skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good, I missed that. Thanks for highlighting the project, I'll keep an eye on it!
That's exactly what I would do, trumps grades any day.
That kind of response suggests millions of customers should learn this rather than hundreds of stations posting a sign, and that's the fundamental backwardsness of the "blame the user" approach.

And it doesn't work reliably. Yes, if you've been riding for a while, you do pick that up, and it does work in some stations. But, especially in DC, many stations aren't neatly on some cardinal direction, and you are turned around several times, and often not in 90 degree increments, by the time you exit.
I come from a rural community in midwest United States.

It is rough. All of the factories closed. Then all of the small businesses closed. Then all of the grocery stores closed. We now have to drive almost an hour to the local Wal-Mart to get our groceries. The crime rate sky-rocketed, job rates feel, and everything went to pot. [0]

It is grim. I am very fortunate I arbitrarily chose "Computer Science" for my college degree. I make extremely good money. I could have easily ended up back in my small town trying to make ends meet.

Observation: A lot of my friends did not make it out and are doing great. A lot of my other friends are NOT. One false move and you are stuck with a degree nobody wants, working a shitty nowhere job to survive, and not enough time or energy to change careers.

IMO, The rise of the "alt-right" and general dissatisfaction in modern America comes from the same place: The jobs suck, the retirement sucks, the communities are car-hell, you work yourself into the grave to make someone else money and get very little back.

My family ran funeral homes for years, made decent money. Now my parents are in their 50s and disaster after disaster have drained their bank accounts. The community went broke, so we went broke. Thankfully, they managed to get regular 9-5 jobs around the community to support themselves, but it feels like everybody is constantly walking on a tight-rope, and one more stiff breeze is going to upset everything.

0: https://www.areavibes.com/keokuk-ia/crime/
omg wow, didn't know people would go to such extent...
Idaho is very Mormon in the south, and Mormons tend to be significant in the tech scene throughout the west (eg at Microsoft in Redmond), so that doesn’t sound surprising at all.
I'm amazed we've had so few accidents, considering how many nuclear plants are located all around Europe. Recently I was reading about an incident in Ukraine, where workers from a nuclear power plant connected the internal network to the internet to mine bitcoin.

It's a shame there's no avherald for nuclear power, I bet it would be an interesting read. C. Perrow had access to industry journals when documenting the chapter on nuclear in his "Normal accidents" book. The incidents described there were mind-boggling.
Python nested lists use pointers too; this is normal for high-level languages, as I explore in some depth in http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models/. Look:

>>> x = [[3, 4], 5]
>>> y = [6, x[0]]
>>> y[1][1] = 7
>>> x
[[3, 7], 5]

Octave and Tcl are the exceptions here, and of course in Racket (and maybe in Clojure?) the pointer semantics aren't visible as they are above, but do affect performance.

I like Python a lot (I edited the Weekly Python-URL for a while) but it took me longer to switch to it --- most of 2000 and 2001, really. I still occasionally reach for perl for quick command-line things.
> The linked page even has Opinion prior to the title.

Yes, in a font smaller than and above the title that is very light against the background and reasonably easy to miss.

> Would it be reasonable to assume the title Don't Trust Facebook with Your Love Life could possibly only be opinion? Would a reasonable person expect to see data-driven research after clicking through?

Perhaps it's a clickbait title with real substance, or perhaps a great research piece. The only way to know is to read it.
Always trade offs. Can’t imagine living somewhere with draconian laws around employers owning work you do on your own time with your own equipment and space. California is a leader here. There are nice, less expensive cities in California like Chico if you can swing remote work.
> I get that reading is involuntary for literate adults, but I believe it is possible to not engage with the words beyond that.

Perhaps you should heed your own advice.
Irish, tax is 52% on each euro above 33k year (about 20% below) property tax is about 300eur per year, no universal healhcare, employer pays health insurance.
"The universal thinking within AWS is that people will ultimately use the API/CLI/SDK."

What is odd is that during the Chicago summit one of the presenters explicitly said that most of their customers use the UI instead of API/automation. I don't recall the percentage but it was higher than I imagined.
> Editorials are very clearly separated from news content in nearly every newspaper, but definitely on the NYTimes.

Perhaps on the paper, or the site itself. On HN it is not reasonably obvious.
I saw the filings but Breanden's silence is deafening. It would be good if Jason could get him on his show to find out what the equity deal was when they formed the company.
You can do this with YouTube. Just click "Not interested" in the three-dots menu, and click the "Tell us why" link that appears.
I'm sorry you distrust me, but I do my best to speak the truth as I see it. My name is Breck Yunits, I've been on this site for 12 years. You can find more about me at breckyunits.com. You can see over a decade of commits in just one of my GitHub accounts at github.com/breck7. You can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. You are free to post your opinions and criticisms of me, I really am grateful for it and often learn a lot from criticism.

> a habit of speaking with the "royal we" for instance.

This is a fair point. I'll explain. My Tree Notation ideas are simple, bold, and have very big implications if I'm right. I have gotten tremendous help from hundreds of people, and have had thousands of conversations about it. My initial paper had initials of many people who read the initial drafts and helped me publish it. I got a lot of negative comments when I posted it, with the most common that it was nothing original and/or that I was some crazy nut detached from reality. Instead of subject my friends and collaborators to that, I've just decided to be the shield that takes the heat, while everyone else does the hard job of pushing these ideas forward. I think it's now pretty close to the point where people see that we were right after all, and Tree Notation may indeed eat the software world, and you will set a lot of new names, and mine will fade out.
Which half? Please elaborate.
If you google 'Cheney Rumsfeld MKULTRA' there's plenty enough reading to fill a rainy Sunday afternoon...
See parent, but it was a theme of Epstein's projects to be named with innuendos.
Internal email this afternoon from President Reif:

To the members of the MIT community,

Last night, The New Yorker published an article that contains deeply disturbing allegations about the engagement between individuals at the Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein.

Because the accusations in the story are extremely serious, they demand an immediate, thorough and independent investigation. This morning, I asked MIT’s General Counsel to engage a prominent law firm to design and conduct this process. I expect the firm to conduct this review as swiftly as possible, and to report back to me and to the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation, MIT’s governing board.

This afternoon, Joi Ito submitted his resignation as Director of the Media Lab and as a professor and employee of the Institute.

As I described in my previous letter, the acceptance of the Epstein gifts involved a mistake of judgment. We are actively assessing how best to improve our policies, processes and procedures to fully reflect MIT’s values and prevent such mistakes in the future. Our internal review process continues, and what we learn from it will inform the path ahead.

Sincerely,

L. Rafael Reif
Snus you do not spit
>If you’re planning to start a company of some sort, don’t aim to sell goods. Your main focus should be to build a strong bridge between you and your desired customer. To create a process of some sort that will offer ongoing benefits. In the new era, smart processes (imagine Uber and Spotify) will outwit single products.

I am not so sure about this. Uber is bleeding money. Spotify, ended up in a world of trouble after Apple(a company known for making products) entered the streaming music business.
> Why does it matter if Epstein was aggressive or not if Gates wrote the check?

To respond to concerns that the two were spotted together frequently. This is an answer to a question. Figure out the question and you will understand.
If a kid makes a cool web page by hand coding html they can call it code. Better to encourage people.
> You might not hear a lot among you white straight male friends at the golf club about things like Rochester's Inner Loop

I'll make sure to discuss the issue thoroughly with my friends at the next Punk in Drag show.
Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production
I disagree. In your linked comment, ColdTea's comment is insightful.

Edit: I linked to this article because it makes an informed critique of Gates but the ultimate point is that all that is being measured by removing "extreme poverty" is a movement from subsistence (living outside the money economy) to existence within it. This isn't accomplished by charity and trends for those within the money economy have not been towards increasing wages.

A move out of subsistence could be good, bad or indifferent, depending on particular conditions and who interprets the situation. But the big thing is it's particular (and pretty much inevitable) change, not a general "trend to the good" and ultimately the question is where those in the money economy get good and rising wages, something Gates seems to pay zero attention to.
You'd be surprised... There is a surprisingly high number of sites that do not rely at all on Google to get their audience. I would even dare to say it is the majority of sites.
Google is a great way to get some random folk looking for something, but if you really KNOW your audience there are much better ways to reach it.
"If you make 100k, the state could take 9k a year."

That is absolutely not how income taxes work. If you live in California and earn $100k, your tax liability would be around $6k before any exemptions or deductions.

These things can easily be looked up, FYI.
Equifax Breach Settlement does not care to pay
Like many HN folks, I submitted a claim in the Equifax outrage. Now they have written me to say that they will not pay unless I already have something that I consider useless.

"According to our records, you filed a claim for alternative compensation of up to $125 in connection with the Equifax data breach settlement and certified on the claim form that you had some form of credit monitoring or protection in place and will continue to have the credit monitoring in place for a minimum of six months from the date of your claim filing.You must either verify or amend your claim by October 15, 2019.

If you do not, your claim for alternative compensation will be denied.
•To verify your claim for alternative compensation, you must provide the name of your credit monitoring service that you had in place when you filed your claim.
OR
•You can amend your claim to request free credit monitoring instead of alternative compensation."

In short, there appears to be no consequences, whatever, for the offense in this case. Does a person have any alternative?
I agree with you about the old-fashioned-ness. Disagree about the recommendations.
Yes, "don't give up" is the main thrust. However, if an individual exists in an environment where bad practice is rewarded and good practice is scorned, the advice needs to go beyond individual practice. We need to not give up on the environment, and that in turn requires hope that a better environment is possible and within our reach, as an individual, a team, and a discipline/craft/practice. This is a hard problem.
Everything you said above is true of URLs, JPEGs, and Word documents (which are XML), too, except for the things that aren't true of HTML, namely, "this ability to generate something seemingly novel", and "You can write a bunch of code and get something that has emergent properties." (To some extent that's true of JPEG, but not HTML.) It is not true that URLs, JPEGs, and Word documents "are usually just data. They are the artifact. They are not generating anything distinct," although I concede that it's true of CSV files.
That Epstein was problematic --- something that in essentially no doubt at this point after his indictment, imprisonment, and subsequent suicide --- was so well-understood to the Media Lab team at the time that they were considering intervening to help Epstein's escorts, on the off chance that they had been trafficked. That is not a position most people's bosses ever put them in, but it's what Ito did to staff at the Lab.

If your point is "they probably weren't trafficked at least in the lurid sense we mean when we talk about trafficking", sure, but that's not the point. The point is that Ito's collaboration with Epstein was not incidental, but rather deliberate, overt, and actually disruptive to the operations of the Lab.
At that point in time literally nothing would have stopped bad actors from shipping malicious Firefox extensions. IE only had that problem because it was popular.
Guessing:

It's very much a "nice to have" feature with low priority, on a product that itself is likely low priority (Pages).

Even if an IPv4-only site is slower for some subset of users (that have IPv6-native internet connections and gateways to access IPv4), that's not something GitHub is likely to care about, especially not with Pages. Pages being a tiny bit faster doesn't make them money and few people ever notice. E.g. HTTPS support for custom domains was a lot more important.
That doesn’t really fit in with modern web interfaces though. REST and GraphQL are both stateless architectures. Tracking and mutating a state on every request doesn’t fit very well with with that.
“The trouble with tainted money is t’aint enough of it.” - William Booth.

Playing devil’s advocate here: Accepting tainted money as charity is not the problem. Promoting the donors, giving them prestige, contacts, access or some other benefits as a result of donations is the problem.
I had a lot of financial clients during the early days of ios and android. All the ones that dipped their toes into native apps back then have migrated back to html wrappers. Some I remember had concerns about unencrypted storage of user data, others had concerns about increased platforms for vulnerability testing. I think ultimately these guys try to reduce risk and cost related to tech, even if it would improve their customer experience.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to download or at least get a full list of my "watch later" playlist?
Rule # 1 of any economic analysis:

Analysis done during boom periods (low unemployment, high stock market) is worthless. During the dot com, housing and crypto bubbles, there were many trends of people doing X.

As Buffett says, "It's only when the tide goes down, you'll see who is swimming naked".

Real trends survive recessions and market busts. Take everything else with a grain of salt
Well, that's your opinion to hold, but I'm a bit more realpolitik about things. Unless withholding the materials are likely to damage police operational capability, it's an empty feel-good gesture.

> That's kind of a really idiotic stance to take.

I would kindly ask you drop the ad hominems.
Alternately: The fact that Prince was super okay with hosting those websites until the moment it made him look bad
Not to mention that a huge portion of reddit traffic goes to aggregation pages like users' frontpages, /r/all, and too a lesser extent multireddits.
Charities should use direct debit not card details for regular donations but direct debits are much more expensive.

If they used direct debits you wouldn't need to update anything when you got a new card.

If these organisations had either the resources or the transaction volume they would/should switch to DD.

What you've experienced is the entry level option.

Charities have a skewed income distribution. Most charities are small with very limited resources, there is only for a relatively small number of big ones. So many probably do use the entry level option.

(I run a charity in the UK)
Deregulation of nuclear cannot and will not ever happen.
I do not have to think Thomas Jefferson was a saint to find value in the opening of the Declaration of Independence--when applied to all people.

You understand that one can be very, very in favor of the stated aspirations of the American founding documents while understanding that the people saying them both did a lot of bad shit and had a provincial and shitty understanding of who those stated aspirations applied to, yeah?

Those words are a call for us to do better, and part of doing better is understanding our often-shitty ancestry.
There's no such thing as a "spit bottle" required for "proper" usage of snus. Perhaps if you are using snus that isn't portioned in bags and you wish to keep it in for a long time, you'll need to spit at some point -- but the vast majority of people do use portioned snus, and it is normally discarded before it starts running in a dedicated part of the box you took it from.[1]

[1]: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fd13o5qkgojw...
You're being alarmist without any actual data to support your view.
Sure, HTML is code, just like binary notation for numbers (as commenter breck pointed out). It's just not a programming language. I agree about encouraging people but I don't think that dishonesty is a good way to do it --- they get discouraged and doubt themselves when they inevitably learn that their earlier achievements were faked.
I feel you’re looking for a fight and I don’t want to indulge you. Hope you’ll understand.
Space is hard. I wish India all success in their next try.
Well I was clearly wrong to claim "no one," but that has no bearing on whether the user-submitted article referenced was written with actual racial animus as asserted, or was just ill-phrased observation.
You could say the same thing of a badly maintained dam, or hazardous chemicals factory.
Sure, you can read into it a negative connotation but that isn't enough to ascribe racist intent.
Please don’t use code preformatting for quotes. https://i.imgur.com/R9S4Hmr.jpg
I'm sure that the risk of cancer isn't negligible, but again, spitting is not something that users of portioned snus do, the bags are normally discarded way before they turn runny.
As someone who's had some positive mental benefits from psychedelics with depression and anxiety, I wouldn't recommend the way I went about it at all. I would very much like to see proper controlled clinical tests, guided usage, proper dosages figured out, how these drugs affect the brain and why they bring about the results they do.

The thing is though, with some psychedelics, such as peyote, psilocybin, ayahuasca, there is actually hundreds of years of usage. Most of those were used for centuries by the people local to the areas they grew and there are records of it.

But in general, I personally would enjoy seeing far more studies done to learn about all these different drugs that affect our brains in such spectacular ways.
At the end of the day people will do whatever makes them happy. Life is not black and white and it's different with every person, if you feel FOMO is a problem in your life change it otherwise keep it up if it makes you happy, I don't necessarily view it as a negative thing. Although I have never heard of these terms I am in my early 30s and I think JOMO has been my way of life since I can remember its what makes me happy. I'm not anti social but I haven't made new friends in a long time and spend little time on social media. The few close friends I have, I've known them for 15-20 years, right now I spend 80% of my free time alone indulging in my personal projects and activities I enjoy and 20% with those close friends and family and this balance has been working for me so far.
Ok maybe I’m missing something. Joi allowed him to visit the lab after he was banned?
The farmers markets are amazing. I’ve had them walking distance from places I lived in San Francisco, Mountain View, San Jose, and Chico. The quality is incredible.
Have you ever looked into the jailbreaking scene?

Some teams give out exploits for free (donations accepted) that allow root access.

Not that far fetched for a more focused team to do better.
What about that paragraph leads you to believe it should be higher or lower in the story, relative to its current position?
There is nothing practical about your stance though, so you can't really call it realpolitik. You are being overly charitable about how you've arrived at your position.

>it's an empty feel-good gesture.

Not really, by not continuing trade you lend less credence to the actions of the government.

You think you're being intelligent about what's happening here but it's really just a case of you not understanding how actions are perceived by other organizations.
Do you only buy products from company’s where your politics align? For example, no Chinese products because that supports a communist regime? Not using Google because they actively suppress information in China?
What is the effect on your teeth though? How would you deal with it?
>For instance giving them more money won't necessarily increase their trust in possibly corrupt banks.

Yes, hence why I said “bank accounts or other financial services”. The latter could be either centralized or decentralized. Either way, they still need cash flow/income first.
Ideally, yes. In the current advertising market? No.
I’m aware of the history of the region. Maybe erupting in fury about whether or not the armed occupation is an invasion isn’t the most productive debate.
Agree with TaylorAlexander people are saying psychedelics are great because they have used them in their own lives with positive effects. Granted we need to proceed very cautiously as they aren’t good for everyone and can go very wrong
Malcolm Gladwell's famous 10k hour rule isn't holding up in new research
I don't get this. If it was so clearly obvious that he was breaking the law, why was he not in jail? Isn't that a bigger scandal?
I really don't follow. What does Epsteins background have to do with the funding he was bringing to MIT? People aren't one dimensional. What Epstein did was disgusting, it has nothing to do with him funding some MIT research. MIT taking that funding is not in any way supporting what Epstein did.
We should indeed be focusing on Bill Clinton too, but one of them is president now, and the other is not.
Yeah, pointer arithmetic with raw string handling is usually bad news bears. I wonder if it's possible to write a bot that grabs every "string.c" or "str.c" (etc.) from GitHub and looks for this stuff.
Considering the strangeness of the subject matter, I would think whether one has personal experiences in the field would factor quite heavily into interpretation of the writing of others, as well as the level of purely speculative content in opinions on a forum.
Joi providing a front for Epstein perhaps? Joi benefiting personally from this, is the smoking gun.
Director of MIT’s Media Lab Steps Down over Epstein Ties
I'm guessing it's the VW part people are against since they cheat on their emissions tests.
Just because he has been convicted before doesn't mean this time he did it again.

Thats for the police to figure out.

I disagree, even if its proven he did it, taking money and hanging out with child trafficker doesn't mean one condone the practice of the trafficking itself.
I chose x86 because I wanted to try the os in my ancient PCs like a Celeron 333MHz. And articles I was reading at the start was for 32bit.