skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you call "nanny" others think of as civilization.

But if you want to experience complete freedom, you can always go out there in the boondocks, dance with the wolves. Let that experience teach you the value and importance of the "nanny".
This has been done before and it works. Taxes need a correction.

But it’s hard to explain to the public or the ones who are against this because they listen to certain opinions. They need to have a simple message. Like three bullet points that anyone can read and get a message. No percentage comparisons between social classes, no comparison between old and new tax rates. None of that. Public tunes right out.

E.g. (1) If you make over x in a year, you’ll be taxed at the new 70% rate, (2) if you make less than x, your taxes won’t change, (3) that’s it!!
Google Drive has version management, so you can have keep everything in one Slide file, and review changes.

I think dropbox has it too
Anecdotally, those $5 Costco chickens are bigger than competitors' $6.49 rotisserie chickens
Those contacts are used to dial the special number to enable or disable forwarding all calls directly to voicemail.
Autocorrect fail. s/Dave/Devon/
You're being equally reductive. Obviously all of this exists on a spectrum. Most reasonable people would agree that the FDA is a net positive. Most reasonable people would agree that the government monitoring every private conversation happening in the country and jailing everyone who tells a lie would be a net negative. The happy medium for government checks on behavior is somewhere in the middle.

Your parent makes the argument, very reasonably imo, that the overhead and cost of regulating these types of company's results are not worth the upside. People make lifestyle choices based on things they hear from palm readers - we don't use the government to regulate and test the validity of psychics. I think this falls into the same category.
If they were proprietary and had a marketing department they would be on version 10.

Version numbers are subjective and mean little.
I love Inkscape. I used it for all the drawings in my books and in their build system. It was a remarkably reliable tool.
Whatever anyone thinks about this policy proposal, most articles on this are really shallow, and e.g. don't mention:

1) That the French backed out of a similar tax recently[1]. Not discussing another major economy's recent experiment with this (well, 75% not 70%) seems strange.

2) The lack of discussion about how those subject to this tax might restructure their assets to avoid it. If you earn more than $10 million/yr you can hire a team of accountants to restructure things for you, has anyone speculated as to how the tax code will stand up to that if only this single variable is changed?

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-7...
You claim our definitions are wrong as well!
Counterfactuals
I can't read this article without shuddering. It sounds completely hysterical about kids using what is considered a smoking cessation tool, that is not proven to cause any harm, and that delivers varying, but usually pretty low, if not zero, amounts of nicotine.

The solution? Prescribing other drugs to these kids (as if there are any that actually work against smoking, except the very one they're trying to gegt them off).
Lots of times farmers, especially in the winter don't want to haul manure any distance so it gets spread on fields nearest the barn. In Michigan over twenty years ago farmers by law had to come up with manure management plans.

Composting became popular because it would eliminate the water so you needed to make far fewer trips to those distant fields. Customers I worked with in the late nineties realized the need for the law and accepted it.

However there were a few large farms that chose not to cooperate and were fined pretty much out of existence. Sounds like this is what needs to be done nationally.
I'm often surprised how much people share via Slack as if it's an impenetrable fortress: perfect for pasting admin passwords, keys, and incriminating opinions and business secrets... if that floodgate ever opens then it will be a crazy time for us devs!
This was originally going to be a reply to ben509's comment but turned into a rambling mess only even tangentially related to the original article. Rather than throwing it away, I am posting it as a top-level one.

I don't think it's just the substance that is perceived as unclean. Even for a libertarian, there is a slimy texture to any industry based around an inherently addictive product. Especially when it comes to marketing to kids -- potential lifelong loyal customers if you can hook them while they're more easily influenced.

Suppose there was a substance that was completely neutral in terms of its effects on your body. It has no caloric content, is not caught on drug tests, it tastes like water, and doesn't even make you feel different when you take it. The only effect that it has is that, several hours after your last dose, you find yourself craving another.

How would you feel about this substance being marketed? It's not hurting anyone, other than that they spend a portion of their money on the habit. But the companies selling it aren't doing their own customers any good, either, and in fact, each new customer they get to try the substance is just being roped into a life of either willing themselves through the cravings or spending a little money to make them go away.

Now, obviously nicotine is not this substance. For one, I do think nicotine users actually enjoy the products and also get some alertness benefits from them. But there is that skeevy layer to it too.

I'm not coming at this from a place of puritanism. I'm not a nicotine user but I do consume alcohol. I think we all know alcohol is worse than nicotine in terms of health effects, and the alcohol industry has done an extremely effective job of positioning their product as something cool grown-up adult people use, joke about, and have "sophisticated" tastes in. Just run through your favorite TV shows from the past 20 years or so and try to find any that don't show main characters either a. enjoying alcohol as part of all their social events, or b. abusing alcohol and it's played off as funny, or c. abusing alcohol as part of a "tortured genius" trope.

In a lot of industries the top 10-20% of customers account for the majority of sales. It just gets weird when you have an industry that has to pretend it cares about "responsibility" when its bottom line is as dependent on its most addicted users as they are on the product.

I guess my point is, at some point we call people adults and let them weigh the benefits vs. the risks. Even if they suck at doing that, it's on them. But I'm totally OK with the FDA's aggressive stance on e.g. Juul marketing to teenagers, because that seems to me to be all about getting somebody to start the habit when they're least likely to make wise decisions.
One thing I've noticed about Costco is that the products they carry are always decent quality. Since Amazon carries everything it falls on you to do the research to sort the good from the bad. You can't always rely on the ratings because the ratings get gamed.
No, it is 100% a clone. HN is similar to reddit, that site is literally identical.
They just take the chicken and raise the temperature to 71.5°C for 15 seconds, then chill it. Way easier than actually providing them a pasture. ;)
Unfortunately that's pretty much the deal with a free gmail account. If you don't want them to do it, pay for a business account (maybe?) or pay for an account somewhere else.

Mining your email for keywords and selling you things has been part of their business for a long time. Knowing what you've actually bought is just part of that.
Isn't this the same kind of thing that gets posted to Ask Reddit every week or so?

Still, these kinds of anecdotes have the same old issues. Namely:

1. It's very hard to tell what's a unique/rare experience and what's commonplace, since the people complaining are a tiny percentage of those working in said industries.

2. You can't verify if anything is true or not, so it's perfect for trolls to slip in overly controversial bullshit to stir up anger.

3. The people posting are obviously more likely to be those who are already angry at their jobs and industries, so see points 1 and 2.

4. This stuff can be framed in multiple ways depending on the site its posted on and the audience the topic is aimed at. Note the amount of identity politics/left wing/anti rich people/anti middle class rhetoric in some of these messages, then note what audience is more common on Twitter. Now imagine what the same topic might be like on Voat or Gab, where the audience is heavily right wing instead.

It's interesting, and some of the stories seem like they could make intriguing news investigations if taken seriously, but you have to be skeptical given its anonymous, unverified, posted on a site with a certain audience and generally posted by people with an axe to grind against a former employer or industry.
Facebook doesn't copy and paste the css of competitors. That site did. I didn't read any of the interview, I just went to the site like most users would.
You expect it to be accurate and repeatable because you haven't looked into getting one.
This is the product they are offering, they're telling you which ethnic groups you match, this is what is being discussed, this is what is being criticized as inaccurate. What is being proposed here here is someone from the government to step in and look over their shoulder and make sure they approve of the methodology being used to generate the results.

If a company is making health claims there's already abundant regulation in place to prevent you from making unfounded statements. If you are making health decisions based on an Ancestry DNA test without consulting a doctor, you're clearly on your own.
The role here is supposed to be that the big boss watches so that everyone behaves. Plus so that big boss takes blame. It is not like that person would be required for something active.
This thread seems bizarre to me. There's one guy claiming he "worked himself up to graduate level math" in the last two years of high-school. So either he's a literal IMO-gold-medal-level genius, or people here don't quite understand what undergraduate math studies actually involve. Even if he is that intelligent there's no way he actually did the amount of work required on such a broad number of topics.
In the dairy industry, for example, organic milk would mean you have to either let the cow die if they get sick, or give it antibiotics, cure it, and then send it to the slaughterhouse as you can't milk that cow anymore, worse still you give the cow antibiotics and continue to milk it thereby making the milk worse than "normal milk", because you don't want to lose money.

That's why organic isn't always the most ideal.
I think raising taxes is a good idea but arbitrarily making up the number is not. The idea that this would cover some 'Green Deal' ignores the 800 lbs gorilla in the room- a trillion dollar deficit year after year. We really need to figure out how to make the government more efficient and work in the allotted funding for it. Every politician wants to spend a whole bunch of money trying to push their agenda but it's always on credit.
I'd vote for this - toggling landscape manually is icky. If I press fullscreen the default for video should be landscape mode always.
Even a service without nefarious goals can have a breach. The biggest companies that devote huge teams of people to preventing them still have them. Can happen to anyone.
As for caution, I agree.

As for advocacy and laws I'd like to see a lot more assurance that ... that isn't the case.

I'm kinda going both ways with it.
This is ostensibly an art blog, so they are probably attempting a "brutalist web" aesthetic.

Reminds me of khole.net.
Better not be openly gay in Russia! Or openly gay 15 years ago and have them scrape old data and find out.
It's a fair point, 6 weeks 7 years ago is nothing. This is the data I collected, but my priors are that state-run economic development tends to be inefficient and that the stats we're reading from the CCP are false. These are pretty strong beliefs for me. But if I had more data I might come to a different conclusion.
> Topsoil should properly be measured in volume, not distance.

Presumably topsoil generation is proportional to land area, and volume per unit area reduces to distance. 3 cm per 1000 years is equivalent to 30 m^3 per km^2 per year.

That said, the number still seems wrong. Table 5.2 in [0] indicates that regeneration rates range from 0.25 mm/year to 2.0 mm/year. 3 cm per 1000 years is equivalent to 0.03 mm per year, almost an order of magnitude lower than the lowest rate in that table.

[0] http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/t0733e/T0733E06.htm
I believe in addressing bad behavior on an individual basis, regardless of the offender's demographics. I'll wager that I'm far less tolerant of such behavior than you are.

If you want to change the world, name calling and gaslighting such as this is not the way to do it.
>> I really don't want to pay more taxes for the Central Bureau of Making Sure You Know You Might Be 7% Less Eastern European than Your DNA Test Indicates.

I'm not sure if you're serious, but 23andMe also offers tests for genetic risk factors of some serious diseases. I don't think people can verify the accuracy of these tests in their kitchen.
For those that want a list, Wikiquote has a page of "last words" [1].

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words
> we're waiting less

I had a ligament injury after a car accident. Without traveling more than hour (and I live in a major populated area), I could not get physical therapy for '8-10 weeks').

> urgent but non-life-threatening stuff is basically paid out of pocket. US has HSAs and practically everything is covered

As someone who lived in AU for 20 years, and in the US for 12, huh? I never paid more than $20 for urgent care in Australia. IF you have a HSA here, sure, you can pay your co-pay, which would be $20-40 anyway, with that, but most people don't have the luxury of a HSA. And if you're uninsured, urgent care here will charge you $200-300.
Were you able to get the results from Dante yet? I am curious to see how they differ from 23andMe in report quality.
Good point about the Norwegian ship, but I have no idea what you're talking about with the German Navy. They have over 60 ships, including 10 frigates, 5 corvettes, and 6 submarines, plus various other support ships. Their close allies in Italy have 2 light aircraft carriers, 3 amphibious assault ships, 4 destroyers, 12 frigates, 8 attack subs, 1 corvette, plus others. Their other close allies in France have 1 aircraft carrier, 3 amphibious assault ships, 14 frigates of various types, 6 attack subs, plus some other frigates and corvettes, as well as 4 ballistic-missile subs. I haven't even gotten to the other powers in continental Europe (Netherlands, Denmark, etc.). All together, they seem to have a pretty sizeable defense force.

Japan also has a pretty sizable Navy with over 120 ships.
I can't speak to Rust's library, but Go's NewGCM/AEAD.Seal is about as good an interface as I think you could reasonably ask for.
Assuming output is tied to hours. As we move away from industrial employment I'd expect that relationship to weaken.
I'm not suggesting that absolute blood pressure is being measured by a phone PPG, only relative changes.

Far from being just a doodle, the PPG readout ("ECG-like trace") comes from changes in skin reflectivity that indicate relative changes in blood pressure. [1]

Obviously this isn't as good as an actual ECG (and can be disrupted by movement), but it's far more information than is needed to accurately track heart rate. These devices can be as accurate as a pulse oximeter [2], though they don't account for the movement of the user.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822420/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28464700
Yes, but only if you first call

ios::sync_with_stdio(false);

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/ios_base/sync_with_stdi...
Speaking of "other animals", why isn't this being used for human babies?
Not just foreign voices. Domestic chinese voices as well. As technology/money becomes intertwined, it's scary how easily large tech companies can silence and ruin people's lives. Even worse, just the threat of these companies can silence voices. As china and the rest of the world move away from cash to digital payment, can anyone really risk offending wechat or any other tech/payment service?

Unfortunately, we are having similar problems here as well as our large tech/finance companies (social media, registrars, paypal, patreon, stripe, mastercard, etc ) are being used to silence voices and intimidate people.

Even more worrisome is the effect that money and investment from our largest foreign investors china, saudi arabia, israel, etc will have going forward. Will tech censor even more to appease large foreign investors? We know how foreign money and investment affects everything from hollywood to news coverage to politics. Can tech be immune from that?
Private tweets and profiles show a padlock next to the user's name... You don't have to go to any obscure menu to find out whether your tweets are public or not.
> they have free roaming space and don't peck each other and so on

Chickens are assholes no matter the square footage.
Go look up studies done about the Big Five trait model. It's very standardized and reliable between different assessments on the same individual and across cultures.
Rise and Fall of Meta – Founder of AR Pioneer Reveals Inside Story
This is kind of a nitpick, but I wish articles like this specified somehow that Costco buys _dead_ chickens, and dismembered to boot. I know everybody reading it knows that, but I don't like euphemisms/language games that divorce consumers from the choice to eat an animal that was killed for you.
Every example project suggested by the GP can be easily externally verified, so it has built-in protection against crackpotism. Secondly, it may be very difficult, but not impossible.

I think maybe the most likely outcome, if they were really motivated and somewhat capable, is that they learn lots of mathematics well—but maybe not quite to, "... through graduate level" (that phrasing is a bit ambiguous though; self-teaching 'up to' graduate level is definitely doable).
Even better: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/oligopoly

Oligopoly _specifically_ describes what we have here. I learned a new word today.
I mean yeah, thats part of the challenge. Its still an easier one to solve than the one you posited
The Complexity of Written Japanese and the Shiba Ramen Logo
Not just the cloud. Any internet connected system, whether in the cloud or on-premises, is vulnerable to intrusion, data breaches, etc.

The only system that would be somewhat trustworthy would be a totally air-gapped internal system. This used to be the norm, pre-internet. Few businesses really have this today.
> It seems incredible that people would want to use such a restrictive service when much more open ones exist,

Network effects. Look into any thread here about people quitting FB. You'll see several valid use cases showing why people stay on the platform despite its serious flaws.
If people in a free and open vote want to choose communism as the basis for their economic system, as Europeans had the opportunity to do with various Eurocommunist parties, that's fine. But a system imposed by one party without accountability or the opportunity to push for change is a system that doesn't work. As others have noted, the rafts are heading in just one direction as was the traffic over the wall in Berlin.
From the article (and the company themselves):

"The company said it approaches the development of its tools and reports with scientific rigour, but admits its results are "statistical estimates."

It is very likely that there's a fine print on their procedure that everything is a Guesstimate and while their algorithms will process things the same for every sample, there's just too much variations that are unaccounted for even in such controlled environments.

What would surprise me for example is if someone sent in their DNA for analysis twice on the same company and get varying results. That would mean that the process itself is not well-established.
We need to reduce zoning/land use restrictions and reduce the concentration of wealth which prevents the middle class from building small, dense housing/mixed-use developments to live/work/rent from. The wealth concentration only allows large capital investors to develop housing projects and they like feeling big so they build big things that the average (up to 90-99%) American has no chance of ever owning. When the middle class can't own or develop productive real estate they have to pay rent, move more frequently, and more easily lose touch with their community. When real estate is forced into the boom-bust cycle of the capital markets everything gets built in waves and then later falls apart all at the same time, straining local economies. Small, organic development spaced across decades is still the best option.
When will we move on from Big Buck Bunny?
Modern secure messaging systems are typically OTR and have deniability: after the session ends, anybody can forge messages to make it look like they came from you. Sure the messages can become public, but they're no more "proof" than someone saying "X said Y".
Just as a heads up on this, slack doesn't even use HTTPS! Your employer can certainly read all private slacks on your work network, even if it's a non-work-slack workspace
We're looking at their Tinker[1] open source library for hot patching Android apps. They seem to have quite a few other projects on Github.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/tinker
Well, I'll be damned! Thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate it. I'm still wanting to buy one, but now I don't know what to think. I wonder how I am supposed to try one out before I buy one and to make sure it works.
that's pretty close to what I want in a FOSS app. So how could a normal person create that without purchasing a second phone line, or giving up control of their existing line?

Answering my own question... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26924618/how-can-incomin...
>If plant diet was optimizing for caloric intake and health advantages, most human societies would have been vegan. But no human society throughout human existence and pre-human existence were vegan because plant diet isn't optimal.

Caveat: I'm a huge meat eater. Love the stuff. Can't stop won't stop.

BUUUTTTT the natural fallacy has to die. Just because we did something for the last N millennia doesn't make it worthy of continuation.
They are not undercooked. They inject the raw chicken with brine at the factory.

That's why it has that funny texture.
Who's bright idea was it to let web pages mess with my mouse cursor? While I'm waiting for browsers to remove this user-hostile anti-feature, I can at least fix the terrible design with Firefox's Reader View.
I listen to music that way too, but I'm toughing it out on Spotify still. I'm curious, how do you feel Apple Music's interface is better in that regard?

I was too late for rdio, but from what I hear it sounds like the music service I really want :/
Do you have a source for this? That sounds very surprising if true.
It was, or at least my attempt to be funny. But there is a little nugget of "ha-ha but no really" in there.
You probably thought the UK miners' strike was their fault, too, huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%8...
Yeah strange that ODEnets were left off, and I’m glad you mentioned it. That has the opportunity to be a transformative approach to more efficient training and much better performance on time-series problems.
I remember my Grandpa's last words on his deathbed: "Well, I'll see you'all later."