skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can you believe that something like this is happening?

Humans are capable of incredible atrocities, once you convince them that the "other" side are not (worthy) humans ("Untermenschen").

What is even worse for me: humanity has not learned much from the horrors of the Nazi regime, it seems. China is locking up millions in concentration camps, using prisoners for forced organ harvesting and medical "experiments"... and the West, similar to what happened with the "appeasement" politics, is doing nothing. Meanwhile, Australia and the EU see letting refugees drown in the sea as an effective deterrent, and what is happening in the border camps both at the US-Mexican border and in the camps in Greece and Libya is utterly inhumane.

After WW2, many Germans excused their actions with "we had not known/realized what happened" and "we just followed orders" - history repeats itself today, and unlike our ancestors we know what is going on, and still do nothing. We are all failures.
> Because of all this, I realize that my existence is not special in any way. I am just some other soul lost in the crowd, not glowing in any way. Some day I will die and the world will not have been better or worse because of it.

The notion that "humans are special" and "individuals are special" is exactly part of the problem. We are conditioned to believe that we are special, the carrot being that consumerism/producerism makes us "special", whereas "not being special" is perceived as "something very bad".

Why exactly is that?

Thing is, the existential angst you feel is exactly the stuff that has sparked the Great Age of Philosophy starting with Immanuel Kant and David Hume.

Without going into details, try to turn your thinking around on this one. Why would it be bad that your existence isn't "special" as far as the Universe is concerned? I can assure you that none of the famous dead are laying awake, fretting over whether or not their lives have mattered in the course of History, for instance.

Some people even go so far as to deconstruct their own Self by continuing this line of reasoning. Ego Death is a thing (and it doesn't necessarily involve the usage of LSD).

Turn to yourself instead and construct meaning for yourself. If you want to feel purpose, special and a sense of self, the best thing you can do is validate your own Self. Who you are, what you like, what you dream of,... regardless of what society expects from you. It's called "self love".

> I will never even be close to what Elon is and accepting this is hard.

And I can assure that Elon Musk isn't happier or unhappier then you are. You are not Elon and and Elon isn't you.

He has to deal with the crushing pressure of a few companies that are highly demanding. He has to deal with the complexity and the ethics. He has also to deal with the demands of a very large family (I don't know how much his own kids actually see him, for one, or what their relationship is like)

My point is that the image of you have of Elon and walking in his shoes are two very, very, very different things. And the latter might be far more and harder then you are bargaining for.

There's a difference in being inspired by him and applying his level of audaciousness to your daily life in a sensible manner; and trying to emulate him in a way you can't possibly hope to attain. Guess what will yield the best chance for happiness and purpose?

> I believe few people would care at all about this.

Are you sure? As that your (irrational) beliefs talking, or have you actually done a survey across a representative sample of humans, excluding your own biases, in order to determine this?

I have travelled across the globe a few times now, and having met many, the optimist in me tends to believe that most people do care if you talk with them in earnest. It's just not the image we tend to see as powerful people have invested in a system that games our biases, fears and desires again and again.
Works fine for me. Latest FF and Win10.
New China virus: Five questions scientists are asking
I gotta say, a Mint-that-doesn't-suck is something I could absolutely see myself paying $5 a month for, for the rest of my life.

The core functionality is indispensable, but it's become so outdated, inefficient, and difficult to use that I'm champing at the bit to jump ship. I'm surprised it's taken this long for a serious competitor to emerge, given that it's been saturated with ads for at least half a decade and Plaid's been around just as long.
New chip calculates the shortest distance in an instant
Nuclear Fusion at 100: The Hidden Race for Energy Supremacy
> English is a pretty simple language, grammatically.

Compared to Indo-European languages. Look at other language families, and our insistence on articles, inflection for tenses, plurality, and case (in the case of pronouns) looks unnecessarily complicated.

And then there is the insane polysemy of English words. "get" has a wide variety of meanings, some of which are completely opposite from one another!

> When it comes to speaking simple English

I should also point out that English has relatively complex phonotactics. A word like "strengths" is excruciating for anyone whose phonology doesn't have consonant clusters in the first place.
Clearview Says Its Software Identified a Terrorism Suspect. Cops Say Otherwise
AdNauseam must be pretty effective. Google not only banned it from the web store but also made it difficult for regular users to install it on Chrome.

https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on...
It broke. I have 2 BoA accounts and some time ago it made 1 of them inactive and I just couldn’t make them both work. The one I re add becomes the one Mint sees and another one becomes inactive.

It also miscalculated cash flow. Graph shows negative when in reality it is positive.

I guess it is a price to pay for acquisition.
For example, if I put in Flights and Funny, I'd expect to get funny flight stories. If I type the query into google as "flights" "funny" I'm getting exactly the type of results I'd expect from your search engine as well. Just some constructive criticism. I really like the idea.
>the 'victim'

The buzzfeed article details quite a number of allegations. There is no one victim.

In any case, the victim you're referring to essentially confirmed that the allegation was true. She merely said (in effect) that she was not particularly bothered that Krauss had touched her breast without permission. That does not make the behavior appropriate.

See also the ASU investigation report, which is available here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/lawrence-k...

Besides all that, Krauss unapologetically helped Epstein after he was released from prison.
> King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology.

Oh, really?

> Once voters have completed their ballots, they must verify their submissions and then submit a signature on the touch screen of their device.

Huh?

> Finney says election officials in Washington are adept at signature verification because the state votes entirely by mail. ...

Finney must have never had to sign on a phone screen with a finger while driving before.

All of this digital theater of the absurd in a desperate attempt to engage people in the political process:

> The board of supervisors election in the King Conservation District, for example, in past years has drawn less than 1% of the eligible population to the ballot box.

People don't vote because they don't care. Not because they can't make it to the poling place. They don't care because they don't see anything at stake.

There's no app for that.
Might be wrong, but I remember this existing (albeit with traffic lights) in the 90s near Amsterdam Amstel Station.
Jan Karski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski had a similar story, though he went in an out of the Warsaw Ghetto a few times during the war, rather than Auschwitz. He ended up as a professor at Georgetown University until the 90's. If he drifted off topic in class, his stories of being in the resistance in occupied Poland were amazing.
Parent was referring to the “hundreds” part, not the 7. If 5% of your bets win, but only pay off in the hundreds %, you’re going bankrupt. You need at least 2000% return, amortised over the winners, to break even. More to beat that 7%.
Incidentally wonderful song called Inmate 4859 by Swedish power metal band called Sabaton that is about Pilecki.

If you think this story is interesting Sabaton has an entire album dedicated to stories of people like this called Heroes.
> Notably, pilots are really good at what they do and improve constantly.

This is a fantastic example! I often think about the distribution of talent/competence in fields and that is a very interesting anomaly.

Does anybody know why this is the case? I understand that it's a (fairly) repetitive task, and technology certainly assists, but I think I recently read that there are .2 "incidents" per million commercial flights.

How has an entire industry created a standard that seems to be well above any other?
>I don't think people complaining about cultural appropriation are actually a problem.

The people protesting the "Kimono Wednesdays" event at the Boston Art Museum because they considered Westerners wearing kimonos to be "orientalism" and "cultural appropriation" were a problem for the actual Japanese companies that were trying to spread awareness of Japanese culture in the West and actually maybe try to make kimonos marketable as fashion in the West.

Cultural appropriation does exist and it can be damaging, but one form of cultural appropriation that often gets overlooked is taking offense on behalf of another culture, without actually having any understanding of that culture or its position on the matter.
Off Topic, most of the services mentioned here use Plaid to connect to banks. This means that Plaid (now Visa) has full access to your entire banking history. Combined with credit card data they know almost everything you purchase.

I find that fact quite unsettling.
Which doesn't save you from banners stretching around 50% of a given site urging you to accept their cookie policy.
That's You Need A Budget, which I love paying for.
What It’s Like Being a Staff Developer
Tips/tricks on how do you approach working on someone else's project?
What is your strategy when you start working on a medium/large sized project such that you understand all the mechanics in the least time possible?
Do you document it's architecture? Write down entities and relationships between them?
Understanding EU Vat Guide
Please do correct me if I’m missing something, but this seems like a lot of uproar over not much... the article states that this only applies to enterprise, who would most certainly have IT admins, and those IT admins are able to block the extension through Group Policy. They’ve also been given one month prior notice about the change. This also only applies accounts which are owned and operated by IT, making it IT’s decision what happens on them, not the actual users.

Disclaimer: I work at msft, nothing related and no knowledge of this besides the article. Opinions are my own.
U.S. issues travel warning for China amid coronavirus outbreak
How much of the u-boot and Linux kernel binaries which ship with the Pinebook Pro (or are used in the images/installers linked from the wiki) is already integrated into the mainline or upstream of each of these projects?

If not much, where can I find information about their plans to contribute their changes?

Are there any plans for UEFI support to be added to the Pinebook Pro so that it can easily boot installers that already exist for 64 bit ARM Linux distributions?
I imagine the New Yorker's writing staff has vanishingly little influence over the tech stack their dev team chooses.
> The big issue of ports like these is not the tutorial but to justify that to your boss.

I think that's a red herring. Convincing your boss is an issue even for minor upgrades. In a previous job, we couldn't convince him to move from Python 2.5 to 2.7.
Mindful productivity: a sustainable way to work and think
No, it's served from the same domain as the content. They're static images, so the ad and the in-copy diagram are actually from the same source. It's a bit heavy-handed here, but honestly, this is the sort of advertising I don't mind not blocking.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/16/17243080/m...

https://www.marijuanalawyerblog.com/how-many-federal-prisone...

from the second link: "This is a total of 11,533 people incarcerated as a result of their involvement with cannabis products."

Considering that the percentage of prisoners in private prisons is below 10%, we can see that there are less than 1100 people in private prisons for marijuana related crimes.

There is no way that you can generate returns on lobbying for one of the most hot issues in US off of the profit of 1100 prisoners
Its not strange you want to concentrate the difficult stuff so that you get experts who do this a lot working on you

(hip replacement is not one of those)

For example transplant work in the UK is very concentrated I went to the royal free and they have the best equipment and surgeons and do world leading operations.

The guy across from me was the oldest patient in the world to have a new type of key hoe surgery for example.
This is why no one should "purchase" a "smart" anything unless there is no alternative.
In the fact that our society is selling us something so fake people have to relive past good stuff on the side.
As someone with acute ADHD and prolonged childhood trauma, Gabor Maté is a godsend and I'd recommend this book as well.
How does one estimate the probability of doom from either of those things with any sort of reliability, given that they would be one off (future historical) events? Where's the science in predicting the future of civilization?
How is it ethical for Mozilla to lay off 70 people which was in news recently? Shouldn’t those people get moved to other roles? How is it ethical to lay-off so many people and then preach ethics to others who may have difficulty paying rent every month.
Dump secure session cookies from chrome down C2
This space is really difficult to crack for a few non-obvious reasons. The first is that the total TAM is less than you think; for most people, tracking their spending to manage budgets just doesn’t appeal to them. For many consumers, just seeing all of their finances is incredibly depressing. I suspect the 13mm Mint users are a large portion of the addressable market for this kind of product. So without a strong monetization engine that will work incredibly well at only ~10mm user range, you’re in trouble. Lead-gen isn’t sufficient here; Credit Karma has 10x the userbase and much stronger signals of intent, which is why they dominate digitize acquisition. When I was there, we put a lot of thought into how to crack personal finance, and ultimately felt that “spending” was too complex and too niche. The fact is you need radically different products for different parts of your consumer audience. That’s why you’ve seen a rise of more focused products like Robinhood, Wealthfront (going after the high end), savings apps like Acorn and digits, banking apps like Chime, etc (being a bank is profitable) that have incredibly strong revenue models attached.

I think you could run a reasonable lifestyle business here if you don’t take VC, but I’m skeptical this can ever be truly mass-market.
It is now 100 seconds to midnight
This reminds me of a time where the Department of Work and Pensions botched a bid for a Universal Jobmatch system and ended up awarding the contract, to methods consulting, re-tendering the contract and paying close to £1m to methods consulting

I would not be surprised if something similar happened here, although the payout would likely be far higher and I'm in no way comparing Methods Consulting to Microsoft.
Done Playing Microsoft’s Corporate Game
> I read low voter turnout as an implicit vote of confidence in the system as a whole.

Look at a map of voter turnout in Europe, and ask yourself is that REALLY credible.

It's more likely that US low turnout is because, for many voters in many elections, their vote is kinda meaningless. If you live in California or Texas your vote in a presidential election is meaningless, say, and probably also in a senate election. Depending on your district, your vote in a house election is probably also meaningless; most are not competitive.

As a general rule turnout is higher in countries using some form of proportional representation, as individual votes are far more likely to be impactful there (in a PR-STV system, for instance, it is pretty rare that all of a constituency's representatives are effectively decided before the election, whereas that's the case in the majority of US districts).

Other factors; most US states have rather short ballot opening hours compared to other democratic countries (In Ireland, say, we generally have voting from 7am-10pm or so), and the US population is more dispersed than most developed countries, making traveling to a polling station more difficult.

That said, voting by phone is an obviously unacceptable solution, as it destroys the secret ballot.
He is our hero! The core of polish “magical” heroism. It’s unbelievable that Poland after second war war, abounded by allies, stood agains oppression of communism and won after 50 years.
From another perspective, becoming the market leader might mean that a lot of consumers are convinced you’re selling the best thing on the market because you’re the only thing on the market because you bankrupted all the other choices. The venture capital growth-at-all-costs model results in monopoly or near-monopoly conditions, which is horrible for consumers. If your business doesn’t have competition, you’re probably hurting your customers.
"Thank you for your ads. You have 5 free servings left for free access to my eyeballs. Please subscribe to my eyeballs for uninterrupted access."
Ha! He is a professor of marketing. Of course it was bullshit. The grant assessors should read the story of the scorpion and the frog.
No, I'm saying Expedia pays less for ads for expedia.com than ExpediaCompetitor pays for ads for expediacompetitor.com.

This gives Expedia an advantage when purchasing ads on the search term "expedia.com".

Of course, Expedia would probably prefer not to purchase ads on "expedia.com" at all.
Is pihole any different from just having a fatass hosts file?
FTA: "With schools having largely withdrawn from the practice of making students memorize poetry, few of us today have anything approaching the interior resources of a rhapsode.”

My son attends school in France and learning by heart and then reciting poems is something he does regularly as part of his homework.

Professionally, I’ve found that reading aloud is how I most easily catch the errors in text that I’ve written. Personally, there’s something magical about reading aloud to children and being able to maintain their attention with voices, expression, and variations in tone.
Didn't Oracle just sue the DoD claiming they wrote the requirements in such a way that only Amazon could get it?
The most painful breaking change was the string treatment. Breakage was necessary if you wanted to make it possible to have more confidence in the basic building blocks of python.

If you make a mistake when making a tool, you can either leave it forever, permanently causing pain for users forever, or you can try to find a path to fix it.

That being said, a Python 3.0 which was _just_ “can’t call encode in string, decode on bytes” then subsequent releases fixing up other stuff over time would have been much nicer.

Like the “everything is iterators now” release could have happened later.
On these "turbo roundabouts" there are also kerbstones between the lanes, not just lines. You can cross them but it'll be obvious that was not the intended use.

I hate driving them. Somehow every one I drive on seems massively overengineered, and could have been done with a completely normal single lane roundabout. But it's usually not rush hour when I drive there.
> The problem is the fear factor has really disappeared and few today experienced the fear of real nuclear threats like those during the peak of the cold war.

Few even know about the clock, or what it represents, or historically represented.

Few understand the existential dangers humanity is under threat from; those that do shout into a void of apathy, hardly even receiving an echo.

Some are patted on the head with a "That's nice dear..." or worse, met with scorn and anger.

The world has forgotten the we have the literal power to destroy ourselves, to make the planet virtually uninhabitable for humanity, if not most of life, by our acts. Some in power have even had the gall to ask why we shouldn't use these weapons we have, otherwise why have them? Ignorant. Fools.

The only way humanity will learn its lesson is by abject overpowering demonstration. Of course, by then, it will be too late. But the lesson will be learned, in the most harsh manner possible.
Aren't those ideas the underlying premise of shared streets (woonerfs)? Basically remove as many signs, markings and kerbs as possible so there's no segregation, and usually break up vision lines. The driver uncertainty stops traffic being the dominant user.

Result lower accidents, much lower speeds, and above all safer cyclists, pedestrians and any kids playing.
This brings back fond memories, it was my first computer. Learned BASIC and Z-80 assembly on it.

Happy to see it has Level II Basic. Level I was very limited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_I_BASIC
Standards for Writing Accessibly
With cats you'd take away their food and water about 8-10h before the flight. We took our cats in cabin from Sweden -> Florida, about 19h total door to door. They were real champs with no accidents. We lined the soft carriers with puppy pads (similar absorbent material as diapers) just in case.
> it's probably enough to act with genuine, directed enjoyment and curiosity.

This is true, but I think you are seriously underestimating how difficult this can be, and how easy it is to lose track of what it actually, genuinely is that gives you enjoyment.
The culture of mass advertising didn't exist:

Yes, there were earlier ads, largely of the classified variety, selling one-offs (often real estate).

People were not literate.

Printing and publishing were expensive.

There were very few mass products.

Wikipedia: "The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations. It became a major force in capitalist economies in the mid-19th century, based primarily on newspapers and magazines."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising

The point is scale and pervasiveness.

Barkers, criers, the odd promotional papyrus or clay tablet, a shop signboard, are not the mass advertising of the latter 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries.

Mass advertising, such as it might be thought to exist, was largely propagandistic, in that word's original sense.