skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps we should allow a private arm of the postal service to enter another area important for communication: internet service. As it is now, internet service is restricted to one or two providers in most regions. Prices are ridiculously high compared to the rest of the world. And broadband in the US is denied to many low profit areas. Yet we are in a time of COVID sanctions, schooling and working remotely that all rely on the net. Broadband supply needs more competition. The postal service is already delivering snail mail. How is it they were never tapped to run the internet in the US but instead we allow oligarchs to bleed us like Baron Harkonnen in Dune?
Geez, they stole your front brake? What the hell are they going to do with it?

What is the cost of it? A few bucks? I can’t even be bothered to sell my used crap on eBay.
No. I'll add this to the FAQ.
Is it that creativity does not come naturally for people, or that it is striped from people through schooling, and lived dedicated to employment where the boss has a monopoly on it.
It uses <canvas>, but also has hacks for screen readers: open the demo and look for elements with the class of dgxl-innerColumn.
After a cursory look, it would be helpful to present your data with a risk adjusted metric as well as providing some longer backtesting
There is a domain pool which contains all domains in the world registered and many people/companies in the world will scrape the list 24/7 to filter sth to meet their own needs.

Except this, there are a lot of possible reasons you may expose your website to a bot:

1) if you choose wordpress, when your site is a alive, site will Ping some services.
2) when your site is live, your site's IP is fixed, thus may get scanned somehow.
3) when you register your domain, your provider know your domain, the name can expose to somewhere.
4) if your domain name happen to be a "reused name", your website is exposed.

There are many many possible ways I don't even know, but in a severe case, people will receive spam email less than 1 hour after they bought their domain, you guess it.

Nothing is hidden today.
One of which is constantly spreading rumors about Stallman....

ESR basically wanted to take credit for RMS' work and co-opt the movement. It was some pretty nasty stuff.
Twitter isn't going to shoot you. Twitter isn't going to imprison you. Twitter isn't going to unperson you.

If you think Twitter is influential enough that it is quasi-governmental in authority, you should pursue anti-trust regulation.

But otherwise, no Twitter is nothing like a government, and getting kicked off a platform isn't suppression of speech anymore than a me choosing not to publish your book us suppression of speech.

I highly value the right of any entity to express their speech the way that see fit. That includes Twitter's right to kick people off their platform. I don't agree with the weaponization of "free speech" and liberal values that is common among certain groups, as it is used to quell criticism. When you start weaponizing your "free speech" as a way to constrain others, you are no longer reflecting liberal values.
I think that is a very optimistic view of how things are currently - I think 80-90% of all business still operates in a similar organizational fashion as it did 20 years ago, and it is changing linearly at best, not exponential.
Totally agree. In some cases, explanation technically is much more effective when using PowerPoint or any kind of visual presentation rather than a wall of text.
> "many academics use writing as a tool for thinking... and don’t think about the reader"

That would explain an awful lot about my university reading experience.
That’s comically simplistic.

If you actually drill down into every tangible thing that’s wrong with America, you’ll find that root causes are actually pretty complicated.
It is hell, but it is only way to workaround the hell tons of safari graphic bug.

Because it only affect graphic, you can't really detect whether you are affected by it or not from js.

The best thing you can do it guess the browser from user-agent and apply the workaround anyway. Or you can pray for the apple to fix their sh*t (given what they have done in the past, it is unlikely).
It's not accredited, and for good reason.
Do you expect a once in a decade (and by some measurements, once in a lifetime) crash to happen twice in the same year, or several years from now? I don't doubt there will be a second wave - the US is by most accounts still mired in the first wave, but I suspect most people probably missed the boat on the "bottoming out" event. Stranger stuff has happened though. Interesting take.
It's now banned and ridiculed on the same board. Nearly every poster recognizes it as either an intelligence Psy Op or a LARP. So yes it does contradict that statement.
BRB. Going make a cinema-focussed remake of Hitchcock's "The Birds" that _relies_ on a few bags full of moths being released during each screening...
In Uruguay it was closer to 98%, when the indigenous people didn't want to conform with property rights, the order was given to wipe them out.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanza_del_Salsipuedes
(There's no English article unfortunately)
WTF? The set of integers isn't finite. There are non-leaky ways to represent integers or computable reals in a computer (of course one cannot compute uncomputable reals, by definition). And plenty of finite subsets of either are well-behaved and non-leaky. If you treat a finite subset of the integers as being the set of all integers then of course you will make mistakes, but that's not a problem of abstraction.
If you really believe it has that much impact get it photoshop'ed. Game the system if you think that you LinkedIn picture has an effect. Pick your preferred pronoun or what ever.
This is why you see design doc culture at Google as well. At my startup I pushed for an RFC culture to flesh out ideas and break stalemates just as the author describes. I called them RFCs because we don't have a tool that versions documents, so if we need to make amendments we mark older RFCs with newer RFC extensions or supersede them.

There is also a large benefit to other engineers getting up to date on a system, why things were done a specific way, why a technology was chosen, what tradeoffs were considered and why.
Eleven Human Needs
Partly it's a judgment call. I would say that bringing Churchill into a thread about English writing style (which was already off topic, but not a flamewar) does not count as flamebait, while bringing in genocide does. I can see how someone would argue it the other way.

Mostly, though, it's a matter of the effect on the thread. The value of a comment is the expected value of the subthread it spawns [1]. In this particular community a "Churchill+genocide" comment is pretty well guaranteed to spawn a flamewar, which was not true of the subthread one level up. So it's relative to the community you're participating in.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No known case of teacher catching coronavirus from pupils, says scientist
You’re saying a private company is allowed to decide who they want on their property. This must hold for all private companies, no?
> The idea that it’s purely narcissistic is without merit. Privatization is about fostering competition to ensure better products are created.

This fostering competition business is often a false narrative. If the USPS was dissolved, there would be hardly anything compelling UPS or FedEx to pick up its services. If they did, they'd be at an increased cost to consumers.

> Just because the USPS works as is does not mean it couldn’t be better.

In my original comment, I explicitly said "The USPS could be improved but struggles primarily due to active efforts to kill it off. But it's a wonderful idea of a service that definitely should exist and be improved." The problem is that the USPS is in a chokehold by politicians, starving it of funds and increasing its costs, yelling at it "why can't you do better?" Talk about "fair" competition. Of course public services should be improved.

> But the more we keep failing at things like public schools the more I’m inclined to align with privatization.

As I mentioned in my original comment, we should focus on improving these things. Public schools are poor for a variety of reasons, primarily political, and their problems are not inherent to their existence as a public service. My mom was a teacher for decades, as were her family members. I've seen why schools struggle, and it's not simply because they're a public service.

> But you can’t fake incentive. What is the USPS incentive to do better?

What is UPS or FedEx's or any other company's incentive to do better? More capital and more money. Their incentive isn't to make people's lives better. It's to earn more money. It just so happens that these can overlap, but company's have few incentives to provide services to people. That's the entire point of public services. It's because there isn't an incentive for companies to provide them in a way that's beneficial and cost effective for the common people.
I would be thrilled to pay USPS as an email provider or ISP, even paying a premium to do so, if they offered comparable service in my area.
Separate data records, yes, separate payment, no.
The charity receives one consolidated check in the mail each month across all donors (one payment), and the original donor's grant will be on the data sheet as well as the matching grant from the company's corporate fund (separate records).

Today, users create their accounts directly with our app, and they are affiliated with their corporation in our app via their email address. So we don't integrate with any HR information.

Administrators of the program can add and remove employees via copying and pasting email addresses (can add/remove many at a time). We aim to integrate with HR systems of record in the future to make this seamless.
I don’t think the intention was to deliver a cheap shot, or at least I hope not. In many ways I liked MIT’s courses better but the contrast is clear. Ideally in the future everything will be online (at least partially) and students will be guided towards the style that serves them best. I have an in-person degree from a top public school with nearly 40k students and I also have an online cs degree from a mid level public school. I can do without the big lecture halls that have 300+ students. Just let me watch the video on my own schedule. I crave the small discussion sections where I can ask questions, draw on a board, hear other students questions etc...
I think that would be an excellent addition to the iOS Safari reader mode, where your intent is already to change the behaviour and look of the web page. That reader mode has saved me from a really badly formatted web page many times.
The American way - get other people to do your work! I still remember my CS profs saying they best quality of a programmer is laziness!
That’s an interesting case because it’s certainly a cool effect, but it’s kind of a cumbersome UX on mobile. It makes it hard to keep track of the columns as you scroll up and down. At a glance it seems like both the Google Sheets and Numbers iOS apps have smooth scrolling instead of snapping.
In regards to your last point:
Is it though? That’s a very large generalization for half the country.

That’s like saying Obama supporters are pro killing innocent people with drones. Obviously this is ridiculous.

Both far right and left have extremists that shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.
It depends on context, but the US does recognize financial data as PII.

“Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
The term “PII,” as defined in OMB Memorandum M-07-1616 refers to information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other personal or identifying information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual. The definition of PII is not anchored to any single category of information or technology. Rather, it requires a case-by-case assessment of the specific risk that an individual can be identified. In performing this assessment, it is important for an agency to recognize that non-PII can become PII whenever additional information is made publicly available - in any medium and from any source - that, when combined with other available information, could be used to identify an individual.“ https://www.gsa.gov/reference/gsa-privacy-program/rules-and-...
Those diagrams are scraggly. Don’t change them! Great article and the diagrams are instrumental.
I came to TS after years of C#, all the way back to .NET 2.0 and WinForms.

TBH TypeScript is just better than C# for the job it does - DOM control and gluing data - structural typing that's backed by a dynamic runtime is a much better fit for those kinds of tasks than a nominal type system backed by IL level type checking - AutoMapper is nonsense created by this design decision and C# is particularly verbose (almost Java level).

C# allows you to get much lower level than TS can, you can control memory layout, allocation patterns, you have proper threading model, etc. etc.

But for dealing with single threaded DOM event loop, stitching data from all kinds of sources, simple transformations and sending it around - IMO TS is a better fit.
I've given significant thought to the writing problem, and I firmly believe the lack of writing is dramatically slowing the pace of innovation in the world. Writing is really Amazon's superpower. It's why they get big things done quickly.

Both the author and the audience greatly benefit from the writing. Writing clarifies and structures thinking – helping the reader understand the points the author is making.

As a bit more context, I used to work at McKinsey and much of my job fit into two roles: (1) translating what employees were thinking into something executives could understand, and (2) making PowerPoint slides. In other words, I was often there because employees couldn't write well. But, I also found PowerPoint lacking – it's hard to get some of the more important points across (creating some confusion) because it doesn't allow for longer-form thought.

I've put a bunch of thoughts together on why writing is important and how we fix our education system to make people better writers. It's based on my experiences supporting tens of thousands of students on improving writing skills – https://bradsblog.com/2020/05/15/1-writing-is-the-most-impor....
And if the businesses in question are rent-seeking oligopolies?
Before holding a meeting, collect any moths in the meeting room and store them in a bag.
Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of crackdown
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912455
Sort of. Airtel is costlier than Jio and BSNL is worse in many areas. BSNL 3G is not only slower but doesn't have half the coverage of BSNL 2G (which is mostly used for calls and SMS not internet).

Jio is slowly increasing prices but is still cheaper than Airtel as far as I know. And the speed, while not true 4G, is better than BSNL 3G IME.
>Like, would you say the costs of leading someone into drinking bleach will be worth it?

Not to take sides, but one could argue the costs of the statement you're talking about are insignificant.

The assumption would be that anyone who is that easily influenced to do something that severely harms themselves is subject to many such influences and therefore adding or subtracting a single one doesn't change the probability of disaster noticeably in the long run.

If a straw can break a camel's back, does that mean burning a million straws saves a million camels?

...but if it can save just one...
I’m not for war, but to ban all soldiers and cops is ridiculous - so is saying that all cops and all soldiers are bad.
Profits are capped, and economists agree that such caps are not helpful.

https://www.aeaweb.org/research/regulating-health-insurers-a...
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If I could have when I was in college, I totally would have just watched the 100+ people lectures online. If I wanted clarification office hours were always more useful, and most of my teachers and TAs were very pleasant to engage in that context. Thankfully most of my classes were more on the 20-30 person scale (all of them in CS) where attending felt much more valuable. The few 12 person classes I had were undoubtably the sweet spot though, with enough peers around to make discussion interesting but much more engagement between students and the professor. Not that I expect most classes to be at that size, it would just be a better world if they magically could be.
Not much, but that's why I support proportional representation, not turning the world into a Libertarian hellhole.
Remember to read "protecting the environment" as "protecting our segregation" when anyone opposes constructing housing or transportation of any kind. From the summary of the linked slides:

> "Recommendations: Halt work on sites for Benicia and Vacaville-Fairfield. Develop plans which better serve the majority of residents along the Capitol Corridor Route"

Now, I wonder what "the majority of residents" in Benicia might want? (or, might not want?)

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-franci...

"Rio Vista and Benicia are the two most segregated, and heavily white cities of Solano County."
My understanding was that the system consists of using the historical odds of winning (given the rating difference). If you benchmark that using only past data, I think it is by definition the most accurate system. (The data is always a better fit to itself than a theoretical fit is.)

Naturally future data is much harder to deal with than past data. But even for future data it's not obvious that ELO (or any other theoretical fit to the odds of winning) will be more accurate than the historical odds.
Some data to consider while thinking about privatizing the post office, population densities:

US - 87/sq mi
Germany - 603/sq mi
UK - 725/sq mi
Japan - 862/sq mi
Singapore - 20,446/sq mi
Yale epidemiology professor: HCQ could save up to 100k lives if used for COVID19
Don't believe me, watch the talk! If this resonates with you, the talk will both resonate and leave you better equipped to fix the problem moving forward. His role is to help academics write in ways readers want to read.
FYI it's still microsoft intune. Endpoint manager is the just portal for unifying sccm and intune.

Source: Microsoft Employee
RMIScout: Brute-Force Java RMI Interfaces for Code Execution
I mean I guess what part you’re focused on. The Swedish program is widely called a “voucher” program. It has the essential element of competition: per student funding follows the student. As your quote states, it’s like charter schools rather than tuition-charging private schools in that money doesn’t go through the parents, but directly to schools. But like the De Voss proposal, and unlike American charter schools, Swedish school choice encompasses a much wider variety of schools, including religious schools.
MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, Streams, Part A
This is not correct. It is being reported as 10.16 only on x86 and only temporarily. It is noted as such in the release notes. Final build will be 11.0.
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Imagine. Being the nexus of a philosophical movement, having made an honest attempt to replace as many aspects as possible of the non-GPL'd world around you, but being considerate enough to be willing to accommodate other's use of those non-GPL'd tools is privilege, or a negative thing in general.

Having earned through great personal inconvenience, and social adversity, existing in a world whilst coping with a significant degree of neuroatypicality, you might actually find some level of refuge and respite amongst other similarly minded individuals.

Imagine the gall of the individual that would look at every scrap of adversity you took upon yourself for the sake of others instead of just going with the flow and letting the world be carved up between vested non-free software imterests, to call you unjustifiably privileged for the supporting shoulders you've received as a token thank you for at least living the ideal we all wish we could.

Honestly, at this point, I just think that people just despise seeing other people helped by other people, or otherwise succeeding in spite of their own adversity/weirdness/atypicality. It's quite hypocritical considering that this claim of privilege seems to come with the inherent demonstration that someone else would be better served by it. Controversial ideas or no, he's done more to keep software free and accessible than just about anyone else on the planet. He's not responsible for software being "unwelcoming" to outsiders either. Outsiders being unable or unwilling to understand subculture humor more than anything else is responsible for half of that; and the entire backbone of the Hacker ethos being that one is responsible for the banishment of one's own ignorance is the other half. No one is owed inclusion or admittance. No one is owed the context that makes one off color comment or another humorous to the author. Thus the treasure that is actually learning why it was the way it was.

No one gets a free pass. You make something cool, you learn, teach, or contribute something; you figure something out or generally offer something to the community that makes it a better place? Then you're in, you know it, and no one can ever take it away from you. Not that certain groups, mostly adherents of cancel culture won't try; and have found some success. Even those successes too will soon pass, as the community splinters along the new schism. The adherents of the old ways following the old ways, and the cancel culture people going on to form their own bubble.
Why in the world was this flagged? hombre_fatal's absolutely surreal and out of context paranoid delusions did not color the absolutely rational statements in the above post.
Brute force IP crawling (this is how Shodan.io works).

SSL Cert transparency logs.

Remember that bot nets and other malware allow the type of scale that you wouldn't expect. There is a big advantage for the first mover in hacking. I wouldn't be surprised if nation states or cyber mafias paid bounties to lots of contractors for identified vulnerable boxes to use as intermediate proxies (although there are so many I'm not sure if bounties would pay well).
Pretty sure the parent is joking that robots will take over...
Thanks for the kind words! I've been told to improve my handwriting but here I finally have proof I don't need to haha
Well, the trans policy is written out in their TOS so at least everybody can follow it.

I think Twitter can do whatever they want and personally I'm fine with rules if they actually mean something. But here it sounds like they're just coming up with a bogus reason to delete a lot of people permanently.

The normal penalty for violating most rules that have to do with what you said is a temporary ban. By invoking this one they can go for a permanent suspension straight away.
maybe i'm missing something here, but could we not have just used a stick on the ground and rotated it accordingly, and still end up with the same result - if the stick ends up perpendicular to the plane, i.e. you? Why do we need the light polarization setup?
Vote for simple formulas like sum etc.
> all cops and all soldiers are bad

Finally something we can agree on.
Property rights are only one of several central characteristics of capitalism.

Central characteristics of capitalism include private property and the recognition of property rights, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets.

Chattel slavery is at odds with voluntary exchange.

To simplistically suggest that private property rights necessarily extends to ownership of people against their will is like suggesting that purely state owned means of production (socialism) necessarily extends to ownership of people against their will by the government.