skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A real answer: because I personally don't want to make job easier for crazies. Your comments stick around on the web instead of evaporating in thin air. Among hundreds who may read them, there may occur a couple angry people with skewed priorities. I don't want such people to easily know how I look and where I live.
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A lot of extensions are made because people need them for themselves, not to live of extension development. And this is something that can exist as a nice open source ecosystem with some oversight, like packages on a typical linux distro. All the development stuff can go into something like AUR on Archlinux, where users have to explicitly participate and accept more risk. And this is something not very evil browser vendor might be willing and be able to do. But creating incentives for extension developers is definitely the opposite of their plans, they'd rather kill extensions altogether.
The real answer is because we’re a union of states, many of which would not have joined under that representation scheme.

You need to amend the constitution to change that. It’s hard to do, but again that was intentional.
I was under the impression that QAnon was a documented fabrication - that it was a deliberate hoax concocted on 8chan (or somewhere similar) for the “lulz,” with the message trail to prove it.
That's a bad argument.

If I were to call you a moron, that doesn't mean I'm advocating removing you from the gene pool.
Please don't do shallow flamewars on HN. Even if you're right, this line of argument won't convince anybody. It only makes us all feel worse.

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Once an app reaches critical mass for a location, the restaurants all go where the users are.
Came here to say this. Have my upvote.
471 million gallons of fuel per day is insane.

There's about 300M in the US, right? 1.5 gal per person.

~70 miles for every man, woman, and child.

I knew you guys were car-dependent, but that's on another level.
If you know how to set it up, iTerm2 + NeoVim + tmux + zsh is a pretty tasty combination.
Mozilla does this already, to a degree. Using the Dark Reader extension hangs some sites for several seconds and Mozilla asks me if I'd like to kill it
Thank you for commenting, it's great hearing from someone with domain knowledge on this case!
> That being said, I have seen several people claiming "I was fired/removed/banned for having opinion X" and in MOST of those cases my view was that they were at a minimum being very insensitive on multiple occasions.

In the article it says that he wanted to buy lunch to talk about the deep thinker that circulated a memo saying women aren’t going to be as good as men in tech.

I’m just saying, don’t think he was let go because he was posting that he loves trickle down economics or small government. That there is no actual examples in the article of the type of thing he believes he was fired for doesn’t bode well either.
Qanon seems to me to work like a crowdsourced cold reading act. They put out vague "breadcrumbs," wait for people to elaborate, and then feed the result back into the crowd.
D, E, O, Q, T, X, Y, and half of Z all seem fine to me.
The fact that you even claim that this is a problem means that you have no interest in a debate and are just another mindless denier, because even a cursory study of the topic at hand shows that issues of measument calibration are completely unimportant.
And corporations would pay a lot to have extensions security reviewed if they had a business use case.
These comments, or even the article at this point, need to be purged. This article is related to HN but most of these comments aren’t. The content of these comments belongs on Reddit or Twitter. They are snarky, one liners, flame-baity, etc.
If you're going to have a large multi-member district with proportional representation, it's not essential to use ranked-choice voting - you can get a reasonable result just by having people vote once for the ticket of candidates they prefer, then allocating the seats proportionally.

That said, ranked-choice voting in large multi-member districts is certainly possible: It is usual to require voters to rank only as many candidates as there are vacancies, though they can number more if they wish to (consequently they don't need to understand the detailed policy positions of the minor candidates that have no realistic chance of election). Voters in such systems tend to firstly order the parties based on the policy positions of those parties, then order the candidates within those parties if they have a strong opinion of the relative merits of those candidates.

Here's an example of a media summary of the candidates running in such an election: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-17/federal-election-2019...
> entire nature of conspiracy theories

A conspiracy theory is, very simply, a theory about the existence of a conspiracy. You're implying that such theories will focus on false positives; but you're completely omitting that sometimes, 'theories about the existence of a conspiracy' turn out to be true.
> Am I missing something?

You may be. Firstly the interval size. Highest year since two years ago is unimpressive, highest day since two years ago is more (still not very) impressive.

Secondly this is coming from "Today in Energy" which appears to be a journal of the minutiae of energy production and consumption. I don't think the target audience is meant to be alarmed, just mildly interested.
You should take a look at New York Penal Law 240.35(4).

Also, 1st amendment challenges only protect you if the supreme court is sympathetic.
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"hard to explain" about what exactly?

Q's predictions about Hillary's and other people's arrests that haven't happened?

The photo of "secret" information that was simply taken off of another website?

All the other Q predictions that have been dead wrong?
You might be thinking about this https://news.artnet.com/opinion/q-anon-hoax-1329983
I think the point is that while the plant itself might balance out, the whole process does not due to all the other inputs (fertilizer production, farm machinery, transport, refinement etc) that are required.
"they can force ram down the throat" here means "they can forcefully ram it down the throat"
Well, consider C++ inheritance combined with object nesting; you get slicing copies.

Or constructors combined with static objects; you get the static initialization order fiasco.

Or constness with template functions; you get two, four, or eight copies of each generic function in your source code according to which things are const.

Or (compile-time) overloading with (run-time) overriding; you get C++’s weird “hiding” rule about the other overrides you didn't override.

Or separate compilation with implicitly instantiated templates; you get geological build times as the compiler instantiates the same templates in every .C file and then throws away all but one of the identical instantiations at link time. (To be fair, this is far from the only reason C++ compiles slowly.)

Overriding combined with type conversions through implicitly invoked constructors (and implicit referencing and implicit casting to const) gives you annoying bugs that are unnecessarily hard to figure out.

Cleanup from exceptions via RAII combined with C’s unspecified argument evaluation order led to a situation where resource leaks during certain kinds of operations couldn't be avoided reliably, a bug in the language definition that wasn't noticed for several years, though I think it's fixed now.

The grammar is undecidable because of the number of different things that have been added, which sounds like a hyperbolic joke but is actually literally true, and a significant obstacle to implementing something like gofmt for C++.

The combination of template parameters using <> for parameters, the traditional longest-leftmost tokenization rule, and the >> operator for bitshifting made foo<bar<baz>> an unexpected syntactic pitfall, one that is now fixed.

There wasn't an exception-safe version of the STL for a number of years, which isn't really an interaction between templates and exceptions —a non-template container had to deal with the same exception-safety problems— but it did mean that fit quite a while you could use the STL or exceptions but not both.

This is far from the extent of the problem. The C++ FAQ consists largely of affirmations of the form, “Doing [reasonable thing 1] works, and [reasonable thing 2] works too, but if you do them both, you will die horribly for your immorality.” It's exaggerating about the death part but the surprising problems are quite real.

I don't hate C++, and I think it's the best existing language for some problem spaces, but it's very much the poster boy for unexpected problems arising from interactions between features.

As far as the keyboard goes, https://GitHub.com/kragen/xcompose and http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard are your friends.
what happens when you need to pay for $TragicLifeEvent and are forced to liquidate your ETF position in a downturn?
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The hacker group on Secret, Strange, and True (TechTV series) was named Moloch. First time I heard of it. I don't know how much of that show was real or for show, though.
I'm saying "this conspiracy involves a documented series of facts that are hard to explain together" doesn't say anything about the validity of the theory. If there are other conspiracy theories you feel don't trade on this phenomenon, fine, but it's the phenomenon at play in QAnon and in the comment I replied to.
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics is eventually right in the grander sense, I guess, but conditions for order to emerge from more chaotic circumstances are everywhere, even if order is temporary in the eternal sense. Stars form out of nebulae, heavy elements form out of dying stars, and heavy elements combine to make planets with metals and living things, living things engineer structures, machines, societies, etc.

Progress as we understand it seems to be baked into nature and the emergent systems we live in and are. You don't give up on life as soon as you are born because you will die one day right? Whether you're aware of it or not, your body naturally preserves the order it can, and you actually grow up before you die.
There's nothing special about collaborative knowledge bases that make them immune from scaling problems. You can't use TreeNotation to run Wikipedia. Fundamentally it isn't a database, period. It's a schema for files in a file system.
Thinking for yourself is not an unalloyed good. It’s important to realize where you need to rely on expertise.
Just like one of my neural networks!
People buying houses with 3% down payments are generally paying such high interest rates that they don't get to enjoy the home price appreciation because they're paying it all in interest to the bank. Meanwhile they're taking the risk that the house doesn't appreciate faster than inflation, or at all, as was the case for people who bought homes in cities like Detroit. And the bank will want enough interest to cover the risk that the home value declines and they default on the loan, which means many such people are paying more to own than they would to rent, even after including the accumulation of equity.

Homes appreciating faster than inflation is also an unsustainable trend in general. The result has been for housing costs in those areas to increase as a percent of wages, which obviously can't continue indefinitely because the result would be housing costs that don't leave enough for other necessities like food, or that exceed wages outright.

It's true prices probably wouldn't fall to only 3% of what they are now and so the same people couldn't purchase the same house immediately, but rents would fall along with housing costs. The combination of lower housing costs and less paid in interest on huge high-risk loans would allow the same people to own the same house outright in less time, even if it meant renting it for some period of time first. And of course the money they intend to use to buy the house could in the be earning interest before they reach the threshold to buy the house without a loan, which (if the efficient market hypothesis is correct) would give the same risk-adjusted returns in the meantime as investing the same amount in home ownership.
Indeed: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...
The Greenland ice sheet is experiencing one of its greatest melting events
I would argue it isn't tractable.

f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-1) has runtime O(2^n);
f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2) has runtmie O(~1.62^n);
f(n) = f(n/2) + f(n/2) has O(n log n);
for i = 1 to f(n) has runtime f(n).. good luck determining a function output through static analysis
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Me too. Maybe I'll google it when I have the time. Would be quite surprised if things got sorted out and the world became somewhat a nice place to live.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584487.
When the FBI has penned such things as the Martin Luther King suicide letter, people should be allowed to be suspicious and watchful for anything like that again. https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-...
Of course, but there is a difference between having a hypothesis to test, and believing something and setting out to find evidence for it. Those are some extreme examples of that being an issue, but also things like not publishing negative results can also be a result, less obviously.

I very specifically said that I was not saying that was what happened in this case, just that I agreed that there was something of a red flag.
This stuff exists. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (broker), DARPA (demand), every company (demand) and every company's R&D division (supply). The problem is there's 7 billion people, and fully half of them are above average. The demand signalers are constantly hunting for supply, while the suppliers are constantly hunting for buyers. It takes radical amounts of cross-training to have any hope of comprehending the available possibilities.
Seems silly to do that, especially with so much open space, abandoned lots and rooftops.

Goes to show you the tide is turning from environmentalism to capitalism.
After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10B cloud contract
Except Big O Notation is exactly not measuring code's efficiency.
I'm a PHP guy with 20 years of experience and Big Data skills who emailed you after your July post, and after you posted in June 2017 as well and never heard back.
Please don't post unsubstantive flamebait to HN. It leads to unsubstantive flamewars.

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Allowing trading of fractional pennies has been theorized to be another way to break up flash trading as you need to accurately guess the real price not just get your exact price up before anyone else.
China was served opium by its opponents and I guess the US is being served spiralling destructive conspiracy theories.
A .gov site is packing headlines to get more clicks? Why do you think that is?
Seems like there isn't much the government can do about influencers spouting off dangerous rhetoric causing ignorant followers to do harm. Could the FBI actually arrest these people for inciting extremism or are they protected by free speech?
Seconded. It's really fascinating for anyone who is interested in the relationships between mechanistic generation and biological/natural artifacts.

For me, this book fits in the same family as Benoit Mandelbrot's "The Fractal Geometry of Nature", and Ulf Grenander's work on stochastic models for the generation of shapes like hands. And see also, cellular automata.
So corporate media can spew out disinformation for years without consequences but when someone anonymous online spreads disinformation it warrants the fbis involvement to deem it national security?
Where does it stop, sounds like suppression of freedom of speech and thought, attempting to steer the narrative.

Someone who downvoted me and flagged me, please tell me where I'm wrong with what I said?
One thing is certain reading a mathematical proof from Knuth is TeX and its beauty will be used ;)
My favorite conspiracy theory was that the phrase conspiracy theory was created by the CIA to discredit people thinking that way. It's conspiracies all the way down! hahaha
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I complained about this as well --- there's an anti-pattern on HN where almost anyone can come up with something to say about the FBI, or a joke about QAnon, but comparatively few will have anything germane to say, with the inevitable result of trash-fire threads.

But HN is also doing a good job on this particular thread of flagging those comments, which you should do as well.
The list of FBI controversies is so long, the wikipedia article on the FBI refers you to a separate page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies
I don't find it so. I do both Perl and Python at work: the Perl code is almost always clearer to read IMHO. I know some people find curly brackets and sigils distracting, but to me they make code less ambiguous.
You're in the top 5% for your area but you can't afford a house? Most of the home owners in your area make less than you.

There's definitely something you're not telling us.
For a completely arbitrary program, it is not possible to calculate a tight bound on the time or memory complexity of that that program via static analysis. See Rice's Theorem[0].

It is possible to determine interesting properties of programs if you weaken your requirements to approximations and/or add significant constraints. You can maintain properties by construction if you only allow yourself to use certain kinds of building blocks in assembling programs. The less powerful your computational model, the easier it is to prove things about it.

The core idea of a type system is to form a symbolic representation of the semantics of your program which is simpler than the program itself, so that you can prove properties of that simpler system instead of the intractable problem of doing so for the actual program. (If you aren't careful, your type system could end up sufficiently powerful that it is itself undecidable, and you're back where you started.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice's_theorem
Chrome realized that if it jumped ahead in version number, it could gain a huge PR advantage, and then Firefox was forced to follow that pattern or appear outdated.

Personal anecdote, but of all the non-technical people I know (which I define as those who may barely know what a browser is, and only use the computer for browsing a tiny fraction of the Internet), none of them like the constant change, especially when it breaks their workflow, and those who do pay attention to version numbers think the rapid "version explosion" (to quote one) is completely silly. Like a lot of other things in life, they just put up with it because they're powerless.

I really wonder who the browser makers are targeting with the "move fast and break things constantly" attitude, because it's definitely neither the technical nor non-technical users I know.
Reply All has done good episodes on this (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8homa/122-the-qanon...) and PizzaGate (https://gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/reply-all/emhwl5) for anyone who wants a high level summary.
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Stavanger, along with other coastal cities in Norway, actually has a relatively mild climate.

It’s winter temperatures range is only slightly cooler than Edinburgh - and quite mild compared to many US cities!

Norway seems to have a reputation for fierce cold weather, but outside of the mountains and the Arctic north, both relatively unpopulated, it’s not really deserved in my experience!
The danger is, as the article mentions, conspiracy theories range from relatively benign to actively harmful and dangerous. They've become more and more weaponized as a way of finding villains, outlets for violence, anger etc which then results in innocent people being murdered. Or, in the case of one incident, someone killing a mob boss and putting his entire extended family at risk.

Which, I mean, this is all related to the tech industry as a whole because Youtube, Twitter, Facebook etc all feed into the cycle of extremism because it increases engagement. It's hard to ignore the profound shift as a result of content not only being easily accessible but also targeted directly at various groups of people and monetized. I've already had to talk with my parents because they've fallen into the trap of following or believing Facebook posts which perpetuate falsified information. It's only going to get a lot worse before it gets better.