skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Default parameters, optional parameters, and named parameters kind of form this massive design space where they all sorta kinda influence each other, and so while there hasn't been a formal "yes" or "no" directly from the team about these features, they tend to get caught up in a combination of "there are bigger issues to worry about" along with the combinatorial explosion of truly exploring the design space, at least from what I've observed over the years.
Egyptian man arrested after broadcasting face during robbery
It's difficult to get traction here without some "freebees", and very few people read /newest.

It's not necessary to add real "freebees". My recommendation is to add a blog post about the problem and how you solved. Perhaps not all the counter measures (most of the spam filtering tricks in HN are secret), but I guess you can tell a few of the tricks you use. Which is the most interesting?

Try to imagine you meet with an old technical friend and you are drinking some beers. And you tell him/her: "Last month we had a weird problem in my Chess site. It was ..." and bonus point for an interesting solution. (Also, bonus points for some photos/graphics.)

Try to write a blog post about it and post it here. At the bottom, add that you are interested in discussing more ideas. I can't guaranty that it will get traction, but it's a good recipe to try.

About your problem: It looks very difficult. Computers are just too good playing Chess now.

I guess you can install some driver to check everything the computer is running like the póker sites, but in Chess it's too easy to copy the board to a second computer.

The only thing that may work is eye tracking. My guess is that players look a lot at the piece they are going to move. But I'm not sure it's a good idea. I have not played Chess in a long time, but I administer a lot of Math exams for competitions. Some people look at the sheet of paper all the time, other look at the window, other write a lot of things, ... people have very different styles.
https://archive.ph/HCxAQ
So you as a developer are not allowed to install a code editor... To edit code... Which is... Your profession...

So you need to use a Web browser as a code editor because... Installing a binary to the disk is not allowed?

It's crazy!
And it wasn't Athanasius Kircher!
There is something wrong with this idea. Sanitizing HTML should be done on the server, not on the client side.

Looks like absolutely useless feature that will just make bloated browsers more bloated.
That's where the audience is. Not the HN audience obviously, but regular people that see Alexa ads and buy the accursed products.

If she were distributing pamphlets, should she avoid doing so in a public square because it has CCTV cameras everywhere?
Sure to please ~17% of the people, PEP 638 -- Syntactic Macros => https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0638/

(It's only Standards Track at the moment)
Window Restoration, Unblurred Opacity and More – Windows Terminal 1.12
It was legal in the US (in some states) to fire people for being gay or transgender until very recently: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/06/15/sup...

If you really didn’t know this, you might seriously consider whether you have anything to add to this kind of discussion.

The healthcare issue is more complex. Here’s a useful summary: https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/07/23/you-dont-want-second-b...
> a horny 15 year old shaving his body hair so he can be more aerodynamic in VR while engaging in extended self-congratulatory monologues about what a Nice Guy he is for not being repulsed by his "Rubenesque" girlfriend while he recites lines from Ghostbusters in a series of completely incoherent "memba this???" vignettes, is not a vision for the future.

Sadly, I think this may be the future where we don’t solve climate change so more and more people just check out from reality.

In Snow Crash, I don’t think people liked the meta verse so much as their life in a shipping container sucked being in the meta verse was better.
> Moderna is facing growing pressure to share this type of know-how. Last week several U.S. Democractic senators and congress members released a letter pointing out that Moderna got a massive infusion of U.S. taxpayer funds to help develop its vaccine. At least $1 billion was for the research component alone. These officials contend that the Biden Adminstration can and should use language in the government's contracts with Moderna to force the company to divulge its process.

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> WHO's Friede is less convinced that there will soon be sufficient COVID vaccine supply.

> But even if that's the case, he says it will still be enormously valuable to have cracked the code of mRNA production on behalf of low and middle income producers.

Hard to feel sorry about a biotech's inability to export IP protection capitalism during a pandemic because of statements they themselves made.

EDIT: "All in all, U.S. agencies committed about $2.5 billion to help develop Moderna’s vaccine and buy doses, according to the New York Times."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/24/fac...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vacc...

Feels like everyone's "square" if Moderna continues to sell doses to countries that can afford it and countries that can't produce bootleg versions, but I am open to arguments as to why that wouldn't be the case based on all available data.
He answers this exact question in one of his interivews. Paraphrasing - he strongly believes in civil liberties and privacy, his view of Palantir is to prevent fraud (based on early Paypal fraud system), provide data analytics for human decision making in the intelligence agencies and help government monitor their own performance.

If you think about this, Google and Apple has far more granular data about citizens than Palantir. Yet, we don't think twice about it.
> The problem is with people's lack of nuance - the black and white thinking, and not listening/reading actual source of the topic :p when speaking out.

This is what makes me sad. When someone says, "A is B", they don't just say "A is B", they demand that you accept this view. You cannot say "A is almost B", you cannot ask "is A 100% B?" you can't even say "let's talk about it!" You either agree to a given viewset 100%, or are labelled as an enemy, hater and whatnot.

And we do deal with situations that are nuanced. Not just that, they have real-life implications for the whole society. Jess and Scott Smith are suing Loudoun County because the views that were imposed on them led to a tragedy. It seems as if in a race towards extreme progressivism the common sense has been lost.
That's always the problem, isn't it? Existing carbon offsets are basically fraudulent.
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> the WHO weaponizing a company's goodwill like this against sort of reeks.

This isn't 'goodwill', any more than a SaaS company offering their product for free to small companies or for a limited time is 'goodwill'. In fact, because Moderna is selling a drug, it could be said to be identical to a pusher saying "first taste is free". After the pandemic is over, whatever that means, it's a certainty that Moderna will price their drug as high as they can to recoup losses incurred during the pandemic. Plus, they've gotten free publicity, free efficacy and safety testing on a mass scale that they could never afford on their own, and a plethora of other benefits that they will definitely seek to monetize in the future.

I'm sure there's a certain element of unselfish humanitarianism involved, but the long game is profits, same as any other drug maker.
Huh? Python does it without any fancy sigils
I made dash my sh and started writing shell scripts targeting it instead of bash. If there's some bash-ism that can't be elegantly expressed in POSIX sh, it's time to bring out something like Python.
There are various methods. Control is one. The Big Lie another, direct attacks on trust and truth another. Sheer overlwhelming and distraction as well.
The best possible outcome of allowing Rust in kernel code is being able to guarantee type safety, memory safety and perfect concurrency where it's applied. Those 3 pain points are where C fails right now, and it's part of the reason why scheduling on Linux feels 'worse' than Windows or even MacOS at times.
My questions: What about the children? Are we ready as a society for it to be legal for someone to possess an image of a topless 14-year-old girl on their computer?

Should the law view child toplessness differently than adult toplessness? And if so, then how would we be making be a step towards the desexualization of the nipple?
All things are never equal. For example we are here on Hacker News. Not Twitter or Facebook.

In the long run, it is about delivering value to users.
Google clearly gave up on fighting spam some time around '08 or '09.

I think they realized it's expensive, and not actually good for business if the spammy stuff is using your own ads and/or analytics anyway.

This is why almost all of the web looks like a shady spam-site if you don't have Adblock enabled. Google doesn't give a shit anymore.
The scientific method is absolutely trustworthy. People, however, are a different story.
Have you ever seen people quitting over that?
>> But what about VCs that are actually capable of seeing beyond a mere elevator pitch?

I think in any communication, the "burden" of clarity is on the person with more information.

You think you see a real problem. You think you have an idea for how to solve it. You think you are the right person to execute on it. All of that state exists in your mind as a founder, and it's the reason you're standing before the VC.

The VC is experienced in getting these answers out of people because that's what they do all day. As a founder, on the "best" case scenario, you make it easy for the VC to see it. At worst case, you make it so hard that they can't "pull" it out of you despite their best effort.

If they can't get this answer out of you, why would they invest? Why would they think you "have it" when you are not showing it?
>Calculating the average value for some observation in a time bucket, where some buckets may have no observation (resulting in 0/0=nan)

But there are many ways such a calculation could result in NaN besides a division. For example, intermediate sums could result in something like inf - inf. I find it rare that you can definitely conclude that a NaN means some specific thing.
He's pro crypto/bitcoin, but he also called it a Chinese weapon undermining America:

“I do wonder whether at this point, Bitcoin should also be thought [of] in part as a Chinese financial weapon against the U.S.,” Thiel said during an appearance at a virtual event held for members of the Richard Nixon Foundation. “It threatens fiat money, but it especially threatens the U.S. dollar.” He added: “[If] China’s long Bitcoin, perhaps from a geopolitical perspective, the U.S. should be asking some tougher questions about exactly how that works.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/peter-thi...
A modern browser environment is an OS on its own. Change my view.
Is it possible to disable all the google apps on that phone, like search, chrome, gmail, assistant, text to speech, youtube etc? I can do that on my samsung phone using adb. If yes, I might buy one.
I'm not conflating the two, I didn't say anything about his stance on the mandates.

> That being against mandating these emergency experimental COVID-19 vaccines

They are not "experimental" by the way, THAT is propaganda/misinformation.
I can’t say for sure what a shooter is thinking, but the shooting of innocent people stops the moment the shooter is on defense. This was a lesson police learned after Columbine.
> But polluting the ground or water only happens in China,

Do you have any idea how many superfund sites are in Silicon Valley alone?
People buy it because it's advertised constantly by two of the biggest corporations on earth.

It's also cheap enough that it gets added to shopping carts, then distributed to friends as gifts.
Hmm, I guess my instinct is just the opposite, it's shocking that anyone in the world should be denied the information needed to produce their own vaccines. Even without the larger discussion of IP, is there any doubt that Moderna and Pfizer have recouped their costs many, many times over already?
Ha nice call!

Unfortunately we have not completed a satisfactory security audit. We engaged with one company, but I don't think they were worth their salt. The problem is that the "good" companies are much more expensive, so it's a consideration of the value of the security audit. (If you know of a reputable company that would like to audit for free though...)

The code is not yet open source, but we are primarily expanding on this open-source library. https://github.com/ZenGo-X/multi-party-ecdsa
We still have plans to make it open-source eventually, but we haven't seen the demand, so it has so far not made it to the top of our to-do list. The way I see it, there are tons of crypto apps and programs out there that are closed-source, or worse, "open-source". People are using those apps today, and they don't offer the same distributed security that we do. So yea, perhaps not the answer people want to hear, but it's the best we have given our limited development bandwidth.
GSK.

I wonder if this is exactly why GSK never released a COVID vaccine even though they are the largest vaccine producer in the world [1].

[1] https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/about-us/vaccines/
Sugma?
is this the real life? is this just fantasy?
AWK is sweet for big/streaming data analysis operations because by default awk/sed handle data without allocating memory. They're still highly used in these use cases just because it's typically easier to munge a gargantuan CSV file using command line tools that zip fast as fuck through it to get to the data. These tools come from days when malloc wasn't just an expensive bottleneck computationally, but expensive in terms of like 32MB of RAM or way less. If I need an application to get to data that huge (And there is PLENTY OF IT and more to come in these days, so it's pretty dope and groovy that this tool from the 70s is one of my best friends still -- care for your elders), I will get all modern or whatever and write one in go.
> You are getting downvoted because

If you have an argument to make, make it, but trying to marshal current net voting as evidence of support so that you can make an ad populum argument is kind of dumb, in part because ad populum is a fallacy, in part because there is never any support for your attribution of motive to voting, and also in part because net vote totals are...rather fluid on HN.
Wasn't Moderna funded by taxpayer money? If so shouldn't they be obligated to share the recipe?
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I'm really sorry to hear you had this experience :( I'm not sure who you spoke with, but this perspective definitely isn't representative of the team and/or how I'd ever want to see us talk with developers.

I'm actually a PM for both Live Share, Codespaces, and some of our education-related experiences (e.g. the GitHub Classroom extension for VS Code). A web client for collaboration, with zero-install/onboarding, has always been our north star, and so your intuition/feedback was 100% right back in 2018.

Now that we have Codespaces, vscode.dev/github.dev, and Live Share support for the web, we're actually looking to further optimize our support for education, since we believe we have a lot to offer. In fact, I'd love to connect and hear your thoughts, to make sure we're going in the right direction. If you'd be interested in letting me make up for that terrible conversation in 2018, you can reach me at joncart@microsoft.com. Thanks for sharing this feedback, and letting us know where we can do better.
But I have been horribly wrong also, so I'm not so inclined to lead boldly. I think Jordan and Gresky had the benefit that their team also thought they knew what was best.
This is the correct link:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/vizio-vs-the-world/#capit...

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Patents are there to ensure monopolies last longer. It is a blunt instrument to kneecap the small guy.

Key takeaways from the article:

Microsoft's motivations for the Nortel and Novell acquisitions were clear enough: neither company was making anything. They were just vessels for holding and using government-issued monopolies (AKA "patents").

The point of the patent wars wasn't to guarantee their own profits – it was to deny the other company its profits. It's "strategic sabotage." Microsoft didn't buy Nortel's patents so it could make its own devices – they bought them to stop Google from making ITS devices.

Today, Microsoft has a different kind of strategic sabotage, this one aimed at Facebook – Mouré writes that buying Linkedin "may have been a deliberate response to an encroaching competitor: Facebook."
It’s up, but not really by that much. 30 years ago it was 82% from that graph. Wealth is always concentrated at the top. The better question is: what’s the quality of life for the middle class like over time?
> Millennials are the first to be born with unleaded gas.

Nope. Many developing countries still had it by 2001, and only started banning after international campaign from the UN [1].

[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1098792
I don't know where you pulled that 5 number from but it seems to come out of thin air.

Besides, breaking structures in smaller structures this way can lead to code that's much harder to follow, refactor, and maintain.
Interesting.

When I was doing my research on ULPower engines (which can burn 100LL, but they would prefer non-leaded), there were very few airports who offered unleaded fuel (UL94). I think, San Carlos / KSQL was the only one I found?

I wonder what KRHV closure would mean for unleaded fuel? So everybody would just switch back to 100LL? How is that supposed to help?

Wouldn't be more practical (from the point of lead pollution) to enforce non-leaded fuels in those small airports instead? My cursory research shows that lot (?) of these light planes (and, perhaps, the majority of the trainer/weekend hobby aircrafts) would happily burn non-leaded fuel (UL94, for instance), with corresponding STC.
We had that problem with PS/2 keyboards too, you can buy hardware keyloggers for those.
Only HR flunkies worry about the degree. They’re trained to check-off that box.

FinTech startups would likely find your background of interest.

Look for the guy WHO you can help. Ex: CTO or Head of Engineering.

Reach out to them direct for an initial conversation.
It only takes one where the act is happening to put the shooter on defense and stop the massacre immediately.
I noticed 7% of Germany’s electricity production comes from biomass: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...

It seemed like a lot to me.
E.T. is in the "VIEW ALL" list but it doesn't seem to show under "E", for some reason.
> Have mathematicians been wrong for hundreds of years by using short symbolic names for their different variables?

To be fair most of that time they were optimising for writing in pen/chalk, where shorter names save a lot of work.
Fortnite has this same element. Drop immediately off the bus into an area with lots of loot and you'll have instant action until you either die, or kill off every opponent in the area. Sure the movement in Apex Legends is faster and "feels" better to me, but the speed and complexity are actually cons for me as I don't have significant hours to invest whereas in Fortnite I can easily jump in once a week and compete.
> I have friends involved in the LGBT community since forever, and even them openly admit that the trans community is a cesspool.

Is there even a "trans community"? As far as I can tell, they try to stick together with the LGB crowd, rather successfully. The groups that are skeptical of T founded their own organizations, but I'd say they're very much a minority. Trans-progressivism is very much main stream, also as far as laws in different countries are concerned.
"Facing sceptical reporters at a press conference in October 1924, Thomas Midgley dramatically produced a container of tetraethyl lead - the additive in question - and washed his hands in it.

""I'm not taking any chance whatever," Midgley declared. "Nor would I... doing that every day."

"Midgley was - perhaps - being a little disingenuous. He had recently spent several months in Florida, recuperating from lead poisoning." (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40593353)

I believe after that press conference he spent several more months in Europe detoxing. High-concentration exposure was known to be dangerous ("On the Thursday of the week before Midgley's press conference, at a Standard Oil plant in New Jersey, a worker named Ernest Oelgert started hallucinating. By Friday, he was running around the laboratory, screaming in terror. On Saturday, with Oelgert dangerously unhinged, his sister called the police. He was taken to hospital and forcibly restrained. By Sunday, he was dead. Within the week, so were four of his colleagues - and 35 more were in hospital. Only 49 people worked there.") and quite a few people were concerned about long-term, low-level exposures.
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Brave browser is my go-to Android browser and i hope this initiative works out for the best.

One problem i regularly have is that the browser becomes unresponsive, e.g. won't update the screen. The only remedy is to close and open the browser.

On second thought i should probably go see if this issue is widespread.
Someone needs to organize an HN AMA with Neal once they rename the company Meta and pivot the whole trillion dollar entity into the Snowcrash universe. It's just the sort of thing he would have written himself.
> Plus they would have the backing of a state actor, so compliance, and ethics issues would be non-existent.

Don't tell that to the German "Landesanstalt für neue Medien" in NRW... for those OOTL: this complete bunch of incompetent reactionaries wants to introduce DNS bans against Pornhub (https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Wie-die-Landesmedienanstalt-...).
Before stating the bloody obvious that it's a luxury position, I don't want to work for any company who doesn't have a positive social impact. This could be in any form, I just don't believe in the "it should all be profit for the shareholders" attitude.
I did something kind of like this for a college project. We were taking a course on FPGA soft-processors, and for our final project, we had to build A Thing.

My team chose to reimplement Space Invaders. The soft-core was supported by a C compiler, so we wrote the game in C, with carefully-chosen functions for graphics rendering containing #ifdefs that gated either direct memory accesses (for the FPGA VGA hardware) or SDL calls.

Our "init()" function would initialize the VGA hardware on the FPGA, and create an SDL window when compiled on a computer with an OS.

Using this, the hardware and software people were able to work together in parallel, and we won best project for our class, with a grand prize of "we'll show your cool project to the next classes".

As I recall, we wrote most of the game using SDL backend, and only tested it on "real" hardware a few days before the final project. We found a single bug (during the integration) that took us on the order of half an hour to debug, and that was that.
The introduction was the only good thing about the book.
They need to convince people to buy into, but the technology itself doesn't need to be real. Not in the 5 year time frame.

Tesla's self-driving product is a great example of this. They got consumers to buy into the vision of self-driving cars way before it was actually ready. This allowed them to sell a lot more cars and pre-orders as well as have a narrative for investors to pump their stock. If they get FSD to work, it will be great. But, even if it never is a successful product, they've benefitted tremendously from the narrative itself and have been able to turn it into sales and cheap capital to invest in the business.