skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you draw the line when it comes to satire for instance? Should you not be allowed to ridicule rulers just because they might find it insulting? Insulting the powerful has always been part of normal democratic discourse.
Putting Privacy in the Hands of Users
I had a really hard time understanding all that, but I'm wondering about some of the ideas here:

"offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive"

Isn't half the issue with ALL economic points of view now that actions aren't having the effect we think they should and the "tools" don't work like we think they used to?
Does anyone have to personally identify with a term in order for it to be useful? I think it's quite easy to look at recent history and identify a largely top-down political/economic/philosophical movement embodied by the likes of Thatcher and Regan which has been impactful on the current state of the world. I don't see why Neoliberalism isn't a perfectly good name for it.
Yeah, I didn’t read very carefully. I was just looking for any article on the game. I didn’t recall it being in the NBA Finals, but I let the wording of the article confuse me.
This article is full of strawmen fallacies. Paints with a broad brush by using "Economists" and "Economics" to mean the whole discipline.

>Economists also often get overly enamored with models that focus a narrow set of issues and identify first-best solutions in the circumscribed domain, at the expense of potential complications and adverse implications elsewhere.

Can loosely translate to: Economists like to study optimization problems whereby rigorous mathematical models conclude that to maximize one variable, other variables may be minimized.
If it's basically two mails clients sending emails quickly to eachother, is there anything there that will make sure the user doesn't fill his inbox with tons of "hi","how are you" emails?

Does it delete the messages that were read, or something? If it's really going to put all the messages,is it using some kind of dedicated folder?
At some point though, isn't it maybe easier just to use an inherently more efficient format than trying to rely on clever implementations to save you?

I totally get json for public internet services where you want to have lots of consumers and using a more efficient format would be significant friction, but writing an editor frontend is a very large endeavor -- it seems like the extra work of adopting something more efficient than json (like flatbuffers or whatever) would really be in the noise.
Sure, in general larger countries split (UK, France, Italy, Poland etc). Germany I think is the only >20m country that doesn't split.
Non-violent offenders still mess people's lives up and will likely continue to do so given opportunity. Imagine losing your retirement savings due to being conned. The so-called victimless crimes (eg: drug use), are the ones which could use the most overhaul.
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WeWork is absurdly expensive.

IDK, or I'm absurdly cheap (or am not the target audience)

In London you pay £450-850(!) per month for wework space, from a hotdesk (aka "go to a cafe / library") to a private office.

Instead, I just moved from a one bedroom flat to a two bedroom flat, increasing my rent by about £250 per month, and now have both a private office and a place for guests / co-workers to stay when they come to town.
I have Vega 64 in my desktop, since the non-blower designs became available, and I had no problem with the amdgpu+mesa driver.

It is nice to have it work out of the box.
This is completely the opposite of my experience. I'm in probably a dozen Freenode channels via bridge and another 5-6 Mozilla IRC channels, and haven't had a problem in as long as I can remember.
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Is there not an alternative to Dropbox that offers better service for the same if not lower cost? I understand that they could pull the same bait and switch on you but maybe there are providers who wouldn't do that or grandfather you in.
Wouldn't you buy a prepaid SIM for cash in a convenience store, and use its internet connection to send the data to some server in a jurisdiction that doesn't respond to such subpoenas?
Pointing to things in ancient Rome or Greece isn't helping your argument, because many of those things were lost in the dark ages. They had toilets in Rome. They didn't have toilets in the dark ages. They built concrete-domed buildings in ancient Rome. They didn't build anything like that in the dark ages, or for a very long time afterwards (not until modern times; concrete had to be re-invented).

Literacy existed in monasteries, yes, but that was pretty much the only place it existed then!! Ancient Romans, by contrast, were mostly literate in the general population.

Why are people so eager to whitewash the dark ages and the loss of literacy and technology that happened there with the fall of Rome? I really wonder if a lot of it is coming from the Catholic Church; they've tried pushing a narrative that the dark ages were really a great time because everyone in Europe was Catholic.
I'm always skeptical of these 'no solder circuits for kids' systems you see everywhere but building them into the LEGO standard is a refreshingly good idea.
Python Performance Optimization
Actually this is General Motors too:

"The GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit automotive industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software and providing open technology for the connected car. The GENIVI Alliance was founded on March 2, 2009 by BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Visteon, and Wind River Systems"
This is a very good question.

Citadels are larger scale Actors which can be incorporated into other Citadels, where a Citadel is an Actor for a systems of Actors (perhaps including IoT).

See the following:

http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/190123.html
I met my wife at work while we seemed to be working.
"Falsehoods Programmers Believe" Titles Considered Harmful
Google desperately wants location services enabled and will use any wedge possible to force it on. They even disable the center on my location button in the maps app even though the app knows very well where your current location is.
https://github.com/cruise-automation/webviz
(GM Cruise LLC)

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the technology working in the AV space get opened.
For a PR company, a few negative comments about the business model is a price-of-admission to the New York Times and a pre-requisite for getting it past an editor.

Largely, it's one the PR company / WeWork are happy to pay because they get to say they've been in the NYT, they get exposed to new potential new customers without having to pay per lead, and 'WeWorking' becomes a step closer to being a verb with WeWork's brand attached to it.
If you still would like a little bit of GUI take a look at https://dbeaver.io/
I never said victimless crimes need prison time. My argument is that hyper-aggressive people, and those that cause harm to others, need to be separated from the rest of society. The percentage of people that this applies to is greater than 0. The post I was commenting on said putting people in jail is a crime, when that's the best of bad solutions we currently have in a lot of cases.
How is it impossible to cancel? Are cloud services becoming modern equivalents of gym memberships? Do you have to fax them?
Here is a page with some photographs and more details: https://www.artwave.it/ecowave/ecoarchitecture/eco-tecnologi....
I think at least caveating your advise with “learn as much applied maths as possible” may be an improvement .

From there, “learn as much relevant applied maths as possible” would be more time efficient.

And from there, “learn financial maths first” proceeds as an obvious corollary.

So I kinda feel we agree :)
I mean they didn’t invent it, but the author of the book that did was a member of the German Nationalist movement that eventually (~75 years later) evolved into the Nazi party.

It’s not like it was completely disassociated with Nazi history and then they decided to put it on their camps because it sounded cool. They literally wanted to work people to death, i.e. freedom.
Financial firms introduced many no-fee products last year. Investors yawned.
> Economists like to study optimization problems whereby rigorous mathematical models conclude that to maximize one variable, other variables may be minimized.

Thereby proving precise facts about models that are imprecise at best, and downright misleading at worst.
As is copyright law.
Amdahl's law imposes no performance limitation on a system which does not have a sequential part. Having a sequential part is a bad idea because it is a single point of failure.
My point is these don't have to be abolished at once with a single law, there can also be a gradual decline.

This law _does_ threaten free speech by basically forcing platforms introduce content filters. First to be used for copyrighted content, but once it's there it can easily be extended to hate speech, fake news, defamation and other euphemisms for the content to be censored. It basically un-does a lot of internet's democratizing effect on free speech.
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https://developer.ford.com/
As a rule of law or constitutional principle freedom of speech in the US just is a lot more protected than it is in the EU countries I am familiar with. The limits of freedom of speech are a lot bigger in EU countries than in the US-limits mentioned.

> There are plenty of things you can say at the border that will get you on the next plane back home.

That's a really bad example. If you get send home you are not an US citizen and you might not have the rights US citizens enjoy, which is what they are talking about when freedom of speech is referenced.

> Someone who practiced his freedom of speech is currently in hiding in liberty-loving Russia of all places

Snowden leaked secrets. The USA is very bad in protecting that, right. But it's not a simple question of freedom of speech, it has a a lot more with how authoritarian the government is. It's not surprising that a war mongering USA that tries to achieve complete surveillance, tortures prisoners and and kidnaps citizens of other and allied countries to put them without trial for forever into the hellhole that is Guantanamo might have a limit on what dissident actions it accepts. But that does not mean that the protection of freedom of speech in a general area is stronger than elsewhere.
Yea but when I did, I couldn’t really find any reference to it devoid of Nazi association.
WeWork is basically a real estate business, not a tech company. The barrier to entry to create a competitor is not exceptionally high, technology-wise. Not so with the companies you mentioned.
Copy as HTML is not working in Firefox
Indeed. Our app once required location permissions because - get this - a webkit view used for settings used jQuery, which did some kind of screen orientation thing that somehow required location be turned on from the app.

I think a jQuery update fixed it, but don't recall. It wasn't simple to track down either.

Disclosure: I work on a Sonos competitor [1] that tracks customer data purely for product improvement and is fully opt-out-able.

[1] https://www.bluesound.com
Remember reading an article by an ex rentech guy who says that linear regression is about as complex as the modelling gets; that the edge is not in making things hard.
So maybe you should start talking about the future of the Conservative Regime in the UK and the Trumpian Theocracy.

I think I that's how causation works.
Some people don't want to be contacted. If they want too, they add their email in their profile.

> The markdown support is extremely minimal and doesn't support a lot of basics like quotes (which causes many people to "quote" by using a code block, which has issues).

Obvious enough.

An extra button: moderated, is with a comment.

Scraping is different for each website.
I read that sentence as being more about economic models failing to adequately account for externalities.
Probably this.
Yeah, maybe I should clarify; there are "good" and "bad" movies from a theoretical level. My enjoyment largely rests on how interesting I find them. Objectively terrible movies like "The Happening" or "The Room" or "Samurai Cop" or "Troll 2" or "Angry Red Planet" are "bad" because whomever made them seems to have no understanding of film-theory, or what it would take to make a "good" movie, but I find them endlessly entertaining...like watching a trainwreck

The irony of it is that if they had tried to make those moves "bad" on purpose, they wouldn't be interesting at all (at least not to me), and they would just be "bad" on every level for me.

In fact, even when there is sincerity, it's not a truly deterministic system. I think that the first Troll movie is technically objectively worse than Troll 2, but I find Troll 1 to be pretty boring, in addition to being incompetent, while Troll 2 is silly and an utter blast to watch.
You can be the judge. Here is the video. This wasn’t a close call. It was an egregiously wrong call. There was no way that ten out of ten impartial referees wouldn’t call this a foul on Kobe.

https://youtu.be/mbWgWZjo1nI
Check it out, 100% open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/turntouch-ios. The Mac app, the firmware, and even the CAD and CAM designs are also there. And I documented everything so you can get a peek into how it was built if you want to change the designs for yourself. http://ofbrooklyn.com/2019/01/3/building-turntouch/

Everything I build I want to last beyond myself. So beyond the source code I also write about the why for everything. That it improves sales is a nice bonus.
It was a manner of speech. There was no way to get out of the 2 extra magically added seats, even though you agreed to 3, you pay for 5 because they changed their minimum seat policy. I spoke to customer service over and over and they wouldn't even point me to the agreement I signed...just the agreement on their website (the new one.)
How Much Do We Need to Start Trading Stocks
>The EU is not a country and does not have its own laws. Things like this copyright directive will get turned into 28 distict member state level laws. Directives only set the common denominator for these laws.

So the EU could have a directive that guarantees freedom of speech across the board? Seems like your just arguing semantics.
My favorite tool for this kind of analysis was pgAdmin3, which had a very nice diagramming output for EXPLAIN ANALYZE which you can see here [0]. Hovering over the various images in the diagram would display their time, rows, and which statement caused them.

There is also this excellent post which shows how to break down an EXPLAIN and reason about the performance [1].

[0] http://www.postgresonline.com/images/journal/explain_plan_5....

[1] http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/27-Reading-Pg...
There is no set route. There are many former sys admins, former software developers, and many self-taught people in the industry.

Though as the list above shows there are a lot of universities offering degrees in Cyber Security.

If you were able to get a job with a pen-testing company in the UK they will pay for their employees to sit the Crest Exams.
That combination doesn't make a lot of sense. The CBS shows that ornamental horticulture has a plurality, but even if you strip away all the prepared products, and most of the fruits (first imported), and then cut that number in half, it's more than the flowers/nursery products, assuming they're all domestic.

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2019/03/agricultural-export-va...
"Yet too many economists believe their quantitative tools and theoretical lenses are the only ones that count as “scientific,” leading them to dismiss disciplines that rely more on qualitative analysis and verbal theorizing"

Sorry if I don't want to trust the fate of the nation's economy to someone's well intentioned verbal theorizing and 'qualitative' analysis. What could go wrong? (lol)

I thought HN liked and trusted the scientific process and quantitative research methods over verbal theorizing and hand waving.
3) Realize that undervalidation of input can create opportunities to introduce backdoors into your system.

4) Realize that the added benefit of supporting weird formats are not worth the time to verify that it actually works.

As someone who works on an email client, I can absolutely tell you that using IP address literals and quoted localparts are more trouble than its worth. Chances are, the libraries you use can't handle them anyways. And if you don't try to support quoted localparts, than normalization is a lot easier. (Although I was once locked out of a system because I signed up with an email address that used capitals and the login form changed to lowercase it without changing the database storage, which meant no form I could spell it would cause it to match).
It allows more substantive and interesting comments to wander upwards and be more easily accessible/visible.

I used to believe that, honestly, really did. Not anymore, not after watching how many communities actually behave themselves with vote mechanisms. One of those moments where something "looks good on paper" but not as much when the rubber meets the road, I'm finding a very real personal dislike with approval signaling/seeking features in online discussion groups.

"Not all comments are equal"

I don't believe that either. Maybe it's just a matter of my perspectives changing after the last 17 years on the internet, which is fine. Everyone has a different experience with it.

This same fatigue with "approval signaling" on online commentary extends all the way to Facebook and Twitter, which one of the many reasons I'm no longer on either platform. Reddit is probably the next go go, for all sorts of reasons, if I were to list them, "approval signaling" will most undoubtedly be on the list, but probably further down comparatively.

But I should also clarify, I didn't mean to directly advocate a full out feature request and say "get rid of up and downvotes" right here and now on HN, I was kind of thinking through my keyboard there, I full well realize that feature very likely isn't going anywhere here.
> No, it really isn't the same as the UK. For a start, the ability for backbenchers to propose laws isn't merely theoretical - they actually do it, and occasionally some of them become laws.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/christopher-chope-wrong-object-fgm...

In practice backbenchers can't get laws past because of MPs like Chope.

> Also, our ministers are all elected politicians who can be voted out

Not by me, my MP is a backbench tory who's never been in government. Other people can vote ministers out - which has pros and cons. The U.S., which tends to be accepted as a "democracy", does not have the ability for the general population to boot out "ministers".

In 2017, 25 out of the total 118 (21%) ministers in the UK government were in the House of Lords in any case.

> The US electoral college can only select a president if a majority of the electors support him

And the EU MEPs can only select an EU commission president if a majority of the electors support him. And that's exactly what happened in 2014, when about 56% of MEPs backed him. This is similar to the UK in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017 when the Queen's Speech was passed by MPs of more than one party. In fact in the last 10 years it's only been 2009 and 2016 where the speech was passed by a single party.
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Just so we're all on the same page here: the great innovative technology company, Apple Computers, famous worldwide, it appears their main initiative this year seems to be is to try and sell their own branded card to cut down on swipe fees as they pivot to services. This is our next big innovation after the touch bar. A credit card. So that the insanely high margins creep up a few more basis points as they dump massive amounts of cash into share buybacks. Ok.

I'm not sure who or what is coming along next to disrupt these dinosaurs, but it feels like we are long overdue.
There will be zillions of different kinds of Actor in a massive inconsistency robust ontology, each with a different implementation although constructed on a common system.
Hang on, if the person you're chatting with doesn't need to install deltachat, isn't this just... Email?
Nothing is being censored. You can say whatever you want.
How developed can the US be considering that we have destroyed our manufacturing base and cannot even provide clean water and healthcare for our own citizens?
I eventually completely terminated the account and moved to Google Drive. I got lured into DropBox because I was an editor to a book that required DropBox to access manuscripts.

The way they were set up, I ended up having to upgrade to a business user given the shared file sizes I was editing (had something to do with the book publisher being on a business account as well.) I ended up paying more for DropBox than I even made as an editor. Brutal.

It felt like a mobile phone contract: seemingly inexpensive, sneaky, convoluted, and before you know you have a gigantic bill committed to for the year.

That is why i cut the cord on my cable tv. I dont understand how companies can accept the ill-will of bait-and-switch tactics -- is it really more profitable than an upfront deal where each party feels it was an honest deal? I mean, I dont mind paying...but I want know know what i'll be paying and decide accordingly. Cable TV is a virtual monopoly, but DropBox is not and I dont know how they can deal with ill-will from former customers, once bit twice shy.
Japan has 67% Forest cover. South Korea 63%. Indonesia...46%.

Clearing your land for agriculture only benefits a select few. It is not a good way to grow into a first world economy.

Bringing up what Europeans did 1000-500 years ago is not a good analogy.
> Who's Who is Google and organizations Google is a part of or funding. I would argue I have a vested interest in having this passed: I want an Internet which isn't predominantly controlled by one corporation which steals content from everyone else and passes it off as their own. I have no employer or funding source based on this, I don't work for anyone in the movie, music, news, or tech industry, I just want a better Internet, and the EU both in antitrust and copyright reform, seems to be delivering it.

I am sorry, but this seem misguided. Corporations like Google may very well be the only ones capable of handling this and even offer a service to scan everyone's files, meaning smaller businesses will let Google know about every single upload they receive, making Google even stronger and effectively banning zero-knowledge, privacy focused providers.

This is like internet 'fast lanes'. It isn't Google who would not be able to pay.

Certainly makes me re-think my Mastodon instance strategy and future plans to set up business in the EU.

I am someone who is on what many would call the 'far-left' and not at all against good regulation, but this simply isn't one of them.
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> 2x4s spaced every 16 inches is plenty robust

The current recommendation is 2x6 exterior framing with 24 inch spacing. This results in a durable and energy efficient home.

https://www.apawood.org/data/sites/1/documents/technicalrese...
A Philosopher Argues That an AI Can Never Be an Artist
Ask HN: How Do You Learn with a Full-Time Job?
I am a web developer.

While I am learning during the daily grind, I am not able to set aside a few days (let alone a few hours) to fully immerse myself in learning while on the clock.

Instead, I spend chunks of nights/weekends investigating new libraries and languages.

This appears to be the norm.

Not saying this is good or bad, there must be a better approach to learning while you have a full-time role.

Does your firm facilitate/approve on the clock learning? If so, do you take advantage of it? Does it help you and your team?