skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal testing is very expensive and provides minimal additional data.

That's not an argument for no surveillance, it's an argument for reasonable surveillance.

Modern statistics is based around the principle of random sampling for very good reasons: it works. With a small but properly-conducted and truly random sample, you'll gain a tremendous level of insight over a large domain. The additional resolution increases with the square of the sample size. If you want twice the resolution you need four times the sample. Expanding a sample 10x only buys about 3.3x reduction in error. But your costs are up 10x.

In the case of environmental toxic exposure, you'd want to conduct stratified sampling that focuses on known problematic areas (high population, high exposure), but also includes areas in which exposure risk is thought to be low.

For specific treatment, you'd likely need to test individuals. That's not the same as determining where the problem is. And ultimately remediation and prevention is hugely more effective that retrospective treatment. In the case of lead, once there's been exposure, harm has already been done.
It’s reasonable for people with center-right, centrist, or left-leaning politics to distrust Fox affiliates. Some of them are in fact still owned by the same company as Fox News.

TV network affiliates can be either independently owned or owned & operated by the network. Disney did not acquire either the Fox TV network or the Fox TV O&O stations in the recent Fox studio sale to Disney, likely because Disney already owns the ABC TV network and strategic ABC affiliates.
Another big factor to consider is how obsolete satellites are de-commissioned. Can they be made to re-enter the atmosphere when no longer needed, or is a permanent piece of debris at that point?
Doesn’t have to be a govt department though. India is still primarily agricultural but almost all agri research happens at the universities. Still funded by the government but they do the dual work of training the next generation as well.
> Would you rather not cut your risk by 90%?

Depends entirely on the cost vs. the benefit. As I said, a 90% relative reduction is meaningless without knowledge of the baseline risk.

And once you know the baseline risk, you can do the math instead of just reacting emotionally.
> Ugh. That seems like a really, really silly name change.

When they became an Eclipse project, the Eclipse Foundation was concerned that "AdoptOpenJDK" might lead to trademark problems with Oracle, given that "OpenJDK" is an Oracle trademark. Absent explicit permission from Oracle to use a name incorporating "OpenJDK" (which has not been received), Eclipse said the name had to change.
Yes, I won't disagree that running cable or fiber is expensive, but I'd like to see a push to run cable or fiber to places like ours which are on a major highway, and only a few kilometers out of town. Somehow in these discussions running a few kilometers of infrastructure to outlying areas around major cities gets painted with the same brush as running thousands of kilometers of cable to hit every outpost in Nunavut.

The next would be more cellular towers with realistic data plans to service rural data. As an example these Telus plans are fairly representative of what's available. $90 for 20GB, $135 for 50GB. https://www.telus.com/en/mobility/mobile-internet?linktype=g...
What was the cost benefit analysis of quantum mechanics related research before it became one of the building blocks of many modern technologies?
When a Javascript logging package has a vulnerability: "Why do you need a package for something so basic as logging? This should be part of JS core lib, or just roll your own."

When a Java logging package has a vulnerability: Sober introspection about the role of maintainers, dependencies, and backward compatibility in the OSS ecosystem.
Honestly the whole idea of training wheels always seemed wrong to me
I wonder if one day, browsers will have native support for JSX syntax.
> You can't be serious.

wow, you're insightful! Also, I take it you agree with me wrt Germany and UK?
I learned how to ride a bike when a young kid sticking one leg inside the triangle frame of the large adult bike. Kind of dangerous now looking back but I still remember the liberating feeling of more mobility.
It's not flame-bait. We, as a society that values FOSS, should fund it, but not at the personal level of "I use this software so I'll pay for its license". FOSS licenses should state nothing about paying for the software. You should not feel bad because you are not paying FOSS at the individual level.

Taxes and allocation of funding at a societal level might indeed be the answer.
Why not? Why wasn't there a nuclear module (SMR) 20 years ago that can be installed in banks of multiple modules, just like a solar array made of multiple solar cells? Why should every single nuclear plant be semi-bespoke for that particular area?

Because the idea was instead a larger standardized reactor to rule them all. Spread the fixed costs per reactor core as thin as possible. This has evidently failed and thus the nuclear industries new thing is "SMR" because lets do opposite and hope we get another 20 years of funding.
You must not be following what SWAT is actually used for. This was from just two months ago in my city (1). You couldn't use traditional police for a hostage situation like this; it reads like a scene in a Tom Clancy novel but this happens in real life too.

https://abc7.com/hostage-downtown-la-suspect-dead-police-sho...
> You'd think, in the spirit of open source, these multi-billion dollar companies--like Apple and Google and Amazon--would (...) mitigate the problems.

FAANG engineer here, and one who had to work extra hours to redeploy services with the log4j vulnerability fix. I'm not sure you understand the scope and constraints of this sort of problem. Log4j's maintainers have a far more difficult and challenging job than FANGs or any other consumer of a FLOSS package, who only need to consider their own personal internal constraints, and if push comes to shove can even force backwards-incompatible changes. The priority of any company, FANG or not, is to plug their own security holes ASAP. Until that's addressed the thought of diverting resources to fix someone else's security issues doesn't even register on the radar. I mean, are you willing to spend your weekend working around the clock to fix my problems? Why do you expect others like me to do that, then? Instead I'm spending a relaxing weekend with my family with the confort of knowing my service is safe. Why wouldn't I?
Ask HN: Which car brand has the best exterior design language?
The compensation model is the problem. It doesn't mesh well with the way corporations function. If you don't charge for your product or services, corporations have no standard mechanism for addressing that some other way.

Open source contracts essentially state that companies can use the product with no relevant obligations, so they do. The "huge long term benefit" you claim can't be reliably translated onto a balance sheet, so it isn't.

And when companies do get involved, it's often explicitly for their direct commercial benefit, like Amazon's ElasticSearch distribution.

There's also a race to the bottom aspect to it. If an open source package e.g. charges for commercial use, something more free is likely to replace it.
Alan Kay on learning: https://youtube.com/watch?v=50L44hEtVos
> The solution to this, along with many other socioeconomic problems, isn't going to be solved through voluntarism.

Open source has been incredibly sucessful using voluntarism.

We could also throw in political movements; the all-volunteer military, which has existed on and off since the American Revolution; science (the pay doesn't nearly match the efforts and value); non-profits; teaching (same as science); etc., etc. Why do people feel so motivated to sh-t on voluntarism, which has changed the world with great success. Almost every major advance in history has been accomplished by volunteers (depending on how you define it). Declaration of Independence, Newton, Van Gogh, World Wide Web, etc. etc. etc. ...
The concept of Chinese medicine was also created and promoted by Mao since they couldn’t afford much real medicine after the revolution. It simply didn’t exist as a unified thing before then.
Folding and securing an epistolary writing substrate as its own envelope
Check the timeline: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/
On next January, new V2 Manifest extensions can't land on the store anymore.
Older ones stop working at 2023 January.
> If anything I would have thought they should be the ones changing their name, ...

No doubt that they did think of that. Instead they decided on intimidation as an opening strategy.

> ... as I was using the name 7+ years before them with a similar product

So they are guilty of what they are accusing you of. You could:
1) threaten to counter sue and settle for a price, or
2) sell them your .com

They've no doubt anticipated these responses as well and are prepared to negotiate. They simply decided to open the negotiations at $0
Fully agreed. I'm not entirely sure if authors like the one from TFA fully embrace or understand the distinction between Open Source and Free Software (I suspect they are conflating the two, but happy to be proven wrong), but if they do, they are actually doing good work and showing why Free Software is philosophically sounder.
Even when you do that you can't beat skimming and finding exactly what you need in a text. In a video it's clunky to scrub around and hope you hit the relevant info you need.
Was DeepMind's new Player of Games AI tested on Montezuma's Revenge?

That seems to be the Atari game that gives ML agents the most trouble.
For argument’s sake, at least, I don’t consider anything suggested here as definitively “over-the-top”. It may seem (or be) unrealistic in practice (for reasons I don’t know), but the suggestion is far from unconscionable— it may, in fact, be the lowest cost solution to what could cost mega-corps billions in current (and potential future) fines/liabilities. To the extent it sounds like an exaggeration, I think that embodies the point of the comment— there are some (almost unreconcilable) concerns that impact the interplay of corporations and open source development.
Also, the entire debate about waste is completely hypocritical. The “nuclear waste problem” is only special compared to other waste because there's a fraction of the wastes[1] (the only thing people think about when they talk about nuclear wastes) which are highly radioactive and will remain so for hundreds of thousand of years. they are legitimately scary. BUT we've known for decades how to get rid of them! It's called a breeding reactor, it's more sophisticated than a regular reactor but the technology isn't alien at all: France have built two of such reactors as an experiment. Too bad they where shut down under pressure from environmentalists, because you know they don't want new reactors to be built! And those same guys are now arguing about how wastes make nuclear irresponsible…

[1] As a reminder there are 4 “kinds” of nuclear wastes:

- Minor actinides: the scary ones. Their volume is ultra small, but they live practically forever if you leave them that way and are harmful even at low concentration because they are alpha emitters. They are mostly produced when neutrons are captured by U238 (the non-fissile part of the fuel). Plutonium makes the majority of it, and it's not by accident: the nuclear process was designed this way in order to get plutonium to build atomic bombs.

- Fission products: they are produced when a U235 nucleus is split. They are really radioactive (well it depends, but some are) but they don't live that long. They are the dangerous thing when a nuclear incident happens.

- Activation products: they are produced when neutrons hit something in the reactor (the structure, the water or water additives). They are radioactive but don't live that long, and they are often pretty diluted in the structure. It's dangerous for people working on the decommissioning though, because they can accumulate in specific places.

- Legal products: in some jurisdiction (for instance France), everything in a nuclear plant is a nuclear waste, including the walls of the offices, the pavement, the turbine, etc.
This is happening because we created a culture that glorify an ideal, Free Software, over practical concerns.

OSS is communism applied to software: it doesn't make sense and it doesn't work. After a few generations of idealistic people who sacrificed themselves and worked for free to give us foundations, most of OSS nowadays is just:
- Advertising to let engineers know that company X is cool and you should go work for them
- Ways to keep your staff motivated (who doesn't want to become a OSS rockstar?)
- Advertising to sell an actual business

I'd rather live in a world where companies are building and maintaining software and reselling it to other companies. Unfortunately we made it sound uncool, somehow.

Pay your invoice, get your token and npm install @user-agent-experts/ua-parser

I'm not necessarily against open source and I certainly benefit and contribute to it; OSS also has the benefit that more people can spot bugs and end users can fix your shit when it's broken.

Still, I would never maintain something that allows companies to use it for free. It doesn't make any sense, no matter how much code the companies are publishing.
Again, while I agree that playing to not lose involves less risks, this doesn't characterize all the games between Caruana and Carlsen or Nepomniachtchi and Carlsen. Keep in mind that just because Caruana or Nepo aren't sac-ing a piece every game, doesn't mean they're not going for sharp positions and taking risks, that's just not how chess is played at the top level. The inbalances that they capitalize off of are nuances of position and structure, not necessarily just material.

You can thank alpha zero and Dubov for Magnus's willingness to sacrifice for activity, I think anyone watching a Carlsen game from before around 2018 would call Carlsen "aggressive", if anything Carlsen was known more to play into an endgame that he'd win off his persistence and accuracy. I also don't think this is accurate even for his more recent classical games. He'll take opportunities to go into inbalances that he feels are easier for him to navigate than his opponent, but he certainly isn't Tal and I think this mischaracterization also serves to downplay Caruana and Nepo's role in reaching sharp, lively positions in their matches, while overplaying Carlsen's. Again, all I am arguing is that Caruana's play in 2018 was both remarkable and admirable, and that it would be impossible for him to hold a drawn match against possibly the greatest chess player of all time if he only played to neutralize every position and didn't arrive with the mindset to win.

I disagree with your point about Armageddon for two reasons. 1. Draw odds means that one player is always playing to "not lose" which is exactly what you're critiquing. Sure white has to play aggressively, but black will be playing to neutralize all life in the position, and I personally don't watch to watch only Berlin defense games - it's bad enough that the Marshall has been reduced to a drawing weapon. 2. At lower time formats we see less deep lines and ideas and more mistakes. I personally enjoy high-quality chess and Armageddon isn't designed to produce that, it's designed to produce a decisive result. Plus, sacrifices aren't even unique to Armageddon, they might be rare, but queen sacrifices are still being played in top level chess, Dubov-Karjakin just last year comes to mind, and they're even more frequent in Rapid, Danyyil-Shirov being one that was extremely famous last year as well.
The difference is you can already use a keyboard in VR where your system sounds like you would have to go and mild it.

>If wearing a VR headset while coding isn't providing substantial benefits over what my current system provides, why would I do it?

You wouldn't.
It has proved (politically) insurmountable here in the UK. We have drums and drums of it that rust and leak and no one can find the money or political will to actually solve it. The fact a solution is possible or easy in a technical sense doesn't mean it will ever be implemented.

This is a lot of the issue with nuclear that I don't think ycombinator or technical people get: you're not bring offered the ideal, well managed, properly funded nuclear you think. You're getting short sighted, lowest bidder, incompetent management nuclear. Because that's how we do everything around here...
I’m more interested in the apparent psychological effect that causes people to think the emperor has clothes on here.
Ask HN: Why do Western Women hate men?
What specifically makes western women hate men so much?

My research on this topic indicates a statistically significant difference between women from the western world, compared to women in non-western countries.
On the 11/70, Deposit was the only switch that toggled up (other than the light test switch). That is a nice safety feature so you don't accidentally toggle Continue or other action switches.
Luckily there’s Terraform
Here's a link to the original paper for those who might prefer it: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10458-021-09514-w

This is a slightly edited and updated version of it.
> ohmyzsh phones home every time I open a terminal

are you talking about the update check that by default runs once every 14 days[1], or is there something else?

[1]: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#getting-updates
if this was a difficult task to fix, maybe support to ensure the devs can properly focus on the task would be a valid thing. however, this sounded like something not very difficult to fix. it will take longer for all of the end users to deploy fixes in their envs that it took for the patch to become available.

molehill meet mountain.
Is the lack of a micropayments system the real problem, as with journalism, art, etc.? If people could pay FOSS projects with a click, I think they would. They pay Amazon that way, and that's often for useless junk.
I would guess if you call for help you can tell potential rescuers those coordinates.
Agreed. I use to term to compare it to the parent comment.
but being open source, you can pull out the crazy glue and stick them back together. if you feel generous, you can submit your crazy glue solution to the devs. if they like it, they can then make it part of the package.
You can execute arbitrary code into someone's server. You gain full control of whatever the user running your application is allowed to do.
Hence "almost"
So do I, buddy. And not only do I have no access to doctors, I don't have money for it either lol.

You ain't special, keep on living and hope to die at an old age in relatively good health, that's all there is.
>> When there is a nasty bug found it's hard to shake the feeling of responsibility.

I know right? Someone just opened a github issue for a CVE in one of our dependencies. It's only relevant if you're opening a .DXF file from an untrusted source, so it doesn't seem terribly relevant but yet... And updating to a newer version would take effort, and we want to replace it with something else anyway which would take effort. None of that effort is where I want to spend my free time. But I do work on the software because I like it and really want it to continue being around and useful, and that isn't going to happen unless I (and others) make it happen.
This is pretty interesting.

Are you familiar with the "Morel" dialect of SML?

It's written by Julian Hyde, who has authored several RDBMS and is the lead maintainer of the Apache Calcite relational algebra framework. Your tool reminds me a bit of the work in Morel, where LINQ-like operators have been integrated into the core of the language:

https://github.com/julianhyde/morel
Ask HN: Why were a few rank numbers black on the homepage?
The HN homepage has five ranks colored black rather than gray. Currently this is "Learning how to ride a bike", "Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place", "How to train your decision-making AIs", "Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)", and "Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed". It seems to follow the story, e.g. the bike story was #12 before and now it's #13: the color moved with it. They do not have in common a recent/old submission time, high/low score, or high/low comments.

The HTML difference is `<font color="black">$rank</font>` being inserted around the rank.

It also shows up in incognito mode with the same ones colored black, so I don't think it's account-related.

(Some rambling follows, I'm not actually serious about a secret hidden meaning, just a toy idea. Most likely it's something like low comment downvotes to attract attention to the story.)

My first thought was that the numbers had a hidden meaning as a puzzle or respect, maybe someone died who invented the equivalent of a Fibonacci sequence. Looking in the OEIS, 1,4,6,12,18 did not mean anything obvious (http://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C4%2C6%2C12%2C18). Then I noticed the numbers changed... but not pseudorandomly, but with the stories, so it seems that the numbers are irrelevant. Is it about the title? If you read the first title character of each, you get LCHPL. If you read the 1st character of the first, the 2nd character of the 2nd, etc., you get LAWKN. Not yet seeing that hidden meaning.

Edit: To everyone saying a hot indicator, I thought of that and it doesn't seem to make sense. E.g. go to page 3 and observe this one being black:

> 4 points by [user] 7 hours ago

There are currently (22:47 UTC) actually 3 black on the third page, which seems a bit inconsistent with what I saw earlier (earlier: first page had 4, next page had 1, next page had 0).
Why not change the license to a revenue share agreement with a cap on total amount of revenue?

For example, if a company uses ffmpeg on their products and product generates a yearly revenue of 1m then they will pay you 1k.

Current open source agreements do nothing to help smaller companies or the maintainers and honestly I find it stupid and destructive.

Charge larger companies more depending on their revenue and let small size companies with less revenue basically use it for free. Isn’t this more ethical than letting FAANG use these software for free?
A decade ago, Firefox supported ECMAScript for XML which had a lot of similarities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML
I wasn't talkin about a 3rd party library, Java is your runtime platform it has security fixes roll out.

If you are an enterprise company that runs 3 year old java version then

1) Your CSO and CIO should all be fired

2) Your security team should be replaced

3) Your ISO 27001 and SOC2 certification among others should be revoked
Which type of error do you feel more comfortable making?

One type of error is paying a lawyer when you didn't need one, in which case, you're out $X.

The other type of error is not paying a lawyer when you did need one, in which case, you're out $Y.

In my experience, the values here are frequently $Y >>> $X.

In the end, the choice is yours; you rolls your dice and takes your chances.