skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people like (or strongly dislike, for that matter) about this movie is that it is filled with bad puns (and plain base humor at times), absurd situations and absurd characters. The scenario would not even matter.

This quote, "You can fool 1000 times 1000 persons, hum, no, you can fool 1 time 1000 persons, but you cannot fool 1000 times 1000 persons. No, you can fool 1 time 1000 persons but you cannot fool 1000 times 1 person. No…", is a cult citation of this movie, said by a seemingly clueless character who can't manage to speak his sentence for the whole time of the movie, and who is, by the way, fooled all the time.

La Cité de la Peur, released in 1994, still gets referenced regularly, pretty much like Asterix : Mission Cléopatre, released in 2001, by people who like this kind of humor. Kind of impressive 25 (resp. 18) years later.

How am I even writing a comment on La Cité de la Peur today on HN? Have I woken up in a parallel universe or something?
There is an excellent SMBC comic on politics: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-21. Transcribing the headings (not the complete dialogs):

"

1. If you have a self-consistent view, you're going to have problems.

2. In a self-consistent framework, you have infinite regression problems.

3. If you want your group to hold together, you need an ideology that doesn't make any sense.

4. Once you have a nonsensical platform, the group members can define the group however they want. Goals may change. The organization persists.

"

And well, it is the best description of any mainstream, organized religion. It is not about beliefs, as many may think: it is about group identity and loyalty. (Think about crusades, or violence against LGBT people, vs "turn the other cheek" and "love your neighbor".)

Of course, one needs to pay the lip service to a professed ideology - but then it is about loyalty not necessarily - beliefs.
Very well-thought infra and nice metrics. What kind of application are you running if I may ask?
> It is objective reality that the lifestyles of the bottom 60% are subsidized by the top 40% of tax payers.

You could turn the tables and say that the lower and middle classes subsidize employment terms that are favorable to the wealthy. To tax the top 40% because some subset of the top 40% can't pay the bottom 60% a living wage is just a way for the wealthy to extract further wealth from the middle class.

I'd say that both perspectives are valid ways to look at it, and won't pretend that either of them is "objective reality", but with a growing wealth gap it seems obvious to me who benefits most from this system.
Sounds like FUD to me
Yes, but solved only by passing the 16th amendment, which specifically authorized the federal income tax.

The article is, in a round about way, arguing that a wealth tax would need just such a constitutional amendment as well. And in today's political environment it would be much easier to just hike the existing income tax rates than obtain the majorities necessary for passing a constitutional amendment.
Clickbait from academics makes me sad. My issue is with the headline.

The probability of something making it through Congress and getting rejected by the court seems pretty low given the historical precedents.
Plenty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_by_country
Per instance or over a longer period of exposure?
That's why I said probably.
GraphQL seems to be mostly touted as "You can do richer queries!". which is definitely true, but not the key factor of what makes it awesome in my experience.

Much more important to me is how it allows the backend and frontend to work closer together. I can simply send the frontend developers my schema and then they know exactly what each endpoint returns, down to the exact type of the returned keys. There's no more back and forth on what the data for a new endpoint is supposed to look like. Either the backend devs take lead and hand a schema to the frontend devs, or the frontend devs take the lead and hand a schema to the backend devs.

Other than that there's quite a lot of really cool tooling. On the backend (python/django) I'm no longer needing to write long-winded serializers for each specific kind of view. I can simply make a query object that returns the right database query. On the frontend (typescript/react) they no longer need to write types for each API view, they can simply hand the schema to a code generator and get a file out declaring all the types the API deals with.

GraphiQL is awesome for both frontend and backend devs, At the very least it's a tidy small editor for queries. It allows you to run queries as you're developing or testing views. The documentation pane shows all the return types and expected arguments and types even if you don't put any effort into documenting anything. If you do put effort into documenting it becomes a powerful API documentation that's be easy to keep up-to date.

We're still in the early days of using graphQL but what I've seen so far certainly is worth the growing pains we're going through. The only real nitpick I have is the poor documentation of graphene-python, quite a lot of crucial use cases have you running around stack overflow and the source code to find answers. The case that gave us the most trouble so far (backend and frontend) is what to do with errors. We've gone the route of having views returning a union of the result and a global error type, which seems to be working nicely so far.

Of course the richer queries are nice too, but for us they seem to be mostly limited to making queries return less info when possible. e.g. when querying users you don't always need to return the entire user, which graphQL supports nicely, allowing you to elude profile photos or other expensive-to-calculate-columns whenever needed.
Would a magician then be fraud? They purport to move a card, force a coin, etc, but they do not do those things, they trick you instead.

How about "sports entertainment" like professional wrestling? They purport to provide a sport, but in reality it's a fraudulently scripted drama. Would that be a fraud?

Customers appear happy to buy into many things even with the full knowledge of what it is.
A few years ago, Switzerland did have a war game on a French invasion scenario.
I’m sure it’s just because I’ve never owned one, but I have often thought horses were the first “self driving” vehicle, and could still have some features superior to automobiles. You can feed them hay, they occasional apple and sugar cube, and they are largely carbon neutral. Even producing natural fertilizer as a byproduct of combustion. Built in cruise control, obstacle avoidance, and voice control, and a limited ability to self navigate and self-park.
It's a dream job for many people, and is an extremely skilled job when dealing with technical problems and emergencies is taken into account. There's a lot of worse jobs we should get rid of first.
Indeed: never heard that word when I was coding Amstrad CPC demos in the early 90s.
This is really good news IMHO. Having more open, RDF-based triplestore implementations is good for the semantic and linked-data space. Rya is based on RDF4J and runs atop Accumulo which are both pretty well supported projects.
The moderate solution failing probably isn't going to be as catastrophic as a unilateral solution from either of the opposite ideological camps.

The system survives long enough to make it to the next round of negotiations
My experience is that using Argan oil right after climbing solves this for the next day. The combination of a nights rest and Argan oil almost always does the trick. The times it did not work was when I had a more serious skin injury.
That's not fair. The authors probably have little to no say in the headline. I thought the content of this op ed was among the best I've read in the paper for a long time.
I remember reading about how hitler supported missions to Tibet in search of a superweapon/power that will take the riech further
That was not at all their point or what they were getting at. Things can always get worse, and this single statistic can be the tipping point to make it worse. I say this as someone who LIVES in the area. Betting you do not.
Are We Reaching Peak Phosphorus? Maybe
Not at all a stupid question. PACER's fees have been a source of controversy for years. They charge $0.10 per page or a max of $3 per document. There's been litigation about the fees[1], but it's still working its way through the court system. A couple of bills that eliminate the fees have been filed to in Congress over the last year or so, but they haven't gone anywhere.

It's also an incredibly technically outdated and user unfriendly system, so even without fees it would be worth scraping.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_(law)#Litigation_over_fe...
Politicians' pronouncements and promises on the campaign trail are the actual FUD (or its positive equivalent) IMHO.
This is the Saudi Arabian dude who has sued twitter
https://twitter.com/oamaz7
How to Comply with HIPAA Administrative and Physical Safeguards
Ask HN: Fang or Unicorn Startup
Provided you'll get an offer from both.

Which one would you choose?
It should be moved to Italy.
How can we explore polyamory relationship that is meaningful?
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Like keeping a mug or fork and knife and rinsing after use?
How many of these villages, once you leave the bubble, have roma people living in mud-homes and other vulnerable people that you so cleverly chose to ignore, and claim the everything is fine?
I know many Python programmers, of which exactly one has a compose key.
I'm surprised the Louvre hasn't done just that. Currently the Mona Lisa is pretty much in the middle of a section devoted to French and Italian paintings. Which makes sense, but doesn't work well in practice. The Mona Lisa crowds can get so big it's hard to even get a look at the other painting in the same room.

Move it to a separate room, install turnstiles that limit the amount of people in the room to something reasonable, and it will be a better experience for everyone. Even the people who are only there to take a picture of the Mona Lisa will be able to do it faster.

Many other museums seem better at limiting the amount of people near some attraction. To see Da Vinci's next most famous work, The Last Supper, you purchase a ticket that corresponds to a 15-minute slot. The Bust of Nefertiti, one of the most famous antique items, is kept in a separate room of the Neues Museum, with the staff not letting people in if it gets too crowded.
back by the massive diesel exhaust pipe? no thanks. you’re really setting kids up to be healthy! the front the driver can see if the child is far enough away (hence the pole) and it keeps the kid in sight for any other stopped cars next to the bus. Also I hold you understand running around saying things like “it just never ceases to amaze me how car-centric the US is” is offensive and micro aggressive. we have what we have, and that’s a lot of room.
Ford built an electric Mustang with a manual transmission. And we’re mad
I think very few people are able to hold with the 100+ iterations of improvement... This persistence and the quality of the result are where they are amazing.
Skills can be taught and learnt, but obstinacy is a quality that cannot be developed just by anyone, it is a character trait.
It's not great, but it sucks the least.

Which, given that the US Constitution of "minimize the damage one person / group can do" is the longest standing constitution currently, I think it's one of the better solutions.
My bet is on the later, considering early 10nm CPUs had the iGPU fused off and fairly abysmal and inconsistent overclock performance.
BTW gender identity is working the other way around.

If someone identify as a woman regardless of her genitals, then it would be rude not to call her a woman, especially on the internet where she can live her gender fully without the stress of conscious bias like physical clues.
Compiling a Functional Language Using C++
It might be a step towards the goals of the Face Verification Service project [0] of the Home Affairs office, which is a wide-reaching facial recognition service which seems to want to do things that aren't really possible with current technology.

Eventually these services can be integrated, or they might already be trialing integration silently.

> The Document Verification Service checks whether the personal information on an identity document matches the original
record. Importantly this includes verification of the date of birth on Australian passports, driver licences and birth certificates.

> The Face Verification Service complements the Document Verification Service by preventing the use of stolen as well as fake identity information.

[0] [PDF] https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=903112ab-f5e9-4...
Yeah, I never liked the idea of a wealth tax because it seemed overly complicated and open to manipulation. You’re taxing an assessed value of things that people say they own? This seems like property taxes, but worse, and rich people fight property tax valuations more frequently.
> This is such a peculiar, and I have to say, snobby, criticism

This is exactly why I thought it fit so well on HN.
In the magician's case everyone, except maybe small kids, knows that what they see is not real and just the illusion. The entertainment comes from the fact that we don't know how that illusion is done or even if we do know we still admire the mastery.
In the case of astrology, cold reading, etc. many sincerely believe that there are some higher forces at work.
Saudi Arabia is a US ally, so family region block against them is unlikely. Even if it is a country that tolerates and promotes open slave trade (look up #maidsfortransfer on BBC).
That's because the conductors were striking but not the supervisors, though, not because an automated line is inherently immune to striking.

I thought line 14 was stopped because of a strike some time ago but it was apparently just because of an incident, it might never have stopped because of a strike indeed. But that just means the employees that manage it don't strike.
> Or are there other reasons for “why now”?

Now because it's only been a short time since people could decide anything. Or at least were told that they could. How long since real parliamentary democracy, where say half of people who can currently vote were allowed to do so?

And in that time, the major outlets were few and gated by a journalistic system where you had to at least say something sensible and be judged by what some might call an elite, but others would call educated common sense.

Recently that status quo has fallen apart, and it's become clear that you don't need to have a message that is in any way cognizant of history, science, or any other established facts. The crazies at Speaker's Corner are now able to broadcast with a similar reach as people who've actually considered what to say.

Technology does indeed have a lot to do with this state of affairs, and is also alluded to in the article. That one nutter who says the world is flat online now causes others with the same inclinations to gain in confidence. Likewise with any number of ideas that would have quietly died.
The biggest ruse is Facebook convincing marketeers and agencies alike that three seconds counts as a video view. They justify this by saying people don't want to watch videos are attention deficit.

The truth is that very few people want to watch an ad. But if there's a strong enough value exchange with the consumer, they will. Just make effective content that's emotive, funny or offers utility.

Creatively, the impact of this is clients wanting ALL the messaging in the first three seconds of video content, which often causes the consumer to skip the rest of the content anyway.
Ask HN: Why aren't other professions as generous as developers?
I'm investigating some accounting and legal issues for a potential venture and it seems there is no question you can ask online for which the answer isn't "ask your accountant", or "speak to a lawyer". It's driving me nuts. The contrast with technology professionals, who gladly share their wisdom in response to specific questions, is stark. Why such a difference?
> The mere fact that there’s so many graduates is literally living proof that there’s an enormous, yet wasted potential for scientific research and discovery.

I don't see a proof in this statement - all I see is a belief. Many people believe that a sheer number of people engaged in professional science and requisite "publish or perish" job description is the cause of decreasing quality of scientific publications. Increasing the fraction of population with PhD have to run into Bell Curve limitations at some point.
The crime rate in Flint is actually much, much lower than it was in the early 1990's. Especially the amount of murders.

However, much of the crime isn't reported any more, or acted on. Flint has a ratio of almost 1 police officer per 1,000 residents, with is a quarter of a city like nearby Detroit.

Without cops to record the crime, much less act upon it, the numbers are artificially deflated. Someone could break into your home and since the cops don't come by for 6 hours t oinvestigate it just gets forgotten about.
Let me be clear, I don't think the poster is ignorant. I think they're a troll. I think they're entirely aware of how terrible a suggestion it is and getting malicious pleasure from watching people take it seriously.
Money is hardly the problem,justifyin spending is. Same goes for hiring, lack of people who know enough to be a general practitioner or architect is the problem not spending.

> It sounds like the C-Suite needs to learn what they don't know and then hire a CIO+CISO.

How???? You don't know what you don't know and you can only spend so much. A CISO that knows infosec is not easy to find.

Like i said in my comment what companies do is based on incentives. If you believe they should be more liable then get laws passed and their risk assesment will justify the spend.

Truth be told financial and reputation loss are the only concerns for a business,why is that surprising? They should be more responsible? Yeah...that's not how capitalism works, IT is an expense that you make up for using your revenue sources,doesn't pay for itself directly. You want them to spend 1M/year on a decent CISO and 200k+ on a team of security experts? Imagine how silly that would be for most companies with less than 5k employees! Give them a legal incentive and make security better using other avenues such as better IT products and services (which many are doing)

Oh and about salesforce...their main business is IT! They have quite a sizable revenue and a breach would affect that precious revenue very significantly. As opposed to say...home depot,99% of their customers who don't work in IT never even heard of their breach,heck I meet people in infosec who haven't either and they shop at homedepot just fine. Also,when a lot of companies are breached their stock either remains unaffected or it actually goes up because the breach is PR!

To me the whole thread and site is showing me the scale of the infosec bubble/echochamber. Too bad for karma though :)
The Global Private Cloud Market size is expected to reach $183B by 2025
It's more or less what happened when we invaded Switzerland in 1798.
Pretty much any well-known museum in any popular touristic city has the same problem. Should they all be closed for the general public, and only snobby journalists be allowed to enter?
> It dawned on me that my readings were a co-creation

I think this is a key point that rational people and skeptics don't get. Pseudosciences and pseudotherapies don't work because they produce accurate results, they work because of the tremendous effort that believers put in them to make them work.

IMHO, skeptics could help believers much more if they instilled in them some common sense and safeguards to avoid the worst crooks and dangerous therapies ("buy as many Bach flowers as you wish, it's your money - just don't abandon your chemotherapy") rather than try to appeal to their rational sense ("don't you realize how ridiculous it is? It could never work!"). At least in personal interactions, it is more likely that the former will gradually succeed in educating them than the latter.
Is it too much to ask the author to define his terms? The nature of truth is subject to an ongoing epistemological debate. The author's unspoken presumption is that fallible humans can even approach truth.

Is it not more honest in a way if a politician or a criminal accepts that he can not do truth justice, and proceeds with the sausage making? Like an actor winking into the camera, self-irony becomes an important part of political theatre.

Audiences decrying the paradoxical nature of time travel or other impossible sci-fi plot elements is declasse. This is how the bitter partisans of the chattering classes appear while harping on the inconsistencies of their opponent's presentation.

What else can we expect from Hollywood? An honest politician is a contradiction of terms. It is insulting to expect one's audience to suspend their disbelief for puritan phantasms like honesty in politics. Acknowledge us. Give the readers some credit, we're not all outrage junkies.
Just 13 states is enough to block it, with a population of 16 million, or less than 5% of the US population can block an amendment.

For the income tax, there was broad based support for a Federal income tax from both left and right, liberal and conservative, business and labor, rural and urban. Without an income tax, the government was still dependent on taxing alcohol, so the temperance movement backed it, as did those wanting a strong military, and business who didn't want excise taxes to pay for all spending backed it. Small states backed it. Big states backed it. Rural states backed it. The current system of trying to fund the entire government on sin and commerce taxes was hated by everyone.

Moreover at the time, the pro-income tax crowd could promise that only the top 1% would pay any income taxes, and so get the overwhelming support needed for a constitutional amendment.

Although Warren is trying to play the same game here, people are not gonna be fooled again by the "only billionaires will be taxed" line.

At least, as long as 5% are not fooled, it wont pass.
I agree with that. I've actually cut my income by a lot just because I don't do as much work. But I'm getting to an age where I don't really want to work more than this anyway.

So now I just need to keep upping my rate.
The problem is that backups don't work if the file is already corrupted when it's being written, most filesystems aren't very robust to on-disk corruption (and even those that are like ZFS have quite a few fun bugs if there is memory corruption present). Even versioning will not save you if you version already corrupted data.
Silly as in dumb. Not silly as in funny. I got that it wad a joke but I hate the false premise and narrative it pushes. People actually believe some of that crap
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I'm tired of these...
Considering Zen is a groundup new architecture, it's hard to call that "breaking" it, it wasn't correctly implemented on the new design.