skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that they burned is proof. As t -> infinity, the probability of a wildfire approaches 1, even without electricity.
> Please do not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar or nationalistic flamewar or whatever this is.

I appreciate your patience, dang. I genuinely never intended for this to become flamebait. I have no idea why people are so nasty to eachother. I'm not promoting any form of "nationalism" here (especially not living in South Africa or having business there), I just meant to counter the idea that poverty deterministically makes people immoral, with a point that sometimes immorality will make your society poor. Whatever everyone else is talking about is their business, but I honestly don't see how I can participate at the same level of conversation as the parent comment, and not have some risk of people reading way more into it than is necessary. You say "it's nasty", but from my perspective, it's pretty nasty to say that all poor people will just steal your stuff and can't be helped; sounds like supremecism to me, even if it can come from a good place.
Nice. I've missed the static binaries on the homepage and should have tried static compilation myself. Now my little python2 and find-based scripts exporting ncdu-compatible outputs[1] on systems without ncdu seem a bit redundant. On the other hand, there are some examples of filtering the output with jq.

[1]: https://github.com/wodny/ncdu-export
I wish I could comment more on the legality of the income share agreements, however, I end up leaving that discussion to a lawyer so I don't have much input here.
It's interesting to me that sudo is so ubiquitous versus the alternatives. I remember "super" being a somewhat popular alternative in the 90's, but that faded.

Some others: https://www.sudo.ws/other.html
This does nothing to bolster your claim. Your arguement is moronic.
Lots of questions if you care to answer:

What does the curriculum look like? I’m on a phone and it wasn’t obvious

What percentage take the course and don’t succeed at getting a job offer?

What percentage get a FAANG level offer?

What does the typical successful “candidate” look like that takes the course?

How is this better than just doing leetcode/CTCI/CIU[0]?

How does this differ from /better than similar programs like techlead’s one[1]

What happens if you pay the $8k upfront and fail to get an offer?

[0] https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

[1] https://www.techseries.dev/

Edit: FYI your domain is 1 letter away from https://www.codebreakeracademy.com (which is a very different thing)
Tried this with tor 9.0 maximized. Said my browser fingerprint is unique oops.
Add to that standing orders to 'move fast and break things' -- this is just the same corporate shit warmed over that keeps people comfortably numb and confused about whether to lead follow or eat a donut
Whenever you catch yourself engaging in tribal identity-based discourse, apply the reciprocity litmus test: swap identities and read the resulting statements:

"We no longer sell it (the author’s decision to just use Amazon, a female-led business, alas.)"

"All he's saying is that he recommends trying to do business with and otherwise promote powerful man, if you can. It's not always possible. But being aware of it is a positive."

If it comes across as crass, the initial statements are also likely to come across as crass, for a different population segment.
4 Years of Stone Age Technology
Another really good reason to hate these grafted on service models. After all, if you just bought a license and installed the software on your own machine at least you wouldn't have to worry about this kind of stuff. It's clear beyond a shade of doubt that even the largest companies can't be trusted to be good stewards of your data.
All human societies produce pollution, going back to the very beginning. In fact, archaeologists love to study ancient trash heaps.
> But I guess we're going to let that slide, and demand public figures speak in such a way that is impossible to misrepresent or take wrongly out of context. Assuming that's even possible...

That is literally the job description, yes.

Sure, you will sometimes fail at it. Sure, I will sometimes write bugs in my code. If I deliberately write code without tests and ignore code review and cause problems in production, my employer would be justified in firing me - not because I wrote bugs, everyone writes bugs sometimes, but because I made no effort to avoid them. Similarly, the occasional gaffe is understandable, but using your official work email address to talk at length on irrelevant subjects in ways that are easy to misinterpret is being deliberately irresponsible.

You should hold journalists accountable for telling wrong stories, but you should also expect that journalists, too, will get things wrong sometime. The robustness principle indicates that you'll have a better time in practice being careful and precise about what you say than having high expectations about how others interpret it.
R notebooks do a lot of this stuff reasonably well, too. But then you have R as the primary language (other langs are well supported though).

As ever, the best answer is the Notebooks Are Bad, Actually
I like the more rounded appearance of the glyphs, which to me visually resembles a sans serif typeface rather than a rigid monospaced font. It makes reading code typeset in Victor Mono more like reading an enjoyable piece of text.
That is not in the article itself, is it one of the sources linked?
Yup, those quotes are a part of the joke (like the infinite scrolling).

They even trip me up sometimes, and I write posts there :)
So you are morons who don't know your way around basic browser usage? ;)
> Then your browser should have an option to mute-embedded-video-by-default. Problem solved.

I think you don't understand the modern web. If something is crappy the user shall have it. JS was always considered crappy but now is the best new thing.
And you also missed tbe latest web/UI/UX development. From the web designer point of view the user is an idiot which must be punished for every attempt to customize something.

> Don't blame a web video format/standard for UI failures.

They are not UI failures. They are done on purpose.
Personally I'm amazed that this is only discovered today. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Doesn't seem compelling. After all, the root of the argument is about probabilities, but the argument then goes on to propose that we base our decisions on a single simulation of a result drawn from a weighted random distribution.
It's convenient using "X" as a placeholder, because that specifically masks the problem of stacking up verbs.

"Fish fish eat" is indeed a sensible noun phrase. And we can make that noun a subject of the verb eat. But "fish fish eat eat" is not a noun phrase, and we can't make it the subject nor the object of a further "eat".
This is very true.

Advise to new PhD candidates: take a boring idea and write the best paper you can on it. It will be 10x better received than your "great" idea.
7M is way - really, way - above the disclosure floor so in the EU at least they will have to do a proper disclosure to the various DPA's.

One document I read put the lower floor at 5 records for a 'major breach' so I would very much caution against trying to wipe this sort of thing under the carpet. That's the best way to find out how serious the EU is about those fines. That and repeats while ignoring previous DPA instructions.
Hard to argue with what it did for their company. Look at a 5 year chart for Adobe's stock price.
It would be a huge step, and it would be worth doing, because the truth is important - but it would not be a reason to reinstate him at MIT or at the FSF, and it would not change the ongoing conversations within the GNU project about GNU leadership.
You seem to have misunderstood. It's first to file, but prior disclosure invalidates the patent (except a few edge cases to allow for trade shows, I gather).

Prior disclosure is any documented teaching of the embodied idea the patent seeks to protect. In the UK a classic example was a dog doorbell having a comic cited against it.
“I made an unofficial Reddit desktop app with Discord rich presence open-source”
For clearing the screen, try 'Ctrl-l' (lowercase L)

A quick lookup suggests fish handles some of these differently than bash (apparently fish clears the buffer with this shortcut, so your scroll back is gone?).

There are a quite a few of these for anyone interested: https://kapeli.com/cheat_sheets/Bash_Shortcuts.docset/Conten...
I think the actual problem isn’t the idiot (the issue isn’t that different from having access to a printing press a few years ago - in order to reach a considerable audience in both cases you would need a good amount of capital in the first place), the problem is the fact that it’s hard to tell for ad consumers if these ads are right or wrong, these ads are also shown inline with the usual flow of information they accept as true and that the users are rarely informed about how well targeted these ads are.
They don’t seem to have addressed the two worst problems. One is interconnect — which drives the cost of installation and of maintenance too. The second is the bonding of the tile to the roof. Typically panels are mounted away from a surface so there is cooling airflow behind them. These are flush on the roof so heat up which is not only as for your house but dramatically reduces efficiency AND lifetime — which will be much shorter than the life of the tiles themselves.

I haven’t seen any mention that this product brings anything new to the table and I’m sure they would have trumpeted it if so. Basically 2012’s BIPV roof solution AFAICT.
Here's the original post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/dn7ixl/i_made_a...

(I hope you all use only old reddit)
I was talking about newspaper journalism though, which seems to be as solid as ever. TV journalism, on the other hand, appears to have become more polarized, though there's still good programs out there. I'd definitely avoid opinion hosts like Maddow, Tucker Carlson, Hannity etc, since they aren't even real journalists.
I find the searches on Airbnb to be pretty ineffective. Often times I’m trying to find a listing I was previously viewing and it’s nearly impossible to find it (referring only to the cases where I eventually do find it, not when it’s no longer available)
Yes, stock price is everything /s.

1) check back on Monday morning

2) we don't know what their stock price would have been otherwise

3) even if it is good for their stock it might still kill the company, though - regrettably - the public is way too accepting of these sort of things.
During the outsourcing craze, I came up with a business idea, to create a fake job shop in India, but actually have the work done by programmers in the US.
Climate Refugees
Sometimes, it hasn't been done before because it has been attempted and discarded...
I'm not sure I've seen a whole lot of GIFs in the wild lately - mostly they seem to be getting converted to mp4 on the fly by most of the hosting services, no?
No. This is what the Wikipedia page says for measuring sexual response in pedosexuals:

> In one study, 21% of the subjects were excluded for various reasons, including "the subject's erotic age-preference was uncertain and his phallometrically diagnosed sex-preference was the same as his verbal claim" and attempts to influence the outcome of the test.[28] This study found the sensitivity for identifying pedohebephilia in sexual offenders against children admitting to this interest to be 100%. In addition, the sensitivity for this phallometric test in partially admitting sexual offenders against children was found to be 77% and for denying sexual offenders against children to be 58%. The specificity of this volumetric phallometric test for pedohebephilia was estimated to be 95%.

> Further studies by Freund have estimated the sensitivity of a volumetric test for pedohebephilia to be 35% for sexual offenders against children with a single female victim, 70% for those with two or more female victims, 77% for those offenders with one male victim, and 84% for those with two or more male victims.[30] In this study, the specificity of the test was estimated to be 81% in community males and 97% in sexual offenders against adults. In a similar study, the sensitivity of a volumetric test for pedophilia to be 62% for sexual offenders against children with a single female victim, 90% for those with two or more female victims, 76% for those offenders with one male victim, and 95% for those with two or more male victims.[31]

> In a separate study, sensitivity of the method to distinguish between pedohebephilic men from non-pedohebephilic men was estimated between 29% and 61% depending on subgroup.[27] Specifically, sensitivity was estimated to be 61% for sexual offenders against children with 3 or more victims and 34% in incest offenders. The specificity of the test using a sample of sexual offenders against adults was 96% and the area under the curve for the test was estimated to be .86. Further research by this group found the specificity of this test to be 83% in a sample of non-offenders.[32] More recent research has found volumetric phallometry to have a sensitivity of 72% for pedophilia, 70% for hebephilia, and 75% for pedohebephilia and a specificity of 95%, 91%, and 91% for these paraphilias, respectively.

These systems work! And, while scary, or invasive, or not 100% accurate, this is no argument to reason that they don't.
You might also enjoy https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html about standard paper sizes.
~3x return over 3 years. Something's working unusually well.
Habits of Successful Language Learners
The "contact sheet" doesn't at first appear to contain the letter "l", but it shows up in the labels, so OK.

"Narcissistpotus"... heh.
Yes, of course many theoretical assumptions are broken- but that is because people who break them either ignore them completely, or deliberately voilate them in order to produce better-looking results. That is more common in industry where it's easier to pull the wool over the eys of senior colleagues, but it's not unheard of in academia, quite the contrary. Anyway, just because people do shoddy work and then report impressive results doesn't mean that we should accept poor methodology as if it was good.

In particular about the gaydar paper, the authors cook up their data to get good results and then use those results to claim that they have found evidence for an actual natural phenomenon (hormones influencing haircuts etc). That's just ...pseudoscience.

Is your google scholar link humour?
Are you suggesting you have to make an example, so if I design a new rocket engine I have to have 10s of millions of $$$ to spend on making one before you'll give me a patent, and then you might decide it was obvious? And I have to disclose it in public prior to getting protection?

Are you sure that's not a joke.
The usual HN-hive mind answer is that more deaths per megawatt would be caused by the laser than by the waste product. Usually there’s a follow up that the waste product isn’t really waste product, because it can be enriched and used in breeder reactors, etc.
Can you give an example of something today’s scientists and engineers could not reverse engineer or make from scratch given a working implementation? Espionage and industry standard will get at most of it too. I don’t know trade secrets are the problem they used to be.

I’ll give you moon rockets and the pyramids.
If I were to do this, I think I would start somewhere along the lines of:

1 - $5 linode/digital ocean machines at different locations (CA, TX, NJ, London, wherever you want the things)

These machines would run probably Nginx serving static up static content. They'd get this data pushed to them over something like rsync/scp from a central place.

It would answer for the same domains, with the same content at each location.

2 - DNS Route53 / GeoDNS / Round-Robin

Servers in all those locations are cool, but we want to get users close to them. I think Route53 does GeoIP DNS - routing users to the geographically closer machine.

3 - $10/$20 Linode at a central location for build/deploy.

I'd probably look at Drone.io as the thing to take gitrepos and then build the website. This could handle JAM stack stuff pretty easily. Once it has the artifacts created, you ship them off to the linodes in step one to be served.

This is kind of the broad view of where I would start for technologies to help with that kind of thing. Then comes a lot of glue and programs to make it easier to use.

The form submission stuff they made seems pretty cool. You could make something that scans the artifacts looking for forms with a given data attribute, and when you find them build a data model to match and stuff in a POST address. Making that would be really fun.

I hope this helps, I also dig this kind of stuff =)
I heard that changing the CEO doesn't really change the performance of a company, which made me skeptical right away.

I am not sure if the statistics I heard had any basis whatsoever though.
The Most Usefull NMAP Commands
Pancake Sorting Problem
It's called "evolution". You have a tiger. You kill it. Now you have no tiger but you can have a cat from your neighbour.
It's a cool effort but I guess it's not for me — I much prefer <= over ≤ and >= over ≥ and !== over ≠ etc. because I find it more explicit and readable than a condensed form.
In Terry Pratchett's Assassins Guild they would hire them.
> Chomsky has been railing against it ... they're controlled by five rich men

That is a real problem, certainly in normal times. And likely decades of derailing reforms in the interest of consumers and employees is what led to the frustration that created the current catastrophe. I note even now broadcast media certainly dwells on the trade war far more than other more pressing problems.

So stories should be confirmed by looking at serious publicly owned and overseas news sources. And if a particular series of stories is in the WaPo and NPR and BBC and the Guardian and Der Spiegel and FAZ and NHK and Le Monde and El Pais then we know it is not a rich man's plot.
And if privately owned media has a pro-wealth bent, maybe an autocratic kletopcray is a bit much for some of them. Especially for non-hereditary billionaires many of whom really do want to make the world better (within certain economic constraints of course)
So you've worked at Google for "only" 1y2m and already coached 50 people to work at a FAANG? Or you started this earlier?
Desktop apps are cool and everything but I've been absolutely loving TUIR (Reddit cli client).

I wish that rich cli clients made something of a comeback.
>I’m gonna sound like an old person here. As much as these tools are gorgeous and ergonomic, remember that the others are standard, which means they’re available (almost) everywhere.

Well, I, for one, don't work "almost anywhere", I work with specific servers. I ain't gonna get a new server out of the blue. And if some teams works with the same N servers, they can mandate that the tools are present on all of them.

Plus even on some unknown system, one can quickly copy or download a set of static binaries as our toolset.

So unless someone is a sysadmin for heterogenous networks, or is called to go to random clients and fix unseen before systems, or some corporate mandate prevents them from having their tools installed, there's no reason not to expand beyond standard POSIX userland.
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/maltwhisky... seems to indicate that coke/oil is used these days, with peat being added if wanted for flavours.

I'm curious how historically the kilns would be fired across Scotland, if peat was more prevalent?

http://www.bairds-malt.co.uk/Bairds-Malt/Process/process mentions about using hot air.

https://www.laphroaig.com/en/whisky/our-process - Has some nice videos, including them using solely peat to kiln the malt.
Nit-pick: Patent means 'open'. The first protected inventions were a sub-class of things monarchs wrote about in litterae patentes (open letters).
And windows 10 which has the same look and feel like windows 1.0 ?
There's also the trick where you can redefine the palette for each consecutive frame, and set the "delay" between frames to zero, in order to get more than 256 colors in a single image.

This is so horrendously inefficient it should be a crime. But it's still a GIF, and anything that can display animated GIFs can display it too.
> The employee was offered 1% of the company.

No, they weren't. They were offered stock. Stock can always be diluted by future stock issues.

> Reasonable, everyday people will understand that to be 1% of all money that comes in on a sale after paying legal fees and bond holders.

People who accept stock options and don't bother to learn about them have only themselves to blame. The information isn't hard to come by, it's all over the internet.

> It amazes me that someone can honestly argue against providing time investors with the same protection as fiat investors.

They do have the same legal and system protections. They got what they agreed to.

> Courts and systems to create trust are essential.

Yes.

What you're discounting, however, is the role of risk. Risk is always there. The larger the risk, the more potential returns there are. If you try to legally define the risk and legally force two disparate risks to be the same, the result will be all kinds of market distortions.

You argue that the risk of the employee and the investor are the same. They are not, or they would be priced the same. Is it really right to interfere in the negotiations other people are freely making?
Micropayment Barriers (1998)
Sudo has too much surface area for a suid utility IMHO, unnecessary pile of features, config parsing, etc.

I still just use `su` with the wheel group membership executable requirement for gaining root privileges from my regular user.

But sudo has become quite entrenched, almost every software deployment guide I see expects sudo, many scripts outright break on the assumption of sudo being present.

Do you know the list of suid binaries installed on your machine?

`find / -perm -4000 -printf '%#m %u %p\n'`
> what happens when you plug an additional screen in?

Absolutely nothing. I have to tyoe xrandr commands to make anything happen. I3 is strictly just a window manager. Unfortunately projects like Gnome solve these problems in a completely monolithic fashion, with no module or component that I use that just solves this problem.
What’s the terminal prompt shown the graphics?
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Ask HN: Does anyone else struggle with procrastination when learning something?
I don't know is wrong with me...

I've literally wasted a week here trying to dive into learning D3.js

I read a few paragraphs into the documentation, and then it's on to something else.

I have this massive sense of dread even thinking about planning to learn it later.

It's not difficult to read, I have read through plenty of dryer documentation sites in the past.

I think part of this all stems from the fact that I tried to play around with D3 a few years ago and gave up on it rather quickly.

I seem to do the same thing with movies... if I start one and don't finish it for whatever reason... it's basically guaranteed that I will never finish watching that movie.

My mind has simply been made up that "it's bad enough that you stopped before, so why bother continuing?"

I don't really expect any response to this, it was cathartic enough writing it all out.

Thanks for reading if you did this far!
Yeah I recently deployed a Gatsby site too, but opted for Github Pages in the end.
counterexample:

the team I'm working on has successfully turned off ~10 systems with/without replacements, and got all of our clients within a much larger than 500 person org to migrate fully.