skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple should just be rational and make the same synergistic move as Microsoft: migrate to chromium. It would save them R&W (reinventing the wheel) money, and they could allocate it to true R&D, allowing the web to move forward for making the world a better place.

Chromium is a descendant of WebKit in the first place...

> With such absurd politics, I wonder how Apple survived through history.

Because users agree with them.
Most people who die of cigarettes do so after quite a long time of using them. I'm not sure that the data are comparable yet.
I mean, he was "resurrected". But I guess what is the difference between a witch ressurecting you with a magical force, and a doctor resurrecting you with CPR.
You should have sent the complaint anyway; all this does is enable them to continue abusing others. Make a paper trail, tarnish their perfect record, let others know the truth.
There is also a premium on fresh block rewards that have not been spent yet. These are called “coinbase transactions” which is why the company is called Coinbase. The reason these fresh coins are valuable is that they are untainted by prior transactions and have various uses because of that. So mining BTC has an additional premium above the spot price of BTC.
I suspect this is move to nudge the marketing dollars that go directly to influencers to reroute into FB's purse.

If you take away the primary signal for effectiveness, marketers are probably going to lose interest.

I doubt they'll hide likes from their users, though. It's essentially a neural network training free workers to optimize their posts so FB can get as much attention and dollars as possible. You stop the likes, you stop the training.
I thought getters and setters were considered an antipattern by most OO people anyways?

Anyway beyond that the relevant part is not that one function call in isolation but wherever it’s getting called from and why it is getting called there. Without more context I don’t know how I would solve that but suffice it to say getting into lenses and the entire world and such sounds massively unnecessary.
I fully agree that the types offered by the programming language (wrapping the underlying types) are not enough. However, a static type language allows you to define your own types. So (as your sibling comment by brundolf suggests) you can create your own types around the existing types such as HtmlEscapedString and UntrustedUserEnteredString. The syntax is particularly convenient in Rust, but you can do the same in e.g. Java, or any other statically typed language, albeit more verbosely:

class HtmlSnippet {
public String html;
....
}

void setWidgetContents(HtmlSnippet s) { .. }

void foo() {
// Compile error
setWidgetContents(request.getParam("foo"));
}
> Noone thinks smoking is purely healthy, but comparing vaping to cigarettes it is a no brainer safer.

And if vaping were only done as a way to quit smoking cigarettes, that would be a relevant fact. When more teenagers have vaped than have smoked[1], this is clearly not the case. It is being treated as something entirely new and distinct from cigarettes, and should therefore be compared against not vaping.

Yes, regulate it and make sure that it is safe. That includes taking products off the market while investigating unknown health issues. Regulate it and control the allowed marketing for it. That includes not allowing the advertising of addictive substances to minors.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/i...
I remember reading (a very long time ago) that one of the primary use cases for using airships for carrying cargo was in regions that don't have an existing highway system to support fleets of big trucks. Africa in particular doesn't have superhighways crisscrossing the continent.

A quick search suggests that one Airlander costs about as much as 10 miles of two lane highway.
Well I'm convinced then. That's nuts. Not so much that something so crappy can exist, but that it can persist!
Is anything genetic that makes native Americans get so fat? Reminds me of the case of native Australians
That’s not what “dark pattern” means. Your comment is otherwise accurate.
That's a hard line to draw, when including things like drug overdoses, hunger strikes or suicide.
Can you legally access & use money in prison, and what would you buy?
>No one dies from that from cigarettes.

Nicotine poisoning from cigarettes is a thing, toddlers that eat them can be affected.
A lot of London's rubble was used to build and repair airfield runways around the south east. I have a vague memory of some vast amount (a million tons, millions of tons??) being sent out by train. I'd guess there'd be a similar amount that wouldn't be as suitable and need dumping somewhere...

Better rubble than what they threw in Beaufort's Dyke - the narrow but deep trench mid way between Scotland and Northern Ireland. That's where much of the surplus munitions, including chemical were dumped at the end of WW1 and WW2. There's even nuclear waste barrels down there. It's long overdue a cleanup as they're disintegrating.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4032629.stm
Ask HN: Uber deactivation due to 'falsified document. How to appeal?
My Dad had a paper which on his copy had a number 'bolded' over in pen. They flagged this as a falsified document and deactivated his account, despite nearly 1000 trips and excellent ratings. He can offer a copy from the original mechanic, but his pleas are falling in deaf ears. What can he do? My Dad is a stand-up guy, and this really hurt him. He likes being an Uber driver. Please send some ideas?
I have a double first name, so I have a space in my first name. Many people / systems seem to think I accidentally put my middle name in the first name field and helpfully move or drop the second part. Putting a hyphen in (which is not really supposed to be there) typically fixes it, so I'm variously known with a hyphenated and non-hyphenated name. But it rarely causes issues.
Better sources (take your pick):

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vitamin-e-acetate-culpri...

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6845e2.htm
This is worth reading all the way through. The script the Times team wrote to keep Bing and other search engines accountable is a great example of effective tech journalism.
>There was no way I could me mistaken for someone in his 40's.

But when designing automated systems, you can't add in a condition of "unless person doesn't look their age". If one can't use names as a unique identifier, then that leaves a number issued at birth by a central government. But as I understand, even SSNs aren't unique and get re-used.

As an aside though, cultures that use the same name for multiple people in the same family confuse me. To me, the purpose of a name is to identify, so what is the point of naming someone the same? Perhaps, historically, it was a way to establish credibility before the time of credit reports and phones.
Regulations are what require labels to be accurate, and to have labels at all.
I think namecheap does not have a bad reputation, godaddy is known to be bad though(both security and customer support).

The thing is, of course people can hack your gmail or yahoo mail somehow, but when you host your own domain, you have the same attack vectors + dns hijacking and this last addition is easier to exploit with social engineering. Google atleast is virtually immune to DNS hijacking.
Entitled but not guaranteed. You can be punished with jail time for breaking the law, but can’t be further punished for trying to escape.
I wonder if any of these are actually not hoaxes, but simply unverifiable or insufficiently notable. Quite a few of the hoax articles are bands, for example; isn't it more likely that they were real, and only played a show or two in some backwater town, rather than being invented whole-cloth? Maybe someday there will be a "List of Wikipedia articles that were considered hoaxes but were actually true."

This one is pretty hilarious though:

"Fictitious claim that the founder of Orange Julius invented auto-cleaning spectacles, an inflatable shrimp trap, and a portable pigeon-bathing unit. Dairy Queen, which now owns Orange Julius, was fooled; the company based an entire ad campaign around the hoax and produced this video[1] about Julius Freed's supposed inventions."

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1Ts1X6Vt0

And this one seems to explain the origins of a lot of hoax articles:

"After being repeated tens of times, sometimes by journalists and academics, the hoax was identified by EJ Dickson, one of its authors, turned journalist, who had written it as a joke with a friend while 'stoned'."
Curl to shell is a result of Linux's fragmentation. It's the only way to provide a simple install process.
VICE had did a show called 'Africa's cowboy capitalists' which highlighted how hard it is to move things (vehicles for the UN in this case) across Africa due to poor roads and corruption. An airship would have saved them a lot of trouble.
Honestly I'm surprised they've managed to collect that much. Good job guys.
Dev shops pay for technical conferences but few tech places want to hire fresh, green devs and train them up. They all would prefer experience.

It's why you see so many forums talking about sending out applications to hundreds of places for months when searching for their first job, then never having a problem again after.
It has been absolutely beautiful up here this fall. Come on up!
What I use(yes I am a beginner have only just started with most of it):

- GPU Gems

- SIGGRAPH

- Real Time Rendering Book
"Safe" is a misleading goal. For instance, sunlight causes cancer. People should simply be aware of the risks and their probability.
Science to me means observing and experimenting with nature, then honestly reporting the results.

With the science around the environment so conclusive and the timeline for preventing suffering so short, I consider the most important task of a scientist to make the results usable -- not just understandable and meaningful, but clear in what to do. That means living sustainably ourselves. When Greta gave scientific results to the US Congress, they still didn't know what to do with it.

Since few leaders will learn science, scientists learning to lead will make a difference. Fact, figures, doom, gloom, and such, however correct, aren't leadership. Nor is telling people what to do, which generally motivates people to keep doing what they were.

Individual action isn't widespread change, but scientists who don't follow their advice undermine that advice and lead others also not to follow it, which is why sites like https://noflyclimatesci.org are so important.

It's not the only solution, but until we make scientists who live unsustainably go the way of a surgeon general who smokes, all our results will become like the Library of Alexandria after nature corrects our population.
Siemens CEO deplores admiration for 'pot smoker' after deputy praised Elon Musk
The "master copy" would be at conception. Even after a few divisions it is unlikely any of the cells carry the exact same DNA.

And just because you made it from zygote to birth does not mean your master copy was "pristine".

But yeah, if you could somehow replace your tissue stem cells in situ with ones that are closer to the original state it would generally allow your body to continue functioning for much longer. I mean some of those mutations could be beneficial to your particular environment too, but in general... Yeah.
Adding non US jurisdictions would be nice, starting with the EU.
Yeah that and The Dice Man are the two big ones that stand out to me.

I heard of them both years back from everything2: https://everything2.com/title/Books+that+will+induce+a+mindf...
I can appreciate the value of linking to the CDC directly, but I'm curious about why you think the science news article is better than the nytimes one?
Interesting, I find the opposite conclusion.

I think it mostly has to do with other people's insecurities. If I say something like, "veganism is unhealthy" (because of lack of B12... yes I'm aware there are nuances), some vegans interpret that as a statement of opinion, rather than a statement of fact, or even as an attack on their lifestyle choices, because they are so involved with their egos.

I try to follow Paul Graham's dictum "keep your identity small", the saying "strong opinions weakly held" and/or I've extremely strong self-confidence (compared to most people), so I seem to be way less personally affected by statements like these (though I'm sure I have other triggers)...

Granted I'm only 30 so maybe that will change in a few years, but for the time being I've started to moderate my stated opinions to spare other people's feelings (though I still think it would be better if they grew more emotionally mature, but I realize that's unlikely to happen), to improve social relations and, frankly, also because it's getting more and more dangerous out there, with political correctness and/or China-driven character assassinations.
>what's the purpose of multiple life sentences in US

To compensate for what was perceived to be an overly sympathetic appeals system.
No, do you think is wrong? Why?

I thought even PG would appreciate increasing the reach and convenience of his public content
And usually forbidden in modern sandboxing.
CargoLifter[1] tried to bring airships back in the late nineties. They started building a gigantic manufacturing building but ran out of money before they even started to build an airship. The hangar was later turned into an aqua park but ran into troubles because the heating expenses were too high. Not surprising given the hangar was designed to be open at both ends. Another commenter in a previous thread wrote that the aqua park does well nowadays[2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20766309
“Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way”
When this story first came out several months ago, an HN commenter in the vape liquid business fingered this as a possible source of the problem. Can't find the comment now, but always impressed by the nuggets of real information that crop up on HN.
Women and Men in Sport Performance: The Gender Gap Has Not Evolved Since 1983
One of the coolest articles I've seen in a long time!
This is a market-based problem rather than a policy problem: The problem is the low cost of making calls.

Make calls cost money and the problem will naturally go away.
You forgot his other nickname, Rapey McPervypants.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Username relevant :(
If the pepsi was still in your cup, you were still at some degree of positive "g". Anything below about 0.5 will cause people to start screaming. True falling is 0g. But things suddenly get very bad at even the slightest negative g. At -0.1g your pepsi is levitating out of the cup, the 100lb drink cart is now airborne, and a second later it all comes crashing down.
I find it somewhat of a hopeless discussion. One can explore any angle of science and reach a point where it looks insane and one can indoctrinate himself or train himself beyond that point. At that point you don't know anymore if you are on the cutting edge or if you are contributing to a new religion. The cutting edge might be useful and god might be real.

I think we can humble ourselves with the idea that the unknown is so large that puny humans will never figure out a significant part of it. Our knowledge to the whole will always be near zero. This perspective makes practical things a lot more interesting or a lot more important. I think there is a sufficiently infinite amount of work left close to the applicable.

Perhaps a good analogy is to first explore the forest close to the village rather than moving in a random direction. Its great of course to hear stories of far away lands but when it comes to funding we should aim to get something in return. At the same time we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss things that seem implausible to us. There are plenty of empirical results out there that are dismissed outright and will never see publication.

I use to play with magnets just for fun, in pure ignorance. I made quite a few setups that behaved in an interesting way to me. Nothing complicated, they take 1-10 min to make. When I told some book smart people they got angry and told me I was lying. I'm not trying to accomplish or refute anything. To me the effects were less interesting than their outright rejection. My ignorance of the art was quite the advantage. All I have is my hands and my eyes. You can't convince me I cant be seeing what I'm seeing but it is damn fascinating to see people try.
Very promising, bringing agile supply chains to a global scale. Plane shipping is cost prohibitive for many goods, while using ships requires large volumes or overhead of middlemen selling sub-container capacity...

With airships, smaller businesses can directly trade over long distances. I'm personally excited by agriculture potential... shipping spoilable heirloom produce straight from farm to markets across the country would be disruptive.

However, a single container ship carrying upward 10,000 containers still offers value at larger scales.
Ha! This has to be in response to this from several hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490850

Wherein someone named Amr keeps having his first name split into Mr. A by the airline booking system. Which would be bad enough, even if they didn't also insist that a name must be at least 2 characters. Good times.
> Popper's philosophy is baked into how physics is taught, possibly more so than any other field.

Sounds ad-hoc. Please explain.

Physics is a subject where for almost every topic (be it classical mechanics, optics, quantum physics, etc) there are several different frameworks (which are equivalent but distinct), and none of which can be "falsified" because they are all right, and deal with the same reality in different ways.

As Sidney Coleman said: "The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.”

Physics is also the subject where one is forced to realize that reality is nuanced enough that you cannot ascribe a single value to measurable quantities (repudiation of local realism) and measurements need not always return the same value. While it's true that physics has had experienced some key falsification/discovery events (most notably Michelson-Morley and the repudiation of ether), physics also has a rich history of approximate "effective theories" which are not wrong, but just limited in their domain of applicability, and might often be more useful than exact models. This idea has also been put on firmer footing over the last half century, with the concept of renormalization group flow.

So I don't see any simplistic tie-up between Popperian falsification and physics.
It's happening already. I've found people on this very website who continue to cite Pizzagate and Qanon. Something like a third of the US voting public simply doesn't trust sources like Wikipedia at all, and can be fed whatever someone dreams up as long as it's sold well.
WRT exceptions I'm curious what his thoughts are on the go way of handling them (just return an exception, don't throw)? Clearly this article was written pre-go.
After reading #28, I have to assume that your name is T'Kuvma
Indeed. Same with messaging, email, etc.
Some of these systems which broke were almost certainly SQL injectable.
http://archive.is/np6rz
Can you give an example pls?
Realistically it would be way better if the app didn't even show the face and other details, just the barcode which has to be looked up with a trustworthy device. Everything else is just noise
Everyone keeps talking about these being slower than planes, but I'm wondering if it is more interesting to compare these to cargo ships and trucks instead for some routes. While the cargo capacity is a lot less, these can be point to point over land or sea (no switch to trucks at a port) and these move through the air and not water, so the energy requirements should be a lot lower since air is less dense than water.

The autonomous problem is far simpler than autonomous trucking. It's probably somewhat comparable for autonomous shipping.

That all said 4 TEUs is far from the ~20,000 TEUs that the largest cargo ships can carry. Even if you can build something that can move 20 TEUs, that's still three orders of magnitude difference in terms of volume.

For certain goods however, like moving wind farm blades and pillars, airships would be ideal.
Maybe because you're mentioning one group specifically. Any diet can be unhealthy. The fact that Vegans need to be a bit more careful doesn't make it inherently more unhealthy.
Yes, generally the health community has been talking about a minimum of 20 years to get 'long term' data on the effects of vaping

Another problem they're dealing with is that we talk about vaping being one thing - in reality there are hundreds of companies with their own solutions. Of course there are some similarities in products and in the last few years Juul has come to dominate the US market, but other products (both the devices and the liquids) are of murky origin and quality. I was recently reading a study of a scientist looking into some devices and they found some contaminants that they didn't expect to be present at all that had no reason being there other than a use of cheap/incorrect/mistaken materials

Source: various, I've been researching tobacco control broadly for the last ~5 months as part of a project, if anyone is interested I can pull together some of the more interesting reports I've read
There is also no such algorithm that can try so hard to be "clever": most fuzzy matches will present their uncertainty, human input is assumed to be certain. The umpteen times some clerk "identified" me as someone who used a similar name (of different location, different position and ACLs, even different gender) were decidedly not entertaining.
Spyware Maker NSO Group Promises Reform but Keeps Snooping
What about the right to appeal / speak to a human arbiter? If you get banned from a major service like Google or Facebook or Amazon it can have major ramifications on your life.
In the US I’ve been to plenty of bars and grocery stores with ID scanners. I’d imagine this would be no different.
550 Bitcoin computers? I assume are the dedicated type, not general ones like the one I use to type my comment. If so, those go obsolete in like half a year. The heist, with its mined bitcoins, its maximum of several millions (USD) at best, even at 20k USD/bitcoin. Become a politician, you'll get these money and much more in those 4 years of a single mandate, all legal because they are called donations.
COC's being used as a weapon to purge political opponents? Shocking, who could have predicted it.
From Pseudoevents to Pseudorealities [video]
They had to build a call center to call the robocallers.

This was gonna cost $250M, so they decided to hire a firm to do it for them.

This firm was able to do it for $207,993,210 saving the government ~$43M.

Turned out the firm was the robocallers who got fined.

So they just called themselves 1 time, and paid the difference on the bills: $6,790!

/sarcasm
Are you referring to Generalized Additive Models (GAM)?
Also, many of those said rights are forfeited upon conviction, especially while still in the legal custody of the state.
Yeah, if federal government agents were interviewing me, as a minor, I might also deny consuming a schedule 1 drug.

There is NO verifiable evidence that consumer nicotine ecigs have caused any deaths.
Which is why Swift with its poor CUDA and Windows support instead of Julia.
Swi-Prolog Added to Google Safe Browsing List as Malware
I will give you feedback on your code
So if Kevin Bacon wanted to start a pirate radio station he could just set up shop and get away with it now?
As I understand it, oil mists have always been considered to be an inhalation hazard. I remember warnings about this from at least 30 years ago. A lot of people may have presumed that the vaping fluids were mainly water soluble.