skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean what do you want them to actually do instead? Like seriously I’ve implemented at a company I worked for and it’s the least invasive thing to actually rate limit people.

Alternatives included:

- pay a small fee but that requires a credit card

- send us government documents which is worse

- mine crypto for a while but it doesn’t stop people who are actually motivated

- send a selfie and then do some face matching, also worse.

Like what other things can we ask for that actually work and aren’t more invasive?
But then they don't get data on which tweets you viewed.
Less range for twitter users means less twitter users.

Seems to be a pretty dumb move.
Not, reportedly, the Librem 5 phone.
I've unfortunately known the kind of person you describe*, I've also known people with drug problems who would not have been well served by having their "entire world consumed with work on a strict schedule". There's a reason most rehabilitation centers don't focus on that kind of treatment -- it's arguably cruel and absolutely not evidence-based.

* My fiancee's brother was a nasty piece of work. My "favorite" thing he did was lie for months to their father that he had polycystic kidney disease, a heritable disease which had killed their mother. He just kept pulling money out of their father for "treatments" only for it all to be a ruse. I remember Mike (the dad) being in tears because his son was so close to dying. Ugh, it makes me feel dirty just thinking about it.

Edit: although he died a few years later, it was due largely to his not taking care of himself (e.g. untreated diabetes that had already taken his foot). No kidney disease to be seen. And none for my fiancee, knock on wood.
Morocco’s Cabinet Approves Draft Decree Legalizing Cannabis
> Amazon is perfect because you're not looking for quality. I use a rockbros sweat catcher for my indoor training bike setup and it's great because it's just fabric.

Guess they're just a chinese integrator/reseller and quality may vary a lot among different products but I have to say I'm really happy with my backpacking bags (waterproof top-tube and frame bags) I got from them on amazon. I wouldn't trust them with anything "mechanical" though.

Pedals, especially flats (which btw are used by plenty of MTBers), are a breed of their own... they usually come from the same few factories and final price depends on who puts their logo on them. For a good while you could find the very same pedals from HT and from plenty of other minor brands for prices varying from 30 to ~150 euros.
Ok, shows over. Everyone back to IRC.
I guess this one surprises me in how unsurprising that seems to be. (Note, I think she was more socialist than communist, right?)

Her life seems a clear case of outstanding achievement that was only possible with outstanding support.
Speaking as someone who has been helping a friend stay afloat for years now, you’re absolutely correct.

“Just move” is a recurring theme in HN comments whenever this type of story pops up, which seems to be a reflection of the misconception that people in poverty are to blame for failing to have enough initiative to get out.
You forgot the "coronavirus" or "pandemic" in the analysis
I had to break up with my Seismologist girlfriend.
She kept pointing out all my faults.
If someone is telling you to do something, but demonstrates clearly they are not able to repeat your own argument back to you convincingly, they're calling you stupid, because they've demonstrated they don't think you have an argument.
Acing the Data Science Case Interview
CBD could reduce lung damage caused by Covid-19
Author here. I agree with you but the only recent HN data dump that I could find contained posts and not comments. I suspect the trend lines would look similar though.
If you review data, the US indeed has higher cancer survival rates. But they’re marginally higher while overall US life expectancy is lower. That means basically that all-other-causes of shortened lifespan are higher in the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cancer-su...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe...
The fact that any educated person would have this view of public health and compliance is more troubling than the lions share of American politics. Please think deeply whether you'd really like to live in a literal police state.
As I pointed out, thats actually not the situation here at all. However, that idiot in that car playing pranks while driving alongside me and my children is not really Tesla's problem in the grand scheme of things. It's my problem, and Tesla is helping me with it by banning the stupid git. IMHO there's a reasonable argument they should be required to do so by law.
But you don't buy a second home to timeshare it... you buy it so it's yours, filled with your stuff when you come there and always accessible.

500K for basically an airbnb, where i have to pack all my stuff, to go there for a week, then pack stuff, to go home is pretty useless to me.
> Bitcoin's value derives from permissionless transactions on an immutable ledger

The imbecilic way of saying supply and demand?
I to have also been avoiding Amazon, and mostly just ordering stuff directly from companies.

Most of whom use Shopify, it doesn't do all of what your suggesting but shopifys "Shop" app seems to handle the tracking part pretty okay.
Rodney has a great TED Talk where he aptly compared the skateboarding and open-source communities: https://youtu.be/3GVO-MfIl1Q?t=741
I've found that only happens when you're not doing GET:

curl https://nitter.1d4.us/newsycombinator/rss

2620::2218 - - [24/Aug/2021:11:32:56 -0400] "GET /newsycombinator/rss HTTP/2.0" 200 12985 "-" "curl/7.64.1"

vs

curl --head https://nitter.1d4.us/newsycombinator/rss

2620::2218 - - [24/Aug/2021:11:33:57 -0400] "HEAD /newsycombinator/rss HTTP/2.0" 404 0 "-" "curl/7.64.1"
Most AA meetings end with the Lord's Prayer. ;-)
Sure, but if I accidentally click on one of their links in google image search I'm "using" the website and not "fake", but $0.80 would be quite a bad deal ;) Whereas its registered users actively doing something on the site, not as terrible.
VPN configurations are usually username/password/PK combos and work across all operating systems, including iPads and Androids and such.
I'm not sure how my language is ambiguous. It's very clear to those participating that buying an NFT does not give you ownership over the intellectual property of the artwork, or even ownership over the image itself, hence the many "Right click Save As" memes[1].

> Anyone who actually knows what an NFT is is very unlikely to agree that these NFTs are part of an art project or have an artistic intent.

This is pretty presumptuous, and also wrong. One such counter-example is ZKM, which began acquiring NFTs in 2018.[2]

[1] - https://superrare.com/artwork/right-click-and-save-as-guy-11...

[2] - https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2021/04/cryptoart
> Wouldn't a good response be to publicize the recommended and "do not exceed" dosages of the various widely available formulations of ivermectrin? Is the problem that people are using this; or that they may have wrong beliefs?

The problem is that using Ivermectin is not without drawbacks. There are some potentially serious risks associated with it, which are likely heightened by people taking veterinary versions of it.

The doses I've seen in COVID trials are high too. Really high. In one of the in vitro studies that showed promise, the dose was so high that one of the key questions was whether it's even possible to get human blood serum levels that high, disregarding whether a person would even survive. Just purely in a "can we overload your liver enough to get the levels this high" kind of way.

So it's not just the use of ivermectin; the doses people want create a second issue.

> If this story was s/Ivermectrin/CBD/ would anyone's position on the issue stay the same?

There are 2 things that I think make Ivermectin worse.

Firstly, the risk. I'm not aware of any significant risk profile from CBD, at least at normal doses. Allergies are likely possible, but that's an omnipresent risk. Ivermectin can kill you, especially when using veterinary supplies, and double especially when you're aiming for heroic doses. The pattern of use is probably a greater risk than the drug itself, but if they won't listen to you telling them not to take it, they're probably not going to listen to you telling them to take reasonable doses from approved sources.

The second thing that makes Ivermectin work is that it is a miracle drug; it's on the WHO's list of essential medicines. We should not be messing with the supply/demand curve of an essential medicine if we can avoid it. Even if it's totally safe to use, raising demand can raise prices, and there are large parts of the world that are very poor and desperately need access to Ivermectin. They use it to treat parasitic diseases that can result in deformities, blindness, death, etc, etc.

At least in this case, I'm of the opinion that it's fine for Facebook to do nothing. I'd prefer they had a lighter touch in moderation than a heavy one. If the government doesn't like what's going, the onus is on them to pass and enforce a law that bans regular people advocating for off-label use of drugs, or one that forces social media platforms to monitor for it.

I don't think people should be doing it, but I also don't think it's Facebook's role to stop people from doing stupid things.
Yeah, I’m with you in spirit but it’s a tough fight with some very entrenched interests.
If you're running a bunch of VMs, technically you could do that just as well with a cluster of smaller PCs. (No individual VM needs 1TB, after all.) I see a lot of people on /r/homelab using RPi clusters for this use-case.
Obviously! But at what point will educated people (regardless of their political views) realize that playing fast and loose with this kind of media is damaging to everyone and their wellbeing?
I don't know why people are disagreeing with you. Look how many people are begging for "thoughts and prayers", a totally useless gesture with no medical benefits. Religious cures are an example of alternative nonsense. Ironically, it's not untested; we know that it doesn't work.
Actually such programs are often a form of "diversion" you haven't actually even been convicted yet. Say someone robs a store to feed their drug habit. In the good form of this we realize that drugs are the root cause and allow someone to complete drug treatment instead of going to prison. If you complete it the charges are dropped and you don't have to live the rest of your life as a felon.

People just realized that they could create "Christian" work programs where they mix in a gram of jesus into their 10 tons of hard labor as marketing or flavor if you prefer.

1.Low Level Offense
2. Diversion
3. Slavery
4. Profit
What happened to HBM? Too expensive? This article talks about HBM3... from 2016. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/hbm3-details-price-b...
> I don't expect that I can download a library that does A* on abstract state spaces not fully present in RAM for me

I'm sure this does exist! A functional library where you pass in, not a pointer to the set of all nodes, but some functions to get the node with the current lowest distance and to update the distance of a node.

Not saying it was the right thing for your use case, but don't rule it out. Even in languages that aren't strongly FP - eg it happens a lot in Go due to the lack of generics, and if you squint, the C++ STL is kind of like this.
You might be interested in learning Elm [1] to escape React hell.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/
O_O I am shocked. That's really bizarre
The value comes from the freedom aspect. Some people value freedom higher than others, some even say that you can’t put a price on freedom.
Me? Calm and considerate? Do you even read my comments?!

Seriously though, thanks. While I strive to be what you just said, I also delete roughly half of my comments before even submitting them (and every now and then, few minutes after), and I'm not really happy about the rest. I'm pretty grumpy these days, I'm starting to hate the technology business more with every passing moment. Is this too much HN, or just youthful naivete expiring?

(Few years ago I learned that I won the third place in a ranking of HN's top posters of profanities - according to some dataset someone is keeping on Kaggle. This dubious honour made me tone down my language quite a bit.)
Agreed. They even offer free 2-day shipping just like Amazon (at least past a certain price point or something) or let you pick up in store, which I've preferred in certain cases where I want to minimize the time a fragile purchase spends shipping.

My one gripe has been that they put a huge sale sticker right on the box of the animal crossing edition switch I bought. At least it was on the side and not front and center, but it would've been nice to not do that.

Adding on to the Amazon alternative, Target is also great. I've happily purchased many electronics, home supplies, etc from them. Costco too, though they sell a different kind of inventory. Again, not quite mom and pops, but IMO anything that's not Amazon or Walmart is still an improvement.
> Slacks and Discords

I find these terrible for any kind of information discovery. I hate that so many communities are using them as an alternative to a subreddit or focused forum. Hell most "modern" forum software is horrific as well.
Ah! It was something I wanted to try, will take this as a framework and try it out. Thanks!
They still have cookies and your browser fingerprint. You might be surprised how complete their picture already is.
I exclusively use it via VPN, with a ProtonMail address from the web (so many login notifications) while like, commenting, and subscribing on politically controversial content and soccer.

Three, almost four months in and zilch. It’ll be a good test case anyways.
Finally an article where people can state publicly their hate to this decision without polluting all the other posts linking to tweets.
There are lots of laws over if your employee is a contractor or full-time. Many, _many_ companies butt heads with local labor boards who decide that a given employee is actually full-time and thus entitled to a bunch of different protections.

Many regulations either don't exist in Europe or are under-enforced. For instance, Germany did not outlaw insider trading until ~2003. There's a strong chance that an American hiring a contractor in, say, Romania will simply not be prosecutable while an American hiring a contractor in America will be. There's some legal term of art for this that I can't recall off-hand.
Ah don't forget the same variation of foolery that comes around if you 180 into a grind.

What most people would call a nose grind or 5-0 is inverted if you 180'd into it.

> And remember, never carry your board by your truck :)

I miss skateboarding :). My ankles don't though.
For what it’s worth, you can sign-up through DMAChoice to stop receiving junk mail [1]. It takes a few months after you sign up to really take effect, but it has easily eliminated 90% of the mail I used to receive. Well worth it IMO for the $2 fee every 10 years.

https://www.dmachoice.org/register.php
I just see way too many issues with maintenance and renovations and so on. Majority has to agree to these. Living in country where housing companies is standard model for apartments there is enough horror stories of smaller ones where old people save money and forgo things costing lot more in long run... At least there you can do most things inside the appartment you control.
I block reddit on my devices...any chance someone could share a tldr or another source?
What I learned after nearly dying from electric shock
Nope. The scions of HN went silent.

Ok here's a random potential solution...how about weaponized satellites with the ability to generate electromagnetic fields which can force small junk into lower orbits.

Is that a thing? Just a thought, not an astrophysicist.
You aren't looking forward to the day consumer Operating Systems have holodeck-driven UIs? /s
I am that European.

There are 513 million people in Europe spread over 28 countries, excluding Russia.

Have you met all of them?

In my 25 years of experience in the field, the opposite is true.
Mall grabs are okay as long as you just tried something huge: https://youtu.be/THcnby6b6sY?t=88
There's a sad amount of "news" content on the web that amount to listicals of a Reddit post.
Wasn't questioning the amount, only the units for a plan which could make it more appealing
> As the Taliban's campaign to reconquer Afghanistan was gathering pace in June, hundreds of people were dying in the fighting, and tens of thousands were fleeing.

<sarc>Hmmm ... Didn't they hear that the Afghan National Army just abandoned their positions with no fighting at all? How's this supposed to make the administration look less bad?</sarc>

Updated to add `<sarc>` tags for clarity.
Personally I'm a fan of the fee idea. You can quickly outstrip the yearly revenue per user with even a small fee, and the fee payment could e.g. happen via PayPal which doesn't require credit cards, to give one example. The issue with fees though is that you might need a billable address for tax purposes which renders this entire exercise pointless.
If you don't want shared ownership for properties in your area - then advocate for the local government to buy out all of the properties... but that would be shared ownership of all properties.

Imposing restrictions on forms of ownership is in itself a form of forced shared ownership.(If someone is going to tell me that I cannot sell my house to whoever I choose to, then I do not outright own my house)
Or the web based “nitter” project
https://nitter.domain.glass or https://nitter.cc
My neighbor is a FedEx pilot - outside of Europe and North America, they are effectively incarcerated between flights.

Armed military escorts, hazmat suits, hotel windows locked shut, people spraying your footprints with disinfectant, etc. It's insanely absurd.

But by God, we will NOT stop the global economic engine.
> CAAIR filed workers’ comp claims and kept the payouts

How is this not just outright fraud? The state may turn a blind eye towards horrific abuses of prisoners, but they're not going to be so sanguine about theft of their money. Even worse this creates an incentive to make the workplace dangerous, since each injury is more cash in the administrator's pockets.
I have to - don’t do it - say it: put your trees on a NFT blockchain - he said it, sorry!!1!
Whoa! So many people in this thread have recommended this book. I'll read it right away. Thanks!
So if I understand correctly, letting “~” denote homotopy equivalence,

Kickflip ~ 360 shove it

Ollie ~ 720 shove it ~ double kickflip

I may have missed it in the paper, but does anyone have intuition about how to visualize these homotopies? I don’t get how to continuously deform a 720 shove it into an Ollie.
What requires human intervention depends on how good the self-checkout is, and how much the store is oriented toward "weird items".

Buying similar carts full of groceries from one of the nicer Walmarts I've ever seen, I never had a single issue with the self-checkout. Going to a Safeway self-checkout with more than 3 items, I am sure to get the thing complaining about the bag weighing mechanism and needing an assistant to unlock it.

I regularly buy $300-500 dollar carts full of stuff from Sam's Club, and scan everything on my phone at the moment I put it in the cart. No need to remove the items from the cart again at the checkout, just pay on your phone and push the cart as-is to your car. (Of course, Sam's is like Costco, and everything is pre-bundled, no weighing of produce required.)
That's nice, but that still requires me to pack it at home and get it to the airport when departing to start with.

What I'd like is more e.g. deciding I want to visit the French Riviera regularly (I live in London, 20 minutes by train from an airport with regular flights to Nice, and Nice airport is literally walking distance from the town centre, and I love the area), so I buy a chest w/storage there, bring clothes the first time and they pick it up at the end of my trip and hold on to it until I come back, and charges me a storage fee.

It's a niche service, but some places (like Nice) do have companies that specialise in maintaining and handling AirBnb rentals, so maybe it'd be a nice extra income for a company like that.

If I could get them to clean and iron my clothes as well, it'd be perfect. Arriving to have my luggage unpacked and ready, and just leaving it at the end of the trip would get me halfway to the benefits of owning a vacation property for small fraction of the cost.

I've actually contemplated contacting some of the property management companies in Nice to ask if they'd be willing to provide a service like that, even at a substantial premium to offer something bespoke...
Good thing Elon is funding the same anti-hydrogen lobbyists that the oil industry has employed for decades.
yt-dlp is a good fork.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Any other recommendations?
تعمیرات و نگهداری دستگاه تسمه کش
As a shareholder--good.

As a lazy Twitter reader--bad.
Personally, I don’t mind giving them my phone number because my number is already public information. It sucks though that I can’t get tweets by text.

This was the original use case of twitter. I understand SMS is not secure enough to publish tweets but why can we no longer get texts when someone tweets?
In Syria, whistling has been essential to those hobbyists who raise birds, to communicate and command them "“Hemeimati (Pigeon fancier)”
If you have ever visited Damascus and its countryside, Homs, Aleppo or any other Syrian city, you should have noticed swarms of pigeons hovering over the city, swaying right and left, up and down responding to the signs of a person standing on a roof.

This person would be carrying a long stick in his hand with a black or white piece of cloth on its tip, waving it, as if telling the flying swarm to fly higher or fly down towards him, often with a “whistle” https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2016/08/mysterious-w...
Intel’s Ambitious Roadmap
Vaccination likely dramatically slows the spread. Even with the most pessimistic non-peer-reviewed numbers, Delta in a vaccinated (Pfizer or Moderna) population will spread no faster than original Covid in an unvaccinated population, and the death (and presumably long-term disability) toll will be substantially reduced.

As a non-expert, IMO the most pessimistic numbers are likely to be more pessimistic than warranted.
I've also been using 128GB for the last few years on my dev PC. It's great for running VMs, but honestly I could have had 64Gb and would have only rarely noticed the difference.

My replacement PC (actually an Alienware laptop) will only have 64GB. I don't think I'll miss it.
I disagree with this characterization, if for no other reason than the fact that the nature of the alternatives might not be entirely clear. And should the convict decide six months in that he's tired of being abused doing dangerous work so that meat suppliers can get free labor, he doesn't get time served -- that six months is just lost.
Visualizing Python modules and dependencies with Neo4j