skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for digging out those links.

> Pretentious postmodern nonsense is a serious menace in universities...

I'm not sure what you expect me to object to there. If you don't think postmodernism has caused serious damage and is a terrible influence on peoples minds in the humanities then we'll have to agree to disagree.

> Some event with christians and anti-postmodernists speaking

Again, I'm not sure what you think the problem is. Dawkins isn't saying Christians should be deplatformed. His tweet was doubtless intended to promote the anti-postmodernists; you can't scour every retweet for transitive ideological inconsistencies. Well, maybe people do, but I don't think that's a good use of time.

> The letter to an imaginary muslim girl

Yeah, it's a bit cringe-inducing, but it's clear what his point was: that women in muslim cultures are subjected to terrible things which don't really compare to the problems of sexual inequality in western culture.

> Maybe as an old guy don't tell a woman that her experience is wrong.

Yes, that's one way in which we differ. You're a supporter of identity politics, one consequence of which is that you believe that the truth of statements depends on who utters them. I am a traditional liberal, who simply continues to follow the tenets of rationalism that were in place before the postmodernist and identity-politics movements took over the minds of most of my generation.

I'm sorry, I guess we don't have any common ground here. I agree with pretty much everything Dawkins has ever said. I have no respect for any religious belief in the minds of anyone who has had access to a modern education, and I have no trouble saying Islam is a terrible religion -- you don't have to look further than the treatment of women. There's no need for nuance here -- all religions are childish.
> The second pushback is along the lines of “... Google is a damn good search engine ... ” ... I agree:

Well, I disagree.

1. It is quite difficult to determine whether a search engine is good or not - without massive resources for surveying. Also, remember that even if one likes the results - they typically don't know which potential results they are _not_ seeing, to compare against.

2. Google is known to suppress search results on political grounds. Specifically, Socialist and anti-Imperialist news and commentary is partially suppressed. This was covered here on HN a few times already, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975338 ; Google officials mostly keep quiet about this of course, so the breadth and scope are not entirely clear. There's also an NYT story about this and other issues, but it's paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-... . I would not at all be surprised if other non-mainstream political views are being suppressed as well.

3. Inherent, over-arcing Biases in Google's ranking: This is a different issue than direct suppression or blocking. Here's I myself am being very anecdotal and speculative, but I have the distinct sense that larger websites get ranked higher by Google, so that for most of a typical person's searches they are likely to stay within a the sphere of, oh, I don't know, a few thousands or tens of thousands of larger sites. Again, anecdotally, when I search duckduckgo I seem to get into the "tail" in terms of site size faster. I may be totally wrong about this but as I said in (1.) we can't really know.
The concept you're referring to with drawing obsolete design features from the past is called Skeuomorphism. It's a huge pet peeve of mine. Apple products used to be bad about this.

Tesla has done well to design away the ICE front grill. Though even the original Model S had a fake grill to not throw people off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
OAuth does what you want, but also does what you don't want.

This is like Android allowing apps to ask for permissions they don't "need" because, well surveillance and user data brokerage is the business model that most are info and the reason many apps are "free" or "cheap" in the first place, crowding out more honest business models.

Maybe there could be an initiative for apps and sites without predatory practices, like "apps/webs needing no personal info from you"
Cool! Installed it and played around a bit; everything worked as it should. Here's hoping it sticks around!
I honestly just need it to be fast, 45kph is dangerous on motorways. Plenty of European cities have motorways leading drivers into the city from the suburbs. The range isn’t an issue under normal conditions, but may be a dealbreaker if it’s your second car and backup.
Indeed. Here are the relevant links by the way:

Chrome extension search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/wikipedia%20links

Extension page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-links/mn...
It used to be a no-brainer to go overseas.

But the Double Irish (and similar structuring) is no longer permitted and would be treated as an illegal tax scheme today. (It's grandfathered in for companies already using the structure.)

Generally, between BEAT, GILTI, global transfer pricing policies, and the rise of nationalist economic policies, it's now riskier and more expensive to switch to a global corporate structure than to just keep everything in the US.

I used to do a lot of outbound structuring work, and now (post TCJA) almost everything is inbound, compliance, or restructuring existing foreign operations to more tax-friendly foreign jurisdictions (i.e., moving out of China to Vietname, etc.)
Enterprises generally go too far in the direction of restricting data access and copies of data, making themselves more fragile. They should outsource custodianship of data or do like what aws etc do, proper backups and fail tolerance.
The problem with Hey is that they were directing you to their website, circumventing apple's payment mechanisms. If you're using their stuff and giving them their cut you're gucci.
Generator->electric->drive gives a longer range per gallon of gas than ICE->drive, since the generator is always in its optimal power band.
> Why is that even a question on your part?

I think the parent isn't actually questioning that someone in authority should or should not have the same repercussions, but rather rhetorically calling out, as you explicitly did, they often are held to a lower standard.
Mozilla needs to work harder on the permission system for addons.

One of the permissions you have to grant to the container proxy add on is:

“Access your data for all websites”

That’s not acceptable.
Mischievous Maven Makes Marvelous McDonalds Map Denoting Delicious Dairy Deliverability
It is all a scam man... Everyone basically knew what he "released" about spying - it was just suddenly normalized & authorized by the media. He is what we call "controlled opposition" -
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” ― Lenin.

Yes, this means that folks using Signal.org & Protonmail should think twice before considering them panacea.
Like explicitly saying in the House of Commons that they propose to violate international law, because they have just realised there is a flaw with the international agreement that they themselves has signed only a few months earlier, after having won a general election specifically on the basis of signing that specific agreement, and angrily telling everyone that the agreement had been studied enough and was fine and that any attempt to delay was an act of treachery against the people rather than due diligence.
At that income level, a married couple with two children and childcare expenses could easily end up with zero tax bill and maybe even paying negative income tax. Standard deductions, child tax credit and childcare expense credits get you there without any exceptional circumstances.
The law that broke was...
Interesting article.

Would be curious if anyone inside (or ex-apple) can confirm if the article does accurately describe the overall organizational structure and leadership style
The link is already down....

Who has an archive?
Hi, I'm not sure if my comment will be read since there are a lot of them already, but what would the best move be for a medium-sized company in this situation?

Hypothetically, the fees won't be as astronomical like in UCSF's case but the importance of the data being held in ransom will still be the same. Should they take the risk of getting their financial/healthcare/IT data uploaded to the public if they don't pay the fee?
But wouldn't you be sudamericano?

America isn't a continent. We have North America and South America. We typically refer to the grouping of those two continents as 'The Americas', but not America. At least not that I've ever seen.

On a side note - maybe it depends on if you are taught a different number of continents? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent)

In the U.S. we do 7. Maybe in Venezuela or Brasil they do 5?

I guess that's one of the things that confuses me here. If you're from Europe you can be European because that's the continent you're from. If you're from Canada you can be Canadian or North American, but you can't be American because that's not a continent. I mean I guess you technically can, but it's a bit of a lossy term to use. It isn't specific enough. Do people from Bangladesh or Pakistan think of themselves as Asian, or Pakistani?

I guess as I see some of this discussion, it strikes me as very arbitrary and resentful, and also not very consistent.

> USAian and find it quite amousing but I don't think it will catch on.

Yea I saw it and had to do a double take because I thought it was USAsian. I think at least in English it won't catch on because it doesn't flow very well.
I’ve generally heard people defend the doxxing as a rational choice.
> Trying to cycle or scoot on slush filled roads or in 90 degree plus temperatures is a tedious chore; being unable to simply go out and bring home a 75 pound piece of unassembled furniture, or buying frozen foods in bulk sucks too.

As far as I am concerned, I ride buses and trains and almost never cycle, and I don’t have a car. The cases you mention here would be solved much more rationally and efficiently by generalising home deliveries (with electric trucks). You don’t need to dimension your car for the furniture you need to carry around once every 5 years. You can just rent a van for a day then.

> Cars are freedom and power.

...which come at a cost that too few people realise, and which our children will have to pay.

> There is way too much idolizing a sort of serf mindset here; have nothing, do what government tells you, be part of a crowd dependent on others to sustain you.

Now I have some ideological issues with this.

Most governments I know encourage people to buy cars because it stimulates the economy and keeps some factories running, and some mates among money. Governments in general follow, not lead, these efforts.

You already are part of a crowd and could not survive on your own. You are dependent on thousands of people you will never meet for the most insignificant of your daily activities. To paraphrase, there is way to much idolising a sort of tough survivor mindset around. The tough guy living in a forest with his gun (which he built? From ore he mined?) is a mirage. If society collapses, tough guys will die just as well as others. There has to be a middle ground, where one can be wise enough to enjoy the freedom that living in society provides without being entirely controlled by totalitarians.
the transition to EVs will only increase driving and efficiency will be far down on the list as many will chime in that it does not matter because its not oil and further enforce their view by pointing to solar and wind energy.

it is very much the same scenario that played out with the move to LED lighting, suddenly you can so much more lighting because it cost so little compared to previous lighting.

if anything our next bogeyman may be all the excess heat we generate by increased power usage
Few people want to do a site wide search and the ones who do will press the input box on the top left. No one expects that ctrl-f will open a site wide search, everyone expects a page search.

If you still want to enable this ctrl-f to enable the site wide search, I suggest making it opt in with the checkbox. It's really obnoxious to have to disable the checkbox.
Yes, because he did it while swimming. Parent is talking about sitting on your bed.

Obviously, when you combine such exercise with activities that require full attention, like swimming, frying a steak or driving a car you add a dimension of serious danger.
> Regardless of the interesting history, I agree with you, it should be universally deductible.

I’m for it being universally not deductible. Or at least not deductible for corporations.

The idea is that it forces everyone onto a common public individual market as there would be no tax or cost advantage of corporations to self-insure or provide insurance.

Longer term this gives better mobility to workers and lowers costs of the individual market by bringing in 100M+ healthy people (which lowers the average risk weight cost of insurance).
> Location This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.

I love the idea of a shell on iOS but why does it need to know my location?
Pretty interesting stuff. Presumably one market here would be to hook people up to vital signs monitoring at a hospital without having all the wires going to the cart beside the bed. That would certainly be a win. I could also see wiring up an athlete in this way during training to improve their ability to target workout stress zones in real time.
Yeah, relative to other nations, Kiwi governance is extremely responsive to the will of its citizenry.

Compared to America, I think they're much more likely to end up taxing the snot out of their own billionaires (both imported and domestic).
“Is Life Worth Living?” By William James (1895)
Wouldn't he need to pay to actually place the order though?
Commercial vehicles are not as powerful as you think... The Scania P-series which is often used for garbage trucks in Europe has engines ranging from 200hp to 500hp [0]. Cargo vans like the Fiat Ducato are typically not much more than 100hp.

Cars on the other hand... The Mercedes GLE mid-range SUV starts at 245hp, and has options all the way up to 612hp. Why on earth do you need so much power in a family car?

[0] https://www.scania.com/uk/en/home/products-and-services/truc...
Clearer Thinking
May I quite sincerely suggest that you take another look at RationalWiki? In the last few days I have done that. I used to have a favorable impression of it (perhaps based on ignorance?). But I think that, at least nowadays, it's not a terribly serious source -- a lot of polemicism and ideological edits, and its statement of purpose is explicit that it wants to have "snark" to make the articles "less boring". I think we might be debating something which is more the domain of teenagers when I suspect we're both at least in our 30s.
> I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute

Agree with you that this seems actively malicious, and because of the dollar amounts involved, is liable to get him in big trouble.
not down for me. I noticed Twitter can have issues with Firefox. Maybe its a browser problem?
There are a number of command line shells available on iOS, right up to full blown programming environments in Python, Lua, C# and others. Pythonista is pretty mature, comes with a command line interpreter and you can get a very capable user created enhanced shell environment for it.
This video of his from last year might be the most incredible YouTube video I've ever seen, both in composition and achievement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnvQggy3Ezw
He wouldn't have tweeted it if it was malicious -- he could have even kept it secret. What is it with HN? little pranks, reverse engineering, vulnerabilities, free ice-cream. I do not condone crime but let's be honest, he could have made money with his findings online...the person is just letting his curiosity go wild. If Yelp wants to fire him I'd take him in my company any day.
Sorry? You said "8-bit and 16-bit". And I'm not familiar with their entire product line.
I played it for a few weeks, and (at least where I played) it looks like when you are at a pond with fish and somebody throws in bread, except with humans instead of fish.
If he's just triggering "Add to Cart" and the system responds with "Ice Cream Machine Broken" then it's relatively less harmful. As he says, it probably messes with their data. Unlikely that he's spending $18000 per minute.
They will shut it down as soon as someone implements apt-get like feature.
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Not really a replacement for voting.
This was my thought as well. If you discourage holding stocks and things over other assets as stores of value, I think that could have some deflationary effects. Not only that, but companies are then somewhat disincentivized from growing in valuation, but finding ways to grow in their reach/authority/power etc. The end result seems deflationary... i.e. companies worth more for less dollars.
This site is so clean. If the creator sees this, or if anyone else has the knowledge or pointers, I would like to know how to create a basic one page site with a map interface just like this one. I have zero programming experience for reference.
The fact that uname -a reports "Linux" and not iOS or BSD implies it's not some sort of contained userland, it likely has no access to anything outside it's sandbox, and can't run GUI apps means Apple are unlikely to care too much.
You don't willingly fuck with Ronald's lawyers. The soulless Muppets are brutal even when dealing with Hippies.

Imagine what they would bring down on a semi-legitimate business like Yelp.
Well they did throw in "RIP". Which can be used in a non-literal way, but considering the context here...
Isn't this very illegal?
Fair enough. :) My real point, though, is that vowel transitions are inescapable in English, and so I don't think we ought to get overly worked up about them. And in fairness, this is just one more marketing langauge abuse on top of a giant heap of marketing language abuses -- OAuth is standing on the shoulders of giants here. How should a non-native speaker pronounce "Flickr" or "iOS" without any guidance?

(And we geeks have our own sins to atone for -- how to pronounce "/etc/", "/usr/bin", or "TTY" for that matter?)

On that last one, I'll share a quick story. I once worked with a genuine Unix greybeard on a remote project. He was tasked with debugging my terrible phone-home code, which was stored on a computer that I had couriered to him. The first time we ever spoke on the phone, he kept talking about "titties"... "this titty" and "the other titty". I'm sure that it was natural to him, but it took me a long moment before I realized he was talking about TTYs!
Availability of fiber vs cable vs DSL vs WISP to homes in the bay area varies wildly from neighborhood to neighborhood (even from one block to the next). It's a little crazy that even in SF proper this is still an issue in 2020, but it turns out legacy infrastructure is simply hard to work with.
Yes, but if you are using emacs for other work, you are hopefully spending most of your time doing that and not writing emacs lisp.
In other words, ask to fix the problem, not implement a specific solution. Because in the end, fixing the problem is all that matters.
https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues/249

This seems like a workaround so that the app can continue running in the background.
But that's already possible, right?

The problem is that you can't make _everything_ optional, or else the user can deny everything and the application then has to tell the user "You denied X, but we really need it to proceed. Try again...", which is a definitively worse experience than having the grant request say "here's what this app is asking for".
We switched our encrypted compress offsite data backups to use https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Borg Backup does data deduplication so the required disk space is much lower.

We saved 50% cost immediately. Then found out https://rsync.net/products/attic.html has special plans (compare to https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) for Borg users and saved another 30%. Not bad for an afternoon of work.
What if the other person covers their eyes at the same time. Thank god for quantum mechanics
thank you for your knowledgable response and expertise.

are there any examples you are aware of where a person has been harmed by receiving a pardon or commutation?
> depreciating status symbols is also a contributor to the economy

Yes, for a single iteration, but it's a vicious cycle of shrinking the pie.

versus creation of new (true) assets makes the pie bigger. A bigger pie means the tax slice grows and there is more to go around. I agree that, for example, Bezos having $300Bn locked up in non-taxable is not ideal too. Ideally that would have been taxes as an "income" as it grew.

Maybe something like the required minimum distribution from 401k would be a good solution?
Not on an internal API I wouldn't think - he's just spoofing that volume of orders from registers, as if customers had walked into all stores and all ordered the same ice cream simultaneously.
All it would take them is one software update.
Until you realize some people are doing it on purpose and others are getting mad about it
Was just coming in to point to this. While the geometric intuition in the post being discussed is quite visual, thinking of matrix elements as directed arrows generalizes easily to high-dimensional vector spaces, and also makes it very easy to understand the behavior of sparse transformation matrices, and motivates a nice correspondence between linear algebra and graph algorithms (ref. graphblas)
Oh, so I'm wrong. Makes more sense that way :)

Let me add another postit of "try NixOS in an environment" into my TODO list...
It is only good for the economy if the reinvested money is more productive than what the the owner of the company would have done with it. This encourages vanity projects.
And probably that was the secret to America’s success: people seeing themselves as future winners and not permanent victims.
There are many reasons why everyone should grow a plant, but you need just one
Hey HN community, Thank you for the great discussion we had last time[1]! A lot of people reached out and spawned some very interesting conversions. Happy to jump right back in, reading how you tear apart my numbers :)

Ben

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696688
Yes, another case of a little whitd lie to grab eyeballs. Drafting an order and placing an order are 2 distinct states of an order
Not sure if "France" is an "economy like yours" but they have definitely suffered from capital flight following a wealth tax hike[0][1].

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1268381

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2015/02/02/frances-7...
You can also stick the cells in the freezer before soldering. It adds a fraction of a second to coming up to temperature, and gives the cell proper a lot more thermal wiggle-room. Nothing bad will happen if you keep them above about -20° C.

Definitely file this under "bad advice you probably shouldn't follow, and don't tell them I sent you", but 'allegedly' this works...
Some details here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mcbroken

A commenter asks: "How are you funding the $18k per minute this requires?"

He replies: "I'm actually not paying for it! just placing an order."

I'm not sure how he's placing an order without payment information, or if he is providing payment information, how he's managing to not get charged for successful orders (when the ice cream machine is not broken). Perhaps the payment doesn't go through until he arrives to pick up the order?
The McDonalds app lets you place an order, but you have to check-in (via the app) when you arrive to pick it up. They don't start preparing anything until you do that; you can cancel, change stores, adjust order, etc. up until the "I'm here" button is hit.
Seems like the website has folded under the load and is McBroken itself ;)