skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arbitration is still not great since the arbitrator doesn't have to be anyone with a legal background (most of the time it's a retired judge though) and has a huge incentive to rule in favor of the people paying them (especially if there's a big chance wag comes back to the arbitrator for future arbitration cases)
> before we jump to any conclusions we should at least wait to see why exactly they were denied entry

I understand it's not as easy, but we should at least try for "innocent until proven guilty" when it comes to the government denying privileges. I'm all for the government denying entry, but it should be clear what the offense was.
Suppose I wrote an article headlined "Being a DBA is not hard" and gave "dnf install mysql-server && systemctl enable mysqld" as proof.

TFA is on par with this.
I’ve read this multiple times and still don’t understand what they’re doing, or why it is useful.

It states energy can be released on demand, yet the rest of the paper seems to imply the energy is released the moment the input signal stops.

That ignores other problems I have in understanding: if it stores perfectly (losing no energy) then the longer you run the input the more energy is necessarily going to be released. What happens if I run the inputs for a decade? I cannot imagine that I magically release ten years of energy immediately, so I’m clearly missing something. I just can’t work out what.

Any chance authors are hanging out in HN?
Ari Juels and Dawn Song know what they're doing.

Whether their students use rand in their demo code has zero impact on their credibility.
This sentiment resonates. People seem unable and uninterested in pursuing anything meaningful.
> Do you realize how small 10x10 pixels is on a modern display?

CSS `px` units are not equivalent to a device pixel.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths
Reloading the page is way easier then rebuilding the entire comment section, should something be renewed ( eg. a new comment).

It also (partially) removes the requirement for live-pages on an active post here.
5000 BC, when the Sahara was still habitable, the society at the Nile was already more advanced than other societies in Africa.
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This is smashing! Something for a cool cat like myself.
Yeah. Direct dependence on ntdll occurs in the wild and it would break stuff to change it. It can also break MS's own code and potentially create massive engineering hurdles for them that are completely unnecessary. But they have always warned people in documentation that they don't consider it a stable interface to the same extent as Win32.

In my experience a lot of the NT APIs are nicer, better thought out, more direct.
Date labels are a strange concept.

Different countries just like, don't have them. Particularly on stuff like fruit and vegetables.

I pretty much just eat things if they seem edible. If a piece of fruit is mouldy, I'll chop off the mould and eat the rest.

Maybe that's why I'm so bonkers. :P
Logging the raw structured log entry and off-loading any string formatting to another system is a very interesting idea. Just push the whole "friendly message" stuff off to other logging infrastructure where the latencies matter less.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/7go26a/the_hour_will...

> It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.”

When I was a teenager, I was interested in what people used to say about the future in the past and this was the one thing that ever stuck out to me in my readings.

I guess it was common knowledge among the knowledgeable at the time that this was true but I was never able to corroborate it.
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> Climate change is presently believed to be a major catalyst to the development of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia. It also thought to have led to the collapse of the Indus River Valley civilization. But it is not thought to have played major roles in the other developments of civilization.

Are you sure about that? From what I have read, climate has a pretty big influence on society, and therefore changes in climate would play major roles everywhere.
>> Also, worth mentioning the insufficient formatting features. Quoting is not supported, and is quite important for forum discussions' UX

Exactly
> just because China is not a major player in the semiconductor industry today, doesn't the CCP is not placing its state resources (both state financial backing [1] and the industrial espionage kind [2][3][4][5]) to try and incubate a semiconductor industry

Did anyone ever think that?
Ask HN: Is it a mistake to design a websites UI without new features
Recently someone thanks "Hacker News" for not redesigning their interface and it really made me think: Why do websites redesign a perfectly good interface and not actually add any new features. I've seen this so often in my career and its just baffles me.

Unless the interface is terrible or honestly unusable, then there's no real good reason to redesign it. Make gradual improvements.

Note: I'm not a UI/UX experience, it's not my career and if you saw how I dressed on a daily basis, you might want to tell me that my "UI" needs a redesign :)
Well, some of us have been vaping (in the traditional sense - nicotine/PG/VG) since those people in the article were in kindergarten. This kind of problem hasn't been a thing until recently.
I'm not sure I follow. Unemployment rates are at record low. The claim that getting a job out of college "has never been more competitive and more important" seems off to me, coming from someone who witnessed the 2008 depression. Back then, people were concerned with getting a job not just a high-status job.
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In many scenarios, I'd think that different user-specific secrets can be derived from the single secret stored, perhaps using a PRF. Why wouldn't this be enough?

Thanks!
Demoing how an web page can ship not just one, but four monolithic frameworks is going to get the anti-JS folk really worked up.

Personally, I don't understand what kind of business or product team would fail to standardize on a single application framework. There are so many benefits to having shared solutions to UI and application behavior.

If you set a minimum bar for "we all use React" or "we all use Vue" then you can achieve much nicer integrations between products owned by different teams.
also zip ties are fragile, unless you talk aboutthe zap straps used by military
I am well familiar with my old stomping ground Madison Square Park. Not what I'd call a proper park by any means. It's a series of benches around a lawn. Nice to sit and people watch, but that's about it.
I remain cautiously pessimistic because there are two main possibilities: (1) there is one product (or a series of products manufactured/purified in the same way) that causes respiratory failure in many or all users, (2) all vaping products have a low level risk of causing respiratory failure. I don't think there is enough data to make a conclusion yet, but I am worried this will end up being a low-level persistent problem with vaping products—bootleg or not—for the rest of our lives.

Maybe the culprit truly is dirty oil based extraction of THC... but if so, that will remains a problem for as long as there is no regulation of the official market as well as an operating black market.

OTOH we may end up with a situation like we have in the world of muscle builder / hormone supplements where most people are fine but some users get really sick (e.g. deer hormones sold at regular stores causing severe kidney injury), but not enough of them get sick to get the CDC/FDA involved. I've seen those cases in the hospital and the patients are always confused as to how this could happen because they got the supplement from a vitamin store.

With respect to some of the European posters below who have been using vape products for years: I would not be surprised if there were health consequences to those devices that had not been identified in Europe. The US has one of the best disease identifying-apparatuses in the world (the Centers for Disease Control) and a tradition of surveillance and reporting that is unparalleled. If a substance is harmful to health, it's got a better chance of being found here than anywhere else.
I read it as the Chinese students could be targeting HK supporters / relatives at US universities.
The basic problem with this theory is that the government will always send forces better armed than protestors are by several steps, unless the protesters are so well equipped (which usually means foreign state sponsorship of what is intended as an armed revolution, or just an internal armed revolution that has already gotten backing of a sizable chunk of the military and/or internal security forces) that this is impossible. So, of it's possible to implement this theory at all, you are already outside of the scope of mere protest and into civil war, or at least the imminent direct threat of it.
Mozilla spent a year negotiating a contract with Google that prevents them from ever viewing or using the analytics data.
Interesting, thanks for mentioning this! It seems to be something with my profile, because a fresh profile is also definitely faster (maybe 200-300ms just eyeballing). The latest unbranded build I got [1] also seems about the same if not faster (maybe around 200ms). Definitely not "instantaneous", but I'll definitely track this down.

UPDATE: At least 3 of the culprits seem to be MutationObservers from my own extensions (as in, from extensions that I have written for myself) that have {childList: true, subtree: true}! I guess I will have to optimize them. :-)

[1] https://queue.taskcluster.net/v1/task/Uht_zkkPThu384OAHNPwdA...
Sorry, but no. The global geopolitical environment is chaos, and pretending otherwise may be comforting to you, but it's a false comfort. No one is in control.
The article mentions a lot of interesting properties of the complex exponential map. I find it especially neat that horizontal and vertical translation map to uniform scaling and rotation. A mapping that shuffles transformations around like that can be used in creative ways.

I'd like to add another interesting property, that naturally stems from the above: the mapping transforms regularly repeating shapes into self-similar shapes. Any geometry that repeats along the x axis (with a given period P) will be mapped to a geometry that is self-similar under scaling by the same value P. You can create mappings in more dimensions that have the same properties, for example in 3 dimensions: https://www.osar.fr/notes/logspherical/
I agree with the article that spying on foreign students is a bad idea. But I believe the threat of Chinese intellectual espionage is real; it isn't some racist mirage.

I have a relative who works at a big research institution which was hacked by the Chinese a few years ago. After this was discovered, the FBI interviewed people and forced the place to switch to 2FA.
I'm generally not interested, considering I know that logic and reason are not generally great models for the world without falsifiability and predictability, and neither are abundant in conspiracy "theories".
It’s so strange to me how vaping is seen as this miraculous thing and any criticism is seen as being a hater.

10 years is not nearly long enough to measure long term health effects, sorry. Being “safer than cigs” isn’t worth anything at all.
Might be useful for publicity and PR to have one large change and make some nonsense write up about it (Slack and Evernote did things like this somewhat recently)
Date labels on food let you plan ahead. For half of the stuff in my kitchen, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head whether it'll go bad in a month or in a year. Sure, once it goes bad, I might be able to spot it - but labels let me look at an unopened bag of $foodstuffs and decide whether I have to build a dinner around it this week, or whether it can wait another month.
You know the world is doomed when even the WSJ thinks solutions lie in more government regulation.
Oof, I don't know how I forgot about this one, but attachments. I just got a "text/x-vcard" attachment from someone. Google Voice helpfully displays it as "file type not supported" -- there is no way to download it, view it as text, or do anything other than tell the sender that I'm using a shitty Google product and please copy/paste the info out of it manually and send it to me.
There's hundreds of people working in the same space, everyone with a time horizon no farther than the next quarter. Of course they'll rip you off.
At a few places I've worked, logging and util stuff had it's own core to prevent l1/l2 cache pollution (either using threads or shared memory just as long as you got it out of the hot path).
Combine this with eye tracking for a page of text that grows just the words or figures you're looking at. You could display a larger page on a smaller one. E.g. show a multi page newspaper section on a single page, illegibly small until you focus on a particular headline. As you focus on that its teaser becomes visible, then the leading paragraph, etc.

You could display a link that when you look at it, it grows and resolves into its own content, recursively. Surf links by zooming in. The back button zooms out. It could be a natural way to navigate a graph of text.
> I find it interesting that the article is targeting vaping in general rather than buying tainted products.

really? you're surprised by editorial bias favoring entrenched corporations from a 'news' publication?

targeting vaping in general -> good for big pharma/big tobacco

targting just tainted products -> good for all 'vaping in general' companies, even the small ones, bad for big pharma/big tobacco

plus it's less sensationalist, and thus sells less copy.
the homeless don't have bank accounts.

This is not universally true.

However, there is a program in Seattle doing something akin to your idea:
https://www.samaritan.city

Also, you are overcomplicating this. Some things total strangers did for me when I was homeless:

Paid for my purchase in a store or eatery.

Bought me a grocery store gift card.

Gave me a previously purchased gift card.
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Definitely (open for anyone else too) - there's no messaging on HN though, so just send me an email to the address in the announcement post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
It's the difference between comfort and a life of struggle. I don't think the majority of college graduates are thinking "I need to be a big swinging dick on wallst to feel good about myself". More likely they are thinking about how they can simply get a home that can't be arbitrarily taken away, or the seeming impossibility of raising a family on a single income. Stuff our parents had, that just seems so far out of reach as to be unattainable.

That is certainly where my financial anxieties lie.
This would make a great visualization for a bassy music video. Link variables defining the polygon shape with amplitudes for bass frequency ranges and the color to the vocal tone.
I'm guessing it's because module names are sometimes used without the extension and "ntdll" looks better in such a list than "nt".
Just wait until Trump wins the next election
Suppose Alice does dog walking for both Wag! and Rover. A bit of Googling suggests that many walkers are on both, similar to the way many people drive for both Uber and Lyft.

Suppose Wag! sends Alice to walk Bob's dog.

Later, Rover also sends Alice to walk Bob's dog.

It Wag! going to try to collect $1000 from Bob for this? Or will they not consider this a violation of their terms because Bob did not actually solicit Alice for walking services. Bob solicited Rover, who sent Alice.

What if Bob specifically asks Rover to send Alice?
Look, the point I made that started this conversation is that there is a lot of evidence in U.S. history that free markets work extremely well. You are not dealing with that at all. There are two issues with your arguments.

a) Most of your arguments are about freedom as such, not the economics of a free market. Slavery, women's rights, and native american land appropriation fall under this.

b) It's not a black and white issue. If it's 80% a free market, finding examples in the 20% does not invalidate my point.

> You don't know anything about the economics of US slavery

I know a lot about the economics of US slavery. It's fine to disagree with something in particular, but what you have said here is not a valid part of an honest discussion.

Plus, if you are so hung up on slavery, we could have just shifted the conversation to post-1865 and I would make the same point: free markets work well and that is borne out by history.

> Your theory about stealing native american land is ridiculous. There is no free market if your economy depends on piracy. You're trying to use some legalistic card trick to pretend that something is not what it is.

I don't have a "theory." The colonizers took the land. I don't think that affects my thesis. As to the rest of what you say here, see point (b).

> Married women had no property rights: therefore they could not be participants in a free market.

That does not follow at all. When a married woman goes to the market to buy produce, she's participating in the free market.

> You have a narrative totally at variance with actual history, but it fits some ideological point you want to make. You would be better off trying to understand why your ideology is so incompatible with empirical reality. The end.

This is not a valid thing to say in an honest discussion. I believe that you honestly think I'm being dishonest, but I'm not. Nothing else can be said.

We have let this discussion get the best of us---we should have stopped it several comments back. I know this is not appropriate for HN. I'm not going to respond further. I would go back and delete the whole conversation if I could but I think that would be even worse.
It still displays "Load basic HTML (for slow connections)" at the right bottom section of the loading page. :/
Something tells me that YC isn't about acquiring users to have a unicorn exit of HackerNews.
a) awesome font

b) great, now my browser can also be dynamically generating typefaces in order to programmatically render the html
And how can one obtain this emulator?

If you can’t get it, it may as well not exist.
The only thing I'd like to see is a native dark mode, but everything else is perfect. It even works well on my Kobo eReader.
Thanks man, I'm using Chrome but will try DDG. It's gaining popularity these days.
IANAL but my understanding in my state is that the prevailing party will go to court and file a petition to confirm the arbitration award. The result of that is a judgment that is legally enforceable. Or conversely the loser can petition the court to vacate the arbitration award if they believe it to be unreasonable.
The article only mentioned in passing NPP Zvezda, which is a Russian ejection seat manufacturer. I remember reading years ago how much trouble the company was having getting the US Defense Department to even consider using their ejection seats.

At the time I vaguely remember seeing a couple of Youtube videos showing Russian ejection seats in action. In one, a Russian fighter jet suffered a complete engine failure in a two engine plane. The remaining engine spun the plane around and pointed it straight at the ground. The pilot ejected just a few hundred feet about the ground, and survived with minor injuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Lz-ssypaw

In the second one, two MIGs collided, slicing the nose off one of the MIGs. Both pilots ejected safely, and also only suffered minor injuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Lz-ssypaw
Gmail occasionally classifies the random email from YouTube as spam.

Given that, 100% delivery rate seems like a dream.
And the article specifically mentioned this.
Even just 500 years ago most of the Sahara was green.
In addition, 37% reported that they always or usually discard food when it is near the date stamped on the package, and 84% said they do so at least occasionally.

As someone who grew up in a not so wealthy family (but not "poor" by any standard), this behaviour is... perplexing. Are people regularly buying far more than they can consume? If that's the case, I don't think changing the date labels will do much. We almost never discarded food because of, and used the dates more as an indicator of when to consume it.
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That might be the reality but who knows what history will say.
Time and Time Correction in Erlang
Other than poor performance, the thing I'm most upset about is how each subreddit has lost its personality, and the fact they've closed the source. Being open is what made Reddit special, considering who founded it, it should never have gone closed source.
I have a gigabit Internet connection with top of the line laptops and Facebook still makes me wait for a second or two simply to show me 5 notifications.
After two major strawmen why should he add another reason?
In the old days, long before I was born, about 50% of the population was conscripted as "free" labor; staying home, cooking, cleaning, etc. That didn't take up all of the time, but that allocation of resources did leave a lot of time for doing things within a household.

Since that time nearly everyone works, and we have a literal war for attention (ads). At least in the school district where I had my education we also lacked any class about how to cook properly.

If as a society we want to make that choice I believe the logical conclusion is to have more community kitchens where workers (and automation where possible) make healthy, and also tasty (maybe not healthy) options for people to eat. We've outsourced that to fast food, generally, since that's also cheep "food". However the healthy, diversity, and quality are often lacking.

I live in the suburbs and I have to really, really, think. If I want something that isn't deep fried, isn't a burger, or a salad with 'BS' leafs (but is actually a salad with strong content and non-filler material): I struggle to think of even one place, let alone a selection that I could drive to within the local zone. Let alone anything I could hope to walk to in a reasonable duration of time.

Maybe if the automation revolution allows the average worker to have a 2-4 hour a day job (mostly supervising the automation and the paperwork) we can have an alternate future with time for rotating dinner parties and actual uses of the food.
first off not all is free for everyone, it is aquired for nothing. WIndows has been taken out as i dont need it anymore, ive gone full linux with wine and never went back

linux mint
libre office
vlc
masm32
various browsers

these are my every day carrys, but the GNU FOSS ecosystem has everything i need and most of what i want, other than that i roll my own.
This comment was great, until the last sentence. What is your basis for that claim? Do you know of some particular cutting agent that causes these symptoms?

Speculation should not be presented as fact.

We don't know what is causing these cases but you have presented a reasonable hypothesis.