skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty ridiculous, especially for a website that pushes free speech so much as its guiding principles. The information is clearly "of interest to a hacker" by just how many people are upvoting the articles and how relevant it is to the US election in literally weeks.

It stinks that people can just flag away facts that make them uncomfortable like this. It's kind of abuse of the flagging system IMO.
Also the nuclear waste problem. Nuclear reprocessing looks nice on paper, but the technical implementation is problematic, it's chemistry but in a radioactive environment. If something catches on fire there's problems.
You are incarnate. You can either doubt it can happen again, or doubt your own existence.
Hi, it takes the first event's date as the first box, then renders weeks (boxes) after that.
In no time someone will come up with a box that will switch to your neighbor’s power. One will have this and the other one the classic one. You will both use the cheaper one at a given time. That will give you the access to the highly volatile power prices with a cap in more expensive ones. People usually have to pay O(N) money for things like this on the exchanges. You’ll have it for O(1) money. Or maybe just resell the power to the neighbor with a small discount compared to a regular utility price and pack the difference. The box should pay for itself in no time.
I made the mistake of spending 30min to summarize the article in the last thread, only to find it flagged out of existence.

Guess I'll wait a bit to see if this post lasts before doing that again.
Well, the Supreme Court is actually the court of first instance for some types of cases, and decides both matters for those cases. It can also decide matters of fact in some cases, for various reasons.

Those situations aside, I think Sotomayor and Ginsburg's emotional appeals in oral argument are representative of how they are actually deciding those cases (i.e. for reasons related to the specifics of litigants), and that the written opinions may simply be a legal veneer over their true motives.
But they look so much cooler!
> notifying the nobody first

They certainly never do this. SOP is just to swap the existing account to a different name.
About Sebastian Powell:

>Originally from Germany, Sebastian studied Business Management and worked in related positions for various companies including Lufthansa and the Thomas Cook Group before obtaining his BA and Masters Degree in Vancouver, Canada.

So if it's a corporation or a person, Powell is probably going to side with the corporation. Business school is like some kind of weird anti-customer, anti-worker brainwashing program. I've read the books they teach in project management and business courses. It was like an instruction manual for being a house slave.
This reminds me very much of this famous scene:
https://youtu.be/SjbPi00k_ME
(Shocked.. Shocked)
From Casablanca
Trump Paid $750 In US Income Taxes In 2016, 2017
Click the "vouch" button if you don't agree with the flag.
> I'm simply pointing out that most statically typed languages, the most used ones especially, don't particularly benefit from static typing

That's an opinion presented as fact. You are outright discounting the opposing view. That's why you're being downvoted, not because anyone is being emotional.

Some benefits:

- performance. compiler can make huge optimizations if it knows the types.

- refactoring. changing functions might change data expected in another function. you could remedy this with unit tests, or just use static typing.

- onboarding. new developers on a project, regardless of experience, don't "layout the types in their head", static typing helps.
This honestly sounds like a great development and I hope other sites will follow suit. Though off-topic: One thing that might explain the lack of loss of subscriptions that it is so incredibly frustrating to cancel your subscription. I had the luck to have subscribed with PayPall and just stopped paying. Otherwise I would've jumped through a large set of arbitrary hoops just to cancel my subscription. I have never ever seen such a consumer hostile environment for cancelling a subscription.
And how do you get in to Harvard or Yale law?

Generally?

1) Be a legacy admit. This is the easiest way to get into Yarvard Law.

2) Be an Ivy League undergraduate. This is the second easiest way to get into Yarvard Law, because you have the opportunity to get law professors to vouch for your admission even before you apply, and the grade inflation in the Ivies means that your transcript will easily beat any student that went to a public university or college.

3) Be a token minority student (i.e., not White or any type of Asian) with excellent grades that graduates top of your undergraduate class, because Yarvard Law needs token minority admissions every year to put on their brochures. (In Yarvard's defense, this is true of almost every law school.)

4) Be rich and do things during college that most people can't do during their summers, like volunteering at the Hague, or having your parents make a generous donation to the school.

5) If there are any spots remaining after categories 1-4, excel at the LSATs, get a 4.0 GPA in undergraduate (the major does not matter), and ace the admissions interview. Generally, there are only a handful of spots remaining by this point so you are competing with thousands of other applicants for a dozen or so spots. (In this regard, Legally Blonde is actually pretty spot on: a 4.0 in a fluff major is just as good as a 4.0 in an engineering major for Yarvard admissions purposes.)
Rosatom built many power plants.
If you're building a grid-scale battery storage system, isn't it a relatively straightforward engineering problem to emulate the inertia of a flywheel?

I would be much more concerned about batteries' ability to respond on the days/weeks/months scale than the milliseconds scale.
As a dilettante Rails amateur, I can also vouch for Rails in general compared to JS-based stacks. Having tried React ('cause it's trendy), I still feel like it's nowhere near Rails to create simple CRUD apps.

Thanks for the SQL recommendation — that's something I've personally struggled with in trying to move up from noob to intermediate.

Modelling things properly seems to be one step on the ladder that the Rails doc won't cover in sufficient depth, even though the tool provides simple ways of doing the task once you understand what you're doing.
...most religions have some apocalyptical component. We have been thinking about our extinction for thousands of years. This is just more fear mongering by an ever increasingly psychopathic mainstream press.

Don't buy into the fear. These people are obviously trying to scare us into submission so they can control the entire world. The only thing that is at risk of dying is their control over us.

For those who say there is no "they," and that it's outlandish conspiracy theory to say such things... look at the wealth inequality in the world. We do not exert equal influence on the system. I must repeat: we do not exert equal influence on the system. Our influence is becoming slimmer and slimmer every year. In fact, most of us have been completely marginalized out of the power process. There is a "they." There are puppets and string pullers. It's uncomfortable to realize the world we are truly living in, but the real threat we face is the desire to remain ignorant and asleep.
That wrap around is very often even a security vulnerability.

The common usage pattern in low level C is:

if (attacker_size == 0)
return SizeError;

char* string_buffer = malloc(attacker_size+1); // oops, string_buffer could be 0 sized.
memcpy(string_buffer, attacker_buffer, attacker_size);

This caused huge security issues, 2 separate times. The first time was when attackers started understanding integer overflow attacks. The second time was when codebases switched from 32 to 64 bit. The last one is more tricky. But I have seen code 'ported' (that I think looked) like this:

uint64_t attacker_size = ...;
if ( attacker_size == 0 || attacker_size == UINT64_MAX)
return SizeError;
uint32_t string_size = ((uint32_t)attacker_size+1)*2; // Oops, overflow on 32 bit register, string_size = 0;
// etc
But the kind of people with the ambition to be Supreme Court litigators usually will prep for the LSAT enough to get a high score.
Optionals doesn't exist because of ObjC compatibility. They are a hallmark feature in functional languages like Haskell and Scala, and in other modern languages like Rust and Kotlin. Even C++17 introduced std::optional.

And I completely disagree, they are one of the best features of any language and are able to remove a whole class of very annoying bugs.

And sorry, but I didn't understand the part about the initializer pattern... are you talking about constructor overloading? This has also been a traditional feature of OOP languages for decades.
How much karma is required for that? I don't see the option
But how do you get new loyal readers, if not by repeatedly proving your value to new occasional readers?
It depends on what you mean by "correct". If it means "it does what I need it to do and I can move on with my life", then no, the cognitive load doesn't already exist, and formalized type theory in many cases adds an incredible amount of cognitive load.

I know that in many cases "correct" means a lot more than that, such as in proper software engineering contexts when building a program/system that needs to live and evolve for a long time among many people. I write that kind of software all the time, and I always use static type systems for it.

But I also write a bunch of ad-hoc, one-time-use programs, and I'm very glad that I don't need to reason about abstract type theory in order to parse a CSV file and add up some columns to send to a colleague.
probably because people hope this can be the one site that can remain focused on things other than politics (except when the politics at hand directly affect technology or the work of hackers)
I think he means changing the room layout. In Europe, usually all the walls are 'set in stone'. Using a combination of masonry/concrete for the outer shell and timber/drywall for the internal walls would eliminate this problem though.
I consider that one of the most important criteria when picking the right tool for the job (if you're writing something to be maintained by other people in a company).
30 I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134548
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Defamation is a very serious crime there. The hotel had hard evidence and, I presume, saying a hotel practices modern day slavery is very high up in the list. In light of that, it doesn't seem that preventive detention, which I assume was the case here, is that unreasonable.
That's probably part of the problem. Anybody can just sit around flagging content with a low karma threshold and much fewer people are allowed to vouch back. It's the exact opposite of the downvote threshold on here which is designed to keep people from just killing off opinions they disagree with.
Because humans are far more frightening than plain old predators.

Predators are there only for the food. Humans want everything: food, skins tusks, bones, etc.
Or just regular dogs?
> It's easier to run (and even revive) a 25-year-old applet than a 25-year-old OS/2 C application

Are you sure?

Most of the APIs have been deprecated.

Builds for modern systems (64 bit) are non existent.

OS/2 has been dead for 20 years and there isn't much code being written for it anymore, I remember the Italian train company using OS/2 terminals, they have been dismissed more than a decade ago because IBM ended support for it.

Ironically you can run OS/2 in your browser, but not Java applets.

https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/os2/ibm/1.0/

Now, to explain you what I mean when I say old Java code is as legacy as COBOL I will start with a story: it took Github a year and a half to upgrade from Rails 3.2 to Rails 5.2, on a less than 10 years old code base, to some of the best Ruby/Rails experts in the World.

Imagine that there are services that government agencies use, written 20 years ago in Java, by average former COBOL programmers that wanted to try new things, that will not be rewritten soon, and if they will it will take years for them to be adopted, that are interfacing with even older code running on mainframes.

Management bought the story that Java programmers were easy to find (they still are), being a Virtual Machine it would run easily (write once, run everywhere) and that was Enterprise (it was in the name).

It wasn't completely true.

The path Oracle pushed Java to make it compelling for new generations of programmers left behind a lot of already written and deployed code that can't be run directly on modern systems, can't be touched 'cause companies rely on that code and even if it could be upgrade there are no Java programmers that wants/are able to do it (it doesn't boost your career to work on it) if the hardware won't fail in the meantime.

2000 Java code is harder to write/maintain/upgrade for a Java programmer of 2020 than 2000 COBOL was for a COBOL programmer of the 70s.

In 5-10 years, when the first generation of early Java adopters will retire, there will be billions of lines of Java code that nobody will know how to keep running.

To coin an old programming phrase "The determined Real Programmer can write COBOL programs in any language"
the way blendle works (worked? i heard it was shutting down) is to charge you when you click the link, and the at the bottom of the article offer you a one-click refund if you didn't like it.

it seemed like a great way to do it, but ultimately i found i never used their site because it was slow and confusing to navigate.
"By only covering one eye with sunglasses, you add a few milliseconds of delay to that one."

A few milliseconds? What are you talking about?
Because a discussion of such an article is going to be almost pure politics, and almost certain to degenerate into a flamewar. That's not a good/worthwhile/useful discussion. (There's other places to do that; we don't need to do it on HN.)
Political news is all over the internet,some people like to have spaces to get away from it.
5 fee articles per month or something similar (storing the IP, for example).
The HN rules are as follows:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Given that it is being covered by basically every news channel out there it seems pretty clearly off-topic.
Hah, funny you mention that. I frequently start by evaluating the pathos, ethos, and logos aspects of my argument when developing a pitch.

Interdisciplinary degree programs certainly have their strengths!
Build payments in to the browser like what brave is trying to do.

Then I don’t have to subscribe to a hundred different sites, and sites can have a consistent way to charge small amounts per article without worrying about micro transaction costs.
@dang - Appreciate if you could make executive decision on whether this article will be shown or not, and moderate the flagging accordingly
At least for newspapers this model can’t work.

When considered as a civic function to ensure unbiased access to facts and emerging critical stories, your approach is completely at odds with consumers, even loyal customers.

The reason is that the market signals emitted by loyal readers don’t have any relationship to objective reality. Loyal readers might disbelieve evolution and only respond to articles that favor creationism. Loyal readers might not cancel their subscription when you omit fair coverage of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, or make deals with the CIA to delay publishing controversial materials.

Thus optimizing for loyal readers is fundamentally antithetical to the basic civic duty premise. At best, if you did this, you would be an entertainment publication, not a fact reporter. That’s totally OK, but it’s important to point out it won’t work, in principle, for news publications.
If it were printed newspaper I could go and get one for a few bucks. Digital has nothing to offer of that kind.
As the other poster wrote, how else would you expand your readership?
It doesn't surprise me at all, actually. These idiots brag about this to friends constantly and try to make new connections inside the companies to exploit. I have a very short Twitter that people try to take over constantly, and by virtue of being on the platform early, I've accrued a few "OG" accounts for various projects or whatever. When someone stole one of my accounts that I didn't use anymore by having their friend take it over, I had my friend look into it and they reversed it.

The account jacking idiot then messaged me trying to get me to put them in touch with my friend so they could try to help them get other accounts and bragged about how he was just going to take some of my other accounts that he somehow knew belonged to me despite there being no link to one another outside of what would be Twitter-internal data. It was the most brazenly ridiculous thing I've ever encountered, but I'm assuming it's an ignorant kid who doesn't realize the possible consequences or a really dumb adult.

So, I can totally believe the idiot would just blurt out how he got it because that gives him clout amongst his miscreant "OG account" friends.
Combining algorithms to get the better solution
For a bit of perspective, it's worth considering that the Boeing 737-Max problems have killed more people than possibly all western and Japanese nuclear disasters combined (depends on how you count it).

Nuclear power is not without its dangers, but so is almost any other type of project of this scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano-Shushenskaya_power... (Even with Solar Power the risks are in the factories and mines that made the panel)
What about getting paid to winch a heavy object up a tower during the day, and then getting paid again to lower it again (generating energy) at night?
Security for Microsoft's ambitions to turn PCs into iPhones maybe. Security for us? There's no compelling empirical evidence to support the claim that any of those designs offer benefits to developers or the user. If Turing Completeness wasn't discovered until 2020 then folks like you would probably call it a security vulnerability.
The fact that HN is set up to prevent flamewars and IMHO has been able to hold calm and reasoned discussion on politics in the past is all the more reason we should be talking about it here.
Sites are gradually tightening up on workarounds like clearing cookies.

Simply opening Bloomberg nwes in a private tab now fails (I think it's a bug that the site can detect a private tab is used).
You don't have to introduce trolling to explain why some articles are flagged. Depending on the source, the submission may be automatically flagged. Since the source you're referring to is the New York Times and is not known to be one of those automatically flagged, I'd assume the flagging is the result of community effort.
That may be a common hope, but I suspect that's not the primary motivation for the aggressive flagging activity.
Motivation to Test Your Software
Mine bitcoin in the browser as the user is reading the article?
I definitely found it easier to distinguish between active and inactive windows in Big Sur vs High Sierra. Not sure exactly what design elements caused that, as I haven’t used Big Sur since July, but it was noticeable.

Mind, Mavericks is still a lot better than both...
If the universe has a beginning and an end, then why hasn't it ended already? Why does it keep existing?
Netflix used to carry both a few years ago. It’s a shame not many know about Foyle’s War in the US. Another excellent piece of British television.
Maybe, but I don't think so, it serves a completely different purpose.
To followup: based on the average GPA of Georgetown Law admits, Tiffany Trump would have had to make the UPenn Dean's List to have a competitive GPA. The list is public.

She never showed up on that list. Ergo, she did not have a competitive GPA. It's possible she may have had a good LSAT, but she would have needed a very high score to offset the low GPA.

As Georgetown Law appears to have been the most prestigious law school that would admit her, this suggests she was a "legacy" admit (meaning, admitted due to her parents or application sponsors rather than on her own merits).
I understand the sentiment, but I wonder if ideally the appropriate action would be to moderate/flag the discussion itself, not the existence of the article.

It seems unfortunate to ghost the article simply in anticipation of a poor discussion. Other contentious topics have been discussed on HN, and I for one would appreciate an objective HN-style discussion of the information presented
This would explain "flu season" just as well as anything related to distancing or indoor air filtration : the lack of sunlight at high latitudes results in poor vitamin d production
Starting about a year ago I began to see ever more articles in entertainment media about subscription fatigue and the coming "great re-bundling," especially in streaming services.
Since it is so hard to estimate time needed for a task how would you even notice a 50% decrease in productivity?
> Does it produce a library?

It is a library.
In general, I would not say that Lawyer is a good profession due to the high degree of variance. The top 10% land big law positions starting ~180k, the bottom 10% of grad are unemployed, and most of the rest make about 50-60K/yr and have 200k of debt

https://data.lawschooltransparency.com/jobs/salaries/
> I don't know why they're not being build on desert coast

If we talk about Western Sahara, those coasts are strategic areas for the economy of the planet and many big companies operate there.

My bet is that anybody enough silly to treat the huge fisheries, strategic maritime routes moving oil and raw materials, and the touristic areas adjacent in the Canary Islands, EU just with the purpose to build one nuclear plant would be sued to death and buried in a coffin of law papers. The boycott level would be insane.
Your suspicions may deceive you.
I just use no@thank.you for these silly sites which try to force sign-up, or variations therein, e.g. no.th@n.ks

length of access using this method varies but it's usually enough time to cache and consume their precious content

it's impossible to verify a valid email address without sending a verification link. one half measure is to ping for an MX entry on the user-provided domain, but even that isn't bulletproof

if they go to such unnecessary lengths to hide their content then it simply isn't worth viewing. scoff, close tab, forget
Yes let's suppose I'm a psychopath who is purely interested in self-maximization.

I have an opportunity to steal money without getting caught. Why wouldn't I do it? If there's a hell then sure I can understand (it would become self maximizing to be legitimately good), otherwise why wouldn't I?

I can feign responsibility and make the right moves to get want I want. Again, I can be ruthlessly self-maximizing.
I do use two different color schemes depending on ambiant light.

Dark background during the night, and light background during the day, in most cases.

As simple as that.

I wish my text editor would switch automatically and I might write a script to do that at some point, but this is a minor annoyance.