skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tersing proliferates.
You could say the same thing about Erlang and Elixir.

Or Java and Kotlin / Scala.

Depending on how well an alternative syntax is requested and adopted by the existing ecosystem surrounding the particular VM, YMMV. Without knowing, I think you get quite different answers in each case.
CBS Sunday Morning (my favorite news show) had a segment about this too: https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs-sunday-morning/video/GZb3nlcVQ...
The common answer is transparency. Perhaps advocate for online tools that expose government spending, funds disbursement, budgets, tax allocation, and so forth.

Corruption is allowed to exist because it is permitted within the confines of a given culture by the rules of practice within that culture. You will want to access objective research that provides data on your local culture so as to better present a resolution that best addresses the cultural practices that would most inhibit transparency. For a specific geography you will want to reference the Geert Hofstede dimensions and the Transparency International research for your area.

* https://www.transparency.org/

* https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-ho...
Good catch. The ironing was intentional.
> The researchers examined 6.5m tweets posted in the days leading up to and the month after Trump announced the US exit from the Paris accords on 1 June 2017. The tweets were sorted into topic category, with an Indiana University tool called Botometer used to estimate the probability the user behind the tweet is a bot.

Botometer website:
https://botometer.iuni.iu.edu/#!/CB
I don't see the name explained in that document. It does mention 'C-Scheme' and 'Z80 Scheme' so maybe Chez is a sort of interpolation of those?
Or if the first thing you type is a quote if you are focused on an input, then it infers the type command, otherwise it's a focus search.
Some excerpts from Wikipedia definition, that I find accurate:

> Bullying is the use of force, coercion, or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual.

> Bullying is the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another individual, physically, mentally, or emotionally.

Don’t you see a difference between an actual abuse, and the use of a UX dark pattern to get users to create/use online accounts?
Stripe to keep fees charged after refunds
Just got this email – makes sense to me!

–

Hello,

We'd like to let you know that we're making some updates to how Stripe handles refunds for your business. In 2017, we updated our fee handling for refunds to account for changes in our underlying costs. Because you were an early user of Stripe, your fees did not change at the time.

Beginning May 1, 2020 we’ll no longer return Stripe’s fees when you refund a customer, in line with our current pricing. There are no additional fees to issue a refund, but fees from the original payment will not be returned.

All other pricing remains unchanged and your termination rights in your agreement with Stripe are unaffected by this change. You can always find our current pricing and fee details on our pricing page, and you can read more in the docs about refunds.

Best,

The Stripe team
It's a private company in Australia that likely needs more funding, so probably so, if you meet your government's requirements for investing in that sort of thing.
No problem, thank you for your response.

What I meant to say was this:

"The lumping together of outcomes in roughly two boxes, while also discarding information about the specific actions that lead to the outcomes."

Once this has been done, there is no longer a line back from the outcomes ("buying food") to the actions that led to it ("receiving a salary"). Or "finding a job for some or other purpose", which leads to "working for company X", and then "receiving salary from company X", and then assuming part of the responsibility for the actions of "company X" by spending the money earned there.

I know almost no one who considers where their money comes from, and then actually implements steps to make their spending habits congruent with that.

Ethical use of money does not just involve spending it at the right places, it also involves earning it in a way congruent with where you spend it, e.g. keeping track of where the money originates from. Companies do not create money and everyone who works for them knows this.

For instance, if I receive money from place A which is involved in studying agriculture, if I then spend it in a place which is agriculturally underdeveloped, anything I accidentally reveal about agriculture to the place where I spend my money is well placed.

In the same vein, if I'm part of a criminal underworld involved in child trafficking and prostitution, I should not be spending it on schools, even if it were possible to keep the two worlds completely isolated in all my other actions. Thinking such a total isolation is implementable by hand without actually knowing you can do it and how, is highly unwise and a sure sign of an overgrown ego.

Taking money from one place and moving it to another just creates an undeniable and indestructible trace from place A to place B. If you are not a perfect filter to things which are at place A and should never be at place B, you are responsible for any and all harm caused, through willful ignorance of the fact that companies make money in cooperation with the society they function in.

To give you a simpler example, if I'm developing software that pushes some kind of social frontier, it makes sense for me to import my food from the most socially backwards countries, so that I don't accidentally mistake the actual problem space for "just my backyard". Because then I literally owe my food to the support of a country which has bigger social problems than I do personally.

Ideally this makes the software I develop less complex, I get a wider picture of the problem which makes it harder to even consider complicating the solution, and it helps aim my attention more precisely in ways which are known-good.

However, if I only were to consider the outcomes of my actions, such as great software or great tasting food, I may be effective at producing sharp weapons but not so much at producing tools for peaceful ends.
Amputating a limb or surviving chemotherapy is hardly a success story, especially when the operation is hardly over yet.

What happened to greece was a disaster. Of course it required to be handled by adults, and they did what was necessary. But the whole thing is hardly "a success story".
windows 7 was the last time windows had a desktop centric UI. ever since 8 they have tried to shoehorn the desktop into some limited mobile UX. Windows 8 was the worst. They besically just threw the desktop user under the bus as they expected they could do whatever on the desktop and the users would have to follow, and so create a path of familiarity leading them to their mobile UX. We all know how that turned out.

10 Is still a remnant from that. I doubt they will ever backtrack fully as they want to get in on those juicy 'store' margins by any means necessary, and with the full demise of their mobile platform grabbing the desktop users is the only remaining path.
Interestingly, I saw an example of the phenomenon of people getting mad at the certainty of an essay in this very site, a few days ago.

Someone was telling the author that he would achieve more if he phrased his point in a more "polite" way, just because the certainty of the writing made the critic mad. Thankfully, the author was here in the comments responding, and he didn't budge.

That interaction was very refreshing for that very reason: The author was right, knew he was right, someone didn't like that the author knew he was right, but the author remained steadfast.
Art Direction: Why it's important to use it and how
Consider trying a couple different versions/builds of prime95

If you look at just the list of issues fixed in v29.x series there is more than one that is close to the code path that is problematic here:

https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=508842&postcoun...
It has a couple but lacks many others. You'll never have critical software break in an update on LTSC.

And equally critical, on LTSC you can go down the customization route to fix the other issues, and not have your settings just get reset in an update.
You're not alone and I sympathize. This subject has come up on HN
before but I'm too lazy to search for it. The consensus seems to be
that although many people including web developers hate captchas, spam
is a genuine problem and there isn't a good enough alternative to
captchas for opposing it in the worst cases. If you can think of a more effective and
respectful method I'm sure many people would be
interested in your solution.
It behaves the same way from the perspective of the worker. For every hour I work of a minimum wage job, I see an increase to my spending abilities of 35% of minimum wage or whatever. It's only not a tax technically, but it still cuts into your direct benefit from working exactly like a tax.
Matrix has gotten much better about this. Most scenarios where device lists get out of date are caused by the device list cache for federared homeservers being out of date. But with synapse 1.10 (released a few weeks ago), homeservers will refresh the device list much more aggressively in circumstances where it's clear that the cache is old (such as receiving a new message from a federated user on an unknown device).
do you live in greece by chance? I don't, but the friends I have there don't consider it a success story. Maybe it is nice they got a surplus now (after 10 years!) but during those 10 years a lot of suffering and pain to their population. Even the IMF has admitted it was a bad prescription (1)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-22791248
An Impressive Deepfake Video of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in 'Star Trek'
The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s LIS Release Census for OSS Security
It would be better if journalists treated Twitter as if anyone that they haven't personally laid eyes on behind a Twitter handle, was a bot. And even in those cases, to exercise a great degree of skepticism.

Twitter is great, and I love it, but it is one of the last reserves of chaos and shit-postery on the mainstream internet. It is full of bots, trolls, personas, and just plain crazy people, and any kind of zeitgeist distilled from it should be taken with a pillar of salt.

Normal people are just not aware of what is going on on Twitter, except to the extent that the news interjects their reporting with Twitter controversies.
In your specific example: Yes, and I would use more ties so the failure of one isn’t a problem. I wouldn’t however sell a customer a fake BMS panel or other electronics.

I believe the right thing to do is use wax cord in this circumstance anyway. I’d use a cheap one too.
FYI, as an official policy, eBay doesn't allow counterfeit goods to be sold: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...

It's reasonable for shoppers to see this as an endorsement and assume eBay actually enforces this policy.
> It's a success story.

Haha! That was a good one.
I want to see data on these claims, the 'russian bots' narrative is really getting quite old these days.
One reason you might not find ‘inertial’ is because the only thing they have in common is a laser.

For ICF, a long-pulse laser is used like a hammer to heat and compress the material to fusion conditions.

This scheme, as far as I can tell, uses the large EM fields of a short-pulse laser to accelerate a ‘beam’ of ions into cold material to induce fusion.
Headline is misleading. Should be "hopes to leapfrog".
Metrics for Marketplace Companies
Everything you said makes sense up until

> clueless white guy

race adds absolutely nothing to your argument, especially considering the USSR was majority white.
Makes sense. I’ve done Amazon Prime and returned it because I consider that a defective mobo and fair game to return in the past.
Question: in the double slit experiment, is the electron gun positioned in the center of the double slit setup?
Synaptics works great for the trackpad (especially palm detection) but doesn't support the physical trackpad buttons or the trackpoint, at least on FreeBSD & my T480. libinput supports both and is much smoother than the alternative moused.
>As I see it the biggest practical issue with this is that it provides a method for persistence that no user will ever find

This isn't relevant because if you're logged in as the affected user, nothing you see can be trusted because you're already pwned. For instance, the attacker could have replaced the regedit icon with a patched regedit, or attached a debugger to every process and patched any system calls. The only safe course of action would be to create a new profile.

> and even most Windows administrators will have no idea to look for.

AFAIK user hives aren't loaded until they're logged in, in which case they're subject to the caveats of the previous paragraph. Also, are administrators really going around and loading each user's registry hive to check for infections? The only real threat I can think of is antivirus vendors not knowing about this feature and not scanning the file as a registry hive.
That's only because the system was designed for two-or-more button mice. The classic Mac OS was designed for a one-button mouse and it was far more intuitive than what we use today. It was also much more discoverable, since it didn't have modes, the thing Larry Tesler fought so hard against.

Right-mouse-button context menus are modes, since the functions you are shown depend on what type of object you click on/have selected. The classic Mac OS menu bar, on the other hand, is modeless since it always shows you the same set of functions (and greys out the ones that are inapplicable to the selected object). This is a tremendous boon to discoverability, a key feature of usability.
Well, I kinda do not like Varoufakis, because he came off as an entitled know-it-all prick (a not so rare trait in academia).

He made lots of bold claims but in the end, nothing really got accomplished.

EDIT: 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. That's why you elect representatives (that will get into all the details of the problem) and place your trust in them. If you do not trust you representatives - do not elect them.

[1] https://www.cityam.com/greece-s-golden-boy-and-his-tragic-fa...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U4U7M4WOPU
Na malaka
I am exactly the target market for this. I don't use many apps, and my most used apps are either usable in the browser or easy to implement myself. I don't need much from my phone, just calls, texts, a browser, a PDF viewer, navigation, SSH, and decent battery life. Bonus points for apps like Signal and Bitwarden, both of which are open source.

If I can get those features from a PinePhone, I'll ditch Android. And it seems like I will, since I've seen demos of calls, the browser, and a terminal app, and assurance that battery life on standby is ~12 hours with active time around 3-5 hours. I'm sure the rest of my requirements will be in a mostly useable state in the next few months (I saw a picture of evince on Phosh).

PinePhone and Librem 5 aren't targeting mainstream users, they're targeting a niche group that needs or wants a smartphone and is willing to put up with a lot of rough edges to not be spied on. And $150 is a very compelling price point for that.
> I really didn't want to go down the oscilloscope rabbit hole (but I commend you for doing so!)

To be clear, I'm not the one who plugged a scope to my motherboard, another 3970X owner did. I wish I had a scope! (The Rohde & Schwarz RTB2000 is my dream!)
Only use web technologies supported by the majority of the browsers, not just the majority browser. Basically, use vanilla html5. You can make a perfectly decent website with it. You can play with the shiny (chrome) toys but they should remain curiosities.
He has another advanced Linear Algebra class:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-method...

And this new book:

https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Learning-Gilbert-Stran...
Looks great, but the inertial panning doesn't quite feel right. Moves too quickly and stops suddenly.

Testing on Safari/macOS.
I thought it comes from some tortured Latin (see "per se", and per also meaning "by means of"). And the "as" shouldn't even be there.
Or a dog who doesn't understand why the vet tortures him!
> While what you say is true, the contents of these meetings should be public knowledge.

I honestly don't think it's that simple.

While decisions should always be public, in order to come to reasonable compromises on issues, it can be valuable for leaders to be able to have closed-door conversations outside of the spotlight, where they don't have to engage in political grandstanding; after all, it's that kind of compromise that allows democratic systems to function.

In fact, I would make the claim that at least one reason why the US democratic system has become so utterly paralyzed by polarization is because so much of political debate is now happening in the spotlight of social media, instead of behind closed doors where politicians can have the more nuanced conversations that might displease an electorate that is too busy cheering for their team to worry about actually getting anything done.

That's not to say this isn't without peril. Behind closed doors, corruption might happen as easily as compromise. I'm just not convinced the risks outweighs the benefits.
It's unfortunate that the CRAP acronyms Act didn't use EVIL (Exit, Voice, Ignore, Loyalty) instead of EVNL. Though I prefer. :(
Simulated Robot Sumo
What success story. The structural effects of the austerity which everyone including IMF admits was much too hard on GDP will be felt, and Greece will be screwed for many years to come. See for example wiki article, e.g. section "Effects of applied programmes on the severity of the debt crisis and the IMF's apology": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#E...
A civil war seems entirely possible.

The idea that the military would stay unified and be on one ‘side’ of a civil war does not.

In any case it is obvious from the Middle East that people with guns can in fact stand up to the US military quite successfully.
Can you elaborate, and explain why the author's skin tone is relevant? Unless I'm very mistaken, Russian people are mostly very fair-skinned...

I'm not saying the rest of the criticism is right or wrong, but that last bit was uncalled for.
Exactly. You can always replace "As per my last email," with "As you should have read and noted in my last email..." but the first one comes off a lot less passive-aggressive.

It's a polite nicety - a gentle reminder. I agree it sounds a little formal so I usually try to use "As I noted earlier," or "If you'll remember," instead.
For updates, I guess you mean the fact that you cannot block them completely. Or do you mean something else? So that would be the only difference. For the vast majority of people, how does that have an impact? People get their security updates that they otherwise don’t install. Seems to be an ok-ish trade off IMHO.

My main frustration is the automatic reboot, but I’ve seen this behavior since at least windows 7.
>... I don't feel like telling people that they shouldn't say anything wrong or potentially unimportant is the right way to go.

I think you're putting words in his mouth. You seem to be reading it as "only write useful things" rather than "how to write usefully." You laid out a number of reasons that writing doesn't need to be useful to others, which is great, but doesn't contradict the essay how you seem to think it does.
Intel's Linpack benchmark is quite good perf/stability/throttling test for win/linux/mac: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmar...

Not the easiest one to configure though.
People deserve to hear this. Varoufakis has tried to go through the proper channels to make this public. Now DiEM 2025 (his party) has every right to self-publish these recordings. I for one welcome the transparency.
Ah, but useful to the writer, or the reader?
> A lot of us speak in a manner similar to how PG writes.

No one speaks with explicit sentence delimiters, and most of the criticism made were not of the sequence of words but details the additional visual signals of structure that appear in written but not spoken language.
This saved me in college
Always happy to see people doing new and interesting stuff with fusion. I got into nuclear technology because of ITER back in the early 2000s. Worked on it continuously (mostly in advanced fission) ever since.

> "The timeline question is a tricky one," he says. "I don't want to be a laughing stock by promising we can deliver something in 10 years, and then not getting there. First step is setting up camp as a company and getting started. First milestone is demonstrating the reactions, which should be easy. Second milestone is getting enough reactions to demonstrate an energy gain by counting the amount of helium that comes out of a fuel pellet when we have those two lasers working together. That'll give us all the science we need to engineer a reactor. So the third milestone is bringing that all together and demonstrating a reactor concept that works."

The fourth step is to deliver the reactor concept as promising machine. The fifth step is to attach it to power generating equipment and demonstrate the power plant. The sixth step is to scale up a supply chain capable of delivering multiple units that compete with other sources of commodity electricity (or other energy products). The seventh step is to scale to large scale without being unduly burdened by either supply chain (raw material, skilled labor) or regulatory impact/public concern that inevitably scales with any large fleet of any new tech.

Fission made it to step 7 and then faltered and is now teetering depending on where you look. It never scaled past 5% of total world primary energy.

The promise of fusion is to deliver nuclear energy with less public concern than fission because it makes less radiologically hazardous material. The challenge is to go through the physical, engineering, and commercial viability phases as a power plant.
My understanding of the situation is that German and French banks flooded Greece with easy credit. And as it always happens under such circumstances people/corporations/governments borrowed heavily and when the crisis hit in 2009 they couldn’t repay. All of the so called bailouts have been aimed at making sure French and German banks didn’t suffer and the ones who did suffer have been the Greek people with the exception of the ruling class.

Loans are a two party relationship and people tend to view the borrower more harshly than the lender. Lenders tend to get bailed out and somehow aren’t viewed negatively for their profligate lending. Why is it only the borrowers that suffer?
It seems easy to conflate any or all approaches as fringe when no one's done it yet, and especially if there are political and program-$ecurity concerns overriding doing what's best, but some approaches scream magical thinking with unexplained reasoning more than others (like one or more cold fusion proposals in the early 1980's). OTOH, it seems like ICF and tokamak are the officially-sanctioned dogma and all other approaches are discounted automatically.

Q0: Without bias from my opinion, how fringe or potentially legitimate does IEC seem?

Q1: Props to the article's team that they invented some awesome lasers. Is there enough experimental data yet on their novel approach to backup their claims to justify funding a prototype? Would such a team be able to test this on a shoestring budget without spending millions?
Drop us a link my man.