skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did that. Then I went back to Spotify and simply do both.
People tend to think "democracy" = "freedom". But a state can have a massive slave population, and still be a "democracy" as long as a group of citizens vote.
this is incredible
That statement is not supported by plenty of scientific research. One of the problems is that organizations like WPATH suppress any research that contradicts the trans narrative, and publish poor studies that support it.

I understand this video is long but it goes in to detail as to why the "scientific research" has been, well, doctored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtQ1geeD_c
Many lines are invisible to westerners because it’s built-in the culture, e.g. ever wonder why they do 90 degree bows?
I regularly shop at three different grocery chain stores. It's way easier for customers to switch between them compared to being locked into the Apple app store.
Of course, the obstructionist left is in charge of the house. They don't care about employment only votes
But where's "with how much more they contribute?" part of the answer? Such as the jobs created?
s/severs/servers/
Interesting that I didn't see Cities: Skylines on the inspiration list. Intentional snub? Haven't played it? Just forgot? Curious.
I think the game everybody is playing that it's easier to ask for more money when something is already half done than asking for the whole budget upfront. And you can also cut/adjust scope in the middle.
Twitter and Facebook in 2019 are both dumpster fires, but they aren't the totality of social media. Before (and concurrent to) them we had Friendster, Myspace, Orkut, and a plethora of hybrid services that have social networking features.

Facebook and Twitter (1) optimize for mobile, where expressing complex thought is difficult, (2) perform relentless A/B engagement testing seemingly without accounting for the fact that people engage with things that make them unhappy, and (3) have a huge news/media presence. I think all these elements and probably more contributed to the cancer these services have become.
Is it your belief that there has never been any good public policy other than laws criminalizing violence that have ever had any positive effects on how much violence occurs?
Could you provide some sources, this is a fascinating aubject
> So, who gets to rig the betting markets?

For one, the same people that rig policy today, by the same basic means. Slipping carefully deisgned but innocuous seeming provisions into policy legislation just gets replaced with slipping carefully designed but innocuous factors into the grand utility function that he legislature is maintaining instead of policy legislation.

There's also the people measuring outcomes that become prime corruption targets. Corrupting the official measurement of, say, the unemployment rate has minimal value to anyone now, but if the value is a key input to the grand utility function, and the value on a particular date this influences the settlement of policy contracts someone has a large stake in, it becomes a lot higher value corruption target.
Which decreases to 15% after the first year.
This one goes back about four years:

"OH: SF tech culture is focused on solving one problem: What is my mother no longer doing for me?"

https://twitter.com/azizshamim/status/595285234880491521
I don't think you can, and worse, iTunes used to have free radio stations that were pretty decent, but are now locked behind the Apple Music paywall.

Radio is an area that Spotify falls flat on its face. If I want to listen to random holiday music, for instance, Spotify just sucks.
==Don't be ridiculous, you understand what I wrote.==

What you wrote was hyperbole based completely on political bias. I responded in-kind.

==And this isn't what people target when they talk about a "90%" (or whatever number) income tax rate on the wealthiest.==

Yet, the one example you provided (Sen. Wyden) does exactly this.
People still believe that apostasy should be punished by death. People still believe that Stalin did nothing wrong. People still believe that the Bourbon monarchy was a good regime and that France has faced nothing but centuries of decline since they tried to abolish it.

"People still believe" isn't a meaningful or impactful argument. You can find at least 100 people who believe virtually anything, because there are over seven billion people and the human mind has much more than a 1 in 70 million chance of believing something dumb.
I think you're taking that statement quite out of context and extrapolating it into an argument against math and logic. By saying 'binary is bullshit', they are making the argument that gender is a bimodal distribution, and that forcing it into a pure binary model is oppressive (not to mention counter to much evidence). Certainly in the gender distribution, the two peaks may represent so many people that it is useful to name them, just as it is useful to name many strong probabilistic phenomenae. Is the weather report that it will rain certain? No, but I'll prepare for rain. I think we'll agree on that.

But many people fall outside of the bimodal peaks and are actively discriminated against by people who do not believe there is a distribution in the first place, or who believe that if you are not sufficiently close to one of the peaks that you are an unfit human being.

This is why I think you're taking it out of context. You are clearly not the target audience of that statement. You understand that the two mainstream gender labels are, as you say, 'useful' and 'practical'. You understand that '1' can represent many voltages. Labels are useful, as long as you understand the level of certainty they represent. The target audience of that statement believes they are the only thing, period (taking a simplistic view), or who make a value judgement based on how close one is to one of the bimodal peaks (taking a normative view).

Certainly I don't represent everything you'll read that's said or written by advocates for people with different genders, but there is illogic on both 'sides' of the arguments on gender and sexuality. Here's how I look at it. Regardless of the illogic, which side is more harmful? The side that is making value judgements based on faulty evidence and using those to propose and enforce sometimes tremendously painful rules on others, or the side that is sometimes making illogical arguments in an attempt to be accepted by society?
Okay, I guess that's the end of Wikipedia then. Time go somewhere else.
It would be cool (but super niche) to have a "wait, what was that" button in Netflix. Skip back 10s, enable subs. Would be great when you're trying not to use the subtitles, but sometimes get a bit outpaced.

Edit: maybe not so niche! Someone build a WebExtension!
You're hilarious. From EV's to ICE cars now animals? What's next? you'll ask me if I have seen aliens?

Before you ask, no I haven't seen those yet. Been to a 5 day African Safari and did not see any Zebras either.
The general sentiment here seems (to me, anyway) to be that photography is one of those things that many people _are_ going to do anyway, which is why it's very difficult to be highly paid for it.

If so many people are willing to do something for free, is it really fair to vilify someone for inquiring as to whether you are one of those people?
Wow, I am very disappointed by many of the comments in this thread. I would have thought that my fellow tech workers would be more rational and less bigoted than this. I am also frankly amazed that HN allows these viewpoints be spread. As a gay man, this makes this forum considerably less welcoming. Consider if instead of anti-LGBT bias, it were racism instead.

HN has a very strict commenting policy, with arguments needing to be substantiated, etc. Especially in light of that, the tolerance of posts that are not only unsubstantiated and unscientific, but also discriminatory, is bizarre.
That's a good argument, and I've actually discussed that issue in the past wrt grocery stores. Those grocery store brands seem to be good for consumers, but bad for a world where people can start successful companies and work for themselves. Maybe its just more efficient to have one giant megacorp make and sell every single thing, but I'd be willing to spend a bit extra so all my self employed friends wouldn't ever be forced to get 'real' jobs

edit: typo
Your reaction is understandable, but there are many topics that HN readers are just personally really into. When those interests don't line up with our own we usually look for some explanation to bridge the gap. But shillage is not that bridge; it's just a quick and easy move to resolve the cognitive dissonance.

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Has anyone outside IBM/Lenovo ever managed to ship a TrackPoint that worked as well as the "real" ones? I love TrackPoints, but my experiences with them on non-IBM/Lenovo machines have been disappointing at best.

(Which is bizarre, since the first TrackPoint machines came out in the early '90s, so you'd think any patents IBM/Lenovo lean on for their great implementation would have expired long ago by now. Unless there's some patented discoveries they made after the first versions shipped.)
Interesting point. I think I've been feeling this lately as a desire to have, basically, smarter compilers. It's actually incredible to me when I think about how many minutes of human thought are wasted among myself and my peers to informally verify facts about our programs.

Obviously, types and tests help. But it's astonishing how much incidental complexity creeps into one's everyday work with our current tools. Under most circumstances telling a computer to do something shouldn't be that much harder than telling a human to do it (assuming a concrete grammar and shared vocabulary).
Well, as someone from Russia and before that, Soviet Union, despite having the polar opposite message in propaganda, I've seen it again and again to be exactly true. I haven't seen a single competent, able-bodied and hard-working man staying poor in my life. What I've seen though was a lot of laziness, entitlement and horrible work ethics.
> 65. If I must have computer systems with publically available terminals, the maps they display of my complex will have a room clearly marked as the Main Control Room. That room will be the Execution Chamber. The actual main control room will be marked as Sewage Overflow Containment.

Another rule: I will not brag about my overlord list (which contains critical information) on the Internet
Volatility is a calculation. What volatility range is a sign of health? What range is problematic?
I wouldn't feed the troll, but I don't want your misinformation to spread.

> They weren't

They just took off, max height of the airplane was 1000 feet above the ground. That's a definely low altitude.

> Runaway trim should be a recoverable situation.

The trim pointed the nose down. The aerodynamic forces were so high on the elevator that the trim wheels could not be moved by a single person. This was confirmed in 737 simulator.
Watch: Interview with Ebbe Altberg on the Future of Second Life and Sansar
stack-based memory allocation is the proper way to model data local to procedures in a call stack.
This is the sole reason I have not purchased from them. As long as Dell and Lenovo are the only three-button pointing stick vendors, they'll be the only ones who can sell me computers.
Oh definitely. It's not very practical to invent a new name every time someone comes up with a new term. And all encompassing + is so vague it is almost irrelevant to add.
To be honest, you are likely to be lied to in any of those nations. And none are any more likely than the others to put forward the truth. (Or, "facts" if you prefer.)

So you can't really judge these different nations based on whether government officials lie to you. They all will, let's just put that on the table and accept it. So you need to judge them based on other things. What other freedoms do you enjoy? How many other freedoms? What is the economic upside? (Lots of freedom with no economic opportunity gets old very fast, just ask the average Kenyan.) etc etc etc.

But, yeah, access to 100% of the facts and truth is not something that most of the world's residents will ever have access to unfortunately.
Is that what Klabnik is? An "evangelist"?
In all fairness, when I was an undergrad long ago I earned beer money doing various photography-related jobs for the alumni association and other such groups for not a lot of money. But, today, $100 to go somewhere, spend 4 hours doing something you otherwise probably aren't interested in doing, and probably spend the rest of the day editing? $100 for basically a day really isn't great money unless there were some reason you wanted to do the job and the money was just a little something extra.
It is appalling that the top 3 comments (at time of writing this one) are victim-blaming. "They should get better jobs". "There's a high demand so they should go elsewhere". "They should have known before they went there".

Where have you been in the last few years, and how have you not learned anything about abusive practices which entrap people? These companies are basically abusive — they abuse their staff with long hours and low benefits, taking full advantage of the cool-factor to entangle them. As anyone who has the slightest empathy and has read anything in the news cycle in the last few years would know, people caught in this situation are often unaware they're being abused, blame themselves, and don't realize there is better elsewhere.

If you're one of the people who are, right now reading this, thinking "That's a load of BS these people are idiots and they deserve what they get", then I implore that you think again and realize you are essentially blaming the victim. That's almost never the right side to be on.

What we need to do is expose these companies for what they really. Put all these things out in the open and air them for all to see. Perhaps at some point we can have all the major studios unionized, and perhaps once their internal cultures become less toxic, their external one will likewise clear up a bit. Here's hoping.
saying it works on android is a bit generous. haha. i was paying for it and using it, but it was a terrible experience. apple music on android often couldn't even play music downloaded unless it had a screaming internet connection. i have no idea what the download feature was even for. and there were countless bugs and usability issues. maybe it's better now, but it was terrible around a year or two ago.
No, it's because Apple's touchpad hardware is superior, and the industry benchmark. I say this grudgingly.

I have given up on Apple's laptops for a host of reasons. The touchpad is the main thing I miss.

It's not a question of a driver update. The perfect precision of their touchpad hardware has not (yet) been matched.
Working on an application now with deep a11y requirements. The main function of the application can't be done without sight (validating scanned documents). It's just a little frustrating.
It's not about the DOJ.

You just have a tenuous grasp on when/where antitrust can be applied.
Chinese Commercial Space Company Fails First Launch
It depends. If we're talking about someone's "sex" then I'd say their gentials. If we're talking about their gender then I think it could quite easily mean to be how they personally identify.
I wonder if there's enough public information to do third party (citizen) audits?

Crowd fund some under employed accountants and geeks and sleuths to dig into some of the big boys.

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Is there some kind of bounty program exposing tax cheats? Like that small law group that's made millions whistleblowing big pharma.
But in order to be a democracy, do you not need the ability for everyone to freely express their political positions as to win over more political allies? If one party controlled all speech then voted that the opposition no longer had any free speech...they would control the entire national conversation. Hardly democratic. North Korea labels itself a "democracy" and holds elections, but no sane person actually believes that claim. The act of voting itself is only one piece of democracy.
Why do you assume that the parent was talking about your photography ability, and not their own?
I really enjoyed this method and feel that I benefitted alot from the peer programing aspect - that part was key.
Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19570378

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19573893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19577602
> I don't think any of us at Cloudflare had any idea Steve was writing this.

I technically told Billy, but I don't think he bothered to tell anyone else :)
I'm not sure how your quote is relevant to the statement that the Federal Reserve is part of the US government. The Federal Reserve is "independent within the government" [1] not separate from the government. There's a whole page on the Federal Reserve website's FAQ section dedicated to explaining this. Your quote seems to be about how commercial or State banks apply to become a part of the Federal reserve system.

1. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
>As far as your last comment, we're basically already there, I wish people would stop talking about it already. I think nothing when I see homosexuals, don't even look twice at trans. Zero fucks given.

Good for you, but "we" aren't basically already there at all.

>On the other hand, I am a bit annoyed that nearly every TV show feels the need to push an agenda down my throat in one way or another.

So... you feel the presence of gay characters in media represents an "agenda" being "pushed down your throat." You likely have no problem with straight characters, nor perhaps would even notice if a series had only straight characters, but feel that gay characters need to be justified.

Fucks given after all, I guess?

>Does every sitcom really need a gay couple now? Is that even representative of the population as a whole?

Not every sitcom has a gay couple, that's hyperbole. However, a dearth of gay characters in media does not represent the population as a whole (whatever that might mean in context) and the perception created by this historical lack of gay representation in media makes it seem as if gay people are less common in reality than they are.

So, yes, the few gay characters you see in media now probably do represent reality more accurately than would their absence, and may even still under represent the norm in some contexts.

Here[0] is a good video by one of the Council of Geeks members on why mainstream LGBT representation in media matters.

[0]https://youtu.be/XLPw5piB69E
> Appropriately recognizing Lemaître’s name in the history of astronomy, by accepting the recommendation of the IAU to use the term “Hubble-Lemaître law”, will benefit scientist-believers and scientist-atheists alike. For the former, it strengthens our case that science and faith are compatible.

WTF?

Newton spent a lot of time on alchemy. Does the fact that we have Newton's laws of motion strengthen the case that science and alchemy are compatible?

If Lemaître deserves recognition on this, then that is for something he did while avoiding faith. The fact that someone made a contribution to human knowledge while avoiding faith does exactly nothing to validate other irrational behaviour the same person exhibited at other times, nor does it demonstrate any kind of compatibility, other than the obvious and trivial fact that people can be rational in some regard while being irrational in some other regard.
Lenovo have, in the past five years, stopped implementing the things that elevated the experience, and now use the same modules that Dell uses. It's a shame, but at least we can still get three buttons.
Everyone here knows America has the death penalty. That's probably a big part of why you compared Japan to "western european countries" rather than America. Saying that a country has saner law and order than America is considered damning with faint praise.

To reiterate: America executes more people than Japan, but in Japan execution is far more popular than in America. In America, capital punishment is very controversial, but in Japan it enjoys broad public support.

To the original point, per wikipedia:

>"Of the countries/regions categorized as 'very high' on the Human Development Index, 10 countries perform capital punishment: the United States, Japan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Belarus, Oman, and Taiwan"

Of those, one is in North America, one in Eastern Europe, five in the Middle East, and three in Asia. It strains credibility to suggest that Asia, moreso than Western Europe, is known for a progressive justice system.

> "I'm not sure how capital punishment is relevant"

Because the matter being discussed is "most Asian governments' preference for strict and harsh governance."
Isn't society butting its nose into people's love lives the problem in the first place?

The reason "society" -- aka other people -- does that is because our sexual choices often have impacts on other people. If you sleep around casually, wind up pregnant out of wedlock and/or with a terrible, incurable STD, this will impact other people quite substantially. If you continue to sleep around casually afterwards and don't tell your lovers of your diagnosis, you are spreading disease in an outright malicious and incredibly selfish fashion.

Etc.

Most people who want society to butt out of their sex lives also want society to rescue them when something terrible happens. If people were all "It's all good. I'll just sleep in a ditch and wait to die of AIDS. I don't need nothing, thanks! I did this to myself." you might see less pushback from society concerning what people choose to do behind closed doors.

Or, you know, if someone just wants to masturbate and not involve anyone in how they get their sexual needs met, cool. But that isn't how most people operate.

Unfortunately, most people have a fairly poor track record of thinking in earnest about how their sexual preferences, predilections and choices impact other people. In many cases, they do a poor job of thinking about how this will impact the people they are actually having sex with. They often don't think at all about others beyond that who may be impacted as well.

I am not justifying homophobia, etc. But a policy of "live and let live" is not as simple as most people perhaps wish it were.
I'm not exactly sure about carpenters, but I know blacksmiths like to write long essays with many photographs about their tools and how they are set up and why some are better than others and in what circumstances and here are the great things you can do with them... and I presume I have already had the benefit of filtering out the illiterate and uninteresting ones, because these essays tend to be pretty good.

https://paulsellers.com/2013/10/debunking-myths-mysteries-sc...

https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/01/29/a-guest-in-th...