skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How old? I have a copy of Firefox 3.6.27 from 2012, the main content is below the sidenav, probably because its in an <aside>, support for which wasn't added until Firefox 4. That's okay, it's still usable, the content is still all there and readable.

But there are some other things that are more fundamentally borked, the accordions won't operate. I'm for progressive enhancement and while requiring JavaScript for a site to work well or in some cases work at all is okay, there should still be some provision to "fail safe" so the content is available when the specific JavaScript fails for some reason (I don't think it's because they're using <button>, technically using that outside a form was against old HTML specs but I think browsers still routinely supported them). For accordions, my preference would be to use <details> and <summary> elements and a polyfill to make them work in browsers that don't support them; they'll "fail safe" and display all the content in browsers that don't support them and don't run the polyfill.
That's a slightly strange personal attack. Their site may be one of the ones where they tried the naked domains.
If you're referring to the fact that it can't be discharged as part of bankruptcy, then I tend to agree with you.

How else would they be dischargeable? I assume you were talking about bankruptcy.
> First, you're defending the laptop, not the desktops. The laptops are still almost okay.

"Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now."

You complained about everything from Apple across the board, including blaming them for some other company. [1]

> Independent dev working from home.

Same here.

> Running two VMs simultaneously at times, and also using the same computer for entertainment, namely gaming.

Ditto, but just one VM; Windows, for some games. Everything I want to play, even very recent games like Paragon [2], runs just fine on the 15" 2016 MBP, in Boot Camp if not inside macOS.

> so I actually need CPU power.

Haven't experienced any throttling yet, myself.

> What you read exactly. Please explain how you touch type on the touch screen that replaced the F keys and how it is useful to me when I, like anyone who works a lot with the keyboard, have memorized every shortcut I use.

See [3]. The Touch Bar is always in your vision and I don't have to take my fingers off the keyboard to use it, as opposed to moving my hand to the mouse/trackpad to perform functions that I can now do from the Touch Bar.

"Looking" at it is no different than moving your eyeballs a nanometer to look at a menu bar or any other element on the screen.

Even if looking at something was such an arduous action, having to continuously refer to a secondary resource (be it your memory, in-app help, keybind settings, or online) to know what each F-number does with each modifier in each context of each app, is considerably more backwards.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13902459

[2] https://www.epicgames.com/paragon

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13902923
It's quite capable, but if you need more than 6GB, the other capabilities are essentially irrelevant. Lack of support for the newer NVIDIA cards is increasingly becoming a major issue for many people.
This is false information.
What's holding the camera in the day 2 project?
Some domains just sound much better without the www. You should weight the advantages vs disadvantages ...
from a marketing perspective it's clever, but in in inauthenticity of it makes me shudder. from the quote about devs being people who "spend their days looking for missing semicolons in code" to the hipster "welcome to firebase" painting. now it has evolved into something that's now being forced down my throat by google - no wonder they are, as mentioned in the article, "the backend for over a millions apps!"

granted, the core idea of firebase is good. but how they went about represents much of what i dislike about silicon valley.
It wasn't a personal attack, literally only an observation.
In particular, the usual algorithm is this:

1. Does this certificate have at least one SAN dnsName or SAN ipAddress? If so, go to step 3.

2. Look at the certificate Subject for a Common Name, is this definitely a valid Fully Qualified Domain Name or an IP address written out as ASCII text? If so, pretend we found exactly one SAN, with this dnsName or ipAddress in it, otherwise abort, invalid certificate.

3. Check that one of the SANs we found matches the server we expected to talk to, for URLs in a browser this means exactly matching the name in the URL so e.g. even if www.example.com has address 10.11.12.13, a certificate for 10.11.12.13 is no good for URLs starting https://www.example.com/

Getting rid of step 2 is a desired end state for popular web browsers, because that step is complicated, and complication increases the chance of making a mistake. Mozilla has signalled they intend to abolish step 2 for public trusted CAs (not any CAs added by the user) and Chrome has talked about the same. The public CAs have been required for many years to include a SAN, but the usual incompetence and inertia interferes in enforcing this. People who bought a "perfectly good" certificate which is missing SANs will invariably blame their web browser, not the certificate vendor who sold them a defective product.

Common Names are notionally limited to 64 characters in length, most FQDNs are shorter, but definitely not all of them, especially in some countries where long-winded names for things have a strong history like Germany. So this is another reason to stop trying to squeeze FQDNs into the Subject's Common Name.

Common Names remain useful for naming certificates that aren't for a TLS service, such as CA certificates themselves, or indeed personal client certificates, just not really for web sites.
When I think about these types of decisions, I make a list of the possible outcomes.

Then I look at the very worst possible outcome and judge how bad it is.

It's never "dead." It's rarely "unemployable." It's often "basically the same, with less cash in the bank."

Making this list makes the decision easy.
Can you read my lips? [video]
Beginners guide to this in JavaScript
> This is like hiring somebody to build a bridge, it falling due to incompetence killing hundreds of people and then having nobody suffer any consequences. "Eh, bridges fall, what can you do."

You can't really use these analogies in a security context, because real world engineers aren't liable if their designs fail due to sabotage, overloading or other unexpected conditions outside the standards they designed to.

Software is different to real world 'analog' engineering in that a single very small mistake can bring down the whole thing. Most civil engineering designs would be riddled with small mistakes like that, but the overall system has (multiple layers of) factors of safety built in and the ability of other parts to compensate. You can see how concrete buildings in war zones (even places with shoddy engineering standards to begin with) can take large fractions of their structure being shot away before failing. A software vulnerability though is like finding just one perfect place where a single bullet could bring the whole thing down.
That was never the idea. Desegregation came about because the white schools often had better funding, thus better teachers, better facilities, and an overall better experience.

From my reading of a lot of the literature, this was not exactly the case. The gap in teacher quality and facilities was part of the rationale, but not the whole thing. If the gap had just been in facilities or teacher quality, the courts and leadership would have just ordered improving the facilities in the black schools, which would have been politically a lot easier.

The primary theory for desegregation, was that segregated schools inherently lead to stigmatization and that stigmatization lead to lower self-esteem and lower achievement.

Here, for instance is from the conclusions of a committee from the state Board of Education in Massachusetts back in the 1960s ( https://archive.org/details/reportonracialim00unit ): "The experience of Negroes in the United States, from the destruction of their familial and cultural ties in the days of slavery to the demoralizing surroundings of the Negro ghetto and the predominantly Negro school, tends to transmit to each generation of Negro children a lack of self-esteem and a low level of aspiration, which are perpetuated and reinforced by the segregated environment of the public school...children attending racially imbalanced schools are aware of their segregated environment and, from that environment, draw conclusions about their place in American life ..."

From the same document, they site an academic sociologist about the problem of segregated schools: "Teachers expect less of the students, the students expect less of themselves, they are traumatized by the sense of rejection which stems from the segregation, hence academic performance cannot be achieved."

You can find similar quotes in the Brown decision, or the sociological work upon which Brown was based (The Carnegie Corporation's book An American Dilemma).

Now, I think that clearly this theory is wrong on multiple levels. And the solutions based on these theories did not work on any level. These theories seem to me like "just so" stories created for politically motivated reasons. It is especially interesting that discrimination has been cited as a reason for Asian-American academic overachievement. (The theory is that if you are discriminated against, you are going to work extra hard to achieve in areas where there are objective standards, such as math). I suspect that this is also something of a just-so story and that discrimination probably doesn't have much of an impact either way.
As some sort of student loan forgiveness program.
> You don't know any developers working on compiled software.

I do. I expect your next response will impose qualifiers on "developers" and "compiled software." :)

> my OP - are from people who need a powerful desktop for work.

Your OP said:

> Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now.

> I used to say that their laptops are fine

My experience is that their laptops are still more than fine enough for power users and developers.
You know listen to Wikipedia? This is listen to Bitcoin
Nextbike seems to be available in Hamburg (as one of several providers), but it doesn't appear to be stationless. They do have stationless service in a few cities.
> Some stuff to keep the search engines happy: crack, cracks, hack, serial numbers, keygen, torrent, warez, licence, license, registration codes, full version download.

I think it's against Google TOS to be that explicit. A better alternative will be "Related Keywords:" without metioning search engines.
Pop-Up Solar Generator: SunZilla 3.0
Web 3.0
The lendee can't default, but that doesn't mean the loan gets paid. Some people just don't have money/income/assets to seize, and courts will not garnish poverty wages.
Click randomly to try to figure out what's going on.

I know all this stuff, I don't know where I'd start trying to explain what's there to someone who doesn't.

Beautifully presented, I have serious doubts about how effective it would be to teach this stuff to someone.
How about medical debt? I understand that US hospitals will cut you a deal based on your ability to pay.
What's wrong with living in a closet? It sounded like she was the hustler out of the founding team, which meant that she was out talking to users & investors all day. If you're only at home to sleep, there's no sacrifice in sleeping in a tiny closet. Hell, most of Asia does it all the time.
They've invested heavily into new manufacturing processes since they designed the cheesegrater. Those processes can produce things like the garbage can easily enough, but they can't be made to produce the old cheesegrater parts as-is. They'd need to effectively redesign the cheesegrater at this point anyway, if they wanted to build more of (something that looks and works like) them using the suppliers+factories they have today.
How do you quantify and then accept the risk of said casks being hit and made to catch fire by a kinetic object?
Nice. My field of "digital humanities" gets a mention. I'm performing digital investigations along these lines except my focus is specifically philosophy texts. One of the questions I'm attempting to answer along the way is, what makes a philosophy text philosophical? In addition to statistical analysis I'm also doing topic modelling. If anybody out there is doing something similar I'd love to hear from them. :)
Except for Stiglitz, Borjas, Piketty, etc.
You're back to trying to justify the plausibility of the parent being true and not answering the question, at least in a coherent way. Perhaps that's my fault in that it may be unclear which comment the question was referring to since this thread has gotten much longer. Here's the comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13901281

And here's the question:

>Have a look at my comment (the first reply flagging this as possibly the result of confirmation bias). In what what does it sound to you like it could be the result of confirmation bias?

Merely alerting someone that based on the language they used in their comment that there may be confirmation bias at play does not represent confirmation bias on my part. That's what question you were theoretically answering...

You could swap some words in the parent comment about the specific situation for some other completely ordinary and uncontroversial possibility (nothing to do with gluten or even health) and the concern still stands based on how the situation is being investigated. (See my other post about "remembering hits" and "forgetting misses" for the primary flaw expressed in the way he's going about investigating it).
Not quite. The use of "Dear Colleague" letters by the US Department of Education have dubious status in terms of being regulations let alone being binding. It didn't play a role in a court case directly. A court sought clarification after a settlement was reached between litigants but it wasn't necessarily required to be issued in that fashion by the case.
>there's something about sociality, uncertainty, nuance, luck, and fallibility that really terrifies these people on a foundational level.

It's the old protestant/puritan spirit, just moved from the certainty of God to another certainty (for all the lip service to the "scientific process", it's the certainty that's valued most in science).
Elon Musk says people should get a basic income once robots take their jobs
My point is that not all bugs lead to data loss or loss of privacy. But yes, I agree.

That said, I feel that we're now talking about memory safety vs semantic safety.

We can certainly prove a program is entirely memory safe. Rust's type system is prove, so the work is then to prove the unsafe code safe (actively being researched).

There is no way to prove all semantics of a program (Rice's theorem). Therefor I would argue that a bug is due to a semantic issue is not necessarily negligent, whereas we could easily see memory safety issues from using C as a case of negligence.

But in terms of liability they would likely both fall into the same bucket.
There is no market for a company like Google here. Consumer markets are far more lucrative and why ChromeOS was created.

Distros with paid support (ex. RHEL) are as close as we are likely to see in the near term.
Yes that's true. However, they won't discharge it completely. They'll set you up with a payment plan and/or negotiate the total. I think they still report it to your credit profile though.
I call it grantcaine.
The better critique is that math requires homogenous data points. In sociology, every policy implementation is different in a million ways. A welfare program in Sweden is different than one in Chicago. The charter school program in Boston are different than those in Detroit. So doing statistical studies on a question like "do charter schools work" that treats all these implementations as identical, is often not very useful for actually learning something about policy.
Well, and the airflow looks a lot like "uhm, I'm just gonna slap fans all over it, that's probably fastest ^W best, k?".
Kids on winning robotics team told, 'Go back to Mexico'
Heres a model i though of: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/02/20/the-cactus-and-the-wea...

The core is a 2x2 with strength of views on one axis and holding strength on the other.

A fox is someone who knows many things and a hedgehog is someone who knows one big thing.

The degenerate versions are the cactus, which stubbornly knows one thing, and the weasel, whose views ate too two-faced.

The weasal does double-think while the fox can hold contradictory models in mind and create a new one or use the one that better fits the situation. (e.g particle wave theory)

The fox has better perspective, but because energy is spread out among too many things, has trouble implementing. The hedgehogs energy is directed and more focused with more momentum, but still has the ability to steer, unlike a cactus.

Intellectual humility IMO is about flexibility of mental models. In terms of real world success, hedgehogs have the most while foxes are more armchair philosophers.

The article is telling cactuses to be more like hedgehogs, but the 1 dimensional terminology ropes in foxes as well, who despite having intellectual humility as well, don't usually have as much direct impact on the world.
>MIT Professor says powerful elites set up monopolies so they can abuse consumers

It takes a MIT processor to know that?
True dat. Economics has a number of reformers, in endless battle with an elite who make their names and fortunes by telling power what it wants to hear (and dressing it up with shamanistic differential equations to give the appearance of credibility).
One thing I worry about wrt OpenRCT2 is that after a quick browse through the history it looks heavily based on a disassembly of the original exe, which was then manually deobfuscated to standard C. I'm worried if Sawyer et al. would send it a ceasw and desist.
My theory is that they strongly believe PCIe-over-Thunderbolt (now -over-USB-C) will obviate all need for internal expandibility/upgradability, and they went all-in on a form-factor (the garbage-can Mac) to take advantage of that... and then the market has stubbornly refused to co-operate by releasing Thunderbolt peripherals equivalent to internal components. So they're playing chicken with said market, probably under Intel's repeated promises to make it happen.
Why is it "very right" for the government to use a platform-independent font instead of a font that loads quickly and provides users with access to relevant information quickly?
Avantgarde rather than niche I'd say.

Helma, v8cgi and co. pioneered server-side JavaScript and around 2010 inspired CommonJS for portability, which Node.js became the dominant implementation of.

I believe Netscape's original web server product featured JavaScript as server-side scripting language back in 1995/6 already.
I had the same experience with ansible. It also wraps the responses in some ultra verbose json. I really just want to see the remote commands being executed, if you return them wrapped in some kind of format then you need to provide a gui for it. Otherwise it's all worse than before.
It would require extensive support from browser vendors, so if google got behind a proposal like that, it could probably be pulled off.

Most servers would likely use both protocols for quite a long time before one could be discarded.
I read Plutopia about 2 years ago and at certain points I recall searching Google Scholar and HathiTrust for further quantitative information about the Ozyorsk and Richland sites and other topics raised in the book. There is some quantitative information in the book too but I wanted to dive deeper. I don't know if there is any web site that presents the social Faustian bargain of Richland's "atomic city" years as well as the book does.
I don't think that's irony. That is corruption.
> I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing
in the room – by far – should be the occasional purring of the cat.

Any reasonably well built desktop PC does that. It's a matter of applying a modest amount of care when selecting and assembling components.
Planck time?
For the platform that is Hooker Rank (HackerRank)
Hacker Rank is infamous for conducting & cashing on a largely debated type of pre-interview screening process, a.k.a. flip a binary tree interview test, also known white board test.

Here, I narrate my experience in one pre-interview screening process, where I failed the test because of the idiocyncrasies with the platform itself. A platform that is the zen for coders, that cashes out on the principle of evalutation of candidates on their problem & algorithm solving abilities, failed miserably to implement one on their own, also that they boast that they know how to hire great programmers, but your own programmers are dimwits who don’t know how to write proper test cases & test case outputs.
Nothing about this forces any government projects to do anything. It's just recommended guidelines.
Possible Chinese Oculus Rift Knockoff (or Better)?
Does anyone here have any real knowledge how enforceable such non-disparagement clauses are, especially when the layoff base is large?
>and then failed to take advantage of them.

Giving kids 120K loans for Puppeteering majors at public universities will be looked back upon as a bait for criminal indentured servitude of our nation's young academic minds.

Your pathetic insistence on their fault in this manner while big loan fat-cats get fatter off the false promises made to the younger generation that can "major in anything and get a living wage" is perfectly archetypical of the sociopathic capitalistic mindset peddled on here regularly that seeks to milk naive yet gifted minds of their worth for the benefit of the higher classes that exploit them mercilessly.

I have a comment if you go into my history that detail's Harvey Mudd's model for universities. Only STEM. No other majors. If you want to major in Gender Theory, you can do it at a private university without loans. I don't want tax dollars funneled in that direction if they're not getting the general public jobs. If you can pay out of pocket for Queer Marxist Theory you can do that at a private "university". Otherwise, stop milking the bright kids/teens out of high school with false promises, big loans and useless majors.

If you think for one second having useless majors doesn't line the pockets of the rich, you're an evil, evil person. Don't trample on others because you made it out cleanly.
> Sometimes I do wonder why American Universities charge exorbitant tuition fee?

Students demand a lot. Good profs. Dorms with AC. Sports teams. Medical care.

All that cost a lot.

States and federal gov't pays less each year. The difference has to come from somewhere?

In any case, its not perfect but I will take US colleges 100x over Japanese Colleges or Chinese Colleges or Mexican Colleges or 98% of the colleges in the world.
I think it's more like

(utility - list price cost) < (utility - finding a crack cost)

Finding and using a crack is does not cost nothing, it takes time and effort. In the past it might have been easier, nowadays it's very hard to be able to download a legitimate crack .exe file over HTTP. It's almost guaranteed that the file is a malware or adware. Do people know that? I think unless this is the first time they pirate something, they know.

Sure - it doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with the price. It means that the people who choose to find a crack think their time and safety is worth trading for not having to pay for your software. It means that some of them might buy it if they see a lower price.