skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that you have objects of sentimental value as well. Most people do. Perhaps it is a book given by a friend that you don't throw away, even though you never read it and, if you had to, could replace it for a few dollars. Perhaps it's an autograph from a celebrity, or a prop from a movie.

Sentimental value isn't rational, but it's innately human, and practically all people practice it. The art market in particular is famous for expanding it to some ludicrous levels, where sentiment is given a dollar value in the seven and eight figures, but it's mostly just rich people playing on exactly the same emotions you have, with more money.

It's complicated by additional factors of competitive culture and possibly some money laundering, but at the base of it is a feeling that a piece of art that "witnessed" history takes on a value beyond the visual conveyed on the canvas. Often, the artist was innovative in some way that's appreciated by fans, and that innovation is no less rational than a baseball that was hit out of the park at an important time -- even though it's just a baseball.
Are we talking about whether it's morally defensible to shame someone for doing something irresponsible (like texting and driving) or whether it's actually likely to change their behavior (ie. whether it's good for society).

The latter does not seem to clear cut; there are likely better, more positive ways to change behavior. Shame is more likely to make the person get better at hiding their irresponsible behavior, which is actually counterproductive for society.

I'm still not convinced that shame is ever a useful tool.
> Last year in The New Republic, Osita Nwanevu characterized social media backlash that is often seen as the root of cancel culture as not a threat to speech itself, but perhaps just noise. “It seems at least possible that tweets are just tweets—that as difficult as criticism in the social media age may be to contend with at times, it bears no meaningful resemblance to genocides, excommunications, executions, assassinations, political imprisonments, and official bans past,” wrote Nwanevu. “Perhaps we should choose instead to understand cancel culture as something much more mundane: ordinary public disfavor voiced by ordinary people across new platforms.”

Anti-Cancel Culture seems just as anti-Free Speech as Cancel Culture. Everyone has a right to express their opinion. And everyone has a right to react and respond to your opinion. People are allowed to boycott, demand, shun whoever they want. And "cancel cancel culture" folks are doing exactly that: expressing outrage, demanding change, shaming others, etc. It's totally fine, just ironic to see people shaming people for shaming others.

Have people in power made bad decisions based on a few loud voices? Sure. But it's the people in power who bare the responsibility, not the people who expressed outrage.
Jesus was real. There's documentation of his existence in letters between Roman governors. So he was at least an actual historical figure that was around back then.

That being said, he would have been dark-skinned Middle Eastern, like everyone else in the region at the time.
Let's avoid lionizing/denigrating here.

They're using static initialization and it bit them in the ass again. They should stop using it because it is prone to things like this which result in apps not launching at all. I'd like to see them commit to stop using this method to initialize themselves, and take responsibility for the crashes. Then, IMO, we'd be good.

In a scenario like this, I'd hope they'd want to make this bug's recurrence impossible.
In the early days, one of the things that was heavily hyped by FOSS advocates to drive adoption was the "free as in beer" aspect. It worked but, unsurprisingly, it resulted in a large userbase that only cared that the free beer kept flowing and nothing else about the FOSS philosophy nor contributing.
Hey everyone, this is just a small app I made. I basically turned DF Tube (the extension) into a website and added support for a few websites like YouTube, Vimeo, Bitchute, and Twitch.

It works like outline.com too, so take any URL from these sites and add 'layluh.com' before it (layluh.com/URL).

Tech stack isn't that exciting. Just Node.js and JavaScript.
Trump's niece claims he cheated on the SAT.
Show HN: MewMew, Program in Cats' Language (Esoteric Programming Language)
TikTok is the new PG&E
We fired our first customer
When is the end of COVID-19 season?
Why would the COVID-19 season have different dates than the flu season?
> Nearly everything you've said involves directly harming another person, for which we already have agreed upon laws forbiding

Which would also eliminate euthanasia as an option. If the law currently forbids euthanasia, then an "eat anything you want" law would still be invalidated when it's used for euthanasia, just like it would be invalidated for the other examples.

> if drugs were decriminalized, drug mules wouldn't exist

Cigarettes are not inherently criminalized, yet illegally selling cigarettes in bulk across state lines continues to be a problem. Illegal gun running also exists here, even for guns that aren't outlawed in any state. If there are cigarette mules and gun mules, there will probably be drug mules.
Think You’ve Seen the Subway? Not Like This You Haven’t
I was jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in America
Yes. I found wearing a baseball cap or golf cap help to reduce sunburn. It makes a difference during driving, especially when the top is down.
Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering on croplands
"If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior."

Prophetic
Through the years, referencing that title has indicated author understands the proposal in question is a truly terrible idea, satire, deliberately ludicrously bad (solving hunger by eating babies) in order to point out it's a seriously skewed problem.

It's not clear this author thinks his proposal is ludicrously bad, or satire.
Just on the heart disease alone, I understand these deaths were due to the virus causing clots in the arteries near the heart. That seems directly related to the virus.
There is a comical irony to how those roles have flip flopped over these recent decades. Evidence of how we humans do in fact have so much more in common than we give ourselves credit for -- all the while these groups hyper focus only on our differences.
The number of people who use whatsapp is an order of magnitude or more than the number of people who consciously use Google drive, as in people who know google drive exists. Even the people who have google drive, most of them have much less intimate data on it than in their private messages on WhatsApp.

If we are to take the position that all users are tech literate and should be fully in charge of how their data is used, then even Cambridge analytica wasn't bad. People explicitly gave it access to data that was accessible to them. However, the uproar proves otherwise. People don't like it when they click yes yes and some random app has access to their social media data or messages. This is why Gmail also started requiring independent audit for all gmail apps.
Great post, I enjoyed reading it.

I'm in a similar position with a product for people selling their homes. At this point I'm tempted to spend some money on advertising but don't know where to begin.

Have you tried ads at all?
Similar to how most of the money in dropshipping is in selling learning materials and a dream to people who want to do dropshipping
Went through a few years of suffering minor strokes, only finally got stabilized back in January.

Had several bad scares that I didn’t go in that I really should have.

Finally had a bad enough scare that I went to ER.
Apparently heart isn’t doing great, or heading in that direction. I was stable enough to go home. With strict instructs to get additional testing in day’s.

Yet I’m Having major problems getting access to a cardiologist due to everything.

So yea, i lucked out in getting stable right before things shut down. But having a seriously hard time getting any follow up care.

So at a certain point this shutdown will kill me. And I’m fairly young.

So I have to balance virus risk with the more likely death due to lack of care.
Ask HN: Whats your view on Software Ethics and your responsibility in it?
As a developer you are to a certain extend responsible for what you write and what you participate in. Be it troll farms, face detection software, or software to process large volumes of civilian data. How do you decide what's right and where does one draw the line? Do you take no responsibility or do you say no to gigs? Would love to hear your opinion on this.
I am wondering if AWS Hong Kong will be affected. For the other China AWS regions, I think it says you need different credentials and maybe even a Chinese business license or something.

Actually I assume that within a few months those rules will be applied to AWS Hong Kong also. I mean, who or what is going to stop them from doing that?

Before I would have gone along with the idea that they don't want to disrupt too much business or something. But with this article that does not seem to be a concern.

If they say they have to comply with these new laws, and companies do not, why would we not expect them to force the issue (i.e. arresting people)? They seem to be going quickly in that direction.
I acknowledge this is my cynicism mostly talking, but I get the impression that Quibi has switched to the "guilt the consumer into subscribing" marketing strategy given all the press about it (including interviews with executives).
I don't think you understand what the Cultural Revolution was:

"His students beat him to death during the Cultural Revolution. The school called it a suicide:

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-cultural-revo...

See any similarities?
How often does the prize get awarded out
Hate = anything that offends me
This is an amazing DFW essay and probably one of the only places that notes American Black English as an actual entity and a tricky issue to deal with, especially as an educator.
Cultural identity is never lost, but cultural identity is always changing.
I don't think we have enough data to say anything. For example, it might as well be that housing prices decrease, because people can now choose where they live independently from having a job. Cities might become much less attractive.
In my personal observations of the matter it is more that it's just a different kind of celebrity than their original draw. Nobody earnestly cares if some hollywood star becomes a professional golfer, singer, or race car driver. They have to build themselves up anew to this new audience who is selecting 'celebrity status' by a different set of rules and criteria. Now if someone in hollywood moves to another position within hollywood like actor to director hey are still closely related to the same rules of selection so they get a boost just from qualifying to what the audience is looking at.

Given that this is where there is just a separate group of people that understands or learns the selection criteria for YouTube/Twitter/TikTok/Twitch whatever and can have more synergy transferring between these outlets. It makes sense that someone who in another setting is popular just seems to land flat when they are having to relearn a new way of presenting themselves and the old tools don't work. Even celebrities that start a YouTube channel that I at least followed in passing end up feeling terrible, and I don't think I've seen a hollywood grade external star stick with their YouTube content long enough to actually start learning what needs to change.
New York City pays on the order of $30 million dollars a year in salary to teachers accused of misconduct who can't be in a classroom with children, but as per their contract cannot be fired.
In 2020 there is a search feature (similar to VS Code) so there's really no need to have to find anything anyway.
It might sound stupid, but looking at the marketing plan attached to this article ( https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/jzryGw7XDkJadmo#p... ) I wonder how they could deliver such an important message in such a messy way. There are context slides together with strategy slides, together with marketing slides, together with analysis slides. the best one is slide 48, which seems to be a leftover of the initial storyline?

I really like LibreOffice and I try to push its usage where I can, but reading about a potentially risky development strategy in such a messy way makes me wonder if it has been thought out so well or it is a muddy idea reflected in unclear writing.
Cultural identity? Sounds pretty Orwellian to me, rather like group think.
This is a little bit QED.

If 'who said it' and 'what views do they hold' is more important than what they're actually saying, then we've become post-rational, and well on our way back to less open and enlightened culture.
I would think that Spotify would want to remove the SDK. It doesn’t need the marketing tie ins anymore and it doesn’t use FB for advertising.
I think this is a compelling hypothetical, but I can't think of a single person who only said they were in support of strong border protection and limited immigration and was subject to anything like what you're saying. Could you provide an example of what you mean?
Those effects don't amount to "general chaos" when compared to a normal flu season? I'll admit it's a little hyperbolic, as is my style.

But in many parts of the country (mostly the parts where HN users don't live, naturally), "general chaos" is already not hyperbole: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/upshot/murders-rising-cri...
On of the benefits of shaving your head! Easy sunscreen application.
The gross sentiment that white people, like every other people, may have their own countries?
Germany has a proven history of doing very bad things, just check the last century and a half and it is hard to find something worse. By comparison, messing up with your computer is a gesture of goodwill, they could give you some Cyclon.
There are difficulties in overcoming users' expectations and actually monetising, but it shouldn't be ruled out completely. Once people are using something as a major source of entertainment, some proportion of them are usually willing to pay for even mild improvements. An analogy might be free radio broadcasts (and web radio, and piracy) versus modern music streaming services.

Make no mistake, short-form content can be a major entertainment source. Personally, I recently deleted Tiktok from my phone, more because of its power to eat up time when I ought to be sleeping than because of the recent privacy furore.
> there's no reason that anything on Facebook's servers should affect if your app works.

Absolutely, but the problem is that in order for you to use these features, you're supposed to use the official Facebook SDK. The additional problem, is that Facebook has no interest in defensive coding, because if you're not interacting with Facebook in an app, there's no benefit to Facebook for you using that app at all.
I think you miss the part why it was called "Cultural" revolution.
But the article also says that they’re just going by records, so if a death was attributed to heart disease, it may have been COVID-19
That would be like me telling you I don't like brussel sprouts and you telling me to shut up because brussel sprouts are good.

Why is your opinion about a group that you're not a part of suddenly more important?
The reply is referring to a UBI program where the rich pay it back in taxes so it effectively becomes means tested.
Your account is less than 2 months old.
A Class Divided [video]
It's not unreasonable to evaluate someone's comments in the context of their past statements on related matters.
Tasks that involve branching, for one. GPU's are fundamentally different kinds of processors. They are for applying similar transforms to vast amounts of data.

There are other area where big general purpose X64 or ARM cores excel too, like bit twiddling, memory random access, etc., but branching logic is the fundamental one.
> Additionally, it is the universal part of UBI that people struggle with. If everyone gets it, do prices just rise to meet that reality and soak up the "free" money.

Think about this another way:
if it is true that the prices are going to rise because of UBI, i.e. because everyone can afford the "basics"(the B of UBI), then it means that the lower prices of today require that some people do without these basics.
Thanks for this reply. Who is the author of Influence?

Also, have you heard anything on salience models?
US City Mayor – St. Pete Police will give up new officers, hire social workers
> Depends on what kinds of mistakes the almost-correct approach makes. If it just puts elements in the wrong order, your suggestion works. But if it makes mistakes like duplicating elements, or dropping them, or completely making up new entries, no post-processing will help.

The algorithm modifies the original list only by swapping entries. As such, it's guaranteed to result in a permutation.
I'm curious if this is actually used less energy. Compared to buying a new computer, it's clearly better.

But given that someone most likely already owns a computer, does the marginal amount of energy required to operate the computer exceed the energy impact of extracting resources/manufacturing/transporting pencil and paper?
This gives the camera a little too much credit. A painting is really a three-dimensional object (texture, etc, can be critical). So a two-dimensional projection of that will by definition lose information.
Keeping a hulking bureaucracy around as a jobs program is the last thing we need. So far, whenever a disruptive technology or policy change has happened people have found other work to do. Let's not worry about the oncologist jobs as we search for the cure for cancer.
What's your definition of "native"?
This sentiment has logic to it.

But, I don't see any US president standing for it before the election, or at least attempting to sell it to his electorate/funders, unless pretty much a hot war is happening.

USA was the biggest industrial power by late thirties, and I think no country would've stood for Germany in the open on the global arena by then. The situation is more than a bit different now.

Be hopeful that the politicians will be as logical as you are.
Does not support 3000-series (Zen 2) ThreadRipper.
And that still doesn’t have anything to do with the original thesis - “if I make $50/hour when I am working. That means I should value my time at $50/hour”. The opportunity cost is not $50/hour if you wouldn’t have been using that hour to work.
If an industry leader with "the brightest software engineers in the world" is unable to write their software to a higher than average standard, then I think I am in the very reasonable position to point it out and raise discussion about it. Don't place me in an ivory tower for that.

Why should we just sweep this under the rug and call it a day? There is something very important that can be learned from this. Apparently, FB themselves have not learned, because this is not the first time this has happened. Why was this allowed to happen more than once? Did Apple, Google, Spotify, Facebook etc not take any actions?

"Shit happens" is one way to look at it. Another way is to question whether we as software engineers are really doing our job properly.
Who said it and what views they hold is important for distinguishing between what they technically said and what they actually said.
Attorney ancestors?
I'm under the impression that sentiment plays very little role in bidding up art. Its a 'tulip bulb' sort of thing, where folks are trading the art essentially as they trade baseball cards, not because of intrinsic value (just a bit of paper or cloth etc) but because others may be expected to bid more later.
And says that's what you pay hourly for. Says that in detail. Misunderstands that the experts are generally hired to "discover" or "invent" an answer that wasn't known, and discovery / invention often isn't estimable.

Further, author goes into risk, the real risk is of course acceptability of the expert's answer, which involves the buyer "being brought along" with accepting the answer, a process the expert genuinely cannot predict.
> Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into?

There are still quite some monarchies around in which you go to prison for speaking up against the rulers (in most you will be convicted for unrelated, made up charges).
Putting aside for a moment the (important) issue of privacy.

I'm wondering if people here would react the same if "adult websites" was replaced with "added sugar".

Would people use arguments like

- kids will always find ways to become diabetic!

or

- I use to eat plums, I never had problems.
Out of curiosity, what do you use to store and search bookmarks on mobile? Both the old (third-party) iOS app I used to use and the old macOS app I used to use have stopped working years ago due to neglect. So I use the service pretty sparingly on desktop and pretty much not at all on mobile.
My line of thinking is this: For the past decade(s), the area of growth has been software. It has sucked in professionals into the industry who would have been biologists, chemists, physicists, etc.

So my belief is that those areas are actually void of progress, because 'software' took the intelligence that would have been applied to other areas simply because software often paid 1x-5x more in salary.

But now software, in both profession and product - is becoming overly competitive, and will become top heavy with engineers 'stuck' to move forward (in areas of innovation). One can easily see it in what the industry produces to show our phase - the low hanging fruit is gone. Progress is much less innovation, rather than efficiency, measurement, and tooling. Efficiency is like pulling in an MBA to remove the cruft - one can mostly expect linear, smaller gains.
> Kanye West has made increasingly oppressive, malformed declarations over the past several years, and yet commands earth-stopping attention every time he opens his mouth/Twitter app. Forbes ran a massive feature just this week about the ridiculous notion of West running for president in this year’s election.

It is very subtle. Oppressive? Malformed? This is basically calling him an uppity ni---r.
Im doing something similar with bitcoin instead of FDIC member banks. Playswym.com
Dude, you didn't bundle the app or upload a folder with cached contents. This essentially nullifies the entire point of using Deno.

It's as if your Node function were re-installing all of it's node_modules in package.json each cold-start.

One of the major benefits of Deno is that you can run "deno bundle" which will spider all your imports and deps and create a single JS file that is the JS equivalent of an executable. Giant, 100 dependency app? "deno bundle" gives you "app.js" and just hand it to anyone and they can run it with no further tooling.

Beyond that, I'm not intimately familiar with Lambda's but if they allow multi-file uploads with relative imports, you could have uploaded the cache if you didn't bundle it:

Deno caches remote imports in a special directory specified by the DENO_DIR environment variable. It defaults to the system's cache directory if DENO_DIR is not specified. The next time you run the program, no downloads will be made. If the program hasn't changed, it won't be recompiled either.
Another view could hold that, in exposing a fake, one is deliberately destroying the value of an artifact. The 'real criminal' is the one doing the exposing. Until then, everybody was happy and the artifact had 'real' value.
A factor of 5 seems too much. If a kg at retail is £50k, let's say £60k when cut to 80%, this would mean the dealer buying it at approx £12k per kg and that middle layer would be buying it at £2k per kg. The price rises at each level but not by the factor you suggest, it's more likely to be by a factor less than 1 for each level.