skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you try athens locally? First time I hear about them but seems damn interesting.
> The purpose of the first amendment is that the government can't throw you in jail for speech

Why shouldn't the government be able to do that? What is the principle that motivated the restriction you described? The concept of free speech is a lot bigger than the government.
Imagine if the media used it's impressive persuasion powers to unite the public on issues rather than divide them, what kind of a country and world could we live in?

Based on my reading of history, it seems unlikely that this day will ever come through voluntary means, so I wonder if it could be brought about organically via incremental improvements. I wonder what percentage of people can agree on the general notion of whether the aggregate actions of the media divides people, for now completely leaving aside whether this is intentional or not. It would be fun and informative if HN had polls on questions like this, and perhaps could even lead somewhere.

> It makes me think the solution to today's anti science bias isn't just "educate more".

I agree. It's weird how outside of technology and science, we insist on coming up with solutions before even trying to analyze what the problem is, while simultaneously complaining about people being anti-science.
> doesn't it get old to have to clean the cup and a set of spoons after every use

sort of, but I just measure all the dry ingredients first, then the wet ingredients, and then put the cups/spoons in the dishwasher

> Why not pour directly into the mixing bowl that you put on a scale?

Recipes here very rarely give weights.
Thinking about how wasteful was the early exploration of outer space gets me thinking if it didn't backfire. There could've been a moment in society where people where supportive about it, when the costs weren't clear enough. However, once the taxpayers realized these were not only huge endeavours, but had huge costs just for the rush of being the first at all costs + many catastrophic system accidents... clearly society put these things on hold.

Now, society is getting back to explore science more and more, but with a better, lasting attitude. See, for example, Space X. Likely, they'll send someone to Mars without deaths or even huge accidents that could only be justified by a lack of financial responsibility in NASA's early days.
Be vigilant.

https://choosedemocracy.us/
In the USA, "tablespoon" is an official standard measurement of volume with a defined size. it doesn't actually mean a table spoon you eat with. Yes, the official standard tablespoon is probably bigger than most actual table spoons, if that means a spoon you eat with.
> Oh and 'cups', who came up with that?

A cup is 8 oz., unless you're measuring coffee, in which case it's 5 oz. instead. I forever got confused when buying coffee makers...
How do you taste an uncooked cookie dough?
I think the reason Lego is so compelling is that the fact that you can internalize the list of pieces and understand how the system works adds appeal to just looking at a model- a sort of "wow, look how they did that" factor.
This is to calm the market. Granted they went for their highest selling macs, so that’s a pretty big sign of confidence. This is also the lowest risk as far as their SoC design goes as nothing in the iOS/iPadOS goes past 16GB. Being able to daisy chain multiple screens or handle eGPUs are more demanding. I suspect March-June well get a few more refreshes and then fall something major.
The linked one, I assume: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/52/hodes.php
They are few and far between in the States, but some restaurants explicitly ban or discourage tipping and pay their staff a higher baseline wage. A good start would be patronizing such restaurants more frequently.
Or it breeds a horrific culture of obsequious, servile service, where you’re bothered every five minutes during your meal so that your server can ask if everything is still okay. I’ll take European style service any day of the week. Sure you have to get their attention when you need it, but they don’t rush you out and they only bother you when you want them to do so.
No one needs to buy all of a thing for it to be valued at some price. If you buy half for 80B, is that not an argument for the whole thing being 160B? If you but 1/10000th for X, then the same argument works.

2019 Revenue > $15B. It's not uncommon for companies to worth 10x revenue. In fact, when I do a first pass at company worth, 10x revenue is where I start.

For an experiment ( which I have done), take all publicly traded companies, take their market cap and their revenue, divide, and you get pretty much 10x. Check standard deviation to get even more knowledge about this simple company valuation estimate.

This alone makes it plausible $160B is in the ballpark. Considering the parent company is worth $1.2T, YouTube being worth 0.160T is not that ludicrous.
That falls under baking IMO.
The DailyMail is a tabloid. Might as well post the National Enquirer.
While I do tip waiters since that is the norm, I don’t tip others. I also don’t purchase food delivery since the cost to quality ratio is ridiculously high to me, especially considering the tips people now expect.

But the system is unjust because people keep rewarding those who make the system unjust. Mainly employers and the tip receivers who like to evade taxes. Both of these can be fixed by greatly increasing minimum wages or implementing a universal basic income.
Yeah, pre compiled c libraries for node js, like SQLite.
Worth noting that the teaspoon to tablespoon ratio is 3:1. Measures that are evenly divided into three are common in the English system. So common that despite having eight ounces in a measuring cup, the one third cup is part of a standard set of measuring cups.
Yeah, but that's true with all long term nutrition and lifestyle studies, since it's impossible to test for causation with any degree of rigor (I don't even know what a long term double blind study would look like).

So, yes, correlation does not imply causation; it does still imply correlation. Even if a third variable, if you're getting poor sleep, you're more likely to have higher Amyloid-β build up
I would like to set the expectation now that I expect to be compensated 15% of your hourly wage every time you read one of my HN comments.

I assure you that I will have a bad day if you visit HN and read one of my comments without paying.

You can argue that HN should be free to read until you are blue in the face, but the fact is that if you show up in this thread and read my comment and don't pay me, then you are making me have a bad day.
It’s not a problem if they lose money, but it is a problem if they have an expectation that they’ll lose money. Would you invest in anything that you’d expect to lose money on?
>why not just make that the price of the item? It just makes no sense to me!

There's nothing stopping them from doing so but it benefits them by being deliberately opaque.

Also, worth noting is that Americans consider 10% to be a stingy tip.
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I wrote a custom network block storage server.
Whats the best age to introduce lego to kids?
AIUI that's not correct. You can ignore a DMCA takedown notice but you lose the common carrier protections and effectively become open to being sued for contributory infringement. They have a choice, they have the legal ability but eschew the liability that exercising that ability carries.
Don't companies just leverage the newly acquired company in order to get the money, these days?

The Glazers (or whatever they're called, the US owners of Manchester United) loaded up Man Utd with a lot of debt from... the acquisition of Man Utd. They barely used any of their money.
The problem is not S230, the problem is centralization.
I don’t think low-paid workers receiving cash tips should be paying much in taxes to begin with.

Instead, I think the system should require me and others like me to pay more in taxes.
> How many companies can afford to keep it running?

Doesn't it pay for itself many times over with ad revenue?
Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, (cont)
The worst part about mandatory tipping in the United States is that it does not improve service at all, and the service in American restaurants strikes me as poor and stuck in a rut: it is mainly in North America that waiters continually circle about back to the table uninvited, asking “Are you doing OK?” or “Can I get you anything else?” when you are just trying to have a private and leisurely conversation with your dinner companions.

Sometimes this must be because their boss is telling them to gently push customers out the door to free up the table. Sometimes it might be because the waiter himself releases that by freeing up the table for another set of diners, he stands to get obligatory-tipped twice that evening instead of just once. But with a culture of obligatory tipping, customers have no way to penalize waiters for such over-intrusive behavior.
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If whitelisting is "application level" it's easier to diagnose with an "application (protocol) level" error.

That is rather than a timeout or connection refused, an smtp 550 or 530 error with exlenation (access/relay denied; client ip not in whitelist)?
We're not even discussing the minimum wage here; it already is a thing whether you agree with it or not. The question is whether there should be two different rates for positions that are customarily tipped, thus decreasing price transparency and shifting the responsibility of paying the employees from the employer to the customer.
First off we're talking about AWS, not on-premises. Second, if we were talking on-premises, you can get into a NetApp controller for FAR less than $40k a year, but that's not really relevant to OP.

There are two options in AWS: one where you get an entire virtual storage system to yourself but also need to have some NetApp expertise (although less than on-premises). You can find pricing here:

https://cloud.netapp.com/pricing

And one where you just consume the NFS/SMB shares more akin to EFS (pricing at the bottom of the page):

https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-aws

In both instances you can get better pricing than what is on that page by working with a partner, but if you don't want to you can buy directly through AWS and pay a slight premium.
I think covering the "mainstream" is the point of the site. Don't get me wrong, I really do enjoy fast loading text based websites, but if web devs had to worry about those browsers, then CSS (and web technology in general) could never develop past its infancy. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is up to you.
Because they're usually hanging somewhere you can't use them (like on a freezer). Or they're just too complicated (overwhelming amount of noise), and without enough detail (lacking regulation aspects that are extremely important if you're actually doing anything with metabolism/omics).

If you need to know something about a pathway, opening a text book is easier and a much more complete source. The posters pretty much just artwork/an attempt to impress non-biochemists.
I don’t think Android was well understood by the Linux and Open Source community in it’s first three years. A lot of people happy that it was consumer Linux and hacking away on root kits, bootloaders, and alternative marketplaces. We didn’t realize Google would have an effective monopoly on software distribution inside of the Android ecosystem (at least in western markets).
Reservoir Dog "I don't tip" scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ
Heck, they don't even include the prep times in their estimates. "Dinner in 30 minutes!" ...assuming you already have all the veggies cleaned & chopped, and the oven pre-heated.
> I don’t have good citations handy, but it’s generally accepted that the construction of the American interstate freeway system after WWII was the primary enabler of the mass exodus of the white middle class to the suburbs, and the subsequent abandonment of people of color in inner cities for several generations.

This is like arguing against rope because it was the primary enabler of lynchings.

> Furthermore, continuing to build more travel lanes to alleviate congestion has been shown to simply lead to more traffic. It’s a circular problem.

It isn't. What those studies are showing is that congestion suppresses demand, so if you relieve some of the congestion, some of the demand comes back. So to relieve congestion you'd need enough lanes to carry not the existing level of traffic, but the amount there would be if there wasn't any congestion suppressing it.

This is clearly demonstrated in China where they build multi-lane highways to nowhere as a jobs program and then traffic does not magically appear to fill them.

The problem is that in some places, satisfying all of the demand by only increasing the number of travel lanes would require like twenty travel lanes, which isn't ideal. But that doesn't mean you can't reduce congestion there by adding travel lanes, only that you need other solutions there too. Add a travel lane or two but not ten, build more housing closer to businesses so people don't have to commute as far, stop charging user fees for mass transit etc. By doing these things together you can alleviate congestion without needing twenty lane highways.

> We are finally seeing this turn around in a very painful way in Silicon Valley.

The problem there is totally unambiguously not "insufficient highways" and is in fact "insufficient housing" which induces those long commutes for whoever can't afford the existing housing close to the city where the jobs are (and also outrageous housing costs for the housing that is, because nobody wants that commute). Build more housing.
It's been a while since I've done any pure C, and I'm sure I'll be outshone by others', but I've always liked RAII in C: https://vilimpoc.org/research/raii-in-c/
There are different minimum wages for people in e.g. restaurant service, which is to me the quintessential tipping experience. If that went away, it could perhaps pave the path to less tipping overall

But I'm not defending the argument, just adding to the debate. I'm fine with tipping, personally, because I think it aligns incentives to encourage good service. That good looking people get better tips doesn't bother me in the slightest—life isn't fair.
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Sure but what harm can masks do? Why are people so vehemently refusing to wear them? I don’t get it really
Prep time doesn't include chopping or measuring ingredients. You need to have the ingredients ready before the prep time starts. This is stupid, but people are used to it and like faster recipes so more and more of what should be prep gets hidden in the ingredient descriptions.

So if a recipe says "1/4tsp salt", the time to measure out that salt isn't part of the prep. If it says "10 carrots, peeled and diced", that's not part of the prep.

But if in its ingredients it says "10 carrots" and in the steps says "peel and dice the carrots" then that time is part of the prep.
Only half of us have been wearing masks. For places in which rules were stricter and compliance was wider-spread, see countries that currently don't have lockdowns.
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"Disclaimer: IANAL, and..."

Ok, I'ma stop right there.

I've followed (US) lawblogs for years, and I've learnt solidly exactly and only 2 things:

1) If you're arrested, immediately ask for a lawyer and then keep your mouth shut. Anything else out of your mouth will bring pain to you and your lawyer. Doesn't matter if you're innocent, shut up.

2) We should listen to software developers opine about the law as much as we should listen to lawyers opine about software development. Even lawyers and judges get law wrong more than one might expect. A non-lawyer has no hope.

If you want to know what a law means, listen to a lawyer who works in that area, otherwise you run a bad risk of being made stupider merely for having paid attention.

I know my harsh tone will turn some people off, but if this PSA helps anyone avoid actual trouble with the law, I am okay with that.
My tip is paying a server at a restaurant to serve me.

My taxes pay for the state to protect me. Also, none of those things are in the service industry.
True, it is pure status-signalling. According to the article, the average price for a 2-digit Delaware plate is $212,000. A single-digit plate got %675,000 in 2008.
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Yeah, I switched from GIMP to PaintNET and loved it for my simple needs, but because Pinta wasnt what I hoped it would be nowdays I just use http://www.photopea.com on any system, its basically PaintNET in the browser.
I don’t think anyone has a problem with that, as it’s clearly stated on the menu that there is an 18% charge.

I wouldn’t have a problem if the menu stated all items will have a mandatory extra 18% charge for gratuity. I would gladly pay it. I simply want it to be clearly stated and transparent.
An alternative that does not come with a potentially machine-bricking kernel panic bug is Opensnitch [1], last updated 14 months ago with a change to "funding.yaml" asking for donations.

A fork seems to be relatively alive [2] and I use it personally -- it works well, but is a bit of a PITA to build. Time to buy the devs a coffee...

[1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
[2] https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch
Couldn't one be implemented using Wireguard kernel module?
No they were not. Please see this post from Dr David Stillwell from the Psychometric Centers at Cambridge University who responded to a post here a few weeks ago about this very point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24912986
Almost always word of mouth. They start looking for somebody experienced in what they want to do (development and/or software architecture) and some eventually find me.

So selection bias is very possible.
The cost of delivering the video decreases over time and unlike Netflix which has to pay for content YouTube doesnt which gives it tremendously better margins.

Just look at the debt load of Netflix.

The cost of acquiring content is so much greater than serving it especially now that every traditional media company has launched its own streaming service.

Also you can never compete with the viewer numbers between a product that is paid versus free so the most that YouTube has established is clearly much greater and visible in that it has no direct competition in the user generated video space for 15 years until perhaps maybe tiktok but tremendously different platforms.

Meanwhile Netflix has competition from Amazon Prime, Disney, Hulu, HBO, and others.
OpenSnitch has been abandoned. Fortunately, this fork is actively being developed and looks very promising: https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch
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There is also a discussion on r/dataisbeautiful https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jymc6z/oc_...
A '->' is always a runtime indirection involving an extra memory access, while a '.' is always resolved into a single offset at compile time.

E.g. a:

int x = a->b->c->d;

means there's 3 memory accesses, while

int x = a.b.c.d;

means there's one memory access for the whole expression.

Also consider this:

int x = a->b.c->d;

I can immediately see where pointer indirections are happening.

...unless you're in C++ of course which messed up this simple rule when references were added to the language.
This is a classic argument but it doesn't hold when one needs to work for their basic needs in order to survive (food, clothing, shelter, healthcare).

If basic needs are gauranteed in some way for everyone, then yes, you don't need a minimum wage and can work for whatever wage rate you want.
I am sure it will be hard for India to come up to that level if people just keep leaving for greener pastures. Europe didn’t get to be Europe by doing that. Of course it’s your choice to leave, I don’t know it somehow smells bad to my value system, but that’s just my problem.

If enough people keep landing in Europe like this, I am pretty sure sooner or later, Europeans will be upset. It’s inevitable and human nature. Fixing your own place is better than crashing at somebody else’s.
This would be quite interesting. I don't think both could continue to grow and thrive without each other though.

Android, Youtube, Google Search, Gmail and Google Maps feel like the only things that keep Alphabet relevant.

Google search ads appear to be a losing battle with uBlock, pi hole, etc. I also think a significant portion of their users have trained themselves to skip the results marked as Ads altogether when looking for results. The saving grace in this space has been the mobile landscape where they can be gatekeepers to prevent ad blocking.

Alphabet/Google has already been walled out of most social spaces, Tiktok, Snapchat, Instagram (not entirely), WeChat, and WhatsApp.

Youtube is fairly unique with the ability to embed the ads within the video stream itself.

It is technically possible on the technological side, but at what time and effort cost? It would be a lot of effort to break apart all of the infrastructure that YouTube has that is general Alphabet infrastructure.

My understanding would be their costs would both go up as well because their volume would decrease as standalone entities.

It would be a bold & interesting change but I don't foresee it in the near future unless DoJ breaks them up.
1 and 2 have been solved in EU
I grew up in a region where everything in recipes is given by weight and learned to cook this way.

Nonetheless, although initially super annoyed, I have grown some fondness of using cups as measurement. For day to day cooking, I can’t be bothered to do things precisely and I’m more interested in rough ratios. Usually I don’t use any measurement device at all.

Also, no matter which way, often you can not rely on measurements because of how widely the products differ. For example paprika powder. The exact same amount can go from not doing anything discernible for the dish to overpower it.

My favorite way of cooking is how it was done in a half day class I took in Singapore. There were some basic amounts given as a starting point, then all further instructions where: do this until it becomes that consistency or color, taste, if you want it spicier add some more of this, if you want it more sour add this, sweeten with that if you like, taste again, etc.

Exact measurement I think is great for certain dishes where it really matters and for professional places to make it reproducible and scalable, but at home, for me it takes like half the fun out of it and I reckon more people would enjoy cooking if recipes where generally conceived, less as instruction manuals and more as seed for an idea for experimentation.
I (in the UK) have always understood a tablespoon to mean 10ml, but also that the exact quantity doesn't really matter and I'm ok just to approximate it with an actual tablespoon or according to how I feel.

The Wikipedia page on tablespoons has a lot of (now) unsourced claims about UK tablespoons that make me frown.
Links to all chapters on one page: https://golemarms.github.io/accidental_empires/
The US government has had to take over failed cloud providers to keep the Federal solutions running because they couldn't be migrated.
Did a few little practice projects to get comfortable with riveting but for the most part jumped right in. I had prior hobby woodworking experience, so I didn’t have to relearn shop safety, many of the power tools, patience and the “measure twice cut once” mentality, etc. Anyway, if you make a mistake you can just redo the part. A lot of kit manufacturers divide their kits into subkits you can buy separately, allowing you to space the costs out over many years.