skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sheer terror would explain it.

All those news sources have come to depend on Google. They hate it, but they can't fight it. News revenue is way down in this Google world, with viewers passing by whenever Google deems it best.

Any news source that opposes Google is at risk of getting blacklisted and they know it. You might find a bit of coverage on sites that are already blacklisted, like Breitbart. Nobody else would dare anger Google.

I'm sure that most news sources would love to see Google get hurt, but going after Google is like going after the king: you'd better not miss.
If the (sunk-cost) common insurance pool pays for it, where's the incentive not to pollute? We're right back where we started with a tragedy of the commons.

For the proper incentive structure, you have to treat the money the way we treat all proceeds of crime - it's forfeit. If you buy a stolen bike, you don't get to keep it when the police come knocking. Ignorance of the crime doesn't earn you the item - it simply means you don't go to jail.
>JUUL was making kid-desired flavors like "candy corn" and "unicorn milk".

No, that's incorrect. Juul manufactured "Fruit Medley" and "Mango," both of which are now restricted to online-only sales through their age-verification platform. There are thousands of other vendors who sell sweet-flavored nicotine solutions, though.

I also fundamentally disagree that only children like sweet flavors, and I wonder why fruit-flavored ciders and liqueurs are still legal.

>E-cigs are essentially a very addictive substance (Nicotine) and a bunch of unregulated (and unreported) substances + flavor.

So are regular cigarettes. But regular cigarettes also include the inhalation of a significant amount of tar.

>They're also disguised as usb-keys and hard to detect (not like a cigarette).

It's not a disguise. When first released, Juul's form factor was fairly distinctive but there are a wide variety of commercial e-cigarette form factors now. I'm also not sure what "hard to detect" has to do with anything -- by who, when, in what context?

>I'm sure SF lobbied with JUUL before laying down the ban-hammer.

What does this mean? The phrasing is usually "Company X lobbied Politician Y" or "Company X hired a lobbyist to lobby members of Legislature Z."
Almost all office jobs could be remote only.
That's strange, I haven't seen any calls for bans for wine, wine coolers, candy flavored liquors, beers made with fruit such as lambics, etc.

Kids under 16 aren't old enough to drive, and yet there are plenty of toys shaped like cars and trucks.

Toy guns, movies involving gun violence without R ratings, saturday morning cartoons, television featuring people consuming alcohol, etc.

All of the above can have just as bad as, if not worse, consequences for children should the gateway argument be applied.

This is not to downplay the consequences of minors using tobacco products. It's to demonstrate that just because something appeals to a child does not mean that it should be prohibited for adults to consume / participate in situations that only adults should be allowed to consume it.

Campfires are plenty enthralling - sing along songs, s'mores, hot dogs, etc. There's no calculating the devastation caused by out of control fires, and children definitely should not be playing with it, and yet there's no call to ban adults from enjoying them either.

The whole argument is an ad absurdum, from campfires all the way back to banning pleasant tasting tobacco.
It occurs to me that I should probably note that the nouns in those examples are 苹果 (apple), 人 (person), and 猫 (cat); they appear (or don't) along with the measure words they require[1] when being enumerated, 个, 位, and 只. The measure words are not part of the noun and don't occur in other contexts, e.g. 我 [I] 喜欢 [like] 吃 [to eat] 苹果 [apples].

[1] The ordinary measure word for 人 is 个, the same as for apples. 位 is more formal.
I used Nota Bene 4 for DOS for a few years, which would have been really recognizable as almost-XyWrite to a DOS XyWrite user. But I'm pretty sure it had autosave by then. :)
"The general strategy of just not allowing government to function if you know you’re going to lose is a bad precedent."

Agreed. I really think the two-party system will lead to long-term strategic paralysis of the US government. I'd say it's already undermining our ability to implement infrastructure re-capitalization programs or maintain consistent international relations/foreign policy with anyone other than the UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel (the last two spend a TON of money bribing our politicians from both parties).

If we get into a shooting war with China this century (which I fully expect), only then will we see the folly of these bi-partisan obstructionist tactics.
What are all of the things this function could possibly do to its arguments?

(a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c
OSU has quite a bit to offer that can jumpstart a CS career, like the OSU Open Source Lab: http://osuosl.org

Meanwhile, not really sure I think of Stanford as a CS school, unlike MIT & similar.
They made it to generally available to everyone, but still had a (*beta) tied to it for a while. Maybe that’s gone now, but it’s still missing a lot of essential features and they know it.
Most of the commenters don't seem to understand that this is a different company that bought the Toys R Us name. This new company has no responsibilities to the other company's employees, nor does it have any reason to follow the other company's business model by not having the inertia of any of its real estate, inventory, or management assets.

At the same time, the new owners must understand that the value of the name they purchased has been tarnished by the past owners.
Bitcoin SV is not Bitcoin. It looks like a sophisticated attempt to co-opt "Satoshi's Vision", and in doing so, delegitimize real contenders to BTC, like Bitcoin Cash.

The rhetoric used to promote Bitcoin SV is very similar to that used to promote Bitcoin Cash, but it also adds a lot of anti-cypherpunk arguments like anonymity being criminal, censorship being in line with the original purpose of Bitcoin, and Bitcoin being meant to operate under the centralized control of governments:

https://medium.com/@craig_10243/drugs-fraud-and-murder-ddf12...

All of the founding documents of Bitcoin directly refute these fraudulent claims.
Yeah, their phrasing is atrocious on this...
"Personally, I think society should allow adults to vape..."

Not to nit pick, but that sentiment may be backwards. Society should not disallow vaping. By default, we are free beings and we are allowed to vape. Until someone stops us by threat or force.
Suppose I were to give you $100, in return for your promise to give it back when I wanted it and pay me 0.27% annualized interest in the meanwhile. Suppose you invested this in a virtually riskless bond, perhaps a mortgage-backed security with government backing, offering 2.53% annualized interest. You’d earn $2.26 in net interest in a year.

You would also bear the risk of me wanting my money back before the security matures, at a time when its price is less than you paid for it.

A better example would be if you invested it by lending on an overnight inter-bank market, which is virtually risk-free, but gives you the option to stop lending at any time. You could make something like 2.38% in fed funds [1] or GC repo [2], so the argument still stands.

[1] https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/fed%20funds

[2] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/treasury-repo-reference-r...
What about the web? Electron apps can usually run also as web apps, can QT do that?
There are some very happy drug dealers that get government subsidies out there in the city
Up here in Canada I've seen more Vype ads[1] which aren't quite as bad... those are hilarious - I really don't understand how people can say they're not targeting young people with a straight face.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=vype+ads&oq=vype+ad...
They should, I don't know why they stopped. They used to sell computers and electronics when I was young (yes it was a long time ago). That's actually where I bought my 1st computer, a Commodore VIC-20.
There is a subreddit called stupidpol that is not politically correct to say the least (I think they use rule 3), but is a great source for actual analysis on the topic.
Sorry to hear that it didn't work out, but it's still an impressive achievement. 60s to produce something that lifelike is incredible. I'm surprised no game companies were interested.
SV is a fork of a fork (Bitcoin Cash). Many Bitcoin SV advocates get pretty uptight that theirs is the original (based on philosophical differences with Bitcoin development over time) and less of a fork than a reclaiming of the original "vision" (I know it sounds like a bit of convoluted logic ... if it quacks like a duck ....)
Matt Levine on Robinhood and payment for order flow:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-16/carl-i...
Personally, I agree. I think that's a food culture and logistics situation. Most of these kinds of efforts are on reducing food waste, which is in line with shelf-stable, unbrusable food.

I have suspicions that because of the young age and the frontier culture of much of US history, the US doesn't have much of a fresh/healthy food culture. I also think the past couple generations of microwaved/processed foods (which has their own benefits) and more recent improvements in year-round food has erased what little cultural knowledge of seasonal and local foods we had. There are a few movements, like Alice Waters, making some change, but I think in general it's very lacking compared to many other countries.

Farmer's markets are where you can find fresher, more seasonal food. They often carry a lot more varieties. Including ones that either aren't familiar enough to the average person, or lack the shelf-life and durability of the mainstream varieties.
Some lone guy with a high gain antenna broadcasting Mad Max over and over from eastern Kentucky.
Documentary on YouTube featuring Yukio Shige: https://youtu.be/Nj1QHZTokWE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20275097
> If I sold then, I would have missed out on a tremendous amount of growth

But that was a singular point in time. It would be like the reverse of a jackpot, IF you sold EVERYTHING just at that singular point in time.

But if you did a little bit of trading without tax-consequences continually, maybe you could win on average?

I agree the system is probably rigged with all the high-frequency trading and such. But I wonder if the best strategy is always to stay put in index funds. And banks make money by trading don't they?
I've used a treadmill desk (LifeSpan) for a few years off-and-on and I love it. Personally, I do not like standing at a tall desk. The feeling of "just standing around" never quite goes away. I slouch, fidget, shift my weight from one foot to the other, and even look around as though I'm stuck waiting in line for something. For some reason the act of walking (very, very slowly mind you) doesn't bother me at all, and I feel engaged with my work the entire time. I have not done any testing to gauge my productivity compared with sitting down in a chair for hours. Even if I learned there was no performance improvement while walking, I still prefer to walk than sit. Depending on your priorities, the most obvious difference will be aesthetic, it does wonders for your...rear view.

A more portable, less expensive option worth looking into is a "balance board," and unstable platform the side of a skateboard that keeps you physically engaged by tilting in a surfing-like stance.
Yes, a significant part of the ACA was pre-existing condition protections.

You can only be charged rates based on location, age, and tobacco use.
I don't think you mean 'prion' here as that's a different problem altogether, right?
My son plays this at recess every day in Seattle. He'd said something about the rules being written by a former teacher at his school so I tried looking them up and found this.

The game he plays is pretty much the same as explained here. He claims they are big differences but they're pretty minor.
No, I believe the GP is referring to the fact that in japanese when you ask for 'four beers' the word for 'four' is different than when you ask for 'four chairs.'

I don't fully understand it, but that is what a native speaker told me.
As evidenced by thousands of deaths per year attributed to dehydration in US alone.. right?
They found a company that built machines that could laser mill 20um holes and bought them out. It's unclear if they bought the capacity (i.e. all their stock) or if they actually acquired them. The reports vary.

https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple...
Even in the high demand field of software engineering the vast majority of people don't have the option to choose between multiple jobs to take. You take what you can get. Not unlike healthcare in which you usually have no say in what healthcare you get when you need it.
If you look back at comments as GDPR was first coming into effect, you saw a lot of comments here along the lines of 'The EU doesn't want to fine anyone. They want you to become compliant, and will help you do so, and you won't be fined unless you were intentionally being non-compliant'

But then look at this example from Germany:

> Please note: According to our information this fine has been withdrawn in the meantime. Kolibri Image had send a request to the Data Protection Authority of Hessen asking how to deal with a service provider who does not want to sign a processing agreement. After not answering Kolibri Image in more detail, the case was forwarded to the locally responsible Data Protection Authority of Hamburg. This Auhtority then fined Kolibri Image as controller for not having a processing agreement with the service provider. Kolibri Image has stated that they will challenge the decision in front of court since they are of the opinion that the service provider does not act as a processor.

The company emailed the authority asking for advice on how to deal with a service provider who didn't want to cooperate with GDPR, then the authority ignored his request, forwarded their information to another authority, which then fined them for the exact thing which they was asking for advice on.

Yes, the fine has apparently been withdrawn, but how much time, money, and mental capacity did Kolibri Image have to spend dealing with this before the authority decided to drop it?
This is pretty cool and a great use case for a DeepLens. Since the DeepLens can do the inference on the machine it would save a ton of bandwidth and you could even make it play a sound when a spot opens up, so it would work disconnected from the internet.
> elected politicians have no incentive to actually consider second order or third order effects of any piece of legislation they pass.

You're absolutely right. And why should they care? They don't own the power they wield, they're merely renting it for some period of time. After their time is up, and they're done throwing their weight around, they can wash their hands of all repercussions.
I think most people are against prohibition because prohibition brings in police violence to a situation where there was no violence.

I guess it depends on what happens if you break this law. If police officers use violence against you if you use an e-cigarette then that is way, way wrong. Violence should not be used when no violence is happening and the person hasn't defrauded or hurt anyone.
> which is why it is sensible practice to download the youtube video in question

this practice is quickly becoming a legal nightmare. Sites that let you download youtube videos are being taken down left and right these days with RIAA lawyers going after many of them for cash settlements. How soon before they go after projects like youtube-dl and other similar programs?
> Unless you're having suicidal thoughts, according to Kaiser, you don't have depression.

Which is insane. Even I know that the DSM's definition of major depressive disorder includes numerous other criteria besides suicidal ideation, and I ain't even got a psychology degree (I did ace my AP Psych exam, though). That actual licensed psychologists/psychiatrists (and/or the representatives thereof) would pretend otherwise is surreal.
Thanks for the transparency! one question I have is how is your aws setup? one server on all the time or do you scale it up based on demand? could you get by on something on digital ocean or the like?
By mistakes I was referring to manufacturing defects of medical devises and the levels of financial liability coming from them.
250K Euros to LaLiga for their app that tries to find bars illegally broadcasting their games by sampling user's microphones once a minute. I remember when it was discovered what it was doing thinking this must be a massive GDPR issue. I'm a little bit surprised that the fine is this low:

"The national Football League (LaLiga) was fined for offering an app which once per minute accessed the microphone of users' mobile phones in order to detect pubs screening football matches without paying a fee. In the opinion of the AEPD LaLiga did not adequately inform the users of the app about this practice. Furthermore, the app did not meet the requirements for withdrawal of consent."
This intrigues me. I'm not addicted to smoking but am going to check the book out because I'm sure I'll pick up self-discipline tricks from it.
I can't find this particular quote, but if you can read Japanese there's an interview with this guy here [1].

For this example in particular, the grammar for reported speech in Japanese is pretty much the same for a 70 year old and a 25 year old, so I agree that "I was like" is a weird choice for what was probably って言った. In [1] the guy has some pretty old-person vocabulary like "どうや", but basically talks like a normal person (of any age).

[1] https://plus-handicap.com/2016/03/7306/
I'm an adult and I also really like candy. I have no interest in tobacco or nicotine, but I've considered getting tasty non-nicotine vape flavors because a zero-calorie alternative to actual candy might help in much the same way that non-tobacco vaping is a healthier alternative to smoking.
Where is info on how to install it legally and why this stupid ban on dashcams when GDPR actually allows it (it made dashcam usage easier in my home country as now you don't have to register as data processor because dashcams fall under surveillance). I feel that this is a bad thing - you have a regulation that covers all EU but some countries have their specific laws overriding it and banning things that are allowed under GDPR.
I take a new unfamiliar thing and I have no idea how to work with it.

I take an old familiar tool and I instantly remember how to use it.

What gives?

When I was a boy, wise practitioners told me that being a programmer is a path of constant learning. They were right. And since then, I take learning as a natural part of the profession. I suspect it also has something to do with a high salary it commands.
I'm surprised stores that offer time-limited free parking don't utilize something like this to identify/tag cars that park past the limit.
> Vaping plus flavored nicotine is marketed at kids.

Great, ban all advertising of nicotine products. I'd be fine with banning soft drink ads while we're at it. However, what does this to for public health when the harm reduction option is removed and literally the most harmful option available is for sale by the very system that SF doesn't trust to keep its products away from children?
That will always happen, but what is the significance? Trump himself spent six or seven hundred million dollars, and Clinton spent about double that. Where is the evidence that any "foreign and otherwise nefarious actors" did even 1% of that?

It makes no sense to get riled up over numbers that would be rounded to zero.
>But it's not, it's marketed as a hip new thing

Can you name any examples of this marketing for a curious reader? After the "blu" e-cigarette commercials were kicked offline several years ago, the only marketing I've seen for e-cigarettes are point-of-sale ads in gas stations or tobacco shops.
Looks only. It is far from an optimal shape for airflow or thermal transfer
I think most people are fine with allowing edits, provided it's transparent and people can see the video has been altered and when
What the U.S. Medical System Can Learn from Estonia
Launching a new ad-supported streaming service in 2020? Brillia.. ehr, no. F%#@ng brain-dead, in my estimation. Nobody wants a new streaming service, and nobody wants ads. I believe this is the kind of move companies make out of spite, even though they are ultimately hurting everybody involved.

NBC loses, because they'd probably have made more money by licensing the content to Netflix.

Netflix loses, because their service becomes less desirable without popular content like The Office.

Consumers lose because now they have to jump around between even more streaming service options to find what they want.

My personal suspicion is that we're near, or at, "peak streaming service subscription". I can't imagine very many people want One More Service to deal with. The NBC one might hang around for a while if it's purely ad-supported, but I still think this is a lose-lose-lose scenario.
The comment may refer to the fact that the US federal government categorizes marijuana s a Schedule I drug, which explicitly states it has no medical uses whatsoever. But yes, there are mountains of scientific evidence that marijuana has medical benefits.
The product's lifetime, not yours ;).
I mean, that is the coalition partner in government right now, so it's a big deal...
My employer’s healthcare plan includes Castlight. It’s a mobile app that shows nearby in-network providers. If I need a procedure, I can search for that and get average prices.
As a non native English speaker, I’ve always been puzzled by the use of “dead” in these situations. Surely if the person is dead they can’t be brought back? If they can be brought back, surely they were in a state with a heavy concussion / loss of consciousness/ disability? Isn’t this how the word should be used?
Aren't they saying that they are ACTUALLY protecting your customers data? Instead of forcing you to do it?
>bitcoin SV is not the bitcoin that most people know as bitcoin

Most people cant see the difference between bitcoin and an altcoin (i.e. Ethereum) transaction.
Most people haven't read the whitepaper and havent figured out the technological and economic model of bitcoin protocol ,independently of which implementation we talking about being it BTC , BCH or BSV.

The main protocol is there it follows the whitepaper , p2p cash that can be global money BTC cant be global money.
BTC main selling point is being mined in a decentralized way and the brand name , its utility as money has disappeared in 2017.
Hydration!

Message brought to you by Coca-Cola and ABA (American Beverage Association), totally not a marketing campaign you guys, and we arent getting sued for it or anything, drink up!
Accelerometers. How it works is there is something like a 5 minute, constantly overwriting video file. Once the accelerometers detects an abrupt deceleration, it determines an accident occurred and marks the previous 5 minute segment of video as read-only.