skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's quite a jump from not showing ads on videos to blocking money transfers.

Youtube is trying to stem the outflow of advertisers who've clearly stated that they don't want to be associated with certain kinds of content.

There's an argument that perhaps Youtube should provide the ability for content creators to provide their own Ad Network integration, if Youtube is unwilling to provide that monetisation themselves.

However, creators are free to source their own advertising deals and directly incorporate those into their videos - see just about everyone advertising Audible, Squarespace, Dollar Shave Club, Brilliant, etc.
It was just an ad tech company with a few political clients and some snake oil regarding psychographics.

Your snake oil evidently outperformed the best modern medicine. So, congratulations for that, I guess.
It's certainly expected that it can take a long time to find the size (in fact it might literally never finish), but saner file managers don't report anything until they've actually finished calculating the size.
Yeah, it turns out that conversation is somewhat complex, and we have to listen to the people we're conversing with. There are plenty of canards and dogwhistles about all sorts of issues, but evaluating whether a claim is antisemitic has to go deeper than just noting that it discusses Jews and wealth.

That comment, for example, was arguing that the disproportion could be taken as evidence of Jewish superiority, and yet here you are calling it antisemitic.
Great book. Maybe not practical in the short term but lots of amazing and eye opening concepts
Correct. Just like how most countries don’t allow foreign companies to operate domestic trucking or domestic flights.

It does mean places like Puerto Rico can buy things more cheaply internationally than nationally.

Similar to how Amazon (used to) enable sales tax savings by making it easy to buy from out-of-state instead of in-state.
I remember a fair amount of older houses in New England had oil heating and the cost was crazy high.
Having local rules that expedite patent cases isn’t evidence of bias. It’s evidence of efficiency.
Where's the neutrons. As in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/964833.Yes_We_Have_No_Ne...
It isn't trivial. I don't think my parents will ever be able to install software that Google doesn't like on their phone.
Writing code is one thing, knowing how to guide an organization of any size greater than a handful of employees to design software solutions and manage the change of rolling it out is an entirely different ballgame.

As software eats the world, people with 10+ years of field experience working at high organizational levels aren't threatened by a supply of people learning how to code any more than a surge in people learning to be medical office administrators threatens those doctors with the 10+ years into medical school and residency.
Larger vessels are usually foreign-flagged for regulatory (avoidance) reasons.
Yeah - of course that's all true.

My numbers are based around super-hard-to-argue-against standard employment law for other professions where I live. If you work as a waiter or a shop assistant that's the sort of overtime deal you get automatically.

When you push that minimum legally required remuneration to its obvious extension if your boss is asking you to be on duty 24x7, it's difficult for them to argue a reasonable case _down_ from having to pay you 8 times as much money.

The primary aim of that line of reasoning is to point out "if you need my job covered 24x7, employing and paying another four people with my skills to make sure it's covered for the 130 hours a week I'm not in the office is a more reasonable and less expensive way of doing it than trying to make it all my problem."

Quite often, in my experience, it's because the boss suddenly has their first customer ever suddenly demanding it, and they've not done the maths already and been immediately able to tell the customer "Sure. That'll cost you about ten times as much as a weekday business hours only support. When would you like us to start billing that? I'll need that in writing, of course."
I believe your data (well not necessarily "your" data because facebook doesnt know who you are), but some data created by you can be accessed by facebook via other people's profiles simply by way of hearing your voice through the other person's app. This can be true for any app with access to microphone. I have also started fresh but I believe the problem goes well beyond just deleting your profiles and apps.
GNU Parallel 2018 (Book)
Ask HN: Will We Start Using PC's Without HD/SSD Storage?
With all these cloud storage providers like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. Will we at some point start buying personal computers without storage?
That's totally not true? Many people signing this letter specifically worked on the project before they knew it was going to be used for warfare. Now they are demanding a say in whether the multi-purpose product will be explicitly sold for warfare or not.

If you ambush people with a reveal that they were actually working on military tech you can't expect them all to be happy about it. That's very different from taking a job offer, showing up to work, getting told 'we're making military tech' and saying 'OK'. HoloLens is an existing product, the result of a very large amount of engineering and research. Many of the people who contributed - perhaps even pivotal, highly-compensated employees - were definitely not aware that it would get sold to the US military, even if it's not a big leap to suggest that they might be a customer.
Why stop at Amazon? Seems to me that Intel is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown.
What, you didn’t learn about Eisenhower building the Sun in history class?
I've seen this too. I wonder if this is a related problem of "people who bother to write product reviews are much more likely to be the ones with problems."

E.g. "Nearly the only people who watch and rate dead serious conspiracy theory documentaries are those looking to confirm their beliefs."

I would say someone should organize people to mass one star these dangerous things, but Amazon should really have the sense to not buy the rights in the first place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953647
Ships capacities are 138k-150k m^3.

Multiply by 35 to get cubic feet, and we get about 5m cubic feet per ship, or 1% of a day’s demand if my math is correct.
The Case of the Supersized Shebang: Kernel Regression from a Series of Errors
When you say market in this hypothetical, what are you referring to? Video? Cable? Newspaper? Radio? Internet? Print? All of the above?

Movie Theaters effectively have their markets cornered, should they be forced to host your speech even if they don't want to?
Theres nothing sexist about that joke, mild or otherwise.
I've really just followed the sources.

More details:

First source, Theory of Mechanism Design: chapter 3, point 3.1 - General Model. It sets a general model for mechanism design. See the reply above for more info.

Second source, Trade-offs in Cost-sharing: chapter 1, point 1.3.1, for the intro to the problem; chapter 3, point 3.1.1 for the example.

The argument is vast, and I needed to get a realistic idea of how much I understood. I had to split, but the next articles will be all on mechanism design anyway.

If you have further questions, here to help. Apologies for the late reply. Technical problems
This could be really cool... Another thread detailing some of the awesome stuff MRAM can do: https://www.techspot.com/news/72272-mram-could-one-day-break...
Looks to be around $1.5-3k USD in his setup photos, likely less if he's using some used/surplus equipment, which is quite possible. Stainless fittings and tubing are surprisingly affordable. About $250 for the Deuterium.

Edit: sibling points out it may be $10k. I wonder if that price includes other equipment not shown. If not, apologies for the gross underestimation ($1.5-3k seemed reasonable - most of the equipment pricing can be looked up).
Show HN: Financier, Modeling Compensation Packages with Python
The residency shortage is a result of AMA lobbying as are the restrictions on foreign doctors practicing.
Fair enough. I knew pushing back here on HN with even one fact would buy me some downvotes.
The argument that The United States’ involvements in World War II were so impactful and influential was only possible because of the faith of it’s citizens negotiated by Eisenhower’s New Deal is not new. And an interesting angle of it involves the position that, even if you conclude the US did not actually exhibit expertise, the fact remains that it’s reputation took the credit anyhow. Any of the above would demand a sovereign citizenry.
Well luckily there are people who do seek peace and diplomacy, because if everyone treated the world like a giant prisoner's dilemma then we'd all be fucked.
As someone who neither resides in the US (or its supposedly adversary countries), nor works at BigTech, I don't think I have any bias here except I hope humanity doesn't end up obliterating itself with nukes.

But your comment is, at best, a fraction of the full picture.

1 No country has ever been as ready to "spread democracy via force" as the US

2 No country has borrowed as much money to run its spendthrift military budget to carry out #1. You combine #1 and #2, and the money lenders are wondering, "Wait, WTF are you doing with all my money?"

3 No country has a tech sector with tentacles that spread as far. That's all fine (for the other countries) if you happen to be, say, neutral and generally non-aggressive Switzerland, but not so if you are a bonafide empire and keep trying to continue being an empire.

4 No country has so many immigrants working in their tech sector. Some of these immigrants are probably wondering "Wait, so I am developing weapons so people I don't know are going to bomb and kill people I actually know?"

5 Last, and certainly not least, "The first casualty of war is truth". A nerd is a nerd because he/she probably knows this very deep in their psyche somewhere. So this nerd ends up in a massive state of cognitive dissonance when asked to develop weapons of war. Its like telling them "Yeah, we won't actually tell you what we might use it for. And you have to just believe any spin we put on the whole issue. Not to mention, we might end up attacking your kith and kin. But its all OK, because WE are the country of DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM".

>> its companies can be counted on to be supportive and/or loyal in the event of conflict.

That's probably a smaller question, as seen by a neutral. A bigger question at this point is, can the USA, which managed to elect Donald Trump, by counted on to be a stable and reliable superpower or should all the other countries already start taking an "every country for itself approach", which is what I think is happening?
Look at the reply I gave to the user you replied to. I listed the parts of the sources I used. I found really difficult to find a unified notation, but that's the sense. Try to read the parts I listed, and check if it's more understandable to you.

Apologies for the late reply. Technical problems.
Goverments are very complex things. It can apply to single policies. Then here we go into politics, and I don't care to.
Whoa—users aren't allowed to attack other users here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Hierarchy vs list. I don’t want a list (of subroutines). I want a tree of self contained routines. Only your containing routine uses you. Which “private“ routines use which? (I know the IDE will tell me about this routine, and that routine, but I don’t want to have to ask)

Your employer doesn’t want you testing getters, anyway, but rather features. Unit test fanatics need to stop.

I guess unit tests were useful for C++, when it was constantly crashing everything :-(

C++ and its legacy need to ride off into the sunset, already.
Even further be it from me to fall in to the "everything I don't like and some things I do are a deep state conspiracy," but if I was a covert US agent that wasn't happy to see people turn against helping their government, I would seriously consider stirring up suspicions of foreign influence on public demonstrations. After all, you know, labor strikes are organized by communists.
Again, you are not paying attention to what I'm pointing to but you are finding out the problem I have with his statement by yourself. You and I both can't find anything to back up this guy's statements and you would think such an outrageous thing would be easily findable and it's not.

Thus, we have a problem here.
Complex. Too long to discuss here. Politics then. Not helpful. Thank you for citing the theorem though.
Haven't checked the math but are you accounting for Liquid->Gas expansion?
Netflix fits what i'm saying exactly.

1- many people on here have said they don't want to keep track of any more streaming/subscription services beyond netflix (showing even netflix is too much)

2- netflix makes it as easy as possible to sign up and let other people join via family profiles because they know this is a true problem.

The reason people budget in the first place is precisely because they have an anxiety at the back of their mind about where their money is going.
Cool! I just found this feature yesterday or the day before, thanks to a post listing all the less documented HN features.

Have you found the new placement to be affecting the site/database load at all?
Circling back again, the more likely warpath FB would pursue is making FB work very poorly on non-cooperative browsers and excellently on cooperative ones.

Then users will blame the browser for being trash rather than FB.
Preventions of labor strikes are organized by bosses and public servants.
If I were a critic working for the NYT, I could see how even in his most degenerate form, Bukowski lived more deeply and experienced life more profoundly than someone with middling preoccupations could, and also, how desperately necessary it would be to fold him into some critical framework that neutered him, if only to mitigate the shame that lesser writers and the readers of criticism must live with as the price of their successes. All worth it, surely. Those seedy grapes are most certainly sour.

He was the man in the arena. Writers for newspapers, well, they write about men like him.
Virgin Galactic Makes Space for Second Time in Ten Weeks with Three on Board
Pcpp:A C99 Preprocessor Written in Pure Python
Thanks for sharing Newsboat!
For massive scale SaaS and non-native-code PaaS hosts, cost and perceived Intel lock-in risk will be the factor that drives them to deploy and evaluate these servers side by side with their Intel hosts. And, yes, those devs will have access to this hardware in their offices.
The thing I don't understand about the land registry / stock ownership scenarios is this:

If someone hits me with a rubber hose until I give them my private key, do they get to then keep my house?
"assuming they had training on par with what you received" feels unfair: Generally, what makes someone a 10x engineer is exactly that most people lack that level of training, experience, and skill. It's not about innate talent, but it's still a valuable, rare, and therefore marketable skill.

Achieving 100x results isn't something you can guarantee, and it doesn't even involve writing a lot of code. It comes from blocking off a week to automate a task, and never having to deal with it again. It comes from having the experience and political capital to veto a project that would have wasted a year, because you've seen it go wrong before. It comes from improving some tools for the customer service reps, so that they're 5% more efficient (which then adds up to hundreds of hours a day if you're large enough).

Anyone CAN do this, but the people who have the insight, motivation, and skill to actually DO it are rare, and a smart organization should desire to keep them around for years just in case they do it a second time.
Three employees were the representatives leading the effort. The petition was signed by far more MS employees.
The issue is that even a huge ecosystem like the Amazon, which we tend to consider "natural", has in fact been heavily shaped by humans.
"If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen" - Bukowski

His writing has never glamorized drinking, to me. Quite the opposite, he revels in sharing the dregs of a depressing lifestyle. But there is some beautiful prose burried in his vulgar squalor.
You're making the mistake of thinking that blockchains are databases. Also of imagining that blockchain applications require smart contracts (you can run applications on a distributed network simply by affixing data to transactions, check out Saito for an example of how this is done).

The blockchain is a self-sustaining PKI network. It eliminates MITM attacks and facilitates the use of PKI technology by making it trivial for nodes to read/write/verify information that is sent over the network. On the economic layer, the fact that it pays its own way eliminates the ability for network operators to create information-layer monopolies (i.e. App Store).

If you think about blockchain as a database, you'll be stuck thinking about the use cases that involve a database. If you think about blockchain as smart contracts, you'll be stuck comparing them to real world contracts. Start thinking of decentralized app stores (which cannot impose constraints on the revenue models of their hosted apps) or advertising networks which let users put advertisements on any webpage. There are tons of reasons to pay a small fee to send information across a secure and tamper-proof network.
> I think the key word that was keeping people from realizing software developers needed unions was "meritocracy"

Anyone who spent a couple of years in a corporation will know that meritocracy does not dictate career advancement or compensation. I think the tide has turned in the past years and the 'veterans' are starting to feel the ageism and the new fantastic coders aren't as thirsty drinking the kool-aid.
Naturalness is a useful abstraction. It contrasts things we will interact with through discovery to those we interact with through design. It is a sound concept, it is just biased to be human-centric.
Upvote for IPFS. Pinned the resource on my node to spread out the load, thanks!
The proof rest on feeding a nested parenthesis string to a hypothetical DFA called “B.” Since these are nested parentheses, a string that is recognized will be of the form `pp’`, where `p` is a string of open parentheses, and `p’` is a string of closed parentheses the same length as `p`.

e.g. (((((((((())))))))))

In that example, `p` is length ten. After reading `p`, the recognizer must be in one of its states. It can’t have halted, and it can’t have recognized.

Let’s say that the recognizer has `n` states. Consider the strings (), (()), ((())), ...

After (, the machine is in some state. Let’s give that a number, 0.

If we start all over and give it ((, it must be in another state, state 1, or we must accept that two different strings end up in the same state. Then we can start all over and give it (((, and we must end up in state 2. And so we can go, adding a parenthesis each time, and the machine must end up in a different state after reading a different number of opening parentheses.

Eventually we reach state n-1, after starting from scratch and giving it n opening parentheses. We must now know that all the strings from 0 to n-1 in length lead to n different states in an n-state DFA.

So what happens when we give it n+1 opening parentheses?

It must end in one of its states, but we already know that the strings with one through n opening parentheses have ended up in each of its n states. So the string with n+1 opening parentheses must end up in the same states as one of the shorter strings with opening parentheses, we just don’t know which.

Back to the proof. The shorter of the two strings is p from the proof. The longer is q.
Yes, their TOS specifically prohibits this: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795983
If you haven’t seen it, I highly encourage the documentary: black sky“ about scaled composites and Virgin Galactic.
Humans are a sub-tropical species. So you are correct - we are totally better off in warm climates. But at the rate we're going, Boston will have Florida weather in 50 years.
I don't understand the distinction you're making. In aggregate more people are harmed by owning guns than are saved by owning guns.
The Jones Act says that a ship has to stop at a non-US port in between US ports, UNLESS THAT SHIP IS US FLAGGED (meaning it complies with all US labor, environmental, etc. regulations)[1]. These days, very few merchant ships are US flagged: essentially you have to be specialized in the business of moving between US ports (most prominently shipping to Puerto Rico) versus shipping between countries.

It would not make economic sense for an LNG carrier to be US flagged year round to serve a market that exists for two months (New England in January and February), so no LNG tanker is US flagged. Therefore no LNG can be carried between Louisiana and Boston, and they have to come from Russia or Trinidad.

[1]: It is slightly more complicated then that. There are further regulations to prevent the obvious work-arounds you are presently thinking of, person who never heard of this law before but thinks he can outsmart it.
One cherry-picked fact tends to earn, rightfully, downvotes.
This is the key reason why the United States is the financial power of the world that it is.

It isn't so much about our freedoms or our GDP, although they play a role.

Unlike China and Russia, we have WAY more guns and we're WAY less corrupt. That's a pinnacle of financial security; you can be confident that the United States will honor its treasury securities. China and Russia? Probably, except who knows what internal or external conflicts shake their fragile economies, and maybe they just won't pay out on time or at all.

People hate the fact that we spend so much on our military, but the inconvenient truth is that we have the comfortable lives we have now in large part because we have so many god damned weapons, and very advanced ones at that. That goes for those who live in foreign ally nations; deep down, their leaders know we will intervene on their behalf if shit hits the fan. America has had its share of fuckups, but they're still not eclipsed by the fuckups of Russia or China.
There are interesting parallels there to the House of Lords in the UK, which more often than not holds the government to account better than the Commons. It does seem that sometimes pure democracy needs tempering.

(Curiously, the House of Lords was the top court in the UK before the Supreme Court was created recently)
> No country has so many immigrants working in their tech sector.

Usually the kind of tech+military work that actually gets people bombed and killed is reserved for US citizens with security clearance.

Unless you're implying that, like, deploying Office is equivalent to developing killer drone tech.
poor Carlos, his friends were probably giving him shit about the size of his yacht.