skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You likely would recognize the melody of "Funiculì, Funiculà", an audio sample of which can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicul%C3%AC,_Funicul%C3%A0

Amusingly, a short while ago I HN-commented on the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and nearby settlements. Vesuvius also destroyed the funicular that the song advertised, in a later eruption.
I like the idea but people are lazy and just expect a platform like this to be constantly curated and up-to-date. With that said, it would be a fantastic tool with just a handful of active and enthusiastic curators who really care while the rest of lurking (most platforms work this way).
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7309167,-0.3021986,152m/da...

I grew up by this roundabout; the south exit joins to a village. Note it has 5 exits, and is slightly tweaked: there are two lanes that go off most of the exits, except the village exit has one lane and actually going off is optional. Every major entrance to the roundabout has four lanes so you get in the lane you want for the exit you want. The minor entrances have fewer lanes so you just sort of race into the lane you need.

Oh, and it has traffic lights as well.
Not sure if it still works or not, but there used to be a search engine specifically for Semantic Web data at:

http://swoogle.umbc.edu/2006/

The site is still up, but I remember trying it a while back and getting a lot of errors, so not sure if it's in a usable state or not.
yes, which I find quite sad if not more
Going off of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Another commenter has given a good reason why it's on topic.
I have MDs in the family too, their continuing education classes are sponsored (free) and with feasts provided as well.

Lawyers have to pay for our required continuing education classes. Sponsored courses and retreats are clearly a conflict of interest for MDs.

Also, as lawyer, I remain shocked and saddened to see how US medical providers have abandoned patient privacy in the wake of the US opioid crisis. Patients prescribed any controlled substance are now put on registers that almost any state actor (or local police) can review at will.

US MDs have thrown their patients under the bus because they (or their colleagues) were (lazily/blindly/greedily) writing too many opioid prescriptions.
So many Wall Street Journal articles. Do that many people pay for the service?
Gotcha, didn't think of that. Thanks!
If they don't have the quote, a credible journalist wouldn't run the story.
On a plain 2-lane roundabout when you're driving the outside lane you are not forced to leave it at the 2nd exit.

Sometimes there are even no signs/arrows on the road that require you to do it. It is expected of you, but if you happen to be one of the drivers that suddenly change their minds or you don't know how to drive on roundabouts you could continue driving around in the outside lane.

So a typical situation which makes roundabouts dangerous is when you're driving in the inside lane and you want to take the second exit (on a 4-exit roundabout that's going straight). If a driver next to you (in the outside lane) carries on driving until the third exit, they'll crash into you.

If it happens to you in Poland the situation even more stressful, because according to law, you are (partly) the responsible party, because you were the one who changed lanes!

IMHO, that's why turbine roundabouts are a great idea. Too bad that there aren't many of those or they are implemented incorrectly. See [0]. The outside lane ends in only 2 of 4 exits. Is it 50% safer though?

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2547072,20.9822988,188m/data...
I personally HATE features like this. I want a web search to return web results and file system search to return files. Novel behavior that mixes in unexpected search results (ie. web results when searching from the Windows 10 start menu) is deleterious and I do my best to train my brain to skip over those unexpected options.
> California either needs wider roads, or to mandate narrower cars (it seems to have worked well enough for emissions...)

Taking the opposite view, mandating narrower roads (or, refusing to widen existing narrow roads) has worked great for opposing the problem of car growth in some countries. If you watch a busy intersection in Japan you see a ton of incredibly tiny cars go by, and it's no coincidence that backstreets in major Japanese cities are often nightmarishly narrow alleyways, sometimes without sidewalks so you even have pedestrians sharing the already-tiny road.

For example consider this side street near a touristy zone of Kyoto: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0010412,135.7662851,3a,75y,2...

You can see people walking right along the road. An average person would not feel comfortable driving with a big car, nor driving aggressively nor at a high speed, on this road. Taken combined, this is what makes these roads safe and pedestrian-friendly, even though at face value a road without sidewalks might seem the opposite.
DNS is really a major technical and organizational weakness of the Internet. It is centralized, it is insecure, it lacks privacy. And now, apparently, it can be exploited for the profit or corrupt individuals. I think it is time to replace it by something else. It is by pure convention that we allow ICANN to administer it, we could change that tomorrow.
I've taken ADHD medication once in high school, and I hate how _good_ it was. It makes it so much easier for me to be the person I want to be, to accomplish the things I want to do. But I'm also adequately capable sober; I don't want to become medicated and then feel like I can't be productive unmedicated.
Turnout can also be improved by voting on Sundays instead of work days. Yet they skipped that step and went right for electronic voting, that's nearly unanimously opposed by experts.
The problem is that an airplane cabin is a confined space and if there is a behavioral issue, nothing can be done about it until the plane is landed somewhere.
Only up to a point other vocational jobs that where x o levels have gone grad entry but haven't changed the scientific civil service for example.
"Go Puff" seems like a good description of how SoftBank's investments tend to go these days.
> Where does the “language as product” analogy break down?

I think the tricky bit here is understanding that a language is more than a language. You need people focused on the language itself, but also on related things.

You can see a generational gap here when it comes to at least one aspect here: build systems and package managers. Older languages often did not really consider this a part of their domain, and so miss out on one aspect of their product in a significant way: the major interface that their users actually use the product!

Various languages deal with this in various ways. In C++‘s case, various people who work on build systems are involved with shaping the language, but they’re basically two related projects, rather than two sub-projects of some sort of overall structure. This has led to a lack of uniformity. This can be both good and bad, but it certainly is the case.
The City Attorney never alerted the Mayor or City Council of the surveillance capabilities of the contract, at least not publicly.
We don't have many, and the few we do are pretty new, but several of the roundabouts near me in the US work like this.
chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode

Firefox has this feature enabled by default and displays an icon in the address bar that you can click to reload the page in reader mode.
I couldn't handle the forced system in ynab - it's clunky and I want a budget program not a whole new budget system. To me less useful than an excel budget because it tries to force you to do things it's way.

I'd rather use Excel than be forced to use their stupid system.
This is a case where incentives, in the way that HNers use the term "incentives", don't work.

The cost of a domain name is supposed to dis-incentivize buying up domain names simply to squat and/or serve ads, but clearly the price isn't high enough to dis-incentivize that. And we can't raise prices, because then it dis-incentivizes legitimate users. The problem is that the cost of domain names is a larger dis-incentive to legitimate users than it is to domain squatters.

If a domain is $10 and a squatter sells domains for $100, then they only have to sell 1 in 10 domains to break even, so risk is very low: they don't have to really be overly concerned with only buying domains that will sell. And that's a simplistic model: the reality is that squatters have much more sophisticated valuation models, and have therefore have much higher profit margins, keeping their risk even lower. Sometimes domains sell for tens of thousands of dollars.

Meanwhile, the risk is very high for a legitimate user. If you have a company or a nonprofit, you basically have to choose a name that's marketable, memorable, relevant to your business/nonprofit, and unique, on the first try. This can literally make or break a business. And once you have that name, there's basically only one ideal URL for that name: yourbusiness.com or yournonprofit.org. So you have a supply of one and a demand of this might make or break my organization so cost can be pretty much "what is the maximum you can pay?". As such, if the max you can pay isn't enough for the domain squatter to want to sell, you just don't get the domain, and your organization gets a sub-standard web presence.

I don't think we can overestimate the impact of this problem. I've worked for a company which owns your-business.com rather than yourbusiness.com (these are examples obviously--it would be unprofessional to give out actual names). Their marketing is very explicit about the dash, and potential customers still end up at the squatted non-dashed domain, which is only getting more expensive as the company becomes more successful. Luckily their value proposition is large enough, and clients sophisticated enough, that the friction of actually getting to the site isn't as large enough barrier to prevent growth. But if your business is a lower-margin business with less sophisticated clients, that would be a big enough barrier to prevent success entirely.
this dude (burtonator) has been hawking this weird service for years on hn. I don't understand why his (and other tbh) content marketing makes it to the front page.
It’s in Microsoft’s documentation as of right now. You don’t really know until they do it, as Microsoft doesn’t necessarily do what they document.

> Version 2002 is the first version of Office 365 ProPlus that will install this extension. Version 2002 is expected to be released in Monthly Channel in early March 2020 and will be available in Monthly Channel (Targeted) shortly before then. After that, the extension will then be included in releases of Semi-Annual (Targeted) and Semi-Annual Channel.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/microsoft-sear...
Indeed you do, and I know someone who got screwed by a couple of plagiarizing cheaters. This probably contributed to his abandoning his studies and possibly to his suicide. I take a dim view of suggestions that cheating is reasonable, let alone that it is the smart option.
> Screeching infant, however? I'd vote to kennel.

Babies are humans and I think most people would agree they should be given preferential treatment over pets as such.
IPv6 is a perfect example of the second-system effect [1] as in it added a bunch of things no one needed (but might need someday) and didn't solve roaming. All IPv4 really needed was a bigger address space.

But as soon as you cross the mental threshold of making a breaking change (which expanding the IPv4 address space obviously was) then it's easier to convince yourself to make a bunch more breaking changes. And this is where Python3 really lost its way (IMHO).

One of the silliest design decisions in Python3 was (initially) removing the string prefixes like s and u. Now obviously Python2 defaulted to ASCII and Python3 defaulted to Unicode but this decision just made making libraries compatible with both, so much so that they added it back (around 3.2-3.3 IIRC).

There are also always decisions you make that in hindsight you wish you'd done differently (eg the mutable Date class in Java) but just because you're making breaking changes doesn't mean you should "fix" all of those. You still have to look at each one and ask yourself "does this really matter enough to justify changing it now?". The default answer is "no" and the bar for "yes" should be really high.

I feel like Python3 failed here too.

And look where we are. Python3 out in 2008 and we're still writing migration guides in 2019.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Silicon Valley’s latest fad is dopamine fasting
Procrastination is more about dreams, opportunities and possible outcomes than time management and emotions.

If you have the chance to win it big doing something you love you will find the time. If you have less of a chance or you don´t like it that much you won´t be able to find that much time. If what you have to do is something out of obligation or you don´t care at all you will procrastinate.

And it´s fine. It´s your inner compass trying to tell you that maybe this is not for you/wasted effort.

In the short term the best strategy for procrastination is to put your pants on and do it. In the long term is making sense about why you are doing what you do and evaluating if it brings value to your life or not.
If you’re collecting and relying on demographic data than privacy probably isn’t very important to you.
Why difficult? Just put the same permissions on the "like" as the parent object being liked, and leave those permissions alone if the parent object updates.
And if you don't have those difficulties you'll definitely have them after reading the book.
A counter to the incessant nagging google forces on people who use google search with a browser other than chrome
Wow, providing a pointer to a resource that lets you write your own code to do something gets you modded down nowadays?

Alrighty then!
I can't really add more than I already said. I assume that you know the difference between physicists, mathematicians and engineers or how these titles are protected in Germany, for example, and that there is no need to discuss this. I have already referred (see links above) to the direction in which, in my view, the philosophy of science should usefully develop. And regardless how you call it: hypothesis, prediction and experiment are still the essential steps of todays generally accepted scientific method.
I think it's because it's locally simple. At each decision point the rules are no different to normal roads and it's easy. It may look complex globally, but yeah then don't try to do that.
"The Report" is a pretty good movie about this.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8236336/
China coronavirus: Lockdown measures rise across Hubei province
Here's why San Diego is so corrupt.
On 12/16/16, when this contract was approved by the City Attorney and Council, she was in violation of the city charter, which says any elected official cannot own stock in a company if that transaction is before them. If they do she should have forfeite her office and the contract void.

On 12/19/16, the charter language was changed to state law, that brings a 3% ownership threshold allowing her to be within the law.

Facts.
High-resolution map of fruit fly brain connectivitY
We had a similar case recently in Northern Ireland, a Neurologist who performed hundreds of needless procedures, and that was under the NHS so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-50481781
Google is likely just going to block this behavior.
The best bakery I know of in Washington, DC, is run by a lawyer of considerable experience. He takes a very firm line against emotional support animals. Anyone wishing to argue the case finds out that he knows the law.
Mirtha Legrand: 72-year old career on TV
I'm not sure what you consider to be "high" on amphetamines. I take 20mg Adderall XR and don't feel high. It is amphetamine, so of course you could take more, or take IR, to get more of a rush. As someone in their late 30's, that personally has little appeal to me and I'm past the stage of my life where I'd desire to use amphetamines for that purpose.
Surprised they didn't mention using web templates such as wrapbootstrap's collection.

Working with existing controls and layouts, with pre-set helper classes is a good way to have good design on a product you're building rapidly and get a feel for what elements exist in useful design.
I don't pay for the service, I only saw the article because it showed up on my phone's Google Now launcher.
Pornhub uses cryptocurrency to avoid PayPal ban
I don't I expect a browser to be a browser and that's the exact argument Microsoft lost about bundling IE with windows
Sad in what way, seeing someone develop an 'old way' craft and apply it? Or that it is not more intertwined in the fabric of society?
Anecdotal, but I literally went from reading this message to looking down at my phone where one of my friends was re-posting (in support of) someone complaining on twitter: "Stop stealing from $ETHNIC_MERCHANTS! It's not just a cute top, it's a culture!"

Straight from your message to that one.
At the time Twitter didn't exist, and Trump has - more than once - come close to declaring war on another country through Twitter.
We may need a non-nuclear one too. We are getting increasingly creative in self-destruction methods.
Design Principles of Vue 3.0 by Evan You [video]
A Philosophy of Anger
They do, they have topic-specific RSS feeds that work great for me. Example: http://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml
Everyone's using archive.is to get under the paywall...
It goes beyond correct diagnosis with Dentistry. Even with a correct diagnosis there are often multiple methods of treatment that vary dramatically in terms of recovery and cost. More often then not the Dentist recommends a costly treatment and doesn't even provide alternatives.

I've seen dentist offices that were just cavity filling mills that filled anything remotely resembling a cavity and using three different methods of pain management during the procedure. The dentist literally had rows of chairs in the same room getting cavities filled.

I've sat in a dentist's chair and been told I had a cavity that needed and could be filled that day. Unfortunately I was not in a position to pay for the procedure so I deferred. I saved up the $$$ needed and returned at my next appointment prepared to have it filled only to be told I didn't have any cavities.

When I was a kid, you didn't get braces until you lost all your baby teeth, now Dentists have started recommending braces for children as young as 4 with the expectation that they'll need braces again as a teen.
Co-founder of a (yet to be launched) Mint competitor here [1]. One pattern I think we all see over and over again is when products get bought by a large company, they often lose their "soul" (and the original team). Both those things happened with Mint.

Another important pattern I've seen is that products, in the long-term, morph to take the form of their revenue model. Many personal finance products are free, but make money by selling data or trying to upsell you on something else that you don't need (like, say, a credit card you don't need or a tax product that is overpriced [2]). This is what happened with Mint. It became a "top-of-the-funnel" lead generation tool for other products.

This also explains a lot of the problems with the internet at large today—misaligned business models. I'd definitely encourage anyone joining (or starting) a company to think about what the revenue model they are choosing means for the product and company long-term. Every company will say they are different, and that they actually care about their users and about building a good product... and maybe in the early days, the original team can stay true to that, but eventually time and money take their toll.

Companies that really want to build lovable, user-aligned products, set up a revenue model that encourages them to stick to that long term.

[1] https://www.monarchmoney.com
[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
China's Livestreamers Looking for Love
> I read low voter turnout as an implicit vote of confidence in the system as a whole.

So, then the folks in Sweden and Denmark are voting because they lack confidence in their government, whereas in Estonia and Latvia, all is fine?
Even better: 11 day window for voting window, starting on a Friday and ending on a Monday. Two full weekends to vote, no excuses for not being able to make it. Some states already do this with "early voting" which starts up to two weeks before the actual election day.

And if you could pre-print your completed ballot to be scanned (once your identity if verified per local requirements) then the process could be very, very fast and efficient.
I think part of it, but also not the entire story.

Take cancer, for example. The treatment is so toxic (potentially deadly) that we want to make sure that our diagnosis is as close to 100% as possible. To the point where if you want to transfer where you get your chemotherapy, the new place will insist that you bring not just the biopsy report that shows that you have cancer, but the actual 'slides', the actual biopsy tissue for them to independently evaluate.

Contrast this with MS where there is virtually no therapy (until recently), the tests themselves are very expensive (multiple MRIs over time) and the tests aren't even that much better than just talking to the patient and examining them. But, both the MRIs and the clinical exams/interviews require multiple visits, sometimes with years of monitoring in between to truly make the diagnosis.

The system just doesn't incent this type of care and certainly doesn't reimburse it very well. Patients want answers and answers now. Doctors are hurried. Insurances change so you have to change networks, etc, etc, etc.
Unfortunately no time to play now, but this looks rather intriguing as a Google "io game" tied to Google I/O conference marketing ;)

Looks like PixelJS, Firebase behind the scenes. Will dig into it later. Nice find!
This looks like an amazing next-step for Puppeteer, and it addresses some of the annoyances too. I generally use a loop that will wait-and-retry when commands fail as it seems like virtually anything can crash in the right circumstances.

> click waits for the element to be available and visible by default

> With Playwright, we encourage setTimeout-free automation
No, just an increase in their visibility. Same with exhibitionists.
This is the "and yet you use an iPhone" fallacy, except for B2B. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

It is entirely consistent to believe that venture capital is systemically bad despite producing the best companies at the moment. That is, in fact, exactly what the article argues - that the reason venture capital is so dangerous is precisely because it's been so short-term successful despite clear reasons it might not be long-term sustainable, that VC might be squeezing out modestly successful companies because they only get rich from hyper-successful ones.

Of your examples, The New Yorker is probably actually not terribly glad about HipChat, which shut down and redirected its customers to venture-backed Slack, which is growing even more quickly. If this keeps up, venture "capitalism" will be a misnomer - capitalism doesn't work without competition.
More crucially, no web site! App-only services like this infuriate me. For something as crucial as the state of my money I absolutely want to use my laptop from time to time.

Start with a (responsive) web site, then add apps as necessary. This service does nothing that requires an app.
Amazon Music passes 55M customers as it chips away at Spotify and Apple Music