skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like the Java if the Java was written by someone who knows Java:

List<String> alignText(List<String> texts) {
int maxLength = texts.stream().mapToInt(String::length).max().orElse(0);
return texts.stream().map(text -> {
var spaceCount = (maxLength - text.length()) / 2;
return " ".repeat(spaceCount) + text;
}).collect(Collectors.toList());
}
Depends:

> Maximum altitude of 400 feet above ground level (AGL) or, if higher than 400 feet AGL, remain within 400 feet of a
structure.

You can also apply for a waiver.
It also helps you understand that no greater power is around to reset any damage or prevent total destruction of life on earth. There is no reason life needs to exist, it just does by an extreme amount of good luck and billions of years of evolution
I still wish I could accept multiple currencies with strip without conversion and spend them via a CC. Only reason I am still with PayPal
Am I the only one who finds the spare tire location an absolute deal breaker? You have to unload the payload, and lift up the payload bed floor in order to access the spare. Now, I suppose this doesn't matter much to Amazon. But I have had the experience of being out the back-country where cell phones don't work, miles from a highway, changing a truck tire by myself. If I had to spend 1 or 2 hours unloading the truck before I could get at the spare, that would be a huge issue. At one point I was seriously considering writing a deposit check for a Rivian. The spare tire location told me instantly that this truck is not for me -- the designers have no idea how trucks are actually used. The utter cluelessness of that design decision boggles me.
Outdoor domestic cats, apparently, kill billions of birds annually. Have a cat? Don't let it outdoors.
Nope, not illegal:

> Businesses can, however, offer “financial incentives” for being allowed to collect data.

The change is from opt-out to opt-in.
Whenever people talk about 'capitalism' like this it's usually a communist dog whistle. Otherwise they would talk about specific issues, not "the system is making us do it maaan".
I think -- hope -- they meant trimming future growth via abstinence. Not killing people.
In addition to the "seed the human race with his DNA" project (largely set up at his New Mexico ranch which the FBI bizarrely still has not raided for evidence), he was also plugged into the world of transhumanism (he wanted to cryogenically freeze his brain and penis) and AI (strong connections to both Marvin Minsky and OpenCog).
The catapult launches the drone, not the package. The package is delivered as normal and the drone is then returned and "caught" with a pretty impressive hook system for redeployment.
Philip Rosedale's case for adding 3D avatars to Slack-type platforms
> Just the fact that the counts came from two different places make this data pretty dubious.

Why? Multiple sources shouldn't matter, it is the quality of sources. If you're gathering data you shouldn't expect it to all come from one place. There's no single source that tracks every single thing. At some point you're going to have to gather data from multiple sources, especially if you're trying to make comparisons that others haven't.
Sure. but "binding moot court" was the most concise way I could think of to say "A legal proceeding where you assume a certain set of facts are known, then argue how the law would apply to them, then a judgement is made which becomes binding precedent on how the law is interpreted unless the law is changed by the legislature to produce more clarity."
You don't believe the number, so they could possibly be wrong, so it's not a cause for concern? That's a lot of jumps to make to get to the case where we don't have to worry.

What techniques are they using to count and estimate the birds, and what objections do you take to their methods? Sadly I can't find out as the site is behind a paywall for me.
Fed Intervention in the Repo Market
Just putting some thoughts to paper. Curious what people smarter than myself think.

There are $1.4 T in excess reserves deposited at the Fed currently. The Fed pays interest on those reserves at 1.80%.

Banks have to maintain at least a certain amount of required reserves with the Fed. When they do not have these reserves, they can borrow them from banks that have excess reserves. (They can also borrow them from the Fed via the discount window, but generally don't, due to stigma.)

This borrowing is usually done via the repo market. In a repo, the borrower pledges some collateral--usually government debt, and agrees to repurchase the asset e.g. the following day. To incentivize a lender to enter such an agreement, the interest rate on such a deal must be greater than what the lender could receive from the Fed for IOER.

Per media reports, interest rates in the repo market at one point spiked as high as 10%. The media has cited a "dollar shortage" caused by taxes being owed and institutions having purchased large amounts of US federal debt recently, both of which decrease central bank reserves. But, there are still $1.4 T in excess reserves. And we're talking about a very safe loan: collateralized by sovereign debt (usually) and overnight. So, if someone wanted to borrow them at a "reasonable" rate, they should have been able, assuming they had the collateral.

Assuming they had the collateral. The attack on the Saudi oil facilities, and the 15% spike in oil prices that resulted very well could have been a black swan event that has caused what we're now seeing. The timing certainly is coincidental. Note also that the Fed knew that Lehman was insolvent about a month before it was publicly reported.

Meanwhile, the Fed has announced it's going to perform repo operations for a fourth time this week tomorrow morning.
Who are the Sacklers, the family behind maker of OxyContin?
You should completely dissociate psychedelics from the concept you have of ”drugs”.
Because it's a tourist trap, they're all staged for tourists who pay about 10 yuan (maybe more nowadays?) to snap their picture. Cormorant fishing hasn't been used in decades, so instead the fishermen charge and pose for photos for tourists.
Superbug hotspots emerging in farms across globe
Odd way to paraphrase my argument.
Sounds simple but it would be hard to get an accurate test. I mean, it's not a basic kitchen experiment, is it? And why is it that modifying such a small part of the atmosphere (0.04%) can cause such a huge problem?
> The entire premise of free exchange is that I give you my services in exchange for something of value of yours.

Not if the thing I value is my personal data. Because I, as a typical short sighted consumer, will consistently underestimate the value of my data, as well as how my data affects those around me (extreme case: my data is my social graph, which you can use to reconstruct the social graph of my acquaintances).

If I don't know the actual value of what I am giving up, I am naturally going to get swindled.
To my knowledge, you can't. You can use many, if not most, Firefox addons on mobile (I use ublock on FF mobile, which is nice). This extension is for Firefox.

I'm not really sure if Firefox addons/extensions work well in iOS. I can imagine a few reasons it might be more limited, but I don't have an iPhone to test.
Sad to see so much talent continue to go down the Bitcoin toilet.
More than for "a while". Oil was discovered hundreds, thousands, of years ago. It used to seep out of the ground in many places (See the opening sequence of The Beverly Hillbillies). Only once we started pumping it did all the surface seeps dry up.
Can someone explain why short sellers would bother a CEO? Is it an ego thing, or does it actually hurt the company?
Literally google “Airbnb direct listing” and you can see top analysts talking about it for years. Just like they said Spotify would do a direct listing and then they did. Just like they said Slack would do a direct listing and then they did.

Airbnb is actually profitable (at least EBITDA) unlike these other companies and hasn’t raised a major round in a while since they don’t need capital. This makes them a much better direct listing candidate than those previous companies.

It was widely reported they met with Morgan Stanley about a direct listing and Morgan Stanley is considered the expert in the field since they managed the last few.

How is Reuters for a source? If you prefer something else it has been covered by the vast majority of the financial press. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbnb-ipo/airbnb-plans-p...

“In a short statement posted on its website on Thursday, Airbnb did not give any details on how it plans to list its shares, although it is widely expected to take a direct-listing route.

A direct listing to go public is a process in which no new shares are created and helps companies save millions of dollars in underwriting fees.”

So why can’t I know what is widely reported to media by company insiders and has been for years?
This comment makes it seem like you think that people against high powered rifles are unaware of the technology and capabilities of weapon systems.

I also think you are wrong.
China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx
Keep in mind that major distros (Debian, possibly derivatives) disabled tcp/udp service names in 2000:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=65172
I wonder if that included the rights to produce new content.
I've torrented physical media I've bought because it's more convenient and I don't wan't to pay the long term price of storage (either in terms of data or physical space).

It's an interesting thought experiment: if I buy a DVD and physically keep it, am I more entitled to watch a movie in perpetuity than if I buy it and burn it in a fire. What if i keep the ashes? Where's the digital equivalent of a perpetual ownership structure?

(For me, this all comes back to the problem that intellectual property laws/ concepts are, as a general rule, farcical/nonsensical)
This is not surprising. Colt has been hanging by a thread ever since coming back out of Chapter 11 in 2015, but has been in all sorts of financial woes since the mid 1980s. They are just trying to survive at this point.

If labor relations interests you, it's a fascinating company. They had a long stand off with the union in the mid to late 80s. They replaced all Union staff who had striked. Four or five years later the union eventually won and all the existing staff, who were hired during the 5 year strike, were fired and the old union staff replaced them. Not only that but the union got given a significant chunk of the company.

The problem was that the old staff could not operate the updated machinery. The military unhappy with the quality canceled contracts. It was a disaster and ended up killing the company and they went into chapter 11 for the first time. That was the end of Colt.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/01/nyregion/workers-rejoice-...
Building a prototype is the easy (and fun) part. Scaling production is much harder. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-building-fact...
NDAA bill proposes blockchain tech for U.S. national defense
I was unable to find a relationship between IIHS safety ratings and IIHS driver death rates for trucks and SUVs based on the most recent set of data released (though this was in 2014, so maybe they have improved their testing methodology since then). Interestingly, the only two vehicles to receive "TSP+" ratings in 2014 were actually among those that driver was most likely to die in - the GMC Terrain and the Chevy Equinox.

So far, the only variable that I've found that is predictive of driver mortality is curb weight, and the relationship is not linear. There is a mortality minimum between 4000 - 5000 lbs of curb weight.

Again, this is just for trucks and SUVs, and just those 37 models that offered both 2WD and 4WD versions. Maybe the ratings work better for sedans or for other types of vehicles.
Easy-to-use scriptable reverse proxy server
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Adam swindled billions from SoftBank because SoftBank was running around with hundreds of billions of dollars (of oil money) burning a hole in their pockets. And this isn’t the only SV company that’s a Ponzi scheme with no path to profitability. Just one of the first and largest to get exposed. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people...
Counter-point: KONY 2012
Sure, but that will change the cost per mile
Don't they keep it close to absolute zero though? There's a large range between absolute zero and room temperature.
Ask HN: How does one define a startup?
What is a startup business vs small business? Also when does startup stop becoming a start up and just called a regular business? Is it time bound or revenue bound or size of business ?
I'd guess maneuverability. A multi rotor can stop or radically change direction in a much shorter distance than fixed wing. Also hovering.
I used mostly a Lumix 20mm 1.7, plus the kit 14-42mm and 40-150mm. As far as I know the sensor is the same in the EM5.

Of course the camera gives a lot more creative freedom, but it felt pointless to carry a body + lenses for little improvement in quality, light as they were. I switched to a Fuji XT-2 and am much, much happier.
Is that a rhetorical question? There's quite some difference between a 200m tall concrete dam that holds 1m+ cubic decameters of water[0][1], and a bunch of twigs and logs jumbled in a creek that might be 2 meters high on average and actually house life like beavers, frogs, birds etc.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bullards_Bar_Dam

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_reserv...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_dam#Benefits
What's wrong with it? The End user license agreement is the document explicitly dedicated to explaining how the interaction between the user and the software will work. If a company explains how the data will be used and the user consents to that agreement what is the issue? I don't doubt that there are people that don't bother to read the EULA but thats a leading-a-horse-to-water situation.
Presumably the videos will mainly be overhead views - what kind of nefarious uses do you fear they could put such images to? (genuinely curious; I had the same thought, but I'm not sure why)
Valve may not be able to confine any such thing to France.

One article I read said France is fighting the issue in a way under EU laws that the rest of the EU should be able to adopt the judgment quickly thereafter, though it may take a few more court cases to do it, as it partly depends on whether Valve appeals the case enough. (The semi-ironic risk versus reward of the appeals process pushing it closer to EU courts, versus overturning France's decision here.)

I'm still somewhat upset that the GDPR writers knew digital asset rights would be the "next fight" after a lot of the privacy concerns were addressed but explicitly kicked the can on it (a brief like half paragraph about how they considered it but ignored it). This fight maybe increases the likelihood we could see some future GDPR-like bill for digital assets rights.

Such an EU-wide measure might be real hope that, like the GDPR, it would apply quickly to other competitors and generally worldwide since the EU market is big enough (and covers its citizens even when residing in non-EU nation states) that it would be too much work to run two systems.

(Aside: my personal fascination is how long it may take us to start fighting over digital asset inheritance laws, given that most terms of service agreements imply that services do not survive their owner.)
Here is an article from Reuters today that emphasizes that most people expect a direct listing:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbnb-ipo/airbnb-plans-p...

“In a short statement posted on its website on Thursday, Airbnb did not give any details on how it plans to list its shares, although it is widely expected to take a direct-listing route.”
It should. Digital asset rights should be universal regardless of digital asset. We'll see how the courts respond.
Collecting taxes on these externalities does not say what you use those taxes for. The true cost is the inefficiency from poor resource utilization, hand that money out based on say income and people will buy more efficient cars etc.

Net result lives saved from cleaner air without undo burdens on the poor.
That’s also at American grid levels, and most of the remaining emissions are down to fossil fuels on the grid. Eliminate fossil fuels from grid generation (France for instance is mostly non-fossil already) and the reduction from gasoline to electric is closer to 80%.
Encrypted, but that's on transit. Does Google read everything, or the only thing transfered is the alert and NOT the Signal/text/WhatsApp message itself?
You are aware aerial photography is legal and common?
The part you’d want to print is the lower receiver - that’s the part that’s legally classed as a firearm, with a serial number and regulated transfer, rather than firearm parts.
It absolutely has a mechanism - property damage

the private ownership of the means of production

Is there any reason you're using marxist terminology?
I wish I could stop having Wix ads on youtube, I have seen it like 500 times already. While Squarespace is on all the information channel as sponsors.

I have yet to see a single ads on Wordpress.

Not necessarily a bad thing, but now whenever I think of doing a simple website my brains clicks on Wix or SqaureSpace instead of thinking about Wordpress.com
You can generate one yourself if you want! https://github.com/openai/lm-human-preferences

> Note that we provide pre-trained models, so you can skip directly to RL fine-tuning or even to sampling from a trained policy, if desired.
>You can't offer your services in exchange for e.g. my body parts. Why are we willing to ban that but not our data?

Is this a real question?
Ok, so you would forbid online advertising, but not advertising overall. What would you allow/ban and why (assuming that viewpoint is germane to this conversation)?

I'm not sure what you mean by "at any earlier time". Can you clarify?

You mention predatory sign-ons. In this context it seems you view the data-for-service trade as predatory. Do you think it would remain predatory if it were explicitly priced-- eg, if Google offered you a $5 credit on a $5 service for use of your data?

Would you approve of a law explicitly allowing blood-for-service or similar?
reading things like this are so depressing, wish i knew how to help instead of like making your timeline a little more faster.
No, you and the sellers are just committing tax fraud at a small enough level that nobody cares:

https://www.sars.gov.za/ClientSegments/Customs-Excise/Duties...

Amazon is too large to get away with that and hence charges you sales tax. The "small shops" can get away with it, but it is still illegal.
Because there's a large number of us who want to pay with that data and don't think it's as damaging as cutting off our arms. It is true that there are things we are not allowed to freely exchange: kidneys, livers, most parts of our body. It is true that there are things we are allowed to relatively freely exchange: money, possessions, plasma, blood, and currently data.

Lots of us feel that the data thing should be allowed. That's all.
congrats, you are an internet troll
I don't disagree, but I also think it is important to note that what you are describing is baked into our entire economic system.

Economic actors all acting rationally in their own best interest, which automatically filters out any long term multi-generational outlook.

Capitalism is the root cause here.
Startup is a small giant, or a child giant.
They are defined by the market size.
Small businesses usually have a local market (street/city).
The startup market is global.
why would ppl keep trusting them if they keep writing bogus positive reviews.
Personal anecdote, but the reason i dropped the households Netflix subscription is because they had nothing on their back catalogue i wanted to watch.

I couldn't give two hoots about most of their original stuff which has been laughably mediocre and designed by committee at best, and I have no problem watching it in 5 years time off it's any good.

I just want a media delivery service where I look for something and then it plays, and so far that doesn't exist...
With a nod to Fallout: "Teenagers. Teenagers never change." ;)
The fact that you feel the need to mention that "I've learned to read the dark patterns" speaks volumes about booking.com. And not in a positive sense.
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I think the intention is to decrease the opacity of 'free' services, with the awareness that most people using most free services don't or can't know what happens with it and what is collected. Money is not personal data, likewise almost anything else is not personal data, and there should be more legal protections in llace imo to protect a naive person's ability to limit the propagation of it, or hold companies accountable. If most people knew how any givem system worked, then software engineers wouldn't make as much. It's not a clear cut transaction when the cost is "any amount of data we can collect about you and sell to anyone for any price in exchange for this specific service we provide amd cam take away at any moment". That's a bullshit transaction.
Just to piggy-back on the "I don't know what to do with it" point, this has been pretty handy

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/here-are-some-app-ideas-yo...
It's more likely you'll have centralized drone delivery hubs - i.e. one place in your apartment building - rather than every window or patio having a delivery spot.
Which gives rise to the question of whether saving the human species is actually worth the trouble. It might be, it might not be. I'm not convinced it needs to be saved at all costs.
Here’s half the page you requested, and some other ‘related’ crap.
If he had been able to jam the IPO through, Neumann would happily have helped SoftBank pass the flaming bag of poo to the investing public. So yeah, I'm going to go ahead and keep hating this player.
In regards to the GDPR, I imagine most people continue to ignore the laws of jurisdictions they have no presence in. If they have an EU presence they will follow EU laws, same as if they had a presence in China or North Korea.
In some ways I actually prefer the cheap-investor Airbnb experience.

I recently stayed with a very kind lady at a low rate. I didn’t dislike her at all but I was staying in her house with her and it was just an odd experience for me.

Usually when I get an Airbnb it’s because I know the hotels/motels in the area are a racket and I want somewhere that is cheaper, bigger, and in a better location than the hotels. It’s especially useful and cheap when traveling in a group of 3+. I actually would prefer not to stay with a host who is present because it gives me anxiety.
Just surprised how people are able to miss this.

SEJeff in particular has been a member since 2012 and has 7500 karma, and somehow never saw a post that looked unreadable because of blockquote, including his own.
I am really glad this is happening. I think that the Moore's Law-like decline in costs of wind and solar are going to far more to combat climate change than every international treaty ever attempted, and that's great because climate change is a serious problem and it must be addressed.

However...

I think we have been trying to figure out how to get the world's economy to shift off of fossil fuels for so long, we haven't given a lot of thought to what happens as we do, which appears to be in the process of happening. Right now it's coal that's circling the drain. The other fossil fuels will come a few years after.

Imagine every nation in the world that depends on oil revenue right now, going the way of Venezuela.

We are not ready.
It's a question of scale. There aren't 7 billion beavers. If there were only 300 million humans, we wouldn't be having these issues.
So whether something is natural is a matter of scale?

If we cut down 1,000 acres of trees for wood, is that natural?

What about if a beetle infestation destroys a million acres? Still natural?