skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another significant factor is police departments in the USA are almost always hyperlocal, meaning very corrupt practices can fester for a long time, all that has to happen is the sherif/police chief keeps getting re-elected.
Several of the cited passages you link are factually wrong. For example, she definitively resigned and was not fired. Saying she was “fired” instantly reveals partisanship and prejudice to de facto define Google to be in the wrong and the resigned researcher to be in the right completely divorced of the facts.
I agree, I'm a night owl myself, but I don't think it's natural or healthy. In hunter-gatherer societies the last one to go to sleep was at midnight (youngsters) and by 8 am everyone was awake.
that is funny, but I think the point is that the contents are confidential, not the fact that it exists.

E.g. if I tell you "I know a secret" you still don't know what it is, even if you know it exists.
It is harder than that. I would for example like to use google maps api - but I cant.
When the share market is hot, sell shares.

When the credit market is hot, issue debt.

When the consumer spending is hot, sell more product.

Many people don't get this, specifically that this concept is not married to any particular entrepreneurial idea, and many founders are following these financial axioms, not product line passions.

Way to go Coinbase for getting the ducks in a row.
Europe varies wildly in uptake of EVs because incentives and infrastructure vary so much. Here in Norway 50% of new car sales are pure EV and there are chargers all over the place. Ten percent of cars in the country are now electric. A lot of petrol stations, particularly Circle K, are installing chargers too.

But in the UK the story is very different, 10% of new car sales and a total of less than 2% of cars are EVs.

The difference is probably down to the taxes on cars. Here in Norway expensive cars are doubly expensive because of progressive taxation on them from which EVs are exempted but in the UK you just get paid back a few thousand pounds by the state when you buy an EV. So here EVs are comparable in cost to ICE cars especially at the expensive end of the price range.
The extreme amount of regulation around becoming a publicly traded company makes this infeasible except for large, mature companies that don't really have much asymmetric upside available anymore.

These regulations were created mostly in the name of protecting "mom-and-pop" investors, but the net effect has mostly been to shut "mom and pop" out of the most lucrative investments. This might or might now be a good thing, depending on how valuable you think it is to decrease variance for "unsophisticated" investors.
I was just putting my books back on the shelves, and I've got two copies of De Kleine Johannes, one printed in 1919, and one printed in 1983. The first one has the „low quotation” marks, the last one single, ‘high quotation’ marks, but they are mirrored (the first one is a sort of upside-down comma).
Where Are Today's Warrior-Poets?
This is the United States of America. Public Transportation costs more money than a car does once you do a proper TCO, and similarly most urban apartments cost way more than a modest house does on that same metric. Obviously there's always an exception to every rule, but the honest-to-goodness most-fiscally-responsible thing you can do here for 80%+ of regular folks, is to own an efficient vehicle (one per adult) and to own a house (one per household).

And that's before even getting into Student Loans + Medical Debt, the two actual real-world largest causes of American financial instability.
wrong culture maybe, but their have definitely been successful communal societies. And there have definitely been successful free software projects.
This is not a new thing for those who are fighting for better wealth distribution, but despite raising many voices in UK, politicians who create policies still use the same excuse to pump huge amounts of cash to the rich people.
In that regards maybe this study is an important step toward change.
2₵s: The wording of this title is extremely misleading. "Biden Crime Record", refers to controversial legislation Biden was involved with, not a record of crimes he is accused of.

The actual article about Instagram suppressing opinions about that controversial legislation is interesting.
A sensor would also work here. Especially with the new SmartSensor feature, sensors are basically free so you can set them up for event-based DAG executions.
> Conceptually, a git commit is a snapshot. Simple as that. The user doesn't need to worry about how git manages its data internally.

This "simple" model is completely useless when trying to understand what merges, cherry picks, rebases, and patches actually do. Snapshots don't naturally do anything, and can't be combined in any way.

If you think in terms of snapshots, then you have to also start thinking about diff algorithms, and how different diff algorithms can give completely different meanings to what a "merge" or a "rebase" actually mean. Which is true, but given that git comes with one specific diff algorithm built in, and beginners should DEFINITELY not mess with it, it muddies the waters quite a bit.
It's just an excuse to justify selfish tax policy that favors the wealthy. It obviously doesn't work because the wealthy don't have to invest into domestic jobs. They can also use their money abroad. If you give them more money they are just going to spend more of it outside your country.

The opposite is also true. The vast majority of consumers spend their money domestically. Yes the products they buy are often imports but in many cases a big chunk of the money goes to cashiers, delivery drivers and so on.

Of course I am simplifying this a bit. In theory the roles can switch and business owners spend more domestically and consumers spend more abroad but as it is right now the rich just invest into Chinese businesses or production capacity in China. Think of companies like Tesla building factories in China.
A third of the entire value proposition of TypeScript is the `strictNullChecks` flag. I'm glad they turn it on by default in new projects.
Can anyone explain to me why I am being downvoted for this? It was not a direct assault, only a statement to try to show deficiency in an argument. If it needs to be edited to seem such as, please let me know how it could be better worded if you see merit in the argument.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458230
You could think of UBI as "trickle up". The money starts at the bottom, not at the top.

Mind you, I'm not necessarily sold on UBI. But I think this is an interesting way to look at it.
Suppose somebody wanted to write their own code search backend; is anyone maintaining a common crawl of all github repos?
I’ve heard some aggressive interpretations that your personal Bitcoin wallet could be reportable as a foreign asset by saying that Bitcoin is in the cloud, not anyone country.

Saying your keys are in the USA is kinda like saying your Swiss bank account’s login and password are in the USA. If that Swiss bank account is still reportable, why not your Bitcoin too?

What matters is where the asset is, not where you can control it from.
Today's volume on Coinbase pro exchange is 45000 BTC. That's 1m in fees
> Although most of [modern music] is cloying and pandering.

This holds true for classical music as well. You just don't notice because of survivorship bias.
Lydia raises another $86M to build a European financial super app
Which SDK/package did you use for Firebase and React? There seem to be half a dozen and ReactFire the most dated?
And the Paul Krugmans.
Good point. As an aside, I wonder which organization she works for and why NPR failed to mention that.
My review included the picture of the card, they just didn't reattach it to my rejection email
It requires me a mental effort without the accent, though, and I will register it as a typo. You might as well write "il a aimer". The later sounds the same as with the accent, but it's obviously very wrong to put an infinitive there.

I guess I proved your point to some extent: I care less about accent errors than other mistakes, and just consider it a typo. But reading a completely unaccented text is hard for me, and I text, e-mail, and communicate online a lot.

In my experience, people are not foregoing them on purpose, except on capital letters, which is an heritage of AZERTY keyboards + windows (hopefully AFNOR keyboards catches on). Capital accented letters is the example to cite if you want an example of computer technology changing our habits: my friend Etienne (Étienne?) insists there is no accent on hist first name, but it makes no sense to me.
Have GitHub credentials on your machine and interacting with the service is the most valuable data for GitHub. They probably have something in the terms that they can use this data.

So I see this more like a warning, than a positive thing.
Higher risk strategies are necessary in some industries super competitive industries. You play it save and your competitor takes the risk and they put you out of business before the rare event happens. If you both take the risk, then when the rare event happens you both are screwed equally and aren't out of business.

Combine that with the evolution of an industry (safe players dying out) and it's another dynamical systems thing. Industries get riskier and more coupled and more efficiently tuned to normal circumstances then blow up.
I'm doing some data cleaning and analysis on some VEARS data. Hoping to get access to a large sample size of anonymous medical record data after that for similar analysis. Trying to see if recieving multiple vaccines at once is correlated with higher occurrence of adverse events, specifically moderate or severe cardiac events.
Right now there are only two sellers
also, if it isn't clear, moderation in some form is necessary otherwise you end up with cesspools like Gab, Voat, Parler, et cetera.

Since the centralized model is obviously broken, perhaps try the opposite approach?
Those are heteronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
I don’t think this is a problem for GDPR. As long as there’s no personal data involved you can count active sessions, aggregate data etc
> A great alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth and AWS Cognito

Can you elaborate a bit on how it's a great alternative, or what is different?
Why to write unit tests – with real world bad example.
Nice real life example on why unit tests are important.
https://simpleanalytics.com/
Says this on their homepage:
We don't use cookies or collect any personal data. So no cookie banners, GDPR, CCPA, or PECR to worry about.

Seems like a cool company/project to me.

But, it's not free :(
$19/mo
Still thought it's worth pointing out.
I'm a huge fan of strictNullChecks but it is remarkable how much language features contribute towards making non-nullable types ergonomic. For instance Rust has a lot of primitives on Option a lot nicer.

One that I love is `Option::ok_or` (or `Option::ok_or_else` if you like). It takes an Option and converts it to an error. With the try macro (?) it makes Option a lot easier to use. Compare:

function parseFile(file: File | null) {
if (file === null) {
throw new Error("File must exist");
}
// TS now infers as File
}

to:

fn parse_file(file: Option<File>) {
let file = file.ok_or(Error::new("File must exist"))?;
}

Likewise if you want to apply a function to an Option if it is Some and pass along None otherwise, you can use `Option::map`:

fn parse_file(file: Option<File>) {
let parse_result = file.map(|f| parse(f));
}

Indeed it's a little interesting how libraries have adopted paradigms beyond the language. React is extremely expression based, but that makes for a clunky combo with JS' primarily statement based control flow. You see this in React developers' reliance on ternary operators and short circuiting for control flow in JSX.

Of course this just JavaScript being a classical imperative language. Not much to do about that.
Ask HN: Could megacorps start their own country?
What are the hurdles / advantages if any?
Part of it too is that I tend to work on smaller projects that don’t grow and change indefinitely like startup saas does. If you’re getting something up quickly where the requirements will change all the time, a service like this starts to make way more sense :)
The order is closer to

1. Contributors

2. Customers

3. Freeloaders

The type of person who is likely to contribute will be the first to look at the license, and AGPL will rightfully worry them.

For the open source funnel, the potential customers start off as "freeloaders". They are more likely to look at the license in the first place because they are more likely to be using the software in a commercial setting and have to worry about licensing. The AGPL concerns hit them first.

The freeloaders will just switch over to a more liberally licensed project.
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corrected. thx
A bundle in the dark: powering homes without light switches
Agreed, just thought it was noteworthy
Porn tycoons don't refer to themselves as porn tycoons. But it's not like they're secretive about it. They're about as open about it as other people are about their non-porn business. Sometimes it comes up in conversation, sometimes it doesn't, but it's not like anyone's out denying it or anything.

Source: worked in porn.
I'll add that if you're doing work on managed hardware, you really want IT to be your friends, and this is not a good way to accomplish that. Certainly talk to them too about the impact the device policy is having on you, but don't treat them as the source of your problems, treat them as colleagues who are themselves under various regulatory/policy restrictions and who may be able to help you.
Depending on your definition of "mechanics", the second sounds significantly more immersive to me. If the graphics look like Toy Story, so be it. I don't mind if the movement is slightly janky, considering how imprecise a keyboard or controller is to start with.
Indeed I’ve chosen each of the above for different projects. I’d really like to know what is different, specifically, about this product.
I don't plan to buy Coinbase stock, so in that sense it doesn't matter to me at all. But I'm pretty sure Coinbase's customers care. I doubt anyone would want them to trade exclusively as a token, but maybe they could do some shares on Nasdaq and some in token form. If anyone would figure out the regulatory hurdles for that, it's Coinbase. Their whole business model is being the most regulated and rule-following bridge between traditional finance and cryptocurrencies.
Not really. I originally used just a P_ prefix instead of POTTERY_ and tried to abbreviate some things (e.g. ITREE/ILIST for intrusive containers, etc.) I found it just made things ambiguous and required remembering more stuff (for example is ITREE a red-black tree or a weight-balanced tree? is it a map or a tree array?) I imagine a bunch of abbreviations would be less approachable for people that encounter it in a codebase without having seen Pottery before.

Thankfully it only affects the instantiation of the template. When you use the resulting code, it's only as verbose as your name for it. You can call, say, an int vector "iv"; the type will be iv_t and functions will be iv_init(), iv_destroy(), etc.

As for Pottery's internals, they're pretty verbose everywhere unfortunately. I did abbreviate a few things (like "open_hash_map" is "ohm" internally) but in the end I just decided to embrace the verbosity.
So operas are not serious art?
In order to avoid the appearance of impropriety, the Office of the Pardon Attorney was created, along with a process for reviewing and vetting pardon requests.

Historically it has not been quite as arbitrary or controversial as one might think.
Nothing wrong with that, that’s the right mindset for getting things done
Ultraprocessed is a counter marketing term from the meat and dairy lobby. It is authored in opposition to things like Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat. Nobody uses this term organically, look in Google Trends yourself. It is an obvious and conspicuous marker of a campaign, exactly equivalent to something like “drinkability,” an Anheuser Busch marketing term.

This is a market that traditionally derives most of its profits from a close relationship with the government, for subsidies (the #1 source of profit for farms, maybe for the whole agricultural sector) and health guidelines (the cheapest, and therefore highest RoI advertising). Beyond Meat enjoys none of these advantages and its equities wildly outperformed e.g. Tyson.

I am not saying that marketing does not play a role in health outcomes. Just that the nutrition discourse is overwhelmingly marketing budget driven, that actual nutritionists struggle against consumers immensely, and that once you’ve heard one ad campaign you easily become jaded of all of them. Well meaning people get coopted by all of this.
You're bringing issues of morality into this when it seems to me that the employees are more focused on self-interest and the accumulation and exercise of raw power while Google is preoccupied with public relations.
I really love what you are doing guys. Self-hosted option with SaaS model as an alternative - sweet, perfect pricing balance.

I don't know about others but I am really tired of settings up auth over and over again for over 8 years already. Don't give me firebase it sucks so hard I can't even open my eyes when auth needs more control or extension. Im going to give you a shot in my next project
vegetable oils crushed from olives or seeds; butter and lard obtained from milk and pork; and starches extracted from corn and other plants

The distinction is accurate: These are unprocessed oils, and there is a big difference between them and the processed oil that fast food is fried in, and that industrial cooking uses.

The same plaintains fried in ultraprocessed vs. unprocessed Oils is going to be worse for you. See for example "The Dental Diet" for its effects on your teeth, but there are other nutritional reasons as well. (Anecdotally, I think lack of nutrients in the fat makes you hungrier; it makes it "addictive". If you cooked in real fats, you feel sated with very few fried plaintains.)

The way I think of this is: "Food is not a linear combination of macronutrients". All fats aren't equivalent; some fats are very good for you. Again Pollan's books are very good on this subject.

I'm not very familiar with the ingredients in Filipino cooking, but since it was an American colony in 1898, I would guess the habits are strongly influenced by industrial cooking (spam being popular, etc.) It's a mix of local ingredients and cheap ingredients bought from Western corporations.

You can see it in a Chinese-American family pretty clearly: the grandparents eat fatty cuts of meat (but small portions), fish heads, etc. and live until 100 years old. The parents are mixed -- they eat some traditional foods (fish and vegetables), but cook with American vegetable oil instead of soybean oil, and got addicted to McDonald's in the 80's. They have more health problems in their 60's and 70's a result (hypertension, heart disease), and they're not going to live until 100. Even without obesity, they still have these problems. Their kids are fatter than both generations, and as a result less healthy, at least without a change in diet in adulthood, etc.

I suspect it's clearer in the Chinese case because there was less western influence (fewer occupying armies and less trade). Whenever Western processed food companies take hold in a foreign market, the health of the population suffers. This is well known. And I would guess it happened earlier and to a greater degree in the Phillipines than in other countries.

I'm not claiming to be an expert here, but it seems suspicious, and some Googling reveals that people are studying that issue. That is, because of history you may not remember what is "traditional", but I can more or less see what was traditional (non-Western) from my grandparents born in 1916.
Well snapshots and lists of all the diffs to apply in order (so long as there are no conflicts) are equivalent, but there are important ways that git is fundamentally based on snapshots rather than diffs. A simple example is that rebasing changes the revision id and snapshot even if the diff doesn’t change, or that rerere exists. If snapshots were equivalent to diffs then this wouldn’t need to be the case: just do set union in the world of diffs.
Authentication is not a solved problem. Every ecommerce website out there rolls their own, usually with obvious flaws. Some major banks too.
I'll edit it for you and detach this subthread. Thanks!

I have this crazy idea to build a pull requests system for HN comments. People could suggest edits that way without cluttering the threads. It's either a terrible idea or a great one.
And "we need to talk about..." says that I need to care. That's beyond your right to say, Headline Writer. I'll care about what I care about, and I'll talk about what I care to talk about. You want me to care about vaccine side effects? Great. Do better than telling me that we need to talk about it. Give me a reason to care, in your headline.

(Sometimes this is called "burying the lede". It's both bad practice for authors, and annoying for readers.)
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I was attempting to answer a question. It wasn't my intent to pose an argument.
When I've encountered this before the shady seller was also the manufacturer.
I've been using Nhost backend plus in a project and it has email verification for new accounts: https://github.com/nhost/hasura-backend-plus
Trump Twitter 'hack': Police accept attacker's claim
> Robinhood agreed to pay $65 million to settle the charges. ... Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Robinhood agreed to a cease-and-desist order prohibiting it from violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the recordkeeping provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, censuring it, and requiring it to pay a $65 million civil penalty.

A slight quibble, Robinhood and the SEC settled. There was no fines issued.

I do think that the threat of being sent to jail would be a much better deterrent than the threat of losing 2x the money gained by doing something illegal.
Hey, this product looks like a pretty decent "stack agnostic" way to handle auth. I've definitely considered using services like Cognito but always returned to "DIY" for the data ownership. A couple questions:

1. How will you keep bigger engineering teams on your platform if access to the data (and therefore migration) is easy?

2. I mainly work with Python. Typically I use Django's user system with my own user model and I copy and paste the client company's "general email template" into the verification / signup / reset emails and I'm done with it. If I need it on multiple services I install a JWT plugin. It takes maybe 10 minutes at the start of a project, and the developer experience is similar from what I have heard in Rails with Devise. Does this service have anything to offer to these "mature" stacks, or are you generally targeting newer ecosystems like Node / "frontend first" projects?

Also, your landing page looks great!! :)