skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one of them is security scanning software potentially visiting the link.

I gave it some thought, and that seems to be solvable. Have the link go to a 'confirm' page, where the confirm button performs a post request.
If security scanning software is randomly hitting post requests, that is just totally ridiculous.

What seems a lot more scary to me is the plaintext nature of e-mail. Even SMTP over TLS doesn't keep any end-points from reading your email, and I'm guessing there is a small but significant set of people who'se email providers don't run TLS.

Besides, if someone can recognize that any request is underway for a login, they might intercept it and send a phishing fake.
> I have no idea why he tries to make (mostly nonsensical) political arguments/connections.

In these politically tumultuous times, you simply cannot separate the two. Nor could you do the same during the political upheaval of the 20th century seeing as though a lot of us have very strong political convictions.

If you pay attention to the guy, he talks about his pondering on whether without the benefit of hindsight bias that we have now, he would have been a happy guard at Auschwitz. It speaks to character; a very personal thing. When you map that on to what's happening today with all the polarization, there are many ways in which answering such questions honestly to yourself makes you a better person whether you're on the right or left of the political divide.
its definitely the opposite of convenience. if i need the app i know where to find it.
its especially annoying when the link keeps reappearing after i dismissed it once already.
Sorry to hijack but if you're curious about the specifics of this amazing argument, I wrote a long article about it a little bit ago:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/11/supreme-court-nominee-bret...
A far better article about this poem and the backstory: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/29/robert-frost-e...
The blog post explicitly addresses this
Thank you for your comment - It proves my long-held theory that HN comments don't get flagged for breaking TOS, they get flagged by people who -

1. Have the power to flag (which everyone on HN doesn't equally have)

2. Disagree with the opinion expressed in a comment.

The flagging and banning system on HN needs revisiting. HN has become an echo chamber of opinions deemed kosher by those with flagging/moderation privileges.

At the very least, when flagging, HN should ask what TOS clause was violated.
"My neighbor had just got a dog that was
always barking. So I got tweeter, built
up a simple 30kHz oscillator using a LM324.
Set the two LM383 to swing rail to rail.
Got a lantern battery that could put out
the power. Then connected the tweeter."

Paging Steve Gibson: somebody reinvented your dog silencer[1][2]!

[1] https://www.grc.com/tqc/TheQuietCanine.htm

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/portable-sound-blast...
I wonder if it would be more understandable to say that m = E/c2. In other words what we think of as mass is really just a measure of energy bound up in particles.

There is a relationship between mass and the speed of light that people may or may not know about. As you accelerate a particle towards the speed of light, the mass actually increases. Since the mass increases, it's harder to accelerate, which means that you need more energy to make it go faster. To get it to the speed of light you would need infinite energy and it would have infinite mass.

We can also rewrite the equation as c = sqrt(E/m). In other words, the speed of light is determined from the ratio of energy to mass in the system. When looked at from this perspective, it's not really that surprising that the ratio of energy to mass is a constant. What's kind of surprising is that this constant is the speed of light. Even just trying to figure out how the units might work is a bit mind bending -- m/s = sqrt(g/J)

I think this is where you start to understand that the concept of space, time, energy and mass are all intertwined. We kind of think of them as separate things because from our macro perspective, that's how they look. Under the hood, though, they are all intricately bound together. The consequences of special relativity (where this equation came from) is that space, time, and mass are functions of energy, which is both super cool and super confusing :-)
Similarly, Massachusetts currently has a Republican governor, and it's certainly not a red state
This isn't necessary at all for GPs point. We also can't give a mathematically rigorous explanation for the path a hurricane will take, but that doesn't mean there's magic unknown physics at play.
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Just to illustrate that point, California was a Republican presidential stronghold up through 20 (EDIT: typo, 30) years ago; they won the state in every Presidential election through that year except 1964 starting with 1952.
Raising people's standard of living is very effective at reducing reproduction rates, so you don't need to worry about that.
The QR-code thingy hits a friction barrier. For me needing to go to my phone is more friction than unlocking my password manager. Note that I only need to unlock my password manager once per reboot, and that for most people the password manager is already too much friction.
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It's not at all baffling when you realize it's really just a bunch of complaining about how tough it is to be in the bigot business (non-bigot businesses don't want to do business with your bigot business!) with free-speech lipstick applied. Sure, the bigot business is probably a tough business to be in. There are a lot of other tough businesses that are far more interesting to talk about.
Many websites are encrypted already. What sort of interference did you have in mind?

Maybe interference would accelerate that trend a bit, but it doesn't seem to require all that much innovation?
The battery acts as a big capacitor to smooth the voltage and depending at which speed the alternator is turning I'd expect the voltage to vary wildly. This may make weird things happen especially on newer cars
I've copy and pasted this comment from an earlier comment I made, but I really do think you have the wrong preconception of Dallas.

The writing is on the wall — Texas will turn blue sooner than later.

Dallas is a liberal stronghold in Texas, and in absolute numbers turns out more for Democrats than any other city in the state, including Austin (percentage-wise Austin wins by +5%, I believe). Unlike Austin, which is gerrymandered in the state legislature, every single state/county/city official in Dallas is a Democrat.

Dallas is also a gay rights stronghold, representing the only county and city in Texas, again including Austin, with non-discrimination clauses in employment and housing for LGBTQ+ individuals.

Furthermore— Texas is considering bi-partisan legislation to legalize weed. Dallas has already decriminalized it, and the State, while backwards in other regards, hasn’t indicated it will force Dallas to back down on that measure. Dallas also has stricter gun laws than the state of Texas. Dallas, unlike Austin, actually has the political capital to push back on state laws, because Dallas isn't gerrymandered nor represented by 4 Republicans like Austin is.

Texas has a long way to go, but I think if you would step in Dallas you would learn to leave your preconceived notions of it at the door.

I believe an HQ2 would speed up Texas’ change.

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As far as public transit goes, I'm sorry, but DART rail blows Denver out of the water. I'm personally familiar with both systems, and Dallas also has the funds and political capital to keep expanding. In addition to an already extensive LRT network, we have a streetcar network with 2 lines (soon to be 3), we're building a second subway Downtown to double system throughput, we've started construction on another 26 mile line to the airport (we already have 2), and construction on the high speed rail from downtown Houston to downtown Dallas starts in February.
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So I'll bite. I'm agnostic, which means that I firmly believe that we don't have such "scientific" evidence because it's impossible to obtain. Given the existence of an Abrahamic God, He would have invented everything we call "science". By definition, He lives outside of the universe where these observable effects take place.

I'll just copy-paste another comment I apparently made 4 years ago... (Time flies I guess!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7899626

Of a particularly relevant note here is agnosticism [1], or the viewpoint that there are certain things that are simply unknowable to humans. The implication being that humans can neither confirm NOR deny the truth value of the statements. Metaphysical statements often fall into this category. And hence, you can also have agnostic theists [2] and agnostic atheists [3], who both recognize that they are taking a stance on an unknowable truth value. Some would then define this as the very essence of the word faith, but I would like to at least point out that both sides are subject to the same definition.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_theism

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism
Off topic but I wonder why people, especially usually privacy sensitive HN readers use Gmail and turn themselves into Google's better product with nothing to gain?

Running your own server or use a more privacy catered provider with Thunderbird or whatever client isn't so hard.
I think the compsci departments need a new course titled something like "Reading Code" where one learns to read any code fast and efficiently like they would a newspaper article or novel. Now that would be useful.
> There is no broad use-case advantage that iOS has over Android

This isn’t really true. At least, once you start using iMessage it’s no longer true.

If you try to switch to Android you will be silently dropped from any iMessage group chats you are in. You will also no longer be able to send high quality media to iPhone users.
There was also the old age of sail "anti-idleness" laws which also had issues of believing their own lies and causation correlations that it caused crime and sin. There are plenty of what are now clearly goddamned moronic social theories then in the 15th to 19th centuries - and it sadly isn't an exclusive to then and ones of modern vintage exist as well. They honestly thought people drinking until they pass out in the bar was socially preferable to walking around town.
but how do you know that the crazy distractions of the modern world aren't growing adolescent brains in ways yours will never grow?

Throughout history adults have always looked down on children, yet the upcoming generation always ends up surpassing their parents achievements.

This reminds me of something Socrates said, over 2 millenia ago:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
I disagree, totally. Most companies who buy Office 365 want Active Directory just as much as the office products. Azure AD is an official Azure product; it's got Azure right in the name and lives on the Azure console. AD, hosted email inboxes, OneDrive storage; that's what companies are increasingly looking to O365 for. The Office suite is just a checkbox next to those things.

You can't punish Microsoft's categorization of these things just because Amazon doesn't have directly competing products. Well, actually they do; they have Workdocs and hosted AD. But no one uses them. Both of these are official AWS products; are you going to suggest we should start sharding out Amazon's product suite by revenue per product just to get a perfectly fair comparison of revenue?

G-Suite is categorized as a Google Cloud product. I guess we should just completely cut G-Suite out of GCloud's revenue total? Even though it does directory-like functionality and competes directly with Office, Outlook, etc?

Where do you draw the line? Ultimately, you draw the line at mechanism of delivery and payment, which is what Cloud has always been about. Office 365 and AzureAD are pay-per-seat, and thus by extension correlates with pay-as-you-go, just like any other cloud product.
You clearly don’t know how to have a laugh...
Yes, it's running Linux apps on Docker, but not exactly using X11 forwarding. Instead, it uses a new HTML5 Xpra client to draw the window in a canvas in the browser. Keyboard and mouse events are proxied between the browser and the backend Xpra server over a dedicated websocket connection. This makes it possible for multiple people to see (and interact with) the same graphical application at once, though it's nothing like Google docs where you have multiple cursors at completely different places in the document. Our goal is just making open source mathematics related software even more available, and this is a tiny step in that direction, e.g., for students using Chromebooks and possibly being tutored remotely.
It's shared with WINE I believe.
(The native parts)
3. OK they have a different business model and lots of content partners, but they won't tell you what it is, just invite you to sign up. I'm guessing it involves monetizing email addresses. If this content free proposition is your idea of a nice prospect, what is it based on? Anyone can say they have laudable goals, like beauty contestants who aspire to bring about world peace and end hunger. Perhaps they're just saying nice things without any real capability or intention to deliver?
So the new LM386 is the Nsiway NS8002. This chip is better in that the output capacitor it not required (it has two LM386s making an h-bridge). On lcsc.com, they are $0.0329 each for QTY=10, or $0.90 for boards (each) on eBay. They are nice if you don't want to deal with class-D switching noise.

Cheap clock radios use them. They also use an 8-pin AM/FM digital radio IC: pins for 32 KHz crystal, I2C, antenna (loopstick for AM), and audio out. No coils, inductors or filters needed.
Sign up for monzo and some of the new banking apps and try to find really hard a password field anywhere.
The problem is, this is affecting every industry. I have friends in accounting for instance, and if you aren't prompt with your emails over the weekend, if you aren't early at work and late to leave, etc, you will not be promoted.

I have friends in law and its the same thing; If you aren't putting up 55+ hr weeks, you are going to get an awkward reference and won't get your next job.

The problem is universal in early careers, and entirely absent in mid to late careers. We all know that for X amount of entry level hires there's only Y amount at the top of the food chain, but when people are being pushed out of the field for not being able to devote all their available waking hours to an entry level position rather than rewarding real skill and prowess, the situation is completely untenable. In 25 years, senior positions won't be filled by the most clever or bright workers, but whoever was able to slog through being overworked and underpaid and put their life on hold for their first 15 years out of college.
Thats not really fair if you have a superfund lake from the 1950s that nobody uses water from, eats fish in it or has the budget to fix. And is in the middle of nowhere at some desert.
I admit not being very upset about it. How are they strongarming governments? A government says no and everyone moves on. Or are you saying communities can't get businesses without this strongarming? I don't believe that. I recognize the art of both sides shopping for the best deal for themselves, and with how many of these governments operate against their companies, it's definitely bidirectional. The leverage does seem to be tipped in favor of the largest governments and largest companies, but the general practice seems reasonable.
If they exercise editorial control, why aren't they legally liable for the content they serve us?
I'd say the book itself is on par with SICP (if you can deal with Oz IDE).
You got me here. I have no clue if this scenario was considered, and how this affected the design process. It was the Cold War after all.
You can remineralize with limestone post-filtration.

Or eat food.
I think it would be more accurate to say these things about fusion energy:

- It is not viable yet, and probably won't be for decades, if at all

- Funding necessary to explore fusion energy's viability is at least order of magnitude $10^10

- The 'steady-state' economics of fusion energy, should it become viable, cannot presently be estimated with any real fidelity
> I think it is time to consider A(RM) and Intel cores at par. Qualcomm cores maybe X% slower but they will close the gap.

I think you're vastly underestimating the value of X in the above. The latest Qualcomm cores weren't even competitive with last year's A11, and the A12 leaves them in the dust.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
Yes, you can do this, but you can’t have ANY connection between your app and your web site. Your app can’t mention a subscription, can’t link to your site, etc.

So it only works if users first go to your web site, sign up, and then get the app on the App Store. If they get your app on the App Store, there’s no way to convert them without Apple’s blessing.

Essentially Apple contractually mandates friction between you and iOS users and then charges you to alleviate it.
I think you have that a little backwards. This is not up to the Core developers but to the Mono developers. There is nothing preventing the Mono developers from supporting .Net Core.
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I'm deeply unimpressed with Google's hiring process (I think it works for them because their roles are coveted, not because it's especially good). But you haven't established that their process is "arbitrary", only that it's inconsistent. In particular: I don't see any evidence you've provided that "Googliness" is the reason one of your peers got to skip phone screens.
my recollection from cognitive linguistics, years ago, was that the dyslexia rate is affected by the complexity of mapping symbols to sounds. italian speakers had a lower rate than english speakers, for instance.

i haven't read this in its entirety, but it discusses things a bit and has a sizable bibliography: https://dyslexiaida.org/the-myths-and-truths-of-dyslexia/
I suppose it's surprising to me because I interpret the word "hustle" to mean something like "tricking the customer into paying more than needed to turn a profit on a trade"
By 'TOS' I guess you mean the guidelines, and the comment in question fairly obviously violates half a dozen of them.
In real life, if somebody borrowed my megaphone and started shouting racist things, I'd have the right to snatch it away because it belongs to me. So the private companies that refused service to Gab were doing nothing wrong.

Also, just noticed that Epik calls itself the "Swiss Bank of Domains", so they're staying true to their brand I guess.
Well parts of AWS are cloud desktops, workmail etc... Those are counted on the AWS side. Why shouldn't their Microsoft equivalent be counted?
Azure interface is such a crazy mess I don't know how prople live with it.

It's so MS with 50 menus with uninteresting options intertwined and error messages usually make no sense, just like Windows.

I've even chosen to use another provider for running Windows, even though running it on MS feels more safe.

I'll never want to work for a company with pure MS stack.
It's possible to be a jerk and enlightening at the same time. As easy as it is to forget in today's culture of "everybody's a victim" and "feelings over every other concern", a good argument doesn't suddenly become invalid just because the author is rude.
No, but it does include validation. I agree that it's mad for a person to use this, but having a machine use the API can help ensure that the PDF and XML always match
Your analogy is confusing. I have no idea if you are talking about international, national, or local agreements. I also have no idea what your opinions are.

Your comment simultaneously contains almost no information is super off topic.
> If you look at every security the agencies rated AAA, they performed as expected in cash flows.

Why do you think Moody's agreed to pay an almost $900 million settlement over allegations that they inflated the ratings of toxic securities?
Reading your comment I see a fundamental problem: you treat people... as A or as B, but not as a reasonable person, a peer and a colleague.

> Then you seemed to expect to be treated as a senior.

no, no.... treated like a human and a professional :)
It doesn't sound very safe and the draft I found online only describes various restrictions on the PDF and the expectation that the XML is to be seen as an alternative representation for processing. Nothing to enforce that the contents of both are identical or tamper proof. At best you could claim that an invoice were both don't match is invalid, however that would require manual verification.

Meanwhile I write the documentation of my xml configuration files in xsd and convert them to something readable using xslt. One set of data for processing and display everywhere and one less headache about duplicated and badly maintained data.
<tinfoil hat> I think domestic criminal "Political Interest Groups" may be attempting to hack US elections and are fanning flames on Russia Hacking stories because it makes for useful cover </tinfoil>
There was an excellent article in the NYT a couple of years ago about the fight against the PFAS industry (PFOA, etc.) [1].

The legal fight against DuPont, 3M and others has been going on for decades, and their environmental abuses have been going on since the 1950s. PFAS are scary, and they're absolutely everywhere. And every time a much-maligned pollutant such as PFOA or PFOS gets phased out or banned, a new fluorochemical takes it place that has more or less the same properties; same story all over again.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
> However, Reed–Solomon codes have the disadvantage that they are practical only for small K, N, and q: standard implementations of encoding and decoding have a cost of order K(N-􏰀K)log2 N packet operations. Furthermore, with a Reed–Solomon code, as with any block code, one must estimate the erasure probability f and choose the code rate R=K/N before transmission. If we are unlucky and f is larger than expected and the receiver receives fewer than K symbols, what are we to do? We would like a simple way to extend the code on the fly to create a lower-rate (N', K) code. For Reed–Solomon codes, no such on-the-fly method exists.

You don't have to choose the rate before transmission. Reed-Solomon code is equivalent to sampling a K-degree polynomial. You can sample it all you want, i.e. increase N on-the-fly, up to the number of the elements in your field, if finite. Say, you want to broadcast your K blocks
to L recipients reliably: after you have sent the K blocks you start sampling the polynomial and sending the redundant blocks. You don't need to decide a priory how many redundant blocks you will send: as soon as the last recipient reports receiving K blocks you are done.
GF(2^64) is as good as infinite in that scenario.
If you're the person without whom the project can't go ahead or will suffer a major inconvenience (at worst, filling your position with someone else) then you get part of the collective responsibility.
Oil and gas are non-renewable.
I wonder what would happen should private schools be forced to use the same food that public schools have.