skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you understand manipulation is a thing, right?

Of course. But you're arguing here that Trump won because of massive scale manipulation to the extent that millions of voters don't have free will at all, which is just conspiracy theory thinking.

By the way, what makes you think that Clinton voters weren't the manipulated ones? The press came out in full force for her, and they're the most obvious source of information manipulation. The press have been trying to stack the electoral deck since forever, and they worked overtime that year to get Clinton in power. Still lost. I'm not seeing any evidence that voters are so easily manipulated as you think.
Amazon doesn’t really count as it’s an added benefit of Prime.

However, all of those you listed are cheaper than adding cable to my bill.

I pay for Netflix, Hulu and YoutubeTV. It’s cheaper than adding cable to my bill & that’s just absurd to me.
Except that Jobs, to my knowledge, never tried to have his kids run Apple.

They’re still rather young, of course. For all we know, in 5 years Reed Jobs will ride up to Apple Park on a white stallion, wielding a sword he pulled from the SF Bay…
Yes, but cigarettes are much more addictive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I guess the grammar would need to be fixed, but otherwise it still works great!
This would be a great candidate for automatic light/dark mode with the prefers-color-scheme css option.
They are not slaves to their libidos but to the supply demand in the dating market. If you seek more high status males (and at the coasts of US you have women outeducating men by a sizable margin, so the ratio of single women to men with higher status than the women is favorable towards the latter) the high status males can demand more risky stuff and be more reluctant to commit. And unless the women want to date down they have to accept it. And dating down is still beginning as a process.
While his position is [partly] accurate, it's not exactly revelatory. People, notably internet pirates, were saying this 20 years ago.

People are going to get fed up if they've got to pay for dozens of streaming services to get all the shows that they want. On top of that, a lot of these platforms are still shoving ads in our faces. If streaming manages to become worse than cable, people might just spend less time watching all that crap... which is a good thing anyway.
I live in fear of OTA bricking of devices.

Automatic updates have huge pros, but also huge cons that are not being properly addressed by most vendors.

IMO the biggest difference in software now vs 1995 is the ability to incrementally upgrade pieces of it w/ limited user interaction (this is true for consumers and for programmers who are using a library / docker base layer).

Automatic updates are probably responsible for a non-trivial portion of our economic growth. It's worth creating better tools to make them safe & transparent.
Why are there so many fixit events in Europe and so few in the US?

Northern California should have no shortage of tech workers with the skills necessary to fix devices. We only have a single event?

And China isn't even on the map, in terms of events. But I find that not so surprising.
“Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN” is a considerably strange name...
The pilot mentioned was a technical pilot, not a test pilot.

So he was a pilot with additional duties of writing and verifying checklists and manuals, and vendor and client meetings. He would also do acceptance testing, like the MCAS sim test. There could be several of these.

A test pilot is a whole level (world actually) beyond that, with an extra $1-2 million in training (hence almost always ex-military) and assigned to major aircraft development programs. Usually only 1 or 2 are assigned to a development program.
This review is really going out of its way to be kind to Purism. I understand that it's early days for this device, but things like

> the Librem 5 seemed to struggle with light tasks such as scrolling and simple navigation

... are pretty damning. Software that can't even handle scrolling is software that's just not ready for public release yet.

I was worried when Purism announced the way they'd be releasing the Librem 5 in progressively more thoroughly baked "batches" (https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/) that what that meant in practice was that it wasn't ready to ship, but they were afraid to push the release date back again after already having it slip from Q2 2019 to Q3. This review does not allay these worries.
"Bonneville, actually two different dams linked by an island, is the lowest and largest of the Columbia dams,"

Bonneville is the 5th largest (by height) of the Columbia dams and 8th largest (by generating capacity). There are 2 taller dams in British Columbia and 2 others in Washington state. The Bonneville is the largest dam he would have passed driving but that's not what he wrote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_in_the_Columbia_R...
<svg viewBox="0 0 54 54" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="m2 54v-54" fill="none" stroke="#000" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="4"/><path d="m52 54v-54" fill="none" stroke="#000" stroke-miterlimit="10" stroke-width="4"/><path d="m0 27h54v-31l-27 27-27-27z"/></svg>

Far inferior in human-friendliness to read and edit. But less bytes, and editing would realistically involve loading up the AI source file I didn't bother saving and generating a new SVG.
Thanks for the links.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034587

This one is a link to a .mobi/Kindle version, for anyone searching.
Who still trusts a word he said?

Seems like nothing has a higher priority than fb profit.
Very well done, hands play quicky
Here you go:

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

Article: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916
Screen Time on macOS Catalina Isn’t Reporting Actual App Usage
Check the original proposal [1] and discussion [2] as well as the unofficial package [3][4].

[1] https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/29934-e...

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29934

[3] https://github.com/pkg/errors

[4] https://github.com/pkg/errors/tree/c978824
Reminder: Kevin Hart is suing the builder of his Hellcat 700HP Plymouth Barracuda.
How the Sinaloa Cartel Bested the Mexican Army
Nice game. I'm glad you identified the major problem in many online blackjack toys - that they've got a scummy vibe to them - and done a clean break from that.

Some ideas:

* Keyboard shortcuts would be welcome - the click targets are grouped together on desktop and are not very large.

* Upscaling the game on desktop would be helpful for usability, it's quite small currently.

* I know it's just a hobby project, but it seems the action buttons are not in the tab order - was this deliberately removed? This seems like it would be a really easy step to take for at least minimal accessibility. Currently, a mouse is required on desktop due to this problem.
Personally, I'm worried about plugging DIY hardware to mains. Software though, I don't expect a typical IoT vendor to write anything but total garbage that's more oriented on spying than on working. I'd happily replace it with OS firmware.
The makers of Zicam have been sued hundreds of times because they put so much Zinc Gluconate in to their product that it (permanently) destroyed people's ability to smell.

https://www.rn.com/headlines-in-health/zicam-alert/

The CVS here in Gilroy has, at a rough estimate, about 20-30% of their pill-shelf space dedicated to homeopathic stuff. It's awful.
I'd certainly never noticed anything homoepathic before at CVS (and all the real medicine is still there) and so was inclined to dismiss it, but just did a quick search for "cold medicine":

https://www.cvs.com/search/?cp=%5B%7B"key"%3A"source"%2C"val...

I am actually rather shocked to see that 3 of the first 20 items listed (Zicam, Cold-eeze, CVS Non-drowsy cold remedy) do indeed say "homeopathic" on the front label.

But 3 out of 20 is certainly not "flooded" or "nearly every item". And those 3 are just lozenges, where the main action is the sugar that coats your throat anyways, so I don't see any evidence it's trying to trick people from buying actual medicine.

But still, I wasn't aware "homeopathic" products were sold at legitimate drugstores at all, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
How I Hacked Hacker News (2009)
Mammal interface is fine

interface Mammal {
fun milk()
}
Are you suggesting that it doesn’t count because you assume everyone has a Prime subscription?
Right, but with humans, the only viable option to fulfill this proposition is a positional arms race of plastic surgery. Innovation in a market is usually good and has brought huge benefits; you can't really "improve" your looks after possibly weight loss and personal care without a doctor. Of course you can usually improve yourself, but dating apps usually mean judgement by attractiveness. It's basically the difference between actual product innovation and better advertising, to use your analogy. You'll just get huge spikes in chin implants and steroids, and everyone will be worse.
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Yeah I don't know that sounds entirely too logical.
I see your point, and I sympathize with the quest for precision. Saying one thing, when you mean another is a bit perverse as a cultural phenomenon.

However, there's something wrong with an unrelenting search for precision as well (it seems to me), but I can't put my finger on it. I remember this writer talking about two approaches to writing: one where you suspend belief, and work with truths, and one where you suspend disbelief, and see where the "story" takes you. In some ways, the unwillingness to suspend disbelief feels a bit like the unwillingness to face the dark side of your own fantasy. I mean the place where the lies, inaccuracies and fear mongering (the things we try to weed out when we advocate precise language) take you.

I haven't made up my mind about this, but it's an interesting topic.
Scripting Web services at the client with Sash (2001)
I suspect the aversion to a more blocky shape (higher volume/surface-area ratio), has to do with heat dissipation, which if I recall correctly, improves with surface-area.

EDIT: hence the flatter/thinner batteries we see in EVs.
> Does anybody know where I can/should host a copy?

With torrent or IPFS, perhaps? (Given the CC BY-SA license, this would be completely legal.)

Also, GitHub's behaviour wrt to LFS is really disappointing — the epub file could have been stored normally with git (its size of ~ 3 MB is far less than the hard limit of 100 MB), in which case there would have been no issues of exceeding a data quota...

For comparison, the linked PDF is normally indexed with git, despite weighing at 7.7 MB.

Since LFS is supposed to reduce total bandwidth use for the hoster, GitHub is, in effect, punishing people for reducing GitHub's bandwidth usage...

Actually, the linked PDF is originally[0] by the same author as the EPUB version you linked. However, in the original repository[0] the PDF is managed with LFS, so it's inaccessible...

[0] https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf
I was looking for this! Works great on the Tesla touch screen while charging.
The full text has been freely available online for years:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

Also, the physical book is available for only $40.
Homeopathic stuff is typically harmless but there was a case in the 2000s where Zicam sold a "homeopathic" nasal spray at a low dilution of zinc (i.e., it actually contained zinc) as a cold remedy. The result: hundreds of people caused permanent damage to their senses of smell.

This changed my attitudes towards consumer protection a lot. I thought I was smart enough to tell medicine from snake oil, but Zicam ads had high production values and looked just like ads for Tylenol or NyQuil. It was a far cry from the laughable marketing of that other '00s homeopathic product, HeadOn. (Apply directly to the forehead!) So I thought it was a legit product until the news of the lawsuits came out.
Maybe alcohol first. In California at least, they are well stocked.
Synergistic Coordination of Chromatin Torsional Mechanics&Topoisomerase Activity
Didn't soda originate as a sort of "medicine" during the patent medicine days? (7-up had lithium, Coca-Cola had cocaine) If so, it makes more sense that a pharmacy would have a soda fountain.
Thats why a prescribed burn, is so beneficial to an ecosystem. Getting rid of tangles of weeds, old, decaying and diseased wood.
Wars and revolutions, sometimes server a similar function for societies.
HTML, Javascript, CSS and the entire tangled mess web front end tech it produced needs to burn!!!!!
Meditation May Be Hazardous (2016)
Just wait until they buy pornhub.com :)

Disney is not just Disney+. It's Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC and many other delivery channels and insane amount of franchise. They can merge or create more channels over time. Whatever maximizes the profit.

They are even producing Black Mirror trough Endemol Shine (House of Tomorrow). Netflix just has the distribution rights.
Disney owns ESPN, a controlling stake in Hulu, Marvel, Lucas Films, Pixar, Disney Animation, and 20th century fox (FX, fox searchlight, many classic movie franchises, X-Men, Fantastic 4, etc). I'm probably missing something. I imagine that Disney will eventually sell a mega subscription service that bundles all of their media.

HBO Max will have all HBO content (obviously), all Warner Bros content, the CW (you know all of those teen dramas people love to watch on netflix like Riverdale, Supernatural, the Flash), Cartoon Network and a bunch of other subsidiaries that I can't name off the top of my head.

Amazon people will have prime subscriptions which gives them access for free.

I don't know why anyone would keep a lifetime subscription for any of the rest. Maybe only subscribe when your favorite shows are on?

Anyway, I think the future of streaming will be interesting to watch. I've made a fairly large bet on Disney stock and I would have bought Warner bros stock if it wasn't owned by ATT (I like Warner bros, I don't like the rest of their business).
Perhaps one of the offerings from gradient.paperspace.com will be suitable?
Because some random person on YouTube with half a knowledge of epistemology decided it is?

First, the video says "Scientists say that something exists if it is useful to describe observations".

Sorry, that's epistemology, and one particular epistemology, not science. Scientists work at another level than that (which is a meta level).

Second, falsifiability and "usefulness to describe observations" is not the be-all end-all of what is science. That's again a particular epistemology, and while a useful general guide, it has been found wanting and not historically matching what real scientists do and how actual scientific theories are formed and established.

Third, there's nothing that says whether the multiverse can or cannot be tested at some point (in fact there have been some theoritical and experimental attempts).

Fourth, religion also has other aspects (moral code, ritual, spiritual element, holy scripture, etc) not just "believing in something that's not useful to describe observations". So even if the multiverse merely matched religion in one aspect, doesn't make it a religion, as it doesn't match those other aspects.

Finally, from the view point of religious people themselves, religion is considered very useful to describe observations -- e.g. this or that happened because of God, or this phenomenon is a manifestation of this or that's God's wrath, etc. So even if that criterion (whether something is useful to describe observations) was enough to distinguish science from religion, it wouldn't help us do so except if we were already with the side of science (and so it's a circular argument).
https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/cvs-homeopathy-and-the-dc-...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cvs-selling-homeopathic-rem...
The Zuck’s Speech
A fast and sensitive room-temperature graphene nanomechanical bolometer
I don't mean this in a gatekeeping way, but if you've never been inspired to use profanity by an OO design, you probably aren't yet in the target audience.
Out of interest, how did you find out it was the white blood cells that were hurting the heart muscle? I have a history of myocarditis without any proper diagnosis.
> Automatic updates are probably responsible for a non-trivial portion of our economic growth. It's worth creating better tools to make them safe & transparent.

How can they be, if by definition they don't involve paying extra for them, so they have no impact on economic growth metrics themselves?

As for proper addressing, I'd love if either an industry custom or a legal requirement would exist that would make vendors unbundle security updates from feature updates. There were plenty of situations in my life where I purposefully disabled automatic updates of software precisely so that it doesn't accrue bloat or the modern art projects that pass as UIs these days.
I use to do some day trading. The joke among the day trading community in those days was that if Kramer recommends buying into a company, then usually a good idea to do the opposite.
Not to be rude, but you would have to be real thick to not understand how unsafe that car would be. I know it's a harsh thing to say, especially because Kevin Hart was seriously injured. Still, when you take risks, sometimes it doesn't work out.
The CG isn't likely to be considered in the sort of vehicles this crate engine is going into, it isn't usually even from the factory. This is a 100HP motor, most cars with a 100HP motor are far from a 50/50 weight distribution. :-)

I'm more concerned with integration with safety features like airbags. I'd love to do an EV conversion of some fairly pedestrian car with my daughter for her first car, but I'm likely to take a fairly pedestrian donor car, and even a couple grand is going to get a car with airbags that need to integrate with the various sensors (including, as I understand it, ECU and engine sensors) to say when to fire.
Pretty sure people aren't put there for their racial or religious characteristics, but their nationality and/or legal status. Yes, there's a difference.
How 20,000+ open source engineers contributed to the black hole picture [video]
I don't about safety, but back in the day my nieces used to get their clothing covered in black residue from their park's new rubber mulch.
Lowes also gave everyone back all the money they paid for Iris hardware, the only thibg they did not refund were monthly service subscriptions.

Best Buy just shut down their IoT offering, open sourced nothing and gave no refunds.
Ask HN: Keep track of home devices that need updates?
How do you keep track of your home devices that need software updates/patches? Devices such as: router, modem, camera, IoT stuff, etc.

I feel like there should be a central place to know about them and know if there is an update i need to run.
Disney+ already will have espn and Hulu bundled (for a great price to boot).
This is strictly worse than cable.

Streaming in the 2010s was a breath of fresh air. You could find everything on one platform, watch it at your leisure, and pay way less than cable.

Now we're going to have to pay more AND switch between nine different apps with broken UIs.

This is god awful. All of this because of greed and a lack of regulation.

We need to campaign for limited copyright (20 years), and build services like Spotify that have everything and merely pay the rights holders.

Disney needs to be broken up. They own 90% of American pop culture. They're going to begin protection racketing theaters and dumbing down everything to appease the masses (and foreign governments).

God, I hate what the Internet is becoming.
You probably know this, but for others reading along, Racket has a #lang sicp language to fully support using Racket to follow along.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
It's the contrast, or lack thereof. Black text on a gray background is going to be hard to read on any display.
Just go learn some dancing. You dance well, you get laid.
I would argue you should inject concrete implementations until you need an interface. Why add unnecessary indirection?
Using Opaque Types with Flow
This isn't the point OP was making, but I don't think Amazon counts. Not because "everyone has prime", but because you can pay them extra money to add content to their platform. For example, you can pay to add British content, CBS, or HBO. Amazon is doing streaming right.
isn't that inevitable? physical media has be dying for a decade now. streaming was something that was assumed to be on the horizon since early days of the consumer internet.
Billions are spent on it, which makes it silly to say that the millions spent by Russia were a significant factor.

Either Russian ad spend is magically hundreds of times more effective than domestic, or it didn't matter.
Our Mr. Sun (1956)
I once worked at a place that had massive bandwidth usage. I can't recall the exact numbers but you would show them to people (who knew about such things) and watch them blink. We served hella data.

Our pages were written in PHP by an idiot, a true berk. He liked long lines, heavily indented. Lots and lots of indentation. LOTS of indentation.

I noticed this one day and did a quick bit of hacking to see how much of our traffic was just whitespace. Twenty-five. 25%. One out of every four bytes of our (non-image) traffic was 32 (0x20).

(And, yes, I brought it up, and, no, no one else cared. The CEO was eventually replaced by the investors and now the company is a big ol' success. FWIW)
Question: will you recommend SICP as an intro to programming book for say high schoolers?

Or, does it assume some prereqs?
“Entertainment Company Releases Content on Well-Established Medium”

If they keep this up people might suspect that they want people to watch that content and pay for it. Maybe next the Hollywood Reporter will break the story on how they “bet it all” on theatrical releases, network television, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray and other things that people pay to watch.

Bob Iger definitely knows how to buy good press. Hollywood Reporter is owned by Guggenheim partners and has deep ties with Disney, including acting as an advisor to the Disney-Fox acquisition.
You don't have to do anything. You just feel the need to watch everything that can be watched. If you don't want to pay for every service, you should just reset your expectations.
Any of them individually, or all of them together? If the latter, then wherever it is you live, you have some ridiculous places for cable TV there.
Hmm, good call, that gets it down to 122 bytes after optimization. I was mostly optimizing for "minimum time and thought spent vs. reading the SVG spec and hand-writing a file".

Oddly enough if I prune out the four seemingly-superfluous points that result where the shapes overlap it goes back up to 125. SVG's path compression is weeeird.

13 points, 122 bytes: <svg viewBox="0 0 54 54" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="m27 23-27-27v4 27 27h4v-27h46v27h4v-27-27-4z"/></svg>

9 points, 125 bytes: <svg viewBox="0 0 54 54" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="m27 23-27-27v58h4v-27h46v27h4c0-12 0-46.1 0-58z"/></svg>