skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you make a smaller one and watch it shrink. It is theoretically possible to construct a smaller black hole by cramming the necessary mass/energy into a small enough space. (Plug a death star into the LHC's big brother.) Such a hole would be very hot and short-lived.
It's not that sales slip through, it's that they refuse takedowns even when provided with legal cases and police reports against dead obvious scam sites.
> ... Nor did the end of the war settle anything. ...

You can try to tell that story and it's not without merit, but the logical consequence of it is that reconciliation hadn't even been tried in a meaningful way until the 1980s, when Southern elites finally internalized the outcomes of the 1960s Civil Rights era and set out trying to build a new foundation for economic freedom and development, that could ultimately benefit the winners and losers of that conflict alike.

We're still very early in that project, just like we're early in the project of reducing and ultimately ending discrimination of marginalized groups. These endeavors should ultimately be seen as complementary, not oppositional. But the divisive politics we're all too familiar with seems to have very little room for such a nuanced POV.
So they should wait until all the negative things come to pass before warning about them?
What's the most profitable programming hobby?
I enjoy Android development, but I've never really made much at as a hobby. I was thinking of starting iOS development or maybe Alexa Skills development. In your opinion, what's the most profitable programming hobby currently? Thanks in advance.
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>This little script would send him about 5000 different combinations of the above parameters in a completely random fashion.

More work, but with potential to waste more of the scammer’s time, would be to fake up requests corrupted in a way that suggests your browser config exposes some subtle bug, say a race condition, in his scripts. Might keep him busy for days …
Someone needs to put the OSI model in GitHub Copilot and see if it produces a TCP/IP implementation.
A city of chaos, corruption, and stupid people.
Umm... the article is also about Copilot: it is a massive explanation of why Copilot's generated code is dangerous, using an example put forward on the home page of the project as an egregious example. An article about an obvious injection issue and the myriad ways of doing it correctly wouldn't be worth writing in 2021 without the goal of critiquing Copilot as articles about these issues in web development are a dime a dozen.
There is a believe Europeans are taller because of drinking milk during childhood. Also milk is considered healthy. I think you can build up a little of lactose tolerance with moderate intake (and it seem you can loose it, happened to me after staying away from milk products due to living in Asia for a couple of years)
Right but that all applies to any situation where you use someone else's code. Reading Stackoverflow answers. Blog posts. Even other code on Github.
Start Spreading the Gnus
There are all sort of wonderful educational videos on youtube, but it's like leading a horse to water. The hard part is now getting them to drink.

That said, I do credit part of my education to Youtube University. I learned more about virology in details that I never thought about before. Still, I haven't yet complete the virology lectures.
FWIW if the vast majority of your revenue comes from a single source that actively competes with you it can be a hard business model to sustain. When revenue starts declining then you're living with a situation where things are getting worse day by day. I think Moz is/has been dealing with it fairly well. It's forced them to confront the need to diversify their revenue streams. Now when that happens people will look at the choices being made around how to fix the situation and disagree vehemently. People with extensive tenure are let go due to cost and a belief that the company needs people with different skills, that erodes social networks, and other people who were not let go decide to leave.

In other large/largish companies that have gone through boom and bust cycles I've seen this same pattern play out. During growth periods people laud leadership choices and during contraction and turn around people say "there's something fundamentally wrong here."

So not saying you're wrong, just that this reality is not unexpected or unusual.
I think the article is overthinking it a little bit, and I think it comes down to accessibility, enthusiasm, and to a certain degree a rapid pace in terms of content.

There's no doubt that YouTube has made a number of these topics far more accessible. The inclusion of videos along side typical text searches means that it's just as easy to click on an article as it is one of those videos. There's also typically a multitude of options that each might cover the same topic from certain angles and varying degrees of overlap.

These videos are typically uploaded by creators who are passionate and incredibly enthusiastic to share a key aspect of their lives. Many of the popular educational channels have a passionate creator behind them, rather than a flatter more lecture based approach like you might get in typical coursework (which is also on YouTube, but isn't nearly as widely consumed).

Lastly, I can find a 5, 10, or 20 minute video that's focused on a specific subject or topic on YouTube as opposed to going through 60 or 90 minutes of coursework/lectures that are predefined. I can jump from video to video, carving out my own path to learn what I want, rather than sit through a lecture that may not be discussing something particularly of interest.

The Tacit knowledge that's referenced in the article is certainly there in many of the videos on YouTube, but is not the main driver behind this "revolution". It's the ability for anyone in the world to dive nearly as deep as they want, lead by content creators that are genuine passionate about the subjects they cover.
While I agree that trying to immanetize the eschaton can cause harm, politically the phrase is often used to attack reasonable, incremental improvements.
Entrepreneur Raised over $50M to Create a Wine That Brings Hope
Did you just scroll through the article, saw many different examples and called it awfully complicated? Because the solution is just `new URLSearchParams({ text })` and that’s not complicated at all.
The point of visible branding is that you leverage the brand value and marketing yourself. By purchasing the product and showing the label, you rely on other people's opinions of the brand to colour their opinion of you. This can work either way, of course, but you get to choose the brand and, indirectly, the type of people you're trying to change the opinion of.

Chinos are a brand all of their own, just not a trademarked brand. They're usually (if they're pastel coloured) relatively conservative, business casual, more formal than jeans but less formal than a suit. A bit middle-aged, or something you'd expect to see a businessman in on the weekend. You can't really escape branding when you appear in public. Even if you showed up naked, it would be a brand.

I think there's a decent listing in https://www.upcounsel.com/trademark-vs-brand on the elements of brand:

Identity
Image
Personality
Character
Culture
Essence
Reputation

You mark out which group you're a member of in part by the clothes you choose. Some groups are anti-labels and you're partially opting in to them by eschewing labels.
In a theorethical world where 2fa means 2fa, but in reality the sms code is often enough by itself.
Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans
Oh yeah, I guess I should have mentioned I'm talking explicitly about the nightly const feature.
Requesting memory “dynamically” has nothing to do with “dynamic’ in ‘dynamic memory”.

Requesting dynamically means that RAM is allocated while a program is running, not at compile or simply launch time. That is a software consideration.

Dynamic RAM means memory that requires refreshes to maintain the information it stores. A completely unrelated hardware concern.

The word dynamic simply means something that happens in time so is used in a myriad of otherwise quite different computing concepts.
> Reaganomics, discussed in the book, and low taxes in the USA created a lack of investment for the past three decades.

In the last three decades, three trillion dollar companies - Amazon, Google and Facebook - were founded in the US.

> and China the fastest-growing economy.

It's a lot easier to grow fast if you just have to catch up.
Same thing happened in my country. The online stores turned into a "marketplace" with third party sellers everywhere. I never bought from them again. Can't trust these people.
It's an interesting question - I'm not sure there was ever a lightbulb moment. I think I've always thought "I will have kids some day" - even as a teenager. How much of that is just following the societal norms I don't know. I enjoy playing with kids though - maybe that contributed to that feeling. I'd say by the time I was 26 or 27 I was fairly sure I wanted kids soon (helped by being in a stable long term relationship). I was 29 when my son was born.

One thing you become aware of quite quickly when you start seriously looking into kids is that the biological realities are much harsher than society leads you to believe. Having kids when the mum is much over 35 gets really difficult really quickly. Once I realised that, knowing that I did want children eventually, it made the decision to expedite things easier. I decided I'd rather make the leap sooner than regret it.

I don't think it's a very logical decision though - interestingly I think a lot of the people I know with children today were quite impulsive and of-the-moment in their early 20s. The more sensible ones haven't had kids yet - perhaps because it's hard to make a reasoned decision about it.
Formally proving FizzBuzz for fun and profit
Immutable Data Structures for Fun and Profit
At their scale, they’re probably getting a really good deal on pricing so cost won’t help. What’s the benefit to them bringing it in house?
Hi Vhanda,
Thanks for the feedback. Much Appreciated. I've answered your questions below:

- It wasn't clear to me how I would integrate this in my website. Would I have to add some code or can this be done in some other way.

Yes, you install the javascript snippet which is one line of code into the <head> section of your website and that's it. That allows the plugin to change the title and description for you.

- In the end, I signed up, after which it asked permission to "See and download your Google Analytics data". My website doesn't use Google Analytics. Is Google Analytics a strict requirement? I'm using Plausible.io

No, you do not need to add Google Analytics. We still get enough data to sort your metrics and ranking data without it. We do use GA for backlink data though so you can add it for that which is optional. I really like Plausible though so will try and build an integration soon.

- Clicking on Website metrics, shows me a list of websites. I've only configured it for one website, so it's a bit annoying that I have to then click on that one website.

You have to add the website first then you can access website metrics. I didn't want to add every website at once due to pricing issues. Could be expensive for lots of websites so you get to choose which ones you want to sync and pay for.

- I cannot figure out how to add brand keywords. The keywords list is empty.

Yeah I agree with you, I am reworking this feature to make it easier for people. At the moment you need to click on the checkboxes next to your brand keywords then click the add keyword button. Sorry UX fail here.

- I clicked on upgrade and it shows me a price of "14.99", though the pricing page shows "4.99". I think my website is quite small. Is this a bug?

No bug. Pricing is based on size of website. Your website is bigger than the small plan which is 4.99. The small plan is ideally for local business websites with small amount of keywords and pages.
This. It's really easy to view our neoliberal climate as wholly dependent on the individual when you're priveralaged and already, in some way, succeeding. I did, and then I came out as trans, and also as nonbinary. Now, 'the system' is so much more important. Old white men's opinions on my existence could take away my transition (both medical and social) and my life with enough effort, or they could simply deny efforts to improve it (as they so often do). And I can't imagine what it would be like to deal with this and/or be non-white, disabled, or non-rich, for a few examples. In some ways I'm lucky to understand both perspectives, but the perspective of the unprivelaged matters so much more.

This is why I feel that an individual contribution from my life is not enough. No matter how many fires I put out in people's homes, there's still going to be that fucking arsonist.
I wonder if browser manufacturers and the companies behind them will work with this - "this site looks like x, but the url does not match with our records".
I started a family early and clawed my way up the income ladder until I mostly make enough to support my 6 kids and wife.

It's been tough, but I wouldn't change it.
I try to concentrate on helping where I can. I think our mission is to try and make the world just a bit better for at least the people around you. Do good and avoid creating hurt in the process.
Why not launch a probe and point its sensors at earth?
I had no idea they had a single-length trouser size. How does that work? Did I luck-out that they happen to be the perfect length for me, or is it directly tied to waist size rather than a global single-length?

I first came across Uniqlo when I was in Japan, and their "shove everything in this box and close the door to scan your items into the self-service checkout" impressed me (as an Engineer, I enjoy these things). They recently, in the past year or two, caught up here in the UK and the store I visit has them now.

Also I find their face masks to be the best fitting and most comfortable out of the many, many brands I've tried.
> (Forgive me if this breaks HN etiquette) I am located between San Francisco and Seattle and I'm looking for a Junior, front-end position (remote okay). CV and contact: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IGtneIUixBnrFBzBdAbBNaGf4yo...

You can post this on "Who wants to be hired" threads e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355390 there is one each month. Good luck with your job search.

Edit: The one for this month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699702
Air conditioning is frequently applied at places where it is used very inefficiently. Take a car for instance, any car will generate heat, but if you want to cool it you will need to use more energy (which will generate more heat). In most places each house has its own A/C installation(s) using a shared heating/cooling system (heat pumps) is more efficient. Another problem with cooling is that the peak demand coincides with the peak demand from industry, because it happens during the day (instead of the night) so there has to be overcapacity.

A final reason why cooling is not really popular is that many spaces are cooled to very low temperatures (which costs a lot of energy) even when most people would feel comfortable with a higher temperature.
We’ve had ML for many years and I don’t see the output becoming good enough to satisfy developers anytime soon.
Wanna really nerd out, here's the Grateful Dead show Cliff cut out of hacker chasing to go attend: https://archive.org/details/gd86-06-21.sbd.brame.15406.sbeok...
Well there are already portions of space that are expanding faster than the speed of light relative to our position. (see cosmic horizon). The CMB is not just a glowing heat somewhere far away, it's everywhere in the universe in every volume of space.
The moment when every point in space (on a Planck-lenght-scale i guess) will be expanding faster than the speed of light relative to one another, than space-time itself will rip apart and that's the end of our universe - at least that is what the Big-Rip theory proposes.
Most people never develop the idea that they’ll be great or remembered after their death, so perhaps it’s poignant to look at how it developed in your case. This should help you deal with it.
Long range wireless data is subject to a tons of interference and real life troubles, so in reality you never hit those numbers, there will be so many places without proper coverage that those stats are mostly meaningless.

Not to mention it requires a lot of antennas, hardware, power and area coverage. Results will also vary depending on the phone modem.

Real life wireless latency is also quite problematic. If it's never ideal on optic fiber, I cannot predict it's going to be good on wireless.

Not to mention rural, uncrowded areas, mountains, etc.
I thought so as well, but if they generated a new url per each victim, storing the referrer could make it trivial to filter out...
What is the point of this story? This will objectively never happen for anyone with a ”regular” job, I.e. anywhere within 1 standard deviation or less of the median income.

Also, counting a home’s net worth in assets does not make sense to me unless you can afford to greatly downsize at anytime and the market is liquid.
>hopefully it will mean that treaties are more likely to be kept

I hope that too, Gorsuch started to get the ball rolling there in the Supreme Court I think

>stolen land can be restored to its original owners.

I don't think that's possible for most stolen land at this point.
About $0.60 for a small one, up to $1.20 for a large one.

Parent is referencing this joke: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/avocado-toast
Depends on where you are, I guess. 50-60 cent for 1 liter of beer in Germany seems really cheap.

Somehow I doubt it was cheaper in the past, maybe more people made it themselves.

Like, you can still get 1.5L of ~9% homemade wine or 0.5L of ~40% spirit for ~1 Euro in Romania/Moldova.
Brian! Long time no see my man. HN is a small world ;-)
Curious to read this and not see a reference to Ruby.

In Ruby hashes are ordered by insertion, can have any object as keys, but the hash key value can be defined on a class by class basis (by overriding the default `hash` method on the class).

The ordering is one of those features that I need very infrequently, but when I do it significantly simplifies that bit of code.

I've always found the usefulness and flexibilty of Ruby's hashes to be a double-edged sword though: they are extremely useful, but this leads people to use them in situations where defining a proper class might be better for long-term maintenance.
But this can not have been how beer was made historically, it sounds much too energy intensive?
The US adopted the following long ago: metric fasteners for vehicles, metric for scientific research, metric for a lot of engineering.

The only places I know it’s not commonly used in business is machining and civil engineering.

And obviously consumer facing measures, but that’s a domestic issue.
Thankfully correctness in the general case doesn't matter in reality, in the same way that it doesn't matter that not all 'correct' programs can be possibly typed.

And I don't know why you put "prove" in scare quotes. There is formally verified software that has been proven to conform to a spec. They aren't just toy programs either, see SEL4 or CompCert for 'real' programs.
I had one of these, in the UK at the time. We (myself and two other guys) put together a demo loosely based on “Rollerball”, which Sony were very encouraging about, but that’s not the point of this post.

I will always remember the NDA contract I signed… One of the terms was “If any of the terms of this contract are broken, financial reparation may not be sufficient”.

I’m assuming “your first-born child” or something was what they had in mind, but I was young, single and childless, so … <shrug>
I don't understand why businesses insist on betraying the very values they were built on in the first place. YouTube has always been about helping people feel heard and giving them a voice through their platform. Decisions like this one simply prove that in a few years they'll likely be defined as a publisher and not a platform.
Tangential: Can someone from the industry chime in and say what was the reason for a drastic degradation in fabric quality over the last decade? I have some T-shirts from 10 years ago and they hold color, and didn't become fuzzy after dozen washes.

The only keyword I was able to find regarding cotton fabric quality was "ring-spun" vs "open-end" cotton.

The brand in question is Cropp (of Polish LPP, which makes most T-shirts in Bangladesh), but this degradation seems to be industry-wide. Even buying T-shirts from higher positioned brands doesn't make a difference. They're all crap quality.
not drinking at all is the healthiest option

I don't drink, mostly due to not liking the taste. But I thought wine and whisky had something in there that is good for you / antioxidant?
Many years ago, I got to see an Exxon "Legislative Affairs Coordinator" speak to a group of small landowners about how they could make their own lobbying efforts more effective.

In less than 10min this lady had the crowd ready to burn her at the stake.

She told them things like "your voice doesn't matter," urged them to donate all the money they could to Exxon's lobbying efforts (with unspecified goals), on the basis that at least it would get something done, even if it wasn't what they wanted. "Donate to our people, and our people will take care of you."

Then, she told them that actual grass-roots organizations like theirs were socially dangerous, because they wouldn't stick to their original mission but inevitably became cults, essentially. Something like "the best thing this organization can do, today, is vote to dissolve immediately"

All this was in exchange for a several thousand dollar speaking fee, which was the largest expense behind the venue for the event.
I don't quite understand why so many people think that GitHub Copilot will somehow cause the downfall of development. As if we don't already have developers copy/pasting code from SO without checking it at all. Whenever I find code snippets on SO I normally comment a link back to where I found it (for better explanation and in case the answer is updated or more discussion happens after I get it) and then I adapt the code to meet our style and quality standards. Using GH Copilot will be no different for me. I appreciate having a baseline of code that I can tweak and bring into "compliance" without having to type it all from scratch or first go search SO. Licensing questions are legitimate but for me this product seems like it will speed up my development and/or introduce me to new patterns I wouldn't have considered before.
I’m glad I can still find funny comments on HN.
Duplicate of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696621
I'm quite excited for copilot. I don't even know that I'd have caught that bug, but I'm sure I could see myself having written it, so it's really no worse - that's why I work on a team with others who likely would have.

I'm not worried about it suggesting subtly wrong code. I write subtly wrong code all day every day, and sometimes I catch it, and sometimes I don't. I write tests, I use types, etc. I'll use the same tools to reduce bugs from copilot that I do for myself.

I'm not really worried at all.