skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, why would video be blindly trusted today anyway? You can fake videos through creative cutting and CG.
I'd be pretty surprised if British law prohibited "buy a dress, get a belt free" promotions.
Killer whales eat dolphins. So why are these dolphins tempting fate?
Ask HN: Do you use a GPG key with GitHub?
I've never worked any place that has required use of gpg. Nobody has ever asked me about gpg and GitHub.

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/
This video was incredibly disturbing. I could not sit through in one go.

The ease of ending up in that wormhole is fucking disgusting to me, but it is also precisely what happens when the algorithm's ultimate goal is "max consumption". You get a bunch of seemingly benign videos just on the edge of being sexually explicit minor content getting grouped together and finding its audience (that appears to be large enough to be counted in millions).

I mean, for fuck's sake, what other reason could there be for a "popsicle challenge"?
But for the use case you'd use glacier, not S3.
TL;DR:

Nothing permanent, but yet another interesting possible route.

"Patrick Hunt, an archaeologist who leads the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project, which has been investigating Hannibal’s route since 1994, says that the answer to the puzzle “remains hauntingly elusive”. It’s all too easy, he says, for fellow experts to adduce evidence for their favoured route – his team argues for a more northerly path – but until the same methods and rigour are brought to bear on all the alternatives, none can be ruled out. All the same, he adds, Mahaney is one of the best geo-archaeologists working on the question."
Do you ever fall into the same trap yourself? Everyone (hyperbole) thinks that they are unbiased, but it’s rare to find someone who actually is.
> All major capitals around the world have hundreds of thousands of millionaires. London alone has more than 350k.

5% of Londoners are millionaires!?
The article goes over this.
This is how it is at my current company. Neat.
> Most online clothing brands offer ‘free’ shipping, with the catch that you have to meet a minimum purchase amount (often $100) to qualify. Some 58% of consumers will add additional items to their cart — often things they didn’t originally intend to purchase — just to “save” $5 to $10 on handling fees.

You will find people vigorously defending their behaviour when challenged on this. For example: Amazon Prime.

Amazon Prime is a product that costs you money and makes you spend more money on Amazon, and yet people will defend their spending saying that they are "saving" money.

The shipping is "free" but you have to spend £8 a month to qualify. If you don't spend at amazon during that month you are still down £8 (that's about £100 a year). If you spend something at amazon during the month you are still down the £8 in addition to the money spent at something.

Amazon Prime is a shady product designed to get you to spend money at Amazon.

As the article says often you will find the same product for lower in other places. You just need to do the sums. Another common defence we will see when people respond to this is "Oh I know it doesn't save me money, it's the convenience".

Retailers love making their customers comfortable and not thinking about these shady offers. Imagine having millions of customers so happy they will pay more money to you and defending this very process.

Now... there's also the shady dark patterns the company uses to sign you up for it and make it it harder for you to cancel, but that's another thing!
It can be found on all HN threads about medicine where the only evidence is found in mice studies.

Your proposed changes in testing are either impractical ("genetically edit mice") to do in a way that actually translates well (and that also translates in a nonspecific way) or very, very unethical (later embryo testing, earlier testing on animals which are sapient).
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I have no intention of debating with someone who has already misrepresented the debate once, especially someone that refuses to link or share a credible resource. As far as I have searched, every single link 'debunking' this study is coming from sites that deliberately peddle fake information such as Breitbart.

I have debated and dealt with far too many climate skeptics that deliberately point out one small part of a study and misconstrue it in attempt to debunk the entire thing.
Right-click on a (non-signed) program you want to run, and select 'Open'. Now MacOS will ask if you want to run this software or not, and it can remember this decision so you can just run it as normal in the future.
Does anyone know of a book (even better a textbook, if possible) detailing these strategies? This article is about the "BOGO" deal, I'm interested in reading about other kinds of these strategies, and why they work. If anyone has any recommendation, especially for more academic stuff (textbooks or papers), I would greatly appreciate it!
Using Class E IPv4 addresses, bad ideas will always resurrect
Although many libraries only implement HTTP/2 with encryption, it never actually made the specification.
You do get the streaming service too.
I strongly disagree with your claim that the report is lazy and doesn't use many resources outside the NYTimes.

A quick skim through sections on the report reveals extensive collaboration and referencing of material from other think tanks, committees, and companies. The sources are eclectic and varied, but I feel they are very relevant to this particular topic. I particularly note this comment from the report:

"This Final Report is the accumulation of many months of collaboration with other countries, organisations, parliamentarians and individuals from around the world. In total, the Committee held 23 oral evidence sessions, received over 170 written submissions, heard evidence from 73 witnesses, asking over 4,350 questions at these hearings, and had many exchanges of public and private correspondence with individuals and organisations."

This report strikes a serious and alarming tone, which is appropriate. We can only hope that our democracies can organise themselves to combat this threat effectively, and without destroying press freedom in the process.
I've read about this concept somewhere before and found it really inspiring. I would think that knowing that my gains are "preserved" in some form would actually make me more lazy since I'm less afraid of completely reverting all progress, but in reality it just drives me more to build a nice bank for the future. It's super cool knowing that the effort you put in now will keep paying off years down the line, makes working out feel less futile somehow on an emotional level...
>I actually prefer this

Yes, this is why these tactics work. The human brain is being hacked by shady practices.
Everything even vaguely commercial with the word "free" attached is shady. I'm in a minority here (I must be, otherwise it would stop being common because it wouldn't bring in enough marks) but I've grown cynical enough that the word actually puts me on guard and I go searching for the small print, or it just puts me off completely if I don't have time for the small print.

It isn't just BOGO offers, anything free is suspect:

* Just pay postage! (postage is nearly as much as the item costs on Amazon/eBay/others with delivery included, and it'll take up to six weeks for your item to arrive)

* Do the Great North Run for free! (... plus a £320 charity pledge)

* First month free! (if you don't cancel 27 days before the free month ends you'll be paying for the service for at least 6 months afterwards)
I nearly always buy from Amazon though.

I bought from some other online retailers and had bad experiences (stuff taking ages to arrive, customs fees,bad returns policy etc.)

Plus you get Amazon Music and Amazon Video too - I never use them but still...

It used to be a lot cheaper in Spain though to be fair, like 20 euro per year so it was a no-brainer.
I think the idea that cliches are inherently bad only holds if you consider originality and uniqueness in all aspects of your life essential. Rather ironically, that mindset is a cliche, one I would call misguided.
Update: U.S. science agencies see gains in final 2019 spending bills
i spent several minutes on both of these sites. they are interesting extensions into the topic of keyboard layouts, but there was almost no research or data on them, other than simple mechanical metrics.
Dvorak reduces effort 25% over QWERTY [1]. I'm using QFMLWY, which reduces effort by 43% [2]. Unlike op, I'm very happy with my switch. It feels a lot more efficient and has greatly helped reduce wrist pains for me. The drawbacks are that it's difficult for other people to use my computer and that I've basically forgotten how to touch type in QWERTY, so am much slower there on the 1x/yr occasion where I have to use it.

1: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?dvorak

2: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization
Two things I have seen mentioned from industry people: Huawei is a lot better in R&D (use more money than Apple) and getting some feature you want deployed is easier and faster. Secondly Huawei is not only cheaper but also higher quality.

I know this doesn't fit with the witch hunt on Chinese companies the US is running but there you have it.
I tend to make a conscious effort to ignore "deals". As far as I know, the one case in which a deal is actually advantageous as a consumer is when that deal encourages consumers to buy more of a certain product at the same time, and the merchant passing part of the scale and predictability savings on to the consumer. For example, if you buy tooth paste every now and then anyway, buying it at the same time as many others might make it cheaper to offer that tooth paste. Or for example having the option between essentially equivalent meal ingredients, more people cooking the same meal at the same time can allow for offering those ingredients more cheaply.

In most cases, however, it feels like they only benefit the merchant, by manipulating the consumer to buy things they don't need, or more expensive things.

I don't think the cost savings I'm missing out on by not making purchases in the first category outweigh the extra costs I avoid by also not making purchases in the second category.

That said, I'd love to hear of more ways of how deals can actually benefit both consumer and merchant.
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What I ended up doing in order to avoid this is that I’ve been buying from the same brands for some time now, i.e. the same soap, the same shampoo, the same butter (truth be told, for butter I fluctuate between two brands), the same chocolate, the same detergent etc. This way I don’t fall for tricks like the one you mentioned because I almost don’t care about any other brands and products than the ones I’m really interested in. I also get to save a lot of time in the supermarket because each time I visit it I know exactly what I want.
But it is convenient. I pay a small, fixed amount to Amazon, where I can incidentally buy literally everything, and I never have to worry about shipping costs again, nor worry about dealing with a different interface or multiple accounts for any type of goods I want to buy.
Drop the touch bar and give us a touch screen!
When talking about hobbies, relax and passion, why the need to make decision actively?

The hobbies often change as reaction to changes in environment - you like puzzles when work is underchallenging, but when work is mentally challenging you switch to different past time. You craft because you seen something inspiring, then you make music and some time later return to crafting when something inspiring comes around. You are tired so you do nothing, work was slow and boring so you are in mood to create on weekend.

No reason to ditch tools in the meantime, large benefit of having them is that you can switch impulsively without planning.
Not a textbook, but Freakonomics is in that ballpark.

It's (un-) surprisingly hard to find academic information about this on Google because all the results are click bait articles about how to improve sales, rather than peer reviewed theory.
I switched to Dvorak 6 years ago and my hands (mainly the external part) never hurt again.
The shipping is "free" but you have to spend $5 a month to qualify. If you don't spend at amazon during that month you are still down £8 (that's about £100 a year). If you spend something at amazon during the month you are still down the $5 in addition to the money spent at something. WWW.Geosalary.com
The thing is this isn't cheap Chinese gadgets. The main thing I see mentioned is that Huawei is years ahead. Being cheaper is just icing on the cake. Huawei use a lot more on R&D than the competition.
CSEC has access to the code that is runs on Huawei's kit. Huawei is required to have reproducable builds to show that the code running in the network is the exactly same as what was vetted by CSEC.
No, I mean that participating on that sport will damage your health. Think back on all the talk about TBI in football. There are plenty of rough sports out there that people have no real problems with, because we haven't figured out how exactly it causes damage to your body.

Even just weightlifting on a professional level seems to harm a person's body, but it's only visible once they become older. You can't easily claim that "we ban drugs from sports because it damages people's health" when the sport itself also damages people's health.
I also created a layout to use my Apple keyboard on Windows.
https://github.com/edpichler/Apple-Dvorak-on-Windows
Well, it’s meant to be “pro” after all.
That presentation is something that interested me in ADS-B in the first place. Not because I want to spoof airplanes, but because of novelty of this project.
This in itself is an irritation for some: the price went up when that was added and many don't use it at all. I hardly use it (my TV from Amazon connected to a PC with a graphics card from Amazon by an HDMI cable from Amazon won't play Amazon HD streams because of a licensing issue - if I want HD I need to get the content ahem elsewhere) though for me the price is still worth it for other factors.
Being a naturally skinny guy it took me ages to bulk up in my late teens and early twenties. I find it hard to motivate myself to get back in shape today because I know how hard it would be. But this has inspired me.
For citizens of the US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, etc., it's very easy to spend a few months in most countries. Most of the time you can just turn up and they'll give you a visa on arrival. You can also look for jobs while you are there. Typically you will need to leave the country to apply for a work permit, and then come back on a new visa.

If you want to stay longer than 6-12 months then you usually need a student, work, marriage, retirement, or investor visa.

Some countries have special visas for freelancers or startups. Thailand has a "Thailand Elite" visa where you can pay $15k to stay for 5 years, or $63k to stay for 20 years [1]. But Thailand and Vietnam are also quite relaxed, so you can usually stay for a few years on a series of tourist visas. (Especially multi-entry tourist visas if you apply in your home country.)

If you're a NZ citizen then you can live and work in Australia without a visa (and vice versa.)

[1] https://nomadcapitalist.com/2018/01/22/thai-elite-visa/
A chef doesn't need to be winning vegetable-slicing races, but being able to chop the veggies fast saves time for the meaningful work.

Also I admit I'm not really thinking before each one of the characters I type. It's not uncommon for my thoughts to be forming in my head at a pace more or less consistent with my typing, or even exceeding it, especially as it's not necessarily coding, but eg. code reviews, comments and clarifications in tickets etc. I will go back and review what I wrote of course, but it still feels more convenient if I'm able to lay it out quickly to begin with. And all the saved time adds up, at the end of the day.
> As someone else further mentioned, the UK has setup an evaluation centre with Huawei where GCHQ experts check Huawei products before deployment.

This betrays an incredible lack of foresight. Denying updates to products to evaluate in the first place is itself a point of serious potential vulnerability.

> Again, let's not pretend that the the US are in good faith here even if security should of course always be considered. This is an obvious FUD campaign to slow the rise of a new superpower and of a major competitor in a sensitive industry.

You're making this about the US when it doesn't have to be. That was the point of my comment: the UK has options that don't have anything to do with the US or China. I cannot believe that you genuinely view the risks of dealing with Sweden (Ericsson) or Finland (Nokia) and China for such sensitive infrastructure as comparable. I must have missed the Swedish hacking campaign of companies and governments worldwide for the last 10 years...
It doesn't discard the oldest item, it discards the item that was least recently used/accessed (LRU, like the name says). To see the difference more clearly, note that the oldest item can in fact be the most recently used one.
I remember I took a serious look at Kotlin for some hobby projects. On the paper it was a great language with many interesting features but it ended up being just another kid in the current generation of new high level languages, nothing else. The biggest turn off for me was to see that its main selling point, JVM, made it actually a problem since most of the shared code, developers, terms and ideas came from the Java community and turned it in just “a better java” on top of the java ecosystem... which is what Kotlin is after all.
They have metrics of how good it is, but does it depends on the language being used?
GoCardless raises $75M Series E and heads to America
Hexagonal and triangular periodic tilings are dual to one another, it's just a matter of which way around you abstract it.
Google is now paying $17000 to $22000 per month for working online from home. I have joined this job 2 months ago and i have earned $20544 in my first month from this job. I can say my life is changed-completely for the better! Cheeck it out what i do
So I started------>>>> http://www.Geosalary.com
I have a recurring dream where I murder someone and bury the body, it's always the same, I'm quite young in the dream too. Wonder if I'm remembering a murder I actually did commit.
Or, could it be possible that they audited the code and found no backdoors or security issues? Now that would be crazy! /s
I used your site to implement A* as a learning exercise, and I learned a lot from it. Thanks!
It's disingenuous to pretend there's no difference between suppliers operating under the Chinese dictatorship and suppliers operating in Western countries with strong rule-of-law traditions. Even National Security Letters in the USA can be challenged in court.

It also matters what you think of the governments that are potentially exerting control. China is way down the list of governments I'd like to have access to critical infrastructure.

I can't tell what HCSEC thinks they're doing. Plenty of security research shows that in reality skilled engineers can plant backdoors no-one can find, especially at the hardware level. Apparently most HCSEC staff are Huawei employees so they don't exactly have an incentive to find backdoors. It sounds like a joke.
"Language to blame for rise in flat Earth believers, says study."

Youtube is a platform. They are not at fault for what the people using Youtube post and consume.
This can be generalized to: Every time someone offers you a "deal of a lifetime" it's a deal that mostly benefits him. If it doesn't screw over a third person it usually screws you, and if it screws over someone else it still might screw you.

That's why the smart man will find deals himself. E.g. instead of waiting for a prospect from a cars dealer that makes him a good offer, he will study what makes a good second hand car, when the prices of second hand cars are lowest and then he will go and make an offer to a caring owner of a car to become its second hand owner.
> The current system relies on a continuum of power from the Tsar(inas) thru Soviet times into the present.

What does such claim mean practically? IMO their current system relies on the firepower of their police and military and I would say that has little to do with the Romanovs.
this would be more interesting if there were more examples with a deeper description
Have used the page maby times. It's brilliant, and perfectly explains. Thanks a lot!
> * First month free! (if you don't cancel 27 days before the free month ends you'll be paying for the service for at least 6 months afterwards)

yes, this is a terrible bait and switch - and should be illegal unless the fine print isn't so fine that nobody reads it.
You cared enough to post about it.
I’m ashamed to say I’ve never read her, although I’ve recently bought a book of short stories to try to fix that :)
What's the real price of getting rid of plastic packaging?
> Compulsory Code of Ethics for tech companies overseen by independent regulator

I would have loved to see strong moves in favor of critical thinking, rational argumentation, scientific analysis/study.

The suggested actions will leave us with a government that dictates what it believes is good ethics and penalizes everyone who does not agree - Not quite the opposite of what I'd hope for, but its scarily close.
Given that other retailers charge upwards of £10 for Saturday courier delivery, Amazon is cheap. They also have fairly no-questions-asked customer service policies which is nice.
Lions have adapted to hunt seals and seabirds in Namibia
Minor comment, but I'm pretty sure in Ariely's experiment he dropped both prices by 1 cent (i.e. the Lindt became 14 cents), hence the drop was identical, but this completely shifted the purchasing decisions.
It was not one application. Since we moved to SPA we have started multiple new applications having very different use cases.
True, it would be kind of analogue to try/except/finally if you do that.
Home-Based Urinalysis – Changing Lives Through Early Detection
Still guessing … I think that the title of most listicles start with a number, like "42 arbitrary chosen food to eat on Tuesday!!!"

(HN used to filter the "!" too. Probably the filter is still there.)
My local pizza shop offers "Buy one get one free" and "Free delivery".

They also offer a discount if you only want one pizza, and a discount if you collect instead of having it delivered.
> The question is why these minimalist tendencies exist?

Despite it not seeming like a just reason, for me it’s because of impermanence (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence).
Banning "climate change denial" isn't going to magically ensure the truth wins out either. Remember that terrifying news about the oceans having absorbed 60% more heat than we thought, meaning that global warming was far worse than previously estimated? It should've been immediately suspicious - ocean temperature was something we could and did directly measure with thermometers, making the claim unlikely on its face, and their method of measurement was weird and indirect. Yet it was uncritically repeated by every major news outlet and it fell to the "denialists" to spot that they'd majorly underestimated their error bounds and could not, in fact, exclude the possibility that the straightforward and direct temperature measurements were correct. The original authors have now retracted their big claims as a result.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352506

The updated and corrected version of the BBC article it linked to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46046067