skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the AdWords anti-spam system is down, which means anyone can put a billion dollar bid on every keyword and get their ads showing on every Google search for every query.

Systems that fail 'open'...
I could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the point.

Bypassing paywalls seems to me about as offensive as going to a bookstore and looking through a magazine without buying it. Maybe I end up buying a magazine, but I'm not going to buy every magazine I pick up, and basically everybody thinks that's fine.
I think your opinion is mostly right
can you give more examples of <C-x><C-n> in code editing? I have tested that out in vim and its cool but i cant think of times I want to repeat a series in another part of the document, perhaps I'm just very uncreative right now

Thanks
I would think many of those visits are for business or seeing family. Plus the fact that many of the tourists come from countries in the Visa Waiver Program [1]. An ESTA is much less involved than a B1/B2 visa application.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#V...
Ah good stuff. Password expiration is a pain, but it's worse for Windows login because I can't even open Keepass until I get in!

When forced to do this I will use something like "B@s3P@ssw0rd1" then "B@s3P@ssw0rd2", "B@s3P@ssw0rd3" etc.
That fails to respond to the point that there exists skilled necessary work that armies of unskilled workers can not replace.
On the other hand, Indian elections have been electronic for almost a One and a half decades. These are standalone units with no networking. They added paper trail audit recently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_India
The constitution applies to anybody living on US soil.
Yes. I am suspicious of any company that has written diversity into its corporate structure.

Here in South Africa, racism is economically sanctioned by well-intentioned BBE (black economic empowerment) "diversity" laws, which made it illegal to do business with government unless your company is majority black-owned. This guaranteed the creation of countless rent-seeking middlemen, which increased costs for the poor majority they were designed to protect and caused valuable skills to leave the country. With widespread power outages, South Africa is not doing so well.

If diversity does not arise naturally in an equal opportunity environment, then either the opportunity is unequal, or the homogeneity is inherent in the makeup of the hiring pool. If you try to compensate for this by hiring for diversity in your company instead of excellence, you will lose in the marketplace.

Of course, I support giving everyone an equal opportunity, but I remain unconvinced you can reconcile forced diversity with excellence.
That's not a satisfactory excuse or interpretation of the quote.

Let's say North Korea selected a few of the leading family and declared they are "members", under such circumstances would that quote imply that North Korea is the greatest nation, because all its "members" have near King-like status?

Or likewise, can a nation increase its greatness by declaring the weakest among them to be "non-members".
Until the world of democracies decide to subsidize the costs to help counter the pitfalls of censorship.
I agree, should you always test the reducing function separately outside the reduce? And if so, what's the real benefit of not mutating accumulator? Seems silly to just copy a transient value which is immediately discarded and then do it for all reduced elements. Does the original reference to the object even stay during the iterations? Hmm, I guess it does.

To me it seems weird to be so puristic about a simple reduce-function, which by-design leads you to mutate the accumulator. I mean for object-accumulators it definitely is just a massive waste to not to just mutate the argument directly without copying. Although as a disclaimer I have to say I am big fan of simple code, were it FP or not. So if you have a messy reduce-function I guess having it immutable makes it a somewhat easier to manage.
I think generally mass transit is pretty bad in the US compared to most other cities in the world, but it does vary quite a bit depending on where you live since the US is such a large place and diverse place, so it always makes talking about this stuff difficult. A better qualification of my above comment is to say a significant enough fraction of people in the US live in situations that require them to have a car. If anything, having access to mass transit that enables a decent enough quality of life is the exception (which says something given how large the US is).
The US is no longer the world's most competitive economy
You have to make a deliberate attempt to learn it. What i would do is when coding I would focus on a single command and do it 5 or 6 times until it was engrained, then I would go to the next one. I spent about 15 days straight fairly intensively learning vim .. taht was 8 years ago. Best decision I have ever made in my entire programmign career. Now I pick up new vim commands like I am multilingual in 20 languages. All the commands I can usually remember without even typing them, they just stick. It definitely has the rolling snowball momentum effect
Living with a car in the US, OTOH, is pretty awesome. Roads are usually pretty great, and you can go on hikes and road trips without it being a logistical nightmare.
Do you realize a massive amount of immigrants are actually US citizens and have exactly the same rights as born Americans? With the exception of running for President.
For every person giving a minimum-wage employee trying to help an unnecessarily snarky response, like you chose to do, there is someone else who'll sue them. So they can't win. The best thing you could have contributed would have been to be polite to the employee.
I agree it would reverberate. I just don't know if it would be the first domino to fall in a massive economic crisis, the way housing was.
> Doesn't the First Amendment restrict the US government from curtailing free expression and free association anyplace, not just within US borders?

Just within the Borders. Borders (border crossings), worldwide, have extra-national areas that are neither country for practical reasons (like keeping each other's soldiers out of casual range), where rights are not enforced. The US doesn't enforce rights, in an area where it has no authority.

"Chilling effect" is a recent idiom, which is subjective. The US judicial system makes a determination on what is or isn't a restriction.

My take is that this is another background-investigation tool. So what? People casually (and stupidly) aggregate a large amount of their own personal information in one place and then act surprised when a country wants to check it before allowing you to cross the border (eg Canada's restriction on US drunk drivers). I don't understand the outrage of what amounts to more paperwork.
SIDS basically means they have no fucking clue why the child died, so everything gets thrown into the SIDS bucket.
I don't know about 50, but I'll make one: the limiting factor on the widespread deployment of self-driving vehicles will turn out to be vast numbers of unemployed drivers protesting by blocking roads and staging violent attacks on self-driving vehicles. This will be resolved by introducing a tax on self-driving vehicles, the proceeds of which will be used to employ former drivers to work as security guards to protect self-driving vehicles against attacks. In the end, the economics will self-stabilize so that there are just enough people attacking self-driving vehicles to justify the continued employment of the remainder as security guards. The net effect, if you do the math (which no one will) will be that driving will end up being 50% more expensive than it was before on an inflation-adjusted basis.
Hetzner is pretty excellent quality service overall. OVH is very low quality service, especially with the networking and admin pane.
This is a different argument than what megous was making (JS's support for mutating arguments validating that it's a good practice in a broad sense)

"Unobservable" or local mutation is completely fine (and pretty common in most functional programs that get to any significant scale)
I and some previous coworkers call it the YOLO region.
What island are you on?
How can petrol cost $30 a month if you only travel 35 km in 3 years?
Any cloud provider offering those terms would go out of business VERY quickly.
Outages happen, all providers are incentivized to minimize the frequency and severity of disruptions - not just from the financial hit of breaching SLA (which for something like this will be significant), but for the reputational damage which can be even more impactful.
I think it is more likely that Telsa is simply grossly over valued, even with the recent collapse of its market value.

I used to be quite bullish on Telsa...until I bought a 2019 Mazda 3 this past weekend. It is basically a Telsa that cost me $25K...Prior to this weekend I drove a Mazda 6 that I bought in 2006. While car shopping I came to realize that most of the things that made Telsa exciting are rapidly being integrated into standard consumer vehicles.

With Elon's seeming unsuitability for the role of car company CEO and if it is the case that Telsa doesn't have much of an edge over the competition, it is hard to see Telsa pulling through in the long haul.
And I am sure at least 95% of the populace does the same, and that such passwords are usually quite short. We need a better solution for passwords than we do now.
It seems that most people don't understand how insane and discriminatory Title IX is: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/laura-kipniss-endle...
Depends on where you are coming from.

Most of the Europeans that come through have the financial means and strong enough passports to go pretty much anywhere they please. Same goes for most Japanese and Chinese.

My Arab customers however have the money, but getting a visa is a near impossibility.
It has, but not how it is explained traditionally.

https://youtu.be/jZu52duIqno
If enough heretics have your name in their social network, your visa will be denied. Requiring social media on visa applications is like enforcing everyone to use Truecaller (don't use it!).

This feels like the start of a U.S. social credit system.
Never said the market was completely open, but the US doesn't require foreign companies to partner with a state-run competitor to steal their IP, then increase regulations until they ultimately run the foreign company out of the country. That's been the Chinese playbook for over a decade, even after admission to the WTO.

Also last I checked Foxconn bought quite a bit of property in Wisconsin, even if they strangely haven't done much with it. Could a US company buy (and by buy I mean get one of those multi-decade leases, since the CCC technically owns all the land) property in China?

The US is far from the Captain America ideal, but from a trade perspective we've been a lot more fair with China than they have been with us.
I live in SF and I have been in and out of the tech industry, so I know the city from both perspectives. (I now work at one of the big tech companies.) So many people outside of the industry work more than one job. They need to. Wages are too low. That is the problem, wages. Focus on that, economists, so ordinary people can get by on one job's wages.
wouldn't diluting the equity by giving additional shares to current employees have the same effect?
I wonder if in the future products will advertise that they work independently (decoupling as a feature).
1mm PVC alone is probably good for 2000v as long as it has no voids.
The YOY growth rates of the top 10 destinations are between max +24.1% (Turkey) and min 0.7% (USA).
Very discouraging to see this, especially because the overreach appears to have no limit. Today it's visa applications. Tomorrow it could be US citizens trying to get passports, driver licenses, or collect social security/medicare benefits.

On the other hand, a growing awareness of the many dangers posed by poor digital hygiene could ultimately lead to greater interest in privacy tools and practices. Along the road, though, lives will be destroyed as the ground shifts underneath them. Especially troubling is the possibility that previously-legal activities could be punished well into the future if not outright prosecuted.
Sure it's possible to augment paper ballots with technology, but that just increases complication. If you still have a paper trail audit, why not just use paper to begin with? Either you audit the paper trail to have faith in the results or you trust the output of the machines.

Only auditing the paper trail when the electronic results seem suspicious is a vulnerability in my opinion.

All these technical solutions target the non-problem of counting results quickly. You can scale up paper ballot counting by including more people, which also strengthens trust in your democracy.
The Armstrong report is problematic. Its main goal is to justify the conduct of the NYPD and it does so by inventing new theories of the crime. In presenting the report the committee members themselves said that they could not rule out the possibility that the defendants are completely innocent of the crime (which is the definition of “reasonable doubt “).
For some reporting on this committee at the time see

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/nyregion/new-slant-on-jog...
I haven't read her work, so its hard for me to comment on the individual. I think one area where i would disagree is alcohol, but that's because I'd include desire/normalacy of regular alcohol consumption as a cultural effect from our own societies (there's really not much evidence for positive effects of alcohol in anything, period). of course, this ignores the question of the value of the parents wants and wishes though.

On my own review of pre-natal diet recommendations, in my view the issue is about risk management rather than etiology of disease. for instance, my wife and I often joked that if we ate according to our countries health recommendations, we'd never eat out and only eat heavily processed foods, because it was the only place where the risk of various poisonings were near 0. But in practice, home kitchens aren't risk free, nor is or own non professional food prep or diet selection. And the mother needs to balance off sufficient variation in diet to be balanced and healthy, opportunity cost of other beneficial actions towards her and the child, etc, all of which are not accounted for, because science and medical research are not policy oriented documents. And it must be said that the relative risk of many of these things is very small from a clinical point of view.
I think the better word you're looking for might be "reify" rather than "decompress". But there is something here that I can relate to. A long time ago I also made a comparison between various languages of "what do you have to understand to fully understand a Hello World program?" An interesting followup to that would be how much you have to understand on top of that to understand a more useful program.

You might be interested in this book, Patterns of Software, which brings up the issue that inheritance in OOP isn't about reuse but about compression and how the implications of that are why it's not had that much success in following through on the "reuse" promise. http://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
Absolutely, even when the active compounds are the same but there are changes in composition.

For instance, I'm an asthmatic and I need to use a spray inhaler. The no-brand equivalent is exactly the same, and does work the same in normal circumstances, except has roughly 1/2 of the propellant. But I can tell you that the missing propellant makes all the difference when you're having a stronger attack and cannot inhale.
> But it's also far too easy for formula producers (historically mainly Nestle) to happily support the narrative that breast-feeding is an irrational privilege of the elite

I'm intrigued, and I think I've missed this narrative - from what I understand, aristocrats didn't much bother with breast-feeding their own children, and hired it out to wet-nurses. So common people would have been more apt to breastfeed their own children, particularly since there is at least some contraceptive effect.
What if a convenience store had security video of a clerk being shot and killed. Nobody recognizes the suspect's face in the video, so they want to use this tool to bring the killer to justice. Is that legal? Is it GPDR-complant? Clearly, the killer is not consenting.

Another scenario: a neo-Nazi protest rally occurs, and counter-protesters use this tool to determine who the Nazis are, in order to publicly shame them. Is this OK? Again, the Nazis have not consented to the use of their images to shame or "out" them.

You could go on and on... a vigilant neighbor filming a "porch pirate" stealing packages... someone filming people leaving a gay bar, an abortion clinic, a "massage parlor". Someone constantly running red lights. Who decides what is shaming vs what is "protecting people"?
My fear is the day when the absence of a social media presence itself makes you a suspicious character in the government, and AI’s eyes.
The nytimes is very much aware of this report and there is a reason it doesn’t take it seriously

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/nyregion/new-slant-on-jog...
What do you mean 'anti-woman'? Do they say that we should get rid of woman and have an all male society or to strangle girl babies? Just curious since the phrase 'anti-woman' and 'misogynistic' seems to be loosely thrown around these days as a synonym for 'something more or less loosely related to the subject of women that I don't like'.
Whether you should sue depends on:

1. The laws where you live. In some places, firing someone for being unlikeable is legal.

2. Many specifics that you haven't described, like whether you have documentation of your autism or have assessed yourself.

3. Whether your job required a lot of teamwork or client interaction.

My bottom-line recommendation is to get a free hour of advice from a lawyer specializing in employment rights in your area. HN is a bad place to get legal advice.

Also, if you're going to suggest that you were fired for being white, you should have some evidence to back that up. Otherwise it makes you sound less credible.

I imagine people aren't hired because of their skin color, but it seems unlikely someone would be fired for being white. You were always white, so why would it suddenly start bothering them after employing you for a while?
Depends.

AWS is mostly easy going.

Only some people at the partner programm can vary.

I had a guy who wanted to help me out even tho I was just a one person shop. After he left I got a woman who threw me out of the program faster than I could look.
> Notice that Uber can lean on contract workers so hard because of the social safety net. In effect, we all subsidize Uber through our taxes.

If those people are essentially working full time for Uber, the government should bill Uber back for the costs of supporting its workers with the safety net.
What's the difference?

Perhaps a file never meant just something you have in a directory, rather "a stream of bytes", and the bigger thing was always unifying the difference whether those bytes are read from a magnetic tape or received wirelessly over the internet.
Not a fan of this, but the US is late to the game -- and has received criticism because of it.

Most developed countries already screen social media when processing visa applications.
…and they are obsessed because _voters_ are.
I think you’re misremembering about Twitter, which still doesn’t use AWS except for data analytics and cold storage last I heard (2 months ago).
Bitcoin will explode
RE: As on-demand services like Uber and Lyft grow their customer bases, more people will decide they no longer need to own a car of their own.

Is it really more expensive to own than use a ride share service? Seems to only be reasonable when you have a monthly payment and even then depending on how much that payment is and how much you go out; it still may be less expensive to have your own.

I own my car outright. Calculated, it costs me roughly ~2500 a year to keep it, baring any catastrophe. Thats Insurance, gas, maintenance, inspection, registration, and a few hundred on top for surprise road trips. On the other hand to take an uber/lyft "only" to-and-from work each weekday would cost me ~6000 per year (ride + tip using the cheapest option). Add on for any additional activities and it goes up considerably from there.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to not have to own a car, but it really is cheaper and more convenient for me to do so. I live in a major US city.
One of the reasons immigration laws ask so many questions is to set up an easy way to deport unwanted people without the tedious bother of an actual trial.

This seems like a goldmine. Forgot an email? Didn't turn over your account details on pornhub? Had a single-use throwaway account you can't remember the password for? Congratulations, you qualify for easy eviction.
In the case of smartphones, they do have a choice, and a lot of people still choose iPhones and some even Samsung. Hardware isn’t really an area locked down like internet services are.
It would totally be allowed, but you'd need 6 consultants and 1000+ pages of paperwork and $50k to get all the permits, permissions and inspections.

No way you'd be able to just DIY it either - some of the permits will require licensed contractors.
EU travelers should understand - because the EU screens social media as part of visa applications too.
>> "have the financial means and strong enough passports to go pretty much anywhere they please. Same goes for most Japanese and Chinese"

Chinese passport is one of the worst in the world as far as travel goes. [1][2]

[1] https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Chinese_...
The animals’ populations have rebounded, especially those, like wolves and foxes, who’s habitats are least compatible with humans. Still, mean lifetimes, fertility rates and mean body mass are down, while illness are up. This also applies to some plant species. In no way was Chernobyl a strictly good event for wildlife, just that removing humans took away a very strongly negative factor.
I used to hang out on BBSes before the internet. Introverts weren't created by the Internet, they were set free by it.
A Malaysian island in the South China Sea.
To Some Solar Users, Power Company Fees Are an Unfair Charge
An 11yo changed election results on a replica Florida state website in
Don't be so pedantic, he obviously meant 35km per month as he already explained he only uses it on weekends or grocery shopping.
The assumption that highly skilled jobs are harder to automate may turn out as wrong.

Also, many given the right augmentation tools, the training time for highly skilled jobs may be much shorter.

Doctors(but maybe not neurosuregeons) is such case, because of regulation. Nurses , with some training and tools could replace many.

But this could be true for other professions.
Vehicles also lose much more of their value than houses. The second you drive a new car out of the dealership, you are underwater unless you made a good downpayment; and it is not uncommon for people financing cars to find themselves underwater on their current one if they want to upgrade (or sell/downgrade to get out of debt). And that is in a good market. If there is a surge in used car supplies, we will see them depreciate even more.

In contrast, in a typical market, it is uncommon for houses to be underwater, as they tend to appreciate in value. It took a crisis in the housing market for a large portion to go underwater. A simmilar crisis in a market where underwater is the norm would just push them further under.
Thanks for the great info.