skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its all relative, everyone has different values/moral, it might be a solid principle for you but not for me. Its boil down to what outcome ultimately preferable for you and what what outcome ultimately preferable for me.

I gladly took donation from rich pedophiles. As far as I know this is still legal.

For Media Lab the money they receive they can use it form something good.
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In the US we read an Australian torts case involving ships burning in a harbor.
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It should. I could see an embarrassed FAA opting to drop reciprocity to try and avoid looking (so) bad.
Replication until statistically significance is found?
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>>places to feel safe that are not guarded by private security

Its a failure of our society for certain, but at the same time that failure seems to be trending up, there's no needles on the street / homeless camps in malls.

My pessimism might be colored by the video "Seattle is Dying" which I just watched a few weeks ago
Try the Vimium chrome extension as well. I avoid the mouse as best I can woth vimium and i3 and when it's flowing it's really fast.
How to know if you're having effective one-on-one meetings
Indeed. I recently worked on a legacy project where I don't have the luxury to modify the old database. I ended up using Peewee [0] to access the old database, in conjunction with the normal Django based database and even wrote a simple model that use Peewee [1]. Everything works, even Django Rest Framework associated with the model.

[0]: http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57602206/mysql-gone-away...
> The finding that less kind individuals were more likely to be scammed by romance scams was less easy to explain.

My hypothesis would be this:

- There are two things which encourage the average human being to form relationships: 1. the pleasure of doing good to other people / seeing other people happy 2. the pain of being lonely.

- "Kindness" is essentially a measure of #1. People who are naturally more kind have more friends, and thus are less at risk of experiencing loneliness. People who are less naturally kind, but still find loneliness painful, are more driven by #2 to act somewhat against their inclinations in order to maintain relationships. They thus have fewer relationships, those relationships are perceived as requiring more effort, and they are more at risk of experiencing loneliness.

- The "romance" scam involves someone treating someone well almost no matter how they act. The relationship is maintained whether the victim is kind or not; and thus the victim gets their need for a relationship fulfilled without the extra effort required from other relationships.

- So a person who is less kind has much more to lose from losing their relationship than a kind person. A kind person is much less at risk of being lonely, and is more likely to feel like they can create other relationships if the "scam" one fails. An unkind person is much more at a risk of being lonely, and much more likely to feel like replacing the "scam" relationship will be difficult.

- This drives an unkind person to be more desperate to maintain the "scam" relationship than a a kind person
I was thinking of social verification ala PGP web of trust, but this can be gamed a bit by rivals. No, so-and-so isn’t legit. But maybe have nominally compensated inspectors, upstanding members of the community that others in that community trust. So kinda like what you were saying but vetted themselves for trust and getting compensated.

I think the video proof is a good step. It probably can be gamed and would need follow up verification to ensure it wasn’t just a prop.
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They're headquartered in Washington state, same as Microsoft. My guess is that it's a company formed by some Microsoft alumni.

They do some interesting work.
> Anyone can invite rms to speak, and given some minor conditions, he will come. He will come and talk because he believes that everyone deserves Free Software.

Oh? Here [1] he wrote this:

> I am selective about the events I participate in. If you are inviting me to speak at a larger event, please inform me now of the overall nature of the event, so I can make an informed decision about whether to participate.

Mr Stallman was at Microsoft Research, btw. It is a specific department of Microsoft.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/m/#!msg/myso...
EASA budget for 2018 was only 161 million Euros:

https://www.easa.europa.eu/the-agency/the-agency

OP offers no hint just how such great additional effort is to be paid for.
I would say github shouldn't even allow publicly visible code without a license.
Yes, the application starts very quickly and feels instant (which is how ALL software should be, dammit.)

I GUARANTEE you that any lack of multi-threading or hardware acceleration is not the cause for the speed, but rather the simplicity of the application. It's as complex as it needs to be to perform its job, and not more.

Today's unfortunate software development practices stack layer upon layer of abstraction on top of the CPU; far more than was the case when this application was written. As such, more modern applications are bogged down with the weight of all of this stuff.

Developers today have forgotten that "mo' code means mo' problems" and are quite happy to reference any stupid library they come across in order to make things feel simpler. What they've actually done is make things far more complex, and complexity is the undying, always victorious, enemy of performance.

I don't like that modern applications are slow, either. They aren't slow because of multi-threading and hardware acceleration, I promise. They're slow because of piles of stupid decisions on how software should be built.
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Ahh that's pretty cool. I've never used Awesome, so my experience is biased.
Not exactly a brand new doubt/question, only for the record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
Isn't there value in having the story version controlled as well? Separating them just sounds like needless complexity.
I got REALLY excited when I read this title until I read the documentation and now I probably won't even bother testing it.

If anyone is looking for an i3-like tiling window manager (a Linux tiling wm) Fanzy Zones isn't it. This one requires pre-setting a bunch of layouts up front, unlike i3 where you can just seamlessly open and move windows that auto-split as you go with zero window configuration up front.

IMO the mods should change the title of this post to define what type of tiling window manager it is, such as "Fancy Zones, a pre-defined layout based tiling window manager from Microsoft". In the title's current form it's borderline clickbait.
Rather than Atheist arguments, I prefer how the Church of Satan deals with religion, challenging hypocrisy with silly but strong legal arguments. I think Atheists should change from arguing whether a god exists or not to challenging the self-serving frauds found in fundamentalist churches in the US Bible Belt. So much money and time is wasted in those mega-churches that could be better spent actually helping those in need.
Meh, it's not really black and white - kinda like saying translation files shouldn't be in the repo.

I've put them there a bunch of times, they were (at least initially) edited by the same people as the rest of the code and they were required for the app to compile.
>If you’re out of grade school a mall is not an appropriate place for social interaction.

The local mall used to open early for older people to meet and do their daily exercise walks. Depending on the climate and time of year, parks are not always usable.
Huawei ships over 200k 5G base stations despite US sanctions
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Surely one that weeds out the millennials from the old guard ;-)
> Tried "Everything"?

Yes, that's what I said I use.
>Part of the problem is any universal program gets attacked for helping people who don't 'need' the help and that being a waste of money.

It's funny. When you suggest that everyone gets a tax cut, people whinge about the rich, the people needing it the least, getting a tax cut, yet it never seems to stop tax cuts to the wealthy. The rationale most often trotted out for this is that it will 'trickle down' because the people who need it the least will spend more which will fuel the economy. (I'm not commenting on whether trickle down works, just that it's the rationale most commonly deployed.)

So why don't people use this line of reasoning when it comes to universal basic income, money given to parents of children, etc? For the people who need it most, it can help them succeed. For the people who need it least, it can fuel sending their kid to college or pay for a family vacation which also stimulates the economy.
I agree. Disregarding any potential bias from NYT, I find it important that some major publications hammer it home to ordinary people that alas the Tech industry has joined the ranks of big pharma, big finance and arms manufacturers to become just as untrustworthy as the incumbent bad guys.

People still see Tech as benign, but it has been twisted from the early starry-eyed technologists who wanted to change the world for the better, and it has become just another big industry power block that looks after only it's own profits to the exclusion of everything else.
1. The yellow vest protest is in fact still ongoing.

2. Almost all of the deaths were due to tangential accidents (things like rogue truck drivers).
It's an Open Source project. Send a PR or a feature request: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/new?assignees=...
One of the places I remember most vividly from my childhood Christmas times was the "Shopper's World" mall in Framingham, MA (which is indeed listed in the above Dead Malls website). It was a two story mall that was wrapped around and open to a central grassy area. While incredibly dated now looking at pictures, the architecture was pretty cool and memorable. They tore it down in the mid 90's and replaced it with a very boring big-box plaza mall that looks exactly like every other one in existence. It still does a fine business. Makes me sad any time I go there now.

Additionally nostalgic, the local Hostess bakery was across the street pumping its exhaust into the air. Whenever you went to the Shopper's World mall, the whole area smelled like Wonder Bread.
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Ask HN: What are your go-to places for thought-provoking articles?
What are your go-to places to find thought-provoking articles that help you learn something new or think about familiar topics from a different perspective?

A few places I found so far:

* https://longform.org/

* https://longreads.com/picks/

* https://getpocket.com/explore/trending (some fluffy articles but usually can find a few gems)
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> as a form of protestation

Me too. It's like a game: choose the easiest possible password given constraints.. My theory is: for each set of constraints there is always exactly one such password. Hard to prove, I know.
For 1, Fancy Zones has "Move newly created windows to their last known zone"
My favorite part was the last line of the story.

>Follow @privacyproject on Twitter and The New York Times Opinion Section on Facebook and Instagram.
Studies with Rapamycin suggest otherwise. Mice live on the order of 20-30% longer, so for mice, simply inhibiting mTOR is enough to extend the biological age.
I wouldn't single out FAANG (or Tech) for this particular issue, because it is not idiosyncratic to these sectors. It is a systemic issue with the corporate culture and regulations. Corporations have an obligation to shareholders and they would be open to lawsuits if they did not partake in this morally questionable but legally A-OK process.
So, I have just read the post.

And I don't want to be that guy, but why is this on the FP?

edit : I will rephrase : why is this interesting?
Without context I doubt anyone can give you good advice.

The size of company is a huge factor, the locale, the market, potential buyers etc. All that makes a huge difference. And outside of VC startups (and even a number of those) most acquisitions in the business space are not stock acquisitions but asset sales so that changes how the math is done and how things are valued etc.

If you are just talking about just in general, most small businesses use a broker to sell/find a buyer, mid-sized and up will use an M&A bank or specific advisor. Businesses under $1M are many times done very quickly with no brokers involved, just depends.

Most people looking to acquire businesses talk directly to the businesses or find a broker or other intermediary they can trust to approach the business. If they are looking for the best deal they will usually go straight to the business for small transactions.
Recently been forced to work on Windows, been looking for a tiling windows manager for Windows. I'm used to i3/Sway.

Played with it a bit. It has some good ideas, but hopefully they keep adding features. Some things it's missing (that most or all tiling WMs have):

- Custom keyboard shortcuts

- ability to switch focus quickly with keyboard shortcuts (move to window to right/left, instead of alt-tabbing through all open windows for example)

- virtual desktop keyboard shortcuts to quickly switch to a numbered Virtual Desktop and move windows to them (I have a autohotkey script for this), but would be nice for it to be built-in to this.

- an option to auto-tile when new windows are opened. As it is, it floats new windows, and you have to manually move them into position. This is fairly cumbersome.
Most Ivy Leagues today offer ridiculous financial aid packages to those who need it. He probably could have gone for less than $16k in 2019 dollars.
Check out better snap tools. It’s not free, but it’s kept updated and works remarkably similarly to the tool listed here.
> https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/new?assignees=...

This isn't something that's really a feature request. It would require changing how the whole entire application works at a fundamental level, or really building 2 applications in 1.

That's why you have 2 different sets of tiling window managers on Linux. You either have fixed layout ones where it's automatic after configuration or manual tiling window managers instead of 1 tool trying to do both.
Quick googling suggests that it is 79% in the U.S..
If you're willing to put some time into configuration, check out chunkwm (which is apparently being replaced by yabai, which I haven't tried). Its the closest I've gotten to a true tiling window manager on OSX, not without its quirks, and requires some work to get the way you want it, but it's at least something.
In my opinion, the major disadvantage of current tiling WMs like i3 is that they don't make effective use of the mouse, which can be a very efficient input device for some usages.

If this product is able to change that, then that could outweigh the pain of the awkward configuration for me.
Well, it was pretty bipartisan, and over the past decades since the mid-70s loopholes have been slowly closing--in 2005 the ability to discharge loans for nonprofit schools was eliminated.

Weirdly, attempts to roll back these ridiculous restrictions have been bipartisan, too. In 2007, Hillary Clinton tried to restore the 7 year limit, and right now there's some Republican senator whose name I can't remember pushing a bill that would eliminate the hardship test.

Bankruptcy prevents banks and schools from shunting all the risk onto students. Given the state of higher ed, going to school isn't a guaranteed paycheck, and they need to stop lending like it is. This will hopefully force schools to control tuition costs.

Or we can just make college free. :)
Oh, because one other site not being hacked means something.
Is that a general trend or just location-specific? I've heard about homelessness being a big issue in SF and Seattle but I live in a big city (NYC) and I haven't seen anything like that.
Sure, malls were an important phenomenon (and of course popular).

But I'm sure you'll agree something can be important and popular, and at the same time detrimental, no?
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How was this whole thing written without using the verb "sealioning"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
I've been using Yabai[0] for a few months and am generally pretty happy with the i3-like experience on macOS.

[0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
I would assume that most organizers of talks want to discuss the topic of the talk with the speaker (first requirement), while many speakers prefer to write their own talks rather than have one handed to them (second requirement).

The only unusual requirement in that document that I could see is that he won't touch, be associated with or have the recordings of himself being used in proprietary software, which is kind of his thing and the basis for the work he does and did.

Was it something else you were thinking about?
Compared to a single blade of a wind turbine it looks like a toy.
Since it's stored very close to the astronauts that shouldn't be a problem. Or rather you'd have a different set of problems if your astronaut compartment was hot and shaky enough to let ammunition go off.
Will definitely check this out. I use a 43" 4K and the default corner/side snapping behavior is just not sufficient for managing windows. Having visual studio snapped to the right/left 50% of your screen all day is terrible for your neck, especially considering the default location of solution explorer in VS. I really just need a 'priority' zone or column right in the middle of the display that I can quickly snap other things around. A 3x3 grid or simply 3 columns might work out well for me.
The way it works, to our understanding, is these immortal Jellyfish his sexual maturity and have offspring, or another for of stress (starvation, temperature change, attack, etc...) and they revert from sexual maturity to a polyp stage and restart the life cycle, and unless they are killed they continue this cycle in perpetuity.

Unfortunately we can't age these Jelly fish or even confirm they have undergone the reversion transformation process (except under lab observation).

So while I am not saying yes, a single jelly fish has lived the entire 500 million years, its certainly possible and the idea behind biological immortality. Maybe one day we can figure out a way to age them and find some older than the dinosaurs.
Or, they could quietly die alone while occasionally complaining on the Internet about their lot in life.
I think the only solution is to try to make a friend if you encounter someone like this.
Ask HN: Why do technical people believe the myth that our phones are listening?
I have been using Magnet [1] for a long while and although it is not as flexible as Fancy Zones appears to be I am very happy with the extra functionality it provides.

[1] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
More generally, why would something that starts “We are contacting you privately“ be posted here?
Can someone familiar with d3 describe why you'd use it instead of the many libraries that use it under the hood? For example, I think either bokeh or plotly uses it, but you don't have to learn any of the d3 details, and also have more capabilities like webgl.
I guess my post wasn't clear that I was referring to two issues - I assumed the original poster took RMS's comment as "ban closed source from GitHub", and was pointing out that being clear on licensing is not the same thing as being open source only, and that an actual issue this causes for open source software is not-actually-MIT software.
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It's different in that the cut-offs are communicated with careful wording, rather than a figure.
Once you statically like that MIT licensed code to GPL licensed code, you have a GPL licences executable. If the source is provided, I think you're in compliance with the GPL. IANAL and that is a very interesting situation.

That type of thing is why I think people need to choose one of: GPL, LGPL, MIT, BSD (isn't that essentially MIT?). I dont see the point in other "open source" licenses, they primarily create compatibility issues.
In a way yes, because replication lowers the risk that the findings in a single experiment are due to random luck. Anyway there's no way around avoiding replication when you want to prove something.
Its also a big problem in LA, but I'm not sure about other cities
They love those in Virginia
I think the problem is not that appel steal ideas, I think the problem is that Appels "home" apps have a unfair marked advantage over the concurrence:

1. They don't have to comply with the app guidelines (uh, I mean sometimes vaguely formulated rules).

- They don't have to go through the verifying process which sometimes does reject apps for questionable reasons (I'm not saying that they do it intentional but it happens anyway).

- They can do thinks which other apps can't.

- They can access API's which other apps can't or at last only can if you are some very large company or else wise got into a joint venture with apple (e.g. the NFC APIs, at last in the past).

- This sometimes means that some apps have to use other APIs as a work around potentially violating app guidelines leading to apple taking actions against them.

3. They easily get prominently featured in the app store.

4. They might get features in apple phone advertisements.

With other works they get a unfair advantage against there competition. The only reason this is legal in Europe is that the monopoly omissions doesn't treat the "apps for iOS" marked as a marked (but instead as a part of the "apps" marked, which IMHO is wrong).

Don't misunderstand I'm speaking about apps made by apple, not system features like flashlight or screen color.

The think is a lot of the thinks can be gained to some degree by 3rd party apps with money, the problem is that the just price of getting this makes it impossible to compete with apple.

This doesn't even include the situations where apple seemed to have miss-used the review process to hinder some apps to create a better starting point for their apps (and it's not just apple, there are also questionable thinks happening to e.g. 3rd party non profit navigation apps on android). On the other hand there are some many apps that literally might be just random fallout and it's close to impossible to judge without doing a proper study.

What I would which is a requirement for:

- Apply some monetary value apple has to pay for the advantage they give to they apps (sure they would pay it to them self, still this means they have to pay tax etc. on it and it shows up in the books).

- Clear guidelines and transparent processes (especially wrt. google actually).

- Limit how app stores can misuse their power, hold them responsible if they do. (e.g. wasn't there a thing where pebble couldn't properly advertise some features because it was conflicting with apples own producsts?)

- Limit how phone provides can "lock away" certain features they use them self (e.g. NFC). I'm ok with some over-the-top warnings if you want to use a app adding a feature which might be misused to track you, as long as the warning is only shown at installation. I'm also okay with some payed API access as long as the price is affordable by a small startup.

- Or alternatively just require support for "properly" having a alternate app store (not the "allow 3rd party apps" bs android has.