skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a good engineer who is constantly tutoring the bad instead of building things, then you are losing a good portion of value (the $10m that would've otherwise been created) by the good engineer. This is not as big a problem for Google with thousands of engineers but is a huge problem in smaller startups.
More taxes. That's the answer. How has the government spent our taxes so far?
It could be worse.

I had a low-end Chromebook that I bought to put Linux on it. Part of the reason for this was that I needed a wi-fi repeater and extra screen for my dev machine.

A long time later my needs changed and I switched back to running ChromeOS. This install was because I wanted to gift the Chromebook to a friend. So we tested YouTube and the Chromebook was mute. It turned out that installing Linux fried something inside and only a new motherboard would fix that.

Luckily I was still on the right side of the warranty expiring, therefore, with no love for the shop I bought it from, I decided to try my luck at getting it repaired. The machine came back box fresh with superb sound. So I was able to gift a 'brand new' machine (which happens to still be on sale) rather than some hand-me down.

I am still on Chromebook Pixel 2013 vintage and very happy with it, the Pixelbook was 'meh' to me even though I think I really need one. I was disappointed that they did not go 8th generation Intel with the CPU during this year's product launches for the Pixelbook. So I am now viewing my Pixel (2013) as a future classic, not that computers have this status (Apple 1, Altair excepted). I think Pixelbooks will also have this status but I don't see an 'investment opportunity' in getting one in the hope it will be worth $$$ in decades to come.
Included in inflation measurement ( https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_09132018.htm ), but alas it's not perfect, because employer paid portion is increasing, but it's not counted. (A methodology change can be easily argued for, the BEA had a healthcare expeditures price index, but it stopped updating it in 2014.)
Show me where they notified others taking part of their patents or intent to patent. They sought out academics and invited them to take part. Yes I was naive, but I also felt rather mislead.

The GenomSys patents aren't even listed in the ISO patent list yet: https://www.iso.org/iso-standards-and-patents.html

I don't know if this is against ISO rules - it is unclear to me whether they only need to add their patents on grant, rather than submission.

The only reason I discovered these was due to an accidental hit from a Google Scholar alert. I didn't even realise it searched patents when I set that up.
Aside from anything else, you've gotta love a book on something as poorly-understood as "intelligence" that comes with an appendix of "Testable Predictions".

His theories may be right or wrong, but he's doing science right.
MIT: cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA for dangerous pathogens
> The whole point of link shortening on a social network is to improve security and reduce abuse.

How does link shortening do that?
Fundamental economics are missing from our education system.

Supply and demand is a foreign concept to many.
We got cable in 1981 and it was exactly this. None of the “cable” (premium) channels had ads. Some of them, like Nickelodeon, did add ads in the late 80’s.
What you're arguing seems absurd to me. Auto-play is just playing the next episode in a series, that is what I chose to watch.

I don't need Netflix to "make sure that you enjoy the product and continue subscribing" by making my viewing experience worse, when I run out of stuff to watch I'm perfectly capable of browsing the library myself, or looking up suggestions online.
> People saying "Regexes can't match HTML, use an html library" are wrong to say regexes are incapable of it, but they're right to say to use a library meant for the job.

Plot twist: the html library is built upon regex's (at least in part).
When something has negative externalities, the answer isn't to ban it, it's to tax it in proportion to the pro rata share of the negative externalities (and then maybe waive the tax if you have a prescription; but maybe not -- they seem to be overprescribed as it is, and the negative externalities don't disappear when you have a prescription).

If you want to pay $2000 for useless antibiotics, no problem. But the price will deter enough people that we don't get the scale required for widespread negative consequences, especially when insurance companies won't cover it without a prescription. Then the money can go to subsidize medicine in general so there is no net consequence for overall medical costs or insurance premiums.

And we could do the same thing for heroin with the money going to drug treatment etc. and do without all this business of SWAT teams and drug cartels.
How so? By shortening the link, you're hiding where the link goes to. bit.ly/12345 could go to amazon.com or big-scam-with-a-virus.com, and until you click on it you'd never know.
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It's actually a linked list (with linear search).

Good enough for such a simple interpreter methinks...
How Intel SGX Works: From HTTP to Enclaves
Link shortening makes it easier to brute force.

Shortened links become trackable by a third-party (less secure), obfuscate the real URL (less secure), and can be brute forced easier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/security_risk...
I linked to an article with a section on Income Inequality as part of the larger topic of Wealth Inequality. Here's a direct quote from that very link:

> According to US economist Joseph Stiglitz the richest 1% of Americans gained 93% of the additional income created in 2010.[44][45] A study by Emmanuel Saez and Piketty showed that the top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the highest level recorded since the government began collecting the relevant data a century ago.[46] People in the top one percent were three times more likely to work more than 50 hours a week, were more likely to be self-employed, and earned a fifth of their income as capital income.[47] The top one percent was composed of many professions and had an annual turnover rate of more than 25%.[48] The five most common professions were managers, physicians, administrators, lawyers, and teachers.[47]

Did you read what I linked or just read the title? There's literally an entire section on the topic of income inequality, but nobody took even the time to read the subsection headers let alone the actual section?
That would require government regulation and unfortunately the current political climate appears to be very much against that. (apologies for bringing up politics)
Neither method guarantees the right answer, but it's a lot easier to get it wrong with a truth table.
Why the need to outlaw more stuff? Claiming false stuff about people is already illegal - it's called defamation. Which is what allows him to sue.
That was for Java4k 2009. Notch was a regular participant in the competition, winning several years with 4k demakes of other popular games (though in that specific year I won :-)). He was experimenting with hand-writing JVM byte code assembly-style and wrote the core engine of a Minecraft-style game in just over 2000 bytes, then got bored with the project and wrote something else.

Due to the way Java4k works (your entry is measured by compressed jar size), every byte can fit a little more than the previous one, so 2000 bytes is actually less than half the allotted space.
From what I understood you can sign-up at zendesk with any email like ooga-booga@gitlab.com and if someone sends an email to that address the email starts showing up in the support software even before you verify your support desk account (probably because the company has configured the MX records to send all email to zendesk, etc).

So now that you are effectively able to read emails sent to arbitrary address at the company's domain, you now get access to SSO links, etc sent on it too. Is this what the hack is?
Slightly, I’d say. The reason why Apple granted that entitlement was because the Apple Watch API wasn’t powerful enough to perform some of the rendering that Uber needed for their watch app, so they’d render it on iOS and send it over in order to have an app available on launch day. The irresponsibility is that Apple didn’t immediately revoke such access once they developed a replacement API for this use case.
Hello May I Assist You in Taking on a Lifetime of Debt?
Here's a modified version with print.

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
// If this program is run without stdout attached, exit with an error.
var stdout_file = try std.io.getStdOut();
const stdout = &stdout_file.outStream().stream;
// If this program encounters pipe failure when printing to stdout, exit
// with an error.
try stdout.print("number: {}\n", i32(1234));
}
Then use std.debug.warn?

Quoting the docs linked above:

> Usually you don't want to write to stdout. You want to write to stderr. And you don't care if it fails. It's more like a warning message that you want to emit. For that you can use a simpler API:

const warn = @import("std").debug.warn;

pub fn main() void {
warn("Hello, world!\n");
}
Commando on the C64 didn’t have an ending. It just continued. I know since once you got good enough you could complete the stages effortlessly. My longest play was a couple of hours straight - enough to restart the highscore counter from zero again at least once. We stopped playing not due to running out of lives, but deciding to end playing.

Other games would get faster and faster, eventuallt ending up impossibly difficult.
Science is good enough that I have a supercomputer in my pocket.

They don’t know everything but their approximations are really good for getting a lot of stuff done. That we know more and more over time is why they keep getting smaller.

If you want to reject how far we’ve come, that’s fine, but it’s a bit hypocritical to use all the medicines and high speed travel and telecommunications and the pocket supercomputer.
I don't quite see how that follows necessarily - high investment allows for maximizing per unit costs compared to "paycheck to paycheck". Not that consumer debt bubbles aren't a thing.
I’m curious If the total energy content of the glass bottle is more or less than the aluminum can. Especially with and without recycling.
You’re paying for content not ad free. Maybe they will make us pay twice. Once for the service, then next level to remove ad.
> Sure, you can use this regex to match emails

Or you can use comments and named groups: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1917982
Firstly, GA4GH has commercial members as well as academics, and all collaborate together to produce file formats, standards and protocols.

Secondly you missed out a key part of funding - precompetitive alliances. Eg see the Pistoia Alliance (https://www.pistoiaalliance.org/) who funded the SequenceSqueeze project into compression of FASTQ (http://www.sequencesqueeze.org/).

The notion here is simple - there are some technologies that are so core they cross all the commercial and academic boundaries. Collaboration rather than competition is considered to be to the mutual benefit of everyone involved. It is this mind set which lead to the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), who are also in direct competitive with MPEG.
What's not included is an easy way to ignore errors when writing to stdout. If that's your complaint, then Zig is not the language for you. Zig also doesn't provide an easy way to ignore allocation failure errors, for example. Edge cases matter. There's no excuse for failing to handle errors.
>The IPCC reports have consistently predicted more warming than has actually occurred; by now the actual warming is outside the lower end of the IPCC's confidence interval.

What confidence interval is that? What prediction was much higher than the +1C that has occurred? Looking up the 1990 IPCC report I see +1.5 to +4.5 between 2025 and 2050. We seem to be within that prediction.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/1992%20IPCC%20Supplement/IPCC...
The burden of evidence is on the accuser. If no tainted motherboards are produced, I believe the denials.
Shrinkwrap (along with other plastic wraps) is recyclable. Not via the main stream, but via the plastic grocery bags one - most American grocery stores have a bin to return them. I'm not sure if the rings are recyclable in that stream.
Readerview on safari defeats this. I did a rough measurement and the top/bottom overlays indeed take about 50% of vertical space in normal view.
To be real, how do you keep in touch with your friends and family? I live 2100km away from them. God damnit, I wish to get rid of this cancer, but I just can't.
I think it's down to how we define "more". In dollar amounts then no. You're correct.

But in terms of value? Almost by definition, the rich are benefiting from the status quo more than the poor and it seems to be a strange feat of logic to argue that they are getting the raw end of the deal.

It's not like the wealthy ever go "those people on benefits have it easy. Hell. I'm going to join them".
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My biggest problem with them all is that I don't really have a problem with my apt.

I understand that this situation is problematic with vendors who want to distribute their apps. But to me it feels like that the packaging situation has always been an excuse for them to drop Linux support.

If they consider desktop Linux supported during development, providing a couple statically linked deb and rpm files is no big deal. And a lot of vendors are doing that nowadays.

Sandboxing would've been nice for sure. But again, I don't have a security problem with my Linux Desktop as of right now.
There are white collar crimes that are just as clear as the pill example you gave, and there are non-white-collar crimes that are murky. The examples don't demonstrate anything.

The U.S. has prosecuted white collar crimes in the past, and has underfunded and hamstrung its enforcement now. They could prosecute them again.
This is cool. I wrote a similar Lisp but got stuck debugging my copying GC. The interaction between the Lisp environment chain and the C stack is tricky.

I prefer something like this over Norvig's Lisp interpreter written in Python. Norvig's is good for understanding environments and eval/apply, but IMO it's cheating to use the host language's GC for allocations.

I would add integers, even if it costs a few lines of code... using `itos` and re-parsing the string when evaluating an int is just too painful for me.
Damn. I wish I saw this 3 months ago when I had to delete my Spotify so I could delete my account.
> This is so wild, I'm thinking back to 2005-2007 when people were doing everything possible to get on Facebook

Not everyone. Everyone I knew shunned facebook, laughed at myspace, looked down on youtube, you get the idea. For us, it was so odd that people would use their real identities and put their lives online. I think that period marked the true shift of the internet from a tech oriented population to the "normie" population.

I've never had a facebook, myspace or youtube account and never will.

> Now there are so many attacks on the company politically, technically, and socially that I wonder if Facebook will be able to recover its trust with the community?

There were similar attacks on social media back then too but not as vocal or widespread. Facebook, instagram and whatsapp are still growing so I'm guessing they will be fine.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

Though I think facebook ( and the nytimes for that matter ) are toxic useless enterprises that humanity would be better off without, I don't think it or the nytimes are going anywhere anytime soon.

Also, keep in mind that facebook is banned in china and if zuckerberg can get his foot in the door, they may have another decade of significant growth.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-visits-china...
In a world where everything else was equal, it would be.
How is it that I will have any interaction with Facebook if I stop visiting it? I have a Facebook account, never use it, never hear anything from Facebook.
Yes. Probably why they forced him out of Google... because he was horrible to work with and the entire team was complaining about his lack of social awareness and poor interpersonal skills.
So basically AppImage is the standard we ought to be using?
Uhhh. I get your sentiment, but have you seen what our government has done with our tax dollars lately?

Giving the government more money is not the answer.
> The United States needs to reduce its prison population, not increase it.

I don't think most people are concerned with CEOs of large corporations overflowing the prisons.
modest mouse said it in 2000. “the universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight long enough you end up where you were.”

physicists are a bit slower to pick up on it, but they’ll get there.
That's a great link, though another writer at that blog wrote a short story re-explaining it many years later.

It's a conversation between a scientist, a bayesian, and a confused undergrad: https://arbital.com/p/likelihoods_not_pvalues/?l=4xx (warning, site loads very slow).
Indeed. I'll start 'checking my privilege' once I see some evidence I've benefited from that, as opposed to risk taking and thousands of hours of hard work.
Can you link to Nim's userland implementation of printf? Here's zig: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/822d4fa216ea8f598e4a9d53...
For some reason I had a feeling you'd post that. That wikipedia page doesn't show anything except for, at best, an argument that the Standard Model is incompatible with gravitational repulsion plus many statements of unsuccessful attempts to falsify repulsion of antimatter. Did you even read it??

By the way, it's old news by now that Standard Model is incomplete. But let's just go back to passive aggressively condescending to people we don't know on the internet by implying they've never studied so much as modern QFT because we're not prepared to understand their original argument.
I actually don't mind videos playing at the pump. There really isn't anything else do to.
Some numbers for perspective [1]:

Digital-only subscription revenue in 2017: $340 million

Digital advertising revenue in 2017: $238 million

Obviously some digital advertising is shown to print subscribers logging in too... but if we ignore that for simplicity, without ads your NYT digital subscription would be 70% more expensive.

At $195/yr. for digital-only, it's already my most expensive subscription by a significant amount. If it were 70% more, or $331.50/yr, I imagine subscriptions would drop by a lot -- that's a lot of money for news.

So... that's presumably why there are still ads. Gotta pay the reporters somehow.

On the other hand, the New Yorker bugging you to subscribe is just lazy programming, and I hate it too.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/new-york-times-c...
Talking about advertisers, I think the main qualities we can credit them is grit and smarts.

Block their ads on the web ? you still have them on billboards if they’re local. They’ll mass DM whole regions if it makes economical sense. Your Netflix drama series will start mentionning them in passing. They’ll make ‘news’ pieces with a product CEO saving a baby chimpanzee that was not endangered in the first place.

You know they’ll find a way to your eyeballs by whatever mean, as long as it makes any sense to them.
You still can't tell the Android Spotify app that you want to stream one quality on wifi, and one on cell data. This really seems like a no-brainer, and easy to implement, yet there has been no movement on this for years.
You are correct:

$ curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Safari/605.1.15" https://t.co/88MpPkUoJg

<head><noscript><META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=https://bbc.in/2yDY0F5"></noscript><title>https://bbc.in/2yDY0F5</title></head><script>window.opener = null; location.replace("https:\/\/bbc.in\/2yDY0F5")</script>

I had no idea they were doing it that way. How gross.
Sure. But in this case is something already sold more than a decade ago with auto renew.

When selling a new hosting now, it’s on the last version. And with a better contract !
Yeah, I used to love Flickr. It became another great victim of attention economy apps whose business models are based on exploitation of one of the basic human needs (I would say) - the need for drawing an attention. Pity.

Flickr acquired by Smugmug, by the way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888876
All this complication around methods of execution baffles me.

Why don’t we use a massive dose of fentanyl or some other opioid? I’ve got to be missing something, because that seems like a simple, one-step process that doesn’t risk the pain of paralytics and potassium chloride.

I think the death penalty is a useless relic, but if we’re going to do it, why make it so bizarre?
A lot of it is property taxes, payroll taxes, local taxes etc. and in any event, paid by a different generation. If we're willing to go further back, let's also not forget that a lot of this was achieved by slave labor & after emancipation, an entire people denied basic civil rights. In any event, it was not as if Bill Gates paid for the Hoover Dam. Keep in mind some of the tools for creating capital and income was not available to large swathes of society - like access to subsidized higher education, homesteads / farmsteads, and mortgages. These are federal means to build capital which sets the stage for earning higher incomes.
Why don't you make it:

const print = @import("std").print;

pub fn main() void {
print("Hello, world!\n");
}

Why does it have to be more complex than warn?
You admit the added complexity yourself by using warn instead of print in the parent wiki page.
The internet is a tool. You can use it well, or you can use it badly. Facebook, Instagram, and other sites make it easy to use it badly. But ultimately, whether your time online is positive and productive, negative and wasteful, or somewhere in the middle is not about specific sites, but about what each of us does with our time. So you are absolutely correct to take accountability for it upon yourself, and I'd commend that attitude.

I believe that the long-term trend we are starting to see is more people coming back to seeing the Internet as a tool to enhance their lives, not a medium by which to live them. When that trend fully evolves, FB, Instagram, and all social media will either change along with it, or fall away.
Gave it a glacez but it's important to realize you're probably not successful in your first rodeo.

Success might happen in 45, but I'd wager most of those 45s have a few companies under their belts.
Go walk around an urban area in America. You'd think with San Francisco's $11,000,000,000 annual budget they'd be able to fix some roads.
> Just don't visit nytimes.com

I don't. I go out of my way not to visit that site. Even in search, I "-nytimes".

> and you'll never have any further interaction with them.

Really? I'm here? Nytimes is spamming HN everyday.

> The same is not true of Facebook.

I don't visit facebook ever. Never had an account.

In all of my time on HN, I think I've seen a handful of facebook links. I see nytimes spam everyday. Every single day.

To make matters worse, it's nytimes spam about facebook. Two things I don't want to see or deal with.
I’d rather be alone with my thoughts. Most TV has negative value for me.
Less taxes. That's the answer. How have the corporations spent their windfalls so far?
All of that definitely makes sense. It just makes me afraid what possibilities does that open for Apple and any other corp they are willing to scratch of back of. :(

It also makes you wonder what other kinds of these "entitlements" exist.
Because print can fail. See the comments in the above code example.
If You Want to Make Progress Stop Lying to Yourself
LinkedIn also quite good at shortening.
You really have a TV on each machine at your gym? This is peak America