skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, twenty years ago it wasn't cool to work for nazis.

And it still isn't. Do you have a different example in mind?
"Back then, China was opening up". I can tell you that in 1990 it was the same, I remember reading a very similar article in a newspaper and a friend who was sent out to head up the office of an industrial power supply company came back in 95 with the very same dissolution.
> But to say that its unconfirmed by experimentation and "not how science works" is a bit silly, don't you think?

No, because she is not saying that the paper is rubbish, she is addressing the hype among an uninformed public and telling them to chill.
That sounds surprising. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847730/ suggests that there is no difference in bioabsorption in humans between synthetic and natural vitamin C, particularly in the cases where you're not taking straight vitamin C (i.e., supplemental vitamin C tablets).
This is a healthy attitude and I suggest developing games as a hobby. HN is generally negative on game development as a profession because of the horror stories, but it can be a fulfilling career. That said if you are inexperienced (or even experienced), starting an independent game company with a goal of it being your primary source of income is at best very difficult and often a bad idea.

This is one of the best times to be a hobbyist game developer as there are a wealth of tools, assets and knowledge available for free or cheap. If you have no or limited game development experience its always better to start as a hobbyist if possible to build skills, and even find out of you really like game development or want to do something else instead.
Took my cat for a walk once. Traumatized him so much he now just sits in the corner and talks to himself and chain smokes. Poor guy is still suffering flash backs of his time on the outside. Who can blame him?
Why do certain columns blink?
Thank you for your feedback. I have a blog where I write down my thoughts but I never promoted it actively. I just have it linked on my reddit profile and if someone cared to check it out he could have seen it.

I will try to be more aggressive promoting myself with videos and in person engagement and see how it works out..
I want to conduct scientific studies on the quality of parenting and the likeliness of said parent to complain about [violence in video games, ant-vaccinations, etc.].

If it finds correlation, then this study motivates people to not complain about these repeatedly disproven parenting pitfalls, because complaining would make you "more likely" to be a bad parent.
Facial recognition should be expressly illegal. Period.

As should license plate surveillance.

And for those that think that license plate surveillance should be legal, what you do not know is that municipalities are mandating that private corporations install license tracking cameras on their facilities and report back to the municipality who is driving by that address. Menlo park is just one such municipality.
Link to court doc: https://www.morganlewis.com/~/media/files/document/remote-ye...
I think this was a first step.

After all, the industry always claims it doesn't need regulation, because it can self-regulate.

So let's see if this is true. Shock, horror, surprise! It's not true! Mon dieu!

Next up: some regulation.
Ask HN: Is there a tool to go from HTML/CSS to Sketch/Figma?
Here's why: as a developer, if I need feedback on my existing side project's design from a friend, it makes sense to give them a Sketch/Figma file that they can quickly edit or record a screencast of them editing it. This seems much better than commenting on each individual bit or for them to start over with a blank file.
Just like the splitting of the atom was beneficial: its a double edged sword that we have no idea how to wield. I do not want am arms race in which the wealthy augment themselves while the rest are left to suffer. That's already a problem given how much medical care is unavailable to even the middle class.
You don't have to go anywhere near that far back. Humanity (as in the species of modern humans) has already lived through quite extreme changes in temperatures. These [1] are data from ice core collections over the past 450k years.

Something that surprises me is that people don't seem to understand that the planet constantly goes in and out of heating and cooling phases for reasons that are still not all that well understood on a clear causal level. This in no way means that we are not contributing, potentially substantially, to the current heating phase. But it does mean that sometime right about now, even if humans did not exist, we'd expect to still see temperatures rapidly rising.

That little comic starts at ~20k years ago is at the exact end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current heating phase so it paints a very misleading picture if you were not aware of the trends before it -- which rather resemble a sin wave of temperatures. For instance humans already lived through the heating phase about 140k years ago where temperatures from bottom to top increased on the order of about 10 degrees celsius. And that was at a time when we had extremely minimal technological capacity to adapt and migrations were something that could take on the order of centuries.

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_...

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And out of curiosity can anybody explain why they're downvoting this as fast they can? So far as I can tell I've said literally nothing that is not factually correct (unlike the post I was responding to). In many ways these conversations feel like people want to freak themselves out, and interspersing facts is met with hostility. I'd really like any sort of rational explanation.
EU: Record Number of Air Passengers Carried at More Than 1B in 2017
There are really two separate questions.

What countries have explicit visas to accommodate remote workers (e.g. https://www.wherecani.live/blog/view/digital-nomads--the-sel...)

What countries are popular with digital nomads because they're cheap, tropical, and no one is probably going to ask too many questions if you hang out on your tourist visa for a good stretch.
Are you a gamer? I play PUBG, I used to play other games. Multiplayer online Games with a competitive aspect trigger my buttons. They can be very rewarding. They provide a constant release of dopamine.

I can’t think of any other activity that comes close to gaming in that regard. Most stuff gets boring after a while. Sure, you can dive in a book and come back two days later when it’s finished. But after doing this a couple times, it gets boring rather quickly.

With gaming, especially never ending competitive online games, one can easily sink hundreds or thousands of hours.

So, as a gamer being honest with myself: I will restrict video game time and media consumption of my kids, because they don’t know yet how to deal with these immense dopamine triggers.
I don't know what intention you had when you posted that link but it clearly disproves that anyone uses the terrible built-in RSS reader in firefox.

Here, just take a look at the first response:

>Literally 99.99% of Firefox users did not use the built in RSS support[1].

>I love RSS! I also never used the built in Firefox RSS support because it was not very good. Mozilla also compiled a helpful list of alternative RSS readers for the 0.01% of users that used this feature and made it easy to export your feed list[2].

>[1] https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod...

>[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement...
Show HN: KivaSort – sort and filter Kiva field partners
The negative reaction to your comment is surprising. The difference between "screen zombie children" and children with limited screen time is striking and not difficult to observe or quantify. The difference is clear in our own children based on our current family rules, and of course evident in their various friends.

Those asking you for "evidence" that the screen zombie children are worse off are either 1. not parents, 2. parents of screen zombie children, or perhaps 3. experiencing something much different than what I've encountered.

When my children play video games, especially to excess, they experience something similar to the "brain fog" I experience when I am tired, my diet is off, etc. They also are notably more distracted, selfish and generally unruly. My hypothesis is that this is due to dopamine withdrawal causing their brainpower to be devoted to thoughts about gaming.
I'll post my email address at the end and when you email me I'll also give you the names of other attorneys so you can get more than one opinion.
I wrote a simple jQuery plugin [1] based on DataTables [2] that fetches data from Kiva's API [3] and makes it filterable/sortable. (Being a jQuery plugin it makes it easy to add a table of sortable field partners to any HTML document [4]).

1: https://github.com/cristoper/jquery-KivaSort/

2: https://datatables.net/

3: https://build.kiva.org/api

4: For example see section three of this article "Some thoughts on Kiva's interest rates": https://americancynic.net/log/2018/12/6/some_thoughts_on_kiv...
Re-posting this sad and yet amusing comment from RalphWise:

This story helped me recall an article I read in the FT about 10 years ago. A Germ an businessman set up shop in China and hired locals to help him run the business. After about six months, he came to work one day only to discover he was fully cleaned out. No cash anywhere, all the books and inventory gone.

His employees had figured out how his business worked, started their own business within his business, siphoned off the cash and profits and took him hook, line and sinker.

When the locals were asked why they did it, they said it was simple..."he was a foreigner, and he deserved it."
Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, for example, such terms of service have little to no teeth.

We have pretty strict laws about what can be in ToS and what cannot. For example, pretty much anything that's "surprising" is out.

This used to be the AGB-Gesetz (ToS-Law), but it was transformed into a more general framework but largely identical rules:

https://www.buzer.de/s1.htm?g=BGB&a=305-310
> When everybody is helping preparing dinner and what not

Right, during those times, the family should be helping prep dinner. My four year old helps prep dinner and does chores afterwards.

But we, as a family, also have leisure time and interests. In my opinion, if your kid was into baseball, you should try and show an interest by going to games or playing catch. If they were into dance, maybe go to their recitals or encourage them to practice.

No one is expecting you to be good at your kids hobbies. Or even enjoy them. But I believe you should show support and make an attempt to regularly engage with them.
You remember incorrectly. Right from the beginning, DNT was a useless “evil bit” that everyone was going to either ignore or obey only as long as it was used exclusively by a tiny fraction of sufficiently-technically savvy users. As soon as Microsoft announced it was turning DNT on for everyone, the game was up, and the people pushing it tried to distract attention from the fact that this kind of self-regulation never works by shooting the messenger, even though users’ clear preference is to have blocking protection on by default.
> Basic electronics knowledge and soldering skill could help anyone at home. Just like being able to do light plumbing and electrical work comes in handy and will save you lots of money.

I'm skeptical of this. When a sink is clogged, the toilet won't flush, or a light switch doesn't work, there are only a handful of potential causes, all of which are well known and can be remedied after watching a Youtube video. When electronics fail, there could be a million reasons why. Most people are better off buying a new device and getting a warranty on it.
Liberal vs. Conservative Party
“Hey everyone, I am just starting out a YouTube channel and I was hoping I could get your input/insight on it. Likes, comments and subscribes would also be really appreciated! Thank you all for your support https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKDdbYoaVjw
Where is the energy for your garage garden coming from? Plants need a lot of light. Most buildings do not have nearly intense enough light (house plants are low light plants that grow slow so they do fine, but if you want to grow food you generally want a plant that needs a lot more light)
Hardware really is where windows shines. I connect a new laptop to two external monitors with different resolution and dpi and everything just works including dragging windows between them and rescaling for most apps. For some reason it feels like it even knows which monitor is placed where which would be more than creepy (I can’t imagine it does, so must be confirmation bias).
https://electrek.co/2018/08/08/tesla-solar-roofs-delays-pana...

And that is a pro-Tesla source. I had a WSJ link before that I don't have time to look up.
Apparently, they ate the filter that keeps this place from turning into Reddit.
This is what I had in mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#Internet_Explorer...
So if you write an encrypted chat app, and people use it to plan a crime, are you responsible?
Fair. But I was commenting more on the environments that historically were served well by AD (offices) are growing in use of Apple computers.
It depends on how far down the line you want moral culpability to apply. To take this to it’s logical extreme, it effectively makes the developer responsible for anything the end user decides to use their software for. The same reasoning is not only not applied to software, it is not applied to any product class with the exception of those that are immediately and obviously lethal. Engineers in google would be responsible for drug cartels operating in Columbia.

Higher order causation must be separated from moral culpability. In other words, you should not hold people responsible for things that happen far downstream. Things that happen several links down the causal chain have occurred due to the decisions of many other people further along that chain, and a higher culpability should fall upon them.

That is not to say that a software developer cannot be directly responsible for bad outcomes, maybe for example working on weapon systems for a nefarious state, where you’re fairly close causally to the point of application. My point is that it’s not a good idea to push this to it’s limits.
It might help for an O-1 but really wouldn't help for an EB1A green card.
Perhaps that might be a violation of my copyright and intellectual property. My terms supersede theirs. Says so in the first paragraph.
Step 1: Setup a pihole (https://pi-hole.net/)

Step 2: Configure home router to send _all_ port 53 (DNS traffic) to the pihole

Step 3: Run cronjob on the pihole to disable fortnite completely at whatever times you want, e.g., turn off access every week night at 7:30pm, then back on overnight:

30 19 * * 0-4 /home/pi/pihole_timed_lists/turn_blacklist_on >> /home/pi/pihole_timed_lists/log/turn_blocklist_on.log 2>&1

0 1 * * 1-5 /home/pi/pihole_timed_lists/turn_blacklist_off >> /home/pi/pihole_timed_lists/log/turn_blocklist_off.log 2>&1

The turn_blacklist_on script can be as simple as:

/usr/local/bin/pihole --wild epicgames.com easy.ac easyanticheat.net xboxlive.com microsoft.com

And then the turn blacklist off can be:

/usr/local/bin/pihole --wild -d epicgames.com easy.ac easyanticheat.net xboxlive.com microsoft.com

Works like a charm, and handles PC + XBox access. Kids know it stops dead at 7:30, so no arguments.

[edited for spelling]
... Do you know about the iron catastrophe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_catastrophe), banded iron formations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation), and the oxygen catastrophe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event) and how they are related? Would it really be possible for us to not notice prior large-scale industrial mining of iron? Your point about lunar exploration is great, but it's also very likely there has never been industrialized life like us in Earth's history.
This is a time for action, not just for facial recognition, but for every algorithm.

Every decision made by an algorithm should make its inputs clear, its criteria for interpreting those inputs clear, and its judgement to be disputable. If you can't get your black-box neural network to do so, then perhaps it shouldn't be making life-changing decisions for other people.

There's a startup that's doing sentiment analysis of social media posts, to measure how 'risky' a babysitter is - ad likely does so in a biased manner. [1]

It's illegal to use such a system, for purposes of vetting an employee, yet their entire business model revolves around families using them to vet babysitters.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/predictim-claims-its-ai-can-flag-risky-b...
Voting in federal elections and it can't be lost or taken away.
Immigrant Arrested for Murder
I'm currently working in the US as a software engineer under H-1B. Can I start a company in my home country (Canada) while living in America?

If so, can I develop/work for that company, while simultaneously working for my H-1B sponsoring company?
Afaink, the original journalism was political. If I am wrong, I would really like to know when was the time reporting was unpolitical or without agenda.
Why doesn't anyone every mention actually paying google and using GSuite, instead of using their free service?
pssst .... APOE genotype predicts how much viral DNA for Herpes is found in the brain .... post mortem .....

It's almost as if Herpes viruses transport around the body the same way ;)

(Bar plots in this paper are LOG!)

https://jvi.asm.org/content/80/11/5383/figures-only
I think the point of highlighting the fact that this is an ESL class, meaning it is geared towards helping Spanish speaking kids learn English, is to imply that most instruction is in English but the instructors fall back on Spanish when necessary. Only one class per day was taught exclusively in Spanish. So his or her kids are getting exposure and limited instruction in Spanish, but it isn't full immersion. At least, that's how ESL worked when I was in school - I invite the above commenter to correct this is it is not correct.
I'm not convinced the US will be passing much of anything in the next two-years. Passing pro-privacy regulation? Seems very unlikely to me. Microsoft should engage with Canada and the EU where technology/privacy regulation is gaining traction.
That's because `diff` is an alias of `Compare-Object`, which works radically differently than UNIX `diff` because of the defaults. In some circumstances you could see how this behavior would be more useful, though obviously not this one.

For reference, `Compare-Object -SyncWindow 0` would give the behavior you wanted. The default is [Int32]::MaxValue.

Aliasing UNIX command names is another one of PowerShell's mistakes in my opinion, because it creates the expectation that they work the same way when they often very much don't. Ultimately rather than help UNIX users, as was probably intended, this just confuses and annoys them.
Use default theme of some tookit (e.g Bulma or similar) and don’t change one bit anywhere. As soon as I even think I can change a margin somewhere it all goes to hell.
Interesting, had the opposite experience. Homebrew does almost everything very nicely for me. Macports not as much, although to be fair this was years ago.
Weird notes on HBV:

- More contagious than HCV or HIV, apparently can even be spread via saliva. Potential infections can happen from uncleaned tattoo guns, razors used for shaves, unchanged soaking water/bowls and cuticle scissors at nail salons, unwashed hotel sheets/towels/robes, etc

- 5-10% of immunized people don't develop enough antibodies to protect against infection

- Remains contagious from 7 days to a month outside the body

- Can be killed by boiling, but 1:9 bleach solution requires up to 20 minutes soaking (hydrogen peroxide is quicker)
Maybe this was intended as a joke, but if someone with legal experience can reply, I'd be interested to know how far this can actually fly.

After all, companies frequently have "drive-by" EULAs that you "agree" to by simply not leaving the site, so if that's legally binding, why is the reverse not true?
I agree with all of your points, but I'm less interested in whether we can survive as a species and more interested in whether or not we can sustain and continue to improve upon our current level of societal sophistication. I'd rather we didn't regress to basic aggrarianism or worse.
So Chinese are racist, but they readily watch Hollywood movies with non-Chinese leads saving the day?

Or at department stores, where over 70% of advertisements feature non-Chinese models?

That’s a really weird type of racism.
Being that animals did not even appear until about 600 million years ago, It's quite unlikely industrial beings evolved before that. And any industrial civilization after 600m would leave sufficient fossils/evidence. If there were civilization before 600m, it would likely have to be aliens.
I understand Fortnite and I don't play it. My kids do and so I find out about it, played a few Agnes, watched them and now I know its ok. Other kids get a blanket ban because their parents don't understand or they are playing CoD because their parents don't understand. My kids know that some games are not appropriate for them and if I say something is ok the it's fine. E.g south park fractured but whole is not but halo is.
Wouldn't it though?

You kind of described r/relationship_advice
To all of the people responding, thank you for explaining how it works.
Chrome also removed Keychain support. Apple restricted access to the necessary APIs.
It's not nothing, it just wasn't enough by itself to overcome the competition.

In the web's short history we've already seen several browsers rise and fall. It's possible Microsoft may in the future repeat what Google achieved with Chrome if it can find a new edge to compete, pun intended.
I do feel bad for the customers that lost money, especially those who paid up and didn't even get to Destination 1 before the company went belly-up.

That being said, this sounds like a case of people who read aspirational Medium.com articles, getting got by the type of people who write those articles.

A business model that offers you the chance to seamlessly jet across different countries, with your lodging and workspace already set up the moment you land? I would think the logistics of such a business would need more local staff, more money and more liability protection than what a few dudes could put together with their savings and personal loans.
It's difficult to get the precision needed to answer this question, but we have certainly had numerous extremely rapid heating events it the past. These [1] are the ice core data for the past 450k years and there were at least two major heating/cooling events that dwarf even where we're at today both hitting upwards of 10 degrees net change (from coldest to hottest) over extremely short periods of time. Interspersed in between are countless little peaks and valleys of temperatures as well, all over extremely significant temperature differences.

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_...
Check out the book Ketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression.

It's a safe drug with a low incidence of serious side effects that could help a lot of patients. Researchers have shifted much of the research to Ketamine metabolites.

Their reasoning is that these metabolites have a lower side effect profile than the parent compound. It has been almost 20 years of small scale ketamine trials for depression with not much to show for it. Now, they would like to explore a diversion that may be less safe than a drug with a long history of safety.

I think there are a few reasons for this: 1) Depression isn't seen as a serious disease like cancer and 2) Ketamine is a cheap drug.
Because they are not just risking their own health.
Maybe: In a world without doors, we won't need Windows or Gates?

:)