jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
According to my partner, the purpose of incineration is to break down the sulfur bonds rendering the resultant chemicals inert. However one of the attractive characteristics of PFAs is it's stability, so breaking these bonds requires a tremendous amount of energy.

No particular insight into the DoD's disposal but it's entirely possible, and wouldn't be surprising, to find that the DoD is carrying out the destruction improperly.
Their style guide is available on the Wayback Machine [1]. The first few pages of the introduction are well worth a read.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20021031104254/http://www.econom...
Map of the timeline of the abolition of slavery - clear link between current prosperity and the time of abolition:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Sl...

The outliers (Saudi Arabia 1962, despite current wealth) are due to resource extraction, not truly positive sum freedom + capitalism.
git checkout <branch> *

has the same behaviour. does it not? I left out the asterisk as I was working from memory.
But I am supposed to trust you calling the study a "hoax" and "falsified", when I doubt you even know what study I am talking about?
It's really hard to approach problems from the perspective of a beginner. I did some testing around using "magic" functions like len vs building intuition, and it's really important to understand how the things are working. Otherwise, you can't really generalize the concept easily.

I'll look into the variable assignments more. Making content has been way harder than I imagined it would be.

I think I need a better graphics tablet -- I got a cheap refurbished one, and it lags a lot.
One advantage of busy is that it can distract you from stressful or upsetting thoughts.

An alternative distraction is mindfulness - to not be busy, but to concentrate totally on whatever you are doing, as if it were a meditation. This one also helps you to do a good job.
This is a hypothetical question: given the public information Ellen Pao was going spend a couple of weeks on this trial, plus a lot of other distractions that came with the trial, would the Reddit board have been biased if they had not picked her as interim CEO, with the reason being that she might not have devoted enough time and mental effort to running the company?
That's pushback, but engineers haven't reclaimed the culture and are mostly still silent and afraid.
In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the Fifth Circle – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface of the slime, while the sullen (the passively wrathful) lie beneath the water, withdrawn, "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe".
Because this is always brought up, I will remark that I believe what the majority of commenters likely mean by free speech is the principle itself, and not the restrictions imposed on the government by the First Amendment. First and foremost, free speech is a moral principle.

Secondly, while private companies can do what they want, that does not mean they should. Private companies like Apple can avoid taxes, yet many here would not say they should. Morals and ethics are often divorced from what the law requires.
That was it.

There should be a bookmarks challenge app:

It selects a random bookmark from your saved book marks and send you a 5-minutes challenge. You have 3 minutes to skim as much as you can from the bookmark. Then you have 2 minutes to summarize what you gleaned from that three minutes of observing. Then you have that as the description - and the "reason you should actually spend time reading that bookmark"

THen a ranking system for how many you actually went back through, and maybe a diary whereby you can elaborate on the benefit you got from learning X from bookmark Y
Once the population of photographers who ever used film cameras dies off, the value of most old film cameras as collectibles will drop near zero.
>That doesn’t work because Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc would move to side loading or a freedom store. To use those apps I’d have to go outside the App Store.

I just hear this claim touted a lot around HN. I'm trying to determine if it's FUD by examining the evidence. Do you have any examples that fit this criteria ? That is, can you name any modestly popular apps that moved from the App Store on Android to a sideload-only model?
So code that I write that generates keys using OpenSSL isn't indirectly depending on OpenSSL's CSPRNG?

Sorry for all the questions. I just want to make sure I'm doing it right and I suspect I'm not the only one that is confused by the article's assertions.
It's basically the last non-airport thing you see before you get to the airport (erm, depending on which of the 4 or so approaches you use to get to the airport, I suppose).

EDIT: it's really good and worth a visit. Get there early and/or be prepared to queue.
I'll take a window seat if available, but it infuriates me that the arm rest between the window seat and the sidewall of the airplane DOES NOT MOVE. Space is so precious on airplanes that I can pay an extra $50 for 2 more inches, but I can't use the 4-6 inches between me and a wall? (I wish I had a multi-tool handy.)
Ah interesting.

I'm a cynic: I assumed their motive for doing this was to make their iAd platform more compelling to advertisers.
For some reason I highly doubt that. Sales teams never get cut... engineers always do. Sales teams are revenue generating and engineers are just a cost center.
To reach the biggest worldwide market, Apple has to stick with GSM. SIM cards make it easy to take your iPhone anywhere in the world, and embracing a standard like GSM makes it easy to sell to customers in Europe, Asia, and South America.

If Apple left AT&T for Verizon or Sprint (leaving AT&T for T-Mobile would be a step backwards as far as networks go), they'd have to retool the iPhone for CDMA, and lock themselves into a market only used by a dozen or so countries. The alternative would be to have separate CDMA and GSM versions of the iPhone and iPad, or world versions with both CDMA and GSM, which would increase cost.

As much as it pains iPhone lovers everywhere, AT&T makes the most sense for now
HTML5 is a moving target that's changing everyday. Until the spec is 100% completed, finalized, and sealed, there's never going to be interoperability.

And interoperability is only one goal of HTML5. The other goal, in my opinion, is shiny features like Canvas, CSS Animation, and 3D Transforms. And Apple is doing quite well at those.
So yes, it will be perfect when I'm standing up near my WiFi hotspot and want to video chat with someone I know who has the same brand new phone as I do and is also standing up near their WiFi hotspot.

I'm quite surprised that it's not at least compatible with the video calls in iChat. 3G will definitely happen, but they have a built-in base of millions of users on iChat that could have helped kick things off.
Nah, people will just keep using ffmpeg and pretending that patents don't exist.
The technical reason is they want you to upgrade.
I would start with courseworks for rhcsa/rhce.
Every distro does some stuff different but the redhat certs cover all the basics and more.
I think the point is that EOF realized that there was an underlying problem to the bash script to begin with.
And people wonder why Uber is so popular...
Think about it: if we weren't tipping our wait staff, service would be awful, yet, if we paid our wait staff a livable wage, the prices at restaurants would increase ten-fold.
> If you want to identify an anonymous counter, or keep depersonalised logs, or IP logs for security, that's fine; it can't identify the user. (Maybe IP logs could)

Some laypeople would disagree.

That's what it means to be "nebulous". A term like "tracking" needs to be defined in technical/legal language. You can't simply ask a random sample of the entire world's population and expect to get a consistent answer about what should be allowed and what should not.
The looks people give you when you say you don’t have WhatsApp are gold. In France in particular.

Utterly baffled.
Can you elaborate on what the documented harms and abuses are, and what the further risks are?

People prefer seeing ads that are relevant to them compared to random ads. This is not controversial, it's very much established.

Of course, the benefits to the businesses, especially those businesses without existing brand recognition, are quite obvious.
Speaking for the Hungarians: you're right, if you get used to it, you actually don't even notice the leading year if you don't care. The whole thing just seems to be made up. In other words, rationalization of a habit.

Why big endianness is great though, in practice is that most of the time you actually do care about the year when you use the written form AND it's unambigous. The problem with the reverse notations is not that it seems illogical to some people. The problem is that both d/m/y and m/d/y is used and you can't have the faintest idea which one you are looking at.

Now in theory we could have y/d/m, but we fortunately don't, so seeing the first number being a 4 digit one, you know how to interpret the date.
"Reduced Tracking" is partly the misnomer though. It's not less tracking, right?

It's just a temporary separate browsing session with history turned off.

The only thing that makes it less tracking is that it might not be associated with the profiles you're logged into in your normal browsing profile.
I'd second rdl's enterprise mobile option. MS have the right foothold there, and neither iOS nor Android are what big, slow business users expect.
If Nvidia was blocked from acquiring ARM, then I certainly think that Intel would be blocked as well. Plus, Intel does not need to actually acquire ARM to start making ARM processors. For example, Apple has done just fine licensing ARM IP just like everybody else.
True but I would wager that it certainly wasn't in the same context as often found online. That aside I could (and should) have just used "intercourse" as an alternative example to convey the same point.
Two of the largest companies in the world are advertising companies. I don’t see such a strong correlation between improving the world and making money. To me, tobacco companies aren’t the exception.
> I mean, would you want to rest your business on such an attitude?

Haskell started as a research language by academics, for academics. Business concerns have not been a large concern in its language evolution. That's fine IMO, it's good to have a place where CS researchers can experiment relatively freely without having Big Corporate Stakeholders demanding absolute backwards compatibility for all time (see Python 2->3 for an example of that).

The best parts of Haskell have slowly been copied by other languages (for example: typeclasses became traits in Rust, list comprehensions are in Python, goroutines look a LOT like Haskell threads, etc), while the experiments that didn't work out as much (lazy I/O for example) just don't get copied.

"It's no good for business" just misses the point of a research language completely IMO. That said, some people want to make it more business-oriented and have been making strides towards that goal. Haskell does not really have a BDFL, so anyone can (try to) move the ecosystem in any direction they wish.
The best way around that would be basically a list of internet archive snapshots of newspaper articles. You can probably automate it somewhat by watching relevant newspapers, submitting everything for archival at a trusted 3rd party, then checking what gets removed by the publication or delisted at google.
The thing that stands out about ARM is that the user has less control of the hardware. The manufacturers try and succeed in keeping an extremely closed ecosystem.

Why would you want that? The Intel+AMD duopoly seems like nirvana compared to the Ampere and M1.

In fact, Ampere and M1 are a hint of the most dystopian future of computing I can imagine.
RAFT needs a lot more round trips that that, it needs to send a message about the transaction, the nodes need to confirm that they received it, then the leader needs to send back that it was committed (no response required). This is largely implementation specific (etcd does more round trips than that IIRC), but that's the bare minimum.
> One thing I'd like to point out, that is utterly unrelated to anything you're saying, is that people with ADHD can be hugely productive on things that they find interesting.

Just sharing some personal thoughts: my main issue is not to be productive, but the lack of control over what I can be productive at. It's the most frustrating feeling ever. You get a new cool idea and can spend 2 weeks being the most productive person ever working on it. But you know it doesn't matter and you don't really care. You can see yourself being obsessed about it but also that you did not decide to find this specific thing motivating/interesting. Then you struggle for months to do very basic stuff you actually want to be productive at.
Glad you took that example and interpreted it in bad faith.
Tldr news UK is pretty good at matter-of-fact summaries of those: https://youtube.com/c/TLDRNews
Coinbase is about buying bitcoins and taking them as payment. Its primary purpose is not to hold other people's bitcoins. It is an exchange and payment processor. So it's funny that your description is the exact opposite of what Coinbase actually does.
Advice to the authors: don't stress syntax, but semantics. People here are getting caught up on the notion that "this syntax is not too different from Verilog/VHDL". But that's not the point; it's not what you say, but what that means. You have created a programming model that software people can understand intuitively, but also easily maps to hardware.

People may get hung up on this because the example on your page is so simple. The equivalent VHDL and Verilog is also relatively simple. A simple example is good, and a comparison is good, but just presenting the differences is not enough. Stress what someone coding in Cx does not have to think about. In other words, what are the abstractions in Cx?

Consider what the equivalent page for C versus assembly would look like for a function that computes some simple arithmetic. Some people may say, "Oh, sure, the assembly has a few more lines because you need to push and pop parameters from the stack, but that's no big deal." And it's not - for one function. What's the big deal is that there are entire concepts - saving existing registers, pushing parameters onto the stack, register management - that C programmers don't need to think about. (Most of the time.)

The code you link to elsewhere in this thread hints to me that there are indeed significant abstractions behind Cx, that make it more than just an alternative syntax to Verilog and VHDL. See: https://github.com/synflow/sha-256/blob/master/SHA256/src/co...
I have been lucky, in 15 years I have been without work for probably a grand total of less than 6 months and the longest period was probably only 3 weeks. Often times it is not a complete lack of work but more a situation where one project ends today but my next one does not start until the week after next. Usually not enough time to squeeze in something else so I fiddle around learning stuff and take time off.

I dont think there is a secret recipe for staying busy other than the very basic truths. Meet and make friends with other people in your space and be a good person. Be on time, work hard, be honest and fair, respect people. Even if you fail people will give you lots of latitude if they personally like you.

I sub out work on occasion and have tried things at a few different levels. I have hired people off ELance and ODesk (which almost never works out); hired people I was introduced to and hired people off of CraigsList. In all of that certain truths remain, people who cost more money usually do that because they are better. Mostly at this point I hire other people like myself that have been at this for a long time and bill about what I do. I worry less about their work. In fact where possible I just bring them into a deal and let them work directly with my client. That way I am not in the middle of anything, I dont deal with money etc. Since I am not really trying to be a big firm making money off of people, skimming 15-20% off the top is just not worth the risks that come with it. Everyone is happier this way. I sometimes get asked if I worry that the person I bring in may steal my business and while the thought does cross my mind it is not the right thing to worry about. If that happens then I have to question what I was doing wrong that the client felt better using the other person more than me.
FYI: I had some problems accessing the site, here's a mirror: http://www.r-bloggers.com/k-means-clustering-is-not-a-free-l...
My comment is not about failure, it's about what is wrong with wall st's crony capitalism. this has nothing to do with failure, but about the lack of values, and the damage this has done to the world economy at so many levels.
It's interesting to note how much has happened in the short 891 days since that previous discussion occurred in mid 2012. At that point, the space shuttle fleet was retired but SpaceX hadn't yet flown a commercial resupply mission to the ISS. Curiosity hadn't yet landed on Mars. Rosetta/Philae arriving at their comet, etc. I'm sure someone can come up with a more complete timeline, but I've been following space exploration as a layman for a number of years and these last couple of years have been some of the most exciting in quite awhile.
Blanket statements do not always refute arguments.
At every airport screening point I've been to there's always been at least 1 deputy there on post. I feel that is sufficient. The tsa screeners are not the kind of people I would trust with a firearm.
First "high severity bug against 7.1" on the list:

"Customers would like to be able to use their IdM users to log on to Window clients that a part of the trusted domain."

"Doc Type:	Enhancement"

Couple that with what rwmj said, you've effectively debunked yourself.
The planet isn't an organism with an immune system reacting to infections. It's a ball of rock that "couldn't care less" if there are beings living on it. The systems that exist on the surface of the planet are just physical processes reacting to other physical processes. Nothing more. Ocean currents aren't changing as part of a process of "healing" they are changing because they are governed by the laws of physics.
Sometimes you're running a single application via AWS OpsWorks or so, and your application is handling the SSL because you don't want to pay for an elastic load balancer to handle the SSL.
I have to admit, I am sceptical myself.

I am familiar with using bioimpedance, and in particular it has been used to guestimate someone's % of bodyfat since forever. I am also aware that it is highly inaccurate doing so [0].

So someone taking an already inaccurate technology and claiming that they're using it at the cellular level (and by extension claiming that eating changes every cell in your body) is going to make me sceptical.

The BBC's test helps a little, but the fact the BBC weren't able to use their own person, test over a longer period, or even gather the results themselves means it has less legitimacy. Cheating isn't impossible given the scenario (*although I have absolutely no evidence they did so)...

Honestly I hope this technology is legitimate. It would be really incredible (particularly has it requires no new/special hardware, just a software update). However until they're able to fund even a single independent study, even a relatively small one, I am going to stay well away (and consider it snake-oily).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrical_impedance_analys...

edit: Random thought: The article claimed the device slowly counted up for over 2 hours, then the person had to leave immediately after it hit its goal. Couldn't they have just programmed it to simply add approx. 40 calories every 10 minutes until the magic number was "found" then leave before it shot past that figure? Did it actually settle at the 510 ish figure or did they just end it at that point? The article is unclear.
Oh that's interesting. Hadn't thought about that direction, but would be super useful for us internally
Slack and then discord are just miles ahead of any other chat platform and they'll probably be playing catch up in terms of features for a looong time
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like a very narrow definition of SPA. A SPA can just sit on a different path from the API server and cross-site cookies aren't a problem. For instance, www.example.com/app and www.example.com/api
To be clear: I'm definitely not claiming to be a 10x, 40x or 100x developer. I'm not claiming I could do the same amount of work as you or anyone else any faster than you or anyone else could.

It's more like my managers and product management radically overestimate the amount of time things take. Those are the people choosing how much work they think I should be able to accomplish each sprint and I don't do anything to dissuade them from the idea that that seems about right to me as well. I'm frequently praised by my manager and kidded by my colleagues about how "fast" I've managed to knock out my stories even when only working a few hours the first day of the sprint and submitting my PRs the day before or of the sprint ending. Those same managers/product managers work with many other engineers at my company so I don't know if everyone at my company is underachieving stealthily or what. As I said in my original post, I'm honestly as really, really confused as anyone else about what's going on, but since I'm praised in performance reviews, given a decent bonus, been 2x chosen for quarterly awards and promoted internally, etc, I mean, what should I do ? Demand more work ? Yeah, no thanks.
Sorry for being snarky, and as you discovered while I was sleeping, it was quotes from the article.

But on a serious note, this is the core of bullshit that powers progressive identity politics, and progressive cancel culture.

I understand RMS' comments on "them/they" as a pedantic, semantic, technically correct grammar nazi argument. But then, the authors of the demand letter to cancel RMS argue, because a trans person took offense with his statement, RMS is a transphobe.

And this kind of smearing is only possible if you subscribe to the postmodern notion that intent doesn't matter, and that "x-phobe" simply means that you offended a person of group x, regardless of your intent.
The headline claim as laid out in the article:

> we found that emissions from cycling can be more than 30 times lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about ten times lower than driving an electric one

Assuming we’re comparing single occupant passenger vehicles to bicycles (incl. e-bikes), this seems fairly self-evident and hardly actionable.

> We observed around 4,000 people living in London, Antwerp, Barcelona, Vienna, Orebro, Rome and Zurich.

> [...]people who walk or cycle have lower carbon footprints from daily travel, including in cities where lots of people are already doing this.

Okay, again, big surprise. Where that infrastructure exists to support such a move in dense cities, abolishing private car ownership would surely have some climate impact, but can we quantify it any better than .03x of ‘?’?
Unforeseen by whom?

Anybody who actually knows anything about sex thought it was all pretty obvious, and said so at the time.
I have no problem whatsoever with groovy, but I heard “all the parts Java programmers hate about JavaScript with all the part JavaScript developers hate about Java”, and I had to reread your reply to realize you are not writing something like this :D