jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree, although my biggest criticism of the trio of Bernstein's articles is that they are all so vague; I have many questions that I'd like to see answered, and neither this series of posts nor the linked news posts by The Guardian, Wil Wheaton et al. helped.

1. I don't know who the "gamergate supporters" are, who the "opponents" are (and thus I can't read the Arbcom's decision at all).

2. I don't see any representative edit from either party and I don't know what the war is about specifically.

3. I didn't see links to the arbitration committee proceedings; is it [1]? If so, it says that the case is currently open but the Open Tasks page at [2] says decision was due on the 21st. That is very confusing as well.

4. The decision page and the talk page of gamergate [3] are indeed too long and too unformatted for me to read.

5. If it is true what Bernstein says, that the feminists and anti-Gamergate editors have been topic-banned, does it reflect already on the Wikipedia page itself? [4] I have skimmed it but it seems fairly okay to me (and I consider myself a feminist); am I missing something? Or are the pro-Gamergate edits yet to happen, after the Arbcom's decision is finalized?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:ArbComOpenTasks

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gamergate_controversy

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
Work for people who are more concerned with the business value you provide and how fast, and reliably you provide it, and who don't care about the details of what technology you use.

This often means being hired by the CEO and not the CTO.
"Ethical" in these situations aren't black and white objective affairs. The relevant metric is that whether pushing the levers we have available to us as consumers, even policy makers, in the rich west, affects a more or less ethical outcome in the end.

We emphatically do not have the tools in our possession to make billions of people in south east Asia rich enough and educated enough in one stroke to avoid the situation you're describing ("crushing poverty and a glut of labor"). The one tool we do have to affect such an outcome, although slower than is desirable, is trade - and revoking that trade is pretty much the only lever we have to push, and the outcome for these people will be drastically worse.

That doesn't mean that there can't exist actions that businesses and individuals could and should take to improve matters, but step 0 is realising that those are drops on the ocean: We're not going to fix this wholesale, except by trading as much as possible.
I don't think you understand the quantum mechanical concept of hidden variablea. They are not at all the same as classical unknowns.
The smart locksmith would open your door in 10 minutes, then offer to sell you a more expensive lock.
And yet despite cannibalism being bad, there are no limits on you talking about eating meat, actually eating meat or owning a grill, which are all unrelated to eating humans.
I've just completed a Flickr 365 project, so I have a bit of feedback. First, you can't do this for free as you can only show publicly the last 200 photos without a pro account. With a pro account, you simply create a set for your 365 project to separate it from the rest of your photos: works great. Plus you get awesome views like a calendar that shows the photo a day in a small thumbnail, and all kinds of sorting options (though old-> or new-> are all you really need.) Flickr's partnerships with photo printing companies can also be really convenient and probably makes Flickr some extra money too.

The only reason that I personally was able to complete my 365 was because I had options for uploading my photos direct to my set from my phone (I tried various paid apps until I found one I was mostly happy with.) If I had to sync my photos with my computer first then it never would have gotten done. Obviously on the one hand it would have been great to have 365 high quality photos from my DSLR, but the convenience of the iPhone was the only way I could keep up some days. In other words, an app or a simple way to e-mail photos to the program would be a must for me. And I probably spent $50 specifically for my 365 between Flickr Pro membership and various apps I tried, so I don't see the $11 as off-putting in itself at all.

If you're curious about my 365, I took a photo a day of my Toy Story Toys: http://www.flickr.com/dafalcon/ - the set is on the right side. And I just started 365 days of my newborn baby girl ... Give me good reason to switch from Flickr and I just might!
'most people you know' aren't really ChromeOS's target market.
I would recommend offering a free trial until the first of January, then they have to switch to a paid version.
And, apparently, Linux users are not. I find that interesting, considering that one of the most prevalent arguments for not offering software for Linux is that its users refuse to pay for anything.
I think there are Europeans here (I am Irish). The focus isn't too much on America and a lot of discussions take a worldwide view.
The same but for non-numbers.
It will, but you need to keep the sim card with the old number topped up so it doesn't expire, in case you ever need to log in again. The only way is to receive a text or call on that number, just like whatsapp.
... death penalty for anything is pretty much a sign for a barbaric society.
The article is about the relative opposition to this policy in Malaysia, compared to in many other countries where these things are banned and heavily penalized, and therefore the possibility that this man will become a "cause celebre" for changing the regulation around medical marijuana.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556286
TLDR: This is a packed file format that can look to the OS as being executable (for Windows/Linux/OSX). The code is x86 and so offers native performance on those processors. On other platforms, an x86 emulator is built in so can't offer native execution speeds.

While neat, its not the "best of all worlds" due to the lack of native code on anything other than x86/x64. Also, claiming "bare metal" is supported is a stretch as you are limited to having no I/O of any form (as there is no platform code).
What record did this break? Largest photo? Call me picky, but I don't see how this can be deemed a record. If stitched together photos count, then what about google maps? The average resolution of landmass is 15m for all of google earth (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Imagery_and_coordi...). With a total land area of 148,940,000 km^2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth) that puts the resolution of google earth's stitched together images at around 662 gigapixels (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(148,940,000+km2+in+m^2...) (that seems lower than I expected, anyone want to check my math?). Wouldn't any stitched image have to beat that at least to be deemed a record?
Myspace and Facebook were pretty on par circa 2006, I had both with more friends on MySpace by far. MySpace did more of the kinds of things we wanted. I can play music on my profile! And skin it! Like Winamp! Hell, I even got a date through myspace because I met someone new, try that on Facebook! (chuckle away)

Turns out, those "features" weren't actually good things. And when MySpace turned into a spam infested, buggy, always down piece of crap we all turned to Facebook. Honestly I think Facebook blew up in that time because MySpace dropped the ball. I don't remember anything compelling about Facebook at the time when the bulk of my group switched, other than that it didn't break so much.
ISPs to 3rd party developers: we hate you and wish you would stop trying to create useful applications that use bandwidth.
I'm a huge fan of Erlang (hot-swapping code for the win!), but this is probably my biggest peeve with it.
Posession of lockpicking tools is regulated at a state level, in some states its perfectly legal, in others it is not.

I have heard that postal regulations prohibit mailing lockpicking tools though. I have not specifically asked a postmaster or checked on this.
As one programmer to another -- you may want to rethink your point of view. "Art" is as much about craft as anything else.
Gratuitous provocation and name-calling are not dissent. You can express dissenting views without doing those things, and users here are required to.

There is a link, though: people with minority opinions are sometimes so frustrated with the majority that they lash out in frustration in ways that break the site guidelines. People with majority opinions don't usually do it that way. They're more likely to be self-righteous. Either way, though, users here need to follow the guidelines regardless of what their opinions are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is the most depressing thing to read while procrastinating.
Certainly not immune from marketing! They are immune from marketing that's not targeted towards them, and perhaps from movie studios, but everyone has their actions affected based on some form of mass persuasion.
With the moves Samsung has been making lately in mobile and portable hand held's; their future looks bright yours truly.
A few thoughts that occurred to me:

What is PISA? Why do they only target 15-16 year-olds? Are they a representative sample?

Can the entire test be lumped into 3 categories: Math, Science, and Reading? All of these subjects are interrelated.

Anyone can play with these numbers until a preferable conclusion is made. For example, the first graph that the article presents makes Greece look half as competent as Finland.
Sure, steganography and steganalysis are in an arms race, just like encryption and cryptanalysis.

But if the existence of such an arms race doesn't stop someone from using encryption it shouldn't stop them from using steganography.

Of course, you need to be prudent about it. Use the most secure techniques available, and don't use methods you know have been broken.

Finally, know that you are taking a risk, that nothing is 100% foolproof, and the more powerful and determined your adversary the more of a risk you're taking.
I'm trying to understand the stack coming at it from a newbie's point of view. What I'm getting is that Pyramid is the new version of repoze/pylons, and is a lightweight, bare bones framework that gives you plenty of flexibility, whereas whatever the new Turbogears turns out to be will end up being a full-stack framework built on top of Pyramid. Is this correct? Can someone please elaborate?
The simple fact is that the larger Python community never really cared for repoze.bfg and TurboGears. The Pylons, BFG and TurboGears teams joining forces feels more like a last, somewhat desparate move to garner some attention for projects that never reached critical mass. I don't think it'll change much of anything.

I used to do development in Pylons and I've tried my hand at Pyramid, and there's simply nothing to get excited about. Even the documentation for Pyramid, which at first seems beautifully comprehensive and one of the system's strong points, turns out to be an interlinking mess lacking clear explanations of even the very basics of the system.

True enough, like Pylons before it, Pyramid is anything but opinionated, which probably makes it a good base platform for the TurboGears devs, but how much will it matter when people will just shrug their shoulders after looking at the landing page, and proceed to download Django or Flask/Werkzeug or, heck, Ruby on Rails?

Anyway, regardless of my scepticism, building new stuff and starting new projects is always fun, so hopefully the Pylons project devs enjoy the process.
Beside what said by Cletus, I think that the main problem behind that post is that nobody is saying that American are dumb. The problem is that many Americans are ignorant (please don't take offense here), especially regarding things outside the US. For example the italian school system (the only one I really know) sucks big time, and it doesn't prepare students to the real world in any way, but on the other hand it provides a pretty good general knowledge, that helps to have a more open and flexible mind.
However, turns out this is a problem that is solved by Google :-)

https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput/wiki/AddressVa...
I don’t know, if OP had included it I would have been suspicious this whole post was just an excuse to push the app. Not mentioning it made the question genuine.

A bit of a catch 22...
UK layout always trips me up, It's so similar but yet it's not the same as more sane US one.
> If you want to start learning a programming language - write a BF interpreter in it.

> [172 bytes minimal C implementation]

> Well, or something a bit more readable in ~100 lines of code.

Or something a bit less readable in under 104 bytes of binary lambda calculus [1]

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html#Brain...
Just like the NBN, the Fed Gov have screwed the rollout of 5G I mean the Vaccine as well....
> courses meant for excelling students

I took a couple of them and dropped them as fast as I could. I found the classes mostly just included more homework than was necessary. I thought it’d be more like university and focus more on lecture, notes, and reading. Writing more essays and more projects was a big NOPE for me.
We're talking about competing businesses not workers.

And funny enough, more jobs at Amazon also means less worker supply for competing businesses. So even that is anti-competitive in a roundabout way. (Even though, yes, high worker demand is good for the economy in general).
I read the headline, and my first thought was "I wonder if they are happier for it?" thinking that they probably would be.

I have spend a fair bit of my life in countries where I don't speak the language particularly well. I like the fact that the subtleties of advertising and the spin put on the news often go over my head, but I realise especially during the last year that I consume way to much junk information on the internet.
It does not capture any B2B revenue?
Just fear mongering.
I could imagine a middle school dropout with an interest in programming, applying for that salary. That would be a great salary to make for a middle school dropout.
"That's how vaccines work."

Um, not really. Not all vaccines are given to all groups. For example, covid vaccines are not approved for those under 16, and Shingrix is only for people over 55.

"Neither of us is able to rationally assess the safety or effectiveness of these vaccines (I'm assuming you are not a professional in the field from the arguments that you are using) so more data/time is useless to people like us."

But more time and data can benefit the researchers. There are plenty of examples of authorities changing their recommendations based on more data.
The perf test page doesn't go over WS at all, it's just get requests.
In the authors case, terraform will create the EKS (kubernetes) cluster, which then is responsible for creating the EC2 instances. The actual application containers are then created by EKS.
Surprise to see that we are pointing and blaming one chemical only here. PFAS, a class of more than 4,000 different chemicals, is everywhere [https://on.natgeo.com/2Q2UtMS] food, water we drink and even in our blood. We don't even know when and how we are consuming it directly or indirectly.
Do we have any kind of full proof study about all 4000 chemicals, that how these chemicals would be affecting our health!
I think nature has already been polluted/damaged to an extent which is kind-a irreversible. Hoping for the better world.
Yeah that's true. Cynically I think this problem will solve itself as millennials age.
All of your solutions are currently possible on the blockchain.

>The creation of a standardized & subsidized token/OTP platform. In the US for example, you should be able to go to the post office and get a NIST approved token generator, which should be mandated to be used by all banks and replace SMS and SSN as authentication.

DeID

>A pseudonimity middle-layer (ie, Stripe for Privacy). For example, when I buy a t-shirt online, I should be able to simply give the merchant my pseudonym, and they shouldn't store my actual name & address. If they want to store that there should be much much higher data protection requirements.

Deid, paired with the fact that i don't give them anything. I send them the money instead of giving away my information. This is a key distinction. When i pay for things with my credit card, I am swiping my card, they are saving my information and running my card. Sending them money, with some DeID to acknowledge receipt is entirely different. Instead of them 'Taking', I am 'Giving'.

Also, the Deid can come with a parsing function that 'Shares' the keys to your address and name, without the ability to capture your information. It works directly with the EDI to provide the 'keys' to your address but never allows them to store it.

>This infrastructure should be free market but with a "public option" in order to prevent oligopolization of these services.

Polkadot and many other cryptos with governance is also solving this problem.
Even in this not-so-good system, in which some people get taxed for a service they won't use, there is the assumption that if you have children than you have the right to be supplied with state-provided education.

Is the state decides not to grant you the service, for whatever reason, then it should give you the money it would otherwise have spent in order to provide you with said service. Else you are subject to discriminatory treatment by the state, based on your personal decisions.

The parents don't approve giving their child a vaccine they consider experimental/risky/unnecessary, they do this in full use of their reason and with the children best interest at heart. The State decides no to provide educational service to the child, but the child still needs an educational service. The right course of action would be for the State to give the parents the amount money it would hav spent, so the parent can contract the services of a private educational institution that would give the child the education the child needs.
I have an earlier project that did LuaJIT, FFI, and Rust: https://github.com/tongson/omniajit. Creating a static executable is more trouble compared to LadyLua. I would still use it for anything that needs less resources and speed.
> Fair enough, but that is not my point. My point is that saying that a man will always be a man because of maxillofacial bone structure, five o'clock shadow, etc, no matter how much you pump him full or hormones, is pure genetics, basic science, and common sense.

It's not, for a couple of reasons. First and most critically, thinking “macillofacial bone structure” and/or “five o’ clock shadow” define “man” is not “basic science”, it's gender essentialist ideology.

Second, it's factually wrong in the second case if reconstructed into a factual claim that “people who are assigned male at birth will always have stereotypical masculine traits in the named dimensions”, because “five o’ clock shadow” is a product of behavior (shaving) and hair growth, the latter of which is a product of biochemistry, largely hormones, so hormone treatments will affect it, and people who are assigned female at birth with no intervention may have the same hair growth pattern you find typical of men (and people assigned male at birth may not) because of hormone variations.

Third, it's factually wrong in even the first case, with the same factual interpretation, because bone structure itself is a product of biochemistry including hormones, and thus both natural hormone variations and the timing of hormonal transition interventions can affect it.

Fourth, it's arguably even more factually wrong with the same factual interpretation because facial feminization/masculinization surgery is a thing.
I get a kick out of these kinds of pure math problems where there's such a large gap between what is provable and what might be the best answer.

"We can prove it can be done with 10^200 pieces, but it can probably be done with less than 20".

Close enough.
(minor correction: I wigh Gospel Library were on f-droid OR could be side-loaded, short of building it myself.)
Nudity is not even the beginning of NSFW. If you're looking at nudity in most places you're way beyond NSFW and into gross misconduct.

Very many workplaces have a definition of NSFW that is a bit more restrictive than Facebook's content rules.

And rightly so. Go to work, do your work, go home. It's not adult daycare.

Watching video footage of people running around in swimwear is not really appropriate content unless you work in media or swimwear.

And the title sequence to Baywatch is hardly an advert for sporting endeavour; Baywatch is titillation. It would be entirely reasonable for almost anyone, male or female, to complain about that content.

It is far more sensible to define NSFW as "things I shouldn't be looking at just in case someone has an unjustifiable complaint to make about me that they are looking to bolster with additional offences".
He's (jokingly) referring to these complaints of favoritism by the CEO of a Stripe competitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066969
If you look closely in the background of that video, you'll see a Mamaroo. She's only four months, so for the time being the dog is way more trainable.

Curious, have you read anything / have any concerns about introducing your kids to screens that early? I'm so afraid I'm rewiring her brain too young when I see her staring at my phone.
Good point.

Even without cherry picking, in this instance, when the Bible/God/Jesus declares it the greatest commandment, you'd think they would pay a little more attention to it.
No, i wouldn't think so at all. A little foresight and modular design is not _that_ hard. Sure, after you implement the Dog Class you know better what the Pet Class may need, but you can most likely already have 75% of that Pet Class ready beforehand.

If the OPs software design (for a particular subset!) is so complex he can't imagine it in his head: either the design is too complex or the programmer is not very good, imo.

Any why the hell do we need the next acronym?!
However, humans are also machine learning algorithms, and may or may not have a better false positive rate than 0.0058%.
Exactly. Just ask those app devs that have gotten screwed out of a large chunk of their livelihood because one day Apple decided that functionality of their app competed with Apple/iOS.

Apple's developer ecosystem is setup to give you everything for free. It's also setup to take everything away as it pleases all while controlling every aspect of it - even subjective components of it. It's not free at that point, and the control for security basis only goes so far before the argument starts to fall apart. Yes, it is a good thing to have controls for that exact reason. Is Google any better? In some regards yes (the platform has dwarfed iOS in terms of technical security controls but fragmentation plagues the ability of everyone to take advantage of updates) and in others no.

Apple is just an accelerated Microsoft at this point. Significantly slowed innovation (compared to the early OS X and iPhone days) - again because of the "innovator's dilemma". They're now locked into this massive ecosystem which will artificially continue to suffocate them over time.