skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what's getting to me at the moment; I'm a student at a university, so I'm thankful to be getting a lot of the stuff I search for quickly available through my university (Shibboleth login etc.) but what I don't like is the fact that for anyone else, they literally can't see what I'm talking about. Before I was a student, I gave up trying to learn about my area of interest just because every single article was behind a paywall. Maybe it let me read the abstract and see a diagram.

I may have fallen out of touch with what sci-hub offers, since I only ever use it to find books now (books which contain articles which one can't find outside the books) but the last time I used it, it didn't have many of the articles I wanted to see.

I hate to think that there are others like me who want to get into diverse research only to be stumped at not even being able to read it. This problem seems to be larger in philosophy/Marxian economics/etc. in which you really do have to read the paper to get the argument, simply knowing the results provided isn't nearly enough, because the results often can't be condensed down to data.
> this tactic actually empowers Elsevier

Power and profits are closely entangled. UCLA is extracting better pricing from Elsevier's weakened position as result of open-access competition.

> it's hard to imagine anyone at Elsevier falling for this bluff

What makes you think it was a bluff? When one threatens defection, one doesn't want to defect. That's why the defection is initially threatened, not acted upon.
Most places were pretty agricultural in 1952 :) This dataset has Switzerland at #2 in 1950, and a comment says UK would have been #7.

Economic growth in europe only really took off to levels we think of as "today" after 30+ years of intense postwar growth. It was rich before that, but still very rural. Movies of the era are quite revealing.

I an genuinely curious if there is an argument against Switzerland et al being counterexamples to the colonialism/wealth argument. The strongest one I can think of would be that Switzerland et al benefitted from proximity to capital and to the new techniques discovered by capital.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-...
This takes me back. I remember learning Logo at school when I was 10 or 11 and had a project to do using Logo. For some reason I couldn't make it into school for a few weeks, I'm not sure if I was ill or something else but was going to miss the project hand in date, so I wrote the code on paper while I was at home as I didn't have a Logo compiler or interpreter for my ZX Spectrum. My teacher put my code into the interpreter and it ended up looking exactly as I had expected. I think it was a tank and used procedures/functions which was above and beyond what we'd been taught.

Of course Logo wasn't the most complex language ever but I remember being pretty pleased with myself having written a computer program on a bit of paper and it doing exactly what I'd visualised it to do.
> There certainly is an objective reality

An objective reality with child-rearing? Apart from obvious things like not ignoring or abusing a child, there isn't one in my experience, but as they say ... whatever works for you.

> the policies/circumstances, such as being raised in a diverse environment, being allowed to watch TV, studying a lot, always wearing black socks etc. will or will not have impact (positive or negative) on those goals.

At best, perhaps raising kids in diverse environments allows them to be resilient in diverse environments as adults. At worst, it could cause them to harbor resentments against others nearby who are different than them.
You can find kind, responsible, emotionally stable adults who were raised in both diverse and non-diverse environments. And you can find the opposite in both types of environments.
SQLite can by principle not suffer from a RCE.
I don't think we have a choice. Human activities are currently completely dependent upon the availability of energy. Right now most of that energy comes from non-renewable sources and is limited. Our only other choice besides nuclear technologies is covering large portions of our planet's surface with solar panels, which in itself might cause problems because they will shade out plants and change weather and climate patterns as they scale. Traditional nuclear plants get us quite aways farther, but have their own risks, and still require absolutely enormous mining fields which isn't ideal. Fusion power however is the holy grail of energy production. We can go pretty much anywhere and find plentiful sources for fuel.

Of course this is assuming small fusion reactors will ever actually work, but we have yet to find a hard limit or insurmountable barriers. We have been progressing slowly but consistently but the payoff would be world changing, potentially even galaxy changing int he longer run.
They’ll give you 3% on savings by investing it in treasuries and pocketing the difference. The 20 year is now 3.03%

and interest rates are rising

Its the Theranos of finance!
This is a common pattern amongst Chinese apologist

Economy: Everyone says it's been failing for 10 years -> Chinese leadership is omnipotent regarding economy -> it's just a temporary slowdown, government will print more money -> Chinese leadership planned this slowdown

Human rights: look at US! -> ignore comparisons to other countries other than US -> It's not really a concentration camp, since there's no mass murder -> prisoner organ harvesting isn't bad compared to US separating families at the border, or slavery 300 years ago
> * You have to wait at least 30 seconds before you can hit the reply or reshare button.

I think there should be more and longer delays:

* a one minute delay before you can enter text into the reply box.

* a half-hour (or longer) delay before any comment/post/reply goes online. During that time you're free to edit or delete (but there must be at least a 5 minute delay after your last edit).

The idea is try to let any initial impulse of outrage pass before anything can be said, to force people to put more time into what they say, and lower velocity to keep things from snowballing out of control.
Teddy Atlas on What It Means to Be a Fighter [video]
It also depends on how you define "is currently."

If you only count the reactors that are already built and still operating, they are pretty cheap sources of electricity. The old nuclear projects that were abandoned before completion won't be part of your "power per dollar" denominator. The reactors that were shut down 10 years ago because they were too expensive to keep running will also be missing from the denominator. The late and over-budget reactors that have yet to enter service will be missing from the cost denominator as well. Once you limit the field of inquiry to the surviving, operating nuclear plants, they're pretty affordable.

If you interpret the question as meaning "nuclear energy is currently the second cheapest per watt [to add to a nation's electricity supply]" -- no, that's incorrect for anywhere with half-decent wind or solar resources.

The final question that prevents me from being a 100% renewables triumphalist: what happens to the relative cost of nuclear vs. more renewables + storage as renewable penetration rises? Storage is hardly needed at present penetration levels. Only a modest amount of storage (overnight) may be needed for 50% or even more penetration. But what happens at 80%, 90%, 100% decarbonization of the electricity supply? It's possible that even expensive new reactors will be cheaper than reaching 100% with storage and renewables alone. It remains an open question.
It's possible for people to have lasting ideals and biases that were shaped by their personal experiences in work and life, and their advocacy in old age does not necessarily indicate that they are still on the warpath to make their next buck or pollute even more.
Asbestos is linked more with mesothelioma.
There is a bit of this idea emergent in some small towns. I know a chef in Vermont who focuses on foraged ingredients, smaller farm-sourced produce and getting everything fresh and local. Which is also much a fad in places like SF! It is one area where small towns can actually show uniqueness via their geographic differences. And if it continues to develop naturally as a choice (rather than a ban on preservatives...) it could contribute to giving small towns a reason to persist.
Possibly yes but, even the case, the US, the UK, Japan and France would switch to fusion immediately, if feasible, to get rid of fission and its waste. Renewables & nuclear are the perfect mix to contain greenhouse gases emissions, that’s why the debate is so hot.
How would you define “the university?” A central all powerful administrator? Even in a department, a faculty member is necessarily judged more by their peers on the outside unless a specialty happens to be concentrated.
Just looking at the account histories for the defence worries me. J&J come proper clean otherwise your fucked. If you are fucked admit it. If you're not fucked name the competitor that is fucking you. These are our children - you're not going to fuck with us about this. How the fuck is the 1976 agreement not to include asbestos voluntary? Switzerland has very low talc sales btw.
The HFTs they are likely selling their data to are probably already way ahead of you.
I doubt any PhD student would consider that as a potential drawback when choosing an institution.

I did my phd in an institution with very minimal access to some of these publishers and while it was annoying I would not take it among the top 50 problems I had in my academic life. I can always request an ILL, or ask one of my friends in other universities if I wanted a paper badly. If however the paper is fairly replaceable as a citation I'd just get some other paper that's sufficient and cite that.
I have lots of political opinions, which I enjoy expressing, and even the lame in-jokes on Slashdot were special in a sense. A lot of techies are quite witty, and humor is an essential part of human expression. I think that both of these things absolutely destroyed that forum, and that the rules are vital to the utility of Hacker News.

As you say, there are other forums which have fewer rules about self-expression -- and those forums provide a continually renewed justification for HN's content guidelines.
Snowboarding is the best, but whoever told you that is steering you wrong. Skiing is much easier to learn.

Lessons will definitely help shorten the learning time but be prepared for your first 3-5 days to be a painful experience if you're snowboarding. If you only go 3-5 days a season you're probably going to have a much better time on skiis.
There will be millions of cars sold for many, many years to come. Far, far more then we can now produce EV. Large parts of the world are not gone be served by trains.

Cars right now are a huge part of total oil consumption replacing that is hugely important. Trains are established technology and no train company in the world is gone reduce total oil consumption at the rate that Tesla is producing cars now DIRECTLY competing against an oil driven resource that is gone be around for 20+ years.

So tell me what other company right now is doing more to reduce oil consumption in transportation and even more important, is growing at the rate Tesla is growing. And that is even without the impact of Tesla on the vehicle market.
Well, sideways or rather upright (possibly in a seating position) is probably better but seems not very aerodynamic. I think those are the three possible orientations. But I mean are we seriously considering a transportation system where part of the journey is a black out/red out? The time gain by accelerating with 5g instead of 1g can't be that big (Maybe a few minutes at most?).

Edit: I'm not sure if there's an error in my calculations but with 1g acceleration it should take about 25s to get to 900km/h? That seems ok.
That doesn't contradict anything the agent said. I believe you that they could previously set canonical links. But it's highly likely that upper management changed that policy (I'm surprised they allowed it to begin with).
> chess is boring to me because I know I'm always going to lose unless I feel like investing hundreds of hours into learning the game.

If you play against well calibrated opponents, like you'd do in any club or in online chess, you're going to win/lose 50/50 (not counting draws).

That's independent of how many hours you put into the game. All that's going to change with more practice is a richer understanding of what's going on on the board.
Does it matter? I have a hard time thinking of a worse company to entrust with personal information. The reach of Google makes Facebook look like a joke. At least when it's leaking they're not making more money.
Maybe no company would do exactly that, but that is irrelevant. Companies would do other things with that money. Maybe they would have cured some disease instead. Maybe they would have found another breakthrough technology. Who knows.

And there is nothing free about using those satellites. Tax payers pay for their launch and subsequent maintenance and running costs.
Fusion can’t be done now so construction costs are unknown at this stage. Graphene is the first of many wonders we can expect from materials science this century imho and it is extremely cheap.
A slightly different headline would be "Navy has lousy security practices especially regarding contractors"

I'm pretty sure the CIA and NSA do their utmost to spy as much as they can on the Chinese and Russian Navy.
Not really unless US and West want to give subsidies to these countries.
So the timeline of events is:

Verizon insanely overpays for a pair of companies who are in complete decline

Verizon rebrands these companies with one the worst sounding names in business - OATH

Verizon declares these acquisitions worthless

This expensive mistake will likely be offset by employee layoffs and new fees levied on existing customers. What a toxic company.
No, your premise is mistaken.

The most prestigious journals (Nature and Science) are professionally edited. Editors may have PhDs in the field they edit, but are not professors.
Email discussion started yesterday; amongst 20 or so faculty half a dozen agreed to not review. We'll probably discuss at the next faculty meeting or the holiday party that's about to start.
With the important difference that money market accounts should never lose principle (aka "breaking the buck"). It has happened, but its fairly uncommon.

Bond funds, however, frequently can and do lose value - if interest goes up, price goes down (the reverse should also be true, though).
The Case of Agatha Christie
Daily. Multiple times daily. I LOVE it. No more back pain. No more sciatica from sitting too long. I feel way more alert.

It took some getting used to, but now I can't imagine working without it.

I'm walking an average of 2-3 hours per day.

When I'm not walking, I swivel the monitor over to the left side of my desk, and lower the desk.
I think you have responsibility for your creations. I do not believe that people build things because it is risk free.

However, there needs to be SOME distinction beyond intent, which is often impossible to discern.
I think it relates to "ALTER TABLE" too-- specially: https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/6e1330545e7b74fe

The comments in checkin a61ed147 for "renameColumnFunc()" give me the willies.
good tech talk video page https://semiengineering.com/videos/
My recollection from ending up on the losing end of a client’s bankruptcy when freelancing was that suppliers are often the last in line to collect on any debts. But it may also depend on jurisdiction.
Remote implies it can be accessed remotely, is that true, or did they mean “remote if an attacker can remotely send data to SQLite”?
Excellent job moralizing, comrade.
"three weeks’ pay for each year of service" from the WSJ article.
> as long as you’re raising your child to not be a racist

How do you know if you are successfully doing that, if they (or you) never encounter someone of another race?
A bit outdated it as Latvia and Lithuania are in the Eurozone.

Probably other changes too.
not today!
We should be funding the shit out of Fusion and molten salt fission reactors. We're gonna also need to build shitloads of carbon scrubbers and water desalinization plants.
Ask HN: What are remote hiring best practices?
Can somebody who is working remote or has hired remote shed some light please.
The Chips Helmet Audio has lasted me over 8 seasons and going strong. I don't maintain the batteries (I believe they should be stored with a 75% charge during off season) and still get enoigh charge for 2 full days of riding.
I certainly hope that isn't the intent, because there are other ways to generate network requests (new Image() and fetch(), for example). Sandboxing JS eval is a very hard problem and even Angular 1's "bulletproof" sandboxed template engine was repeatedly owned. I'd be wary of XSS on any site like this one.
Do procurement contracts have clauses that discount the purchase price when proprietary information is lost to reflect the diminished value of the product?
Making Sense of DRAM: Different Types of DRAM, from GDDR to HBM [video]
This article, if written by someone else, might be more impactful for me. This is the story of a woman who fled half-way across the world from a Twitter-storm, but who, when confronted by a refugee who had been shot and tortured in his home country, that his suffering did not mean he had the right to seek asylum. This is a woman who admires Marine Le Pen and Trump, but is happy to seek her own asylum when a minor shit-storm goes down.

But to address the articles concern - the reason we all seek mob justice is because a) it works, and it hurts, and it can ruin the lives of even the richest of us and b) we have no other buttons left. We mash the twitter/facebook/HN button because it is the last place we have any agency. Corporate interests have taken over out politics, rendering even the power of the ballot box moot since most parties appear to be in someone's pockets, the power of our consumption is dulled by decades of moribund growth, our ability to protest curtailed by an ever-present state of surveillance. This is what we have and, by god, we will keep mashing those buttons until things change.
3 Ways DOD Is Embracing NextGen Architecture
> If you receive a package that was not intended for you, that's an accident, and you are not entitled to that package. That's my core point.

If it was addressed to you, whether intended or not, the law expressly states it is yours; the relevant code section has no mental state precondition.
To answer your last question:

As renewables, getting cheaper, are added and longer term storage becomes needed, nuclear is placed in a horrible position.

That's because nuclear needs to sell its power a high percentage of the time or its economics become ridiculously bad.

So what happens when solar/wind/short term storage are covering things 80% of the time, at a cost (during that period) the nuclear reactor cannot come close to, on a levelized basis? The cost of power from the nuke goes up by a factor of as much as five. Nuclear plants are horrible as intermittent fill-in sources. It instead becomes more economical to add low-efficiency long term storage options (like hydrogen) and to just overbuild the intermittent sources.
In what way is that the result of free market capitalism in particular?

It sounds to me like a basic problem with freedom of action and human nature in a world of imperfect information. It is hard to regulate deleterious behavior when it only has long term bad effects, especially when those effects are indirect and statistical.

This is not to excuse any immorality or lack of ethics on the part of J&J executives. My point is just that preventing these types of abuses is a hard problem to solve regardless of economic system.
To be fair, a lot of countries used methods to get rich (or try to) that are absolutely despicable and far, far worse than IP theft: slavery, colonization, straight up plundering, genocide, war. Basically every country of moderate size and of decent wealth today has at least part of that wealth attributable to something that could be called truly and utterly despicable.

I think that until maybe 70 years ago, countries did whatever they could to get ahead. If it was possible to accomplish, and it provided an advantage for the country, the country would do it. Nowadays, countries mostly do what they can get away with. The amount of things they can get away with has shrunk over the years, but there's still a hell of a lot of unexpected leeway, particularly if you have something someone else wants. For example, you can infer that Europe having cheap natural gas is more important than doing something about the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Ultimately, that's it: in 2018, countries can enforce IP law a bit better than 300 years ago, and as a result they are going to. I don't think there's any American campaign to be more lenient on China for IP theft and I don't see such a campaign gaining traction. It certainly is interesting to watch the whole thing play out though.
Cool! Took me a couple minutes to figure out that I click the mouse to swing the sword. Before that, I had tried just about every keyboard button. Only while going to click "quit" did I realize that the mouse swings the sword.

Playing the WebGL version on a macbook air, in Firefox, by the way.
I can put a kilo of cocaine in my trunk and drive on the highway, that does't mean the roads are unregulated.
Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu
In the present day, most land is held fee simple -- we have many rights, including the right to transfer the land and have our name taken off it; but we must still acknowledge the superior ownership of the government, which can take land by eminent domain, impose taxes, and enter the land with its police forces.

This is in contrast to allodial title, land held in an absolute sense, on which no taxes can be imposed by any authority. This is close to the sense in which nations hold land today, relative to one another. Allodial title is now a rarity.

Present day landholding is thus a situation where "many people own many things" and "one entity owns everything". It might be said that the government owns a certain minimal slice of rights of all land; but sells the the rest of the rights.

Maybe the same ideas apply for "stuff".
100% branch, line coverage means nothing. It's about logical coverage. What are you testing for? You are not testing lines of code, but logic.
You're just going overboard with spurious trash talk of other states. No ER surgeon is turning down ANY patient ANYWHERE in the U.S.
Nope, this is typical of the crap that you see quite frequently.

We're not comparing 1600's wages to today, we're comparing them to wages in that era. Of course this was a pre-industrialized society, but it wasn't a society mired in poverty as most people imagine it to be.
One thing to understand is the customers buy what they want. In this case the company company is your customer. Do they want to have an architect on staff? Do they know what an architect does? If they had an amazing architect, would they even be able to tell? Get answers to those kinds of questions & you'll start to understand if the company as exists is an a place where you can grow your career in the direction you'd like to grow.

At the end of the day, what we shoot for in our careers is rarely what we end up getting. Just do your best to figure out what you want, evaluate your options, pick a path, and commit to that path 100% for as long as you care to. We're all making things up as we go. As we gain more experience, we just get a more evolved sense on what is likely to be a good fit. You'll always be in the position of not knowing which path to choose. You get better at accepting that & having the confidence to make wild ass guesses.
JavaScript code has access to SQLite. So any webpage where the attacker controls/can inject JavaScript is vulnerable.