jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People can read other people's emotions. You can build a mechanical turk program that's effectively the same as having a personal concierge agent with respect to the regulation.

Like, if you ban reading people's emotions you effectively have to also ban any human interaction.
Not really. They're hints to the complier about how to order the code for 'if..else' statements.
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I didn't say that the everything is a file philosophy is necessarily correct and well implemented on Linux. Merely that if you where to continue along this direction it would seem like a logical next step. I don't think I would use this for anything but for shell scripts at best. However especially if you are a plan 9 fanatic then it would seem like quite a good idea which is what the original question was.
If you're lucky you might get a few attaboys and a small bonus. Maybe a small promotion if really lucky.

The reality is career progression inside companies is unpredictable and underwhelming which is why people switch jobs so often.

Being an overachiever is great, but doing it for a thankless company is a waste of energy and resources.

So treat them the same way they treat you. Business only, no hard feelings, watch out for me and mine first. Act like they're disposable if they don't live up to your expectations - because that's how they will treat you.
It feels a lot more natural if you're sitting right next to someone or just around the corner. You can peek and make an educated decision of whether they look busy or not.

If it's a call it's a bit out of the blue. Maybe they don't have their headset around/plugged in, maybe they're doing something like eating or doing laundry. You just don't know because all you see is an activity status icon.
Because it doesn't matter what the server does in terms of message content.
That’s not something I agree with at all. What was said was

> in the minority when compared against the overall make-up of the position's peers

What I am saying is that a company is using skin color or sexual orientation as the basis for knowing this is doing it wrong. Yes, I believe being different from your peers makes you a better hire. But that’s what you gain from the interview, not what is gained from the observation of someone’s appearance (diversity scorecard).
Yep. Be smart of the artists to do this as a conspiracy and stunt for free advertisement
Best I can do is Poopy Dentures.
If you want to be data jockey, a general CS bachelor degree is all you need. If you want to work with the models, then most places seem to want a PhD or at least a Masters.
Lol, if I had to take a guess, I'd wager the C/executive suites at some top hedge funds.

I've heard some stories about Steven Cohen's office suite at SAC for example.

Despite being wealthy, tech company execs don't seem to be at that level of ostentatious old school display of wealth.

Edit: I've been at some hedge funds too - and most of the lower employees, especially in tech (cost center) still get the cheap motel experience.
I don't think my kids would be better off without TV, and I suspect most people don't actually think that, either.

TV (just as books) is a tool for delivering entertainment, education, and culture, and it's reasonably effective at that.

I'm glad I had TV when I was a child. The thing I value most is that it inspired an interest in science, math, and technology. Thanks, Square One, Bill Nye, Beakman's World, Discover, etc! Later on in life (teenage years), it taught me about time management; you can allow yourself to be entertained for many hours and not actually feel better for it, but actually worse, as you've lost that time; you can allow yourself to be entertained for an hour and it will change your whole outlook on the day. Always be aware of what you are gaining and giving up for entertainment.

Anyway, I could go on about why I love TV (and these days, the Internet), that's the gist.
in context, this is pedantry. using a heat pump, you can add four joules of heat to your house by dissipating one joule of electrical energy. that's four times as efficient as an electric space heater (bar fire) or lightbulb, which are very nearly '100 percent efficient.' in this sense, im3w1l is correct, even though the phrasing could confuse people into thinking that we are talking about perpetual motion machines.
It's not a third-party definition, it's their definition, should they want to contribute to it. By writing Ruby specs you're defining Ruby.
> but the language and VM specs are very well designed

Java's language spec exists, I'll give it that. Well designed? It was when it was created but, it has evolved very poorly. Look at C# as an example of what a similar language designed at a similar time could become while still being 'Enterprise'.
That's basically how I read this. It seems that Ruby is specified de facto by what MRI does.

Reading this blog post it sounds like the developer of RubySpec did this:

1. Decided Ruby needed more formal specification
2. Made their own formal specification
3. Kept telling the core developers to use it
4. Is giving up after years of the core developers not bending to the way he thinks that Ruby should work

The whole thing just read as kind of arrogant to me. Why should the ruby developers have to follow his specification? The fact that there is a bug that causes a segfault only indicates there is a bug, I don't see it as an indictment of the core language process.

Instead of saying "you should be using my test", you could commit mew tests and patches to upstream. If some of the existing tests or two large or don't test only one function, why not submit a patch to fix those issues. That doesn't mean the entire test week needs to be thrown out and the language respecified.

This seemed more like someone trying to force themselves into a position and giving up after a few years.
> the very same day that Sony Pictures' head of corporate communications, [... name removed by rbobby ...], publicly resigned from a $600,000 job. This could be a coincidence but it seems unlikely.

So Schneier is repeating GotNews' (Charles C. Johnson) accusation that this fellow is connected to a serious set of crimes. All on the basis that a portion of these crimes appear to have happened on the same day the alleged conspirator resigned from his job.

Pretty outrageous behavior. Especially since the FBI has has identified NK as responsible. It's worth noting that the FBI had access to _ALL_ the available data and has presumably investigated any employees known to have left recently on bad terms (i.e. the FBI did a professional job of investigation).

All the bullshit speculation as to why the FBI is wrong has been based solely on crumbs of publicly available data/information. The underlying premise is that the FBI is utterly incompetent and unable to investigate a crime of this nature. That doesn't pass Occam's Razor let alone any kind of smell test.
Maybe this doesn't work for the library ecosystem (standard libraries being where modules go to die), but the language and VM specs are very well designed.
Horses are like bikes with personalities, I can understand some of the reasoning.
I like the article and and the point that it makes using the Amish people as an example.

But the Amish did not make a conscious decision to refrain from watching TV. No, the Amish shied away from electricity because of a religious belief that was in place before Television even existed. It is also worth noting that the Amish do not believe in education past 8th grade, and yet everyone would raise their hands if they were asked if they would want their children to go to college.
Just as important as junction design is driver education. In the Netherlands they focus very hard on driving safely with respect to cyclists. A big part of that is indeed roundabouts. An average driving course will make you practice driving safely on different types of roundabouts many many times, and the main focus is on avoiding accidents with cyclists. This is important because on most roundabouts the cyclists do have priority when they are going around the roundabout over a car who is leaving or entering the roundabout, and cyclists will take that priority without a second thought because they know that the driver will stop as he/she should.

This also means that it can be hard to pass a driving exam for foreigners who already have a drivers license in their home country. I know several people who have failed the exam multiple times despite driving for years in their home country.
Isn't this what led Kleiner Perkins down the wrong path and tarnished John Doerr's reputation? He made a killing investing in tech stocks in the 90's and 2000s then decided he wanted to do good for the world and leave a legacy for his kids, and got into climate, clean tech and other 'feel good' stuff. The results were not pretty!

I believe it is best to use one's wealth and earnings to invest in climate stuff outside of a formal fund, with no expectation of outsize returns.
same for me lmao
I am really curious how they will make CUPS printer management on Chrome OS happen. I guess they bet on wide support on printers supporting some protocol native.
Its going to sell well, like every Tesla. I suspect that it won't sell well to people who buy trucks for their actual utility, but you're right that this thing will totally be a status symbol; just not among people who would utilize its capabilities.

Just look at the success of the G-Wagon among white LA uurbanite-types. No one cares about the utility. It just looks weird and gives off this vibe of "I work! Trust me! Look at my utilitarian car!" That's who this will sell to, and it will sell well.
6.5' is a 'standard bed' in the F-150 line. 'Short bed' is 5.5', 'long bed' is 8'.
"Hundert" and "und" can sound very similar when spoken quickly, so you have to pay special attention in this case.
You know it's bad when the queen of shitty robots makes a better truck.
Are there paying enterprise customers of Cloud Print? Even today, https://www.google.com/cloudprint/ has a "(beta)" in the logo.

Enterprise customers need to figure out that if you're paying $0 for something, you get $0 in support.... if you want something that works, either pay someone enough money to support it, or find an open option and pay your employees enough money to support it in-house.
If the original commenter had said, "if any two engineers feel uncomfortable, you should definitely quit right away", then you'd be right.

But that's not what was said. It was correctly described as a possible management problem, a signal. If your notion is that one should leave at the first signal, that's something you bring to it.

Anyhow, we have evidence that the problem is more widespread. It's obvious from the HN reaction that quite a lot of people hate this feature, engineers especially. But still it was released. If you want to hypothesize a situation that makes that unimportant, you have to dream up a lot more than two extremely insecure engineers.
If you expend more energy than you take in via calories, you lose weight, period.

I think your phrasing is important here, because there is a lot of debate about "Calories in, calories out" especially considering studies showing that not all calories have equal effects on the body. Generally though the first law holds, the distinctions are about what timeline...
Oh NewsWeek is toasted anyway. I've encountered too much bad journalism and extremely short-righted opinions in its columns. No wonder they are financially diseased, their content has no real value.
> What is wrong with immigrating to Europe / Asia?

You may be right here. I used to think it's better to immigrate to the US, because that's where everyone was immigrating to. I thought I wouldn't find good people elsewhere. But your comment just made me realize I'm not so sure.

> and all the potential startups and growth elsewhere wither and die

All of them, really? Every single one? There's no middle-ground?

> It is not like you are going to be founding the next big thing while bound to employment at one of the big three to stay in the country.

Why did you exclude that as a possibility?
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/li...

cevans => cev... (Chris Evans is known to be part of Project Zero.)

Given their censorship scheme, I can't help but wonder if e...@google.com means eric@google.com?

If so, the culprit is likely Eric Schmidt.

EDIT: Okay, can anyone explain WHY they're downvoting this?
When I moved into that area (while the Atrium was still standing), I was told by some neighbors to expect to get robbed, sooner or later. Given the surrounding neighborhood (Humboldt Park, and various racially-segregated and ridiculously gerrymandered neighborhoods) and the historical presence of subsidized housing (Atrium, Cabrini Green), it is not fair to attribute violence to the demolition of one building.
I already mentioned that it's opt-in, and disabled by default.
If you look at the history of activism at Google, a lot of former organizers have been terminated. The union is there to protect current organizers from similar retaliation.
Heres the text of the post, caught by my RSS reader. Looks like a repeat of the rumour going round during FOWA:

Some murmuring in the UK this this week says that Viacom is continuing its negotiations to buy Last.fm for approximately $450 million - a huge sum, but partly justified by the fact that Last.fm is really the Â“YouTube of musicÂ” these days.

The royalty rate hike for online radio stations in the US, which is now being countered by a bill that aims to overturn it, doesnÂ’t seem to have affected the purchase price.

Based on a corroborating story from DealBreaker earlier this week, I guess we can upgrade this one from Â“vague rumorÂ” to Â“possibilityÂ”. More details appreciated.
I never heard about anything like "blood drive", or that my medical details could be shared with my employer in the USA! Makes more sense now.
> Blindness

This side effect occurs if you take chloroquine for extended periods of time. Look at the data.

https://eyewiki.aao.org/Hydroxychloroquine_toxicity

"Risk for toxicity is less with <5.0 mg/kg real weight/day for hydroxychloroquine and <2.3 mg/kg real weight/day for chloroquine[2]. Patients are at low risk during the first 5 years of treatment."

And management is as simple as stopping the drug if it starts affecting your vision:

"At the first signs of retinal toxicity, hydroxychloroquine should be stopped to prevent further retinal damage and visual loss[2]. "
The systems tanks use for identifying and defending against incoming shells are also able to identify the origin of those shells. Artillery is more vulnerable to counter battery fire than ever?

There are systems like Archer that fire and move long before the shell lands, but its still ratcheting up?
There has been some discussion on 3D printing medical ventilators on the local hackerspace mailing list.
One of the participants used to work at a company which builds those and made similar points:

There are different systems, one are the C/VPAP which are only for ventilation during sleep, avoiding a closure of the pharynx by increasing the pressure to a certain maximum value. Some of those have parameters also taking care of the patient's breathing pressure etc. but in general can only help for "better sleep" – if they fail, then you have a bad sleep but won't die.

The systems they use in hospitals are the complex machines you describe: they have battery power, measure the flow of breath, have alarms etc. Even here they distinguish between "supported breathing" and "keeping alive", i.e. in the former case the machine helps you to breathe while the second takes care of breathing for you.

In Italy, a doctor asked for a replacement part of their ventilators which was then 3D printed – the valves mentioned in the article. This seems to have led to a surge in people now trying to build, design, etc. ventilators which can essentially be build anywhere, to combat supply chain shortages.

Again: You are right, medical ventilators are a tricky business and difficult to build. But in this case, the ventilators seem to be there, they just need the valves, which can be printed. And they put up a huge disclaimer that patients need to agree to use unapproved devices.

A German article covering this is [1].

[1] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kreative-loesungen-in-zeiten-...
No, electric capacity has the built-in buffer you describe. But the main driver for ongoing GHG emissions from electricity generation is, of course, generating the electricity.

I'm sure there are no formal studies yet as to whether these work from home policies are a net increase in GHG, either within the utility industry specifically (i.e., excluding savings on cars) or overall, but my gut instinct is that it will be a net increase. Distribution to where residential homes are tends to be less efficient, and it's certainly less efficient to heat, cool, and light 1000 houses all day than 1 office building.
I'm willing to sacrifice the well-being of other people for my own benefits. Otherwise I'd be in a moral dilemma just going shopping in a supermarket.
Any piece of functionality that can't be done completely statically now becomes a managed piece of SaaS that'll probably go out of business by next tuesday.

CDNs are not by definition "more reliable" than a single webserver, especially one with little traffic. If DDOS is your problem, you need proxies, not plain CDNs.

Plus you're probably going to use lots of different CDNs, because all of that of that static content is from different sources and it's "best practice" to get it from there, or maybe your SaaS forces you to use theirs.
I think, or at least hope, that at this point most developers are aware of Google's history of abandoning their services. I would be leary of relying on any of their services at this point, including their cloud offering.
Yes, and it's annoying and $400k away from accurate. Because ain't nobody sane going to leave a $500k salary on the table unless they've already got a big stack of cash.
I groaned when I saw the Maginot Line thing yet again. People, your grade school history teacher lied to you!

There was nothing wrong with the Maginot Line. As part of the overall plan they intended to stop a German invasion through Belgium in Belgium. They had an agreement with the Belgians which had Belgian troops using forts and pillboxes to slow down the German invasion until French troops arrived.

But the French lost the war before it started when the Belgians decided they didn't want to fight the next Great War in Belgium and pulled out of the agreement. And they did so far too late for the French to make other arrangements.

I like your reference to naval aviation, which is a much better fit.
I look at this list and I am thrilled that I don't have to use a single one of these. I'm not even friends with anyone that does, except a couple of photographers.

I'd love to know how much of the 46.1 million of the "PDF & Flash Platform Revenue" and the 274.1 million of the "Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex" is purely PDF related. How many people are buying Adobe Acrobat just to edit PDFs, documents that should be source code but aren't?

I just hate it when digital things become analog (or virtually analog, like PDF) and I doubly hate it that tools get built for editing the now analog digital document. Like OCR for Faxes, UGH!
I was thinking of playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, but upon reflection I realized it wasn't appropriate.
This sounds like Drizzle, where they've modularized almost everything, and you can get similarly ultrahigh tps by keeping connections open and bypassing the standard sql parser and query planner. (Obviously, the assumption for such high numbers is that your disk array can keep up or that the transactions are only hitting memory.)
Unicode is full of dingbats, most of which display properly in all modern software: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/dingbats/utf8t...
The links are supposed to tell you that this is standard, well-established moderation practice that has been explained countless times and has been going on for years. They're also supposed to save me from having to write an essay-length explanation every time, since I can't do that.

Yes of course ideology and politics enter into lots of things. The question is if an article has enough substance to support an intellectually interesting discussion that doesn't end up being dominated by flamebait and boilerplate. There's no intention to sweep political or ideological topics away altogether. That's another point that's been explained many times, but I'm afraid I have to give you another one of those links to point to it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

These criteria don't seem particularly wide to me and they certainly aren't random. They've evolved out of the 13+ years of experience we've had running this place. I do get, though, that they can seem random at the level of a particular post, from the perspective of anyone who hasn't seen the dozens/hundreds/thousands of previous cases that motivate the moderation style. That's another reason why I quote those links so often - it's an attempt to show how the practices here have accrued from a large corpus of similar cases over a long time.

The main thing we're trying to avoid on HN is too much repetition. The generic topic in this case has been repeated many times over many years on HN, and since there isn't a significant new development in this case (that's the point about bill proposals), there's nothing to steer the thread in a non-repetitive direction. To my eye the comments in this one make that point quite clearly.
If thorium was all it's cracked up to be by its proponents, it would already be a major power source. Thorium reactor technology dates back to the 1960s, but there still aren't any commercial thorium reactors, although hundreds of other reactors have been built since then.

The lack of market drive to thorium - not just in the tree-hugging US, but in less sensitive places like China - is a dead giveaway that either a: it's not nearly as easy as it's made out to be, b: it's not economical relative to other reactor designs, or c: it's not nearly as safe as claimed. I think c can be ruled out, based on common sense and the fact that China doesn't care so much about safety. That leads to either a, or b, or some combination of the two.

At any rate, the hard reality of the invisible hand tells me that thorium isn't so awesome after all, or we'd see thorium reactors in commercial use by now.
Except "disorderly conduct" is not a federal charge, and thus can't be used to skirt around this decision. Holder's decision obviously does not affect state and local seizure laws.
> I wonder what actually exploded there?

The last few teaspoons of fuel it had left.
> Elon Musk likes to make fun of the competition quite publicly when they have an issue, while ignoring his project's own failures.

This seems pretty harsh. It's not like he went home, curled up in a blanket with a hot cocoa and told the engineers to figure it out by the time he came back to the office.
SpaceX is certainly doing great things, but where was this vid a couple days ago?

When I first heard of the hard landing I jumped online to see the vid. But no vid appeared. Then I realized what was happening. A vid of a crashing rocket is never a good thing for a spacelaunch company. It's just bad PR. Thinking back, we don't see many vids from SpaceX that aren't unqualified successes.

They surely had this vid withing minutes, of not seconds of the landing attempt. But they delayed its release until the media and the public were educated sufficiently to understand that, despite the flames, this landing was not a failure.
I ad block the internet, I would not use service/tech (such as cable TV or pos Hulu) that does not let me (mostly) avoid ads.