skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We might have to expand our perspective a little more than just "I dont spy/sell-data at work, so Im cool."

Does your company have other subsidiaries that do this work? Does your employer contract out for/to-do this erosion of freedom and human dignity?

If not, that's awesome.

But lets be honest here - if your company is declaring neutrality while the world drowns in bull...spit, they're not helping. If you all sell routers, you're probably selling routers to the abusers, as one example. In this, your router code (hypothetical of course) would assist that doubleclick datafarm.

Unless you're at a firm that is actively making privacy-by-default routers, webbrowsers, hosting services, what-have-you? You're still feeding the madness on a less direct, more systemic manner.

Since I doubt your company's leadership would pass up facebook money? Nobody at all can seriously claim neutrality.
I suspect you're right - I also suspect modern technology could make such a thing more practical to use - as the original was difficult and tiring to control according to the article.
I'm just about there with you -- I'm 36 and my grandfather was born in 1913. My great-grandfather was a bootmaker for Otto von Bismarck.

Meanwhile, my wife's grandmother was born in the 1940s, and her great-grandmother was alive until just a few years back.
Absolutely-— for a year or two now.

These days, if I have success with even a mildly technical Google search, it’s because I’ve enclosed every single term in quotation marks and/or turned on verbatim search, which doesn’t even work that well.

Google is trying so hard to think for you that they’re ruining their core product.
Seems light on details of the incidents and timelines. Is there a better source that explains how this all started?
Same here.

Often, I have to rephrase my search 5-10 times before I see a result worth clicking on.
And they consistently shipped obsolete 4-5 year old OpenGL versions on macOS.
I hope that would be the case, but there are other ways to attack infrastructure. Besides physical security vulnerabilities, we have a lot of critical infrastructure that's Internet-connected and running software with known vulnerabilities. Nuclear power plants are some of the most secure in this area, fortunately. There's also the unpatchable problem of the vulnerabilities of the human mind to be swayed by extremists, and young people with career opportunities are constantly targeted. We have procedures in place to protect against these sorts of things, but they are not advancing as fast as our attack surface is increasing, and we rightfully don't want to sacrifice privacy and freedom for security.
That though, was a mere footnote
> I am also aware of the public sentiment/resentment towards the industry as a whole.

Can you or anyone else elaborate on this? I'm really not aware of this negative sentiment.
Calif seems to be on fire these days (no pun intended). They are passing one great legislation after another.
To be fair nobody could foresee this much at the time, at least I can't blame them compared to the average subpar-ness of humanity decisions.

To me it's even more mind boggling that the club of rome 72 report was a Million-scale best seller printed book and nothing happened regarding energy and resource waste. And that's far less sensitive than nuclear physics.
Considering it was a gastro intestinal thing this would have been the first thing they looked for...
And imagine opening an E-mail that contains a PhD paper requires 15 minutes of compilation...
Yes the remain campaign had hyperbole (though far less than Leave imo, "Easier deal in history?", " We won't be leaving without a deal." etc.), but it's getting within touching distance right now with the current Tory government advocating no deal.
Blogspam garbage. Doubly so for blockchain evangelism.
If you live in a downtown area, you likely don't have the space for a proper setup.

When the money's tight, being short on space doesn't necessarily keep you from doing it anyway. Hot desking at WeWork would cost more than half my rent.
I’ve used this trick with a 64-bit block cipher (base-32 encoding the result) to generate short, unique public identifiers (to put in URLs) for entries in a database based on an integer primary key.
Ah sorry, at first I thought you meant something like: https://i.imgur.com/RZeFKZQ.png. I did not try ChocoPy out myself, so I had no idea of the output to what you were referring, which is my fault. In any case, I hope I introduced Cutter/Radare2 to someone at least. :D
Nope. It’s commonly used.

“No Nukes Is Bad News for Climate”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-nukes-is-bad-news-for-climat...

“How Old Nukes Can Help Green New Dealers”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-10/elizab...

Any reasonable intelligence would have understood from the context.

Would make a good test for anyone’s AI.
I'd suggest turning termination protection on across production instances as a first solution, and consider some sort of infrastructure as code in the long term.
You're talking about a wishful thinking, I'm talking about the (for many people rather harsh) reality. I agree, it can (and should) be solved in the ways you mention, but this technology will not wait, it's here now. At the moment it's just incredible how often cops and prosecutors will trick possibly innocent people into plea bargaining to close the cases as quickly as possible and avoid having to prove them guilty in actual trials. Tech that makes it easier to round-up "the usual suspects" will just make it easier for them to do it to an even bigger group of people.
Your use of the catch-all phrase "Conspiracy Theorists" explains your point of view quite succinctly.

It is clear that you will not entertain any deviation from "accepted mainstream narrative".

Thanks for engaging, but your point of view is of no further interest to me personally.
I bet googlers on HN who work on ranking would appreciate that. Here's a recent one from me:

typical tcp packet size
Ive only been to 2 WeWork facilities but both were dirty and loud. Im not sure about other cities but the product was very underwhelming/disappointing for the price.
> Even with some modest ongoing investments, we'd have designs that are FAR safer than systems currently in operation.

Why would you think that? The problem with nuclear is that we are playing with significant tail risks, which are the hardest to engineer around. Catastrophic failures can have tremendous consequences, and in a sufficiently complex design there will be possibilities of catastrophic failures. While there are dead-simple reactor designs (like radiothermal), the vast majority of approaches work by layering complexity.

After Fukushima I became much more lukewarm on the subject of nuclear power, not so much because it was a huge Chernobyl-like disaster, but because I had repeatedly been told that a modern (post-Chernobyl) reactor was simply incapable of these failures modes. I had even, ignorantly, parroted back almost those exact words when discussing nuclear with people.
If you're having trouble getting out of bed, you can try using the 5 second rule to break your brain's patterns and activate the prefrontal cortex. Basically you count down from 5 out loud (saying the numbers aloud is important) and at 1 you just jump out of that damn bed like NASA launching a rocket.

Mel Robbins is the one to credit for this, there's more information here: https://melrobbins.com/blog/the-5-second-rule/
Not sure I agree with #1. Nuclear power had a super utopian vibe going for a good couple of decades. Nuclear power plant orders only started to decline in the early 70's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Age
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It is what it is. But I can see why that made him come across as cold towards his girlfriend.
I read that as "incapable" for some reason.
I had an error which I believe I have now fixed. The intended algorithm is "starting at the end of the list, swap each element with a random predecessor or possibly with itself".
> renewables and nukes

and? Nuclear power is just as "renewable" as wind, solar & hydro in every sense of the word.
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Step 1: Don't build nuclear plants in the middle of major cities.

Step 2: Build extremely strong containment. Not that hard, just keep pouring concrete.

Step 3: Be at peace with the fact that even the worst nuclear incident, while harrowing, would not be the end of the world - which fossil fuels literally are. And it's not like fossil fuels are immune to massive eco-disaster failure points. Deepwater Horizon was far more damaging than Chernobyl - millions of animals perished.

Optional Step 4: don't use a reactor design that involves huge piles of flammable radioactive carbon, uncontained - try for something where the reaction stops if anything goes wrong. Then at worst you get a toxic site, instead of vast amounts of atmospheric radiation.
There is still nowhere to dispose of spent fuel. No state or town would want to have the truckloads of spent fuel being driven through their territory. The cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant is prohibitively expensive (recent closings have cost upwards of a billion dollars).
What is the net benefit of classifying as an employee of this LLC?
That would be ideal. At the moment (and hopefully not for much longer) gas engines meet my needs better, so the solar panels would be an interim solution.
I agreed with your article and other comments here, but this is a bad take. There's no need for senseless tearing down and rebuilding, old homes are perfectly fine and often better-built than modern ones. Take a look at the mid-rise apartment building, I'm sure you have several wherever you live: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri...
Yes, PageRank makes assumptions about what good content is and furthermore those assumptions are probably inaccurate in a lot of cases (dishonest clickbait can have a lot of backlinks). But it is unbiased in a sense that using human raters following guidelines is not. Moving from a purely algorithmic approach is a step away from being a neutral delivery service towards being a publisher, which carries extra responsibilities if you have as much power as Google.
Sounds like a genetically-determined allergy (like chocolate or I think onions)?

Edit: Wow, HN really dislikes the suggestion that something could be genetic.
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None of that is what actually causes people to be angry. Eating junk food, drinking a beer, driving a sports car, doesn't evoke the same emotional reaction in people, which has the same sorts of consequences if you did some sort of long term impact analysis, which normal people don't do on the spot.

As well, insurance and hospital costs are likely reduced since I'm more often just dead rather than maimed. Plus I'll have less diabetes and heart disease since I'm not sitting inside watching CNN and Fox news all day getting fat and being "safe"
Uhm … this won't fool anybody with more than one eye. It might look convincing in a photo but once you look at it on location it is gonna be instantly obvious that this is flat paint on the ground.
I didn't say being more selfless meant becoming a slave to your employer. I clarified in another post that becoming more selfless can actually help you to leave a toxic environment too. Or maybe you might realize that you were part of the reason it was so toxic, and you take that with you wherever you go. In that case running doesn't help. I don't know what OPs situation is or what yours is. Once you let go of yourself a bit, and readjust your mindset and priorities accordingly, based on whoever you are and whatever situation you are in, then it will likely become more clear what you should do. And it will be easier, and even enjoyable, to do what you should do.

I don't think we were designed to be miserable, so if we are stuck in misery isn't it logical to think we might be pursuing joy in the wrong things?
I've sailed on ferry type boats in Norway that were electric. However they were charged from the grid when docked via two 415V 3-phase connections at hundreds of Amps. Power from hydro, of course.
Google doesn't :-) which is the point here
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If you find it funny that Kevin Bacon is within 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon of someone else, you're kind of misunderstanding the idea of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Challenge: Find the link between Kevin Bacon and President Tyler
If you call “toxic” and non biodegradable “political”, I agree with you. I think you will find that countries that expect the fighting to be largely in their backyard selected Tungsten and the countries that fight “overseas” selected Uranium.
If it’s something that is happening simultaneously in all the country while dogs living in the same animal care are not affected seems to push strongly towards contaminated food rather than towards some mysterious non infective disease just appearing all over the country.
In order for it to be fair to risk your own health, you would have to be in a society with zero social safety net (no mechanism where other people end up paying for your healthcare, and forget about charity for the disabled), as well as no emotional investment from any relationships (good luck getting this to happen on a planet with humans). An octopus could probably get away with solo climbing.
> Where should the cyclists in your anecdote be riding?

The street. If they feel the danger is too great, then you know what? They have the choice to walk or take the bus or a car.

The choice to break the law and endanger my life is always a bad one. But it is a choice. They are trading their safety for mine, when they choose to ride on the sidewalk.
Awesome, looking forward to trying it out!
Reverse clickbait.
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The methods to create a global flu pandemic have already been documented. Ferrets are great flu incubators and can serve as hosts to selectively breed deadly, highly transmissible flu. I hope world governments are keeping a close eye on Ron Fouchier, because if I were a Bond supervillain my plan would be to kidnap him and force him to create a superflu.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/09/flu-researcher-ron-f...

Note that even though he lost this legal fight, his work was still published - this hearing was solely about whether he required an export license to publish dual-use scientific research.
What exactly do you mean by that? When I search it up I get a SO answer saying what the max packet size is and another (closed) SuperUser answer that says that their is no average tcp packet size because that depends on the specific application. Both of those seem pretty good to me, but I'm not a low level networking guy.
15 GB of storage would be nice.

Go to the "Simple Pricing" page. Click the 0-999 GB for 2 cents/GB link. That's great pricing.

Select 15 GB.

Get message telling me the minimum is 500 GB.

That's not the kind of company I'm going to trust with my data. What other kind of BS are they going to try to pull if they're willing to do something like this before I'm even a customer?

Maybe they don't want small customers like me. That's okay. Just be honest about it on your website.
I grew up coding demo effects on the C64 and the Amiga.

I always loved how the vblank synced ultra-smooth graphics slide over the screen while the CRT had a sort of magical "glow" to the picture.

I sit here by a nice iMac but often feel like that magical glow just isn't there even though the picture is 1000 times better than my old television I used.

Is there some kind of effect that can be applied to achieve this glow on a good LCD screen?

Or maybe it's just the lying of the nostalgia of childhood memories?
I humbly request you to please stop, my brain is making spirals.
Could you generalize the forum software and get other people to make community forums based on your software (ie. sell it), instead of you doing it yourself?
TFA can also stand for The Fine Article.
By HN rules you should assume the best; in this case for you, he was talking about the fine article.
I came away with the feeling that he sees things in the world very black and white, lacks empathy (but still tries), and doesn’t compromise on his view of the world. Some might view that as an admirable trait and that’s it’s important to be true to ones self, others might more negatively view it as isolationist, anti-social, or even as one commenter here put it “on the spectrum”. I don’t want to judge his personality too much or pick sides, but I can understand how his personality can be polarizing.

As far as free climbing goes, he’s on top of his game, and should be able to climb as he wishes I think. It’s his life, let him live it. But the list of dead free climbers that were once the best in the world, grows every year it seems....
This solution requires storing the 2^63 cards you have picked. That's impossible to do today.
Spotify requiring users to share location data to prevent abuse of family plan
No. This is Vox phrasing to drum up controversy. They do this crap all the time.
Those who forget the story of Superman's origin are doomed to repeat it.
But do they think of them as assholes because they are smoking? Or eating unhealthy food?
Setting up a personal packagist, part 1
you can also use a Lehmer random number generator of full period.
Should people really be eating junk food? I do kind of think it's unfair that in a world with universal healthcare I'm going to have to be paying for their diabetes in 50 years. If I'm going to be paying for the consequences then you bet I'm going to want to make your decisions. Likewise I wouldn't mind it if you went climbing, but then I would demand that you pay for your own solo climbers insurance.
The brain scan is from the documentary, which if I remember correctly did result in the conclusion that his brain does not function like a normal human's in the context of fear.
> None of that is what actually causes people to be angry.

How do you know this? Have you interviewed everyone ever on why they got angry? There are a variety of reasons and it's very highly unlikely that you are correct.
How to Prepare Object Detection Dataset for CreateML
I did what I could.
How I could have hacked all Uber accounts! Bounty $6500 USD
Not just Firefox, all programs in Windows 10 allow shift+click to jump. The only exceptions are new UWP style scrollbars (the ones that are affected by the "Automatically hide scrollbars in Windows" setting). Fortunately I don't use any of those, other than start menu and settings. Interestingly (as mentioned in the article) EdgeHTML based Edge is not one of them, scrollbar is always visible regardless, and shift+click works.
Do you experience this for dev-related searches or all types? I often have trouble finding relevant content for dev-related searches due to SEO content farms that wrap Stack Overflow content in an ad-infested user interface or worse.
I can't remember how or exactly when I came across Alex but it was several years ago. On the one hand I find parts of him highly relatable (eg "learning his lines" and his aversion to asking others to climb with him) and others not (eg I have zero inclination to climb anything).

I certainly respect how much work and preparation he puts into his climbs.

The question is: how is he different to the Everest glory hounds that I personally find objectionable? These are the people who basically pay $50k to "climb" Everest and largely get carried by the sherpas. Ask an experienced tour operator and, weather depending, they'll tell you they can probably get anyone to the top.

There are some key differences:

1. I honestly think the Everest glory hounds aren't doing it for the experience, for the most part. They're doing it for the bragging rights. It's the next level of Instagram flexing. Like it's the same people who go to Greece and the only thing they do is get a selfie at sunset in Santorini before moving on to the next Instagram stop.

2. Alex is actually doing things that have never been done before and some thought impossible.

You may view what Alex does as unsafe (I mean, I'd never do it) but it really is his life. Where my attitude turns is when someone has children. You see these stories all the time of [amateur climber] pursues life long dream of summitting Everest and dies leaving [wife and 3 small children].

The defenders will say that person is following their dreams and teaching their kids to do the same. Me? It's purely self-indulgent rationalization. If you're a parent, your kids need you more than you need to be the 6000th person to summit Everest.

Alex has a partner. She can make her own choices though. But your kids? They don't get a choice.
Perhaps, but homes are built on land. We’re not making more land and it will always appreciate.

Also building materials and labor increase in price with inflation so homes will increase in absolute price even with proper regulation (which no country has ever succeeded in accomplishing).
And yet you are being downvoted for fighting common bullshit, what a world we live in!
It seems the Chickenshit club[0] has expanded to Europe.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute...
Of course, you can't withdraw a criminal charge.

But they attempted to, I believe.

And you don't close a case because the target is shielded - you may put it on the back burner, but not close it.

Rape is sex without consent. That doesn't seem to be quite the case here. The "look" is quite clear, the rape charge is exaggerated.
Yeah I had to read this over 3 or 4 times before I understood exactly what the author was saying. Very unintuitive way of putting it.
Dozens are dead over hundreds infected, it doesn’t matter if the whole dog population is 1000 or 1B for the mortality rate.
Those blog style articles are the "original reporting" they're trying to promote.
Twice in the last month I found Bing gave me a better search result than Google (thing I was looking for in the first couple answers, not even on the first page in Google). That never happened to me before.
TSMC Thinks It Can Uphold Moore’s Law for Decades
That’s helpful actually. There are plenty on Ebay, which is fine for just playing around with.
This is probably a phenomenon of user tolerance which is game all companies try to balance with making money and delivering value to stakeholders and customers. This only really became a problem when it went from 1-2 ads at the top, to 3, and now 4 above the first organic results.

Considering on mobile you’d have to scroll quite a bit to get to the first non ad one could argue Google as a service as a whole is worse off for consumers, not to mention for the whole internet which benefits from accurate rankings.

I’m curious if people would be so outraged if it went back to 1-3 on average. Or whether this would improve the UX as a whole. But Google lately has given way less of a shit about putting the UX above monetization strategies. Which is as much as consequence of their market position where there’s no alternative.
> I had repeatedly been told that a modern (post-Chernobyl) reactor was simply incapable of these failures modes

Fukushima was commissioned in 1971. Chernobyl happened in 1986. I would not call the design a "post-Chernobyl" reactor.

I can recommend the section on the wiki page for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe...

> I had even, ignorantly, parroted back

I think this is probably the root cause ;)
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