skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know about the boat allegations.

I agree that a lot of the main stream media, and particularly social media, can whip up a shitstorm over unfounded allegations.

However, the root of the allegations against Kavanaugh did have merit, as in they deserved to be looked into. After they were made a number of other allegations were made with less merit, or outright lies. However, just as there's an issue with rushing to judgement when a number of allegations are made, there's also an issue of letting unfounded allegations cast doubt on other allegations.

The mere existence of unfounded or fabricated allegations shouldn't negatively impact on different allegations, just as the existence of an uninvestigated allegation shouldn't discount him as a candidate. If either or these thing were true it would be too easy to either destroy a candidate or invalidate all allegations against them.

Although a number of anonymous allegations shouldn't mean anything, I think you'd agree that if 10 Blasey Fords came forward with similar stories that would be a big problem. Obviously this is counter-factual, I'm not talking about Kavanaugh only how these situations can be dealt with in the future. I agree that this can get out of hand, but I can't see an alternative. Ignoring Blasey Ford did not seem like a viable option.

Regarding future candidates being vague, this could just be rejected. I don't have an issue with the path to the SC being a difficult and fairly grueling process.

To my eyes the Democrats severely wounded their stance by waiting until the last moment before revealing Blasey Ford. The Republicans lost it during the post Ford Kavanaugh questioning, choosing to grandstand instead of letting the prosecutor they'd specially brought in continue. Both of them fairly disgraced themselves. And let's not forget that the only reason this didn't happen with Garland is because the Republicans abused their power to avoid even having a hearing.
I assume that Nvidia and Apple are fighting about something behind the scenes.
I think that originally, it was indeed supposed to be an optimizing virtual machine. IIRC, Lattner's PhD thesis might have been about it.
First of all, piracy is a workaround and not a legitimate solution to any problem. Second, it doesn't solve the root issue here--somebody has to have paid the inflated cost of an Elsevier subscription. Sci-hub doesn't exist in a vacuum.
You still have to spend a lot of labor/resources maintaining and managing dynamodb. Not managing ec2s but, at scale, it’s not exactly a fire and forget type thing and requires a lot of SRE and devops attention.

Also, it sounds like Scilla has a managed solution too, that costs a fraction of dynamodb, at scale.

Dynamodb to me is the new generation IMS database from mainframe cobol times - fully proprietary, locked down, runs only on proprietary hardware, serviced by one vendor. It’s only a matter of time before companies using it will be stuck with multimillion $$ yearly bills, if they aren’t already.
Can you define "significant membership fees"? I pay less than USD$300 a year for IEEE Computer Society membership in which ~$100 is for the full digital library (and similar for the ACM), so I don't consider that "significant". Sure, I'd rather not pay it, but it's not prohibitively expensive like the other journals are (where it can be thousands of dollars for a single subscription to a single journal).
If it were ever to reach that point, sure, I'll give you that.
Some things are harder to do in SQL then in code. For example, assigning a rank based on a field in MYSQL. I did this for production code in a rails app, and it wasn't just ugly (requiring separate DB calls for variable initialization and output and updating) but it ran slow enough that it had to be scheduled for off peak time, and it requires temporary variables (or you can do it with whole temporary tables, I believe).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3333665/rank-function-in...

That's not to say that I would do it in Ruby if I had it to do over again, I'd probably use Redis, but still, sometimes SQL isn't as fast as other solutions.

I like SQL. Optimizing DB calls to speed up stuff is fun for me. But it's not always the right choice.

(There's probably a clever and fast way to do it in postgres, but DB choices were not mine to make).

edit: Incidentally, if you just need to know 1 record's rank at a time, like getting a player's position on a leaderboard, instead of including each record in the DB, you can do a select on scores (or distinct scores) greater then the current record's score and add 1, and that can be much faster.
Logic, layout and style are inherently separate parts of a component. Separate concerns in other words. Ideally they should have separate definitions. This is the cleanest and most maintainable structure.

The cycle seems to be to separate things clearly, then mix them back again, then separate them out again. I’ll happily skip the mixing part of this cycle.

However, that said I don’t want to give the impression that I’m being proscriptive here, other developers are perfectly free to have their own preferences just as I have mine.
As just one more point of reference for this song's cultural power: whereas the greatest movie about boxing, Raging Bull, made such wonderful use of highbrow music like the Intermezzo from Cavalleria, the greatest boxing movie, the first Rocky movie, in its own way, makes wonderful use of more familiar touchstones. In particular, an instrumental "Silent Night" plays jarringly in the background of the dramatic climax scene, where Adrian stands up to her brother. Masterful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxriLTLhyyY
I once had an ISP (non-U.S., won't name it here) that injects ads into plain HTTP. Didn't realize it was the ISP until I once accidentally loaded my personal website over plain HTTP.

Turns out to get rid of that, I just had to call them and complain about it; they pretended to be surprised and asked me for details, but after the phone call the injection stopped. Worked for other people too.
I would say if a thief dropped one of your neighbor's packages on your doorstep and you got a face full of dye pack from opening it then you pretty much got what was coming to you.

My mailman drops packages for the building next door on my doorstep every once in a while and I just go walk it over to them fully avoiding the dye packs.
> So, the fault here lies with the politician.

I'm sorry, what kind of ethical nonsense is that? "Bad behavior is OK as long as some authority didn't expressly disallow it" ???

CenturyLink is simply a bad actor here. They're acting in an anti-customer and anti-consumer way. Sure, we should have regulations to prevent abuse where appropriate, but you certainly can't blame the government for failing to imagine how they'd behave when faced with (let's be honest here) a bleedingly obvious and common sense notification requirement.
The idea is that the public projects increase everyone's wealth by a greater amount than the interest on the debt.

If you take money out of the equation and just consider that we have a large pool of labor to make use of, government's purpose in spending on projects is to allocate some of that labor towards long-term goals that no company would involve itself in as the pure profit potential is too risky, distant, or difficult to capitalize on.
Maybe it has something to do with one being the rough average number of testicles in the human population?
React 101: Things every beginner should know – Part 1
Not OP, but yes, I agree that education is not a right. It's something a society should provide, but it's not a right.

And with a negative right like property, you are free to defend that right yourself, no need for an external force. You can't do that with healthcare or education, which requires someone else's labor to exercise. That's an unjust basis for any service, since all labor should be voluntary.
So in this grand system of 'checks and balances', who checks the judicial branch's power to arbitrarily strike down any law passed by congress and signed by the president? I'm asking because it's not clear who, or how, and it seems that the judicial branch continues to become more OP over time.
Comparison of Nicotine, Toxicant Exposure in Users of E-Cigarettes, Cigarettes
No, you have to explain why robinhood is worse than etrade. You can buy the same index funds or individual stocks with either brokerage.
> but at what point does posing for glamour shots take away the fun of enjoying the places you go? Why do people follow these people? I don't get it...

That is exactly it, it becomes a job.

Its not really different than watching cable TV and hearing someone review a travel destination.

>This can't be healthy.

I think this is 'grass is greener on the other side' effect. What makes traveling and growing your influence unhealthy?

Its that we want this ideal lifestyle, and are jealous(?).

Whatever the case, most people are not making even 6 figures off their instagram accounts by just posting pictures. OP's article talked about offering an additional service.
Always Be Journaling
The check is to amend the Constitution.
It's a price of 4x higher for just long enough to create the table, not for the duration of the test.
Ask HN: What books would you recommend for best Frontend development practices?
I am currently designing an app and I'd like to design it properly, before building it. What type of frameworks should I use, how can I make it work on mobile, what isn't needed or will bloat the app too much for use of one feature and what questions should I be asking while building it?

I know you have to make it compatible for every browser, on the tablet and phone if possible.

You have your choice of CSS framesworks, Javascript frameworks and plain HTML5. Vue.JS, typescript, React, etc. You have to take into account loading speeds and if people have Javascript/HTML5 canvas disabled.

I'd like to know if anyone can point me to a good book with design principles and real world production experience. I don't want get tied into a framework without knowing why I choose it. I know sometimes you just need to build it and figure it out as you go.
This is funny for me. I'm a singer and organist who has spent my life in churches and I am notorious among all my friends and family for loathing Silent Night (in good fun). It is slow, harmonically uninteresting, but worst of all it is always sung unaccompanied on Christmas Eve, in which time it get slower and flatter until it is at risk of coming to a complete stop.

Give me O Come All Ye Faithful or One in Royal David's City from Carols for Choirs. Or O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
I work customer service for a large heating oil company. The system we have really does just have horrible "bugs" like this that make charges to the account. Not fun when you are on Auto Pay either.

It's malicious. Some of us reps try to help you out and get it all reversed. Others don't give a shit at all.

The main thing you can consider is not paying, blasting them on social media, or just keep calling until you get a nice rep who will fix it, hopefully permanently.

Our system deliberately renews/adjusts prices per gallon and service contracts to pretty much whatever price the company feels like extorting. I've seen customers charged $4000 instead of $2000 countless times. Some even pay it.
My list is mostly C++ focused, but the LLVM tooling for clang-tidy/clang-query is also worth a mention. There are a big set of refactors that you can apply across your codebase if you wanted to migrate to new C++ features for example. You can also write your own if you wanted to refactor to use the API of an updated dependency for example. It's a lower-level version of Javascript's "codemods" for C/C++.

There's some work being done to build some tooling around interactively creating AST matchers and applying refactors across an entire codebase. [0]

[0] https://steveire.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/future-development...
Arbitrarily? This judge ruled on a case brought to his court.
Google's Algorithm Isn't Biased, It's Just Not Human
UCLA may not have the power to walk away completely by itself. Outside research grants depend on publications in top journals and a single university still need those names.

What if bigger entities negotiate together? European nations, NIH, NSF, major foundations and UC system can propose creating top journals to compete with Elsevier. Or direct their grant recipients to publish in alternative open access journals.

Funders hold research money and universities grant prestige and job security. Elsevier is a big gatekeeper for both. If funders and universities work together, they can topple the status quo.
Most drone strikes blow people who’d gladly saw your head off.
That's a HUGE amount of effort, more then the effort to check the executive and/or legislative branches...
This affects me daily.

I run a popular website that has saved hundreds of thousands of people money and time. Its been cool, but I lose about 1-3k/yr.

Often people tell me to run ads, or put affiliate links, or whatever.

The issue becomes, I wouldn't be saving people money.

The entire purpose of Efficiency Is Everything is to help people. If I'm shilling some crappy mutual fund or promoting an expensive protein shake- I failed my purpose.

/rant, but I do not think I will be profitable unless I contradict my original purpose.
>It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes.

That's what blows my mind. She had 500 people sign up for the course, obviously there is demand. I don't feel like it would be too hard to put together a 12 week course and have people feel like they got their money worth. Then just simply rinse and repeat. Heck, she could have even found the real die hards from the original 500 and offered a special one-to-one course for $5000 and had weekly one on one's with her. Sounds like it could have been a cash cow.
> I can't believe at the missed business opportunity here. It sounds like she could have easily pulled 7 figures from running those classes.

You seem to be overlooking that she already made up to $225,000 for doing close to nothing.

Plus up to $25,000 for making the first assignment "Start building a pyramid scheme for me." And that's gravy on top of however many new rubes signed up for the next course for which she "solved" the refund problem with a third party payment service.
Most accept a potential "localized disaster"... as long as they aren't at risk themselves ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY ). Always letting the poorest directly assume such risk may be a good recipe for a global social catastrophe.
> That's a HUGE amount of effort

That's a feature, not a bug.
Masters, I believe: http://llvm.org/pubs/2002-12-LattnerMSThesis.html
A commission-free trading API? How does Alpaca make money?
It's arbitrary because it depends on 1 judge's interpretation of the constitution. Not all judges agree on how it should be interpreted. If it gets appealed, then rinse/repeat. The Supreme Court gets the final say, and it largely depends which 'party' is in power there (which depends on which 'party' controls both executive and legislative branches when it is time to pick a new judge).
> This is actually an easier problem to solve than electricity generation as the deuterium can be used as fuel and as a propellant ejected straight out of the plasma core at variable ISP up to around 100,000.

Jesus.

For reference, chemical rockets tend to have ISP in the low-to-mid hundreds, and ion thrusters are in the thousands—not ten thousands, but single thousands. A 100,000 ISP rocket is like a car that can drive from Bangkok to Vladivostok to Lisbon, then back to Istanbul and down to Johannesburg without refueling or recharging. It’s like a phone battery that lasts years rather than days. And it’s all powered by the most plentiful elements in the universe.

I’m pretty sure you could generate electricity by flying this rocket around in a circle tethered to an electric turbine if you wanted to. I mean, all of your electricity would probably be in space, because a high ISP usually implies that the rocket doesn’t work as well on the earth’s surface (not as a physical law, just as a limitation of our technology), but of all the monumentally impressive things you can build from a fusion reactor, a 100k ISP rocket has got to be up there.

As for ITER, I’m not necessarily bearish on it, but if there’s a credible chance of an alternative design that can be proven for anything <$1 billion...I hate to say it, but any person, venture capital fund, or government with more than $10 billion to their name would be hard pressed to find any better use for it. Even if the damn thing is 95% likely to fail, that’s a 5% chance you literally end up having a stake in the single most valuable technology in the single most valuable sector of the economy—one that will provide untold benefits to mankind.

30 million dollars, really? Like—does Y Combinator know about this? Never mind the “benefits to mankind”—if a single business can be first to market with an economical fusion power plant, that will become the single most valuable business in human history. There’s like five tech companies that are up there in the ranks of “most valuable business in the world”, and they’re approximately the same value as any of about ten oil and gas conglomerates, and those lists usually don’t even count state-owned companies that are even more valuable. (“All the oil in Saudi Arabia”—that’s wealth.) Fusion power would immediately be more valuable than every single oil and gas company in the world put together. Even if nobody bought fusion plants, you could just build the damn things yourself, use them to synthesize hydrocarbons from the damn atmosphere, and undercut the market while simultaneously fixing climate change by making fossil fuel usage a closed loop with no new net CO2 introduced into the atmosphere and an economical method for extracting the excess we already have.
>"To anyone wondering what debt "means", or if some debts will ever be repaid, or wondering about "jubilees" where debts are forgiven"

Can you just give the answers to these questions?
The talking-point that keeps coming up about fusion spending ignores the context that the planned spending was based on a technology that wouldn't have gotten us practical fusion, anyway.

If that $X had been spent, fusion boosters would be complaining about the debacle of wasting all that money on tokamaks and how that undermined fusion research. And if we spent a newly-calculated $X and, years later, still didn't get fusion, the complaint would be exactly that managerial whinge that we just hadn't shoveled enough money down the hole (or down the right hole).
This person is missing the obvious explanation that it was 98% Aggie’s husband posting from Aggie’s account the entire time; then when they broke up he had to ghost because he could no longer plausibly post under her name.
This is elitist bullshit. I don't have a huge amount of money save but I use about a dozen index funds to stay well diversified, stocks, bonds, international, domestic. And I periodically rebalance my portfolio to stay within my diversification targets. I appreciate not paying a couple hundred dollars a year for my trades.
That entire book is filled with stuff like this. I would highly recommend it to anybody interested in the subjects upon which it touches (war on drugs, civil asset forfeiture, police militarization in general).

Here's another interesting case that I found about from the book, but which was notable enough to even get its own Wikipedia article. You be the judge of how quintessentially American that is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...

For me, the most scary part of it was the final words of the person responsible for it: "Quite frankly, we'd do it again. Tonight."

Another interesting thing was the long-term consequences. Because the target of the raid was a well-off, politically connected individual, they used their clout to mobilize support for a bill that required Maryland to produce an annual report on how its SWAT operates - where it is deployed, legal authority (arrest warrant, search warrant, exigent circumstances etc), what kind of crime, if any, it was targeting, and whether entry was forced or not. There's some eye-opening stuff there, like the fact that most SWAT deployments are serving search warrants for non-violent crimes, but they use forced entry more often than not:

http://goccp.maryland.gov/reports-publications/law-enforceme...

But even more interesting was the reaction of law enforcement agencies (and their unions) in the state to this bill - they were all adamantly opposed to it. It passed anyway, but only with a 5-year sunset clause as a concession; it was never renewed.
It's a bug, because it depends on which party is in power, and their leanings on the issue. Parties change power at the drop of a hat, constitutional amendments are exceedingly much harder to pull off.
>This statement sort of clearly false and hyperbolic. Why would you make it?

Name a publicly traded for-profit corporation that exists to serve the public.

At best it's a disregard for the public. You can see it in non-political stories on HN. What percentage of companies have been meaningfully punished by a data breach?

>This is a pretty clear sign to me that you don't understand the argument in question.

I very specifically meant "unfettered free market capitalism" and I could have been more clear. It's the end result of many more popular policies seeking to strip regulations for the sake of making things "more efficient". The fight is obviously about the extent of regulatory removal but "removal of all regulations" is an idea seriously proposed by many. I don't see how our current system needs fewer regulations, especially at a time when corporations are growing through mergers and acquisitions, data is collected and shared more widely, and therefore fewer companies have the ability to affect more individuals.

Look at a sibling comment to yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18685351

>Consumers will obviously avoid J&J baby powder products and switch to a competitor’s baby powder product.

This is exactly the sort of case where the "invisible hand" has failed. Sometimes it's invisible because it's not there.
So when you have user configurable sass variables, css in js might make things easier. That seems like a fairly narrow use case, I’m not willing to sacrifice separation of styling everywhere in every component in every react app because it makes user defined style variables somewhat easier.

Indeed, I’d be willing to put in the extra work to keep it if I did require such functionality - probably this is as simple as loading the scss variables from json, so I doubt there’s a significant workload involved.
But it suffers more than most when the performance is just mediocre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiTX_jfUI5Y
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I don't know much about the history of India. But this video shows a huge part of present day India and Pakistan being part of the Mughal empire in 1705.

Video: https://youtu.be/QN41DJLQmPk?t=628 (at 10:28).

Some other interesting time lines from a union of India perspective from this video:

Maurya Empire: 270 BCE (at 2:01, https://youtu.be/QN41DJLQmPk?t=122)

Delhi Sultanate: 1344 (at 8:44 https://youtu.be/QN41DJLQmPk?t=524)

Edit: Found another video that matches with the above video regarding Mughal Empire: https://youtu.be/wYu2jyVTSc8?t=76 (at 1:16).
Regulation can not work if there is regulatory capture which in practice means that there are no penalties. As long as corporations have no skin in the game and only abide by short-term greed, it's in their best interest to keep finding loopholes and screwing everybody over.

How many times has Goldman Sachs been "penalized" for bypassing regulations? Plenty. Have those penalties amounted to anything? Do you see their behavior changing when they practically own the US government?