skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying the Christianity lead to the decline of the written word, education, and governance. I am saying that it contributed to the end of oral traditions that were the only form of history known by non-Romanized pagans. It also lead to the destruction of many monuments and collections of books associated to pagan traditions in Rome.

I also don't believe that Christianity had the power to destroy civilization. They were just the result of the decay of economic power of Rome, which lead the people to organize around something other than the traditional government structure. It also had to do with the idea that the old gods were failing to defend Romans, so why not joining this new cult that seems to protect the poor and dispossessed.
> Facebook earned about $172 billion since 2013. Do you think facebook would have earned $167 billion while behaving legally?

Considering the fine seems to be primarily based on something they stopped doing in 2014, yeah, I think they'd have easily earned $167 billion without doing it.
Agreed. That's one thing I really hate as an excuse. You can't make that excuse and respect yourself.
> A universal checkout experience (one login, saves CCs and contact information)

Better known as PayPal?
You don't need to import an .ipynb. Just start creating code blocks with #%% and you will get a Run Cell code lens appear.
Yes. I'm saying that you should default to assuming malice because in most human endeavors and motives it's the primary factor. Even stupid people can and are evil. The motives I list above cover probably over 90% of human actions. Although that's just my own guess as to percentage, that means hanlon's razor is useful only ten percent of the time.
Ask HN: Fabricating a Resume
I've applied at a company a few times for a job I am well qualified for (15+ years of COBOL, RPG) but I heard that the company won't hire unless you have experience in a big bank. I have experience in small credit unions and smaller financial environments.

How bad would it be to test this theory? Make up some fake job experience and fake details to see if they ask this fake person to an interview because they worked at a big finance company versus a small company, same 15 years experience.
Okay. Care to explain why you knowingly posted a picture of a nutsack on an HN thread?
You don't need to destroy a large amount.
BAT activity for user rewards etc happens off-chain at the moment, but I think the plan is to move it all on-chain when Ethereum can support that level of activity.

A user model is built on-device to allow for opt-in targeted ads, but that model does not leak across the wire.

Because the user model is not bound by a security sandbox, it can build a much richer model of user behaviour than even the most invasive ad-tech solutions that exist right now.

So Brave claims end-users get more relevant, targeted ads and more privacy, because this model can't be accessed off-device.

It sounds good in theory, and now ads are live we'll get to see how true it is in practice.
3rd parties (the corporations) are people, so why don't they already need a warrant to get stuff from them?
wait, does plaid actually recommend that users disable 2fa?
Change requests and a change review board staffed by professionals.

Subject: Change Request

Body: I would like to log the body of authentication requests in production.

Subject Re: Change Request

Body: How will you ensure personal data is not stored that shouldn't be?

Subject: Re: Re: Change Request

Body: I will add configuration Y to logging system X.
> Now the FTC is facing a potentially big delay and a risk of no fine

The risk is much higher than that. There's a risk that a court rejects the entire justification for the fine greatly reducing both the ftc's ability to impose future fines and their power in general.
You seem really defensive in this conversation.

So you've got a book that's convinced you that it's easy to be unethical and not get punished for it in government positions. My point is that corruption and nepotism are not a "government" problem so much as a "human institutions" problem.

Whether you believe it's a human problem or a government problem has major implications for policy response: Do you reduce government function, or try to install better safeguards? My position is that it's definitely not just a government problem, and that 30 years of responding as though it WERE just a government problem has in fact just hidden the issues in the (far more opaque) private sector.

I interpret "Whattaboutism" as an argument that it's OK for Group A to engage in an unethical action because Group B does as well (perhaps even while overlooking differences of scale or context). This is not my point, nor is it a position I condone.
People want to use their new products instead of feeling stuck in an ecosystem they can't leave.
Yup, and anti-oxidants actually prevent aerobic conditioning in athletes.[1]. Presumably oxidative stress is a signal to the body to become more aerobically efficient.

Yet at the same time, oxidative stress is linked to numerous diseases.

Biology is hard.

[1] Derek Lowe’s blog (don’t have exact link)
The Magic Keyboard has about half the travel of the old laptop keyboard. The butterfly switches have half the travel of the MK. (IIRC, it's something like 2 mm, 1mm, and 0.5mm travel respectively.) The MK does not use butterfly switches, it uses ultra-low-profile scissor switches.

Obviously, this is a YMMV thing. I personally just tolerate the butterfly switches, but prefer the Magic Keyboard to the older Apple laptop switches. This is not a preference on my part for low travel switches, either -- my favorite keyboards are actually mechanical ones. But (to me) the MK is the best scissor switch keyboard I've ever used, save for its dumb arrow key layout.
Q1 2019 Update Letter is here for those who want to read it for themselves:

http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b2218d34-fbee-4f1f-ac95-050...
Machine written articles are a large part of why news in general is virtually worthless to me these days. Especially in finance, I frequently read things that betray a total lack of understanding of the content. This has a knock-on effect that might not be obvious. As a journalist, you might think, well, why don't I read a reputable source like the WSJ - isn't good journalism more valuable when there is more bad stuff about? But people are getting clicks and selling ads with the automatically produced garbage, and therefore I know that traditionally trustworthy media has neither the incentive nor the morale to live up to their past standards. And thus, I have no interest any more in subscribing to even the best. For years, I've watched how under modern competitive conditions, a good brand (in any industry) is not worth maintaining any more, but rather it's become optimal to strip mine it to a husk. It's not really some mysterious decline of society, but a direct result of better data analysis. If someone says "we won Pulitzer prizes!" it doesn't soften me a bit - they only want me to pay them for what they did in the past, and that means nothing.
I think Saito (saito.tech) has the better approach. Surely the problem with the Brave model isn't that they are hijacking the browser so much as that they're just replacing who is in the monopolistic position. Better to let anyone in the world setup an advertising network and let anyone receive adverts from anyone else.
Much like the Mars probes, the pre-2014 MATLAB color scheme is certainly an staunch survivor!
The last sentence is ironic.

Given the amount of effort it took to just barely understand what he's selling, I'd say he has some work to do if he wants people to buy into his idea.
I think if you were talking about such a large speeding ticket, you wouldn’t use a speeding ticket as a metaphor for a small fine...
> “To treat excessive inflammation...we don’t want to block the inflammatory response. We want to stimulate the resolution pathways.”
Short sellers must be gleeful.

https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-short-...
The quoted language in my comment is some I have seen in a plaid powered app, where you need to press a button at your bank that says "disable extra security at sign-on" in order to disable 2FA.

The fact is, if you have 2FA enabled, plaid cannot login on your behalf. That said, it does seem technically possible for plaid scrapers to login, tell you to expect 2FA from your bank, and then echo your response back to the bank. But from what I've seen, they did not do this. Perhaps because they need to login at a later time, so they want to save your password and be able to login then.
Inflammation is not just a symptom, but also an underlying process.

Lots of things can cause inflammation, but the underlying process can be similar. And it can have good and bad effects.
At best the development team might need to know the state and city. When trying to improve the accuracy it might be helpful when to know where someone lives in order to fix geographically related mis-matches.

This is just very sloppy/lazy security.
There is value in adding a concise, incorrect comment on hacker news if it is presented in a clear and falsifiable way. I am sorry I did not google "pressure altitude" before commenting and did not present my findings so others could learn from it, but I am happy that AWildC182 cleared it up for me.

I still think that the sentence in the article could be written in a clearer, and more direct and correct manner -- that is I think it is bad for reasons other than me not understanding the definition.

I understand that pressure altitude is a way to express pressure using a theoretical equivalent altitude, and that it is widely used in aviation because it is convenient and tangible way to express pressure!

Though, I still think the goal was to increase pressure (measured in Atmospheres) on the person undergoing a medical emergency. There would be almost no point for a space pilot to descend from 70 to 65 miles altitude in contrast to a terrestrial pilot descending from 8 miles to 3 miles. Even though the difference is pressure altitudes is the same (5 miles delta), the difference in Atmospheres is hugely different. (In the space case there is almost no difference because there is almost no pressure!) That indicates that the patient requires an increase is pressure (Atmospheres) So why not write "They descended to increase cabin pressure". It's simpler, more direct, and shorter.

It's offensive to couch a personal insult as an "interesting observation" about junior devs' failings showing up in other areas. Your whole comment seems to be made in bad faith and attempts frame me as a fool to be laughed at. This is one of the reasons I sometimes hate participating in hacker news. Even if I'm an idiot I don't think the snark is justified.
Who was talking about forgiveness? I thought we were discussing ethics here. No amount of good intentions will make Zuckerberg's actions moral... at least the actions of which I'm aware.
The idea that "external actors" by definition cause losses to a system no matter what they do makes no sense to me. If Darth Vader gives me a cookie, there is no contradiction between the cookie having utility and him being Darth Vader.
Scapegoating User Experience Design
Do you have any export numbers of UAE to China? I only read imports quantified next to the fact China is still number one importer of African Gold.

Edit: Since 2016 UAE is on the first place but the article mentions Chinese ventures being slapped on the wrist for bad business practices.

Could it be China underreported their gold imports.?
Apple and FB have very different cap structures so let’s compare their EV/EBITDAs not P/E. FB is ~16 and AAPL is ~12. Much closer from that perspective.
It's high time for the lawful to start a fashion of routinely wearing face-obscuring garments. If the USian philosophy is that companies are free to do whatever they want with surveillance, then the rational response is to stop leaking that information in the first place.
I was incorrect: It appears that you do in fact need root to run startx now:

(quoting the faq page for upgrade65):

Xorg(1). The Xorg binary is no longer installed setuid, so startx(1) can no longer be used by non-root users. The xenodm(1) display manager has to be used instead.
In programming, data modeling is the most important.

Convert(or design) data to hash-map, join (or merge) by key.

it can write commonly used operations as functions, try to row (or col) operations as much as possible, and join all data only when necessary(reduce the row-join).

```clojure

(def a {:a-id-01 {:a-name "a1"}

:a-id-02 {:a-name "a2"}})

(def b {:b-id-01 {:a-id :a-id-01 :b-name "b2"}

:b-id-02 {:a-id :a-id-02 :b-name "b2"}})

(->> b

:b-id-01

:a-id

a

:a-name)

;=>

;"a1"

(let [x (b :b-id-01)]

(->> x

:a-id

a

(merge x ,)))

;=>

;{:a-id :a-id-01,

; :b-name "b2",

; :a-name "a1"}

```
US State Department offers $10m bounty for info on Hezbollah financial network
>I'm an innocent capitalist fulfilling what the market demands

I agree. We've been using that excuse for too long. In the 50's William Levitt, the country's largest home builder and the originator of the modern suburb, said exactly that when asked why he built white only communities.

"If we sell one house to a Negro family, 90 to 95 percent of our white customers will not buy into the community."

"As a Jew, I have no room in my heart for racial prejudice. But the plain fact is that most whites prefer not to live in mixed communities. This attitude may be wrong morally, and someday it may change. I hope it will."

In other words: I know it's wrong, but I'm just doing what my customers want.
Remember "How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
Keto is the absence of carbs. So the same diet that maintains keto at 250 will keep you in keto at 190, since it is what you eat, not how much you are eating. But you are absolutely correct that one must change their caloric intake as they lose weight if they want to keep losing weight.
P/E ratios aren’t absolutes, they vary from industry to industry. Hardware companies have lower P/E ratios than software companies and Apple has traditionally been regarded as a hardware company.
Best venture wins literal gold
Inflammation ? Fasting. Just try it. It costs nothing.
>And I'm not just talking about Western notation, either - the number-based notation that's in widespread use in East Asia is also highly intuitive and perhaps more so.

Do you have any more information about this? Fpr example, scores of Chinese music using the Indian/Arabic number system? I know that number notation is used as a mataphor for gamelan music—by westerers, which has caught on natively (although which might be frowned upon) for archival purposes, at least.

The number metaphor for tones clashes with the number metapor for the counting of beats, which is ubiquitous in Western music. But perhaps there are different metaphores in East-Asian music.
Why stop there?

- Pronoun overuse bad. Write don't speak. When talking, many pronouns understandable. Not on paper. Avoid same pronoun for multiple people (same-sex romance especially difficult).

Or how about another:

- Pronouns bad. Write don't speak. Can speak many pronouns, not write. Same pronouns, multiple people? No. (Same-sex romance especially)

Making something shorter or "tighter" isn't necessarily better. Word count isn't everything.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but that implies there's still wit left. There's lots of writing effects that can be lost through overediting, or following the "rules" too closely.
This fine is not for everything unethical Facebook ever did. This fine is for Facebook giving data to Cambridge Analytica. I don’t think Facebook got paid for that at all. When trying to google around for what people paid CA for the use of the data, I found numbers in the hundreds of thousands.

So in fact, Facebook is paying billions because they made a bad decision when choosing to grant access to data for research. That’s a lot of money. I think if you’d asked what a likely fine was when the story broke, people would have guessed a few million dollars.
Exactly, like the fake armor plating of your car. After you cross the border you can safely recast the white gold into aircraft seats and fly them to India.
Only on Hacker News could people's main concern about whether to have invasive surgery to put electrodes on the surface of the speech centres of the brain be ensuring the APIs of the software it transmits messages to are open!
Re first question: That is correct. BAT is trackable as are all Ethereum tokens. But Ethereum 2.0 is planned to allow much more powerful privacy features, so it's not clear what choices BAT will make when the option is available.
You’ve done surveys?
An infrequent part of my job is writing and editing public reports about data. Not even guessing as to causal factors or future impacts, just stating the data in English.

I wish more people would accept that writing is not speaking. Beyond pronouns, when this is good advice:

- Don't use acronyms for short names or phrases. "Department of Motor Vehicles" is a mouthful, but not much more of an eyeful than "DMV" after seeing it twice. (Consider using the acronym if the amount of space filled with text looks daunting).

- It's okay to be repetitive. In fact, it's good to repetitively present data. The pinnacles of this is the table, but narrative text also works.
levels.fyi
Sounds like it wasn’t much of a mischaracterization if there was a bunch of outrage and then they backtracked completely.
"Musk defined the neuro lace as a "digital layer above the cortex" that would not necessarily imply extensive surgical insertion but ideally an implant through a vein or artery" well it is still pretty undefined. Essentially neural lace can be anything enabling this kind of communication.
I have a friend who took an unpaid internship in a state where it is not legal. Then, once the internship was finished, he sent them an invoice for hours worked at minimum wage. They were not happy, but they paid.
FTC Charges Surescripts with Illegal Monopolization of E-Prescription Markets
Just for shits and giggles, I joined Spotify just to give this a listen. I just listened to about 10 minutes of episode 2.

Reaction? Neutral. If I didn't know it was Zuckerberg, I'd probably say "that was moderately interesting, but not earth-shaking." He's talking about the future of journalism with Mathias Döpfner in this episode. So far what's being said sounds reasonable, IF you look at it in isolation.

But, you can't really ignore that this is Zuckerberg, and the history of Facebook and their relationship with privacy issues, fake news, etc. It's hard to to hear everything he says through a very cynical filter, even when his literal words sound reasonable.

Net-net? It's not something I'm going to listen to on a regular basis, but I might dip in for a listen here and there if I'm bored.
This explains why they've been so slow on giving me my reservation money back.
From another site:

> Tesla lost $702 million in the first quarter of 2019, after posting back-to-back profits for the first time ever to finish out 2018

> Tesla finished the quarter with $2.2 billion in cash on hand, a decrease of $1.5 billion from the end of 2018 — though $920 million of that was used to pay debt that came due in March. Of that $2.2 billion total, $768 million was customer deposits for vehicles like the Model 3, Model Y, second generation Roadster, Tesla Semi, and the company’s energy products.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-24/tesla-reports-dism...
Multiples like P/E are just a proxy for cash flows, discount rate, and growth. That P/E tends to stratify on industries makes sense not just because of growth, but also its sensitivity to capital structure. So asset heavy companies with lots of leverage will have different P/E ratios even with the same unlevered free cash flows.
> Society and its rulers are not the same thing.

I wanted to make that point when I read this line:

>> But the Avars ruled Central Europe for over two centuries, and it is not a given that their civilization had no worth and did not represent a future we would have flourished in.

A civilizations worth is always measured by those who might seek to control it. You could have a bunch of people getting on just fine, living out perfectly normal lives. But if there isn't any way for them to produce excess - be that labor output or extraction of natural resources - then they are not seen as valuable and will not be written about.
Lewis Carroll Puzzles
After hours trading is mostly flat. So probably not.
i hope it's no to hit us with the next wave of low budget tv that we mostly received with the last round; hopefully they learned from mistakes and this time will be better!
> trading off performance (user productivity) for flexibility (developer productivity)

Is this not something that can be helped with more advanced compilers?
Storing plain text passwords doesn't make them money, but it negatively affects users, should those passwords be compromised. Though FB didn't prosper from the mistake, users potentially feel a cost, so the outcome is the same. Criminal negligence might not benefit the bad actor, but it's still a crime either way.
I decided to implement this today and struggled with gmail consistently trying to force the priority inbox on me with each reload. I eventually went through each of my existing categories and wiped them clean, literally 10 years of miscellaneous labels applied to 92,495 emails(1), and that finally got it working correctly. Maybe it just needed some time to reflect, who knows.

The shocking thing about this is that gmail is FLYING now - the difference is night and day. I've been fairly despondent about g mail performance for a while now, but I'm just about speechless. I would love to know if anyone has noticed anything similar.

(1) Emails, not threads.
> Two points. One is that you have to look at the trends over the years, not just quarterly ups and downs, and there Tesla is doing remarkably well.

https://fairlyvalued.com/company/TSLA

Tesla has NEVER posted a yearly net income in its entire life. Q1 2019 is quite a bad start, with another $700 Million loss to start this year. That's the trend: losing money by any measurement on a yearly basis. Free Cash flow? Negative. Net Income? Negative. Etc. etc.

> This is going to turn the auto industry upside down, and be a huge step in saving the environment. So don't focus so much on Tesla, look at the larger trends.

Tesla lost 1.5 Billion this quarter and is down to $2.2 Billion in cash. A capital raise is absolutely necessary to prevent this company from going bankrupt.

I mean, I wanna stop global warming as much as you do. But an unsustainable business model is doomed to fail. This company needs to start making a profit (and not just a quarterly non-GAAP profit... I mean a real GAAP profit measured on a yearly basis)
Stupid question, aren't employees paid partly in stock?
I think it's still true that at certain legal moments a paper record is (all but) required.
I find I am a much "better" programmer in Scheme than in any other language, in the sense that idioms that I would normally struggle to express (at all, let alone cleanly) simply flow out as if I had invented them myself. Programming in Scheme is hugely fun.

If it were true that humans thought "imperatively", then we'd all still be using languages with GOTO.
This is not intended to be a flame, but your example there, reads like a staccato-enamoured teenager mumbling into his bowl of fruit-loops in the morning, or alternatively, like you're reading back notes you copied off someone's powerpoint slide during a presentation.

Half of that is neither grammatically correct, nor complete sentences, and there is limited implicit or explicit relation or flow between your dot points.

Please never write like this.