skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest you have things backwards. There are lots of examples of corporations and people doing the right thing when incetivized by market forces. There are lots of examples of corporation and people doing the wrong thing when incentivized by market forces. The conjunction of these two facts ought to lead you to the conclusion that we should not rely on the market for incentivization against corporate malfeasance and wrong doing. Society, in the form of government, needs to be vigilant against wrongdoing and in the case of food we ought not rely on market forces to prevent bad actors from unleashing their bad intentions on society. Your view is not based in reality because history has shown that corporations sometimes do bad things in response to market forces. So relying on market forces to regulate corporate behavior is not a good idea.

Your view would make sense if market forces always lead to companies not wanting to poison their clients. But this isn’t the case.
After 30 billion of them sold you'd think that if they were really dangerous we'd have noticed by now.
A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)
Lots of people eat raw dough. Licking the beaters is a tradition. If it's carcinogenic when uncooked, that really should have a warning so that people can ensure they prepare it properly. Though, apparently I don't need to worry about that, because it's banned in Canada.
As others have said, it would probably be more difficult today to hide. Things like access to mass collected information from cameras (traffic, security, etc), cell phone location logs, face recognition, passport databases being leaked etc.

The OPM hack highlighted how opponents will attack weakest points such as the database of background check data. Now supposedly the Chinese know the detailed backgrounds, the secrets, even biometrics of millions of US agents.

The Russian passport database was leaked, which allow independent investigators to track down and prove that the Skripal assassins were GRU officers. It was based on special markings in the database and the sequential passport numbers:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/10/09/ful...

It was further confirmed by researches looking through tons of photos posted on the wall of Russian military academies to find Chepiga - one of the assassins:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/10/02/ana...

What's interesting here is that the exposure is not only to other state actors (who will presumably keep it secret) but also to these independent researchers, and leakers (Snowden), who don't mind laying it out for the whole world to see.
And yet here we are, living in a world where PayPal, visa, and MasterCard are successful able to censor lots and lots of people.

So, by definition, this is a problem.

We would no longer have a problem if we get to the point where a single company censorsing your transactions is no big deal because a dozen others will immediately step up in their place.

But we don't live in that world, and so because of this we have to recognize that there is indeed an oligopoly problem.
> If SMB has some "give me stat info for all stuff in a directory" API call

It does, it supports FindFirstFile/FindNextFile[1], which returns a struct of name, attributes, size and timestamps per directory entry.

Now I'm not sure how Linux does things, but for NTFS, the data from FindFirstFile is pulled from the cached directory metadata, while the handle-based stat-like APIs operate on the file metadata. When the file is opened[2], the directory metadata is updated from the file metadata.

So while it does not have a "stat N" interface per se, the fact that it returns cached metadata in an explicit enumeration-style API should make it quite efficient.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/fileapi...
[2]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111226-00/?p=...
Look at all the empty space between the pens of people. It is really odd when you are in the middle of it — to me.
Thanks for all the upvotes!
And even worse than a bad incentive is a selective one.

It'd be one thing if New York passed a law that any company that does ABC can get XYZ.

They didn't.

They said one company, and one company only, can get XYZ.
Eh, the sentiment analysis doesn't work too well. I tested out, "This is excellent!" and it gave a neutral comment. Also, it looks like your sentiment analysis is case neutral and is insensitive to exclamation marks.
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The tilting of the head notably exposes the neck, which is the most vulnerable part of the body. As I recall from The Definitive Book of Body Language, this demonstrates trust and reduces tension for better social engagement (and is an especially attractive signal from a woman).
This reminds me of an experiment where they had a babysitting company fine parents for being late to pick up their kids. The reaction was that parents would be late more often, because they felt they'd "paid" the price. It's not quite the same but there is an overarching theme around the idea that once we think of something as a monetary transaction, we behave differently.
It's not just fashion brands, Bloomberg's entire website is "using the same" font. Number 8 on HN right now is Inter UI.
I kind of wished it was more crowded. Instead people were in what were basically cages and the police / organizers were walking around in the empty space between them. Makes sense from a safety perspective but isn't like typical crowded places. The pens weren't even completely filled...
Heh, in their defense being a lab means almost by definition that things don't work right :-)
I doubt you can find a credible source to say that wheat is poisonous or otherwise causes harm in the way that most people associated that word as it pertains to food. It may not be healthy and some people may think it’s better to eat other things but they don’t think it kills people or otherwise seriously harms a person.

But even if you are right as it pertains to wheat your claim is that no food can be deemed safe. That’s a big claim and one that is very hard to support. We know some foods are safe (in the general sense of the term).
Great. I will not, as it already is uploaded there to avoid de-duping. My reasoning was that I find the viewing experience there better, and that place is a better place to search videos later on. But given that video already exists there, there is no reason for me to do it.
It's actually used on GitHub's homepage when you're logged out.
At least part of the reason is probably the lack of a good layout engine that's more flexible than rich text and less complex than a web page. An embedded browser gives them everything they need for their highly stylized layout, but at a great cost.
The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)
This reminds me of "The Calf-Path": https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/calf-path
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Lessons from Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters to Shareholders
The idea of Dan Abramov having trouble finding employment is beyond comical.
I exclusively listen to The Great Courses courses on Audible. They're usually 20+ hours long, expensive but can be redeemed with a credit, and high quality.

They have everything - music (Greenberg's How to Listen to and Understand Music is a classic), history, literature, and even self help or improvement.

The Great Courses has its own subscription service which includes their video courses (many good ones on art history!), but it's a very amateur execution. The website and app are very poorly written, presented, and optimized.
It's a very similar style with very similar objectives, so it's not entirely coincidence. It's also very similar to Google's Roboto for the same reasons.
> How come this is legal in the US?

It's legal because the people making the laws are the people making the laws.

It's a "who watches the watchers" sort of situation.

Besides electing people that just don't do this, how might you imagine this being "illegal"? Some constitutional item that can't be overridden by the legislature?
Most formats include some kind of header. Try to look at the first 8-16 bytes of the file, and hope that Google can find a site about them.
The Surveillance State limited by acts of courage and conscience [video]
The premise of your second paragraph is not supported by what I wrote. I’ve made no claims about every corporation (entity/person/whatever). I just pointed out that some corporations are incentivized to do wrong and thus relying on market forces is not a good idea.
From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10816563
Video: https://youtu.be/otKc7zzd4fA
I don't get how you jumped to that last sentence. The way I read what you wrote is that we'd have been screwed earlier without aerosols, but that our current models account for them and still show us being screwed.
Fair enough.

And you are right.

Our budget for “Household” which goes into a separate account is $900 for the three people. That includes groceries and household supplies. It doesn’t include my “spending money” which includes breakfast (egg white patties, fresh cut Deli meat, low carb wraps) and lunch so that would be an extra $200 a month by myself and my wife probably spends an equal amount out of her “spending money”.

Our eating out at a restaurant is part of what we set aside for “date nights” which is probably another $150-$200 a month.

And then my son usually picks up something if he has to work.

But, I understand those are extravagancies that we could cut back on if we needed to. But my wife works and has a part time “working hobby”, and I spend time “leveling up” to increase my income.
Ok, I think we're actually a lot closer to agreement than it would seem. I think you've zeroed in on the the last sentence in my paragraph:

> Constant evaluation, testing, and liability for people/companies that knowingly use dangerous or harmful ingredients can go a long way here. In fact often times it's the only way broader datasets can be gathered. The market provides a strong incentive here as well not to poison your customers.

as my one prescription, when in fact it is not. It's just a piece of the puzzle. In fact I agree with this statement of yours:

> Society, in the form of government, needs to be vigilant against wrongdoing and in the case of food we ought not rely on market forces to prevent bad actors from unleashing their bad intentions on society.

I also may have over-read into your reply that you don't believe the market has any ability to disincentivize bad behavior, which after reading your latest reply may not be the case. Please correct me if I'm not summarizing your point accurately, but it seems you agree that markets do incentivize good behavior, but that it isn't perfect and therefore governments should have a role in ensuring people (and corporations) don't misbehave. If that's an accurate summary of your position, then I agree with that. We may disagree on what optimal intervention levels look like, but we could at least agree on the broader point :-)
For anyone like me who might think that this is a pretty looking typeface but not particularly fully featured, scroll down the page to this bit: https://rsms.me/inter/#features

This is an amazingly well featured typeface where the author clearly has considered a number of use cases, particularly in terms of legibility at small sizes which is important for UI. This looks great! File size may be an issue for public web UIs, as someone mentioned, but there are so many more places this could be used to great effect. Will definitely consider for future projects!
I am an e-resident and I used it to establish a business entity for my startup. It works really well for my particular use case.

I am a Canadian resident, my co-founder is an Estonian resident (physical). Both of these may change in the future and the intended market for our startup is global. Estonia was chosen as a common ground with a minimal overhead - it's easy and costs almost nothing.

Using government services with an ID-card was a breeze. For banking we use a "physical" Estonian bank, once set up I have no problem accessing it online either.

We didn't have any revenue the previous year, so cannot say much about taxation story here. It gets more or less complicated depending on your country of residence, but I don't think that having a business entity in Estonia is fundamentally different from other EU countries here.

Slightly more personal and readable story, written by me: https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/how-to-launch-an-estonia...
You're asking for evidence of something nobody claimed. I simply stated that the US style Kinder eggs have appeared in Europe and are for sale.
Interesting perspective on Theranos scandal
Is that to say a kid likely wouldn't find the real explanation convincing? Maybe that's telling.
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Even if climate change is nonsense (it isn't) it still makes sense to get off energy sources that are known to destroy air quality. This should be common sense to anybody, who likes smog?

This said some of the talk that I've been hearing recently has me concerned for peoples' mental well being. I've heard numerous peers and coworkers in the past year express belief that they would not live long enough to have grandchildren because humanity will be extinct by then. That we have 20 years or less of life, that the situation is doomed, etc. None of this is a healthy mindset.
Seems like this work should be open source, is it already? If not why? Publicly funded work like this seems like it should by default be open source?
You can buy unflavored white/whole grain bread from all supermarkets.
Super interesting, did not know this and looked it up (I'm a Swede). Washing eggs is NOT illegal in the EU (at least in Sweden) if your washing them at a certified plant. Washing them the wrong way can spread bacteria through the shell of the egg. So a farmer without the certified plant is not allowed to wash the eggs.
Washed eggs are marked as washed to the consumer and all eggs I've ever bought in stores here have been washed.
I'm not surprised. Descent was cool, technically superior, and it was a game I really would've loved to love. But people loved Doom and so did I.

Search for "descent speedrun" on YouTube and then do the same for Doom. The dynamics make a completely different game.

Doom's gameplay was better. Regardless of the graphics, Doom was more fun to play. Doom is actually blazing fast: not as for just rendering but for gameplay and player movement. You can zip around the levels at inhuman speeds, and this allows you to handle more enemies, swarms of them, at once. Doom is really a scary shoot'em-up in 2D while Descent was of a completely different nature.

The "real" 3D and the "real" 3D controls in Descent made moving around more difficult. Thus, the levels were created differently for Descent and it was also played differently.

Unlike Doom you wouldn't have large open spaces to contain dozens or hundreds of enemies. Instead, you would encounter a small handful of enemies at a time. Much of Quake and Doom 3 also suffered from the lack of this as the player speed is more realistic, preventing the fun inhuman maneuvres which could create a lot more fun.

Similarly the gameplay, due to moving around in 3D, meant more work at the controls of Descent. Doom is basically a 2D game which allows for faster movement as only having two axis is more easily mastered. Being unrealistically fast enabled a lot more tactics to be used in Doom. Also, most people played Doom keyboard-only back in the 90's which only served to give Doom a lot more edge.
> "The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances."

The author mentions Voyager by name and references Next Generation characters, but refers to Deep Space Nine as "the one with the space station".

DS9 explores the impact of futuristic society on humanity more than the others because it takes place in a stationary setting within a complex geo-political dispute. So far I like it best out of OST, TNG, and Voyager.
There's another factor here--it's easier to abuse and overwork younger people. That 20-something working a 60 hour week is more valuable than a 50-something who can't maintain that pace. They shouldn't be asking for the 60 hour week in the first place, though.
FTA

Democrats sent over four times the quantity of emails than their Republican opponents

If quantity is one of the factors to be considered, unlikely.
Tech:

* Programming Phoenix, latest edition. I plan on launching a side project with Phoenix in 2019.

* The Rust Programming Language. I want to build simple CLIs in Rust as my gateway into the language - will use what I lean here to do it.

Non tech:

I have about 25 unread history, art history, and culture books in my bookshelf. My plan is to exercises self-restraint and not buy more books until I finish these!
I actually agree with that overall. The point was more that Qt has come a long way towards integrating with OS X.

For an apples-to-apples comparison, I’d rather use Slack through something like Adium that puts me in control of the ui. And VSCode would be nicer if it looked more like textmate.
What I've heard from friends is that diapers are close to necessary because of how packed it is and due to being effectively locked in for safety
As mentioned in that issue and the linked one, subsetting makes a huge difference, and can be done yourself. As not mentioned there, you can even split the subsets by Unicode range and let browsers handle which chunks to download. Browser support is even pretty good.[0]

https://caniuse.com/#feat=font-unicode-range
There is that, but there is also the massive palaver at Gatwick which reveals that the authorities aren’t actually very good with modern tech.
Yes, my home was built in the XII century (I’m from Europe).
> It's like the U.S. national labs unveiling the world's first exaflop supercomputer, with a footnote indicating that in fact the computer is only 100 petaflops at the moment.

Can you add context?
Hearthstone is done in Unity. Unity has a bunch of 2d platformer features these days.

What you're missing is that these big engines are also game development environments with extensive tools and integrated market places to purchase assets and features.

Learning Unity is learning an entire platform. It's a marketable skill.

Generally smaller developers don't have the development resources to roll custom everything. But modern platforms have enough spare hardware resources that the inefficiencies of Unity are worthwhile.
Human eyes are more sensitive to slight variations in green than other colours. This is why YUV video often encodes green sharper and why 16bit colour give 6 bits to green and 5 bits to red/blue. So on a circuit board with subtle green-on-green variations, it makes sense that they picked green.

But since people have many more rods than cones, black/white contrast is easier to discern and white uses all the subpixels in your display to maximize luminance. And speaking of subpixels, subpixel antialiasing effectively triples your resolution when displaying black/white contrast.

The brain also highlights contours of contrasting black/white. (There's an evolutionary quirk in our blue-sensing cones that allows you to see contrasting blue/yellow better than most combinations too but still not as well as black/white.)

So sharp white on black or black on white are typically better suited to human vision if you're trying to discern outlines like when reading text.

Black/white also avoids the persistence effects that cones have, where when you look away from a green image for example, you'll see an inverted magenta copy of the image for a second or two.
I disagree with the truck drivers, but you could misconstrue sit-ins with the same logic.
> I think people have been "frog boiled" into expecting computers to be slow.

So much this!
A truly stunning font.
GameHut put together a similar effect for the Genesis/Megadrive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnCPBcSRt7Y
> But even if you are right as it pertains to wheat your claim is that no food can be deemed safe

I think you've confused me with will4274 who said:

> It's impossible to prove that a food item is safe. The two categories are known to be bad and not know to be bad.

Regarding the subject tho, I think definitions of "safe" and also who would comprise a "credible source" are probably more to the crux of the discussion.
Quantity and quality of emails are often related, but what if the Democrats just had 4x the number of people subscribed to their email lists?
plaintextaccounting.com specifically ledger-cli or with emacs mode. You can do things like YNAB and far more complex things like forecasting, or like other comments try jupyter notebooks for analysis.
According to this article carbon emissions would need to go negative to keep the temperature increase within 2 degrees. Not zero, but negative!

The populations of developed countries don't understand how much it would hurt their quality of life if they do what it takes to solve this problem. Once they have put up with enough pain, the unrest will make the "yellow jacket" protests in France look routine. Who knows what kind of crazy people would get elected by promising to stop the pain.

The "yellow jacket" protests were a response to tax increases on fuel as part of the government's strategy to reduce emissions. They ballooned into a general airing of grievances about inequality, economic justice, the cost of living, and populist anti-establishment sentiment. Policies to limit emissions in other countries would likely have the same result, because the same sentiments exist throughout the developed world and are behind the global rise of populism.
> In any event, an analysis of the plates in 1979 showed that, together, they supported Einstein's prediction rather well, and that the original teams made assumptions in their calculations that were justified even if they couldn't be conclusively supported at the time.

Are the original photographic plates still conserved somewhere? Is there an online scan of them?
Lawns consume water runoff as grass uses water to help with growth. Gravel pits outside your house less so. Paving means water runoff has nowhere to go so you need to build that into any paving plan or your basement will flood.
You've basically described many picket lines.
Many people consume cannabis specifically as an ingredient in food. But at a broader level I think it's unproductive to limit categories to "banned in food" v. "banned", since that's a very arbitrary distinction. Also:

> but I'm totally for banning strongly psychoactive ingredients from food - cannabis should be a controlled substance.

That reads to me as contradictory. banning != controlled substance
Intermittent/Variable ratio reinforcement[1].

I use a form of it in my house, to good effect. Consistent positive behavior (with schoolwork, chores, etc) gets intermittently rewarded. Negative behavior resets any potential reward. But it's all implicit, with no attempt to threaten or coerce using rewards. The only exception being if they've already been told of a reward but significant negative behavior occurs before receiving the reward, in which case I explain why the reward was being rescinded. But there's no attempt to coerce them to stop the negative behavior by dangling the impending reward, because by the time I tell them that then it's a fact I hold firm to and not just an option/possibility.

It's just something I started doing without realizing it, and my daughter picked up on. When my girlfriend and her kids moved in, they didn't pick up on it as naturally as my daughter did. But at some point my daughter told them how I worked. And once she did, it became really effective for them too, and the attempts to barter with me when I'd ask them to do things like clearing the table slowly ended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement
Also the left side of the neck which exposes it to the right (usually dominant) hand of the counter party.