skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incredibly easy to lay a lot of skepticism around your idea that things might have been better before we had our recent ability to define and record various safety metrics.

This can be accomplished by pointing out just a few recent innovations that have extended the global expected lifespan.

- The S bend flushing toilet and access to improved sanitation

- The era of vaccination

- The discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics

- The invention of the movable type printing and subsequent information technologies accelerating knowledge transfer

- Precision medical equipment: MRIs, CT Scans, surgical scopes, ultrasounds, X-Rays, and minimally invasive surgery

- Mechanized agriculture and the era of food surplus

All of the above along with quite a few other innovations cement the idea that anyone wishing to go back to any time period before something like the 19th century is basically out of their mind.

Say what you want about politics, I'm not sure it's anything we haven't seen before. Nationalist right-wing politics isn't new. Political disunity isn't new. Overall, "Trust in the system" doesn't have anything to do with how likely I am to make it to 80 years old.

Our era may have some turbulence, but it's got nothing on dying young because you ate your own shit and didn't even realize it.
You're right, looks like I was mistaken
It's definitely tough when you feel like you're receiving assessments that don't really correlate with the work you'll be doing on the job. The more companies can use language specific testing frameworks and assessments based on unit tests, the more the assessments will mimic the actual programming they'll be doing on the job. Better yet, customer assessments can be built that actually reflect real problems or challenges companies have within their own code base.
Rewriting stable, network-facing, C or C++ software in Rust is a very good idea, because that way that software will require less ongoing maintenance to avoid security problems in the future.
Personally I don't like the idea of idolizing celebrities and the wealthy just because. Someone being recognized for actual talent or doing something real is much better to me, but I still don't care at all about the personal lives of others that in no way impact my life. I recognize their talents and contributions to society, but that doesn't mean I care what they have for breakfast or what their political stances are.

The whole point of an "influencer" is to become as popular as possible on the internet to make themselves feel self important and to make money. I can't fathom how this is enviable or why people desire to give them money.
This is actually a feature - python array slicing syntax is very similar to fortran.
I've been this guy. When volunteering in Haiti, I was just... mad at the world. I hated everyone who didn't want to move to Haiti and help.

Then I started reading about Paul Farmer, who has arguably done more than I ever will but doesn't seem to have developed that same anger.

I met him once, and he recognized that you have to take time for you to be. To center yourself. Whether thats a theme park or watching TV and talking to your friends about it.

The key (which I didn't have a handle on early on in Haiti) is to find the balance you need to be able to accept in life what you can't change and to aggressively strive against the things you can.
"Sessions are tracked anonymously without cookies or personally identifying information like IP addresses."

Very curious how they are able to do this
San Francisco passed a rule that said an apartment building can’t make the choice about which carrier they use. But apartments often make deals with carriers in which they get paid if they’re exclusive to one carrier.

Of course the first thing this does is reduce competition: it costs at&t, Comcast, etc less to buy off the building owner than actual competition would.

So SF required that building owners allow residents to use which ever carrier they want. That requires either installation of additional cables, or sharing the building cables.

The FCC makes the claim that the only option is sharing the cables, and sharing the cables will make companies less likely to invest, harming the competition. It deliberately ignores that the current competition is not the price paid by residents by the private paid to the building owners. Once the carrier gets that contract in place their is no competition for the actual residents.

SF points out rightly: the legislation does not require shared cables: the carriers can choose to put in additional cables, but that’s a dumb thing to pay for. Carriers have turned around to say essentially “having to invest in cables means we won’t invest in cables”, and their paid enforcer has done their bidding to block that.
grounding the cloud!
Inequality is rising, but so are the lowest rungs of american society. They have seen huge increases in standard of living.
Obviously it's important to get a way to bike to places, but if you want to use them for commuting or any other activity that involves leaving your bike alone for more than 3 minutes you pretty much need to have decent bike parking.

Otherwise you're just risking your bike being stolen and there being no recourse for it every single day. Because the police sure don't give a shit about bike theft, even if your bike is fancy enough for it to technically count as grand larceny. Let alone if it's not.
Would you use a flowchart based visual programming tool for general purpose programming?

Scientists do not usually use Word for somewhat similar reasons.
? any sources for those percentages. https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/fao-common-flawed-com...

My point is that food is the one thing that's globally almost evenly distributed part of economy. And even if we all change diet's, it wont safe anyone's climate, if the rest is catching up with "western" lifestyles at their current emmisions footprint. Pretty much anything else is easier to change technically, if it wasnt for lobbyism.

I grew up in GDR and still had livestock of our own, this not just about food ethics, but also diversity/robustness of food supply in any more fragile economy.
My current business is heavily Google reliant, and Google been proving to be a very poor business partner:

Google and you are no more partners than the fox and the lamb are partners. That’s your main problem. Do you know how many high profile companies have gone belly up because of a Google algorithm change?
I wonder how much the numerator is biased by fraud like:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/05/fraudster-made...

and

https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/52114-lithuanian-...

Apparently you could produce fake bottles for a few cents and get a 5-15x return.
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Far from seeing this as a downside, I see it as an upside.

Gtk support on OS X has been absymal, forever. If this helps that, I'm all for it, thanks.
I've pretty much had a ThinkPad with me since the mid '90s, and, and used to carry them everywhere with me, usually one or more trips a day. One of them I got a custom printed skin, it wasn't that expensive, maybe $50... I peeled that skin of ~3 years later when I got a new laptop, and the top looked PRISTINE. I realized at that time: While the normal finish wears pretty well, it does wear. The skin totally protected it.
>Hollywood produces plenty of original stories still

I'd love to see you back this up with data in comparison to previous years. Even a cursory glance at opening weekends over the years on Box Office Mojo tells me you're misinformed.
Its an independent currency: if it changes rules in a way users dont accept it would stop being used.

Lets not confound the capacity to build a token with the capacity to levy taxes. The latter is the scary one. The former is just playing with casino chips and airline miles.
And those bugs get fixed, and the software ends up better.

I've contributed to two successful "rewrite it in Rust" projects now: Stylo and WebRender. Both of them ended up fixing long-standing bugs in the previous implementation that were difficult to address in the old codebase, but a new clean approach offered a nice opportunity to fix them.
>Real time strategy games are peculiar because they are played mostly moment to moment in a very reactive style with very little medium or long term planning (beyond the next batch of units in production)

??? Have you ever competitively played an RTS?
The last error message on their credit cards endpoint reads «This API method has been temporarily disabled due to exceptionally high traffic». It might be a DDoS attack.
Panopticon – A libre program analysis library for machine code
In 3D characters animation, everything needs to be decomposed into "quads". Polygonal faces with more than 4 sides start behaving really weirdly under deformation -- there's more than one solution for how the resulting surface should be shaped -- whereas "quads" behave in a totally predictable fashion. I suspect that similar issues are at play here. You want the skin to be part of a deformable surface, and you want to minimize stresses during deformation. Hence: use quads.
For sure, and I think this one will be the last to go.
I would bet by fingerprinting the visitor's browser window: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>Are state colleges not also publicly owned? Those ain't nearly as affordable as community colleges.

They are publicly owned, and can be made affordable by legislatures without interfering in private organizations.
Acetone (nail polish remover) will easily and harmlessly remove almost any sticker residue.
Maybe that does limit the potential uses for accounts though. Long term cold wallets like exchanges wouldn't generally have lots of in and out flows for example or people using the coin in poor countries might never have a total in/out flow of $100 despite using a coin for most of their daily life.
I skimmed through the site. I didn’t see how they convince countries to have their beeches altered. I can understand the assumption that countries would be eager to receive something which will benefit them directly, but they also know that they are serving as a “commons” as well and may want compensation for that.
A government bond issued in the countries own currency has no risk of default and is highly liquid. An ordinary loan such as a mortgage has poor liquidity and a high risk of default in case of turmoil.
My most productive time each day is the ~half hour on the bus or train to work. I plan my day, answer all simple emails, and when I’m in the office I can get right to the important things.

I get that many jobs (and even more employers) require 8 hours attendance, that not everyone has volunteer work to do when they can’t work work on their commute, and that some public transport doesn’t accommodate any kind of being productive - but I’m still amazed at how many people prefer say 40 minutes driving to an hour sitting on a train and a 10 minute walk.
The opposite of innovation is business as usual. Taxation always leads to innovation, sometimes they are not exclusively in the field of accounting.
That's a beautiful example of the entitlement in question. Cyclists pay taxes (did you think that gas taxes are high enough to pay for roads?), cause orders of magnitude less damage and wear to the road surfaces than automobiles, and don't use anywhere near the amount of valuable land as free storage for their vehicles when not in use.

(The law violation works both ways too. Ever seen a motorist obey the speed limit? Me neither.)
While partially using annotations only allows you to eliminate /instances/ of bugs, if you completely apply the annotations then it can allow you to eliminate the entire class of bugs (theoretically). Consider nullabiliy in java.

> I don't see that all of the great masses of Cpp code and libraries would be rewritten or annotated to use these new features.

It's much more likely and tractable that C++ libraries will be annotated than that they'll be rewritten from scratch in Rust.
I am paying US$5 a month for python's memory hogging.

Running Mailman it will not run in 1GB of ram (the US$5 VPS) so I had to give it 2GB. 2GB? For a mail list server?

Had the same problem running motioneye. It will not run on a Raspberry PI Zero. It is advertised to run on a Zero (Apparently I could squeeze it on by doing some Python magic....)

What total crap is Python! What waste, what hubris, what technical failure!

I suspect the problem is actually Django - what hubris! NIH! lighttpd is running sweetly, with some rust templating in a acceptable fraction of the memory.
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Not sure why I got downvoted here, so I'll explain that Mathematica makes a really good proxy for this.

I can do a decent amount of this in Notebooks or the terminal with Wolframscript and I'm not limited to simple things either.

I'm sure this tool is better if you just need something really simple as it is much cheaper and certainly lighter weight than Mathematica.
> It causes news stories and blog spam to pop up before product pages or other non-"article" style pages.

Your whole issue with AMP seems to be not understanding that Google ranking pages badly has nothing to do with with AMP. Google, Baidu, Bing, and other link aggregators that implement AMP caches are free to rank pages however they like and still load AMP pages instantly.

> Your getting downmodded because you completely missed the point here.

I'm getting downmodded because people don't understand technology. That doesn't bother me. I'll still correct them.
Helpful tip, thanks. Here's the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) in case anyone is curious what's in 3M 38983 General Purpose Adhesive Remover[1]: Mostly methyl acetate, with some naptha, xylene, and a small amount of ethylbenzene. Definitely worth heeding the precautionary statements...

For contrast, "Goo Gone" is mostly naptha-like light petroleum distillate with small fractions of limonene and orange extract[2].

1. https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?mwsId=SSSSSuUn_...

2. https://googone.com/mr_sds/data/2018-06-14%2013:44:51/GG_Ori...
Or buy a $10 case. Or buy a $4 3M sticker remover.
I am surprised at the skepticism in this thread from tech people. Dozens of startups recognize the limitless opportunity and inevitability of nuclear power.

We’ve already seen two successful Green New Deals - France in the ‘70s and Sweden in the ‘80s. Both deals were built on a backbone of nuclear power.

We all want clean, limitless energy to grow the economy and protect our environment. If California and Germany had spent $680 BILLION on nuclear instead of “renewables”, they’d already be living in the future.
Goo Gone isn't all that strong, are you sure you're not thinking of Goof Off? Goo Gone is a fairly average citrus-based cleaner, where as Goof Off is based on acetone. It'll melt many paint and plastics on contact. Certainly has it's moments, though, and it's far stronger than Goo Gone.
Yeah it would but what abkut the value of the currency when they change the rules?
I'd take a source that has been peer-reviewed by entomologists containing the evidence of independently repeatable measurements.

The falsifiable hypothesis is that crystalline boric acid can kill an insect without being ingested, by a purely mechanical action.

Sassolite (boric acid) has a Mohs hardness of ONE. Please understand why I might be skeptical of its supposed reputation for killing things by scratching them. Minerals with low Mohs hardness, like graphite, talc, and yes, also boric acid, are used as lubricants.[0]

I also question whether those multiple sources in support are truly independent, as I have seen several search results that quote the Wikipedia article verbatim.

[0] http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~wsawyer/boricWear2006.PDF
> I'm just saying the net benefit just does not exist for stable software like librsvg or bzip2.

Are you sure?

Both of those libraries are, in fact, poster children to be rewritten in Rust as they have to eat untrusted input.

If I offered $20 on "I can find a use-after-free or undefined behavior bug somewhere in those libraries" I'm pretty sure nobody would take that bet.
If you’re conceding that most motorists are irrational, then we as cycling advocates have all the more reason to adopt more aggressive tactics to eliminate parking. Cycling advocates should consider, in addition to legal pop-up parking replacements, sabotaging parked cars and parking spaces, blocking roads without permission, and other forms of protest to reclaim our streets. This is how Amsterdam was won (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6PQAI4TZE). What’s at stake is literally lives, both in the short-term in terms of victims of traffic violence, and in the long-term in terms of victims of climate disaster. I have zero interest in catering to a group of people who, as you describe, are irrational.
>> If it can instantly understand and juggle different scenarios occuring on the map at the same time (scouting, macro, battles, drop defense), that immediately puts it at an advantage, and many pro level strategies rely partially on pressuring the opponent until they make a mistake.

Then you could restrict the AI to a certain amount of memory that is available to it. You could also play with latencies/exactness of the memories that is available to it.
> Citation?

No.
Bypassing it all (be careful) with no-cors?

Relatively recent Chrome debug messages about a no-cors "opaque" option, suggest the client has the ability to bypass the server rules without using any kind of proxy.

Is this true? Maybe I didn't notice it got added as an option when fetch was added in addition to the old style XHR requests?
AFAIK, neither Spanish, nor Italian (my native language) maps 1:1. The concept you are referring to is called Phonemic Ortography [0].

And let me add, it's a common mistake by Italians and Spanish and Japanese native speakers to think that their own language phonetics maps 1:1 with written.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography
What if Prenda just mined BitTorrent to find adult videos which were already being pirated at high volume (2 Girls, 1 Cup), and found the legal copyright holders, and bought the rights, then sued? Would that have been legal?
How about "search"?
Might be using browser local storage APIs? Hah. I imagine you could also do some kind of web socket/long poll and try to fingerprint the connection a little so there’s high likelihood it’s the same session when it reconnects between page loads.
GA is nice for client-side stuff, but Adblock has made the numbers completely unreliable, especially for tech-focused content. Instead I prefer to just use server-side logs. At my tiny scale it's easy to just assume each IP is a unique, and people are free to block GA without affecting my metrics.
You are right, and reading this the cases are not really exceptional but rather usual; so yes, it's better to not rely on CORS for protection in this case.
It looks like it's up again for me.
> also happens to be one that actively consolidates Google’s power in the marketplace

How? If they had gone the Apple News route of making publishers integrate directly with them, that would have been consolidating power. Instead, they ask publishers to output pages that any link aggregator can use, and many other link aggregators do use.
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Ask HN: What kind of due diligence do you do on prospective employers?
A question that's always bothered me...

Why don’t prospective employees of early-stage startups get the same access to analysis/info that potential investors do?

There are probably a number of reasons for it, but this information asymmetry feels like it's starting to shift.

Plug: We're trying to help solve this just a bit by releasing due-dillegence 'memos' for startups

see: https://medium.com/the-spectrum/notion-breakout-jobs-memo-1-8ca346f97242

But there is a long way to go...
wow, i find that amazingly stupid-looking
>it's lack of protected bike lanes (or other "safe" routes), and lack of cultural acceptance of biking.

In my opinion, it's because most people live too far away from the places they need to go in order to bike there. I wouldn't want to ride a bike 20 miles a day, regardless of bike lanes or bike parking.
Small nitpick, but "orange peel" refers to the texture of clearcoat resulting from not spraying it properly, not anything to do with an orange hue.

Example: https://cl.ly/f5e28bc2db85
Harmless on aluminum, for sure, but it will melt plastic, so avoid splatter on apple logos, keyboards, etc.
TIL people really care about dumb stickers
Yes, I was hasty. Boolean true should be ~0.
Again, I'm not saying that large corporations don't do stuff like this, I entirely believe that they do. What I don't understand is how that's a valid argument for why these guys got too harsh of a punishment. Just because big, powerful people get away with this stuff doesn't mean that it shouldn't be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Should laypeople not be prosecuted for the same crimes that big corporations also commit but fail to be held accountable for? Just because someone does it and gets away with it doesn't make it right. And if we excuse everyone who does what big corporations do, then what's the point of having a legal system? Sure, big corps absolutely need to be reigned in. But arguing that these guys were punished too harshly for committing crimes simply because other, more powerful people commit crimes too is illogical. If every layperson were let off on something that a rich, powerful person got away with, then there'd be no one to punish, because all behavior would be acceptable.
As a couple others have mentioned, if you keep the stickers carefully contained to the aluminum surfaces of the computer, acetone will take them right off and will not damage the metal.
We don’t know yet how much Rust software will cost in ongoing maintenance to avoid security problems.

Unsafe keyword disables many safety features. It already caused security issues: https://medium.com/@shnatsel/how-rusts-standard-library-was-... That particular one was fixed long ago, but unsafe is used a lot in libraries, both in standard and third-party crates. The reasons include native interop e.g. OS kernel calls, language limitations e.g. in collections and other data structures, also sometimes they’re performance optimizations.
My hometown tried giving away studded tires to 20-30 people in exchange for them sharing their experiences after commuting a whole winter. Maybe the same could work for temporary bike lanes - the city buys a hundred bikes, a hundred people loan them for free during the trial period. After the trial they can be sold or given away - the knowledge gained would be worth the cost either way.
I'm a senior developer. I'm up to quit my job and start something for anyone who's looking for a technical cofounder. Specifically though I prefer people who compliment what I lack in areas of salesmanship and social engineering.
Journalists disclose when they or their parent companies have any vested interest in the companies they cover. It seems like the article could have more journalistic integrity to note that Google isn’t the only one to follow the trend and their company does so as well.
And easily remove plastic stuff
I've had transactions getting through every once in a while but most are not.
The simple idea of presenting users with a text like this is madness. You know I won't read it, you know most people couldn't process or understand it if they tried, you want consent and agreements through a popup in the browser yet you know damn well that it is not an agreement at all.

To anyone who does this, who presents complicated privacy guidelines, EULAs in all-caps, insane cookie opt-out checkboxes, please have a hard look in the mirror. Think of a real-world analogy for the kind of roadblocks and contraptions you are building, how you are misleading and exposing your fellow humans. Thanks.
Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server