skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how IBM built the PC, loosely. They didn't imagine a market where there would be third party expansion cards, and they believed that users should come to them, and their partners, for software.

Compaq blew that wide open, much to IBM corporate's dismay and IBM legal's glee.
Neat fix for a solution that was flawed to begin with. Sending blank 200 response is a bad idea. If your service stops, stop sending 200 status responses to any client.
IANAL either but my understanding was that the "meeting of the minds", is not just that a mutual understanding that contract exists but there is an agreement on basis of the contract.

In so far as it relates to Eth, my point was that the meeting of the minds only goes as far as "the code is the contract", and the use case is to eliminate the civil courts combing over intent and who knew what.
I would like to ask a question, in order to elicit the detailed and considerate comment that HN is known for. It's not intended to inflammatory in any way shape or form!

I am not a Java developer. I am one of those users who has a bad memory of using Java desktop apps in ~2001 where they ate a ton of ram, seemed horrendously slow, and had example "Hello Worlds" that are reminiscent of Enterprise FizzBuzz [1]. At some point in the last 20 years, Java has gone the other way -- it has a reputation (I think) of being "boring", "performant" and used by businesses for doing server-side logic. Still, the only way I interact with it is with the occasional dependency install.

I've noticed:

-- There are a bunch of different JREs/JDKs, most famously Sun's/Oracle's own Java, OpenJDK, OpenJDK built by Other People™, and Random Other JDKs (Azul; Amazon Corretto).

-- People rail against Sun/Oracle and what happened to Java.

-- For a bloody long time I had to download the JDK separately and/or type in "agree" into a very un-friendly sounding license at the command line.

Can I therefore ask the HN meta-brain to either explain, or point me to a reference that explains:

-- What the ideological and practical differences are between the JDKs

-- Why there are different JDKs -- I get that that it's good to have different language implementations, but there are really quite a lot!

-- What Oracle did

-- And what was the beef with the whole open-source license was. Isn't opener-better?

Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
I understand Evo-psych is not a hard science. But boys are supposed to be much more competitive because they had a more 'winner takes all' situation in our evolutionary past. Thus I don't think this has much to do with evolutionary impulses instead of easy availability of photo editing tools, and just a large scale (being surrounded by photos of celebrities and models, who have PEDs + dedicated diet + make up + professional photography, but media perpetuating it as normal body image).

Now there's similar issue with male body image, but somehow that's even more extreme (visible six pack abs with single digit body fat), thus boys will think its not achivable without 8 hour workout a day and not bother, whereas for girls it seems like contemporary female body image is perfectly achivable to them or their peers and they lose sleep over it.
My journey was almost the opposite of yours. I first heard of bitcoin back in 2011 or so when a coworker (at the company I worked in, not in crypto industry at all) was excited about it and wouldn't stop talking about it. I thought it was like a joke.

Years later in the 2017 bubble I took it a lot more seriously, but still not serious enough to put real money in it. I put a very small amount into it and also played with ethereum/solidity coding. I didn't find myself enjoying the coding part of it and I just left the scene after the bubble popped.

Come early 2021 I found the few hundred dollars I did put into btc/eth went up a very decent amount by then, and by this year the industry is a lot more mature and it doesn't feel like it was going to collapse any minute. I put in a lot more money into it (but still keeping it under 10% of my liquid assets) and feel pretty good about the diversity of my liquid investments (i.e. money outside of real estate). I don't think it's right to put 100% (or even 50%) of your money in crypto like the crypto-twitter or wsb crowd always do, but keeping a small percentage (under 10%) seems reasonable as a hedge for my own portfolio. Also I don't take the decentralization/untraceability of bitcoin/crypto very seriously. I just own my crypto through coinbase (a very centralized way to do so) which I'm sure is a disagreeable position for the real crypto proponents.
Don't let perfect to be the enemy of good. New broker pops up? Apply the same methodology.

Apple is a trillion dollar company. Broker is a ant. Squash it.
I've heard that Ghost of Tsushima does this well with the direction of the wind. But I don't have a PS4/5 to play.

I've also heard about of platformers giving a couple pixels after walking off a platform to jump, like Celeste. It is very small thing to give better feel to the controls and make up lack of precise timing.
I was a private tutor for quite some time, largely specializing in math. I can tell you with complete sincerity that for most students who have any math issues, fractions were their first stumbling block, and it is typically left unaddressed and festering. Going back, addressing the issue, working toward a full unconscious mastery, then working forward again was the often painful solution.
I am quite intrigued by functional programming and I spent a fair amount of time with Haskell. I believe that there are cases where functional programming should be relevant, for example numerical software, where by definition you pickup an input once, do a lot of calculations and produce an output (think of lapack, or numerical functions). There is no event loop or continuously looking for input to adjust state. Shouldn’t functional languages be ideal in implementing such algorithms in a simple
way and perform better than fortran? They clearly don’t thrive there, but they should. So in the end I got the impression that functional languages about the mental challenge of finding a non trivial problem that an a functional language can solve better than a more traditional language. It might be a form of art in programming: finding the best problem for the tool.
Or simply relax immigration policies to basically let migrants get work permits, they would argue for a fair wage, and we can let the market decide. From what history says, that's what the US used to be in previous centuries. People came and worked, and grew and made what the US had become before politicians decided to make it harder and harder for migrants to settle legally.
Fears That Trump Might Launch a Strike Prompted General to Reassure China
The future of forecasting contests, according to the experts
A recent paper by Spyros Makridakis, Chris Fry, Fotios Petropoulos, and Evangelos Spiliotis considers the past evidence from forecasting competitions and lays out some design principles for future ones.
no, but nothing about the mechanism of mRNA vaccines suggests they'd be an exception in that regard, since mRNA is very short-lived and thus if you'd get long-term effects, you'd have them from other delivery methods too.
I believe you're looking too deep into my grammatical edits. I simply missed a comma.

You're the one arguing about replacing legal terms and xenophobia while gloating that I may be "triggered" by what you're saying.

Complete nonsense wrapped up in words, while ignoring the real world issues. Read up on the border, ease up on the thesaurus. Cheers.
True, the point was more about what was possible before Flash was sacked and is yet to be common with WebGL/WASM.
Both. All?
Polars: Fast multi-threaded DataFrame library in Rust and Python
> So my guess would be that the science news "author" is rewording things to avoid stepping on another author's copyright.

And doing it badly...
It was a horrible marketing mistake to ever imply that a vaccine would eliminate COVID by reducing transmission / infection. In fact, it'll turn COVID into a manageable disease by eliminating the most severe symptoms.
I know at the least they seem to entirely outsource their Free File Fillable Forms to Intuit:

Search this page for Intuit
https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/static/fed_terms_of_se...

And here's where you search for xml error codes when your return gets rejected.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/individuals/free-file-fillable-fo...

This thread a replier expresses first hand knowledge of doing government software development contracted out to their company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003793
I know of a number of RHEL-based deployments we’re managing that still use Java 8. In general, if you’re developing libraries, you still need to support Java 8, because there are a significant amount of enterprise deployments that use it.
What are the best UX/UI courses available today?
Currently a friend is looking for some UX/UI classes to up her ante. Given my that my experience is solely in Software Engineering/Biz ops, I am not entirely sure what the best avenue is for them. They currently have limited experience in the field and are interested in developing these skills along with their Front End skills!
Right. I meant in terms of its APIs, Stripe’s product is solid. I’m not saying their user service/CS is great, although it’s probably average for the payment processing industry for non-large companies.

I had almost exactly the same issue as OP but with Braintree. The support was equally as useless. Stripe isn’t unique here, most tech companies just don’t know how to build good support.
What you are calling fact is interpretation on statistic.
But the statistics themself are fact.
ex: number of case and hospitalization for vaccinated people vs unvaccinated people.
So when you look at box ploy or histogram those are the facts.

The fact don’t change every week only the interpretation.

The only fact that we can say is really changing is the R0 value of the virus but this is expected because it change over time because of our actions!

It’s more like the current price of a company stock on the NeeYork stock exchange will change every week.
It change when we get new data about that company and reinterpret how much it”s worth
The second sentence of the Wikipedia article for “species” reads:

> A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

This is the definition I’ve always heard, and it’s certainly more rigorous than any definition of “race” that I’ve encountered, and makes no reference to any arbitrary social constructs.

Conversely, the definition for “race” is explicitly arbitrary and social:

> A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.
yes all the ML based ones feel like they're consistently adjusting to everyone in the world at once

I can learn to use a consistent kb, but I can't learn a moving target
NSO Group operates at the pleasure of Israel. If Israel says "jump" NSO Group is going to respond with "Would you like us to have our tongues out while we do it?"
> Teller Ulam thermonuclear warhead to make a credible threat to a neighboring power.

Granted, I haven't read a ton of analysis on this, but my guess would be that you do if you're going up against someone with their own thermonuclear bombs. If China drops some of their own thermonuclear weapons on Tokyo, what's Japan's response? Dropping a fission weapon? If they got to that level, I'm sure that would be considered an acceptable risk for China. The converse is also true. If Japan dropped the fission weapon first, they'd instantly have a bunch of thermonuclear warheads headed their way.
Other people not sharing your values is not the same as them not having morals at all.
You might find the podcast about "cancel culture" interesting.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1270-youre-wrong-about-497649...

They observe the term means different things to different people, and as other people have pointed out here, that the loosely defined behavior ascribed to 'cancel culture' has been around for a very long time. They have a whole episode around the "Dixie Chicks" or as an example from further back perhaps arguably the McCarthyist Red Scare.
Might be boring, yet where are the WebGL/WASM versions that are the modern versions thereof?
I did D including a custom runtime in about +20 KB of webassembly over this (I just wanted to take a straight desktop program and port it over). The runtime doesn't have to be that big.
The funny thing is that it isn't really arbitrary at all.

It's location based. Humans only recently gained the ability to travel vast distances, and in the past lived (and bred) within a small, localized region. The "arbitrary" location based ethnicities actually do reflect that genetic ancestry

Of course, really wide ones like black/white/asian lose some of their meanings.
vaccines are and always were effective, its just 90+ % of people would need to take them to kill covid once and for all. but people are dumb so its not happening
Ive been trying to get the marketing team to always include a std deviation with averages. Average alone is simply not useful, standard deviation is a simple way to essentially include percentiles.

They regularly compare experiments to the mean but dont use a T test to ensure the results are actually different from the mean.
This patch workflow would also work with F-Droid. I don't know of any other workflows for this situation.
The problem is values, body is being treated as a product. People are being treated as disposable. We need to reshape these values into better ones for a better society in the future.
One individual with direct experience of life in Palestine -- say, Paul -- suffices to write down a story with geographical details. As many people as you like may then crib from such a story. But we do know of more than one person who had lived in Palestine, in the period.

I do not judge theories. Historians judge, and report their results. As I understand the scenario, the theology came first, then the parables, then a person to quote parables from, and finally biographical accounts of that person's life, all unfolding over decades according to the needs of an expanding church.

I do not find anything implausible in their results, or in their reasoning. You are welcome to your own conclusions. If you have a problem with historians' results, you may take it up with them.
> humans have been able to tell* what race someone is with their stupid human eyes.

It's more that humans have been able to define, with significant disagreements, what race someone is with their stupid human eyes. Race is nothing but a collection of these judgments. I'm not brown because I'm black, I'm black because I'm brown.
Most corporate PR statements are crafted this way. They often give the illusion of saying something because all the key words of saying something are there, but they're often crafted in a way that if read carefully, say almost nothing at all or have a giant disclaimer in small font that essentially says *none of this maybe true and is subject to change.

A lot of pharmaceutical advertisements do this to: this might help you, it might also kill you, you choose(!) but please ask your doctor about us anyways and throw us some money.
When the average person makes more money sitting in their house than they do working - it's a gift-horse that is hard to look in the mouth...
So, around the same time as the Great Recession?
I would prefer if you could provide sources. One typical trap I see people fall into is mistaking physical flow for trading.
With Germany being in the center of Europe, it always has a large amount of energy exchanged with France, thats a physical necessity, basically due to "transiting" through the german grid to other countries.

But even in 2020, Imports and Exports with France leveled out with Germany exporting a bit more.

Based on:
https://www.smard.de/page/home/marktdaten/78?marketDataAttri...

If you have a better source, let me know.

The low prices are not set by solar, as you probably know, subsidized renewables are always sold for 0, they can't change their pricing. But fossil plants (especially lignite and nuclear) drop their prices as they are not able to completely turn off or reduce below a certain amount of power.
totally. that blog was also one of the sources I mentioned in the post! Good stuff

NB: Post author here.
There's an old joke:
When you owe the bank a million dollars, it's your problem.
When you owe them a billion dollars, it's their problem.
(these numbers likely need adjustment for inflation...)

If FB/Instagram use is damaging a substantial percentage of your population, it's your problem, regardless of whatever moral frame you decide to put around it.
>For years they didn't do things like fact check posts or try to auto-classify racism, the site was fine

>Gmail spam filtering [...] works fine, is uncontroversial and makes users happy regardless of their politics

>an attempt to guess what might inflame political activists of various kinds, mostly on the left

This is more of what I meant: I find these arguments to be unconvincing, if you're going to make these claims convincingly then you need to show proof of this. Remember we're talking about two billion users here. Your post does not read like an actual attempt to solve the problem but instead an attempt to attack "activists on the left" and "the NYT set" which I don't even know who you're talking about or what that's supposed to mean in this context, I would advise against making these type of statements. It would be more convincing to mention a specific person or persons, what their claims are, and what you disagree with and why.

>Finally, you edited your comment to add a personal attack claiming I'm making "off topic political comments".

This is false, there's no personal attack, I'm saying your comments are unrelated to the argument and are not convincing to me. If you're confused about this, a personal attack would be something along the lines of "X person is a bad person because they follow Y political persuasion" which your comments could be construed as doing about Facebook's employees. So please make sure not to do that. This is again why I highly suggest against making this a political argument, usually it results in someone getting defensive, when there's no reason to do that.

If you want me to put this more frankly: I don't care about your politics or facebook's politics, that's not an interesting subject to me. It's nothing personal against you or facebook. Just talk about the problem please, otherwise I don't want to continue this discussion.

>A major source of controversy inside Facebook was when it was realized that the system was protecting political incumbents simply because they were more famous than their political challengers, thus giving the ruling parties a literal exemption from the rules that applied to other politicians. The political nature of the system and impact of moderation on politics is an overriding theme of concern throughout the documents.

This also seems not really related to the argument. Sure it affects politicians but as has been established, that's a side effect of the way the system has been designed. I don't think it makes a difference whether the side effect was intentional or not.
A Latin language website from 2004.
Do you have a link to the full age cohort effectiveness numbers? I didn't think these numbers were published yet, if they are or don't exhibit Simpson's Paradox then the question is what accounts for the discrepancy with the UK and Canadian data and the immunological lab research done by Shane Crotty and Rockefeller [1].

[1] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-717/
Minor nit, Shockwave wasn't the same as Flash. All three plus ActiveX overlapped in their time on the market, which is hair-raising to think about.
U.S. freed from burden of high crude oil prices
Good opportunity to plug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet : if you don't know much about the underlying distribution, simple statistics don't describe it well.

From Wikipedia description: Anscombe's quartet comprises four data sets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet have very different distributions and appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x,y) points. They were constructed in 1973 by the statistician Francis Anscombe to demonstrate both the importance of graphing data before analyzing it, and the effect of outliers and other influential observations on statistical properties.
In the grandparent post you were excusing Intuit’s lobbyism by using a what-aboutist look-the-other-way argument to appoint a different entity (collection of “rich people”) as the designated tormentor for tax code complexity.

I surmised that complexities introduced by that group are irrelevant in calculating standard tax return costs, as no one requires a low income earner to deal with vagaries of obscure deductions. It’s mainly Intuit who should be blamed for beefing up those costs.

You seem to agree with that statement in your subsequent comment, so I’m no longer sure about the insight you are trying to drive through.

Is it just a trivial “taxes are complex, man” thesis?
What Is the Keto Diet?
Don't tell me what I can't do
Correct. Other "common cold" coronaviruses have a high fatality rate in nursing homes. Realistically there's not much we can do to protect nursing home patients from highly infectious respiratory viruses. Cutting them off from human contact in sterile bubbles inflicts terrible psychological harm.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/10/18-0862_article
CRUD Tables Need to Die
This sort of comment will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here (all of them—you must have broken at least half a dozen here), we'd appreciate it.
Well, they did pick up Jack Ma for speaking out against gov't regulation (to put it simply). Celebrities in China, including the wealthy, have a lot of influence. Their "abductions" almost certainly are intertwined with keeping a grip on their power.
I think he was arguing for the effectiveness of the proof of work consensus mechanism as opposed to Cardano's PoS's. As someone else described to me:

"..nodes just vote on a block to state whether or not they think it is valid. Once a block gets enough votes, then it is added to the chain."

Whereas a PoW will "just blaze". Is this correct?
If a project maintained reproducible builds, then they can have the best of both worlds: their own repo where they can publish builds as they like, then f-droid.org can later reproduce them and use the upstream developer's signature.
The subtle implication of your comment seems to be that I value my life and health less than you do? If so, I think that's unfair. But I'm happy to roll with it. If, in the face of substantial evidence that two doses of one of the mRNA vaccines remain highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death 8 months on, you still cannot tolerate the potential that you could end up in a hospital in a developing country, suffer from long COVID following infection and/or die, logic dictates that you should reconsider travel.

You might strongly believe or suspect that a booster will provide meaningful additional protection to you, but the ongoing booster debate reflects the fact that at the current time, there is no conclusive proof that a booster will definitely reduce risk in healthy already vaccinated individuals, nor has any potential risk reduction that booster proponents believe exists been conclusively quantified.

Put simply, just because one believes that they have meaningfully increased protection from a booster does not necessarily mean that they actually do. Science will eventually tell us but the data isn't in yet.