jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
facebook chat was originally written in erlang.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/Eugene...

I doubt they'll have any trouble at all integrating.
Yeah, I no interest in running my own consulting business.

In my case, it was usually a contracting company with 10-100 contractors working for one or more client companies, but the contractor had 0 day-to-day influence on the work I did. (I did try to pick up my paycheck in person and chat with the office staff.)
In order to infringe on our personal rights and further entrench their monopolies, the first thing the two parties need to do is divide the people.
> It's not emerging, it's been around a while.

The term "Emerging Contaminant" doesn't mean we're only just starting to use it or that it's only just starting to become a problem.

It means we're only just starting to realize the gravity of the situation we've put ourselves into by using it heavily for decades.

In layman's terms "Oh fuck".
what is the role of the publisher? Why can't Asobo simply market the game?
There have been many watches along these lines already, e.g. https://www.empatica.com/en-gb/embrace2/ although previous ones have mostly used motion sensing. This Epilert startup seems to be looking at motion and also other signals like heartbeat, skin temperature, electrodermal activity.

I have a close family member with severe epilepsy so I'm interested, but the usefulness of these devices comes down to reliability and minimising false alarms while also not missing any serious events, which is a very hard thing to get right.

However there's something a little odd about their slogan of "finest epilepsy detection device". I can imagine 'finest' used for chocolate or wine, but its an odd adjective for a medical device.
I believe Justice Thomas agrees with your assessment, and he raises concern that the SCOTUS has essentially made APIs practically uncopyrightable (in that they will 100% of the time find that it's fair-use to use them).

That would seem a reasonable outcome, for much the same reason that copyright not protecting the appearance of fonts under US law is reasonable. Yes, it is overriding copyright protection for a creative work that would otherwise apply. However, it does so because a greater good is served, in this case by ensuring that interoperability cannot be encumbered, something which (as the majority opinion alludes) goes against the very purpose of copyright under US law.
Nice job! If you want to see a (very hacky) example of autocomplete, history, and inline-image support check out a shell I wrote recently: https://zenith.tech

Code: https://github.com/zenithdb/zenith.tech
>because they don't have much of a choice job-wise

That is not an excuse to put other people in grave danger

>End of story.
Sometimes, it sounds like we should all have a 24/7 GoPro cameras attached and running all the time.
One thing I like to point out is that not everyone has the same toolkit or approach to learning as you have. They may have no framework at all and just a desire.

Contrived practices like this help people jumpstart a routine they otherwise don't really know how to start.

It doesn't work for everyone, but it works for the people it works for :)
Yeah normally 11 cents per kWh but right now am at $4.24 per kWh.
No, "suggesting" doesn't help, you are still misreading. The argument was about no lockdown in 2017-2018 in spite of bad cold season. It was an argument against lockdowns, not a claim that Covid-19 is just the cold.

Perhaps you are assuming lockdowns are good policy and help. Or you think Covid mortality is much worse than the worst post-1918 flu pandemics. Neither is true.
Overall, I would say that for any given problem, it should be handled at whichever level results in the fewest coordination/externality problems

This just makes too much sense for either the "More Local!!!" crowd or the "More Federal!!!" crowd to ever get behind. None of them ever want to concede the common sense fact that most of the time, "It depends."

Should we have more federal control? It depends.

Should we have more local control? It depends.

Control of what?

Are there coordination issues?

Is anyone's human rights trampled?

What are the externalities?

Can local governments other than SF and NYC actually afford the infrastructure and resources required to control whatever it is we're talking about?

Can states other than Cali, Texas, and NY afford it?

On and on.

These are not simplistic issues.
This is reminiscent of these plants: http://www.greatstems.com/2013/12/beautiful-ice-sculptures-o...
> this is what just happened with Scott Alexander. they tried to put his head on a pike, because he's a high value node in the tech community that's eroding the power of the legacy press.

Put his head on a pike? They? Come on now.

It will be interesting to see what will happens with this. Ever since the Scott Alexander NYT story, there's been a parade of old media criticism articles getting dredged up and making it to the front page, as well as a lot of broad-brush "I'm done with journalism, those fuckers" sentiment. It frankly sounds a lot like conservatives who are mad that the media wrote so many negative stories about Trump, and think it should have focused instead on positively covering stuff like the Trump administration's self-authored list of great accomplishments. Some people don't want journalism, they just want myside PR.

I mean, the media's not perfect; but it's pretty unreasonable to get mad when your favorite band new album gets a bad review or a newspaper writes articles that fail to abide by the commenting norms of your favorite online message board.
So many people in the comments are just certain that more money wouldn't have made any difference to vaccine production, and that economic considerations had nothing to do with it. The arguments they make fail to simple comparison tests:

"If we paid Tesla 2x as much per car, could they really not produce more cars?"

They also fail to privileging the status quo - "If we paid Tesla half as much money, would they produce fewer cars?"

Obviously, they would. Money influences how easily they can produce cars. At the margin there must be decisions related to turning money into efficiency every day. And the same thing must apply for vaccines. The best vaccine expert in the world asked for a yearly sabbatical - 200k wasn't enough to keep them. Double that to 400k? Oh actually it can wait til next year.

The question for people who deny money's ability to produce more vaccines is: why do you admit that any lower price for a vaccine would reduce supply - but you deny that any higher price would increase supply. What magic is this?
So does getting the disease.
Weak passwords had nothing to do with the hack
The SolarWinds incident was detect because of bad opsec by the operators who performed the FireEye op. I would image the capability was developed by an expert group in some intelligence agency, and then used as an entry point by a different operator group with lower standards.
But who is to day there aren't more of this kinds of attacks out there, just no one has made a foolish error using them yet? If we assume that, we have to assume this operation was somewhere in the middle of a normal curve of complexity, and there are even more sophisticated backdoored systems like that we just don't know about.
Imagine any medium-large code base (100+ of KLoCs), that is deployed widely, and has an auto update mechanism. Most companies don't have very strict access to the build process (and even if they do, all you need is to corrupt one employee), so it shouldn't be to hard to patch binaries before they are signed (especially bytecode in .NET and Java) , and add another URL and/or signature for verification (for sig only the attacker needs access to the web site/CDN too).
The change will be only a few lines, so is very hard to detect automatically - it will look like regular code for tools.
Love how you can hear a guy in the background: "that's fuckin awesome".

Can you imagine that sneaking into a NASA launch? Love it!!
Fun fact: If you get a diamond nice and hot (blow torches work great) and then drop it into some pure oxygen, it will burn like the hunk of charcoal it is.
To be fair to vinceguidry I think a few things are at play here:

- web development is a monstrous sub-field in the software engineering field. As others have pointed out, just about everything has some sort of web presence somewhere. There's a pretty big difference between someone doing something groundbreaking and novel and someone making the 920375235236th standard CRUD oriented java enterprise site. The latter camp will grossly outnumber the former camp by multiple orders of magnitude, but I think it's clear that what vinceguidry is referring to is the former (at least I hope he is)

- People tend to think that their sub-field in the software world is some sort of special snowflake that makes it harder to deal with than the others. They're aware of the tricky bits of their sub-field due to having a ton of specialized knowledge, but then look at the other ones and mainly see the surface scratching bits and declare, "Oh, that's easy!".

- Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses and will tend to gravitate towards the areas that they'll excel at. People also like to think that they're smart and that their coworkers are smart, so assumptions can be made that all of the smart people are gravitating where they're heading. To loop back to the OP a bit here, HN has a strong bias towards bay area startup culture which has a strong bias towards web development (generally of the former category I described above, at least they all would self-report themselves in that category) so everything is going to be seen through that bias.

In my circle of software friends we span a pretty broad range of the industry. Over time the view we've taken when discussing each other's world is that we all could rapidly learn to do the jobs that the others do, however most of us wouldn't want to. Personally my point of pain is when I start hearing about UI oriented stuff, but when I start talking about reworking algorithms to scale from GB to PB that's when they start tuning out. Neither's harder, they're just different.
You should take a look at this API: https://www.mashape.com/zilyo/zilyo
Who'd have thought that the business-types (Rubin and Spector) are supportive of crunch, while the developer (Paxton) doesn't like crunch? Apparently, the business types like turning their organizations into meat grinders while the developers like not being overworked and exploited.
This is pretty shocking. What is PII doing in the query string in the first place? Disclosing pregnancy status from an insurance application sounds like a possible HIPPA violation and runs afoul of various state laws around 'Insurance Information and Privacy Protection'. E.g http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=ins&gr.... See Section 791.13(k). That's just CA law but many states followed with their own version. (IANAL)

I think the really big penalties come into play when medical information is 'personally identifiable'. Since this data is going to Google, Facebook, and Twitter (really?!) with 3rd party cookies, or even without, it would be hard to argue this data is not personally identifiable.

It's not like they didn't know they weren't sending this data out. Or perhaps the highly advanced debugging prowess of "Chrome Inspector" is beyond their pay grade.

Edit: Oh it's not even just Referral leak it's actually it the request in some cases, so blatantly intentional. :-(
The user's IP address (which I imagine gets collected by doubleclick) is one of the 18 identifiable attributes which makes data PHI. But, I don't think that healthcare.gov needs to comply by HIPAA.
I second that as well. Strong programming skills transfer across languages and the more different languages you know, the stronger programmer you will be in all of them. Also, different programming paradigms are emphasized in different languages (functional, OOP, declarative, imperative are the simplest examples...). Knowing these different languages will expose you to these different paradigms and that's very valuable, I think.
Hmmm, reminds me of the old days - Embrace and Extend.

Accept a standard and then extend it with proprietary lock-ins.
I think social apps are harder than crazy ambitious ideas. It's easier to see how one would work on them, that's for sure. But precisely for that reason we see many many social apps. But few are trying to build spacex or similar, so it's easier to make progress along the axis of figuring out ways to create value.
Another thing to consider is moving South. Go to Bangalore or Chennai. I was making like $1500 per month for a .NET gig in Chennai in 2007 at a body shop. Nothing fancy. Just some ASP.NET stuff. $100 is way too low. In Kochi, Kerala, even day laborers get Rs 600 a day. That'll be at least $200 per month.
ATMFD strikes again, and undoubtedly not for the last time.

More info on the history of ATMFD (and some previous vulnerabilities): https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/07/one-font-vuln...
We written off much larger groups without a blink of an eye. At least in US unexpected expense of $400 puts 1/3 households in financial hardship [1]. What happens with workers when we shut down entire sectors of economy?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/23/millions-of-americans-are-on...
> Again this drug has well known precautions that reads like the all the people who will experience the worst of COVID-19

Except those precautions are at least two orders of magnitude less than the case fatality rate for coronavirus infection.

Equivalently, there are scenarios where a seatbelt can decapitate you or trap you in a drowning car. But you'd still be a fool to drive without one, because buckling is a thousand times more likely to save you than kill you.
What next? Juden signs on houses?
Health and safety is used as a tool by reactionaries who lie about what it is and what it means in order to avoid thinking about how they may be harming other people.

> What I suggested in my post last week, was that Safety is not a thing to be “ranked,” but rather, a state of mind, to be applied as needed to a myriad of situations in varying amounts. But if we were to rank it, it would rarely be “first.” Were safety truly “first,” no level of risk would ever be encouraged or permitted, and no work would ever get done. Or play, for that matter.

I work in healthcare safety. I speak to many people with a legal, professional, regulatory duty around safety in English NHS settings. Every single one of them describes the problems with people who assume health and safety in the workplace is about banning unsafe practice, instead of being aware of and assessing risk.

A healthcare professional wants to set up a group activity (for example, a gardening group) for patients. They ask someone in their management chain and they get told "no, we can't do that, because health and safety. Don't let people touch mud. All those sharp tools! Too risky". They ask someone with a health and safety role and they got told "yep, go ahead. You might want to aware of these things, and it's probably a good idea to get people to wash their hands afterwards, and you'll want to count out the tools and count them back in again at the end, but we have no problems".

Here he destroys his own argument:

> On Dirty Jobs, I was struck by the number of safety professionals who repeatedly insisted that nothing was more important to them, than my personal safety. “Your safety,” they said, over and over again, “is our top priority.”

> I usually heard these words moments before I was invited to walk up the cable of a suspension bridge, or field test a stainless-steel shark suit, or climb into a bosuns chair to wash windows at the top of a high-rise. I still hear them today from pilots who invite me to strap myself in as they attempt to defy gravity in a pressurized aluminum tube that travels through the air at 600mph. And now Roger, I’m hearing them from you. You’re telling me safety must always be first, no matter the cost.

So people told him safety was their main priority, and then they strapped him into PPE and allowed him to do dangerous things, because we assess risk and do things that are risky but as safely as we can.

He'd have a point if he talked about faulty assessment of risk.
> Transmission companies are a natural monopoly so should be constrained from the free market.

They’re only a “natural monopoly” in so far as the government has disallowed competition by preventing development of new competing lines and limiting access to local poles. Doesn’t seem very natural.
> Teachers are only paid for the time they work. The summer is not PTO. A teacher might elect to have their salary split into 12 monthly payments, but by no means are they being paid for summer vacation.

In that case, people should be consistent. E.g., people point out that average teacher pay (about $60,000/year) is less than the average pay of college graduates as a whole (about $65,000/year). But if you adjust that for 10 versus 12 months, the average teacher pay is equivalent to $72,000/year. Teacher pay is either higher than public sector pay, on a per month basis, or its lower than public sector pay but offers a long summer vacation. It can't be both situationally.
Shouldn't economies of scale dictate that the average price per person should go down (inflation-adjusted) rather than up though? I understand that adding capacity to support 9 million people and modern appliances over 17 years is a significant cost but when you average it down per capita I'd have believed that increases in productivity and technology would drive that figure down, not up.
Well it's based upon the previous architecture transitions they had as well as the average official support you get on most machines. Also the support is for current and last version so you can stick around at least another year on a fully supported previous version after you got cut off.
From my experience (see sister comment), I don't think the board will be much cheaper that way. Even at this low volume they will probably not hand-solder anything but rather rely on a company offering pick&place services, and that will not add much to the costs. If you want to try it yourself and prove that it can be done much more cheaply, you can maybe try building one yourself: https://github.com/fhgwright/SCSI2SD/tree/master/hardware
This!
Nim has shown it has capable JS support and web support, but it can't do everything on it's own. There are web frameworks popping up but they need more contributors to them.
But one can get far right now with Nim and web development.
Apple could have made their own replaceable SSD boards.

It looks like they want their devices to become obsolete sooner which seems to be a good business idea but there is a risk of upsetting many customers. Time will tell.
In some case it can be appropriate

https://time.com/3387226/spanking-can-be-an-appropriate-form...
From the Tesla First Responders guide
...

USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches
fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat or gases, use large amounts of
water to cool the battery. It can take between approximately 3,000-8,000 gallons
(11,356-30,283 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish
and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request additional water supply
early. If water is not immediately available, use CO2, dry chemicals, or another
typical fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.
NOTE: Tesla does not recommend the use of foam on electric vehicles.
Apply water directly to the battery. If safety permits, lift or tilt the vehicle for more direct
access to the battery (see chapter 2). Water may be applied onto the pack from a safe distance
ONLY if a natural opening (such as a vent or opening from a collision) already exists. Do not
open the battery for the purpose of cooling it.
Tesla does not recommend placing the vehicle in a large tank of water. The use of a Thermal
Imagery Camera or Infrared (TIC or IR) is recommended to monitor battery temperatures during
the cooling process. Continue to use water until the battery has reached ambient temperatures
or below, indicated by the thermal imagery camera. When utilizing a thermal imaging camera,
allow enough time, once the application of water has stopped, to allow for heat within the bat�tery to transfer to the battery enclosure.
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Thanks! We agree about the twitter cards. We have a bunch of more ideas down that path as well.

Improving the home page for both signed-in and signed-out users is something we are working at this very moment.

And I also agree about letting the quotes breathe more. Thanks for the feedback!
A welll thought out piece rom someone who promotes open source software and is the guy behind 'software carpentry', an initiative to teach researchers [mosly scientists] basic software skills.

I like the way he pointso out problems with both the cathedral and bazaar models but identifies that "actually matters is the people who build them.".

My favouite line: "One king, one law" can sometimes be a great force for good, but what you usually get is collectivized agriculture and UML.
While their rates are low, the issue was about additional, individual deals that lead to effective tax rates around .5% (instead of the official 12.5%, I believe).

I think the EU has done a pretty good job to find a balance here: when Ireland joined the EU in the 70s, it was among the poorest countries west of Moscow and north of Morocco. It became one of the largest recipients of net transfers over the next 30 years, but everyone knew that their chances of catching up required some economic competitiveness, and that it would take decades to pull even in terms of "Features" (infrastructure, local market etc)

Low taxes were therefore the only viable path to attract investments. That scenario is explicitly accepted even among those advocating for coordinated taxation.

In the case of Ireland, everything actually worked out extremely well: Speaking something almost resembling the english language, and having the strength of character to make peace with the English, Ireland established world-class universities and a rather remarkable knowledge economy in just one generation.
One American analyst ridiculed Iran’s capability, telling Defense News that the loss was “like dropping a Ferrari into an ox-cart technology culture.”

An ox-cart technology culture that is allied with China and Russia. I hope this kind of hubris is counterbalanced by more realistic attitudes in the defense world.
I still re-read these every few years for fun. At the time, I had two Pascal compilers. Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0, and Microsft QuickPascal (not sure what version).

The code didn't work out of the box in either compiler, someone on a newsgroup showed me how to convert the asm calls over.

Later on I got an Andre Lamothe book and basically stalled out, trying to learn C programming and game programming at the same time. Fun stuff.
I'm genuinely surprised to see so many people pick Telegram after they've driven their reputation into the gutter and continue to do so.
I said this on reddit as well: could this just be them trying to block YouTube and other streaming services?