skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
clearly the current model doesn't work well enough. US laws don't stop Nigerian scammers abusing weak telecom systems. Adding a tax paid by the carrier incentivises them to collect it from the upstream chain all the way back to the caller.
That seems like an example of Chekhov's gun rather than the opposite of it. The seemingly unnecessary thing is actually quite vital, adhering to Chekhov's idea that you should only introduce vital things, just with a bit of subterfuge.
Ahh

Always check HN before trying to diagnose weird issues that shouldn't be connected
> ... good intentions isn't a problem

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

> harmful language

No such thing.
I'm not sure about the specifics you outlined, but I do think a comp package that incentivizes grown-ass behavior (read: full attendance, voting, actual participation in the legislative process) is a great idea.

I don't think rewarding certain behaviors like sponsoring is good, because its too easily abused. When a KPI becomes a target, its no longer a KPI.
That sounds like 4chan :)

I’m sympathetic; I believe in the ideals of democracy, but it seems to me that those ideals come from outside of democracy itself, and that democracy cannot function without them. An example is the belief that everyone participates in a common rationality, such that there is benefit to be had by allowing different perspectives to be heard. This belief has been undermined in a very deep way in the US, to the point we can fairly clearly say that it is gone. I am deeply worried about what this means in the future, and am skeptical that there are procedural or technical solutions.

(As an aside, I think that the traditional left vs right hermeneutic is beyond useless to explain how this belief disappeared, but that’s maybe a different discussion).
Tons of issues in us-east-2 here as well
Or flavor your own! It's pretty easy and using this method I was able to very slowly taper the nicotine down to 0.5% and then eventually zero and then quit.
A Program is not a Product. I guess the distinction is only important in larger organizations but trust me they are different professions.
Maybe it's due to syntax errors?
There was a time when color was expensive, dyes, paints, etc. Ford famously only wanted black cars…

No. I think we’re living in a more colorful world because color is cheap.
This is fairly sad state of affairs.

Here in Germany if you have a court order and that isn't payed, the bailiff/marshall visit the recalcitrant party and confiscates cash or valuable items until the order is settled. (At least for companies; there are some regulations that individuals cannot be brought below the poverty line by such actions).
It helps to know accounting and economics. If you can learn them without going to business school, you don’t need the MBA or debt that goes with it. Unless you get into Harvard or Stanford - the connections to funding justify the expense.
This doesn't help your wider problem, but here's the recipe section of my website. I believe it has more of a content style that you're looking for.

https://www.benovermyer.com/recipe/
Jury sends message to Charter with $7B verdict over murder of customer
Reserve isn’t much of a problem. Never getting your funds is different.
Re: Apple

I don’t see how any of these are to be considered a “product”, especially since they can’t be purchased or acquired in any way apart from some actual product:

* Touch ID
* Apple ID
* FairPlay
* bridgeOS
* any of the apps bundled with the OS, such as Automator or Stickies
No surprise here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...
One thing that I'd like to suggest is to make the questions a bit less ambigious / more straight forward.

E.g. One of the questions is "Which part of an upright blender is the most dangerous?". My initial reaction was the blades but apparently the answer was steam. In this case, I'd suggest rephrasing the question to "Which part of an upright blender is the most dangerous with hot liquid in is most dangerous".
sorry, that’s just a lot of ad hominem attacks, not really a rebuttal.

even if some of the other mixed points might be valid, they are not aligned into a real argument.
If you can't find a job with a "proven track record" in this market, you're doing something horribly wrong. I'm willing to bet $100 that your resume is not stellar.

Many people are bad at evaluating themselves. I've seen countless posts by juniors apparently "grinding hard" to get a job, and you just take 1 look at their resume and everything makes sense. Zero research on how to write resumes, zero prep, projects are garbage, shotgunning on indeed without some creativity etc.
Manchin has made it clear he will happily (and literally) burn the entire planet down for $5M/year.

If lobbying is legal, than bribes should be too.

I'd chip into the "Pay Manchin a ransom of $50M to not do $50T of damage to the planet" fund.
There are dozens of variants of this app, here's one built by a friend of mine: http://getrecipecart.com/

Like colpabar said, I think this is somewhat of a problem for experienced cooks but it's not the main issue faced by beginners, nor a big pain point. I believe this is true because I saw at least 20 startups build some version this in 2020-2021 and they mostly perished in the idea maze.
If they’re a smoking cessation product, then we should require a prescription so that the companies pushing vapes don’t attract a new generation of users who have used neither.
Is the "liberal media" mentioning it or doing wall to wall coverage on this non-scandal? I'm hearing this talking point from relatives so I assume it is getting the wall to wall treatment on right-wing partisan news.
I don't think number of laws passed is a good performance metric... it is basically like paying developers per line of code.
But Reddit is by far the best counterargument to all these articles. It not only has the effect of suppressing new viewpoints and arguments that might make the viewpoints a correct (or incorrect) one, but it also has the effect of fueling resentment/blame against the left-wing because people mainly interact with the left-wing of the internet on a daily basis and see the left wing suppressing their personal complaints, and Reddit may have had the unintended consequence of helping the right wing by making them a protest party. The moderation on the site has managed to turn the entire global redditsphere into a US left wing echochamber completely aloof from the localities being represented.
I'm not arguing that there aren't some people who don't enjoy Tom, only that it's not a clear and overwhelming majority. The comment arguing that Tom is extraneous has 5 votes, on an answer with over 400. Though, to be fair, that's a self-selected sample, because Tolkien fans who aren't that interested in Tom probably wouldn't click on the question. But still, I think more evidence has been provided in this thread and that one for Tolkien fans enjoying Tom as a whole than for fans not enjoying him.

It's pedantic to argue about really, but hey, it's the internet! And what better way to take a break from beating one's head against one's cloud provider than to have a gently pedantic argument about something that matters not one bit on the internet ;)
Ah, a one note debate technique. Reminds me of the clatter of a train going by.

I had nothing to respond to, hence the lack of meaning.
I think the point of the newsletter is to showcase workspaces at home that really work for those doing creative things. It doesn't have to be an expensive setup or a super clean environment, but it should be functional for the task at hand. Just throwing an old computer on top of a garbage heap doesn't do anything for me!
us-east-2 customer here also having some issues
> The mind is not a physical thing...

You could have stopped there. A thing that is not physical, exists. Bye bye materialism. Materialism is monism, holding that things are only made of one kind of 'stuff', specifically physical stuff. You can't get around that by saying that "you don't need to invoke anything non-material to explain" non-physical things. The mind is the non-material thing. As soon as you say it exists, you've thrown out materialism. The thing you're trying to defend is physicalism, which is an entirely different ball of wax. Physicalism is exactly the sort of 'multiplication of entities' that I was referring to in the first paragraph of my original reply.

> Entities are encoded in our brains.

That doesn't make them physical, any more than '4A' is the same thing as 'J' because that's it's ASCII representation. An encoding is not the thing. The representation in the brain is physical, the thoughts in the mind concerning them as well as the entities themselves aren't.
I just realised that updating an outdated Ubuntu 21.10 system is just kind of impossible without dirty hacks.

I should have gone with bullseye from the beginning.
> Like it or not, political polarization is political engagement by the people

We went from political apathy to populism. This "engagement" is largely by people who don't know anything about politics and have their emotions manipulated by unscrupulous politicians and biased reporting.
One of the Star Trek films included a moment where they asked a bunch of extras some question. She wasn't supposed to answer, but nobody told her that, so she replied totally normally. I mean, they were back in time in the "present day" (for when it was filmed) so her answer made sense for the scene.

They loved it and kept the shot, but then realized- whoever this was, she now had a spoken part in the film! They had to find her, get her to join the actors guild, and then pay her some minimum amount for having a line in the film.

I'm sure someone will reply now with the correct version of this story, the woman's name, which Star Trek film it was, and a link to proof of this all.
> 1000% agree. The whole narrative to non-stop discuss vaping as opposed to smoking is being pushed by the super powerful cigarette companies. Vaping MIGHT be harmful to a person but cigarettes are 100% CONFIRMED to be terrible for humans.

Huh? Is anyone significant actually saying vaping is so harmful that you should smoke cigarettes instead?

IIRC, the actual health issue with vaping was that it had been presented as so "harmless" that, after significant long-term declines, nonsmoking teens started taking up nicotine use again in large numbers.
It's not insider trading if a congressman does it. That's the problem.

And the public do not know what their politicians are investing in. Congressmen are supposed to report their trades within 45 days, but that's too long to make a difference in something like the current stock market.
NEOM: Made to Change
I recommend Jiu Jitsu.
How will this make money?
Lots of things intermittently unreachable in us-east-2 for us, across multiple AWS accounts.
I have a system that I use to rate movies: "Must see", "Worthwhile", "Wait for the video" and "Don't waste your time." After watching Mulholland Drive I had to invent a fifth rating: "I want those two hours of my life back."

Does that answer your question?
I'm seeing issues in 2a but not 2b. Anyone having issues in 2b?
I think it may depend on what your expertise is.
In related news, I'm sorry but I failed to verify a source again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

(Edited in a lame attempt to cover my stupidity.)
Thanks, I've re-posted this in our feedback channel on Slack.
Thanks for sharing. We've just spent the last hour debugging our website, thinking we had issues. This explains it.
> I'd rather not base my picture of the entire economy around a single retailer

Or retailers in general. Retail spending is down because services spending is up -- people are going to the beach and buying plane tickets instead of buying TVs and patio furniture.

Regardless of whether we're in a recession, retailer numbers aren't a good indicator for the duration/depth/type. We spent all of 2020 hearing that demand was pulled forward. Well, it was pulled forward from somewhere, and now we are there.

> What's going on with other retailers?

Best Buy missed by a lot; sales down by over 10%; forecast was a 1% contraction.

Amazon tonight. Always complicated because of AWS, digital content, and now a substantial advertising business. If you want the retail details you have to go past the headline numbers.

Target in mid-August but expectations are similar.

My guess is that none of those companies will be hit has bad as Walmart because (1) Walmart was just particularly badly mismanaged, and (2) these other companies are just different in kind (particularly Amazon -- they could eg suffer retail losses while beating estimates on Advertising/Cloud)
Once cool trick that most people don't know is that you can also ping IP addresses in octal, hex, and integer!

https://ma.ttias.be/silly-little-ip-tricks/

>ping 0x08080808

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
Is that just for 4.0? Since the features page[1] lists a number of deploy targets for 3.X:

* Export to desktop platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, UWP, and BSD.

* Export to mobile platforms: iOS and Android.

* Consoles: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One via third-party providers

[1]: https://godotengine.org/features
The ecosystem is much too advanced for that kind of tactic. Fraud in ad networks has been an issue for decades and the fraud detection systems will identify that immediately.

However, if you just want to avoid tracking, uBlock Origin will do the job or simply reject the tracking on the cookie pop-up. Reputable companies in the EU almost always respect those choices because no-one wants to face the wrath of a DPA (at least not without plausible deniability - hence all the dark patterns).
Ask a benign question about note-taking and recieve a "kids these days", "back in my day", "everyone wants to be a victim" bullshit. The discourse on this site is certainly lacking.
It's funny, this is somewhat consistent with TFA. Humans consider nature to be evil and scary. Tolkien has no fear of his creation; it is what it is, but TFA's author is terrified at the notion that nature could overgrow the creations of man- and elf-kind if the simple powers of good and evil are removed from the world.

If you keep salmon jerky in your tent, that's a great appetizer and you're a convenient meal. Doesn't make the bear evil though.
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday is the definitive account of this story. It's very well written and full of intrigue. A great book, one of the best I've read in years.

The only part of the book that seems out of place is near the end, where you see Holiday's speculation on Thiel's (who Holiday clearly admires) association with Trump (who Holiday clearly despises.) He simply can't understand why Thiel would associate with Trump at all.

https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Peter-Gawker-Anatomy-Intri...
Germany and the End of Globalization: Prosperity Under Pressure
You've moved the goal posts. The question was "If that was true"

if (true) { yes } else { no }

what's difficult here? There was no

#include <assert.h>

in the original comment
This article essentially says that they "will announce" it, so it is no surprise that their policies are not public yet.
One person can, at least in principle, understand every last thing in a nuclear reactor. A few elements have roles at different levels of abstraction. And of course they have computers in them that invariably do stuff radically simpler than they could be doing.

But nobody will ever understand everything about a natural cell. Levels are an ad hoc phenomenon adhered to in varying degrees in certain places to contain variation. But few elements have only one role at one identifiable level, and you can never be sure one doesn't have another. And huge amounts of apparatus might radically change behavior in a subtly different environment.
> They like it, but are they willing to pay for it?

There's nothing more annoying than trying to pay for your meal via a payment method they don't accept -- a common one these days is cash, many restaurants just don't accept it around here anymore, with no signage. So, for businesses, it isn't just a matter "willing to pay for it" but also customer expectations and not having to pay for "employee downtime" (such as employees having to explain why they don't accept that payment method) and "lost inventory" (such as a table being held while someone travels somewhere to retrieve a different payment method).

> the vendor could offer their customers the same products for 2% less if they pay via lightning

They can do this already by switching to a different payment provider that isn't "turn-key via API." There are many payment providers that only cost a small percentage over the interchange rate which varies between 1.5% and 3%, IIRC, depending on the type of card. You have to deal with sending transactions via FTP and all kinds of shenanigans ... but this is why you pay Stripe a flat rate, right?

> and share the savings with their customers.

I LOL'd. That never happens. Ever. Also, 2% isn't going to make a noticeable difference to practically anyone.

> I have bought something with my CC hundreds of times and never ever did a chargeback.

And that one time you do, you'll be incredibly thankful to get the money back that was spent on a container of shoes in a country you've never been to. True story.

> everytime I pull that thing out, someone could photograph or memorize the numbers on it and cause me trouble.

You can use tap-to-pay in a reasonably advanced area. My card never comes out of my wallet. Ever. I just hold my wallet up to the sensor and it is done.
Google was funded by the CIA ( https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci... ). It was part of the PRISM project where American Tech companies worked with US intelligence services to share data with them. India (or any country for that matter) would be fools to allow Google vans or any similar setup from a foreign company to allow them to scan an area (do electronic surveillance) and give them a blatant pass to photograph and spy on secure government facilities on behalf of US agencies. (US agencies that have worked to sabotage India's R&D in the past).

As I ELI5-ed in another comment:

To understand the hesitancy of the government, recall if you've come across any secure government facilities any where in the world - most such infrastructure will have a common warning painted or posted publicly stating "Photography is prohibited / not allowed". Allowing the process of collecting street view data (i.e. taking photographs / videos of a locality) by foreign companies would make such warning redundant and a joke, even if they didn't use the data in their applications - they are not even supposed to have such data in the first place.

Yes, terrorist and spies can certainly try to reconnaissance a secure facility themselves. But obviously the job will be harder to do undetected given the security guards and cameras. In fact, in the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai, one of the terrorists caught mentioned that they had used Google Earth to familiarise themselves with the locality before they attacked - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks . Once that was revealed, there were immediately comments on how Google Satellite view is a threat to indian security. But the indian government didn't ban Google Maps satellite views because they understood this technology has become mainstream and they just reviewed their security policies and adapted it. With street views too, the government has finally come up with a decent policy - allow indian companies to collect and process the data, let the intelligence agencies review the data to remove sensitive information or even put in fake data to confuse anyone with nefarious intentions against India, and then allow anyone (including foreign companies) to license and use the data. That's a very decent compromise that Google should be happy with.
Smoking cigarettes generates PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and the more you inhale, the more likely they are to cause cancer. Specifically benzo[a]pyrene has been shown to form DNA adducts, which can alter replication and generate cancer cells by damaging DNA elements involved in cell cycle control, or by damaging components of the immune system involved in normal detection and elimination of cancer cells.

Vaping nicotine has some negative health effects, but there's no evidence it leads to lung cancer, because it doesn't generate those PAHs.
Because vaping is an effective tool for quitting smoking, which is much worse. The physical improvements from smoking to vaping are pretty remarkable - everything from lung function to circulation and skin quality and general energy improves.

It helped me quit my decade-plus long smoking habit, and I'm now 3+ years off of vaping as well. I hate to see vaping demonized, but I also don't particularly care to see kids take it up. It's just as, if not more addictive than cigarettes.
Of course it's not natural in Europe and their are laws against this kind of thing.

The quality of the comments here are really poor.
Yep, that’s a solution. But editing millions of invoices would cost way to much I guess. Depending on your company size and what you want to achieve though
Ya perhaps. As long as it isn't over-burdensome like typical prescripts are, I'd say 1 prescription lasts a year. Nicorette used to require a prescription, but they stopped it after a decade or two.

Of course that's not the objective. The objective is to ban it. That's why you won't hear any sensible dialog about it.
Grap: A Language for Typesetting Graphs
My inner Libertarian is screaming, but I would support a "choose your algorithm" law. Wherein social media platforms would be required to allow the user a clear choice to opt-out of algorithmic recommendations. Perhaps even requiring a basic chronological feed.

I know the actual text of the bill would require a lot of finagling and legalese, but that's the concept of what I want.
Totally agree. There are a couple of places where the writing and language are lyrical and some of the best writing I've encountered.

Examples are the battle of the Pelennor Fields, and in fact (coming back to the subject of the article), the description of the stories that Tom tells to the hobbits - e.g.: Suddenly Tom's talk left the woods and went leaping up the young stream, over bubbling waterfalls, over pebbles and worn rocks and among small flowers in close grass and wet crannies, wandering at last up to the Downs. They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. Sheep were bleating in flocks. Green walls and white walls rose. There were fortresses on the heights. Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords...

I first read TLoTR in 1973 (50 years ago, next year) and it has had a special place in my heart ever since.
I found duolingo extremely frustrating when I tried to practice a language I already had some knowledge in. It forced me to do a bunch of stuff I didn't care about. As most people will have some knowledge of cooking I think applying this concept to cooking is a bad idea.