skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this former friend is still walking the streets please file a police report in regards to the child pornography. I know its difficult to put yourself out there but it needs to be done.
Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 – Arduino, Cyclone 10 FPGA, MiniPCI Express, MicroHDMI
I thought "generic breakfast cereal" is "quick oats"?
I am shocked, shocked to find that monopolies are colluding to support each other.
You might be interested to know that your notion of a successful macro-economic policy has been thoroughly tried throughout history, and has been deemed a colossal failure, see e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
> Can you identify a friendly or sick or lazy dog just by looking? No.

Yes you can do that. To put it extremely simply: define what "friendly", "sick", and "lazy" means in terms of behavior, then observe the dog's behaviors.
Because they don't have to EEE Linux

If you want to run Linux in the cloud, you've got a bunch of providers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc)

Microsoft simply wants to be in that market, so they'll offer the same products their competition does. Anything they can do to make Linux better on Azure is considered a net gain for them
I think the jury is still out on swaddling: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/to-swaddle-or...
What password is assigned if you inadvertently click "add password" with the password box still empty?
If you click "add password" without first entering a password in the box, the site is locked behind an unknown password. You can't login with an empty password, nor with "password"...
Increasing the price should reduce consumer surplus, not increase it.

If the manufacturer of an item increases its price and thus their profit from it, then in principle the increased profit can drive them to manufacture more of the item, avoiding deadweight loss due to insufficient supply. However, that doesn’t apply if a reseller is the one making the profits! And in any case, some of the concrete examples cited (tickets to concerts and Broadway musicals) have an essentially fixed supply; it’s hard or impossible to simply increase production.

Separately, moving goods toward those willing to pay more for them is to some extent equivalent to moving them toward those who care more about them, which could be said to improve efficiency in terms of how much personal happiness is gained per unit. However, it also moves the goods toward those who are simply wealthier. And there are other possible proxies for personal interest besides price, ones that aren’t as affected by wealth. One of them is a person’s willingness to research in advance when certain tickets will go on sale, and be online at that time to snag them before they sell out – in other words, the system that bots are used to subvert. This system has its own biases (favoring those who are organized, have more flexible schedules, or are simply in a more favorable timezone), but it‘s still considered to be reasonably fair, at least when it’s not being subverted.
I don't think nicotine has been shown to be carcinogenic in humans, although there's plenty of other bad things it does.
Amiga Keyboards: The A2000 Had Them All
If you're using bc for the first time, be aware that you almost certainly want to run bc -l -- otherwise no decimals will be displayed and you'll get whole number answers to everything.

The -l flag changes that behavior to instead use 20 decimal points.
I did nothing. It's easy and natural. Just be a good person.
I thought a qubit could also be implemented with current going around a superconductor loop. Is that incorrect?
Hey, at least he read the article.
What you said here was literally my point. Maybe you misunderstood me?
Who's the manager?
This is a drag on international productivity. I see this all the time with Excel sheets made with data from various business processes (invoice numbers, ID strings, etc.). I can’t believe Excel doesn’t have a switch for “please don’t maim my data” in 2019, but I can’t find it.
CSS was originally intended as some kind of general-purpose document layout mechanism. It sucked at that at the beginning and ESPECIALLY sucked at web-application layout. Admittedly, part of the reason was because browser-makers would not play nice together and with standards.

Meanwhile, desktop application developers have ALWAYS enjoyed decent, predictable layout mechanisms. It is so frustrating that it took the web-based world 2 decades to get their shit together.

CSS-grid is built into the CSS standard itself and should have been there from the beginning. It took way too long, but I am glad it's here now.
I'm well aware that many economically illiterate people like to scaremonger about scalping.

That doesn't make them right.
NASA Commits to Long-Term Artemis Missions with Orion Production Contract
I checked this out and I'll definitely be ordering some soon. Surprised this isn't more popular.
There is no such thing as "generic" cereal because it has no guaranteed stock ingredients.

You have a white-label producer, and many store-brands that simply slap a label on that white-label product.

Obviously if the goal is to sell a product that's cheaper than the name-brand (Kellog's in this case), it's clear that's a race-to-the-bottom in terms of quality
Creation as well, of course. I doubt there are all that many products that constituents actively lobby for before they're available/invented.
>Microsoft had licensing specialists that the channel could call for help, but if you called them twice or more for the same case you would never get the same answer twice.

Do they preface with a "I'm not a lawyer" disclaimer and claim that anything they say is non binding?
Lionel Messi Becomes the World Best Player for the Sixth Time
I've been losing weight using a keto diet, which is very low-carb:

- No more than 20g of NET carbs per day. (Carb grams minus soluble fiber grams in the US; food labels in other countries may already show Carb grams with the fiber subtracted out.)

- Protein depends on your lean body mass, age, sex, and activity level. See https://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/

- Fat depends on your goals and hunger. If you're trying to maintain your current weight, eat enough fat to satisfy your hunger after the carbs and protein. If you're trying to lose weight, eat less fat than that. And if you're trying to gain weight, eat more.

The limit on NET carbs guides you towards high-fiber plants, and away from sugar, most flours and other refined carbs, and starchy plants like potatoes and rice. It also limits the amount of fruit you can have, because of their high sugar content. (Occasional berries is your best option.) You'll also end up gluten free, because anything with gluten is going to be too many carbs.

It takes a week or two for most people to get past the carb-addiction cravings when starting this, and you'll feel like an addict in withdrawal. Electrolytes help. Pickle juice is great. After a month or so, you start feeling a lot better.

A helpful welcoming community can be found at /r/keto
Know that fresh babies come out a dark red purple colour. I didn't know, and given the complications we had in childbirth, there was a good 30 seconds where I thought my baby was stillborn.

Also, if your baby doesn't sleep well, nobody will truly understand your hell.
> The issue is that as a society we've (mostly) decided that unfairly classifying someone based on correlated but non-causal characteristics is wrong, EVEN in the extreme that you're right more often than you're wrong if you make that assumption.

That sounds like the wrong basis for calling it extreme. It's not at all extreme to say that classifying an interview candidate based on correlated but non-causal characteristics is wrong, regardless of the statistical significance of those correlations.
We're exploring using server side blazor for a desktop app. You just bundle the "server" right into the app together with a webview to show your UI. No performance issues because there's only ever one user and you're not relying on a network (or mono or wasm). More exciting, it feels like C# in the browser, but there's no sandbox or threading limitations to speak of. So far it's pretty awesome.
Or Alpine Linux. I believe it's already one of the best-regarded distributions for the container space, and it uses OpenRC, not systemd.
August Was Pokemon Go's Biggest Revenue Month in 3 Years
Most adtech is RTB (real-time bidding) where ad slots are auctioned off and filled as you load the page. SO (and publishers) have no real control over the ad payload that comes back. There has been progress to use sandboxed iframes but there's still JS running inside those placements.

The JS won't be going away, it's part of a long supply chain of data, verification, viewability, anti-fraud and other layers baked in. For those saying publishers should do 1st party ads, that would lose them most of their income due to operational and sales overhead and doesn't really prevent everything anyway because they still have to accept the ads advertisers want to run, including the JS from vendors.

However the situation is slowly improving. Adtech has weathered through adblocking, native ads, anti-tracking tech but has failed to police itself because of a lack of consequences. Now there's finally regulatory pressure with GDPR, CCPA, and more that will finally force a change from the outside. I expect many of these issues to be greatly reduced within the next 1-3 years.
i perused the article and saw nowhere that it said that this would only be used at red lights, which i'd oppose, since that's relatively safer (to look at a phone) than while actually driving (perfect shouldn't be the enemy of better).

apparently some cameras are fixed and some are mobile, but presumably they're checking cars that are both moving and stationary (if it so happens to be in view of the camera when/where it stops).

distracted driving is a real problem, and phones are a large part of that problem. genuine efforts at curbing distracted driving are welcome, as long as we don't have to trade away all our privacy in the process. i'm generally against camera surveillance for that reason.

in any case, continuing improvements in voice control will go a long way toward reducing distracted driving via mobile devices.
Allele misassignment is another rampant issue. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154681?dopt=Abstract
For me, unless I have a fixer or plan to return many times, there are situations that I end up "seeing less" without a phone (or at least a good book that explains the culture).

A place is not just a place. There are many layers on top of it. A phone lets you explore those layers by googling (at least this is how I travel). This is especially true of modern technological societies where there are layers of society you cannot interact with without a phone.

See something culturally weird? Google it and read the explanation. Stuff happening in another part of town? Phone tells you about it.

I write stories about my travels, and pictures help me recall those experiences after the fact (and notice new details). This isn't everyone but it's me.

Goes to show that saying a piece of tech categorically enhances or diminishes an experience is bound to invite disagreement--because it depends on who's using it.

I don't think it was the author's intention to polarize, but travel touches a raw nerve for many because for many it is an aspirational/elevating experience. Any prescription, especially those contrary to the lived experiences of many, is bound to be emotionally charged -- it's not a take it or leave it kind of opinion.

p.s. for me personally, I've traveled many years with/without phone (I'm Gen X) -- and for me, having a phone has undeniably led to a richer, deeper experience.
> You'd need a heck of an umbrella to block all that sunlight. Seriously, cooling it down via solar blockage is about the only way you could ever make Venus livable. Followed by massive removal of CO2 on the now-icy surface.

This is part of a plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, definite recommend if you want some reading about terraforming.

> Also- here me out here- basketball on Mars will be insane. Venus still has, what, 80% of earth's gravity? Boring.

Even better, lunar water polo.
Or perhaps they are interested in optimizing the process for something different than what you are optimizing for.
Facebook reveals which currencies will back Libra cryptocurrency
This is a super cool idea. But the beats are kind of glitchy and bad? Maybe it's a genre that I'm not familiar with...
> Then why are Amazon and Microsoft counted among the 4 surveillance companies the OP?

Perhaps because they both have surveillance as part of their business models?

> Also it is arguable if behavioral targeting meaningful increases revenue over day, keyword targeting.

I never made any comment about the revenue impact of various forms of advertising. I was merely stating the plain fact that advertising can be done without spying on people, and an ad company that works this way would not count as a "surveillance company".
Proper search. Reading lists for progress and archives. Friends to follow. Book clubs/groups. Reviews and forums to discuss books. Recommendations and charts to find new books.
You can't throw a simple text format over TCP if there's no TCP or IP or Ethernet to throw it over!

It probably relies Windows because it provides a sane abstraction over a large set of network card drivers, and a system-wide TCP/IP stack.
OK, but aren't most Alpine instances running in containers hosted by Linux instances using systemd?
In the last year I've begun pausing slightly before pulling into an intersection when the light just turned green. I don't care to be t-boned by someone failing to get through before it turned red.

I've also started glancing left & right going through the green even if it's been green a while.

Once the traffic in front of me stopped suddenly, I stopped, and the truck behind me didn't and totaled my car, nearly killing me. Since then I glance in the rearview mirror when I have to stop hard, which paid off one day when I figured the guy behind me wasn't going to stop in time, I pulled off onto the shoulder, and he hit the car in front of me.
Increasing price only reduces consumer surplus when it's the same consumers who buy. This is not the case when there's a shortage of tickets at the original sale price, which is the only scenario where scalping is profitable.

Scalping unambiguously increases Kaldor-Hicks efficiency under a simple model. You can argue that efficiency isn't the best way to be fair, and it's fairer to someone to not have a ticket due to random luck rather than being priced out, perhaps. But scalping increases efficiency, which is all I claimed.
And this is where using pain meds can help. Get the pain down to a lower level and then you can attempt to do normal functions. Key being not so much pain reduction that you can cause physical harm (masking good pain response).

I know (second hand) what chronic pain can do to the desire to get up and function. It destroys it.

My SO has lived with it for almost 20 years now, and is due to live with it the rest of her life.

There is no cure for her condition. You cannot fix the root cause (sympathetic nerve dysfunction)
She can only hope to numb the signals to allow her to see past the pain.
So this sentence is uncontroversial? Somehow I never came across this idea in my genetics PhD.

> The main stabilizer of the DNA double helix is not the base-pair hydrogen bonds but coin-pile stacking of base pairs, whose hydrophobic cohesion, requiring abundant water, indirectly makes the DNA interior dry so that hydrogen bonds can exert full recognition power.
It is illegal if the website’s TOS for making a purchase prohibits the use of automated software.

It doesn't matter if it's legal, it matters if the website owner doesn't want x doing y on their site. A bot consistently not abiding by owners' intent is inheritly malicious.
Good. Actions like Chef's create a business opportunity for the rest of us. There's nothing wrong with working with defense and security sector. When SV companies refuse to enter this sector, they create a vacuum for others to fill and profit.

This sector is important. Quality is essential. The stakes are high. I'd rather the work get done by people who are proud to do it than by people who detest the whole enterprise. Which do you think is going to lead to higher quality?

Thank you, Chef.
When journald logfile corruption occurs, it's detected and it starts writing a new logfile.

When flatfile logfile corruption occurs, it's not detected and there are multiple logfile formats to contend with. And multiple haphazard logrotate configs.

Here's how to use a separate process to ship journald logs - from one file handle - to a remote logging service: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394822/how-should-i...

While there is a systemd-journal-remote,
it's not necessary for journald to try and replicate what's already solved and tested in rsyslog and syslog-ng.

It's quite a bit more work to add every new service to the syslog-ng or rsyslog configuration than to just ship one journald log.

Furthermore, service start/stop events are already in the same stream (with the same timestamp format) with the services' stdout and stderr.

Why hasn't anyone written fsck for corrupted journald recovery?

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I have not needed to makedev and chown and chatted and chcon anything in very many years. When you accidentally newbishly delete something from a static /dev and rebooting doesn't work and you have no idea what the major minor is or was, it sucks bad.

When you're trying to boot a system on a different machine but it doesn't work because the NIC is in a different bus, it's really annoying to have to symlink /dev or modify /etc. With udevd, all you need to do is define a rule to map the busid device name to e.g. eth0. I can remember encountering the devfs race condition resulting in eth0 and eth1 being mapped to different devices on different boots; which was dangerous because firewall rules are applied to device names.

Udev has been in the kernel since 2.6.

"What problems does udev actually solve?"
https://superuser.com/questions/686774/what-problems-does-ud...

With integrated udev and systemd,
I have no reason to run a separate hotplugd with a different config format (again with no cgroup support) and a different logstream.
As a non-Goodreads user, can you help me understand what Goodreads does poorly and what your website does correctly?
Something I didn't realise, along with how much sleep babies need, is that they don't know that the solution to being tired is to go to sleep. I just assumed that if they were tired they would sleep. But they don't know how to go to sleep, or that the horrible feeling of being tired is solved by going to sleep, so they just get wound up instead.
Luckily a Juul prosecution requires little political capital, since the value of political capital has gone to nearly zero as the elected part of the federal government has tumbled into complete dysfunction.
Interesting. From what I remember of Go's generics proposal, they seemed to be trying to do something similar, which seemed a bit hacky to me (as you say, it addresses the error reporting issue but it's difficult to see how the constraints would be used to actually check the generic code, so functions can presumably still lie about being "for all types").

EDIT: actually, Go's generics proposal probably doesn't have that issue, since the contracts are restricted enough to derive type declarations from them.

Looking into it now, Nim apparently has experimental support for the same feature: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#concepts
Nicotine by itself doesn’t seem categorically different than caffeine (coffee, tea, yerba mate, guarana, ...) or other stimulants (khat, coca leaves, ginseng, cinnamon, ...). Yes these are generally addictive, but not necessarily life ruining. Dosage, frequency of use, etc. matters a lot.

Frequent long-term use of any stimulant is probably not great for you; e.g. my mother has a pretty severe coffee addiction (she typically drinks 4–8 cups per day), and gets headaches and shakes if she goes a couple days without. But compared to other kinds of drugs, it doesn’t seem like such a huge public health threat that we should freak out about it.
Yeah, I've switched over almost entirely, to Aleppo soap or olive oil soaps from Greece (which seem to not have the laurel oil present in Aleppo soap), and am very happy. Skin feels a lot less taut and dry than it used to, to give an unscientific opinion.
That would only be unfair to the calculator manufacturers:) TI makes a lot of money so do book publishers.
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Well, political capital is a two-way street; it comes in debts and credits. Dealing with statistical non-issues like this only allows the DoJ (and perhaps, to a lesser extent, the FTC, which is also named in this article as part of the investigation) to claim to be doing something, while the real issues go unresolved.

The auto industry and the pharma industry, whose products kill huge numbers of kids, and who have both repeatedly taken actions in pursuit of profit without regard for the health and safety effects of those decisions, never seem to face any serious, lasting consequences.

The "rash of injuries and deaths" link in the article is a 404, but let's assume they are talking about the six deaths over the past two-and-a-half years. During that same time, 30,000 people have died from opiod overdose and 70,000 have died from MV traffic.

This is a distraction, and not even a convincing one.

Our public lawyers, lawmakers, regulators, and consumer advocates are spending their time and resources focused on really stupid things as a way not to have to talk about real life.
The only technology needed to solve bad/dangerous driving is a cheap camera phone.

Allow people to turn in video of people violating traffic laws in public places for money. Receive more money if it leads to prosecution/fine.

Rewards split amongst all who submit videos.

Big bonus if person is DUI/OUI/OWI prosecuted.

If it's too much to have just anyone do this, then have some sort of minimal-requirements program where you sign up, pay $X, get registered and a permit, and do it.

This can help homeless people.
Maybe I'd believe that if they stopped saying things like scalping harms the producer, and acknowledged that they want a less efficient market.
Good. People in Australia don't take driving seriously. I spend a lot of time on the road, and have lived all over Australia, and the one defining thing I've found in common all over the country is that people are WAY too casual about driving.

Sydney and Melbourne being the worst by far, with it being so bad it has become entertainment[0]

On any given commute you'll see dozens of people playing with their phone while doing 110km/h down the freeway, doing make-up, eating cereal out of bowl, reading, blowing red lights (not "late orange" but "it already went red and now the other direction who got a green have to hit the brakes to not get t-boned", ignoring lane lines, ignoring indicators, and/or ignoring the existence of any/every rule or nearby vehicle.

It's like a national sport. How much of a dickhead can you be in your car then get violently angry if anyone dares even tap their horn at you to remind you the light has been green for 30 seconds now and you're still flicking through Facebook.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/user/DashCamOwnersAustral
"without government regulation, there would be no legal oversight of markets"

"without government, markets would be a chaotic mess"

No one said those things. You've proved wrong claims that nobody made.
Twitter now prohibits financial scams on its platform
See the post on content blockers from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025252
The long name is "lane filtering".

I've seen an increase of motorcycle cops lane filtering at traffic lights, looking into the laps of the drivers. If there's a phone there, they're booked.