skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using ancient empires as an example because pretty much everyone agrees on what happened in ancient history. It's not a controversial / political issue to talk about Rome falling because nobody who was involved in those empires is alive today.

> We learned our lesson. We’re not building empires, not waging expensive wars

I don't know where you live, but here in America we've been at war with various Middle-Eastern nations for the last 2 decades. About 90% of the history of our nation has been spent involved in some kind of a war. Those are expensive wars too. We've spent trillions on Afghanistan alone. We have around 800 formal military bases in 80 foreign countries.

I think that we are far more imperialistic than the Romans, even though our culture doesn't acknowledge it.

> global markets, and mutually assured destruction

Yeah, we have better technology too and a very different financial system. However, this hasn't saved us from expressing many of the same symptoms that ancient collapsing empires had... Especially the social issues that this article talks about.
>Glass is heavy and expensive plus the added liability of it breaking and a consumer reaching their hand inside.

Plastic edges can cut you to the bone pretty easily. Clamshell package victims attest to this year after year.

Can't I just go choke on a plastic bottle somewhere and swing the legal preference back the other way, if that's truly the issue?

I agree with you on the weight aspect though. It'd be difficult to get goods producers to reduce their profits altruistically.
Divinity OS 2 or 1? Because if you haven't played 2 and thought 1 was good, oooohhhhh boy are you in for a treat.
Well for one, a microplastic particle is certainly much bigger than an atom.
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Not to mention that glass also has harmful chemicals that leach into the contents of the glass containers. Same goes for metal.
My experience with Uber was entirely before the CEO change and it was always slow, the UI on Android used iOS idioms, and drivers flaking on me over and over and over again is what drove me to Lyft.

I doubt very much that Travis was making the UI good.
That someone being me not knowing why in hell would I write this monstrosity... git blame + some archeology work to get jira ticket number (I put issue numbers in commit message/branch name) and from that I know why.
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So as the levels of intellectual humility increase there comes a point where a person's superior general knowledge on a subject can actually be greater than a domain expert's specific knowledge.

At this point maintaining the intellectual humility so as not to descend into idiocy becomes a real challenge.
You could always use IMAP to sync your email as normal. The advantage of IM2000 is that it just changes the server-to-server protocol (with some changes for how clients send emails).

But yes, the transition would require replacing SMTP so once again we're stuck on a system that is terrible enough to grumble about but not terrible enough to change.

(I would also argue that Matrix is becoming a new decentralised system for the internet, as well as ActivityPub depending on who you ask.)
I think getting to yes goes in a very similar direction, why would you need a re-education? Or do you mean in a sense of a refresher.
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Crazy idea in alternate universe... Turn all Barnes & Nobles into libraries.
Yeah I mean that’s still fine. The entanglement between system and field never persists since the field is taken to be measured immediately. The systems are only non-separable as long as they’re entangled. See the notes by Steck on the derivation of the SME and SSE.

I agree that if the field is taken to be a degree of freedom entangled with the system under measurement, things are funnier. This experiment isn’t really like spontaneous or stimulated emission... where yeah, DURING the process, the photon pooped out is entangled with your subsystem. In the case of the present experiment there’s a much more subtle thing going on with a three level system where the bright-zero manifold is used as a witness to the dark-zero manifold, where the presence or lack thereof of fast jumps in the bright-zero manifold betray information about the dark-zero manifold, necessarily.
Some places you should not flirt. I’m not flirting with a client. They are there to conduct business. Like I said above, I was a part time fitnesses instructor and occasional personal trainer. I would never even think about flirting with a client when I was single. I definitely wouldn’t flirt with a subordinate.

I always told myself not to flirt with a coworker (don’t mess where you eat), but I met my now-wife at my job, but by the time we started dating I knew the company was on its last leg so I said what the heck?

It was slightly hard dating in my 20s, it was even harder in my mid 30s after being divorced, I can’t imagine dating at 40+ if I were single again.
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>So how big are these really and what are they doing to me?

According to the paper, a) they're mostly microscopic pieces of lint from synthetic textiles and b) we don't know. Given the amount of research that has looked for health harms related to plastics exposure, I operate on the assumption that if it was a big deal, we would have found something by now.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517
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Well...you might give this book a read:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
If Apple decides to cut off a developer, it doesn't matter what their customers want. Unless they had the foresight to bypass the default and use their real e-mail, there is no way for users to prove their accounts belong to them without Apple's co-operation. Their access to their accounts is entirely at Apple's mercy and there is (by design) nothing the developers can do to avoid this.
The Target mobile app is more opaque about this.

If you have accepted location permissions for the Target app, the app will show the in-store price when it can tell you're in a store.

The only way of knowing this is that in smaller/lighter print under the price, it'll either say "Online" or whatever store location.

The most egregious example was an item I bought that cost 40% more in-store versus online, and you'd never know had you looked at the app.
We have no way of knowing what the incentives were as well as vesting schedule. But you're right. It's incredibly unlikely that it was anywhere close to that number.
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For the same reason some people want to use Machine Learning to do code reviews, rather than.. you know, have the team pair program and review each other. Providing solutions to problems nobody had. And making new businesses out of old ideas. Kinda like "url shortener in php" -> "url shorterer in nodejs" -> "url shortener in golang" -> "url shortener in rust" -> "url shortener serverless with aws lambda" -> the cycle goes on. New stars for old ideas. Newtimers excited, oldtimers cynical alike.

We have the technology.
They live within marching distance of some people with pitchforks. Beverly Hills isn't that far from Watts. Midtown Manhattan isn't that far from Harlem. And so on.
Could have just taken the FID data and computed it in Julia in five lines of code!! (but you might not get that fancy tool that makes your integration shoulders nice and even.) Still though bruker charges an arm and a leg for the postprocessing of 1ds
I agree. This is a direct response to Spotify's recent moves
> You should not be relying on system installed interpreters

No one seems to have a problem with that if it's bash.

You definitely shouldn't be willy-nilly modifying the environment of system interpreters, but relying on them for ops-like uses and bootstrapping dev environments is sensible.
When compared to being completely sober, I agree. But when compared to alcohol, which weed is replacing, I think it's obvious that weed is a more ethical alternative.
Thanks for the clear and thorough explanation. The parent comment makes good sense now.

One follow up question - is the "bid per impression" sort of the campaign of last resort then? In other words its the cheapest type of campaign for an advertiser to run as well as the least profitable for the ad network?

Cheers
It's good to know that modern practices are having wide reaching contamination. The sources of ingestion may not be from where you expected and may indicate that other more harmful things are being ingested as well.
I didn't. The kids kept appearing! That damn stork...

Lots of little reasons add up. There was never a definite decision. I guess I got fond of having so many kids, and I got used to the chaos. I saw my wife's uncle fall apart after his only daughter died, so redundancy seems wise. My wife is hard-core Catholic. Making kids is fun. Maybe some will visit when I am old.
You can get close to that if you have a limited government, so that the mass of people can't just vote themselves all the money. (Though, if it's enough of the masses, they can vote a change in the limits on government...)
Java, Kotlin, etc. should solve those.
Yes, what I'm talking about is definitely an evolution of corporations. But corporations are more easily influenced, taken down, and are bound by laws. Bitcoin can't be forcibly shutdown.
Hey, I'm not saying it'd be easy. When I lived in the middle East the cola truck would deliver to residences and take away the empties each week.
You'd only need to use glass for the last mile of the process for many items. Ship the bulk items in big metal containers and then switch to bottling at the stores.
That video is incredible. It's hard to estimate size from the shaky footage late in the video, but I would say the fire grows to be almost 50 meters wide in the course of... three minutes? And that's with a dozen men trying to fight it. I was looking at some other grass fire videos and found a great demonstration by a fire department [1]. It's pretty clear that even on a calm day in short grass your window to stamp out an accidental fire is perhaps 10 seconds.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYVt0DMlos
Over on nakedcapitalism[1] there's an ongoing debunking of Uber's absurd claim that their technology can somehow improve on a commodity service like taking a taxi.

1. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/hubert-horan-will-th...
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I doubt it, it's more likely that they are creating higher level abstractions atop the lower level ones and are advertising/documenting the higher level ones
By that logic Apple can disable your iPhone for other reasons etc etc
Nothing wrong with trying to fix both. Often, the obstacles to most problem solutions are political and economic, not technological or scientific. It's feasible to work on many problems if the political will is there. Doesn't have to be a mutually exclusive choice scenario.
This is a big deal. One of the reasons services are so keen to require e-mail addresses from users with social logins is so that, if they drop that login service for whatever reason, users can recover access to their accounts using their email address. (A few major sites have done this recently, if I remember rightly.) This effectively eliminates that safeguard. They're not just forced to implement Apple Sign-In, but to make themselves dependent on it forevermore in a way that cautious companies have avoided.
As an interviewer at one of the FAANG companies I can confirm this is one tactic we use as well. A lot of people are very confident spewing trash for as long as you'll let them.
My German is very rusty. I was thinking of the different gendered language bits in general rather than pronouns in particular.
He was born when it was called Rhodesia, and his family left as it became Zimbabwe
Sure thing, but I don't see how this story can possibly be discussed without engaging in an ideological debate.
They do it in Boston, I'm sure most other major cities have access to glass bottle milk delivery as well.

If I recall correctly, it's $2.50 extra per bottle for the glass but you get $2.00 back if you return it on the next delivery.
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> I just think I've had this happen three times in a row, as if there is something likely to be wrong with the types of programmer who choose this technology.

You can add a datapoint to that based on what I have experienced as well at an employer. Exactly what you mentioned, so much time wasted either due to reinventing the wheel, or because of language friction and it being way underpowered to model the problem at hand. I keep laughing that Java would have been a way superior fit in practically all fronts.
I think of lobbying as just a particular type of speech, and have an extremely high hurdle for curtailing speech, especially speech whereby the people make requests of government.
That's entirely my point.
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What if you reform PG&E and those 80% go away. Will the next wildfire that breaks out be 5x bigger now that dry material had more time to accumulate? Should controlled burns be done more often to reduce the impact of inevitable wildfires when they do happen?
> The whole point of Risc is to avoid instruction complexity for rarely used instructions

Yeah, that was true 20-30 years ago.

> Popcount and family are most likely microcoded to expand to a loop anyway, so why add this complexity to silicon?

No, you can just make a network of small adders. You could easily build a CPU that has throughput of 1 popcount per cycle (or even better, if SIMD and/or multiple execution ports supported this ALU operation). Silicon area is not a problem anyways anymore. Power and heat on the other hand...
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Marissa did this at Yahoo as well. https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/28/marissa-mayer-on-henrique-...
There's no discussion there, so a repost is ok. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
I had the same experience. One of the main reasons I went to B&N was to look at the new books. Now that they are hidden, there is little point to going in there.

I asked a manager about it, and they told me it was a corporate directive.
A "Blockchain" is merely a public database. That's it.

Git is a Blockchain. Do you think that git is useless?
Faith is a belief in something without evidence, correct?

Science is rooted in empirical evidence. It may be with imperfect models and imperfect measurement, but there is indeed fairly reasonably-measured evidence.
$35K per night is oddly cheap, yeah. I think the ISS operates in the neighborhood of $6M per crewmember-day (where a day is 24 hours).

You're correct that there's no real night on the ISS. It sits in low earth orbit (LEO) and circles the Earth every 90 minutes. 45 minutes of sunlight, 45 minutes of shade.
I'm not a fire expert, but I do think it's short-sighted to put so much attention on how fires start, when the ultimate size and impact of a wildfire depends so much on the environment in which the fire grows and sustains.

To me it's a lot like blaming a web service outage on a mistake by a single developer, when there are other questions like- how might our system have allowed for the introduction of a bug? What measures could have been taken to contain bugs? I feel like the software industry understands this, I wonder if this lesson could be translated to how we talk about wildfires.
You are correct, the E configuration is generally found to be the most stable isomer. It is therefore not suprising to see that in the final liquid state a higher E isomer content is found. The final ratio of interconverting E and Z isomers that you measure in the liquid is determined mainly by the energy difference between the two and the temperature.

However, in the solid state the E isomer does not necessarily give you the more stable crystal structure since the packing of the individual molecules can be very different for each of the two isomers.

I was involved in this research project and can add that interestingly the solid form of the E isomer of this chemical has not been documented so far. It appears that under the conditions that were used, the E isomer of this molecule is found only in the liquid state.
> humans are not eusocial, which by definition requires a biological division of reproductive labor

Wouldn't the biological division of labor regarding breast-feeding in humans be sufficient? It's a significant morphological difference.
If you like, we could divide all our arsenic atoms into 'microparticles' that each contain: ~100000000000000 atoms. At that point your arsenic particle and plastic particle intake would be the same.

My whole point is that we are dealing with crazy big and crazy small numbers. Without more context they are all meaningless.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20110514
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The point was to reduce the opportunity for insider cash theft while servicing machines?
"Suggested" by virtue of being part of the HIG. I and I'm sure many others have experienced app review rejections by virtue of HIG violations.
Pihole is redundant in Firefox with uBlock Origin.
Do you have any links on the chemicals you're referring to and their danger?
This is my problem as with this argument as well. English and other spoken languages seem first and foremost about conveying ideas. Programming languages seem first and foremost about conveying instructions to computers that don't comprehend "ideas"..

Reconstructing the original idea or meaning can often involve far more context than local variable and functioning naming can provide.
Ok, well what if I want to send money cheaply? Lol, it seems like that is a good usecase....

I don't care about the reason that banks have for sabotaging their own service. That is not my problem.
The food and room service better be top notch for what I'm paying here! Commander Kononenko, when the heck is my laundry gonna be done?! Hop hop!
I was able to. Once you reset your clock and use your license key, you can get past Cpt. Hector
What makes you think your local DNS resolver is more secure? Does it have a secure connection to all of its upstream sources?
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Ask HN: Who are some programmers (in)famous for their quirky coding style?
I recently stumbled across a some code written in extremely dense C, using a good bit of cpp to define common patterns down to single-character tokens. Apparently, the programmer is famous for this sort of style, but unfortunately I completely forgot his name.

Anyway, this got me intrigued in code that is written in principled, albeit, non-conventional styles.

I'm sure HN has stumbled across some absolute gems in its vast experience, so please share!
The authentication using OATH and the email forwarding of aliases are two separate but related services.

If Apple for some reason doesn’t allow the app maker to use the OATH service, I doubt very seriously that they will cancel the email forwarding without the user specifically turning off the forwarding.

At that point both the user and the app provider both have generated email address.
include jaculation

I think I'll pick a different one.
Can you think of any obnoxious right wing people who survived any length of time? Not even far-right, just further right than the nationwide center.

Without that, it sounds like either left-wing activists are far more common at Google, that right-wing activists are afraid to act in similar ways, or that Google enforces such policies in an ideologically slanted manner. (My bet would be on all three)
Every city/town/village that has intersecting roads has blocks... It's not incomprehensible.
> There are far fewer shelves of books now.

Mine has the same number of shelves as far as I can tell, but reduced the overall number of books on a given shelf. They keep the shelves looking full by drastically increasing the number of books with outward-facing covers.

I know it sounds like a minor change, but it really gives me an uncanny valley feeling.
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Backburns are one way they fight fires. Starting small fires a head of the main front to deprive it of fuel.
I did hear some rumbles about how their nonunion employees were mad at conditions. I am sad their technical bookstore went the way of the dodo.
The rub here is that you can't just make nature and urban-forest interfaces 'wildfire-safe' because that means cutting down all the vegetation, replacing it with non-native species, or simply removing all access to the vegetated areas.

There's really nothing to do besides clear low brush every so often... which fire is better at than humans anyway.
I'm just assuming that for a population that makes up 10% of the total population to make 100% of the community, race is probably an active differentiator, although of course that's not necessarily the case.

For countries where economic standing/language/culture are very highly associated with race, then it's entirely possible for populations to sort themselves along racial lines without race actually being an active factor...I think it's just the "100% white" part that is making me assume that it's likely a factor.
If you just have a username and password, what do you do for account recovery after a forgotten password? If not an email address, would a cell phone number be any better?

For accounts that really matter (not throwaways), someone needs to know a fair bit about the user's identity to ensure recovery works. It can be delegated (and probably should be), but that moves the identity problem rather than eliminating it.

Maybe someday we'll all have two Yubikeys (one for backup) and register with each website using them, but that's not how things work today for most users.
The visualization is not a tree. It's the life lines of the individual companies being aquired and the terminus is the company doing the present day acquisitions.
Oh.

In that case, head over to rural Nevada and make a 100% legal cash transaction for physical activity. This satisfies you without improperly taking advantage of anybody who is looking for a family man.
People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their thinking
Rust, Macros, λ-calculus/Church numerals, oh my
It was a perfect time to strike while Google is being seen to make anti-user decisions with Chrome and ad-blocking add-ons. I don’t know if it was a coincidence but the timing was excellent.
The article states:

>"Coincidentally, that was when AMD was backing away from servers after some issues with its Opterons and Intel was, in essence, cloning many of the ideas of the Opterons in its “Nehalem” Xeons."

What exactly were the Opteron ideas that Intel was copying in its' Nehalem processors?
I could be wrong, but I didn't see an example of them being "libertarian to the extent" of anything, in that they do leverage the state insofar as it furthers their racism. They just strike me as libertarians that may or may not be racist.
And you don’t need an Apple email address to use an Apple ID.
Flirting with a co-worker is still very inappropriate though, to some people. It's risky and there are no clear rules, which really sucks for men if they're expected to initiate.
Not sure how they can solve the 51% attack in the beginning when you have massive asic farms ready to roll in an instance
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