jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not the poster, but the M1 denotes how much money gets printed.

Because of COVID, for better or worse, US has been printing money like crazy to hand out and prop up different areas of the country. Whether you agree/disagree with this, that's for another thread. Point is, we're printing money.

If you're familiar with inflation, stop here. Obviously the country and the world are not producing nor consuming at the same level. Thusly at an extremely extremely simplistic level, we're not creating more "intrinsic" value, but adding more printed money to represent that "intrinsic" value. Each dollar now has less "intrinsic" value. (this is over simplified to the n-th degree).

This is the basis for inflation. Any unstable country would have seen hyper inflation given these numbers. So, the parent comment is alluding to this... eventually production has to catch up or inflation will.
It takes very little to be better than Hacker's Keyboard. For me suggestions are broken altogether, but if you randomly get them to work and type "Ecample" it will not suggest anything because there are no words with that prefix. It also doesn't look at the previous word to bias which are likely next words (either in general or combined with the characters already typed). It's the dumbest keyboard ever, which is very nice on virtual terminals (hence it being a hacker's keyboard and my having it installed), but it's not useful as a general purpose keyboard.
> it is over with no real effects

I admit to being a little shocked at the glibness of this statement. As a non-USian, I see a profound shock among other thoughtful non-USians that it has come to this. Regardless of political affiliation, I believe most honest, ordinary non-USians have held in high regard the robustness of the American democratic system and its resilience to the wholesale corruption that plagues many other countries. The democratic ideal, and America as exemplar, has always been held in lofty regard. However, I’m more certain than ever that this ideal has now been firmly relegated to a historical oddity. A 200 year blip in the record of human governance, with a forthcoming return to mean. Watching this slow motion disaster unfold has mad me very, very sad.
All of these apps seem to hate open platforms and third party clients; Signal just as much as WhatsApp. I wouldn't even mind using WhatsApp if I could just open a browser window on any modern computer and log on like I can with Twitter. But no, I need to have a smartphone with either Android or IOS. They all want that magic unique personal identifier that is the mobile phone number to prevent you from having more than one persona, and they all want their closed apps as the sole way of using their service.

Of course, that requirement is exactly how they implement the user lock-in, so it's not going anywhere until legislation forces them to open up.
In Norway WhatsUp is popular, but my dentist still use SMS and email, and so other businesses that I interact with. My son’s school has own app for communicating with parents and teachers use Teams to present online lectures. My son uses Discord to talk to friends, but I think he is an exception.

What is really problematic is Facebook monopoly for organizing any social activities or events. There are simply no alternatives especially among 30-50 years old. Like the saying, “What parents were afraid video game would do to children, Facebook did to parents.”
I just got the email to apply 3 hours ago. I would be surprised if they put out the application without notifying their own mailing list.
Wow, ideas here are much better and relevant to google compared to ideas on parent site.
Notice the date of this question is Feb 20th, 2009. Almost 2 years out of date. I imagine at least some of the limitations mentioned are gone by now.
...But We Can't Say for Sure It Did
The name is pretty awkward to say.
Interestingly, I just had a discussion with my roomate about this. We were sitting in a coffee shop, and he was mad at himself because he forgot the latest copy of a game he is working on at the house...

Why is this a problem at all anymore? Hosting is cheaap. I have a linux VPS at linode that I pay $20/mo for and almost everything that i do is stored there. Honestly, the only things I can think of that aren't stored on that machine (which trades nightly rsyncs with another machine with a different provider and on a different network) are minecraft, my music collection, some photos, and a journal that I just started keeping a couple of weeks ago (gets encrypted with 256bit AES and lives in the home dir on my laptop).

My point is that there is absolutely no reason to keep anything on your local machine anymore, at least not ones that I can think of. Why not keep a server in the basement, and then just run SSH with X11 forwarding? Keep a cheap, disposable machine with you and if something like this happens, sell it and buy a new one.

It's really sad that this is even an issue, but I do think that there are solutions to it.
Yes : Int J Sports Med. 1991 Apr;12(2):228-35.

"Endogenous anabolic hormonal and growth factor responses to heavy resistance exercise in males and females."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1860749
You did it again! How could anyone be better than the top x%? ;)
The urge to make money?
Very nice, I second that fullscreen or a larger playable area would be nice.
I believe if more than n people flag a video as inappropriate, it gets automatically pulled (where n is some unacceptably small number).

This doesn't seem like malice on the part of Google or Youtube - more like the standard douchebaggery that you see infesting the youtube comment pages.
If you think that house is a teeny bit overvalued, you may enjoy this game:

http://crackshackormansion.com/
It looks very much like a campaign of harassment rather than a genuine investigation. It seems unlikely that investigators could have got a court injunction on the basis that they were investigating him under.

Pretty much everyone in the security community is probably only 1-2 degrees of separation away from wikileaks. On the basis that his name was in someone's phonebook, you could probably subject pretty much everyone at defcon to investigation.
David Mitchell does an excellent job of explaining "I couldn't care less" -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw#t=0m56s
No, I'm pretty sure RVO is a feature of the calling convention, so it works across TUs (object files).
Oddly enough, I switched from Ubuntu Linux to OS X because of upgrade pains of my own -- regressions in the Intel display drivers on my older hardware, suffering performance as a result of Unity, and cloud services making changes to messaging protocols in ways that constantly broke Pidgin/libpurple/Empathy.

At one point, I had a workflow consisting of a Chromebook + Chrome + GMail + Secure Shell[0] + Linux VPS running Ubuntu Linux. It worked pretty well so long as I could rely on there being a fast, low-latency, stable internet connection (say, at a university). Then I moved to the Bay Area. ;)

[0] Chrome Extension which purportedly contains OpenSSH compiled for Portable Native Client so that it can run inside Chrome. Convenient, but YMMV for the paranoid.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I've updated the BIOS multiple times. It didn't fix anything.
Very specific Chromebooks fit the bill as well. One that works particularly well is the Acer C720.

Edit: wanted to clarify that this C720 is my current personal portable. My other is a custom built desktop also running Ubuntu.
If you value parser performance you should use a parser generator. Handwritten parsers rarely approach the performance of a fast table-based generated parser.
It's interesting to hear about OSX crashing. I didn't think that was common. I've been a linux user for the longest time, and have always had to tweak something to get it running the way that I wanted to. That doesn't bother me since I like to do that kind of stuff. That and the fact that I've never had any problems with linux crashing, especially compared to Windows, has kept me on linux. But I know a lot of people who left linux for OSX because they didn't like to tweak things and just wanted to get things done.

A friend recently switched from a mac laptop at work to a windows laptop which surprised me. While she has always been a windows user, I was surprised that OSX didn't convert her to the platform. I also noticed that as more and more people start using macs, I hear more and more grumbling about them.
Windows is the reason I don't use Photoshop but, instead, use Gimp for all my needs.
I haven't seen you mention it anywhere, so did you try a BIOS / firmware update? I've had similar bugs on multiple Thinkpads before and they were universally cured by an update.
Do check the reviews, though. For a while, system76 had a terrible reputation for quality, and none of them compare to my t420 even today, as far as I can tell.
We are not compensated for reviewing on behalf of journals. We even pay to publish, and then pay to read our own paper.

edit: Nothing wrong with volunteering to review research, but if the whole process is for-profit, I don't understand why the reviewers cannot be compensated for their effort.
Reminds me of the biosphere projects whose failures have been the subject of multiple debates over reasons why.

https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/07/09/living-in-a-bubbl...

Highly sceptical the digital version of this will be playing with a full deck of data resulting in skewed results. still think it's a good idea but definitely not the accursed 'settled science', more an experiment.
I suppose the interesting thing about looking into how people would react in the real world is that some actual ethical systems are attempts to formalize exactly that intuition. Virtue ethics, for instance, fit well into the mold of 'the world is very hard, the best way to avoid screwing up is to stick to the script'. Given that the world is, in fact, very hard, it's pretty tempting.
Plus you have to provide most, or maybe all, of the support for software. Not just making compilers and related dev tools, but also building and testing of pre-compiled binaries for popular OSS.

That's fine for a few major pieces of OSS, and for internal, cloud-only software (Redshift, BigQuery), but I don't think that concept scales well, or is particularly quick to adapt to market shifts.
i'm fairly sympathetic here - except part of the blame should really be on the socket layer and resolver interface. if they had been a bit better at modelling multiprotocol networks, this kind of transition would have been easier.
Who, exactly, do you think gets the money from journal access fees? I'll give you a hint, it's not the people who write the articles, nor the people who peer-review them, nor the universities who employ either group.
Hello my fellow HNers, this is the creator here. After continuing to write boilerplate code to connect multiple data sources together I finally decided to take a more platform-driven approach and came up with a way that I could continue to add more integrations in a scalable way. This API is the result of that effort.

Let me know what you think. I am by no means a copywriting expert so can add videos, and better explanations, but added a demo section here if you want to play around with it:
https://www.usesql.com/demo
So XENIX WAS ported to the Victor 9000!
^ and this is one of the major downsides of working for a pathological company.
Maybe it doesn’t need to make lots of money? Just gotta build a strong community.
Presenting the number of positive cases without normalizing for the number of tests taken and population is just dishonest.

Hopefully those policy decisions are taking more into account but when communicating the decisions I've found that only the scary numbers are used as justification.
This is totally 2nd hand anecdote, but I've heard stories from several people who worked at MSFT (all 10 plus years ago, so maybe it's changed) who put in a handful of hours of work per week. Still got promoted. Spent most of their time doing what ever, things like playing World of Warcraft in a competitive guild full time.

In all cases, these people ended up leaving to go to highly demanding startups, because that's what they would rather have been doing. But the point is, even at large, high paying, very successful companies there are lots of niches where you can get away with doing very little.
Java isn't cool anymore. If you looked at the HN front-page you'd think almost all new software is being written in Rust, for example
common-sense it was
> The fiscal myth is increasingly unpopular on the left (and even starting to fall out of favor in the center-left, hence the rise of MMT). So, no, largely and increasingly leftists don’t think this way even if they mistake intent for effect.

That can only be a good thing. I don't move in leftist circles much (or really any political circles) so sadly I'm not up-to-date on the current thinking.

> The “Law of Unintended Consequences”, while it relates to a real phenomenon, is both dramatically overstated and not meaningful as a rebuttal of any particular idea. If you want to rebut the argument that a specific proposal to increase high end taxes (not the generic concept which you then massage into a form most suitable for rebuttal) will not actually increase net revenues, you need a specific argument from the elements of the proposal, not a generic handwave in the direction of “sometimes changing the rules does something you didn’t expect”. Since, I mean, that can just as easily mean that it succeeds beyond expectations than that it fails, when the effect manifests at all.

It wasn't intended as a rebuttal, but as a call to action to engage in systems thinking. Basically, under a reductive model of causality it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that well-intentioned policies are all that's necessary. Instead, if you're looking to enact a specific effect you need to consider both the effect you're trying to counteract (a too-high power differential) and the response to the policy you enact (in my loose example, the policy just being included in the equation already in use by lawyers, accountants, wealth managers etc that the very-wealthy already employ).

I highlight this because I'm both interested in systems theory and in building a better society (as, I suspect, most people are) and one of the main applications of systems theory is how to get the outcome you desire when trying to change a complex system. The way to do this is usually not obvious - because if the obvious solution worked, the problem would be easily solved.

I'm not trying to dismiss the intent behind the suggested reform.
The Atkins diet isn't Taubes'. Everybody is pushing something these days, that is not proof that their message is misleading.
Mr. Siskind's name was already very public beforehand (literally a Google search suggestion). Also, the right to free speech does not include the right to be freed from criticism and stay anonymous. Scott took his blog down voluntarily. The fact that his name didn't matter much is clear, when you consider he didn't mind publishing it openly on his new Substack blog.

> I hope big tech buries the NYT.

Interesting that the people rallying so much against cancelling that they believe you can never even publish names want a tech cartel to form and drive a publication out of business for being vaguely critical of a movement popular with Silicon Valley people.
Prefer puts, as the newline is included
Thinking that poor people need your horribly polluting bitcoins is the epitome of not understanding the real world's problems.

Calling this projection is insulting, and IMHO very much projection itself. bad faith, deluded, or both.
The natives also smoked tobacco for a long time, not saying coffee is good/bad just providing a counter example
Nonsense. React is extremely stable. It indeed added hooks, deprecating exactly nothing in doing so. React deprecations are very few and far between.
My guess at this point would be that he gets convicted for having violated firearms laws, but not for murder. It's an interesting case, but the political climate surrounding it spans much more than just the shooting, and is (seen with international eyes and an attempt at staying impartial) completely bonkers.

He shouldn't have been there in the first place, and there shouldn't have been any incentive for anyone else to be either. The fact that there was a remotely plausible rationale for a vigilante policing force in the first place is just insane. That the police didn't roll up and say "go home, this is our job" is ridiculous. Then, of course, pouring fuel on the fire, the whole situation attracts a lot of people who want to commit violence - maybe including Rittenhouse himself. None of this should happen in a first-world country, and it's not something that will be solved with a murder trial. Regardless of its outcome.

There seem to be deep and persistent currents in American society that form the basis for events like these, and every honest assessment and candid dialouge attempting to fix them is a good thing. It might be off topic to a degree, but people getting life sentences willy-nilly is definitely part of the same web of causal relationships.
Very doubtful. Traders tend to prize speed over all other considerations, and so I'm sure at some point somebody with a Pentium running Windows 95 said this would be faster without SSL. And it really would be (on a sufficiently crappy machine, and assuming you're doing HTTP/1.1) but most of us have long since reasoned that "faster but now I don't have any security" is a bad trade and also meanwhile faster encrypted-only alternatives emerged.

They've got a custom OTP setup which they've revised at least twice already, but as with this Clubhouse thing if you transmit your OTP as plaintext over unencrypted channels obviously a bad guy can intercept that. So basically that SSL box ought to be removed (in favour of always doing TLS) or at the very least default checked.
Same for me. I’ve had tinnitus most my life and my QC35s make it noticeably worse. I’ve pretty much had to stop using them which I hate because I really really enjoyed the noise cancelling aspects, but it got to the point where within a few minutes of putting them on the tinnitus would drown everything else out last for hours after removing them.

Since stopping using them the tinnitus has gotten significantly better (still there, it never goes away, but not as extreme).
I'm sure Apple has done some pretty exhaustive (no pun
intended) thermodynamic analysis of the case design.

If (as this article says) users have to reflow their boards and drill holes in their cases, I would say not exhaustive enough!
Yup - I was thinking just that. I could use one of these in the yard as a writing/craft space and would be happy to pay enough for one to be donated to UNHCR.
They should do a tom's shoes thing with this. We both could have a house.
Huh. Well now I know. Thanks!

Amazing what you can do with improperly-implemented input sanitation :)

This probably could've been prevented by disallowing non-number inputs, no?
I think good practices around encryption/storage of passwords would make it infeasible to check how many times a password is already in your database.

How about instead just implementing a blacklist of unacceptable passwords?
Let's apply that to this posting:

1. No.
2. N/A. See #1.
3. Done.

But I have lots of friends and I'm in a great mood. Weird.
My friend actually mentioned how useful this would be! One of the difficulties they may face though, at least in a market like mine (Boulder, CO) may be indexing and working with the housing that is already organized by rental agencies. There's three large ones where I'm at and I cant imagine they would make it very easy, especially if Cribspot wants to take some of the responsibilities from the agencies, responsibility that the landlords pay the agencies to take care of. It will be interesting to see how crib spot deals with this aspect considering these agencies run so much housing around here
Have a decent user interface?
So uhm... put these on a iptables rule?
I'm pretty sure my amps from now on are all going to have digital power sections. Switching amps are sounding really great these days.
wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210406005302/https://www.washi...
> But seriously, we expect people to have a second computer around when doing anything involved with their hardware.

Sometimes we even expect a second computer with a different operating system or even different architecture. I had a retail Seagate harddrive in my Mac that was going bad during the warranty period. Seagate expected me to run their diagnostic software to get an authorization code to return the drive--and at the time that authorization software only ran on DOS or Windows.

I had a Windows PC that I could move the disk to and run the diagnostics on, so just went ahead and did that. I don't know what they would have done if I had not had a PC available.

The box explicitly listed the Mac as being supported and said nothing about a PC being required for warranty replacement so I assume they could have been forced to honor the warranty without running the diagnostic, but don't know how much of a hassle that would be.
There have been several discussion about this and I if I recall correctly the main issue is that this would bloat the tuple size even more (PostgreSQL already has a large per-tuple overhead). The most promising proposal I have seen is to have 64-bit XIDs but only store the lower 32-bits per tuple but have a per-page epoch for the upper bits.
To be clear here, the CDC first issued guidance for the general community to wear masks on 3 April 2020, so about 2 months after the U.S declared a public health emergency.

Even at the time the CDC gave its guidance, the published evidence to support the general public wearing masks was quite weak. Here is an extract from a systematic review of the published research from shortly after the CDC gave its guidance.

> There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low‐moderate certainty of the evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be different from the observed estimate of the effect. The pooled results of randomised trials did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks during seasonal influenza.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

So the CDC was faced with a situation where there was minimal evidence for the efficacy of the general public wearing masks and a severe shortage of PPE among medical personnel. In that context, they held back recommending that the general public wear masks.

It wasn't really till May/June that evidence started mounting in support of the general use of masks amongst the public.

So there was no conspiracy, just hard working people trying to do their best in a difficult situation. The world is much more dull than people like to believe.
Of course; we have a long tradition, as we have existed for many decades now.
A good way to think about Wayland is the screen manager brought to you by the people who thought xrandr, Mesa, Cairo, the Linux FireWire stack, and freetype were good things. If you come in with appropriate expectations you’ll be amazed that any of it works at all.

Is you think it over for a bit you’ll realize that the real Linux graphics protocol is Android SurfaceFlinger. Wayland is like five orders of magnitude less popular.