skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just last night I went down a rabbit hole reading about perspectives on climate change. I googled "hacker news for environmentalism", looking for a forum similar to this but with a less direct focus on software tech. This led back to an ask HN thread asking what users were doing to help combat climate change. This in turn led me to a comment that mentioned the "Deep Adaptation" paper by Jem Bendell which was something of an epiphany in that it's an almost perfect exposition on the existential dread that has come to be a low-level hum in my everyday life. It was also comforting to know that someone had codified my attitude about this dread being not a hindrance but rather a good thing.

Anyway, it just goes to show that while I wish this forum had more of a focus on these issues, the discussion here is almost always a great source of thoughtful perspectives and a place to come express oneself honestly and openly. So thanks for that, HN.
Think of it another way, if we divide it purely on political party there is about a 50% chance you and the person you are speaking too are going to be different. Assuming you even are the same political party, you still are going to likely disagree about which issues that party should prioritize or even the direction the party as a whole should be going (even that is grossly simplifying the depth of the nuance).

Now consider there are multiple people present, for every single person the odds of someone disagreeing and feeling alienated increases. It is more or less guaranteed that a rift in the group will come out of this, something very much undesired by the people asking you "to not bring politics into this".

Finally consider you and the other person do by chance agree, using myself as an example: If I'm telling you "not to bring politics into this", it's because it's going to completely derail an otherwise productive conversation into mutual masturbation over each others ideals, something I don't have the stomach or time for.
"pitiful $5 billion" is such a dumb take on these kinds of rulings.

The ruling is specifically about the facial recognition part of FB. They could end up paying $5 billion just because of facial recognition stuff .

Imagine if you put the Konami Code on the Google homepage, and got sued and lost for it. Then got fined $1 billion for it. You'd feel like you made a pretty bad decision there.

Obviously facial recognition is closer to the core of what FB is doing in general but it's still a lot of money for an incidental part of their system! They can pay it, but that's $5 billion they can no longer use to buy like... 10 startups or whatever.
It's hard to define a good measure of diversity. Thankfully statisticians provide some options:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_index

For some reason, the article you linked made up their own (very poor) measure of diversity. Imagine a city that's half white locals, and half white British immigrants (temporary or permanent). Would you consider such a city as diverse? The measure in that news article would put this city as being 50% diverse, even higher than Wellington's 39%.
NSO Group monetises iPhone vulnerabilities for a lot more than a million dollars.
Hell yea, take me back to when I could cheat on my wife in office!
If object storage is faster than Hadoop HDFS, why do we still use it?
It’s still Mercator on mobile (iOS at least). How hard is it to push this change?
This law is likely to exist because someone treated 'debt forgiveness' as a loophole for earning tax free income.
Yes - if you go by the iOS 12.1.1 security notes, for instance https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209340 , it appears that CVE-2018-4435 was discovered independently (on the same day, even!) by TrendMicro / ZDI https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-1365/ and Google Project Zero https://crbug.com/project-zero/1671 , whose reports don't mention each other. CVE-2018-4438 is also credited separately to both Qihoo and Project Zero, and the P0 report https://crbug.com/project-zero/1649 again doesn't mention Qihoo. I've seen this sort of thing with some frequency in previous update reports.

Also, somewhat famously, both Spectre and Meltdown were discovered independently by multiple teams in the same timeframe, who all coordinated disclosure with the CPU vendors etc. https://meltdownattack.com
The whole economy works based on "scarcity."
Anything is scarce is valuable, like our time

So like gold, like domain names, like food, like workforce, ...

However, I can understand your feeling.
I waited for months to be able to register a domain which was taken
And it's about 8 months waited for another domain which has taken and should wait another 2 months again, and hope they don't be able to sell that domain
Ummm....shouldn't a programmer make their own? Dumb question I know.
It's not an economic move, it's a political one. Trump needs votes from agricultural states like Ohio which would be severely impacted by these export cuts.
Likely unwanted commentary but how do you do leech handling/minimum information principle with your math cards? I'm a SuperMemo user and I think one of the biggest failures I see with Anki, in general, is that it doesn't handle leeches well (leeches are cards you repeatedly fail that end up taking most of your time) and failure to adhere to minimum information principle (only 1 thing to recall per card). I think with math this would become even more difficult if you make minute long cards to go over some proof you will definitely be setting yourself up to suffer.
What's meant is that real exploits require one to get RCE, another to break sandbox, another for privilege escalation.
Fossils of metre-tall giant parrot dubbed Heracles found in New Zealand
I honestly think that there should be some sort of ethics course required of CS students (like how MBA students are often required to take a class in business ethics, and doctors are required to learn medical ethics).

Engineers who behave unethically without asking questions aren't good engineers--at least, they're not the sort of engineers we want to be creating.
True, I should have said "suddenly have loads of cash once they've paid their loans off."
Compare Lindsay Graham re: Trump in 2015 vs. 2017
Ram speed is not the issue, camera interface is limited to 120MB/s, ram bandwidth is >2GB/s on pee3, 4GB/s on pee4.
Ah, I see where you're coming from. I mean retraining just seems to make sense and we all want it to work, but pragmatically, they just don't https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01/the-fa....

Our mental plasticity just has age related limits.

I'd also debate the conclusion you're making on which approach is more patronizing. I'd assume giving you (and everyone) the means to make your own choices with money is less patronizing than appointing your specific job as a lost cause and appointing new jobs for you to go train yourself for.
Retool and the Retool team are absolutely superb.

In our experience, it's the current winner amongst the flourishing low code/db app/spreadsheet app space. It is one of few that to me, proves that this space should (and will) eat market share from excel/gsheets on one end, and expensive bespoke tools on the other. Also eager to see these offering more competition against small ERPs, CRMs and the like - Perhaps this will eventually even give behemoths such as ConnectWise, Salesforce et al a run for their money. Those companies need some competition on both innovation and price. For now though obviously, this is best used for business automation, small tools, and stitching data/processes together.

Not affiliated, just a very happy customer. Customer support is above and beyond. Trialed internally to great success, thus preparing to consider in client solutions.
> Why can't a lawsuit be made immediately by owners of prior art (and I'm guessing HN, Reddit both have prior art around this..)

It's called an IPR, an inter partes review [0] in the USPTO. Most potential challengers, though, are likely to save their ammunition for if and when they get sued on the patent. (And they might quietly let Facebook know they have prior art, so as to discourage FB from getting aggressive — FB might want its patent to remain officially valid, so as to be able to continue to rattle its saber at others, instead of having invalidity officially confirmed.)

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Inter_partes_review

It's called an IPR
None of this seems particularly relevant to the scenario of selling to zerodium.
Speaking from the perspective of someone looking to hire: It doesn't make for a good impression if I see anyone other than the original author with the same obviously distinctive style of site showing pretty much a subset of the info I can already see from your GitHub account, except the latter doesn't require JS to view.

If I'm looking at someone's personal site, it should look personal --- not "I cloned someone else's I found on GitHub and changed the names and details to mine."
As a former delivery driver I’m curious how shops get shipments of multiple pallets of...everything? Early in the morning are trucks allowed? are the pallets broken down and handtrucked to each shop?
You seem to be confusing the skeptical movement, which is indeed a specific group of people, with skepticism, which exists before and outside of that movement.
FileMaker Reborn as Claris
Yikes. Nope, I live in Canada and I had a few tens of thousands in debt forgiven. Definitely didn't have to pay taxes on it. That would be absolutely crazy and would have driven me to bankruptcy!
Not all programmers are competent web developers or designers. Some may not see it as worth the time investment; others may not have an aesthetic sense that jives with the majority's.
I think each account should show its history of being rate limited, and the mod who initiates it should cite specific comments that were used as evidence of wrongdoing, as well as describe the nature of the wrongdoing.

The mechanism itself isn't necessarily a problem, it's the arbitrariness of it and the lack of accountability. Most people have some degree of accountability in their job. I think HN mods are an exception.

> whatever they did earlier

It would be impossible to audit whether this is being done judiciously or fairly without a page listing all such moderations, their context, etc.

> whatever they did earlier to reduce signal/noise ratio

I'd argue that moderation itself reduces the s/n ratio. If I notice a pattern where one user continually posts low quality comments, I'll be inclined to ignore or downvote that user. If the user got throttled, then it removes my ability to notice the pattern.

Similarly, if stories are re-titled (a common abuse of moderation) I may not realize I've already read the discussion or the linked content and read/click it again.

Worse yet, re-titling submissions often removes any clue about what made the submission interesting. Ironically the moderation practice of titling the HN submission with the article title introduces more click-baity titles into HN than would exist due to submitters' tactics.

No offense is intended by my feedback. I do think the moderators have a few pretty glaring blind spots and I am hoping that my feedback is well received.
Most CS programs in the US have a mandatory ethics class.
Apple is making bid for an underappreciated employees of a companies who sell software that can hack iPhones
Statistics and observation, probably.
Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German, und Englisch, I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese" says Wernher von Braun

-- Tom Lehrer, That Was The Year That Was, Reprise Records 1965.
One of the smaller tasks I had when I was a school IT admin was removing the faces of students who hadn't had the waiver signed from photos the school wanted to upload to the site or social media.
The decision to pause operations and conduct inspections was made after a single C-130 was found with the lower center wing joint cracks, said AMC spokesman Maj. Jonathan Simmons.

One is less than a hundred. Title doesn't explicitly state that all those aircraft had cracking, but still seems a bit misleading in a clickbait sort of way.
Demdex is a DMP from Adobe that is used by companies to manage their first-party data so this particular example with Chase is very likely not an example of third-party ad serving abuse. Chase would have presumably put Adobe through a security review during an RFP process and would have no reason to harvest their own customers' login credentials. Their use case is probably something benign like wanting to segment customers for targeting based on their site usage patterns. Chase has different login pages but the one I'm looking at doesn't appear to have any third-party JS loading from advertisers.
With those terms, they can buy a bug, report it to Apple, collect the $1m, and be off the hook to pay out the remaining payments. It seems to me this makes it much riskier to go to the black market than people here realize.
What's dystopian is not the tv license, is their style of public communication. In general public communication in the UK feels sometimes very direct and almost threatening. The sense of authority and hierarchy implied is palpable. Not for nothing the UK is source of some wonderful parodies on the theme: for example the Scarfolk series:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/digging-through-the-ar...

Or one of my favourite Monthy Python sketches:

"How not to be seen":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGv8oAHxekU
Time is definitely extremely valuable, which is why I don’t commute anymore.
e.g. wars
Nice idea in theory; in practice, it might be tricky to have the organizational incentives aligned to make sure such a course is rigorous enough to be useful, rather than yet another worthless and trivial humanities requirement (at my large public research university with a strong CS program, faculty essentially compete for students based on how little work their gen ed courses are---no joke---and our required CS ethics class was similarly light).
Apples to oranges. Google losing $1 billion over putting the Konami Code on their homepage hurts because they won't make $1 billion off of doing that.

Facebook is likely making a lot of money off of, as you claim, something that is close to the core of what Facebook is doing. It makes $5 billion closer to a small cost of doing business.
Thanks. In that case, I'd like to suggest to dang, et al, that HN make flagging behavior and its results more visible. If we have to read tea leaves to find out what's being excluded and have no idea who's excluding it, that seems like a dangerous situation. And one where, as we can see in the thread, it allows people to be pretty paranoid.
Courts aren't stupid, I don't think they'd look kindly upon you if they see you've done this.
Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices
When a Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors Decided a $20M Auction Consignment
In recent browsers you can certainly kill just one tab's JavaScript without taking out anything else.

It doesn't feel very different to printing a PostScript file to me. You're giving someone access to run their "arbitrary code" in a VM on your system with very limited permissions.
Sounds small, but it's hit as much as a 2% spread [0]. More importantly, they take this off of every transaciton. It makes FDI much cheaper for them when they go into other countries. It allows them to debase their currency internally and reap the benefits while charging others with a stronger external currency. When you factor in shadow banking etc., the exchange rate is not the same as the actual value inside China, because she is such a heavily gated market. These capital controls are precisely what pisses the rest of the world off: the whole point of the WTO and trade treaties is that you don't get to pull this garbage. When you factor in the multipliers etc. across the world, China has skimmed huge sums of cash off the top of the global market. [1]

[0] https://currenxie.com/blog/how-to-take-advantage-of-the-cny-...

[1] https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1094717028009689089
I mean, it depends. I hire SRE/Devops and I really don't care that much if you used someone else's theme, or paid someone to write one for you and credit them. In fact, it'd be kinda neat to find someone who bought a theme. That's just good specialization and collaboration skills.

And my own website is basically the Pelican generator default with a different color selected. Far more damning is the placid update schedule. Try not to put dated content on your front page if you're putting a website in front of manager's faces.
FedEx to end ground delivery business with Amazon
That's easy - statisticians take pride in models that are understandable, while machine learning practitioners take pride in models that are not.
I can say, as someone currently hiring, that more than one applicant(1) has cited our focus on cancer, and not killer robots, as a compelling factor in applying. People in the killer robot jobs are actively looking for ways out. As an aside, the killer robot jobs tend to pay about 10-15% under market, at least according to Glassdoor.

What makes the comparison somewhat interesting, I think, is that we are still a military group, in military installations. We just happen to be hunting cancer because people in the military also get cancer.

(1) We're mainly talking STEM BS to PhD, mostly under 40.
Not sure, tbh, but you can poke around UToronto, they have some resources: https://www.doe.utoronto.ca/pages/index.html

Some discussion here (which is pasted from Reddit) https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/19421831/Resources-to-Lea...
Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German, und Englisch, I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese" says Wernher von Braun

-- Tom Lehrer, That Was The Year That Was, Reprise Records 1965.
Sounds like it's still a problem with farm subsidies, just that they're not going to ALL farms?
Actually, it's AMD Vega cards that have a PCI reset issue that doesn't work well with VM cycling. There's a new kernel patch just the other week that fixes this: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/vega-10-and-12-reset-applica...

Nvidia cards do require a config workaround for VM detection but the workaround is relatively straightforward (and works w/o further mucking).
I disagree with dang and sctb on occaision. I am disappointed that there are topics that HN doesn't seem able to discuss (and have called these out). I've been admonished a few times.
But on balance, the site works, and rewards time spent on it. And credit must go to dang and sctb.
Thanks, guys.

Same here. I believe I have been throttled unjustifiably on a couple of occasions, but so what. They responded quickly to my pleas for help and I also learned stuff. I feel very grateful to have this site as part of my life.
Yep, that's a violation of the FDPCA. It was probably more cost effective for them to write it off than to have to deal with you litigating.
Wasn’t the question about cash versus bonds—not equities versus bonds?

Honest question: What advantages do bonds with negative rates have over cash with low positive rates? Do bonds protect against inflation?
> 3fun took action fairly quickly and resolved the problem, but it’s a real shame that so much very personal data was exposed for so long.
I've seen this in some cities (Vienna, for example), and the bollards are lowered (either manually or hydraulically) in the early hours of the morning so that deliveries can be made. They go back up around 7am.
Perhaps we need more electronic handtruck startups...
CCleaner Installer Overrides Default Browser with Chromium Clone
> The India you're talking is India who got depleted, sucked, trampled country after 2 centuries of British hegemony.

[Copy-paste from another reply.]

Except how did the West get into a position of being more powerful than the rest of the world?

Around 1600, the various Western countries, the Ottomans, Mughal-ruled India, and Imperial China weren't too different in development (the non-Euro folks could actually have been considered more developed). By the late-1700s / early-1800s the Europeans were steamrolling over everyone.

What changed in those ~150 years?

A good book on the topic is Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution by Toby Huff:

* https://www.cambridge.org/9780521170529

It explores an interesting accidental historical experiment: the telescope was invented in 1608 in the Netherlands, and in the next ~20 years had spread to most of the world's major civilizations. What various cultures did with it (or not) explains why Europe took off.

See also The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West by the same author:

* https://www.cambridge.org/9781107130210

Yes, the Europeans did a whole bunch of awful things: but what gave them the power to do so?

Europe kept developing after 1600; not-Europe stayed the same/stagnated in the same time period. For example: everyone's star counts were the same (~2300) using the naked eye up to 1600, but only the Europeans' increased afterward even though the Europeans gave the Indians and Chineses telescope and taught them how to make more.
I certainly chuckled at the combination of the title and the domain the article is hosted at. pentestpartners sounds like it could be the name of a group sex app...
>Anecdotes are worthless, but in the past half decade the only people I know who have successfully replaced a smartphone or pad battery have been Apple device owners.

More anecdotes, but it's too bad you don't know me. I've replaced 3 or 4 phone batteries in the last decade. Needless to say, they've all been Android, as I've been able to do them all myself. Most of the batteries have been $30 or so and have given me years more life on my phones than I otherwise would have gotten.
I didn't see it in the article, but I wonder how much debt that was forgiven was actual credit extended for purchases (which is money that Chase has "lost" as they won't recover it) and how much debt was interest+fees on the credit they extended.
Is there any benefit to multicore on Civ6 at all?
Maybe there is a backdoor.
That's a reason, but not the only one. Others include, but aren't limited to:

- The world is too complicated for me to know who is correct

- Both options on the table suck

- My voice doesn't matter

- I trust others do better than I would

Not taking a stance between essentially two choices for how things should be done is not the same as saying things are being done okay.