skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sibling comments says your comment was downvoted? I imagine you’re spot on. I caught my credit union doing this (to deploy a beta version to this customers), and I emailed them asking about their mental health given that Apple takes a dim view on such practices. And that’s just the one I’ve caught. So I could see Apple using this circumstance to fire a warning shot across multiple bows.
> It is analogous to moral hazard. People with insurance take greater risks, and vice versa.

Programming with guard rails :)
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No. Not at all.

Either the children surrounded the man and one boy stood threateningly close (as the Washington Post reorted at https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/20/it-was-gett...), or this did not happen.

As it turns out (Bari Weiss at the NYT viewed over 200 hours of footage) this did not happen. The man moved into the middle of the boys and stood very close to one of them. You can watch this from multiple angles and multiple cameras on YouTube and confirm this for yourself. David Brooks in the NYT also has an excellent summary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/opinion/covington-march-f...

Reality is not a matter of perception.
A very sensible step made by the government (a very rare occurrence in India). If anyone wants to duke it out to gain market share, do so by merit/features. Essentially bribing the customer by offering artificial discounts to gain a monopoly in a crucial market sector is something that should not be encouraged at any costs.

Especially if it means giving control to an American company with a sanctions happy government.
It isn't exactly "screwed over" IMO but it is really poor management.
I've found that for issues that are this extremely politically polarized and where there is this much misinformation floating around, the only way to really know would be to buy a plane ticket and go there. You can't trust any source.

A bit of a tangent but: this is how you keep secrets in the Information Age. You can't actually keep a secret, but you can fog up the air with so much competing nonsense that nobody knows what to believe and the secret is indistinguishable from noise.
"While any magnetic-field flip would still be thousands of years away...". Sneaky sentence right at the end. Sure the last one happened 700,000 years ago, so it is "soon", the but article made it sound like it was happening tomorrow!
You haven't at all backed up the assertion that the BBC are "under _specific_ instructions...to drop impartiality and implement a social justice agenda" (emphasis mine). You provided evidence that the regulator has demanded that they hire and air a more representative mix of gender, ethnic background etc.

Nowhere above has OFCOM directed the BBC to air different opinions. Regarding the Today programme example: Deliberately featuring a female (rather than male) climate science expert after featuring a male vaccination expert is entirely orthogonal to impartiality.

[EDIT:] I'm not specifically arguing that the BBC has no bias. I'm saying you haven't demonstrated that OFCOM have demanded a bias.
Too realistic.
NEVER.
Amazon pulls numerous products from India website as new eCommerce rules kick in
He didn't say cost effective.
> And to add the argument that is almost as tired as yours: “Innocent until proven guilty” is for punishment by those with the monopoly on violence, i. e. the state/the courts.

It's a legal requirement for the state/the courts, but it's a just and fair principle that the rest of us should still strive to embrace.
I have 2 kindles and have yet to read a book on them. (One is a digital remote, the other in a drawer somewhere) I strongly prefer paper, and settle for my phone or pc otherwise. Toting a kindle is as big a pain as a book, and much more fragile. Unless I needed a refrence of hundreds, whats the point? I seldom if ever read 2 books at once. Books don't need charging, or a 3rd party. Its a solution in search of a problem to me.
Most commonly in physical stores, one often finds that, in a multi book series of books, volumes are missing or not available, good shop managers may be trying hard to avoid that situation, but I think it is a pretty common thing. This problem can only be worse with comics, graphic novels, most of which come in serial volumes.

Another is the available of cheaper international paperback editions online.

For translated books, I do not find bookshops striving to carry as many different translations of the same work as possible, most carry only one, when some works like Homer and the Russians Greats are published in very many translations.
Show HN: Google of Domain Names
That was my favorite Apple laptop. So annoying they do not produce it anymore.
I bet no one would go to prison
Yeah, the alt-righters have gotten pretty good at the whole "I'm being unfairly attacked for saying something completely innocent" after they say something that supports that agenda. Yawn
The local news angle here is particularly important - it's the weakest link in our information chain and it decides elections.

I'm a broken record on this, but I think Craigslist should connect local classified services to a new local journalism project. DNA Info is dead now, but if there were 500 DNA Infos, with reporting funded handsomely from Craigslist revenues, we could really fight against fake news from the bottom up.
I doubt that Trump is a gold bug, and even if he was, I don't think he's crafty enough to come up with a plan to bring the gold standard back.
The term "meritocracy" can be defined in various ways.

Originally it was coined as a satirical characterisation of a hypothetical stratified future society so obsessed with test performances in early years that all power became concentrated in the hands of adults who had demonstrated youthful aptitude and were thus assumed to not need to prove themselves any further thereafter since competition could only demoralise lesser minds; the author took the view that the "merit" of passing test thresholds would often be dependent on access to sufficiently expensive early years education and would resemble and often simply be a justification for upholding traditional social class divisions

As for tennis, I think it's fair to say that tennis fans consider Federer et al to provide them with considerable enjoyment, and far more so than less talented players whose games they don't watch, or indeed most people working in non-entertainment jobs who can only help a few people at once and/or find it difficult to prove how much better they are than other people in the same role
Once you do this, squatters will just find an easy way to make a domain seem active: email traffic, basic websites, etc.

Also sometimes there are legit uses, like squatting names in order to protect your brand. For example I could see google squatting google-search.com
Yeah, it’s super frustrating that some people would prefer the gold standard to the ‘the US is almost flawlessly credit/trust-worthy, and has a big military, and guarantees world peace more-or-less’-standard. Like, gold will never have that much intrinsic value.
4 days in advance they correctly predicted you would get snow and that it would be on the order of tens of centimeters thick. That's really good. Over the intervening days they revised their estimate down and the snowfall was eventually lower than the initial estimate so the accuracy improved. Their final estimate was again correct that you did get snow, which is the key prediction, and they even got the depth at your precise location right to within 33%. That's fantastic, and far better than was possible for the vast majority of my lifetime.

Also, the fact that their predictions were all rounded to the nearest 5cm should give you a clue at the expected accuracy and granularity of the final prediction. Missing the target by only one 'unit' of measure is pretty decent.
My First Year as a Solo Developer
And that is an ok solution as well - something Wayland or other Linux compositors can't do and force you to be stuck in either "too tiny" or "too large" uncanny valley of UIs.
I have to assume this kind of use represents such a small amount of domains it is not worth discussing.
It’s all one of perspective.

In the case of the older educational institutions (e.g. King’s school, Bologna), the dividing lines between church and state were messy and overlapping and even now if they are not religiously affiliated their roots may lie there. My high school is “merely” 350+ years old (predates Newton) and started out with a curriculum that was mostly bible and classics although it would be considered unaffiliated today.

I used the two words longevity and continuity because something can be old but have transformed unrecognizably, or close thereto (e.g. while amcountry may be ancient, the monarchies at its head can change radically. Likewise even some ancient commercial enterprises).
Ask HN: KPIs for a Development Team?
I was tasked this week by executive management to come up with annual KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for our development team by the end of the month. They also want individual developers to establish their own personal KPIs.

Do you have any suggestions for sound useful KPIs for a team of web application developers?

I'm thinking about things like the code quality metrics you see on Github repos. At the same time, I have some reservations. Our team has worked successfully to really sharpen our development process and improve the delivery and quality of our products. I worry that this is going to interfere with that and (to cite a new term I recently came across) run into Goodhart's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

I also have this recent discussion fresh in my mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035438

I'm prepared to push back against the initiative. But I thought I should give the idea a fair hearing. Links, suggestions, arguments against the whole idea are welcome. Thanks!
It isn't about saving the company, or its share holders.

It's about saving all the savings of other depositors, about preventing a run on that, and other banks, about trying to maintain the banking system.

Banking laws are meant to maintain stability. If they get in the way of that, they should at least be re examined.
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It's like those articles that hedge their outrageous predictions. "Facebook is probably going to be supplanted in 5 years, but then again they own Instagram and WhatsApp, so they might be fine". What is it going to be, Nostradamus?!
And what percentage of domains do you think represent use cases like this? I don't think it significantly changes the statistical analysis. Sure, there are some tiny fraction of a percent of weird uses from people like us, but it's hardly worth even mentioning.
The Apple eMate 300 had a tripod stand in the base.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/48126477@N05/8463211826
X is a meritocracy, and everyone with skill and imagination may aspire to reach the highest level.

Where X is [machine learning, tennis, chess].
The benefit of increasing the registration fees is actually an concept that the Swedish registry is currently following. They found that by increasing prices the new registrations did not suffer, and the renewal actually increased, with the theory being that because people pay more they value the domain name ownership more.

A cheap registration price make sense when you look to expand new registrations to a fresh market, but what most parties in this industry want now is a higher rate of renewals. For that a higher price can actually be beneficial for both registries and registers.
I'm pretty sure that with the newer `create-react-app` version 2, it will use Yarn in your project if you have Yarn installed globally on your system. If you do, and you want to keep it there, but use npm in your created app, then add `--use-npm` when creating your project (`npx create-react-app myAppName --use-npm`

Otherwise, if you don't have Yarn installed globally then it uses npm by default in your project.
When getting money from the grant system, the grant providers are not neutral parties objectively deciding what the best science to do is, since there is no such thing as an objective, neutral party. The grant authors learn to tell the grant writers what they want to hear.

This is part of why we get such a stream of stories about amazing new breakthroughs in solar, battery capacity, terrorism reduction, etc. that never seem to come to fruition. A lot of times they were never for that purpose anyhow, really; it was just a paragraph tacked on to get the grant.
And the hostile suspicion of pharmacy techs when you ask for it!

I swear they all believe in phenylephrine and think the only reason someone would buy psueudafed is to do meth.
You have to assume going in that unknown startup code will be a shitshow.

Given the choice between a unityped shitshow and a shitshow where I can at least lean on the compiler, I know which one I'll pick every time.
The issue with most news outlets is that they're either mainstream ones that are liberal echo chambers, or conservative upstarts which reactively go just as far in the other direction. Imagine a news organization where every level of every department had to have a 50/50 split between registered Republicans and Democrats. I think that would prevent bias from overrunning the outlets like it has today.
American Psycho was the extreme satire of it.
Ham sandwiches: Brilliant. Donald Trump: Not brilliant. Know and understand the difference.
There are plenty of other problems caused by the mass-immigration policies in certain countries but people abandoning their own culture is not one of them. After all people didn't stop going to church because someone else built a mosque.

Replacing local customs and traditions with crappy Hollywood blockbusters and the US music industry is something that people have managed on their own, and it's been going on since WW2.
Getting access to developers is not hard. It's not even that expensive to build an MVP in most cases, you can find great quality outside the states. Just go on upwork (or similar). If you don't have the skills qualified hire someone to do it.

If you want to build something quick with no knowledge - learn to market, hire, vet, document, and delegate tasks effectively. The fastest way to learn this is through case studies on upwork IMO in tandem with a course on outsourcing. Search open jobs, filter by amount paid + number of reviews, you can see what someone who has spent $100k+ on the site vs someone who's spent $0. This information is all public. You can come across some really interesting case studies/data, e.g. how Disney analyzes ride wait times with actual data, or how mechanical turk is used for UX feedback.

You can leverage conversations between different developers to learn insights about things you need to do. It's similar to this - you have a terminal illness, you'll want to go to several doctors before choosing one. You weigh options effectively this way.

In parallel you can always learn to program, so you can communicate and vet better. And hack shit together on your own. But really you should treat them as two seperate entities. A top down approach (delegating, hiring for real world work) and a bottoms up approach (learning to do things via toy projects). You can take the halfway approach and use prebuilt tools as well (zapier, wordpress, etc), it just depends what the project scope is.

Pick 2 of 3, do it fast - do it well - do it cheap
Value in popular art, entertainment, politics and brands is very much in the persons and star value. Popular art pieces don't stand on their own very well.

Moral panics are relatively common in each era. Artist and actors are easily replaceable and they work with their character so they feel the heat.

Using very popular stars as example takes air out of the argument, because who cares. I think Louis CK is probably the best comic in the generation, but I don't feel sorry for him. He is millionaire. He didn't just masturbate in the front of women, he threatened their careers if they expose him.

What I worry is when normal people who don't want to be in limelight have their life's destroyed by publicity.
"Something something blockchain"

Got it. Good luck.
> This is a non sequitur. Inequality doesn’t need to go down for workers to get better living conditions.

Even if this was true, and there is a mountain of empirical data suggesting it isn't, do you really believe inequality can just keep increasing and everything will be fine?

> So Uber does make their life better.

Well, Uber drivers are cogs in a machine and micromanaged by computer programs, but at least they drive a car. Perhaps biking would be healthier for them, but on the other hand there are some who have to live in the car, so I guess you're right.

> How much money should Uber give to politicians to spend inneficiently or to be lost in corruption before you consider them to be respecting human rights?

Whatever the law of each country they are operating on says + respecting the local labor laws instead of pretending that their employees are not employees. It's not for Uber of any other company to decide weather the politicians and the laws they enact are good or not. That's the job of the voters.

> Providing comfort is a service that improves our collective condition.

Seems like a bit of a zero-sum game to me. Some people's lives become less comfortable so that other's can become more comfortable. But comfort is pretty irrelevant in face of the real existential threats that we are facing, in part being caused by the current infinite growth economical paradigm.
I seriously doubt 11% of domains are IPv6 only, but I'd love to see someone do some research on it. I would assume its only a fraction of a percent that ONLY responds via IPv6.
Flint OS vs. Chromium OS vs. CloudReady: Which Chrome OS Is Best?
> there isn't a software distribution channel apart from the one sanctioned from up high.

I'm disagreeing with the premise that you have to develop for their platforms and distribute for it. That's not a fact. That's an opinion. While there may be some apps that _couldnt_ operate on the web, 99% of apps don't fall into this.

Facebook. Instagram. WhatsApp. Gmail. Google maps. Pinterest. These can all be done in a mobile friendly way in browser. They're intentionally not done because of "performance" and the fact that apps want deeper access to the device.

I don't want any or those apps getting access to my GPS. Or my files. Or my contacts. Id rather take additional steps to upload a picture, or type in my "from" address rather than auto-GPS.
This is great advice, I have recently had the same epiphany and have been trying to change my checklists and todo lists into habits. To help me do this I have been using the app habitica it tries to gamify todo lists to help you build habits, so far it hasn't helped much because im lazy and don't use it enough.

Any advice on building habits / routines?
It's like the "Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price" in the US, but instead of Suggested it's Compulsory.
> Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder.

What is unbreakable encryption doing in that list?
The bigger more meaningful question is do we need a standing military of this size and scope, or can we shrink it down some?
The MacBook 12” is still pretty strong if you don’t need a CPU.
I don't think it would be possible to rotate around another axis, the printed object would start tumbling around the resin. If they rotated the projector instead of the resin it would be possible.
https://handshake.org/
AC Milan midfielder Bakayoko tells Chelsea of transfer dream
They are written in French and have the same market.
That’s up to you — I also think spaceships are great (and also don’t really see the point of putting humans in them). We’re all just telling you that nature doesn’t prefer you or me to the amoeba, nor vice versa.
I wanted to share one of my favorite sites:
https://www.pssurvival.com/
Pole shifts are popular among "preppers" which in my opinion tend to be quite eccentric. However this website is full of great information that we often take for granted.
Raspberry Pi 4: Release Date, Specs, Price, Everything We Know
They could go on with the backups.
The real problem is that many people simply don't want children. There are plenty of incentives to have children here as well, but that will only change the minds of those who want children but can't afford them.
Uber Raises Prices in New York City, Citing New Minimum Wage Law
Does Betteridge's law always apply?
Why do you say that a real number is possibly a vector? A vector is made of real numbers, isn't it? Why would they be the same thing?
Ask HN: How to get the best from 121s?
As the title - looking for your opinion on the best style/format of 121's that you have either run for others or received from a manager.

What was the format, frequency, length, focus, actions and/or review points? What do you like best and what do you find most impact?

What doesn't work that people plough on with?
How desperate must they be to write such a thing.
What's the usefulness of analyzing just a random sample? They need to analyze 1 billion images so they have granular data on what % of homes in specific zip codes, towns, etc have solar panels installed. This is actionable data. IE. if there's lower % usage in a specific zip code, they might implement some action to improve it in that specific zip code.

So of course, the value is all in the granularity. They already trained the model on random images.
It shows a real disdain for the public; pseudephedrine used to be in Sudofed IIRC, which was really effective for me. They kept the exact name and packaging and removed the active ingredient - that's fraud IMO.
Citizen-Scholars: Social Media and the Changing Nature of Scholarship
If you launch a first strike, I don’t see why it would matter whether retaliation comes in half an hour or a day.

What would matter is whether that first strike or a later follow-up could take out the shuttle(s) before it could retaliate.

Did the USSR have capability to take out a space shuttle in orbit? I wouldn’t know. It wasn’t that high up (a V-2 could almost reach it), but accuracy of ICBMs wasn’t even good on stationary targets, and, I guess, you would need more of it in space, where ‘only’ radiation and heat would cause damage.
Lab Creates Quantum Objects That May Have Birthed Dark Matter in Early Universe
I'd love to find out which startups attempted this. I guess the network effects of YouTube/Patreon were simply too big for them to overcome.
Another policy to lookout for - forced arbitration
Exactly... one of the big problems is trotting out the weakest possible arguments for whatever view opposes your network's preferred narrative.
Yes, normal rules -- i.e. the law -- still apply.
[disclaimer: I work at Formlabs, a 3D printing company]

This is already happening for jewelry, digital dentistry, and medical applications – you can buy specialized materials for investment casting.

For example, here's our blog post on casting jewelry from resin prints: https://formlabs.com/blog/introducing-castable-wax-resin-jew...
Column oriented dbs have been doing parallel (column per thread) joins for a while now, no? And I know they have been leaning heavily on vectorization for over a decade.
Similarly for the Hindi, where the character combinations are not properly “merging”. Multiscript support (especially Indic scripts) is hard but unfortunately this current stage is unusable.

However, this framework looks promising so for instances where multiscript is not needed I’ll be interested in seeing how this one checks out.