skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advice about utf-8 encoding is a bit incomplete. While adding <meta charset="utf-8" /> is a good idea, it's also important to make sure that the webserver isn't sending an http Content-Type header that's something other than utf-8.

In HTML5, the browser is supposed to not sniff the document for a meta charset if the server headers specify a charset in the Content-type.
Hmm. Given all the author requirements for print-ready copy, page charges, and the like, one wonders why these big publishers get so much material to publish when less costly alternatives exist.

Maybe it's their stellar peer-review processes? Maybe not.

Maybe the brand value of their flagship journals? That could be the explanation.

Here on HN, people are on the lookout for businesses vulnerable to disruption because they rest on their laurels rather than their innovation. Elsevier looks like that kind of business. Opportunity for sci-hub and other innovators!
Can you suggest ways to eliminate the "too many people" problem without restricting the freedoms and privileges of people?

You can theoretically restrict the movement of people by decreasing immigration, or restricting local people to move into places with too many people. You can theoretically restrict having more children. Both of those restrictions have been hugely unpopular in places that have tried them. You cannot hold onto power in a democracy or democratic republic if you are sufficiently unpopular.
> How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics

Conversely, consider whether or not consciousness as a feature of the world actually evolved at all. That is, consciousness could be an inherent part of reality throughout all of reality. See various versions of panpsychism or idealism. The idea is that energy itself is conscious, and what evolves is the shape or form consciousness takes. There is no place in space-time one can point to and say "this is where the lights came on".

To answer the question of "why" is the same as answering the question "why something rather than nothing?" It's not clear whether a semantic or symbolic expression (which is itself a part of consciousness) can satisfactorily answer it (that is, explain the whole).
It seems all practitioners print out all of these memos to paper. Has anyone successfully converted this tradition to a digital medium or does that invoke the spectre of PowerPoint too strongly to survive?

In my daily routine, the thought of printing anything for work seems peculiar.
Is there a blog post on Kongregate's founding? Kongregate was my childhood and I've often wondered about the history. Much thanks for this post too.
USB type A connectors are fermions with spin 1/2. You have to rotate them 720 degrees to orient them correctly.
> All types of ad blockers, bots and fraudulent streaming activities are not permitted.

I feel like the bigger issue here is Spotify's conflating the use of "ad blockers" with other (clearly illegal) activities like "fraudulent streaming". If you don't allow ad blockers on your service, fine. But lumping them in the same sentence with criminal activities...seems like a very slippery slope.

Hey Spotify: Instead of just throwing gasoline on the fire, why don't you spend some of that venture capital to address the underlying issues here, namely: Why are people running ad blockers in the first place? Are they concerned about privacy or malvertising? Are your ads obnoxious? The only reason we're in this boat is because the modern internet is pretty darn unusable without an ad blocker - consumers are sending a clear message with their use of ad blockers. Wake up and do something to help fix the problem.

As it stands, all you've done is throw down the gauntlet. Now, ad blockers will probably just get more sophisticated to work around your detection systems, and round and round we'll go.

As for me, I'm done. I've deleted my Spotify account and will spend my time/money supporting other services that are trying to improve the advertising situation on the internet instead of telling users to suck it up, turn off their ad blocker, and support a crappy ad ecosystem that's especially predatory toward our less-technical friends and family members.

And hey - if you want to see an example of how to do internet advertising right, check out https://carbonads.net. There's no reason Spotify couldn't pioneer the audio equivalent of what the awesome folks at Carbon have done. Props (and a whitelist in my ad blocker) to them.
I tried opening the source file in our own graph editor, in the hopes that our layout might improve a bit on Graphviz here. Somewhat, I guess. It's still a lot of edges that are hard to route well.

https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/?file=https://gist.githubuse...

Tweaked a bit in our desktop application which allows a few more layout options, it gets a bit more compact. Still fairly confusing, sadly (and the Graphviz styles got lost in translation, I fear):

https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/?file=https://gist.githubuse...
Actually, this article sounds like a negotiating ploy to extract even better terms. "Give us more discounts or we won't come!"
Unicode's Han unification makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Now that Unicode has more than 16 bits worth of characters anyway, it looks very much like a mistake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
let's say gross margin profitable, overall not profitable. growth stopped and the outcome of business with sales and marketing cut to zero is still too low/small and doesn't produce liquidity for investors.
One problem with buying books when they're recommended is that it's a lot easier to buy books than read them. I recently went through my shelves and counted the books I owned but have not read and was shocked.

So my current method is now to read the books that past-me thought sounded interesting.
I agree with what you are saying. If you don't want ads (and whatever that means to you) then pay the money.

However, they do seem to include ads in their podcasts for all users. So it's not quite that simple.
Is that some hidden layer thing? Because I've had fi for a little over three years and never once messed with google wallet.
> It isn't debatable because we know hiroshima and nagasaki had no bearing on the japanese decision to surrender.

Not only is this debatable but it is often debated.

Your post is absurd. In your mind the Holocaust is morally equivalent to the nuclear bombings of Japan. That's crazy: Japan and the US were engaged in a war (that Japan started) whereas the Jews (and other victims of the Nazis) were not at war with Germany.

If you want a more nuanced perspective on the bombings and the surrender of Japan, read Downfall by Richard B. Frank. Even if you disagree with Frank, acting like there's no debate on this subject is dishonest. There's plenty of debate. In my opinion, people who talk about issues like this in absolute terms are unwilling or unable to grapple with the complexity that necessarily exists in wartime.
I am an author of several nonfiction (pop-sci) books. I am also a former journalist.

I readily acknowledge that I am not an expert in the fields I write about.

That is why the bulk of my work is finding out who the experts are and presenting their work in an accessible way. (Granted, once you've been writing about a certain area for long enough, you do tend to become educated about it.)

One of the things that makes me feel good about what I do is that I am able to expose readers to intriguing information they might otherwise never encounter, unless they've got subscriptions to a bunch of academic journals in fields of study outside of their own.

Keep in mind, it's not a given that people who are the most well-respected experts in their field are also talented writers. People like Douglas Hofstadter certainly are both, but not every expert is like him. And if you follow Rule #1 religiously, it sounds as if you're limiting yourself to experts who are both. In the process, you're likely missing out on a lot of cool information, just because you are only willing to read first-hand accounts.
Now that's pragmatism that's rare to see, specially here in HN.
This is the same funny circular argument the author of these "rules" made. If you don't believe in the value of the reporting Woodward and Bernstein did, why would you believe there's value in their account of how they did it?
Could you please start posting a bit more substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would argue that goodreads is not a particularly good way to determine whether a non-fiction book is worth reading. goodreads reviewers are just regular people who evaluate books based on how much they enjoyed them, not how accurate of useful the books are.

If I'm looking for a book I want to learn from, I scout recommendations from journals, magazines, blogs, respected radio programs/podcasts. End of year "best of" lists are also a good source of ideas. Then I read some in-depth reviews of books that strike my fancy by reviewers who have reason to know what they're talking about. Many of these have 4+ star ratings in goodreads, some don't.

Also, a blanket rejection of books by journalists or other non-experts is going to lead you to miss some really good books. That rule immediately called to mind Tracy Kidder. So, "The Soul of a New Machine" is off limits. Really? No thanks. I can think of many others.
How was the disclosure irresponsible? AIUI, multiple attempts were made to report the bug. It went viral a couple of days later on social media. I'm not aware of a link between those two events.
This is an answer to some question, but to neither of the questions I actually asked. Did my questions not make sense?
Immigration is good for the economy and is a fundamental liberal value.
That's an untenable position, for the following reasons.

First, I want to define "you" as follows:

Multi-usage identifier. "You" functions as stand-in for a hyper rich financier, an immigrant single mother of 2, a college kid working to fund education, a middle aged janitor, etc etc. Any given person existing in the USA.

I'll use "fire safety regulations" as the example.

Your argument is untenable:

1. Individually, you do not have the experience or education to make an informed decision regarding fire safety (be it, determining whether you want to work in a location given the fire safety mechanisms they have chosen, or, choosing to eat in a location given the fire safety mechanisms they have chosen, etc).

2. You probably don't have a choice in the fire safety mechanism implementations of where you eat, work, live. You more than likely are forced to make those decisions based on factors such as the need to have money to eat (place of employment), the need for a heated place to live in the winter (place of residence) that is within your budget, etc. Therefore, there is no "government choosing for you," there is no "you choosing for you," it is whoever owns the building.

3. As evidenced in rapidly developing nations, those that do have the power to make decisions regarding fire safety mechanisms will, deliberately or otherwise, make bad ones, without government regulation and enforcement.

http://iafss.org/publications/fss/8/353/view/fss_8-353.pdf

Don't forget that regulations aren't just an enforcement mechanism, they're a standards one. The government pooled our resources to find "the best" standard way to make fire safety in buildings acceptable. That allows builders and parts manufacturers to efficiently develop a standard set of fittings and equipment. It literally saves everyone money, while saving lives.
I presume you're referring to the authors the OP listed. It's certainly true that I don't tend to read a huge amount of popular nonfiction, and that I'm young enough to have a generationally limited knowledge of what's out there. But, at the same time, what the best nonfiction books of recent decades have been is an open, and very subjective question. I have my own peculiar interests and proclivities. I think, from a quick Google, that all the books the OP listed fall outside of that space.
Echo your question. I would note that it seems that the tax breaks weren't negotiated as some special package for Amazon specifically -- actually, most of the incentives (or about $1.5B) are coming from existing programs run by NY state and NYC that reward companies based on square footage of office space created and number of jobs created. So, arguably, Amazon would have gotten those incentives anyway even if they had moved to NYC without all the fanfare of the HQ2 process.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/amazon-tax-incentives-in-new...
Blame Adblock Plus and friends. They try to extort sites by asking for a cut of ad revenue (up to 30%) to be whitelisted in the "acceptable ads" program.

Given that ABP have already determined the ads are "acceptable" when they reach out, the demand for cash is mere extortion. FB obviously chose to not give in and told ABP to take a hike by obfuscating the source code.
Agree 100%. Ad blockers are akin to piracy which has been a natural force on the consumer side. Legalities aside, if you make consumers UX miserable enough they often work through it - and I support that.

My comment was mainly in the context of ads being discussed as some anti-consumer device. Where as I view them as a natural part of the payment ecosystem. Too many ads are akin to products being too expensive - and unsurprisingly shift consumers towards "piracy".

It's a natural battle.
So... I had a Spotify family subscription for me and my wife (2 persons... of course living under the same roof). Suddenly my wife lost her spotify premium functionality and asked me if I had cancelled.

Turns out Spotify invalidated her as part of my family plan and asked me to add her again. Cool.... I go to the config to add her and Spotify asks for her address and does not let me add her when putting her/my address... I don't remember what address did I enter when I opened spotify more than 5 years ago, and the stupid thing does not let you see your address (like, 1 field in a database, how hard is that?)

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/How-can-I-check-my...

Needless to say, I cancelled Spotify Family premium and went to Google Play Family plan. Great deal if you tell me.
I think you're hitting at the dichotomy of knowing vs grokking. A lot of powerful concepts have high level summaries that can trick the audience into thinking that's all there is to it. Chris Voss's excellent "Never Split the Difference" comes to mind. A lot of his negotiating strategy can be boiled down to "develop a mutual and deep empathy with your negotiating partner". On some level this makes intuitive sense; people who empathize with you will help you solve your problems, and empathizing with other will help you tailor your solutions to their concerns. But when you sit down to pull this off, you run into two major problems. What is the strategy for doing this? Some phrases tend to antagonize people, while others help build rapport. There are often emotional stages that relationships have to go through, so you need to behave appropriately at each stage, but also you need to move the relationship to the point that is beneficial for you. The second major hurdle is actually implementing these strategies. Even with the head knowledge, when the pressure to perform is on, you may not behave appropriately.
Ask HN: Is there a way to notify AWS of bugs in managed services?
I've been trying to use AWSs new Client VPN and I've written a list of 23 steps that I believe confirms there's a bug in how they have their OpenVPN configured to use managed AD to handle authentication when MFA is enabled.

I find it kind of hard to believe they would give a re:Invent talk and write docs mentioning that this is supported without ever testing it.

That being said, I'm fairly confident that the debug steps I have show functionality does not work (they're in the comments due to char limit).

Is there a way for me to get this debug info to someone at AWS or should I just look into alternative approaches?
I got hacked and how you can prevent it
I can't think of any fiction that has an index. Do you have examples?
The teen and mother in question were not too technically savvy. Would they have been able to meet the usual requirements of a bug bounty filing?
Debug Steps:

1) Create Managed AD or Simple AD + AD Connector pair.

2) Enable MFA via RADIUS for Managed AD or AD Connector.

3) Enable awsapps domain.

4) Create a user account on either your Managed AD or Simple AD.

5) Configure OTP for your newly created LDAP user.

6) Configure your RADIUS to authenticate using your OTP only (no password+pin combo).

7) Configure your RADIUS to log authentication attempts.

8) Log into your awsapps domain using your LDAP user.

9) Check your RADIUS logs (you will see authentication was successful, confirming your RADIUS is correctly configured).

10) Setup Client VPN, use either your Managed AD or AD Connector for authentication.

11) Associate a target network and allow all authenticated users to access it.

12) Download Client VPN config file.

13) Download AWSs Starfield Technologies Cert.

14) Add cert from (13) to the top of the <ca> section in the Client VPN config file.

15) Attempt to connect to Client VPN with your LDAP creds and the Client VPN config file (this will fail).

16) Check the logs on your RADIUS server (you will see no authentication attempt was made).

17) Enable support for 2FA in your Client VPN config file by adding the line: static-challenge "enter otp" 0

18) Try to log in again (this will fail).

19) Check the logs on your RADIUS server (there will have been no authentication attempt).

20) Disable MFA on either your AD Connector or your Microsoft AD.

21) Remove the line: `static-challenge "enter otp" 0` from your Client VPN config file.

22) Attempt to login to your Client VPN with your username and password.

23) You will be able to login to your VPN (without MFA).
It isn't in Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

Which don't exactly have laissez-faire approaches to folks renting out their properties, but the larger issue is that Japanese cities are just generally better about building enough housing to meet demand compared with most American and Canadian cities.
> Woodward and Bernstein and constitutional law? Not so much!

Neither of their books were really about constitutional law. "All the President's Men" is in the "Books about journalism" section of Wikipedia.
It is fine to not be interested in things; there's lots I'm not interested in either. It's less great to have strong, sweeping opinions about things you're basically incurious about.
I completely agree with you!

And if it only were so easy!

Toronto, and Canada, is very much like the US in terms of its reliance on the car to get around. Except in urban centers, and NYC, the first choice of transportation is almost always the car. This is not just a mindset. The lack of a proper transportation infrastructure and the sprawling nature of North American cities make it difficult to get around without a car.

In fact, I would say urban sprawl and traffic are worse in Toronto than in most American cities (I'm originally from Toronto and I've lived in the US for more than two decades). And what about the surrounding regions, like York and Peel regions? I would say the prospects for an adequate public transportation infrastructure in the surrounding regions of Toronto are even worse, and the population in the surrounding suburbs rivals the population of Toronto proper.
by previewing/skimming them first?

I don't get how this is some big black/white issue. You don't have to finish every book you start, nor do you only have to read a single book at a time, and you can listen to audiobooks at high speeds if time is your main concern. Because in the time it takes you to "research" whether a book is worth your time or not, you could've already read a couple chapters of it and gotten enough of a broad overview of what it contains to decide for yourself.

I've managed to read about 60-90 books a year for the last 6 years, and that's only counting the ones I actually finish. Yet I'm sure the tally of books I've only started/skimmed would be significantly higher than that if I bothered to keep track of it.
SiriusXM Hopes Pandora Will Grow the Company Beyond Cars
See my previous comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118498

That felt pretty hostile when it happened to me.
That's what I was going to suggest. If you're a non-coder who needs a portfolio site, you already have a body of work ready to show. Put that up on a Squarespace site with a nice template instead of wasting time going through HTML/CSS video courses to create one from scratch.

If you're genuinely interested in building from the ground up, definitely go ahead. But if that's not really your goal, you will almost certainly be disappointed with your first site. HTML/CSS courses don't cover design (typography, element spacing, color palettes), so you'll look at your site, you'll know it's ugly but you won't know why. And you won't want to put it online, thereby wasting even more time.

Don't do that. Let your work speak for you, and don't feel embarrassed about using a template. Your audience cares about the quality of your content only, they will be completely oblivious to what is happening behind the scenes.
Precisely this. Go to any city in the world where new housing is not artificially constricted by local governments and you will find that the effect of airbnb rentals on housing prices are minimal.

I will not deny that the presence of airbnb rentals in a city can drive up the incremental cost of housing, but it is a proximate cause, not the root cause. The root cause is artificially constrained supply.
Yeah, I agree; I wrote that comment very quickly and needed something better than "whatever you want to call the expertise required to understand the issues involved in Watergate and in reporting Watergate". I brought it up because I think it's pretty funny to have a "no journalists, except when they're writing about journalism" rule. Nobody was interested in _All The President's Men_ because they wanted a Jack-Shafer-esque inquiry into the media and the practice of reporting; what made the book influential is the reporting Woodward and Bernstein performed.

If you want a replacement example that isn't make that point, substitute in Lawrence Wright and either scientology or terrorism.
Like most rational actors, they try to minimize the tax they pay. However, even a little tax on a trillion-dollar company adds up to a lot. They still pay quite a bit.
Good, that's a fantastic example of "regulatory capture," one of the downsides to the very existence of a government at all.

So, what's your alternative solution to regulation, that both prevents plaster of paris in milk but also regulatory capture?
That’s funny because everyone I know at Google or Facebook in SEA is trying to move to NYC!
>F--ebook

I'm no fan of Facebook, but don't you think this is a little childish?
Type I diabetic here.

The injections are really not a significant problem for me. A lot of people may recoil at the thought of injecting themselves often, as though it's painful. It's either not painful or maybe a little, but I just don't care much.

Much worse things about being diabetic are:

* Danger of low blood sugar

* Trying to get the right dose

* Timing the dose so it is effective at the right time

* Carrying around a bunch of stuff that I need or may need, like insulin and glucose tablets

* Trying to keep the insulin cold enough or fresh enough that it retains its potency

* Keeping my phone on and charged all the time, which has my blood sugar readings, and checking it at times where it might seem like I'm rude. I'd rather use a watch or special device, but the special devices are strangely bulky and don't hold a charge, and watches apparently can't receive blood sugar readings yet (without a phone also present).

None of those things are very terrible. Treatment is much better now. But they are all way worse than the tiny insulin needle injections.
Apple music includes match
If it's a serious bug, talk to a zero day broker.