jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just went 45 hours between charges. I am not in a 4G market so the 4G radio is turned off and I use locale to disable GPS when I am at home but I really wonder about some of these issue people have experienced. It almost makes me wonder if the stock batteries may have had some bad manufacturing batches or something - either that or they really need to be conditioned properly which is something I was religious about the first few days.
You've provided two examples of censorship.

The first is a video that was removed from YouTube by the uploader, not by YouTube.

The second is Twitter blocking a link to a YouTube video that's still up.

I get you want to be a victim, but YouTube doesn't owe you or anyone else a platform. And even so, in no way is their "censorship" hitting a "level of absurdity that is hard to believe".
There was also some information on the ecological dynamic that leads to nutrient release by those bacteria, and how they interact with the fungi. I thought the fact that some bacteria could use the hyphae to transport themselves, finding and killing a secondary bacteria that is found on the fungi was pretty interesting.
Kinda scary how bad master.php.net was.

- md5 passwords more or less

- “...running very old code on a very old operating system...”

- no parameterized queries
It seems that your comment was targeted towards me, but it failed to desribe my behavior at all, so I'm left not totally sure that it was targeted at me. If so, I don't know why you have the impression that I didn't read what you wrote (even you Twitter thread) or that I'm somehow trolling. You have no specific complaints whatsoever here or in your Twitter thread apart from complexity and implying that new steering committee are just trying to pad their resume. How are generic insults specific criticism?

How do the language features not fit? What does "influence undesirably" actually mean? What language features specifically have been added that do not fit, and how have they made the language worse or harder to read or use? That would be an interesting conversation to have.
I mean, not really.

The financing contingency means that if your financing falls through, you get your earnest money back. Assuming a 500k purchase with 1% earnest money, waiving the financing contingency means that the seller receives at least 5k.

Even with a financing contingency waived, if the buyer has 100k, and their financing falls through, there is no way for them to magically make 400k appear for the sale to happen.

If you are assuming that the buyer has the full purchase price in cash anyways, and are only taking a mortgage because rates are so low, then ya, your point stands (waiving financing contingency along with proof of funds). But lets not pretend that having cash to cover the full price of the property is the common situation.
This is analogous to "use up all your budget, or you'll get less next year!"

A stupid, stupid idea from people who should not be allowed to make decisions.

'Blue collar' workers figured out a way to get the message across - they formed unions, and went on strike to effect changes.
Found an XSS. Check your strings:

http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
Well, to talk about that we first have to agree on a definition of "fair". This doesn't seem practical in a society with such a diversity of opinions on the subject as ours. The more important question is to what degree is it ethical to impose your definition of "fair" on others? I would say that there is no ethical basis for the sort of extreme imposition that's currently the status quo.

If some groups wants to charge redheads more, it's their choice. If someone else sees that as a market inefficiency, they can start their own shop where they don't do that. Who cares if you or I think it's "fair"?

Edit: My original point was, the more nuanced we can be about whom we decide to give credit to, which these sorts of techniques provide, the less someone will find themselves lumped into a group in which they don't belong, and the more deserving people will have access to credit.
May I ask: what exactly is the reason to treat Microsoft as a bad actor here?

To my knowledge, they have zero history of taking over packages they do not control, nor any history of messing with repo contents in a misleading fashion.
Founder of ISC? Impressive! (But it doesn't make the article any better :)
Why would you not buy an iPhone 4 right now? Honest question because besides the usual hardware update I can't seem to think of many other things which would make me wait for a newer version (but I do know that Apple will prove me wrong though).

Now if that's because of iOS then I guess I understand what you are feeling... (but I don't see Apple not letting you update iPhone 4 to iOS 5).
Somewhat unrelated - but who do forensic analysts work for, and what do they look for? Are they only working for government agencies, or is there some kind of private work as well? Are you looking for terrorists, kiddie porn or something entirely different?

Just curious...
I have a couple of questions...What is the amount that you gain after paying taxes? What kind of companies hire contractors?
"If Rand had never existed, the world would have been exactly the same. She had zero real impact, like most philosophers of the 20th Century."

Ayn Rand came from Russia to a US society that was giving socialism serious thought. She articulated for capitalism an ideology; before her it seemed to have none. She was widely read for 2 generations. Her students managed political office and monetary policy in the US. I see all this as more than zero impact.
Knock on Google's door.
The first soccer ball that wasn’t boring and actually recognizable as a soccer ball? Many more people than before were able to see the Worldcup in the 1970s (because many more had TVs)? It was the first sponsored ball and Adidas put a lot of money in Marketing?

I don’t know but those seem like plausible explanations.
I guess they want to sell the new World Cup ball to all the fans.
1) load some data into a table (probably using sqlite) and play around with it using sql

2) read up on some database theory

3) check out a few popular options: sqlite, mongodb, couchdb and play around a bit more.

4) find a big dataset that interests you, load it into one or more of the databases you want to experiment with, and experiment away by trying to extract interesting data, etc. Notice how each one performs, etc.
German engineering for the win.
True, and I hope they do. City states are my best hope for the future (politically). They've worked before, and I think conditions might be right for them to start working again.

My intuition is that it might be more politically possible for (say) India and Brazil to outmaneuver interest groups if they work outside the native country, even if they have otherwise reasonable locations inside their borders.
35 here. Facebook never had any significant value for myself or anyone I've talked about it. Some use or had used it as a public blog, some use it to connect to businesses or artists, in the past it was used for second-hand meme reposts, but that's about it, I think.

So, whenever someone makes a fuss about that huge importance of deleting Facebook and how supposedly hard it is - I genuinely fail to understand the problem.
Just like Bender! https://i.redd.it/e5ocvyizvk521.png
Not fully at-home. Samples are sent to a lab for analysis.
Really cool work! They composed a simple melodic fragment and had numerous violinists play it with electric violins. They then had them use noise-cancelling headphones and selectively fed them only a couple collabrators' violin playing. They then blocked them from sight of the others, introduced delays, switched whose playing they could hear.

The implications here are pretty fascinating. Do humans conform to the average of others' playing, or do they pick one out (it's probably the latter)? Do they attempt to enforce "correctness" onto their own playing, or do they slow down/speed up to prioritize "unison" with others?

I know from playing in musical ensembles for years, each musician has their own approach. Some are confident and self-righteous, they really "sing out" and put their intonation and timing into the fore. Other musicians are blenders, they do very well solo but their main goal is to blend in perfectly with their neighbors. Then there are shy people, who try to hide in the background and blend in, and they don't want their voice heard.

The actual technical aspects of music are very precise, and yet we have this layer of artistry which is adapting to delays, improperly tuned things, or even improvisatory, stylistic flourishes. I love it! It's an artistic math, it's a mathematical manipulation of artistic objects.
I'll give you everything else but "Hillary hiding her health issues" was a meme as far as I know, basically the forerunner to "Biden has severe dementia"
I see two main things behind it:

1. they are the only ones who have 5nm chips because they paid a lot to TSMC for that right
2. they gave up on expandable memory, which lets them solder it right next to the cpu, which likely makes it easier to ship with really high clocks. and/or they just spent the money it takes to get binned lpddr4 at that speed.

So a good cpu design, just like AMD and Intel have, but one generation ahead on node size, and fast ram. Its not special low latency ram or anything, just clocked higher than maybe any other production machine, though enthusiasts sometimes clock theirs higher on desktops!
There have been a couple of big HN threads about this - but IIRC, it's an art project rather than an executable language:

قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352508 - Oct 2019 (623 comments)

Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700691 - May 2014 (108 comments)
The iPad [1] is showing up in surprising places. I first started to suspect that it might substantially change how we use and perceive computers after my sister told me that instead of magazines the hairdresser recently offered her an iPad. This is not some trendy big-town hairdresser [2], this happened in a small town in Germany. My sister loved being able to check Facebook [3] while her hair were cut.
There is just something different about the iPad [1], it has qualities which make it ideal for certain uses, uses for which laptops or netbooks are just not right.

[1] It’s only the iPad now but I’m sure there will be many similar devices in the future.

[2] Ok, maybe somewhat trendy: http://www.projecth.net/

[3] The privacy implications make me cringe. I suspect that many customers forget to log out, but that’s just a software problem and doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.

(This comment is a re-run: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732887)
You can’t. You never will. I’m the same. Just accept it.
Yes, however capabilities are not the same. Promises are lower level primitives.
Interesting fact: please see: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-201...

Scroll to Brooklyn NY. Trump enjoyed 93% support in an all Hasidic Jewish neighborhood (ocean parkway district.) and 80%+ support across most hasidic Jewish districts.
All debates aside, who finds a police tracking device on their car and continues to maintain a large stash of meth and paraphernalia?
"just" is the word 99% of the work hides behind.
C++11/C11 are not implementable on Alpha CPUs that don't have BWX extensions, BTW.

This is because it requires individual bytes to be accessible in atomic way between multiple threads, which without BWX is not possible on Alpha, which started out with minimum 32bit read/writes.
I'm guessing you have a situation where vast numbers of people are not getting some treatment, you choose a manageable small subset to study, and only treat half of those. What's wrong with that? The alternative is not treating everybody in the continent, it's studying something else and treating nobody. Why would a researcher have the money and resources to treat everyone? (It does seem fair to offer the treatment to everyone involved in your trial after it's over.)
I wonder if you could eat doritos hands free too? Could you have a dorito launcher that would hit your mouth every time?

On the other hand, it might be risky to combine voice command with dorito's launch since they both use the same orifice for I/O.
1868. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of canada's founding fathers. Three years after Lincoln.

More recently, in 1995 an attempt was made against Jean Chrétien. Even more recently, in march of last year a deranged former soldier drove a pickup truck into the prime minister's residence. Canada has its own fare share of crazy people looking to attack politicians.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/military-reservist-who-rammed-...

>>OTTAWA -- A Manitoba man who rammed a gate at Rideau Hall before arming himself and heading on foot toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's home last July was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
Case in point, the English speaking world does not know about this beauty

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russe_(p%C3%A2tisserie)
As the article says, the odds are estimated to be 1 in a billion for both his wife and Lupiano to have the same rare form of cancer in the same place. Now let's talk about the odds of 100+ people all having rare forms of cancer. Maybe that is why it is news worthy!
The school is in a pretty dense area, less than 10 miles from NYC. If the cause were something that wasn’t unique to the building (such as proximity to a nuclear plant), I’d expect many thousands of affected
The AI shown in terminator does not exist. That’s a gross false equivalence.
It's sad to see so much pessimism here. You are underestimating the power of technology to fix seemingly intractable problems such as energy or healthcare costs.

Here is a key quote from his post:

Revolutions are not obvious when they happen. When James Watt started the industrial revolution with the steam engine in 1775 no one said, “This is the day everything changes.” When Karl Benz drove around Mannheim in 1885 no one said, “They’ll be 500 million of these driving around in a century.” And certainly in 1958 when Noyce and Kilby invented the Integrated Circuit the idea of a quintillion (10 to the 18th) transistors being produced each year seemed ludicrous.
I can't remember what the "over=value" filter was, and haven't had much luck in guessing it. Anyone know it off-hand? It's not on the lists page.
I was aware of the Emac-isms (as I think of them) of C-a and C-e for start and end of line in the terminal and elsewhere in Mac applications.

But do those two serve the same function that Home does in applications where Home and End send you to the start or end of the whole page? To put it in terms I'm more comfortable with, I thought that in some contexts Home was like Vim's gg.

For example, I just opened Safari. fn + right arrow brings me to the bottom of the page; fn + left arrow brings me back to the top of the page (home and end). In that case, C-a and C-e do nothing. I'm not really sure if you're wrong or I'm very confused or both at this point. But I don't think C-a and C-e are exactly Home and End. (I suppose it doesn't help that in a browser, there's another Home - ^⌘H in that case.)
My pithiest comments never get enough upvotes either. Solution? More pith.

Gave this article a sympathy upvote. Hope that helps a little.
Both this post and the one it links to are highly speculative. The headlines are link-bait and the analysis is paper-thin and overly emotionally driven.

I find his emotional, link-bait titled speculation that we "censor articles because they disagree with the content" a hilarious bit of meta-humor.
If you're into this sort of stuff, John McWhorter describes this theory and many others in his introductory book to (mostly historical) linguistics, The Power of Babel [http://www.amazon.com/Power-Babel-Natural-History-Language/d...].
Build it on i2p: http://www.i2p2.de/

I'm a huge fan of (and advocate for) i2p. As cases like today's FBI seizure of domain names continues to spread, I think i2p will gain even more traction as a viable alternative to the "old" internet.

It is multipath, encrypted, and completely decentralized.

All it needs now is a "killer site".
gah!

"He analysed the number of phonemes found in 504 world languages, and hypothesized that languages with the most phonemes were the oldest. Also, the dialects furthest away from the 'mother tongue' were found to be less complicated."

I'd like to see the original study, since this sounds like simplistic analysis and circular reasoning.

long-story short: there's no reason to think that we started out with lots of phonemes and that these have been whittled away over time. Historical change shows lots of instances of new phoneme generation in languages. This 'historical change is simplification' meme is either wrong or contentless.
Which TLD? All of them. Or at least several TLDs and registrars that all have different legal jurisdictions. (online-hunting.ly, online-hunting.ch, online-hunting.cn)

Where would I host it? Everywhere. Or at least in multiple physical locations in different countries that all have different legal jurisdictions. Either synchronized up or sharded out depending on how the app works.
I would like to ask you about this:

I think we had no fewer than five hairy macros for
creating complex UI layouts, because everybody wanted
to do it their own way, and you could hack something
like that out in an afternoon.

Even though I have worked in commercial environment other than Lisp (never Lisp so far), there are lots of things that can be hacked out in an afternoon. Yet having five hairy sets of duplicated functionality is something I'd never let stand for long. It seems to be a culture thing rather than a language thing. Is that right?
Let us not forget Sand.
Why do you believe this was a low-probability event? My impression is that important safety measures were neglected, and this laxity played a key role in the failure.

A better question might be "Where else has avarice gotten the better of known sensible precautions?" I hear there are clear risks in the Commercial Real Estate market, similar to the problems which led to the residential housing crisis. Then there is the fact there has been essentially no meaningful regulatory reform of the financial system as a whole (in fact, there has been encouragement of the same bad behavior.)
I think the answer to that is "yes", since our technology is advancing all the time. The question this made me wonder about is, "If this new 2015 engine was given to the 1970s engineers, would they be able to understand how it was made and create a similar one?" This is just 40 or so years later. It makes you wonder how advanced an alien civilization would really have to be to impress us.
> Apologies for out-pedanting you, but I believe it is still called the past tense.

No. In "If we were in similar conditions again, we wouldn't do the same thing", the condition clause ("If we were in similar conditions again") uses the past tense, the main clause ("we wouldn't do the same thing") uses the conditional mood, which is marked (in this case) by the use of the modal verb "would".

In the sentence "We wouldn't do it again" where the condition is implicit, there is no use of the past tense, only the conditional mood.
Thanks. I searched all over the place but was guessing the "D" stood for "disaggregation".

In general things that depend on (approximate) normalcy, which ESD apparently does (unsurprisingly, given the name) don't count as "robust" in my personal lexicon. There is relatively little reason in this day and age to continue to use parametric tests of any kind, particularly for data that are almost certain to contain significant non-normal components.
It would be quite helpful to me were you to enable me to purchase things from brick-and-mortar shops with paypal.

I can order domino's pizza with paypal but it is a PITA.

PayPal is completely convinced that I am laundering money in support of terrorism, however they are cool with my ordering pepperoni with olives.
I added a subscribe button to my website and wrote a handful of articles that were eventually indexed by Google. I’ve also occasionally posted my stuff on HN but that doesn’t drive many conversions/signups.
Nobody is trying to change your mind, it's just that most people disagree with you.
Thanks for posting this. Not only it's an amazing story of scope creep, it also revealed a bunch of features I didn't know calc had (e.g. unit handling, arbitrary-size math).
This is really nice. I have a long term not moving very quickly project that has a robot making skittle art and always had an idea to add a front end to let people design a 16x16 drawing online that the machine would “print”. This would work great for that...
My first exposure to GNU Units was when I read the story about emails failing if they were to be sent more than 500 miles.

I’m sure it’s popped up here before but here’s a link for those who haven’t come across it: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
>Even people who don't care in the slightest about free software think anticheat is detestable.

[[Citation Needed]]. Trying to play a multiplayer game that doesn't implement effective anticheat is miserable. The arms race is unfortunate but 100% understandable, and I wouldn't play any game that doesn't implement some form of it.
Thanks I understand that, just that the whole engine seems to be a huge blob that is difficult to approach. Maybe I should just focus on one part.
TIL, I didn't know Cloudflare has one and usually use fast.com

Nice to see the tests are breakdown with more info when hovering or expanding them.
Simply giving someone a permanent address allows them to access tons of social services that are completely locked away when you're homeless. Food stamps, unemployment, disability, child care assistance, are some of the very important social programs which require a permanent, non-PO Box, non-General Delivery mailing address before you can access them.
Yeah, it is surprising at first, but after you think about it, maybe not so much.

If you need to cram a bunch of files into one package, zip is the obvious candidate. There are well-tested libraries and apps for dealing with zips for essentially every language and operating system.

As the saying goes, "don't mess with success".
So, the US actually has real local government, with elections at very low levels, relative to what is more centralised and formalised system in the UK & Ireland.

I'm not a big fan of the practices of a lot of these low-level elected groups (seriously, fuck you Palo Alto representatives), but the principle behind the existence of all the local town and county governance systems (and particularly the heavy reliance on elected people) are things that seem like really good ideas to me, and that I think should exist in more places (maybe they do, I'm sure the commenters here will alert me to such places ;) ).
As a cyclist, I noticed an interesting difference between road cycling and mountain biking. Road cycling is zen meditation. Great for coming up with solutions. Meanwhile MTB is entirely different. No chance to think. But great to remove built up stress.

In my experience, both is necessary in different life situations. And sometimes both. First reduce stress, then evaluate the source and remove it. Otherwise it’s permanent rollercoaster.
So pantone but for dyed fiber instead of inks on paper...