jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree completely that college is completely overrated, but only regarding its ability a to create a successful professional. I think everyone should get at least a bachelors degree in their life on whatever field they are interested in, but they should do so because of a drive to expand their knowledge instead of making a degree a proverbial stepping stone to great-dom.

That being said, if you have the determination, patience, and drive to extract such education yourself by means of books, practice, and mentors, why should you not be allowed to become a Doctor, a Nuclear Physicist, or an Architect?

Our educational system is broken, a degree doesn't mean scoot, and everyone should be able to take a test (of various tests actually) to prove that he posses the skills and knowledge to do a job. I understand not letting a 20 year old operate on a patient because he passed an exam, but if the kid passed a standardized exam that proves he has the knowledge and capability to become a resident, why shouldn't he be able to? The same applies to all careers that are potentially 'dangerous', the requirements should be simple, pass an exam and get some experience under a mentor (via an internship, paid or unpaid).
>A big part of the reason KFC crushes McDonalds here (it has 4x the number of stores if I recall correctly) is that KFC China was put into the hands of Taiwanese who created localized products and degraded quality and sanitation for the sake of price and fast growth.

When you put it that way, I can't imagine why Google didn't 'want to play ball'.
If you are using Chrome you might try the "Remove cookies" extension. I found this solved some Google Account issues in the past.
Looked at your message and logged into my email account.

Got a message that it was accessed by United States (webcontrolcenter.com:67.199.10.9) 21 hours ago.

WTF is happening

Advise on what to do now is welcomed here
It's the ultimate cure for hubris.

That doesn't sound at all like a downside.
We have killed direct sales / SaaS for some types of software (because of corps giving it out for free)
Rittenhouse had no reason to be there in the first place, while the capitol police will have some kind of policing plan and rules of engagement.

Both should be sorted out in court. So many of the protests this year and previously were about situations in which the police shooter never even stood trial. We shouldn't have to second-guess this in the court of public opinion, but we can't trust the prosecutors to prosecute unjustified shootings.
Look at some practical implementations. E.g. Jenkins CI. When you first install it (the latest versions), it does not use default admin/admin credentials. What it does is produce a random password string that you have to go find on disk to perform the initial setup. At no point could someone without direct access to the machine get in before you are able to lock the door.
No, both the OP and SNL are referring to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
Why especially? The shorter the time interval, the more the best performing stock will look like a random sample from all stocks (probably with higher probabilities for smaller stocks).
Back before I got the CRG9, my dual monitor configuration was to have one directly in front of me, and the other off to the right and tilted towards me.
I didn't read it so specifically. If optimizing for X you may be in a local maxima so deviation looking in other regions seems fine.
Interoperability enforcement may become part of the EU Digital Markets Act.
All we can do is try.

If we do nothing then the problem only gets worse.

I considered just accepting it and moving on, but I've thought again and I'm trying to get as many contacts onto Signal as I can.

At least there will be another option and as much as I love matrix I think Signal is the best balance between user friendliness and privacy.

I made the mistake before of giving multiple options which just scares non-tech people off, so now I'm just pushing Signal.
Thanks for addressing this, I was wondering what was going on with that other post. The content did seem intriguing, but also a little shady at the same time.
One detail that doesn't seem to be mentioned here or in the linked article is how the multiplexing of sockets is actually handled at the kernel level.

Does the kernel use some sort of round-robin approach to assigning client sockets to processes waiting on accept()? This is one area where I'd imagine a dedicated master process would be beneficial, as it could implement "smarter" load balancing based on the health and response times of its child processes.
The one I love the most is :
13) Do you listen to venture capitalist?
Yes, of course. They gave you money. But then don’t do anything they ask you to do.
The more I've read about him, the more I believe that James Altucher is doing some sort of marketing/PR experiment, a la Andy Kaufman. I believe he's a liar and I don't trust him. I think he's a kind of art-punk troll who might even be manipulative on purpose. Even taking his story at face value, I'm not sure why people would give him any kind of credibility. His own story states he made a few million lying and kissing ass on Wall Street, which is NOT a note of distinction.

This cheatsheet is ridiculous. There is no one-size-fits-all prescription. For example, IANAL but I was told by council that incorporating in Delaware means that you'll have to travel to Delaware to litigate.

Splitting equity equally with the guy with the idea? I AM an idea guy, even I have to say that's crazy. An idea without execution isn't worth anything except maybe a clever throw-away side-plot in a Neil Stephenson science-fiction story. (Although if you think differently, please contact me through my profile.)

Honestly, if you're going to take advice from someone you want to take advice from someone with a great reputation as a smart, successful, honest, and generous entrepreneur or investor. Along those lines I think DHH has done a great job (bootstrapping FTW), although I think he tends to underestimate his luck with timing. Fred Wilson has also done a great job with his excellent blog, avc.com. Warren Buffet, although not really an entrepreneur, has talked unwaveringly about sound business principles for 50 year - and he has the knack of making it sound like common sense.

Take Altucher with a big grain of salt, is all I'm sayin'.
I assumed that he meant ethical for the survival of the business (by bringing in $$).
>The bottom line is that quantum theories don't violate energy conservation, and all the talk about ZPE leading to spacecraft drives arises from people who don't understand physics."

And from the PDF:

"The topic of successfully exploiting zero point energy (ZPE) has importance because it represents a high-risk/high pay-off technology. This is not pseudo-science but a very serious discipline where very serious research is
underway worldwide that range from investigating the Casimir effect, finding new alternative sources of energy, and developing a means of future long-range space travel. Efforts are currently underway at a U.S. aerospace
corporation to include creating hardware to investigate using ZPE to provide energy. Finally, one would like to see experimental data and, hopefully, replication of such experiments representative of 'good' science. However, the
amount of U.S. research dollars spent in this endeavor is abysmal such that even the simplest experiment cannot be performed. Although we are aware of only modest funding worldwide for this type of research, the Intelligence
Community should monitor the more controversial aspects of ZPE, or we may miss an important foreign innovational leap forward, thereby leaving us vulnerable to technology surprise."

So I guess governments/universities/organizations who fund research for scientists and physicists around the world have much to learn from you since you know what is and what cannot be :P
> Funny how in the same breath that Yahoo acquires companies to shut them down they can state with a straight face the new way of doing this is to let them stay independent post acquisition.

I don't think that's fair. There is a huge difference between acquiring a successful startup and letting them continue to be themselves, and acqui-hiring a failing startup and stripping it for parts. The point is tumblr isn't a repeat of flickr, delicious etc. Summly etc., are in a different category altogether, and it's not like they are being misled about what's going to happen when they are being acquired.
You can talk with people.
I think that's part of what makes this so incredible. The current model uses only 1,200 voxels. With the higher resolution scanner mentioned at the end of the article, they will be able to use 15,000. With that in mind it seems this approach could have a lot of potential for further improvement.
what better description than a dark age.

The largest, fastest, most important rollout of technology in the history of mankind. Seriously.
While comparing apples and oranges, they neglected to mention the speed of the "molecular switches." The fastest neurons fire at around 200Hz. Most fire at around 20Hz. Transistors are around 100,000,000 times faster.

Oh and circuits conduct signals at 0.5c while neurons are lucky to go at 0.000001c (300 meters/sec).
Very few people actually use IE6 outside of China and South Korea.

http://ie6countdown.com/

Don't you think it's time Nudge along the final few percent?
Actually worth less than $0, because it requires a lot of time (weeks at least) to vet the product and then get it up and running again.

And then there's the significant investment (many thousands) in getting users. I'm not even really sure who the users are supposed to be.
There could be patent issues behind preventing it? Maybe telecom companies telling Google not to implement it.
You liquidate the company, and the investors get what they get. They're not going to get their money back. I'd be blown away if you got a few thousand for it.
I wonder how far you could take this in terms of protocols. I can't think of a good use case yet, but is it at least technically possible to detect and quickly proxy away most common protocols?
Over 80% of Tor hidden service visits are related to child pornography.* A 'few bad guys' is stretching things a bit. Additionally, they didn't nuke anything, Tor continued to function, albeit with a wide open security flaw that multiple actors besides the ones mentioned here were exploiting.

* http://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-rela...
But they really haven't. We've not seen hide nor hair of the new process, only iterative improvements on the current process, and the attempt at big.LITTLE x86-style doesn't seem to have worked out terribly well.

ARM has taken out the low-power market that Atom and Pentium classes were aiming at. AMD APUs have long been a favorite of mid-power devices like gaming consoles and are now a desktop enthusiast favorite as well. The i5/i7 class is outmatched in every metric ($/FLOP, W/$, and W/FLOP) by the Ryzen series. IBM and Azure placed their big chip refresh orders with AMD as well, so the hyperscaler market is in danger. The only place Xeons are still superior is the scientific and high computing space, and Threadripper is making inroads there as well.

Intel still has great sales from existing cashflows and OEM agreements, but if you were buying a computer in 2022, why choose Intel? Why would its customers? I think they're going to have to come up with something new and soon.
This is quite frustrating. There's a lesson here in keeping mirrors of projects in multiple places. That things can be 'disappeared' from GitHub is because not enough people do this anymore.
This is surprisingly usable in the current form. Nice!

Features I would like to see:

1. Select walls and move them

2. Select a set of lines and change the scale

3. A few different line types - adding double, wavy and thick would help a lot

4. Change line color.

5. A "gametime" mode where the drawn lines are temporarily immutable but tokens can be easily moved around. Flipping between the two modes should be a single click.

6. Change background color of grid squares - this gets you forest and river and mountains, or bushes and streams and rocks.
Kohctpykyop (needs flash so run in external player or through ruffle or something) is adjacent and also interesting. I haven't managed to finish it yet but afaik it doesn't ever zoom out and have you combine modules you'd previously made to make something else. You draw out circuits from N and P doped silicon building things from NPN and PNP transistors formed from different configurations of the silicon.

https://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peop...
Just another example of how Organic (clean food) propaganda isn't based in science. I can't tell you how often I hear cooks swear by their redish, darkwe yolk eggs for having some kind of magic properties. Interesting article, good read.
Have to agree with pretty much everything you wrote.

> There's no unsupported AUR repository to add and manage for widespread software, it's usually already in the core repositories.

There is some software that is missing, but you can get it with OPI from OBS, often times pulling from repositories by SUSE.

https://github.com/openSUSE/opi
Like double sided tape just without the tape? That's brilliant.
Instead of mourning Adobe Flash, you could also head over to https://itch.io/games/html5 .
Browser games aren't going anywhere.
>Is speech hurtful or offensive? That's the crux of the issue

Agreed (well, "can it be", but otherwise same thing)

We heard some arguments that it can be (encouraging suicide, dehumanizing minorities, inciting insurrection,etc).

Do you think it cannot be? What are your arguments to support this position if so?

>assuming being offended is the same thing as being abused.
Nonsense

Do you belive, even if the speech were to rise to the level of abuse, it would be harmful? If not, the distinction seems meaningless. If so, it seems a tacit admission that speech can be harmful.
First time I've seen this; pretty useful bookmarklet.

javascript:alert(document.lastModified) tells me this page was last updated on 10/07/2010 at 18:49:36 though, so I guess this is old.
Presumably, you then send the screenshot to someone? Shutter has inbuilt upload capabilities to a few different image sharing sites. You hit print screen, select the part of screen you want to capture, upload, get url. That will save me a few seconds every time I need to share a screenshot.
but half of all students "study" like this all the way throughout high school and college

If the students decided to study like this, they weren't cheated by the school, just by themselves.
I'll believe pass-through HDMI when I see it. HDMI anything is a total pig's breakfast, even today -- thanks, HDCP, for not letting me plug my PERFECTLY HDCP COMPLIANT TV into my PERFECTLY HDCP COMPLIANT SCALER via DVI. It's enough to drive one to books.
Reading the article, it made thing think about "cargo cults". Namely, people do work not because they know why they need to do it. It feels to me that Fake Work is just management's way of trying to figure out how competitors process is working or limited.
Why do you believe the private market was destroyed by collusion between insurance companies, rather than the massive government subsidies (20-30%, I think) provided to the employer-supplied insurance market?
Hey my app is actually a telephony app too! I didn't mention the per minute stuff in my post because I have to charge for the minutes regardless.

In your second example, what would you do with a user who only used 100 minutes? Will you rollover their unused minutes or is it "use it or lose it"?
It shouldn't really last more than half of a second... maybe it depends on the browser you are using?
I received a piece of advice from a businessman once: All businesses start in the grey. Is that a good thing? Not really. Is that a bad thing? Well... not necessarily.
It think "fake buzz" is killing the Internet's credibility. I actually think that spending tons of time tweeting and posting testimonials on sites [rather than working on making better products and services] is exactly what's killing the quality of goods and services in society these days. Fake testimonials are for "As Seen On TV" ads, but for a reliable and trustworthy company that plans on longevity, I think its a 100% bad move. Let the real and unbiased testimonials from people about your business be REAL and UNBIASED if you plan on thriving in the long run of business life.

Think about it this way, if testimonials are rigged, what metrics are companies then using to improve their products? Testimonials influence and taint the opinions of others.

This is the reason why some people have 100,000 followers on Twitter, because they work for an AD agency that creates phony accounts and then adds those users in order to "Fake" the idea that the account is truly popular. This reduces the credibility of your Twitter account and your entire presence on the Internet.

Do you get jealous because a friend or competitor has more "followers" than you? You shouldn't. you should congratulate them instead. You never know how or why they got there, and they may be behind you the next day.

"Faking it until you make" it is not a good way to go. You should generate real metrics, a real reputation, and a solid product or service, thats the only way to sustained and long-term success, and its always been that way.
Learning syntax of a language is not considered as "Mastery" of that language.

I don't entirely agree with this summation. Mastering each and every library to claim you are a master is pointless. Especially given the fact that a library API can be understood by doing a search and reading the docs. A master to me is someone who understands the language syntax all of the language features and who has enough experience to know that a little bit of searching will most likely reveal a library that does what you need it to do. For example, I cant thing of a library in Java that cannot be understood in a few days. Yet claiming that you need to know EJB, JDBC, JNDI, JNI, JAXB, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JPA, etc not to mention all of the apache libs, Spring to be a master is nonsensical.
Here in France literally everything on Amazon.fr that I would like to order is unavailable for delivery until next Monday. In Lyon at least.

I won't say everything is like that but I have been looking at some school supplies as my son is home and I have been unable to find anything for delivery this week.
Eh. As a Python fanboy, a lot of his points are pretty weak. His examples of Python being fast includes libraries which call into non-Python code and a non-standard implementation.

Besides, there are way better links for pro-Python arguments. I would point to Norvig's spell-checker in 21 lines of Python for example (http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html).
But they are using the original Bitcoin, not the Lightning Network altcoin.
They are using Bitcoin Cash which is a fork of Bitcoin.
I haven't but I'll check him out. Thanks for sharing
Interesting, given he is such a prominent Economist I'm a little surprised by the simplicity of the analogy though.

It seems strange that he has reduced it to one where there is no objective value at all. As an equity at the first level is still about how the company will perform in the future, no? And thus has an objective value.
I personally use it a lot for my projects, so I thought, why not share it. I find this solution very nice to work with and it saves me a lot of time.
Try looking for a laptop that doesn't have the terrible chiclet-style keys, it's impossible. Mac included
It’s harder for good developers to justify effort if it seems like that effort has no impact.
Oh yeah old complication of sanitising input...

It’s like asking you for an int and you entering 2.358 and saying that’s just simple.
Another way to think of adverse possession is that it is sort of like the "statute of limitations" for land possession.
This was a slightly surprising footnote in the article:

When not making e-reader software and predicting man’s future, Mr. Kurzweil spends some time building automated financial trading systems for hedge funds through a company called FatKat.

It seems like everyone needs to build a bankruptcy engine at least once.
Theoretically, if it were egregious enough, the EU could say to the owners or management of the company that if they went to the EU they would be arrested. That’s enough of a threat that it might convince them.
Sorry. I don’t buy that study. I can’t believe that statistic from personal experience, and find the conducting authority partial. And nothing is stoping us from educating adults, ever heard of The Ad Council?
I've noticed this myself but wasn't sure if it was just me. Almost every CV we get has a ML slant but the candidates struggle to write a simple SQL query.

From a pure numbers perspective 95% of jobs in our industry have nothing to do with any reasonable definition of machine learning. Even those applications of ML have a large amount of traditional CS going into acquiring, reformatting and storing large datasets.
Coalesce and NVL are synonyms for each other.
Mainly because it wouldn't help with this issue. The code signing used in devices like phones and game consoles is to prevent users from running unapproved software on the given hardware. The issue here is users taking the software and running it on unapproved hardware.

At some point, the software has to be decrypted on the physical device to run. The best you can ever do is put enough physical hoops in the way to make it impractical to defeat.
This seems like an argument in reverse.

Also, this makes me wonder: does every project have at least one security engineer until it gets shut down?
I was curious, so I read the articles. For something intended to critique the ADL, they spend a lot of time listing malign actions of the government of Israel. Which is annoying, because... I don't care. I oppose Israel having cooperated with South Africa in the 60s and 70s, but that has pretty much nothing to do with the ADL in 2019.

The spying seems like a more damning charge. But the word is doing a lot of work: most prominent political organizations maintain rolodexes of reporters and activists, along with their stances and perspectives. It's part of what makes them effective--you can rest assured that e.g. CAIR does the same. Characterizing it as spying is a bit overwrought.
We don’t have to imagine. #BLM incited many riots which killed many people, what action did Twitter take there?
Could be a signal he expects violence at the inauguration. They really should just do it indoors in a joint session of Congress.
It is notable, however, that we did see 100+ days of political violence from the Alt-Left, billed as "Mostly Peaceful Protests", and a singular event from the Alt-Right and the entire country is up in arms.

If we care about one, we must care about the other with equal vigor.

Political violence is never okay, even if it is your side.
> Its like buying a radio that can only listen to democrats approved stations

That's actually how radio works! The stations are licensed by the government.

This is actually much better as there is no government involved -- this is just a private company doing what it wants with the software and hardware that it owns -- and you are not restricted by the government to use only their technology.
> I also said that nuclear war was also on the table.

Judging from what Pelosi has been doing, you are not alone with that concern. I hope there are enough people in between him and the actual button that would decide his order was unlawful.
> Who on earth says they need or deserve a "public channel to express themselves"?

This is prime "Free Speech for Me - But Not for Thee".

You're making a very easy generalization. Not any significant portion of people expressing themselves contributed to any of the events you are mentioning. It's funny because you can read the exact same thought process from the opposite side, against say the BLM protests.