skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you really think this makes sense from a public policy perspective, to pit the retirement needs of the old against, e.g., the environmental health of the young?

But couldn’t you argue in exactly the same way for disenfranchisement? Do you think retired people should be allowed to vote?
Speaking of disabling JS. I wish Firefox had the same simple per site JS toggle like Chrome has it the Site settings area.

I can't find a way to disable JS per site without using an extension such as uBlock Origin. Firefox has some site policy settings but I never got them to work not to mention they are a pain to manage even if they did work. I would like a simple enable/disable toggle as part of the site permissions interface they have when you click on the (i) next to the address.
Dunno man, they release tremendous amounts of code, and pump huge resources into audits and other things which often go unaddressed in public projects. Aside from a moment of executive weakness a few years ago, they've been very principled and extremely generous.

I'm a bit concerned that they may become unprincipled and tyrannical once they are critical infrastructure, but that's a separate matter. Google is extremely generous as well, but as of late they are also disturbingly meddlesome.
Would it even matter if they use OSS software to speak an open protocol for OSS clients?

It's not like your freedom is being restricted by their software licensing, if it was going to hurt anyone it would be CF themselves.

Stealing OSS software is kind of an oxymoron.
It seems like we both agree that length implies complexity which was all I was trying to say, so we're on the same page.
The death of malls in the US is a well-known phenomenon.

https://time.com/4865957/death-and-life-shopping-mall/
Microsoft’s MT-DNN Achieves Human Performance in Glue Benchmark
> Why did Apple do this, though? If you recall, Apple's stance on privacy is quite recent. The tech world has a short memory, but I remember Apple being caught red-handed slurping data from user's iPhones not so long ago. Also, unless things have changed (honestly, I haven't followed), Apple tracks users through their native apps, because you're pretty much obligated to go through Apple's SDKs for many things, and they require a tracking ID, which brings revenue to Apple.

This is incredibly misleading. Apple has been mostly criticized for allowing apps to collect excessive user data--for example, apps could access contacts at first without permission. It has been slowly shutting down these methods, as the realization has sunk in the the more open environment of Macs and PCs is just not appropriate for mobile phones. For example, apps in iOS 13 cannot access bluetooth or Wifi information by default, since it was being used to infer location.

Apple does of course collect some user data, e.g. for Siri or app analytics. But it's all painstakingly disclosed and its practices around differential privacy, deletion, and so on are quite good.

The tracking ID was Apple throwing a bone to ad industry and app makers, when it shut down far more precise ways of tracking users.
I think they should do screenings for more intimate groups. Do couches, coffee tables, etc. Like karaoke rooms.

But compete by giving more flexibility about time and selection. Maybe even offer blockbuster TV shows, so you can book a Stranger Things party with a group.

I think IP licensing might be the biggest problem there, which would mean that Hollywood is stepping on its own tail to some degree.
Depending on the field, it's not terribly unusual for an adjunct professor not to have a PhD in the US.
Parachute not enough?
> There is a version of this that will be on the ballot next year

Oh?

> but with exemptions for all residential property

Oh... So, nothing that applies to residential property (which is what the parent comment was talking about). Taxing some businesses is going to increase tax revenue but it won't fix the housing issue that's crushing most of us renters.

For those who want to see the initiative: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Tax_on_Commercial_and_Ind...
If the browser gets slow due to extensions, offer a "cleanup" feature that benchmarks extensions and calls out offending players.

Instead of that, they're disallowing ad-blocking. Not suspicious at all from a company that makes all of its money from serving ads.
but, are we really so susceptible to advertising and marketing now? I know the baby boomers were with their enormous cars, boats and house purchases and their materialism stuff homes and maxed out credit cards. But, I see the millennial not taking part in that quite to the same extent - i think their percentage of spending on cars, for example, is much lower. We may be in a turning point here where advertising affects us less and less.

Edit:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2015/04/28/researc...
Just stuff the smart ones into solitary, problem solved.

Prisons aren't about finding solutions that are just or humane. They're for punishing the people in them. Rehabilitation isn't punishment, so prisons don't do it.

If you rehabilitate you get horrible cases like Norway where the total prison population is a measly 75 per 100,000 residents and the system is tiny. So many "bad guys" on the streets earning an honest wage. It's completely unacceptable to US legislatures. Where's the vengeance? Where's the humiliation? Where are the kickbacks from the numerous industries that exploit the literally captive audience? Totally unacceptable.
If cancer was a dude I would punch him in face.
Google’s painful Gmail OAuth verification process
Get a subscription bud - producing content worthy of HN costs money!

:sacrificing karma to say what needs to be said:
>The story about ablock extensions being blocked was completely false.

What about it was false? Developers made it clear that the changes would neuter many ad blocking extensions, and Google actually backtracked due to the outrage (to a position that still prevents effective ad blocking).
If this is true, why does virtually every theater I've been to in the last 5 years serve craft beer and cocktails?
ah I see, thank you guys...I really didn't know about USA with regards to the shopping mall situation.
Build Realistic Human Speech Animations with the New VOCA Model
I can't know what is the resolution but neither does anyone else, which is part of the problem. They only show 2 results at 30% (p 0.01) and 25% (p 0.05) which makes me suspect they have a very low resolution. I can't prove it, but I don't need to. They claim results without providing convincing evidence, not me.
Another is X-Image-URL, though most mail readers don't support it.

It also doesn't work for the generation of people who started with text email so acquired a belief that if it can't be expressed in text (or maybe with an attachment) then it isn't worthwhile.

At least, that's my belief.
In case of fire, blame vendor.
Target accuracy for pool inclusion is not sufficient for many use cases. I've personally seen tens to 100s of ms difference between pool members. With no quality filter that's strict enough, adding more to that pool doesn't help.
If I was running a beta, I'd happily do that. But I have little goodwill left at this point and little expectation of being rewarded for investing any more time, or interesting waiting for a fix.

There's a plethora of 'how to stop Firefox from being a cpu hog' articles online, which suggests that this isn't uncommon behaviour, nor limited to a recent release.
With respect to your first and third paragraphs (I have no comment on the second)

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-...

Inherent deadliness, ease-of-use, availability, ability to abort mid-attempt. Guns score high(/low?) for all of these if you keep guns in your house.
I personally don't care for the navigation/optimization problem style of challenge that ICFP usually does, but I still check the problem yearly to see if it's back to being in the style of the 2006 ICFP (http://www.boundvariable.org/). (This year is not.)
Or a dry forest, or grassland. Burning lithium probably can't be all that good for ponds, rivers or lakes either.
I try to watch everything but I can't watch a blockbuster. The stories are too easy to guess and the rest is mainly special effects.
The end result is the same though. Any client side tracking, privacy-friendly or not will be blocked. So many sites just use GA anyway - because some users will block regardless.
That’s a mailing list email from 2016, and is a joke about bunch of silly non-standard names for punctuation (e.g. “bang”, “wack”, and “twiddle”).

Obviously occasional people are going to pick up terminology from other communities, and the name “splat” has been gaining popularity recently (I had literally never heard that term before a few years ago, and have been writing Python code since 2002). I occasionally hear British expats in the USA calling elevators “lifts” or baby carriages “prams” or lines of people “queues”. Doesn’t mean those have been common American terms.

This was certainly not called the “splat operator” “forever” as claimed in the previous comment.

> I call curly brackets "mustaches" all the time

I have never heard anyone call these “mustaches”. The common terms are “curly brackets” and “braces”. Nobody is going to have any idea what you are talking about.
>When someone says lets eat out at this expensive 150$ plate restaurant, I think gee I can buy X shares of Y stock instead.

Nothing wrong with being investment savvy and all that jazz but obsessing over it doesn't sound healthy.

People can enjoy a fancy plate or 2.
did you go to cineplex or iMAX? Those are the ones I am talking about. Otherwise, I dunno, maybe the locality/jurisdiction/state you live may have laws allowing for alcohol in cinemas.
Another approach is that, with the set of details someone has to provide anyway when making an order, you could easily offer the option to create an account after the sale.
Throwaway because googler.

Let me make one thing very clear: nobody gives a flying fuck about Fuchsia. Nobody. It was and remains a project that people who want to do something fun go to when google thinks that they are valuable enough to keep around.

It is not the future of anything. It is not even remotely capable of doing anything serious. For fuck's sake, go look at the code - it is all out in the open! The scheduler is a JOKE. SMP support too. Power management is nonexistent. Driver support? HAHA!

The most important part about message-passing microkernels? The tuning for the message-passing. None of that is anywhere to be seen either...

Oh, and app support.. Where is that? Yeah, one could go the chromeos way and try to make an android compatibility layer - it is very hard and never 100% compatible, and relies on having a linux kernel. And then why bother with a new OS? Or one could go the microsoft way and pay app developers to write apps for the new SDK. How did that go for windows phone? Or one could make a VM and run android in it, but then why bother with a new kernel anyways, if everything will be in a linux vm? Linux runs just fine on hardware as is.

Basically a group of people did all the fun parts of writing an OS and did not do all of the boring hard-to-get-right pieces.

I have no idea why the whole world keeps thinking Fuchsia is serious, when they can see the code all along and note that it is a joke.
I used an adblocker to block the element (the ID is #hot-network-questions).
Yes, exactly.

For benign purposes, some sense is seen.

Otherwise, the whole idea is silly.
Love this. I have a special appreciation for those that can write in assembly. It's one of those things, even after reading about it, that I just can't fully wrap my head around. I'm also a huge fan of efficiency (super small/fast programs, websites, etc) and assembly stuff is commonly in that vein.
Some months ago I defended the herbal beverages made with various medicinal plant extracts: Kola Nut, Coca Leaf, root extracts, etc [1]. In that post I spoke of having a 2-Liter bottle of the classic herbal beverage for when it seemed like my blood sugar was getting a little low.

In recent months I've decided that even though the 2L bottles are probably cheaper on a per-ounce basis, my waste 2L bottles were contributing to the plastic problem. I've switched to buying 12 ounce cans, which I open and pour into a glass.

My last purchase of Kola was as boxed 12-packs (no plastic in the packaging, other than possibly in the can liner [2]). I save my cans, and will be taking them to a local salvage yard to be properly recycled.

My trash company supposedly has "single stream" recycling, but I doubt they find all the aluminum cans the waste stream.

In drafting this comment I found a Wired story about the engineering that goes into can production [2]. My cans probably have BPA liners -- "hmm". Maybe I'll buy some Kola nuts and make my own herbal beverage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17979670
[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/secret-life-aluminum-can-true-...
> With introspection you can then easily see what methods a given object has.

With VS and C#, I can hit ctrl+space and get a list of absolutely everything that's in the contextually relevant public API. So much faster than introspection. If I'm using an object initializer to instantiate something, I can hit ctrl+space inside the object initializer to get a list of all the available public properties -- no typing the names required. No having to remember the order of arguments of methods, or even their types. Autocomplete means I can usually get away with somewhere between zero and three keypresses to get exactly what I want highlighted in the intellisense.

Forget efficiency via vim/emacs keybindings. Static typing + a strong intellisense/intellisense clone lets me code literally at the speed of my thoughts most of the time. I end up feeling like I'm stuck in molasses the few times I have to write some JS.

> It is true that you have to write more tests in a dynamic language than in a static typed language but as tests often convey the information of what was intended to be done much better than code, I don't consider this a drawback.

I understand your point, but for me, the extra tests I write in dynamic langs just end up making me feel like I've duplicated the work of the static checker in other languages, and in a non-reusable way.
Reminds me of the hippocampus size study from 2006 for people who do repetitive work (bus driving) and people who have to analyze roads for best paths for a living (taxi drivers) in London https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17024677

And from a personal anecdote, learning something new doesn't always feel like a drug or good food. News has always something new and it doesn't feel that great to consume. Learning something new that is applicable feels empowering, sometimes almost to the point of excitement and joy.
They've been using satellites for over a decade now. The fact that you're hearing about it means there's not much value in this type of data anymore.... I reserve some room for being wrong here.

This type of data is ultimately used to predict revenue for consumer companies. Cellphone data and wifi data is much better for that type of prédiction.
This mainly depends on the location. In the denser areas of the metros, speed is lower (depends on time of the day as well). But the coverage across the India landmass is pretty good. I was streaming netflix hd on mobile, while traveling to another city on a bus.
One of the Most Controversial Anime Ever Comes to Streaming for the First Time
I agree that a balance can be struck, and a lot can be learned without sacrificing substantial privacy. I don't think it's the best of both worlds, though; some sacrifices must be made somewhere. Do you think the amount of information described in my prior comment (cursor movement records that can be filtered based on any demographic data from the profile that generated it) can be analysed at arbitrary points in the future without sacrificing some amount of privacy? Note that I'm not placing a value on this and saying such data should be collected, I'm just arguing that there is a tradeoff. Differential privacy systems do make such tradeoffs.
I can't say for sure, but I'd guess that Gmail has many more paying customers than protonmail. This feature exists specifically for those paying (enterprise/gsuite) customers.
Some are and some aren’t. I wouldn’t call it an “unusual” perspective as the sibling commenter did here, but I would say it’s probably not the perspective of the majority. It’s also going to vary depending on who you are and where you are.

Because the cost of being arrested, shot, etc. is quite high, it’s arguably logical to avoid most if not all interactions with them even if the odds of something going wrong seem relatively low, particularly when you have little to nothing to gain from engaging.

Even if you calculate that you’re not at significant personal risk from engaging, it might make sense to do so for other reasons, e.g. in solidarity with others who are targeted unfairly, and/or (plausibility of this aside) to simply attempt to get along without them.
The per day limits get reset at midnight everyday, AFAIK. At least with some providers (or all?) there is no carryover of unused data day by day. It would be 1.5GBx90 only if the user uses 1.5GB every single day.
You are not Google. You are not Netflix
You are focusing on the IDE aspect which I do not necessarily disagree with, honestly I haven’t tried the recent offerings for Ruby or JS so maybe it’s 0 cost now.

> I haven't found a use-case for a dynamic language in many years.

That’s actually my initial point. The use case is small scope projects, where you get the benefits of dynamic languages (faster and easier write and easier to read) without the maintainability cost and where you’re unlikely to ever get a type error.

Edit: concrete example: Standalone web page with a GET request to get some data, create a chart, and some user events like mouseover. No build tool chain, plain JS. I don’t see how I could benefit from types and what kind of errors would be prevented, but maybe the overhead is now very low with recent tooling and I should re-evaluate.
i am just asking here, not taking any position. not long ago, when you purchased an FM radio or a TV, you get the news for free. the internet feels the same way, once you pay for your access, maybe you want to also have access to the news for free.

news publications for a long time have not been free. so i feel that i understand the motivation behind paywalls. and yet i can't potentially subscribe to all the various news sources available online. it's just not possible.

i don't know... should news publication subscriptions be included in our internet and phone packages?
It adds a logarithmic factor: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/45439/how-much-...
Uber owns and controls access to their platform, which is effectively the means of production. If you just own a car, it's hard to hire that out on your own to make money. Every Uber driver is dependent on rides being funneled to them through the Uber platform.
Ridiculous to assume that US/NASA are only one with the capability, EU/China/Japan/Russia/India/SpaceX could very well launch an interceptor and ride the popularity. If anything I expect multiple independent efforts competing to become the first one to take it out and saving humanity.
I have T-mobile. I have unlimited tethering but it’s only 512Kbps for tethering, which is surprisingly enough for light dev work in a pinch.

The $130 extra for an iPad with cellular and $20 extra per month for unlimited data on the iPad is well worth the convenience of having two cellular devices.

I pay roughly $210 a month for five phones and two iPads all with unlimited data.

T-mobile also has free data roaming in most other countries where we go on vacation.
No need for the dictionary: I regularly get spam to addresses that are just random sequences of letters.
I believe that JSC is in the lead when it comes to throughput and latency. But that is at least partly based on benchmarks that I had a hand in designing.

I don’t know how the VMs stand against each other on memory. JSC is improving in this area a lot recently but I don’t know if it’s just catching up or leaping ahead or whatever.
> It has even intercepted cmd-q now which is super annoying.

You can disable that in the "Chrome" menu.
Had no idea about India, but I am gearing up to move to the UK soon and was looking into phone plans.

Even Europe is way, way cheaper than America. Why is it so expensive here? Anyone know? Is it just that a few companies run the market and can charge what they want? Or are there less nefarious reasons?
https://imgur.com/a/RCrWJgC

waterfox based on firefox-esr 56 (due to legacy extensions in use) with mild adblocking. I'm probably not your desired client.
Even ignoring more efficient flight at lower weight, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliners_by_maximum_t... shows that maximum landing weight can be a lot lower than maximum take-off weight.

So, to land at take-off weight, you’ll have to significantly strengthen the landing gear.

That already is 2.5 to 5% of the Maximum takeoff weight and 20% of the airframe direct maintenance cost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_gear#Aircraft_landing_...)
I’m not going to bother with most of that because it’s just talking points, but I will point out that the birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton’s team when she ran against Obama. Also, calling him racist and sexist is comical, and nobody said that about him when he was buying democrat politicians for decades in NYC - that story got made up when he announced he was going to run for president as a Republican.
If anyone is profiting off my location I better get a cut of it haha. It's amazing what they can do and I enjoy data-centric trading strategies but we don't have to violate individual privacy.
I get that the article used Common Lisp to create the punny title and much of its contents are broadly about why its important to keep languages relatively small, but I'm sort of disappointed most of the language-specific talk was about JS. I'm in the middle of learning CL at the moment (I have a mostly Java, Python, C++ background, in that order of experience) and would be interested to hear from experienced Lispers on why some other Lisp would be a better choice at a language level (so not based on convenience, tooling, popularity, etc... okay, maybe tooling).
The drinks at Alamo aren’t distracting like at a dinner theater.

And that isn’t the allure anyway. The people who run Alamo have concentrated so hard on customer experience that it’s almost embarrassing to the other theaters.

1) Nobody takes your ticket. Buy it online and walk directly to your seat.

2) no advertisements for liposuction of real estate before the movie starts. The media playing while you wait is interesting clips that are relevant to the movie you are about to watch. When I saw “hackers” there, it was a bunch of hilarious old computer ads from the 90s, music videos of the soundtrack, etc.

3) if you talk, text, or arrive late you get kicked out. People follow this rule.

4) There might be some alternative revenue stream[1] but it doesn’t feel that way. It feels like you exchange money for a ticket to a movie.

Honestly Alamo feel less hip, and more like it’s run by cranky old cinema buffs that want you to shut up and pay attention during the movie. It’s like a theater for adults.

[1] at other theaters it feels like they don’t care about you buying a ticket, and the ticket is really just an excuse to sell you extremely expensive popcorn.
The point is they flat out lie in this article about requiring it.
The plutocrats I have met tend to be alarmed about the decline of classical liberalism in universities; they don't sound like they think they could easily purchase agenda-setting power through simple donations.
Those tweets have been deleted, and where’s the evidence of these claims?