jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have; often the document is redacted to the point of being worthless for public consideration.

IE:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/commons-law-clerk-we-charit...
Down for hours isn't super interesting for a system that has SLAs measured in days :)
Congress asking for help and the president ignoring it. Governors asking if they could send in help and the executive said no. It took Mike fucking Pence, whose job is NOT to activate the national guard, to activate the national guard before extra help was sent over. What the fuck happened January 6th?

The pure inaction of everyone involved surrounding the situation in the Capitol building should terrify you. The rioters never should have even gotten inside the building.
Guo's work is a bit old, docker is a very new thing.
IntelliJ idea is, in many ways, more advanced than Genera, yes. I use it every day. But I stand behind my assertion that we've lost something there: Genera had most of the features you listed (even though I didn't have time to show them), and in the case of debugging the debugger, AFAIK, you can't get IntelliJ into a state where the debugger is debugging itself, because in order to attach a debugger to an instance of IDEA, you need to run a second instance.

Adding plugins without restarts in IDEA is a feature that's only a couple of months old now, and even then, making your own plugin is a very involved process. You can't just copy a single function into your own code, modify it, load it, and be done. In genera, that would take 1-5 minutes; quick enough that if something bothers you, you don't really need to think about whether it's worth taking the time to fix it. By the time you've done a cost/benefit analysis, you'd have been done with the fix.
I like this. Deadlines are set by humans and inherently flawed. It isn't right to go into crunch mode when a deadline isn't met - instead how the deadline was set and how it can be improved should be revisited.
That's kind of hard to do in the US, or at least it was when The Omnivore's Dilemma was written. The author visits a really great farm, but the farmer still had to send out cows and pigs somewhere else to get butchered due to laws about what slaughterhouse facilities need to have.

Totally ok to butcher your own chickens though.
Yep, rules for thee and not for me.

Companies subcontract all day long. And they rely on cheap labor to do this. And the company benefits.

Yet when the person (not a fake person like a company) does this, it's a "firable offense".

I've also seen similar parallels about whom should get the fruits of automation: If I automate a harder process from 10h to 10m...

If the company knows, then I will be expected to keep automating and get 9h 50m more work.

If the company doesn't know, then Im able to retain the 9h50m to myself for my purposes (learning, entertainment).
Works fine now, thanks!
> shuts down every discussion of that toxicity

That's far from accurate. There have been many major discussions.

It's true that some people feel that those topics are underrepresented, but that's because every topic is felt to be underrepresented, including the most common topics. It seems to be a consequence of front page space being such a scarce resource [1]. Sometimes people even end up with the idea that the most-commonly-discussed topics are actually being "aggressively removed from discussion" [2].

It's true that users sometimes flag articles that don't deserve to be flagged. We sometimes turn flags off on those. We don't always do that, because not every article on a given topic (e.g. misogyny or racism) is equally likely to support a meaningful discussion.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624962
https://whereisscihub.now.sh/

(Currently redirects to https://sci-hub.41610.org/)
I have the opposite problem. I abhor things sitting in Downloads because I pretty frequently wipe out that folder to clear out the garbage.

But I struggle to follow a consistent structure, so it could be in Documents or Notes, or a random folder somewhere else because I ignored my hierarchy in a hurry.

Honestly, now if I need to make sure I keep something, I upload it to Google Drive. It sucks for privacy, but their search is good enough that I rarely need to use the hierarchy. The hierarchy is now mostly to group things I want to perform actions on together.
Back in 2017 Trump had 3643 domains. I can only speculate that there are more now. There's no substance to the claim that he's silenced.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/20/technology/trump-websites/i...
I suspect Kamala Harris will likely be the President starting from 2022 and till 2029.
I use Brave, but obviously most people just use "browser" (that icon of a globe or whatever) and have no idea.
> Unless I misunderstood this statement implies that a window smashing person would as well attack another humane being

...if you attempt to stop them from smashing said window it is likely, yes. This happened a few times in USA in the past few months.

The acts are obviously different, if they were the same we would not have this discussion.
So, is slick over here guilty of manslaughter?
No, because they were doing things the president told them to! He scheduled the rally to directly coincide with congress's certification session. He didn't tell them to break into the Capitol, but he told them to march there. He didn't tell them to attack congress, but he told them they were in session trying to steal his election.

I don't understand why people keep arguing that the incitement thing is blurry. It's not. Any other speaker at that rally who had said the same things would be trivially charged. This was a crime, in ways that BLM organizing a march isn't. (Maybe there are some other BLM-related actions where people called out a target like this, it was a big movement. I'm not aware of one though.)
If it was used that way, people can be prosecuted, likely will be prosecuted, on those facts.

We have a whole criminal justice system, well staffed and well funded, that addresses this concern.
Using that logic you are banning him because riots happened; Banning him for actions that occurred outside of twitter.

Is the beginning where people get banned from social media for being part of a unwanted group. A case could be made for preventing anyone who has gone to jail from being on the platform in the efforts to cutdown on future crime / increase children safety, etc.
Ah, good old Core Wars!

It is perhaps interesting to know that the next installment of the Google AI Challenge (http://ai-contest.com) is a couple of weeks away and it allows a wide range of programming languages.
Hi yardie,

I agree, which is why I only very briefly bring up the Hello World stuff (it's a tradition after all :-)), and then state "Ok, this stuff is boring, right? Let's write some real stuff."

And the rest of the tutorial is about building something real and complete (albeit simple). Maybe I should extend the example app a bit, and talk about databases, too.

Oh, and please note, the "book" is only about 35% complete, so there is more to come!
This should not be a service, this should a protocol, with RFC.
Thanks for the information. I didn't realize that it is verboten. I presumed it was for efficiency purposes and implementation hassles. I do realize that there are plenty of attack vectors the moment you start trusting JS from a remote website.

It was just a proof-of-concept of how Dropbox can still allow you to view files in your browser, but perhaps flash a big warning saying that this is a lot weaker security-wise than locally running your dropbox client. That way they cater to people who are willing to forego a little security for convenience.
It's especially egregious in the ORDER BY, since there you have the option of using column aliases.
I’ve raised similar concerns as well, especially with the same argument about non-development departments.

However, with the Ultimate plan you also get free guest users, which could serve well for most users who are not developers.
I agree that its probably not going to impact the experience much if you haven't played the previous games, but your comparison to Doom makes no sense.

The original Doom games intentionally had almost no story. The new Doom was a complete reboot so even if the old ones had a story it wouldn't matter at all. HL:Alyx is a continuation of the story that falls between 1 and 2.
> That is the goddamned ugliest vehicle I've ever seen.

Let me try to beat that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Multipla#/media/File:Fiat...
Brutalism is concrete. This truck is not concrete.
The service is that you can receive messages. The service is not that you are the only one who can receive those messages. If someone commits fraud and obtains a SIM with your number then the telco is in general quite willing to correct the error. Maybe they will even given you an extra copy of the messages that were lost.

It's like going to a fast food restaurant and later complaining that the meat is of low quality.
I don't care about my karma level, and don't like commenting about downvotes per sensible guidelines...

but I genuinely don't understand this.

I asked an honest simple real relevant question (still wd love an answer), but most ppl can't see my question bc it's at 0. /complaint
GitHub enterprise is much higher and doesn't even include CI/CD. In addition other CI tools I've seen quoted in the $300/seat range.

Gitlab is a steal at a $99 price point compared to other tools.
Definitely reproducible. Chrome on w7 crashed for me as well.
As terrible as the Columbia accident was, I think this approach (with so many checks skipped to get Atlantis up as quick as possible) would have ended in the loss of both crews & orbiters.

IANARS (Rocket Scientist) but I can't help but think the same thing. The ability to get Atlantis safely into orbit in 11 days beggars belief, as much as I wish it could have been done.

A catastrophic failure of a rescue mission would have killed the Shuttle program then and there. Aside from the loss of now eleven astronauts and two orbiters, the following post-Columbia activities either could not have taken place or would have been limited to what the Russians could do:
21 ISS resupply/delivery missions, 5 ISS crew transfers, a Hubble telescope servicing mission and major delivery and assembly of ISS components (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISS_assembly_sequence#Assembly_... to get a feel for how incomplete the station was in 2003)

Additionally, there would have been an impact on SpaceX as the shuttle had delivered their DragonEye sensor test package as well as communications gear to the station.
For anyone interested in Part 1: https://medium.com/ux-ui-design/9b7e9edd2de8
Simpler: since you need the key to view the content, the only security scheme possible is through obscurity of the key or the decryptor. Hence anyone with the appropriate flashlight can dispell the darkness.

Also, analog hole.
I seem get this effect while the image is loading. Are you using chrome or native browser?
That's funny, I actually really like web development... when it comes down to it, it's all hacking, only now you get better levels of abstraction.

It's not nearly as bad as the bad old days so to speak, and a lot of things can be very clean and elegant.
What *nix needs is an OWIN compatible web server.
The amount they got paid for this was probably not worth the energy they put into it.

(as a side, i'd love to see engineers account for their time in 5 minute increments before complaining about lawyer billing practices. I would be surprised if it wasn't the case that on a salary / number-of-hours-really-worked-per-year, most IP lawyers make a lot less than most engineers)
Does it support gfycat (GIFs converted to HTML5 videos)?
Several sources estimated that 1/3 of whatsapp users were spam accounts. So the numbers are a bit off. I would also like to see this adjusted for "Today Money" which would put things like Geocities WAY up there.

I quoted a source at $80 per actual users base on the Monthly Uniques.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelisrael/2014/02/25/2329/
From a global perspective, is it?

>By the end of this year, 6% of the global population will own a tablet, 20% will own PCs, and 22% will own smartphones.

http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-and-tablet-penetra...
It’s not fitting. The comment you replied to is a pretty clear rebuttal.
Definitely yes! Type 2 will get a result out faster, but they’re less likely to pick up on complicated patterns that have emerged within the system, and may not reach a point where they understand all of the parts and how they combine.

Type 1 will definitely take longer at first, but given a few months in your codebase, they’ll be able to make more effective trade-offs and understand the system better as a whole.

Talking generally of course, there are probably some type-2’s that will still find time to prod around, and some type-1’s that will never get faster… but I think someone who doesn’t just assume that their guess about how a system works is correct, will be more likely to produce quality code in the long term.
You mean like mentoring?

Or is this something different?
Surviving a “few decades” sounds like a successful business in anyones eyes.
> Uber charges drivers 25-30 percent without coming close to covering their actual costs

I mean this is it, right? This is the big one. All these "tech" companies that are not actually selling software taking huge cuts off the top line, this can't be sustainable.

You can own the market for a while, but sooner or later someone is going to come along and disrupt you.
Yep, food is nice where I work too, but it's not what keeps me around. A great workplace except for bad/no food is worth brown bagging it, going off-site to a random franchise, ordering delivery, etc.
I had a colleague who liked to apply SI prefixes outside their usual domains. It became a running joke in the company.

"We're looking to raise 50 megadollars for our next funding round."

"The project will take about 10π megaseconds [1 year]."
Only in hacker news do you find people who think the taxi industry is some bastion of freedom and some poor victim of Uber.

Does no one know how the taxi industry works and the insane levels of corruption involved? Most taxi drivers start their shift IN DEBT, every single shift. They owe the taxi company $100 at the beginning of their shift to rent the taxi and then have to work to pay off this debt every shift. Once they have earned it they can keep whatever money they earn. If they need to stop working in the middle of the shift, they are net negative.

They need to pay for their own gas, they need to clean the taxi, and if someone pukes in their car they have to clean it themselves.

There is no vacation pay, they have no freedom at all.

Most Uber drivers are happy. That’s a fact. I dare you to ask your next driver. I just took 2 Ubers today and they were happy. My second driver told me he felt lucky because he had Uber to fall back on during the pandemic. You get a small number of professional drivers who want to destroy uber and journalists that want to as well so you get completely slanted articles like this. Somehow Lyft is the hero and Uber is the bad guy, when both do exactly the same things.

The simple fact is Uber provides a great service and most drivers are happy. In terms of investment, post-IPO it has been largely dead money but the idea is never going away.

Taxi companies are not the heros here. They were even more predatory than anything claimed here about Uber which are mostly twists or flat out lies.
Facebook is pure self-parody at this point. This post is tragic comedy with no practical value besides entertainment. Anyone pursuing job options following advice like this has a severe problem with lack of self-esteem and capacity for independent thought.
Years, of course :).
I still copy-paste into Notepad to remove formatting. Even that fails on Win10 if you used, eg, non-breaking hyphens ... thought I was going mad; no, just MS Windows doing its thing.

I've returned to MSWord after 15 years, it still seems incapable of doing numbered lists consistently. Would love some 'reveal codes' for that.
>I've worked on a few big data projects for large companies. I have a huge dislike for them as mostly seem about how can we fuck over a customer to better the business or do shady stuff with the data rather than anything meaningful.

Sounds similar to the AI hype these days.
TIL China has a higher female labor participation rate than the US. Unexpected.
I live half way between Melbourne and Boca, which are the places with the most "HN type" work. It has been pretty glorious here for quite a while, but development is finally moving in big time.
> same, best-effort treatment

no matter how enlightened the society is, you can still pick at most one of these.
There was no takedown notice. Those emails (erroneously) informed the recipient that a third party had sent a takedown request.
"Some organizations pretend that they are about other things, like serving people or changing the world. But in truth they are measured by money."

And in practice they rarely are not. Nobody calculates the total cost of an unnecessary two hour meeting where 8 highly-paid employees discuss about something almost completely irrelevant.

Another problem with this is that it's extremely difficult to calculate anything when it comes to software, so expenses and profits are usually created using Stetson-Harrison when some higher-up needs a budget.

In fact, I'd say that companies that don't have such an "accounting" focus on software development do a lot better.
It's only illegal when you're a monopoly, I believe.
In many areas (such as mine), there is only one cable provider (and we don't have FIOS either).
Indexes cab certainly update. Pretty sure innodb does not table lock for delete either.

Also from a privacy perspective you can't keep people's data around forever.
Those questions and this thread blew me away: I'm way behind on both of them.

Yes some years ago for maybe a few hours I understood Kerberos and RSA and using RSA to 'sign' a document. And once for about an hour I understood the keys, handshaking, etc. of Microsoft domain servers, Active Directory, or whatever. But I've never since had any occasion to revisit those ideas or any deeper ideas.

Gee, when I took abstract algebra, I got enough number theory to understand and prove Fermat's little theorem, etc., but I've never had to use it. Maybe if I take some of the old source code I have for PGP and want to revise it, then I would look at such number theory again, but I likely shouldn't be working with the internals of something like PGP.

Gee, once I read

David J. Marchette, 'Computer Intrusion Detection: A Statistical Viewpoint', ISBN 0-387-95281-0, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001.

and understood that well enough, but I'm still nearly clueless about that article and this thread.

Maybe I should know more: I'm building a Web site that I hope will be popular. So I'll have to run a 'server farm' of the necessary size and manage the network in the farm and the connection to the Internet. So, again, maybe I should know more.

Maybe some of you guys could post some more on this thread and get me, and people with similar ignorance, partly caught up.

So, my first broad question would be, in considering my computer and network security, will I really have to work at the relatively low level of those question? E.g., I know next to nothing about SSH, but I will make use of it via software from others. Do I really need to understand SSH at the level of the packets, handshaking, keys, etc.? If I was curious, would thirty minutes with some Wikipedia article be enough? Would I be able to get enough low level access even to use such details? Is it enough and about all I can do just to leave the details and implementation of SSH to others? E.g., I just spent 12 hours today reading about SQL Server logins, users, Windows authentication, permissions, roles, schemata, etc., but again I just get to use these things as a part-time DBA and don't get to see or work with the details. Similarly for other important parts of network security?

Second, is it really true that commonly information security professionals in US companies need to know and work with such details? E.g., when the world changes over to IPv6, will I have to know the details or will I just leave the details to the people who write the code and build the hardware?

I can understand that Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, developers of Linux, and intrusion prevention device designers need to understand Ethernet and TCP/IP at all levels, but do I?

Net, how much detail is needed, and what is it actually used for?
We're in the late phase of step 8 for undergraduate education. Let me know in 10 years if you still think everything's peachy with it. The signs of strain are already there if you know where to look, but I'm pretty sure by 2020 you won't be able to pretend otherwise. Probably by 2015. Possibly by this time next year. (Personally I'm thinking that barring a major economic turnaround we see a distinct drop in college enrollment next year.)

You also don't know which is cheaper, public education or private. You know that in a government-subsidized environment, public was cheaper to you than private, but what a freaking surprise, when you pay for public school whether you attend or not, then must pay for the private school on top of that. Of course X + Y > X... but school's only free if you never pay local taxes.
This isn't terribly portable FWIW. Not all calling conventions massage data into either a 32-bit or 64-bit argument. In particular, passing structs by value has some interesting rules even in the common calling conventions.

It will certainly work for 90% of the common function types out there and is a pretty common trick.
I've been thinking about it for years. The only problem is that most programmers seem to be status quo capitalists bordering on libertarian. It might be easier to teach hippies to program than programmers not to be aspirational yuppie SWPLs.

A couple of cults have gotten by on programming and/or web design, Aum Shinrikyo and Heaven's Gate come to mind.
It makes me sad that those features seemed advanced, when something as complex as the Sketchpad had been created a good amount of time before.
(more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad)

(Note: Its not completely related, but its just that the Sketchpad seemed to me much more advanced than what had Stevy here so excited)
They "get away with it" because hundreds of millions of people continually buy their products.
Your right. I concede that without knowing the parameters of this program I can not claim that it will create price inflation.

In an environment in which a private entity (federal reserve) is printing money willy-nilly it makes you pretty cynical.
Some clarification:

Commune does not mean being without internet, nor does it necessarily imply growing food.

Think about it: if we had bunk beds, we could stack hackers on top of each other to save space. Compress at least twice as many in the same space. And if we bought food in bulk, we could eat better on the same amount we ordinarily need to live on ramen budgets.

All this being said, I am broke, broke, broke! I burned through all my school financial aid until next semester starts in January. My email is citizenkeys@gmail.com . If anybody's got an extra bedroom for a month...
What is really needed in the ML industry is a code independent "neural net interpreter" with an api that binds to any programming language.

How hard is it to
have a program that takes in neural network architectures & trained waits so as to do inference?
Lack of motivation in my team and myself. A big merger has happened which has meant:

* various political machinations behind the scenes

* the gutting of the team I'm on

* the sunsetting of the project I'm on

* my contract coming to an end

The temptation to just browse reddit, twitter and youtube is one I'm struggling to resist.