skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to take this argument seriously when the only companies mentioned are left-leaning tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google.

I suspect that the author's concern isn't censorship per se, but censorship of viewpoints he happens to uphold. If Twitter's suppression of conservative content is bad, then so is The Federalist's suppression of liberal content.

You're about to argue that one of these is a social media platform, while the other is a news outlet. In that case, what do you think is the essential difference that makes it okay for one to censor certain ideas but not the other?
> A quick search shows that most channels currently have less than $100 in them, limiting how much you can send without prior arrangement.

Note that not all channels are public, so you won't find all in searches. I'm only saying that you shouldn't be worried about lightning liquidity if you can directly connect to your counterparty - as you can directly transact with that party without relying on any liquidity from anyone else.
Mevn-CLI, Light speed setup for MEVN stack based apps
What's a "small bug"? What's a "high quality shop"? I've spent years doing software security assessments for much larger financial service firms than Robin Hood, and found far worse things than this.
For situations like this, it's extremely useful to have a human-review queue that the automated system can drop jobs into. It keeps the rest of the system running, and lets the support staff (you) fix the problem during normal business hours.

This is how we handled errors in our video archiving system at Justin.tv, and to my knowledge we never lost a single frame that made it to the broadcast servers. The raw bits were streamed to disk as they came in, and only got removed once the VOD servers had the final version— any errors would retry a few times and then get flagged for manual processing. We did have a few close calls where something broke the whole archiving system, and the broadcast servers came dangerously close to shutting down due to full disks, though.
It's not just the SAT, either. I took the GRE in order to go back for my Master's. I got a veritable deluge of emails telling me all about wonderful programs all across the country.

MBA programs were disproportionately common in the advertisements I received. I can guess a few possible reasons. I fit a demographic profile (returning to school after 8+ years in industry). MBAs are profit centers for universities. Business programs ought to be able to optimize business things like advertising reach and market segmentation.

Most email blasts were short-lived, but a few schools still email me on the regular, a year after I finished the program I originally took the test for.
What problems are you referring to?
Expected value takes into account probability. You aren't going to lose $1000 every time you use air bnb. Probably.
Apple's New Privacy Page
So, the argument is Twitter shouldn't combat spam? That HN shouldn't edit/delete content? That if a website accepts user generated content, they should have to make it viewable?
It is ridiculous to expect that the driver can be alerted and react in any kind of reasonable time frame unless they were already paying attention, in which case what use is a self driving vehicle?
Ran into that same bug as well. Was excited to give iPadOS a try with the accessibility features.

Seems like an error in Safari not honoring the 3rd Party Cookie setting.
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I created an equivalent project for people who wanted to create the same style of badges from Python (or from the command line): https://github.com/google/pybadges

Python example:

from pybadges import badge
s = badge(left_text='coverage',
right_text='23%',
right_color='red')
# s is a string that contains the badge data as an svg image.
print(s[:40]) # => <svg height="20" width="191.0" xmlns="ht

Command line example:

python -m pybadges \
--left-text="coverage" \
--right-text="23%" \
--right-color="red"

But there are lots more formatting options documented on the project page.
For me it is very hard to tell how my mental health is. I usually track it by looking back at conversations with people I care about, which can get weird. When things get bad, I tend to dissociate a little as a sort of defense mechanism. This time last year, I was more of an automatic process than a person, which was caused by essentially being the only person responsible for maintaining undocumented legacy software with a very critical manager who had never managed a developer before and didn't understand the requests he was making. This combined with an expensive chronic medical condition and the inability to save enough money to support myself if he finally fired me caused me to basically check out.

Now things have completely flipped, and it's pretty confusing. I got a job that I like and switched industries from healthcare infrastructure to manufacturing, and I actually believe in my company / like my manager / make a little more money, and by living in a house with 4 friends I've known forever I'm saving a ton. But I also have a 2.5 hour round-trip commute, and live in a city with such bad infrastructure that things like getting groceries have a huge amount of friction associated with them.

The weird thing is that the tiredness/lack of spare time/time dilation that comes with a living situation like this feels like dissociation, and the fact that I can't move forward with my previous goals effectively makes me feel like I am atrophying as a person. I'll probably do this for another year or so.
Nazi regime was relatively short and ended abruptly by the end of war. There is much more evidence available including witnesses.
T-Mobile might be cheaper but their coverage sucks in Wisconsin. In my previous experience with them, if you were not in Milwaukee or on the freeway you are out of luck.maybe it has improved but I won't bother with them.
I understand, I just don't think we should describe that behavior as "rational". In casual conversation, the word means "sensible, logic-driven decisions that any person with good judgement would take". Here we're describing behavior driven by a particular niche, unnatural rationale, and pretty much any behavior can be explained that way.
http://www.opensourcediabetes.org/

Already happening with Diabetics. I know a girl that has cracked her pump for closed loop performance and she says the results are mostly better, but take close monitoring and an active hand.

It's a tricky thing still. Yes, the devices are buggy (all things are), but half of medical devices are used by people with below average intelligence (by definition). It's still a balancing act and is likely to be for a long time.
Ask HN: How do you handle the ups and downs on side-projects?
Sometimes you have really great days, and sometimes really bad ones. Today my project is at risk because Google decide to 'pause' my Ads account (after 6+ months spending $$$$) and stopped ALL ad serving while this happens.

This is consuming my mind, I think of nothing else. Even though this is just a side-project and I still have a job.

My mood is different, and I can barely hold small-talk with my wife (serious talk is fine, it's a distraction). I hate it, it makes me want to stop it up simply due this. I don't need the money that badly that I'd forego my marriage. But I do it to create enough income that I can spent the rest of my life with her, and enjoy it, without worrying about working 60+ hours a week.

What tools do you employ to avoid overthinking/emotion/etc in side-projects?
No, a relative of his did.

Police matched the killer's DNA with one of his relatives' DNA in the DB, started digging in his family and found someone matching the profile of the killer.

Police then watched him and got his DNA from a can he threw away to give them the exact DNA match.
There was going to be a net-zero energy standard in California for new houses, but it's not clear to me what happened. Apparently they decided that solar panels shouldn't generate more power than needed by the house? This FAQ has an answer that doesn't seem to say yes or no:

https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/title24/2019standards/documents/20...
People don't know the difference between the two government is what I feel
This was too full of rambling about actual vampires (hungarian legends and the like) and about the poor fashion sense of the newly rich, that you'll have to read at great length and with great focus in order to figure out if the article contains anything substantive about current events or current socioeconomic phenomena.

That's something I'm not willing to do.
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Try playing with the $ tool
It should be very valuable for counterintelligence to check the legends of enemy agents. If the DNA of the suspected agent identifies relatives that are implausible given the provided back story, further investigation may reveal that the legend is false.

It should also be valuable for screening candidates for security clearances. Are the relatives named by the candidate related to the candidates DNA relatives? If not, further investigation is warranted.
Because sometimes it's nice not to have to drag in a large dependency such as Qt. For example PuTTY.exe is only around 500kb and that's all there is to it.
Listened to a podcast that featured the founder of gedmatch.com. He definitely didn't seem that tech savvy, and from the discussion about the company/site, it seems plausible that it is.
I now prefer performance standards, auto incrementing, at a predictable rate. Let the various industries figure out how to attain those standards.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/31/1864690...

Like applying the Toyota Production System to A/E/C.

Better improvement at a faster rate, without the inevitable recurring food fights (lawsuits).
Generics might be cheap knockoffs. It's uncertain if the purity, formulation, method of production, and quality control for a generic will yield the same benefits (or any benefits) for a particular drug. There are countless stories about how some people like some brands of generics better than others.

There was some reporting around these parts recently that generics don't really undergo any kind of efficacy studies, they are assumed to just work, and there's really not much oversight whatsoever.
I can still find stuff like amoxicilline, ketoconazole or paracetamol on Alibaba. Maybe the ban is only on some specific chemicals?
One word.. Serverless. It's a bit more pricy but the ease of mind is worth it.
Doctors are not scientists. Doctors understanding basic science are 1:1000, and the rest of us follow EBM practices blindly similarly to a religion.

However, it's not scientific ability that makes a good doc. Scientific ability is really not a criteria for adjusting your trust in a particular practitioner. I'd even say it's often that supposedly doctor-scientists (academics) are the worst.
>Which part of this argument changes? I can find any part that does.

One is fraudulent spam, the other is not.
> "wouldn't that imply that countries who import German goods are being subsidized, because they are able to get German goods at artificially low prices?"

Yes, and that makes German products more attractive, boosting German exports. Germany gets a boost to their export, at the cost of importing at higher prices. Because Greece's currency is artificially boosted, they can import relatively cheaply, but they have trouble exporting because their exports are too expensive, so money is leaving the country.
Maybe the conclusion is that such plans were inherently unreliable, because people change speed by which they move through museums and cancel appointments.
Shit is always going to happen, there is no magic trick.
However what these companies can do, is being extremely diligent about implementing fixes as soon as an issue is reported and not cutting corners on the certification processes and safety features.

What has surfaced in the last few months, is that Boeing is willing to cut corners, and is not being diligent.
It's completly possible that the same thing is happening at Airbus, but I have not personnally seen or heard evidences of that. At the very least, Airbus is not certifying it's own planes.

For example, for the crash you mentionned, was Airbus aware of that potential issue sooner but didn't update the maintenance guide for some ulterior motives?
There was a tweet going around about the recent ALCS to the effect of “The Yankees are losing to Houston because it’s the most diverse food city in the country and New York has 23 chains named Sweetgreens”
Reddit has an option to sort on controversial on a group and also on comments. I suspect the algorithm is probably looking for things with a combination of upvotes and downvotes. Take a look at any reddit group or the comments and sort on controversial if you want to see what it looks like. If you defined controversial as any thing that has a 15% to 55% down vote ratio that would be fairly specific. Maybe over 60% downvote it may be off topic or spam? It would be an interesting experiment, for a few days, to change the default from "hot" to "controversial".
Animals crossing the street is rare, but a situation I'd expect self-driving cars to be trained on. I doubt they classified all known large animals, so shouldn't there have been a classification to anticipate animals it doesn't know crossing the street?

As someone who spent a number of years living in the countryside, this seems obvious. However, for those growing up in cities, this might never cross your mind. It makes me wonder if there might be a lack of diversity on the teams building and testing these systems.
I mean honestly, if we could commit the biggest polluting factories to cut down pollutants 50% and then to stop manufacturing the 50% most polluting cars, those would be good steps.

It's not really the humans destroying the planet. It's the invasive, destructive industries.
So interesting. Any number of these could make a fascinating segue to an alt-history fiction that could really move in any direction.
Are you allowed to switch between them at will, or is there a legal inertia that pushes you to continue reporting using the same one?
Just rename it steerage, and you're resurrecting fine old nautical tradition.
One, that's exceptional, so it's a bad way to make policy. It's like saying, "Because Theranos, we should end capitalism." Two, Flint's water system ran fine until it was removed from local control and given to ideological white Republicans to run. Since this discussion is about shifting to local control from a state-scale entity, Flint may work better as an example for the change.
Private social media companies that reach a certain size should be forcibly nationalized and transformed into taxpayer funded instruments of the first amendment with zero censorship. The former owners should be compensated with so much money that it’s impossible they’d be upset about the blessing of retiring early and never working again unless their true goal all along was to use their power in a treasonous fashion. Anyone who disagrees with me should be hanged for treason. Anyone still working at the company after it’s nationalized who is found working on or implementing any form of censorship should be hanged for treason.
Yeah but when you cross the street you generally keep an eye out for traffic, and the sight-line is such that if the car had headlights on it should have been visible for more than 6 seconds before the collision. The victim might well have expected the car to yield somewhat.

However, I don't know if the car did have any external lights on, so it might have been hard to see until it was closer than 6 seconds away.
I'm curious what you think would happen to the New York Times if they were to get sued in your imaginary hypothetical?

Editors can and have been jailed. They are ultimately personally responsible for what the paper published.
My guess: Money Laundering.

You could certainly pay less than ~$20,000 in Stripe/CC fees to move $1M if your motives were on the up and up. Especially if you were doing it regularly.
The connection between pathogen history and degree of moral vitalism
1.3 seconds is definitely not enough for a human to engage brain. I agree the human should have been paying attention and might have spotted the problem sooner, but that alert is completely useless.
Oh god! They divorced in 2015. I am sure if Google had any such plans, it is just as likely with any other CEO up there. Let us worry about real conflict of interest happening elsewhere in Politics, Climate change etc which might dooms us all before these...
As a non-native speaker the word equity has always been a little puzzling.

According to the first meanings defined by dictionary.com this article might be about characteristically private but virtuous vampires:

"noun, plural eq·ui·ties.

(1) the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon.

(2) something that is fair and just: the equities of our criminal-justice system."
Convox looks nice! My only issue is that it seems tied to AWS?

It would be nice to have a stateless tool abstract Terraform a bit, to let you use more providers as a basic PaaS.
Apparently, yet masses of people are flocking to the 20th century wasteland Texas from California anyhow.
Barbara Jordan’s ghost is spinning in her grave
There is a difference between architecture and implementation. The 68000 ISA (i.e. the architecture) is 32 bits, the actual 68000 chip is not.
I keep thinking about Nick Leeson, the trader who caused Barings Bank to collapse.

He was highly successful with his speculative trades, but eventually things got out of hand and he was having to make bigger and bigger gambles to try to recover the lost money, until it all fell apart on him.

You can talk about being a fund with a view to 300 years of the future, but you're not going to get there if you act recklessly with the now.
Ok, say that is how achieving high throughput. Does it limited to FreeBSD only or can be used on other *nix as well?
Sort of. IBM really wanted to ensure that OS/2 had an imaging model that was compatible with what it used in some of its larger computers. This resulted in a bunch of differences between OS/2's imaging model and GDI. (Different window origin coordinates, etc.)

In a more Microsoft-centric world, I'm pretty sure the OS/2 API would've been exactly as you describe it and almost strictly in parallel with Windows. In fact, Microsoft did exactly this with Win32s (and Windows 95) In their relationship with Windows NT (which was once known as OS/2 NT or OS/2 3.0).

The same compiled binary could run on both the 'entry level' OS and the 'server level' OS, with a bit of care taken in the way the API was used.
Just needs a condensed axis. Very cool.
What are some falsifiable predictions of that theory?
For instance if a car has the choice of hitting someone in the road or swerving onto the sidewalk and hitting someone there then clearly the legal thing to do is for the car to stay in its right of way and hit the person in the road.
> Gitlab has no Chinese or Russian employee so far -> so nobody got pressure or intimidate, ffs.

Actually, they do have employees there. There are at least 5 Russians and 1 Chinese listed here: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

There are no Russians at the role that had been debated though.
So private equity buys a sports publication and see that they're not publishing anything related to sports, so they tell them "hey, please publish sports related articles" whereby the staff whines, quits, and is replaced? And this is a bad thing, how?
Interesting segue: in The Netherlands, that would not legally be a pedestrian, although you would be classified as one for most purposes.

A pedestrian ("voetganger") is someone who travels by foot only. If you guide another vehicle by hand, or even a horse or cattle, you are legally considered a driver. Therefore, most laws concerning pedestrians have to make explicit allowances for walking a personal vehicle. For example, the primary Dutch Traffic Regulations [1]:

The rules in this resolution concerning pedestrians apply equally to persons guiding by hand a motorbike, moped or bicycle

[1] https://wetten.overheid.nl/jci1.3:c:BWBR0004825&hoofdstuk=I&...
I've been developing using Visual Studio running on an Azure VM for a while now, and am looking forward to seeing how this does. The benefits are:

* Your every-day laptop can be lighter and have less "development cruft". It's email, office, and a browser.

* You can upgrade/swap out/use multiple laptops and desktops without losing dev environment

* If you do it right, you can spin up a new dev environment with little effort. I just run "./install-devapps.ps1", which runs a bunch of Chocolatey installs, and have a new VM in a few minutes.

One thing I'm curious about with this new offering is how supporting dev infrastructure works. I run a dev SMTP server (papercut) and SQL Express on my dev vm and use in about 90% of my projects. I'd rather not spin up Azure SQL for every dev project, but I'm wondering if Microsoft might want me to ;)
Someone should publish a book of these stories. I would buy it.
What makes a company left-leaning?
It doesn't matter, with family searches. The "grim sleeper" was caught because his son committed a crime and they put his dna into a database. Searching the database they matched a relative, then did some sleuthing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper
Companies like 23andMe regularly improve their technology and offer upgrades to get improved results. On this page [0], you can scroll down to "23andMe Health Reports by Chip Version" and select "See All" to see the changes.

[0] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/218392668...

(I'm not saying that their aren't false positives, just that improvements are being made as technology improves.)
Bone spurs (extoses) are now commonly found in the back of the skull. Their existence is highly correlated with forward head posture. Forward head posture has some correlation with high levels of smartphone use. Hence the extremely editorialized “smartphone head lump“.

There are a lot of concerns with the paper and it’s findings, including whether the authors actually found bone spurs at all or if they were looking at the normal anatomy and simply interpreting it wrongly.
France road law specifies that a pedestian keep absolute priority even if they are infringing the law
I doubt it will ever be possible.

Back when I applied to college many years ago, IIRC all the colleges I applied to used Common App as mentioned in a sibling comment (I only applied to five top universities, no idea about the less competitive ones which constitute the majority), but each one had a distinct set of extra questions and/or short-form essays, and no amount of software could save you time on those. I even had to carefully customize the “common” personal statement in order to play to each recipient’s (perceived) interests.

I guess cookie cutter bulk applications could be used for fallback options, but those are not the time consuming ones in the first place.
I think he's talking about the levels of fair value measurement

https://www.iasplus.com/en/standards/ifrs/ifrs13

No anchor links on that page, so I'll just quote some snippets here:

Level 1 inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the entity can access at the measurement date.

Level 2 inputs are inputs other than quoted market prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly.

Level 3 inputs inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability. [IFRS 13:86]

Unobservable inputs are used to measure fair value to the extent that relevant observable inputs are not available, thereby allowing for situations in which there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability at the measurement date. An entity develops unobservable inputs using the best information available in the circumstances, which might include the entity's own data, taking into account all information about market participant assumptions that is reasonably available.