skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fantastic website and I'm excited to see how it will look in 2020! It seems to be missing some political actors though which makes it appear like some democratic candidates aren't spending money on ads which isn't the case. Some candidates are being tracked; others aren't.
I think there’s an abundance of capable and willing people for government positions, but bureaucrats don’t select for these people. They select for other bureaucrats.
The moon? Asteroids? Or even just ship up unrefined ore such that a catastrophic failure can’t threaten the population.
> Play audio from Youtube videos (in Safari) while the screen is locked.

You have a long good list of reasons, but this one is fixable by installing the YouTube app and paying for premium.
Fantastic, though the whole aspect of lobbyists (corporate shrills whose sole job is to peer-pressure government officials) just irks me, as I'm sure it does others.

Whilst companies should have a say, the general feeling of myself and again, I'm sure others - is that they monopolise the perspective of some officials. Then you have, `donations` and for want of another way of expressing that - it is just bribery and corruption with legal window-dressing.

This only leads to angst in the populus, who end up rising up and acting in ways that get heard, but equally demonised. For example - Anonymous raised many fair issues in their days, valid points. Albeit in a way that was to some extent - extreme, but when you drive people to the edge and the fall off, you can't blame them all the time.

Again, this is an excellent initiative and whilst Google may
not be the worst offender, they are no angel.

[EDIT - that grammar and spelling error you just spot after you hit send, even though you read it thru before hitting send]
Well, the regular debt ceiling fiasco maybe shows the failure of putting that idea into practice?
I feel your pain! I think a big part of the problem is that most of the iambic pentameter examples taught in school are actually not iambic pentameter (at least not with modern-day speech patterns). I expanded on this more in another comment, but I find it much easier to think about meter when not trying to fit Shakespeare into it.

The best (short) explanation I can think of is: if you were to read the line like you were saying it in normal, fairly fast speech, which syllables would have ever so slightly more oomph
? For example, the sentence "I want to go to the museum." to me sounds most natural as:

i WANT to GO to the muSEum

then for iambic you just see if that follows a pattern of unstressed/stressed (it doesn't here). An example that is iambic would be: "You'd rather eat than see the show?"

you'd RAther EAT than SEE the SHOW

Hope that's more helpful than hurtful! :)
So you desire that conservatives be victimized while proclaiming that they have no reason to feel like victims? Does your intent to victimize them not count?
> I wouldn't describe it as magic though, since both the implementation and the impetus are easy to understand.

That's fair, magic may have been a bit hyperbolic.

> [...] just like if readFile() were changed from returning a string to returning a File object

But that would change the semantics of the function, it literally changes the return type. My point is that adding `async` really just changes the meachanics of the function, not the semantics. If my function returned a string before, and I add `async`, it'll still return a string; just eventually. As a caller, I don't really care, I just want the darn string.

ometimes, as a caller, I do care, and that's exactly why I think have the caller decide when to run something async makes more sense. (There's a whole other discussion that could be had here about how JS promises are a poor async abstraction anyhow, but I digress.)

> But this isn't a subtle bug, it completely breaks as soon as readFile() is changed from sync to async, right?

No it's definitely subtle. In the example I gave, the code would use the default empty array value when there's an error reading the file, for whatever reason. For the happy path, it'll work just fine, though it probably wouldn't deal with invalid input very well. Change the mechanics of readFile to async though and it'll always return the default value, even though the semantics of readFile stays the same. It still returns a string, just eventually, but because the code expects a string, it'll always break because it gets a promise instead. Add `await` and it'll be fine, but now whatever function that code is in is async, and whatever function calls that needs to also `await`, ad nauseam.

> You don't seem like a bad programmer, which is why I'm skeptical of the example you gave.

Hey, thanks! :o)

To your point though, it's definitely representative of the kind of code I come across on a regular basis. Many a times have I had to help colleagues debug this kind of issue, and many a times have I shot myself in the foot in similar ways. In any case, JS async/await semantics are set in stone now, and it's probably too dynamic a language for something like implicit await to work (performantly) anyhow, as previously mentioned.

I appreciate you taking the time to discuss, it's nice being challenged on the actual topic, without it devolving into ad hominem nonsense. There are still good corners of the internet after all!
When you look at these types of things, does it bother you that, e.g., when you look at the "by country" view, that there is all kind of noise in the categories? For example, looking at the USA, under the "Region" class, hundreds of regions are listed that have nothing to do with the USA, let alone are relevant.

Just seeing that kind of thing makes me immediately question the accuracy and precision of the data if the creators didn't even conduct that rather basic due diligence. Which is also related to my inherent general concern regarding the data because it seems that everyone simply just accepts that data is not only accurate and precise, but that it has also not been manipulated and tampered with, even though currently there is very little way to verify the integrity of the data, let alone have it certified as accurate or even honest. What is considered a political ad? Is there any skullduggery going on where Facebook and others classify things they don't like incorrectly in order to manipulate things? etc

It's not like that is an unfounded concern and really should be a basic measure of journalistic integrity whether the data was evaluated or provenance was certified. There are some obvious and intentional distortions manipulative and abusive distortions that come to mind, ironically the most prominent one from the A D L that classified all manner of unrelated incidents as "right wing white supremacist extremism" in testimony to Congress an in general in public; including classifying two black people as white supremacists, classifying a domestic dispute as white supremacist, a murder of a cheating spouse as white supremacist, etc. all in order to pump up and manipulate data and impressions for political purposes. The A D L propaganda was discovered rather easily because their data set was rather limited and could be reviewed in mere seconds, but how do you have any confidence whatsoever in the data of this type of site, regardless of any kind of specific intention, let alone even unintentional manipulation and corruption of data?
It will be used to hide legitimate criticisms of political tweets mainly. This is a win for capital protection, nothing more.
> I'm failing to understand why someone would choose these "wet" cartridges that are mixed with other compounds, compared to just get a dry-herb vaporizer that you just put the marijuana in. Could some enligheten me?

Dry herb vaporizers are likely much more fragrant than their oil alternatives.
European Parliament approves continent-wide biometric database
Because those comments brought him to the attention of people who were not as familiar with his work. They then saw many comments about pedophilia and his behaviour towards women in the industry.

His comments about Minksy aren't enough to warrant the backlash. But his LONG history of poor behaviour absolutely is. He brought the spotlight ON HIMSELF by commenting on such a high profile case. That spotlight then listed all his flaws. Those flaws got him where he is today.
You should look into Notion.so. They don’t have inline TeX (yet?) but they do have block TeX.
Seriously, what not below average pilots? Assuming an even distribution (yes, which it might not be) then roughly half the pilots are below average. If the bottom 25% can't do it, that's a problem, no?
A few years back, they claimed to have withstood a SWAT raid.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190427013216/https://cyberbunk...
Oops, thank you! I wasn't completely sure about this either. But you may be right that the reasons are less sinister than they are!
Direct link to PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6432192/Vape-Cart...

Clean products: Orchid, Tikun, Select

Tainted products: Brass Knuckles "Sour Apple" and "Gushers", Heavy Hitters "Pineapple Express", Dank Vapes "Dole Whip" and "Lemon Berry", Cereal Carts "Trix", Exotic Carts "Mars OG", West Coast Carts "Hybrid" and "Indica", Mario Carts "Skunk OG"
I agree. Though I would also feel pretty disheartened if I got a call from them after that decision was made -

"Hey, we need someone of your skill level to come in and fly some test planes"

"...okay"
Ease of use. The idea of the cartridge is that you use it once and throw it away. A full vaporizer requires cleaning + can be very expensive. At the worst a new vape pen is $20-$40. It also fits in your pocket easily and looks like an e-cig / regular vape, many full THC vaporizers do not meet these criteria.

I actually have an expensive portable vaporizer, but much preferred using vape pens + carts.
I was thinking 'counterfeit' in terms of things like baby formula and plastic rice, which cause severe consequences when co-mingled with regular inventory. I believe that's the scenario the author was referring to. For things like knockoff handbags, the materials used are largely the same and the price premium is heavily dependent on brand itself and not the cost of production and regulatory compliance.
That's not Warren's description, just the description applied by the bimbo who wrote the verge article.
John Norris spoke about illegals aliens crossing the border then heading to californian national parks and using banned pesticides to grow cannabis . I always knew there would have been a connection
You're going off on a tangent based on semantics and speculation. Pilots who are competent at every basic skill, but don't have years of combat or test pilot experience or extensive experience on the plane in question absolutely exist and that's what we're talking about.
Odds are they'd be hiring people from Google to police Google. Brilliant.
Its all about portability. You can easily use these oil carts at theme parks, concerts, walking through your neighborhood without stinking of weed. Not only that, but they were getting real cheap (which could also be because they are black market). Dank Vapes carts were being sold for $25 to the end user (not wholesale). No way you are selling at that price without cutting corners in production.

So young kids see $25, no pipe/papers, ease of transport and hard to get caught.
PacketShield: A Tool for Superior DDoS Protection
Welcome to the Silicon Valley Startup Life: A Satire
It's also human nature to become murderously violent about various things, and to grab a club or bone and use it as a weapon to kill someone you don't like or because they have something you want. Humans managed to create "civlization" and "laws" and "police" to curb this negative part of human nature.

I don't see "human nature" as an acceptable excuse for anything at all.
They're massively more convenient. Dry herb vaporizers require me to reload the device every few hits and carry a supply of dry ground cannabis with me everywhere I go. The wet capsules last for hundreds of hits, and produce less scent both when in use and when inactive.

I've also found good capsule vaporizers to be more reliable than any of the four dry vaporizers I've purchased. But I have personally stopped buying black market vapes after I lost my supplier and the next few I was able to purchase immediately destroyed my lungs... :/
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
This sounds awesome. I am already using Netlify for all my sites (all Vue based) and it’s super fast, but I will definitely check this out, especially how the performance compares.

For my application at least, the only difference seems to be the build step on my machine and no link to the repository. Netlify handles that for me, but it does not look like Workers provides this. I have a case where I deploy the same site to different domains and just change some environment variables for the build. This would probably need to be scripted here. Not a deal breaker if the performance rocks.
I'm not a "Republican Techie" (I would classify myself as "left"-leaning), and I am suspicious of this because of that.

For me, I look at analogous examples where we have tried to build technical expertise in the government. One such reference point is the US Patent Office. Although they don't have a "small" workforce in absolute terms, they are overwhelmed with the number and kind of filings they get. You basically need to remain an expert in the field in order to do that job well, but it is very hard to remain an expert in the field if you are working at the USPTO instead of the field. It is also difficult to keep people in this position where if they are particularly creative or knowledgable they could alternatively be doing exciting meaningful work in the field. The result is ultimately what many of us complain about: nonsense patents getting through, patent trolls pushing people around, and a new vested interest in exploiting the patent office. Importantly, this is not to say that an ideal patent office wouldn't be a meaningful job: I think many of us here wish that we had "the best" working there to prevent these sorts of lapses (and potentially allow "good patents" -- not meaning to get into a discussion as to the validity of software patents in general, just saying that the hypothetical version of the patent office diverges significantly from the one we actually have).

I have a hard time believing this organization wouldn't work similarly. Would they coincidentally have a an expert on lattice encryption when quantum computers become a realistic threat to current schemes? Would the general leanings of career-members of the OTA (who thus have a somewhat "frozen" view of technology from whenever they started) create the opportunity to form some sort of regulatory capture? I don't know. Ultimately the solution is "if we had a group that really cared about the public good, then...".

My point is that I'd like for something like the OTA to be good, but I think practically speaking it won't have the effects we think it will. I am much more in favor of trying to create an adversarial counter-balance (or ideally multiple adversarial counter-balances). If I could somehow snap my fingers and grant the equivalent budget that this OTA would have to the EFF for example, I'd take that immediately. This is because things like this become issues maybe in one election, but ultimately get drowned out for a much more popular issue later. The forming of some government agency to "fix this" makes people feel like it is thus "fixed", instead of realizing that it is a constant battle we need to be actively engaged in -- that's what makes me feel like supporting groups like the EFF is more important and potentially more effective than creating some organization that could easily just be disbanded just like it was in the 90s and completely undone.
Ben Horowitz, when he was CEO at Loudcloud/Opsware, required his managers to read H.O. Management. Here's the foreword he wrote for a recent edition:

https://a16z.com/2015/11/13/high-output-management/
From the article it sounds like this is strictly an issue of it not being legal and regulated. The pesticides and contamination are present thanks to the black market.

It's absolute insanity in my view. We have people advocating for prohibition over safety concerns which is ironically creating the unsafe conditions in the first place. It's way past time that we legalize it nation wide, provide strict regulations to prevent pesticides / other contaminants from entering the market, and educate people on the dangers of buying from an unregulated black market.
> IMO the floor for PTO should be 28.

I have never seen a company (in the US) that offers that amount of PTO without having to have been working for them for a decade or two first.
My guess is that "formally correct" here means statements are logically connected into conclusions or potential suggestions. That's how I understood it at least.

>I don't believe there is any formal logic to prove whether it is or isn't appropriate to call something assault.

Iow, you believe that there is no proofs for harm of statutory rape. Why? (I don't understand your goodbye either.)
I know people are decrying the sudden exposure of years of actual issues (including warnings/remedial/probation), as well as skepticism about rumors that are floating around. None of this is new knowledge. I heard rumors about RMS floating back at Berkeley around 1999-2003.

So let's look at the worst case possible circumstance - that a man who repeatedly makes comments that are interpreted as pro-pedophilia and has a history of inappropriate conduct with young (albiet legal) women might actually act in ways that he has publicly justified.

In that circumstance, no one can say that the warning signals were not there. That would be on all of us, and leaving him in a position of power would continue the possibility of abuse.

For the FSF and GNU to have a future (as opposed to "open source"), they need to evolve beyond Stallman one way or other. Associating these institutions with Stallman going forward exposed them to the risk (worst case) of being the catholic church at Stallman's alter. At best, they are fighting a fight that has nothing to do with their primary mission.
WeChat isn't just a chat application. You can buy all sorts of things in WeChat - taxi trips, takeout, food off the menu of the restaurant you're sitting in, and on and on. Is Telegram trying to go this route?
I think you can get much higher ratios of CBD to THC in this format. This is what people with chronic pain and anxiety are looking for.
As someone who doesn't like it when Iran threatens to murder me and my people, I don't like that they hire terrorists to attack the world oil system while chanting death to me.

Crazy, I know.
I would guess that the skill distribution of licensed pilots is asymmetrical, if only because the tail end of bad pilots are not allowed to fly.
There's another good article on HN today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21085940

It's a less concrete essay about the technical specifics, but it communicates a lot about how poets think about their word choices. (Ignore the confusing title.)
How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?
That doesn’t mention PL/I, so it’s the competition for amateurs. https://www.cs.vu.nl/grammarware/browsable/os-pli-v2r3/:

Summary
Number of keywords: 310

PL/I made life ‘easier’ by not making keywords reserved, allowing you to use variable names that match the strings used to identify keywords, though, so you didn’t have to learn them all.
That certainly depends on the task and what 'better job' means.

For example, private enterprise can certainly make a lot of money providing health care but I'd be very disappointed if my country switched to privatized health care. I personally believe that the Government can do, and does, a better job than "the people" in providing me with health care.
Show HN: Codem Ipsum – Loremipsumify Your JavaScript
The benefit of "Wet" is that its concentrated. The THC % in vape carts are typically around the 75-85% range. Opposed to vaping dry herb which has THC content of 10-25%. Another benefit is that "wet" has far less smell compared to dry herb vapes when not in use making them easier to carry around and conceal.
This related video by Norton is quite interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CashAq5RToM
Yeah but that changes the semantics of the function, whereas `async` arguably just changes the mechanics. The promise itself is not interesting, it's whatever value it (eventually) returns. My point is that a language that had implicit await would let you go on making function as async as you want them to be, and callers would be none the wiser. It'd also allow the caller to decide when to run things asynchronously and even truly defer values, something which JS promises can't do since they immediately execute, but that's an altogether different discussion.
With the benefit of hindsight it looks obviously wrong, but without that the reasoning looks sound to me. IMHO, the failure lies in validating the analysis with realistic test conditions. They should be testing their assumptions against the worst pilots, not the best.
I don't really want a commuter car. I live in an area with lots of snow, and when there's not snow on the ground I'm often driving to areas with less-than-ideal roads (for rock climbing). The way I use my Tacoma would eat that car alive. :D
That is a bit worrying.
HN is a relatively simple, well understood web site, and there is an easy-to-use API that one can get access to without much ceremony. It's almost as common a "getting started" type project for a new front-end framework as creating yet another todo list app.

I've assigned it as a take-home project for job candidates before.
If Google tried to charge for background playback on desktop, the extensions would arrive within days. iOS allows Google to get away with it, but that's precisely the problem with iOS's model.

Besides, I don't want to install a separate app. It's a website, and I should be able to use my web browser.

Edit: Also, this patch doesn't just work on Youtube, it's for any video in Safari.
Yes, headlines usually could be written in many ways but the publication needs to pick one.
Because they are educated, they dismiss out of hand baseless viewpoints like faith-based science. Since the Republican party has pandered to groups that latch on to those ideas, these bureaucrats come off appearing like Democrats, even if their personal politics in the particular area they administer do not hew to the Democrats' party line. They may have wildly differing views on national security, education, market regulation, etc.; but an average Republican voter seeking to put creationism in the science classroom or who dismisses anthropogenic climate change will still think they are "coastal elite" Democrats.
Newt's rallying cry was always to reduce the size of government. The only way to do so was lean on the private sector, as things still needed to be done.

While the hope is those private contractors will just follow the contract and not let any bias seep in, it's inevitable. For the time, and to his agenda, closing the OTA seems like the correct move (for him and the party). Not sure if it was the best move overall, but, it did follow the mood and spirit of the Republicans at that time.

I'm no Warren fan (center/right so there is no one I actually support in 2020 right now - and I don't expect there will be) but it seems to me to ensure the people regain control of our government we (the American populace) must place less reliance on the private sector for such specialized tasks. The private sector use should be more towards the mundane tasks of government. Such specialized areas like tech have to separated from the firms who would benefit from whatever actions and effects they make upon our government.