skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference.

As French taxpayer I am forced to (indirectly) pay for all French political parties, including extreme right. This money gives political parties some freedom to act, to nourish the political debate... seen as a way to straighten the political debate and the democracy ; good for the general interest.

Still the number of members of a given political movement and the share of people voting for it is giving it the real power. And as someone only forced to give (indirectly) some money to a given movement is then entirely different than being force to join such a movement. And that is the same here for union.

Please note that as a worker, you are forced to "pay" for the stockholder. If you are not happy with it you can pick another oragnisation. Same goes for union, you are always free to join a union free company...
That will kill anything, but if I put a bit a poison in the bottle...
Precisely. Anyone denying this is kidding themselves.
It also seems to be a given that you have a convenient definition of legitimacy. But I do so like contributors who are boldly confident in their pronouncements.
Abolish MMT. Let corporations fire all the employees that they don't need. Let employees fend for themselves and allow them to experience the system as it really is outside of the protection of corporate crony-capitalism. It's the job of the state to protect the people, not corporations.

If you shelter a subset of the people, you make life much harder for all the other people who are not benefiting from that protection and have to work against it.
People in this thread have forgotten - or were not here when it happened, but there was an exodus of worthwhile, contributive people from 2010-2012 or so.

The fellow who kept bringing up how "everything is fine" with his ASCII chart of cyclical HN population graph trying to justify the onboarding of stupidity to this site hasn't showed up for quite a number of years.
I think its pretty cut and clear. Nerds tend to be socially awkward and introverted. The introversion makes them less likely to socialize outside their own groups. When they do socialize, their awkwardness makes interactions difficult.
Kershaw (previously a premium brand, now available at walmart) is one of my favorite knife brands. The steel can take a razor edge and sharpens easily.

Anyone happen to know where they're sourced from?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
Interesting that it's so common in the US despite having been illegal for so long, whereas it hardly ever happens in the EU despite it having been legal until recently.
Whoops I wrote this backwards. I meant to write reducing the size of datacenters.

The proposal I replied to would probably increase data center energy usage on balance.
Probably not anyone who works in Public Relations.
Turkey and Russia are top viewers of a GPT-3 blog post
However, he did end up in a hospital, on oxygen, and they gave him dexamethasone (which isn't something they do just for fun). So it's not a wonderful advertisement for reducing hospitalization, really (many people who end up in hospital wouldn't need dexamethasone).
Meteor seemed interesting but poor leadership doomed it to maintenance mode. I guess it’s apollo, Now? Unfortunately I think it had the same leadership. Pitty for the various brilliant people there who bought into the vision
We have a serious misinformation problem. It started with Fox News decades ago, and now it’s amplified by Facebook. It’s too easy for bad info and conspiracy theories to proliferate, and good info to be downplayed, before the truth rises to the top. Most voters aren’t getting the full picture and the media sources they consume aren’t integrating evidence well.
I don't think this is true if you turn your eye towards later sword technology.

By the 14th century, Swiss sabers were simply more generally performant than just about anything that came before. They could stab almost as well as a long sword, and slash almost as well as a scimitar, with good balance, and the added advantage of having both a cross guard, and a light basket hand guard.

(Personally I think swords are an over-romanticized weapon, and almost wholly inferior to spears in large scale melee combat, but they still evolved like every other piece of military technology, and earlier designs like the katana have a lot of obvious design flaws when compared to what you see on the battlefield in the 14th, 15th, or 16th centuries)
One option is the disable NoScript in Private Windows and use private windows for online purchasing.

Another option is to use another web browser for online purchasing.
Multicore OCaml: September 2020
> These last minute decisions are likely reactive to something

Yes, reacting to Trump having a 16 point lag just a month before election day, so now Facebook is strategically aligning itself more on the side of the likely winner, which is increasingly talking about regulating FB.

If the polls were tied, I am certain this would not happen.
You describe the system pretty much in place for decades in western european countries.
The problem is, media companies have grown dependant on the easy 9figures in ad revenue they are all but guaranteed each election cycle.
Take that election rev away and the 4th estate collapses.
Precisely. Either way switch or no switch have the same success rate if Monty ruins the game. You can count it as 1/2 or 2/3 but either way both choices are the same. So it’s a very different scenario from when Monty knows the door is a goat.
Why do they need 17.0.0.0/8 (16,777,216 addresses) if they only have 25000 webservers? #eattheIPrich

edit: fixed the number of addresses
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but does this not potentially incentivise political organisations running their opposition's ads (it's probably feasible to do so in such a way that they don't really reach anyone) and then reporting the infractions and thereby getting their opposition punished?
The truth is that except for some quite narrow fields, the EU decides a lot of things and Norway has to accept those things.

They're like Switzerland, which hemmeded and hawed about immigration from the EU, held a referendum deciding to block it, and then when the EU put an economic gun to their head, backed down and all EU citizens now have freedom of movement to Switzerland.
Yeah, maybe 'each day' or something would have been a better fit - regardless, my preferred recommendation was a comma or two.

And mostly I really was just kidding, actively looking for anything to nitpick on in a comment talking about correcting people's grammar.

'to correct' without a (with an implied) direct object is also fine in colloquial speech, or internet comments.
I have been asking this in various forums.

Yes - a human will read and respond to your application

But, no, no one reported any meaningful funding progress originating from the online applications..

EDIT: spelling
The police would very much enforce them, they aren't in charge of what is constitutional or not, unless your police is incompetent.

What you'd rather want to say is "they are thrown out in court".

>It is simply not the case in the us that the legislature passing a law against speech means that the speech is unprotected and illegal.

Until a court considers otherwise, it very much is. A law is valid until a court overthrows it. Hence it requires proper police (the executive) to enforce it. Otherwise the state will just not function.
I hope to see some ai 3d reconstruction samples. Images speak better.
Privacy Badger and Catblock might not be the best combo but it is furry mammal themed. I haven't had the urge to upgrade from it. However, sometimes I feel guilty for partaking in content that I have ad blocked as the creators lose out.

Then I think about how it is that adverts might zonk out my brain, thereby rendering me unable to write helpful pleasant comments that are hopefully well received by the content creators. So being an advert blocking person isn't all that bad if you contribute with engaged comments.
Bailing out seems a bit problematic for passenger aircraft.
Are there any other examples folks know about? This is the only subreddit I see suggested as being well moderated when this comes up, unfortunately I'm not into the subject
Those are cool, but the problem is that Twitter shows you a load of turds for any nuggets. I just want it to click your link and read a thread, instead they minimize a thread and show me politics and celebrities below, and trending stuff on the right (desktop).

On the old reddit at least (stopped using after the new launch), if I went to /r/technology I’d only see /r/technology and that was pure nuggets. You could also unsub any default subreddits
How do they handle "enterprise" proxies that ban direct internet access? I probably should setup that at home.
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Consumers spent a record $28B in apps in Q3, aided by pandemic
The Joy of Fixing Things
Most of the fast growing companies run into your described problems. As long as there is no upper management commitment to the values of "proper written tests and benefits" or "correct GIT usage" or something else, there will be no change but "Burn Outs" (the one's that try too hard to do 100%).

Your "Head of IT" is most probably "forced" into dropping those values in favour of a "up & running" product.

In my personal case (as Head of IT), I got a commitment to security from the upper management. This allowed me to drastically reduce access to resources like DB and SSH access and "force" people to document their needs which helps understanding where "South" actually is. While enforcing rules, many double/tripple/quadruple works where detected and migrated and also some new "Specialist" where found that were very good at their specifically assigned work.

As a programmer, you and your team need to understand the companies goals and try to establish according rules/workflow for your daily business. For example: Your product is basically "done" and now management wants "Features". The "Features" Section of your products requires a clear interface for "plugins" and probably also a quick way to "prototype" new features. So you as a developer should find appropriate ways to optimise your workflow which might require to change your workflow for a specific section of your product.

Of course, this is totally oversimplified, but I hope you get the point.

Bye the way, this all requires Communication AND Understanding of all particpiants! Management need to communicate the way you are are heading and IT needs to articulate what is needed for the upcoming tasks. Be aware, most solutions are not found in a day. Complex Situations needs time to fully grasp and find solutions.

P.S. If communication and understanding is missing, you are most probably on a dead ship. Be prepared to drown (evaluate your market value) and don't get emotionally involved (Danger of "burn out").
> So women need a wheelchair but not men?

That's a strange thing to pull out of my mouth, given what I said. If you're trying to say that gender shouldn't be a factor in determining a person's needs, then you're obviously wrong. Cis men don't need access to feminine hygiene products, for example.

You'd obviously want to take into account as many factors as possible when trying to work out a person's needs relative to someone else's. Socioeconomic background is a good start, but obviously doesn't capture all of the relevant variables. A trans person can come from a middle-class background, but be at a higher risk of bullying than the other middle-class children at a high school, for example.
Revisiting the Continuum Hypothesis
The whole point of the bounty is to incentivize disclosure to the software/hardware maker instead of using it nefariously or selling it to someone who will. Companies can avoid being "blackmailed" by offering fair prices for bounties. If finding several high severity bugs results in a paltry bounty, there is little incentive to disclose.
> The per capita death rate for NYC, even after almost no COVID deaths over the last two months, is still 1 in 570, 4x the national rate of 1 in 2300

That's the per capita death rate for New York state.

The proportion of people who died in NYC with a positive COVID test or with cause of death listed as COVID is more like 1 in 255.
Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response
I once read modification of Greenspun's Tenth Rule which looked like "typical Common Lisp implementation contains slow ad hoc bug ridden implementation of half of Haskell type system".

Which case I clearly see here.
This is HN not Reddit, so I will just say I personally don't like him and talk about sys.argv.

Nearly every script I write only requires something like the following:

for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg == '-v':
...
if ...:
print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} -v ...")

In the very rare occasion that I have an actually large command line project, argparse is built in and works fine.
About that political power, in some European countries, and maybe most famously in Netherland, a lot of big labour-related economic decisions are made in a committee with representatives of the government, representatives of employer organisations, and representatives of the major unions. They discuss and agree on salary structures, pay increases, labour conditions, and I think they can even make suggestions for changes in the tax system. If all three agree that something is better for the country, the companies and the workers, then it's very likely to happen. Note that these agreements hold for everybody, and not just union members. So non-members do benefit from some things the union does.

But the important part is: they need to balance the needs of all three parties: the country, the companies, and the workers. It would be stupid to sacrifice one of these for the benefit of one of the other stakeholders, as that would ultimately hurt everybody.
I'd imagine there's a difference in risk between orbiting debris and stuff that's just passing through, like when we have a meteor shower as we pass through a residual debris trail. The really tiny grain-of-sand stuff can be fairly effectively shielded against, as well; bigger chunks are more difficult.

Satellites definitely get sandblasted to some extent; here's a hole made in the SolarMax satellite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SMM_panel_hole.jpg

The ISS cupola got hit and repaired, too: http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-debris/kessler-synd...
You can use those IPs for something other than webservers.

But yeah, that a bit much for one company. I'll give hosting providers a pass on owning a million IPs, because they're for the lending out to customers.
I think it’s better characterised in this way: service workers are dangerous because you can break things; so it’s very important that the foundations of your service worker are sound. If the foundations are sound (which takes effort), there’s nothing wrong with them. But ad hoc service workers, like this, are extremely dangerous.
Is it really a good idea to target a release candidate of LLVM in the Stable branch by default? I can understand wanting to benefit from new features, but I wouldn't want production code to be running on something that LLVM does not yet consider ready for release.
Player #1 had a 1/3 probability of picking the right door. Therefore, he has a 2/3 probability of winning if he switches.

Player #2 also had a 1/3 prob of having picked the right door. Therefore, she has a 2/3 prob of winning if she switches.

In summary, both should switch. This is independent of whether they chose the same door between themselves. In other words, in a game where you're not forced by the other player's choices, your probability of winning is independent of the other player's. Your strategy should always be to switch (you can verify this empirically!).
I agree with you.

But once people start having en masse these problems, things will change ASAP. It's like bike infrastructure: if there are 2 bikes on the road, nobody cares, if there are 20000 bikes on the road, everybody cares.

The hardest part is getting people to care. Once you do that, they will everything in their power to make things go their way.
Probably some cheap steel that sharpens easily, but also dulls easily.

https://knifeinformer.com/discovering-the-best-knife-steel/
Covid shows how difficult it is to implement any effective policy in America above grade school intelligence, and that probably insults grade school children.

The populace is simply too poorly educated, lazy, and propagandized to resist government policy.
"Recycled" doesn't mean only "remelted" - it includes things like using it as aggregate in concrete. I don't think you're going to find the numbers you're looking for short of going to a recycling facility and a bottling plant.
Materials compatibility is a concern but it is not that bad

https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/published-pap...

people use stainless steel, fiberglass, teflon and other common materials. The most notorious problem is that sCO2 dissolves in hydrocarbon oils, even very heavy hydrocarbons so keeping the CO2 from exiting through the turboshaft seals is challenging, but a solved problem.

The one obnoxious thing for nuclear use is that CO2 reacts with liquid sodium! It's not that hard to contain the effects of a CO2/sodium leak because the volume of the 1500 psi section is small, so that if the coolant loop bursts the overpressure in the (still not very big) confinement structure is more like 15 psi.
I don't know USA very well, so that is just a feeling.

- a lot of what the union do/did have to be understand in the context of important fight between the unionized worker and the companies that want to undercut union influence (and often undercut workers right)

- a lot of thing union do / used to do, make sense in the past, but are less relevant now.

- Human is quite good to do stupid things, to create some bureaucracy / rules... That applied to companies (Bullshit Job being one manifestation of it), but also to union

- We tend to notice more the bad things than the good things...

- Humans tends to love power and hate change... that includes human running unions
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The union doesn't include every employee group at kickstarter. For example no managers or supervisors are included. Also the fact that they have to even vote is evidence that they want to force people to join, or at least force them to pay union dues. Otherwise why not create a union without a vote instead?
Unforcd Errors
It's a little thing, but one of my favourite parts of any Rust release is seeing which stdlib functions become `const`. The ergonomics of build-time evaluation are slowly improving, and I'm very excited to slowly do less at runtime!
Same problem - and it's a shame, the article seems well written and decently insightful - still couldn't finish it.
Apple paid with public exposure. Anything Apple is a story of interest, which has a value especially in security circles where half the business is a pure PR exercise.

I’ve spent time in my career with a “big gorilla” employer whose business is very visible within its community. Companies will “pay” a lot to say “We solved FooCorp’s problems with <x>” or “FooCorp bought our <y>”

Lazy buyers assume that their peers have their shit together.
I disagree. Every person I've ever talked to who struggles with this problem is confused over the probabilities, even after we discuss the situation in great detail. They perfectly understand the game and the rules.

You seem to be finding flaws where there are none. You are suggesting there is subtle unspoken trickery hidden in the problem (just as in my example) but nothing about the problem suggests that should be the case.

What if the host lets you choose to switch every game but if you make the right choice he says you are wrong without opening the door and the game is just over? What if he says the door you chose is eliminated and the remaining door is your prize if you chose correctly? What if you win and then he says you have to play best 2 out of 3 to really win, and if you win again he says 3 out of 5, and keeps moving the goalposts until you lose?

Suggesting the problem is flawed because you can imagine up fringe scenarios that are not explicitly excluded does not seem like a useful criticism.
Jack Dorsey’s Square purchases $50M worth of Bitcoin
Though bug bounties are more than that. At the end of the day they have revealed vulnerabilities that would have impacted users such as us. IMO we should value these people more.
Childhurds and GNU/Hurd Substitutes
Software is made by people and people are not perfect.

The bigger the project the more moving pieces there are and the more likelihood of flaws.

My experience in bug bounty programs has taught me that if you do start a bug bounty program you need to be serious about it and when a report comes in that is actually serious that you need to act on it quickly. And it seems Apple is doing that.

What would be more concerning is if they weren't acting on fixing issues quickly. Some take longer, that's to be expected depending on the problem, but what has been reported so far has been fixed in a timely manner.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page?
Well, if you ask many people in Western Europe, they shouldn't have even been accepted. The average salary, even in PPP terms, was about 30% of the Western European ones back in 2007. In absolute terms, salaries were even worse (probably 10% in 2007, something like 25% now), and absolute terms matter because many things are imported.

After huge growth, the average salary in PPP terms is now about 50% of the Western ones. Romanian workers in the West have definitely depressed the average salaries in several fields.

And that's with somewhat controlled migration.

My point is: controlled migration is there for a reason. Building a working state is extremely difficult and takes a lot of time. It's a very fragile and delicate thing. Once you've managed to build it... you really don't want to upset the balance.
Honorable mention would be Java an in particular "agent"-frameworks. Thought it would be the future of automation. Perhaps people actually use it, I just haven't seen it implemented anywhere.

I had a similar thought. Obviously Java "the language" is, indeed, widely used and did become "the future"... but certain parts of the broader Java vision didn't quite pan out: the "mobile code" and "agents" stuff in particular. "Java in the browser" was big for a time, but ultimately faded. Which I actually find quite disappointing on many levels.

All of that said, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that some of the "agent framework" stuff comes back into vogue at some point - at least in specific niche domains - although it may or may not involve Java.
Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers
Great question. Our entire company has moved to F#/CLR/.NET Core at the beginning of 2020 and we could not be happier. It started in 2019 as a hobby project, I just wanted to create a simple (not in par in terms of features) replacement for Google Analytics to track how users use our website and also create an ETL pipeline for it using AWS Lambda. This is how I got into it more in depth. The more I worked with it I started to like it even more. When the time came to select the stack for our next project we had Rust and F# as the two options and F# won because most devs were already familiar with C# and we did not like few things about Rust (especially the string handling) while we could not find any particular issue with F#. Now, 100.000 lines of code later, it was a pretty good decision.

As far as Clojure goes, I usually use it for the JVM world, if I get a project and there are no other devs. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to convince Java devs to use Clojure and there are some limitations (Java interop for example) that makes it hard to sell. I am not even sure what would I do in your situation.