turn around.

But what if instead of having infinite units of sight or 1 unit of sight, the subject could see for example 10 units ahead. This could give a similar path demonstrated in the second photo by the red line.
All the time when I worked as an illustrator. :D

Today I carry a little Muji pen [0] that writes well but has a teeny cartridge I replace every few months. I can think of maybe two times I've used up a proper Bic. They usually dry out or get lost before they run out.

[0] https://www.muji.us/store/wooden-hexagonal-ball-point-pen-0-...
2FA isn't _this_ problem. It's password resets via SMS that are the problem here.
The Chinese firm behind London's electric black cabs has Uber in its sights UK
I moved to SF two years ago after living in NYC for 4 years. When people here ask me if I miss New York, I tell them I miss aspects of it -- the bars, restaurants, nightlife, art, fashion. But increasingly it's the little things about daily life in New York that I miss. I saw a video on Reddit of someone doing something dumb in the subway (a daily occurrence), and I almost cried. Similarly, this story choked me up. I had also seen those bars. I always figured they were meant for some other anonymous New Yorkers, not for me.
I agree. It's definitely not perfect, and I do view the rising inequality and stagnant wages as a serious issue. I just find it alarming that when people criticize capitalism, they usually advocate for some variety of full blown socialism, which has been tried many times before and failed disastrously every single time.

I don't know what the solution is. Every government intervention has the potential to distort the market and create corrupt/perverse incentives. Rent control is a great example of something that sounds nice on paper but ends up increasing housing costs as a result. I'm generally in favor of expanding the welfare state but I think we should be extremely cautious in doing so.
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>That's absurd. If I talk about "people who live in a major city vs people who don't", then suddenly it's the people living in major cities (proper, not metro area) who are a "minority". The lines here are completely arbitrary.

>Or take farmers vs not-farmers. Oh no, it's imbalanced because only like 2% of people are employed in farm work!

I wasn't saying that balance was good and imbalance was bad - I was saying that it had an extremely uneven population distribution, which it does. It's not an 'oh no!' situation, it's another variable.

>It works reasonably well, but it would still work well, and likely better, if representation was simply one person, one vote, without any special handouts based on where you live or who you are or what you do for a living.

I don't know any place that follows that rule, and theoretically I can find some ways that it wouldn't work better or at all if it was a much more direct democracy without subsidies of any kind.
Lol yeah maybe androids, not iphones
If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you.

You are taking a personal risk but you are absolutely doing the right thing.
The $450 Million was the amount of money they already raised through donations, it's nothing they have to pay back.
While amusing, I'd like to point out that the accuracy stated for this law doesn't meet the precision that the parent poster stated (0.1°C).
Oh god, I think I'm in love with a lighting setup...
> Yes, we do.

Honest question, why? I just find it slightly inappropriate and not adding much value
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I mean, you effectively run an authoritarian site where you and only you get an opinion.

And that's fine. It is your platform.

I had a similar discussion with someone else. We see censorship in general as something wrong. So only bad actors do it. Good people, like you and me, don't do bad things. So we don't censor. So whatever we do can't be censoring, because only bad people censor.

What if censorship isn't always bad? For instance, you censor all opinions not your own on your site. You have established it as the one stop shop for iotku's opinion on things iotku wishes to opine on. Since I do not have iotku's opinions, I can't really elaborate on them. I can't explain why iotku thought x or y. So my voice is pointless in that realm.

Although the question of how much of a responsibility these sites have to hold to the purest ideals of freedom of speech isn't a bad one. I personally believe that they can make that determination themselves and it is not my place to insist on a certain standard.
The cost of what? The end-user cost that you’re billed or their costs to provide the service?
That's a good question. I remember some stats professor tried to popularize the phrase "voluntary response data are worthless" (see also: 'tokenadult on that point, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322237). Point being, there's a strong self-selection happening with voluntary polls - people who are opinionated enough to be bothered to answer a poll are not a good sample of the population.

Another thing I wonder about: since this is a kiosk that's going to stand out there for some time, what happens if a group of interest decides to game a poll, by telling its members to go there and vote (possibly multiple times a day)?
Yes! Thanks for the correction. I am so used to the acronym soup that I occasionally slip up on definitions. Lol!
How are unions a centralized decision-making process relative to companies that are ran like dictatorships by unelected executives? If anything, labor organization decentralizes decision-making and power within a company.
Usually the point ends up failing before running out of ink. I've run a few down to the 15-20% mark but by then they're typically very old and the rollerball stops working.
>[xdg-shell] is implemented by literally who?

Uh... everyone. Mutter, Kwin, qwayland, wlroots, wlc, Sway, waymonad, Way Cooler, Weston, Enlightenment, and Mir all support it, as well as clients like GTK+, Qt, GLFW, SDL, EFL...

Look, you don't have to use Wayland. No one has said it's done, and Xorg still works fine. If it doesn't support everything you need, then it's not for you, no big deal.
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> Nintendo addressed this by strictly limiting the number of releases, as well as having a thorough pre-release review process. Atari couldn't do that, since there was no way to police it, and anyway they wanted to shovel out crap themselves.

This is only true of Nintendo outside of Japan, and pretends that both Nintendo and Atari had some aversion to shipping crap games. Atari being able to limit third parties wouldn't have stopped ET, and Nintendo of America still published their own sweet of terrible games.
No. I think it was just a large drop in compensation along with increase in productivity targets making radiologists less likely to sell radiology to MED students.

Radiology job market improved since then, residency spots are not going Unfilled anymore.

ML may put radiologists out of a job, but it will take some time I think. Lots of changes will happen by then. Radiology is a nice place to be for hacker types in medicine. It’s actually a fun place to do ML research which I do also (radiologist / AI researcher)

Edit: Medicare has walked back some compensation cuts for medical imaging (for multiple procedures on the same day). My tin foil hat theory is the cost cutters got spooked by the prospect of no more us graduates in radiology.
Safety has more than one axis. Also, if we sold MDMA in pubs, and told everyone "hey, take as much as you like, as often as you like" are you sure things would go swimmingly?
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Large movements start small. In order to become a larger movement, first it needs a small movement.
> you don't know what you're talking about.

Personal attacks aren't welcome here.

The government has the money. As evidenced by their defense budget.

The government does not pay the money to their employees. As evidenced by NSA employees making less than high-grade truck drivers.

The government does pay billions to corporations such as Lockheed or Booz, etc.

SO let's recap: they have the money, they just choose not to pay it to their employees. But instead it inexplicably gets rerouted to rent-seeking gatekeepers.
I wonder if a solid electrolyte would allow for sub-freezing charging of the batteries.
> No, because that doesn't make any sense. Nobody always thinks long term.

Then why do we have one house where geographic minorities get extra power permanently?

> Geographic minorities in the US get extra political power because they require increased infrastructure spending relative to their population

No, they get extra political power because it was needed to bring them into the union when the country was founded, and the Constitution is very difficult to amend. At this point there's no reasonable justification it should continue this way, except that the very parties that benefit also have veto power over the system changing. It's like the Security Council.

> they have a history of rebellion in systems with a centralized government

Funny, there are lots of countries that don't give extra political power to rural areas that seem to manage just fine. Does anyone seriously think Wyoming is going to try and secede? Why would they if, by your own admission, they're being subsidized by the more populous states?

> more likely to not only accept the decisions of government but actively take part.

Syracuse, NY has an even smaller population than those states, and yet somehow its residents manage bring themselves to take part in politics.
No such business does this.
Iraq invasion was initially welcomed by vast majority of iraqis and US were initially seen as the liberators. So "invading" is not the correct word to use because it was not seen as such by Iraqis.
There is certainly a valid view to see it as a way to represent those interests.

To my knowledge, counties and cities are almost always political subdivisions of the State, so that "nod" to geography isn't justified by that nominal sovereignty.

Usually a state senate is an upper house that has a smaller number of members, and usually has unique "advise and consent" powers over judicial and executive appointments.
> E.T. being such a travesty to the art of video game creation

People love to bash E.T., but it was a good game for its time, just hard to grasp without the included manual.
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All the time. I 'lose' my pens all the time, but I only buy the same kind of pen and I buy them in large quantities. So when I "lose" them I'm really just moving them to another place where I spend time. Next time I'm there I 'find' that pen. Eventually some of them do run out of ink, although they've been moved from office to bedroom to car to work to bag and back many times. I have probably 100 or so of these pens saturating my environment.

I mercilessly throw away pens that show up in my workspace but aren't my type of pens. This seems wasteful but I hate random pens of varying quality. You seem to never unexpectedly find high-quality pens. I buy high-quality but ultimately disposable pens that end up costing about $2/ea so if one is ever accidentally stolen it's not a huge deal, plus I can recognize my pens from afar so I just casually grab them back from coworkers.
> is natural, i.e, just abstinence.

No, it specifically isn't abstinence. It's a combination of mostly non-abstinence with a window of abstinence timed with a thermometer.

A method can be called "natural" if it could successfully be practiced by cavemen. Selective abstinence based on counting days since menstruation could be called natural; cavemen could conceivably figure that out.

Needless to say, total abstinence is also natural.
Are they blocking others who want to enter/exit the elevator? "EXCUSE ME!" works.

Otherwise, if they choose a purgatory of never ending elevator rides, at least they are not behind the wheel of an automobile.
>underestimating the level of sexual repression in the States.

Let alone the rest of the religious world, and even non-religious people can be puritanical about sex
I prefer both options: opt-in by obscurity.
That's very true. I guess I'm referring to "disease" in a too-narrow pathological sense.

We're all complex open systems so of course disease and environment are intertwined, I just find that when lay-people like me refer to addiction as disease, they typically mean a narrow definition of "let's find a problem with your brain that we can fix," and not much else.

Maybe I was addressing an imaginary counter-argument!
The stations are mobile and can be attached and placed almost everywhere. Some cities have special rules or restrictions.
I have used Opera many years and observed all the innovative features they introduced which later 'borrowed' by other browsers. That's not a bad thing though, they have a lot of good ideas and they get standardized after a while. I was very disappointed when they chose chromium backend which contributed to this Google monopoly. I am also using Vivaldi now and happy with it since they still have a similar utilitarian mindset and also the design is pretty. So if you looking for a change, just try it.
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The difference being the government minister Robin Cook to claimed that chicken tikka masala was "a true British national dish."
I am lost at what Google attempts to gain with this. Even if you abide by their rules, I don't think the Chinese Government would be very willing to lose control of a crucial communication medium to a foreign corporation. In the end, they want their companies to win.

Then, there's the PR disaster that's bound to come up once it gets official. In a single move, Google would be conveying how far it has moved from its foundational values. I fail to see how this would be a net positive for the company.
Yep. One day I walked several blocks in each arrondissement on foot in a single day. The route was a little over 30km, and it took only about 12 hours, with lots of stops whenever I saw something interesting. There are many similarities, but the area by Buttes-Chaumont in Belleville was the most different. Steep hills, taller buildings, very residential. Conversely, the Issy-les-Moulineaux area, while not technically in Paris, sure looked a lot like it!
The author was one of the key critics that got that paper withdrawn! From the overview:

> In the fall of 2002 George Ricaurte, the Dark Prince of suspect science, published an article in the prestigious journal Science that claimed that a “common recreational dose” of MDMA caused severe damage to the dopamine systems of monkeys.[26] (Parkinson’s disease involves the death of dopamine neurons, so extensive damage to your dopamine axons could presumably cause symptoms similar to Parkinson’s.) The press and politicians went mad. Draconian new anti-MDMA laws were passed, including the infamous RAVE Act, which made it illegal to throw a party if you “should have known” that some people would be using drugs at it. MAPS, which had been on the verge of finally having its MDMA post-traumatic stress disorder research approved, was stopped cold in the face of the apparent new evidence of MDMA’s horrific dangers.

> More than a year later, after scathing criticism from TheDEA.org, the house of cards collapsed when Ricaurte sheepishly admitted that the experiment never really happened: The monkeys had actually been given massive doses of methampetamine, not MDMA! He also admitted that no matter what they had tried, they had been unable to damage monkey’s dopamine systems with real MDMA.
Right. Even worse at an unguarded physical location. What's to stop me from calling my 30 friends from a student political group for some ballot-stuffing?
Wall of text - I liked explanation of searching techniques in book "Artificial Inteligence - Modern Approach".
Ask HN: Software that would help users automate sales through social media?
Hello. I am looking into building a software that would help small businesses who sell through social media keep track of their sales, connect facebook, twitter and instagram account at one place and create chatbots that would take over talking to customers.

Is this something you would consider a good idea?
I am open to suggestions on what will work and what will not. In my country there are plenty of people selling through social media but I would like to expand beyond just my country.
Thanks.
Welp, never mind, I don't see where I can download it.
An eternal hell fire is Greek/Roman mythology, it was only merged with Christianity because of the Roman Catholic Church. The bible never says anywhere people burn forever.

There are numerous statements about death being like sleep, and a second death being permanent and you are just gone, no torture.

One metaphorical story sort of implies one person was burning, so I think that is why people think it's from the bible.