skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inequality can be the root cause, but it is a hard problem to solve. Let alone powerful people who control the media would never want it to be solved. The result is people are not ready to face it directly. Instead they pick an easier solution such as fascism/racism, hoping the solution works somehow. Example: how many people blame foreigners for the absurd housing market? Because it's easier to blame someone else than thinking critically and find the root cause.
They are no angels either, or at least their daughter company. Two weeks ago TheFork featured in Dutch TV program Rambam where they proved that they boost restaurant ratings. They listed their own fake restaurant (possible, no problem) and gave their own reviews, trying to become lowest rated in the ranking.

Giving rebates on couverts may boost your ranking too.

Restaurant owners interviewed are not too happy as well. They feel forced to subscribe because of popularity of the site, but have to pay 2 euro per person per reservation. Also it happens that without their knowledge TheFork arranges the Reservation button on Google search, so they flow through their platform.

edit: To clarify the boosting. If according to ratings the average should be a 5.2 then TheFork would up that and make it e.g. a 6.5
>if I'd be fine to be actually unreachable for a few hours.

More like days or more in vast areas of the US. Mind you, most people don't go to those places. But, even within popular national parks, you can go to places--albeit probably not without high-clearance 4WD and ability to use it or on foot--where you probably won't happen to run into anyone for a long time.

Unreachable for a few hours+ is absolutely the norm in many many places in the western US and even in some other areas like Maine.
The page isn't working for me so I can't confirm this, but the headline is so innocuous that it needing to exist at all probably shows a huge underlying problem. Is there some name for that phenomenon? Is it some relative of Betteridge's law?

EDIT: I just realized this is the equivalent of the "asking questions already answered by my shirt" meme. The existence of this headline just causes people to ask the question why the headline needs to exist.

[1] - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/a-lot-of-questions-already-an...
This is literally losing your address.

In my example you still own the house itself, just like a website still owns the servers. But you've lost the foundation it relies upon.

They're called registries for a reason.
I think you're attributing a motive to GE that you shouldn't be.
> I mean in my case I had a “data science” type application and sometimes a request would block and take a second to finish, and this meant a handful of users would bring the server to it’s knees

This sounds like an issue with the design of your program, not Python.
Some versions are, and some versions aren't. I think the theoretically most appealing versions (like the MSSM) have been ruled out by the LHC.

(Anyway, my main point is that there was nothing problematic about advancing supersymmetry as a hypothesis, whether or not it turns out to be true.)
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The best way to reach the mods is to email them via the Contact link in the footer. They don’t see every comment.
This claim is specifically related to blocking webserver in python vs concurrent webservers in go.
I assumed this is common knowledge, that scaling python webservers is a complicated thing, while in go you get a concurrent web server in standard library,
> there are pretty much always other people around

This can be deceptive and sometimes add new dangers also. there are areas in Europe close to towns but with thousands of illegal waterholes hidden under grasses or a shrub. You just step over a grass and fall before seeing it.
It's old school, but I use Quicken. It works fine and it's less than $5/month.
Because they aren't doing it to stop just counterfeit filters, but any other filters that they haven't made.

We've already been through this with printer cartridges, and how did that turn out?
Does anyone have any book or website recommendations for getting better at reading aloud? For impersonating voices and accents?

My eldest child is three and we both enjoy story time before bed; they are some of my fondest memories of my childhood. As I recall my father was a fantastic narrator and I feel I need to put some effort in!
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It's not a useful truth, at least not in the way you've characterized it. The way you characterize it says more about a misunderstanding of scientific knowledge in general, but especially medical science.

Age 10 is roughly when children begin to realize that their parents, and adults in general, can be as fallible and ignorant as children. It can be a shocking revelation, but eventually you move past it. But some people's response is to develop a deep cynicism about what maturity means, which can stunt their own maturity. (Notably, we all tend to feel like it's a deeply personal revelation that gives us unique insight--like we're more mature than others for having the revelation. But it's a whole different revelation to realize and appreciate that everybody goes through this phase.)

It can also be a shocking revelation when you learn that in science in general, but especially in medical science, the things we don't know are unfathomably more numerous than the things we [believe we] know with certainty. But just because we don't fully comprehend a phenomenon doesn't mean we can't develop useful knowledge about the phenomenon, and to develop reliable treatments (medicine) or processes (chemistry, engineering). Were it otherwise progress would be impossible. Science is a process, not a product.

Of course, just like adults who became cynical at age 10, there are professionals in all domains who harbor cynicism stemming from their educational revelations. It's not healthy.
The extreme ones may say things like, "it's all a lie", but the lie is on them.

When people go to a medical professional for help, they don't need to know the messy details. Some people might benefit, but others might react poorly. What they expect (knowingly or not) is to be given medical advice that already incorporates the unknowns; that already takes into account the fact that something is not well understood. The same is true for every other profession.

FWIW, the term Downs Syndrome comes from before the cause was known. Today people often use the term trisomy 21, perhaps because of the cultural baggage related to the older term, but also because strictly speaking it's no longer a syndrome. There are other trisomies, like trisomy 18.
Mint is great for tracking my spending and plain numbers, but lacks a lot of features.

I use a Google Sheet to track my worth bi-annually. It's real easy to update and only doing it twice a year forces me to not micro-manage my money which reduces bad-decisions and stress.

Here's the template with some dummy data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AKA3qM8T5PNbmXoW5XKY...
Do have a point to make, beyond asserting that landlords ought to be able to to coerce others into labor with state violence?
> it's always a struggle because work by its very nature is doing something you don't want to do because they're paying you... and doing something I don't want to do is very VERY hard. Almost impossible at times.

I'm pretty successful by most people's (external) measures. But every single day is a miserable fight against my own brain. Some coping mechanisms are really harmful.

> If you're a teenager or in your 20s, try and get some help now so you don't toil in futility for the next 20 years. Trust me.

I second that.
This is interesting, cause we have the same situation with tourists in Norway underestimating the wilderness. Last few years the stone formation “Trolltunga” has been pretty popular among tourists, but what the Instagram posts doesn’t tell you is that it is a 8 hour hike on regular old paths up a mountain. We’ve seen tourists walking in flip-flops, with no water, no food, starting too late in the day or too early in the season when there’s still snow large parts of the way and so on. The voluntary search and rescue team had a few pretty rough years.

Perhaps the issue is that tourists in general are very unprepared for other countries wilderness?
At some level, I don't love the always connected idea. But if I were to do serious solo backpacking at this point (or were regularly going into remote areas by car with or without a companion), I admit it would probably be prudent for me to carry a beacon.
They emailed out the same statement to Sonos subscribers:

We heard you. We did not get this right from the start. My apologies for that and I wanted to personally assure you of the path forward:

First, rest assured that come May, when we end new software updates for our legacy products, they will continue to work just as they do today. We are not bricking them, we are not forcing them into obsolescence, and we are not taking anything away. Many of you have invested heavily in your Sonos systems, and we intend to honor that investment for as long as possible. While legacy Sonos products won’t get new software features, we pledge to keep them updated with bug fixes and security patches for as long as possible. If we run into something core to the experience that can’t be addressed, we’ll work to offer an alternative solution and let you know about any changes you’ll see in your experience.

Secondly, we heard you on the issue of legacy products and modern products not being able to coexist in your home. We are working on a way to split your system so that modern products work together and get the latest features, while legacy products work together and remain in their current state. We’re finalizing details on this plan and will share more in the coming weeks.

While we have a lot of great products and features in the pipeline, we want our customers to upgrade to our latest and greatest products when they’re excited by what the new products offer, not because they feel forced to do so. That’s the intent of the trade up program we launched for our loyal customers.

Thank you for being a Sonos customer. Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. I hope that you’ll forgive our misstep, and let us earn back your trust. Without you, Sonos wouldn't exist and we’ll work harder than ever to earn your loyalty every single day.

If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Patrick

Patrick Spence
CEO, Sonos
> the worst part about Bing is coworkers seeing I use it.

I use Bing Images (because I don't like DuckDuckGo's image search) and link people there sometimes, and I used to have a Bing-branded wallpaper just to call attention to that there is a choice. Didn't even work, nobody around me finds that weird, many already use DDG or chose to remain with Google.

Bing seems to have switched away from branding a Bing logo onto their wallpapers, though, so that's no longer a thing.
It's a pretty interesting and important point. I think that it plays a central role in individual beliefs on politics as well:

If you live in an area of high density, people are your problems and it probably makes sense to you to generally limit their freedoms in favor of government control and general law and order.

If you live in an area of low density, you're immediate problems are generally not people, may be more survival related, and you are used to operating with MUCH greater independence, freedom, and self-reliance.

Applied to issues like gun control, government assistance programs, and taxation, it aligns pretty well.

Personally, I'm from an area where I routinely work in areas that are hours from cell reception or any form of help. I drive a big 4wd truck and a dirty 2-stroke chainsaw out of necessity. And, I carry a concealed pistol with me in the field.

This is often unfathomable to people that live in the bay area or Europe and I face criticism for my truck, for embracing individual rights to firearms, and I'm constantly faced with disdain from urban folks who like to insinuate that rural people are just stupid and ignorant. These people have never stared down a mountain lion 20 feet away, crouched and ready to pounce, lived without power or running water, nor faced a road wash-out that cut them off from civilization for weeks, or faced dozens of other situations I can recount where things like having the right to carry a loaded rifle in their truck might make a lot of sense. Nor can they understand the thin margins and lack of cash-flow people have to survive on in these places.

Very different worlds, and unfortunately it seems tough for people in different areas to acknowledge that they each have different needs.
Newer kernels have the sysctl: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> marijuana

May I ask: which strain do you use?

I've been treating my ADHD with (sparing, irregular use of) the main stimulants, which has worked fairly well.

I've only used cannabis a couple of times, and each time I rather hated how it made me feel.
Switch from your work computer to your own computer. If you don't have on the clock vs. off the clock, then I think you could make the argument that you were doing work stuff and then moved to your own computer to do your own stuff.
I reuse the multi blade ones for quite a while - months each. They stop working because the blades get junk between them, not that the blades get dull. To remedy, strop them backwards along your arm to clean the junk out, only a few times seems necessary, then give a rinse under the tap. I just do this out of habit each time I use them now - they last a long time.
It's an interesting sort of retroactive procrastination.

Procrastinating because you missed the subjective "optimal time" to begin.
I tried asking this in the Show HN thread on that exact colab project, but how difficult would it be to set it up in your own local Jupyter notebook if you're okay using your own GPU?

Edit: Ah, I see in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129978) that your GPU needs 11gb+ of VRAM to train the data, which my 1080 certainly doesn't have. A friend of mine works at https://spell.run which offers free trials for anyone interested in an alternative to Google. I may give it a shot this weekend.
I saw one of the kits on sale in Rite-Aid the other day, and I looked at it, and it was only like $35 dollars. That's down in the "sure, what the hell, maybe it'd be interesting" range. Then I looked closer, and realized that in the fine print that was just for the testing kit. When you send it in and get it processed, there was an additional $99-150ish lab processing fee, depending on what you picked, to actually get the results back. A little rich for my blood at that price.
It's been going on a long time, Google's been killing off aggregators by cannibalising their market for almost a decade now.

I do wonder how sustainable it is, previously these aggregators did lots of things at Google's request, cleaning the noise out and laying everything out in nice data-annotations. More fool them, it turns out.

Google cross-references them all, builds their 'own' data and drives them all out of business.

It's pretty scary how much of the digital high streets Google has ruthlessly stolen from us all, and imposing a huge tax for doing pretty much sod all.

I occasionally wonder if anyone would every have the balls to nationalise the search engine, it should be a public utility, not infested with ads covering 90% of the first page as it's become. I'm even semi-serious :)

At the very least I wouldn't mind a nice ruling that Google are now deceptively calling themselves a search engine, and that they can now only show one ad per 10 real results per page.
That you can run a site entirely on Python does not mean it's efficient to do so.
That was the most kafkian aspect. How could he earn more money to pay the door if it locked him inside?

In another instance, the door also didn't want to let him in without paying.
Almost all the reviews for these are "haven't had to use". Look at this product https://www.amazon.com/ACR-ResQLink-400-Buoyant-Personal/dp/...

13 5-star ratings - everyone should have one, I haven't had to use mine but it gives me peace of mind

1 1-star rating - gave it to my son because he jet skis. After a while it was rusted. Gave it a shot, didn't work.

Reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/937/
They sold 10M kits, and they primarily market in the US. DNA never changes, so you have a lifetime max of 1 purchase of 23andMe per lifetime. Their competitors have likely sold 15-30M as well, so maybe 30-40M of these kits have been sold. That's 10% of US market.

What's the max conceivable penetration here? 20%?
That's not quite true. Your DNA doesn't change, but 23andMe only does partial sequences on those test kits. As new techniques become available they can't necessarily retest old samples, so customers who want more complete results in the future will likely have to buy and submit new kits.
> Maybe forgetting that last sentence makes it seem doomed.

That's how I read it. Without the last sentence, the statement is reads as totally defeatist to me -- it seems to say "you should have planted the tree 20 years ago, then. Too late now!"
Possibly. I would say the effects vary quite a bit. I have a close family member that has very rough ADHD, but can pull all nighters working on hobbies without medicine. As with anything, might just be an exceptional case.
> Google cloning a startup's product should be less legal than a startup cloning Google's.

Genuine question. The article is about Apple. Why did you use Google as an example instead of Apple? Is there anything specific to Google that warrants using Google as an example instead of Apple, which is the company in question?
max pay grade for ordinary civil servants

Which is?
Hopefully the regulators will whallop them with a big clue-by-4. They've already gotten in trouble for trying to leverage their position before (tying IE to Windows). They're now a repeat offender.
Many developers think of themselves as abstraction masters. "Moar abstraction is moar better!" Abstractions have a cost in readability and maintainability. It is very hard to make the abstraction that improves both. I'm tempted to say that pre-abstraction is a larger problem than pre-optimization.

Make your code easy to read at the expense of easy to write. Don't abstract unless you know exactly the use case. If the use case is not immediately forthcoming, YAGNI (you aint gonna need it). Related, don't be clever. Clever is cute and all. It does not belong in production code.
The title initially made me believe this was about the devices that they purposefully bricked in order to sell new ones (at some discount). But apparently it's actually about all Sonos products that they didn't purposefully turn into waste.
Banning facial recognition is missing the point
Ask HN: Editor with the Best Rust Integration?
The Rust docs don't advertise a single recommended editor; they list VSCode, Sublime 3, Atom, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Vim, Emacs, and Geany, pretty much all in the same breath. I've been using VSCode so far and it's... okay. The Rust Language Server is pretty lacking compared to, say, the TypeScript one.

What does your Rust workflow look like? Is there an editor that has first-class Rust support yet?
All PRs should have a standard format it helps both the reviewers and the author.

One thing that works well is to use prefilled template with 3/4 main sections.

Something like:

### What
'Describe your change'

### Why
`Describe what drove this change (bugfix, feature, crash,...)`

### Links
'Link to ticket or design`

### Testing
`What should reviewers look for`
A Decentralized World (2019)
This is only true if your employment contract doesn't specify a certain number of hours a week, or if there's no standard. A simple test to see what the standard for a day is is the hours a company considers a vacation day. As much as your employer may like to think they own you, the reality is quite different, even for salaried employees who don't get paid overtime. There is a reasonableness test that can be applied.
> then focus on this list of tasks and racing to compete as many of them as possible

See, this is the piece some people have a problem with. That requires you to actually start those tasks.
Oh very cool, thanks for the link! Learn something new every day
And now since I'm sucked into the cult of the helm-o-verse I find I am binding many fewer keys. Just start typing 'M-x ar' and now it's the second item. Add another 'r' brings it to the fore. Less (for me) to remember.

I note this mainly because it took me quite a long time to grok helm. Keep working with it!
I've most commonly seen the description motivation chemical, which falls more in line with what the thread's first poster described.
I made a Python 3.6+ testing framework called Ward (https://wardpy.com/) that I hope can be a compelling alternative to pytest!

Quick overview of features:

* Describe your tests using strings instead of function names

* Fixtures that use the Python import system instead of name matching

* ~50% of the framework overhead of pytest

* Highly readable, colourful output including coloured diffs

* Support for parameterised testing

* Configurable with pyproject.toml, but has sensible defaults

* Ability to search for tests based on descriptions and test bodies

* Supports Linux, MacOS, and Windows

* Uses type hints!

* Hypothesis works out of the box, and soon fixtures will regenerate on each example

I'd love to hear any constructive feedback :)

If you're interested in this project, I'd love to see more contributions from the community. The codebase is relatively small at the moment!

Check out the site linked above or GitHub at https://github.com/darrenburns/ward - and feel free to ping me a message!
Next-book: Tools for publishing literature on the web
It remains unclear that 23&Me's data will truly be transformative in drug development (this has been a criticism of the human genome project since it finished and most predictions for human health still haven't panned out). There's a lot of narrative and noise there, but not a lot of useful activity (yes, I know 23&Me is touting one drug at this point).
The problem is that the claim is most likely subjective so it doesn’t need evidence. And the act of always being asked for evidence in various situations, and not being respected for knowing what is going on was one of the subjective claims being made.

Someone doesn’t have to justify their feelings or opinions or observations of how they are being treated. If someone says they are always experiencing something, then we should listen instead of asking them to prove to us that they are allowed to feel that way.
New people are being born all the time. There are many industries based around one time purchases. Think appendix removal or weddings (that one may be more than once for some people)
I have used Excel's TEXTJOIN function for such cases.
The timeout for the requests issued by the uptime monitor was set a little too low – the uptime monitor mistakenly believed the service was not responding (it was, but slowly)
“This has been slow and painful for us,”

I'm gonna give you some slack here, Anne, but TBH Silicon Valley executives don't really understand what these words mean.

“I think the tech world needs to own this[sic] better communicate privacy standards to build trust,” she said. “I want to jump in and really own it.”

Or maybe instead of jumping in with your billionaire executive pants on, Anne, you could listen. People are sick of being told what's being done to them. You didn't miscommunicate, you screwed up. People are pissed off.
Honestly I couldn't get past the homepage. The UI looked horrible, and there are no screenshots of the app so I suspect its even worse. You should invest a bit more in your presentation