skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't think that's a fair comparison. The Julian Assange saga is about hacking, privacy, three-letter-agency overreach in the tech sphere, etc.

And every possible iteration of that has been hashed and rehashed to death at this point - Assange is a hero and should be pardoned, Assange is a traitor and should be punished, Assange is guilty of sexual assault, Assange was framed, Assange is being tortured, the entire trial is a farce, Assange is a Russian stooge, Assange is a CIA stooge, Assange is a hologram meant to distract you from Epstein, insert rant about the American military industrial complex and war crimes here.

Is there so much new and interesting intellectual content to be gleaned from Assange's hearing that we need to milk it every single day?
The solution will be separate forums, in which the forum owners have a stake in maintaining a healthy community. Reddit has willingly allowed itself to be overrun by politics, and it's now bordering on being disinformation. An example is the Libertarian subreddit, which has been completely overrun by liberal and trump supporters. People who visit it get visibly confused.

There are a number of projects for building reddit-like communities . Lemmy and whatever the *.win websites. People are also workign on federated solutions which would remove the hassle of having to create an account for each separate website (https://github.com/ProjectHoot/)

Going back to having separate forums would be great actually
The US had a big push toward single-stream recycling, where everything is thrown in one bin, and the recycling facility sorts it out.

It's been something of a disaster, because of the way it's changed how individuals "recycle". The bins are frequently full of contaminated and non-recyclable materials that the facility's equipment is incapable of sorting back out. Since it's all commingled in the collection truck, one person who's sloppy about how they recycle can spoil not only their own recycling efforts, but those of their neighbors as well. In my own neighborhood, the recycle bins are frequently full of things like greasy pizza boxes, single-use paper cups, EPS, even yard waste and broken (particleboard) furniture.

Chicago's current program is an illustrative example. After the city introduced it, the percentage of waste Chicagoans placed in the recycle bins roughly doubled, while the percentage of Chicago's waste that actually gets recycled was halved.
Non-ionizing electromagnetic waves don't have enough energy to remove electrons from molecules or DNA. So as long as the "soup" consists of waves with longer wavelength than visible light we should be fine.
An interesting excerpt

A 2012 survey conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University asked a sample of Americans about their news-consumption habits, and quizzed them about U.S. and international political and economic events. They found that those watching the most partisan television news sources—on both the left and the right—were often less knowledgeable about world events than those who consumed no news at all.
In large parts of the world we can't drink water out of the tap. So we buy drinking water separately. I don't think it is that big a deal.
‘Speak up’ – ‘Sesame Street’ tackles racism in TV special
Hah-- we were around earlier this summer! A few groups had actually changed their "personalized" category to Juneteenth so we did end up writing a few questions for that category :)

Let us know if any feedback as you give the product a whirl! Can always reach me on HN or the site's "live chat"
I have had tinnitus since as long as I can remember. About a year ago, it got significantly worse during a period of time which happened to align with extreme stress in my personal life. I also developed muscle fasciculations at the same time, which led to a anxiety spiral of ALS fears (turned out to be benign like most fasciculations).

Anyway, I'm luckily one of the people who's able to sort of tune the tinnitus out.

I pretty much forget I have it until I see an article about it...
Unblockable ads have always been and will always be possible. The host site just needs to resolve and inject the ad content on their side of the wire. For video they just need to interleave the ad content into the video stream. Good luck fighting that.
Text Mining Hackathon Based on Hacker News
A language agnostic competition devoted to text mining where every machine learning practitioner can find challenges to test his/her team!

At this hackathon you could scale the level of difficulty and the area of challenges on your own. Depending on skills and the time that you had you could tune the fun on your own!
You can get actual Damascus items too, not merely the cheap decorative version.

For example, there is this smithy that is local to me: https://www.darksword-armory.com/medieval-weapons/elite-seri...
This is pointless, you're just going around in circles and adding some "please learn [free market] economics" bullshit to it.

You think that economics (only the free market version ofc) is an objective science like vaccines and medicine. It's clearly not. And everything you spout about is solidly within the box of free market capitalism. Not a grain of ability to imagine a society outside its hegemony. You seem to think that the Free Market Economy is some deity controlling man rather than the other way around. Without the Free Market Economy, man simply loses all capability to produce and achieve progress.

There are other ways than profit-driven exploitation that's available to help people out of poverty. They're called cooperation, mutual aid and solidarity.

> You're disingenuously moving the goalposts

Moving the goal posts? Citing myself from start to finish:

> If China is removed this "Good News Narrative" falls flat

> that China doesn't represent a large part of the people raised from poverty?

> This doesn't say anything about their proportions?

> That's just listing a number of countries, not the amount of people in each country.

> My assertion was that if China is taken away, the amount of people lifted out of poverty looks very different
IBM to spin off managed infrastructure services
Anyway, ‘just barely significant’ is significant.
Linux: Disabling Your Camera
Can they not charge them a fine? Can't they put something in their terms that requires a monetary penalty as well as a "time-out"?

I love your solutions but I also worry that facebook wouldn't want to put them in place because of all the lost revenue, if you make the abuser pay for the lost revenue then all incentives seem aligned
"These last minute decisions are likely reactive to something"

The House "Facebook and others have monopoly power, are abusing it, and should be split up" report, perhaps.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-fac...
It's just odd and a bit frustrating that there never seems to be enough people to flag certain politically-charged subjects, whereas there is always someone at the ready to flag others, regardless of the relative merit of the discussions being had.
I vaguely remember staying there on a business trip. One of our executives was so drunk, the bellhops had to carry him through the lobby.
>$3000 cross-country ticket in U.S. is about the maximum the market will bear.

Boom won't be flying over any country. They will only travel over oceans, to prevent issues / complaints that Concorde had.
Yes. Private company, private rules. I will be the hypocrite back to make the argument you're making now when they come for me (which they won't because I'm not on facebook).
I approach these articles from a point of skepticism (but still open minded).

It seems to me to any venture mankind takes on has to fit into this narrative of man sinning against nature. It’s kind of like original sin for non religious folks.

Kessler syndrome is the example of this for space. It’s hard to find arguments against man expanding into space but oh wait you could pollute low earth orbit so better stay on earth.

When you start looking for it you’ll see it everywhere.
Moreover, click provides a lot of additional CLI-related stuff (printing with colors, asking for input, progress bars) with IMHO pretty reasonable default behaviour. And it's really well-documented!
It's only censorship if the government does it. If Facebook runs editorial on any of it's content, it simply follows the same process private (and/or) foreign media companies have done since 1776.
As a former mormon, this is my take is well. Mormonism needs to be somewhat insular and us vs them to survive. After we were forced to give up polygamy, the word of wisdom (it has changed but today no coffee, tea, beer or weed) all of a sudden went from a “nice to do but not required” to “if you drink coffee, you will not live with your children as an eternal family after you die.”

Mormons would ban coffee if they could.
The art world might not be a bad comparison. In both security and art, established people with money are looking for new people who have the ability to make an impact.

But the established folks don't know in advance what exactly that will be... if they did, they'd already be paying someone to do it.

As a new person, there's no better way to demonstrate your ability to make an impact than to just do it.
Number of top peer-reviewed conference publications is the closest reasonable indicator of state of the art. I didn't make this up, the community did. Yeah, let's see some numbers in STEM - stack up the university departments and see the numbers.

Obviously I am aware what I don't know and not shy to hide from you. What is funny is you are confident of something you don't know.. and conveniently ignore the statements that require looking at hard numbers.
Virgin plastic is objectively better for some applications. recycled plastic can be good enough for some uses, but you can't do a blanket ban without even more harm
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Just wait for symbolic computers to be rediscovered and the industry will probably adopt lisp and prolog's successors.
>Depends on the timezone, I guess?

Of course you would say that, given your username!
I tried to find a paper too, but couldn't find anything. I did find a little more information on CowaTech's site, but its not much more than what we already know: https://www.cowatech.dk/technology
Politics does not exist in the physics sense. We created it. It can therefore be ignored, changed or eliminated (if desired).
IBM to spin off Managed Infrastructure Services Unit into a Public Company
Yeah, someone told me that a few weeks ago.

Calla is a type of lilly. I name all of my projects after plants. Originally, I named this project "Lozya", which is the Hungarian word for "vines", because Jitsi is the Hungarian word for "wires". But nobody could pronounce it correctly, so I renamed it.

Incidentally, I work for a foreign language instruction company. I brought it up with one of our teachers and she didn't think it was an issue. She said that, in context, it wouldn't be read as "shut up", that it's kind of like "lead" (to guide something) and "lead" (a metal) in English.
The average death rate at his age is 4%. And I think he has got average amount of problems and obesity at his age in US, at least no very big disease and not in the higher end of obesity.
> > It's easy to get drawn into silly arguments that don't really matter, or lengthy discussions of semantics that don't really help uncover some new truth.

> Assange is a rapist and needs to at least go before the courts to test the allegations

You can see where I'm going here.

"Assange is an alleged rapist, and needs to at least go before the courts to test the allegations" will probably get you further.
Personal anecdote: I'm still driving the 2011 BMW 335i that I bought in 2014. It now has 265,000+ miles.

The key with owning a BMW is to do all of the maintenance yourself. That brings the cost of ownership back down to planet Earth.

I've replaced the water pump twice, high pressure fuel pump once, and the radiator. Plus a few odds and ends.

If I had paid the dealer for this work, I'd be totally in the hole.

One thing I will give BMW is that they know how to design a chassis. The car has all of the original suspension components and the steering is still as tight as the day I got it. No clunking, no rattles, no bouncing, etc.
Ask HN: What language/framework you thought was the future but ended up dying?
Bug bounties have always been mispriced. Either the damage estimates for a given bug are wildly over-estimated by risk analysts, or the price paid to find them is based on some kind of stupidity-arbitrage play. I think it's the latter.

Consulting firms bill between $1500-$2500/day for senior staff. 2 hackers for 10 days could be the $50k they got paid. Instead, this crew used 5 hackers for say 45 days, or 225 person days. Napkin arithmetic suggests that's somewhere between $240k and $560k.

I could say it's consulting firms who are overpriced, as a group of amateurs will do better work for for %10-%20 of the cost, but over the years I've found that the difference in the security world is that you hire a small shop to discover the truth about risks, but you pay a big firm to lie about them. That's what costs extra, and given their transparency maybe this work wasn't mispriced at all.
always thought i needed to learn how to walk again
How to watch AMD’s Zen 3 event introducing Ryzen 5000 processors
Salaries are driven by a lot of supply side dynamics, it's less about the overall economic output of the employee and more about the cost of replacing them.
Linken Sphere – Browser Antidetection
Plus, the whole ... style ... seems bizarre to me.

Common Lisp isn't my usual dialect but I'd've expected something more like:

(defun add-text-padding (str padding)
(let ((lines (split-string "\n" str)) (
cond
((nil? lines) "")
(#t (join-string "\n"
(cons
(car lines)
(mapcar
(lambda (x)
(concat-string
(repeat-string " " padding) x))
(cdr lines)
)
)
))
)
)

Note: pseudocode typed straight into the comment box, and I dropped the newline feature, but hopefully a bit more illustrative of what I'd consider 'normal' lisp.

(comments, criticisms and thrown fruit welcome)
NoScript is inconvenient, but essential. All of the other extensions are airbags whereas NoScript is the seatbelt.
I solved for all those requirements with SharePoint when I took ownership of this shop I am running on my current military deployment. It had to be SharePoint and I didn't have a choice, a constraint of the environment.

In my first two weeks here I wrote an interactive ticket system and analytics tool in vanilla JavaScript. It is highly modular and easy to extend. It uses the same 2 SQL queries on every page load, but this page is frequently accessed. The tool was necessary, because the thing it replaced was garbage.
Button is way too simplistic. A form where you could state your proof along with other arguments why a news is untruthful or otherwise overly antagonizing would work better, but would be hard to evaluate by automatic means.

Maybe after a certain threshold have been reached and the complaints vetted by a human, you could start removing the news or even blocking the news site from being shared on Facebook. Most likely the system would be gamed to attempt to block major sites like CNN, but would work well for smaller, dubious sites that have no real other purpose than creating provoking news.
It doesn't matter (a lot) how this happens initially.

Once the person stops participating in the mainstream popularity contest they are necessarily going to be left behind and it is going to affect their persona.

I know both types of "nerds". Ones that became nerds after not being popular and ones that were never interested.

I, for example, started my journey to being nerd before the contest. I started reading books when I was 6 and by the time I was 7 or 8 I would be spending large most of my time either reading books or searching through books in the library. I would be coming back home with bags full of books once a week. I never went to preschool and I never had any peers (other than my siblings) to interact with before I started spending most of my time reading. By the time I went to school I was not interested to compete with other kids for anything and I was quite ok being left to my own interests.

I also know people who turned as a mechanism to cope with their apparent loss in the contest. But in my mind that's not strictly "nerd". Nerd is somebody who does what they do because they want to do it and not for some other reason like popularity in their field or as an advantage at work. People who turn to other things as a mechanism to cope typically are less passionate about what they are doing, at least that's my observation.
polymer + haskell
> So in a sense, the superiority of Katana swords is a myth?

It depends on what you mean by superiority. Perfect for local needs? Yes. Very good against an unarmoured target? Yes. It is also an important status symbol because of its price and artistic beauty. It also requires some amount of skill to use, because of its single edge and the angle at which you need to strike in order to cut. That increased its status as an elite tool.

They managed to do something that would not have been possible in this part of the world without the elite craftsmen. In that sense, it was superior to its competitors.

But was it superior to other swords? It's comparing apples and oranges. It could not deal with the heavy armor seen in the West. But many Western swords could not either. Some could because they were heavier or pointier... but that would have made them poor against unarmoured or low armored targets. You couldn't use it on horseback either, but the Japanese had longer versions for that.

It was a very good and beautiful tool, that's what it was.
I work with some of the maintainers of bpf, bpftrace, etc. What can we do to make this stuff more accessible?
Pihole is great for stopping stuff that’s not in the browser in particular. OS telemetry, in-app ads, phishing sites, etc. In pronciple I suppose it can block cryptoviruses, but it’s probably hard to keep a good blocklist up to date.
What issues do the pallets maintainers have?
Glass doesn't have to be clear for most disposable uses; it's mostly useful in things such as windows, where you probably want to keep them around. For bottles, it doesn't really matter much.
The union "represented about 60 percent of the company’s 140 employees prior to the layoffs". From the article you mentioned.

If 40% of the workers are not part of the union, seems that you are free to be part or not of the union. And that the union makes sense to the worker, as more than half of the workforce choose to join.
Given the pervasive commercial surveillance system, a user needs to have several protective layers just to browse the WWW:

a browser with security extensions (although a good browser should be built with security as a design principle, not as an "add-on")

ESNI and DoH (even though Cloudflare can see the aggregate)

DNS caching and blocking in the subnet

iptables/nftables blocking of undesirable IP address ranges by the router

edit: It's safer to leave the dysfunctional WWW alone and use only RSS.
I normally use Click but sometimes argparse is great for CLI tools that have zero dependencies and aren't massive in scope.

Since most systems have Python, distributing your argparse driven file means curling it down and making it executable instead of having to pip install things.
Author here. I wrote this article because I keep getting the question from prospects - isn't this just a data warehouse? If I missed out on anything or got anything wrong, please let us know here.
The grandparent to my post was talking about politics, not repetition. I shouldn't have strayed and conceded that it's repetitive because this is my point: hacker-politics is on topic here.
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There's a neural theory of tinnitus, that says you hear it because your brain is compensating for lack of signal at some frequencies.

Like the amplifiers are turned up to max at some frequencies, and the neural net maybe even adds an interpolated perception.

If that theory has anything to it, it makes sense that it might be possible to train your brain to reduce the effect.

That's not just "accepting", but it might be difficult to perceive a difference if "accepting" results in "not noticing as much", and "not noticing as much" is indistinguishable from "turning down my brain's perception gain for these signals".
Could you elaborate?

I'm working on a project where the evaluation of a 4th degree polynomial is on the hot path. My micro benchmark (evaluating two polynomials + little bit of addition) shows that using simple Horner's rule is already somewhat faster, and implementing Horner's rule with fused-mul-add is more than twice as fast.
Rust 1.47
I am often suspicious that green initiatives exacerbate rather than ameliorate the environmental damage we cause. Green products cost more, and are generally more complicated than traditional ones.

I doubt that many people sit down and weigh the pros and cons dispassionately. Most of the time it is politicians making political capital and shrill activists wanting us to "think of the children"; basically, ill-conceived and costly theatre.
I came across this article today and actually thought it as true for a couple minutes.

https://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-will-now-add-warnings-t...

I just found that telling on how bad the current state of affairs has gotten.
That's straw-manning my argument, I didn't say any of that. But as you bring it up, so far this case has come up once, so it does seem to be a rare edge case.

Perfection is the enemy of good and many bugs get relabelled features (and no I am not doing that in this case, just pointing out that software development always involves trade offs).

And stop calling it racist. Racist used to be something pretty bad, now it's being applied to everything.
Getting glass hot enough to kill microbes isn't hard, but it does take a lot of energy. Microbes will attach to the glass and use that as a heat sink, so just hot water isn't enough, you have to use enough to heat the glass.
Gah, graduated a few years too early would have loved to take this directly.
The takeaway I have from this is really not related to Apple at all.

It's that any network of enough complexity run by an organization of enough complexity is actually impossible to secure.
Oh absolutely. I enjoyed that too.

I wish MS would also poke fun at Sony's "We believe that PS5 games should take advantage of the new capabilities and features we're bringing to the platform" statement attempting to justify why PS4 controllers won't work with PS5 games, meanwhile most launch titles are cross-gen or might come to PC.
Typeform co-founder David went from working in vacuum to community-first
Creating XML document in Python – without loosing your mind
Aorca: Investigative Report on Covid-19 and Related Matters [pdf]
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The "+" button to add another argument doesn't work in Safari. It works in Chrome.
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I think server logs are more accurate, it will tell you exactly what's going on, but like you said, bots will show up as well.

On the other hand, a bunch of folks (+600M) block JS analytics/trackers so it will deflate the actual number of visitors, thus less accurate.