skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d like to challenge the notion that people willingly engage in risky behavior in spite of being exposed to a perfectly fine and better alternatives. Most specifically, many religions have had fraught relationships with gay people, in fact many current dominant religions do. So a gay person may be completely justified in declining to participate in the spirituality/philosophy way of living if their previous exposures to that were abuse.

Also, I would like to challenge the idea that living a non-drug life is attributable to some philosophical or religious ideology. I follow no philosophical or religious ideology enough to describe myself as a follower of any sort of way and I’m not pursuing a risky lifestyle.
To give a concrete example of what we're talking about, I wrote this a couple of months ago in a similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26320573

The problem is that "Compose" function is essentially impossible to write. I say essentially because it's probably something that could theoretically be written, but not with any reasonable amount of effort. It would literally be on par with the difficulty of implementing a DB from scratch that implements the Logica language as its base query language.
As if subscriptions weren't consumer unfriendly enough.
My trick: read books as if you’re doing research for your own writings. Sometimes I’ll actually publish an essay based on what I’m reading or just keep it for myself.

I think it gets at the same thing this article is getting at: have an objective for reading.

And btw, it works for other habits too. Having goals or milestones to strive for.
Node is a failure. It's standard library is written ad hoc. Riddled with catch 22s and monkey patches. The development style is just to bolt on more and more variables and branches, endlessly, without any cohesive style.

Example of the "common caterpillar" genus of node quirks and the awful antagonistic responses by the dev team: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/25857

Just take a look at a random stdlib source file: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/readline.js

```
if (input && input.input) {
// An options object was given
output = input.output;
completer = input.completer;
terminal = input.terminal;
history = input.history;
historySize = input.historySize;
signal = input.signal;
```

It's junior-level code writing all over the project. That is a failure in my mind, especially when I know the library backing my project has to import all that junk hidden from view.

See (wontfix) fs.promises.readFile is 40% slower than fs.readFile:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332774

Not to mention the awkward political nature. There is a BLM banner on their front page: https://nodejs.org .The founder of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, just bought 4 mansions, the last for $1.4 Million USD: https://news.yahoo.com/blm-official-calls-investigation-foun...

Node's dev team is not interesting in supporting the community. They are amateurs who are trying to be woke and add "top Node contributor" to their toolbelt of proverbial ego items. Prove me wrong.
Pay-as-you-go retirement systems depend on having enough young people entering the workforce. Preferrably qualified ones that can be taxed.

Now that developed countries have mostly sunk below 2 kids per woman and most developing countries do not have school systems good enough to provide enough qualified workers to immigrate, we are feeling the slow press of unsustainability of the system.

Unless we can offload a lot of that press on robots, people will have to work until their late 70s. The original Bismarck pension scheme calculated with only 2 years of survival in pension on average. We have expanded it to almost 20, it will have to be reduced again.
A custom case, labeled drive cages (with software identification), integrated and tested component bom, 1 year system warranty... for a $400 premium (that's 8 hours if I value my time at $50/hr). Worth imo.
> Is YouTube as we know it actually feasible without AI-based moderation? Can it be a sustainable business with an army of human moderators and/or a drastically reduced scale as a result?

I am curious about the cost of a process that establishes human reviews for conflict scenarios, i.e. situations like this. Is that still the planet-scale numbers?
All those cases were against the people who actually said something (supposedly) defamatory. The precedent here is that merely sharing a link to something somebody else wrote now also qualifies as defamation.
Ask HN: Beyond Hello World in multiple languages?
I work in a lot of different languages on a regular basis, and it can be hard to keep track of some of the syntax between Python, MATLAB, Swift, JS, R, C++, ...

Does anyone have a good resource for "Hello World" type examples in multiple languages that go a little beyond `print("hello world");`?

I would be happy to start with code that at least includes a function definition and a for loop, but my eventual goal would be to fill about 1 page of code in each language with the most common actions.

Does something like this exist? I don't want to recreate it if someone can point me to a good existing project.

Thanks!
You yourself are making the distinction between the casual sex culture and STD testing. Diseases have a way of spreading and not testing for STD is a piss-poor way to change hookup culture for the better.
"The AI did it" is the same cop-out as "A low level employee did it of their own volition" and should be rejected as an excuse for all the same reasons.
If your primary use of a computer is for gaming or video playback, then 16:9 does seem the right choice. If that is your use case, having anything taller than 16:9 means all of those extra pixels will primarily only ever be displaying black. What's the point of that? If your primary use of a computer is anything but games/videos, then the occasional letterboxing is much less egregious. As a gamer, instead of paying for more pixels, that money can be spent on faster refresh. Less pixels also helps allow for faster refresh, etc.

At home with TVs, I'm okay with the letter boxing to watch 1.85,2.35 type content on my 1.78 screen. It's the trade off as making a movie buff 2.35 screen would force majority of 1.78 content to be window/pillar boxed.
I was wondering how he got into this, did he set out to run a ponzi scheme from the get go? Interesting to see that it was not like that. He was running an honest fund that ran into some trouble during a down turn. He convinced himself that he could just fudge things a little, just until the downturn passed and then he'd go straight again. Of course he never went straight again. Life lessons for everyone there.
There could be some value attributed to being able to use gold as a store of value and currency in the event of a dissolution of modern society such that the internet or widespread electricity is no longer around.
Where does data storage fit in? So far it seems like a request/response cycle as a service, but without storage it seems limited in use cases. Or is the idea to send data from napkin to firebase or something?
...setting up YC company to purchase FBI-"tuned" computers for cheap.
> Outside of some exchange link keeping a name = address record

"Outside of" is doing a lot of work here.
> It's not a turnkey solution like a Synology or QNAP box, but it's a lot more flexible.

That is not even the biggest advantage. The biggest advantage, in my opinion, is that you will always get updates and can run that for an unlimited time, without breaking your setup.
Why is it called "Latino" when it is just in Spanish and not Portuguese (or maybe French? not sure if Haitians are Latino). It seems like "Hispanic" would be the better term since this is language focused rather than geography focused.
Nancy Pelosi's Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract
no he did not. 75% of what he robbed was recovered also. Wouldnt call it ruining life...
if he did steal to "normal people" that is to a much smaller percentage than he robbed the rich ones.
thousands of people that are still in wall street today robbed poor people and are still trading/working in the industry today.
While I am not elevating him I am elevating the fact that he rot in jail for robbing the rich. Just look at the papers from 2008 if you don't believe it.
this will make it very easy to develop adversarial algorithm and avoid detection by youtube's system
In my case, I was referred to a psychologist who specializes in Adult ADHD. She then did a very comprehensive test (took 2 sessions of 3 hours), which included an IQ test: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–IV (people with ADHD have very skewed results with usually bad results in processing speed and working memory), some questionaires and discussion.

I then was referred to a psychiatrist to discuss treatment and to an ADHD coach.

I do know people who have gotten a very quick diagnosis with a 20 minutes questionnaire but I wanted to actually be sure of the diagnosis and not being diagnosed with ADHD just because I somehow self convinced myself that I had it by reading online.
That seems like a crazy amount of effort just to have sex with strangers a little safer. I wonder if it backfires and people skip it and just take the risk.

Especially now that HIV isn't a dead sentence.
In the United States, most people are in debt. When you're in debt inflation doesn't devalue your hard work... it devalues your debt.

For most people in the United States, some inflation would be objectively positive.

[0]: https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/debt/average-ameri...
M1 CPU consumes up to 30W of electricity. That’s impossible to do with minimal or no active cooling. Instead of designing good cooling, Apple does aggressive thermal throttling.

The problem is not specific to Apple, many other companies are offering ultra-thin laptops with similar tradeoff.

As a consumer, I don’t like that tradeoff. I’m already paying for a fast CPU. Yet due to the lack of a proper fan assembly (a low-tech and cheap component, compared to CPU) I’m only able to get good performance for brief periods of time. While usually that’s OK, sometimes I want sustained performance for minutes or hours, even on a laptop.
I think that the reason for the coplanar requirements is that the tiles lap each other in the up-down slope direction, but only abut one another in the perpendicular. There's no interleaving or joining or flashing in that direction. Two abutting panels land into the same clip. Around penetrations and edges there are non-pv fractional tiles, and all of the ends edges and ridges etc are done with sheet metal.

Leaving too much gap will get stuff underneath the tiles and also make them more susceptible to being removed by wind or exposure of the membrane to UV and other things it's not tolerant of.

The real waterproofing layer is the membrane that's put down first.

There are higher numbers of clips on the panels/tiles for high wind areas.

If I was baller enough to afford this I would definitely invest in a continuous insulation roofing system to go on first.
I refer to myself as a fractal reader. I never start with the first page and never make it to the last. I open a book randomly and let my eye fall on something of interest. I may read for five minutes. I may read for five hours. I might pick it up again tomorrow. I might not touch it again for years (currently I'm "reading" an obscure tome on symbolism in 13th century French religious art that I know I haven't touched for decades). This obviously works better with non-fiction but, unburdened with plot and emotional investment, fiction can be interesting too...
One clever side effect I haven't seen mentioned here -- No matter how little these particular companies care about IT security, or infrastructure in general, a letter to the legal department from the FBI ought to provide a kick in the pants.
Bitcoin may or may not intentionally be a Ponzi scheme.

But that doesn't matter, because functionally, there is no difference between an intentional Ponzi scheme and Bitcoin.

Bitcoin trading is a negative-sum game. All winning that anyone gets comes out of the pockets of newer investors. There is no net inflow of value or money that could cover the gains people make trading, other than the money being put in by other people. There is a net outflow of money, in the form of trading and mining fees, but there is no inflow.

So functionally, with Bitcoin, old entrants are paid off with the money invested by newer entrants. This is exactly how a Ponzi scheme works.

Again, it may not be intentional, but it works the same nonetheless.
If you include "warmup" time in JS, then you must also include compile time with WASM (EDIT: to be clear, time to pre-compile wasm from generic bytecode into binary optimized for the particular architecture -- NOT time to compile whatever language into WASM in the first place).

If you're running a given piece of code only once, the interpreted code is almost guaranteed to be MUCH faster than compiling and then executing a large pile of code.
Redirect to Mobile Site for Wikimedia Pages
There is no guarantee that the app is built only from the open source bits.
You forgot Poland. It never had colonies. It was destroyed completely in WW2. Then exploited by the communists until there was no almost no economy left in 1989.

By today's standard Poland of 1989 can definitely be described as an underdeveloped country (annual gdp per capita $1700 usd - but the majority of population lived on a lot less). Infrastructure in shambles. Major roads and rail links designed not along North-South as the country's economy needs, but East-West to facilitate transfer of Soviet army if needed. Fast forward 30 years and things look pretty much developed. A big chunk of it was thanks to EUs money(since 2004), but one could argue access to local market for Western companies repaid them the expense many times over...

Sure there are issues with the quality of the democracy (specially inability to modernise juidiciary in last 30 years), amount of emotional arguments in public discourse etc, but overall IMO it is a good example of a democratic country that managed to make the standard of living a lot better for its citizens.
> goes up and down purely based on opinion.

Not opinion as much as fear and greed.
Monero does anonymous transactions.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero
A quick DDG says the actual first GPS navigation system came in 1990: https://ndrive.com/brief-history-gps-car-navigation/

I remember how in my childhood the grown-up who drove in my family never needed the consult the map, it seemed they always knew how to get somewhere.

Funny how the video said the big TV screen is just for the demo, the finished product would not have that because it's too distracting.
The console.log was just an example. This is just getting a range of numbers.
You should see the MFDs on the original F/A-18. In 1983 they still had a fully digital display, far more data than anything from Star Wars
I have a hard time without eyeglasses. Am I also an addict? ADHD medications are quite similar in their effect for those with this condition.
Do people seriously believe antibiotics are magic shots that make you whole again? Syphilis is associated with serious sequela, some that only show up years later.

When humans build a great tool to eradicate a disease, people think it's a free pass to do anything. Sometimes I think we deserve whatever pandemic is thrown at us.
That would literally beat the current situation by a country mile. The goal isn't to perfect the YouTube flagging algo, after all ... an adversarial algo is a small price to pay.
Do you think that a system of public service / community service requirements instead of fines would be better for common offenses?

Without any real research I have often thought that instead of fines for parking violations, noise complaints, (other misdemeanors) etc - having someone spend time instead of money would make those sorts of punishments more equitable.

There are issues - child care if a parent has to spend time. This system would need to accommodate peoples schedules, shouldn't have to miss work for a parking ticket, etc. Much harder to administer than mailing fines.
But there is a lie. The lie is the supposed value in USD of the bitcoins you hold.
I have a very minor issue with it:
The API endpoints naming scheme. /greet.Person seems quite unusual - wouldn't something like /greet/person/abc be better?
Poolside FM is my favorite radio app but this is beautiful!
Bitcoin isn't really a ponzi scheme though, just an asset that gets bid up. In a ponzi you pay in x and are promised x+50% or some such and the scheme fails when there isn't money to pay out x+50%. With bitcoin you buy for price x and sell for price y which may be higher or lower. Different thing. It can't fail, just go up or down in price.
> This is mostly janitorial work with zero coding

not everything in life is coding?
On top of that, we wouldn't even yet know if there were any long term side effects from Pfizer, etc.
One of my colleagues told me to stop doing that because in (I think) V8 these values are immediately converted back to a double nowadays. So annotating all code with |0 doesn't really add speed benefits there, just extra conversions between doubles and integers. Said colleague used to maintain human-asmjs so I trust he knows what he's talking about.

[0] https://github.com/zbjornson/human-asmjs
It's all fun and games 'til you learn that YouTube's terms don't allow you to embed their player in any way that disables/hides their UI and logos.

Source: A similar project I made like 8 years ago.

Edit: But don't get me wrong, I like it nonetheless!
The nature of ponzi schemes necessitate exponential growth, even if the doubling time can be made long, perhaps on the scale of years. This places a short bound on how long they can last. The US has about 1/20th of the worlds population, so that's less than 5 doubling periods before you run out of new marks. Maybe an additional decade or two at best?
YNAB uses Plaid and MX: https://www.youneedabudget.com/security/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188003

My recommendation would be to learn the real thing, not an almost, sort-of Prolog that's actually a LISP dialect in disguise.
When it comes to Sci-Fi, I can't help but think about cyberpunk. The high-end technologies of the future dominate the oppressive society. It gives me something to consider. "High-tech, low life," they said.
“Free-floating credibility” is underrated
That makes little sense (assuming you mean by "compilation" the compilation to WASM from a higher-level language). The entire point is (or rather should be) to measure runtime impact on the user. If compilation (e.g. parsing, JIT, etc) is part of runtime, you measure that. I wouldn't expect a JS benchmark to measure optimizer/minifier time either.
Can nobody make posts anymore without someone else trying to self-promote?
I’m not mindlessly bashing anything, I’m speaking up about mindless sexism. You should read it again from the perspective that men and and women are equal, and that “men having more confidence” is a damaging psychology to have (sexist).
Show HN: Get paid to help people on social media
They are the buyers of the software.
Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files
Who gets credit for the artwork? It's really cool. I feel like all the channels/music are getting pulled from live lofi streams that I listen to on YouTube on a day-to-day. But the artwork isn't the same; so was that original for this project? Any idea how they're made?
hmmmmm, now that is interesting. However, my luck, I'd get flagged as not abiding by some agreed to, by use, contract/ToS for using a tablet SIM in a non-tablet device as defined by some lawyer to avoid this very thing.
Well, no, the defamatory allegations here were quite clearly bullshit. (The 1MDB scandal brought down the Malaysian PM in question and a lot of dirty laundry has been aired, so if there was substance to them, we'd know by now.)

But the original source was a Malaysian blog, and suing them across the border would have been pointless.
"In the car, for instance, you won't have a TV screen, ... that's too much of a distraction."
> If there's a 1/2,000 chance of getting stuck in the Suez

50 Ships on average pass through the suez canal per day. In the ~20 years that ships have been large enough to potentially block it, this has happened once. That's a roughly 1/365,000 chance of getting stuck. Even if we assume the risk is actually 10 times higher, that would only be a $27,000 premium - basically a rounding error compared to the $700,000 in tolls each ship already needs to pay.
Google has long been manipulating content, look up "blue anon". You can compare searches between Bing and you'll find lots of content thats been "moderated"
Always worth reading:

The World's Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud [PDF]
Nov 7, 2005 Submission to the SEC - Harry Markopolos

https://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/avellane/madoffmarkopoulos....
I imagine he's referring to the Doomsday Argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument). It's popular in certain circles but controversial.
Too-high GDP seems to result in a de facto aristocracy which claws as much of the wealth as possible to themselves, an issue which becomes more intractable over time re: Piketty. At both the macro and micro scale, quality of life seems to peak at the upper middle class, where there's just enough wealth that the imperative to keep everyone happy takes precedence (vs the imperative to stay at the top or keep everyone from starving on either side).

I know that Italy isn't perfect, but the Italian-style post-Imperial "chill-out" seems to work well in a lot of ways. I'm an American with no Italian heritage, but I was born there and I think I might have imprinted a bit. I hope to go back someday.
That's because most JS developers don't know how to organize async code (surprising, I know) so they end up building a ball of spaghetti and then claim it's the callbacks fault rather than their own architecture.
I really like the video filter effect. Clever use of layered background images to achieve that VHS aesthetic.

Just a tip to reduce CPU usage: it's probably better to replace the large GIFs with videos. WebM not only has a much smaller file size but also makes the fans spin less. Most "GIFs" you see these days (e.g. on social media or Slack) are actually videos.
What people will do:

1. Take the money and get an effectively free ebike.

2. Buy a new car anyway if they need one.

These schemes are just disguised subsidies that only benefit specific interest groups and the lucky few who enjoy a windfall by chance. There's also a political interest in spinning results without thinking too much about whether they deliver worthy results.
“Opendime is a small USB stick that allows you to spend Bitcoin like a dollar bill. Pass it along multiple times. Connect to any USB to check balance. Unseal anytime to spend online. Trust no one.”

https://opendime.com/
I found that comparison to be technically objective. Did you find some bias on it?
Like I said up above, even if, for the sake of argument, it were subject to market manipulation, that would still not make it a Ponzi scheme. Not every financial crime is a Ponzi scheme.
I want to know alternatives. Let them promote !
Sure, but this is based on the idea that the innate uses and value of gold would be similar (or "relatively high") after such a transformation of the world. This is not clear to me at all, compared to say, a similar wealth invested into a large cache of firearms and ammo. Or whatever will happen to be useful, depending on the scenario.

It reminds me of an anecdote from my grandfather from the end of WW2, people were giving away gold rings for loaves of bread. (Clearly, only when in desperate need, but it did happen.)
True > YouTube’s censorship runs contrary to American norms of free expression. It serves only to blind the public on a topic of intense interest; Americans have a right to know the contours of the Covid-19 debate.