skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know how the ridership is measured. I’m not sure what your point was.

Probably that it's inaccurate for you to say "the 4.5 million people who use the 28th Street stop" because that number is ridership, not people.
Careful, that sort of logical thinking might inspire questions about the whole tottering edifice...
Looks like the last line needs to be updated to have the server listen on 8080 instead of 80. (I'm guessing this is left over from before you added the non-root user.)
Would you be able to update the readme to add build instructions, how to run it etc?
Unfortunately no. The article and other literature I could find in my recent googling suggested that free radicals may have something to do with it, but more generally it seems that gene expression is often conditional. Some genetic markers go expressed in some but not in others. Some only express under conditions of chronic stress or specific toxins. The only thing you might be able to say is that merely having information in your genome doesn’t guarantee it will ever be used, but what causes it to be used varies per circumstances that may vary for each type.
There are no disaster-free zones. I've looked. They don't exist.

It's a case of "pick your poison." Which disaster is least reprehensible to you?

In the Deep South where I grew up, you can set your watch by the summer afternoon thunderstorms. The last time I lived there, our TV and Wii got fried while turned off and plugged into an uninterupted power supply that was supposed to protect them from any electrical issues. To this day, my mother will say "Can't talk. A storm is coming. Bye!" when I call because the electrical storms are awful in Georgia.

When I lived in Kansas, it was tornadoes.

In California, earthquakes. Worse, California has fire season, not a season I ever want in my life again, ideally.

Etc ad nauseum.

Human development tends to have a strong correlation to flood zones because water is essential to human survival and human civilization. We need to drink to live. We need water for crops and flood plains have rich soils. We use rivers and oceans for transportation of goods. Major cities have a tendency to be coastal and sitting on a natural harbor that has been artificially enhanced.

Sure, floods cause problems. But having no water is generally vastly worse.

Life's a bitch. Then you die.
Every company is subject to pressure from their country's intelligence agencies. If an American company is ordered to spy on its customers, there's little it can do. This happened with Lavabit, which Edward Snowden used as an encrypted email provider. The US government forced the founder of Lavabit to hand over the website's SSL private key.

If you're afraid of a foreign country using its technology providers to spy on you, you have two options:

1. Don't use technology from that country.
2. Only use technology from that country that you are confident you can audit.

There's nothing Huawei can do, beyond what it's already done (offer to open up its tech for audits by foreign intelligence services), to allay the fundamental fears you're expressing. In the same manner, there's almost nothing American companies can do to allay the fears of foreigner countries (or US citizens, for that manner) that their tech won't be used by American intelligence agencies. The logical conclusion of this is that every country must develop its own technological base, and that's not a future I want to live in.
"This document is very very old ... The numbers here have become meaningless"

It uses SQLite 2.7.6, which was released around 2003.
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I don’t think it’s the workers that are the problem. If some executive at coke changes the formula and it sucks now, it’s not the delivery guys fault. They’re just doing what they get paid to do.
Seems to me that you could go back to private security and the TSA would be limited to doing inspections and audits, like the FDA.
That's totally absurd. Luminaries like Carmack are anything but prisoners; any firm in SV would pay big bucks to say "John Carmack works here".

Facebook may be a big conglomerate these days, and they may not be the cool kid on the block anymore, but that doesn't mean that they're idiots. If anything, they treasure the presence of someone like Carmack all the more, because it's no longer reputionally-free for people like him to come on board. I'm sure that Facebook is appreciative when he blogs on their platform, but it's patently ridiculous to pretend that anyone would -- or could -- force it.

In fact, Facebook has already been forced to pay at least dozens of millions of dollars essentially as a direct consequence of employing Carmack [0], and I'd be willing to bet they'd happily pay (at least) dozens of millions more.

If you want your mind blown even harder, look up some of the paperwork around the Waymo / Uber debacle [1]. SV companies pay big bucks for this type of talent, even the ones you haven't heard of, like Anthony Levandowski.

If the roll of the dice is in your favor, SV stardom is at least as valuable as Hollywood stardom (and, for the most part anyway, you still get to walk around in public unharrassed).

Disclaimer: I have no special connection with any of the companies or people mentioned, I don't know the inside baseball, and this is all conjecture. But at least it's better supported than yours. ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_v._Oculus

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...
This is amazing. The examples are great and feel amost too easy.

I hope I get the chance to use it.
impl Future {
fn await(self: Self) -> Self::Target {
intrinsic::await(self) # compiler magic
}
}

Then you CAN do `fut.await()` or `Future::await(fut)`, etc. Assuming this wouldn't be impossible for some other reason. And it makes it clear that `await` is magic, not something that a new programmer just can't find the definition of or assumes is the result of a macro or something.

> we don't have these extra parens all over the place on a keyword

like `fut.await().await().await()` vs. `fut.await.await.await`? Both look equally stupid and I feel like the existing Future APIs already discourage these kinds of things from happening by providing good APIs. But it's been a while since I played with them.
The DOM is specified as part of the HTML spec.

The whatwg HTML spec defines exactly how html is parsed, and exactly how every element interacts the scripting environment. Just defining the grammar is not sufficient.

Historically for instance something like

<bold>foo<italic>bar</bold>baz</italic>

Produced a different DOM tree in different browsers. WHATWG specified what should actually happen. IIRC IE managed to produce a DOM graph rather than a tree in the above example.
Mainly just because I don't enjoy it and don't enjoy building the kind of things people want to build on mobile for the most part.

Also because I think the market for native apps is shrinking and that the web has more growth potential.
I have been following kingscrusher for years and I never knew his real name.
Administering the safety of transportation. What else?
Thanks for the input, and I apologize that this is on a Saturday. Given the design and interactions we're trying to create, this is what happens to work for both engineers and founders at the moment.

A lot of people have ideas on remote/online events, and I love that idea. I'll see what we can do there. We're also experimenting with other formats, including evening mixers.

Lastly, if you're interested but the date is prohibitive, we'll work to get the presentations online in a format that works for engineers who are unable to make it over the weekend.
What about “Bubble Fusion” or some other physical process that you can’t foresee, could that pass 6KeV ? Localized?
The Giving Pledge – MacKenzie Bezos
I wonder what the future for UNIX System Services will be, given the introduction of z/OS Container Extensions (zCX)?

zCX is much more WSL-like, in that it actually runs z/Linux Docker containers under z/OS, as opposed to the mere partial source-level compatibility of UNIX System Services.

(I'd love to know how zCX is actually implemented? The information IBM has released publicly so far seems rather light on technical detail.)
Man, if I had enough money, I would totally ship you a fancier card (and new build, if necessary). That's really cool!
From the comment you're replying to:

> people who are obviously going to die earlier...

Your parent was giving examples based on people who are near death. If sick old people know they are near the end, they may be less likely to spend precious time and energy chasing after new friends.

The point is that we don't know the causality. The study is specifically about old people too, so this seems like a plausible explanation.
Doors open at 1PM. The rest of the schedule is displayed on the site as well:

https://www.workatastartup.com/expo
> So let's let perfect be the enemy of good? What's the logic here? Let's leave a huge security hole because we can't achieve perfection in all scenarios?

The logic here is don't hastily start implementing changes to how http requests currently work without a well established plan for doing so. I think there would be a good deal of corner cases you need to account for to successfully implement this feature.

Anyway, this problem seems pretty obvious, and I'm sure this discussion has been had elsewhere already.
Why would you assume a high grade of efficiency, let alone perfection?
Thanks for making this, I was actually wondering the version of node.js to use on a new project and this helped me decide on going with v12 :)
> USPS Priority Mail for $9.99

Priority Mail != Media Mail
Government bureaucracy is absolutely the right kind of answer for things like earthquakes and other one-in-a-hundred-years events. But any time a location wouldn't be considered habitable but for the presence of FEMA, Government bureaucracy is the wrong answer.
honestly, its just a thinly veiled repetition of the American/boomer dad stereotype that money flow is the key arbiter of intelligence (even though I think at the higher end of intelligence its actually the opposite/ non correlated)
I found vpython extremely helpful for visualizing an aerodynamic model of one of our parachute systems at work

https://vpython.org/
I’ll also add that I mean “resonance from specific energy signals” in the most general sense possible, not ‘quantum woo woo’. Like a lock opening when a matching key is inserted and rotated. You want the lock to open with means motion; resonance is motion in response to specific energy, not general energy. It may be awkward to refer to the ridges of a key as energy, but it is in an abstract and absolute sense. My only formal training is in acoustics to that’s part of my lexicon.
> It seems to me, as an outside observer, that golang is OSS.

That seems fair, yes. Although while some people are unhappy because they're just not fans of that model, I think more of the unrest is because the Go team keeps saying they want it to be more community driven, and then there being a (perceived) disconnect between intentions and reality.

If your language has a BDFL, and they make arbitrary decisions, well, what did you expect? And lots of people are fine with that, and if you're lucky then, like Python, you can eventually transition to a more community driven model.

Sometimes it seems to me that the only people who think Go isn't being run exclusively by the Go team are the Go team themselves. :)
Picturing The Zuck leading two mutant mandogs on leashes: the audience is horrified to realize they're Yann LeCun and John Carmack, though 'heavily modified' and almost unrecognizable in their snarling ferocity.

"This fist holds the Ego. This fist holds the Id. I bring you a new existence: the GlobalCoin. I came up with that myself. As Super-Ego."
i think he was just giving a saying. that said it is a game when there are points and competitive at that. as far as life not a game indeed but it is still a game where the stakes are just higher.
> Most people aren't going to see specs concerning screen size and mentally translate that to "Woah, this will make my life easier because it will be more readable than the dinky thing I currently use."

This sentence really hurts my head, especially because I think you are right. In my mind, it is equivalent to being chased by a leopard, and not taking your knife out of your pocket because there's no one there to remind you that knives are pointy and can stab things. I dislike advertising that tells me suggestions rather than specifications; it keeps me from being able to decide if the product will work for the use cases I need it for. I don't think I'll ever understand why that works so well on people.
I wonder if some sort of progressive dither or fade is practical to implement and fast enough (and visually useful)? If I wasn't at work right now I would have a look at the code.

I have some experience with Canvas rendering but, like this, just in straightforward layers. I don't think a dither would be practical, a fade might be using a mask and setting the alpha, but you'd still have to detect all the overlap.

I'd say the answer to my question is a 'nope'.
An issue is copyright ownership. Even if a contributor assigns copyright, it is ineffective if they didn't hold copyright. This opens the project to legal peril.
Thanks for the link! If I may ask, does the Suckless philosophy view language embedding adding unneeded complexity?
It's cancerous, but in the same way that Apple/Google/Valve charging (even higher) margins to allow software on their storefront is cancerous. We should fix this problem universally.
> The logic here is don't hastily start implementing changes to how http requests currently work without a well established plan for doing so.

As if the point of this thread was to push browser vendors to hastily implement this without thinking it through? Are you just trying to find something to have an argument over? I'm tired of this.
Fascinating, thanks for breaking it down into data structures.
How did you get just the insurance? I reached out to them and was told I needed a full service plan ($500/mo before the insurance) with them to get the insurance. I have a 2-person LLC partnership, and we don't need the business services.

How'd you do what you did?
I’m all for pedantry here but I’m not sure this one makes a difference. From my understanding a premise is a statement from which you draw a larger conclusion.

You’re saying you draw arguments from premises to support assertions... but as far as I can tell the formation of the sub argument is just making an assertion supported by premises to begin with, the formation of which acts as a premise to support the larger assertion. So I’m not sure I see the difference
If OpenBSD's port system is anything like FreeBSD's, a v8 port to OpenBSD would have been in the ports tree, where the final product is expected to be a stub makefile that more or less is expected to download an upstream release tarball, apply some patches and then build it, right? (Like https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/lang/erlang/21 but for v8 instead)

I'm really confused how managing those patches is harder in git vs cvs? Or are you objecting to having ports as a collection of tarballs with local patches? Or were you trying to get v8 included in OpenBSD base for some reason?

Earlier in the thread, you were saying that CVS was a barrier to entry for contributing, but now you're saying you're not even sure you're planning to contribute. In that case, use the git mirror. Even if you are going to contribute, you can use the git mirror.
I take a little bit of issue with Truth is less important than shock value, which implies that news media is selling out their content for profit. The vast majority of news outlets don't make enough in ad revenue to stay afloat, and rely on outside funding. The news itself is the propaganda. Carlos Slim didn't put $250 million into the New York Times out of charity, he did it to buy influence.
Degate – open-source software for chip reverse engineering
Considering TSA Pre means you can keep your belt on, your shoes on, don't need to take out your laptop, you can just stuff everything in your carry-on, and don't have to go through the cancer-scanner, it's a massive win just for that alone.
From cloud to the edge: On-device artificial intelligence boosts performance
This is delightful
The biggest problem is that in addition to going all in on xhtml, the w3c actively dismissed the need to correctly specify the actual behavior of the web, rather than some idealized model.

Essential the w3c went “incorrect” html isn’t valid so we don’t need to specify it, even though all browsers support that “incorrect” content. Instead they said “everyone should just use xhtml as that makes sure the syntax is correct”.

Unfortunately they again failed to address the real world:

* xhtml is necessarily slower to display because you cannot do anything until you’ve got a full document (otherwise it will definitely fail to validate)

* because IE didn’t display xhtml it was published with the html mime type, so browsers that did support xhtml still had to parse it as html

* as a byproduct of the last one, invalid xml got added to documents which would then cause the browsers that did try to treat it as html to appear broken

* xml is also incredibly hard to actually get right - take RSS that was ostensibly XML from the outset. Even that has to be parsed as html because of the amount of broken xml.

By going all in on XML the w3c essentially went all in on a technology that people didn’t actually use or want.

But browsers did actually need an accurate specification that matched the real world, and that’s what became HTML5 through the hard work of people from apple, Firefox, (eventually) google, Microsoft, and opera - the w3c was not really involved. The end result is that in the modern DOM you are far less likely to need per-browser hacks than you once did.
The average interval between tornadoes for any given point in the most tornado-prone areas is still a couple thousand years. Building all houses to withstand such a rare event doesn’t seem likely to be cost effective.
Yep. That's what I've heard.

I bake sourdough and other breads every other day at home but baguettes are one bread I have not been able to get right yet though I haven't spent enough time trying to figure it out. I know there must be one simple step I'm not doing or doing wrong.
If the number of children is not growing, why is the population still increasing
The honeywell team seems unusually optimistic and at the same time cautious about the hype potential. Other efforts Ive read about in the last couple years conceeded that practical quantum computers may never happen. Honeywell has the right attitude if they really have something. Best to keep the cards close on that one.
I can only say that I've witnessed some of these situations first-hand, with tragic conclusions. But I'd in no way diminish the importance of addressing the most pressing needs discussed here.
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It's also the ending of WW2 in every movie, book and game exported from USA.
Do you remember which site? I've found it doesn't work for Wall Street Journal, or for New Scientist.
It's a threat to five eyes's leadership.
As a Canadian, I wish my country was better about energy use per capita. In Alberta, a lot of that comes from coal too. China does pollute a lot, but per capita they are far from the worst
Occupations paying differently is a major component of inequality, yes.
A counter-example I've seen is Bazel; the Bazel core team seems very receptive to outside contributions and feedback from my experience (I've contributed PRs to Bazel).

(I don't use Go, so I don't have much insight into the overarching discussion. Just wanted to add my 2c).
I get the sentiment, but advertising is just a small part of how public perception is manipulated. Edward Bernays laid this out in his 1928 book, Propaganda, which is a how-to guide to indoctrination and manipulation of the public.
Yesterday I was opening up yet another Amazon white bubble wrap envelope when I took a closer look at the recycling logo.

“Please remove paper label before recycling.”

Mind somewhat blown. How often do you think that actually happens? But also, really shows you how hard this stuff is to process. Of course peeling off the label is nearly impossible.

I wish after tearing the perforation off, there was another flap in there waiting to be deployed to cleanly reuse the envelope (versus the tape monster which you end up with if you try to reuse it by folding it over on itself).

And then another row of perforation. And another flap. All the way from 8.5x11 or so, down to 8.5x5.

Some of the clothes mailers I get are designed like this, with an inner flap and adhesive strip designed for sending back what didn’t fit.

Would that be worth it in the end at scale? I for one would definitely save the bubble envelopes if they were cleaner to reuse.

But then that label would also have to peel off easier too (different type of adhesive).
most likely at sea

There's no way a threat to navies won't quickly jump to very serious warfare, of a kind that breaks open to involve lots more than just limited seaborne engagements.

An oceanic conflict in the Pacific is going to ruin air traffic, and with both air and sea lanes compromised, you see the beginnings of blockades and economic business as usual encounters entanglements all over.

If big expensive ships start sinking, and the projection of air power changes, everything else heats up very quickly, because replacing military fleets (and the sailors to match) is a slow process, and any major setback could prove permanent and lasting.

Don't expect a naval limited war to stay limited for long.
I think type 2 has been around since Ogg sold "bright hot magic" to Urgh the thatcher. The big change is that within the last 60 years or so, we have developed very accurate scientific models of human cognition and behavior, and those models are being used to shape advertising to have measurable effects on how humans perceive the world. It's like we've developed Persuasion, the Force skill from Starwars, and now we are using it to control peoples' buying habits, and doing so in ways that are actively harmful.
the video of that crash is just hear breaking. you see how the pilots try to recover, did everything right, but it was an impossible task.
> This might sound harsh, but if people are unwilling to pay for something with any currency they don't implicitly count as worthless, maybe it shouldn't exist.

That's essentially every news source that isn't purely propaganda with billionaires footing the bill for its dissemination. This stance seems pretty closely similar in effect to "The only things that should exist are the interests of the rich."

I agree there are a lot of societal illnesses (even beyond those mentioned in the OP) that trace back to ad-supported websites, but ads have been the main reason information has been available to average people for literally decades now, dating back to print and broadcast media in the 20th century. I think if we want to replace them, we need to be thoughtful about how to do better.
I work in ad sales at a medium size publisher, AMA.
My experience has been that Linux works better on old hardware than new hardware.
Ask HN: What's it like to develop surveillance tech?
I grew up watching the birth of the www (amazing) and have since watched large chunks of it turned over to tracking users ostensibly for marketing purposes (somewhat disheartening). I find it hard to maintain enthusiasm for emerging tech like ML, VR and wearables when I see how they will probably fit into the tracking/data-broking landscape.
I'm not casting any judgments, but I imagine there are quite a few developers my age out there who remember the promise of the early days of the web but now work on the sort of tech that is starting to make the web feel a little creepy and hostile. I'm wondering how that feels - does it give you pause, or is it just the way things are inevitably going?
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