skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all know the types of ads that Google is saying they are going to block here - and good riddance. I really wish I knew of some study - but, my personal theory is that roughly 100% of those ads are trying to sell some scam or download some virus. It's really hard to imagine a legitimate company that sends users ads with fake close buttons, pop ups, redirects, fake mouse pointers, etc and after the user trudges through all of that they end up at a page advertising 10% of garden shears at the local hardware store.

Yes - Google sells ads. Yes - Google, apparently, now blocks ads. Yes - that sounds troubling. And it sure will be troubling is if it turns out that they are blocking legitimate Ad Words competitors. But, these aren't really ads by any reasonable definition: these are overwhelmingly anti-user malware scam garbage. In my opinion, it's pretty troubling if a super profitable company like Google has the ability to make such a user-positive change and _doesn't_ do so.

Maybe its step 1 down a slippery slope to actual bad behavior. But, let's get worked up about that when there is some actual evidence of bad behavior - it's not like there won't be plenty of people interested in trying to keep tabs on what Google is doing here.
Yeah first thing that came to mind was that exactly.
Your expansion on Kavanaugh's argument does not seem to deepen it, but rather reword it.

Indeed, there are times where I feel a profanity-laden opinion is justified without reading too far. If I were to say homosexuality should be punishable by prison time, I would expect a profanity laden response without much depth. Some things are just outrageous, and outrage is a sensible response.
Great comment and insightful. That makes sense.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that often the deck is stacked against a company that could really bring some massive benefit to people, but you're right that they've done surprisingly well against that anti-momentum.
> Property owners are responsible for the housing crisis. The city is at their whim.

I don't know. Maybe this is just differing philosophies of government, but when I object to the government exercising an authority that only it has, I consider that to be directly a problem with government. Obviously it's useful to look into who else influences the government's decisions, but the direct problem is the exercise of power.
> How is renting it out with Airbnb different from an owner just holding onto the property and not living in it?

How do you think it's different?
I wonder if a similar change would occur in the brains of native English speakers who learn Chinese or Japanese as adults? After all, it's a whole new way set of very different characters to learn and decode.

It may be that once the big shift has occurred when you learned to read your native language, it will never happen again, as you now have the "firmware" to read anything.
Azure is a good product, though. And, more importantly, the person is familiar with it.

If I was doing something similar, I'd probably use GCP. Not necessarily because it's superior (i like it a lot, btw), but because I can achieve my goals faster that way.
You’re kidding right?

Eminent domain is used daily in the US and around the world. It would literally be impossible to build and maintain a transportation network without it.
Ubisoft Will Censor Global Version of a Video Game Prior to Chinese Release
And always check used bookstores. You can find gems there, and often take chances on new things because they're so cheap. And don't forget libraries! I could wax poetic about all those places.
GP might or might not, but that isn't relevant - presumably everyone on HN could already mount a decent argument in favour of net neutrality, even without reading the opinion of legal experts.

Law is a highly technical field that is full of detail, nuance and far-reaching consequences. There is a good reason why legal opinions are usually long written documents - the issues are complex. Anyone who selects one sentence as a soundbite and holds it up as the thing itself is (in an inconsequential way) undermining the integrity of the legal system. Judges write opinions that are about the length they need to be to express their reasoning. To criticise the opinion, it is necessary to have separate evidence of the result of the ruling or to have read the opinion. Quoting one sentence of the opinion from an article is not sufficient.
This is just another comment in the fetishization of everything long. There's nothing particularly grand about anything being long. Timecube is longer.

I have 50 years at best left to live. This isn't competing with self help. This is competing with the best books of all time so it had better be good.
> Are you really not going to use YouTube because you don’t trust the Google CA

Not because I don't trust it, but I might because Bruce doesn't. At least, if Bruce stops trusting it I'd like to know why before I decide to trust it again.

I think if you imagine the way that compromised CAs would be used in actual attacks it is clear why we can't expect compromised CAs to be widely observed (they would be used only for targeted traffic), and why we should not trust all CAs equally.
Been to Venice? But for a sliver of the northern side, I got the impression nobody lived there but tourists.
"Ray Tracing in One Weekend" is the first in a very popular 3-part series of short, introductory-level books on ray tracing.

"Ray Tracing in One Weekend/The Next Week/The Rest of Your Life" have recently switched to DRM-free, "Pay What You Want" pricing http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-we...
I have not carefully read the entire NDA, but I offer the following comment.

If a recipient of information protected by an NDA is a legal entity, such as a corporation, Section 4 of your form requires the recipient to enter into a confidentiality written agreement with each employee (and others working for the recipient) who receive information protected by the NDA. This is both too much and too little!

It is too much because it is burdensome on the recipient to require employees to sign a written agreement every time the corporation receives receive information protected by an NDA. There might be 20 employees who need to see the information, and keeping track of who has signed and who hasn’t and making sure that an employee who has signed doesn’t share information with an employee has not yet signed is an administrative burden.

I don’t ask for this provision when representing the disclosing party, and I would resist this when representing the recipient.

In any event, how does the disclosing party police this requirement?

It is too little because the recipient fulfills its obligation by entering into a written agreement with the employee as required by your form of NDA. If there is a written agreement with the employee and the employee improperly discloses the information protected by the NDA, the recipient points to the written agreement and says, “I did what you asked.” So why would the recipient be liable for the wrongful disclosure by its employee?

To whom is the employee liable if the employee improperly discloses the information protected by the NDA? Presumably the disclosing party would want to sue based on the fact that the employee signed a written agreement agreeing to keep the information confidential, but unless the disclosing party is a third-party beneficiary of the recipient’s written agreement with the employee, the disclosing party has no rights under that agreement.

In the absence of an express statement in the NDA that the recipient’s agreement with the employee is intended for the benefit of the disclosing party (i.e., the disclosing party is a third-party beneficiary of the agreement), it is a litigable issue whether the disclosing party a third-party beneficiary. There is nothing in the NDA form that requires the recipient’s agreement with the employee to contain such a clause.

In some situations, both the disclosing party and the recipient might prefer not to identify the source of the information protected by the NDA.

Even assuming that the written agreement with the employee allows the disclosing party to sue the employee for wrongful disclosure based on that agreement, does the employee have adequate resources to pay a judgment?

Instead of requiring such agreements between a recipient and an employee, it might be more effective to state in the NDA that the recipient is required to instruct its employees on the confidential nature of the information, that the recipient is responsible for any disclosure of information by its employees in violation of the NDA, and that the recipient will be liable for any damages resulting therefrom.
Definitely. I go to the local bookstore once a week to check new releases/acquisitions. I've found it nice to check the cover/title and, if it catches my eye, read more about it or try a chapter. Found some really good stuff I'd've never read otherwise that way. This mostly works for non-fiction, though I've found it great for fantasy novels as well. I usually take a picture then go see if anyone I trust on Goodreads has read it, or if the library has it.
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It's weird that the article has no data about the molecule. You can find it in the research articles "linked" at the bottom.
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I meant it from a broad cosmic perspective. Through the chaos and entropy of the universe and evolution we are on the Internet using fantastically complex devices to beam our thoughts across some unknown distance to exchange some ideas. That chaos and entropy includes all the suffering of those that came before us. There is no moral value to humans fighting and dying in the mud, just a waste of potential. My personal view is every human life is a new spark, a new shot to further ourselves as a species a little bit more and that, inherently, progress is the only sensible option for our species. And, being a human who thinks humans have a shot at being pretty alright in the grand scheme of things, I think that struggle is worth undertaking. I know philosophy is complex and this is not a very nuanced view point I am presenting from that perspective, but I don't think my point requires very much nuance.
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And even the classics in various genres. Like, you can't necessarily go wrong with reading Douglas Adams, or Arthur C. Clarke or J.R.R. Tolkien, especially as a novice in a genre.

That said, I'd recommend reading Les Misérables to everyone. Definitely an amazing book.
I loved thethecouple of books by dostoyevsky i have read. They were difficult to get into, but it occurs to me one of the really interesting and pleasant things about reading is attuning yourself to a writers tempo, patterns and word play. It forces you to adjust your own internal voice.
Mig welders are used as temporary power supplies all the time. They allow for variable DC voltage (some offer AC), current, wave forms, and the bigger one have close to 100% duty cycle. Here's a guy using a mig welder to power a 15 ton radial arm dill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zYrabDGIEg
What is this ? Rational thoughts on the internet.
> This is not actually correct (and in fact, I'm not talking about college and these numbers are not correct for college participation!), but even if it were, we can formulate wage problems in terms of populations.

But then the numbers are completely different. If you look at something like gender balance at the 20th or 30th percentile income level for full time employees, there are more men at those below-median income levels than women. Then men are underrepresented around the middle, but women are highly underrepresented at the top. The people making millions or hundreds of millions a year bring the male average way up but that does nothing for the bottom 90+% of men who on average are actually making less than the average woman.

> This is just another example of my argument: it's a problem if there is a bad outcome for men. It's not a problem if there is a bad outcome for women, it's "choice."

The argument is that there should be consistency. If it's a problem in one case then it should be a problem in every case. We have laws against employer sex discrimination and a slew of programs to try to help women advance their careers. The wage gap is smaller now than it was 20 years ago, and smaller 20 years ago than it was 40 years ago. What analogous thing is actually being done to keep men out of prison? What progress has been made there?

You're also apparently claiming that going to prison is a choice in the same way that choosing a profession is. There is theoretically a choice whether to commit a crime or not, but in the Three Felonies a Day sense there isn't, and committing a crime is demonstrably not a prerequisite to going to prison anyway.
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> people simply do not like having short-term visitors as neighbors or floormates.

That's a commonly provided explanation, but I find it very hard to believe that existing laws and leasing rules can't/don't already easily solve this. If too many instances of noise complaints, property damage, improper trash disposal, etc. occur from your property, you (the owner or renter) get fined or evicted. It's obviously not an excuse to say that you rented out your unit on AirBnb. Surely these laws and rules have always existed, since that problem is not unique to short-term rentals. What am I missing?
the Endless West website says "All our flavors are naturally derived, meaning they come from plants and yeast."

when i read that i felt disappointed. for some reason i was hoping they gave themselves the freedom to use the full range of natural and artificial food-grade chemicals present in soft drinks, junk food and other consumer edibles.
It's discontent. All the way down. Heh. It is a good point though. There is nothing inherently good or bad about this state of being. It is just the way we are. Maybe we can change it, but it seems like it will happen on a geological time scale so we should learn to live with our basic nature for now.
That coalition seems a but one sided, or? Where is EFF or DDG? Google appears to be smart about collaboration and playing by the rules creating a .org campaign. But make no mistake about the true motivation behind this is to set, control and influence the rules to lock out others.
This has also led to many later IPOs :)

On a more serious note, I agree most with your point around digging oneself out of complacency and moving towards a better future — if not for you, for someone else.
I think it varies.

There are a large class of landlords that will favor longer term tenants because it is lower risk / less hassle.

There are also many cases where renting long term is more profitable as well if the home can't be booked consistently. There has always been a "volume discount" incentive for business owners.

I would say there is economic incentive for both interests.

I don't claim to have the right to assert my opinion on other renters and landlords. I don't think others should either. Who I think is more important is none of my business. That's between the renter and the landlord IMO.

Markets, based on supply and demand, have a natural tendency to find balance between the interests of multiple parties.
For markings of such importance, you'd think they would have a standardized stencil. The video of the worker spray painting seems a little too nonchalant, potentially opening the door to misreading.
And if standardized, there could even be a digital reader (like an OCR?) to tell others exactly what it means in the event of confusion or differing interpretation.
> Short term stays like hotels and long term stays like renting should be regulated differently, yes?

It's clear that a lot of people take this for granted, but I don't. I don't see why the rights of one group ought to be different or more important than the rights of another group.
I enjoy reading, but I've always struggled with it, particularly with larger, slower-paced, and more complex books (though it's never stopped me). I suspect I have pretty strong aphantasia [1] and so I never build mental images of the characters or their scenes, rather I only remember abstract descriptors about everything. I find that this makes it hard for me to follow storylines and in particular multiple story arcs in multiple different locations or timeframes. I think that this does impact the level of joy I get from reading, and envy those who get a rich tapestry of mental images from the stories.

I found, for example, Matthew Reilly's Ice Station a relatively easy story when I read it as a teen because the pace was high and the action was contained to a relatively simple scene. On the other hand, I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver right now and I'm really struggling to follow the story arcs because it jumps all over the place with its characters, scenes and timeframes. The fact I'm already familiar with most of the characters' names helps some of it stick, but I'm resigned to most of the secondary Royal Society characters being a generic conglomeration of traits and just treat them as a supporting cast without defined personalities in a lot of ways.

I find that I also very quickly forget the contents of novels I read. I read Snow Crash about 5-8 years ago and then again earlier this year, and I barely remembered any of it. Certainly I think more stuck the second time, but it was still mostly new to me (e.g. the character concepts and biggest plot points kind of stuck, but nothing more).

I sort of hope that reading can help me improve with my memory, but it hasn't in about 25 years of reading (I'm in my early 30s) so I don't hold particularly high hopes. I do wonder whether the aphantasia would've been even worse had I not read so much when growing up, but maybe if it hasn't noticeably improved in my life then equivalently it would never have been any worse had I not read. I wonder if my brain in some ways reflects an illiterate person in the visual cortex areas?

On the other hand, reading is undoubtedly the reason my vocabulary and spelling is as good as it is. Certainly, it's is a very valuable skill and I am glad that I continued to engage it since I learned to read as a child.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
I did not reword his arguments. Those are his words, see the opinion and search for them.
I'm not OP, but I just follow my interests. Thankfully, at least with non-fiction, they're fairly broad, so I've read academic textbooks on religion, textbooks on programming, general science books on physics (to complement my textbook knowledge) as well as anthropology, sociology and more. Just find a topic you're interested in, go to Goodreads (I like it a lot more than Amazon for searching books), and see what you can find. Or Google it, and see what trusted people in fields like/recommend. Or even people with interests that align with yours.

As for fiction, I like mostly fantasy, so will browse the shelves and look at hyped books on /r/fantasy, as well as other, lesser-known ones that sound/look interesting (I'm a proponent of looking at covers and titles to see if it seems interesting to look into deeper). I also used to follow some reviewers. For more "literary" fiction, I look mostly at what mainstream reviewers say. I found All the Light we Cannot See that way, and loved it (except for one scene I felt was just completely unnecessary to the novel). Then, perhaps, look for major authors. Umberto Eco is one that comes to mind that I'm fixing to start.
I really like Blink Shell, Charles Proxy, and Pythonista. One nice thing about Pythonista is that you can trigger scripts from Shortcuts (neé Workflow) which has come in handy for hacky workarounds.
I think the government has a legitimate role in maintaining order in the streets. I don't think the government has any legitimate role in influencing the number of flowerboxes in windows.
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Vodka is often made by industrial methods because vodka is water and ethanol with as little taste as possible.

Bourbon is still made by fermenting grains, distilling them (often in pot stills), and aging for a few years in new oak barrels. But bourbon is often sold to other labels and blended, which is what Frank-Lin does. A lot of the "heritage" is bunk.

Any single malt scotch, on the other hand, is produced at a single distillery, sometimes using the same methods and stills they've used for a century or two. Many of the distilleries let you visit and see the whole process.
I didn't know it was possible to have a 100% foreign owned business in Thailand. Is that a new development, or is the business in your SO's name?
Tesla Factory Used Lyft Instead of Ambulances to Send Workers to the Hospital
If someone lifted your drive - the thing FDE is supposed to protect against - tamper evident seals are not going to offer much in the way of mitigation.
You can prove termination in many cases. But there are infinite cases where you can't prove it, and it will terminate.
It indicates that the markings were made by Underground Service Alert, the entity that's on the other side of 811.

c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Service_Alert
> As it turns out, successful people are not successful because they worked really hard

If your talking about the 1%, this may be true, I don't know.

But there are hundreds of millions of people in the middle/upper middle class brackets who I would argue are successful due to their hard work.
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Yup, but there's a keg party round the corner, come on!!
This seems to be the way it works with professional sports teams. The city officials and the team owners are all sitting on the same side of the negotiating table and the public has no one sitting in their seat to represent their interests.
I see how this wasn’t obvious, but I never actually said anyone should implement any particular password requirements, just that certain requirements might not increase entropy as much as you might think.

My above comment about offline attacks was my personal stance/ideal: I use a password manager for just about everything, not something I’d mandate.

As a developer, in many contexts I might implement min 8 chars with no special char requirements. I think the bad password check is also a good idea.
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From the looks of it, this site hasn't done much in the way of actual business. A handful of transactions 180 days ago, probably the original pieces being loaded up, and then crickets. https://etherscan.io/address/0xc40cf3abc0166847c16f1f60f3fdf...
Monograph is a fantastic blockchain art registry, made by Chris Tse, the founder of Cardstack. There are several others that actually demonstrate some of the more novel aspects of this particular use case. https://monegraph.com
I think the problem is better framed as focusing on consistently making the best choices we can given information we have and the situation we face. Yes, we make these choices in a community and our choices impact one another. We should seek to help our neighbors as we can, remembering we may need their help some day.

Living this way takes determination, persistence, and hard work. We need to know when to rest and recharge because fatigue makes us ineffective and error-prone. For me, that includes both rest and exercise.

I find it helpful to discuss my plans with those I trust to refine the plans and projects I undertake. It is too easy to be overly ambitious/optimistic and start more projects than I can finish. Good counsel helps us to evaluate what we do and focus on what best supports our long term goals.

We all make mistakes. I find it better to learn from them and try not to repeat them rather than engaging in self-pity or trying to cast myself as a "victim." Sometimes life is just hard and we need to be thankful for and encouraged by the "wins" we get. Living that way is far more pleasant than being constantly negative and critical of ourselves and others.