skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
does it not just taste like morning coffee without sugar?
> I hated 1Password.

This is not helpful. Why did you hate it?
Rev lets freelancers listen to "unclaimed" audio or video files
I have disabled, then enabled, then disabled this feature several times now.

Sometimes, it is spot-on with recommendations that I enjoy reading.

Other times, I get horrible clickbait. Because I searched for `nirvana discography` once, I get celebrity spam about Cobain's daughter. Cringe.

My policy: Any web search remotely related to celebrities or politics must be done in Incognito mode.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539377 and marked it off-topic.
IRS treats Bitcoin as property. Accordingly, the recipients need to report every bitcoin transaction on Schedule D and calculate its cost basis ( appreciation or depreciation of Bitcoin). I am not talking about the reporting of the cumulative income, but the additional requirement of reporting of each Bitcoin payment or disposal. Say you received 0.0001 BTC held it for 5 days and then converted to USD. These are two taxable events, not one, with the requirement of calculating BTC appreciation between these two events. Now multiply this burden by every transaction.

In my opinion, IRS successfully killed BTC use in the US by treating it as property rather than currency (for currency FX, transactions under $200 are exempt from cost basis reporting on schedule D)
What's interesting is that in other countries such as Mexico, there is no such thing as SMS. Yes, SMS exists but nobody uses it. Nobody. You either send a WhatsApp message or you can't communicate.
Are you referring to the MIT studies using wifi signals to track people through walls? https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/

I'm pretty sure I first read about that on HN, and was immediately reminded of the govt plan to cover the country in wireless transmitters.
Unless other things were priced in BTC...
It's not about costs. It's about trust and scale, neither of which you can buy.

Payment providers earn a fraction of a percent on transactions, so they must have extremely high volume in payments to be sustainable. It takes hundreds of millions just to be able to afford some workers and office.

Which can't happen because trust and fraud. A legit customer, especially with any amount of volume, would never adopt a small or unknown provider. Corollary, the provider only attracts low grade or fraudsters, assuming they ain't the fraudster themselves.
I'm reading this as a negative comment - do you really feel negatively about this gesture/benefit?
> And in such a case, you can sue for harassment.

> they need to show a good-faith belief...

That's not how being a plaintiff works, which is what is frustrating about this type of situation.

They do some action which is legally questionable. You have to show standing and potentially damages to be able to bring the suit, then you have to prove that what they did was not a good faith belief that their actions were legal. The onus is on the person without the power with (typically) minimal resources.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539377.
That much could easily be explained by when they were checking the valuation of BTC. Within the last month price has swung anywhere between ~$7,500 and ~$10,000.
But what do you do when the government is trying to shut down your access to banking (as in the case of gun sellers)?
You can walk out of LAX? Safely? I didn't think the entry road had sidewalks. Or is there some other route?

And, given that those hotels have shuttles, why would you walk? Just take the hotel's bus. (Or are you feeling that that's not cool, because you're going there not to stay there, but just to take an Uber?)
That's correct, but I think its "Benford's Law" rather than "Bedford's Law".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
If you're looking for an alternative to BusyBox, a former BusyBox maintainer has written ToyBox[1], which has a similar collection of command-line utilities, but with a BSD license. It's still in C, though.

[1] https://github.com/landley/toybox
Guess we are getting some https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/ in one of the articles. I suspect you are right.
AFAIR I didn't have to provide any alt account.

The procedure may have changed. They occasionally do for services.
> In python 3 it always blows up when you mix bytes with text so you can catch the issue early on.

This is definitely the case. I've been wrestling with bytes and strings all the time during the port of a Django application to Python 3 for a costumer. I can see myself encoding and decoding response bodies and JSON for the time being. For reasons I didn't investigate I don't have to do that with projects in Ruby and Elixir. It seems everything is a string there and yet they work.
Meanwhile, at Microsoft and Google events, the corporations trip over their own tongues trying to say multi-cloud too many times in one sentence.

I suppose the #1 player wants customers not to be told that other players even exist, and the other players want to talk about the advantages of using the #1 player and ALSO them.
PWA and the Installable Web
Yeah, this is the broad goal of the project. As much as I love fresh rewrites, I don't think they have nearly the same hope of becoming successful as this sort of gradual approach. It's a big project, and there's lots of code that's still not idiomatic by any means, but the goal is to get 1% better every day.
These amounts aren't FICA, they're levied on employers and owed to the state's unemployment and disability tax collection agency.
yourbrainonporn.com has not only research but a vast population of ex-porn users. If you claim any counter argument on its effect after that, then I question one's honesty to seek the truth.
Surely, the only thing that matters is that you are happy with your situation. Whether others are "doing better than you" (whatever that means to you) isn't that important.

As the old saying goes, don't compare yourself to others for it will make you both vain and bitter, as there are always those who are worse, and always those who are better.
> US PayPal is not a bank

True

> They don't actually perform money transfers between individuals.

It is regulated as some sort of money transmitter in every state: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/licenses
Yup, came here to make the same complaint. The article just throws that out there as fact with no justification or citation.

Just need to look at what's going on in Venezuela, right now.

Increased supply of anything lowers it's value.
I don't think that is correct. This article[1] cites the CDC as stating that gun deaths in 2017 were 60% suicides, 37% murder and 3% other.

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-da...
Or they already have access, but want to keep the ruse up so that people use it. Make of that what you will.

Nothing is impossible with the right resources.
Historically, you see more prostitution in uptight eras (Victorian, etc) where "good girls don't."

More recently, research suggests that rates of sexual assault go down when porn is readily available. It's a controversial thing that a lot of people don't want to hear at least in part because it directly contradicts a lot of feminist narrative that rape is about power, not desire.
From HN Guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
How did it turn out? Not too bad for her: she still had work and eventually returned to IAG, the employer that fired her for the tweet. https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-mat...
I agree. I can see it now, headline:

"Massive scientific breakthrough -- 100 trillion Watts of power, enough to power all the US, from just a single AAA cell flashlight battery!!!"

Sure, but the headline omitted that the power lasts for only 10^(-100) seconds or so!

In the news business, energy and power are nearly synonymous. E.g., from sports writing we might get something like:

"On Sunday Quarterback Joe Testosteroni with his massive energy and power will come with his game face on, ready to play, and win if he possibly can."

So such sports writing is in the formula fiction pattern of the high drama of a desperate clash of titans.

Be careful: Some people writing that stuff get paid more than some readers of Hacker News!

In my life, it took me some years to accept that quite broadly the news business forgot nearly all their freshman physics! They are a lot better at some of the patterns of formula fiction. We can guess they liked literature class better than physics class. They can be really good at creating smelly bait for the ad hook.
Do Algorithms Know Your Body Better Than You?
Maybe the answer is that they are neither contractors nor employees in the traditionally-understood form.

But the criteria have to make sense in the context of the law. For instance, "unemployment" doesn't make much sense in the context of a driver who works for Uber and Lyft. And "minimum wage" doesn't make sense if the drivers are able to decline or cancel a request.

So can you be more specific about what aspects of employment should apply to an Uber driver?
The answer to those questions depends on what your market dominance is. If you're one of many players in the market, and you're all actively competing against each other, then discriminate all you want - somebody else will cover that niche. But if you're the only option for many people, or there are so few options that the market is not really competitive, then yeah, I think it's perfectly legitimate to force companies to not discriminate.
Yeah, I'm a fan of the uutils project but I haven't tested it out myself yet! It would be neat to start incorporating some of those commands into rustybox in place of the old implementations.
> This experience is so far above and beyond anything google has offered to date I don't even know where to begin.

I know about notifications being hidden when locked and expanded/shown only when you unlock. On Android, you can hide notification details from certain apps and show the details for others. For some apps I am okay to not worry about seeing the details of the notifications without unlocking the device. I don't unlock my phone to only see notifications, I have disabled most of the notifications and I unlock to do something actively. So more often than not, I want to get there without an extra step. So having an option there is the right thing. Pixel phone also gave an option do either - go to home screen or just show notifications.

> Google is so far behind on faceID it's laughable

I actually hate FaceID and like fingerprint unlock better so I don't really care about that. But by so far behind, you mean not caring if the eyes are open, sure they are far behind.

> the hardware is getting worse, not better

I didn't use P1 or P2 and jumped on P3 from 6P, I like it and didn't feel the hardware got worse. P4 battery life is bad (to say the least) but P4XL doesn't seem to have those issues.

You brought up other issues with Android/Pixel but conveniently forgot to respond how iOS is crippling options itself. Don't even want to start with all browsers being wrappers of Safari.

I am not going to respond further in this chain.
Yep. I bought my rpi4 in store and picked up a few tiny heatsinks from an electronics store for about 70p.

I just rested them on top of the chip, no compound, no glue. Definitely reduced throttling before I could get a proper heatsink shipped.

A few quids increases the surface area quite a lot!
Porn is ripe with human trafficking and its consumption is violently destructive to individuals and relationships.

Source: http://yourbrainonporn.com/

In the future, when people stop acting so ignorant, it'll be categorized as a threat to society in corrupting objective, rational and clear thinking.

Everything in extremes is bad, even freedom.
There are ways to create Gmail accounts that don't require phone numbers.
Didn't Pornhub "verify" an account of a 15 year "model"?

https://twitter.com/PornhubHelp/status/1189445175929647104

That will probably give a pause to any payment provider.
Making this code more idiomatic seems like a really cool opportunity to get some Rust experience. I imagine there's a ton of low-hanging fruit in here, especially given how minimal and modular the different utilities tend to be. And at the same time, you're touring idioms and optimizations copied from some of the most refined C code out there.
I've talked to a partner at an IP law firm in Austin, Texas. They do a lot of business with the tech companies like Amazon, and wanted to hire a new attorney based in SV, since most of their work is done remotely with the SV office of Amazon, even though there's a local Amazon office down the street in Austin, too.

Well, it turns out, if they'd have done so, they'd be required to pay taxes on the income of their whole partnership from most of their clients, because most of the companies they do business with are based in Cali, even though all the rest of their lawyers are based in Texas.

Guess how they decided to proceed after receiving such advice from the state?
You should look at the history of why taxi regulation came about and why the "right" number of taxi badges per city was a system that much of the world arrived at. It also brought minimum service obligations, driver standards and fair pricing.

Deregulated taxis had cartels, increased and varying prices depending on destination and poorer customer service. Bad enough that many countries and cities found they had to regulate.

Now, whether medallions that are separate from vehicle and driver, and thus have a value in their own right are the best way to regulate is another question entirely. In the US specific case it seems emphatically not. Quite why many US cities had such poor taxi service when other countries have managed much better is beyond me.
Except it's not limited? Have you ever opened "Keychain Access" on your Mac?
Getting fewer than 7 hours may be aging you prematurely
I grew up thinking that this was correct. "Just got my teeth dirty, time to clean them."

At some point, I heard that the opposite was true, ostensibly from a dentist on reddit. According to this anonymous stranger, after eating, your enamel is at its weakest, and you'll do the most damage to your teeth by brushing them. The reason was something about saliva and/or plaque that's been recently fed, I think.

(As a side note, some other dentist(?) in the same thread said that if you're going to brush your teeth once a day, it's most important to brush before going to bed.)
Saudi spies hacked my phone and tried to stop my activism. I won’t stop fighting
Stripe, N26, SBV, Square, Brex, Monza... and many others all compete directly with banks.

That’s also very tangential to the fact that while some areas of banking, finance or weapons dealing may be dominated by large institutions, there’s plenty of other areas that are not. Stripe is a perfect example in how they started out by capturing a retail market that was outside the core business of the large players. Nobody would look at their value prop and say “finance is overfunded”, because that ignores what area they were actually trying to compete in.

If you wanted to make a startup that looked to innovate retail weapons trade, then no investor is going to tell you “you’ll never compete with Raytheon”, because no matter how big they are, they don’t compete in retail weapons trade. What they would more likely tell you is something like “we don’t invest in that vice industry”.
The platforms, towers and undersea cables are already paid for. Replacing one piece of the system isn't starting over. The math presented was of all return on investment ending at 20 years.
> To this day, economics continues to be taught not as a story of arguments—not, like any other social science, as a welter of often warring theoretical perspectives—but rather as something more like physics, the gradual realization of universal, unimpeachable mathematical truths.

This has always been my main frustration with economics. As a field, it certainly has value and usefulness, just like sociology, anthropology, or any of the 'softer' sciences. However, it eschews the tradition of teaching a variety of views and perspectives for the rigid orthodoxy of classical physics or chemistry, without the clean experimental results to back it up.

Microeconomics and econometrics take a much more concrete and practical view and well-describe localized economic phenomenon, but macroeconomics is a bastardized combination of sociology and capitalist political theory mashed into an unfalsifiable 'science' and taught as such.
I doubt SATA is that expensive, and honestly they could alternatively throw in PCIe instead of SATA if that's less expensive, and it would also be way more general. I'm considering getting a Rock64Pro because it's reasonably well supported and has a PCIe port, which means I can buy a SATA add-on board.

I wish Raspberry Pi had better support for fast storage.
>Actually that's the behavior of python 2, it works fine, until you send invalid characters then it blows up.

We're talking about simple scripts, the solution is to not send in invalid characters.
Even if you agree with this premise. It's not on you to decide what people poison themselves with.
No, that is not the only answer. There is at least one other possibility, which is that the demand for money is increasing.
Sure, But this is about "Partners". Some such as consultants and MSPs. These organisations are typically providing the strategy to less technically savvy companies.

Some others are the technology vendors who are producing the tools to provide higher level cloud management tools. This will limit the ability of these companies to both be a partner and to have promote multi-cloud tools in their portfolio.
Email notifications should be disabled. Email is also never urgent enough to disrupt your life.
Square and Cash App now is your time. You talk about economic empowerment but are you really bout that life?
How to Create 3D Animated Videos with Mobile Phone
If they're donating to businesses that pay taxes, those businesses probably care.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21529455 .
Well, if the demand for money is increasing and the supply is stable, then the value increases. Definition of supply and demand.
the article even talks about cultural expectations making visualizations harder to read if the cultural expectations are violated. Except that the article completely ignores your point. Science has a culture and violating that culture to make a "better" visualization must be done with care.
there is crossover but you might as well lump together stealth bombers and SUVs. the vast, vast majority of firearms produced by US companies are for civilians.
Why is that so important that it needs to disrupt you? Constant notifications are terrible for productivity.
This doesn't solve the actual problem that you can't trust normal communications if they can be easily spoofed.
If Uber drivers are taxi drivers, which Uber claims they aren't (they're limousine drivers legally), then they are running illegal taxi services. It seems mighty convenient to pick and choose from laws only when it suits Uber's bottom line.
And a lot of the usages were promptly fixed when people made a stink about it.
The state would beg to differ: "..the department also has determined that 65 drivers who listed Uber, Rasier or Lyft as their employer in unemployment-insurance-benefits claim forms are employees of those companies and therefore eligible to seek jobless benefits."
Enqueueing jobs in Redis is not transactional with regard to your primary data store.
> Pornography consumption generally does not represent "moderation" of sex, but the extreme end of it - you crave sexual stimulation so badly that you resort to watching other people having their sexual urges fulfilled (which can then make the porn consumer less motivated to pursue healthy avenues to achieve their own sexual fulfillment, leading to a downward spiral).

This is equal parts editorializing and [citation needed]. Keep in mind that correlation != causation.

> I also think there are significant societal downsides to the more extreme levels of sexual liberation that are rapidly becoming normalized in American society

What downsides? What exactly do you mean by "extreme levels of sexual liberation"?
> Increased supply of anything lowers it's value.

Network goods? Are telephones more valuable when more people have them? Road networks?

Just pointing out that many things in economics are not so obvious.

You're right that you need to cite things that go against the orthodoxy. At least to have sane debates. But of course he could have cited the current money printing era, where if you believe the official figures there's not a lot of inflation anywhere in the west. I'm not so confident in the figures, but that's at least some evidence that printing a load of money doesn't cause inflation.
It's official: AWS is challenging Microsoft's $10B Jedi contract win
>How do you define just fine?

Besides the total domination of the web programming space, which is of course aided by it being the only option:

1) Used by choice even on the server and application development (where it was never the only option, and wasn't even preferable/viable before)

2) Fast pace of language development

3) A thriving package ecosystem with millions of packages

4) Adopted by all major companies

5) Three best of class runtimes (v8, JavascriptCore, Tracemonkey (?)) by 3 major vendors, with performance that smokes any dynamic language that is not LuaJit

6) Increasingly adopted as an embedded scripting language in all kind of apps

7) With a viable gateway into both a native trans-language runtime (webassembly) and a typed version of the language (typescript).

>How are them generics?

They're doing great. It's not that type erasure is that big of a deal, and Java might even get it with Valhalla eventually anyway. It's not a "backwards compatibility prevents this" issue (which is our topic here), it's a "no time devoted to add it in yet" issue.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but "any positive number can be found at the beginning of a factorial" is correct. Not with high probability, but with absolute certainty. I don't know which Diaconis proved, but it's pretty easy to construct a non-probabilistic, constructive proof.

Edit: The paper you linked does not prove it with high probability, it proves {n!} is a strong Benford sequence. Edit: Which implies absolute certainty.
"Illinnoyed by higher taxes? Come to Indiana."

That's what a billboard said on some highway around Illinois / Indiana. :-)
Unless Rust suffers some catastrophic leadership or design choices, I'm convinced it will be the next language to "eat the world."
I think part of it is a bootstrapping problem. Bitcoin solved an interesting technical problem, so people started using it. Once people started getting interested, companies popped up to sell it, but notably there was a base of users prior to that.

By contrast, the barrier to entry for a new system denominated in USD is much higher. People can't really start using it until there's a company around to support it, and starting a company to run a payments platform isn't for the faint of heart.

Still, I've been keeping an eye on GNU Taler[0], which seems to be tackling the technical side of that problem. I'm unclear on some of the technical details, but it's the closest thing I've found so far to digital cash.

[0] https://taler.net/en/
Not too spendy[1] either, provided you already have a Porsche, that is.

1: https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&pro...