skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an example: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/update-on-potential-ant...

Would Facebook take seriously an anti-liberal bias accusation? I don't think so. There's actually incentive for Facebook and other companies to "do something" about accusation of liberal bias, but very little to no incentive to take (currently non-existent) accusations of conservative-bias seriously.
Can you expand on this? Super interested :).
I don't know, but have a 'the' above.
This sounds so similar to the engineering of the notifications UI they have done over the past few years. When they say they’ve “given users more control”, yes, they’ve added toggles to that screen, but they’ve engineered the whole thing to take control away and force people into an all or nothing decision where Facebook has the ability to serve you a notification when they feel like you should be engaging.
nice work! if you press the Pi key twice it appends the numbers together
Correct. 6th form (lower sixth and upper sixth) is the two academic years prior to going to uni in the UK. 16-18 year olds.
I own a small electric water distiller for such circumstances, although drinking pure water is not supposed to be good, either (needs some minerals or it will leach them out of your system I was told, could be false).
> Yeah, now we know why his companion is a parrot.

To what end would you write something like that?

Also, as far as I know he likes staying with people who have a parrot, but asks people explicitly not to give him a parrot because he's often travelling and couldn't properly care for it. I doubt he has a parrot.
I'd say one aspect of having good social skills is getting along with people you have nothing in common with, but the bulk of what it means to have good social skills is still just having good social skills. Being able to communicate, being able to listen, being able to put your thoughts into words that convey your meaning to other people with minimal misunderstanding while remaining concise. Being socially self-aware and having some minimal ability to read the people that you're interacting with, regardless of whether or not those people like the same TV shows or video games or whatever.

Personally, I think it's easier to get along with people I have a lot in common with, but that's the extent of it. It's a teensy bit easier because at least we have things to make small talk about. Us having stuff in common doesn't have anything to do with how we approach problems or how rational we are or how we work together in a group though. It doesn't have anything to do with our respective social and emotional hangups, which are bound to be different despite us having the same tastes in some form of entertainment. It doesn't have anything to do with how well I can articulate the problem I'm having to that other person, or how well that person can draw meaning from what I told them, come up with a solution, communicate it back to me, and then iterate with me on that solution during a conversation.

I think that for a lot of people in the tech world, especially those still in their teens and 20s, the biggest social impediment that they perceive in themselves is that they have no idea how to interact with someone who's not like them. They think that if they can somehow overcome that, that they'll be golden, because they assume that they do great with the people who are like them. But that's rarely the case IME. It's just less obvious to them that they do just as poorly dealing with their own peer group, because things get papered over with fun small talk that they misinterpret as succeeding at socializing and communicating.
Oh no, it had been considered.

I will die on this hill. If you oppose expanding healthcare because you feel that then too many people will have healthcare and that will cause problems for you, you're a terrible person. "What about the smaller number of people who have a great situation" is never a counterpoint to "what about the much greater number of people who have a terrible situation"
Well, fair point, but - compilers shouldn't be that lazy :-)
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Wasn't Neo and Trinity the aberration though? Wasn't love the thing that the architect had never seen before?
This is a great resource, and there are some neat inclusions like Falcon, but I find the main trouble when building python web apps is deployment. I always feel like I've duct-taped my carefully written app to the web-server.
People say google is a filter bubble, but I've forced myself for years to use DDG on most of my machines and it's not a filter bubble. DDG is just terrible at finding useful results even for basic things. Especially searching for programming related things it seems to prefer sites or posts that are a few years old. 95% of my searches retreat to using !g pretty quick. I don't know why I keep adding the extra step. It's like I'm pitching a penny of idealism into a bottomless well hoping it'll turns into a geyser.
Well, it depends what you're doing with it.
When we upgrade the house to use a heat pump, we left the old heating system for just that reason.
This is off topic for HN. Please don't post things like possible movie announcements here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In this case, it isn't the wage of each employee that matters. Companies like Amazon and Google and especially Facebook have become so digitally automated that they pay much lower wages per dollar of income than any competitor can hope to do.

While this depresses jobs more than it does wages, it makes it equally as hard for a competitor to compete on the cost of labor as suppressing wages would do. Either way, the net effect is to suppress competition.

A greater problem comes when a market dominator extends their power into other market niches controlled only by cost, like generics and foodstuffs, as Amazon especially is doing.

One solution is to disable entry of a monopolist into these downstream markets, as Warren is proposing. But a more lasting redress must somehow diminish the company's position of monopoly.
Don't let consts get "trivially" casted away in code review. If something is no longer const than remove the keyword, or find another way to solve your problem
Sorry, but that's backwards.

Netscape was selling their browser before Microsoft got smacked down by the DOJ.

In fact, Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows was some of the strongest evidence showing that they were abusing their market position. By bundling a free alternative they basically destroyed the market of for-pay web browsers, and killed off Netscape while they were at it.
It’s not insane at all. Note that’s AGI - adjusted gross income.

If we stopped auditing those with AGIs less than $25,000, then all I’d have to do is take enough deductions (retirement contributions, unreimbursed business expenses, medical expenses, loss from property sales, tuition, etc) to get my AGI below $25,000 and I’d never have to worry about being audited.

Ever.

One way to significantly reduce your taxes is to lower your AGI. So if anything, the lower AGIs would be a good place to start looking for tax cheats.
This appears to be a move to meet package managers halfway. Yes, tools like npm and go have great integration with git repositories, but others like NuGet still require a hosting source. Long-term, you could imagine package managers forgoing their own hosting services in favor of letting GitHub be the primary host who takes on the issues of bandwidth, availability, access controls, etc. It's another vector for GitHub to compete in FOSS.
But insurance companies will demand a cure, as they will not pay for a subscription of painkillers.
Gifts between individuals under $15K/yr have no tax consequences.
The product is the media content. Our society and legal framework says you don't own that content. You might own your device, but you don't own that bit of data stored on it. Said data owner requires you to consume the data in certain ways. How do you reconcile the two conflicting requirements? One way is to invent crazy DRM schemes.

Of course, I'd argue most DRM pushes normal people to piracy because the restrictions usually suck. Had they just distributed the content in a more unrestricted way, they'd do more business. But that is a business problem, not a technical one.
Wow... reads like a core dump
Time is a barrier to entry.

You don't think Torvalds could have gotten paid for programming in the time he spent writing Linux?

What is the sum of all the time invested into Linux * the average hourly rate?
If it is a recording -- electric samples from one or a few microphones -- it is Low Quality.

But it's usually good enough. Ultimately, your brain has to reconstruct something from what your ears give it. If the experience is close enough to what it would have been if you were there, then you are getting some value. The experience might even be better, if you would have been distracted, there, but now can give it your full attention. But it is never "the same".

It's just a question of whether the replication could have been better than it is, given reasonable care. It always could have been, and you might have paid enough to get that, but nobody is selling. People who claim to be selling it are peddling snake-oil: vinyl this, tube-amp that, FLAC t'other, none are the real thing.

Don't get me started about speaker wire.
> The point of having two keys is that there is no need for neither an authenticator app nor SMS

I think they are striking a reasonable compromise. I am OK with using U2F and having TOTP authenticator as a backup plan.

I am definitely NOT OK with requiring SMS for authentication, though, which is unfortunately the direction all the corporate sheep seem to be taking (namely, banks).
BOM there it is (A short encoding debugging story)
I’m pretty sure Jai has (or at least did when I last looked) a type modifier keyword that changes the layout (the code working with it doesn’t change)
I wonder if Microsoft influenced the naming, they often use generic terms for product names.

* Microsoft Office

* Microsoft SQL Server

* MVC Framework
For cancer, you can do a biopsy and know for sure. The equivalent would seem to be presence of the bacterial infection in the body.
Number of citations in academia == lines of code as a metrics for a software developer?
Don't use that content if you don't like the restrictions it imposes on you.

DRM sucks, but you don't have to use it.
Why ever would they do that?

The purpose of RHEL is not to build CentOS. It's to sell RHEL. Red Hat helps with CentOS because CentOS drives business to RHEL. That doesn't mean that Red Hat benefits by diluting their branding. Red Hat didn't become the biggest name in enterprise Linux by not putting their name on the product they're selling.
How many people do you know that can spin up an $76 billion dollar business from scratch? Damned few. His board let him make mistakes while providing little or no guidance.

I see Uber's problems more as a failure of the board to govern than solely the fault of the founder.
People advocate for DDG not because it's better search but because it's better for you. In the similar way that people advocate using free and open source software and not proprietary.
Thank you for replying instead of simply downvoting.

That isn't true. If the assertion is that if Apple has to pay $10B/year more in taxes, than they will raise the price of their products $10B/year and keep a fixed profit, that assumes there is complete price elasticity.

In reality, they might raise the price of their products some, but that is fine -- the people who use the products and benefit from the government's expenditures to promote Apple's business interests are exactly who should be paying for them.

I don't buy Apple products, so I shouldn't be subsidizing their products via taxes.

As for calling it a regressive tax, the costs of production of the product should be built into the product price. If it is abnormally low because Apple isn't paying their share of taxes, that is a market distortion. It is regressive if you only stop at first order thinking. Apple's prices would go up, which hurts some consumers, but they would also be paying significantly more in taxes, which helps consumers.

Let's pick another example. Would it be OK with you if the government decided to donate $5B/year of crude oil to Exxon? Hey, it would make Exxon's bottom line look great. I don't think anyone (except Exxon) thinks that would be right, yet that is exactly what is being done in kind: Exxon not paying much/anything in taxes, and $B spent every year globally to keep the supply of oil flowing. (As for $5B, I just picked a number out the air).
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Apologies for the slow response, was trying to find a source, but haven’t found one.

My comment was based on personal experience of going through secondary inspection with border agents in various countries. All of the FVEY countries share a frightening amount of information with each other’s border agents. I’m not specifically claiming they have medical records, but literally anything that is in a government database (I’m not being hyperbolic there, just prefer not to be specific as to what I’ve been shown on their screen that I felt they had no right to know) is accessible to them if the agent wants and knows how.
I think that's more reflective of Intel cornering at least 85% of virtually every market (except, notoriously, mobile) than of some special suitability for HPC.
People who are rewarded are the people most cited, even if they are citing themselves.

Think that’s producing the best scientific results?
It has worked in other countries.

Essentially you take the "last mile" (from home/business to exchange) and either turn it into a full public utility or turn it into a private utility that needs to treat all service providers equally. You ban the private utility from also running an ISP on their own network.

You'd still get service from an ISP (inc. Comcast), they would run the exchange side of things, rent space on the last mile utility (fee used for maintaining/upgrading it), and their competition would do the same.

Competition would substantially increase, prices would fall, and we'd stop laying redundant cabling just due to "ownership."
I recently rented a theater and licensed a copy of The Matrix to throw a 20th anniversary party, invited enough people to fill the theater and enjoyed it again as it was intended to be seen, on the big screen. Still holds up spectacularly, still worthy of the sci-fi classic label, and I'm glad to say some in my audience had indeed never seen it before!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752035
NASA Enterprise Applications Competency Center (yes, that's a thing), Marshall Space Flight Center Bldg. 4601.

Offices for the important people, high cubicles for semi-important people, shorter cubicles for the peons. White noise generators to reduce the excess conversation interruptions. (It didn't help me, my cube was outside one of the few large, unallocated meeting rooms, which got used by everyone at MSFC. I got to listen to the meetings until I started working from home.) Oh, and the AC goes off at 3:00p.m. to save money. By 5:00, everyone still working is rather sweaty.
It goes on clothing, not skin. I'm not pestered by it.
I explicitly applaud the use of the word “stalking” because that’s exactly what this predatory company is doing.
Good points... I had free-floating sargassum in mind,which is washing up in volume on beaches around the world, rather than kelp or something that has to be ripped up off the seabed.

Sargassum is in a state of hyper-growth around the world. something has created optimal conditions for it. I suspect that whatever was taken from the ocean would quickly be replaced. Is there a calculable upper limit to the amount of sargassum that could be produced by the ocean if it were aggressively being removed?

Not saying this idea is practical, but the goal was to be more practical than covering half the Sahara with algae growing ponds.
And that's correct too, how much debt you have doesn't nearly matter as much as the perception that it will be paid eventually. And sovereign countries (Might only be a few on this planet) have almost unlimited choices there. The only kind of debt that matter is the debt denominated in another currency, which is dangerous.
Tell that to Al Capone.
Two economists are walking down the street. One sees a $20 bill and starts to bend over to pick it up. The other economist says "Don't bother - if it were really worth $20, someone else would have picked it up."

There's countless numbers of scientists that made great strides working on topics others deemed rediculous. Heck, many of the Nobel prize winners were ridiculed by their colleagues as borderline wack-jobs at the time they were working on their research. Even after winning the prize, some still were with their later work (Crick's search for consciousness comes to mind, and why it would be so worthless a search does not).

If anything, the hubris of the scientific community would be as deafening as the pseudo-science BS and hold back progress just as much if not more except for one key thing: the scientific method.

Luckily, we have a process by which crackpots get differentiated from geniuses. So let's not leave $20 on the ground assuming others would have picked it up, especially when that $20 represents collective progress for the entire species.
Of course you're allowed to choose your preferences and priorities, how you make decisions.

There are also of course very nice garages, attached to nice houses - and very talented people who can maximize the resources available to them at any moment because they have a very clear plan to understand the strategy, path they must take. Keeping costs low by reducing real estate costs is in part why fully decentralized companies exist and work so well - they can scale very efficiently, however I believe that fully decentralized in the long-term won't work due to limited fluidity; spatial organization is important if not critical in certain respects.
FTA: "Another thing I might consider is to keep the data stored at AoS, but generate temporary SoA data for processing by some algorithm."
Where have you deployed? I'm looking to switch for my Django website. I'd like something full-serve like Heroku, but Heroku doesn't work well with sqlite.
There's all these linked stories of people suffering for years not knowing definitively what they have, a 5k test to diagnose for sure seems like a bargain. I don't understand why the CDC says chronic lyme doesn't exist and suffers claim they think it does but they don't know for sure. Why not settle it with a real test?
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> Under a sufficiently low population density, genes among splintered groups will diverge.

Yes, and this occurs.

> Groups with genes that promote expansion and/or adaptation will eventually out-compete groups that don't.

For some definition of "eventually". Selection over genes competes to determine outcomes with "selection" over culture and with chance.

> Isn't the extinction of other human species an example of this?

Yes. And that's a disputed hypothesis.

Granting that hypothesis, how many such gene-selection events occur per ten thousand years? Not many.

How much of observed gene distribution is best explained by selection pressure from these rare events rather than by individual selection operating continuously? Very little if any.
i use git. i do write down what i want to achieve in terms of program specification. and it kinda works https://gitlab.com/dzmitry-lahoda-ideas/additive-addictive
I can't stop thinking about that Lyre bird. I was wondering if it could be trained to establish a modem connection and transfer a file. What would its baud rate be?
Fedora 30 on this Talos II. Works well.
That's literally what FSF is doing - desperately pulling one edge of the window to prevent it from sliding into madness.
Red Hat supports arm64 and recently joined the Risc-V foundation.
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The USB-A version is great. I've been using it for more than a year now and it has taken all kinds of abuse.

I'm considering keeping it and using a small USB-C -> USB-A dongle. I have to live a dongle life anyway (because of the stupid Apple decision to go all-in on USB-C, with users as hostages), so it doesn't matter that much.
Consider the proposal a starting point.

Managing conditions is clearly a useful outcome.

Avoiding conditions is even better.

Payment based on some quality outcome measure -- QALY, or quality-adjusted life-years is one such standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

The Chinese healthcare model -- you pay the doctor when you're well -- is an alternative approach. (The doctor is obliged to try to get you well again.)
Patagonia runs sales partially for the same reason anyone else does, which is to clear out inventory that didn’t sell at full price.

But unlike most other companies, Patagonia also plans ahead for some inventory to go at sale prices, in order to serve dirtbag outdoors lifers who would never pay full price... the same sort of people who started Patagonia a long time ago.

This was explained to me by a Patagonia sales rep about 20 years ago when I worked retail. I assume it’s still true because their end of season sales still seem to have prime inventory in them.
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Instagram is already testing hiding Like counts in several countries: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/world/instagram-hidden-li...
duxup thanks!

This makes sense to me. It was more about enticing the railroad to build the thing than anything in the long run. That makes perfect sense to me.
For reference, the blog article for the release of "Deep TabNine", the auto-completion engine based on GPT-2:
https://www.tabnine.com/blog/deep/.

And earlier this month they released a local version: https://www.tabnine.com/blog/local/.
I didn't pay attention myself, so thanks for mentioning about the comics - I didn't know.
A 1 minute web search shows this to be incorrect.

Sea mammals get most of their water from the food they eat (fish, etc.), and don’t drink seawater.
You can audit the firmware and build it yourself. I did it. Raptor even encourages it: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Compiling_Firmware

The biggest problem remaining is whatever blobs are in devices. That's being rapidly worked on.
This is not unique to Go, every language I work with can use dependencies in this way.
That's especially weird since serving Mercurial repositories in read only mode doesn't require any infrastructure apart from a static HTTP server.
Are any of these extremely good compared to a framework not written in Python? For example compared to Rails or Phoenix?
You can't cure what you don't know exists, but you can cure that admitting abdominal pain with painkillers and still get paid (with that model).

The point is that diagnostics are expensive, and if you're not going to be reimbursed to run them, you're going to take the risk to find the cause. What's left is curing the symptoms.
Were my claims insubstantial? Do you think I faked those videos, or didn't write the code I linked to?
In the world of cryptocurrencies, everything to the "less regulation" side of Coinbase actually did steal your money.
And if I'm not mistaken the amount over $15K counts solely to reduce your $11,400,000 lifetime exclusion, and only once you exceed that number do you actually have to pay taxes. [1]

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/gift-tax-rate/
Reminds me of a theater professor I know who was having trouble meeting the new rigorous rules for tenure.

Publish? What and where exactly?
No. You just need a dumb webserver, no extra code needed.
Are all their books really that good though? The Rust book is excellent (I ended up buying a paper edition) but a the few others I skimmed a few years ago were extremely average (some of them are included in the bundle).
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