skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Block by default, and not ask by default? That seems unfortunate to me, and will definitely break one of my services for Firefox users. I have a site which coordinates watching videos amongst a party of people. To the browser heuristics it looks like "autoplay" (the host starts the video manually, and some scripting on the page kicks it off for everyone else and works w/ the backend to maintain something resembling stream sync.) This is a consensual thing, you click the host's invite only link, you're taken to a landing page that tells you who made the link and briefly describes the service. Presumably you would not have clicked through all that if you didn't want to watch a video w/ the host.

I already had to deal w/ increased complaints from users due to scripts no longer being able to start the video in Chrome when the user hasn't interacted with the DOM yet. The only warning was an error in the development console. Users would get incredibly confused because they'd join the room and "lurk", i.e not interact w/ chat or the site, and then they'd be left wondering why everyone is commenting on the video when their's hasn't started playing.

I realize autoplay gets a lot of flak due to large corporations using it to further their aggressive marketing campaigns, but there are legitimate use cases out there which you will be breaking w/ a block-by-default policy. I'd urge you to reconsider ask-by-default, or at least allow scripts to have some sort of API whereby they can ask the user for permission ahead of time.

This just really sucks, because it's hard to communicate these sorts of things to my userbase which has wildly varying degrees of technical competency. It's also unfortunate to, essentially, need relay the message "some organizations (ab|mis)used this useragent functionality, so now nobody gets to use it."
Tumor-Specific Antigens from Way Out There
No, there is no acceptable state between burrito and salad. A split taco is an initial demonstration of innate knowledge and some motor control, best done before the staff retreats.
and food (software is eating the world)
unfortunately icann uses google for captcha.
Battly – Cross device battery manager and real-time battery notification
I've been thinking about this as well. I suspect recreating a Munich wave would be harder, perhaps much harder, to do than my imagination suggests. Topography, water volume and speed, to say nothing of access and permits etc. But I want one in my town.
Visit adafruit site. They are very high quality and oriented towards teaching people electronics and basic microcontrollers. A bit pricy, but I find their boards, documentation, etc., to be consistently high quality.
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FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Announcement
When it comes to information on traded companies, people should always consider that anonymous sources are 99% of the time biased. Nobody goes out giving information about a public company for nothing, and when the information is true they will be open and present documents proving it.
I think you need to read that linked article a bit more closely.

"You can go to jail for not filing your taxes. You can go to jail for lying on your return. But you can’t go to jail for not having enough money to pay your taxes. "

That is, if you intentionally avoid paying taxes by either not filing or filing a fraudulent report, then you certain can go to jail. See Al Capone for the most famous example.
Sounds like we've had similar Canadian startup experiences.

Expectations quickly rose to time on weekends, responsiveness to emails and requests at all hours of the day, and job duties ranging from DevOps and app development, to customer and client support for all issues after they let go of their customer support team.

I'm about ready for a bush somewhere.
Wow -- that seems really odd; a GPS beacon seems like it is practically the definition of probable cause.

My anecdote: I was assaulted and had my iPhone taken from me. The police were called, and I had the location pinpointed right in the bedroom of the assailant on "Find my iPhone" on my iPad. No search warrant was issued by the judge, because the judge couldn't understand the information. (Which was being relayed to the judge by the police over the phone.)
> If a jury could be convinced that I, as an individual, recognized a person and purposely continued driving, that's manslaughter.

Seems more like murder, of either the depraved heart or plain intentional kind.
The original poster was probably referring to the IRS Targeting controversy during the Obama administration where it was alleged that the nonprofit status and tax filings of conservatives groups were unfairly scrutinized. This could be interpreted as the IRS obliquely enforcing campaign finance laws.
I think they mean they side with Wittgenstein over Plato, but I don't know what to call the two stances.
Of course I don't expect a raw number, it was a rhetorical question. I half expected the reply to be zero...
This is because the categories are meant to capture some information about an object, but we expect them to capture all of the information about an object.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-alg...
It's still incredibly disrespectful way to approach a community, and all of these replies ignore the thrust of my question about the expert re-upping after this ruse has been made apparent.

Comboy spread a lot of disinformation in the first post, like "I'm surprised there's still not much effort to make FPGAs more affordable and base everything on it." before the lie was laid bare. Looking forward to arguing with "FPGA experts" who harken back to that post as their primary source.
These applications weren't really where piracy derived, these applications along with a cable modem made it possible for point and click piracy. Similar to Napster. The scene which as others pointed at actually started in newsgroups and shifted to IRC and FTP was where piracy was extremely prevalent.
Intel should take a lesson and fix their shit up just like AMD did.
As an addendum, here's a taxi driver who was caught on video refusing to take someone to the neighboring city of New Westminster.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3907475/taxi-driver-refuses-to-dr...

The British Columbian government recently 'legalized' ride-share. They were elected in 2016 on a promise to legalize ride-share, but taxi-industry money bought a 2 year delay in the legislation. You can't ride-share yet, though, because taxi-industry money also bought an additional 1 year delay in deployment of ride-share-compatible car insurance, which won't be available until late 2019, 3 years after the government promised, and 5 years after the previous government proposed legalizing it. But don't get your hope up yet, though, because

1. we don't know what the ride-share-compatible insurance will look like. In Manitoba, another province with government-owned car insurance monopoly, the ride-share insurance was crafted to make it impossible for Uber and Lyft to enter the market. Ride-share companies quite reasonably want their drivers to be able to get a separate rate between when they are driving privately vs when they are driving for ride-share, just like what they can get from private insurers. Manitoba's government monopoly wasn't willing to give them that, which makes ride-share unworkable.

2. the government's 'legalization' legislation enables a public commission to set supply limits on taxis and ride-share, much like medallions. This almost completely nullifies any benefit ride-share would bring to the city and is a poison-pill that will probably keep Uber out of Vancouver.

So on top of the 5 years we'll have been waiting by fall 2019, figure in another 2 or 3 years for everyone to realize that the legislation is a bust and that we've been suckered by the taxi lobby again.

The taxi-industry's lobbying money has been very well spent.
I never got that question and if I would I'd not fill that field out. Nobody's in a position to check that.
This specific problem is one of those exceptions.

This is a known issue, and has been around since at least v57. There are multiple Bugzilla issues on it. The cause is known. It isn't extensions. The fix is just invasive, and apparently ongoing.
OpenBSD if you don't mind the performance hit. It does feel a little bit slower when browsing the web for example. I don't mind.

The installation is very quick and then it just work on my t470. Documentation is excellent. Try it.
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I take pride in efficient services provided by taxation, and have extreme contempt for arbitrary taxation to support those that are inefficient, sometimes arrogantly so.

In Toronto, the folks that collect change at the TTC (i.e Metro) stations, earn over $100K a year if they work over time.

On my last visit - I had to stand in line for 20 minutes merely to buy a token with change. There were no change machines and no means for me to use even a debit/credit card.

The 'pass' that they offer (i.e. you load it up, more for commuters) cannot even be bought by the people selling tokens. It's absurd and outrageous. Granted there is some overlap of systems going on as they move to the new pass system - it's still stupendously insulting.
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Don't forget the outright citizen-hostile domestic programs - NSA, DEA, CIA, DHS, TSA, etc.

They're not an overwhelming portion of the budget, but taxes are the source of energy that they live on. Very few would directly pay to be surveilled and terrorized, but through the magic of the principle-agent problem the parasites persist.

(Having said that, I doubt the motives of large scale tax avoiders are so noble - in fact I would guess that they'd be more likely to support said programs)
Recycled or not, it does evaporate. Its in a very dry area of the world.

> The Surf Ranch is a high-end/test pool, and they've been pretty open about that

My point isnt that its not cool, its more that its the anti-thesis of surfing as a whole.
"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Multidimensional calculations typically require a lot of aggregation, rotations (pivots) and joins.

Mongo is good for store-and-retrieve, and aggregation along a single dimension, and not as strong at the operations mentioned above.

Have you benchmarked Mongo against a relational db for analytic operations on a multidimensional model? The results could be interesting and perhaps different from what you would expect.[1]

Many new OLAP products are implemented on pure relational databases for performance reasons. Some databases with columnar indices are even faster for OLAP type operations.

[1] That said, Mongo could be a good choice for latency reasons. If your spreadsheet is doing lots of small calculations, then it makes sense to use something that can return results quickly.
Ok, i tried to take it serious, but i'm dying here of laughter.
I am still convinced this is meant in a quite serious way, bbut. Gneehehehhahah.... FLAG IT!
> My rule of thumb is that if I went into a restaurant and asked the waiter "I want a sandwich, but I don't care what kind -- surprise me!" and they brought me an object, how angry would I be at the waiter who brought me that object.

Despite the fact that you're clearly a mental patient who thinks that a bagel with some meat inside can be a sandwich, you have my upvote for that line:-)

Seriously, though, that's actually a pretty good criterion. Reminds me of Justice Potter Stewart's comment about knowing it when he sees it: if I ask for X, someone gives me Y & I'm angry, then Y is not in the class of X to a degree directly correlated with my anger at the result. I dig it!
Choose team calzone then, the comfort of a wall on all sides may help with the anxiety.
I have no idea what a "vault file" is. TechnoDolt, remember?
True, there's a wide space of breads and cheeses, but I can walk into a restaurant and order a grilled cheese and with no follow-up questions be served the restaurant's version a grilled cheese. The same could not be said of ordering a "sandwich"; the waiter would certainly demand clarification before accepting the order.

The conversation could go like this, "I'll have a grilled cheese" -- "What kind of cheese?" -- "surprise me" -- "What kind of bread?" -- "surprise me" -- "Do you want tomato or bacon or any other meats?". At this point I'd have to stop and figure out which way I wanted to go. But that's reasonable because these are non-default options; if I asked for a surprise sandwich and the waiter asked me "is open-faced okay" or "is ice cream sandwich okay" or "is a wrap okay" then I'd totally accept that as a clarification, but without that clarification none of those would be acceptable.
Lol sounds exactly like my life as a first year dev at a small startup
Yeah, also it may seem obvious that a bagel sandwich sliced in the traditional would fall into the {top,bottom} Sandwich category, but they provide no formal descriptions of smoothing. I'm sure I could construct some wildly-non-homotopic constructs that would defy the "obvious" smoothing.

(Is an uncut bagel a Toast or an "air" Sushi?)

If I were arguing for this rule, though, I'd say that the unlisted combinations should collapse to the listed ones based on curvature. {side,bottom} collapses to either Toast or Taco, and {side,back,bottom} collapses to any of Toast, Quiche, or Taco.
Reminds me of this game review. I wish I could find the original: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/2959/baldurs-gate-is-s...

All you have to do is misunderstand the genre of something and then review it as that. I need a YouTube channel about this.
You know your local infrastructure would collapse or become breathtakingly costly if it wasn't propped up by Federal funds, right?
Heck, “beyond a reasonable doubt” doesn't require no false positives, and “probable cause” is a much lower standard (not as low as “reasonable suspicion”, though.)
The fight over Amazon will be a loud because the issue: 2 visions of NYC future
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656563
I've been using FreeBSD on my desktop and notebook for the past 3 years and I have nothing to complain!

Granted, I do not have the habit of playing games or using large, unsupported software (say, Photoshop and friends). My daily applications consist of Emacs and Firefox, so my feedback may be limited in scope.

I'm not sure what the status is, but last I checked Electron did not work on FreeBSD. If you use something Electron-based, you might want to take a look at it.

I also am unable to access my iPhone filesystem and to watch Netflix movies. But for both cases, I blame the vendor and not FreeBSD. A VM on bhyve quickly solves the problem.
I subscribe to the belief that the key feature of a sandwich is it's horizontal alignment and stacking. Therefore a hot dog isn't a sandwich because it's split in the middle, not stacked horizontally.
You mean "cheese on toast"? (UK)
It's the same with "knowledge". Classical knowledge is understood as justified true belief. But you can come up with countless counter examples where someone is justified in believing something that is indeed true but you would not attest that person any knowledge of the fact. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
> I understand that banks' lack of open API access is the central problem

Banks in the US are really behind the ball on APIs, it's true. Just recently things have started to change though. I'm the cofounder of Treasury Prime (https://treasuryprime.com/) and we have a network of banks in the US who offer API access.

It doesn't solve Plaid's use case (getting data out of 1,000s of banks), but it's great if you need deep integration into a single bank, like if you're writing a fintech app for example. If anyone would like access, feel free to email me: hello@treasuryprime.com

Also, big congrats to Plaid on the fundraise!
Eco knew a toast from a Toast.
Technology always outpaces legislation.
I think it's a pretty good product, and has grown fast (hence the valuation) but they really need to improve the core product. It's got too many bugs and feels like it's had zero effort in the past 1-2 years.

Sketch and Figma now have very similar clickthrough prototyping tools built in, and it's probably a question of time until they catch up.
> When my home was B&E'd and a tablet stolen the police said unless the device reported it was in a public area they explicitly were "not going to go into a private residence to look for it".

That's not because they can't, that's because it would take getting a warrant and your case wasn't important enough to them to justify that even if they had probable cause to take to a judge. (Which GPS location probably would be, with a full explanation including the monitoring services own description of it's operating methids.)
Looks like the two of you have a different worldview about what 'simplicity' means.
Yes, but it does not waste water the way tried to make it sound.
you can definitely move ports around and symlink it (source: I've done it a bunch)
Once I actually manage to get a cab, after the bars have closed and I've been waiting 3 hours or more, I can always be certain they'll putter me down Hastings street when Prior street would get me home a full 15 minutes faster.

Taxis suck hard.
In Czech Republic, we have "sausage in a roll", which is the same thing as hotdog, except they make a hole in the roll (from one side only) and stick the sausage and sauce in it. So you can nicely hold it in your hand like ice cream cone.

Recently, some companies here have started making classic hotdogs. But I never understood why - "sausage in a roll" is so much superior topology (for eating on the run). On the contrary, I don't understand why Americans won't adopt "sausage in a roll" instead.
What a read. I agree, often times we overlook the obvious solution and tend to go for a more complex one. The approach should always be simple. I don't know why anyone would ever think otherwise.

If the issue is complex in nature, you can still start with a simple solution before you dig into the weeds. I swear, sometimes people just love to work extra.
Can you link to some information about that? I know at least one of my banks (I'm in the UK) has that in their ToS. Is that invalid? If so, how?
Really cool to have text contrast ratios available in Dev tools!

I hope multi-accounts containers will land soon on Android. The phone is where I feel the least in control of what's happening on the browser.
Good point. I think it's probably the case when a community is self-selected vs. when it's open for anyone to both create and contribute.
They're clearly a descriptivist only of their own behavior. It's a very Cartesian approach.
That's interesting, because I've had tearing issues with all major GPU brands (Intel, AMD and Nvidia), in particular when multiple monitors are involved. What's your setup like?

With regards to security, the main issue is that X11 provides no isolation between applications, allowing them to listen to keystrokes and the clipboard at all times. With Wayland, only focused applications have this access.
Got any examples? I'd love to see them.

Something that's beautiful in its problem set (doesn't, for instance, act as glue between other, poorly designed systems and thereby reflect their flaws), beautiful in its solutions (doesn't solve too much, nor too little, doesn't make too many assumptions), beautiful in its use (user experience, performance, etc.), and beautiful in its implementation (quality under the hood, no accidental complexity, properly factored, easy to understand and maintain) is quite rare for any problem with a scope larger than say "cat", and even most programs of that size make sad assumptions about things (e.g. are in languages where things are type/memory safe as a practice of the authors' diligence, not verifiable as a matter of course) or have to reflect the complexity of the OS/machines they run on for various reasons (performance, security, etc.).
Thanks for the insight. I think it is the concept that is so very appealing that if a machine is turing complete, it can solve any problem that any other turing machine can solve (just takes longer or needs more memory).

It elevates the machine to a common capability level that can solve any computable problem. Therefore, it is important to understand turing completeness.
Can a Lawful Evil character infiltrate somewhere and pose as Chaotic Neutral?

I'd like to design an RPG where some stats can become alignments. This would be just to have people identify their characters as Chaotic Stupid or Lawful Clumsy.
Why? Is there even a way to test whether this is enabled?
Really interesting report! And love the idea of benchmarking against similar stage companies :) Do the burn rates include spending on payroll?
> I also have a moral objection to the nation being such a war monger and would love to see our military spending drop by the effect of needing to blow less things up.

A lot of the military spending goes toward defense on the behalf of Japan and Europe. Those regions haven't devolved into their usual historic conflicts under this arrangement, and there are enormous peace dividends that we reap from that.
Grilled cheese would be, I assume, Halloumi. Melted cheese is pretty much any other cheese (Cheddar, Edam, Stilten, Gouda, Brie, etc)?

EDIT: TFA is talking about a grilled-cheese sandwich; i.e. a toasted cheese sandwich.
I would not be comfortable giving my banks, cards info to Plaid so they can provide an easy integration (API) to third party developers.

Why Venmo would need to hit Plaid API to get my banking info when they can provide their own API and allow seamless integration with my bank and credit card?

I honestly don't see the benefit over risk of handing over all my financial institutions information so they can provide a seamless API to consumers.
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I think programming has more trade-offs to choose from, and thus more freedoms. You can make a program slow, fast, small, large, limited, comprehensive, quickly written for a specific case or carefully designed for the generic case, or anything else at the expense of something else.

Building a bridge doesn't have much of that: the bridge must withstand loads from the traffic, loads from the elements, material wear across decades; all that without falling down. There are aesthetical components to choose from but generally you can't avoid physics and financial cost when building one.

In programming you could choose to go with a number of alternate implementations that are as different as they would be unrealistic if only you were building a bridge instead of software. Anything from tying inflatable boats together to form a walkable chain to act as a bridge to draining all the water out and building a 6+6 lane highway across the bottom of the bay instead.

Performance is a likely domain for coming to terms with the limits of the physical qualities of computers but even then there are lots of different flavours of performance to consider, and innumerable ways to trade performance in and something else out.