skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of bloody course writing your representative is better than not writing them: It stands at least a chance (however infinitesimal) of accomplishing something.

There is no guarantee that, if it accomplishes “something”, the change it induces will not have negative value. You cannot assess that the action has positive expected value without summing value across all possible outcomes weighted by probability, included negative value outcomes.

The frequent naive assumption that doing something is always better than doing nothing is how proponents of lots of counterproductive policies use real problems as leverage to get them passed.

Does alcohol produce real social harms? Was Prohibition doing something instead of nothing? Was Prohibition a net win?
This is related to an idea I had for a "todo" app that I haven't found anywhere yet. Every task can implement some kind of flexible occurrence. It's for tasks that should be done but the exact date isn't very important and the recurrence interval starts again not the last time the task became "due" but the last time it was done.

It fits many kinds of tasks, watering plants, checking a furnace filter, ... but also staying in touch with people.

Does anyone know of a service or app like that?
New Interview Segment for Startup Founders
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By the way, if you are not funded yet, you can leave questions you might be looking answer from other founders.
What's your stance on regulation of crypto companies? People don't have to invest in crypto, they can do all kinds of other things with it.
Medically unsafe volumes claim has not been substantiated with any real evidence, and quite frankly absolutely false at first glance because the driver located right next to the horn would have permanently ringing ears by now.

There is however evidence of many false claims, later walked back, just like the assault at the shelter, which as it turns out, was: 1) verbal assault 2) did not involve anyone from the convoy. Conveniently that claim
was spread by a charity mostly funded by the City of Ottawa (10mil), of which 9 mil goes to salaries and only 450k to groceries and 850k to programs.

Disgusting.

As for the residents of ottawa, living in the nation capital, and not expecting boisterous protests is plain privledge and entitlement. That’s what you see in the mirror every morning: privilege and entitlement.

Calling a strike an insurrection is an insult to millions in Canada who have fled actual wars. It’s also an insult to every socialist that supports the right of workers to organize and strike, that you want to now shutdown with martial law.

Disgusting.

Oh, truckers can find another job if they don’t like the jab? So you can move to another city too.

Just like the jab, nobody forces you to live in Ottawa, it was YOUR. CHOICE.
I was referencing more the 'Marxist agenda' reference, considering that Trudeau is from mild wealth and everything Trudeau and the Liberals have done is oriented around maintaining the status quo and protecting the exclusivity and privileges of the wealthy class.
Perhaps a 15-30 year old thing, but for those people in my B/C/D list (never thought about it that way before), one thing I do is if they are active on Instagram I will send a response to their story if it looks interesting. More casual than a text, but it opens the door to a quick conversation.
I mean, not if there was an actual metrication effort. There isn’t. Nobody’s putting up any speed limit signs in kilometres per hour or using celsius for the weather forecast.
Er, you don't know truckers think people getting killed by police officers is "no big deal". That appears to be something you just made up right now, as there's no obvious way you could possibly know that for sure. Or do you have some specific evidence, like a poll of the truckers on what they thought of BLM last year?
I would like to point that SRB2 is already somewhat "popular". It's been in development since at least 1999 and has an enormous community. I remember playing it online around 2006 and, at that time, the game already had a big community: I quickly found non-US/Europe servers filled with human players.

Sega may change its mind any time, of course, but it won't be just because the project got popular: for its niche, it's already.
Do you have a source on this? It doesn't match my understanding.
Andrei and team are awesome. We were customers of a Fogbender ancestor (a chat app that became SameRoom) and are excited to be customers for Fogbender!

For a growing customer success org, being able to generate tickets from these chats is super useful.
Ok, fair enough. On closer reading, I think I pattern-matched your comment the wrong way!

(That said, it's still rhetorically in the flamewar style and that's the wrong style for HN. We want curious conversation here.)
Just rebuilt the app with more examples, so the queue should stay a lot shorter now. This was built using Gradio[0] and is hosted on Spaces[1]. Check out the paper[2] and github repo[3].

[0]: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces
[2]: http://www.cvlibs.net/publications/Sauer2021NEURIPS.pdf
[3]: https://github.com/autonomousvision/projected_gan
No it's not "idiomatic". Stop this nonsense. Look at the biggest C# code base, ASP.NET Core, and there are many instances where this is not the case.

You don't need to preface a method with `private` to be so but people still do it, why? My theory is the influx of Java dev influences, same with the "One class per file nonsense".
YouTuber Daniel Rakowiecki fix Red Scarelt X 4K Camera that service couldn't fix
Maybe he’s Canadian?
Thereby creating a hard dependency for your markdown files, obviating their portability.
Applications generally shouldn't have APIs that run foreign code that can freeze the app/page.
I agree it's not the best paper, and there's lots of unrealistic assumptions being made, but I still liked to read it. If nothing else it's useful to see how these models map or don't map onto other sources of information.

I also agree though that it would be nice if these sorts of things were approached differently, more from the perspective of epidemiological modeling or something.
> doctors are consistently among the very highest paid people in American society

Isn't that at least in part because there's so little competition though?
Apple already requires that you offer their login service if you offer any other ones, so I could see them imposing that requirement. But then you'd have to be able to compete with their option, like by offering lower prices, and they don't allow that.
Beyond that, if the content they post is illegal, there's a more clear path to prosecution than if the content is posted anonymously.
UK actually handed me a SIM at the Airport (or did I just pick it up from a counter) and I used it throughout my stay for a few months. Isn't that the case anymore?
I'm not an expert but your best bet is likely to double down on the bug bounty work.

There are people with lessor convictions from further back than you who still have issues finding full time jobs because of background checks.
KaiOS supports WhatsApp. And, at least some of them support group texting somewhat competently, though not the older ones.

But the reality is that I'm fine with a lot of my communication being computer-based now (with a keyboard). I still manage some group texts, but tend to only actually contribute if it's something critical ("Can you make this date work?") and skip a lot of the random BSing in the threads.

If your requirements are "I want everything I can do on a smartphone, but without a smartphone," you end up in an impossibility, so just find the least offensive black mirror you can and go on with it. But if you're willing to sit back and figure out what actually matters from a phone, and what's a nice-to-have, there are plenty of other options out there.
This is a big improvement to supplement the existing docs, but how does one know what the parameter types are without wading deep into the implementation or trial and error? This has been a major point of frustration for me when interacting with python code (especially someone else's) beyond simple scripts.
It's probably Baader-Meinhof plus an actual increase in frequency, which can happen if people see an interesting link on NH and then share it socially on other sites (which then gets shared further). Interesting topics seem to be fairly "bursty" among various social networks.
Yes, lets shift blame to the local governments! Despite the fact that Reagan passed the "Lanterman-Petris-Short Act" in California as Governor and then removed all funding for Mental Health at the State and Federal level. Hey, at least people that aren't a harm to themselves or others can die on the street in dignity now.
When anyone commits murder, the appropriate response is jail time. That's not peculiar to homeless people.

I know a whole lot about homelessness and have left many comments on the subject over the years. If you want to have a meaty discussion about it, I'm capable of doing so, though this approach to engaging me isn't a good way to get that.

I write less about homelessness than I used to. These days, I try to focus on community development.

I think that's the best antidote we have and one that gets too little attention.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. ― Desmond Tutu.
>I agree with apple. One of the reason iPads are so damn good is that they put some constraints on them to stop people doing horrible things. Virtualisation is one of those horrible things.

The iPhone was originally planned not to have any apps. I guess that would've been even better (and less horrible)?
OpenSea’s product chief is out after insider NFT flipping accusations
Poor Yorkshire. An adult Yorkshire weighs between two and seven pounds.
> Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption. In this regard they differ critically from PCs, because PCs are equal devices in the sense that the same device is used for creation and consumption. This means that anyone with a PC can create as well as consume, if they so wish. This cultural equality is diminished by an exodus to devices which can only really be used for consumption.

So smartphone companies put so much emphasis on the camera and, to a lesser extent, other built-in input devices, because...?

> Smartphones have powerful CPUs and fast network connections, except that you aren't actually allowed to use these resources in any meaningful sense, because doing so consumes battery power, and people don't want the precious battery life of their phones drained unnecessarily.

True, and this is a big hurdle for ~every attempt to gain traction with modern peer-to-peer protocols. Approximately no-one wants their smartphone battery to die in four hours flat so they can help serve decentralized YouTube on IPFS.

> Part of the “cloud” movement is probably driven by the fact that while smartphones have substantial computational resources, you can't actually use them because of battery life. So instead the computation is done in the cloud, creating a dependency on a centralized entity.

They didn't replace PCs, though. "Real" computation (by these standards) availability has continued to grow alongside smartphones. I'm skeptical how many more PCs would have been sold in a world without smartphones, and exactly how much more "creation" would be going on (though nb. I think "smartphones are just consumption devices" is a totally bizarre take disconnected from reality in the first place)

> They have ruined web design.

Heh. Yes, kinda, but then again several of the best versions of sites (that have multiple versions) are the mobile one. I'm pretty sure web design ruined web design, not smart phones.

> They are devices of unclear alignment, or of clear malevolence.

Pretty damning that the most popular and widely used computing platform we could come up with, falls under this category. If only non-mobile operating systems weren't almost all completely terrible to use, for normal people.

> With a PC, I don't have to perform some arcane operation to actually have control of the device.

Do I need to link to a billion search results dispensing the advice, "you're going to want to disable [MS virus scan / selinux / auto-updates / telemetry / et c] using [the command line / the "about" settings page / et c.] or it'll just keep [getting in your way / breaking / misbehaving]", or can I assume everyone's familiar with that?
There's technically no way to "swap" the provider; you can't extract payment details from the Apple-provided subscription infrastructure (partly because there might not even be payment details - they might be using carrier billing or iTunes gift cards).

However I don't see anything that suggests that's what they're trying to do - what I assume they're after (which would be very reasonable) is to offer direct card payments in addition to Apple's option (with the direct option priced cheaper to offset Apple's cut).
Agreed, I think this is a great quote. It also makes me think, though, that certainly there are parameters of certain activities and sports that lend themselves more to this mindset vs. others.

For example, I've said somewhat jokingly but also somewhat for real that "If I have kids, I'm going to get them into something like snowboarding or freestyle skiing." You look at those competitions and I nearly always feel such a "joie de vivre" from the competitors, even to the point that they practically always look genuinely excited when anyone does a difficult trick really well.

Contrast that with, for example, figure skating (and I realize figure skating is easy pickings given the current drama in that sport). Half the time I feel like the competitors are relieved when they get off the ice. The current scandal notwithstanding, I just found it really disheartening that this beautiful, otherwordly 15 year old, who did multiple things that no other woman/girl had ever done before in Olympic competition, seemed sadder at the end of her performance that she fell (again, on a super hard quad jump) than that she completed 2 quad jumps, a triple axel, and otherwise skated beautifully.

This is not an isolated incident. It is certainly pretty well known that there are just some sports (and other activities) that, in retrospect, many people feel like they "sacrificed" their childhood for, rather than served as this unique, incredible foundation for the rest of their lives.
Yeah, I've been working from home for a while. :-P I started about a year before the pandemic started.
Clickup does this very well-lets you decide if you want to create a new instance no matter what, or whether you want to create a relative recurrence when the task is complete.

So in the case of furnace filters: create quarterly, then push next one out x days once marked complete.

In the case of rent, it's always due the 1st of the month regardless of whether I pay on the 2nd or the 31st.
I can't tell from the description... does this come with a character builder?
Yeah, I was under impression that medicine is also one of the fields that exclusively use metric.
Online dating, like other industries, can always choose to deliver their services via a web browser. And now that iOS Safari is adding push notification, they have an alternative delivery path that has feature parity.
I had to try the batch file fork bomb, this is the whole
thing:

%0|%0

Now my computer is just smoke and rubble.
The real problem with jails is that they (1) destroy your life outside and, (2) have you spend time surrounded by other criminals.

So, they make it more likely that you will become/remain a criminal once you come out, even after a short time. So, the middle ground doesn't really work well; we either have to try hard to not put someone in prison, or we basically commit to putting them in prison forever. Because we cannot really say the latter part out loud we release them occasionally and then put them back. The argument currently appears to be between these two extremes in isolation, and the real middle ground IMHO would be to do both things, to different people. But moderate punishment might be the worst of both worlds.
How many levels did you survive? Just curious to find out how difficult the game appears to be to others. I shared this game with my colleagues, friends, and family last weekend. The maximum anyone has claimed to reach so far is level 10. The maximum I have been able to reach so far is level 8.
There's no hard dependency at all. The markdown will parse just fine without mermaid.js, it basically just takes a code block and runs it through the mermaid.js code if it matches the language
Indeed.

Start here: https://github.com/Yetangitu/Spodcast/releases/tag/v0.3.1
You can't deny how useful smartphones are though...
Ahhh I accidentally zoomed on the page on mobile, so double tapped to unzoom and hit this. Proceeded to infinite loop Firefox on iOS. Oh well, time for a new phone anyway.
> I think email lists the most accessible decentralized substitute.

Huh? Typically I land on reddit when maybe I google some question which has a community of people discussing the topic, say gardening or fitness for example.

How does an email list help get me a quick answer to my question that someone else asked 2 years ago (and there was a healthy discussion on it, voting, etc).

For email there's no discoverability, history, searchability for people who were not already on that thread
I'm not picking out or singling out anybody's comments or any dogs in any of these fights. I'm trying to neutrally apply the site guidelines in a bog-standard way. Alas, that involves making mistakes—quite a few of them, because the quantity of material posted here doesn't allow for a close reading of everything, or even a quick reading of everything (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Nevertheless we need to try to prevent this place from being engulfed in flames, since that's (a) the default internet outcome and (b) everything HN is not supposed to be for.

One of many ways everyone can contribute to this effort is by resisting the reflex to assume that the moderators are secretly privileging the side you don't like. That's a common illusion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) but it makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Explaining that Apple will charge devs 27% commission for off-platform payments
What was your motive?
Why do entitlements exist on the App Store?

I never understood them, and therefore they’re totally a Chesterton’s Fence to me.
Genuine question: Who posts this content ?
Are there really that many people who do this ?
Can't they be banned on first offense ?
If this is the same Chestnut Tree that was on our street, it's a very messy tree for an urban environment (massive tree). It would rain baseball sized pods down on cars parked underneath it. It would leave a huge mess on the sidewalks and road every year.
Haha, not a bad idea!

> What value are you gaining by having 20 companies pay 20 designers to make the same generic uninspired designs because the clients want it to "look like $every_other_tech_company.?"

You're employing people, which has some value to an ostensibly equitable society (lord knows most jobs are very similar and could be streamlined, consolidated, etc.), but yeah, I'm in agreement that it's a pretty crap situation beyond that.

Which is part of my problem with stuff like this—it encourages and embraces that homogenization. Set aside compensation, value, etc., and I'm just sick of seeing the same shit on every website and want to dissuade people from making more of what we already have in excess.
Good question. Plenty of opportunity -> starting with tons of low hanging fruit. There are tons of fake wallets, fake websites, folks exit scamming etc. All this should be prosecuted criminally.

Secondly, you shouldn't be able to lie in a commercial context. Ignore the crypto itself. You claim you are 100% backed by US dollars? Someone should show up, check, and then bust you totally if needed.

BTW - these laws apply in the real world. I sell you a bridge I don't own but claim I do, I should be busted.
On the flip side, though, I think it's important for the code that you send to other engineers for review to be at least kind of polished, because otherwise you risk just wasting other people's time.

If you get feedback on your code that you already knew about, you wasted someone's time, and I think that's inefficient and a little bit disrespectful.

But I definitely agree that code review is very much a drafting process. It's just that you need to walk a line.
Google Messages is now Samsung’s default messaging app in the US
I'm confident there are people out there running scams, but every single artist I've used has done something so custom that it's 100% definitely made by them specifically for me.

They also tend to send sketches beforehand, and most have a very distinct style.
Schrödinger's Canadian: Simultaneously supports the occupation and wants to see it crushed.
The bookmarklet is adding the encoded title parameter, but it looks like HN isn't parsing it properly.
Quite a few of them in Oregon apparently. I didn't realize that we're considered more or less blight-free.
Let's say you want to create a new note, with a photo.

Right now I use the same UI page to create notes as to view them. I just added the photo viewer and noticed the app kept crashing whenever I wanted to create a new note.

When I figured this out, I just put a try catch block around the photo viewer.

It still works once you create the note. For this particular application all notes have photos.
Usually. Nobody is perfect.

There are certain topics and certain people that do not get moderated fairly and HN itself has certain biases that are encouraged or have opposition to them discouraged. If you know what they are, you know what they are.

Bringing up HN's (often subtle but often not-so) bias against average poor people gets heavily moderated here.

I give dang credit versus other moderators elsewhere who are explicitly biased and don't give a fuck how you feel about it.
Keep in mind that in general that approach only works if you assume the template parameters are exactly the tuple types. Any extra parameters (or different representation) would make it not work. In general you don't want to use template template parameters because of this. It's analogous to depending on the physical layout of a struct rather than the names of its members.
5 people on earth would dominate humanity with handwritten APL.
Better yet, have the teenagers/panhandlers lingering around outside to go in to buy it for you. Also, do it in another town than where you normally live. Don't drive there in your own car. Wear a mask and hats and whatever else. Dodge the cameras.

As you can see, there are many additional steps that can be done to ensure anonymous use of said burner phone.
That's not what the ruling stipulated-it just says the developer must be given the option of presenting alternate payment providers. Presumably the court thinks the developers thus should be able to push an update that includes this additional functionality, whereas Apple's bizarre efforts at [non-]compliance require apps with non-Apple payment option to be a separate SKU (which is not really "develop a separate app" as they've described it here, but certainly is a barrier Apple has chosen to erect in an attempt to undermine this ruling.)
The SEC doesn't do MLMs. Herbalife and Lularoe operate in broad daylight. The US has always been very kind to such scams
No they haven't. They have consistently overshot on warming. Show me one model from one and two decades ago that underestimated warming.