skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where do you live, and what makes you so certain that unincorporated areas in California are not populated?

I live in Southern California, one of the areas of currently under a state mandated stay-at-home order.

And I never said unincorporated areas where unpopulated, I said they were rural, which implies that they're sparsely populated. This is partly by definition (a city would either be part of an urban center, or its own urban center), and partly because populations that are dense enough tend to form cities.

And to be clear, when I refer to "city", I'm referring to incorporated cities, not just major cities.

> Separately, do you really think that if the OC Sheriff says "we are not enforcing Newsom's rules" that the deputies are going to enforce those rules in cities within their patrol areas? If a Sheriff has decided not to enforce a law in his jurisdiction, why would he direct his deputies to enforce that same law in other parts of his patrol area?

Yes.

Again, Sheriffs only have direct jurisdiction over unincorporated areas of the county. Cities are their own jurisdiction. The cities may contract with the Sheriff for policing, but the deputies would be following the direction of the city government in that case. If the city directs their police to enforce a stay-at-home order (be it the city's own police or Sheriff deputies policing on behalf of the city), the police would have no legal basis to refuse. They may not be able to practically enforce such an order, but that's a different issue.
> I'm a liberal Democrat and Rayiner is not.

Well, if so, your seemingly minor differences judging from the threads you both participate in here on HN seems pretty much symptomatic for US politics to me. Two parties, both business parties, and minor differences in their realpolitik.

> It's just probably not the copay problem

I'm regularly hearing stories about people having to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for procedures, even chronic things like insulin.
The point of philosophy is to teach you how to think so you can formulate your own answer. Apparently you expect everything to be 1+1=2, which really is kind of sad.

You are a person who desperately needs philosophy, yet you seen incapable of understanding why you would need it. Science seems to have ruined you.
This looks interesting, but is there an alternative for expressing the format?
YAML is just plain awful.
The most intelligent criminal in the world, See what He did
There is enough data on the contrary. Riots in Delhi during President Trump's visit, lynchings of Muslims suspected of eating beef in India, dont we know the history.
Some of the charts could do with an explanation of what they are showing. For example, what is a ‘like ratio’ and what do the axis of that green line indicate?
> And yet, if there’s a lesson of the past four years, it’s that thoughtfulness and craftsmanship only got the company about 10 percent as far as Microsoft did by copy-pasting Slack’s basic design.

It's ignorance like this that (asking with the clickbait) make me way of Vox. That's not Slack design. It's the design of chat apps. Hipchat looked like this, and IRC has looked like this for decades.
I created a fake linkedin account a couple years ago using one of those AI face generators.

Made myself a Senior Director of Engineering at a major company with an impressive background.

I've had lots of recruiters reach out to me from most major companies and I've even had some conversations just for kicks.

The unexpected outcome... I swear doing this made me more confident.

I see so many FAANG recruiters wanting "me" to run a team that I don't even open the message because I'm decensitized. It gave me a glimpse into someone 10 years ahead of me. I've been meaning to make a compilation of my conversations.
further, apple no longer get’s to portray themselves as a privacy focused company. if I don’t have control over whether or not I can turn my computer on, I have no right to privacy on an apple computer and I have no data security on an apple computer. It’s one thing if it were a feature a user could opt in or even out of, it’s another to be a consequence of sale. apple used to be a computer company, but they got used to the power they have over ios users and decided to downgrade all of their customers to that level of personal determination, freedom. but hey, at least the RIAA and various nation states that have enough sway to boss apple around will be happy with it.
> Turing was a mathematician focused on theoretical problems.

The famous theoretical problems of fire-control systems for anti-aircraft weapons and wartime code-breaking.
The anti-competitive question varies country to country, but in the US (where Google, the example given, is based) the question is: "does this cause consumer harm?" not "does this make it hard for another company to make money at it?".

Taking information that used to be locked up, re-discovering it from the "ground truth" (literally driving every road in some cases), and then giving it to the world for free does ruin some business models based on gate keeping, but it doesn't harm the consumer.

So should society force Google to charge for Maps? How much?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/02/why-did-micros...
Is Microsoft really winning anything when they have to give this crap away for free with Office because no sane person would ever pay for it?
> I work in telecom, and complaints to the Public Utilities Commission are treated seriously within my company (and in the wider industry AFAIK). We really do not want customers to file any. When a customer mentions the PUC at all, we take them seriously enough to get some more eyes on their problem.

The consumer protection reporters for the new channel hanging around the headquarters also tend to grab a lot of attention in my experience. Happened once or twice that I remember where it was drop everything and solve the problem before the report goes out.
Is the main evidence for this belief the aforementioned Pentagon release?
That was a wonderful comparison. Thank you. - I had some contact with Scheme twenty years ago, while working through SICP. As I recently made a deep dive into Emacs and Emacs Lisp, I started looking into Common Lisp as well. - I absolutely love programming in Lisp. And like you, Scheme‘s clean naming convention (`set!` for destructive operations, `foo->bar` for conversions and `string?`) were something I missed in other languages in the years to come (when I started learning Python was irritated that `data.sort()` was a destructive operation). Scheme‘s spec is so short, I could keep it all in my head.

Lambda calculus, list manipulation, list operations, closures, these are concepts I learned twenty years ago learning Scheme, and I‘ve seen these concepts slowly be adopted in other popular languages decades later.

Thank you for catching my interest in Scheme again! Will look into that in more detail. Was an old love of mine anyway. :)
Deploying a Hugo Static Site to the New AWS Lightsail Containers Service
Is that thing explosive or something?
I think it's a variant of P!=NP. Solution is not reducible to verification.

Employees who can tell that a problem exists, aren't necessarily as profitable as employees who can resolve that problem. Or in some cases, they may be more profitable. Either way, it is not an identical task.

A person who can identify fraud is very useful in an accounting firm. Not so much in an engineering firm.

Just my attempt at interpreting the downvoted comment.
It is a hell lots of work for 88 bucks. Amount of work spent writing emails, analyzing data, coming up with strategy - it comes down to pretty low hourly wage...
It's not a monopoly and far from it.
Reading this book is like reading Gibbon as a first book about Roman history. Please don’t do it.

If you want a better history of western philosophy, I would recommend Anthony Kenny’s A New History of Western Philosophy.
Is there no intermediary third party service which will allow advertisers and websites to register their arrangement and track conversions? Sounds like an obvious product idea. What am I missing?
What sort of posts are you writing that get recruiters to come to you in the post? I feel like all the posts I see are just people going in like vultures to raw meat trying to get some scrap
I don't meant to be a complete bean counter but if all Slack can point to as a benefit is a "certain sense of community" even among a group that cares a lot about tools then it isn't it a great spot.

Is your revenue down since switching to Teams? Sales volume? Number of bugs fixed per release? Onboarding new hires slower? Time to fix critical incidents up?

Those are the kind of things I would have expected you to mention if there were actually a massive difference between Teams and Slack.
I think this is a case of the headline and article being written by different people.

> The center he runs received $70,000 in 2013 from an environmental group, the International Council on Clean Transportation, to conduct the study that eventually exposed how Volkswagen had rigged vehicles to deceive regulators. The original purpose of the research was to show that carmakers were capable of meeting more rigorous limits on emissions of harmful nitrogen oxides. The work was more complicated than expected, though, and Mr. Carder had to make up a $20,000 or $30,000 shortfall from other sources.

> Over time, the researchers noticed that emissions from the vehicles — a Volkswagen Jetta and a Passat — were much higher than they should have been. But they attributed the discrepancies to technical defects or design flaws in the cars rather than deliberate wrongdoing.

> Mr. Besch presented the team’s findings at an industry conference in San Diego in early 2014, still not realizing they had uncovered a scandal. The data piqued the interest of officials in the audience from the California Air Resources Board. CARB, as the agency is known, worked with the West Virginia group before and had let the team use state labs to calibrate equipment for the Volkswagen tests.

It sounds like they were just doing their jobs, they found it by accident, and the insight actually came from CARB.

This history behind this is interesting, it's good they found it, and Dr. Thiruvengadam seems to be advancing in academia, so I think what recognition they got seems fair.
> I guess, the readers ignore these badge-based links either because they associate badges with status displays (build status, coverage status, etc.), not links

I think that’s very likely; it will be a form of banner blindness:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/banner-blindness-old-and-ne...
I mean, that sucks, but surely getting your car stolen sucks considerably more, right?

How much less likely do these technologies have to make theft before the hassle to actual owners isn’t worth it?
Works fine, the NodeJS server simply builds the React page, nothing more. The API does all the heavy lifting of course.
Hmmmm...

1. 4x ~$4600 annual revenue = $18400, a far cry from 40 grand.

2. I seriously doubt that this site will be making $0 in four years. My vote is for the over by a lot.

3. Most folks who would purchase it at a 4x annual revenue multiple would have a clear plan to increase traffic and/or monetize the traffic more efficiently than the current owner does.

Speaking for myself, buying existing traffic is like printing money for me. Most people do not monetize their traffic very well at all. That said, getting white hat traffic from scratch is a slow and tedious process.
Cancel culture is when you get canceled about having a different opinion, it has nothing to do with shady business practices.
These are great suggestions! I especially like the second; I was blind to the fact this was not apparent.

For 3: The intro-chart is definitely a bit opaque. I think it makes a little more sense to have with the JRE visualization. It's neat to see at a high level the views/like ratio over the entire catalog. What specifically irked you about having two y-axes?
This piece has so many red flags. I'm surprised and somewhat disappointed it landed at #1 on HN.

(1) Why was all of this work worth $88 in the first place? As a talented writer who is at least presumably familiar with software engineering, he surely could have earned that money faster by other means.

(2) Why does he continue to work with merchants he himself describes as unscrupulous, in _affiliate marketing_?

My hunch is that he wrote this article specifically to appeal to the HN crowd (see patio11 quotes) in an attempt to get additional commissions from driving more sales to a vendor _he himself_ describes as unscrupulous.

Do better, HN.
Cool. Maybe adding prefers-color-scheme would be useful?
A month or two ago, I binged some old episodes of Angry Videogame Nerd. Camera behavior in side scrollers is one of his big complaints in a lot of games. That and the behavior of the D-pad, A/B behaviors, navigating platforms, and control responsiveness. Tl;dr: make it like Mario.
None of these would have been insurmountable had the standard not been stuck in the mud for twenty five years.
I've never enjoyed running and never practised it on a regular basis.
I have chondromalacia which started (or rather had been diagnosed) in my early twenties. It doesn't prove anything of course, but probably some people are inclined to get joint problems anyway (although running might make it happen quicker probably).
Files-11 was the file system that supported versioning. There was a variable in each directory that specified how many versions of a file to keep.
Files were named like

login.com;1

login.com;2

etc... where login.com was your login batch file to set prompt, etc.
Oppo Research
Or dead (as shown in the post above)
Does it understand APFS snapshots? Often, when I clean up space by removing files, my disk usage percentage remains high because snapshots are holding references to the things I’ve deleted. This makes sense, but it’s opaque to most disk analyzers, and I usually don’t remember their existence right away.
> Last time I looked at the speedup you got from loop optimization it at most a few percent for a very simple loop.

Wow, no.
Most loop optimizations make loops significantly faster, even an order of magnitude is not uncommon.
Write a few loops and compare the code generated by any compiler with O0 vs O3.
This is pretty cool.

* Screen time is pretty interesting because of the variance. I think I like the episodes where Lex talks more, but with this I can check my idea of when Lex talks more vs what the actual screen time ratio is. (In the Anca Dragan episode (and maybe others), the colours used are very similar, makes things less clear.)

* I was confused about "views" and "likes" until I saw it was from YouTube (which is also a limitation, most podcasts don't have YouTube channel or the YT channel audience is much lower). (Btw, it says "I used youtube-dl to download all of the videos publicly available on the JRE channel", should be Lex Fridman's channel for this site.)

* I'm confused about the second graph: how should I be using the left and right axes? Things don't seem to be vertically distributed by views, and I find it unlikely things fall in the "under 20% likes" vs "over 80% likes" bins so sharply, so I must be misreading it.

* The blue banner below Screen Time looked like a footer to me, so I assumed that's where the page ended. It took some half a page of scrolling beyond that, for the rest of the stuff to load.

* The "Search for a different episode" under Episode Similarity doesn't seem to be working. I click it, search for Sean Carroll (and it lists a dozen things, a lot of which seem to be his own podcast episodes), I can't click on any of the results. I can't even get out of that Search screen, reloading seems the only way out.
I think that would follow an uncanny valley type distribution.

I think Linkedin could carve out that niche but it would require a proper effort to do so.
Yes, that's been the explicit strategy since Satya took over as CEO in 2014. Often verbalized, very public. Microsoft's USP is the complete integrated enterprise ecosystem that will work with whatever else you have, too. That's what they call the "intelligent cloud".

So your contacts app knows just which contacts to highlight/suggest based on your org chart (active directory), communication history (outlook, teams), and subject matter (documents/SharePoint/teams message history/etc etc). And it's all subject to centralized authentication, access, and audit controls.

The integration goes into the azure products, too. Your kubernetes RBAC can be based on AAD, so your running containers have an identity that could access Teams and email of you want. Your serverless functions, ML toolkits, etc etc run with their own AAD identities, too. Oh and of course monitoring integrates with their world leading business intelligence tools, including Excel.

This is all there already. Azure DevOps does exactly what you describe:

> you can communicate, plan, build, track and deploy all on the Microsoft stack it’ll be very compelling product for businesses and very difficult for any competitor to compete.

And those features are coming to GitHub Enterprise, so you can do it with the developer product you already know and like. And of course, with tight integration to do it from your IDE if you like.
Dangerous Ransomware Technique
For those interested in this problem, a while back I wrote a blog post listing all the well-known ways of correctly generating random points on the surface (or inside) of a d-dimensional sphere.
It includes all the frequently used ones as well as some lesser know elegant methods.

http://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-generate-uniformly-rand...
Just wrote a websocket server in Rust. Turned out really easy.
Havana syndrome: 'directed' radio frequency likely cause of illness
> Ironically the main thing keeping C++ relevant is the lack of a standard cross platform ABI.

I find that statement very odd, because in my experience the bane of C++, and perhaps the primary reason to look for alternatives, is C++'s lack of a standard ABI.

The lack of a stable ABI is C++'s main source of bit rot, and the main technical point that justifies migrating projects, even legacy ones, into other programming languages. If not for the ABI issue, most of the technical points used in favour of jumping away from C++ into some bandwagon of the moment would be moot.
I'm not sure how anyone can have this view of the world and keep a straight face.

However, here

> It seems like all of the actions to "rectify" the aforementioned issues clearly involve threats to democracy and free speech.

you at least acknowledge that there is a problem. So we just need to put our heads together and try to solve these problems... right?

Also, as a child of (at least some) privilege it takes a lot to see and understand the privileges you have. I hope you see yours, and I hope that you would want other people to have the same privileges that you have.
I guess it's better than those programs that try and parse your CV or resume in a pdf.

Every single one I've ever seen just shits out any old piece of text here and something else there.
Ah ok, apologies!
And incredible attention to detail. I believe the whole book was written just for the description of sterilisation protocol )
I agree... Like-ratio is definitely an unnecessary way to say "percentage liked" (numLiked / (numLiked + numDisliked)).

The green line indicates the like ratio of episodes over time. The top of the line is green, indicating a high (relative to other episodes) like-ratio. The redder the line is, the (relatively) lower the like-ratio.

Again, perhaps my copy is a little too terse; I'm not the best communicator.
I suspect they’ve gotten a lot of custom out of this post, as there’ll be a non-zero number of people who think “ooh, keto bread delivery!”
Breaking Up Facebook
> We're talking about what language you can use instead of C++, without losing access to C++ libraries.

Congratulations, your suggestion requires you to maintain two entirely separate languages, one of which is not standard nor mature, not to mention maintaining interoperability bugs.
My comment really didn't intend to rule out mergers, or even businesses changing by themselves. I'm just saying they inevitably end up that way, by replacement if necessary.
'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves – US report
Was that raw mangos? Asking because I don't remember ever having such a problem with ripe ones (nor with raw ones, actually). And have eaten plenty of both, more of raw, in fact. But guessing the raw ones are more likely to have some irritating chemical.
I used to be on the java hate train, but honestly the JVM is magic for infra. I worked at AWS, and I groaned so hard when I started. Then, I came to appreciate it because of the tooling and the types of issues that actually cropped up.

This may also be stockholm syndrome.
That does contain the huge and unprovable assumption that there is such a thing as natural property in the absence of the state.

See https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/01/why-taxation-is-neith...
I really think it's a good solution for many cases but I haven't seen any server-side web framework that implements a kill-the-process-often strategy.

Do you know of any? If so, when do they decide to kill the process and how do they handle client disconnect?
Reading this article made me think that there should be some kind of monetary prize each year (similar to Nobel prize) for whistleblowers and all those people who are trying to expose corporate or governments corruption around the world.
Currently these people are risking their lives, having huge number of issues... just to get a tap on the shoulder, that does not encourage other people to come out, that could also serve as a protective cushion.
I visit LinkedIn whenever I suspect that I might be experiencing slow Wi-Fi service - their site is so bulky it seems ideal for manually detecting connectivity issues.
I've experienced none of those problems using Teams for the past 6 months. Works great regardless of whether my VPN is on or off.
I don't agree, it is finicky, breaks the flow and takes longer time than a real page refresh without javascript.

And after a certain depth collapses everything and you have no idea where you were or how to get back.

Even in the perfect world with performant js and no issues the concept still has no merit.
Not a classic nor even something that's stood the test of time nor even something that's done yet, but I've been interested in David Chapman's stuff

https://meaningness.com/

https://meaningness.com/eggplant

https://meaningness.com/further-reading (some of his influences and suggestions for reading, much of which is philosophy or philosophy-adjacent)

Mental models are one of his primary focuses (especially in In the Cells of the Eggplant). (He has a background in formal AI and a longtime academic interest in how an AI, or a human, could usefully model and act in the world. More recently he's been a serious student and practitioner of some less-well-known-to-English-speakers sorts of Buddhism, which he mostly tries to describe to his website readers from a secular, naturalist perspective.) I appreciate that he's kind, curious, thorough, intelligent, and eclectic. I sometimes think I'll be doing well if I get to 30% of his attainment in any of these areas!
Is it just me or front-ends of giant platforms are becoming more mainstream? First Individious, then Nitter, now Teddit. I think this speaks volumes of what modern webpages have become. Too bad that those sites will probably pull the plug and make changes that simply break those front-ends.