skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chernobyl accident was arguably a major factor in the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union and therefore the end of the Cold War so perhaps some good did come from those awful events.
The Chornobyl disaster is so expensive, that it collapsed the Soviet Union and put a hard burden on economies of Ukraine and Belarus for 20+ years. The full price of cheap nuclear energy is extremely high.
Off topic, but I used to find meditation so stimulating that it would keep me up at night, so I stopped doing it in the evening. I now resumed. Meditation is a really undescriptive word. It could mean a million different things.
> A lot of cities in India have been continuously occupied for over 2000 years (Kalyan, Ujjain, Bharuch, Patna). A lot of them don't have any obvious ruins from that era

A lot of ancient ruins are _under_ the city itself. e.g

Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio

Italy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52818746

It's sometimes theorised that the ground level in cities rises over the centuries, due to sheer accumulation of material. https://www.quora.com/Why-over-the-centuries-cities-such-as-...

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-ground-level-of-Ancient-Rom...

Because people build over the ruins and rubble; and put a new layer of surfacing on the roads periodically.
> I keep a deep orange filter on my monitor all the time

I've also started doing this recently and it helps a lot. The only time where it's a problem is when working with design/photography obviously. It's not a pleasant surprise when I turn it off and realize that colors are not that great.
The Mighty App will either die or become a privacy nightmare. Because a browser can run arbitrary compute it will be abused, and if they don't want to die they will have to spy on what their users are doing to find abuse.
Isn't there a trademark infringement risk to put the AWS brand as the lead item? I'm surprised AWS approves of that vs the more common for AWS model for third parties targeting AWS. But great to hear AWS have such a relaxed view. The legal side would probably throw a fuss over this type of thing.
> Intel 10nm desktop is releasing this fall.

Hence, "Intel they have struggled". For 5years.

We still don't know how it's going to turn out.
If hundreds of billions to address the first nuclear meltdown in world history is unimaginably expensive, what do you call the "conservative" estimate of covid-19's total cost of "$16 Trillion" for the US alone? Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604733/
And that's assuming its all taken care of by fall of 2021.
Woman Is Charged with Starting the 2018 Delta Fire in California
did clubhouse have any star power?
> HN comment section pessimism is a new metric for evaluating your odds of success.

It's not. This is survivorship bias from the infamous stories about Dropbox, Coinbase, etc. There's plenty of "Show HNs" of HNr's criticizing companies that go nowhere. Including one of my own!

What you're referring to is effectively called "non consensus and right"[0]. The problem with this concept is that it can only be verified after the idea is deemed right or wrong.

https://disruptionobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/image...
It's probably one of the most successful message boards on the Internet, and the rule we're talking about has been in place for many years.
It is possible, but would be an interesting co-incidence. More anecdotal evidence, but Elixir has an easier time with adoption that Erlang and a big part of that reason is syntax.

It's superficial, you get past it quickly, but it's the first thing you encounter and that can affect whether people give a language a 'proper' go.
Mystery of Deadly 'Last Resort' Antibiotic Finally Solved After 70 Years
powerfull people can silence you in so many ways. they will always have a platform, you won't.

you also got discourse backwards. you should be judging the arguments presented (which in this case not much), not the persona.
I think you're being downvoted because you're point is really just whataboutism. It's perfectly valid to talk about the horrors committed without needing to point out that other groups do nasty things too.
This is one of the best discussions I've seen in HN so far. It's amazing when great minds think about worldview formation and the role of Internet has on it.

I feel sad about the end of LiveLeak and what the site represented to very curious people like most of us here.
Sounded like buying indulgences to me.

"My sins are forgiven as long as I tithe some of my profits". Buys your way out of the issue, doesn't change the lifestyle.
> People selling their $1.5M home in California and buying one home here and one in Arizona/Florida.

And real estate investment groups buying up housing to rent.
Same here, wouldn’t mind the chat feature but the crypto wallet was a step too far. The web of trust stuff seems to have been removed and replaced by a follow mechanism that I don’t understand the reason for.
This is exactly why the "Gish gallop" turns out to be an effective debating technique.
The day I lost a lifetime of memories [audio]
I agree. The point is that many people, including Bob Dylan, my high school teacher and many others seem to think advertisement purposefully misleads (or exploits) in order to sell. I tend to (partially) side with this opinion myself, but that's not the main point of my comment.

I'm supporting jasode's comment that lots of people do consider advertising morally objectionable. I believe this assertion is not controversial regardless of what one personally thinks about ads.
This sounds like the usual Western "Oh Japan, you're so wacky (sigh)" story.
Many, many more people read posts than answer them. Leaving those posts up will give some proportion of readers the idea that such questions are reasonable, open holes in our knowledge. Even if there's an answer provided (potentially hours later), the damage would have already been done.

The forum is a place for education. Leaving bad faith questions up hurts that goal and there aren't many practical alternatives, especially given the massive asymmetry in effort by contributors. Did you know that posts often take multiple hours to write? It would only take a couple dozen malicious posters to completely overwhelm the relatively small contributor base without mod intervention.
I don't know what "installed as a snap" means, but:

I'm running WSL 2 with MobaXterm and from running idea.sh, intellij's splash screen comes up in less than 1 second, and my list of projects comes up in about 3 seconds.
12-year-old boy graduates from high school, college, starts 2 companies
Yes. Chez Scheme in particular is a remarkable implementation. Idris 2 for example (a leaner, dependently typed relative of Haskell) relies on Chez Scheme.

As a mathematician I don't need a large ecosystem of other people's work. What keeps drawing me back to Haskell is the experience of reasoning about code paradigms as if they are a branch of algebra (not everyone appreciates algebra, but those who do can never turn around), and a support for parallel code that is decades ahead of any other language I have tried.
> they'll probably give it for free or very cheap.

They wont give away this for free:

> Each browser instance gets 16 vCPUs using state-of-the-art Intel CPUs running at up to 4.0 GHz.

People would mine bitcoins with it. Not to mention they'd be footing more than all of youtubes bandwidth costs if this gets popular.
>No-one is forcing you to see ads

Uh? Where do you live? Where do you browse?

I'm a paid subscriber to newspapers and they keep tracking me and emailing/notifying/displaying ads. They even share my data to their "partners". I can't get out of my apartment without seeing ad everywhere (subway, buildings, billboards...). You cannot escape advertising unless you completely isolate yourself from society.
I would rather use FIDO2, which is an open, decentralized standard that's both super secure and convenient. Why is nobody supporting that? That way we don't even need to remember usernames, let alone passwords.
Yep. The first week I joined clubhouse I spent >10 hours on the platform, it was fascinating to see high profile people drop into rooms and be able to participate in ad hoc conversation with them.

But the notifications were constant. Once I turned them off, I forgot about the app almost completely.

After I did this, I realized how little time I had to allocate to hearing other people banter. It's already the case that I miss some great podcasts because of time constraints. It also started to seem like an audio-version of Twitter with all of the negativity and in/out group dynamics that are common there.
Why would Japan "reject BLM," a political movement concerned with American police brutality against African Americans?

For that matter, why would a collectivist country with deep ideals of social conformity and politeness (to the point that it's baked into their language) reject "SJW" ideals? What would "SJW" even mean in Japan?
Democrats challenged presidential election results in 2000, 2004, and 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/democrat-republic...

They also challenged a House seat in this 2020 cycle: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrat-rita-hart-ends-elec...

Trump has also won two-thirds of the election cases that were actually heard, rather than dismissed on some technicality: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/exclusive-breakdown...

My point being that I don't think it is invalid to discuss election results or not believe in them. We have a legal process to hear these complaints for a reason.
> we discovered we had made a big mistake in drafting it that had gone unnoticed by me, the expert bankers and lawyers and all the investors so far. There is literally no chance that this error would have been found or solved by a formal system and if anything it would actually have been worse.

There is no chance that a formal system wouldn't have revealed this bug? Static analysis and simulations wouldn't have helped?
Flutter and Its ‘Poor’ iOS Performance
No it's not regardless of the rest. It implies actual risk. Some rich dude losing a dime is not skin in the game, unless the phrase is meant as completely meaningless masturbation. "Skin" implies an actual impact, otherwise it's just "in the game".
The old, rich, and stupid. One of the things that has been blowing my mind recently is the awareness of how many wars happen as a result of accident, miscommunication, and institutional inertia. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour started off as a hypothetical 'how could we win a potential war with the US', then over time, gained so much momentum that even though its principal architect thought it was a very bad idea, and although it was obviously not in Japan's national interest, it ended up going ahead.
System body text and custom headings are good for a compromise between identity and performance/integration.
I mean, it does exactly what it set out to do. It wasn’t meant to be fun.
Yes, almost all US housing is timber frames (either 2x4 or 2x6 studs), but the exterior veneer depends greatly on where you live in the US.

Where I live in Oklahoma City, almost all of our houses are brick or stone on the outside. It's a veneer so it's not structural, but it provides a great thermal layer beyond just insulation between the timber studs. Brick is made locally in Oklahoma because the "red dirt" soil has a lot of clay in it, so bricks are actually the same price or cheaper than many siding products. Siding is really only widely used on second floors and "bonus rooms", etc. since brick is too heavy for the second floor and would require a lot more structural support.

Most of the HOAs in newer neighborhoods around OKC will even require 70-80% brick or stone exteriors because it's lower maintenance and less likely to become an eyesore with fading/chipping paint, etc. So the requirements are pretty regional.
> Soon we’ll start automatically enrolling users in 2SV if their accounts are appropriately configured

I get that this makes accounts more secure, but I'm more worried about accidentally getting locked out because my phone isn't charged/nearby/working than getting phished. I really hate it when sites take your ability to choose away, even though I understand why they do it.

I wish the EU would regulate that sites must implement U2F (with proper support for multiple keys) so at least you don't have to deal with 100 different (and usually annoying) 2FA methods (often the insecure SMS 2FA).
Email not sending is a good problem - it means someting is broken and you gotta look into it.

Good thing about email is that it can be dismissed. It literally goes into an inbox where you are already looking at other things that need your attention - and then you can delete/archive when you see that everything is fine.
How many more ideas? There's been 80 years of continuous demonstration that holocaust denial is ahistorical garbage. Yet people continue to believe it because it allows them to justify their hatred. When can we stop? Surely at some point people are allowed to say "no, go home" to the person who had nearly unlimited opportunity to educate themselves and refused.
Great point!

It wanted to edit the comment to change (1) to (server/client) but I passed my edit timeout.

I would include your (5) within (1). `textContent` and other DOM methods like `setAttribute` are effectively secure output-escaping on the client.

Your (5a) is an excellent extra measure. In this area, I'd also add security-focused linting for (1) and (5)–e.g. for (5), to ensure secure DOM methods are used, I use Mozilla's `eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized`[0] plugin for all my personal & work projects.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized/
I remember back in the day when people cared about creationists, there was the Talk.origins FAQ, which you could just point people to. AskHistorians even has an FAQ that could be used similarly.

That said, it'd still lead to a degradation and constant mod cleanup work to post links to the FAQ and close the thread (if not closed, fellow travelers would upvote it and use it as a JAQ platform).
This is compounded by the fact that the boron control rods at Chernobyl were tipped with graphite (to increase volume/displacement at lower cost), so that when the reaction started to run away as the Xenon built up, the operators attempted to SCRAM, but the graphite tips on the leading edge of the control rods acted as neutron moderators before the the boron was in place, further accelerating the reaction and causing the reactor explosion.
Your laptop (probably) already supports FIDO2 with your TPM, now it's a matter of Google (and others) implementing it.
Fringe and "new" religions are everywhere. I'd be surprised to find a country where they didn't exist.

Not sure what conclusions could be drawn from Japan having them too. Having them doesn't make Japan special or unique in any way.
Good question though, there are other standard values for OS fonts, such as `system-ui`(0) or `ui-sans-serif`(1).

[0]: https://caniuse.com/font-family-system-ui
[1]: https://caniuse.com/extended-system-fonts
A quick search (haha) shows that google pulls in $182/year per user and 90% of that is from advertising. So yes google makes a lot more than people think from ads. I also suspect that is heavily lopsided, with certain demographic being more sought after by advertisers. If they were to offer a flat opt out rate, would need to account for those people switching away and losing a very lucrative market. I would even imagine kids are unfortunately a target for advertisers because they can be very impressionable, and become lifelong customers if convinced early on.

In addition, a flat fee could lead to a slow on googles growth, as once a users pays, they can not find new ways to monetize that user.

Don't get me wrong, I love the option to pay a fee to opt out of certain ads. It really helps align the incentives of the user with the company, but unfortunately it would have to be expensive to average out the more lucrative ads.
Turning your $800 personal electronics into the moral equivalent of your physical keychain sounds like a good idea to technologists but it really, really isn’t. I’ve stolen your phone and also can access your bank accounts? Is it my birthday or what?

Watches are better this way because you don’t ever set them down (and they’re cheaper), but I suspect pickpockets have some things to say about those magnetic clasps.

Something in your wallet or with your keys would be best but then you can’t interact with it easily. Those little physical security tokens you’d put on your keychain were always a PITA.
Do you actually think this is garbage and bullshit, or do you think that maybe you're feeling a little insecure that someone is donating a _lot_ of money to good causes, and you're comparing yourself to them?

Genuinely not saying you are, but it's a very common subconscious reaction, and definitely worth investigating. When we see someone who appears to be taking the moral high road (however you define it), we feel the need to tear them down. Because that way we don't need to feel bad about _not_ doing the thing.
Client side is required to handle inputs from server properly anyway and to use the proper API so that it doesn't interpret input as markup/code.

For server output it's optional, because preventing client side code injection is not its concern.
This worries me a lot, just having a dynamic IP in a third world country is enough for Google to lock you out of the account even if you had typed your password correctly. I would never trust them with my access to other sites, one simple mistake of logging in with a different IP and will leave me locked out of all my accounts. In the name of security they ask you to associate a phone number to unlock the account even though that makes little sense since anyone with the password can then provide any number and steal the account.
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Lots of people do. When I joined Facebook, I received several death threats from someone in my circle and routinely get called morally bankrupt on the internet. I’ve also had encounters with individuals where they shun me after learning I worked there.
Surprisingly it doesn’t bother me, they are overgeneralizing and don’t know me.. but certainly they find it morally objectionable.
WISB on Binance Smart Chain?
It’s finally happening. Wise (WISB) is launching on BSC Binance smart chain.
I think capitalism is simply the an economic system based on the psychological behavior of self-preservation-- which is exhibited in most if not all forms of life. It is a reliable behavior (in terms of staying alive) and an expected instinct (in terms of psychological evolution).
I like this point a lot, I do vaguely remember an internet before Google. The distinction was the internet felt built by people who had things to contribute, I think now the internet is a place to extract any and all value possible. We're too deep inside massive monolithic profit generation systems to see an alternative where the value isn't ultimately monetary. The lack of a true commons etc.

* I think AOL making its own internet inside itself was an interesting data point on early-ish internet
We have a fully type safe and Erlang compatible OTP library! It is used in production today.

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

It is not a wrapper around gen_server etc, but instead it is a full implementation from the ground up using a very small Erlang core (~200 lines). This was done because:

a) Erlang OTP cannot be typed, we need different abstractions are designed with types in mind

b) We want to be confident that our abstractions are powerful enough to build something like OTP, rather than cheating by relying on type casts.

I'm very happy with how Gleam OTP is going, but it is not the focus now that an initial version is out. Tooling and documentation is more important at the moment.
Sure, and my team uses Spec at component boundaries to define APIs for that reason. I actually prefer this approach to static typing because it makes it possible to add a specification at the level where it provides the most value, and it's much easier to express semantic constraints using this approach.

It does take more discipline to work with a dynamic language, but once you develop a process then it can be very effective. It's also worth noting that immutable by default plays a huge role here. With Clojure it's natural to create truly isolated components while it takes a lot more discipline in an imperative language where things are passed by reference creating implicit coupling.
The police officer is still very much the one who shot and killed the teen. The use of the passive voice is biased.
> It feels like the people saying that have a stake in the existing vaccine manufacturers.

Yes, the most likely reason why someone would have a different opinion is because they're somehow invested - emotionally, financially, whatever - in the existing vaccine manufacturers.
I'm with you. I also dislike that I can't even turn this form of 2FA off for my Google account. If I have 2FA enabled, this is required to be one of the methods. The only way to get rid of it is to sign out of my Google account on my phone.
> In either case, neither of these excuses are pertinent to the community's rejection of complex comprehensions or higher order functions.

I can only assume you haven’t done a lot of functional programming because Python is just not expressive as a functional language. Lambdas are extremely cumbersome. JavaScript by contrast has a huge FP culture and does not even have comprehensions. But it does have syntactically lightweight, multi-expression lambdas.

> You could argue that monads are just as easy to understand as a sequence of statements in an imperative language, but experience suggests that people have a harder time understanding the more abstract concept rather than the more concrete concept.

Except I’m not arguing that, because I don’t believe that monads are easier to understand, I believe that functional programming with pure functions is. This is just another restatement of the same argument you’ve been making the whole time. We onboard people who have never used FP into being productive Elixir programmers in two weeks or less. There are no monads in Elixir, nothing more advanced than recursion and function composition. My experience differs from yours. Our new programmers have very little trouble grokking how FP works. They have much more trouble understanding the Erlang concurrency model and the various primitives available, but those are unique to Erlang and uniquely powerful.
What is the "case" for Gleam? In general, and specifically for the choice of using the Erlang virtual machine?

I read the "Why Gleam" page, and it reads like "Why have static types" and "Why work on a virtual machine" + "Why we're as good as Erlang". That's not much of a pitch (especially if you're not already into Erlang.)
I expect that in practice, you'd get way more entirely idle people than you would people who worked on things like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.
A good piece of information to have when considering discussing this rule is that AskHistorians doesn't just ban Holocaust denial, but all ahistorical denialism. Your comments questioning the Armenian genocide will also be deleted.
Disable Glamor and enable EXA rendering. My 10-radeon.conf:

Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "Radeon"
MatchDriver "radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "EXAVSync" "false"
Option "SwapbuffersWait" "false"
EndSection

My GPU: AMD RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
> But so is essentially all interaction with your environment

My every interaction with my environment doesn't involve millions of trained professionals bent to the sole purpose of influencing my actions.

Outside of ads, that is.
That's exactly what the article mentions. Brain stimulation, not eye stimulation, is what keeps someone up