skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often thought that if standards organizations were truly interested in encouraging the use of their standards, they would make them freely available and recover their operation costs some other way. Even worse than the standards orgs themselves is IHS which acts as an electronic library (gatekeeper troll) for these orgs. In theory they are providing a service of managing electronic copies of expensive standards so that a big company doesn't get into licensing/copyright violations, but really all they're doing is adding overhead on top of stuff which should be free in the first place.

At one point the orgs were covering printing and shipping costs, but with electronic downloads and PDFs, it's really crazy to charge $$$ for a standard, especially when it doesn't include updates.

A couple exception to this madness: US government stuff (e.g. Mil-Std) which by law is all copyright free and downloadable, and USB.org is surprisingly and pleasantly just available for download.
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I gotta ask, which city or even country? The United States has extensive and varied laws on public consumption and intoxication. Places like Las Vegas are the exception, not the norm.
It's exceedingly unlikely to happen (and Beijing would likely find a way to prevent it from happening) in the legislature ("Legco"). This is due to combination of proportional representation in the geographic constituencies, and the fact that half the seats are taken up by functional constituencies which are mostly pro-Beijing. And the Chief Executive is explicitly chosen from a pool of pro-Beijing candidates, so that wouldn't happen unless the law is changed. (The law that enacted this in 2014 was one of the sparks for the so-called "Umbrella Revolution")

Some relevant wiki articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_NPCSC_Decision_on_Hong_Ko...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Ko...
In employee-employer relationships, the employer typically has all the power, so if you refuse to sign, you will likely be terminated. This comes up all the time with signing NDAs, copyright assignment policies, anti-moonlighting policies... you have to sign it or you’re gone. I’ve tried the cute “strike out the clauses you don’t like” trick and in every case, Legal got back to me in a few days with a stern “Sign it unmodified or GTFO.”

I also remember a company that I worked for where every week, you had to sign a paper showing you worked 8 hours each day for a total of 40 hours, regardless of whether you actually worked more or less. This was for a salaried position with no overtime so it didn’t really affect my compensation. I tried correcting the numbers and HR said you can’t change them. I pointed out that I’d be lying if I signed it unmodified and the response was I’d be terminated if I didn’t sign. So, of course I signed it but it seemed like such a pointless exercise.
"If you provide people with easy, convenient, legal methods to consume the content in a way that works for them, for a price they find reasonable, then they overwhelmingly won't resort to illegal means."

This is absolutely true, but also absolutely incompatible with our current universally accepted way of doing business which is the pursuit of maximum profits with zero consideration on moral issues. They will rather shovel money on clunky inferior but restrictive technologies, plus lawyers, if doing so would allow them to sell the product at a higher price most won't find reasonable, de facto encouraging piracy.
Is Snap AR's Revenue Leader?
Type ‘news’, use the arrow keys to select the offending entry, and hit delete.
more realistically: first manager installed the system as a virtuous feedback gathering mechanism, then three turnover later as the first crunch hit faults become a metric to optimize and everyone gets incentived on reducing them, at which point gaming the system ensues
Exploitation does not require people to be forced to work.

Also claiming that people can "simply stop writing open-source software" is a false dichotomy and quite patronizing.
This convo reminds me of a bit from The Red Green show (from memory):

> Harold: "Red! We found an old bomb in the lake! What do we do?!"

> Red: "Call the American Air Force."

> Harold: "We tried, but it's in the Canadian side of the lake, they can't help!"

> Red: "Then call the Canadian Air Force!"

> Harold: "It's after 5, he's gone home."
I think part of the problem is that a lot of big, "old school" companies seem to think their code is special. Every shell script, every ugly library, every half-functional API is some precious gem of intellectual property to be hoarded and protected at all costs.

We, of course, know that's completely ridiculous. But try convincing your manager that.
I would suggest that if it was not the British Museum then someone else would have these treasures and they would probably be tucked away far from public view or possibly destroyed through lack of maintenance. I would not mind them being returned if they were guaranteed to remain in good condition and in public ownership. That may be possible now but for a long time it wasn't.
Isn't the signature for the employer's CYA, not for your own? That is, if you lodged a complaint saying that you never received the pamphlet and were told to sign anyway (and especially if there's a paper trail of you saying you couldn't access the page and them telling you to sign anyway), can't they get in trouble for not following the law?
> they found commanders were required to certify their troops completed 297 days of mandatory training, when only 256 days were available for training.

I think we often underestimate just how bad this sort of thing is. It's not just a question of personal integrity, or of whether the real value is a viable one.

First, these practices create miscommunication. If some clever analyst realizes training can be done in 256 days rather than 297, they might write a report recommending 30 days be shaved off training time. And unless someone who knows about the discrepancy gets involved, it's possible that "cut 30 days" will get implemented formally against the lower real timeframe. (This sort of thing happens all the time with budgets, where extra money that's been informally redirected to a different expense is formally cut as bloat.)

Second, they weaken the integrity of the system. No matter how upstanding the individuals, certifying nonsense disrupts a Schelling point of "printed and signed claims are accurate", and so it becomes harder to react to actual problems like the people cheating on nuclear missile readiness training. It's the print equivalent of unimportant elements in a safety routine; changing the routine is fine, but getting sloppy endangers the parts that do matter.
Great job. What I miss is weekly email roundup of comments made by people I like on HN. Its interesting that you cannot "follow" people on HN just to specifically read their comments.
When employees at the FDA leave and take positions at one of the companies they had a hand in approving something for, at an increased salary. The appearance of impropriety is blatant.

Regardless of it actually happening or not it looks terrible. This should never happen
Supplementary File 2 contains the full list of reversals:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/45183/figures#supp2

I don’t know if this is a permalink due to the hash parameter but I’ll try:

https://elifesciences.org/download/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4uZWxpZmVzY...
The name is the least concern here.

But it's called a toast because that's what many UX people have called it for years, because it pops up and toast pops up. It's a specific kind of notification, not any notification. (There's also "butter bar" and "modal dialog" and so on.)

And yes it's behavior, but <input> and <button> and <select> and <textarea> define plenty of behavior too.

I think the big concern here is standards and process... not its name or concept in themselves.
> I am just advocating we review how truly necesary they all are. maybe not everybody needs the same set of vaccines?

Is this something you believe no one has done so far?
With MiniApps you do download apps. When I was at Nike last year we rolled out into that ecosphere.
I drink Dunkin' Donuts coffee because I don't give a damn about the taste and it's cheap. I like the process of drinking coffee... it's a habit of sorts. Not so much an addiction as I have no problems going without coffee.
Future WikiLeak publications took more care redacting documents (even asking the US State Department for advice). So I disagree with what WikiLeaks did in that instance, and it's clear they adjusted their ways.

But it should also be made very clear that there is zero evidence that anyone was harmed as a result of the leak. Yes, this may have been luck or lots of effort by the US State Department, but it still something to consider.
I found it interesting that Norway restricts births and deaths on Svalbard:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/adventure/103873808/sv...
Furthermore, buying weapons doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It is a political process. The US will use its considerable clout to “encourage” other countries to buy arms from the US.
Nah, that is because of bad planning.
Yes, Japanese is an adjective that would modify "outlaws" while Japan is a proper noun itself.
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Believe me: if you had a drug that had any positive effect on Alzheimers you'd be rich beyond the dreams of Croesus. What possible incentive could Pfizer have to suppress something they thought could be useful?

Read the link to Derek's Loew's analysis in Science for deeper analysis: it's posted elsewhere on this discussion.
Maybe because medium.com decided I've read to many articles this month. I currently have a couple of digital subscriptions (man they are adding up quite fast) I did not start paying for medium too.
Author here. "People writing open source software are not being exploited." Well, I got the curiosity to check the data after having just met with people writing open source software. So I think if you make that claim, you should back it up with at least non-zero evidence. I have done my part.
It's interesting that I can't reel off Windows equivalents of those companies. Where are the companies that embrace the and celebrate the Windows platform like Panic or Omni Group?
Here's the thing though: Managed switches are often configured like routers. And even dumb switches have "dynamic route discovery" if we want to call it that.

It would be nice if this could be negotiated away to get a pure IP6 link. If an intermediate link doesn't support that, legacy addressing could still be used. I'm not saying we don't need NDP, just that it would be nice if it could eventually be phased out.
Thanks for keeping the link and posting here!
From Pratchett’s novel Equal Rites

https://www.amazon.com/Equal-Rites-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett...
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I think the espionage act topic is worthy of discussion.

The question about the laptop is pretty settled to me. It's against the law to help someone try to break into something like that. I think that is a valid law, doing so is step well outside what a journalist should do, and all of that is regardless if you are successful or not. Also we'll see what he says in court about that, I could have sworn he or his lawyer already noted their lack of success, that sounded like they were talking about actually trying to do it.

I do think in my mind the two topics are tied together, if someone is not behaving as a journalist then I think the context of the charges changes dramatically.
I don't really see what you're getting out. Yes, there are correlations between genes and other things. So what?
I’m mostly a Mac user, but when setting up a friend’s Windows 10 PC, I used the Windows Store to download whatever apps I could that were available there, and only installed from the web for apps that didn’t have Windows Store versions.

My thinking is:

1. apps on the Windows Store have some level of sandboxing forced upon them, so I can rest assured that the Windows Store releases of these apps won’t make a mess of their computer, even after major-version updates. (Remember uTorrent?)

2. Windows Store apps get automatically updated in the background without ever running them—like apps installed via the OS package manager on Linux. Give some people any chance to cancel/delay an update, and they’ll do it, indefinitely. Better for most regular users [who aren’t relying on any reflexive professional workflows] to have their apps just “be” the newest version, at all times.
"Apple benefits from having higher average quality of developers in its ecosystem"

What?! How on earth do you come to that conclusion?
“By the 1970s, scientists were becoming increasingly aware that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945, as well as the possibility of large scale warming due to emissions of greenhouse gases. In the scientific papers which considered climate trends of the 21st century, less than 10% inclined towards future cooling, while most papers predicted future warming.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request
NIH director Francis S. Collins calls for an end to all-male scientist panels
I know this question relates to the scandal of standards documents, but unlike the IETF it's possible to write ISO standards that are essentially proprietary by including various patent encumbrances, making them prohibitively expensive to implement. IEEE standards are particularly terrible in this regard.
I'm realizing I'm apparently a fan of decoupling parenting...

In my case I'm happy to help if asked politely (and if it's not being abused). That's separate from the rest of the process though, and applies regardless of how we got to the cleaning up in the first place.
> Are you suggesting The Guardian is a corporation?

The Guardian has been incorporated for hundreds of years. Yes they're a corporation.

https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/32/Guardian-Me...
"Constant time in the exponent" is nonsense, I'm afraid.

A bounded exponent of n would be the same thing as "polynomial time", but the thing that's bounded (and indeed arbitrarily close to 2 for large n) is the exponent of log n.

The running time of the algorithm presented in this paper is n (log n)^(2+o(1)). This ...

... is not constant; it increases with n, a bit faster than linearly.

... has o(1), not O(1), in the exponent; the two mean different things. O(1) means "bounded", o(1) means "tends to zero". The claim isn't that the running time is <= n times polynomial(log n) but that it's <= n times "at most approximately a quadratic polynomial in log n".

... doesn't in fact depend mostly on that exponent; the most important factor is the n, not the (log n)^(2+o(1)). If that 2 were a 100, the n factor would still (asymptotically) matter more.

For instance, suppose n=2^100 and our logs are to base 2. Then the running time of this algorithm is approximately some constant times 2^100 (that's the n factor) times 100^2 (that's the factor with log n in it). 2^100 is much, much, much bigger than 100^2.
I welcome your attitude, bring it on and I'll be more than supportive of it. But still, I'm maintaining that you can't work against the likes of WHATWG and W3C churning out specs, when they are subverted and financially dependent on Google.

In other words, we're toast ;( But hey, that might be exactly the kind of situation that motivates developers after all.

With my project [1], I'm attempting something less ambitious: I'm trying to re-establish SGML as an authoring format (HTML is based on SGML, and SGML is the only standard that can tackle HTML), to at least bring back a rational authoring and long-term storage format for content that matters and that you'd like to be able to read in a couple of decades still without an ad company or even a failed, over-complicated all-in-one document and app format of the 2010's getting in your way.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html
I mean but say for example I want a promotion but my boss is deciding between two people. I could work harder and expect that he chooses me or I could go and murder the other person. I weight my options and turns out murdering him is the easy way out so I choose that. You can't say it's not a moral argument when one option is breaking the law
My spouse & I try to be explicit with each other about who is good cop and who is bad cop, and switch off. Good cop/bad cop can really be destructive as you say when it's done carelessly or if it pits the parents against each other. We try to use it gently to maintain a united front. For instance, with bedtime on a rough night, we pick which parent will cajole & start things off and which parent will take over if things go south. One's the closer, and if bedtime goes well that parent can actually just sit it out. For us that helps us have more patience, as if tempers get high, parent 1 simply switches out with parent 2, and sometimes that resets the kid's attitude too.

We haven't figured out timeouts at all.
It doesn't look like a total fix in this case, since the questioner still has to certify that they've only approved essential things. The initial form is too badly botched for "I've verified that this was claimed as essential" to suffice.

But in general, this is a good point. People are always going to have to accept decisions with incomplete information. The fix for that isn't owning outcomes they don't understand, it's clarifying what they're really doing; in this case, George isn't verifying the necessity but rather that experts have declared the thing necessary.
> Devs old enough to recall the halcyon days of IE know it was quite different...

I'm old enough. It's not different. Chrome is the new IE.
The best possible interpretation of this comment is that you are warning of influence from people who have ties to the CCP. The worst possible interpretation, however comes from:

> Wherever the Mainland Chinese are expanding influence and power, resist. Do not trust them.

> If you are in Canada, and especially if you are in Vancouver or Toronto and any other areas where there's a major recent Mainland Chinese immigrant population, keep a very close eye on your neighbors as they, as required by Chinese laws and CCP's modus operandi, likely have set up local CCP branches wherever there are more than a dozen of them.

This is flat-out unsubstantiated, and reads like a vitriolic smearing of a broad class of minorities. You are asking for the impossible task of somehow knowing who to trust. What of second or third-generation immigrants? Are you going to judge people's recency by their accents, or perhaps just that they look Chinese? In the absence of that knowledge, what you are actually advocating for is broad discrimination and paranoia against 17% of the world's population, and the very small percentage of that who decided to start a life in another nation.
Depends what you mean by the "HTML part". The HTML parser, which is the only HTML-specific part, was replaced in Firefox 4, with one implementing the algorithm defined in the WHATWG HTML spec.

The DOM code there's definitely less motivation to rewrite, in large part because there's a lot less benefit to be gotten from rewriting large parts of it (versus layout or style where there's much more entanglement across the codebase).
This is fantastic - thanks!
I used to work in Cancer research. Saying “I want to cure cancer” is analogous to saying “I want to cure viruses,” not “I want to cure HIV”.

Having said that, progress has been made for certain types of cancer, just not as fast as anyone would like.

I agree 100% about prioritizing prevention. At the very least, governments could stop subsidizing/mandating the production and use of carcinogens!

For example, California used to mandate extremely high levels of known-carcinogenic flame retardants for furniture, and the result was new forms of cancer that only occur in California. (This was fixed a few years ago, but used furniture, or anything upholstered is crazy-risky.)

It took years for the state senate to act, despite strong scientific evidence. The flame retardant industry had the strongest lobby, but everyone else, from Ikea (and, separately, their factory workers), to fire fighters, to environmental groups were for lifting the mandate.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of analogous stories are playing out today.

Just yesterday, I read that general mills (and also nature valley) use roundup as a pre-harvest desiccant to kill and dry out oats before harvest, leading to ridiculously high levels of glyphosate in kids cereal (like Cheerios) and “healthy” granola bars.

Best practice for non-organic farming is to apply herbicides well before harvest so they can break down / wash off the final product. Spraying during harvest should be criminalized!
It's frightening that this arises in the procurement context. I fear for the good USG people in these situations. The Boeing tanker fraud wasn't all that long ago, the folks fallen from the highest levels to federal prison. https://nlpc.org/2019/03/19/boeing-tanker-scandals-never-go-...
Americans, and people living in American colonies, also have first-hand experience with American imperialism. I'm not sure why you think your experience trounces theirs?
I never knew how much I wanted a <clippy> tag to put on websites until now... and I'm super disappointed this blog was a ruse.
Upwards of 1 million people were at the protest this past Sunday. There's only a population of 7 million people in the entire SAR. That's the proportional equivalent of every man, woman &child in California, Oregon and Washington meeting in a single spot to protest something. Even if not everyone agrees on the exact details of what they're protesting, seeing that much passionate support behind a cause is a good indicator that the outrage is widespread.
> The authors are not using "constant time" in the complexity-theoretic sense.

Yes, they are. I've already made a top-level comment citing the paper's explicit definition from Section 2 and comparing it to canonical definitions from the usual literature of algorithm analysis.

> That would mean an algorithm whose running time doesn't depend on n,c.

It does not. Note the exponent, 2 + O(1). It is true that the execution time varies with the input size, but this does not preclude constant time asymptotics.

> The GCD algorithm here has the property that (I'm quoting section 1.4 here) "the number of operations is ... asymptotically n (log n)^(2+o(1))". That is not constant as n varies.

Yes it is. Constant time does not mean that execution time does not vary, in either complexity theory or cryptography.
The purpose of a timeout for toddlers / small children is to have a negative (but not harmful) consequence they understand so they can make a choice as to whether to continue a certain behavior or not. There are very few appropriate negative consequences available that a toddler will understand.

Punishment does have its place in behavioral training but is not the first or even third method to rely on. Parents should be first prioritizing on rewarding positive behaviors.

The criminal justice system is a terrible example of punishment used effectively. Punishment in behavioral training is best used in a very tight feedback loop (immediately after action, not after 5 years of court cases) and reliably.
It'd need more like $50,000 to even support a dev team to create a design plan. A bounty isn't going to work for something this significant.

As an occasional user of Photoshop and GIMP, I cannot recommend merely rearranging the deck chairs, which is what it would be to make GIMP more Photoshop-like. Photoshop's usability is not good, it's just very familiar for those who are familiar with it. If you plop someone in front of Photoshop for the first time, they are unequivocally lost. Even an expert photographer or old-school film retoucher are lost. There's a huge ecosystem of Photoshop training because of this, and the approaches and styles are highly varied.

Some tools are specialized and usability is a distraction. GIMP is extremely usable. That's what matters.