skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even if for a short duration

Nobody will unwind their balance sheets in any substantial or meaningful way, ever. QT ending because asset values came down 10% from all time historical highs should make this abundantly clear. It's a post-2008 world, and the new mandate is to smash that VIX to zero.

Every central bank on the planet is engaged in this competitively, and none of them will stop until they manage to destroy their respective currencies. Bear in mind that the 100 year Austrian bond yields close to 1%, so the smart money is betting that it will take over a century for this to ever end.
"When Fed Fixes Repo Markets, Don’t Call It QE: Brian Chappatta" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-23/when-t...
One ring to rule them all?

All that is missing is an Amazon Echo Loop Nose Edition. Bear with me...

It's mounted right above your mouth, so you never have to raise your hand to your face - pfft, how exhausting right? You tap it with your tongue to activate (if you're flexible enough). And, it just vibrates, making your nose itch, when you have a notification.

To charge it, along with your ring, eyeglasses, ear pods, watch, phone, laptop, and smart socks, you will need another usb port. But luckily, you can charge this one in your sleep. Just mount the magnetic charger right to your face. So convenient! Battery lasts all day! (6 hours)
It’s really quite simple. The author of the post, CTO at Mindright in the Audible building in Newark, was staying with a friend who is a leader of the leadership team of Mindright who also happens to rent his bedrooms out on AirBnb. That friend had a guest who overstayed their welcome. This happened in Brooklyn at 4pm, but it wasn’t until 1am that the police removed the guest. Four cats remained in the rented room and we aren’t sure what happened to them as of yet.
The title was taken from the HTML title automatically from HackerNews script. It seems there is a discrepancy.
With NSA's expert testimony, the FBI could legitimately claim that was BS and provide collection hardware to "assist" them. ;)
Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal, and was known as predatory pricing.

The Sherman Act and the Clayton Act are no longer enforced in the post Citizens United world, i.e. legal US corruption: kochtopus, dark money, super-pac, 501-c-3 foundations and institutes, etc.
It wouldn't have been downvoted if you were clear and helpful rather than giving people homework.
Lately, I just bury my face in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
It's the same principle as fast food. A McDonalds hamburger is very different from a "normal" burger - but it's cheaper, quicker, more standardized, and someone has to use the trimmings. There are a few edge cases who like burgers but hate McDonalds, but for most people it's close enough to be a suitable replacement.
It seems more appropriate to me to start punishing spammers rather than holding platforms accountable for their customer’s behavior.
No one seems to be addressing the fact that these frames are just damn ugly.

Luxottica, while a profiteering monopoly, at least has a zillion different styles. And would you spoil the look of your $500 glasses with some clip on doodad?
How is this implemented technically? Does TikTok know what every video is saying through speech recognition?

What if I unfurl a Free Tibet flag in my video (visual only)
Repudiating the deal that was made with the EU makes it impossible to negotiate a better one. The first rule of negotiating anything is that you have to establish trust that you are willing and able to fulfill what you agree to. It's not a rule that is imposed by the other party, but by logic, which means there is nothing that the EU can concede that would help.
Oh it's the _regulation_ that's the problem, not the inability of banks to not overleverage themselves.
I’ve also found that the microphone is pretty good so I can use a lower volume than I would in a conversation, which leads me to believe that most folks aren’t even aware that I’m speaking.
When I went vegetarian ~4 years ago I didn't feel noticably better either. But I eat meat when I go overseas - and after a week meat one or two meals a day I feel properly rubbish.

Being vegetarian has made my weight much easier to manage too - which is a helpful additional benefit.
I think they’re serious but obviously poking fun at the incongruence where we castigate Chinese apps but are fine having domestic companies engage in similar behavior except it's not at the behest of the gov.
What if your phone ran out of power though?
It seems like it could easily be combined with or even integrated into a maps API like Google Maps. Plot the route and plug the length into the formula. I guarantee it's simpler than Uber's formula.
While I am no fan of banks, I don't think that (unless we go to negative rates in the U.S., which while not as impossible as it once seemed, still seems off the table here) it makes much difference to savers if they are getting very nearly 0%, or very, very nearly 0%. In both cases, even our modest inflation is an order of magnitude greater, so for all practical purposes they are getting a real interest rate of -1x(the inflation rate).

Not that there's not problems with what, I agree, is in many ways QE4. Just that a number very near to 0 getting divided by 2 is not really the biggest one.
He drilled it from the side. The preview picture from the video clearly shows the entire mechanism sideways on the table.
Maybe you didn't realize how much more polarized lenses cost to make previously because the price was so inflated.
If money were the only incentive to life no one would become a schoool teacher. Your summary is missing something.
I've been thinking the same thing from those around me who have started diets and "felt better" or lost weight.

From my observation, it seems that people go on a diet because they know what they're eating isn't good for them or its too high in calories or it goes against their beliefs or something. So people are already suspicious of what they're eating but aren't overly thinking about what they're eating. By going on a diet you now need to think about what you're eating in order to meet the requirements of the proposed diet and therefore you are being more conscious about what you will and won't eat.

By doing this you are already a step ahead of people who might eat whatever they feel like which may include lots of highly processed high fat and/or high carbohydrate foods every now and then or more than they realise.

So when people say they went keto, or went paleo, or cut out sugar, or cut out fat and lost weight and/or felt better. I always ask them was it actually the diet, or was it because you were simply conscious and considerate about what you were eating due to the fact that you were trying to fit to a particular diet.
open-lora would be nice
Instant messaging (Kik, Discord, Slack) has totally different uses cases than Reddit, which is more like a forum.
Thanks. Some of the syntax seems rather arbitrary, but maybe just to my layman eyes...

var
child: tuple[name: string, age: int]

but

type
Color = enum cRed, cBlue, cGreen

why not

type
Color = enum[cRed, cBlue, cGreen]
My whole argument was premised on const not having anything to do with mutability.
No offense intended, but I really don't know how it's possible to write a forum with so many vulnerabilities. Forums aren't exactly rocket science. It's basic input validation and you're good to go. Many recent functions (in PHP) already sanitize input even if you forget. So things like parametrized SQL queries and browser same origin policies really help limit the attack surface.

I find it depressing that vBulletin has been getting hacked for so long that it's literally outlived several of the major vulnerability disclosure websites that have historically published exploits about it (like milw0rm -- still an amazing theme, btw.) Maybe PHP should throw warnings about eval and recommend an alternative function purely for expressions instead. In Python apparently eval evaluates expressions for a result and exec would do what PHP's eval would do instead. Something like that for PHP would be better than nothing.
Time deciding if you can/should rebind a variable or not is a waste of developer time.
I personally think all speech should be free except those that advocate violence or break the law.
Ah yes. The 'ole never ending FOMO appeal of social media.

You aren't missing out on what you don't know about. You are enjoying life without it.
Meh... I want to see the implementation first.

Without a GPS doesn't provide too much utility. With a GPS would probably need very frequent charging.
The value prop isn't for the consumer, it's for Amazon. Stuffing Alexa into anything and everything means more usage overall and a more attractive platform for companies looking to sell their wares.
Hmm except that’s what the Colombian military has been doing for almost two decades.

At least 10 head commanders of FARC were killed through out the years, when the Colombian Military found their location and bombed their camps deep in the jungle.
Sensible isn’t really the right word here. It’s sensible to buy a support contract. It’s charitable and good PR to give them money.
For Fortran I see

fortran-77 pl 1977
fortran-8x pl 1989
fortran-90 pl 1990

but not the earlier Fortran 66 aka Fortran IV and the later standards Fortran 95, 2003, 2008, and Fortran 2018. Numerous Fortran 95 compilers exist, and Cray, gfortran, IBM, Intel, and NAG have implemented much of Fortran 2008, according to http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Fortran+2008+status .
Arresting someone is always a good thing to do. They tried it in the Soviet Union in 1937. Worked like a charm.

I have a question though: do we arrest everyone who fail to perform, or only bankers?

For example, our county recently had to pay 16 million to the family of the guy who was killed because of a faulty traffic light. Should our county executive go to prison?

Also my train was late this morning by 40 minutes due to what they called "equipment failure". Should a person responsible for maintaining the equipment be arrested as well, or execution in front of the passengers would be a better measure here?
Everyone in Hollywood was convinced it was Avid. Turns out, it was actually Chrome.
Because a type declaration is declaring multiple identifiers. Each of the enum variants is a legal name.

The tuple declaration is declaring one identifier with multiple fields. The names of the field are only legal as, well, fields of the outer object.
The paragraph was a chronological account of when techniques were introduced with accompanying citations. The 1998 paper in the preceding sentence would lead the reader to believe that low discrepancy sampling came after the robust sampling methods (and potentially even that low discrepancy sampling was a new technique). Both have had further work that continues to this day, and both are much more complex and well-understood today.

> desperate to be dismissive

How is clarifying what I was commenting on "desperate"? I feel like you're trying to escalate here.
It's basically what the Apple Watch already does.
Ask HN: What new technology do you think won't make sense to you in 20 years?
Let's say there's a concrete divide between people that 'get' abstract thinking (through exposure and practice) and those who don't. Call it the difference between 'programmers' or 'engineers' and 'non-engineers'. I'm thinking of that nebulous thing that makes engineers different - systems thinking maybe? The thing that makes us inmates in the asylum, so to speak (referring to the book here) -- the thing people talk about when they say that programmers are bad at UI design.

Often as an engineer I catch myself thinking that given enough research, engineers can 'system-out' an understanding to almost anything. I expect to be doing that for the rest of my life; non-stop learning is part of the profession.

It does make me wonder (and this is the question I'm throwing out there) -- what do you all think the next divide is going to be? Do you think there's a technology you'll look at in 20 years time, with the same bewilderment that 'non-engineers' look at us with, while your kids who have grown up with it can't fathom why you can't understand it?

The closest I can think of for me is quantum computing; that seems different. I've read a fair bit about it and yet it still seems fundamentally alien to me. With regular programming, I can 'run the program in my head'. With quantum computing, I can't even seem to create a mental model of how it works or what you'd do with it.

So, what do you think the next fundamental shift in technology and thinking will be?
An interesting observation, but the description of how the effect might work was a bit hand-wavy.

A very precise and plausible explanation of the effect at the level of specific hormones released can be found here:

https://www.bbdnutrition.com/2018/06/08/the-perils-of-food-p...

Another likely cause is that highly-processed foods often contain seed oils, which usually have high levels of linoleic acid. One of the effects of linoleic acid (amongst many others) is to increase appetite:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30261617
Job ads on Facebook discriminated against women and older workers
The "I don't do social media" people who are all over Hacker News and other forums are like the "I Don't Watch TV" people who watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube on their iPhones all evening.
No, the purpose was to make it affordable for poor people to send letters and packages to richer countries, with the assumption that traffic both ways would be roughly equal. The UPU and its tariff agreements way predate online shopping and the concept that it would ever be feasible for somebody in the US to order items from a shop in China with a few clicks of a button.
This isn’t a very good analogy.

In a just world, nobody would go hungry, nor would anyone die prematurely or suffer needlessly due to lack of care. We can obviously afford both, in this country, just like they can everywhere else in Europe or Canada. So this entire argument about insurance is a straw man.

It’s not the doctors who set up this world. It’s people who want to pay less taxes, but blame doctors.
It is, in a way, the idea behind Borge's “Analytical Language of John Wilkins”: https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.ht...
Wake up 11, work until 5 or 6, repeat.
Security isn't about preventing someone from breaching the "lock".

It's the level of difficulty (measured in time) that it takes to breach the "lock".

That being said, given unlimited resources; no lock is unbreachable.
This whole decade is desperate
> If I liked Alexa... I could see myself being into this product.

Whether you like it or not you will be in their product if people are walking around in public or at work while wearing these. Isn't the future great?
npm must return the kik project to Azer now!

https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np...
It could be a matter of size, but it's since the charging port isn't on the earbuds itself it might not matter.

usb-c connectors are (8.4mm x 2.6mm) whereas micro-a is (6.85mm x 1.8mm) and micro-b is (6.85mm x 1.8mm)

It might just be a matter of simplicity, since USB-C seems to have a larger surface area for the spec, but I don't really know if that's the case.
Excellent! China has been abusing this system far too long.
While I do agree that this particular case may have some issues I still think that having a good starting point for people newly introduced to the ecosystem is invaluable.

Cookiecutter's pypackage repo [0] isn't necessarily standard either but it does provide a lot of helpful boilerplate and 'best-practices' that are hard to integrate after the fact.

[0] https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage
Short term CD rates have hovered around 2%. They are not completely liquid but if you are saving for the medium term, they are a valid investment vehicle.
Maybe one day we'll have software-controlled corrective lenses, and then they can take over-the-air updates to subtly enlarge and sharpen certain logos...
None of my aunties ever mentioned where the tea came from. That wasn’t a thing. https://www.dhakatribune.com/business/2018/02/20/value-addit...

> “In the past, people used to drink normal black tea. But now, they are not satisfied with the normal tea and moved to organic and value added products, concerned about their health benefits and taste,” SM Didarul Hasan, senior manager (marketing) of MM Ispahani Limited, told the Dhaka Tribune.

“Normal black tea” is what everyone drank when I lived there. “Normal black tea” was universal and egalitarian, instead of individualistic and self indulgent. Appropriately conformist and British.
Cloudflare WARP is an easy-to-use free VPN which protects your IP address from businesses who haven't paid Cloudflare yet.

Companies like InfoUSA can convert 95% of US IP addresses to physical addresses and household resident names. By inserting themselves in the network between users and websites, Cloudflare will soon be able to get a chunk of InfoUSA's advertising profits.

Remember, if you aren't paying for it then you are the product.

Stay away from Cloudflare WARP and use a real VPN.
The last example is the best - that making your service hard to cancel means your customer's enduring memory is of pain. And it validates the customer's decision to leave, because there must be other better options if you are so desperate to stop them going.

When a customer phones up to cancel, we do it immediately and make sure they know there are no hard feelings on our side. We ask if there was anything we could have done better, and tell them we'll still be here if they ever need us again. We get a significant number of customers return.
Consider going back now that you have given them that scathing Yelp review. That way you'll be able to have better steaks and feel vindicated. Heck, dump on them on Google too, and write to the local newspaper just before V day (old people read those letters!). If you have any impact it will at least be to have fewer competitors for a table. Heck, pay money to have them given bad reviews, it's really cheap.

Yes I'm being tongue in cheek here, but try not to cut off your nose to spite your face.

V day and M day are the absolute worst times to go out for dinner, anywhere half decent is full and the kitchen is super stressed so they have reduced menus that are easier to cook (not possible with steak...). If you must go, you have to speak to the manager beforehand, tell them how important this is, remind them you come often, get a specific table, etc.
Give Proxyman (https://proxyman.io/) a try, which is a better alternative for Fiddler and Charles Proxy.
UAE remains preferred location for SMEs
I think it's very unlikely that older Android tablets are supported by their manufacturers.

Of the 9 tablets and 8 phones in my sock drawer purchased since 2012, only the iPad Pro 10.5", Kindle Fire HDs, and Galaxy S8 are subject to continued upgrades. The rest are likely vulnerability Petri dishes that should never be allowed on the internet unless unlocked and moved to community builds (for the Android devices).
Oh, so your taxes will be lower now?
+/- 6kg is basically water. 1kg of fat is 8800kcal - 4 days of average adult's caloric intake. There's no way to lose 6kg in a week unless what you've lost is almost entirely water.
Gyokuro is supposed to be high grade tea leaves grown in the shade, which are then ground into powder. (This is basically how matcha is made.)

By contrast, the tea dust that Lipton uses is the leftovers when all the higher-grade roasted whole leaves have been taken out, and it's quite literally the worst/cheapest grade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_leaf_grading
Yeah but do amazon build a backdoor for police into your glasses like they did for amazon ring?
Show HN: Engaged Citizens – Local Government Meetings Made Searchable
Twilio SendGrid
Mindless rambling and scarecrow arguments.
Student loan crisis helped Army leaders exceed recruiting goals this year
Amazon doesn't use minimum wage employees for that, they use "contractors" and if they get them overseas they don't even have to pay them minimum wage!
> except not at the behest of the gov

Not so sure about that. Silicon Valley has some crazy ties to American intelligence agencies.
Why shouldn't doctors and the medical industry take the blame in the US? They artificially limit the supply of Doctors in the US and have the audacity to claim that building more medical schools will ruin their already lucrative careers.

The whole industry is a shame.
Any chance NIM will get memory safety like Rust?
It's a bad practice according to Google, but not forbidden.

https://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-id...
I think we've seen years in drift, if only momentarily. Reasons unknown. In distributed systems, you can't trust the system clock for ordering of events.
Every time something new and exciting comes out from these guys (AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, etc.), it's like HN (as a whole) forgets about all privacy, etc.

So, Echo spies. We know that. And now we're (the at least 117 upvotes so far) OK with putting Echo directly into our ears? And barely anyone in the comments section seems to care either... what is going on in here?
The linked publication is The Guardian, which has much wider readership than HN.
After a late night out, a man in an English town walks up to a traffic crossing at 2 AM. After waiting a couple minutes for the cross walk light to turn green, he looks both ways and notices no cars are coming. He turns to the man next to him and asks "So, you're German too?"

I feel like this simple joke highlights your point about some distinct cultural differences that allow a system to work in Germany that would utterly fail in America.
More generally: being a private entity does not exempt you from criticism.
I have always thought it’d be super interesting if Cloudflare owned Twilio (or vis versa)
It seems like there are two key issues here. One is whether and to what extent Facebook is liable for the use of its advertising platform:

> Facebook has argued that the company is not legally responsible when other companies buy ads that violate the law. Its lawyers cited the Communications Decency Act, a federal law that protects internet companies from liability for content created by third parties. But user groups argue that Facebook ads are not third-party content because the company developed the micro-targeting ad technology.

The second is whether, assuming they do have liability for the targeting of job posts on their platform, whether it is legal for them to allow targeting based on certain protected classes/status:

> While it’s generally not against the law for businesses to advertise services to people of a certain race or age, it can be illegal in certain contexts. For example, ad campaigns related to housing, real estate, financial services, and job opportunities cannot exclude black and Latino people.

> The recent EEOC decision suggests that targeting digital job ads based on gender and age is also illegal. Under federal law, workers and job seekers must first file discrimination complaints with the EEOC before they can sue in federal court.

Given Facebook's reach and the ability to micro-target users in discriminatory ways, I am glad this is getting more oversight and scrutiny. I worry, though, that companies will instead start targeting highly correlated proxies for whatever protected class they're trying to filter for.
>I will be blunt

Are you sure?

Maybe your ideas would do better in my situation, maybe they'd fare worse?

Whenever we hear about bad history, such as what happened in Nazi Germany, religious persecutions, or even witch trials, everyone says they'd help them. My story is different mostly in the sense that whoever is trying to kill me or inflict ill will to me hasn't succeeded yet, and that my tyranny is not part of a collective, it is against an individual.

I don't want to be combative for its own sake. What I mean is to get at is I don't really know how much time to put into this advice. Help from whom? What organization?