jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Isn't it illegal for Israeli citizens to enter the West Bank? [0] Would the same rules not apply for Gaza?

[0] These signs are quite famous, but I know the rules on them are not always enforced - however I still assume they are being honest
http://legalinsurrection.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Isra...
St. John's Wort is as effective as anti-depressants?

I'm skeptical of this page and encourage others to be as well.
summary: traveling every week makes you less productive.
Well put. There's nothing wrong with customising individual components when ordering, but most people seem to decide on a screen size first. IMO, the basic approach should be something like:

Little Model

13 Inch

13 Inch Plus

15 Inch

15 Inch Plus

Big Model

Normal models are fine for everything that normal people do, apart from maybe playing the latest greatest games. Plus (or Pro) models have discrete graphics, more RAM and a better processor by default. You can choose, say, a workstation level graphics card and SSDs and whatever if you need. There: Amateur consultancy complete!
I just found the solution to the background problem, here's the link: http://duckduckgo.com/
Heh, I hear ya.
Alexa says traffic has grown 4x since the start of 2009. In fact it's been a little over 2x. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404759
Incidentally, Apple was one of the first manufacturers to adopt 16:10 screens in favour of 4:3 screen.
i hate it.
> The only thing they could have done to improve it without takedown is put a big disclaimer at the top, “Journalism is hard. Sorry about the pile of poop below. We dropped the ball on this one.”

That would be a perfectly acceptable solution ;-)

A disclaimer stating all data on the iPhone 4 is from spec-sheets would do too.

It would not be hard to make a comparison matrix between the two phones from the data that's publicly available. With the proper disclaimer, it wouldn't even be a bad article - just a very preliminary one. You don't need to refrain from reporting on an important development (Apple announcing a phone is important) when you have incomplete data - all you need is to clearly state that.
Wall timers for my air conditioners. I have window units in my bedroom and living room. I'm on the top floor of my building, right under a black tar roof. In the summer my place would sometimes get so hot that I'd have to leave both air conditioners on all day just so the place was livable when I got home. Not cool, just livable. My asthma reacts badly to heat, and I'm addicted to breathing.

Then I bought a couple of timers. They're like the ones people use to turn lamps off and on, only these are heavy duty, and can handle the load of an air conditioner. Now the AC turns on in the middle of the afternoon, and things are fine by the time I get home. The living room unit turns off at midnight, so I won't accidentally run it all night if I drift off in my bedroom. The bedroom unit shuts off at 8:30 AM, so I don't accidentally leave it running all day. Not high-tech, but useful.
Alright but I personally don't believe it's worth the trouble.

The value is not very stable, good luck with the taxes system of your country, or for example to get a loan from a bank to buy a home. You will most likely exchange a lot between bitcoin and your local currency anyway, so why not getting paid in your local currency to simplify everything?

And did you consider the environmental impact of bitcoin ?
> For app stores like Google Play or apple app store, there is no such feature to push a special version to a subset of the population specified by name. So suddenly Google, Apple, etc. have to be in on the attack...

With the Android ecosystem specifically, because the OS base-image is customized by the device OEM, an interested state actor can inject a rootkit into devices in their own local market merely by suborning their domestic OEMs, and then manipulating trade tariffs to ensure that domestic citizens are incentivized to buy domestic OEM phone brands.

(Thankfully, this doesn't apply to devices sold into foreign markets, as nobody can predict what brand of phone an arbitrary foreign-citizen person-of-interest is going to choose to buy. Even if they contain the rootkit, there's low likelihood of there being a foreign surveillance system set up specifically with the hopes of seeing what foreign buyers of domestic-OEM devices are up to.)
I suppose the folks whose 'job' is ransomware feels like healthcare systems will be more likely to pay up if already under stress.
You aren't talking about the same thing though. the 9.25% death rate is a death rate of all tested people. Op is talking about X% of the population. The death rate is presumably lower because people aren't getting tested to the right degree (not saying it is frightening high either way).
I had been using a 42" 4K screen for a while on my desktop, as I haven't used it that much... using it for a week, was kind of neck strain for me... I realized I avoided windows on the edges, so I figured a 32" 1440p would probably be functionally the same...

On Amazon, they were all close to a month or more out for delivery... went out to Best Buy, man, options limited there too. But did get a 32" 1440p display, just not high refresh, ips, freesync like I had wanted.

In the end, not too surprised... will probably be a year or more for everything to really normalize. I do think panic buying is causing most of the issues, and that's the biggest issue effecting everything.
If Saudi-Russia game of chicken keeps on going, there will be very cheap air tickets. I doubt it will go on much longer than Covid though.
Video on a more recent design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQUl_hf6yo8
Models ain't the truth.

The point is you don't have to be isolated, you just need to infect less than one other person if you're sick. You can hang out with your friends on the lawn, sitting a little further apart, you can be closer with a smaller number of people, you can go for walks outdoors, you can take out at the restaurant instead of eating in. You might choose to buy something online instead of going to the store.

Some of the people who are flaunting the rules aren't doing that because this is unworkable, they're doing it because they don't give a damn (well, some of them). I do realize some people are put in situations where they have no options (e.g. poor and works in a meet packing factory, that's not what I'm talking about here though that has solutions too).
> The marketers on this forum can learn from these guys. Frequent, jargon-free technically inspiring posts make me spend money.

And, y'know, actually selling stuff that people want. For me, at least, it's the specific combination of "blog post talking about this neat new thing that I want to buy". Which, granted, is true of nearly everything that Pine sells:)
The air-gapped machine might get passwords provided for the days in the coming week, or might get changed every day. Usually the first.
That's a good way of buying things in general. Especially high end racing bikes, a relatively large number of which are bought on impulse only to end up gathering dust. I bought a very nice Guerciotti like that, as good as brand new, and for a price that made me check the stolen bike registry first.
IMHO this kind of questions is asked not to determine if the candidate is good, but if he's bad. Indeed, only someone who is really bad at programming would fail it - modulo small syntax errors due to writing code on paper or white board. If the person fails, you should try to show him politely the door - or better, FizzBuzz should be used in phone screen. However, if the person succeeds, it's pointless to ask him or her a more sophisticated version of it, instead, you can ask more complicated questions (algorithms or architecture), and I think that is what RayVR is pointing: it's ok to ask FizzBuzz once, but don't waste the interviewee time asking it 50 times.
I'd be interested in seeing something like this.
Netflix has a history of trimming unneeded employees as soon as they are deemed unneeded.
My girlfriend does work for her data management team in an industry which doesn't appear to pay well. Could I ask your advice on which companies or keywords she should search for to potentially find a new data management position?
I was thinking more like 200M rows and 16M columns

I don't think a user would be able to meaningfully navigate a table like that by scrolling it. How would they cognitively track where they are or how to return to interesting parts of the data? IMHO, you should rethink how to display and navigate this data. The user would need sophisticated search/filtering support.
Interesting how this is the case, because that was one of the key goals of the site when they were first building it.

I listened to Joel and Jeff talk about it in their early podcasts when they were first building the site. To be the definitive answer for a question requires that the answer be able to change and evolve over time as new information becomes available.
Slight correction: SpaceX is leaving Earth orbit in three weeks: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observator...
There's only two vendors selling CPUs for build your own PCs. Track their sales, and there's your PC numbers.
A safe in the cellar, under the 4 weeks worth of food and water reserve, seems about right.
I like Go for the same reason, but I have an irrational fear that someday I might be in a life or death situation and should program my way out using a bare bones computer without Internet; So I keep tabs on C occasionally.

αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε has now piqued my interest, So I might actually indulge in C programming for fun again after all. Thanks Justine.
Management never hires people back, that's admitting failure.

They hire other people with the supposedly same skillstack and then have them rebuild it from scratch.
Yes, and I've read the drafts of ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019. But can I rely on them? They were published in 2016. What has changed between then and the official release in 2019?

Also, neither RFC3339 nor Wikipedia discuss features like open-ended time intervals. They are in the draft, but did they make the final cut? And in what form? No idea...

The closest I've found to "official" documentation of the 2019 update is a short summary of the changes, hosted by Library of Congress[1]. Which is nice to have, but I sure wish the real standard was public.

[1]https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/
the what now?
Textbook false dichotomy there my friend.
Can someone help me understand this? They blame the source of the large bundle size on:

> The choice of Swift as our primary programming language, our fast-paced development environment and feature additions, layered software and its dependencies, and statically linked platform libraries result in large app binaries

but can somebody familiar with iOS development explain what makes app bundles so big? Actual CPU instructions or config can't contribute this significantly. The entire Bible is about 4.5mb. If you're writing an app by yourself you almost certainly didn't write that much text in the source code. A sibling comment links to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 which says that they have a lot of screens but even something like "PayTM (15+ screens)" is still just textual source code and config that I don't follow how it gets beyond kilobytes. The App Store places them at 309mb, so ~68 bibles.

I understand when games are large because they typically ship with images and videos included in the binary for game assets. But for a normal application where does the size come from?

Is it dependencies? (And how did _they_ get so big?) That weird intro video they have on the loading screen? Are they shipping bitmaps of the cities they have markets in?
Auto companies are hugely capital intensive (which is why you don't see many new ones) so I don't see what's insane about it. They are going public to raise funds to hopefully one day make loads of cash. It's a different kind of IPO than something like Google which was simply to make the employees wealthy, but not insane.

tl;dr this is an IPO at its finest--a make it or break it company trying to raise funds on the open market.
But what about Marker Felt?
Fault in a nuclear power plant?
Solar flares. Magnetic pole reversal. The Yellowstone caldera going boom again.
We're slowly but surely moving towards having those things either become git-backed or exportable. Wikis are first up and we're very close.
If you are buying things with debit/credit cards the banks that issue those cards are already selling your data without your knowledge.

It is opt-out only and you have to do it in writing, there is no online hassle-free way to do it, which is on purpose. There is also no way to confirm they really stopped selling your data.
The problem I have with people who say things like this is that these things are easily Googlable. I didn't "know" how to do laundry until I went to college (my sister and I had specific chores and laundry was one of hers). During a fight with my sister when I was still in high school, I recall her using that as an insult: "You don't even know how to do LAUNDRY".

I needed to do laundry my first week of school: I couldn't (and to this day can't) even fathom what the phrase "know how to do laundry" meant. Separate whites and colors (or don't), put the clothes in the machine, and press the button.......what kind of mental deficiency is required for someone to think there's an actual gap between "knowing how to do laundry" and "not knowing how".

Loading a dishwasher and cleaning a toilet would seem to be similar. The only gap between "knowing" and "not knowing" is perhaps three seconds of Googling (in case there's some pitfall about what you can and can't put in there).
That only tells you the composition of the surface of the star. The heavier elements will be deeper.

I suspect there is mathematical modeling.

Interstellar dust might provide the spectrum instead of stars, although that really only tells us the composition of the milky way.
Sadly not in the UK and I did trawl all the offerings on my Roku.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/ontv/devices
While we're at it, why don't we reinvent hardware and networking?

No, seriously. One idea I had was to physically separate parts of the computer so that it was impossible to infect the core without a human manually throwing a switch at some point to allow a connection to (ideally sanitized) inputs from the net.

hoodoof, this is something I am considering pursuing for my next startup! I'd love to chat -- I'm charlie@mathbreakers.com
We've been in a low-fun aether pocket for a while now- maybe in a few centuries..
I would still rather gamble with using :

It was the best of times.

Or

Please sir can I have some more?
Great suggestion, but I could not get "Save As…" (associated with Command-Shift-S) to appear in the File menu of the Preview app (where I'd like to see it), after following your guidance. I have 10.7.5. I don't care if Duplicate is there or not; I would like to add Save As as you described.
Routing changes break the network connection. If it's buffered and you can reconnect transparently, it might work, but for unbuffered connections (like most web connections are) you'll see increased error rates.
Wow.. my first rails project was going to be exactly this. Almost the exact same features and UI. Kind of unsettling =)

Since you destroyed me to the punch, my only suggestion is to have some sort of tagging system, so that users can search by control type (i.e. button, facebook, alert)

Nice work!
Which one would inspire more people to pursue a career in aerospace? Which one would result in more legends? Do we care about the small robot that burned in Martian atmosphere because someone used kilometers instead of miles?

We need robots to pave the way, but we also need manned expeditions to bring back stories.
This piece assumes that the only reason to go to college is to use it as a social signal.

I don't buy that, nor do I believe I could have learned as much as I did in college if I had had to learn it on my own.

Now if I could have skipped High School and elementary school...
Consider the final k digits of 2^n. (If 2^n has fewer than k digits, pad with zeroes.) Now repeatedly multiply by 2, and then truncate mod 10^k.

For k = 2, you get the repeating sequence "2", "4", "8", "6", "2", ....

For k = 3 you get the repeating sequence "04", "08", "16", "32", "64", "28", "56", "12", "24", "48", "96", "92", "84", "68", "36", "72", "44", "88", "76", "52", "04", ....

2^(n+4) = 2^n mod 10^1

2^(n+20) = 2^n mod 10^2

2^(n+100) = 2^n mod 10^3

2^(n+500) = 2^n mod 10^4

...

Because there are only 10^k possible k-digit strings, we know that ultimately the final k digits of each successive power of 2 must ultimately enter a loop.

In practice, that loop seems to grow in size by a factor of 5 each time. (I assume there is a number theoretic reason for this, but I am not sure because I am terrible at number theory.) So let's assume (possibly fallaciously) that the loop contains 4* 5^(k-1) distinct elements. (Notice how this is substantially less than the 10^k possible elements.)

Assuming that the digits are distributed randomly - which, again, is possibly fallacious - the probability of a random k-digit number containing no zeroes is (9/10)^k.

Therefore, the probability of a k-digit number containing at least one zero is 1-(9/10)^k.

Therefore, the probability of all 4* 5^(k-1) elements containing at least one zero is [1-(9/10)^k]^[4* 5^(k-1)].

Which rapidly tends to 0. Hoom. Well, I hoped to show it tended to 1, but never mind.
There's no evidence of a crackdown, or even if there were, the fact that they were able to nab a rather notorious troll doesn't mean black hats who have been keeping their heads down will be vulnerable.
There is a way around this. Charge the person sharing the file a certain amount of money after a certain bandwidth (rather than the person downloading the file). This would virtually prevent large scale piracy without preventing many other usages.
As much as RightHaven might have been asshats, this sort of precedent concerns me.. I've had domain information that has been years out of date before I realized it.

I wonder what degree of "correctness" they need.. if I leave off an apartment number, is that bad enough? If I renew for 3 years and don't bother updating in there, can I get shut down?
And it works just fine for PETA, assuming the purpose of PETA is raising money for PETA rather than preventing cruelty to animals. If PETA were sane like the ASPCA then there'd be no need for PETA to even exist.
Feel free to post some contact information and what you are into tech wise.

I can tell you my interviewing style is over tea/chocolate/coffee and I prefer to talk about a candidate's experience.

I've spoken with other startups who do hiring and it is the same.

What exactly do you consider a technical interview? Whiteboarding sucks. I hate making people do it and I hate doing it myself. I've never had to make someone whiteboard code out to assess their technical competency. Just really open ended questions like:

What do you like to code in?
What have you made? What made it hard?
Do you like XYZ tech? Have you played around with it?

Etc.
As Thomas Ptacek more accurately describes in his post, this disables the ESP Auth checks (after the fix) if the NIC has already completed them. Before the fix, the software ESP auth check would run only when the NIC had already done them, so never if the NIC had not done them.
Updated the question. Thanks.
2 + 3, touche :)
While it is generally held that everything in lisp is an expression. Isn't the more pertinant fact that everything is a list? That is, I thought macros hinged on the fact that everything is a list, not that everything is an expression.
From my understanding, Google Voice is to be killed. They were suppose to do it in 2014 but have yet to phase out the product. I believe they'll roll parts of the product into Google Hangouts. Perhaps we'll hear of something at Google I/O
Glad to help. Sorry if I was overly negative; things like this are actually pretty darn cool.
> I don't want a dependency on some other company's product to make Slack more secure.

How is dependency on SMS not dependency on some other company's product?
I went 9 for 11, but the more interesting part is the breakdown on each title. The two I missed fooled 3 out of 3 and 12 out of 16 respectively, and a few of the ones I got right, (nearly) everyone got right.
Serious question: How do we know any of this reporting is true?

There's no data sources provided, no way to check follow up health (i'e. what if these people all dropped dead a week later), no way to prove the data isn't a complete fabrication, etc. Also, they make sure to use dynamic terms so we can't be sure these numbers have any valuable meaning at all (e.g. were Covid tests with drastically different cycle counts used?). Not to mention all of this reporting is praising a single vaccine producer in a billion dollar industry.

I just read "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff and this whole thing is the epitome of a manipulatable situation.
>it's entirely possible that Telegram sends everything to some government entity somewhere even for private chats

No, private chats use end-to-end encryption, and unlike WhatsApp the Telegram client is open source so this can actually be verified.
To me, this shows radical leadership, and that he is very unattached to societal norms. Radical leadership meaning that this is kind of the antithesis of a follower mentality. I think it's a kind of genius, but also a personal failing. I really appreciate people who are willing to "question everything", because there are a lot of things we take for granted without thinking about why.

The failures I think this comes from are a form of ignorance and arrogance, and possibly a lack of empathy about how they're perceived. I personally know someone like this that is very intelligent, and thinks that they have all the right answers. There seems to be a mentality of, I have this information facts, given these facts, and that as a goal, *this* is the solution.

With the person I know, a significant problem with their reasoning is that they have important gaps in their knowledge (ignorance). They believe other people just aren't as enlightened as they are (arrogance), and if they were, they would have come to the same conclusion.

For my acquaintance, I believe that the mentality comes from a history of often being right, but also a prolonged social isolation that allowed them to build a myth in their head that they are always right.
I got maybe 10 min of value after spending 10 hours on clubhouse. I am pretty much done with it.

And thus, I really need to be very blunt about this: I hate Clubhouse. It’s full of self-loving people who already have a huge audience somewhere else and now found a new way to recruit even more followers. Sorry for being so negative about something which I believe is actually innovative.
Have you thought about applying for the $100M XPRIZE? https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
Agreed, and thank you for pointing out the other posts. The remembrance of his friend was particularly affecting. I recall playing Balance of Power, and reading Chris Crawford's book on game design as a teenager in the early 90s. He's had an impact, beyond tilting at windmills and watching his friends grow old.
I was about to post the same question. I wonder how Airgas gets their CO2.
We overprovisioned the hardware a lot as we really didn't want to hit any hardware limits. In practice, I think this meant there were 16 medium sized EC2 instances for the various Synapse processes; RDS for DB; 6x largish boxes in Upcloud for Jitsis, and ~70 machines in the automatic scaling group for the Jibris. I'm guessing peak bandwidth was about 100Mbps but obviously all the bulk HTTP (HLS etc) was behind CDNs.