skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it’s a political forum we expect all civil exchanges to be treated equally.

The problem here is that bad actors intentionally take advantage of this by supplying an endless stream of 'civil' arguments for entirely abhorrent stuff. This includes usually feigning ignorance and claiming they're 'just asking questions'† when objections are raised, even though it's the tenth or fiftieth or five hundredth time the same thing has come up.

† https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
Slumlord? Because he owns a property below market value?? $25k was the profit the County made in seizing his home and selling it at below market rate at auction to god knows what friend of the county. This absolutely stinks.
That "indifference to evil" as you define it is a universal trait.
I rejected buying an iPhone because I could not find reliable information saying how to use one without an account. By contrast it's easy on Android. Follow the "skip" path. Of course then you can't get access to the play store for apps, but there are other sources for apps.
There are several companies working on fusion designs that can capture electricity directly, such as dense plasma focus, and some of these devices fit inside a shed. If successful, they could be used for trains, ships, spacecraft, as well as base power. Personally, I wish the huge tokamak and laser designs would get less funding because I also question their economics.
This seems to be the core problem in my opinion : the category swapping inhibited a timely braking decision.

If so, how come these categories where not encompassed into a more abstract "generic object" whose relative position seems to be getting closer since first detection ? That ought to have triggered the same braking scheme as, say, an unmoving car detection ahead.

I'd go for : utter engineering malpractice.
I disagree. The biggest (technical) disadvantage of fission is the creation and use of radioactive materials.

Fusion solves this problem in large part because it uses and produces significantly less radioactive materials... materials that wouldn’t count as a security concern.
End-to-End Encryption with symmetric and asymmetric encryption
If they can only gain very little to nothing (covering the costs as you say), they'd have very little incentive to try to get it sold for a reasonable price.

The former owner would most probably get ripped off, a lot.
This. I sell any stocks as soon as I can after vesting (trading window permitting) and then diversify into other holdings. I still have RSU's that have not vested that I get to enjoy any upside on.
This is murder.

Uber wants to increase ridership any way they can, and if you're walking then you're not a customer.

Since they got away with it in beta, the release version will continue to murder people.
Scrubbing Your House of Bacteria Could Clear the Way for Fungus
Major facepalm right there. It's like all the stupidity of UI choices I see, but with the consequence of a car collision, and (in cases like this) death.
$35k pre or post tax and what's your total tax rate?
No story anywhere describes Apple decreasing battery life.

They have sometimes reduced performance in order to increase battery life.
Internet Wayback Machine Adds Historical TextDiff
AWS is not "your servers", it's "your services". How you monitor, manage, and set up redundancy/recovery is going to be very very different between running real servers or just paying AWS for semi-managed services.
I am always questioning why startup idea have to be unique ?
Let's say you sell "books" we all know who's biggest.. but they idea was not definitely not unique.

My opinion service quality for customer matters more than uniqueness..
Which is why we should be supporting sanctions against the PRC aggressors via the Hong Kong Be Water Act [1].

[1] https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-10/Ho...
Your picture of HN's ideological bias is an afterimage of things you notice and dislike. Those burn more into the retina. If you had opposite ideological tastes, you'd have the opposite afterimage, as many readers do. Here's one from this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461976. Don't like these examples? Here are others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122

FWIW, HN's community is 50% in the US and 10% in SV. I don't agree that it has a strong SV bias. SV topics are common, but how commenters feel about SV—or what they imagine SV to be—is deeply divided and somewhat on the negative side. That's a natural consequence of the topics being divisive and so little of the community being based here.
In hindsight, it was sloppy of me to not precise that I was speaking specifically for a private in the standard service model. For people with higher number of days to serve, it's possible to have more than 40%.
DNA can be synthesized for $2 a gene. DNA tests as used in crime labs only check dozens/hundreds of genes to make a match.
With a database of everyone's DNA, anyone can be framed for anything.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/synthetic-gene-cost-slas...
Similarly if you’re unhappy that a developer hasn’t signed their releases so you can be sure it hasn’t been tampered with, you might want to consider switching to another app.
You‘d need to break it into much smaller pieces, but that is the obvious solutions the problem.
TetrOS – bootable game in 512 bytes revised after 15 years
What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
Alexei's work on this subject is very good: the best practical introduction to the subject.

However, I feel that it is worthwhile (necessary?) to completely understand the academic basis for CRDT. A good place to start is Shapiro et al's second paper : https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00555588/document .

In order (sic) to understand the paper you need to have a grasp of Order Theory. This is not terribly hard to get your head around. This is a good place to start: http://jtfmumm.com/blog/2015/11/17/crdt-primer-1-defanging-o... also https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Order_theory and basically stop when you understand this : https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lattice_(order)

The reason why the formal basis is important is: that's the whole point of CRDT -- previously (been there, got the t-shirt..) folks just made up replication mechanisms they thought would work. Then they build them and embarked on a process of fixing the bugs. Sometimes that took decades. CRDT is nothing new in terms of : software to perform eventually consistent replication. The new thing is that there's a way to formally prove that your bright idea for replication will in fact work (as in : it will converge and it will have the consistency properties you expect). So if you're not seeing that aspect, then you're really not with the program.

btw originally the C stood for Commutative or Convergent, not Conflict-Free. There are plenty of CRDTs that cope with conflicts consistently, rather than being conflict free (e.g. LWW Register).
'Subsidy' is the wrong term and there isn't 5.2T to just 'divert' out of fossil fuel -- and your linked article goes on to make just that point[1].

[1] and quotes a figure closer to 500billion, globally. Which isn't nothing, but probably also includes places like Venezuala who massively subsidize their domestic consumption.
No. I don't think the government should be manipulating the housing market directly like that.

I do think it should invest more in building low income houses and that zoning should mix incomes though. I think that would make for a healthier environment for everyone.
Also related, this reminiscence by Alan Garner, the author.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my...
Reference on the slumlord claim?

(A brief DDG search shows no relevant results.)

And as noted by others: the fact alone would not justify confiscation of property or denial of due process. This despite my many misgivings of Reason as a generally credible narrator.
Not if the initial thesis is correct - which I think it is in this case.

If you corner a market space that is key for future tech then it'll be very difficult for anyone else to catch up - even if tech moves forward.
The tensor product is not a beast. If you know Einstein sum convention, you know the tensor product. With tensors written out explicitly with indices, it is quite easy to follow. The only thing you need to differentiate (and not even need to understand in order to perform calculations) are co/contravariant indices, aka "upper" and "lower" indices. Then it is just

A_{ijk}^{abc} B_{ab}^{i} = C_c^{jk}

and you are done. Read primers about general relativity if you want to get warm with the concept from an applied point of view (i.e. not mathematical one, but one where one wants to compute something).
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Visualising the Change in UV Index in Sydney and Melbourne with QlikSense
FBI–Apple Encryption Dispute
Lifelock, where did I hear about those scammers before? Maybe while reading about the founder being a potential identity theft himself (something about "Maynard stole his father's identity")?

Then there is Tiversa https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/a-cybersecurit...

Symantec seems like a match made in heaven.
I initially posted this story last week, and it didn't get much attention - curiously, the next day I received an email from dang asking that I repost it! From the email:

This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you have any questions, let us know. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Tell us and we won't do it again.
Hi, the founder of Postgres.ai here.

The footprint is very minimalistic. I have 15+ years of Postgres DBA experience, and what this tool does basically is what I usually do myself with performing Postgres health checks under heavy load. But in automated fashion :)

We very carefully choose approaches and queries that we run on production servers. And it is used under heavy loads (dozens of thousands of TPS) daily.

There are certain places that can be heavy. For example, if you have 1 million indexes (yes, it happens, sometimes), the SELECT query for bloat analysis will be slow. Actually, with default settings, the tool limits itself setting `statement_timeout = '30s'` (can be adjusted using CLI option `--statement-timeout`). So, in databases with a huge number of objects, you should expect that F004 and F005 reports will be missing.
> given that auto-breaking was disabled

Only the Volvo auto-breaking was disabled; the Uber software/hardware itself should have handled the situation fine.
Farm Bankruptcies Rise in over Half of States
DNA search used to nab GS Killer can home in on about 60% of white Americans
Obviously.

With sandwich shops, location is a key differentiator. We are X for Y, where X is the sandwich shop and Y is specific location.

Sandwich shops is also a highly competitive market. As such, when you look at a snapshot in time it seems like there is diversity without strong differentiation. However, in most cases, if you look at it historically you’ll see that differentiation at inception was required.

Fun note - the largest sandwich shop of all started growth when it became “a commercial real-estate company for franchised sandwich shops”.
PSA: Microsoft is deleting legacy IE documentation support articles
> There's not a lot of ambiguity about spam so it's not a real issue.

For an example to the contrary, look at how many Wikipedia articles get deleted as 'self-promotion' even when they're just simple informational entries about a business or semi-notable person.
> it's possible I'm underestimating how common this is

This is quite common in the engineering/research sectors, which love clusters. Think Sandia, oak ridge, etc. I also personally know of several private companies with research clusters. I'm curious how common hpcs are outside of the research community, because honestly I'm struggling to think of a practical need for one.
> More Housing is no solution. That's compounding the issue at hand

How so?

> value adjustments for areas based on median income

What do you mean value adjustments?
If you're monitoring runtime exceptions in production, you should be able to set alerts with your exception logging system. Here's how to do it for Sentry.
https://sentry.io/_/resources/customer-success/alert-rules/
Does the article mean credit in the part of the world influenced by the Western media?
Netflix has considered it in the past, so there must be some kind of catch. If it's a technical reason, I'd guess at poor ISP performance when it comes to a large routing table with many small transfers from many IPs.

In contrast, Netflix currently puts caches on location at ISPs, creating a fast CDN and allowing the ISP to do quality of service filtering on Netflix data (probably to make it faster than other p2p data?).
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No, google now aggregates from a bunch of job boards.
One of the points in the article is that the county auctions aren't getting most of the property value. They're bought by speculators rather than homeowners and are sold for less than half of their assessed value.

He doesn't seem like a slumlord, he says he "completely renovated" the property. (https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/oakland-county-t...) And there are 3 other owners mentioned, all of those were working on their properties too.
I think it's a difference of additive vs subtractive distortions.

Censorship deletes things: it reduces the size of the marketplace of ideas.

Money adds things: if I spend money tomorrow to buy some ads it doesn't affect you unless either (a) you're also spending money and trying to buy the same ad slots or (b) your views are very weakly held and you become convinced to change sides by my witty advert.

The "get money out of politics" position is based on an unstated assumption that if you buy, say, 1 million adverts, then it's practically guaranteed that (say) 5% of those adverts will successfully change people's minds regardless of how bad your arguments are, and so if you keep spending more and more then you can eventually buy whatever outcome you want.

But is that assumption true? I don't think it is. There have been studies of this which showed political advertising is pretty ineffective in general, beyond informing people that there's an election and who the party candidates are. And there have been two high profile cases in 2016 of votes that were won by the side that spent by far the least (Trump and Brexit). If money was so powerful they should have had no chance, but it didn't work.

Additionally if this really worked, you should see taxes always fall as rich people buy ads supporting politicians who support lower taxes, which in turn frees up more money to buy ads, ad infinitum (ho ho ho). But this isn't what we see: ignoring occasional spikes to levels so high they were totally ineffective at being collected, the tax burden and size of government has gone up over time rather than down. Rich people seem to be doing pretty badly at buying the sort of policies they're supposed to want.

On the other hand, if people don't know a position, idea or possibility exists at all they can't possibly support it. You can ignore voices you disagree with but you can't pay agree with voices that don't exist anymore.
Irrelevant compared to the amount dropped by the sun on the daily.
> Getting rid of Prop 13 and raising taxes to tech market rate is the equivalent of deporting someone from their home.

The correct solution to address both the problem of growing property taxes (due to growing land values) and the housing shortage is to zone the lots to encourage growth, as promoted by Strong Towns (https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/12/the-power-of-g...), not to give a special tax break to long-time homeowners at the expense of renters and new homeowners. This would enable homeowners to pay the higher taxes without being displaced as well as serve more households.
Win+$1000+every+week+for+life,+free
Such a database would certainly have been valuable to anyone who ever wanted to commit genocide.

It's easy to see the short-term, first-order positive results. However the power to abuse such information is basically unlimited.
https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/uber/price-target
Knives are tools more often than they are weapons, and humanity has a tool-based civilization. There are many tools that can also function as a weapon, and any attempt to make one less suitable as a weapon frequently makes it even less suitable for its tool purpose. But not always.

The knife I keep in my pocket would only be a weapon as a last resort. The blade steel is tuned to hold a sharper edge for longer, and that makes it relatively brittle. The blade does not lock, making stabbing and slashing dangerous for the wielder's fingers. None of the tools lock. Someone would be better off keeping the whole thing closed and punching with their fist wrapped around it.

But there the cops go, holding a ruler up to the longest cutting tool. As though the only thing that differentiates it from a military pig-poker is just centimeters.
Honestly, if the cost of renewables continue to drop and thus make fusion economically unattractive, why the hell bother? Outside of edge cases (such as space flight, inaccessible places, propulsion systems, & cetera) it seems that relying on renewables, storage, off-grid/smart-grid solutions sounds economically and environmentally preferable.
The real problem here isn't that companies are allowed to control what content goes on their platforms, but that companies are allowed to get so large that they're a de facto monopoly for much of the world (e.g. Facebook).
The cheapest I see is 25 dollars a month billed annually :(
It’s a strange thing. I never expected parachutes to be the hard part when sending people to space. Any idea why this is causing such a headache?
James Dean, who died in 1955, just landed a new movie role, thanks to CGI
Oh man, that's awful, have a link for that?

If this were reddit I would link to /r/aboringdystopia.
Are you really sure that is the distinction. A lot of conservative policies results in even the conservative voters being worse off as a result. And there IS a direct profit motive by those who fund conservative politicians (a.k.a. scammers)
Ok cool, more than one Patel owned motel, more than one Cambodian owned donut shop in the LA basin...

The point is that the existence of something isn't a valid reason to not do it. Sometimes not even an excuse to not do it in a nearly identical way.

If someone wants to make say a tetris clone, I say go ahead, make the best one you can make. Take pride and joy in your accomplishments. I hope it will be great.

YACC was named "yet another compiler compiler" because in the 1970s, there were plenty of others around and it was yet another one. But it was well built, well designed, and done anyway. It survived, the others didn't.

You have an idea, others are doing it? So what? Do it.
A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin
the popup modal for the newsletter is undismissible and blocks the article completely in the latest safari
Daylight Saving Time Has Long-Term Impact on the Brain
Well, for many people BASIC with "goto 10" feels natural and easy. Maybe for most of us, if the programs are small. The question is: How do we deal with increasing complexity? FP is an answer, OOP is another (certainly not orthogonal) one. But people learn some traditional imperative OOP language at college and stick to it. They are told "goto considered harmful", but "imperativism considered harmful" did not really make it in their head.
As a reader what I really want to learn is the list of technical reasons why nuclear fusion / ITER isn't yet working.
I would like to see something like a github.com repository where issues would be technical issues.
And I could follow technical discussions on the issues showing progress or absence of it.

It would really help to quantify how far we are from lucrative nuclear fusion.
Ah... three little characters. I checked several times and didn't notice the difference. An obvious thing to double check for the BBC in hindsight.
And how do you decide which sandwich shop to go to when you want a sandwich? You've just answered the question "how does a sandwich shop differentiate itself?"
> Since the function expects all members of the `std::vector<base* > const` argument to be `base* `, a caller with a `std::vector<derived* >` would have to allocate a new vector and adjust each individual pointer, which would be a terrible hidden runtime cost.

I don't think I understand your point. A function which expects a `base* ` can already be passed a `derived* ` without any problems. Doing the same for a collection of `base* ` to a collection of `derived* ` is not fundamentally different, but it does come with significant complications. For one, the language would have to be sure that the collection is read-only, since a function which wants to add something to the collection can't be called with a collection of a different type.

More significantly, the language itself has no idea that `std::vector<T>` is a collection of Ts, while `std::function<T>` is not a collection. In principle, it may be possible that it could look at all of the members and decide each template argument's variance. Even if that is theoretically possible (I'm not sure it is), it is certainly far too complicated to be a useful feature.

That leaves us with the option of some kind of annotation for variance in template parameters (or at use-time, as in Java).
"Oppression and harassment are a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns
popup that keeps me from reading the article unless I give them an email address when I'm half-way through?

No thanks.
Russia Targets Dissenters–Right in Their Bank Accounts
Anyone who underpays their property taxes ends up with a lien on their property.

If you want to benefit from prop 13 you can buy in California, just like anyone else can.

When you describe the rise in property prices as a result of the tech boom as an ‘unearned windfall’, it sounds like you are opposed to the appreciation of assets altogether.

What would count as ‘earned’ in your estimation?
What does the assets of the fund have to do with anything? If a bunch of new sellers are (literally) unleashed, what matters is how much depth there is on the bid side of the order book.
Ah the Win32 API. Oddly, I learned quite a lot of object oriented fundamentals doing C++ Win32 programming indirectly using Paul DiLascia's excellent book "Windows++"[1]. One of the few 90s era programming books I still have.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20090606220454/http://www.dilasc...
Nothing was stolen. Masa handed him the first ~5 billion after a 10 minute meeting, no due diligence, no anything.

Then threw more good money after bad. And in the end ended up in a terrible position beholden to a scam artist.

But that's very different from theft. He essentially took every possible step to ensure he ended up in this position.
Well, that's what I was questioning since the other submission was only 16 hours ago (sure counts as recent in my book!). In this case it turns out that the URLs were not actually identical as pointed out by a sibling comment.
In no possible reading of what I wrote is there an excuse for Boeing's culpability. I'm suggesting split culpability.

If I offer you $1 million to shoot someone, and you go do that, two crimes have been committed. Pointing out that I'm also culpable in no way excuses your culpability. I would be the real source of the crime, as the instigator, having set out a strong incentive to commit the crime against your otherwise better judgement.
Nothing about 'regulations are written in blood' is about convenience. Regulations specifically exist to make things less convenient. The reason such regulations exist is because people did the convenient thing and it killed somebody.