skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Craigslist is the epitome of simplicity. It may not be pretty, but it does what it is supposed to and nothing more.

This practice should be applied universally throughout our lives in every field, perhaps except Art where creativity is revered and the avant-garde prevail.
Lots of strokes and other complications that can only be treated in a hospital. I haven't seen data on successful intervention there though (or maybe that it overlaps largely with the already low survivability).
Yeah. Obviously he doesn’t know how the internet works and they don’t understand just how big these tech companies are. A threat that would take away the entire Canadian market might not even get traction.

Canada: You have to pay us one cent per result that includes our content.

Google: Ok. You have to pay use 2 cents per view that shows your content if you want to be included in search results. Lol.

I’m Canadian and 100% on-board with the idea that big tech is out of control, but there’s got to be better options than this. How about some consumer rights legislation?
> run all tests on all the commits

That gave me pause; I'm used to relatively small commits, for easier review and verification, so that seemed too much. Reading the link, I think they mean, run tests on every branch on every push.
Did it? That's news to me. I've only ever seen the Segway used for city tours. I've honestly never seen it in a different context. Seems like a marginal use of a marginal tech to me...

Edit: I lie! I once saw it used by a kids' magician at a birthday party. Pretty marginal use, too.
I think this takes the cake for the most pedantic HN comment I have ever read.
> "There are almost certainly multiple vulnerabilities at play here, since long gone are the days where a single vuln gave arbitrary code execution"

Could you go into this in a little more detail?

I'm inferring that chains of vulnerabilities are needed to go from some starting point to arbitrary code execution. Is that correct?

Have efforts to secure computer systems over the past ~2 decades succeeded, at least in that much more effort needs to be invested in order to get to the point of arbitrary code execution?
At ~10y of life lost per COVID death that's about 320,000 months of life lost to COVID in Ontario.

If there are ~1 million gym patrons in Ontario, then the gym lockdown (which is still ongoing) only needs to decrease a gym patron's lifespan by 10 days on average to be worse than COVID.

Also, I claimed cancer screenings + gyms combined. Hundreds of people get diagnosed with malignant tumors every day in Ontario and those tumors are now 3 months more advanced than they should be (and will be for a long time after the lockdown until the queues for medical care clear up).
They already pleaded guilty; the link was changed to an outdated article. (See comment below by dang.)

The extortion is this:

1. They were responsible, in part, for suing Company 1, presumably in the high-profile Monsanto lawsuits.

2. They offered Company 1 a deal: if Company 1 bribed them for $200M, they would deliberately throw the case.

3. Company 1 reported that misconduct to the DoJ.

4. Assuming Company 1 is Monsanto, the original lawsuits were successful; one case in particular awarded two plaintiffs $1B each.

The extortion here is that the lawyers were offering to throw the case and cost Company 1 only $200M instead of (presumably) $2B+, plus legal fees.
If you're going over the handlebars of a bike at .3Gs, I think you might be using your bike incorrectly. I'm personally limited as far as braking mainly by my tires slipping or, on downhills, by stoppies. All of which happen at much more than 1G.

Motorcycles can also generally brake at 1G, again limited by the presence of an ABS system, so it's not a physics question, it's that either you have bad brakes or you do not know how to brake on a bike. Even only using the rear wheel should allow you significantly more than .3G
Do we cancel every org that makes a misstep? It might be more beneficial to write to NYT if you're a subscriber asking for change.
Chewy.com Founder: his $3.5B M&A and $8.8B IPO
Ask HN: You cannot delete comments posts or your account on HN. Concerned?
Today I found out after 11 years on this platform there is no way to delete anything you create and post, including the account itself on Hacker News.

This seems strange and ironic considering a lot of our online comments revolve around data privacy, individual rights and the right to be forgotten.

I have deleted Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and reddit accounts my life has dramatically improved. However I am unable to delete my hacker news account... leaving me wondering what is the status of my online data and status on this network. Clearly it is meant to be permanent. I wonder if you knew nothing is deletable here, and if knowing at some point you might want to, you’d regret existing on and supporting a network that will profit or benefit from your content in perpetuity without input from you.

Meanwhile they reserve extravagant rights to flag censor and ban any content you post at their discretion indicating they’re fully willing to remove content that they disapprove of.

My opinion: you should be upset that this platform/network is benefiting off you and not allowing you the rights and benefits to delete and control your own content... Much less paying you for the content you provide.

I have emailed HN@ycombinator.com and they don’t respond.
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"I find it so weird that we stigmatise "

Remember that this was a perception of stigmatisation, not necessarily an actual stigmatised response.

Personally, I don't think people would bat an eye at a mother pumping milk in their car. Among all of my various acquaintances of every stripe, I can't imagine any of the caring, and I've never once in my life ever heard anyone say anything about it.

Once, a mother was 'open breastfeeding' in the middle of a busy restaurant, I didn't say anything or think much about it, but I thought it was odd she was flouting her bare breast smack in the middle of a busy restaurant, I thought a hint of discretion, like a blanket, or being at the corner table facing a wall would be appropriate. I mean, we are 'eating'. I feel as though this woman was perhaps trying to 'make a point'. Not that I really care.

But I just can't see how anyone would be upset or even noticing someone pumping breastmilk in their car or wherever as long as there's a shade of discretion. Even if someone might 'bat an eye' they still probably don't care.

I don't doubt the authors personal feelings one bit, but that someone feels there is a stigma does not necessarily mean there is.
If they did something with that CO2, the whole setup could be carbon negative.
You may have heard of a guy named Michael Avenatti...
> that furthermore you need at most middling Google-fu to find his real name from his pseudonym if you're motivated.

As far as I can tell, we're in violent agreement?
You can't measure R; you can only model it, and your model is going to involve lots of hard to validate assumptions. So most places are using something easier to measure, such as "metrics are declining before advancing to the next reopening stage".
Ghostnyt
Here's the biggest generative art forum on the planet : http://reddit.com/r/generative
The number of cases has nothing to do with the amount of testing!

The number of reported or confirmed cases is correlated with testing.

That's a significantly different statement, and also tautological and essentially vacuous.

Average time to death after confirmation of disease is around 13 days, so the death rate today has essentially nothing to do with the number of cases confirmed today. The death rate today has a lot to do with the number of cases confirmed a few weeks ago.

One of the reasons the US is doing so incredibly poorly is the incredible sloppiness of the analyses in so much of the media. I don't know if it's willful -- an attempt to pretend that nature will bend to political delusion -- or if it's simple innumeracy.
Something short of "bigger than the internet" ("people familiar with the matter" really did call it that even before it was revealed what it was) can still be a popular product. In recent years, as commented here, there were a bunch of new entrants to the category, so yes it was useful to somebody.
The article states numerous examples of media outlets outing anonymous and pseudo anonymous identities.
Maybe $1 million is not enough.
Because it will impress uneducated people with how much smaller (in terms of screen real estate) the resulting message is.

EDIT: Ohhh, I know, and because twitter cares about characters. So you can use this to put essays into tweets.
How can something be 150% cheaper?
it quite clearly says:

"Please note that content blocking in Safari operates even when the app is not running"

considering that the free extension is built to block ads in Safari, it seems to be doing this just fine without the app running.
>despite our dense cities

Californian cities are actually not dense at all, which may explain why it isn't even worse. LA at 7.5k /mi2, San Diego 4.4k/mi2 etc.. compare that to New York at 27k/mi2, or even Paris 54k/mi2, Barcelona 41k/mi2
That answer seems... too easy. I think our problem is much deeper than that.
That's why the Paleolithic had shorter lifespans than moderns... no gyms....
I don't. Can you expand a bit?
The trend has been quietly discussed in political-economic circles for many years. Here's a relatively recent media article about it: https://www.curbed.com/2019/11/22/20976309/migration-millenn... And somewhat recent academic summary: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/1209_mi... (Choice quote: "Back in the 1950s, almost one fifth of all Americans changed residence annually.")

In percentage terms it doesn't seem that large, there's some complexity to the trends when comparing short- and long-distance moves, and of course the primary cause is assumed to be our transition from an industrial to service oriented economy, as well as the closing of the Western frontier (e.g. end of the Cold War and loss of defense jobs put an end to the great California migration). But I think the trends are amplified in our cultural expectations, which is why I brought up the shift in film and television narratives, which makes it apparent even for people who never lived in the 1980s, when migration began to wane. Obviously people still move for work, just not as much they used to. Likewise, the notion that you can and could move to improve your economic position isn't gone, it's just relatively diminished.
>but it prevents worse problems.

Like you, I also comment on the internet under my real name, so pulling back the curtain on everything else is an exciting prospect.

But for that not to ever bite us, that requires that we never offend too many people, even for a brief second.

I naturally stay within bounds, so that is fine for me, but I suspect many opinions would need to remain hidden if a war were waged on anonymity.

Why can't ideas be allowed to exist on their own, detached from any known person?
> How does such a small number spark this level of fear and protest?

It doesn't. The protests aren't limited to all of the extreme cases you mention.

The way I see it, the protests are joined in by a large number of cohorts who wouldn't care about that smaller very specific demographic, but lots of people have found some reason to be empathetic to victims of police or otherwise critical of the legal/incarceration system.

Some people want more police accountability (via either employment contracts, civil law, or criminal law). Some people want to reduce or eliminate no-knock warrants/raids. Some people want to decriminalize lots of recreational drug use. Some people just want to be able to walk/drive without getting pulled over because some cop thinks they "fit a description". Some are tired of the legal system abusing/harassing them so they can see a friend / family member in jail.

Add up the list of people who have some grievances with police and I doubt you get too far from a majority of the country. There are still a ton of people who "support the police", even if they also have a grievance with "the system".

It's vaguely like optimizing a funnel in e-commerce. The point is to reduce friction at all points to optimize for the best ratio of people who are exposed to your system who then complete the desired action (purchase and have a positive experience). Police have almost no incentive to fix any of these interactions. Their fitness function as an industry has more to do with pumping stats and clearance rates and little to do with making sure your interaction with the police was pleasant. That is... unless you are a family member with police (I do so I see it).
Ah sorry, I meant the reverse, that Luna cycles is more expensive by 50-150%. Will fix.
But ideally wouldn't we have wanted to crush it hard - get prepared with testing, isolation ability, contact tracing so that when we lift and cases rise we can smother them before they get too large?

It seems fairly successful so far in China/Korea/Australia etc. Maybe it was never possible with a fractured America filled with selfish idiots. I've completely lost hope in my country for the first time in my life I don't have confidence we can our system can fix itself
Virgin Galactic Jumps on NASA Deal for Private Trips to Orbit
No... Reddit is still most definitely shit, even for Ebikes...

Check out Endless Sphere.
Yeah definitely. Get the kids to plan a trip around south east asia. What do you pack, what languages do you need to learn learn, what customs should you be aware of? How much would you need to save to be able to afford the trip?

By the end of that they'll know where Laos is, you don't need to rote memorize that fact for an exam. It's a fake problem, but also a fun one, with learning being the side effect.
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I really enjoyed watching episodes of The Busy World of Richard Scarry with my small children. The characters are all animals, but the kids in the show solve most of their own problems and defer to adults for appropriately serious matters. They still do whimsical things like going to outer space or back in time in one of Mr. Fix-it's contraptions, but the solutions to their problems are not magical. I found any programming I selected had to have some amount of whimsy in order to retain my kid's focus. The Magic Schoolbus was another good one. Both of these shows seem to have modern sequels now, but they don't appear to be as charming as the originals.
No. It means that anyone who is not a hopeless ideologue knows that a just and humane society cannot be created on the basis of compelling people to assert things that anyone sane understands are simply not true.
Sorry but I do not blog. No social media either. HN does not really count as I use it as a distraction when I need to take short break from work.
It gets merged into MS product catalog, GitHub might have a time table at this point...
Looks like no answer... ;)
The long-term goal in Iraq/Afghanistan was "peaceful muslim-majority western-values democracies in the middle east". In other words, a literal pipe dream.

The long-term goal of the trade war with China is... QoL that costs low six figure salaries plus a pension and union protection for every high school grad in the midwest willing to work in a factory, even as the rest of the world surpasses us in labor productivty. In other words, a literal pipe dream.

We always have some pipe dream. We just never have an actual sober-minded mission with realistic expectations.

Maybe America needs a war on the drug of American exceptionalism. idk. I know war is always the answer, though. :-\

If we weren't drunk on exceptionalism, we would be containing the virus and we would have a Manhattan project-level investment in vaccine research. We don't. Calling a spade a spade literally sounds like trolling these days.
You just said "I think everyone would agree that it's easy to link the two names if you have foreknowledge that they're linked" and that is not what I'm saying. To be in violent agreement with me, you'd more or less have to say his real name is immediately available to anyone who knows the name "Scott Alexander".
As I said elsewhere, I have little doubt people who interacted with the journalist thought the story was going to be positive. You don't claim the journalist actually said that to you, even Scott Alexander claims the journalist said the story was going to be 'mostly positive'. But what the story is going to be is not all that important - the important bits are a) we have no idea what the story is going to be like, should it be published and b) it's silly (or at least, not entirely rational) to suggest the journalist misrepresented the nature of the story, story unseen. We have, at best, half the meta-story.
I think a lot of us inside our country are looking on in horror too. I for sure am - and terrified. I have lost all confidence and don't know if we can 'right the ship' (beyond just Covid I'm talking about basically everything all of our values)
answer, err := GetAnswer()
if (err != nil) {
return "Rust"
}

(but yes, you probably want Go)
https://fupaper.blog/2017/10/07/astrology-as-a-pseudoscience...

This isn't written by a cis white male.

Let's not forget that fortune telling is a confidence scam that fleeces people of billions every year[1]. It is absolutely harmful.

[1]: In the US alone, the "Psychic Services" industry brings in more than $2bn/yr.
>Can we agree there are difference between allowing someone to spread conspiracy theories in public, and paying them to spread conspiracy theories in our schools?

I dunno, I went to public schools...
numpy was the first project that I came across that used a similar technique to fund the development. The numpy book was available exclusively to funders until the early development was paid for. Travis Oliphant, the author of numpy and of the guide, went on to found Anaconda (Continuum Analytics).
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I am really not enjoying the fact my eyes have to move from center where the repo contents are to the top left to see the navigation... I really liked it when it was all centered.
No, that's not true either. Go search his real name: you'll probably see links back to his writing on the first page, the way I do.
it would be a lot more normal to trap the illegal instruction, the same thing that happens if you give a CPU a nonsense nonexistent instruction.
A 13" MacBook would have an effective horizontal resolution equivalent to 1280 pixels. It's likely that they designed this only for 200%-scaled laptops.
I'm with you. I switched from Safari being my main browser, which I did love, to Chrome and then to Firefox. I cannot use a browser without uBlock Origin.
PyMyLedger: a boring, opinionated monthly accounting app

https://github.com/ttymck/pymyledger

I wanted to build a desktop app.
^ typical Capricorn comment!
I pay them money on several accounts, maybe it's not enough and IBM asked them to do this? I'm not sure how well MS and IBM get along, IBM saw them as public enemy #1 when I left, but where paying for GitHub?
The only thing grosser than cancer chemical companies are lawyers
Almost all of F# features originated in OCaml, since F# is just a limited copy of OCaml.
Ok, I've changed it back from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-masstorts/doj-charges.... That was from Dec 2019 while the OP is from June 2020. Sorry!
>Haber worked on many of the gases used in the front lines in World War I, from mustard gas to zyklon. Immerwahr, a lifelong pacifist, was horrified and disgusted by her husband’s research, which would lead to the loss of countless lives.

Haber also invented the Haber process and on the whole probably saved an order of magnitude more lives than were lost to his inventions.
One difficulty is that while there have been improvements in treatment resulting in less ventilator and ICU usage, and we've substantially increased number of ICU beds in many areas, we're still seeing staff attrition. In my metro, major hospitals have been diverting cases to further-out hospitals not because of equipment shortages but because of staff shortages. Staff are getting sick, and then they're out for a while. Their training can't easily be replaced -- you can train other medical folks to do sort of a half-assed job in an emergency, but you'll see higher mortality in that situation.
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unfortunately there's simply too much to be gained by rejecting context and willfully assuming the worst possible intent or even fabricating it; 'x/y/z is a dogwhistle'. live and let live does not seem to be a value that has been retained by secular moralism.
i'd gladly be incorrect if it meant we could live in your world, that doesn't seem likely anytime soon though.
The fundamental question is: "Do people actually want video?"

Audio and, especially, video are very synchronous. Normally, the last thing I want in my schedule is another synchronous event.

Do I need some video? Maybe. Perhaps my one-on-one with my manager.

Do we need video for a weekly group meeting? Do we even need that weekly group meeting? Sure, it was convenient when everybody was in the office. How convenient is it now that everybody is at home?
Yeah but the r is by various proxies a function of the # of cases, so it is not so simple.
Many other countries manage without this kind of lawsuit.
I don't feel that safe on a Segway. I feel much more secure on an e-bike. The experience of the "ride" just wasn't that good.
Australia passed an assistance and access law a couple of years ago that forces messaging providers to provide access to E2E encrypted messages. But of course Signal and WhatsApp can’t do it because of the nature of the encryption.

In a completely dystopic move towards a surveillance state the government in Oz has been on tech companies’ cases to give them back door access.

Better not to be complacent. These things start as just winning easy political points but erode digital citizen rights over time as we normalize surveillance states.
They also have a set of free public DNS servers with a built in blocklist.

No additional software required at all.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
Can you not go into recovery mode and turn off all the system integrity features like you always could?
>the economic damage would be far worse than any shutdown.

Any evidence for this? Singapore has 35k recovered and just 26 deaths, because the vast majority of infections are working-age migrants. A disease that kills less than 1/1000 working age people is not going to have a big effect on the economy.
I imagine the answer is going to be that it doesn't. Stuff using Accelerate will probably see the biggest performance hit because it _doesn't_ use the arm64 version and the emulator translates those instructions poorly. However, since those are the applications hit the hardest by this switch they'll (hopefully) be some of the first recompiled for the new CPUs as well.
European Union Considers Travel Ban on U.S. Passengers
Perhaps I am being too sensitive, I am trying to introspect. What's clear to me is that when we call people nerds, dorks, weirdos, geeks, etc. it has an undertone of condescence. May be it triggered me because I was called a nerd in highschool and throughout college, almost always in a derogatory manner. What's wrong with being nerdy and interested in technology and science and math I said to myself and ignored others as much as possible.
You have a mistaken perception of what the rest of the industrialized world is doing. South Korea is talking about new lockdowns, China has imposed them, and much of Europe still hasn't really opened up. Only a very few countries believe they're "finishing this off".
Can you explain what is worse about link tracking? If you're explicitly making a request to a remote service, how would you expect it to not be tracked?