skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people do have some things to hide.

I think people would be extremely upset if police started buying real time access to GPS data from your phone in order to more efficiently locate speeding cars (instead of setting up post somewhere and wait for a car they feel is speeding "enough to be worth it", or eventually get board of the spot, and just go after one of random cars that is speeding slightly.)

People sometimes do things like planning a surprise for a loved one. sure you might not really care about hiding this from the government, but hiding it from some corporations can be important. Imagine planning a surprise party for your spouse, only to have the surprise ruined by all devices in the house starting to show ads for something you searched for. (I've literally seen this sort of thing happen. I've even had things my parents who live multiple states away look up start showing up in my advertisements, because ad-tech companies correlated a unique identifier for one of my devices with unique identifiers from their devices, because both shared a public IP address for a while when I was visiting a month or so previously.)

People generally have many things they would not be comfortable being generally known. Exactly how much money you make. How much debt you have. How many things you bought out of state that you failed to declare use tax on. The fact they they sometimes use piracy sites or torrents to watch movies or shows from services they don't subscribe to. What type of porn they watch. The list goes on.

Once again, many (but not all) of those are things people don't really care if the government knows. They may only want to keep this information from people who know them, or even specific individuals. But these are still things to hide.
That sounds like the player, who should be paid millions for plying gets punished for receiving the dinner, rather than the school.

The equivalent would be banning the H1b holder from the US. The NCAA is the model to follow if you want to make something more exploitative, not less
UI wise the big thing for me are tab groups. They are straight crack, and the stock Chromium implementation Brave inherits probably my favourite.

Apart from that, the main thing you can't adjust via flags is Chromium's style of using separate browser profiles instead of Firefox's multiple containers within one profile/window/session.

The bigger UI differences are on mobile, where again, tab groups are crack and the implementation excellent.
Can you please elaborate? In a future update you’ll be able to hide vanity metrics like likes and followers
More or less but the level of resolution there doesn't really capture the rapid changes that happened after the natives were kicked out. Settlers would cut some lands while simultaneously ignoring others. Some areas that were historically grasslands thanks to continued native settlement reverted to forests. Some forests were clear cut for farm and pasture. But then they turned around and selectively logged some of the newly grown up forests, and repeated grazing/farming altered the substrates so when pastures were left and grown over in the 1850s different stuff grew back. And remember, basically any time you get a mature forest prior to 1980 or so someone comes along and logs it within a couple decades. And all of this is happening in a patchwork manner and the environment is inter-connected so (for example) decimating a bird species in most of its range will effect the plants it caries ability to show up on land left to grow over in its range. Then you have stuff like the chestnut blight, etc, etc. It's really hard to paint accurately with a broad brush after Europeans showed up.
Until 1978, copyrights in the US were for 28 years with a 28 year extension. In 1978 there was a new law that aligned things more with copyright in other countries which were generally 75 years or death of the author + 50 years, whichever came later. The US did not retroactively apply the death of the author term to pre-1978 works while other countries did (IIRC in some countries, works that had fallen into the public domain were returned to copyrighted status with the 1978 treaties). Terms have been extended since then so I think in most of Europe it's death + 70 years or 95 years for pre-1978 works while in the US, pre-1978 works are 95 years, but I'm doing all this from memory and probably have plenty of mistakes.
I was actually arguing that the letter makes it easier to comprehend in a sense, because it forces you to do the mapping, instead of assuming the same zone.

That being said, the interface should really put the location closer to the letter ring, because it's somewhat easy to forget you're looking at a localized mapping and what the letters mean, since they are in another UI element.

"So all users when they look at the clock at the same time no matter where they are, they'd see the same time."

This is true of any clock (unless fancy optics are involved, or we get too deep into physics), two people looking at the same wall clock will see the same time. The problem is that they might want to interpret what they see in a different way. Both UTC and your htime thing are a way to solve that problem.

Leading with a letter helps people not start reading as a local time, whereas with 8061 formatted times you only notice it's not in your own locale at the very end of the time. Depending on your use one might be better than the other. Unfortunately time requires that I remember one additional piece of information, namely UTC: X=24, before I can index into the alphabet and calculate the difference myself, whereas UTC simply requires I add the offset to the time and move on with my life.
I think most people are not aware how bad it used to be. I went to India a couple years ago, and could taste the air pollution from the traffic on the tip of my tongue. Its horrendous. Give you headaches bad. I don't think they use catalytic converters over there on majority of cars and motorcycles. Once electric goes mainstream, it will seriously boost and extend the quality of life of billions of people.
I'd say "your network" has likely gotten too big for your original intent. I'm not exposed to the 3 billion people on the platform. I only have family and close friends.
Three rolling on the floor laughing emojis.
A Computational Model for Descriptive Ethics
Also Tenor. They've taken over just about all animated GIF results, then take steps to make it as annoying as possible to simply download the GIF.
Easy to understand. When you are self-made wealthy you have a lot more pride and ego which can correlate with flaunting wealth.

When you merely inherit wealth and grow up around it all the time, you may wrestle with imposter syndrome and wonder if you still would have been just as wealthy if you didn’t start off that way. Your life may be a struggle to find your way out of the shadow of your ancestors achievements and make your own identity. This creates insecurity. Until you have made your own significant accomplishments you may not be comfortable flaunting your wealth, and even then there is a tendency to try to rewrite history to make it seem like you were less fortunate than you actually were.
I don’t know if it is really that incentives change when you get very big, as much as it is that you become more capable of achieving desires that are counter to the public good.

At smaller scales, your power isn’t enough to override the preferences of the masses. Get big enough, and you can.
Currently this is the only thing slightly bothering me when writing Rust code, everything else is an absolute blast and I'm loving every second of it.

Hopefully an industry wide best-practice will develop soon on how to deal with the problems outlined in the article.

Does anybody know what a Phantom Builder is? The article teases it but doesn't say anything.
Naw. FreeBSD feels like a cohesive whole, if that makes sense. All the basic stuff in it all work together. Comparatively, Linux is a pile of parts strapped together with tape.

Plus the documentation for FreeBSD is much, much better. For one thing, no pushing me to use that god awful “infodoc” crap.
If Googling your company name also brought up a bunch of See Also links to various genocides and military coups, the company executives would certainly care.

In an age of ethical consumerism, it's undeniable that not breaking with the past would've had a significant impact on their profits.
While not impossible, it’s much harder to create false stats when going through clinical review with the FDA. Super double extra when the lives of the world are at stake and the total eyeballs on a single vaccine are so high.
The distinction is moot. A remote exploit that gets you local execution combined with a local to root gets you remote to root, and game over.
US Government bans sale of hacking tools to Russia and China
The surprising early days of Bitcoin: a story that gives hope to new ventures
I immediately searched for Missile Command, and did not find it. Thought maybe it wasn't 2600, but it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command

Sibling comment points out AtariAge, which does have it.

https://www.atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=3...

My understanding now is that this is "All Atari Games up to ma..." so far, an early work in progress.
There’s far more venture capital than innovative ideas and the business problems are rarely hard to solve. Engineers get bored so we have a constant flow of new languages, frameworks, and lately, an overwhelming focus on tooling and infrastructure.

At the end of the day, most companies are just generating dynamic HTML after performing some rudimentary CRUD database operations. It’s disappointing so
much time and money is spent only to arrive at the same place that /cgi-bin/ and a perl script solved over two decades ago.
Its the idea if you take one slice of the universe, it should be the same as any other slice. in this case, not talking about different physics but different makeups.

then they noticed that the spin of galaxies is correlated. like one pie in the sky of galaxies tend to spin left, and the next one tends to spin right, and the next one after that left again. as far as I know, its unsolved as to why. some think it might be that the observed galaxies are spinning around something much bigger that we have yet observed, others think its an influence by the cosmic web.

the idea that the universe is the same as everywhere (although an assumption) is very much baked in lots of theories, including the arguments that support dark matter.
> I think of successful hard sci-fi as "reasonably extrapolates what we currently know about science and technology into the future", but, as you pointed out, that leads to an unlikely, or worse, boring future.

Check out Blindsight and Echopraxia for where the author extrapolated a bunch of physics and neuroscience research into a vision of an interesting, and quite disturbing future. Well, there were also (in-universe explained, and quite ingeniously at that) vampires, so this part would make it soft sci-fi, but the story/universe would work without them too.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

double interp(double x, double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2)
{
double node_poly = (x - x1) * (x - x2);
double w1 = 1.0 / (x1 - x2);
double w2 = 1.0 / (x2 - x1);
double y = node_poly * ((w1 * y1) / (x - x1) + (w2 * y2) / (x - x2));
return y;
}

int main()
{
for (int p = -300; p >= -330; p -= 1) {
double x = pow(10, p);
double y = interp(x, 0, 10, 1, 20);
printf("x = %.6g, y = %.6g\n", x, y);
}
return 0;
}
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_th...

> Both the 24-hour and 12-hour notations are used in the United Kingdom

> The 24-hour notation is used in timetables and on most digital clocks, but 12-hour notation is still widely used in ordinary life. The 24-hour notation is used more often than in North America – transport timetables use it exclusively, as do most legal documents – but not as commonly as in much of the non-English-speaking world.
Replacement should be an insurance offer like the rest of electronics.
I thought the science had been settled
Small single engine planes == hobby? No. The vast majority of the hours flown in these planes are for commercial purposes. If you are going to focus your ire anywhere - it should be on these money making enterprises that don't (have to) upgrade their infrastructure.
It's like evil cancer, this mentality that individual humans are just types of pokemon and that we need to try to have the "correct" number of each. No good will come of it.
Thanks, but I don't really think that's the point at all.

The parent commenter relates that they were 8 years old and not a missile identification expert at that age; but stressed about by something that actually was a realistic fear.
Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips
More like Deepwater Horizon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
The outburst wasn’t the good part.

The clarification of pain point was the good part.
When can we sign up for a class action on wage depression?
BSDs are UNIX.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...
hahaha same
What's that divided by # of hearing aids sold?
Platform Democracy: Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure
> I would encourage the community to either decide that it's OK just continuing on as it is, or decide that it wants to try to find that new unique value proposition that will give it some sort of unique value in 2023 or 2024

But that's what Perl 6/Raku was supposed to be, right? And that turned out to be a disaster.
As far as I can tell, everything you described (Maybe with the exception of donations) is the exact same as a bank account you don't tell anyone about.

Do banks really start to bother you if you have multi-millions in there or something?
And perhaps only for some users. Can’t help but wonder if location has some effect.
Always respect a demo that teaches me something new about the basics:

`cat > file.yaml`

Handy!
In some Nordic countries, it's not illegal to sell sex, but it is to buy it. What do you think about that? Do you think making the men fear the law, but not the women, would do anything to help the women?

I guess the government's objective is to kill the business completely, which is about as realistic as prohibiting alcohol.
Isn't digital just an abstraction on top of analog anyway? Pretty much all electronics isime that
Xonsh is damn impressive and I loved playing around with it. But it is really slow.
What’s wrong with just writing it as Mikolaj? It’s not like it’s a kanji or something.
Yeah, DDG is just privacy Chrome on top of bing. As far as I can tell they've made no efforts at building a proper scraper or index. If Microsoft gets tired of the deal there is no more DDG. Risky proposition.
There is high blockchain activity if you consider ETH and ETH layer 2s. A lot of BTC activity happens on ETH as WBTC at this point anyway.
I think it’s pretty plain that he’s cuing up the stories - which I’ve enjoyed by the way, he’s a good raconteur - as “what I learned about negotiation that day” rather than “how I didn't get hired”. The pivotal moments in his stories may not have actually been what kept the deal from going through - he alludes to this in the yahoo story, even, but discounts it.
There is no "first sale" for a non-transferrable software license -- even when you get it as a part of a physical good. You are confusing licensing with copyright, which is a different thing entirely.

When the second sale occurs, the seller must still obey the terms of the software license, which means the seller must give the end-user a full license which includes the ability to demand the source.

If it were otherwise, the GPL would be meaningless. Instead of the many BusyBox lawsuits, the companies could have "sold" their boxes, "bought" them back, then had no GPL obligations.

Lastly, without the GPL you have no software license and have no right to run the software.
Consul API Gateway
It's both.

By continuing to tap into supplies, you keep the cost of carbon-producing fuels (and their carbon intensive extraction industries) low enough that they remain price competitive with renewables; a price which is further subject to implicit subsidies in the form of negative externalities. This then helps buoy the demand side and slows the transition to alternatives.

One way to solve that is through carbon taxes so that the price of externalities is baked into the cost of the product.

But the alternative is to simply cut back on extraction in the first place and leave the carbon in the ground.

In either case the end result is higher prices at the pump which will push consumption toward renewables.
The inventor repeatedly suffered lead poisoning, and many of the workers died at the plant developing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
They don't believe politicians about making real progress on the issue because they are pouring money into making sure it doesn't happen.

It really doesn't make sense to treat them as though they are just economic entities, they are big political players as well.

To give a specific example, when Washington state had a carbon tax on the ballot (a method to address the demand side), the oil industry spent 50 million on the campaign opposing the measure.
I agree. The whole time I was reading the book I was thinking "I'd probably enjoy this more as movie" and I was right (although only a bit, still didn't care much for the movie). Name dropping a bunch of references for references sake is more effective when you can see them.

Also it seemed clear to me that some chapters only existed to provide notes to a future movie production, and didn't need to be infodumped. (One chapter in particular the only thing that actually happened was he was sitting in class and letting his mind wander, IIRC, and did nothing to drive the plot forward, just infodump).
I am sad to hear FreeBSD is changing root from tcsh to sh (FreeBSD moved from csh to tcsh a while ago).

It was one of the things that made FreeBSD unique. I guess the got sick of hearing this question: "can I change the root shell to bash ?". I think they were the last holdout of the BSDs.

But to me, if you care what root's shell is, you are doing something wrong by using root way too often.
I use Perl all the time for short programs, up to a few hundred lines. The main advantages of Perl are that it's already installed on all the systems I use and the language itself is not changing: Perl scripts I wrote 20 years ago still work, and I have a vague hope that Perl scripts I write today will still work in 20 years' time.

Maybe Python is now stable enough for me to consider it as an alternative to Perl but I've bad experiences trying to run Python scripts from 20 years ago. In any case, Python is less concise for the sort of programs I write, and although Perl has a reputation for being unreadable it really depends on who's writing it. I write in a subset of Perl, with "use strict", that I find to be readable. I find Perl stops being convenient at about the point where you need complex data structures and modules.
The data disagrees with what I have said, yes. But so did the data of the 1932 Ukrainian harvest and subsequent famine [1]. The Ukranians reported a record harvest, in the same way the SF Chronicle reports "crime is actually way down". I've lived in SF for 12 years, its never been so bad. You see it, you feel it, business are closing because of it. Business data may back up what I have said, you could google walgreens crime stats in SF as an example. Target is another example. Also the 1,000 people who will die due to drug OD are not counted. Why is that?

[1] The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/articl...
Autodetecting Gnome Dark and Light Mode for Dotfiles Adjustments
Saying, "we're very active" is a different framing than saying, "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
I don't know, it's just a Unicode character? Not even a newer one, it's just 2 utf8 bytes. Pretty much everything should support that in 2021.

When I think of 100 things I think of stuff like "some people spell their name in all lowercase and get really funny if you change it"
And yet it's one of the simplest things to add non-ASCII chars to your tests to validate their handling.

It's like not testing if your calculate application can handle negative numbers or decimals.
We're near a small airport and I think of this every time they fly over (which is quite frequently).

Essentially hobby aviation is completely stuck in the 1970s and getting the engines modernized would be "cost prohibitive".

Since wealthy people still want to play around in planes they get to rain lead on our heads.
Hmm the mechanism isn't clear to me. What do you mean by "pay rent on the fraction you don't own".

You buy a piece of the house all cash, and rent the other parts? Doesn't this imply it must be a multi-family unit?

And yeah, with no debt, only the wealthy will be able to afford properties. But maybe I don't understand the mechanism.
That was not always the case.

Sticking with the Epic example, a great deal of custom maps made it into regular rotations in the original Unreal Tournament community, and a great many mods were played for a very long time.

But people weren't doing it for money, or "brands" as you say. They were building stuff for their own enjoyment.

A community polices itself, ultimately. If "brands" try to police it, then yes you will get penises and Hitler, because "brands" have assumed liability for said policing and the community itself is rightfully reluctant to help them do their jobs. Penises and Hitler are more often than not a subconscious lashing-out at the "brands."
To all those wondering about IDE support , the actively maintained VSCode extension is :

https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim

The default extension suggested by VSCode which have over 43k downloads in un-maintained for Eons and it won't work.

Here is the link : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nimsaem....

This extension works properly , go-to definations too.

Nim need contributors on VSCode and other extensions part , and the language server which is in active development :

https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp

@dom96 can you pin this somewhere on the forum or website ?
Morgan Stanley Note Emphasizes SpaceX “Double Flywheel”
Partly though, if I'm remembering correctly, is that no amount of lead is considered 'safe'. Obviously that's very difficult, and many people will be exposed to lead at some point. End goal should be to minimize, and make the ppm as near zero as possible.
I guarantee that most of these people didn't watch the special. They are just confirming Dave's message. Oh well.

Dave will be fine. Netflix will be fine.

I wish their was more uproar over other stuff that's on Netflix that is way more offensive, in my opinion.
No I don't, it was a few years back. And my cousin paid for the campsite. How much? I live in Canada, and its like $55 here, add in firewood, and its almost like staying in a hotel.
I'm actually kind of outraged by this, because I think it puts extended campaign out of reach of many poorer inner city families. In a country filled with nature! Even Soviet Russia tried to make this affordable for its poorest citizens. Forget about Russian dacha equivalent cottage in Canada. It will set you back a few hundred thousand dollars, need permits, minimum size, zoning and yearly taxes. It's mad.
This fastidious commitment to developer productivity only gets trotted out when it comes to code quality. It’s my experience that shops which are very concerned about whether maintenance and quality work is an optimal use of developer time also tend to stick them in open offices, saddle their calendars with unproductive meetings, underinvest in tooling, shatter their minds with noisy oncall shifts, impose slow and heavy bureaucratic processes, etc. If that is indeed the real motivation for blocking refactoring projects, it’s a weird place to start.