skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current workaround is to put your contact info in your profile, which has worked well for me.

With that said, I did create a small app to encourage HN users to message 1-on-1: https://findkismet.com
.. assuming the nuclear plant got built on time and on budget.
Ask HN: Bias in flagging stories?
So, today I posted this NYT article regarding a settlement Asia Argento paid to an underage boy who accused her of rape in order to avoid trial: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798703

The post has been flagged and it's not possible to comment it anymore.

I'm not familiar on how HN flagging works; I understand it's been flagged by an user for some reason and that flagging prevents it to reach the frontpage or to discuss the story further. I also guess it's been flagged because it's not in line with the usual content you might find in HN.

That would be OK, but why a number of, let's say, specular stories (the ones where Argento accused Hollywood producer Harwey Weinstein have not been flagged and some of them reached the front page? (e.g.: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=harwey%20weinsten&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story).

I just joined HN last year and I'm not incredibly familiar with its internal mechanics. Is there an implicit bias regarding what can and what can not be posted? Did the Weinstein stories get to the top because HN "likes" their narrative more than Argento's story? Not making any accusations, of course, this is just to understand. Happy to engage in respectful discussion.

Thanks,
Curtis.
Are you suggesting some conspiracy? 2018 comes after 2017. This is not a long gap in time for academic research.
Edit: it seems the story has been unflagged. I'm kinda confused in how the whole thing works.
And Leviathan (basically Alien in the ocean; from 1989 when everybody seemed to be making ocean movies to compete with Cameron's The Abyss)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/
The other factor is the pacing. If the lecturer is writing, on a transparency or blackboard, you can take notes at the same pace. PowerPoint allows stupid amounts of information to be delivered, which just washes over you--it's too much to transcribe, and too much to digest on the fly. Writing constrains the lecturer to delivering a reasonable amount of material, so that the participants can actually focus on it and retain it.

PowerPoint might be good for business proposals, sales and marketing, etc. But I personally think it's a travesty for educational use; there are few lectures I've attended which I found better for the unnecessary use of technology.
Asking about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798991
Consider how many layers of dependencies are in use today, and you have no idea who the commenter is, what position he has in the business you assume he is 'running'.
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I just use my bash history with a very large HISTSIZE. Not as nice, but doesn't require any effort. Effort I never want to put in at the time I'm using the complicated command, I have other issues at that time :)
I was about to say "Teletext is not extinct!" which is true but then I pondered when I last time used it?

I was an avid user of Teletext in my teenage years and later on, using it daily to catch the news and look at the TV programme listing.

And that's why I use it much rarely nowadays. I don't watch regular TV anymore and thus have much less opportunities to quickly start up Teletext.
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Developing nations are generally poor compared to developed countries (duh). So they might not be able to afford energy sources with high upfront costs like nuclear, solar, or wind.

If you ignore externalities, coal is likely the cheapest, unfortunately.

This is exactly what DIDN'T happen with, say, telecom networks. Developing countries skipped directly to mobile telecom, allowing them to save a lot of money by avoiding the upfront cost of building a wired telecom infrastructure.
Deloitte has pretty good technical interviews. I'm sure they can provide you interviews as a service. Probably not going to be cheap, though.
On the US market. Which is not only market in existence, nor even biggest one. Take China for example - where neither Netflix nor YouTube are present.

> Compared with the US, China still has plenty of room to grow in a country with a population of about 1.4 billion and 751 million internet users. The proportion of internet users who pay for video content has increased more than 10 times in four years, rising to 13.2 per cent in 2016, and is expected to further increase to 40 per cent in 2022, iResearch said. By comparison, Netflix’s US-based paying members represented around 28.1 per cent of total internet video users in the country as of the end of 2016.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2137870/chinas-consumers-a...
The key difference is that the recipients are also others who pay for insurance, whereas in US health insurance, it’s a game of see which provider can collect more from which payer (government, insurance, individual) to make up for the losses on those that can’t pay.

Health costs between what you pay as an individual and what you pay as part of a group is just like anything else. You couldn’t buy the same parts for a computer at the same price as Dell. Dell can get bulk discounts you can’t.

A health care provider is willing to charge less for care per person for a group of people through an insurance carrier than you individually.

If you have ever signed up for term life insurance, you usually get a fixed premium up to a certain age, and then premiums skyrocket as you get older. You theoretically can price life insurance for a 90 year old based on actuarial data. The cost will be prohibitively expensive.
All that's wrong with Nintendo's heavy-handed ROM crackdown
I hate apps which uplift text and decide to replace quote marks to literature pairs not code pairs.

A lot of mismarked iso-latin1 gets utf-8 treatment,I think many of the fails happen when people shift editor in implicit binary detected files or acquire file encoding from wrong web site download.

BTW, have pity for people from non 7bit ASCII culture.. the failure to get eight but it'd clean email, login, password...
It's not that simple. There are two very different kinds of "ratting out":

1. Reporting a crime to the police so they can check and sort it out if needed. This is extremely prevalent in Western societies and seems predicated on trust in the police to do the right thing. Examples: people reporting screams for help they overhear from a street; drivers reporting erratic behavior of other drivers on the road.

2. Knowingly reporting a thought crime to overzealous authorities that will severely punish for that crime, sometimes knowingly falsely, sometimes for your own benefit. Example: telling your local uchastkovuy that your noisy neighbors were doing anti-soviet jokes in the hope of getting rid of them.

In a lot of post-soviet countries there was a lot the latter and none of the former (in fact, a lot of Russians think the former is "ratting out" and is immoral). In Russia there were numerous cases of people being killed or raped in places where dozens or hundreds could hear the screams for help, with no one actually calling the police. On the other hand, you can be pretty sure that shady stuff happening on a Western city street will lead to police response.

It's kinda hard to tell where the exact boundary between those two kinds of behaviors is, especially lately with all the pushback against drug prohibition (is reporting someone smoking a spliff in Stockholm moral?). But it exists.
I find pre-made slide formats like PowerPoint very difficult to pay attention to, both in an educational and workplace setting.

Overhead projectors that are written on while you are watching feel more interactive. I'm less likely to zone out or fall asleep when the content is actually being made in front of me, and can be changed dynamically based on questions from the audience.
The flipside is that I can't just sit and eat or drink in peace in the US.

I am either badgered because of a schedule ("how is everything?", inevitably mid-chew), or badgered to buy something ("another round?", "want to see the dessert menu?") or -- just as annoying -- totally invisible if I am judged as no longer having money-making potential.

"Good service" is relative. What I want is to make an order, enjoy myself, then leave, with a minimum of fuss. I need a waiter. I don't need a bestest buddy evar!!1! who dabbles in bringing me food and drinks as a hobby.
That has nothing to do with Chrome. It's bad (horrible!) web developers and their product. You can't blame Google or Chrome for that.

Good web developers create sites built toward standards, not browsers.

I occasionally read of people who claim such sites exist, and I'm sure they do, but I have as yet to find one while living on the web all day. (I'm a web developer.)
Putting aside the fact that a lot of progress in history (herbs and medicines) have been found exactly this way, through trial and error and some 'mystic' guess work.

I don't think we are close to understanding the brain either.
It cites Card himself which supports that, though:

>Despite their similar public image, however, every other element of Ender’s story is designed to show that in his case the image is not reality—he is not like Hitler or Stalin, exactly the opposite of what Radford claims.

Card's clearly trying to get people to agree with him that Ender is an "innocent killer", based solely on this quote.
Would you be willing to expand on some of the errors in the white paper? I’m admittedly not too familiar with the whitepaper (only skimmed it), but some of the other errors mentioned in this thread (for example, not including accumulated work of a chain in consensus calculations and only considering chain length) are pretty interesting.
Yes, pacing is a huge factor. Written notes naturally lend themselves to be written, and with the professor writing them live, you usually have time to write them down and think about what you're writing as you go.

I caught many small mistakes, missing signs etc, while taking notes. I would not have caught that when looking at some slide.
That does not say much.
I find it strange that nobody ever seems to mention python's concurrent.futures module [0] which is new in Python 3.2. I think asyncio got a lot of attention when it came out in Python 3.4 and concurrent.futures took a back seat. This article also doesn't mention the module in it's Python 2 and 3 differences link.

asyncio is a good library for asyncronous I/O but concurrent.futures gives us some pretty nifty tooling which makes concurrent programming (with ThreadPoolExecutor) and parallel programming (with ProcessPoolExecutor) pretty easy to get right. The Future class is a pretty elegant solution for continuing execution while a background task is being executed.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html
Most disposable stuff have no excuse anyways.
Well this will give some place for the output of FirstSolar Inc. two Vietnamese manufacturing plants to go. (2.4 GW DC capacity a year, all online from Q2 2019)

To be honest, nuclear industry hasn't done itself any favors by not building the plants they sold on anything close to time and budget. 15 to 20 years from idea to operation is just not nimble enough.

I don't even think that the all of the proposed coal power will all be build to completion and in operation for long just due to the infrastructure costs.
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Some cities in Pakistan actually seem to fade instead of getting brighter. I wonder why that is.
How to Relax for Developers
Dude, I'm trying to do this right now because of back pain and stuff.

It looks nice on paper but I have trouble focusing so when I actually get in the zone I tend to forget and hours go by, I only stop when I'm actually experiencing pain (an stimulus which reminds me to get back to reality).

Any tips?
It's still in the EU, and identity cards are valid within the EU.
http://goosh.org/ - Google command line.
I did not see the story, therefore I had no 'flagging' input into it, but based upon the "guidelines": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and your description of the story above, I'd bet that a few users felt it fell into this category:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Exactly, considering the nuclear power plants where a vague promise from 2007 to have a nuclear power plant at all. A promise that has now been revoked.

Now let's see if solar can meet it's promises.
So how does Abu Ghraib fit into this?
Experienced will tell you the refuse to release without X Y and Z because if B happens your server will crash.

Junior wont even know the problem and hack it together.

But hey, thats what reddit /r/askprogramming is for... right?
Halide is cool, but from when I last looked at it its best at optimizing for cache usage. For my example, there would have still been two round trips, but to L1 instead of something farther.

I've compared using GCC intrinsics vs what I would have wanted. It doesn't really get instruction scheduling right. Things like efficiently using pipelines by grouping, say, multiplication instructions and not stalling by ensuring the right number of cycles between them.

I have some specialised block matrix multiplication which basically never stall the processor. We're talking 10x speedups over optimized but general c++ code.
This is exactly wrong - sewage is far too concentrated, and there is a long history of slowly cleaning up raw sewage outflows in the EU. There's no way you'd be allowed to dump a dairy farm's effluent directly into the sea.
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It seems to be specific to certain pages. See here for one which redirects the other (normal) way: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45098190
Milgram's actual participants suffered.
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> Maybe not zombies, but premature deaths because they catered to niches that were too small successfully.

Imagine the PR they would attract if they were able to bring back Firefly. Especially given Nathan Fillion is a big-name actor now.
It has been flagged again
This is the cliche photo of the Belgian / Dutch border: https://www.blikopnieuws.nl/sites/default/files/styles/nieuw...
I don't think I've ever come across a toilet which would take a nappy ... I can imagine condoms and smaller items, but nappies would take a fair amount of effort to shove down.
That isn't an explanation. It's not like the video and audio evidence was just recently made, why was it withheld and what changed?
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Being able to be honest and give good advice is a luxury of having plentiful work options. I wasn't able to truly tell clients what I thought until a few years into my consulting career
Also a nice short talk by Caleb Hattingh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnMJMkhDoQ
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Let me say thanks for vocalizing the problems you were running into. Googling axios for the third time this week...
This does not make sense. Are you asserting that just because a study was done its conclusions must be held true, even if it is not reproducible or its methods later shown to be flawed? This is not science.

Presuming and asserting 'what people want' is not scientific. There is a process of peer review and reproducibility and if your study can't pass that process it is dismissed as false. This has nothing to do with what 'people want'.
But the Weinstein stories have been not flagged. That's why I ask: is there an implicit bias? Should one only post stories that support a certain narrative?
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At school (1991-1994), we had HP and Sun workstations. The HP were nicknamed the toasters because they were hot. The Sun were beautiful beasts. After power failure, we regularly had problems with Sun, never with HP. When we were downloading games from the net, it was easy to compile them on Sun, but was always a nighmare on HP (non standard includes, libraries, ...). I think HP is excellent about hardware, but terrible for software. I often see the similar problem for car makers: good cars but with a terrible computer.
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Same way anyone else will. Displacing demand to easier times. If most demand is aircon based then moving it to pre-cooling (make ice during day/defrost during evening) etc... and economics will do that for the largest consumers.

A bit of storage, and peaker plants. Storage kinds do not really mater as it is all about what is locally price efficient.

Otherwise, it is the same as the nuclear case. Production does not match demand curve so fix it with storage, pricing and other tools. (i.e. if nuclear is baseload something else needs to produce when demand peeks, which in other words makes it rather similar in practice (see also why all the pumped storage in the UK was build in the 60-80's))
1. They want to minimize the chance of the candidate declining. Every employer had a bunch of candidates go through the entire process (at the cost of multiple $k each) and then decline the offer, because you were a good boyscout and gave them their "market value" offer, exactly like all their other options, and slightly less than some. If I'm flush with cash, I may put a little extra on top of my offers, to ensure this doesn't happen, especially in a tight market where I'm competing against multiple other employers.

This is where your recruiters come in...

I have three criteria for choosing a job - technology, environment, and money in that order.

If three separate recruiters are representing separate companies and all other things are equal except the money (they rarely are), you tell the recruiter representing the job you want the most that you will take it if they can get you $market_value + $x.

I’ve had cases where the recruiting company offered me a signing bonus out of thier commission to convince me to take an offer. It didn’t work. Usually there is one company out of the offers that is offering a better tech stack/shorter commute/preferred environment.
The amount of privilege evident in this comment is absolutely astounding. You should be ashamed of yourself.
An individual isn't paying increased costs for parts for computer because the merchant was forced to sell parts to someone for free. A merchant might be making less on the marginal profit to a large vendor (or accept slight loss to benefit from the marketing of having a large customer), but I don't see it quite as bad for the little guy as it is in US healthcare.

Edit: I understand the analogy of a bigger buyer means better prices, but it's a little different too because the merchant of the computer parts can't bill the losses to the government who then pays via increased taxes. The pricing differences are astronomical too between what prices are given to people who want to pay cash versus via insurance or Medicare or Medicaid, it makes no sense.

I see the US healthcare market as the middle and lower middle class spending a larger portion of their wealth subsidizing the poor class while the upper middle and upper class spend a smaller portion of their wealth subsidizing the poor class because they can negotiate out of it, and they probably get better care too.

And this is all exacerbated because employers get to deduct health insurance premiums from taxes, while independent contractors buying insurance independently don't.
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Or Reader modes in Safari, Firefox, as mentioned.
For completeness sake, the story title was "Asia Argento, accused of rape of an underage boy, pays $380k deal to avoid trial (nytimes.com)" and pointed to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/asia-argento-assault-j...
One of the advantages of going digital is that you can distribute the slideshow files online.
They agree everywhere on their domain of definition by assumption. Multiplying by (x-1) doesn't change that. What this does change however is that the resulting functions can be continuously extended to x=1, and because they agree on a dense set (in this case everywhere else) the extended functions must agree as well.

In some sense agreeing on a dense set and being continuous are the minimum properties for this to hold, there are alternative ways to reach the same conclusion but those must be based on those or even stronger properties, if the functions are either not continuous or don't agree on a dense set around x=1 the proof fails.
Just for anyone curious there is attempt to build Babbage's Analytical Engine started by John Graham-Cumming's Plan 28 project[0]. Currently there is a lot of fragmented knowledge to be collected from the vast Babbage's writings.
To understand the size of the project here is the excerpt from their blog[1]:

>in the context of manufacturing methods Babbage calculates that the total number of teeth to be formed for a store with 1,000 registers would be 1,800,000.

[0] https://plan28.org/

[1] http://blog.plan28.org/2018/05/spring-2018-report-to-compute...
Well, it has a subway, which by definition puts it on the list of transit-friendly cities, as only a handful of North American cities do. One issue though is the 1998 amalgamation. Toronto used to be just the actual dense city part, well covered by transit, and now it includes many former suburbs which are far less dense and are almost entirely car-based.
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New evidence doesn't answer their question, why is their new evidence coming out to discredit this study now?
I would be surprised if they changed their mind, 3% in 12 years is already not much so that's definitely achievable.
Man pages have a certain style, reading them is a skill and takes practice. I'd encourage you to embrace them but like all skills, it takes practice!
It's a real blight on the web these days.

No, I don't want to install your bullshit app [0]. Stop wasting the real-estate at the top of my screen.

And at the bottom of the screen, they often have another floating bar, asking if I'm ok with cookies. (Of course, the website loads just fine without me having clicked 'Ok', so either they're asking permission for something that does nothing, or they're asking permission only after having done it.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162841
Nuclear hasn’t suffered because of environmentalists protesting.

Nuclear has suffered because it is expensive and uneconomical. The only way it is even feasible is by having laws that protect the owners from liabilities caused due to catastrophic failure.

Blaming environmentalists gives them way more power than they possess. Environmentalists have struggled to even stop pipelines running through the US whose sole purpose is to make Canada richer. Far more than environmentalists it’s NIMBY folks who have affected nuclear (but still not as much as basic economics).
I've been wondering whether a for-pay alternative to the open-source ecosystem could be developed.

The problem seems to be that open-source gratis software contributes nearly zero friction to a company building out its tech, so any alternative would have to compete against that near-zero friction. I just don't see each company negotiating separate prices with 100,000 package maintainers to use all of their software on a custom linux distro just for one of their internal servers or whatever. It's a tremendous amount of friction for each company to bear.

If that friction could be eliminated, while keeping a requirement to pay for use of the software, then I think a non-gratis ecosystem could dwarf the gratis software world within two or three years from its launch.