skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that is only a carrier creates a barrier to monetize the platform through ads. Nobody with a serious brand doesn't want to see ads next to nazi propaganda and some kinky furry porn.
Ask HN: Is Webkit Open Source?
I've reported several bugs in WebKit and they get marked with a rdar link (Apple's internal, non public bug system). The bugs reported are not related to security. One was an SVG rendering bug. Another was a canvas CSS issue. Another was an audio tag redirect issue. Another was a simple WebGL issue.

I suppose technically there is no definition of "open source" that requires the process itself to be open, only the source and the license. Still, it's frustrating to see such issues set sucked into an invisible black hole that doesn't feel like an I'd expect for open source community developed project. How is the community supposed to participate if issues, their progress and status are hidden in a private bug tracker?

AFAICT this rarely happens on Chromium or Firefox. If the bug is a security issue bugs might be hidden from some until fixed. At most they might reference a crash report that is not publicly available for obvious reasons.

Are other mostly Apple run "open source" projects similar? LLVM? Clang? Swift? Where a large percentage of issues are handled in secret?
Apparently yes. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21271555
Where I supposed that "observed as <distance>" just means how much red-shifted its light is- we don't really have any other way to measure such distances. This in turn only measures how much the space has expanded between us and the original starting point, much closer than 13 billion light years away. So we can say that we're seeing a star that is "now" 46 billion ly from us, but must have been only a few billion ly away when it emitted the light we're receiving. Correct?
Political emails are spam. No matter from which direction they come from. So tagging them as spam seems just the right thing to do.
> If you've ever been passionate about something, something that's hard and takes a lot of effort and practice to become good at, would you really let microaggressions stop you from doing that thing?

Yes, actually, people do this all the time. They find new things to be passionate about if being passionate about something is too painful.
It's more like instead of using the Three Gorges Dam to generate power you use the giant flow of water to fill 7 water bottles per second and divert the rest to dry up in a nearby salt flat, citing the renewability of the solution.
I think open source software providing (free) utility for everyone is just a side effect, not the original intend behind it. The original intent, as far as I'm aware, is to let users use and modify the software without restrictions. This obviously leads to the free utility, but if there was a way to achieve the former without the latter, it would be ok. There isn't, and so my argument might sound a bit silly. I do feel it's an important distinction to keep in mind when talking about the politics of it though.
The bear shit in the woods.
The paragraph goes into further detail that this was seemingly the first public appearance (so to say) on TV, but it might have been previously made by his mentor Hans Karl Adam.

So if the scene is set in '53 and mentions "Oh I just saw this on TV", then it would definitely be anachronistic, otherwise it's entirely in the realm of possibility.
Yeah, Lisp-y parenthesis syntax isn't the best for that, but Ruby and CoffeeScript express it reasonably well: `sum mapToInt filter list`
>GMail doesn't actually filter spam. It just hides it

This is not accurate. There is a long on-going issue with GMail (and others) wholesale blocking delivery of email from domains/IPs/providers it deems to be spam or otherwise inappropriate. GMail users get no indication/notification, and generally have no idea that email sent to them was simply not delivered.
The other side is that people who mine bitcoin have to have basically “free” energy - margins are too tight. So while it’s wasteful, people aren’t burning coal or gas to produce bitcoin in the big bitcoin farms. Hydro and geothermal rule.
Being focused is often confused with being busy with random thoughts. Being focused on one thing feels like stretching out your brains - a very remarkable feeling. On the other hand, being busy with thoughts raises blood pressure and that makes head feel heavy. When we're working on something, we usually do the latter.
As a member of said general public I’m a little shocked by this revelation.

Thanks for the summary.
What's the problem with maintainability of stored procedures?

For example, one can keep them in 'stored-procedures.sql' under Git version control and deploy them via one command, like `psql ...`.

Won't it work that way?
Look at SF. They are looking to ban cars from the city center but not drug dealers who deal right in front of govt buildings and mere feet from police offers.

But banning cars gets a lot more airspace for some reason. Totally dysfunctional clown city.
Damn that link is amazing for accounting
Could you add an issue to the GitHub project? Shouldn't be a problem to add support for 3.5 and I'll take care of it soon.
Yeah, so? Things have significantly changed since then?
There are years of experience and salary adjustments + stock refreshes between those levels. You don't just make a quantum jump like that from year to year.
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Dunno if I'd call Yahoo! Groups "tech-centric."
Why do you buy clothes when you could just make them yourself?
Quite arguable numbers that seem to be used to drive traffic to this site rather than do a proper scientific report like done by the University of Cambridge https://cbeci.org/

The CO2 emissions heavily depend on the actual use of renewable which nobody can be sure about. In some cases like bitcoin mining using fuel that would otherwise cause CO2 emissions, you actual have a net gain. (See companies like https://www.upstreamdata.ca/)

So even by those arguable arguable CO2 emissions it's actually less than 0.1% of the world's total.

I wish people that have knee-jerk reactions about this, actual think about the big picture and what actually causes high CO2 emissions and offer way fewer benefits than censorship-resistant money.

The luxury fashion industry for example for a long time has had a big negative effect, from drying up whole lakes, to child labor to effectively destroying villages for what... anyhow.
Canada and New Zealand have entry visa requirements that there not be an undue burden on the health care system, with cost thresholds around $20,000 CAD and $41,000 NZD.
Please contact me using my email in my profile, I have some great book suggestions you might enjoy.
Doctors and lawyers aren't "the best of us." Those would be teachers and firefighters and social workers and the rank and file who work at charitable foundations.
> We have a major problem with inflation in this world, you can't just put your money somewhere and have it retain its value anymore and it hasn't been like that for years, we're forced to play the stock market game which just consolidates power to big corporations and leaves a lot of people all over the world left behind...

The Bank of Canada found that a Bitcoin based economy would have the same amount of drag as a 48% rate of inflation [1].

A 2% rate of inflation is trivial in the near term, and in the long term encourages productive allocation of capital. Inflation literally only matters to people sitting on cash -- and that's the point! If you invest it in anything inflation stops mattering and the constant-dollar return starts to matter.

[1] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/swp20...
I don't know a lot about physics, but I do know a little bit about computer science, and it seems to me that--barring some crazy breakthrough in computation--any simulation accurate enough to overcome the chaotic nature of this problem may very well be fundamentally impossible. That in itself would be a pretty fascinating result.
This article is not persuasive at all. With the exception of one quote ("That was some 40% of the day’s trading volume in September e-minis") none of these factoids were put in any context that indicates exceptionalism (or not) of them. How many similar-sized trades also puked money instead of made?

I'm not saying Trump, his reptilian cronies, and liked-minded types wouldn't be capable of imaging gross schemes like this, but this article goes almost nowhere in proving it. As someone else points out, it also conflates all sorts of events (IGRC, HK, Trump) into a single conspiratory organism. Unlikely.

I'd also say there are myriad examples (some posted here) that indicate insider-trading/tipsterism often is not nearly as profitable as you'd imagine.

Further.... There is an econometrician Phillip Verlegger who, back in the 1990s was doing analysis of futures markets that suggested that Saddam Hussein was using headlines about the UN-Oil-For-Food program to drive oil futures prices (which presumably his cronies exploited). I can no longer remember the details of his analysis, but it was evidence-based rather than the sensationalism this article pumps.
Bitcoin is pure free market. People keep it because of its history - same as how people buy gold coins.
Maybe. It's possible. But it's not a finding in isolation. Another recent finding is that gender equal societies tend to have larger personality differences between men and women. I.e. women in Sweden tend to have much more different personalities and preferences than men in Sweden. Whereas in Saudi Arabia the two genders tend to be more similar.

Overall the general theme of these findings is that gender parity is not a good proxy for gender equality. Equality is a very important goal that we should strive for. But the reality is that increasing equality may paradoxically result in larger divergences among the genders in terms of behavior, life trajectories and modes of expression.

In my opinion if there is a tension between equality and parity, than gender equality is a much more important goal. And that's what we should be measuring, not parity metrics like representation percentages.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/gender-pe...
By itself a block chain just stores hash with each block, they could be recomputed after a change. Just like how Git history can be changed.

Unless you're talking about a distributed public no-trust ledger, yes that can be solved with block chain as it's what Bitcoin is. But that's not a problem they're having.
But we do! To a great extent, anyway. There is a spectrum of opinion, but it broadly goes between 'the most important thing is that the biggest corporations continue to make a larger profit, damn all else' at the extreme right, and 'we should make sure there is a modicum of prosperity for everyone, so that they will keep supporting our goal of ever increasing profit, damn almost everything else'. There are other topics where there is a wider variety of opinions (e.g. climate change, though even there, addressing climate change is only considered to the extent that it wouldn't hurt profit too much, or universal healthcare).

There may very rarely be an article or two that really are going against the grain, but that is to be expected, since there is no claim of hard censorship.
That's the point of the analogy. People keeep saying Twitter etc. are private companies and can do whatever they want apparently without realizing how ridiculous it all seems when applied to another business.
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The replacement of the debit-normal and credit-normal account structure with simple use of positive and negative numbers is not unprecedented in computerized double-entry accounting systems (ledger-cli and it's ports and offshoots do this, too); it's quite natural since the credit-debit system was itself a hack around the medieval European resistance to negative numbers and a way to reduce subtraction operations by grouping everything into addition of columns of positive numbers and then one substraction of the two column totals.

> Surely some of their customers have competent accountants maintaining the business's books. This unasked-for effort will make their job harder.

Uh, why? It's trivial to present information tracked as positive debits and negative credits in two positive columns; keeping the internal architecture of the database this way should be irrelevant to the end user, it's just avoiding using a hack designed to optimize the experience of people doing a manual process with medieval European technology and attitudes towards negative numbers in an automated backend where none of the problems it mitigates exist in the first place.
They also had a friend network in Yahoo! Messenger, but no one was able to turn that into a true social network.
GPS coordinates of houses can change, while the address should stay the same.
> The only way to really change your religion is to have a heartfelt change in beliefs, and who has conscious control over that?

Now consider how that applies to a white supremacist, the also have have a deeply held faith in their beliefs (as with most fringe groups), probably more so than most than most religious people. And their beliefs are often equally abhorrent. Why is it OK to discriminate against people that think the white race is superior but not to discriminate against people that think they're gods chosen people? What do we do when a religion thinks it's OK to discriminate against gay people?

> Gender identity doesn't seem to be consciously changeable. Some people's gender may be different from their biological sex, but the identity itself is pretty deeply rooted.

Some people switch based on mood, making it not an inherent characteristic:

> Genderfluid people often express a desire to remain flexible about their gender identity rather than committing to a single definition.[20] They may fluctuate between differing gender expressions over their lifetime, or express multiple aspects of various gender markers at the same time.[20][21] They may at times identify as bigender - shifting between masculine and feminine; or as trigender - shifting between these and a third gender. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

And as a social construct it can change based on societal expectations and roles.

> There's also nothing bad about having a family or serving/not serving - in contrast to discrimination over a criminal record (legal in many places AFAIK)

On the military I disagree, there is something bad about being a willing participant in wars of aggression and I'd much rather be able to discriminate against them then I would a stoner that landed in jail.

So instead of arguing about grey areas of what is an inherent trait and what is changeable along with how to handle conflicts between protected classes that themselves discriminate, let's make it illegal for companies to discriminate against individuals/organisations entirely?
In short, STFU SJW! Awesome.
I created EteSync a few years ago to securely sync my contacts, calendars and tasks. You can use the hosted solution or self host.

It doesn't work on iOS yet, but it's coming very soon: https://blog.etesync.com/nlnet-grant-and-the-ios-client/
Yet all that performance optimization gets thrown away when running on virtualized containers alongside sanitizers.

By the way, my language VM is your language runtime.
The problem is bitcoin needs baseload power, not variable because the mining equipment is expensive. This is why bigger mining farms are located near large hydropower areas. BTC miners run their equipment 24/7/365.
I prefer C. If I want some more language sugar or safer constructs, I am finding Rust better. If you want "high performance, high reliability, small footprint, low energy consumption" it's pretty hard to beat assembly, but you lose portability to other architectures. Honestly, that's why I don't C go any where. However, I see C++ being superseded, by other languages eventually. Yet that's not going to happen quick because C++ does have a lot code written out there. Giving it a large historical inertia.
I don't really think using a seriously psychoactive substance for smoking is good at all

Why?
You seem to have misunderstood that I meant it as a bad thing: Not at all.

I think that Patagonia is 100% committed to being sustainable because it is in their value but also and mainly because it is their market niche and what brings them business. still think it is part of a market strategy. I'm happy that they managed to combine ethics, value and business. It is of course extremely convenient for them that being so ethical is also what makes their business so lucrative.

Most companies don't have the luxury to fit a market niche where the target customer are the top 1% of the world (like Patagonia does).
But exactly because it's easier to "stumble upon" the right answer, I think this may be worse for games. I like feeling as if it's necessary to come up with the solution in my head and then do it. It's not satisfying if every puzzle can be quickly solved by selecting each item in the room and trying the couple actions the game offers you for that item.
Developers security mistakes using Git
> I find it very arrogant to believe that our current model is _the_ model.

I think it would be arrogant, but I've never met anyone who studies physics and believes this (though I wouldn't be surprised if some exist). It's not arrogant, however, to be dogmatic when faced with ideas that are incompatible with established models. It's unreasonable to claim someone must be using a broken model, because dark matter and dark energy looks wrong.

Scientific models are good when they are predictive, and powerful when they are simple.

It's incredibly rare for a model-in-use to be wrong - we would never use something that has no predictive power - but every day scientific models are tested, refined, expanded, and simplified in order to make them either more predictive (better accuracy) or more powerful (describe more things).

Sometimes this does manifest as being 'broken at the edges' but not always. Sometimes a model is just fuzzy, and improvements add resolution to every prediction.
I am not recommending anything. There is however no reason to "strongly avoid LSD (or psychedelics) if you have any tendencies towards anxiety/fear/worry". It's simply not true.
"Do you concur"
Yep! spot on.

A disarmed citizenry (AKA the militia in the US bill of rights) is vulnerable to tyranny.
Yes, but...actually try to put yourself in an employer’s shoes.
Same here but I left because of the high transaction costs and low anonymity. I prefer privacy coins. Only problem is not many people use the smaller market cap coins for buying/selling stuff.
Hey mate. Dunno if you recall, but some time ago you recommended How to Read a Book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847508

Would you like us to share notes on the book itself? I've practiced its teachings for the last 3 years or so, and I'd like to chat with someone about it.

Sorry if this comment is a bit irrelevant, but HN doesn't really have a DM system. /shrug
That's how it should be.
I'm not enjoying while I play WOW nowadays because of damn politics
> why are we the only intelligent animal on Earth?

The process is not stuck in time. If we disappeared, another ape (or some other animal) might get where we are eventually, through some other path.
Not that this is a the best example of this, and I'm asking this as an honest question: at what point should we be OK with data being ephemeral and legacy services dying? With things like Yahoo! Groups, AIM, etc., the world has mostly moved on, and while these announcements bring back some memories, I don't necessarily see them as a huge loss, either.
Indeed, the US Government has never unjustly imprisoned nor killed anyone... (this is sarcasm)

The same people who yell "ACAB" for some reason request that the government's jackbooted thugs step on their necks harder.
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Congratulations...
I'm bit confused. Regardless of expansion, these objects are right now > 13.8B ly away. So the light from them still needs that much time to get here. If light from them has arrived sooner, we would see less redshift and perceive them as a closer. No?
But even now, how are the elites not united in most goals? Are the new tech elite pro workers rights? Are they for radical action to stop global warming? Are they anti-monopoly? Are they pro corporate taxation? Are they anti-interventionist?

There may be in-fighting between the elites, but that does not mean that these groups are not still aligned on most broad topics. Teh same has always been true for democrats VS Republicans. They do care who gets to be in power, and will fight tooth-and-nail for that, but neither will do anything that would hurt the elites in general.
Would it? I think it's possible that other laws may mean that they have one vote, and thus have to choose whether to have their vote apply in the congressional district they are physically in, or to the Cherokee representative seat they are alotted for a non-geographical district. That would retain one vote for one person. This isn't even all that weird, I assume. Do people with residences in multiple districts get to vote in each, or do they have to choose?
Nobody needs a 19 inch long dildo of hate, think of the children! We must save the children!
I'm not sure “the world would have been better off if your mother banged you on the rock as a baby” isn't a threat.

For example if you remove the colourful language from it "the world would have been better off if you were dead" sounds rather threatening.

Context is important "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?"
I think that's a trong contender for biggest contributer.

Natural food was was less calorie dense back then. I wonder if we reached a point where we could consume the most calories per pound of our own body weight, and never looked back.
Totally agree. Additionally, I think that breaking some rule is an essential part of growing up and learning. So it's just much better if the rules that a kid aims to break are of this kind and make her/him learn in the process.
> Familial and veteran status are also not changeable i.e. if you already have children or are a veteran, you can't go back and change that fact.

Familial status is changeable: you can marry, have children, divorce, give children up for adoption, and be widowed. All of which change family status. Actually, even aging of children changes family status, since the age of children is itself a factor relating to the family that is covered by protections against family-status discrimination.

> discrimination over a criminal record ... which ... also can't be changed

Criminal record can legally be changed in both directions, though neither is under the full and exclusive control of the possessor of the record (though they certainly have an influence, in both directions)—new convictions, expungements, and pardons are all real things.
The problem isn't the fidelity of the simulation persay, it's that chaotic systems are quite literally infinitely sensitive to initial conditions.
I was chatting with a few recently former MS employees recently who had this exact gripe. They said the pay was below-market, and MS was attracting talent with its brand.
Since when are GC languages efficient? They use more memory, suffer from non-deterministic performance. Also hardware speed/performance are hitting limits. If anything that means we need to be more efficient. Also to avoid performance issues like false sharing in CPU caches when having multiple threads you need more control of memory layout than most garbage collected languages/run-times.