jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right right. That's what I meant. By doing this as well, you're sort of saying "We're doing this pain in the ass thing that has no value. You can bet we're doing all the easy things that do have value as well".
According to people in their forums they don't support all the ac features either. Something to research if you're thinking of switching anyway.
Sure, floating houses in middle of ocean is awful idea. But one can imagine some habitats that could work in lakes and calmer seas and this could be important step. First learn which materials work over long periods, achieve structural stability, and solve numerous other practical matters in safe environment. It is easier to iterate and failure is less expensive.

I have bigger problem with sticking the open source label when all they share is couple of email addresses.
if you were leading an organization, and had grown it from nothing to being important, then if you are removed from that organization for things you have said that is obviously a punishment, if it is done without a court taking part it is non-judicial punishment. Of course non-judicial punishments exist all over the place and that's just the way the world works, although really for some of the things he's done I think he might open up to judicial (civil court) punishment as well.
29th
October 2008

- not a recent question :)
It would be nice if this were more web 2.0. With commenting, voting, and collective stupidity, who knows what time lines would bubble up? The site would also warrant a return visit.
Yes I believe so. If you want to try this out you can setup a PHP page that puts some content up and then calls sleep(). You'll see that the content that has been processed and sent to the browser is displayed as the rest is processed.
No. The opposite. I'm trying to say that open standards aren't really open if they can't be broadly implemented.
Like In-Toto? https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=in-toto
> Given that all features are known, how difficult is to build p2p WhatsApp clone ? Including all feature parity ?

Signal. It even has one of WhatsApp's founders behind it now.
An “old fashioned peanut butter mixer” is one of the few single purpose items that I keep in my kitchen. It doesn’t do a complete job, but cuts the effort by 90 percent.
AND WhatsApp
I haven't used Facebook in almost a decade and I haven't missed it for a second. I sometimes ask friends and family why they use it and the answer is always either "I don't know" or "to keep track of friends and family" (AKA: a glorified contact list). Many of them talk about getting rid of it, but few ever follow through.

People love to speculate about "Facebook Killers", but what is there to even kill? Facebook doesn't offer people a useful service. It's just familiar and ubiquitous, so it exists in perpetuity.

> The Facebook Killer will thus be something completely different, not merely a better or more ethical version of contemporary social media.

Then it's not a "Facebook Killer", is it? It would just be another social media platform added to the pile. Just another Twitter, Snapchat, TicTok, etc.
Out of curiosity, what makes gifs better than static text for you?
What are “artificial atoms”?
If it's anything like my experience hiring contractors, it's definitely that they get the most "fun" part of the work. Most companies use contractors (in engineering) precisely for a well-defined tech work. They don't have to manage people or sit in meetings that are not relevant. We pay them by the hour and we try to get them to work on the stuff they can contribute the most - dealing with politics is expensive.
The units command has been part of Unix since the 1970s. GNU Units is a clone with many improvements and has been around since the 1980s.

You kids gotta learn your damn history!
Definitely going to check out DigitalOcean, Thanks!
I want to add

https://beta.thestorygraph.com/

I've recently been using that along with Goodreads to track, and I enjoy it. Not huge into the social aspect of Goodreads, though there's a few I follow with similar proclivities but I can (and do) easily live without that.
lawyer and listen to their offer.

Inform away on anything illegal annonymously via lawyer (guns/drugs/etc)

Earn karma.

Let lawyer handle any discussions to avoid getting yourself in trouble / have him explain you don't have anything useful otherwise.
> How do you stop harassers sending unwanted money?

idk, but this sounds like a great problem to have.
Many cryptos offer forward secrecy and completely opaque ledgers without any reliance on SGX.
And that is why heads of risk lost their jobs this week!
Much of the anti domestic terrorism work which the FBI did was entrapment. The FBI plants were frequently under pressure to show proof that their assigned organisations were in fact terrorist cells.

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20...

The police would plant people in suspect groups who pressure the rest of the group to engage in terrorist activity.

This isn’t exclusive to 1970s USA. Similar things happened in mosques after 9/11 where Imans would know an FBI agent simply because he was the only extremist in the congregation.

And in the United Kingdom, there were long term plants in environmental organisations who engaged in ecoterrorism.
> Have you tried the recently released v.1.6.0 of Julia? Precompilation is dramatically faster.

Yes, I tried it upon its release and, while much faster, the startup time is still dramatically sub-par, especially when loading packages. This means that when I call Julia scripts from makefiles, etc., a considerable amount of running time is spent in re-compiling over and over the same packages. I agree that my usage pattern is not at all representative, but still it seems that Julia is not a good "unix citizen", since it tries to force you to do everything inside its own REPL, instead of the native one. This is indeed my main point of friction with Julia. If it started instantaneously it would be essentially perfect. This is not a matter of dividing the startup time by 2, but at least by 200.
On the announcement that it's getting shelved you get a retro. How is that refreshing? Whats your baseline? Where is D2iQ response to this news?
Most of it. The main changes from WebKit to blink are a different approach to memory allocation (oilpan) and object lifetimes to help security.

Most of the main files still say Copyright 1999 **@kde.org showing the origin of the original codebase that hasn't changed much to today.

It's now so huge and complex that a major redesign/rewrite is pretty much out of the question.

It's still mostly single threaded and all the main objects aren't thread safe. JavaScript shares that thread too. Parts of the rendering are multiththreaded and async, but that's it.
The author suggests using a visual html editor and copying any code you need for layout, navigation, etc. You can't deny that's infinitely easier than rolling your own SSG and using markdown.
Some of these are not particularly strong, and they missed several significant ones (Roadster, Cybertruck, Semi, refreshed Model S).
It seems to me that it will prevent adaptation to changes.
Then your conversation plaintext gets escrowed to Apple via just Bob instead of both Alice and Bob.

(Conversations are backed up twice: once by each party.)

You'd need everyone you talk to to also disable iCloud Backup. This is pretty unlikely.

Easier to just use Signal, where the chat history isn't included in the device backups at all.
And the act of 'sending' a conventional fiat payment today is actually the publication of a transaction record in one or more databases. That doesn't mean it's 'speech'.
I use

twitter.com##section div[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]

In Ublock - origin rules to hide the trending sidebar
You know what, if you don't want to have kids because they're too expensive - do not have kids!

Too many parents don't want to be in the position they're in for whatever reason and didn't take the time to figure out whether they really want to have kids.
Sort of. However you need to be careful about unexpected consequences.

The vast majority of programmers are male, so if you only hire the best you might go a long time without hiring any females, thus developing a male-only culture. I've been told the worst case of this is one female the rest males, as the one female encourages that bad parts of male only culture to ensure that she is always the most powerful female in the room (because she is the only one). None of this needs to be true, but when you only have 3 males total you need to ensure that you are not developing female hostile culture by accident. Once you have a few females around they can moderate the male only culture, but going from 1 to a few is hard because the great females you want to hire will check your culture and not even apply thus locking you out of that market.

I used females, but there are plenty of other minorities. If the subject was nurses you would reverse the minorities, some of their cultures are male hostile.
Why not wait until people will come and see it anyways? Rushing it seems foolish.
I am still working on my business which was started during the GFC back in 2008.

My business isn't important, but what is important is what you do over the next coming months.

During the GFC, I was a contract programmer and was let go in November. In Australia I figured nobody was going to hire in December, January is basically a write off, and could possibly find work in February.

Now I had 3 months up my sleeve. I could either lay down the foundations to my side project, or slack off, play video games, and watch videos all day.

So I worked hard on my side project which was making no money, and eventually it grew legs a year later when I was in a position to work on it full time, and have been ever since.

Now, what are you going to do with your current spare time?
Nothing you do will make money instantly, but you could be planting those seeds, and maybe your tree might grow into something big.
You can purchase or inherit property. Nobody forces you to turn that property into an Airbnb. You have no particular right to some other property, one to which you have no ownership claim, in the city in which you happen to be born. That's not how property works.

If you think property is too expensive in your city, consider building more of it instead of imposing arbitrary restrictions on demand.
1. According to Gov. Cuomo [0] New York is now testing more per capita than any place else including China or South Korea.

2. This comment [1] illuminates a bit the point about not getting tested by your healthcare provider.

[0] Around 11:30 https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/coronavirus-blog/2020/0...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fmb6p5/just_had_a_sobe...
I use both LT and GR for different things: GR is a record of what I've read, LT is a record of what I own. Among other things it makes it relatively easy for me to shelve my books by LoC call number which isn't possible at all with GR.
I couldn't find a pithy version that was much better. You may want to drop that part altogether--it comes off as a bit of a platitude since you wouldn't be on the site otherwise.
The base level of computer literacy should be deeper than "how to use Word" to some level of algorithmic literacy.
I have tried DDG a bit for the last week, but unfortunately for me its results have been so much inferior to Google's that I had to give up on it. I hope it gets there.
Well, Dug Song of Duo Security points out that you can't use Google Authenticator and public key authentication in conjunction with each other over SSH at the bottom of this howto: http://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/two-factor-ssh-with-goo...
Here's a better link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/interv...
This is (yet another) "Dropbox replacement" project publicized in HN that grossly misunderstands what Dropbox is, why it's popular and is not a "replacement" in any meaningful way.

Here are just a few characteristics of Dropbox that this project doesn't have:

* cross-platform (windows, mac, linux)

* an easy to setup GUI client that is possible to setup by people who don't necessarily know how to enable inotify in linux kernel or copy autosync.py to location in $PATH

* won't fall over when a merge conflict happens (and a merge conflict will happen and even I, who uses git daily, would be unable to resolve it)

We are good at extrapolating and making connections but in this case extrapolating from "files, sync" to "my linux-only python script is a replacement of Dropbox" is about as valid as extrapolating from "wheels" to "my home made unicycle is a replacement of Toyota Prius".
Script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/101484

Repo: https://github.com/danielbeardsley/wompt_grease_monkey
Same thing happens to me. I have RSS feeds of their sites and after clicking on the article it would try some redirect attempt for Spain and come up short. Seems to be better now though.
I use loop for simple things, but iterate is more general. For example, you can put your collect forms inside other forms, not just at the loop "toplevel". Also, editing larger chunks in an iterate form is easier, and automatic indenting works better.
Yeah, I realized that he was talking about rooftop installs, but the bulk of that cost is in the panels, and the unit cost decrease of manufacturing those should fall roughly in step with industrial panels. My main point was that it was a long way to fall, 5-8% at a time, or even double that, if you make some very favorable assumptions.

The article did make a point of saying that they would reach cost parity by 2013, and I'm fairly sure that they were intentionally glossing over facts to make their article more linkbait-worthy.

That solar/wind continue to be championed by the media is keeping the public from taking seriously the fact that we don't have that many realistic options when it comes to getting off fossil fuels besides nuclear.
I, too, run a Skype supernode - completely unvoluntarily, barring the possibility of something hidden behind an asterisk in the EULA. Does anyone know if there is a way to "opt out" of this? Everytime I start skype up it makes a million connections to everywhere and without even having a call on the line my measly 2.5 mbps upstream is permanently choked.
Where's the documentation? Wiki's empty and the "Docs" directory in the source repository contains only "OperatorPrecedence.txt". So where can I find more about:

1. distinguishing features of Ela (i.e. "why Ela?")

2. programming in Ela

3. standard library

4. interpreter API
The summary he gives at the beginning of this paper is actually pretty good, too, if you want a really condensed version:

My core thesis, which I call the ―law of accelerating returns,‖ is that fundamental measures of information technology follow predictable and exponential trajectories, belying the conventional wisdom that ―you can‘t predict the future.‖ There are still many things — which project, company or technical standard will prevail in the marketplace, or when peace will come to the Middle East — that remain unpredictable, but the underlying price/performance and capacity of information is nonetheless remarkably predictable. Surprisingly, these trends are unperturbed by conditions such as war or peace and prosperity or recession.
I would argue the most interesting non-medical paragraph is this one:

The Polynesians did not have lodestones with which to make compasses, and their navigation system does not emphasize the stars, but the sea itself. The different wave patterns are studied and observed, as many, improbably, as fourteen simultaneously. (...) Navigating by wave train alone, the waves were best felt with the testicles; the navigator on each canoe had a special cabin he hunkered in. The idea, however, of making sense out of an interference pattern involving more than three or four wave systems is mind-boggling. The mathematical complexity of a fourteen-source interference pattern would appear more than can be held by any human brain. Or scrotum.

And apparently, it's true!

http://www.cseg.ca/publications/recorder/2008/09sep/sep2008-...
It is dangerous to idly attribute a rise in violent crime to lack of integration with a specific cultural group.

You've backed up your theory here - but you didn't initially.

In my opinion, the most dangerous form of prejudice - is prejudice that's backed up by an 'intellectual' argument.
Ray is systematically restating his opinions in much more vague manner than his original publication of the Singularity is Near.

Originally:

"By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality."

Now (from the PDF):

"Personal computers are available in a wide range of sizes and shapes"..."the prediction does not say that all
computers would be small devices integrated in these ways, just that this would be common, which is indeed the case"

Sorry Ray, I'm not convinced.

I believe Ray completely ignores economics in his predictions. Things such as Moore's law appear when there is always constant, high economic demand. There is always constant, high economic demand for faster computers due to the intrinsic nature of how computers are used. There is NOT constant, high demand for new consumer technologies that haven't been developed and extensively marketed yet.

A corrollary is tablet computers. Development and research into touch interfaces did not increase exponentially after it was developed. Rather, you had to wait 9 years for an Apple to come along to do the hardwork of changing consumer preference to create the economic demand for this improved human-computer interface.

Ray usually seems to assume that an AI is in charge of the economic demand leading to its creation before it is created. He ignores the "stickiness" inherent in consumer demand. Perhaps there is a place for the post-service economy techno-marxist cyber utopia he envisions, but I don't see it occurring before capitalism has run its course globally, which will still take some time.
I think I can resolve this little debate by saying that the latest revisions of the WakeMate hardware, for me, won't get through a full night. Fully charged at 9:30pm, battery dead before 5:45am.

Regardless, a hopelessly optimistic battery indicator is a bad thing.
yes, zoning reform and area plans are both subject to CEQA, there is a bill at the state level to allow rezoning for <10units/parcel to skip CEQA review
> Incredible delay between postgres versions

To be fair, it looks like GCP supported Postgres 13 (Nov 5, 2020) before AWS did (Nov 27, 2020) and AWS currently marks Postgres 13 as a preview. Maybe GCP had a large initial engineer-cost to support multiple versions of Postgres and now the incremental cost to add new versions is small?

> It's just a lot of money to pay for a crashy, outdated version of Postgres.

Have you looked at other options? I'm evaluating GCP SQL and the comments in this thread are scary. Seems like Aiven might be a good way to go. I've also briefly looked at CrunchyData's Postgres Operator [1] for Kubernetes but it's a lot of complexity I don't really want.

[1]: https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator
Also, the LiveOverflow YouTube channel has some great, accessible (yet very technical) videos on security!
> Wuffs looks really interesting! I don't think I've ever even heard of a language that is designed to only be used in an auxiliary role along side another general purpose programming language!

It's positioned somewhat separately as you don't codegen from it, but TLA+? It exists to model and verify a program, but you still write the program separately.
That's because there are other powers of the state that (may) side with the citizen. The FBI is still behaving like a secret police here.
There are some in the blog post, with more details in the corresponding PR: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/1525

Ctrl+F for "Benchmarks" to find the right section :) Eventually it would be nice to update the cross-engine ecs_bench_suite fully to reflect the changes.
Of course. How convenient that you're the exception.
We are talking about Mac Pro users here. The likelyhood of them having a second Mac already is extremely high - a laptop would not be out of the question.

And even if they didn't, the odds of them having a friends Mac they could borrow for the 10 minutes required to mate a new drive is pretty darn high too.

This is hardly a hardship.

Indeed, I'd wager FAR less effort will be spent globally to mate new SSDs to Mac Pro's over the entire lifetime of the global supply of all Mac Pros shipped vs. the level of effort already exerted to express consternation in this thread :p
College admissions are similarly a blend of different criteria: race, high school grades, did one of your parents go to that school (legacy), did your family donate to the school, are you a good athlete, are you a good musician, and of course what is your ACT or SAT score.

The exact weightings are not known to the students applying, but it's safe to say you can't just minmax on the standardized test.

I don't know if you've picked up the tone of some of the other comments in this thread, but people feel very strongly about what factors should be considered in college admissions. Almost no people will defend legacy admissions, few will defend athletic admissions, some will defend musicians, many will defend GPA and standardized testing.

College admissions are zero sum, and different weightings benefit one group over another. For example, "Asians" (the US does not differentiate South Asian [India, etc] from East Asians [China, Korea, Japan]) have very high test scores in the US. If you base your college admissions just on taking the people with the highest test scores, you would get a massive over-representation of Asians. Schools have decided that isn't what they want, so they take people with worse test scores in order to "balance" the student population.

This infuriates the people passed over in the name of "balance", naturally.
The answer to any request for any conversation with any Fed of any type, flavor, or variety in any venue is "not without my lawyer," and ideally one with experience in handling FBI interviews. The risks are like dancing drunk in traffic with a blindfold on. It is just not sensible to talk to Feds regardless of whether or not you did anything illegal unless you are forced to.
Oh sorry, to be clear "math club" here was supposed to mean like, local math club, not successful competitive math club.

I mostly convinced classmates to go to local competitions because it was a day out of class and we could stop by the mall afterwards. We didn't win jack shit, my crowning "achievement" was beating half the schools at a regional competition, which is typically teams of 4, but as a team of 1 (and there's no award for 50th percentile).

Nonetheless, I had "President - Mu Alpha Theta" on my college application and I did end up making it to an elite university.
I used MT for years. Versions 4 and 5 had various problems, coincidental with various changes at the parent company, SixApart. (At one time they had three blogging products: Vox, TypePad, and MT.)

I've been searching for a suitable replacement ever since MT 4. I tried to switch to WordPress but hated it. Maybe just preferences, but I've never warmed to WP, in spite of trying each new version that launches.

I see that Byrne Reese, former SixApart employee and co-founder of the MT-based OpenMelody project, is now using Ghost.io for his blog. That's the system I'm testing now as well. (Have used Tumblr in the meantime, with some success.)