skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that in python3 using: [ asyncio, event loop, ProcessPoolExecutor, or ThreadPoolExecutor ] satisfies this problem. If I am misunderstood please correct me!

https://pymotw.com/3/asyncio/executors.html
But... it's an extremely specific viewpoint that Startup / Technology solution is the way to fix broken system.

For vast majority of people, the viewpoint would be that elected leaders making the "correct" decisions/rules (whatever we decide those are) is the actual long-term, proper fix. Technology is technology, it's a tool; and societal norms, rules, and regulations guide or decide how we use those tools.
I get your sentiments, but to me, it's like going on Tilt with someone else's money while they watch.
If you delayed the program onto your TV/laptop/whatever by some number of seconds, that surely would defeat the detector, though, of course, the detector could look for this. A better way to defeat it would be to play two programs on the same or two TVs near each other, then the two signals would interfere in a way that should confuse the detector.

Blackout curtains (which I recommend for other reasons), would work best though.
I've been on Android since the OG Droid, and I can't remember the last time I had a replaceable battery. 4-5 years or more.
It used to be a huge portion of SF traffic was people circling around looking for parking. The ride-share traffic is an improvement.
> I will never remember the car nor the driver.

I will never forget the truck, driven by a young man from Haiti whose temporary protective status was days from expiring, that had a hole rusted through the floor pan. It was a scary ass ride, but I genuinely felt he was getting as much as he could before having to go home.

I'll never forget the asshole from NJ who decided that, because we were both white, he cold go on a crazed anti-semitic rant about his home owner's association.

I'll never forget the driver who pulled his SUV over, went around the back, and took a leak--on a busy street in Philly--into a plastic bottle he had back there.

I'll never forget the young woman who couldn't hear me yelling at her to turn her music down, only to find out she was whacked out of her mind.

I'll never forget the interesting ride my wife and I had with a guy who paints commercial aircraft for a living. My wife works in aerospace, and previously in general aviation. Hearing about his contract work was pretty neat.

I'll never forget the older woman who only drives on Fridays to make enough money to go to the movies with her friends and buy popcorn. I was back-and-forth between home and away at the time, and she actually offered to let me join her and her friends at the movies that night because my wife was away and I had nothing better to do.

There are definitely forgettable rides. But I've had a good share of memorable ones myself.

It pays to be human.
> have stricter punishments over traffic violations

That certainly doesn't stop them from speeding, cutting you off, going straight from right turn lanes and generally driving very aggresively. Cab drivers are really one of the worst when it comes to following traffic rules, second only to urban bicyclists.
This assumes you get to Svalbard the traditional way--by flight from the Norwegian mainland, in which case you need a passport to transit or depart the Schengen on the mainland side. If you arrive by some other means you do not.
See: http://thecontextofthings.com/2014/04/23/people-are-leaving-.... Domestic migration is flowing from New York, LA, etc., to southern cities like Charlotte, Houston, etc., where purchasing power is higher. New York lost 1.5 million net residents to domestic migration from 2001 to 2008. (I.e. 1.5 million more people left New York for another state than left another state for New York.)
So you basically just want other governments to shoulder Americans' healthcare costs. Doesn't sound like a win for them
Thank you!! These lists have become so pernicious. This includes all those "falsehoods programmers believe about X" lists that have cropped up like mushrooms.
I think the challenge is that the tech is moving so fast that there is no line where the judicial system has said: "Hey Uber, that's over the line."

Credit Card and loan rates are two examples where some people would be so desperate that they would sign _anything_ to get an advance of cash or credit. But we have protection for them and rates cannot exceed a certain amount, depending on the type of loan.
Well, that explains why my daily commute has gone up in the last few weeks. If they'd let me buy a ride pass, that'd at least make me use them. Instead, Lyft gets my business.

Just as a note: without a low-cost private car, I literally could not keep my job.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
The thought of doing this literally didn’t occur to me... I think this is great!
I agree with this.

Even if rates went up to what cabs were (still cheaper in SF in my experience), I wouldn't switch back to cabs. I'd still user Uber/Lyft for the convenience and higher quality product.
This looks amazing, thank you
I'd be fine with it if the companies they sue stop using shadow banning because I don't like it. But of course it is messed up that they were granted a patent for it.
The point in having a society at all is the recognition that by agreeing on a set of rules, organizing ourselves to cooperate, people are better off.

The "what about personal responsibility" can be applied to most things society offers you. Law enforcement? Buy your own gun and defend yourself. Firefighters? Buy your own water hose. Exploitive employers? Grow your own backbone.
Did someone say they couldn't keep doing it? I don't see why they would count as prior art, either. The implementations are different from what was patented.
> NZ is probably best place in the world.

Unless you're a woman of reproductive age.
Just remembering this deck and thought it might be interesting to this audience. This is the very first public documentation about Rust (Servo is not actually defined in this deck...), Graydon's slides from the Mozilla Summit 2010, dated 2010/07/07.

As far as I can tell, beyond this talk, there wasn't a formal "announcement" about Rust's initial open-sourcing (if somebody knows otherwise please link). It was mentioned the next day on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009
I like this article as well.

But I think while it legitimately criticizes parts of the Hacker News and Silicon Valley culture of missing humanism and ethics (it quoted "they’re people who are convinced that they are too special for rules, [...] Society [...] is a logic puzzle where you just have to find the right set of loopholes to win the game. [...] Silicon Valley has an ethics problem, and ‘Hacker’ ‘News’ is where it’s easiest to see."), it also ignored the fact that Hacker News is not only a Silicon Valley backyard (although often is, but the matter of fact is:), it does attack unethical practices in technology as well, sometimes contrarian.

For example, just now, I saw a submission called "Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism", one comment says,

* There are almost no ethical uses for facial recognition. It is a technology for criminals.

* Is that racist? This algorithm seems to be specifically built to detect non-ethnic Chinese faces to further discrimination.

Also, yesterday's submission of "Can ads on a page read my password?", the top comment harshly criticized targeted ads:

* I really wish awareness of this reached a wider audience, third party advertising is a terrible blight on the web that has been allowed to grow and fester - it supplies no value and compromises both browser security and our peace of mind - being bombarded by these things constantly is training most of us to ignore a lot more and focus on short focused bursts of information...

If the article can add just a single example, it could make the story be more balanced, without affecting the overall theme and tone of the article.
They all probably had all of this already, via informal (jailbreak) means. Perhaps except the debugger... does anyone know what would add?
Take That, AP Style! Court of Law Rules the Oxford Comma Necessary
Interactive Explanation of Hysteresis (2018)
Good to know - this was before '13

The silly thing was our house had a license, plus the TV in question was only ever used for a games console so never received TV signals
Uber and lyft are trash. I'll pay more for a private ride to the airport that is on time. You can't even effectively use uber outside of major cities, and even then I've had trouble.
Startups, and specifically VC culture, do not have aligned incentives with fixing society; in the end, their aim is to make money, not improve society.
I'm not sure that actual ride-sharing like that can out-compete public transit, from the point of the view of the customer.
That reference cites the Hobby Lobby case where they got to opt out of providing insurance for contraception and a Facebook video of an expert explaining how the current corporate system produces sociopathic entities (corporations). I don't believe either fundamentally debunks the idea that the agents of corporations are required to attempt to increase the value of a share.

I agree that there's still a lot of lee-way in that, like giving an employee a bonus might hurt shareholders directly in the short-term but you can claim it increases productivity and so is a good decision. You still have to justify all decisions in terms of value to the shareholders though. If you (as CEO) decide to just stop all work and spend every day at Disneyland until the coffers are empty you can be sure you'll lose that suit. And when every single decision has to be viewed through that lens, you aren't able to directly do real good for the world, just indirectly.
I wouldn't say it's really that ridiculous, not any more than different grocery chains carrying the same products. I think this is exactly what gig economy, and in general market capitalism, should be like -- pushing the price down through competition for the benefit of the consumer.
And yet... higher than taxis?
Ask HN: Can you see per comment karma?
I mostly lurk and only post a few times a month, so my karma tends to stay pretty stable. But every now and then I'll notice a tiny bump in karma, and find it really neat that someone found enough value in some long-buried comment to up it or engage with it.

But I can't find any easy mechanism to figure out which comment was associated with that karma change. The Firebase API only exposes points on stories, not comments. So I can't pull them from there to track over time. And while I can view a list of all of my comments/threads and their point values, there's no indicator of which ones have experienced recent changes.

Short of scraping my comments repeatedly to grab the point values, is there any other way to see which of my comments have had recent karma changes?
I don't buy phones that don't have a replacable battery or don't let me flash a custom OS. This is true for all my electronics tbh.

I had to upgrade my S2 after 5 years of service because it was getting too slow for the crap people call a navigation app nowadays. Now I'm on an S5 that has easily kept up so far.
Only €4ish to €12ish, then a few successful call options later. Made a months's salary or two from it, no big deal. But it made me not regret paying launch price for a Ryzen 1800X :)
> If GitHub achieves feature parity, GitLab is dead.

Maybe, assuming GH matches them at the same price points per feature and including self-hosting as a feature.
I disagree. You assume that all actors have everything that is required for them to make an assessment on their own, which mostly boils down to information and data, but also includes skill, available time, and even to a certain degree little things like the energy they have available to them to make such life decisions (which the poster you replied to included, I think).

That is what we have regulations for.

Do you know and understand what is in your shampoo bottle? What a car needs to come equipped with, not just in obvious safety features but also in its deeper and detailed implementation, to be safe for normal use ("normal use" itself being something you get taught in driving school)? How to build your own house, or even just how to recognize that a building you enter will not fall down onto your head?

I, for myself, am very glad that regulations allow me to just assume certain ground truths in avoiding negative impact, without having to be an expert in every little thing that touches my life.
>it's certainly going to cause many people to discount your opinion because they presume you have an racist agenda

I'm sorry, what?
I don't really disagree with what you're saying. My point is that Uber's market cap of nearly 75 billion dollars implies they will be taking a lot more of the world's overall transportation budget than, say, pool rides will account for.
There is no risk free and cost free way to hold large amounts of cash. You can deposit it at a bank, but the bank could go under. You could keep paper cash in a vault but you’d have to pay to guard and maintain the vault. There’s no actual way to just “hold cash”.
> Despite all the HN comments, Apple's made an absolute killing and charges FAR FAR higher margins for their products in part because they design them so normal people don't get totally f'd over.

Explains the butterfly keyboards: Can't get fucked over if you can't type anything to fuck yourself over!
Reddit is prior art
Under the America Invents Act there are 3 ways to challenge patent validity. By partes review (2nd option), with prior art, you must show it's either not inventive, or not novel (violating sections 102 or 103 of 35 U.S.C.)
I did some more digging. It seems like the Linux NUMA topology shown in the anandtech article is a deliberate lie. There are different latencies between cores and memory comtrollers on the same socket, but these are deemed to be insignificant enough to not expose them in the reported NUMA topology.
I mean, haven't they kinda saturated the market?
That may be somewhat true, but I know a lot of retirees in Portland that could easily relocate. Also I'm not positive in the case of Oregon how much the income tax really applies to retirees.
>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There's plenty of climate change reporting about the web. I just don't care to see HN lists articles that are ultra hot topics. You just get the same comments over and over again.
Anyone who thinks it's worth noting that tail can open files as root after running `sudo chmod +s tail` has no business writing such a document.
I'm sorry but I disagree. Alluding to "maybe not knowing" whether someone wants to do something which has, plenty of times been demonstrated in economical and psychological terms to be detrimental is not a strong argument. It's just tossing a very sheer cover of "we don't know that" and ending there.
Show HN: Gallery of toy problems I did this year
this happens to people that store their cryptocurrency on services with sms-based 2fa.

any service that uses sms-based 2fa without any other option like client side generated one time passcodes (otp) should be sued for negligence at this point. the otp should be the default choice.

people are currently masquerading incompetence as an indictment to cryptocurrencies as a concept. this is allowing negligent, incompetent businesses to get a free pass, because the people that should be in charge of protecting consumers are thinking the cryptocurrency itself is insecure or "got hacked" which so far isn't what is happening.

(with regard to storing cryptocurrency on someone else's server, yeah those users are being negligent too.)
Even if you had enough RAM, storing the frame at the encoder just to calculate its length would force a frame of latency at the encoder.

The way it is, the decoder has more flexibility in implementation.
They did not implement a browser engine, akin to a Linux kernel, sure, but to be fair some Linux distros just add pre-installed tools or removal thereof.
There are some hospital EHRs that integrate too, so you can book your patients a ride to/from. If they get there late or don’t arrive, it’s a big cost.
I'm a big personal responsibility advocate myself, but I'm also someone who was stumped today trying to pick the best deal on kitchen paper in the supermarket.

A market only works efficient when there is information parity, but a small-time Uber driver can't put a data science team on the job to make sure Uber isn't abusing their information advantage, so in this case i'd only find it fair to require them to do those calculations in a transparent manner.
I only like uber/lyft for one very important reason. Drinking.
I truly believe its saved a ton of lives thanks to its ease of use. I'm in college right now, and I couldn't even imagine trying to get home without lyft or uber in many circumstances. Its made it so convenient to get a ride at any time, anywhere, that nobody even thinks about driving home anymore. Public transport simply isnt an option at 2am where I live, and the area is not very dense either.
Seems to me that "myths lists" are most useful for, ya know, actual "myths"[1]. If somebody is likely to google for X, they'll find your page, and read your refutation. As a matter of SEO, the closer you get to repeating the commonly-repeated story, the more likely they'll get to your page.

If the myth isn't something common enough to be googled for, then you're just confusing people. Just state the facts, in as concise and clear a fashion as you can.

I think people are drawn to the "myths" structure because it breaks up the page visually. It tells people, "Here is a small unit of information. You don't have to read the whole page to get a story". There are lots of other ways to indicate that: headers, lists, images. It's a correct intuition that a flat page full of paragraphs is intimidating, but there are other ways.

[1] in the sense of "myth" as "commonly-repeated falsehood". Most falsehoods aren't myths, and a better use of "myth" means a fiction that resonates deeply and universally. Fictions aren't mere falsehoods, either.
YES! Uber should be personally responsible for reimbursing all costs. I'm glad you get it.
Why couldn't you just deposit it with the state's central bank, which is what commercial banks do? Their cash balances are just numbers in an electronic ledger. There isn't some vault with physical cash inside and armed guards on the outside.
This. I bought a second hand phone off some guy who does phone repairs in my area. Didn't realize the fingerprint reader did not work until a few days later as I had never owned a phone that new that had one and did not know it was supposed to work. When I looked on the internet it seemed that the reason was the home button was swapped out but without taking the chip that ties it to the phone with it from the old button. Asked the seller and he admitted that the home button was swapped, poorly at that. I still can not use the home button to unlock even though the phone is not stolen and I own it. So I personally am not a big fan of apple locking parts down. I personally had an iphone 4s up until half a year ago. I still have it I just happened to get an iphone 6. But my iphone 4s I have put at least 4 screens on it, a new battery, a new set of speakers and a power button. I laugh at the amount of work I have done on it. It is my Theseus iPhone :)
Twitter and youtube like doing that.
Because hottest month on record isn't scientifically interesting? Yes, climate change is happening, no, we didn't forget. The article isn't even about any attempts to do something different to fix it.
Could you restate this? It's easy to disagree without simultaneously insulting the intelligence of another commenter.
Great question. I mean that. But maybe put differently:

> What is happening to personal responsibility?

It sure as heck is changing a lot when powerful players derive algorithmic insight that allows them to know/predict us better than we can ourselves and our communities, plus three things:

1. we can't keep up as individuals,
2. our governments (the last invention that helped us keep up,) can't keep up, and
3. we haven't evolved current institutions (including companies) to keep up on our behalf.

My money is on co-operatives -- democratic companies: [tech] worker co-ops and #platformcoop

We need things to push back, this time not on authority/power/money (old labour organizing days) so much as push back on capacity to know us and render us easily legible and influenced

Here's a place if you care to explore how tech folks are starting to play with this old-as-the-hills stuff that maybe hasn't been urgent enough up until now: https://community.coops.tech
It used to be easy to get a Lyft/Uber for $30 from SF to SFO (10 miles). A cab would never be less than $50 (both including tip).

I took a Lyft a month ago during peak times and it was $40, so it's still significantly cheaper for me.
I've been to campsites where the showers are free, but the hot water requires coins. You really want to get your money's worth, but the fear of being lathered up and it going straight cold motivates you to be quick.
Sorry, that should read "might not be helped".
You can bodge your own solution if you use your own build agent.

For hosted build agents, this is about to change, as a new caching task is in preview. I've tried it, and it's unstable at the moment, so I'd recommend just waiting until it's out of preview.
Another gift from the State to a big corporation. Since basically only big corps get advantages from patents I think it's time to abolish it
You can create a separate repo with your own CI config that pulls in the code you want to test; and thus ignore the code's CI config file. When something breaks, you'd then need to determine in which repo something changed: in the CI config repo, or the code repo. And then, you have CI events attached to PRs in the CI config repository.

IMHO it makes sense to have CI config version controlled in the same repo as the code. Unless there's a good tool for bisecting across multiple repos and subrepos?
And around here, they’ll just take you to the station for a more advanced breathalyzer test (Canada). Even though the police can compel a blood sample through a hospital, they don’t bother because the law doesn’t require it for a conviction.
You can give someone permission to run only certain commands with sudo, but that can be dangerous in non-obvious ways.

As a slightly contrived example, imagine you allow someone to use "apt-get update" with sudo, reasoning that it only changes a local index and doesn't alter the system. You don't allow them to use sudo for anything else.

If they run "sudo apt-get update -o APT::Update::Pre-Invoke::=/bin/sh" they get a shell that lets them execute any command as root, not just the command you gave them permission for.
I don't have anything insightful or critical to add, but I did want to say how much I enjoyed the article.
Something Awful was "hellbanning" people ages ago.

Some discussion here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/

Links to Metafilter discussion here: https://ask.metafilter.com/117775/What-was-the-first-website...

> On the Citadel BBSes I frequented in the late '80s, it was referred to as the "twit bit", and the disliked user would sometimes be said to have been "twitted".
I assume the period after switch boards was much the same... but an even harder problem to solve.

I'm talking about engineers accessing it anyway.

I really don't have a problem with that and I'm pretty hardcore into privacy. I assume all Skype calls are 100% tapped, auto-translated, and data-mined available for any agency who wants it.