skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the chap who had his reviews deleted, I had something very similar happen to me. I booked and prepaid for a room in a decent hotel. Upon arrival they asked for a £150 deposit. I offered them my Visa debit card, but they said they only accepted Mastercard for deposits. This really set my alarm bells ringing, but it was late and I had tired kids with me so I had go look for an ATM to get cash to pay the deposit.

The rest of the stay was Okay, just this weird deposit thing that really jarred me. So I mentioned that in my TripAdvisor review - the review dissapeared and TripAdvisor wouldn't tell me why. Looking at other review sites, plenty of other people had the same experience. It would appear that it was easier for the hotel to get these negative reviews taken off TripAdvisor than from other sites.

But why anyone takes TripAdvisor seriously after the whole "Shed at Dulwich" debacle is beyond me.
2018 LLVM Developers' Meeting
Streaming "choices"? It's fragmentation and rent-seeking behavior. It is simply a case of the supply not meeting the demand at a reasonable price point, when there is an alternative.
2019 EuroLLVM Developers' Meeting
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Creating accounts to break the site guidelines will eventually get your main account banned too, so please don't do that.
Been using GoCardless for a couple years now they have been great.

The API is simple enough and does exactly what one would expect, Stripe used to be like this but right now is a complete clusterf"#%k, they have so many "products" that they've become the quintessential example of feature creep.

I have the idea that the US is the Mecca of credit cards, how widespread is the usage of Direct Debit in the US?
Python and C would indeed be unsuitable. Maybe Rust (quite OCaml-like, but with a more C-like syntax) or Java/C#/Kotlin would let you present these ideas with a more "mainstream" syntax?
Do whatever you want to do
How A State Could Transition from Per-Gallon Gas Taxes to Per-Mile Charges
Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages
>as we all know, humans are driven by emotions

Emotions sure but reason too.

If anyone could reasonably explain to me exactly why I should trust any of those models that are not even close to making accurate predictions I would be grateful.
In my surroundings there are a lot of kids and teens who only watch YouTube (and Twitch), while streaming services like Netflix are seen as what "boring older people" would watch. It's very similar to how people in their 30s and 40s perceive cable these days.
Not really, but it's going to be hard maintaining a community if people can't understand each-other. Maybe in the not-so far future automatic translation will become good enough that people will just comment in their mother tongue and everything will be automatically translated. Unfortunately we're not quite there yet.

That being said HN comments tend to have a more formal tone than many other online forums, so maybe it could be somewhat viable. On the other hand we do use a lot of jargon that might confuse translation algorithms.
Good point

When there are too many options it's becoming too much of an hassle to actually choose something

Just think on yourself getting into a restaurant with a massive menu, choosing a dish will be hard

on the other hand, a pop up restaurant with 3 dishes will make the dinner much more fun for everyone (that's from my expirience at least)
Everyone wanted to get rid of the cable bundle and have channels a la carte. Be careful what you ask for.
No surprise. Even we (HN) predicted this the moment the first content company withdrew their content from Netflix.

Two reasons:

1. People only have so much money.

2. When people compare it to what they used to payit seems unfair. People complain when gas prices increases by a few percent, no wonder they complain when they suddenly have to pay twice or even three times for the same content they used to pay one low monthly fee from.

Oh, and they probably also compare to Spotify.

I see three ways this market can work that immediately feels fair to me:

- all you can eat/listen/watch (Spotify model)

- pay per view but a lot lower than today. (Can work even with multiple streaming sites.)

- a hybrid approach where you pay for a number of monthly credits that works (should be somewhat cheaper than the Spotify model)
The cost difference between infrastructure for delivering a 100 or 1000mbps capable connection is negligible. It's delivering it sustained to multiple people that's hard.

There are arguments about whether it's better to divide 1000mbps of bandwidth equally between 10 people or giving them all the ability to consume the full 1000mbps. It really depends on the traffic load, most people will never keep a 1000 Mbps connection saturated but as soon as someone finds a way it will negatively impact everyone else sharing the bandwidth.

The reality is most ISPs don't split 1000 Mbps between 10 people to give them each 100 Mbps, they'll split it between 20 or 30 people and give them 100 Mbps max because those provisioned customers are all unlikely to demand their full 100Mbps simultaneously.
Ok but sometimes you don't care or encourage this as long as you don't have to support it for free. And you even expect companies not to be assholes taking but not giving back - not enforcing but if it's the nth ticket or bug from mega Corp X that profit from it then let them solve it themselves.
I don't get how you missed "There are humans there, they got up to speed and regularly come back"
A big problem IME is people tend to define "simple" as "written in a style I prefer". For example you can extract a series of 10 obviously-related methods from some 2000-line God class into their own class, but have others who are used to a more procedural coding style complain that the indirection is "hard to read" because they need to open a new file. This despite the facts that others find the God class "harder to read" because it contains 2000 lines of
code doing everything under the sun, and that class is objectively harder to maintain/change for everyone because nobody knows what things are necessary to change to achieve some goal, because there are no logical boundaries between code functions so you can't tell what needs changing without reading everything.

Cue endless bikeshedding in the name of "simplicity", which nobody is using an objective metric to define.
From the diary of "no shit, Sherlock" ...
With the new grid it’s fantastic.

Also they should call it Bigwig since everyone’s autocomplete seems to insist on it.
I saw that too and it's definitely concerning. Yet there has been so much news lately about fires, extinction, melting, storms, protests, 'Trump did this now' that most people I know are numb and are starting to check out. It's football season and school has started, many people in America have already forgotten about the Amazon situation.
The beauty of the free market.

No "no true free market" comments, please.
Why not? Spanish and German are widely spoken; if people want to use them to communicate, then let the market decide by virtue of the number of upvotes and responses they get.
But that's a low-tech solution. Why have a simple solution while you can have a complex one, which sucks as a bonus. Oh, and spies on you.
Seriously are you taking child behavior as an example?

"Argument by analogy" look it up
Yes, heaps of interest from people who can't code or provide financial support but who like to complain. Same with Gravit (then known as Stagestack) who failed to raise 20.000 USD from Fireworks community [1]. Or with Akira and its Kickstarter campaign [2].

[1] http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/stagestack-faces-de...

[2] https://youtu.be/mhDjlJk4jQc
How we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades (2018)
It’s interesting that in Israel there’s a big revival of Arabic music interpreted by 2nd 3rd generation Israelites, (who grow up with this music at home but had no other exposure in media, because of the complete dominance and mostly enforced Eastern European culture.)

The difference is that it’s not a fusion of western and Arabic style, rather sort of traditional and popular Arabic music covered authentically, with a contemporary production quality, if I can say that.

Here’s a great example:

Dhub Utfatar - Dudu Tassa& The Kuwaitis

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihKhPRt_lUE

From an album by Dudu Tassa which his own covers of Iraqi classics is getting very positive reviews from listeners familiar with the originals.
ISS does not relies on anything to sustain its speed, this is not how speed works.

But again, I wrote rather short comment, and part of it was:

> There are humans there, they got up to speed and regularly come back

To put it in other words, to get to ISS, crew has to accelerate to it's speed, and to get back, to lose it.
My friend manages the online presence of a dentists, and nearly all negative reviews turn out to actually be about another dentist with a similar name about 60 miles away. So this does happen all the time on TripAdvisor, and they aren't doing anything about it! TripAdvisor makes zero attempt to verify that you've even been to the places you're reviewing, when it would be trivial for them to do so.
The last remaining video rental stores are closing down just as streaming services become so fragmented that making a short trip to rent any major film or TV series you want for a few dollars is starting to look okay again.
Versioned databases especially for tracking provenance and lineage for data science models might become of thing. See Apple's Entity Store [0] or my take on it [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16uU_Aaxp9Y

[1] https://github.com/awesome-data-distribution/datae
So true! There is a giant federal agency, FCC, the primary purpose of which is to preserve telco monopoly. Few people realize this is FCC's purpose. As usual, it's informative to pay more attention to results than to marketing. Even supposed "reforms" (why would an agency functioning in accordance with its stated goals need reform?) like the 1996 law have primarily led to increased revenue for monopoly telcos.
Why the Federal Reserve is pouring money into the financial system
What's more likely, a big pentesting company messed up this one engagement, or the state is incompetent and doesn't understand pentesting? I'm leaning towards the latter.
The solution to the first justification (China is the problem) is https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/

The answer to the second concern (climate is always changing) is that 1) a much slower change at the permian-triassic boundary caused an extinction event larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs and that 2) the rate of change is probably more important than the magnitude, and the rate of this change is unprecedented. It's happening over decades rather than over millenia.

P.S. That first link is literally a Nobel Memorial Prize winning idea
"typed this from my phone on a plane"

Irony.
Entity Store: Versioned Entities with Fine Grained Authorization and Lineage
We pay $165-175/mo for unlimited 1gig plans here in Alaska. I have no idea why :(
FWIW, I've been working with the Stripe API for the last 5 years, on an integration spanning 7 years of API changes, and I find it necessarily complex. I'm not sure it would be possible to reduce the complexity much without sacrificing quality.
“Your circle” unless it includes families with small kids, isn’t Disney’s primary audience. Most normal middle class people aren’t going to go through the trouble of pirating movies and setting up a Plex server and then worry about setting up their router to get a good connection while they are away from home and even then deal with the abysmally slow upload speed of the typical home network instead of spending $8 a month to just have the convenience of Disney+ to be a glorified babysitter.

In 2003, people said that the iTunes music store was going to be a disaster. Who would pay to download music when they could get it for free. That worked out pretty well.
Not all of them, apparently.
It applies to English too, if you are using anything but US English.

I find it wearing and tedious. I used to love reading US books - with different spelling, idioms, habits, social expectations, and the odd phrase or word I'd never come across. Then revert to British books, read the odd German translation etc. I'd read a Nordic crime novel because it's not set in a quiet English village, Chicago or London, and things are done differently. Apparently that's not permitted by publishers any more, unless you're as lucrative as JK Rowling or T Pratchett.

Many British recent novels, and just about all recent sci-fi are written in American. Not just spelling, but a book set in 1930s London, with a London character who we've just been told lived in the East End all their life, will talk about the sidewalk, the trunk and hood, and such. All judges will use gavels - regardless that in the UK, only an auctioneer uses a gavel, no court possesses one. This sort of thing gets especially silly with things like the Laundry Files - it's parodying Britain, its culture and its systems, yet talking in "Yank".

I've read a few different Nordic crime novels where not only are they written in American, they are culturally appropriated to be set in a virtual USA, called Sweden (or Norway, etc...). Suddenly the Nordic countries have district attourneys, US police hierarchies, US court systems and such. This is particularly grating.

I don't understand why. It ruins far more books than it helps. Above all, I don't believe it would put off US buyers to read of a few places doing things strangely or talking funny.
People who think they run they actually don't.
My experience is that yes new features might get released sooner, but bugs can linger unattended for years.
IBM Sells First of New Computers (1993)
I do. Mostly I use it to log the annual reading challenge. I have mixed feelings about it because of Amazon's ownership, and that probably results in me using it less than I would otherwise.
I think about this too, it's amazing how quickly we all forget, even though the last catastrophe was only a few weeks go.
Libra rejected by Erupe's top economies
I've been looking for non-anecdotal evidence that non-coercive pedophilia is harmful for a long time. Got any links?
http://archive.is/yScft
Unlike Simple Design, Redundancy is built into Software Architecture
I'm in the Philippines and I pay $200 for 10Mbps :-(
Building Your First Reusable Widget with Flutter
Bill Gates: 'Economists don't understand macroeconomics'
Top things to know about Libra
Security updates need to be released ASAP.
Not by anybody who has actually read it.
should i use firefox or chrome?
This isn't how the law works for intent. Google "mens rea", in particular, the "knowing" part. Under your definition, every locksmith is engaging in felony break and enter on a daily basis.
For 30 years I tried to teach people and tell people about the things that I see working outside on a day-to-day basis. Then I realized nobody cares capitalism has forced everyone into a small mindset of monetary gain. I don't care anymore I'm just going to get my slice of the pie and then watch the whole thing burn in comfort.
How do you verify?
> [...] necrophilia [...] should be legal as long as no one is coerced.

I wonder how that is supposed to work. How would one acquire consent from a corpse?
Massively Parallel CAD of Nano-Transistors: When Physics Lets You Down
You and GP wrote "[to] TeX up", is this a common idiom?
Same here (UK), YT Kids is massively popular, although my daughter does like a lot of the BBC and Netflix shows too.
The big transition was that productivity growth in the US became very slow.
I think there is a model for rotating streaming provider. You can easily watch a year's worth of a provider's [good] content in 3 months.

Just change provider every 3 months to a different one, then binge it all.

Maybe a service that automatically deactivates your account at the best point in the billing-cycle? If you could do it without too much overlap you could actually do it on a monthly basis:

Jan - Netflix

Feb - Disney+

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As a rule, explanations are more helpful than exclamations.
You’ve never been able to get many of the most popular movies from a streaming service without paying for them individually. Netflix’s streaming catalog of popular movies has never been that great.
Roebuck could also have had the foresight that such a machine would increase demand for coal, making him a nice profit. I don't think this is a particular compelling example.
Of course, the difference between the dinosaurs and humans is that humans can adapt very well.
Ah, okay. I've heard that before but thought it was basically fringe science. My assumption has simply been that allergies always existed like this, but those with more severe ones died off very young and the concept of "allergy" somewhat non existent. I'll admit the possibility though, ever if I'm very reluctant to lump it together with more obvious wealth-associatated issues.
> so small and so far from most of the continent that it's always going to have a cost handicap

Iceland has very high labor prices. Anything that needs a lot of human labor isn't going to be worthwhile as an export from Iceland. Tomatoes need picking and packaging by hand still, and while that's the case, it'll never be a major exporter.
Sure, but GP was making a statement about the “purpose” of their tax money. Without accountability, the purpose is whatever the government wants, not what citizens want. That might be roads, but it could well be PR firms.
It really depends on how you turn. Like, if you would go high enough to have close to none air pressure, and stop accelerating, you would feel about 0% of your body weight, being in free fall, same as ISS. You don't have to go orbital speed to be in free fall. You have to have that speed only not to fall while free falling :)
I thought the Financial Times had a more in-depth analysis of the structural reasons behind the spike in the REPO market than I've seen elsewhere. I've seen a few sources point out the tax payment due on the 15th, and the settlement of a large treasury sale, but as the article says:

"...Analysts say these two things alone should not cause the deep cracks in the repo market that we have seen this week. The underlying issue is more structural.

The Fed has been reducing the size of its balance sheet, letting the Treasuries and mortgage bonds it bought following the financial crisis roll off. In turn, that reduces the amount of cash reserves banks hold at the Fed...
'We have had tax payments in the past. What is different this time is that it has followed a period of quantitative tightening,' said Jon Hill, an interest rate strategist at BMO Capital Markets. 'Companies sucking cash from the market was just the tripwire that brought things falling down.'”
New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard
International law? That phrasing is going to turn off a lot of people. And it basically requires unanimity among nations given existing structures -- pretty much impossible.

Shaping it as a trade agreement among a small set of nations that any can join should make it easier to get started, to get buy-in and to get those enforcement provisions that it desperately needs. https://issues.org/climate-clubs-to-overcome-free-riding/
Some women are driven out, but I suspect they're a very small proportion (women are tougher than you think).

And yes, celebrities will get more of a pass than others. Which isn't ideal.
The first part make sense about having an ageing tech stack and not being able to find people with skills to work on it.

However, if you have a hard time to find people with relevant c++ experience, I don't see how in ten years, you are not going to have any issue finding people with experience in low code proprietary framework X, where there is non negligible chance that the company supporting framework X has disappeared altogether.
KaiOS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Breach Portal
I agree with your prediction; for context, Larson has objected to his cartoons being posted online for decades, so this would be significant even if we're not getting new material: https://www.comicmix.com/2008/03/07/gary-larson-and-our-far-... https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101230/02545312468/dear-...
Great to hear Pedro!

Credit cards and paper checks. A very large portion of the recurring payments in the US are still based on paper checks.
Honest question: why is it inherently bad morals to profit from fossil fuels? If you act the same as you would if you weren’t profiting I don’t seem how it changes anything at all.

It seems strange to me to cast everyone with an index fund as morally corrupt.
From Functional Programming Foundations to AWS Lambda
1.) Thanks for the link, this is a good idea that should be implemented. Let's see how these countries react and let's see if everyone can get on the same page, at the same time, for the common good.

2.) I agree with you. We have literally built our civilization while inducing a mass extinction event. It's clear as day to me but it's still a debate to many people. The rate of biodiversity loss is several multiples higher than normal, this is concerning because the biosphere is a living system and removing key pieces can have a domino effect.
The answer is yes it is still your data. There are relevant supreme Court precedents which resolve this unambiguously. Hence why you need a warrant to tap a phone line instead of just claiming "it's the phone companies signal".
Why don't major services (Netflix, Disney, HULU, etc) come together to build a best of breed shared service, that operates vendor-neutrally, and each gets to keep all the profits from people watching their stuff?

Each could still have its own promotions, bundles, etc (e.g. pay X more to watch new movies from Disney), but at least the base proposition can have a single subscription price and some pay as you consume more scheme, single analytics, etc.

In my ideal autocratic regime, they'd be forced to work under such a scheme, like power companies are forced to ultimately connect to the same grid (at least in some countries).
This should be possible, as the Mac version is pretty much a coat of paint and a blessed set of plugins laid on top of MonoDevelop.

If I had to do serious dotnet work on Linux, I'd probably just use JetBrains Rider instead though.
PayPal Co-Founder Ken Howery Confirmed as US Ambassador to Sweden
You must be one of the lucky ones in Toronto. I remember having only pricier, capped & slower FTH solutions.
I remember watching in Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj how greedy monopolistic ISP corporations like Comcast are trying hard to outlaw town based internet offerings.

Must watch -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xw87-zP2VNA
Humans can adapt, the rest of the ecosystem can't. Especially since our roads, fields, fences et cetera make migration difficult.
>I'm -1 on photos on resume since it opens the door to a lot of bias (unconscious or not) so I hope you offer a lot options without photos / icons.

I agree. Interestingly, medical school applications (at least in the US) require photos. I'm really not sure why - it seems messed up.
No. Everyone wanted to get rid of both the cable bundle and channels. People just want on-demand access to whatever shows.
As battery fires spark ongoing concerns, NFPA releases risk-addressing standards
Yes, media bombards people with messages all day and all of them are 'breaking news'. We only have so much capacity for new information and for 'breaking news'. This is a serious problem of our times I think, this is part of why things don't change as fast as we'd like them to.
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