skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've basically given up on Google and their corporate ADHD. I use Android because it's the only phone OS that allows for easy permanent sideloading while also having a healthy native app ecosystem, and I'll use search and maps, but that's literally (not figuratively, but literally) it. It seems that the only products of theirs with any staying power were launched prior to 2010.
And at around the same time made magic mushrooms completely illegal, whereas prior there had been a workaround leading to a healthy market.

The tragedy of this late Labour-era push against loosening /smarting-up of drug legislation is that it fairly directly led to the boom in synthetic cannabinoids, starting with the fairly benign Spice (as a brand) and resulting in a swathe of much-stronger, less-tested and more dangerous brands flying under the radar which (all Hoover/Google-like) were collectively known as 'Spice', but have caused problems for many in the underclass and prisons and such.

I'm not much in to party politics, but this is one thing I directly attribute to Gordon Brown and his very unhelpful moralising.
Marketing. Who controls that?
What?! parenthesis are a feature not a bug. Parenthesis is part of what makes lisps so nice to use. Such a stupid decision. Makes no sense at all. Maybe they are on drugs or something or just bored.
> but you can't possibly claim HN bans politics when maybe 20-30% of the stories discussed here are political in nature.

Well, many of the most crucial stories have been nipped in the bud when speculation is flying every which way. I'd argue that the brief moment of uncomfortable uncertainty, when speculation is flying, is actually the most valuable point for analysis in the trajectory of any issue... before those with the power to influence have had a chance to frame the issue the way they see fit, not letting it go to waste to further their goals, etc.

HN mods find this kind of unmoored analysis very discomfiting, and they act with a nearly instinctual zeal to put a stop to it. Political discussion is fine as long as it is in the shadow of a conceptual framework that is considered authoritative. This is by definition a highly conservative, top down, anti-intellectual view. That mods view comments that contradict it as "flame wars" (rude acts) illustrates that they are anchored in an archaic manners culture that worships hierarchy and authority. FWIW we all know there are HN users who can send a message to a mod and get a user shadow banned no questions asked.

Since there are so few mods it is totally plausible that their own psychological quirks and desire to fit in would have a significant impact on their moderation patterns.

> except for anything programming language related, what the best web framework to use is...

I don't think this disagrees with my point, since most often the thing that is being objected to has not been used extensively by the objector. Bike shedding is less a form of political discussion than it is a result of tech culture that seeks authoritative absolutes in a world that only offers relative trade-offs. The worst offenders I've worked with are the sort who really wish there were a religious leader who would declare that programmers who use Mongodb are going to hell :), and they are not people I want on my team.

For moderation, the only fair system is one where all moderation decisions are backed up by a public note explaining what happened and why, both for story promotion, burial, and penal decisions about users such as shadow bans.

Surely being a mod is challenging. I'd expect that combining the challenging roles of judge, jury, and executioner into one would exact an emotional toll.
would be cool if it didn't start up on a different random port each time. you either need to run this on a linux desktop or not at all. kind of funny to have a K8s tool that can't run in a local docker container.
Considering you should hold your index stocks for at least 10 years, you need to be able to muscle through lean times, even buying more if you can.
Very much this. I have been rightfully corrected by dang before, and it made me reflect and adjust my general approach to commenting online. I have also been very wrongfully dealt with a few times too though, and it made me very hesitant to comment further. I am thankful for a moderated space (there are other areas for unmoderated space, but those are under attack these days) and they do a good job most of the time, which is good enough for me.

The backbone companies thing is the more important point you make imho, and is why discussion about what the modern public square really is and how the level of corporate dominance of media and the abuse of third-party doctrine allows the silencing of dissent. So a private company can censor whoever they want right?.. but how far does that go? First it starts with cloudflare, and then eventually it goes down to the ISP level... and that seems like a very dangerous slippery slope to me.
Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
If that is true then the implications to monetary policy would be astounding.
I was really hoping this article would have been about how Paris of 2019 has lost some of it's charm compared to Paris of 2008 and before. Need to find an article about that.
The percentage of posters that have access to the WSJ paywall isn’t going to be that high. The rest of us can only comment on the first 100 words.
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Project Mathematics
Effective Mental Models for Code and Systems
“"Some stuff I've heard could clearly be described as phone sex. I've heard people entering full addresses in Cortana commands, or asking Cortana to provide search returns on pornography queries. While I don't know exactly what one could do with this information, it seems odd to me that it isn't being handled in a more controlled environment," the contractor said.
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Speak for your own country.

Where I live major political parties are now scrambling to adopt greener policies after losing big to green parties in the recent EU wide elections.

Because people have shown that if they don't do it, they will vote for someone who will.

There's also the issue of thousands of students rallying for greener policies every friday instead of attending school. It's been going on for some time and politicians are further under pressure because of that.
Well, the ideal API would have JS endpoints, since that's easiest to work with. I envisage a sort of client-side validation system, instead of a central server. Something like dat (https://dat.foundation). That would prevent cheating I guess. The idea is to not really aid discovery without having the current blog author endorse it. Either that or there might be a sort of voting system. What they want to read is something I would rather not work on. The discovery process should be for the site, not individual posts I guess. Talkyard is nice, I couldn't find Commento though..
power corrupts.
Google is not the sole tenant. It's running a cloud.
The final few paragraphs touch upon how expansive the attack surface can be due to this serialization code. So, yes the libraries are terrible.

Asking the HN audience: Is there a set of design principles that the iMessage team can follow to make these more resilient to such attacks while retaining their usability? As a non-Apple employee whose globally dispersed family relies on iMessage to stay in touch, I have a vested interest in the security of my family’s iPhones. I know it’s rare for Apple employees to comment, but it would be great if someone from Apple can comment on whether these libraries are being re-architected in some way. This will cut through any FUD that arises from this disclosure / discussion.
Won't it float because it is better? I mean I don't have a magic solution except that I'm inclined to remove the F from FOSS.
> Banks were subsidized or required by the state to issue subprime mortgage loans to the poor; people with terrible credit who would have no chance of actually paying the loan back.

How likely is this, really? These people wouldn't be poor if they could pull fast ones off of the best, brightest, and richest. In fact the intentional packaging of MBSs with bad paper, packaging directed by rich people who wanted to and actually did short the securities knowing full well they'd fail is what broke the system. Fed guarantees wouldn't have happened but for the the MBS' AAA ratings, and that problem persists, because the issuer pays the rating agencies for the ratings. It's called conflict of interest, it's rampant throughout the system.
I agree. This is a runaway train. The poor and undeveloped countries are going to have massive drought and starvation. Eventually, the dangers will be real enough to matter. It will also accelerate less rapidly after 1B people die. This is particularly sad as it could be avoided.
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Asset Managers with $74T on Brink of Historic Shakeout
HP ink cartridge telling you its empty while you can visibly see liquid is another good comparison.
This same thing happened to me except with two (2) Electric Forest tickets. Found the guy in Grand Rapids, Michigan; sent the police his way and was later sent 3 checks that equaled the amount I sent him for the tickets.
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1) Block 3rd Party Cookies

2) Add each news site to your browser's javascript blacklist
I have a similar set of experiences but have a feeling that it's at least partly down to the sheer number of people writing Javascript and the very public nature of much of that code that so much of it is a mess. I don't think there's anything inherent in JS that make is produce messy code other than the fact that it's easy for amateurs to get results (thanks to the fact it runs in a browser and there's lots of easily available code samples).
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Hi, I'm David, and I work @ Retool. I'm really sorry that our Firebase support is bad — we built it specifically for one customer and haven't iterated on it since. You're right that Retool doesn't handle deeply nested JSON well. (We designed Retool mostly for databases, so it handles tabular data pretty well.) This is something we will be working on next sprint!

Do you mind if I reach out to you? (Edit: found your email via your blog; just sent you an email.) I know that you've already built everything in React so I'm not here to sell you / convince you to switch back to Retool; I'm here to see how we can improve our Firebase integration / our handling of nested JSON so the next ElFitz doesn't have this issue again. Thanks!
But companies need butts in seats for that water cooler effect, so people might have a good idea once in a blue moon when talking in person! That alone is worth forcing everyone to spend up to three hours a day traveling to and from work!
Alphabet’s DeepMind Losses Soared to $570M in 2018
Like i said i use both. But I didn’t find it interesting to learn either.
> One thing I try to always do is smile and/or wave at babies/young children if they make eye contact with you.

While I generally like kids, I can't say I am particularly high on the "loves kids" scale. I honestly can't help but smile & wave at a kid or baby that looks at me. The sense of wonder and fascination in their eyes is incredible.
The answer is in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph.

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Configure External Listener for Always on Availability Groups in GCP
The words churn and churning have now lost all of their meaning due to the fact they've been used too much man, you‘ve overused them, c'mon!

But I do think pessimism is the correct state of mind, given how far the tentacles of the man have reached and how little we do to resist his influence.

Who or what is the man? Only a Morpheus can tell you such a thing. I'm not him.
Sure, on a handful of their machines. But they have a lot of private and dedicated hosts, too.
Security researcher dismantles a pseudo math paper presented at Blackhat 2019
The UI of an S-Expeession and a compiler transformation parse time transformation is just out of any comparison.

Most of projects wouldn’t even consider writing a loader for a compiler or using a syntax parser. Yet to add which method is more prone to errors.
Returns are only bad on index funds if you pull out. Historically you're getting 7% over 10 years with virtually no fees. Managed funds rarely beat 7% and have fees which reduce any gains you may have made. Better to self manage and get that consistent growth.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mathematics!
Is it too much to hope that someone else reaches out this time and saves them again?
when oh when will enough be enough
They could do an Elixir style fork instead? Although a pure syntax change isn’t as significant as what Elixir changed.
Once they ditched p2p the quality derailed. The worst thing was the Skype mobile app trying to sync on my phone. It never seemed to cache convos well enough, it also would not sync properly between devices in regards to notifications. Also Skype would try to pull in my entire history. I feel like some P2P concepts stuck deeply within Skype and thats what left it so awkward.
Ask HN: When hiring, what are your leetcode completion statistics?
What percentage of candidates refuse the exercises?

What percentage of those that take them pass / fail?
It was meant to make clear the 'increased risk to the public' issue, which was apparently received loud and clear.

I think you made all the rest up. "We as a society" I read as very subjective. I for instance don't regard risky public behavior as victimless. Am I not part of your society?
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> It's unlikely that AMD has enough manufacturing capacity to fill all demand, so Intel will still make profit.

Keep in mind AMD's dies are tiny compared to Intel's. The CPU dies, the 7nm parts, are a mere 74mm2. They are going to be getting fantastic yields on them as a result, and can trivially allocate them to what's selling well. And it's the same die for their entire stack - consumer & enterprise.

Meanwhile the 28 core Xeons are a monstrous ~694mm2. Even though the 14nm process is mature, that's still a hugely expensive chip to make due to yields and capacity. You can only fit so many of those rectangles on the circular wafer.
> Doing nothing will lead to another 6C

Surely doing nothing (not actually doing nothing, but rather continuing to burn fossil fuels) leads to, well, ~ infinite warming until we run out of fuel?

Or is the assumption that at 6c we're dead so whatever?
But for those games you don't really need to setup the works of a business layout. Just keep your stuff within the VM no need to share folders.
Hi, yes, they count for billing purposes. We bill per end-user of the tool.

But... if you have a good use case and can't make the pricing work, please let me know. I'm david@retool.com, and I'd be happy to give HN readers a significant discount or even free Retool for a bit. Your guys' feedback has gotten us to where we are today. Thanks!
They are not locking the replacement, they are refusing to guarantee the performance of parts they can’t certify are genuine.

There are third party battery health checking apps on the App Store that replace this functionality.
“Runaway train” is just rhetoric to avoid doing anything. There is a huge amount to play for and there is never a time at which it’s reasonable to give up. Even if you’re choosing between 5C and 6C, make that choice and don’t abdicate responsibility. By your admission, millions of people’s lives may rest on the decision.
There are many many organizations and Institutes that aren't the man. You don't have to work for a soulless corporation. You can do work that helps the greater good of humanity.
Scroll down to the very bottom of that discussion thread and unfurl the flagged threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301
The mobile app is probably why they ditched P2P. As much as I love old Skype, it existed in a pre-mobile world, and never translated well to phones... and in fact, most P2P platforms won't translate well to phones, since you at least need centralization for the push notifications. Such is life.

Though to be clear, yeah, it didn't really fix the mobile app. It felt just as broken up to the moment I uninstalled Skype.
we probably don't live in the same city. Everytime I open uber to get anywhere in the city, UberX is in the [12-30] range and UberPool in the [6-20] range. I very rarely see anything less than 6$ nowadays.

So yes, taking muni for 2.50$ or using an electrical scooter for 3-4$ makes sense to me. Or even walking. If it's 2 miles that is about 20-30 minutes which ends up being the same time as a Uber.
Once tried to step up and say that a certain article should not be on Hacker News.

Got down-voted down to the abysses.

Obviously, the article was an anti-trump article.
It's unlikely, while the US government had real leverage via contract negotiations, Anti trust issues, etc.

Skype looked like a solid investment at the time. Microsoft makes a lot of money from corporate clients so it's probably just another strategic acquisition that they did not know what to do with.
Yet, it happens all the time. For this example, the most likely explanation is the down-voters read the first two words and wrongly concluded that the remaining 1000 were going to be a racist rant. Within milliseconds they made the decision to downvote and move on.

This "drive by down-voting" happens regularly here. I've had comments downvoted within seconds of posting--clearly the voters could not have had time to read the entire text. They see a few key words that trigger them, hit the arrow, and move on to the next job. Unfortunately, there's no way in JavaScript to tell whether someone's actually read the thing they're down-voting, so we get these knee-jerk keyword-based brigades.

To test this, sometimes I'll write something where the first sentence is provocative, but the rest is (I hope) a solid, nuanced argument. Usually it's at -1 or -2 within a minute, and then over the next few hours slowly crawls back up to +2 or +3 as people actually read it.
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Funny how Netherlands is red.
In the meantime in Finland, NE Russia and Baltics:
"The average temperature over Europe in July 2019 was just above the 1981-2010 average for the month. It was warmer than normal over western Europe, except for south-western Iberia, but cooler than normal over the east of the continent, particularly the north-east. " [1]

[1] https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-july-2...
That's profoundly too-little, too-late. Its a false narrative designed to pacify folks into inaction i.e. not taking political action. If we only skip a burger now and again, we don't have to address dependence on fossil fuels! Ridiculous.
TSMC works out for intel. instead of illegally bribing OEM like the last time to buy from them, they can legally move a new chip to TSMC and foot the fine for cancelling amd's contract.
Mind that this - as I understand it - about cases where the automatic translation is being used in Skype (while I wonder how "sexy" phone sex via automatic translation might be ... In my imagination (you want to hear about that, right?) these could be people trying "funny" things with the translation ... or I underestimate the quality.

And yes, doesn't mean MSFT doesn't have access to other communication and doesn't mean other cases aren't serious leaks of information to arbitrary contractors.
> What's wrong with it?

Well, it's certainly going to cause many people to discount your opinion because they presume you have an racist agenda. It looks like a username consciously chosen to create offense while being plausibly deniable. Please be cautious of causing harm to a community for sake of social commentary. Needlessly creating offense is a negative, but maybe you can figure out how to use the dissonance to turn it into a net positive.
Veteran python hater here.

Last I checked, accessing global variables is slow in python because it goes through a hash table (or something) on every lookup. On the other hand, the interpreter is able to optimize accesses to stuff on the stack.

I suspect wrapping the benchmark code (and all the variables) in a method, and then invoking that once would substantially improve the raw python numbers.

By the time I figured this out, I’d already written a pile of python code that was mysteriously >10x slower than it would be in perl 5.
Soda Hall memories. All those sleepless nights debugging pintOS and getting destroyed by Sahai's linear algebra HWs... Good times.
I suppose it's competition in urban navigation, but not competition in map tiles.
Mostly lurker coming here to say that Retool is the #1 SaaS app we use to run our startup. I rarely evangelize things, but Retool is so amazing that I feel the need to yell from the rooftops.

Everyone on our team is now able to build complex tools and dashboards without dev resources!
It does, one relying partially on the encrypted codes. See for ex http://mil-embedded.com/articles/securing-military-gps-spoof...
Go's build system is pragmatic and simple and hasn't let me down yet, but I'm still working on projects at fairly small scale, and the Go build system doesn't do much for other languages, so I didn't mention it.

I think that we're going to see more languages with built-in build systems from early-on in the language's development, but that is a doubled-edged sword (works great for your version of WHIZBOL, doesn't work great if you need to interop with other things).
I was thinking the same thing

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Maybe IBM acquired Red Hat in order to join RISC-V by proxy.
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> the great exception being London Stansted

Do you mean "London City". Unless you're an incredibly rich footballer Stansted is far from convenient to anything.
Sorry i do not understand, is this post a joke? I mean it literally because of the "never happened to me", then the multimillion line makefile doesn't sound real but then you do write something that sounds like someone who has issues with makefiles could say (build order, though common that isn't make's fault - at least as much as isn't a programming language's fault that a program has bugs). So i'm not sure how to take this comment.