skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was working in Pharma, the PhDs in the lab were some of the highest paid PhDs in the US. They certainly share in the profit.
Buckfast is also sold in Ireland and it always had a reputation for getting people messed up when drinking.

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine

1 bottle 750ml @ 15% alcohol + caffeine equivalent to 8 cans of coke, that will do it alright.

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good god just found this, why?
https://www.dailyedge.ie/buckfast-easter-egg-3300036-Mar2017...
How to diagnose your own Dutch Disease
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> You want to find a rare issue with bipartisan support? Try raising the price of food and seeing how people like it.

Food stamps are designed to raise the market clearing price of food as a subsidy to agriculture (they’ve since become a means-tested welfare program as well, while retaining the original purpose); they have fairly strong political support, which definitely shows a partisan divide.

The Dairy Price Support Program and other agricultural price support programs likely continue to exist despite having the sole purpose of raising the price of food; were raising the price of food the kind of third-rail you are trying to imply, there would be a bipartisan consensus against such programs that would make it impossible to retain them.
This is a good argument for nationalizing drug production and research.
Is a business accessing their lines via voip considered a landline?
this is peanuts. one eu country government decided it needed approval under gdpr from hospital patients before treatment/surgery/etc. this denied service to a bunch of (tech) illiterate people, bringing the budget back in line.

another one: due to gdpr, violent thugs hired by the police to hurt protesters cannot be named. it would apparently trample on their rights.

gdpr is, as forecasted, a complete mess. a mess that is exploited by corrupt eu governments to great effect.
I think that's exactly the problem -- small/medium companies can't really afford to hire someone to do GDPR compliance (or at least, do it well). It's textbook regulatory capture.
Every new home owner gets a "plat" that outlines the boundaries of their property, including GPS coordinates. Using a tool (like Google Maps) to overlay a coordinate with a ground feature isn't exactly absurd.
Well they won't have final NSA approved version of Fuchisia with them so can't tell really.
Thanks for posting this. I had not seen it before.
It takes considerably less labor to farm vegetables than to farm vegetables and feed those vegetables to animals and also take care of those animals. So vegetable prices may go up, but considerably less so when compared to meat.
In the time it takes you to note down those extra digits, you could have improved your actual measurement by the same minuscule fraction of a bit ten times over.
You could try matomo / piwik, if you want to host your datas (including GDPR functionalities)
A Mindful Approach to Technology
A lot of young Estonians went west to make money to send home, and that money counts towards GDP in France/England et cetera, not Estonia, even though it then was sent home.

Meanwhile, they were not home to add to the public health statistics, while those who couldn't do that stayed behind, including those who fell into opiate addiction.

So the stats make the Estonian situation look more miserable than it was. (Which is plenty miserable, mind.)
Has anyone else noticed that the nytimes headlines are very click-baity?
Haskell tends to be terse because a number of features and very general built in functions. The author is also good at Haskell and lacks a lot of ugly optimizations making it look even cleaner.
If Luis is putting in fake batteries and calling them real he is a scammer to. That's the topic here.

As to this claim that these examples are apple screwing over their customers - perhaps the frontline folks at a store can fix a certain set of issues, and if the machine looks dead (ie, no screen) they advise customer of potential cost and send it to a group better able to fix things?

I'm not that impressed with support I've gotten at other places selling laptops (walmart / target) but maybe apple really is the worst here.
A journalist discovered and reunited identical twins
Interesting opening lines in the "Summary" section:

> QUESTION: How do theories which are generally considered interesting differ from theories which are generally considered non-interesting ? ANSWER: Interesting theories are those which deny certain assumptions of their audience, while non-interesting theories are those which affirm certain assumptions of their audience.

I like how this paper can be applied to itself in a self-referential manner to explain how interesting this paper is to a reader! :-)
...and now we've touched on a fundamental philosophical question: is freedom of speech a natural right or a legal right?

There's also potentially an assumption here that free speech is overall reduced through restrictions on it. As a thought experiment: suppose that, within a society of _n_ people, some small _k_ of them are "louditarians": they believe that part of the right to free speech is the inalienable right to speak as "loudly" as possible (for whatever value of "loud" matters over various media) so that no one else can effectively speak. This raises a few difficult questions:

1) To what degree the free speech rights of louditarians and non-louditarians mutually exclusive?
2) If you were a non-louditarian in this society, what would you do?
3) If you had control over this society, would you let the louditarians speak? Would you limit their speaking rights?

My general position here:

1) Almost entirely: when louditarians speak, they prevent the effective exercise of free speech rights by non-louditarians; non-louditarians can only meaningfully have free speech if louditarians are carefully managed.
2) As a non-louditarian, I'd advocate for limits on louditarianism (as best I'm able; this may first require the creation of non-louditarian-only spaces where I can be heard). In the absence of those limits, I'd probably feel like I was being effectively silenced by louditarians.
3) This is the difficult one, and I lean towards "yes - reluctantly, warily, and with limitations". Some examples: maybe louditarians can only speak at certain times (see: nighttime "disturbing the peace"). Maybe the practice of louditarianism is banned from certain spaces, like offices and legislative chambers (see: contempt of court, noise bylaws). My reasoning is utilitarian: I'd rather _n - k_ non-louditarians be able to speak, even if that means curtailing the rights of _k_ louditarians.

In other words: I strongly believe that, by imposing limitations on louditarians, I'm increasing the overall freedom of speech in this hypothetical society. (Not to mention the quality of life, mental health, and vitality of public discourse.)

My secondary reasoning is that louditarians seem to think that speech is a right without responsibilities - in effect, they believe that their right to free speech is more important than that of non-louditarians. IMHO, this violates the social contract of functioning modern societies, and for what? So an obnoxious fringe group can be really, really loud?
That’s not quite true, I remember going through SICP easily before I learned post-high school math (which included relearning some basic algebra) when I went on my own self guided CS course. The lectures on YouTube are particularly accessible to newbies too with basic math and programming knowledge.
Moving with pets across international borders is pretty much always guaranteed to be a pain. Between the permits, quarantines, etc., it's a nightmare.
I've eliminated entire line items of expenses thanks to software, buying quality and public transit that I feel like improved my life enormously but reduced my consumption a great deal. Less physical goods and effort: better for me.
For one thing, all content on HN is English, which is well-known to people in NA and Europe.

Japan is famous for its indigenous forums; Japanese people seem to sneak some English words into every anime theme song, but they do awful on the TOEFL.

When you look at South America and Africa I think that educated people are often good at English but even though there are a lot of people in those zones, the size of the "startup sector" or even the "modern sector" is small compared to NA/Europe. (e.g. look at GDP as a proxy)
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Empathy and Inclusion in People Operations
Labs are even bigger, do they bother you?
> which persuasively argues (with multiple sources) that the US meat industry depends upon massive labor exploitation of undocumented immigrants in order to 1) suppress wages and 2) maintain an otherwise intolerable working environment.

That's well-known about the meat industry. The problem with suggesting it as a reason to avoid meat in favor of vegetable-based food is the same is well-known to be true of agriculture generally.
I probably wouldn’t take the time to build a personal website at all, but if I did, the website is just a means to facilitate communication of whatever core message I want to convey. Personally I think a strong engineer is resourceful. I’m not saying this Git repo should be cloned by everyone or anyone, but in solving real world problems, I don’t expect my team to reinvent logging, dependency injection, or basically any other undifferentiated piece of work unless we have a strong business or technical reason to justify why it wouldn’t be undifferentiated. To me, the website is similar maybe unless I’m trying to show my web and visual design skills.
No? Then why do they appear to? Sure, a professional should "know better", but will a lay person who has the official GPS coordinates of their property lines (obtained at the time of sale)?

That's why people get concerned about this; that's why posts like this are important.
As with climate change, there are a handful of bad actors and contrarians claiming that the science is tainted. But for the better part of a century, we've known that saturated fats are linked to heart and cardiovascular disease. It's frustrating that this misinformation is so readily spread, as it literally causes people's early death—including one of the early vocal adherents to it, John Atkins, who suffered several heart attacks and congestive heart failure before having a stroke that ultimately lead to his death.
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It's more like if you keep choosing to go to stores where the shopkeepers all use the same system of tracking while you're in their stores. Every time you enter a store they hand you a tracking device and you turn it on and run it.

Just don't turn it on. Turn off javascript by default. Don't go to those stores. Take personal responsibility. But especially don't call in a cop who's going to brandish a gun and threaten the store owner's with violence unless they stop handing you the device to turn on.

All these new technologies (facial recognition, automated photo editing, etc) are good things when they become widely available to everyone instead of just being the domain of instituations, corporations, and governments. All legal decisions like this do is prevent the spread of abilities to individuals and make the growing power imbalance worse.
You can access health and CO₂ informations on almost all foods here: https://app.eaternity.ch/login
Unfortunately, a lot of work there is done by the Haskell community having utterly absurd standards for those things. I work in a different functional programming language, and you would not believe the amount of time I spend convincing new hires with Haskell backgrounds to spend the extra few characters to expand out the unreadable point-free/single-character-names style that Haskell folks prefer.
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Ask HN: Any tech recruiter willing to review my code challenge?
I've completed a code challenge for a company. I was a small project that you could develop in two weeks. After I submitted my results, two days later I got an email from their recruiter saying that my project did not meet all their requirements and they wouldn't nice forward with my application. I thanked them and ask them to elaborate where I feel through, they didn't answer. Anyway, its a Python / Django project. I was thinking if anyone care to look and give pointers about the project.
Spot on.

I had to google the meaning of 'anodyne' but i knew it was going to mean something along the lines of 'stale', 'bland', 'generic', 'not to offend'
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Hey everyone, founder of Buzz Robotics here.

I'm a guy and getting a haircut is a pain. It takes too much time (appointment + waiting time + sitting time). It involves traveling to the one barber that knows our style. And it is expensive (~$65, on average, in SF).

We envision a future where you sit down in a kiosk, swipe your card, and a robot performs a fast, clean, consistent, and most importantly, _SAFE_ haircut on you. All for half the usual cost. And your cut is saved in the cloud for use at any Buzz Robotics kiosk in the world.

For the engineers in the crowd, that's a 6 degree of freedom robotic arm with a Wahl trimmer fitted at the end. The arm is provided by Haddington Dynamics (http://hdrobotic.com/). SDK is plain old JavaScript. The point cloud is supplied by a Pico Flexx camera using their C++ SDK.

If the business case interests you, here's a pitch I gave at last week's OnDeck fellowship demo day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td7L3qREzqA&feature=youtu.be

Lastly, if this sounds interesting to you, reach out (arithmetic@gmail.com). Happy to grab coffee too if you're in the bay area.
Anything that highlights other instances of what you highlight yourself.

My pick is Kate on KDE. But I've been using vscode as well so I'm not tied to OSs that can run Kate.
For a fair comparison, make sure that Play Services is also running on Fuchsia.
tbf, I (as a person with some very basic haskell understanding) can more or less read the parent's code, but can't make heads or tails out of yours.

"Convoluted and redundant" is in the eye of the beholder I guess
> Even if someone were willing to send us "strong" ID

Amusing that legislation intended to improve privacy is normalising sending IDs to sites one doesn’t trust enough to keep one’s personal data.
can you prove that?

(sorry, not talking about religion or life-after-death, just about how you go about proving something that can only happen outside your experience, and you have to rely on secondary evidence to deduce it)
For #3 you can go to their profile and block them if they're really worth it. I think you only get like 100 blocks and then you just have to suffer through the motivational inspiration-porn quotes :)
Tell that to every grocery store.
That doesn't necessarily make the algorithm unstable. See for example:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> x0 = np.random.rand(1)
>>> x_rnd = np.round(100*x)/100.0
>>> for i in range(1000):
... x = np.mod(x+np.pi,1)
... x_rnd = np.mod(x_rnd + np.pi,1)
... x_rnd = np.round(100*x)/100
...
>>> x_real = np.mod(x0+1000*np.pi,1)
>>> print(x_real,x,x_rnd)
(array([0.51013166]), array([0.51013166]), array([0.51]))

Note no loss of accuracy for all of the intermediate roundings. The accuracy is preserved because there's no mechanism here to amplify the error.

That's why I ask about the kind of algorithms typically applied to geolocated data. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything that would be both useful and error-amplifying.
How does that work if everything is encrypted? You can smuggle the information alongside legitimate requests
i'll sound like a luddite here, but i hope this never really gets to the point of replacing barbers and especially barber shops.

barber shops are pretty unique places in that people are really chatty, and it doesn't really matter if you're e.g. a banker or fast food worker, you're still a part of the little community. it's cool to connect with people from all statuses and people tend to be really open, loose, good energy, plus you see the same characters all the time, so it's a mini community.

yeah, it's pretty expensive but i personally enjoy that routine/non automated part of my life.
I think mentioning any kind of tech ... now you've got a keyword there.

Software Engineer is going to be a keyword too.
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Then the coordinates presented should match that approximation. Anyone who has worked with plans knows that the number of significant digits presented on the plans has a meaning; it represents the margin of error.

Online maps aren't respecting this, they're giving decimeter precision values on maps that are lucky if they're accurate to within meters, if not tens of meters. That's the problem.
Optimizing your talking points (2018)
I'm a big fan of Adorno's work. I think American/Anglo readers struggle with it for two reasons:

1. It's largely consumed in translation. Normally, this isn't so problematic, but in addition to being incredibly philosophically dense, Adorno's work is rhetorically and compositionally complex, rife with structures that are rather difficult to translate, punning, particular sentence arrangements, etc.

2. It's unashamedly steeped in tradition and assumes a lot of knowledge of the history of Western thought. Adorno's texts are rich with allusions that require knowledge of philosophical and literary history, which can really confound those engaged in a superficial or cursory reading--it's easy to miss his point if you're not on your toes.

If you're curious, I recommend David Held's Introduction to Critical Theory which does a great job of framing the work of the Frankfurt school. This article also does quite a nice job of summarizing his work.

I also think Adorno's critique of Existentialism and Heideggerean philosophy (mentioned in the article), (also contained in Negative Dialectics) actually serves as a great precis of key components of his thought.
Can anyone compare / contrast Bucky with FourLoko from the US? This was also an energy drink that was forced to reformulate and pay some fines for being too crazy.

I recall people hoarding “original formula” watermelon fourloko when it started disappearing from shelves.

Edit: a decent overview of the “banned” four loko vs reformulates version: https://youtu.be/XUPXFzag258
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good point, thank you.
Who are “we”?
You can choose to turn off this feature in settings: https://photos.google.com/settings

Screenshot of the relevant settings: https://i.imgur.com/Xg4wkPV.png

According to their relevant help page about it (https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128838?co=GENIE.Pl...), turning the setting off also deletes:

- Face groups in your account

- Face models used to create those face groups

- Face labels you created
Like I said, if they're actively selling a device in a certain place, they should be on the hook for it if the device hasn't been designed to cope with the environment of that place. Not sure what's gained by the second most profitable company in the entire world being able to offload that kind of risk onto consumers.
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Stanford did indeed make some changes that I feel did significantly impact the rigor of the courses. Most notably, CS106 (A, B and X) and 107 all introduced team assignments, but the assignments themselves largely did not change. So you have twice the workforce for each assignment. I feel like this also meant that when a pair consisted of two people of different levels of skill the quicker student finds and fixes most bugs, thereby depriving the weaker student from developing debugging skills. Without pair programming the latter would eventually develop those skills but it would take longer and require more assistance from section leaders.

I think it's a bit crude to say it's been "dumbed down" but it is not entirely untrue. Also I don't think this has anything to do with "SJWs", these changes were directly prompted by staffing shortages.
Your article supports my argument but your comment sounds like you disagree :-) which is it?
To actually reach our climate targets, even better would be a mandatory carbon budget, and trading of contingents. This would mean the price perfectly adjusts to were it should be.
Was the Death Star assault scene in the original Star Wars based on a true story
Perhaps you remember the final scene from the 1977 blockbuster "Star Wars: A New Hope", expertly crafted by director George Lucas and his film editor wife Marcia Lou Griffin. Three aircraft break off from the main group for an improvised attack run on the huge enemy vessel. A "one in a million shot" cause the enormous craft to self-destruct.

My claim is that the real-life inspiration for Luke Skywalker in this scene was a man named Lieutenant Richard Halsley Best who, with his two wingman, attacked and destroyed the huge Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi with a single well-placed bomb during the Battle of Midway. Americans should temper their pride in this incredible feat by looking up the origin of the word "snafu". One snafu was that all the other dive bombers in Best's group attacked the wrong carrier, another was that dozens of US torpedo attacks failed during the battle because of the infamous Mark 6 dud torpedoes.

As more evidence that the the Battle of Midway inspired Lucas, consider that the the whole plot of Star Wars revolves around the stolen plans for the Death Star, analogous to the intercepted Japanese battle plans in the case of Midway.
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Another example: I was looking up my property details yesterday, and wanted to get exact coords for my property line. Their web app lets you click on the map to get coords, but it only displays degrees/minutes/seconds (with no decimal point), so it wasn't much use.
Is "People Operations" the new "Human Resources" term?

Smells like forced corporate rebranding strategy - nothing changes underneath but you no longer have an instant negative reaction... For now, at least.

I'd suggest an honest renaming: "Internal Corporate Protectors" or something along those lines but more pithy.
I have deleted my LinkedIn because of constant spam, pointless contact requests, fake notifications and shady activities like that. Some people have probably taken advantage of the networking there but I found it mostly annoying so I got rid of it.
I don't think that what you describe is incompatible with GDPR.

In general GDPR allows and requires you to use 'all reasonable measures to verify the identity', and in your particular scenario requiring the same authentication that you usually use would be considered reasonable, and it's likely the only possible reasonable measure - if what you say is all you store, then it's impossible to distinguish between two different John Smiths making such requests, and https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-64/ recommends that you should not request more info just for the purpose of these requests.

In this scenario where the information was provided by the users themselves (if you had collected them otherwise from third parties, that'd be a very different issue) simply putting a link "download your data here" on your site for authenticated users would be a reasonable solution; and it matches https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-63/ recommendation "Where possible, the controller should be able to provide remote access to a secure system which would provide the data subject with direct access to his or her personal data."
The email used during registration is sufficient. If you don't have email then username+password.

If they don't have that they don't get access to data. They need to be able to prove who they are and reasonably that is the same information that is used during registration.

If password is lost then tough luck.