skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Looking at it this way, the popularity of superhero culture among aficionados of new technological entrepreneurship seems obvious. It’s a culture that celebrates individual agency at the expense of the collective.

Ah there you have it, superheroes are popular because they are anti-collective.

>But the superheroes also demonstrate what a peculiar kind of divinity this is – shorn of the spirituality that is supposed to define our relationship to the divine. The divine power that the technological future offers devotees is purely material. And the doors of that technological heaven will be opened only for the elect who have the material means to enter.

And we learn that superheroes are anti-spiritual, materialistic and only work for the elite 1%.
UI: recommend moving the search box closer to the list itself. Right now doing a search isn't obvious that it changed anything.

Recommend using positive labels instead of negative ones, e.g., replace "Not fully compatible" with "Fully Compatible" (not quite sure what "compatible" means here, though).

Combine the two columns for resolution, not sure why these are separate?

You also have "Connection" twice.

Compatibility: what does "full", "partial", and "none" mean?

The last column has links, but they don't look like links.

As of this comment, can't scroll horizontally on desktop, the overflow-x:scroll needs to be on the container div.
Electricity should happen though with enough renewables.
> It’s not our first pandemic. It won’t be the last.

As far as I can tell, for almost all Americans, this is our first pandemic. The closest analogue might be polio in the 1950s, but maybe 10% of the population remembers that.

Going down the list, none of the remaining pandemics within living memory seem to have made a large impact on life in the US [1].

It’s not crazy to imagine changes from this event. There doesn’t seem to be much precedent here for it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
A Made-in-China Pandemic
seems low
Hopefully this is not too off-topic, but - I like that the article focuses on a bot spamming far-left propaganda. I have tried to encourage my far-right relatives to stop knee-jerk sharing political articles and memes and to diversify their news sources, but for some reason they think that anyone who is worried about fake news, bots, or manipulating elections must be a Satan-worshipping communist. I assume this is because the media has tried their absolute hardest to use these facts to slander Trump.

How can we get people to stop focusing so much on the politics and see this as kind of data integrity or trust issue? Showing that "it's not your tribe's fault" is more emotional than rational but people may actually respond to that.
The conclusion is good advice, but doesn’t match the criticism of the response in the story.

The mail is pretty factual, polite, doesn’t assume circumstances that could be ill fited. I saw it more as an exemple of a decent wording that anything else.
So all vacancy notifications should be sent to building coordinators who are responsible for personally notifying tenants? What if they forget or do it tactlessly?

The system worked as intended. Part of emotional maturity is learning to cope with "cosmic indifference." It's not a defect to engineer out of day-to-day life. Or if it is, it falls at the bottom of my list.

IMHO this request reflects a mind-boggling level of privilege.
This is a massive security flaw if true.
That is a generous interpretation. The museum didn't acquire them, they were founding artifacts of the museum. Serious scholars had already questioned their authenticity before the museum even opened, but it doesn't matter because the whole operation is just a huge grift by the Hobby Lobby billionaires to offload some worthless junk in exchange for a large income tax deduction.
This is a solid advice. Thanks! I will try to dedicate a portion of my day to brusing up Data Structures and Algorithms and maybe, eventually, I will get good enough to crack the interview.
A third party made the finding, so if we are being making pedantic alteration to the headline, shouldn’t we avoid this inaccuracy?
Yeah, but the recruiters don't respond.
Well, he did specify "just".
It’s possible though that your immune system wouldn’t have to start from scratch when creating antibodies for the other strain.
As a former Jaguar developer, I'm getting PTSD just looking at the diagram with the four different CPUs, all on the same memory bus in constant contention, all with their own unique machine instruction set.
I don't think so, unfortunately. Of course you can follow one the installation instructions for one of the available editors. See the "editors" section on the website. Instructions exist for Emacs, VSCode, Vim, etc.
> The claim that something has been observed to work in a certain way in one situation and therefore must work that way everywhere is a kind of claim. That's the universalist principle. Physics, like all sciences and possibly all knowledge, is victim to the Munchhousen trilemma.

Sure. None of which has stopped physicists from being able to make some basic assumptions like universality, move on, and deliver results.

> So if results are inconvenient to you or against your intuition, they're invalid? "Gravity is inconvenient, so physicists are full of shit."

In the hard sciences, there are right and wrong answers that can be validated with experiment. Or at least there are better and worse answers. In mathematics there are right and wrong answers. This enforces a type of rigor on the field that makes it highly unlikely that the entire field is full of shit—the phonies and second-rate theorists typically have a hard time making it very far. So they all end up in the humanities, where nobody can really tell for sure who’s right and who’s wrong and intellectual fashionability can rule the day.

So far, some parts of philosophy have resisted this mediocritizing influence and maintain high standards of intellectual rigor compared to other humanities fields. But in the counterfactual circumstance where academic philosophers just write off physics as nonsense that’s no more valid than astrology, it’s far more likely that trolls and fools managed to drive the last reasonable people out of philosophy.
oh, just in case that wasn't clear: I'm all for having public infrastructure and healthcare and such largely non-market organized. I just find it funny (in a currently rather sad way) that the debate about socialist ideas in the US is largely avoided by making the debate center about worst cases, and mostly really about the word socialism iteself...
You must maybe use their modem (how they can check it I don't know, maybe they don't give you the configuration parameters for the network?) but you always have the possibility to add your own router after it and basically use their modem/router as a simple modem.

It's what I did in my country before they made illegal for ISPs to force you to use their modem/router, simply used the modem/router of the provider as a modem, forwarding all the ports to my own router that I used to do actual routing, WiFi access point and all other stuff that a router does.
Sorry about the delay:

https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructu...

has a chart on comparative commute times.
I wonder if the unions would be friendly to a kind of affiliate relationship, and/or paying dues into a kind of program like the deposit insurance that banks pay to FDIC, but for strike insurance or something?
> that pleases nobody

Somebody is making a lot of money this way. They donate to both parties.
Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

Sounds interesting but as others have pointed out I don't see how this will be able to go undetected and eventually blocked.

But if nothing else it's a good tool to raise awareness and if, given enough critical mass, could be replicated by others in a way that it eventually routes around any attempt to censor it.
There's lots of evidence that internet is cheap. Too bad we don't have those ISPs to provide it. Have you ever thought how hard it is to dig a 50m hole in the ground to put fiber in it?
> The 258 cases in Qatar might have been 500 if it was colder there, no one can proof or refute that.

It certainly means hot weather won’t “stop” the virus, just slow it by (in your example) 50%. That’s not a lot of comfort, although it would buy some time.
Most desktop projects I've seen have stuck with WPF and they've all been happy with that decision (except for a few who wish they'd gone web).
I'm also similarly confused. The post explains request smuggling really well, but doesn't really explain how that equals getting the victim's cookies.

This is my understanding of the bug:

* Attacker sends malformed request to slack servers. Request gets split in two. First part results in something sent back to attacker, next part of request is treated as a prefix to the next legit (victim's) http request made

* Slack backend server responds to victim's request treating it as having part of the attacker's request prefixed. The merged request results in a 301 http redirect response, redirecting the victim to an attacker controlled domain.

* Victim's browser gets the 301, and follows the redirect. When following the redirect, the cookie header is somehow sent to the attacker's site <-- Part i don't understand here

I don't understand why the victim's browser would send the cookie header when following a redirect to a different domain. I don't understand how causing the victim to follow a cross-domain redirect would allow the attacker to extract the victim's cookie.
Or like prop 65 warning in CA
President Trump holds a press conference on coronavirus (live)
SystemVerilog improves things a lot actually, but the problem is that there is (currently) no freely available, robust synthesis frontend that supports the majority of the useful SV features (e.g. interfaces). In fact I don't think there's any robust, ~complete FOSS SystemVerilog simulators either -- though Icarus and Verilator support SV to varying degrees...

So if you want to stick with FOSS tools, then you're stuck with synthesizable Verilog-2005 at best, for the moment. And standard Verilog very much sucks in a lot of ways, I would argue, synthesizable subset or not. It's an understandable choice though, in a field full of awful options. One day I'm hopeful Yosys will support most of the necessary SystemVerilog features people want for synthesis... (Then, it can also serve as an effective SystemVerilog -> Verilog translation tool, which would be very useful on its own.)
> all very hypothetical

Negatively contributing to an active crisis is a horrible idea.
What happens to all of the other people who need surgery if hospitals face a thundering hurd problem when thousands of people find out they have COVID-19?

I am on the fence with knowing or not knowing. The lack of information is causing panic buying. I went to Wholefoods this morning and people are cleaning out the shelves. They are buying stuff they would not normally buy. The butcher told be when they order 100 cases from a distributor they are only getting 50 or less. This panic buying is really creating a problem. If shelves go empty and stay empty, what happens?
> If COVID-19 digs in deep in the US then there is going to be a transformational change in how US citizens think ...... All of these tie into how US citizens see their relationship with their government, and what they demand from it.

I certainly hope you are right, but unfortunately I suspect the companies making billions of dollars will do absolutely everything in their power to make sure those changes don't happen.

Because there is so much money tied up in the current way things are done Americans have decades of fighting the power structure before they can expect to change their relationship with their government. If only they knew what Europeans get for their tax dollars.
Visualizing the 71 Times Apple Has Been Declared Dead with React and Nivo
I guess the logic there being, if you're running it, you should be able to change it / fix it.
What are the data caps? How many GB of up and down traffic?

Here in Norway only mobile data is capped. ADSL and fibre are effectively unlimited. As far as I know this is generally the case in Europe.
Totally agree. I'm specifically looking at this for phone use. And even in this narrow use case, there are many lens types with different uses. And for photography, even more so. People will keep old lenses with optical flaws to achieve specific moods or looks.
I don't like to give the UK government the benefit of the doubt. This seems like an exceptionally poor set of decisions that where made. There is a lot of confusion at workplace's with some companies making the right decision to send staff home that can work remote and others not sure what to do, all the while putting life's at risk.
Its a pretty neat service, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the feature-set .. seems like something that could be whipped up in a few hours using OSM's API, with most of the code being the glues/shims to get in on the e-commerce transaction with between OSM->Printer.

It'd be cool to be able to submit key points of interests - e.g. ("Grandma's home", "School", "Our Home", "Grocery Store", etc.) would be good to have, for example, for us parents who want to teach our kids to get around their environment.

One wonders why the OSM folks don't do this ...
It has been dirty all the way down. The saga of the Oxford professor Dirk Obbink seemingly selling off university documents to them (Via Hobby Libby) is still as murky as ever.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-profe...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/16/mystery-deepens-...
https://glitch.com/glimmer/post/the-year-in-glitches/
> But as we rapidly grew our team, we failed to commensurately grow the processes and infrastructure necessary to support everyone properly. The result has been a lot of needless stress and tension and frustration. On its own, this is a significant problem, but when we’ve talked a lot about wanting to build a company that does these things better, a failure here is twice as painful for the people on our team who are affected. As the person who most often talks publicly about the positive ambitions we have here at Glitch, I’m also the person ultimately responsible for the times we haven’t delivered on those promises.
I noticed that throughout this thread you have been making this assertion. Could you share any data or citations to support this?

Would you feel any differently about the value of this bug if it affected, e.g. Google or Facebook?
China – always one step ahead!
The best way to do data is (connection_fee + usage/MB). That's the most customer-friendly way to do things. It allows customers to alter their usage according to their billing ability. Fixed line usage is probably in the decicents per GB. Wireless is probably in the $8/GB range. All acceptable. I may have the numbers wrong but I think I'm probably in the ballpark.
They also charge you a monthly fee for using their modem.
It might be. I don't know the terms of the contract, but they may have civil liability if they choose to do something else.
Stop bullying me
Censorship is like whack-a-mole. The format won't prevent you from getting beaten with a pipe when the cops find out, but it can still help to distribute information through a variety of forms.

There's an old resistance method of communication called 'samizdat', where information is duplicated and passed on by loose networks of unaffiliated individuals. Wikipedia has a good quote about it:

"Samizdat: I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend time in prison for it myself"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

Of course, the understanding that you might be imprisoned is a big part of civil disobedience. You have to hope that the capricious and unreasonable nature of the authority or rule that you are protesting causes your community and society to demand change.
PayPal using EU rules to require user phone numbers
I wonder what fraudulent items being used for a charitable tax deduction can cause to future tax balances - will their income offset be counted as a debt for next years' taxes?
I find the Amiga graphics are the nicest, then the Jaguar, then the 3DO's are so terrible and overwrought I never would have liked this game if this was the first version I played.

Nostalgia? Maybe. But I find the minimalist polygon graphics of the original a big part of what made Another World a big hit. At least to me. In my mind this is related to the concept of "closure" as described in "Understanding Comics": the more abstract, more symbolic the graphics, the more my mental processor can give it hyperrealistic meaning in my mind; conversely, the more detailed the graphics, the less interesting they become and the less room for my mind to "complete" them. The beast as a black outline with eyes and fangs is terrific (and terrifying). The beast as a more detailed rendition would probably just look silly.

Plus, you know, the polygon graphics look objectively cool ;)
The headline is fine. Reading it in the spirit of "the museum is defrauding people and we found out about it" is extremely uncharitable and nitpicky.
I would say the major difference is that "vscode_erlang" is tailored for VS Code, while Erlang LS aims at be editor-agnostic (which is the main point of implementing a Language Server). There are currently some differences in terms of features, too. For example, VS Code has support for a debugger, which Erlang LS does not have (yet). On the other hand, Erlang LS provides support for Dialyzer or Elvis and I'm not sure if those are provided by VS Code Erlang. You can compare the list of available features:

https://github.com/pgourlain/vscode_erlang#erlang-for-visual...
https://erlang-ls.github.io/features/
When logging in to PayPal now, they require all users to give their mobile phone number due to new EU legislation. With no "skip" option, as there has historically been.

The light text, hard to see disclaimer at the bottom of the form requires people to agree their phone numbers can be used for marketing purposes.

They're misusing the EU legislation for nefarious purposes.
T-mobile deprioritizes down to 2G speeds which makes web browsing nearly unusable.
This article remarks on the shared experience of suffering from TB among the two. I find it strange how TB had been molded into a glamorous disease reserved for the middle-upper class in times when writers like Camus and Weil were public patients. We, in a way, see a similar sort of sensationalism around a new virus with the Canadian PM's wife and Tom Hanks both being victims. The logic of the rebel is supported by the veneer of a medical malady—contextualized malady.
That reminds me of the story of the man who was ordered to be executed next week, but he is not allowed to know the day of his execution until the morning of.

He figures if by Friday morning he has not been told, then he will immediately know his execution is on Saturday, thus violating the Judge's order; therefore he cannot be executed on Saturday.

Knowing he can't be executed on Saturday, if on Thursday morning he has not been told, he knows he must be executed on Friday, thus violating the Judge's order. By induction it would violate the Judge's order to execute him on any day of the next week.

The following Tuesday he was thus completely surprised to be taken out to be executed.
Live: The president is expected to declare a national emergency.
The point of e2e encryption is that the server can't decrypt it.
I've often thought there should be like an optional slowlane and fastlane for downloads. Last night I downloaded a 20GB game and it nearly pinned my internet connection and downloaded in about 20 mins. But I knew i wasnt going to play if for several hours and there would be no reason to "brownout" my neighbors. I want fast internet when i want it. But also see a time and place for "download this, eventually"
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22568972
NBC News live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_WM_pMp0Hg
Data: A most valuable resource, maybe
You'd need a functioning tax enforcement regime to find out. America doesn't have one any more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562041
The recent flowering of union membership in the tech industry really warms my heart and makes me hope that this is the start of a pro-union resurgence nation-wide that reverses the conservative anti-union backlash that has dominated the US for decades.

Unfortunately, conservatives have been mostly successful in gaining control of the courts, so expect union-busting measures to be rubber-stamped by them.

There is likely to be much conflict between labor and owners.
Here's the original gov.uk press release, and as always (kudos to their team) it's beautifully legible:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-strengthen-...
Two of the most popular superheroes of today are Iron Man and Batman. They are literally just rich dudes in rich dude toys. They are the heroes of the story.

Professor Xavier is wealthy af. And he doesn't go around helping just anyone. His altruism is hecka parochial.

About the only common element is that the government generally sucks at doing anything. The only thing the government doesn't suck at is having at least one plucky SEAL/Ranger/Marine team out there that's fighting against the odds.
Glitch (Fog Creek Software) Staff Diversity Report – Spring 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism :

> Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises.

The likes of police and fire departments in the US are an example of not socialism. Most of what they need for their operations (cars, radios, buildings, etc.) are produced by private industry. The workers at the CDC and the FDA don't own it, its management and policies are chosen by politicians and voters (and lobbyists) rather than the workers.

Actual socialism doesn't even require government involvement. A worker-owned collective is a socialist enterprise. But the MTA and the US Department of Transportation are not examples of that.
I've been hearing for a long time that there were attempts at making a union at Microsoft back in nineties.

Anybody privy to the info how it fared?
I don't know if he browses this site, but wanted to give a quick thank you to Markus Triska - the posted website and his YouTube channel are both simple but informative Prolog resources. He's also made many contributions to SWI-Prolog and a new experimental flavor called Scryer. Would encourage everyone to give it a quick look, especially the fantastic reif and ediprolog tools. Thanks Markus!