skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Junkies tend to be people with overwhelming problems who can't make their lives work. Throwing people in jail is usually not a means to make their lives suddenly start working.

I think you solve problems like widespread drug use by repairing the tattered social fabric that of this country which has taken such a toll on so many of the people who live here.
The physics professor who says online extremists act like curdled milk
TIL the engineering director for Chrome comes from the NSA and CIA. Surely he cares deeply about everyone's privacy now, though...

As for me, I'll use Firefox.
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It has not produced that result. Instead it shifts the power from "most populated" (which at lease resembles SOME democratic values) to "most swing", which is totally arbitrary.
The really scary part is that phytoplankton produce 50-85% of the oxygen on Earth.

Unfortunately, steadily declining populations of oceanic microorganisms don't pack the same kind of viral social media star power Brazilian forest fires do.
Well, I'm a C++ STL user, and I agree with me...

Could you be more specific about 1) in what sense you call C++ STL multiple dispatch, and 2) why you think it disagrees with what I said?
So I’m a few pages further and I fear I will not be finishing this paper. I am surprised it was published and is still referenced. Where are the citations? Where is the analysis? You can’t just say “fusion reactors need to be ten times bigger than fission reactors”. It’s frankly embarrassing to MIT that they would allow egregious, unfounded claims to be published. Peer review exists to shred such unsupported statements.
I don’t think Uber or Lyft could be considered small products that most of us haven’t used st one point.
Unlike many questions where we ponder Judea Pearl’s do-operator, there is nothing unethical about a trial randomizing people to dogs. (Assuming the people have been vetted.)
> There's a similar problem with some sellers posting items up with insanely large prices

One of the other reasons is bots outbidding each other and escalating prices.

> sort high to low prices, to find a possible "better product" that is priced higher because it is made differently and better than "regular ole' generics" (I faced this recently while looking for a shielded audio cable).

Or in this specific instance, they're just targetting audiophiles who believe a $3,000 RCA cable will "enhance the depth and warmth and soundstage"...
Bread Price Fixing in Canada
The traditional solution is to look if there is a ring.
Alright, that makes sense!
So that means Shopify grew by 500M and EBay grew by 200M. Is that right?
Yeah trying to stay away from this one due to the cost requirements.
Spoken like someone from the city or the suburbs.

In the sticks where I grew up, dogs run loose in fenced in yards or do whatever they want when there’s not a fence. Everybody had a dog and nobody “walked” them.
Proposal to predict mental illness, gun violence using data from big tech firms
I don’t know about you but I’d never say hi to someone I don’t already know in public. Even people I know...
patio11 wrote this amazing piece that might help: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
Bitcoin worth £900k seized from hacker to compensate victims
Do you think we, those who are connected, should give up our internet connections? If not should we leave the rest of the world's population without it?
The cold wars were called that because they never actually became war.

And the world war's combined impact on global populations was only a couple of percentage points.

Neither remotely qualifies as being on the brink of annihilation.
Great article!

Looking forward for the 1 billion object article as we had lots of problems with 2 billion objects inside a single bucket in Ceph Luminous.
Stewart Brand's book seems related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn
The Galaxy Note 10+ has one, but I don't know how good it is.
“Mask and Infill”: Applying Masked Language Model to Sentiment Transfer
Clearly if the starving, downtrodden French people had sought a polite debate with the king instead, it’d have ushered the age of democracy and human rights much faster.
Seattle has changed. A few weeks ago someone beat a police officer with a sunroof he'd just ripped of a car (after jumping on the other roofs of cars in traffic).

He was released 24 hours later.

On a simpler note I saw someone exposing themselves/defecating on a street corner in downtown. Some officers spoke to him but then they left.
Not in mine. Screen stopped working as I used the phone. Never dropped it. Under 3 years old and cost £500 new. Never buying another Sony phone.
"try/catch hell"...
Utter nonsense - the lack of politcal discourse at work does not result in worse politics generally.

Politics at work has long been a no no at most companies and there's no evidence to show this has caused the rise of any extremism.

Work is where you get your work done. There is no room for you opinions on Trump etc, whether positive or negative. Your political views can very easily marginalise others especially when you hold a majority view.

You're asking why people that can't handle politics at work are 'ruining it for the rest of us'. May I turn the question around and why people that want to discuss politics at work are ruining it for the rest of us that don't?
>I have always felt that the point of reading is not to remember everything you have read, it is more to shape the way you think.

I can't agree with this more. As a kid I used to read a huge amount - my sister and I would swoop into the local library, check out twentyish books, and read them all by the return period of three weeks. Averaging a book a day, and I remember virtually nothing of it. I've recently gotten back into reading books, and after a couple weeks I still won't remember much detail about any particular book I read. But I'm still very aware of the experiences that they shared with me and the way reading them made me feel.

A conversation with a friend recently spurred me to post an old thing that I wrote online. And I felt the same way, wondering if I was seeking some validation this way. But the experience I wrote about was incredibly influential on my life, and I think on the off chance that anyone reads it, it's valuable just to share that perspective. It's true that we're connected all the time, though I think a lot of the time people are too self-conscious to share things that are really personal, that might change the way others think. And so I would like to contribute towards that.
The fact that a billing issue like this gets escalated to C-level for some determination of account credit is, on its face, absurd. It suggests that billing practices at the company are so off the wall that they have a weeks-long backlog of billing disputes that can only be handled by a C-level, indicating a vacuum where policy and process might exist.

Either that, or they’re jerking you around. Both are pretty bad.
I would say not. You have hosting and you have to deal with maintenance, security and backups. Your Shopify fees cover that and the payment processing fees are comparable.

Unless there is some feature that WooCommerce can throw in for free that would require paying a Shopify developer an ongoing fee (wishlist functionality is probably one) your monthly fees are going to be similar.
The article is about the Cold War and the history of scientific funding, not so much about recent politics.

It's interesting! But the title could be misleading. Judging from the last para, maybe that's intentional.

Just warning that this could be RTFA bait. Step lightly brave commenters!
I'm a bit on the younger side (23) but I've used online dating almost exclusively for finding partners over the past 2 years. Being a bit of a numbers freak, I downloaded a copy of all my data from Tinder and made a Sankey diagram with it and it ended up being pretty cool to look at: https://imgur.com/a/ueNmDlZ
Ok, we'll put CTF above too.
I agree. A big reason for not achieving something in an activity (whether a discussion, a software project or something else) is not being clear what you want to achieve in the first place.
So you want to be a Unicorn
True but I don’t really think there’s any downside to being a free rider, the cost of people just manually skipping the ad is already accounted for and an extension like this will always be super niche like similar tools for podcasts. You with your fancy automated thing that works sometimes is a fraction of a fraction of the viewership that doesn’t see the ad because the viewer wasn’t paying attention or went to the bathroom or fridge.

Life is too short to worry about business models changing like this. If you have to watch the ad out of fear that if you don’t you’ll be forced to watch the ad then you might as well not watch the ad.
You don't debunk something by saying it's debunked. So her claim is that because she was no longer in the trust and safety team at the time of the video, her opinions are irrelevant?

Of course she's going to claim that the video was "heavily edited." But the validity of the video comes from the fact that there is no context which makes the clips of her speaking any less damning. They clearly indicate a willingness by Google to curate search results.

>The video then goes on to stitch together a series of debunked conspiracy theories about our search results, and our other products.

I'd love to see this debunking.

>Google has repeatedly been clear that it works to be a trustworthy source of information, without regard to political viewpoint. In fact, Google has no notion of political ideology in its rankings. And everything I have seen backs this up. Our CEO has said ”We do not bias our products to favor any political agenda.” He’s somewhat more powerful and authoritative than me.

Oh, well, if the CEO says it, it must be true. This is just a weak attempt at damage control.
In China this is common when everyone wants to do or appear to do Govt promoted ideas and schemes to get govt subsidy. [1]

If they do not act in time someone else will get it.

It works somewhat similar to startup world where one raise money with compelling story, just in this case instead of VC it's govt money. Some survive and become big, but most fail. Obviously some are outright fraud.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/1976825/chin...
The GitHub repo looks kinda weird on first glance (>1k commits but <100 stars, virtually no contributors or issues, empty LICENSE file) but yeah it is more of what I thought.

Personally, I'm not very accustomed to Python though, so I find the syntax kinda weird. I'd prefer something that feels more like a standard Un*x tool (like nushell).
Implying, so far, all that's lacking is the motivation to create sinister disinformation, not the means.. which this article demonstrates now exist.
Oh no I've been glamping, I mean what watch was he referring to that's designed specifically for glamping?
I agree with you but...

Maybe we need a guideline on which places it is okay to hit on women? Groceries? Tech conferences? Cafe? Yoga classes?

I remember I read complaints from women on Twitter who were hit on by guys in tech conferences. They felt they were being devalued there. Even a senior personality (a man) in tech world had to intervene, "Hey, it is not okay to hit on women in tech conferences."

On the other side, my female friend told me that she is okay if guys hit on her in yoga classes.

So I don't know the answer to this perplexing question. Should we categorize places/events into don't-hit-on-women / okay-hit-on-women?
The soviet naval officer who prevented WWIII:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/you-and-almo...

The British government on the brink of capitulating to Hitler:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/the-may...

The Allies and not Hitler getting the atomic bomb. Examples abound just in the past few generations.
This is great, we have a tendency to be content with existing tools we're familiar with but be blind to their limitations. I'm looking forward to how this project evolve!

However an important point for practical usage is the capability to run existing scripts, for example as oilshell [1] does. I skimmed through the README and doc but couldn't find the current status nor future plans.

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/06/17.html
I literally never heard about this and I am pretty curious. How does a dog behave if you don't have a fence and let them roam?
I did. Thank you for the correction. Linux did, for most of its history, do an admirable job of upholding that philosophy though.
This is so over-the-top that I can't tell if it's parody, trolling, or just horribly mistaken.

In case you're serious, though, you clearly have no clue what software engineering is. Yes, it includes some of the things you mention. No, it's not the same thing as CS at the upper echelons. Yes, you should include theory and science in your software engineering decisions, but no, just (CS) theory and science isn't going to be enough.

BTW, because I don't know how to contact you to tell you this: Your HN profile says "Actively searching for opportunities. email me if interested", but doesn't actually provide an email address.
Jeffrey Epstein, My Sick Pal
Even if SF exists purely as a simulacra of it's past, cool self, it's still leagues ahead anything offered in the south bay.

I lived in cupertiuno for 2 years and you could cut off all my fingers and I could still count how many times my friends that live in the city would rain CalTrain south to come visit me.
How should logging be done?
I hope that I implied that point when discussing the labor required for a highly modular ecosystem to function well.
Why not? On your own system you can use whatever shell you want and if you develop shell scripts that you plan to distribute you can just list it as a dependency.
Oh, that Stuart Pivar..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Pivar
> If you are reselling the item, then you owe Amazon shipping charges for 2-day shipping.

Not so fast. Amazon would like this to be true, which is why they put that provision in their TOS. The NFL does the same thing when they state in every single broadcast, "This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited." Merely expressing a sentence in legalese doesn't create a binding contract.

A decent lawyer in a Common Law jurisdiction (and IANAL/this is not legal advice) could probably argue that such a "no-resale-for-Prime" provision constitutes restraint of trade along with any other similar statutory prohibitions that would render such language unenforceable. (I don't know, but I'm guessing Civil Law jurisdictions have their own such restraints.) Amazon for its part would argue that if it allowed resale, it couldn't offer Prime services at all to anyone. If I were to guess, the real purpose of this provision is to kick people out who might do something like purchase up an entire supply of some particular Prime-eligible item and then immediately resell the entire stock at around the same price but with paid shipping (including a small profit cushion). That kind of behavior actually would ruin the Prime brand/program and itself constitutes a form of market manipulation.

In no way would anyone owe Amazon money for reselling products purchased on Prime. At worst, Amazon could kick a person out of Prime or completely ban them as a customer (and the courts might even frown upon that). Amazon might even try to "collect" money, but unless the resale constituted actual abuse (cf. the scenario above), a strongly worded letter CC'd to the person's lawyer, Congressman and FTC might help Amazon stand down.

Again, IANAL and this is not legal advice. If it were me, I'd try to follow the TOS as a matter of prudence/respect. However, I don't like people thinking that they're under legal obligations that are at best a stretch.
Landlords are not eating Housing
Daily Crunch: Overstock CEO Resigns
Conviction is a better word than choice. People don't have a choice if a god exists or if rent control works as intended.

They have convictions and these things are either true or false at the end of the day. It's not purely a matter of preference.
Idk who would participate in that study. Either people want a dog and get one or they don't want and don't get one. Don't think people would like a diceroll making the decision for them.
This nicely ties into the recent HN thread about a dream OS that would provide databases at the OS level instead of forcing the re-implementation of databases in many programs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20754592
Why is that bad thing? Typically individual episodes are $2.99. You can sign in on the app for a month, immediately cancel so you don’t get charged for an additional month and pay $6.
I believe Deno is doing this.

For a FOSS language, a large stdlib can be similar to a curated repo in practice.
I grew up in a rural setting as well, and I distinctly remember walking with my dogs.
What about JSON vs protobufs? Is there a schemaless system that you use?
Drugs get sold for huge markups due to prohibition. A heroin user spending $200 or more a day is, in reality, only using $4 or $5 a day worth in production cost. Even with a huge tax, I'd be $15 or whatever.
This is a delight for so many reasons.

Most of my online time is via a cheap smartphone. There are limits to what I can do on it, but a lot of my blog writing happens on that phone. A lot of what passes for a social life for me happens on that phone via the twitter app or other online platforms. A lot of research happens on that phone.

The Palm Pilot was so named because it was the computer power of an airplane in the palm of your hand. I bet most smartphones today outclass it by a wide margin, yet we think they are good for shitposting on Facebook, not for Real Work.

But they are good for real work. There's an insane amount of actually productive stuff you can do on a smartphone today from almost anywhere.

I also enjoyed the style of the article -- the self-deprecating humor, the somewhat biting wit. It's a thing I used to do a lot more of and I guess I long to move back more in that direction so as to give more life to my writing.
Here is a fun thought exercise: why group by state?

A person's political views is not just shaped by where they live, but their race, gender, sexual orientation, education etc etc. If "location" is just another column in the table properties that describe a person, what if we had a "college" or "senate" based on some other property of an individual?

How about we give all citizens who identify as straight 2 seats and all those who identify as gay 2 seats in this imaginary senate?

Or a college roughly based on race, but for some reason the smaller races are grossly over represented?

How about by religion? As an atheist myself, I'd love to get in on some of that sweet over-representation-of-minorities mojo that Ohioans get.

My point is, cut this along any other descriptive property of an individual other than what state they live in and you get all sorts of colorful results that I'm sure would appall all the conservative proponents of the Electoral college or the Senate.

Is state or location really the most important a property when it comes to deciding whether or not you are a "minority?" When it comes to national issues, do you think a gay black man in Nebraska has more in common with a striaght white man in Nebraska? Or another gay black man in New York? Why does the one in Nebraska get to be an overrepresented minority, yet the one in New York get to be an underrepresented majority?
The issue isn’t that contractors are less productive, nor are they less capital efficient. The issue is they are less easily controlled. You can’t just issue a directive via email and expect them to obey it because that will put their legal status as contractors in jeopardy. You can’t just demand they use your equipment or follow corporate policy.

If you are happy just having the job done, and don’t need the ability to control details of execution then contractors are often more efficient. (Depends on the task and the market)

The danger is, you may find your contractors start selling to your competitors. Then you need to compete on your core product.

Most corporate strategies don’t boil down to “have a competitive core product” they boil down to “control as many aspects of your market as you can so the cost of entry is too high for others to follow”.
There were a similar number of car manufacturers in the US in the early 1900s. Many of them were essentially assemblers, bolting together parts made by other companies; most of them didn't survive long enough to release a second model.

It's a natural developmental stage in any emerging technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man...
Here's more details on I-5 guy,

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/Charge-Man-att...

So he only

* pepper sprayed someone

* punched multiple people in the face

This wasnt enough for him to be charged.
Agreed. What I'm saying is that I think you avoid a host of problems if you distinguish between data and state.
Come to automotive, you can program in c90 all the live long day
Like...a dog? Curious what other behaviors you think they might exhibit. They hang around the house, or you if you're outside, and nap on the porch. If you're worried they'll run off, they may chase after an animal that mistakenly ventures in, but otherwise they stay in their territory with their people, and walk around the property doing dog things.

Also note that in these contexts there are "inside dogs" and "outside dogs" depending on if they get let into the house or not.
I don't think I'd go as far as typed messages as that doesn't strike me as a simple or light-weight format. Something like JSON is almost good enough, but perhaps something even simpler/lighter would be ideal here.
They get skunked/quilled every other week.
I agree, but I'd argue that almost all cities have too few parks and too many low slung buildings.
What basic right allows you to try and murder someone?
HN is turning into r/china these days
This feel ill informed. First off, to an addict, nothing is a better positive rewarder than drugs. Secondly, forcing someone to "kick" never works and in fact leads to people trying to use the same amount and overdosing.

I do think mental health services are whats needed.
No. I'm addicted.
IIRC, that was just one of the potential factors. Another was the phasing out of lead gasoline. The arc of crime is fascinating though. I was in high school during t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Here's the beach glamping series: https://baby-g.jp/products/glamping/
And the answer is: because the really interesting people play a hard catch and hitting up shopping groceries is not playing hard enough. The really interesting people will like being hit on say, throughout a year on a dance or yoga class though, subtly and slowly.
That would be similar to the dozens of Android phone brands. But new industries sometimes start that way, but eventually shake out into an oligopoly.
So nobody remembers at this point they used to have one before the great recession?

I'd like to know if it is as good, but there was a huge line yesterday when I happened to drive by a Popeyes in the same plaza as I was going to the grocery store.