skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why does a college need a building that costs a large fraction of a billion dollars?

It's the end result of applying capitalism to all human activities. Schools have to compete for students and they do so with activities that prospective students and parents will respond to. It's also why health care costs are higher when privatized, they're similar "markets".
China's clampdown on Tor pushes its hackers into foreign backyards
There are plenty of poisonous plants. This is not one of them, and that's a poor argument to make against the mounting evidence that people are finding valid medical and therapeutic relief from cannabis, and it's an even worse argument in the face of how cannabis has been historically used to paint early 20th century negroes as unhinged savages that terrorize and victimize white communities from being "addicted" to the devils lettuce. See also: "reefer madness"

THAT is my issue with that topic. Not just that it's a plant but the very way you've argued against it and the wholesale ignoring of how that prohibition was used to disenfranchise and disempower feeding into Ameria's current incarceration obsession because of a plant.

Alas we're straying from the central of the thread right now.
It's the way our "Developed World" functions now - growth above all else.

My brother recently built a house, and the taxes and fees from the local city council are sky high. Of course, the city council did just build themselves a lavish new office building for $20M that looks like it belongs in a contemporary art museum.

It's no secret if they had just built a nice and functional building with the same office space for $10M everyone would be paying less city rates.
But that's not how our world works.
I don't disagree. I have started using Firefox as my primary browser again.
No, in fact it's been a selling point in our hiring. Rust seems to jive with a wider audience, it has aspects of FP, C++, and the tooling solves a lot of pain points for more seasoned developers and has energized some of our employees who felt burnt out on pushing our older services forward.
I used to take long walks on my breaks, scarf down my lunch just to have more time.
> And that's where hands come up empty.

there seems to be a presupposition here that the the 'natural' proportion of women software engineers is 50%.
How can you say it's less universal when it doesn't work on windows?
If I had to guess, I'd say TLS probably isn't the weakest link...

You ever wonder what's happening on the back end of some of these sites running with ancient certs?
Would you have any sort of stats on your productivity with C++ vs. Go vs. Rust?
Got it, didn't realize OIN was so specific to Linux.
Ancient “comic strip” depicts the founding of a Roman city
Do we need to use caps for SQL keywords? My understanding is that it served a purpose back in the days of monochrome screens, but modern IDEs colour the keywords so caps are now redundant. Though I don't use caps even without colouring, I find them just a nuisance.
Their public transit and food kitchen access is more important than your wife being able to walk to the supermarket without getting hollered at.
There’s a new report on SLS rocket management, and it’s pretty brutal
The article must have a clear section describing the algorithm and then a section describing the implementation. Otherwise it is difficult to understand the algorithm and the merits of the Scala implementation.
Check out the whitepaper on GODcoin Cryptocurrency [pdf]
The way you do evolutionary psychology scientifically is that you think about which physiological traits ought to have been produced by selective pressure and then check your predictions. Coming up with a post hoc justification after the evidence is in just isn't science.
The president doesn't have to consult anyone

The sec of defense has to confirm the presidents identity but not the wisdom of the order

Radiolab did a story on this and a former secretary of state confirmed it

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/nukes

The principle for the army to not obey unlawful orders is the only legal way to stop a president from launching nukes. And that is very much a grey area (as to what is an unlawful order).

Nixon's aides made sure he wouldn't launch nukes when he was unstable but did so in an illegal manner
What is "vulture investing?"
Boring Company should build one for shipping containers. Compete with the border patrol traffic jam on the highway.
> The only product of spending the energy is a proof that the energy was spent

yes, and if that proof has value - then it's not a waste!

> there is no relationship between the absolute energy spent and the utility of the network

of course there is - security of the blockchain is proportional top energy spent mining it.

> higher the difficulty the more energy wasted in order to maintain the status quo

you got this backwards, difficulty goes higher because more energy is spent (or there is breakthrough in mining efficiency like cpu->gpu, gpu->fpga, fpga->asic, see next paragraph). and miners spend more energy because market tells them it values the security / utility / w/e of the bitcoin more.

> introduction of more efficient hardware into the network increases overall energy consumption because everyone else without cutting edge ASIC technology has to increase their energy output to compensate for the increase in hash rate

this makes no sense.. introduction of more efficient hardware increases the difficulty, not total energy spent. inefficient miner will remain inefficient and not-profitable no matter how much energy they will be spending.
Blame it on the auto industry they created the idea "jay-walking" which was introduced in the 1920's by them part of a propaganda campaign to claim the roads for cars and shift the blame in accidents from cars to pedestrians. They forced other countries some in the middle east to abandon public transport to promote cars. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
It’s a sign of trust and respect to invest heavily into institutions you believe in. You want that building to feel like forever and the costs skyrocket when you no longer use mass market materials.

That said, institutions are quick to exploit this romanticism and things start to lose perspective.
> I'd love to fund a startup fixing this problem

I know a great way you can get the funding you need....
> The special thing about Tokyo's rail system is not that it's private, but that the railroads are the primary landowners around the rail stations, which was never true in New York.

They also don't have the TWU, whose unchecked corruption would be capable of destroying the public transit system of any city in any country, given the opportunity.
For what little it's worth I send good vibes their way and I hope what they've lost comes back to them 3x.
Poverty[1]:

For the period 2008-12-

- Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000).

- Persons in poor households had a higher rate of violence involving a firearm (3.5 per 1,000) compared to persons above the FPL (0.8-2.5 per 1,000).

- The overall pattern of poor persons having the highest rates of violent victimization was consistent for both whites and blacks. However, the rate of violent victimization for Hispanics did not vary across poverty levels.

- Poor Hispanics (25.3 per 1,000) had lower rates of violence compared to poor whites (46.4 per 1,000) and poor blacks (43.4 per 1,000).

- Poor persons living in urban areas (43.9 per 1,000) had violent victimization rates similar to poor persons living in rural areas (38.8 per 1,000).

- Poor urban blacks (51.3 per 1,000) had rates of violence similar to poor urban whites (56.4 per 1,000).

[1] https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137
It's hard to let past Ballmer / Gates era sins go, and I'll probably take a lot of heat here, but moves like this continue to reinforce the Nadella era is truly serious about advancing OSS both within Microsoft and within the broader community.
> An American friend of mine is terrified of going into cities; it's bizarre. I've spent a lot of time in American cities, in all sorts of neighborhoods; I've never had a problem.

Speak for yourself. I lived in downtown Atlanta from 2008-2012. In that time, someone broke into the building I lived in and robbed the person in the room below me at gunpoint. I also saw someone get bashed in the head with a rock. And my sister in law’s neighbors were robbed at gunpoint while trick-or-treating. There were two children in that group. She also had a lawyer acquaintance who was taken out by someone for hire on the sidewalk in the middle of the day. Oh, and my friend’s boyfriend was robbed on the sidewalk at gunpoint at 5:00 PM right next to rush hour traffic.

I’ve been in San Francisco for a little while now and don’t feel significantly safer. It’s easy to say there are no problems when nothing has happened to you personally.
And their behavior recently:

- Data collection

- Forced installs

- Android shakedown

Looks like some progress is being made, however.
>How many of those projects are useful outside of Azure/Windows?

VSCode alone is one of it not the most active projects on github (depending on the metric), and is a general purpose code editor equally stable on Windows/Linux/Mac. Yes, they have plugins you can install for Azure/VSTS/etc, but you can also install plugins for BitBucket, GitHub, AWS, GCE, or ~whatever you want. It's pretty generically useful. I think.

I read this list as, 'Yea, they're helping OSS.. but they make a profit also!' OSS does not mean you can't make a profit.
In Modern Perl (5) you use a module such as [Moose](https://metacpan.org/pod/Moose) or if that's too heavy for you [Moo](https://metacpan.org/pod/Moo).

You rarely write accessor methods yourself in Perl 5. In Perl 6, you describe your accessors/mutators in the class definition:

class Pointer {
has $.x; # a ro accessor
has $.y is rw; # a rw mutator
}

Which, by the way, is now faster than Perl 5.
I think colleges are doing these things because of federally guaranteed student loans, because of the following chain of events:

1. Students are price insensitive for college if they don't have to pay for it up front.

2. Banks are incentivized to loan unlimited money to students because the federal government guarantees the loans with zero exceptions-- the bank gets repaid no matter what, so it's very low risk.

3. Colleges and universities are incentivized to increase tuition, because the demand curve is almost completely flat because of 1 and 2.

The solution seems obvious to me: stop guaranteeing student loans, and stop subsidizing them. But nobody want to do it because it's political suicide.
Yes, but these are two sides of the same coin: being able to inject code dynamically in a way that cannot be statically checked at compilation time results in code that will cause runtime errors if there are issues (even basic issues). Also, I would argue that your use of the words "tie the code together" implies something that isn't actually occurring. With a static type system, verifying that code is using the correct types for classes, methods, functions, etc. is not binding them together in any way. If you drop down to assembler, you can do anything you want with any of it, just as you would with a dynamic language. A static type system is simply a compile-time integrity check on the validity of your code.

Also, the de-coupling and modularization of functionality has been a thing long before dynamic languages became so popular. You simply need an FFI, and then the compiler makes sure that everything is straight before you get anywhere near deployment.
https://outline.com/gdSGwm
Can the USGS conduct some seismic tests along the US-Mexico border that would identify these types of man-made changes?
It’s not clear to me that $180 million is an unreasonable amount of money to spend on a state-of-the-art building with multiple music studios and dance halls, necessary for music or dance programs that the school (presumably) offers. Between the tuition the students pay, grants from government, and potential commercial use of the space (for concerts, shows, etc.) it’ll likely pay for itself soon enough.

Also bear in mind - while still pricy, higher education in Canada is leagues cheaper than in the US. My degree from UofT - usually internationally ranked among or at least near the Ivy Leagues - was about $5000 a year.

So I’m not sure this belongs in the same category of educational institution excess or Bermuda Triangle of finance stuff you’re talking about.
While reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow" I was astonished by the priming effects, and the confidence with which Kahneman presented information about priming. I became obsessed with the priming concept and began doing further research, only to find countless articles discounting priming's legitimacy. I haven't been able to pick up the book since, because of the way in which the information was presented as sure fact, when in reality the research was early and inconclusive.
Incorrect. Damore's paper was focused on why women _choose_ not to go into tech, not that those women who go into tech are worse at it. Please do not promulgate this misrepresentation.
Specifically a "Linux System" as defined by OIN.
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In Brazil we see the name of recipient and we must inform the identity of the recipient (11 digits for persons, 14 for businesses) and everything has single or double check digits.
The Ikea app can do this for furniture. I know hololens can do this for larger objects but I don't know enough about its "app store" to know if there's one for architecture. http://elevr.com/experimental-still-lifes-and-landscape-inte...
Great points. A third reason is core files: That 1 TB of unused virtual memory will be written out to the core file, which will take forever and/or run out of disk. This is part of the problem of running with the address sanitizer: you don't get core files on crashing, because they'd be too big.
# No country that has ever tested 1 weapon- leave alone 6, and gotten to quite sophisticated designs- has ever given them up

South Africa did give up its nuclear weapons. Complete disarmament.
Researchers have just detected mysterious radio signals from deep space
Yup. There's a wide variation within all people as to how each brain processes perception. For example, some dudes can't remember what a car looks like or are bad with directions.
>it’ll likely pay for itself soon enough.

Thats the problem though right? "Paying for itself" means students paying higher costs which is the problem.
Microsoft has been pretty toxic recently regarding what they’re doing with Windows 10 and it’s privacy implications, the Skype dumpster fire, etc. Do you really want to contribute to this?
Agreed.

Nuclear weapons are equalizers among nations like handguns are equalizers among men. The people most vulnerable don't want to be picked on so they arm themselves if they can. Big nations pick on small nations when they know they won't get hurt doing so. Look at Iraq and Libya.
The targeting systems from the 70s 80s were good enough to be in use still today because as far as the nuclear arsenal goes they are.

Don’t confuse the development of guided conventional munitions with nuclear ones it’s a completely different ball game.

Costs and size don’t mean much for nukes, nukes also can’t use GPS, CCD sensor or any other “modern” guidance system due to reentry and many other factors.
Look at the email image in the lower portion of the article. All the attacker needed to know was the accounts-payable email address for MacEwan, the true accounts-receivable address for the builder, a reasonably similar domain (.com -> .us) for spoofing, and a convincing email body.

That is a frighteningly easy bar to clear, so it's reasonable to say this was human error more than a problem with information security.
Indeed,

It seems logical for out-and-out fraud to muscle in on "pork" situations. The university is building a status symbol, as much for the prestige of the administration as for any use. They're likely sending the contract to "friends" since they're clearly not terribly concerned with cost-benefits. So you wind-up with a bunch of money just bleeding out with little oversight. And so someone takes even more "initiative" and just scams some of those millions away. Maybe that someone even had some acquaintance with the whole scheme.

Yes, overt crime thrives in a situation of "generalized corruption".
I would guestimate the answer is yes. Having an animated or visual affordance to locate the cursor might be helpful to many people.
> Linux was supposed to be about choice, remember?

Free software was never supposed to be about choice, not sure where that idea came from. It's about freedom.
What do you find so shitty about MP3, are you morally opposed to it's origin/licensing?

Quality wise for listening you aren't going to tell the difference between a -v0 MP3 and FLAC even if you think otherwise. For anyone that wants to claim otherwise, unless you've had someone setup an A/B test with a significant amount of cases you're falling victim to placebo.

I say this as a professional audio engineer, who long ago would always seek out FLAC. Now, unless I need to edit or re-encode a file the MP3 is just as good, far from shitty.
If you have a ICO startup it would be pretty stupid to be in the USA.
Are there really? Some tech companies have hundreds of billions in the bank and nowhere to put it. And probably have the lobbyists and political connections to grease the wheels and get things done for a favorable environment.

Hell, even conservatives might go along as long as the government is giving tax breaks to "job creators".
What came first? Was the cast of Revenge of the Nerds all males because nerds were males and art was depicting reality, or did only men start becoming nerds become this movie had an all-male cast? I get being envious of people who had a head start with computers and feeling behind. I had zero coding experience before my first CS class in college. It sucked, but I grinded through it. It's relatively easy to catch up with determination. Probably going to be an unpopular opinion.
Trump won by around 80k votes in 3 states. Very small changes would have produced a dramatically different outcome. For example, if you'd had the same election with the projected demographics of 2020 (remove all of the people who died between 2016 and 2020, add in voters who were [14,18) in 2016, naturalized citizens, greater proportion of gen x and millennials etc..), its likely he would have lost (note this isn't the same thing as saying he's guaranteed to lose in 2020). If you had the 2016 election with the demographics of 2024, he definitely would have lost.

As it stands, Trump has absolutely abysmal approval ratings for such a strong economy. If we have a recession sometime before he leaves office, I think a complete Democratic takeover of the House Senate, and Presidency is very likely.

Right now 538 is showing around an 80% chance that Republicans lose the House next month.
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[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-Quoras-Be-Nice-Be-Respectful-p...
Great point. Javascript behavioral tracking and shadow profiles gave advertisers and various experts (psychologists, sociologists etc) both the incentive and the unprecedented ability to perform experiments on hundreds of thousands of clueless people. All that in real time, in their "natural" environment, with real stakes. Of course we can model this type of economics better than we did 10-20 years ago.
Bought by Sears in 2002 for $2B cash. Current market cap is ~$468M. Ouch.
That's part of the reason. But why do costs go down for some things and up for other things when capitalism is applied? Because some markets' demand, like education and the current healthcare market, is not sensitive to price.
Solar Cycle 24, in X-Ray Vision
My pet peeve is “us vs. them” mentality. The persistent need for an “enemy” that we good guys are opposed to. the flavor-of-the-month/year/decade tech company tribalism.

That is, people who speak positively of <for-profit corporation we currently like> are wholesome and motivated only by spreading truth. People who speak positively of <for-profit corporation we don’t currently like> are astroturfers and shills.

Definitely not unique to HN.
No. The demo survey is the last piece of the application process. Once completed your application was finalized, processed, and the rejection email is sent.

If they ask the demo questions before interview it is likely to lead into accusations of bias.

Now, if pushed to court, they will have paper to backup that you were rejected at stage X, before the demo survey was sent.
Chris Hedges on His Latest Book, America: The Farewell Tour
>Crime as at generational (multi-generational?) lows

Crime rates were much lower before about 1960, and are often argued to have been similarly low in the early 20th century and late 19th century.

There are a variety of suggested causes, but the most obvious one is heroin, which became a drug of abuse in the '10s, disappeared during WWII, and then came roaring back. It's difficult for modern Westerners to imagine a time before heroin, but it makes sense to me that crime rates would have been lower. The feelings associated with being a good person are usually enough to motivate people to be good, but they don't hold a candle to heroin's flamethrower. This hypothesis also explains Japan and Australia's relative safety, since geography is on their side.
I love how HN is actually done. How often does one give oneself permission to call anything but the smallest project done? I know I rarely do. It seems very healthy, for both the community and for Paul Graham individually, that something like HN can be done.
To test Chrome with the new behavior, launch with the following command line flags:

$ google-chrome --flag-switches-begin --enable-features=LegacySymantecPKI --flag-switches-end

Feature flags are global, so make sure that you are launching a new instance of chrome and not opening a new window in an existing instance. Note that a domain's certificate validation status is cached, so you may need to clear history or use incognito mode to test the new business logic.

If you need to re-enable the old behavior after version M70 is released, use the following command line flags:

$ google-chrome --flag-switches-begin --disable-features=LegacySymantecPKI --flag-switches-end

These command line flags are undocumented and may change at any time.
It's a conundrum. Do you not work on it, and have innocent people accidentally killed? Or do you work on it, and have innocent people purposefully killed?
Videos of simulated gravitational lenses (in French)
The problem is the worlds 'state of the art'.

You don't need a lot of space for dance halls and music studios for under 2000 students. People add sound insulation to existing rooms at relatively low cost and it's cheaper when your starting from scratch.

So, in terms of education they really could have done the same thing for under 50 million, but why build a utilitarian box when you want to attract students.
> gets the meaning of C's static exactly backwards

Which one? It has multiple.

First, there is storage duration:

C99 6.2.4 "There are three storage durations: static, automatic, and allocated."

Variables with external linkage defined at file scope are static in the sense that they have static storage duration; it is not incorrect to call them static variables, though a bit unusual. If they have external linkage, it's more common just to call them globals.

The static storage class specifier keyword used at file scope causes a name to have internal linkage. In a block scope, it requests the above static storage duration.
X.org Developpers Conference 2018 videos available
The linked article from 2013 is worth a read, too: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/03/bugs/
4chan doesn't have reply notification either and I wonder if the theory applies there..
Is an externally-hosted subdomain a security risk?