skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to imagine that you get used a bunch in the backends of FinTech products, but any chance better IT starts to reach consumers? My inability to know exactly what's going on with my money on my own terms is endless frustrating. The aggregators help, but are still quite limited.
We disagree with whats at issue.

To me (and the NYT) it's not okay for CEOs to lie and deceive in order to get legislation passed. Especially legislation that enriches their shareholders while hurting the average American taxpayer.

The exact amount they pay is not the issue, and we're in agreement that no laws were broken.

The issue is one of morality not legality. They deserve to be called on their BS and they were.
... except that the patentee lost.

>On 25 July 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed the lower court's decision and provided that Canon's "irrevocable and perpetual" non-exclusive licence was still enforceable and covers Canon's restructured subsidiary SED.[23] On 2 December 2008, Applied Nanotech dropped the lawsuit, stating that continuing the lawsuit "would probably be a futile effort".[17]

>In spite of their legal success, Canon announced at the same time that the financial crisis of 2008 was making introduction of the sets far from certain, going so far as to say they would not be launching the product at that time "because people would laugh at them".[
Too often, refrains of external locus-of-control are socialized when internal agency and individual power lay dormant and unasserted. If a person objects to trampling of their boundaries in an appropriate manner and continue to be denied, there usually are other mechanisms and actions to redress legitimate grievances. As a rule, Americans tend to accept much more abuse because the abuse and exploitation visited on them has been normalized over a long enough time, they don't know anything else. Similarly, migrant workers in many countries are treated as, or become, slaves.
chart recognition and OCR in general would make UGC sites, in particular wikipedia, much more powerful. wikipedia is full of uploaded charts that should be datasets.

in general chart sharing on the web is bad. If we can't have a <chart> element, maybe chart parsing is the next best thing to preserve some of the original information
How did you test the product during development? Did you have to take a shit on it after every iteration or did you have some kind of replica shit that could be used?
> You are implying that an article that is only two years old is too old,

No. I’m stating that policy changed after this article was published, who knows maybe it was in response to this article, so the facts may have changed. The age of the article is not relevant I was just showing the timeline.

> Apple forces recyclers to shred perfectly good hardware indiscriminately

Says the recyclers. Apple says they are not perfectly good hardware, otherwise they would have refurbished it themselves. I also believe Apple maximizes profit which is why I believe if it was reliably repairable, they would have done it. A refurbishment unit has to fetch more than a recycled unit.
I live in NY, and I'm aware that people who don't have gas service use oil furnaces, but I've never heard of or seen coal furnaces being used. I would have assumed that was limited to a small population maybe in rural PA or WV that are near coal mines where it's particularly cheap. Where are the statistics for "millions"?
It's not replacing coal. It's adding even more CO2 pollution, on top of coal.

Coal consumption is not going down.
It’s come up before and it’s harder to do via LSP, though the servers themselves would be great as an educational tool on what’s required. https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/issues/685#issu...

If indexers were to be maintained separately, the only thought I have is something based on an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ, or something based on SourceGraph. To that end, I think open sourcing will do more to support usage, and usage would drive further licensing/support...

It’s possible there could be add-ons sold to help refactor code or maybe a web-based version, perhaps merging with SourceGraph as a client? Or use in code review? Lots of possibilities, perhaps, just not easily/quickly commercial I would think without further development first.
>infrastructure of entire countries to costing twice, thrice or more

Citation needed.

>the people who avoided being involved are going to be much, much better off than those that did

Even if this was true, it does not "vindicate the regressives". We can't all expect to be able to mooch off someone else all the time.

It does vindicate those people who were calling for a tax on the externalities of fossil fuels though.
Reasonable compared to Zurich and NYC maybe but what makes those prices reasonable other then being within the average of the global cities? Just because it's the way we've been doing things doesn't mean it's the right way.

What incentives do builders have to build? Less supply, more money for those that own already, including those on community planning boards, permitting office, etc. And who would buy? Those that would have moved on since they couldn't afford rent. Those that are left are too poor to afford it. Companies look for the cheapest way possible to establish themselves, not where the money is.

Your morals are telling when you say we should learn to accept tax evasion.
SparkCharge – Portable Electric Vehicle Charger
That sounds like the first theory in the linked Wikipedia article.

> Mate selection. Automatic, stimulus-driven appraisals of uncanny stimuli elicit aversion by activating an evolved cognitive mechanism for the avoidance of selecting mates with low fertility, poor hormonal health, or ineffective immune systems based on visible features of the face and body that are predictive of those traits.
fyi aaron695, looks like you are shadowbanned
Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a hill at all :) It was called out in the pastebin in the comment originating this chain.
thank god people break the law or you'd be broke paying rent you couldn't afford, or homeless.

the law is fucked in part. and it works in part. where the law breeds problems, lawbreakers sometimes provide solutions.
Probably would be smart, now, to send unidentified tracking devices to a friend in Madagascar, via boat, and then return it to the local police via whatever boat Greta Thunberg is riding... you know, to reduce CO2 impacts. That way, there is no 'mens rea', or mental intent, to deprive the officers of their property.
On the stand, the alleged thief could truthfully say, "I sent it to the local police station, address XXX YYY St, etc. etc.".
All of the money people save on their water bill can now be put aside for their annual call to the plumber as you'll likely end up clogging your pipes. Not enough water in every flush means you'll end up with a blockage at some point because the feces was never irrigated out of your pipes to the street.
Gnosis is more than just a term and is often quite controversial, particularly to those that do not actively practice it. There are specific practices (generally not divulged in public, but on a one-to-one basis and always for free) on techniques that allow one to verify for oneself the truth of pretty well anything /everything.

This does not appear to be one of those, but rather is formed by a collection of psycotherapists, asking for rather sizable donations. Authentic gnosis will never have fees. These people have a 'free consultation' followed by $100 individual fees for family support, from what I can make out.
Your parent mentioned the MK5s. Etymotic prides themselves in pretty flat response overall, with some slight variation in different lines. I've had a couple of different versions of the ER-4 (ER-4PT, ER-4XR) and have been happy with them. I think the primary thing is whether you're comfortable with the form factor, and for that you can just pick up a pair of the ear plugs for less than $20. If you're happy with how they fit, the particular model of headphones you pick depends more on how much you're willing to pay.
So, to be clear, your suggestion is—having no personal space, no quiet area, a constantly shifting work environment, for what is presumably a programming profession in a field dominated by introverts, and the poster stating this is a problem to the extent that escape seems a viable alternative—that the source of his or her stress is some unmentioned, unrelated personal problem.
I might be slow, but I still don't see reason to worry there. What happened in the proceeding months / years that was forewarned by this whiteboard / practice?
This kind of thing seems a hassle to do manually. As a feature on a smart toilet though...
I would prefer naming that feels less procedural. I think of it like a guard so maybe `when` or `where`. It can also just be some punctuation like `| cond` `| another-cond`.
I expect it would be on par with CRT tech in both respects, just for also having electron-excited phosphors. It seems OLED + everything ultimately competes with CRT for contrast/color/speed-- rather like programming languages' best-case compute performance usually being "nn% as fast as C." The least optimal thing about the image (for me) was it not being perfectly rectangular and stable, while everything else nails that right down, including this.

It is pretty neat... the market turning away is roughly as disappointing as a phosphor-based flat display is appealing. I feel like its reduced complexity and power usage could make it ideal for HMDs-- if/f it shrinks well. And probably nobody cares. :shrug:
We just need to find a way, way cheaper source of heavy water.
On the contrary, doing this is practically a requirement for being a bank.

US law requires banks to file a suspicious activity report if they see unusual activity in your account that may be associated with money laundering or criminal activity. What qualifies as suspicious activity is not well-defined, but can be as simple as large unexpected transfers into or out of the account.

The law also requires banks not to tell you about it. They don't necessarily have to close your account, but most will, especially after several reports, because of the risk of failing to comply in the future. And since they're not allowed to tell you why they closed the account, you end up with opaque reasons.
I'll second graphviz, aside from it's standalone strengths it integrates well with doxygen and the two combined make for some great documentation.

I use it for sequence charts as well by using sublabels (not sure what they're really called), usually I don't care so much about the sequence but where the choke points in this giant pile of steaming enterprise are:

SomeObject[label="<someMethod1> someMethod1 | <someMethod2> someMethod2"];
Foo -> SomeObject:someMethod2;
It's counter-intuitive, no? Actually though, the trick isn't to add more noise. Or... specifically, I suppose we need to first establish that the noise isn't the problem; noise is easy to tune out. Your brain is doing it right now: focus on your surroundings, and odds are there's the low hum of some air conditioner, or the whine of a CRT monitor, or the sound of that florescent ballast down the hall going out, or whatever. You barely even notice these things, because your brain is good at filtering out anything repetitive or constant.

What kills productivity in an office environment is actually signals that cut through that noise. Phones ringing, conversations between coworkers, printers whirling to life, someone opening a cellophane wrapper and chewing on a candy, etc. Most of these things aren't useful, but they're distracting, because your brain is tuned to constantly be on the lookout for new audio signals to shift your focus to. This is probably a survival instinct, as becoming aware of an approaching predator is important to avoid becoming lunch. In an office, the goal isn't thus to add more noise, but to mask the noise, so that it is less distracting.

Music is not "more noise," but more like a big, obvious beacon of focus. You might think of it like a controlled, intentional distraction. It's juuuust enough of an audio signal that your mind can keep its focus in one place, and just barely loud enough that when your coworkers phone rings, it isn't quite so jarring. That tiny, tiny little adjustment in the relative weight of the signals can make all the difference in the world, preventing you from unnecessary context switches throughout your day and helping you to maintain flow while working on a complex task.

It's not perfect, no. Obviously the perfect environment would be 100% in the control of the worker, who could dictate the noise level and comfortable temperature and everything else on a personal level. But, well, the real world isn't perfect, and it can be good to have options. :)
I'm not sure that this can be done with certain datasets, like health data.

If you had access to anonymised health data from my nation, for example, picking me personally out of the records would be extremely trivial, using just two data points:

+ I have an illness that only 1% of people have.

+ I lost my spleen whilst I was in primary school.

Both of those things are actually a matter of public record, thanks to being mentioned in various local newspapers, so it's reasonable to assume someone somewhere has that data.

I believe the general consensus on health data is that you have the age a person was at an incident, and the nature of an incident, you only need to have two or three incidents in your database to de-anonymise their records.

The only way to combat it is to not provide the detail required for the analysis that is exactly what the above organisations wish to do. No profiles, no fine-grained demographics.

And yet, people with rarer illnesses or events than mine will still stand out, so you also need to eliminate them from the dataset, even though they may well be the ones who could benefit most from this sort of widescale analysis.
We'll all run to remote work, and encase our home offices with layers upon layers of sound proofing.

Meanwhile, I predict the new fad will be airline offices, because who wouldn't want all the fun and adventure of flying at the office? They'll all be sitting in economy class seats and working off tray tables, while the person in front of them leans their seat back and has loud conversations on speakerphone. And it'll be family friendly, too, with every day being "bring your screaming child to work day."
There aren't enough rich people to compete with commercial airliner's emissions. Cruise ships are HUGE emittors(they even get around emissions control laws) for example but the western middle class is their user not the rich or poor.
EVERYONE should watch this one. thanks:-)
Worth more? Who considers value to be an objective thing? Certainly not any economist I've ever heard of. How could you have trade at all if value was objective?
I had to look it up... Haha.

Have you tried a space toilet?

And I know you mentioned a feeding tube, can they add fiber in your diet somehow? I used to get similar issues while not eating enough fiber.

Any forums of people with similar conditions that could recommend solutions?

Best of luck.
boring tunnels is dumb. ground shifts, and more importantly , there is hydrology as a problem.
the right approach is the opposite to 'boring'.

driving pylons into earth to make it even more rock hard if it isn't already bedrock. then you build UP AND IN 3 DIMENSIONS.

the problem is not that we cannot dig. the problem is that we have no mastered 3dimensional building.

what many people don't get is that a very large part of our technical deficiencies in this regard , result from a lack of investement in specific construction technologies becuase of a root problem in THE LAW. the legal system has dramatically languished in the face of new potential technicailities. instead, it has continued to support a 2 dimensional 'foot print' system, and an anachronistic 'air rights' system of strict property law has then been layered on top of it to enable rights to build 'up' to a point.

right now , it's easy and cheap to build up to 100 meters. relatively . building higher is stupid and unnecessary, building lower is lazy and even dumber.

the cities of the future(s) don't ahve better cheaper tunnels under them, but bettter cheaper 'tunnels' going through out them. above ground. rather these tunnels would be considered 'rights of way' and the legal frameworks around them would be complex, but enabling, rather than what we have now, a legacy system impeding progress.

other than water and steam mains and natural gas mains, which carry extremely heavy water, there is almost NOTHING you cannot put under above ground inside a building. nothing.

there is NO reason to have a 'subway' made out of giant metal things weighing insane amounts of weight.

just build this thing together. nothing is going to stop us....now or later.
That writeup, while accurate, was back in 2013 before Starship / Super Heavy was a serious concept. And if everything pans out with it, we can get huge amounts of stuff up a lot cheaper. It even says that an ion drive (based on 2013 technology) will work, but we will have an issue with re-capture once it gets to Earth.

That can be solved with a much larger ion drive, which will be much cheaper to launch (along with appropriate amounts of propellant) using Starship (or its future successors). And if a wealthy individual that has everything wants to retrieve that golden record for his personal collection, and is willing to spend a couple billion on it, well I'm sure that Musk's great grandkid will be more than willing to oblige.
Holy. I’m sorry to hear it.

I say as a born and raised Vancouverite, since moved to the US... it’s kinda fucked out there.
That Guardian article is weird because it doesn't even mention federal taxes. How does a south dakota state trust help someone legally evade federal taxes?
As a kid I adored Lego. I think fondly of all the time I spent playing with my collection and all the creations I made.

As I entered my early teen years my collection had grown considerably and it was taking up a lot of space, and I was spending less and less time with Lego. I knew a younger kid down the block who was in the peak of his Lego phase and I donated my entire collection -- around five or so 30 gallon trash bags.

A couple of years after that, when I was just shy of 17 years old, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to take some time off of school to go through chemotherapy. Naturally I had a lot of time on my hands. For some reason I _really_ wanted to play with my old Lego, but I didn't have any around anymore.

I found some of my favorite sets on eBay and was able to purchase them albeit for quite the markup. It was great to get to experience those older sets and fulfill that spat of nostalgia. On the other hand, it was a huge bummer. I was obviously on a limited budget and every set was 2-4x what they were originally.

I understand Lego can't possibly keep producing every set forever, but this kind of speculation described in the article seriously ruins the experience for a lot of people. It's not a simple supply and demand situation if people are hoarding sets and creating artificial scarcity.

Lego is big enough as a company to put these people out of business, they would just have to occasionally re-release older sets that are ludicrously overpriced in the second-hand market.

Lego holds a really special place in my heart as I'm sure it does for a lot of the people mentioned in the article, I'm just not sure if they are aware of the consequences of their behavior on some of the less fortunate that want to experience Lego for what it is meant for -- playing.
Apple blocks out daylight to poverty-hit families in London apartment block
HK raises practically all of its revenue from land and (until China started screwing it up) it was one of the richest, most developed places on Earth.
Any particular frameworks/libraries you recommend instead?
That’s certainly a popular view, but it’s not a given by any means. You will find plenty of people that think giving their children $100 should be possible without any government intervention or taxation. Unless you’re against that as well, we’re talking about arbitrary lines for when the government gets to wet its beak.
Yeah one of the reports had some data that pointed to this being a major thing. There was a house that had 20 mortgages on it. Take out a home equity loan, pay it off with shady drug cash, then do it again, etc.
In my case, the underlying core annoyance is the lack of deep understanding of my tools. But that isn’t possible to solve without sustained attention.
What Ever Happened to “Don’t Be Evil”?
Very cool, I am hoping the project is in fact supported and maintained!
Over 100K vinyl albums are being digitised for anyone to listen to online
Russia Announces Gonets 2.0 Satellite Communications System
Coal consumption in the US is down about 50 percent from its peak in 2008.
I just thought of another idea. A lot of times public bathrooms will have a disposable, flushable, parchment paper that can be placed on the seat and a flap leads down to the water. If you were to have 4 of these flaps instead of 1 I think it would protect the bowl enough.
King Sashanka: Unifier of the Bengal People and Lands
Thanks for posting such a thorough guide in plain, easy to understand English ... it's great :)
Ah. But for me, there is only me and the keyboard. And different kinds of keyboards may not have anything in common.
Google "reputational risk"
> indelibly

almost never true, when discussing memories.
I'm genuinely curious to see how they could possibly make money given this FAQ question [0]:

> What is the safety net? What does it cover?

> Our community safety net is an in-built accident insurance policy that will provide upto $5000 directly in your betterbank account in case of an accident or medical emergency.

[0]: https://betterbank.app/faq
I really enjoyed our dev room. It was an open floor plan but there were only 6 of us and we pair programmed all the time. The sales floor was an open floor plan and there were about 25 people in there, and it felt like chaos to me. I'm not sure what everyone else wants, but I wouldn't want a large open floor plan, and I wouldn't want a bunch of cubicles. Maybe there are modular options now? Japanese shoji screens maybe. I recognize the silliness but I think there's some possibilities here.

If you like the rapid feedback and collaboration, have you thought about ways to encourage that without having an open office? Maybe have some collaboration work zones, some cubicle pits, and a really attractive kitchen area with free snacks/drinks that makes people want to hang out sometimes. Perhaps let everyone have a dedicated desk, but lots of flexibility to work in different parts of the office. I've heard Valve desks are all on wheels so people can move them anywhere they want.

It may help others answer better if they know how many people in the company and what departments are going into this office.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DDoSecrets/status/119621668503812...
Some neat tricks to be found here for documenting makefiles.
https://gist.github.com/prwhite/8168133
> If you open a new bank account and deposit a lot of money, say over $10,000, then they almost certainly will freeze your account

I have done this multiple times with zero issues whatsoever. With larger sums than $10k, and with global-sized banks. Sorry to hear about your issues but you're over-extrapolating.

> I open (and close) a lot of bank accounts to collect those signup bonuses

This, I think, may be your issue. For one thing, as the recent NYT piece on customer scores shows, these companies do exchange information on their customers- you may come up flagged or even blacklisted specifically because of this
> Isn't the solution to that problem simply to use stamp files

TIL a new make trick. Thanks!