jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An uncle of mine has a sawmill/wood moldings factory. They ran into some regulatory problems when they tried recycling water.

They recycled so many times that evaporation losses concentrated the copper and lead in the city water until it became too high to discharge. They were not adding any new metals, just concentrating what was already there as far as they could tell.

They had to start consuming more water to dilute the process water back below discharge limits.

Last I heard they were looking into some kind of ION exchange to capture the heavy metals, but the economics were not good.

I assume a Chip fab does not have a bunch of leaky steam pipes so they have less evaporation losses, but they probably have more regulated chemicals in their used wash water.
It’s a leftover from when I was playing with Micro Blog (big fan of that project/platform). You can also probably find some leftover code from when I was trying to implement direct publishing via Micropub and iA Writer (and I failed miserably)
Shit. Just as I convinced all my family and friends to move out from whatsapp and I uninstalled the stupid green app. What do we get to do now?
You really need to google Robert Grosseteste and the invention of the scientific method.

One of the most surprising things about my scientific career was the over representation of devout religious men in the highest levels of the hard sciences. Medium low levels; not so much.
No code, no gist :/
On first-world countries and resources: that's beginning to change. Yes, on a per-capita basis, OECD nations (largely the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan) consume more resources than elsewhere. China's absolutely stunning economic growth over the past 20 years has been accompanied by an equally stunning growth in resource consumption, and the country exceeded the US in CO2 emissions by 2006:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the...

That said, I = P * A * T holds. Environmental impact is a function of population, per-capita affluence (resource consumption), and technology.
It's a difficult case, and I understand why you see it as a tragic mistake, but I don't think the helicopter crew were sufficiently diligent in checking who they were going to kill, particularly in the aftermath of the first shots where people tried to help the wounded, and were then mown down. Just because someone was armed, doesn't make them an enemy (they could be for example a bodyguard for journalists), and just because someone tries to give medical assistance to others in a battle, doesn't mean they also need to be killed. Their callous reaction to the news that children were in the van having just killed their father demonstrates their lack of care.

At the very least Reuters should have been provided with this footage (instead it was covered up), and an independent investigation held.
If you think you can do better, then do better... Anyone with a few grand can play in the public markets.
> It’s quite unfair to call them terrorists when they’ve harmed no one and destroyed nothing.

There have been quite a number of injuries and property damage, deployment of chemical irritants by the mob against law enforcement, and several explosive devices identified and defused in the attempt to use violence and threats of further violence to overturn the results of the recent election.
+1, I can also highly recommend daily
And a well above average expectation of skill. IMO the most difficult interview to pass in that group.
Having an accurate intuitive assessment of how difficult a task will be, and;

knowing what to Google.
My techie friends pre-2016: "The CIA and FBI are corrupt. Don't trust mainstream media. Voting systems are incredibly hackable."

My techie friends 2020: "The FBI is our savior. What the mainstream media says is true and anyone that otherwise is a conspiracy theorist. This was the most secure election in history."
I see people are blaming “political correctness”, “mainstream media”, schools coddling children, a lack of “critical thinking”, and “cancel culture”.

In other words: this magically aligns with everything you already believed.

I’m someone’s complete lack of surprise.
The foundation is (mostly) not responsible for content moderation though. They mostly do software development.
What kind of multi-device issues do Signal and WhatsApp have exactly?

Granted I've never used WhatsApp, but I've been using Signal for like 5 years now on my phone and on my laptop with absolutely no issues.
Updated: I’m an idiot and forgot the article was London focussed.

You’re inadvertently doing the London thing that Londoners do where you conflate a comment about the whole country to just be about London. London may have had increased restrictions (which I doubt had the level of observance they should have but hey ho) but the rest of the country didn’t. The parent comment didn’t specify London, they were talking generally and, generally, restrictions were loosened for Christmas.
The process was described here in detail: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...
>An engineering company should have engineers as managers from the bottom level all the way up to the CEO.

So should our government.
Those goals are cool and all, but that doesnt change his poor worker treatment or his massive wealth hoarding, while still trying to change rules so he can have more.

Great goals, but in my opinion, a terrible ambassador for tech/engineering, and a completely ingenuine person. I do not believe he is buying Twitter to "restore free speech" at all, and I dont even think that itself is a particularly good goal without having laid out plans of what it means.

Him being in charge of companies that produce cool products does not make him a good person at all.
> Pixel graphics just ain't gonna cut it anymore.

How so? To be honest, I don't know why we even need something as "realistic" as pixel graphics — when immersing yourself in city planning, an aerial view of the city you're building is actually too much noise; for the signal you need, it'd be far better to be looking directly at overlaid zoning grids, coverage maps, etc. And for that kind of thing, it seems that vector graphics should be more than enough.

In other words, I'd personally love a full-sim city builder in the style of Mini Metro or Mini Motorways. That sort of simple+clean aesthetic can be a lot more informationally-dense than a SimCity game ever could.
at least your site is not completely invisible with javascript disabled...
Yes, the legislation is coming, see e.g. https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/dark-patterns-ne... or is already included in laws like GDPR (the pervasive consent dialogs HN loves to complain about are illegal).

The problem is enforcement. Don't expect anything to change until companies get fined out of existence.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. What you say is absolutely correct. In the UK it's easy for law enforcement to find certain types of criminal simply because they are in posession of firearms.
I think that people are missing the point. A comment's quality is not measurable by it's score. If anything, that is a rough aggregation. By this logic, Ke$ha is a better musician than Joshua Bell.

Top comments on HN were becoming more "top 40" and something had to be done before people started posting links to Trollface, etc.

One approach would be to use category-based voting, which adds a lot of complexity.

One approach would be to implement some sort of vote weighting sytem (time based, reputation based, context based), but that's ad-hoc and may not fix the problem.

And one approach is to simply hide numerical comment scores from all but each user's own comments. This turns the quest for high karma into a personal battle against one's self, not a sport.

PG wisely chose to make Karma a personal Everest for each individual to care about (or not).
Which would be rewarded in your situation, building 30 really simple pages by hand or spending 1/2 that much time to code something which generated those pages automatically?

Once again, the best programers write as little code as possible which allows them to focus on quality over quantity. It's easy to turn 10 lines of code into 20 classes and gain nothing, it's much harder to see those 10 lines of code once someone has written the 20 classes.
You will have hardware problems in the cloud too and they will not be obvious

I'm often hearing "in the cloud, one doesn't have to worry about that hardware" (or network). My usual retort is that one certainly does have to worry, since the same problems exist, just that one can't do anything about them when (or before) they occur, unlike with owned hardware.
Button to make comment scores visible, please.
It is self-evidently true that removing visible comment scores mostly removes methods for trivially measuring "viewer sentiment". It is the contention of those in support of non-visible comment scores that trivial measurement of viewer sentiment harms, rather than aids, discussion. You have made no argument against that point.
But often there are multiple replies with opposing opinions. Without the points we don't know which opinion HN agrees with.
I never used WON. The thing is I like Stardock's Impulse. All the benefits none of the crap.

The problem with impulse is that steam has the nice steam APIs for matchmaking and such that require steam. Can't use it if you sell on another store. Its the vendor-lock-in. I bought a game only later to realize I can't play with anyone I know (steam vs impulse online) and thus... well... can't win vs that.
To be fair, DotCloud offers much more flexibility than Heroku. With DotCloud you can mix and match different stack components. Currently in beta: Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, Ruby, and SMTP. Plus there are tons of others in alpha, including more esoteric stuff like Erlang. DotCloud also supports any type of version control.

Heroku does Rails apps using Git, and thats it.

The tradeoff is flexibility vs. complexity.
Firefox is my browser of choice, but it handles streaming video / video calls very poorly on MacOS. My MBP heats up and my battery goes into free fall.

When I watch Twitch or take a Zoom call in Safari the fans may come on, but it never gets anywhere near as hot. Honestly think it's dangerous to the battery life.

According to Apple's Energy Usage stat, Firefox uses "57" where Safari uses "1.7" for the same Zoom call.

Given how much is done on streaming video calls now, love it if Firefox made this a priority.
Stack Overflow is not exactly validated market research. Comparing two completely different sources of statistical data with different collection methodologies is not evidence.
Thanks for the feedback, we've been hearing occasionally about iOS shortcuts and are looking into how to best integrate them.

I'd love to hear some workflow examples of things you'd automate that involve the browser. That would really help us guide how to elegantly integrate shortcuts.
Yeah, it's increasingly easy to find out which side of an argument has the more popular viewpoint, even if both sides are making good points and intelligent comments.
Ditto, I'm not even going to believe it when I'm holding a disc in my hand loading it into a drive. I'll believe it when I'm halfway through (what by now should be the first FPS to break the 10+ hour mark, really it should be breaking the 100+ hour mark) and it wasn't a half-complete last-ditch scam to keep the project alive and funded.

I'm serious, until that point I believe DN:F is fake. This wouldn't be the first time a retailer is hosting pre-order before the game actually has a release date set.
Right now everything I want to do is capable of being done reasonably well in SVG, however, there has been talk of effects that we wish to add that are easier done in canvas.

We are doing a graph diagram using force directed layout, and are displaying various overlays of paths through the graph based on input data parameters. As I mentioned, this is currently all fine in SVG, however, we'd like to in the future be able to make those overlays a bit more dynamic in the graphic sense - by adding some effects that canvas makes easy. Also, our future drawing of the graph will include enough custom shapes and images/sprites that the canvas context + drawing objects will result in cleaner code than the equivalent SVG operations.

Also, and this part is a personal bias, I just dislike SVG and it's DOM for runtime graphics manipulation, and prefer the canvas API for it.
Quarto is a great game, and I think it's well suited for an app like this where you can take your time thinking about your turn. However, it would be nice to give the game designer some credit.
Does it provide a community effect? I know they say that, but they've never really released convincing data that it exists. Over 50% fail, and the average raised for successful campaigns is something like 105%. As for the funding transactions, Amazon handles them, and when you speak to successful project creators, their biggest gripe is that Kickstarter owns their customers and the communication with them (my pebble updates still come from Kickstarter a year and a half after the project ended), so I think there is a concern regarding the technology.
I've always wondered what happens if you set off the detector.

The fact is that they allowed him to fly afterwards. Overall it's not so horrible.

Assuming the thing about the photo isn't true, of course.
This is one of the best written accounts I have read in a very long time, the ending is just beyond belief, but in this climate I'd say totally believable. It says to me one thing so clearly that has been somewhat lost in all of this:

WE MAY HAVE STOPPED TERRORIST ATTACKS BUT THE TERRORISTS DEFINITELY WON.
Yes they provide value, but as consumer I'd like to see that 5% drop, and Kickstarter being a household name benefits them, giving them leverage to keep prices high, and a net loss for the consumer.

Kickstarter don't have full international coverage and they don't provide an api or a data feed, two things crowdfunding desperately needs.
I think you misunderstand the state of VC nowadays. They are not about funding "innovation", they are about scaling already proven concepts. For example, look at all the dollars that have gotten funneled into ecommerce sites. That is not exactly groundbreaking.

I also think you underestimate what it takes to get a startup from a small niche business to one that can dominate a market. If you want a small business, then an accelerator (or seed funding) is not appropriate. If you want a high growth business however that could become a category killer, then an accelerator can help. Plus, there are plenty of site and apps that can show a little traction and a little revenue. But to turn that into a sustainable business is an entirely other matter.

That being said, there are some VC's and accelerators that are taking risks. It is just that the expectations have been raised across the board given how easy it is to get started and to launch an app or a website.
The value attained by owning a car hasn't changed all that much.

They are clearly safer and more convenient, but cars in 1980 made it from A to B most of the time too.
Do you flip the meat with a separate spatula or use the same one? Just asking.
I'd tend to trust the evil corporations take much more than the individual, because google is subject to much more scrutiny and much more liability. Lying and retaliating by big companies tends to be rare because it can affect the bottom line much, much more than a bit of internal dissent.

Additionally they're publicly traded so statements on the matter that could be construed as market-relevant must not be false or the SEC starts to take a hard look.
Well the lease agreement for our office has changed a couple of times just the last two years, also without actually needing a re-sign of the agreement. So I think that's a pretty weak protection.
Copy and discussion of paywalled article: https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1199088326633914368?s=2...
https://outline.com/CYg43t
Why in the first place someone was screencapping someone's calendar? Were they trying to organize some impromptu meeting with a hihger-up? Who was scared exactly? How did this came to light?

I mean if the recently fired folks tried to pressure some other group, that's bad, and it seems it has nothing to do with unionizing. But if they were trying to catch some elusive exec to have a statement from, that could be different.

But there are no specifics anywhere, just "Google bad, union good" or "stalkers bad"
what it comes down to is people here don't present easily dismissible notions for my above average intelligence to ignore; those on reddit do.

Not having a downvote is valuable.
Limiting max score is valuable.

but people still abuse overrated/troll/flamebait on Slashdot.

the core of the problem is that truly intelligent people have moved on to greater aspirations than internet posting. Also, the dumb people on forums these days are a lot dumber than they were 15 years ago when I was getting started. And no, that's not just my perception in hindsight. The noise has gotten bad enough that I just don't participate in them. People don't see clearly like they used to, so it's not worth pointing.
Does using the Yubikey in this manner protect your keys even if your machine has malware on it? I read through this tutorial [1], and they say you need read/write access to the device, so it seems to me like malware could access your keys while the smartcard is plugged in. If this is the case, I'm not sure how this setup is any more secure than simply keeping your keys on a USB flash drive and plugging it in whenever you need to use ssh.

[1] https://blog.habets.se/2013/02/GPG-and-SSH-with-Yubikey-NEO
I once took a compiler design course where the instructor said we could use whatever language we wanted (it was a tiny class - I think there were 8 of us?).

I asked whether I could use bash, and consider gcc a feature of the language.

I was informed that would be cheating.
One of the gotchas is that the comments are in Chinese, so it will be much harder to send in useful pull requests.
What if you were only allotted a certain (small) number of upvotes and downvotes per day or HN submission? I wonder what effect that would have.
It's not that they can't make an occasional mistake, it's that they can misjudge things so poorly. What were they expecting people to do with this device? ("Oh man, I'll give up my iPhone and its ecosystem so I can get 3d home screen.")

Kindle, echo, etc. were decent in their first iteration and provided some value.
Yes, it's pretty neat. I have an old kindle refurb and just now (as a test) ordered a free public domain book and it took about 2 seconds to show up.

I think the whole point of that feature was to capture the airport book market--people facing a four hour flight have a million books to choose from instead of fifty rubbishy paperbacks.
Hey, just a quick tip- it's probably best not to suggest specific diseases or suggest such a thing about notable figures (especially those whose health has an effect on their share prices).

It's better also if you can spell their names properly; "multiple sclerosis", a disease of the nervous system, isn't specifically describable as a neurological issue, however does cause many.

It's also just as likely that he was tired after having to travel and then appear on stage to talk about his competitors.
It would be interesting to make each cell writable only once (including spaces).
It sure doesn't right now. And I've heard that line before.
Do you guys feel what I'm feeling? I'm feeling a general lack of mindshare on new development and new technology coming out of Microsoft. Linux, Mac, and Droid is where it's at -- where developers are flocking because of the cheaper costs, better direction without getting screwed over, stronger security, wider community base, and more innovation. It's coming to a point where you see more non-Microsoft platform developers than Microsoft platform developers. And Windows is popup and virus city.
I don't know much about Ballmer, but I think the comparison of the interviews was not quite fair. They were completely different types of questions. Ballmer got a bla bla question and answered in the same vein. Jobs got a specific question that had been posed just shortly before all over the news, so there was plenty of time to think about it.
No, I don't think you understand. I was outted long before anyone wrote anything on my wall simply by who I was friends with.

It's immediately obvious to me that various people around me who are "straight" aren't, seeing as we have 40 friends in common and 38 of them are gay...

Apparently the article missed this point entirely. Shame. Some university did a study that they could very accurately predict sexuality based on friends, frienships, etc.
The danger being discussed above is that from other humans.
I don't think people have changed nearly enough to call our instincts about them into question.
I've been using it to find interesting links.

The difference between Delicious and news aggregators like Reddit / Digg / HN is that the rating of links is a side-effect, not a conscious action.

As a result ranking on Delicious does not prefer yellow journalism, obscure interests or vanity displays; much like Google's ranking but small enough to not be a target for promotion through SEO.
You know what I would like? Google for my house. As in, I get a set of rfid tags that I can put on my keys, my remote, checkbook, or whatever. In the event I can't find something, I have a little device I can use to track down the missing item.
What bookmarking service, if any, is everybody using these days?
Politics isn't just about being smart, though. It's about being 'charming' (sometimes for better, sometimes for worse), charismatic, a good communicator (notwithstanding the teams of people behind the scenes to help with this).

I get that it's not everyone's desired path (it's certainly not mine), I just think that saying "many of us are smart enough to have the answers, we just choose not to get involved in politics" is perhaps an... underestimation... of the complexity of some of society's problems.
Use Dash to order a new Dash!
Love the password-less login!
This is the part that bothers me most. A lot of small deliveries are convenient and all, but the cost to ship multiple small items (maybe separately) to your door has an impact.

We are currently in a single-serve consumer-focused environment and this takes it a step farther.. potentially a single item shipment environment.

Unless they batch days or a full week, I think this is a bad habit to get in.
rayiner is actually a lawyer
And he wasn't even an NSA employee. I'm surprised Booz Allen Hamilton isn't yet mentioned in this thread. The NSA uses(or used) a ton of contractors. If they're giving top secret access to BAH employees, I highly doubt they're as sophisticated as they say (which I doubt anyway)
In my view, these issues are not orthogonal, but related in exactly opposite way that article author allures to. At least when you view Common Lisp's syntax as simple (CL has same feature as Perl and TeX - only unambiguous and reliable way to parse it is to actually run it).