skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media also interviews Kanye, Elon, and the cookie monster because they are celebrities but that doesn't mean we have to believe what they say.

I think it is reasonable to think that bill gates has some idea what he is talking about, especially because in this case he is essentially saying 2+2=4. Still, he is not the definitive authority on crypto.
This is serious because many leaders especially in developing countries where democracy is relatively young are using the same technologies to spy on opposition leaders and activists. Many people are dying and are running away from their homeland because Israel technology is enabling dictators and shrinking the rights of others.
On the other hand, many people without CS education at all (myself included!) have made it through this gauntlet and probably wouldn't have their resumes entertained at all without something like it.
Most standards are not where ideas come from, but instead, they are simply people who took the time to write down an idea someone else had.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)#History_...
In the mean time, every Texan EV owner is stuck because their brand new 50k Tesla can drive in the snow.
>You're really going to double down on the idea that the youtube comment section is some bastion of intellectual greatness?

No, I have never described it as some "bastion of intellectual greatness", but as place where people can freely exchange ideas and formulate criticism. That's why you don't post your non arguments there, because they don't hold up to any scrutiny.
You on the other hand are doubling down on your deceptive rhetoric by concentrating on anything other than something specific in the content of the video. I hinted to it once and I will say it again, you are acting in bad faith and are clearly deceptive.
Subscriptions are €2100 per year. It looks like the features it has over cheaper or free alternatives are disabling camera, GPS, and microphone, deleting messages after 30 seconds, a "panic" password that if entered causes the device to be wiped, and the app is apparently somewhat hidden so it isn't immediately apparent to someone looking at your device that you have it.

I'd not at all be surprised if they had a disproportionately large number of criminals among their users. There are plenty of non-criminal uses for which you need highly secure messaging, but much fewer for which you need 30 second deletion, a panic mode, and to hide the fact that you have a secure messaging app.
BTC goes bankrupt when one person controls 51% of the mining infrastructure
You either get natural CS wizards or dedicated people who are willing to spend time preparing. Seems like a win either way.
I mean, yeah, you do. Why wouldn't renewables be able to power a grid that runs those things? CERN doesn't have an on-site power plant - it just hooks into the European grid via a French substation (it also has a connection to a Swiss substation as a partial backup, but it isn't used during normal operation).
CERN is like any other big customer of the grid. They have very specialized technology on their premises but they shouldn't have to really care how the electricity they consume is generated. The point of "the grid" is that it is able to serve all the customers plugged into it. If "the green grid" isn't able to serve CERN, then it will have failed many other customers as well.
Appeals to truth and falsity aren’t enough to resolve disagreements and d (cont)
Open source is more of a minimum requirement not assurance of quality.
If you think women aren't competing and being judged, simply with another set of criteria, you've... not talked to a lot of women.

Which of the two sexes is more likely to have their worth as partner be judged based on their [looks, and maybe second emotional support]? Last time I checked, [men] are a lot more judgmental of their partner's [looks] than [women] are, frequently to the point of wanting a [gal] who is relatively "better" than themselves. You think that has no influence on competitiveness? When your worth as a romantic partner gets tied heavily to [this one primary thing, and then the emotional support bit], which can be found in a field emphasizing competitiveness, surely you can imagine [women] respond by ... well, what am I supposed to fill in here? But if you think carefully about this, being agreeable (what's optimized for in this school stuff) is other than appearance probably the single most important currency a woman has.
It may be a crime, but is the result of a set of compromises in the design of the OSX filesystem, which had to work with a BSD variant while also being compatible with pre-OSX days. I think it’s one thing they actually did an elegant job with.

EDIT: This document describes some of the challenges: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
The one exception to this flaw I remember was a restoration show on History channel. I don't remember the name... some guy named Rick that liked sleeveless shirts working in the desert.

Anyway, for at least the first two seasons it was great: there was a lot of discussion on how to restore a piece, what it originally looked like, where problems might occur, how to find or make replacement parts, etc., and then showing the actual work in detail. My wife and I both thought it was great.

Then it had the fate of all such reality shows about actually making things: not enough drama. So the manufactured drama and "excitement" started and at that point it went downhill rapidly.
The bigger problem with reading chat logs IMO is you either read them backwards which is very complex but leaves you infinite room to keep going, or you pick a point in the past and read normally but you won’t be able to continue easily once you reach the end.

Ultimately, how many people actually care about chat backlogs. It’s 99% useless conversations that you can just skip over and participate in the current topic.
Very well, thank you for your time.
Why would you spend a week preparing for an interview for a six-figure job instead of of going through medical school and residency? Is that a real question?
Go by Example (2016)
What about hand writing?
This is an extremely aggressive approach - the scenario is that the government considers it a threat to national security, which presumes that modifying national laws isn't a problem. You'd be able to detain developers from other countries with extradition agreements, and maybe a few others if you want to risk angering those countries. That'd probably be enough.

A lot of the discussion in the linked post is about specific ways that countries could take down bitcoin, but my main point is that if a majority of large countries wanted to take it down, they have a large variety of tools they could use to do so. Building a lot of hash capability is probably low on the list. The tech is built and run by people, and countries have a lot of ways of exerting power on people, should they consider it important.

Like, the US was arranging coups across central and south america so that bananas would be cheap, I don't think it's too far-fetched to think that violence is a tool they'd reach for to take down bitcoin if needed.
Any technical info on how the app was compromised?

If I worked for the government and I wanted to break into an app, I'd simply send a letter to the app store saying "Yeah you have to post this app update that contains code written by government hackers to leak the keys / messages of (investigation targets | everyone). If you don't, your executives / employees will (be sent to jail | be kidnapped by black ops forces, shot, and buried in an unmarked grave). Ditto if you tell anyone about this letter."
We pair the take home with a code review the candidate hosts with the SW team.
You'd get about a 1 mSv dose, and be fine. I'm more worried about the 200,000 or so daily premature deaths due to fossil fuel pollution.
Do you happen to remember what documentary/ what person was this?
Aggressively expanded? they gave Gaza away!
Presumably it would be be acquired, paywalled, and monetized by a private equity firm (or some suitably hostile intellectual property rightsholder organization) before going bankrupt and shutting down for good.

Thanks for an incredible journey.
Storage with solar is currently generally economical competitive for about 75% of output for 4hrs, with a charge cycle per day.

In order to replace fossil fuels using wind and storage you would need significant more than 4 hours, using a much slower charge cycle. If we want to have something like 1 week of storage, with an expected charge cycle of 2 weeks (ie one week where the wind is producing more than the grid, followed by one week where it is producing less), we are talking about 42x in capacity, and the investment will get repaid 14x slower for each dollar invested.

Prices will need to drop and production will need to be heavily increased before batteries is viable for wind, and until then more fossil fueled power plants is being built in order to match the capacity of wind.

If I had to choose between battery and nuclear, my choice is neither. Simply ban fossil fuels while we wait for people to make up their mind.
How is this completely different from about.me pages? Can someone explain the difference between the two?
I have to use teams for work, and feel this whole approach, and as described in the article is pretty awful. I think Slack's threads are better. Just having the reply option, as Discord does is also most sufficent.
Having all this different thread containers causes the timing of the topic to get lost. I'll have to keep scrolling up to something important, and expand it, and then scroll to another on and expand it. then if I make any response, or want to see the latest that someone said, I need to lose my place again.
Is this a default-on scenario?

No, LFS is something you would have to explicitly enable, however it is pretty common to do so if you want to store binary blobs in Git.
VRChat is becoming one of those platforms. Creating is easy and I spend way too much time playing a faithfully recreated 3D VR of Among Us in there!
macOS has defaulted to be case insensitive largely due to historical and perhaps usability reasons. You can opt to make it case sensitive (and I do, which broke Steam for several years but that also freed my time).
You realize Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and India trade extensively with China?

Okay, you buy their products instead of China. They grow richer and trade more with China.

Until we pressure our fellow Asian "allies" to stop trading with China, that money will just be recycled towards China anyways.

Buy American. Buy European.
Sure. Why dig deeper when a surface-level answer will do?
Or maybe acknowledging incremental improvement instead of pointing out imperfections will encourage more improvement.
BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers less than a month after acquisition
Maybe?

the wage gap has clear reasons (mens' jobs are better paid, women get promoted less) and thus clear solutions (stop discriminating against women at hiring/promotion time, or improve women's retention thus allowing them to stick in a job for longer, improving their chances at a promotion), even if these solutions are easier said than done.

the life expectancy gap instead... what are the reasons? I suspect that in some cultures it can be because of gender-specific abuse of alcohol... but if that's the reason ( or even if otherwise if the reason is biological) I'm not sure that we have an obvious solution to the problem.

Also, I presume that language test score could be as concerning as math test scores... but the latter will help students pursue a STEM career, which is better remunerated than a career that makes use of knowledge of languages. From that point of view, to improve opportunities later in life, fixing math scores can have priority.
Yes, it is confusing. My brother in law works in that industry, and explained the differences to me this way:

Mobile home: Factory built before a certain date in the 1970's (which I've forgotten), with no particular quality standards in place.

Manufactured home: The new name for mobile homes, indicating that they have been factory built to clearly defined standards. Considered depreciating personal property by insurance companies and lenders.

Modular home: Also factory built, but to the same standards as homes built on-site. (These are the prefabs you mention.) Considered real estate, the same as site-built homes, by insurance companies and lenders.

Edit: Wikipedia links to this archived page, which provides more specifics:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120323074714/http://www.mhcomm...
I really liked Legere as a CEO. I think he did more to advance consumer benefits in the telco industry than anyone else in the last 10 years. His efforts made Verizon and AT&T have to move, at least a little from their cushy duopoly position
I mean, the JS itself is the 200 LOC, so it's not trivial, but feel free to crib my source as a start. The partials are really straightforward, though — my layouts/microposts/single.html just brings in the webmentions.html partial with one tag at the right part of the layout (i.e. almost the bottom) and then that JS does the work of... whatever you want. You could start just iterating the contents of any webmentions array pulled in as an unnumbered list, then iterate your presentation from there.
You probably shouldn't check out TSLA today then.
Building pumped hydro is not going to suddenly be more feasible or cheaper as demand for it increases. What else can store energy for more than a week at a cost that approaches reasonable?
Thanks for the taking the time to look through our website, appreciate the feedback!

We're sorry to hear you've got a bad taste in your mouth from our pricing page, I'll have to rethink how we present this. By "limited advertisement", we generally mean less than the competitors (no forced watermark at the bottom of your site), but there's no examples to demonstrate that. You make valid points about how we can better present our features to interested users - and we certainly don't want to hide anything.

At this time, we plan to keep custom domains free and charge on a per-profile basis, however we might end up having different tiers of custom domain support (one might be simpler than the other to setup).

Additionally, I will add that we've made all the features available in our paid tiers available free in our Github for those that decide to self-host. Our eventual goal is for the community marketplace (when monetized) to generate enough revenue to reduce paywalls on features and limit monetization mainly to marketplace purchases, but we'll see what traction we can get. In retrospect, I could emphasize these more on the website.

I hope I made myself clear! Again, I really appreciate the feedback, and we'll keep these in mind as we make changes of the next week! :)
This feels like trying to turn IM in to Facebook. No one wants their group to become a link dump where you drop a video or news article and then leave. If the content isn’t discussion worthy or on topic, don’t dump it. No one likes chats which are just logs of someone’s YouTube history
Wait what happened to newsgroups?
It's the typical "think of the children" or "but the terrorists" approach. Everyone is treated like a criminal because some of them could be.

Calling the users "criminals" makes it harder to defend them at first glance because the first reaction is "you're defending criminals". And attaching a number to this, even an impossible to support statistic, is meant to make the statement more believable, everyone likes nice, round numbers.

Of course they hope nobody raises the not so obvious points. Even taking that statement at face value (which you definitely should not) what about the other 10% non-criminals whose privacy was violated without any reasonable cause? Where else are they using the excuse that 90% success rate is acceptable? If 90% is enough to paint everyone with the same brush, when 90% of users are not criminals why aren't the other 10% also treated as innocent too?

In reality just about 100% of "critics" saying this are law enforcement agencies or governments who will violate your rights or break the law in a heartbeat if it means getting their way.
I think the flow architecture (i.e. Redux) is sufficiently descriptive for how to organize a project, at least compared to REST. There is one giant state object which is essentially a struct/trivially serializable to JSON. This state can only be changed via actions/events which are themselves only structs, not full objects. Reducer function(s) transform the old state into a new state using these events (in practice people use multiple reducer functions which are chained together).

This isn't even message passing really since you do have global state, it's just that this global state is changed via messages/events.
OSX has even more annoying problem that it decomposes unicode: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5581857/git-and-the-umla...

Many fun times trying to copy/move/remove a file and not being able to do so because the input and name stored on fs is actually different bytewise...

Seems like linux has the only sane filesystems not trying to mangle paths at all.
The issue with this type of article is that it's less interested in being an accurate depiction of reality than it is feeding certain popular narratives.

There's a kernel of truth: women in many cultures held responsibility for food preparation, and beer was an important method of preparing and preserving food. Brewsters are thus an essential part of the history of brewing. You can go too far in this--men also made plenty of beer (e.g. monastic), but it's true that beer-making was feminine-coded until the early modern era.

But there is absolutely no evidence that accusations of witchcraft were used to murder innocent brewsters so that dastardly men could come and dominate the market. What does the article attribute this to?

> Just as women were establishing their foothold in the beer markets of England, Ireland and the rest of Europe, the Inquisition began.

This makes no sense at all. The Inquisition wasn't some universal phenomenon that swept the entirety of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals: it was a locally scoped institution centered on Catholic Mediterranean countries, particularly Spain. Catholic Ireland barely experienced it owing to separation from the continent, and Protestant England didn't have one at all.

Let's be generous, though, and reinterpret this sloppiness as "men used the religious turmoil at the time to accuse women of witchcraft with a renewed salience." Indeed, the article says:

> To reduce their competition in the beer trade, these men accused female brewers of being witches and using their cauldrons to brew up magic potions instead of booze.

With "these men accused female brewers of being witches" being a link to https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-dark-history-of-wo...! Wonderful, maybe some concrete evidence.

But as we click on it to find out about these accusations, it turns out the article doesn't even make a claim that female brewers were accused of being witches, let alone provide evidence that it happened.

It's a flimsy series of unsupported claims only held together by the hope that readers will turn off their critical thinking because it's being published on smithsonianmag.com, and the knowledge that anyone calling out its flimsiness will be accused of being a misogynist. Of course, for every one person who realizes the article is nonsense, a hundred people will now know for a fact that women invented beer and witchcraft was used to steal beer from women because the Smithsonian said so.
Yeah, but if we're looking for potential revolutions, we already have a bunch of data that points towards AI in the possibility space.
I definitely opted out of this already. I even contacted their support about concerns over the way they sell location data upon opt-in (hint: their opt-in requirement for sharing your location was completely up to the location aggregator and the end customer buying location data to enforce. eg, not enforced at all).

The main point I made was that this was not able to be opted out of via their preferences, and that having opted out of all possibilities, my cell number was still revealing location data when entered into one of those aggregation services.

They had me snail mail a letter to a PO box. I never got a reply.

Yet today _all_ of their privacy settings have been reset to opt-in status. And I still can't stop them from giving my location to anyone who tells their API "Yes, I have his permission".
With the problem of western Europe having massive braindrain. A doctor in France who decides to work in China will easily quadruple his salary. likewise in pretty much any country. An engineer in France, working in the US will also triple his salary.

Of course, there's less safety nets, less benefits but for educated people who are part of the upper middle class (doctors, teachers, engineers, etc...), the increase in salary is such that it really makes no sense from an economic standpoint to stay in France.

I'd say it's better only for working class to lower middle class.
Look, businesses don't go bankrupt completely out of the blue. There are so many ways to ensure that various parties get their pound of flesh while loading up the company with additional liabilities that it is ridiculous.

Sure, technically employees are near the top, but that doesn't help if all the cash and assets are long gone.
Agreed. Even with the nicely supplied shortcut URL it was still 16 clicks for me to turn everything off for 4 lines.
You're right, it is Blackstone.
#define zero 0

is just bad programming, barring some philosophical code which cares about "zero-ness". Names need to reflect what they represent, not their precise values. Are we looking up the first index? Then how about

#define first_index 0

? Are we summing up values which are coerced to zero when empty? Then how about

#define empty_value_integer 0

or

#define additive_identity 0

?

Yes, that means there might be more than one variable with a value of zero, and that's completely fine since we now have several megabytes available for both source code and for compilation.

To be clear, I'm not endorsing the rule, just saying that there are more productive ways of dealing with it.
I don't have anything to add to the discussion but I really enjoyed your article.
Is white phosphorus a chemical weapon?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-intelli...

Did Israel use white phosphorus on civilian targets in gaza?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2009/01/israel-used-w...

Doesn't seem "outright false" to me.