skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US political system naturally stabilizing at two parties has some weird effects, like psychologically/socially pressuring people to accept a bunch of crap they might not otherwise, to an even greater degree than a somewhat more nuanced political landscape might. This is especially true with major wedge issues, and double especially with abortion.

Like, what exactly is your average, normal pro-life person who happens to also kinda support gun control and kinda oppose the death penalty and maybe even favor universal healthcare supposed to do, in the voting booth? Recall that their belief may be that abortion is equal to or at least very close to baby murder, before answering. Their options come down to voting for a 3rd party that's pro-life but agrees with them on some other positions, which is so close to not voting that they may as well be identical and anyway I'm not sure such a party exists (usually they're more extreme, if anything), voting anti-baby-murder but also against all their other positions, or voting pro-baby-murder but for the other things they like. This is clearly not a great position to be in.

So rather than going around feeling shitty about their own politics all the time, they soften or reverse their opposition to bundled views they wouldn't otherwise agree with.

[EDIT] this was highly visible in the last Presidential election, when a lot of the "WTF happened?" interviews afterward went like "yeah, of course Trump seems like a slimy piece of crap, obviously, I mean have you listened to the guy talk and have we all forgotten how he was, not that long ago, the universal media symbol for highly-successful rich scam artists? But I prayed on it and in the end held my nose and voted for him, because judicial appointments and Roe v. Wade".
That's why they're always looking for fresh college grads, many of the older people wise up eventually.
Other planes are available.
Allegiant started out with old DC-9's/MD-80's, and a few 757's. They were all replaced with Airbus A320's by November 2018. Most of Allegiant's previous safety problems stemmed from using old jets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiant_Air#Fleet

I think the company's startup plan was to use cheap/old fuel-guzzling aircraft to get the business off the ground: it's cheaper to pay for fuel than interest payments on new jets. Now that they've built a stable-enough business they've transitioned to newer planes. Wikipedia says the company's first brand-new jet was purchased in 2017, which was 20 years after the company was founded.
Restaurants and bars are not comparable, as they are customarily paid after the meal. Also, there is one to one customer service there so someone is keeping an eye on you, as opposed to a large retail establishment.

And the idea of tabs doesn't apply to my comment since I excluded out situations where the customer's credibility is known by the store employees. I live in America, and while I haven't paid attention, I don't notice people using what they're buying before they have bought it.

The common sense is that what if someone comes into your store who can't afford to pay for what they have consumed? Do you think Walmart and Target and grocery stores can afford to make it official policy to let people consume before they buy and not suffer losses from people who toss the wrapper or empty bottle in an aisle somewhere? Or can't afford to pay?

It works if it's a small place and you trust everyone, but once you scale up, I don't see how it works.
iTerm2-color-schemes – color themes for most terminals
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No I honestly don’t mind it. Although I heat the old reddit vs new reddit thing come up every now and then. I don’t think it’s better but it’s no harder to use.
Wait, Google has built it's index using its own resources but for some reason they should make it public ? Why?

I instead propose something that actually makes sense

1. Audit Pentagon and make the report public
2. Audit the fed and make the report public
3. Audit Whitehouse and make all communication public 2 years later.
How exactly will entitlements be funded in that scenario?
In addition to the point below, which is that the prohibition on murder does not extend to many instances of homicide the law seems justifiable, I believe you are also confused about the posture in which the question has come up.

The article discusses a member of the clergy who requested information about Alabama’s death penalty protocols to help her “pray on” the issue. The state pushed back, and “why does God need to know this information” was a snarky question asked of the clergy woman by the state’s lawyer. So the religious person and the entity executing people are on opposite sides of the issue. The state’s response could just as easily have come from an atheist.
This ^ times a 1000.

Google simply has the best search product. They invest in it like crazy.

I’ve tried bing multiple times. It’s slow, it spams msn ads in your face on the homepage. Microsoft just doesn’t get the value of a clean UX.

DuckDuckGo results are pretty irrelevant the last time I tried them. There is nothing that comes close to their usability. To make the switchover, it has to be much much better than Google. Chances are that if something is, Google will buy them.
Wow, no, it does not. You're just making things up?
I just upgraded my workstation from a SATA SSD (~500MB/s) to an M.2 NVMe (~3GB/s). For standard usage, there's really no noticeable difference. The extra IO and lower latency is amazing though for heavy tasks.
As a person who came to America legally, as an Immigrant, I seriously do not want this. How is this at all fair to those of us who had to work so hard and wait so long to get in?
95% on a 1 in 1000 event means that over 1,000,000 trials

950 true positives

~50,000 false positives

False positive breast cancer is pretty bad.
This has been around for a while, but the amount of recent ports to non-term terminals is impressive:

> Includes iTerm2, Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, and Microsoft's Windows Terminal.
Grocery stores love them, they even make bundles of money, er... bundles of canned food for people to buy with their groceries and drop off in the donation bin when walking out the door.
Hush, you are breaking their narrative.
>It's closely related to Brandolini's law, that the amount of energy it takes to create bullshit is an order of magnitude higher than the energy it takes to refute it.

Isn't it the opposite?
Somewhat north of 70% of internet traffic passes through AWS servers at this point.
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Is it specifically people that wait tables, or do you support no taxes for all for their first $x in income?
As an experienced programmer - if you really want to improve productivity 10 times, find the junior programmers in your team, empower them, give your advice when asked, shut up when not being asked, tell them they can do that hard task and help them out when they have problems. Be a decent human being. Then watch with pride as they grow in amazingly quick time. Oh - and just work for a company, that honors when you're doing that.

Nowadays programming is teamwork.
I don't believe that is how schools are supposed to approach teaching. I'm actually fairly sure they don't, outside of exceptional cases.

They certainly have no business making educational policy in contradiction to pedagogy.

If German schools function basically like Finnish ones, then they use MS products because it's what the municipality bought, and schools are a municipal service.
> If you make, say, an extra $5/day on what used to be your smoke breaks

Surely a better way would be to stop smoking?
Someone didn't get an offer!
>A 35% slower SSD does not automatically translate into an overall performance loss of 35%.

Yeah I was wondering about this. For a MacBook Air... could it be possible that generally you wouldn't notice the difference?

SSDs are pretty speedy / responsive, not sure how often this speed difference will come up / what kind of tasks / if at all.
Sure there are advantages. If you have retained earnings at the end of the year with a c-corp, you have to pay corporate taxes.

With a 501c3, you don't. Although I think there are some limitations.
I don't reconcile them. I'm religious and believe the death penalty is wrong for any reason under any circumstances.
Because I'm religious though I know people who do not have this view and believe the death penalty is fine. They tend to use the deterrent to crime and protection of society arguments as well as mentioning certain old testament Levitical laws which make the distinction between justified and unjustified killing. Killing someone in self-defense, a soldier killing during war or the state killing as punishment for certain crimes versus an individual killing another.
Can you elaborate on what you find offensive about it?
> the little peas in the silver can

Canned peas are terrible.

Canned mandarin oranges (Google turns up no results for canned tangerines?) are actually an essential ingredient in quite a few recipes, well unless one wants to peel a bunch of tiny orange wedges by hand.

Canned Vienna Sausages likewise have their place, rare as that place may be, and there are actually higher end canned brands that are rather edible.

So, fun fact about sense of taste over time. Kids have a more sensitive pallet, food tastes super strong to them, so it is often more bland or has simpler flavors. This is why kids can't eat lots of bitter or sour things, they taste really bitter or really sour. As we grow older, our sense of taste starts to die out, and so flavors are less intense. This means overpowering flavors become less overpowering, and we can taste more "refined" foods. And we can also tolerate pickles. (See: Tendencies for older adults and red wine[1])

Exact same goes for our sense of color and taste. Again, as we get older, brighter colors, and stronger perfumes become preferred.

Back to food, simple kid foods either taste bland, or have one dominant flavor. In American famously it is mac and cheese. The texture is simple and the flavor is simple.

[1] IMHO most red wines taste horrible, but at a certain age we just can't taste how horrible they are and they become tolerable.
AI Drug Hunters Could Give Big Pharma a Run for Its Money
There’s a start up called TruePic that’s building a solution to this problem. Basically their platform helps you get trusted pictures from users.

https://truepic.com/
As an alternative, what if you didn't have (or didn't want to use) common structured programming techniques, and you wanted to implement a state machine? Like, you could use if-then, but not while, loop, do, etc? But goto was allowed (argh?).

About a decade ago I was in a discussion with someone on this, and his technique changed my mind on where, when, and how goto could be acceptable in a real code base; some of you may or may not agree - but I thought I would show you, warts (on my part) and all. Here's the thread:

https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/state-machine-in...

...also, here's the state machine (as implemented in C); the original post of the image on the forum, I think, requires a login to see, thus this copy:

http://i.imgur.com/JkND1Av.png

Read the thread to understand the arguments for and against, but it ultimately (I think) comes down to implementation readability and maintainability. This is a more critical thing in an embedded hardware system, of course, but I think similar techniques, or at least the mindset behind them, could be an advantage.

It's kinda like how learning Golang, much later, forced me to rethink the idea of error handling. In Go, there's the concept of using "guard statements" at the top of functions/methods to essentially exit out as soon as possible if something untoward occurs or is passed as an argument incorrectly. Basically a bunch of simple if-then statements at the beginning, then your code proper. It was one of those things I recall as being something I railed against at first, but I quickly came to understand the reasoning behind doing it that way, rather than nested if-then statements or other constructs within the logic. It produced simpler, easier to follow code - but at first, it felt very "wrong" to me for some reason. It was one of many "golang-isms" I had to come to terms with, before I really appreciated the whys and whats of the language.

Which ultimately is what these techniques are all about - the author touches upon this: Restriction of your toolset can lead to fascinating solutions, and in some or many cases, this simplification is reflected in the code as well; things can become easier to understand, since less is being used. It's also one of the reasonings behind such "demo competition" contests such as the 256 byte challenge, or 1K intros, etc. Also behind such things as pixel-art, especially tile art using only 8 colors (or even just black and white!) with only an 8 x 8 grid-space to work in. Some amazing art comes out of that, operating within such restrictions.

I've heard/read that great programmers are those who are able to remove more code than they add for a given change (aka - simplifying the code). These techniques and everything else may all be a part of that idea.
Its not that simple: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/world/europe/germany-poli...

Germany's refugee crisis is a good example of the pros and cons.
TensorCraft: A Brief History of Keras in Production
I'm not saying that choosing a life of criminality is evidence that someone is unfit for modern life. Instead, I'm saying that someone would have to be incredibly unfit for modern life to justify criminality by pointing to modern life being difficult (which is what the person I was responding to was saying). Those are two different arguments. I actually mostly agree with you.
Indeed. My process is buy cheaply -> put in pantry -> consume -> donate old stuff but before it expires.
I'm often reluctant to donate cash because of organizational waste in nonprofits- how much of my donation is going to administrative staff?

This is why I donate dry goods, canned goods, and labor.
>Yes, and?

So the argument is the cash existence is providing support for tax evasion?
If you're interested in learning more about Pakistani Intelligence, I can highly recommend Steve Coll's Directorate S. It's the sequel to the pulitzer-prize winning Ghost Wars, but it can be read on its own.
We had a food drive once, around Thanksgiving time. The most common item was canned cranberry sauce.

A lot of people don't eat it, or really know what to do with it.

The other big failure was someone who donated 50 frozen turkeys. We had to give them away immediately, as we couldn't store them. Later on we had people tell us the turkeys didn't come out right, or they didn't have the right roasting pan or even oven to cook one in. You can't microwave a turkey or cook it on a hot plate.
Please ping me if you ever get this set up.
An API is not the same as making the index public. I don't think the author has a grasp on all the technical details.
I analyzed the history of “Who is Hiring?” threads
>It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all
> I guess that means 5% false positives? That wouldn't be bad.

Due to Bayes' Theorem, this can result in the majority of patients with a positive result being patients without cancer. Depending on what treatment is taken, and the psychological burden of erroneously thinking you have cancer, the negatives of the additional screening could outweigh the positives.
I'm not sure exclusive access is enough in all cases though. That's why immutability is still a strong default in Rust and Swift. The classic example is calling a method on an object which will mutate its content without the caller knowing. That's why I'd still favor immutability if performance doesn't preclude it.
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> The coffee machine on a floor breaks and you'd think someone had asked them to take a 20% pay cut by their reaction.

It's a piece of infrastructure. It may not seem like 20% pay cut, but it might very well be bleeding out 20%+ of productivity of the floor until the problem is fixed or people find workarounds. Same with network issues or outage, or crappy work hardware.
The 10 Commandments are Old Testament, which the New Testament supersedes, no? Same logic as how stoning of adulterers got canceled.
Sounds like a great idea for a tech nonprofit. All in one inventory and credit card donation solution, as well as a distributor function that negotiates with the food suppliers like Sysco, A&W etc in bulk. Frees up the smaller banks to focus on what can’t be automated like community outreach.
I’m surprised to have never heard about this before - always pictured their success as pure trial and error / persistence.

(also, I’m aware meta comments are frowned upon, but your comment would read exactly the same without the quotes, they are a bit of an eyesore on mobile and not necessary)
Check out Rodin and Event-B for some inspiration.

http://www.event-b.org

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

Here the inventor demonstrates making a simple bank account simulator with the stepwise refinement approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWZWXx5ixc
the author is clearly an activist and courage is not something rational
Is ‘REvil’ the New GandCrab Ransomware?
That's how I see it. In 2005 I worked at a tech startup that was building out surveillance camera networks for Australia to spy on its rail system. I was aghast and the enormity of the project and how much money was involved and that was 2005. That project ultimately failed, but later ones of course have proceeded.

Ethically, I don't get how we are doing this to ourselves. The bar has to be raised as far what is acceptable here. Otherwise, why did we fight two world wars? Why did we fight a Cold War against this kind of collectivism? We already know it's rancid. The level of freedom of the average Chinese citizen is horrifying. Do we want that for our children? Or are we going to fight for a better world? Tech has to lead the way and not just go there for profit. We have to be better than that.
Another portion of the article touches on the overhead to sort and store all these items for later distribution, that sorting might be done by volunteers (and thus be free-ish) but there's always an opportunity cost, the labour used for receiving these items is labour lost on other important projects.

If the charity is a responsible one then you're wasting more money by forcing them to sort your cans, clothing and miscellaneous junk than the slim chance that someone's going to misuse those funds
Why would they line up to work for you of all people? They can work for anyone they want, it’s somewhat of a seller’s market when it comes to programming.

I imagine just about nothing is 100% fun 100% of the time. If many parts of your work are fun, it’s fair to say your work is fun. If you’d rather be doing something else, you could try that, too. Maybe you’d like it more.
at scale? millions of pages a week? And now? I wrote a crawler that could crawl Amazon as early as a year ago too, but now it doesn't work.
They didn't flip the cars, they stole them.
Ask HN: Do you learn/remember more from physical books or from eBooks?
Lately I've been reading books on a permanent basis, usually mixing the format (physical or eBooks, no audiobooks) and I started to notice that I remember more of what I've learned if the source was physical. Does this happen to you as well, and if so, do you have an idea of why?
This is me every election except I don't soften or reverse my opposition, just try to figure out which bundle most closely matches mine and sometimes get frustrated enough that I vote third party anyways. Sometimes I take a whole ticket approach and vote one side for governor. and the other for Lt. governor. One bundle for president and the opposite bundle for senator for instance.
This is the best description of AGC I have seen so far, from hardware design to mission software, layer by layer: "The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ
There are several other reasons for not living in China, have you ever been there? Freedom, Privacy, Pollution, Corruption, Healthcare etc.
Perhaps genetic-targeted weapons?

Eg, I want to create a virus that only affects black people (or whatever group said person hates). Or even more specific, eg, I want to create a virus that only targets one person (maybe.. A President of a country?)

Scary stuff when this stuff starts becoming realized.
That's probably a drop in the bucket for Epic, but it's still much appreciated!
Exactly. Reminds me of panhandlers who ask for money to buy food. But if you give them food they refuse to take it. Yeah, right...
I was strongly anti-caffeine for most of my life. Then, in my 30s, I started getting so sleep at work that I'd fall asleep at my desk.

I went to the doctor and got drugs and vitamins. One of the drugs was supposed to be for erectile dysfunction, but had the side effect of keeping people awake. I tried it anyhow. They didn't work.

I ended up drinking a little caffeine to fix it. It worked really well.

Now I drink a lot of caffeine to fix it, and if I stop, I go back to falling asleep in the middle of the day.

If I could, I'd gladly just take a nap in the middle of the day to "fix" this problem. I get plenty of sleep at night, and I have a regular schedule. I don't work overtime and my job isn't abusive on my work-life balance.

But now I just need caffeine to keep going all day. And so I deal with that instead, and I no longer tell people that I don't like caffeine.

When someone says that they need caffeine to wake up, I certainly don't tell them that they should get off caffeine... And I don't even think it anymore. They might actually need it.
That is true, but “first, do no harm” is still a part of many versions of the oath taken by physicians. In any case, it is still one of the, at times conflicting, principles at the core of medical ethics.
Can’t wait to get a copy!
What does race have to do with anything? Is this some sort of racist dog-whistle?
why typing like this is sometimes okay
And to get around this, simply route all your traffic through Cloudflare...
> People have a short memory

Just think about the "Sony Rootkit" or countless of other fiascos that have happened over time. Society forgets so easily.
> encrypted GPS

Encrypting what?

Except if you want people not to be able to use the GPS signal, which sure make sense in military context (and even then, it's pretty meaningless, except if you change the key pretty regularly and you have a safe way to propagate it that won't be possible for enemies to get their hands on).

You know right that GPS signal is a one way signal? The receiver doesn't transmit anything, he just receive and use the timing and its data with some fancy math to be able find your position.
JFC this is great.
None of those people had a gigantic Russia scandal though, Trump did, so you must still account for this unexplained aberration. If anything, the Trump/Russia scandal had more coverage than the Hillary e-mail scandal, so it's an even more difficult aberration to explain.

Also, if I type "hillary e" I get "Hillary Emails PDF" as an autocomplete suggestion. If I type "clinton e" I get several email suggestions "clinton email PDF" ,"clinton email film", "clinton email FOIA", "clinton email download".

Please include these confounding results in your analysis
I don't know what to tell you man. Quitting alcohol cold turkey can kill a person. Go get to know some people struggling with addiction to maybe broaden your perspective beyond some study you read? And keep in mind that different people suffer from addictions in many different ways. For substances like alcohol and cocaine, there are well known genetic differences that predispose people to those addictions.
I appreciate gender-bending. It is a time-honored tradition in the theatrical arts.