jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The same like any other relationship - have it in writing, with penalties specified, and besides the contract, do basic due diligence with your supplier. China is not some lawless backwater, despite the fake news bogeyman in recent years. You can get played out just the same by a supplier in Belgium - like any business relationship, you take steps to mitigate the risk, but nothing is ever 100% iron-clad. You should still get a written agreement.

*Edit: "Who else do you supply to" is a very common part of interacting with a supplier, and most of the time they are chomping at the bit to share their "famous customer list" with you. In fact, some suppliers even have pages on their website listing who their "authorised resllers/distributors" are. Having a chat with any of the others helps, and like any business relationship, it's a human relationship with some trust involved. You back things up with legal protections, but in the end, business is about the human aspect of things.
Unbelievably helpful thanks
As much as I would like to discuss but I am on my phone and typing there just sucks. The topic is a real rabbit hole in a positive sense.

Either way, I would like to thank user dragosmocrii
who lead me to this article via their comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25655272
For me it's just another asset, no need to use it to pay for things
"Freedom and democracy are not safe and can most likely never be made safe. Let's have a totalitarian state."
“... taking out debt to pay out dividends does not make any change to the capital structure of a company (i.e., the debt load increased, but the equity structure stayed the same)”

Sorry, but this is nonsense. Increasing debt and giving the proceeds away to shareholders definitely alters the debt ratio of a company ... basic financial accounting concept.
I find this article quite fascinating. It provides a bit of a glimpse into how science can work, and how difficult it is to gain valid knowledge on some topics. It's also a reminder that "science" isn't just a simple process that you follow to find the truth. Sometimes people ask the wrong question, or draw the wrong conclusion from experiments. It seems that research related to nutrition and health has a fair amount of this.

It reminds me of my own experience earlier this week where I needed to call a certain service. The API has 2 parameters. I thought that one was required and one was optional. But whenever I called the service with 1 parameter, it failed. Eventually I thought "maybe both parameters are required" and called the service with 2 parameters, and it worked. So I concluded "both parameters are required". But later I discovered that the service was just flaky and it was a coincidence that it started working just at the moment when I added the second parameter. After that experience it's difficult to know what to trust, when everything could be due to randomness and unreliability.
All these rules are nothing more than solomining theatre. An ASIC with one million times the hashrate of an RPi, driving one million solominer simulators, can earn as many rewards as one million RPis.
There's nothing wrong with xml or other SGML based markups. They are meant to be written by a computer, not by hand.....
Yes what matters is productivity. It is better than sitting 8 hours in your miserable cube in the office , spend 2 hours in commute and get stressed at that and not able to focus properly and churning out low quality code than you can do in 4 hours of quality focused time.
Dank Alpha Centauri quote!
It's their modern omage to the CZ vz61 Skorpion, which appeared in GoldenEye 64 as the Klobb.
So the issue is that police will regularly and maliciously lie and nobody will ever hold them responsible for doing so.
> and now think JS is eating the world

It will via asm.js, except no one will be coding in JS anymore since everything will compile to asm, and you will have asm compiler in your kernel.
> I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work. But I'm not sure these exist anymore

Actually, if you work for a large MSP (ie, IBM, CGI, DXC) then you'll probably be able to find a job that fits all of those requirements. They'll undoubtedly have contracts with orgs that just want to outsource managing their infrastructure and that's a pretty easy gig.
Yes, they released a new feature so theres new code. The only way that violates open-source is if this code has been in production, which no one has any proof of.

Apparently everyone thinks opensource means real time access to development.
Just for giggles: anesthesia & icu alarms have off switches too. For cases where, for example the surgeon complains that he can't concentrate because of the noise. Additional fun fact: you've got an off switch but it's actually forbidden to use it ;-)
How about if a person who develops software for a loving agrees that it seems more and more like a game. Words and phrases like "our stack", "you need X years of Y language," or "we need a Z language dev" and so on all read like rules in a role playing game to me. Sometimes after I read certain posts--and particularly posts gushing over some language's features--I feel a bit surprised the commenters don't mention hearing a "ding" after "leveling up".

Our industry is filled with tens of thousands of professionals carrying on quietly developing software boring and exciting, and inundated with loud mouths acting and speaking in ways strongly suggestive of a certain " gaminess."
He's pretty matter of fact, I see no hostility there.
Surveillance and covert activity launched from the US and Western Europe is not done openly. If a US government agency discovered a US origin for covid-19 tomorrow, do you seriously think you'd hear about it, or that it would ever be reported in a mainstream media outlet? If it escaped from a US lab, they knew it at the time, and had no way of stopping domestic spread, do you think that US agencies would be above covertly also releasing it in Wuhan as cover, and getting Chinese assets to report about suspicious deaths on social media? China is secretive about important things, and the West is secretive about important things.

To be clear, these scenarios are entirely and spontaneously made up, but they're also entirely possible, and we've fallen into the trap of believing any old bullshit about China simply because it's possible, and reconciling our spreading it and our obvious ignorance with racist "inscrutable Chinese" tropes.

The reason we don't know more about China is not because they're quiet, the reason we don't know about China is because we ban and censor media coming from China (just as they do to us, but moreso.) Somehow it's become mainstream to believe that the public shouldn't know what the Chinese government thinks (or the Russian government, or the Iranian government) and that it's better to rely on rumor and retired generals.
The issue is that there are too many barriers to commercialisation and the current stakeholders have too much power. The profitable fields like medicine strictly limit the number of people accepted (the official explanation is that there aren't enough residencies, the unspoken reason is that the American Medical Association wants to keep salaries up) and FDA drug approval laws err on the side of caution; better to have 10 people die due to disease and lack of access to treatments than to have one person die due to a faulty drug that the FDA let through. This attitude and approach means that the time to market is huge and highly resource intensive. The COVID vaccines were designed in less than a day. It took a year to reach market even under the ridiculously accelerated approval pace.
> The US motive for proving China is at fault is largely political diversion from the US' mishandling, which would be mishandling no matter what origin.

Whether this is motivation is true or not has nothing to do with whether the WHO report reflects reality.
Could be used to create "mood boards" for games, stories, art
My chrome extension for sorting posts based on points also auto-links comments and posts https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sorter...
> I keep saying this, but:

Please don't do this here. We want curious conversation, not repetitive talking points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

I don't mean to pick on you personally—it's a serious problem with all threads on this topic.
Satire and parody and other forms of creative provocation can be intensely vital things. But they don't work on HN. We could speculate about why, but empirically it's a property of the system: certain things reliably make HN less interesting. High-signal provocation isn't possible here. It just leads to noise, which leads to more noise.

HN's rules aren't about propriety—they're about trying to stave off lameness. HN is an experiment in trying to remain interesting, so anything whose effects, compounded over time, make the site less interesting counts as bad.

It took me a long time to figure this out in my own posts. I hate dreary mediocrity, so I'd try to make comments that were interesting rather than lukewarm. I slowly learned that, no matter how "interesting" they seemed to me when I wrote them, provocation that leads to noise only lowers the quality of the thread.

We're not demanding that people behave themselves for convention's sake—that would be tedious and inevitably lead to a backlash. Rather, it's an optimization problem: given this system called HN, what will make it more interesting and less lame over time? Whatever the answer is, it doesn't have to do with the quality of individual comments but with their systemic effects.

The spirit in which we're asking people to work on this is not a finger-wagging one. It's more like giving a hard problem to a team.
I am retired on my private island ;)
The other commenter is correct, it's $0.99 with a 2 year contract to ATT. It's $450 off-contract, though it was briefly $200 off-contract late last year.
3) focus on text instead of video
4) a ux that deserves the name ux
5) minus google+
Just out of interest, is there a company which provides covert early exits for founders? For example I meet with a founder, they sign a contract saying secretly that they will give me a share of their equity in 2 year's time or whenever a major liquidity event occurs, and in return I pay them an amount based on current valuation?
There's a whole section on biotech:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/12/google-tracker-2015-e...

Most interesting to me is Calico:

http://www.calicolabs.com/
cdvonstinkpot, please check again :).

We would be happy to answer any question you have over here or through email (help@kapa99.com). In fact we plan to use some of the questions here on our FAQ.
Kind of code golfing it: http://play.golang.org/p/s53zQrE0ei
care to share more from the inside? I would've also loved to be laid off with severance if I were there but curious to hear if from your perspective
There is currently a climate-related "population rush" from Syria into Europe and South America into the USA. In both cases, refugees have been subjugated to extremely inhumane conditions. If the USA, the freest country on earth, has caged climate refugees in concentration camps, do you expect Russia to be more generious?
Physics–the only science where reductionism ever really worked–has sort-of ruined it for all the others, where it (mostly) doesn't.

In economics, you are studying vast systems. For the majority of questions, it is impossible to isolate some part of the system and control and measure all the inputs and outcomes. That's probably obvious for macroeconomics: You can't have FED raise or lower interest rates based on a random number generator. And even if you could, you would still need a second United States to act as the control group.

It's mostly also true for microeconomics. Consider the difficulty of studying UBI. The largest such studies gave a basic income to a small African village, for a limited time of maybe two years. But the idea, and its opponents, mostly deal with the life choices people make, requiring essentially life-long guarantees. And even just knowing to be part of such a study, or continuing to live in a society that hasn't changed, is likely or at least plausible to change the outcome to render the study meaningless.
A basic twitter clone sounds like a reasonable Hello World for new web frameworks
Does group SMS even exist? I know that you can send the same message to multiple recipients, but does it support "revealing" the recipients to each other? Or am I just out of date? I haven't sent a proper SMS in probably 5+ years.
The cost to ordinary people would actually be relatively minor. You buy an electric car instead of a gasoline one. The average new car price in the US is ~$36,000. A new Nissan Leaf starts below $30,000, Model 3 only a little more than that. Replace coal with alternatives. We can do at least as well as nuclear, which is barely any more expensive than coal has been. Best case is that storage gets a lot cheaper than it is and then the price of electricity goes down from the historical norm.

Capture could cost as little as zero. Renewables inherently have to build over-capacity to compensate for intermittency, but that means there are days when they generate more power than there is demand. Use the rest for carbon capture and it's free.

The real "cost" to fixing it, and the big lobby against it, is that the oil and coal companies would take a nosedive. Literally trillions of dollars in lost revenue. It moves to alternatives. It isn't economic damage, it's displacement. But the specific people who own the oil and coal reserves stand to lose their shirts, and these are not people lacking in political influence. Everything you hear about the high cost -- it's only really a cost to them. To you it's just an upgrade to electric.

But we still have to actually do it. A carbon tax so that people do all buy electric cars and stop burning coal. It's a thing we can do but not a thing we have done yet.
While I don't have to set up a mail server any time soon, I am absolutely bookmarking this. :)
Internet Society and their CEO Andrew Sullivan are just as responsible for this. Let's name names.
You've found evidence that people over 18 can be incredibly stupid, and you are using that as evidence that people under 18 shouldn't vote?
I use Swarm at home (only on a single node, because it turns out 3 are overkill for my needs) and it's been running great for 6 months so far. Before that I tried various incarnations of k8s and eventually they'd just destroy themselves up and require a rebuild (the main issue was persistent storage).

My only complaint with Swarm is there isn't an easy way to expose containers directly on the network (like host networking). I have a few containers (wireguard and minidlna) which need this, so those are running through docker-compose. I've tried macvlan but wasn't able to get that working in Swarm mode.
Ubiquity is bullish on PoE lighting.
I dont think the parents meant TSMC. China is indeed spending a hundred billion on establishing a Semi Conductor supply chain industry. If you count from 2013 ish, they expect to spend a total of $150B+ in 2025. From NAND, DRAM to General Fabs and other up and down stream in the supply chains. That number was projected in 2017/2018. I would not be surprised if they are pouring in even more resources now.

Luckily the Moat around leading edge, cost competitive DRAM / NAND and Modern Foundry is much much larger than I thought. Hopefully the world is not too late to react to it.
Think thats AWS Fargate, but admittedly i don't do a lot with Heroku.
I agree, I got to the page on actually portable executable, and had to read it a few times to make sure I was grokking it properly. This is just sheer cleverness, THIS is the stuff that should be on hacker news!
While YAML has some warts, the "if" statement in there really cant be blamed on YAML as it does nothing but inserting a node in the object tree. You'd need something else to act on that node. I get what the author is saying though, you should try to keep your config logic-free.
Presumably X86_64 only?
Streaky bacon can microwave in 5 minutes and tastes fucking delicious.
glad this is happening
> when I booked my honeymoon, my travel agent was able to get me a better price than an hour on the internet

As an aside, I'm guessing you flew internationally for your honeymoon? International pricing is done totally differently from domestic, which is why typical travel websites like Expedia can't find the best price.
It's a sad state of affairs when you're basically at war with the content providers. They want all sorts of metrics, and you pay for it in terms of processing, bandwidth and certainly not least your own privacy.

Then there's the issue with Ghostery itself being owned by Evidon. http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to...
Well, by free shipping, it means it was built into the cost of the groceries..
Regalii sounds like a complete fraud nightmare, be interested to see what they have in place to deal with it.
I don't have time to help every single open source project that makes bold claims. I also don't demand anything, I just moved V to my ignored list. It may be unfair, and I may take a look in a few years again if there are enough solid news about V floating around.
I often do flip a coin for binary decisions. Not everything is so simple though.

For more open ended decisions I use deliberately and obviously irrelevant metrics like wordplay or ad-hoc numerology.

It's useful for getting people to stop asking you where you want to go for lunch for example.
I don't really enjoy these submissions making fun of other people for their free, open source work.

Yesterday there was this thread about the "three = 1" in the linux kernel source code, now this. If you don't like them I'm sure most of those project would welcome a new design. Not to mention that many of those projects are tremendously useful and complex pieces of code. So what if gcc or gmp don't have cool logos? It's not as if they needed to market them.
Why the hell would anyone launch a DDoS attack against GitHub? Seriously, the only point I see in DDoS-ing GitHub is to prove yourself that you can DDoS it.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...

"This problem came to a head when in 1894, The Times newspaper predicted… “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”"

There's an xkcd joke that when a lot of people work really hard to solve a problem, people will assume it was never a problem in the first place. It's not just greenhouse gases, but... other forms of pollution as well. Not to mention horse carcasses - at least cars can get stripped down and recycled.

I don't think trucks are anywhere near this bad.
Well, you wouldn't want to release anything into the public domain and I don't believe any sane developer ever has.

As far as license violations are concerned, this is not a problem solely limited to the BSD as there are oh so many cases for the GPL as well for example.

In my experience, I'm much more keen to include a notice about the folk who wrote that piece of software than complying with the GPL (although I always do). For example, let's say you want to strip down an ERP web-client so that mobile devices can actually use it. That's a quick and dirty 1 hour patch to render the software minimal. If the software is under the GPL, you must publish your changes. Knowing that your dirty patch will be obsolete in a 2 weeks time and that nobody will ever actually look for it.

Well, I'm all for freedom.
Do you have practical experience with that, or are you just repeating what you read on the internet?
Just to be a contrarian, why are we always encouraging kids to think ridiculous things? Shouldn't we be encouraging our kids to think about interesting things? Beige furniture and giant cars woven out of spaghetti are both pretty boring thoughts from my point of view.
What happens when I'm driving on the highway and see an accident but it's somehow unsafe for me to exit or stop my vehicle? (Perhaps it's on the other side of the median.) Cell phone doesn't work, and I can't call 911. Not sure if forced corrective measures seem like the best option here. Also, not to minimize it, but how is 5,000/year an "epidemic" of any sort? Seems like there are dozens of other more dangerous things we should be focusing our time, energy, and tax dollars to solve.
Nothing against the OP since s/he just copied the title from the article; but that title is really misleading.

A prosecutor requesting a court order to detain someone for questioning simply does not mean 'Sweden' proper wants to detain Assange.
About a block North of the Chinatown/Gallery Place (Verizon Center) Metro stop.

http://www.lovethebeer.com/rfd-directions.html
From the article:

> In this case, Google is accused of relying on pieces of its code within websites that use its analytics and advertising services to scrape users’ supposedly private browsing history and send copies of it to Google’s servers.

From the Chrome Incognito window:

> Chrome won't save the following information:

> - Your browsing history

> - [etc]

> Your activity might still be visible to:

> - Websites you visit

> - [etc]

I could see an argument being made from a user's point of view that if Chrome says it's not saving your browsing history, but it turns out within one incognito session it is saving your browser history and providing it to sites that use Google Analytics, that this would be misleading.

Of course, if the back button didn't work in incognito mode, that would also be a problem from a usability standpoint.
Completely agreed. If auditibility of your dependency tree is something you're after, npmjs.com makes it pretty easy to find particular packages that also care about that, keeping your dependency list as small as possible.

The downside is that the most popular libraries and frameworks do not really do this; babel being a particularly egregious example, but I understand why they choose that path even if it isn't the choice I would make!
Shouldn't we be kinda proud of it?
I think it's more because gas is cheap because of fracking. And the timing between the rise in gas use and the rise in renewable deployments is mostly coincidental. If gas were expensive it wouldn't be used. As it is, gas is cheap and has 1/4 the emissions of coal (IIRC).
It is worth investigating with caution the option of using recreational drugs alongside antidepressant medication.

I take the SSRI Fluoxetine (Prozac) and have tried numerous psychedelic drugs while on that prescription drug. Before doing so I checked with my psychiatrist who did not believe there would be a great risk.

My experience has generally been that psychedelics work (with the exception of MDMA) and there are no drawbacks to using them while on an SSRI. Of course, psychedelics do have risks and educated, responsible use is appropriate.
Archive team seems like the appropriate end for these accounts. Maintaining accounts for deceased people for the remainder of the lifespan of the internet is not really a sustainable thing.
It's a figure, not every sentence needs to have stand-in characters written in to appeal to sensitivities like this. Also, maybe if he chose “Republican” it wouldn't hit home, and it'd sound like he's threatening his audience with a good time. ;- )

It could be criticized regardless of the characters chosen.
Lumia 520: $30
If they wanted to move towards less curation, then it seems counter to them creating tags, "recommended for you" games, steam curators, discovery queue, or their two new customizable curation panes on their homepage, and more, all in the past year.

Steam is very visibly and actively trying to improve curation, and despite being very poor at it previously, they have very much improved rather quickly.