skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone else not familiar with these "veritas videos":

> Project Veritas is an American right-wing activist group. The group uses "disguises and hidden cameras to uncover supposed liberal bias and corruption." The group is known for producing deceptively edited videos about media organizations and left-leaning groups. In a 2018 book on propaganda and disinformation in U.S. politics, three Harvard University scholars refer to Project Veritas as a "right-wing disinformation outfit."

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas)

I guess that explains the downvotes.
Announcing Casa Covenant: Bitcoin Inheritance Service and Protocol
Would linking to Patreon also be against terms and conditions?
U.K. family arrested after driving through B.C. ditch into Washington state
> Intelligence and research trump marketing and campaign finance.

Then why is advertising spending such a great predictor of who wins a political race? Just because we want something to be true doesn't mean it is, and if you want to think about a problem clearly it is necessary to confront the disgusting reality of the thing.
I imagine flat earthers use GPS too and rationalise it somehow.
I think the counterargument would be that politics is the orderly handling of coercive force and authority.

When this orderly approach isn't sufficient, additional coercive force is added to the mix. At some point it starts to look like war.

To people on the wrong side of the political hierarchy, every day looks like war as armed troops (police) occupy neighborhoods seeking to enforce an externally imposed code that criminalizes normal, consensual behavior, confiscates wealth and property, and destroys civil society.

> when politicians fail to negotiate

In a sense, yes. If one politician demands that a foreign leader step down or face a US invasion, one can interpret the foreign leader's failure to step down as a breakdown in negotiations, but I think that is quite a stretch.
It feels like a marketing gimmick vs a useful application. Probably will be cancelled in a year or two.
At least banks and industry are in the country that they are trying to control. I don't know how to tell you that secret outside influence is more harmful than honest (if disproportionate) inside influence.
Google Stadia to Officially Released on November 19th, 2019
I don't know much about these, but doesn't it mean that if we remove these salt ponds we'll have to relocate the industry or at least the salt ponds somewhere else?
I just cringe whenever I see Vice linked anywhere. They've gone from being a great source of raw and "outsider" news to being an edgy rag.
;)

It wasn’t until 2017 that Britain released documents on their part in Operation Boot.
~ does indeed denote named arguments. To call a function named f which has an argument named arg with arg set to the value x, the syntax is:

f ~arg:x
how was Homecooked: Social Dining?
I do not feel that this is the best article to sell me on your product. It compensates for trying to describe a rock solid use case with a lot of links to other things with limited context (that are probably brilliant if you knew that context). If I wanted to watch a 15 minute video I would watch that instead. I feel like your pipedream.com landing page does a better job describing why I want to use your product.

I wish this article was a more digestible single case as an introduction that showed value rather than saying 'you can run anything!!! for free!!!'
Great one.

I really do miss the old Internet though.
Yes, the phrase I used seems to be a common paraphrase.
> MELFs. Not only do we handle them, but we get a juvenile kick out of the name.

Okay I love them already. Who doesn't love a little sense of humor?
We used to have a google doc where everyone would put name, machine, gpu(s), and estimated time to run, whenever they launched a simulation (longer than an hour). Low tech, but worked ok as long as people didn’t forget to do so.
Parenting and parental control tools (kids as a user role)
You know what else is cool? MIRV ablative coatings. Stuff is amazing - multi-layer carbonfiber wrapping that protect the sensitive innards from ABM lasers. Super lightweight, very strong, also radar absorbing: a real advance in warhead survivability and barrage effectiveness.

Doesn't mean I'll be happy when one comes screaming out of the sky towards my head at Mach 24.

It's not a Google hate train. Maybe, just perhaps, even people who like cool tech are feeling very uncomfortable about the kind of future this tech enables.
Ask HN: Could AI make heathcare-for-all realistically viable?
All of the suggestions on the table for healthcare-for-all (HFA) envision something like expanded medicare, but what if health care was run more like the air traffic control system, where human-machine systems efficiently and safely guide the overall system flow, and information was efficiently passed and employed?
We are by no means "knee deep" the way the Chinese are. The US isn't maintaining a constant and widespread campaign of industrial espionage and then feeding what they find to our own companies' R&D teams the way China is. If it were merely 'spies spying on spies', we wouldn't be hearing about it. As it is, very little actually gets attributed to China, and instead news agencies seem to pick the safe targets of North Korea and Russia

The crying about Russia has become party politics. There's no putting that cat back in the bag
In the many jobs I've had I've never seen "things go side ways" because those tricky employees have finally found a way to not do any work! By and large the vast majority of workers have the capitalist cultural logic deeply ingrained in their psyche and personally feel value only when they produce meaningful work. Most people are not trying to get away with doing less, and, at least in my experience, feel the most satisfied and secure when they are working hard and creating visible products of their labor.

When I've seen "things go side ways" it's almost exclusively at higher levels of management when politics create goals other than "create an amazing product". Anyone who has worked both in a large company and a small startups has likely seen the difference between "my boss's goal is for us to create a best in class product" vs "my boss's goal is for him to get L_current +1 promotion".

There are no companies that have failed because the workers have finally figured out how to sneak their way out of doing work. But workers do have a hard time being productive when "productivity" is some weird game that no one will really explain the rules to.

But the logic of blaming workers who get "off track" is a huge part of the culture we need to get rid of to have successful remote work.
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Actually, I am very physically fit and eat a healthy diet. I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea at age 20. I likely had it at a minimum since puberty.
Those growing up with Remote Controls of the kind: https://i.imgur.com/AIqz63k.jpg

After a few days, the user develops a muscle memory of sorts. User doesn't even have to look at the controller and all actions (and feedback) are executed through the tactile interface. From cockpits to nuclear power plants to home tv remote control, there is absolutely nothing that replaces physical buttons, encoders, sliders and toggles.

I haven't formally studied UI/UX, but these are important:

- Feedback for an action

- Predictable steps to take an action (Muscle memory)

- Fast response

- Expose current state (sliders, toggles do this)

There should be 0% ambiguity or the user gets frustrated. Any piece of technology that puts impedance in this process is no fucking good. User shouldn't have to "guess and wait" whether the device recognized their gesture to swipe. A physical button guarantees that the action was performed by the means of feedback. Nope, sound feedback or taptic stuff still isn't as good as the click of a button. It can be but no one engineers it well. For example MacBook Trackpad that "clicks" without moving is excellent. Seeing touch screens (one exception, phone), cap buttons, gesture controls, etc everywhere makes me sad because it has nothing to do with UX but everything to do with the bottom line (cost) and marketing, and in this case perhaps better ad tracking? I will put this in plain words - Don't trust a company that sells ads at the same time as building hardware. Either sell ads or sell hardware, not both. Google already serves software which relies on trading off privacy (even if it is anonymized). When it comes to hardware, I freak out and no way in hell this thing sits in my home.
You are correct, I am actually young and physically fit as well as eat a healthy diet.
>> But the simple fact is, there are tons of people out there that are utterly broken inside for gazillions of reasons

That doesn't mean the adult population (including the people you mention) shouldn't be given agency and the requisite respect to make decisions for themselves provided they are not harming other people.

>> Talk to doctors in ER (or cops) about their experiences if you care.

Given the number of vile, ignorant and disturbing things come out of the mouths of cops both on and off duty there are probably better ways to get an objective picture of the current raw state of raw mankind.
This looks to be very much a tabloid story. It looks like The Sun and The New York Post had the story a day before the Washington Post.
I rather we do both, many precedents show us that both sides (critiques and tech creative usage) are of utmost importance
Fixed now. A rogue spam filter had gotten to them.
Go back and read what I was responding to. I was responding to a claim that you are not awake at 8 to which I responded that depends on when you put your kids to sleep.

I wasn't even introducing the idea of performance. I was responding to a blanket claim about performance with a rather non-anecdotal example of SA schools dominating the performance list yet having one of the earliest times of school attendance. If you haven't seen it click on the link and if that doesn't convince you that it's more than anecdotal then I just don't know what will.

All the studies is fundamentally about sleeping time NOT about at which hour it's optimal to be in school which is exactly my point yet somehow it gets completely ignored and everyone just yells anecdotal.

It's not anecdotal it's statistical with a sample of more than 2000 schools and SA dominating almost all the top 30 results and that with schools that have a majority of black and hispanic kids.
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> Like USB-C, there is no wrong way to plug it in, but the connection always feels solid.

Hefty disagree. I've seen plenty of (mainly cheap) laptops where the barrel socket would get loose over time and it was an absolute pain to charge because the connector would jiggle out at the slightest movement.
Ugh. I remember when Black Mirror was viewed as creepy and dystopian...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
It's really time for a decentralized / distributed version of the play store to replace the Google provided one.
Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019
I was an election integrity activist, poll judge, poll worker for ~10 years. No one I know opposes need for identifying voters when issuing ballots. Jurisdictions vary, IIRC North Dakota doesn't require ID, so YMMV.

Voter ID is verified during registration. Generally, voter ID is then confirmed when a ballot is issued in person. In most jurisdictions, many forms of identification are accepted to be issued a ballot.

The stricter voter ID laws reduce kinds of identification permitted. Further, they'll do stupid shit like insist on exact matches, so "Mike" vs "Michael" would be rejected. Generally, these laws insist on perfection while injecting errors into the system, for explicitly partisan reasons.

Tellingly, postal ballots are issued without confirming identification. Which are a much greater source of errors. But there's no partisan food fight over postal ballots.

The fix is simple. Eliminate data quality problems with universal automatic voter registration. Moot the ID confirmation kerfuffle by issuing government ID, such as the upcoming Real ID.

Then voila, the USA just joined all the other mature democracies by adopting time proven reasonable best practices.
I thought almost everyone in the UK already paid for BBC.

Hacker news isn't Reddit and I'm acting entirely too silly.
reliably get an indication of risk and intentions.

Best practices don't actually require an assessment of intentions. Just like mountain climbers use safety gear whether the mountain seems like a suspicious character or not, erring on the side of caution socially doesn't actually require a determination of intent to reduce the odds of assault. (Inferring likely intent can be useful, but really shouldn't be a high priority per se when acting to protect yourself.)

You are at least the second person here to say something along these lines. Perhaps it casts light on a detail I need to somehow focus on more when such topics come up and which is a source of the profound disbelief and denial and assertions that a track record of success due to competence is simply not remotely humanly possible.
Eternal City, Modern Photography: The iPhone 11 Pro in Rome
You can disable it permanently, but I believe it requires registry editing to do so. I run Win 10 with real-time protection always turned off.
It might of changed directions recently. 2020 BMW 2 Series is a series of cut&paste design cues from 2019 Toyota Supra.
This idea is somewhat similar to the original meaning of "Meme" [0].

Moreover, allthough your behaviour does not influence the DNA, your behaviour does influence the behavior of your kids obviously. DNA is not everything. and then there is epi-genetics, the health of your procreational cells etc...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
The specific moronic idea here was that the UK, a relatively small country that's nowhere near as powerful as it once was should get to enforce this rule for the entire globe.

That's both the idea that wasn't workable (the original plan said ISPs have to censor the rest of the world using DNS blocking, as you may have noticed this doesn't work if you have DPRIVE, which was in fact already under development before the UK Government came up with this stupid idea) and it's the idea that makes no coherent sense anyway. Why should a Russian pornographer obey a British rule? Should a Canadian pornographer obey Chinese rules? How does "pornography" get to be special here? We have international rules, but only for things everybody (more or less) agrees are bad, like murder or piracy. We don't have such agreement as to what pornography even includes, let alone whether it should be restricted and who should get to access it.
And you think they kept it secret just for fun?

You think that if the American and British publics were told in 1953 "We're gonna go overthrow another country's government and install a brutal dictatorship because their democratic government is threatening BP's profit margins", the public would've given them a thumbs up?
In the framework outlined by Micheal Hayden in his blackhat keynote, offensive attacks like disabling missile batteries or power grids are acts of war, but espionage and intelligence gathering are on the table as what nation states just sort of do when idle.
Awesome! Will definitely reach out and let me know what yours says. My biggest concern is understanding the accuracy of the app. Part of me thinks it's really accurate and the other part doesn't think so.

I think one of the issues with my current bedroom might be noise/air flow (oxygen) which is stopping me from getting the amount of deep sleep I need.

I also have been hacking my CPAP and tested increasing the pressure by 2 per night. Doing this dropped my API's from 2 to nearly 0.
It lives on as Jolla: https://jolla.com/
"Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concepts like death, most of us live in a state of self-delusion." I very early on in life recognized this as a primary principle of human psychology. As soon as we begin to understand the concept of death, we unconsciously develop this as our primary defense mechanism. It's what all religious and spiritual belief systems are founded on.
Yeah when you're depressed you definitely are more realistic about the challenges you/the world faces.

But, you are in a state of fear where you are over-exagerrating the things you could lose.

In a happy state or happy manic state, you don't overvalue these things. You accept the fleeting nature of moments moving on, and this frees you up to make bolder choices.

It's all a spectrum of how bold you want to be in your life and day to day.
Yeah, I saw that. If they are both 1) not equivocating, and 2) if actually telling the entire truth, don't switch to Hoovering up data if/when these become widespread (gen 2, say), I'll eat my hat.

Given the company we're dealing with, I think my hat's safe. It'd be wildly out of character for them to resist collecting sensitive data from this.
I'm sorry that I'm an _idiot_.

Thanks for the links.
Not sure about how the rest of the company does, but in the iOS App Store, the Gmail app has 147K reviews and Yahoo Mail has 2.1M reviews. I think that's a decent proxy to tell us that Yahoo Mail is _hugely_ popular still.
But isn’t it already illegal in Russia? Sounds like that’s not working out so well. Maybe time to try a different plan?
I'm curious is there are any health studies done around this, what about the dangers of EMF radiation when it's on all the time so close to your body, not to mention in your pocket all the time.
Some anecdotal data here https://www.quora.com/Do-the-majority-of-founders-of-tech-st...

I'd say most are rich - false. Tend to come from wealthier than average backgrounds - true.
MAEG by CRISPRa elicits potent antitumor immunity
Heroin helps from cough:

> ... Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over-the-counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[79] It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's addictive side-effects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin
As someone who used to sell magic mushrooms - legally and very responsibly in the UK - I'm afraid OP has a point.

Some people - a much younger version of myself included - are total idiots, not to be trusted.

But hey, personal responsibility and all that... .
> My mother would click any number of scary UAC prompts in Windows just to get to the webpage she's trying to get to. That's not Windows' fault, but it is reality.

It kind of is Windows' fault, because it's pretending to protect you from things it doesn't actually understand.

I have had trouble getting people to install Signal on their phones because it wants access to your texts and contacts. But it only wants that because it's a messaging app. It's not as if it uploads your texts to the Signal Foundation -- its very purpose is to do the opposite, and the source code is published so that anyone can verify as much.

But because the validation provided by mobile app stores is theater, it doesn't understand that and treats Signal the same as any random flashlight app written by Some Guy in Russia who wants to sell your contacts to Viagra spammers in order to buy a new Mercedes.

If this idea of validation and curation is to mean anything then it should be that it validates that Signal has both a legitimate reason to access your contacts and doesn't do anything untoward with them, and then allows Signal to access your contacts by virtue of you having installed it, but not so for a flashlight app. There shouldn't be a pop up allowing naive relatives to either break Signal or volunteer your contact information to spammers. Even if it's possible to grant the flashlight app greater permissions, there is no need for that interface to present itself in a way that allows users inclined to mash buttons an easy way to do the wrong thing. Use better defaults and then making changes can be six taps deep in a scary system menu that the app itself can't launch.

Which is how Linux package managers already work. If you try to put an app that hoovers up your contacts and sends them to spammers into the Debian repositories, it'll get refused. And packagers can restrict apps to by default only doing the things they ought to be able to do using apparmor and the like, instead of relying on the untrusted author or the unknowing end user. The user can still override it manually, but then you're typing things at a command line, which deters novices who don't know what they're doing and gives experienced users a red flag that there had better be a good reason why they have to do it that way.
All you need to know is the title is correct. Skip this needlessly verbose
and awkwardly argued article. It describes simple variable assignment in
REPLs as "caching" (which by conventional software notions, it's not).
Anyone who's used a REPL knows to be careful with what's been executed thus
far, and the order of variable assignments.

Hopefully any statistician or pydev with 1-2 years of experience figures out
a json-based, git-incompatible obstructionist ecosystem does not good science
make. Jupyter (nee ipython) has only ever been good for teaching and
kaggle-style EDA. It's insane to carry EDA code directly into production
(which is why misguided efforts like papermill are doomed to fail).
given that it's catered to technical meetups, it looks like the worst built option. Not trying to be negative
GDPR doesn't cover apps, or organizations a data subject can only be an individual.
The idea was basically more perspective == more realistic and therefore closer to a temptation to worship (not all figures depicted in the period were necessarily religious). It's not a particularly compelling argument but there's a lot from the thinking in that period that wasn't very logical.
> mob programming

Why waste one person's time when you can waste ten?
Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments
Oh I see. Yeah, certainly there's merit in that, but it can be a challenge communicating it effectively. For example, Canada now has a nominal carbon tax that's revenue neutral— all the revenues go into an upfront rebate that's doled out on a per-head basis with a slightly greater amount if you're rural vs urban. All this seems perfectly reasonable and is aligned with what economists recommend as far as ensuring that the system isn't subject to partisan criticisms or whatever else.

But if you actually look at the rhetoric around it, the right wing party that's in opposition slams it as being a "cash grab" and a "tax on everything" that makes life more unaffordable for everyday Canadians. Literally one of the main planks of their platform this election is scrapping a revenue-neutral tax in order to help Canadian families "get ahead".

So was there any value in going to the trouble of doing the rebate? AFAICT claiming the tax was revenue neutral mostly just opened up the gov't to a ridiculous semantic argument about whether it was truly revenue neutral given that sales tax was being applied after the carbon tax. Maybe it would have been easier to just impose the tax and then pair it with an income tax cut or some kind of investment in existing social safety net programmes?
Package repos don't provide analytics for developers, search for discovery, malware and abuse detection that scales to millions of apps, and loads of other features that the app stores offer. They aren't equivalent.
Well but that's a very different discussion and not the one I was originally engaging in.

But claims of anecdotal evidence are simply factually wrong.
Wonder if this was created exclusively in house or did Google ATAP do this again....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
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How does looking at pictures of naked people having sex harm children?
I mean you're being sarcastic but this is how basically every other app accepts payments to support the developer. There are plenty of "buy me a coffee" buttons in free apps.