skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a quandary we found ourselves in when my company first started selling on the Amazon Marketplace.

We produce & sell art prints. We had just signed a new supplier of images (a well-known auction house) who decided to release the rights to photographs of all the items they've sold over the past 50-100 years. Great! New images that the world has probably never seen. It's always good to get a new range in, especially when it comes with an established name.

So we pipe in their data feed into our system. And out it goes in the Amazon data feed without a hitch. But we hadn't yet eyeballed the data or images.

Long story short, we ended up selling things like a "Pure silver antique tea pot. circa 1890" "French hand-sewn wedding dress. Turn of the century" "Two wooden panels found in Syrian tomb 1200A.D. with gold leaf detail" etc. £19.95 each!! The list goes on.

In the beginning customers were quite understanding as long we cancelled the order with an explanation before it shipped. But a few "antiques" were indeed printed and sent to customers. Rolled up in a brown cardboard tube. Disappointing to say the least.
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For those who don't know Denmark, the title is really overselling the reality here.
Denmark is tiny. You can cross the entire country by car in 5 hours and it only takes that long because water seerpates the major island and peninsula.
The largest city in denmark has a population of 600k. The entire population of Denmark is less than New York.

Arguably there are no big cities in Denmark at all. Looking for lists of populations of "big cities" across the world I can't even find one that includes Copenhagen to make a comparison of just how far down the list it is.

In any case this is all just silly nonsense. The reason people don't prefer the train vs. almost every other mode of transportation is because its extremely expensive. Making it faster isn't going to solve the root problem. But of cause just like everything else in government, the main aim of the future is to build up huge infrastructure projects with individual companies who stand to gain billions... and just so happen to have some senior exec positions open for the politicians running the sham.

If they'd taken the money they would have spent on this large project and instead just lowered fares, that would be an overall much better reality, but then no individual company is making billions and there's no promise of that sweet executive position.
Thanks, I did not know that and I will update my advice to users I know concerned about Facebook.
See the FAQ :

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

And guidelines :

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/
Fasting is the answer. It also resets craving for sugar.
I spent several minutes looking at the video for signs of editing, believing that's a joke do demonstrate some new kind of deepfake AI.
I have no idea who those guys are, but it is astonishing to see politicians being competent in technology outside of MS-Word power user level
But if a party policies help economy grow, why is it bad to help party?
No problem :)

If you're really keen, the base z/OS docs can be found here when you've got a spare couple of decades:

https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pag...
`f` might be iterable / iterator with completely different semantics than doing by-line iteration. And that might even be a good idea.
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What the heck is a PM for if I only need additional developers?
Nobody here gets paid per Jira ticket or line of code.

Sure, if you don’t program and just write ad-hoc (unmaintainable?) scripts then the transition is annoying. But it’s also not required. Don’t re-write your scripts, you can always ensure that Python 2 is present.

But if you’re maintaining a project that uses the wider ecosystem, then you are at the mercy of that ecosystem. And, at the time of the decision to make Python 3, that ecosystem was saying “Python 2 has a lot of horrible legacy decisions that make it harder than it should be to write good code”.
The context here is Java's checked exceptions, which have to be handled explicitly at the site where they may occur, leading to control flow that - in my view - isn't substantially different from handling errors with if/else.
> Take $10m or $24m from a large corporation, someone is going to notice.

This is the problem with stealing "easy money." It's hard to stop, especially if you don't spend the first portion of money wisely.

It's why card skimmers always get caught, too, eventually. They can't just steal $100,000 and be done with it. That's barely enough for a fully loaded Tesla Model S. They have to keep on stealing, and after a few years of this, are you really going to go back to a 9-5 job paying you $30,000 or less a year for hard work?

So it's not really about criminals "being dumb" about continuing to steal the money, unless you define being dumb the moment they first did it. It's more about them feeling like they have no choice but to keep doing it.
Even when I make a one-time donation online to some charities, a lot of them seem to spend that donation sending me mailers asking me to donate again. I wish I could donate with a "don't add me to your list" option.
Markdown can do much more than GitHub readmes
In the overwhelming majority of projects I have worked on - the challenge was less building the right thing incorrectly but building the wrong thing correctly.

As a senior management at one company once told me: "That may be what I asked for, but its not what I want" - which is an extreme view but not untypical in lots of domains.
It's true the Python is still relatively easy. It may only take, say, 1.3 sec vs 1.1 to parse, but it adds up.
There needs to be some balance between needs of society and individual. I don't claim to know the fine line of this balance, but that's how long-running successful societies work. Opposite side is dictatorship in some form - most common being some variant of communism regime that I had displeasure to live in for initial part of my life - its not a good system for 99% of the population.

This is generally highly controversial topic, people either align as per their left/right viewpoints, or their current situation and needs (homeowner/investor views it differently compared to somebody young looking wanting to buy accommodation and and being priced out of their favored location).
I'd be happy to jump on the phone with you.

Started a consulting business a year and a half ago. Still trying to figure out how to grow it.
This 'resistance to change' catchall argument puts everything beyond criticism, and it can be used/abused in every case of criticism. It seeks to reframe 'change' from a neutral word - change can be good or bad - to a positive instead of focusing on the specifics.

Anyone making this argument should be prepared to to accept every single criticism they make in their life moving forward can be framed as 'their resistance to change'.

This kind of personalization of specific criticism is disingenuous and political and has usually been used
as a PR strategy to push through unpopular decisions. Better to respond to specific criticisms than reach for a generic emotional argument that seeks to delegitimize scrutiny and criticism.
Does anyone have a link to or a way to access the dataset? I couldn't see one in the article.
It doesn't need to be Amazon: had such mistake been made by a small law-abiding worker-rights-observant webshop, people would still find moral arguments to justify "it's their right".

I despise Amazon as the next man, and would have loved to take advantage of the mistake; but, on double standards, this subthread is king.
Just as a counter anecdote I was only able to do consulting because of Obamacare.
Check out https://speed.python.org/comparison/. It’s not significantly faster, but it’s getting more so.
I hate big power. When I was an IBM engineer, power into the computer room was a big deal. Big diesel generators feeding into the main switchboard along with redundant mains connections.

One incident I remember is when an electrician was working on one of the power feeds while it was live. Foolish, but the kind of thing people did when getting approval to shut off power was a bureaucratic nightmare.

The sparky was tightening down a bolt on one of the phases with a big crescent spanner when he inadvertantly made contact with another phase.

There was a flash that lit up the room and a loud bang. His crescent spanner literally melted in the middle. Incredibly he was uninjured, although he did take the whole room down, which was an extremely serious matter.

Modern computers that plug into the wall socket are much more pleasant to work on.
>The agency has since accepted an invitation to learn about the guidelines of Wikipedia.

They knew goddamned well exactly what they were doing.
Like most articles on the topic, it misses the point. The education system in India is broken indeed; broken to the point that the _language of instruction is more or less irrelevant_. The problems lie elsewhere. I'd love to expand further, but (a) this would deviate from the topic of the thread, and (b) would take much more time and space. Another time, another place, perhaps.
Is there any reason to believe that "donations" in those categories are less likely to yield similar personal benefits for the "donor" than those categorized as art?
>Masking the true price (cost) of something is what causes the market to be inefficient, resulting in excess or insufficient supply.

This is why the Land Value Tax is such an effective solution to this problem. It's fair, economically efficient and reduces inequality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
The curious case of dust in The Lion King
Suppose humanity eventually achieves true digital sentience and that sentient AI surpasses and extinguished humanity.

Is that sentient existence alive? What is its evolutionary relationship with homo sapiens?

Is accidental genetic mutation the only form of evolution?
Thanks! There is a lot on the site, I really liked:

https://thecavepearlproject.org/2015/01/29/a-simple-diy-unde...
Perhaps he was dismissed for some other unrelated reason?

Or perhaps he was very confident in hiding the fact he was behind the scam? Ie. He might have just claimed someone else must have guessed his test account credentials because the password was "1234".
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That works both ways, just look at some of the commenters on this page and their history to see the other side at work.
Just wait until management comes around with idea to write Docker or K8s plugins.

Using a programming language is not always an option.
It's way, way more likely this is the reason than anything to do with lifespan.
In the UK, 'TheGymGroup' literally tells you to cancel membership by ending your direct debit. They're not all that predatory.
>Every once in a while I'll ask people this question: assuming evolution is true, which species do you think will evolve next?

Good question. I think Cats because they are intensely bred and they have a major deficiency in their personality (which is that they're boring and don't care about people) that if evolution fixes that then those improved cats will become immensely more popular than their boring ancestors
It was possible years ago I think? Vaguely remember to having blocked experts-exchange, quora and other you-must-be-a-member-to-actually-see-the-content pages
The Portfolio is very important to have. For someone to be able to take you seriously, you need to be able to have proof of what you have done before

https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/121819
Companies are not human beings, as other comments already have said, to involve morality in this issue makes no sense whatsoever.

This argument is wrong, there is no attempt to associate morality with a company. It is the customer and only the customer holding the arguably conflicting believes that errors in favour of customers should not be corrected while errors in favour of the company should be corrected. So you can argue whether those two believes are actually morally conflicting but you can not dismiss this point based on the irrelevant point that one can not apply moral concepts to companies [1].

[1] Which may itself be a matter of dabate, after all one aspect of companies is that they are collections of people working together.
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So a typical criticism of Java and IDE dependency becomes a non-issue when talking about Go's shortcomings.
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Are facebook still "digital gangsters"?
While lower fares, which would necessitate subsidies for the Danish railways, are definitely needed, the railway infrastructure in Denmark does need an overhaul. It was the wrong decision not to electrify the tracks back in the 1990s, this could have allowed Denmark to buy off-the-shelf electric locomotives.

It's a new government, and I am hopeful that they actual intend to deliver some real improvements to the infrastructure. Considering where I am planing to move in the foreseeable future, I will need it. That being said, even as it is now, I would still prefer the train over car.
The cost of this would just be passed on to people who rent rather than own, since the extra tax would apply to any property they could rent.
Except cars with 5 star rating exist but a better solution than PGP doesn't.
> The company operates collectively, but there is ultimately a human behind each sale.

Yes and no. Companies are "greater than sum of its parts" beings. Trading with "Roy's Used Camera Gear" sole proprietorship is essentially dealing with Roy himself. I'd say morality and basic human decency strongly applies on both sides here. A megacorporation of Amazon size? There you're dealing with an amoral artificial intelligence that uses humans as brain cells and bureaucracy as brain activity. This being does not follow any moral principles, and will happily screw you over whenever it's profitable for them.

Humans are involved in every activity of a corporation the way our neurons are involved in thinking; you don't say that neuron #24262934 is stupid because all it keeps thinking about is kitties. That neuron only conveys signals, and the thought originates and evolves across many of them. This also implies one is not absolved from moral responsibility to individual agents of a corporation. It's not the fault of a sales representative or a helpdesk clerk that the corporation made decisions that hurt you, much like it's not a single neuron's fault that your brain keeps thinking about cats.

Same thing in other words: a market entity seems to have two aspects - the human aspect, and the "emergent" aspect that's manifestation of market pressures incentivizing members of that entity. The human aspect is in scope of moral considerations, the market-emergent aspect isn't. As a company grows in size, the human aspect diminishes while the market aspect takes over.

(Note that this is a perspective I'm currently entertaining, but I haven't thought it through as thoroughly as I'd like. It seems to be a correct intuition, but it may have inconsistencies that I haven't realized yet.)
How to broadcast audio over internet from browser
How to broadcast audio over internet especially from browser? With what technology?
Is WebRTC a good candidate for that, alternatively with some tree or some kind of network structures in which every listener also seeds stream up to a number-of-users/data-limit? What network structures to use for that if yes?
Or Websockets protocol should be used and the audio data should be transformed over a centralized server?
Ironic in a company that prouds itself of PhD hiring games.
> The reason people don't prefer the train vs. almost every other mode of transportation is because its extremely expensive. Making it faster isn't going to solve the root problem.

Many companies choose the faster transportation method over the cheaper one for business trips. Fast train connections to Hamburg, Germany or Stockholm, Sweden could make Copenhagen a more attractive city for business implementation. It isn't only about personal travel.
It doesn't anymore.

There are lots of issues that are being fixed. Strange nitpicking on alpha software.
They had reviews and star ratings before. Now they don't have reviews and only like/dislike ratings.
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There was a similar incident in 2001:

> Amazon messes up a 'Buy this camera and get that bag free" promotion to be "Buy this bag and get that camera free." As a result you can get a $350 Minolta Maxxum SLR for $40.

https://www.metafilter.com/12512/#178067
The price of the goods is negligible. Amazon just got the best PR with this. Millions more people will be spending millions of hours sifting through deals any time there's some kind of Deal Day.
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Revolut's disposable card is awesome. I use it constantly.
If you ask "which new species will evolve next", then my answer is that species is a human-made category system nature doesn't care about.

Specifically in the area of bacteria, you can constantly observe evolution (e.g., pathogens becoming resistant to certain antibiotics).

When to label the result of such an evolution process as "new species" is a very arbitrary decision.
Todoist uses the same dark pattern
that's pronounced "mee-sheer"
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The Shining Starring Jim Carrey [DeepFake]
Interesting it runs straight off normal 3phase mains - the only mainframe I worked (a bit ) on was a small Unisys one and it had its own 400v supply as part of the set up.
Also, as "you can't prove a negative" is a falsifiable claim, it's an interesting logical statement that argues against itself.
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Is full stack development always a tradeoff between quality and money?
Direct link to the underlying paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06520

The "even in incognito mode" part seems odd:

> What Jack does not know is that incognito mode only ensures his browsing history is not stored on his computer. The sites he visits, aswell as any third-party trackers, may observe and record his online actions
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>Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are always watching you — even when you’re browsing pornography websites in incognito mode.

>You’re in private mode.

>Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode.

You can't possibly make this sh*t up.
haha, yeah they did - the only reason they would have released the study is for publicity.
Sort of. Since it works by having a proxy do the heavy lifting and the proxy is most likely running a modern web engine, then it would be as secure as that proxy and engine are. No site will be able to access the NT 3.51 machine though.
Should be easy to avoid with simply using another cookie jar or blocking third-party cookies. It seems the direct connection can only be made when a user is logged into a facebook or google profile. Otherwise the data can not be connected to a personal account without some degree of uncertainty and illegality.

G and F could use other data, like the browser fingerprint, OS information and the IP address to associate the data, which may be illegal, at least in Europe. Thus they probably use some other technique, for example creating pseudonymous shadow profiles and associating them based on similarity. In their front-end the data would just show clusters of profiles, which means they can claim they do not collect personal data, but from a quick glance it would be obvious to see connections between a user and "anonymous" clusters, if the similarity borders on 100%.

Thus a good practice would be to use a different Operating system and browser, together with the usual protective measures.
It is a massive oversight that the satellites don't mark their own data as bad if not commanded to from earth.

There are lots of reasons ground stations could go offline, and having the satellites broadcast no data is far far better than broadcasting incorrect data.
It's funny an article published behind a paywall about facebook and google partnering to track your pr0n use has a message that says, as soon as the page loads, you're in private mode".

NYT has become such a tabloid.

Study is here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06520.pdf

Now we can have a REAL Discussion.
There's several use-cases listed where Markdown could be used for, such as paper writing, presentation etc (I'm not sure I am going to use it for the later in the near future...).

I find that one of the most interesting potential use-cases is in "literate programming" on which the same author wrote another blog post: https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/entangled-1744448f4b9f
A lot of the complaints about Pipenv were that both its own docs and some of the material on the Python package index suggested that pipenv was a new “official” tool recommended by the Python core team, which isn’t the case.
> This is a serious dark-pattern and I'm surprised companies still employ it. It's so short-sighted.

It's not short-sighted at all. Literally every adult should be aware that subscriptions generally auto-renew, unless advertised otherwise. It's been like that since the dawn of time.

From a business perspective, it makes little sense not to do auto-renewals. Of all the subscriptions that I've ever had, those that didn't auto-renew, I let lapse, often permanently. I didn't think to myself "I should reward this company for not doing auto-renewals!", I thought "I'll get to it later".

Those that did auto-renew but that I didn't need, I didn't cancel for a long time. Of course I'm annoyed at the auto-renewals wasting my money, but not to the point where I wouldn't use the service again out of spite. If I need it, I need it.
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It's a marketing gimmick: lose a bit from a few products to ensure crowds looking for the same "mistakes" on next Prime Day.
It's not just making the programming easier, it's making the problem actually possible. We have a much higher tolerance for fatal accidents with human drivers than we ever will with automated ones. So if you have an environment where many thousands of people are killed today and then expect self-driving to work in the exact same context with airliner level reliability you've defined the problem as practically impossible. If someone builds a great self-driving technology that applied to the total US fleet only kills 20 thousand people a year I doubt it will ever be accepted. And yet that would be half the fatalities that currently exist.
> rejects such parallels to humans

The author clearly misunderstands the statement she directly quotes. It's grotesque.

Here's a SMBC Comic that illustrates the conversation that will follow with that scientist: https://smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-08-30
Oh no, making millions with a literal scam gets you criticized?

Please just stop bringing this up in this context. They literally sold a single player game as multiplayer, along with a plethora of features which were said to be in the game at launch day which where never implemented. See yourself at [0].

The only reason this keeps being brought up is because Sean Murray has extraordinary talent at tickling the medias gamers-are-evil trope. This has nothing to do with payment methods.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no...
And the unsubscribe process might be a chore: at least that's what happens with email subscriptions.
Funny that some like Mathematica and LabVIEW have not changed much for more than 30 years.

Those look mostly identical today.
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>What exactly is wrong with being a regular person who practices mindfulness

Completely normal.

Sam Harris is a charlatan for preaching it using "his program": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774981-waking-up

Spare me this book under 4 stars rating.