skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a slippery slope. The only proper response to people who don't want drugs is:

"Then don't do drugs"
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>I find almost everything in news noise now. Don't following any of that on purpose makes me feel calm.

Yes, that's what ignorants do. It's easier to ignore what's happening around the world. Vietnam war could've gone longer had it not for the public to come out and tell the government to pull out of Vietnam. It's easier to ignore things and live a blissful life, but then you have the no right to complain when laws are passed that don't align to your values.
After spending well over two years all over Africa (and previously 2 year all over Latin America) I've come to the conclusion that "news" today is no such thing.

What is sold as "news" today is just whatever dramatic world events some producer thinks will get ratings which is important so they can keep their job.

In no way does it give people a well-rounded or informed position about anything as the word "news" implies.
in the past 10 years I never had to implement a linked list in any of my jobs. is this anormal?
This looks like a declaration by the commercial interests that government reserach should no longer be free for the public, but instead over. This means governemetn investment goes to crony capitalism.

They want trade secrets to have even more protection. The concept of the trade secret for a corporation goes against the first amendment. This is a reduction in fundamental rights in the name of avarice.

They want more "transfer". This classically follows the model: Privatizing profits and socializing losses. The public pays, and a corrupt politician's friends profit.
How do you know what fixes are working if you only read negative things?
Human memory is really bad at these kinds of subtle differences. You are just as likely to recall what seemed at the time obviously false information. This is why “stay on message” is the fallback plan when peddling bullshit, it works.

In the end you are much better off avoiding highly biased sources than trying to use them. This might change if you are doing a dissertation or something, but not for day to day stuff.
No it's not. Mastodon is not Twitter. Mastodon does not compete with Twitter. Mastodon was not meant to replace Twitter. It was meant to replace GNU social. Mastodon is also not the entirety of the fediverse.

Join Pleroma. Because it wouldn't eat your RAM and ignore the ActivityPub spec arbitrarily. [1]

[1]: https://pleroma.social
With the exception that she died a year ago :( I do like her work, though - her metabooks (writing about the process of writing fiction) are quite good, and her translation of the Tao Te Ching is really well done.
That's true. None of those affect the way I use Mandrill, which is perhaps why I didn't pay too much attention to it, but it doesn't paint a good picture for sure.
We use Zulip which is an unfortunate mix of awesome and mediocre.

Like Mattermost Zulip can be self-hosted, although we use the online paid for version.

Zulip's USP is the 'topic' system which group messages in each thread into a coherent conversation. It makes it much easier to look back over a set of conversations and see what happened. It works really well. It's let down by the mobile apps though, which are clunky and don't behave reliably.

The web-app is excellent though and the topic system does (just) win out over the crap apps. I do wish they'd sort them out though, both for me and so I could make an unqualified recommendation.
UUIDs in MySQL are really not random
This guy will probably be feted across academia for his insight, even though it’s fundamentally the same argument made in The Bell Curve that gets Charles Murray banned from college campuses. Yes, the cognitive elite is a thing and no, they don’t work at Walmart. There is no answer to this problem, either.
I saw this when I arrived in America, and it's the reason I left. I take the bus and seeing literally every day that there were people with families who worried and laughed and were kind who spent 2 hours a day transporting themselves to service or manufacturing industry job when I sat in an air conditioned office making 3x their wages was making me feel terribly guilty. I eventually went back to a country with a social safety net where the working class people on my bus talk about their vacations.

Maybe if the "favored class" Americans took the bus or went to the laundromat like I did for years they'd want poor people to do well too.
That's not copypasted at all, what the heck are you on about?
Etsy? Blue Apron?

SV is the giant sucking sound of the tech industry. More often than not a startup will be founded in a place like New York, Chicago or Boston and then move to SV to try to get VC funding. I think it has very little to do with the ‘culture of innovation’ and more to do with rich white guys willing to splash around money in seemingly longshot businesses. I guess maybe that is what innovation is all about.
I've read enough flat Earth stuff to safely say I can reject it on its merits. Anti vax got started as a response to a series of industrial accidents that weren't handled right by the business side, but industrial accidents are rare so I think that's not sufficient reason to abandon vaccines entirely.

The only people you hear complain about bubbles are the people that are marginalized, if you agree with the bubble you will love every second of it and hate everyone outside. So, watch out before you speak in support of your bubble, that probably just means you are in the center.
Per the parent comment I was responding to, PWAs will only have full access to native APIs if they are distributed via the store. And without access to native APIs things like window management, menus etc. become impossible to customize.
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II)
non-anyomous postings are holding their own quite well.

google.com/search?q=whatsapp+massacre
> addicting

addictive.

... yes, apparently you are right.
I have done similar things and it generally isn't. Or it is getting very hard to make it so.

Western society has become much more hierarchical in recent years. It is harder and harder to find any "cracks in system" on a fundamental level. Even if you would consider leisure to be neutral, and not in need of meaning, most people aren't even starting from a neutral point. So if you do something else you end up being underprivileged rather than in leisure.
The Decline of Historical Thinking
Might as well call intro to machine learning, many models overlap.
As Bahamas Treasure Recovery Prohibition Ends a Blockchain Firm Is Capitalizing
Yes, we hopefully get there at some point. I have categorized over 1600 feature requests so far. A 'Comes with Linux preinstalled filter' is not yet at the top, but it is in the top 5% of requested features.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
I don't know the answer to this.

But I always use McDonald's (although any restaurant can be used here) as the core of the conundrum of fake vs. real. Look at a corporate shot of a cheeseburger and compare it to reality. The marketing cheeseburger is the platonic ideal of the product -- it's fresh, perfectly prepared with care with all of the ingredients visible. The cheeseburger on the ground looks like a crumpled napkin in comparison.

Is the marketing cheeseburger fake?

When I look at some of the more image-conscious Facebook/Instagram people, some of them are kinda insane with editing and retouching. My wife has an old acquaintance who produces a highly "optimized" picture at least twice a month. (With substantial retouch to her face and usually other body "enhancements". In the age of Instagram+Photoshop, when does someone cross the line from marketing cheeseburger to fraud?
Parent (and the article, although it fails to clearly draw the obvious link) could more accurately be said to be referring to a post-labor scarcity society.

In other words, a society where there is more labor available than we actually need to fulfill demand (caveat: in high-productivity industries).

To illustrate, take the article's example: the shift from an agricultural to industrial economy. Someone walks off a farm, they get employment in a factor. That factory worker can make 10-100 widgets / hr based on their labor.

Now look at the post-industrial economy we live in now. In software and heavily automated industries, the same single laborer can make 10-1,000,000 "copies" of their work product.

It seems fairly obvious there would be a breaking point at which productivity is so high that it disengages from driving demand. One worker can only buy so much, and his or her fellows can't buy anything because they're not employed.
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Perhaps you're right :sigh:
Exactly the same problem in Portugal.

People tend to stick to the outside lane as they feel that if they go on the inside lanes they won't have the opportunity to move to the outer lane when they are near their intended exit due to other cars being on the outer lane.

IMO this stems from lack of education (driving lessons are not adequate) and the fact that everyone's looking after themselves (i.e not respect for other road users (which also explains the ludicrous speeds on the roads, road rage, queues, etc))
> They suck at what they do for 70k/y and drop off like flies, the survivors, but a few years later, become managers / heads of / etc.

They suck at staying overtime regularly, commuting daily 1h one way with an overcrowded train costing an arm and leg, and at bearing the pressure from cocaine ingested manager.
But I DON'T work just 40 hours a week. I work more like 50-55 hours most weeks. I LIKE my work, and I don't want to do less.

I agree that the belief that we must work 40 hours a week in order to be a good person lies at the root of many of society's problems. And I do think that people ought to contribute to society. But somehow that does not lead me away from the idea of a Universal Basic Income, but instead leads me to believe that something roughly that shape is what we need to save society.

I guess the key difference is who defines "contribute to society". If it is employers, then we need a system where as many people as possible must report to an employer who controls how they spend their time. (Requiring people to get paid a salary seems to do that quite effectively.) If it is the government that defines how one ought to "contribute to society" then we get mandated work programs. But if you believe that each individual is the best judge of how they ought to "contribute to society" then it leads to the belief that we should order society such that as many individuals as possible have a choice about how they spend their time. Some variant of UBI seems to me like a good way to achieve that goal in a society no longer tightly constrained by scarcity.
I think tech workers should be worried too. If you don't have the skill set to automate someone's job away, yours will likely go away as well. IE: If you ain't building the robots, you're job's in danger.
US taxation works the same way. It does very somewhat from state to state, but generally there is a sales tax assessed as a percentage of the sale price and an annual registration fee commensurate with the assessed value of the vehicle. For expensive trucks and SUVs, the latter can reach into the thousands.

Since most people are not buying a 35k+ vehicle with cash money, instead taking out loans, they are required by the bank to carry expensive full coverage insurance on top of the state-mandated liability insurance - and generally a more expensive vehicle will have more expensive insurance, since a tota loss requires a higher payout.

Gas prices in the US are lower than in many countries, but there are state and federal excise taxes, generally (nominally) used to fund road maintenance. Combining a large tank with long commutes and poor gas mileage, it’s not uncommon for people to be spending $200 (with the current low prices) a month per vehicle on gas. This is a significant fraction of post tax income for most Americans.

Americans are spending a ton of money on large vehicles. They know they’re spending a ton of money on them. For whatever reason, they really think it’s worth it.
Any overhead is generally considered irrelevant when you’re on a small database. For example, going from 50GB in a table to 75GB is 50% overhead, but easily handled in a time where you just pay for more GB on RDS.

That doesn’t hold true when working on multi-terabyte tables or databases when physical disk space in a chassis is actually a boundary you have to consider.
Do you have to register an affiliation? What is the scope of that affiliation? Who holds the register? What is its stated purpose? Are you allowed to be in more than one party? Does it bind your vote in some way? It all sounds very strange.

Now in the UK large party donors are publicly listed. And parties have memberships in private.

I guess I should do some research!
All the Good Practices I've Learnt in My Career
That would be perfect.

The odd thing is that you do see very occasional zip-merge signs in the UK, which tend to reinforce the idea that zip-merge should any be used in exceptional circumstance.
You most definitely should expect this and much worse from MailChimp - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866.
Record profits put new bull’s-eye on tech giants
The analogy doesn't hold. For this argument to be valid, we'd have to pretend that dark patterns don't exist.

And, Google is definitely employing a dark pattern here. This is designed to be a stealth tax, to go largely unnoticed by anyone, including the site operator.

Even Google's selling of the product doesn't make clear that users will be doing additional work; instead suggesting that saving the world will be a by-product of a normal captcha process. [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html
Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps
FT is fine as far as it goes, but it ignores most of the world's news except for business/finance stuff and the same mostly-useless "headline" stories you see everywhere else. Unless all you care about is the finance markets, it doesn't have much to say that is important your life and the world.
I did, twice! I hope someone read it.
Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Flatfile. At the core, it's a simple drop-in, browser-based component (React) that focuses on making the process of uploading CSV / XLS files into any web app nearly effortless. Has a column matching and error resolution experience, and a backend dashboard for supporting customers through import issues.

You can basically just drop this into your app, and with a little configuration get 100% valid and structured JSON data instead of messy, weirdly encoded, and difficult to parse CSV and XLS files.

This is my first time posting a Show HN - But don't go easy. I'd love to hear your thoughts / answer any questions! I wrote a blog post yesterday about my experience launching this as a side project the last couple years https://medium.com/flatfile-io/flatfile-io-the-new-standard-...

Also, there's a developer playground + some docs here: https://flatfile.io/developers
And oppress political opposition as well as other undesirables (aka blatant racism).
I see the same throughout the US: everyone knows to alternate when a merge is required - and will even call this ‘zippering’ - but does not consistently (or often) do the throughput-maximizing practice of forcing this, by waiting until a merge is absolutely required.

Rather, people often try to avoid the ‘phase transition’ to a forced-merge flow-state for as long as possible, by ad-hoc merging earlier.

Partially that’s because the initial transition-to-zippering can be chaotic. Once established, zippering is easy to follow and well-respected. But, being the “first” to assert an alternating-right-to-merge depends on more judgement & recognition from a specific other driver.
That shows a fundamental technical illiteracy - they either tell people where it is or are fair use essentially why they can't demand you pay a euro every time you say "Disney" because of copyright.

If I keep a list of every bookstore in town and what they carry (all publicly disclosable and I honor their requests to stop listing) and people visit it often so much so that I can make a profit by posting ads.

If some wanker expects me to pay him to list his bookstore because I am making money on billboards and he wants a cut, telling him to piss off, delisting him and then watching him go bankrupt is perfectly legal, moral, and just.
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That's not really the proper response, since it doesn't address their actual argument. People arguing against drug legalization don't want other people doing drugs. The argument against them is around personal freedom and an adult's right to do what they want with their own body. They'll generally respond with concerns about societal impact. Those concerns are, in my opinion, valid and are where discussions can be had to actually come to a resolution.
this is a fundamentally conservative to the point of bordering on reactionary practice. you have the privilege of not reading the news presumably because you're not a government worker so the shutdown didn't matter to you, and/or you're not a recipient of various aid programs so their cuts don't matter to you, etc etc. checking out is a luxury only the well off can afford.
Well I feel that following news for the sake of... following news ? is also very ignorant. Like people getting angry at stuff that they don't fully understand, is that reasonable ?

>but then you have the no right to complain when laws are passed that don't align to your values.

Who says that ever happens ?
Drop the "today", it's cleaner.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
I think they should be legalized and regulated. Too many people get killed by a dealer's shitty cutting skills. Having the stuff regulated by the FDA and requiring FDA certification for labs would save thousands of lives every year, as well as make the drugs potentially safe for recreational use.

The other thing legalization does is eliminate the need for a seedy underbelly of dealers and thugs. The thugs exist because nobody can risk going to the cops and asking for help. You don't want to get arrested for reporting a robbery or assault. A lot of the bad things associated with drug sales are a result of the drug sales being illegal.
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Which was exactly my point. HN used to curate the content for me.
I noticed that too with a lot of instances, the one I settled on has rules that sets off less red flags (and honestly, I'm really tempted to self host)
> I don't understand what justifies Pijul's existence.

Someone wanted to create it, then created it, and probably had some fun while doing that.
Without incentives, there is no innovation.

And if everyone is entitled to the same portion of the pie, what’s the incentive to work harder? Seeing your neighbor put in a third of the effort and produce the same economic result is demoralizing.
They're just like consumers... Incredibly varied.

We need transparency.
It's a bad question because it assumes that the interviewer and candidate have similar experiences and similar ways of describing those experiences. You would need to know the context in which they are judging themselves and you are not likely to get that within the time frame of an interview.
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> Not sure what's going on there, but they seem to have solved the gender gap in STEM somehow

That's because you're not familiar with the actual data. Iran also has gender parity in STEM. The nordic countries have equal or worse gender ratios than America. It's called the gender equality paradox: the more gender equal a country, the less women choose STEM paths.
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> With the money one must spend to study in Harvard, they can possibly live forever in a third world country without ever needing to work.

Harvard claims to cover 100% of financial need for attendees. If the situation is similar to MIT, then this really isn't true.

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/types-aid/scholars...
There's nothing in this article that mentions "cognitive elite", it talks about education and skills. You brought that to the article completely on your own.

For what it's worth, I think that there are definitely innate differences in ability, but they're very much overstated and the education system is effectively money laundering for privilege. Education != innate ability in a world where elite colleges charge massive fees and all the selection processes are rigged every step of the way by the middle classes.

I have a decent job because I went to a decent uni, if I replay my life with the same ability and different parents who didn't work hard to squeeze me into the best school in the area or push me to value education I'd have no chance at all to be here now, I would be writing javascript for the local bakery for 20k pa. Good tech companies and finance all hire based on degrees.
1) Mom wants you to take the time to become an adult and find yourself

2) Dad wants you to develop the discipline of waking up at 8 every morning and cheerfully greeting your company president

3) [multi billion dollar corp] has 5,000 directors, one just retired, and Dad plays golf with their boss

4) An acquaintance from high school/college bacchanalia with richer, cooler parents that just gave him his trust fund without requiring 1) and 2) is starting his seed fund because he doesn't want to wake up at 8 and play golf with old people, and you were fun enough at parties to make the cut. Plus you know directors at [multi billion dollar corp]!
$150 for going on red light I have no problem with, do it few times and have driver's license revoked temporarily (as in Switzerland, on top of massive fee). That's how innocent people are killed, be it pedestrians or other drivers, by arrogant/DUI folks.

I understand that on empty roads at 3am in the middle of nowhere there are no consequences whatsoever, but generally that's a big infraction. Just watch few car crash compilations, ignoring lights is like 50% of the reason and the results are often very grim
> unelected political appointees

This has no bearing on the legitimacy of the EU. Members of the commission are selected by the democratically elected government of their respective countries.

People that downplay the democratic legitimacy of the EU really, truly, unequivocally do not understand what they are talking about or have a malicious intention.
> how long do you think until infringement stops?

And how long do you think until innovation stops?
It also had a big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076528. I wonder why it keeps getting reposted?
I post miniatures I've painted and follow some other miniature hobbyists (Warhammer in this case).
The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It. Is It Already Too Late? 2018
True, but could the same result not be achieved by an even easier to justify executive action?
you may be driven by spite and jealousy, but thats you buddy, don't project it on the rest of us.
It's easy to halfassedly try dozens of things and fail at all of them if your existence doesn't depend on it.

If what google monopolist does to try new things was best or even sufficcient then planned economies would thrive.
Nitpick: fungus :)

The deeper insanity is that physically speaking, magic mushrooms are one of the safest known drugs to man. Nobody's dying from magic mushroom overdose, flying into violent rages, dancing until they pass out from dehydration, or robbing stores to pay for their next mushroom fix. Along any metric you'd care to name, psilocybin is a much safer drug than, say, alcohol.