skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I more often notice people who do not like watching sports vocalizing negative feelings towards people who do.

I'm on the not-liking sports side. I try to not vocalize negative feelings about it because I respect other people's choices, but I do have a lot of negative experiences around it:

* Sports, even spectator sports, remind me of my personal experience with sports. That was mostly being a very skinny unathletic kid who got picked on and bullied in PE every day. Sports fans remind me of jocks and jocks remind me of abuse. (Obviously, I understand that there is no logical connection between these groups of people. It's an irrational emotional reaction.)

* It's frustrating having to deal with entire sections of a city being sometimes off limits for events I have no interest in. I used to live in Baton Rouge and LSU games were so big there that they would turn streets one-way to get people in and out. If you were close to the stadium, you could literally find your home inaccessible by road — you could be trapped either in or out — until the game traffic was over. If you parked on allowed student parking, they'd tow your car to make room for tailgaters. When my kids' parkour class moved to close to CenturyLink Field, we just stopped going because it was too much of a nightmare dealing with traffic and parking.

* I get so tired of 80% of restaurants and bars being festooned with giant TVs blaring sports. My wife and daughter have ADHD and it's virtually impossible for them to tune out a TV if it's in their line of sight.

I have also enjoyed watching sports and playing them. I think sports are great and wish more people both participated in them. I like the community-building aspect of spectator sports. But America's spectator sport culture is generally a net negative in my life. And, like second-hand smoke, it's one I can never really escape because it is so pervasive in our culture.
If you look at what happened with Wisconson and Foxconn, you basically had a web of corruption at the highest levels of government with support from the POTUS. They deliberately negotiated a shitty deal because they are all corrupt. It's not that hard to see, unless you happen to be a Trump supporter.
That stood out to me also.

There are sysadmins, even very experienced ones, who have never written code or code-equivalent scripts. But there are lots who have, and "tell me more" seems like the obvious reaction. For that matter, anyone with a recent Civil Engineering degree has probably done a fair bit of Matlab programming, and even some geologists do heavyweight climate modelling. If we agree that a background in physics is potentially a good qualification, it's worth asking most of these people what specific work qualifies them.

Maybe the complaint was specifically about those people teaching programming, though? "Sysadmin + bootcamp" could definitely prepare someone for an entry-level programming job, but it does sound worrying if a bootcamp loads up on TAs who don't have education or experience in software beyond the bootcamp itself.
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OK, fine, then, I'll bite. If that's not the "claim" you want people to extract from your drive-bys, then please substantiate: how--exactly--would that evil specter of a union prevented Carmack and his friends from founding iD to make Keen, Doom, and Quake? Be specific.
Tiobe Index for January 2020 – C Awarded Programming Language of 2019
Self driving cars implementing the proper solution to the trolley problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
Pro atheletes are part of the rare group of workers who get paid close to value of their labour.

At the low end NFLers are underpaid if anything. They get a good salary but only for a few years and then they are in their mid 20s with a joke degree and not a whole lot of other skills.

Don't lump cops in with teachers. If you want a dangerous job pick roofer or garbageman or something else that's more dangerous than being a cop.
Many countries have postal services offering banking to help pay for the post/because it works well with postal branches everywhere. They are separate divisions and the banking division is run like a bank. But I am always skeptical in the US, because government employees and caring, efficient/competent service don't seem to mix all that often.
What I think you're missing is that the disclosure could come from a bad person who doesn't care about any of your arguments. It's like I'm saying "banks should invest in vaults to protect against theft" and you're saying "that costs money and disruption of building work, what if you just don't talk about where the money is kept". I agree that if people didn't steal the money, that would be nice. But most of the people who are talking about where banks keep money with a view to stealing it, aren't going to shut up in order to keep the money safe, because they don't care about keeping the money safe. So if us bank customers stop talking about it, a) that doesn't keep it quiet, and b) our money gets stolen.

It would be a nice world if we could tell companies about flaws and they fixed them, and nothing went public, but instead we tell companies with "responsible disclosure" and they ignore it, don't spend any effort on it, act incompetently leaving it with first line support people who don't understand it and have no path to escalate it, have no security contacts available for reports, cover it up or deny it or try to silence it with NDA style agreements, prioritise shareholder profit or public image over it, and generally behave irresponsibly in all possible ways that avoid them having to deal with it, with very few companies excepted.

In light of that, public disclosure with all its risks, actually does kick companies into taking action, and closing risk vectors for good. Like companies who say "we put customers first!" but it takes a complaining public Twitter thread for them to even respond at all. Telling people to not take it to Twitter ignores the fact that there's no other way which seems to actually work.

Give an alternative which also gets problems fixed, and I'll be much more in favour of it.
That is interesting about your sister. I've been thinking of doing something similar, do you know if she uses a platform like Etsy to sell her stuff?
Well I would assume that as long as you live you'll keep updating your crypto as new tech comes out. That way the clock only starts ticking when you die.
And if you can find places where there’s cashback, you can also skip the ATM fees
If we can pass 718B for the military then we can afford to pay teachers more.

Without even a cent in extra tax.
Show HN: bcal – Storage & general-purpose CLI calculator for programmers
Being dangerous isn't the only qualification for a high paying job and not why I chose those 2, they are both in my opinion underpaid. Obviously for different reasons at face value, but they both provide a public service and get paid poorly historically.

But you are right about athletes only having a short viable career and that helps lower the gap, I was referring more to the high end athletes making millions. Even considering their short careers they make far more than an average teacher can hope to ever in their lifetime. On average I'm not really sure, that does depend on the individual sport and athlete.
I'm of the opinion that Codec 2 [0][1] should pause on trying to perform better at lower and lower bit rates, and put some work into higher ones.

Getting down to 700 and even 450 b/s is neat and all, but there seems (to me) to be a gap between 4000 and 10000 b/s in the patent-free space.

* [0] http://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452

* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_2
Many implementations didn't do enough mixing before generating output, though.

Also, when you look at cache side channel attacks -- RC4 definitely publishes its internal state.
> "Employers have nothing to lose."

Wrong in general and doubly wrong in the games industry where small game studios go bankrupt pretty much every other week. Not everybody is a FAANG or a billion dollar game publisher swimming in cash.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21973077
> The federal government has many more tax incentives (basically anything that you can get a deduction or credit for),

Only credits are really business tax incentives, since business expenses, as such, are generally deductible.

> and these definitely shape behavior because the rate is so much higher than state/local taxes

That doesn't follow. It would make sense that if state/local incentives did shape behavior, larger federal incentives would do more to shape behavior. But if state/local incentives have no evident effect, what amounts to more of the same could plausibly also have no effect.
People have always done things like this. I haven't seen any stats on how much more common it is now, what the trend was before disinformation, etc.
Samsung already makes cars in Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Samsung_Motors (it's now a subsidiary of Renault)
All of the people that have shamed me or threatened me for crying during my life were women. I'm going to give them credit for making their own decisions.
`bcal` (Byte CALculator) is a REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, unit conversion and address calculation. If you can't calculate the hex address offset for (512 - 16) MiB, or the value when the 43rd bit of a 64-bit address is set mentally, `bcal` is for you.

It has a `bc` mode for general-purpose numerical calculations. Alternatively, it can also invoke `calc` which works better with expressions involving multiple bases.

The latest version 2.2 is released today.

### Features

- REPL and single execution modes
- evaluate arithmetic expressions involving storage units
- perform general purpose calculations (using bc or calc)
- works with piped input or file redirections
- convert to IEC/SI standard data storage units
- interactive mode with the last valid result stored for reuse
- show the address in bytes
- show address as LBA:OFFSET
- convert CHS to LBA and vice versa
- base conversion to binary, decimal and hex
- custom sector size, max heads/cylinder and max sectors/track
- minimal dependencies
They published a report that alleged Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress. Mueller had to break silence to issue a denial about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/business/media/buzzfeed-n...
Well, I worked as a corporate tax lawyer for the better part of a decade, and I could see how companies did or did not react to tax incentives. The higher the rate is, the more companies are willing to bend behavior to qualify for it. I can't cite specifics due to confidentiality, but it is universally accepted among tax practitioners and scholars that deductions are move valuable when rates are higher. Credits don't scale this way because they're a dollar-for-dollar tax reduction (although they're still limited to the total amount of tax that would be paid).
If the arena was actually a profitable/smart enterprise then the billionaires wouldn't mind paying for them.
Love the community on this site, very interactive and supportive. I recommend joining and expressing yourself through a micro cast about whatever interests you!
Are you looking for https://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/ ?
> How are buildings doing in Chernobyl?

Not great, but not terrible?
Something new at CES 2020

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3512246/asus-rog-zephyrus-g1...
/r/AskHistorians has a several topics on this theme (if it's possible there are older civilizations we don't know about). The consensus is that it's very unlikely.

E.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b5yrmi/how_c...
Most people are intelligent enough to form views outside of disinformation. For the people that read disinformation, their minds are -- for the most part -- completely made up already.

People don't go from being Democrats or swing voters to reading an article about how Hillary Clinton feasts on aborted babies in a whore house she runs in Russia, to suddenly voting for Trump.

I mean, sure, some people do. But the vast majority of disinformation is reinforcing.
They won’t. Bosworth does what’s best for Bosworth, and he owns substantially more $FB than any of those people arguing against him.
I’m rather bored with people not in the games industry opining about what the games industry should do.

Source: >10 years in games
DNA tests can’t tell you your race
I think white people giving a shit and talking about these issues is the only reason we've come so far. Your attitude would have kept us on the 1700s.
Complaint is here: https://www.scribd.com/document/442035843/Sonos-v-Goo
> The price seems very high for the category.

Does anyone else remember when a Keil C 8051 at 20MHz devkit would cost you several hundred dollars for the hardware, and then several hundred dollars for the compiler?

I remember... it was like... what? 10 years ago? Not actually very long ago...
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> Why do NFL players get paid so much?

Because their labor can be very cheaply duplicated by broadcasting the game to millions of spectators.

*> Where's the money actually coming from?

Ads, merchandising, and ticket sales, like you note.

Professional sports players are, economically, in the same category as musicians and actors. They produce media and the digital era means media can be duplicated at virtually no cost, so the value of their labor can be easily multiplied by a very large constant.

Police, doctors, and teachers provide their labor to individual humans in realspace which is much harder to scale so, unfortunately, their salaries reflect that.
A beautiful thing happened after coal-fired plants were shut down in the U.S.
> The market price is

No. There is usually no such thing as _a_ market price. There's a distribution of prices for purchases of the same item (and that's when we ignore the cases of transactions involving more than just the transfer of money).

> the equilibrium of both supply and demand.

Supply and demand for a specific products are more the _result_ of socio-economic processes and phenomena rather their _causes_.
>Also an anecdote doesn't invalidate something that is true for a vast majority of the american workforce.

You just love your wide sweeping claims don't you? No it is not true for the vast majority of the american workforce.

>You said it right, they are provided. In Europe they are not provided: they are your right and it cannot be taken away by your employer.

Can we please not move the goal posts, I thought this was a union discussion? If everyone in the U.S should have 4 weeks vacation, 4 months maternity leave, however much sick leave is deemed appropriate, that can be done at the legal level. You do not need unions to exist to do that!
It was always broken like this. These guys just figured that out.

Now we know. It's better to know.
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The NDK does not (completely) support the C and C++ standard library. Certain parts (name resolution, at least, IIRC) are missing.
This is corruption in it's purest form, but I feel like there might be a silver lining here. If they increase prices on domains the scummy domain name squatters will get burned and have to dump a good chunk of their inventory when renewal comes up. They're basically taking the margin that the scalpers were exploiting.
Queen’s is far from the Canadian equivalent of “Ivy League.” You must be from Queen’s.
Products I wish existed:

1) Dynamic relational databases. They wouldn't be too different from existing RDBMS, unlike the "noSql" products, yet allow dynamism.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s...

2) A GUI-friendly and desktop-friendly http-based markup standard for "productivity" and CRUD applications. HTML/DOM/CSS/JS keeps sucking for that, after 2 decades of trying. Focus a standard on GUI's and only GUI's so that it's done right for once. Java applets & Flash failed because they got feature-happy, making them buggy and security risks.

3) A hybrid file system and database to serve as intranet CMS's. One should be able to put documents into a folder and have the folder automatically be displayed in a "nice" listing or menu of links (to view or open documents), along with folder tree navigation features. Additional attributes could allow finer control, such as document synopsis, author name or ID (cross-reference), and thumbnails or icons. As things are now, one is pretty much forced to use either a file system or a CMS for many intranet-ish things. Merge the concepts.
Best Keyboard Wiki on the Planet
Writing is also a far greater (/ less likely) achievement than many people realise. You need a language, enough social structure to create a demand for written instructions/messages beyond simple pictures, and an Einstein-level linguistic genius to figure out how to break down and codify language utterances in a way that can readily be learnt and understood by the general population.

Some languages such as Guniyandi have only recently undergone this conversion [0], in fact there are likely thousands of languages still without writetn forms [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooniyandi

[1] https://www.ethnologue.com/enterprise-faq/how-many-languages...
I've found most Elixir projects I've taken a look at to be surprisingly easy to follow when I've needed to.

I've dug into Ecto, Ecto SQL, Elixir itself at times. This was just because I was trying to figure out some corner-case behavior. The overhead of understanding someone else's classes when I tried similar things in Python was always just a much heavier mental load. Idiomatic or not.

As mentioned by another comment, the important thing is that each function you need to read can pretty much be read on its own. You might need to follow a few trails. But the way a library can hide where the magical state comes from in a Python class is sometimes maddening. I know, because I've written that code.

I find Elixir incredibly readable, nicely writable and the mental overhead continuously lower.
Housing prices are included in the CPI both for owners and renters. Here's how => https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
I have pretty much given up on Arduino. They had me almost interested again when they announced the Pro IDE, but several months later they still haven't put the source code on Github: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide

I am not interested in the Electron-based IDE, but they seem to be using the Clang language server, which is perfect for integrating with Emacs. I have been sitting here for months ready to hack on this stuff and make it work perfectly, but all I have to work with is the raw source files contained in the Electron bundle with no license, so I've basically given up. Once again, the Arduino team is doing Weird Stuff with software, and this whole Pro thing feels like "the joys of working with Broadcom, but we stick random Open Source logos on thing without actually being Open Source".

I have a lot of microcontroller projects I want to do, but without modern development tools, it's not worth it. They are so close... just let me hack on your source code, please. I'll do it for free and you can do whatever you want with the code. But they don't seem to want to play ball.

(Recently I have been playing with Tinygo, but I am still not motivated because "go doc", my favorite go tool, and gopls don't work... and I'm not quite sure that it's worth the effort to make work yet. My toy tinygo projects have gone pretty well, though, so maybe it is worth making their IDE support work, and forgetting Arduino ever existed. I feel like Circuit Python / Micropython is the path of least resistance right now.)
So to be clear about what this is (because the website doesn’t quite clarify): this collision lets you pick two different prefixes P1, P2, then calculates some pseudorandom data C1, C2 such that SHA1(P1+C1) = SHA1(P2+C2). The length extension property of SHA1 (and MD5) means that now SHA1(P1+C1+X) = SHA1(P2+C2+X) for any X.

A similar attack (which requires only a few hours on modest hardware nowadays) has been known for a long time for MD5, but this is the first time it’s been demonstrated for SHA-1.

The previous attack, called Shattered (https://shattered.io) was a regular collision, that is, they chose a single prefix P and found different C1, C2 such that SHA1(P+C1) = SHA1(P+C2). This can also be length extended, so that SHA1(P+C1+X) = SHA1(P+C2+X). However, this attack is more limited because there is little to no control over the pseudorandom C1 and C2 (the only differing parts of the messages).

With a chosen prefix collision, though, things are way worse. Now you can create two documents that are arbitrarily different, pad them to the same length, and tack on some extra blocks to make them collide.

Luckily, the first collision should have already warned people to get off of SHA1. It’s no longer safe to use for many applications. (Note, generally for basic integrity operations it might be OK since there’s no preimage attack, but I’d still be a bit wary myself).
but freedom of speech is really incidental to the core issue of the disproportionate influence of money in politics. yes, no one should be deprived of the fundamental right of speech (against the government). but that's the important bit--it's a freedom from the tyranny of a government.

the same foundational principle applies to money in politics. a money-driven influence campaign is an exercise of power, not simply of speech (against the government), and that has tyrannical implications because the moneyed interests behind the campaigns seek political power over the rest of us.

to counter that, we insist on transparency in the exercise of any kind of power, including the people ultimately behind the money (no matter how removed). the danger of citizens united, as i understand it, is not that it sanctioned money in power, but that it did not required full and absolute transparency all the way down the line.
What TLDs should be looked at that are in the nearly $10~ or less range and are not likely to rate hike? I hate the idea of investing $10/year in a personal use domain then getting a surprise $50 bill X years later.
Not specifically. I'm saying that, as far as I can tell, Google isn't using its patents offensively. Not just in open source, but everywhere.
Ask HN: Which savings account do you use, online or traditional?
I am looking to open a new savings account. Any suggestions?
How to list and sell items on Facebook Marketplace
P&G on the Privacy Principle: Protecting Consumer Trust
That didn't take long. Anyone know how to disable it in the major browsers?
Panasonic Unveils World’s First Ultra HD VR Eyeglasses – VRScout
It's a vision, not a plan.
Thanks; admittedly the last time I looked into this was a few years ago. Glad to see it gaining traction!
Weighing Neutrinos with Galaxies
> Only credits are really business tax incentives

Credits are definitely not the only business tax incentives. Accelerated depreciation or amortization is one easy example. Also, the decision to treat something as an immediately-deductible expense as opposed to something that has to be capitalized is itself a tax incentive.

> But if state/local incentives have no evident effect, what amounts to more of the same could plausibly also have no effect.

Sure, it could. But the paper doesn't even try to establish that. It's like saying that speeding doesn't cause traffic accidents, based on an article that only looked at bicycles that speed.

It's a bit odd to have attracted downvotes here, while at the same time the title was updated in the way that I suggested.
While some of the comments here may be legitimate, the very similar phrasing used in every other comment (excepting mine) expressing their love of the platform is tripping my spam sensors.
Paid ads on social media are interesting because sometimes you get lucky with an ad and it goes viral/attracts a lot of sales, but often it doesn't. You have to experiment and know your market.