skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what about the obvious 4) which I'm not sure what exactly it is, but does seem to end in actual covering up.

The big example these days is the evolution of the Yellow Vests movement in France. It is baffling how little attention it gets compared to the impact the movement is having.

Right now there is a bit of a contrast between the situation in Paris last weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkEaLFvk9R4

(there have been weekly anti-government protests in pretty much every city in France for more than a year. Officially the tally is on 39 continuous weekends)

And the top/only news item from France for the week: a boating accident in Normandy killed 3 kids.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2019/08/12/drie-kinderen-verdri...

But if you feel like looking for any other news items ...

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/rubrieken/buitenland/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/europe

https://www.lemonde.fr/

I have friends in Paris and their claim is that life there is disrupted on a near constant basis, also during the week, but especially during weekends. I have zero reason to disbelieve that claim, except of course that you just won't find it in newspapers. The movement is big enough that it is pretty well known in neighboring countries, but it sure as hell isn't the press that's spreading the news.

And you will have to dig deep indeed to get the central message of these protests "Macron, demission" (impeach Macron, the French president)

Before that it was the mass car burnings, also in France, that come to mind: years of cars getting torched in pretty much every large French city, dozens to hundreds (in Paris). Never got paid much attention.

Like the Yellow Vests, It wasn't quite zero, but pretty close.

So the problem here is that you cannot trust the reasoning being put forth: the "normal" press is also covering some things up, and the narrative clearly isn't neutral. I can come up with a few somewhat believable reasonings (ie. Le Pen, and what the inevitable result will be if elections were called in France today. It isn't so much that they like Macron, although they do, they're scared to death that elections before the situation changes will turn France into Italy. Or worse, maybe destroy the EU. I don't think destroy the EU is entirely realistic, but it sure is a lot more realistic now than it was a year ago)
That's why they are so cheap.
Doesn’t it just create SharePoint sites for each team on the backend and store the files in SharePoint?

Even on 1:1 chat sharing a file just uploads it to OneDrive and uses OneDrive links.
I think the author means discrete when they say finite. In that case, they mean Doubly special relativity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_special_relativity
Doubly special relativity - Wikipedia
My way of looking at it has always been there is no such thing as organic search results (other than that the organisation in question did not have a hand in choosing to put it there). The aim is, presumably, to return quality sites, which always involves a subjective judgement - there is no intrinsic or natural ordering of a set of sites (other people could choose to rank them differently). Whether it's writing an algorithm that results in those sites being at the top (which _must_ be rewritten if returns certain sites otherwise it will be gamed), a more direct choice, or a combination of the two, there doesn't seem to be much difference. The algorithm serves to scale Google's subjective opinion, and they will always boot out sites they don't think are of sufficient quality - it enables them to return sites that they may not have hand-judged, but I've always assumed it is trying to approximate what would be returned if they _did_ check every site.
I can relate to this. We have a few thousand people in our general channel. The channel description is:

Please do not use @ here in this channel. (You can mute this channel).
Whats your responsibility on the team and how much of that code will be touched again to add new features or is the code critical part of a customer facing application? I personally review all code across all the applications we have as we have a mandate to do so. Everything is a consumer facing application and we mandate atleast 2 reviews on each PR, one from a senior developer considering most people are new on the team.
Hey, I understand how frustrating is to have people criticize your work unfairly, especially when they seem to be just picking a fight. Believe me, I get it. Still, it breaks HN's guidelines to cross into this sort of attack back, no matter how provocative another comment may be. We can't allow that because it leads into a predictable downward spiral that makes this place worse for everyone. (I'm a moderator here btw, in case this comment doesn't make sense otherwise.)

Would you mind taking a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and posting in the intended spirit? As a bonus, it will make your own comments stronger and get a more receptive hearing from the community here, the overwhelming majority of whom are fair-minded even when the comments are not.
I've been traveling around the world earning money as a freelance software developer. I have had no need to use any data structures or algorithms to complete my work.
"Empirically it might reduce flame wars on HN, but you need to take a long hard consideration as to why it causes flame wars on HN and not other sites."

This is so evidently false that I'm inclined to think it's even contrary to what you suggest; "other sites" is far too ambiguous.
YALI RLC Southern Africa to Host Youth Indaba on Innovative Leadership in Africa
Interesting subject, terrible article. This wouldn't even pass on one of those sites that sells essays for students.

There are people who do well under stress. Army elite units have selection programs to find such people.
We use Clojure massively enough to have multiple issues with dependencies, including the fact that sometimes we need to build a new version of a library simple to build it with more recent versions of dependency X, for example.

It is not that bad, much like I also don't think Python packaging bad. Other ecosystems have better solutions, though.
Read this is Stallone's voice.
Power Stuff and Other Stuff at Vintage Computer Festival West 2019
Love that von Neumann quote !

I have had this experience, that I've moved much faster learning to use math tools when a friend much more advanced than me suggested that I can use a tool even if I don't know how it works. It's like if I stopped building a house because I want to see if I can build a hammer myself !

(Well, this is also my experience programming, implementing the low level stuff myself is a much more attractive exercise than actually assembling off-the-shelf parts into something people would actually use!)
Both appear to be reasonable descriptions of the facts, mostly differing in being appropriate based on whether you had or had not already adopted the WHO’s positive expectations.
I once had the bright idea to use a backslash as a one character password for my girlfriends computer, thinking it would provide amazing convenience – a single character, just above the enter key. Turns out this doesn't work very well, even on a Mac, which you would think would have gone through fairly robust testing.
Its in Jim Thorpe, PA which is a cool town named after an Olympic athlete who never stepped foot in the town. His 2nd ex-wife snatched/sold and moved his cadaver to the town formerly known as East Manchauk (sp?). His sons who were in their 80s a few years ago tried to get the PA Supreme Court to move his body back to the rightful burial place (Oklahoma).

Though without Glen Onko being open I won't be visiting Thorpe.
Do you remember which talk that was?
I thought google got rid of the disavow feature and no longer penalize on the quality of inbound links?
A bit more info on how Australia sorted the guns out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20612204
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? When people go into the internet warrior thing, it cheapens this place, regardless of how right your underlying points may be. It's also against the site guidelines, which ask for thoughtful, substantive comments, as well as several other things which your post here has broken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you believe GitHub has that infrastructure deployed? If not, this is a blind alley to worry about. If so, what other precautions have you taken to avoid compromised tarballs, unauthorized pushes to repos with auto-deployment pipelines, etc.?

The point is that in reality you’re orders of magnitude more likely to be compromised by ads in your browser, an undetected flaw in legitimate code, or a compromised maintainer than GitHub having deployed custom infrastructure to target you. If you’re being target by a government, why would they do this instead of using the same TLS exploit to serve you a dodgy Chrome or OS update which is harder to detect and will work against 100% of targets?
>That's not illogical at all, that's mainly who I see in Porsche dealerships and nothing about that contradicts what I said.

I don't know, I think signaling is OK, and I don't consider people why buy signaling products as "vain dumb and insecure". I just don't see that anything wrong with that. I mean, you made enough money to choose good, quality product, be that t-shirt, bike or even a car. Why not choose some premium brand with some signaling attached to that, instead of just buying generic nike t-shirt or toyota corolla car? If you like that Mercedes AMG Roadster because you think that it will make you more attractive to chicks (and btw it will, I guarantee) -- and you got money to spare, well, go for it! You made enough money to buy Porsche 911, why drive Honda Civic then?

I see people signaling with their choices wrt premium products, and I don't judge them at all.

>Frankly, I am frustrated with a common trend I noticed in the Bay area where people who couldn't be bothered to leave their home/tech bubble and interact with people outside their comfort zone

I've never visited USA in my life, and do not plan to, so your guess about me being SF resident living in SF bubble is wrong. :) I do work in ad-tech / advertising, though, so I learned something about how industry works. JIC, during my daily commute (I don't own a car and use public transit) I see more people who make $500/month than people who make $5000/month, so no bubble here. :)
You could embed gifs right in the posts. You subscribe to many blogs of very specific niches and fetishes, then you have a feed of animated gifs, videos and pictures of your specific tastes. Its perfect for porn addiction because it sucks you in and you keep accessing deeper and deeper darker psychological porn. Additionally it had a really good retweet type feature for the content.
this is very 2600 - nooice.
The point then is if you search for creatine, you end up on that page not, not the homepage.

And so if you end up on https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/ it pretty much blows away all other pages on creatine.

So at the end of the day, you still end up on useful information.
It shows me to me that the EC shouldn’t have meddled to begin with. Android is free but Google isn’t providing it out of the goodness of its heart. If it can’t recoup its costs from offering the Google suite of apps (including search), then Android will be monetized by other search engines paying to be included in the options. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
New EV certificates don't just help with SmartScreen, they completely bypass it. Regular Windows code signing is the smartscreen booster.
A couple of things are at the heart of the matter here.

Hypercomputation (halting problem) and
Infinite memory/storage

Ascribe either of these to nature, and nature can be deterministic and still, the probability of us discerning its RNG's operations is 0.

This is a good video explaining the different intricacies of how "God's dice" might be constructed:

https://youtu.be/iBHUayT7t6w

Many phenomena thought to have been random due to their quantum nature have been found to be based on their initial conditions instead. See spontaneous emission photon phase for example:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/9/11/41...
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Please do not take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's off topic here, and leads to worse.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676923.
I'm sure that some sites are willingly breaking the back button function.

I've never done it intentionally but I've developed a few sites where the back button failed to get you back to the previous page. In my case, it was a side effect of a designer's feature that required a javascript library of some kind or a programmatic feature. Once you stray away from W3 standards it is very easy to break the back button on a browser. I've never given it much thought but if I was required to make sure the back button worked I could fix it but I've yet to find a customer that cared enough for me to do it.

You see the problem a lot on the web since few sites want to only use the browser standards on their site.
My son is turning one this month. My ability to work remotely for clients on a flexible schedule was absolutely crucial to our household's overall happiness and functionality. Truly, I am blessed.

I wish everyone could be able to do the same. Our children and families would be much better off for it.

I realize that it's impossible for everyone to have it, but we should at least aim for that. It would do so much for our society at-large.
The OP article is also about the Boston bussing system changes, before it was cancelled.
There are already a bunch of native Teams/Slack/etc.-like applications. Matrix has a good number of native clients[1]. There's Ripcord[2] which supports both Slack and Discord. There's Matterhorn[3] for Mattermost.

[1] https://matrix.org/clients/

[2] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

[3] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn
tldr

1. Put an action near/inside of the object it affects.

2. If an action affects multiple objects, place action above those objects.

3. If you can't do 1 or 2, compensate by making the action more noticeable.
respectfully, what does this have to do with employee retention?
Workspace owners in Slack can set permissions on who can @here or @channel in a channel.
Note this is from 2016
These are often done by hand, I'm really not surprised.
We could be cited in a letter, but very unlikely as they would reference the primary research itself.
It's coming. After October 1, 2020, a "Real ID" will be required for US domestic airline flights.

Glory to Artstozka! Cause no trouble.
Modern music has regressed into something primitive and tribal. In other words, completely mind numbing garbage. And it just gets worse every year.

Post Malone is a good indication of just how fast Western society is falling.
It felt like a word salad.
They'd type in: Just "NULL"
I work in a statically-typed FP language. Unless type classes are the magic feature that make point-free viable, it's hard to see how that could be the difference.
Yeah, you don't want to end up there.

When reviewing code I prefer to ask questions.
- Would a switch statement be better here than a nested if/else?
- Would this code be better if it was split into smaller logical chunks?
- Should this code be over in this library rather than here?

You give them the opportunity to think about it, justify their decision if it's 50/50, and own the changes.

These are generally questions about re-usability.
You are aware that much of your electricity is generated from carbon-emitting power stations?
Would it be useful to protest about Xinjiang instead? After all if unsuccessful many of the protesters may end up in the same kind of reeducation camps.
Hey, could you please not break the site guidelines by taking personal shots at other users, being snarky, or posting in the flamewar style? It makes this place worse, regardless of how solid your underlying points are. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make your substantive points thoughtfully, we'd appreciate it.
> What is an alternative to Google search that has better search results than DDG

What's wrong with DDG results? I have found them to be pretty good, the results don't seem to be as sensitive to current events and viral trends but I can always find what I'm looking for. I do have to sometimes hit the "more results" button, but I definitely find myself on the 2nd or 3rd page of google particularly on technical or scientific topics.
At least with parks, they are an area of conservation before they are a tourist attraction. You are paying for this land to be conserved in its natural state. Traffic to the park must therefore be limited to ensure the park is actually preserved and not destroyed by human activity. Visiting the park is a privilege, not a right. The right is that the park exists at all.
Deb packages have cryptographic signatures that can be verified to confirm it actually came from nodesource (or whoever)

If you get MITM'd (admittedly difficult with TLS) or the site got compromised (but not the build IX / developer's keyring) it would be possible to replace the script with a malicious one.

Also, you can detect the curl|bash installation method server-side and serve different content [1] on that basis, which is not possible with deb packages.

Finally, providing a curl|bash installation method implies that the developers either do not understand packaging, or don't care about it. This is fine e.g. if developers want to remain platform agnostic or just can't be bothered packaging, but if you develop a curl|bash installer you send the message "I want to distribute my software but don't care enough to do it properly / in a standards compliant way".

Also, and this is more subjective, most curl|bash installers I've seen make assumptions about their environments that do not necessarily hold in less common distributions - which makes you wonder why they don't just develop e.g. a deb if it only works reliably on Ubuntu and maybe Debian.

[1] https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
Private organizations build the infrastructure behind the internet, but that’s because it is simpler than other infrastructural systems.

Ultimately people have finite time, and the people responsible for oversight should be those who benefit the most from the project coming under budget and on time.
You should hear what my dad had to say about Elvis!
This seems a little different to me than most `curl | bash` scripts, as it's trying to integrate with the system package manager. Not trying to imply the same security implications don't apply, but there's not really a way to integrate with them without requiring root, and it seems like the entire purpose of this is to integrate with the package manager, which gives you things like an easy way to get updates. (From looking further down the instructions, it looks like this is just setting up a PPA on debian-based distros; I'd personally just paste the config into a file myself, but realistically the security concerns are the same, since I think most package managers give the ability to execute custom code as part of the install process, and it'll be running as root when that code is executed)
I have spent quite a bit of time in both styles, and there's a pretty clear winner in my experience. I don't work in Haskell, but in another statically-typed FP language - maybe type classes are the feature that flip everything we know about readability from other languages?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Technical debt accrued at a large engineering organization is very similar to bloated infrastructure costs in the US. That also doesn't explain the _why_.

My very rough take is that physical (and virtual) infrastructure require more labor specialization as the complexity of the existing system increases. In order to get that subway built you need specialists come in to make sure the roads can withstand extra stress from tunneling etc etc. Those specialists are expensive and miss-communicate with other specialists etc etc.
A (present or past colleague of mine) spent a few months living between the NICU and the office. In equal measures I was livid and heartbroken.
Well, there's nothing you couldn't write yourself, sure... but async/await does generate unsafe code in some cases, so it is at least somewhat magical that you can do it in safe code. Since async/await has unsafe code that is really fiddly to get right otherwise (c.f. the rules for `Pin`), I think this is a pretty good tradeoff and a great use of magic.
Sure, they won't be the same, but they will be damn close. We aren't looking for the same md5 checksums. That goal isn't worth it.
The person best positioned to lock down a program is the developer. Only they know when and how certain resources need to be accessed, and only they are positioned to refactor the source code to maximize the cost+benefit of stricter security policies.

But solutions like selinux, apparmor, and tomoyo are built on the premise that it's the user, administrator, or packager best positioned. But this is a false premise. These people are the worst positioned to understand which privileges are needed, when they're needed, and how to constrain them. They're certainly not well acquainted with the software and how it operates. The only tools at their disposal are external policy mechanisms which are often extremely difficult and complex to use to achieve the desired level of access with the external environment. And they're incapable of refactoring the target software to improve the situation. It shouldn't be any surprise, then, why these resources are underutilized.

seccomp is an improvement but it's much too low-level. Other than the obvious issues that a simplistic syscall filtering mechanisms is too brittle, seccomp 1) doesn't support file paths, and 2) the inheritance semantics makes it nigh impossible to refactor existing code which invokes other programs while 3) also setting a high bar of minimal complexity for new code. Again, no surprise why this resource is underutilized.

This is why OpenBSD's pledge and unveil are infinitely easier tools for securing programs. They were conceived and refined with the goal of making it easy to lock down programs, not to maximize purely abstract requirements like fine-grained control or administrator flexibility. And in any event tools like file permissions and other access controls remain readily available to augment the built-in privilege restraints.

Android is a poor example, especially for server systems, because Android programs don't need to interoperate directly with each other. Whereas on server systems the degrees of interoperability and dependence of various pieces of software are extremely complex and varying. One alternative, forcing everyone to write microservices, at best simply shifts the burden around; it doesn't help to minimize that burden, nor does it permit us to incrementally and organically improve the situation.
Does the author mean mainstream "on the radio" pop, or the plethora of music we not explore and listen to on music services? I've venture to say the Top 100 lists occupy a smaller proportion of today's listeners thane ever before. We are unconstrained. And melody is out there.
All of the libraries I have seen seem to just be jquery libraries that apply a blur CSS effect to DOM elements. This is NOT supported very well accross different browsers.

Frosted Panel is a cross browser solution which allows you to have a full scale, centered, background-image with a responsive, blurry panel overlapping it, of which you can put whatever content you would like inside.

It works by taking advantage of SVG filters, which are supported in most (if not all) browsers, while panning and zooming a duplicate SVG image of the original background-image in order to mimic the actual background-image of the body tag.