jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Individual tax evasion exists either way.

Repeat over and over?
A list of vitamin D/Covid studies - https://vdmeta.com/
I never realized it, but Red Bull spends money similarly to Google's early days. They have their "cash cow" revenue stream and a bunch of seemingly unrelated explorations that may burn capital or prove to diversify the portfolio.

By keeping the logo so prevalent, it mitigates customers from developing brand judgments. I'm not going to judge a coworker for drinking a Red Bull because the brand is equally associated with European soccer, quirky commercials, flugtag, and celebrity. In the same way, Google became associated with Google Earth, Google Glass, lush office campuses, and "don't be evil" (remember those days?).
I think you’re being overly critical of someone’s hobby project. This isn’t an enterprise app. It’s a fun little thing they made and wanted to share with us. If this is how the community reacts to what is really barely a hobby project it doesn’t surprise me at all that devs are burnt out from supporting OSS projects that probably have 1000s of ppl like you that complain and expect the world for free.
indeed https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=990

(see also Ray Ozzie answer in other comment about portability layer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26697054 )
This problem is fundamentally impossible to solve. Once data has been created, it's trivial to make and transmit copies. Complete tyranny would be necessary to erase all illegal data from all computers in the world. The best people can hope for is removal of data from popular centralized services.
That's exactly the question.

We see the majority trying to preserve flexibility in fair use throughout, even going so far as to head off arguments that this decision affects others:

> We do not say that these questions are always relevant to the application of fair use, not even in the world of computer programs. Nor do we say that these questions are the only questions a court might ask.

> The fact that computer programs are primarily functional makes it difficult to apply traditional copyright concepts in that technological world. ... In doing so here, we have not changed the nature of those concepts. We do not overturn or modify our earlier cases involving fair use. ... Rather, we here recognize that applications of a copyright doctrine such as fair use has long proved a cooperative effort of Legislatures and courts, and that Congress, in our view, intended that it so continue.

We see Thomas leading this question in dissent:

> Because the majority's reasoning would undermine copyright protection for so many products long understood to be protected, I understand the majority's holding as a good-for-declaring-code-only precedent.

Fair use is a mishmash of vague, impressionistic factors and a long list of cases from which to argue by analogy. It's not sharp-lines law. It's finger painting.

Which is why lawyers so rarely recommend that people rely on fair use in any really meaningful way, outside areas where there have been a lot of court decisions, or where strong industry norms have evolved between repeat players.
Based on "cptskippy"s comment below activated carbon filters sound like they may be effective.
One plausible reason: the story is a "slow burn" story that hasn't had time to gain traction. Mainstream news acts more like an aggregator of information that percolates out of various niche segments' echo chambers: give it time.

Another thing to consider: what is particularly newsworthy about it to the general public? Software technology focused people would find this very news worthy. I have little sympathy for a business of any size that uses github as its primary repository: the most-current source should be maintained on an internal server, in my opinion, and companies that require github to be fully available to operate are doing it wrong. I mean one of the primary advantages of a distributed repo is that there is a complete history for every node that has synced with the most recent commit. There shouldn't be a strong dependence on a central repo.
I could not work for a few hours yesterday. push/pull/rebase was not working for me.
> Bluejeanscables is a cable manufacturer, so they're probably exaggerating how hard it is to make a good cable. In particular, their "buy american" schtick is not very applicable to cabling. Monoprice is functionally equivalent, even if it's from China.

This. The article has some very decent and scientifically valid advice regarding terminations, and they unnecessarily throw in this protectionist voodoo about Chinese cable being "almost always terrible" (with an American jobs reference to boot), without backing up their assertions with tests of cables. This makes me somewhat mistrustful of the rest of their article, for no good reason.
Those buses are back in London:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Routemaster

" is notable for featuring a "hop-on hop-off" rear open platform similar to the original Routemaster bus design, but updated to meet requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible. The first bus entered service on 27 February 2012."
If the inspiration for this was to smack down a friend who hasn't started "his web site", then all this really proves is that putting content online is far less of a barrier than coming up with the content in the first place.

Putting HTML in place that it can be opened by a web browser is not a challenge and has not been a challenge for over a decade. Github is one choice, shared hosting is another... as the comments already show, you can argue pros and cons of various choices ad nauseum, even on such a trivial web page as OP's.

The larger point that seems to be getting missed is that the question of "How?" pales in comparison to the question of "What content should I put on my site in the first place?"
"Who the Chinese hackers targeted this time might surprise you!"

"Massive blow to computer hobbyists as the Chinese government brings down their community website!"
By framing playing virtually all video games in existence as being "bad for you".
Exactly. The biggest threat from surveillance and censorship isn't the imposition on average citizens.

Rather, the risk is that surveillance, censorship, intimidation, selective law enforcement, and so on are targeted at specific political opponents --- such as Aaron Swartz, Barrett Brown, Glenn Greenwald, Marin Luther King Jr. and so on.

Such authoritarian harassment presents a straightforward threat to democracy because it stifles political dissent.

Democracy is incompatible with the stifling of political dissent.
As another example, I'm very likely going to be switching to a medication that costs $60,000/year for a variety of reasons.

It's slightly elective (my mother has the same issue, but has been okay) but highly probabilistic (my situation could be much worse if I don't take it). There are alternative medications, but they involve injections weekly or daily (which I've been doing), don't cost much less, and produce side effects that make it very difficult to work.

The kicker? The active ingredient is DMF, which I can buy in bulk for 1000x less. I've looked up the pricing, so I feel like I am applying some amount of analysis in determining that it's worth the cost. But it does feel like, even accounting for need to recover expenses of doing medical trials, this is a bit ridiculous.
I have some solid lenses made out of plastic, held in front of my eyes. "Non-contact Lenses", I suppose you'd call them. Or perhaps, "binocularettes"? Anyway, they're sort of like monocles, but attached to a little frame that fits around my ears and above my nose, keeping the lenses in place. A minor hassle but you soon get used to it.

Ask me on my death bed to be sure - but I'm pretty sure that the risk of eye removal from my non-contact lenses is pretty low. I much prefer it to the creaky old technology of actually putting things in your eye. Progress!

(I used to have some fashioned from pure glass, and they were pretty decent - much more resistant to scratches - but obviously glass comes with a risk of breakage and therefore shards of glass in your eyes. I have to admit that such a thing never actually happened while I had them, though.)
Because AML laws require them to.
I believe that property is still in the draft phase. I'm sure they'll implement it properly soon.
I think I read that this generation of fighter requires a lot of rare earth materials?

I wonder, in light of a shifting geopolitical situation, if the next generation of fighter might be a stab at something the west can build completely independently on it's own materials?
I had Yandex as a sponsored website when I installed Firefox. The process of removal did seem unnecessarily obfuscated, but I only had to spend like five minutes on it.
You don't need to replace 10 excellent pilots with 10 good pilots to win a war of attrition. You just need 10 pilots that can fly, lock a missile and fire. Because if you're losing 10 planes to every 1 that you're killing the life expectancy of any pilot is going to be really low period.

Counterpoints:
1 - Most critical infrastructure is located far inland away from areas that are vulnerable to cruise missiles and the like.
2 - Hypersonic missiles are mostly vaporware still today. Uncertain if people would even use them, as there's a significant risk of escalation to a full nuclear exchange.
3 - Critical infrastructure can be built faster today than it ever could be in the past. Most countries have stockpiles of critical strategic goods with the understanding that they would be able to stand up their own factories before those stockpiles were depleted.
Fair enough. I genuinely didn't know that.

Are there any open source SVG icon libraries I can use in any web app I want?
In my experience, yes: Palestinians from Gaza usually explicitly refer to themselves as Gazan (in Arabic: غزّاوي).

Source: lived in the UAE and have a number of Palestinian friends.
Most of those websites I use can sort by timestamp and ranks don't change very often. But if the ranks change then yes there is no way to track, but as long as there is something to rank for (popularity is not a good rank)
Maybe it’s just the calm before the storm.
How do I open a new tab in curl.
While it wouldn't hurt, I don't think it is necessary. As with any large ML conference, many reviewers are in industry. I don't know the mix of industry to academic reviewers, but would not be surprised if it was biased towards industry supported research.
Is it clickbait? It's a journal article, and as far as I can tell "antibody reactivity" is the correct technical term for what they're describing. Certainly some pundits will misinterpret it, but I don't think we can expect researchers to shape everything they write to avoid PR misunderstandings.
Yea it's funny how much is in there, between it and the Clojure standard library you basically don't need to go searching for third party libraries.

I needed a debounce the other which was just importing

`[goog.functions :refer [debounce]]`
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26710929
> Though I'm not sure it matters - if I can work 2 jobs and still provide adequate productivity to each employer, then why do they care?

Measuring programming productivity per person is very hard.

Measuring 40 hour attendance is easy.

So while everyone agrees that A would be better, in reality the approximation of B will have to do.
How is this different to how advertising has been done for hundreds of years, e.g. newspapers or a billboard on a public street?

Aren't they "manipulating people into buying something they don't need"?
In normal use XID wraparound is not particularly problematic. For it to be an issue you have to either have application that for some reason assumes that XIDs monotonically increase (for example in its implementation of optimistic locking) or you have significantly larger issue with totally unmanaged MVCC bloat (caused by either not running vacuum at all or by really having ridiculous amount of ridiculously long-running transactions active at once).

But then there is interesting related issue in some client libraries: the XID is 32bit unsigned value and some libraries which transparently implement optimistic locking (eg. ODBC) interpret it as 32b signed value. I somewhat suspect that most people who had "significant production outage caused by XID wraparound" were in fact bitten by this or something similar.
Many university students aren't locked in either, and so are still in need of motivation.
A great achievement.

I would like to have seen it dipped. Also demonstrated with contaminated water of some kind, maybe flour & water paste.

He states it would not degrade, but surely expansion and contraction will take a toll on nanoscale etchings, as well as abrasion and acid content of airborne contaminants.
> They never planned to cause Armageddon, only have the capability to respond to the other guy causing it in such a way that they'd never want to cause it.

In that case, they shouldn't have been fussed about an extremely small chance of failure. The Soviets would never dare bank on such a chance, therefore it wouldn't change the effectiveness of the deterrent.

The only reason to act as they did is that they were worried about not being able to get revenge if the Soviets launched first.

I vaguely recall a short story in which the Soviets launch their missiles, for whatever reason, and the U.S. President refuses to give the launch order. MAD has failed and America is doomed anyway; there is no value in adding hundreds of millions to the death toll simply to follow through on a threat.
That's a rather comprehensive answer from @ircmaxell over there, hm. Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Marshall Brain's "Manna" is an interesting take on humans becoming more robot-like with the oversight of efficiency and automation software.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
How hard would it be to adapt this to non SPA?
What is the song he/she is playing? I wonder how the original sounds. Some of the channels sound rather muddy. Maybe something could be done to align upstrokes and downstrokes?
Anyone know of a guide like this for a C or C++ server implemented using raw OpenSSL?
What constrained space did they buy? Which market did they corner?
Picking out BAML and JPM as example of successful adoption at scale has got to be a joke!

Giving a large number of "enterprise" developers a language like python means that you end up with ~10m lines of poorly designed, un-pythonic mess.

My personal opionion is that using python for any kind of large scale infrastruture is a very bad idea.
At $work, we call these people "problem solvers".
I might be mistaken, but I believe he took the destinations from the current city profile field. I'm sure there aren't that many Facebook users in North Korea.
Although I am amused by Chrome OS, I do not find it worthy enough for coders (at least in the current version).
I think that if the time comes Apple will simply stop selling and supporting Macs rather than attempt to fundamentally change what a Mac is.

I'd say that would still count. A prediction I'm more than 50% confident of: by the end of 2016, Apple will not sell any consumer-targeted products that run unapproved apps.
"I'd rather have the Space Shuttle's control software written in Ada than Java."

That's what I was thinking, too. Was Ada really meant for "other people" to use? I wonder how many people involved in the process went on to write Ada afterward?

I don't know the facts, but I would guess that the critical system software writers in the US are a fairly small group, and anyone on that committee knew they would end up writing a lot of Ada afterward.

I doubt it was the same kind of "make a language for the masses" simply because there aren't masses of people capable of writing software for critical systems. I would guess that it had more to do with a mutual pact: programmers have to add extra annotation for interfaces and constraints; but in return they can absolutely rely on those interfaces and constraints because they know that the compiler enforces them.
That story reminded me of my life a while back. Hope you guys don't mind me sharing.

I was in a peculiar situation with regard of my H1-B (this is long time ago) visa. I was not legal to work, but I was legal to stay. I was in this situation for more than a year.

I lost everything, literally. I ran out of savings. No programming shops would take me, not even Chinese restaurants would take me.

Guess who gave me a job? I worked for this mom-and-pop car shop run by Mexican family. I changed air filters, brake pads, electronic window motors until my visa resolved itself. They paid $1 above minimum wage, they feed me lunch (their home-made salsa was delicious) and in return I maintained their Windows PC.

When my visa resolved, the dad just bought a new warehouse as part of expanding his business. It was a great year for both of us.
Nobody is "worrying" about the "hacker acceptance factor". It's just a fact that hackers interested in pleasant expressive coding are pretty unlikely to choose Java for their own projects.
Absolutely - I have no idea whether lockdowns were the best possible approach and they have been incredibly expensive and disruptive in all kinds of ways - but it did seem odd to me to argue that they don't work.

It will definitely be interesting to see, once this is all done, which approaches worked the best and why there were such huge variations between different countries.
Yup. C bad, Rust good.

It's not like NASA sent a rover, written almost fully in C, to Mars. It's not like billions of cars and even more billions of their ECUs are written in C. It's not like the firmware of the keyboard you're writing your comment on, or even the OS/browser you're using is written in C. C bad, Rust good.
Well we the consumers helped to create the new normal. There is no shortage of stories, comments, and the like, where people decried how evil it was for cable/satellite companies to bundle up everything and not allow us to choose. So we all flocked to streaming services declaring the freedom to choose and how much we saved.

Aggregators will have to return in some form or another but the danger here is that they likely not going to be independent from the studios as cable companies were in their original days; many were later bought up by big media conglomerates.

The difference though now is what we have now is not the same as theaters being forced to buy blind and entire set of movies. We are not prevented from having any number of streaming services.

Plus we can still binge watch series just like we did during the early days of netflix and hulu. we were binge watching series that had already had their weekly release schedule played out. you can do the same with current services, wait till the current season plays out then subscribe. now if services actively prevent binge watching a series then they should be called out on it - though not necessarily regulated over it.

We are still in the shake out period. There are so many services and some are cheap and others mind numbingly expensive for the content they offer. I don't expect them all to survive so their content will syndicate elsewhere.
Since other countries get by just fine without qualified immunity, one has to wonder what real-world calamity such a doctrine is defending against?
What it does: Jig helps CEOs/CTOs get custom insights about their businesses without using much developer time.

Install the beta from https://www.jigdev.com
>When old.reddit.com finally goes dark, I'm leaving.

I browse on desktop via FF and have RES installed, along with uBlock Origin and uMatrix; even though I am not a power user ─ the experience is great. For the phone, I use Apollo on iOS and settled for Joey on Android (after using other clients) with an adblocker. If old reddit goes dark, I am sure there will be other enhancements, to retain some form of 'clean' experience. Incidentally, I use Octal for HN (iOS & macOS -- which provides a 'reddit like experience'.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-hacker-news/id1308885491
> Police pay is high

Lol what?
Seems like I struck a nerve here... I didn't realize I'm not allowed to use HN to start discussions with other readers about topics they bring up :)

I like to post about these kinds of thoughts on HN because I feel the crowd is the type to offer useful insights I don't find elsewhere on the internet or even IRL. Do I have a tendency to ramble? Sure, look at my post history...

If you have any insights about what I mentioned (a thing I've been curious about for a long time), I'm all ears - but I don't see how being salty is contributing.
I think views per second is a more intuitive metric. 100k views/month is 0.04 views/sec.
But is that in criminal or civil law?

EDIT: If someone wants to link some laws that's be useful.

For the downvoters: I am clearly NOT saying it's okay to hide cameras in an AirBnB. But it's probably not a criminal offence. The police have no power here. I'm NOT saying it's lawful -- the AirBnB owners are probably violating Irish data protection laws. But again those are not enforced by the police. In the UK it's not a criminal offence unless it meets the definition in the sexual offences act 2003, and putting cameras in the living room but not the bedroom probably gives the owners enough deniability to avoid prosecution. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/67
I fully agree actually. It just happens that my suggested remedy is to extract that rent back by reshaping private property rights into leasing from the commons. Right now there is no political movement near any legislative assembly I’m aware with a geoliberal base though, so my hope is that if at least a practical policy from its book was part of the policy debate among the incumbents there would also be room for an actual geoliberal group to take place and shape it.
An example can be good or bad.
Actually, replace with 'google'. Facebook did say they would permit political advertising without fact checking. Whereas google said they would enforce factualness
The best smart contracts don't need to be reverse engineered, they've got shared, verified source code. The bugginess is a real problem as you've pointed out. The "impossible to sell anything" couldn't actually be farther than the truth from all my experience buying and selling NFTs. Over $150,000 USD worth of digital collectable game cards have been traded this week alone over at https://opensea.io/recent - everything is based on cryptographic signing and verified ownership on smart contracts, and it works great.
I’ve been in a managing position of a small forum (around a hundred active members at a time, plus a few thousand lurking members) before. We remove off-topic content but don’t kick anyone other than spammers and outright trolls. There have been some cases of conflict; they were handled privately. Public complaints are not allowed (see “we remove off-topic content”). Members may complain to admins and admins may talk to both sides, but since we don’t kick anyone, the most dire consequences (from us) are that one or both parties get a temp ban from a day to a week if they keep posting complaints or arguing publicly. Most conflicts go away eventually; a few members may have left due to conflicts, but that’s okay, they just blend into the organic churn.

> they die, or face harassment from people either inside or outside the community.

I fail to see why some online admins can stop any of these.
> outrage against plagiarists is about protecting idea-creators, not readers.

The author states this, but then says nothing to elaborate on their claim or justify it. As a "user" of academic writings, it is extremely annoying to come across stuff that's not referenced properly, has been gratuitously-reinvented in a way that fractures the lit on some topic, etc. It's bad enough when these things happen casually or by mistake, imagine if people actually started doing it on purpose, merely to claim credit on others' achievements. Treating this as a "moral" crusade of sorts seems to be totally justified.