skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't post nationalistic flamewar comments to HN, or project the enemy of your view onto the whole of this community. People are simply divided—and they're biting each other's heads off, which is not cool and needs to stop.

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> At the moment I'm not seeing images on that page, but perhaps it's my problem.

The images are broken because e.g. https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/... is actually at https://jacquesmattheij.com/IMG_0031.JPG

They just need a forward slash in <img src="IMG_0031.JPG"> to make the path root-relative.
That is for your security!
Nationalistic flamewar is not allowed on HN. Please don't foment it here.

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Go-HEP: writing concurrent software with ease and Go
First attempt at a minimal Forth in C#
Very interesting!
Do you have any kind of page or something where I can read more about what you are doing and how I (and/or others) could contribute?
archive: https://archive.fo/LiDep

text-only cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
How did you dealt with non paying custumers
> I'm suggesting the problem is not the factory farms

It sounds like you're suggesting to have even bigger concentration farms. Please watch the Earthlings documentary that I posted above - it highlights the realities of factory farms. Interested to get your thoughts on that.

Also, you talked about ethics, just repeating a question I had above - when it's not about survival - how do you kill a sentient being that doesn't want to be killed?

> And yes, animal products have essential vitamins that are difficult to get from plant based diets.

Do you have any sources for this? As jamesgagan posted here - the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says a plant based diet is healthy and there are other organisations saying the same.

In addition to that, the UN urges to move to a plant-based diet, because feeding the planet on a meat based diet is not sustainable [0]

Having all this evidence, don't you think that weening off the world of a meat-based diet is the smart thing to do?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-repor...

edit: formatting
I ran into this issue with a few tumblr blogs I follow via RSS.

The RSS reader (TTRSS) gained a sorta-unofficial plugin that would fake the GDPR consent cookie.

I did contact support and they promised to fix this bug.

Though overall, for your podcast it's a bug too. You don't need GDPR consent to display a RSS feed document at all unless you sell IP addresses to third parties.
Please do not post ideological battle comments to HN, regardless of your ideology. It's not what this site is for.

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> Am I unusual, or is this an absurdly high electric bill?

You're unusual.

Or, rather, her bill is high, though not absurdly so, especially if it includes more than just the per-kWh charge (e.g. a fixed/per-meter charge or even additional utilities like water) and if it's her only household energy source (i.e. no natural gas, propane, or heating oil).

Virginia gets warm and humid in the summer and cold (enough) in the winter. Using resistive heating can really jack up an electric bill. The absurdity of that form of heating is at least debatable.

$34 in the summer mean 170kWh, which is remarkably low. It implies no AC, no or very light use of appliances like a dishwasher, clothes washer, or dryer, and either little use of hot water (or "cheating" with a gas-fired water heater).

A single 100W light bulb (remember incandescent bulbs?) left on 24x7 would use 73kWh in a month.
What I find remarkable is how one comment accuses a Chinese company of trying to "destroy" a "way of life" and there is absolutely no consequence, the comment is in no way highlighted as unusual or unwelcome. I know a lot of people who work at Huawei. They are some of the most boring and kind people on the planet. The idea that they are trying to destroy anything is laughable.

But my comment which merely highlights the absurdity of the previous comment is immediately flagged.

Does this really not seem strange?
There are 11000/25 = 440 'new-way' accepted groups in, а lot of us want to be advised. :)
Words have meanings, terms have definitions. I'm with the pedants more and more. Otherwise people can simply say awful things and claim not to have meant it that way. That how lying becomes a bit ok.
Well no actually he said that birds kill windmills and also threw in a confused comment that coal is indestructible. The full transcript is insane:

> You remember Hillary with the coal, right? Sitting with the miners at the

> table. Remember? That wasn’t so good for her. So the people of West Virginia

> and all over, you look at Wyoming, you look at so many different places where

> they just – Pennsylvania – where they loved what we did. And it’s clean coal

> and we have the most modern procedures. But it’s a tremendous form of energy,

> in the sense that, in a military way, think of it. Coal is indestructible.

> You can blow up a pipeline. You can blow up the windmills. Y’know, the

> windmills boom, boom, boom. [shoots gun] Bing. That’s the end of that windmill.

> If the birds don’t kill it first. The birds can kill it first. They kill so many

> birds. You look underneath some of those windmills and it’s like a killing field,

> the birds. But that’s where they were going to, they were going to wind-a-mills.

> What happens when the wind doesn’t blow? Well then we have a problem. Okay, good.

> They were putting them in areas where they didn’t have much wind, too. And it’s a

> subsidy. You need a subsidy for windmills. Who wants to have energy where you

> need subsidy? So the coal is doing great.
Microsoft prepares to kill the Windows 8 store: No new apps from November
Teaching iteration
This is the best illustration of where AI is today. Yes it can do great things because we've tuned each to do so. This is the some of the tech that does it. It only works with much guidance and outside the boundaries, anything goes.
Tiny sand and stones are also everywhere. So what's the deal?
The Scottish Government seems to be thinking about introducing a register of beneficial owners:

https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/06/2736/355007

Finding out who actually owns anything has been recognised by many people as being a problem for a while:

http://www.andywightman.com/archives/category/who-owns-scotl...

Scotland has very old and very weird landownership laws.
Well, given that I made a statement about machine learning and not data science, the point still stands.

Machine learning is a CS field. It emerged out of CS. Any claims to the contrary are hokey revisionism. As to what "data science" entails, that's become a super loaded buzzword, so I'm not even sure where to begin. And "data engineering," please don't even. Just fancy terms for statistics and discrete math.
It's seems this is quite an acceptable plan to move forward. MS doesn't seem to plan to intervene in local politics, merely shield against foreign politics intervening in local politics. Especially when you offer those services in foreign countries, the other players seem to fail spectacularly.
Skimresources is probably an affiliate link thing (although they also try to sell your data to power targeted advertising), see: https://skimlinks.com/

Source: I used to work there.
Experiences produced by particular strain can vary wildly even for the same user, so it boils down to experimenting with different strains in different settings and finding out what works for you. Some users report that mixing strains of "haze" family tends to produce strong closed-eye visuals and mild open-eye ones.

If your vision is affected by visual snow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow) or you are prone to have noticeable phosphene images with closed eyes, then it may be sufficient to simply focus on them while being high. The drug will greatly amplify your natural "hallucinations", subjectively up to the level of mild dose of psylocibin or LSD. Of course, taking those classic psychedelics is a more reliable way to produce visuals, but they come with headspace which is quite different (and for some less desirable and comfortable) from weed-induced one.

The same focusing technique can work for monotonic sounds - it's quite amusing to observe how fridge's buzz turns into full-blown symphony :).
Income tax?
Which Mr is in the Ice Poles?
Pragmatic engineer's version: digikey shows 0 search results for "memristor".

(funny enough, doing the same at aliexpress yields a young kid's plastic ball ad, containing "Warning:Memristor")
That's not really correct. Raw SQL access (SqlCommand etc) was always part of .net core. You can't really call DataTable and friends a generic non-ORM data interface - it's an API unique to ADO.net.
I did this, back in the depths of history... Changed job involuntarily in early 2000, had verbally accepted an offer from one company, another company came along and said they couldn't offer me any more 'salary', but they could include a car/allowance - which meant quite a lot more cash since I already had a car.
This is a non sequitur. It is not clear that privacy (specifically privacy of data on Microsoft systems from court order, if that's what you mean) is necessary for democracy. On the other hand, the ability to unmask people who are subverting elections is useful for democracy.
I recently noticed that Amazon Prime in the UK has Parks and Recreation AND Seinfeld, which Netflix doesn't have.

Worth it!
7 most common mistakes event organizers make while planning the events
Maybe that's part of why collating slavery vs. war goes wrong. Mixing even a little quality with all that quantity would change the mentality, it seems to me.
Alibaba launched an e-commerce training program in Rwanda
Not everyone is in the advisor track. About 4000 out of the 15000 are in it—is what some of the comments are saying.

The applicants that were initially erroneously accepted and then rejected are in something like an audit track, except they will have access to the forums and will stand a chance to compete for the $10k (I think).

Hope that clears your doubt. Congrats!

Are you a founder based in India? (just taking a wild guess from your username and time zone activity, asking because I'm from Mumbai, got accepted to the advisor track and would love to connect with my peers from Startup School as well!)
Here’s 48 Hedge Fund Terms Every Investor Should Know
Millennials are sharing streaming passwords, and companies losing millions
> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

Source: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservative...
My thoughts exactly. What a weird turn of events when it's easier to install Nvidia drivers on Linux using your distro's package manager than it is on Windows!
It's fine to disagree substantively (e.g. like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17807427 did), but not fine to troll the thread like this. Please stop.
Venezuelan Petro: An unfortunate start for government-backed cryptoccurrencies
Looks like you do mailing old (hackers) way - via SQL queries :)
You already were competing with 15K teams.

They're skipping the step where they eliminate the 11K which the advisor-tier have already beaten once.

This will affect the odds of winning, but by how much?

I guess we're going to find out when we see the final ratio of advised/unadvised startups who win sponsorship.
A Guide to Moving IT Services During an Office Relocation
Everything Sprouts
With Everything Sprouts, you can have fun experimenting. In like manner, you moreover need a good choice of foods to help you develop your proper shape. Bodybuilders always use Everything Sprouts that are rich in protein.
Wow I'm so glad that I'm not the only one with this opinion. Every single time I've had to use docker I've had to slog through inane design decisions which seem to make everything harder than it needs to be. Everything is inconsistent and there are several commands which seem to essentially do the same thing but subtly do not, and so on .. It's like every design decision has just been made by a single developer who likes to come up with new and "smarter" ways to do things.
Demanding equal pay for equal work, no matter where your coworkers came from, attacks the core of the problem

One of the things that makes this difficult for software is that there's not a clear way of defining "equal work". Every company has its own leveling system that may or may not reflect the actual value of the work being performed, and sometimes employees justifiably exceed their designated level's salary.
Video cards tend to be from the entertainment part of the budget, cars are totally different.

Cars do last way more than a video card as well, they have increased warranty period(in the EU video cards have 2y, cars usually 5-7y).

Cars tend to be purchased on leasing due to their higher cost and actual necessity. So saving 1k on a car usually doesn't transfer to 1k in cash.
I've just been catching up on mails at like 2.30am and I also received the initial acceptance and then the decline. I must admit that I didn't take the rejection as personally as some might have. This is a norm in startup life. Whilst I am thankful that everyone was accepted into the program, what would have been of great value to me was understanding why I wasn't accepted, learning from that feedback and applying again. Given the amount of competition in the tech space its nice to know what your shortcomings are. I think perhaps in the next batch there could be some scoring criteria perhaps. I assume that if X amount of people are shortlisted there was some sort of acceptance criteria and someone experienced rated your pitch anyway ? Big up to y combinator for owning up to the mistake made. Many other organizations would have just moved on.
The bag is also plastic..
Seriously. This is the same Microosoft that collects keystrokes, webcam footage, browsing behavior, file system use, and dozens of other analytics from every computer running Windows. And now they're pushing to have government officials dependant on them. They have a million times more data than Cambridge Analytica at this point. Who knows how much damage they could do?
"låt gå för det" (Which is easily short for "låt [oss] gå för det") -->

I found a usage from 1912, before English was a great influence on Swedish:

https://litteraturbanken.se/forfattare/SoderbergH/titlar/Den...
Google controls the extension, they can swap a new version under your radar at any moment. Happened to me a couple of times (ImprovedTube for example "upgraded" to remove features I used). Not any more, I keep all the extensions I use as a local unpacked copies.
> I was also reblogged and targeted by a group of people who had decided that by "gendering" my female dog, I was a bigot.

Ah, you've run into an anti-trans false flag operation. Obviously they need to be banned for posting death threats, but they will be a hydra since their main organisation is not organic and is outside the platform.
"It's free". It costs sysadmins time to configure and maintain. Probably NewRelic costs less, depending on where the salary is paid.
You're not banned, and we don't ban people for "criticizing Sam Altman". But you have been breaking the HN guidelines badly and when people do that we rate limit their accounts. That's one way we have of trying to stave off the decline of this forum.

We're happy to take rate limits off if people give us reason to believe that they will follow the guidelines in the future. Among other things that requires being civil, which "I love your naive hero worship", "What the F are you smoking", and so on, definitely are not.

The guidelines also ask you to email us instead of posting off-topic moderation questions to threads, especially because it's random whether or not we see them there. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules more carefully from now on?
I recommend John Berger's "Ways of Seeing", available on YouTube. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing
> the price difference is relatively small

Where in reality there shouldn't be any, since sending stuff across the pond costs nothing as seen in products like bananas. At least I live in place which has only 8% VAT, so prices look a bit more like US (but still higher for no good reason)
Ask HN: Any alternatives to Adsense for a tech blog?
I have a tech blog that generates about a few hundred views a month and was wondering if there are any good alternatives to AdSense.

The content is highly technical and focused on Javascript / Node.js so any related promotion on there would be very effective.

Does there exist some sort of a marketplace for such custom ad space buy/sell? If not, do you see any use for such a project?
There should some warning note right at the top, given the topic is presented mainly for cryptographic purposes.

There is a huge body of quite diverse side channel attacks against all of these "fast" techniques for scalar multiplication, and the article is too weakly making references to pitfalls for each approach and the importance of constant time logic (also, no mention of masking techniques! Though those are routinely overlooked by way too many speed-obsessed practitioners).
With new relic you issue a single command to install an agent, or an extension, and configure your license key. Takes a few minutes and you don't need to spend expensive devops time configuring yet another "free" tool.
AMP is nonfunctional with Javascript disabled, non-AMP works fine for me. Perhaps regular page got slightly hugged?
I think you missed a joke, but I'm not sure.
> What benefits would unionizing provide? I'm not actively against it, but I don't see any clear reasons to be in favor of it either.

After being in Germany and also working with them I am really impressed by the union and the strong labour laws that they have. Really helps in the work life balance for them and how I really wish my country had it.
I would pay extra for a smartphone that let me do aperture/shutter control so that I could get the DoF I wanted. People say there's no point in compact cameras anymore and that's mostly true as far as pointing and shooting, but I can still take more interesting photos with my 5-year-old compact that gives me those controls than I can on my phone, even if my phone has more megapixels.
'Sharp Objects' and the Unethical Female Journalist
> neurons work together in networks to produce truth

Category error, surely? Whether or not something is true, it's truthiness or falsiness must exist outside of the brain percieving it, yes? In which case it's a process of recognition or labelling, not creation.
Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)
Hackers Stole My Instagram Username and Facebook Doesn’t Care
If you really care about gmail privacy (ha) you should also

var matches = document.querySelectorAll('a[href*="www.google.com/url?q="]');

// remove all google spying	redirects
for (var i = 0; i < matches.length; i++)
{
if (/^(https?:\/\/(www\.|encrypted\.)?google\.[^\/]*)?\/?url/.test(matches[i])) {
var match = /[\?&](url|q)=(.+?)&/.exec(matches[i]);
if (match != null) {
matches[i].href = unescape(match[2]);
}
}
}
Desktop end user: I donated to Ubuntu, and to Debian via SPI, and a bit to OpenBSD when they had their funding wobble. Since 2015 I've been using Slackware and bought a DVD subscription (it turns out that the Slackware BDfL wasn't getting much of the income from the sale of the DVDs or merchandise so I donated again recently).

We are talking the price of a hipster coffee per fortnight here, but a few thousand people putting that on a recurring payment adds up.

For organisations like Docker I'm wondering if the RStudio model would be viable? The 'enterprise' subscription is something like $995 a year and can thus be budgeted for &c.
> fredsir

Stop downvoting people you simply disagree with.
Congratulations on the new gig and come visit us for a story next time you make it to Zhuhai :)
Oh yes it’s the developer’s fault for not “tuning” something the right way. Sure.

You can “tune” something all you want, you’re always going to have a lower quality representation if you want better performance. The hardware should give the developers the possibility of getting better quality graphics at higher resolutions. We can play the original doom at 4 and probably even 8K without much problems. But that doesn’t mean it’s because they “tuned” it better, it’s because hardware has gotten better and hardware will always be the limiting factor for games.
> Tumblr is designed like a platform for radicalization

... how?
I checked with him and he's fine, but I think probably also in shock. In case it helps, I haven't seen any signs of blame; everyone knows we could easily have done it ourselves. The general feeling seems to be that it motivated us to do something that we wanted to do in the first place, but thought we couldn't.
They're not plastic.
Google Hit Lawsuit Over Alleged Location Tracking Scandal
> This is the same Microosoft that collects keystrokes, webcam footage, browsing behavior, file system use, and dozens of other analytics from every computer running Windows.

{{Citation needed}}
Nice to hear from you. I started learning Django 2-3 months before and so far my journey is going well. I would love to help you on your learning journey. DM me on twitter @SidShringi
> Was there an explicit or implicit covenant by Mozilla and those users?

I believe Mozilla's clear stance on DRM in the past (and its clear differentiation against other browser vendors in this respect) is near to such an implicit covenant.
> You don't see many visa holders working in sales and marketing, or teaching, or law, mostly just software engineering

That's because unlike software engineering, all of those other jobs rely heavily on [natural] language and cultural fluency.
As a dev that's trying to brush up on JS after neglecting it for years, it's really hard to know where to start.
Look for something called an LMS. There are SaaS providers, open sourced, licensed and selfmade ones.

LMS = Learning Management Platform
> Benzos are commonly prescribed as a way to manage panic attacks or other acute occurrences of anxiety.

That's how they're supposed to be prescribed, but in this threaad we see a few people who take a daily benzo and have done for several months.
My brain hurts!
Drawing a Larger Circle
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I was on tumblr until around 2016 and i can confirm the observations - harassment for totally misrepresented things, just to demonstrate virtue. From the few persons i met IRL it doesn't seem like an false flag.
How is that a “rant?” It’s an orderly, reasoned-out analysis of their post.
I haven't been downvoting anybody. I don't even have a downvote button.
GKE On-Prem
Have you considered that you have been downvoted because your response to a simple and clearly trying-to-be-helpful comment was quite frankly autistic bordering on aggressive for no clear reason.
> only the wealthiest citizens could afford to eat large amounts of meat on a regular basis

Same thing in modern day Germany. My dad told me that until the 1950s, most families in Bavaria could not afford meat, or only had it a few times a year. This must have changed when people became wealthier (and meat cheaper) from the 1960s. Still, it’s astounding that Bavarian food is mainly associated with heavy meat dishes like roast pork or knuckles today. Seems like many vegetarian dishes have been forgotten in recent decades.
The inescapable weight of my student debt