skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick check of what Reye's Syndrome was would have told you that it is both associated with chickenpox and the first paper to make the link to aspirin was in 1989 (add time for that information to be fully understood and disseminated).
Agree completely, although I wouldn't go so far as to say looks are the only reason someone would ride an 'impractical' bike.

I pretty much only use fixed-gear bikes for city riding, even in cities like San Francisco and Seattle with tons of hills (albeit one with handbrakes — I'm not suicidal). I like the way they look and feel, and there are other benefits (generally cheaper, easier to maintain, etc) but the main thing I like is the "impracticality". Cycling is my main form of exercise, and on any given day the bulk of my moving-around time might be biking to/from the coffee shop or my coworking space. The inefficient energy consumption and increased cardio is a feature.
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Thanks, this will be my next tire :)
... by taking control of everything of importance. No wonder that Brussels is being compared to Moscow and EU to USSR by Eastern Europeans.
Doubly confusing as people associate "Kit" names with Apple a lot of the time - a company and platform that has nothing to do with either project.
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Ha yeah we all pay for the marketing campaigns regardless. Its factored into the price of every product you buy. The money for internet ads doesn't just spawn out of the ether.
I think the "everbody does so we are cool with it" excuses pretty laughable to be honest. Not every webapp claims to be a most private and secure app out there so here we go again with "ease of use is more important then security". I thought Protonmail was different but its obviously not.
That's not really how notebooks are written, at least in my experience. Even if there aren't side effects, work is often done at the lowest level without defining functions at all. Also, the fact that function definitions can change makes it tricky, and I suspect you'd run into lots of subtle issues: e.g. if you modified a function foo and a subsequent function bar calls foo, then I think calls to bar would return stale memoized data.
Yes, already linked in a comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18500903
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Replying here, because I can't reply directly to
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I am just thrilled to see both "millenial snowflake" and "alt-right" in a slur referring to one and the same person. I thought "millenial snowflakes" are lefties, making this mutually exclusive with "alt-right". A rare find, this comment!
I tried to follow gold's author's series on linkers once but gave up. Now that I've written an ELF-64 writer and know a little more about linking I should give it another shot. In any case, I think I've heard of still faster linkers than gold, and at the time I also found gold's object oriented architecture (as it was described in the series) questionable.
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> Consequences famously never came for executives in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

I'd say that it's a good thing that the law is generally not designed to punish harmful ends, but intent (wilful, negligent or reckless) to cause well-defined harmful ends. The financial crisis was a collective malfunction of the financial system that was mostly not anticipated (barring the lucky minority that bet against the status quo).
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> I'm just saying there are almost certainly limits.

Nobody is saying that there's no limit, it's just that the limits may be super high.
The most animals can lift is a couple of hundreds a kg by roughly one meter.
Machines can move hundreds of time this amount to other planets.
As soon as you create your own commits on a clone of the repository you then have a 'fork' in the chain of commits.
To begin with, the labview run time is riddled with bugs. Every application I've ever seen written under labview is expected by its creators and its users to crash randomly and continually for no explainable reason.

Yes, drawing out some things in a visual IDE and having it work is nice. The problem is that eventually LabVIEW is going to update their runtime and it won't work anymore. Now what?

Take the time and do it right up front, and then when it needs to be updated people aren't cursing "whoever decided to do this in LabVIEW years ago" as they often do in these situations.
I’ve not heard of any airline doing that for the pilots. I’m not sure about other employee groups. The attitude is that it’s a 24/7 operation and everyone knows this going in. No special days.
Hmm, that’s true. Many might consider this a reasonable argument for the product not being bad.
If you trust your bike won't get stolen in your home or your place of work that's a pretty big use case that isn't "virture signaling".
> I also thought that the news services would crumble and die. They didn't

“The [Spanish] law...cost publishers €10 million, or about $10.9 million, which would fall disproportionately on smaller publishers” and led to “smaller Spanish aggregators, such as Planeta Ludico, NiagaRank, InfoAliment, and Multifriki shut[ting] down” [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201...
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> Not to mention the US, with it's secret laws and national security letters.

Don't even need laws or national security letters. Just keep inviting the CEO's of leading social media platforms to congressional hearings and demand they do more to fight "terrorist propaganda and child pornography", for a more current context "Russian election interference".

Then these platform holders will kickstart a whole content-moderation industry on the other side of the planet, all properly outsourced so nobody could claim they are censoring themselves.

The result is a surface web that has been sanitized for years already, but with barely anybody noticing or caring.

In a system like that the notorious "Vietnamese Napalm girl" gets deleted because it's childporn. A painting depicting a nude Donald Trump with a small penis? Deleted, that's pornography. A US soldier intimidating a tied and gagged prisoner with a dog in Abu Ghraib? That's a known torture method by Al-Qaeda, deleted.

Note: I made none of these last examples up, they all happened like that and very likely keep happening on a daily basis [0].

That's why I think it's dangerous to throw the term "illegal content on the Internet" around as haphazardly as many people often tend to do.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-29/the-cleaners-...
You still need to exit HK first, right - it's the same immigration department/check as at the airport. (And the West Kowloon railway station with mainland border checks inside HK did not exist back in 2014 in that form.)
Other questions to ask are:

* Would this product exist without the malicious use cases?

* Can the company sustain itself without the malicious use case?

* Are there ways to mitigate the malicious use cases, and could they be reasonably implemented?

* Is the true intent of the business - when you assess it honestly - for it to be used in the "good" scenario, or in the malicious scenario?

* Are the malicious scenarios being reinforced/rewarded?

* What portion of revenue is directly caused by the malicious use cases?

* Is the company marketing or appealing to the malicious use cases? Are they trying to actively warn against/discourage them?

* What are the worst case scenarios of the malicious use case? Are they theoretical or real?

* What are the best case scenarios of the "golden path" use case? Are they theoretical or real?

And we also need to pay attention as we answer the questions above, looking out for if/when we make shallow justifications rather than honestly assessing the answers to the questions above. Look out for situations where our response is hedged by an excuse that's irrelevant to your ethical duties as a software engineer, such as:

* "but we can't leave money on the table"

* "but people would lose their jobs if we didn't do this"

* "but this is what our competitors do"

* "but if we didn't do this, someone else would"

* "but it also causes [theoretical/unintended side effect that sounds good on paper]" (particularly important to watch out for when that unintended side effect is an oversimplified version of reality)

* "but it's not our choice how it is used" (particularly relevant in situations where the business model relies on the malicious use case, and/or there are opportunities to mitigate the harmful use case that are intentionally going unexplored... or situations where your product itself is using techniques such as behavioral conditioning to train a user's choices)
That's a rather charitable view of 2008. I don't think many people share it.
Plant based infection ranks highly because of the risks from rice, and those risks are present even if you cook it correctly and properly reheat left-overs.
LPARs are closer to VMs than containers. WPARs (workload partitions) may be what you are thinking of.
Any particular reason that you didn't go with an Estonian company instead?
Probably the most over- + mis-used phrase on HN aside from orthogonal, our HN gang-signaling word.
Am I wrong in thinking this will cause some havok via incorrect predictions? It is not necessarily possible to predict machine loads.
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A frictionless market with a lot of liquidity should (in theory) result in rapid, accurate and transparent price discovery, which in turn should result in more optimal asset allocation, which in turn should result in people being able to get what they want at a lower price.

In practice, many markets are far from frictionless, and far from liquid, and pricing far from transparent, which is where most (all?) of our problems come from.

The best (and most ironic) example comes from the financial services industry itself: Although markets are the daily bread of the industry, it is ironic that the market for financial services is opaque and noncompetitive. How else could such profits be sustained? How else could the two and twenty compensation convention survive, if it weren't for the fact that the industry acts as an unofficial cartel?

When we complain about financial services, we often forget that the rhetoric of many free-market neoliberals is pure hypocrisy: what they practice is 180 degrees apart from what they preach.
Bet365 owner Denise Coates was in the news just today[1] (although technically it's old news), for earning £265m only last year. That's a lot of "responsibility".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/21/bet365-deni...
What is this? That election had a lot of stealing and Caro claimed Johnson stole more, but I can't find a reference to Mexican voters. It's seems an overcomplicated strategy when a local corrupt pollling place can just directly fill in fraudulent ballots and call in false counts.
>Utah solved it's homelessness problem by just giving people homes. And it was pretty effective.

Utah doesn't have a climate suited to living on the streets. When you're averaging just shy of 4 feet of snow a year and 3-4 months of freezing temps it's a lot different than say Seattle or San Francisco where the average low is above freezing all year.
The older I get the more stunningly obvious and apparent the corruption is. It is endemic.
Gauche is a bit of an upper class word, no? Why would upper classes decide to stigmatize handing out cash as gauche?

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> it's getting the customer to say yes

Yes. That's how capitalism works. You have to compete in the market.

> With micropayments you ask the customer to say yes every time they click a link.

Yes - do you think you should be able to sell them additional products without getting the buy's permission? That "conative penalty" is the difference between an ethical transaction approved by both sides, and a scam, fraud, or strong-arm tactic such as bundling or abusive contracts of adhesion.

> This imposes a cognitive/mood/whatever penalty every time they consider viewing your content

Yes, consumers are empowered to more buy specifically what they want, and nothing more.

Or, you could try a new business model that avoids some of this penalty in new, innovative ways.

> sell an all access pass to the content on 10, 100, or 1000 websites

That bundles together products that someone does not want into the same payment for the products they do want. This is the same market distortion that the cable companies use, which people have been walking away from over the last ~decade.

When buyers are empowered to bypass market distortions like bundling, product prices are able to move closer to their actual value. For some products that value is zero. That's a signal that it's time to find a better product to sell, not a reason to undermine the core mechanism of capitalism by removing consumer choice.
Note that this is not yet implemented.

However, the main point is that "would even cheer for fascists" includes "would even cheer for people hunting down anyone who they deem in violation of what constitutes their version of free speech", which doesn't seem like a very effective way to fight exactly that.
That's the way I learned C++. While I mostly use the STL now as it's much more convenient to write, there is an elegance to writing one's own tools.
> I don’t know the backstory of why most FOIA requests end up with data being formatted in the worst way possible

It's malicious compliance. They're required to give you the info, but they aren't required to make your life easier.
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This problem is most commonly found in rice.

Cooking the rice doesn't kiil the bugs. Not chilling the rice quickly enough allows the bugs to produce toxins. Reheating the rice doesn't destroy the toxin.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can...
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Hey, actually i need to measure distance several points which will have barriers between them like human body and cloths etc...

I was thinking about infrared sensor but they can't pass through the body.

GPS does work to find distance between two points.

But can i setup a local gps in a room so it gives me accuracy in millimetres instead of meters like with ordinary GPS? If so, how? Can you suggest anything better?

Distance between two points is limited to 8 feet max.
Sure, but "every means possible" is a very clear shortcut directly to the end of that road.
It seems like forking so often would use up a system's resources very quickly. I'd imagine that each fork needs at least a handful of individual pages for OS bookkeeping overhead, so you'd get into the gigabyte range fast even with perfect copy-on-write.
True ! But interesting for most ML problems.. Parallelism can greatly and easily improve performance... So if we wait a few years and get more cores/threads :)
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One of my ex was a commodity trader in another big player, Cargill. She was not the most moral being to start with (you simply can't be a successful moral trader, period), but even for her trading with edible commodities was the worst moral shithole - your success would easily help cause hundreds/thousands of deaths in some famine/disaster stricken place, usually in Africa.

She was in energy and oil instead - her success would mean that down the line, we all would pay up a bit for her success (selling expensively when demand was high). And also with oil, she would be trying to create as cheap gas/diesel from oil as possible (meaning passing regulations in some 3rd world country), it took her easily 10 fails to get just slightly above the (very low) bar. The result - engines destroyed over time with crappy fuel, environment polluted with less-than-ideal material burned. But nobody gave a nano-fraction of a fck, it was Africa.

Yeah, traders, they think super high about themselves, most are properly broken human beings, a pure net loss for humanity
> I live in the Netherlands and have not had my bike stolen in 25 years. Just use a good lock and only park in secured parking locations with gated access and cameras.

That works well as long as you only want to ride between places with secured parking locations with gated access and cameras.

In the US I have noticed a bit of a disconnect between bike hobbyists (put your bike in your car and drive to the place you want to ride) and people whose bike is their primary mode of transportation. I'm sure it's different in the Netherlands, but a lot of places here you're lucky to find a single bike rack near your destination. "Secured parking locations" don't exist outside of the occasional upscale apartment complex.
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If you know of something which is easy to set up, easy to administer, easy to use and provides better handling of multi-way threaded discussion, I'd be interested to hear about it.

(I know Python is experimenting with a forum-based solution, but I worry about the burden of both yet another account to create and site to check, and finding people to maintain and moderate it)
People keep searching for news with Google, the clickbait is still there for google searches.
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Yes, agreed. I'm spitballing. I was thinking about how a hypothetical type of notebook could be structured in frames, where each frame can have side effects, but ultimately its input comes from the output of the previous frame. So each frame could be memoized. The UI could indicate what frames are being re-processed.

I'm basically thinking about ArcGIS Model Builder[1] that I used a lot in university. It was a great way to make complex process pipelines for GIS data, but only re-run the pieces that change. It allowed me to experiment at a very fast pace.

[1] http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/analysis/geoprocessing...
Yes you can't run like that forever. But you could break, step forward and backward and bit, and then resume. I often step forward while debugging, realise that whatever is going wrong has already gone wrong, and would like to step back a few steps.
This is a valid point were it not for the fact that being structurally designed to thwart regulation (by obscuring the link between account and account holder) is the main difference between cryptocurrency and ordinary digital cash, and is a major - if not the principal value proposition of the technology.
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> I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size

Me too; but then I think of all those unsavoury traders who would have to get other jobs, eventually inflicting hell on the innocent, and the prospect of keeping them where they are, flies to flypaper, becomes more appealing. (disclaimer: I work in the sector at large)
gold is sure fast compared to bfd.ld, but then you should try lld from the LLVM project which is much faster in general.
What about Graph tags, or the tags that do the Twitter cards? I'm guessing that an aggregation site that just uses those, would be fine?

This can all be easily fixed with a robots.txt entry and specific bot name for the Google News bot, or a special noindex meta-tag just for news aggregators.
Perhaps it's not so simple after all, if the simple solution isn't working.
> But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys?

Setting aside if it's in line with GDPR, the interesting effect for me is that it adds a whole lot more friction to sites like TechCrunch for instance.

Up until now the cookies banner was annoying, but at this point I'll never go to a site with heavy GDPR screens except if I really really want to read an article that is heavily discussed. Put it another way, I'm not sure we get trained to click these disclaimer, just opting out of the site becomes a simple option.

In comparison arstechnica for instance is frictionless, and I hope it brings them a boost in visits comparatively.
It's a friendly advice:
Please do not put many efforts on this project (unless you have some extraordinary plans for it)

Anyone can send himself WhatsApp msg without any website/app.

You should try:
- Save your WhatsApp number in the phonebook App
- Open phonebook app and look for your number
- Choose "Message +X-XXXXXXXXXX" option (with Whatsapp icon)
- It will create a new chat in your WhatsApp

Another way:
- Just create group with one contact and remove it later. Now you're all alone in the group and can use it as Notes app.

Good luck for your venture.
> We can't even make bug-free web pages. So the idea that we can engineer a bug-free self-improving AGI is unconvincing.

This is mostly true because of current economical realities in the IT sector.

If very rich people have long-term plans to invent an AGI and they have labs where trying to do so is an everyday activity then I am pretty sure they'll use more serious methodologies.

So what you say is true but only within the bounds of the lowest common denominator ("a regular programmer working a wage job").
I don't buy it either.

Although, elite racers are ultra-fit people in their teens to twenties and are quite a different demographic than the typical high-end bicycle consumer-- which is males in their 40's and older with some disposable income and a bit of a mid-life crisis going on (I'm one).

The wooden bike idea comes around every once in a while, the last one I remember was bamboo. I think it makes a viable frame material but they're very much "a look" rather than some kind special material that provides any specific "ride quality".

It is totally possible to have a "quality ride" with any frame material you want: steel, carbon-fiber, titanium, aluminum or wood.

When it comes to a "quality ride" people underestimate the importance of three things: 1. Their own fitness, 2. The fit/geometry of the bike and 3. The most simple thing of all, tire selection.
Linus himself appears to disagree with you, now. You don't need to defend him.