skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hulu runs ads even on the paid service. You have to pay extra on to remove them. They're fairly long, too, around 60-90 seconds every 15 minutes or so. Something about that really gets under my skin, but I'm honestly surprised it's not more prevalent on other services like Netflix.
I don't understand...

I used wget to get a t.co and original link (from the sibling comment) and diff showed no differences in the fetched pages.

--edit--

So HN is not a discussion site then?
Unfortunately not currently possible as EB1 priority dates are no longer current for any country. Will take a while longer than 6 months at the moment.
I assume it’s to remove the t.co page from the browser history, which of course is not relevant or useful for curl. There’s nothing in that response that looks malicious.
Yes, it is mindbogglingly barbaric. What's weirdest is that we seemed to have regressed from even historical levels. A simple long drop hanging or guillotining would probably be more humane than most of the methods in use today - and with administration of a strong sedative beforehand even more so.
But that’s definitely not the point of lethal injection. It was adopted as a “humane” way of executing the condemned. So, for those who truly want a painless and non-messy death, it really isn’t as hard as they’re making it on themselves.

A handful of sleeping pills and a solid dose of Fentanyl will do it.
>downvoted for providing facts. I take it we have marxists here.

Well, speaking of facts, "I take it we have marxists here" shows a bias, and it's not exactly a fact in itself.

Under a progressive taxation scheme, it can be perfectly normal to make "30% of the income while paying 60% of the tax".

(In fact, more normal than being 3% of the population but making 30% of the income).

And for many progressively harsher taxation is fairer -- for one because 20% for someone who makes $20K can leave them with difficulty even paying for rent, while even 50% for someone earning $1M will leave them with a very comfortable amount to have all kinds of luxuries. Below a point of poverty, even 10% or 5% is cruel.

Whether 60% share of taxes is fair it depends. Perhaps they should pay even more than 60% of the tax.
I'm not sure I'm following your point. What percentage of parts of a bird were necessary for the first successful flight? I don't know, less than 1%? Maybe less than 0.1%?

But you do have to understand [generally] how a bird works to [generally] emulate its wings [and fly].
Mostly FUD. You can easily tweak your min and max heap sizes. You can have an app that takes less that 512 megs of RAM.
Google Music does that already. But I know, Google isn't fashionable on HN. In fact, there will be another revolt - Google is creepy!
As for statist libertarian, I only partly agree. I think you can both have a democracy and a political system that is fairly libertarian. I depends what you call a democracy, a pure 51% majority rule, then its true, but in my opinion that is equally as immoral as a libertarian state.

However, I do think that a combination of democracy and a founding system, constitution or whatever can be better.

Switzerland is a example of a country that is very democratic but its more libertarian in many ways then most other democracies. That has probably to do with the way the system is set up outside of the pure democracy idea.

Not sure why you claim anarchist libertarian society is not possible, seems that has little to do with your post.
I think many Go developers would consider this a feature (I do, anyway). A little boilerplate is better than a complex language. I say this with a background in C++, Java, and Python. I’m a fair bit more productive in Go and my code tends to be of higher quality (less headspace devoted to language complexity and more room for application complexity).
HallOWEEN PICKUPS
Gas chambers herewecome!
would you call federal and state-mandated minimum wages, which generally allow service and low-skilled workers access to a decent home somewhat near their place of employment, a failure?

high salaries create inflation at different rates for different groups of people depending on their marginal propensity to consume. if you give $5k to someone living on $20k vs $200k annual income, the $20k person is much more likely to spend most or all of that $5k on food, housing, etc. - variables that directly affect inflation. the $200k person may invest it or save it in a bank account, removing it from M0 and M1 so it doesn't show up in the inflation statistics, or in the price you pay for staple goods. this is a large part of the reason we're not seeing any inflation today even though unemployment is historically low - there are no wage gains going to the lower earners who have a high propensity to consume and spend.

there always has to be a balance between those who own the capital and those who work the capital for society to function. otherwise the free market functioning without any ethical or moral underpinnings would return us to slavery - ownership of other human beings as just another form of capital
Build up. Thirty story apartment buildings are not cutting edge technology. Neither are eight story ones and they don’t even require steel beam construction.
Of course there are counterexamples. Yours are good ones (although Google had a system comparable to Mesos much earlier, they just didn't want to publish a paper). Some others that I mentioned in another post are DBMS projects by Stonebraker. BTW, both Spark and Mesos seem to come from the same place (UC Berkeley), maybe they are doing something seriously right there?
Agreed. Yet they somehow manage to over-complicate the medical dressing up.
Interesting - could you expand on this a little further?

(Edit: sounds like there’s been recent research suggesting there was a decent window of time where life might have had a chance to appear on Venus: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hellish-venus-mig...)
While there are a ton of snake oil salesmen/women out there, there actually are people who are non-technical bringing other real skills to the table. Sometimes it's general business, sometimes sales, sometimes they really do have a deep domain understanding etc. So it's not always them looking to be the boss, but rather that they recognize a skills/knowledge gap and are trying to fill it.
There's a fantastic documentary called 'How to kill a human being', with Michael Portillo (former UK politician), made back in 2008.

It covers this quite nicely - Includes an interview with a death penalty advocate and asks about a 'theoretical painless execution method' and the advocate agrees that if such thing were available it would be ideal.

Then later, after Portillo has done a bunch of investigation, hypoxia (I think) is landed on as an ideal solution. It's put to the advocate, who then squirms and insists that it's not a suitable 'punishment'.

My memory is hazy since I haven't seen it in a decade, but it's a fantastic doco and probably freely available now.
The Romans also had a special 'tree line' of their own, so anywhere further north than where olive trees could grow was the land of the Barbarians. I can't remember what this 'olive tree line' was called or find a link to it, or even remember at what stage of the Roman Empire that the 'olive tree line' was a thing.

Back to the article, the thinking that went on prior to the Dustbowl was that 'the rain follows the plough'. Not the same as 'the rain follows the tree'. It was no accident that there were not a lot of trees in the Dustbowl areas. The indigenous people that lived there before the Columbus rocked up had cultivated the land by clearing it with fire. This created tasty pasture for buffalo to graze on.

Meanwhile, out of computer models and in real life, there is an interesting bit of progress going on in Ethiopia right now. The aid agencies and their ideas on having people eat imported maize were booted out to be replaced with proper crops and some proper land management. These efforts put to shame 'Band Aid' and, odd as it seems, I really would like to go there for the cuisine. I never thought I would be thinking that Ethiopia - of all places - could be a place of fine, wholesome dining with the most amazing markets.

Everything is low-tech in this DIY reboot, there is lots of teamwork and quite a Garden Of Eden is being made. The soil has fertility, rain does not wash away the topsoil, the tree-line has gained altitude and it is all going very well. I do not know if there is a micro-climate with extra clouds, however, this improvement in circumstance has not been dependent on work done 'a continent away' to magically make clouds. Ethiopian people outside of this huge 'trial area' and still farming boring crops resent missing out.
I've never visited a gas station with ads more than once.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129075
Another important book is "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One." The author appeared on Bill Moyers Journal: https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html
Those three are in fact all partially or fully learned behavior. Anyone on the autistic spectrum who learned coping skills is acutely aware that those are observational given their "driver failure" calls for doing it manually. Standards of taste are learned and beauty does have mathematical elements like phi.
> seems like a no brainer

It is. Also, the iOS app has this so they’ve thought about it at least.
I call them. Like people did in the olden days of 15 years ago. This isn’t hard.

Not to mention I feel an actual connection with them when I’m talking to them over the phone. I never once felt a real connection with them or anyone else by their Facebook wall or Twitter feed.
I wouldn't say "definitely". There is some evidence that the complexity around lethal injection is to leave room for "accidents" that can cause the executed to suffer before they die.
Pretty common. The vendors (Precor, Life Fitness, etc) make modules that are attached to the top of the machine. We had them at my office gym 10 years ago, and that was nothing fancy.
Let me back up a step.

I angrily said "these idiots" as if everybody involved was an idiot.

What I should have acknowledged is that the folks on that base are insanely talented (I know enough about the military to know that the folks trusted with these aircraft are very elite) and in all likelihood pulled off a freaking miracle to save as much hardware as they did with (more importantly) zero loss of life. I have no doubt that they spent 72 hours stretched to their limits and performed admirably.

Whatever else we disagree on, at least we agree on that.

What I am angry at is the design of a base that had inadequate structures and/or procedures in place to enable those assets to be fully protected and/or evacuated in the event of a hurricane. Clearly those (or the budget allocated) were not adequate to fully handle the situation. The results attest to that.
There is some truth to this criticism, esp. on desktop browsers according to PageSpeed

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
Life imprisonment avoids recidivism completely too. At least on the civilian population.
A normal HTTP redirect would accomplish the same thing.
Zig might get away with it by restricting itself to a narrow niche where this kind of simplicity is advantageous. Go tries to eat a much larger piece of the pie, and the deficiency is felt more as a result.
I asked this in another thread, but how do generics work in the absence of destructors? Let's separate the idea of a destructor from the idea that a destructor is implicitly called at the end of a scope.

In C++, if there weren't automatic destructor calls, you could still clean things up manually with a pseudo-destructor call, x.~T(), where T is the type of x.

In C, there are no (user-defined) generics, so you always know the concrete type of x, so you know whether it needs to have a destructor called and what the name of that destructor is.

In Zig, how would generic code create an instance of a generic type T that may or may not need to have a destructor called, ie. how do you know if you need to use defer and what the deferred expression should be? How would tooling be able to check that destructors were called if there is no special way of marking that a destructor exists?
To prove that the brain runs a single learning algorithm would actually be a bigger breakthrough than going from there to determining the algorithm itself. What a profound thing it would be to learn that the mechanics of the brain are fundamentally simple but applied on a massive scale of data, time, and parallelism. I applaud the effort of trying to uncover this model -- embracing the idea that The Brain is comprehensible despite A Brain being impenetrably complex is a liberating concept.
Ahh... IRC... gateway into the world of Warez...

In mid 90s, I remember sending /ctcp xdcc list commands to bots and giggling in utter joy while browsing through pirated copies of absurdly priced software like Archicad, electric image animation system, Alias. Then hoarding them knowing full well I'd never use them.. filling them on 100MG iomega zip disks purchased from CompUSA or computer city.

Good old days.
onclick handler and event.preventDefault
> To date, the actual revenues from cable advertising, which totaled about $45 million last year, are minuscule compared with the $11 billion for over-the-air television networks and stations. But scores of big companies, including General Foods, American Express, Procter & Gamble and Pepsico, are already cable advertisers, along with innumerable used-car dealers and other local businesses that can afford cable's relatively low rates. By 1990, according to Paul Kagan, publisher of several cable industry newsletters, cable advertising could exceed $2 billion.

Stunning.

We didn't have cable until the late 90s, and I don't have pay TV anymore, largely for this reason. "Premium" things are always dumbed down. First comes the ads, then the censorship. I'm not willing to pay for ad-laden, censored content, full stop. I happily pay for Spotify, but I won't pay for cable TV or XM.
I'd be interested in some more detail on this. What's the process look like and what are some common cases that this is useful.
It means you can run compile time programs without resorting to crazy template metaprogramming
> Disclaimer: I'm italian.

No wonder you are lying...

This government is trying to maintain power up until European elections, they are not thinking about Italians, they are buying votes

I'm Italian, I'm probably older than you, and this government is destroying years of painful recovery

In 4 months we are back at 2011, when we almost defaulted and nobody was taking Italy seriously

I bet you're from South Italy or didn't pay taxes in your life and are waiting for the next tax amnesty (but the planned condono is even worse, given our astonishing rate of tax evasion)
"A cure" is a very deceptive headline; it's an allegedly curative personalized protocol, The Bredesen Protocol™.
> If they consider desktop Linux supported during development, providing a couple statically linked deb and rpm files is no big deal.

There's also the issue of dependencies on other non-default packages. Do you ask the user to install another repository? Do you host your own repository and distribute the dependent packages in it along with yours? (Note this is much more complex than building and hosting a single .deb/.rpm)

Not to mention "desktop Linux" is not a thing. Supporting Fedora, Ubuntu and opensuse, for example, are all distinct efforts with only minimal overlap in terms of effort (think not just initial dev, but ongoing maintenance and testing).
I wish more languages had UFCS. It makes for really readable code.
You're referring to the distributed Actor model?
It's not an optimization in this case - it's a mechanism that produces what is semantically a compile-time constant, and can therefore be used in any context in which one is required by the language.

C++ has this with constexpr, but it's not as rich in terms of things that it can do. In D, IIRC, pretty much anything goes.
So is your thought that the death penalty advocate really doesn't want to do away with the inmate, but instead to punish them?
https://pl.smuglo.li/notice/5986711 is pretty vicious antisemitism. Apparently I have succeeded in following this person now though. I'll see if I end up seeing their posts.

Update: I'm seeing them fave my posts.
What is a doco?
> used pattern matching for cleanliness instead of &.

Could you expand on this, I don't quite know what you mean, but I'm interested!

> I want to say I like...

Thanks!

> your experience with WSL?

My experience was, "This is pretty cool!" but, in the end, I don't use WSL anymore and just use regular old Windows. I can elaborate more if you'd like, but it boils down to "basically everything has windows native versions anyway and it works a bit better that way."
Did you see [1]?
Like VisiCalc but by us. Hmmmm, sometimes it works out okay.
On contrary, I find sed quite valuable.
No link to article.

Also, previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18195827
That already have that problem with the drugs currently used, so it doesn’t seem to be an additional roadblock to using a simpler cocktail.

Also, aren’t there Chinese suppliers who wouldn’t add those troublesome stipulations?
1) 2.6B in revenue != 2.6B in profit. HSBC earns maybe 20% margins so we're talking about ~500M in revenue or far less than the fine.

2) Your point about expected value is well taken, but here you are saying something far different from what themagician said and I was objecting to.
Or not having a good std crypto library: a million of shitty libraries
I am color blind. I fail a bunch of dot tests and have had minor social embarrassment over the years talking about colors - I will be in a discussion about color and say something nobody relates to when I misidentify a color.

However, an aside, I am not red-green color blind. I have had several conversations with people who think red-green is the only type of color blindness, or that red-green color blindness and color blindness are the same thing.

Anyway, it sounds weird to me to "cure" color blindess. It causes no problem for me other than minor social embarrassment when talking about colors. I start to fear a world in which it's "corrected" - are the things I have seen all my life "incorrect"? Would I find it weird to see some familiar objects "corrected"?

Based on my conversations with people I would also have to be suspicious that any "cure for color blindness" would focus 100% on red-green and not do someone like me any good.
They can redirect you anywhere. They can also rewrite anything in the URL, like add affiliate IDs or whatever. I'm sure some of them do that, because why not.
Opioid overdose is not as reliably deadly as people think. Yes, it CAN kill, but it doesn’t always, and not in a defined time period, and not always cleanly - respiratory arrest vs. cardiac arrest vs. brain death. The goal of the protocol is to have a process that has a very high likelihood of causing death within a fairly short period.
So maybe they should offer a premium subscription, 70% more expensive, with absolutely no ads.
Sort of like how Tidal Music have $10 / month compressed music, $20 / month uncompressed.
>This is the first problem we wanted to address, how a small sensory array (e.g., the tip of a finger) can learn a predictive model of three dimensional objects by integrating sensation and movement-derived location information.

This doesn't follow from above but the idea of a pattern matching machine is certainly pretty great though I do see the parallels with FPGAs and how, even if the structure is the same, the function can be completely different and thus "understanding" the code running is a super hard problem and only in certain ways similar with all people.
My hypothetical was an extreme example to show how this can be still fair.

Besides this extreme example, you can get the 3% much lower in their share of income and still be justified for the taxes they pay.

Say, a person makes 1M year and a 999999 people make 10K per year. The first person earns just 0,01% of the total income combined, but he might be the only one paying taxes if the others are below the taxable income level.

So, he might pay e.g. 20% of 1M (and 100% of taxes), while he only makes 0.01% of the income -- and that could still be fair.

Now add many dirt poor, many middle class, and a 3% of upper middle class, millionaires, billionaires and so on.
Everything I’ve heard about hypoxia indicates that it’s a neutral or pleasant experience. You lose your higher mental functions first so you don’t panic or worry about what’s going on. You feel fine until you keel over. The fact that this isn’t the standard way to do it is a clear sign to me that the people making these decisions aren’t interested in making it quick and simple.
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This.

WhatsApp is much worse. Here in Europe we use it like TOO MUCH. We just can't switch to Signal, we need it to text/chat friends, people we don't know yet, businesses, etc.
Yeah, glass on beaches is a nightmare. Much rather have plastic or cans.

Picking glass shards out of a kids sandy foot is not nice.
I'm curious. What do you (or other people) dislike about special characters. For me, they are more readable than text (maybe I should start writing APL ;-) ).

Granted, I'm dyslexic and apparently dyslexia only affects characters which are phonetic. This has also been my experience and I love Chinese characters in Japanese text because it's much more comfortable for me to read. So that's why I might prefer symbols.

I'm wondering, though, why people dislike symbols (and I know it's a very common thing). It's just like any other letter, except that it has a meaning. I wonder, it is because it's hard to read phonetically (just the opposite of my problem)? Whenever I've asked people they say "Symbols are ugly", which is kind of an unhelpful response. It's like saying, "I don't like it because it is unlikable". I hope someone has a slightly deeper insight into the reasons.
Nah, all this R&D and CapEx is pretax.
E2E should be for all client to client communication. OTR is opportunistic. Good many many years ago but not enough for this day and age. When you think of a protocol's viability,consider how we'll be stuck with it for decades (like irc and email). Non-e2e support is intolerable.
Yeah, I guess

* :: is the same as in many other languages

* & too

* ! is unique, I guess

* The format string stuff is based on ... C#/Python stuff? I forget exactly.

* _ => () is composing three other bits of syntax that aren't unusual on their own

* <> is genrics, like in many languages

* [T] is slices, which are not entirely unique but are also similar to array stuff which uses []s

Thanks for elaborating, it's helpful to understand the perspective.
That's false

The large majority of non performing loans are modest amounts, never repaid

More than 90% of loans were given without proper guarantees, trying to help.people to recover

They never did, they took the money and out them elsewhere

Source: I work for a large financial institution developing models for their NPLs
Most of them have been offered to pay between 10 and 20% of the debt

Justice is just to slow
> As a software engineer, I make approximately the median income for my county. I don’t know who these top-10% tech workers are, but they’re certainly not my colleagues.

They are at FAANG companies. Engineers there with 5+ years of experience are pulling down more than $200k total comp in most roles, and many of them make a bit more than that.
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That would require either the state finding a legal source of fentanyl that is willing to sell them the drug for that purpose (challenging, given most pharma companies refuse due to some mix of principles and not wanting their product to be associated with death) or the state contracting with black market suppliers.

Or simply open a small gouvernmental lab that produces the drug in the small amounts necessary.