skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The year is 1957. Hinton Johnson was beaten by two New York City police officers. Malcolm X and a small group went to the police station and demanded to see Johnson. Police initially denied that he was being held, but when the crowd grew to about five hundred, they allowed Malcolm X to speak with Johnson. One police officer told the New York Amsterdam News: "No one man should have that much power."

The year is 2021. For much less noble reasons, the world must conclude about centralized social networks and software companies: "No one company should have that much power."
Would be a good start if you would stop spreading FUD. Not a singe better painting the worst dystopian future all with bad citations so you don't have to think for yourself. Disgusting and a cheap way to manipulate people.
> Intel recommends that users of affected Intel® Processors update to the latest version provided by the system manufacturer that addresses these issues.

The latest version of what? microcode? BIOS?
A comment by an ex-facebooker with a few suggested workarounds for this sort of block:

"... the the situation presents an educational opportunity to explore simple means to bypass to such mechanisms; ... reverse search terms, add extra search terms, mis-spell names so that the system “helpfully” fixes your typo for you after the block would have been applied in the pipeline."

https://alecmuffett.com/article/15333
Here's solar+battery for $40/MWh. https://www.energy-storage.news/developer-8minute-says-more-...

That's at least half the cost of nuclear, maybe as much as a fifth.
I don't mean this in a snarky way, but my read is that this isn't exactly an interesting discussion. These kind of angry but shallow topics seem to get downweighted fast. On one hand, it does sort of sensor important information. On the other, it keeps the site more civil overall, and probably contributes to the overall better level of discourse, even if it means its sometimes hard to discuss some of the things you want to
In theory the message representation can probably be video, audio (for display-less devices), HTML and plain text. The content of the message should be the same for each version (e.g. a CEO announcing a buyout, it'd be silly if a different version announces bankruptcy instead), but that's probably not a must since it can't be policed.
Nice sophism. Doesn’t hold.
Like Polkit, sometimes I wonder if the point of these super complex authentication systems is to assure that its impossible for a mere mortal to audit the system.
Why did this post get flagged?

Is this a manual thing done by the moderators, or are people mass-flagging it because it doesn't fit their world view?
> That's what Putin did 20 years ago (with oil companies which are the dominant sector in Russia).

That's an interesting spin on history.

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

> The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled unanimously upon awarding compensation of $50 billion for the company's assets, that Yukos was the target of a series of politically motivated attacks by Russian authorities that eventually led to its destruction, and that Russia had expropriated Yukos' assets in breach of the Energy Charter Treaty. The treaty does not prohibit governments seizing or nationalizing commercial assets, but requires investors to be fairly compensated. Though Russia never ratified the full treaty, these clauses were still legally binding under both the treaty and Russian law until 2029. According to the Permanent Court of Arbitration's ruling, the primary objective of the Russian Federation was not to collect taxes but rather to bankrupt Yukos, appropriate its assets for the sole benefit of the Russian state and state-owned companies Rosneft and Gazprom, and remove Khodorkovsky from the political arena.

> Although weak at the time of the auctions and the economic downturn of the mid-1990s, from 2000 the government under new leader Vladimir Putin grew in strength, until it became able politically to outweigh the power of the oligarchs. On October 25, 2003, Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion. Leonid Bershidsky, founder of Russian business newspaper Vedomosti, wrote: "Any of the oligarchs could have faced similar charges; Khodorkovsky's imprisonment made them so docile that Putin confined himself to making an example of just one victim".
If folks were having curious conversation, and not just kneejerk partisan drivel, the story would stay up. When a large proportion of comments are flagged and downvoted, the story tanks, and gets rightfully flagged as flamebait.

For example, this article is about corporate censorship, one might like to discuss that here. Instead, most comments appear to be about the case itself. The internet has plenty of room for armchair juries to bicker over how they'd rule on the case without seeing all of the evidence. HN isn't losing much here.
Perhaps what we're struggling at is finding words that communicate expectations properly. I just read this Wikipedia article on "Innoculation" and it seems we've been working at better definitions for about 200 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation#Terminology

"Vaccine" when first introduced meant "of the cow", i.e. cowpox used as a weaker form of smallpox to provide immunological protection against the dangers of smallpox.
Maybe the estimate will be right this time, and maybe the previous estimates were right too, in some technical sense, but the people making these predictions need to ask whether their repeated contradictory-sounding warnings are doing more harm than good. For perspective:

* 2021 - John Kerry says Earth has 9 years to avert the worst consequences of climate crisis: "There's no faking it on this one"[0]

* 2019 - Only 11 Years Left to Prevent Irreversible Damage from Climate Change, Speakers Warn during General Assembly High-Level Meeting[1]

* 2018 - We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN[2]

* 2012 - Two years left to curb climate change, Government warned[3]

* 2011 - World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns[4]

* 2009 - 'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead'[5]

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[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-9-years-john-ker...

[1] https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-w...

[3] https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/two-years-left...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-f...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jan/18/obama-cl...
I am not quite sure what you are referring to for the transfer. You only have to transfer a fire arm if you are selling it across state lines. In that case you basically ship it to an FFL dealer in that state and the person who is buying it goes and picks it up from that FFL. Usually the buyer will direct you to the FFL of their choice.

If you buy a firearm in your home state and then take it to another state you don't have to transfer or register it.
The flu vaccine is easily explained by targeting different mutations each year. They also have to choose which mutations they think will be most prevalent before the season starts. Unlike Covid, flu mutations are able to regularly bypass a normal human autoimmune response. I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that’s true of Covid variants, and have first hand experience with several people infected with early variants who had immunity to later variants.

Several years ago there was a flu mutation that was similar enough to a flu from the 1930s (iirc) that people who caught it back then were still immune. It’s not that we need new vaccines for the same virus each year, the virus has just mutated enough that our immune response isn’t trained to identify it.

We don’t know how long natural antibodies for Covid last. In my family, members were still immune 9 months after infection and had higher antibody counts than those who were symptomatic.

Why is there such a push to convince people that our immune system works differently for this particular virus?
I'm frankly surprised that the misdemeanor charge isn't being used to counter the self-defense argument. From Wisconsin state law:

> A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm.

> In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person's assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant.

> The privilege lost by provocation may be regained if the actor in good faith withdraws from the fight and gives adequate notice thereof to his or her assailant.

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/939/iii/4...

Maybe it was justified in the case where Rosenbaum chased down the kid, but certainly not in the other two cases. Either way, I'm skeptical that there was "adequate notice".
^^^ 1000x

One big pain that no one seems to mention are the mundane details that come with running your own DC. Even in our fairly small operation we had half of a person dedicated to maintaining the warranties on the hardware, sourcing replacement hard drives for 10yo servers, disposing of retired hardware, purchasing new hardware, etc.

These things take a huge amount of focus and don't contribute to your product at all. The "cloud" has removed all of this busywork and I wouldn't go back to the old way for almost any amount of money.
Your customers are telling you they want and you're making excuses for why you won't give it to them. I don't foresee this going well.
Fatal car crashes happen, so seat belts and airbags are not about safety, but about control.
Yes, lack of success for exporting nuclear plants is killing nuclear industry in Japan.
I was a little surprised by that too. It is definitely calling itself stratum 1, which is strictly defined to be the computer with the high precision device directly attached to it.

Keep in mind though that strata and accuracy are two different things. Presumably the further away from the high precision time device you are, the less precision you will get. Even though my PCjr is technically a stratum 1 server, the accuracy is miserable compared to real stratum 1 servers that are serving time that is in the microseconds range of accuracy.
That’s wonderful (seems we’re closer than I thought too!) and I’m sure it will keep getting better - but again my point was that I don’t think it’s priced into the top line numbers when comparing cost of energy sources. I think priced in is throwing away fiberglass blades.
What is this post being flagged? Can some please look at this possibly unflag it?
This is simply not true. The only thing that has changed is that "not all vaccines are 100%" has suddenly become part of common knowledge.
I don't know if I want to use your search engine, it is literally impossible for me to set it as my homepage and use it casually. I really wish I could give it a proper chance, but your tacit denial of what is obviously bad design has come back to bite you in the butt. You're making the exact same mistakes the Brave browser did, if you don't back down on a feature that the majority of users are telling you to change, you'll have a hard time proselytizing in the future.
Great, if not for the healthcare and retirement savings being tied to employment. Having left a role after only 4 months my SO is not happy with so many changes.
You've got this super expensive domain for a new project, it's normal for tech people to be wary.

Please could you quit thinking we're idiots with that 33kb bit you're doing? We get it, it's fine and safe and beautiful. Right now. We live in 4 dimensions though bud. We don't just care what it does now, we care what it'll be doing next year too!

From my point of view this extension doesn't need to be installed. Therefore I assume it will almost certainly update and fuck me over one day, you will need to monetise eventually and this feels like it's being defended super heavily for no reason

What's the plan here? It's only 5s now sure, how much time is it going to cost when the plot reveals itself?

Your onboarding is too intense mate. HN has fallen out of your funnel because of this extension. It's too weird of a scenario to the point I actually trust you less having read your responses! Where there's smoke there's fire and this extension is giving off all sorts of funky smells

Also someone needs to mention it - I don't want to change my search engine right now. Just be a search engine, quit being so needy! It took like 5 years for me to switch from Google to DDG lmao, you don't get first dibs on my search data like this. Ease into it

E: also I'm using Firefox anyway haha
Or you can kindly hear people when they tell you they’re in pain, listen to what they need and what they’re struggling with, and go from there. If your definition of talking to someone is making them feel shittier by being “positive”, without regard for whether it makes them feel shittier, yeah you’re already not socially interacting with them. You’re just one-sided dumping your frame of mind and interpretation on them.
I suspect the Chinese are less susceptible to the problem in western nations where every random person/group can basically DoS the engineering program through the legal system.
Who Regulates Privacy in the U.S.
I am saying the exact opposite. The lead firefighter will use her profession’s equivalent of "google" to get the plans for a building that may be more complex (talking to the city planning department, looking in a city database, whatever). They will _not_ know the information by heart, and in a sufficiently large city…cannot.

The same applies to the drivers of fire trucks. They’re going to both be trained to drive around for locations and tested on that, but they will also use appropriate tools to get the location. It might be an "enhanced" GPS, but it isn’t going to come down to someone’s memory all the time.
I'm not a regular reader of The Federalist but some of their articles can be good. This particular one lists out the different headlines other newspapers ran about the testimony from Gaige Grosskreutz, highlighting their bias. To me it seems like The Federalist made a good case for how those headlines misled readers, because they played up Gaige's fear for his life over the bombshell admittance that he pointed a gun at Kyle before being shot.
Just to be sure we're on the same page here:

* You're pitching this search engine specifically "for devs".

* You're pitching it on HN, a community which (correct me if I'm wrong, @dang) is largely composed of your target audience.

* When given feedback, you're responding very defensively in almost 100% of your comments with something akin to "an extension takes 5s to install and uninstall, just do it, no one cares, we don't want to prevent ordinary folk whom we consider morons from using our search engine so everybody has to use our middleware to even give it a try". Buddy, in case you can't see why that's inane, let me help you: you're marketing this as a search engine for devs and devs are telling you why they won't use it. If you can't even get your target audience to give it a try, why on earth do you think the average person (who sadly doesn't give a fig about "the big bad monopoly boogeymen") will spare a glance for your product _if they even hear about it in the first place_? You're defending a user-hostile practice with shallow nonsense logic.

It's been my experience that founders who are seeking to "disrupt a monopoly" by ignoring feedback from their target audience don't end up disrupting anything (unless you count disrupting their employees' lives when the VC money runs out and everyone gets laid off), they just end up alienating anyone who'd ordinarily care enough to give the product a try. Best of luck, though.
In ClickHouse we have argMin/argMax aggregate functions.
And also LIMIT BY. It looks like this:

... ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1 BY user_id
I couldn't find a comment addressing my gameplay recommendations, so apologies if this was already stated.

- Replaying shouldn't take two taps. I just want to get back into it! I now know the middle button replays, but it's not immediately obvious.

- I don't understand what the floating aliens are for. I keep trying to get them but they don't seem to do anything.

- My score doesn't stand out, it took several plays to notice it, and I still don't feel better about reaching 20 planets as opposed to two planets.

- It feels awkward that each planet has quite strong gravity when you hit it, but if you barely miss there's nothing. (This ties into the next point.)

- There's no incentive to do anything, as far as I can tell. I can wait ten minutes to rocket off to the next planet and my score is the same. Along with the previous point, maybe make the score decrease while orbiting, or make gravity weaken.

Just messed around a bit more and I realize now that the score does decrease after orbiting, but it's not obvious. Maybe make the score multiplier show decimal points and/or be more prominent.

I also discovered the autopilot button, which is fun, but I don't understand when or why I can use it. It also wasn't clear that it was a button - I thought it was some godot logo. That might just be because I know of godot but not very well.

While using the autopilot I noticed my multiplied going up, but then it drops immediately. Dropping it all at once feels bad since it's such a towering mountain to climb - maybe drop it every orbit or two (maybe drop it more frequently based on current multiplier) so you can still climb.

I don't understand what the last two options are in the options menu.

All of this is to say I had fun, and I'm glad you made this. I hope this didn't sound bad. Good job!
Nice. I turned 50 this year, I created a custom Tecmo Super Bowl ROM (for original NES) with my college friends as the players and a bunch of custom graphics and mods referencing our jokes and incidents from back in the day. There is a community dedicated to the game that helped with some of it, but I definitely had to dive deep into hex editing to add all the elements I wanted.
> I rarely perform site:github.com or site:stackoverflow.com searches in my browser's default search engine

Built-in site:reddit.com searches would be handy.
I figured out my mistake, I was assuming that MWh is an annual figure.

MWh is a much better figure than W when comparing disparate technologies because it takes into account capacity factor, operating costs and disposal costs as well as installation costs. It also relates directly to the price consumer pays. It's also why all the links are pricing in MWh.

So 1 watt of PV with a capacity factor of 33% and 30 years of lifetime would generate 86.7KWh. $20/MWh is thus $1.80/W total for installation, operating and decomissioning costs.

If China can build 150 reactors for $500 billion when it costs the west over $20B to build a single one, then yes nuclear is cheaper than solar.
How promising are Bill Gates' nuclear plans?
> The difference is that influenza isn’t required to work, attend a concert, eat in NYC, ect.

Look at the average number of flu cases and deaths per year, then look at how many COVID cases and deaths just this year, and maybe you'll understand why.

> The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t have a great track record of doing what’s best for you

This argument is so silly to me, because it's CLEARLY not thought through.

A vaccine is NOT in the best interest of Big Pharma. They stand to make MORE money by not making the vaccine and allowing the virus to rip through the population and selling treatments.
Rittenhouse first shot others.

Would you wait until a shooter points his gun at you?

Do you think a guy with a M&P15 who already shot two people is a threatening context?
And we have groupArray aggregate function with limit.

> I'm not actually aware of any other DBMS that supports `ARRAY_AGG` with `LIMIT`.

So, put ClickHouse in you list :)
Odd that an article in the journal Science is flagged?

Also, folks in the comments, calm down. The article in question proves that it is possible to have a reasoned, fact-focused discussion of the benefits and limitations of vaccines. This is HN, not Reddit. Please calm down.
What I've seen from a financial company perspective is it's mainly cost center development that was handled by the overseas offices. Product and revenue development stayed in the US.
As marshray said below, Tor doesn't generally try to hide the fact that you're using Tor, only what you're doing with it. This is complicated by the very active research on obfuscating methods for accessing Tor, but those methods are mostly trying to prevent automated large-scale detection in real time, in order to evade blocking by national firewalls. They aren't necessarily trying to prevent more manual or after-the-fact forensics that might confirm that a particular person was using Tor.

To be clear, the threat models of the obfuscating transports can vary, so what I've described is just a trend in emphasis, not necessarily a suggestion that nobody ever cares about obfuscation-in-retrospect. But the history of that work is around censorship circumvention, which is often a slightly different goal (with slightly different priorities) than confidentiality.

For example, I've heard people who work on obfuscation talk about how it would be good if something required an expensive calculation in order to distinguish from other traffic types. They care about this because a national firewall may not have sufficient capacity to do this in real time.

Depending a lot on your threat model, Tor might still be a benefit even if people do know you are using it, supposing that they don't know for what.
Imagine being so ignorant of history that you think the (tulip hysteria, dotcom boom, condo craze, etc) will continue unabated into the unforeseeable future.
If you take $1 of electricity and water, you can convert it to $.50 of hydrogen bond energy, and then you can take the hydrogen run it through a fuel cell and get $.25 of electricity. It’s never going to be an alternative to battery chemistry which yields $.95 back.

Salt cavern storage doesn’t change the math.
Ask HN: Which industry roles actually require daily use of CS knowledge?
I recently started refreshing my knowledge of data structures and algorithms and discovered that I actually really enjoy the subject. Studying the Union-Find data structure, for example, has really helped me rediscover the joy of programming.

After a few years in the industry, I have mostly accepted that most programming jobs these days are "lego programming", in the sense that we don't really use "computer science" knowledge in our day jobs, we mostly just connect API's and write business logic. I've mostly come to terms with this. But a couple of times a year, I start to wonder if there are any jobs these days that are more than just "lego programming".

So the question: does anyone here have a job in which the code they write is more "computer science" and less "lego programming"?

My hope with this question is to have a few modern examples of interesting computer science roles in industry, rather than reignite the old "all we do is CRUD" pity party.