skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr Germans invented decaf before WWI, Nazis liked to think they were big on public health, so promoted decaf, but also thought daily methamphetamine was healthy, so recommended eating chocolate with it in.

So, shorter: Nazis did things for what seemed to them like reasons.

I can add, Victorian English and contemporaneous Americans were little different, and similarly self-righteously deadly to minorities. But did it first.
At the beginning of the century I worked at a company that used Ada for radar software. As it became clear the hpux and Solaris (pa-risc and sparc) where being replaced by Linux On x86 and my company had AdaCore come in and do training in the new toolset (rational not providing Ada compilers for Linux)

AdaCore were quite knowledgeable as a company company offering a supported vendor of gnu Ada. I think they’re Still involved heavily in the development of the free ada compiler “GNAT” (part to gcc)

https://www.adacore.com/get-started

Defense companies liked open source vendors to take risk off and I’m not sure how it worked but some Ada compilers were “validated”

I grew to like Ada, (it has some warts, strings for example, but we didn’t use them often)

GNAT Wikipedia page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT
I wonder about this. Suppose you incorporate a LLC in Delaware that buys some stocks, and some houses in Arizona and rents them out. But you live in California. Is your LLC “doing business with California”?
Wasn't considering the phone at all. In a lot of places in the US, using a phone is also a distraction likely to get you jail/ conviction. (In some places it's considered driving impaired).

The accident would just never have gotten the scrutiny it did. Unless the driver came out and mentioned they were using their phone, the whole incident would have just vanished. They certainly wouldn't have bothered getting a subpoena to check the drivers cell record.
I made something like this for my mom who had large B-cell lymphoma, amongst other disheartening diseases. At one point she was on 17 different medications — and no, you don't need to get me started on that.

I wanted to know that she was not only taking her medication but also the correct dosage, when she was opening the bottles, and when she was taking them. A minibar but for meds, basically. I did this not because I'm a control freak but because managing her care was difficult. I also wanted to be able to coordinate the issues she raised with her doctors with more precision than "well she took x last week." I also did it because I was irritated with how frequently she was taking her oxy. Yeah, I guess I was a little of a control freak. :)

From the day she was diagnosed up until the day before she died, I'd like to think being a hacker really benefited her. Two days after her diagnosis, between bouts of cries, I scraped for every article I could find about her disease, parsed out the authors, ran their names through a bunch of residential proxies with headless Chrome, searching for their name and if they were involved in any clinical trials ("+trials"). If they were, I sent them a blanket email asking for a second opinion.

Ultimately, she received very precise care from a resource that wasn't originally available. I like to think benefited her for the long haul, but I suppose we'll never know.

My mom doesn't have cancer anymore. She passed away late October of last year. I named a Ruby framework after her, as writing it was my mental vacation from being her full-time caretaker for the last 75 days of her life.

On second thought, she really hated when I would talk to strangers on the internet. Oh well!

ps. hi mom!
from the article
> "Climate has always changed, and weather is always variable, due to complex, powerful natural forces," Legates said.

it sure doesn't sound like he is "denying climate change", rather he disagrees with the theory that human activity is the main cause of climate change. With the replication crisis going on, I don't mind scientists who question the results of some research as long as those scientists follow the scientific method.
If you have 'known valid' legalese broken into segments and clauses (this already exists in platforms in use by legal professionals to speed up this process, but for legit purpose) and you can convert certain elements into variables (names, dates, addresses, and so forth), you can trivially make a 'valid' legal document that is nearly impossible to parse due to length, by referencing everything under the sun and stars, by introducing lots of situational logic that rests on references, or by simply relying on hyper-specific language and structure.

For example, I've had to read quite a few 1,000+ page legal documents (Companies Act 2006 being one example) and that document gets referenced all the time. I can imagine tools like GPT-3 being used to crank things up to 11 to ensure that no user ever really reads or understands the TOS/EULA/whatever they're reading. Not that most people do anyway.

> too complicated for normal humans, but acceptable for lawyers.

I can totally imagine someone building a tool to parse generated garbage legalese into plain language bullet points and adding the proper visual references/links and document structure so that a human can read it. Perhaps it already exists and I'm just not aware of it.
The very highest wealth level does live within their means. It's hard to spend 10 billion dollars on houses and cars.
The Curse of Rhyme (Poem)
Putin opponent Navalny posts photo from hospital, plans to return to Russia
But we're talking about energy storage close to consumers, not in remote locations I thought? For deployment in Europe, I don't think it'd be possible to find areas where ground water is that deep (luckily).

And pumped storage still doesn't work as you'd need surface area for new lakes. Also, not sure if you'd want to pump out huge amounts of ground water for pumped storage, lowering the water table for everyone.
Personally, there is no "too small for semver". Feels like every time I've done the lazy thing and failed to bump a major, even if it's small package Foo written only by me used in Bar, also only by me, there comes a time a few weeks later of digging through to figure out what broke.

When you are crunching for a deadline, the last thing you want is "oops the tool automatically bumped all the major versions on you" when you didn't explicitly intend to. Having a dedicated flag would be nicer than grep/sed though.
> One really good cause for making a donation or charitable gift is the Internet Archive.

I agree. I started donating more than a decade ago. At first, my donations were motived not by altruism but by self-interest: I was saving a lot of money by downloading out-of-copyright books from the IA rather than buying reprints or used editions, and I wanted to help keep the IA in operation.

I've since come to understand and respect the IA's overall mission more, and my annual donations now are motivated slightly less by selfishness.
Some useful links, I hope

https://agaric.coop/show-and-tell
https://community.coops.tech/
https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
https://patio.ica.coop/
https://facttic.org.ar/
To be fair the 120 Hz refresh rate display is a huge benefit for everyone using the Apple Pencil.
Do we know how much RAM the air will have? I would guess it’ll come with 4GB which would give it another big advantage.
Those 2 differences are worth 200$ if you can take advantage of it.
Also if you need more than 256 GB storage the Air also doesn’t fit you
> Microsoft is just selling unopinionated software to all businesses in the world

You have to be satirical right? Microsoft is notorious for lobbying everything to this day. Browser monopolies, OS monopolies, they pretty much invented EEE, made whole cities switch to their OS and the whole xbox platform is very political regarding software, gambling and IP politics.
I'm getting decent suggestions but you have train it well. Get rid of all music channels, all news channels, all channels that the algorithm could possibly connect to mainstream content.
Of course it's part propaganda, but it's also a result of history. Our borders were expanding for nearly 200 years and in the process we gained unimaginable amount of resources and land. For a long time, you could really get land ( cheaply or free ) and you could hope to improve your lot in life. Of course all that land and resources were a result of the mass extermination of the natives, but that was the reality. It's really fairly recently where we've pretty much stagnated. For most of US history, there was genuine reasons for the optimism of the american dream.
Child power pushes Lego to ditch plastic bags
Because they literally have an open source operating system that is being used by a multitude of phone manufacturers, kiosks, home security systems, developers, hobbyists, security experts, Amazon Kindle, etc without any licensing fees which can be audited by anyone.
A network guy will understand TCP connections and the fact that reply packets are sent back by the other end.
Of course not. It would be unethical to -not- do such a thing. You have a fiduciary duty to shareholders!
San Francisco: Hiring vs. Outsourcing
> I finally realized I would be much better off just working for another company and letting them deal with all these headaches. They have an entire team to deal with it! If I had a time machine, I would have stuck with regular employment instead of thinking of myself as an independent business.

It’s almost as though that is all by design, put in place by state legislators who are owned by big corporations that want to keep their primary labor pools enslaved under the W2 regime.

I think all the labor / socialist parties may have gotten it wrong - the worker’s revolution would never be realized through labor unions etc, but rather by organizing incorporation and all the benefits it confers upon the individual. Let every man, woman and child be their own corporation. Wouldn’t that be a different form of capitalism to behold.
A friend of mine once had to review some (Swedish) court document with redacted witness names. It was a word document with history intact. Just undoing a few steps was all it took.
I am not a lawyer, but I've been in business long enough and have been through enough legal issues to know that forming an LLC isn't sufficient to keep you from getting sued personally or having the corporate veil pierced if someone wants to come after you. In this regard, the parent posters are correct - there may be good reasons for you to form an LLC, but legal protection is a grey area.
Yes, even as a non-resident including getting a bank account. Extremely easy and cheap too, in other states at least.
I don't update Linux, FreeBSD, or any other OS in place except on my FreeBSD-CURRENT desktop. The only way to operate in production is to create a new VM from your template, apply the runbook/state/whatever, route everything to the new VM, and drain the old VM.

My personal systems aren't where they should be for CM, but I still can't think of a good reason to update in place rather than rebuild and copy over configuration/data.

Flavors should make it easier to operate with packages instead of ports, but I don't have any idea what's going on there. If I were supporting a large number of systems, I'd want FreeBSD over Linux any day of the week and twice on Sundays because the ports system doesn't make you choose between a stable OS branch and current software.
Again you’ve failed to provide a single example from your experience so I’m left to assume you have none.

Sorry, it sounds like you have idealized views that don’t match with actually working at tech companies. Please don’t proselytize things that you have no experience with - it can be massively distracting and confusing for people who are in situations where your advice seems like pure gaslighting.

Bonuses are not a way to ease interpersonal tension, in fact, they make them worse.

If I’ve misread this in any way, please let me know, but don’t further waste my time with bullshit.
I use NoScript and only turn on Javascript if I have to. It happens less often than you think. Most sites will load enough for you to read them without JS.
Medicare saved billions when statins went generic
I think your Trump-Palmer comparison is decent, but not sure about McConnell. Something that seemed key to Abbott was his focus on very repetitive and simple statements - the three word slogans (stop the boats, axe the tax; hardly discouraged "ditch the witch"). Not saying there hasn't been similar before, but he was particularly effective with it. Trump has used similar tactics (build the wall, lock her up, etc), which might've encouraged OP's point.
Disgusting that Uber isn't getting the same, along with the heads who spun/put this killing machine on the road.

Pays to be rich and well connected! Gross!!!
Just learning a new language, so the requirement is self-imposed. But the fun thing with RC4 key schedule is that it doesn't have to be provided, one can just implement it based on the Wikipedia code. I have long found RC4 exciting to implement when trying out new languages - I get a quick dopamine hit because I implemented something... real, and it has several other uses besides encryption - especially when just toying. Today I learned I can use it to shuffle arrays.
Let's see how they implemented it first...
Not everything MS is user-friendly and completely cloud agnostic.
Regular old small RC planes can do a heck of a lot more than 30 minutes. Also, the Spot only has 90 minutes of battery life.
The American legal system places much more emphasis on acts you may have committed than omissions, and tends to avoid compelling action.

So yes, in an American court, disabling a proven safety feature is significantly worse than simply purchasing a vehicle without the feature.

The safety driver failed at their job, but the NTSB clearly lays significant blame for that failure on Uber, who should know well that humans are poorly suited to monitoring automated systems, and committed acts and omissions that increased the likelihood of an accident.
I built Animation CPU from scratch for the same reason https://animationcpu.herokuapp.com/
Fintech Trends Taking the Industry by Storm
What trends are present in Fintech? And how can these trends help inform your mobile marketing strategy? Here are 5 trends that are changing Fintech for good.
> citrus is acidic and why the hell would I want anything acidic on my scalp?

Because your skin is acidic - indeed it has a protective acid mantle [1]. The question you should actually be asking yourself is why would you want anything alkaline (like soap & sodium lauryl sulphate detergents) on your skin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_mantle
My guess is that they were trying to shield themselves from the possibility of reclassification via IRS audit.
I agree that just changing the material is not the solution. But it doesn't mean that the manufacturers get to skip their responsibility. In Finland we have to pay a considerable deposit by law (found in section 2: https://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2013/en20130526.pdf) for every drink container you buy and you get the deposit back when you return them back to any store that has a returning machine (almost every single place you can buy those bottles). It seems that this is working very nicely, since the return rates are around 90% (https://www.palpa.fi/beverage-container-recycling/deposit-re...). Usually when drunk people are throwing beer cans to the streets, there's almost always someone picking up those cans for the deposit.

I'm not an expert, but I think the problem is that in the US, The industry would never allow that kind of decree to pass, since in this case "The manufacturers and importers of beverages fund return systems through different types of payments."
What states are these? I've had fees in every state I've every formed an LLC in and/or been a foreign corp in.
There is one, but it's on the homepage - take a look under the "about" heading at the bottom and go from there.... (assuming that's the puzzle that ASD figured out)
Would you say the same thing for a chauffeur or truck driver who killed someone because they were using their phone while driving?
Here's a project the Beware team built, there's an iOS version built from the same source too

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keith_mage...

Also a note re their platform compatibility, it's not just Android and iOS: iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS

Looks very interesting, going to give it a go adding guis to some existing cli python toys I've built
Microsoft always stole from the rich. Now Gates is giving to the poor. It could be worse :)
Drivers getting away with killing pedestrians and cyclists is like the most common thing in the world.

As for "how many have videos": when Amelie Le Moullac was killed by a truck, the police didn't even check videos. There had to be a grassroots effort to go get the video.

You're kidding me.
But if you are running a fleet of them, wouldn’t a server be more efficient?
1kiB (kibibyte) is standardized as 1024 bytes in 1998. Before that it was kilobyte which was used for 1024 bytes [0].

> Prior to the definition of the binary prefixes, the kilobyte generally represented 1024 bytes in most fields of computer science, but was sometimes used to mean exactly one thousand bytes. When describing random access memory, it typically meant 1024 bytes, but when describing disk drive storage, it meant 1000bytes. The errors associated with this ambiguity are relatively small (2.4%).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
although I agree Uber bears most of the responsibility the analogy was ridiculous in not being fundamentally extremely difficult but basically impossible.

Aside from this, if the car had been driving over the speed suitable for the conditions at the time the fall person had plenty of time to note that and take over, in that case it was more like huh, the paint is drying but it looks like it's going to rain .... long time looking like it's going to rain ... oh no should have put the covers on!

But I'm betting the need to take over and drive is not properly given to the fall person either.
Get a mailbox at a UPS store or similar mail drop service. Easy peasy. This gets around the "No PO Box" requirements that many government forms have because the mail drop service will have a storefront address. So you end up being 124 Mainstreet Box 47.
I can assure you the vast majority of billionaires did not become that by caring about creating jobs. They cared about the return. A return that does not have to come matched with creating good jobs.

Assuming you're American I believe you still have people in gov that got rich because of their family starting a pyramid scheme. I wouldn't call that a benefit to society.

Remember those guys in the 90's tanking company stocks and reputations then buying em up under the guise of saving them only to dismantle em and make their profit on the sale of the scraps? yeah they made money removing jobs.

The list goes on and on.
obviously we are talking about companies that do their business over the internet(not only social networks, pretty much anything that can scale fast). There’s nothing new for those who need physical local presence or sell goods that go through regular customs. If US App&website banning becomes a thing you can expect to be able to continue selling wine to France as before but loose access to the French Ad market without properly incorporating In France(making it illegal to Buy ads or run ads from companies that don’t meet a set of regulations that only a local company can meet ).
Back in Maimonides' time it would be difficult to provide things other than a lump sum in an anonymous manner. If you employ someone, teach them a job or give them a loan they'll get to know you. So I think step 1 drops anonymity for long-term purpose.
I’ve been using Azlo and had no problems. They’re pretty bare bones however.
Surprisingly well written and entertaining!

“What walkways? Well Fred made a good case for walkways”
The Japanese train system utilizes similar concepts IIRC. When I first read about this I was astonished about how effective it was [0](up to 85% error reductions)!

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952193
Americans are spending too much time at work
That's just not true of GPT-3 though. It's very good at capturing tone and therefore provoking the same kinds of feelings as "real" examples of the same style. It's much less good at conveying facts.
Kubernetes: The Magic Is in the Complexity
Yeah, it's a problem. It just reflects the people who are where the playing courts are in the US. If there were courts anywhere but at wealthy coastal universities, more people might be into it. It's lots of fun.

When I was in England, it was so much more a common sport. I joined a club where there was even a bar serving food and booze in the middle of the squash court wings. I guess drinking is part of sport over there.
DPC++ for Intel Processor Graphics Architecture
I agree that's why they have here. Although often they will use some sort of code anyway.

But independently, transgender people have used their medication as mitigating circumstances in murder trails before.

So it is newsworthy.
The norm is a neutral relationship
> But you need a C compiler. `v -o` requires either clang (and thus LLVM) or GCC both of which are massive dependencies. This logic rings hollow.

It requires a C compiler. You said it yourself. Clang and GCC are not the only existing C compilers. tcc for example is tiny compared to them - on linux, `thirdparty/tcc/` is ~4.1MB, excluding the `thirdparty/tcc/.git` folder, and ~5.8MB including it.
sure, but that extreme isn't helpful just as making the FAE isn't helpful, since, as others have astutely pointed out, the system was designed, whether through negligence, malevolence or other intentions, to put the driver in a (systemic) no-win situation.

for instance, in the 737 max crashes, the pilots made errors, but the principal blame lies with boeing and their egregious systemic design flaws.
> ADA/Spark allows for formal verification, which C/Rust do not have to my understanding.

Check out Frama-C: https://frama-c.com/
> HW switches: LTE/GNSS, WiFi, Microphone, Speaker, Cameras

Is this only the second phone to have kill switches for these devices?

Or are there others about which I'm just not aware?
Their predatory business practice killed a lot of local cafes. Places that were funky, cool, focused on their product and had a loyal base of locals but were kept afloat by tourists and other passersby who wouldn't cross a street, or just fell for brand recognition. They'd set up shop across the street or around the corner, and operate at a loss until they drove the locals off.

I'm loathe to admit that starbucks quality has gone up a bit lately, but even today their standard pull is burnt to hell in the name of homogeneity. So yeah, they dealt a huge blow to Seattle's (and many other cities) local cafes, and replaced them with a sanitized lack of culture.
(IANAL disclaimer) Merely having customers in California does not create a "locus of business" in CA that would require you to pay the $800 annual fee. On the other hand, if you have an office and/or employees in CA, it probably would.
Very sensational, but how is this much different than the humor in Silicon Valley the rant makes fun of? Maybe the irony is intentional. I personally sit on an exercise ball at work because I like to bounce up and down. I developed that preference while programming spaceships at SpaceX. The over the top parties there were a lot of fun. Low key responsible parties are fun too; I recall after a funding round at Zipline we took half an hour to eat an ice cream cake then went back to work. The comments about coworkers drinking soylent is spot on.
Or bury it