skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's easy. We take their land and investment properties and put it up for sale on the market so that people can buy homes again. We tax all capital gains at a point so that once you are no more than 10 or 20 times above a middle class income, you have no incentive to try to earn even more money. At that point, it allows others who want to innovate and achieve that higher level of wealth a chance to compete and innovate rather than be strangled out by rich oligarchs. Billionaires are the new lords and nobles and if you can't see that you are blind to the reality of the situation. Monarchs caught on fairly quickly after Napoleon. Who cares what you are called, as long as you still have the same power that you wielded before? Not to mention you've convinced the serfs you can be "just like them if you work hard enough" instead of claiming divine right. I'm honestly shocked by the number of "intelligent" members of Hacker News who haven't figured out the "hack" yet.
Could a fake account network be trying to hide themselves in plain sight by engaging with advertisements?
Hand me the wrench ... oh wait.
I can modulate how much I dream based on how dark my sleeping environment is.

Blinds open even slightly: no dreams.

LEDs on electronics uncovered: no dreams.

Full blackout: auditory hallucinations before I’m even fully asleep.
This is cool as well: https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/

You get your name electron-beamed onto a chip that is added to the spaceship and sent to Mars. My daughter was extra excited watch the landing yesterday knowing her name (along with 10m others) was etched onto Perseverance.
> Because now it is the only way many acquaintances and businesses can be contacted, it will remain entrenched even with this hostile new privacy policy.

“Will we ever end the MySpace monopoly?”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business....
Also some of their hardware. For example lots of people love their mouse. On the other hand I know people who hate the Surface Pro.
Well, well, well: if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!
Indeed Viber is even worse. At least somewhat transparent about it but certainly not a possible destination for privacy focused users.
Just curious, does anyone here have dreams with some recurring themes? I've tried googling for this but sadly most of the content seems to be related to spiritual/mystical "explanations" of it. And I don't bring it up with anyone in real life so as to not appear like a kook.

I don't usually remember my dreams, but when I do there's a great probability that it falls into these 2 categories -

1. I suddenly find myself naked in public, the rest of dream usually involves me trying to remedy the situation. This is the stage where I usually wake up (in a panic with elevated heart rate).

2. Snakes. Not even sure what is up with this one. I am pretty afraid of snakes in real life, more so than normal people. But then there's a bunch of other things I am equally scared of, but I don't dream about them at all.
You would think so. I've seen the presentation slides, and I've seen the real production analytics. Totally different. But alas, I've since exited the life of startup employee and won't return.
May I ask what brand of toothpaste do you happen to use?
Sure enough. Edward Tufte calls this stuff "chartjunk."

His books are really good sources for learning to do this data-presentation well.
1T Dollar Paper – Bitcoin [pdf]
Isn't it roughly the same as any other online shopping? The main difference is it's not getting warehoused in the US first but most of the products will flow through the same shipping channels.
> 2.4M people is 0.03% of the global population. Heart disease alone kills 0.23% of the global population per year.

One would have thought that by now we wouldn't be comparing fatality rates of a disease that propagates exponentially when left unchecked, with a more or less stable family of diseases that isn't contagious, but here we are, apple pies to orange sorbets.
Wouldn't this be an obvious result since they suddenly pulled the rug less than 2 days ago?

I'd be interested to see how this would play out over a timescale when folks get used to going direct to news sites for their news? //*using the term news lightly, of course
Well, we often use plain old HTTP for this purpose, hence the plethora of 3rd party API's one can make an HTTP call to...

(I side with the monolith, FWIW...I love Carl Hewitt's work and all, it just brings in a whole set of stuff a single actor doesn't need... I loved the comment on binding and RPC above, also the one in which an RPC call's failure modes were compared to the (smaller profile) method call's)
GPT-2 would suffice for something as non-sensical and rambling as dreams.

No fine-tuning using the dataset, but here's the result of typing in a dream prompt into Talk-to-Transformer:

[PROMPT - a dream from DreamBank]
>>> I was putting together a plastic bag full of buttons and sewing paraphernalia. It was time to break out of a Hong Kong prison and I was on the fourth tier cell block. I had to wait till the window washers were busy and distract them by throwing ping pong balls so fire hoses filled with cyanide could be squirted on passers-by. I threw a rock through [...]

[RESULT]
>>> [...] a glass door. I was careful not to pull my stitches. I threw another rock out the window. We needed a diversion. I needed to take care of myself. The next thing I knew, I was in a helicopter about to take off. By this point my emotions were in flux, like people around a train wreck. It was hard to know what to do with them. I wanted to be strong but didn't have the will. I wanted to be a martyr. I wanted to be.
Hmm, there doesn't seem to be any real applications made with it yet. Though, the roadmap looks good.
No - I don't. If you are at a bar at the height of the pandemic, i'm definitely not causing you any harm by being there also. However, I do avoid my family who might be older. I don't go to large family gatherings. I do, however, believe American Ideals of freedom and free speech have definitely been harmed through this ordeal. No one can have any different opinion about COVID without being canceled.

As we are getting more and more data, the infection rate to death ratio is dropping lower and lower. At what point does Forcing people to lose their job and their entire lively-hoods, Taking on massive amounts of national debt that MY GENERATION will have to pay for, massive suicide increases going to be counted as direct harm? When we find out in the future after scrubbing all the data that the death toll was less than 1% but the suicide rate spiked by 30%, increased our total debt by 20% and fueled a massive recession in 5 years; how will future generations feel about the decisions we made?
I'm not super convinced by this study.

The examples show Fox News-levels of graph manipulation, i.e. maximum manipulation.

This is clearly done in an attempt to communicate a particular message. If you read the questions as "What message was the author trying to communicate?", which is reasonable, then the study could show that you were willing to repeat back the author's intended message.

In this sense, you weren't fooled by the graph - you understood exactly the message it was intended to convey.

A truncated graph is, in my opinion, completely appropriate for data where the relative differences or trends in data points is more relevant to the message than the absolute values - a temperature chart, say (where the absolute values are pretty much meaningless).

If you took data of a clearly relative type rather than a clearly absolute type, would you be able to say that viewers were misled in the exact opposite direction? That would be interesting.
Strict by default is becoming increasingly popular in production. It makes programs behave a lot more predictably for many common use cases. Extensions are enabled on a module by module basis so if you turn on strictness by default, you can still opt in to laziness if you have certain data structures/algorithms that rely on it.
I wonder if feeding this into a machine learning system could yield artistic/funny/useful gifs, especially for recurring dreams could give a pattern for a "meme".
Just ask the questions you would like to be asked if you were the one being interviewed.
I'm living this right now. A big, fat python 2 monolith maintained for 10 years. Everyone hates it, but it actually works perfectly fine.
Yeah, finding a decent Javascript or C++ developer is actually very difficult - everyone thinks they know C++ and Javascript when in fact only a small minority actually do.
In my opinion - Don’t give a less selfish response, it’s good if you’re doing great. Don’t feel ashamed or selfish for being in a healthy state. But of course, don’t hold back your sympathy either. You’re in a good place to offer support to those around you. I think this is an important facet of how humans work together, personally.
I think I did. It was hard to tell if your comment was supportive or not of the people blaming leaders and the grid management.
On iPhone it was $1, since it was easy to take the money. On Android, where most users didn’t have payment setup, it was free with the promise to eventually charge $1 in the future, which they never did. Then Facebook bought them for $19B.
I think it's that most people don't take time to reflect.

I recently became very anxious that I was "dreaming less".

Then I remembered that this couldn't be true because my cognition wasn't impaired. This indicates I'm still hitting REM

So what gives?

The answer, I'm not showering in the morning to go to an office.

No shower, no dedicated dream remembering time. Hence the perception of "fewer dreams"
On a different technical note - does Apple have some App store policy or guideline dictating how webviews (WKWebview vs SFSafariViewController) should be used in it?
The more that I read about what the social media giants are doing everywhere, including the recent drama around wsb discord ban and the Facebook-Australia thing, I feel that what's happening in China is chillingly close to happening to the rest of the world. Or maybe it is already happening slowly and we don't realise it yet.
Yep, the no-panic crate is the hack I mentioned. It's using the linking process to fail compilation if I remember correctly. It only works on individual functions. rustig I didn't know and looks very interesting, thanks. Having it integrated in the compiler as annotations and guarantees would be ideal.
Rationalization is always one of the calling-card signatures to drug use. Addiction takes over part of one's mind and defends its existence from other rational parts of the brain.

While I am now pro-decriminalization, I don't believe marijuana is as harmless as its proponents contend, mostly because I detect the same signature addiction rationalizations and defense mechanisms in the discussions and messages.

But I guess I am pro-decriminalization primarily due to me wanting to alleviate the economic basis of smuggling destroying the cultural vitality of Mexico, Central America, and Latin America, converting them into zombie narco states.

I still believe decriminalization will vastly increase use/abuse of drugs (the most heavily used ones are the legal ones) and treat our own people and problems.

But truly addressing that would be addressing the depression, loneliness, and lack of fulfillment the modern capitalist media consumer state creates.
OTOH, MacOS today doesn't seem significantly more capable than it did in 2012.
Imagine telling management you wanted to hedge for a 7-σ event. Lots of luck...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/
Not really the same, sorry.
I also agree with you, though I wonder about the copyright to the headline and blurb content when other people share.

IMO I agree any website should be able to opt out (or in) of Facebook if they like (i seriously doubt they would), and then everyone can run their own website.
Not comparable. MySpace was never adopted by physical retail businesses and the hospitality industry. Those didn't join social media until the Facebook era and, indeed, many people are complaining that while fewer ordinary adults are using FB, for a lot of businesses their FB page remains their sole internet presence.
I have used several delivery services, and my experience in two major metro areas has been that they are virtually indistinguishable from restaurants that have delivery people. The single biggest difference is that they tack on their own fee- a minor inconvenience since they take the orders online and so are less likely to get it wrong.
Thanks for this, however i've gotten to the point in my life that if a piece of paper matter to you more than past experiences and projects, I don't want to work with you or for you :)
> Contrast that with Java, where any uncaught or logged exception prints a detailed stack trace and (usually) one or more useful error messages, by default, since day one.

I think you're misunderstanding what the OP is trying to show here. If all you want is a backtrace, then Rust supports that out of the box. Here's an approximation of the full error message that you would see from the first example in the post:

thread 'main' panicked at 'dumping failed', src/main.rs:2:5
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

The OP has omitted the next line, which tells you how to receive a backtrace. Backtraces are off by default in Rust because, unlike Java, Rust has a lightweight, C-style runtime that tries not to impose any runtime cost that the programmer did not ask for.
Yes, fraudulent transactions where the buying party is deliberately misinformed are not voluntary, and even in the case of voluntary transactions it is possible for either party or both parties to be wrong about their expectation of receiving a net positive value from the trade.

Those who are routinely wrong in their expectations tend not to accumulate wealth, and thus make up a smaller proportion of economic activity over time—unless there is some external force at work transferring wealth from those who make good economic decisions to those who do not, thus increasing the economic influence of bad decision-makers.
Show HN: A small text editor in go inspired by kilo editor
Pricing depends on the size of publisher/newsrooms; it starts at $199/month for access to our data viz library. For individual newsletter writers and bloggers, we are experimenting with plans that are less.
Unless you live in New Zealand you probably haven't ever written down your contact information when entering a store, and probably don't even know what that is.

Flattening the curve was really about overloading hospitals. The end game is to make covid-19 extinct in the wild, or domesticated in the sense that only relatively harmless variants remain.

Without serious testing and contact tracing that may take a very long time. We completely fumbled the early 2020 chance to contain the virus. The vaccines should decrease the numbers enough that there will be a second chance to contain it, this time with real efforts at contact tracing if we actually want to make the virus extinct.
Netflix etc. has just resulted in us spending less time on the things that make us happy (time with friends and family and socializing) with things that are addictive but make us less happy (endlessly staring at pixels).
A custom relational table plus custom code.
I think this has potential. I would move away from the "Corporate illustration style" if I were you, it's getting some pushback lately. Also, a minor nitpick about the logo which reads "HIGEORGE" as a single word.

I instantly searched for pricing, and was put off by the lack of it. I think if I were a small publication, my chances of subscribing would be a lot higher if I knew how much it would cost me without going through a sales person. Maybe you are still figuring out prices right now?
It probably helps in Rust.

Perhaps it helps more in certain specific languages or contexts.

The studies found no general “overall cost” improvement; in other words, the extra correctness came at the cost of tons more boilerplate and “fighting the type system”
That may be straightforwardly true for another service — Maps, Email, etc. — but the draw of a messaging platform is its network effect.

"All the freeloaders" is half the reason that WhatsApp is popular: no matter who you want to contact, they likely had a WhatsApp account — from your elderly mother to your college friends to the B&B that you're going to stay at abroad.

If it goes from "everyone I know is on WhatsApp" to "1 in 20 people I know are on WhatsApp" maybe I'm less inclined to continue to fork over $20.
This is a problem you can't fix 100%, it has to be taught through catastrophic failure unfortunately. It's a human flaw, rust (et. al.) gives a pathway forward after that.
Mindless gear sites for me, something to get my mind away from the news/home worries. Nice break during the workday too.

https://gearpatrol.com

https://uncrate.com

https://hiconsumption.com
> If you order things by id (often useful for pagination, since incrementing ids are usually ordered by creation date) uuid are of no help.

The use of ordering by a surrogate key is to have a stable ordering with no semantic meaning, so UUIDs work just as well as IDs there.

> You would need to sort by created_at and this would require an additional index.

Yes, if you want to sort by a semantically important data element in a table with surrogate primary key, you'll probably want an index on the data element. So?

> No to speak of pagination by id ranges or whatever is used sometimes.

Assuming a serial column is creation-ordered is not a good idea, but it's usually not too wrong; assuming it's dense, as well, is going to be wrong more often than it is right, except where data is never deleted. Assuming it is dense over the range of a query is even less reliable.

Paginating by serial ID ranges is, almost without exception, a horrible idea.
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That travel "ban" is riddled with exemptions.
I considered myself pretty in-the-know and knew about Predictit, all kinds of crypto, and therefore I thought I was up-to-date on the crypto news but I did not even know that there was a crypto clone of Predictit.

>blockchain-based markets are highly niche

Not sure if he means if the whole of blockchain is highly niche or blockchain-based prediction markets are highly niche, but if it's the latter, I definitely agree.
If the OP is targeting a specific region with their ads why are random accounts from outside seeing those ads? and if they're just looking around for random companies to like why is that being credited to the ad buy?
ProtonMail Overview
> WhatsApp will continue to honor that choice.

That's good news but I can't find this stated anywhere in their policy:

https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/privacy-policy/?lang=...

It seems like an important thing to mention.
I live in a 4000sq ft “mansion” in Texas. My gas bill is about 30-60/mo (not sure what this month will take us to.. maybe 75ish). Electric is 90ish with a max of about 350 in the summer if we have all three a/c units running.

I find the assumption of 10% of your sqft to equal the cost of your electric in the summer to be pretty accurate. Also mansions typically have zoned air systems which helps bring down costs
I wonder if he uses electric resistance heat? Seems unlikely - most places in Texas need A/C to be livable, so I'd expect people to have heat pumps.
> while pushing for California to colonise the whole world.

Example?
I really don't think you have thought this through.
welcome but not a welcome Ask HN post really....

here's another of many similar link thread posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23118993
Thanks for mentioning IHP. I've only read its landing page, but if what is has to say about itself is all true and from what is apparent looking at code samples, it definitely deserves to be on folks' radar!

It's enough to make Haskell really seem like a reasonable choice to "jump in with" without fear of never reaching some mundane goal.
IIRC spark can optimize it away, and in OO there shouldn't be user_id
Once with

/usr/bin/dotnet build -c Release --no-restore -r ubuntu-x64

and once with

/usr/bin/dotnet publish -c Release --no-restore -r ubuntu-x64 --no-self-contained

What should the second do for aot ?
I'm often very critical of FB, but this approach makes absolute sense. Australia is demanding payment for every shared news story so FB decides it no longer allows the sharing of news stories.

This is like if politicians were shocked that raising cigarette taxes resulted in a drop in cigarette sales. FB now has an explicit monetary incentive NOT to allow news in AU and it is a direct result of government actions.
It was though, at first I simply switched to surrogate dopamine dispensers which I ended up blocking, only allowing myself access to certain hours for a limited amount of time. Overall: blocking myself from such activities turned out to work well, can't recommend it to everyone though.

I picked up new things by making an habit out of it, such as reading at least a few pages of a book every day. It's cliché, but setting medium to long-term goals also clarified what I wanted my days to be made of, so now I'm very focused on a personal startup project.

Bonus advice that may not apply to you at all: don't be surprised if relatives tries to keep you from changing your habits, or if you find yourself distancing away from friends, it's a feature of improvement not a bug.
As an aside it's interesting to note that Collabra are working with Microsoft on a Mesa 3D/Direct X bridge. With Wayland support coming to WSL 2, it's possible to speculate that this approach could also be used to bring a Wayland compositor to the Windows Remote Desktop for application window-level remote access to for WSL 2.
Masks and social distancing alone would have sufficed. South Korea is proof of that.
These at great points about Signal I hadn't considered. Maybe I'll run a matrix server too. How does the experience compare to e.g. whatsapp?
What do you think happens if we go back to normal behavior before we have a large fraction of people vaccinated?
> I wonder about the copyright to the headline and blurb content when other people share.

I think this is a slippery slope on copyright enforcement, we have seen it getting ridiculous on YouTube. What if someone shares a screenshot of the article? and if we do this, are we not allowed to write dialogue exchange from movies in social media posts as well?
Why does every advert look the same? Blame Corporate Memphis
A theme that comes a lot for me is getting bitten by a spider in the dream. The catalyst I've noticed is heart burn/acid reflux. I think recurring themes in dreams are linked to recurring/similar events during the day. The same neuronal pathways are followed so you get similar dreams that link up with those events. Or maybe not! Who really knows?
What’s so wonderful is you can completely ignore bitcoin! No one makes you value it above zero. I myself value it highly, but consider high-end works of art as valueless. But we can each decide what has value independently!
Whatever Perl's other issues, through the introduction of `META.json` CPAN successfully augmented a system designed for executable install scripts like `Makefile.PL` with a declarative package metadata mechanism. Why can't Python do the same?
I used exaggerated language to convey that I don't personally agree, but my statement is exactly what Austrian/Chicago economists believe.