skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. People consume tobacco/alcohol/marijuana because, well, so do normal people. If you have never been poor, then you can't possibly understand the stress that goes into it that is often relieved only by these types of goods for many people, and the shame that already goes into giving up so much.
did they release code also? I could not find any link anywhere?
I don't like URL shortening, and in almost all cases should not be in use (if needed in the few cases where it is helpful, you can host your own short version of a URL on the same server; in this case it is likely that both URLs break simultaneously if it is broken). Rather, should see the URL that it will be directly.
I'm in the triple digits for connections. Most of those connections are people I met such a long time ago that I couldn't remember their names if you showed me their pictures, and couldn't remember their faces if you told me their names. I'm not on Facebook for them, I'm on Facebook for a) the few people I do care about split between a variety of time zones who won't migrate off the platform and b) features like groups which are irrespective of the number of connections I have. Besides WhatsApp which is a default here.

I also don't spend time at work on Facebook.
Maciej has been interested in campaigning lately, and I also feel he has neglected Pinboard.

Those archiving blackouts hit me regularly, every few months I sent him an email, he makes it work again (only for a while), and the cycle repeats itself.

I‘m astonished he seems to have no form of monitoring, a canary account or whatever.

I‘m not ready to jump ship, but yes, the service doesn‘t feel so dependable nowadays.
:-)

I actually enjoy writing well crafted code that does test and production functionality. Still, I admire your spirit. Just don’t join my team. ;-)
A Virtual Reality Visualization Tool for Neuron Tracing
It's actually quite easy, if you don't need more than 20 Mbps, you can use any mt76x8 TP Link router with OpenWRT, OpenVPN and SQM and a separate router for wifi (because OpenWRT WiFi support is broken for months on the mt76 driver). I'd consider doing this, but my Internet is capped so I don't want :/ If I upgrade to the unlimited package I will definitely open a hotspot with 10/2 Mbps internet for free to help out people :)
So these various IPFS services are getting pushed to the front page of HN just because they use IPFS?

Honestly, in most cases I do not see a use for decentralizing. In this case, the shortened URL still depends on a central host (bdaily.club or whatever). Whether the underlying link is stored in a decentralized manner is completely meaningless, because all the links will still be broken once the host is gone.
No doubt that the lived experiences of black people aren't entirely captured by legal changes. But the point remains: how can one reasonably make the claim that the lived experiences of black people between reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, or before abolition of slavery are the same or better than today?
It might be plausible to consider the extremely large amount of sensory information humans are hooked up with. Computers generally only have very limited amount of sensory information, not to mention the inferiority of electronic sensors compared to the highly sophisticated biological ones.
From that description incremental snapshots should be just reading the latest HEADs, and having a full copy of the DB means also having a complete history. The only gap is first time read of the whole db. One way to solve that might look something like git pack files.
Comparison with CSmith, with descriptions like "huge undertaking", is somewhat unfair, because DeepSmith does not actually solve the problem which made CSmith difficult.

CSmith tries very hard to avoid generating undefined behaviors, because they are the primary cause of miscompilation false positives. As the paper makes clear, DeepSmith does no undefined behavior validation of its own.
HN both has an edit button and is not susceptible to your hypothetical. these are solvable problems.
You were not snaps target user
There was a Bloomberg article from not too long ago where one real estate analyst described the dollar store companies as betting on the existence of a permanent underclass in America. That might be the subtext this article is driving at.
I've been using the new design for a few months and I quite like it, especially launching Comment in modal.

After revisiting the old site, I didn't think I'd miss it, but the old site is just much better in many ways.
No. All my friends are in facebook and it doesn't cost me a penny. I guess that the privacy issues are not too important for me.
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I think it’s useful any place where space is constrained.

- on the terminal (clickable short URL that doesn’t wrap is great!)

- QR codes (shorter URL will encode to less squares which means easier to scan)
Ask HN: Need an IoT device that blips or blinks, recommendations?
Hi HN! With my severely bad electronic skills, I am trying to buy an off-the-shelf IoT device that can be beeped once remotely.

Basically, imagine was an HTTP/RPC endpoint that I could call to beep this device once. I am trying build a pipeline that would beep the device every time one of my repos get a GitHub star.

So it would work like: GitHub WebHooks --> Lambda/Google Cloud Functions --> API --> beep!

Any ideas if any off-the-shelf devices on Amazon.com can get me there? I thought of pushing messages to Alexa/Google Home, but that doesn't seem to be a possible action.
>I stopped playing once I understood what I'd have to do to get good.

This is mostly why people stop doing any activity for leisure - when the ideal path to success is a path that feels time consuming and wasteful to pursue. it's why i could never pick up gardening. gardening ideally means dealing with fertilizer and handling pests,both of which i dislike. i realized what i liked was the routine of watering plants - which i satisfy by having a couple of cactuses in the house and a spray bottle.
I truly gave the redesign a shot for a week or so. I hate being the guy who is like "OLD STUFF WAS BETTER."

But the old site really is better. Especially if you use RES.
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HN is, how should I say, not Twitter in any sense of the platform. At all.
What is a computer to you?
What a computer is to me is its the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with.
Its the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. - Steve Jobs
When you need to publish some huge URL without copy-paste tools (paper, documents, phone call).
ttps://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5 I joined the Delete Facebook campaign back in 2010, I believe it was the first (big one), we were with 50.000 people. I never returned. No regrets. Eight long years, that's how long this awareness has already been widespread. Geert Lovink
The contract award was based on utter lies.

Aside from the financial waste, the Challenger disaster never would have happened with the other team's bid because that subcontractor manufactured on the East coast -- boosters would have been manufactured in one piece and floated down on barges, not broken into segments to fit in rail cars (hence the seams and O rings).
I learned...

I do get burned out.

Intermittent fasting works.

React redux is clunky together at best.

To stop complaining to others, on internet, and to my self, it kicks starts cycle of medicority.

Phrase next Facebook won't look like Facebook really settled in when I saw rise of twitch despite there being YouTube.

Very few actually want to do startups or at least sacrifice that a founder ought to make.

There are no Junior jobs in tech. Skill gap is either imaginary or only applicable to senior Dev jobs.

It further cemented that having a degree from ivy college is an extreme advantage to every state of startup... Except maybe finding product fit. Definitely a plus when trying to get funding, find cofounder, get University perks, even in b2b getting them on board.

Realization I don't have enough life experience to know of problems that could be startup idea... And I don't know how to solve it.

Telling someone you're going to do something is great way to never do it.
Do you have any specific unapologizably offensive character flaws that you want to admit to, or do you want me to try to make a judgement of whether or not you should be ostracized from society based on your one vague comment?
I haven't yet deleted my account, but I've been about 3 years 'clean' of Facebook - only dropping in briefly on my birthday as I know people like to wish people a happy birthday there.

I've made a real effort to actually connect with the friends I love and want to spend time with, and to text, call, email, write or visit them - all of which are much more impactful than a 'like on fb. I've 'lost out' on interacting with the huge group of friends that I had on Facebook, but you know what, they weren't friends, they were just people I knew or knew of. My real friends I've actually spent a hell of a lot more time with and on. And going from 500 to a 1000 people to 10 to 20 certainly felt like a downgrade at first but within a few weeks I was obvious that it was vastly better for me.

Although happy and successful in many ways, Facebook left me feeling anxious and like I wasn't keeping up. With things that I didn't care about. Talking in person removes all of that.

I've not yet deleted as I've not yet bothered to pull all my details off there, and I like to return just to tell people that it is OK to leave the party ;)
>>and provoke counterattacks - including on softer targets like families.

Snipers are protected, no one knows their identity, they kill from 800m. Will they target Ministers as retaliation? Maybe the top gang leaders have that ability but the rest will go as cannon fodder.

Essentially Brazil made gun possession a capital punishment and two people from 800m away, judge, jury and executioner.
Make it so that you can only change one or two characters, and make every edited tweet have a prominent button to see the original tweet. Maybe make it so that you can’t change links, images, or other media.
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They can't easily afford to splurge on the best acquisitions at this point. Instagram cost $1 billion. YouTube cost $1.65 billion.

Snapchat is heading toward bankruptcy or a forced sale if they don't dramatically cut costs. They're down to $1.4b in cash (from $2b three quarters prior). They can't safely buy an Instagram at this point. Pretty soon they're going to be the $1-$2 billion acquisition.

Twitter is in much better financial condition of course, although a $1-$2 billion acquisition is still a huge chunk of change for their business ($6b in cash, ~$300m-$400m per year in profit). Twitter's problem is that their cash is precious, because their business doesn't generate a ton of it (they've been persistently hauling billions of cash around from their past funding days). That cash is a big safety buffer that they can't easily replace if they burn it. They can use their market cap of course, and shareholders will only tolerate so much of that at their size and given their non-growth context. Twitter needs to figure out what it wants to do before the market 'realizes' what they're actually worth (zero growth gets you an optimistic ~20 PE * $350m profit = $7 billion; a further 2/3 drop from here); it's similar to the old Yahoo scenario pre Alibaba (no growth, the market temporarily giving you an abnormally high valuation, a trapped product).

The giants are seemingly moving fast because they have comically obscene amounts of cash pouring in and can't figure out what to do with it (other than share buybacks ala Facebook, or other capital return programs; in Google's case, they're just piling it up or buying real estate). So they spray it all around. A billion dollar acquisition mistake is meaningless if you're Microsoft and generating ~$40b in operating income (next four quarters). For Snapchat, it'd be fatal.

Google's net tangible assets are up to $149 billion now. They're starting to look more like a financial company than a tech company. Like a private equity company that happens to own a lucrative search engine monopoly and a media company (YouTube). JP Morgan's net tangible assets by contrast are $182b and Bank of America is $170b.
No, the library doesn't support that. you should be able to achieve the effect with plain html and css though.
Our household has a rule: no “smart” devices that fail the moment the company is acquihired or bankrupted. That’s why I have a monoprice sous vide instead of the Joule. This device sounds like it toes that line. And that’s not even counting the “I put a camera in my kitchen” factor. I worry what your insurance company could do with your food information.

Also, toast is a 2-3 time a year thing in my household, so I don’t even bother with a $12 toaster, let alone a $250 one.
That’s not a negotiation, that’s a shakedown.
There were a lot of people trying to make a relativistic theory of gravity. Nordstrom's theories were precursors to General relativity and there is also an argument to be made that Hilbert discovered general relativity before Einstein.
i think it's important to note when people talk about machines vs people they always think about ideal machine vs ideal person - a rigorously educated athletic genius that can infer links between things with a couple of hours of study at most & infer future results of actions with a couple of seconds of thought.

most people aren't like this but on average engineers who are truly innovatively thinking about these problems and creating solutions are. it is just the way it is
The real issue here is likely the diluting mixtures containing glycol and glycerin and whatever else that may be non-benign when vaporized and entering into your lungs in large concentrations and not nicotine itself.

Vaporizing by definition does not combust so there is no harmful irritating and inflammation causing smoke (although my vaporizer allows the temp to go so high as to start to combust weed, up to 260 celsius) so it would stand to reason it has to be safer on its own, especially if you remove from cigarette tobacco all toxic chemicals like polonium and others like MAOIs that supposedly boost the addictive potential and all you're left is pure nicotine.

There is also snus or those small tobacco pouches you put under your lip but I recall hearing about them causing gum damage etc so even that may be more harmful than vaping.

Tobacco (and snus) also have the littering problem. People throw away more or less non degradable garbage on the streets all day every day.

I wonder how much big tobacco (excluding Altria now that they're in the vape game) lobbies against vaping because it eats into their profits?

I wonder how much big pharma lobbies against vaping because it eats into their profits. It is not cool that likely the safest way to ingest nicotine is also likely the most expensive (gum, patches, etc). And these people have the audacity to fight vaping in order for it to be either _smoked_ tobacco or their extremely expensive pharma products.

Surely vaping is the lesser evil compared to smoking and society should allow it OR remove tobacco overnight. Otherwise it seems weird and illogical. (I don't know if removing all external chemical catalysts from society is what should happen.)
I make really good money for my area (I'm not in the US), but I still prefer to buy some things at dollar stores or the cheap store brands at regular stores. Some things it's just not worth paying twice as much for name brand things.

There's a brand of microfiber cloths I buy to clean my truck and car and it's the same exact brand in the dollar store and the supermarket that are next door to each other but it's literally twice as much in the supermarket.

It's pieces of fabric that will end up covered in grime and grease, why should I pay twice as much?
I deleted mine in early 2017. I still have a “burner” account though. It was from back in the days when you needed a .edu address, and I figured out there was an alternate domain at my school that could be used to receive emails to the same mailbox. I’ve had that account since 2004. I use that to look people up, but I never post on it.

I do not miss Facebook in any way, nor do I feel I am missing out on any social stuff without one. My wife deleted hers as well and found it to be incredibly liberating. If someone wants to get in contact me, they’ll find a way. I generally prefer it if people don’t, though.
It reminds me of asp net webforms.
Show HN: Tldr++ – interactive tldr client
These are companies registered in Hong Kong though, where data like this is easily available, as evinced by the website in question.
I would also mention Data USA by MIT Media Labs Collective Learning group, with an effort to combine multiple sources into a single geographic profiles rich with visualization and data sources https://datausa.io
This is a solid philosophy for life.

Lately I've been reflecting about the things that really mattered to me professionally. Many things seemed so important just a few years ago and are in the don't-care bucket now.

By focusing on the professional experiences that I still care about years after the fact, I've been optimizing where I spend my time today.
Can you explain why that's true of leftist/Democrats and not true generally of all people?
As best I can tell:

1. Money. There’s a lot to be earned here, and the advertising spend to entice users is equally high.

2. We already live our lives on social media anyways. What’s one more app?

3. A very good value proposition: access more singles than a random bar, and avoid the painful uncertainty of whether or not they’re interested. (Whether or not it delivers on this is another matter).

4. MeToo. There’s basically no chance for miscommunication if both parties swiped right.
From what I can gather, reading this and the linked to article:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gatwick-drone-boss-man...

The arrested guy once possessed a drone (that he sold a few months ago).

He and his wife were arrested (and their house raided) seemingly only based on a tip-off:

>Mr Tingley said the arrests made on Friday night were as a result of a tip-off from a member of the public.

>"I'm completely satisfied the arrests were lawful, bearing in mind the burden of proof and likely suspicion at the time of arrest," he said.

It seems to me a lot like a case of (possibly mass-hysteria originated) UK "swatting" (hopefully without an actual SWAT team breaking in).
If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?
I was getting sunburned during the day just walking back and forth from house to car

You don't get sunburn from heat, you get it from UV.

You'd be less likely to get sunburn in Death Valley as you would in non-desert terrain above sea level (given similar exposure and albedo).
> Furthermore, without types, we obscure the fact that setters and getters are unified.

This is way beyond what most people need to know to benefit from lens though.

Haskell itself has a counterexample: aeson-lens. It gives you lenses and prisms for working with JSON ASTs. Any unityped language could benefit from lenses for their unityped structures (JS and Clojure come to mind.)
This is mostly true at the minute, but not completely and probably not for the long term (10 years +) See http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full

Also you can have problems where more and more data doesn't make an impact - the stock market being a clear example.
Yada yada. I walk because I hate standing.
> Whether the underlying link is stored in a decentralized manner is completely meaningless, because all the links will still be broken once the host is gone.

Precisely - I think there is a lot more value in _replicable_ services and not decentralized once. That is - a link shortener that lets anyone make a copy of it without reading all the links but in a way that replicates all the links.

That would allow for anyone to "compete" with the original service.
Great, now you can have your own custom video game avatar from a single picture of yourself... gaming industry will love this
That's the thing though, since it's decentralized you could create a new service, e.g. bdaily.horse, and just change the domain of all the links: the short url paths and full url targets are persevered. Not saying it would be trivial to fix but it's possible, which is a good deal better than today.
So try it: Teach a computer about animals in general.

Then show it a single example of a new animal it has never seen, and see how well it would do at telling you if challenge images are or are not that animal.

It's not even going to be close to what a human would manage.

It's not because of the data, it's because a human understands what he's seeing.
Wonder if this can be controlled for via adopted kids
But nicotine isn't "fun".

You think it's cool and by the time you realise it's not, you are physically dependant on it to function.

At least alcohol and marijuana do something.
I'm an Australian atheist.. Hi :-) In my 20s I read and loved a lot of religious teachers. From Hindu gurus I loved Vivekananda and Ramana Maharshi (The Gospel of RM) most of all. I read Maharshi again a few years ago and still 90%+ of it seemed right, because he says what he knows personally, not what he read or was taught. If you're more theoretically/philosophically inclined, try Nisargadatta Maharaj (I Am That).

As a westerner, I also got a lot from the (white) US gurus Ram Dass (many, e.g. Be Here Now, Grist for the Mill, audio recordings of his retreats) and Gangaji (any of her books or videos). They couldn't be more different. I met an Indian woman here whose favourite guru is Ram Dass, so it seems Indians like him too.
Agents CAN DEFINITELY still negotiate a deal...so long they know who they're actually negotiating with.

This bill makes sure they target the right people and use due process to actually go after infringers, not pull some sort of scam to throw bait and see who bites.
Benefits of the Blockchain Technology for Business
"Addresses an issue that could affect cellular connectivity in Turkey for iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max"

What exactly did apple do here? Kind of suspicious that they made adjustments to the eSIM specifically for Turkey when Erdogan announced he would be banning iPhones because of coup fears [1]. Did they enable Turkey to listen in?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/business/turkey-erdogan-a...
Makes sense, they’d want to dissuade this exact behavior.
My apologies, and thank you, your advice makes a lot of sense!
> It's pieces of fabric that will end up covered in grime and grease, why should I pay twice as much?

Because someone might think you're poor and omygodwecanthavethatwhatwillpeoplethink!?

But honestly social signaling is a huge part of why people buy brand-name stuff. Sometimes it's actually better, often it's just better marketing. Many times the higher price creates the psychological effect of enjo9ying the item more.
I love the total unrelated pieces of trivia you can find on the comments.

I know about the "Oxford comma" (I think that's how is called), as they taught me to never put a comma and a conjunction in a list of things and the two spaces after a sentence...

Yup, above it's a case of missing "Oxford comma"... ^__^;
Nope, but after an ex dropping in to randomly flame me for no real reason (perceived, but whatever), I just don’t use it. I have only a few photos from years ago.

I have no desire to send mass messages to the friends list I have. I have no desire to acquire a list of friends who want to hear me broadcast messages (is this weird?) I have no desire to listen to the inane posts people make. If I could come in once a week and get a valid chunk of ongoings that interest me - id drop in. But it’s almost always low quality stuff. Maybe my friends are just lame? Maybe I think humans are kinda lame, to sit and study?

Idk. I can’t find a reason to get into it.