skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why can't we do that with people who solicit prostitutes?

We completely agree about the purpose of government.

The government exists to provide education and support for people to escape toxic situations, NOT more LAWS backed by the threat of violence, with over reaching questionable authority to force people to do what a subset of people believe is morally right, based on sensationalized media reporting, whether that's prostitution, drug use, abortion, gun laws, mask usage...etc.

Unless there's unquestionable hard science to make a law over, with data effecting the majority of the population, the federal government should not be involved in a legislative capacity.

There's already an uncountable number of federal laws(you can google it).

We need to err on the side of freedom not safety and morality.
reader-view in firefox already does this. strips everything except the content
For adult use yes... But perhaps it should warn that no children or pets should be allowed anywhere near it at any time.

> > "It is believed that at least one incident occurred while a parent was running on the treadmill, suggesting that the hazard cannot be avoided simply by locking the device when not in use," the CPSC said.

It doesn't take long for a child or small pet to be pulled under and injured even when the adult is on the treadmill. From the video it looks like there's absolutely no mechanism to prevent this, or even detect that it's happening. The treadmill seems to be happily operating without any supervision of any kind, and is lacking even basic fail-safes that should kick in at least when it's lifting off the floor and hopping sideways while still pulling the child under.

When the government has to warn people to stop using your product if there are small children or pets at home you know you have bad engineering and bad management.
I am not certain whether you are making a very erudite joke or trolling, but either way, the "Paradox of Intolerance" might an interesting read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Being "intolerant to intolerance" is a fairly well accepted idea in societies that value personal freedoms.
Is this sarcasm? Any investment can go to 0, or go down and stay down.
> I fail to see how any of this is intolerant, or transphobic.

Yes. RMS argued for gender-neutral pronouns since more than twenty years ago. Just because it is a different set of neutral pronouns than is popular today, some people mark him transphobic. That is absurd.
The preferred solution seems to be WiX, which was created by some of the people behind MSI and generates the MSI database from an XML description.

Unfortunately it requires you to write (or copy from somewhere) literally thousands of lines of incomprehensible XML. You have to learn all the details of both MSI and the various novel sublanguages embedded in the WiX XML.

But fortunately you can generate all the XML from just a few lines of nice and clean C# using WiX#, which adds a user-friendly API on top of WiX and lets you forget about XML and databases entirely:
https://github.com/oleg-shilo/wixsharp
I've put normal USB sticks through the washing machine, retrieved them from the dryer lint screen, and had them still work!

(don't recommend it of course)
What I find surprising (and even mildly terrifying) is that such anecdotes don't even alarm people in many circles of the society any more. Lots of folks think this is what the future is supposed to look like and are completely ok with it.
Oh wow, very interesting. That all makes sense. The lack of consistent, comparable data is a huge issue. The complexity space that CEOs operate in is many orders of magnitude larger than in sports, and it also far more dynamic and chaotic. It seems pretty intractable.
Devs aren't loot crates.
> You are basing this entire hypothesis on the basis that computer architectures are what you imagine them to be today, which is an invalid assumption.*

It seems to me that you are the one who is pulling in details from today, asserting that they must be incorporated into any law, and then pointing out how that's a bad idea.

My lone assumption is a business that provides user-facing software. That's it. With that assumption, I'm arguing for the principle that when a business provides customers a human-targeted "UI", they need to provide a corresponding machine-usable "API" that bypasses the accidental complexity of human interaction. We know there must be a machine-friendly format before the user-friendly format, because the software is itself operating on a machine.

>> the business has chosen the architecture, and the law would mandate accessibility.

> Well this isn’t what you said before.

This is what I said before. Having some type of public API is not "architecture". It's mandating open access to the same thing any front end needs to access anyway.

Authentication and sign up: It's a public API, so this is irrelevant for read access. For ordering, the same exact account system as using the web/app UI. You keep ignoring existing implementations, pretending like what I'm saying would require some huge ground-up design rather than tweaks to what already exists.

Data formats: The company. If a company is big enough to dictate formats, then they're big enough for developers to pay attention to. After the custom of using aggregators for shopping becomes commonplace, it becomes in their own interest to stick with common formats rather than get left behind.

Bugs: The company, while leaving the old "buggy" version in place for some period of time.

In general, you seem to be succumbing to the programmers-don't-understand-the-law trap whereby you're imagining that any such law would be useless since a company could just deliberately create an unusable API. But courts see right through those type of "bad faith" approaches.
Just my recommendation because this mindset has worked well for me over the years:

Don't think too much about losing weight when picking up a new fitness/exercise habit. Think about other fitness and health goals more specifically, the weight will usually follow. If you focus on weight, the initial lag or a change in your body composition (I was exercising regularly for nearly 2 months before I lost more than 5 lbs, and then I lost another 25 in the next few months) can be sufficiently demotivating to cause you to quit even though you are getting something beneficial from the activity.

What's worked for me and for my friends I've worked with is a focus on what kind of activity you can do, for how long, and to what level of exertion. If it's walking, on a non-exercise day try going for a much longer than normal walk or a much faster than normal walk, it's a kind of test. Is that 5 mile hiking trail now easier for you than at the start? If so, then does it matter that your weight has plateaued or is the fact that you can do something you couldn't before more important? Focusing on the improved capability and then trying to focus on sustaining that has helped me a lot more than thinking of weight itself as a goal or primary goal. (That said, it was a goal for me, just a secondary or tertiary goal.)
I think Bitcoin’s biggest strength (and weakness) is hype and FOMO. If another coin comes along that gets more attention (see Dogecoin), you’ll see the Bitcoin community try to discredit for the same reasons that Bitcoin is currently dissed for right now.
CC in the UK use to have some nice rewards - and there are advantages in buying some thigs via credit card holidays for example.
I doubt it though, on Android 11 it now tells you when your phone is recording audio (I see it during a whatsapp call for example) and as far as I know iOS has something similar (an orange dot IIRC).

So they would be caught out pretty quickly if they did this.

I'm sure they did it before though, ultrasonic identifications during TV ads etc were really a thing.
First off, your account is just C++ spam. So, off the bat, I've dismissed the notion of taking you seriously.

I've implemented a basic ML variant before, and maybe half a dozen different lisps. Rust is only BARELY functional. A C++ guy ought to know better!

Believe me, I'm not interested in Rust for Rust's sake. If there were a GNU implementation, I could see writing code generators for Rust a little less cumbersome than trying to target C or LLVM IR or Wasm.

Realistically, I see Zig winning the fight that Rust is trying to fight, and C++'s headaches being replaced with Rust's headaches.
Sure, but do you have evidence it would have moved the needle in the vote. There are many, many well documented phenomena that influence every vote. While they may influence a small number of voters, I've yet to see any evidence that these results are not the genuinely held belief of most folks.
This is my profile at Goodreads.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18339067.Marian_Kechli...

Everything I write is in Czech, though. Automatic translation from Czech to English sucks.
How do you translate IPFS to HTTP?
Again, that scenario (taking a high speed turn in a cul-de-sac) just doesn't correspond to any known accessible autopilot behavior. Given the choice between "initial investigation was wrong" and "heretofore unseen high speed residential driving by autopilot" (also "non-autopilot driving from passenger seat" probably needs to be in the list), I know which way Occam points.

To be glib: if you could get the car to drive itself at 60mph+ on a residential street, that shit would be all over youtube.
a brief translation:

it looks like she starts by curdling milk. The solids from the curdled milk are then scooped into the pot and cooked down until the solids and liquids have fully separated. The solids are then separated from the liquids and packed into the wooden boxes, where they will be left to sit for some time.
Seems like a bad idea unless they offer some other peer to peer alternative for digital payments. This is clearly something that people want. I can imagine they will be reversing this decision at some point.
New Rule: Give It to Me Straight, Doc – Real Time with Bill Maher
It's an abstraction over writing out the monomorphized version by hand. Zero-cost doesn't mean using the abstraction gets you the fastest possible implementation of whatever you're doing.
I thought this was the kind of government actions that Cryptocurrencies were supposed to absolve us from.
Regardless of how abhorrent you might think RMS' actual views are, that letter really unfairly characterizes a lot of things they're claiming RMS said. I appreciate them throughly citing sources for their claims, so its easy to compare what the letter accuses him of saying and what the literal words he used are. Individual interpretation of the amount of twisting they do is left up to the reader.
Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
Energy expenditure is what roots Bitcoin in reality

"Reality" is itself a fairly mutable concept if you're using that term to a refer to system that produces abstract "coins" with values that float against other world currencies in a system of finance that itself consists of multiple layers of indirection that evolved to solve the scaling problems of direct bartering.
CPP/IP
So, then, how would one translate not labeling magnets as toys to these treadmills? They're already not toys. Do we recall them or change the 'label' that was already 'not for children, do not misuse'?

Perhaps there need to be better warnings in the box or something. That seems like a very fine response. Recalling the machines doesn't.
Maybe you researched it beforehand?
Interesting one! But this is only for US. Is there something similar for Europe? (And for Mastercard as this is what my bank uses for my debit card)
please do go into detail about how data about an exact goods purchase that is linked to a specific person (ignoring the bunk about 'anonymization') can be regarded as having a legitimate business reason
It is not enough to be "right" to promote a good idea. You need to be a charismatic leader to succeed at FSF's mission. Independently of whether RMS is an intolerant creep or a misunderstood visionary, I do not think it should be difficult to see that he would not be an efficient evangelist for FSF today.
Even if you're bearish on the dollar, owning assets is still reasonable, and most millionaires don't just hold cash. Real estate (foreign and domestic) and equities have done will since the 70's.

The other difference is Bitcoin is less like a currency and more like baseball cards in how people are using it. It's already failed as a currency because its price is too unstable.
At current scale of operation and amount of money changing hands Im surprised we dont hear about rival groups hiring mercenaries to disrupt competitor mining operations. Couple millions should be enough for a team to go in, burn down a warehouse full of mining gear and blow up a substation or even full power plant for good measure.
https://bb.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html
That’s the definition of biased sampling.
The bonus system in sales seems to work pretty well. Maybe what's measured and the individual's ability to move that needle is more the question than a variable comp plan
Fun Rust projects I've done that it was well-suited to:

- Conway's Game of Life

- Graphics stuff (raytracing, procedural generation, etc)

- Parsers/interpreters/compilers

- Command-line tools

None of these were things I needed exactly, but that's the fun of side projects :)
Well buying something tells them a lot anyhow. Brand loyalty, possible interest in consumables, favourite places of purchase.. It's not necessarily to advertise the same thing.
I'll admit that I was initially skeptical about Elixir for anything ML related when I first picked up the pragprog book on Elixir and Genetic Algorithms.

Since that time, things have moved quite a bit. Between the Erlang VM JIT, then Nx, and now this, it's starting to look hopeful!

I'm looking forward to digging into this.
it's worth pointing out the hong kong/china divide, where both are predominantly han but it seems that national identities have diverged.
While agree with your conclusion, I don't agree with your argument to reach it. Any software development sits on such a tall and wobbly stack of dependencies that no one human can even understand every layer, let alone build it. For most projects, I don't hand-solder together transistors into the logic layer, write my own bootstrapping compiler out of hex assembly instructions, or directly interface with graphics drivers to display the program's output. That doesn't make these be bad programs or bad projects, just because they are focused on only one part of the program space.

My concern isn't in "ignorance" or "cheating", but in spending time to learn a technology or framework that may quickly become obsolete.
WordPress is 41% of the web. If this goes through and FLoC is disabled by default by WordPress, will FLoC be dead on arrival?
No no no, logic works the other way around: you are the one claiming that this is a new and more dangerous technology.
If you want to do that, you are the one who needs to bring evidence.

I'm simply arguing from first principles: car batteries store less energy than fuel tanks and release that energy slower and over a longer period of time in a fire. Ergo, they are safer for pretty obvious reasons.
How to scrape, process and visualize data about your competitors
A patch/diff workflow operates at the level of individual diffs, rather than a branch identified by base and head refs like with pull requests.

Email is one (very clunky) way of implementing such a workflow, there's other tools like Gerrit, Reviewable or Phabricator that are more friendly.
All of this is subject to Ron's First Law: all extreme positions are wrong. Eating too much sugar is bad. So is eating too much far or too much protein. Carbs are generally bad, but simple carbs (and alcohol) are worse than complex carbs. Fiber and vitamins matter too. Just about the only hard-and-fast rule is that sugar and alcohol are bad for you and the less you eat of them the better, at least in terms of your physical health. Personally, I choose to trade off some physical health risks in exchange for some boosts to my mental health because I do love me a margarita now and again. All things in moderation, including moderation :-)
There are prostitutes consenting to have paid sex. It’s not necessarily a job borne of desperation.

I would imagine a vanishingly small percentage of people are consenting to be on the receiving end of racial discrimination or hate crimes.
I think another option is to just let it go and you can "fix" it later if you want and have the chance. Just put it in a "cleanup" commit or something. Don't be passive agressive about it, make it a team practice. Sometimes people will change the style of your code, that's ok, it's not a slight against you.

However, if you get in a situation where people are changing styles back and forth then you need to talk it out. E.g. Alice inserts a blank line, Bob removes the blank line, Alice inserts the blank line again - time to talk about blank lines and code style.

In this case, if Alice sorts the dictionary keys and Bob couldn't care less, it seems both can have what they want by simply letting Alice sort the keys. And if it becomes a common thing instead of a one-off, maybe talk about it.
Check out how well their windows-rs project supports cross compilation. It also requires proprietary components to be present. Meanwhile winapi, the project windows-rs is a competitor for requires neither.

Would I call it a trap? No, but MS hasn't shown well enough that they are friends to free software.
Both gmail and outlook (web version) can be configured to send text/plain, I have it set in such a way.
> They should be inexpensive; and your employer should be willing to give you a signing bonus to cover it (after all, the money just goes right back to them).

The first part of this can be false. If you're 1/2 way to billions IPO then your options can easily be a year or more of salary to exercise.

About the second part if the company gives you that as a signing bonus you're still on the hook to the IRS for the bonus so now you're 10s of 10000s deep on an illiquid position.
Ask HN: Why do some people say that Elxir is not a typical functional language?
That makes it way easier for one person to find (who actually knows the names they chose for the keys) but just about impossible for everybody else.
Legislating their country into irrelevance
It doesn’t seem to be making it difficult to dodge this one.
I love this site. Often if I solve a Project Euler problem of the form "what is the xth element...", after I solve it, I will look at the first several elements in the sequence and start seeing where else the sequence is used.
> How does google know I bought Voltaren?

> Is my bank purchase history shared with google somehow?

Google buys Mastercard (if not more) transactions and ties them to your Android location history.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
Capability does not confer legality. Why would crypto force a government’s hand? They’re the ones with the laws and the monopoly on force.

Consider what would happen if you sent fiat to a group recognized as a supporter of terrorism. You can do so, but it is not legal.

What remains to be seen is if Turkey is an outlier, or the start. Monetary and currency policy is power, and crypto's value store is fragile, teetering on the whims of nation states.
You don't need to store the data, just transcribe it. That's basically the business model for Siri, Alexa et al. If you're worried about cost, just offload the work to the cell phone and accept the less-than-100% transcription.

The only reason I don't think the big players are doing this _is_ the potential for scandal. Random apps on the app store that ask for a million permissions, on the other hand, are probably doing this.

It only takes one clever hacker looking to make a name for themselves. With that said, there are plenty of cases where companies _were_ caught spying, so maybe it's not so cut and dry.
Fwiw Rust has fantastic cross-OS systems portability in just about every way except the fact that you have to compile separately for each platform (which you obviously don't for Node). But if you aren't needing to ship a single precompiled binary, you should have no problems.
Didnt they already had dates set for publishing Audit results in January? and then without revealing anything they obtain a settlement? Show you the scale of money and what it can do. At $Trillions being printed per month they can buy anything.
> And I can’t sell the shares to anyone because transfer is forbidden.

IMO this should be illegal. It's your property and they should not be allowed to bar it's sale.
And yet the main image on the article illustrates a 45 degree rotation along an axis.

From what I understand, you are saying this rotation is non-intuitive. Could you elaborate more or share some relevant links?
I agree it doesn’t look like there’s much ramp up, I’d want to know why the people actually there sound so confident there was no 3rd party. Here’s the approximate location of the crash:
https://goo.gl/maps/4Rk3DPdtnnRQuGd69
Sure - I’m just suggesting that it wasn’t better in some mythical past.
Slightly related fun story from 2014:

[1] http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

Discussed on HN earlier:

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8330931
They aren't doing it for 'the people' obviously. Once you gravitate towards an autocracy it matters a whole lot less why you do things, or who it is supposed to be for.

On the other hand, banning things in the digital realm is rather difficult. Unless you go completely offline in practical terms, there is no real way to stop this type of communication.
It's always shades of gray when it comes to management. You need to sort the grays into blacks and whites, but don't forget that they are gray.
Everything you don't want to share with the Gaffas: Shutdown your cell, pay in cash.
Making the job of those engineers harder doesn't sound like a feature.
Dilution is not new.
The US doesn’t have a singular stance on these things. Different law makers at different times take up issues around sex for numerous reasons. Then they try to wrap it in propaganda to make it pass.
I don't think so at all. Crypto is an economy run by whoever can build the most computers and that is China.

Unregulated crypto is a giant bubble that damages countries abilities to regulate their own economy.

Crypto isn't required for peer to peer electronic payments. That's not an argument for crypto it's an argument for e-transfer.
Seems like every fandom has its gatekeepers. I’m sure the person in the first shop actually thought they were being helpful - in their narrative they were the wise sage just trying to impart their wisdom about “the right way” not realizing the damage they were doing in the process.

I am sure I’ve been as guilty of this as anybody when it comes to something I’m really knowledgeable and passionate about.
Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture
If all sex work is exploitative, then all work is exploitative.

There's no great difference between giving a person a massage and a hand-job. Nor between an attractive person modelling for a clothing shoot, vs modelling nude to sell sexy photos. Sex hotlines are not exploitative if advice hotlines are not - it's simply a person using their skills to provide a service.
Here's a start. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180705/01033440176/more-...
I’m with you on this. I just don’t think it was better in the past.
Rust supports a stable but unsafe ABI, the C ABI (extern "C"). Rust also supports a safe but unstable ABI, the Rust ABI (extern "Rust"). But there is no ABI that Rust supports that is both safe and stable. Full list of supported ABIs: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/external-blocks.ht...
Since the publication of Immanuel Kant’s ”Groundwork” in 1785, I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwork_of_the_Metaphysic_o...