skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sure do.

Here is Freeman Dyson; the Physicist without a PhD ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freem... );

Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in the 19th century, and it works well under those conditions. It’s good for a very small number of people who are going to spend their lives being professors. But it has become now a kind of union card that you have to have in order to have a job, whether it’s being a professor or other things, and it’s quite inappropriate for that. It forces people to waste years and years of their lives sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited. In the end, they have this piece of paper which says they’re qualified, but it really doesn’t mean anything.
The point I was trying to make is that the system doesn't fully reflect peoples' full set of preferences, it chooses some voters' and takes their second choices into account while ignoring others.
There's a large gulf between users who will play nothing and users who will pay something. If you start charging you have to account for how much of the user base will leave just for there being any cost at all. If you're using Paypal or similar for transactions you lose 39 cents out of each $1 yearly transaction (and if you run your own merchant account now you have to secure credit card information). Additional customer service overhead having to deal with people's $1 yearly transactions, on top of people expecting better responsive customer service because they're paying customers now, maintaining private customer data ... the variable costs per customer would probably end up more than $1. It'd be cheaper, literally, to make it free.

Maybe $5 a year could work as a price point, and given the gulf between Pay Nothing vs Pay Something, I doubt $5 a year would've lowered the conversion enough to make $1 a year transactions worth it. Don't do credit card transactions for a dollar or less unless you're counting on it converting into a higher amount a month later.
I can't speak for any theorems so take this with a grain of salt, but if the candidate who was the top choice of a small minority manages to win that would mean that they are someone that a majority would settle for, which I would think is a more optimal outcome than having a highly polarized winner who half love and half hate when the goal of an elected official should be to represent as many of their constituents as possible.
This is really interesting... I recently discovered my anxiety 100% vanished if I had a protein shake for breakfast, instead of fasting all day. For me I think it was a neurotransmitter deficiency from not having sufficient precursor amino acids.
again, I do not think Facebook is a publisher, but rather a platform, so I do not see how the parallel applies.

At any rate, if you are asking why censorship, I guess there are angles and perspectives from which it is not, but that risks becoming a path to various dystopian scenarios (freedom of expression/speech negatively correlates with authoritarianism of governments, for example)

If you want to publish something and some publisher does not want to publish it for you, chances are you can find a different publisher that is willing to, without necessarily negatively impacting the spread of your content and ideas.

For platforms such as Facebook that is fundamentally different: A- they gain their power by offering a service, not spreading ideology... users come to them to access content produced by others, so their influence to the content that they are, or are not, able to access is "unfair" and should be in my opinion unlawful; B- exclusion from them pretty much disconnects you from a large amount of fellows humans in a significant way.
I'm not sure that's fair. If you have objects that escape downwards (so X calls Y, y creates some item i, i gets returned to X) then you can't have a stack. i may be overwritten at the next call of anything else, as the stack grows over it.

I guess they do escape analysis and where items are provably local, stack allocate them. If not, plonk them on the heap.

A call frame is an object like any other, so they go on the heap. This allows you to create closures.
gRPC's HTTP2 transport is basically this, out of the box. You don't need to manually manage routes, handlers, headers, status codes, etc.
In both cases doesn’t the “I think” convey that it is an opinion?
> IN 1959, DIJKSTRA began writing a series of private reports. Consecutively numbered and with his initials as a prefix, they became known as EWDs.
I don't see why the Amazon employees cannot use gloves (as they probably actually should).

It sounds more like a marketing/publicity idea/stunt :

>RAZR was meant to be shipped in the unfolded position. However, in order to better protect the display we have folded your RAZR – it’s safer, but may not look as elegant as we hoped. We apologize if you see fingerprints on your device, but we assure you your RAZR is brand new.
Why ranked choice over approval voting?

Approval voting appears to avoid the biggest pitfalls of FTPT, it's easy to explain (no run-off, etc) so fewer spoiled ballots (IRV results in more spoiled ballots by a large margin), and the physical ballot doesn't have to change (voter simply allowed to fill in the bubble for more than one option).
> Operationally maintaining the JVM is a nightmare

The JVM gives you practically every knob you need to achieve maximal performance for your workload. I don't know of any other environment that does that. Secondly, with new GCs like ZGC and Shenandoah, the number of knobs to tune (at least with respect to the GC) has decreased dramatically to only a couple.

> Security is probably the next biggest one. Vulnerabilities in the JVM are a problem but you'll have that in most software

This is a non-issue for backend systems. Barely anyone uses Java for browser-side rendering anymore.
This is great, but since the authors are here, some constructive feedback: if you were to ask me what the most important and misunderstood issue in security research is, I'd say it's the distinction between web application testing (the subject of most bug bounties) and mobile/platform/executable software security research (ie: finding browser zero-days) .

I skimmed the guide and I know the distinction is covered in multiple points throughout, but it would be helpful in future versions of this document to find a way to center it. There are a lot of people who believe that finding browser vulnerabilities is legally risky, and a lot of people who believe there are good-faith security exemptions to testing for XSS vulnerabilities in web sites.
Serious question: given that you have this in Aus, why do the politicians always seem to be conservative clowns like Tony Abbott? I'm 29 but I can't remember any PMs of Aus ever being talked about internationally with anything but scorn so far.

With ranked choice universally adopted there I would have hoped for more diversity of representation :/
As much as I want to see election reform, this seems like a horrific idea. It's hard enough to get people to vote, but now they have to know enough about candidates to rank them? Look, sure, for a lot of us dedicated voters / political junkies its no big thing, but for a lot of people that's way too much of a cognitive burden (I'm keeping it real here folks; it's hard enough to get them to use the privacy sleeve and sign their ballot...).

I'm also thinking in terms of what this does for incumbent vs challenger... would like to see what experts say, as it feels like votes could easily become spread across a group of challengers.
By the way, STAR is not really a twist on RCV, it's a twist on Score Voting.
Actually, King of Kong is my go-to example on why one should not trust documentaries[1]. There was so much deception by the filmmakers it is unreal. Some from memory:

They painted Steve as this upstart who came out of nowhere who was going to dethrone Billy's score. In reality, Steve was well known in the community, and had been on the stage with Billy Mitchell some years prior. He had set the record in the past, and when he was setting out for a new record in the documentary, he was trying to beat his own record, not Billy's. Yes - at the time, the record was actually held by Steve. When Billy got his (new) record invalidated, it wasn't so that he could be on the top again - the record simply reverted to Steve's prior record.

When Steve ate at Billy's restaurant, they made it seem like Billy avoided him. In fact, Billy did come out and meet Steve. They'd interacted in a friendly way multiple times over the years.

When Steve took part in a competition, and everyone seemed upset that Billy didn't show up, they made Billy look like a real jerk. His defense (not in the documentary) was that the invitation to compete came out of the blue with very short notice, and he needs time to practice/train, so he declined.

You can see Twin Galaxy's statements on the King of Kong here: https://www.twingalaxies.com/forumdisplay.php/406-The-King-o...

[1] You need to be a bit of a subject matter expert to gauge the accuracy of a documentary. And if you already know the subject that well, the documentary isn't going to teach you much.
> Aren't REST and webhooks just RPC protocols too?

REST is not, but the thing that isn't REST that lots of people call REST is basically just RPC-over-HTTP-with-JSON.
I love the XPath model of declaratively querying and transforming data, which has been highly influential (see JQ, JSONPath, GROQ, etc.). Ultimately, it was too closely tied with XML, which was overdesigned complex, and sucked into the committee hell that brought us more overdesigned technologies like SOAP and XML Schema.
Really illustrates the dumbassery of sticking a (relatively) fast-moving application-layer protocol into the kernel. Now you can't update the Web Server without updating the operating system.

Might have been handy to beat benchmarks back in the day when people liked to whip them out for comparison, but IIS is under 10% according to Netcraft now. Time to fold up the tent and go home.

I suppose .Net Core is sticking with Http.sys to avoid implementing their own web server, but is tying yourself to the Windows shipping cycle worth it ?
We have estimates of the energy or mass formed into black holes, and at the end of the day this is just black hole energy that happens to have been later converted into a different form.
I'd like to know this too (and I can't tell if it's in the article, because paywall). RCV (or any other system) at the state level is irrelevant, even dangerously counter-productive, since the electoral college is still FPTP in the end. You get just as much of a spoiler effect. I wonder if this is why MA's bill this year specifically excludes RCV use for the presidential election.

Technically I suppose a state elector from a state with RCV could decide to cast their vote as though RCV were in effect? But that seems unlikely and unreliable.
Have you seen any research on which parties or groups might benefit most from Condorcet methods? It would seem to me that it would benefit smaller parties who share something in common with a couple of major parties (such as the Libertarian party in the USA).
Eh? My post says nothing about RMS. And I certainly never said copyleft or its proponents weren't serious.
I’ve not made that jump - still waiting...
Both ruling parties oppose anything that opens the system to additional parties. Ballot access is a prime example. It's very hard for additional parties to get candidates on the ballot in most states.
Important is that the BBC isn't nationalised, at least not in the typical sense. The government is prohibited from direct intervention[0] and the safeguards (surprisingly) seem to work. It's much less nationalised than e.g. Russia Times.

I agree with you. I don't really like media organizations but as media goes the BBC is great.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Governance_and_corporate_s...
That analogy is a little flawed. More like there is something in the ISS that is causing leaks and the solution is to duct tape them.
After two days of intense debate, the United Methodist Church has agreed to a historic split – one that is expected to end in the creation of a new denomination, one that will be “theologically and socially conservative,” according to The Washington Post. The majority of delegates attending the church’s annual General Conference in May voted to strengthen a ban on the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and to write new rules that will “discipline” clergy who officiate at same-sex weddings. But those who opposed these measures have a new plan: They say they will form a separate denomination by 2020, calling their church the Christian Methodist denomination. The Post notes that the denomination, which claims 12.5 million members, was in the early 20th century the “largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.,” but that it has been shrinking in recent decades. The new split will be the second in the church’s history. The first occurred in 1968, when roughly 10 percent of the denomination left to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The Post notes that the proposed split “comes at a critical time for the church, which has been losing members for years,” which has been “pushed toward the brink of a schism over the role of LGBTQ people in the church.” Gay marriage is not the only issue that has divided the church. In 2016, the denomination was split over ordination of transgender clergy, with the North Pacific regional conference voting to ban them from serving as clergy, and the South Pacific regional conference voting to allow them.
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Don’t tell any electric guitarists tubes aren’t a thing. A huge majority of working electric guitarists play through tube amplifiers.
That's a 3 MB web page. That would have taken about a minute to download with a fast modem. I used a download manager for stuff that large. Remember GetRight? 5/5 at Tucows!
To me, the problem with IFTTT and other 'do programming without actually programming!' tools are this: unless you're serving an extremely narrow goal, I want a programming language!

Even something as non-programmer as taking notes - what if I want some notes automatically added/removed/modified depending on what happens elsewhere in the world? I need a programming language!

Almost no problem is too trivial to not want a programming language attached to it which begs the question - why don't we already have it? I hope the answer is quite simply that we've been so focused on new hardware, that software is lagging behind. There are more sinister possibilities but I'd err on the side of nobody having made it a priority because most people think small by default.
Also context propagation is part of gRPC which supports you in thinking about tracing, request cancellation, deadlines so that you actually have a chance to employ SLOs
Interesting. That's how I learned it, haha.

Thanks for the clarification!
> You'd use it where you'd use REST/API/JSONRPC/

Not really. You'd use it for inter service communication but can't really use it in the browser (see grpc-web)
He typed (edit: and handwrote) hundreds of these open letters, technical notes, reports, etc. Here's the archive at UT:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
It doesn't work here because we don't have a parliamentary system of government. That is, our executive is chosen separately from the legislature, so in that contest, the presidential contest, third parties act as spoilers. There's no sense in which Nader could have said he was in the "Democratic block" and thereby given the power of his voters to Gore.
Tech hubs like San Francisco are not "company towns", they already had multiple employers competing for labor, and workers already had the choice to go to these other companies that are becoming remote.

The only difference is the benefits of non-remote tech-hub work that have been driving the high wages in tech - concentration of talent, face-to-face communication/team-building, advanced urban infrastructure - are now gone. So tech workers will have the same amount of company choice, but can no longer benefit from tech hubs; tell me why companies are going to continue paying the same high wages again?
"Private cloud" in the meaning that only you, the devices you allow or the people you share a file with have access to the data. It means that you have full ownership (you own the storage where your cloud is stored) over your data. Duple (the company) can't access anything from your cloud.

The repository is reachable from internet if you want to (access from anywhere feature), but it's not obligatory (you can decide to have it only on your local network, or only on one computer).

The traffic is always direct, it never goes through our side (no servers or relay).
The animals are the people that made rules that people don't want to follow.
Seems like they are making the right choice if they are driving away a "customer" that had many services connected but was paying them nothing. That's no way to run a business.
I remember once I had a protected left but saw the car coming (hundreds of feet out) and didn't like the look on his face (which was barely visible), like he was too into his music. I didn't take the left and the guy flew through the red light and slammed his brakes halfway through. I think back to that situation when I think of AV.
I totally get where this makes sense in your system, where the election typically results in a coalition of parties that come together to form a government, but I'm less clear on whether this makes sense in the US system where it is far more winner-take-all.
That's comparable to the autonomous vehicle accident reports Google files with the California DMV. Minor rear-ending at low speed is the most common problem. The usual situation is where the Waymo vehicle has an obstructed line of sight at an intersection and enters the intersection very slowly. Then the system sees cross traffic and stops. The human-driven vehicle, following the Waymo vehicle, then fails to stop fast enough. There's one intersection in Mountain View which has a tree in the median high enough to block the LIDAR but clear at window height. That causes a very cautious intersection entrance. Waymo vehicles have been rear-ended twice there. As LIDAR units get cheaper and more are fitted, that problems should be fixed.

Autonomous vehicles may need a "Back Off" signal, like flashing the brake lights at ultra-bright levels when someone gets too close.

"The one actual, non-simulated angled collision occurred when a vehicle ran a red light at 36 mph, smashing into the side of a Waymo vehicle that was traveling through the intersection at 38 mph."

Not Waymo's fault. I wonder if Waymo went to court, with full video of the driver running the red light.

This is encouraging.
It doesn't make sense to compare the US to "other countries" that have different political systems. We don't have a parliamentary system. The executive doesn't necessarily represent the majority party in the legislature, which means that the office has a lot of political importance. It doesn't make sense to vote 3rd party when coalitions have such limited power.

This isn't about culture or arrogance. There are solid and well researched reasons that the US and similar political systems tend to be dominated by two parties. You can read more about this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
In The Netherlands people who "love" wolves say farmers should put up 3m high fences around their fields.

Other people are telling farmers to get rid of all sorts of fences and just use ditches and hetches, because they like to see that on their Sunday stroll.

The amount of criticism and conflicting opinions that farmers face is unbelievable.
This isn't a phenomenon specific to the left. The number of people on the right that refuse to wear masks in private establishments that request is revealing.

To the right liberal judges are "activist judges". To the left conservative judges are "activist judges".

As a "liberal" (I'm not sure what that even means anymore) in his mid 40s I've been appalled at the portion of the left turning their back on the idea of free speech.

The hypocrisy, lack of critical thinking and myopia runs in both directions. And, unfortunately, it runs deep.
I don't think that is right, though I'm not a GW expert so please tell me if I'm wrong.

I think they know the difference just by looking at the mass. i.e. we think it is hard to form black holes smaller than ~3.3ish solar masses and we don't think neutron stars can be more massive than 2.2 solar masses.

This is why we get articles like [1] where there is an issue when we think we've found something between those numbers.

And yes, the foolproof way of checking whether a NS was involved is to follow up with telescopes. But the constraints on position from GW aren't always good and so you can't always find it.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/gravitational-waves-...
I've got my issues with IFTTT's limitations and UI sure, but it still is reasonably decent for 'basic' things like checking an RSS feed and doing something. A use-case that helped propel it forward from the early days. It's not easy to find a service/set a service to check something regularly etc....without spinning up a server and stuff yourself.

Yes, I get that doing other things more advanced like IoT integration and whatever else IFTTT has moved into bring up challenges etc, but that basic thing at the heart of what the If This Then That concept is rooted in is still useful and them asking for a few bucks isn't that bad.
I've still got some things running out there to send an email, post a tweet etc on updates. But doing some things more regularly than their tweet/check limits has forced me to move elsewhere on my own recently. All depends on the use.

And yeah, totally miss Yahoo Pipes but from the time when I used that, IFTTT actually improved slightly just enough to cover what I was using Pipes for haha. (and yeah there's pipes.digital)

ActionsFlow recently shared around here using github actions is interesting but I didn't feel like migrating a bunch of stuff over to it just to test
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For one thing, the pixels in the original are huge by today’s standards. With or without noise, you could roughly analyze a good percent of them fairly accurately
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I was there, and I am still there regularly because my projects on old hardware often require me to use web.archive.org and follow the resulting web of links.

Every time I was amazed how different it was back then. Dense, but cleanly presented information, including links to other high quality websites. Contributions presented as elaborate documents themselves instead of a few lines in a comment box.

Nostalgia is strong, but seeing the difference in front of me regularly, it’s obvious the modern web is missing what this had.
Depends on what kept out of the press means. If that means the government should forbid the press from publishing opinions no, the government should not do that. But if it means not having the government force the press to carry his opinions then yes.
Note that those benchmarks use a non-standard golang HTTP library (fasthttp I believe), which even according to it's author makes certain compromises and can be tricky to deal with, and can fail in edge cases (I'd avoid it for production). Whereas the Java versions are much more standard and safer to use.

Secondly, something seems off if a php framework is getting top place, unless it's doing some AOT compilation.
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Shortly after the 2016 election the WaPo added a black banner proclaiming "Democracy dies in darkness." I have always thought that that was more of a rallying cry for them - hoisting their pirate flag as they took on Trump - rather than something they feared. HN readers, you are witnessing the dark curtain of totalitarianism falling on us. I hope you will not be acquiescent. I won't be.
Isn't it based on your personal achievements ?