skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get a ton of calls offering to lower my interest rate. Im surprised that the card issuing companies mentioned by name in the call- visa, MasterCard, etc. don’t take the same tactic that Microsoft used to take down botnets. Microsoft used trademark law to sue the botnet operators and have their domain names seized. Why can’t the same happen here with any US based voip operator they may be using?
Besides it's Australia, the government is in love with coal, these are bound to be high speed steam trains fueled with coal
I do agree with some of your points but looks like outsourcing industry is the favorite scapegoat these days for any failure. From other anecdotes in this comment section, various other reason are being thrown around for BA repeatedly having IT failure. So without any proper analysis it would be premature to conclude one way or the other.
This is so minor but it slows me down working every day. If I didn't select it, don't copy it. If I clicked in the center on a specific spot, drop the cursor right there instead of selecting a section.
Isn't there a liability issue here? If I join the network and someone were to use my node in the transmission of something like child porn, how are you so sure I wouldn't be pinched for it?
I've been getting these notifications now for a year at least. It's extremely annoying, and I haven't found any way to toggle it off. Such a colossal misfeature.

I nowadays only use mbasic.facebook.com to check messages every two to four weeks, as FB is still kind of a backup contact platform for many people if everything else fails.
What are fellow self-hosted email folks doing about spam these days? I've found that Spamassassin is letting through more and more these days...
> whats next, the ISPs?

You may wish to read your ISP's ToS, because many of them have had AUPs for years that would forbid use of some bits of 8chan.

They don't appear to use these clauses very often, but we don't know because no-one is counting.
This still isn’t reddit.
I guess I was lucky up until now. I had a display failure and replacement on a 2011 13" MBP but other than that no problems.
Признаков – курит ли мой ребенок – Детские клипы
So, in other words: Freedom of association should not exist.

Am I getting this right?
> Just prove it can be done and commercialization will happen very quickly.

You seem to be saying "just show Q high enough and we're home free to commercially successful fusion power".

But this is totally wrong. Fusion faces profoundly difficult obstacles to success even after the physics problems have been solved. These may be "mere engineering" problems, but engineering problems are perfectly capable of sinking a technology.
Mozilla has GeckoView[1]. They also distribute a set of helper components for building browser-like applications on Android called Mozilla Android Components[2].

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview
[2] https://mozac.org

Aside from that I'm also using this client on my phone, and I stopped using the built-in browser as well. I've configured the app to use my native browser which means I now get all the benefits from that when reading articles in Material (like having uMatrix on).
Was your argument about biomagnification or energy? Because the latter is a less convincing argument: Plants are inefficient energy converters already.
Like the other poster said, random weird shit on YouTube is more common than Disney in my house
Because days end?
I had an idea years ago using a webcam and the 'blood under fingernail' to have a trackpadless-trackpad (i.e. same as this project but on your table).

Maybe some time-rich person will fork it and do so.
>Why is someone getting stuff produced at tax-payers expense, peer-reviewed for free, and charging for it, and what's stopping this from being overturned?

They're not. Elsevier doesn't produce the research. They filter it to give you the good bits.

Historically, the value they've provided is 1) to ensure quality (i.e. guarantee readers not just any crank can publish a paper and waste your time, guarantee authors that you'll be published alongside good stuff, so people are less likely to skip over your work), 2) to coordinate operations (recruit authors, recruit appropriate reviewers, negotiate with printers, general SG&A), 3) manage physical printing and distribution.

Arguably, 3 is now somewhat commoditized because distribution is mostly online. Costs have been driven down on 2 because of a glut of PhD's and the general demand for prestige signalling in academia.

I'm genuinely not sure how relevant 1 is. I could imagine either that it's entirely replicable because 2 is now cheap, or that it's the kind of thing you don't know you care about til it's gone the way no one ever said "I love that my local store only sells genuine and high quality goods," but now people complain about how it's tough to know what you're getting from Amazon.
>3) Which you're better off hitting if you need to swerve to avoid another car (is it better to hit the fruit stand or the 10 year old boy?)

This is a non-issue in practice. Just brake and don't turn the wheel. It's a naive approach and it leaves a lot of accident avoidance potential on the table in most situations but it's what most people do and expect everyone else to do. Trying to do anything else is impossible to justify to the public because everything you have to say about why you shouldn't panic stop for a object in the middle of the freeway when there's an open lane beside you will be drowned out by people telling you you're crash the car if you dare touch that steering wheel in an attempt to not crash.
rg searches my repo in under a second. Your command takes over a minute, with a warm cache. It also takes thirty seconds to type. And it doesn't work for files with a space in them. Even on single files rg is faster for me than fgrep. For example my tags file is 2GB large. rg takes 0.4 seconds to search it, fgrep takes 0.6 seconds.
Yes, https://github.com/mvdan/gogrep for Go
>Rosalind Franklin - discovered the double helix structure of DNA using x-rays.

This is a gross mischaracterization. Fraklin certainly took some pictures of DNA using x-ray crystallography, but she absolutely did not figure out the structure.
It's fairly obviously a lower price to build share that will be ratcheted up, especially as the content offering improves.

But the same can be said for Netflix's current pricing.
You can test it yourself, by turning off background permissions. You will still receive messages.

Background processing simply allows it to have the message ready for you by the time you open the app.
The behavior seems to vary between the PC Steam program and the Steam Link app on other devices. The Steam Link app will fallback to whole-desktop, allowing you to exit Steam Big Picture and what not.
While I've also congettured in the past that at least a good chunk of extreme supercentenarians are due to anagraphical errors if not outright fraud, I do not think that the paper support the thesis well.

For starter they do not have a global model, it seems that they handpicked different statistics for different areas that support their thesis (they do not even show anything concrete for Japan).

Regarding Sardinia, their numbers seem actually wrong: looking at the raw Istat data the numbers for 55 year life expectancy for the Sardinian provinces seem in line with the rest of Italy (95-96%) putting Sardinia somewhere in the middle of the (quite tight) Italian distribution.

It is possible that the researcher averaged the data over a longer period of time that I bothered to look is possible, but the paper doesn't discuss the methodology.

Their fitting, p value not withstanding, also seem a bit adventurous; the fact that all and almost only Sardinian provinces are extrme outliers shoud have been a tell. The rest of the Italian bprovinces are in a tight uniform cluster.

Sardinia, except for a very brief period in the mid 2010s,has only 4 provinces, so it is possible that messed up their data extraction (they show 8 provinces).

Also Sardinia is not particularly poorer than the rest of Southern Italy and actually has a lower crime rate (which they suggest but not outright state is a factor).

A better paper would probably try to build a single model for Japan, Italy and US using actual mortality, crime and poverty rates.
> Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows.

That would be so awesome! :)
Well, we know quite a bit about how humans perform at the relevant levels of abstraction, and that's the level at which driving automation systems should be evaluated. They are not there yet, but there's no reason to believe the problems are insurmountable.
RE: Sidenote

I think the FF preview works as webview?
That references a study on a scenario where 10% of the distance is in tunnels. That's a lot of tunnel boring. Is the Sydney-Melbourne flat or hilly?
Thanks for that link - fascinating videos, I've already lost a couple of hours browsing through them.
Oxford's Newton Project text of the book has the Newton's Laws in the 1687 version here: [http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP...]

What makes you think they were not?
You should have charged him for slaying the dragon in his PC.
> Netflix was like that (from what I heard)

It wasn't. Never even close tbh, and anyone who claimed otherwise is wearing glasses so rose-tinted as to be opaque.
yes, exactly, salt water is VERY VERY bad

Your main engines are gimballed for guidance, that mass cost is already paid
For some reason I really like hitting the 'submit' button via the touchscreen after filling out a web form.
Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence
Frankly, Mr. Shankly [video]
TypeScript in the real world – Why and how you should use it
So I guess WSL1 is a bit like linux flavoured wine :-)
I don't remember this being the case. I don't think it was possible to change either a file's type or creator code without a tool such as ResEdit that wasn't included in the OS.

BTW, I think you're referring to the 'creator' code, not the 'type' code. The 'creator' code determined which application would open a file when it was opened. And it was per-file; I don't remember any mention of a system-wide 'default application' or anything like that.

This was actually rather nice in practice. It meant a JPEG image created by e.g., GraphicsConverter would be opened by GraphicsConverter when double-clicked; whereas one saved by a web browser would be opened in the web browser. But either could be dragged into either application in order to open the web-browser-saved image with GraphicsConverter.
Does not saving prevent those events from happening? How are those events handled without savings? How would giving them more money resolve this problem?
Not as far as I remember, though I don't have an old Mac handy to check. Anyone? :)
I just checked, and yes, you can use Steam Controller to get through UAC prompts. The joystick mimics the arrow keys, the right trackpad moves the mouse cursor, the trigger buttons represent mouse clicks, and A is Enter.
Minor nitpick, the language is called Malayalam, not "Malalayam". It's easy to remember, because it is the only language in the world which reads the same from back to front ;)

> Therefore a lot of undocumented knowledge gets lost which inevitably causes problems when doing maintenance or solving outages. One week you are working with a brilliant person, the next week they are gone.

I had the same experience with outsourced work to India. Like every place, they have many "rockstar" developers, but these guys do not stay in the same company for too long, an even if they do they don't stay in the same hands-on job for too long and as soon as they move up they will not code anymore themselves, because it is below their pay grade. In India particularly hierarchy plays a huge part in culture and once someone is at a level where coding is seen as "too low" there is nothing you can do to get them continue their job. A company I once worked for even offered a pay rise to their Indian rockstar devs, but wanted them to keep coding and they rather refused the pay rise than doing the "low" work again.

> Thirdly, the sales people at many outsourcing companies are brilliant. They promise the world, then for the first three months keep the clients happy. Then there is always a slump in service / performance as the "dream team", the sales people use to wow the clients move onto the next company they are trying to woo.

Same experience.

I think it's better to hire developers directly and employ them rather than hire developers through a big agency. You won't avoid the staff turnover overall, but it will happen at a much slower frequency.
> "More accurately, Musk doesn't care what others think is needed for self-driving"

That's obviously wrong. Musk is deeply invested in the matter, particularly the public's perception of the matter. He is currently promoting his 'solution', which has not yet proven itself, as being hardware complete and is selling it to consumers right now. Public perception is his priority and he shit-talks LIDAR whenever he feels doing so is necessary to defend the public perception of the product he's trying to sell.
You don't just get free back catalogue if you buy someone else. Residual agreements often force you to sell to the highest bidder regardless, there are hosts of pre-existing deals for multiple years, and your shareholders will ask why you paid so much money for a company and then took away the way they make revenue (selling the shows to other people).
>one problem Tesla has is that they already SOLD tens of thousands of FSD option packages

It's always seemed sketchy to me that they're selling FSD option packages when they don't know when FSD will actually happen or whether the current in-car hardware will be adequate to support it once it does happen.

He's likely banking on a bimodal distribution where FSD either happens very soon (within a year or so) in which case the hardware likely will be fine OR not for 5+ years in which case these cars likely will not be on the road any more and it becomes a moot point.
A quick search seems to show that a high speed rail ticket is significantly cheaper than flying. Most high speed rail projects that have to, more or less, cover their own costs tend to cost about the same as flying.
Well that's not a fast train :)

At 650 km of distance a 200 km/h train would do it in slightly over 3 hours.

Which makes it even more sad because it should have definitely been cheaper than planes ...
> Racket was designed to teach programming to young students,

I'd say that the "teaching languages" were designed for teaching students, and Racket was designed as the practical tool for implementing those languages and a cross-platform IDE to support them. As a result of this, and various subsequent community work, Racket is now practical for many purposes.

I said a little more about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507549
It worked well enough and ensured the example 'grandma' problem above could not occur.

The Finder maintained a 'desktop database' which, I believe, was used by the operating system to determine which Applications were able to open files given their type. This was updated automagically, so given a floppy disk with an application on it, and a file that could be opened by that application, the user could insert the disk, double-click the file and the application would be launched to open the file--even if the application was previously unknown to the machine in question.

Power users could use ResEdit or some other tool to change such attributes of a file.

http://vintagemacmuseum.com/macintosh-type-and-creator-codes... has some more info about the system. Also https://tidbits.com/2009/09/06/snow-leopard-snubs-document-c... which remarks on the system's retirement in OS X 10.6.

Reminiscing about all this makes me remember fondly how much better the experience of using a Mac back in the 90s was compared to computing nowadays!
The source for Habitat is available on GitHub these days:

https://github.com/Museum-of-Art-and-Digital-Entertainment/h...
It's not a matter of "stopping reading". Impact factor metrics are based on number of citations. And if I publish a paper on a new method to do X, I am expected to compare to (and thus cite) previous papers that did X. I cannot just decide not to cite relevant previous work because it is published in an Elsevier journal.

Of course, sending papers to OA journals, going the extra mile to cite them, and preferring them to non-OA alternatives when any paper will do (e.g. when you are just providing some examples of applications of X, without being exhaustive, and you can find some in OA and others in non-OA journals) does help.
We are still running out. All this claims is that we may have a little more in reserve than previously thought. Helium still floats up into space unrecoverably when released. The article contains this information, but the headline is wrong.
Pretty shitty of HackerOne to forbid the disclosure of a non-vulnerability. Hopefully there's more to this story.
Techcrunch pages seem to have the highest number of adware/spyware scripts and links attached to them. I'd be amazed if the site hasn't also got a huge number of GDPR breaches in its workings.
How to Take Money Abroad
Which would only apply in taxable accounts though.

The majority of people probably are using tax-sheltered accounts and are primarily saving for retirement, or their kid's education.

If anyone can max out all of those, and pay their cost of living, they're (a) doing quite well for themselves, and (b) probably a small portion of the population.

The advice to not focus on dividends but on total returns is geared toward the general public, who probably don't want to get into the minutiae of tax laws. :)
Outsourcing != offshoring

Many of the clients I've had have had bad experiences outsourcing to local development agencies that didn't practice any offshoring.

See Hertz vs Accenture [^1](maybe Accenture offshores, but they wouldn't have had to in order to do such a bad job)

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_law...
2K Games Sends 2 Goons to Intimidate Borderlands 3 Youtuber Supmatto
There's an old project from Facebook that does something like this, called Pfff[0]

It provides a tool called sgrep (syntactical grep) that lets you do some cool tricks, for instance:

`sgrep "some_func(X,X)"` returns all calls to some_func with the same argument repeated.

`sgrep "some_func(X,Y,...)"` returns all calls to some_func with 3 or more arguments.

It's come in very handy for refactoring some troublesome codebases.

[0]: https://github.com/facebookarchive/pfff
My point was that except for food the goods purchases are rare events and also the food is not a lot so hardly likely to make much of a dent in my rent.

They sell fresh bread, real bread that is worth eating? Fresh fruit?

Actually of course in my particular case it's all theoretical anyway because Amazon has no physical presence here in Norway
"who's going to maintain this shit when that rock-star theorem guy is gone?"

At this point, I think the rockstar theorem guy would not be working on some proprietary business logic that needs to be maintained wholly in-house. He'd be in charge of more critical infrastructure in widespread use. Kernels, SSL libraries, optimizing compilers; that sort of thing.

As for who should hire him? I'd hope one of the big tech companies would want a project like this.
You'd need all intakes (e.g., downpipes from gutters) to be protected with mesh, the tank itself to have likewise, but the most painful bit is handling those intakes/overflows getting blocked by leaves/debris. My pipes get blocked by leaves even without mesh. There are a variety of angled mesh systems you can use but adding them to each down-pipe gets expensive.
> The thing is, you get no money by looking out for others. It's hard to see the (short-term) benefits.

This is the main problem of us. We perceive money and short-term goals (self) over of anything else. To fix the lack of personal responsibility in broader part of ecosystem is crucial.

Therefore, sort of Hippocratic Oath for software and hardware developers/managers and education to behave in moral constraints is important. We are playing bigger role in shaping how future on Earth(and other planets) will looks like. So it will be beneficial and important to signup for ethical codex.

I am surprised that we are not already doing it - globally. How come? How is that possible?
Holidays are good for workers and companies alike
This is why Unix is great. It gives you enough tools to shoot yourself in the foot.
Yeah the very concept is a blind and kind of dumb argument by analogy that ignores the obvious - especially in software engineering - that code isn't people. Not to mention oaths especially arbitrary ones have come and gone. The whole article is like this - clearly arguing by analogy about things he doesn't understand. The fact he views IDEs as a risk /from lack of knowledge/ just shows the sheer depths of his ignorance given its role is to make it more accessible.

At this point I have grown weary of every article proposing some sort of professionalization. At this point I want to shout to everyone writing them "Stop trying to professionalize code to your gatekeeping standards already!".

From the number of failed outsourcing attempts I suspect unsatisfactory performance is true though for reasons not on them - organizational, communication and cultural barriers rather than lesser merit. The threats there aren't even on the software engineers but the management making the decisions! The only thing they could do to "stop" that is to work for free which was unreasonable to expect from even priests and would remain utterly stupid blame shifting.
Facebook isn't the only company to do this. I have a very,once in a blue moon, Twitter account. On the rare ocassion that I open the app, you can be sure that I'll get the red notification bubble soon after I stop using it. Open the app and are there any DMs or notifications? Nope. This pattern has happened enough times over the past few years that I finally got fed up and turned off notifications entirely last week.
Mathematicians have for a couple of years now started to rely on preprints on ArXiv and this is a successful change in culture.

However, the related problem of research not being read (and the more subjective "not being worth read") is still unsolved to a large extent. My single paper on ArXiv has probably not been read and despite that my MSc reviewer commented that the work is suitable to be published (apart from the MSc) I now have a full time job outside of academia and little incentive to get the paper into a reputable journal by extensive formatting and layout changes or self-lobbying, if you will.
How about volunteering to teach disadvantaged people how to code and help them get a job? For example https://www.hackyourfuture.net is in a few European cities, might not be in your city but perhaps you could try starting one where you are?
The Loneliness of the Internet Troll
Even though whatever you said is true of offshoring, don't underestimate the incompetence of the in-house talent.
It's not that easy. You can get a call from X with a prefix from B and it's just how routing sometimes works. In the same way an internet connection from Germany to the UK may actually arrive from an interconnect in Amsterdam. But it doesn't matter. What matters is the responsibility of each party to point out who sent the call to them.

(And that's not even mentioning the issue of how you'd map providers to prefixes. It's somewhere between non-trivial and impossible in practice.)
That'd work in the tank (besides the fish excretions) but in a wet system, you have standing water in downpipes the diameter of a tennis ball that might get a little restrictive for fish.
LinkedIn does this too.