skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies will be evaluated that way if the government intervenes in the carbon market and fixes the price. But profits will still be the metric, as it should be. You'll just get much better alignment between profits and the environment.
I really like gRPC. I've even worked with a browser implementation of it. SerDe costs were painful but the developer experience of it was great
And if that person is a negative-review farm out in (insert 3rd world country here) who was paid $10 to write 100 fake negative reviews, how does that help?

What, are you gonna ask the authorities to extradite him into the US to show up in his appropriate court date?

Everyone knows that you pay offshore troll farms for your negative reviews / disinformation these days. EDIT: Heck, there's a huge market for fake offshore accounts. You can buy fake offshore accounts and do the negative trolling yourself these days. (3rd world citizen "farmed" thousands of accounts on Facebook, to bypass the moderators. 3rd world person sells those accounts to someone nasty, and then the nasty person uses the account to troll / harass / misinform)

Its a well known fact that moderators mostly look at new accounts. 3rd world citizen actively using an account and look vaguely "humanish" for 30 days is enough to bypass the bulk of Facebook moderation.

You ain't winning this battle. Not with the current set of laws, not with the current set of techniques being used. You have a better chance of suing Fox News / CNN. Seriously.
You're making a point about the permanence of laws by citing the Patriot Act, which started to expire in 2006 and expired completely in 2020.
Ten years back I looked into drafting a RESTful API for a mature software server that didn't expose yet a public API.

What I did was read Roy Fielding's thesis then try to apply REST from first principles to our services, sketching out an API pattern that complied with the best-practices he outlined. It quickly became apparent that a couple of things were very weird:

(1) trying to reimagine our very stateful application in a stateless way was a BIG change for "let's add an API" work

(2) trying to make it so that the client could enter the API with no knowledge of the initial URI, and find every other possible interaction using links provided by API responses, was pretty ambitious

In retrospect what I probably should have done was rounded up a dozen potential API developers and interviewed them about the problems they expected to need to solve using the feature, then designed something that met their needs, rather than trying to build to Fielding's spec just because the feature request said "please build a REST API" and that's what a REST API is.
Hopefully he meant homemade peanut butter, none of that vegetable oil mess.
> trying to make Apache Axis and .NET play nice

That's key. If client and server were both .NET or both Axis, things were easier. As soon as they differed -- prepare for long-term pain such as restricting the data types you want to use to string and int. Limited interoperability.
In the book, at least, he earns/steals that position (it's not given to him) by virtue of his mother's knowledge of their religious beliefs and his training from birth to be a leader. Which was only barely hinted at in this movie.
1. I didn't realize that anyone thought thought the service was launched. I've only seen reporting that it was discovered and defaced. This would make a difference.

2. and 3. The license can say whatever it wants and we can interpret it however we want, but at least for US law, it makes a difference whether or not this constituted a release/distribution to be a binding agreement. Non-binding contracts are not enforceable. If you have reporting that it was used by consumers, then this is different, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
I can certainly agree that multiple implementations has overhead and creates pain points, but it's not world-ending and it does have advantages.
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Citation required that people are rational to begin with.
I have to imagine there has been reformulations on many items since the 80s based on cultural trends and food science.

We went through the "Low Fat" period where "fat" was removed and replaced with sugar. Probably less animal fats and more palm oil along the way or fried in peanut oil, etc...

There is a lot of foods that I had as a kid that I don't consume now nor even offer my kids.
A web page as a web server
I worked on one of these. We had giant problems with caching.

You have an assumption that the likeliness of the vehicle becoming unavailable but there are so many ways this isn't true. The edge cases of car sharing can be downright weird. (For example, some services have both app and mobile, and can cancel via a call to customer service. Let's say that a user books on mobile and cancels by app or even by calling to customer service. They are refunded the money. What happens when they then try to unlock the car? What happens if the signal to the car is poor?)

The tension between good UX and bad actors is amplified by $20,000 dollar assets and had some of the most difficult problems I've worked in from a requirements standpoint. The easiest thing was to avoid caching where possible.
> the standards of 2000 would consider Windows 11 to be adware/spyware

Moving the goalposts.

> force rebooted over my explict objection

Then that's a bug. Is Linux bug-free?

I daily Linux but essentially none of those things in Windows harm user friendliness. Ignore the junk, does the system work? Your grandparents don't care if the start menu shows a recommendation. It has a familiar start menu, desktop icons, Internet browser, backwards compatibility, automatic driver install/update, etc.

Imagine showing someone unfamiliar with Linux how to "install" an application that is not in the package manager? Forget it.

Linux is only user friendly if you are already an expert.
Microsoft just keep asking until it forces them or put them at "night hours" or while in standby in my bag so I can't refuse anymore because I am not even awake or conscious of what is happening. I want to be in control of the reboots of my own pc, can I? Is it so absurd to pretend it?

It is already ridiculous that I even have to forcefully install updates even if I don't want to, and I won't accept the "yeah but unless they do this way no one is gonna install updates".

Of course no one is... they ask for a reboot. Maybe just do something as simple as managing your updates so that the reboot is not needed? I never rebooted any of my linux boxes after an update since 2010 and never had a single problem because of it.
Is this necessarily a problem? I don't have the resources to litigate a multi-billion dollar company over their dishonest practices. But if someone knocked on my door and said they'd take all the financial risk I'd be all over the opportunity to help correct industry practices.
The problem is not petroleum products themself, the problem is burning the petroleum products. Even if we move the whole energy economy away from fossil fuels we'll still be using oil for lubrication, plastics, asphalt, and a bunch of other things. That is fine.
Coupled with a VR headset, this would recreate the sound goggles that were featured in the halloween Magic School Bus special 30 or so years ago.
Quote from article:

Mr Assange, 50, is wanted in the US on allegations of a conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

"conspiracy to obtain" = The US does not currently have any meaningful evidence this happened.

Which leaves: Mr Assange, 50, is wanted in the US on allegations of [WikiLeaks] disclos[ing] national defense[sp] information

In other words: Practicing journalism that was in the worlds public interest.

To be ultra clear, "conspiracy to obtain" means Assange had intent, and initiated intent to get those documents. In other words, not a leak at all, but some action Assange took himself to publish. That's the part the US has no evidence of.

Very clearly the documents were leaked. But, that happening is not "conspiracy to obtain"
I once updated the dependencies of a octopress blog and it changed the enumeration rendering of lists from bullet points to numbers :-)
I'm not so sure about that but it would be interesting to see a poll.

Pretty ironic to bring up a major example of state control of currency as good example of Bitcoin adoption.
> hey broke a GUI paradigm that has existed since the dawn of Unix time, WTF.

Did you feel similarly, when serial and parallel ports were removed from computers? Or floppy drives?

Seriously, desktop icons are a wart (and so is systray); removing them is a step forward.
2021 MacBook Pro has a replaceable battery
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https://youtu.be/Yi43UcMAX84 a horrible video i made up and here is to some of the rules and explanttion of my plans https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTZTH64suIPUKbH-...
It stays running for weeks at a time, suspends/wakes perfectly, doesn't bug me with ads or forced updates and all my peripherals work?

I'll never understand what people do with Linux to have all the problems they do. I've put it on computers of tech-illiterates and they seem to have less issues than HN members...
> "I don't think most people want to live in a world where you can only post things that tech companies judge to be 100% true," Zuckerberg said during a nearly 40-minute speech at Georgetown University.

I would like to live in a world where tech companies refuse to amplify information they know to be 100% false.
?! It’s common on many Linux distros as well as Windows to hit the Win key and type to filter apps to launch. Same on Mac, Win+Space allows you to type the app name.
Chances are, if you understand your embedded system well enough to ‘call the function every 1ms or so’ consistently and reliably the additional challenge of fading the led will be minimal. The hard part about fading leds on an embedded system is usually the timing rather than the math.
I thought reporters weren't supposed to interfere? If the patient can't get help, that's still a story...
It's pretty simple - we've been using rectangular screens since forever. With rectangular screens there are no compromises within our software and there are no compromises in our field of vision.

Obviously, the notch stands out. It juts into the rectangle, making it no longer a rectangle. The OS now must make all sorts of compromises and implement extra functionality and options (like compatibility mode). And they aren't working perfectly [0] (LOL - And for what? A thinner fucking bezel? There's plenty of bezel beneath the dock - they should have shifted everything down.) The users must make compromises as the size of usable screen area actually changes depending on what mode the application is in. With the notch, if you use any apps that have a long list of menus your eyeballs must now be trained to skip over the notch as you scan the list of top menu items. The whole thing is a byzantine nightmare.

Most people get this immediately and they don't like it. In all the comments on all the articles and forums that I've read - the vast majority of people don't like the notch on this Macbook and they don't like it on the iPhone either. However, they do put up with it and learn to ignore it given that they have no choice if they want to stay in the Apple ecosystem that they're probably locked into anyway.

Lucky for me - I'm somewhat of a minimalist on my smartphone. I can still buy a new iPhone without the notch (AND with a home button which is way better for quickly switching apps) because I don't need the greatest camera. For my computers, I'm not locked into any one platform but a Mac would certainly be my last choice because of this kind of garbage.

[0] "Apple’s new MacBook Pro notch is misbehaving. Early adopters have discovered inconsistencies in how Apple handles the notch across macOS and in individual apps, resulting in unexpected behavior where status bar items can get hidden under the notch." - https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/27/22748371/apple-macbook-p...
How do they define richest? Searching online, there's lots of mines with more tons of ore. This one doesn't come close to being within the top 10.
Java IDEs let you evaluate random code fragments at runtime in the context of the current debugger stackframe. You can also change method bodies (not signatures) and have them hot-reload.

It might look like C++, but the JVM is really more like Smalltalk in nature.
Anybody that really cared about getting their fruit intake from processed food would be looking at the ingredients. Here's the ingredients from the "healthier" whole grain poptarts:

whole wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, enriched flour, dextrose, soybean and palm oil, bleached wheat flour, polydextrose, glycerin. contains 2% or less of fructose, wheat starch, calcium carbonate, salt, leavening, vegetable juice for color, dried pears, dried apples, dried strawberries, sodium stearoyl lactylate, citric acid, modified wheat starch, datem, cornstarch, gelatin, xanthan gum, brown rice syrup, paprika extract color, soy lecithin, vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide, reduced iron, vitamin b6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin b2 (riboflavin), vitamin b1 (thiamin hydrochloride).

Less than 2% contains any fruit at all, and there's more salt than fruit in that 2%. Her lawsuit seems focused on the fact that there's more pear and apples than strawberries, which seems irrelevant given how little fruit is present at all.

2% of a 48g Pop Tart is less than a gram, an average strawberry weighs 25g. She could slice up a single strawberry and eat a sliver each day for a month and consume more strawberry than she'd get by eating a Pop Tart each day.
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>Fox News has robust constitutional protections guarding it from those who would seek to measure the truth, and truth-seeking as a general practice is fraught with difficulty

Yeah that's not this. I'm referring to people like Tucker Carlson who--in order to defend himself against charges of slander--essentially used the defense that he's known to lie/exaggerate, thus people know not to believe him.[0]

Would be akin to Kellogg's defending with, "people know processed foods are garbage".

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
Isn't this only a concern for OSS projects where reproducibility is a concern? At my proprietary coding job, reproducibility is a nonstarter anyway and build time is super important for debugging day-to-day (or even minute to minute) problems.
We spent a good amount of space on the website laying out different types of work that are covered in the term "integrity".

I also do very strongly think there is a moral/ethical dimension to the work. That's one reason I shy away from "Trust and Safety" label. Integrity work may have started with connotations of "structural integrity", but it also must be done carefully and ethically. It's not just engineering, it's also about doing the right thing. Hence the Hippocratic oath we all take. [1]

[1] https://integrityinstitute.org/our-values
I wish anti-vaxxers were more expose to this sort of news :(
Changed from https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1452686760111185924. Thanks!
In what way would WIFI be better? SD cards work and work well.
>I would like to live in a world where tech companies refuse to amplify information they know to be 100% false.

Do I get to be the one who decides if it's 100% false?

For example, the wuhan lab leak conspiracy theory was 100% false right?
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What are the three companies? I know of Allegro CL and LispWorks.
Do you think that making a comparison between industrial food production processes and what goes on in a person's kitchen is valid?

I could probably grab a box of pop tarts of whatever flavor I have in my pantry and check the ingredients list, but I'm pretty sure that it won't be misleading to any reasonable person.
Wondering if the money is from
Stripe’s pocket or if it’s part of the 1% initiative [1] that Stripe has started.

[1] https://stripe.com/climate
This. I don't even bother to read physics article in quanta anymore. I won't compare some theories to astrology but if someone does, I won't run to defend either.

I struggle with thwir math articles, but I know that if I find time on weekend, I'll get the theorem (may not be the proof). Knuth books feels the same. Hard reading but rewarding.

Biology is always pleasing to read. CS is my bread and butter so I usually bookmark them.

PS: Masters in electrical engineering and PhD in system biology.
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You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
>But if it was not a joke, why do not you argue about it?

Well, it was neither a joke, nor an argument, that's why. It was a proposition/value judgement expressed in jest.

But if you want more details, it's based on the belief that the idea being that "laissez-faire" was not a good concept to begin with.

And despite being invented in France back in the day, was never really popular in France or Europe in general (Austrian economists excepted), where the "government is the enemy" idea didn't really took hold in the populace either.

We like our social democracy and government regulating some things, thank you very much.

So, unless you chance on the statistically atypical (aside from echo bubbly HN/VC style circles) european who hates "government" not for/when doing bad shit, but for being government, and wants no restrictions imposed on corporations, it is more thought of as something neoliberal / Thacherite / Ayn-Rand-loving types would have as their motto - and unironically have their militarry enforce to countries who didn't like it.
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> She has only a handful of collars left. "I really am desperate," she says. "That's the most scary thing in my life right now — is not finding anybody that can make those collars."

How do you fact check whether someone can find something?

Their inability to find something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It just means that she personally can’t find them.

And the collars didn’t necessarily work either. They were shipped, not installed/tested. So the problem doesn’t seem to have been solved.
Slightly off topic, but it seems like this has been pointed out my whole life and people in general still muddle this up.

Is there ever gonna be a day when that doesn't happen? People should seriously stop sleeping during those mathematics classes
MY GF had no problem installing flatpaks (applications that are not in the package manager) from Gnome-software.
Not all conspiracy theories are created equal.

Some conspiracies theories can be real, as conspiracies are possible.

Dismissing everything as just a "conspiracy theory" is dangerous as it allows those in power to abuse plausible deniability and if anyone questions them they can be labeled a conspiracy theorist easily.

It's reasonable to be curious and want answers. Generally these conspiracies come about when people don't get direct answers or proof to their questions.

Then there are flat earthers, moon landing conspiracists etc that have had evidence (a plane or shining a laser on reflectors on the moon) for awhile and still won't concede, I'd argue they are a very small minority though.
Of course Kellogg contributed - they call them "Strawberry Pop Tarts!" and it says prominently on the front of the box "Baked with real fruit!"

Now that's just marketing I know but at some point it's a lie. How many strawberries? How close to the poptart do you have to wave them?
I really liked the Far Cry and Assassin Creed series... But I've grown so bored of them. Here's a huge map with a bunch of things to collect, boring missions, and towers to climb... That'll be 60 dollars please.

Maybe just do something fresh and you won't need to use marketing tactics to pull people back in.
NIMBYs, not NIMBAs?
My view is that, like many other fields (including notably software engineering) before it, Academia has fallen victim to Goodhart/Campbell's law.

Goodhart's law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

This follows from individuals trying to anticipate the effect of a policy and then taking actions which alter its outcome.

Campbell's law (by Donald T. Campbell, a psychologist and social scientist), is similar, but has a more concrete focus on the predictably negative unintended consequences of using such indicators for decision / policy making: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

For example, how schools evaluated by marks end up 'teaching to the test' or outright help children cheat.

A simple combination of the two (to misuse Donald trump style) basically would say that using metrics: sounds good, doesn't work; worse still, it backfires. Goodhart's law focuses on the fact that metrics don't work; Campbell's on the fact that they tend to backfire.

We have seen this time and time again in software engineering, when managers try to use crap like LOC metrics, or more recently "slack activity" to judge the quality of a software engineer.

Academia is now experiencing its own version of Goodhart/Campbell's law. Between impact factors, h-indices, and now REF exercises, scientific progress is but an afterthought, and the system self-selects either those with a high ability of navigating this monstrous maze of inane metrics created by bureaucrats, or those with the ability to successfully commit academic dishonesty (p-hacking, optimal division of publication units etc) without getting caught, or both. And only extremely occasionally, people with truly novel ideas and output, which happen to somehow still manage to obtain funding despite not fitting into any of the tight little checkboxes that need to be ticked to get a grant on the latest grant-bandwagon.
Netflix should make that into a movie selector. Could be used for food too.
What a load of horse shit.

It's basically all the "we have to control the flow of information" nonsense we have been hearing packaged again in the same predictable format. There is nothing thoughtful or compelling in this article whatsoever. It checks all the boxes. Pizzagate? Of course. Q? Trump? January 6th "insurrection"? Yes, all the boogymen must be mentioned. The author made sure to include the usual suspects, because really that's what this article is about.