skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most high-spec IC motorcycles are already twitchy enough to turn most people into organ donors. I can't imagine riding one with the instant torque of a motor, that's just insane
I am curious how these interplay. Like liver disease and lung cancer are both long term effects from chronic use. If you smoke and drink alcohol, is one more likely to kill you than the other first?

Also I would have loved to have seen the median for this figure because as an average it’s astonishing

In the United States, 70.1% of the population aged 18 and older (about 173.3 million people) consumed alcohol in 2017, averaging approximately 3.6 gallons of pure alcohol per drinker, or about 2.1 standard U.S. drinks per day
As a karaoke fan and singer I like it! I just tried a random song off the top of my head, and it was basically perfect. The voice and instrument were splitted perfectly and the captions were in sync (caption 2 was better; 1 was too short).

I agree as a consumer this isn't super useful even as a karaoke fan; just because every song you type in, it takes a while to work on it (understandably). And like GP said, licensing issues probably make it hard to market this for consumers. But I wonder if you could market it to all the companies that make and distribute karaoke videos for songs (to karaoke shops). I know nothing about that industry, and would not be surprised if there's already tooling that exists for this in the industry, but at least this might be a competing way to do this more cheaply.

Alternatively, there's a lot of Youtubers who cover pop songs. There are probably ways to work with them so they could easily locate vocal-free versions of the songs they want to do.
The details will always have to be looked at by the inheritors - it's more important to not say something wrong or contradictory IMO. When I've had to do something like this in the past I circle through it, documenting the high-level ops before details anywhere. Tricky or especially complicated details next, then the operational details for as much as I've time for.

I'm doing this now for a couple of things I've inherited because my predecessors either never documented it or it's been lost to time. High-level flow, tricky and/or problematic bits with operational & recovery info, then the mundane as I have time. That means the mundane or some of the less-tricky tricky bits will be "vague" for a while.
> This is not really out of the ordinary for successful, released, real games

Well said. A lot of people will nitpick and talk big about how they would use proper abstraction and write very clean code, but probably none of those people have ever had a successful indie game out.
I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?
If it means a pleasant experience at the DMV... sign me up.
> Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively.

I'm very skeptical of this claim. Do you have any evidence?

Note that impressions of ones own performance while on drugs are not necessarily accurate.
We're no longer living in the 19th century, most people no longer believe in the nobility and glory of war.

Much of the modern recruitment efforts I've seen focus on benefits like paying for student loan debts, workforce training and healthcare.

I would bet that most people who join the military today (at least in the US) do so hoping to avoid ever having to see action, rather than looking forward to killing for their country.
Have people been getting poorer to qualify for welfare?
In the same way you'll at some point have to sell property to get the money to pay your taxes.
> it is taking away something you’ve already earned and own outright for whatever purpose you want

The same applies to income tax.
If you’re in Washington State, chat up the DoL clerk the next time you renew your tabs. They’re not a government office, and they’ve been legislated to only make a couple bucks off of each tab or plate.

If memory serves they make more money off the convenience fee for paying with a credit card than they do off of the licensing.

They basically don’t have a way to turn a net profit. This is exactly the sort of situation that would make someone sell customer data.
Yes, the increasing wealth gap has been killing America. That's what this program is trying to address.
Note that the alternative here would be to just increase price by the full 12% and change nothing else. Then later you can cut features and price by 2%, which people won't react to because "paying less for less" is perfectly logical. Then those minority of customers who actually needed the 2% incremental features could buy them ad-hoc, and end up paying the same price.

Albeit, this means that you now don't have pretty bundles, and are selling features à la carte, which can be hard to manage. OR you make all those customers upgrade to Enterprise, which they'll be pissed about, but still falls into the logical "paying more for more" optics.
> I hear this and other fad internet diet stuff all the time

I've been eating a lower carb diet with portion control for more than 10 years now with little to no exercise. I recently changed into a low carb diet. Over this 10 year period I lost 30% of my body weight.

The only fad I've seen so far is the notion that practicing willpower and portion control while still eating sugar and carbs is a maintainable position.

Best of luck to you. But as others have noted, the rampant obesity in today's society is a recent problem - not something that happened in previous generations. What's different?
The biggest issue I have with this is:

> "the very rich should be allowed to keep the money they have, even if that means increasing inequality,"

Wording a question like that is so... biased. Maybe we should work on fixing how the enormous amount of tax money is spent now before asking taxpayers for more? $700bn in funding for military (around $1tn all funds considered), yet there's "increasing inequality". US spends 2x the amount the UK does on health per capita, yet the UK can afford single payer health. Administration costs are through the roof.

I think this is a case where "throwing more money at the problem" isn't the right solution.
Second hand smoke killed millions of people and still kills thousand a year just in the US.
I know it is not a popular view but I think WWII was a major mistake. We could of course not have stopped Hitler's initial actions, but it was the West's choice to wage war against Hitler. I think that was a mistake.

The rational was to keep Poland and the Czech republic free. However at the end of the war neither country was free. They had fallen under the Soviet sphere of influence. The goals they set hence failed.

They KNEW Hitler planned to attack Russia. He had spoken for years about that. That meant they would go through Poland. The sneaky but rational solution would have been to sacrifice Poland temporary and let Hitler attack Russia. Russia and Germany would have worn each other out.

At the end a heavily built up allied military could have marched in and cleaned up.
For a good introduction, watch this talk at 1.5x speed from 2:50 to 5:40

https://youtu.be/gCWtkvDQ2ZI?t=170
>Isn't "fun" what Mazda is known for?

No. And the people looking to buy a compact crossover from Mazda are not looking for a fun car. In fact, no person looking for a fun car is looking at compact crossovers.
At the risk of getting too political on HN, the knee-jerk reaction to national (sometimes even international) solutions for every problem is tiresome and unwise.

Some problems necessitate that, but most do not, this being one of them.

I can't find the source, but I read a strong argument about the difficult of moving between nations, states, and municipalities, and the conclusion was that the more localized the legislation, the greater freedom people have. "Vote with your feet"-type deal.
> 0-60 in 9 seconds is not only terrible, it is dangerous.

No. I drive a 2001 Ford focus automatic. It's only 4 gears, has a torque converter and driven by a 100BHP engine. On paper, it's a sluggish car.

The gearbox has two kickdown modes. Give throttle a gentle push and it shifts down (interpreting we need to go faster) but, if you floor it, the gearbox quickly kickdowns until engine near-redlines, engine program changes to beast mode and the acceleration becomes unbelievable. I had used the feature a couple of times involuntarily and it literally saved my life.

0-60 in 9 seconds is not terrible. Not adding required emergency features is.
Two things to note when looking at that list:

1. Bushfires may be more frequent in some parts of Australia than others. So two bushfires of equal size, but occuring in different regions, may not necessarily be equally common.

2. The list on Wikipedia is referring to final surface burned, after the fire is contained, or has burned out. However the 1.5M Acre figure mentioned here seems to be only the current surface burned - presumably it will continue to expand and burn more.
So once it finishes, we should have a clean slate with vastly reduced fire potential, right? Seems like there was a build-up of combustible material for some time, and nature decided to run its course.
Sort of. While there are far too many complex exceptions and loopholes, a non pass through entity pays corporate tax on earnings. The tax on capital gains is a second tax on the same earnings.
> who don't give a damn about human rights in China

I don't think this is limited to China. Google has no qualms surveilling on behalf of the US government either.

But it's not really a matter of ethical sense. Google is big enough that everyone has a bone to pick with something Google does. Conversely, people can find a way to justify anything. So when anything you do is ethically wrong (in 2020, as long as one person with a twitter following thinks so, it's Wrong), and anything you do is also ethically justifiable (in 2020, as long as one person with a twitter following thinks so, it's Right), ethics isn't really how you make decisions anymore. It's just a matter of how much money will we make, will we get sued, and who's gonna manage PR.
Can you link to the interview?
Are farm workers excluded because it's easier? Wouldn't matter I suppose just curious.
That question is essentially impossible to answer, IMO.

The world we live in, our perceptions of it, the language we use to describe it, is deeply anchored in the technocapitalist empire America was empowered to establish in the unsettled world order left in the aftermath of WW2.

So, what are the alternatives to American hegemony? I don't know. What are the alternatives to capitalism? What are the alternatives to accumulating and hoarding wealth? Not doing that, I guess, right? So, the only answer I'm equipped to provide is that the alternative to American hegemony would be not American hegemony.

(Note: I could definitely articulate a market socialist position here that might reflect my political views but that could and would be picked apart in an Internet forum. The point is that we are all so institutionalized to this hegemonic world that any alternative will be seen as inferior. It will take revolution.)
It is, and you have whole communities being completely reliant on it for survival. But listen to Eisenhowers speech about the military-industrial complex. This reliance is created by design, and it is making some people extremely rich.
States are generally set up in such a way that it's very difficult/impossible to harm the authorities without also also harming a lot of other people.

Personally, I think Google is in an awkward position here. The Wikipedia can take a solid and principled stance because it has clear and transparent policy on what it censors (basically anything original, not NPOV, and not of general interest). The Wikipedia can do this, because it's edited by humans, and while humans are pretty bad at agreeing at these things, they're way better at it than computers.

Basically, Google wants to filter its results, but if it doesn't let the Chinese government control the filter in China, it runs the risk of appearing to be western propaganda.
electrek is basically a Tesla/EV bull, they own shares in TSLA and get tons of free EV-kickbacks and perks... you should look at everything on that site with a skeptical eye.
When did you realize it was too much? Number of drinks? Hangovers? What was "heavily" 3/4 nights a week? What precisely was the moment you were brought to your knees as you say?
This might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900498
You have a friend who will probably die before he changes what he eats and you still call it "easy"?
This is grossly simplified, but I feel like I'm responding in kind.

The fundamental nature of a non-co-op business is that the company gets more value per person than it costs to employ that person. Companies have been "stealing" wealth from employees since they've existed.
Of course war is a racket. And I agree with you that the US has been fighting wars of aggression and generally behaving in a despicable manner. Now, let's imagine what happens if/when the US decides to stop being so aggressive. I believe the Middle East begins to trade oil in Euros, gold, Yuan, or some other currency. Demand for the dollar collapses. The US economy collapses in a spectacularly violent way. Like a Venezuela/Zimbabwe kind of spectacular economic collapse. Then China, who is already putting Muslims (Uyghur) men in concentration camps and assigning rapists to live with their families and educate them into being good Communists. China who is committing mass murder to fill the market for human organs. China who is already colonizing Africa. China which is an etho-state with a dictator for life. China is going to start really flexing more around the globe.

What is your hypothesis on what happens across the globe in the absence of US hegemony and crazy wars. Do you believe a loss of the petro-dollar would lead to US collapse? Do you believe Chinese hegemony would happen, and if so, would it be better or worse than US hegemony?
Google purged 1.7K instances of Joker malware from the Play Store
Well, it may be interesting to look at what industries ballooned during this time. Video games, weed, online sexual services, ...
I read on Reddit that some do. It's just not enough
I am advising the poster to avoid extremes and find a trade-off between torturing themselves and having an unhealthy weight. The devil is in the details.
Certain road situations require faster accelerations to get out of safely and while you can employ safety techniques and driving style to avoid getting into them, they still do exist.

Tesla Model S Performance with its 0-60 under 3 seconds can still accelerate and drive very slowly and smoothly if the driver chooses to do so, while Mazda with artificially "slowed" acceleration can never go fast. At the end of the day, the car with more artificial limitations gives you less options and is inherently less safe.
Or much of what millennials believe will shift when they become middle aged and holders of reasonable positive net worth.
https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ Looks great!
Yes, they're alleging conspiracy.

I think that Hanlon's razor applies here.

> Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

It's just how the system works. People behave as if they're part of a conspiracy, but they're all just doing what seems best (here, most profitable) for them.

That's somehow worse than conspiracy.
> If they're really salivating over additional income why aren't taxes increasing?

Because a socialist hasn’t been elected President yet. World will wake up when that happens, and will no longer buy your funny money IOUs. When that happens I will happily watch you tear yourselves apart. I’ll be nowhere near this country when that happens.
What I love about VVVVVV is that there's almost no way to describe it and make it sound fun; if you just watched that video and know nothing about the game it would not seem fun at all; and yet it's one of the most fun video games I have ever played.
PayU buys PaySense at an equity value of $185M, to merge it with LazyPay
Sure, after you burn a house down it's really hard to burn down again.
Is there a known relationship between blood pressure and ability to train?
Yep. So if you're in the Netherlands, click here: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/3lab/rats-en-slaves

For some reason they blocked it in the Netherlands. But if you're trying to watch it from outside of the Netherlands, it works great. I tried with a VPN.
It is different for technical terms. It's perfectly fine if I told a novice mathematician, "no, wait, that's wrong, a Riemannian manifold is..."

We have a precise, technical definition of open source precisely so we can judge when a license satisfies the legal freedoms that open source demands.
> obtaining accurate farming employment numbers is complicated by:

- Self-employment
- Unpaid family employment
- Part-time or hobby farmers
- Other partnerships

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/july/nonfarm-payr...
Patient-specific 3D-printed airway stents cleared by FDA
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-young-...
Farm vs. Non-farm is a pretty common distinction when talking about labor markets if I'm not mistaken.
I agree, but things also aren't as black and white as a lot of articles will try to make it. As pointed out in this very article, Google did leave China in 2010, leaving billions of dollar on the table. That is the exact opposite of "big money trumping ethics". Yes I realize they did explore returning to China last year, but it still isn't as cut and dry.

I'm not saying any of these FAANG companies are perfect, but I also don't like grand standing by people like this that really only case about advancing their own image for political reasons.
This is the same dismissive, ignorant, platitudinal advice that the parent commentator was directly referring to.

I find it supremely hilarious that you refer to the person's own body as an external factor.
There is a good reason property tax isn't quite like a wealth tax: property tax is used to pay for services provided by the municipality (schools, libraries, roads).

More similar to the wealth tax would be the so-called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax that does make the rich pay for "hoarding" land as a commodity, without creating the the disincentive to improve the land (which is a side effect of property tax, which is levied on the value of the entire lot + buildings)
Cunning way to never have uninitialized variables!
why they should earn more from those papers when they are already paid to research them?

It's knowledge, it should be free and open to help the humanity to advance and push new boundaries.
> Only the previous week, he says, he returned from a 10-day trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast

We really need to start CO2 emissions from flying / day of vacation, because 10 days to Italy is really ridiculous.
Yep, yet another reason I have zero interest in ever working in SV...

What "adult" would actually want to put up with this kind of garbage and/or garbage people that permeates the valley?
Addiction is a sickness. Saying that the person “wants” to drink (or do heroin) is missing a huge part of the problem.
How can we be sure they are not doing the same with data flowing in and out of Azure ?
This just in: there's bias based on appearance. Outside of SV, being the wrong skin tone, wrong gender, not pretty enough, too pretty, not tall enough, etc are all attributes that have been unfairly affecting workers, since, well, forever.
I think we really need a new understanding of "Truth" and what that term really means. Individual facts can be 'true' but can be horribly misleading depending on the kind of argument that is being made, and the other 'facts' that are being presented with it.

Anecdotally, most of the "Fake News" that has been shown to me as examples of "lies/falsehoods" are actually stories written in such a way that people jump to a conclusion. Sometimes they are designed that way for clicks/buzz/bias. Other times the author simply didn't mention any mitigating circumstances.

Ultimately, I think we all need to realize that there is no universal truth when it comes to politics and humanities. It's all about persuasiveness.
lol, miss the boat?
Sources for those claims?
This is a move very easy to explain: they thought they would be useful for them in the future. They feel no difference who kills whom, for as long they do so for their benefit.

Western overtures with Saddam Husain would be a great example. Second to US granting asylim to all batshit insane military mutineers in hopes of using them any time the new freedom fighters don't dance their tune: Haftar Khalifa, Husain Altaf

The West has adopted a very orientalistic concept of war as of late, as of it being purely symbolic bloodshed and ritualised sabre rattling just to compel "tribal elders" of another side to talks on your terms.

Bitter lessons from European genocidal, uncompromising warfare to the last drop of blood has been largely forgotten.

The next time the West will encounter an opponent who treats the war seriously will be its own 6 day war.
Public information for sale:

> The database shows where people live, what cars are registered to them, whether they have criminal records, and their driving histories.

> The only information it won’t provide on any condition is driver medical information and Social Security numbers, according to DMV officials. Photographs are also not for sale.