skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study: Humans’ racial biases extend even to black and white robots
The “Greedy Ghost” taking over public spaces
I fleshed my comment out into a blog post yesterday, which got some interest[0] on Lobsters. It appears that modern Scheme is easier to write portably and an even nicer compromise than I had originally thought.

[0]: https://lobste.rs/s/ytuyya/perfect_language_why_go_still_isn...
Not all of the presented icon sets are Open-Sourced. Some are, some are free and for some you have to pay with information about you like your email address. So the title sounds nice but it is just wrong.
It's a good ideal, but it's just a mode of presentation of software.
This is doomed to fail. Imagine making a challenge aimed at reducing the use of click-bait titles by encouraging examples of more accurate titles for articles. Do you really think anything coming out of such a challenge will be effective in reducing the use of click bait titles?

No, because ultimately titles, like images, are made to quickly capture people’s attention, and using images of “real” cybersecurity would be boring. Are you gonna show a WAF? Some logs? A usb?

Better to show a disheveled Russian in a grungy room filled with cigarette smoke and empty vodka bottles. People will associate cybersecurity with whatever they see in movies and shows.
"Tree" is a paraphyletic taxon; today you have conifer trees, angiosperm trees, cycad trees, and so on, all of which are more closely related to non-tree plants than to each other. Even among angiosperms, you have lots of different trees that are more closely related to non-trees than to each other — a black locust tree is more closely related to a soybean plant than it is to an apple tree. So there's no reason to claim that a club-moss tree isn't a tree. Bamboo, maybe you would have a point, but not club-moss trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
Nope, not far-fetched at all - why wouldn't they want to profit from both sides of their weapons?

I mean there may be national laws and such prohibiting or restricting them, but a starting a new company is easy enough to set up (for bigger businesses).
I Remove Google Analytics and Use AWStats
How do you onboard ladies (companies)? This seems like potentially one-sided market.
Jeff Bezos Sells $2B of Amazon Stock After 4% Stake Transfer
Contextual Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations Using Neural Networks
This article is pure fluff, nature is in plenty of dynamic equilibria. Saying the balance of nature doesn't exist is like saying red bowling balls don't exist.
The novels of the James S. A. Corey authors are very inspiring given our recent space achievements. A highly recommended sci-fi series.
That's an interesting jump. Mind sharing how that came to be?
> if your ideal world existed, she would be bankrupt right now

[citation needed]

You're making a couple of mistakes here. One is imagining that in a world without ads, her experience would be the same as her not advertising. The other is that something that is bad for a given business is something that's bad for society. Both of these are at best unproven.

> Most ads isn't about manipulation

For every ad you see today, ask yourself how much useful new information you have gained from it. I've done that a few times and it's pretty close to zero. Note that the biggest spenders on ads are brands you've already heard of, suggesting that your theory needs some revision.
Monosopy doesn't depend upon anything the US does. They have local control of IP even if they tied it to others.

There would be costs involved but they can always tell them to get stuffed and manufacture their own if they won't be reasonable. Notably there is a lack of pharmaceutical companies who decide to abandon world markets entirely because positive N is always greater than 0.
Last I heard, epoll() was, ironically, not useful with actual file descriptors, because file I/O isn't blocking on Linux [1]. I'm not sure if this problem has been remedied in recent years.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8057892/epoll-on-regular...
Not in civilized parts of the world
(from outside of US) The article looks like written on the assumption that every Internet user in US is automatically an infringer. Are copyright infringement so popular there?
The Doctor Monopoly Is Killing American Patients
Jumping to LineageOS is order of magnitude bigger change, than `adb pm disable` packages. LineageOS has to support your device in the first place, and then you have root your device (and lose some capabilities in the process, like camera processing on Xperias).

Yes, you will get better control over software that runs on your device. You will pay for it by going through more demanding process and the risk of having instabilities, that nobody except you cares about.
https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere
I'm not sure what exactly the defining quality of 'balance' is that nature does not have. In other words, I miss the point of the article.
Baggins-sis that stole the precious.
If they didn't, they'd be buying something they were even happier with. So from both a consumer perspective and a societal perspective, it's a net gain. It's only from Coke's perspective it might be a problem. But I think it's wrong to privilege their success over everybody else just because they have enough money to manipulate people.
Cable lacing is used in aerospace because it's lighter and they use such generous safety margins for preventing abrasion and securing wires that the issues with the cable cutting the insulation or abrasion that make loom the obvious choice are non-issues and aircraft, it's easier to inspect cables that are laces (vs ones in a loom) and spending a few grand to save a few pounds is justifiable in that context.

Temperature/environmental concerns are basically irrelevant because loom can be made out of the same or similar materials as the wire insulation. I know I've seen braided loom in small aircraft. I can't remember where though.

Cable lacing is usually the right tool for aerospace. It is not the solution to every problem like the internet thinks it is.
It doesn't work with my IME last I checked.
I had an idea that there is a business in making a "widget" that just applied a alphabetical order to a list of people in To:

I just could not figure out how to write code and distribute it in outlook ... not that I tried hard
IBM fired ~100k old employees to look “Cool”/“trendy”
Interesting linguistics but as someone who spent a few years living in Philly I think the use of "jawn" is a little overstated here. I lived in both black and white working class areas, as well as gentrified/young professional areas such as nolibs and (to a lesser extent) fishtown.

You know who says "jawn" the most? The kids of the upper middle class who grew up in ardmore/wynnwood/bala cynwyd/merion/etc. and moved to the city and now employ working class affectations to prove their authenticity.
We still use lacing cord for most of our aircraft harnesses. Nobody but the engineers and technicians ever get to see it, which is a shame because it really does look beautiful.
> My coworkers and I joke from time to time about running an ethical advertising network with reasonable software. Well, they're joking. I don't think they know I'm not entirely.

How would that work? And more importantly, how would it stay ethical? I imagine the very basic idea would be to not need to track users, which removes the need for the huge swaths of Javascript that pollute the internet. But would that be profitable?

I'm curious to know what thought you put into this so far.
> Multimaps, with multiple instances of a key

Isn't this just map[Key][]Value? The standard library uses these in several places, e.g. url.Values and http.Header, with assorted utility functions.
Kwesé Play is officially dead
I'd say a better precaution is to always trip with a trip-sitter - someone sober who can help and guide you if things start to get a bit dark/scary.
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Thanks for sharing! It’s not clearly visible but they have personas of end-users they hope to target. Specifically civil rights activists, CISOs, state officials and journalists. Can be consumed through technical or policy reports, presentation decks, and news articles and more.
For my own benefit, I agree with this. I just want a more usable language now. Something like ad-hoc structural typing as in TypeScript with aliases seems close.

For the future of languages I appreciate the clean slate effort. Go has been about scoping out a use area sticking a leg there and coming up with something that works well there. At the same time I dont think there will be anything revolutionary, just something that seems simple and compact. I wish them great success and us a short wait.
And people who can't afford to pay cash for cars should buy used cars.

Sometimes cash flow is more important than final price. I haven't experienced it myself, but I heard that this is especially true for low income people who live paycheck to paycheck. The $300 couch you can get on a credit for 24 easy payments of 30 dollars is easier to afford than the $100 used couch.
I think it's pretty funny that you use "colonizer" like it has a negative connotation.
> web, systems automation, data processing, science and a few more.

doesn't this apply to python, although now there are additional competitors?

> reinvented itself as a web language (Mojolicious, Plack).

highly opinionated and potentially flame creating , but -

perl was the original web language in the CGI era, PHP pretty much dethroned it due to simplicity of server integration, rails knocked them both out of 'leading edge', then the Node/SPA era arrived.

mojolicious / plack are pretty much things to bring perl up to date w/r/t the 'rails' type
Why don't you use custom server side analytics? I wrote mine in like less than a day.
If we believe that balance implies stasis, then sure. Nothing like that exists, and never has.

"Homeostasis means dynamical systems have fixed points in state space" is something that's been taught in american highschool biology since at least the mid-90s. (though they usually take more words to say the "fixed points ..." bit)
Didn't read the article, but the title sounds like a piece you'd put out to sway public opinion if you wanted to say, I dunno, nuke Mars or something.
Ridiculous. What next? The 'balance of an atom' is a totally wrong concept and the universe is about to crumble?
Oh sweet I'm glad they backtracked on that.
It's not that Actalis has not tried to obey, or purposefully withheld information or tried to mislead the community. The disagreement is on how strict the interpretation of the BR should be.

Would Van Halen abort a concert if there was a single brown M&M in a bowl of 1000? Probably not because even though it's a violation of their contract, they got their point across, it still means the organisers had read through the full contract and tried to obey.

Reading through the discussion, I wish I could be as strict as Ryan Sleevi is in demanding that browsers fix their incompatibilities with the web's BR (ehm.. standards). Chrome, there's this bug where this element is placed one pixel off from where it should be (it's by no means critical and does not impact users of any website in any meaningful way, but according to the CSS Box Model Module Level 3 spec, paragraph suchandsuch it's wrong). How about you fix it by next week or I'll uninstall you from all systems on the world.
So which one of these is supporting your point and which one is not? I'm guessing the Cato Institute (formerly the Koch Research Foundation) is the one pushing the propaganda.
Agreed. A couple of exercises I recommend to everybody:

1) Take a day and for each ad you see note how much novel, useful information you receive from it.

2) For any ad that had significant novel, useful information, redesign it in a format that is optimized to be informative, with any manipulation subtracted. (E.g., imagine it written in the style of the best encyclopedia articles.)

Doing this makes it pretty clear that pure information is a very, very small portion of what's going on with advertising.
Markdown is actually a markup language which was inspired and built based on traditional email formatting.
I disagree. I always highlight in bold text the parts that I want people to focus on more, especially in longish emails, or those where there are numbers involved. I also appreciate it when people take the time to highlight what they would like me to pay attention to. It shows a mutual respect of time.
> ... (the steel shelves running above the equipment, which were also good for the occasional nap).

You've just given me a fun idea for the office. :)
Jimmies is a common phrase in New England, so definitely not just a Philly thing
Our techs love to cinch down the zip ties as hard as they can, I've seen a lot of bruised insulation. Also, the fat end of the zip tie is annoying when you pull a harness through a wireway.

Still, this seems way too laborious unless you're building some aerospace thing.
As of 2015, NatGeo is majority-controlled by Fox News' parent company. Just something to think about.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150909-21st-cent...
If two things are balanced, they should remain balanced until acted upon by an outside force. That is the implication when someone says "the balance of nature".

But as pointed out in the article, it is not true. Ecologies change and fall out of equilibrium with or without human intervention. That is not balance.
Sometimes it takes longer than a few minutes to think about something. I often write out my messages and not send them. Sleep on it, come back and delete to write something better.

I've found myself in many situations where sleeping on an issue provides a much better, thorough and more clever solution than just blasting off an email. If I were to provide responses face to face, there's a good chance I'd be giving bad advice that may cost companies a lot of money.
Not to someone who doesn't know Perl. But this is the same for every language. No one should be picking up a new language and working with it if they don't know it.

EDIT: To clarify, I mean there should never be the expectation that you can start working in a language in earnest without properly learning it.
But what if we count in hexadecimal?
> if I'm ok with paying X in cash to buy something, and the other persons offers me paying it in interest-free rates, it would be stupid for me not to.

Disagree. This severely complicates my economy.

Instead just having X funds less available, I still have the same funds at disposal, but have to remember I owe X to Y which must be paid by Z.

Even just once this makes the simple question “How much disposable funds do I have?” hard to answer.

More than once and I will need a system to manage my own personal economy. That’s horrible!

When asked for credit I always answer no, because the small savings of delayed payment does in no way make up for the extreme complexity it adds to day-to-day economics.
Instead of practicing, this AI mastered chess by reading about it
Edward Snowden book coming out Sept. 17
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Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
Speaking as a guy with a reasonably successful 30 year career: This is mostly not great advice.

- Formatting is useful, and should be used as needed, especially headings and, as indicated, color. Don't become a plaintext zealot. It's not a good hill to die on.

- Emails, like all communication, should be as short as possible -- but no shorter. Brevity itself is not a useful thing.

- The 2nd bullet is, about the request as a distinct paragraph, is good. A proper email that requests action should make that requested action VERY clear, along with expectations and ideally a timeline.

- Contrary to this assertion, email is actually an EXCELLENT forum for discussion in the right context. This is because email is easy to archive, and leaves a trail of the discussion. It's not the ONLY venue, but it's very useful, and in my career has been commonly used as such.
I presume they have some sort of source of truth for this stuff like a religious scripture or oral tradition, but this should be obvious and I fail to see how you could have missed it.
> a 2% interest rate bank account

I'm fascinated by this. Where do you find these sky-high interest rates in banks?
+1 dc - left about 10 years ago,
but definately jawn was used heavily.
not a phillly jawn.

also, 1/3 of the way in and hasn't been mentioned,
this was mostly african american thing from my observations. but, anyway.
My favorite was the massive wire harnesses spiral wrapped in teflon, looked so good. It always reminded me of bonsai wire-wrapping for some reason.
Street Fighter 5’s next trio of characters leak on Steam
Would you not argue that balance implies stasis?

Do you not think things which are balanced should remain so unless acted upon by an outside force?

Since "nature" as a concept tends to include everything except human activity, the implication of "balance of nature" is that it will remain in stasis unless acted upon by humans, which, as the article has pointed out, is not accurate.
This piece is more likely an ad for the recent Lion King movie.
As a telescope, the ELT will be superior, but it is in the other hemisphere. So the TMT does not only give more observation "bandwidth", but also unlocks a high quality view into the northern hemisphere. Together, those two telescopes can cover the whole sky.
> Nobody ever paid for something like that.

Sure, because the web was ad-funded from the early days. People have an irrationally strong preference for "free". Even though in this case "free" really means "paid for by people manipulating how you spend your money".

But I think it's implausible that if ads didn't happen the web would just be an empty wasteland. Up until the web existed, people paid for all sorts of information and informational services. And plenty of people still do. I spend maybe $1k/year on journalism.
How ‘Hey Siri’ Has Changed Your Life for the Better?
This is a pretty great summary of effective email communication. People would do well to internalize it. I'm glad to see it here on HN.
In this case they make they money with people that forget about it, or do it late and pay huge premiums.
I don't want to encourage this business model, that's why I don't do it.
“Functional languages, as Dijkstra complained, tend to force wasting time by copying unnecessarily.”

Citation required for your suspect AF appeal to authority/deathbed conversion story. ’Cos even dead and rotted, the corpse of EWD doesn’t give a flying shit how fast your program is if you cannot prove it right first. The man spent his whole career trying to hammer the rigor of science and mathematics onto the mess that was, and still is, computer programming.

Here’s some of EWD’s actual words:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/OtherDocs...

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EW...

Not exactly the reckless racer boy, he. Perhaps you were thinking of Dennis Ritchie?

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“When the machines get too complicated to understand, the balance might change. Nobody knows when that might happen, if it ever does”

Um, that balance already tipped on its side a half-century ago, skippy. Try to keep up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
And im asking what legal expenses and police reports there would be since the Equifax data has never been publicly seen?

As far as we know, it has never been used in any way to assume anyone's identity or to steal any money.

Im kind of shocked at the HN community ignoring that the fact that the attack never lead to any public data leak.

Any time you spent disputing fraud or fixing identity theft, if submitted as part of this settlement, would be a lie, because you spent that time addressing data lost by someone else, not Equifax.
panhandlers usually get chased off after afew hours, but go ahead, believe what you will.
I work for a general contractor which has projects in all time-zones in the United States (Minus Alaska/Hawaii).

We have many 12 hour day shift and 12 hour night shift projects that are running 24/7.

Using the exact date you are referencing, using military time along with timezone has been invaluable.

For example,

"John Doe,

We are moving the security clearance fingerprinting to be held next Friday, August 9th at 14:30 EST"

or

"Jane Doe,

Just following up on the RFI we submitted yesterday, July 31st at 13:30 EST. Were you able to review?"

This also helps when having to hold people accountable for not responding fast enough when you include timestamps.
From the thread is becomes painfully clear how horrible Actalis is set up to act as a CA. Instead it seems they chose to break the BR by default. Almost 5 months to reissue a little over 250k certificates is not what you may expect from a CA that a major browser should trust.

The argument that there might be some end-users unable to renew their prescription seems mostly used to gain sympathy. Also this will most probably not be “a large swath of internet users”.

I do hope Actalis step up their game and regain some trust. Or it may become the next symantec.
No, because an atom is in balance.

An atom has a set number of protons, neutrons, and electrons, which will not change unless acted upon by an outside force.
We write and update these documents when needed (this usually means when something has changed in the code) and when knowledge is fresh in people's mind.

If documents are referenced in the code it is straightforward to find them when needed. We also have documents to capture general architecture, which obviously help devs finding their way around the codebase.
I went to school in Philly and the moment that really crystalized both my understanding of the word jawn and the city as a whole was a truck driver screaming at a PPA agent trying to hand him a ticket: "This donk ain't my jawn yo!"
I have always thought that "solving" cyber security was fairly simple.

The cost of running insecurely should exceed the cost of making it secure.

Usually this is done by the Board firing the CEO and the next CEO firing anyone who fails to improve

For a long time it has been better to do your job insecurely than to fail to do your job whilst being secure.

GDPR, equinox, target are starting to change that

In short, the CIA is very good at operating with high levels of cyber-security. Do as they do.
Few Americans own enough property to allow them to plant anything like as many trees as are required to offset their carbon emissions.
Thursday: Isaiah
> is it right to say someone can't have something moderately nice

If they can't reasonably pay for it, I don't see what other option there is for a responsible adult. Perhaps that is my cultural background speaking.
But why obnoxious? Do you know how old Perl is? Have you written shell scripts before? My point is, some of choices Larry and others made wouldn't necessarily be made today, but there's a history, a lineage, a reason for all of this. I actually like the magic variables, but as I said in my other comment, you need to learn it first. X language is an unreadable heap of spaghetti if the programmer writes X language in an unreadable way.
Are you using an app such as Materialistic or Hews, or just using your browser? For what it's worth I don't recall any problems reading quote blocks on Materialistic.
Yeah, poorly written. As far as I can tell the only point is that nature doesn't balance itself out on its own but there's no metric for "balance".
Honestly you can't see the difference between being held at gunpoint and voluntary employment? It's not like web developers are working low-skill jobs for minimum wage and scraping by here.
What's the difference between saving money for a year and buying on interest free credit, with the "saved" money going to payments for that year?
If you give penicillin to a million people, about two hundred of them will go into anaphylactic shock. Sometimes the tail risks for taking drugs are more harmful than the condition they're trying to prevent or treat.