skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree that we can guess without expertise. I'm not even sure the sample size is big enough: We could eliminate fire regulations in skyscrapers, and probably, over a year, it would cause no damage. Fire regulations are catastrophe insurance.
Ask HN: Any similar HN sites for humanities and arts in general?
Do you have recommendations for Hacker News similar sites more focused on humanities subjects like psychology, history, poetry, and arts in general?
> I also think citations of your work that find errors or correct things should count as a negative citation.

Strong disagree. Given how much influence colleagues can have over one another's career prospects, how petty academic disagreements can get, admin focus on metrics like citation count, and how it's easier to prove someone else wrong than to do your own original work (both have value, one is just easier), it would end up with people ONLY publishing 'negative citations' (or at least the proportion would skyrocket). I think that would be bad for science and also REALLY bad for the public's ability to value and understand science.

> Thus the references at the end of the paper should be split into two sections: stuff that was right and stuff that was wrong.

This, on the other hand, is brilliant and I love it and want to reform all the citation styles to accommodate it.
It said and implied nothing about failing either.

Also, if I look at the people around myself and see that 1 / 4 are able to do something, it would probably be easy. So it’s the GPs own self awareness combined with the stat.
I'm pretty sure all of us have the experience of cramming most of the paper into the two weeks before the deadline. Expecting someone to firm up their presentation without the risk of finalizing something half-assed is ... too much to ask for mere mortals.
‘Vax Daddy’ Pandemic Hero Runs for Queens State Assembly Seat
This sounds more like an argument for systems design. You can easily build models and meta-models that help navigate various scopes. For example the concept of the long tail is by definition a widely-scoped way of gaining leverage in a situation where smaller details are important.

Traffic control systems, computer hardware design...these all incorporate the same combinations of depth and breadth of thinking. I think it's wise to keep an open mind and ask whether it's really necessary to exclude a given model or entire set of them.
Sure, and that would be their choice. Who are we to infringe on the bodily choices of others?
How rich is Elon Musk? – His wealth in context with pixels and lots of scrolling
Indeed. It's also just that people don't remember the issues of the yesterday, they just disappear without much reflection.

Remember ozone layer hole? Acid rains? Leaded petrol? Asbestos causing lung cancers? All sorted out when we realised they are problematic. Not immediately, not without some foot dragging and screaming, but sorted.

We are great at solving problems. We just take a bit of time and convincing to get going.
Well... As a Bulgarian citizen and software engineer, I can't say I'm too enthusiastic about him(or the entire new government for that matter). Apparently founded a cyber security company yet his blog is hosted on:

1. The most godawful place on the planet. I used the company's services when I was 12-13 and I'm still embarrassed to say I've had anything to do with them, even as a client.

2. Didn't even bother to put an ssl certificate which takes literally two minutes and is free with, say, letsecrypt.
It's like a Russian nesting doll of stupidity.

"Limited run" of 10,000 bored apes. Bored ape worth 300k. Irreversible typo in sale price costs owner hundreds of thousands of dollars. Buyer pays 32k in transaction fees. At bottom the NFTs are a silly ponzi scheme anyway.

I would not at all be surprised if this was a scam to try and move the ape at 250k, but I have no idea how liquid these things are.
> Should a section of a street be outdoor dining, greenery, parking, a bus lane, sidewalk, a utility box, product display, or a driveway? Who decides?

It's called a "government", and its both a process and an institution that can, in a pinch, be used to make decisions like this.
I mean, it's "mostly within families" in the sense that most gifting occurs within family anywhere, but it certainly isn't restricted to familial contexts; you could definitely give them to friends, co-workers, teachers or other acquaintances.

Traditionally, there's some nuances to it, e.g. it's often a tradition associated with visiting someone, and it is meant to have symbolic intent, meaning that it doesn't fit settings like secret santas.
It is true that a lot of people don't seem to care if millions of poor people die, but will go to great length for a rare occurrence that doesn't kill a lot of people. That may just be how our culture works, but we should strive to do be better than that. Humans are flawed when it comes to understanding risk but we have science as a tool to fight it.

I understand why people do not want to recognize the harm of fossil fuels. It is cheap and it enable (some) people to live a richer life. It doesn't make it any less toxic. Isn't saving lives the important thing here?
I used to agree. But when we examine the nature of our own experience there is clearly something additional that is not described by matter interacting with itself. The only solution that makes sense to me is that matter has intrinsic consciousness that varies by degree as we span from atom to brain. Otherwise you have to imagine that the feeling that accompanies our day to day experience arises from nothing out of the matter from which we are constructed. That seems more magical than adding consciousness in at the base level as an axiom.
I believe around February ‘20, a large Microsoft security issue was revealed, their stock was up 2%.

A counter example would be Ubiquity that did drop, after the article by Krebs was released.

Generally, bugs, even catastrophic ones can be an excuse to sell a position but never cause a sell-off.

At least that has been my observation.
I had the look up that film to jog my memory of what it was actually about. Looks like it went the way of the 12" Macbook though; neat in concept, shaky in execution, and ultimately forgotten by time.
Depends. If the market moves on the news and you are able to close your position before people have fully assessed the risk, then maybe it’s more about the marketing.
Scarcity means valuable https://www.benkuhn.net/attention/ As a developer:
https://zwbetz.com/attention-is-my-most-valuable-asset-for-p...
Kubespray on bare metal in a leased data centre with a dedicated link [1]

1. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/janet
> In between there's a window where we can act. That is closing.

If we is taken as individuals, then sure we can do tiny bits and pieces. But it will take global systematic changes that start with the elite individuals to invoke such changes. And those that try will acquire many enemies and challenges that fight for the status quo.
Fuck YouTube and their Chinese communist overlords.
> My first guess would be that cities designed in the automobile era suffer more when they have to sacrifice the already limited pedestrian space they've got.

I think you have the right idea, but maybe turned around: Pre-automobile cities can have narrow streets and cram in space for cars, including driving and parking. Newer cities are built with roads (and sometimes sidewalks) at such capacity that the distance to cross them becomes a pedestrian obstacle - 'pedestrian unfriendly'.

Regardless, the question stands.
San Francisco Drug Overdose Deaths Nearly Triple Covid
So you can shoot up in public. You can rob a store for up to $800. But you have to show a vax pass to enter a fucking In Out Burger (cause that's healthy).
For the impatient, the profiler is available at https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz
Ugh yeah those DS_Store files... But Windows has a similar equivalent now. You can turn it off by the way with a defaults command.

And yeah I miss the in depth reviews from John Siracusa every year.
There's a few words like that. The noun form is a c and verb form is an s. Practice/Practise is another one that comes to mind.
All they needed to do was to display a "battery degraded" message (or, like on this very Mac I'm using - "Service Recommended".

The behavior they implemented was definitely the right call. And it's still there in other situations - if I have disregarded the "10% battery warning" I'll often notice my device being sluggish at 1%, at which point I'll plug in if I can. The alternative would be for the device to have less runtime, and I'm ok with the implementation.

Had they warned they were doing this, then customers would replace the battery in most cases.

By and large, Apple does NOT do what you are suggesting. As far back as my old iPod touch they released an iOS version that supported wallpapers. It didn't support my device. I thought they were trying to force me to upgrade, so I jailbroke it and enabled the feature anyway. Guess what, the GPU was not enough to display wallpapers, and the home screen had a bad framerate. Rather than giving the subpar experience, they disabled the feature. They could have also simply marked the device as unsupported. iOS (and OSX) updates work on a surprising number of old devices. For many releases, every new OSX release would bring performance enhancements.

There's plenty to complain about Apple - their profit margins are huge, the devices are difficult (in some cases, borderline impossible) to repair, the App Store situation, etc. But making devices obsolete with updates is not what they do.
do we have to be? are we unable to overcome this trait?
> If exceptions are being logged with any level of detail, and an attacker has the ability to provoke exceptions while varying error message content, then the thing that seems safe was just made quite unsafe.

Right, I would certainly include that in "user data" though. I was mainly responding to the idea that using two logging libraries is strictly worse than one: when log4j is only used for logging safe data, and another library elsewhere, this is better than using log4j everywhere.
> ESR - the person who coined "open source" in the first place!

He popularized the term. He didn't coin it (and AFAIK he doesn't claim to, although even if he were, it would be a separate matter).
Yes but chances are it only appears to work because the analysis code has bugs. So first i want to check the code and that it works before i put effort into understanding the idea.
We are focusing on it plenty enough. The timeframes for serious climate change are measured in half-a-centuries, remember how much changed in the last decade? Solar got massively cheaper, it became possible to convince countries to reduce their carbon emissions purely through political pressure, billions get spent on energy and sustainability R&D. Hell, even nuclear is quickly losing it stigma after Europe haven't had much wind for a few weeks! We are getting there, regardless of alarmist "we have two years to fix everything or the planet is uninhabitable" nonsense.
Yes. We should record all of this, and turn them into easily browsable graphs/hypertext to easily assemble sets of papers to read/look into. At the very least things like 'background reading', 'further reading', 'supporting evidence' and 'addressed arguments' would be useful.

'We' meaning the librarians and archivists. You guys actually researching have more than enough to do.
I'm sure the folks at unreal don't want people to think "the engine isn't for shooters".

Especially considering the engine originated from shooters -- Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
Hey, maybe we'll get a bundle deal with Disney and Pfizer+
…it’s a 50 year trend
I don't know that I entirely agree. It's a bit plain Jane - reminds me of CDE in the 90s - but it's not unattractive. I can see it for a more focussed work environment, maybe, but I could say the same of a terminal running fullscreen in a modern OS too. Or just unplugging.
They're not wrong, but they're also not entirely correct. Many vehicles have a panel beneath the wheel that has a release inside it for such a situation. It's just not easy/convenient.

But playing devil's advocate, assuming that no modern car can be popped into neutral without a key, a car is still much more favorable than many parklets. You can easily break the glass to run firehouses through, or you can more easily run the hose over/under/around it because it's a smaller object than an outdoor dining space. Emergency crews can run between parked cars, but there often aren't any such opportunities in a 16-foot parklet.
Something else to point out is that outdoor dining has positive externalities as well. Streets with lots of people on them sitting, watching, instagramming, are safer and better observed than empty streets or streets with just cars. The permitting process is so focused on preventing the negative that there is no advocate of the positive.
Would the idea be valuable without the code? Yes.
The ability to wisely manage one’s own attention has always been powerful. If you read How to Win Friends and Influence People, its core message is to direct your attention with a forgiving curiosity about those you work with. If you want to get better at managing your attention in conversations, the books “Clean Language” and “From Contempt to Curiosity” are good.
Are the pictures of bowls from that period repaired with this technique on the Wikipedia pages enough as historical references or are you looking for something else?
We’re fucked, everyone debating the value of abstractions and other bullshit in this thread are just adding kindling
Also given by managers to staff and generally to people that help you in your day-to-day life.
this made my day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2wir9wRp8w
thank you.
You mistake legitimate questions about the policy with questions about its implementation. The policy, and the issues you raised, were discussed, decided and voted on -- what the article highlights is the needlessly bureaucratic implementation.
The whole point of the field of statistics is that you can carry out statistical tests and analysis on a sample; you don’t need all of the data.
This seems quite plausible, it's consistent with e.g. 90% of cats killing nothing and 10% of cats killing less than a bird/egg per day - and an outdoors cat can do much more than that.
"For decades, it turns out, needlessly onerous regulations had deprived Californians of both the pleasure of eating outdoors and the convivial streetscapes that curbside dining creates."

I have to think that any restrictions on that are local, not statewide. Personally, I can't think of many places in LA where I'd want to sit right next to the street, and even less a parking spot on one. The city just wasn't built to accommodate that and it's silly to think public parking should be converted for that purpose.

Honestly, this sounds more than just a bit snobbish to me.
SSL looks fine to me: https://blog.bozho.net
The titlebar size is fine, however the title is a pixel off vertically as is the icon too. The biggest issue i can see in the screenshot is the menubar spacing being too large and the scrollbar's top/left bevel lines using the "button shadow" instead of "button" color. In addition the bevel lines use the wrong overlap in the corner. For some reason this is only the case for the first button (up, left) and the second button (bottom, right) looks correct. The icon views (small and large) in lists also use too much spacing around the contents as well as between the icons and the icon captions in the desktop also use too much padding. Finally the window frame seems to also have too much padding between the bevel and the actual window contents (i.e. in the file manager views the outer bevel lines for the tree and icons should align with the titlebar, but here they are pushed a couple of pixels inside). Ah yeah, also the shortcut icon overlay seems too scaled down and blurry for some reason.

These are what i noticed from the screenshot. They're fixable for the most part though, i had played around with Chigago95 at the past to make it a bit more faithful. The biggest effort was modifying Gtk's theme engine to remove the outline from the menu bar :-P. And TBH i think that for pixel perfect accuracy you'd need to modify some code, which goes a bit outside the scope of a theme.
This judicial murder has many authors. Obama, Trump, and Biden are prominent among them.
I agree we can (afaik), but I mean to address the main question, should we? I'm not saying Home Depot has a case for equal protection, but using the analogy to point out the absurd aspects of giving free public real estate to a private business (while there are other aspects that are not absurd).

I thought we, Hacker News commenters, decided? ;)
> Just because T* has problems in some contexts doesn't mean optional<T&> should be used in all context.

Where does the article suggest using optional<T&> in all contexts?
The market is all about marketing!
fwiw Python's logging module is a port of a very old log4j version (think 2000 vintage) and is already too complicated with unnecessary abstractions and features, yet is also physically incapable of commonly needed features (like scoping logging, buffering logs for errors, selecting which formatting type to use etc.) ... like many Python libraries from that time period when top Python brass was imitating Java heavily, it's really quite bad but also "the standard".
People keep making the bug bounty joke, but I think there is a certain survival of the fittest type improvement inherent in it though. Or put differently banks could do with a bit of that type of "beef up your systems or burn" pressure.

>Which I don't think is even illegal?

Probably not illegal. A lot of the crypto stuff that gets nailed has an implicit attempt to deceive/pyramid scheme it. Straight up short sellers...hell that's legal even on stock exchange...assuming the info is solid enough that you don't get sued to oblivion.
> The permitting process is so focused on preventing the negative that there is no advocate of the positive.

How does it work?
Is there any chance you could put the U of T folks in touch with the Internet Archive? They would likely accept artifacts of value for digitization.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-...
This is like buying a dumb TV, and is probably close to impossible.
one more, did you get it at full price or you found it somewhere at discount/used ?
i been trying for a few years, on and off to find something
> If a Foozle can be Ding, Ping, Zing or Number(n) where I promise n is from 0 to 199, that all fits in a byte if the compiler is willing to work with me by storing Ding, Ping and Zing as magic sentinels in the niche range 200 to 255 and I'm willing to trade the small runtime cost for the memory usage win.

Yeah, that would be cool. I think it would make sense to represent this as a repr(u8) enum with a range-limited Number variant. Something like:

#[repr(u8)]
enum Foozle {
Ding,
Ping,
Zing,
Number(u8 in 200..=255), // or whatever range syntax
}
I've been surprised how many people don't know the number of their doctor, lawyer, siblings, even partners. So even a minor problem like a dead/broken phone becomes a much bigger problem. While not a real emergency the EWC can help, there's extra fields for whatever.
SpaceX plans to take CO2 out of atmosphere and turn it into rocket fuel
I too am highly disappointed in Toyota here. A remote start is something you can buy at any auto store and have installed by a mechanic for a couple hundred bucks. Will they block people from going that route now? They charge such a premium for their cars and this just seems petty.
We read this on every single crypto hack thread.
The way we use money to coordinate activity is very selective: Money only solves problems when those with problems have money. This means that the environment and the poor are generally not served by capitalism.
> The sidewalk is public space. Does the public give away free real estate to the restaurant, to be used to generate revenue by the square foot? If the restaurant wants outdoor dining, they can build it on their own property. Perhaps the city should at least charge rent (in non-pandemic times).

Sometimes. It depends on the city. Sometimes the landowner owns the sidewalk, or at least has responsibility for it. If you are responsible for cleaning the sidewalk and assume liability if someone slips and falls on it, why not also have the ability to use it? I'm not sure where SF lands on this.

> Cities don't want loud drunk people on sidewalks, i.e., a bar scene on the sidewalk. Public alcohol consumption is generally banned in most places in the US, afaik.

Sidewalk cafes are not nightclubs. There's a difference between people sitting at a table and having a bottle of wine with a meal vs. a frat party. I don't think anyone is proposing a nightclub or bar scene on the sidewalk. These are people sitting at tables eating dinner.

> It obstructs sidewalks, which have an important purpose and were built to a certain capacity. Analogously, should we allow dining in the street, blocking a lane of traffic (structures could be built that would shield patrons from the street). Possibly, there was less foot traffic during the pandemic so the problem wasn't as noticeable.

It sounds like they're built in parking spaces, which are obviously not on the sidewalk or in the street. It's a space that would otherwise be obstructed with a parked car.

> Laws that apply to one person apply to every restaurant in the city. Maybe the temporary pandemic situation limited how many and how did it, and we don't want every restaurant building outdoor dining on the sidewalk.

Why not? It seems unlikely that every single restaurant would, but it also seems like people like eating outdoors. So, why not?
I become more and more pessimistic by the day that we can overcome these aspects of human nature. Sure, we can probably get some subset of the population to overcome these traits, but we need the vast majority of people to sacrifice their current comfort for the good of the planet and future generations. I just don't see that happening, unfortunately. Our response to covid, especially in the west has been abysmal and that was a relatively easy testcase which we've failed (Asian countries have generally done much better, though).

I think that in order for us to save nature we need to get away from our western utilitarian view of nature - the idea that nature is here for us to exploit and exists only to the extent that it furthers our goals. But these are deep-seated beliefs that are very difficult to change on a mass scale in a relatively short period of time - it would take generations and we don't have that kind of time.
> what the article highlights is the needlessly bureaucratic implementation

If you agree with the article ...