skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you interpret as "real evidence"?

I have no idea how you would begin to demonstrate that a body of source code as big (in both lines of code and length / size of the development project) as iOS, Android/Replicant/Lineage, or any other modern operating system contains zero backdoors, especially when your threat model involves the software authors helping you over a period of many years to weave those backdoors into the OS and obfuscate them as much as necessary.

I also have no idea how to audit a physical phone I have received from an Apple Store to make sure that the hardware and firmware faithfully implement what they are supposed to be implementing.
That wasn't the best response, but I think it's indicative of how urban high culture often becomes conflated with elitism. As I reread it, it appears that I was being dismissive of my hometown while trying not to be.

First, let's be clear with our terms here. "Multiculturalism" is a heavily loaded term. Despite its Judeo-Christian heritage I would argue that the United States does not operate as a multicultural nation-state. Rather, it is more of a ethnically diverse unicultural society in that the population to a broad degree does share a common language, certain American beliefs and values, and have a unique optimistic view of the future that I've found rare in my travels...the so-called "melting-pot". A good example of a multicultural state is Iraq where multiculturalism is clearly established in policy at the federal level as the Kurds, Shia, and Sunni live in an uneasy alliance, separate into ethnic ghetto-states/territories with relatively little inter-mixing, and have vastly different agendas for the future of their country (Kurds wanting to create their own state, etc.)

After rethinking it, I believe that population density is only correlated to the amount of culture, not the cause of it. Cities like Taos, Santa Fe, and Santa Cruz have a high degree of appreciation for the arts despite being outside dense, metro city centers. I believe that openness and tolerance to unfamiliar ideas is the driver behind culture. It is also a necessary requirement for diverse urban centers, which is why you find a large amount of culture there, including the small town cultures that emigrants bring with them.

The easiest way for me to put it is this: No matter how small where you come from is or no matter how esoteric your interests are, there is some sort of meetup for all the things in a LA or NYC.
Just saying I want to, I'm not actually doing it. I hope somebody develops such a plugin now so we can fill their pretty little mailing lists with all the millions of subscribers they want and deserve.
I can see this being a thing with CRTs (which basically 'flicker' constantly), but LCDs?
Very good point. There was also significant foreign trade between Egypt, Arabia, and India/Pakistan going back at least 4000 years, so your conjecture makes a lot of sense.

Edit: I followed the footnote to vol 1 of the NZ Journal of Science where the suggest a Portuguese origin, presumably because of Portuguese saying prowess. In fact of course Tamil Nadu was an initial colonization point of many European invaders, all of whom by definition were sailing nations.

In fact who's to say that the bell didn't arrive within the century preceding Colenso's seeing it?
To be clear, I didn't mean just monetary value. I can appreciate an interesting geometric pattern made of scrap steel. Or a translucent weave that reveals a leaf, made from dental floss.

What's hard to a appreciate is a semi-arranged pile of trash that's supposed to be a commentary on "disposable society". But which required little time or skill to create.
It would make the trillion dollar carbon tax industry look like a waste of money?

MSM doesn't mention the hundreds of thousands of underwater volcanoes either.
The article is a strange one, it's not really about DDT, but uses DDT to look at how we tell stories to shape our understanding of the past. From the article:

"But the fears didn’t fade away. In the spring of 1949 headlines across the country carried the news that DDT had found its way into the nation’s dairy supply and that the “slow, insidious poison” was building up in human bodies. The following year, and for the rest of the 1950s, DDT became a focus of congressional hearings about the safety of the food supply. FDA scientist Arnold J. Lehman testified that small amounts of DDT were being stored in human fat and accumulating over time and that, unlike with the older poisons, no one knew what the consequences would be. Physician Morton Biskind shared his concern that DDT was behind a new epidemic, so-called virus X (an epidemic later attributed to chlorinated naphthalene, a chemical in farm machinery lubricants). Pesticide-eschewing farmers, such as Louis Bromfield, testified they simply could not meet the demand for spray-free crops from Heinz, Campbell’s, A&P, and other companies—all of which were themselves trying to meet the demands of consumers worried about pesticides generally, and specifically the ubiquitous and well-publicized DDT.

By the time Rachel Carson detailed DDT’s harm to falcons, salmon, eagles, and other forms of wildlife in Silent Spring, a good number of Americans had been demanding more information about the insecticide’s ill effects for the better part of two decades. And yet to this day that’s not how we talk about DDT’s past. Instead, we tell the story of a chemical whose powers were so awe-inspiring that no one gave any thought to its downsides—at least not until they were brought to light by one renegade scientist. It’s a narrative that gave Americans a hero for the latter part of the 20th century, a female scientist and writer smart enough and brave enough to take on the establishment and win. It’s a story about the power of social movements to remake society for the better. And it’s a story of a nation reformed, able to set aside hubris for reason."
I will not sign up for a demo that requires I provide real information unless I have no other choice. It's not that I'm not serious about buying. Rather, I have no patience for spamming or harassment from salespeople.
I would be quite content if the Web became something more akin to a "Reception", i.e. that there was the opportunity to meet/chat with a Real Human, instead of automated software.

Is it not true that automatic things are better when experienced at the hands of a human, than a machine? I think this factor is at play here ..
logic doesn't belong in markup.
Many, if not most, people would put their nation before their employer if said employer is primarily an asset of an adversary nation. I don't think that's wrong or insulting. It's also not meant to be accusatory. I hesitated to write because I figured someone would get their feathers ruffled, but it's just realistic. Tech companies, the software and devices they create, and the data they have, are of national security significance. We should shape our threat models as such.
To the contrary:

They criticize Paul Ryan and current ACA proposals: https://mises.org/blog/ryancare-failing-%E2%80%94-what-shoul...

Criticize Trump for problematic policies: https://mises.org/blog/donald-trumps-whig-showing

Criticize Rockefeller and are generally anti-war: https://mises.org/library/rockefeller-morgan-and-war

Critical of the CIA historically and today: https://mises.org/blog/when-cia-partied-lsd-taxpayers-dime

and these are just articles published in the last two weeks.

In general, Mises is pro individual liberty, pro-immigration, anti-war, and generally critical of both the Left and the Right. I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative".

Besides. This comment is just an ad-hominem and fails to address that actual argument of the article.
It seems to me that all these sites use the same basic code. It was some developer--one of us-- that came up with this, which has since been replicated by evil managers and complicit web developers around the globe.

What we need to do, even if for purely symbolic purposes, is find the developer who coded the original modal popup and kill him (or her).
Yeah, my first thought was a front-end for pre-K&R versions of C.
Yeah I've thought about that too, people are just being entertained by all the crazy stuff on FB like they would be with National Enquirer.
Open Source all the things. It works.
Assuming the artwork did look like a bench, I would like to know what the artist thought of the incident. I imagine if you make a bench out of chicken-wire and styrofoam, it would be very entertaining to hear that someone sat on it and broke it. (I skimmed the article she wrote on the experience, however, and it seems like the resemblance to an actual bench was "vague" at best, so I assume it wasn't just some silly fake bench at all.)

One of the more beautiful mishaps in the OP's article is at the end, telling of a child who accidentally broke a sculpture an artist had spent over 2 years crafting and subsequently dedicated to her daughter. I imagine what the artist would think, making her perfect sculpture only to have it eventually come out broken – a fate not dissimilar from raising a child, such as her daughter whom the sculpture was dedicated to. Also, to be broken by another child in such a context would be delightfully sad. The fact that she renamed the sculpture "Broken" afterward is small, depressing turn of course.
Search platform, create your own search system without code
Plus, when you go to look at reviews on Aliexpress you know they're from people who bought from the seller you're buying from, not some unrelated supplier whose genuine listing a scammer has subsequently latched onto.
you're probably in the minority. When you look at the popularity of imessage and one of the big reasons people complain about allo is that there was no fallback.
I don't think most people do that, they don't go smaller.

Also, do you know what a larger than 32" display is going to do to your poor neck?
8th time in 9 days.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=arcade%20easter%20egg&sort=byD...
my idea of the ideal product for a marketplace for skilled workers.
Speaking as someone who works at one of these companies, we're happy about it too. The "other guy" is what excites me about my work. I would dread being the only player in the market.
By all means, continue using RC4, A5, etc.
If Amazon disappeared tomorrow, my work as an ops person will become a joy. I truly cannot imagine any other vendor being this shitty and in business. Home life is already a joy (and a lot less expensive / cluttered) because that relationship has already been severed. I can't think of a tech company I'd miss less. Not to mention how good it'd be for competition and quality in the retail and especially in the cloud computing business.
Fortune 500 Cos. Fuel DataRobot's Surging Revenue
Would you expect to find a chimpanzee poison that doesn't hurt people? What about a rat poison that doesn't hurt people? An insect poison? A fungus poison? A bacteria poison?

Biological machinery is remarkably well-conserved, to the point where we can use fish, worms, etc. as reasonable approximations of human biology. Finding fungus poisons that don't have terrible side effects is in practice very difficult, and even antibiotics that don't hurt people are pretty tricky. So it's not terribly faulty reasoning.
What I would like to know is how Colenso got the bell. Did he purchase it, simply take it, or offer a better replacement?

Neither the Wikipedia nor a broader web search addresses this. And Colenso's own wikipedia page doesn't even mention the bell!
I agree about the lack of documentation being a major pain point in the ecosystem.

As far as web projects goes, this looks promising: https://github.com/Shirakumo/radiance Shinmera puts a lot of effort into finishing his libraries and documenting them well, so I expect that this library would be nicer to use than many of the alternatives.
Scardine, the book Silent Spring was published in 1962. That is 55 years ago. Since then there have been thousands of studies about the damage done by DDT. Start here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=damage+by+ddt&oq=damage+by+d...

You can easily track down a few dozen studies that will inform you about the damage.

There is a reason why nearly all the governments of the developed nations have moved to block or limit the use of DDT.
About the same time the .NET Framework "Reference Source" for the old .NET Framework moved to a much more permissive open source license, but not open source/community-driven development (partly because development has been focused on .NET Core). It includes a lot more than people think it might (including most/all of SWF and WPF).

You still might quibble over "entire" .NET Framework, but a lot of the .NET Framework is open source in addition to .NET Core.
Someone must have surely done one of those clickbait articles featuring the picture question 'Modern Abstract Art or Random Picture of Painter's Scaffold'?
The Open Source Foundation Behind Startups
Car hacked to play MarioKart 64
With many sites you can just hit Esc before the page finishes loading and you avoid all the crappy ad pop-up scripts / "please turn off your ad blocker" messages.
I used to live in Europe and would agree with you 100%, but now living in the Bay area Amazon is a key part of life almost. I have tried to stop using them a few times but it is just ridiculously convenient and cheap. Order something and have the almost always cheapest option on the door today or tomorrow.

Another reason for this is that going to stores is a serious hassle here. When I was living in London and even NYC I just walked to the stores instead, but in gridlocked suburbia that is almost not an option.
Why are the Americans crying foul when a socialist Chinese seems to be better at Capitalism? Trade is a two ways deal.
Well, if the user is like me then having just put up a big content-obscuring popup is an excellent sign that the user is about to leave.
In Sri Lanka earliest writings (which were mostly religious) were preserved first in the mediums such as Palm leaves, and the alphabet clearly shows that influence. As the top comment points out, making sure that you do not damage the script was a pretty important concern, and rounded letters certainly helped. If one studies the evolution of Sinhalese (and Tamil) alphabet it can be clearly seen that things got curvier as the alphabet developed from earlier Brahmi scripts [1].

[1] http://www.akuru.org/developsinhla2.htm
Have you tried VS Code yet? It's not a full "Visual Studio for Linux", but in terms of intellisense and debugging it has a lot more than you might expect.
Google's Plan to Engineer the Next Silicon Valleys
>what makes Crystal better than Rust or Go

Rust is very much a systems programming language: no GC, no runtime, no overhead. We don't intend to compete with Rust at all.

Go however has inspired Crystal's IO system quite a bit. Crystal looked at Go and saw that CSP was working very well and copied the idea.

Here's some differences:

- Go aims for simplicity, in Crystal it's a bit lower down the priority list in favour of expressability

- Crystal has a stronger, more complex type system than Go

- Crystal has type inference

- Crystal has blocks/yield (with 0 overhead) like Ruby

- Crystal has a more "normal" package manager
Depends on the usage I guess.
The larger the screen, the further away you stand.
I have a 2560x1440 32" monitor with a <100dpi. It's great for text editing (I use a bitmap font). For other use, I would love 5k :)
How are you even using vacuum cleaners? Many vacuum cleaners here are 1800 or 2400W, kettles are 3500W, and hair dryers usually above 1800W, too.

This all works because you have between one and three 400V/63A triphase circuits per housing unit, but if your US circuits are this tiny...
It's not only about the services these companies provide but the data that they currently hold. I would hate to loose all my Google docs overnight or all my Facebook photos. Sure, you can regularly back things up, but there's no guarantee that importing those backups on the replacement service will be painless.
I really want to learn Rust. It's been on my next-to-learn list for a while now. I have limited time because of young kids and getting embroiled in politics (actual politics). Someday :)
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Blub Advocate: CL isn't suited for the enterprise! Have you ever seen a CL project scale to a team of 100 developers?

CLer: Your language isn't suited for the enterprise. You need a hundred developers to do what we do with five.
Here is a good article: Hardware for Deep Learning https://medium.com/towards-data-science/hardware-for-deep-le...
Open Source Software Communities relate to this too. Possibly a fairly obvious point to many. :)

There seems to be evolutionary (fitness?) pressure, helping shape the Communities, software, their norms, etc.

* In areas without proprietary competitors, new proprietary entrants seem to be rare.

* In many areas previously dominated by proprietary software, the Open Source alternatives are now often credible if not preferred.

This evolution of increasing fitness seems to be continuing.

If Open Source Software represents the "mammals" :D of the software ecosystem, what do the walled gardens (app stores, etc) represent?
Google DNS is down in Singapore
Safari as always goes ahead of the whole competition
I'm irrationally annoyed by these popovers to the extent that I'm tempted to just start locally blocking every site that has them. Just need a handy button to add the domain of whatever page I'm viewing to hosts.deny and preferably fire off an email to the site's admin telling them I prefer never visiting their site again to having to be subjected to their method of promotion.
HPC firm Scalable Informatics has sadly closed shop
Sad news after 12 years Scalable Informatics is shutting down - details in this blog post here https://scalability.org/2017/03/requiem/

Some very important points about VCs and building a business in the HPC space.
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It's my first meaningful sentence you retard.
Your comment reminds me of a scene in "The Great Beauty" where the little girl expresses her tantrum with buckets of paint hurled on a very large canvas. The grown-ups stood back, fascinated, it was kinda obscene.

Here's an interesting article that addresses your question (well, partially):

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/03/1...
There's nothing in the FTC link that says monopolies are not illegal. In fact they say this:

> The Sherman Act outlaws [...] any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize."

If you look at any felony e.g. selling hard drugs there are always mitigating circumstances and exceptions - but they don't invalidate the general rule. The text of section 2 is pretty clear that monopolies are generally illegal.
Can confirm. Chewie also handles subscription deliveries in a much more predictable way than Amazon. Amazon monthly deliveries occur on unpredictable dates (+- 5-7 days). Chewie schedules a shipment on a particular date and sends you an email before the shipment in case you want to make changes.

EDIT: Chewie's prices are lower too. So it is possible to compete with Amazon if you're focused. I do wonder why Amazon is so bad at stuff like this though. Chewie's procedures seem to be the "obvious" way to do things from the customer's perspective.

For scheduled monthly deliveries, Amazon does not notify you of any price change. In one instance, there was a 30% price increase month-to-month, and I just happened to notice it out of sheer luck. The same product did not change prices on Chewie.
Because I hate it when features are irreversibly changed, at random. Which is what happens with "evergreen" software. I don't care if it only happens occasionally. Never is better than occasionally.

I want the peace of mind to know that if something stops working, that it's not because of an update.

If you're going to introduce feature regressions, you'd better at least make it easy to undo them.

If you're going to make users update on your schedule, you'd better be really really good at making your updates smooth. Google can almost get away with this, but Dropbox, OneNote, Skype, and especially Firefox have introduced major bugs without telling me.

Firefox is the worst offender, because even if you explicitly disable automatic updates, it will just repeatedly download updater.app anyway.
I discovered this when I had to fix something on a 3G cellular connection on a strict deadline. Another morning, I woke up to find a bell icon added[1] next to my clock, with no obvious way to remove it. It brought me back to the bad old days of Windows 98 where drive by installers would just add stuff to your computer. Eventually, I just chflags -R schg /Applications/, and ripped out all of the updater daemons out of frustration, and I'm happier ever since.

The thing I object to the most, is for software you already have installed to have features removed and replaced with a nag to buy back the features you just had before the update. LogMeIn's Hamachi app did that, but thankfully I keep backups. Or, a classic example from a long time ago, was iTunes 4.01, which had an "emergency" update for iTunes 4 that removed the local network music sharing feature. [2]

Think about what's really going on with the updating ecosystem we have. Are you really OK with software like the deceptively named "keystone agent" running as root, that can add and execute data anywhere on your filesystem? Google Drive and Google Earth will try to reinstall it if you remove it, and nag you with deceptive messages about how they need you to authorize superuser access for them so that they can run properly, when in reality they are just adding the updater daemon, which they do not require to function.

After having been burnt by new bugs, and outright dishonesty, I'm very careful now.

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/30/disable-chrome-notification-b...

[2] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/03/05/27/2114240/apple-upda...
The linked article is very unbiased, but it links to positions from both camps.

> Studies published in Poultry Science found chicken eggs almost completely unaffected by high dosages of DDT.

> In 1998, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds researcher Rhys Green published a study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B which found that eggshell thinning of some bird species had begun 50 years before the introduction of DDT.

Despite some studies linking a byproduct (DDE) to moderate egg thinning in sensitive raptors, the ban was an overreaction.

There is a lot of FUD surrounding DDT, and it costs lives. Spraying DDT on the internal walls in my country would save hundreds of lives.
I use the safari reader view mode as well. It is decent, but the black/grey setting with white text still looks a bit off.

I prefer the Evernote 'simplified article' mode through safari or chrome extentions. It provides a simplified article, background colour similar to HN, and enables highlighting and brief comments.

That being said, the safari one works fine. I use it for 99% of articles, and on the 1% I go back to Evernote if I want to save the article, make a couple of highlights, or leave a comment.
TIL I learned about godeps -N.... a month too late :) Cool, though, that definitely would help with that problem.