skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many do, but not all, and even then just wildcarding the common bits would leave it pretty much wide open. Maybe if they allowed regular expressions then it could be targeted reasonably closely, or if there was an API I could use to generate the keys then I could provision specific credentials for each site...
We disagree at the definition of what slavery is. My definition of it is complete subordination to some masters, with no rights and in an inhumane situation (e.g. Afro-American slavery). Your definition seems to be that it is any sort of subjugation to some foreign powers. Even the fact that almost all businesses in the Empire were run by Christians prove, with my definition, that the situation was not that of enslavement, but instead that of imperial dominance. According to your definition, almost all imperial rule since Hittites necessarily include some sort of mass enslavement (which is not totally unagreable, but IMHO probably not a very useful way to assess history). I guess we can safely disagree there, as both definitions can be correct, depending on the viewpoint. Apart from that, we also agree on being atheists, as I can say I'm one too (I'm also of the opinion that "nation" is a useless and perilous abstaction, BTW, which means I'm not getting at this from a nationalistic PoW).
Best I can tell the Dell image for XPS 9550 is just Windows 10 with minimal drivers. I think I'll try the fresh Microsoft Windows route, but I want to mirror the drive first, because I don't want to install windows all over again and set up all my apps if it doesn't work. What's a good alternative to something like Carbon Copy Cloner for Windows? I used to use Ghost, but that was a decade ago.
We detached this flamewar subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17008237 and marked it off-topic.
Not necessarily an idea for a startup, but I want a Chrome plugin that changes the click behavior of an email address. If I click on the domain part of the email address, I want it to open that domain's website on a new tab.
There’s a very useful service for me here beyond bookmarking. I often want do read something and wonder if there has been a Hacker News or reddit thread about it, but don’t necessarily want or need to bookmark it.

Any plans to decouple these? I feel like I remember a chrome extension from ages ago that showed hacker news comments for the current page, but I’ve searched a couple times and come up dry.
Sounds shocking... but having worked as a contractor for a goodly portion of my career, I'd argue that something is seriously wrong if you can't get at least one employee to vouch for you.

Really, every place I've worked, you could say this happens every month; almost always I've needed an employee to sign off on my hours, either the person I report to or the person they report to. I always took that as a vote of confidence, personally.

(I mean, obviously, even if I get fired, I expect to get paid for hours worked, but point being, the guy just signed off on spending $15k-$20K, depending on the body shop cut, for a month of my work, I'd assume that would trigger at least a few minutes of "what did Luke do for me this month?" and a phone call letting me know not to come in Monday if the answer was "Not much".)
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In fact I got the patent for that purpose -- to act as a substitute for the usual pedigree pattern-matching. I just didn't see it taking 5 years.

I go back and forth on whether to try and raise funds. It's an all-or-nothing proposition because of my visa status. There are also personal considerations involved.

Having worked for a mixed services/enterprise company, I am now keenly aware that sales is a strategic necessity and steady PR is a massive force multiplier. You can have the best everything in the world, but if nobody's buying, it doesn't matter.
They look a lot like wild foxes to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox
There was no crapware on my Surface Pro (mostly MS Store apps), and I also experienced issues, like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8g73kb/is_it_how...

I still have the following issue, even though I never installed an insider build on this machine.

https://wccftech.com/windows-10-1803-rtm-candidate-bug/
1.5% of a million dollars is a rounding error. You and many other people in this thread are extremely disconnected from reality.
Windows Update is in need of a massive overhaul, but these 'feature updates' are actually an entire new OS that gets installed.

While it normally works great, when it doesn't, it's very difficult to fix in most cases, as seen here.
It's not the negligible amount of money that matters.
The trick is that at the end of your yearly subscription you have already upgraded to a newer version, so falling back to the perpetual license means downgrading, which is both often a practical problem and (perhaps most importantly) something that I think many have an emotional aversion to.

I'm pretty sure that if the fallback license was to the most recent version you're entitled to during your subscription way more people would take leaps between the end of a subscription and the start of the next one (though Jetbrains offers you a further discount if you don't do so).
> California should remain one state, probably, but add regional regulatory entities between counties and the state.

We could accomplish this by giving regional government authorities like the Association of Bay Area Governments
more authority. Essentially the metropolitan areas become like city states. The state could set certain goals (reduce carbon by this much, increase housing by that much), but it would be up to regional government to specify implementation details.
Agreed. Following random internet articles to disable Windows Updates is not a good advise. That same user might in a future post complain that a security issues aren't fixed, even though updates were explicitly disabled... My personal experience is that I had no issues updating multiple machines. Advise: Don't follow and change random registry keys and other things based on Google searches - it might become a problem in the future.
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Interesting read, somehow reminds me a bit about that old Swedish king who thought he'd train moose for his cavalry.. Didn't work out to well either, but for different reasons..
Found a link about it, if anyone's interested: http://stockholm.headsaflamemedia.com/2014/03/08/in-the-1700...
Yes. This is a great reply.

I believe in such super complicated systems there will be a long list of tail risks, probably too hard to compute.

Also at this stage of space exploration we should be focusing on rapid development of technology while keeping humans safe but not putting too much emphasis on safety that we might want to see in our cars.
The #1 important need in math education is repetition. Repetition with understanding.
If you don't internalize all the simple rules, you can't do it for yourself when you need to.

Which side of the division line do you put each quantity on?
How do you use unit math to verify your problem statement?
Multiplication table, and simple addition/subtraction.
Probability and statistics.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
A co-working space used only on Sundays.
I guess after that €2bn EU fine on the Google Shopping case they've learned to start pretending to be neutral before the fines.
Tax energy according to its externalities. Then fix the resulting poverty by redistributing money according to the standard of living you want to ensure. Do not mix both policies.
Extension of the Sieve of Eratosthenes to Arithmetical Progressions
It’s only nearly free if it’s salt water.
From https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ :

> Robert Morris is a professor of computer science at MIT... In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow [sic] first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public.
Its funny. I actually recently pulled out the Finger RFC to try to reimagine how it could be adapted to the world of today.
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>Many folks that work in CA are from out of state and do it for career/financial reasons, not for political/social reasons. And they'd be fine with living in a suburb of Austin if it were materially more appealing than some suburb of San Francisco.

If I could be paid what I make in San Francisco in almost any other metropolitan city in the US I would move. The weather that people rave about sucks and the politics are rage inducing.
We aim to provide teams access to relevant angel/seed investors on the demo day at the end of the program.
The short argument is make is that learning happens in the brain, when it thinks about stuff. It doesn't happen in the computer. We can create a faster pace by having more individualized education, but that's about it.
I had a very similar experience. I didn't get a computer until I showed my parents something I'd built on a TI-81. The one difficulty I had was a physics teacher who would go around and factory reset the calculator prior to tests, and that was just fine by me until I started making large games and things I wanted to keep. I ended up making a reset emulator to fake the teacher and allow me to keep my apps.
If you get the carbon from the air it doesn't cause any carbon emissions either.

Or an existing stream that is currently being emitted into the air.
I use firefox on mobile for ad-blocking and reader mode. Sometimes I get frustrated when firefox gets unstable and try chrome, but the lack of a proper reader mode and no way to disable ads makes half the internet completely unusable. I find it hard to believe that average chrome using consumers are doing anything more than tolerating the current state of the web.
> Do you think an immigrant would be treated as well in Texas as in California?

Yes. I would expect an immigrant living in one of Texas' cities to be treated just as well as an immigrant living in one of California's cities and same for the rural areas.
@sakopov: "When people shit all over WinOS I'd like to instead give Microsoft credit for creating an OS that works as good as it does on virtually endless amounts of hardware configurations."

That might be true, but in this case the issue appears to be exclusively software related. If they didn't force system upgrades, honestly, I probably wouldn't care. It may very well be a Dell issue, but Microsoft is large enough and powerful enough to enforce some standards on their partners.
Show HN: 10 months building a WordPress theme builder. No shortcodes. No plugins
In the race for attention, is this article interesting because it's a new model for implementing and delegating work, or more the fact that a company has decided to rapidly cut down on contractors?

Because there's lots of companies that rapidly cut down on contractors, and I doubt they'd all have an article written about them at the top of Hacker News.

I'm neither here nor there about the company, but I note that it competes for a lot of my attention. I feel like if they decided to switch to all Macs, or abandoned Slack for IRC, I'd see a story about it here on Hacker News.
If I’m interested in the survival of human civilization, which has been around for less than 10,000 years, how is it useful to consider that CO2 levels were much higher 200 million years ago?
Apple Prime: What's Next for Apple and What Does Video Have to Do with It?
On practice you will want some independent protection systems, and fix problems as they appear on each of those. On the real world, what is naive is expecting you did in fact know all the failure modes beforehand.

The entire problem with rockets is that you can't fit many such systems into them. So the accidents happen.
Personally I love Content subscriptions, $11 /month for Netflix gives you access to their $7B in annual content budget. Google Play/YouTube Red (ad-free) is also great value at $7.99 /month (early sub pricing). Likewise I got Amazon Prime for the free shipping but they also provide access to great content in their Prime Video catalog and the 2nd Music Sub is useful for the Wife/kids.

I have a number of Software and Cloud Subscriptions which are justified as cost of doing business but they're nowhere near the value offered from Content subscriptions.

Personally I'm against subscriptions for Games or News, IMO both are time sucks that are a detrimental the more you spend playing or reading them. I'll look at an Amazon FreeTime subscription when the kids come of age because the iOS Store is a mine field of dark UX patterns designed for kids addiction to suck IAP's from parents.
NY Times already does. I was surprised and annoyed to still see ads when I subscribed.
Something something new meaning to the safety dance
Both apple and google don't support 'pay for upgrade' model. Its either subscription or pay once. Of course, you can roll out your own payment gateway(which apple has further issues with) or re upload the app under a new v2 name, but those are not very satisfactory solutions.
Some people think we're getting too many transplants and that regulating the development of new housing will somewhat curb that.
There are some areas I've seen here that have grown in population so much that just getting across town takes an hour or more.

I'm personally all for more growth. I'd love to have more representatives and I think people are going to be very surprised at the results of the 2020 census. But we do need to do something about housing and traffic.
There are no ads without tracking.
That's extremely counter productive. The most bang from your buck for solar is for utilitity plants. So raising taxes just to put solar on SOME new homes which benifits only the new home purchasers (majority of whom are quite wealthy) with their electricity bill and house value is dumb. Basically you're taxing everyone rich and poor equally (landlords pay property tax too) just for a soundbyte headline which accomplishes literally nothing.

If you're taxing everyone, at least make it efficient and build utility plants but even that is dumb because it subsidizes solar and likely puts the money into the wrong person's pocket.

If you were taxing everyone and wanted to help the environment, building public infrastructure, transportation, roads, bridges, trains is the best option even if it doesn't look as catchy. It'll produce a hell of a lot more benifits than a few MW of super expensive solar.

If you still want a headline, build transmission lines. Texas in 6 years went from dead last in renewables to first with over double California because the governor invested $7B in transmission lines making renewable energy an economic decision not a subsidized one
Have you seen how fast a lithium battery fire gets going?
>I think it's also similar, to a lesser degree, to modern card-based banking, in which all the money physically sits in a vault and only changes hands virtually.

That is in no way how modern banking works.

Only about 1/7th of the money in peoples bank accounts in the US has a physical counterpart in any bank vault, almost all of the "money" in bank accounts is purely virtual. Most money today is not printed by the mint but instead wizarded into existence in a fashion pretty much the same as how world of warcraft gold is created, but with regulatory restrictions in place around the wizardry to create desired economic outcomes.

When a crisis prompts the population to collectively attempt to withdraw more than this reserve 1/7th, it's called a "run on the bank". The bank is unable to fulfill it's obligations[1], and economies break down as faith in the currency collapses. This is exactly what happened to Cypris in 2012. The whole system basically hinges on a significant majority of the population not scrutinizing the banking sector too closely.

If you'd like to know more, there are quite a few great youtube videos on fractional reserve banking, and it's absolutely worth investing an hour to watch one of the longer ones. This one is pretty good and approachable, although it's certainly biased: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC6RSau7r8

[1] It's actually more complex than this. Central banks can help prop up other banks in this case, but central banks also have their limits in the case of a nation-wide run on multiple banks.
It sounds like this user should spring for the USD$7/month LTSB Windows: https://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruf...
I've been kinda wishing for the past year or so that I'd stumble on a FaaS provider that can handle traffic on arbitrary ports, so that I could serve finger requests without needing to keep up with a VPS.
Posted this a couple weeks ago but didn't get much discussion going on, a sharp mind sharpens another etc.

So I set out to create a theme builder that stays true to the WordPress API and allows you to code and style a theme visually. Why this over all the other 100s if not 1000s of options you might ask? In one word, CONTROL. You can place e.g. a post title, comment count, widget area etc exactly where YOU WANT IT. I found alot of the builders are great as long as you stick to their templates, the moment you want something slightly different things get hairy very quickly.

At the moment WordPress support is ready for prime time. I built the application in such way that rolling out support for other CMS e.g. Drupla or Joomla will be a fairly straight forward endeavour.

You will find that my pricing is significantly lower than that market average, and the reason for this is simple. My market is theme shops and developers who want to build the themes they envision quickly but add some further customizations and resell to clients.
Yeah, not so much what consumers want as what succeeds on social media.
Mobile users and rural satellite users like me. I was also struck by:

> We didn’t need paywalls on the early web because we focused on plain text from other users. Plain text is easier to produce, lowering the friction for people to contribute, and it’s also cheaper to store and transmit, lowering the cost of bandwidth.

I still want plain text, and I think there must be others like me — we just want to read what they have to say, which is more immersive than the ten megabytes of dreck they sent me could possibly be.
I wish LTSC was a version normal, licensed users could get access to... I normally go with LTS versions when using Ubuntu, and ESR for Firefox. Being able to use that kind of version for Windows 10 right away would be great.
gwern rejects Diamond's hypothesis later down the thread, so I'm interested in hearing about any alternate hypothesizes he may have.
As a contractor myself, this sounds like a great idea. If there aren't multiple people at an organization that can vouch for you, there's a good chance you're dead weight - or at any rate, there are no checks in place to prevent you from becoming so.
If you want to grok monads as an OCaml programmer, there is a very simple solution: do some concurrent/system programming.

Both Lwt and Async are monadic, but they are presented without requiring you to know about monads, so you can get to use them pretty easily, and after you've used them to build reasonably sized programs, then you'll have a good intuition of what's happening.
I wonder what Fair Use looks like for artificial people.
The question I'd have would be should there be:
1) direct democratic participation in those authorities (elected by the residents of the area), or
2) should they be selected by the subsidiary jurisdictions (counties/cities),
3) or by the state (legislature or governor).

The state government seems dysfunctional in a lot of ways, so while maybe goals could come down from the state, the actual authorities should be 1) or 2). Maybe some combination.
Dan Luu wrote about terminal latency a while back [1]. Eshell is actually the shell with the least overall latency. Is is, though, very slow at sinking stdout, which is probably what you are noticing.

[1] https://danluu.com/term-latency/
Meta: can you not link to the Disqus deeplink on the page?

https://electrek.co/2018/0...ployee/#disqus_thread
I wonder if they set the price point so high so they can capture lots of revenue from businesses, like the WSJ does. Then for consumers they can offer a huge discount.
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Making InterruptedException a checked exception was a _mind-boggling_ stupid design mistake that should have been immediately corrected but unfortunately never was. I always wince when writing scalable, long-running concurrent Java code. You need to interrupt and handle interrupts when tasks are hung, but you then need either litter up all your Java interfaces or do lots of exception detection juggling.
Another, maybe less flattering, way of looking at this is that you're buying or rent-to-owning the current version and then getting demo copies of updates so long as you keep paying your lease.
What is your artifact repository called and what are the main features? I'd love to check it out.
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There are narrow and unsafe uses of the no-arg Thread.stop() overload so it remains in the platform, although deprecated. There is an overload Thread.stop(Throwable) that is deprecated “for removal”. It’s been a no-op for several releases and the API will eventually be removed entirely.
In a multi-threaded program, the threads share memory. Currently the application server is running in multiple processes, each of which contains a full copy of the core application.
How do you debate designs that haven't been built yet?

Historically, nuclear power plants take years or decades to build, and at great cost. The risk to investors is so high that they only proceed with some kind of state-funded insurance.

If there really was a modern nuclear reactor design that would compete in the energy market with wind and solar, everyone would be building them already.
Because the Rails application server is currently single threaded it forks multiple processes that each take up about half a gigabyte of RAM. Running fewer processes would cause increased latency for users.
In most places you are not forced to upgrade everything to code just because you added insulation or new windows.
Yale Students Are Trying to Solve New York's Subway Shutdown
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvgeq/an-incompl...
There’s a genius way to lower housing prices. Why didn’t anyone think of this before?
If the messages between cells are e-mail, then viruses are computer viruses. The analogy is almost perfect - it's information that uses security holes to cause the host to produce and send copies of it.
>I'm a stranger on the Internet. You know nothing about me

I don't need to know anything about you. I just need to know that what you're saying is not rationally or logically consistent. You're playing a game with your statements.

I responded directly to and directly labeled your statements. You are the only one in this thread that made a direct personal assumption in your previous post.

>I'm writing because I can manage a polite, constructive discussion with almost everyone

I mean that's pretty blatantly false. You engaged in a direct unprovoked vague personal judgement because you didn't like being called out for being disingenuous.

Notice you still have not been able to respond to a direct link for the definition of the word slavery, but you contine to make pretty pitiful claims about other people and being "attacked" despite not being able to quote anything to back that up.
We're working towards Gitaly 1.0 that would allow you to run GitLab without NFS. This isn't HA but it would prevent one NFS server from taking down the whole cluster.
I would have thought that many companies have intellectual property clauses that grant ownership of all IP to the employer, whether that IP is created on company or personal time.

How do you address this?
I get that. It explains why the dodo was fearless, and all the american animals.

We ate all of them when we showed up, in the american case c. 10000BC, long before iron weapons.

My point is that if the wild horses we first met were similarly tame, then surely we would have eaten them too. We didn’t. So probably they weren’t.

So that can’t be what stopped us domesticating african animals.