skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you want to resent rich people for being rich, that's your prerogative, but I don't think there's much benefit in seeing it that way.

You mentioned planet ecosystem and consumption, so let's use energy as an example. The richest people consume much more per capita than everyone else, but still represent a tiny fraction of overall usage. So no matter how you deal with the rich, it won't solve that problem. Meanwhile, everyone acts in their own self-interest, so you have developing nations increasing their per capita energy consumption as their standard of living increases, and overall energy use goes up. The planet doesn't know the difference in who used to energy and whether it was justified/deserving/whatever. The result is the same.

So what's the solution? You could decrease wasteful consumption (commuting, global shipping as labor arbitrage) and you can change how energy is generated (i.e. renewables), which you could lump into political and technological changes. The easiest way to do either is to align people's incentives so they'll naturally drive those changes, since again people act in their own self-interest. Some rich people will lose out in that transition and try to oppose changes, others will benefit and try to further them, but the net effect isn't necessarily negative. And of course energy use is just one example here.

So these problems are kind of orthogonal to how you feel about rich people, meaning that if you let yourself get distracted with that, you'll have little impact.
Do you have any interesting examples?
Yes, Virtualization.framework's XPC service (because VM is out-of-process there) is implemented on top of Hypervisor.framework.
The EU has a quite reasonable (and rather lax) immigration policy, assuming that people come to the EU legally or move between EU countries.

People that get smuggled across the Mediterranean on a dinghy are a very special case and bear the main responsibility for their fates.
Their opponents aren’t claiming to be creditors or trying to get money. They’re trying to show their claims of corruption were right.

Opponents claim NRA is getting money from nefarious places and spending them on sketchy things. With bankruptcy, their books will be wide open to the public and their opponents can be proven right.
What is VPN and How does it work?
Simple Homemade Ferrari Car
WorkOS feels like a super thin layer over already OS libraries. How much do they really ripp off?
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It is not naive. What is naive is to leave to market to its own devices and assume everything will work themselves out beautifully.

You always make a proper analysis and do multiple changes money earned on price increases on one category of foods could be spent to reduce another category of food.

You could e.g. tax sugar and junk food and use those earning to subsidize healthier foods , making healthier food more accessible to poor people.
No, they let them drown, they purposefully buy drones and aircraft instead of ships so they do not have to rescue them.

It may not be quite the same, but it hardly measures up to the moral standards the EU likes to claim to stand for.
Fujis are the best IMO. They are perfectly crispy and sweet. Everytime I try another variety I usually regret it.
Great idea but favicons used in meta-tags does not support the onload event! I've found a workaround for this but it's only working in chrome. ~jonas
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Please tell me you assign IP addresses based on atomic weight!

This might be the coolest thing I've read all year...
For discovery I still use LibraryThing. It is also possible to use it without an account, with some more work. The UX is not great though. Thalia has curated reviews from their librarians and a book graph with recommendations. The coverage is not superb, but if you happen to find 1-2 librarians with similar tastes, you can get some ideas.

I don’t care much about the price comparison, I mostly just buy from ebooks.de or thalia.de. Often they have a copy from a cheaper publisher (at least for English ebooks) and whether it costs 4.5 or 5 euros doesn’t make much of a difference. I am just glad I am not giving the money to Amazon. The last time I bought an ebook from Amazon is more than 10 years ago.
I would suggest against donating to them. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029978 for wikipedia.

As for archive.org they offer basically no transparency as to which sites are excluded from their archiving (and as far as I know they will remove all the content of a site once the owner asks them to).
This has so many edge cases that it's really more of a vague rule of thumb than a hard definition: ring species (as another poster pointed out), infertile individuals (does every infertile individual constitute a species by itself?), drift over time (like ring species, but over time: an individual might be able to (in theory) produce fertile offspring with a far ancestor or with a far descendant, but the far ancestor may not be able to mate with the far descendant), ...
Amazing product! Isn't FB planning sth like that?
I wouldn't exactly call that "addressing" it. It's vague hand-waving about some guesswork done by some un-named "trade experts". The later mentions are from Gove of all people. Any brexiteer reading this rather than being convinced will just dismiss it as project fear. But as I've said elsewhere, this isn't an article for brexiteers, it's a warm-bath article to reinforce their readership's beliefs.
On the initial release of our product, a developer made a last minute change by pasting in some script code to a db. The code was fine, but it unfortunately contained a comment full of bizarre NSFW stuff. When the product ran, it would write this script code out to a file, and later upload it to a webserver. We got a letter from the Girl Scouts of America, who had been evaluating our product, saying that they would not be using it because of the obscenities it contained, which their cybernannie filter had detected.

A massive customer lost because of a hasty, last-minute change by over worked codemonkeys.
> I think marksmanship and gun safety should be taught in high schools.

That's where I learned it.

My high school had a shooting range in the basement for the Rifle Club. This was in the mid-1990s at a private, Catholic high school in Pennsylvania.
I would have picked it! In fact, when you’re faced with a civilization-wide once-in-a-century pandemic, you pick ALL of them. You invest billions of each. The top dozen get tens of billions. Each month, evaluate most promising approaches, and add more.

I knew in February or March that the mRNA vaccines were extremely promising. NIH experts knew earlier than I did.

The mRNA approaches had a head start because they had been studying MERS and SARS-1 before COVID-19. They hit the ground running once the sequence of the virus was released. It was known nearly immediately that they were promising approaches. That there were hyper-conservative uberskeptics that didn’t think so (and hadn’t actually been following such approaches in detail) and snootily spoke in the press about that doesn’t change what the real experts who were keeping abreast to the latest developments thought.
So you are paid to lure people to do free work for commercial companies?
> Frontex does not shoot people.

That wasn't the claim. The argument was that they kill people and that we've punished border guards who kill people before, so why not now. Shooting was just an example of killing.
Thanks! Just tried to add it to feedly but unfortunately it still gives me an error, reporting that it can't find feed. Will have a look at the source to see if I can help figuring it out, once I am back at my computer.
Almost anything in politics is viewed completely differently after a year. Just look at any news story you followed last year. Around the election. Impeachment. EU/Brexit, etc.
Appreciate the shout out magicconch! Just added a HN family discount to pick up the book, lab guide, and lab access for $10.

https://gum.co/cph_book_and_lab/hackernews20210207
While I would expect the answer to almost certainly be "yes", theory and practice do not always match up.

The "compiled vs interpreted" qualification was meant to preempt responses along the lines of "Of course it's faster -- it's compiled!"

I'm curious -- were the question simply "Is it faster?" how would you have responded?
All devices in our house are creatures: griphook, fawkes, crookshanks, pigwidgeon, hedwig, aragog, firenze, grawp, etc.
Thanks for the response. With that being said, any thoughts on why medium is so slow to load a page then ?
Where do you think money for subsidies come from?

Money has to come from taxes or cuts somewhere else. Likewise a tariff gives money which could be spent elsewhere.

Hence a tariff one place could be used to create tax cuts or provide other benefits in another area.

In this case what matters is if you actually have a government which is trying to look out for the poor.
The list of dirty, naughty, obscene, or otherwise bad words
It's really worrying that there's some concentrated effort to take Frontex down.
> Where a surveillance state combined with ML analysis leads to something akin to pre-crime arrests

While I haven't seen Minority Report or Eagle Eye, this aptly describes the anime TV series Psycho-Pass (2012). If I remember correctly, the show is mostly focused on the effects of having a crime-coefficient system.
To clarify, falsifying results was never my intention: During my work I tested Firefox (v 84.0) and everything worked fine under Windows & OSX.

Due to your feedback I've updated the table in the GitRepo and the website and added that the current FF version (v 85.0) is no longer vulnerable! ~jonas
AI playing games is cool, but applying those techniques to real world scenarios would require a huge breakthrough. If a huge breakthrough happens then sure, but my point was based on us continuing using techniques similar to what we currently use.

Huge breakthroughs happens very rarely so I wouldn't count on it.
It's not the HN crowd. It's more likely people from those commercial LibreOffice vendors and they sock-puppets.
I've written a few: https://every.sdf.org/.webshare/clerihews.txt
I agree and wanted to add that they also scare and radicalize good people. I have friends and family in rural areas who think a mob of BLM and Antifa are going to show up and destroy a strip mall based on apocalyptic NRA propaganda.

I personally like guns but would prefer this organization didn’t exist at all.
Haha love it
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Beyond headlines, news outlets also silently edit old stories, sometimes years after the fact.

The Washington Post was recently caught scrubbing an unflattering quote from a 2019 profile of Kamala Harris:

https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-washington-post-memory-hol...
That would cause Australian rabbits or Georgia kudzu. Not a good plan.
The EU's friends in the UK have decided to be treated more like a third country than a typical partner. Surely they are responsible for their actions?
Hackers are hijacking chastity cages
I don't know. My guess is that since the weaknesses are in the protocol, adding a Radius server makes management easier but doesn't change the mathematics. This means that the network is more secure from things like weak passwords, but not handshake attacks.

I see from Wikipedia there is a new WPA3 protocol, and that's where I would start if I was worried about security to that degree. I am not, so I have not upgraded openwrt on my router.
This is pretty cool.

Expanding a bit this would be great in an IDE, Often I have wanted to simply select a bunch of files and edit them at once (maybe with a special temporary comment between them) as a single file then save the changes back to the individual files. Would be nice if that was a right click context menu item or bindable command.

In C(++) land I could see it being extremely useful for h/c(pp) juggling if the IDE automagically did the combining.

Finally being able to write the comments that separate the files as I type would be really nice when prototyping out new code you want all
together before you split it up.

Also perhaps if its common enough certain meta files that describe link other files together could be left as shortcuts in the repo. When you open those the files (or portions of files) they reference are opened for editing.
The GPT-3 Jerome K. Jerome essay blew my mind. Better than most writers out there. Close up Iowa Writers' Workshop- that place is toast!
Gun owner in the US. I think GP is engaging in demonization by saying first and foremost, the NRA is acting on behalf of gun manufacturers and the most extreme gun owners. 1) The NRA is a membership organization that appears to primarily be funded by the dues and donations of their millions of members. They promote gun ownership not to enrich manufacturers, but because thats what their members want. 2) The "most extreme gun owners" frequently deride the NRA as "Negotiating Rights Away" and encourage people to instead donate to other organizations like Gun Owners of America or the Firearms Policy Coalition. I don't believe the the NRA's positions on gun policy are significantly more radical than their members or most gun owners, generally.

That isn't to say no criticism of the NRA is warranted. The accusations from the NYS AG that the organization has unfairly enriched its executives and their families seem spot on, even if the proposed remedy (dissolution) is unwarranted. And as a gun owner, I've been dismayed to see the NRA lean into guns as a partisan issue. I wish they'd stay out of politics if it was unrelated to guns. In what world should they be honoring FCC Chairman Ajit Pai?
As far as preserving civil liberties in America, I much preferred GOA over the NRA. While the NRA traditionally has been a great organization in preserving the heritage of marksmanship in America, somewhere in the late 90s or early 2000s the wheels came off. I don't think the CEO of such an organization should be making $800k/year.
Yeah I am not convinced by this. I see the virtue of simplicity, but it seems unlikely that strong magnetic fields will become less common in the 21st century. It would be much better IMO to design some kind of standardized knocking scheme and require all device manufacturers to implement it after some flag day. We already have very strong regulation for medical devices, so it should be pretty easy to add "ICD shall be disabled only when presented with a . .. ... .... magnetic knocking message with the following timings".
> the modern NRA opposes all gun control laws basically on principle

Not anymore. That's purveyed by the GOA now.

https://www.gunowners.org
Yep, or the brand new cosmic crisp, but the price is rediculou s on those right now.
I agree, this book was free so its on us, but I must say I was fairly disappointed as well. Skimming through it I found it was providing general statement whereas I was expecting specifics. At the beginning this has the self-help flavor that tend to be hyper general. Yet towards the end it got a bit more specific. I feel like everything could've been summarized in max 10 pages or down to a blog post.
Please note that I've nothing to do with the authors of this paper[1]! ~jonas

[1] https://www.cs.uic.edu/~polakis/papers/solomos-ndss21.pdf
I agree that UB is a serious issue in languages like C and C++.

I thought you were going in another direction with that example, the Most Vexing Parse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse
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It sounds to me like people are being put in their positions where they are the most effective. Skewing any other way for the sake of having a "equal representation" is simply silly imo. We see the same thing in tech where we want everyone being represented regardless of skills and the business goals and just to have that social justice satisfaction for a brief time.
I'm getting real tired of this rhetoric already..ironically it's parroted largely by non-minorities.
Arblib.jl [1] is a Julia wrapper for Arb. Most of the basic wrapping is auto-generated from Arbs documentation. There is still work left to make it interface well with the Julia ecosystem, and document it, but it's on it's way.

https://github.com/kalmarek/Arblib.jl
Thanks, I'll still donate to both.
Those threads don't show anything interesting, some just bash the org for spending any of the money they receive in a way someone doesn't like from years and years ago. This is silly
Image recognition is just image recognition no matter where it is used.
God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead
I think the name "ball arithmetic" is Joris's idea. I don't have a good reference at hand, but I believe the idea of using a centered form of intervals is as old as interval arithmetic itself. Ball arithmetic has been used quite a bit for complex interval arithmetic, where it sometimes offer better enclosures than rectangular intervals, and another nice point of ball arithmetic is that it generalizes to more general normed spaces. However, before Joris's and my own work, I think very few people realized how useful ball arithmetic is specifically for arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
Some comments about Cosmic Crisp in this thread.

Actually there was a legal fight between the Ag tech startup Phytelligence who raised nearly $23 million and Washington State University over it.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/agriculture-tech-startup-phyte...
It's a failure of "eugenics": aggressive artificial selection amplifies trade-offs, and by the time the market picks up on the fact that trade-offs exit (in the case of Red Delicious, mostly having to do with taste of the fruit), consumer tastes shift, and the formerly selected-for traits become very unpopular.
Sweet! Thanks for sharing.
Do Pacific Islanders count as Asians? IIRC There are a relatively high number of them in the NFL.
Ethical and Technical Concerns about the Netblocks Internet Observatory
Highway robbery in SF caught on Tesla cam
Good! Maybe we can determine how much money was spent on slush funds for the leadership instead of, you know, promoting pro 2A laws.
There have also been many athletes who tried vegan diets and found that their performance declined, or they had more difficulty recovering from injuries. So preference is only one factor.
In fairness it would've been hard to imagine the current level of hype about data analysis.
As TFA points out, Frontex routinely and systematically ignores/breaks both European and international law. We do not deny medical treatment to people that get in car accidents, even if they caused the accidents themselves by driving recklessly.

If the EU wants to keep migrants from Africa out, fine, but letting hundreds of people drown each year in order so send a message is not acceptable, ethically or legally.
Personally I donate to keep wikipedia independent so they don't get bought up by an entity. I don't care what agendas they have and there are no better alternatives (and never will be).
I built this a long time ago:

https://github.com/xixixao/many-to-one
Table derived from Fig 2. in the paper:

1. Foraging Behavior
====================
1.1 Meat diet
1.2 Fish diet
1.3 Food storage
1.4 Day range
1.5 Migratory distance

2. Reproductive Behavior
========================
2.1 Age at first reproduction
2.2 Polygyny
2.3 Patrilocality
2.4 Exogamy
2.5 Divorce

3. Social Behavior
==================
3.1 Paternal care
3.2 Population density
3.3 Group size
3.4 Distribution range
3.5 Social classes
Similar to German expression "die Hose runterlassen" (pulling down the pants).
I also found this to be one of these articles weak points.

The author (rightfully) argues that what bankers do is difficult, and so it makes sense that they are compensated for it. But they also use this as an excuse for the finance industries short-comings: pricing mortgage backed securities is hard, coordinating bailouts is hard, so are bankers really to blame if they don't get it perfectly right?

I don't think you can have it both ways.
Why is it problematic for Frontex to meet with weapons companies?

“A new regulation passed by the European Parliament in the spring of 2019 stipulates that Frontex is to have a “standing corps” of 10,000 by 2027, and it is allowed to equip border agents with handguns.

The problem is that no legal regulations permit members of an EU agency to carry firearms.”

Why are lobbyists so interested in Frontex?

“...In addition: Since 2019, Frontex has been permitted to own and acquire airplanes, drones and firearms.”

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So the concern is that Frontex is being “too forward” in acquiring weapons it’s allowed to own, but not carry for some reason, while also being dishonest/misleading about meeting with vendors, correct?

Biometric usage, and meeting with other border agencies instead of human rights groups aside.
> Scotland has far greater trade with the rest of Great Britain than with the EU, so it would be in their interests to remain in the British internal market and customs territory

The UK has far greater trade with the rest of the EU than with the rest of the world, so it would be in their interest to remain in the Single Market and Custom Union.

I've always found it quite funny when English make this argument about Scotland. Particularly as the last independence referendum was won by the unionist side with a razor-thin margin, under the premises that the way for Scotland to stay in the EU was to stay in the UK. How is it that English nationalists are allowed to be unreasonable, but Scottish should not?
This is just bizarre.

I am not an American, nor ever visited SF. But this is just a scene right out of a video game.
Web Spectrogram using your Mic
I just made one of these.

What a good idea.