skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking about how Trump is running for re-election after impeachment - afaict that's somewhat novel. Nixon as you mentioned resigned under threat of impeachment.

I think maybe the bar for conviction in the Senate is too high in a way that is corrosive to presidential accountability. Both Trump and Clinton committed serious crimes without real consequence and it is disgraceful, regardless of politics. (note: I don't care about the sex, I care about the perjury and obstruction of justice)
Reddit appears to have just bought the farm
"therapists have a self-interest in you coming back"

Just a single data point counter to this:

I had a therapist with whom I had a good relationship and who I'd seen for a long time who suggested that I find another therapist because we weren't making progress. I was reluctant to do so and we continued for a few more months when once again they suggested I find another therapist for the same reason, at which point I did leave and sought out another therapist (who was completely unrelated to this one, so there was no referral or kickback).

If the therapist was motivated purely by self-interest they could have easily not have pushed me away, twice, and continued to have me as a loyal client. Instead they asked me to go see another therapist, for my own good.

So, yeah, some therapists actually care. You have to find the right one, of course.
It is pretty easy to be confused. Especially since it is also a language yet all the other replies at the time have writing have failed to mention that.

While I like the project as a whole, their naming is horrible. Just wait until you get into `nix-env` vs `nix-shell` etc...
I needed a drill. I wanted to buy a cordless drill, but I chose to buy a corded drill instead. 20+ years later, I am using the same drill. I wonder how many iterations of cordless I would have bought over that time.
One really cool thing about NixOS is you declare the OS just like you might a DockerFile, and you can choose which configuration file you use at booting time. This lets you install applications just during up-time (to try out a new tool), add it to the configuration file if you like it, and roll back to the version before if it breaks something. Versions are declarative too (PSql == X.X.X) and upgrades/downgrades are set there too. If I want to share an environment with someone I can just share the configuration file minus the secrets.
> Jones was asked to temporarily disable the ability to export data from the dashboard so that it could be verified that the data matched other sources

Maybe, or maybe she knew it wouldn't be temporary and that the given reason was BS. We don't know, and we should therefore take this claim with the same grain of salt that we should take Rebekah's.
Attachment theory suggests that our moral underpinning comes from doing what is best for the child.

And the morality of attachment theory is challenging at all stages of life. Having the child is necessary but insufficient to do good. Letting the child relish in uncontrolled impulses is good now and bad later. And so on.

In light of that any assertion of having children being defacto good or not is incomplete without describing the overall society. Evolution is a strawman in this sense; our children do not immediately enter some Darwinian gladiatorial arena of genetic destiny. They are going to sample from the best examples they can find of how to live, and friends, extended families, and ideas echoed through time(as communicated orally, in books and other mediums) all play a part of that. It's not all on the parent, and if it's not all on the parent, then childless adults have a place, an "ought to do something for the child", even if they are not writing King Lear or inventing calculus.
It depends on where in the world you live. In the US, MAPS.org are currently conducting Phase III trials on MDMA for PTSD, primarily using veterans as subjects, I believe. Johns Hopkins (I think) is doing trials with Psilocybin. No idea about Dancesafe. ANY website could be a honeypot. There's nothing illegal about buying Fentanyl test strips and reagents.
The problem is that these APIs have been developed with little concern paid to security. Compounding this, Mozilla hasn't even tweaked the implementation details to retain what security they could. This is seemingly due to a mistaken idea that sandbox escape is the only security property that matters, allowing these APIs to leak identifying information like sieves.

For example, AFAICT the common wisdom for mitigating Location with user.js is to set it to Ask for every site instead of a blanket Deny, because the latter actually turns out to be more fingerprintable. Whereas Deny should be indistinguishable from Ask with a negative response.
I'm confused. In the first code block, what value is returned if foo is equal to null?

If it returns null, what's the difference between:

>return foo;

and

>return? foo;

?
Rating Scales: Myth vs. Evidence
I wish they would fix Outlook’s HTML rendering instead.
Most recently, look at the green revolution in agriculture.

Historically, it is likely that each case where various crops were domesticated had a similar effect.

In between, you had the invention of the harness that let draft animals pull a bigger load (and to plow). there was also the invention of the metal plow in the 18th century.
I used to take this same perspective, but if you look at how you are coding javascript now, you're building and bundling, so though browsers may continue to run Javascript, that doesn't mean your code will always be written in Javascript.

We moved to Typescript two years ago, and now that I'm comfortable with that, and compiling to JS, I wouldn't be surprised to see good compilers for Rust or other languages become the standard in the future.
When I get subscribed to any mailing list I didn't explicitly opt-in to I just mark them as spam (which it is) on GMail and move on.

Enough of us doing this and I guess they'll get the message.
Anecdotally I had great vision (20/15) before starting college. Before I went to college the eye doctor said not to bother coming back until I got married. After 3 years of looking at a screen in the dark I needed glasses.
Use sharepoint, office365, and Teams. It versions, it supports collaborative editing, no more mailing things around, and so on.
Thanks, but that makes me wonder how that's even possible given that distros make their own modifications? Do people port each distro's packages to Nix then? Are they kept up-to-date? Or does it automatically translate from apt/pacman/etc. databases somehow? Or does it just basically install vanilla packages on all distro?
WCAG's api just shows the no. of errors per type. Do you run it on your own servers and does it give more info that way?
After coronavirus, office workers might face unexpected health threats
"Today, thanks to assortative mating in a handful of cities, intellect, attractiveness, education, and wealth are all converging in the same families and neighborhoods. I look at my friends’ children, and many of them resemble unicorns: brilliant, beautiful, socially precocious creatures who have gotten the best of all possible resources since the day they were born."

Yes this. I remember when nerds were outcasts, that really colours the situation. Maybe there's a dark kind of 'fairness' in that! No more! The cool, good looking popular kids now get the best grades! That's the most 'unfair' thing I can imagine!

And this: " Our specialty is light-commitment benevolence. We will do something to help but not enough to hurt us or threaten our own standing. We know better than to do that...."

This is brilliant.
Windows? You're kidding me! Where do I see Windows support? On their website I only see Mac and Linux.
YouTube demonotised my favourite channel
As long as deviation can be successfully labelled as 'conspiracy theory', the institutions probably won't have too much trouble. It's when the majority of people begin to see the BS in at least one area, that things will likely change. But that also depends on critical thinkers.
Paywall. Impossible to read it
I’d say another 15 years of no bad behavior, minimum.

The web in particular is still traumatized from years of IE use/development. You needed a virtual machine to test IE on linux/Mac, think about that for a second. It’s great that they realize ‘woah we didn’t give a flying fuck about developers before, huh?’

We’re still being super nice to Microsoft that we don’t give them a pure cold shoulder and accept and evaluate their contributions.

Need time, can’t just go running back to the ex because they bought you something expensive.
It claimed the channel to upload repetitive content. But this doesn't make sense. It takes a lot of research and editing to create such videos. Google is acting like a big bully now.
Elixir developers who need a queue generally reach for Rabbit (which any language can use), or something backed in a database like rihanna[1] or honeydew[2]. Rolling your own distributed system is very much a last resort, and despite its excellent concurrency characteristics the BEAM still lacks basics such as a battle-tested raft implementation.

[1]https://github.com/samsondav/rihanna
[2]https://github.com/koudelka/honeydew
ROFL!!!!!!
> a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology

I imagine you're walking down the street, your phone starts to vibrate like crazy and you think "is it an icbm" no this person across from me is contagious.
Makes sense. The fed's inflated the money supply quite a lot.
You can use it on WSL1 and WSL2 but you can't use it natively on Windows. I used it on WSL2 just this afternoon and it was seamless but that makes sense because WSL2 is basically just a Linux VM anyway.
I'm using Apple products for my computing needs, and I din't particularly like Windows, but Apple tends to be even more opinionated and restrictive – and I really like that a lot. It's a big feature of the ecosystem that I get a lot of pretty good defaults that work quite well, even if they aren't what I'd build from scratch if I had to. That way I don't have to expend energy crafting everything myself and can spend that energy on whatever it is I wat to do with my computer. I don't care about the exact type of steel used for my hammer, just give me a reasonably good one and let me build that thing.
In that way, MacOS currently is the best of both worlds for me – hassle-free if somewhat constrained, but I still have a UNIX underneath, iTerm, all sorts of utilities, and so on.
I don't think he's proposing that we politely ask microsoft to quit being exploitative.
Bad HN is also cheap rhetorical tricks, pseudo-intellectual quotes and thought-terminating cliches. Too many people here seem to want to score points in an imaginary game against a straw opponent and show off their galaxy-brain wit rather than actually talk to people.

I'd rather have a hundred more lame attempts at humor than another comment referencing 1984, Brave New World or the American founding fathers (likely entirely out of context) as if it were profound.
https://outline.com/YZZ9rB
> One really cool thing about NixOS is you declare the OS just like you might a DockerFile,

But DockerFiles have a really terse, self-evident, trivial to read language. It is obvious what a given DockerFile means even if it's the first one you see.

For nix; well, I have seen a few nix files and each one leaves me more confused than the last. Can anybody point me to good examples of beautiful, single-file, complete, self-contained terse nix examples that describe a few simple systems? Everything that I seem to find are small fragments of stuff.
Nearly Universal Declines Across Job Titles
No, not remotely.

If people are truly novice, with zero programming experience, how would they know the code is correct? If not, how to debug it?

I would say this is more promising for scenarios to generate more formularitive things like business report generation. But even that, it requires in depth understanding of what those data/tables really means, and how to handle exceptions, etc.
>If things get really bad, and you have no other ideas, get drunk. (Not great, but far better than an ill-considered suicide.)

A large proportion of suicides involve drugs and/or alcohol. This might work from you but I don't think you should necessarily suggest it to someone else who may be feeling suicidal.

Admittedly, I have my own coping strategy for feeling suicidal that I would 100% never recommend to anyone else...
Samsara lays off 300 people
Counterpoint: smart, interested, thoughtful people want to hear your ideas. Judging their judgment in advance, assuming they’ll all be swayed by brashness and unsupportable claims, is really to discount their intelligence. A failure to reach them, to inform your peers, to share and collaborate on ideas due to misplaced humility, to expect someone to entirely bear the responsibility of seeking us out, is almost equally arrogant as the brash salesman.

You can compete with the dishonest. Just because many liars are sellers, doesn’t mean all marketing is lying.
The difference is that VCs exited when they realized that the business model was probably never going to work, while Softbank happily took their place despite likely knowing that the other investors were getting out.

It's like walking into a house party while everyone is running out the back yelling "cops are coming!" and thinking, "this is gonna be a great party once all these screaming people leave!"
Yeah, there is a giant repo of package definitions at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs. Those definitions tell nix how to build everything from the ground up.
> Never found a good solution to powerpoint

tpp or LibreOffice's Impress.

Using open formats diff better. There's also the homebrew method I use where I decompress the document and store that tree in git too, sometimes it helps and is easy to recompress into document format. It's part of my regular checkin script.

Long story short, some recruiters don't like pdf's (from LaTeX) so I've got a mixed setup of LaTeX and libreoffice. The LaTeX copy produces several different documents with varying amounts of personal information. This is toggled through variables in the script so some outputs are web-safe (nothing but email), some I sent to recruiters which have temporary phone numbers on which are disconnected when I'm FTE. The other has a real SIM mobile on that I use on company internal job boards.

LaTeX wins here, but to keep some recruiters happy I copy the changes into an odt format. Yes I know about Calibre.
Share point and Teams all the way
Thanks, yeah. Conceptually I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it since package managers are so tightly tied to an OS... I feel like surely I can't just use it in place of (say) apt or pacman without causing problems? And I haven't even gotten to the language/shell/etc. as you mention...
Yup... as if somehow there's a magic answer for some of the most general questions and it's hiding in the YC crowdsourced brain.

If you had to ask that question, you need to take 5 steps back and watch YC's startup videos, read PG's essays, learn a thing or two about understanding markets and research your idea to see if it has been validated by others. Sitting around and pondering if something is a good idea without a plan or understanding what value is being created is no good.

Take action: research, build MVPs, talk to people (your end users / potential customers). The only ones that can validate your idea are your end users / customers.

Focus on building something users want or need and build it so well that once they use it, they can't go back to their normal without it. Monetization comes after your prove there's a demand for your product. You can fantasize all you want about how to make money off an idea, but if no one wants to use your product, it doesn't matter.
I own a business and recently had to change all the pictures on my website from webp to png because safari both refuses to render webp and pretends to accept them. I hate it so much and see very real costs in increased bandwith (every image is around 3-4x bigger) but I have no choice because I want people with iphones to be able to buy things from me. Safari is honestly just as bad as chrome but for different reasons (ios safari was arguably the single biggest cause of the death of flash, for example). I also had to go through and fix a few other pseudo css classes that only safari didn't support which was really annoying, what a waste of time.

I don't think many people would consider "Don't use safari" banners a valid option unless the website was somehow really focused on non-apple users or not trying to sell something.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying here. My only point is that this rumor isn't worth much... and even if it is, the impact to us and/or the program is not significant.
I really can't fathom how this is possible. The largely young demographic (which I'm guessing warrants this valuation) has a track record of jumping from platform to platform, whichever is trendy for a given year.

With that in mind, how are investors seriously willing to get behind this company in such a big way?
http://archive.is/0eXcB
For reference: 15 years ago, M1 was less than 1 trillion dollars. Today it’s over 5.
> how that's even possible given that distros make their own modifications?

Own modifications to what? All the packages in nixpkgs depend only on other packages in nixpkgs. If you install nix on an ubuntu system and then install a package from nixpkgs, then that package won't use any ubuntu libraries.
after rating drop on google still expensive
Can you turn an unchecked exception into a checked exception with a rule in your linter? Or would it just be too painful to catch UnsupportedOperationException everywhere if you did that?
Do any of these kind of apps ever make money? Or do they just get pumped and dumped?
One person. In a country with 330 million people.
That's a good question. Unfortunately, a lot of old Unicode process documentation isn't available online -- you can see a couple of relevant-sounding documents at [1], but very little of it is available until 1999 or so.

There are some pretty clear patterns to the character ordering, though -- if you look closely, you can see big runs of characters which share radicals. For example, characters 5000 through 500F are:

倀 倁 倂 倃 倄 倅 倆 倇 倈 倉 倊 個 倌 倍 倎 倏

all of which have the 亻radical on the left side. It's clearly not arbitrary.

[1]: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1990/Register-1990.html
First glance: seems about right; pretty popular/trendy site

Second glance: oh that's in Bs, not Ms; nevermind!
Win-Win Denial: The Empirical Psychology
that is a good step
It's not just a matter of not understanding, it's also the tendency to assume the default, which is a linear scale.

One suggestion would be to make the logarithmic scale super-obvious and in your face.

"1 10 100 1k 10k 100k" in small print obscures the unusual nature of the scale.

Instead, show 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000 and show those numbers in a large bold font so that they are the most noticeable feature of the graph.

(Possibly use an increasing font size.)
Your comment is even more worthless than his
Officially yes. In reality no.

Forgotten Hope 2 has its own workarounds and launcher. Other mods (and vanilla players) use BF2Hub, which wraps around bf2.exe I think to redirect DNS calls to the defunct EA and gamespy servers.
The type of developers FB wanted were already using PHP and that made it good fit
I answered an almost identical reply, here[1].

> including the ones that say "authorized personnel only", "private", "do not enter"

Basically, to answer you separately, an analogy like that doesn't represent TCP accurately. In your analogy, you can

1) see from afar for visual cues indicating whether access is being given to you, and

2) try opening it.

Your argument is that doing 2 is invasive, because they can do 1.

However, in TCP, you can only try to make the connection. There is no see from afar. If I give you an IP address, there's no standard way for you to tell me whether FTP is available, without trying to connect to the port! That's your only choice!

So, yes, "I was trying to find out which [service is available]" is a very valid reason.

> Port scanning is a brute force, over-reaching probing technique.

It certainly is brute-force, and that sucks. I think there's a network service / protocol called Portmapper/rpcbind[2] that lists the services available and port numbers they're on. I only know that NFS uses it, but nothing else. If that were standard, then I'd agree port scanning is over-reaching. As it stands, though, I don't consider it over-reaching when it's the only TCP mechanism to see what's available online.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23249246

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmap
> I think right now it's cool to shoot on PHP

That article is from 2012. If a "fad" lasts 7 years, is it still a fad?
Agreed. I've noticed that sometimes I get a huge boost of happiness by simply smiling and giving a greeting to strangers passing by who seem to be having a tough time...

Seeing the huge smile on their face when they see a random stranger greet them brings me to the verge of tears.

The life of this world can be tough on people. Every little bit helps.
from where or are there brands you recommend?
+1 for distillery, very convenient...

https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery
A single study is listed as being challenged. Have others:

From 2010 - "In this 36-week study, partial and nonresponders to placebo, and responders and partial responders to Prozac, CBT, and combination treatments in the 12-week trial were openly treated (TADS Team, 2007). As in Phase 1, Prozac and combination groups received additional encouragement and contact (medication management). Despite this, all treatment conditions converged by 30 weeks and remained so by Week 36, with significantly more suicidal ideation in the Prozac-alone group. The percentage of suicidal events for those on Prozac, whether in combined or alone groups, was nearly 12%, double the 6% in the CBT group. Despite the convergence of efficacy and continued risks, TADS is often cited as evidence that combining psychotherapy and medication produce superior results (e.g., NIMH, n.d.)." -- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dickson_Adom/post/What_...

"Collectively, the findings detailed inA.C. Butler et al. / Clinical Psychology Review 26 (2006) 17–3127 this review suggest that CT is highly effective for adult unipolar depression, adolescent unipolar depression,generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, social phobia, PTSD, and childhooddepressive and anxiety disorders. The comparison-weighted grand mean effect size for these disorders when compared to no-treatment, wait list, or placebo controls is 0.95 (SD=0.08). CBT is associated with large improvements in symptoms for bulimia nervosa, and the associated effect sizes (M=1.27, SD=0.11) are significantly larger than those that have been found for pharmacotherapy. CBT also has shown promising results as adjunct to pharmacotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenia." -- https://www.get.gg/docs/Empirical-Status-of-CBT.pdf

Prozac yields a risk of side effects, and ceasing use brings a strong risk of relapse. Comparatively CBT offers a lasting solution.
This is because Nix needs to express a lot more so builds are reproducible and incremental. Docker doesn’t care about these things.
MS is open sourcing their platforms which is more valuable than their products from a community benefit perspective.