skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s a little more complicated than that. It’s not inherently about the rise of extremist views, it’s more about how the establishment grew complacent with the 20th century media environment only to be caught wrongfooted when the 21st century media environment exposed them as being full of shit. Once everyone realizes that the mainstream media and the political establishment are full of shit, where do we have to go from there except to the extremes?
HN is too random. I've submitted my own blogs and gotten zero comments and only a couple of upvotes. Two days later someone submits the same link to my content and it'll get 100 comments and thousands of clicks.

In my experience HN is far more random than both Twitter and Reddit. It's very frustrating and disappointing.
They also get it on both ends. Felons make 41% less than their same age counterparts [1]. Thus they are both felons, and have lower income (as well as a higher likelihood of evictions, etc).

I've been reading Evictions: Poverty and Profit in the American City on recommendation from HN and it has been eye opening. They don't make 1,000 calls, but there are several stories of people making a little over or under 100 different calls because of prior evictions and/or felony convictions. The quantity is only magnified by the fact that they're limited to apartments that are ~$500/month (which is already ~75+% of their monthly income). The book is heavily anti-landlord, although I'm not versed enough to say whether that's the truth or if there is a heavy bias.

I don't know what the solution is. There's a delicate balance of trying to give people a chance to recover or rehabilitate without also forcing landlords with cheap property to enter into blind negotiations and potentially damaging their own property. Frankly, Section 8 seems like a bad solution, and that we should go back to government owned and leased housing where you won't be evicted for complaining about sub-standard conditions because the landlord knows you can't afford a lawyer.
I note there's no widely circulating videos or reports of journalists being assaulted by demonstrators...

I suspect there's way less "cross" in that "cross fire" than the term you're using implies.
I would stay away from mongo as a database depending on what you are doing (in almost all cases, you don't need mongo. There are better options). Tech debt from mongo can pile up soon. Can you explain more about the product?

React is alright. Make sure to use hooks instead of classes and encourage semantic separation. Separate by the use case of the component. Too often people either end up with too big files doing everything or too many small files that should just be a one file.

Use typescript and jsdocs. It will help you make less bugs and help unfamiliar devs quickly start working.

Use something like nestjs to give structure.

Other than that, you are good to go.
I think its only the natural progression. there are definitely some flaws with it, it isn't perfect. However, the tradeoffs really do seem to swing in favor of deno.
That's not how microcode works, but yes - the instruction decoders and retirement logic are capable enough these days that you can have it decode into the same sequence of μops, which is almost certainly what happens.

Note that it's not exactly the same thing, because an interrupt can happen between the decrement and jump for the two-instruction case, but not for the LOOP case.
there's probably double or triple the switches in between. they're not really switches though. more like super fast packet routers. the latency is much less than any normal or carrier grade switch. they don't touch the IP layer at all. (I manage a bunch of them)
In one case, yes, exactly that.
It means that they're a first-class part of the internet in their own right, rather than part of someone else's network. Without an AS number, you're a client of whatever ISPs are providing you with connectivity. If you have your own AS number you are at least nominally a "peer" of other ISPs and responsible for routing a (possibly very small) part of the internet.
> Great idea, and definitely considered, but never made it into an actual capability.

Never made? There were quite a few F-117 pilots who flew missions on Soviet North (rather North-West) destroying everything on their way, including airfields and especially, depots, all with airgun only (!), and flew back upside down - for kicks and because apparently it was (way) more fuel-efficient...

https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/f-117a-nighthawk-st...
> The police are bound by laws.

This is evidently not true.
I wouldn't worry so much about spam from your e-mail address appearing here. E-mail spam is a declining industry and it doesn't appear that there's much continuing incentive to scrape websites for e-mails to spam.
Learning the vocabulary is easy, but because the vocabulary is so small, it does become quite difficult to construct meaningful sentences following rules that are very local to a few words, which ultimately spans many words. Most often, it seems, like any language, a ton of the context becomes implied, so it’s super tricky.

It’s still a fun weekend or multi weekend exercise in exploring languages though.
> A lot less people would be willing to loot if they had a friend who died after getting shot by a store owner with a shotgun.

Criminals are likely to organize in order to increase their chances of success and survival. Individuals will be quickly overwhelmed if they don't form their own organized defense forces. There's always a lot of extremely violent people protecting the "normal" ones.
Hey HN, I'm Alex. I’m the co-founder of Mindset Health, a digital health startup that makes hypnosis-based management programs for chronic health conditions.

Hypnosis get’s a bad rap but it’s essentially just a state of focused attention and absorption where you become more suggestible. It’s an experiential learning state that amplifies therapeutic techniques, from CBT to visualization and direct suggestion.

If you’re interested in learning more, here’s a recent study from Stanford on the brain areas activated during hypnosis: (https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/07/study-identif...) and a meta-analysis on hypnosis as an adjunct to CBT vs CBT alone (http://coyoteinstitute.us/Hypnosis%20as%20an%20Adjunct%20to%...).

We work with expert doctors and psychologists to deliver audio hypnotherapy sessions (think goal-orientated guided meditation) through mobile apps for various health conditions, like anxiety and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

I work on Mindset Health with my brother, Chris, and small (but awesome) team based out of Melbourne, Australia. We raised our US$1.1m seed round coming out of Y Combinator and are passionate about empowering people to manage their conditions themselves, from home.

We have two programs at the moment, Mindset for Mental Health and Nerva for IBS.

Mindset is based on the work by Dr Michael Yapko, a world-leading expert in the clinical uses of hypnosis and involves teaching coping skills while in a hypnotic state.

Nerva is based on the work by Dr Simone Peters, who ran a randomized clinical study with Monash University that found her 6-week gut-directed hypnotherapy approach helped 71% of participants improve their symptoms by an average of 62%.

We want your feedback, questions, and ideas. We know the topics of ‘hypnosis’ and ‘hypnotherapy’ bring up questions and skepticism and we’d love to dive deeper into those questions.
Notes on my paper notetaking practices are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411493.
That's actually very cool -- I've always lamented that iMessage never had a Windows client. I can relate to also posting a few projects/posts that I thought were cool which never hit the front page, but I've also had 4 or so of my blog posts hit top-10 over the past few years, so I shouldn't complain.
I dunno, space isn't a delicate eco-system like the oceans, so long-term I think industry and infrastructure in space is a much better idea than the same on earth.

Doesn't matter if you're emitting greenhouse gases if you're somewhere where there is no atmosphere.
I'm not sure I see the contradiction here. Of course H1B visas are for employees, not entrepreneurs, but many employees don't stay employees forever, entrepreneurs aren't conjured up out of thin air. Just take Uber as an example. That company alone has spawned an entire ecosystem of founders and venture capitalists as talent over the years has migrated away from the company.

>So if there's 3 founders, with only one being an immigrant, then that's categorized as an "immigrant-founded company."

I don't think that's a misrepresentation, particularly not in the context of my post, because if a company has an immigrant co-founder that still indicates that an immigrant contributed to the founding of a business.
I'm agreeing with the parent comment about the chilling effect that radical political groups can have on moderate dissent. White Nationalism's relationship with Law Enforcement/military is pretty well documented, and is very clearly under the umbrella of radical political movements. But if that's causing confusion, I used that as an explicit example of the phenomena the parent comment was describing.

I am curious by what you mean by "well, that's the opposite of the case here." What is in your opinion the opposite of White Nationalism on the radical spectrum?
I can say "I'm anti-peanuts." but if I eat them daily, am I really practicing what I preach.

Also, if that's all there is to it, why are there branded merchandise, flags and organizations around antifa? Where does the funding for the antifa actions come from?
what sort of components are the Sat's made up of?
Are we all happy with the idea of "burning up" wont have long term issues with not completely "burnt up" parts floating around the sky and eventually being breathed/drank/eaten in the biosphere?

Try to ask this in a non-hyperbolic way, I dont want to sound alarmist and I'm no "chem trail" loon. but "Burning up" doesn't just make it magically go away.
Maybe because someone wants them to exist for justification of cough something else.
By civilizing the police we also mean affirmative action to bring the demographics of the officers in line with the people they serve. Removing guns wouldn’t have saved Eric Garner or George Floyd.
You are being disingenuous.

The issue you are quoting is about opening new containers while following links. That's something your solution doesn't support at all.

Your solution is akin to manually opening a new container. That will always work in Firefox.
The problem with any outsourced companies is they live and die by acceptance criteria. Many times it takes longer to write out all of the criteria to the level of detail that I need than to just do it myself because natural language is horrible for such technical details and trying to explain to someone "What" and "why" is too time consuming.

It really bothers me because I generally get put on projects with little acceptance criteria and not something I've done before, yet I deliver on time and the end user is very happy because I take the time to ask good questions up-front. Why can't someone deliver something that makes me that happy.

On the topic of communications. I've consulted on projects where I've said that something I noticed should be done a specific way, even though it was not part of AC, technically worked correctly, and making the change would be feature creep. My advice was ignored. Weeks later the end users kept complaining that the software was difficult to use and could not communicate what they didn't like. Since they refused to use the software and they refused to accept it as it was, I was brought back in. I sat down, found out what work the end user was doing, and did some of that work. I literally did someone else's job. I used the software. I made a huge list of areas for improvement. The PM agreed to everything. All of the changes were made, the end users were now saying it was awesome to use.

To summarize, learn to read between the lines of the acceptance criteria. Would you want to use the software you're making? For me, small issues annoy the heck out of me. I notice these things. End users tend to just say nebulous things like "it doesn't work well".
Everybody loves talking about hoaxes in social science publications, but there is no shortage of such hoaxes in other, more "empirical" disciplines as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...
When you donate through a donor-advised fund[1], you have the option to make the donation anonymous to the recipient organization (but presumably not to financial surveillance systems and the IRS). Caveats: this only works for 501(c)(3) organizations, and DAFs often have donation minimums.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor-advised_fund
I think there's a good argument to be made that the one of the most important steps to solve the US police brutality and unaccountability problem should be to declare Police Unions to be illegal.
After long silence, Mattis denounces Trump and military response to crisis
10 Years with OsmAnd
It isn't just about Trump though. This is also an unconscionable call for violence. It is pervasive across the culture.

https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1267824036844732421
Brazil's grassroots chat groups succeed where public services fail
Any code review that included the argument:

"Oh, I'm _soo_ special and pretty and such a delicate flower, that I want to flush the L1D on every task switch"

Is completely inappropriate. If you feel like that is somehow appropriate in a review then it is you who need to "step back and reexamine how you view communication from others and where you set expectations of thought process and culture matching your own".
Some good legal arguments on whether it is legal to steal something back or not... https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/15869
Show HN: hibp-client – a Clojure wrapper for the Have I Been Pwned API
As noted it used the 8254 PIT to measure clock time passing, so you could program the 8254 to run much slower.
A younger me would be right there with you arguing these hard-line principles. And older me has seen 20 years of absolute madness spreading across people's minds and an outbreak of sickness and obesity. An even older me fears this whole thing is coming down because that old assumption that most people are like me--smart! educated! harmless! peace-loving! egalitarian! color-blind!--is flat-out false. Human society is infested with psychopaths who are given free reign to do whatever they want as long as it flies under the radar of whoever is making and enforcing the rules. And some of these psychopaths are busy building tribes by feeding them absolute bullshit and raising angry mobs.

Does this mean censorship and the big ban hammer for everything we don't like? You're making that leap.

As for myopic, let's turn that back around. How myopic it has been that we haven't been serious about addressing the hate and violence in our societies and have left it gestate, fester, even mutate into an uncontrollable angry mob? How are them free speech principles tasting when 40% of the population is so far gone they'll never be sobering up for a nice quiet little chat about intellectual issues? Have you ever had an in-depth discussion with someone who doesn't believe in evolution, who thinks the Earth is probably 6000 years old, and will flat out tell you that they cannot be convinced otherwise because of their religion. That's some weapons-grade irrationality, right there. You should think hard about what to do with a society filled with people so effectively programmed, should it ever come the point where people are programmed with a more virulent ROM.

Society is sick right now. Very, very sick. Enjoy your free speech principles while they last, because it won't be your fellow HNers taking that right away, it's gonna be the angry mob who doesn't actually give a shit. You fundamentally do not want to see what is going on. The fascists are feeding their base crazy pills right in front of your very eyes. Bleach for fuck's safe. Hydroxychloroquine, NO COLLUSION. 19,000 lies. LOCK HER UP! And that mob is. pissed. off. Everyone. is. pissed. off. The president is the leader of a mob. Let that sink in. The President has the write lock on a big section of the voting population and is feeding them utter insanity and is now vowing "total domination" through police violence. We are in deep shit this very moment.
I will gladly hand over my money for an app that will hypnotize me to stop procrastinating and make me like my job.
one of the things I keep telling non-network-eng people is that looking at a traceroute gives you absolutely no way of knowing what the OSI layer 2 topology is for transport networks, MPLS, switches, DWDM circuits carried as lit services "glassed through" a location, etc. Just the IP network.

Discovering the underlying layer 2 topology of a carrier's network requires inside information and cannot be easily discerned sitting at a computer elsewhere on the internet. You might see two routers that appear to be directly adjacent to each other but it's actually carried as a 10Gbps VLAN across a several-state sized region between two cities many hundreds of km apart, with a lot of intermediate equipment in between.
This is cool but I think it gives people a false sense of security that their lawmakers aren't taking financial advantage of the positions they're in. Surely if a Senator came across a lucrative but illegal opportunity to profit off of some kind of information they become privy too, they'd do it in a way that will bypass the Senate Financial Disclosure Database, such as having friends/family trade by proxy for them, selling that valuable info to the highest bidder and getting paid in bitcoin, etc.
Agree. One of the best feature of macOS is preview.app. In over a decade, I’ve never needed another PDF viewer.

I used Foxit almost exclusively before I switched to Mac to avoid the bloat of Acrobat Reader. Sad to see it’s evolved the way it has.
another option mentioned is to mount the missiles on the bay doors - opening of the door would put the seeker into the air stream as if the missile were on a wing rail. Sounds like a typical quick fix/patch :) Not sure why it is AIM-9, not something more long range. The role of F-117 is just to [stealthily] truck the missile and drop it. The other radars and control would guide it.
Everytime I think i understand JavaScript i am proven wrong. It was pretty fun read tho
The solution is, at every layer of the system, to think about what it means to recover from a failure. In this case, the obvious answer to a failed wallpaper rendering is to avoid rendering the wallpaper, not to allow the failure to bring down the entire UI with it.

I didn't always have this habit, but picked it up when I switched from working on servers to working on safety-critical hardware. It was a lot easier a habit to pick up than I thought it would be, and I've found it makes you write a more robust, well-understood system.
> And that’s not even large relative to a house or business.

It's way worse for a business, when I went to the MDRS for a week the bistro's kitchen in our Flagship restaurant went up in flames. The cause was unknown, but all in we lost 4.5 weeks of work due to unnecessary down time, not including the equipment repairs, contractor labor and misc costs because the city's investigators wouldn't come out to assess the damage in the allotted time slot to investigate and approve the repairs because of snow (IT'S COLORADO!) and then the Insurance stonewalled and tried to delay things further by not playing nice with the city that delayed reopening.

All told I wouldn't be surprised if we lost over a couple 100ks in lost profits and limited operational costs (we still had the bar/grill upstairs) and having to rebuild the Kitchen plus labor. Corporate paid us bonuses, which were really just 1/3 of our normal pay to help offset expenses, because of limited hours.

Bourdain was right: restaurants really are horrible businesses. Insurance which is mandatory, compounded with local government regulations and approval, makes it way worse.
The protections the telephone companies have are based on their desire to remain common carrier status, and not being considered curators or providers of the content they carry.

It's not they can't censor, it's that if they do then their legal status changes in a way they do not wish it too.
Hi Alexandra, this is a great suggestion! We're still figuring out what the right set of benchmarks for "market" returns are -- right now we use the S&P 500, but are also considering alternatives like passive age-appropriate target date funds and portfolios constructed using Fama-French factor weights. But we will ultimately add a panel that shows abnormal returns for each official as you suggest.
But you cannot share the details of the pericular use case so someone else can test your claims?

"After "exploring" many options, kdb+ was the clear winner for my use case. I process an average of 1.6TB per day."

See how silly that sounds without any details or credibility? Does "clear winner" mean it was faster? How does a person know if the recommender even tried both solutions? What if someone else's use case is dfferent from the recommender's? How could someone verify that one solution was faster than the other?

The easiest way is to provide sample data and a processing task and let people try the two solutions for themselves.
That's not "modern police" as in the modern organized structure. Even the wild west had marshalls and sherrifs but they were not police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police under history, look at the "modern police" section. I find this poster against police in Wales a bit amusing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/No_Polic...

Law enforcement is not the synonymous with police.
Amtrak discloses data breach, potential leak of customer account data
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Anyone know the reason why there's no iMessage for windows? Is it supposed to act as some kind of gateway drug into the Mac ecosystem?

Apple seems to have quite a few of these 'unspoken unfeatures'. Perhaps someone can tell me why there are no web browsers allowed on AppleTV devices?
Serious question: how can something be called "consent" if it can't be withdrawn by individuals? That's democracy, not consent.
If ever Apple needed to open source server and client code for a public good it is with imessages. Yes it has clear limits with a centralized server, but it is realistically how a lot of “secure” messaging happens and it’s very difficult to endorse being tied to expensive hardware.

You can say the same about facetime: it is clearly higher quality than competitors in every experiment I’ve tried, but their refusal to interact with the wider software community means we all use zoom or skype instead for personal chatting. These are tools; they should be effectively free and universal.
Conlang Critic is a fan of this language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo

I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show if you like an idea of short text based video essays about constructed languages:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYLhuXt4HrQqnfSceITm...
Two Critical Android Bugs Open Door to RCE
So F-19 stealth fighter wasn't totally off base!
Who's placing puts on ZM now?
That was indeed the status quo on broadcast television for many years:

> The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the FCC's view—honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011.

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