skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the same reason people in the US care about what a bunch of high-follower Twitter accounts think of them. We're hard-wired to seek status even when that status is counterproductive and contrary to our instrumental goals.
> Imagine a virus so bad you have to get tested to know if you have it or not

You mean like HIV?
I think if there is something all Americans can agree on, it's that Kenya is a clear and ever present military threat to people living in the USA.
Not a lawyer but been through the incorporation process a few times: get a startup lawyer and commit to spending $2-5k just on legal fees in your first year. Each patent you want is $20k so you should probably not waste your time or money with one unless you're damn sure you need it and it's essential to your business.

If you screw up the paperwork it will prevent you from raising money or work with others and kill your business. Honestly, I know it sucks to have to pay money that seems unrelated to your startup, but you'll pay it back many times over and have to set things up properly anyway
Does anyone have experience using this for their apps?
It works on linux
Thanks for replying, I appreciate you took the time to write this, even if we are in disagreement with respect to our views.

Just like I have taken the time to read your comment, I have taken the time to read many other comments, thousands of them, and talked to different people of different backgrounds from all over the US.

Like you, I also keep certain level of skepticism towards the press, although I understand that there are still valuable journalists with integrity out there. Freedom of the press is important, and the few ethical journalists devoted to service our society need our support and attention.

Freedom of religion is another freedom enshrined in the constitution, yet, I do not hear Conservatives acknowledging that very often. This administration tried to implement a islamophobic travel ban that affected lawful American citizens and permanent residents. That is unacceptable.

Then, the president is asking people to vote twice, and talking about "negotiating a 3rd term". He has also talked of postponing the election, and there are pictures of USPS mail sorting machines disassembled, with their cables cut, just before the election. Does all of that sound democratic or patriotic to you?

As a person with hispanic relatives, seeing hispanic kids being bullied in schools with "build the wall" chants, and seeing newborns and infants detained under torturous conditions... And after weeks of scandals, they get a visit from the first lady wearing an "I don't really care" jacket. Be a real man and tell me: are you OK with all this? Are you going to blame a newborn or months old infant for their inhuman treatment in American detainment centers?

And there's science. Science does understand the behavior of gases. The physical and chemical processes related to gases are well understood and many experiments with gases can be accurately reproduced and simulated. We have satelites monitoring the atmosphere and scientists analyzing the earth geological record and the seas... We are usually not skeptical of science when we see a steam engine or internal combustion engine at work. But this week, we saw the president saying "I don't think science knows, actually", when being asked to acknowledge climate change, in the context of massive fires in California, Washington and Oregon.

And finally: the catastrophic response to the COVID pandemic... Prior to the pandemic, the pandemic response team was disbanded. Then, the president repeteadly claims that the virus is contained, and that there's nothing to worry about. And then, when the virus cannot be covered up anymore, Trump suggests Americans to ingest bleach, and his supporters oppose CDC guidelines. As a result of all that, now there is a massive GDP contraction, unemployment and yet unknown long-term economic consequences.

So, tl;dr: I don't really think there are a lot of good reasons to vote Republican, or to have restraint and respect in the face of what's going on right now. Enough is enough.
The Volvo's emergency braking system would have prevented that accident if Uber had not deactivated it.
I'm the author of the other recent post that made it to the front page about the trouble with Go's v2+ modules.

I disagree with much of this post.

> Go makes updating major versions so cumbersome that in the majority of cases, we have opted to just increment minor versions when we should increment major versions.

I disagree with this, wholeheartedly. I think Go's module system making modules separate packages on major versions is actually great once you actually know how it works. The problem is simply that it's non-obvious and not well understood. I think they could have made it more obvious requiring in on v1 for starters.

Beyond that you should absolutely be tagging major versions for every breaking change, and it should be something a developer has to stop and think about. Not something to be taken lightly, EVEN with regard to internal libraries.

You can learn how to code things preemptively so they are flexible for additive changes and require fewer breaking changes. It's almost always worth the effort in the long run.

To my posts point, the problem is just people don't know how it works, and it's design makes it something you learn late into a project, when you're tagging v2, rather than something you hit early.

FWIW, my post for anyone didn't catch it:

https://donatstudios.com/Go-v2-Modules
The top solution on this Code Golf question is possibly the most comical example of Mathematica's scope that I've ever seen: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...
>There is nothing wrong with weird solutions.

I don't want to go as far as argumentum ad antiquitatem but if you break KISS and the principle of least astonishment it should probably be worth the hassle.

>Their situation is different.

Is it really, though?
Unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of a trove of tech history
There's a bunch of apps now sort of like this for golf: swing, posture, ball flight, etc.

Given something like this old post about tensorflow[1], you'd think this isn't even the worst hobby project if you can get some footage that a model likes. I've never really thought to try running NBA clips through it...

[1]https://medium.com/tensorflow/real-time-human-pose-estimatio...
They don't actually know how much this is collecting. It advertises other features like site rank https://i.imgur.com/qfitydx.png
Hopefully the OS could run on something newer than a Pebble, like the PineTime.
What amazes me here is how prevalent these advertising claims are even today. I wonder if these claims really originated from advertisers or if the advertisers themselves have a basis elsewhere (maybe folk medicine, or something they observed Native Americans did, etc.) and just gave it an audience.

Hydrotherapy sounds like the contemporary endorsement for cold showers (even if, I think, some of the claimed benefits of cold showers have been proven).

> “quicken the blood supply, increase the scalp’s nutrition, and thus aid nature in keeping your hair alive and beautiful.”

> Stimulating massage plus lather plus water flushes out “dead cells” and “dust,” leaving “the pores clear and free to do their work.”

Are natural hair care advice you can get even today. I have completely no idea how these have fared against scientific testing. All I know is that there is still a lot we don't understand about hair care and so you are bound to get a lot of conflicting advice. Heck there isn't even a consensus how frequently should you shampoo your hair.

> Only the fresh-squeezed juice of a lemon, Sunkist offers helpfully, “cuts the alkali in the soap and leaves the hair really clean.”

I distinctly remember hearing this sort of advice in my school's grapevine just around the time we were going through adolescence[1] and just getting conscious about how we look. Even with the hormone-clouded judgement of an adolescent, I could tell this claim has disputable basis; citrus is acidic and why the hell would I want anything acidic on my scalp?

What really gets me is I am not from the US. Granted, we were a colony and not to mention US is influential even to non-colonies. But I find it very amusing and curious that I heard such a singular and obscure advice, which Sunkist apparently promoted almost a century before. I wonder, if I could trace back how this idea propagated to me as a pimply schoolboy, will it have originated to Sunkist's ad? Or perhaps share a common ancestor with it?

Man, ideas are damn hard to kill.

[1] If I really try to place this memory, I would say around 2004.
Yet good luck traveling without actually surrendering them to all kinds of places you'd rather not. Like hotel clerks basically everywhere.
Just like Google, Apple is trying to making money from every possible opporturnity.
That might be true but I would give the counter example of the adpocolips. Most companies don't want to look like they are for racism.
Also told in Schultz book's Pour Your Hear Into It which is quick interesting read.

Moral of the story is to cultivate and understand the value of your Network. It takes a village to compensate for things you cant do by your self.

If you are not a networking type, latch on to/be useful to/connect with a couple networking types. Every hard problem you hit, that your skill and experience cant solve, talk to them about it.
I agree.

However making the argument that the marginal gain from an employee has to exceed the marginal cost is much more difficult, so using an average is just a fair proxy for making the point.

My assumption is that Google are smart enough to know extremely well their marginal gain, which must be an upper bound of what they would rationally pay for an employee (salary plus overhead plus opportunity cost plus variance).

Anyone that thinks a Google is employing people at a loss to cause damage to other businesses is a double plus badthinker IMHO.
this needs more attention
> I think its also something people look out for, with the previous PM Kevin Rudd being somewhat infamous for eating his own ear wax on live TV.

… as a stunt? On a dare? Why?
> Fast forward to today and Howard Schultz is despised in the Seattle area.

Did you even read the story? The founders wanted to make more coffee, Schultz wanted to make more stores. Seattle used to have an amazing coffee culture, and starbucks largely killed that. Schultz rightly gets the lion's share of the blame for that
> grabbed it from a pile and just started eating it like it was an apple,

Sounds like a sociopath.
Yeah. I understand the advantages of a Delaware C corporation if you need a C corporation. But I don't see the advantages of a Delaware LLC if you will be operating in California.
The reason for banking regulation is so that banks do not take high-risk-high-reward-huge-losses types of risks with other people's money. If fintech does the same behavior with indirect or direct leverage of other people's money, then they should be subjected to regulation as well.
What if you have to bill clients incorporated in CA?
What needs to work for your Zoom call to work?
Yeah, I know, and I'm certainly happy for the open-ish web.

It just strikes me as pretty low on the "evil" scale compared to everything else that's been going on.

Do you remember the kids-for-cash scandal?
Show HN: Get Press for Your Startup
I joke that I want a YouTube “for adults”. Not “adult YouTube”. But the stuff they push on me would be appropriate for, uhh.. youth of a certain age. But I never click on them, I never will, I don’t understand why their algorithm can’t see what I’m subscribed to and what I watch and socialize accordingly.

I think the algos must really only work on the thinnest of the most popular videos... the daily dramas of you tubers with shocked faces. Or the algos heavily compensate for engagement and monetization and there’s no marketable middle tale. But if that’s the best YouTube can do with the data they have, I can’t wait for a disruption that isn’t exclusively the province of “the youth”..

/leaving the lawn...
I've done a ton of work with both Maven and Gradle and I feel like eventually everyone just ends up back to wanting Maven.

The problem with Gradle is that it's flexibility is... dangerous and without some constraint can quickly lead to a lot of pain.
The one criticism that seems valid to me is that the tooling should tell you if there is a new major version available (while not updating for you)

I am not a Go user, but if it is truly the case that you get no notification when a new major version is available, that could be annoying.
Why Does Diversity Matter?
Here is the 3 step method to improving your writing:

1. Get a book called Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
2. Internalize the rules in that book and apply them whenever you write.
3. Write as much as you can, and read even more.

Source: I studied English in college
This is already how things work in the US: you only need to file if your estate is greater than 11.5MM as of 2020 [1].

"As a result, only about 2,000 estates per year in the US are currently liable for federal estate tax." [2]

The argument that it "discourages living frugally" is just complete nonsense.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_Sta...
Yet another example of someone mistaking the quality of a single person for the quality of a platform
On the internet, things can be "very prevalent" to one person (figuratively speaking) and "never heard of" to most other people.
The earwax thing was during a long boring session in parliament, so not exactly Live TV
That answer is absurd yet awe inspiring what Mathematica can do.
The only things more evil than destroying a nascent open worldwide communication platform that I can think of are some of the shit pulled by big tobacco or big oil. The examples you listed don’t come close IMO. Never heard of kids-for-cash though.
Actually, that is exactly the reason it was put in place. Banks had a habit of losing money on the investment side, which was commingled with deposits side, leading to rumors and the resulting bank runs.

Glass-Steagall prevented many of the activities that led to bank runs, and its passage greatly increased the safety of a saver’s deposits.

This should be a pretty reliable source: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44349.pdf
Write a journal. Remember, why you started.

>Once I see a clear path to a solution, I lose interest

You have just satisfied your curiosity successfully! That's great outcome too. You learned a lot.

Whatever you do, Have fun, you live only once.

2c
At some point, won't it be cheaper to just bury it in a landfill away from any cities and drinking water? We can already afford to ship it to other countries, so why not ship it to the desert where there's unlimited capacity and it will never harm the environment?
Whoa are browser toolbars still a thing? I thought they became irrelevant over a decade ago
>Uber made a series of development decisions that contributed to the crash’s cause, the NTSB said...Uber deactivated the automatic emergency braking systems in the Volvo XC90 vehicle and precluded the use of immediate emergency braking, relying instead on the back-up driver.

If the driver committed homicide, it sure sounds like Uber is also guilty of homicide.
I wouldn't be surprised if the staff deliberately sabotaged it. I've worked for a party before and the emails are horrendous
You're confusing "it should be easy to stay in the lines" with "it should be very cumbersome to draw outside the lines".

Its trivial to bump versions in countless package managers but its frustrating in Go. Telling this dev that he's holding it wrong seems like undue push back. Why should this be cumbersome? I don't think accidentally taking major versions is a problem in most package managers.
PSA has done this in terms of heatmaps with sportsdatalabs. Personally I would invest into a video AI for let/no let system, as well as better camera systems for out of bounds calls ( like in tennis ). Also, switch to a lime ball on a blue or even black glass surface would make for even better watchability imo.
Based on the famous Trinity study [0], $2M would be enough for he and his wife to draw $80k/year plus social security. That's certainly more than most people are able to retire on, but I wouldn't call it lavish, and I imagine the remainder will be donated after death. I find it hard to fault him for wanting to make sure he and his wife can enjoy their last few years without having to worry too much about the exorbitant cost of end of life care in this country.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
It was during a long question time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8
> This passage presents altruism as a tit-for-tat deal with God.

Only by an extremely shallow reading.
That poor person is Uber's "moral crumple zone"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236

Fitting, given Uber's reputation for questionable morality...
iirc panasonic had one generator. small scale internal combustion engines are popular because power to weight ratio allows the same design to be used in other equipment and it has near instantaneous power regulation.
Sure maybe not multinationals, but there was still a whites only bar in Alexandria till like 2005. Racists will find support from their own kind.

Honestly it would be better for this sort of thing to be banned from the top down by governments, but they seem loath to call any "white" nationalist group terrorists no matter how many weapons they bring to rally and how many people they injure.

White is in scare quotes, because you never know who they are counting aa such...
If you do that, look at the document, hit CTRL+Z, then look at the document again, it will likely look identical, thanks to the fact that rendering a PDF to a JPEG with 70-90% quality... at ~600DPI... then scaling it back out to a 75-150DPI screen... is going to look visually lossless.

So, not only do you have the energy-investment thing noted in the/a sibling comment, you have the issue that there's no giant "THIS IS AN IMAGE" or "THIS HAS TEXT IN IT" that you can just Look At and know that yeah the document is okay. There's no lowest-common-denominator provability thing. You have to hyperspecifically know what to look for (render to image) then know how to verify whether it's an image or not.

And... how do you verify if it's an image? I don't have any PDF authoring/editing software on this machine, so the only thing I can think of is checking the Undo menu for "convert to image" or similar.
I'm confused by the example at the end:

> On Monday, after 37 years in prison, Robert DuBoise was formally exonerated in Florida for a rape and murder from 1983 that DNA evidence now proves he did not commit. He was convicted partly due to testimony from unreliable jailhouse informants and controversial, discredited bite mark analysis. His case is a perfect example of how much our justice system is plagued by bad behavior.

But reading the story they link to for more detail, I didn't see any obvious description of misconduct or bad behavior.

Yes, bite mark analysis is considered mostly bogus now, but that is a fairly recent development. In 1983 it was widely accepted.

And yes, jailhouse informants can be unreliable. They can also be reliable. Just like any other kind of informant. Or any other person who testifies. That's why the defense gets to cross examine them, and it is left up to the jury to decide if a given one is reliable or unreliable.

BTW, don't infer from the apparent weakness of the article's example that the underlying report the article is based on, from the National Registry of Exonerations, is weak. The example from the article is not from the report.

The report does contain a few examples, so I find it odd that the article did not use one of them.
If you were scanning that would be an easy joke to miss. The giveaway is the previous paragraph ending mid-word like the authorities just busted in and hauled the author off to a CIA black site.
JDK 15 Release Notes
Maybe it was the case, a long time ago, that the very rich accumulated their wealth by "living frugally", but it is certainly not the case anymore. Neither is the case that the estate tax discourages saving is just nonsense: at least in the US, the estate tax doesn't even apply is your estate is under $11M. [1]

> "As a result, only about 2,000 estates per year in the US are currently liable for federal estate tax." [2]

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_Sta...
I'm sure there exist jobs where its OK not to know that a mod operator exists, but none of mine were of those kind. I'm pretty sure my experience matches the majority by a pretty large margin.

> A fizzbuzz with fewer false-positive rejections might be something like "implement multiplication without using the multiplication operator".

While possibly a fair question, this is a whole order of magnitude more difficult than FizzBuzz. It requires more domain knowledge as well (lots of people have forgotten how to multiply).

> Allows the quality candidates lots of room to shine.

But this is precisely the opposite of FizzBuzz. The goal is to weed out horrible candidates, not identify great ones.
Cops will be using these to crush protestors in 10 years.
We spend our retros whinging about other teams that (are supposed to) support us.
HMoney mobile wallet for Harmony Protocol
It was just a bald assertion that one should have freedom to do what they want because we live in a free society.

If we live in a free society then we should be free to do what we want to do, because otherwise we wouldn't live in a free society.

Any argument that justifies itself merely with "because freedom" can be used to argue for complete anarchy. After all, "rule" of any sort inherently implies restrictions on freedom. And if restrictions on freedom are inherently bad, then "rule" of any sort must be bad by definition.
> Why is ADA not adopted more broadly?

I would argue that Ada suffered because IDEs weren't a common thing when it had its heyday.

For example, Ada (and VHDL which took after it) is really verbose and a single change to a declaration can ripple all over the place.

"Refactoring" is no big deal today. IDEs chop through it really easily.

Back in 1990, on the other hand, you wanted to strangle a language that made you ripple a domain change of 0..255 to 0..65535 through all the code by hand. EVERYWHERE.

There is a reason programmers are so huffy about "type inference", you know.

Currently popular languages are quite "path dependent"--they needed to be popular before IDEs existed but still gain benefits when IDEs became commonplace.

Now that IDEs are common, I suspect that some languages like Ada may slowly gain ground over time. There is far less need for a language to be "stupid editor" friendly.

Edit: Change ADA to Ada.
I laughed out loud multiple times reading this and sent it to some friends whose senses of humor I respect and the consensus is this is funny.
At the Gates of the Labyrinth – A Meditation on Suffering
> Simply google "plastic endocrine disruptors"

I did, and found that the 1996 paper that helped launch the movement against endocrine disruptors, was retracted in 2001 because the data was made up.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-0...

(I'm not making any claim here about whether endocrine disruptors in our environment are a problem or not. Maybe they are. But I don't like to be told "just Google X" because that can be used to support any nonsense nowadays. Just give me a good reference and I'll try to figure out whether it's credible.)
Oh, that was indeed fun.

"Uhh... how many layers deep is this going to g-- oh, ok. Nice :D"