skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
National Enquirer is funded by US tax dollars?

I'm no friend of the National Enquirer, but we should make sure we're talking about facts here..

Do you have any proof for your assertion that they're "funded by politics aka American GDP aka your tax dollars"?
Russian President Vladimir Putin Publicly Addresses Crypto, Says Notta
India does not have Facebook free internet. We do have a billion people and most competetive mobile service companies. For 200₹(3$) a month you can have unlimited calls SMS and 1GB of daily data.
> 15/ To make this out as an extortion case, prosecutors would have to argue that the claims Bezos had against AMI constituted "money or property" of Bezos and that the whole settlement proposal was merely window dressing for the extortion of Bezos by AMI.

I’m not sure what they’re quoting from, but the New York law I quoted is not limited to attempts to obtain “money or property”. One federal law that might otherwise apply, 18 USC § 875, does have such a limitation, though not in those terms; it requires “intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value”.
If you are generating it, why use it at all?
You can bet Google et al will fight this tooth and nail.
You don’t need code-is-data for what your parent is describing. All you need is code that outputs data. Or even better, code that initiates contact with other code.

The only requirement is a commitment to doing things imperatively in a real programming language. It’s hard to resist the temptation to do things declaratively (because it’s easier to imagine a declarative interface that describes your problem than an abstraction of the procedure which will solve it) but you are never forced to.
That is literally the entire point of the whole comment that they made you pedantic ding dong.
If you care that much, you can refinance.
It is crazy, codependent relationships are the worst and incredibly common.

But I don't think that particular "eat what I cook or I'm upset" phenomenon is unique to the US. My mother, an Italian, would overfeed everyone within reach and lose her mind if turned down. The food was delicious, but absolutely not healthy in either nutrition or quantity. Her worth in life was almost entirely defined by her traditional cooking.

There's a common form of relationship which exists almost entirely around shared experiences of eating "comfort food", which is really just foods that poke the reward centers of the brain. This literally becomes the foundation of all happiness between the couple. The food is no different from a shared drug addiction between two addicts.
Seconded. 10/10 would Patreon (again if necessary)
Yeah. This seems less like an argument about why designers should code and more like a case study of incomplete requirements/inflexible process.
> And yet when we discuss this, you fall back on caps and justification by contention ratio... But why are their services zero rated, eh? Of course we know why - it's to kill the opposing services like Netflix, Hulu, or others... except for their services!

I mean there is also the fact that TV and broadband run on entirey separate infrastructure that just happens to share a physical wire. On FiOS, for example, TV is a separate wavelength of laser and is a broadcast signal, not an IP signal.
I think they are pretty mature about their divorce. I'd assume they just split things in half, because they built it together anyways. Seems pretty straight forward - I doubt their will be any public drama.
Exercise for Anxiety (2017)
A somewhat related article is Japanese for Nerds, which among other things provides a Backus-Naur form for Japanese grammar.

http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_3_25_32218_1824.html

Sadly Kuro5hin is defunct and google only pulls up an archive of part II...the link to part I is broken and I'm not sure whether the promised third part was ever posted.
You should consider doing this for other paging services, such as OpsGenie.
That's what syntax highlighting is for.

I use notepad++ for YAML. Besides coloring what it thinks I'm thinking, it displays vertical lines corresponding to the indentation levels.

(I prefer INI/TOML whenever I can help it; hierarchies in TOML are so counterintuitive that it incentivizes a simple flat structure. But then, some things are irremediably hierarchical)
That's true, but something tells me the same people opposing this will scream like banshees when people start sharing lists of known speeders and bad drivers publicly.
Or enact a law that bans tipping. There are plenty of societies that ban tipping, including places that are more advanced than the US like Japan. Not to mention tipping is another surface area for potential money laundering and tax evasion.
Not so: while the 747 is notionally faster in terms of maximum speed, most modern large jets all cruise at March 0.85.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/which-passe...
> I don't want to pay for every single site I visit

I do - if the content is good, the price reasonable, and the transaction frictionless.

And if that's what it takes to get rid of intrusive advertising and user tracking, sign me up.
It's one thing to know that someone has taken a dick pic, but another thing to actually see it.
You've left out the tweet immediately preceding 15:

14/ Was AMI's action slimy? Yes.

Is it consistent with some of the questionable practices that AMI engaged in on behalf of Trump and others? Yes.

But is this the sort of case federal prosecutors would charge as extortion? No.
I reject your reasoning of pushing things into absolutes - drunk driving needs to be minimized, and people need to get where they are going. There's a balance between those needs that is optimal. Nobody is preventing you from reaching your destination, "how fast" is the only question.
There's an absolute fuckton of components listed here. Very helpful.
I think the traditional attack on this sort of thing is to have a bunch of concerned citizens drive around and create false checkpoints. Or spoof the GPS and just do it from home.
>It's an application interchange language, meant to be written and read by machines.

Not entirely true, JSON is based on Javascript objects, it was meant to be written and read by humans just like Javascript, INI or any other basic serialized data format, or text-based programming language. If JSON were truly never meant to never be viewed or edited by human beings, it would have been published as bytecode.
Let's run some numbers. Say you are VC putting in $1M in 100 companies. To your great luck all companies become self-sustaining lifestyle business. By definition, lifestyle business is making just enough for comfortable lifestyle of founder, so may be $300K/yr pre-tax. Let's say founder decides to give back 10% of $300K as return on investment. At that rate, it would take 33 years for VC to just recoup his original investment.

I wanted to illustrate this because it is necessary to understand why things are the way are. Lifestyle businesses is not viable for VC funding. You add on risk profile (i..e 80% of companies won't even become profitable) you get the only outcome that one or two super-hits needs to occur to cover for rest of the failures. Also remember that even with this strategy most VC funds are not even as profitable as S&P500 index.
With all due respect the Supreme Court ruling that something is constitutional does make it constitutional regardless of how wrong the decision may be perceived with the benefit of hindsight or even contemporaneously (see a horrible decision like Dredd Scott v. Sandford [0]). The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of constitutionality and even the reversal of a Supreme Court decision by the same body some years after does not render the previous decision unconstitutional. To be blunt, if the Supreme Court says that black is white and white is black then for constitutional purposes black is white and white is black.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
You can just use JSON with comments though. If you have sufficient control over the technology in question to be able to completely change it to a YAML parser, surely you can change it to be a JSON+Comment parser too. See: VS Code's config files.
It's interesting how effectively propaganda has convinced people that searching known felons for illegal weapons isn't a "common sense gun law."

Edit: Case in point.
this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19110002
it was marked as a [dupe]
Im not total on this but i think dupes go to the bottom of the board to die.

or this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109474
this one is called "No Thank You, Mr.Pecker"
at the time of writing comment its at #15 on the board.
it's pretty difficult when you're in prison
That's absolutely false, otherwise all low-margin businesses would go bankrupt from taxation, and Netflix would have paid taxes on their profits in the above article.
Coercion is a misdemeanor.
Oh for sure. Terry stops were (are?) massively abused in that city.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_C...
See response above.

I was officially trading (i.e. coding the strategy) for just under 3 years, then got offered a senior non-trading role (but my pay was heavily linked to the desk's performance).

Can you make a living? Yes, if you're doing it as a salaried employee at a reputable institution. If you're going to try and algo trade with your 50k of savings, I would say "unlikely", and you might cause yourself a lot of anxiety.
Facebook's new Myanmar strategy baffles local activists
and have the means to put up a fight.
We run that drill every Wednesday morning.
I already said that AMI's conduct does not appear to be federal blackmail. I didn't look at federal extortion at all.

But I'm making a claim about the law of Washington, not federal law.
It really does. To quote Justice Robert H Jackson ''we are not final because we are supreme, we are supreme because we are final.'

Sure, after that it becomes politics and you can demonstrate in the streets about it, but the right to drive fast isn't exactly the moral crisis of our times so I don't think you're gonna pick up a whole lot of supporters.
Different Instagram Automation Approach
"Automate your Instagram growth" slogan is seen a lot nowadays, of course, social media and especially Instagram is booming so why not. But by trying many of these tools you feel like something is missing, you are alone, filling and adjusting the settings by yourself, making mistakes, contacting support, waiting for a response, blaming the system. We https://socialstud.io/ thought about injecting some human touch were a personal manager does all the work for you, reports the growth, the adjustments, and settings. I mean a real human being the personal manager, not some kind of AI chatbot. Is it something that we are missing nowadays and should we fulfill this approach? Spil the tea.
There was a post on HN a few weeks back to the effect that it's rather easy for Turing completeness to emerge accidentally. I wish I remembered more specifics so I could find it again.
Is it really though? The implicit typecasting gives rise to very unexpected results, that you'd never get with JSON. See: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
Employer still benefits from this though, in both cases. So if the tips DO add up to more than minimum wage the employer is the one who is saving the money from the extra tips.
Stop-and-frisk had little to do with felony status. It was your black-and-young-and-male status that would trigger a search.
Comcast is the absolute worst about this. The number of mailings I get from them that look like paystubs or official tax forms is absolutely ridiculous. It enrages me every time.
It's just people who like to drive fast acting like they're concerned about freedom in general. None of these people give a hoot when it's something that doesn't affect them.
You’re wrong! That’s how it works! Service workers get a Lowe minimum wage with the expectation it’ll be made up for with tips. If it doesn’t, the employer must top them up.
I think this is a great angle to take. Small businesses don't care at all about modern web development, and I think sites like this best suite their needs. Keep it up :)
In all fairness, T-mobile’s zero rating is not anti-competitive. Any video carrier can sign up for it and no money changes hands. There were some porn sites that signed up for it - ie T-Mobile didn’t discriminate.
> part of England that was changed to be Wales so that an EU development grant could be obtained.

Is that true? I see the border was last changed in 1972, but that's well before the EU and regional development funding was thought about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England%E2%80%93Wales_border
It allows each line to be completely independent of it’s neighbors; you can comment and/or add lines without needing to touch neighboring lines. Also, it makes it visually easy to spot missing commas. Give it a try sometime, it’s actually quite nice.
When people use the delete operator manually and mess up, do they usually delete objects too early or too late? In my experience, they usually delete objects too late or not at all (though I admit to not having hard data here). Accordingly, most of the benefits people cite regarding RAII classes such as unique_ptr are that they reduce memory leaks. I would agree that they do. But memory leaks aren't nearly as severe as use-after-free.

Additionally, it's not really shared ownership that causes problems; it's the fact that references (and pointers) make it possible to violate ownership semantics. References are used all the time in C++, and you can't use any libraries without them. It doesn't matter if data has a single owner if that owner is deleted and you still hold references to the data. In fact, shared ownership via shared_ptr is safer than unique_ptr, from a UAF point of view.
I have stopped flying United for this reason.

~14 long haul flights (13+ hours) per year I used to buy from them, gone - because they screwed up the seats.

Idiots.
Each line is not independent: you cannot comment out the first line. A better approach is to allow trailing commas. (I suppose you could allow leading commas, does Haskell support this?)
I doubt it. Remember that Google's real customer is not its user but companies running ads. Their ad revenue is directly correlated to the accuracy for its target audience. Think of every search result page from Google as a real estate. There's so much space that you can cram ads into, so showing ads to unnecessarily wider audience costs them precious space to make money. Google would lose a significant competitive edge if they stopped using personal tracking.
Not all people value privacy over convenience as you do.

I would even surmise that a user's patience threshold for that kind of annoyance these days is pretty low.
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I find these arguments much more convincing than "muh freedom". If these points are supported by evidence (especially #4) then that's good enough for me.
Disputes cost them maybe $15-$30 but then they can automate the response so there's no loss. Also, the dispute fees are charged regardless of if they choose to fight it, so they have no reason to unless they simply haven't automated responses.

While you can almost always get a refund for any small charge if you dispute it, it doesn't mean it's technically allowed by the terms, or as part of mandated laws. Laws around this generally only say the credit card company has to investigate your claims, but what they do, if anything, or how hard they "investigate" is not enforced. In practice instead of actually investigating a small $15 charge they'll just refund you.

Given a large enough charge, they will definitely not refund you unless it's like a 100% indisputable billing error case (like you send an invoice you received saying $100 but the statement charge shows something else).
Flagging ring. Lots of HN users are Trump supporters and hate Jeff Bezos.
It depends on the technical skills around, and the nature of your app / biz, as well ass your approach to the build-measure-learn loop. Personally I always start with GKE because I have the experience and tooling around already.

If you aren't good / familiar with infrastructure / devops, then stick with something like Heroku, Firebase, Low Code. If you are just trying to do early validation, then you probably don't need to code at all.
Chinese firms are not all serial intellectual-property thieves
Luckily extortion is illegal, and a venn diagram of the two is quite nearly a circle.
The government doesn't have freedom of speech rights, and in any case accusing people of being "bad drivers" likely gets into issues of slander in a way that pointing out the fact of the existence of checkpoints or cameras doesn't.
No, that's almost fractally wrong.

For one, you don't need a transformer for stepping down voltage, as you can see in essentially every piece of consumer electronics nowadays. Your typical CPU nowadays runs in the 1-2 volt range, but PC and laptop power supplies and batteries provide various voltages between 3.3 and 20 V. Your typical desktop mainboard takes most of its power to feed the CPU from the power supply's 12 V rail. Yet, you won't find a single power transformer outside the power supply--the only transformers you will find on a mainboard are probably Ethernet signal transformers.

All of that is done by switching regulators, and those work perfectly fine for regulating 120 V down to 5 V as well.

Then, rectifiers really don't have a problem rectifying 120 V. Some of the cheapest diodes you can find are perfectly capable of rectifying 120 V mains voltage. In fact that works so well that almost every power supply, at least for consumer electronics, nowadays does just that: The input is fed through a rectifier and a filtering capacitor to first to procude (in the case of 120 V input) ~ 170 V DC. After that comes some sort of oscillator that then generates more or less AC from that, but at a much higher frequency, in order to feed that through a transformer--primarily for isolation, but if you have to have a transformer anyway, you might as well use it for reducing the voltage as well. The output from the transformer then is rectified again for most applications, which is a lot more difficult to do efficiently due to the high frequency and the low voltage.
I'm not saying the Google News feed is good, but it feels like 30% news, 70% "here's a random article you might be interested in based on your search and other history". For example, I googled a specific breed of dog to see what it looked like, and I saw an article about that dog breed in my Google News feed the same day or maybe the next day. Most of the content on the feed is stuff like that.
If you think the whitespace is bad, just wait till you see the implicit casting: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
This type of response is quite common when investigating criminal masterminds: Maximum outrage; Blatant denial; Threatening retaliation if the investigation is not halted immediately.

Whether or not Pecker is a criminal mastermind is for the courts to say, but his response does him no favors in the public eye and in the press.
Same thing for web - https://www.fullstory.com
Basically it means that the minimum wage can be lower. But few industries (none outside food service?) work this way.

Certainly this isn’t the expectation of consumers of these delivery apps that it might work that way. It even says in pretty much all of them “100% of the tip goes to the driver,” further setting up the expectation that this is in addition to base pay... not subsidizing it.

Either we need cultural and policy acceptance of the Instacart/Amazon model of subsidizing pay, or they need to change their behavior (which feels far more fair given the employer size). It’s not like the majority of delivery apps are mom & pop — they’re billion-dollar corporations or multi-million dollar startups backed by big VC money. Cutting costs on the backs of your dynamic and more economically vulnerable labor force feels cheap and immoral.
Intel’s new boss leads a firm that is both thriving and troubled
> ... I'm just surprised at how bad Google can fail at something that seems so easy.

Sounds like you still make frequent use of it, and use it to decide which news to read, which is Google’s goal. In that sense it’s not a failure at all.
Thank god one's civil liberties aren't dependent on whether or not you are convinced by them.
Worse than the use of the term lifestyle business is his definition of success. Success is his placement relative to other people who become billionaires. He describes this several times. That is vanity rather than any sort of imperative or objective goal describing a business position.

To me vanity is a major red flag. That sort of self serving quality needs to describe the founder as somebody willing to ask for cash and drive necessary growth, but must not be a goal driving the business. The difference is that the qualities (appearance) of vanity are attainable early.
A 25-year battle to improve the image of McDonald’s
You need to describe or post the pics to defang the blackmail leverage
As a wise man once said, "Drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it's impossible to say if it's bad or not."
If he was a woman, releasing those photos could end his career as a C-level executive at any US corporation.
Copy/Clone/move is a typesystem distinction. At codegen time, they all can mean "memcpy this byte range". E.g. how else to return a struct by value?
That is true, but felonies and misdemeanors are both considered crimes. Thus it would fit your mention of “criminal” behavior, as well as – more importantly – the clause in the non-prosecution agreement that waives it “should AMI commit any crimes”.
Grey area? They mixed inventory and forced Apple to sue them to stop counterfeit goods from poising the public consciousness. They routinely fuck over small businesses by copying their products or allowing false inventory to compete with them.

Show me some real proof that Amazon is retraining warehouse employees with skills into high-demand jobs. It will be the first I'll hear of it.

As for building something better, doing nothing would suffice. They're a net-negative on the world. I'm not so negative on any other tech company. Most have redeemable qualities, but AZ doesn't. They're a brutally bad company and their founder is central to the problem. They're 10–100x worse than Facebook.
Duolingo and apps like it, including Memrise, really fail with German. They can be good for syllable pronunciation and maybe memorizing gender of some nouns, but they never will explain or brush on the more complex nuances of any language, which you would learn in the second week of any formal education.
> JSON should have comments added to the spec.

See also ~5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325735
I never mentioned speed or fear of delay.

DUI checkpoints are not that. They’re generalized fishing expeditions. If you’re sober, but have contraband, they can arrest you for that. Or for having and expired license. Maybe you’re late on your registration.

And I’m not pushing absolutes here. I’m just prioritizing freedom over the moral panic of the day. (Yes, drunk driving is bad. But checkpoints are still an overreaction and there’s little political will to go against MADD. It’s the same dynamic of “won’t somebody think of the children!”)
I can tolerate it but I don't understand why 20% is now regarded as "normal" for a basic level of service.
The physical RF spectrum is the local road. There are no more roads to take. No amount of economic policy supporting competition is going to bend the laws of physics, unless you're willing to shovel herculean amounts of resources into microcells (even smaller than 5G cell sites) to reduce contention (essentially replacing fiber and wifi).
One quarter of the first page of Google Images results for "humanoid robots" are unclothed, with unprotected robot surfaces showing.