skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I just need to get it inspected and approved

By whom?

>This is clearly a power move to protect their industry.

You're arguing against a conspiracy for which not a shred of evidence has been provided.

Obviously a power move? Do you, in fact, know that paperwork from the manufacturer is required for any modifications, and what the source and/or requirements of it are? Or have you dreamed up some conspiracy where permission from the manufacturer is required to modify your car because you read a random comment on HackerNews (despite the fact that there's a massive aftermarket modding community in the real world)?

I also find it quaint that some posters here think we need to regulate mortgage loans because people aren't capable of calculating interest and what they owe, but the same people should be able to replace the fuel tank in their vehicle with 1000lbs of combustibles, in their garage, and then take it out onto the road. With no oversight.
Read the people answering the tweet:

Actually they didn't. They just hid the option
Generally known as BLUF in my circles - Bottom Line Up Front.
No, he would have to say something just slightly more specific like: "rural means a suburb of City X". Or "I'm a programmer working remotely for a Fortune 500 company". Anything that can make the rest of the statement meaningful. I mean I understand not wanting to give out personal details but then don't bring it up if it's so generic.

I can tell you rural Kazakhstan can pay 5 times more than the same job in US. But without giving you details it will seem like an exaggeration or flat out lie. It's not, just a cherry picked example.

If a study comes up with figures that don't have particular names attached (data protection and all that) then unless you have some evidence to disprove it we can take it at face value. Fighting it with empty hands and generic unverifiable counterarguments feels like trying to save face.
Domains aren't free and neither is time, so a simple ask for a donation is never a big issue. You can always make it yourself if you don't want to pay
John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)
The above quote, for mobile users:

> On January 25, 2007, Thailand’s interim government issued compulsory licenses–which require manufacturers to license generic versions of their patented drugs–for two Western medicines: Kaletra, an advanced anti-AIDS medicine manufactured by Abbott; and Plavix, a blood-thinning treatment to help prevent heart disease, produced by the France-based Sanofi-Aventis and U.S. firm Bristol-Myers Squibb. These attacks were preceded in November 2006 by a violation of Merck’s patent on the anti-AIDS drug Stocrin.[5] The government threatened to break patents on eleven more drugs.[6] Explaining the rationale behind Thailand’s decision, health minister Mongkol Na Songkhla said that “the move is permissible under international trade rules in the event of national public health emergencies. . . . We have to do this because we don’t have enough money to buy safe and necessary drugs for the people under the government’s universal health scheme.”
I visited Mauna Kea as a tourist some years ago.

At the time, there were protesters present.

They appeared to believe that they had been promised there would be a limit on how many telescopes were build, and that the astronomers had broken that promised by starting to build a limit+1th telescope without removing an existing one first.

Anyone know if there's any truth to this?
If you try to imagine an orange on the table, you normally won't see that orange as if it really was on the table in front of you. It's a lower fidelity imagination.

There are of course good reasons for this, you wouldn't survive long in the wild if things you thought about suddenly seemed to appear in front of you.

On psychedelics, this doesn't necessarily happen either, but you can learn to visualize things in 3D as if they were real objects in front of you. Using this for anything useful takes some skill and practice, but it can be done. Some people can do this without psychedelics, but they tend to have mental health issues.
Seriously, HN is not the place for charged political rhetoric like this.

Like I said, I'm no fan of this government or its leadership. For what it's worth I literally handed out how-to-vote cards for the other side in the last federal election, not that it should matter in this context.

But partisan, ideologically charged venting like this makes it impossible to have constructive and/or interesting discussions about the way government works.
> As you can see above, the taxes can vary between localities, so it would be difficult to advertise a specific price if they included them.

How is it difficult to advertise $65 for this, and then bill exactly $65?
Not at all uncommon. The dialect of Brussels has something similar: “schroumpf”. This word has become famous the world over, albeit in translation. You likely know it as “smurf”.
Not just that. Anything that takes 19 seconds, will probably be refreshed after 10 and closed after 15 seconds.
Not enough of us acted last time and we got stuck with the DMCA.

Let's act and get others to act so we can avoid this atrocity this time.
Its interesting that the article posits that it came from a song released in 1981 and then mentions that there was a recording in 1981 of someone already using the word in its current expansive way, and must have already started developing by the late 70s.

Growing up in the dc area, joint and junk were sort of merged together and there was a word kind of like jawnks. “That’s my jawnks.”
> However, we already placed you in the queue...

Well, at some point you took an architectural decision with an implication that if a customer requests to unsubsribe at time t, the request will be effective at t+N. This is a choice you made so the short of it is, it takes N becase it suits you.
Buy Bitcoin, end the Fed.
Maybe it would broaden their perspective of the possibilities? If you can solve million dollar problems even with spreadsheets, then maybe the choice between these two commonly-used problem solving tools is not that big of a deal? Just pick one or the other and focus on honing your problem-solving skills!
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That can still make them distant? Is Australia less 'distant' from Europe now that it takes 24 hours instead of 6 weeks to get there? In some senses, yes, but not in the sense that the GP used 'distant' (i.e., as a objective word for 'not adjacent').
Silly question, if we can port this to web could we port it to Mac?
There are analytic tools that run on the log files. If that is to high load on the server I'm sure they can be run offline by downloading the logs to your local machine.
Chris Coyier: Thinking Like a Front-End Developer
As an Engineering Manager I had Engineers showing me graphs and charts, but I also know how to look up things on my own. But I don't think either case is wide spread.
Would a machine that would sometimes (in its infancy) kill you simply by itself be legal? Apparently cars got legal. Why not psychedelics?
This is a static site that tricks users into using it, then after several uses disables functionality and demands a "donation" to cover server costs, but the person asking how much the server actually costs is being a jerk?
Understanding Server Side Rendering
IF the government did their job, it would be easy.

Catching speeders on the road is easy (trivially, you just need a radar gun, or an automated radar mounted in a car). Getting the police out of their offices and to actually do their job is hard (atleast here, in my country).
I feel like walking in and then out of a store with nothing in your hands and a backpack that becomes full with merchandise can look a tad bit shady to be honest. Obviously you'll have a receipt and they can ask you if they care, but I feel like I'd rather not raise eyebrows in the first place unless I have to...
$3 donation is never going to get us rich, especially when the conversation rate for such apps are normally below 5% of the user base. The primary reason for asking donation is to measure and validate your idea. One of the way to check your market-fit is to who's freely willing to pay for it.

The other reason is to cover our Heroku cost ($7 per month) and any other costs (e.g. domain name, the time we put in making/maintaining it, etc.). Nevertheless, please can just ignore and continue using the app for free.

But thanks for the feedback, you are right about the message, we thought it's too long to describe it all, but we'll try to come up with a better and clearer message.
Pretty cool that it can be used in so many places. More than shit, thing or similar words.

It reminds of te Smurf language where they can use "smurf" and variants of it as a general name for a person, replace verbs and adjectives. The meaning is highly contextual.
I think positioning this as an ethics issue will not have the impact that I think it should.

We should really be making the argument on a capitalistic basis. (stay with me here.)

I was at the FT when we were re-designing the site. The page was lighter than the dailymail (but then most things are) but not as fast as skynews. (it loaded within a second with pictures on a slow desktop)

The marketing team really wanted more tracking, and the advertisers also were insisting on inserting _another_ three tracking systems.

So the developers (and product owners) pushed back. The writeup is here: https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/a-faster-ft-com-10e...

There was a clear correlation between load time and dwell time.

Which lead to the undeniable conclusion that tracking stuff cost the business more money than the extra info brought in.

The take away from this is when ever you are making a case for business change, you have to argue that _your_ change will make the business better, using the metrics that the business understands.

The skill is making your moral choice look and smell like a money making/target hitting opportunity.
Any website asking for a donation should:

1. publish an overview of donations annually,

2. justify roughly what costs were covered with the donations.

If websites don't do this, then I'm not donating.
Up Until Now 85% of All Bitcoins Have Been Mined
Cases like this seem to confirm the approach LetsEncrypt took of only issuing certificates of a somewhat-short lifetime, which kind-of forces a user to fully automate the handling of certificates (monitoring expiration, taking measures to request a new cert in time, deploying the new cert,...).

The practice of issuing certificates with a (sometimes very) long lifetime, from one year and up, results in a situation where such automation is not strictly required, and complex bureaucratic processes can be put in place to replace certs, which becomes a major issue when 'emergency' revocations are necessary. I'd argue such bureaucratic processes don't even increase 'security', because in the end they rely on people performing manual operations (often with more rights granted than strictly required), whilst an automated system can be more easily vetted, tested, and locked down.
Meatless Burgers Stoke Sales and Questions About Nutrition
>It’s probably not worth it for effectively a sub 1% discount.

The discount is small, I agree. But it's always worth it. It's riskless if you have the cash anyway.
Nicely put, but I notice that you avoid names and numbers.

How expensive can it be to rewrite a hundred or a thousand lines, if a perl script keeps growing? And what are these languages (you use plural so I do too) that are optimal for every case?
Rome's border walls were the beginning of its end
Seeking the Help of a Tertiary Care Hospital
Has this study been replicated?
You don't have to use it. It is a service, not a human right. The question about margins on this thing is a perfectly valid one however, but do we all think that when we buy something in a store that nobody makes a profit?
Possibly the worst article I've ever read.

An article full of speculation, without any speculation.
I'm not surprised that, the comments so far have not discussed about the casual racism part that the twitter thread has mentioned.

Were it to be of some negative consequence, the whole of HN would be discussing how bad the Indians were

Just a month back if I remember correctly, there were a slew of articles on the web that accused Indian software ecosystem as one of the main reason for the issues in Boeing 737, even when it has been denied by Boeing.

I cannot understand how people that preach eloquent sermons on racism and equality justify their casual racism towards India and it's people
A discussion of the origins of Unix filesystem permissions
On Sex, Logic, and Being the Subject
Protesting against the government, for one. Police crackdowns on protests have gone ever more aggressive over the last years, plus police has been more and more militarized.
Run it in an Electron wrapper?
10k websites down in the last hour
Yeah, I was really disappointed to learn that the recent port was made for Windows only.
I'm splitting out my conclusions separately.

1. Study design and analysis criteria. are hugely important. Clearly the design here favours some choices and penalises others.

2. The study entirely omits consideration of litter and polution as well as platic's extraordinarily long residence in the environment, both terrestrial and aquatic. I cannot emphasize this enough, as the fact is at odds with much discussion generally and positioning of this study specifically. It also has a very short-term impacts assessment horizon relative to plastic's persistence.

3. Water use features disproportionately due to cotton's agricultural needs. All water consumption (or production) is considered of equal weight. Regadless of place of use, quality, or form (ag water input vs. combustion steam output). This strikes me as inherently quite flawed.

4. Several other analysis variables seem flawed, particularly net carbon emissions. I've not looked closely at these, and they may be valid. Given other issues with this study, I have my doubts. In. particular, there is a near-essential fossil carbon input to plastics not present. for natural fibres.

5. If there is one worthwhile message here, it's that lightweighting designs can provide impressive materials and processing flows benefits. Many plastics packaging products are thin, and use minuscule amounts of material. A lesson might be to simply. reduce the material in cotton bags.
Though thread and ply width cannot be reduced much, design and the disproportionately greater thread strength suggests that rather than woven cloth, a mesh design would eliminate most material whilst preserving function.

6. Read studies carefully, including design, assumptions, impacts, and conclusions.

7. Bonus observation: Textiles are surprisingly resource intensive. The raising, synthesis, processing, manufacture, distribution, and disposal of cloth, fabrics, fibres, and films claims much land, water, energy, materials, capital, labour, and sinks. Improvements (and changes, including outsourcing) in these processes led the first industrial revolution, and continue to have huge impacts. The history of synthetic fibres, mostly of one company, Du Pont, is interesting in its own right. Be aware in your consumption of them.
It's like people buying homeopathy or magic water in bottles.

If you have a good sales pitch and a customer who knows little about the product you're selling you can sell all kinds of nonsense.

"Cheap DV is good enough for private webpages, but for a serious webpage you need at least OV" makes little sense, but sounds good enough for many.
Looking at the source, yeah, you are totally right. I was just looking at the lines out of context.

I was just thinking of cases where atoi(argv[++i]) was justified. Turns out I was overthinking it, it is just terrible code. No feedback on error, crash when the last argument is missing a parameter, static array with no bounds checking, a potentially leaky strdup. Comments are the least of the problems. It is a code smell though. A well justified one in that case.
Not a day goes by without an article mentioning it in mainstream medias. They rarely mention the target in these articles.
Where C11 > C99.

Talk about naming problems / sorting problems. They've adopted Microsofts versioning system where Windows 8 is newer than both Windows 98 and Windows 2000.

Does anyone remember the Y2K problem. Anyone?????

They worked out naming things properly (where computers are involved) was a big problem in the 1960's. But we still only allocated 3 bytes for the version of C or something...?
RA is doing some nice documentaries of a few of those bars.

One from Shelter three weeks ago: https://youtu.be/qe5W7zvw10I

And one from a Bar called Bridge, released yesterday:
https://youtu.be/vs2KF6a7Duw
Clj-kondo analysis data: build custom linters and tools for Clojure code
The ethics come from exclusion.

If a reasonable device(ie cheap & modern) is unable to load said website, then they are stopped from using that site. If you are "poor" to use a term, then it might be that your phone is your only way of interacting with said service. (libraries and other places are not an option due to cost of getting there, or lack of time.)

You are effectively saying that you must be this rich to use our stuff.

Now, if you're bently, rolex or similar thats basically your whole way of life. But if you're a utility that provides a monopoly, then its morally dubious. Especially as things like paying bills over the phone, or by post incurs an extra cost.
The Free Chrome uVPN extension is a disaster: Email addresses leaked on requests
They don't, clearly.

> Since 2015, when a 5p charge was introduced to tackle plastic pollution, the number being used is down by 90%.

My (anecdotal) evidence is before they were charged, people were using multiple bags without any consideration of whether they were necessary or not, whereas now people may still buy one bag every time they shop - is that better than the 4 they were getting before, as people might bring them occasionally? (I had a short look, but couldn't find any numbers to the number of times the 15p bags in sainsburys have to be reused, or the number of times it's estimated people reuse them).
I can't find a description unfortunately - is this done via emscripten, or some new wasm magic, or something else?
I think, before automation, konmari method is more important. If the job doesn't spark joy, we should get rid of it
Because you're in control of a car as the driver; I'm not sure why you (and others) are drawing out analogies like this. Whataboutism.
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Been there, done that. Alas, with poor results. Now I'm happy in non-business activities.
I mean it's just a guess from watching google talks on self driving cars and the constant splurging of academic research on machine learning. Two minute papers is a horrifying youtube channel because of the pace of change it is showing.

There have been a whole bunch of talks about AI in warfare already, so anybody who is interested in the industry can put 2 + 2 together way better than I can.
> we can take steps to game it, like not putting any major purchases on credit card in the 3-6 months before getting a mortgage

I wonder how much your ability to game it indicates whether you are likely to be a good or bad debtor?
AFAIK the KreditRegisteret you linked to is required because Denmark, not part of Euro, does not have access to AnaCredit. So it's more of a tool for financial stability, and not private loan estimates. What is EU's AnaCredit?

> AnaCredit is a dataset with detailed information on individual bank loans in the euro area. The name stands for “analytical credit datasets”. The ECB launched the project in 2011 – together with the euro area and some non-euro area national central banks. It uses data and national credit registers to achieve a harmonised database that supports several central banking functions, such as decision-making in monetary policy and macroprudential supervision.

In Denmark I'm mostly aware of RKI, which seems to be owned by Experian now. If you fail to pay your loans, you end up on that bad payer list. Otherwise getting a loan is a private matter between you and your bank unless you want to use a third party lender
It should be possible to run via wine then, right? (or compile with winelib)
Just say you want money for your app. Put a pay-what-you-want or heck, bill for it monthly.

I really don't think it's the right idea to blatantly lie, it's quite obvious that server costs are negligible here. No one is denying your work or effort.
Have you seen the Olsen twins lately?? The years have not been kind..
>not interesting at all for them.

Or perhaps "not the business they're in"?

>all mentioned manufacturers are in the +/- 1%, while Tesla is up +6.5%.

Not sure what you mean here.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20566779
Looks good - glad interns are getting paid!!
Thanks!

(Not sure why the downvotes, it was an honest question.)
Safari usage is too low for most to rage about.
Donations are never an issue, I had a donation link on my blog for years.

I didn't ever say that it was to "cover server costs" because even years ago I barely paid pennies a day for hosting.
Kraków-based edtech startup Brainly raises 30M US dollars in new funding
Do you collect any data from use of this app?
Locally we have been dealing with the resurgence of wild turkeys. There’s been some whining about it, even though turkeys are not especially dangerous, just a little inconvenient.
You can make a rich, animated, and engaging website for less than 200kb.

Most devs have big stonking macbook pros, with decent network connections. So having a 4.5 meg wedge of JS is a perfectly acceptable tradeoff.

Much as US infrastructure is crumbling, You can't just say "Nahh, I'm not going to sacrafice my time to make things fast for the end user. I need these 1400 modules and full motion video."
What kind of web server would even be calling Perl CGI scripts in 1992? I thought it was all bulletin boards back then. Personally I just got my first PC and was learning to play Commander Keen in 1992 ;-)
Great peace of advice. Thank you
Dupe trick still works, this is the good stuff
Hilarious. "Server cost" donations make sense for large free forums but this is just static files. Sigh
Although I feel the same surprise as you, (I didn’t realise some people would interpret bold as yelling/condescension) ... I’m going to change the way I use it.

I can’t control the reader, only my writing, so I’ll switch to italics or even monospace (I’ll test both)
Pretty sure if perl5 had only had multi-dimensional arrays it would still rule the world.
Would Americans accept food warnings written in foreign script? Serious question?
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It’s up to you how many hoops you want to jump through for ~10$. Just be aware some companies do things like destroying mail without opening it.
Yes, by not hiding any relevant information. It's a good start.
Theory of the Firm
I made something similar as a weekend hack: https://quit.social

It helped me quit my Instagram habit, so it's already more than paid for itself. Next is Twitter. :(

Detoxify looks a lot better though, and definitely has clearer instructions!
It is not about who the drug is being intended for -- it is about who the drug is being marketed to.

For example there's a massive campaign targeting both men and women engaging in any sort of sexual activity that includes fluid exchange promoting usage of PrEP. One can see it in a subway and on local commercials on TV.
Out of interest, what do you feel is holding back Perl 6 from being a replacement for Perl 5 in your usecases?
Further reading with better linguistic coverage: http://languagehat.com/jawn/