skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an extraordinary claim, it's literally what google claim to do by selling targeted ads.
I have a proposal that I'm sure will make EVERYBODY happy by combining the best of both worlds!

How about "J4X" (JSON for XML), that lets you embed XML in JSON the same way the ever-popular "E4X" (ECMAScript for XML) lets you embed XML in ECMAScript?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/E4X

J4X Example:

<!DOCTYPE j4x PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD J4X 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/j4x/DTD/j4x-1.0-transitional.dtd">
{
april: <fools late="13 days"/> <!-- sorry! -->
}
I would definitely pay rent first, always. There are food banks to keep you from starving to death, but without a roof over your head your life is going to completely fall apart.
The cure for obesity is making better choices at the store, not at home.
Why do you use both NoScript and uMatrix? It was my understanding that uMatrix would block JS, but thinking about it now maybe it doesn’t block JS embedded in HTML? Is that the idea?
Why why why do you put up with this in America?? I live in the uk and health has always been free at point of use.

The cost is spread amongst all tax payers and costs kept low.

I honestly don’t understand why not every single American is screaming for access to health services that are literally on their front lawn.

I cannot fathom this is any way shape or form.
Had a spare Rpi sitting around and just set this up... it's working like a charm so far. Before this, I was feeling annoyed that even though I was subscribing and paying sites like WPo, I was still getting blocked from reading articles if an ad-blocker was on. With the Pi-hole that problem is solved, and browsing seems faster as a bonus as well.
Well, if you can basically create money out of thin air, then the interest rate for loaning it out ought to be pretty low.
"Let’s also be honest here. Jumia didn’t succeed because it was “African”. Jumia owes part of its success to a marketplace that doesn’t believe in domestic brands. It’s heavy lifting to build a successful local brand, because you’re viewed suspiciously."

I live in Ghana, and I don't shop on Jumia[1] because i don't believe in domestic brands. It's a ridiculous claim. This[2] is a local brand that has made 10,000+ successful sales via Jumia. The major challenge of doing E-commerce in Africa is that excluding some affluent parts, many towns and cities don't have functioning address grids. It's a complete mess and one requires the use of landmarks and long descriptions to locate places.

Jumia representatives always call to ask for directions to your location. If they get lost, you could have them give the phone to anyone nearby who is familiar with the neighborhood. You can then have the stranger direct them(Jumia delivery reps) to your location. It may be unconventional, but works.

I and millions of people who shop on Jumia do so cause it's convenient and provides a needed service. Until a few days ago, I had no idea it's a German company and its founders are french. Calling it an African company when it's not may be deceptive, but please don't say it's successful because Africans don't love local brands.

[1] - https://www.jumia.com.gh/
[2] - https://www.jumia.com.gh/white-label-woven-kente-fabric-6-ya...
Nice, I lived in a 1+5, I didn't know they had a name.

TBH the quality was good enough. Sound could be quieter but was fine. The biggest problem was sprinkler system, at least once a year there would be a leak or a trigger that would completely destroy 1-3 apts. I dream of concrete now.
Big mood, 3+hrs each way in traffic is hellish :c
But not when - instead of being some arbitrary number like $50 - it’s a vague and unknown future liability.

Most people end up with some mix of side income and tax breaks that are hard to predict in advance. If you’re wealthy and you’re off by $500, so what. But if you’re poor and you were off by $500, it can be devastating.

So again, I think it’s rational behavior for some whose life is optimized around avoiding cash flow surprises than optimized amount maximizing return on capital.
Make sure you've done 2018 taxes first. For a lot of us the total tax owed went up by some amount while the withholding went down. And just put whatever additional net shows up in your account somewhere for next year.
The problem is with the article "the". She's one of many people behind the first black hole image.
I don't know for sure since I don't know which apps you are talking about, but DNS blacklisting can be worked around by embedding your own libresolv and server configs into your app.
That means you don't use the DNS servers provided by the platform, so you can use the ones you "trust".
Chongqing:

Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 307.91 $[1]

Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 825.35 $[1]

37%

San Francisco:

Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 3,386.72 $[2]

Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 6,497.75

52%

Oklahoma City:

Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 857.50 $[3]

Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 2,639.56 $[3]

32%

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Chongqing?displayCu...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/San-Francisco

[3] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Oklahoma-City
There's a mostly original vi, with just the minimal updates so it works on current OSs and supports UTF-8:
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net
For years I used to complain that I couldn’t drive through beach drive (a nice curvy road in Washington DC’s rock creek park) on weekends because they used to close it off to cars. I thought, damn selfish cyclists.

And then I went cycling on beach drive with my wife one weekend.

Wow was it amazing. I got to enjoy it in a whole new way and it was way better than driving through.

I hadn’t realized how much cars get in the way of you just appreciating your surroundings. I think this’ll be the same for cities.
What are the typical movement patterns for a phone at home? Mine is usually sitting on a particular spot on my desk.
This is indicative of a much larger and deeper issue that few people seem to notice: TYRANNY.

The people in power can see, learn and know everything about the commoners.

But if a civilian tries to dig up something on the oligarchs or plutocrats, they can be made to disappear as if they never existed, unless they had managed to gain some credible attention in the media, but even that will not save them from being isolated, demonized and silenced (like Julian Assange; they even rounded up his friends as a precautionary measure against ""blackmail"").

This gradual erosion of individual privacy is feeding into a nigh-inevitable tyranny that will be almost impossible to break out of, save a meteor resetting our fundamentally-flawed society for us.
Languages I want to write
How easy is it to do 50% of such (very) small population?
Both uBlock Origin and uMatrix are able to prevent execution of inline JavaScript.
I see two separate things here. One is aversion to risk and another is the perception that someone is denying something for a reason you don’t control.

They have to be handled and treated separately.

When talking about risk, we are usually afraid of the unknown. Let’s say you want to take a riskier approach with your investments. Start by understanding what could happen in a given scenario and where the risk could come from. In other words, risk aversion is usually remembering remedied by knowledge.

As for the other topic, it probably requires more work on your part to overcome it.

Even though there are all sorts of prejudice and judgement from other people there is nothing you can do since it might come from someone else.

The best path here, in my opinion, is to see what YOU can do and where YOU might be lacking.

Take responsibility for what happens to you and figure out how YOU can change the situation. A simple example would be of a person that “is denied” a job because lack of qualifications and blames the other because the person thinks it is some sort of prejudice.

It might be. But if you always assume that is the case there is nothing you can do other than complain and victimize yourself.

As soon as you start taking responsibility for everything that happens to your life, even things out of your control, you start to improve and things get better fast.

Good luck!
So I did this too. The downside is that if that pihole server goes down your entire network loses DNS access.
Something which is wrong but has mostly worked by accident is still wrong. A tool which parses a config file it does not own and whose semantics do not necessarily match what the tool expects is wrong. The blame for any breakage which results is clearly on the tool in question.

Lennart has done more to improve Linux than all of his detractors on HN combined in no small part because he is willing to break broken things and force them to be fixed.

If the people whining about Lennart/systemd spent half as much time fixing their shit as they did writing angry comments on the internet the Linux ecosystem would be in much better shape.
The Guardian was mistaken, according to the alleged victim's own statements at the time.
I've been doing this for a few months now and the impact on battery life is noticeable but acceptable to me. iOS reports that WireGuard was responsible for 8% of my battery use today.
It's nearly a decade later. Maybe she feels differently now?
As the author, the reason I removed some proposed alternatives is because people kept emailing me with stuff like "but what about X?" where "X" was something I never heard of, or was only superficially familiar with.

You make it sound like it's easy to just "propose an alternative", but it's not really. First off, some problems aren't necessarily obvious from just reading a few examples. YAML is a good example of this with a lot of subtle behaviour that can really trip people up. This isn't really obvious form just a glance, and required an in-depth review. So doing a full in-depth review of all alternatives is much harder than it might seem.

Secondly, there is no single right answer. It depends on what you're doing, the language and environment you're using, social factors (e.g. if all tools in your company already use XML, then it's probably a good idea to stick with that), and probably a bunch of other factors.

Alternatives that are better are also so plentiful that quite frankly, listing all possible alternatives strikes me as rather redundant. YAML, TOML, JSON5, or even eval(), and many more, all are decent alternatives for many different scenarios, although obviously not all.

That JSON is popular doesn't mean it's a good idea. I think there is a simple reason that it's so popular: for quite a few programming languages it's the only file format that's supported in the stdlib, and people are already kinda familiar with it. This is not unreasonable choice at face value, but at the same time a lot of people don't always see the downsides at face value.

"Tell me what I should do, not what I shouldn't do" sounds like a half-wisdom. Sure, it's probably more useful. But at the same time, pointing out possible errors people haven't thought of isn't useless. I've actually received quite a few emails over the years with the gist of "I wanted to use JSON for my program, but then I read your article and decided it was a bad idea so I used YAML instead, thanks!"; so clearly, it's useful for some.
Short of electricity, food and water, Venezuelans return to religion
there is much more pent up demand than that, even 100k units wouldn't budge prices much.
Fares shouldn't exist, the cost to administer fares & delays caused by onboard payment are significant, and badly hurt ridership:

https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/10/what-really-happens-whe...

https://expo.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/07/61810d5ec56405...
Stratolaunch: 'World's largest plane' lifts off for the first time
> US-owned or registered companies in Europe don't typically masquerade as European because they operate there

Yet when GM bought Opel, the branding didn't change. An uninformed consumer could easily think they're buying from a German-owned firm. And it's getting increasingly hard to keep track of the complex webs of ownership of corporations.

But yes, the author has a point.
> I even pointed out a real-world concrete example where JSON config is made pleasant to edit by hand for humans: an IDE like VS Code that pulls in JSON schema.

I think the debate here is what "editable by humans" means. If you're using a tool for editing JSON like VS Code, I don't believe you're really editing it by hand. You're using a program that has specific things for JSON that give you to have a pleasant experience editing. I believe editing by hand means using a standard plain text editor and it's a lot worse.

Formats that use braces are relatively easy to parse by machines but can be harder to read by humans. Utilizing white space makes things easier for humans to read. A JSON file could have everything on one line. But something like YAML it forces you to use white space and new lines which helps humans to read it.
I don't know what planet you live on, but there is plenty of publicly owned property that I have no access to. If you think otherwise, just try randomly walking onto a military base that does not allow visitation. You may argue what you feel is morally right, but any actual adult has realized that morally right does not equate to the law.
Maybe more context:

"The recording is analyzed on various characteristics such as black frames, silences and changes in aspect ratio.

Based on this information Comskip segments the recording in blocks and using heuristics, together with additional information such as the presence of logo, the scene change rate, Close Captioning information and other information sources Comskip tries to determine what blocks of the recording are to be characterized as commercials."

It doesn't say it explicitly, but based on this and the note on high CPU utilization, I get the impression it has to look back and forward to determine where the commercial is.
I don't want to sound like a snob, but 9GAG and Imgur are pretty awful communities with content taken from Reddit–which itself "steals" content, but it's less horrible about it. Both of these communities are heavily moderated and most users don't actually realize where their "fresh memes" are coming from: 9GAG's moderation team actually sways voting to control what hits the front page and immediately bans accounts that mention "Reddit" in any way.
Beresheet 2: Israeli SpaceIL Announces New Mission to Land Spacecraft on Moon
The outrage is mostly focused on Apple complying with this law rather than resisting.

Censorship doesn’t have to be governmental. When the comics code ruled the comics industry, that was censorship. When movies with excessive amounts of explicit sex get an automatic X rating which excludes them from being shown in mainstream theaters regardless of their artistic merit, that’s censorship.

Is it censorship if I personally don’t host porn? If I make a business out of hosting videos, then yes. And that’s ok. I’m not saying that the pervasive censorship of things like hardcore pornography in western countries is necessarily bad, I just wonder why people act like it doesn’t happen, that censorship is something that only happens in other countries, or in rare circumstances when a big company oversteps their bounds.
You can die from vitamin poisoning. Doesn't mean that vitamins are bad. Similarly, too many comments are obviously not a good idea, but that doesn't mean you never need them.

There are many cases you need an occasional comment: to explain why a possible surprising value is set to what it is, for example. Or to warn future editors for a mistake you made in the past, or even to just describe what a potentially confusing setting does.
> Quote from the Treasury: "it... greatly reduced the taxpayer's awareness of the amount of tax being collected, i.e. it reduced the transparency of the tax, which made it easier to raise taxes in the future."

Sorry, that may have been unclear. I don't doubt the psychological effect is greater when it happens in a lump sum. I'm saying that it's just as easy to say that people overestimate their taxes when they pay in a lump sum and accurately estimate them (at a per-paycheck level): there's nothing about once a year that's special and justifies privileging it.

> Technically, many people are payed by the hour; should they have to immediately pay tax?

No, they're not. Their pay is measured by the hour, but they are _paid_ on different schedules (eg once every two weeks), at which point they're debited for the tax (in that they receive net pay). I don't see how anything else wouldn't be the reverse of having a large refund: ie, an interest-free loan from the government to the taxpayer.

> It also led to a drastically reduced paperwork burden, which was cheaper for the government, businesses, and consumers.

This is belied in the part you elided from the quote you pulled. from the same sentence:

> "This greatly eased the collection of the tax for both the taxpayer and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. However, it also greatly reduced the taxpayer's awareness of the amount of tax being collected, i.e. it reduced the transparency of the tax, which made it easier to raise taxes in the future"

Also, I'm not making the claim that there's no pragmatic argument for annual payments (though I personally disagree). My complaint was that part of your argument rested on treating annual payments as arbitrarily natural and measuring the downsides of withholding from that flawed perspective.
If the company location is based in Irvine, and they have entry level positions, you shouldn't have to live 2 hours away to be able to afford to work there.
It's somewhat concerning that anyone would consider it an extraordinary claim.

I wonder how it is that they think Google rationalises providing so many free or below cost products to consumers?

Edit: downvoted without response. K.
Tor Browser for Android is currently in Alpha.

It's quite refreshing and works well, out of the box it runs js though unless you turn it off, a neat little reminder to use simpler sites and not support the popup/overlay hell that is the current web.
You received a warning a month ago about your account being a single-issue one (anti-Tesla/Musk). [1] And yet the majority of your comments since then have continued to be under Tesla submissions and here you are again, making libelous statements against a respected AI researcher simply because he interviewed Elon Musk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381462
As soon as Facebook became a widespread thing I knew it was going to become a shitshow, and Zuckersnuffles was such an obvious snake I couldn't even consider empowering him by turning over personal info. I've never had a real account, and even my fake dev accounts fell into disuse as I rejected more contracting gigs involving FB integration. I feel somewhat vindicated, though we have a way to go when even many 'ethical' NGOs still require FB for engagement.
I miss 2005-2007 era Facebook. It was so different before the Newsfeed was introduced. It was a really different concept when it was limited to college students. You could add your dorm or class and see other students in the same groups. It was really useful for making friends.

Now it’s just shameless bragging or political shouting and Zuck has become a quasi-villain which makes using it more unsavory.
The author of the article admits that his fund is short TSLA. I don't know why I would believe his data.
You just need a decent library to parse DNS packets. [1] Yes, it's in C, but it should be easy to interface to other languages given it only has two functions.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS
Bi-layer membranes, such as cell membranes and walls of organelles, are squeezed together, so may be thinner and stiffer. It would not be surprising if some species could not adapt to lower pressure, just as we are ill-adapted to vacuum.
> Why why why do you put up with this in America??

What do you suggest we do?

> I honestly don’t understand why not every single American is screaming for access to health services that are literally on their front lawn.

You think we aren't?

You think it matters?
Fascinating summary.

But I would suggest that the current rationalist claim is "reason and empiricism tell us the most reasonable thing to believe at a given moment" and is almost a-priori true. This is not to claim it is the final truth or that following it will be catastrophe free: The polio vaccine will fail sometimes. But it is better than any non-rational non-fact based alternative.

The old claim "reason leads to ultimate truth" is difficult for a number of reasons. One relates to the ultimate know-ability of reality through our senses. Another is the almost absurd level of over confidence in a given theory.

I would also contest the claim that we are more violent and barbaric now than in the past. I believe that is factually incorrect or at least controversial. At any rate, science could be accused of the technical advances that make killing more efficient but not of starting wars or worsening the base instincts and gullibility that underlying the causes of cruelty and barbarism.

And I would point out one significant social change reason did bring about. Rationality requires judging people by relevant criterion rather than irrelevant criterion. This leads, after apparently continuous struggle, to increased racial, ethnic etc tolerance.

I think we should also distinguish between genuine rational-empiricism and pseudo-science. For example, many of the worst atrocities in the 20th century were justified through a knowingly false and twisted reading of Darwin. These are not rational ideas, they are, in fact, irrational ideas cloaking themselves in an undeserved respectability.

I think we should also make another more subtle distinction. There are those who have a preconceived notion and then, through omissions, intentional or otherwise, argue eloquently for it. This contrasts with being genuinely curious and following the facts and thinking where-ever they lead without prejudice. The former is obviously not going to lead to usable reality based ideas.
You shop on Jumia because it's convenient. It's also convenient for foreign interest to setup an Amazon like business to skim millions off the top of an economy that can scarcely afford it. The point is, Jumia is not good for Ghana, a domestic company would create more jobs and keep hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth from leaving the country. Its not about whether or not you get your 1st world products delivered on time, its about pulling yourself out of the 3rd world and Jumia is not helping you with that.

Many people forget that when Japan first started producing cars they were so bad at it some models didn't even operate in the rain. Or that American steel, originally, was supremely subpar to British steel. Its about doing whats best for the country - and having some foreign entity control a good portion of the commerce in the country (especially when it is so easy to build your own) is not a good idea for an emerging economy.

Remember, also, that Jumia will have the same control over market that Amazon does which is immense power and why the United States is considering limiting Amazon's power over the market. Basically, if Jumia begins to not only control the market but participate in the market as well it will be bad for these small nations.