skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of domain is your question aimed at…? Tech in general? Programming, culture, movies, music, etc…?

The answers will heavily depend on the domain, IMHO.

So feel free to elaborate on that (^_^)

With that said: One way for me to focus better is to read stuff on paper. E.g. books. One can’t doomscroll a book. And a really good book is just too enjoyable to skim, IMHO. Reading newspapers can also be great for inspiration.

Suggestion: Go to a newsstand and grab a copy of The Economist. In my experience, every single issue of The Economist will contain something interesting. Not only regarding politics and business but arts, culture and technology. Reading The Economist is a great way to becoming a well-round person.

Best of luck!
I usually filter by "Retailer: Walmart.com" for any common and/or name-brand item (and price/shipping is usually better than 3rd part sellers anyway). You still have to take your chances for more obscure items, but at least for me that's rare.
Do people remember when they portrayed the presidential candidate Michael Dukakis as the tank man?

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/tank-ride-video
The FBI may already have the info that way, but now need a second way to obtain it either for it to be admissible in court or to protect the details of their methods. This is known as "parallel construction." https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi...
Then they will just ban the IPs?
Perhaps by "loop holes" we should instead say "tax law".
There's no way mobile computing will improve; there's too much money to be made taking advantage of the people that don't understand their devices.
I'm disappointed judges have refused to touch the NSA etc stuff. But historically they have taken privacy seriously.

The more cynical part of me also thinks that we're getting all the downsides of the panopticon, so why not at least get the upsides too (in this case better law enforcement)...
The Original Tank Man?
YC is not some magic fantasy organization. Like any other org you should probably discuss things your upset about internally with relevant stakeholders before complaining on Twitter. That said telling other people how to circumvent vaccine queues is clearly unethical and someone high up should have loudly squashed that immediately.
I fly drones including with commercial filming permits at conservation parks/islands with large bird populations. Different types of birds react in various ways to a drone though I've never noticed similar birds to these act in an overly panicked way. Some types of birds will take flight and then resettle, some will circle closely and try to intimidate the drone (galahs), some charge or consider attacking it (osprey, whistling kite), some ignore it (wedge tailed eagles - at least in my experience so far^), etc.

The permit in a case like this would require that I land safely if the presence of the drone alters the behaviour of the birds (even if they're staying on the ground, but bobbing their head). Here's a video below from a tiny, low island with a bird population in the tens of thousands, where a group of hikers have possibly spooked birds that are then flying towards the drone from the other side of the island. Most passed under the drone, suggesting they weren't concerned; I was keeping the drone still or moving slowly and predictably towards where I could land on the beach. This flock was going through for some time. I don't think these are terns, but there were crested terns on that island.

Troubridge Island birds: https://bit.ly/3z49lwm

I don't mean to discount the impact of drones, but I suspect that a repeated close drone presence is more likely to cause birds to abandon a nest than a crash. That is generally the concern with raptor nests where I live.

My thought when reading the article was that off-leash dogs might've had the main impact in abandonment of eggs, but that drones are more likely to make a headline for the story. Couldn't find an original press release, but every news headline is about drones.

^ Here's one encounter with a wedge-tailed eagle. It beat its wings perhaps to make sure it was clear but didn't seem to move its head at all. In other cases, they've not beaten their wings or moved their heads so weren't visibly bothered. https://bit.ly/3uVIvn5

And here's a whistling kite coming in to attack but then changing its mind at the last moment: https://bit.ly/3vTJ0za
A lot of countries have laws requiring companies that sell more than $X annually to their citizens to register as a foreign company and apply local VAT.
Spotify and Tencent Music swapped shares when they did a deal together.

There is some hand wringing with all the gaming companies Tencent owns or has a stake in. They own Supercell which was worth $10B+ before. League of Legends parent Riot. A stake in Kakao Daum that does gaming stuff too.

On top of the 40% of Fortnite parent Epic Games, they own 10 or 15% of PUBG parent Bluehole. They own 5%+ stakes in Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard (which owns Candy Crush parent King Games). They are a huge game publisher in China and okay in rest of Asia. So they get to publish a lot of games like WoW in China.

They own a handful of smaller studios and a stake in probably a dozen other gaming studios at minimum. Usually when I say studios I mean outside China too. Miniclip and Agar.io might be familiar to people. 20% of Glu Mobile too which makes a lot of the branded kitsch apps for Kardashians etc. they just got bought so not sure if ownership remains.

Tencent is the closest successor to Berkshire Hathaway. Their other minority stakes are wild too. Minority stakes each worth billions include JD.com(Amazon of China), Kakao Daum as mentioned, Snap[chat], Tesla, Pinduoduo (China’s top 5 richest is founder of this Chinese ecommerce phenom), previously or maybe still Flipkart, one of the big 3 Ecom in India, Didi, the Uber of China of which Uber merged and has a minority stake, Nio (China’s biggest electric car company for now), Meituan Dianping stake which itself could eclipse a $100B market cap, Vipshop another Chinese company. Don’t forget 5% of Reddit though that’s not worth even half a billion
That's an interesting bit of news, in that at least it confirms Stripe have recognised the danger. I will be happy to be proven wrong about this, but I fear their reaction is too little and too late for merchants here in the UK. The likes of Paddle are already offering much simpler tax arrangements and other significant advantages as well, and as you would expect, this is already disrupting some markets that might have been considered Stripe's natural territory just a few years ago.
Underestimating the power of TUIs annoying it is.
if it's grouping related check out the collapse package

https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/
I can't imagine why, as an Indian. This is the government who pays people to troll for the ruling party on Twitter/Whatsapp all the time and trend irrelevant, ridiculous, fake news. Every other neighboring government neighboring (except China) is more reasonable in regards to social media.
nah Biden wanted other countries to raise the rate but wasn't going to address US companies moving revenue from country a to country b.
I wonder what empirical evidence we have which would show graduates of elite schools are better in their chosen field of study than those that graduated from non-elite schools (or even carefully studied the material on their own).

If outcomes are better at elite schools and it is not due to the students themselves then what is the elite school's secret sauce that cannot be replicated?
I’ve commented on this before—you kind of don’t. It will be a true KitchenAid brand, of course. But the actual machine may be compromised. Walmart places intense pressure on their suppliers and often sells Walmart-only SKUs made of inferior parts and materials.

I bought rope there (in a physical store) a few months ago, for tying down furniture in a truck. Got home, cut the rope, it was a foam core with braiding around it to make it seem like true rope.

This applies to their food items as well, by the way.
Seems that most comments here are negative on the
prospects of this. Almost as if they want things like this
to fail, but of course it can also be seen as valid and
informed critical thinking.

Regardless, in my book this is at least a mildly positive
bit of news even if the road to implementation will be long
and difficult.

Obviously, while no law can be enforced to 100% or be free
of loop holes that is not a strong argument to be dismissive
of the rule of law, international treaties or democratic or
other political processes.
Thank you.

Your well-written and thoughtful response helped me greatly in broadening my understanding and from now on I will take every news article at face value.

I really appreciated how you specifically addressed the question I posed.

Edit:

How is a snarky comment that serves no purpose besides being self-serving and demeaning higher rated than the constructive comments in this tree? That's an insult to the people in this community who are still trying.

Bonus points for downvoting the other person who asked an honest question in the thread.

My disappointment with this place increases by the day.
The acccused and the accuser both tweeted extensively about this, but only one side is covered in the article. Great journalism.
What do you suggest as an alternative to the justice system?
If it would be only for the complex tax evasion schemes I would be on their boat but in the end it will reduce competition between countries which is just dystopic.
I only commented on the size of the island.

As island go, "giant" is far from a correct description.

Calling it a "giant project" would be fine.
IP adresses don't matter much - China has a lot of them and in the worst case, they could simply reroute them at the firewall and reuse them internally.

Android is fully open source, oonly the play store is controlled by Google. China already has a lot of alternatives (and have a look at Huawei on how well that block worked).

Windows would put hurt a bit, yes, but cracked versions of it are not a rarity. Additionally, there's always Linux. So unless MS remote-wipes their machines (and kill themselves by doing so), it would probably not hurt either.

And if the country is smaller, like Nigeria, China will be happy to offer their help for a bit of political influence.
I’ll look them up immediately, thank you! The grit issue is seriously the number one thing that I dislike about the process
The solution is to not run everything from one organization.

I'd like to see Nigeria ban mastodon. Sure they could ban instances and if they got very aggressive with policing they could make it hard to host within the country but it certainly wouldn't be as easy as banning twitter was.

FANG will never do this because the centralization gives them an incredible amount of power.
Since you yourself said you are not an expert, then ask yourself, why do experts make security based on hidden passwords instead of focusing on creating those public-indifferent solutions? Could it be that passwords/PINS/secrets are one of the easiest, cheapest and reliable way of preventing unauthorized access since the ancient times?
A useful definition of labor shortage would be when there exists no one(s) that can perform a certain task in a certain area, such as not having a specific type of doctor in a rural setting.

The learning curve for warehouse work is very low, so if you cannot find someone that can do it, you are either in a geriatric community or you are not offering attractive wages (so wage shortage is more accurate than labor shortage).

Although wage shortages can lead to labor shortages years down for tasks that have high learning curves.
My comment states a specific analogy, which is that a lot of the excuses people give for the former also apply to the latter. You can't refute this just by stating that it's "not analogous".
> because apparently everything data mining/ML related in R is actually just python

Everything? I'm just wondering what you've been doing exactly. I know that Tensorflow in R is just a wrapper on top of Python, not sure what else. If you're doing any deep learning, then going straight to Python is certainly much better than using R. For most other things it's not quite as clear of a decision.
> Companies are ruthless about cutting fat. They have departments dedicated to isolating unnecessary employees and firing them.

That depends on the company. How about the 'growth engines' whose primary goal is to be acquired? I don't think these claims work in a world where the axiom 'the goal of a company is to make more money than it spends' is broken.
Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy
‘We Eat Roti and Salt’: Delhi’s Most Vulnerable Still Wait for Food
The problem is that there are no incentives in learning how to program for people in those fields. Most people just get their code to "work" (i.e., output the analyses that they want) without really wanting to know how it works. Most of the time code is passed from grad student to grad student and modified to make it work for the specific analysis. As a result, you get Frankenstein code that somewhat works but that is good enough for writing a results section of a paper.

There are people that know how to code but those are few and in-between. Usually they are pushed out of academic positions because there are very few ways to fund work to develop scientific code.
> Or does this question sound absurd to you?

It sounds like an extremely leading question, or at least a dozen separate questions. But the further you go back in history the more, larger, and nastier questions you find where one country gained an advantage at the expense of another, often including a huge number of human lives. Was it really right for France to insist on reparations from Haiti, for example?
Lawful is an interesting term. Patriot Act was voted in and is the law of the land. It allows for NSLs and other rather controversial if not unconstitutional practices.

Warrant is not a must. This is not a movie. You would be surprised how many companies give you what you want just by calling as LEO.
the whole thing is not about relicensing in the github discussion. it's about if the commerical identityserver should still be included as a default template.
And half of the Internet
More like a large mountain range.
And yet C++ is one of the most popular languages in the world and widely used in the industry including most (all?) tech giants.
If there is no benefit to moving around the income earned, companies would stick to declaring their income at the point of earning (so where they provided the services) because that would likely be the easiest, and would eliminate all sorts of currency based risks, transaction costs, etc.
Interesting narrative here. Ireland is “predatory” because they create an extremely low tax environment for competitiveness.

Is Texas also predatory for having no income tax versus CA, NY etc 10%+ income tax?
Is the audience mainly folks in the scientific computing or academic world (aka folks that use CUDA mainly)? I went into it as a graphics engineer and started to get that sense haha (good job putting it together though)
I think that's a big improvement, thanks!
That is exactly how we got the planet to its current state: if you give more power to the numbers you'll encourage more numbers. Maybe it's time to give more weight to another human accomplishment than reproduction, like to the value created.

But I don't hear governments giving more voting rights to more populous countries, instead it's to the "more developed" (PIB) and "more powerful" (military) both proxies for wealth.
>They do not require explicit consent from people willfully choosing to enter.

The GDPR however does require explicit consent.

>Should we really assume that the client has not taken any responsibility when they willfully type in https://www.somewebsite.com/ and hit enter?

I didn't type in anything or click enter to get to that site.

>Since users can block cookies/javascript,

Except when that breaks stuff.
Did you read the book or just the essay? I listened to the audionook and I’m pretty sure he went into great depth on the different flavours of bullshit jobs you mentioned.
The funny thing about infosec taxonomies is that actual attacks actively resist classifications like CVSS.

CVSS is generally used on the sysadmin side to figure out what to patch first. Successful attackers generally go after shit that's unpatched. This often means that the most exploited bugs are the ones with the lowest CVSS scores, so new tools and techniques tend to grow around issues that sysadmins consider to not be a big deal.

People eventually catch on that the "no big deal" bugs are getting exploited en-masse, and try to tweak the scoring process, which is why we're on CVSSv3 now with CVSSv4 in the works, and it's just as useless as it's always been.
It's most likely that the drone that crashed was similar in size to the type of bird that was spooked (Mavic Mini to Mavic Pro range; maybe a Phantom at most). Anyone flying a larger drone (Inspire and up) would have a serious license and familiarity with permits, therefore unlikely to be called "illegal".

I'm guessing it either fell after colliding with a bird or was flying low enough with sensors off and clipped the ground.
yes, you need to enable udp inbound, outbound will be a random port.
The ask is not hard: introduce dollar reserves and swap lines into the ecosystem, and don't touch the principal. Yet no stablecoin has been able to make this guarantee.

Other kinds of assets beyond the dollar are not relevant to retail traders the same way the majority of traders are unlikely to take want to take physical at the end of a futures commodity contract. In the end they will want the dollar amount.
I thought the same thing. It's unfortunate because the linked article is fine but I can't share it because of all of the other wacky nonsense.
Oh jeez, here we go again. Yesterday’s thread about it was pretty clear. Now there’s a one sided article about it on BI. It’s almost like they don’t care and just want the click-bait and traffic.
That's how debate works! Opinions are SUPPOSED to be attacked! Your opinions are being attacked because people think they are trash. If you can't stand it then don't share your opinions.
What are some of the applications for this?
In my mind
VS Code and devcontainers were "sandboxes" and so I considered them safe. There's so much scope for evil hacking. At some point this is going to happen and it's going to be a big deal. That's my bet
This legislation is directly aimed at preventing a race to the bottom, because societies (represented by their governments) realized that they are getting played by extranational entities if they act alone.
It's been 20+ years but this still sounds familiar. Might just be the "that's sounds right so I'll assume I knew it" bias that makes educated people susceptible to subtle propaganda, though. :)
At this point I either use saved passwords or need to rotate the passwords on every request via password reset. Saved passwords are also an attack vector and as such my corporate laptop disables all mechanisms for saving passwords.

I think it's time to make pin + 2 factor the standard over passwords.
Indeed, and the number of "bullshit-jobs" might actually be grossly underestimated, since I've found in general people will often try to justify the status quo and especially their own jobs. Most people would say a three-card monte street hustler has a net negative impact on society, but the hustler can argue that it's a form of entertainment, that people know what they're getting into, that people are paying a relatively small price for an iconic experience, etc.

There's a large amount of the economy that I'd consider a net negative for society - advertising and the industries created to convey it (radio, TV, most websites), credit cards, junk food, sales, etc. There are also a lot of cases where increased input doesn't seem to make people happier off. For instance, a lot of work goes into making special effects better than they were decades ago, but doesn't necessarily mean an audience in 2021 is going to enjoy movies more than an audience in 2000 did.

As a society we should probably spend a lot more time talking about where our economic output is going, and if it's going towards the things we actually want it to.
Minideb: A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers
Lot's of negative comments in here about learning R from experienced programmers. I've found this is largely because experienced programmers have this unjustified bias that R is some toy language that should be easy to learn and has nothing to teach them. If you approached a language like Rust in the same way you would likely be just as frustrated with it.

Certainly R has its quirks, but most of this comes from being one of the oldest continuing existing programming languages there is. It derives from S which was written 46 years ago. Because of this it has multiple object/class systems reflecting the changing standards for OOP. It's most dominant one, S3, predates Java and therefore uses the Generic Function paradigm of OOP similar to Common Lisp's ClOS. If you're experienced but have never worked with non-Java style OOP you're going to be a bit confused.

R's most important feature, which is well worth studying and mastering for any serious programmer, is that it is a completely vectorized programming language. It borrows this style from APL (though is a million times more readable). Every value in R is a vector and for the vast majority of operations the best approach to solve your problem is by thinking in vector operations. This makes simple things like string formatting with `paste` seem like a confusing nightmare, but there is a real logic there. Functions like `ifelse` can seem strange, and writing C-style code in R, while possible will result in horrible performance.

Once you do learn to think in vectors you realize that R isn't just popular in the stats world because most statisticians haven't seen a "real" programming language, but because you can very rapidly iterate on models. Translating mathematical notation into R, for the experience R programmer, is easier than any other language I've worked with by a long shot.

My advice to any experienced programmer approaching R is to have some respect for the language. Most of the frustrations you'll have aren't because R is a bad language, but because you have less experience than you think and learning R well can expand your programming views in a similar way to Haskell.
Small biz can use their creativity to find other ways of competing, not just price. Support for example, which Amazon is atrocious for.

We cannot held consumers hostage for the good of the "small biz".
Who else discuss these topics? I'm deeply interested in this.
"Fun", "conceptually easy" and "very prone to off-by-one or other trivial errors" is basically a description of 99% of the problems on LeetCode.

The last one is particularly annoying because most problems could be easily tweaked with e.g. restrictions on the size of input or test cases to avoid those issues.