skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like big pharma will allow a control group to exist for this stuff... they still have immunity from anything that happens as a result of vaccines, right? Are you asking why yet, at this point?
>> Tried running a Java applet recently? ;P

> The answer to this question is almost certainly "no".

For me, it's a yes. My employer uses some ancient monitoring application called SiteScope. They recently "upgraded" from an ancient version to a newer one (I think the latest), and nearly the whole frontend appears to be implemented as a Java Applet. Since no browser on the Mac supports Applets anymore, their workaround was to download some Java App that ran the UI.

The older version we had used HTML.
You'd have to depend on Google Translate quality but this is a good article https://www.themarker.com/technation/.premium-1.7972249
looks similar to https://thoughtstreams.io/
The definition of "elites" at this point just seems to mean any government employee or even anyone educated to the point of a bachelor's degree.
Opening http(s) ports != opening all ports, or even the ones that the management services run on

Open ports to webservers like Apache,nginx etc. aren't affected by this issue.
Can't you also just take the surname of your partner? In Canada that's the most common practice.
Or better, offer the person in San Francisco the same as if they lived in India. If it doesn't work for them, they can just move somewhere cheaper.
Foundations of Blockchains
Pre-trained CLIP gets you 95% of the way there, so you're correct, fine-tuning isn't necessary to test the market. The one downfall of pre-trained CLIP is that it hasn't been trained on still images from videos. These have a different noise characteristic and contain considerably more motion blur than your average image used for training.
Hadn't thought of that, it's certainly going to reduce your terminal velocity even if it goes vertical as it probably would.
The diminishing risk those hobby hunters have is hypocritical and pure cowardice, the hunt stands no chance while the alpha loosers are equipped to the teeth and never put their lives in danger. They’re complete and utter loosers in my book, lest they level the playing field..
I'll note that this follows the general trend of the Golang Security team trying to remove all the sharp edges on security code so that people don't cut themselves. I won't say that this is a uniformly bad thing, but it does make things harder.

Another change in the same vein was removing official support for x/crypto/openpgp. There were no maintainers, it required too much effort, and pgp is in general a PITA to use. Totally understand. However this means that anyone working with signed git commits or signed rpm/deb packages is now using a forked library due to upstream dropping support.
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One nice side-effect of this is that you can have a bit of fun with the Other Names since they're "unofficial". If the child wants to use those names later, they can, if they don't, they can pretend they don't exist. Some friends of ours put "Danger" in their kid's "other names", for example.
I did the same. It's onlh local news, a local group and an IM client for me now. Not seen any of this stuff people are talking about and it sounds like I'm healthier for it.
Blue Origin Wanted a $6B NASA Contract – It Received a $26M One
Fucking humans.
Imagine thinking you've discovered some mysterious signal that could herald the next Cosmic Microwave Background, only to discover impatient astronomers.
Edit: actually, you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle, and have ignored our repeated requests to stop. As I explained to you before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25934337), that's the line at which we ban accounts (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), so I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539299.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, such as race and gender flamewar. I realize it's not always easy to post about this topics without being inflammatory, but the subthread we got here is an example of exactly what we don't want on HN, and this was pretty predictable from the way your comment ratcheted up the inflammation.

I think this is an instructive case - if you look at the parent subthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539299) without this flamewar, it's clear that it's much better. Not that every comment is good or flamebait-free, but the discussion is more substantive and (not coincidentally) on topic.
> For example, in Poland, "one party’s social media management team estimates that they have shifted the proportion of their posts from 50/50 positive/negative to 80% negative and 20% positive, explicitly as a function of the change to the algorithm… Many parties, including those that have shifted strongly to the negative, worry about the long-term effects on democracy."

Not only democracy but, eventually, world peace. There are an increasing number of countries turning toward authoritarianism and the effects here could not only polarize political discourse, but also international relations.
I interpret the inverse square law as being the direct result of the area of a circle scaling as the square of the radius. Imagine dividing a given circle overlaid on a city into fixed sized area units. If you randomly visit a unit, the probability of visiting a particular unit scales as 1/area.

Note that this derivation is essentially identical to showing that electric field falls off as 1/(r^2). In that case the area refers to the area of a sphere through which field lines must pass.
> After I saw the scheme projected to the wall in the big All-Hands, I realized that without any degree I'd have to wait 10 years for stock options while the PhDs would be in almost immediately. I called a recruiter the next day and was out a few months after.

So it worked.

Company valued PhD's most over anything else, and now you had that information and made an informed choice. They made theirs.
Those aren’t the only options. We can give credit without creating mythic heros. Giving technically correct precise allocation of credit is messy, you’re right. But so is defining what ‘tall’ means, so the precision is beside the point. You don’t need to define exactly where the line is drawn.

It reminds me of voting systems, but maybe that’s just because of the election yesterday. If you want to give singular nontransferrable credit, the things you say are important because giving someone credit takes it away from someone else. Division and fighting become the right answers. But if you spread the credit around, saying Leibniz and Newton both get calculus credit (and probably not just those two!), then discussions of which one should get the title of The One And Only Calculus Hero just seems absurd.
These tires look like they use about 4x the rubber.
Such a game does exist - check out the Pilotwings series for SNES and N64
Take note. Calling someone's experience "incorrect" and "absurd" before you have all the details will never end well.
It's not probably, title 18[0] is pretty clear that it's an enemy that matters. However, since the United States is at war with a noun, then that makes the definition of enemy very flexible.

0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
How to make a custom button style with UIButton.Configuration in iOS 15
Propaganda is simply information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

How else would you explain the fact they used old data? Incompetence?

Its clear the vaccines don't prevent much, you still catch, spread, and die from covid after being fully jabbed. This is what the report shows, and unfortunately been seen by myself through friends, and family.

Could calling people a menace to society do damage to a society simply because they are showing other points to your own?
> the change to the algorithm has forced them to skew negative in their communications on Facebook

I suspect that one of the reasons for this is that negative reactions to posts (like anger) actually have a positive effect on engagement. Facebook never really implemented any kind of downvote like other platforms have. Downvotes tend to suppress content that people don't want to see.
not to mention that guy explicitly said he didn't memorize any positions until 3 hours before the match. This is roughly zero prep?
> As someone in that cohort who was also there for the "glory" days of early FB (when you had to have a college email to sign up), I have to agree that at this point the idea of making friends on FB weirds me out. How? Why?

I was a freshman when Facebook was introduced and required a .edu email. I've used it on and off since the beginning. I've made lots of friends there - both local and in other states/countries. It usually comes down to interactions in groups for niche interests. Why is this so striking to you?
In addition to Darknet Diaries, there is a lot of interesting info in Nicole Perlroth's new book titled "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-is-how-they-tell-me-the-w...
Hm, that's surprising. I added it as a known error response to the Internet Explorer dev tools in 2015 (inadvertently causing "I'm a teapot" to be localized into 108 languages...). I wonder what "support" means.
> Does Facebook have such a huge number of users there's no growth from building a better product?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

>How many users does Facebook have? With roughly 2.89 billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2021

>MAU: A registered active user who logged in and visited Facebook through the website, mobile app, or Messenger application in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement.

It would be physically possible to have better engagement, yes. But they're already the most wildly used website/software platform/media outlet in the history of humanity. Given from how much regulatory attention they're attracting, you could make a solid argument as a PM that it would be better for the company to reduce MAUs and spike user logins. From how Congress is talking, they're not far from just ordering Facebook to be shut down, which will reduce MAU to 0.
The initial value could be measured this way. Market price discovery. Without external influences (collusion, etc.) the market will generally define price bands. The stock market is an example of this (to a degree). The job market is also an example of this.

Over time, employees show their value or not. The higher value employees should be appropriately compensated for what they deliver, e.g. more market price discovery, but for rarer assets.

The danger of transparency is that you will discover the presumed market value difference, without seeing reasoning behind those differences. Which, honestly, will result in many angry people.
> I think that makes any algorithmic “fix” much harder. Or perhaps even impossible.

Optimize for another metric than engagement.
Yup. As small kids we would jump from a tree that I wouldn't consider doing as an adult. I don't think terminal velocity is important at that scale but square-cube certainly is. You landed pretty hard but I never heard of anyone getting hurt.
In the US, the UAW union has been fighting electrification of vehicles due to concerns about job losses.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-environment-an...
BoingBoing (the source of this story) is one of those places that has withstood the test of time.
Complementing sibling answer, the architecture used in CP/M, and somewhat mimicked by MS-DOS, allowed very high portability of the system.

Ideally, no user space program should access the hardware directly. All its interactions should be through int 21h. The kernel implemented filesystem access and other system routines, occasionally making bios calls. Bios calls were very simple calls to a jump table in a predefined location that implemented lower level hardware accesses. So, when a program wanted to, for example, access a file, it called the BDOS with specified register values and the kernel, if required, made bios calls to satisfy the request.

This, of course, incurred some latency. For performance critical applications like games this approach was just too costly. Since IBM-PC was just very very common, apps started accessing the hardware directly. It was more performant but non-portable.

For classic CP/M apps, that never accessed the hardware directly, if you could build a machine with a compatible bios, you instantly had access to all CP/M software library available.
Good old XP.

Cleaned someone’s virus infected computer out. Plugged the network jack into the cable modem. Under 10 second and I had to start from scratch…

When work tells us they are blocking all external connections in data center, I can’t really argue even with how much work it is.
More history on the Carter administration's actions if anyone's curious. I'd never heard of this before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_bonds
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/international/ESF/P...
Breakpoints are a tool to stop execution and land in the present. It's the debugger that decides where you can go from there. Typically they'll allow you to go into the past, but only to inspect the stack frames, because the values on the heap get overwritten. I vaguely remember that some debuggers are able to record heap writes and thus are able to show the entire state of the app at each frame, effectively "going back" and replaying stack frames. My guess is that Replay does something similar.
It high school I got yelled at when I put the period before the final quote mark. In college I got yelled at when I did the opposite. Both seem completely arbitrary.
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The key “argument” in my mind is this: why are we trying so hard to tax those who might become wealthy but seemingly make no effort to tax those who already are wealthy?

I agree, that probably isn’t compelling to many, but I suspect it is a view found commonly here on HN.
How is going to work for more money a loserish activity? My understanding is that the US contractors underpay so being patriotic Americans they went to work for a better company.
This kind of comment reminds me of “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
If i could take care of my retirement, medical care, my kid's future, etc.... i'd work a very different job if i could. I'd probably work more than i do now. I'd love to run a simple restaurant like a BBQ restaurant or something like that. And i'd never sit at a desk ever again as part of my daily tasks.

And i'd fuck-off on HackerNews and Reddit a lot less.

I just got a job where I make more than double my last role. It's world-changing types of money and benefits. But it's still a tech job and i'm not even being done training and my "revitalized energy" i got from leaving my last job only lasted like 3 weeks. The reality is, it's still a boring tech job with all the shit i knew I would hate about working at such a larger org. And I'm just burned out on tech. But it's the only thing i know how to do and actually make a living.
So once you see that (WHICH IS WHAT IS ALREADY GOING ON) then you can shop somewhere else.

Its really weird to see this offered as a negative of transparency, when it is an example of transparency working.
That can be a deal breaker for some uses
In what situation would someone be requesting `https://gitlab.com/dashboard.html`? When I go there, I get the exact same page as I get at `https://gitlab.com/`, why was it necessary to support both URLs? Now they're stuck with it of course, if anyone actually uses /dashboard.html, but surely they could just special-case filenames that actually exist, just like they presumably special-case URLs they use like /help already. It doesn't seem necessary to blanket-ban anything with a file extension.
_o/ the summary is close, but there's a key detail that might have not come across: you can still enable and disable TLS 1.0-1.2 cipher suites. What we take care of is the preference order in which they are picked.

The two scenarios you present aren’t really affected by this change. However, I want to address the latter: if we fail to make it possible for Go applications to promptly roll out software security fixes, being able to change TLS configuration will be barely a band-aid. I actually can’t remember the last time that would have helped secure a Go application faster.
Just get an Arduino or ESP32 and you can do exactly the same.
Hey HN, I primarily built this so that my friends and I could enjoy the minecraft snapshots as they come out while also having the ability to use commands like /home, /spawn, and /tpa. Recently just re-wrote some of the internals and moved the plugins into a mono-repo for easier development.

Let me know if you have any questions!
>“Houses nearby highways are low value because the owners are too lazy to manicure their lawns”

Well you're in luck because if you re-read my comment without the intent of building a strawman you'll see that that's not my explanation. My explanation is more or less "selection bias" I tried to offer some examples as to the mechanisms of such selection but you read right past them.

>A more likely explanation is that living near a highway sucks.

I like it specifically because people "who are willing to pay a premium for a quiet and peaceful back yard" do not elect to live in places like this if they have the option of paying that premium. This means I am free to use power tools into the evening, the business across the street is free to use heavy equipment in the morning, my neighbors are free to play loud music, have barking dogs, yell at their kids, etc. etc. etc. Things like not having to be anal about cutting our grass and keeping our houses nice follow quite naturally from that. If you don't care about other people's business in a similar manner the cost savings from living in this environment are tempting.

>The fact that we see a similar effect near airport runways is a supporting data point.

Yes, people who care about noise avoid those too. What's your point.

>I would in fact argue that you’ve got causation backwards. The curb appeal of houses near the highway is low because the home values are low

Values are low because a subset of people don't want to live here. Selection bias applies to both groups increasing the disparity.

You are foolishly projecting your opinions onto everyone. Some people simply don't care about the noise. They cluster where it is noisy because why would they pay more to avoid something they don't place a high value on avoiding. Are these people a minority when you look at the population overall? Probably. Are these neighborhoods composed of many people who simply tolerate noise because they have no other rational option. You call this blight but I call this a reflection of our priorities.
Sort of.

If everyone does what they want - who does the jobs no one wants?
>I don’t know if it would kill you, but you’d probably freeze some skin, and if you try to look you might freeze your eyeballs. It will be hard to move muscles after sixty seconds of 120mph freezing wind.

https://youtu.be/6SI2V_DbCTw

If you haven't seen it, watch it from beginning.
Nobody exists in a vacuum, but I think Kuhn was right: scientific progress is made up of long periods of incremental work split between short bursts of paradigm shifts. Those shifts are more likely to rest on a few very influential people who take the current state and look at it in a considerably different way. We haven’t had that in physics in quite a long time and might not again.
> I remember being able to drag the "current line" pointer forwards or backwards in languages like C, C++, and C# in maybe 2003

This is because Visual Studio debugger was always state of the art.
I started my career with a first job in 2009 (not long time ago!) as a COBOL/JCL programmer (and went on to do TELON programming later) for one of the biggest retailer in the country.

The systems that managed the forecasting for replenishable and non-replinshable products, markdowns (i.e., discounts) on products in the stores, stock warehouse etc. across the country was completely built on COBOL/JCL+DB2 stack combined with TELON online screens for business to manage the solution/system.

This system practically worked round the clock with hardly any downtime, and in the peak season (like Christmas when the sales/transactions were at it's high) too worked without any major issues. I'm sure IBM still earns a big chunk of revenue from mainframes from these big customers.

I remember an attempt was made to migrate some (if not all) to a new generation data analytics platform and it didn't go very well, so they just stuck with what they had.

One of the main reason I can think of is the the cost of this migration was too high (vs. the realised benefit) as the system just worked for the business and was quite resilient.

I since then jumped ship to the very technology they were trying to migrate too and have never looked back really. I think I can still work my way out of COBOL/JCL + TELON/CICS, perhaps I will forget them very soon :)
No, it's easy and not "off the deep end at all"

The OK symbol is completely ok. There's nothing wrong with it. There's a certain sect of internet cretins who use it to dogwhistle to each other.

When someone uses the OK symbol, it literally means nothing. If that person also belongs to or is adjacent to that certain sect.. then you can start to ask questions but still mainly assume innocent intent.

If that person is using the OK symbol while wearing a MAGA hat, posting pictures with Pepe the frog doing the OK symbol, etc.. You can see clearly the throughline here and it's not illogical or wrong to see what that person is clearly trying to do and call them out on it.

I'm not 'decoding secret symbols', and if a hispanic person truly was fired for just doing an "OK" sign and nothing else, then no one who is serious on the left should support that as that is beyond absurd. For some reason, my bet is that there was a bit more going on than that though, but I could be wrong!
Strong recommendation to take a look at MiniZinc. It’s a modeling language for combinatorial optimization problems, and is often quite easy to model problems in it. The cool thing is that one can then solve the problem using many different solver technologies.
> Until now, ‘stressed poetry’ of this kind has been unknown before the 5th century, when it began to be used in Byzantine Christian hymns.

FWIW, some scholars argue that the Roman Saturnian verse (3rd century BC or earlier) is stressed poetry. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnian_(poetry) for examples.
Nim is not really 'pythonic'. It does have some superficial similarity with Python (being whitespace sensitive) but it begins to diverge pretty soon. This is not really a criticism of Nim. I quite like many of the choices in Nim.

Seq claims that vast majority of python programs would work as is. I have not validated that claim, but Nim can absolutely not make that claim. Any python library would require substantial porting effort to be translated to nim.
try living in a small town with a bike.
Including me. What is the difference?
Ruby? No. Rails? Perhaps. (Both github and gitlab are built with ruby on rails).

For an old post on a somewhat related topic, see:

https://ryanbigg.com/2009/04/how-rails-works-2-mime-types-re...

I could imagine the mix of rails #respond_to and "file extensions" at the end of urls might make a mess (think /users/profile/smith.html vs /smith vs /smith.json vs /smith.txt - essentially what might have been /smith?format=json etc).

Ed: current documentation:
https://apidock.com/rails/v6.1.3.1/ActionController/MimeResp...