skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And my opinion of hacker news, already high, just got higher. Where else can you get to the very bottom of the comment thread for a random post, find one not particularly insightful or helpful comment, and then see it carefully replied to with intelligent and empathetic detail by the main curator of the service?

Thank you dang. I hope you are going to give yourself a holiday.
DOMRec doesn't handle dynamic changes to rules in CSS stylesheets because our app doesn't do that. If we needed to do that, I'd try wrapping the CSSOM API prototypes.

(Of course DOMRec does handle changes to 'style' attributes on DOM nodes, because those do generate mutation notifications.)

Similarly, DOMRec doesn't handle cross-origin frames, because our app doesn't use them. To make that work I guess we'd have to port to a browser extension and even so it would make things quite a lot harder.
If you care about having someone in a meeting, you specifically ask them to attend. They didn't care because he was never going to get equity in the first place.
> C++ is not a very attractive language to write code in if there are viable alternatives, because it is objectively unpleasant and expensive to use

From a current perspective I may agree, but in the ‘90 a number of programmers like me was really excited to be able to develop at a much higher abstraction level than C using classes and, later, templates, preserving efficiency and performances.
What monolith? You can clearly see the rivets.
Source Code Management, I'd assume
A related answer that I posted back in 2009 to the question of "How do you fix a bug you can't replicate?"

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1268464/59087
This is an equivalent of pornhub to micromanagers. Frankly it's good to know who to avoid. If you company uses 365, maybe you should move to China where these things go. Few threads from hear I read people praise m$ as being the good guys now. Such a laugh.
I hope more people die in the us because of covid than in any other country. I also hope the virus evolves starting in these greedy ama office and they all die.
Kind of interesting. You can google map yourself to within a few 100 meters of the thing. I suspect the people who "found it" were really just pimping it? If there isn't already there will be trash around it soon. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Green+River,+UT/38.3431111,-...
Here I am server side PHP and vanilla JS, one or two RiotJS components. LOB apps tho - different game I guess
That's a very bleak outlook. I hope you are wrong, but fear you are right.
That’s how I interpreted the OP though... I really don’t know what you were reading into it.
This reminds me of a debate I had in high school, where the topic was (and I quote verbatim) "A country that does not provide universal healthcare to its residents is evil".

I was assigned the side that argued that it's not evil. The problem our opponents had was that they could not could not argue for a definition of evil that was strict enough to capture universal healthcare but not so strict that a doctor who makes a mistake and kills someone is also evil.
Top Netflix drama lays open Turkish divides
I would've liked to see this quality of journalism regarding the recent election fraud allegations. With some exceptions the most common style has been to dismiss it as bad faith and cite election authorities who say there's insufficient evidence.

While I agree, it would've been much more illuminating, persuasive, engaging and educational to do a deep dive into the substance of the claims and show why they're likely incorrect. This is really the best way to assuage belief in related conspiracy theories too. We would learn both why the allegations are false and learn about how these false beliefs start and spread. Combine academic rigor (without its stifling formality) with the distribution of journalism. Be less verbose and more numerate and logical. Many bloggers do this but it's missing from the majority of mainstream journalistic outlets.

I somehow think the business model will preclude this though. They're providing outrage entertainment for the masses. Not everyone is a balanced individual with 130 IQ seeking detail and illumination.
Anyone remember the Zeos Pocket PC? Had a usable, slightly-smaller keyboard. Ate AA batteries pretty fast, iirc.

http://oldcomputers.net/zeos-ppc.html
Shopify Speed Optimization: 9 Actionable Techniques for Faster E-Commerce
Well said. If anyone would care to read further on the history from a similar point of view:

https://mises.org/library/100-years-medical-robbery
Or more likely C, but yeah.
Nope, not surprising at all, just a short and lazy re-fluffing of a point that's been beaten into the ground. I'm pretty sure my teachers debunked the "people in 1492 thought the world was flat" thing in my junior high science classes in 1989-1990. The book under review sounds like an interesting read, though.
> the best we can hope for is only 1.5 degrees C warming.

OK, and?

If you are driving a car and realize you are about to crash which you can't avoid , you still put the breaks on

We need to break, we know the crash is going to happen no matter what, but we can reduce it and not get killed/ourselves ejected out of the car
Lightsail viciously throttles after only a small amount of cpu use. I've not seen anything obvious to compare it to, as it would only be useful for something really occasionally bursty.
Is this some attempt at a "gotcha"? It's all over the news, I'm sure you can Google it. CDC Director just said first vaccines should got out second week of December.
I didn't think about it, but a full stop there seems subtler and more plain-text, which is more in HN's spirit.
That no longer will be possible in the UK next year as government changed IR35 rules. Clients to be safe will declare you a deemed employee and as a bonus they'll be able to use tools used on employees plus you get no employment rights.
Probably yes :)

I discovered with this thread that the mod tools are not unified on Reddit!
My organization has also switched to web-based "frequent quick anonymous surveys". I always do them to keep my boss out of trouble for poor response rates, but I skip all of the questions and just add a comment that I don't believe in the anonymity guarantee.

Someday, I'll get asked why that is, and I'll get a chance to quote Seymour Cray's "I think that you just answered your own question."
>That doesn't provide a way of measuring your individual performance only that of the team.

Indeed.

Is there a clause I'm unaware of in the saying I quoted that stipulates a target/metric must be an individual one only?
> It was a dream we’d be nursing for a long time as bootstrappers like Rob Wailing or Pieter Levels, and communities such as IndieHackers by the Courtland Allen had been a source of inspiration for us ever since 2010.

This kinda threw me off. I think he's talking about Rob Walling, not "Wailing". Also, IndieHackers was started in 2016.

I'll acknowledge that Rob Walling's podcast "Startups for the rest of us" was started in 2010.

Aside from that, it's a great article about their experience failing their 1st product and succeeding in their 2nd through persistence.
This is as communist it can get... The Soviet had the same rules in places...
Designing a Better Laser Nozzle Using 3D-Printing
You could have a playback mode where you use real focus and caret. E.g. DOMRec could easily be modified to do this in fullscreen mode.

After that it might Just Work since the ARIA roles are in the DOM. Indeed it would be very cool!
As someone who grew up and lives on the coast, I had no idea what to expect the first time I visited Louisville a few years back.

I was blown away how beautiful it was and how welcoming people were, in addition to it being a fun place to be. It was nothing like the other midwest cities I had been to, seemed to me much more vibrant and scenic at the same time.
Docker lock: Manage image digests by tracking them in a separate Lockfile
I don't have a citation, just inferences based on years of observation.

I also didn't lay OpSec is mostly useless. I'm not convinced that's true, though it may be.

OpSec alone is useful but brittle. If it's all you've got, you'll probably eventually have a bad day. Looking at entities considered "masterminds", what I often find is ... some intelligence, yes, but a lot of shielding from, or disregard of, risk.

Impunity is actual or believed freedom from consequence.

There are a few categories:

- The proficient: extremely good at their game. Effective, so long as it works. Covert.

- The well-protected -- friends in high places. State actors and their contractors, generally. Often under diplomatic covered. "Too big to jail" and politically-conneccted (Brock 'Stanford Rapist" Turner https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/02/us/brock-turner-release-jail/...) The Mossad team assassinating Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Ma...) (though most of the team were effectively burnt). May include some non-state actors: warlords, terrorists, narcotics gangs, though most of these fall below. Covert, but can retreat quickly to safety, or are at low risk if caught.

- The brazen. Operations with overwhelming force, whether shown or used. Military campaigns, many criminal organisations, warlords, militias. Overt.

- The uncaring: those who have no care whether they live or die. Most suicide attacks, 9/11 bombers, the original "hashīshīn", etc. 2008 Mumbai attacks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks Overt or covert.

- The ignorant: Simply unaware of the risks. Child soldiers, the Boxers (China), "wrong way 'round" Pan Am flight 18602 landing at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, unknown to the pilot, in a heavily-mined harbour. https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/the-long-way-round-part-...

- The expendable. Assets who need only be used once, whether burnt (retired) or killed afterwards. This includes a segment of the consulting or management workforce, who have a certain ablative funtion. Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

The relatively recently disclosed Crypto AG case, where the Swiss manufacturer of a widely-used manufacturer of communications encoding equipment was shown to be a CIA-owned front is a case in point. Signals intelligence relied not so much on exceptional decryption capabilities, but on the widespread use of a backdoored technology. The strong focus of US intelligence policy on similarly backdooring networking hardware (Cisco), telecoms switches (Greece), computing hardware, operating systems, and softwaare, speaks to the probable usefulness of this method.
It's not OpSec but influence and immunity that enables this.

Update: Parent's question, if brief, was entirely fair. Which is why I answered it.
De facto the only enforcers of this rule are moderators, who care more about their subreddit-specific rules anyway.
All those little pieces of code, are what keep millions of subs from just not collapsing.

Say whatever anyone wants, I think reddit is the future of human moderation (millions of experiments), over FAANG and their army of invisible workers and rules.
From the Blaine Garst post:

>"We lost our custom hardware. The any workstation you want sprints (solaris, hp, alpha) didn’t pan out. The Microsoft tax (later judged monopolistic, too late, as Ray Noorda of Novell confessed to me as had happened to him) killed our PC business. We ditched the OS and ran on Windows. We sold our source code to Sun to make a multiplatform OpenStep. No cigars. (They made Java out of it using many of our/my ideas)

This is interesting. This is the first I've heard about a link between NeXT and Java. Does anyone have any further information about this? I thought James Gosling developed Java from a language called Oak. That's the earliest origin story I've heard until I read this post.
I keep wondering what everyone is going to complain about when it becomes clear React and Vue & a couple other decade old offerings are what everyone in JS land is using. The jokes about new JS frameworks being invented daily have started to fall off already. Stagnancy & ossification are setting in. Although functional components in React have, fairly recently, re-simplified/re-writeen the DX again.

Backbone was the first time there was framing at all. So long ago & so not that long ago!
That DB/rentech basket option is a tax avoidance scheme. It has nothing to do options pricing and concepts like delta, gamma, etc.
Why would you think that the prokaryotic-to-eukaryotic jump is higher?

If it is engulfment of organelles like mitochondria, that happens all the time. There are fairly good models of the evolutionary tree and how it could happen over time[1].

On the other hand, the ribosome is an amazingly complex machine, which I would expect would be much harder to create. Even synthetically, the path to build a synthetic eukaryote seems a lot easier than the path to build a synthetic ribosome.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1916-6
So basically, a bunch of pranksters went over to Parler to troll people, and were banned. News at 11.
How do you differentiate an event that is very improbable and so takes a billion years from an event that is inevitable, but requires many prerequisites, and so takes a billion years?

The article seems to simply assume the former model ("We assume that once an evolutionary transition is possible (i.e., once the previous transition has occurred), it occurs at a constant average rate λi, so that each ti is exponentially distributed with an expected transition time of βi = 1/λi"), but that feels unjustified to me. Is it really the case that the transition from prokaryote to eukaryote was equally likely at any time, and things simply sat stagnant for a billion years until one day life got lucky?
This level of uniformity cannot come about naturally.

Thomas Schelling says otherwise. See http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg... and consider the idea of voluntarty ideological segregation in a virtual space.
And a different kernel.
Does it? I mean, the returns the response to the browser, but I believe the browser then renders that new page, which should be harmless since the server isn't going to return a malicious page.
This can’t be true, even theoretically.

There’s a certain amount of information the world creates, and some fraction of that gets written up in the news.

The first would seem to be vastly larger today, just because the human population has grown significantly and the reduction of poverty has brought far more people to a level where they work on “information-producing” endeavors.

What fraction of that will be covered in the news media, in some form or another? The top segment, such as “who is the new prime minister of France” gets covered today as it did in the past. Similar news from smaller places probably gets covered more, because networks of correspondents have increased, communication has become easier, and the wire service model has had huge effects for efficiency. The same is likely true for the “long end” of domestic news.

We should probably look at not just production, but also distribution: how much information is transmitted. While subscriptions have dropped off a cliff, distribution has vastly increased. I’m in Europe, but regularly read the NYT and dozens of other US outlets. That just wasn’t possible even in the recent past.

They are defining information as “surprise”, but mixing the technological meaning with its common meaning at will. Am I surprised by the name of the next US Secretary of State? Sure, in the way that I had never heard the name before. I’d be more surprised by Whoopi Goldberg, but that doesn’t make the latter more “information-dense”. Newspapers today include all the scores of twelve different sports leagues from all over the world, which alone would likely dominate any actual measure of information. Then again, they dropped their listings of stock prices, which probably reduced that measure by 9x%. To recover, they should print some random number generators output, which is nothing but information according to the theory the article is (ab)using. Which just shows that “information” is ill-defined and probably useless to measure news quality.

This blog post is really just the old complaint about a “liberal bias”, cargo-culting with sciency phrases. No surprise there.
Fellow Utah County man here. If I was you, I'd contact the BLM with the full story and share the confidential information with them at least to try to convince them not to remove it. I really feel for the sister, probably her worst nightmare for this story to blow up like it has. Curiosity can be destructive.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Maybe we (myself and the other contractors involved) have been unlucky but we haven't been able to get anything done the lawyer route. I'm happy to try again but I've realized which lawyer is important and would love a referral if you have one (my email is in my profile).
What would be a con would be to tell potential investors that the deal is done, but telling them that you have a promising deal in the works but not yet agreed is fine, it is the truth. Your founder is doing nothing wrong. In fact he is being quite canny.

Also, don't assume that potential investors are not as canny. They know full well that the potential deal may never materialise and that it is spun positively.
Interesting! You mean facebook & instagram ads or groups/regular posts?
Where Will the Cannabis Industry Be in 10 Years?
Don't forget this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Again...
ML is useful for domains where we don't have a good analytical model of real world behavior of systems. Of course, that is a lot of problems, including many useful things that biological intelligence appears to solve.

But it is true that ML - in particular neural networks - often gets thrown at problems that traditional analysis and modeling could serve more efficiently, and also more predictably. The other benefit of first trying traditional analysis is that it helps the implementer of the system better understand the domain first.

Pertinently, I've heard some scientists working on medical imaging describe to me how there has been a trend away from the basic science of understanding the medical phenomena behind the image being analyzed and instead relying excessively on ML based pattern recognition to make predictions/inferences.
BNC has always been trouble-free for you? That's interesting.

I think the only cable type that was entirely trouble-free for me over the years was the parallel printer cable with the truly awful Centronics connector. I don't remember ever throwing one of those away. Of course, that's not a cable that you'd plug and unplug much, which certainly helps.
> Today, we are starting to bridge the gap between pen and paper proofs and computer science: it is called formal verification.

I was involved in formal verification at UC Davis back in 1993, and I'm sure it started before that. And yet we still can't do it effectively all these years later. The language lab was using HOL (higher order logic), us security geeks were using BAN (Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic). BAN logic turned out to have problems and GNY logic was supposed to fix those, but it had problems too... all those logics were failing us in edge cases that we could hardly conceive of. No matter how precise things were specified, no matter how rigorous things were, there were always edge cases that could be pried open to present practical attacks. What I eventually took away from it is that even the smartest humans aren't actually smart enough.

Rogaway was one of the smartest people I ever met. The fact that OCB2, proven secure, had a gaping hole discovered in 2018 doesn't leave me much hope that we'll ever have proveably secure anything.
I got a perfectly adequate 60in two years ago from Walmart’s Black Friday sale for around 200 dollars with in store pick up. I’d guess you’d be able to do something similar this year
Written a month ago, before there were three promising vaccine giving the strong hope that we would NOT "indefinitely forfeit the most valuable parts of our lives".
I know the Flushing branch is extremely busy, to the point where it's hard to find a place to sit inside it that isn't just the floor.

My impression of the library systems is that Queens in particular does a lot of community events that aren't library related in the library.
Russ Roberts did a good interview on EconTalk with Christy Ford Chapin, who wrote a book about the history of health insurance in the US and pointed several fingers at the AMA for preventing any progress or innovation in the healthcare industry.

https://www.econtalk.org/christy-ford-chapin-on-the-evolutio...
The winner model will likely outperform anything that Jane Street could come up with this 130 feature set. With 3000+ competitors, the top 10 will likely be superior to what Jane Street can do in-house. Then an ensemble of the top solutions will be the best possible model anyone can come up with.
Increasing your price can be used to filter out people who are considering your "only kinda seriously". When you're at the beginning of creating a product, you want to talk to people who are really feeling the pain and really need a solution (and thus are willing to pay more).

Sure, you're going to lose a lot of people if you post a high price, but they were going to waste your time anyway. The goal isn't to get as many paying users as possible, but to start getting the most important users to pay anything at all.
It looks interesting. Sounds like they're going to be charging for an entire year of service up front or at least as part of an annual contract, which makes sense. (See: "Stardust will only be the beginning in a year-long partnership.") So this will be 21.99 euros ($26.04 USD) for the year. I wonder if this is an x86 instance or if it's ARM. Pricing would make a lot of sense if it was ARM.
I love how it has one of those big honking emergency stop buttons.

Like, 2020 may indeed be a dumpster fire, but at least we can be confident that this particular installation is going to be a relatively safe, controlled dumpster fire.
I'm going to make an assumption that it was a PHP app written internally by people that didn't know what they were doing, with no documentation, and that was fragile as all hell. Also probably written in some ancient php version that could not be upgraded and was a huge security risk.

At least that's what I tend to see in the field.
Non-profit hospitals are responsible for the bulk of health care costs, they just extract the profits in salaries.
It seems different to me, because on subreddits plagued by self promotion, nobody will ask.
What do you mean by noise?
Hm. I sent one 20 minutes ago and it still hasn't appeared. I thought that if there would be a queue, there won't be this much of a delay between them. It would just print them enough time apart so they don't pile up on the belt.
That's less drivable than ads for sure. I should probably compare the two ROI and see what's the more efficient!
Argh, yes, of course you're correct...
I remember a naval officer survivor of a rocket or torpedo hit (post WWII) describing what he was going through at those moments. He basically was tracking the thing with his eyes as it approached, practically mesmerized, not incapable of moving but locked in awe of that unstoppable thing approaching, knowing fully well that he should take cover immediately but practically doing nothing.

I think we're doing the same, in a sense asking privately "bring it on; let's see what this would do... to _them_ " as if we're watching a tornado from the safety of the TV not caring of the results; and like that navy officer not able to defend the ship, locked in awe (or ignorance?) of our own peril.
I actually give it 48 hours before the top 3 equals what Jane Street can do in-house on this exact same dataset. A week before the reasonable plateau is reached, and a month or so before the absolute most information is squeezed out.