skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the answer to the first question, fellow readers, is "Yes, but not to the degree that they read an article about it and wonder if that's them"

It's like one of the pages with autism spectrum testing tools says: "If you take all of the tests on this page, you're probably on the autism spectrum." - most people won't diligently spend 3 or 4 hours trying to see if they're autistic, to a degree that is somewhat diagnostic.

The best tests available are things like https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient - for reference, I'm diagnosed, and before I took it, I got a mid-level score, because I didn't understand the comparative degree to which those things were true for me, e.g. "I often notice small sounds when others do not" - how do you know if you aren't aware and ask?

So, it's a bit like the old saw about "If you have to ask, you'll never know" - it's worth seeing a mental health professional and asking them, because they can provide you the feedback that people on the spectrum are critically missing out on.
I Turned Down My Silicon Valley Dream Offer
I wrote a news website[https://todayheadlines.live/] which show news with similar topic in a cluster form. My pipeline do collect content data as well. However, I am not very sure how to properly summarized all the perspectives.
That’s an interesting part in there about how only one company in history really did something that NN would have prevented, and the FCC quickly fixed that anyhow. The other often sited examples like Comcast temporarily limiting torrent traffic for network management reasons - is a valid reason to do so even under 2015’s NN ruling (really, even under NN an ISP can throttle for network management reasons).

So the question I have is why did FAANG, Reddit, and all of tech media jump so heavily into panic mode regarding NN repeal? It seems very unlikely their priorities sync up with mine.

ESP when you consider that FAANG has been in censorship mode of content with little concern for obviousness since 2015, expanding their data mining, and swinging their weight into would-be competitors. Your article makes good points, and it makes me think my skepticism of the corperate directed outrage against NN repeal is justified.
you're the first only commenter to mention the waste products from desalination:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5ut_4zKug
I'm not arguing against patents.

However, I am arguing against patent protection for de minimis structural changes that have no substantial therapeutic benefit. Or bullshit delivery systems.

For example, I use testosterone creme. Androgel costs a bloody fortune, because their formulation (basically hair gel) has patent protection. So I use a compounded cream that costs ~90% less.

> The alternative to offering an extremely expensive patented drug to really sick patients is no drug at all (or whatever the previous standard of care was).

That's not the only alternative. Drug development ought to be publicly funded. As it is, the drug industry tends to leech off publicly-funded research. And drug manufacturers ought to be paid only for the manufacturing.
certainly but it’s one or the other. unregulated monopolies are lose-lose.
Please don’t do that. Sleep is really important, and waking up before sunrise is potentially detrimental to overall sleep in the population.
A job at NSA, for instance.
My problem, in general, is that I run just below redline normally. So any extra stressors and I'm kaput for a week.
I like how it's written and straight to the point, but calling an almost 300 pages book as "handbook" about _rescue_ is kind of funny.
Redis. Sidekiq.
KDE has full time developers.
TBH, this isn’t too interesting, at least to me.

In a previous job, I got to know our Import/Export lawyer, who we needed assistance every time we needed to ship anything technological overseas; it wasn’t just import headaches on the receiving end, there were also export headaches on the sending end.

So it doesn’t surprise me if customs took some sample of product, found inconsistencies, and decided to hold the shipment. Yes it’s annoying and costs money (I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re paying storage charges), but you resolve it (cleanly) and move on.
"people are just dumb and prone to irrational panics"

Of any statement that I've read this year, this is the one that most succinctly captures the entire spectrum of political life. Left or right, fake news to hacker news... Understand that statement and you understand how far we've come.
Getting apples to apples numbers to compare can be difficult. People tend to built more stories in more desireable (read expensive) places.
Sure, people are playing Munchausen's by proxy with kids to get special treatment, and so are adults.

By percentage, of the people out there claiming ASD? Negligible. It's not a fun diagnosis. Nobody's going to play it up for fun. They'll pick something easier to fake and more rewarding, like cancer or allergies, maybe autoimmune.

Standard line treatment for ASD is "Good luck, I hope your life goes okay, I'm here if you want to talk about it".
It would be ridiculous if she hadn't spent the two previous paragraphs which are quoted on the same Snopes page outlining what she claimed was the content of the bill.

Those paragraphs eliminate the possible interpretation of her sentence as you can only find out what's in the bill if we pass it. They also eliminate you can only be certain what's in the bill if we pass it-- she was clearly claiming the bill as an obvious positive step in health care.

It even eliminates we have to pass quickly to overcome the Republicans' criticisms-- because obviously the Republicans would (and did!) continue vociferously critiquing it after it passed.

The only meaning left I can see is the obvious interpretation-- we have to pass this so that you can benefit from the things I just said, and those benefits won't be subject to controversy. That's like bog standard political rhetoric-- what every politician claims for legislation aimed at the general public.

It's certainly an awkward sentence, but it's not difficult to figure out what she meant.
Because getting into an office when it's still dark in winter is even more depressing than having less hours of light in the evening in summer
> Because once you tax it and spend it, it's gone.

Where did it go? Did the government burn my tax dollars in a giant bonfire? Tax money doesn't disappear. It gets spent on things like schools, hospitals, the military, fire departments, police departments, SCHIP, roads, NASA, etc. You can argue about where exactly the money should go but it all ends up back in the economy.

> > I pay tax on my home every year.

> You don't pay it by selling your home and giving the government a percentage of the proceeds. You pay it out of your income. Nor does your paying property tax on your home reduce your home's value. So it's really an income tax, not a wealth tax

If I lose my job and run out of savings that's exactly how I pay it. Trying to call it an income tax because I have income is a poor way to reframe it.

> But I don't think the people who are pushing a "wealth tax" are thinking of it that way. I think they are thinking of it, long term, as a way to force very wealthy people to sell assets and give the proceeds to the government, which will then redistribute it somehow.

I don't see this as a major problem. If I own a $100 million dollar yacht and have to sell it to pay a 1% wealth tax I would still have $99 million left. If I can't find some way to make money off of that $99 million before it gets chipped away to almost nothing at 1% a year then maybe it would be better for that money to be spread around instead of concentrated somewhere it isn't being efficiently used.
It is relevant since they could be cherry picking facts to rate
FAANGs heavily lobbied for net neutrality
Might be hard to find, as Netflix blocks the IP address ranges of major cloud providers, presumably including DigitalOcean.
what a great quote :D
Alternative take. Want to secure national infrastructure? Release the tools to do it for free.

Viva la open-source revolution
Ask HN: How to create a service similar to Patreon?
I'd like to create a service similar to Patreon, I know how to do the technical side but not so sure about financial side: how do I charge users to send the funds to other type of users (creators), while subtracting a small percent? How does it need to be set up from the POV of financial compliance? Can it be reported as "payment to support Creator xyz" without a specific product? Does the company need to register as a bank or something similar to a bank? Financial services company? Where can I find some relevant resources, and how can I narrow down my research so that I don't have to read everything about all types of financial services but only more or less relevant info? (located in the US).
Akhenaten: mad, bad, or brilliant? (2014)
The graphic would seem to indicate that the UK and Portugal observe a time zone of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC±0). This is nonsense, of course; UTC is not a time zone. I believe the UK observes GMT (UTC±0) and Portugal uses Western European Time (UTC±0).

It's also worth looking up the story of why Coordinated Universal Time is abbreviated UTC and not CUT, if you haven't heard it. Time zones are great.
The rationale for daylight savings in a southern latitude like California is this:

People generally wake up, and go to work the first thing in the morning. They would like to travel to work after sunrise. They would also like to maximize the amount of daylight they get to enjoy outside of work.

This means that in the summer, all the daylight before waking up is "wasted" so you want to move solar noon forward. But if you move it too far, it'll be pitch black when people get to work in the winter, which is why you then have daylight savings to move solar noon back a bit.

If you live further south, like Hawaii, the difference in length of day between winter and summer is very small, so you can't shift solar noon around. Therefore, Hawaii doesn't do daylight savings.

If you live further north, like Sweden, the difference in length of day between winter and summer is enormous, and in the summer the sun rises at like 3 in the morning with daylight savings, and in the winter the sun rises at 10 with standard time, and the rate of daylight change around the equinoxes is huge, so the effect only lasts a week or two. It makes absolutely no sense to have daylight savings there, and the EU parliament making it not mandatory for countries is a step in the right direction, i.e. abolish the useless thing in Sweden.

Spain and the other Mediterranean countries could maybe keep it for all I care, but Spain has a weirdly skewed solar noon anyway...
> Yeah, that's pure "SJW". (Flagged for that, btw. Never in the history of online discourse has that term served as anything but an attempt to shut people up. Throwing it around un-ironically is prima facie bad-faith discourse.)

Do try to be more careful about speaking in absolutes. They have this annoying habit of not actually being true.
If your Red team is reversing binaries you’re doing it wrong.
Game Developer Lamentation
Graphene can do almost anything except exit the lab. I hope to see my grandchildren see its benefits one day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6tzy80/graphene...
Maybe they mean Coder asks for the phone number when one logs in with Github.
Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy
It would take very long years for this to become available to the public. I am sure we will hear many early-adopters' stories in the news which will make you rethink what you are thinking right now...
Fascinating article! Thank you!
Democrats are far more socialist than they used to be. Do you suggest all of the USA political spectrum has moved to the left? I don’t have an opinion on that but I bet lots of people would argue a shift the other way.

I think that’s a problem of perspective. Republicans have always had big government establishment RINOs clashing with small government fiscal conservatives who feel they are too far left for fiscal issues and mixed bag on social issues. Bush era “neocons” get little love today (Romney for example). If you are truly on the center today (rare breed) you might be interested that the neocons hate Trump, and how the GOP establishment is begrudgingly stuck with him.

Polar opposite, if you find yourself agreeing with every socialist proposal and bemoaning yourself that Dems are too far right, it’s probably just perspective of how extreme left you are.

So... are Republicans less free-market than they “used” to be? Or does it only seem that way from your perspective? When you say Republicans, do you mean base, establishment, or Trump?
GGP here - I was talking about the USB-A connector. I think the issue is the physical size of the connector - it catches on things, and when I use it in non-desk locations (couch, mostly), the larger protrusion from the main chassis of the laptop makes it more likely to move around. Over time, it makes the socket looser and looser.
Sigh. Sorry. fixed. Wish we had -markdown- for corrections.
Sure but all these makers would slow their efforts right down if Tesla were to go away. Now they're stuck between cannibalizing their ICE lineup or being entirely eaten by Tesla. If the predator leaves the scene they'll start twiddling their BEV thumbs.
Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome
OK, so then you must not object to T-Mobile at the Trump hotel, because there is zero evidence that:

a. Trump's political decisions were influenced by T-Mobile or any other hotel customer

b. T-Mobile or any other company chose the hotel with the goal of receiving preferential treatment

I can't even find evidence that Trump got involved in the merger deal. The closest I can find is some insinuations based on the fact that Trump met the CEO of SoftBank back in 2016.

The amount of revenue (not profit) is only about 1/20000 of Trump's wealth, which is equivalent to under $10 for a normal person. That is practically nothing. It doesn't even go into Trump's pocket. Most will go to supplies and wages and rent, so it's more like the amount being under $1 for a normal person. That would be a joke of a bribe.

The place is a fancy hotel in DC. That is exactly the sort of place you'd expect to be used by corporate executives who need to meet with government officials in DC.

It would be news if the executives stayed at a Motel 6, or if they picked a hotel in Pennsylvania.
You can also try https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/conex/

Works similar to tab groups, but each group is in it's own container.
Cyprus?
Since it’s getting dark earlier after work, how does this maximize daylight outside of work?

> They would like to travel to work after sunrise. They would also like to maximize the amount of daylight they get to enjoy outside of work.
'I Want to Expose Google's Mistakes': Hacker Blamed for Big Android Fraud
15th-century manuscript reveals links between Gaelic Ireland and Muslim world
Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas?
Where (or to what kind of area) are you moving? Will you drive?
Take a look at Stripe Connect
I'm not sure this addresses my point.

> If your site makes it possible to XSS the login page, you're doing login pages wrong.

Agreed, but the point was that a DIFFERENT service might be vulnerable and have XSS on their page which allows an attacker to request credentials for the real target. Your service isn't hacked, your users are.

> signs a response on the basis of the presented domain

This might do it, depending on what this means... Does this mean that if my address bar says `www.serviceA.com` that I include that domain in the response? Then if I asked the client for their credentials with a challenge and `rawId` (I think that's what identifies the relying party, IIRC) matching `www.serviceB.com`, it's possible that `www.serviceB.com` can reject the MITMed response because the attestation has the wrong domain. This is similar to JWT implementations only verifying the signature is valid and not checking that the signature type is the kind expected (i.e., not none). So, a weakness but nothing fatal.

I am curious how that works. I'll need to try it out.
There was an alternative named Hatron that used Visa until Visa pulled services because they funded conservatives. Libertarians, and white nationals.

So contact the credit card companies and watch who you fund.
I live in Japan where they originate from and they have stores all over the country. All my glasses have been from them, zero complaints, super cheap, good service too (you can drop in to any of their stores whenever to get things adjusted, lost nosepads replaced, etc for free which is hard to do with an online vendor)
Yeah, uh, that doesn't work in northern Europe, or you'd have everyone asleep until 10.

On a meta note: It is always super interesting to me how fundamental people think that day length is, if they've never experienced living at different latitudes. The variations are absolutely enormous, and create very different mindsets. That said, seasonal mood disorders are very common in northern Europe for a reason.

Going to school or going to work hours before sunrise in the winter is just the way of things in northern Europe. You don't have a choice in the matter. The flipside is that having full daylight at 10 in the evening during summer is also just the way of things, and the almost non-existant night is a complete mindfuck for people used to less variations in day length.
Laws that are narrow and targeted often times leave open loopholes. You can end up with a regulatory agency and various companies playing a game of cat and mouse leading to a huge regulatory burden and tons of wasted resources on both sides. Sometimes it's better to just establish a simple even playing field with clear and comprehensive rules of behavior.
Israel is a leading desalinator and major almond exporter, using less water per bushel than California by a factor of 30.

Their secret? Each tree has a pipe about one meter deep. Water goes into the pipe instead of being sprayed on the ground.

There are huge amounts of low-hanging fruit in California agriculture. Water is priced too low to make it worth taking advantage of.
I wonder if there were some mainframe "professionals" with this opinion before the advent of the personal computer.
I suspect that part of the reversion to censorship is a reaction to a shift in the information environment. We've moved from a situation in which more free speech mostly meant pumping more signal into the public space to one where more free speech means pumping in more noise.

The worst thing about this is how easily this mechanism can be leveraged against our inclination to madly pattern match, and, worse(?), how we pick out the signals we like more than the ones we don't.

I'm not sure how to deal with this yet, but I am skeptical that total free speech is the best option right now. At least, we need to build new institutions and new media consumption habits before it becomes the best option. We need ways to deal with noise, be that individually or as communities.

My inclination is to say that we should push political discussions down to the local level in order increase the signal/noise ratio while maintaining free speech.
None of that is relevant to NN other than the zero rating (which is allowed on cell networks anyway where price per gb is relevant). That whole acquisition was entirely unaffected by net neutrality.
From what I've read, one of the most exciting properties of ketamine treatment of depression is it's rapid onset. Ketamine seems to become effective in hours and retain benefit for days. If there is a negative reaction, stopping can similarly rapidly cease effect. Conversely, SSRIs or Tricyclics can take weeks to begin taking effect, and if a negative reaction occurs, it can similarly take weeks for effects to extinguish after ceasing dosage.
Maybe he gave Xi his first born.
That's enterprise penetration testing software, IDA is bench reverse engineering software. It's a totally different market.
Well the seasons don't give us much wiggle room here, so the thinking is to (1) make sure the sun has risen when you set off for work. If there's extra sunlight still, then (2) let's have that after work.

In the winter, you can't have both, so you pick #1. In the summer, you have "extra" sunlight that's being wasted on the sleeping, so you shift it to after work and get #1 and #2.
It is not wrong. It gives an approximation of reality.

With 2 or 3 differential equation, you can model the growth of a city and the densification of its center in a kinda realistic way. It gives you a baseline.

In such a model, population is a number. One way to look at it is to say that it has the assumption that everybody is equal, but another way to look at it is to say that we are averaging the population differences.

Such a model would fail at modelling some behaviors like the densification of some suburban island, would be totally oblivious to the creation of ghettos.

If the goal is to make a game, that can be enough. In some type of scientific or economic simulations they could be enough as well.

> The problem isn't with simplicity for simplicty's sake. My concern is that we're making public policy decisions based on models that are plain wrong

Models are, fortunately, not the only way to establish a fact-based policy. And far more complex models do exist taking more parameters into account.
It's not just budget cuts. It's an exploding legal system behind patents. Try to decipher the patent rules [1] sometime. It's filled with incredibly counter-intuitive self referential legalese that, even when one understand the jargon, is not entirely clear. And it regularly has very major changes made to the entire code. In general as you approach some degree of complexity in anything, the number of individuals who sufficiently grasp it approaches 0. And then as you're mentioning - that's only about the patent legalese itself. Now the patent examiners also need to be able to have an understanding of what are ideally novel new inventions in various fields, which themselves are often increasingly obfuscated.

Anybody could perform a sufficiently capable of job this has way better career opportunities than earning $80k at the patent office. While this does support your notion of budgetary cuts being the primary problem, again I think that misses the core problem which is that the system has become so convoluted that actually having a meaningful holistic understanding requires immense skill and education. Systems that are supposed to be for public, and individual, use should not require a juris doctor to begin to parse.

The whole system needs a major overhaul, frankly like much of our formal structures. Isn't it a bizarre system that people are expected to completely obey laws which they are in no way expected to be able to completely understand?

[1] - https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.html
FTA:

F.D.A. approval requires that doses be taken in a doctor’s office or clinic, with patients monitored for at least two hours… The safety monitoring will require doctors to find space for treated patients, which could present a logistical challenge, some psychiatrists said.

I can kill a few birds with one stone here. Doctors should offer the 2-hour sessions in the evening, in darkened "clinics" with dance floors and DJ music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier_(neural_networks)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning
Not really. It zooms eventually, but then you get to also see how broken scrolling is. (You can't scroll using the space bar, and you can't read what's at the very bottom of the text, or at least not when using my low res large font setup.)
Fair enough, my first idea was actually to use MicroPython. With a megabyte of Flash that would have been possible, but 64K is just not enough.