skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the site requires switching off scripts in order to read article, there is no way i am switching off adblocker
Certainly power seems to be a corrupting force in almost all cases, I would just argue that to a certain extent, what we perceive as good (a disregard for the status quo) when small is endearing and even admirable, but once those rebels take over the world we want them to magically fall in line. It's obviously a cultural immune system of some kind.
In my opinion, one of the most tragic aspects of these horrific incidents is that the predecessors of the Therac-25 actually had independent protective circuits and other measures to ensure safe operations, which the Therac-25 lacked.

Here is a quote from http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf:

"In addition, the Therac-25 software has more responsibility for
maintaining safety than the software in the previous machines. The
Therac-20 has independent protective circuits for monitoring the
electron-beam scanning plus mechanical interlocks for policing the
machine and ensuring safe operation. The Therac-25 relies more on
software for these functions. AECL took advantage of the
computer's abilities to control and monitor the hardware and
decided not to duplicate all the existing hardware safety
mechanisms and interlocks."

So, regarding these important safety aspects, even the Therac-20 was better than the Therac-25!

The linked post also mentions this:

"Preceding models used separate circuits to monitor radiation intensity, and hardware interlocks to ensure that spreading magnets were correctly positioned."

And indeed, the Therac-20 also had the same software error as the Therac-25! However, quoting again from the paper:

"The software error is just a nuisance on the Therac-20 because this
machine has independent hardware protective circuits for monitoring
the electron beam scanning. The protective circuits do not allow the
beam to turn on, so there is no danger of radiation exposure to a
patient."
Dave from the GitLab.com infra team here. The numbers are obviously early, but we are seeing an improvement in p95 response times for all calls to api, web and git. In many cases they look to be 60-70% the times we saw for the same time Saturday last week. We expect to have real data as we go into the week and will share what we see with normal load from Monday.

We are working on a new public monitor page to share soon too.
I worked for a company based out of a TN so I was there a lot. I was the only Black person who worked at the entire company of 200+ people. When another Black guy I recommended was hired they always called me by his name. Someone asked were we related.

It wasn’t bad, but I was there during the Presidential Election, it was....interesting.
> it is not at cutting edge of research to qualify as a research language.

[citation needed]
To hit the 5000 in one week (technically took them 8 days), they setup additional assembly lines in tents, and additional hand labor.

Hand labor, working extra shifts, is how they hit their mark.

They continue to use it while they address the automation challenges
251 instances of `!important`. This feels like strong opinionation to me. When you need to start customizing this framework, there will be some hoops to jump through in order to maintain upgrade-ability of the underlying file itself.
I get what you are saying, but I think interest rates have a broader impact beyond just monthly payments. Real estate investors will start getting squeezed for example, so demand will dry up there. Also, I think downward prices impact the psychology of the market. Even if those price drops are entirely due to the rate increases (such that the monthly payment is the same), I imagine people will start getting nervous about jumping into a highly leveraged investment with falling prices, I know I would.
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grid is the most attractive and powerful option

I like grid, but I think too many people believe it's the cure-all for everything.

For me, grid is not an option. The eight web sites I currently maintain all have to support IE11, so no grid.

Plus, grid doesn't handle certain design elements as well as Flexbox, or even inline-block do. There are certain design guidelines specified by certain government agencies and the consultants I work with that are simply not possible in grid.

I use grid in a few of my personal projects and it's useful for those. But grid is just another tool, like Flexbox.

As for Bulma, I watched the video and it doesn't appear to be anything special to me. It doesn't seem to solve any problems that a dozen other CSS frameworks do.

Also, if you're going to put out a 2:43 pitch video, at least make your fake web site look interesting, not like the other 542,234,280 other identical-looking Bootstrap web sites out there.
IIRC memory safe Ada doesn't allow for deallocation.

Kinda sorta cheating. ;)
New evidence emerges of China forcing Muslims into ‘reeducation’ camps
YouTube live stream now ongoing – Second sphinx not what you think
Ask HN: People who embody “Discipline ⋙ Motivation”, what is your daily system?
The runtimes of python or ruby are rather complex under the hood. That's like arguing that JS would be as fast as kotlin or swift if Google only invested more time. JS is as fast in a couple benchmarks, but nowhere close overall.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17737942

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17734840
Apologies to the author when she inevitably has a stress-induced heart attack or stroke (or hell, maybe she just gets hit by a bus) and regrets wasting her prime.

The present is all you have. Sorry that you bought in to the propaganda.
The operators had become conditioned to ignore those error/warning statements due to their pervasiveness and apparent lack of consequence. This is why, as a designer, you should use such warnings sparingly so that the operator/user doesn’t become “blind” to them.
E-commerce trends of Summer 2018
> A Microcontroller with real process isolation would be really nice, though. It could be used to safely contain whole classes of nasty bugs in the application software.

If this becomes a reality, programmers will become a lot less careful when writing the application software because of the additional level of protection. Google "risk compensation".
A meteor is defined as body entering the atmosphere from space. Therefore "meteor showers from space" is redundant, just like saying "ATM machine".
We took a drive out to the Minninglow dark sky site in the Peak District (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District) in the small hours of this morning. It was quite amazing to witness the streaks of the Perseid meteor shower! We counted 30 over the course of an hour. No telescope required. The peak is meant to be tomorrow night. I highly recommend trying to catch it if you can.

I found the "MeteorActive" and "Clear Outside" iOS apps quite useful for picking the right time for the best view.
Using CSS box shadows in web layouts
Well, not everyone shares the anglosaxon culture of puritan shame about sex and that it's outrageous to discuss outside the bedroom.

So a lot of stuff in the post is not about going outside some professional limit (e.g. few would have been offended if they played with nerf guns in the office, like tons of startups do and most are alright with -- but which a lot of cultures would deem "unprofessional" as well, since it inherently has nothing to do with work).

Though this does go beyond limits:

And the harassment escalated, she alleged. In December, English called her into his office, shut the door and took off his pants, she claimed. Moore said she was uncomfortable, told him his behavior was “harassment,” and asked to leave the room, but English “would not let her” and began talking about his ex-girlfriend’s faults, she claimed.

as it's not mere talk (which can be crude, sensual, or whatever), but actual abuse: nobody asked to see his genitals...
+1. Recently read this awesome article on using Tailwind (https://frontendnews.io/editions/2018-08-08-tailwind-css-tut...) and it seems utility-first CSS is a really interesting idea. Would definitely try it on my next project.
Exactly. I don’t blame the technician in the slightest for the race condition, I just called out that ignoring the error state notice was at best careless.
Why My Startups Have Open Metrics
Lots of cool video about this plane on YouTube. Just search for "Draco bush plane".

This interview with the builder gives a good overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqhI4MeCn1c

One of the many cool things about this plane is that it can land on its tailwheel. Most tailwheel planes are designed so that the stall in a "three-point attitude", i.e. the same attitude that they are in when all three wheels are on the ground. This plane doesn't. In fact, one of the things that the builder says in the video above is that the true stall speed of the plane is still unknown because he doesn't feel safe doing the experiment, the un-stalled attitude being already so extreme.
That theory might backfire if what makes you feel unsafe are other people who do nothing wrong. Them having to deal with cops able to wreck chaos at will is stressful at minimum.

I don't mean just racial stuff here, also disagreements about how much freedom kids should have what you do on your backyard (unless genuinly dangerous) etc.
There are a few classes in Purdue's CS undergrad program (at least as recently as a couple years ago) which leaned a lot on XINU to teach OS fundamentals. Specifically in the 400-level Operating Systems course, we had one lab toward the end which reached into Linux for some basic stuff, but otherwise it was pretty much all XINU; playing with memory allocation, writing a new process scheduler, stuff like that. Purdue maintains a lab of XINU computers, which I believe are just Linksys routers of some kind, which students can log in to from anywhere to complete lab assignments, including a scheduling hypervisor which ensures that we weren't stepping on each others toes given there were only ~30 machines.
From Dragonball:

Bulma (n): a phonetic misspelling of "bloomers," i.e., girls' underwear
My reasoning doesn't lead to anything you've mentioned. Your characterization of what I said is so uncharitable it's difficult for me to believe you're engaging with my point honestly and in good faith. However...assuming you've honestly trying to discuss this: you're mistaking my real point for support of maximal capitalism.

I'm not saying the intrinsic "worth" of an individual or a company to society is determined by how much profit they generate. That may or may not be the case, but it's a sideshow to what I'm really talking about. I'm saying that it's disrespectful and intellectually lazy to dismiss someone else's work (and implicitly, any fulfillment they may derive from it) because it's technically challenging but not saving the world. It's also implicitly narcissistic, because it makes the critic an ideological arbiter of the worth of other people's professions. The critic should spend more time focusing on being the change they want to see in the world rather than griefing the work of other people.

The examples you provided - blackhat SEO, ICO scammers, spam - are criminal behaviors that undermine society. The examples I used in my template are not. They can cause harm, like most activities, but they are not designed specifically to do so. That makes your examples incomparable as a rebuttal.

At this point it's likely that someone will be incensed by this last point and jump in with a lovely deconstruction of advertising or financial trading that asserts, "No, it actually is a net negative for society!" I'm not going to engage in debating that point because it's not going to go anywhere and it's not directly relevant to my point. Armchair economists have been reinventing "better" financial theory from first principles for years on Hacker News, and focusing on that particular example is a red herring.
‘We don’t have a single friend’: Canada’s Saudi spat reveals country is alone
I assume it's meteor showers [as viewed] from space, not a reference to their origin.
>the Hyatt bridge collapse a year earlier was a couple of orders of magnitude worse (114 people, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...) from what was also a fairly subtle engineering failure.

It wasn't subtle at all. The entire design was substandard to begin with and didn't meet code. Suspending a walkway from a piece of square tubing made by welding two pieces of C-channel together was ALREADY pants-on-head retarded, and undersized to boot. Deciding it's OK to hang the lower span off the upper span's substandard tubing was just the last step in a long chain of gross engineering negligence.

Calling it a "subtle" failure is like calling Challenger subtle because it was "just a leaky O-ring", or the Apollo I fire subtle because it was "just a tiny spark". There was a completely avoidable cascade of multi-level failure leading up to all of them.
Forth, Factor, Joy, et. al. provide a fundamentally better mental environment for thinking about problem solving (in code.) You'd have to read "Thinking Forth" by Brodie (out of print; PDF made available here: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ ) and actually play with them for a bit to catch on though, there's no substitute, I think.
If psychosis was due to irreversible brain damage per se, then it wouldn't be possible for it to come and go. Episodes might do cumulative damage, but the difference between being in an episode and not being in an episode can't be caused by something irreversible.
We should only change vote tech to make it more secure not more efficient.
Chances are higher that California rises into the sky.
‘Diversity’ Looks a Lot Like Old-Fashioned Discrimination
No. Why do you think it is possible?
Faced with falling birth rates, China urges citizens to have more babies
Maybe they want to be acquired by google
Now I miss my old stereo...
Again, this was a completely undocumented (and unintentional) race condition. There was nothing in the manual stating that "the machine will do bad things if you try to change the mode twice in less than 8 seconds". Averaging of control inputs was a documented, intentional design choice. Being "expected to know the correct operating procedures" doesn't extend to "know how the machine works better than its designers" or "be omniscient".
Take a look at the other paper, omniglot is more similar to this challenge
There's always a middle ground in these things. Money is important but it shouldn't be a central focus.

It's good to refresh on this list sometimes:

Top 5 regrets of the dying

-I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

-I wish I hadn't worked so hard

-I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings

-I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

-I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Still doesn’t negate the fact the technician should’ve still checked. Again, not saying the technician is at fault at all, but they aren’t free of being involved in the death either.

I’ll use a terrible analogy to make the point, if someone tells you “that’s bad” if you pull the trigger on a revolver playing Russian roulette and you pull the trigger five times without any apparent consequence despite being informed “don’t do that” each time, are you completely not responsible if you pull the trigger the sixth time and die?
LR-Link Launches New Mass-Market 10GigE NIC Based on Tehuti Networks’ Tech
Yeah dvc94ch who wrote most of what's been done for v2 so far was suggesting Rust and then web-assembly. Kind of warming to it after using Antlr for a while. We both really need JS versions though so I am still not sold. Compiling with Emscripten might be an option but it could be a lot of pain as well.
Now make it an Electron app.

/s
I didn't want (and didn't have) even housemates after school. Maybe it's a cultural thing (don't really know the norms in other countries, see you went to school in the UK), but having roommates through at least part of your time at US residential colleges is almost obligatory. And, as others have noted, it's often seen as part of the experience of transitioning to college.
Not the OP, but there's a long history of evidence that powerful corporations get away with a whole lot of things-- including murder. There is a great documentary by the BBC called The Century of the Self[0]. It isn't explicitly about this-- it's much broader-- but it does tangentially serve as sources for this kind of claim. Well worth a watch regardless of your views.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
Acute toxicity and carcinogenic activity are not the same thing.
Watch out everyone. The linked tweet has comments that point to what seems like a scam.
Please, no one mention blockchain.
Awesome video. That's as pretty as a ballet to me. I've built a 14x9 meter 3 story high workshop attached to a house with a very small crew and I can totally relate to all the work that is being done there. That is most likely not the first barn that crew put together.
Bech De Kharid Le
Grid: http://cssgridgarden.com

Flexbox: http://flexboxfroggy.com
I am just trying it out for my side project (https://www.gettandem.com) and liking it so far, however the time will tell... (it's WIP so nothing is polished).

I was considering either no framework (as before), Tachyons and Bulma. After quick demo of moving one page to Bulma I liked it enough to give it a go.

To the argument of CSS grid vs flexbox, as others already mentioned, it's kind of implementation detail from the user point of view.
I have friend who has 40 years programming experience, he is building a computer controlled milling machine in his basement.

When I asked him about the limit switches it turns out they are read by software only and the software will turn off power to the motor controllers if a limit switch is activated.

I asked why he does not wire the switches to cut power directly to be on the safe side.

His answer "It's to much bother to add the extra circuits."

We are talking less than $20 in parts and a day of his time. If the software fails after sending the controller a message to start moving the head at a certain speed then crashes there is nothing to stop the machine wreaking itself.

E.C.P.
Can Americans explain why voter ID is seen to be disenfranchising or sometimes inarticulately simplified as "racist"?

Voter ID is mandatory in so many parts of the world. What are the rest of us missing?

Edit: Not that it matters, but I live in India, so "poor people can't get ID" confuses me even further.
This is worse than most single studios. It's living in a shipping container. They don't even have enough room for a bed and couch. Instead you have a foldable sofa.
LOL ;P. It just occurred to me there is another even simpler case: the other user also might have cleared their message history since the message was sent. FWIW, I entirely believe you would have discovered these corner cases early in the testing process (were you to have gone ahead and started to build WhatsApp ;P).
Counter-point: paper ballots are not safest.
haha that was actually my first thought.

The whole cryptocurrency stuff seems pretty shady but there are select applications where blockchain is ideally suited & this seems like one of them.

i.e. All those independent election monitors can set up their own node etc
Pencils are safer than pens. I really like the British voting process, not just because I grew up with it but because we can point to what about it makes so much sense.
And in case if your other next-door neighbours have school-aged kids and have property taxes based on 30yo assessment?

And in case if you don't have kids but pay way much more than your next door neighbours?

Or in case if the majority of your neighbours pay almost nothing in taxes? Then your taxes alone will not cover the expenses of that local school for you to benefit from.

Why have public schools then?

Actually what I want to say is that there is nothing fair in Prop13.
That's not exactly Apple's policy - there are React Native apps in the iOS store, and that runs on nodejs. Apple specifically forbids applications that download and run code or allow for other code outside of the application's code to be run. I.e. any and all code that your application will execute has to be submitted with your app.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ specifically 2.5.2
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Where white people live it's easy to get ID, and white people are more likely to have it for other reasons. Where black people live it's harder to get ID, and black people are less likely to have it for other reasons. Both are minor differences.
It'll rust just fine and the acoustics are terrible. A container based building I worked in had a fridge several units over that you could clearly hear. Steel construction needs to be clad properly or you're going to hear everybody moving around.
So take Goebbels' advice? Not sure what you are getting at.

Our enemies are fascists who will take away our rights, therefore anyone suspected of eventually becoming a fascist will have their rights preemptively taken away so that it does not come to that?
Congratulations! We've managed to develop a completely secure voting device, with a formally verified codebase. The machines cost USD$150,000.

Due to the cost, we will be able to deploy two machines at a single voting site in your county.

Please ensure you arrive with enough time, as lines are expected.
Is there detail to your counter point?
You want to outlaw the car industry (for example) because it is collectively harmful and profit is being pursued?

What do you propose instead? Cars replaced horses. The latter regularly gravely injured people, and the dead horses and manure were a major health hazard in cities.
Stop thinking like an engineer.

The most important feature of elections is that everyone in society can take part of the process, understand the process, and (locally) verify that the elections are fair.

Technology just introduces black boxes that citizens are somehow expected to trust, because something something cryptography something blockchain.

No, that's not good enough.
Best case interpretation from my vantage point: bigotry of low expectations. Apparently some people believe that poor people or minorities in America find it harder than even the poorest Indians to go get identification.
The really poor in the US don't tend to have ID. They often can't afford to take the time off work to go through the process of obtaining it, especially if they don't drive. Additionally, it's an extra expense some people can't afford.

Also, voter fraud isn't much of an issue in the US, so it's a solution to a problem we don't really have.

Sometimes I wish those crying voter suppression would amend voter ID proposals to make getting ID free and easy and just put this whole issue to bed. Unfortunately with REAL ID, things are only going to get more difficult and expensive.
I wouldn't be "offended" by others playing with nerf guns but certainly annoyed ... but I would be offended if others would involve me in this pretty infantile and sub-radar-bullying pastime. who do you think is going to get shot at on a regular basis? but of course it's just fun - right?

and no - repetitive exposure to sexualized remarks without positive feedback is sexual harassment.

and I am saying that as a European guy who is slightly infamous for very direct and obvious flirting - even at work. but as soon as I get a rejection - even a polite one - I'm going to just accept it and move on.

guys like you make work life a terrible experience for others by forcing your idea of fun on them. you should hope to never meet a guy like me b/c that's not going to be a fun experience for you in the end.
It'd be nice if they actually abided by the GPL as well. Last I heard, the SFC only managed to get them to release some of the code they're legally obligated to.