jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> When we fully automated it later this year we will be able to sell our masks much much cheaper than China can.

Is not shipping from China to the US a big part of the cost savings ?
Overheard on a Java conference: "I love Scala, clients pay me big bucks to rewrite it into sane Java code".
I actually hate macos font rendering...Windows has way better fonts on 27" 2560x1440 or 24" 1920X1200 monitors

With work issued macbook pro I have 2 4k 24" monitors to get that retina clarity instead and they keep fans on all the time.
> Where does the moral line lie then?

I don't know that that's a useful question in this context. Bureaucracies function in intensely amoral ways. Even ones with a moral mission. You can embarrass the leadership with moral judgments, and that will steer things for at least as long as public scrutiny maintains its attention span. Internally, though, the rules look more like game theory, and the bureaucracy will naturally tend to reject anyone who doesn't want to play the game.
No one wants to buy gold because the fees to move it are currently around $100.
The status page is down as well: https://status.notion.so/
The Rust code provided runs in 0.1 s (debug) / 0.04 s (release) for me (generic ultrabook + linux). That's quite a lot faster.

Don't think I'm the first to mention - what would profile.release do if you're not calling cargo build --release?

Maybe the author is, but a slight suspicion... they're calling older code.

(Also, what's the deal with read_file() and wanting a Vec<String>? Rust has a read_to_string() method as part of std::fs.)
> The way some people are angry at google here reminds of of Brexit.

Indeed. Both are the result of flooding the media with specious arguments designed to make people fight over irrelevant details.

'Google is a grifter'
'The EU are robbing us of our NHS'

Google is not rich because of news articles.
The NHS was not underfunded due to the EU.
I don't think there's any serious legal threat, but yes, I thought at first that it was a tiny digital TV capable of receiving broadcasts, and there really isn't reason why it couldn't be, although that would be a different product.
Easy. Tech giants have means to control all public speech and information exchange. -> they ally with political party -> ensure they win elections, fairly or whatever, no one will be able to tell the story that votes are counted unfairly -> install an unremovable authoritarian dictatorship. Which might have imitation elections & stuff, just like USSR had.

And then, 'correction' camps for people that do not fully fit this new beautiful society.
I wonder how soon Google is going to ban sideloading. I mean, who knows what terrorists can install on their phones, right?
Nationalist is absolutely a bad word. Patriot is a good word. Nationalism is what happens when patriots stop thinking critically.
They are not a public square. They are not the government.

They are a private company that needs to do business to stay alive. Other companies can choose not to do business with them based on the content that's on their site. If they fail to satisfy their customers, they die.

They cannot satisfy the whims of those who pay nothing and demand a megaphone. They owe you, and your beliefs, nothing.
Look at it this way: when private companies censor something the user has the option to go elsewhere to exercise their speech. When the government does it, they can't go anywhere.

In this case, if a significant number of people are disenfranchised by this, it will naturally create the market pressure for a solution that they can use. It will spur adoption of tools like F-droid and open devices etc. It'll force these people to embrace open web technologies instead of proprietary ecosystems. Which are all very positive and healthy things.

It may be very inefficient, but to some extent its a healthy process that ultimately arbitrates where acceptable standards of speech sit.
For 1): This isn't CPU magic but the scheduler in the OS. Even when running your program with only one thread, your OS will still schedule the 100s of threads that are running on your machine (from all applications you have open) onto the 8 cores on your machine. It constantly switches between these threads, and your Ruby thread won't be put on the same core each time.

Furthermore, OSes spread load across cores on purpose to avoid unequal heating inside the processor. You can 'pin' a process to a specific core but this is not recommended. (The advantage is maybe better caching, but the disadvantage is unequal heating.)
Theres a lot I don't know about the Soviet Union but the "Enemies of the People" were the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, not supporters of the party.

I agree that people like Giuliani and even people like Ted Cruz who indirectly bolstered the attack on the capitol building should be prosecuted but going after Trump Supporters themselves is dumb and these comments shouldn't even be made in jest as they are quite dangerous. Most of them are victims of predatory media companies. You sound like the gestapo.
The symbolism is what's important. This building, the largest and tallest and most ornate of all the government buildings in DC, is the beating heart of the US government. To take it over is to strike at the very heart of the government, and to have one branch taken over by instigation by the other branch, it is horrific. Because the consequences are a collapse of this society. With no functioning US Government, the United States cease to be united. It's an existential symbol, and that's why terrorists attempted to target it on 9/11 and why terrorists targeted it this week.
Recording the police has got be a good thing almost all the time. Unless they can "accidentally" not record an encounter or "accidentally" delete one, it will most certainly place moral pressure on the officers.

We all know they have never had legal a duty to protect any civilian, but whenever it was that police subtly turned from a "protect and serve" ideology into "law enforcement" was a dark transition for America.
Regulatory capture is when the people tasked with keeping an industry on its best behavior have too close ties to the industry, through personal connections or financial incentives, and are no longer able to do their jobs.

I would agree that we have a problem with inadequate or corrupt regulators in several industries.
The police are the executors of the state's monopoly on the use of force, and where a state exists by the consent of the governed, it is uniquely important that the police are, without exception, held responsible to the people.

Any philosophy allowing unlimited or arbitrary state power over individuals turns the state, is one where the state, rather than the people, has full liberty, and is the master. That's the historical status quo (sans Greece, Rome) prior to liberalism, Locke.
Something that strikes me and is a bit tangential but this quote made me think of this:

"The case in question, Craigslist vs. 3Taps, revolved around a copyright infringement claim by Craigslist against data gathering company"

If Craiglists is claiming copyright on all content, wouldn't that make them solely responsible for all of that content? Wouldn't then the "safe harbor" that many online communities use not apply and wouldn't the illegal content that was/continues to be on Craigslist become Craigslist legal responsibility?
PCIe storage has been available for PCs for quite some time.

12 Xeon cores on air.. do you think servers liquid cool these chips? Of course they cool them with air, that's how they're designed to be cooled.

I am impressed they crammed it all into a package that's only 10inches tall - but this is completely at the expense of modularity and expandability. You can't easily throw a new hard drive or GPU in this new configuration.
It's not hard. It's a solved problem. People just choose to remain ignorant of these best practices.

Binding data to a query after the fact is a reliable way of escaping. Composing a prepared statement is not hard, and creating these at runtime is not a big deal.

Honestly, for most of your daily work you should be using an ORM of some kind where this is already done for you. The only reason you should be writing direct SQL is when you're doing things the ORM doesn't natively support.

Ruby on Rails is currently 100% injection free as far as anyone can tell, and if it isn't there'd be an emergency patch issued right away. There have been situations in the past where this was not the case, but these bugs were quickly addressed after being discovered. Most other frameworks (Django, etc.) are in the same category.
This program tricks Dropbox into thinking that you own a file when all you actually have is hash values for each 4MB block of the file. Dropbox will add the file to your account whether you own a copy or not. There are two major consequences:

-This can be used for piracy of copyrighted files. If hash values for each block of the copyrighted file are distributed online then any Dropbox user can trick Dropbox into handing them the file. This is probably faster than using BT and, imo, it places the legal consequences on Dropbox.

-This can be used to sniff out what files other users have uploaded to Dropbox, which has serious privacy implications.
While I wonder to what end TI does this and whether this is even legal, I don't see much problem for me as a hobbyist EE.

I just refuse to buy parts without datasheet except for parts that don't need explaining.
If you make the window narrower the content pane disappears, so it's possible to work around this.
"have made profound advances in explaining how ancient speakers of early Arabic used the letters of other alphabets to transcribe their speech. These alphabets included Greek and Aramaic, and also Safaitic"

This is amazing to read because arabic speakers do this today. You can find examples of it on twitter and other social media.
> You mentioned that Spot is now robust enough to dance all day. How about Atlas? If you kept on replacing its batteries, could it dance all day, too?
This is honestly a good read, even though it's likely quite confronting for many people.

I've been balls-deep in the Australian propaganda industry and it's frankly disconcerting how much power certain people hold over society in the media industry. It's obvious that Goebbels wetdreams came true in the 21st century and western governments are lapping it up while improving on his techniques.

Propaganda is no longer a dirty word, it's a way of life.
Sorry, wanted to add another point but the editing window expired. Basically, I get the sense that the Jobs that got fired was a lot more willing to shake things up when he came back. Whereas it's hard for me to see what Jobs would have done if he'd managed to oust Sculley, aside from killing 3rd party Macs earlier and shrinking the product lineup.
and?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/charlie-miller-to-reveal-...
They don't say designed in America.
I completely understand your frustration with the over-specification. Why would they send it over the wire if it was never meant to be used though? Surely the other side is interpreting these bytes somehow and excepts them in a certain order.

[ a bit later ... ]

I decided to check the spec and see for myself what's going on. The part you're talking about, key3, is in fact used later. The bytes may be random but both sides need to know which of the 8 bytes comes first and which comes last.

Let /challenge/ be the concatenation of /number_1/, expressed as
a big-endian 32 bit integer, /number_2/, expressed as a big-
endian 32 bit integer, and the eight bytes of /key_3/ in the
order they were sent on the wire.

If the other side doesn't agree on the order of the bytes in key3 then things are not going to work. Your other complaints may be valid but sometimes this sort of over-specification helps implementers.
Apple couldn't build better hardware or cheaper hardware than the clone makers -- they were losing on the top end and the bottom end.

Today, Apple makes good top end hardware and would likely continue to compete there but allowing clones to capture the low end would dilute their premium brand.
Adobe has desensitized me to updating their software, since every time I open Acrobat it asks me to download a new version. It's like the boy who cried wolf, but since this sounds serious maybe I'll get over this mental hurdle.
It would be nice too if we can doodle like doing so at a whiteboard.
10.1 has had 7 release candidate releases so far. Been running them for a while and they don't seem anymore crashy than 10.0 and the GPU acceleration is nice.

Also it would be a great time to upgrade Firefox to the 3.6.4 release candidate for those using Firefox. Plugin process separation... yummo.

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/06/01/firefox-3-6-4-releas...
what is a "political party IT cell" is this some committee of MP's? or some Indian political slang?
"7/ youtube became a monster. it always has been. but in 2014 youtube emerged as the place for entertainment consumption for anyone under 16"

This seems so huge to me - maybe it's because I have kids and saw it happen firsthand over the course of this year.
My kids started grade school a few years before common core was launched, and I remember "number sentence" was already in use. I, too, struggled to find out what a number sentence is. They also spent a fair amount of time with "you must all do subtraction in this weird way" and similar stuff.

An amusing anecdote is that the schools switched over to traditional arithmetic (carrying, borrowing, etc.) during the weeks or months leading up to each standardized test battery.

As I understand it, multiple cycles of math teaching fads swept through the schools between when I learned math (a long time ago) and common core. There was a period in my locale when 8th grade math was taught in such a way that the bright kids tuned out due to boredom and nobody was prepared for algebra. Debate over the math curriculum actually swung a school board election!

(Many parents, including my spouse and me, quietly taught our kids "regular" math as we understood it, at home. I didn't know what "regrouping" was, but taught them borrowing instead. I fear that the result of widespread home coaching is that the "good" schools get rewarded for high test scores and poor families have no idea why their kids aren't learning math).

I don't blame anybody for being confused by the subtle distinction between standards, curriculum, and testing. We've heard all of the things that common core isn't. On the other hand, when some states began to publish their common core standards, I took a look at the math portion, and it seemed surprisingly "normal" to me.

As for Pearson, I wonder if one company owning both the curriculum and the testing process is a good thing.
>I'm still pretty sure a mathematical mind on the order of Newton's could find a way to state evolution by variation and natural selection as a theorem rather than a theory, that follows necessarily from the laws of probability and the facts of chemistry

Apart from the chemistry part (where I don't understand what you mean), biology has had this for 85 years, with numerous extensions and generalizations [1].

[1] http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/Vol74Nos1&2/19.pdf
Richard Feyman told a similar story about con man he met in Vegas. He talks about the probability computations needed to work out each step in the scam -- how the con man makes money off a "no-risk trial, I will pay your bet if you lose")

Mathnet on 321-Contact did the mail order prophet scam, and my dad's stockbroker friend once joked about running the same scam.
Bill Gates reading list -> http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2014

Top 3 books I read -> 1) Atlas Shrugged 2) Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism 3) GTD
Hmm, good thoughts. I think you and I are thinking pretty much the same.

Design is not art? Hmm... I think Leonardo da Vinci would possibly disagree with that. But maybe you're saying "design" is more mathematical in nature -- something either fits and works, or it doesn't. I could see that. Are graphic designers not usually artists? Or maybe you're saying the term should be "graphic artists" and not "graphic designers"?

btw, I lol'ed at monkey with grenade :)
Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely look into implementing the suggestions.
So presumably the Republicans would vote down an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the bottom 98%. We don't know because they won't put it to a vote.

Could the Democrats then put to a vote an extension for the bottom 99%? Then 99.5%, 99.9% and so on? Eventually they would have to reach some threshold where the Republicans would have to compromise right?

Is it a practical matter of time, a matter of the lost tax revenue or just the risk of alienating rich donors that prevents this?
"The bigger issue is whether the country can afford the systemic damage being done by the ever-growing income inequality between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else..."

It's striking how dumb this fine sounding claim becomes when you actually get specific. What "systemic damage" is being done by Larry & Sergey having become so much richer than they used to be, or more recently, Mark Zuckerberg doing the same? None at all that I can see.
Yes, but given all the interests groups affected by the choices, could you get 2/3rds of the Senate to agree with your solution?
Thank you, Fixed.
C Finke is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
# pwd

/usr/ken

# vi

vi: not found

Wow, it's like I was traveling in a time machine back to 70's and saw Ken Thompson hacking. One thing that has always taken for granted is that vi is the ubiquitous editor in Unix world, it's NOT true, :)
I decided to read the entire thread, and my final conclusion remains roughly the same. Although "not serious" is perhaps too harsh, the author does not provide the level of detail I'd expect of someone asking for 250 thousand dollars for their existing work (as well as 750k for future work).

The most information we got was "on a few simple benchmarks I'm seeing about a 70% speedup vs master for both default and LTO configures." However, this information is almost completely useless. What benchmarks? What architectures? What hardware?

It would take the author 5 minutes of their time to say "here's the benchmark code I ran, it executed in [time] on CPython master commit [hash], and [lower time] on my patch, running on a machine with [hardware]." To be completely honest, I fail to see why they are not providing this information that would make their proposal significantly stronger.
Aah, I was looking for a word to describe this shape!

It's also what I consider myself. It's basically the result of being a generalist who is also willing to dive deep in order to solve a problem rather than stackoverflow my way to a workaround.

"Key-shaped" might be another word here, for someone who does have an area of focus, but not as extreme as a T shape. For example, someone who does full stack web dev with a frontend specialty, but not so focused on one particular frontend framework.
It seems to me that the article focuses on the limitations of actually using Bitcoin and its features, not the second-order effects on society at large.

If we consider second-order effects we can come up with a bunch more, including allowing drug sales, human trafficking, allows people to hide their assets and more. But again, seems focused on the limitations of the protocol and clients using it, not second-order effects.

Edit: I'm not saying Bitcoin are in fact causing all those things and I'm myself bullish on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. I'm only trying to reason why the environment impact was not brought up in the article itself.
Doesn't apply here, but in theory a charity could reinvest for growth like a startup and only than start helping people and do more good, no :) ?

Slippery slope, but might be the reasonable thing for effective altruism.
Yes. Last time I checked if all hash power of btc tried to find a collision it would still take a few hundred million years or so.
My coworker apparently managed to dump at least some tea into his 15-inch MacBook Pro and it actually survived. I found it quite surprising, would've figured it was a death sentence for sure.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

Only children trust Signal. A "private" messenger that only works by attaching to your phone number. Another nail in the coffin.

Edit: Look at that, negative points on my post that fast. We sure do have TLA's in here screening every single comment, while ensuring that this thread stays out of the front page.

Guys, give it up already. No one with a bit of intelligence falls for your "app-traps"
In the interest of eliminating implications, you included a period at the end of that quote, which suggests there's nothing else to that statement. In point of fact, the full sentence is:

>"Though he did not mention the firings in his farewell note, they influenced his decision to resign, people familiar with the matter said, speaking on condition of anonymity."

A farewell note is a formality for many people. I'd wager, given that this article discusses his previous statements on the matter, the firings did influence his decision. Having said that, it seems that he's departing as professionally as he possibly can, without blowing things up on the way out. Prospective employers won't have to be afraid of him making a scene even if he disagrees with them.
> It's a purity test and nothing more.

Wrong. Publishing the server sources allow people to create a parallel and independent service.
Slaughterbots - bots against humans:
https://youtu.be/6Ipkq-BASaM
Thanks for answering questions, it's nice to see that MobileCoin shares so many similarities with Monero with changes that seems to make decent tradeoffs for usability. I have a few questions:

What is the identity and distribution behind the current mobilecoin nodes? What are the requirements for running a node? Since there is no node rewards how will nodes funded in the long term (10+ years)?

Does mobilecoin employ something similar to Dandelion++? What prevents nodes or those running fog from performing timing based attacks? Is mobilecoin suseptable to any other attacks (e.g. Poisoned output, subaddress association)?

How will the mobilecoin foundation and continued development be funded in the long term (10+ years)?

If SGX is found to be vulnerable/no longer fit for purpose is there a mitigation plan?
Did anyone else click on this because it reminded them of a Harry Potter spell?
No, I have never bought an extended warranty. However, I did today make good money on a business transaction because a stranger was able to reach me. I also had to delete some voicemails about extended warranties. This is a worthwhile tradeoff for me.
> Why? just say you want to call a lawyer and have him present.

Ok let’s go down this route. You say that and then they hand you a phone. Now what? You’re in an empty room, no internet access, no Yellow Pages nearby. What numbers do you press on the phone? I don’t even know a lawyer, let alone have one’s number memorized. That would really be a “they called your bluff” moment.
Not an authoritative source, but (as a point of interest) analog landlines seem to be specified as 24 dB SNR and 300-3000 Hz passband [1], giving ~21.5 kbps information rate [2].

[1] https://www.tschmidt.com/writings/POTS_Modem_Impairments.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
Jeff Lowenfels wrote three books about soil enrichment that you may find interesting.

1. Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener’Guide To The Soil Food Web

2. Teaming With Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

3. Teaming With Fungi: The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae

http://www.jefflowenfels.com/
If you have a window that is narrower than ~960px the window that says "Enter a realm where math is your superpower!" overlaps the image below it. I'm not sure if this bothers you, but I thought I'd let you know.