skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding reduction of work hours, I’m a subscriber to the prevalence of “bullshit jobs” theory. Remove the power from corporate overlords via redistribution and put those resources under more democratic control. As a bonus people will take ownership over their schedule.

Sure, with less people working we may not have forty choices of toilet paper or same day delivery of counterfeit trinkets... but I’m more than ok with that. It will be necessary to reduce carbon emissions, anyway.
Ask HN: What re-engagement technology exist out there?
Hey, fellow hackers!

I’m looking for different solutions to reengage the users of my web/mobile/desktop apps. My research shows that re-engagement involves a lot of advertisements (of which I am not a particular fan of), and things like deep links, push notifications, and email marketing re-engagement campaigns.

Is there something else? Something like SaaS that I can integrate into my applications and have the re-engagement happen on auto-pilot or with much smaller effort?

What tech/tooling exists today?

Are there any start-ups on the horizon seeking to disrupt this space?
I have heard of a bias where people will try to justify paying a lot of money for something by thinking that it's better. The $50 price tag probably made the spooky predictions appear to work better.
I am programing over 10 years, that never happened to me and I never heard of anyone who had experienced something like that.
Your words/excels save a copy of files upon opening (to handle crashes or corruption).

Is it worth entertaining this scenario? Unless you are running on a space probe or nuclear facility pc that's non-issue worth any time.
Magicians are entertainers, and it's fake just like all entertainment is, like the movie characters and plots are fake. If you're adult you're expected to know that. It makes it very different from astrology, where people actually believe in it. They're selling people advices as actual educated truths extrapolated from stars by means of science. Astrologists are not less of con-artists than say a person practicing medicine without any medical education or license. They might help one, or two, or ten people by using common sense, but sooner or later they'll cause harm to someone because they're just a bunch of charlatans.
Likewise, let's eliminate as many of a tax shelters used by the 1%, as well as add luxury taxes to the financial planning services only the uber wealthy can afford.
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I am sure the people who enjoy driving metro can do so in VR. Why would we forcefully hold onto a job that wastes human potential?

Maybe the issue is the difference in my understanding of human potential. There is simply so much more to do for these people that I can't see why someone would want to forcefully hold onto old ways. Why would you force a person to spend all days in tunnels?

Technology for automated metro is there for many years. Not using it is foolish. If you don't like people losing jobs, simply take the savings and employ the people elsewhere in the city, e.g. as bus drivers.
> The problem, alas, is the Constitution.

It’s not much of a stretch to think the title was their idea. I’d grant that the paper may have added the word “big”. It has their name on it.
Well yeah. This isn't a game like Civilization where countries lagging behind have to develop the steam engine while everyone else is on space age tech. You can put solar panels in Africa today.
The most complete definition for our reality that I've seen is that everything is One. Everything in the Universe is connected, part of a whole; Everything is made of the same basic components, only vibrating, at different frequencies; As we are all made of the same basic components and everything is interconnected, we can affect the Universe , just as the Universe affects us.
That for me explains and validates most of these concepts
that most people think are fantasy: Clairvoyance, Telekinesis, Mind Reading, Telepathy etc; Once you start seeing the big picture you start to glimpse reality; Science is just starting to grasp these concepts. There will come a time when mysticism and science will be one and the same, and religion won't exist; Because we won't be needing it anymore; We'd have transcended it;
I don't think I've ever seen one of these in France. Everybody has separate machines or hangs their stuff to dry.
Exactly. We write our own laws. If need be, we'll write this into law.
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I would guess the "stunt" here is that everyone knows that drinking one glass of Flint water won't really hurt you. It's the long-time exposure from childhood that is the problem.
To be specific, XP has had ingress firewall and SP2 adds the egress counterpart.
I missed the "hot boyfriend" entirely and was mislead by the stock image at the top of the article.
It's been tried. You wind up putting all the people who provide those goods and services out of work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/07/16/h...
Password Sharing Costs Netflix over $1.5B Annually
One of the reasons I'm no longer a scientist: as a postdoc I was called on to read a paper about the functional impact of deleting genes in yeast, take their published data tables, and make sense of their results. The paper was fairly straightforward to read (a rarity) and the data was easy to access. I wrote a bunch of scripts to parse the data and ask questions (this was ~20 years ago).

The paper described experiments where the scientists created 6000 yeast clones (yeast has 6000 genes), where each clone contained "a deletion of a single gene" and they showed which genes, when deleted, had fatal effect (IE, the yeast could not grow as a viable organism on yeast medium). The data table was a list of genes that had not been previously known to be "required", and when deleted, would cause the organism to not grow (IE, it died, so you could assume the gene's protein product was required for life).

I was asked to make all sorts of tables showing that the genes that got removed belonged to certain classes, or at least had enriched population of certain classes.

Since I've always been interested in overlapping genes, I instead spent time scripting some range intersection queries on the data tables (IE, assuming all genes are intervals on a line, find the genes whose intervals intersect). What I found was, for each gene they reported as a novel important functional gene, it intersected an already known important functional gene.

So, the most likely conclusion is their table was a bunch of false positives- they deleted gene X, but also truncated gene Y, where Y was already known that if it was truncated, would lead to loss of organismal viability.

I wrote a nice letter to the authors explaining what I had found and never heard back (I also dropped that project, explaining to my PI that it was unlikely the data was of high quality). A year or two later, the authors published a new paper explaining how gene overlaps had important functional significance in yeast...

If I were rich, I'd fund an institute, but instead of trying to discover new things, I'd find a bunch of data scientists who went around looking for low-quality papers and properly letting the community know (while publishing all work so that people can verify for themselves the quality of the paper).
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Don't get me wrong, ideally every paper would be trustworthy, but working scientists are well aware of the issues, and aren't waiting for a posse of armchair crusaders to save them.

If you aren't in the field, then it's difficult, although perhaps inconsequential.
In the proof of concept[1]:

1. Send an ajax HEAD request, which grants the permissions.

2. However, since the HEAD response doesn't have valid CORS headers, you can't read the 'code' parameter from the HEAD response.

3. To get around CORS, the proof-of-concept redirects the user to the same OAuth url again.

4. Since the user has already authorized the scope (from the previous HEAD request), Github automatically redirects back to the redirect_uri (the proof-of-concept page) with a new 'code' that the author can then use.

So I have two questions:

a) If I have 3rd party cookies disabled, will the "credentials: 'include'," part of the ajax HEAD request still work?

b) Why does Github automatically redirect back the 2nd time without asking the user to authorize again? I thought it was best practice to ask the user to click authorize every time even if they're authorizing the same scope they previously authorized?

[1]: https://not-an-aardvark.github.io/oauth-bypass-poc-fbdf56605...
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> If it isn't used to defend the action

No, it's still a fallacy. Just because you feel the need to deflect attention towards your personal targets it doesn't mean your argument is sound.
I think he meant this painting by a painter whose last name is David.

https://az334034.vo.msecnd.net/images-7/the-consecration-of-...
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Shanghai authorities form a blockchain alliance to improve trading operations
Maybe your case was more complicated but most IDE's now will tell you about unused variables, methods/functions etc. So if variables storing the calculations that were being built up never ended up being used in the end context of the function you may have gotten a nice gray/red line. It becomes harder to trace if those values are being updated into some table which then never gets used.

It is amusing that sometimes huge swaths of complicated code exist simply because everyone inheriting them is to scared to touch them even though they are basically orphaned and have a net 0 effect on outcome.
Your neural representation of yourself is replicated in the brains of friends
Space travel requires energy. On earth we obtain most of our energy from the sun. During interstellar travel there is no sun that we can depend on. Therefore space travel is impossible without creating our own sun with fusion power.
Volvo starts selling electric trucks
"The only two benefits of democracy..."

In my opinion the one major benefit of democracy over all other forms is that a terrible leader can be voted away within 4 years. It's a political system with garbage collection :)
OK, so when the reporter specifically asks him if he'd drink the water in front of him, what's his least bad option? If he makes the speech he does, saying "I don't do stunts" asserting its safety and takes a sip, he's handling the situation as gracefully and productively as he can.

If instead he starts in with a lecture about how it's cumulative exposure, affects children more severely, and that is why he won't take a drink as a publicity stunt, he knows that all that will be reported is "Obama refuses to drink Flint water!"

This wasn't a planned stunt in my estimation (unless you think the reporter was "in on it").
And after the Supreme Court strikes down your law as an affront to the law of the Constitution, perhaps you'll pack the court with flunkies who will rubber-stamp those laws as well, and try again.
... because (almost by definition) the vast majority amount of concentrated wealth is never spent, and if you really want to raise a lot of money how is that going to work?

10,000% tax on mega-yachts and private jets?
>Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path

Really? The article just says its author hope for a low-carbon future for the air transport, and mentions some tiny plans by jet makers and early startups to plan to 'hybridify' airplanes.

How much low-carbon would that be? As far as I could read, the author does not even try to evaluate that and blindly hope that it should be helpful, somehow. As if he can't bear flight shame, and tries to share/sell some "hope" to cope with that.
It's legal. Airbnb didn't (doesn't?) forbid it![1] They aren't even courageous enough to do that much.

> has the intent to capture an image of a private area of an individual without their consent

This law is basically forbidding voyeur porn.

A host could install a "security" camera in a living room. For a studio apartment, that would also be a bedroom. That's completely legal. Perhaps the camera is installed, but it's "not turned on". All legal.

But once the landlord steps across the line by turning the camera on, publishing videos, etc., the law is broken, but it's already too late.

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/airbnb-you-might-be-ca...
How terrible software design decisions led to Uber’s deadly 2018 crash
Not just methane. The automobile had the advantage of removing millions of pounds of horse manure from city streets.
> That's because the conductors were striking but not the supervisors, though

That's the whole point.
HN has ads: startups advertising for employees. But I don't know how YC thinks of the effect of HN.
If you assume only balanced and benevolent people will do astrology and psychic readings, that's fine. The problem is that if you have a little bit of problem yourself, a bit of delusion, it is easy to bring down the gullible that come to you. People die of preventable disease because they listen to their psychics. An astrologist with a bunch of fervent followers can make a transition into a cult the day he or she wants to make serious money.
That's how they make you believe, by using basic human patterns/behaviours, they don't read stars/cards/palms, they read you and make you believe they know more about you than yourself, which can be helpful in some ways if you never self reflect.
The very popular C++ linear algebra library Eigen has bounds checking for matrices by default, but you can turn them off when defining NDEBUG. This means most out of bounds accesses are found during development.
Sorry but I keep forgetting about the damned asterisk:

(7 * 24)/4 * (5/7)
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Would you say that the majority of your wealth is in your bank account, as opposed to being in housing or a retirement portfolio of stocks and bonds?
Literally the first point of the guideline:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Not to get too much into the weeds, but in my experience in HPC for numerical work out-of-bounds read/writes are almost never an issue. I say almost because I'm sure someone somewhere as slipped up, but I've literally never had this problem. A priori you know your bounds and looping within them is trivial. I don't think I've ever encountered any data where you did not know the dimensions at program startup. I have experimented with Rust because I thoroughly enjoy the language (but am not an expert), and immediately got bit by bounds checks during vector indexing.

I also find if you write modern, idiomatic C++ code you rarely, if ever, have to worry about memory safety issues.
I disagree. You're not an ocean, so looking at the tides and assuming that the moon has a similar influence on you is an unjustified jump of logic. Then, when you start inventing specific effects for the moon to have, you're clearly in the realm of fiction because you know full well you didn't get the ideas you're writing down from observation.

I have heard before the argument that "being rational wasn't invented until the 1930s, so you can't call anyone before then irrational," but everybody knows intuitively that the truth is something they see or something they infer from what they see, and a lie is something they make up in their own heads.
Would have been nice to compare code uglyness and performance of OpenMP 5 vs rayon + SIMD.
I tend to agree with you. But the problem exposed here is relevant; Morpheus says (speaking about a fortune teller, probably not coincidentally, that there is big difference between knowing our own path and following it: here there is kind of the same problem. A trained professional is probably more qualified to understand and respond to their patients' problems, but this works only if the patients acknowledge and accept their advices. If they do not, however good, they are lost.

I believe this is an important problem in medicine (not only psychology): there is a good difference between knowing the solution for something, and convincing the patient to abide to that solution. Each of us has their own set of beliefs about where working solutions come from: professionals, the internet, fortune tellers, friends, self help books. If professionals do not have enough strength in this set, they will not work.

I am not saying that fortune tellers are the solution; I am just saying that this problem exists and that the fact that people believe in medicine professionals cannot be taken for granted.
You misunderstand the situation. As the other commenter stated Flint decided to restart their own water treatment due to costs. They were not prepared to fully treat the water from the nearby river. They also ignored the water plant manager.

A lot of people don’t realize there was (and maybe still is) a huge outbreak of Legionnaires disease. Somehow the city suppressed the news about it.
I am not able to browse for free. Right now it costs me around $35 a month for access.

I'd gladly add a few dollars to have an ad-free web and I bet many people would as well.
Precisely. Inequality only drives progress when people people believe it can be overcome. That's the basis for the American Dream. When people no longer believe that, as is the case in large parts of the US and EU, it only breeds resentment and drives down productivity and societal progress.
Brand advertising doesn't have to be "did you know that Company exists"; it can be "you should like Company more because Reason"
But on the other hand, hereditary monarchy allows a smart person to be at power every once in a while.
> The eyebrows, through his having shown the manner in which the hairs spring from the flesh, here more close and here more scanty, and curve according to the pores of the flesh, could not be more natural.

This is quite interesting, because (currently at least) she doesn't have eyebrows!
How to Like People More
Nobody calls it that or has ever called it that.
COM was not really well designed to be consumed from C++ that is why it felt horrible to you. It was designed for visual basic and Office. If I never see another VARIANT I will be soooo happy. ATL made COM better to use but not much. In visual basic a COM object was dead easy to make and manage. In C++ it came with a bunch of baggage of extra API's to fiddle with and no real clear direction how/why to do so.

I do not know what MS would recommend these days. From my point of view they basically functionally abandoned it but dragged it along because most of their stuff was built with it. The .NET libs was where all the new stuff was going (WPF, WinUI). WTL may be worth a look it looks like it comes out of the ATL/MFC lineage.
> Clairvoyance, Telekinesis, Mind Reading, Telepathy etc

The problem with these things is that nobody has ever been able to prove they exist when put under scrutiny and anything attributed to them has generally always had alternative explanations that don't require the existence of the paranormal or whatnot. Until you can prove it exists, in a controlled test that eliminates biases, its no better than a fantasy, even if it does exist.

I'm a hobbyist (sleight of hand) magician. I can do things that people believe are physically impossible. I know the methods of many more illusions (that I can't perform myself) that many people online claim is real magic/demons/whatever. This is completely laughable when you know the techniques. Its all a mixture of trickery, sleight of hand, misdirection, gimmicks/props, camera tricks and stooges. It often can look truly impossible and therefore magical, until you know how its done. Another concept that is often played on in performance magic is psychology: you can trick people into missremembering a sequence of events in order to make them appear even more impossible, for example, spectators often re-tell the performance saying things like they shuffled the cards, even though they only cut them, or that I didn't touch the cards and it all happened in the spectators hands, even though it actually did happen in mine and I did touch the cards. Just because you don't know the mechanism of something, doesn't mean that anything fantastical, mystical or paranormal actually occurred. I've yet to see any substantial evidence that anything ever has.
Writing a program that writes itself
That's why I think more appropriate way to think about wealth tax is not actual practical implementation, but more like a goal.

So no adding together all wealth, but tax the value of real estate instead of the rental income. Tax market cap of public corporations instead of their profit. Tax cars, boats and business jets. Tax bonds and other securities on their value instead of revenue. Etc. All these ibdividual taxes are going to have issues to be sorted out before implementing, bit I argue that as individual taxes, the issues are way easier to solve than for one generic wealth tax.
I think we are aligned on our view of the word choice
The Lost Art of Thinking for Pleasure
> native proactor servers

I/O completion ports? Those are great and I wish Linux had a similar API. Epoll doesn't fully solve the asynchronous I/O problem since files always have data available to read. The kernel should be able to do reads and writes in the background while my program does something else.
Perhaps it was a stunt planned by the reporter only, but anyway, I can see how some people can see it as disrespectful.

There are similarities with people who virtue-signal by working with children in a ghetto of a 3rd world country, and get photographed doing it - while actually living in the comfort of a luxury hotel and just showing up in the ghetto for a brief time. The intentions may be very good but people may still perceive it as hypocrisy. (Not particularly blaming Obama for this, he maybe in fact came to a situation where there is no good way out.)
Because millionaires don’t eat a thousand times more food than “thousandaires.” Rich people don’t spend their money in general, they invest it, and then their children inherit it.

Fine if you want to levy a huge tax on yachts, but very few people who could afford one have the inclination. And from what I gather, those who do want a yacht buy it in Italy, not the US.

If you really want to tax the things rich people buy, then start with a land value tax. Rich people buy huge amounts of real estate. Taxing it at its fair, unimproved value would be ideal [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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Sometimes it's remarkable to think almost everyone (certainly city-dwellers, at least) in their mid-50's and older grew up with low-level lead poisoning from exhaust.
This might be one of the most obnoxiously deluded things I've read all year.
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They are public. You can always go to the courthouse and use one of the computers to download documents for free.

Also, PACER bills quarterly, and your first $50 is free. Of course, if you are a party to the case, you can download for free as well.