skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best part about these blog posts is that people discuss the hosting service more than the content of the article at this point.

No one is nearly as interested in Carmack's thoughts on codecs as they are about the domain name of the server he's posting to.

And yet, we'd all read his stuff no matter where he puts it. But maybe he reaches more outsiders this way? I doubt it.
Sure, but the article calls out a variety of statistics that imply that balloons disproportionately good at killing animals.

Also, not doing balloon releases has literally no real drawbacks. I we can't get affect change here, we're so fucked.
They are extremely difficult to kill without government regulations, James Randi exposed Peter Popoff (80s televangelist faith healer) as a straight up 100% fraud and that didn't seem to really hurt him much if at all in the long run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff

>He went bankrupt the next year, but made a comeback in the late 1990s. Beginning in the mid-2000s, Popoff bought TV time to promote "Miracle Spring Water" on late-night infomercials, and referred to himself as a prophet.[2] Business Insider remarked, "No matter how many times his claims are debunked, he seems to bounce back with another version of the same old scam."[3]

>Popoff was collecting almost $4 million per year in the late 1980s, according to Randi.[41] In 2003, his ministry received over $9.6 million, and in 2005, over $23 million. In that year, he and his wife were paid a combined salary of nearly $1 million, while two of his children received over $180,000 each.[42] Financial data is not available for Popoff's ministry since 2005 because Peter Popoff Ministries changed from a for-profit business to a religious organization in 2006, making it tax-exempt.[40] Popoff purchased a home in Bradbury, California, for $4.5 million in 2007.[43] He drives a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz.[44]
> why is this in hn?

Isn't it obvious? A lot of HN readers are interested in making money. This article shows one way to do it.

Combine prosperity gospel with MLM, buy some YouTube ads for the right demographics and in front of the right videos, and you've got yourself a nice self-growing tax sheltered business that is politically infeasible to regulate. It's not like Zuckerberg has any scruples either.
Local traditions like headhunting?

The Naga were headhunters before converting to Christianity, National Geographic has a clip about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLs-UoqzLlU
> The headline was formed based on the quote from the academic involved:

The headline was cherrypicked from an interview.

> The headline was formed based on the quote from the academic involved:

No, it would suggest that the reporter picked the most sensationalistic quote he could find from a lengthy interview.

> But this constant shoot the messenger to climate change denial will not stop the contents of the message from playing out in time.

I notice that you did not address any of the facts linked from my post, such as the number of tornadoes being at a record low between 2012 and 2014, nor the fact that according to the National Weather Service's own site, the increase in the number of reported tornadoes is largely due to better radars and more storm-chasers looking for them.
That sounds reasonable except Google could write some boilerplate for maintainers to include in a project's README.md, contributing.md or license file that explicitly states they won't accept community contributions because copyright would be an issue, and they don't appear to have done anything like that.
I grew up near the Falwell family's sphere of influence and I'm still stunned at the extent of their deceit. They effectively control a mid-tier city, a large private Christian university, and a huge voting bloc of conservative Christians
Http://firesmoke.ca is a website I am unfortunately visiting already this year.

on top of destroying people's homes and lives, what used to be the best couple months of summer are pretty much ruined for any type of outdoor activity from Mexico to Alaska and la push to Regina.

It is already hazy around vancouver due to the big fires in Alberta. We also had a fire get out of control in early April when the ground is supposed to be super wet still.
Lot of the comments seem to miss the point.

It's for the military, not consumers. It won't need driver support or features like a consumer OS.

The more foreign the layout probably the better as you can train new habits more easily when the environment for old ones doesn't exist.

Have a feeling the end result will be the same, "We built it!"

spy leaks code
hacked
It certainly is on my list as a negative if the opportunity to holiday in the US comes up.

There are plenty of other places that are higher on my destination list, so it's unlikely to factor in any decision.
Fun fact: sRGB also has a non-black black point that is (fortunately) virtually ignored by everyone.
Sure, but it still makes sense that that number would still result in a flat zero - or be disregarded - since Stockfish is (presumably?) capable of evaluating and realizing the absolute 0 chance, no? I'm not claiming to have special knowledge of these algorithms but it makes at least intuitive sense to me.
Luxury Fashion Market 2019 Emerging Trends, Attractiveness, Statistics, Business
Thank you for the link. From the Wikipedia article on Outline:

“In March 27, 2019, it was announced that Bryan Goldberg and his company Bustle Digital Media had bought The Outline” [1].

So a VC-backed site got acquired by a publisher whose customers are advertisers. Meanwhile, Bloomberg’s “nag wall” is neutered with incognito mode. Outline remains, to me, to be a terrible trade-off.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18284591/bustle-outline-bryan-...
You've posted so many inflammatory things on this topic in the past that I need to remind you to avoid it here.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, or break the site guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036198 and marked it off-topic.
Weinermobile was a novelty and enjoyable for about a week. Now I suffer
I really enjoy coup.
Ok, we'll replace junk with noncoding above.
> Straws are a good one to single out too because a vast number of them come from just a few major fast food chains

At least in SE Asia, this is untrue. Nearly every single place that serves food puts a straw in your drink. From street vendors to restaurants.

I can agree with you that we need to keep bothering until it stops, but on a personal level after living in SE Asia for the last 3 years, I'm honestly of the opinion of trash being a hopeless problem on a global level.
You ever notice how most Chinese restaurants in the US (especially in larger cities) have always delivered anyway, even before services like Seamless? The same is true of almost every small restaurant in China; the apps really only expand the delivery area and make it more convenient.
Surprised not see wekan listed here. Kanboard is another great option. And taiga
OmniFocus for the Web
> Those minimum requirements aren't set in stone

is in direct disagreement with

> Have made it compulsory on Android 7

which is my point.
Have you ever bought a soft drink or purchased food from a fast food restaurant? Why did you choose it?
Ever heard about tiffin services in India, specially Mumbai?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala

That's very similar
You said 'it wasn't his decision to make' not 'perhaps he wants to use his employer's platform'. If you don't want to imply it's coercive, you should phrase it in a way that doesn't imply it's coercive.
The mental gymnastics here...

Go is just like many Google projects and Google "community" programs. They are basically a way to get free labor while benefiting Google first and foremost. That is a philosophy that goes right up to the top. Yes others benefit from the free software, and by fixing something you might be scratching your own itch, but if you invest any unpaid time towards developing for it you need to understand the Google controls everything (unless you fork it).

If you get on the wrong side of the Google activists, they will use the COC to invent a reason to kick you out of the main project. Some of Google's "community" programs are not as subtle about things. IE: The Google Developer Expert program in these "community" technologies such as Angular, Android etc. require the unpaid developer experts to sign non-disparagement agreements with Google while in exchange only getting a little bit of notoriety and a few comped trips and tickets to events...and of course Google is the gate keeper for it. The GDG program is even more flagrant. Each chapter is "independent" and has to raise their own money for things, but then Google tips the scales by throwing money towards programs that shill certain Google products. Google also has guidelines on how you market etc. things and is able to be a gate keeper on who is and isn't and organizer etc..

Many of the Google "community" "open source" packages are first only released to people under NDA's. I've seen this happen a few times with the some of the Android libraries etc..

Does that mean that Go is bad? No, in the same way that proprietary technologies are not bad. The key is understanding the truth from the propaganda.
I have to do this for the benefit of those who were doubting like I did because I never had the belief I would one day be Hiv Negative after years of agony and unwanted Drugs destroying my body system. All thanks to Dr. APAMA for his fatherly demonstrations to me despite my unbelief and annoying questions I kept asking him still he showed me love and helped me with his herbs, He made me to understand that He's not desperate for money and money is not everything what a kind man like Dr APAMA. I have read many testimonies of those who benefited from Dr. APAMA medicines, this actually prompted me to write him but today it is a testimony in my life and I will forever be grateful and I wish to thank Dr. APAMA for his humanitarian strive and also to urge those sick of HIV, HEPATITIS, HERPES HPV, CANCER, DIABETES And more to contact Dr. APAMA for help on DRAPAMAHERBALHEALINGCENTRE@GMAIL.COM And Whatsapp: +2349072570496. My Email/ mukmuktaar@gmail.com
Almost correct. Governments have a strong say in what is incentivized and what is not through taxation and monetary policy.

The people running government are (in most places) elected by the people but that is affected by political manipulation, gerrymandering and politicians often represent the moneyed interests that got them into power.
> Scanning localhost ... localhost complete.

Yet I am running Node.js http-server[1], and see the request in the logs:

[Tue May 28 2019 23:56:54 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)] "GET /" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"

[1] https://github.com/indexzero/http-server
Hi there!

Currently, the largest demand is engineers. There are YC companies looking for PMs & designers, but not as many.

That said, if you're looking for roles, feel free to send me a note at ryan@ycombinator.com and I'll see what I can do. I often have them come across my email, and happy to refer you when they do!
Really cool, and thanks for finding a much more accessible data set than I managed to!

For people non-familiar with Switzerland, though, it needs pointing out that Pfäffikon SZ is no longer in Zurich city nor Zurich state, but Schwyz (thus the SZ).
It still comes up in that data set since it is served by ZVV, the Zurich transport authority.
It would also be great to know how you group stops together as "the same stop, just different parts of it". I.e. Central vs. Central Polybahn - I would say these are actually colocated, just served by different lines (tram vs. furnicular).
for any anker product i can find on amazon, there is only one seller - ankerdirect - selling on FBA. it's difficult to commingle products when they're all coming from the same seller.
Author, if you're reading this: thank you.

This weekend I wrote a simple tool to manage a client/server-style Wireguard setup. It's a little less tedious than copying and pasting "wg genkey" and "wg pubkey" output as you're setting up new clients. It's not quite easy enough for someone to use without prior Wireguard setup knowledge, but if you've gotten your first client-server pair running, then you'll recognize where this tool fits into the rest of your workflow.

Hope it helps someone.
Boosted race trees for low energy classification
A discussion from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2814864.
The ffmpeg documentation for YouTube videos[1] suggests using `-pix_fmt yuv420p` with H.264 and there are warnings against using other pixel formats (such as yuv444p) for compatibility reasons. Should the documentation instead be suggesting `-pix_fmt yuvj420p`? What are the risks associated with choosing that output format?

[1]: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/YouTube
Computational Modeling in Algebra, Physics and Data Science, for All Students
Depends on a case by case basis. You'd need a desert, the South of Spain, Greece or Texas. Just like geothermal, it's very location specific, whereas one could deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon or Mars.
However, why isn’t the Washington Post reporting, or at least providing disclosure that they are doing the “bad thing” they are reporting others are doing?

For example, financial writers generally disclose if they have a position in a stock they are discussing.

If a reporter wanted to be completely transparent, they’d write “yes, and even this publication doesn’t respect user privacy.” But of course they won’t do that. Interestingly, trackers for Washington Post via Apple News are non-existent. It’s actually better for privacy to read WaPo via Apple News than on their own app/website. Yet, not a mention of their own pot/kettle blackness. How about privacy using Amazon devices? Or the relatively strong privacy with HomePod vs. Alexa? Since Bezos owns the Washington Post, there is certainly room for skepticism when it comes to WaPo reporting on a space in which their ownership has a vested interest.
The Amazon 720P version had noticeable banding several times during that episode that was distracting even the day after so it's probably not a bandwidth issue, the Dothraki charge into the dark might have been a cool idea on paper but what a disappointment in execution. I think the director and cinematographer are just ignorant of how stuff gets delivered to consumers.

https://news.avclub.com/was-game-of-thrones-the-long-night-t...
Why the are winning _now_?

Great question. The answer seems to be "because Monsanto is now owned by a foreign company".

Before that those claims weren't really winning in the courts.
Yes, we are fucked.

Of course the article calls out statistics about balloons, because the article is about balloons. There is any number of ways that animals can die from trash.

You want to change things? Figure out a way to make biodegradable balloons less expensive than the rubber ones. Figure out a way to bio-engineer a bacteria that breaks down the rubber ones.

Reality is that getting people to stop releasing balloons, worldwide, isn't going to happen from a blog post or any amount of education or laws discouraging it.
The End of New Orleans: What Leadership Isn’t (2005)
Here's another take on the war metaphor in international relations:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization_(internationa...

> an extreme version of politicization that enables extraordinary means to be used in the name of security
Five megaton explosion? That's hydrogen fusion bomb range, dude, not a steam explosion.
I found this comment very interesting. Can you give an example of a cult of personality within the anabaptist movement?
Especially when my wireless bill has a data limit. One month theScore app somehow used 5gb of background data.
Interestingly, Apple News does respect privacy. The privacy approaches of Siri, Apple News, Apple Music, etc. ought not be overlooked.
“S&P 500 got its start in 1923. 3 years later it was expanded to include 90 stocks...” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-sp-timeline-id...
Good point. The companies in attendance are definitely focused on software roles, with a few hardware tech companies mixed in (Volans-i and Standard Cognition).

If you have a background/expertise in CPG or ops/production and are looking, feel free to ping me at ryan@ycombinator.com and I'm happy to see if companies doing similar things are hiring.

Thanks!
What is a legitimate use of background app refresh? I just turned it off expecting not to receive notifications, but that’s not the case.
>Granted, a hydraulic failure of two redundant and independent systems is astronomically unlikely (and the outcome will almost certainly be fatal).

Triple system failure https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

“The crew contacted United maintenance personnel via radio, but were told that, as a total loss of hydraulics on the DC-10 was considered "virtually impossible", there were no established procedures for such an event.”
"Limit Ad Tracking", "Location-Based Apple Ads", "Background App Refresh", "Significant Locations" (this one irks me the most)

Don't get me wrong. I feel like Apple is at least trying to do the right thing with regards to privacy. They just aren't there yet (as evidenced by the linked article).
In a lot of cases, the politician's implementation turns out to be contracting with churches to do the actual work.
> Citizens decide where to spend their money.

It's almost criminal the way we propagate the narrative that advertising is ineffectual. Of course, if it were, there wouldn't be so much money in it.

So it's very hard for me to take seriously people who believe in consumer choice.
Polygenic scores mediate Jewish phenotypic advantage in academic attainment
Conservation of angular momentum doesn't care about the origin of those winds. If you harvesting net average west wind you are slowing down earths rotation.
My Startup Journey #10 – From the LifeHQ Blog
I was not talking about an OpenBSD package, but porting V8 to a new ISA. And yes, I have no plans of contributing to OpenBSD right now, because it works fine for the machines I can use it with, and it doesn't support my workstation hardware at all (which is what I'd be likely to contribute for).
You'd be smart to accuse me, here, of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but the core parasite is Capital, which siphons value from the labor of mankind in a Byzantine labyrinth of social games meant to obscure this essential truth.
Okay, explain to me how the government is incentivising 'advertising, soda, highly processed food, credit cards, car dealerships, (most) sales people, etc.' through taxation and monetary policy.
Except it's not typical, it's just the one OP picked to support his biased position.

Please stop trying to attribute singular motivations behind a company with thousands of projects and many thousands more developers, it's so silly.
If they aren’t aware of the tracking happening on their own stories, how could they possibly be qualified to report on the tracking behaviors of others? They can’t possibly be that naïve.
Can you define current crop? If you think Uber , Lyft etc. you’re right. I’m talking about stock markets as a whole. Not one or two crazy stocks
The technical term is “porno scanner”, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=TSA+porno+scanner
A war with even less enjoyment than it usually entails?
Gotta say, if you just want a VPN to work now, definitely check out Algo or Streisand.

You can get a VPN running in an hour or less. Algo even supports wireguard.

I currently have two VPNs — Algo Wireguard & iVPN.

Anecdotally the wireguard VPN rocks— crazy fast in every way, including connection/disconnection.

Sometimes YouTube is slow.. I just hop on WG and it’s fast again. I’ve achieved faster downloads via WG than my bare internet connection (thanks Linode!)

However, some points to consider:

1. If you use a VPS to host your own VPN.. you don’t gain privacy. Usually your IP can (mostly) still identify you. And your VPS company will hold you accountable for your traffic eg DMCA.

2. OpenVPN never borks my resolv.conf but Wireguard often leaves my DNS resolution in a state of confusion.
I also got a password reset email from Spotify today. I think it's a chain event.
Junk (and/or noncoding) DNA provides necessary structure for our chromosomes, spacing for transcription, and some defensive properties.

There are many benefits beyond just that of coded information storage, which people are focused on here in this thread.
> and all of these industries you name exist and pay well because people value them and choose to spend their money on them.

I think his point is, these industries are not valuable to people; they are just aggressive at extract wealth from other people. In net, they have a negative value (from his perspective) and thus society will be better without them.
We can build plants with SMRs. These should fix most of the issues of larger plants except maybe decomissioning. It should be easier to decomission 12 x 60 MW modules instead of a single 720 MW utility scale reactor. At least you can transport the smaller modules without dissasembly.
...is that it? Is there any insight or suggestion, or is this article just reiterating that the public has a justified fear of their jobs being automated?
One piece of evidence: if you look at this Wikipedia list of megachurches, Baptist-affiliated (and especially Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated) churches are second only to so-called non-denominational: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megachurches_in_the_Un...

Many of the others, including Calvary and many non-denominational ones, are largely derivative of Anabaptist theology--e.g. practice adult baptism. Pentacostalism originally drew most of its adherents from Baptist churches. Ancedotally, where I grew up people readily migrated between Baptist and Pentacostal churches. Interestingly, there was also a group of Catholic parishioners at my church who practiced--or I guess I should say experienced--speaking in tongues.

More to your point, famous televangelists like Billy Graham were Baptist. Oral Roberts identified as a Baptist early on, and went to a Baptist seminary school. Likewise for Pat Robertson. Baptists really seemed to dominate the scene during the latter part of the 20th century when the rise of the megachurches began, though they were preceded and succeeded by iconic personalities of different denominations. Nobody really remembers the ones that preceded them, like the Roman Catholic Bishop for whom the word televangelist was supposedly originally coined, exactly because the shift toward cults of personality hadn't become widespread.

I'm neither a scholar of theology nor sociology, but I don't think this is all coincidental.

Part of it is likely that the Second Great Awakening (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening) was largely dominated by Baptist and Methodist churches and especially charismatic (small 'c') pastors who at least nominally adhered to those theologies. IME, many modern American Methodist churches adhere to a significantly different theology than traditional Methodism, in many respects akin to Anabaptism. Methodism spread globally primarily through British colonies. IIRC, Methodism was the dominate Christian denomination in Singapore and Malaysia, and I'm pretty sure you could trace import of the Charismatic Movement into Singapore through the Methodist communities.

The critical element of Anabaptism isn't theological, per se, but the (lack of) institutional and community structures. Mennonites are Anabaptists but you don't find Mennonite megachurches or televangelists because the structures that Anabaptism removed were replaced with other communal structures. I do know a Mennonite who, with a Methodist spouse (whose father is a Methodist Bishop), attend an evangelical church--either Baptist-affiliated or non-denominational. It's a relatively easy transition from a religious perspective.