skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US Political donation data
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F10

Article from the guardian about US Senators investments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/19/us-senators-...

Investment portfolios of some Indian politicians. I'm not familiar with the politics of India.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/plan/what-do-pol...

In general, wealthy of all stripes are invested in real estate to some degree. "Land - they're not making any more of it"
Isn’t OTR protocol Indeoendent? I remember using it even through Facebook via Pidgin.

OMEMO seems tied to XMPP.
Please tell me how to turn off mouse acceleration in MacOS without opening a terminal, because I didn't find another way.

It's quite a basic thing, most games include it in their settings yet it doesn't seem important enough to have a setting in the OS itself.
This is basically the approach I'm doing now, with granularity being 1 hour. The problem is that when you're in the middle of an hour, the bucket for the live sim only accounts for half of the hour, but the stored bucket from the full day's data represents the entire hour. I could assume the bucket accumulates its count linearly through the hour, and that'd be much better than my current approach, but it still feels a bit weak.

5 minute buckets would make this comparison problem easier, but it's too much data to store.
Something very similar - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi...
"The original meme stock"? The term "pump and dump" is a classic phenomenon that is very common and has happened for decades...this is neither new nor particularly interesting as a specific case.
> You've clearly forgotten how disappointing things can be

I must have because I don't remember being at all "gutted" when I obsessed
over the one $20-or-less item my parents allotted me each Christmas. This is
quite contrary to what I see amongst kids today who spend all of a couple
hours with their physical gifts and go right back to the Minecraft/Roblox
marathon.
also https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java
Show HN: Shell tool for document template rendering / processing
Wrong timing!
What do you mean when you say you felt like a grease grenade?
ISO calls standards that are freely available to the public as "publicly available". It's even in the URL for their list:
https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

So using ISO's own terminology, standards available to the public are "publicly available".

IN ADDITION: I think that's the right terminology. If a standard is not freely available to the public, it is NOT publicly available. When there were only a few standards, and you had to pay for expensive typesetting to get a paper document, the costs made sense.

But in the modern world we need to use a massive number of standards, there is no need for the typesetting (or the paper), and the people who developed the standards are not being paid by ISO's royalties. The standards world is nothing like publishing fiction (where the author is normally paid). All standards should be publicly available.
The pivot of Facebook from "here's a way to connect with family and friends" to "here's a steady drip of 'engaging' content made to generate 'likes'" is very interesting.
I read it as women dominated beer pong.
Tell me about it. Frankly its shocking. Not the anti-semites, but the indifference of everyone else.
I'm just waiting for the flag to go up now.
Because the point is not valid. Its not worth addressing for the 7th time. Once you tire of the arguments year after year, and they just repeat, on loop -- you start to question the person that keeps raising it.
"Accept brownouts" really just means "keep using fossil fuels" people don't accept brownouts, they buy generators. At this point, it's better to just keep burning natural gas since combined cycle plants are 1.5-2x more efficient than diesel generators.

Hydroelectric is geographically limited, you can just build dams where people need additional power.

That leaves nuclear. And since nuclear costs just as much to run 100% of the time as it does to run part of the time it makes no sense to use it as a peaker. Just run it 24/7, and install less intermittent sources.
All intermittent sources dependent on weather is not a diverse energy mix.

Also, hydro is not only scarce but awful for the local habitat and extremely dangerous. An improper or unplanned decommissioning could kill millions of people.
I don't know about that - I usually refer to it as COVID-19 but nobody looks askance if I mention Coronavirus.
Did he just discover threaded comments? Reddit?
Not particularly. The data comes from a deterministic traffic simulation, and I just want to show people roughly how their changes to a road network affect throughput along road segments. I'm interested in showing differences like "during morning rush hour, there was more traffic here, but it was about the same the rest of the day". "About the same" is fuzzy.
Exactly.

[To clarify: I am not qualified to judge the general healthiness of any particular diet -- any sufficiently popular diet seems to have conflicting studies showing it is "healthy" and others showing it is "unhealthy". The point I intended to make above was that most people either outright reject or remain unswayed by these kinds of studies.]
This is a neat idea! Harder than it sounds, but y'all seem to have most of the aspects of the problem in mind already.

My employer (Segment) has something similar to Diahook (as I understand it) at its core: https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/
Depends on the medication. If they're on stims in particular, and the meds actually improve their behavior, then the cause most likely isn't insufficient PE time.
Vitamin D supplements may offer no Covid benefits, data suggests
/s? Not sure if /s
Climate Changes - Ice Age – The Milankovitch Cycles – Documentary Movie
> some way to have both side by side

Yes, just hook up to the reloading event of HMR on the client-side and call `window.location.reload()` when that happens, now you have traditional "live reload".
I am in eastern Europe and our foreign students are all from Asia. Huge mental shortcut.
I mean how do you trust that the shops you buy plastic bottles of coke from aren’t getting them from some dodgy counterfeit factory? Or draining the bottles with a syringe and replacing the contents?

I think you’re looking for a problem that doesn’t exist in the real world.
Software that actually improves my life
> Right, and I mean there's no way to discover that hotkey if you don't already know it

True of any hotkey.

> which is why requiring it for a common UI function is bad design.

it isn't required.
What exactly is a "micro-site"?
COPPA is about the fact that 9-year-olds can’t meaningfully consent to privacy policies. Adults can, and can even do so on behalf of their children under COPPA, it’s just that most sites would rather ban children than deal with parent signature forms.
Smell Inspector: Smart Nanotubes
> The process took time and dedication: hours to prepare the ale, sweep the floors clean and lift heavy bundles of rye and grain

I wonder if they really were brewing up "magic potions" (inadvertently) with ergot contaminated rye. I've seen people suggest that ergot poisoning could explain some of the truly weird behavior that you sometimes hear about from the Middle Ages.
If Ting is using the T-mobile network then I'd assume T-mobile is still selling that data, even if not as granular as direct app tracking.
You're right. Ops position was that housing should not be seen as any kind of investment. My point was that, for retirees, housing is a valid investment vehicle and that dynamic is valuable to society as a whole. But on reflection, I'm thinking in the wrong terms here. I could better view this as housing being an important store of value for retirees, rather than an investment generating financial return for them.
That’s such an unqualified statement that I’d be embarrassed to say it out loud. Angular 1 apps are still in production. COBOL is still in production. I’d bet $100 that two years from this date, all three of those are still popular, being used by enterprise, and have tutorials written for them on blogs or produced on YouTube.
The only thing to stop is thinking that PoS is secure, or a valid alternative to Nakamoto Consensus. PoW is the only way (we know of, and possibly the optimum way) to secure a blockchain, and bootstrap value.

Let it go. Energy will be used. Money will be made. You will be free.
Fair enough, but that is why the question of service vs library is not really a question that has ONE answer. It depends on the use case.

But to push back (slightly) on your chosen examples. Dealing with binary codecs is actually something where it can make a lot of sense to wrap it in a service (even if you're just using the open source tools under the hood). It is a space that is notoriously prone to security vulnerabilities up to and including RCE vulns (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-3611...). So doing it in it's own sandbox can be a smart move. Maybe not a SaaS product per se but still something you might want to isolate as a service separated from your application server.
Restarting a reactor takes quite some time even with nuclear power densities.
most gyms won't have coaching geared towards distance runners, though. Competitive distance runners are specialized enough that most fitness classes won't really give them what they're looking for.

If you're somebody who goes for a couple runs a week to supplement their main forms of exercise I agree that this is a pretty steep price to pay.
> But let's assume ISO would publish only high-quality standards. Wouldn't those be worth their salt?

Paying ISO has nothing to do with creating or distributing the standards. The developers of the standards are, in all cases I know of, not paid by ISO.

I agree that there needs to be some money for infrastructure. It shouldn't cost very much for a PDF hosting service for publicly-available PDF.
That's how it works in the USA as well. Mortgage interest for a home you live in will be lower than for investment property. Insurance is cheaper also.
Just very very greasy out of my pores. Oily all the time, 2 or 3 showers a day to keep the grease out of my hair. That sort of thing.
> A simple first order approximation is "no preference".

That's a reasonable first-order approximation, but it seems not to be reflected in the data, which show that as societies become more equal, gender disparities in field choice increase.

See: "Countries with greater gender equality have a lower percentage of female STEM graduates" (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180214150132.h...)
Biden Is Assembling a Big Tech Antitrust All-Star Team
The article raises a false equivalence. The energy consumption of bitcoin is unrelated to the transaction rate.

The hashrate is ultimately what secures Bitcoin and is completely independent of transactions processed. A better comparison would be the Bitcoin hashrate vs. the human life, electricity, and resources spent securing gold vaults and other physical assets.
Direct link for anyone lazy like me :)

https://www.t-mobile.com/account/profile/line-selector/adver...
I can confirm this, I had already opt-ed out before. It appears they have reset my choice. What a way to build trust with your customers.
If you only host known-quality product, then the scope of what you sell is greatly reduced. This isn't because you're filtering out bad product, but because you do not have the resources to actually vet everything flowing through your store. And this isn't so much an Amazon thing, or restricted to particular verticals.

Steam used to work this way, and they were a massive bottleneck for people who wanted to sell indie games on PC simply because they were being swamped with unsolicited content submissions. They lost out on Minecraft because of this. That's why they tried having users do their content vetting for them (see Steam Greenlight), which itself was a disaster but in a different way. Now it's just an app store: you register with Steam Direct and pay a filing fee and you can be on Steam. This is the only model that actually scales.

This is the dilemma every platform holder eventually hits: it's far more lucrative to just open yourself up to all comers and ban abusive sellers than to validate that someone is above-board before selling their stuff. The latter involves losing out on business opportunities. Traditional publishing models have to vet the content they sell because it's their money they're risking on what is effectively an investment into a copyrighted work. And they lose out on a lot of opportunities. However, platforms don't need to do this: the risks they take are far lower, so it makes far less sense to review content in advance.

Remember: Amazon's business model was built on the "long tail" - making any sort of subjective quality judgment contrary to the spirit of the company. And the judgment is subjective. There's very few instances where you can say a product is objectively terrible, and those are better covered by making them illegal and making platforms liable for selling such product.
A story from a rainy summer in Berlin:

One day my manager came to my office and said: 'Look at this task. How long will it take?'

I thought 'two days' and I told him 'ten days'. He said 'Ok, do it!' and went away.

I was happy that I had the chance to do it very well. To take the time to write really well structured code without pressure. And I did it.

At day 5 I my work was finished. I was proud of it.

At day 6 I took the time to re-read everything and to do intense testing. I found a minor bug and fixed it.

At day 7 I practised for my next martial arts exam during the work time.

At day 8 I went to my manager and told him 'It is finished and it is good'. He was very pleased to hear that I finished early! Before the deadline!

My colleagues were happy with the well working code.

I call this a win-win-win situation. Oh, what great memories. The day when I told my manager that the task will take 10 days.
I haven't had nearly enough caffeine today to process this properly, but thank you -- it partly makes sense, and it's plenty to go off of later!
I'll check back in another 500 years to see if I can laugh at the joke yet.
How do you know even 1% of their users use that function? If Facebook adds that feature tomorrow do billions suddenly become criminals?

You assume just because the feature exists the clientele are using it.
> When there is a cottage industry focused on training people to pass your interview then you have a problem.

Doctors have board exams. Lawyers have bar exams. Financial professionals have their own set of exams. Electrical and mechanical engineers have professional engineer exams.

The difference is that they're standardized, so the prep industry caters to passing those exams more so than passing the interviews.

Software engineering is far from standardized because the subject matter is far too varied, so instead companies handle their own type of exams customized to their needs.

There is also a cottage industry around interview prep for lawyers, doctors, and other professions. It's just not well known because it's extremely expensive relative to spending a couple hundred bucks (if that) on Leetcode. It often takes the form of expensive 1:1 coaching that starts in the hundreds of dollars and can easily enter five figures. Students from wealthy families frequently have private coaches for this.
Google knows its bread and butter is legitimate results

Google's bread and butter is controlling the stream of data so that people accept its results are legitimate. That's not quite the same thing. Essentially Google does well when people trust Google implicitly and don't question whether or not its results are actually good. For a very long time Google returned W3Schools as the top result for most HTML and CSS queries. These days MDN is top and W3Schools is second. W3Schools is not the second most relevant link for a search of a CSS property name or an HTML tag. I do wonder if they're second because they display a prominent Google AdSense ad at the top of every page.

The main thing about Google Search results is that they're much better than their competition. That's all you can really say for them though. The results aren't anywhere near as good as they were 15 years ago, where a query genuinely returned the best, most relevant results. You could predict which site would be top for a query domain you knew well. Google are still dining out on that reputation but they don't really deserve it any more.
Well yeah, probably at some point. They were also preparing food which included rye. Isn't this one of the common speculated causes for witch hunts and the like?
> It would also explain the current epidemic of ADHD and especially ADHD medication prescribed to young boys.

It's a common trope, but AFAIK ADHD has a big hereditary component and currently is deemed to be extremely underdiagnosed in girls and adults in general, so I think this cliche isn't holding water. I will agree that modern schooling is extremely good at surfacing the symptoms (but then so is adult life in general, if you know what to look for).
This still doesn't seem superior to library calls from a complexity point of view.

On one hand you have a library to secure. On the other hand you have the same library (or at least the same logic and methods) now with a JSON-RPC server wrapping it, and both need to be secured.

I would feel a lot better if it weren't JSON, I guess. Binary protocols are just SO MUCH FASTER and require so much less memory. Parsing JSON is fast, sure. Reading and writing binary is probably 3 orders of magnitude faster, and it's easier to read and write binary, in my experience. (I also don't understand why protobuf exists.)
I wonder what the liability concerns with this are. Could a runner that gets injured because the AI coach bugs out and tells them to do something dangerous (e.g. extreme overtraining) sue?
Israel has won in the sense that a two state solution is no longer an option. There's not enough land left to give the Palestinians a viable state of their own. So that leaves two options. A continuation of the status quo with Palestinians living under eternal occupation and apartheid surrounded by growing settlements. Or a single state with equal rights for all.
Sorry, that wasn't meant for people who have been suspended by Google.

It was for people who wants to switch or have important emails they don't want to lose. Always have a backup address which you forward all your emails to.
While we're on that topic - how about not being able to criticize black culture without being accused of racism.
You're really going to double down on the idea that the youtube comment section is some bastion of intellectual greatness?
That's not good for diversity.
Python 3.10.0a6 is now available for testing
The small ones we call "cornichons" but they're a "pickle", "pickled cucumber" is a redundancy you would seldom hear.

And yes, if you get a "gherkin" in the USA it will be on the small side, but "gherkin" in the Commonwealth is just any (cucumber) pickle.
API Allows to Do What
Hi, I am a Dummy for understanding coding and co. Trying to make it though. Can someone tell me how do you use API and why is it a " secret" ?
Related:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/forget-tesla-this-electric-ca...

>"Aptera thinks it has the solution, in the form of a three-wheeled electric car called the Paradigm Plus. It has a range of more than 1,000 miles, can top up via solar power and production is due to start later this year.

Currently, even the best electric cars struggle to top 400 miles of range, so how the heck can Aptera offer 1,000 miles of driving on a single charge? To put it into perspective, the driving distance from New York to Los Angeles is just under 2,800 miles. A car that goes 1,000 miles before recharging would only need to recharge twice along the way, and would still have plenty of power to spare when you arrive.

How does it manage this? Well it’s largely down to the vehicle’s light and aerodynamic design. Which explains why it only has three wheels, and why it looks so weird.

The Plus only weighs 2,200lbs, and has an aerodynamic coefficient of 0.13. It can go from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, has a top speed of 110mph, and offers features such as all-wheel drive and vectorized torque for better stability.

But most importantly, that light and aerodynamic design allows it to go far further than the competition.

The Aptera Paradigm Plus has a big-ol’ 100kWh battery, which is the same size as the one in the 412-mile Tesla Model S and 360-mile Model X. But in the Paradigm Plus, that battery is good for 1,000 miles."

PDS: Random Advice: Take all claims with the proverbial "grain of salt" -- until proven true...

But that being said... this "funky-looking"(!) electric vehicle seems pretty darn awesome(!), if it could actually pull off that which it is claimed to do...
It would be nice to encode a personal list of rules you're willing to break. For instance, I pass a residents only sign daily. Would be cool if my route planner knew.
From your quote just now

> Wingate quickly conceived of a joint military unit, staffed by both colonial and local Jewish troops, to protect Jewish and British interests

The SNS were founded to "protect Jewish and British interests" which were attacked by the Arabs under the British Mandate. At no point did the British government start any group, or take any action, to aid the creation of Israel as a independent nation.

At most, you can claim that they sometimes tried to defend the Jews under their mandate from violent Arab attacks. Which makes sense, given that these Jews were under British mandate, supposed to be protected by the British, and massacres of Jews reflected poorly on the Brits.

Compare that to the official British government's actions in creating the nation of Jordan and founding the Arab Legion, and it's clearly much easier to argue that the British Empire helped create and support the nation of Jordan, while doing nothing for Israel, and in fact creating, training, and commanding one of the major military forces which attacked it after inception.
> I don’t prepare for interviews. ... I'll fail (by the interviewer's standards). And I don't care. I'll go work for someone else.

Great. The natural result of a poorly designed job interview should be missing out on good candidates. Thankyou for giving those companies an incentive to improve their processes - by missing out on you.
Now you have one! (I fixed a typo and added a note about the presence of a CORS header on responses, too.)
Making a Synth with Python – Oscillators
Sure, but to me that's on a different spectrum/axis from being independent thinkers. Both extremes on the axis of being a good citizen or being a conspiracy theorist are still following group think. But that is a concern as well, honestly if my kids are anything like me though they'll be skeptical of anything, particularly anything suddenly popular or extreme.
Innovation can't come from measuring what you already have. You can use heuristics or metrics to confirm you've done the right thing once you try something but you can't use them effectively to innovate. Only to optimise, which is stagnation if you don't also innovate.
I prefer homebrewed technical interviews. They can be customized to the needs of the company hiring and can reflect day to day work better.

Treating engineering as an undifferentiated commodity measured by leetcode performance is partly why this charade exists.