skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intimidating, shaming, and otherwise excluding people from the public sphere is "mechanically filtering?"

I don't support political violence either.

I'm glad to hear it. I wish I'd hear a lot more of that from the US political left. Have you ever experienced negative attention "just short of violence" from people who have an axe to grind, but who don't want to get in trouble from violence? I have. I've received such attention from people who had an axe to grind against homosexuals. I've received such attention from people who didn't like immigrants. In recent years, the most negative attention "just short of violence" I've received is from people on the far left of US politics.
Seems like a better response would be to prove your submarine is awesome than claim the detractor is a pedo. But I'm not the smartest man in the world.
Yeah, guides that cover what the Google Java guide does (capitalization, where verbs go) are plentiful.

The example that sent me down this rabbit hole was with in Java. I believe that:

foo.withBar(bar)

mostly is, and only should be used with immutable APIs (or maybe a builder method), but I've never been able to find a source that says it. I believe this is a sort of convention, but one I haven't seen stated.
This is exactly what will happen with UBI. Throwing more money at a problem through consumers only works when it results in an equal supply increase (such as food stamps and food production).
The law was not created to piss off the minority of users that do not use cookies or use plugins or extension to protect themselves, the law is intended for all users to be informed and to allow them to protect themselves.

There are many people, like my father that don't even realize that his data was collected and sold behind his back, hopefully we get some fines soon so the websites implement the law right.

What I do if I really want to read a news article I will open it in a private window, accept that crap and close the window when done, but most of the time I will not read that website and go to ones that respect the users like Europen new websites.
Evolutionary psychology and even game theory hint at the possibility that morality has objective qualities that are advantageous for (human) societies.
> React was a tool the community loved

AMP is a feature that users love. The difference between the two is that here there's a much higher ratio of developers, and most users don't realize when they are using AMP. If you gave them a comparison of a fast loading light page or not (just compare a site's page pre and post them deploying AMP capability), I'm confident this would be easily shown.

There are some problems with AMP, and there are some problems with how Google utilizes it, but it does help the problem of page bloat and slow loading pages.

> React's licensing switch was a liberation, this feels like appeasement.

A lot of the complaints are about Google's control over AMP, and how they might change it in the future in directions that are harmful for the minority. This does address that somewhat. I see them as very similar. Both are projects where a large company spurred release for their own reasons, but had to make it more open to appease the public and actually get more of the adoption they wanted.
French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon
Notarizing documents is a great example where some people think blockchain is a good use case, and it's never true.

Where would be the advantage of the scheme you describe to the current system? There is none. The system already works: people are given power to validate documents by the authority. The authority stores that centrally. The validation is mostly collected centrally. All stuff you can do perfectly fine without needing to run replicated servers storing an evergrowing immutable blockchain sipping authority from the real authority.

The current scheme allows things like secret notarization and revocation, stuff a blockchain is very bad at.

> it'll be up to the receiving agencies like England's government to decide "We trust the system the US uses to validate it's notiaries, so we'll add 'USRoxs' to our list of accepted Established Authorities (along with 'TheEnglish' of course)"

Countries already have systems in place to accept documents made in other countries. Works with official translators and stamps/seals of authenticity.

In better and funny: Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI
How Traditional Publishing Works
I'm curious what the win condition for this argument is. Obviously, no appeal to semantics is going to alter the business model of a wireless provider. Are you really just after them changing the word "unlimited" to something else?
How do you suppose the site make money off their visits? To me what you want sounds like freeloading.
SpaceX will fly Japanese billionaire as the first private tourist to the moon
I'm not interested in trying to reconstruct it from first principles.

Is it because it's quite obvious from common sense, and doing so reveals the hypocrisy in politics and social media today?
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U.S. judge will not force Georgia to use paper ballots despite concerns
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c++ static_if but for class members:

template<class Type>
class A
{

if constexpr (std::is_same<Type, int>::value)
{
int a;
}

}
As someone who knows basically nothing about designing electronic devices, my initial thought is 3 rows of 7 coils or 3 rows of 8 coils? This wouldn't make it a range, though, so much as an either/or situation.
They use a grid of coils. By activating multiple adjacent coils, it behaves like one big coil. From a physics perspective it's really neat: the magnetic fields of opposing currents in adjacent wires should cancel. But the price you pay is that you have the charging current flowing through more length of wire, and more resistive losses (heat).
There is OpenBSDs signify which is used for their packaging: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html

https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1

There's also a NIH version of this that I and a friend put together:
https://github.com/ruuda/tako
Any idiot can create a blockchain though, so which one do you trust?

And you’re back to square one
Many knowledge starts with noticing correlation.
The guidelines ask specifically that you not insinuate the person you're arguing with failed to read the article.
I'm interpreting "creative and fun" as either synonymous with "overly clever" (which is hard to read, hard to debug, and hard to maintain [0][1]), or written a non-standard way just for the sake of being different. For example, here's a collection of FizzBuzz solutions[2]. Most of these are incredibly unreadable.

[0]https://www.simplethread.com/dont-be-clever/

[1]http://www.delabs.io/clever-code-is-bad-code/

[2]https://ditam.github.io/posts/fizzbuzz/
A couple of earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13671016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179336
Or to have voting on a day when most of the population is working, for states that don’t do vote by mail.

In this country, ease of voting is not prioritized.
Is it ok to say "you get a discount if you allow being tracked"? As a practical matter, these places need to earn money to exist, so either you get served ads or you pay directly. It's highly unreasonable to expect free service.
Any way you can make that permission optional? I suspect there are a lot of people who may not know or care about Drive integration and as a result may not want to grant full Drive access.
Ah nice, didn't know that. Thanks!
Signify: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan-signify.html
Tesla Says It Is Cooperating with Justice Dept. Inquiry
I've been thinking, what if a city replaced vehicles with electric golf carts, atvs, scooters, and the like? I think that could work out pretty well.
> GDPR does explicitly legislate against all that - dialogues should be "opt-in"

That's can't be a real part of GDPR, can it? I don't see how you can fine someone for shitty website design.
As some one who usually hates on the blockchain, this actually sounds like a very reasonable use for it. It's a solid step up from the current system of embossed seals, the only potential pitfall it adds is some additional complexity (but I can very easily imagine platforms taking that on, ala DocuSign but for Notaries). My only concern is how this would fare out in an a court system that is constantly behind the times.
The landlord will be ahead while tech workers attempt to catch up.
One Inbox feature I'd love to be pulled into Gmail is attachment previews. It looks like Gmail has quick links to attachments from your inbox, but that doesn't give nearly as much information as a preview - image/video thumbnail, calendar appointment details, shipped order info, etc.

In terms of Gmail achieving the same clean interface as Inbox, for me there are two key reasons I think Inbox's interface is much "cleaner" than Gmail:

Inbox:
- Most of the screen is whitespace
- Most features are / can be hidden unless I want them

Gmail:
- There's text/icons covering nearly every inch of the screen
- Most features are always shown on the screen whether or not I want them

Here are some changes that I think would give Gmail Inbox's "clean" look:
- Add a big margin to the left/right of emails on the desktop (whitespace)
- Give me the option to hide:
1. The left bar (unread count / red dots, chat - I don't use those things 99% of the time I use email)
2. The three icons at the left of messages (I never use those)

Other (probably less important) things I think make Inbox cleaner than Gmail:
- Infinite scroll vs. page turner
- Showing sender icons to quickly identify who an email's from
- This one might just be me being used to Inbox, but the white background behind emails in the inbox vs. the gray background
Would probably make more sense to choose some hexagonal pattern.
SuperHuman – better Inbox/Gmail/Mailbox
> The notaries can then add a record on the block chain saying roughly "I do notarization act X on document Y" (It'll be the equivalent of what they enter in their log books today and there will be some corresponding stamp that they'll stamp the physical document with, like they do today). They could now even notarize digital documents by including a hash of the digitized document in their record.

> Finally, the agency receiving the notarized document (digital or electronic) can easily go onto the blockchain and verify that the document was indeed notarized as claimed and that the notarization is not a forgery.

Or, they could just sign it using their key using old school public key cryptography. If you want to check if a notary is real just use certificate chains, just like for TLS.

What is unique to blockchain is trustless timestamping but timestamping services work very well in the X.509 world and are used for example for code signing (so that even if your certificate expires the signature is valid).
Eh, I didnt really need a "peer" to replace reddit. After the redesign I just stopped going for the most part; I'm here or on google news if I'm just killing time. I'll still search reddit if I want to see a discussion about a specific subject, but even then I'm mostly looking at 1-2 year old threads. I feel like the content is in a feedback loop with the redesign, and they're both killing the host.
Often it's just that the two companies are aware of each other's policies. If they've heard of Company B and know it has a non-compete they just reject you.
Short sellers are not mean, it's a good thing they exist. They're calling out companies they believe have serious problems, to the benefit of shareholders who are being misled.
My point was that even if true (what Musk said) he showed his pettiness in getting involved with someone that criticized him. As for the libel amount in USA, there's a limit too. Even if the jury goes haywire judges and appeal courts intervene.

As for the truth...we don't really know until there's discovery
Not enough info in the article to form a judgement.
That's a decent benefits package... for the USA. But you can do far better in parts of Europe. It depends on where you want that work/life balance.
Container ship crosses Arctic route for first time in history
In low-level languages, an index is literally a pointer offset. p[n] is *(p+n), and 0 makes sense. In higher-level languages, it's a less direct dereference that may or may not be directly mapped in a similar fashion.

Since there's a real basis for 0-indexing and none for 1-indexing, obviously 0 is right.
Linux Community to Adopt New Code of Conduct
> Experiments are reproducible

Not nitpicking (at least that's not my intent), just adding: Only if you know what the variables are.

This occurred to me because I'm myself an interesting medical case beating even a professor of medicine's prediction, as well as independent ones from various doctors about other things that turned out to be symptoms of the same underlying chronic poisoning issue that I had to diagnose myself, and only then find the right specialist for it. There has been sooo much interesting stuff going on in my body during years of slow recovery (and a few "miracles" that left doctors literally speechless), but I would not be able to say how you could repeat the "experiment". Too little is known about any of what goes on inside me right now, my doctor (researcher at university clinic) has long ago admitted that we left the area of known study-supported medicine behind.

I suspect a few mechanisms based on observing myself that I have no way and no idea how to prove. So I'm of course not certain what I can claim, or what exactly happened, but neither would I know how to repeat my personal experiment even if human experiments were possible. It's just too much unknown territory. And in the end my experiences will all be lost, unfortunately.

An example for something I suspect: Some diseases like the common cold may not always be orthogonal and superfluous. In my case, over the years, I got more and more the impression that it actively helped my body to get rid of what was stored over decades. I suspect that everything is much more intertwined and connected and not separate. One prediction I could make based on this suspicion is that if we were to be able to eliminate mild diseases like the cold completely we would get more serious diseases or other issues down the road. That's not a practical experiment though, maybe some large-scale observational studies can get some hints one way or the other, but it will be too messy and too uncertain for anything even close to a definite proof or disproof.

Another thing I suspect is that even very low level exposure (far below officially allowed levels) to heavy metals has very real consequences - it's just that on an individual basis we are almost utterly unable to show it. We can do it only on a population basis, and we all know how messy that is with all the known and unknown confounders.
We'd ban someone just for quoting Nietzsche? What an idea.
You can definitely care about #5 without caring about #2:

Morphing my search results into a captive newsreader gives me a demonstrably terrible experience browsing to sites on my phone. The swipe-back gesture is broken, scrolling doesn't move the safari borders away like it's supposed to, there's a big AMP border I can't get rid of, swiping just moves between results instead of going back (or did they "fix" this?), the URL bar shows google.com instead of the site, making it harder to share, etc etc.

I don't care that they're "stealing traffic", I care that my mobile experience is demonstrably worsened.
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For the record GnuPG supports ed25519 keys for some time so there is no need to use RSA.
The ones on my car do.
They should add regex search support first before this stuff.
I would never equate "considering" with "of course".
The S&P doesn't have expenses. A house does, on the order of 1% annually.
Such toys for dev? Not sure what do you code but I think an used power ultrabook should suit you better.

I own two refurbished Dell E7240, i7 4600U with 3.3GHz boost on single core (compilation!), 16GB RAM, 256SSD, Ethernet, USB3, no joke dongles. Xubuntu, Win10 in VirtualBox, Java, IDEA flies on it. It is quite light (12.5", ~3lbs) and cheap (~$350) that I don't worry to throw it straight into bike bag. Then stock Dell ~$15 docking station and 27" IPS panel greets it at the office.
The difference between "stealing traffic" and the "Google Search Mobile is a captive newsreader" is nuanced.

It's surprising and upsetting to people when they find out that in Google Search Mobile, their attempt to navigate to an AMP-lightning-marked search result doesn't result in a navigation to the target site, while an attempt to navigate to a non-AMP search result does go to the target site, as one would damn well expect. It's upsetting, because the designers of Google Search Mobile have gone through great lengths to hide the fact that the navigation didn't occur, and have adopted UI elements that intentionally try to mimic familiar navigation cues from browsers, rather than playing up the fact that they're viewing proxied content in a wrapping frame.

On the other hand, the 'stealing traffic' critique is memetic from a catchy title by a much-revised blog post, and seems to genuinely be upset that bytes that would ordinarily be transferred between the end user and the article's originating host stop short of of the distant origin [1], and get served from a Google-owned CDN instead. It's a technically unsound mishmash of complaints, most probably deriving from the aforementioned behavior of the Google Search Mobile page, but imbued with the subtext that Google is exploiting publishers by providing a CDN. That's absurd. Maybe Google's exploiting publishers with its captive newsreader, but not by providing a CDN.

[1] https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-...
> If I'm reading you correctly, your actual point of contention is “nonidentical icon/text without a much larger color/layout difference looks sufficiently similar in overall appearance as to be essentially identical for the purpose of conditioning users who aren't intentionally looking”.

Yes, the decision seems to be intentionally making them confusing. That or else I can only assume they didn't really think through the design decision much.

However, my understanding is that Google is intending the EV company info to be removed from the address bar altogether in a future release. Both of these decisions seem to be poor choices, in my opinion, and I think it is a loss of useful information.

By contrast, Safari 12 no longer displays the EV company name in the address bar, however EV certs result in the lock and domain name being green, and if you click on it, you get a nice popup explaining what legal entity the certificate is issued to. In Chrome, to get that information you have to dig a few levels deep, expanding a tree control and understand X.509 certificate fields.

Based on that changes that are being made in Chrome, it seems they want it to be difficult to learn what information is contained within the cert. But then the rationale is that no one understands what EV certificates means. If there was an honest effort in helping users understand security, I would think their experiments would involve making it easier to find certificate details and understand them, not remove them and make them similar to non-secure sites. This is why I said in my original comment "Hopefully there will be some sort of push for useful additions to certificate security coming out of Google, as right now they seem more determined to just be undermining things."

It isn't too far a stretch to think that the lack of effort in improving he display of certificate information and trying to downplay URLs is because Google wants more users to become more dependent on them as the way to find and authenticate web sites.
I use uMatrix, which makes JS opt-in rather than opt-out. It’s a hassle, but I get to choose to enable content I want while blocking trackers and bloat.

It’d be great if those portions just weren’t transferred to me.
Seems like a good time to re-post this rant by James Howard Kunstler on what's wrong with modern USA urban planning:

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
GitHub is building some amazing stuff recently, I guess now that Microsoft is going to acquire them, there's far less pressure on making Github Enterprise profitable..
Lol you technologists are payed by advertising money. Inconvenient truth.
Regarding Iowa farmland...

https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/html/images...

But to your broader point, predicting where growth will occur, is literally the definition of investing. Investment is the allocation of capital towards areas of growth. Luckily, the global economy has generally grown over time, which means that generally investments such as real estate tend to grow as well, and faster than inflation.

I’ve gotta say, I appreciate your thoughts and perspective, but you’re going to miss out on a lot of growth if you only believe in investing in utilities companies and TIPS.
If I recall correctly luajit was removed from those benchmarks, for reasons I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it was to do with including only the 'standard' interpreter for a language?
You can now use Google Maps with Apple’s CarPlay in iOS 12
Could they not convert to third rail?
Sure, multiple decades sounds about right (as opposed to current confusing statements like "has full self driving capabilities").
I'm not sure what the blockchain part is for? Digital signatures + if you want a public list Certificate-Transparency-style logs (alternatively potentially timestamping services) seems like they'd do the same?
I agree! How about this:

Start with a price that is the lowest price in the cohort/market band that you are interested in and then work your way to the top as you get settled in.

I'm a big fan of the inner game, IMHO folks should operate where they feel comfortable so they can rid themselves of impostor syndrome and get more confident over time.

But yeah, do like compete.com did move from a $49 price point over time all the way up to $1,000+! That's fine by me ;)
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I tried using this for a project a few months ago. On paper it sounds great, but I kept running into issues with their goofy schema system. It brought back bad memories of working with AD and LDAP. I ended up rolling my own (simpler) version with DynamoDB.

That said, it looks like they've somewhat addressed that problem with their automatic schema upgrades. If they were able to add Lambda integration I'd give it another look.
What a rude way to end a discussion. I took the time to back to primary sources to inform my responses to you. You owed me better than this kind of snark.
How about on Twitter?
Las Vegas High-Speed Rail Venture Gets New Owner
I don't know if it's still there, but when I visited Infinite Loop 4 back in 2012, printed on the wall was one of my favorite Jobs' quotes:

"If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."
It seemed like such a stupid patent because it was a stupid patent. These are exactly the kinds of patents that represent what's wrong with our patent system.
What I meant was that the crypto primitives (the implementation of the math) is good enough for the application, the use/assembly of them (eg: the system) leaves much to be desired.

This also only applies to the algorithms that are currently considered not weak.
As a user, I really like AMP. It converts terrible web experiences into non-terrible ones because it forcibly removes the rope for major websites to hang themselves with.

As a developer, most of my concerns with AMP are with it being very Google centric and controlled - and the addition of Cloudflare didn't really solve those for me. Seeing AMP move to a TSC however does, and I really hope that it helps AMP become a globally adopted standard instead of a "Google thing".