skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstand what "veil of ignorance" is referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance

> "It would be silly to confiscate my profits because Lending Club turned out to be shady"

It would be even sillier for you to lose literally everything because Lending Club turned out to be shady.
Think bigger: companies should be required to present their terms in plain English. Not all things need lawyers.
Yeah ditto. Same reason I '-pinterest' on most google queries.
They can't legally, but for them to stop someone has to go through the process of proving this in court.
You'll see extra discrete instances of your finger, as though lit by a strobe light.

This is how we used to be able to measure speed of spinning objects too. :)
One of my practices is to periodically use a day or two off work to attend court. I've sat in various sessions of a magistrates' court (low seriousness offences, shoplifting, maybe a drunken fight at most) and the conveniently adjacent crown court (rape, fraud by impersonation, lots of drug dealing). I never saw a reporter even once. The courts are set up to allow a local journalist to cover them, but there's no money in it unless the defendant is famous. Usually I was the only person who wasn't essential to the mechanics of the court, in the fraud trial and some of the magistrates' stuff there were family there to support the defendant but never anybody else. Your friends and indeed family are probably not going to take the day off work to attend your rape trial. So that's worth knowing...
The Faster You Unlearn OOP, the Better for You and Your Software
Everyone has their own use case. But, yeah, I am pretty sure I'd just go back to a feature phone if I couldn't have GPS.
For a nuclear power petrostate with minimal economic ties. China would get the shit boycotted out of them at least and Iran would get the shit bombed out of them as many politicians have been caught openly drooling at the prospect.
> Contrary to popular opinion, people are not ignorant to the behaviour of tech giants - they just don't care enough to stop.

Contrary to your* opinion, people do care enough to stop but they don't know how. Tech giants have insinuated themselves into literally every aspect of their lives by abusing the lack of knowledge of the users. Now, they don't see a way out without drastic change.

How can you get a job if you don't have a phone? How can you get a job when literally every affordable phone tracks you?

Even my apartment complex online portal tracks me. What the flying fuck?

The only way to actively stop is to not have any computing device whatsoever. Good luck living in a modern world like that: even then there's still facial tracking and vehicle tracking.

People that say that consumers don't care enough to stop is living in their own bubble insulated from real people.
Overly complicated, overly hyped, horrible syntax.
Many other European languages, on the other hand, do use the long scale.
> obvious wrongdoings

He's innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. CEOs have to plan ahead of time to sell their shares, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b5-1
It could be a horizontal bar graph, no?
Every investment comes with responsibilities that are also part of the risk profile of the investment.
Where is the "pause" wording?
I think parent talk about nextcloud and their plugin documentation being pore and their slow sync client.

I agree with him, they put a lot of energy on non crucial features when a lot of their core features could be improved.
I currently asked 3 people formally and 2 people informally. I've learned a lot already, thanks again for the tip!

I've realized that in order for me to do projects like this I should most of all be technically interested in them since the chance of them to fail is way too high. Currently, I'm obsessing over it, let's see how long it lasts.
I saw on youtube that one of the biggest benefits of IF is autophagy. So that's what I intermittent-fast for. Losing weight is not my priority. What I noticed so far is noticeable improvement in my complexion. That likely corresponds to some internal improvement/rejuvenation.
> I thought the criticism of bar graphs was exactly that people substitute area for height so the visuals are misleading.

The usual criticism is that it's harder to compare areas than lengths, so one should avoid mapping data to areas.
That’s the entire point of their post, it doesn’t make a practical difference to you but does to other people.
The US housing market is a ponzi scheme. It isclearly unattached from economic reality, and is just Vegas, as is the stock market. Gambling is about all they got, those money folk.
Is it possible to argue that Bernie Madoff did a lot less direct fiscal harm than many (most?) legitimate investment companies that were unwound at that time?

I suggested this at the time and got a lot of flak (from family members).
Proprietary. Charges for business use.
It will start having real problems when Zen 2 will ship using TSMC high-performance 7nm process instead of Zen 1's low-power process from Global Foundries. I.e. Zen 2 will have clock and IPC parity with current and future Intel parts no problem, while costing much less due to increased yields from multi-chip tech.
> It is so much easier if such statements are written as nouns that describe actual things.

But there is nothing in 'Sally' or 'Bob' that is more descriptive than 'a' or 'b' in this case; in fact, using 'Sally' or 'Bob' implies that whatever you're talking about specifically involves people, however that is of course no the case.

Using non-descriptive single letter names makes total sense in a context like this, since the only semantic associated with those particular elements is equivalence.
Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Five: 1984
It makes it WAY easier to understand exactly why !(a || b) == !a && !b.

Bob and Sally are things that people already understand and relate to. a and b are not, so there is an extra layer of indirection there when attempting to reason about them.

!(Milk || Sugar) == (!Milk && !Sugar), duh.
I didn't downvote you, but those who did probably decided your response was not particularly well-informed. Men might dominate HN, but women are over-represented as consumers of fiction (and nonfiction), in both print and ebook format-in the UK market, for example, they buy over 2/3rds of fiction books. So simply being popular with women is enough to be a literary phenomenon.
Love Is a Battlefield
US had an obssession with regulating "Violent Video Games" for decades with various laws.
https://ncac.org/resource/a-timeline-of-video-game-controver...
GopherCon 2018 Lightning Talk: Michael Stapelberg -router7 a Pure Go Home Router
How is the support of a "far-righter" against free speech?
Ali Hamed, Founder of Coventure, on Why Bitcoin Is Like Kim Kardashian
I don't think those numbers can only be reached with helpers.

How much effort camera/editing is really depends on the genre. E.g. for gaming channels, camera work basically doesn't exist, so it's "just" editing (which again highly depends on the style). At the lower level of "professional YouTuber", having to pay someone else vs doing it yourself would also make quite a difference for making the financials work out or not. Actually, I'd guess in gaming the most common external help would be a chat moderator for live streams.
Uh, Medicaid and healthcare.gov beg to differ
New study gives some handy tips on how to survive on Game of Thrones
Thanks for the corrections, yep I was a bit sloppy. But I hope the main point came trough - which is that you should choose carefully when buying LED bulbs, lots of crappy ones on the market.
I think Istanbul may have you beat there, and even if you don't agree the documentary Kedi about their street cats is absolutely worth watching :)

https://www.economist.com/prospero/2017/02/09/istanbuls-love...
Confirmation bias is a well-studied bias [1].

With that said, there are people who try to game HN for whatever reason. Maybe FAANG is doing it? Why just Google?

This question reminds me of a game of Maffia or Werewolf, the following is a bit of a stretch but: if you play that game a lot you might have some intuition about it. At least it might be a new fun game you could try!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
The concept of the so-called cell danger response strikes me (not a health-care practitioner or researcher) as a promising explanation for how psychological trauma causes chronic physical illness: in particular, the trauma causes persistent changes in the brain, which keeps on activating the cell danger response.
Snowbird was 2001.

That said, I remember using Jira before it had any understanding of an agile workflow, because part of my job was creating one in it.
Ugh I just wanted a working file manager
I thought only certain frequencies trigger epilepsy?
I'm sympathetic to some of your complaints about SE, but I think this is a mistake:

> SE's problem is that accretion wins over refinement. IMO it should have been more like a Wiki, with a much clearer distinction between content - i.e. stock answers, with comments - and debate about content.

You can see the effect of this approach in many cases where the community has tried to establish a "canonical" Q&A about some recurring topic, and it's frequently not pretty; every tangentially relevant detail that somebody thought to tell the world about gets edited in, and then never gets edited out. Unless somebody is willing to purge lots of users' contributions entirely (which they generally aren't), this one great beast of an answer just continues to grow and grow in scope, gradually losing any sort of coherent narrative or direct relevance to the question.

The failed Stack Overflow Documentation project failed in a similar way. Wikipedia articles about programming topics also seem to me to generally be tedious, confusing and riddled with inaccuracies.

The competition-based model that SE uses certainly has failure modes, but a more collaboration-based model also has failure modes - ones that I think are more serious and crippling.
A bubble is, in some ways, a self-organizing Ponzi scheme, in that the apparent growth has essentially nothing behind it but the inflow of new funds. Promoting something you know to be a bubble may be morally equivalent to running a Ponzi scheme, but you have to make some specific and clear-cut misrepresentations for it to be a crime. I would not be completely surprised if it turns out that some ICOs crossed the line, though ordinary take-the-money-and-run fraud seems more likely.
And then unless you are hosting your own VPN, you have no way of knowing whether your VPN provider is selling your data...
> that some Madoff investors....

They all are. That’s the point. This is taking Money from those who got out of Madoff’s fund soon enough, and giving to those later investors who paid for the imaginary profits.
Market Bears Force Bitmain to Close Its Israel-Based Development Center
https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

All over the page.

Paused this, paused that.
I use Noddle (operated by CallCredit) and I don't recall ever having been upsold anything.

Edit: After logging back in to have a look, it turns out that the website has a bunch of cross-selling adverts mixed in and around the 'free' credit-reporting service:

https://imgur.com/bBl8y2T

Going through the process of drawing red circles around the adverts made me realise 80% of the page is in fact advertising but for some reason I just never noticed them. I like to think I have a built in uBlock in my brain although I'm probably subconsciously absorbing their marketing message without realising it.
Ask HN: Business owners, pick 5 books in your library
Hedge funds are not regulated the way you think. Mostly the SEC requires the generation of a lot of paperwork and various filings. The SEC does conduct inspections of funds but mostly this is not that big a deal. Remarkably the SEC did inspect Madoff Investments and did not conclude it was a fraud even though it obviously was. I will leave the reader to judge the competence of the SEC but if you are thinking that this was hard to see I would recommend Harry Markopolos's book 'No One Would Listen'.

Ultimately as a potential investor this would have been easy to spot as at least suspect. The first couple of due diligence questions to ask are about custody arrangements and their auditor. Understanding that if you are not an accredited investor you are not allowed to invest in hedge funds also makes it obvious that a fund willing to take your money may be acting fraudulently.

Finally it did result in people losing their retirement funds, for some people absolutely everything.
> that's part of why I stopped watching broadcasts altogether.

For me it was not because of linear programming, but because the ads became ever more obnoxious and interrupting - first it was simple ad blocks. 5min, nice, take a pee. Then the stations increased the loudness of ad spots, well fuck your ears if you decided to not take a pee. Then stations started putting layers of ads above the content and the last fad before I decided to tv-exit was that stations PiP-ed the content right in the middle of action scenes or whatnot - at 25% of screen estate, and the rest 75% was ads. Also, quality of content that was not US cinema radically decreased - Germans who know the Galileo of pre-2000 know what I mean... it's all about the TV form of clickbait, aka "eyeball-baiting", now.
There's a huge difference between SMURFING and BOOSTING. Smurfing is the act where you yourself create a new account, while boosting is the act of playing on someones account to make them seem better.
Hehe, I wonder how many people realize what the hole in front of their DS grille is for :) The wheelnut wrench doubles as emergency starter. The best bit it still to show people how to change a tire on a DS. Magic!
To be social? That's what I like about it most.
Intrusion Prevention and Detection for Docker
Really good point. It's worth noting that the bikes belonging to our official bikeshare here in NYC all have blinking white lights on the front and solid red ones on the back. You'd think a bike share would be able to get this right. Maybe they should have both blinking and solid ones in both places.
FYI: There is actually a MOOC going on right now called "Stoic Mindfulness & Resilience Training (SMRT)"[0]

[0] https://modernstoicism.com/stoic-mindfulness-and-resilience-...
Yes this also works. We were using this for a while until we landed up with very large JSON's. .toMap() is very expensive and takes significantly longer to execute on large JSON's.
Not related but William Shatner (yes, Kirk) does an amazing cover of that song. (Ben Folds produces)

I think it works because Shatner's spoken work technique really brings out the lyrics.
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -4.12% is fighting a barrage of seller scams on its website, including firing several employees suspected of having helped supply independent merchants with inside information, according to people familiar with the company’s effort.

Amazon was investigating suspected data leaks and bribes of its employees, The Wall Street Journal reported in September. Since then, the company has dismissed several workers in the U.S. and India for allegedly inappropriately accessing internal data that was being misused by disreputable merchants, these people said.

Amazon in recent weeks also has deleted thousands of suspect reviews, restricted sellers’ access to customer data on its website and stifled some techniques that trick the site into surfacing products higher in search results, according to the people.

...Sellers also are buying Amazon wholesaler accounts on the black market to gain access to volumes of product listings, people familiar with the practice said. These accounts on Amazon’s Vendor Central system are designed to enable wholesalers to edit product listings to ensure they are marketed accurately. But some sellers misuse these accounts to alter rivals’ product pages, such as by changing photos to unrelated items, these people said.

...Some Chinese firms are selling wholesale vendor accounts for roughly $15,000, or renting them for up to $1,500 a month, the people familiar with the matter said.

...Amazon has increased efforts to scrub the site of potentially suspicious reviews, according to sellers. In recent months, some product listings lost thousands of reviews in a day, a number that can take years to build. Some of the reviews were legitimate and erased inadvertently, according to the sellers and a person familiar with the matter.
How Will Bakkt and Bitcoin ETFs Influence the Cryptocurrency Industry
No, the LED itself literally flickers. Now, that may be because of a shitty driver design... but it’s not wrong.
Very well put. I deleted my account about a year ago. I kept seeing a few good answers, old ones, over and over in my feed, juxtaposed with boring answers to questions that would have better gone unasked. And the questions in my areas of expertise had turned from thoughtful inquiries to pure garbage. If Quora think they're sitting on a goldmine by locking up their content, they're sadly mistaken.
If I open a question then I basically get nothing but that question (and similar questions) show up in my feed. For someone who has passing interest in random topics (so I click on a random question every so often) suddenly having nothing but repetitive WW2 tank questions in my feed is annoying. All those topics I was told to select, btw, mean nothing apparently and never show up in my feed nowadays.

I took the chance with their data breach and required password change recently to just stop using the site altogether.
Really neat short game!

It's much better than L.A. Noire at making you feel like a detective and that moment when you figure out what happened is amazing.

The mechanics are limited so it only works a short experience, thankfully it doesn't overstay it's welcome.
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space
Show HN: A simple feedback tool for managers
Not really since they still get to keep all the profit they made off the stolen goods.
The top two items in the MBA handbook is firstly to keep personnel count as low as possible (because the few left are more "productive" somehow) and secondly to shrink any IT department to the bare minimum (it's a cost center, no good comes from a cost center).
I think a bigger thing, is that any of the youtube channels could just start posting to an alternative. I too enjoyed Historian Civilis, as well as Baz Battles and Kings and Generals.

In the later two cases they probably post twice as much content on patreon or other distribution channels.

I think that highlights the risk of lower scale production videos. They can be posted in more places to be "profitable", which means the distribution channels are necessarily more dynamoc / easier to come by.
This seems hilariously sanctimonious and hypocritical from NYT.

For example, consider some of the navel-gazing bullshit projects they spend time on:

- https://investors.nytco.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...

Particular “Project Feels”

- https://digiday.com/media/project-feels-usa-today-espn-new-y...
i want my location history - for me. i just don't want it sold to third parties. if google will store it foe me and map my walks etc, great- but i don't want them to sell it or even use it much.

and i don't think that's a lot to ask. want me to pay for the 50cents storage costs ? sure.
Sorry I still don't get it.

> Bob and Sally are things that people already understand and relate to.

People understand they're people's names. But that's not a relevant detail for the equation, so why add that to the problem? It complicates, rather than simplifies, my understanding of it.

> !(Milk || Sugar) == (!Milk && !Sugar), duh.

I don't get what the 'duh' is. You've added nothing to the equation! They're just different names!
It feels like nearly all of the high-quality shows these days are very heavy. Few good comedies, which I prefer for unwinding after a long day. Narcos is a great show, and I love watching it with my wife. But if I'm tired and spent, I'd rather watch IT Crowd for the umpteenth time.
Guaranteed Copy Elision Does Not Elide Copies
I know that, but I don't know what it is that makes a difference to them and I'm interested in understanding it.
In my version of pkill the short version is specifically disabled.

-v, --inverse

Negates the matching. This option is usually used in pgrep's context. In pkill's context the short option is disabled to avoid accidental usage of the option
These are the 2 best I've found:

https://www.derlichtpeter.de/en/light-flicker/market-tests/

http://fastvoice.net/led-testberichte/
> It's the same with these apps.

Not really. I agree that people accept it to some degree (I'd say out of helplessness), but that doesn't mean regular people expect a random free weather app is going to pawn off all all their contacts list to random scoundrels.
Agreed. All this added complexity only serves to increase the attack surface of something I really want to keep safe and secure.
I don’t think we’re able to show our workings for higher level things like proofs.

For instance, I can’t tell you (accurately) how I composed the proof conceptually, ie what strategy it takes, or even determined the appropriate steps, ie how I determined to use a particular tactic.

I can tell you the premises lead to the conclusion via a chain of reasoning, but that’s the artifact of my thought process, not anything about how it works. The output of proving is that chain of steps.

So I think here is somewhere DL systems may have an advantage: they actually can freely introspect their thought process as part of their thought process.
If you're gonna die...
Eat your own dog food: how AWS leverages Serverless
yes, good point.
It's hard to say, from just TFA. As I read it, their goal is for everyone to at least get back their principal. But the only way to manage that is to claw back withdrawals.

Put another way, they've constructed a but-for world where everyone just invested, but took no returns. Then they distribute everything that's available in proportion to those investments. So as a result, everyone simply lost the same percentage of their investment.

Isn't that fair?

What's confusing, I think, is the idea that they're somehow punishing people who withdrew profits. Because maybe they should have known that they were too good to be true. But I don't think that's relevant. They're just unwinding the thing.
It's not really that surprising. The chess world has embraced computers as much as they can be expected to. And Kasparov was world champion, which means people value his opinion about chess.
Social Credit, Datong Dreams
Gary isn't a technologist, but he wants to set the stage with critique so that when/if a fusion of the ideas does better he can claim to have been important to that, regardless of the fact that the idea is obvious, and the implementation is what is hard
A true belief in human dignity would also suggest that a massive amount of poorly-paid jobs that, of course, only people in poverty get forced into, should not exist, either. But that would require an overhaul of how we view work as a society, and we can live the happy lie of just banning sex work because some people think sex is specially important in a way that almost nothing else a human can do is.

There isn't really anything special about sex work, societal views on it aside. It's hard work, but for many people it causes no more harm to their dignity than anything else they could be doing.

Source: sex worker friends.
Probably because Flutter releases 1.0 last week so you’re seeing some folks writing about it now that it’s production ready and some additional articles by the folks waiting for the weekend to write about it.
> If the entire team finishes early,

What I have seen mostly, is that the devs finish early (about 1/2 or 3/4 into the sprint), and wait for QA. And so, QA is idle at the start of the sprint. Bleed-over was then just accepted and incorporated, while I was not sure of the usefulness of "sprints" anymore.