jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1.x is not really about stability either. To quote from the semver FAQ:

>How do I know when to release 1.0.0?

>If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you're worrying a lot about backwards compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.
The Belgian government has a lot to lose in all this. They host the EU parliament which was a top target for this exercise. If the Belgian government would be found to be complicit in this then the fall-out might include such things as a relocation of the EU parliament to a country that would not readily bend over to aid another country in spying on the EU parliament members.

That alone I think is sufficient to highly doubt Belgian government involvement in this.
Someone whose life is affected by having a car and a few grand taken from them v. Xe Domestic Security, Ltd

Prosecution: Xe stole my car and rent money and now I have no way to earn enough credits to buy my insulin and keep my apartment.

Defense: The offender was found travelling in an erratic and suspicious manner. As per the agreement made by travelling on Private Road Supranational's private road, the traveler is subject to searches of their person and vehicle if suspected of engaging in certain dangerous activities outlined in Section VI of the contract. In addition, any property suspected of use in a criminal or dangerous activity will automatically have its ownership transferred to Private Road Supranational, as detailed in Section V. Furthermore, we have no record of ever confiscating any of the offender's property.

Judge, brought to you by Lockheed Martin: This seems to be a pretty open and shut case.
Yes, yes, they do.

Otherwise, I'd like to have Justin Beiber locked up in jail tomorrow. along with every other insipid pop artist and creators of other things I don't like.

It's okay not to like things, its not okay to force people to stop doing things you don't like or keep those things from being popular because you have value differences. You're effectively using the same argument of people against same sex marriage. "This thing offends me and hurts my feelings/values, so others should be stopped from doing it." I like how the attempt at being progressive has come full circle to one of intolerance.
Obama is killing it as a lame duck President. If he would have nutted up and acted this way throughout his Presidency, Democrats would be golden right not and not fighting for their political lives.
Modern email systems don't seem to use Greylisting. I used it many years go but it seems to have gone out of fashion nowdays. I now use Fastmail which doesn't seem to employ Greylisting (or at least I've never seen it become an issue). I suppose spammers have now gotten wise to it and have now devised ways to get round it so it's no longer effective and thus no longer widely used.
Using a throwaway ID for reasons that have been stated in this thread over and over.

You know what stuff like this makes me think, as someone in Europe? Between Trumpists and SJWs/cancel culture the only sane thing to do is have as little to do with the US as possible.

That means not depending on organizations located in the US or with a US majority membership, for one.

All you americans are doing is further isolating yourselves from the rest of the world. I thought that was the trumpist line, but cancel culture is getting as good as it as they are.
I'm sure this Dan guy works harder at fighting SPAM given his profit incentive.
I just created an account and logged in using my twitter. Pretty painless and I was soon presented with a stream of topics that interest me, highlighted by people I follow on twitter. Interesting and already relevant.

However, it was pretty much noise. The specific questions asked were fun, but not something I would like to spend any significant time dedicated to either answering or reading about.

That being said, with the rise fo Twitter, many people stopped blogging. I can see how this might get people to write something more meaningful and longer than 140 characters again...and since they are "hanging out" with an people they already have some interest in, it might work.

Interestingly, I think it almost fails as a Q&A site on first glance b/c the search seems so horrific.

Will I go back? Probably not. I would rather still use Google, which has better search, and see Quora in that feed.

Will other people create content for Quora, thereby creating value for Quora? Yes, undoubtedly. It happened with Mahalo, Stack Overflow and Digg/Reddit...it will happen here. To the scale Quora needs? Not sure. Depends if Google picks them up and if they open up to third party tools ala Twitter.

Is it the future of blogging? Probably not.
Interestingly I'm mentioned in that blog post :)

But I still don't agree with that premise..
It's interesting that even a community as off-topic, perverse and thematically unstructured as 4chan thinks that growth of its community is a bad thing.
I'd take any poll that 4chan members vote with a grain of salt. That said, I'd expect the proportion of "mentally ill" women in 4chan to be far higher than men, just as I'd expect for a strip club or porn film set.
How does it compare to ediff? This has been my diff tool of choice lately but I'm always interested in improvements.

note: I use Emacs for many other things so that specific point is not a pro or con for me.
no, it's not. it's saying that if you can quickly gain an audience (the hard part) by deliberately making a "feature" that can spread quickly (instead of a full-fledged product) you can parlay that audience into something more substantial later.

(delivering an MVP or shipping early is more oriented towards quickly seeing if a market exists/initial assumptions are correct)
Phuby on Phails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWKjS6Vufw

Not a project in the sense that it has a community (thankfully) but the code is real.
http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-symmetrically-encrypt-32-bit...
No idea if these guys will ship or not, but this is another option: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
I give you that, I doubt the dog was as debonair.

Cheers on the nice touch :) -- My friends at onegraph wrote the blog engine; they added a trick to markdown image tags, so I could set subtitles. Looks like they did the right thing with the alt text : )
but your parents (or their parents if this goes back a number of generations) already did a lot of hard work to make that possible no?
ECL is typically used for integration into C. CLASP is a derivative for deep integration with C++. There are a bunch of other to C transpilers, some are in-house. For example PTC's large Creo Design CAD system uses an in-house maintained Common Lisp to C compiler.
Interestingly the Germans also found some Sudan dies in spices imported from India. [1]

[1] https://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/349/dyes_sudan_I_IV.pdf
From my experience, the word boomer is unwarranted here.

I've see 18y olds calling their colleagues on Zoom multiple times per day without the slightest attempt to send a slack message.

And I've seen 60y olds that defaulted to asynchronous written communication.
Someone on HN posted this a few days back https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...

The science is over my head and it’s, yknow, some guy on the Internet so take it with a grain of salt, but it seems to present a pretty compelling case that SARS-CoV-2 is in fact very similar to two viruses the WIV would have had on hand, and that the way it’s structured looks an awful lot like a bunch of other chimeras the people there had built.
Does anyone have any insight on how much it would cost for OpenAI to host an online, interactive demo of a model like this? I'd expect a lot - even just for inference - based on the size of the model and the expected virality of the demo, but have no reference points for quantifying.
> But consumers could not handle that 800% increase; most people can't handle an unexpected expense of a few hundred dollars

Many places that enable spot price electricity contacts for consumers have other kinds of contacts available too. Consumers who choose spot do it if they trust it's on average a win. There are also hybrid models where there is a price ceiling or other hedge.
> I would be slightly more impressed about the language model if it had a working prompt like: "A teapot that does not look like the image prompt."

Slightly? Jesus, you guys are hard to please.
No reason to care? If SARS-CoV-2 is a lab accident, the labs need to be shut down and heavily regulated before reopening if ever. There is plenty of reason to care.

Will we ever know for sure one way or the other? That seems less likely. If it is an accident, China will hide it forever. If it’s not, it will be hard to prove unless you find the intermediary host somehow.
any manager who disregards potential churn and/or mass walkouts is probably too obtuse to be talked sense to
As noble as it sounds, I failed to comprehend from the title how could a doctor have the authority to forgive half a million dollars alone when most of the costs go to the hospital for services and infrastructure. But in this case, the doctor decided to close his entire treatment centre.

That is certainly a relief for the patients who have huge debts but not so great for the future patients who could have been treated at the centre? "There are no solutions, only trade-offs"
It seems you’ve presented zero data points, and decided that this does not universally applies, which seems unreasonable.
The modem is fine; this is a very intermittent issue, like once every two months, if that, and caused further up the line. In the UK most of our internet infrastructure is, frankly, a bit shit, and maintained by a small subset of companies. These issues occur on every ISP I've had here, as unfortunately most rely on OpenReach's infrastructure.

The reason I chose to automate it is that when I'm away from the house I want the connection to self-repair where possible, and resetting the modem is something basically everyone in the UK has to do sometimes to fix their line (seriously). Yes I could probably have A&A investigate it, but at some point, if it is an identifiable issue, they'd likely have to request an OpenReach engineer to work on something and then there's just the risk of it being made even worse.

RevK's blog has plenty of interesting anecdotes about the issues with our internet infrastructure here: https://www.revk.uk/search/label/BT
This breaks the site guidelines and will get your account banned here. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN? We'd appreciate it.
But the digital footprint is infinitely copyable, permanent etc
I'm not sure I follow :D besides the sarcasm ... all I know is that this insanity is not sustainable.
Thanks for breaking this down for us. I wouldn’t say it’s dumb on the surface though - I’m kind of curious to what logical extremes this approach to Google’s business model would look like. It definitely is a very different paradigm. I’m wondering how free market forces will influence rankings when business can set prices for referrals.
In that line of thinking’s defense: do you marvel at the wonders of science and human achievement every time you switch on a lightbulb?

The hardest thing in the world is to explain something in a simple way. With two pages - I say: Bravo!
It's not an "angle", it's a critical situation. I think these stats show why we need more male representation in general and why the situation with PoC should be first in mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
> Disabling lint warnings should be a code smell

I believe lint warnings are for pointing out unusual constructs that might be a mistake not to be a code police.
True - a lot of people think a waitlist of people might be the way to go.

Unfortunately, the way the system is setup right now, at least from my own experience in NY, is not like this. The appointment itself is treated as sacrosanct, and the time on it is meaningless - it only gets you through the door on that day. You can show up at any time. I think the vaccination starts at 7 AM. Considering how far in advance the appointments are given (months at this point) and how inconveniently many centers are located, it's a tough call for most people.

It probably would be better to have a separate wait list of opportunistic recipients, who say they can show up at an hour's notice at the end of any day. To prevent abuse, the people vaccinated through this waitlist can't exceed 10-20/day. Honestly, let these people be the family members of the healthcare workers at these sites. I have absolutely no qualms with the household of hospital workers get preferential treatment with the vaccine - they're at elevated risk as it is.
The presentations/articles on how to unambiguously decode the XML Signature Spec are almost as long as the spec itself. When it was my turn to parse it, I found a couple of cases they missed.

In XML ID fields are supposed to be unique to the document. Nobody enforces this. Instead getByID returns the first ID. Which means if you ask a DOM element and the root element for an element by ID, you can get two different answers.

Composing multiple schemas into the same file is a wordy, confusing mess, DTDs are straight up broken, and the only time I ever saw someone generate a Grade A XML Schema was by feeding examples into XMLSpy instead of writing their own.

XML asks a question we already knew the answer to: What if we made everyone into a programming language designer? And the answer was "anarchy" because we know that many people cannot design a syntactically consistent language, and hardly anybody can design a semantically consistent one.

James Strachan, as I recall, retired from Groovy before they ever figured out an unambiguous grammar for it. There comes a point where you realize you've made a mess that you are not qualified to clean up (Kernighan's Law). You can either do the very hard work of maturing into the responsibility, or bow out. Strachan is no different than a dozen people I've worked with and countless people I've heard about second or third hand, who I'm more than a little glad moved on.

The guilt is not theirs alone. Part must fall to this shared delusion that you can do anything with software if you only put your mind to it. We have mathematical proofs that tell us that's not true, and yet we still believe in the power of belief. Unfortunately if we didn't believe it a little, then we'd probably never write anything at all, so I'm not sure there's so much a cure as a condition that has to be managed. A little bit can go a long way, and most of us take it too far, sooner or later.
I have tried telling them this here and they seem to downvote me very quickly.

Don't hurt bitcoin.
No, there is plenty of stalking/tracking which targets individuals. It's called microtargeting.
Yes, lets think about the role of Facebook in 2016 elections.
This is a pretty niche edge case: you're enabling a completely unnecessary service and want to tamper with third-party DNS responses, are concerned about something which will only be used if you have multiple DNS servers go down, but don't monitor core network infrastructure or control the settings on those client systems. That's an edge case on an edge case and it's not surprising that they would not prioritize it.
Being an engineer does not exclusively mean you are focused on efficiency. It means determining the balance of reliability, functionality, efficiency, and a wealth of other factors as applied to the specific use case.

Bitcoin is not made to be efficient, it's made to be a self-sufficient decentralized monetary system. Decentralization isn't efficient compared to centralization, but it offers other benefits that are powerful.

The whole point is not to get rid of banks and replace them with crypto. It's about building a system that's more democratized, robust, and resistant to loss of purchasing power over time. Bitcoin has done that well, and it's the cornerstone of the new decentralized financial infrastructure.
Kraken offers that.
Totally this. It isn't uncommon for a whales (usually 1 to 2 percent of an apps users) to account for 30 to 50 percent of their profit. So it is very worth thinking of those customers first.

Not all customers are equal. And if you build your app or site without knowing that you may well chase the wrong features.
No I think you're right. I'm so new to these concepts I don't even know what questions to ask.

For example, I don't have a super strong grasp of what you mean by "tunnel between subnets"- I'm sure I could click some buttons in AWS and get something working, but I want a stronger fundamental understanding of TCP/IP and networking administration.
A significant barrier to getting platforms to Tier 1 support for Rust is actual hardware to run CI on. Tier 1 is an extremely high bar for support.

I do my job at work every day on a Tier 2 ARM target, and in practice, don't notice any difference from the Tier 1 targets. YMMV of course.
Yeah this is the worst kind of nerd bait. "You guys already know that the oil companies are evil and will poison people given the chance. Here's a tiny piece of evidence that you could misinterpret in multiple ways"

To the author's credit, at least he pulled back and didn't do the entire ranting, hand-waving ritual. I believe that job is being left for online commenters to complete :)

The funny thing is, without the overriding emotional narrative many people have, if you just explained what the study says using other terms, most folks would realize how tenuous and superficial the reporting is. Correlative research is great, but geesh, it's a tiny, almost minuscule part of actually accomplishing anything. Most of the time, it's a waste of time. Medical research, for instance, is full of correlative research that never amounted to a hill of beans.
I do see a hint of irony. I'm open to changing my opinion on what conservatism is if I encounter enough data that overwhelmingly points in the other direction: that conservatives are very accepting of new ideas and viewpoints. So far, I have not.
Some of the larger skyscrapers in my city are cooled using a phase-change material as well: water.

A local facility makes ice overnight when energy is cheaper and then pumps the melting cold water into the buildings to assist the air conditioning units.
With all the M&As by big tech it hardly seems worth funding European startups as they’ll just be gobbled up like US startups. That needs to change first.

Although maybe Europeans are slightly less inclined to want to exit at the first financially interesting opportunity? Although investors will probably have a lot to say about that.
This looks quite helpful. Thanks for sharing. I always forget to renew the certs of my side projects on time so I think this would be a great product for me.
Checkout Laracasts, Jeffrey Way is pretty good explaining things. I don't use Laravel (or PHP at all),but I do like his video tutorials a lot. I say this, because maybe is you the docs, or you cant find a way of doing something, etc...
The problem is that UTF-8 has the ability to detect and reject partial characters at the start of the string; this encoding would silently produce an incorrect character. Also, UTF-8 is easily extensible already: the bit patterns 111110xx, 1111110x, and 11111110 are only disallowed for compatibility with UTF-16's limits.
175 Calvert Drive in Cupertino. Kind of a dump in the early 80s, probably all condos now [checks . . . nope, still there. Yuck].

I think one of us noticed the other carrying some Atari equipment in the parking lot, and we started chatting. Sure, a bit unlikely, but this was Silly Valley. I think the guy worked for Lockheed and cracking software was a hobby.

I kind of had this fellow in mind when I wrote the protection code. I figured it wouldn't stand up very long, and in fact, three days was a moral victory as far as I was concerned. I think he had as much fun with the code as I did :-)
Why not tell us anyway?
Pinboard exports in delicious format, so you should be able to just re-import and be good to go.
I am truly surpised by the rigidness displayed regarding Word docs. Limiting opportunities in your life because an HR department uses the most common document app in the world seems self-defeating. Why not rule out cmapanies that use a certain type of printer paper?
Oooh, this does sound like a good idea but beware feature bloat. I don't want Redis to end up being a full RDBMS, and this is basically the equivalent of stored procedures, especially if the scripts are stored as redis objects...
Some applications that might be able to make use of that kind of bandwidth... You could do a lot of high-fidelity virtualization with HD Video editing, image editing, even 3D modeling.

Telepresence is an obvious application.

Oh gosh, if you combined this kind of bandwidth with a bunch of Kinect sensors, things could get REAL. :-D
Frankly this is doublespeak very similar to the kind used to manufacture this hysteria in the firstplace - the data you're talking about is on your phone Apple doesn't have it, therefore Apple is not tracking you.

Your email is on your phone. Does this mean that Apple has your email? Clearly not, or perhaps we should have 'emailgate' and prevent phones from downloading emails more than 7 days old.

Apple was never keeping a list of your whereabouts.
The colo likely comes with an SLA, though.
Make no mistake, I am concerned. I'm monitoring my account, and if Sony confirms they were stolen, I'm probably going to get a new card. (Which will be an enormous pain in the ass, but I also recently moved, so I can easily recall what recurring billing my card is tied to.)
As was already pointed out elsewhere, using per-capita $ numbers instead of percentage-of-GDP is fairly misleading, and if you use percentage-of-GDP it's more like 19th for California; I didn't feel the need to point that out again. So California isn't particularly exceptional in the amount of their revenues. Those numbers were likely also for prior to the economic bust; I'd be interested to see where they fall for 2010-2011. Remember, for 2008, there were no budget problems for CA; our revenue has cratered since then because we're so reliant on personal income.

I also made the point that the shift from property taxes to income taxes made the budget harder to balance by destabilizing revenue. California's problems are often caused by revenue volatility, and the state's budget is fine during booms and blows up during busts. States that rely more on property tax and less on income tax have much more stable revenues. I don't believe that's something that you've find much controversy on among either researchers or academics.

And your counter-argument around "everyone has to compromise" is, I'm afraid, just straight-up incorrect. Sure, everyone has to compromise. The point is that the more votes you have to get on board, the more watered down it gets. The budget you get with a 2/3 majority required is demonstrably worse than the budget you would have gotten with a 51% majority, because getting those extra 16% on board almost certainly required a bunch more one-off compromises to individual legislators. If you've seen the CA budgetary process in action, you'll know it worked pretty much exactly like that, and pretty much every year involved a late budget and some holdout congressman demanding pork for his district in exchange for his vote. Imagine how much already has to go on to get the vote to 51% on any given budget, and then just add a bunch more of it.