skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This logic is completely backwards. People should generally be given the freedom to make their own choices in life. If the government wants to take your freedom to choose something away, it should have a very strong reason for doing so. I would also suggest that if a government wants to take liberties away from the individual, it should really only be done in situations where the choices of the individual are very likely to harm others (which smoking isn’t, given how regulated it is, the general public is no longer at risk of harm from secondary smoke).

If your basis for banning smoking is that it harms smokers, then you have no logical reason to stop at smoking. The leading cause of death in the US is heart disease, if you ban smoking, you should also ban everything that can contribute to an unhealthy diet. The US has 12.4 traffic deaths per 100,000. Given that why would should anybody be permitted to drive for non-essential purposes? Millions of people suffer negative effects from social media and video game addiction, why should they be allowed to consume those products? Less that 5% of US adults get 30 minutes of exercise per day, so why should I be allowed to stream Netflix or YouTube for as long as I like?

If you think it’s the governments responsibility to ensure we make healthy choices, then you really can say goodbye to any sense of freedom over your life. Unless you think that should apply to smoking only, in which case you don’t have a rational argument.
I find https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ fascinating.

Perhaps we all have a natural unconscious bias against being "edited" ("you're not in control of me [or the OP]!!"). But seeing the edits over time in the open really makes one appreciate the moderation work. Maybe it's worth making this more official somehow (e.g., adding a footnote in the submission page or to the FAQ) - because like you say, it must surely minimize off-topic discussions as well.

Anyway, thanks for your work!
For an addict, its still a choice between continue or work extremely hard to give it up. Sure, you can consider it not a choice, its your preference but I do consider is a choice, I think many other people do as well.
> My "solution" to this problem is to carefully but fully occupy the bike lane before making such a turn. Yeah, it's illegal, and draws lots of swearing (and worse) from bicyclists. But there's just no other good way to keep everyone safe.

Funnily enough, that's exactly what you're supposed to do and is required by law in every state i've lived in.
I'm one of those parents trying to shepherd two kids through the remote learning swamp. It's not a great situation.

So since this is HN, here's an opportunity: What our teachers are trying to do is manage the kids' workflow using Google Classroom and conduct quizzes and tests via Google Forms.

This is a competely broken system. There's no way to manage and track attendance, no unified interface to organize the various assignments and workflow, and trying to ask open-ended quiz answers by a GForms text box is useless (e.g. typing "wash your hands" when the answer expected is "wash ones hands")

I don't know if Blackboard or any of these other class management apps are any better. We need something better.
Funny I think the way animals point is more universal than people think.
*Taleb. Android autocorrect. Apologies
We don't have any data for China. None of their numbers are reliable, they make them up. This is one of the biggest issues in this pandemic: we don't know shit partly because China insist on lying...
No, it's not whataboutism. His statement is that "the NSA is the shadiest agency". I am arguing that it is not the most shady.

If I tried to justify the NSA's behavior _because_ of what the GRU/IRA/CIA does, that is whataboutism. Hope this was a bit helpful.
I heard Niklaus Wirth would only allow new compiler optimizations (in his compilers for Pascal, Oberson, Modula-2) that proved themselves by speeding up the compiler itself.
It's something that couldn't easily be faked at the time.
Being toxic to an insect or human doesn't mean it will have any effect on a virus.

IIRC the reason nicotine is poisonous to humans is because it binds to receptors involved in nerve function, which in turn are required to control muscles.
The thing is, I want the metaphorical 10Gb apple to compare to the discount switch apple. I don't care about the backplane being oversubscribed, and being managed is an antifeature for my home network. I want something that works exactly like my gigabit switch, but faster. Like the difference between a fast ethernet switch and a gigabit switch.
Great question! It's better to reply, because then it at least won't get upvoted to the top of the thread, accruing mass and blocking fresh conversation. I think you're correct that it suffices to pick one to reply to, perhaps the most prominent one, or the one where the reply will be most interesting. I don't see any problem with downvoting something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22934379 as well.

The trouble with an indignant anti-crap comment is that it can't help but repeat the crap it's objecting to, because that's what it's about. Negation is a form of repetition. Crap subthreads tend eventually to get moderated by users, but that doesn't happen with their anti-crap counterparts. Usually those get upvoted to the top, since people love defending the unfairly criticized and we all respond to indignation. But then it sits there, choking out new discussion with metafumes.

The best way to counter bad comments is to post a good one—for example, a reflective comment about the specifics of the article, or a curious comment about something unexpected in it. This isn't always an option, though, because one doesn't always have something like that to say. I think responding to reflexive negativity with a pleasantly-worded objection can still be helpful—just not as a top-level comment.
What do you do in the summer? I can't do cargo shorts ALL the time.
I'm not American, but surely there must be millions (tens of millions?) of small, owner-operated businesses in the US?
How to Create a Compelling Landing Page
Most people confuse a goal with a plan. Ideas are easy, execution is really hard.
Positive side for such downtime, turns out people gather to look at your landing/home page now just to see if the service is up. Can the cost of a downtime be effective to grab few customers for your new feature just published on your homepage?
That date is off, it was somewhere in the 2002-2004 range. Back in 1999 I think Yahoo! was the most popular, or maybe AOL’s search engine.
Not really, a comparison was implied. They didn't say "shady agency", they said "shadiest", which makes a claim and invites dispute about the others' relative shadiness.
no, they weren't.

did you read pc's comment (top currently)?
Then where are the overwhelmed hospitals? Where are the bodies?
I once complained to a PM about tracker scripts that my company was placing on its own site. They said that the data from the scripts was bringing in $2 million a year and there was nothing they would do.
This is definitely not a case of Whataboutism as it is literally about comparing one with others.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22934825
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18948715 Also Excel not standing still. Google missing opportunities here.

They have made improvements though - Google sheets can now work on Excel format files without changing the format. However they have managed to break copy and paste, with trademark Google lack of service. (https://support.google.com/docs/thread/33960847?hl=en - and I see other problems with borders randomly appearing in pasted cells)
Posting a link to try and auto subscribe someone is shady as fuck
No they weren’t yet, you still had Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Ask Jeeves and many others. Yahoo was probably the dominate one. Most households used AOL who just purchased MapQuest.

The dot com bubble killed the competition.
Is it really paranoia if the evidence of mass surveillance and abuse of power is right in front of our eyes? It isn't 2012 anymore, Snowden kind of made it quite clear what's actually going on behind the curtain.
The nicotine explanation in the article discussion isn't actually studied, it is just pure speculation (which is fine, mine is as well). But there's no explanation why there's fewer smokers even though smokers have more ACE2 receptors. That's table stakes for having a hypothesis on this.
"...and therefore they have a strong undeclared interest in making it look like smoking inversely correlates with infection."

Citation needed.
For the avoidance of doubt, the main point of my comment was the not insignificant risk (a maximum fine of 20 million euro or 4% of turnover if that is greater) if a data controller does not meet the obligations of the GDPR.

Consent, as you point out, is only one aspect of this.
There is a story from the Golden Age of Science Fiction called Pandemic by JF Bone. It postulates a global virus the cure for which in the end turns out to be smoking tobacco.

And the improbably beautiful nurse marries the curmudgeon who is her boss.

And they put babies in smoke ventilators.
Stripe customer here. The question raised is, more broadly, "Is Stripe collecting this data in a legal and ethical way?" This too can be readily answered in the negative.

It doesn't matter whether "Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention" or if it works in practice. Under CalOPPA [1], Stripe still has to disclose the collection of the data, and (among other things) allow customers to opt out of collection of this data, and allow customers to inspect the data collected. Stripe's privacy policy refers to opt-out and inspection rights about certain data, but AFAICT not this.

[This is not legal advice]

[1] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh...

[2] https://stripe.com/privacy#your-rights-and-choices
Here are a couple of courses on using NetLogo from the Santa Fe Institute.

https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/courses/fundamentals-ne...
https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/courses/introduction-ag...

When you log in, you can take those courses for free since they have elapsed. I've taken a few of their courses over the past few years. they are top notch.

NetLogo is quite useful for modeling coronavirus and other epi/pandemics. It's far more than the Logo you might have learned in Jr. High.
It is softer science but there were many warnings of the problems to come with the approach including London's financial dependence, their current supppy and demand for workers being fulfilled by it and parts of the legal code left undefined by severed dependencies. Soft as the science may be it may be you just can't get a baby in a full month with any number of volunteer fertile not currently pregnant women and volunteer virile men.

Regardless of one's views of the goals or even the geopolitics there were many predictable issues that would need to be addressed before a split that weren't to make the idea look and sound good but make the transition worse.
Please substantiate your claims.

It's not whataboutism if the claim is making a comparison against all other possibilities. "shadiest government agency on the planet" may be an objectively false statement as applied to the NSA. You can compare the NSA to other contenders for "most shady" using any number of metrics and create an ordered list. None of that is whataboutism.
Most consumers do not have optical infrastructure, nor need L3/L2 management functionality, and most probably don't need 10G speeds. Likely the cost-per-port results in additional enterprise features being added to enterprise-grade products to justify the cost increase. 10GBASE-T likely cannot compete at commodity level pricing, as removing all the bells and whistles still results in 10x per port cost increase. However it seems a dumb 10GBase-T switch seems rare/non-existant, so we're left with options that are 20 - 30x the cost. You could say there is value in the bulk bandwidth available, but 30x is 30x, and needs considered justification, rather than being a "no brainer".

Most of the power concerns are related to 10GBASE-T, and it may only be few watts difference, but that could make a difference for mobile devices, and there is also cost per transceiver. Again practically no laptop or consumer motherboard is coming with an SFP port, and 10GBASE-T IC could be 10x the cost of a 1000BASE-T. 2.5GBASE-T is starting to show up on some consumer-level devices though.
This looks like it should be vde2's problem, not OpenSSL's: https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2019-Oct...
I thought this was a really good example. I see the word, whataboutism, thrown around a lot and have a hard time understanding what is/isn't. So, thank you.
I honestly thought that Google's shopping tab was a search aggregator into other shopping portals (Amazon, AliExpress, etc)

In the same way that Google news isn't actually Google serving the news.
A Device Capable of seeing and feeling coronavirus has been discovered
Only if someone specifically catches the panic, averting the crash. That's what the catch_unwind stuff was about.
Ask HN: What was the new thing you tried recently while being remote?
I recently signed up to an online course at Helsinki Open University, there is an online message-board for students (empty) and a Telegram group for the users of the course which has 350+ members.

This is the only real time I've used telegram. Mostly people that I know here in Helsinki, Finland, use WhatsApp (friends, neighborhood kids-group, etc), or facebook messenger (pottery teacher, local companies).
The roosters are illegal and only a few months olds. You cannot reliably sex the chicks or eggs. Doesn’t matter if they attack me or not.

My brother in law already had a visit from the county giving him a couple days to remove the rooster. They come back to verify it’s gone.
Same for me (same build and OS)
I'm imagining some kind of heterarchical mode of comment threading where you can refer to n parent comments for your reply. Could that ever work for semi-mainstream discussion formats? The interface could perhaps work like hashtags, but instead of generic topics, you tag your desired parent comments. Similar to a multi-quote on a non-threaded (chronological only) forum topic.
Does anyone else remember the weirdness with dates in Excel files? On Windows, they used 1900 as the epoch, and on the mac they used 1904 (like the Mac itself), so if you got a spreadsheet from someone on a windows machine, dates would sometimes shift by 4 years.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/1...

I haven't thought of that in years.
Still not as good as emitting C code in most cases? C code gets optimized using either llvm or any other optimizer so it’s a more portable compile target.
Some artists are disappearing from society to let their work speak for itself
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I only know they're making number up, that's well documented...

Citation for the fairness of Chinese numbers:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/china-coronavirus-offic...

Also:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/china-denies-c...
I doubt it. For one, how could they expect to distribute it in a way that a bad guy was more likely to download than by going to the official site?

But also, if they did want to do that, they could probably backdoor it pretty easily just by patching the binary a bit. Reverse engineering and changing binaries is way easier than cracking encryption, and they probably have some of the world's top reverse engineers.

The fact that they asked for an existing algorithm backdoor, among other things, makes me think they really were trying to crack at least one thing encrypted with it. As for whether it was to deal with a time-critical situation or whether that was just a confidence trick to make him more likely to give up the code, who knows.
With regards to NFS permissions, I set my Synology up as so:

* Client: 192.168.0.8/29 (whatever the smallest subnet is I can use that includes my NUC)

* Privilege: Read/Write

* Squash: No mapping

* Asynchronous: Yes

* Non-privileged port: Denied

* Cross-mount: Denied

This is fairly out of date (I keep my own stuff in a private monorepo, this was a snapshot I posted for a friend), but here is the basics of a script to setup my NUC: https://github.com/regner/homelab-stacks/blob/master/scripts...

Of note, the "Adding NFS share to fstab" part doesn't actually do that...
> Is there a basic 'vanilla' Minecraft clone based on Minetest, for this purpose?

Yes, it's the default `minetest_game` that comes with the game (as well as `minimal`). Note that the redstone-alike mesecons is a separate modpack (which isn't a problem in practice) as is mob support (which is).
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BKNG/

Booking Holdings owns booking.com, kayak, priceline, agoda, cheapflights, opentable, and a few more.
M Disc claims to sell DVD-R and BD-R discs that are good for a thousand years. Many modern disc burners support burning to M Discs already. They're a little pricey though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
Does Washington Need a K-Street Project for China?
Hah, and that is my biggest complaint about real visual programming languages, like LabView. They are fine for writing simple software from scratch, and the dataflow aspects have some neat features like trivial parallelization. But man are they a pain to maintain software in. You either spend massive amounts of time rearranging blocks, and rerouting wires, or your code becomes visual spaghetti.
> In the US we tried a program called DARE that was focused on telling kids about the dangers of harder drugs to try to get them to stay away. That program was later discontinued because it was shown to have no impact. Part of the problem here is that we focus on the negatives of smoking as the reason for quitting. But nobody ever talks about how good it can feel to smoke a cigarette. It's relaxing. The nicotine creates this nice, peaceful feeling.

I don't smoke and I have no intention of learning the nice, peaceful feeling. I was just saying that we already require people to be twenty one years old to buy tobacco. I completely support legalization of all drugs but perhaps there should be some supervision. I thought requiring a prescription/license to buy drugs makes sense. We require a doctor's visit to get birth control pills.

Perhaps we could even get rid of the age limit if we require a prescription... Or do you fear the market will flood with unlicensed (possibly adulterated/low quality) tobacco products if we make it too difficult to get tobacco without a license/prescription?
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One line change in windows breaks Chromium sandbox
Americans are poisoning themselves while trying to kill the coronavirus
Most likely, the other/normal DC is likely either overloaded or has part of its hardware under maintenance.
this is peak HN
Hon Oforji Oboku allegedly build a house for 91 years old woman
I'm pretty sure if the NSA asked him to add a backdoor, he wouldn't do it. (They already asked if he had an existing one, and he clearly realized how bad that would be if there was.)
nitpick time. The "Bomberman Hero (1998)" is not a house sound, it's an amen break structure, also called "jungle" or "dnb". "house" is a specific "4 on the floor" beat.
They test the cards so that they can sell the card list and promote such a sale with assertions about how much of it is good (100% tested, etc).

These brokers don't want to get involved in any significant fraudulent charges for various reasons.
Do you have a source claiming that Gmail is deleting old emails?
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I quit smoking in 2013. Before that I tried more or less every month for 2 years till I succeeded. The logic was :

1- every day I'm not smoking has a positive impact on my health. Even if it's a few days

2- I had to make it as easy to quit as it is to restart smoking. Because restarting smoking is too easy and there is nothing I can do about it

3- my environment can make it more easy or more difficult for me to stop. So I had to be ready to stop when the conditions were ideal. For instance, my partner was a smoker too, which made it more difficult for me stop. So when she finally decided to quit smoking, I was able to immediately stop too. We encouraged each other and succeeded together
> You named a hypothesis but the experiment doesn't test that hypothesis does it?

This paper doesn't claim to be an experiment to test that hypothesis. That's all you.

This paper claims to be a data record highlighting an interesting trend for future experimentation.

The hypothesis for cause is in the DISCUSSION section at the end and references things that we already know about interactions between nicotine, ACE2, and sars-cov-2.
It's not that bad... it's just scrollbars and mobile where things get messy.
> I think if it's being solely used for such security purposes, isn't shared with or sold to anyone else, and is carefully safeguarded, then it's okay. The main risk I see from it is mission creep leading to it eventually being used for other purposes, like advertising or tracking for "market research" reasons. I don't personally think it's likely Stripe would do this, though.

Is this view conditional on the type of data Stripe is currently collecting or would it apply to any data Stripe collects? Would this be true if Stripe began recording every keystroke in the app and hooked every XHR request to my backend server and sent copies to Stripe?

I agree that Stripe has a sensible reason for using this data. If I started seeing a high rate of chargebacks, I'd consider enabling Stripe on more parts of my site so that Stripe could consume user behavior earlier on to detect fraud.

My issue is that if there's no agreement about what data Stripe is allowed to collect and what their retention policies are, then the implicit agreement is that Stripe can just collect anything it has access to and hold it forever.

As JavaScript running on my page, Stripe.js has access to basically all user data in my app. There are certain types of user data I would not be comfortable sharing with Stripe, even if it improved fraud detection, so I'd like there to be clear limits on what they're gathering.
Sed does not have a debugger that is 50 years old. The author was not saying that sed is a bad tool; he's saying it doesn't have a debugger. If there is a desire to have a debugger for the tool, that has existed for 50 years without having one, perhaps the tool is not being used in the way it has been used for the last 50 years. This would seem to make the argument that the tool has been tried and tested less relevant.
We are working on this. I can’t share more here but if you are interested and want to help, let me know how at zen[at]rapidcov[dot]com (dev, design, marketing, medical, partnerships, etc). We have our core team in place but we are planning to be bring on more people in the next few weeks.

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Sounds fascinating. Are there real-world examples of malicious compilers?
As someone 2 years into a web development career. I get really frustrated by this.

I'll fire up a tutorial on something and 20 minutes into this and I'm all "yeah this does what it says, but it can't be used to do almost anything else..." and I fear the actual person doing the tutorial doesn't know.

Heck I've commented on some Medium blogs where they mention how to do a thing and I'm 100% sure in any real world that code won't do the thing. I post and ask about some aspect of it and the blog author ... doesn't know.

Like outside this one off tutorial and everything working perfectly ... the code is useless.

There's valid reasons to simply code for illustration, but at the same time, without exposing even how to handle an error... what have you really taught someone?
I can see why that would have been intimidating. With the decades of experience you've had since, do you think he could have gotten your landline terminated? What would be the legal argument?
I'm in the same boat. Doesn't seem to be doing anything.