skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assume an alternate reality where this incredibly important rule doesn't exist. In it, the other player simply takes the king on the next turn from a neophyte who didn't realize they are still in check.

This is not merely an alternate reality; this is effectively the reality of blitz chess, where capturing the king is a way of claiming victory by declaring that the opponent made an illegal move when they didn't move out of check. In blitz chess you do not have the right to correct illegal moves after the opponent points them out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/jrvmk7/capture_the_k...
"living wage" is an emotional political term - there's no objective definition of it and instead of appealing to rational argument it appeals to irrational notion that somehow you can live on $20/hr but would die if you received $19/hr, and so it's somehow a moral imperative to pay $20/hr (and in a year it turns out it's already $25 that is a moral imperative because somehow, out of nowhere, prices have risen!).

I'm not talking about literally $50.00 for a taco. I am talking about business owners who I'd assume know their business a bit better than a rando from the internet. And about the necessity of not thinking everybody but you missed a completely obvious solution like "just raise prices" because they don't understand anything about their business, but you do. It's usually not that simple.
Not sure. We all knew what it meant when I was a kid in the 90s. That doesn’t mean that people were thinking homophobic thoughts every time they called something gay. But the underlying idea that being gay was icky and bad was perfectly well known to all of us at the time.

Society finally seems to have figured out that using ‘gay’ as an insult is homophobic and wrong. However, on the way to that realization, we did have to go through a long period of various groups of people insisting that they had their own special definitions of ‘gay’, ‘fag’, etc. that allegedly had nothing to do with the ordinary meanings of these words. It retrospect I think it’s clear that protests of this sort were all entirely specious (with the exception of young kids who simply didn’t know what they were saying).
How has he been with you ? do you see improvement in his well being ?

take care
How do you get “deliberately” from that?

The comment you’re replying to is correct; there’s plenty of evidence that Lucas made up both the plots and crucial details of all the Star Wars films as he went along, rather than plotting it all out in advance. Telling people he had, or at least allowing them to believe so, was just another inspired marketing trick.
Men in the mixed-gender squads do not perform worse
Apple TV’s “Foundation” and the Fate of U.S. Politics
No, I mean the number of legal Go and chess positions vs Busy Beaver numbers. BB sequences don't have much in the way of summits, but they do allow for establishing basecamps more precisely.
No history of when you logged in from where and, possibly, plausible deniability about about you being the only user of that account (through you'd probably need to prepare for this to be believable).
1. Find type-related bugs at compile time.

2. More readable code.

3. More maintainable code.

4. More efficient generated code.
Yes I read the study. It involved in vivo use of ivermectin in human subjects. The study authors acknowledged that further research is needed. What's the problem?
We’ve been doing something similar at day job for a couple of years now, at least. Tried a few different things, but this cause us the fewest problems.

We have a monorepo with a dozen different products, supporting four rolling release series at any time. Some code is shared between products. So having a commit that contains the release note is very convenient. It’ll automatically follow merges, both when merging up bug fixes through all the release branches and merging in features.

When it’s time to build release notes, simply walk the new commits since last release and extract each release note.

Note, I’m leaving out most details on exactly how we have this setup. It’s not that complicated though.
House representatives sent a letter to Yahoo's CEO from 2017
I’ve made PRs because I need the change for my day job. By the time I’ve traced an issue down to a third party library the cost of making a PR is minimal. But if they don’t want to take the changes, it doesn’t bother me.

Of course I don’t work on open source out of passion, so I could imagine this is different for the true believers.
Could someone expand on "Do things that don't scale." - that seems somewhat counterintuitive.
I understand their perspective though. Some of them are very driven people. They are just not interested or oblivious to the power of wealth.

Some of them only care about career ladder. They must climb and optimize for that. Others care only about fame. Some clamor for benefit of their children.

It's true money can bring a lot of freedom. But to many people, it is not the be all end all.
The HN crowd is all about stats and data until it intersects with their WOKEness.
Reading the FAQ and the various lists linked at the bottom will help
Title should include (2012).
Make sure you thoroughly test your multi-region deploys. Last time we tried the system was not stable when a region went down. Also beware of this anti pattern: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/topology-patterns....
From what appears to be a russian reddit about the one that opens a GPRS connection:

> Here it was one to one, on a simple dialer with a flashlight from Fly, Bata bought it, because he liked the big screen and big buttons, what he needed, he can't even write SMS, only calls, so the tariff is without the Internet. And it began, once every two or three days, Internet access (usually at night) for 15-20kb, and the operator rounds up to a megabyte. Just like you, I turned off the data transfer in the phone, deleted the dots, everything was useless.

https://pikabu.ru/story/troyanyi_i_byekdoryi_v_knopochnyikh_...

The (a?) Russian seller has now recalled the phone:

> DNS announces a recall campaign for two models of Dexp cell phones:

> DEXP B281 2.8 "GSM / 2SIM / 240x320 / 0.3MP / MicroSD / BT / FM / 1000mAh
> DEXP SD2810 2.8" GSM / 2SIM / 240x320 / 0.3MP / MicroSD / BT / FM / 1800mAh

> due to possible manufacturing defect.

https://www.dns-shop.ru/news/374ef223-0bc4-11ec-a2b1-00155db...
I thought the article would talk about someone like Stanislav Petrov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov or Vasily Archipov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admira...

Or the latest Future of Life Award lareats https://futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award
In both cases they don't give the IP.

in the case where they receive a court order, they first log your IP and then they give it.

but you know this from their terms of service.

if you stop using protonmail when you start your criminal career, they will not give your IP because they didn't save it.

it's different in the end, not the same.
> I need help so I posted here

You haven't mentioned what you need help with. What do you need help with?
I suppose the "White Russian"[§] emigré / exile community of the 1920s and 30s in cities like London and Paris kind of died out... Most of them were nobility anyway, so at a guess their descendants might be too snobbish to mingle with GP in any case.

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[§]: Not "White Russia" as in Byelorussia / Belarus; "White" as opposed to "Red".
Besides the other examples already given, monkey patching is another offender, as are proxy tricks with methods like send or respond_to (technically not Rails-specific but I associate this style with Rails).
Docker compatible open source: Containerd nerdctl
As a business in that space, you probably need to have dodgy marketing in order to convince mainstream users. I'm not disagreeing that it's bad, but it's probably necessary business-wise.
CDB was great until we started doing table creation on the minute and hundreds of inserts on those tables. When we tried to drop tables on a schedule, CDB never could catch up and would generally just crash (3 nodes). I really don't like the magic you have to do with CDB for things that your commodity DBs can be expected do.
I believe Moderna’s Phase 3 involved 30,000 people, just FYI.
Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer

I wanted to test how Protonmail is doing for new users I created an account from scratch just now over Tor.

1. Am asked to verify new account by entering a cell phone (edit: this is horrible. They lie and say account creation is anonymous, as pointed out by the poster below)

2. Upon login, "Basic" logs are selected which do not display IP. You can enable "Advanced" logs to log IP. I would suggest Protonmail make it crystal clear that these "Basic" logs do not store IP. In 2021, lies by omission are not good enough. Get rid of the soft language.

3. Their help page [1] says that "Advanced" (IP stored) logs are enabled by default. However, I created the account and it's just the Basic (no IP) logs. https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/authentication...
So you are correct that it can probably never be proven that empiricism is really enough to explain reality, but in my opinion it's a very good place to start. Science has a very successful track record of claiming explanations from the clutches of mysticism, and our understanding of the world has basically never moved in the other direction.

But I don't even think you have to resort to that level of "faith" in physical reality to be fairly confident that the brain is sufficient to explain the mind:

1. The human mind is always co-located with a reasonably well-functioning brain, and has never existed anywhere else.

2. Disrupting the physical/chemical function of the brain dependably and predictably disrupts the function of the mind.

3. We can even sub-locate component functions of what we would consider the mind to sub-regions or processes of the brain.

4. The structure and function of the brain seems to be sufficiently complex to give rise to such a complex phenomenon.

If we saw that fact pattern in any other domain, we wouldn't feel the need to look farther for alternate explanations.
After randomly assigning men to mixed-gender and single gender squads for Norwegian Bootcamp, this study found no performance or perceived satisfaction impacts.

Moreover, the men in the integrated squads developed more egalitarian attitudes. Interestingly, these attitudes were not maintained once no longer in a mixed squad.
> I later realized that it smelled of a deeply nihilistic (as in Nietzsche's ideas) view of the world.

Who says you can't enjoy work in a different field, e.g. medicine? Perhaps you can even combine those skills with computer programming. E.g. build an exoskeleton that makes partially paralyzed people walk again.
I think Chekov's gun should be read more as a "don't give things a heightened importance if they don't turn out to be important for the situation".

What is very bad advice is: "if you show a gun it has to be used". If every gun ever shown in any film was used wouldn't this destroy the tension? Also guns can take on different functions within stories than just a device to kill. They can tell us something about the protagonist (how do they react to the presence of a gun), they can underline powerful moments (e.g. throwing away a gun in a though situation because the character gives up etc).

Functionalizing every element of a story is a good way to rob it of any life. In art a lot of elements work in different, more complex ways than just a functional causal relationship. Think about gazes in paintings etc. Things just signifying themselves and expressing a general mood can be immensly powerful.
I say don't use email, it's not a good choice for private communications.
ProtonMail reveal user IP, agent and device info regarding climate activists
Sounds like the iframe is used to glue sandboxes together
It has been a million years since I've used it, but I think MS SQL Server has this.

Here's some documentation I just found (at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/pe...):

> The Missing Indexes report shows potentially missing indexes that the Query Optimizer identified during query compilation. However, these recommendations should not be taken at face value. Microsoft recommends that indexes with a score greater than 100,000 should be evaluated for creation, as those have the highest anticipated improvement for user queries.

> Tip

> Always evaluate if a new index suggestion is comparable to an existing index in the same table, where the same practical results can be achieved simply by changing an existing index instead of creating a new index. For example, given a new suggested index on columns C1, C2 and C3, first evaluate if there is an existing index over columns C1 and C2. If so, then it may be preferable to simply add column C3 to the existing index (preserving the order of pre-existing columns) to avoid creating a new index.
Wow, someone in a US government (at any level) actually consulted a foreign expert for something? And a non-Anglo country at that?

Can whoever was responsible please take over transit funding at DOT? We need so much more of this.
Having extra money to invest helps a lot, or so I've heard.
This is very impressive. My problem with GitHub search is the fact that the long trail of the search results is endless. Someone included a library? 50 pages of results of the same thing.
> That your emails are supposedly stored encrypted, that if other services support it end-to-end email encryption supposedly can be enabled easily, and that supposedly you cannot be served targeted ads because they cannot read the contents of your email (not that they have ads anyway).

Gmail does all of this for free though, right?
I AM aware of it, but youre still tap dancing, which leads me to understand you are not having this conversation in good faith. Goodbye.
People really don't seem to understand that Protonmail is a western company in a western country with pretty generous surveillance laws. Yes, your email text may be encrypted, but everything else is free game to the authorities unless you use additional protection.
Every action carries that risk somewhere in its very long tail. You have to assess the likelihood of the bad event occurring, and there is a point where it is so unlikely that it need not be considered at all. I don't think humanity is quite stupid enough to knowingly release its Ice-9 just yet.
> Don't do this.

Do not do that.
Default means "we do whatever the fuck we want, any assumptions are your fault"
You might also want to look into ME/CFS. I'm very sorry to hear about this, because I had an analogous experience for years and know how hopeless it feels to try to figure out what the issue is (while your cognitive abilities / stamina are limited by brain fog), fail over and over, and in the meanwhile others cannot understand and don't believe you.

Feel free to email me if you want to chat.
It's impossible to choose a "secure" email provider, unfortunately.

Email can't guarantee E2EE without a block cipher tool like GPG. Even if your provider stores and transmits only encrypted email data, once sent it does not maintain that guarantee while being passed by another entity's MTA.

If you email google, google gets to do whatever googly stuff it would like to do with its algorithm.
If you email exchange, roundcube, ISP, hotmail, it could wind up being archived to tape, or simply be sitting for a long time in some unencrypted mail spool, maybe in a public cloud.
If you selfhost, you would be forgiven if you find you have made a mistake or simply got pwned.

I've never selfhosted email, but I understand it is a lot of work to set up if you aren't familiar, and while maintenance is okay once you get rolling, there are occasional emergencies or hiccups that require intervention.

Aside from being much slower, regular mail is quite better since you can easily inspect the envelope for evidence of tampering, while email will be imperceptibly copied.
The issue of housing affordability comes up a lot on HN and the discussion often turns to a shortage of supply.

Often overlooked is the demand side of the supply and demand equation. From my perspective (mostly familiar with the NZ/AU markets), this is where the real problem lies.

Statistics New Zealand have collected data on the total number of private residences and the total number of households since the mid-90s. The difference between the two has almost doubled to around 7.5% nationally. There are substantially more empty or under-utilised residences in a time where every politician is telling us that building more houses will fix the problem. It won't. At best it will alleviate the problem.

Prosper Australia's Speculative Vacancies Report [0] (looking at water usage to determine under-utilised properties) suggests areas with high vacancy rates in Melbourne correlate with areas where capital gains (i.e. percentage price increases) are greatest. This is the opposite of what you would intuitively expect in a naive supply and demand equation - desirable areas have higher vacancy rates, even approaching 20% by their reckoning.

A study in the UK [1] using council data found that high property prices correlate strongly with what the study refers to as 'low use properties' (LUPs).

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the situation is the same in the Netherlands.

All of this suggests that demand for investment, not demand for housing is driving prices up. Zoning restrictions and other regulations do play a part, but I think in many cases their influence on the larger picture is overstated. Cheap loans, leverage, and favourable taxes make property a good investment.

The only solution is to make property investment less attractive. A land value tax - though politically difficult - seems to me to be a good option.

[0] https://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Specul...
[1] https://theodi.org/event/friday-lunchtime-lecture-empty-home...
Your position does stand. It is:

"the Hacker News community" is not "sophisticated" "on this topic" and is engaged in "a bear-trap of outraged hysteria, a moral panic from people who should know better," while I have "hysterical repulsion."

I responded to this position.

Since you're now asking for a clarification: If I am running a social media platform for the sharing of photos, I am responsible for the content on that platform. It is my platform. I'd better have scanning for not just CSAM, but hate speech, misinformation, harassment, criminal activity, and a slew of other things. If Facebook becomes a platform for the sharing of child pornography, or the collapse of our democracy, or polarization, Facebook has done something deeply unethical, and should be held accountable, whether through the courts of law or the courts of public opinion. On the other hand, users have little expectation of privacy on Facebook.

In contrast, if I paid for a phone or a computer, it is MY private device. I bought it, and I should have an expectation of privacy there. I should be able to trust that my device isn't out to get me. Even a space like AWS or GCE, where I am paying for a machine, I should have some reasonable expectation of privacy.

It's the difference between running a shopping mall (or an exclusive club) and selling a private home. If I'm running a business, I'm responsible for what happens on my turf. If I'm selling you a product, you're responsible for what you do with it. Your home developer have no right to install spy cameras in your home, even if they will only call up the police if they're 100% sure you're a racist terrorist raping underage [taboo] [taboo] [taboo] ....

There are plenty of other distinctions, such as around evidence and due process, but I don't want this turning into an essay. You can use a search engine for yourself; plenty has been written on this, and insulting people isn't a good lead-in to asking them to save you that effort.

And the EFF is right that Facebook does plenty of nasty things. This just doesn't happen to be one of them.
If UBI is implemented we may be able to do away with minimum wage, at which point small businesses could possibly offer better (more interesting, less stressful) working conditions for less money, it’s possible people might go for that.

Right now companies must make $X per employee per hour. If their business cannot do that it’s deemed that it’s not productive enough and should not exist.
thnx , being a ~ factually based piece not prone to change over time, i skipped out on that, however things such as efficiency rating, parts availability etc. will change.
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I'd consider all of those "bugs" to be features, myself. As they say in French, everyone has gout. The autohiding controls and loss of the always-visible time bar really ticked me off when they happened, and backgrounds other than white annoy the hell out of me.
I like where you are going with this. What would that business look like?

Would this be a new journal with a different way of making money or some kind of aggregator service?

Seems like an aggregator service would be the most appealing way to access the data for the end user.

I'd say these entrenched journals are being very cautious with an aggregator because the raw text data would be super valuable to companies, so they are probably going to try their hardest to limit usage of the data for individual access and bulk access. That's not to say an aggregator is not going to happen.
I would be interested in more sophisticated type definitions. That is, algebraic data types.

One can achieve this to a degree by storing the data as JSON, but it would be nice to be able to remove the chance of introducing errors when converting to/from JSON.
>[Build time] also is a non-linear factor. Just waiting for the compiler is the smaller problem. The big one is losing the state of the flow or (worse) mental context switch to do something else while the code is compiling. One minute of work for the compiler wastes more than one minute of work for the human.

This is so true, and so hard to convey to a lot of people, even in engineering. They like to abstract humans as machines that can just context switch at a whim, which is just not true.
If it's at home, yes. They still have their core values : independence, relatability and risk-taking.
I think the approach that people like Reich take, which is this old-school institutional thinking is desperately trying to put things back into Pandora's box.

Marx a long time ago gave a similar criticism concerning the socialist version of this line of argument, agreeing with the critique but pointing out:

"[...]In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange within the framework of the old property relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means. In either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian.[...] Ultimately, when stubborn historical facts had dispersed all intoxicating effects of self-deception, this form of Socialism ended in a miserable fit of the blues"

And I think these kinds of articles are the sort of liberal American analogue. Technology has networked people in a way and created structures that will wash old democratic institutions away. If you want to salvage something, salvage the consensus building and free exchange of information, not the separation of powers, rights based discourse, outside imposed regulation and so on. Maybe we should try to bring back Cybersyn or something, it seemed kind of ahead of its time
Similarly, my Newfie will look at the stick flying past, then look at me with that expression that big dogs can do… “why did you just do that, human ?”, then sit down, preferably in the snow.
I was hoping for something more about asteroids hitting earth. There’s historical examples of this which makes it far more a likely event.