jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a poorly asked proposition.

From the poll: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/...) "Q: What do you think is more important right now - (for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats) or (for the federal government not to intrude on personal privacy)?"

That's not really an a/b question.

The real question in my mind whether we believe that every corner of our nation and our lives is a small part of a warzone, in a "cyber war".

That's the disconnect between people on HN and the NSA/military types. They are playing a different game.
Bank fees, like overdraft fees, sting when money is scarce.
There are several standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_transliteration#Tra...

Nobody bothers to use them.

Same for Urdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Urdu
The most interesting question now to me is, not why is Ballmer stepping down, but who could run Microsoft well and succeed him?

MS has only ever had two CEO's - the founder, and the founder's right-hand-man. This will be quite a transition for them.

What does the board want, what are that person's areas of expertise, background, and experience, man or woman, etc.
Interesting idea and concept!
And I am pretty sure that bluefin is never used for tuna salad anyway. It is too expensive.
I'd call it either chemistry or applied physics. Probably lean more towards applied physics, as chemistry doesn't concern itself with light.

I mean, in what way is this engineering? Metal particles emit characteristic glows when struck by light. Romans ground up the metal and mixed it in with glass. Now the glass does it too. Voilà.

If I'm reading the article right, this is analogous to me making lemonade by mixing sugar and lemon juice into water, granting the water the flavors of sugar and lemon with nanometer-scale particles (citric acid and sucrose). Is lemonade now the tastiest form of nanotechnology?
This article is misleading.

My family has been part of the seafood business in North America for almost 30 years, and I definitely have the ability to distinguish between fish species just by looking at flesh.

This article makes no attempt to distinguish between what sushi bars label as 'tuna' and 'white tuna'.

Order 'tuna' and you're almost always going to get tuna.
Order 'white tuna' and you're almost always going to get escolar/albacore.
I don't mean to say 5 years is ancient history, just to give some context, as it certainly wasn't implemented last year. 5 years is not an unreasonable timeframe in which to learn about changes!
Uh no, not really. Key word: "can."

I've had Escolar before. Like, went to the supermarket, bought a few pounds of big ol' chunks that were labeled "Escolar," and served said fish as the main entree for dinner. I do not recall anal leakage.

They're fatty. That's it. A cooked Escolar will taste like it was fried in butter, even if you put it in the pan totally dry. Absent food sensitivities (which probably exist), I doubt it causes any leakage beyond that caused by any other source of the same amount of fat, oil, or grease.
Overall the Windows Server and Tools division has been extremely successful and maintained solid product momentum. It has six billion dollar businesses inside of it (server, sql, systems center, visual studio, virtualization, enterprise services). This division is the crown jewel these days, it's worth more going forward than consumer Windows is.
Also on OS X, `fs_usage` will tell you which processes are accessing which files. Very useful!
Of course, no hosting provider would be obligated to take their money to host them, and any that did would presumably be seen as active participants in their behaviour if they continued to do so, and the same with upstream providers of internet connectivity. So unless someone is willing to take a stand and host that content even if they're seen as complicit for doing so, then no they can't open their own forum anywhere on the internet.

Which wouldn't be so bad if neo-Nazis were the only ones affected, but sadly they're one of the groups least likely to be driven off the internet this way.
Best thing I’ve seen all day.
On ThinkPads it can be disabled in BIOS.
Looking at the wiki entry for trichloroethylene:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene

I guess I'm a little skeptical of the explaination that it could be the source of the explosion of Parkinson's over the past decade. Trichloroethylene has known to be a problem since at least the 50s. For example, its use in bulk in dry cleaning was replaced in the 50s with tetrachloroethylene, and it was used for spot cleaning only up until 2000.

The only seemingly recent increase in uses are:

"The demand for TCE as a degreaser began to decline in the 1950s in favor of the less toxic 1,1,1-trichloroethane. However, 1,1,1-trichloroethane production has been phased out in most of the world under the terms of the Montreal Protocol, and as a result trichloroethylene has experienced some resurgence in use as a degreaser."

I don't think most people are exposed to industrial degreaser in their line of work, let alone in domestic settings.

"TCE is also used in the manufacture of a range of fluorocarbon refrigerants[13] such as 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane more commonly known as HFC 134a"

Now this seems somewhat plausible. R134a started to be used in the early to mid 90s, so the timeline would make sense. However, it says it's only used in the manufacture of it. Perhaps there's some residual left in the final R134a product, and that's how people would be exposed to it? Plenty of ACs and fridges in people's lives.
I think a man in his position, with the contracts, and connections and companies he has, is probably not allowed to hold certain opinions, such as being publicly bullish on China, in the current "climate". It's kind of sad to see him squeezed like that, but maybe it only looks that way.

Perhaps his libertarianism extends only so far as the deep state can't blackmail him into doing their bidding. Or...maybe all he cares about is power and ambition, and he'll do whatever it takes to climb that ladder, integrity be damned. Which does seem "borderline autistic", perhaps unsurprisingly, because Thiel claims he's "on the spectrum." He's seeming more like a queer (in the old sense) J Edgar Hoover-type figure. I feel sorry for him.
This is my go-to.
> body{max-width:650px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 10px;font:18px

Ugh, this guy shouldn't touch web design with a 10 meter pole.
This is just anecdotal, but one of my professors at university said that the name was intentional, as a joke to make English speakers feel uncomfortable. I've not idea if this is true but it would make sense that the creators of Coq would have been aware of its English translation (lots of people in France speak English, especially in academia).
First off, thanks. I really appreciate your comment and the chance to reflect. Hoping my comment comes across as fair :)

> is really about the author's "I", a foray into autobiography

I do feel there's some irony here on this "anti-narrative" perspective being at the top, as it always is on HN. (No disrespect intended, as I empathize with what you're saying, blueyes.)

To explain: I feel with "distraction",we're all talking around patience, information and narrative. Novels and long-form storytelling are information (wisdom) buried in complex narrative. And these stories, in a way, are a microcosm of the world we live in. They are perhaps practice for grappling with and distilling meaning from the complex world. To revel in a fuzzy and meandering story is to revel in a sandboxed version of the same process by which the world delivers us most lessons.

And I would argue there is huge value in sharing information in narratives, because that data/knowledge is "warmed" by empathy and grounded in imagery of physical space and experience and other things that lodge in our minds (moreso in some than others, true) in some very human ways.

But we all here (and I include myself) cannot seem to focus on even this article's grounding personal narrative, because we want the succinct information, the quick fix, the distilled solution... like addicts who've abdicated responsibility for parsing that same wisdom and personal revelation from the complex and ambiguous narrative itself.

I'm personally trying lately NOT to believe any set of universal fixes can possibly be prescribed, and that there are instead a million appropriate fixes that will take shape in the minds of each reader. That feels like a step toward the complexity that is more like the real world I live in.

I found myself reading the whole comment, adding "to me" to each line. And I can't disagree with it in that reading.

> I hope that we get more people working on tools and methods that save us from the Internet, and fewer posts asking for our attention while they lament it.

The general (ish) perspective of the larger comment (and proposed cure) feels very symptomatic of the disease to me <3
> "Stable" but adding new features every 6 weeks... which
> will get used by library authors... which will put all
> users on a 6 week upgrade cycle

Why would it force anyone to upgrade? If a library exists for Rust 1.0, and then a library author releases a new version of the library with Rust 1.1 features, the Rust 1.0 library does not cease to exist. And Cargo supports semantic versioning to make it easy for library authors to inform their users when a new release is backwards-incompatible, and automatically upgrade users to new minor releases of the lib when the user has opted into receiving them. Even if a library author breaks their own backcompat and does all new feature development on a new version of Rust, thereby requiring you to upgrade your own version of Rust in order to get new features, the worst case scenario is that you download a new Rust compiler and all your other code continues working (hence, backwards compatibility).

> Or your favorite library author just likes nightlies,
> which effectively forces you to run nightlies

If a sufficiently-popular lib exists only on nightlies, then there will exist demand from stable users for a lib of equivalent functionality that targets a stable release. Stability is a competitive advantage! And because Rust can release a new minor version every six weeks, the core developers can look at what popular libraries are using the nightly branch, determine which features that library can't live without, and then prioritize stabilizing those specific features for the next minor release. Six weeks later, that lib is suddenly using a stable release.
This is awesome for me. Few reasons:

1. I don't own Apple products, so I don't have Airdrop. I'm not against Apple or anything, I just prefer using Linux. However, I do think it's quite awesome that this removes the "airdrop" power from apple. Except on phones. Because out-of-the-box smartphones can't open terminals :(

2. It's written in JavaScript and shows really awesome use of streams & modules. :)
Why not just use a unix timestamp and convert to the local time format of all users? Is that a poor solution for this? Most unix timestamp to Date converters already take DST into account.

This also fixes the "MM/DD/YYYY", "DD/MM/YYYY", and "YYYY/MM/DD" fiasco as you can rely that the users computer is configured to the correct timezone/localization settings.
> Becoming the head of a coalition government is more akin to a negotiation than an election.

Well, except for the whole election to the parliament that is necessary to even be in the negotiation -- the same election that if you won enough seats outright would make you the leader without the need for a coalition -- and which sets the degree of power you have in the negotiation.

> In this case, the "negotiation" involved a lot of arm-twisting.

Arm twisting which was only possible because the Nazis were the largest party in the July election, and then again in the November election, and because there was less common ground between the non-Nazi parties around which to form a majority coalition than between the Nazis and the various conservative parties (who, to be sure, still hated the Nazis, but hated them less than the they hated the other non-Nazi parties.)
I agree with you, but the Port Arthur massacre happened 8 weeks into Howard's term as PM of Australia. The Howard government was in power for 10 years after that, they won four straight elections.
What about when the population doubles, and then doubles again?

http://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01...
I only have an anecdote, but I had a day to kill in LA a few years back, and really fancied going to a pistol range (never tried - only used a shotgun here in the UK) - Googling and phoning all the ranges I could find within the LA area I couldn't find any that would let me go without somebody else with me (I was out there alone for work).
As I was younger, it was normal to see the pilots in the cockpit from your seat while flying, if the cockpit door existed it wasn't even closed. Why are people so scared today from everything? My question is, do we even need to "protect" from everything? Accidents happen sometimes, flying in big planes is still safer than driving.

Improving the conditions for the pilots and crew is a good goal though.

Somebody has to be responsible. If the pilots shouldn't be trusted, why should those that would override them be?
Many banks allow you to set a max for an ebill. However, 99% of my auto payments are fixed amounts, so your scenario doesn't apply. Auto pay is the only thing that keeps my bills paid on time (I suck at paying bills manually).
Thanks! I'm the developer of this library and I hope you find it useful.
I was just kicking some butt in there with the green team.

Wonderful game by the way. However, when the game finishes I get a messy overlay of texts all in one place (assuming it's the name of each member of the team)?
I think you are pretending

Dislike to all other lifestyles than a liberal one. Attack any religion or ideology that doesn't put humans and their lives on the pedestal. I.e. Amish put there their God. It goes right against the liberal values (i.e. human life and rights are the most important thing not some imaginatory "God").

I like pluralism. I like to live in a country where people believe in different things and are free to express it.

Liberals made the US a bit totalitarian in a sense that you can get fired for petty remarks about gay or races. It almost feels like in a few more years we will have Jacobins with guilottines beheading everyone who doesn't want to be a liberal or cultural marxism proponent.

Very funny how you pretend you don't see it. That's what we call left-wing hypocrisy: you are becoming exactly this what you originally wanted to fight: injust totalitarian crushing anyone not agreeing with your worldview.
We sleep separately.
College life and real life have no comparison. Students are cramped in small dorm rooms shared by multiple people, many with shared public bathrooms. Students "work" (attending class/studying) at small place, chairs with a small board as desk in classroom or small desks in library. There's one or a few shared cafeterias on campus. Close to no variety shops on campus. In almost all aspects of campus life, things and spaces are cramped and choices are few. Students only endure it because they know it's only for a few years. People don't want to live or work like a student for the rest of their life. Plus the cost of college has spiraled out of control year after year.
What's the issue with Cs-137, then? The gamma radiation?
Otherwise, is SrTiO3 really that bad? What's the risk there, someone stealing it for a dirty bomb?
>It's a conflict of interest, like an employee sleeping with their boss

It's only bad if it's part of blackmail or exchange (e.g. for grades, etc). Else, if it's a consentual relation, it's fine just like any other.

Lots of employees have had great relationships and marriages and kids with their bosses and vice versa. And even more students and professors had affairs (this will include someone like French President Macron). Humans are humans they don't easily compartmentalize their attraction or sexuality just because some bureaucratic rules say so.
I agree that it is far worse in the US than in other Western Democracies. I think it has to do with the fundamental US culture of distrust in government and extreme focus on “individualism”. Which by many people gets translated into “I don’t care about the rest as long as I get what I want”. It is an attitude that long term undermines and destroy society. The US is moving towards a modern version of feudalism. It will get much worse. You haven’t seen anything yet.
Consoles held progress back for decades, but even they can't stop it. So I see Bink becoming obsolete, I don't really see any major arguments for it. Just because it fit the bill before doesn't say anything about the future.
> CI/CD literally is remote code execution as a service. Treat it as such.

That sums it up. The code in question is just doing the job it claims to do. CI/CD services literally have forms that allow you to run direct shell commands. If a highly paid engineer doesn't understand the code they are running, then it's time to fire them and get someone in place who does.
The trivial implementation isn't law abiding. This law doesn't hold (written in Kleisli form for simplicity)

pure >=> f == f (left identity)

There are no other monads for Maybe. First, any definition of pure must be Just as Nothing doesn't work because of left identity and parametricity prevents any other funny business. Now, by law we know

pure a >>= f == f a

Thus, we must define

Just a >>= f = f a

So the only variable is what (Nothing >>= f) does. For (f: A -> B) we must end up with a Maybe B. We don't have one to start and we can produce Maybe values only via Nothing and Just. So, either >>= is the standard definition or we have to do

Nothing >>= f = Just (_: B) -- we can achieve a B only via use of f, so
Nothing >>= f = Just (f (_: A)) -- now we are stuck, there are no values of A

Thus, we must define

pure a = Just a

Just a >>= f = f a
Nothing >>= f = Nothing
I love Thonny. I got my first taste with the original RPi and it is hands-down the best Python IDE out there. My 10 year old son uses it frequently.

It is so simple, approachable, and un-intimidating. There is really no learning curve. Just type something and click run.
There really needs to be consumer protections against software-EOL due to mergers/acquisitions, or google just killing things for no reason.

Any commercial software based service like this needs to be a contract with consumer society.
> And isn't it interesting that when Europe begins to get unified, Germany is right there leading the way.

Is that in any way noteworthy, given that it's the continent's most populous and economically powerfuly nation?
Installed it on some websites recently. Quite pleased with the UI and the functionality. Pretty spot on in terms of the right level of information about users - providing useful info without stalking people inappropriately. The new version (4.0) seems to improve on some earlier stability issues.
This is by design. The node community actively encourages you to break every module into the smallest possible pieces, then make a parent module which reassembles them. This is seen as good, modular design - you end up with small pieces which can be individually tested, patched, understood, documented and maintained. Some extra effort gets pushed to developers in that when you want to do something simple, you have to trawl through dozens of small libraries which will all accomplish the goal. But those small libraries should each be readable and understandable - unlike the mammoth size of most C/C++ libraries.

I asked isaacs about documentation on the way back from nodeconf this year (isaacs is the CEO of npm and former maintainer of nodejs). I asked him what he prefers when it comes to documentation of nodejs packages. He said that if your package needs anything larger than a readme, its probably too big and you should just break it up.
It's a low pass filter. And I'm assuming the low-pass is used in the DAC to cut off high frequencies it cannot handle.
Well I've been writing Python for quite a while and I'm currently getting into both Scala and JS/Node.
You can't get to online documentation easily, the calls have a maximum of 1 or 2 arguments, you can't provide alternatives that pop up on autocomplete, and the syntax can be harder to visually parse. To be fair on the last point sometimes it can be easier to visually parse with operators, but not always. For example compare printf format strings where substitutions look like %f vs C++ output streams where they look like "<<x<<" which breaks up visual flow like nobody's business.
This is one of the best comments I've read on HN. While I strongly agree with you, it's important to remember that even in what seem like brain-dead obvious cases, morality won't always be enough of a motivator to change people. What makes research and development like this important and exciting to me is that I believe it's the only way the world will ever really change on this issue. Convincing the entirety of the world that animal welfare is reason enough to go vegan is simply not going to happen. In the end, not eating meat needs to be 1) equal to or more satisfying than eating meat 2) equal or cheaper in cost 3) equal or more convenient.
Sorry, I haven't used a third-party expert recovery service so have no specific recommendation of that kind.

Can you be more specific about the 'traditional methods' you've tried? (Are you able to read anything from the disk? Have you tried the freezer treatment yet?)

Sometimes reimplementing something you've implemented once goes very quickly -- and is better the second time around without the investigational cruft. If some of the web app has been accessed from elsewhere, you might be able to recover some resources (HTML/CSS/JS/images) from browser caches to save time.
The financial incentive to cheat seems to be a new issue and is certainly not even a valid issue at many schools. Nevada doesn't pay teachers bonuses. Teachers at Title I G schools will be eligible for bonuses in 2010-2011 but that is part of the Title I G grant. Of the only school I am aware of in Northern Nevada that is being investigated for cheating, the school is a charter school that also does not offer bonuses. My wifes very close friend taught there during the 2009-2010 school year (not the year causing the investigation) and the issue appears to be due to a breach in protocol during testing. An administrator had students from classes with young and inexperienced teachers that didn't know or weren't trained on the testing protocols called to his office. The claim is that these students tests weren't collected while they were out of the room, they were not escorted to the office, and the administrator coached them or provided them answers. There may be more schools under investigation in southern Nevada (Clark County/Las Vegas most likely). The other schools that I'm aware of being investigated are all charter schools. They are being investigated for misappropriation of funds or other abuses but not cheating.
> So the only answer to controlling ourselves is to hobble our equipment? I totally disagree.

A certain amount of muscle memory is the problem. I can open distracting sites without even thinking about it. I use the LeechBlock plugin for Firefox to block out distracting sites when I really need to get something done. For the first little while, I open the sites automatically (which, of course, doesn't work). Eventually my brain gets temporarily retrained and I don't do it as much.

Bottleneck isn't really the issue (I have big dual-monitors, for example). No matter how much screen space you have, you can only look at one thing at a time. It takes your attention to read hacker news, for example.
LeechBlock, an add-on for firefox, does exactly that.
What makes you think it is not respected now? Are you an Indian. I think my individual rights are fairly well protected (except if i'm in lawless state like Bihar)