skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your "dont throw the baby out with the bathwater" sentiment i find criminally underrated in todays cancel-culture.

Its so mindless and terrifying, like the mechanism for the banality of evil was just copy and pasted but since its not ethnonationalism no one notices or cares.

To understand how google got the way it is requires an acknowledgement from all of our direct and vigorous contributions. The parable of the frog and scorpion is one of shared responsibility, not of faultless victim and malcious aggressor.
At least the soil issues can be fixed through regenerative practices, which also help mitigate climate change to some extent. Farmers should receive funding to safely transition to better practices.
Uh, that is a contrived example not suggested by the op.

You can still embed PHP into HTML.
I'm a Hongkonger. You are already helping by asking here on HN. Keep raising the awareness. Make sure people know the proximate and root cause of the protest. People needs to know Hong Kong is not China. People need to know the violence exerted by the police force. People need to know we are the most peaceful protestors in the world. And all conflicts, literally all, are elicited not by the protestors, but by the police.

There are so much more people need to know
What’s wrong with enforcing immigration laws effectively?
If you ask a question that can be easily answered with a specific/quantitative answer, usually the answerer knows you're looking for a specific answer.

When someone answers with a generality, then beware because of:

- motives

- interpersonal differences in the mapping between words and numbers

Let's say you're thinking about joining an expensive coding bootcamp. You ask about the chance of you getting an engineering job earning more than $100k after finishing.

Even if they're not trying to mislead you, they might answer in a general sense in order not to be pinned down. So they tell you that you have a 'very good chance'.

To you, 'very good chance' might mean 80%, because you're thinking about the high price of the programme. To them, 'very good chance' might mean 20%, because they're basing it on the excellent uplift over the 0% chance you have when entering the programme.

And some people just like to avoid conflict and tell people what they want to hear :(
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You make it sound way worse than it was. That mild hiss would barely be detectable once the song started and masked it out. Calling mild hiss terrible fidelity is an exaggeration.

Some 16-bit consumer sound cards had outputs with way more hiss than the better tape decks.

As for the high end, the differences aren't exactly easy to pick out. I don't know where these peaks and troughs are in the spectrum, but I'd have to listen for them explicitly to pick them out, because I have no idea what you're talking about.

I mean, I've heard bad cassette audio with warbling and pronounced hiss and high end loss, but if you take a brand new high quality tape and record to it from a CD and play it back from the tape, it's damn close to sounding identical.

I have a fair bit of experience with audio. I have a home studio. I can pick out subtle quality differences between sound sources. I stand by what I have said.
Straight into work, as school was rounding off I sent of applications to various companies and NGO's over the world. The responses were interesting enough not to need an OE or something. Just go work where you will want to travel.
Playing around with Chrome extensions inspired from Slack. Would you use it? What are other useful features to add on it? Open to all suggestions and critiques.
Everyone's got anecdotes. Here's one.

3% degradation after 35k KMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGUGFrLrVc

Then 8% degradation 1 year later at 100k KMs and the car now has a reduced rate of charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loulJ3ResDg

So why would I buy a 10 year old Tesla? If it requires a new battery I'd be better off just buying a different or newer car.
I had a photo of a Premier Inn[1] bedroom flagged on my account. Presumably because my rucksack was being too seductive on the bed.

[1] UK equivalent of somewhere between a motel and a hotel.
I haven't read either, but I'm guessing this is probably the same story as this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20658291
There is a security benefit to EV: the paper trail to which the CA attests. That provides a tool that law enforcement can use to track you down if you use your EV-cert-provisioned site to commit a crime. To get an EV cert, you must prove to the CA your identity, portions of which are then encoded in the cert itself.

This is analogous to how a fraud is discouraged in physical stores. A street address and business license won't prevent a store from ripping you off. But it gives you plenty of info to pursue a complaint if it happens.
Reminds me how excited I was when I found out there was a religion based around science.
I've always wanted to try a Big Mike
It surprises the dickens out of me that the editor would allow such an obviously mis-understandable title
Thought experiment: Let's say you decide to phone someone who works for the bank. How do you know the phone number you have is correct? What if phone numbers were perceived to be "dynamic" -- subject to change at any time, even by the hour, without notice to you -- such that you could not rely on a consistent, stable phone number for any reasonable length of time. What if, instead, you would need to look up the number every time you make a call? What if phone numbers were thought to be too difficult for people to remember, so someone decided that all you needed was the name of the person at the bank. (Even though that name may belong to many different people across the world.) What if someone further decided that the lookup should handled by someone else. No need for you to be involved in that process. How could you be sure you were calling the intended bank employee?
As someone in the software industry, looking at palantirs UI gave me the feeling that this is a glorified pandas/sklearn/hive shop, certainly less accomplished than Apache, but enough to dazzle the dinosaurs in government.
A short, recent discussion I posted on /r/AskScienceDiscussion...

"If Cavendish/dessert bananas get wiped out by some disease (e.g. Panama disease), how long would it take to cultivate a new dessert banana from wild growing options?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/c75ct...

P.S. For the casually curious, /r/AskScienceDiscussion is a more forgiving, less strict place to ask questions than /r//r/AskScience. It's more ask Bill Nye in a podcast than pose a perfect question to pass the scientist mod filter.
It wasn't worth anywhere close to a billion long before they banned porn.
Are you aware that people officially voted for pro independence representatives and those representatives were dismissed for being insulting to China?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/14/hong-kong-pro-...
There are mitigations in various stages of progress for this, like certificate transparency, CAA records, and the removal of CAs who violate best practices through either malice or stupidity.

Those changes are being largely driven by Google/Mozilla/etc, via enforcement around what CAs must do in order to be part of the root of trust.

Switching to self-signed certs doesn’t remove any problems. With current PKI, dozens of companies can generate certificates for my website which will be trusted by user browsers. Without PKI, literally anyone can generate a self-signed cert for my website, and there’s no concept of which certs are valid, unless somehow everybody finds a way to share which certs are theirs (and solving that is generally called “PKI”).

EV doesn’t allow self-signed certs to work either, or viably replace DV certs for any threat models, because it’s just as easy to register a similar-sounding company name as to register a similar-looking domain name. Arguably it’s easier, because you can actually register exactly the same name, just in a different jurisdiction.
This is extreme ignorance, clickbait, or outright deception.

Headline:

"Study: Trump’s paid Peter Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s mass-surveillance network"

From the actual study:

"It has received over $150 million from ICE alone, and has contracts worth some $1.5 billion with different federal agencies or departments, like the FBI, Navy, and Census Bureau."

So the headline is off by 10x but the study also notes that $800M of that $1.5B is a single contract for the Army. If you remove that single outlier, Palantir's 2017-2019 contract total doesn't look all that different than the 2014-2016 contract totals. Looking through the contracts themselves (later in the report), they're from all over the Feds and consistent over time.. other than the outlier.

There are lots of places and ways to criticize but this doesn't look like one.
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mhm, everyone posts this reply whenever it comes up now as if that was the whole point of TARP was to make some money off mega-banks and car companies.

Subsidizing monopolies and financing M&As which further reduce competition is always a safe bet if your goal is making money. Especially in a down market when no one else has your special access to cheap capital... you can make a killing and help your buddies from private school get the bulk of it. Why doesn't the gov always do that?!

If the public asks questions just show them the sweet 10% interest the government got back. Who cares about moral hazards, long term stability, opportunity costs, lack of competition, oversight, and people lying to congress. We're now $100b richer(?), at least in the short term!
Cool :)

What are you going to be studying at Uni?
Considering that the DMV in most places already has a lot of shame heaped on it, I doubt this extra spoonful meaningfully moves the needle.

This guy is really just wasting his own time for no actual benefit to anyone. If he genuinely enjoys it, then sure, I guess each to their own, but if not...
They also neither have Flickr; a similar hotbed of porn. Surprised SmugMug haven't started a purge there, yet.
how is nobody talking about the absolutely terrible decision to purchase or manage this acquisition by Marissa Meyer? How do you spend $1.1B on something in 2013 and then sell it 6 years later for $3M? I mean that's about as total of a loss as exists.
The US has about the same number of broadband subscriptions per household as Sweden. US wired broadband speeds are also in the top 10 in Akamai’s ranking.
For many years, Schwab ignored any characters after 8 in its password. Discovered that when I knew I flubbed one of the last characters, and it still worked.

I still can't believe a major bank got away with that for so long, apparently unharmed.
It's a very enjoyable movie, but it's almost pure fiction, just so you know.
In this case it seems like women being usually more open emotionally means that anxiety manifests in a more intuitive way, whereas for men there's another layer of indirection due to emotional repression.
> The lack of science education. A banana modified in a lab and one that is bred through selective breeding are both "GMO", it's just that one is done in a targeted manner and the other relies on random luck in the mutations.

I've logged in just to say that this comment is so quintessentially HN, and it particularly entertains me to see these two sentences juxtaposed because of the lack of domain expertise that it belies.

There is indeed a material difference between genome engineering and breeding. In the former case, you might introduce a gene that expresses any arbitrary protein. For instance, you could introduce a gene that expresses a highly potent toxin, like ricin. That would surely be very bad! In the latter case -- when breeding for variants -- you would be hard pressed to get a castor bean to cross-breed with a banana. So the capabilities of molecular biology allow for a much wider range of possibilities than breeding, hence the importance of regulatory oversight and caution.

P.S. There has been a lot of talk recently about what's wrong with the culture on HN. I'll tell you exactly what it is: people write overly confident and flippant things far outside their areas of expertise. Many of you run websites and phone apps: you do not know much of anything about other areas. Why are you therefore writing about those topics on the internet with such feigned authority?
There is still massive stigma around consuming porn. Less than half of Americans think that watching porn is morally acceptable. https://news.gallup.com/poll/235280/americans-say-pornograph...

Brands don't want to be next to content that has that stigma.
I'm pretty sure the government will continue to just waste money processing his appeals instead of making an effort to fix the system.

So in reality, this guy is indirectly wasting taxpayer money. Sure, the government is wrong in not fixing it, but knowing that the government won't fix it, but continuing to behave this way, is his fault.
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You'll get performance conversations if you are not being productive enough, a business picks up on that sort of stuff quickly, so if you haven't had one then you are pulling your weight.

If you feel like your are working fairly constantly (no one is a machine, people have to zone out now and then throughout the day) then you aren't lazy.

It's easy for people to be busy/hyper-productive if their hobbies and work align, but that's not the case for everyone. You don't have to have side projects on the go to do your work well, be comfortable enjoying things outside of work whilst applying yourself to what you were hired to do.

Remember, with wherever or whatever you do, as long as you apply yourself to your work with honesty and give it your best shot the rest doesn't matter. You can only get done in a day as much as you are capable of, don't stress about comparing yourself to others, or fulfilling the impossible.

Of course if you want a promotion then that's where you have to somehow raise yourself above the rest, so the situation differs.
That depends heavily on where you live - CA, WA, NY have a high percentage of renewables - and even then, most fossil fuel power plants are still more efficient than an ICE car.
Teams is replacing "Skype for Business", right? Horror must be relative. At least now with the Web clients MS-invested orgs might stop asking people to install virtual machines running Windows to videoconf / chat with them.
I heard arguments like this about the nestle plant in California during the drought.

The headlines were similar, about the "millions of gallons" of water used by the bottling plant while people were affected by the drought.

I think it is a failure of mathematical reasoning. The water the plants use is of direct benefit to people, is compartively small in volume and is completely dwarfed by all other uses of water. Think plant irrigation, such as farming and golf courses.

To highlight the idea in a similar vein:

https://www.theonion.com/geologists-we-may-be-slowly-running...
Yeah, they lost me at the first mention of a “personal server”. Let’s pretend I’m a farmer in Kansas. Why do I need it? What can I do with it?
I feel pretty strongly that Google (and Apple) should be forced to offer a choice for default search engine on their mobile devices. Microsoft was pretty handily sued and accused of antitrust for not offering this option on Windows desktop browsers. Google benefitted a great deal from that and it only makes sense that they should have to play by the same rules.
For those interested, you can find the slides for the presentation here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027/DEF%20CON%2027%20pre...

This article is garbage and a lot of the discussion here revolves around the spin and emphasis on facetious scenarios I mentioned in the presentation
They have some accessibility laws, especially more recently, but the ADA is an extreme outlier in the western world in terms of how demanding accessibility requirements are.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, all dislike EV for the same reason: because it is a decentralized tool for establishing identity. Identity is something they prefer to own proprietarily because a) they trust themselves more than anyone else, and b) it is lucrative.

The vast majority of examples of EV "problems" are people who misconstrue what EV is supposed to do, and then prove it can't do that thing. For example, EV was never intended to guarantee globally unique company names, so demonstrating a name collision does not actually show a problem with EV.
How exactly would an apple "randomly" acquire a jellyfish gene?
It's a figure of speech; when used colloquially in this manner, it has nothing to do with any kind of attack.

It just means "argue a point on principle when you know you aren't going to affect change".
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I think the idea right now is to give flexibility to both parents to make their decisions instead of forcing a perceived cultural choice on them.
Having had to maintain proxies, yes, it's a lot of work. But!

Building a new protocol, and implementations for it, and applications for it, has got to be strictly more work than building a nested TLS protocol and implementation. More work for you, and for the rest of us who would have been happy not to have to deal with it but are forced to by new realities on the ground created by people who thought a new protocol would be less work. More chances to get the crypto wrong. I'm not keen on this. I'm all-in on TLS 1.3, not because it's great but because it's the only way to reduce the pressure to create new legacy. Legacy is fantastically expensive, so I'd rather not create more of it if we don't have to.

To be fair, I'm told that even TLS 1.3 might not fit the power profile of IoTs, however, that's ameliorated by time, and it would also be ameliorated by cTLS, so I'm not sure that's enough to justify a new protocol.
There's definitely a few different strains of bananas in asia, it's not uncommon to see 2-3 different types of bananas being sold right next to each other in the markets. The most obvious indicator to me is the size of the individual bananas, the smaller ones taste pretty weird to me.

OH, and also I assume there's a bit of a taste difference with the bananas we're used to because they weren't dosed in Ethlyene to hasten the ripening. (In western countries the grocery warehouse has a room for spraying bananas in ethlyene before delivering to the grocery stores)
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If you are talking about fundamental data structures and algorithms, then these are within the purview of computer science and anyone else who creates libraries, database management systems and the like.

High quality libraries and tools are hard to write and are optimised over a long period of time to provide reliable and fast answers within available resources.

Software engineers use these libraries and tools to solve business and other higher level problems. When they do work on data structures and algorithms, it related to the job at hand rather than needlessly duplicating existing good code.

There is just no need for them to worry about low level detail.
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> It would be interesting if none of the other search engines participate in this auction. Then what is Google going to do? Ignore the EU and suck up another billion dollar fine?

The FAQ answers that already. It will choose randomly from among the search engines that register and don't offer a bid (and charge them nothing). That would be a really surprising outcome, as it would suggest that no one other than Google derives any economic value from being the search engine on an Android device.

FWIW, I have trouble imagining that this process was designed without consulting with the EU to ensure it would comply. If Google did indeed design this without ensuring that it is in compliance, that would imply that whoever they have working on this is colossally stupid.
... and then the second half of the parent's sentence (which you conveniently ignored) applies: he's paying with his own time.

I dunno about you, but I value my time way too highly to voluntarily use it to spend time on the phone with the DMV every month or three.
> * A banana modified in a lab and one that is bred through selective breeding are both "GMO"*

Not really. The difference is that selective breeding takes a lot of time and for the species that we eat today we've had hundreds to thousands of years to observe if it harms us or not.

When new drugs or foods get approved for consumption, the tests being made are for how our body affect the eaten food, and the assessment being made is for how safe acute short term exposure is.

But we are not doing long term studies on safety, because those are super expensive. We basically don't know what happens with chronic exposure over decades. And plants in particular have toxins, as a natural defense against pests, and most of those toxins are harmless to humans, or removed via cooking (like what happens with legumes), however some toxins can have an effect on mammals and we won't notice it until we've had decades to consume that plant and maybe come up with cooking methods to deal with it.

Personally I'm not interested in being a lab rat.

> The lack of science education.

I think this goes on in both camps ;-)
Move over plebs, some people study at the Royal MIT: https://www.rmit.edu.au/
> The language's design is inherently incompatible with use cases that care about speed, because of how deeply in bed it is with HTTP request-response lifecycle.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're saying that speed doesn't matter when responding to HTTP requests. This couldn't be further from the truth. The less time a response takes, the more requests can be handled per second, which is critical for scaling Web services. PHP 7.x handles 2-3 times as many requests per second on the same hardware compared to PHP 5.

Also, I don't agree that PHP is only suitable for responding to network requests. I've also found it ideal for writing CLI programs which can run on a schedule and share logic with HTTP APIs.
>have they paid for all the infrastructure they are using?

They use it for a couple of days compared to lifetime use by the citizens.

Your comment sounds so hateful and privileged. It almost sounds like "we made all this infrastructure, parks, law and order for you. You need to pay fairly for the honor and privilege to use it".

In India, public attractions charge higher to foreigners but the stated reason is purchase power parity. Indians on average make like $2k annually.
Sounds more like they have a blacklist of VPN IPs and just give the "wrong password" message if you try to login from one.
That's exactly the process this article is referencing. Google is being forced to offer a default choice in the EU. They are using a market-based auction price method to determine which of their competitors value the spots the most. The company in question has an objection as to how the options are being selected.
For the first time or two, maybe. But you'll be paying for it with hours, possibly tens of hours, of your own free time. And the US legal system is a fickle beast; what seems to you like a slam dunk might not actually be so certain.

After the second or third time, the judge will ask, "why didn't you just change your license plate to something else and avoid all this hassle?" And when you answer, "I've grown fond of the plate, and want the DMV to fix its systems", the judge will sigh, and rule against you for wasting his/her time instead of just changing your license plate.
Safari on iOS does (options are Google, Yahoo, Bing, and DuckDuckGo on iOS 12.4). A brief search indicates that there are similar options on Android as well, though I don't have a device to confirm.