skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fining hospitals that are unsanitary is not attacking your reproductive rights.

That would be perfectly acceptable if there were more than one service provider of these services, but in the case of MO - there isn't. There's a single Planned Parenthood clinic for the entire state, and they are being forced to shut down.

There used to be plenty, but thanks to other onerous laws their legislature put in place with the aim of making abortion defacto unavailable, those other clinics all had to shut down, leaving the single provider.

And now it looks like they'll have none to provide those services, which was their goal all along. How anyone can argue that isn't an attack on reproductive rights is beyond me.

If it were such that it was simple for another organization to come in and do what PP did, while abiding by all of those extra laws, it would have happened already.

The fact that it didn't, and the fact that PP couldn't do it themselves (it hasn't helped that their federal funding has been basically slashed to nothing for grandstanding reasons that were false to begin with), shows that those laws are working as intended, to make those seeking such care second-class citizens. It essentially makes it impossible for women and men to get proper low-cost reproductive health care in the state.

But they can still say "Well, it's all constitutional, so too bad!" as they thumb their nose to everyone else, especially their opposition.

Their citizens voted for this, though - I hope they enjoy their face without a nose; it's only going to get worse from here on out for them. All on the backs of disadvantaged women, of course.
There was an episode of minefield by vsauce (it was titled something like "destruction") that argued strongly against the idea of catharsis from violence, postulating that it actually makes people more angry/violent. A question for anyone with a background in the field: is vsauce's take on catharsis the scientifically accepted view? Or could these robots actually help you feel better?
Looks very useful.
ReadFileSync Why does this only return the first character of the string?
I asked this question on stackoverflow but received no reply:

readFileSync Why does this only return the first character of the string?
```
const searchkeywords = fs.readFileSync('kwords.csv','utf-8');
for (let kword of searchkeywords) {
console.log(`Search Keyword: ${kword}`);
```
Text for the first 10 rows is:

"1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.",
"1ST SOURCE",
"1ST SOURCE CORP",
"3D SYSTEMS",
"8X8, INC.",
"A.H. BELO",
"AAON",
"AARON RENTS",
"ABERCROMBIE & FITCH",
"ABIOMED",
At what point does a company consistently make enough "mistakes" that you just take them at their word that they are incompetent and stop trusting them?
Science has, on the other hand, often corroborated common wisdom arising from the yoga tradition.

It's up to you whether to trust the output of the generations before you. In my experience these traditions are rarely categorically wrong.
What can I say

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film)
At its best, advertising is a form of search technology. If I have a need A and there’s a company out there providing exactly A, it’s awesome if I find out about it - both sides benefit from the transaction. To me this sort of advertising seems ethical and useful. Unfortunately there’s of course the other kind, based on deception, psychological tricks, and appeal to emotion.
That guy made a really cringey gopnick video, and comes off as a weird sexpat to me
I imagine it might be possible to put effort into growing healthy forests even after clear cutting / devastating fire. But this may be more expensive than the profit from clear cutting.

It is interesting how strong an example clear cutting forests is for externalizing the costs... and pushing them more than a century down the timeline. Should this be something that we regulate? Or, should we include the cost for the future forest fires in the price of the timber?

Similarly, shouldn't the gas producing countries pay for the cost of the CO2 their product disposes into the atmosphere?
The cost in dollars would go up significantly. The cost in dollars plus inflicted externalities would remain constant-ish, implementation failures notwithstanding.
I don't think my post is "middle-brow". It's also not a dismissal. Can you explain what about it made you think so? I posted detailed, personal experiences that directly argue against particular items of advice in the PDF. This is DH4 in http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html.
> Current dogma seems to be that rational people can just take the type 1 info out of your type 2 advert and think with the appropriate organ.

I'd rather just consign the type 2 adverts to the nearest null device and pick up a copy of Consumer Reports when I want factual information about a product. It helps that most of the women used in advertising are just skinny blondes that you can get for a dime a dozen in Stepford, CT.
Not too worried about it. They have a shelf life and I imagine their design will improve over time.

I'd rather see some regulations against all the lights in the Walmart/shopping mall/grocery store parking lots which have completely ruined the night sky in my area.
well basically > 49k ports are private/dynamic. which means that if you open a website at 80/443 it will open a port on your computer above 49k, so nothing malicious.
The jobs are abstract time waisters anyhow. Let me surf and hike my days away while the machines toil in the fields.
Quake II gets free Real-Time raytracing updates on June 6
But if you already pay for Neflix's service and this is just another part of it. Advertising is supposed to sell, or upsell a product, which isn't what the ranking system does.
Tailwind CSS v1.0
> My impression of async/await is that it’s one part of making concurrency grokkable, and I’m not sure whether the debate was taking all that into account

That's a different question than "where does the await go" and it was certainly taken into account.
> necessary evil

Whatever convinced you it was necessary? A few cities/states banned billboards, and as far as I'm aware, the sky didn't fall.
So it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=care2.com

Interesting.
The college system has become so dysfunctional and so diluted as a signal of intellect and diligence that I've been advocating hiring engineers right out of high school instead. Employees hired this way would get the benefit of a career that's four to six years longer and that starts without debt. Whatever skills CS programs impart could be taught internally.
Deduplication at Scale
Real luxury is being able to pay for the content you want, to watch how and when you want, without subsidizing the experience with attention-sucking ads. I refuse to hook up our cable box for this reason.
It's a tool for consuming cloud services. "Great mist" sure sounds rather cloudy to me.
This is what happens when the free market is the only method to drive change. The only thing stopping the US from using the navy to produce reactors for cities and not battleships is lobbyists from the oil industry threatening to primary any elected official who goes against good old fashion american capitalism for the sake of public good. I can see the attack ad now.
Same, but (unfortunately) I suspect we are in the minority. Whenever I visit my parents' house, there are at least two separate TVs on, regardless of whether someone is actually in the room watching. There's probably a 50% chance that there's an ad playing in that house at any given moment.

I ask my dad, "Why do you pay $300/month+ to have ads shoved down your throat?" He responded with some non sequitur like, "How else do you know what's going on in the world?" Wat.

Apparently there is some value in watching the same catheter ads over and over that I was not previously aware of.
iOS, at least, sends just as many "Tips" notifications that also border on being ads for Apple and trusted third party applications, and I've never seen anyone near as harshly complain about "ads in iOS".
It sounds like you're agreeing with me. If two options are indeed essentially equal on all fronts, then one minor use case can be enough to push it towards a winner.
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>they own Paypal

They spun Paypal off into an independent company in 2015.
The pro-nuclear advocates are usually their own worst enemies. That smug dudebro points-scoring is a huge problem. Then again, I think most people would be a lot more effective at life if they'd sit down and read How to Win Friends and Influence People and other basic sales texts.

I'm generally anti-nuclear, but not for safety reasons. I'm sure we can build safe plants. Rather, I distrust institutions, whether governments or giant corporations. I'm also concerned about the impact of nuclear power on inequality, as it's simply not available to the poorer nations, for reasons both good (proliferation, terrorism) and bad (lack of infrastructure).

Renewable power is so good in terms of fundamentals, particularly accessibility to poor nations and difficulty in using it for state-level violence, that I no longer see good reason to even attempt scaling up nuclear power. A meaningful scaling would take decades of effort and trillions of dollars worldwide. In that time, we'll grow a renewable infrastructure of the same scale profitably and organically.
> There is no evidence that cosmic or solar rays have any effect on climate.

So your reason to justify this idiotic statement is the no true scotsman fallacy ("Not actual science"), appeal to authority, & ad hominem? Nice!

> The last 5 years are the warmest 5 years in recorded history. Possibly the warmest in 110,000 years. It's also exactly how warm scientists predicted it would be with the emissions scenario that played out. I don't know what stupid blog you get your info from, but you should stop.

That's funny. All you need to do is go outside & observe how late this year's spring was. How about the late snow keeping ski resorts open? Did you happen to notice that crops are being planted late this year? How wet it is this year? The cloud cover around earth? How about record snowfall in Europe & North America?

But hey, at least your sources have a temperature collection station in the middle of a black top parking lot in Tuscon, AZ. Not to mention how the average temperature has been "corrected" after the fact & the different datasets contradict each other. No manipulation of data here.</sarc>
overfitting here?
I have spent a ridiculous time building this so I'll take the opportunity and share.
It builds python wheel packages in a build container and installs them in an app container. Works great for cpython and pypy. Also allows to build for alpine and works for most other languages. We started to build basically everything that way.

https://gist.github.com/tuco86/67d84dfb27268b1faf05d2dbb1acb...

Ok, I kind of cheated and added the user just now. Sue me. Also posted this in the other Docker related news. Sue me again.
Current? A German philosopher wrote in 1844:

> every person speculates on creating a new need in another, so as to drive him to fresh sacrifice, to place him in a new dependence and to seduce him into a new mode of enjoyment and therefore economic ruin.
Advertising is necessary to stave off the greatest threat against Western civilization: https://potterswealdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/fullsi...
Google has a track record of "uuups, it wasn't intentional" issues.
That cost in dollars could be enough to sink the middle class and everything under it.
What monetization model would you suggest? The pay after three model only applies when the authors opt-in, and they earn a share of the profits.
This just then boils down to saying "the await keyword should have required parens after it", which is a different argument than saying "it should be a lang item".
They *owned Paypal
"just another store"

Hah. Their picking and shipping logistics are far and away superior to any other retailer. They offer free 1-day shipping to large swaths of the U.S. for Prime members.
Seeing that completely dishonest article over and over again gets tiring. Cadmium telluride solar cells only make up 5% of the market and there is no reason they couldn't just be banned outright so that we only use the more environmentally friendly crystalline solar cells (which we already do).
There's nothing in their data to support this, and if the effect was there they would have seen it (since they have yearly happiness data). They describe a linear correlation.
Anybody know of an easy way to block all Facebook SDK usage from iOS? The simplest that comes to mind would be through a custom DNS server, but even if you don't log in using FB SDK on apps they still ping back in someway or another to generate your shadow profile.
The second is incredibly common almost the default.

Most libraries will just collect as much info as they are able to, put it in JSON and ship it to some server. That includes your IP address.
I worked for a real estate company for a number of years and have watched the behavior of agents over a longer period of time.

I'd advise anyone working in the software side of real estate to target anyone other than real estate agents (brokers, title, inspectors, etc) as customers. The churn is punishing, there's a lot of competition and many agents do a small number of deals/year.
>I don't think that the go ahead to the project should be contingent on consensus from the scientific community.

Something that could have immense impact on astronomy, the interest of the population in the cosmos, and a permanent change to the night sky shouldn't have some consensus, at least morally?

>It should be contingent on approval from a regulatory body that is appointed/controlled in some democratic way and reflects the will of the population,

Do those exist, much less in the current US administration?

>and if the benefits to society outweigh the risks, then it should get the go ahead regardless of consensus by astronomers.

...unless there is a way to accomplish the same thing for 99% of the population that is better implemented or doesn't affect the sky.
> so basically they see virtually no ads

(Camera slowly pans to bottle of coca-cola)
I have read about a few related to civilian flights, but this one always sticks with me [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_flight_1628_in...
I don't think it is "strong ties to the Chinese government" as much as it is "literally the Chinese government." If you can imagine how uncomfortable other nations should be having the Chinese government running their next gen 5g telecom infrastructure everything makes a lot more sense. It's not just the USA that is refusing to use Huawei. Japan etc. have said hell no.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/20/cia-offer...

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/...
Damage already done. I quit prime years ago because of the Chinese garbage. I found that I save money on eBay and don't have to pay for prime. I also don't have to give Bezos any of my money. Fuck that guy
Yes, but the telling is well worth listening to, as are his longer speeches. Including this gem: Navy pilots: "What did YOU do today?" Sled pilots: "Nebraska in 4.5 minutes, which is the best way to do Nebraska."
"Broken" means "does not work". These examples do work. I'm annoyed by this incongruity. "Not sustainable"/"Not Forward Compatible", etc. would have been preferable.
> One is "Hey, did you know this thing exists? Check it out! Here are all the tests it passed, realistic cost of ownership, and locations where it is in stock".

I almost never see ads of type one - in fact, even finding that information is usually made accidentally or deliberately difficult.
assuming he's like me (ad blockers, limited tv, etc), I have a Netflix account, and I don't even honestly know what 'Netflix ranking' is.

Assumimg it is something like Netflix's recommendation service, well, this might come back to an difference in philosophy: I don't need/want to be recommended shows to watch, and I don't use recommender/suggestions.

One does not have a need/desire to consume media as an abstract concept, so the idea that one has a problem of "I want to watch something but i don't know what" is a literal nonsensical statement/problem.
Count me in too! I've been growing more and more frustrated with the tools in the marketplace.
> And after you're accustomed to 1-2 day shipping from Amazon

That's Amazon Prime. Non-prime purchases are, in my experience, deliberately delayed. I'm two days from their New Jersey warehouse, and my last three purchases were all delivered in 7 business days or longer. All items were fulfilled by Amazon.

> waiting a couple weeks for an eBay shipment

As a former seller on ebay (20-30 items a month), getting things out on time is a priority for lots of people. Especially sellers shipping a lot of packages. Namely, because you want those good ratings from customers. Get a bunch of neutral/bad reviews because of shipping, and your sales will plummet.
They way this is set up it's enumerating systems and ports on internal networks, not actually accessing those systems and ports. The CORS header (or lack thereof) in the HTTP response of the requested item is what dictates whether it can be accessed, so what happens is the request first sends a HEAD request to get the headers for the endpoint, and then if CORS is set up and allowed for cross-domain access is allows the connection (or if it's a request to the same domain and CORS for the current page isn't too restrictive, it allows the initial request without a HEAD request).

What you see in the browser developer tools if you open them up is that a bunch of requests are being made, but are being denied because they are failing CORS checks.

Where data is being leaked (in context of security) is that there's a difference in how the responses are handled. Either it's allowed (because the remote side CORS is too loose) in which case the page will show s message that the specific host/port combi is available, or it will get no response and time out, in which case they skip checking that host any more and assume there's nothing at that IP (which is when they print the "unreachable" message), or it continues on with the next port. If at the end there's been no success and no timeout, it prints the "complete" message, and that means there's probably something at that IP.

An important thing to note is that CORS is not like a firewall, and it doesn't actually stop all traffic from happening, so that can sometimes be used to get additional information that's not necessarily meant to be exposed. That said, what the page is showing is that the specific way CORS functions (that is, asking the remote side if they accesible), and the fact that Javascript runs locally on your browser, means that there's some interesting ways those interact which can cause security concerns.

A as idea of how this could be used to more nefarious ends, if it found listening and accessible servers on localhost or the local network, it could then try to identify them based on the headers/content returned, and try to do something with that.

Given that you could possibly even compile some network vulnerability scanner/exploiter to WASM and use it for only the subset of vulnerabilities it could accomplish through plain HTTP requests (a lot of work, it's probably easier to just write your own shim and crib their exploit library), this could be very easily weaponized.
It’s a colossal move but we have to move the marketplace away from the current growth capitalism towards one of real utility.
That really seems to be stretching 'advertising' beyond its definition to me. That seems like even less of 'advertising' than looking at a menu and trying to decide what to order, given that you've already paid for the service (for now, at least).
Is there anything like that but with stuff you DON'T write?

I mean you write what you want to remember, but not the contents. Then you get email reminders every once in a while and you must try to remember at that time, without looking.
Yes, here is the voluminous evidence that we have presented that Huawei spies for the Chinese government. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
It's also one reason we fail to stop the climate crisis. It's hard to reduce our emissions if we "need" as much as our economy can produce.
Correct.

But neither the package-lock.json or the yarn.lock file is part of what you get when you create an angular project using the angular cli, meaning that the versions aren't pinned from googles side.
Factory farms are also on the lists of biggest sometimes overlooked contributors to climate change. It's feels a lot like there needs to be major agriculture reform.
Etymology note: The word 'blockbuster' was coined by the press to describe the largest conventional bombs used by the RAF in WWII, because they could destroy a city block.
> Standing in the bleachers, listening to the Pripyat municipal overture of resounding bird song, the only thing we could do was stare out at the trees and wonder "how long until New York looks like this?"

I'm curious what the author meant by this. Does he mean how long would it take NYC to look like Chernobyl after a similar nuclear/natural accident happened? Or do they have a fatalistic outlook on the future due to some environmental, economic, or political worldview?

Also the end of the story mentions there are no obvious monuments to the people who worked to help rescue people but there is one in the very city he was reporting from dedicated to the firefighters and others involved: https://oddviser.com/ukraine/chernobyl/memorial
Undersea cables are laid with a significant amount of slack. It's needed for a cable repair ship to be able to haul up the cable from the ocean floor and perform repairs mid-span.
I've been involved with multiple HTML and XML parsers, but never validators. :)

The reality ten years ago, when a number of prominent XML advocates were using XHTML (and actually using it as such, serving it as such), almost all of their sites had user input means where the input was sanitized well enough for HTML to be secure (and not have any markup injection), but not for XML well-formedness (they got all the markup injection risks in XML, but not all the other WF requirements). If the very people who claim XML is easy can't get it right, can everyone else?
I'm certainly open to trying -- we've been experimenting with mixers and other methods to put engineers in touch with founders.

FWIW, Work at a Startup allows for engineers to designate that they are remote, which helps filter companies that are potentially open to such roles.

If you have ideas, happy to explore them!
GP means that cables connecting enemy territories would be cut by submarines, not just that cables connecting warring parties would be cut at landfall.
Prison provides food, water, clothing and shelter. We send people there to punish them.
Interesting financials. Another unprofitable startup going public in close proximity to others this year. Key numbers for me:

$75.5M revenue in 2018 (increase of 45% from 2017), but net loss north of $36M.

Cost of revenue is growing slowly (17%), but OpEx growth (65%) way outpaced revenue growth, mostly due to a huge G&A increase.

For reference, the closest direct competitor to Fiverr is Upwork, which did about $250M revenue last year (25% growth) and still had $20M in net loss.