skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Publishers are a business, generally speaking. To address your edit: What is the upside to a publisher of publishing a book widely (though not universally) considered offensive? Especially if that books is aimed at children?

Clearly, they consider what demand there is to be not worth the expense and potential reputational risk of satisfying. You can say that this last part is a form of censorship - but in reality, it's just how cultures work. There are things which are considered taboo. You may do them if you wish, but you have no right to say they should be consequence free.
New Car Smell
Good and evil.
> The women tend to retreat from casual sex because they don't want it (and not only because the pickings are subjectively slim, but also because the expectations for them to 'put out' are very high);

I'm not sure I follow. Women don't want casual sex because their potential partners do?
It's worth noting that Haskell has escape hatches for doing IO from outside the IO monad, so that wouldn't exactly solve this problem.
You haven't explicitly stated that there is something wrong with the suicide prevention foundation's operations, and definitely haven't provided any reason (even anecdotal) you have to believe so. I don't think your comments are "claims", valid or otherwise.

I think no one here understands what you are trying to say.
... possibility that "targeted" ads don't actually work that much better than non-targeted ones

They don't and here is why --- if you search but don't purchase through a Google ad, you're likely to still see ads for the item following you all across the internet for months after you made a purchase elsewhere.

This does nothing but annoy the user.
This is great... finally dji going-in for the specs that makes us vow! Pricing surely could have been better though. At $1200+, it definitely is not cheap.
The vast majority of trips in a car aren't for transportation of kitchen ovens to houses deep in the mountains at the end of a dirt road guarded by an eldritch Being.
Any printer that can handle A4 can handle A5.
" bitcoin for every day purchases and the hope is that by 2140 the price is relatively stable."

This is fantastically impossible.

It will about as stable as any other commodity plus the additional swings due to public stampedes one way or another, and the fact that there is no 'underlying value' to anchor the price (like Oil).

Feasibly, if exchange rates are razor thin (unlikely) then it might be possible buy milk and bread with BTC simply by doing the conversion on point, but that of course requires someone to do some 'investing math / intuition' every time they buy a stick of gum.

It can't be a functional currency, at least as it's designed.

And the notion that it consumes gigantic amounts of energy for no net value gained should have everyone up in arms.
pi + pi + pi + (.141592... of pi) ~= 9.8696

You need the concept of a ratio, so arguably I'm using multiplication to define multiplication, but you're sort of cheating by asking about a fractional number.
I agree, but also "built-in care for younger and older folks" means that "women are expected to do that work". The "women do that work" is achievable without living together with parents.

But, even if you do live together, that work does not happen automatically by itself. Someone actually have to spend additional time doing that additional care work. Just living together wont magically provide care without someone spending additional effort.
Sahara Pump Theory
My thought; not a scientist and this is all conjecture, but a potential other cause than what other folks are mentioning:

Consent conversations and alcohol can be quite confusing and scary to navigate now. This seems to suggest to me, that people are just not putting themselves in situations where casual sex might be more possible (alcohol + parties, etc) due to the fear of it being labelled as rape.
Show HN: TeamTime tracking for teams using Basecamp
Even though Google is being investigated or sued in several jurisdictions regarding its data collection practices, I think this change is down to Apple. Google can fight governments using the legal system indefinitely, but Apple can and did just decide that better disclosures were required. YouTube was recently updated on the app store, but gmail etc have not been updated in months.
We struggled with other time trackers for a couple of years, and finally just created one specifically for Basecamp, with full Basecamp API integration, complete data privacy & security, sane pricing, and simple user experience.

Give it a try if you use Basecamp for project management and need some basic time tracking for your team.
It has all the features that we need for our team, but let us know if there's something your team needs and we'll likely add it.
> What’s difficult to conceive is how the currently bloated and monetization heavy internet could survive without advertising.

The no-monetization web ship sailed circa 1995. The internet is about a lot of money and it will be about even more money. If it's not monetized through ads, it will be monetized in other ways (probably regular sales but most likely subscriptions).
Indeed, it's a narrow view because the success (or failure) of something in the markeplace is not determined by theoretical superiority but the overall customer experience.

And that customer experience is really hard to figure out, so it makes sense to invest in a lot of things to improve your chances of finding the winning solution. And there is always the possibility that there wont be a single winning solution anyways.

Enough abstraction, let me throw out some examples:

PEVs carry a huge battery that takes up a large chunk of the car's base. So one bump and that battery is now damaged. But a fuel cell is much smaller, can withstand a bigger fender bender. That may be 10x more important to customers than some theoretical optimum.

Here is another:

Batteries may not be as long lasting for customers that want their car to last 20 years (current expectations, barring getting run into). Exactly how long lasting on the road are the current batteries? Do we know what service costs they'll have compared to fuel cell service costs? Will they survive well in different climates/humidity/dust, etc? So maybe a model with a battery that is more serviceable and cheaper will outcompete a model with a battery that is more efficient, and a longer lasting fuel cell might outcompete both.

Time to recharge is a lot more important than range. I can charge my gas tank in less than 60 seconds. If it takes an hour, then range doesn't mean the same thing. Who hangs out at a charging station for an hour? So being able to charge more conveniently may be a lot more important than range or the number of charging stations. What will win out? We don't know, so cover your bets.

Yes, there is cool new battery tech coming out. I hope we get even more innovation in batteries, it is hugely important. But will the cool new battery tech be affordable, durable, long lasting, fast to charge, and able to operate reasonably well in a place with 4 seasons and lots of rains, in a car that drives for 10 years on lots of potholes and gets into a few fender benders? Not so clear. So don't put all your eggs in one basket.

It makes perfect sense that Toyota is experimenting with lots of alt-drivetrains, even as it cranks out gas and diesel cars and they came up with a much better hybrid model as well. As far as I know, they have everything covered. Ultimately the consumer is going to decide what they want to buy, and the market will respond to that. The question is whether you will be able to respond or will it be someone else because the hot thing is X and all your R&D was sunk into Y. Toyota is trying to make sure that whatever customer preferences happen to be, that they will have solid contender in the mix. And in the end, whatever gives the customer the most convenience, performance, affordability, and durability will win, and Toyota wants to win.
Animals certianly aren't ahead of us in human cognitive function, but that feels like a loaded competition. Humans do have a hard time imagining intelligence as anything other than what we have.
I understand what you're saying, but it sounds like you're aware of how prone this term is to misinterpretation. Virtually everyone outside of a particular small subculture understands "systemic racism" to be an accusation of racism. It would be like calling a correctness bug "systemic fraud" - how are the authors of the system supposed to avoid taking that as a personal attack?
My understanding back in the mid 2000s when I first got into Linux was that OSS only let you play one audio stream at once, and the whole point of ALSA was that it let multiple applications access the sound card.

I guess I could be remembering that wrong, but I know I was listening to multiple audio streams long before PulseAudio came onto the scene.
To me RSS is exactly that. I don't see the advantage of converting an HTML to RDF because it would cover the entire spectrum. All the semantics might be lost. RSS is the smallest common denominator. If you agree somehow, you might be interested in that tool [0], it converts HTML to RSS using pattern matching.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
Presumably people would just block the ads instead?

Either way I reckon it's the same thing stopping people from just sending random data over google-analytics. So, not a whole lot, other than whatever anti-spam mechanisms google bothered to put in place.
That question is definitely unknowable in advance, because our intelligence level leads to radical changes in the environment in which we exist.

If we really, really, cared, we could set up a momentum exchange between Earth and Jupiter mediated by an asteroid, moving Earth further out and Jupiter (slightly) further in, chasing the outward drift of the Sol habitable zone: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126

Also, we could (in principle, not saying we will or we should) engage in selective breeding or genetic engineering of ourselves; and while mind-uploading is currently SciFi, it’s in the category of “we recon this is eventually possible” rather than “convenient plot device”.
ESA: Space in Response to Covid-19
That study is also based off of Rosetta code tasks. I'm not sure if that accurately portrays code in the wild. Java codebases are full of design patterns that are entirely uneccessary in Python. Ever hear someone talk about design patterns for Python? It exists, but it is niche instead of the norm and I've literally never heard it mentioned in hundreds of hours talking about Python with coworkers.

I'm sure Rust makes lots of sense when it comes to concurrency and systems programming, but that's not where Python shines or is meant to be used. In scripting, task automation, data science...etc it is really hard to beat. So maybe we're arguing over the usage of an axe and a sword on the battlefield and not about different swords lol.
> For some definition of 'short period'.

According to https://alsa.opensrc.org/Dmix, enabled by default since 1.0.9rc2. https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page_News shows that was 2005. Alsa 1.0.1 release was 2004. So it's only short when counting from then on, project start was 1998. But https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6735 for example called it new 2004, so I don't think it was much of a default choice before then.
It certainly opens up the door to malicious information asymmetries and pr campaigns.
The Continuum of Building Wealth at Startups
I apologize, that is just how I read it and is something that I can get upset about pretty quickly.

I have seen "sex ed" (in quotes because some places I would barely call it that), especially in the South, use STD's as a way to scare kids into not having sex which is so wrong.
It wasn't arbitrary. There is huge risk for brokers when very volatile stocks are bought at heavy volume. The risk is not there when selling stock. The companies backing the risk RH was taking rightfully asked for more collateral, and RH wasn't able to come up with it.

It was in no way arbitrary.
> You could just as easily get an STD from the first time you have sex after a date as you could with Casual Sex.

Maybe, but people willing to have casual sex with you are probably also more willing than the median person to have casual sex with other people, which probably means they're likely to have above median number of lifetime sexual partners. Unless you're arguing that lifetime risk of getting an STD is uncorrelated with the number of lifetime sexual partners, I wouldn't so quickly declare the two risks to be equal.

Edit: I left the U.S. about a decade ago, and as I remember, they were considering allowing MSM to donate blood if they'd only had one partner in the past year. I was under the impression that was based on statistical risk modeling, but maybe it was plain old prudishness being dressed up in statistics. I still donate blood here, but I've lost track of US blood donation rules.
The author of the post deserves an award for doublespeak. It's like Facebook's lawyers saying "user privacy hurts small businesses, therefore let us collect all your information".
I think we've officially reached the point where you can stomp lumping all women together. Some companies are now prioritizing interns and junior devs from HBCUs, because they ended up with a new problem where the overwhelming majority of non-male hires for those roles were Asian.
Giuliani can be all the crazy he wants to be. That still does not change the fact that the votes that gave Biden the election came by the hundreds of thousands, out of nowhere, after 400 AM, when the counting was supposedly stopped for no reason, long after all election observers and the press had been escorted out of the building...
Computers increase productivity, so E-Waste is no big deal. /s
you sound bitter
I write as a 30 something year old man that has never had sex.

Having re-read my comment I tried to make it gender neutral because I think the phenomenon effects all genders, it was only the third paragraph that I used gendered language.

I’m concerned that you jumped on that, but not surprised.
> This is something you learn from reading the docs / book on the feature. This applies to all language features.

Surely you agree that, even having read and understood documentation for a language feature, there are differing levels of difficulty in using it? That depends on intrinsic complexity of the feature and also the incidental complexity from the design of the language feature. Your comment seems to imply that it doesn't matter what syntax the language feature uses because you'll have to learn about it in any case. I'm sure you don't really mean that!

> I believe language consistency beats brevity, and explicit is better than implicit.

I agree with both parts of this statement, I just disagree that the syntax they chose satisfies it.

The syntax is not consistent with anything else, because nowhere else can you have (0, x, foo.y) mean "assign to x (but don't assign to 0 or foo.y)". That includes if statements, with statements, and left hand side of assignment statements. Choosing a new syntax for something that has different behaviour from existing syntax actually is being consistent.

Similarly, using a character like ? (or some other distinctive syntax) to demark which parts are being used for pattern matching is being explicit. In Point(x, foo.y, 0), saying that only x is assigned to because it's not a literal or dotted seems like a great example of implicit behaviour to me.

Again, like I said at the start, this is all subjective so I think we'll have to agree to disagree. I just wanted to object to those quoted sentences because it looked like you were saying that it is objectively true that ? syntax is implicit and inconsistent while the syntax they chose is explicit and consistent - and that isn't objectively true.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328872

(I'm not sure if even duplicated)
I see most of you guys are saying that Google is doing foulplay to be unicorn of advertising. Just wanted to understand what else current technologies can replace third-party cookies? Like third-party localStorage is possible?
Google charting a course towards a privacy-first web is like the tobacco industry "charting a course" towards healthier people.
Are you referring to the archive.is link or the original?
The point is that every woman can easily find casual sex so opting out is a choice.
You seem fairly biased, and have included those links and accusations without any counter or responses from Brave.

#2, for example, is just false. Brave doesn't block ads and then inject their own; they block 3rd-party ads, and have an opt-in ad network. Doesn't replace or inject anything.

#1 gets brought up a lot on HN it seems, but sounds like it was an oversight and was fixed quickly. Same with #4. Every product has its issues, and as long as they're fixed quickly, it's understandable in my opinion.
I deny it. I just disproved your assertion.

Bill Gates spends lots of his money trying to develop technologies such as clean burning stoves for developing countries, inexpensive toilets for the same, funding advanced nuclear technology. How is this shoving it down our throats?

Your single sentence is brimming with emotion: belittling him with the batman moniker, shoving it down our throats, whatever the fuck, scare quotes. HN has higher standards than this.
As a human researcher, I don't think that's a fair comparison. A 2.5-year-old human can talk in simple sentences. The experiments in that article don't really measure intelligence. Babies are just much more curious.

I think dogs are still surprisingly smart.
I think this is depends on how large the network has scaled at the time the block reward dies. If BTC is doing 100x visa levels, each transaction fee can have a tiny fee and mining would still be viable.

That being said, I don't BTC has any intention of scaling to that degree (or at all really). The BTC devs seem much more concerned with building second layer products like lightning network. All these products actually reduce the number of on-chain transactions and by extension, miner revenue.
> The point is that the outcome is biased against a certain group of people, and it's because that affected group of people lacks representation in the group of people developing the system.

Arguably the real reason is that dark skinned people look more like gorillas than light skinned people, and distinguishing the two is a non-trivial technical problem. Would you still call it racist if an entirely dark skinned team of researchers built the system? If it were anything else, we would just call it "buggy new technology" and move on; but because this touches a sensitive race issue, it imports all the nonsense on that issue and then hampers innovation in the field.
I found it tricky at first but got a mostly smooth setup on two machines now with wide variety of uses.

Definitely for day-to-day use the Ubuntu Studio app has actually been the most helpful (direct control / visibility into the Jack <-> PA bridging is great), or a combo of qjackctl and Carla for more Audio-focused stuff.
It is an absolute nightmare and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Modern "dating" is frightening, dehumanizing, demoralizing, ahistorical, amoral, and devoid of meaning.
"Mr. Fox : charting a course towards a better coop."

Yeah, well. Not holding my breath on this one :)
Spooky and strange?
Great point. If there were a service I could subscribe to that would give revenue to content producers in a common network based on page views I'd be interested. I like to be able to follow links in news feeds to read particular articles but since they may be in dozens of different publications there is no way I'm going to subscribe to just any one of them.

edit: maybe this is what Apple News is? I can read lots of articles but have to go in through that portal, I can't click links on Reddit. Sometimes I do go into Apple News and find the same article but that is time consuming and inconvenient and often it isn't there.
Ecohealth's Peter Daszak led the gaslighting of the scientific community.

This assertion is from FOIA's, not in dispute, and not speculation:
1) https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/scientist-with-conflict-of...

and worse, the overt optics-management on same:
2) https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/no-need-for-you-to-sign-th...

The most prominent virologists - Daszak, Rasmussen, Andersen, block themselves and consequently their followings from (non-trolling) scientific inquiry:

https://twitter.com/blockedvirology

Please don't conflate a desire to avoid making waves with an intention to determine accurate reality.
It's weird if you're a grown-ass man or woman. If you're unfortunate enough to be mooching off your parents in your 40s, you at least ought to have the decency to go somewhere else to do your business.
Half the article is explicitly talking about how this fundamentally is different than the phenomena you’re talking about.

Imaginary numbers are merely convenient in the cases you’re describing; you can get the same results without using them. The paper this article is about is claiming that in QM this is fundamentally untrue, and models that don’t use complex numbers cannot match those that do.
I think were there sufficient demand to counterbalance the potential awkwardness of publishing something which will offend, they would still be publishing it. Nobody is stopping them doing so. Indeed, if someone felt so strongly about this that they wished to see it re-published, there is probably a sum of money which would acquire the rights and allow them to do so. This book has not been banned. Should someone acquire the rights to it and decide to publish, they may do so unhindered.

There are, however, many creative works which are no longer published because they are just too far from what people would see as fine now. They're generally unlamented, but nothing is stopping someone from publishing them again, if they fancy losing money.
Yeah I’m still trying to figure out how people even met pre dating apps. It’s not uncommon for me to go somewhere and be the youngest person in the room by a decade, everyone else around me married, etc.
I don't know much about Brave - What is their position on censorship (other than instances when it is legally required)?
Google Cloud Risk Protection Program
Multiplying algebraics is trivial. A rectangle with sides sqrt(3) and sqrt(2) has area sqrt(6), which can be approximated by a decimal if needed.

There are countable/computable/constructable subsets of the reals where multiplication has a finite algorithm and is it repeated addition.

One example is the algebraics, as well as extensions the including a few special constants like pi. These are the subsets of the reals most commonly used for math and science. So in a wide range of problems areas, multiplication is not just repeated addition.
I definitely wasn't trying to indicate that there was a problem with this, just pointing out that the path of using the Surreals (or anything else) to give an "algorithmic" description of real addition or multiplication is probably a bad idea.