skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

Private companies have no incentive to take a stand for individual freedom and will always bow before the demands of a (loud) minority
I considered doing this myself, but decided that I didn't want the hassle of having two versions of Python hanging around.

If/when the day comes that using Python 2 isn't realistic, I may go with 3, or I may choose a different language, depending on the project. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
To be honest I appreciate PayPal doing this.
The more we see prominent cases of deplatforming, the more people are going to take it as a serious problem.
One can always hide behind some pr bullshit when it comes to political free speech and so on. But porn it is finally something enough people care about to take it seriously.
Given that early detection increases chances of survival[1] considerably, you may not have a chance to opt-in later. Which raises interesting questions about whether society might force you to participate in having your data analyzed, similar to say, vaccinating.

1: https://www.canaryfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/EarlyDet...
This isn't wholesale true. Some areas are highly regulated (see Tokyo) and some are not regulated at all. Also, local government sets a MAXIMUM rate in some jurisdictions. The taxis then choose to set the rate the driver can get paid.
I quit 1Password for Bitwarden. I don’t need to pay $5 a month to store a 10kb database file in the cloud.

I had a paid app that worked fine. But they tried really really hard to force you into subscription service. Thanks but no thanks.
Coinbase isn't currently being deplatformed, though.

That is a hypothetical situation which seems to me like it would be pretty unlikely.

Banks aren't talking about deplatforming coinbase, for whatever reason, therefore it is useful.

The whole "what if the government/banks banned Bitcoin!?" Is a pretty silly hypothetical, to me, because if you look at what these groups are actually doing, you will see that they aren't doing this and aren't really trying to do so!
That would be true if each human existed in a vacuum, which they don't.
I use Whole Foods 365 fragrance free body wash, shampoo and conditioner. For a moisturizer I use Alba very emollient original unscented, for face I use Body Merry, night cream along with Cosmetica pure hyaluronic acid serum and the blue unscented type of chapstick. For a leave in conditioner I use my kids Little Twig unscented conditioner. They also sometimes use the Equate kids 3 in 1 unscented body wash/shampoo/conditioner. For deodorant I use a small bit of Secret unscented, it has a masking fragrance which is noticeable to me but the least offensive unscented deodorant I've found, and I've tried a lot of products. I also like the Alba leave in conditioner and styling cream which are unscented but possibly discontinued. I hope this helps!
ISPs also pay wages which support the economy. There is a 500B industry which subsidizes the web. If you remove it, the cost will be deducted from the wages of everyone who works in tech. Also, this will lead to even more centralization as ads are the only channel for still-small businesses to reach critical mass.
Yeah the presentation effect on code is super cool. Yet on mobile I didn't feel that it was particularly helpful as it covered about half the screen height and I couldn't clearly skim the content.
I think you are confusing Meltdown with Spectre V2.
I see pro-porn lobby is strong here. For other readers, website is backed up by reddit.com/r/nofap which has 500k+ users who are quitting or quit porn. Countless testimonies.

Same website has 75+ peer reviewed research papers:
https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...

You may be paid to lobby for porn, but it only takes truth to undo your lies.
JavaScript, Java and HTML.

The web reigns, apparently.
It will be once it's used against the people running said state.
The thing is, GitHub shouldn't care what you want here.

GitHub is a social site, and the users accessing repositories are just as important as those that own them. You might not care if your account is compromised, but if other people trust your repoisitories and they get attacked through your compromised account, that is a problem.
Haha, essentially, although I have a great deal of respect for the 'softer' sciences. _Most_ researchers are thoughtful enough to understand the limits of the approach and teach in kind. Economics are a special kind of arrogant though.
Cool project!

Feature-creep: I can't help wondering if there would be ways to improve the precision enough to make for instance PCB's without increasing the complexity/cost to much..
Looking for a cofounder – MVP with paying customers
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We already have an MVP with some paying customers.
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You're assuming a lot.

What about codebases with python2 third party dependencies that don't work in python3? Now you have to port that entire library as well, or write it yourself while crossing your fingers that it is well documented and easy to work through.

What about codebases without decent test suites? I'd argue most production codebases don't have good test suites, or at least the most complex of code is usually poorly tested. You'll end up spending most of your time digging for regressions especially if your code creates large amounts of user interfaces.

What about code bases that were written by scientists, mathematicians, or other professionals who may not be as fluent in writing "good" code?
Local tax authorities will care, and will have the resources to track you down.
Completely agree, that was my point. The parent comment lumped them together, including a Wikipedia link to an article on "the arms industry." But the arms industry is so vast that high-level conclusions about government purchasing have almost nothing to do with the grandparent comment about credit card fees at local gun stores.
They could try charging users for access to a clean, spyware-free social network instead. If Facebook can't survive without selling their users like products, then good riddance. It wasn't meant to be.
> So it now looks better in a photo, but in the meantime lots of advertising firms and possibly local professionals that were working in installation lost (part of) theirs jobs.

I'm fine with that. Most jobs in advertising produce little to no social utility, and the labor spend doing them should be redirected into more socially beneficial directions. Less ad targeting and construction of ever more garish billboards, more teaching and medical care, etc.
Yev here -> we do have remote hands available in some cases, but we try to have our own teams in place where possible, but yes - it's one of the things we optimize on our end!
> This means we must force them to.

Advertising represents 98.5% of Facebook's revenue and you're proposing that we (btw, who is "we"? They are a global company) tell them they can't run ads? What exactly remains for the 43,000 employees and the 5% of the S&P500 market cap that you just decided to eliminate?
The "natural" concept of property is much more narrow than our abstract notions. Animals, and human societies before they develop the abstract property theory, generally define property through possession or use - your house is yours because you live in it, that sort of thing. You can't establish an association simply by saying, "this is mine". This puts a natural limit on how much property can be accumulated.

Once you have abstract property as a concept, it's all about tracking the association in and of itself, separated from any physical manifestations of it (possession and use). Your house is yours not because you live in it, but because there's a title on it in your name, and a record in the registry. This makes it possible for one person to have ten houses, live in one, and rent the rest out to those who don't have any. If they accumulate the rent, they can eventually buy more houses, and it becomes a positive feedback loop.

But there's no particular reason why any given society has to adopt such a system of property, and not all societies did or do today - especially with respect to land and other immovables. This can often be seen in the colonial history, where the colonizers expected to be able to buy and sell things that the indigenous population didn't even consider property, or at least the kind of property that could be bought and sold. More often than not, the colonizing power would then declare that in the absence of a "proper" abstract property claim on e.g. the land, it's there for the taking of anybody who is willing to make one. And that is how we ended up in the present situation, where that system of abstract property rights is mostly enforced throughout the globe - but I don't see how it follows that it's a system that is inevitable for any human society.
Don't you start driving before you get a drivers rating? So it is not a blocker for you to start working there. After that isn't the drivers rating just a way for riders to kick misbehaving drivers off the platform? So it is the riders who fire the drivers, not Uber.
With the 4 you can use a USB3-SATA. I don't know if it can boot from a USB device though?
In NYC and possibly other municipalities, the government sets the minimum rate for uber/lyft. Are they more or less of a contractor then?
GPT-2 neural net text generators: secure C++ coding meets trashy romance novel
I think that inverting the order, putting the text on the left and code on the right would work much better.

For me, it felt quite unnatural to go against the normal reading direction. I believe that because we read left-to-right, and the additional content is usually on the right, it would be easier for the eyes to search for the examples on the right rather than backward. It felt very distracting.

Great content though!
i m totally behind the abolishment of the government-corporation cartel complex, but then there would also be nothing to ban. And people would still ask for ads to be banned , which IS a human rights violation.
Good question and nope. They're simply too expensive for us. As they get lower in price they do become more interesting, but their $ to density is just nowhere near where we'd need it to be in order to continue providing our service at the rate we do. Some of our boot drives are becoming SSDs though, and they are in the "raw" data that we publish.
That _is_ how I think about components, but it's still bananas. Render does not neatly describe this behavior because it necessitates setting unnecessary state. That's gross.

Usually when I need to trigger a redirect, I'm in some business-level function. So to redirect this way, I would need to set some state in my store, re-render, then hit the conditional, which would redirect, probably unset that state, and then probably trigger some additional business logic.

When really all I want to do is in the business function, directly trigger the redirect and maybe some other logic without any indirection. redux-react-router exists, but it's API is still obtuse compared to something like redux-first-router.
I've had several friends in the adult industry have their checking accounts closed at a several major banks as well. Traditional banking should definitely not be discriminating against fully legal activities.
There are other payment platforms that still work here. The problem with most of these alternative platforms is their fraud rates are absolutely through the roof. For example, Green Dot and NetSpend are companies that provide pre-paid, secured credit cards online, and as someone who worked at a consumer fintech company, one of these cards coming through automatically raised the fraud score because we had so many issues with payments from these cards.
Apps have become safer after GDPR
Lyft/Uber drivers from NJ can't pick up from NY. Whereas NY drivers can pick up from both states. NJ drivers have to drive back empty.

I had to cancel a trip from Fort Lee to Stony Brook
when I discovered the driver had NJ plates.

They don't know where they're going until they arrive at location.
Why are you so incredulous that anyone might choose to walk?
by IOPS you fsync transaction to Write Ahead Log (WAL) on commit.
I have very little objection to seeing targeted, specific ads in certain places. For example if I'm browsing the Anandtech website, and there's ads for technology/hardware enthusiast stuff, that's both relevant and helps pay the bills for Anandtech, enabling them to pay their staff.

I don't see why advertising needs to pervade every aspect of social media. Imagining Facebook's advertising revenue cut by 85% really doesn't make me sad at all. Facebook has to lay off some people, who will then go out into the economy and get jobs possibly doing something more productive with their time than selling advertising.

There is not a 1:1 venn diagram overlap between "the internet" (the actual backbone and middle mile infrastructure that runs underneath) and "the web" (http/https based content websites and social media things like instagram).
did you type the first "‽" and then copy/paste the rest?

basically the reason for this is that for any probability distribution over natural numbers that can reasonably be called the average probability distribution of natural numbers, I have to assign smaller probabilities to larger numbers. There's a lot of ways in which this is formally true, but it's certainly true practically. Among the k digit numbers, the ones starting with 2 are larger than the numbers starting with 1, so they have to be at most equally likely, but there are the same number of each, so the probability of picking any number starting with two has to be less than or equal to the probability of picking any number starting with 1.
With any luck this will compel Pornhub to make a more free financial platform. They certainly have the technical capability.
There's really nothing new here. This is effectively in line with how they operate.
Apple Genius Caught Stealing Sensitive Photos
Now that hooks exist, this should definitely be the case. Before, HoCs / components with render prop functions were actually useful for doing some additional not-directly-render related work.
Yev here -> well that chart hasn't been updated in a while. For starters we're just $0.01/GB for downloads (we dropped the price last year). Our performance is generally pretty good, and we're partnered with cloudflare (free egress) if you need more umph. But most of the time folks don't have any issues with just our regular service.
Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Adichie’s Novel Makes BBC List of 100 Novels
These have existed for quite awhile. CCBill was the big player around 10 years ago. They take a slightly larger cut for the service relative to something like a Braintree or a Paypal.
City advertising invites a lobby group with the goal of removing objects obstructing views of advertising - which has an impact particularly on urban trees and wildlife.

It also takes over public space - the fountain at Piccadilly Circus has been used as a convenient meeting point, but in recent years the whole area has been inaccessible in the winter due to extra advertising hoarding.
Similar to "old person smell" but more distinct.
Yes. I run Arch on it. Firefox, youtube, etc are full speed and very usable.

I do have an x86 laptop which I use on the go, and a server that I SSH in to for heavy loading like compilation etc.
For accounting, you have plenty of small things, and fewer large things.

A lot more small transactions than large transactions (how frequently do you buy a meal or groceries? vs how frequently do you buy a car or house?)

A lot more small companies (every independent bookstore, electrician, etc.) than large companies (how many >$1 billion market cap companies).

A lot more small salaries (entry level workers) vs large salaries (CEOs.)

A lot more small stock trades (minor portfolio adjustments) than large stock trades (liquidating your entire inventory as you enter/exit a market.)
"...government borrowing didn’t divert funds from the private sector; it created entirely new money..."

The general answer to this is that public spending crowds out private spending as both are bidding for the same goods and services.

Not sure if that's a good explanation, but the article doesn't seem to address that conventional wisdom.
Nearly all countries have rates of women in tech in a band between 10 and 30%. No country has a majority female tech workforce. The notion that there is a "wild variation" in the rates of women's representation in tech is simply not true.
I wonder if those plastic tubes get moldy after a while...
Yeah sure if you remove ugly structures from anything it looks better. (BTW empty billboards look ugly). You can settle for "good looking advertising", which a lot of cities do anyway.

I dont think the calls for ban are solely for aesthetic reasons
Ask HN: Why isn't Tesla's Sentry system raising more privacy concerns?
I just learned about Tesla's new Sentry system (in brief, it auto-records video when someone is approaching the vehicle, as a theft deterrent). I understand that the US is way more lax about issues of privacy (e.g. CCTV systems) compared, say, with the EU and UK. But this is a pretty big deal. Not dissimilar with Ring cameras, but at least (in the common case) for Ring cameras one may need to be actually within someone's private property to be in the recording. Here, our faces are recorded if e.g. you are parked next to a Tesla and getting to our own car.

What happens to those recordings? Are they time-limited? Are people's faces blurred out (doesn't look like it)? Many questions here.

Thoughts?
Brave distributes grants from time to time.

When I updated to the latest iOS version, I got 20 BAT, for supporting content creators.

If you’re a content creator and you register your site or YouTube channel, you can be tipped in BAT.

Brave also allows you to tip folks on Twitter and GitHub.

And of course, you can buy BAT on various exchanges like Coinbase, etc.
That sounds odd to me. Do you have a lot of tabs or addons?
I'd advocate a somewhat opposite direction. Require all the ad companies to show which ad is paid by who, and how much. This will probably kill some ads, but I guess some business still want to pay for the exposure of their products.

Personally I don't think banning something or hiding something would work, because people will always find alternative venues. Preemptively pushing the transparency is the only way forward.
They are not independent contractors they are employees its the employer side that is going missing.

An in the USA (vs the UK) actually self employed workers get screwed over getting 20% over a FTE i seen as good where in the UK I would go out for 3x my FTE sallery.
I think the best way is in the middle. It is called POSSE: Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. You own your stuff by first posting it on your own page and then syndicate it to other places for visibility.
There are "perfectly good reasons" in the sense that if you artificially limit yourself to using the React component tree to manage routes, yes it makes sense how they arrived at this solution. But after dealing with it for a while, it's just so obviously not the correct approach, and it's crazy to me that it's the defacto router. Cargo culting at its finest. The router could exist outside of or at a higher level than the component tree.
Would there be a way to peg valuation to clock periods? Or a certain number of transaction counts? (Ie., between the next 1000 transactions the value must be exactly 'X'.)

It would also be interesting for the protocol to gain the ability for arbitrage. Or even negotiate whom the arbitrating party would be.
Which is pretty much where anticompetitive laws are in the U.S. in terms of hurting the consumer.

The fringe cases I would worry about are for tiny niche markets where there is only one supplier, or regulatory monopolies (e.g. healthcare networks).
I used to gets people of the same ethnicity as me befriend me at the mall and elsewhere. Usually they would call me a week later and chitchat before dropping their pitch about whatever MLM business they running. I got used to it and started string them along and waste their time.
>Simple rule: if you accept unlimited liability you get free speech. If you don't you don't.

I don't recall where in the US Constitution free speech is defined as only being granted in proportion to legal liability. I only recall the part where "Congress shall make no law (...) abridging freedom of speech."

I know some on HN hate advertising in all its forms but there's no way around this - you can't make advertising illegal without also essentially making free speech illegal. You can regulate advertising, of course, as you can regulate speech with libel and slander laws, FDA labeling requirements, etc. But you can't ban it outright. And you certainly can't have inalienable, natural rights be contingent upon legal fictions.
Remote work rocks!

I've been a remote corporate employee for 9 years now. (Had 21 years of non-remote programming before then.)

It's pretty much a must-have for me now. I really love it.
Advertising is speech. The more exceptions we carve into free speech, the easier it is for governments to censor. It is authoritarian to dictate what one person can say to another. That authority may be justified in limited categories like threats or fraud. When those categories become too broad, the authority gains a hugely powerful tool to manipulate and cement itself in place.

I don't think I have the right to get between two people and silence one of them, just because I think he's trying to sell something.
And yet Python is eating the world: http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

Not that I'm implying that 'popularity' is a good measure of anything.
There are multiple cases where an increase in money supply doesn't lead to inflation; the United States in recent years comes to mind:

"A good example is in a recession, the stock of money may rise 5%, however, people will be making fewer transactions and therefore the velocity of circulation will fall. This explains why quantitative easing (increasing the money supply) did not cause inflation between 2009 and 2016." [0]

The article I link below contains 3 more examples:

[0] https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/111/inflation/money-suppl...
We don’t want to face the reality, but turning the gig-economy into actual employment, we may wipe it out entirely.

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, etc. operate at losses already because the demand for a taxi ride or food delivery is not high enough to support a critical supply/demand.

While I understand the need of people to support themselves, the gig-economy should not be that. It can’t. It’s supposed to be a way to make a little cash on the side, not a full time job.

The larger problem I think is that a scarcity of low-level jobs means that they all get taken up by people trying to make a living.

As someone who occasionally uses ride sharing, I already find the prices to be on the upper end of what I’m willing to pay. In the situation where the gig-economy is treated as employment, no doubt gig-employers will be forced to pass on cost to the end users. I think any more than a 20% increase to cost, I’ll probably stop using it.

All this does at the company/investment level is promote more actions to reduce employment. If an Uber driver now costs twice as much, there’s double the incentive to replace them with autonomous vehicles.

It’s a dangerous game.
advertising will go wherever attention is. If you want facebook to stop making uber-profits, fund an alternative, sell your FB stocks, lobby its engineers to work for half as much money etc etc etc.
Tariffs cause the price of imported goods to rise, which is bad for everyone, except this tiny minority of employees of the respective industry that get to keep their jobs and salaries.