skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, if power becomes significant you can add regenerative breaking to regain a large fraction of energy (if they're not doing so already; maybe not because of the age of the trains).
The same is true for gliders and has saved lives (one i know).
> Apologies for my tone.

Okay, guess we can circle back...

> that it is coming out in the caustic remarks I typed above.
> I find your assertions pretty flagrant and not any basis in reality.

And we're done here.
Yes, You Can Write a Game in Just 10 Lines of Basic
Arguably that's Canadian companies doing business in America, not the other way around.
Facebook’s Dystopian Definition of ‘Fake’
Did they summon Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook? Was it about Facebook the company, or Mark's personal affairs? I think it is obviously about Facebook, and it seems to me to be the exclusive perogative of Facebook to be represented by whomever they choose.
An Inside Look at Engineering at Hello Alfred in NYC
If I recall correctly, the Glyphosate cancer allegations come from farmers who inhaled it day in and day out for years - a totally different ingestion model from eating it in small amounts.
The Neurobiology of Conscience
They could just license Red Star OS.
But frontend applications expose mangled javascript which can be reverse engineered anyway
> Say goodbye to many if not most medical plastics - especially those use for artificial joints and similar implantable devices.

Being in (home) dialysis, I generate a lot of waste. I get 30+ boxes of supplies every month. Loads on single use plastic fluid bags, wraps, cassettes, hoses, etc. All need to be single use sterile. Without these disposable materials, they used glass bottles in the past and people would get infections in a manner of weeks to months. I heard it can still happen but much rarer. And people have told me the pain from these infections are quite unbearable.
Because China and especially their military cares deeply about foreign software licenses?

> unless it was avalible to download online, it would probably infringe on the GPL somewhere.

The GPL does not mandate redistribution; it imposes conditions on redistribution, if/when redistribution happens.

Good luck imposing conditions on what China does "in-house" with some pieces of freeware.
>We have the technology right now to stop global warming,

Not sure what you're referring too.
> The best way to avoid being tracked is to use apps that you pay for, not apps that are free and make money with your data.

Nearly all apps, paid or not, use 3rd party analytics tools to improve their engagement. If the app requires sensitive data to function, like your contacts, it's also available to the analytics tool. Even the app's developer might not be aware of what the tools they're using are collecting.
Be careful what you wish for...
Kind of like the conspiracy theory that some conspiracy theories are made up by governments to make theorists look ridiculous, sometimes I wonder if science-blind anti-GMO sentiment was manufactured by these big agriculture companies to draw legitimate attention away from truly studying the pesticides we're using.
I would like to know your opinion on "When to drop the ball when trying to build a business?" You need to persevere, but like playing poker, you invested so much energy that it might be hard to pull the plug. Success might be just around the corner...
Optimizing animation and render performance when using Flutter on the Web
> the Fleischmann–Pons experiments of the late 80s

I recall a talk given at an MIT club a few years ago in which a researcher claimed loading was insufficiently controlled in follow-on experiments. I think cold fusion and F-P is probably a fraud, but it sowed enough doubt in my mind so as to make a follow-up, if not reasonable, also not unreasonable.
Here's an interesting write-up about Seattle. The tldr is that it's about 280 meters for the median, 341 for the mean, in the city proper.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-distance-between-s...
I agree that your assessment is fact- and history-based and don't know why you are being downvoted. Their claims are groundless, and a distraction from a lot of the real health issues that actually plague society.
>raspberries detach from stems as they mature

If the problem can be reduced to separating objects of different characteristics from a process flow, existing food processing techniques like vibrating belts and air guns can handle it, no need for robot arms.
You can look at theoretical process improvements all you want, but the reality is that the WHATWG process has driven Opera and MS out of producing core web browser tech alltogether, and prevented countless unnamed innovative browsers from being even considered, let alone developed, out of sheer infeasability to develop a browser from scratch. Worse, it doesn't help that the WHATWG "living standard" process is setup to never end, and never produce a final spec of sorts, contributing further to the problem.

WHATWG fails to realize that they cannot represent the browser vendors left (Google and Google-financed Mozilla) having a desire for ever more webapp contamination, and web users and authors at the same time who want a stable content media format.

Also, I have to say your comment doesn't sound very promising wrt the future WHATWG/W3C relations being anounced.
The point is giving up some upside gain for downside protection. You are net selling insurance, with a slight bullish bias.
FB certainly is guilty of collecting user data and using it unscrupulously and gathering it unscrupulously. But they can enact laws rather than grandstand and make it out to be a threat to democracy. It’s a threat to the established parties yes, but I’m not yet sure it’s by itself a threat to democracy,

The CA stuff was overblown and had very little impact. The bad thing behind the CA fiasco was sharing people's data the way they did (though that was neither new, nor hidden, that’s their stock in trade).
For a better-researched, well-sourced and grounded write-up of a visit to Chernobyl — with tons of background on the incident itself — see Andrew Leatherbarrow's Chernobyl 01:23:40, which is available as a blog as well as an e-book:

https://leatherbarrowa.exposure.co/chernobyl.

Edit: Posted to HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033770.
If we define "shooting" as rapid acceleration thru a tube, that is a thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/nyregion/garbage-collecti...
> Companies with responsible business models will emerge overnight to fill the void.

Can't wait to see his standard applied to, say, a newspaper, which also are products of that American business culture. Somehow, I get the feeling it would go down a lot differently.

I'm still not sure what is meant by 'shut down' here - are we actually talking forbidding ISPs to route traffic to them? DNS blacklisting? Or just something like preventing them from having any physical presence (data centers, offices) until they start complying with summons? Because in the former case, I can't see how he possibly can think that's viable.
I did exactly the same thing and spent too long running various things to find out what on Earth was using the port! Only reason I had a good guess at what it may have been.
Because each of their copy of Windows is properly licensed now, and they wouldn't want to blemish their saintly compliance record when they switch to something else.
Yes.

I think it's important the keep the hyperbole to a minimum, if we're truly interested in safe energy and in understanding this accident and its impact. Speaking of millions of deaths, as if it were proven fact, or getting our knowledge from sensationalized miniseries, is doing a disservice to both the Chernobyl disaster and the topic of nuclear energy.
Seems Germans are starting to sour on energiewende, here's Hans-Werner Sinn (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Werner_Sinn) describing the situation: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/germany-nuclear...
It's a technical post on a company's blog. (which contains links to the company's products, but I didn't feel advertised to) Like thousands that have been posted on HN over the years.
If you're looking for that page, it's at https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/3/3-98.php.
>prevent meaning from following usage in an era where a small group can create apparently extensive usage

A good first step would be if journos stopped treating Twitter as if it were a meaningful representation of the real world.
Ah, they meant like await goes into async functions etc.
> If the initial bundle isn’t enough to make the page useful, then the user has to wait for two requests to complete serially before they can perform their task.

Since the alternative is just broken, I'm sure users with non-Google browsers would prefer a working page with one round-trip of extra latency.

Meanwhile, it causes Chrome users no harm, they are unaffected.

But anyway, there's no need for extra delay.

You can put a coarse-grain "shall we load part 2" test inline in the HTML, and/or have the server predict from User-Agent (as a performance heuristic - and this can be automated).

The above can provide the same, optimal latency to all different browsers, even when the site is beautifully well-tuned, 0RTT-optimised, TLS/3, QUIC service, with all the PUSH trimmings.

(For even better performance you can select from multiple builds using the same heuristics, optimising out compatibility branches for other browsers on all browsers, not just the favourite. But this is not necessary, just to prevent the delay being discussed. It's an extra boost.)

There is no latency excuse, just engineering deciding not to bother.

Something Google should be criticised for, since they can afford to do better, have a monopoly, and claim to be a thought leader on open web standards.
>They probably still gonna use Microsoft products.

Even if they did get rid of most MS products. Some senior guy probabbly fires up windows and installs a dozen search bars.

I knew a guy who served in the gulf, he was pretty high ranking, handled some security stuff. Got a request from someone important to basically break all the rules because important guy didn't want to walk too far from his CHU to make a call home.... but he was high enough ranking so they did it. It wasn't even a far walk.
The rise of meatless meat, explained
I understand that, but how much into consideration? Let's just make up some numbers, if 1% of reading of Rust code takes place in environments without code highlight, then it should have been 1% of the consideration. Is that the case?
That went really wrong.
More details here: https://frostyoneverest.home.blog/
Interesting, so to be clear, the sequence looks like this:

1. User goes to website, UA communicates previously known features for this browser.

2. Browser does feature detection after load

3. Browser communicates any new browser features up to a backend service, crowd analysis determines if new features have been implemented for this UA.

If that's the case, that's a pretty awesome way of keying features, but I'd have to think about the implications in practice.
Phone numbers I'm pretty sure about. It got joked about on Seinfeld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgfaYKoQxzQ

Wikipedia claims that

>Until 2004, RadioShack routinely asked for the name and address of purchasers so they could be added to mailing lists. Name and mailing address were requested for special orders (RadioShack Unlimited parts and accessories, Direc2U items not stocked locally), returns, check payments, RadioShack Answers Plus credit card applications, service plan purchases and carrier activations of cellular telephones.

But that claim isn't sourced.
Some people go through education and work never getting a mentor. They are just a face in the back of the class, making up the numbers.

Other people can't make a step through life without having a quality mentor who wants to nurture them on to bigger and better things.

It is a bit like having people that are sexually attractive or not. Some people have no problems finding a partner, to be pestered wherever they go. Others can go their whole life without anyone expressing an interest. Due to human nature we don't tell the less desirable amongst us the awful truth that they are 'ugly/dull/boring/whatever' because we don't want to or need to hurt their feelings.

In mentorship there is often no benefit to the person putting in the time and effort. That teacher isn't going to get paid more or necessarily get any other return. That person on work placement picking up a mentor during a year out from their degree isn't going to return to the company doing the placement so there is no point in overly investing in them - but mentorship happens.

There are advantages in having mentors but there is also freedom in not having mentors or attracting them.

I also think that a formal, official mentor is never going to be a real mentor. The best mentors don't set out with prior experience and training in 'being a mentor' to mentor someone, it just happens. Sometimes it can only be after the fact that mentorship is recognised, a boss could be a boss whilst working for them but only later in another life chapter can the true extent of the working relationship be recognised.

Equally, someone doing the mentoring might not realise that is what they are doing. It can be an accidental thing. Imagine some loser kid who is an embarrassment to their mother and an academic loser joins a team for some work experience. They might get babysat by someone that has a hands-off approach, not into disciplining their charge. The change from fear of punishment and retribution to just having the space to do stuff professionally might make all the difference for the previously written off junior hire to flourish. The babysitting employee might not be trying to be a role model and great mentor but they could be perceived to be those things by their underling.

This does not do anything to answer your question, however, some people will naturally attract great mentors at every step of their development, others will go through life never finding anyone wanting to mentor them. My only advice is to change the variables, e.g. to do a new job or course, then show enthusiasm and confidence.
The idea of banning social media platforms is so ridiculous as to be prima facie evidence of idiocy. There's just no way to do it, at least not in a civilized country which respects human rights and the rule of law.
Yeah, you're right, but for how many years did we fit the square-peg in the round-hole using html/css for "web-applications"?

And anyway, how long did we have to use browsers before people realized it's not exactly a piece of A5 paper?
Lets Stop Saying 'Cognitive' Search
I think my problem with the whole thing is how politicized AGW has become. There are supporters saying 'temperature is not climate when it comes to disproving climate change, yet try to use the same argument when proving that it exists.

Many supported laws for trying to reduce emissions are nothing more than wealth transfer schemes used by one group to take power from another.

I also would like to know how so many experts in their field missed the fact that they were using incorrect data sets for so many years. Google 'climate gate'. Nobody talks about it anymore, but it was a serious enough problem that hundreds of universities had to come out with retractions/explanations.

If you are a scientist that doesn't support the current narrative about climate change, you will have a difficult time getting funding and your career will most likely be over the second you submit anything for review. I've noticed that scientists that do have contrary theories are either retired or plain on retiring..for this very reason.

If scientists are going to be the authority now, what about things like the definition of sex/gender? Is it only an authority when it suits our political needs?

I don't deny that climate change is happening. There is just too much noise to really know the actual truth about the extent of the damage and what we can do to prevent it.
> One thing I've found interesting in talking about Chernobyl is that advocates of nuclear power are often willing to accept the Soviet numbers as fact, since they confirm the idea that nuclear power is still relatively "safe" even in case of disaster.

I believe the IAEA report (which you can read yourself) put together by the United Nations and relevant affected governments in the mid-2000s. It shows that over the entire course of time 4,000 people will have died prematurely as a result of the accident at Chernobyl (including people who killed themselves because they feared they were "contaminated"), and between 31 and 54 people died between both the explosion itself and to acute radiation injuries in the immediate aftermath -- including the helicopter pilots you mention. [1]

I also believe that 7.3 million people die every year as a direct result of the burning of fossil fuels. [2]

Everything is trade-offs. The accident was bad, and it could have been an awful lot worse. On the other hand, it's important we not lose sight of the big picture. When humans get hurt, they learn why, and move forward - this should not be an exception.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
The bell has been rung. If FB shut down tomorrow another filter bubble would take its place. It’s what news consumers, in particular politics junkies, want.
Google kills its Twitch killer
Thanks. I didn't think adding them to the why page. For now, the actual projects work like:

if DEBUG:
ring_cache = functools.partial(ring.dict, {}, default_action='execute')
else:
ring_cache = functools.partial(ring.redis, client)

@ring_cache(...)
def ...

Which is not very good solution at all. I will fix the design and properly document it. Thanks for suggesting why page and mock section.
> Not locking it to a specific version is better for security updates.

The idea is that you should take responsibility for your containers and verify fixes and test your application.

> Do you want it to run stable with vulnerabilities or to run secure and broken?

If these are your two choices, you have a staffing or a workflow problem.
In a similar vein, page 3-135[0] describes what to do when e.g. under missile fire ("the pilot is authorized to use the tactical limits listed...to exit the hostile area by the most expeditious means... Subsequent reentry into situations which rely on use of these limits is NOT authorized.") on the same page as the procedure for defogging the cockpit.

[0] https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/3/3-135.php
I think that depends on your law school, to be honest it probably gets easier the more prestigious your school is. I have a friend right now who goes to a decent, but not top 10 law school. There is an insane level of competition going on in mid tier law schools, because the jobs which comfortably pay tuition are only offered to the top 15% of the class and there is a glut of people looking for jobs and holding a J.D. right now. Any short of that class standing, and good luck paying back 150k on your 45k salary with bleak prospects, hopefully you don't have undergrad debt either. Last semester, six laptops were stolen from the law library, accessible only to law students and staff. People feed lies about basic coursework questions. The culture in the mid tier is super toxic.
The difference is Google provides me free services in exchange for advertising. I've already paid Microsoft. How much do I have to pay them to stop constantly trying to pick my pocket?
This sounds bad, but is honestly anyone surprised?

Client/customer concentration is something that every business needs to be watching as a matter of critical importance.

The big boys will always play rough and negotiate things on their terms when they can get away with it - be it the Government, Apple, Walmart or Amazon.

I have sympathy for the companies that are about to be put under immense stress, but it should also be something that every business has already planned for.
I'm not the parent poster to your comment, but I'm genuinely curious: What is it about metrics that makes breaking a browser like Edge unavoidable?
Cardboard costs trees.

Trees are a renewable resource, if you have enough space.

Wait, don't producers already pay for the type of packaging they use?
Ah you were using "parse" in the non-technical sense. Thick of me not to have considered that possibility. Thanks for the clarification.
This response seems more concerning to me.

https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/4812
There used to be a Coursera course called Coding the Matrix. It covered many linear algebra topics using Python. The course isn't available anymore on Coursera anymore, but you can still buy the textbook:

https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...
You are correct Netflix goes out of their way to reduce netowrk traffic.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/

This is a pretty good read, albiet a few years old.

https://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-1592...
They're also almost always served via a local CDN node. A million Australians watching the latest Game of Thrones episodes probably means a couple dozen transfers of that file across the Pacific, not a million.

If you're an ISP, Netflix will even send you (free!) servers for this. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
> If you use MAB, then you dont know if the winner is really better or the result of random variation.

No, you know the outcome of MAB is the best.

If it's clearly the best, it converges quickly. If it's less clearly the best, it converges slowly. Either way though, you haven't lost any more conversions that necessary to find that out, or needed to put in non-mathematically fail safes.
I had the same reaction. Like, if you're really his friend, use that relationship to tell him something that is hard to hear. That's what friends are for, in theory at least.
Belarus is different from its neighbors in more significant ways than its proximity to Chernobyl; it's famously "the last dictatorship in Europe". Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it's economy has been weaker than its neighbors, as has its ties to the European Union.
https://outline.com/aA7HS5

Non-Paywalled link.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. You can certainly express those statements in both FP and imperative languages, and you can prove the equivalences you mention in FP languages like Agda, Coq, and F*.
At the time no. But things have really changed. That said, my family lived through the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution, etc. Terrible things can happen but the rule of thumb for China, in my opinion, is that China (and probably any other authoritarian country) does not tolerate another nexus of power. Reading censor material is not so bad. Disseminating it will get you in trouble. Trying to speak out against the government and disseminate that opinion will get you disappeared. For example, Catholicism was banned in China for a long time until the Pope made a deal that gave the government a voice in the appointment of bishops. What made Catholicism problematic is that there is another authority figure in Rome. Buddhism, in the form commonly practiced in China, has no such figure which is why it was tolerated and sometimes even promoted (with a very nationalist slant). Tibetan Buddhism, on the other hand, has an authority figure not controlled by China. You get the idea...
Stories are the life blood of HN. Without stories, no comments, and no Hacker News. So it doesn't make sense to reward them less.

I agree that there's an issue with randomness about which submission of an article gets the karma. It's on our list to do something about that. But it does even out in the long run for anyone who submits many good stories. And I don't think most HN users care about karma too much.
> If you're in HR at a bank on Wall Street, doing 'recruiting' - odds are you work for the company, not a contractor.

Quite a few of the people I've interacted with were contractors. You can sometimes tell from their email signature even if the email address is @bank.com.