skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Although it's the concentration of power that is harmful in long term than who is holding that power.

Moreover, I am not sure how much manipulation humans are able to detect ; a small misinformation injected into twitter timeline or a small bias in facebook can cause ripples across the world's outlook over time that we can't even notice when it's happening. Social media companies which provide these feeds always get away by saying it's by the algorithm recommendation but who is tuning those parameters? Only a small amount of human population asks 'why' type of question and rest of them just absorb the content and it shapes their mind. I watched the movie Social Dilemma sometime back and slowly this has been dawning on me - wtf we are witnessing. World is falling in hands of these social media companies, they are storing our data, they profile us, they manipulate what we see, they tell us what they want us to see ; it's mind-boggling that the world is sleeping on this much centralisation of power happening in broad daylight.
Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where adults are overweight
Well since it uses names (last and first) that all start with Z most of these crooked outfits could survive losing 0.5% of the "real" names off their list by filtering the Z. Z. names.
Popularity doesn't mean that it's good or that the monetization is reasonable. I happen to have seen sales figures for one of the top slot machine apps on one of the major mobile app stores and their revenue was as good or better than GI.
Pretty much all of my career has been in maintenance, so I tend to see the mess that gets made and while bad-design is always a killer, I notice there are languages that encourage/discourage it to varying degrees.

In the case of C, and other C-like languages, I most recently have four or five custom-made programs [some requiring specialized tools] that have little/nothing in the way of documentation: what it does, the "why-for"/motivation, any sort of high-level architecture-plan, or design-documents.

Fortunately for me, most of the programs actually do have documentation thanks to a true hero that left before I arrived.
> The blockchain is a merkle tree structure shared via p2p communication over a protocol designed to prevent double spending.

I'd say "The blockchain is a Merkle tree structure with a consensus algorithm which selects a canonical path to a leaf node at any given time."

I don't think preventing double spending is a meaningful concept for non-cryptocurrency blockchains, since those have nothing to spend. Whether we accept that such things are blockchains determines whether this distinction makes any sense. Though, if all blockchains are cryptocurrencies then there's not really any need to separate the two terms.
There is virtually no difference between "population control" and genocide.
Nobody tries to control their own people's reproduction, they try to control other peoples' reproduction.

Nobody argues that the USA is overpopulated and needs population control, but tons of people argue that the entire continent of Africa is overpopulated and needs population control. It couldn't be more obvious that demographics play a role in who has population control enforced, and who doesn't.

You could just as easily allow people from "overpopulated Africa" to move to the USA and balance things out, but it would be easier for racists to force abortions and sterilizations on Africans than allow black-skinned immigrants to relocate into their communities.

If you're deliberately trying to prevent certain demographics of people from being born, that's genocide. This notion that genocide requires mass-murder is ignorant and dangerous. Eugenics is genocide, full stop.

And no, "population control" cannot ever be implemented equitably, don't even start.
The Puzzle of Europe
I have a Hacker subscription to Repl.it and there's a really large red "Cancel Subscription" button in the billing section.

https://cln.sh/wVN7n2+
I assume you are leaning heavily on some kind of natural language processing to automatically extract this information from SEC filings and earnings reports. That's a great idea. I just hope that you're being very very careful about the generalizability of your models & their performance over time.

Obviously 99% of the work in buidling such a system is just getting access to all the data and setting up the ETL pipelines, and that alone is value worth paying for.

I'm also a bit confused by this part:

We wanted to build an experience without the hassle and complexity of charts and financial jargon.

Yes, there are some funny terms like EBITDA out there, but ultimately this is all just part of doing due diligence. If you want to make a medium-term or long-term investment (i.e. you're not gambling on short-term options), you gotta look at that stuff.

And if I don't want to do it myself, I can log onto Schwab, Ameritrade, Fidelity, etc. and get 5-10 analyst reports on pretty much any ticker, including an "in-house" grade (e.g. "this stock has an overall D rating") that, theoretically, is all I need to know for making that kind of investment. I'm curious (not doubtful, just curious) what you offer that's better than this.
>So it's a bit like if the two Koreas refused to acknowledge the existence of each other and claimed the whole peninsula for themselves, which I believe is actually not far from the situation there. But it's more complicated with China because of the existence of a "3rd faction" in Taiwan that would like to see Taiwan independent of any Chinese state whatever that state might be.

I believe this is the official situation but I think the unofficial position is the People's Republic of China wants Taiwan while the Republic of China on the whole is perfectly happy with just Taiwan, but any official recognition of that fact just highlights the rejection in practice of the official position of the PRC and is likely to upset them further, so the official status quo remains as a strange diplomatic stalemate.
Brakes hardly get used because of regenerative braking. I only brake once I'm below maybe 25 mph unless there's an obstacle or I'm in some sort of traffic that demands it. I don't have a tesla, but I've heard if you use the one pedal driving mode with the aggressive regen, the brakes may never need changing.

I imagine tires on a tesla would need to be serviced like any other sports car as they are definitely NOT using the sort of thing you'd find on a volt or leaf. My car came with "special" ev tires that are super hard and are inflated to 36 psi. My understanding is that a lot of the non sporty EVs have similar tires.
I think that if this was done slowly with a tax that increases year by year(like the Australian tabaco tax) and with some of the money being invested in lab grown meat reasearch we'd get to the lab grown meat future much faster. I suppose I should have been clearer on the fact that I didn't meant a jump to 7x the price over night.

There are still health concerns around a diet heavy in red meats, but at least it would address the environmental issue.
In addition, I've always seen Square as more of a physical payment processor - I know they do online, but I think that headphone jack dongle was their big thing. I don't see how they can bring that to music, especially by acquiring TIDAL.
What about word-of-mouth recommendations? If a service doesn't work for me and I cancel, I may still recommend it to someone else. Not so much if I know they're going to hate me for it if they try to cancel.
I said skimming through the links. When you’re reading the whole text the difference isn’t so big (though I’d still prefer “link, try the WebGPU demo” to “try the WebGPU demo, link, here”), but it’s common to navigate through documents by heading or by link. (Related: all desktop browsers support navigating through the document by link/form field with the Tab key.)

Imagine also reading through the whole document and then deciding you want to click on one of the links. You’ll execute an action like “back to last link”, and the screen reader will announce “link, here”. Now which link was that? And so you’ll have to ask it to read the whole line before you find out, which really slows you down.
It was always a socio-economic decision. Kids were your retirement plan before we came up with things like 401ks.
Varies by business, for sure.

I'd say the chance is much higher for B2B businesses. Say my Shopify store fails so I cancel my subscription. But I'll likely come back and try my luck again with Shopify on my next idea since I've learned the platform.
This is absolutely delightful. What a great hobby - tracking the historic locations of different PDP minicomputers through analyzing archive photos.
Feels good to be saying the same thing for a year and finally get validated. Death rates have nothing to do with countries having a better response, better lockdowns, better mask wearing. It's literally who has the fattest people. The US is one of them. Asian countries not so much.
The “US DoD” IP could simply be a mobile network operator’s internal IP address leaking via the XFF header. Mobile network operators are known to use public but unadvertised IP ranges such as 25.0.0.0/8 (UK MoD: https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/04/t-mobile-clever-or-insane...) for their internal networks in order to avoid clashes with actual private IPs. For example, by using a “public” IP address, any private IP address requests from a client will route through e.g. WiFi instead of through the cell network. It would not surprise me if a Chinese mobile network operator was using chunks of unadvertised US DoD IP address for the same purpose.
I mean, people refusing to participate does move the needle a bit. I think as awareness of the problem grows (via articles like this), there will be more demand for less wasteful NFT platforms.

You're probably right that the same is not true of Bitcoin. In my experience the digital art community is less nihilistic than the Bitcoin community about climate impacts, if only because Bitcoin has had a longer time for people concerned about the climate to self-select out of the community.
>It’s hard to keep up with the pace of innovation in this space especially with a competitor as skilled as Microsoft in this arena.

In hindsight yes, but even a few years ago the 'lightweight IDE/Text Editor' scene was wide open with no clear winner. You had products like Sublime Text, TextMate (mac), Atom, Brackets, and a bunch of other ones competing for mindshare.
thanks, jay.
sure lets connect: @IoGleek

it would be helpful to know more details about 1. and 2., we already have SVG implemented - more export options are available for paid users
This feels like it's just designed to encourage rapid replies, like their chatrooms. I've always admired HN's time-delay on posting replies the deeper you get into a thread - it deliberately reduces engagement but seems effective at stopping things getting too heated.
I would even add this XKCD. https://xkcd.com/1174/

Or even translating...

Try putting their demo website in Google Translate or even try to select the text on an email in their demo webmail app to copy paste it in google translate ....
I just realized that. That makes absolutely no sense.
Fun fact: Oreos are vegan, still magically not good for you.
Thanks for sharing this! Just the executive summary and core findings, readable in a few minutes, pack quite a punch. And they don't shy from criticizing other parts of government for failing to conduct proper pre-merger checks, for example. The recommendations do seem to stop short of asking for a breakup of the existing monopolies, instead seeming content to make their further growth more difficult, which may be far from sufficient to address the issue at hand.
Just to clarify:

Are you saying that you have and will always have the ability for customers to cancel their subscriptions online without contacting customer service? And the only reason OP was not able to do so was because of a temporary technical issue lasting about a day?

I just want to be sure that is clear.
"referential integrity" is not necessary to make something relational.

Is just that for some reasons, everyone on the RDBMS/relational space instantly add EVERYTHING that make a rdbms.

Is like adding transactions to OO... and if a OO implementation don't have it claim is not OO.

P.D: I'm building a relational language... And also start with FoxPro. What it not have at the time was well rounded SQL support but is until this day MUCH better rdbms tool than any other on the market, by a mile (considering the difference on time and scope, btw)
What I experience in real life is pretty bad. My extended family went from being really close and compassionate to hateful and unable to be in the room with others.

Your world might be nice, but not everyone else's is.
Don't forget ads! There are way more people wasting time on that.
I like this idea a lot... My only concern is the hip factor in the app could drive a surge in the demand for the underlying securities rather than people investing based on value. This could create a situation where "green investing" is wildly popular and cause a bubble.
With the risk of generalizing, this is what I do with some streaming services. I subscribe then cancel after 2-3 months after I've finished watching what I was interested in. I do this with HBO, Showtime, Hulu, Netflix, etc..

I do the same with Leetcode, cancelling my subscription after I'm done prepping then resurrecting it if needed.
I thought that the new challenge-response systems between providers (shaken-stir?) was supposed to take 99.9% of this. I guess I'm off to see if they have actually fully implemented it between providers.

Edit: looks like summer is the mandated time. From: wikipedia article on Stir/Shaken As of 2019, SHAKEN/STIR is a major ongoing effort in the United States, which is suffering an "epidemic" of robocalls.[1] Both the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Federal Communications Commission are requiring use of the protocols by June 30, 2021.[2][3]
Diogenes the Cynic
How does the total fertility rate in your country compare to the US (1.78 in 2020), considering your country's pro-natalism policies?
> creating competing spaces.

Creating a competing space in which everyone agrees your norms are true is completely inadequate if that's not the space that policy gets made in. And within each country, there is effectively only one of those.

It doesn't matter if you create a "competing space" in which black lives have equal worth to white ones if the police are operating in a very different one defined by "killology". Nothing says "normative" like the barrel of a gun.

Besides, when people do create competing spaces they get denounced as "safe spaces" or "filter bubbles", even if everyone in the space knows full well what goes on outside the bubble.
Wrong attitude, and wrong. If I am trying out a few things that don't pan out, I may want to cancel. Then I may want to come back in a few months. Also, this space is moving quickly, so if they aren't improving the product quickly then they will die quickly, so I am sure the people using these tools are trying things out every now and then. Also, you are tainting your word of mouth. Just because I cancel doesn't mean I can't recommend it to someone else who may have different needs. But if it's a pain to cancel I won't be doing that.
I don't understand how this post made it to top 10. Ironically, it even mentions that the company just raised their series A. I have a lot of respect for repl.it as a company and amjad/haya as founders. Surely there's a lot of jealousy and envy in the air.
Someone will be much more likely to come back though given that they want to, if they know they won’t be held hostage.
Promoting only from within can also lead to an echo chamber of dysfunctional management and process since no one knows better. The blind leading the blind and all that.
Yes, absolutely.

Anyone that thinks that "population control" is a good idea is a eugenicist inviting genocide. You would have to be racist to suggest it without seeing it as violent and evil.

There's no wiggle-room here. You made a Hitler-tier suggestion on how we deal with human beings living on this Earth. Reflect upon what you said a little and reconsider how you view the third world.
I don't understand your view that population growth is required to manage debt. Isn't it inflation that reduces the future value of such debts?
The one that really baffles me is:

1) Navigate to a subreddit of interest
2) Start a search
3) The default behaviour is to search the entire site, not that subreddit

There's a checkbox there to 'search only this subreddit' which is disabled by default.

I am now wondering if there is some userscript I can inject to change the state of that checkbox by default. The fact that such lengths are even considered by your users should be a massive red flag.
The problem is that a language isn't just its speed, a language is a UX. If that UX makes it easier to accidentally make performance mistakes, then practically speaking, things written in that language are slower than they would be otherwise.

Edit: The original title "Why Python is faster than C++" is much more clickbaity than the editorialized ("When Python is faster than C++")
Are they? At least Fosters I get the impression is more popular outside Australia than in it.
"Unfortunately much of the financial system (in the US anyway) is highly dependent on population growth."

I came to this discussion ctrl-f'ing for "deflation" and while I got zero hits, your comment is close enough ...

I will abstract one level deeper and rephrase what you said as:

"Much of the financial system is highly dependent on economic growth."

There continues to be fervent discussion of the results of QE over the last 10 years and the results of various covid stimulus packages and how these things could be inflationary, etc., etc.

Some of this may come to pass - we may, indeed, find ourselves in geographic or temporal pockets of inflation - possibly very high inflation.

Make no mistake, however: the world we are living in is massively deflationary and even dramatic and innovative attempts to maintain (low) inflation are barely keeping us above water ...
Fuck Freud.
He was a con artist storyteller, not a scientist.

Edit: I accept all the downvotes. I refuse to teach Freud in college psychology except to say, Fuck Freud. We are better off without him. psychoanalysis = psychbullshit = painful holiday conversations about my profession.
> missed

Uh, "deliberately omitted" maybe?
I would personally rather see much stricter rules and regulations on animal welfare and industrial farming, combined with an import ban on countries that don't have similar rules (perhaps with a mechanism where individual producers in those countries can apply foe exception to the ban if they can prove that they are up to standard). And then let producers compete freely under these new rules without additional taxation or subsidy.

Of course the big downside is that this would effect the poor to a much greater extent, since they are primary purchasers of this cheaper meat that would disappear from the market.
Thanks for this, someone reached out and showed me this comment so I fixed the installation instructions.
I've been keeping copies of the HIG for years because the advice has been watered down over the years. The 1992 HIG is the oldest one that I have. The 1995 version is mostly edits and minor revisions. The 2006 version was heavily adapted and as we moved from Mac OS to iOS more and more of the good bits were dropped from the guidelines.

Chapter 1 is a great example, you can't find anything similar in the current HIG.
Honda Legend becomes first certified level 3 autonomous car
I dunno, ML/statistical models have really, really, really, really slow iterations times. Matrix multiplication is O(N^3) and you'll need to do that a lot.

EDA (exploratory data analysis) is the best way to learn about the business domain and has the advantage of being much, much, much faster than even the fastest ML approach.
Anomalies which "coincidentally" align with company goals should never be given the benefit of the doubt.
I have a bachelor's in operations research (labeled Information & Systems Engineering) and have been finding myself looking up ML certifications because the jobs posted in relation to the problems I am trained to solve are asking for it.

I have been all-in on the data wave since picking my major in 2010, and honestly most of the time all you need is SQL and a pivot table.

I already learned python to smooth some edges on what people think the job is about. To bite the bullet on ML makes me worried I am going to spread myself too thin. I spent hours researching in my own time and it is so vast. Like you said, you need to be committed as a data scientist at that point. Has operations research become a specialization of data science now?
All of the EU as well.
Cybercriminals innovate to find vulnerabilities that can be monetized
i know graphviz. there are certainly many diagramming tools out there. what do you like about graphviz that gleek.io does not offer?
I think it's absolutely appropriate and in fact necessary. Languages aren't fungible; sure any skilled developer can in theory learn any language, eventually, but all else being equal I'd rather hire someone who already has the skills I need. Wouldn't anyone?
At least in Spain (mostly the Eastern coast), Joan is "John" and Fons is "spring" (water spring) and both are common there, not like John Smith but somehow like John Brown or Peter Miller.

This one: https://github.com/JFonS
Except that there are also "permissioned blockchains" which are non-distributed systems. Of course those are more an abuse of terminology to hype various services, but the term has appeared in the research literature. The consensus algorithm in such a blockchain is just "whatever blocks the controlling entity accepts into the canonical branch".
Ask HN: Why do all project management tools suck?
The short answer is probably because it's a people thing. Or that people don't use them as they're intended. Or you don't understand agile (side note - the agile way is the stupidest thing invented since waterfall).

But, entertain me for a second. The tools can do a better job. It doesn't matter the tool - JIRA, Clubhouse, Linear, etc - they're all the same with different UIs.

Here are my 3 pet peeves and biggest frustrations that no tool has yet solved. What are yours?

1. Planning is hard. These tools throw a big backlog at you and grooming/planning is incredibly frustrating. They don't give me a good look into my team, their availabilities, or their capacity. It is also really hard to plan and estimate a sprint when you're just staring at a long list of tasks that are prioritized low/medium/high.

2. Once a sprint gets going, there are no guardrails, and no easy way to assess the "health of a sprint". Consider JIRA's Active Sprint view. If you have 6 people on your team, that's a freaking overwhelming board. You really have to hate your life to work with it. It takes way too many gymnastics to assess how we're doing, what's falling behind, and how much more we can actually get done. I'm surprised none of them have a "resource view". I have to filter person by person to get a better look into a team member's tasks.

3. No way for higher ups to get an insight into what's shipping and when. I've grown tired of answering the same question a hundred times - "when is X going to be ready?".

Lastly, as a developer or team member, it sucks to deal with a complex interface just to move your task from ToDo => In Progress.

Curious what others think.