skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we often can't easily back out the change. Docker fixes a lot of that.

Software can be hard to downgrade. Sometimes dependencies change. Sometimes data models are migrated one way only. Nobody takes the time to properly test them. Among other things.

How Docker, or any other container packaging format for that matter, could possibly help with that I do not understand. It is not the first time I've heard something like this, but I have never been in a situation where the application packaging was part of this particular problem.

Surely starting the an old version of some software isn't neither harder nor easier with Docker than any other way.
Unless the rich are going to start building domed cities for themselves, they might be better off making their designer children smaller, vegan, and tolerant of lower levels of oxygen.
> Will it work? Probably not. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

The fact that it "probably will not work" (where "probably" = "almost certainly") is a strong argument for not doing something.

If I told you I had this idea for an over unity generator that "probably will not work", would you invest a million dollars into it?

Research is an investment, resources are extremely limited and they must be allocated prudently.
Yes, but much more expensive, compared to the flatrate thing.
I thought you were linking bionerd23

https://www.youtube.com/user/bionerd23/videos
IIRC dell uses this to load support information into site. It's a reason, not saying it's a good one.
The hyperbole is strong with this one.
Seeking the Limits of Encryption
Yes, technically the are separate. But given how tightly the systems remain integrated, it appears that was just for show.
It's the same as OP, except it only means the Post, not the Poster. (The F* Article.)

Usually it's a kind of negative retort - 'well if you'd actually bothered to read TFA then ...' - but increasingly it seems to be used without such emotion (particularly, to me anyway, on HN) to mean simply 'the submission'.
I'd very much agree. I don't want people to preemptively try to solve my problems for me. If I have a problem that I've actively decided I want to solve, and have prioritized finding a solution, I'll seek out products to solve it. I don't care to randomly run across an ad for something that I could use, but haven't actively decided that I want to seek out and potentially purchase.

For this reason I block ads in every way that I can, no matter how "light-side" they might be.
This in a page where uBlock Origin reports blocking 40 requests, or 33%...
and yet whole article is full of nonsense(death toll, explosion etc).
> food, water, clothing and shelter

Add love to that list and it sounds like a good life.
Yep, I have been alot of stuff from Aliexpress lately because you can find sellers that are quite reputable and actually support their shit somewhat. Amazon? You find people reselling shit from Alibaba and not caring a thing about it.
New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA
hey the oil companies said no need to worry about the climate; it's all ok
Maybe, but...

Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/52/13288/tab-figures-data

... there's also the science.
Exactly, the soviet entry is clearly what led the leaders of Japan to surrender - the timeline also matches very closely. Not sure what we keep hearing the A-bomb propaganda such a long time after the facts.
Are you considering the PayPal fees you pay for payment processing when you sell on eBay? That's on top of the approximately 10% that eBay charges. eBay also charges listing fees and final value fees. I haven't done a deep dive on my own selling data to come up with an accurate comparision, but I think they're comparable.
I liked

"Maximum altitude is 85,000 feet. Do not fly over 85,000 feet unless you have prior authorization"

"No turns are allowed over 70,000 feet. Descend 2,000 feet prior to making any turns is recommended"
I don't know how the math works out exactly, but it seems not unlikely that the optimal rollout for curbing carbon emissions as rapidly as possible is not the same as the optimal rollout for maximizing value to shareholders.
One change I'd like to see is in the opposite direction: We (U.S. society) should stop assuming that someone who has wealth is automatically more meritorious than someone without. We've taken the concept that "someone who is smart and hard working CAN improve their situation" and flipped it to be "someone in an improved situation MUST be smart and hard working".

We should also watch out for what we consider "smart". Someone that is a complete manipulative and exploitative jerk can leverage that to become quite wealthy. They will defend it as "smart", and perhaps it is, but if don't consider that behavior valuable, we should stop pretending the wealthy cases are exceptions.

And of course, to agree with some of your points, we shouldn't toss the baby with the bathwater, nor paint with too wide of a brush. That said, the American narrative and American reality are somewhat dramatically out of sync right now, so some adjustment seems prudent. When the U.S., champion of socio-economic mobility, is ranked rather poorly at the same compared to other developed nations, we become delusional hypocrites, not champions.
I don't see a link or reference to it, but I guess this is a slightly condensed version of https://andrewoswald.com/docs/AdvertisingMicheletal2019Easte...

Tax ads!

Added: actually it's in the reference list as:

> Michel C, M Sovinsky, E Proto, A J Oswald (forthcoming), "Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans", to be published in 2019 in a volume in honor of Richard Easterlin.
FBA is cheaper than USPS is almost all cases. Once you throw in the fact that FBA fees included pick and pack which you'd otherwise have to pay for yourself, it's quite rare to find items more cost effective to ship directly than to use FBA. Primarily it's either very small items that can be shipped with flats, or very large items where dimensional weight comes into play.
except the goal of marketing is not inherently to meet a person's needs.

At the macro level, it's maximising needs met, but at the micro level this is done by both initiating and implanting desires that otherwise aren't present or necessary, and by creating problems/pain points (which then, as a second order effect, create a need, which is met by the product).

In economic terms, advertisers aim to maximise locally measured utility, but they do this by externalising the costs of the dis-utility they deliberately create.

Like the proverbial glass salesman, garbage man, or mafia, they provide a theoretical good, but they've found business booms if they can generate their own demand by throwing rocks through windows, trashing the town, or partaking in their own crime to sell their protection services.

In our instance, the town is our own psychological and social state, and while we don't account for these externalities andnegatives, they will keep actively damaging us because its in their interest and locally optimal from their pint of view...
I just read a paper about this today:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/acs.est.9b02090

Apparently the same guy who figured out that Atrazine was feminizing frogs (Cue Alex Jones ranting about making the frogs gay) also figured out that BPA is doing something similar...
I strongly disagree. In Python, you can find exactly where every identifier comes from (unless you use `from foo import *`, but that's frowned upon) and it makes it extremely easy to navigate code and documentation.

I've had to look at some C# web service code recently, and the amount of magic it relied on made it impossible for me to find what I was looking for, even using grep.
“Research by Andrew Leatherbarrow, author of Chernobyl 01:23:40,[81] determined that the frequently recounted story is a gross exaggeration. Alexei Ananenko continues to work in the nuclear energy industry, and rebuffs the growth of the Chernobyl media sensationalism surrounding him.[88] While Valeri Bezpalov was found to still be alive by Leatherbarrow, the 65-year-old Baranov had lived until 2005 and had died of heart failure.”

From Wikipedia
Screw bread, they put sugar into mouthwash...
They probably won't - but it dispels the myth that advertising is necessary.
I thought all veggie patties to date have fallen into the "uncanny valley of food," whereas the Impossible patty is intended (and purported) to cross it entirely.

People eat too much meat. The closer meat alternatives taste to actual meat, the more people will switch. So I strongly support innovation in this space.
Can you provide a source for this? I haven’t noticed this happening, although I believe the information is available in aggregate data. Of course, I also use uBlock etc so quite possible I simply haven’t noticed the trend.
And then the math geniuses that could be the next Einstein are slaving away in cubicles writing algorithms for the stock market. So much potential lost in the pursuit of increasing someone else's wallet.
I watched a very interesting TED talk related to this the other day. The premise is the question "Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?". The answer won't surprise you if I tell you the answer will surprise you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9UmdY0E8hU
If you are in a UID namespace, it likely is not a big deal. But if you were ever to have something escape from a container, it would be a much bigger problem if it was uid 0 in the root namespace.
FWIW, I had to edit 'groups'... d'oh!
Greed. There's no simpler explanation. It starts with trying to find bread-like material that tastes even better. You can do so by adding sugar. You want it to last even longer on the shelves so you make it non-perishable with chemicals that weren't previously used in food that are just grandfathered as "safe" to appease industry.

Thus you get US Bread.
Pretty sure the two chemicals they are talking about in the article are in a lower WHO risk category in then bacon, salted fish, and alcoholic beverages.

The FDA may be underfunded and overwhelmed but I'm not yet feeling terrible about buying bread in the grocery store.
I imagine this is because the journos and editors aren’t fully aware of the marketing department using google tag manager to bloat the site with all kinds of bullshit without engineering oversight. They can shove whatever they they want on the page just by copying and pasting snippets.

Hence why QuantCast or whatever blocks your view with a confirmation banner in the most intrusive way, every time you load up a site in the EU.

“We value your privacy,” indeed...
> Are there any nations or states which outlaw or heavily regulate advertising?

Well, in North Korea the only billboards I saw were of Kim Il-Song and Kim Jong-Il. The two restaurants in the hotel for foreigners on the island in the middle of Pyongyang were imaginatively called "Restaurant 1" and "Restaurant 2". So, not too much marketing there.

I do hope that there is some more sensible middle ground.
One more reason to utilize the far side of the moon for some seriuos astronomy! Am I rite?
It is only ironic on a macro level.... that's true. At a micro level it's each to their own, look out for number 1.

But you did say "I view advertising as a form of pollution. In many cases, it erodes the human experience. It is abusive to families with children creating strife where there was none."

So I took that as caring about the macro level.
"BPA is a xenoestrogen, exhibiting estrogen-mimicking, hormone-like properties[5] that raise concern about its suitability in some consumer products and food containers."
P3p -> perspective 3 point. Figuring out camera perspectives from a sample of projected samples. In this case 3 dim, i.e. traditional camera pose from depth data. Kinda practical.
It's also crazy hard to find bread _without_ sugar. I get that some will be in there for color / browning during cooking, but the amounts that are present in the average loaf are insane. I've had loafs that were like 5% sugar by weight (as measured from my kitchen scale + food label).
Ask HN: What Payroll/Benefit provider do you use?
Dear HNers,

We are choosing a PEO for our (startup) company and I am very curious to what is your experience with the different providers and am looking for recommendations.

I think a discussion on this would be of interest for the entire community.

Thanks!
> I view advertising as a form of pollution

Quite. If (which is now for obvious reasons somewhat unlikely) our global civilisation manque struggles on for another century, it will look back on the overconsumption propaganda industry very much like we now see slavery. Ogilvy, Saatchi et al are the Goebbels' of our age.
Hey Derrick,

Thanks for the great posts and for responding to comments!

Would love some feedback on choosing to raise money or not. I read this post (and many others) about having those filters ready ahead of time. The filter on raising money unfortunately I don’t have, I keep going back and fourth on that.

I have been working on an app, cross platform iOS and Android, that lets people listen to articles from the web. It uses great sounding AI ML to convert the articles to audio you can listen to in seconds.

I have been working on it for a few months have some good traction and a few paid users, working on it part time as a side project. I can’t help but feel that raising money would allow me to go full time and really concentrate while still affording my bills. The issue is VC money comes with strings.

(Shameless plug for anyone interested, the product is here https://articulu.com )
I don't disagree, and that same text is also in various meta studies about Cell phone towers causing cancer. And it is the problem in general with statistics based meta studies which where lampooned in XKCD[1] and lamented by the American Council on Science and Health[2]. The summary bit might be "These studies point to areas that should be looked at but offer neither hypothesis or prediction and thus not 'science' so much as they are an early investigative technique."

If nuclear plants caused childhood cancers, then they ALL would cause childhood cancers, so a scientific study would say "This mechanism, when present, has this effect. Here is our experiment to prove that, here are the results of the proof. We predict that if you look anywhere else where this mechanism is present you will see the same results."

If low level radiation did cause childhood leukemia then there would be clusters in Arvada Colorado and Moab Utah. But there aren't. So why not? When the science is done, and the other variables eliminated, to date there is no study that links low level ionizing radiation to any harmful effect on humans. Even using that term is difficult because there is alpha, beta, and gamma radiation based on electrons, protons, and neutrons. Only Gamma radiation has any sort of penetrating capability at all.

So without the science, this study means nothing. Now if they can follow up with core samples, air samples, water samples, and food products to see if there are any nuclear fission byproducts getting into the area around the plant that would be good science.

[1] https://xkcd.com/882/

[2] https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/06/29/problem-p-values-13130
Bazel Lesson 2: C/C++, Rust, Go, Java
Define rich.
Yes, that was sort of the point.
Just download a Host file[1] and you can have system level ad blocking on your laptop.

As for running an adblock on your router, if your router supports openwrt, openwrt has an adblock addon[2] that is easily configurable.

Unfortunately, you will lose out on the statistics that Pi-hole collects.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[2] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
Is "pregnant admission" a typo, or a mutation from the phrase "pregnant pause"? If the latter, the metaphor is lost, as "pregnant" does not mean "tacit." https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/7/messages/348.htm...
Right. And it doesn't matter if the burglars have keys to your house if they don't know the alarm code, right?
People would still spend money and companies still grow even if you banned advertising. I still quite like having housing, good food, travel and so on even if I haven't seen adverts for those recently.
Give TSA precheck to everyone.
Its not just social media that has this effect... I think thats the point of this article.
You are right, I was thinking about this in the wrong context.
I've not heard of demands for fb/twitter/email passwords. More of a concern for non-citizens -- don't post anything publicly I'm afraid.
Promise I've never worked on a validator!
The internet was literally designed to solve this problem.
Doctors police and just about everybody else here speaks English, street signs are unified across the EU, road works you might get stumped but many navigators will deal with that just fine.

A friend of mine has lived in NL for 3 decades now and still does not speak Dutch, I'm sure he's an exception but he does not seem in any way hindered by this particular inability.
I'm a native speaker and I've got no idea what he's saying. honestly I thought the guy made it up to try to sound cool...

I also assumed given that it was a green account and a one line response that it would be downvoted and marked as spam.
I didn't want to jump in with this earlier since comfy is the main topic here but https://configrd.io will do the inheritance you are asking about. It's not cli but also has an API, handles secrets and deploys on prem.
> without advertising don't we have less jobs?

Yes, like we have less jobs without manufacturing chemical weapons.

> without advertising don't we have seamingly greater dissatisfaction with lack of income?

I don't understand the question.
> In tech, programmers are the "engineering and manufacturing", but they tend not to want to be told what consumers want by the marketing team

This is true. In fact, I'm currently engaged in a bit of a battle over this very thing at my current employer (I'm a software dev). They're hiring a brand new marketing team, but all they've been hiring are salespeople, and I've been pushing them to be sure to include someone who will do actual market research that we devs can use to inform product design.
No one has answered why; only answers have been "no marketable product".

There are several technical reasons why, none of which have been been subject to any technological advances in half a century.

1) There's a buffer factor where burning fuel adds a thousand degrees (or whatever) to temp of the air in the engine and steel / titanium / classified will melt several hundreds of degrees above that. Most all jet engines can only work with subsonic airflow. Supersonic aircraft use exotic inlet designs that are inefficient but can convert fast air into very hot compressed air. Somewhere around mach 2 to mach 4 the inlet air temp plus the heat of burning fuel will melt any metal turbine blade. You can pay a lot of money to get a couple mach numbers but fundamentally cheap steel gets you mach 2 and price is no object aerospace material tops out in the mid mach 3 range. True lab experimental materials might survive mach 4 temps, maybe. You just can't get a usable thrust to weight ratio inlet design that works above mach 4 or so.

2) Second aerodynamic problem is if you define "fly" as a lift to drag ratio better than a lawn dart, optimizing wing sweep etc for mach 3+ means its a truly awful performer below 5000 feet or so. Its hard to make an aircraft that actually "flies" above mach 4. Space shuttle L/D ratio was around or below 1:1. Essentially things flying thru the air above mach 4 don't fly in the sense of wings producing lift, they're ballistic trajectory like a missile or bullet, don't bother slapping wings on them.

None of the above can be solved with faster computer cycles. Titanium still melts at the same temp, etc.
Are online paywalls helping the proliferation of Fake news?
This article isn't too surprising. Modern studies only find a small positive connection between IQ and lifetime success (0.25 correlation). Even so, there is no single element predictor that can better measure success compared to IQ. I would hope that by 2059, social scientists can find an accurate way to determine how being rich contributes to "winning".
Bezos's space plans strike me as typical billionaire transhumanist nonsense. Instead of working to make our own planet better (the only one humanity has ever known), they think we should leave.

To my way of thinking, this is shortsighted, amoral, unacheivable, and frankly ridiculous.
>Google, with all of the subject matter expertise they can avail themselves of, is completely wasting their money on this research that has no hope of success.

This isn't actually as silly as it sounds. There's a certain culture around self-absorbed futurism alive and kicking within these companies that produces weird and nonsensical projects.

One only has to look at Ray Kurzweil who turned from genuine inventor into some sort of nutrition supplement cyber guru and apparently still is employed by Google. There's also a lot of general silliness in the 'smart city' space, or cryogenics and lifespan enhancement. What all of those projects usually have in common is that they predominantly sound like something out of science fiction novels that the people would read who go on and found tech companies.
The ratings agencies should be a warning here. Whatever you do you need to make sure some rules are set and followed. Otherwise money slowly will erode trustworthiness. And there is a lot of money in pushing out bad products.
Well, all I can say is thanks for explaining your position, but I don't agree with your points.
That's what you get when you run with no slack; any hiccup cascades.
Wow. I'd diligently turned off background location for virtually everything, but I had no idea so many apps did background refresh by default. Your IP address is nearly as good as your GPS coordinates. (Edit: Maybe one's IP address on a cellular connection doesn't matter as much as I thought. I just did a check and it didn't even get my city correct.)

Possibly the most surprising thing is that, unlike all other permissions, iOS didn't ask me directly before enabling background refresh. That's disturbing.

Also, while I sympathized with Apple outsourcing Maps' business info to Yelp, they really should hold their partners to a much higher standard given all of their privacy rhetoric.
I only see a white page.
You're unlikely to hear the conversation, which is what most of this is about. We're talking about people who're upset about the mere accusation of impropriety in adition to groping or physical contact.
One wonders what would be found if outsourcing corporations audited their partners tap water.
Is there an alternate source that isn't auto-playing video + paywalled?
"Imagine your are driving your car on the highway, but you suddenly have a heart attack and become unable to remain conscious"

Humans who drive cautiously may go for a million miles without an accident. The best self-driving cars (i.e. Waymo) disengage on average every 11,000 miles.[1] It seems to me that a disengagement is equivalent to becoming unconscious without warning, and presumably we both agree that a given human does not have a heart attack while driving every year.

Humans, even with all the people who drive drunk, or texting, or falling asleep, average about 80 million miles between fatalities. Going 11,000 miles between events of total loss of control is nearly four orders of magnitude worse.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/02/13/waymo-to...