skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should people with alcohol addiction sue alcohol businesses? Should people with obesity sue fast food? Under what circumstances should we blame it on lacking self control or gut bacteria or not having acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene mutation? Being a gaming addict, I want to sue video game companies to get some free games.
Companies don't typically operate that way. All else being equal (especially when there's no $$$ in it for them) when given the choice between doing something and doing nothing, they usually choose to do nothing. It's often not malicious, but an overabundance of caution. (i.e. lawyers raising red flags about liability, 'our IP' etc... it's a real pain even from the inside getting large companies to do anything different from the status quo)

My bet would be that Verizon's network monitoring system/team sees the archive team's attempts as some sort of anomaly to be stopped. It's possible, though I wouldn't bet on it given Verizon's history re: public relations, that making noise might alter the equation and get them to allow the archive team to continue.
Three:

1. My work email

2. My "personal" email, with a silly-sounding address (see my username).

3. A professional-sounding, but non-work-affiliated email (firstname.lastname@gmail.com)

I would love to combine 2 and 3. Unfortunately, I came up with my email/username when I was 12 and didn't know any better, and I don't want it seen in professional correspondence.

I add all three to Apple Mail on my various devices, and access them from a unified inbox. The exception is my work computer (an iMac), where I could add my personal accounts but have chosen not to.
Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
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Yes, and SpaceX seems to be actively downplaying that fact.

>. “We want to make sure we do the right thing to make sure little kids can look through their telescope,” she said. “Astronomy is one of the few things that gets little kids excited about space.”
And this is the dangers of relying on a private, corporate, for-profit law-bound organization. They're susceptible to abiding by the laws and of course, there is a cost attached to all of this.

Exploiting a free resource, as we all do these days (reddit, youtube, facebook, hackernews itself etc) is all well and good but maintaining history is expensive (content needs moderating, you are required to abide by the GDPR and DMCA, there may be disputes about content on the platform).

I mean, Google+, MySpace, Bebo, IMDB comments is now dead and gone, how useful was the data really? I'm sure some people might go to archives but I would imagine 95% of the data is just "rot" that has no value or substance.

History is lost all the time, we barely know what we've been up to the last few thousand years only now can we so extensively document our world with the precision and quality afforded to us.

But in the end, time moves on and some of that history is lost, it hurts, but whose to say any archived history will be preserved anyhow? We're still relying on our storage technology being readable years/decades/centuries from now, which is not a given.
Two adults earning incomes and a third (and maybe also a fourth) keeping house and taking care of the kids sure seems a lot better for everyone concerned from my perspective (normal 2-parent household with three young kids).
The article is talking about methylation, which I always interpret to mean they're referring to the epigenome. It doesn't change our DNA, so much as the expression of it.
Do note where this article resides. Casey Muratori (of Handmade Hero, a game dev tutorial project) is a self-proclaimed anything-not-C hater. A community has formed around his project, and has, of course, adopted his hard-line stance.
Hah no they aren't. There isn't anything inherently harder about low-level software than webdev or web services. I'm pretty confident people from those domains could pick up systems engineering on the job if the employer is committed to basic teaching and onboarding (which you should be regardless of domain.)
The amount of CO2 human bodies emits is negligable. Methane from cow farts are a significant source of greenhouse gasses though. There should be fincancial incentives for more environmentally friendly diets. As well as greater taxes for air travel. In england it is cheaper to fly than travel by train.
I wonder if a small scraper script that an existing member of the group could download and run under their existing, valid account, would work?

Like a TCL language 'starpack' , a single binary Go program or something else?

Can you script a browser to do some crawling for you?
Consider my attention drawn - thanks! (also @Nerada too)
That’s a bug, not an optimization.
Oh yeah? Do some research on interspecies altruism, for example. Whatever box you want to put nature in, nature will step right out of. Regardless of how comfortable or uncomfortable that vision seemed. And this might be the most uncomfortable realization of all. Or the most exhilarating; it's entirely up to you.
I made a comment on this below, the crux of the argument of the article and the statement it focuses on isn't whether we exclude one or the other but rather a realistic assessment of the alternatives. That assessment should drive policy and focus for research which should obviously favor fixing things on Earth.
I have one personal domain at Fastmail that I use nearly always, but it’s a .me domain and I’ve ran into weird issues with certain services thinking it’s a fake email address or just general unexplained delivery issues over the years, so I fall back to a fastmail.com address in those cases. I also have iCloud and GMail addresses I rarely ever use.

I forward everything into Fastmail and use their web interface and mobile apps.

I have a work address I keep entirely separate.
Yeah, that makes no sense.

Resistance doesn't happen because the anti bacterial agent provokes mutations.

The process is that mutations happen all the time, and those that result in slightly higher survival rates over time dominates the population.
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I'm confused why Archive.org is attempting to archive and expose to the public what is essentially private communications?

My usage of Yahoo groups in the early 2000s was mostly to communicate with my high school / college / dorm groups and the last thing I want is for embarrassing messages from 20 years ago sent to a private group to be archived.
> One former employee said their son was admitted to the ER after a car crash. While he was still in the hospital, they said, their boss told them to get back to work. Another said he was asked to work on his honeymoon. When asked about this, a Razer representative told Kotaku that they are a “family-friendly employer,” and have adopted policies aimed at supporting employees with families.

I guess that "family-friendly" means whatever the company wants it to mean.

> When Razer finally did go public, in November of 2017, some estimates put the company’s reported valuation at as much as $US4.55 ($7) billion. ... In the weeks and months to follow, when Razer employees finally got those long-promised checks, some did indeed get the big paydays they’d hoped for—in some cases, upwards of $US200,000 ($292,612). Others, however, said they were underwhelmed by the results. “We didn’t get what we expected based on the initial [stock] letter,” said a former employee. Said another, “It was used car money.”

$200K is not a big payout at all. It barely covers the hours of unpaid overtime an employee would have put in over a period of several years. Employees could have done better by investing money in an S&P 500 mutual fund. But the CEO is now a billionaire. Employees of pre-IPO unicorn companies, take note.
> “No one thought of this,” she said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.”

It seems probable that this is one of the things that can be ruled out. I find it inconceivable that none of the thousands of brilliant heads in SpaceX never thought of this.

- They spoke, but were not heard

- They never felt like speaking
Like.... Selenium or puppeteer?
Don't do this, but if you do, please wait until after the 14th.
Is Larkin Good for You?
Chromium: Lust for Colour
That study is only reference to the existing consensus, not the actual study from the OP.

I don't have the time to dig out the actual study but it looks like [1] it's originating in Canada (not NIH/USA) based on the publication of the press release.

Original comment of thread doesn't understand how much research is behind this idea (touch linked to higher outcomes long-term). I'd strongly recommend the commenter to read tribler's citation as that's scientific consensus at this point. If you want to read the recent study on DNA affects of touch, then below is that source of research.

1 - https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/holding-infants-or-not-can-leave...
it's not "deep" or "thought provoking", but it's a breath of fresh air from the usual fps cognitive dissonance of being a hero who runs around massacring thousands of people. honestly I don't think FC2 even tries to make you feel bad; it just doesn't bother to shove some ham-fisted justification of your violence into the plot. it's nihilistic. spec ops: the line is a game that actually tries to make you feel bad about what you're doing. here's a collection of some of the loading screen "tips": https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/2596hq/text_spec_o...
I imagine you guys already know this but considering we’re up against the timeline, I’d use the captcha solving service (easy to google yourself) and Luminati to distribute the IP addresses while swallowing my ethical qualms.
Speaking of garbage collectors, I had a thought the other day, wondering if performance could have a huge linear speed up if the graph of object pointers was stored compactly in memory, separated from the rest of an application's memory.

The object graph could be stored in a succinct compressed format to reduce it's size as much as possible, compared to actual 64 bit pointers.

Then the GC algorithm could crawl the graph much much faster by virtue of needing to access far fewer memory pages, and increased likelihood that those pages will be in a fast cpu cache most of the time.
Well that's super hard since Japanese encoding is an epic story in digital archaeology itself.
Of course we do not know exacty but there are multiple levels of evidence now that chimerism is very rare. One example would be cancer sequencing were you compare DNA from the cancer to a control tissue. I haven't heard of any of those mentioning any cases. The other case would be the recent GTEx concortia that sequenced upto 40 tissues of 600+ humans and did not detect any obvious chimera cases.

Different colored eyes one the other hand my be caused by a lot of things like no-genetic reasons, but also somatic (i.e post egg fertilization) mutations like loss of one chromosome copy and others.
Yahoo Groups can be configured to allow public access.
While I agree with your first point, and tried to get groups I was associated with to move for years, nevertheless there are groups there that engaged in community driven research and have important data uploaded there. (This is my main concern, though other groups were focused on different issues - uploaded art, for example.) So I think while we need to educate people about not using centralized providers like Yahoo and Google, right now we need to focus on getting someone at Verizon/Yahoo to respond to this urgent situation.
I'm not at all convinced that automation only results in the loss of future, and not present, jobs. In some cases the company will use the currently available worker hours for other tasks, but I can also imagine situations where workers that currently have jobs are laid off. A brief googling turned up a Forbes piece that claims millions of jobs have already been lost to automation[0], which seems believable to me whether or not the claim is accurate (Forbes has unapologetically lied in the past). This isn't to say we shouldn't automate things, but we should be aware of the effects of that automation.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amysterling/2019/06/15/automate...
3: Work, personal, independent business
This is just not true man. I want it to be true. It looks good on paper. But let me tell you... People will waste their lives on drugs, alcohol, sex and all number of vices whether there's a good job available or not. Happily. And they'll spit in your face, lie, cheat & steal all while telling you everything you want to hear. Some people just suck, and there will always be this group of people, opportunity & prosperity be damned.
Kochland review: how the Kochs bought America – and trashed it
I would break it down like this: 1) FS-core: provide FS-like semantics on top of D (or Colossus/D). Apart from data format and GC challenges, the piece that is missing is fast DC-level locking service.

2) Then, for VMs you can do FS driver, jump to VMM and booms, you are done, multiple legacy levels of re-packing and redirection are gone. For shared access cases you do NFS/Samba interceptor and then same code path as above.

This system would be highly beneficial not only for Cloud, but for other Google properties as well: it would provide normal posix FS to Borg jobs. Amounts of equilibristics required to use any open-source package is enormous and by this time exceeded costs of developing FS multiple times, ask YouTube, MySQL, package management, etc groups.

Another example of Google’s storage craziness is cross-dc storage. This should be low-level Colossus responsibility. Instead godzillion of teams implement their own, GCS, PD, Spanner, Placer, etc. Crazy.
Carroll Spinney, Puppeteer/voice actor of Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird Has Died
Like this?

https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=47778
I just use zless and then press v to invoke vim if I need to edit. I don't usually edit logs, mind you. But for other .gz text files, that I might read and then decide on a whim to edit, definitely.
As of Graal 19.1 , libGraal, a pre-compiled C2 JIT compiler, is bundled with GraalVM.

You can use it by adding the following JAVA_OPTS:

-XX:+UseJVMCICompiler -XX:+UseJVMCINativeLibrary
Many groups are public. Many have owners that requested the group be archived.
It’s difficult to tell how pervasive this problem is in the Croatian edition as opposed to others (even this narrative may be “partisan”, but I don’t know how the cited sources lean or who owns those media outlets). In any case, there are some rather blatant examples in the English language version that demonstrate the phenomenon, or at least half-assed solutions to neo-Nazi distortions via special pleading (the article on Copernicus is a nice piece of revisionism; in every historical reference I have ever come across, Copernicus is referred to as a Polish astronomer, but because the editors where either too foolish, cowardly in the face of German nationalism, or count neo-Nazis among their ranks, they decided to remove the national adjective altogether. Most articles do not conform to this practice which is why it’s a piece of special pleading and a pernicious concession. Shame on them.)
It's fascinating that you think the problem of being uncomfortable is worse than the problem of cat phishing.
Thanks!

RE your question: Squeak's scheduler (also written in Smalltalk) would need to be extended with support for multi-threading. Since that requires a significant amount of work, it's probably out of the scope of the project at this point (unless someone is interested to work on this, of course).
However, it's already possible to do multi-threading from Smalltalk using some other language like Java. We have some students doing just that with Ruby to parse HTML content in multiple threads.
5 :

- 3 personal (of them 2 personal domains)

- 2 pro/project based
It is an absolute trove of insight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
I've got several - one gmail (aka the "refuse collection" that I use mostly for email registrations for website I suspect will send me more email I care for), one protonmail I use as a backup business email where I'm the customer, plus my main personal email address a handful for side projects that I all run via an email server I host myself on a VPS.

Oh, and a work email address.
> I’d almost wish Governments would do more to fight climate change

Stop wishing. Go do something about it.
They are only archiving data on publicly accessible groups - many of which contain lots of discussions worth archiving.
I would donate my IP/bandwidth to archive.org if I could run a scraper easily.
Ah I was going to guess it might of been Alan Kay, but I wasn't too sure. Thanks for confirming! I read it as a comment a while back here on HN and forgot to bookmark it.
I’d assume the law is smarter than this, because companies would otherwise continually spin of new corporations to get rid of their liabilities with no assets as a sort of lightning rod for lawsuits.
Serious question

I understand how micro-finance helps small scale borrowers at a micro level and boosts the economy at a macro level.

What I don't understand is what drives so many consumers into micro-borrowing for basic consumer-level purchase.

Could someone who has used such services explain who and why micro-borrowing was useful for them?
We must never forget Ken M.

https://gizmodo.com/ken-m-is-the-most-epic-troll-on-the-inte...
My Email Is in Instagram Limbo
Something went wrong at account creation where an instagram account remains active but only to the point where the email is reported to be in use. When an attempt is made to recover the password, instagram reports it as not being associated with any account.

I can't log in to disable the account nor can I use the email with my actual account.

I've contacted instagram about this and remain unexpectant of a positive resolution. It may nevertheless be interesting to speculate what happens in cases like this, where code errors happen and the common unaproachability of a million-dollar platform like instagram assures an email address can remain in exile, forever.
I'm not an AHK wizard but to my understanding, the answer is "yes" to almost every "but can it do...?" questions.

In your case, from my limited understanding it would be no problem to identify a specific button in an app and then interact with it because you would be hooking into the app's low level window title / class / handles.

AHK comes with a "spy" tool where you can just move your mouse around and it gives you low level details about every window, and then you can write AHK scripts that interact with those things.

The script would look something like:

ControlClick, OK, "My Cool App"

That would click the OK button in a window that has a title of "My Cool App". If you Google around for "auto hotkey, click button in app" you'll find a ton of examples.
This article is terrible and did the grave disservice of not mentioning the work that has been done on this front using rats. Obviously, we cannot ethically reproduce the RCTs in humans to establish cause and effect, but there's sufficient evidence to form hypotheses and spur investigation in humans. I'm having trouble finding the exact primary literature that I wanted to cite just now, but here are a couple of things worth looking over:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682215/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meaney
That would be illegal and wouldn’t help regardless. They’d just shut it down earlier…
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> You'll just have an inferior experience.

I detect an emacs joke here.
Only if you really need the data. Maybe it's nice-to-have.
I think a similar thing happens with all tools. The same happens with game controllers, mice, keyboards, etc. While you're getting to know them, they're weird and unfamiliar. And then once you're really used to them, they vanish. When I'm typing a comment, I'm not thinking about fingers or QWERTY. I'm immersed in what I'm doing.

Which is certainly an argument that people get used to VR controllers. But I think it's also an argument against VR being particularly special in terms of immersion.
Three Emails:

- accounts@domain.tld - Catch All for emails for services (account/<service>@domain.tld)

- handle@domain.tld - Personal Email

- first@domain.tld - Work/Professional Email
Looks beautiful, and loads quickly. This is my favorite so far.

Are you using a static site generator?
The Body Instrumental
I just checked a few examples, and the hardcover and paperback editions have consistently different weights and thickness that cannot be explained by just the cover.

To use a friend's book as an example:

Normal People (https://www.amazon.com/Normal-People-Novel-Sally-Rooney/dp/1...)

Paperback: 304 pages, 0.6 inches, 8.3 ounces

Hardcover: 288 pages, 1.0 inches, 14.7 ounces

The hardcover has fewer pages but is 70% thicker and 80% heavier. The other dimensions differ only slighty (5.7 x 8.6 vs 5.2 x 8)

I checked two other recent releases and this seemed somewhat consistent. And even if the weight difference is mostly the cover, I would tend to think the cost of material to correlate linearly with weight (as your accusation also implies). So you are getting about twice the weight for about twice the price[0]?

Printing costs are obviously only a fraction of the price. I wouldn't even be surprised if books were one of those goods where gross margins actually increase even when the price difference is lower than the increase in weight (the canonical examples are perfume and software).

Personally, I don't care too much about paper thickness. The far more relevant quality issue used to be acid, with paper degrading within a decade. Today's paper is good for a few hundred years, so it wins any competition with those hand-sewn, thick, artisanal "quality products" of previous eras.

[0] Incidentally, the hardcover I looked up above sells for $9.95 while the paperback is $17.00 (both new). Go figure!
I find it curious that at the same time we discuss the 'right to be forgotten' laws there's also the opposite problem of preventing the internet from forgetting something.
Puppeteer Caroll Spinney Has Died
Many, I split topics logically over multiple gmail addresses which allowed me to isolate spam. I’ve also used throwaway sims for things like gumtree.com.au - there was a bunch of phone spam that hit the burner number so I’m glad I did that one.

Now I use two dedicated domains with catchalls which seem to work everywhere but gmail which should allow me to attribute and blackhole spam much more effectively. I really wish large providers (o365, aws) would provide low volume accounts for cheaper - having my company sales or procurements associated with my personal company email is silly, but the alternative is $4/month/account which really adds up but running your own mail server has it’s own time costs.
It's important to break down unrealistic fantasies so that we don't get lulled into a false sense of security or complacency for major problems. Building a maintainable civilization outside of Earth is likely a significantly harder problem than solving the climate crisis directly.

Having said that, goals to colonize space or terraform other planets could be immensely helpful at developing technologies to deal with our problems on Earth.

I've also never come across anyone who actually has the view that we don't need to deal with climate change because we can just leave Earth. Is that actually common?

If so, we're really not doing a good job of conveying how time critical the crisis is. We don't have the centuries we'll likely need to develop self sustaining off world civilizations before civilization here starts to break down. We have decades, maybe. Even if we develop the technology fast enough, we'll probably have exhausted all the cheap energy/resources needed to deploy it at scale.
Founder is a word that has meaning, we shouldn't let companies dictate our use of language.