skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To tell a story. The specific brands paid to be there, but the idea of the glamorous item is always there. This is consistent with extensive literature showing marketing can switch brand preference but is very bad at getting people to change their mind about product categories as a whole (like smoking or drinking) they've already heard of.
Telecom satellites would be getting shot down in the first week, too.
"it didn't cost me anything extra"
Good luck with that.

How about people walking abound 24/7 with an anal plug?
It depends on where you live. Tons of people go car free in CA, even in LA. Rent a car for the road trip, or a truck for ikea. A mile might be a short distance, but a long time and a longer park depending on the time of day. There are a lot more people motorcycling/biking/skateboarding/scootering in LA than ten years ago, because there are too many cars, not enough spots, and not enough space on the road to move them. And if you work downtown there are lots of places you can live that fall along the limited rail lines.
He will do all that and give up billions in sunk costs and revenue because he can't be bothered to show up to a parliamentary hearing?

His board will destroy him.

Letting 'jobmakers' hold jobs hostage over their incompliance with the law is like negotiating with a terrorist. It opens the door for others to extort you, and the only correct move is to not do it.
Why should Canadian parliament be able to summon a US citizen? Should other countries like China Turkey or Armenia be able to summon them as well? And should hacker news delete your profile if you do not follow 'lawful summons' to after talking about a certain square or genocide.
That's a bold claim. Can you elaborate on it some more? I'm not sure how the advertising is helping our interpretation in this case.
One of the interesting things you could do with XHTML was ditch the HTML entirely and write an XML document expressing the semantic content, and then couple that with an XSLT stylesheet to convert it into XHTML for display. This way the exact same resource could be read by machines to get the semantic content, and then read by browsers and transformed into the display content.

I'm not sure if anyone ever actually used this seriously though. Definitely very "ivory tower" design. But in the abstract it's a cool idea.
It can be done, but it is usually uglified. No need to give the plain source to outsiders.
Wow. I wonder if the entity that was Blekko and is now just a post office box somewhere could get back the hundreds of thousands of dollars Google decided not to pay out because they didn't like something about them. I'm sure the advertiser's never got any money back.
In general, this is the standard playbook all the surveillance valley companies have been branding themselves with - setting themselves up as middlemen for some type of person-to-person interaction, taking credit for the interaction itself as if they're a necessary part of it, but absolving their responsibility for any downsides by passing the buck to their users. It's effectively a motte and bailey - the motte is the organic interaction, the bailey is the imposition of their opinionated business practices. Business practices which include optimizing for engagement (aka time wasted), building comprehensive surveillance profiles, marketing themselves as coherent service providers to recruit new peers, and charging hefty transaction fees.
> Anybody pointing out the hypocrisy can just be shut-up with a good dose of "whataboutism!".

And that would be a completely appropriate response if someone were to imply that the US' actions somehow justify China's actions. Or vice versa.
1 mile = 20 minute walk, 10 minute skateboard, 5 min bike, 3 min electric scooter, 2 min electric bike, for reference.
A few personal observations:

1) A lot of frustration comes from bad expectations about how easy a math formulate should be to read. If I see 3 short lines of code, my gut tells me "this will be easy", and it's right. If I see 3 lines of math I feel like it should be easy but then get frustrated when 30 minutes later I'm still looking at the same 3 lines.

2) Once you understand a formula, I often decided I couldn't write it any better myself. It's most useful as a tool for thought and remembering, not necessarily as a tool for teaching.
You realise the reason why it's so effective is that it's psychological manipulation right? Telling people to just "stop rewarding" it is almost the same as telling abused partners to "just leave the relationship"; it's not that simple, and trying to reduce it as such is at best unhelpful, and at worst actively harmful.
Nothing against Moxie, but this stated fact is clearly nonsense. It certainly would have been terrible for a large volume of water to reach the burning core, but you're not going to get a 5MT blast from a reactor accident. It takes a LOT of things working perfectly to make a nuclear bomb explode correctly. Lots of bad things happen when reactors go critical, a nuclear blast is generally not one of them. It's the spread of contaminated matter that makes reactor accidents bad. Also, sure, explosions can happen with rapid temperature changes like one encounters in these situations, but nothing like an actual nuclear bomb.
Basically this: Currently Amazon buys a ton of products wholesale from companies and sells them directly. As in Amazon is both the seller and the fulfillment.

What is happening: Amazon will only do that for the largest brands like Lego, P&G, etc. Smaller brands will still be fulfilled by amazon (products stored in amazon's warehouses) but the actual seller will be the product's brand. This makes that brand compete with other sellers selling their products instead of selling wholesale to Amazon and Amazon having to carry the stock.
I don’t use RHEL so I wasn’t sure what to include and what to exclude. (And the Release Policy is like 5 pages long). So I just left the image without the versions being covered.

Now that I now, will give it a shot. Can I reach out to you for a review once the PR is up?
>Even for companies who are supposedly privacy-forward, their defaults say otherwise. A brand-new iPhone has all these privacy settings that are off by default, and that are usually confusingly labeled and buried several settings screens deep. Nobody really turns them on outside of a very small bubble.

This statement is 100 percent unadulterated BS. Name 3 privacy settings in IPhone that are off by default?
That's not accurate unless you think the current satellites (many of which are far brighter, such as ISS and Iridium flares) already "ruin" the night sky.

I watched a recent pass of the Starlink satellites, and now that they're oriented near their operational directions, I could barely see them. I only noticed them because I knew right where to look. Unlike the flashing lights of passing aircraft which were a lot more distracting.
Then don't talk about advertising but talk about the big brother, public relations - the inventor of which played an important role in positioning smoking as a pleasant and desirable activity.
How do you decide what to watch?

How do you become aware of new shows you would be interested in?

For me this is one of the benefits of Netflix's recommendation service. While I feel like the quality of the recommendations has gone down over the years, it still has value. I tend to watch 1-2 shows at a time until I have watched the entirely of them. When I finish one I want to find another to watch, but don't always know what I want to watch next. So for me "I want to watch something but i don't know what" is the exact problem I have on a regular basis.
> There's a reason people with less social contacts have, in general, a shorter life span

Or people who are obviously going to die earlier will get less social contacts -- the causation could be in either direction. Perhaps they don't form the social contacts because they don't want to make others who get to know them be the ones to suffer sadness when they die first, or they don't want to burden others with feeling they should look after them when they get sick first. Or perhaps it's the others who don't want to risk the sadness or incur the burden.
I think there's (at least) another factor not investigated here - advertising as a stress inducing, unnecessary noise in life.

People are trying to bombard you, through every possible avenue, with advertising. They want your eyes and your mind and they won't waste a second or a flat surface when trying to get at them.

I find it abusive and exhausting.
Wondering if these satellites follow a fixed path. If so, and there are few enough of them, the nextgen land-based optical telescopes will just have to factor this into scheduling.

Has SpaceX said anything about the paths they will follow? Can they change mid-deployment?
I’m not confusing anything. The game has time interwoven into the game play. Therefore the fourth dimension of space is the fifth dimension of the game. I really hope you are joking.
This works great until browser vendors that aren't whitelisted but support the features of a whitelisted browser (e.g. Chromium derivatives) realize that they're paying extra costs they don't have to, and change their user agents to a whitelisted browser...

Posted from Chrome-

> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36
Thanks a lot for this command. Maybe I can use it blackhole all of that using my pi-hole server at home since I don't use any products or services from Facebook or its subsidiaries.
How many are necessary, or even desirable, and not a net drain on human happiness by optimizing for endless engagement? I don't like the direction in which the ad-supported model is pushing content.

Internet pre-advertising had plenty of useful and interesting sites. And Wikipedia is ad-free as well. And without the competition of zero-cost ad-supported commercial sites, other business models would rise to take their place.
In the sense that, yes, you can see satellites in space. As a casual stargazer myself, spotting satellites is one of the fun parts of stargazing.
16 -> 32 GB of ram is a $400 option... ouch
It's hacky and not good practice, but LaTeX supports things like:

\hspace*{0.75cm}

which I've had reason to use on occasion.
Do they at least enforce that Anker products actually came from Anker and not some scammer who's happy to burn my apartment down?
Thanks, is nice to have at least some positive feedback.

I suppose given my comment makes light of venture capital, machine learning, crowdfunding, catfishing victims, ISIS and Al-Qaeda, I should have suspected it might be unpopular with a fairly wide cross section of HN. ;)
That is expected... https://xkcd.com/303/
The X-37B is likely a test platform for exactly that scenario (and more).
As a defender of space travel and Starlink: Nobody in their right mind wants that. Public reaction would rightly be swift and negative. Starlink provides a useful, widely available service and the fact you can see them is a side effect (they're not very bright operationally, so it's not really a negative). But a billboard is effectively legal graffiti.
Laptop infected with world’s most dangerous viruses sold at auction for $1.345M
That is correct. I did not make this sufficiently clear, but this model is supposed to reflect the perspective of an investor / startup deciding whether to invest in a drug development project. The model calculates price required for breakeven NPV using a discount rate of 20%, which is roughly in line with cost of capital for startups. Since most FDA approved drugs these days are developed by small companies, i thought it appropriate to use a small company's cost of capital
Does Wikipedia count as a big content website? n=1 and all that, but I think it's a decent example of how things that are actually useful do just fine[1] without ads.

This might sound harsh, but if people are unwilling to pay for something with any currency they don't implicitly count as worthless, maybe it shouldn't exist. The 20xx equivalent of checkout aisle gossip mags going quietly into that good night is a feature, not a bug.

Beyond that, think about how many of the ills of the modern internet can be traced back to advertising profit motive. Shitty clickbait journalism? Yep. Engagement-optimized filter bubbles and radicalization machines? Check. Fake news (of the traditional definition)? Practically the poster child. Indiscriminate data collection? Of course. I admit that I'm far from a typical internet user, but from my point of view the death of ad-supported services is an unalloyed good.

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[1] Much of the funding from Wikipedia drives goes to other efforts of the foundation. The frequency and tone of drives might imply some precariousness, but taken alone Wikipedia is fairly firmly in the green.
This makes some sort of sense but then wouldn't we be seeing "etheyrtion" instead of "ertion"? Even assuming a find/replace properly targeted the word "xe" we don't have any "replace" happening, which doesn't really track.
What's the sort order? It doesn't change on refresh, but e.g. Python has 4y, 2y, 7m, 1y, in that order, being 3.x, 3.x, 2.x, 3.x respectively.

Is it just random but cached?

I think best might be release version order - it's correlated to EOL, but also shows how far behind you are if you have to look down.
I think you may be misunderstanding what a trailer park is in this context. Most homes in most trailer parks aren't RVs or anything; they're reasonably normal houses built in the most cost-effective way, which happens to be building them in a factory and then shipping them to the final location on a trailer.
I always look at the ingredients list of bread in the US and I am always surprised how long the list is. Why do they put so much stuff (and always sugar or syrup) into any bread?
Some context for this: The German YouTuber "Rezo", normally known for rather "intellectual low-level" videos published a video last week titled "The destruction of the CDU" [1] where he analyzed the politics of the largest German Conservative Party, the CDU and outlined how they are actively endangering our future with their style of politics.

While one might argue that he made some minor mistakes while choosing sources or interpreting the numbers he found, all in all it's a solid 55 minute video which is quite on point and has all the sources linked for everyone to look at.

In only a few days this video hit the 5 million views mark and was discussed all around German news.

Instead of arguing contentwise with or against the video, the CDU and its members took action like some headless chickens, defamed the YouTuber and so on. They even published an 11 page long PDF which was mostly emotional and pointing out that the video was unfair. To most people this was only proof that Rezo had a valid point and the CDU had nothing to counter.

Another video followed where Rezo and around 70 famous German YouTubers collectively asked to NOT vote for CDU, CSU, SPD (and right-wing AfD) in the upcoming EU election as the former three were in charge for the last decades and were giving a shit about climate change and so on.

As we see on the German results from the EU election this might have worked/helped. CDU and SPD lost dramatically, the Green party is around the same level as CDU now. One might argue whether the video really had an impact or people were just frustrated with the CDU/SPD anyway, but at least it looked like the video had an impact.

This led to the point that Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer ("AKK"), as head of CDU and therefore one of the two ruling parties, asked to regulate influencers during election periods. Obviously this is a huge thing now, as freedom is speech is ensured by constitutional law in Germany and this suggestion is highly unconstitutional and an unheard border crossing.

Note beside: Influencers are totally fine for the CDU when they are talking in favor of the CDU. In 2017 for the federal election campaign they worked together with some influencers and they really liked it.

AKK was only elected in December 2018 (as the least worse option out of three!) as head of CDU and was planned as the successor of Angela Merkel. Seems like those hopes might now be crushed, Bloomberg is speculating if AKK is being put down from the job after all. [2]

Thought you people might find interesting what's going on in Germany, especially with a spin on influencers as a job/profession/hobby around the whole world.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y1lZQsyuSQ

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/merkel-se...
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Hell, I watched GI Joe, Transformers, and He-Man when I was a kid. That's basically 22 minutes of advertising with 8 minutes of breaks for more advertising.
I did a project like this recently. Had been using a particularly piece of crap java software for 3 months, got tired of it, and rewrote a much improved version in ruby that using KISS. It does 90% of what the other framework does and is about 10% the size. I haven't needed the 10% I left out at all and other people are adopting it. It definitely falls under your "take a small project, and get some success at the end of the tunnel and learn some new stuff"
Lithium levels in tap water and psychotic experiences in adolescents
I'd second this. I've seen several people get their agent license in recent years, and most of them have additional jobs. (meaning they're not generating as much income as an agent as they'd need to do it full time) It's a very flooded market.
While obviously we're making more advanced measurements with space-based instruments, the value of the night sky for the average human cannot be overblown. Many people don't know what they're missing, having never lived outside of broad scale light pollution. While I don't think we necessarily need to worry about all ground-based telescopes, I do think that the average person being able to look at the sky and see the stars is something we should never give up on.
If we had near unlimited energy, we could find a way to trap heat energy and remove it.
If you walked into a store on Main Street and got scammed for $50, would you just throw up your hands? Or would you call the cops? If you did call the cops, they would have the address of the store to start their investigation. And aside from maybe getting you your $50 back, the state might prosecute the scammer for committing a crime.

EV and OV certs are intended to provide similar information. If you report a scam by a website with an EV or OV cert, the police can use the information in the cert to start their investigations. There's more to accountability than small claims court.

Setting aside the cert issue, it's just striking how many people take it for granted that there are no consequences and no recourse for online crimes. How did we come to accept this as normal, as a society?
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watching Chernobyl on HBO brought to life some of the stories that happened during that fateful period. Easily the best show on HBO right now
No, I haven’t seen anything that fancy. The “user” in step 1 is internal QA testing the site on the browser, maybe after seeing it a lot in logs. Exposing users to novel UA strings to a bunch of feature detection JavaScript is an interesting idea but it’s probably better to log them and then do this in a QA setting.
I think they’re saying that a single fusion event produces 3-4x more energy than a single fission event.
I dont think that they should have veto power, or that there is an inherent moral responsibility. That doesnt mean that I think starlink is justified, there should have been more debate and to tour point I certainly dont believe that the current regulatory standards were sufficient. What I believe is that it is up to astronomers to make their case to the public (starlink had plenty of advance notice) about why it is important to stop starlink, and that if the public is not convinced, there is no obligation to have any sort of consensus, moral or otherwise, from astronomers before launching. They don't own the sky any more than SpaceX does. The same point you made for the value of space based internet applies to the astronomers as well - do they need ground based telescopes or would space based telescopes be equally capable without affecting the sky by shutting down attempts to increase internet access and provide better connectivity via satellite? Obviously, both sides want the night sky for their own use, and if there is no way that a constellation of satellites will not interfere with astronomy, then both groups need to make their case. And if society decided astronomy was more important than space internet, I would be equally unopposed to shutting down these sorts of projects without the consensus of the companies investing in them. We do absolutely need a better regulatory framework though.
Perhaps the smaller trees would be more likely to bend/snap, absorbing more energy
It probably doesn't matter too much, but this is a lossy conversion. For example "Fred McIntosh" -> "MCINTOSH Fred". So the capitalization of the "I" is lost.
The full title is Lithium levels in tap water and psychotic experiences in a general population of adolescents.
The 'I'm not watching anything but have to have the TV(s) on' is genuinely dystopian-esque behaviour that's seen as relatively acceptable.

Have an in-law that does it (even when staying with us) and drives me insane...
Thanks for that post!

Just to clarify -- the startup conference looks to be for entrepreneurs looking to found new companies. With Justin and Ammon presenting, I'm sure there's a ton to get out of it!

The YC work at a startup expo is for engineers looking to join early (or late) stage startups. It won't be as valuable to early stage founders; YC has Startup School (https://www.startupschool.org/) and other programs for that.

There are various reasons you might want to work for a startup vs. start one yourself. If you're unclear which you might be more inclined to do, I'm always happy to chat and share my experiences.

Thanks for posting!
Not sure if sarcasm...?
Missed the edit deadline, but here's an update:

I've got the day off today, so I'm on this like a poorly-disciplined bloodhound. After searching GQ.com with all 26 letter combinations x_ it seems 'xb' and 'xe' have been removed, site-wide (edit: not site-wide), while none of the other combos are affected. My test words are listed below.

So, is this starting to ring a bell for anybody? Do xb and xe have anything in common? Defunct formatting codes? Emacs function keys, I only half-jokingly joked?

examination

Oxbridge

excuse

Disney XD

boxes

exfoliate

foxglove

exhale

exit

Jaguar XJ

Jaguar XK

axle

axman

Oxnard

exoskeleton

expose

exquisite

iPhone XR

coxswain

next

sexual

Final Fantasy XV

Maxwell

XXX

sexy

Olympus XZ-1
The importance society places on something can be judged by how much money it's willing to spend on it.

The NSF budget for astronomy is $250M/year.

Revenue projections for Starlink reach as high as $50B/year.
It's a bit complicated, but changes in the app are stored separately, and then applied to the stored db on app start-up. So the previous stored db is backed up before the new changes are applied.

Hope that answers your question.
So, here's a paper that explicitly discusses "Keeping up with the Joneses" and Veblen's conspicuous consumption and all, and that claims to show that more advertisement leads to less satisfaction.

You can't really just walk in and say "Well, no, guys, listen, let me tell you how it really is" and just dismiss the whole basic notion of the paper without giving sources.