skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The supply/demand/finance angles are all different governments, though (state/local/federal). It's incorrect to attribute loan issuance and college administration to the same entity, because the federal government and the government of e.g. California are not the same entity.

Also, running an ad campaign is not usually considered "deeply embedded on the ... demand side". Coca-Cola has certainly run massive ad campaigns, but it would be weird to say they're running the demand side of the beverage market.
What if a spearphisher is watching out for the test emails on one account and we lose the magic headers that bypass the firewall? What then???
Running Chrome without adblock is a security risk. Google has turned a blind eye to malicious ad behavior for their own profit, and this is going to lead to infected corporate networks.
THIS

I forward all emails that are not directly from people in the company to the trash.

I also forward anything with the word "phishing", "test", "audit", and our our IT and security department.

The other strategy I have is simply not checking email.

This is so useful, while others are taking security test, and failing phishing link test. I am in the clear.

What test? I did not get the email.
You clicked what? Humm, I did not get that email.
Man you got a virus -- I run Linux and access my email via Emacs/Mu4e -- also I did not get that email.

https://imgur.com/y3sSYyd

All problems solved!
The implicit loop is uncommon among general-purpose langauges, but very common among filtering-centric languages like awk and grep and sed. For a more recent example, see jq. perl 5 may be close to the only mainstream general-purpose language to have embraced that paradigm though.
To me and seemily people my age getting an 'A' or 5/5 means "no problems" not "exceptional".

You don't express derivation in the positive direction because delivering a product or service as described without issue is the highest aspiration. It feels wrong to make anyone dance for their supper.
> It would actually be really complicated to offer just a couple of items DRM free, with lots of if/then code branches.

It's literally just an "isDrm": false in the manifest. They already do that for trailers and some extra content.
judging a cryptocurrency projects usefulness on cryptokitties is like judging a front end frameworks usefulness on “TODO MVP”: it’s just the example of a tradable asset that everyone uses BECAUSE it has no value and anyone can just set it up to test.

substitute crypto kitties with something more real, like say a government starts to issue ownership information for cars (pink slips in the US i think? idk exactly) on the blockchain... there’s live, traceable ownership information, duties can be calculated and applied automatically, and traded on a platform like this. this is an asset that has real value because it exists in the real world; it’s not the bit of paper that has value, it’s the significance that it constitutes ownership of an asset

*EDIT: and i’m not saying that this idea has value either; it was just an example of something with intrinsic value rather than “third party created value”
Better Apps with React Server-Side Rendering
Be a good guy greg and write a quick curl script to hit all 25k other links. If everyone is in trouble then no one is in trouble!
You want to talk about math now? OK...

My coworker's wife was a math major. She volunteered to help at her child's public school. (kind of surprised that this is allowed, actually) The teacher gave a math problem, "BLANK - 9 = 9", accepting both 9 and 0 as the only valid answers. My coworker's wife tried to correct this, claiming that 18 should be the only valid answer. The teacher insisted that 18 was incorrect because they hadn't covered 2-digit math yet!!!

This is not any sort of impoverished school, nor is it rural or urban, nor is it significantly non-white or immigrant or anything of the sort. It is borderline wealthy. Statistically, you'd expect it to be nearly the best America has to offer.

Nobody should want an equivalent to that.
> I'm the only person in the entire world with the encryption keys to provision the product

The chaos that surrounds you, the facts that astound you, at last your number has found you, your bus number is one.
It’s not clear how meaningful these measurements are anyway. Consider two years: in the first, 1000 tonnes of wheat are produced, and in the second, 500 tonnes of wheat and 300 of steel. Which year, one asks, is more productive? We can measure everything in wheat-equivalent or steel-equivalent or (commodity-basket)-equivalent (i.e. PPP) but ultimately such calculations are just as arbitrary as reduction to wheat bushels (or carpet kilometres or whatever.) Incommensurability therefore seems to make all this fairly meaningless.
"I do think there is still room for many more doublings in efficiency for computers"

I don't think our finite physicist is arguing that exponential growth can't happen temporarily, just that eventually we hit the boundaries of our petri dish. It's a challenge to economic models that sometimes deny in principle that the petri dish even has boundaries.
This is why it’s so unfortunate and frustrating that people are depending so much on Chromium/Blink. Electron, various browsers that are just skins over the embedded framework...

We were still dealing with legacy IE6 (and IE 7/8 by that point also) in 2013! Almost a decade since we got Firefox and the first version of Chrome.

The web has empirically suffered through homogeneity and the lack of strong competitors in the browser space, not helped by the underlying HTML/JS spec becoming exponentially more convoluted to the point where building your own renderer is nigh impossible.

And since everyone is standardising on a Google, their decisions on ad blocking and supporting APIs are automatically going to flow down into every dependent product.

It’s frustrating that MS copped out and went Chromium. Like we never learned this lesson the first time.

We still have WebKit and Firefox and (sooner or later), more of Servo at least. These need to be protected if we don’t want Google and the ad network to totally control the browsing experience.

Although, controversially, we as a web dev collective have learned nothing if we continue to only develop for a single browser. Not for the web itself, but for one particular rendering engine. “Only works in Chrome,” is poor engineering for anything more than a prototype or proof of concept.
In my perception that wasn't the idea of any company, but companies just decided to adapt to how the majority of users use the 5-star rating system: basically like a one-star-system, where 5 means "all ok" (1 star), and 1 star means "crap" (0 stars), and in between there's a wasteland nobody uses anyway.

I think it started to go wrong on eBay back in 2000. People gave any seller overly enthusiastic comments on any sale that somehow made its way to their door, as if that was something special and totally unexpected. And the sellers gave best ratings to buyers in return. Soon, both expected the other to provide a perfect rating for any transaction.
I must be like you too for 5-point ratings. However on Uber I changed my system to:

"A ride happened." -- 5 stars

"I don't think this driver should be driving anyone anymore." -- 1 star.

I've also reluctantly started giving minor tips in the app depending on whether my own rating is trending down or not, since drivers can and do rate riders lower for not tipping. (They have to rate before they take another ride, but they can retroactively rerate.)
Absolutely. If we agree that everyone believes in either 0 or 1 religion, then we'd agree that everyone disbelieves in n or (n-1) religions, where n is several thousand (depending how you slice and dice the various sects and cults).

I'm not sure what the vast majority practice, though Pew [1] has done some good research on beliefs amongst the second most popular religion. Attitudes towards the execution of apostates is especially interesting reading.

In any case, if you live in almost any of the countries listed in that section you'll definitely be happier (and probably healthier / less likely to die) if you're religious than if you're not.

https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-relig...
Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity in legal proceedings. That being said when you cry wolf for enough years...
Energy drinks are pretty bad for your heart
I've thought about using pi-hole but wonder about ads being served from the same domains as the content providers. Is/has this been an issue at all?
> There's a good chance that abundant welfare is why he isn't looking for work

The article calls out another reason. His daughter has celebral palsy I think, and they helped bring things into town for her.
I can't read German, but I can read maps and do know a fair amount about radiation.

The first thing to note is that concentration dramatically decreases as radiation is pushed by the wind. We should also note that we're REALLY good at detecting radiation (it has been a great way to spy on other countries' use of atomic weapons, but since we can't always get into their country we need pretty sensitive devices).

But models are one thing, we have real world data. So let's look at a map of Japan, which has active monitoring[0]. The legal public dosage is 1mSv/yr. So to convert that into a number we can read on this map our hourly dosage needs to be below [(1e-3(mSv/Sv)/365(days)/24(hrs)1e9(nSv/Sv)]= 114nSv/hr. You'll actually find that the vast majority is below that. But this doesn't leave much room for other types of radiation (take note of this point).

But let's talk about that 1mSv limit. Why is it there? Is it where danger starts? Radiation workers have a limit of 20mSv/yr (2283nSv/hr, which is only a handful* of places on the map). Why that? It used to be 50mSv/yr (5707nSv/hr). So let's look it up [1] (PDF, see chapter 3). We see a lot of talk about 100mSv/yr (11,415nSv/hr, nowhere on map) or in a single dose being completely safe. We even see mention of no detectable effects at 0.5Sv (3.3 page 56, page 57 even says little evidence of below 1Gy). Well, the thing is we use a model called the Linear No-Threshold (LNT). We use this because we'd rather be safe than sorry (note the use of "assumption" in the paper). The limits given to just workers has an included safety factor. Then it was decided later than the public should have even lower limits (more factors of safety).

Is having such low thresholds a good idea? Definitely. I agree with the attitude of better safe than sorry. So include factors of safety, because we don't know how many chest x-rays you're getting a year or if you live next to a coal plant. But should we take those legal limits as "you're going to get cancer if you exceed them?" Definitely not. We can realistically see that there is little evidence to support that idea. So is it exactly right to say that these places are uninhabitable? I don't think so, but it is safe to say that there is increased risk. But we should also recognize how much risk that is. (The above might also explain why there's a lot of wildlife in Chernobyl)

[0] https://jciv.iidj.net/map/

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hanno_Krieger/post/Why_...
This reminded me of Spud, the potato powered server.

https://totl.net/Spud/
I think the dismissal of space colonization over a period of 400 years is...unreasonable. We could move all production to Mars for example and only consume the shipped resources. Sure that’s one doubling right there, but we could continue this process.
Just imagine the things that have happened that made that necessary.

I'm imagining visits from pushy ID-scanner salesmen, stopping by the bar to drum up some business while on their way to meet with legislators.
Am I missing something, or hasn't energy per capita in the developed world already stopped growing? As well as population growth in rich societies?
and hopefully this shall be the high water mark of the chrome browser. rise firefox, rise!!!
Good thinking. It's 4.92, so I guess it doesn't hurt.

I'm in Brazil, no idea what my city average is.
> Furthermore, I don't know what your point of revising the poverty line downwards is, apart from to tell people that they should be satisfied that their life isn't worse.

My point is that there should be various levels of poverty so comparisons can be made apples-to-apples. There is an income range where people cannot afford food, and there is an income range where people can afford food but cannot achieve a certain standard of living, etc. These need to be distinguished to make intelligent policy points.

> Most members of the middle class would classify it as mild spending, so I don't see anything disingenuous about my claim.

And many members of the upper class would say having a personal nanny is mild spending, but that seems ludicrous to literally everyone else. Luckily, my statement that 'If you cannot afford <insert basic need>, then <X> is a luxury' is a statement that could apply independent of the economic class of the speaker.

> Groceries are not fungible for entertainment,

Yes they are. I do not have cable so that I can purchase more food which I find more entertaining than vapid television shows. Also, consumeristic entertainment is not a human need. I will grant that humans need some level of entertainment. Luckily, libraries have free videos which are woefully underused. The radio is free, as is broadcast television. Also, humans have entertained themselves for literally as long as anyone can remember.

Look, the guy I replied to made a point about 'middle-' and 'lower-class' people, by claiming there's no way to penny pinch when you're at the bottom. I pointed out that, by the federal standards, those at the bottom (i.e, in poverty) are spending about $800 a year on cable (based on cable rates in my area, which may not be representative, but whatever). Thus, it seems clear that there are ways to penny pinch at the bottom. I'm not sure what is controversial about this statement. There are clearly ways to entertain oneself reasonably without cable, as I and countless others demonstrate.
I have been building a web server on an ESP32 since I saw the re-launch of this site with solar.

It's been tough deciding tradeoffs, and the way I've munged my images to be smaller still is not nearly as nice as whatever dithering technique they're using.

And traffic handling is another thing, what with my not-at-all-compliant socket server crashing as soon as it has to field more than 2000 connections at once, or if any of the connections tries to send more than 54Kb at once.

It's not nearly as power-effecient as a PIC, but it gave a tiny bit more flexibility. (Original prototype was MicroPython to prove it would work, which gave me a repl to live-tweak things, and now I'm using C).
Charles, you gotta calm down.

I love these wrappers around Core. People who hate my ORM get to use my library anyway, the community comes to me and continues to help stability and performance improvements at that level in any case. the ORM was never intended to please everybody; Core was :)
It's almost like they're intentionally trying to make their website hard to read.
Does your uBO actually do anything now? I seem to recall seeing that message and letting it run but also noticed that stopped blocking things
Yup, fair point. While weakening the points made by rational people is certainly not the worst thing they've done, the administration there is definitely making us all look bad.
Although "grade inflation" distorts this, the way it's supposed to be is that only a small percentage of students get "A"s. A means "exceptional", after all, and by definition most people aren't "exceptional".
> what to do if you're sure it's a bad email but terminally curious

Don't open it.

"But what if it's Taco Tuesday and a full moon?"

Don't open it.
The price of energy is capped at the cost to privately produce it for yourself, which is probably pretty low in the scheme of all encompassing virtual real estate fiscal gods.
iridium is another chrome based browser without some of the googleisms.
Yes, this is a good idea. The current approach uses banks as the interface, hence the use of debt. Purely a mechanical artifact, not a moral issue as it is often taken by people fixated on microeconomics.
> ... for instance, today in America we rarely even acknowledge Native Americans when speaking of things like 'minority representation.'

Well, that's because 90% of them had died, mostly from diseases spread by colonists, and many in war. Even perhaps genocide. So of course there's not much of their culture left.

But if descendants of immigrants from Central and South America become the majority, that's in some way a victory for Native Americans.
He wasn't trying to get access to the patented genes for free. He was specifically given access to the patented genes for free. He didn't sneak around and steal it. It was forced on him. His choices were:

* don't plant

* plant, but don't harvest seed

* plant, harvest seed, test and remove any contaminant

* plant, harvest seed, take your chances

* plant, select for resistance using legally purchased chemicals

* plant, sue Monsanto for contamination

Imagine if some rogue scientist exposed me to some chemical that made all my offspring develop a patented ocular structure that produced better than 20/20 vision, and caused all their offspring to develop the same. Imagine that said scientist did so without my consent or knowledge.

Should the scientist win a lawsuit against me when my grandchildren exhibit the patented trait? Should my children be barred from reproducing?

Or does the scientist lose patent protection when they contaminate others? If I encourage my children to seek mates from a pool of others who were contaminated does that behavior matter?

Also, FWIW, an experiment to see if I have Roundup-resistant grass is not a patent-violating experiment. Anybody who so desires can run a protocol where they spray generations of crops with decreasingly diluted Roundup to select for resistance. This violates no patents. And I have in the past sacrificed portions of my lawn to eradicate a particularly noxious thistle. You may call this stupid, but my grass grew back very quickly and the thistle never returned.
I’ve had it done to me when I was hired and they explained we don’t allow tailgating here. Even though they know explicitly who I am, they are my bosses boss, I still need to swipe my badge on every locked door.

I’ve done it to VP level and I’d do it to my CIO too. I’d be that guy who badged the CIO but I try to take basic security and company policy seriously. I’d like an intern who is professional enough to “challenge” someone. Not sure I would’ve at that time.
Launch Kit is not an ICO or promoter, it's a platform for crypto exchanges. Could you elaborate why you're referring to a comment detailing the SEC going after ICO scams?
I wonder if that one was meant to be controversial as it was the first item. My pedant sense started tingling immediately.

Search engines don't work like your standard RDBMS with SQL and whatnot. You can't just make a SQL query with a LIKE operator and just call it a day if you want modern, featureful searching.

But a search engine is absolutely a database. Lots of things are databases even if they aren't RDBMS and can't be queried with SQL.

Although, as a side note, I have seen some interesting projects that allow you to query things like file systems and operating systems using SQL, or at least syntax largely inspired by SQL.
>For drivers, they face a risk of deactivation if they fall below 4.6

That's nuts. Why would I as a passenger have any reason to think giving a driver 4 stars means I'm putting him at risk of being fired? Not only is this losing good drivers their jobs but it's propagating a false narrative that all Uber drivers provide flawless experiences.
I think one piece of information you’re missing is that they also had cockpit warnings that the sensors were malfunctioning, and the pilot side controls were stuck on stick-shake the whole ride.

So add in the part where you can’t actually trust what your instruments are telling you, and the plane is flying like a demon has possessed it.

In the moment you are wondering, is the plane stalling? Is my airspeed actually what is being displayed? Why is trim not responding? My heart is beating 200bpm. Is that whooshing the blood in my ears or the wind?

The answers to these questions is obvious in hindsight. In that moment the flight had entered mortal peril. The question is not why didn’t the pilots recover from mortal peril with perfect hindsight. The question is how did this flight get into mortal peril in the first place?
Dropbox, from one of your first paying customer, I do not need more space, I want family sharing and face recognition on pictures. Thus I’ll move to icloud..
I suppose that's a fair point but I've personally looked at that problem as an opportunity.

We rented out our house on AirBnB specifically so we could force ourselves to get organized and our kids clean their rooms.
I think it might be time to go beyond the idea that there are "markets" at all. That's just a vision inherited from mass-produced consumer goods that are all similar.

In reality, demand is much more malleable, and what people want and how those wants coalesce in different product categories is what defines the structure of those "markets."

People would do far better to start from first principles and understand what desires, wants and needs they want to serve, understand what products/"markets" serve those needs, and build products to satisfy them.

Unless of course you just enjoy the distribution advantage given by building something in an entrenched category. But then don't talk about your "tech" "startup" or about "innovation". You're just doing a cookie cutter product like everyone else.
Make vim editor completely colorless
> I wonder how much $$ damage you did to Google finances since you launched your extensions on Chrome and Firefox.

I wonder how much $$ damage google does to us by loading unwanted and unnecessary adds on our (metered or limited) internet lines.
I should really write a script to generate this from MDN's browser compatibility data (https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data), but many APIs aimed at making browsers more competitive with native apps tend to lag behind or not get implemented at all in Webkit.

We only got working IndexedDB as of Safari 10 and Service Workers in Safari 11, both multiple years after support landed in stable Firefox. There's no support for WebXR, Web Push, or WebAuthn. Safari still can't display WebP images, show WebM (VP8/9) movies, or play Opus-formatted sound. Safari doesn't understand the current version of referrer-policy headers. Safari doesn't implement the String.prototype.matchAll() method. There's no support for getDisplayMedia(). Depending on how you count, we've been waiting seven years for getUserMedia() in Safari, and it's still not fully functional. Safari can't animate changes to CSS grid template rows/columns, or use overflow-inline / overflow-block media queries.

...it's a big weird grab bag of features, but a broad surface area nevertheless. And you have to wonder if some fringe APIs wouldn't be more popular if we could actually compete on bringing the full Web platform to iOS devices in a timely manner.
How about banning north face from having site on wiki... Or just having this article in it
Good questions.

There are even more problems. For instance if LOC is one part of the performance metric, one could add excessive comments and/or choose code formatting style that increases LOC. Conversely, some developers using concise styles and generally shorter code would be perceived as less performant.

It seems to me that such 'low level' metrics are hard to grasp correctly and should only be used along with big number of other such metrics (commit frequency/distribution, tickets closed, builds run, lines reviewed, features built ...) and even then only as a additional info and not final word.