skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a file on Epstein or something? The first ten Google results for me don’t include those links.
I can confirm that my account is now re-enabled! Thanks.

> We don't allow hyperlinks in video descriptions when the user has signed up recently...

So, I should be able to add hyperlinks in my descriptions at some point down the line? But, how will I know when that is? The fact that me trying resulted in my account being disabled makes me really scared to try it again - ever.
> if you remove Google's services and AI on the backend it's just a third rate iOS rip-off.

yes! they would have to improve or die! that's one of the points of anti-monopoly legislation and enforcement
Inertial guidance isn't accurate enough for that type of mission. The practical alternatives to GPS are terrain matching or stellar navigation.
Australia has already passed draconian secret mass-surveillance laws, and also is part of five eyes so everyone (including American citizens) are subject to draconian mass-surveillance which is shared with the US when their data goes through any computer on Australian soil.

Australian Federal police are busy attacking journalists right now for exposing a coverup of their soldiers murdering children.

Americans should fight this with everything they have.

Make no mistake, the "free" world is well on its way to becoming a surveillance dystopia.

The nazis could only have dreamed about having the secret and unfettered surveillance apparatus politicians have created, and they are targeting that apparatus towards journalists and citizens.

It's not about terrorists or pedophiles, it's about you and I, and anyone else who could potentially expose government or military incompetence/wrongdoing.
if you can diagnose the issue after submission, why don't you simply not allow it to be saved in the field to begin with, you know, like normal devs of every platform since 1995. That's 24 years of precedence.
> Does Vimeo has a way for human employee to proactively (not as a result of social media shaming) look at- and unblock customer account in case it was a result of false positive?

No, but we have a great support team that responds to all customer enquiries (though paying customers get priority).

> Ban-first, handle-later is not exactly customer friendly policy.

It is when the content being banned might harm customers.
To devil's advocate your devil's advocacy: let's just assume Google is encouraging people to vote because they know that more democrats will see that message, that they want democrats to win, and that's the only reason for them doing so.

What is wrong with that, and how would you propose to fix it via a mechanism that didn't also e.g. outlaw FOX News?
I first saw that beautiful bifurcation diagram as a teenager in this book called "Fractals" that showed a bunch of fractals as well as programs to draw them. I was amazed that such simple arithmetic could lead to such weird, organic results. The code to draw it is astonishingly simple. Here's an implementation in Dart that prints it to your console:

import 'dart:math' as math;

const min = 2.4;
const max = 4.0;
const width = 120;
const height = 100;

main() {
for (var r = min; r < max; r += (max - min) / height ) {
var x = 0.5;
var counts = [for (var i = 0; i < width; i++) 0];
var greatest = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < 200; i++) {
x = r * x * (1 - x);
var i = (x * width).toInt();
counts[i]++;
greatest = math.max(greatest, counts[i]);
}

print(counts.map((n) => n > greatest / 10 ? "*" : " ").join(""));
}
}
I read fiction on my phone all the time, but when I try to switch to my PC to continue reading, I will find myself doing something entirely different 15 minutes later. Yet, I can read for several hours in a row on my phone (I've even bought an extension cord so that I can charge my phone while reading).

I haven't tried reading from paper books for a decade though. Perhaps it would work, but the selection of things I'm interested in reading is too small.
I have never cared for PHP but I've been working in Laravel recently and it's comfy. There are definitely worse tools out there.
>Width between the tracks extends about 140 centimeters, but not in all instances. The tracks measured at the San Gwann site in Malta are said to be half a meter in depth, making them the deepest to be found.

Wow. Our rail gauge is 142 centimeters. And half a meter deep? (Goes looking into Roman cart technology)... about the same!

> These rims had their outer side convex, inner side concave or flat, with a thickness of about 15 mm., a width of between 35 to 45mm., and a diameter from 1001 to 1193 mm.20

>Roman Traction Systems
http://www.humanist.de/rome/rts/wagon.html

>The historical tendency to place the wheels of horse-drawn vehicles approximately 5 feet (1,500 mm) apart probably derives from the width needed to fit a carthorse in between the shafts.

>Are U.S. Railroad Gauges Based on Roman Chariots?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
Interesting! I'd love to take a structured distributed systems MOOC or course in a modern language well suited for the domain like Rust, Go, Scala or Elixir/Erlang. Does anyone know if something like this already exists?
The notice screen upon login that told me my account was disabled directed me to submit a contact form for human review, which I did. However, the time estimate for replies to submissions from Basic accounts is 3 or more days.
so he's complaining that this is a kind of digital gerrymandering?

they should just do what we do in Australia and make voting mandatory for everyone.

Fixes this issue immediately :-P and arguably is MORE democratic. (But I suspect that's going to make him unhappy as well)
No it implies having the same number of OS threads as hardware threads, which is more than the number of hardware cores.
Johnson and Johnson vaccine languishes amid deadly Ebola outbreak
I think some finance groups are probably putting in some donations if I had to guess.
A bad experience with an entity is a legitimate reason to form a bias against them; indeed, that's the point. The nature of the threat that Google poses is likely to leak into many activities inviting criticism.
I guess kiloyear is the new B.C. with the 2000 marking a new epoch. It really seems too shortsighted.
Funny, I'm similar. I have an English Degree (Fiction Writing emphasis) and minored in Religious studies. It's proven to be a positive in so many ways, mostly because I am an excellent communicator and able to explain complex subjects to non-tech folk. I've also been told that I stand out as totally different from every candidate they've interviewed, prior. I started programming on my own at age 11 and have been passionate about coding my entire life.
Big difference is that Cilk appears to typically synchronize on function return, while julia needs an explicit wait/fetch (there is also a @sync macro). That is, spawn/wait can be matched from the AST in cilk, while julia demands that the user communicates and stores a reference to the started task for later waiting.

It is easy to forget to wait on a task, or even lose reference to it. The current scheduler will typically execute this task quickly, even if nobody ever waits on it; until load changes and you have races everywhere. There are currently no warnings comparable to Python's "RuntimeWarning: coroutine foo was never awaited".
Yeah they got beat by spam and hired a bunch of subpar engineers through their leetcode dogma
What do you mean? Escaping doesn't help with links to spam or fraudulent sites.
This is a good occasion to recommend a great British comedy sketch:

My Blackberry Is Not Working!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

One reference that may not be familiar to all viewers: when the sketch was made in 2010, Orange was a popular UK mobile carrier.

Enjoy!
What if Google used all the data they collected and used machine learning to show the voting reminder only to users who align ideologically with Google?

That’s a big what-if, of course. I’m not even sure if it would be violation of any privacy law because that’s not selling your data to 3rd-parties.
> This is great and fast response here.

Do you mean the response in general or the post here? Because let's not confuse social media management with fast support response times, we can't all kick up a stink on social media. It's also not that great, it contained very little information not in TFA.
I am self employed but I want to run away
> "The decisive blow may have been an unknown catastrophe that occurred around 2350 BC, a period during which, according to tree ring analysis, the whole region suffered a catastrophic climate event—possibly a dust cloud caused by a volcanic eruption."

Wouldn't this leave some sort of trace? A layer in the dirt? Even under water?

I'm a bit disappointed - this being the crux of the theory - this was left open. Intentionally?
White Americans Say They’re Less Prejudiced
They're using the same underlying kernel features like namespaces and cgroups, but the docker spec is a very particular choice for how to specify a container, and Google was doing containerization long before docker existed, so they are undoubtedly not using the exact same formulation of containers in borg
OK, but why would you trust the recommendation if you don't know why they're making it?
Yeah but it was in the Spring you got bit and you got the tick off plenty fast enough. And not all ticks carry diseases, so try to keep that in mind too.

I'm not exaggerating when I say I have been tick bit at least a 1000 times over the past 10-15 years and I've never gotten sick from it so I have to think you've made it clear out of those woods after a couple months now and have nothing at all to worry about.
I am surprised by the lack of talks by Jonathan Blow. This is a fantastic list despite any and all missing talks.
I created an Outlook email address a month ago and Microsoft blocked it until I entered my mobile number. Sneaky bastards.
Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just confusing to see them call the spreadsheet "Cashflow projections" and then use the words 'expenses' and 'profit/loss'. But then again, they also use 'expenditures', so who knows what they're going for. In their example spreadsheet (and to your point) I guess all the expenditures could correspond 1:1 with expenses, so in this case cashflow == profit maybe.
> There are research papers from 1950's that explicitly endorse [rapid] iterative bottom-up approach as the only sensible way forward.

Interested in this... any links?
Responding with an alt because I throttle my HN usage...

I should clarify: we allow you to include any url you want, but we don't add anchor tags to the outputted HTML for new users' videos (unless they're paying customers).
Qounter – Earn, share and give cash along with your friends
But if you’re one of the best, oss contributions, speaking engagements, you have plenty of leverage.

No need for the collective power, you set your own individual terms.

None of the items you have listed are enticing enough for me to forego 30% so that the collective are equalized. I am my own responsibility. You are your own.
Tesla’s ‘Anemic’ High-Margin Model Sales Extends Profit Struggle
Aggregating Probabilistic Judgments
They are used to mask the sound of you doing business. Some play music and some play the sound of running water. I personally don't care for that particular feature, but Japan produces the best toilets in the world. If I ever own a home, I'll import a top of the line Toto.
How we built the Waifu Vending Machine
Special Access Programs and the Pentagon's Ecosystem of Secrecy
As opposed to every other major company that uses profits from their business to fund lobbyists?
Speaking of signaling mechanisms, if you take time off from working to travel to “interesting” places, and mention it in the interview, you are indicating a clear lack of financial pressure, which I have found to be quite helpful in price negotiations.

You aren’t jobless; you are successful. Even as a bluff, with a now-empty bank account.
This is an annoyingly contrived headline and article.

First of all, the "World Wars" were centered around a European /Asian conflict. In both cases America entered the wars several years after they had started, and fought away from home. I'm obviously not disrespecting the "535,000 American military personnel who died in World War I and World War II" but rather pointing out that, arguably, it's a contrived yard stick to measure against as it sounds like more of a monumental figure than it perhaps should.

More importantly, since the year 2000 Americans have driven ~60 trillion miles!!! To put that in perspective, the size of our solar system is ~7.5 billion miles, or 8000 times smaller that 60 trillion. Alpha Centauri is "only" 25 trillion miles away. 60 trillion miles is ~10 light years...

Given that, I'm not sure 624,000 deaths, which is about 1 death per 100 million miles, is necessarily a lot.

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[0] https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles
We're taught this in med school. Along with NOT using flame to remove them and instead using something like tweezers while preserving the tick (for identification).
“I don’t think big is
necessarily bad, but I think a
lot of people wonder how such
huge behemoths that now exist
in Silicon Valley have taken
shape under the nose of the
antitrust enforcers,” Mr. Barr
told senators

What hasn’t been occurring in broad daylight? This excuse is purpose-made to escape blame but these issues have been discussed for years while SEC has allowed acquisitions and mergers through on the anti-competition side of this argument...
Some sort of ADAS - Advanced Driver Assist can’t get here fast enough:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_s...

Obviously full-self driving is better but that’s going to be much harder.
The first line of his testimony mentions working at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. Knowing how congressional testimonies tend to work, I Googled that to see if was one of those politically motivated think tanks with an intentionally neutral sounding name. Robert Epstein's Wikipedia page was one of the top results. I clicked through and noticed that roughly half of the content of that page was under the header "Criticism of Google". The links I included all came from either the Wikipedia sources, Epstein's testimony, or a link from one of those. The whole thing took maybe 5 minutes and didn't require any research skills beyond simply being curious.
we were in a small city on the west coast. it was almost impossible for her to get hired as a dev most probably because she was a female and because she didn't have "coding" experience was made to feel worthless. She is not the type to open up an IDE and just start coding. She asks tough questions first.

Another story: comp sci 4th year - systems course. She's assigned a team. Douche c++ whiz thinks he's the shit. constantly belittles her. comes up with some idea of "redundancy" as part of the project they are coding. His idea was to have a cache storing redundant data in case the database failed. She suggested that it wouldn't work in case of power failure. Told her to be quiet because she didn't know what she was talking about...

As a guy, I have never faced this and so had no idea women faced this sort of behaviour till she decided to enter the field. Yes she didn't even know how saving a file worked till she decided to go for her comp sci degree, and so yeah she is not very confident about just opening up an ide and start coding a la "create-react-app", nor she will win any hackathons, but her concepts are rock solid. Still she is constantly underestimated.

It's a tough world in software dev if you aren't the type to constantly overestimate your worth.
When it could be two orders of magnitude less, it’s a lot.
While I do believe that Warren really believes in regulation and isn’t doing it out of spite, that doesn’t make it a good idea.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Why is Google in particular an issue and not, say, Facebook?
I've always wondered about these kinds of studies.

For example, let's say we took a loner and gave them a 24/7 health monitor system that also helped apply preventative and corrective treatments, would someone live just as long as someone with a social support network? Presumably at some point in the near future we're going reach that level of technical accessibility for the average consumer, I would wonder perhaps if the results would change when systems like these become commonplace.

I'd also be curious to see if the same thing regarding happiness could be said if someone had similar support networks that close friends bring, but without human interaction. For instance if same loner was to live out on an island alone but had reliable and easy access to all physical needs, lacked any serious threats to his well being, had enough to keep him busy, would he be just as happy as the those that responded in that report?
It's a good business practice because it's good branding.

Companies intentionally try to associate their brand with other things seen as positive -- pride month, the Olympics, the environment, promoting diversity, etc.

Google does this with their home-page doodles. Encouraging people to vote is another feel-good brand association.

There's nothing nefarious here like Google promoting a specific political agenda, that's overthinking it. It simply improves their brand image which makes people more likely to trust and use and promote their products. It's the profit motive at work... which, to answer your question, is why a for-profit advertising company does it.
Thank you for the heads up. I've been browsing hackernews on RSS for many years and only comment on topics I'm interested in, which is Chinese geopolitics and technology, and recently those topics have become extremely popular for obvious reasons. I'm curious which rule I'm specifically breaking, I provide generally level headed and substantive response to comments, rarely initiating "battles". I don't call people shills or shitpost. My other interests, powerlifting and architecture are not really covered here. So what is my recourse? Comment on other things I'm not particularly interested in? Should I cite more sources or stop contributing from these topics all together and go back to lurking.
If you don't like parens, don't use lisp. There are thousands of other languages discovering things like "lambda" as if it was a new idea.

It is easy to create a domain-specific language on top of lisp if you want something with a specific focus. But trying to create a full language that hides lisp syntax is pointless. It's been tried SO many times and failed exactly that many times. There is so much to lose.

You lose homoiconic syntax which usually means you lose macros. You can hack macros by translating back to lisp, but why?

I can find hundreds of "lisp without parens", just do a google search. For example, there is Wisp.

You can generate lisp "without parens" by a simple hack.
Push all of the parens to the right side.

(+ (* 2 3) 6) becomes (ignore the underscores. I don't know how to generate verbatim text in HN)

_____________________________________(

+

_____________________________________(

* 2 3

_____________________________________)

6

_____________________________________)

Now if you "adjust your margins", all of the parens
disappear off the page.

Lisp is a language that everyone says "I don't get it and I don't like it" until.... they get it and then they LOVE it.
That's when they learn the limitations of all the other languages.
Companies sponsor campaigns and publicly support politicians all the time. Personally I think campaign contributions should be way more limited, but I'm not sure what is special about Google here.
I'm surprised customer service just doesn't exist. Google can get away with it but vimeo with 15% market share can't afford to throw in the towel on support already.
But not a peep about telecom, media, oil companies, Monsanto....
Right. Feral cats are a problem, so let's release tigers to take care of them.

"Monitoring systems" are exactly why Google and similar companies are a problem.
So, I was the person who created the "where do i vote" for Google originally and ran it for years.

My motive was "Where do i vote" is basically the top query on Google on election day, and people would get crappy answers.
In fact, it was actually Ginny's idea (she's very civic minded), and she needed an engineer to help, and I was the only engineer in the DC office.

So i said "how hard it could it be" (famous last words) and did it. 2 swe's in geo got dragged in along the way because they thought it was cool (eventually we just staffed a team on our own).

Michael geary, who is on HN somewhere, did all the JS.

Along the way, i spent my time and energy creating the voting information project (with pew charitable trusts), and open standards for sharing the data necessary to answer this question, after discovering what a proprietary crap hole basic civic data like this is.

So there you go, now you know the motives.

In fact, if you ask some of the early data partners (until i could get critical mass in opening the data), you will discover we were in fact the only ones they pretty much ever had who asked to have all personally identifying info, etc. stripped from data sources before they were given to us.

They found it quite funny, because this kind of data is actually a big business owned by large political operative companies that have tentacles in various states.
The notion that someone didn't want to know the people associated with the address records was hilarious to them.

These databases are large lists of who lives where, their political affiliation, voting history, and various political districts they belong to.

We want addresses and districts only.
Tangential to the tangential topic but this is my favorite tech pun comedy bit of all time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67-GeNYShbc
What automation and artificial intelligence mean for Africa
What do you mean "HTML escaping"? If we escape HTML in the conventional sense, then it becomes literal text; you see <a href="whatever">...</a> instead of a clickable link because < is escaped as &lt; and so on.

User-submitted HTML content can be scrubbed against malicious tags such as scripts, cross-site exploits, or hacks involving broken syntax that disrupts the surrounding page into which it is embedded.

But there is no simple way to allow a brand new user to embed a working URL, such that malicious URLs are prevented; basically you need a giant blacklist and whitelist of domains.

A better UI here would be not to ban the account but just not allow the user to save the content containing HTML. The message should say "Sorry, brand new accounts are not allowed to post HTML content". Many new accounts posting HTML content are going to be legitimate.
I have coworkers doing that without a degree. They did however show up with experience.

Personal projects will do. You could work on Open Source software. Obvious choices: qemu, valgrind, FreeRTOS, RTEMS, Linux (kernel), SeaBIOS, gcc, clang, ghidra, binutils, MAME, OpenOCD, gdb, dosemu, dosbox, FreeDOS, Wine, SDCC, dolphin-emu, Xenia, coreboot
"If you combine your idea pitch with a working prototype (doesn't need to be polished), it's odds of getting adopted will be far more likely."

I have a family and only have so much free time. Even if I didn't, why would I spend my free time building anything for a company and not get compensated for it?

Even if you go through all of this, there is no guarantee you will get the responsibility and pay increase.

I honestly don't really care about any of my ideas winning out. I'm perfectly content getting told what needs to be completed and coming up with a good solution.
maybe he's one of those managers. she was clear when she was hired that she wanted to be a dev. like i said, this was a branch office of a big company in a small city. many people moved from testing to dev and vice versa.