skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a perpetual arms race, if the spammers have access to the blocking software they can work around it. Anti-evil works best when the evil cant see the inner workings.
What made me realize the author actually missed the point of Joe Rogan.

"...a key thing Joe and his fans tend to have in common is a deficit of empathy. He seems unable to process how his tolerance for monsters like Alex Jones plays a role in the wounding of people who don’t deserve it."

and

"If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good."

As judged by who? This kind of whining is what drives his audience to him. Providing a platform for anyone is tremendously good for democracy. Hyde Park in the UK, or the wall in Blueberry Park in Daniel Pinkwater's excellent "The Snarkout Boys" series both spring to mind.

Yes, these political ideologies are "bad" (I'm not naming any here, fill in your own blank), but every idea, no matter how awful you find it, deserves a voice and public judgement.

When both Bernie Sanders, Ben Shapiro, and __Alex Jones__ happily go on the same podcast and have civil discussions, you're doing something very, very, right.
The author is paid by IBM to work on this. The author combines ML and classical AI to achieve explainability in ML.

This is one guy by the way, so not like a huge effort by IBM.
IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying, decides it will make Power CPU ISA free
Your points are valid, people are irresponsible with antibiotics, however consider that e.g. 1 hour drive to emergency would cost you an arm, literally, whereas quickly eating 5 pills of wide-spectrum antibiotics would keep the infection at bay and give you time to drive to ER without any adversarial effects on your future life. What would be your choice?
It is a tricky area to add layers of security to. In theory, you would want a device to refuse any connections unless it is explicitly agreed upon. At the same time, you average user will start calling Tech support everytime they hit the road block of "not being able to use the USB". In orgs with sensitive info, it should be mandatory, but others may be better off without it.
Doesn't happen for me. Using noscript.
yeah, there needs to be something more radical. I think at the moment fully remote teams work better than semi-remote because fully remote teams most communication happens through slack and emails so there is almost always a paper trail.
Many people lacked transportation -- either not having cars, or not having sufficiently reliable ones.

A full city evacuation still takes days, and given the uncertainty and wide possible zone of destruction of a major storm means that both a wide area has to be evacuated, and it's not clear precisely where landfall will be until a day or so immediately prior.

Mass evacuation via buses or rail is far more efficient, but can only be organised effectively by, or at least strongly coordinated with, government.
Canada Immigration Newsletter – CIC News
60% of the time charts are wrong every time.
To me, the author is basically asking for OpenVMS with the RMS and RDB file types.
I read your comment before clicking the link...I thought for sure we had a new OS that was in SQL...I was actually excited and definitely plausible.
The great thing is that it works in Kerbal Space Program, so you can plan out missions that use it in the game.
> If finance wasn’t over complex why does this investigative report require career forensic accountants to dig out the details?

Because this particular company has chosen to produce incredibly complicated financial statements due to a variety of reasons. It's the exception to the rule.

Just like the Underhanded C contest[0] doesn't describe the entire universe of computer programming

And Tax Law doesn't represent the entirety of the body of Law that governs a country. Law is an entirely different beast because there isn't a BDFL who can refactor the existing code into something meaningful, and there is no unit testing to ensure the any refactored law will work as intended won't have terrible adverse effects. Legislating is a social experiment, and if you've ever been part of a group project you know how hard that can be with a handful of people, let alone hundreds of representatives or millions of voters.

My claims are just as deep as they need to be to discredit yours. I'm happy to engage in a deeper debate, but you haven't invited us to one yet. Right now this is just noise, particularly considering that you choose to take the stance of someone who thinks they're right even though they admit to being a layman, instead of asking genuine questions driven by intellectual curiosity and the desire to become better informed.

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0. http://www.underhanded-c.org
Cyclist Deaths in New York City: Accident or Crime?
ZeroCater (YC W11) is growing our engineering team in SF
Regarding saving password in browser, the author probably means an encrypted password manager such as KeePass or 1Password, and not the current implementation which does not have a master password
Hygienic Macros usually have ways to violate the hygiene, so that property doesn't change how expressive they can be, just that the default behavior is safer because you won't accidentally overwrite anything on the scope the macro was called from.

And yes, racket's macros are hygienic.
Ask HN: What is the easiest way for a non-coder to deploy a simple CRUD website?
I'm pretty good with stitching together static HTML and CSS to build basic websites, but when it comes to adding CRUD capabilites, I struggle to find a simple way of doing this.

Lately I fell in love with Netlify to easily bring static websites online. However to build a simple, extendable job site MVP, I'm now looking into either NetlifyCMS -or- Liftoff to pull content from Airtable (https://github.com/postlight/liftoff)

However, before I go heads down and try to make all this work, I wanted to see if there is any other way that I'm missing to build a simple website with CRUD capabilities?

I looked into Sheet2Site but realized that I can only use pre-defined templates which rules out this option. Having a my customized design is important.
And then accelerated shopping results. And then accelerated signups.
How to Google Better?
I'm a Junior JS developer and I admit that I'm bad at finding relevant information to solve problems. Usually end up on stack overflow/MDN but there they spoon feed you the information. How do you guys find relevant information efficiently? I read posts saying "keep it simple" or “use the right keyword" but what are the right keywords?

I use [programming language] + [verb] + [keywords] formula but most of the time but can't find what I’m looking for.

So, how do you guys search, select keywords or in general search better?
US voters won't support candidates who approve ransomware payments: survey
I started learning Python web-development with Django, but it really didn't click until I learned with Flask and other "minimalist" frameworks first. It could have been the available material at the time, but understanding step by step what I got for "free" with Django was really helpful for me.

I think it also helped me understand web frameworks (or at least the specific paradigm) in general. At times with learning Django I felt like I was _learning Django_. I have this same issue with ORMs.

That said I still really like Django and use it now that I have a somewhat better understanding of what it's actually doing.
At the end of Atlas Shrugged, one laborer with a name (Eddie Willers) is left abandoned on the tracks, presumably left to die in the collapse.
I was about to post that exact quote.

"may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no reason"

How could anyone build a business on this?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_browsing Safari came first, but Chrome was before Opera or Firefox.
> However climate change is a direct consequence of capitalism. Halting pollution would ruin the economy. Factories would have to be shut down, entire categories of products could no longer be produced, masses would become unemployed. The global financial system would tank. Surviving this change would require abandoning capitalism.

I believe this also. But the consequences are even more profound than they might appear: it's not just the pointless excesses of capitalism we would likely have to do without (e.g. new car on finance every 3 years, food flown halfway around the world for processing then back again, 1 zillion brands of shampoo in the supermarket) - but also many of the things we no longer view as luxuries i.e. modern housing, healthcare and medicine, choice over what we eat etc.
It has always intrigued me how even great ideas like the theory of evolution were thought of by more than one person. I always reasoned that the spread of knowledge by books to begin with and then the tele* media( graph , gram , phone etc) accelerated it.
Nowadays it is almost unbelievable if multiple discovery didn’t happen. Internet plus 7 billion people plus the accumulated treasure of knowledge is one helluva tailwind
This is exactly why businesses make software that ends up sucking.
> but that doesn't mean it's been proven through experimentation, does it? isn't it just an assumption?

It’s not an assumption, it’s backed up by excellent evidence — see the paper I linked.

> what if there's something akin to mathematical uniqueness in the mechanics of the core machinery?

Well that’s clearly not the case, we can trivially (…) design self-replicating machines that have completely different mechanics, as a thought experiment. More to the point, we can change parts of the machinery. For instance, we can take the universal genetic code and, with effort, change it into something completely different (by just swapping all codons around). The result is just as viable, but doesn’t exist in nature. In fact, the observed universality of the genetic code, in itself, is already seen as sufficient evidence for common descent (and then some).
Spam filtering is a horrendous problem which can never be "solved" because people continue to innovate around the filters. It only looks "solved" because gmail have enough data to do an amazing job of it.

I have a gmail account and a non-gmail account, and the non-gmail privately hosted one gets considerable spam, some of which even makes it through my manually curated filters.

I used to self-host email but the minimum time and expertise investment is now too high for me - I got fed up of having to fix breakages or losing email from random other sources.
How are these "jabs"?
>"Cannot afford" is usually a moral decision not an economic one. Nobody managed to stop the Iraq war by saying we "couldn't afford it".

It is very much an economic one. It simply comes down to stuff. If you have 50 million people in your country then you need 50 million people's worth of food and other goods. If 20 million of them are retired or children then the other 30 million has to produce enough to cover themselves and the 20 million. If the balance gets worse with 30 million not working and 20 million working then you're already in a situation, where society can't really continue down that path. And this balance is getting worse in the developed world.

The only way to afford this is by reducing people's quality of life by simply having less stuff for people. This means less healthcare, worse (less) food, less safe equipment, worse entertainment etc.

If you don't have enough stuff, then you don't have enough stud. No moral decision is going to change this.

>What are they supposed to do if it's cut below acceptable levels?

Then it's below acceptable levels. Welfare programs aren't old things. They haven't been around forever. In fact, many would even argue that the way we could afford many welfare programs until now is by borrowing from future generations. Eventually that's going to catch up to us. Some generation is going to be screwed by this.
People simultaneously want to have fewer children, to not have many immigrants, and to have high pensions for long time.

It is obvious that if there are not enough young people there won't be enough money to pay pensions for the old, the old people who do not want to work until they die should live with their children, and take care for their grandchildren, like people did for millenia and still do in many countries where government interventions didn't break families yet.

An additional benefit is that spending time with grandchildren increases the lifespan, and is most likely the main reason why people evolved to stay alive after passing childbearing age.
Maybe fewer people using web browsers to access Internet content? That could be explained by social networks like Reddit pushing users toward single-purpose apps.
Can we get (1997) added on this? (revision date)
Jeez, that really limits Apple Pay. I don't carry my CC because I have Apple Pay.
The luminance peak in the center is by design - that's clear in its parabolic gradient. Whether this is desirable or not depends on your use case.

On this point I don't see Turbo is being a do it all colormap. In the depth comparison images I still see Inferno and Viridis being superior and personally have no confusion between which spheres line up with which rings. Turbo in fact confuses me on this by introducing the false 2D color gradient.

Where I see Turbo being useful, as others have pointed out, is for heatmaps. I personally find Inferno's low end contrast being problematic and usually resort to Spectral for picking out details. If you can live with the fact that the lightest part of the chair in the test image is rendered darkly in Turbo (compare with Inferno), then Turbo is great for purely picking out detail (and taking brightness with a pinch of salt).

In the end, it depends on your usecase. Use a linear colormap when appropriate and vice versa.
Players Destroyed Their Guitar Controllers, Then Developers Destroyed the Game
libpng does have simplified API (png_image*) since 1.6
Reading that article it actually makes sense. But to potentially spend between 78,000 and 120,000 dollars a year to manage your SaaS would require a high assessment if it's worth it. Especially when they are targeting small to medium companies, for which that money could be spend on a few junior developers, sales people, or on ACTUAL SaaS.

It's a tough sell but I can get the idea
Sorry about that. Where in the article did we assume the gender? Looking and I'm not seeing. Not native english speakers though so there may be something we're missing.
nice project. the font makes it a bit hard to read imo tho.
PVS-Studio: Engine of Progress
I really tried hard to use Edge as much as possible, but it was rubbish until the day MS threw in the towel.
Youthfulness and pedophilia are very different things. I don’t even see a hint of pedophilia in the SyFy image you posted. She looks feminine and young, but not like a child.
I credited it to Safari
Great write up. Sebastian has a deep learning NLP email newsletter that I highly recommend. I read two articles this morning that were mentioned in the newsletter that he sent out last night. Good stuff.
but seemingly part of the frustration is that the average consumer feels powerless

The average consumer could care less. They want to make phone calls, send text messages (over iMessage), surf Facebook, and take back to school pictures of their kids - and they just want it to work.
That’s still an issue. The person you report to every day - whether it be on a true organizational level or a dotted line report has influence on your raises, promotions, etc but doesn’t have the political skill to communicate your accomplishments or value to the organization and your work gets filtered before it gets to the person who has some say over the purse strings.

It’s a careful political balancing act to both be respectful of your direct manager/team lead and be noticed by your manager’s manager, but it is often necessary.
> I think the answer to your question is not obvious.

You mean the answer could be "yes, every single patch must have a regression test"?
Something like this already exists for Windows[1]

There is apparently a standard[2] for exposing operating system objects into a schema that can have a standard query.

I don't think I've ever seen any common monitoring projects built using WMI/WBEM at their core ...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/about-...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/921617/is-there-somethin...
Been on HN for over a year, never created an account, but I just had to reply to this.

Where in the hell have you been living?

1. Barely book a restaurant? London is so over-saturated with restaurants/bars/pubs, one can barely keep up. I've been living in London for 7 years and there's still an abundance of places my friends and me want to try. I can _maybe_ remember once or twice that we couldn't book due to it being full - but those were overly fancy places.

2. You've got to be kidding me. You mean the tube that comes every 2 minutes? Or the express trains to every airport (apart from Luton) that are spot on most of the time? I've traveled around America, Europe and Africa - London airports are by far some of the most efficient ones I've encountered (again, apart from Luton. Luton can suck it)

3. Is commute enjoyable anywhere in the world? You're talking as if people in Stockholm or Berlin loved sitting in public transport next to strangers for 30 min straight.

4. Point taken. The real estate market is one of the worst industries here, agents suck. That's what happens when a city has such high demand and barely any supply.

I've seen people complain about a lot of things in London, but never #1 or #2 like you. Pretty unrealistic view of the city.
I'll argue that textual evidence supports the opposite conclusion.

Look at when Rearden finally decides to bail of society. He takes his top / mangers / engineers with him. What about all those other workers in Rearden Metal? The most of them are shown as hard working. But that's not enough. They (along with the d'Anconia's employees, etc, in a more explicitly cruel fashion) get left in a society that is purposefully being put into apocalypse mode in order to prove why certain people should get what they want. They get left there because they have to be. The Randian-moochers, would probably never humble themselves to ever invite the exceptional back. It's only going to be the impoverished workers who are going to have to throw off the yoke of the moochers and acknowledge how the world should be. So without the honest hard workers of the novel in such a position, the central conceit doesn't work.

People like Galt start as mere workers but only so their exceptionality can be established by their ascendancy.

The common worker is cannon fodder.

In the world of Ayn Rand, the worker only exists to acknowledge the superiority of the exceptional.
Such screaming! The issue I perceive is that Google and FSF are both at opposite ends of a spectrum. I know that Google has a commercial agenda, and I know that Google uses my data. Maybe the headline should be that Google harms clueless ignorant users. The rest of us have made a partial deal with the devil, and we live with it.

FSF has its own screeching issues in any case. I understand much of where Stallman comes from, and how this influences the FSF, but I don't necessarily agree with Stallmaan or the FSF on every point. In particular, I think that GPLv3 is useful for some individuals, but a hindrance to others, who are free to use GPLv2 (or BSD/MIT/...) as they wish.

The screeching, at times, comes across like that of PETA.

Also: a lot of this post is old and needs to be updated. Android 5.0 anyone?
Last I checked Linux doesn’t do this by default either.
Really? GNU/Linux doesn't thrive on billions and provides a near perfect functional alternative. Darwin/XNU is libre software, so it's a contradiction to make people pay for the right to program.
It's off topic and people should start getting banned for it because it turns the comments into useless bikeshedding
I considered this, but nothing beats hydrocarbon energy density. It seems more practical to swap out pre-charged cells like some electric scooter companies do, which would require an interchangeable format that might be obsoleted by newer tech every 5 years.

Once we have supercapacitors and room temperature superconductors, a lot of these problems go away, though.

Exciting times!
Why I Like JavaScript Optional Chaining
std vector needs to be countiguous, so you cannot use a segmented storage.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/greed says "a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed"

I would add "at the expense of others" to clarify that.

Getting paid to work is making money by helping others, which to me is the opposite of "greed"!

The trade of exchanging labor for money is one of the cornerstones of civilization, and everything that's good in the world, as I see it. So we seem to have some discrepancies in our world views :)

I have no quarrel at all with your other ways of knowing your work is appreciated. They all sound good and healthy.
How Design Companies Build Communities
Thank you! These are great questions

> Why S3 rather than an entirely free service like netlify, github pages, or surge?

I wanted to start with something that was simple and scalable. At one point I tried using github for hosting, but managing commits got a bit complicated. There are also some limitations on repository size. Although it wouldn't become an issue for a long time if images were uploaded to S3 and the content to github, I would have had to integrate with multiple platforms.

I am open to adding additional hosting solutions, but I wanted to launch to get a pulse on what folks would like those options to be.

> Isn't one of the main advantages of medium the discovery element?

This is definitely one of the main values that Medium has to offer. It's also not the only reason people want to share their thoughts. I wanted to offer the flexibility to own your content and not be locked in to a platform (All HTML files for your site remain in your control). There are a lot of ways to promote your content, if Medium happens to work best for some folks, It could be a good idea to cross post on Medium.

As Mead evolves, I'm open to making promotion of your content on other services easier and in as many cases as possible, automated.
Does someone have the whole article? It looks very interesting!
There's just not much you can do about it. You could argue that these programs shouldn't have been implemented in the first place, because they weren't going to be sustainable, but those decisions were already made. Somebody's going to get the short end of the stick here.
August 1969: When a Brutal Crackdown on Protests Resulted in Killings
Google need to pay more attention to Chris Huhne.

He was convicted for perverting the course of justice. He got an 8 month sentence. He was a public figure in a position of responsibility when he committed this crime. The judge in the case said that Huhne risked a damaged image if he admitted to the driving offence. The crime came to light after he had an affair - his partner sought revenge by revealing his part in the crime.

These are not trivial things. This is not the everyday mistakes that regular people make. This isn't a kid doing stupid shit.

It is right and proper that the search results are not subject to right to be forgotten, at least until the conviction is spent.

https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-pryce-huhne-sentencin...

https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-vasiliki-pryce-and-ch...
I recently ditched Chrome and switched back to Firefox, at home and on my mobile, only to discover that a surprising number of sites don't work in Firefox. In particular: Twitter doesn't work on Firefox Mobile.

Most work fine, but still, I ended up switching to Safari, to discover that it's just not quite as good an experience as Firefox or Chrome.