skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they're doing that it's relatively easy to find what postal code a bunch of British citizens live in (e.g. start with famous people whose primary residence is often well-known). I filled it in with "Fake McFakety" or something like that in a random postal code in London, so I wasn't even trying.

They're not going to have a known fool-proof mapping of names/postal codes to something that's guaranteed to be that person's current E-Mail address.

Which, in the age of allegations of say Russian interference in elections[1] means this sort of Internet poll is always going to be suspect.

It doesn't mean it's completely useless, it's some general way of gauging interest for sure, but the GPs suggestion was that something would change once it passed the 33 million mark. I don't think you can make that claim with a poll that's so easily gamed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
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That's not far from doxxing or harrassment (from the child's point of view).

Can those kids contact website support to have it all removed, or relatives accounts suspended? If a stranger posted about your kid, the consequences would be something else and of different magnitude.
Funny timing on this, I just came across my grandfather's letter from the Apollo program astronauts thanking him for his testing prowess and awarding him the "silver snoopy" for professional excellence.

My other grandfather was the first shuttle launch director, the shoes we fill..

Might interest some.

https://lensdump.com/i/W1GAd0
How exactly do you imagine that having "connections to government" would affect a problem caused by the law?
Nuclear takes a lot of space for security etc. In terms of power production vs lost land area wind is orders of magnitude butter if you have farming. And solar can be placed on other structures making it’s land cost approach zero.

You can also send power under water quite a ways cheaply. So, it’s hard to find a location which needs extreme power production density.
It answers the question as to the qualification: because it is on people's mind due to recency and prevalence. If I asked you to name the first thing that comes to you mind when I say "Boeing" most would probably say the recent crash, not that they are headquartered in Washington.
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I was going for where intelligent people live. I don't think the brexit vote was clearly cut on Labour/Conservative lines.
There’s a reason these “how to privacy your browser” changes are all are not bundled with browsers — because the capability to maintain them as they are today is a one in a thousand skill or less. Maintaining this collection of changes is a significant burden that requires an ongoing investment and a willingness to deal with the technical fallout of these choices every day. So:

Please don’t apply these steps to non-technical people’s browsers. They will result in an endless litany of broken banking websites, annoying support calls, memory issues, and in general a terrible user experience for others.

Guides like these are why my most common technical support first response for experts having browser issues is to have them reset their browser settings and remove all addons and try again. Non-experts rarely require that, unless they tell me that an expert “made it better” for them. Don’t be that expert.
> and batteries do not follow this kind of cost curve.

They do, very much. And that is new batteries, not even taking into account all the used ones that will flood the market in a while.
Please show me a proof of concept of de-anonymizing someone based on telemetry from VS Code. Otherwise you're throwing around cliches and calling it an argument.

Also, if you're so worried about being de-anonymized, then opt-out?
The point I was making is that the petition proves nothing that isn't already know - a lot of people don't want to leave. It's not even a march where people have to go somewhere to show how much they care. it's just a button click - which is an easier thing to do than go out and vote. so it's not worth reporting, it's meaningless.
Ridiculous. You're forcing your own preferences and quirks onto a class-full of students. They are adults, they can make their own decisions and do what suits them best. As we can see from this very article what works for some does not match what works for you.
Easy: no
Caps Lock is the original placement of the Esc key. It's much more useful having Esc on your home row.
Summary:

Live within your means.
Invest well. Collect what's yours.
Trifling expenses add up.
Time is money.
It's true AV software won't fix behaviour. However, plenty of software gets exploited. There was a news item a few years back when pirated versions of Xcode inserted malware into some iOS apps; several big software projects have had their servers hacked, serving malware through official download links.

AV won't fix users wanting to launch pirated games or software from sketchy sources for example. However, it can fix malware placed on a system after an exploit.

I have more faith into Microsoft and their Defender suite than any commercial AV vendor or Apple itself. Right now, people are using Sophos or McAfee or Bitdefender on corporate Apple devices; none of those have a good reputation with me. I'd strongly prefer Microsoft's AV solution over any existing macOS security suite.

As for performance, any AV will cause some performance drops if you enable live scanning or during periodic scans. Having a macbook scan overnight does not cause an issue, having live scanning running during compilation will slaughter performance. The performance impact is up to how the AV is configured.
I am quite wary of this kind of thing, but fine graphine dust should be very similar to fine graphite dust of which plenty of experience already exists. Graphite has the same structure as graphine, only less orderly.
> Amtrak food is on a par with the fourth-best airplane meal you could ever imagine.

Well that's charitable...
German:

Million (10⁶)

Milliarde (10⁹)

Billion (10¹²)

Billiarde (10¹⁵)

etc.
I know there are some, but not sure about "plenty".

Check out the latest YC cohort: I counted less than 10 startups interested in sustainable business out of 170+

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/here-are-the-85-startups-t...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/here-are-the-88-companies-...

The rest not even aknowledge the fact that we are in a climate crisis.

I was surprised to see YC support startups involved in animal farming, guns, and even fossil fuel!!

We spend so much time in front of our screens that we have no idea of what's happening outside our little boxes :/

https://bigthink.com/videos/tech-billionaires-could-end-clim...
>> "Seriously anyone who thinks the Brexit referendum was democratic or fair is either ignorant or naive."

You may have a point about the fairness - the Government did pump in 9.3 million GBP to push the Pro-Remain position, in the form of a Pro-Remain pamphlet to every household in the UK. This, arguably, was hardly fair as the Leave side could not hope to match that level of expenditure to air their position, yet the people still voted Leave - go figure.
Air bags are extremely cheap, like the cost of a (typical, not extreme) car stereo.

The designers generally don't care what happens to the rest of the car after deployment, so expect a broken windshield, various broken dashboard components, destroyed steering wheel components, HVAC system cracked (ducts, freon lines, vacuum lines, and water lines), broken wires of various kinds...

Even if the air conditioner evaporator coil wasn't cracked, for example, the sheer labor cost of having to disassemble and inspect the entire interior of the car is very expensive for labor. Technically yes you can replace an airbag in about an hour, then you discover there's no turn signals and at next inspection/registration you discover there's no working horn, etc etc it adds up.
... want.
Without knowing anything about the product or your engine of growth it's hard to give any meaningful advice. Especially since people seem to slap the word blockchain on anything to get potential investors excited.
What did your grandfather do and which astronauts signed the letter?
>You know people used to hand-write notes, right?

They also used to write cuneiform :p What's your point here?

>The act of writing them actually helps one to remember

Source for this, in comparison to typing?
Can you not put solar on rooftops? Is the technology for solar windows available yet?
To save you a moment with some Google Translate:
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THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE. HELP US TO MODERNIZE COPYRIGHT IN EUROPE.

Dear visitor,

why can not you use wikipedia as usual? The authors of Wikipedia have decided to turn off Wikipedia today in protest against parts of the planned EU copyright reform. This law is due to be approved by the European Parliament on 26th March.

The proposed reform could severely restrict the free Internet. Even the smallest internet platforms would have to preemptively prevent copyright infringement of their users (Article 13 of the planned law), which in practice would only be possible by means of error-prone and abuse-prone upload filters. In addition, all web pages for short text extracts from press products would have to acquire licenses in order to comply with a new publisher right (Article 11). Both together could significantly affect the freedom of opinion, art and the press.

Although at least Wikipedia is explicitly exempt from Article 13 of the new Copyright Directive (but not Article 11), Free Knowledge will suffer even if Wikipedia remains an oasis in the filtered desert of the Internet.

Around five million people protest in a petition, 145 civil rights and human rights organizations, business and IT associations (including Bitkom, the German start-up association or the Chaos Computer Club), Internet against the reform in its current version Pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee, journalists' associations and creatives.

We therefore request that you contact the Members of the European Parliament and inform them of your position on the planned reform.

Thank you.
Stevenson wasn't a "great writer" in the sense of writing literature for literature's sake, so it is natural that critics wouldn't be fond of him. He was basically the John Grisham of his time -- an author of enjoyable novels -- and some, like "Treasure Island", remain popular to this day.
Thanks. I understand that the numbers require profiling to determine, but I wish there was at least a high-level guide like:

Do you want to optimise pause times? Use X.
Optimise throughput without regard to pause times? Use Y.
Optimise memory use? Use Z.

It may not be accurate in every case (no guideline is), but it would be a good starting point for the vast majority of us who don't know the pros and cons of various collectors.
There are many great reasons to take a train across the U.S.

When I was on sabbatical I took life at a slower pace. And riding the train was just an amazing beautiful slow experience. Sometimes we just go through life to fast, and a nice slow train does the body well
I's better long-term. Storage of nuclear waste is a close-to-unmanageable risk.

Countries that haven't started are lucky because every part of a nuclear power plant is incredibly difficult to get rid of.
Yes.

I'm against having the drinking age being above the "adulthood" age, and I KNOW lots of kids violate these laws, but it is absurd to say that every single person violates them given the chance.
How safe is using Cloudflare from a EU perspective? Is it a big improvement, if some day the American government might just request it to hand over all the logs?
I don’t think this is snobbery. Software is hard. Most coal miners don’t want to write code and lack a lot of fundamentals to do so effectively. Sure anyone can pursue it if they want, but announcing programs to transform coal miners into coders is not a reasonable solution to disappearing coal mining jobs.
Doing it this way screws over people whose first choice is a no-deal Brexit, but who would rather stay as a full EU member than accept May's "not quite EU" deal.

This is why you do ranked choice voting, which covers any combination of such opinions.
> Thorium salt reactors, are non-proliferation by design.

No. In some ways they're much worse, in fact.

> Nothing is great in absolute. It's still great vs all the other energy productions methods. Solar need huge surfaces to produce large quantities of energy, and solar panels require very toxic materials for manufacture... nothing's perfect unfortunately.

Indeed, by many metrics (deaths per kWh, environmental footprint) nuclear is the best option we have.
Restricting home ownership as investment while not restricting apartment property investment or commercial property investment doesn't make things more fair.

It just puts property investment out of reach of the average middle class person and restricts social mobility.

e.g. a high-school drop-out plumber can afford to buy a house and rent it out based on just wages/credit, but he likely can't afford to do that with an apartment building.
Do you have kids? I can't get mine to sit still and focus long enough to learn the basics of playing the piano. The basics. And this is something they pester me to teach them on a weekly basis!

Anyone who has a normal kid would understand why people care more that a kid made something - especially something of such amazing detail.

My kids are happy, that's really everything that I hope for, but someone who puts this level of focus and effort into their work is not what very many people with kids would consider normal.
You can read the letter yourself, which answers all the details.
I use pen and paper notes for meetings & discussions. While I love the act of physically writing, not having notes accessible and searchable at the tips of my fingers means I am not able to get the most out of them.

This discussion is timely as I have been researching smart pens the last few days which can give you exact copies of your paper notes into an app. Anyone here used them? Do you like them?
In theory, I agree with the parent post and the sibling reply. If I didn't ask for email, then it doesn't belong in my inbox. In practice, I do what you do - unsubscribe and delete. If I get any more mail after that...

When I get the old "you'll be removed from our list within 10 days" message, I generally reply to it with a quick message: "Please remove me immediately or your next message will be marked as spam". Many times the sender has complied with a personal response provided someone saw my message, even for some large companies with "no-reply" emails.

For smaller companies - especially the mom and pop type operations - I'll usually give them a friendlier notice. "Hi, I unsubscribed and I'm still getting emails. Please remove me as I'd really rather not mark your messages as spam". I usually get a friendly personal response with apologies and a removal.

In all cases, after the company has been warned, I don't think twice about sending them to spam.
Detecting Cancer with a Herringbone Chip
uvw v1.15.0 (header-only libuv wrapper in modern C++) is out
The Fediverse needs a killer app that’s not just a clone of a centralized service.

Without that, I imagine adoption will forever be low, because of network effects.
Your reasoning doesn't follow. If France's nuclear power was expensive, how did they export it? They sold it on a market where someone thought it was a better deal than alternatives.
Except it doesn't scale. Amazon, Google and Netflix (the companies referenced before this quote) can't run their applications on a single machine. Distributed programming is unavoidable at scale.

Also there's a big difference between throughput and latency. Networking might introduce a longer delay than a CPU call, but if each one of those calls does significantly more work, the overall performance of the system can increase.
I really hope that's not how it works. It would mean that a restaurant would get punished instead of rewarded for getting a big tip.

There's basically two options: either the tip belongs to the restaurant and they can use the tip to pay for any taxes over the tip, and possible spread it out among their employees, or the tip goes directly from the customer to the server and the restaurant has nothing to do with it.
That is the downside. The upside is renters have better insight into how voting to raise/lower taxes will affect their rent. In the US that is all rolled into rent, and as a result renters happily vote to raise the taxes in the area they live without realizing that it will come back in rent increases eventually. (though there is some time lag as other economic factors affect how much rent can be raised)
Correct. In Canada, you only see the retail price. The Canadian consumer still needs to know if the item is taxable and what tax(es) that might be. It's an issue for people on a tight budget.

I edited my first comment from "every" to "other". Thank you.
> maybe you've come across an untapped market for bot-and-booze.

I am so down for this. Maybe I should organize something.
If you're ambitious, you can run your own DNS resolver and route all your traffic through that.
So those who don't have the cash up front or credit to buy a house are SOL, so as migrant workers who made the mistake of looking for a job somewhere in the jurisdiction.
I think the moral of the story is, do not depend on proprietary software ;)
When I see a Math lecture written in LaTeX, I immediately know that I will probably be too dumb to follow it. It's almost always a deep exposition on what the writer want to show he/she knows or how many complicated formulas they can apply rather than really try to teach me something.
I love how there's always someone citing some future reactor design in response to criticism. Of course it's different future designs for each specific argument against nuclear technology.

For thorium, the wikipedia page lists 22 disadvantages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto.... It may well be the longest list of arguments against I've seen on Wikipedia, including, by the way, proliferation risks.
On the point of writing greek letters and symbols I've taken to practicing a Greek letter possibly hundreds of times when I first encounter it. Just write it, write it, and write it again.

At first it's just to understand how my hand has to move to write it efficiently, then I move on to attempting to write precisely. Finally, I write it over and over pushing myself to get it to the speed at which it will not interrupt the rest of the notes when it happens. This approach has be wildly successful for me and while it does take some time it is always time well spent.

Recently, I ran into § and just had to figure it out. Honestly, I was out of my depth in the Wikipedia article and I don't even know what it represents. It was fun, though.
Exactly this. However, it is still possible to create a virtual decentralized network on top of a federated/centralized network.
If Amtrak would add reliable paid WiFi and upgrade their cars, train would be exceedingly worth it.

The next step would be to repair the tracks, which are shared by freight and passenger, which makes the ride worse.
I think you kind-of made my point: Windows Defender demanded Windows experts. OSX Defender demands OSX experts. Now, remind me again, are they employed at Redmond, or Cupertino?

I expect small freezes. I expect pretty big ones too. Your optimism is exactly what my ICT guy said about Sophos.
ToC and links to headers that give warnings when they break. Can't live without it :-)
Hasn't google has ranked pages for text that appears in links to them but not on them for a long time?
Jesus, I can hardly blame anyone who is confused by the naming conventions there!

"files", oh so all the files get checked first, including "/etc/hosts" and "/etc/resolv.conf", right?

No, only "/etc/hosts".

Well why don't we just write it as "/etc/hosts"? Ok, whatever - next up is "myhostname"... wait, my hostname is already in the "/etc/hosts" file, why is it spelled out again?

No no, that refers to systemd's container support (don't ask).

OK... ah, here we go - "resolve", surely that refers to "/etc/resolv.conf".

Nope, that refers to "systemd-resolved".

Well then why didn't they call it that!?!
He is!
one of the weirder numbers I got a call from was 000000000000

it made my old phone kind of glitch out because the number was a bit too long.
“Homes” includes apartments. Commercial properties are, well, commercial, and don’t need any regulation of this kind since the goal is to ensure that people have access to housing.
Note that the author took a sleeper car. In terms of price, this is a bit of a luxury.

As someone who has taken the Lateshore Limited service all the way from Chicago to Boston in just a regular seat, I would strongly advise you NOT to do that. It is just miserable.
I made the switch to Brave this week. I had tried it last year and ended up moving back to Chrome. But now that it is using Chromium under the hood the move from Chrome to Brave is very easy. It feels like the same browser and everything functions in the way I expect it to.

I also started using Firefox recently as well. And the latest updates to it are good as well. It doesn't feel so foreign like it did in the past when I tried moving from Chrome. But, I prefer Brave for now.
Which parts of solar panels are super toxic and how does them getting into the environment rank against radiating waste?
Quick 'n' dirty might be fine for a move-fast-and-break-things web startup, but the world is much larger than that. I sincerely hope the people writing the software in, let's say an airliner to choose a topical example, choose option 2. Dealing with bugs that have killed people is not a "nice problem to have".

(It depresses me that I have to write a defense of good engineering on Hacker news. The value of doing things correctly should be a tacit core principle of any engineer, to be broken only under circumstances of exceptional duress.)
> nothing can be measured to billionth decimal place

surely that depends on the unit of measurement :-)
> Limit the number of properties a single entity can own.

What problem would that solve? Certainly not any of the problems covered by the article.
How to create Habits the easy way
Apple's walled garden is not one I want to play in. I will not trade one corporate master for another.
De-install all your X509 trust anchors and only re-install the ones you understand.
> Amtrak food is on a par with the fourth-best airplane meal you could ever imagine.

What does this even mean? Do you only get a minor case of food poisoning if you eat it?
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Sorry, I'm usually more careful with this kind of thing but having one of these headsets (Sony HMD Odyssey, it's great and the newer version is meant to be even better) and lurking on /r/WindowsMR it somehow didn't even cross my mind that it was an obscure acryonym.
I work on (non Google) search engines. This kind of thing has been happening for decades. Whether it’s synonyms, entity extraction, or embeddings to capture conceptual relationships, I’m surprised this is surprising... but then again I’m a search nerd :)
Yes, that's true you can find many web sites using Wordpress, or other popular CMSes like Joomla, forum boards i.e. phpBB or even e-commerce stores based on OpenCart / ZenCart / Prestashop haven't seen an update for a quite long time. Personally, I'd be glad to offer my free time to help i.e. update Wordpress (recent versions has auto-update feature) or even migrate to static-site, especially whether I am returning user of such website.
And then there's the less-luxury option. https://moxie.org/stories/klamath-falls/
It's not really the user's fault though. If you really want to make sure that something else doesn't start it, you need to mask the service. But then, you can't start it either. What you really need is "disabled unless I start it". I don't think there is a state like that.