skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's I can confirm this issue for me.
It looks like that someone given all the Unreal Engine users push rights, this prompted the GitHub system to automatically subscribing them to the repository.

This prompted a lot of spam which it seems like its breaking the front page, prompting the unicorn page.
If you have this issue try to navigate to a different page to access your settings and edit the auto-subscription settings.

To disable this setting got to https://github.com/settings/notifications and un-tick the 'Automatically watch repositories' settings.

The repository seems to be these [1] & [2].
I'll advise anyone in the unreal engine to go and un-watch them as they are full of spam.

[1] https://github.com/FlameOfIgnis/UnrealEngine
[2] https://github.com/mad00ness/UnrealEngine
"This homelessness seems just dandy!"
This is not true, I live in twin peaks and there's been an increase of homeless folk coming up the hill.
I'd say it's more a consequence of subsidizing a highly versatile good. It must be continually regulated to ensure the subsidies aren't exploited for something that was outside the original intention. Sadly the increased regulation also reduces individual choice in favor of the governments vision of what's best for the nation.
bwahahahaha. 6?! I have exactly three. One is satellite, another is point-to-point who do not take any new customers, and the other is DSL with max speed of 25mb down (of which I get half). It says I have 100mb down service available.
Then this page is not for you. If you think a lot of people would prefer your definition of ethical products over the one OP linked, then feel free to make a competing page.
Think of it this way: if you need to drive from Kansas City to Boise the distance is constant (barring route changes). If you drive at 120mph vs 60mph you will get their faster but you will also use a lot more fuel in total even though when you're going slower you're on the road for twice as long.

Fuel expenditure falls in to two buckets:

1. Moving the vehicle. Accelerating to cruising speed and fighting the deceleration of friction and air resistance.

2. Keeping the vehicle running. Lights, climate control, that sort of thing.

My guess would be that the vast majority of fuel usage for planes is (1) not (2). As evidence of this, airlines care deeply about costs. It's not a high margin business (any more). My argument is that if it wasn't overall more fuel efficient to fly slower airlines just wouldn't do it. More evidence, the latest planes (A350, B787) have a lower cruising speed than, say, the 747. This also wouldn't be the case (IMHO) if it didn't decrease fuel costs.
> The Free File Alliance, a private industry group, says 70% of American taxpayers are eligible to file for free. Those taxpayers, who must make less than $66,000, have access to free tax software provided by the companies. But just 3% of eligible U.S. taxpayers actually use the free program each year. Critics of the program say that companies use it as a cross-marketing tool to upsell paid products, that they have deliberately underpromoted the free option and that it leaves consumer data open to privacy breaches.

During the years I was eligible for this program, I used TurboTax for free through it and it worked fine. It was a basic version that didn’t support complex transactions such as capital gains but for most people making under 66k it would have worked fine.

Very interesting to see only 3% use it. It would probably work well for a lot more of those 70%.

The paper forms are also easy enough to do manually, but can’t be e-filed and so the refund comes slower.
Blockchain: Closing the $1.5T gap in trade finance
> they would enact a land-value tax and establish a redistributive policy

They can't bring themselves to mention Proposition 13, somehow.
Having lived in SF for a number of years now, I 100% agree that SF is just dystopian as hell.

Trash everywhere downtown, human feces/needles/smell of urine all over downtown & SOMA, depressing mix of aggressive and zombie-like homeless, very few kids/families, very few minorities (especially African-Americans), barely functioning public transportation system, high rents forcing six-figure earners to live with 2 roommates and still pay $2500/month, 400 sq ft studios going for $700k, every other non-tech worker is an Uber driver/Instacart Shopper/DoorDash delivery person
>and the high earners are going to move away.

Expand your timeline.

Those high earners will screw up the economy of their destination state accidentally gutting the lower middle class, institute social programs to deal with the all the problems this creates, realized they just created the same dystopia they fled and move again.

It's like a perverse form of rolling upgrades.

You can see this process in action in places like CO and the PNW states which are starting to flip from "rich people move here" to "poor people move here". TX will probably start flipping soon.

Major urban areas with lots of job opportunity seem vacuum up the wealthy regardless of the state wide trend (no matter how bad NY state gets upper middle class people in search of a lucrative career will be moving to NYC). I'm not sure how that plays into things.
How would you define "ethical" in a way that covers Word, Chrome, Twitter and Dropbox?
Do you have an example of a nation failing to repel an invasion yet maintaining the integrity of its currency?
hmm not sure which one you refer to but there are quite a few carbon offsetting projects like https://www.myclimate.org/
The funny thing is aggressive copyright law is to blame for it and lawyers forcing "brand x-ing".
Without it we might see more "organic" classification intended to reflect the character like the old noir smoking cliches. Sure there would be manipulations still but it wouldn't be approved as a norm and other intrusions like "don't show the fancy sports car getting dented after ramming a gunman at 120 mph".
Ireland's five tax-free legal structures for holding assets
Wing launches commercial air delivery service in Canberra
Show HN: An Experimental Parenting Initiative
Isn't it misleading, to discuss it as a "vpn service"? If you install a binary, that not only controls vpn channel on both sides, but is also a browser, do I understand it right, that it can completely highjack the trust mechanisms, and happily MITM anything you visit?
Is there any way to find out if it's really establishing, well, vpn connection (e.g. openVPN or Wireguard), without DPI hardware and corresponding expertise?
I have never once personally written for a newspaper. Freedom of the press isn't necessarily better than censorship.
I really like Meson, but I've found with it that the corner cases where the simple syntax doesn't work get really hairy really fast, eg producing vst plugins, or linking against something that doesn't have a deep integration with pkgtool or such.
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology has no use whatsoever. It's all made up with fictionary scenarios where any already existing and well-established technology would do just as good or even better.

Don't put that snake oil in my browser, please. Thanks.
$359 is an order of magnitude less than four figures.

It's also about what we paid for my wife's shoulder. Which, like I said, is bad enough on its own.
Qubes OS has a defense agains USB attacks. It just reads the USB stick inside a dedicated VM and then, if necessary you attach it to another VM.
I don't think you would hold that opinion if you walked in the hilly are near Union Square.
I'm honestly surprised by the statement you quoted. You don't plug a random piece of evidence into your PC, not even for analysis, not even on a pseudo-isolated thing. From what I've seen in the private space you'd at least use something like a Logicube Talon/Falcon or similar device that is certified for forensic use and get an image of that storage medium, then you'd analyse that image.

edit: looks like their products have another name nowadays, basically something that's forensically sound and allows you to create storage images
> I’ve heard the claim, “Haskell let me encode business logic into the type system” so many times, but I think it’s totally a false promise. Usually people mean design patterns like phantom types and things, and it just leads to the same spaghetti code messes as in any other paradigm.

Well it's working for my code base so it's not a false promise.

I find it hard going back to dynamic languages now because of how little they allow you to see the types.

> I’ve never found any cases where encoding this stuff into the type system actually resulted in verifiably more correct code

I think there is still much debate about this. Dependent type theory is the only type system I know of in which it's possible to write proofs, and therefore verify, a program... but even dependent type theory alone is a bit bothersome for the task.

In my experience it's certainly possible to write a program in Python that is reasonably correct but it takes more effort.
>> Moving forward, I refuse to accept crumbs.

Pretty scathing. Solid relationships require "give and take". It sounds like the author was never able to "take" (which definitely would suck!), and would now rather just throw the baby out with the bathwater than try to find a reciprocal relationship.
I was skeptical but there's actually a few things in there I might try. I'm very motivated to move away from Gmail, for example.
Equity-based student loan funding is way less predatory than debt-based student loans, in my opinion, but every comment I read screams "slavery" and "wage-slave".

Of course, both types of funding can be benevolent and/or predatory depending on how you structure the terms, just like anything else. Unfortunately, our laws don't do a very good job of educating or warning young adults who are all entering predatory loan agreements that can't be voided even in bankruptcy.
Unlikely or the split would be similar in other rich western countries. It isn't, because everyone uses WhatsApp and that is available on Android.
San Francisco is a bonsai kitten. It wants to grow into a major world city like NYC, LA, or Tokyo, but its older residents are steadfastly opposed and want to keep it in a jar so it stays cute. The result is a painful deformed mess.

I don't really think city planning boards can control how cities grow. A city is a living thing. If it "wants" to grow, let it grow. If it doesn't, I don't think it can be forced.

Detroit learned the opposite lesson and is recovering in part by realizing that the Detroit of today is destined to be a much smaller city population wise than it once was and they are adjusting and "right-sizing" the city accordingly. They are concentrating on the living areas and demolishing and transforming the dead ones into parks, public gardens, urban farming, or natural land. The result will be a smaller city with a ton of really cool history and a cool "post-industrial" vernacular.
It doesn't praise ketogenic diet anywhere. Quote it then. My point is that the ketogenic diet is useless for anyone but eppilieptics or those wanting to lose weight fast, bodybuilders or sports that require weight limits

"Within minutes, glucose depletion and associated compromised bioenergetic pathways cause extensive neuronal death in the core of the infarction, and over time in the surrounding tissue"

Someone on here is going to read your bad advice, and god forbid, follow it. Here's my two cents
We can’t assume rational agents.
Bazel has been significantly faster than cmake/make on the codebases I've tried it on. It has a bunch of warts, but it has been a better framework to build on than anything else I've encountered.

I'm probably biased as I write and maintain Starlark for C++ codebases on a daily basis.
The sooner debian kills the python = python2 association and python3 becomes the default provider of 'python' the better, I think I read that it's scheduled for this year finally.
Google's world-first drone delivery business wins approval in Canberra
Yeah, let’s prop up the government and hedge funds with attached research arms. We should ignore the private companies that are already using ISAs, like Lambda School, to help people get job training to change their lives for the better and just assume that not for profits and the government will do things right because they have only the purest motives.

That worked out so well for the taxpayers and citizens of the US with student loans, and for the students. Giving universities another legal massive legal advantage over alternative means of education is a great idea. That couldn’t possibly go wrong.

Sarcasm aside ISAs are not a terribly new idea and universities have tried and failed with them before, Yale and Purdue, in part because no one in universities really cares about getting it right. If you don’t get paid more if you do well and don’t get fired if it’s a catastrophe your motivation is reasonably limited.

ISAs do need regulation but just presuming non profits and the government will do it right out of the goodness of their hearts... It’s ignorant.
According to the latest SF homeless census[1], nearly 50% of SF's homeless population are in District 6 -- Tenderloin, Civic Center, and SOMA. These are also areas where there are high concentrations of tourists and visitors. Someone just visiting San Francisco vs actually living here is likely to come away with a grim impression.

[1]http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/San-Francisc...
You're debating numbers you don't like by making up other numbers. Whatever. The point is that it's a massive waste of energy and emissions, and that's undeniable.
Here is a perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

"HYPER-REALITY

Keiichi Matsuda

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated in media. http://hyper-reality.co/
"
Not every tool on here fits everyone's ethics, but SOME tools fit SOME people's ethics. It's important to question what is ethical and what is not, but the question becomes moot if we never attempt to put the answer into action. Let's not hand-wring about "What is ethical?" so much that we never make any attempt to behave ethically.

I don't agree that all the tools on the list are ethical, but there are a few I plan to start using, because I do believe they are ethical and I didn't know about them before.
As an Indian, fuck you.
I don't really see the connection between my comment and yours...
My partner and I visited SF last summer and were fairly shocked with all the homelessness, drug use on the streets and human feces scattered about. We won’t be back.
Dawww. I had this book when it came out and used to type the programs into my Commodore PET by hand! Boy does this bring back memories.
As others have mentioned here, there's a strong barrier to entry for most of things, including Mastodon :)
We're still figuring things out, and that's totally OK: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Thanks for mentioning Songkick, I just registered there and looks like a good service overall. Reminds me of some of the last.fm functionality I was using in the past for that matter. What its still missing, is support for the functionality I described for festivals. Yes, they match festivals for you, but they don't tell you, which bands you should see there. Also they would have to update their database pretty often to i.e. work for Fusion festival, which announces the line-up only a few days prior to the festival, or to account for additions to/changes in festival line-ups.
> Anyway, France is peppered with nuclear plants and Germany is right downwind from many of them.

That's why we would like to see some of them being closed immediately.
Thank you very much for sharing this.

My experience with Canva has been good. Just that learning curve was steep for me.

Edit: For anyone seeing this post resumegenius.com (highest rated here) is NOT free.
My naive read is that $500k is an estimate of their profit over X time period, likely based on the $50k restitution over Y time period, which is the conduct they’re actually charged for.

The reason for the discrepancy is simple: the government can only relcaim money connected to what they indict you for — not all the crimes people suspect, but can’t prove; in contrast, a newspaper is free to speculate “Well, if a month long sting caught them doing $50k, then they did like $500k/yr!”

You can get similar estimates if the government catches them with unsold drugs, and the paper reports how much money they would have made selling it. Again, a reasonable estimate of their cash flow, but sensible the police seize the drugs rather than money they haven’t earned yet. (And can’t seize past money, if not connected to a crime.)

I don’t have specific citations, but I’ve seen both in local papers over the years.
Am I reading this right? You have to pay 2.5% of your income for 7 years as a comp sci graduate for a loan of only $10k. Seems like a pretty terrible deal.

Edit: Avg comp sci grad salary from Purdue is $72k, assuming 5% raises on average including promotions, you'd pay about $14.6k for this loan, which is roughly equivalent to a loan with an 11% interest rate per year over 88 months.

Edit2: I was a business major, and if I used the finance major's payment percentage and term length, I would have paid $20k back over the term of 8 years which is basically like a 20% interest rate per year.
New Target for Cancer Immunotherapy
> I don't think we exist in a world where this is possible.

The majority of people are pretty ignorant. Look at all the news articles from early in 2019 talking about the size of tax refunds, and people thinking they didn’t get a tax cut because their refund this year was smaller than the one they got last year. In reality, almost everyone got a tax cut (>90% of taxpayers) but that doesn’t necessarily mean a larger refund.

Theoretically, filling out the tax forms would help people understand their tax liability. In practice I think a lot of people just tune out numbers beyond the size of their refund.
Yeah it would be more apt to say the list is "open source, environmentally conscious software".
Seattle too!
The parent said "static analysis" tools. That's what I gave them.
Concerns rising over global helium shortage
It isn't a moot point, it is literally the point of the article. The whole article is explaining the history of the 737 and explaining why they designed the max to avoid retraining. It mentions digital UIs, fly-by-wire, and other designs found in modern jets to paint the picture that the Max was successful in avoiding retraining, but that requirement restricted the engineers and led to a potentially compromised design.
I think GP means `python3 -mvenv my_venv` rather than running in a VM or any heavyweight virtual environment. At least that's how I interpret 'virtual environment' in a pythonic context, and they're certainly lightweight enough.
I think freefillableforms.com -- maintained by the Free File Alliance -- is an example of what the article complains about:

> The Free File Alliance, a private industry group, says 70% of American taxpayers are eligible to file for free. Those taxpayers, who must make less than $66,000, have access to free tax software provided by the companies. But just 3% of eligible U.S. taxpayers actually use the free program each year. Critics of the program say that companies use it as a cross-marketing tool to upsell paid products, that they have deliberately underpromoted the free option and that it leaves consumer data open to privacy breaches.

I've never used it so I wouldn't know if it's chockful of upsell adverts. It's certainly very hard (I couldn't do it, at least not in the past 5 minutes) to find a reference to the Free File Alliance on freefillableforms.com. But this is what is buried on IRS.gov:

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/about-the-free-file-all...

> Free File offers a multi-year agreement between IRS and the Free File Alliance to provide free service(s) to more taxpayers. Previously, free offerings were not consistently available and were subject to modification or discontinuation from year-to-year. With Free File, taxpayers have easy access to IRS.gov, which offers a list of all free offerings on a single web page. Under our agreement, Free File Alliance companies offer both free preparation and free e-filing services. There is no cost to qualifying taxpayers.

> Note: We do not endorse any individual Free File Alliance company. While the IRS manages the content of the Free File pages accessible on IRS.gov, it does not retain any taxpayer information entered on the Free File site.
Thanks for sharing, we've got this a lot, so kinda got used to it as the default reply, especially in the tech community :)
Show HN: Live Object Detection with Google Coral USB Accelerator
I disagree. If qualified candidates do something, hiring managers will naturally look for those things in all their candidate, so it's a two way street.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect your problem is actually with the automatic dismissal part - and I agree, there are probably many cases where it would be inappropriate (or at the very least, stupid) to not consider someone for not sending a follow up. We can argue specifics all day, but in general I don't think it's unreasonable for hiring managers to expect that kind of communication.
Tl;dr In order to deal with BS government regulations purportedly made to benefit passengers, airlines made flights slower and passengers suffer on every flight (and can't get comp'd for the time lost thanks to this government BS).
AI Could Scan IVF Embryos to Help Make Babies More Quickly
I also got notifications like this at today.
Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage?
This looks really great. Another cool feature is adding would be adding codepen-like features if the file is set to javascript, with an export to codepen/gist functionality. Or something similar to repl.it
Oh this is interesting, but how do you plan to solve for toxic behavior on the platform?

I liked the animated characters on the homepage promo video and especially the TOX-vs-BNN news network jab in the intro.
Poor phrasing on my part - I’m not implying they would insert new taxes on the sly, but rather that in areas where tax payers have some discretion, the government software would default to the least favorable treatment for the tax payer, the effect being a higher net tax...
Nasa Announces $100k Winners of Virtual 3D-Printed Mars Habitats – Space
One ER visit. The surgeries we're both planned, and I went to an urgent care for triage of my strain, then to a regular orthopedist.

> Maybe consider that your experience is the exceptional, not the people you call hyperbolic.

I'm not saying I'm typical. I'm saying that four-figure Mexican bills aren't. If they were, then I'm an extreme outlier, which I don't accept.
Huh, ok, that seems fair. I was wondering if the 737 max was involved, but didn't realize the ripple effects were that big. I've had schedule changes from them in the last month or so all up and down the NE corridor mostly.
You may accomplish the behavior shift you desire by posting about the tool yourself. Then people will start supporting, disagreeing, posting questions, etc. Bashing the behavior might not work well.

People tend to stick to familiar topics ... as shown in the next Meson comment turned to Python2-vs-Python3-compatibility in a whim.
> The best policy, Taylor says, imposes a fee on both paper and plastic bags and encourages reuse.
I can imagine it happening. The US tax code is so complicated that most tax payers don't really understand it. Heck, most tax payers don't understand how marginal tax rates work or why having a large refund isn't actually a good thing. I can absolutely believe that a majority of people would accept a negative change to the tax code due to an inability to understand it, choosing to just accept whatever they're being told to make it all go away until next year.