jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Couldn't somebody borrow a friend's black cab, slap on a fake photo, and work the city?

There is concern that this is happened in the past and penalties are extremely severe: the owner of the original license will lose their badge and may face criminal charges.

It's a bit hard to describe the taxi market in London to anybody who doesn't live here, but it's a closed shop only to the extent that if you're prepared to do the work to get a badge, it won't cost you $1m like New York, but you will have to put some hours in, and you'll get known by many other black cab drivers.

If you show up with "Dave's cab" and you're not Dave, you're going to get asked questions. Do it a couple of times, and they might decide to pull your badge number up.

A few years ago a genuinely licensed black cab driver was convicted of rape and sexual assault, and as a result the community was shaken: it was the first time in over 300 years where a licensed operator had been convicted of such a crime, and they now look on newcomers with even more suspicion.

There are no lobbyists in parliament, and most black cab drivers I know have modest incomes. They declare an average of £38k/year, but as a cash business (until recently), it was assumed they were actually doing about £50k/year. Good money, but not megabucks.

The system is supported because it's worked for hundreds of years. Their chief complaint against Uber is whether their drivers have to undergo the same amount of vetting as they had to (they don't), and whether the fare structure is fair (it isn't, especially as it's VC-subsidised).

Uber is a great solution in many places that have poor transit and poor taxi solutions already. London isn't one of those places, and hasn't been for hundreds of years.
There's a problem that just having an IPv6 address is indistinguishable (for such users) from a server that's not configured or is down. We need a good solution to indicate to end users that the server is working just fine, but just you don't have IPv6 support and can't reach it because of that.

But I can't send anything to such a user directly if they don't support IPv6 and I don't have an IPv4 address.

Perhaps we need some community-run webservice with an explanatory page saying "Website [something.com] requires IPv6, here's lots of documentation on how to try and fix this" and everyone could point their domain name IPv4 address to that webservice, and the IPv6 address to the real server.
Vim macros mostly :D
I also experienced performance issues when using the sliders. My whole computer acted like it was going to freeze (Firefox/ Windows)
AT&T is an ISP, with millions of customers. I'd expect them to need a /8, or more.
The article addresses the singular valid use case at the bottom.
It's been a while since the L1 cache size (64KB) has exceeded that of my first computer. What I find crazy is that a single Ryzen core has more in registers than some of the computers I've used.

AMD64 has 16 64 bit registers, but Ryzen actually has 168 behind the scenes so it can pipeline and reorder multiple instructions simultaneously. That's almost 1.5KBytes of memory, more than some microcontrollers have in ROM or RAM.
One way is to do a google search for ".coop", which turns up a ton of cooperative organizations.
> he kind of made computers 'open source'

The only "positive" (depeding on perspective) effect of his illegal and morally questionable action was that the patent was declared null and void due to the novelty-damaging effect of his report, among other issues supporting this outcome. The computers however did not become more "open source" because of this, just cheaper.
By that definition, any stock or collectible is a "multi-level marketing pyramid scheme". A multi-level marketing or pyramid scheme is not defined as anything where early adopters might have purchased it at a lower price than later adopters.
> Amateur cannabis growers have been brewing compost tea to enhance the bacterial/fungal/nematode populations in soil for over a decade.

A decade? LOL amateur cannabis growers are johnny-come-latelies. This stuff was written about almost a century ago, and has been practiced widely for decades. The only thing that's happened in the past decade is that amateur (and pro) gardeners have started blogging and vlogging.
> their jurisdiction is national and determined by subject matter.

Copyright is not part of their subject matter jurisdiction.

> However that question is sort of moot. It is extremely easy for the entity filing the case for infringement to include something about patent or trademark in the suit, which guarantees that you wind up in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Where that ruling is binding.

It’s not, though; outside of its own subject matter jurisdiction, CAFC is bound by the law of the Circuit to which the trial court belongs, which it, in theory, merely applies. Another case coming up through the Northern District of California like Oracle v. Google did would be governed vy Ninth Circuit, not Federal Circuit, copyright precedent even if heard in the Federal Circuit because of other issues in the case.
What if you say “2+2=5” and someone comes up and says “respectfully it seems 2+2 should equal 4” and rather than engaging in a discussion you have them kicked out of school, that probably means your argument is not sound and is not defendable.
I don't have any insider info, but to my eyes a lot of this change would be risk aversion caused by the Itanium disaster.
But if you aren't in the data you are now giving away information.
Maybe two maps side by side, relating waypoints to actual points?
This is probably the story in page 220 of [1], beginning at "Von Neumann got into trouble at the end of his life because he was really a frog but everyone expected him to fly like a bird.".

[1] http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/2009/dyson2009...
That was never a thing: Pidgin & the rest had to write their own implementation for many of those protocols, starting with AIM.

There was a tiny period, somewhere in 2006, when many services were XMPP, maybe even federated, but due to the lack of good clients - compared to skype -, it never manifested as good as it should have.

There are now many nice XMPP clients, but the big players now all moved into proprietary territory.
Very much a betrayal. Signal has an image of "for the weak against abuse by the strong". Cryptocurrency is "I'll sell my grandmother and everyone I know for money. HODL YOLO!", which is not exactly compatible.

And it's not just disappointing, it's also dragging the to-the-core corrupt world of these people into Signal.

This is making Signal lose the moral high ground, making it that much easier to drag its name through the mud that is cryptocurrencies.
This phase sounds to be toxic and sick. It's almost as if people need a salary to feel useful. What a society we live in.
The flip side to that is that you end up with a dozen services built with different technologies/languages and you spend all your time upgrading them or replacing them instead of building new features.

At least one of them will be guaranteed to be built with some technology/language (probably Scala or Elixir) that one of your engineers (who's since left) was interested in for a few weeks.
What if he really thinks this?

I remember Ron Paul saying we could do away with personal income tax - and providing facts to back up his argument - and people thought he might be crazy.

He also wanted to get rid of the Department of Education (which most people don't understand)
> Why do you trust Google more than Facebook? [1]

How is using Google for domain fronting for the purpose of censorship circumvention "trusting Google"? They don't get to see the message content (just like Facebook doesn't see the content for WhatsApp).

> Did you also verify that no untrusted third party receives your backed up private keys?

Private keys are not backed up in either service, as far as I know.

> Did you check the source code at signal's android/ios client repo?

Given the lack of reproducible builds on iOS/the app store, any source code audit is pointless if the app vendor is included in your threat model.
It's not a counterpoint, both statements are true. Also, the post was in response to why do managers feel this way, not how do I feel personally.

The company pays you $$$ in exchange for your time and talent. That's the deal.

You don't have to take it. Seriously, in many cases you shouldn't take it. Life is short, optimize for being happy. I am the strongest supporter of that philosophy you will find.

But, if you can do your job in half the time and you are getting paid on the basis of time...you and the people who are paying you should reconsider the basis of that deal.

Hey, maybe you can get paid more and work less hours. Maybe you get a promotion to do something you find more interesting, or extra training opportunity, or a bonus, or even time off. But again, that should be negotiated within the confines of that original agreement between you and the company.

Once again, it's in both you and the companies best interest. Company shouldn't pay me to waste my time at the office, and I don't want to pretend to work. I'd rather spend that time outside, or with my family, or on a hobby, then try and hustle out some extra chill time.

The issue I have is when it's one sided. If the company knows that you are finishing your work in 2 hours, but they are paying you for 8, and they are ok with it, then again, it's part of the agreement and it's fine. There are lots of reasons that a company would be okay with this. Basically they have made the choice to pay you a much higher rate.

It's the hiding it part that I think is a grey area.
ABI makes this hard for c++
Sure, I am sure if it ever happens to me I will feel different. All of my client now have been with me 3 to 5 years. I have never had one run past 60. I am not saying that it could not and is not going to happen, but I feel pretty comfortable with my clientele. Most are fortune 500 public companies so money troubles would be in the news long before they where set to implode.
The US military could outbid both of them.
I enjoy tagging. Google has automated tagging on his Chinese QA system (they used Lated Dirichilet Allocation algorithm for this), and it is in general usefull when you want to have personal opinion on a link.

Besides that, it seems nice.
I just caught myself thinking: "I hope they got a software patent on this, they deserve it." But I usually hate software patents unequivocally. So, yet again, a real-world use case reminds me that nothing is so black and white.
Yahoo could completely shutdown and I wouldn't notice until someone told me. Even Flickr.
Word for word is far, far better than nothing. And no network connection required, so awesome. Roaming charges when travelling are brutal, so very important feature.

Real time OCR + word for word translation....maybe its not particularly technically interesting on paper, but to watch it on a handheld device in front of your eyes is breathtaking.

Do you have a timeline for other languages? (Japanese)
Both A and B have hierarchy given authorities. That A can fine and B can issue permits both stem from a hierarchical system. Perhaps more exact is to say that corruption requires authority.

Flatter hierarchy does not prevent corruption totally, probably nothing will. But it will make corruption harder and more expensive. Some hierarchies, at least context dependent, are probably inevitable. It's a matter of scale.
An interesting numeber would be the percentage of people who are stuck behind a NAT and can't host their own minecraft servers, remote desktop, or whatnot without having the technical expertise to configure manual port forwarding and such.

The Redecentralize movement I think tries to shift the use of the Internet to a healthier direction both socially and technically.
I'm growing increasingly weary about the cult of "reinvestment", which is also visible in some new corporate tax complications in my country. As sibling comments point out, this "reinvestment" can be phony IP purchases in tax havens. On the other hand, even if reinvestment is genuine, there's a question whether further concentration of capital and power in that one corporation is good for society. People say: wow, Amazon got people stuff delivered during lockdown. Truth is, even in a region where e-commerce and delivery markets are far more fragmented, it somehow happened.

Pay the damn wages and dividends, I'd say. The former will go into consumption, the latter will go probably into other companies, especially if we discourage less productive uses of capital (like real estate). And also getting taxes from these is more straightforward. Maybe they don't even have to be that high percentage-wise, if there is less possibility of avoidance.
Link to the paper at Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
no, it's my mistake. I have fixed that.
Gosh, take the idea seriously for a second: think of the accomplishment of putting a detector down there! We're a few generations out from even hoping to have the material science needed for it, but maintaining a comm link with a thing through the mantle is strangely uncommon science fiction. Like it's too wild an idea to ever take seriously. Unlike, say, warp drives and indefinite longevity.
I think it actually is possible for startup founders to take the route you're talking about. Check out this talk by Lew Cirne (CEO of NewRelic): http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3367

He basically talks about how much he loves programming and problem solving, so when the company grew, he just hired people to do the parts of the CEO role that he didn't want to do.
>the flu averages out to about 10k deaths each year

There's actually a lot of controversy around these numbers, with the CDC itself acknowledging that it's challenging to truly know for a number of reasons [1].

Here's a pretty remarkable quote from that page:

>"most people who die from seasonal flu-related complications are not tested for flu, or they seek medical care later in their illness when seasonal influenza can no longer be detected from respiratory samples"

So, it's really tough to know. As a result, some allege that the estimates are inflated as part of the campaign to ensure vaccination.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.h...
Is it common for programmers to dislike debugging? I'm stunned. I never considered the possibility, it's always been something I enjoyed. I don't believe it impacts you either way in terms of capability but I imagine it impacts your desire to continue.
I love the shape of the Comfort Curve, but the cheap rubbery keys played merry hell on my fingers. I eventually gave it up to the wife.
It was the first one released. And hard to find? CEX(a popular second-hand store in the UK) is showing 59 of them in stock at the moment, for a low price of 88 pounds(~120USD)

https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=SPS3PS3E002#.VLmUdEesW1...
> Setup cost is a thing, but A) is largely paid when you rekey

Well, it depends on the crypto HW. Some HWs are designed for "throughput", which is completely useless for ECB but looks good on specs ("Our HW AES 10MB/s!"). So you set it up with src, dest and key pretty much as you setup your typical DMA transfer, only you almost never want to encrypt more than 16 bytes at a time with ECB so it's mostly wasted.

> consumer device SoC (eg, all Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, AMD, and Intel parts)

We are not all so fortunate that we get to work with such powerful SoC. In my job it's mostly small embedded MPUs.

> B) is acceptable in many protocols

I think we are talking past each other here. I haven't even gotten to the protocol part yet. In order to support a wireless and/or network protocol you will need better building blocks than AES-ECB. You need AES-GCM (or at least AES-CCM). Not to mention ECDSA or RSA(>=3072)...
Full text was:

> These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

(By searching portions you should be able to confirm that this is accurate -- please let me know if I mistyped.

This is the link; it's probably cached somewhere, too https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469549709107077...)
Presidential alert text messages to all Americans
This comment seems bizarrely aggressive. I read CivBase as expanding on your point—the reason people are refusing to acknowledge the results is (at least in part) because they’re in the echo-chambers being run for profit. Not sure where you got the accusations of shilling from.
You're well into a utilitarian definition of planning, if it succeeds then it was planned if it doesn't then it wasn't.

The luck is assigned to all of us, including the idiots that tried this.
It would be so much better for the only media available to be controlled by the government! /s
Some people think UBI is a good idea, some bad. It's probably fair to say it's both.

Simple, easy, and free tax submission is pretty universally believed to be a good thing. Except from lobbyists... that's what I meant to convey.

There was also a subtle comment about Us vs Them politically being harmful, where Us vs Them (lobbyists) is likely helpful.
If your machine is low on RAM and you keep installing services to it, it will slow down. OS has nothing to do with it.
Smart sellers don't sell everything at the market price as soon as they can, because that would cut through the crust of fair asks into the mantle of waiting opportunists. Instead they spread it out, at a rate the ongoing volume can bear.
Honest question, how is lobbying different from bribery? Lobbyists go to Washington, spend fortunes on taking lawmakers to fancy dinners and then get away with what they want. Maybe I don't understand the process and am oversimplifying it, but that's how I see it.
Most people can't put >$20,000 on their credit card and large money transfers over traditional financial institutions (wires/ACH) at best take many hours or days.
They're not very different in that arrays can be thought of as a more specialized form of tuples that can thus coerce to slices.

In theory, arrays do not need to exist, and could in theory be expressed as tuples, but that would lead to rather unpleasant syntax. `(A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A)` is certainly not as nice as `[A; 10]`; — Rust could even have chosen to make the latter syntactic sugar for the former and make them interchangeable.

The crux to this, is that in Rust, unlike in many other languages, the length of an array is static and known at compile time. Many languages lack such a datatype, as it isn't strictly needed per the aforementioned reasons.
Bitcoin is permissionless and bootstrapped. It had to start with 0 users and $0 value. 10 years later it is now worth $50K and has 100M users (doubling every ~2 years).

We are currently living in a world in which the rich get richer (bailouts, stocks, real estate, efficiency gains) while the poor get poorer (cash only, inflation, wage stagnation). Every $1 that trickles down from the top 1% is returned to them as $2 freshly printed from the central banks. Wealth and income inequality continue to rise as a result.

Bitcoin has a fixed supply, and now you can't bailout the riches anymore while having the poor pay the bill in the future via inflation.

Do we accept that inflation causes wealth centralisation? Of course not, but until Bitcoin there wasn't anything we could do about it.
David Brin is pleased.
I don't think any airports had 'explosive detectors' before 9/11.
It was the airline which denied him the flight, not the TSA.
I can speak for Hawking, but Musk just seems like a pretty disingenuous voice in this debate. He has a very strong financial interest in human spaceflight, so making robots and AI seem scary is within his interest. Space is best explored by robots and Musk has to propagandize the opposite.

A nanny AI is the more rational outcome considering that if we built a AI mind, we could control its parameters (make it non-violent, etc). Also fears of being enslaved and such are positively archaic. Slavery, as an economic system, makes little sense as its more liabilities than assets. If you were to suddenly conquer the world, keeping the capitalistic system in place would make the most sense. It confers a level of control and civility when done right. No need for a violent peasant or slave uprising when most everyone can find a job, rent/buy a home, start a business, advance their careers, etc.

Sadly, I imagine these high-profile attacks on AI are causing a chilling effect from a funding and research point of view. Its sad that instead of celebrating AI as something that could help humanity, we've instead demonized it and dismissed it. Shame billionaires like Musk can so trivially control public opinion and how so few of us are skeptical of his hysterical claims.
I have a question...

>Specter takes the elegant/lazy approach of not using sessions at all - access to edit and create pages is entirely via url, and permission to actually perform those changes is granted by including a 'secret' (a password) in the form. It's not the most secure form of defense (I'm not using ssl, so a wireless sniffer could easily determine my password, for example), but its sufficient for a nonprofessional.

Is there something that I can do to make it more secure but still follow the lazy approach. I am asking cause I use heroku which is not secure as well.
They didn't deny him water for 18 hours. The '18 hour' clock started when he ate dinner the night before.
After the recent publishing of how Apple Macbook Pros with Thunderbolt ports can be bootkitted ... Yeah, knowing that USB 3.1/C can provide PCIeX/DMA access to the system is a touch worrying.
Eh, I can't really support 8chan. The admin/owner/dev/whatever is an absolutely horrible person.
If by "radioactive" you mean "ever emits radiation" then yes, a small amount of radioactive water can dilute into a large volume of still-radioactive water.

By if you use that definition you yourself would be considered "radioactive" as you are always walking around carrying quite a few radioactive isotopes, including Carbon-14 (as made famous by "carbon dating" from geology) and Potassium-40.

As pdonis notes, radioactive contaminants dilute just as well as any other contaminant in water. Assuming it more-or-less evenly mixes within the Pacific Ocean, you could essentially dump all of Fukushima into that ocean and not see large changes in overall ocean radioactivity.
Hypocrisy does not mean what you think it means. An example of hypocrisy is EU governments talking about protecting privacy while tapping transatlantic cables.

What you could accuse me of is cynicism, if the collaboration between the main EU intelligence services and the NSA was not so well documented.
Two big things:

First, Use of legacy build systems (hodgepodge of different development environments and in-house tools). We don't need a custom migration tool, we don't need to badly reinvent make in batch files, and so on. I've been slowly grinding through and bringing sanity, but it's very annoying work and the "well it works fine once you're used to it" is a strong thing to overcome.

Second, developing on Windows instead of a 'nix-derived OS. For daily programming, I like having terminals with reasonable tools installed and ready to go, and Powershell just doesn't scratch that itch and neither does cygwin or git-bash. Honestly, this is what exacerbates gripe one: if we were on a proper OS, we wouldn't have to reinvent so much stuff anyways.
Invitations are the only reason I signed back up after deleting my account, several years back.
You can use any other TOTP-based application instead of Google Authenticator. Plus, unlike SMS, it works offline.
Games like Farmville seem like the equivalent of a one-hit-wonder. Not an Oracle but a Rico Suave. People who invest in a fad should know it will fade.