skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel blessed to live in a world where companies can "get away with" selling products to people who are informed of the risks and choose to buy them. The urge to remove the option for others to behave irrationally runs strong in some, but we mustn't be carried away by ego.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” --C.S. Lewis
There are plenty of reasons one would want to switch away from Chrome, but potential abuse of ScrollToTextFragment must be the most contrived one.
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As far as I remember, Varoufakis was personally offended that the eurocrats did not take him seriously and did not engage in a discussion of his ideas. He wrote about it several times, he sounded extremely disappointed that you can't have an academic discussion on that table.

I had a really hard time to sympathise with him as I got the impression that he didn't pay attention to the reality of the situation and kept complaining that it's not like the way he likes it.

He seems like a nice guy to drink with but not a person you would like to do business. My guess is that the recordings will prove how cool and smart is he and it wasn't his fault.
I used to do a lot of development on a Dorado (usually at night -- I was low enough on the totem pole that I wouldn't grab one during the day, and used a Dolphin instead). They didn't crash all the time, at least in the InterLisp world I was using.
Definitely an advantage on the other side of your traditional "CRUD" application... The data warehouse and BI stack.
Per your argument, parliament discussions should also be secret, because otherwise it would be like asking for the private thoughts of the head of parliament.

But being more serious, deliberation is normally done between friendly parties before a negotiation, and perhaps it is usually fair to keep it private, especially before the actual negotiation has taken place.

But the actual negotiation is an excersie in arguments and offers and counter offers, it is no longer a private affair. If the negotiation is over, you can no longer trust the parties to accurately tell a story of the real arguments that took place, since the arguments they tell everyone may well have been a result of the negotiation.
Marmelab makes the pretty awesome react-admin library for autogenerating admin interfaces:

https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin

I'd love to see an official Marmelab adapter so I can build my admin interfaces with ReasonML.
Good call. That's an excellent example of Paul's idea in action.

In calling that OP's style rude, respondents are really equivocating on the OP's central point. The OP is demonstrating Paul's 'Strength' concept by boldly asserting "all encrypted email is not fit for purpose" in an unequivocal way. The respondents seem to agree in part but disagree at the edges and want the OP to accept qualifiers.
You're correct it's unremarkable a company would want to limit it's production of documents in accordance with their rights to do so under federal and state rules.

It's super, and I mean super, fucked up that you turn around and accused the the other side of corruption with literally no evidence that it is true.

It's beyond super fucked up that HN thinks OPs answer adds any actual insight to this conversation, as opposed to utterly unsupported insinuations.

OP could be right, but we should all be doing better here, from the WSJ to the people upvoting this garbage.
Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019)
>there are clearly agendas on both sides and everything needs to be validated

one side features scientists who have been developing the same story for nearly 40 years with ever-greater detail. they don't have paid PR professionals or troll farms, but they have a body of facts, which, when taken as a whole, are unimpeachable in their prescription for what needs to happen to prevent future global warming. perhaps you may say that an individual paper's finding is refuted. sure. we expect that to occur with no fewer than 5% of all papers within most fields. the other ~95%, while imperfect, will continue to support the same broad stroke conclusions as well as many of the most relevant supporting details.

in contrast to this standard of evidence, the other side features people who stand to lose money by allowing the body of facts to be acted upon. they have the money to pay PR professionals and make advertising campaigns, etc. they can pay their own scientists to do some fake research, but the cat is already so far out of the bag that it's career suicide to do so. in other words, their position is so hopelessly lost that they can't even find credible fall guys within the field of climate science to make up nonsense which supports their agenda. think about that for a minute.

in this situation, we should expect the scientists to continue doing what they've always done: developing their research to be ever-more comprehensive and detailed, thereby giving the other side a smaller and smaller space to live in. in reaction, the other side will try to muddy the waters as much as possible for as long as possible to give them time to pivot their money to somewhere where the scientists can't harm it by exposing facts. this is what they're doing with the bot campaigns: repeating talking points like you have to muddy the waters and prevent meaningful organized action which would harm their financial bottom line. it's appallingly clear.

this isn't really a situation where you talk about "both sides" having agenda and "needing to validate" everything. there's no contest anymore. everything has been validated. the agenda of one of the sides has been exposed as utterly devoid of merit, not to mention egregiously underhanded. the agenda of the scientists has been simply to be listened to all along, so that the common good can be serviced rather than discarded.
This article meanders all over the place without really saying anything.

I want to see something new, like somebody uses a small solar sail to nick the reactor from one of these plutonium satellites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A
Reading random GPS coordinates in an essay without a map in a has high precision but terrible understanding. While it's highly accurate, it's almost useless to the typical reader who would have difficulty knowing that the GPS coordinate is within Colorado. GPS coordinates are for maps not essays.
Except that they are, looking for a job in Porto/Lisbon? Syscog is always looking for good Common Lisp coders.

The fact that CL is used enough to keep two commercial vendors in business, shows how relevant it still is across some industries, even if doesn't do newspaper headlines.

More so than ever Scheme ever was.
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> Another mistake that bleeds through is mutable strings.

OCaml strings are immutable by default since OCaml 4.06.
I'll concede Tarantino films are a good example. I think maybe the difference is that Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, and Django aren't comedies, and it tends to be a lot less casual. I recall most cases in Django being very hateful, used for a purpose. BS dropped it very casually, as if the characters were normal people talking that way every day (which is pretty accurate).

I'm not claiming anything should be whitewashed or censored at all, just that language in a modern context has an effect on how a movie comes across to the audience. I don't think that a modern audience would find it funny without the social atmosphere of the 1970s. I'm making no claims about the quality of the movie itself, as it actually was made. Similarly, if Huck Finn was written today, I do think it would have a really hard time. It works because of the place it has in history.
If I'm understanding his correctly, google actually changes the HTML to have these anchor tags?
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That was posted a few hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382606
Personally, I dont believe businesses should be treated as people legally, though I understand some of the complexity involved and why this is currently, mostly the case.

Businesses are entities and should be treated significantly different since as abstract/artificial human constructs, they have no real notion of life, death, hardship, hunger, disease, etc. and are able to act accordingly based on these relaxed constraints whereas humans do need to deal with these aspects.

Any notion of these human concerns reflected in a business exist only due to businesses being composed of and controlled by humans. Business decisions don't have to and often don't reflect regular human concerns. That relaxed constraint allows them certain competitive advantages over humans.

Those competitive advantages are then exploited purely as a proxy for some arbitrarily privileged humans, allowing them to push their personal desires on the world with losses minimally effecting their primary human concerns.

That common proxy relationship use needs to have more accountability that leads back to the humans playing the business puppets, otherwise, the punishments are not nearly equivalent in impact on life of a business entity vs an individual.
Cautionary note: you might better look for another resource to learn linear algebra. Don’t waste your time watching these videos just because it is from MIT
The fact that only he knew is really the crucial point here. That gives him incredible opportunity to sway the conversation. He also has the ability to cherry-pick which recordings to choose.

If you want open talks, they need to be done so with everyone on board.
People care when they can't be hired for a good job, they care when their paycheck is stuck at the same level forever, and they care whether their government services are any good. If GDP isn't going to pay for those things, what is? Debt? Plunder?
Note that Mirzakhani was an IMO gold medalist, so she could solve problems plenty fast when she needed to.
It's just not super clear to me that there is a huge need for this. Its been ten years and what services have btc integration? AliPay is outrageously more successful despite centralization, which seems to not bother most people.

Further, btc works precisely as well as a payment platform whether the price is $1 or $1,000,000. This makes the discussion of the price of btc suspicious to me.
Phillip Morris has a pretty diverse portfolio; they just play every side.
FWIW as an aside: I always scan comments on nuke-related HN posts to find yours first. Super informative and easy to digest. Thanks again.
So they're marketing tobacco vaporizers and trying to push it as an upscale luxury good. Most people here know how hard it is to watch someone die of tobacco related illness, just a terrible way out. How is this company that has profited off of so much death and misery still thriving while our jails are full of addicts?
Neither of the parties in our political duopoly are hands off.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I think I do understand it now, but I do disagree. I don't think #1 is talking about the same type of writing that the OP, I don't think it applies at all actually. #3 seems to imply that there functional and art are competing types of writing, which I also disagree. They are different things, for different purposes, for different reading experiences, created differently. The same with the general idea of your comment.
Well done for trying.
thanks for the links. the clara rules gives me some ideas.
Greece voluntarily joined a larger currency zone and reaped the benefits for a decade.

Should state elections in Mississippi drive US Fed policy?
> I wonder if we shouldn't group kids by size for sporting activities instead of by age.

This is how it's done in rugby in New Zealand and maybe a few other countries, but not most. It's much more important in rugby than in baseball!
Who would have predicted that over the course of ~10 years, Forbes would pivot from a respected elite business publication into a sluggish clickbait "contributor" website junked up with high ad load + low-quality self-promotional articles?

How are they even profitable? Who in their right mind can go to Forbes.com, stomach the absolutely crap user experience tossed at them, and tolerate it enough to keep returning?
The attack depends on measuring the timing of resource-loading that in turn depends on the free-text search the attacker can get the victim browser to do on his behalf.
We already have hard time migrating it to TypeScript :p
How such an adapter might work?
> Regarding the fact that the public deserves to know, I disagree. The public can act completely irrationally against its own interests under FUD (I guess we have some recent examples from the UK and the US), and in a lot of cases, they are better off not knowing

Can you please clarify if I misunderstood you: You argue that people shouldn't know the truth, because when someone lies to them they act against their own interests?
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Indeed. My first reaction to the headline was to say "I wouldn't be surprised at all that Google was doing uncompetitive stuff, but just pushing back on discovery doesn't mean anything". Then I read the comments and saw the same one you're reacting to and wasn't sure if I should vote it up for the relevant first point or not because of the other points.
Psychedelic drugs may revolutionize mental health care
Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
It's not so much that that one sentence was a problem, it's that all the text is hard to read and understand. Marketing software is incredibly hard, commonly much harder than developing it. You might consider launching your software first in your first language where it will be easiest for you to both write about and assess others writing about your software.
Newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
Not exactly. The three main environments (Smalltalk, Interlisp-D and Cedar) took over the machine completely. Each had its own network stack, window system, et al. Those environments didn't have memory protection so from an OS perspective they were more like classic MacOS rather than current MacOS.

They weren't general purpose OSes: there was a single "environment" running bare on the machine. That's why porting Cedar, Symbolics images etc is possible: you stick the whole thing in a single address space in user space.
The article's evidence that Kickstarter was supposed to be about capitalism is that the co-founder wrote "This Could be Our Future". From the Amazon blurb:

By assigning rational value to other values besides money--things like community, purpose, and sustainability--we can refocus our energies to build a society that's generous, fair, and ready for the future.

This doesn't seem like capitalism in any kind of capitalism-vs-socialism way.
As someone who admired and aspired to Hemingway's parsimononius style of writing in my youth, nowadays I'm starting to back away from it and am growing to be more inclusive other (less concise) styles of writing.

I aspired to concision because I believed I wasn't an interesting person and didn't deserve any attention outside of the little I'm able to grab, so I kept my writing pithy in the hopes that I wouldn't have to "take up too much of anyone's time/attention".

Unfortunately, too much concision can lead to short pieces that are tiring to read -- your brain has to work harder to fill in the gaps. Sometimes "unnecessary" words are needed to help the reader feel more comfortable. Not everyone is an engineer or a technocrat. Parsimony isn't always a virtue.

There's is a place for concision, but I now believe concision is the wrong goal to aim for. Often the real goal is to create an emotional connection, and if it takes a few more words to achieve it (without belaboring the subject), so be it.

People -- often teachers -- think good writing is solely about effective communication -- to me, there has never been a wronger conclusion than this.
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Varoufakis, as far as I remember, was not asking for debt forgiveness.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22346145
commoners who still use cash

You're right, it's much better to use payment methods that track my wants, needs, desires, habits, location, companions, financial status, political and religious preferences; and then weaponizes it against me. Stupid commoners and their freedom.
First detection of extragalactic molecular oxygen
> Today, if I'd need jvm, I'll simply take modern Java.

100% Kotlin. Doesn't even have to be Clojure or ABCL.
If you think of it as an e-cigarette, it’s dumb. If you think of it as a fancy filter for regular cigarettes, it’s potentially clever. Especially if, for some reason, you already have the cigarettes, or can acquire them for cheaper than you can acquire e-cig liquid (because e.g. you work at a convenience store.)
Schäuble was only 1/17 of the Eurogroup.
I'm actually looking forward to WebAssembly but I'm just imagining wasm applications tying into ChromeOS and we have ActiveX all over again.
So individuals should be afforded certain rights, but when they work together as a group, those rights should be taken away?
I do prefer Intel's solution of slowing down over AMD's solution of crashing. I guess the good news is if this does turn out to be a power delivery related bug, it's fixable with firmware.
Exactly what I need right now. Trying it out (and congrats!) :)
You only need to be right one time in order to be successful
I read it as the opposite, where the evil party doesn't control the browser but they can sniff traffic on the network and now they can see which part of a page you requested instead of merely which page.

I am not a web dev so I'd love to hear someone with more knowledge spell out some other privacy concerns.
And now it is dead, leaving behind a pile of code to rewrite in next cool toy.
What makes you think that sort of BS ever really stopped?
I remember reading about it here: https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/maryam-mirzakhani-...

Always a tragic death to be reminded of. :(
This is actually a surprisingly difficult question to answer. If you had asked specifically about tobacco, you'd be correct. But, nicotine itself may not be as addictive as tobacco products are.

Remember that tobacco contains many other compounds that influence how the body metabolizes things (MAOI's and such). Here's a link with some citations: http://www.healthnz.co.nz/Addiction_TobNic.htm

EDIT: My personal anecdote is that I tried vaping when the first 901 ecigs started to hit the US market: the idea was twofold. I wanted to assess whether there was any cognitive benefit in using nicotine through a cleaner delivery system and I also wanted to get my dad to quit smoking cigarettes. Both goals were failures, I found it too difficult to dose reliably using this method and the side effects weren't worth it to me. I did not find myself addicted after around a month of use.
FYI strings are now immutable in OCaml. It was a compiler option starting with 4.02 and it has become enabled by default since 4.06.
If that was true, HN wouldn’t make their name green. The fact that their name is green is an indicator from HN that their comments should be scrutinized.
Much more harmful even if you are not addicted. Take road accidents and fights for example.
Damore's memo was titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber". It definitely gets discussed as anti-conservatism in conservative circles. The only places that attack it as "Damore thinks women are worse than men" are the sort of liberal outlets that Republicans don't read much.

If you're like most people on HN you probably don't consume much conservative media. Or at least way less than the President does. If you're curious as to what sort of thing his circle are reading, go look here:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/

Note the nature of the stories. Many of them are about tech firms apparently discriminating against or attacking conservatives and conservative politicians. Also note that people don't really distinguish between tech firms. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon. They're all seen as basically the same group of people and in fairness, they kinda are ... Facebook was built in the early days by poaching lots of Googlers.

By the way, anyone who reads across the spectrum will quickly notice that Google News seems to have silently blacklisted Breitbart. It's indexed, but never ranks and doesn't auto-complete. Instead the ranking reliably pushes liberal outlets to the fore. I read across the spectrum - NYT, Guardian, Telegraph, Breitbart, Washington Post, whatever gets linked here. Google News very obviously wants me to read certain worldviews much more than others. The UI doesn't make that obvious though.

Google's institutional hatred of the Republican party is by now old news. I'll be really upset if this leads to a win for Oracle. APIs should not be copyrightable but it's not obvious why not to people who aren't developers.
I don't think that this article is uninformative. Many citizens are unaware of this program and it could come in handy some day (hopefully not, but it's a good thing to know). More useful than reading something dumb a politician said today.
It's cool, and I generally agree.
Note that I'm talking about defeat in the rhetorical arena here. It's important to make it clear that Nazis are not merely bad people but also wrong & stupid -- otherwise, people who don't mind being bad so long as it benefits them will keep becoming Nazis.
I don't understand how anyone can stomach Java, especially when Kotlin exists which has the same ecosystem as and better tooling than Java.
Does this require you to intercept their traffic on the network? If not, how do you know what their page load looks like?
> I am skeptical about all the doomsday predictions, as all of them have been flat out wrong

Can you give an example of a ‘doomsday prediction’ made by a mainstream scientific body - rather than a commentator or politician - that has proved to be flat out wrong?
Researchers tricked two Teslas into autonomously speeding up by 50 MPH
I doubt it's a coincidence. I think people are just primed to upvote similar stories like that; it's not like they're both on the front page of CNN or even the Register.
> What happened in Greece instead was that only the borrowers suffered, the lenders got all their money back.

Even worse, it'll be the borrower's children who will suffer the consequences.
Google has way too much power in the Online Ads biz. Period.
This can't go on like that.
> Just because it's high end doesn't mean they won't cut corners or fail to test properly. My ROG motherboard was (at the time) the most expensive motherboard for the socket.

High end in consumer stuff, and especially anything gaming related, is basically scam.. look mah, 16000 dpi! And blingy leds! (But no engineering)

Sure they might drop an over-specced part somewhere in it but it's just marketing when the rest of the product is crap and still has no proper engineering behind it.

It's incredibly frustrating. I think there was a time when you could generally assume that expensive = high end = actually good, but now it's just a cheap thing with crazy markup and a premium part (but nowhere near premium enough to justify the markup) or two somewhere (where it probably doesn't matter much anyway) along with other gimmicks. Now it's just expensive = expensive, good or maybe not.