skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold on now. I havent watched 'TV' in years but I use one daily. The shows I do watch are mostly from phone/tablet streaming/downloads as I refuse to watch ads. My tv is mostly for video games and movies.

I really think Nielsen is being willfully ignorant and praying here.

Edited to add bit about ads.
Retrieval practice outperforms retrieval practice AND concept mapping together
I've been writing Elixir professionally for a couple months now and I find it fascinating how many tools Elixir gives you to play with.

However, I started a toy project in it and immediately ran into trouble due to its dynamic nature. Printing function arguments to see what they are, runtime errors... Is there a way to get around this besides adding spec tags on everything?
I can't take personal responsibility for how the behavior of a million moron voters affects me.

As long as democracy exists, the crap poured into other people's brains is my responsibility.
Even worse, advertising incentivizes business models whose primary goal is to create addictive behavior, because the side effect is that you see more ads. So, for example, social media companies will do anything they can to increase “engagement”, even if it means spreading conspiracy theories and inflaming politics. Advertising is the root of this problem, because it is the funding mechanism.
Perhaps this is more to prevent the place from becoming a meth lab rather than a place where one smokes meth.

Can't say I've ever smelled it. Is it very distinct?
The linked article neither found Epic guilty (they settled) nor was it even about Epic convincing minors to spend money, but about Epic suing Fortnite cheaters, one of whom apparently was a minor.

Please don't willingly spread misinformation like this.
Fair point, but the peer to peer nature of crypto and the complexity that can be developed without any institutional support is brand new. The power given to the individual is immense.
The opposite of my experience. A couple weeks ago I got as many heirloom tomatoes as I could carry. They were slightly bruised. Most of the time, people buy beets, cauliflower, etc and ask the vendor to keep the leaves or the vendor takes off the outermost leaves from broccoli.
Wow, you really described a lot of how I feel. I've found the pomodoro technique is a nice arbitrary way of honing in on my focus and helping me stay on task. I also still manage to stray away from it time to time.
Moved from Emacs to ST then VSCode a few years ago, but still miss how that community feels (the software, the people, the discussions, EmacsWiki...)

IIRC I used to move around mostly using ido.el, when anything.el and later Helm appeared with their alternative way of displaying results, using half the window.

But then at some point got sick of the text UI and moved to Sublime Text. Probably multi-cursors made me move?

For a few years I remember opening Emacs exclusively for https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/grep-edit.el.

I feel like Emacs is full of those hidden gems that only a hundred people use.
The article you linked says no such thing, it talks only of an out of court settlement.
Their policies are only failures if you’re looking through the eyes of a conservative. The left sees the world differently than the right, and, as such, focus on different issues. To the left, Trump has been an absolute failure, but the right adores him. Who’s right?

The right hates Gavin Newsom; They’re on their third recall attempt. But he wasn’t elected for no reason; He was elected because his campaign promises were what the people who put him there wanted.

That’s democracy working as intended as well.
The only thing that would improve this comment is an embedded image of a tardigrade. Mods?
1. These aren’t oil executives. They’re lobbyists.

2. There’s nothing in here about their private views on climate change. They’re talking about how they’re worried people will perceive the flaring of natural gas.
I never used/saw them when I was in the US - I always paid via bank. I’m sure it’s an option though.
> Environmentalism of the "we must sacrifice" nature is being pushed by idiots on the left and corporates on the right: the left feels it's honest because it's hard, the right knows that no one will do it

I totally agree with your broader point that we shouldn't rely on individual behavior change, but
I think you are using a dated perspective of the left and the right.

The modern left is actually proposing massive green infrastructure spending in order to shift the country's energy production away from fossil fuels (aka the Green New Deal).

The modern right has turned the use of fossil fuels into an identity politics issue, as if you become less American somehow if you use less coal and petroleum to power your life.

The corporations are going where their business models and customer constituencies take them, which is why tech has invested heavily in renewables, and fossil fuel companies have balkanized around their products. The automobile industry is in limbo between the two, with a foot in both worlds.
Timeline of the surrender of Axis forces at the end of World War II
Sure maybe the standards are too stringent but that's cold comfort to the landlord that has to meet them. They're still out the money whether or not it was actually necessary.
Gruber believes Apple should regulate iOS content, which they do all day every day. Apple has banned Gab because of user content.

The question is why they make an exception for Facebook but not for Gab.
Well you do need to pass a theoretical and practical exam to get the Age 14 moped license. And since automatic mopeds are around 200kg it's much less dangerous.
I haven’t lived in Europe since 2010, maybe things changed in the meantime.
I am about to do exactly the same after I move: get a landline and ditch my smartphone. I think of what it costs in time, money, resources, and freedom, and I've come to the conclusion that I'd be a more satisfied human being without a smartphone. I'm not interested in buying what it's selling.
Get the .jar, use only the .jar. It self-updates and everything. It's a shame about the crapware-laden installer, though, it's an excellent utility otherwise.
I have for 4 years.

Not going back.
This is probably related to Bezos's buying of the Washington Post, too and their "NSA/CIA friendly reporting" subsequent to its puchase:

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace...
I'm not sure what point you're making. Even if the tax leads to a small black market for unregulated pollution, the legitimate market would remain regulated and thus our society would reap enormous environmental benefits. Moreover, the effort to thwart the tax constitutes a cost in and of itself, albeit the cost would necessarily be lower than the tax (to the extent that it's not lower, there is no incentive for a black market at all, which is also a real possibility)--this increased cost of pollution will also deter pollution just like the tax itself. Note that we tax lots of things effectively: gasoline, cigarettes, etc, and in none of those cases have a significant portion of the legitimate market moved to a black market--those taxes are quite effective. Lastly, Europe already has its own carbon taxes without the (rather silly) hypothetical consequences raised by critics in this thread.
You could bring them back with you to reuse at the grocery store to balance use as liners vs new consumption. That's what I did before the plastic bag bans went into effect. Now I buy liners.
Loot boxes became illegal, as they were determined to be a form of online gambling. It wasn't a stance that Apple took to protect their customer, it was a federally mandated action handed down from the courts.
Ok I see what you mean now. Google left voluntarily because China refused to let Google be a backdoor for US propaganda and surveillance. (exactly what tiktoc is accused of) and yes, the US protested loudly at the time.
So Big Tech, under anti-trust pressure, getting more in bed with the government. The case seems to not only be: "if you break us up, you leave room for foreign (ie Chinese) competitors, which is bad for national security", but also, "you should spend more money on security, too, so give us more contracts."
Haven't tried it, but probably. I know it can run in qemu.
It is going to be at 2020-09-13 12:26:40 UTC.

Python:

$ python3 -q
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1_600_000_000)
datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 13, 12, 26, 40)

GNU date (Linux):

$ date -ud @1600000000
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020

BSD date (macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.):

$ date -ur 1600000000
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020

All such dates (in UTC) until the end of the current century:

$ python3 -q
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> for t in range(0, 4_200_000_000, 100_000_000): print(f'{t:13_d} - {datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}')
...
0 - 1970-01-01 00:00:00
100_000_000 - 1973-03-03 09:46:40
200_000_000 - 1976-05-03 19:33:20
300_000_000 - 1979-07-05 05:20:00
400_000_000 - 1982-09-04 15:06:40
500_000_000 - 1985-11-05 00:53:20
600_000_000 - 1989-01-05 10:40:00
700_000_000 - 1992-03-07 20:26:40
800_000_000 - 1995-05-09 06:13:20
900_000_000 - 1998-07-09 16:00:00
1_000_000_000 - 2001-09-09 01:46:40
1_100_000_000 - 2004-11-09 11:33:20
1_200_000_000 - 2008-01-10 21:20:00
1_300_000_000 - 2011-03-13 07:06:40
1_400_000_000 - 2014-05-13 16:53:20
1_500_000_000 - 2017-07-14 02:40:00
1_600_000_000 - 2020-09-13 12:26:40
1_700_000_000 - 2023-11-14 22:13:20
1_800_000_000 - 2027-01-15 08:00:00
1_900_000_000 - 2030-03-17 17:46:40
2_000_000_000 - 2033-05-18 03:33:20
2_100_000_000 - 2036-07-18 13:20:00
2_200_000_000 - 2039-09-18 23:06:40
2_300_000_000 - 2042-11-19 08:53:20
2_400_000_000 - 2046-01-19 18:40:00
2_500_000_000 - 2049-03-22 04:26:40
2_600_000_000 - 2052-05-22 14:13:20
2_700_000_000 - 2055-07-24 00:00:00
2_800_000_000 - 2058-09-23 09:46:40
2_900_000_000 - 2061-11-23 19:33:20
3_000_000_000 - 2065-01-24 05:20:00
3_100_000_000 - 2068-03-26 15:06:40
3_200_000_000 - 2071-05-28 00:53:20
3_300_000_000 - 2074-07-28 10:40:00
3_400_000_000 - 2077-09-27 20:26:40
3_500_000_000 - 2080-11-28 06:13:20
3_600_000_000 - 2084-01-29 16:00:00
3_700_000_000 - 2087-04-01 01:46:40
3_800_000_000 - 2090-06-01 11:33:20
3_900_000_000 - 2093-08-01 21:20:00
4_000_000_000 - 2096-10-02 07:06:40
4_100_000_000 - 2099-12-03 16:53:20
This is a good example of the contradictions in free market dogma. The reality is that the Facebook as it exists in the "rigged market" of the App Store violates users' privacy less than the "free market" versions on other platforms. Apple's restrictive policies have made them the only company to (have the power to) put checks on Facebook's information harvesting.
Frustration is fine. But a professional with an audience of millions should proofread their work. Content that isn't allowed in HN comments shouldn't be in HN posts either.
I don't see what's different about it. Apple quality control is also just a type of algorithm. They have an algorithm that filters apps with algorithms. It is an editorial choice as well. Stopping after Facebook but before Apple is arbitrary.
.. what is wrong with your electricity market? What numbers did you conclude?
I really wish the TS team would have used frozen null prototype objects for enums instead. Feels like it would have been a perfect fit.

With that said I am curious why you think one shouldn’t use enums. I know it’s a “factory” IIFE like namespaces at runtime but otherwise I don’t understand why it’s undesirable?
I leave my phone at home, or off when I want to, but the single biggest improvement of privacy and peace comes from "downtime" (iOS > settings > Screentime > Downtime). From 20:00 till 06:00 I will not receive any messages from apps.

On top of that "do not disturb" (iOS > settings > Do not disturb) hits at 20:00 and ends at 07:00 where no one can call me (except for those who are in my favourites).

So basically my phone is dead > 20:00 till 07:00.

Best of both worlds to me.
It depends on what you are struggling with. If you want formal type documentation and some decent type checking, Dialyzer is pretty good. That’s really the only solution for Elixir.

If you want full static type checking, there is https://gleam.run/ which is a new language, and there’s also something that seems like a full static type checker for Erlang which is going to be released by Facebook soon (they use it internally). See this: https://elixirforum.com/t/facebook-is-writing-a-new-statical....

I, for one, am hoping that the Facebook solution allows us to implement something in Elixir to interface with it so that we can take advantage of it in Elixir, but that is yet to be seen.
my bad. i lifted quote from wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_chimes#cite_ref-3

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210009801968&vi...
Transformers are graph neural networks
Yes, not allowing third parties to ship alternative browsers, that was anti-competitive behavior because MS was in the browser business. Now if Apple had a loot box in their game and wouldn't allow Epic to have a loot box in Epic's game, that too would be anti-competitive. But not allowing anyone to have a loot box at all, isn't.
How are they making so much money?
People's negative reaction to this comment believe is that new languages can only solve so many problems. Doesn't matter how great Rust is. So the idea of pushing a new languages too much gets bad reactions.
What to do when someone asks to sit next to you on an empty plane
You're missing the larger point. I'm very well aware that numbers are smaller than 1%. I just used 1% as easy number to do math with larger numbers. The FB/Insta platforms are such a large market for an advertiser. As with all advertising, you can spend as much as you want to hit your numbers.
"This user just gave a third party their entire contact list" certainly does harm other people.

"This user just had their entire camera roll exfiltrated" certainly does harm other people.

These are social devices. Their users are, by and large, non-technical and incurious. Expecting them to not just click past the "scary sign", and so condition to do it again and again, so they can play Fortnite is a level of lack of understanding that borders on incredible.
It is no longer necessary to use oil to power automobiles. You can have your car and reduce fossil fuel use at the same time.
It's the same crap that BP pulled in 1971: https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...

Basically, both the plastics stuff ofthis submission as well as the co2 campaign of BP is shifting responsibility: from big industry/megacorps to individual consumers.

The worst thing is: even if all consumers would religiously follow recycling and co2 saving guidelines, it would barely make a dent in the global view. And that is the reason why humanity is blowing through all environmental targets... and politicians can sit in front of the cameras and straight tell people that "we did all we could".

Seriously fuck this. We need to get megacorps and fraudulent PR under control, and that soon.
I like it and made something similar a while back in spreadsheet form:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l-0VLKWIzqu2dwyxmmNJ...
Author here. Through the lens of small businesses, I completely agree with your comment. This post is specifically for venture-backed startups, most likely in Silicon Valley, with technical founders and/or an engineering-first culture. Sounds super specific, but there are a lots of companies in this category! Thank you for reading.
I also find the smart car to be very fun to drive. (Yes even with the bad automatic transmission)
> Road safety statistics goes totally against your statement. There's a clear corelation between speed and accident

There is not.

There is a clear correlation between speed and deadly accidents.

But most of the accidents happen in the cities and most of them happen at low speed.

The most probable cause is disrespect of priority, due to distractions (watching the phone is very common nowadays)

I posted some stats for the city of Rome, taken straight from the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)

> I started driving when it was the same really bad mentality of people having to make place to the one who wants to go fa

Those bad mentality people are experts in road safety.

If you are one of them I'd like to know where you work.

My fiancé worked here https://www.fia.com/road-safety

> So no, you can be the best driver of the world, 50 km/h in a city is already way too dangerous for pedestrian

Nobody has ever said the contrary...

> The unconfortable slow driver you hate ? Maybe not as dangerous as you are

Maybe is a no until you prove it.

Meanwhile I can show you that the categories that suffer more deaths per capita are really young and inexperienced people and older people with slow reaction times and impaired vision (the traffic light was red but they didn't see it).

> You want to drive "fast"? Think about the safety of other people it involves.

I never said that.

I've said that if you can't handle to drive fast (fast as in slightly above the speed limits), you are dangerous even at low speed.

If you can't swim in a swimming pool, will you be a better swimmer in the Ocean?

As an example: my dad never liked driving, he never learned to be a good driver and as a result now that he is older his driving skill have lowered so much that he is a danger to himself.

He could drive meh at 50kmh when he was 40, barely when he was 50, now that he is 75 at 30kmh everything looks too fast for his reflexes. He breaks in the middle of the straight because he sees shadows, wait too long at crosses but then he passes in the wrong moment because he gets frustrated that other cars behind him are forming a long line because of him.

He never had to challenge his mediocre driving skills, because they were almost good enough and now he can't drive safely anymore.

Driving is like a muscle, if you don't exercise it and stimulate it, it will atrophy.

Cities like Rome, with the highest number of cars per capita in the West (73 cars every 100 people) need to either remove cars from the streets entirely or deploy large programs of safe driving because the population is getting older and their driving skills are not getting better.

Forcing everyone to go by bike or at 10kmh is not a solution.

At 20kmh a delay in reaction times of just one second means 6 meters.

It is a lot!

And I repeat it to be clear: I don't even drive anymore in Rome, I simply walk, because it's too frustrating as an experience.
Uncle bob’s original essay is largely worthless, and I’m genuinely struggling to understand what value is to be extracted by transplanting a terrible argument, onto an even less applicable programming language situation.

If anyone reading this has published anything resembling this tripe, please stop programming and start crocheting, or some other, more useful hobby.
* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
Criticism should be proportional to power.

These are very rich, politically influential people, not nobodies like you and me on this message board.

Their lobbying power by sheer dollar might as individuals and industries dwarfs that of most people. Therefore they they should be condemned when they are revealed in a lie involving the use of that power and influence, especially when that influence is changing rules to allow them to release massive quantities of methane into the atmosphere, worsening climate change.
nuclear is practically the only option to completly decarbonize our energy not only electricy but transport , heat and industry , renwebles can't produce energy continuosly and are more expensive than nucleare so they can't be use to totaly decarbonize even electrity
It IS distributed into a billion tiny pieces.

Do you know if your computer is using oil from BP? Do you know if your car is running on gasoline from BP?

The manufactorers of plastic straw aren't responsible for the disposal of them that's a job of the individual societies, which all consist of taxpayers who are voting their politicians into power.

The disconnect is the idea that BP is evil while we are innocent bystanders. BP and the other oil companies are a net benefit to society and 80% of what you consider modern living is based on some sort of oil based derivative.
When Castro took over the owners of the brands fled and took the rights to the brands with them. At the same time the Cuban government kept making the cigars under the same name. So for every major brand you will find 2 in the world, one Cuban, one not.
The point still remains, a tweaker will always find a way. If the plastic bag over the detector is enough to block the smoker's fumes, why would a tweaker not think it would be good enough to block a lab's? Again, we're talking about tweakers. They can come up with crazy ideas, but it doesn't mean they are good ones.
You say “solved” in that post, but what exactly was solved? The lack of a paper trail? The ease of tampering?
I haven't read the actual guidelines / rules / etc put out by OFAC in over a year but that was the gist of it from the legal team.
It exists! Many founders like their first business hires to be ex-investment bankers or consultants who are hungry. They’re “good enough” at anything you throw at them in the early stages of a company. Later on they usually specialize into Business Operations, Finance, or Product Management.
Super powerful platform tools like these are crazy hard to build, even more-so if platform teams don't have iron-fist like control of their infrastructure. So that's the curious thing organizationally to me.

I'm curious how they manage their infrastructure in a way that enables these tools.

If it's truly distributed - where individual teams and provision resources self-service - then they would have to mandate (or template) that new services have service discovery and eventing/logging as a condition for SLA contracts?

Is infra completely abstracted away from product teams? How are resources provisioned and new services developed that ensures that these enterprise capabilities are pervasive?
This post misses the point of what it’s replying to. Parent comment admitted that individuals can live responsibly, but that the bigger problem is a cycle where each generation protects its own lifestyle and blames the older people for what they’ll one day do themselves.
"Cultural appropriation" is a hugely overused term that was originally developed to cover the combination of use of native American symbols with massive racism and systematic oppression towards the actual native Americans themselves.

To apply it there need to be those two elements. It would require sneering at the Persians for being unsophisticated while also making copies of the carpets. Orientalism has lots of problems of its own but it is not comparable to colonialism.