skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you believe in inserting a heart stent to save someones life from coronary heart disease, potentially buying them many increased years.

Longevity science is basically all of human healthcare practices, but iterated ad infinitum. Where do you draw the line?

We only lived to our 30s just a few hundred years ago. Was that the natural way things should be?
Capitalism was never alive. We live in a state capitalist system. A free market capitalism is a fiction, and where it was almost a reality ( Somalia ), it never ended well.
> Having to think ahead to "okay what's the gender of the noun I'm gonna use three words from now.

Now, that's interesting. I'm a native speaker of German, and just the other day I realized that one of the mistakes I keep making in English is to make the "a/an" distinction not based on phonetics, but on agreement with the noun, disregarding any words preceding it: I know that it's "an error", not "a error"; but then I also tend to say (or write) "an common error".
Sadly it takes a century to do those studies
If anyone from Brave is here, I look forward to customizing the install location on Windows. I need to install to a secure area, not my user directory. I look forward to giving it a good test when I can.
Perhaps this is funny, ironic or simply sarcastic. In any of these cases it’s an empty argument. If you want to criticise formal methods then you should rightly present a cogent argument, or simply stay quiet.
The few times I’ve submitted something, it’s been because I saw it, thought it was interesting, and thought maybe someone else would, too.

But nope, they didn’t. Their loss. Moving on.

Apparently not gaming the system doesn’t work, but at least I don’t feel like I was somehow cheating the system.
Isn't issuing credit cards to Startups, almost like equivalent to issuing cards to gamblers in Vegas?
I know many those who don’t think it’s ok, and are bothered by it, and many who think he is stupid and didn’t do anything particularly wrong. The morality of it is separated from the legality of it.

The defense on this issue is pretty clear cut, raising the price is not illegal. If there is something illegal, then it should be in a regulation somewhere.

If he is doing something the market is open to, then it’s not a problem and he is doing a service by forcing the market or regulators to respond.

Maybe he was a douche about it, but that’s a stylistic issue, not a practical one.

He did get dinged for securities fraud, not price gouging as I recall.
There probably was no shredding at the auction - there are likely two images in the frame, one pre-shredded to a certain point. Look at the color of the "shredded" print. It's not the same - it's darker, probably didn't age as well 'cause it was cheaper paper. Not to mention that using two images is vastly simpler mechanically and economically than actually shredding it. You just have to roll up half of one image while rolling out half of another (shredded) image. Making a shredding noise is a lot simpler than shredding (and fits in a smaller frame.) There are so many magic tricks that exploit our expectation in just this way (such as sawing a lady in half.)

Of course, it's not in Banksy's interest to reveal the trick immediately. Let the publicity build.
Probably something similar to other aspects of the military-industrial complex. We buy guns and planes and rockets and ships and tanks we don't need because strategically, it's worthwhile to keep that manufacturing infrastructure (and more importantly, expertise) operating in case of the next world war.
They have fully automatic weapons. Enough to furnish every agent with one. Those squads are equipped with weapons that have one use only : to rapidly kill large numbers of people.

Why ? Because the agents think they're cool.

Ok, apparently MRAPs are armored vehicles. Yes they do have armored vehicles. That specific one ? Probably not, but the same general idea ? Yes. They often use them for riots and protests and such.

There was something on the news about buying new ones that are more bomb resistant.
Said procedure could be repeated at the other airport though. Blockchain refills opportunity?
Did You know the vast majority of modern microwaves have a keypress sequence to turn off the beeping?

I seem to remember on most it’s something like holding the 0 or 1 buttons for 3 seconds.
I don't know how they compare to the June but there are many models of convection ovens in Japan that claim to figure out what you put in them. Many of them will optionally add steam and nearly all of them will also do microwaving as well.

Here's a few from Panasonic

https://panasonic.jp/range/

and Sharp

http://healsio.jp/
Hi, I dropped out of college 10 months ago and I started my company today
I can get on just fine without reading another PR upvoted story about Stripe for a while
Indeed -- my granddad was a competition marksman and did the whole reloading thing. I used to collect brass and lost tire weights for him -- I can still hear his brass tumbler spinning. Digital analytical balances weren't available to average Joes back then, but he did his best with a mechanical balance and meticulously trimmed this brass. He cast lead for his revolvers, but everybody even back then bought jacketed stuff [from Hornady, Nosler, etc] for rifle and pistol.
meh... clothes and shoes are incredibly easy to make. Sure, it would be expensive to make them in the EU, but I'm sure I could go out of my apartment right now and find 100 people willing and able to do that within an hour.

The issue with chips is, that a modern fab plant costs $1bn. You can't just make it happen, immediately. Same with food production. Technology, guns/steel, energy/oil/gas and food, those are the main "national security" industries.
Yes. Put the hash of the old password in the /etc/duress file with a script that pipes to sendmail you@youremail.com. Add one line per old PW you want to monitor and vary the message sent via sendmail to ID which password.
Building my own Workbench
Maybe. But maybe not. Stranger things have happened in history, and they really have. I'm going to go out on a limb here with some wildly uninformed speculation, but the people running the show in the PRC aren't normies. They are people that have clawed their way to the top of a ruthless pyramid of power. Or were raised from birth by people who clawed their way to the top. Either way, they're at the top for a reason. Look at China's communist history, and you'll see a fairly consistent, running theme of systemic paranoia -- sometimes thinly-veiled, sometimes outright -- that occasionally spirals into non-trivial political purges. History is full of examples of plot twists even more bizarre-sounding than this, and I am far less certain than you are that the perceived perpetrator(s) of such a targeted depopulation event would be so clear cut to the Politburo.

All that aside and more importantly, after one really bad crop failure, the PRC will have more existential problems on its plate than who gets the blame.
Haha, sorry got confused and misunderstood the comment / article
There's a healthy midpoint between sending the rich to gulags and letting people accrue wealth without restriction.
I've found the Nix pills series to be the best introduction to understanding how Nix/NixOS works:

https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/why-you-should-give-it-a-t...

At the same time, we definitely aim to make things work for users behind the scenes without knowing Nix. You still get all of the benefits of functional package management.
No, because then the front page would consist mostly of the same few hot topics over and over, and high-octane sensational threads, most of which are low-quality and turn into flamewars.

HN cannot live by upvotes alone—the upvoting system is pretty broken and needs countervailing mechanisms. Those mechanisms consist of software, community, and moderation. The result is the type of website this is. It would be completely different otherwise.
SaaS eSignature Market:  from $1M in 2006 to $1B in 2018
Well said, Amen.
Yes but that wasn't my complaint. If it begins beeping, opening the door or pressing cancel should stop the beeping immediately. Every Mike I've every used has continued the beeps until it was good and done. Poor UI easily fixed.
Is Banksy a sell out now?
Looped in with IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products and services
> Adult content and services	Pornography and other obscene materials (including literature, imagery and other media); sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, adult live chat features
> Products or services that are otherwise prohibited by our financial partners
Video game or virtual world credits	Sale of in-game currency unless the merchant is the operator of the virtual world
As other users have pointed out, asking your friends to upvote is called a voting ring and not allowed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We have software to counteract that. It doesn't catch everything, but it catches a lot. We also penalize and/or ban accounts and sites that do it regularly, depending on how bad the offense was.

There's a great deal of randomness in what gets traction. For that reason, we allow a small number of reposts to mitigate the randomness. You'll notice that in the FAQ too.

That second article you mention made the front page briefly but was quickly flagged, presumably because it wasn't substantive enough.
On one level I'm experimenting with different type of inflammatory comments to see how people respond.
However, if you've seen the movie, you know that my comment is not void.

On another level, I really think that subject at matter (genetically modifications) is such that its full implications are impossible to correctly predict on any scale you consider. Thus, it would be _wise_ for everyone to play it safe and consider the fact that we are ignorant and don't know everything.

Unfortunately people act like they do know everything and they also know the future a million years from now. It's pointless to tell them that they are willfully blind to any opposition so one recourse is caricature and irony.

Once in a while you'll stumble onto someone who asks you, how dare you tell me that I'm stupid? Well, if you say you know everything, you are. They might even get the point.

At least I'm stupid enough to know that I don't know everything.
It’s also an incredible vehicle for money laundering.
>Brave isn't making money if its users choose to block ads.

Correct. I don't disagree at all with this statement. In the context of just blocking ads, Brave is doing approximately the same thing as any number of other browsers or ad blockers which aren't really objectionable.

>Sites choosing to monetize themselves are doing so at the expense of the user, whose privacy is compromised in the process.

Sure, ok.

>Sites choosing to monetize themselves are doing so at the expense of the user, whose privacy is compromised in the process.

If as Eich claims, they have permission from all publishers, than this is more ok. But if not, the difference is that in one case, the reader, the ad company, and the publisher all get something of value (an article, money & data, money respectively). But if Brave is actually replacing ads without publisher consent, then the user and brave get something of value, and the publisher gets nothing.

>Monetizing sites don't give the user the option to pay for content via other means, or ads that protect their privacy (or even the awareness of what transaction takes place). At least Brave and its users are giving sites the option to get revenue here (revenue that otherwise would be lost if users opt for ad-blocking instead).

Depends, Brave actually explored an option to monetize in a patreon like fashion [0]. Which sounds great, but there's a huge caveat that makes me less inclined to believe Eich elsewhere. Specifically, The "Payments" tool allows any user to donate to any creator or site. Then Brave sends an email to the webmaster address for that internet site (which often doesn't match the publisher: think subdomains). Then, if people continue donating and the site owner never registers, brave will eventually just keep any money donated to the site[1].

In other words, if I run a popular hosted blog (yes these exist, and are probably some of the best candidates for patreon-like funding), I can't actually get verified because I don't control the DNS records for my site, and I will have to sit back and watch as people unknowingly donate money to Brave instead of me.

They then market this as

>Brave even lets you contribute to your favorite creators automatically

So color me suspicious.

[0]: https://brave.com/publishers/#getverified

[1]: https://brave.com/faq-payments/#unclaimed-funds
It's my device, I should be allowed to pinch to zoom, etc., regardless of what the website or app wants.
Show HN: Android app with Sans Forgetica
Simple Android app for reading stuff with Sans Forgetica, the memory boosting font from smart folks of RMIT Melbourne University. It supports Open Dyslexic font too, for people with dyslexia. What's your experience with Sans Forgetica? Do you believe it can make any difference? Sorry iOS guys, Android only. You can try official Chrome extension instead.
I read all of the parts before making my first comment in the thread. I think you and I must disagree on what I meant by questioning the large dosage. I don't mean it as a thought exercise involving just the nurse trying to figure out why the dosage is so irregular rather the physical questioning process of validating the odd dosage with the assigning doctor before prescribing.

I pointed it out not to say it's all the singular nurses fault but rather something glossed over in an article written against a technology system that had it's safeguards purposefully disabled. If anything the human error presented in the article is many times greater than technology error, reading the headline I expected the pill robot to have some error relating to batch size or some code error converting units wrong not a single confusing UI element as part of a string of overall hospital process and validation errors.
I really wish they would. With just a small number of elements added to the Markdown standard (e.g. for plots, videos and audios and, perhaps, a standard way include referenced files in the markdown file itself) this would make the web (and e-mail!) I want.
The only problem I have with Python3 strings/bytes handling is the fact that there are standard library functions which accept bytestrings in Py2 (regular "" strings), and Unicode strings in Py3 (again, regular "" strings in Py3).

This has led to developers attempting to conflate the two distinctly different concepts and make APIs support both while behaving differently.

A simple solution is there in plain sight: just use exclusively b"" and u"" strings for any code you wish to work in both Py2 and Py3, and forget about "". All and any libraries should be using those exclusively if they support both. Python3-only code should be using b"" and "" instead.

One could consider this a design oversight in Python 3: the fact that the syntax is so similar elsewhere makes people want to run the same code in both, yet a core type is basically incompatible.
And then you have to be really careful before you push the button to buy, because it may turn out that the item doesn't really match your search terms after all.
Just as dumb as the anarchist breaking windows at Niketown in Seattle while wearing Nike shoes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139271/Anarchist-a...
You don't have to take the drugs if you don't want to and can happily die at ~85
Go ahead and ask NYC if you can build a single-family detached home across the street from Central Park. It's against the zoning regulations, even if you bought the land to do that. Do people call that regulation anti-house? No. People accept the fact that a city like NYC is so starved for space, and SFDH is a massive waste of space.

But turn around and do anything to take into account that SOVs are the most space-inefficient form of transit, and you are immediately labelled anti-car. Congestion charges or adding tolls? Anti-car. Parking restrictions? Anti-car (especially because people complain there's not enough parking spaces as is). Charge residents for parking permits? Anti-car. Add bus or HOV lanes? Anti-car. Spend a dime on improving public transit? Anti-car (why are you wasting money on public transit no one uses instead of the congested highways).

Yes, banning cars outright is one of the most extreme options. But the sheer sense of entitlement among drivers means that all the other options that have been suggested have been resisted with as much force. The only acceptable compromise is to cater specifically to their whims, and maybe in tandem help public transit at the same time. Of course, if there's any budget overrun on such a joint project, all of the transit improvements are the first things to get axed.
I don't see how, either. TI, Intel, GloFo, and a few others have facilities here. Sure China can do it cheaper, but IMO the race to the bottom is over. People want quality, which explains why Apple and Samsung outsell, say, BLU.
the force in this case being banksy’s (or morello’s) desire to partake of the benefits of capitalism?
Writing software to detect and counter coordinated voting is one of the things I've spent the most time on since I started working on HN, and pg had a pretty good system before that. It doesn't catch everything, but it catches an awful lot. I don't believe the stories that make HN's front page are getting there primarily for that reason.
I am going to build something similar to your first part, essentially a client-side proxy backed by a headless browser that serves up your favorite sites' content sans crap.

To your second part, I won't be doing any of that ad replacement (consent or not, just like I don't with my Chromium-based browser with native ad blocking).
Unless the FT article has some additional value, I suggest switching to the BBC article that is not as locked-down: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-45755348
To add to that. I feel like they encourage shit posting when they force users to leave a review to read other reviews. Some people might get grumpy from that alone and leave some bullshit.
But with PoE-levels of power you could broadcast a very long range away, useful if you have no way of getting someone on the inside.
WYSIWYG editors are evil as they mostly produce crap code, good news are you don't need a WYSIWYG editor with markdown as it's very easy for [almost] everybody to write by hand.
NIST’s Considerations for ‘Cybersecuring’ the Internet of Things
Why wouldn’t the owner of the team or stadium (the ones making money with it) pay?
How much rent are they charging?
Alternatively you can take the drugs and die surprised at ~85.
If you dislike ads, then don't opt in. You are welcome to use baseline Brave and just block. But why comment as if you mean to tell others what to do?

If you think the web can do without $100B in US on digital this year, ~$250B globally that goes through ads, then please demonstrate replacement funding models, or just show some evidence of any that could scale that big.

We can't count ads out, but by lifting 3rd party to 1st ad context (avoids brand safety and reverse: bad ads on good content), aligning interests, and cutting out all the trackers and other intermediaries that evolved because browsers were passive slaves to the system, we hope to more than replace the value of our users to publishers that was "lost" via our users blocking by default.
Yes, I noticed this too when I didn't have Prime. It seems like they would just sit on the order.
Yeah, this behavior might be because Python doesn't store unicode string as it is. AFAIK Python always store string as an array of fixed-sized bytes for random access. In other words, the size of an element of the array is the same as the maximum size of characters in the string, meaning that even a character of 1 byte ASCII can be stored as 4 bytes.

So when one side is bytes (filetype in this case) and the other side is a string, the underlying byte representation can be different even if they represent as the same string in higher level.
I like how you mentioned fdroid. I am a loyal user. I use Firefox klar. + Duckduckgo.com for all net activities. 100% private and 0 adds and 0 tracking.
Lagunitas Brewing to lay off 12 percent of its workforce
This is going to be a huge problem. If that backdoor exists, someone will find it and use it. Not necessarily the people who put it there.
I think it’s worth not throwing your hands up in desperation. Contact your politicians and get your friends to. It’s hard to make a difference, but pressure from constituents is a primary way to change a politician’s mind.
A small number of reposts is ok if a story hasn't had attention yet. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. This is to mitigate the randomness of what gets traction, because otherwise too many good stories would fall through the cracks. Lots more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Very strange definition of "best." Justin Beiber? No. 3Blue1Brown? Yes.

Who is upvoting this obvious spam?
Lol no occupy was always a leftist movement and the tea party was created by the Koch brothers. Centrists really need to stop trying to change history.
Well I guess they must be feeling very charitable because they allowed the value to skyrocket after bidding ended.
The data model is already more decentralized than any blockchain: 430K user wallets with user data only on device.

All ad blockers reduce "monetization" of content by ads. That is a primal design point of web standards, and a right of all users per case law.

The only Mafia model in ad blocking is the "acceptable ads" shakedown where Google pays 8 figures to Eyeo to let some ads through. This is also why AdBlock Plus disables EasyPrivacy by default (you have to turn it on; if you do, that breaks the whitelisted ad tracking/confirmation).

But I see from your recent HN posts that you are trollish, so I'll stop here and hope this reply is of benefit to others.
I think the web as it exists today is bloated with “content” that could never survive without that money, and the loss of that “content” would be a gain for the web. I’m hard-presses to think of many worthwhile examples of ad-supported content; certainly HN here doesn’t take that path.
Any transaction costs go to paying the auction house for things like catering, electricity, security, rent etc. No worse than a bunch of rich people spending money at a restaurant.

There's an argument that auction houses aren't paying their way for the services they use (especially in expensive areas), and other functions occupying that space could be better for society. A land value tax would solve that. I'm not aware that auction houses rely on other things like copyright or patents that can stifle economic activity.
https://stratechery.com/2018/data-factories/
u"" is a syntax error in python3 (or at least it was for a while, apparently its not anymore, that said...). The correct cross-platform solution is to do

from __future__ import unicode_literals

which makes python2 string literals unicode unless declared bytes. Then "" strings are always unicode and b"" strings are always bytes, no matter the language version.
You're right, the linearity restriction on the handler continuation is a peculiarity of multi-core OCaml and really more of an implementation detail.

However, it is also true that you cannot encode, e.g., the continuation monad using (typed) algebraic effects. The precise relationship isn't that simple, but this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09161

analyzes a particular setting in detail.
That is absolutely not the case if US intelligence agencies have told them to deny the allegations.
I guess it's could also be

a) A missing local supply chain for the raw resources, making them more expensive

b) Additional shipping cost, since every chip will still be assembled into the product in Asia anyway