skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At any rate it's not much of a defense. Their "legitimate" marketing in no way absolves them for their "illegitimate" marketing.

I think we are in general agreement here.

Spending a lot of money on legitimate marketing certainly doesn't absolve scammy tacticts at all.

One of my more recent pet peevees is their fiddling with GMail in a way that a lot of mails from external sources are flagged as spam. Even though they're sure as shit and very obviously not. And not only that. They're constantly moving the goal posts on what is "legitimate" mail.

Having such a big slice of global email this is super scummy and I really hope that (probably European, if any) regulators crack down hard on them yet again.

But I'm digressing here, I'm afraid.
Hank Paulson indicated in his book, "Dealing with China" that there is actually a respectable current of environmentalism in China, anchored in the Buddist and Confuscian past.
Edge working great is quite an exageration, in my experience. Barely workable, with it's own host of weird bugs, that Microsoft did their typical slow-rolling and prevarication on handling. Tying it to a specific operating system version was also a poor decision if they wanted adoption.
The question is do those stats accurately take into account the non-reproductive spread of social progress. Non-religiosity, education, female rights etc are all increasing outside of reproduction. Islamic countries may be growing population wise, but as female empowerment increases this may very well start to slow, as might rates of religiosity.
They're talking about your mental health and the intelligence they have -- they want to talk inside your home so your neighbours don't get to listen in.
There’s a reaaaaaally thin line between (sincere) “We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?” and (menacing, oppressive) “We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?”.

And there’s a really thin line between having the choice to answer your door, and being compelled to for no legitimate reason.
The actual most important hidden one is: - Meat is inherently superior because my company sells meat based products.
Opera was the first browser with any significant market share that supported tabs. I vividly remember switching to Opera somewhere in the 2000s for that very reason.

It also had working bookmark syncing way earlier than the others - that was the second reason for me to use Opera in the 2000-2010 timeframe. I eventually switched to Chrome when it got too good to ignore, and lately to Firefox when it got good enough to compete head-to-head with Chrome.
Police are just humans, they have their biases and grudges and bad days like everyone else. But the power they hold means those bad behaviors can harm you quite a bit, in the same way it can help you when you need it.
That sounds very Kafkaesque :(

(I hope I'm using the word right, first time xD)
>The point is that the people who do use such tools tend to have a derisive attitude towards those who don't,

This has not been my experience.
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Great time for Microsoft to open source its Edge engine. It sure seems like it works great and has no Google related problems so it can form base for future foss adventures.
> labeling something as non useful and leaving it out of the majority of DNA sequencing as a result has made large swathes of the scientific community unaware of how non coding DNA works within the DNA ecosystem

This is simply not true. Noncoding RNA and in particular regulatory regions have been known and studied for many decades. The reason we know less about them than about genes has multiple reasons, foremost the difficulty in studying them (large-scale studies have only recently become possible). But it has nothing to do with “ignorance”, or with the label “junk DNA” (the SciAm article you link to is utterly wrong to claim otherwise).

Furthermore, although I also think the name has issues (but mostly in science communication), scientists don’t just “assume” that intergenic, non-regulatory DNA regions are unimportant. They have good reasons, backed by evidence, to think so. I’m actually in the camp that thinks that stochastic biochemical function is potentially important (and I used to study repeat elements) but even so there’s almost certainly very little “exciting … unknown science” in junk DNA.
I understand where you're coming from and did address some of what you discussed in my first post too. I completely agree it's a short hop from helping to interfering, however where we differ is I think not having a support system at all is more negligent. I should also reiterate my earlier caveat that I don't agree in profiling people at a mass level like the article suggests is happening.

I'd be interested to read the figures you have on why support systems like these don't work in practice because all studies I've read suggest otherwise. Whether it be programmes that offer ex-convicts jobs and thus reduces their likelihood of re-offending; or support at an earlier age such as special schools for kids who are frequently expelled from the mainstream schools and how they've reduced the rates of young offenders.

The key is really to give people alternative options rather than "protecting" them by removing options.

Your suicidal point is a separate topic though. That's a mental illness rather than an action someone chooses or is lead into.
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> It's very likely that those people know both python and awk, and this their attitude of superiority is not unwarranted.

Ok....

> It's much faster to type out the awk line then to write the same in python.

Is there some sort of speed-typing award that's being handed out that I'm missing? If there isn't, why would they feel superior?

We're all† smug pricks, but that's no cause for celebration. And 99% of the time we're not even justified in our smugness.

† All = a huge chunk of IT people, developers especially.
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The mawk version of the language will output C, if I remember correctly. It is the fastest AWK, and supports some of the GNU extensions.

"The One True AWK" from Brian Kernighan (that is still the system AWK in OpenBSD) switched from a yacc implementation to a custom parser sometime within the last decade (fairly recently).

Busybox also has an awk; I'm not sure what they do.

GNU awk is elsewhere reported to be interpreted bytecode.
BitGlitter, a Python library that encodes files as image/video with 2-D barcodes
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I wasn't aware of this, might come handy for "one liner edge cases".
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> even for Twitter's ridiculously ineffective controls on hate speech

Twitter's controls are not that ineffective as much as they're selective. They were banning people for learn to code jab at journalists and doing nothing about blatant hard core misandry and racism directed at white men. If they're trying to radicalize more people, they're doing a great job.
A ban on throwing tables into a lake or ocean? That's probably be good ... pretty sure that's already banned in a lot of places. Illegal dumping and all.
There is little hope for under educated people. It's weird that educated people still believe in the supernatural.
Your last point is completely invalid IMO. Its doing a bad hack while not fixing the structural problems. As they say in Dutch: mopping with the tap open...

Taking good options off the table for irrational reasons does not make the next best options any better.
Exactly, and that's why you need to invest in training and guiding them, in holding them accountable for missteps and bad behaviour.

The point of police is not to give untrained regular people unchecked power over others.
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Ask HN: Are Flags as identifiers for telephone country codes ok?
I ask because I know flags as identifiers for languages are bad - https://medium.com/@EChesters/the-ux-of-flags-d23a1155567d but I wonder if associating the land code with a flag when presenting an international phone number is also a bad idea.

The design has a drop down with each land code shown as a flag and then +(the land code) so American Flag +1.
Agreed. At least the downvote v button can be next to comment tree collapser. So unintended up/down votes are avoided.
And if you use an accountant instead, what software does your accountant use, and does the publisher of that software claim rights to exploit your financial information?

(I've been buying the TurboTax personal and small business edition for a few years, on CD-ROM. I've had a protocol with a KVM virtual machine on Linux, in which the image is loaded into a new Windows 7 image, TurboTax installed and updated over the network, and then that image booted without network, and never again connected to the network, before I load last returns' data, and begin entering data for the new return. My sense is that this is probably not sustainable, and, any year, Intuit can make it so that you have to give them rights to your data if you want to prepare your tax return. A couple years ago, I implemented the entire federal form 1040 and some schedules as Scheme code, as an experiment, and it was a huge headache, but doable, for a startup. It seems like an unpleasant/disreputable business to be in, especially if companies are lobbying politicians to make the US tax return process a huge burden, so that people will buy their software/service. And perhaps share their private financial information.)
For anyone else confused by the title, this is about the upcoming Intel CPU generation.
If that's true, then there's a problem with this statement:

> In my opinion, a police that's feared rather than trusted, is a sign of a police state or totalitarian regime. If that's not what the country wants to be, then it's a problem that needs to be fixed

The assumption is that if the police is feared / overly militaristic, then by definition that country must 'want' to be a police state. Given that Americans overwhelmingly, if asked, would not want to live in a totalitarian or a police state, then either we're not really a police state, or we're not capable of controlling how our police operates. I don't think the latter is true; we obviously have political control over our police. So is it possible that maybe we're not the jackbooted thugocratic police state that we're portrayed to be?
Nope, I'm not obliged to.
A non-answer, but won't a PWA work?
There was a scientist who's work was to find the optimum amount of sugar to put in soda - the "bliss point" that would get people to keep drinking it without getting fed up with the sweetness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)

You aren't making any decisions when you enjoy soda: a large corporation paid some people to conduct studies and ensure that you can't not enjoy it on a basal level.

Of course it's not bliss - it's not good for you in anyway. In fact we know - completely - that it has massive long term deleterious effects on your overall happiness - because it's not optimized to actually "make you happy" - it's optimized to keep you drinking it.
Maybe police in some countries are run by an overwhelming majority of very nice people who sincerely wants to help. But should that really be a reason not to have restrictions on the power of the police force? Granting more power means that it has the potential to be abused some day. How can you ensure that people in the police force will stay nice forever?

IMHO, policing based on mass surveillance goes way too far.
That does not make any sense. If it is memory intensive depends on awk, not on the person being familiar with it.

Sois it memory intensive or not?
> but consider it in context

Which is exactly what has been done. So I don't understand what you're complaining about. The rest of your comment is a giant straw man. I've never heard of or seen implied that anyone in any decision making position in the Rust project is "assuming everyone has syntax highlighting set up."

When you make ridiculous assumptions about the decision procedures of other people, then it's easy to derive ridiculous conclusions. But reality is always more nuanced than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20031706
Is there definitive information on these issues?

The pattern for me is that I'm excited about a new instruction set when it is announced, then disappointed when it is shipped in silicon, then I have a hard time knowing when it is truly resolved and worth taking a second look at.

My recollection with AVX2 is that glibc shipped those routines since before silicon was generally available, and then kept them enabled even when the clock-throttling issues became apparent. (The water was muddied a bit in one glibc release that shipped a bug in selecting which code to use for the running uarch, but that's a separate issue.)
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> It came with an update and they didn't uncheck a checkbox

what update? Windows update? Or did they download some software, and the installer came with chrome as well?
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See also, 'nauniq' (non-adjacent uniq), an implementation of this text-processing task as a full utility, with some convenient options for reducing memory usage:

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-nauniq/script/naun...
Can tracking people through phone-call data improve lives?
I don’t think you need to learn every cli tool in depth. I don’t know awk, but I recognize its power. However, I’ve got a set of tools I find easier to use, a few that I’ve written, and Ruby or Python at the command line. I’m sure awk could replace many cli tools, but at the cost of learning a new language (and cognitive load with each use) it hasn’t been worth it.
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Let me rephrase your response.

> Humans learned about new things for thousands of years without the modern of technology.

> I have no fear that the news of useful and interesting information will spread just fine even if technology is massively reduced.

Sure, we don't need ads the same way we don't need computers. I however like being able to learn about things outside my physical filter bubble and immensely enjoy my used tools and electronics (along with the massive coat savings) I've bought from ads on Craigslist.
Hello HN,

I'm posting this to get feedback. I've got 50 outstanding issues on this project and I hope by asking here I'll see which things are important to work on improving.

If you're bothered to go through the sign up process, please note that the payments page is in test mode so just enter the Stripe test card number (4242 4242 4242 4242 and any CVC and future expiry date), also the email address does not have to exist, as long as it has an email format (ASCII for now).

The other tip I have for you is if your browser seems to lock up, go back to the main page, login again and start yourself another browser. Please also note that the server is small so it could get overloaded, and if so I'll just kill all the processes to free up resources to start again.

In case anyone's interested, I think the main use case for this is for travelers who don't want to use all their 1Gb prepaid 4G data browsing the web. That's why I built it for myself.
If you could predict the future, would you work for the IEA?
I was there as well, and eventually decided to just always `brew install gawk` and alias `awk` to `gawk`, because more often than not I want to rely on gawk extensions (gawk has includes, for instance!).

To be fair though, every time I have read the manual for a gawk function it clearly says "this is a gawk extension" for non-standard implementations (case in point, delete[1], which is now POSIX, although Mac's awk is too old to have that implemented).

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Delete.ht...
If you're indigenous and especially an indigenous woman then your trust and faith in police can be pretty damn low.[0]

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/19/canada-police-fail-indig...
Q for ppl more knowledgeable - How exaggerated is this claim? :

> would have ignited a second reaction that would have been the equivalent of a 5 megaton explosion. It would have leveled Kiev and Minsk, and would have ejected the nuclear material from the other 3 Chernobyl reactors with a force that would have rendered much of Europe uninhabitable for hundreds of years

(I can imagine it is exaggerated, but I am not an expert so can't tell the magnitude. I meant 5 megatons is not that much, the tested "Tsar Bomba" was estimated at 50+ megatons. And even will tones of material spread around, most of it would have settled on the ground on a smallish area, right?)
The intent behind the people setting up the program is besides the point; if the actual cops think your behavior is suspicious, are they prevented from investigating? If not, then the increased interaction caused by this program can very well lead to more situations wherein you aren't free to say no.
price pressure like a fine or a hefty surcharge at the point of sale would help too, no?
For the reasons I've laid out, I see no reason whatsoever why law enforcement should use or have any such technology at all. If at all, this kind of technology should be used by social workers, maybe even under some additional protection and oath of confidentiality like lawyers and doctors have. That way, I could see some real beneficial crime prevention effects. However, the idea that potential troublemakers and delinquents might freely talk to the police and therefore "get on the right path" in their life seems hilariously naive and far from reality. If you look at what police patrols have to deal with on a daily basis - a lot of it is related to alcohol abuse and mental health -, then you have to conclude that the police is mostly the wrong authority to deal with these problems. This is not just my assessment, it's actually very common for the police themselves to demand that other state authorities should do more about problems of mental health, alcohol abuse, and domestic abuse. Most of the time, the police neither has the training, nor the authority, nor the time to deal with these problems adequately, and they openly talk about this in interviews.
People tend to think that around 200 years ago humans suddenly became much more enlightened and we just randomly started to see rapid technological progress, which will forever be the solution to any and all problems humans face.

But technology is not the product of sheer human brilliance, but rather something that was purchased with highly available cheap energy. Imagine your timeline of our exponential progress and you'll find it maps pretty well to this timeline of terawatts-hours of fossil fuels [1].

But in the next 100 years we face two related problems that stem directly from this abundance of cheap energy. One problem is the one caused by climate change and the other is the inevitable depletion of natural resource (including those very fossil fuels). The common HN response is that we'll magically fix both of these with "technology!" but once you realize that our technological brilliance is fueled by hydrocarbons you realize that solving the problem of hydrocarbons is pretty much trickier than all the other problems we've solved.

And the truth is, despite what people will tell you, we don't have any solutions to the real problems we're facing. We don't have any known viable pathway to large scale energy storage required for a fully renewable grid, we don't have any idea how to produce the liquid fuels at scale essential to a global economy (you need high energy density fuels to efficiently transport goods), we don't know how to engineer global scale carbon capture and storage.

And I know people will likely link to a bunch of research projects that "look promising!" But to go from promising research to global scale production takes... tons of energy.

Technological progress is just a proxy for high energy density fuel consumption. Given unlimited high energy density fuels and a planet with infinite resources, yes we would also produce exponentially more marvelous things. But the next challenge is how to deal with the consequence of burning far too many high energy density fuels on a limited planet and running into the limitations of energy.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
This seems silly and Luddite.. Agencies have been forever keeping hard files on people they have been helping. So now they are putting it in computers and we should all now freak out. Welcome to the digital age..
There are two kinds of control: control via stewardship and control via contribution. Stewardship is the process of making final decisions. That could be done by some foundation, but if it's the same people, the decisions would be the same. But even when the stewards make the final decisions about what goes in, someone has to contribute the work. For large/complex open source projects, much of the contribution comes from people who are paid to work full-time on the project, and someone has to pay their salary; that someone is often a corporation. Even if a corporation does not have direct control via stewardship, they can still decide what kind of contributions they're willing to pay their full-time engineers to work on. For example, Linux stewardship is done by a foundation, but most of the contribution is done by corporations.

We see something similar in the Java world. Even though the Java stewards are mostly Oracle employees, Oracle does not exert direct control over stewardship; the OpenJDK lead is elected by the OpenJDK board (whose chairmanship is reserved for Oracle, but has non-Oracle members). However, Oracle also funds 90% of the OpenJDK contributors, and the company can decide they want to fund work in certain areas but not in others. E.g. Oracle has reduced investment on client-side Java; some of that work is now contributed by another corporation (Gluon), but the total resources for client work are still reduced.

Because Google has many people working on OpenJDK (I think about the same number as those working on Go), it also has a lot of influence, as it can contribute large features (like the thread sanitizer they're now contributing).

Here is an explanation of Java's governance by Mark Reinhold, who is the OpenJDK lead and also Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle: https://youtu.be/HpbchS5kmio
https://technode.com/2019/04/19/who-owns-huawei-clearly-not-...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669
Our economy is dependent on advertising so that revenue increases every quarter. Any curtailing of advertising would also have a impact on revenue and then result in job loses. We need to arrive at solutions that is able to reduce such impact on individuals and families.
It's non-ionizing radiation. I don't worry about health issues from 5G.
There are many AWK implementations that are obscenely portable. A case in point is busybox AWK. Another might be http://unxutils.sourceforge.net

A complex AWK script is very, very easy to move to a platform that lacks any AWK parsers. It can easily be done on Windows, without administrative rights, by the placement of a single .EXE - Perl can do many things, but that is not one of them (to the best of my knowledge).
> if you don't mind having an ordered file at output.

I needed to remove duplicates from a sequenced CSV file yesterday but couldn't figure out the flags for "remove duplicates, output sorted by field 1 asciily, 2 numerically, 3 numerically".

The AWK version worked perfectly.
Here's a good short description with further resources for reading:

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Or, you know, have your federal government implement self-filing online which covers 80% of the population.

Tragedy of the Commons at its finest.