jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If Monsanto caused it with such certainty for you, given the widespread use of Roundup, you'd expect vastly more cases.

Monsanto has settled 40,000+ cases, that’s significant and a lot of cases.

I’m not sure your threshold of vastly more cases but when you consider Roundup only came to market in 1976 it’s even more staggering, whereas some of the major tobacco companies had been around 100+ years before losing similar lawsuits.

Also it’s not very clear what your threshold of “certainty” is, but my guess is you are trying to apply a higher standard of proof than the courts and law require.

> However decades of testing have shown no such effects.

That’s just not true, the most complete study published concludes that using glyphosate increases the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41 percent.
Nobody stopped bitcoin network either. The state law works on different level and apparently the techies are blind to that.
Many bachelors degrees are three years in Australia.

Some, like Engineering are four.

Law, Medicine etc can be longer, depends what Uni you go to.
> bout collaborative text editing

In the beginning was the word.

A lot of things can be expressed using text.
The last two wild fire seasons made it clear that, for (2), you'll need to move a lot further than a few hundred miles to avoid climate change. Most of the US will have severe (the type that kill people) climate issues according to current projections.
Radiation is easy to detect, and you could imagine deploying them like smoke detectors in homes. I assume someone has done the analysis and decided it doesn’t pay for itself.
I still don't know how to checkmate with two bishops. I mean, I've read how to do it, but if you stuck me in an endgame situation, I'd probably draw. Luckily, I have never actually had an endgame with a king and two bishops versus a king. Same thing with king, knight, and bishop.
Regardless of what you think here, TSA is theater and is not effective, and not only does it not protect us, it actually threatens our dignity and rights. The problem is that the lower level employees don't realize their part in the theatre play ongoing.
The later protections were very interesting also.

The Apple II disk drives featured head movement that was operated by programmed I/O. For increments of a stepper motor were required to go from one track to another. This made it possible to write data in quarter track increments, giving rise to one copy protection scheme.

A conventional track-by-track disk copy program would not correctly copy data written in a spiral pattern using quarter track increments.

There were also schemes whereby tracks were written at a different speed. The logic-state-sequencer state machine for shifting bits from the head would still read the data correctly, but the program could tell a copy made at a conventional speed from the genuine article, due to the different size and content of the gap.

Programs that did this sort of thing would tend to have to be cracked by removing all the checks, and replacing their disk loading routines with conventional ones that read ordinary tracks that are copyable with any disk copying utility.
My father was a PM at IBM who was hit in one of the smaller rounds of layoffs in 92 leading up to the big one in 93. He worked at the Westlake campus in DFW at the time. The entire project he was on was cancelled and all of its staff were cut, and it was just one of many. Personal metrics didn't enter into it, it was just a question of whether you were lucky or unlucky in project assignment at the time.

Over those couple of years IBM went from using almost all of the sizable campus it had built to just one small section, renting out the rest. DFW was otherwise undergoing massive growth at the time though, so the cuts were readily absorbed by Dell, MS, and many others (my father went to AMR). It wasn't like in the early 2000s when virtually everyone in DFW was downsizing or closing and as a fresh college graduate I was competing for entry-level jobs with admins with 10 years at MS.
Just be sure it's in a "cool" part of IBM that's growing, not a "dead" part.
That actually sounds awesome.. guess it just shows I wouldn't know how to run a company.

I work at Amazon and actually hate how much communication we have to do between teams; it just adds so much overhead
Why use the strong_pass twice?
I think it's quite clear, Google has to choose: either Chrome OS or Android. Because of this schism, tablet support for Android was delayed, which was one of the biggest strategic blunders of Google, letting Apple entrench itself firmly there. Google often has competing projects and they have to attitude "we'll just let them duke out, let the data decide which is better." When you're talking about adding this or that button on the home page this is OK, but when you're dealing with huge industry-scale bets, this approach is appalling.

Google's misguided approach here not only hurts them but others, like Motorola and carriers, who have bet big on Android success. I think they should put all their forces behind Android. They'll need all they've got to beat Apple.
I think that they were called clickpass, a YC company, who was acquired by synthasite.
I wasn't pissy about them resetting my password, I was scared that my LinkedIn account and who knows what else had been compromised in relation to the Gawker incident.

It was a good move by LinkedIn to force a password reset. It would have been a GREAT move if they had told me it was precautionary instead of me having to guess why my account was locked.
I think you forget about how awesome the mars rover is. It was only supposed to do a mission that 90 days and lasted more than 1800 [1] and that Martian environment is really tough. Though I still think it's amazing that the voyager is still kicking ass, I just wanted to point out that their is still some awesome work being done.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover#Mission_overview
Yes, that should be our default assumption.
I don't think the originally linked blurb is implying everything you claim it does - unless you are trying to read between lines, something which I adamently do not do if I do not know the subject personally.

Do you have sources for the "well documented" views that pedophilia is not harmful and that children can give consent and should be allowed to engage in sexual intercourse? Because the blurb above certainly does not say any of that.
> In response someone created a Chrome extension that marks repositories owned by a signatory of this support letter with red text on GitHub.

why stop there? out with their tongues and off with their fingers, lest they continue to blaspheme.
Hopefully besides the China decoupling we also get an USA decoupling. You can have whatever cultural revolution you want but keep your -ism to yourself, please.

I think in the darkest communist times there hasn't been such foaming mob rhetoric.
> Perhaps more exact is to say that corruption requires authority.

Yes, that would be more correct. Authority != hierarchy, but you can't have a society without authority. You could start out with anarchy, but then authoritative structures would naturally emerge anyway.
The 'open letter' language reeks with the odour of the Komsomol [1] assembly. It was a form of self-governance, where the missteped members were subjected to a court of their comrades, who unleashed their denunciation on the faulty offender, who had to stand in front of them in shame, listening to their dispraisals, and repent from his erroneous ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol
We cannot truly know someone's intent. We can evaluate the impact of their words and actions. If you define words like “racist” and “transphobic” to be solely about professed intent, then you will find that bigotry seemingly doesn't exist.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. I've actually tried to hire dispassionate people before.

One was an assembly line style UI job with no future - the API was solid, the UI was designed by someone else. It just needed someone who could glue the parts, and repeat the same job forever, with minor API updates every now and then.

Another was a teaching job. Beginner HTML/CSS/Node.js. Come in 35 hours a week, actual necessary work is 12 hours/week. It's probably a dead end job, but it's a cash cow. Some graduates managed to go from becoming Uber drivers to junior developers who made the same salary with little manual labor, so the job brought benefit to society.

There's too many passionate people in the industry who just won't take these kinds of jobs.
If your nephew is using VSCode, I think adding a repo shouldn't be very hard? Or perhaps that's the more insidious underbelly being exposed.

It's like when schools teach a specific tool, instead of generic tools. The students only know that one thing.
How is the real world latency? In the past latency has made satellite almost unusable, but those were geosynchronous sats, not ones in very low orbits like Starlink. (They're claiming 20ms, but I get 9ms on my fibre and I've seen reports that the real latency is somewhere around 50ms.)
This is probably a hot take, but I don't think standard libraries should contain a random number generator.

There is no globally correct choice of PRNG algorithm. If you need randomness, you should ask what kind of randomness - cryptography wants secure, Monte Carlo methods want fast, games can often benefit from N-dimensional equidistribution, etc. - and find a library specialised for that use case. A standard library function that nobody uses because there's always a better alternative elsewhere is a bad standard library function.
Except change your metaphor such that you have to smoke a little bit to live.
It was both - the Armenian genocide, and the Nazi crimes, which Lemkin was dedicated to documenting as they occurred, including in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. He might not have been fully aware of the scale of the Nazi crimes, but he was already viewing them through the framework of “genocide”
I'm already thinking that every service hoovers as much up as they can. Nice to see proof that it is actually happening!
Just as another data point, trufflejs (that is GraalVM’s implementation of JavaScript on top of a JVM written in Java running on top a traditional JVM) has comparable peak performance to V8.
Sure, it's obviously possible. Just like it's possible to quit smoking without assistance, or quit heroin cold-turkey. So you're arguing that because it's possible, we shouldn't try to make it easier?
It discusses Jack's Nouveau riche tendencies - Oh look i'm rich, let me show it off and pretend to be sophisticated. Does he really admire the quality of a Prada suit or a rolex watch? Very very doubtful, those even slightly in the know despise cheap fashion like Prada.

I want his PR rep's number though, they are masters. If Jack is his own PR, kudos to him.
Well, people have suggested an automatic CoralCDN feature to Hacker News.
Using Tor does not mean that you are an exit node. You have to actually set that up and it is warning you about it. Using Tor as a client only is safe and secure.

If people do bad things through your exit node, you are in danger regardless where you live. The law enforcement must be aware of what your server was doing. Its understanding varies from place to place.
The software you see in the Ubuntu Software Center, musst in your repositories. Otherwise the Software Center doesn't know about the software.

The software on this website is, to so extend, in repositories NOT installt in Ubuntu by DEFAULT.

I hope this is clearer.
The few I checked had already been registered...hopefully by the poll author!
The Japanese engineers read manga based on Greek mythos. Thus, they were forewarned and left out the wax.
Frankly, India's got a 40% poverty rate. They care about the basic needs of their people first.

If they do care about digital media, it's very, very, very low on the list of priorities.
There is no need to emit the entire document in a query because as part of the query access you can request the full documents (using the "include_docs" docs url parameter.

Also avoid building large hashtables in your views as performance will be fine for 100k or so documents, and then as hashtables merge in the rereduce step performance starts to crawl.
I saw a link recently to a "bring your own container" type of grocery store that was in NYC. It was so small though, and I've never seen anything like that around where I live. We need something like that but on a massive scale to invoke a fundamental shift in the way every single person does grocery shopping.

That sounds less like giving people what they want and more like giving people what you think they ought to have.

Correction: some people want this. Some people want to wear hair shirts of inconvenience in order to impress some narrow circle of like-minded friends with how environmentally-friendly they are. But there's a limited number of hair-shirt people out there, and there's already massive competition for their dollars.
I read somewhere that a rule of thumb is to double the number and then scale it up by one order of magnitude.

Example: 1 day == 2 weeks, 1 week = 2 months, 1 month = 2 years. More than a month = Let’s not even start.
Agreed. Just comes of as disengenuous and "wake up sheeple"
I'm not using modules. I usually start with one file with a demo or similarly named function that is called if the file is called as an entry point (like if __name__ == '__main__', except Julia makes it even worse). First the "actual" code is in separate functions in that file. No global state.

I tend to refactor code out of there to separate files, and then somehow import it. An ugly way is include, and I've tried Revise.jl with includet.

But I think the least ugly approach is the @from macro from here: https://github.com/Roger-luo/FromFile.jl Judging from some opinion in bug trackers, this is probably gonna get totally shunned by core devs and they'll keep on bikeshedding about the import stuff forever.

With this setup I have about 400 lines of code in three files. It compiles for 15 seconds. After every single change, and actually without any changes too.

I think performance wise this should be equivalent to using modules, but saving some pointless ceremony.
How about we tie settlements and complaints to police compensation packages? Do any police departments in the US do this now? The idea would be the more of these situations you expose your department to through your own misconduct the more you are financially penalized. You lose pay, matching 401K contributions, access to a pension. This won't be a panacea but it could help tax payers recoup some of the costs incurred by bad cops.
OK, I looked at some piano roll layouts in DAWs, and found examples with equal spacing between semitones, you're right.

I looked at some music mapped onto this layout. The layout allowed for speedy recognition of lone intervals and simple chords, but no more so than standard notation, and it was far worse than standard notation at showing any higher level musical content (the harmonic function of those intervals and chords in the context of the whole piece or local progression, polyphony and independent voices in general, counterpoint, organization of rhythms and cross rhythms, phrasing, larger compositional structures...). Also, because it's just a homogenous field of repeating piano octaves there is much less to positionally anchor the eye on as it reads through, like a staff with ledger and bar lines and key signature would provide to a fluent sight reader. All this musical meaning is stripped away and to reinstate it would be a case of painstakingly decoding the piano roll rather than just fluently reading the music.

I can see how this layout is really useful in a DAW for MIDI input and editing. As for learning the absolute basics of harmony, yeah it's accessible, if you can't be bothered to learn the basics of standard notation. After which point it's a dead end.
This holds true for junior engineers, but not for seniors.

Raises tend to be percentage-based. The junior making 200k in SF may be worse off than the junior making 100k in Pittsburgh.

But the senior making 400k in SF is much better off than the senior making 200k in Pittsburgh.

Since Silicon valley is that one weird place where it takes five years for a junior to become a senior, taking that job in Pittsburgh is quite short-sighted.
They're not the same formulation, so you can't compare the dosing, it's Apples vs. Walnuts

The problem with the 50mcg dose is that there is justifiable concern that if you error on the side of low-dosing that the mass vaccination won't work and the public sentiment will turn against it. We'd rather see 95% efficacy with the 100mcg than risk the POSSIBILITY of 60% efficacy with the 50mcg dose. We literally have one shot (or two, pun intended) to get it right the first time. Only 4 months ago, most of the world hadn't even heard of mRNA vaccines or somehow believed it was micro-chipped by Bill Gates. Much of that nonsense has gone away because they're getting unbelievable efficacy that's higher than the traditionally-made vaccines from Astra-Zeneca and JnJ.
I think the fundamental reason that science and technology are so closely linked is because we really don’t know what “truth” is.

A scientific model is not “true” so much as it is “useful”. In a sense, general and special relativity really did not become “true” to most people until GPS. Newtonian physics really became “true” when it was used to calculate accurate artillery tables. Pasteur’s germ theory really became “true” when antiseptic surgery saved lives.

Without the grounding in usefulness, science as knowledge for its own sake, ends up becoming theology, where we argue about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin based on the presumed Mind of God, or whether there is a single Universe or a disparate Multiverse based on how elegant the Math becomes.
How do 32 and 64ths look if you swing on 16ths? Do they end up on a sine-like interpolated curve of sorts, or do changes in velocity happen instantaneously like a square wave?
That argument works if by "upsetting people" we mean actual real people with normal psychology.

But it falls apart when 'people' are multinationals and "upsetting them" means their PR department gets a funny idea. In that case we need a contract that provides more protection than 'we can remove you at any time for any reason'
i would like to see the feasibility of these projects. anything to do with energy and climate related startups have to deal with physics first. Its not at all like technology or even engineering.

Sounds like fluff to me.
I'm sure he was, but the comedy is not lost on the fact that the most high profile presentation is the one with the biggest hiccup.
Because they're frustrated and venting. Just like you were doing when you wrote this post. Don't take it personally. That only makes the situation worse. :-)
An open letter to mark-snyder:

You assail your 'superstar programmer' without having informed us of what it is to be a 'superstar programmer'. This leaves your screed without any assertions. You could have first built up a mental model of what a 'superstar programmer' is, and then illustrated how the traits that make them a 'superstar' are in fact harmful. That's ok though, you are a sloppy thinker.

You make a series of very obvious criticisms against an anonymous bozo to which you attach the label of 'superstar programmer', thinking this is somehow actually a criticism of what other people think of when they think of a superstar programmer. That's ok, you skipped the day your philosophy 101 professor covered the definition of a 'straw man'.

In the end, you are insulting your readers more than the 'superstar', since to think that this person was a 'superstar' would mean you reader is full-blown retarded. Perhaps you mean 'superstar' in a pejorative sense, having read the many more well thought out blog posts that have recently been written using this term. Then you are just cribbing off others, without really having 'gotten it'. That's ok though, maybe you enjoy being the unrewarded toady to the would-be stars of internet-startup culture.

I get it. It is bad to be a poor programmer that also uses poor practices and also has bad social skills and also who stinks.

There are 2 things I would like to ask, though:
1. Why do we need a blog post saying 'it is bad to be bad and stink'. If we need that, I invite you to read my blog posts, entitled "eating, pros and cons" and "blog posts, what this one says"
2. What do you think people mean when they say 'superstar'?

Oh, and it was quite hard to refrain from using the term 'superstar blogger' in this comment. I hope you appreciated my restraint!
I have also experienced several times that developers have been quite hostile towards bug reports. Even bug reports that I, as a developer, would be quite happy to receive myself. That kind of attitude means you are less inclined to try and help out again, and will most likely dump the product first chance you get.
Taken from a previous entry, this is just one of many reasons why the founders could be given the exit route: they keep majority of the company shares. At a company that is facing unexpected roadbumps, this has to eventually be executed in the hopes of redeeming the company. It's a hard truth, but you can only learn from it.
Cass Sunstein wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago saying Larry Summers should be considered a candidate for Fed Chairman because he has been pushing for regulation all along, the problem is we just haven't heard about it. This is about the guy who pushed for repealing Glass-Steagall and also pushed for allowing commercial banks to use governement- insured deposits to speculate in derivatives.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-06/summers-s-critics-d...
If the artwork depicts a man being punished for crimes against the god of wine, and the contents affect the color, wouldn't it be cool if this was used to detect poisons, similar to what drinksavvy is doing for date rape drugs?
> They are clearly building a walled garden for their own benefit, while selling it as the user's benefit.

On the contrary, I think this highlights that Jobs thinks, "They want to compare? Great, let's force them to really compare."

Jobs: "If they want to compare us to Android, let’s force them to use our far superior payment system."

It's one thing to build a walled garden that's crap but users get stuck with it. It's another to build something you believe is truly superior for users, then forcibly rub people's noses in it.
How on Earth can they try and own "gram"?

On it's own it is is a standard unit of measurement, but as a suffix is considered standard in English since time immemorial to reflect anything "written or drawn", it features in the word "telegram", and can be traced as a suffix back to ancient Greece.

I barely understand them trying to protect "insta" considering they are using Kodak's trademark there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instamatic

But the suffix "gram"? Their lawyers may have found some powder that came in such measurements.