jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, but this happens for everything, not just articles about nuclear waste. Lots of headlines sound bad devoid of a point of comparison, and lots of articles, reports, and statistics can be mistaken as alarming in isolation, without understanding the nuanced context of their domain.

It's an unsolved problem in most societies to balance their desire to not withhold information from average citizens while avoiding widespread mistrust, outrage, or panic from those who lack the necessary background to place the information into context.
Hilbert's tomb:
Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen

You should not be downvoted. Spare the world a little cruelty where we can.
Some, yes.
I'm not a big fan of google but i have to say that GAE solves a lot of problems I don't want to deal with.
Anyone read Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, YC partner (http://www.foundersatwork.com/)?

The first chapter regarding PayPal discusses how the company was initially founded on the concept of being able to use your Palm Pilot to pay for lunch. Actually, it initially was a security company that focused on protecting your mobile electronic device. Once it was "protected" they realized you could store money on your mobile device. Eventually they realized that at the time the online electronic payments market was much larger than that for mobile device electronic payments.

Interesting to think PayPal may have been decades ahead on this.
Pentaho
http://www.pentaho.com
Out of interest, how do you plan to stop people using dropbox like rapidshare? It would be easy for one to upload a file divided into multiple rar files and distribute them to different dropbox accounts. The only way you would be able to block this is watching for a large amount of downloads of a particular file and finding out the context of the file which may prove impossible (and possibly illegal).

In terms of the software, it is unlikely that the general user will use it without some technical skill.
No, it isn't used for "some grounds", it's used for content (in this case, code) that directly violates your copyright, period. The DMCA process is very clear, and it isn't for "I don't like $content".

Abuse of the DMCA is already dramatically overblown, and the cavalier attitude of "oh well, deal with it" is a significant part of the problem.
Thank you all for comments and questions. That have been extremely helpful.
"He requested that I not only remove the archive from Dropbox but delete my posts on Hacker News, which at that point included the fake DMCA takedown."

What you tried to do there is censor and resorted to fake legal repercussions. You can brush it aside saying that it was a mistake but it is still uncool for a corporation to do that to an individual.
Doesn't seem to be done, as I just used the code in question to get the example trailer and I did not have the file in advance.
Something about her attitude towards privacy reminds me of Fravia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia
For the most part it's probably that they kept things flexible that aren't strictly necessary, but it simplified their development process of the silicon.

So when they're done with the silicon, and routed all the traces, and so on, they can run their magic tool that measures delays and things like that, and then calculate the best performing set of values, and write them into the document.

It also allows them to dial back some of the values should they figure out that there are problems. I fully expect these numbers to change a couple of times between them finalizing their silicon and releasing it (and the reference code and documentation) to the public. Now consider how much trouble it would be, even for Intel and their world famous fabrication process, to create new silicon for each of those changes.

Take the tables in i945's raminit (http://review.coreboot.org/gitweb?p=coreboot.git;a=blob;f=sr...).

From the shape of these values, they're probably some delay configuration for the different types of DDR2 pins (dq, ctl, clk) going from somewhere inside the silicon out to the pin of the package, but I doubt that the documentation actually provided any explanation for them.

Of course, one of these registers could mean 'change all calculations in a way that the electromagnetic field contains the private key'. But they need a better way to enable that function than in firmware, where it's done for everyone.

In the end, I'm fine with such magic values in magic registers, as long as they make some sense (right register block for the current task instead of messing with the audio codec while initializing usb) and are unconditional (that is, no if (user_is_evil()) write_enable_tempest_register(); ).

If there are no unexplained conditionals, any backdoor would have to apply to every user - in which case they could just enable it unconditionally in silicon.
To be clear, though, Rust's type system can ensure thread safety of doubly-linked lists if you use the doubly-linked list structure in the standard library (or write one yourself using RC/etc.)
Also, if there is little-to-no punishment for dishonest behavior, then those incentives to be dishonest are enhanced.
The weekly point releases are bugfixes for that LTS (so 1.1 is just bugfixes for 1.0).
Videoconferencing _used_ to suck. Four years ago, having a voice conversation while sharing a screen was neigh on impossible. Now, however, it's dirt simple and works really well.
The shortness-bias is fairly culturally-universal, actually. And your point does little to refute that no one makes a big deal about this particular bias. (Not that I'm saying they shouldn't).
Good point. I think serious python people (not me, I had to search a bit) would understand the scoping well enough to recognise the gotcha.

Turns out the problem is the +=, perhaps it would be a bit clearer if written as:

grand_total = grand_total + to_add

which introduces a new local variable called grand_total shadowing the outer one. So it's straightforward enough, the pitfall is missing the shadowing.

Note that you could use the outer grand_total without problems if you don't shadow it, e.g. using it as an rvalue (is that a pythonic term?) , and also note Python 3 provides a 'nonlocal' keyword to let you pull the outer variable into scope so it won't be shadowed.
I would say that's a less than 1% of the college aged population.

My alma mater, a small midwestern college in the last five years has had record enrollment. My two nieces just graduated and had to apply to close to a dozen schools. On all of their visits, the tour guide consistently reported enrollment numbers were at all time highs and how competitive it had become to get accepted.

These were not huge Big 10 or Ivy League schools. Most of them were small liberal arts colleges on the west coast and a handful of smaller midwestern state universities.

Despite the narrative that kids should opt out of college, it would appear the trend is more than likely kids are continuing to go to college and in record numbers.
They have a US HQ in Denver, but it's absurd to say that they are American:

"Dominion Voting Systems Corp (Canada) owns 100% of Dominion Voting Systems, Inc (US Subsidiary)."

Source: https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/dominion-voting/part-2....
I agree it's often a problem. Happily, in this instance, Linus's criticisms are on the mark and not directed at an individual.
In this case, I'd assume the whole point is to go to trial. They're not actually going to recover anything like their real damages from the lawyer, so their best avenue is to very publicly demonstrate that they were lied about.
Does this mean that domestication of raccoons is next ? They seem to enjoy excess protein from urban garbage.
Yeah, Totally I agree that wealth comes with benefits, even if it cant be spent. I am curious how the collateral works without with owner of wealth ever having to realize income. I suppose the way it could work is moving from loan to loan, using the newer ones to pay off the older ones. I wonder if there is some way to fix the tax codes to address this.
The desktop application is crafty enough to have me consider subscribing: If you lower your OS-wide volume to 0 during a grating audio ad, the ad is paused and resumes when you bump your volume up again.

Physically taking off your headphones to let ads run gets old! Perhaps the discerning cheapskate puts an analogue volume dial in the chain.
indeed, the entire talk struck me as being overly male-centric, beginning with the example of the peacock's tail. he needs to at least argue that sexual selection works both ways to explain the many talented female writers/musicians.

thing is, I don't even buy that musicians' popularity with the opposite sex is a universal thing. For most of history in China (where I live) - if you want to have a random sample of humanity and culture, can't quite ignore China can you - being a musician is quite a lowly occupation. it's only in the last 50 years when they began to make big money that they became desirable as sexual partners.

evolutionary biology no doubt determines what we look for in a mate. but it's not as fixated on some notion of beauty as pure reproductive advantage.
It is a real problem you have if you are a TechCrunch columnist and:

- Your work consists of tracking hints and leads sent to you via Facebook, Twitter etc.

- You sign up for everything to try it out, leading to loads of mail.

- You hand out business cards like confetti at events, leading to even more mail.

On the other hand if you work as an office drone at Yet Another Firm, where the use of non-work email is frowned upon (let alone Facebook) then you probably have a different set of problems.

I'd say that for a large chunk of the user base the issue is more like "which messages are worth delivering to my cell phone, so I know I should sneak off to the bathroom and read them now rather than waiting until my lunch break".
why not just let the user run cssess only on the actual URL? If you run cssess on a big page you will obtain a long list of URLs and you need to deselect them by hand (leave all checkboxes unchecked and put a "select all" button on top.)

Also you need to filter away "mailto:" links (and all other protocols that don't use CSS.)

Anyway keep up the good job. I've added the bookmarklet on my personal list of day-by-day programming tools.
This would be a great part of a beer company advertising campaign.

Great idea :)
Indeed they do. Some are designed that the top 2/3 is as wide as a 2-liter bottle and the bottom 1/3 is the standard size of a cup. Though this works in theory I've rarely met a cupholder that could, in practicality, hold this monster.

Generally the cup holders are either right up against the dashboard, shifter, or door. So the cop 2/3 wouldn't fit anyway. Cupholders in the back seat are usually in the center, unobstructed. but you can't sit 2 big gulps next to each other.
Doesn't topology past a certain basic level rely on algebra pretty heavily?
Not all input devices have scroll wheels - though it might be worthwhile to take them out of desktop versions of sites...
so they invented erlang in hardware ;)
Sigh. Here's the difference:

https://medium.com/basic-income/breaking-down-without-a-spar...

There is hard data out there for this very subject. Its called look at the costs. Our government is relatively transparent, we know the costs of food stamps. We know the cost of every single social worker on the government. We know their pay, their salary, their qualifications (these sorts of things are standardized upon the GS-levels)

http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance...

If you refuse to discuss data that is readily available about various programs, that makes you a lazy writer.

The blog post is terrible. There are much better articles out there that discuss the pros and cons of basic income.
Really appreciate it WhitneyLand. Thanks again for reaching out in the first place :+1:
I wish the title were different, since the talk has nothing to do with a broken internet. But the actual topic; computers working for or against their operators, DMCA as a meta-law to be exploited by private enterprise, and DMCA as restraint on public vulnerability disclosure, are all important public discussion.

The key point I heard, and I'll embellish a little further; -- legislators are passing laws like DMCA thinking they are merely trifling with entertainment options, but they are mucking with critical infrastructure, the central mediating artifact of our lives, maybe even the platform for our existence. Tread lightly.
$100k doesn't even approach upper-middle class. It's not 1995 anymore. $100k is arguably lower-middle class. Consider the fact that most college students are graduating with $50-$100k in student loan debt, then they move to the Bay Area and pay $3k per month for a one bedroom. After 28% federal income tax and food costs it's surprising that they even survive on $100k.
Using that logic, you could say immigration laws are actually what are making the problem worse in the long term - by temporarily keeping salaries higher than what they otherwise would be.
I think our job listings are quite fair and free of "startup" phrases. We emphasize the actual problems you'll be working on and try to communicate that we pay professional salaries for professionals.

Then again, I wrote them. So you can see for yourself: http://www.cafe.com/careers
It writes the code or we take away the Nerf gun!
When I was flatting in Australia a few years ago we used to buy groceries online as we had no car or nearby supermarket.

The biggest problem I've seen is that people don't trust someone else to shop for fresh things for them. Vegetables, fruit and especially meat have this problem. Tins and boxes of dry food are easier to trust.
Quite possibly me, as I used to run one.

Just checked my MBP, and it's a 17" 1920x1200. Bloody awesome screen.

The Dell shades it though, being a 15" panel rather than a 17", which is a bit on the gigantic side.
And they just _finally_ certified Apple Silicon at work and started allowing people to upgrade to M1s like last week.
> Maybe it's the American in me, but I have almost no use for a payment mechanism in my messenger, I have too many. Venmo, Cash, Apple's thing, Google Wallet, whatever -- these all provide everything I need when I need to send money to people.

Don't forget Zelle, which is similar to Venmo but is already built into the apps and websites of a large number of US banks. It's owned indirectly by Bank of America, BB&T, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo. Other major banks, including Chase and Citi, also include it.

That means that a very large number of Americans can do quick and easy US to US payments by phone number of email just using their normal banking apps and sites.
I'm not that worried about returning to the office. I think most office jobs will be some form of remote work forever.

We worked in offices because it's the way we always did it. But we now know we don't have to.

It reminds me of post World War 2, where women were expected to just return to their previous lives.

There will be a big push to get people back in the office. But companies that embrace remote work will be more profitable.
>Those of you who think that remote-work-by-default would be a good thing, can I ask how your companies are handling career progression and collaboration, as well as mentorship of junior developers?

Frankly, my employer sucks-ass at this anyway. So no real difference. I suspect there are a LOT of small-time employers that are like this.

I've worked at other companies where they do much better at collaboration and even have formal mentorship programs (Lockheed-Martin). Yes, I very much miss working for those companies, but given that I've relocated since then, it's really not an option.
> Finally, functional languages tend to fight against large, mutually-linked, mutable data structures, yet the layout engine of a browser is all about that.

Is the DOM (and LayoutObject et al.) truly a case where imperative object-oriented programming shines? In pure FP operations like insertion, bidirectional traversal, and moving objects between parents can be cumbersome because there is no implicit identity for the objects.

Curious whether this is true, or is there a way to implement a DOM-like API with mostly immutable values?
I think it works fine as long as you're up-front about it when hiring e.g.

> We get the whole company together once a year for seven days so that Automatticians can create bonds that influence them all year long. So far we’ve done Grand Meetups in San Francisco, California; La Paz, Mexico; Oracle, Arizona; Breckenridge, Colorado; Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec; Seaside, Florida; Budapest, Hungary; San Diego, California; Santa Cruz, California; Park City, Utah; Whistler, Canada; and Orlando, Florida.

> In addition to our all-company Grand Meetup, teams meet for five to seven days to brainstorm team-level strategy and bond in locales ranging from Boulder to Buenos Aires, Las Vegas to Lisbon, Montréal to Mexico City, and Vienna to Vietnam. If you join our merry band, expect to travel three to four weeks per year.

> As a distributed company we also know how to connect with each other from afar, and consider day-to-day social communication at least as important as breaking bread in person.

https://automattic.com/how-we-work/
> It checks if the variables 'ls' and 'la' exist, and if they do, it'll run it as python. If not, it'll try to parse it as bash.

This is horrifying. It can break in so many unexpected and context dependent ways... Do people really run this shell on purpose?
>Please do send us your comments, thoughts, and ideas to help us improve this. Visit our GitHub page (Some link here: https://github.com/microsoft/openjdk/discussions) to send us your feedback.

The link is 404
> At the very least, you need to flash a warning up on screen and accept a user acknowledgement, which means you need display drivers, USB, and so on all working in the boot ROM.

Pretty sure Apple has some form of this. On Intel Macs, the boot picker [0] supports displaying text and graphics, accepting keyboard and mouse input, and even connecting to Wi-Fi. There’s also the FileVault password screen, which does not live in the firmware, but it’s a full-screen UEFI app resembling macOS’ login UI.

It’s also a thing in the PC world these days. The UEFI setup menu on modern machines is a bitmap-graphics GUI with mouse and keyboard support, for example [1] (a random YouTube video).

[0]: https://www.ninjastik.com/support/how-to-choose-a-startup-di...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1NDjD2RuGM
> why not ensure that the query is using the expected indexes?

How should your database know this unless you explicitly named the indexes in your query? Just because there exists an index on a particular predicate does not mean that using the index would result in a faster query.
Rights come from deciding what rules we need to have in place to thrive.

Not God. There is no evidence for God. The argument that rights come from God is not sustainable today.
Interesting, I partly agree.

As an alternative, you can also view the lack of story in some games as a good thing, because it compels you to make up your own narrative.

"The answer is simple: Nethack does what computers do best - what computers were invented for. It hands you a symbolic representation of something, and lets you interact with it. The symbols are utterly mundane ... but the interaction is extraordinarily complicated. Interacting with the game of Nethack can be glorious, frustrating, hilarious, and satisfying. Like any great game, it's even fun to watch and talk about when played by others. There are probably more web pages of people telling their Nethack war stories than there are pages discussing the game itself." (http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/nethack/index.html)

Also have a look at the "Let's play" archive for X-Com on http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle8zx0nomxzqc...
Many would argue that free will is non-materialistic (extra- or -supra natural), if we have no free will, then these HN comments are inevitable due to the laws of physics though, so no use arguing if it is materialistic since it’s inevitable :)
I'd argue that there's an obvious difference between buying a car or receiving medical care versus being targeted for advertising purposes.
> This person is dead. We can thus deduce the reward is death.

You're mixing reward with outcome. The outcome is that the person was murdered. That's something entirely different from a reward.
The thing is, that's not neccesarily an irrational or sexist conclusion - it depends only on high-order beliefs about beliefs about what society thinks of women, not direct beliefs about women themselves.

It's an interesting perverse consequence of "social justice culture". Consider the reversal: in a world that was irrationally discriminatory against women, that did not have a "social justice" culture, hiring women would be a signal (to unbiased, pragmatic people) that you cared more about getting things done than about what society thinks. The million-dollar question is - in a world with neither "social justice" nor irrational sexism, what is the expected sex ratio of a board of directors?
for those not yet aware of this title change tracker: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/
Overly verbose in the context of debugging. Logs almost can't be too verbose, because as you said, they should be able to tell you the sequence of events that lead to the error.
Thanks for the support famfam. I'll try weaving the promos into the program and see how it goes.

I haven't done it before because when someone tells me, "Then I almost lost my business," I didn't want to respond, "Hang on to that thought. I see by the clock that it's time to do a commercial."

But I'm game for trying.
The home computers of the early 1980s were more curiosities than utilitarian devices, although spreadsheets and word processors did begin to emerge at that time.

The practical difficulties such as very restricted memory (the ZX-80 had < 1kB of usable RAM), unreliable cassette tape drives, long loading/saving times and non-ergonomic keyboards meant that even the most dedicated business user would struggle to use them for any serious purpose.
>If anything, the existance of this site tells a lot about Mac users.

Dating sites are notorious for fragmenting the daylights out of the total dating pool. There's dating sites for "geeks", for "gamers", for "sugar daddies", for "golddiggers", for "just messing around", for "goths", for "insert word here" etc. A fair number of companies actually take a basic site engine, re-skin it so it doesn't look anything like sister sites, re-brand it towards their target audience, buy the appropriate domain and search keywords and launch a new site.

Honestly it's not much of a different model for porn sites that aren't simply licensing their media assets to thousands of sites. Same girl, similar media assets, 8 different sites.

Dating sites aren't that far removed from porn sites. Many dating sites have poor or only rudimentary search functionality, so you end up with a similar experience to a porn site -- browsing a bunch of media and clicking on what you fancy for a better look.
Exceptionally bizarre.
Perhaps they should buy some plastic "chairs", then. :)

http://merlexi.com/mri.htm
> From what I remember (and I may be mixing up phones here)

You don't, but it's not entirely correct: from the early review, the Evo had a bad battery life (as in, noticeably under average for the category), and if 4G was turned on it went from bad to utterly terrible.
How do you convert your existing vector icons to this (pathstring) format? Or did he use some custom tool to draw them?
niche to win
I saw this feature and thought of the built-in Universal Access on the Macs. Going along those lines, a lot of pages have way too small text and this is a more convenient way of reading those pages then constantly adjusting font sizes.