skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did give it to them specifically for 2FA, and that's the reason I'm kinda pissed. It's still weird for me sometimes. I feel like logging in with my phone number didn't work for a long time. Mostly because I feel I'm not 100% sure it works right now.

Anyways, that came with the promise they would only use it for 2FA. What happens when they see it in contact lists then? I'm 100% sure they hoover up the goodies. Ask forgiveness not permission?

I signed up for FB 14 years ago last Sunday. Putting the dorm building and room number where I lived was a requirement of the signup process. I openly lived my dorm life on this site. The feds were not on it. Cops? I don't think so. My mother was _never_ supposed to show up for the party.

On the other hand, seeing Grandma there was dope.

Mark Effing Zuckerburg xD, and he still runs the place!
DoorDash CEO announces that now your tips will go to delivery workers
> It seems to suggest that a large part of our increased life expectancy is not from the trillions of dollars we've spent on trying to find a [profit making] pill for everything, but instead from very simple things like access to clean water and food.

That's a massive leap.

Other things that killed a lot of young people are:

* childbirth

* infection

* disease, including the occasional plague that decimates a population.

Not to mention the quality of life difference of not losing non-fatal body parts and function to disease and infection.
Heard about the AAirpass from Mark Cuban who calls it one of the best things he's ever bought. If I had 250k to spend on one, I'd definitely do it too. There's something magical about being able to point to a place on the globe and get there in hours and apparently there's still a few valid ones out there.
that's a strange response. i'm already clearly critiquing the dominant paradigm, capitalism. why would you just itemise a bunch of conventions from this paradigm, which i likely disagree with?

do you need hn to be an agreeable echo chamber for you?

capitalism depends on people not thinking thoroughly about the "deal" they are being drawn into. i'm here to harm this situation.
Yet the terms never said that what he was doing was considered fraudulent, and they'd known for years he was doing it. It's not like the people who were letting other people use their passes, which is clearly fraudulent. This is ambiguous at best. He was doing something regular first class passengers do all the time, perfectly legitimately: booking extra seats for bags/space/etc, or changing plans at the last minute. Nobody told him this wasn't allowed.
The author ought to look into and write about the Common Lisp condition system, which allows error handlers to invoke restarts at different parts of the call stack. [1] The long-story-short on them is that they decouple the treatment of exceptional situations (or conditions) into three orthogonal roles: signaling the condition (akin to “throwing”), handling the condition (akin to “catching”), and recovering from the condition (which has no resemblance in popular languages). The signaler, the handler, and the recoverer can be three disjoint bodies of code sitting in different parts of your call stack.

Doesn’t have a cool name like “algebraic effects”, and doesn’t have cool operational semantics written out, but it does something quite similar to what the article describes. Here is a little example I cooked up for a Julia programming audience. The code offers an API for computing roots of functions, and has a DIVERGENCE-ERROR condition and a handful of different restarts which handlers of said error can invoke. [2]

If you want to see what languages will look like in N years, it’s always wise to see what Common Lisp or Scheme are up to.

[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...

[2] https://github.com/stylewarning/lisp-random/blob/master/talk...
either way, you need to scrub the floors, unfortunately!

source: i am a cleaner.
Oracle! Ha, got you.
Stackoverflow is removing Hot Meta Posts from front page
look up CSAT Solutions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxsy9otVzs
But you have less chance of skid marks with the American type, hence they don't need a brush next to the toilet. If you'd ever find yourself brushing at the house of a date you've been invited to, you'll quickly prefer the American ones.
Ask HN: Unbreakable Crypto How to Market
I was talking to this tech person today who was telling me about his unbreakable crypto technology. He was wondering how to market the idea as it didn't get any tracktion in the market.

I was wondering if a social network type of approach where you offer an incentive (1000$) to break a technology, yet you have to pay 10$ to enter which get added to the amount offered. Is that something that could interest people to try to hack your crypto? Is that too cheap? Like bounty hunter on a bug?

Are there contest and other avenues to prove your working concept?
Right. If anything, as a gamer, I feel like there are in fact too many games that I can't keep up. It seems like it would be better for a slow down rather than to have even more large overly chalked full games.
PGP Packet Library
Really bad idea... please no imperative
Giving up your personal "mobile" phone number to online services which feed on your brain-chemicals to make profit is like agreeing to place one foot in the bear-trap.

People's behaviour as a collective is business, a predictability leading to profit.

For instance, a friend of mine help develop an app which track each product-placing in super-markets, Store-Planning for profit.

Same reason, most super-malls don't let customers have a time-sense inside the mall.
There are functional languages which have logic programming libraries.
I'd say the onset of civilization is marked by the ability to organize politically and amass resources without resorting to whole-sale plunder.

What makes the Maltese Temple Culture a "Civilization" is the higher population density and their efforts to bend the land to their will, leaving traces that endure for millenia.
Gary Bernhardt new learning app
Do public restrooms in the US typically have stalls for handicapped people? That would require two to be built (one for each gender). Contrast that with building a completely separate restroom - you can only build one, and you can still have a smaller footprint on the "regular" stalls.
We could probably edit in a working copy, but I wouldn't be so quick to do that: Sialic acids are all over our cells, and we don't understand what the difference is between the two sialic acid types in terms of impact on molecular environment. One plus side to losing this gene is our ability to do long distance running.
>seems... stupid?

Not when even the CEO lists repairs as one of bigger growth concern https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmd9a5/tim-cook-to-invest...
D'oh! Fixed. Thanks. (I had forgotten the repo was set to private).
Under the bus they go!
This isn’t really about employee recognition. The whole comment was about attribution for the company and marketing the partnership with Scale. Which is pretty standard in some business arrangements but which wasn’t the case here, which the employee wasn’t aware of and turned out to not that big of a deal for scale. Plenty of companies work in the background supporting other. Businesses and don’t always need attribution.

OP is trying to pigeonhole this into some sort of anti capitalist diatribe by trying to make it about individual employees wanting recognition and some big evil company is treating them like invisible cogs in the machine... which doesn’t make much sense since he asked for the company itself to be attributed, not individuals. It’s up to the company to reward and recognize employee contributions, not in some 3rd party partners announcements.

Plus he was always free to comment how he helped work on it or letting people know Scale had a role in helping make it (which are both common on HN). Only if the parent company tried to suppress that would this argument make any sense. But I don’t know why I’m bothering to counter such a position.
Vue.js Development Growth in 2019
>I would guess like self driving cars, we’re pretty far away from them displacing humans at the same task

That does NOT make me happy. Self-driving cars are just around the corner!
Their own data centers.
Why do you provide faster service to users who are popular on HN, instead of taking your licks and investing in better response times for your whole user base?
As a non-famous person, I wouldn't feel comfortable using your service.
As far as I remember, malaria comes in via glycosaminoglycans, and not our sialylated glycans. It could very well be related to our symbiosis with bacteria however.

Edit: I forgot the earlier work demonstrating Plasmodium specificity to NeuGc, so yeah maybe malaria!
Smalltalk also had resumable exceptions, and I remember implementing then in ruby too, with callcc, but I think algebraic effects are more general and by focusing on exceptions the author has sort of hidden that, even if he kept saying it's just an example.
you can freeze in instant if you use that in cold winter.

(except you use Japanese washlet)
So the benefit of this gene is... we die of heart attacks unless we go jogging regularly? Where do I sign up to get it back?
Another +1 for them adding a price to this. It's a really good program and even as a solo indie developer, I want to give them money so they can afford to keep working on it. Customer support takes time too, I've already emailed them about one bug & used up some minutes of the developer's time.

Preferably not a subscription, though. The whole reason I started using Fork is because their competitor Tower switched to a subscription model, so I started looking for competitors. The Fork developers seem keen on keeping it free, so maybe something like the Sublime Text / REAPER model where it has a nag screen on startup but will keep working anyway (useful for us indie developers until the money rolls in). I also like the idea of no internet-based licensing, so if the company ever disappears I can still use the software.
Isn't a blocking function, by definition, something that blocks and doesn't yield? How could the language know to automatically yield on something without annotations?

> "async/await in C#, which is concurrent but not parallel"

C# is multithreaded. Things can only be parallel if you have 2 separate paths of execution that don't depend on each other or any serial order, but you can also kick off millions of individual tasks in a single function and await them all too. These tasks are all scheduled onto threads in a managed threadpool that also share work and run at the same time. I fail to see how this is any different or less capable than the others you mentioned.
How much customer service should a $0/month subscription buy?
> these days it's even considered "disruptive" if you offer a couple of scooter for rent. Whom are you disrupting exactly?

Public transportation, and how people move around a city?

Sure, it's scooters/bikes/cars/helicoptera for rent. But being ubiquitous and affordable makes it usable and in some cases even preferable than established solutions. That changes a lot of stuff. Heck, airbnb is just a middleman in renting deals, right?
I don't think we could get away with it.
Frankly and in retrospect, I consider this difficulty a sign of the unsoundness if OOP. While with typed FP you can get entangled into some seriously complex mathematical models, in OOP it’s just a bunch of metaphors and mental models you have to convince yourself are true. The effort poured into memorizing one rarely transfers to unrelated frameworks or different languages, or at least does so to such a high level that it doesn’t help that much anyway.

OOP is easier to use when describing a mental model as-is, without the analytical deconstruction that (typed) FP would demand.
To be honest, if one is concerned with environmentalism, addressing automobile dependency will do a lot more for the environment than addressing data center[1] electricity usage's contribution to GHG's which has, ironically, lessened over the last decade[0].

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[1] EDIT: Total electricity usage(for both industry AND commercial/residential) is actually a big contributor to GHG's still, but it's declining and a lot of things, like the reply points out, contribute to it, chiefly things like air conditioning and heating during the winter.
Project Rulison
If you don't trust HTML from new users, how about disabling HTML for new users, instead disabling their videos? Why crush people and scare newbies off when you can make a proportionate response?
Makes you think about the impact of nuclear testing... What else is impacted by these tests?
We'll add the lobbed page once it exists. The invited page probably doesn't belong there since the distinction between invited and reupped is just an accident of timing.
Not only sewage infrastructure in Thailand cannot handle toilet paper well, toilet papers sold in Thailand also does not dissolve well in water.
The condition system is also quite general. It’s more of a system for communicating with and passing control to distant (but structured) parts of the call stack. It’s also quite dynamic in nature; the behavior isn’t captured with purely lexical functions. It’s possible to use the condition system purely as a communication mechanism, as a way to implement dynamic bindings, and many other things. It just happens it’s framed in the language of error handling and that’s its most popular use.

With that said, I’m not claiming they’re equivalent to algebraic effects. However, looking at the semantics provided by Pretnar [1], the Common Lisp condition system is quite close to the functionality offered in the purely functional formalism.

[1] https://www.eff-lang.org/handlers-tutorial.pdf
Approximately 100% of spam URLs haven't been blacklisted yet, because they are being generated by high-speed automated processes.
Not exactly. There are varying costs to extracting and transporting oil depending on where it is sourced. It's estimated that American natural gas, for example, would be 20% more expensive than Russian natural gas through the Nordstream 2 pipeline -- even though natural gas is nominally fungible.

Furthermore, the US is net oil exporter in 2019 and Europe is notoriously dependent on imported oil due to lack of resources on the continent. Consequently, adding a large marginal foreign supplier has significantly different impacts on oil prices in the region.
>> The reason airlines charge such harsh penalties...

Scheduling and logistics is a perfectly good reason for having these expectations. Airlines have horrible margins (< 10%) in even good years, and fuel and staff isn't free. Planning is kind of a big deal in an industry like this, and you can't do that if everything is last minute.

>> Why is that relevant when the pass is unlimited?

He cancelled 84% of flights. Eighty. Four. Percent. This is such an absurd number that I cannot see how else you can look at this other than abuse. Maybe 10%? Sure.20%? Pushing it, but I could see that in special circumstances. Once you're cancelling 5-6x more flights than you're actually going on, there's a problem.
What's New: MongoDB Server 4.2 [pdf]
Introduction to Micro Front Ends: The New Tech on the Block
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20440079
You observe a correlation but not necessarily causation.

Technical jobs that are well payed and well respected are found more often in companies that produce a product or service that is sold rather than in companies that sell your time, whether directly or under the guise of 'projects'. If your time-sheet impacts the bill to the customer, you are the product being sold.
The reason to avoid the latter is that all benefits to you, either salary or equipment/working conditions, are seen as expenses that impact the margin on the rate, while in a product company they are far more likely to written of as investments into the IP producing engine.
>>> Pregnant workers have complained about the use of metal detectors at facilities that make new products, only to be told they would have to change to less sensitive roles if they weren’t willing to submit to screening. Apple’s security policies specifically say no exceptions can be made for pregnancy.

Throwaway for obvious reasons.

Apple mandates that Foxconn worker's worker's wear uniforms with the only pockets on the knees. The goal is to minimize the perception of inappropriate touching during pat downs. Apple also mandates that exit security have a dedicated lane for female workers to be wanded by female guards.
This is pretty effective marketing... generate some fake controversy over some small slight and have it go viral on HN.
The Merits of Good Design in Email Marketing Campaigns
The other benefit (of not having this gene) is post-birth brain development.
Thanks for the explanation and insight. I hadn't ever considered how different the catalog use case is from my own use cases. Makes good sense. Cheers.
I doubt the airplane flew just for him... At worst he added maybe 200 pounds of extra weight.
as someone that is right now locked out of their work email account because google aren't able to fingerprint my browser, and are demanding a telephone number to restore access til I get to the office again

and who has been locked out on holidays multiple time in the last 2 years with similar effect, only that an SMS would not reach me...

these are not the only shitty things in my existence brought by google.

perhaps then, the author is entitled to have a grudge for another reason.

futhermore:

if grudges are so bad, then the opposite: what of endless cheerleading for the status quo - are motives there also questionable?
I don't know whether chronic Lyme is a thing or is not a thing. But there is something going on and medicine doesn't have an answer for it currently. Fibromyalgia is a useless diagnosis. Most of the time docs don't know what's going on so they just a slap a label of CSF or fibromyalgia on it. It means nothing other than you seem to have these list of symptoms.

LLMDs seem to get much better results than traditional docs for people struggling with these symptoms (just based on a bunch of anecdotes that I've heard, not a study). They may have the pathology wrong but for the sufferer it doesn't matter as long as their condition is improving.
I disagree. The license specifies that "using the material for commercial purposes" is prohibited. The act of training a commercial model is obviously a commercial purpose. Whether or not the data is somehow incorporated into the resulting model is irrelevant.

You're confusing this CC license with open source licenses that do not restrict use but require derived works to be created/distributed under certain conditions. This CC license restricts use, in that you are not allowed to use the data for any commercial purpose - this is totally different from open source, and more like the "academic use only" licenses which used to be more common.
Any chance you know the author? There's a few with similar titles.
Creating the dict performs n * O(n) searches in total, so wouldn't it be O(n^2) ?
Not to mention it sounds like he's arguing against data center driven games. Which seems like the wrong thing to argue against. Add up all the energy used by the consoles and TVs and I'd imagine it dwarfs the data center energy.
yes and no. they lost on appeal to the state supreme court on whether evidence about age bias could be used in the lawsuit.

then they settled.
Redux-Loop
I would describe TortoiseGit as file-centric, while most other git Gui tools (including this, judging by the screenshots) are timeline-centric.

With timelines, you are dealing mainly with diffs (what's changed in your working directory, or a commit), and the files involved are just a side effect of that. The files that are unchanged are simply not displayed at all in the UI. This is especially conducive to using the staging area and committing partial files.

Tortoise shows you working directory diffs but only if you ask via several clicks (eg, creating a commit). Because you interact via Explorer, every time-based action is hidden behind context menu.

IMHO about the only thing easier in tortoise is viewing history or blame on a specific file or directory.
For those of us that don't care for the latest FPS or Battle Royale, the games industry is going perfectly fine.

Never before has it been so easy for someone to get their game into the hands of millions. Games like Factorio, made by people who are passionate about games. With modern distribution platforms, companies like Paradox Interactive find it viable to continue adding content to their games many years after they were released.

Couldn't give two hoots about what EA and Activision are up to. They don't make games for me.
In other words they misrepresented to the customers where the tips were going. Where is FTC ?
The entire basis of his testimony is his personal credibility. He literally only references his own research and the core evidence he relies on is his research findings. Some of which looks questionable to my not-very-knowledgeable eyes, so it's very useful to know about Epstein's past relationship with Google.

Lines that stand out are:

- "Google has likely been determining the outcomes of upwards of 25 percent of the national elections worldwide since at least 2015"

- "In the weeks leading up to the 2018 election, bias in Google’s search results may have shifted upwards of 78.2 million votes" (that would be 70% of the 113 million people who voted in the election)

- "Google’s “Go Vote” prompt was not a public service; it was a vote manipulation"

- "To let Big Tech companies get away with invisible manipulation on this scale would be to abandon the free-and-fair election. It would make democracy meaningless, even if your chosen candidate prevailed."
in my experience airport taxi drivers all hate short trips. we used to live near an airport, and taking a taxi home was always a nerve-racking moment in how the driver would take it. usually they were grumpy which made for a frustrating experience.
Dual flush systems on the other hand are horribly non standardized an inconsistent: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dual+flush+buttons&kp=1&iar=images...

On some you press the big section for the big flush, on others you have to press the big and small, sometimes the half flush is the bigger "default" button and others can be confusing with nested levels of depressions to mark them. Throw in no directional standard like the half flush being on the left and the whole things one big (pardon the pun) crap shoot.
This BBC article intends to surprise the reader, and I think the reader has to be extremly cautious with its content. Yet, it briefly mentions that the Roman longevity concerned only the nobility.

> all working-class people who were buried in common graves. The average age of death was 30, and that wasn’t a mere statistical quirk

Back to the BBC article, some of its source are dubious, and I suppose they were selected only because of their "selling power". For instance, the paper on Victorian life expectancy was debated here[^0] with much skepticism.

[^0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586145