skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll settle for becoming "non-interventionist" -- we need to stop being the world's police. Show me where in the Constitution that is. If you can, I'll happily go silent.
Hey, just wanted to say that I thought you were talking about the national numbers. Looking at the Alberta numbers (which is what you seemed to have meant) your original statement was basically true.
I'm based out of Vancouver, Canada. 26 year old. Over 10 years of experience.

I'm a full-stack developer .. can do backend (Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.), web frontend (React, Vue, Tailwind, Bootstrap, UI and UX design) and mobile apps for Android and iOS (native - Java / ObjectiveC or with React Native).

Trying to figure a way out to convert all the technical skills to a startup. Would love to collab with someone..
Sometimes that's okay. Sometimes you don't care about privacy and just want to use a network system where people actually own their domain names instead of lease them on the whim of a corporation.
This used to be true, that US doctors were taught to treat pain itself but now medical education is more aware of the dangers of addiction and abuse and hopefully new doctors don’t prescribe at the same rates or have the same falsehoods about painkillers being safe.
My neighbor parenthetical was in direct response your own claim that you lived next to someone way wealthier than you, and it didn't make you feel bad.

And, just because people are bad at estimating something doesn't mean that they can't detect it, or that they won't make decisions (conscious or unconscious) based on their bad estimate.

Frankly, with the moving of the goalposts and clearly specious reasoning, I'm having a very difficult time believing you're arguing in good faith.
> That's a big difference from what you're saying actually happened.

It's been 2 long years, and hopefully (finally) the public will get some transparency regarding the genesis of the 4 FISAs signed to spy on the campaign.

Of course, to learn anything substantial about the IG report you basically have to surgically removal oneself from the MSM spin machines.
> You agree that Tulsi is a Manchurian candidate sponsored by the Kremlin

That was actually a rather disingenuous reply.
Most newspapers are just the equivalent of retweets - as mediocre journalists rewrite AP and Reuters reports. These jobs are going to go away. Real journalism costs money. And it will go to the real journalists in time. I predict that in the next 30 years we'll have the Taylor Swifts, Kanye Wests, and the Beatles of journalism suck up all of the revenue while the low-effort rewriters are demolished by machines.
Ask HN: Regulators: Why is it not mandatory to disclose software changes
When I run a restaurant or a similar business and I'd like to adapt my kitchen or ventilation system this change has to go through various authorities and also needs approval by neighbours whereas any amendments on an online basis where it might be Facebook or my goverements electronic health care administration they can basically do whatever they want without any disclosure policy.

What is the general opinion on disclosing any software related changes in order to veto them, especially when the public sector is involved?
Goggins gets flak sometimes for being about all the attention, but who cares. He's inspirational for a lot of people, and I think that's what is important. Good on you for finding your personal inspiration and making the changes you wanted to make!

You say sweet suffering, and you're right. Embrace the suffering and life just gets...better. From Musashi,

“If you can bear up under hardship, you can experience a pleasure greater than the pain,” Musashi said solemnly. “Day and night, hour by hour, people are buffeted by waves of pain and pleasure, one after the other. If they try to experience only pleasure, they cease to be truly alive. Then the pleasure evaporates.”
so you'd like for us to go back to QT and such instead of taking advantage of the benefits a model like React has already given us for cross-platform UIs? (correct and performant web, desktop, mobile UIs)
It's a good question. The reason we know how devastating and inhumane wars like say the Eastern front in WWII is in no small due to these sorts of records, otherwise we'd mostly just have contemporary state propaganda, statistics and the like.

Reading about what a meat grinder war is for the grunt on the ground helps future generations a lot more in not repeating those mistakes than so-and-so many millions died.

I think past a given point we shouldn't respect the author's privacy. Everybody's got records they'd like to keep private, and perhaps they'd even like to keep it private past their death to avoid some harm among their surviving immediate relatives.

But past a certain point everyone who could be harmed by such disclosures is long dead.
Those caveats are still enough for me to want on-premises storage for my cameras. Your examples honestly seem like unlikely edge cases compared to wholesale privacy intrusion by data center hacks or Ring just deciding to give your footage to police. It shouldn't even be possible for Ring to share images/videos from your camera if it were designed correctly.
> But in a mathematical probability problem, you can't do that. For example, if there's a slightly smaller object and a slightly larger object concealed in two different sized boxes, common sense says that a person would put the larger object in the larger box. But if it's a abstract mathematical probability problem, and you have no information on the algorithm used, then you have to assume the concealer flipped a coin when they decided which box to use.

I think that this misrepresents mathematical reasoning.

For solving a problem in a textbook (which a mathematician does intensively at the beginning of his or her career, and seldom thereafter), you must assume neither—that the larger object goes in the larger box, nor that the concealer flipped a coin; you must use only the information contained in the problem. (From this point of view, many problems in most probability textbooks are ill posed, because they force you to make some assumption while solving them; and it then becomes a mind-reading exercise of whether you can successfully make the same assumptions as the poser, rather than a mathematical exercise.)

For a mathematician who actually wishes to use theoretical probability to do something useful, then you must again make assumptions that allow you to translate the messy real world into an idealised mathematical object; but to say that you must, or must not, assume any particular thing is otiose—different assumptions will lead to different results, and the only guide to whether you made the 'right' assumptions is whether or not the idealised mathematical results you get match the real world (to within whatever bounds of error are tolerable).
He was even admitted to practice law in the United Kingdom (and did successfully practice for two decades in South Africa while it was part of the British Empire).
Yes it does. I installed it out of curiosity and use it as my messaging application. But I think that using it like this, without the secure messaging(since I have no one to send secure messages to) you don't really get any benefit.
"Your brain didn't nag and insist that you go find it out right now, generally, for every little question of near-zero importance that happened to cross your mind. That's a curse of the Internet age."

The curse is that if it isn't instantly available, most people assume it doesn't exist, on or off the internet. And that shapes whether things are available, on or off the internet.

It's not the accessibility, but the pruning that is rapidly changing society.
Black Swan Farming
Whether web apps are technically the right-shaped peg for a given hole is not the only factor in what technology gets used, and usually not even the biggest one. More often than not, web apps make good business sense, so that's what gets built.

Regardless of where the problem came from, we still have to solve it.
Your point is taken but I think we're coming at it from different places. I think something did go majorly wrong.
Two major new releases in a day for notebook computing. A good day!
> we are discussing this on a site used by millions, a site which doesn't use all those fancy frameworks and features.

I love HN as well, but this is a niche site for niche purpose.
Have to reviewed how multi-platform desktop apps are developed? Is that really easier and more elegant?
Even in a live conversation, theres usually a few loud and outspoken individual who say the majority of words.
Where I grew up about 2 hours north of NYC, that sort of thing was not uncommon in the 80s.
It could be, I'm not a lawyer. That seizure would be something you could fight in court too on two fronts: seizure of property and if the government takes over your means of communication and pretends to be you what separates that from directly compelling speech.
When someone raises an ethical question and instead of addressing ethics, the company calls in the lawyers to address whether it's legal... your company is likely on the wrong track.
Instead of asking yourself "should I switch?", ask yourself "At the time of making my first guess, would I have bet that it got the car (1/3) or a goat (2/3)?"

Obviously the answer is that your first guess is more likely to have been a goat. So if you had to bet, you'd have bet on the car being in one of the ones you didn't choose.

After the host reveals a goat, it's no longer "one of the ones you didn't choose", but rather "the one you didn't choose" (since the host has taken the other out of consideration). So the choice is easy now (as is the probability calculation).
Filet Americain or "American Filet" is a popular dish in the Netherlands and Belgium that I'm pretty sure not many in the USA have heard of.
There are probably a lot of factors: New Mexico is the second poorest state in terms of poverty rates. It's a drug smuggling gateway from Mexico. Very high Native American population, which itself, struggles disproportionately with addiction. Mostly rural isolated populations where drugs offer a means of escape and long wait times for an ambulance to arrive in the case of an overdose situation.

As an aside, looking at those charts, no wonder Breaking Bad was set there.
Yes you are correct.

Corrected simulation gives 50/50 when Monty picks at random among 3 doors.

switchWins=33044 switchLoses=33581

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <string.h>

#define NUM_RUNS 100000
#define NUM_DOORS 3
int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
srand(time(NULL));
char doors[NUM_DOORS];
int switchLoses = 0;
int switchWins = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < NUM_RUNS; i++) {
memset(&doors, 0, sizeof(doors));
doors[rand() % NUM_DOORS] = 1;
int myPick = rand() % NUM_DOORS;
int montysPick = rand() % (NUM_DOORS - 1);
if(montysPick >= myPick)
montysPick++;
if(doors[montysPick])
continue;
if(doors[myPick])
switchLoses++;
else
switchWins++;
}
printf("switchWins=%d switchLoses=%d\n", switchWins, switchLoses);
return 0;
}

EDITED TO ADD:

Just for further info:

3 doors: switchWins=33111 switchLoses=33470

4 doors: switchWins=50182 switchLoses=24698

8 doors: switchWins=74876 switchLoses=12687

100000 doors: switchWins=99998 switchLoses=2
Im in the same boat.

The language seems to do nothing but encourage questionable behaviour. And tooling is just gross!
This may be a bit too elementary, but I recently read “Arithmatic” by Paul Lockwood and found it easy, provocative, and fascinating.

https://www.amazon.com/Arithmetic-Paul-Lockhart/dp/067497223...
Germany has a pastry called “Amerikaner “. At least in the Stuttgart area.
We shouldn't restrain ourselves. (And we don't, at least I don't).

Let's cut the bullshit: if the cops are looking for someone matching your exact description or time+place with minimal doubt, you are probably not doing the "lord's work" as folks from the Southern US would say.
I've tried Signal many times, but their lack of certain features continues to make it a no go for me. There's still no real multi device support, no tablet support, no Siri support, and no backup cloud or otherwise (switch phones and lose everything!).

I understand that these are complex issues but Signal is competing with iMessage for my usage and it can't win without these.
Not quite, I'm referring to american fritessaus, which is more like mayonaise, and distinct from thousand island dressing (which is popular in the US, In-N-Out calls it "spread").

Digging a little deeper it appears like McDonalds may have actually invented the sauce to appeal to the Dutch market, where fritessaus is popular (instead of tomato ketchup). Because McDonalds is American, their take on fritessaus grew into it's own thing called "American Fritessaus," or simply "American Saus."

https://www.hollandsupermarket.eu/remia-fritessaus-american-...
Look into recommendation systems. A lot of learning materials out there (check out the Google course and this awesome list[0,1]). Start with some simple stuff like collaborative filtering and content based filtering.

0:https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/recommendatio...
1: https://github.com/grahamjenson/list_of_recommender_systems
This reminds me slightly of the passage in Cicero of which the "lorem ipsum" text is a mangled version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum#Source_text

(but I'm not sure that the philosophical position advocated is that similar)
I've heard it used referring to New Zealand (by NZers, although often now abbreviated to just "Godzone"). The equivalent term we'd use to make fun of the US is "land of the free".
From the article it sounds more like the cop who initially wrote the ticket filling in the missing info later (before filing it), rather than the city doing it in bulk.

Which makes the title clickbait, so I flagged it.

Suggested new title: NYC Cops accused of illegally correcting incorrectly written parking tickets
If I understood correctly, the Signal protocol can be federated (and actually, I just learned that Signal was federated in the past with servers managed by Cyanogenmod between 2013 and 2016), but Moxie does not believe federation is a good thing for Signal.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29#Federati...
I would love to use Signal, but I have two issues with it.

One, it insists on me giving more permissions to Google services, where it's very difficult to go around this requirements.

But worse, it relies on me a phone number as an ID. I keep changing my phone number, I don't wanna share my phone number, and I really think that the computer in my pocket should finally be completely separated from this old concept of a phone. Please give me another way to open a Signal account.
One thing very much worth plugging about Google Colab is that you get free access to an NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU.

You're limited to 12 hour stints and you have to keep the window open and network active, but it's enough that I've been able to use it to run neural machine language training (to be fair, I pass model files back and forth, training on EC2 spot instances, too).
RISC is good!
I'm normally a backend developer but I was fooling around with using vue.js + jquery to build a simple SPA without the typical process of npm install <entire world>.

When it came time to finally bundle my app into a single html + js file I settled on (well was forced to really) npm install rollup. After installing rollup, I had a package-lock.json file that was 1880 lines long with approximately 150 or so dependencies and a node_modules directory so huge that vscode choked trying to parse everything in it. To its credit, vscode asked me if I wanted to exclude node_modules from future consideration.

All that from installing a single tool via npm. I just don't get modern web development.
Show HN: Wasienv – WebAssembly WASI Development Toolchain for C/C++
If you were running the show, how would you get rid of those people? Regulations make it slow and expensive to get rid of horrible employees. These people could be actively hostile and thus a security risk, which wouldn't be surprising if they were hired by political opponents.

Options are limited. One idea would be to relocate their offices to central Alaska. Another idea is rotating shift work.

If this were normal at-will employment, then they would quickly be replaced.
If I was running a project geared for the long-term, I wouldn't treat $50 million like "$50 million to spend", but as a $50 million endowment where the goal is to not spend the principle.
I have no idea why you have to resort to a traditional desktop application just because you want a way to show a loading bar... while something loads.
> It would be nice if we could “skip” it and wait for some content to load before transitioning to the new screen.

Yes please! I do hope this pattern catches on. Not only are full page loading screens on every interaction obnoxious, I’m sure they also require an epilepsy warning.
Observing a Wormhole
So?

They're a messaging app.

Basic communication is not that complicated, it does not take that much effort.

Whole operating systems are not less complicated than exchanging messages because of differences in competition.

If Google started selling sandwiches, Subway wouldn't start requiring 30 people to make your lunch.
I went back to jQuery for a project because of windows 10 and webpack 2 issues.

I found it extremely easy to jump back into and high productive. I feel like the next generation will rediscover the simple nature of include a file.
So choose an Electron supported OS

Why? My whole point is that Electron is encouraging developers to not support other platforms. That's not helped by simply using something that the Electron devs have blessed. The absolute last thing I want is Electron to dictate which platforms I can and cannot use.

or add OpenBSD support to Electron somehow.

This too seems like a fools errand as the Electron devs have decided that anything beyond Windows, MacOS, and Linux will not ever have official support.

Since you mentioned Qt: Qt's main audience is C++ developers. I have no interest in writing C++.

Then don't. I'm currently working on a project that's using a rust backend and a Qt/QML front end. If you're more comfortable with JS then QML is an easy leap. The caveat being that you've got to drop down to C++ for some things. The biggest example I've seen is table data sources, but even that is due for vastly improved QML support in the next version of Qt.

Or I could use Electron, reuse a lot of the code that I've already written for my web app, sprinkle in some desktop integration, and I'm off to the races.

Right, and now we're back to "this sounds good to the devs" while the users suffer. In the mobile sphere where this has been common for a longer time, reskinned web sites work extraordinarily poorly. For example: Apple adding native app support to iOS, Facebook dropping their HTML5 based apps, and nearly any other app that's a lightly skinned site (BBC and NPR come to mind). It's not any better on the desktop side as evidenced by the poor accessibility and resource usage of Electron apps.

Low effort cross platform toolkits have never yielded particularly good results. And while I think Qt is still pretty damn clunky on OSX, the solution isn't to run towards a product that exacerbates the problems.

As an aside, the Rust language server (and most other language servers) works pretty well with Neovim. You can probably get at least the same experience with some work on your part. I assume the same can be said of Emacs, but I don't have the dexterity or number of fingers necessary to use it, so I don't know for sure.

Yeah, I've flirted with Emacs for a few decades now but never warmed up to it (and it really is the epitome of a non-native app). Vi (typically vim) I use for some things (even with rust dev), but I'm not about to replace a full blown IDE with it.
No, it becomes less obvious, since the host's help has less influence the more doors there are.

EDIT: My reply is based on a misunderstanding. I was assuming that the host continues to open one door, whereas parent intended that the host would open all-but-one doors.
Also, it's a red flag in any security review. Every time we answer security questionnaires this comes up. I'm stunned they would consider adding this to hosted software.
> We have an impending climate crisis we haven't even begun to address that will make the life of any child born today much harder and much different than life today.

I find this argument extremely offensive. Do you think the life of a child born in a +3C USA is going to be worse than the life of an adult currently in say Bangladesh? If not, the implication is that it wasn’t “ethical” for the parents of living Bangladeshis to have had kids given how “hard” their lives are. That currently living Bangladeshis would’ve been better off never being born than suffer such a low standard of living.

Presumably, there is a standard of living where it becomes “ethical” to have children. Show me where in the happiness scale (from Norway at the top to Central African Republic at the bottom) that transition happens: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/206468/happiest-unhap.... Italy has a happiness rating a full point lower than the US. Was it “unethical” for the previous generation of Italians to birth the current generation of Italians into such a hard life? Or do we need to go further down the scale? About a point below Italy is Nigeria. Is that the transition point? Once you can expect your kids to have a quality of life better than that of Nigerians currently, it’s ethical to have kids?
> I like peering into the lives of computer users that don't have the level of computer literacy I'm used to day to day. It's a good reminder.

Yep and sometimes it happens in unexpected places. I just went to the dentist the other day.

The receptionist accidentally moved her task bar to be oriented vertically on the left and couldn't get it back to the horizontal bottom position.

We're on very friendly terms so she asked if I could show her how to fix it which involved going around the desk. Naturally I requested she hides any windows that might violate HIPAA compliance before I swung around.

It was interesting to see her facial expressions and "whoa!" reactions when I mentioned how you can left click and drag the task bar to different spots and how to prevent this from happening in the future by right clicking and locking the task bar.

What was really interesting to me was when I said right click on the mouse, her eyes immediately looked at my hand on the mouse so you can't take left and right clicking as granted knowledge that everyone has as muscle memory.

This is someone who has been using that computer for years to manage appointments and whatever else, but things like right clicking the task bar is a move that very few people do out in the wild unless they are approaching enthusiast levels. She's not out of the loop with tech either. She has a smartphone and does a lot of things with it.
Its sad but to find anything on win10 ...just search. How are non power users supposed to know this.
An FYI for the author: under copyright law, just declaring something to be fair use, as you do at https://simon-l.gitbook.io/the-art-of-we/fair-use-act-discla..., doesn't automatically mean it is fair use.

There are four factors that are evaluated when deciding if a use is fair or not (see https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/, https://copyright.columbia.edu/basics/fair-use.html), and republishing the full text of dozens of articles written and owned by other people without any modification or commentary doesn't come off well under any of them.

I'm not a lawyer, but I would strongly recommend taking this down before anyone from Bloomberg finds out about it.
roflpip
That's how an app works now. Here is a program to do something external to the browser.
Well I think Americano is an effort to dilute Espresso in with hot water in order to make it more like the regular plain coffee that Americans are used to.