jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How can someone come on hackerNews (of all places) and claim the great firewall is a useful way to prevent disinformation? It just ensures that the only kind of information is the kind friendly to the ruling that party.
Yup it's in regular Chrome: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/ne...
"They are worried about the enormous quantities of water, used to cool the reactor cores, which are now being stored on site.

Some 1,000 tanks have been built to hold the water. But these are believed to be at around 85% of their capacity and every day an extra 400 tonnes of water are being added."

Are they still cooling down the reactors?
This paper: http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-... describes a general way to deal with injection attacks (not just SQL injections), namely adding the syntax of the "guest" language (such as SQL) to the "host" language (such as Java, e.g.

SQL q = <| SELECT id FROM users WHERE name = ${userName} AND password = ${password} |>;

The <|...|> construct switches from Java to SQL, while ${...} switches from SQL to Java. The desugaring process that translates the Java+SQL to plain Java ensures that escaping is done at the right places. This approach is based on SDF2, a language for defining grammars that allows context-free grammars to be combined in almost arbitrary ways.
Steve Pavlina had taken the schedule up and had wrote about it in some detail. Not what you'd considered peer reviewed but definitely a first hand experience akin to Buckminster Fuller's experience with the attempt at a polyphasic sleep schedule.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
From the article: "...half of the city’s patrol officers were randomly assigned to wear body cameras each week, and instructed to turn them on whenever they made contact with a civilian."

This means that before Rodney King 2.0, the police involved need only "forget" to turn on their cameras. The only way body cameras bring an accountability benefit is if boots-on-the-ground officers lack the ability to disable them. Failing that, we've merely diminished civilian privacy.
Is this really the best humanity has got -- The side effect of a decades-old weapons program?

You are asking the question this way hoping someone has a better answer - they don't. Nuclear is our best option for making clean and reliable power that will get us to that next best option. Some of the new designs out there are quite amazing feats of engineering.
It matters, because the initial assertion was that such behavior hampers investment. But similar law is not a problem for US, so probably it's not a problem for investment in Myanmar too.
Thanks for the clarification. I've played a bit with the Haas effect myself, it's a nice way to separate sounds when you do mix for headphones.

Besides the delay, what filter does your program apply when carrying stuff from the left to the right?
I have an academic friend who made a well researched case that LD failed (and VHS succeeded) because the licensing terms on LD prohibited porn until fairly late in the LD lifespan, whereas it was ubiquitous on VHS.
>(b) we allow businesses to profit wildly while not paying enough (by exploiting (a)), because we have the taboo that not meddling with the market is the best course of action. A more englightened society that didn't pay too much attention to economy pundits working for rich people, might find a way for better revenue sharing with employees...

Governments meddle with the economy all the time, there was a short period of laissez faire being the dominant thought in the Western World in 18th and 19th century, but after WWI. Nowadays governments command 30-60% of GDP.
No corporation would finish construction of a factory ten years prior to the existence of demand. Companies like to lay out capex as close to income generation as possible. That comes from a shareholder-driven pressure for operational efficiency. It looks bad if Samsung (for example) spends $30B on a fab for which there is little demand. Fab utilization needs to be as close to 100% as possible; even at high utilization, the company doesn't break even on the fab for several years. Even if you assume 100% utilization, a fab may take a decade or more (from the time ground is broken on the facility) to break even on the investment.

In contrast, governments can leg out risk on big capital-intensive projects. Read the citations in the wikipedia article you referenced (avoid the blog post and the China-based publication) and you will see what I am talking about. A government's ability to build infrastructure without knowing whether there will be demand upon completion is how we end up with projects like HZMB that don't serve an existing commercial or private purpose.
I hate what Autodesk has become. I'm in the A&E industry and Revit has become a monstrosity of a monopoly. The industry as a whole has seen decent revenue growth, but almost no profit because Autodesk is siphoning it all into their coffers [1]. I wouldn't mind too much, but you don't really get any benefit from their new subscription model. They release very few new features with every release and there's bugs in their software I've been dealing with since 2016. There are some software alternatives but it's very difficult to get a whole design team on board with trying something new.

[1] https://letters-to-autodesk.com/letter-to-autodesk.pdf
While there are similarities within the videogame industry, one has to understand that the plight of a developer is no where near as tragic as that of an animator in Japan.

For a developer, the skills learned for working in the videogame industry are highly transferable to better paying jobs outside of video games. Skills learned on the job are also equally valuable outside of industry. When a developer is ready to leave the videogame industry, they have skills that are in demand and are able to get positions equal to their experience.

For a 2D animator, keyframing and tweening are not well-payed skills outside of the anime industry. Skills learned on the job are equally not well payed. When an animator is ready to leave the anime industry, they have to start at the entry level of whatever new industry they're entering.

To find that the last few years of your life are deemed meaningless by the job market after working your ass off day and night... That is a real gut punch.
My take is that our (economically) liberal social order refuses to accept interdependence, especially towards the services that guarantee our otherness from our wild state (basically all essential ones such as nurses, garbage, etc)

It’s basically a psychological refusal of our vulnerability in the world
You're right that it's more of a difference in degree and not kind. That said, the difference in degree is so vast as to be consequential. It's trivially easy to switch phone platforms (in the last 7 years, I've flip flopped between Android and iOS twice). In contrast, it's extremely difficult and disruptive to uproot your life and move countries; and that also presupposes that the destination country is willing to accept you.
Get over it people, Google+ is the new account system for all Google products. If you don't like Google having a single account/profile system, or the fact that Google+ profiles include a "social" network product, then you best look for alternatives ASAP.
Imagine... being able to post ads on anyone's timeline!

Now THAT is something you could make profit with!
Another reputable organization in this space is the 20 year old Kansas City based http://water.org/
Thanks. Even though it doesn't seem to have de-duplication I'll have a look at it. Also it shows thumbnails and all that means it will do constant fetches which is very costly in Glacier iirc or iiuc.

Why not Tarsnap? Tbh I don't have a concrete reason except that I am not comfortable with it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809397.
That would be a good theory if their page wasn't titled "HTML5 and web standards." There's not much room for interpretation in that.

I suspect that they simply let their desire to make the demos really impressive distract them from the original point of the demos. They could, I imagine them thinking, make some cool demos that would work in Chrome and Firefox and Safari, or they could make some even cooler demos that showed off things only available in Safari, and have a nice way to promote Safari to boot.

The problem is, once they did that, it went from a showcase of HTML5 standards to a showcase of proprietary Safari features that might be standards eventually. Oops. I'm rarely critical of Apple, but this is one of those times that makes me wonder if anyone there had their brains turned on.
The ceiling, in this case, is $6/hour. The floor is $.25 per hour. Yep, in some areas at some times of day, parking that was formerly expensive (but lightly used) could become free.
At least it didn't have an Eye of Providence (qua The Great Seal of the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence).
EU didn't. Microsoft had to add the stupid browser select screen. Support odf in Office. And do a lot more documentation work on all their API that few people outside Microsoft use. Plus the fines. And while Microsoft was dealing saving its arse err... Windows and Office, they dropped the ball in the online and mobile markets
Subset's of philosophy are often defined by their individual constraints. Huge areas are devoted to various assumptions such as "the bible is literally accurate" or "how people actually behave" (descriptive ethics), but the only thing they all have in common is a drive for reasonable levels of consistency. Taken to an extreme you end up with Math in all it's glory, but a complete lack of such consistency results in meaningless gibberish.

Consider the amount of effort spent to explain evil in a world created by a good, perfect, and all powerful god. Or the winding paths to define "truth" without creating a tautology etc etc. IMO, Philosophy sit's in the middle ground between religion which is happy to make inconsistent things up, math which requires self consistency, and science which must be grounded in reality.
Context matters. Many people who wrote gibberish or stupid things there might otherwise be quite intelligent and productive. Maybe not, but I'm just saying that you can't read too much into this.
I can't live without a unix shell.
WPS push button and WPS PIN are two separate features. If you only have WPS Push Button enabled you are not vulnerable.
Curious that they're calling it a 'new' rendering engine at all. I could have sworn they said somewhere that it was still the same Trident engine, but without the legacy IE bits. Also, according to Paul Thurrott [1], the browser team was considering WebKit/Blink and ultimately decided to stick with Trident – apparently because of Google's control over Blink.

[1]: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/470/maybe-window...
fundamental pagination mistake

I imagine there are technical limitations leading to economic reasons for these kind of mistakes. So much data, sitting in so many massive silos, that they must design their systems on the basis of peoples' access patterns only hitting the most recent subset.

That, and the opposite economic reason - that you can charge for the older/richer/more complete dataset.

(EDIT: I know it's odd that I was whinging about the same thing a few posts up. I don't really know what the resolution is for that.)
It was a french magazine with programs for the Thomson computers...
I disagree. When site doesn't let me view what is behind the login page (what will I gain after the sign up) or even doesn't give me any idea about what the site is all about (like in the case of Google's HotSpot), then I don't have any reason to sign up...
Programming Praxis has a ton of interesting problems, many from fundamental Computer Science and often with a functional bent.

http://programmingpraxis.com/
this one: http://challenge.greplin.com/
The fact that the internet service for regular users is terrible does not mean that China does not have the capacity to make it otherwise. My impression of China's relationship with the internet is that they would prefer if their citizens stayed off it. Maybe the crap service for the average person is intentional?
why the fuck doesn't the banner on the english language site direct to the ENGLISH "personal appeal"?

ip based localization is fucking imbecilic.
This is unbelievable - the site isn't working for me!

I tried loading on Chrome and Firefox (Chrome says there's a redirect loop, Firefox gives a similar error.) I've also tried clearing my cookies, doesn't seem to fix it.
> Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Elon Musk

Arguably Steve Jobs is more deserving to be in this list than Musk who's never run a profitable company.
A similar rant: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
Original paper here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318

Not yet peer reviewed, but this appears to be undeniable proof of vitamin D's efficacy re Covid, and any further inaction by governments strikes me as criminal negligence.
Ricardo Cabello just tweeted: http://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/557884542787526657

Adding VR to the editor to celebrate the WebVR news. #threejs #webgl
At the moment, I'm in North Wales but the tech scene here leaves much to be desired. My first interview is in London and I'm completely open to the idea of moving elsewhere to work.

What's the differential between the salary for Cardiff/Newport and London?
I think it has to do with their plugins API, or lack thereof.
My main strategy for quite a while was to race toward Statue of Liberty, then use it to immediately switch to communism; I'm pretty heavily on the side of 'be careful about using games as a metaphor for life' re the OP.
I think it's going a bit far to put it on "unwelcome" just by a name that was selected in another language. But I do get the marketing issue for English speakers with it sounding like cock and of course some people feeling uncomfortable using the name.
Perhaps that is data people should be tracking but aren't, which doesn't indicate an absence of such concerns.
You just have to consciously make time.
how does winndows resolve these issues?
Anyone heard of a One Man SaaS unicorn, i.e. a product that scaled to $10m+ ARR with only a single founder right till the end?
The hardest thing in Computer Science is naming things.
I quite liked the series of blog posts called Hypermodern Python: https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setu...
This looks really neat, it's amazing what an animated gif or video can do for a README to help to understand what a thing is meant to do.

If I were more of a hacker and hadn't already paid the best 25 bucks I've ever spent on CleanShot X [0] I'd be all over this.

[0]: https://cleanshot.com/
> What if we didn't encourage a world in which people identified with and advocated for their own race?

Agreed. How on earth did the "Each race only looks out for their own kind" mentality get labeled as progressive?
"He's gay, that's an important voice that we don't have right now, and he's a man. There are no males on the committee"

Having no males on the committee seems like the biggest issue of them all, especially considering that male performance in education has been suffering for so long. I would argue that having no male voices hurts PoC especially as so many Black and Hispanic men are already being crushed by the system and imprisoned en masse. How does this decision help them and their families?
Every tenth adult in Czechia carries a gun. Last time I checked, Czechia was safer than UK.
I think it is more:

PROBLEM #2: high serum cholesterol is correlated to cardiovascular disease, but eating high saturated fat-diets is not.

ANSWER #2: It appears that studies that assess the effect of a particular diet depends a lot upon the health of the individual prior to the study start; thus, using a random population results in non-significant results.

Note that I agree with you otherwise. I would suspect that a diet high in saturated fats without any supplemental unsaturated fats would result in cell walls becoming so stiff that removal of cholesterol can no longer benefit the cell walls; if this happens in arteries, you get hardened arteries that can lead to heart disease.
Hi HN! The other day at work, someone posted a link to a confluence page that linked to the status pages for all our SAAS apps, to which someone replied "what if confluence goes down?". I was thinking about that, and thought it would be easier to have one URL that shows the status of all the services we use in one place, so I built StatusDash! You can build a custom dashboard for your organization in seconds and everything is stored in the URL so saving/sharing it is a breeze!

For the tech, I built this with Vue 3 + Vite and host on Netlify. I had a lot of fun building this!

I tried to get some of the most popular SAAS apps, but if I missed any, feel free to request a new service and I'll do my best to get it out soon! https://github.com/catskull/StatusDash-issues/issues/new?ass...
They should have said “culture fit” instead of race and fit right in here.

They are looking for people with specific backgrounds as they will represent so that they'll be in those communities and see things from that perspective.

That means they are selecting for factors outside of that individual’s control, which is dystopian but what has happened a different way all along.
For me it is primarily fields that deal with humans. Psychology, Sociology, History, Archeology, Anthropology, etc. I take the findings of all of these with a grain of salt. The problem with all of these fields are the people. It is so very hard to know the motivations of people. It is not at all like studying mathematics, physics, etc. where particles don't have any sort of agency, motivation, etc.
FWIW, my limited understanding is that initially, in Japan, the focus was on restoring the native forests, conserving Japanese species and ecosystems.

> So is the goal a natural level of diversity, or an artificially elevated diversity for diversity's sake?

I favor E. O. Wilson's proposal that we set aside half the Earth as a nature preserve and more-or-less let evolution do it's thing. Which half is, of course, an open question, eh?

One way or another, I doubt we can avoid continent-scale ecological management.
I've been interested in Crypto AG for many years and would like to know more. Do you have a source that Crypto AG is still used to store certs that diplomats use?

I guess there is this:
http://www.crypto.ch/en/solutions/crypto-secure-diplomatic-m...
The concept of self determination and autonomy is strong to most Americans.

We don't like having to rely on someone else for our own safety. The police will never get there in time to save you. Judo isn't going to save the elderly from a mugging or a small woman from a gang rape. A gun can though.

What choice do you have when a criminal breaks into your home? Do you cry out to them "look out I'm calling the police" and then return to cower in your hiding place hoping they don't cause you or your loved ones physical harm?

We like being able to hunt and provide food for our families. It's a very primal thing that most people have lost touch with. To be out in the wilderness stalking an animal as a predator. It's something we have done for Eons. We've done it for longer than we've been people for christ's sake. I can provide myself top quality meat doing this at a fraction of the cost. Plus I know where it came from and that it lived a better life than some cow in a slaughter farm.

The entire concept of the U.S. was built on people who were sick of their government fucking them over. So they kicked the government out. We wouldn't have been able to do that without guns, so we enshrined it in our constitution should it ever happen again. It's literally the second amendment because it's nearly as important as freedom of speech, and not the watered down freedom of speech they have over there in europe. We want it all, hate speech and the lot of it. Not because we like hate speech, but because we believe good ideas stand on their own merit and bad ideas should be aired out in public and debated and dismissed so as not to fester clandestinely.

Many lives have been sacrificed on the altar of gun rights just as many feelings have been hurt and lives lost because of our freedom of speech. The sacrifice is well worth it and will continue.

in short "freedom is not free" also

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Ben Franklin
Looking good, only the score numbers might be a little too thin, and the margin on hover animation doesn't work for me. It distracts me from reading, becoming a bit annoying.
Scala is the only language that I know of that marries the world of FP and OO and thus does not need to “throw the baby out with the bathwater”.

Have you had chance to try Swift yet. It could do with Tail Call Optimisation but I do think it can already be used for functional programming.
If the shoe fits...
EDIT: So many people parade around their own self diagnosis (well, if you make SV money you can sure as hell buy your own aspie diagnosis).
So... Pop-ups as a service. No thanks.
"Maybe it's related to humidity"

Dew point. When you sweat your skin will rapidly drop toward the dew point. Where I live it varies thru the year from below 0 to about 80, always below the air temp of course. When you don't sweat your skin approaches the sometimes much warmer air temp.

30 degrees air and 30 degrees dew point right after a snowfall is sweater and pants time. This morning the dew point is only 10 degrees so I have to wear a coat although I didn't need to zip it up. No wind helps.

A highly effective way to get killed doing winter sports is to build up a massive sweat and then completely stop moving before drying out... An air temp of 10 degrees is laughable and more or less comfortable if you're not sweating, but a dew point of 10 degrees if you're all sweaty will quite effectively give you hypothermia and kill you. Or the hypothermia will make you stupid, and then everyone will wonder why the heck a smart guy was walking along the cliff edge etc. Sweating in the cold is very dangerous. I usually don't wear a coat while I snowshoe hike (although I carry it in the backpack), wearing gloves and a hat and goggles but no coat always feels weird for the first time each season but you get used to it quickly.
I think it depends on what you're working on. If the software is completely designed and the desired outcomes known from the beginning then up front planning and processes are probably helpful. But this is such a small percentage of actual software. In 99% of cases the business itself doesn't know exactly what it wants (even though it might initially think it does) and a lot of the seemingly chaotic ways of approaching software engineering are really just reflecting that.
Heh, I do like the "You can easily beat...." followed imediately by "It just takes time, effort..." - but you're absolutely right. I'm not sure that was his point though, coaxing the compiler into issuing better code by providing few hints doesn't necessarily require too much time or effort.
So are you saying that someone deliberately killed thousands of people? Or what?
You need to give that tune until 1:26 to kick in by the way.
Copying or moving a folder that contained a .git folder resulted in a very large number of small files being created. To this day, I'm not sure if it was the antivirus, the backup software, or Windows' built-in indexing, but the computer would become unusable for about 5 minutes whenever I would move folders around. It was always Windows Explorer and System Interrupts taking up a huge amount of CPU, and holy cow was it annoying.
The Z-Machine (which is the VM that powered the linked game) is also interesting in it's own right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
To everyone asking, why use Facebook/Google/whatever, here's the answer: it's easier than switching my social network to a "better" competitor that goes bad (and repeat)