skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s not blaming the victims for getting attacked by ransomware. He’s blaming people who then pay the attackers. That’s a separate issue. People can be both victims and perpetrators of separate offenses, subject to criticism. I.e. being a victim of one thing does not render you blamless for all your subsequent actions.
> 'Aliens' visiting Earth would immediately categorize us into groups very crudely resembling the groupings we use today

I wonder about that... I can't tell the difference between, say, a male octopus and a female octopus, but octopi can. Maybe the differences that seem so obvious to us are actually almost imperceptible outside of our species.
I guess I was considering from a buying perspective, rather than renting.

I agree that if you're not locked in to a well below market rent, then this would definitely make sense.
Not really. Stripe has a better platform than competitors, and even though its support isn’t a strong point it’s still better than competitors (which admittedly is not a very high bar). It’s probably much better for large businesses who have their own contact/account manager at Stripe etc.

Last time I contacted Stripe I was given a round circle between departments, the department responsible denying the issue and/or sending me to an unrelated department (who had a good agent but, as expected, admitted she couldn’t fix the issue even though she recognised its existence). In the end it turned out to be a bug in Billing that was eventually fixed (per the dev IRC) but support denied there was any bug and kept giving bot-like responses. It was ridiculous. Stripe should probably improve its support, but even if it doesn’t it’ll probably do just fine.

Big tech and developed ‘startups’ are famous for bad support. Consider Coinbase, which barely responds, PayPal, which is useless, or Google/FB, which don’t even provide a contact option except in limited cases (eg GSuite for Business issues).
https://fortune.com/2018/05/11/tim-draper-theranos-elizabeth...
Other chains like bitcoin still verify that their checkpoint has the most cumulative work behind it, so you have additional assurance that the miners are also attesting to the checkpoint correctness. In Monero you have to trust the checkpoint to represent the most worked chain.

Monero's super expensive PoW also makes it very hard to interface with other smart blockchains that may want to verify the amount of work behind a Monero block, or to support useful techniques like flyclient [1].

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/226.pdf
It almost seems like a joke but...

Something I can accomplish with my hobby sometimes but not always is to add images to an environment that either make something else in the environment more prominent or otherwise turn people's attention away from it. For me the "highest purpose" of an image to have an outsize effect either by changing the perception of something else in the environment or (discovered accidentally) modulating other people's behavior to cause changes in the environment.
This is a driver interface. If it is not standardized, we get that ugly situation where an userspace app only works with hardware from a specific vendor.
Communications over a specific geographic region and budget for only one bird and/or only one launch.

That's pretty much most of the world's nations' telecommunication needs. SpaceX has put up at least half a dozen satellites for small nations meeting these very common requirements.
Lemme get Yale on the phone, or better yet Oxford. Maybe they can provide us an answer to the question of “are young girls mean to each other, yes or no”.
"Hot garbage," in this case, is just a colloquialism that means "it stinks." Garbage smells; hot garbage smells worse. They're not literally referring to heat or temperature.
Note that while you are correct in principle (for example it will perform poorly for LZ77 best cases), Roadroller reaches a very high compression ratio when used with the typical minified JS input and DEFLATE recompressors.

I have kept an internal benchmark using some of js13kGames 2020 entries [1] and for those samples Roadroller universally beat gzip and in most cases even Brotli by a large margin (~8%) even with the embedded decoder. Of course Roadroller is much more computationally expensive though.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKJWpLPY9fQ2J_COffOJ...
That's probably why we get a blue screen, as opposed to a red screen.
Why do people post shit like this on HN. This kind of garbage belongs on Reddit. Why isn't Dang doing his job and deleted garbage from this board?
Yes I agree that it's difficult for us to fight individually. I believe we should start informing children about the dangers of the internet once they begin to consume customized feed-based content. I believe parents also have the right to (and should to a certain extent) regulate consumption of their kid's digital media.
I’m sorry I triggered you. People actually do care about the meaning behind words. That’s why we are talking about it. Words shape understanding, understanding shapes actions, and actions have consequences. Perhaps if we used more compassionate language to refer to these people it would support our efforts to prevent this violence you talk about.

Also, as of this year the Biden administration has asked ICE, CBP to stop using the term “illegal alien”.
It looks really cool but I don't think I get the game. How do you find a black hole? Do you just go into a random direction until you stumble upon it?
There's a ton of static code analysis tools for Go that check whether the error is actually handled/passed/etc - I'd say they're almost mandatory they're so useful :)

edit: The thing with NewFromString is that the string you're trying to convert to a decimal can't be. So yes, you're going to have to try a different string if you want this to work. Or you could deal with it a different way - maybe you could see if it converts to a float and then convert the float to a decimal?

And in the typical exception-using code base I've seen, there's one try block at the bottom of the stack with a catch block that throws whatever error message it has at the user. Anything is better than this.
I think this is a really fair counterpoint, and worth looking into. (so far as anyone would look into what I have suggested.) I'd offer a few things, though:

We'd want to measure things like "stress" or "anxiety" rather than simply meanness, it's possible this trend is not always expressed through cruelty. (notably, the facebook article suggests explicitly that it's not.)

I think in general the idea of leveraging sociology and anthropology in these cases is perfectly sound. If this only happened in America, I think there'd be a good argument that there is not a genetic component. (or perhaps, that there is a genetic component which is only activated in some contexts.)

One point I'd like to push back on is something I observed when studying anthropology in college. (and to be clear and fair, I am not suggesting that you have pushed this point of view.) Evidence of a single and rare outlier would be brought forward as proof that a set of behaviors did not have an evolutionary basis. Usually this was taken even further: if an outlier could be found, then the entire trait was completely socially constructed. Evolution affects behavior for certain, but these are experienced as drives an impulses which get filtered through the mind, the contextual social, and more. So, if a behavior is very broadly expressed cross-culturally, it is reasonable to suspect there is an evolutionary component to it. (of course this alone does not prove it.) If the outlier scenarios are sufficiently rare, this is likely proof that although there is an evolutionary basis for the behavior, they are not set in stone, and can be suppressed by the right circumstances.
I'm not even sure we're something as well defined as the product - we're closer to an ATM that they keep making withdrawls from in exchange for some digital code.
Maybe experience shouldn't be thrown outright, but there is a history of "obvious" stuff that falls apart under scrutiny.

Observer expectations can be really strong.

For example, does sugar make kids hyperactive? No real evidence for it (last I checked). But widely believed as fact.
Increased income means increased servicing ability and therefore banks granting higher loans.
Correlation isn't causation, society is shifting massively, regardless of Facebook and Instagram.
IIRC spoken Latin is taught differently in continental Europe, so that it sounds much closer to modern Italian. The pronouncing "v" like "w" rule is mostly an American (or at least Anglophone) thing.
>There is NO reason to not be vaccinated at this point if you can be.

If you've already had COVID, especially recently, that's a pretty damn good reason to not get vaccinated given that your immunity is likely far stronger and more durable than a vaccinated-but-COVID-naïve person. [1]

While getting vaccinated on top might help (there is not definitive data on this yet AFAIK [2]), it is also not 100% risk-free. So why would you do that if you're already more immune and thus less of a risk / less at-risk than the vaccinated population?

For some people it might make sense to still get vaccinated after COVID recovery. But for those who choose not to, it's not at all fair to say they are all "idiots" or that there is "no reason" not to still get the shot. That's not accurate based on what the actual science tells us at this time.

[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021. The increased risk was significant (P<0.001) for symptomatic disease as well. When allowing the infection to occur at any time before vaccination (from March 2020 to February 2021), evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated, though SARS-CoV-2 naïve vaccinees had a 5.96-fold (95% CI, 4.85 to 7.33) increased risk for breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold (95% CI, 5.51 to 9.21) increased risk for symptomatic disease. SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees were also at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected.

[2]: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vacci...
> With this I just want to say that I know it's a difficult task but presenting it as a lost battle/impossible seems to me wrong.

The thing is, we made headway in the battle against smoking by disallowing people from doing all those things. You're not allowed to market to kids, you're not allowed to depict smoking in most TV that kids are likely to watch, you're not allowed to smoke in or near schools and teachers who do are frowned upon. Cigarettes themselves are taxed heavily specifically to price young people out of getting into the habit, vendors are required to card, and the cigarette makers are even required to pay into a fund that promotes anti-smoking messaging.

So yes it is definitely not an impossible task. But the things that make it possible require taking it seriously as a danger and addressing it collectively.
Ironically, this was exactly the theme of Google's "Dear Sophie" ad [1] a few years ago.

[1] https://youtu.be/zhPklt9nYas
> If we should hold ourselves responsible, so should companies.

Why "should" FB do so? It is doing the "right thing" for its stake holders. Of course, Ideally they should, but realistically not going to happen.

It is us who need to protect our families because we are incentivized to do so. We have failed in protecting our own interests.

It is no different from the drug dealers in our town, we warn our children of the dangers, take steps within our means to reduce our children's interactions, etc.
Only because space debris are a negative externality at this time. If there was an (international) way to fine companies based on the trash they left in orbit, this would all be very straightforward.

There's thankfully a very obvious repercussion to leaving stuff in orbit that anyone planning to put something in orbit can see in obvious ways, unlike the delayed and hard to account for impact on the climate any one company will have.
Only a few HN posts can make it to the front page. Only if you are lucky then you will be able to raise your voice through here. So I assume there would be many users out there affected like this and their issues were never resolved.
there's a time and place to care about words, mind you these are legal words baked into our immigration laws.

noone will believe you care if you squabble over what to call someone while letting them be trafficked.

illegal alien is not offensive, stop trying to make a false debate so you don't have to discuss the real issue, the cartels.

Biden can ask ICE and CBP to use whatever words he wants, like that does something, they're just following the laws he helped write.

maybe he should have updated the immigration laws in his half a century as a senator.
Why shanghai? Beijing would be more appropriate. Taiwan's missiles are capable. And shanghai has better food!
Sounds like fairly bog-standard Usability. Folks like Jakob Nielsen have been calling this kind of thing out for decades. They have not always been popular.

I think a lot of this depends on the target audience. If it is a wide-distribution consumer application, then I like the "swimming duck" analogy, where it looks smooth and calm, above water, but is paddling like hell, underneath. That's what I strive for, myself, in my standard consumer-level apps. Many of my apps look quite "boring," but actually have a lot of moving parts, invisible to the user. Selecting a screen may result in multiple server transactions, and the user only sees a throbber for a half second. No progress report.

The other side, is that, if you are marketing to engineers, or specific types of professionals (not all "pros," though. That's a wide net), you may want to present a very complex and "raw" UI. I have done this for admin dashboards.
That's why you wrap errors, so you can unwrap them and work out what caused them.

But I totally agree that blindly retrying is a bad practice.
"The Case: Three male offspring, aged 9–14 years, of one of the authors (M.B.) were observed to experience visual problems profound enough to imply functional blindness. The visual deficit was evident on almost every occasion when any one of the children of this physician went to the refrigerator and opened the door. The acute visual problem encountered was noted to be part of a consistent behaviour pattern, wherein a few seconds after the fridge door was opened a cry would be heard from the affected child of “Mum, where's the milk [or any other item being sought]?” This vocalization was made without regard to the physician's distance from the fridge or engagement in any other activity. Shouted directions as to the location of the object only occasionally led to it becoming visible. Even with calm and constructive maternal encouragement and direction the desired object typically would remain unseen until the mother-physician attended the fridge-side and physically identified the precise location of the item."

Hilarious!

But, has it been peer reviewed? Reproduced with a larger cohort?
Penelopezone/Rubyfmt: Ruby Autoformatter
Adguard home has more features in comparison to it, tbh. I like having DoT, DoH, and QUIC support on the back- and front-end. That way my ISP really can't see what sites I'm connecting to.
The problem is that an ICU bed isn't just a bed, it needs to be staffed. Without the staff to go with it you can put up as many beds as you want and call them ICU beds, it won't make a shred of a difference.
The support for M1 is backported at least by Azul, so you can get a Java 8 version which works on a M1

https://www.azul.com/downloads/?version=java-8-lts&os=macos&...
What you call lifestyle changes I call “need to make a decision”. Patients make terrible healthcare choices all the time. If we’re going to hammer them on vaccines let’s go all in, huh?

Obesity causes massive costs and burden on our healthcare system yet I don’t see people calling them idiots.
identity politics is a prisoners dilemma

we are all better off if no one practices it

on the other hand, there is a big advantage to defecting and doing so early

if those who defect are not punished in some other way, everyone eventually defects

oh well
The article touches on this point briefly:

> How should one pronounce the cae- in caelum (sky): kai, as it was in Rome of the 1st century BCE, or che, as used in Christian liturgy and modern Italian?

but then later concludes when discussing a meeting of students held in Latin:

> The meeting removed, however, any concerns I had about sound and style in speaking Latin actively. Differences of pronunciation and expression mattered as little as if I were conversing in English with students from Scotland, Germany or Japan. What mattered was that the language was intelligible, meaningful, accurate and alive.

So in short, if people understand you, that's what matters, and the differences can be thought of as differing accents.
"I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus." -- Agent Smith
> You can't take on the entire world with bombs and tanks, the Nazis tried that and failed.

They got pretty damn close. I’d say the outcome involved a lot of luck.
Fixing Vulnerabilities Potentially Hinders Maintainability
Hey, you're correct. I meant 'fourth'. I also have problems with the word versions of 12th and 40th! By the way, the prefix 'quater-' means multiply by four.
I don’t think OP ever suggested this was acceptable? Can’t we discuss multiple facets of a piece of news individually, without everyone always having to condemn or support the overall premise of the article?
I think the topic of young girls being predisposed to being mean is worth discussing on its own, no matter my opinion on it.
That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.

— Dane-Geld, Rudyard Kipling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane-geld_(poem)
Yes, the terms I've seen are "natural method", "comprehensible input", and "extensive reading."

The latter two refer more to a large volume of simple reading materials which let you work up on your own, practicing and slowly learning more grammar and vocabulary.
It's still has underwritten assets or value as a currency given it's rising price vs USD. It'll need to stabilize and maybe even see inflation like USD before used as a currency.
I think that really started after the Timothy McVeigh bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
Understand Gradle in Half an Hour
It would be VERY different if Facebook was not a free, ad-driven service where their sole optimization is engagement. If Facebook was a subscription service where users had 'timelines' (remember that Facebook era?), we would not be seeing the psychological phenomenon we see to this magnitude. Same for Twitter, Insta, TikTok, etc.
I totally agree with you. I am constantly asked by my two boys (11, 14) for a smart phone. In our mind they don't need one at this age. The issue is that everyone seems to have one in the school. When I pick them up I see it for myself.

I don't understand why the school does not just ban them and discourage usage.

If we want to change the use of social media in teenagers and younger, we as parents have a responsibility to control access to these kind of sites and the internet in general.
Individual statements here may be true on some level (e.g. 'large mammals maintain grassland', 'steppe climates sequester carbon'), but that doesn't make the broad conclusions true. We can't just rewild the Great Steppe, we grow our food there now!

Anyways, ecosystems are complex. Here in Scotland we have a proliferation of deer, which no longer have any predators except cars and posh men with guns. No new trees with them around. They are also destroying peatlands, which I imagine are a much better carbon sink than grassland.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/29/huge-ris...
This is a great approach to the unvaccinated. I guarantee many of them would be willing to get a "natural" cold rather than the vaccine.
The British could give up tea, the Japanese could give up rice, and Indians could give up cumin. It's entirely possible to do all of those things by "simply not eating it".

Do you think the above are equivalent to what you're asking regarding meat? Why or why not?
In oo inevitably the programmer appears, disguised as manager, Händler, coordinator and Marshall er and then its all procedural again with all the procedural problems. Functional programming should life at least here. Preferably also down in the factories, were the Confighandlers are hard at lurk.
Library developers start depending on Java internals.

Developer change internals, because they want to improve something.

Library breaks.

Users don't want to update to new Java because their code does not work.

They want to break that chain, I guess.

Also I think that you still can allow access to any internal class using --add-opens
No other game in that time (C&C or AoE) had a selection cap.

Starcraft / Starcraft BW is very unusual as far as early RTS systems go, capping at exactly 12 units. When all your peers allow for infinite selection, and then you come out with a design that only allows for 12-unit selections... its clearly an explicit design choice.

From there, we need to reverse-engineer the reasoning behind the design choice.

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I too was a D player on Starcraft:BW. So much training and effort and yet only got to the bottom ranks...
Perhaps they can learn the behavior from other cows or at least make it easier and if it sticks dairy cows live around 20 years so if there are incentives to train them (fees for run off maybe or just direct benefits to the operator) it could really be worth it.
I used to very strongly agree with you re: matplotlib, but I've recently switched from using almost exclusively ggplot2 to almost exlusively Matplotlib and my realization is that they are very different tools serving very different purposes.

ggplot2 is obviously fantastic and makes beautiful plots, and very easily at that. However it is definitely a "convention over configuration" tool. For 99% of the typical plot you might want to create, ggplot is going to be easier and look nicer.

However matplotlib lib really shines when you want to make very custom plots. If you have a plot in your mind that you want to see on paper, matplotlib will be the better tool for helping you create exactly what you are looking for.

For certain projects I've done, where I want to do a bunch of non-standard visualizations, especially ones that tend to be fairly dense, I prefer matplotlib. For day to day analytics ggplot2 is so much better it's ridiculous. The real issue is that Python doesn't really offer anything in the same league as ggplot2 for "convention over configuration" type plotting.

Fully agree on Pandas. R's native data frame + tidyverse is world's easier. Pandas' overly complex indexing system is a persistent source of annoyance no matter how much I use that library.
Probably helps explain why covid hit so hard in nursing homes.
Use of that type is easily limited in Haskell code. For instance, in my chess counting project [1] only a few lines in Main.hs use IO (), while the other approximately thousand lines of code have nothing to do with IO ().

[1] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking
No kids yet; appreciate the comment -- your perspective + the sibling comment make me think my concern was probably unwarranted.