skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of responses which go to "...I did this too" are fascinating. I also did stupid things in my past which nowadays would incur severe penalty, as hacking. They felt mild right up to the point I was caught (this is 35 years ago) and then they stopped feeling mild very quickly.

I feel very sorry for people in todays world who don't get the "everybody gets one free pass" on these things we did back in the day. I think we need a clear statute of limitations on some stuff done by minors and near-minors, regarding their future lives. Nobody is going to be eligible for election to senate or the law courts, or to work in federal or state bodies if we don't work out how to deal with this kind of thing.

That said, I am pretty sure rigging an election is a good indication you have need of some ethics. Amusing, but also not a good idea.

This ranks (in my books) with the recurring "we thought we'd make a film about a bank robbery without informing the bank or the shopping mall about it" type cock-up: Actions have (unforseen) consequences.
They may be staple tactics, but they are by no means universal tactics. Just as you realize right from wrong, so do others. And some of us have to solve marketing problems.
Anthropogenic Climate Change:Our Solutions Do Not Match the Size of Our Problem
While listening to Cloud Run on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/4gCabDwZ2AdhrBYYWQT9t2?si=tL...
Hi,

thanks for the reply :D

here are some fresh screenshots with my own account
https://imgur.com/a/9B2aKJX

if you sees 'This app isn't verified' or something (not sure the actual message, I'm not in an english-speaking country), unfortunately I can't fix it for now; for certain google oauth scopes that are more sensitive they require the app to own the domain, but I use heroku to deploy my prototype and I obviously don't own the domain :(. I may fix it in the near future but I'd like to implement new features first.
I'm very certain that I have aphantasia. I definitely recall that I experienced some visual hallucinations on psychedelics, but I do not have good recall over what those visualizations were. What I do recall from that life were the auditory hallucinations. Hearing music where there was none. Having conversations with people who were not physically present, or with historical figures who were long since dead.
"The Ways and Means chair, Neal, received $16,000 in contributions from the two companies in the last two election cycles, according to the ProPublica report."

It's embarrassing and absurd how cheap it is to buy off congress from making everyone's lives easier. Can't a gofundme raise more than 16k to counter them?
> No one is evil stuff just breaks.

Are you implying here that the problem can't be fixed or ameliorated?

> buying a $10,000 plate at this donor dinner gets you a sit down with the Senator

What if there were no donor dinners because campaigns were limited to a set amount of public funds?
Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 Town Hall Meetings
Would love to see LinkedIn reigned in with their false notifications. They’ll show one of those red dots then when you click it nothing new has happened. There are a ton of other terrible dark patterns used by LinkedIn but I forget to take note when I encounter them.

Slack needs a serious spanking for how they handle notification opt outs. As far as I know there is no global mute everything switch which should exist.
I would classify causing mass pain for political gain as purely evil.
A/B testing is an important super basic step to improving the user experience. Without it how would you know what users are looking for? It's important to test the right factors though. I can see it being done wrong and winding up detrimental to the user experience, but not doing it all is definitely not a solution.
Yep! Thanks!
This is just reporting on party politics and effectively contains no information.
If you’re willing to share, what are your dreams like?
The government shoots themselves in the foot?

Can anyone explain given the unbelievably bad record of government, why they would ever want more of it?
I know you almost feel like 90% of the world got in on a huge psych joke a few years ago on a day we skipped class. Kinda of like that "dihydrogen monoxide found at 99% of crime scenes".

Idk if you know but Aphantasia technically covers all senses. For example I can hear music in my head. It's kinda faint and fuzzy but it's there and well defined. Meanwhile I can't imagine a simple green triangle. Maybe you have it in some ways and not others? You should think about it - kinda blew my mind.
Well that’s quite a slippery slope... it’s going to be corporations vs citizens in a bidding war making all politicians multi millionaires?

How about we go back to when politician wasn’t a full time job, and you barely got paid for it? Make it illegal to pay politicians for any public services apart from a set nominal salary.
I wish a bill would also ban the cancer that is retargeting. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for saying this as many entrepreneurs and SaaS companies browsing are making their conversions on retargeting, but something has to be said about the creepy nature of following people wherever they go without obtaining direct consent.
Thanks for the reply, :D

a few users did mentioned the error, but since I can't get much information I'm not sure how to fix this :(.

further information would be realy helpful, thx! :D
I'll use it when they bring back RSS functionality, make it possible for me to configure its UI like I could before, and stop tracking me by default. I'm sick of updates stealing functionality from me, and I'll use qutebrowser or something similar until Firefox is no longer run by people intent on destroying the software.
I have had a loss of visualization over time. I can recall having vivid images in my mind’s eye when I was younger. I think my loss of imagery happened after I went blind for a couple of years. But the temporary blindness was due to retinal detachments, which were the result of a head injury. So I suppose the injury may be partially to blame?

I’m not sure though. I’m pretty convinced that blindness changed my brain in a very dramatic way. I learned to move around in the dark, orient myself with sound, and learn to understand spacial relationships in a totally new way.

Now, it’s almost as if my brain used vision, but doesn’t really need it anymore. And that includes seeing things in my mind’s eye, which I can hardly do at all anymore.
Forcing everyone to make quarterly estimated payments would lead to riots in the streets.
Nice! I really like Tufte CSS. It makes using side notes really easy, even on mobile. And it gives a very crisp look to the text.

I put together a project to be able to make new Tufte CSS sites with Jekyll:

https://github.com/jez/tufte-pandoc-css

It makes it easy to use Tufte CSS with markdown (including side notes!)
I'm seeing more and more sites with infinite scroll, and I hate it every time, but I haven't seen one yet where you cant scroll back up.

It feels incredible distracting when another article appears out of nowhere when you have just finished reading one.
> I can only imagine how crazy this must sound from your perspective.

Nah, just sounds like a thing I would love to be able to do.
I'm always irked by hns attitude towards women leaders. There so many comments trying to discredit her or trying to shame her for self promotion. In general, there's always a sexist undertone, and I feel like the anonymity of hn brings the sexism of the tech community to the surface.

In regards to Marissa, I personally believe that the Glass Cliff is real. It's inspiring that she was integral in creating one of the most valuable company in the valley. Likewise, I find it impressive that she was able to climb the political ladder of a generally sexist industry.
The same limitations apply to the other on prem services. Theres no way the real EBS control and data plane is running on prem, its just some compatible service.

Outposts has a limited feature set if you arent using vsphere, and Azure uses Microsoft's existing private cloud/on prem stack.

Enterprises are scared of one way bad decisions so if GC can convince them containerizing and moving their apps to kubernetes first is worth it over "lift and shift" this could go well. One of the few competitive advantages google has for enterprises is they can point to Amazon and Azure being forced to add managed Kubernetes services, because customers wanted that instead of a proprietary orchestrator.
When I say it's not a bribe I mean in the classic "quid pro quo" sense. I certainly think it's not a great way to run a republic. My point is exactly that it's cheap because the representatives aren't looking to get rich off that money. It's cheap because they're just buying 20 minutes of time.
Needing help with one part of this. Say in the simplest case of a coin flip and two instants in time I assess probabilities:

t=0: P(heads) = 0.75, P(tails) = 0.25
t=1: P(heads) = 0.60, P(tails) = 0.40

These are consistent (or behave as probabilities or what have you) at each time (separately), so de Finetti's argument covers each (separately). Does this alone somehow protect from arbitrage over time? Or is the martingale stuff in the next paragraph, though postured as only a technical rephrasing, essential? Unsure since that part's over my head.

The above's enough to pose the question, but continuing for concreteness: if a buyer can determine any "significant" pattern in my assessments over time--for instance maybe my past assessments have been routinely seen to tend to a uniform distribution over time--aren't I still vulnerable to arbitrage, or else what's protecting me?
def f(&block)
block.class
end

f { } # => Proc
f(&-> { }) # => Proc
f(&lambda { }) # => Proc
f(&:something) # => Proc

lambda { }.class # => Proc (I think you get the idea)

method(:f).class # => Method

lambda { |i| i + 1 }.call(10) # => 11

you don't typically return in a block, there is implicit return. you would do "next" or "break" depending on what you want to achieve. as far as I know that's the main difference between procs and methods.

(not that anybody would do what I do, most people just use blocks, some people use yield, few people use the &block argument, but that's exactly the same)
I imagine a lot of differences relate to different regional building practices, stemming from both historic trends but also geographic realities. Especially in older areas (but arguably in newer areas, too) you want to permit a greater range of configurations otherwise you risk people abstaining from fixing or replacing unsafe areas, or avoiding permitting altogether. Notably, 8-1/4" is the maximum height--the change allowed more options but people are perfectly free to continue using more common dimensions.

All that really matters is 7-11: the magic ratio for building your own stairs. Perhaps not the most ideal, but the easiest to remember and also trivial to build from common dimensional lumber[1] :)

On a more serious note, what _truly_ matters is consistency of the steps. Interstep deviations are what cause most injuries. After the first or second step, w'ever the rise/run, the brain has already adapted.

[1] 2x6" boards are actually 1.5x5.5". 5.5+1.5==7 and 5.5*2==11. 7-11 is the traditional American rise/run ratio. I think it's mostly coincidental, though, that 2x6 dimensional lumber adds up the way it does.
I've been thinking that through today, actually. Newspapers don't choose multi-column layouts because it's the easiest to read--it's to make the most of an expensive resource available in a fixed size. Besides that, imagine the UX difficulty in unrolling a pre-Gutenberg scroll to catch up on the day's news!

For a computer, even if you could fit 4-8 text columns on a 5K monitor... What do you do if the content demands a 5th-9th column? You'll have to scroll.

As someone else pointed out in the first iteration of my design here, using non-standard behavior for the margin notes in the mobile view meant it took experimenting to figure out that tapping on a cross-in-a-circle icon would expand additional flavor text. A distinctly un-cool surprise.

When presented with a multi-column text layout, would a user know how to intuitively use the site? They're trained to look for a scrollbar on the right side of the screen to indicate "Hey, friend! More content below." Would you keep adding columns and scroll horizontally indefinitely? There are a lot of challenges to overcome in that design.

The appeal of the Tufte-styled site, for me, is the side notes/margin notes. The whole site is ~1200px wide in three columns. 200px nav, 600px text body, and 315px side notes--the rest is padding between columns. The design takes advantage of the "wasted" space to add in delicious flavor text that I'd otherwise cram in with loads of em dashes and lengthy parenthetical asides.

I designed the page on a/for a 1080p screen, assuming most 4K+ users are used to seeing websites hang out in the middle of their massive TV-sized displays.

Someday, though, it'd be interesting to see if there's a way to combine more information density on a high resolution display without sacrificing readability/usability.
This describes my experience too. I remember books in general, as well as source code, by visual appearance of the pages of text and any illustrations, but without being able to 'see' them.
Is it really a stigma if it's backed by evidence? And repeated often?

https://killedbygoogle.com
I kinda agree, except that if McConnell says the bill is DOA, then it is.

And this bill is relevant to HN because net neutrality is.

Unsurprising news, though. Despite popular support, the GOP doesn't support it, and they control the Senate. Why would they pass this? (from their perspective)
"guaranteed rate (cpm? cpc?)"

It was guaranteed revenue IIUC, something like "If you do not make at least $150M from this deal, Google will pay you the difference." That makes the deal a no-brainer for AOL, but puts Google on the hook for any shortfall, which could have potentially ended up bankrupting the company.
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Australia has "deductions" and the filing forms are plenty complicated, doesn't stop them making a nice website with a free e-filing system.

For pretty much everything is prefilled, and you just double check from your own records, fill in the various deduction screens for whatever class of deductions you're claiming.
Framing it as "human psychological experiments" evokes famous psych experiments like the marshmallow test and the Stanford Prison Experiment. Tech companies run these kinds of experiments occasionally (I believe Facebook is known to have tried to manipulate mood with a Newsfeed change), but I feel like this way of describing it masks the fact that 99% of large scale A/B tests are things like

- We slightly changed the color of the submit button

- The forward button was removed from the context menu on chat bubbles

- An infrastructure change reduces the load time of the comments on articles by 10ms

- The weekly ad relevance model update is being certified, yielding a 0.000001 increase in CTR for small segments of the market.

On average, much more mundane than "human psychological experiments".
Please look at the actual data on the linked page. Each of the csv files on that page has thousands of predictions 538 made going back as far as 2008. This isn't the raw data they used to make the predictions, these are the actual predications that they made.

Edit:
For example, here are the headers on the file named presidential_elections.csv

year,office,state,district,election_date,forecast_date,forecast_type,party,candidate,projected_voteshare,actual_voteshare,probwin,probwin_outcome

These are the actual forecasts they made for presidential elections going all the way back to 2008.
> In Silicon Valley, it is widely known that Mr. Page had dated Marissa Mayer, one of the company’s first engineers who later became chief executive of Yahoo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...
It sounds like there's no advantage then; if we allow this, companies would be incentivized to harvest our data and run our CPUs at 100%. We'd just be giving them another revenue model.
Perhaps there are different hacker mindsets. Part of what I would call my hacker mindset is a deep distrust of anyone who appears to be strongly motivated by money, and I have thus far been 100% successful in avoiding cryptocurrency scams.
OK I think by now we need to accept that everything in humans is a spectrum. I think most people don't have the level of internal visual detail that they can describe an artists rendering. Meanwhile very few have no detail. Plus it covers all senses.

So for me as example: I listen to metal and while I don't have super high quality sound in my mind, I can for the most part play a whole song in my head even the very intricate solos. If I knew the instruments and could play that we'll I could play it off the track in my head. However I can't imagine anything visual at all. No simple geometric Shape, no colors, not even a dot on a white backdrop.

I think most people are just shocked this is a thing and theyre too quick to say they have nothing when they probably have something. I'd give detailed tests like asking to imagine a tree and ask how many branches it has or what kind it is.

Any rate in sure in a couple years well have some nice professional tests to take for a more precise understanding.
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I could've already intuit that
I'd be willing to bet a whole lot that more than that amount of money is changing hands. Be it favors, other money, etc.
Exactly this. Often times when people complain about waste and corruption, their solution is more government.
> Zero confidence that any part of the US congress is even remotely capable of producing a bill for this that isn't a complete disaster.

Literally applies to every sector.
1) front and rear-facing dash cams to defend against damage claims

2) configure cars to track phone usage, time-stamped, and downloadable thru the OBD port. If driver is sole occupant,
some use of phone would be provable. No good for off-line
activity, like games. Obvious privacy issues like other OBD data.

3) Pedestrians need an app for the “self-walking phone”
with sub-1-meter location accuracy that flashes green man,
or yellow or red hand when phone-obsessed user is about
to step off curb into cross-walk or traffic.
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This is completely understandable. I've submitted for MVP for a product (not Microsoft, but built on Microsoft technologies) and I never get it due to the fact that I don't re-tweet all day and focus on development.
Not the parent commenter, but I also have very limited visual imagery. It is extremely rare for me to be aware of having had a dream (maybe once a year or so). When I do though, I certainly remember 'seeing' things.
Honestly if a company exists solely to solve an inefficiency they lobby to create, that’s not something I care to defend. Taxes are in the public interest and as such profit is just not a concern of mine. There’s plenty of other ways to make money than regulatory capture and rent seeking. I want the IRS to do what’s best for Americans and that is either providing a way to file free of charge or eliminating the complexities of the tax code. I don’t care which.
The URL changing on scroll is really confusing. I've often tried to link a techcrunch article, only to realize I linked the wrong one...
Why would they pass it? Because the majority of Americans want it and they are supposed to represent us? Because it’s good for the country? Because they’re supposed to put country over party, not the other way around?

There’s lots of reasons.
If it included anti censorship aspects they could get some GOP support from Cruz.
> To be fair, for an internal communications usecase you just need to convince your company, not half the world

I imagine that's true for companies whose users stick to internal workspaces, but often the most active/vocal users (1) participate in multiple (often professional) non-company workspaces, and (2) don't want to run Yet Another Chat client.
Motorcyclist as well, and yes, I watch for the characteristic head-bob and try to take extra care around people on their phone. I've once or twice made a "hang-up" gesture but who am I kidding, it doesn't make a difference.

Now, the worst part: about a month ago I got pulled over for texting and driving. I wasn't even thinking about it. The cop said, "were you texting?" And I said, "I don't think so, let me check"... pulled up my phone.. yeah a half-written text to a friend. I got a ticket and have kept my phone in my pocket since then.

Something funny happens. I would think, "ah I'll just check that message, maybe it's important?" Or, "I've got to tell someone something" and out comes the phone. Mindless. Or maybe I think I can drive and text, it's those other clowns that are the dangerous ones. I'm glad I got the ticket. I deserved it. I think it helped me connect my actions to real life consequences. Glad it was just a ticket and not a wreck.
No idea. I was never prompted.
There's no coincidence about the revolving door and corporate nepotism. But it's not as simple as I give you money, you employ my kid.

I kind of wish it were because that would be much easier to do something about. Those things are just the long term effects of paying for access. The frequent close work between lobbyists, politicians and career servants lead to friendships and strong network effects. I'm not defending the system. I'm pointing out why $6.6 million is more than enough to influence a bill. It's because they're not buying a vote. They're buying time to discuss an issue that will probably never get argued any other way to the representative.
This is cronyism, plain and simple. Get out and vote in the next election cycle for candidates who align with your interests. Run for office if you have the time, money, and most importantly, the fortitude.

There's a PAC you can donate to if you would like to see Mitch voted out (google it, they've already raised +$500k). I won't link to it here in order to not be more political than this comment already has to be. This shouldn't be a politics issue (as jedberg mentions, a majority of Americans support NN [1]), but it has become one.

Disclaimer: I have donated to the PAC I mention, but have no other affiliation.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/364528-poll-83-percent... (Poll: 83 percent of voters support keeping FCC's net neutrality rules) (My note: 83 percent!!!)
Excellent! I'm positive I saw your plugin while researching the design for my site. It looks like a great package of tools. In the end, I decided to stay away from Rails and use Pelican + Python3. I needed an excuse to brush up on my Python.

Regardless, we've implemented almost identical end-results (I also chose Solarized light, heh) for two different languages' static site generators. All we need is the creator of the Lisp equivalent to chime in...

Edit: Oh, I used Solarized Dark. Thought I swapped that for light at one point, as there's not quite enough contrast across all display qualities.
Disturbingly common, judging from the people I've asked about it. It took at least a decade for my own to go away. I too am curious exactly how common they are...
They already have more users than Slack, so I think their response to that right now might be shrug
Definitions are definitely part of the law when words' common parlance meaning are not used in the law.

The question here is should the cost of writing a technical piece that make up the law be placed on those who must follow it? Or should the cost be spread out to all tax payers?