skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UI isn't the only problem. Take your blinders off. People don't want to be opted into a service like this. I believe it was intentional to make it "look" like everyone is already a part of this (see facebook's creating "shadow accounts" so people think everyone is already on there). This is a scammy move and you need to stop. If you don't think you can get your foot in the door in a new market space legitimately then just stick to making a browser and leave tips/funding to Patreon and others.
I see loads of great suggestions in this thread, let me just add three of my LEAST favourite nonfiction books:

Thinking, Fast and Slow: Really should have been subtitled The Ludic Fallacy Run Amok. Filled with grand generalisations based on dubious conclusions from small under-powered behavioural experiments. Read if you want further evidence that Behavioural Economics, that bastard child of psychology is an edifice built on bullshit.

Masters of DOOM: A homage from a fanboy meant for other fanboys. It definitely has its bits of brilliance but it is still a chore to finish.

The Inner Game of Tennis: At 161 pages it might seem short but is in fact 160 pages too long. I bought it after someone on HN said its advice wasn't really about tennis but about life. I wonder what that person was smoking at the time.
That is a distinction made later, it's nowhere in the Bible even. Certainly never mentioned by Jesus. He explicitly said people who don't follow even the smallest commandment are to be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. No distinction between moral law or not. And look at James 2:10 he says the same thing, written AFTER Jesus was on the cross!
It is an editorial not a peer-reviewed research article. Mind the difference.
American Kingpin: The epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind The Silk Road.
Wikipedia says Bart Ehrman is "agnostic atheist".
American Universities’ China Problem
This is experts debating other experts. One, or possibly both, sets of experts have to be wrong.
Unicorn Meat has a lot of glitter in it.

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e5a7/
Past Tense - Lee Child

The Forbidden Door - Dean Koontz

The Crooked Staircase - Dean Koontz

The Outsider - Stephen King

Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King

The Fallen - David Baldacci

Zeroes - Chuck Wendig

The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Wouldn’t an 2fa device (such as an otp token) actually protect you in this case? They have your password but not your otp generator.
allowing a 3rd party to listen in is not covered by "I'm not recording this".

Also, voice to text, then clean it up from memory. That could arguably be called recording since that was the old meaning of record, but it's equally arguably not covered.
I'm a big fan of this line:

> Epic is constantly scanning the undergraduate ranks for new hires. Rather than sticking to engineer incubator schools like M.I.T. or Stanford, it scouts institutions like Carleton College in Minnesota and Clemson University in South Carolina. Candidates take online tests to gauge their problem-solving skills and, if they pass muster, are whisked to Madison for an on-campus interview and tour of the area.
The most cynical answer assuming an actual agenda is 'vested interests' who fear that they won't be able to compete. however not all apparent agendas come from interests - at times they are essentially memes run amok. There isn't a rational interest behind anti-vaccination efforts yet they are sadly growing.
I'm not sure where I got this book recommendation but I've read about 1/2 of it and I've very impressed with the advice. I also applaud the way it's presented.

Self-help advice is mostly the author's opinion. It's very hard to prove or disprove any of it scientifically. So readers have to make a decision on whether it's good or not for themselves.

Why is politics an issue? I ask because I was surprised it even came up.

Anyhow, the book is worth reading. It gives very practical advice. Especially if you are just starting out in your career or the rest of your life for that matter.
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained
Evaporating metals for surface deposition is a well-known materials technique, but I guess it's mostly us nerds who care. Like, I literally go to TAP Plastic and stare at the various aluminized mylars and think about maker projects that could use it, but I know I'm a rarity. That said most people who took photos of the solar eclipse this year were using aluminized mylar filters.
Would anything like that ever work on mobile? Should it?
The problem is incentives, always

As a German living in Hamburg, where three of the main German publications (Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Der Stern) are produced (and Die Bild as well as Die Welt were also until recently), having worked with as well as being friends with a lot of people working there, I can assure you: it's not just incentives for the author, but also incentives for other people in the news organization(s) at work here.

The author's completely made up stories about, e.g. ...

- an American women who is traveling the whole country voluntarily, so that the quorum of one person being present at an execution for it to happen is met

- an innocent Syrian boy who thinks he caused the civil war

- an American town at the Mexican border, that is openly racist and full of dumb backwater, redneck folk

... feed into a commonly shared narrative. Those kind of elegantly written stories serve to immortalize these world-views held by many working at those companies.

Veterans of Der Spiegel were quick to point out, that in their days of working there, it would have been impossible to get even one of his reports pass the inhouse fact checkers and attribute this current blindsightedness to the rise of constructivism amongst journalists.
This is simple, but how many of you want to go there?

Pictures like this make me want it. To stand somewhere on the ice, maybe brush a little snow around and see the rim all around... it's like a little island, delicate.

We are living in fantastic times!
Last time I did a 'Show HN' post, I got 40 points and only 4 comments. The comment to points ratio is not a good indicator of shilling. It could just mean that most of those who vote don't have anything to contribute to the discussion.

Besides, even if the article is a campaign, so what? It still contains information that I (as someone who has never used Flutter) found interesting, and I'm sure many others did too, and that's why it's gotten the points.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas.

"An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to 'change the world' preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve."

https://www.amazon.com/Winners-Take-All-Charade-Changing/dp/...

https://twitter.com/AnandWrites
I think this type of depression that is supposedly a response to social media is simply a symptom of something that would have manifested itself with or without being plugged in.

One might write a novel on the subject, but humans are easily dissatisfied. We chase after things we think we want, but are really unfulfilling. Many of us lack a true calling. We travel to exotic places and buy expensive things only to realize that the hedonistic treadmill is real.
Hi, thanks for replying.

I'm a lawyer. I get paid a lot to communicate directly and precisely. While many people in our field are viewed as assholes, the best of us are able to be blunt while also being tactful. Being an engineer isn't an excuse for communicating poorly or having your tone override your message. Luckily this is a trait that can be worked on - I used to have the same issue and am getting better.

Let me take a deeper look at what's irking you: You state Google may have had a valid reason to do what it did. Okay. Let's conceed that. Despite that concession, does that actually address the problem you raised?

1) Google may have, despite having had a reason to do what it did, done it for the wrong reason. The timing of advertising which specifically required the negative effect of the change upon Edge's metrics certainly seems to point that way. You've described a plausible alterative rationale for their actions, but nothing more than that.

2) Incentivewise, Google has every desire in the world to maintain their browser marketshare numbers.

3) The full claim made by the intern is that this was one of an onslaught of changes made by Google to make their sites less performant on other browsers. Other people in the same thread indicated similar issues, and Google staff indicated that they were actually planning on resolving some of these issues in the future, an admission that the issues do, in fact, exist.

4) The intern further makes an allegation that the Edge team attempted to inform Google about the behavior, but did not receive any redress or explanation regarding the issue. One would expect that the Youtube team would have raised the issues you addressed regarding Edge's handling in a quick reply. They didn't.

Overall, if you were Google staff, your objection would deal with a number of these points I've raised, but as it stands that isn't the case.

I did appreciate the article's technical discussion, though, so thank you for that insight.
>that carrying that much power production down there is still much easier than taking enough fuel with you to return home.

Rationally, yes. This sentence makes sense. But, I find it amazing and difficult to visualize just how EXPENSIVE FUEL is.
Link to the actual legislation: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6227

So, whoa - I hadn't even heard of this. Had y'all?

$1.2B on an exotic tech field - with implications that bigly threaten online privacy and security - seems like an incredible thing to get through both houses and signed into law without it being a story in these parts.

Amash unsurprisingly voted no (joining only 10 others in the house, while 348 voted aye). A quick perusal of his twitter doesn't show me any of his thoughts on it. I'd like to hear them.
I think I'll skip this no CVE's update.
As this guy [0] (a TV moderator who handed Relotius several of his awards) says, that journalist was under no economic pressure, at all. And the interviewed person also calls out this worldview in which everybody is a victim, nobody is an actor, and many journalists are more concerned about them being victims than being victimizers.

And it really is telling that the perpetrator so easily gets styled as kind-of-also-a-victim, as if having won a few prizes created this pressure/temptation no human could possibly withstand.

(I started to write my comment in response to someone who replied to you and said you using the word sociopath was "dehumanizing", and that they don't want to defend the journalist, but that "any normal and well adjusted person" could have gotten addicted to having won prizes -- that as well as some comments on the first story about the subject on HN is what I meant with styling them as victim, not your comment as such)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TrfRWnYCo0
The author has replied to me! He does not. Just a poor choice of words.
I thought it was a good book, as he says, he's not presenting anything new or controversial to biblical scholars, but I (as a layperson) learned a lot about Christianity, and now understand it better - how it went from being a weird Jewish sect to the imperial religion of Rome.

Just finished The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey, which documents the destruction of statues, temples and artworks by Christians in the years 300-500AD in Europe. Also recommended!
Loved this book, so much wisdom.
Real estate is very expensive to transact. Certainly one could not execute short term trading strategies like is common with securities markets.
Python 3 is the open source equivalent of Vista - too much potential, but too much time to realize it, and the world doesn’t slow down in the meantime.

I love python. For me, it’s damn near perfect in many ways. But it’s looking more and more like Perl 6 than what it should have been.

The sooner we get to Python 4 (whatever that ends up being), the better, as we need to move past the v2 or v3 question for developers and users.
Yes, beefhash is correct (posting underneath to emphasise it :-)) Just one quick clarification if it's not obvious. If you don't care about other people and just want to put your code in the public domain the US (and you are in the US), a statement to that effect is enough. However, people outside the US will not be able to safely use your code. Someday if you change your mind, you can sue them. So if you care about those people you need to choose an appropriate license to offer them.

There is a good example of this that came up recently. Jason Rohrer wrote the game One Hour One Life and put it in the public domain. An unrelated group wanted to offer the game on mobile and in other markets (notably Japan). They specifically asked for his permission to do that. He agreed. As far as I know, that's enough. So it doesn't have to be complicated -- it's just a PITA for others to keep asking for permission if you don't give them a license up front.
Little bit late to answer, but it's a bit different situation with this exact paywall. It's movie theater that give everyone access for free, but randomly decide not to provide these access based on where you come from.

So using 3rd-party website to access their content is not any different that accessing the site through Facebook redirect for instance since in both cases you get content for free.
The makers of "Passion Dust" are pretty upfront about the benefits of putting "magically delicious" glitter in your vagina, so it's probably not them. But I wonder what flavoring they're using?

https://www.self.com/story/do-not-put-glitter-in-your-vagina

>Passion Dust is billed as an "adult novelty item" and its sole purpose is to "add a sparkle and flavor to your natural vaginal fluids to make the experience of lovemaking that much more fun and enjoyable for you and your partner." Um, ok. The flavor is apparently "sweet like candy but not overly sweet," the website says, just enough to make your partner think that your unicorn vagina is "what all vaginas are supposed to look, feel and taste like; soft, sweet and magical!"

https://www.prettywomaninc.com/q-a

"The sparkling effect can last for up to 5 days."

"When he looks down at his 'magic stick' and sees it shining like it's 'God's gift'. It will be weird, but he won't be mad!...He'll either be really impressed with himself or really impressed by you! You can tell him or don't."
I haven't yet... but after I got a bug report for polluting namespaces with my library, I uglified my code like a good citizen.
>>$1.2B on an exotic tech field - with implications that bigly threaten online privacy and security

Probably more than that...even regular computer threaten privacy and security, in 0.2 seconds they scan all faces or fingerprints in the world.

Congress probably doesn't want USA to be left behind.
The metaphor stays apt if you take uptime into account :-)

Anvils do break, sometimes, and the failure mode is catastrophic: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=broken+anvil&t=h_&iax=images&ia=im...
In 2014 Modi campaign promised honest/progressive govt.

Now,

50% ministers in his cabinet are facing corruption/criminal charges in courts

fulfilled just 9% poll promises http://www.electionpromisestracker.in/governments/central-government

and utter contempt for truth and knowledge https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/smriti-irani-to-sharad-yadav-8-most-bizarre-statements-from-politicians-in-2018_in_5c18d2dfe4b08db990575cfc
Glad someone slipped that in... the Chinese government is partnering and investing in all sorts of public works, tech fields, moon shots and countries (infrastructure in Africa), while the US is losing ground on big ideas, solving big problems and welcoming international talent. If there were a positive use of nationalism that didn't precede war: More of this, please.
There was a bit of discussion back when this bill was introduced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524928
The only way the US has influence over business is via the judicial system. If a business takes issue with the outcome of the court cases they can even take the extreme step of shutting their business down as was done with Lavabit.

The Chinese government has routinely stooped to using coercion such as blackmail and kidnapping of family members to control its citizens. It's really not comparable.
Wait cheaper, how? Maybe in terms of development of say a fighter jet but it is certainly more expensive than a bunch of surplus Russian equipment.

Not to mention most combatants don't do their own arms development - that only really makes sense if you are nearing state of the art or effectively lack a market (say nuclear weapons).
So here's how I use 2FA apps:

I have my primary phone with Authy and all the accounts.

I also have a secondary (old) phone in my drawer, which also has Authy installed. Both of them automatically sync the 2FA accounts in my Authy account, which is linked to my email and phone number. In the event that my primary phone is not available, I can switch to my secondary phone quickly.

Is that a good practice? I also plan to get physical keys and do the same when they become more popular.
It is always an arms race.

India now allows the government to decrypt personal data:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/india-authorizes-10-agencies-t...

If anything it should tell us that Crypto works(for us whose math skills may not be up to the task) and there are not as many backdoors as technologies in the past.
Not the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Identification_in_pl...
The money is there - $250 million per year for social workers alone in SF and increasing ...

The will to build a single unit of housing for homeless people isn't though.
Out of curiosity must you be a citizen to exercise this?

For example in American our bill of rights applies to anyone on US soil. So if you're a tourist you have the same right to 4th amendment prohibitions on searches (once over the border), 5th amendment right to remain silent etc.

If I flew to say, Ireland, and make a right to be forgotten request while in Ireland, is that valid? Or must I be a US citizen?
thanks, I read the article and was wondering why they used the term wavefunction collapse since it isn't, at all.
Why so many people are becoming allergic to meat
>with implications that bigly threaten online privacy and security

Well, it never hurts to start researching post-quantum crypto even if large quantum computers were to prove impractical. I recall Google ran an experiment with a post-quantum key exchange algorithm [1], though I have no clue what came of said experiment.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-p...
I remember National Geographic Magazine had an article on exactly this, and reach the same conclusion, a decade or two ago. I'm not a subscriber so I can't search their archives (anyone?). However, they do have a nice list of depictions of Jesus:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/jesus-portrayals...
I’ll bet that’s exactly it. “Everyone knows how backwards the rural US is. Article makes sense completely! Publish it!”
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/10/how-to-cook-tinola.htm...
Another perspectivemight be that selling a small amount of shares gives the founders the financial stability to weather any storms. Let's say they sell 2 mil worth. Small in the grand scheme of things, but invested wisely can cover food, modest rent in an apartment etc for life assuming they do odd jobs.

Then again I come from a working class background, so I may have a different perspective.
I second Libby. You can get just about any of the books recommended on this thread for free. Additionally, for me, I like to get my books from the library since it gives me a reason to read them before I have to return them.
Patterns in real estate aren’t as predictive as you think, especially given the long time to close a deal.

Down at the neighborhood level, a single policy decision or decision to sit on a big plot of land instead of developing it can completely halt gentrification and reverse it.
Interesting, thanks for the comment. Unfortunately the post you linked is not about the book Longitude, and the blog the author links to for people who want to "discover more about what really took place" is a 404.

I'll have to do more research, but at first glance I don't see any criticism (yet?) on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book).

I'd like to see a breakdown of the facts vs. what Sobel wrote. I read the book because I'm a mechanical watch enthusiast, and I was not disappointed in any of the descriptions of the Harrison timepieces or what made them work. I plan to go see them next time I'm in London.

I still recommend the book, especially to watch enthusiasts.
Well the thing is you never know for certain if it really will eliminate all life until it does. During the Manhattan project there were concerns that the unprecedented temperatures might be enough to start runaway fusion reactions and ignite the atmosphere.
> I also doubt He was black, although some Rastafarians believe He was because it says so in Jeremiah 8:21.

That's an odd interpretation. The word in Hebrew stems from qadar, which does mean dark, but is often used to indicate mourning (https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6937.htm). And that follows the context of the verse: "Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn (qadarti), and horror grips me" (NIV). As far as I recall, the Bible never uses skin color to indicate race. It always goes by ancestry ("Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, . . . "). Speaking of which, it spends a great deal of time, across several books, to tell us that Jesus is Jewish. Most Jews I know of are fair skinned. Skin color doesn't mean any kind of superiority to me. I'm just talking about the accuracy of paintings.

> He certainly wasn't the fair-skinned, blue eyed, blond hair rock star depicted by some Christian denominations.

I've been a Christian all my life, and visited churches of many denominations. Most depictions show him with brown hair and brown eyes. I can't remember seeing any depiction with blond hair. Now blue eyes I have occasionally seen, but isn't it possible for any race to have any eye color?
"What Jesus could have looked like?"
It will stay like this for the foreseeable future. Chip design IP is too obscure for the mainstream oss people to force an oss ecosystem. There’s also too much proprietary foundry information needed to even have an oss ecosystem that actually works properly.

Ironically the closedness of chip design tools and foundry information is also what prevents it from truly growing. Entrenched players (cad companies) benefit from this, but the losers are the actual chip design companies. They are bleeding generation of engineers who have forsaken this climate for the more cozy cs oss climate.
Ditto about the last one. I just can't get around to finishing it.
Too little too late. The dialectics of lead are not likely to be surpassed by #2, since being #1 applying this is highly likely to be inherent.
Dave of EEVblog got hit with a copyright strike for something in the public domain that a corporation uploaded and claimed as theirs. It's bullshit.

Worse, other randoms are extorting small-but-growing channels to pay them in exchange for not pulling similar crap.

How I see it is that YT facilitates copyright abuse, fraud and racketeering much more than it enforces legitimate copyright assertions.
Print out the QR code and store it in a safe.