jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb f**s.
My progression into open source is documented in an interview (link below), but in short by running Debian, contributing to Debian packages I use and other packages, following Debian mailing list discussions, Debian community blog posts and IRC channels etc. The same probably applies to other FLOSS distros too. For a while I noted down a list of interesting software, but the open source world has exploded since I started that list so I stopped maintaining it. Also reading HN often brings up new open source projects I didn't hear of yet.

https://zgrimshell.github.io/posts/interviews-with-floss-dev...
https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/about/#interviews
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise/InterestingSoftware
> Drivers that have significant animal allergies that reach the threshold of a disability should be provided an accommodation of a separator between the passenger area and the driver area with sufficient air filtration.

That would be another reasonable accommodation. Not assigning driver's to those passengers would be a number of reasonable accommodations. There can be many different reasonable accommodations that can be made for a given problematic circumstance. The burden is on the company to find and implement _a_ reasonable accommodation.

> I am not a lawyer, but I don't believe that fear of dogs counts as a disability.

I don't think a garden variety fear of dogs would could (but IANAL either, and I don't know). I could imagine a case where someone has a genuine phobia of dogs, and is able to get a doctor's genuine medical opinion that a presence in an enclosed vehicle could cause severe anxiety, to the point of causing repeated anxiety or panic attacks. That kind of scenario may well rise to the level of a disability that must be accommodated.

I'm hesitant to make any broad sweeping claims about what should "count" as a workplace disability.
It should help ease some of the concern there has been for events such as this baseball game with some 40.000 spectators.

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1379170389838999552?s=19
First they came for GeoCities, and I didn't say anything because I don't use GeoCities.
Then they came for AIM, and I didn't say anything because I don't use AIM.
Then they came for Yahoo Answers, and I didn't say anything because I don't use Yahoo Answers.
Then they came for an app I cared about, and there was nobody left to say anything.
I think this is the really interesting legitimacy vacuum that hacks like this place us into. The official source on this is silent and may stay silent for a long time. People who wait for an official, safe answer may need to wait a long time. On the other hand, the illicit nature of the data makes it legally questionable for other organizations to step into the role of notifier.

So why enter your info on a random site? Because it may be the lowest (definitely not zero) risk way to check if your info is in the leak. If you wait or you build your own thing you may risk less, but balancing the risk with the certainty of obtaining an answer requires a real level of expertise.

Does seem like an easy way to collect phone numbers.
You’re referring to this right?

https://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/Crush_of_Cases_...
This idea has been around for decades. It is a prototypical futurist application. Difference is that these guys nailed it.
I don't have a TV at home because it's a total time sink. When I want something to watch I find it on Internet and it's much easier to look things on Internet.
I have always been wondering why Dropbox needs to have so many threads going on in OS X. Does anyone have an explanation, and does it actually stress the system in any way?

(they just bumped the thread count from 16 to 18 for me in 1.0)
Armature?
Clearly a popular topic, this is the third submission, although the first to attract any comments. Earlier submissions are here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014746

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2006910
Absolutely. I travel pretty much nonstop and I would pay dearly to be able to translate signs on arrival into a new country. Things like 'ATM' and 'Toilet' are crucial.
Does Chrome not hardware accelerate by default? Firefox certainly does - super smooth.
I believe that's the point -- it's web based.
This is just a guess as to what is occurring in your case. Bandwidth is distributed among all the cell sites in range of your phone. With bad weather comes power outages and cell sites have limited battery backup. Cell sites in dense populated areas may get cell techs connecting generators, but some of them will just lose power. That would mean more users sharing a smaller pool of bandwidth. If you know the debug code on your phone to display the cell sites you are connected to and you document the cell site ID's, you can probably tell when some of them vanish. On an iPhone the Field Test Mode is *3001#12345# On Android there are apps to display the Cell ID. On the older flip phones, field test mode numbers vary by vendor.
Jaeger is pretty great for tracing, and can integrate with Traefik/Envoy ( or whatever you use for ingress/inter-service communication).

We're running Loki for the logs ( via nomad log forwared/shipper and promtail) and so far it's going great. I'll have to do a write-up about the the whole thing.
> For example, autonomous vehicles, whether automobiles or drones, take on much greater importance when much of the population is restricted to their homes and needs goods delivered, preferrably without interacting with a human.

I don't know where you live but here we're being delivered food by people on good old bicycles or cars.

> Machine learning goes from a technology that can make our lives more comfortable and improve the bottom line, to one that can end a global catastophe.

How so ?

COVID made people realise that unchecked globalisation brings Asian viruses to your doorstep in less than 24 hours. That deforestation increase risk of infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans. That most western countries have no manufacturing power when crisis hit (masks, ICU beds, alcohol gels &c.). That countries relying almost entirely on tourism are one step away from complete collapse. That a very large part of western countries are absolutely clueless at handling emergencies.

I personally dont want to live in a world in which I work from home, talk to people through zoom and I'm so scared of human contact that I rely on drones for deliveries. Some people here describe that as heaven, it's hell for me, this isn't a future I'm looking forward to

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/913093387/why-cant-america-ma...

https://blog.prif.org/2020/04/20/sars-cov-2-pandemic-is-an-a...

https://theconversation.com/how-deforestation-helps-deadly-v...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-020-00444-x

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/why-human-impact-environme...
1. Seizing Bitcoin is not as trivial as you think it is.

2. Fiat is not a social problem but a technological one that crypto is well poised to take on.

3. BTC is well on its way to passing gold in aggregate value. It's safe to say, it's no longer a "toy".

4. I'm left of Chomsky but in general, a big fan.
that would be awesome
I was working for Arthur Andersen and later KPMG in New York. The technology stack was varied (Vignette/TCL is one odd example) and largely irrelevant to my rate, as was my value as a programmer (I wasn't very good back then). $325 was one of my more sedate rates actually, they've billed me out as high as $400.

People tend to think the crazy numbers were a byproduct of the internet bubble but the biggest factor was due diligence: certain big clients had to choose a Big 5 firm for their projects based on requirements such as, minimum number of employees, minimum years in business, minimum assets, etc. The whole racket was absurd, if you ask me.
Sold Masa!
As a younger man, I worked in the concrete construction business for exactly 10 hours.

In the morning, we unloaded and placed an entire truckload of foundation forms by hand. In the afternoon, we dug out the ground for a new garage pour, by hand. Then, a full truckload of gravel showed up, and we spread it, by hand.

I fell asleep in the truck on the way back to the yard.

The next day, the owner approached me, gave me $100 dollars cash, and thanked me for my service. That was it. Career over.

I spent the $100 on a new suit. I didn't know what I was going to do for a job, but I knew I wanted that suit as my work clothes.
Actually, your quote is still true about the web.

It's just not true about Facebook and etc apps.

The web hasn't suddenly vanish with the rise of other platforms.
It's molecular biological binary search!
Small Basic was built to be a good teaching tool: http://www.smallbasic.com/default.aspx
I'm not sure why they removed the ability to destructure sequences in args. It bugs me sometimes as well. There's probably a long discussion about the rationale in some PEP and an even longer email thread.
Ah, yes...the exact quote first says "excess cash" then mentions, in a downplayed way, the debt.

"We will continue to pursue our strategy of acquiring bitcoin with excess cash and we may from time to time, subject to market conditions, issue debt or equity securities in capital raising transactions with the objective of using the proceeds to purchase additional bitcoin."
Odds are good the couple you mention are in fact negative net worth, or close to it. They don't own the car. Every time their house goes up in value they refinance and take the cash out to pay for the vacation.

Generally those with a significant net worth live more modest lives - older cars (they might buy new, but that is because they know if they do the maintenance it will last for 15-20 years). The house might be nice for the neighborhood, but it won't be in the rich part of town. They might vacation twice a year, but they will be cheap vacations. The difference goes into funding their retirement plan, and some other savings.
I disagree - if you want low density and the area is popular you should have to pay for the privilege. People can live however they want in this world, just not for free.
That's more or less what I've been doing but informally.

Making a corporate structure for something like this hard, I came up with a model a couple of years ago called 'The Modular Company' but the bookkeeping is a nightmare if you want it to be fair.

Still, I keep coming back to it and one of these days, who knows...
>If it's true that iOS 4 automatically scales apps while improving text sharpness that will make it far more advanced than both Windows and Mac OS.

I usually just ignore these topics, but honestly: The ignorance is incredible. Absolutely incredible.
True, but it also decreases exponentially over time.
In the kindergarten class that was designing homes — none out of hay, wood or brick — for the three pigs, Ms. Morrow started the lesson by asking the 20 children sitting cross-legged on the carpet if they knew what engineers do.

“They can write poems?” one girl guessed.

“Well,” Ms. Morrow allowed, “they could write a poem about something they build.”

I want to comment but fear that I will not be able to maintain civility while doing so.
They aren't "famous colleges" if you can't think of them off the top of your head.
This shows the author, his father and grandfather had the wrong end of the stick. His grandfather, wanting security, had traded his time and independance for security, and got neither. His father, wanting to ensure he had both security and longevity, got neither. The author, apparently seeing this as a failed experiment, walked away from it.

What he failed to realise that neither his father or grandfather ever got control over their situation. The continually worked for money by trading their precious time for security. It's that which made them unhappy, not the actual money.

The author, to me, is making the fundamental mistake of thinking that you have to work 40 hours a week for 40 years to have 'money', so the choice is between working like a dog or having nothing, not realising that their is another way. Can money set you free? Of course it can, but not if you're trading your free time for your money.

For most people, it is a choice between security of income and freedom to spend your time as you want. The most secure people on the planet are prisoners, but they don't have the freedom to do what they want. If you're prepared to accept a less-secure income (by being risky, ie, startups) then you're going to gain the benefits of freedom when/if it does work out.

Bottom line : if this guy's Dad had cashed out at a younger age and spent the last 20 years of his life doing things on his own terms, he wouldn't have died an unhappy man in a short retirement.
No. You're thinking of Adobe/Macromedia flash. The word you're seeing relates to a type of memory (and more recently) a process of storing data in that memory.

You're going to need to know either C or the architecture assembly (and probably both to do much beyond "hello world"). If you're not a programmer (inferring from your comment), there are some arduino game kits which are much more friendly.
just read this recently found it ok:
http://www.puppetmastertrading.com/blog/2010/04/08/pairs-por...

ernie chan's blog is also a decent starting point:
epchan.blogspot.com
Same topic (posted yesterday):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1427392
"The bombs had been prepared in a Palestine-controlled area, and set to detonate on Daylight Saving Time. But the confused drivers had already switched to Standard Time. When they picked up the bombs, they neglected to ask whose watch was used to set the timing mechanism. As a result, the cars were still en-route when the explosives detonated, delivering the terrorists to their untimely demises."

http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/filks/Darwin-notes.html#t...
>I think the main reasons this is getting more press is because the resolution is over the ~300 ppi barrier that makes most eyes unable to resolve pixels.

Ugh. Tell me you don't actually believe that?

The resolution of the iPhone 4 was predetermined to simply pixel-double existing iPhone applications (no sloppy scaling or black-bordered apps for the legacy stockpile). It is only marginally denser than several Android phones, and is a big ball of WGAF wrapped in ridiculous market speak.

It's great that they increased the resolution to be more competitive with most other high end smartphones, but the retina stuff is such a stretch of nonsense.
The fact that the Settings app and the Control Panel are allowed to coexist baffles me
The Pragmatic Programmer also warns against overzealous deduplication. Stuff that are coincidentally the same should be left untouched. Only remove duplication of knowledge.
> many minivans no longer meet one of the original design criteria of the first minivan: the ability to carry a 4x8 sheet of plywood.

I don't know about "most". Current Honda[0], Toyota[1], and Chrysler[2] vans are still up to the task.

[0] https://www.middletownhonda.com/honda-odyssey-cargo/

[1] https://www.toyoland.com/trucks/sienna.html

[2] https://www.boston.com/cars/news-and-reviews/2016/04/02/2017...
> 99.5% of the people upvoting this article had neither used nor heard of Cloud Print before seeing this headline.
[citation needed]

I use google cloud print a lot. And so to other people I know, so in my closer circles it's ~ 30% who do not use it at all (but still print occasionally).

For sure, it's not the biggest thing, but it really wasn't unknown either.
And just because something is not as popular it still continues to shows googles product graveyard policy..
Yes it’s unfortunately standard for expensive scanners too.

Our goal was to make something easy to run and deploy with similar results to something like openvas or Nessus.

I personally think accuracy issues are because security vendors don’t want to show that their expensive software found nothing, so they dial down the accuracy. This works using the same methods as a Nessus, banner grabbing and indexing issues.

We are going to keep working on this and look for ways to make it more accurate, but I’d say our results with this versus our expensive scanners was pretty much the same.
Yup.... I haven't encountered products yet that actually report useful information on systems that receive regular automated software updates. All you get are loads of false-positives.
See also the bookmarklet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21591950
You’d have to be paying real close attention to notice that, which you are primed to do because you’ve been told it’s a deep fake. You’re probably also more of an expert than most.

But think of the general US electorate. How many of them, seeing this clip on the news as they prepare dinner, would know it’s fake?
Handling JSON is the one place where I’ve used interface{} and not felt dirty. Sometimes you really do need to model “anything” or “whatever”, especially when passing around arbitrary data without making assumptions about its schema.
This is basically cultural conditioning and selection bias. You've already owned a truck, you think they look great, you think they're masculine, you compare it to a sledgehammer. It seems marketing has worked very effectively on you.
I know C and C++ very well. I don't use either language unless I need to be as efficient as possible.
After reading Beej Guide I think I find "The Linux Programming Interface" a good book in general to learn about sockets and other linuxy thing etc. Sadly it hasn't been updated since 2010.
Perhaps you should compare the usefulness of bitcoin versus Facebook when you consider the energy usage of both, intentional or otherwise.
Thats exactly what it was all about! You basically made a database, attached a frontend with some forms etc. and you were good to go!
Exactly. I often say pessimism/optimism are astrology. Realism is astronomy.
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Doesn't surprise me. I released a couple easter eggs when I was at Google (notably [festivus] and [let it snow]), and the official response PR prepared for one of them was a poem. It's part of Google's quirky culture.
> The microbiome you want (or rather I want) is the one my ancestor's had

Why? Do you think your ancestors were especially healthy?

Do you think they all had the same microbiome?
Thankyou! Also to everyone else who replied. I thought i was a bad programmer. I am cobstantly in a cycle of read, try, adjust, repeat until it works, rebuild it now i understand better how it works.
There had been articles, but very little evidence.

Whether or not people believed in the extent of surveillance largely comes down to how cynical people were about the US government.

I remember having conversations with people all the time in the 80's and 90's who refused to believe it even when they were told about things that the US government openly admitted. A lot of people had a lot of trust in the US government. Partly I guess because before the fall of the Soviet Union, to a lot of people it was a black-and-white good vs evil thing. If the Soviet Union was evil, then the US had to be squeaky clean and flawless. It of course helped that most people had no access to the internet.

I'm not surprised it's taken this long, given how hard people try to hold on to their beliefs even in the face of evidence. The fact of the matter is that we had, and still have, very little evidence about this surveillance, which slows the process down even further.
Use FedEx Kinko's. Wear a baseball cap and sunglasses when you go in.
I think the expected payback is going to be a large multiple.

The part that's not a small business loan, I'm guessing, is that these are venture capitalists acting on longshots.

5-10% won't let you tolerate any misses.
Doesn't Lighter Capital do this? Or other royalty based investments?
>With a sticker price of around $100 million per plane, including the engine, the F-35 is expensive

Why say including the engine? Do they sell them without the engine?
I'm against all icon fonts except icon fonts that literally only implement Unicode icon codepoints. That use-case is still technically accessible.
I remember doing this. Someone from a local BBS mailed me a pirated Amax emulator (it was patched to load the ROM from disk.)
Discussion on NextMind from a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971089
>Well, here's the problem with twitter. I don't even understand what this person is complaining about and, more importantly, I really couldn't care less.

You don't know what I'm complaining about? If you don't care, why comment?
Trying the argument out on such a futile actions as HN comments isn't that telling.

There was a time when a convoluted bio-mechanical system traveled to the Moon and back. Could you do me a favor and re-run that line of thought on that? The Apollo was inevitable and so the biological elements of it should have done... What exactly?...

I'm honestly lost here, I don't ponder about non-materialistic free will anymore.
yeah it should be illegal to ad / track users who have paid

given how crappy the ads ecosystem has become to browsers, if I'm paying for something, I want out of all of that

legislation should make a bright line here. I don't want to see an ad in a taxi, on an airplane, in the dentist's office, and certainly not if I've paid for nyt

maybe carve out limited 1st party tracking, maybe not
Li-ion has made tremendous advances in that time. This article[0] goes through some of the history.

Some hot takes:

- Price per cell has dropped ~97% since 1991

- 1991 energy density ~200 Wh/liter; 2005 energy density ~500 Wh/liter; 2017 ~700 Wh/liter

[0]: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ee/d0ee0...
> Doesn’t make sense from an evolution theory viewpoint to me.

If that has advantages to survival, there would have to be many survivors who have experienced this.

Everyone who has ever reported this has survived.
Yes true, I was more thinking when things went to trial. Pleas make up a large share of outcomes. I was just more surprised at how badly things can go wrong in the process which ends up with a dismissal or acquittal; whether that's police process, evidentiary, testimony, etc.
This is something people don't think about when they claim that the skilled trades should be a viable alternative to college education. Most employment in the trades is with small or family owned businesses, where labor laws are rarely enforced. And with family businesses, your prospects hinge on whether you belong to the family or not.

It also means people might be more willing to go into those trades if they were ensured of better labor law enforcement, health care, safety net, and so forth.