jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"It also isn't the best at preserving your data on Android, there have been a number of nights where I lost data due to bluetooth bugs, application crashes, accidentally running the device battery out, and so on."

Likewise, I gave up after a couple of weeks for the reasons mentioned in the article, especially re: saving my data on my Android/EVO. Perhaps some of the software updates have improved this, but mentally I'd already given up. It's an awesome idea. But once hardware is involved, the typical startup challenges seem to rise exponentially and WakeMate got more than their fair share.
You’re right, rioters in DC this summer only tried to storm the White House [0].

72 people were arrested in DC on weapons charges during the summer riots [1]. Protestors erected a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’s house [2]. Rioters threw bricks through apartment windows and accosted random people on the street [3] in scenes reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.

Let’s not use the violent insurrection at the Capitol to downplay other violent episodes.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/politics/washington-dc...

[1] https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/may-2020-january-2021-unrest-relate...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-protests-guillotine-jeff-bez...

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-live...
I find the beta group to be really good for WakeMate. There is always the risk of new bugs as well as new features. If you're super super fussed about your data, I'd say stay away but it's rare to see a regression. Big issue for me was it wouldn't store my login so I had to re-authenticate every time I opened the app to go to bed, which at 5AM when you're getting up in 90 minutes is no fun at all. I think that went away in a recent nightly.
I wish I could up-vote you twice.

Even his remarks about object orientation are just a straw man. Perl5 still doesn't have a definitive object model (well, beyond blessed hashes). Library authors have written many competing solutions over the years. Arguably this is a good thing. If someone finds a better way to do something, everyone can benefit without waiting for the Perl core developers to implement it.

Contrast to Python where we have to wait for the core team to implement everything including the core libraries.

I don't know why this idea of writing "Why Lisp Sucks" articles persists. Maybe it makes the authors feel smart and authoritative. I honestly don't know. Can someone fill me in please?
Shh! He's wired in.
I hear Zynga had an entire CS team dedicated just to her.
Github's website is very easy to cache: read heavy, non-realtime. Especially if you consider they can go into a cache-friendly mode where they disable push notifications ("you just pushed to this branch", etc).

They look real time now, but that is best effort: they don't have to be. Nobody will lament Github suddenly saying "we're under heavy load, changes will take a minute to propagate and real time notifications are turned off".

Note that this attack is read-only; there's no creating new issues or PRs or any other write operation (that would be different).

It's comparable to Wikipedia, which has close to 100% cache hits on popular pages. (sorry can't find the source for this right now)

The git repositories are another story, but that's not so easily attacked through JS.

Still, with an attack of this magnitude, no matter how cacheable, you're going to feel it.

PS: I forgot about one thing; their HTTP interface to diffs. That's a huge surface of fresh data to request which will have to go to the backend. Like you could do with Wikipedia history diffs. Perhaps they would have to cut that off for users who do not have a cookie set from a project or user home page... Okay, I spoke too soon. Github has a huge amount of fresh data to request and a targeted attack on things like git diffs (let every user request a different diff) can't just be solved by HTTP caches.
Here's an example of distributing machine resources across different networks and devices [1] using inferno. An example of distributing computation is at [2].

[1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/11/07/sharing-computer-and-pho...
[2] http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-2-let-s-make-a-cluster
A formerly respected tech publication has been making life hell for hackernews readers by resorting to sensationalist link-bait headlines.
Anyone care to explain why the downvotes?
I still think all this revelations will lead to a more balanced state of affairs.
I recently saw an episode of "Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown" where he visits Colombia. He talked to locals about the drug trade and one person he interviewed made a very good argument that stuck with me:

Many people see drugs as a single problem with a single solution (eliminate all the drugs). But it's much more reasonable to see it as two problems: trafficking and use. Trafficking would be decimated with legalization and money fighting it could be spent on programs to help users.
Has nothing to do with your karma. It's an experiment that PG is conducting.

Unless I misunderstood your question.
Hear, hear. We are supposed to be a nation of laws, not of men. We have allowed our government to create a separate ruling class that is above the law. Any honest reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will admit that the government was meant to be more restricted than the people.
We've used Google Docs before for project management (my boss is a Google fan) and honestly man, it's a pain.
Isn't that a common theme in many works of fiction?
It's just a tradeoff.

But it's a tradeoff that has left Lisp with one major app in 40 years (Emacs)? A handful of notable apps... and that's it.

And why, in a space like phones, where one dev can produce an app in a week to months, are there no incredible Lisp applications? This seems like the perfect domain where one to three devs is all it takes to make a world-class app, and theoretically with the awesomeness discussed in the story we would expect at least one Lisp app that was just mind blowing. Of course that hasn't happened.

IMO, what I think happens are those people who are attracted to Lisp are those who like language purity/elegance and bask in it. They tend to be those that over-attribute the power of a language to the productivity of a developer. They have a great language, and are bright people, yet the result is nothing beyond the normal range of expected output. So they then try to create a rationale that combines their belief that they have a super language, with some odd external force that keeps that language from showing its true power to the outside world. Missing perhaps the most obvious thing which is that in terms of expressability/productivity, language is probably a 1.5x multiplier at best. But if they concede that the multiplier on productivity isn't at least 10x, they may have to admit that the beauty of the language is mostly a form of self-gratification.
Misleading title. Being someone who is "Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures." is different than someone who complains.

Someone who "became visibly upset and arrogantly pointed his finger in the agent's face when asked why he did not have an airline ticket for a return flight." is different than someone who expresses discontent in a non-threatening manner.
I'd imagine they won't be getting any deals with those angels though. Part of the point of the fee, maybe.
That's not an answer to the question, though. I'm also genuinely curious. What do people "in finance" actually do on a day to day basis? My naive understanding is that the industry is highly automated already, so what activities are these 100 hour weeks spent doing?
I always thought Nintendo's corporate history was pretty legit? Start with cards, move to games/entertainment, move to video games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
I would argue Bitcoin has more intrinsic value than gold - it is easier to move, faster to move, more secure in its transit, harder to counterfit, and impossible to create more (than is already planned.)

It's intrinsic value comes from these very properties - similar to how gold's intrinsic value is that it's shiny, has been around for 2000 years, makes great jewelry, and some other things as well.

In this century though if you're looking for a digital, better kind of gold then Bitcoin is it - hands down.
Well, wrote an epic rant/rebuttal to the "hard work is just a story" and by the time I finished the link to post expired... So I'll be brief.

The argument that hard work is just a story is deeply offensive to me. Social mobility in the US is one of the highest it has ever been in history. AND this social mobility is non-violent! This has NEVER happened before in human history. Just think about that for a minute before you get on that soap box again.

Look at the crop of "new money" rich that technology has produced. Why? Hard work and value creation. Instagram may not be value in the sense of gold bricks, but the connections it created surpass most communication mediums in history. Still think it's just a photo app?

Sure, things aren't great right now. American exceptionalism and infectious optimism aren't what they used to be. Many of us are downright embarrassed by the current political situation. Forget that, I'm mortified by the disregard for the rule of law. But that doesn't mean we should take our proverbial ball and go home.

Hard work has made an incredible difference for me and my family in several generations, spanning Soviet Union and now US. No rhetoric can take that away from us.

What concerns me most, is that you seem to lack respect for your own work. I sincerely hope you find that respect. If you do not value your own work, how can others? How can you respect your trade? Your peers accomplishments?
Yup.

Business theater continues despite evidence it doesn't work. [1] Consider this a signal everything else is broken too. Notice their signals to show you are more than a technical automata to "fill a process void in the value chain".

The best interviews are as casual as possible, and not called interviews.

Good interview process looks like:

- 2 phone screens (recruiter||hr and then hiring manager && closest cowoker, if any)

- webcam screen

- a couple on-sites that may lead to:

- questions about what they've been working on, what's important to them, their career development goals and eventual desired package (that's basically it)

- take someone out to lunch

- play a sport with them [2]

- work on a current problem

- have an adventure

(very important for hiring manager and coworkers to have a say; placing staff under a manager is fail.)

Skip the:

- behavioral questions

Before hiring someone on a temporary project basis. Full time in a reasonable amount of time (average 6 months), or part time if that works better for them. This way, it's cool to feel each other out in the non-creepy professional way and there's no hurt feelings.

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/google-admits-bizarr...

[2] I hate all sports, except Scrumball and World Cup.
And YOU will LOVE it
No. If the media reports that the average salary is $50k/year that is not disinformation even if a lot of people will misinterpret it as meaning "most people make $50k/year" simply because they don't understand that an average is a measure of central tendency, not distribution.

Something like this only rises to the level of disinformation if the media (or whoever) deliberately presents an accurate piece of data in a way that it knows will not be understood.

If metrics that average people don't understand was disinformation than 90% of my job would be disseminating disinformation. It's not. Instead, a large part of my job is explaining the metrics.
This is the difference between people who embrace static typing and everyone else. A static type lover hears that 98% of your bugs are of the "we need to handle another case" variety and says, "well, that means you could have gotten rid of 98% of your bugs with better typing".
A symbolic gesture signaling approval of the peaceful transition of power for arguably the most powerful political apparatus on earth is quite significant to a lot of Americans. It is probably considerably less interesting to people watching from the outside.
Well if this is Russia's crime of the century, then that's at least significant improvement. Russia's crime of last century wound up killing more like twenty million people, instead of only one.

The 19th century wasn't so great either.
But even with such independence, the only way to reconcile this article with my observation is to say that the NOK is weakening even faster than the USD. I don't see/understand how that's the case.
As far as I know, Wufoo didn't raise VC. They only raised a small angel round.
That may be unfair.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/laurene-powell-jobs...
> what's the risk that someone gains access to your DB but not your app server, vs. the risk that in implementing the pepper, you somehow screw up and store something easily crackable?

The question is irrelevant anyway, because if someone gets access to your app server, they get the secret in both cases (pepper and encryption). So the first risk there is present in both cases, which just makes this a static "what's the risk that you screw up in implementing the pepper?"
There's XPrivacy framework that runs on top of Magisk or XPosed (not sure how it works now). I remember it allowed you to give very fine-grained permissions to apps and poison the data as well, with fake contacts, location, etc.

Back in the day it required a lot of tinkering to set it up, and would likely make your OS pretty unstable.
The full announcement linked from the article: http://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/the-four-wheeled-proce...
Loeg, I think this exactly what they did to me - I had good luck with chase (CSR if it matters?). Submitted the chargeback in early Dec and received confirmation at the end of the month.

I had all the tracking information, recordings, etc, but was never asked for any information from chase. I had tried to go through PayPal’s dispute mechanism first around dec 5 - so 43 days after the order was placed.

Hope some of this is helpful to you.

I think Etsy should own the refund process when they detect these fake stores and scams. If they can delete the store, they should be able to have PayPal reverse all the charges associated with it, right?
I gave it a try (Windows version) to see for myself how it works (it is exceptionally buggy at the moment and unusable). VLC still has an oddity that I only discovered reading HN VLC threads and playing around a bit, which is that if you add files or directories to the playqueue (as they now call it to distinguish the list that will actually be playing from saved playlists) via the media menu (which is what VLC calls the file menu) or if you drag and drop then the thing you just added will play immediately, however if you right click from the playqueue and add files or directories from that menu then it will add to the end without interrupting what is curently playing, which is personally what I always want. IMO, this should be changed to have the same configurable behavior both ways but as the new design is making the media menu slightly harder to reach it is encouraging use of the way to add files that works best. There are other icons at the bottom of the playqueue but not for adding files or save as playlist, which I think there should be. The four icons currently there are loop, random, sort order, and clear playqueue.

The full menus from current VLC are there as-is under the ... icon. On Windows, the Video and Music tabs default to My Videos and My Music (this can be changed in the preferences; they should mention that and not just the network option) and can easily be added to the playqueue from there (again right clicking gives you more options than are otherwise obvious). The cone on the top bar does nothing and the left arrow changes the view to the previous view (i.e. from a video to the tabs that let you look at your media library). The button with the lines and music notes next to the ... icon shows the playqueue on the right side of the screen (up to half the screen when vlc is fullscreen).

The three lines icon on the left is not the usual mobile menu (I guess that would be three equal lines, but still it is too close IMO), but just changes the media library view to list mode. The button next to it (lines with a down arrow) changes the media library sort order. IMO, this should be changed to match what the playqueue looks like (sort icons on the bottom, not at the top). I would also change the All or Playlists tabs to a Playlists Only button and put that, the playqueue button, the ... button, and filter on the top line if there is enough space. Similarly IMO, the icons at the bottom should be able to be on the controls line if there is enough space (to give the maximum amount of space possible to the playqueue and media library).

There are still a bunch of popups for things like adding files to the playqueue if you don't use the media library or drag and drop; I'd prefer to use the space used by the media library for that (and have another tab for files outside the media library).

Overall, I like the new design personally even though I would change some things.
House fires, power surges, theft, natural disasters.
As a bad alternative. By the smart TVs, add a Pihole to the network. Block port 53 if it isn’t from the Pihole and add an as list like the one below.

It seems to work well.

https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar...
Hang in there. You're a good person, and you are enough just the way you are. You don't need anyone's approval to exist.

If you are in East Coast U.S., I may be able to find you a shower.
Moving to the mouse is a movement where the distance from my hand to the body stays the same, while moving to the trackpad is a movement where I need to being my hand closer. For whatever reason, I find the second easier.

Additionally, when I'm using it on my lap, the trackpad is basically next to my body, which makes my wrist position a little uncomfortable.

Looking back, I think it's not really the switching, but rather the comfort when using one for a prolonged period, for which I found the trackball easier.
Well some digital stuff gets Art World love, just not most of it. Museums have been grappling with a lot of these questions for years, at least since video art made it into collections. And on a conceptual level I’d say for longer.

What does it even mean to own a Sol Lewitt wall drawing?[0] There is a whole wall of art at SFMOMA that is less “owned” than an NFT-backed goofy little “punk” graphic.

So far it doesn’t seem like the curatorial voices have made it into the NFT conversation.

I found it interesting that Beeple hedged and actually made an artifact to go with the digital version of his daily editions.

The gallery I bought prints from last year has some interesting takes on it, they are only dealing in digital art but they are a (small) physical gallery.[1]

I also have no idea where this is going, I was barely paying any attention until a week ago despite having an artist friend who’s involved in blockchain stuff. But I definitely find the conversations interesting! Learning new stuff almost daily now...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt

[1]: http://mymuseum.co/
> In truth, people's personalities are malleable

That's what I observed myself - I can have different MBTI depending on situation and context. When "people change" it's mostly the context that changes, and a different personality is assumed like a role by the mind, as if the mind just wants to adapt to each situation as best possible.

Reminds me of the unlimited ability of GPT-3 to assume personalities and points of view, with the right trigger you can get it to be anyone. I'm not saying people's personalities are equally flexible but they do have a degree of context flexibility.
Anti money laundering laws definitely apply to Paypal
> Yes - why don’t we invest in places where house prices are lower?

There is an old quote. "Why do people rob banks? Because that is where the money is." Whatever benefits of the area are why people were willing to pay higher prices. It is good for not as nice areas to develop but trying to bootstrapping a less developed area is also expensive with fewer guarantees of demand in the area. It is like trying to go max density zoning from the start in Sim City and having massive bills and no demand. "Retirement communities" are the main demand for those cheaper niches and even then they have other demands to fulfill like medical care.
The original raspberry pi documentation did kind of give people the wrong idea.

The whole block with the VPUs, ISPs, mpeg4 codec and 3d pipeline could be described as a "GPU", and the gpu firmware is the firmware that runs it.

Modern Desktop CPUs also contain a management/security cpu core which runs everything. And that correctly described as GPU firmware, though its commonly called vBIOS.

But the VPUs are so much more than a management processor for the 3d pipeline. They have a huge vector array and can do software encoded/decoding of video up to 480p MPEG2 (videocore 4 added hardware h264 codecs that could do 1080p)

I like to think of the VPUs as multimedia co-processor cores.

The ipod video used the VideoCore 2 as it's gpu. It had an arm SoC as it's main cpu and a separate videocore chip. The videocore handled all display output and video decoding. It has no 3d pipeline, but they wrote an software opengl implementation which runs on the VPU to implement the games.

There are actually a few set-top boxes (and maybe a cellphone) which just just the videocore VPUs the main cpu. It's flexible enough for that.
This really is the logical conclusion for the ban and regulate crowd.
Yes that's the one, I think I tried some kind of chocolate/hazelnut but it's been a while.

I strangely detest rose flavour unless it's also mixed with chocolate in which case I love it (and will devour a bag of chocolate coated Turkish delight).
Turbo Pascal (and perhaps its imitators like Think C) really seems like it was a milestone in IDE usability and responsiveness that has rarely (if at all) been exceeded or even equaled.

I know CPUs are not GPUs, but it seems embarrassing that we can render beautiful, highly responsive, ray-traced games at 4K resolution and 120FPS but we still have to wait for code to compile, and code editors often feel clunky and unresponsive.

I wish Xcode, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, etc. would apply the monstrous computing power we have in 2021 a bit more effectively.
Generally that isn’t how it works.

More density usually doesn’t come close to satisfying actual demand, but it does make the existing real estate more valuable.
Agreed about Gnome 3, but from the Wikipedia article on Unity:

"In July 2012, at OSCON, Shuttleworth explained some of the historical reasoning behind Unity's development. The initial decision to develop a new interface in 2008 was driven by a desire to innovate and to pass Microsoft and Apple in user experience. This meant a family of unified interfaces that could be used across many device form factors, including desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phones and TV. Shuttleworth said "‘The old desktop would force your tablet or your phone into all kinds of crazy of funny postures. So we said: Screw it. We’re going to move the desktop to where it needs to be for the future. [This] turned out to be a deeply unpopular process.”"

In answer to your question, systemd is in an excellent position to inject non-determinism into the functioning of the OS at all kinds of levels. I've got a hair-trigger response to things breaking and fixing themselves randomly, courtesy of a couple of years working with Windows. systemd has already demonstrated this behaviour, and I feel fairly safe in predicting that this will increase as systemd gains in complexity. Never to the point of being a major problem, just enough to be a persistent annoyance.

Major point being, however, that if it does turn out as I expect, there's going to be no avoiding it while still using the mainstream Linux distros.