jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The electoral college ONLY applies to the president. The president can't (despite best efforts) unilaterally make laws. The role of president has very little legislative power (IMHO) as it should be.

The fact that people blindly use the word "democracy" (something that the founding fathers warned against) and attempt to "spread" it in other countries only highlights the need for better education.

We are under a rule of law, not a rule of mob:

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." - Benjamin Franklin.
Talking with ops folks at work, they have seen system clocks in our fleet (which run ntpd) suddenly report times off by _years_ and then go back to "accurate." We have thousands of nodes for the software I work on. We sometimes get negative times when comparing events, if only by a few seconds. You can't fully trust time in a distributed system.
I'm not sure exactly how good a measure GNP is of this, but for what it's worth the US GNP both absolute and per capita was slightly above its 2008 level by 2010, and has kept climbing ever since. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gnp-...

By contrast the UK still hasn't come close to recovering to the same level: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/gnp...

So maybe the US at least is in a better position than it was in the 1930's to recover on that measure?
And do you make your users suffer your broken stuff?
Consider hiring a babysitter to help if that's still an option in your area. That's what we did, starting today. It's working out so far, and it's significantly less expensive than our daycare was.

I found that there was overwhelming supply vs. limited demand, in my area at least, so it was super easy to find someone. There were a number of recently laid off people who seem eager for the work even if you can't afford high wages, so it's a win-win. You both get to be productive and earn money.
> In the office my doctor advised me a long time ago to stand up and walk around every hour for leg circulation. I've also avoided carpal tunnel that way, or maybe its the weight lifting.

I constantly drink herbal (decaffeinated) tea or water throughout the workday. This forces me to get up and move about every 30-45 minutes or so to either refill my mug/water bottle or use the bathroom. I'm still fairly young (in my late 30s), but have already had a number of issues with joints/tendons. I was approaching carpal tunnel while I was still in college (spent +16 hours a day in front of a computer). Luckily, some light exercise helped back then. Now I've arthritis in pretty much my entire spine. It's a real pain, but getting up and walking around every 30-45 minutes really helps a lot with my pain. It seems to also help with posture as I tend to slouch more the longer I've had my butt in my chair.
That's encouraging, but on Jitsi Meet all guests seem to be able to kick out others. Is the option to appoint admins specific to self-hosted instances?
Yes replies have to be routed through the server in order to remove any trace of the real email address sender. They are currently sent from the domain anonaddy.me.

I will be adding the ability to send replies so that they come from a user's own custom domain soon. This will involve having to add an SPF and DKIM record as well as the MX one.

At the moment it is not possible to initiate an email conversation using an alias although it is a feature I would like to add. I'll have to think about the best ways to prevent spam when adding this.

Yes you could use the same Reply-To: name and email to reply to the same person more than once if you have already received a forwarded email from them.
The lithium battery fires I’ve seen associated with BEVs accelerate faster (edit, was: are quite a bit more vigorous) than those I’ve seen associated with gasoline or diesel fueled vehicles. Shouldn’t the violence of the fire (not just the number of incidents) figure into the safety calculus?
The banking side is becoming more mature, I think, as many exchanges like Coinbase provide custodial cold-storage options for institutional clients.

Counter-party risk always exist.

> Then there are the horror stories of banks freezing your account when you move funds in and out of exchanges.

Depends on the country. What happened to me is that a bank did not freeze my account. Instead, they simply reported it to the government, and asked AML questions regarding the transfer. The government, on the other hand, wanted me to provide bookkeeping records. Otherwise, they were going to assume that every transfer coming back from cryptocurrency exchange was pure profit.

Basically, I was not raided, my accounts were not frozen, but the government knows my wallet addresses (and I had to pay back 4 years worth of cryptocurrency trading profits with interest applied, which also left me realize how little I had made profit in the end).
not everything is a business, maybe he just writes blog posts for fun / himself
For all X, if you study the effects of X on a complex system hard enough, it will look like X is the dominant factor that explains most of the variation.

I happen to believe peer groups are really important. But other things are important, too, including the adults.

Remove all the middle-aged and older men from a city, but still provide other necessities, and you'll see some terrible outcomes. (This is true in other species as well, like elephants where older males are hunted for tusks.)
No, not in Crimea. True hate for all things Ukrainian was real there, especially in older folks. Many older generations never learned the language anyway and feeling of being heavily abused by politicians in Kyiv didn’t help the cause either.

This was very different from for example Baltic states.
That’s great, thanks!

Made me think a lot about number 4 - don’t have enough in my life. Something to work on.
This article really points out how out of touch with citizens the PBA really is. Not writing summonses and only arresting people "when they have to" is what many people have wanted for more than a decade.
Because there are already are sources that show that the article statement was just fine, and because I was quite astonished that you would object to that statement on the grounds you mentioned.
It's so Github for windows[0] style

[0]:https://windows.github.com/
Or, less cynically, heads in their own world. People don't have the time to learn and care about everything. They're much more concerned about things going on in their immediate life, on their local city, on their state, and on their nation.

What the major news outlets reports on also has a big influence here, and coverage of the olympics also tends to focus on the athletes, not on the olympic committee. As a result, I'm pretty sure what goes into creating the olympics generally ranks pretty far down on the list of people's priorities.
Actually Metallica uses Axe FX II for all tours like I said...! Maybe they've not updated this page.

[0]:http://www.g66.eu/articles/890-metallica-backstage
[1]:http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-discussion/87016-met...
[2]:http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/13217/metallica-confirm...

That's some really lazy google'ing there btw...!! Look at the top 3 results for https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1....

Are you hoping that I just... made up that point? I find it interesting the degree of denial audio guys have with this stuff. The Axe FX is a really amazing and inspiring piece of machinery that allows for a huge artistic freedoms and is basically the product of one guy's dedication to accuracy (many amps are modelled to the extent of their entire circuitry being simulated as well as precise physical models of the valve sets which you can change, etc. etc.) - when I wonder why the Axe hasn't got the love it deserves (though there's growing love for it) the reaction of 'not the same as analogue' guys reminds me why :)
WOOT is the highest profile conference on "offensive security"†. The point of publishing in WOOT is the same as
publishing in any other academic conference. WOOT has published, just in the past few years, Dawn Song, Matthew Green, Dan Boneh, Niels Provos, Thorsten Holz, Zakir Durumeric, Solar Designer, Joe Grand, Sergey Bratus, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, Dionysus Blazakis, Julien Vanegue, Rolf Rolles, Collin Mulliner, Stefan Savage, Travis Goodspeed, Stephen Checkoway, and Felix Lindner. Those are just the names I personally recognize; they've published many, many more than that.

Unlike in theoretical CS, a lot of work in WOOT's domain is done in the industry. So WOOT makes an effort to solicit contributions from the industry.

Does that make more sense?

† I hate that term, but look at the topics in the CFP to see what it means
from an ad:

With Microbuffer, you don't have to wait for your
printer to finish before you resume using your
computer.

Data is received and stored at fast speeds, then
released from Microbuffer's memory to your
printer.

This is called buffering. The more you print, the
more productive it makes your workflow.

Depending on the version of Microbuffer, these
buffering capacities range from a useful 8K of
random access memory - big enough for 8,000
characters of storage - up to a very large 256K -
enough for 256,000 characters of storage.
Seriously, this article says that the Ohio class submarines cost $2 billion, and their replacements $7 billion. That does not sound "underfunded" to me.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/ohio-nuclear-subs-cost...
Accidental downvote . . . I agree that this seems more practical and almost as easy.
I honestly don't know how Blackberry implements it, but there are a number of ways to accomplish it. Periodic polling (the way you mention) is generally regarded as 'bad'.

A better, but similar method is long-tail polling, in which you still poll periodically, but you wait for an answer, and don't time out the connection (or at least, don't time it out quickly.) You just leave the request hanging until you hear a response. If you don't hear a response before you have to time out, you just time out and then open a new long poll, doing the same thing. It's similar to polling every x seconds if there are constantly items to fetch, but if there aren't, it's much better.

Alternately, you can just set up a listener on the phone. I mean, Apache is the ultimate push client - it's just working the wrong way. If the phone number can act as the server IP address, then it just listens for a connection. The 'server' acts as a client, and 'requests' information from the phone whenever there is information to serve it.
The absence of evidence is not equivalent to evidence.
Just tested with some chinese characters, showed up as blank in the output pdf file. No support for languages other than english is not good.
Death is an evolved trait, but it has to do with life history trade-offs, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_history_theory

In some cases life history trade-offs differ between the sexes leading to longevity differences. In general, females live longer than males, although in humans the difference is pretty small. There are some extreme examples of this in spiders, such as the tarantula, where the male lives about 2 years and the female 8.
> What blew me away was that he genuinely did not think that the NSA would interpret the term "relevant" as broadly as humanly possible.

What makes you think he genuinely thought that? My (admittedly limited) experience with state and national politicians is that most say in public exactly what benefits them the most at the moment.
The opportunity is that they could have more customers. Many people are canceling their cable subscriptions because the price is too high for the value it offers. If cable companies allowed customers to have only a few channels that they cared about for a lower fee, many of these people would keep some level of cable subscription.
Because the ridiculous commentary makes me laugh, and I am a human being who enjoys that sort of thing.
Workflows vary, of course. And yeah, for non-programmers, I think the Air is a great machine--good enough to be the primary machine for most people.

But for full-time programming work, I think it is absolutely fucking batshit insane to use anything less than a modern 12-core Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM and an SSD RAID boot volume (at which point multiple 2560 x something monitors are de rigueur).

That's certainly true for [Obj-]C[++] development, where large compiles still take minutes, even on such hardware--and can take an entire lunch break on the Air.

Obj-C coding is my primary background, so buying the fastest possible machine every year has always made sense in that way; perhaps I have a leftover cognitive bias toward buying the fastest possible machine. But, for the past year or so, I've been working mainly with Ruby and Objective-J, which don't have these burdensome compiles. Yet buying the fastest mainstream hardware still makes tons of sense to me.

Running a few hundred unit tests, one second is way better than eight seconds. Running a bunch of convoluted RSpec integration specs, 34 seconds is way, way better than seven minutes. And although I mainly use simple editors like MacVim and BBEdit, I also really like the psychotron-dynamic-heuristic CodeSense-style introspection-based context-aware autocompletion features of RubyMine--a heavyweight Java-based IDE that eats 800MB of RAM and can barely even launch on a MacBook Air, and certainly isn't usable on it. And of course the modern Pro can run Win7, WinXP, and Linux in VMWare in the background without breaking a sweat (that's why 16GB RAM doesn't really suffice).

Don't get me wrong; I think the recent MacBook Air is awesome. I have one, that I use for... well basically for word processing on airplanes (haha). And whatever else on airplanes.

But for working programmers, I think computers are still not nearly 'powerful enough'--there are still huge gains to be had by getting the fastest machine that it is reasonably possible to buy.

For roughly the price of one decently tricked-out Mac Pro, you can buy ten MacBook Airs. And for roughly the price of ten decently tricked-out Mac Pros, you can hire one additional developer.

That notwithstanding, I still think it makes business sense.

Sometimes, in my dreams, an AI built by an alien race visits my house, from the future in another galaxy, and explains to me the precise opportunity cost of a dozen human developers waiting three or four extra seconds, a hundred times a day for a year... and it's more than the ten grand that an appropriately provisioned Mac Pro costs

P.S.
A bootstrapped startup where money is really tight is the obvious exception--the exception that proves the rule!
I have a friend at a place that would pay $X0,000s for it assuming it worked well. This friend's business has a roster of scores of these types of research tools and resources, many of them web-based.

Care to share your login so I can check it out?
Awesome. Love the name/domain. Beautiful UI that will clearly keep getting more so. Couple of thoughts re design: 'Love sharing great things to do?' box should line up on the right side with the right side of the boxes above (using Safari.) I'd also try making the width of the sign up bar at the bottom the same as the footer bar (Home | What is This?, etc.) Keep up the sharp work.
You missed his point, he said that they haven't licensed SLI for use with AMD/ATI graphics cards, because those work with crossfire. They did license SLI to motherboard manufacturers (not AMD, think Asus) for use with AMD CPU chipsets.
Yes. I would love to see this..
Summary: Pander to your audience.
This thing is actually really easy to trap with logical thinking and then it just spits out a random answer.
He's also did an interview with Mixergy in March of 09' if anyone is interested. It's a little date at this point, but his main message is still relevant. If you participate in social bookmarking websites you'll eventually know what content they want to see.
Looks as if I am completely typical of this group. I started using computers aged 10, but only wrote programs unambiguously of my own making (as opposed to typed in from a book or magazine) at the age of 11.
Which one will be easier to maintain?
I understand your point, but have you ever actually tried to read the terms is service of any multi-thousand line legal document written in legalese. You are obviously in a way right, but for Google (and other companies) to purposely obfuscate the process does more harm.
Tough luck. Yes, that might come across as crass, but did they bother reading Google's terms of service? So they will bitch and moan about it, try the appeal process and not a dent will be made in their case.

What it boils down to is: if you rely on those earnings to sustain your business, guard against anything that tosses you into a suspicious category. And that is a moving target as well.

I do empathize with him, as I had to toil through AdSense appeal process, but that means diddly-squat.
The Google giveth and The Google taketh away... Moral of the story: diversify your income stream as much as you can. I don't know much about advertising world, but it seems that AdSense is a bit of monopoly, and that sucks.

Random idea for a biz opportunity here: A service that insures content providers against AdSense account termination by routing all of the clicks through a filter to prevent "overeager" clicking by your fans, in exchange for a small fee. If your AdSense account is terminated, you'll be paid for it (just like if your car is totaled, your insurance company pays for it)
Seems like part of the problem is that YouTube revenue is tied together to revenue from AdSense for websites, even though the two services are affected by click fraud differently. Now Google is still making money from the author's popular YouTube videos, and he won't see a penny.

The "correct" response would be to pull all his videos from YouTube, move them to a competing service, and write Google to let them know why. Of course, this would unfortunately mean traffic would drop close to zero... (what's the closest competitor to YouTube right now?)
Randall Munroe should've watched a Twilight Zone episode called "A nice place to visit" before drawing this comic.
Would be interested in your blog post

I have tried pretty much the same as you along with cross promotion of apps with other iOS developers and this seems to lead to the most success thus far
I think writing Python like it was C is really bad advice.

Python's higher-level features allow for extra simplicity.
I figure a rigid wing can have a more efficient aerofoil than an ultralight would do, plus these seem to go a fair bit faster.
That reminds me of

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080310

and

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080311
Similarly, but much less mature, Mirage runs the ocaml RTS directly on top of Xen: http://openmirage.org/
It's a bad comment even though it's only being bad ironically.
RAII, at a guess.
I had no idea...

thanks for the answers
Suggestion: Add support for Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. If the trend is remote work, focus on the remote workers who would prefer not to pay income taxes.
> human evolution itself turned away from high-mutation, high number of trials convex exploration to a more conservative exploitation of existing benefits.
> Are we already that close to the best we genetically could be?

Well nature as a whole hasn't exactly halted the high-mutation, high N strategy elsewhere in favor of humans (COVID-19?). It's just that cultural and technological evolution has outpaced it for humans, no nature was "right" to evolve the capacity for this additional vector of evolution.

It'd be like if we ever develop AGI, the silicon we initially run it on won't be ideal, and whatever algorithmic evolution the AI experiences will far outpace our technological progress. If AI improves its physical computation platform, that would be like humans editing their genome.
Windows does that with a lot of open-source binaries, they are new, and lower volumes of downloads... I blew past it a few hours ago with no bad outcome (that I know of)
I paid $.36 last month living an hour north of SF.
The USSR could produce enough nuclear weapons to keep pace with the US, but they couldn't produce toothpaste for their people. When that sank in for Gorbachev, he decided that something was fundamentally broken with the USSR economy.
This is not true.

For both road bikes and mountain bikes, Ti is a vanity product. Carbon dominates mountain bike industry at every price-point above about $3,500 right now.

There are certainly a few high end ti bikes, but carbon is king and very few people still argue ti is superior in terms of performance.
In general colo providers will accept delivery but they will not unpackage, rack, and cable a server for you.
I'll second that recommendation though honestly all of that book just seemed like common sense to me. He was covering things that I learned as a child.
> These chemicals will change your brain, and your brain is who you are.

I suspect that your brain is who you think you are because you've learned to associate the concept of self with your thought processes, but I ask you if you are indeed your thinking then how is it that you're able to observe your own thought ?

If you'll bear with me for a moment, doesn't it also make sense to think that you may be whatever is observing both thought and sensory phenomena ?

To run with that assumption for a moment.. if you are the observer rather than the thought, or body sensations under observation, then why assume that you're located in your brain ? After all aren't you equally observing the sensation of your little toe as you wiggle it ?

I suspect that man is so continually engaged with the process of thought-observation as his primary focus that he has developed a bais towards self-identification with that one area of the body in particular (the head) when logically speaking he has no reason to assume he's not equally located in his little toe.

Lets take this thought experiment one step further. If you can observe the body, as in the naturally arising sensory observation of bodily fabrications, and you can also observe thinking, then is it safe to assume that the observer is the same as that which is under observation ?

Or perhaps the observer is the process of observation itself rather than the observer or the observed (do you feel more like a verb or a noun lately) ?

or maybe it's both, or neither. Or could it be that it's neither nor one, nor the other, nor both, nor neither, as some buddhists have suggested ?

> It's not philosophical. It's physical.

If you come to suspect that you are either the observer, or the process of observing then how do you know for sure whether or not you are philosophical or physical in nature ? Or suppose you are both philosophical and physical in nature such as was reported to be the case with the fabled philosophers mercury of the hermetic alchemists ?

These are the kinds of questions that the process of self-reflection may stir up within the individual and for some people LSD can serve as a catalyst that prompts them to pause and reflect. I personally suggest that you can achieve the same thing with less risk to your person simply by pausing (becoming very still), and reflecting inwardly, but this doesn't come naturally, so it takes practice. I know from personal experience that the early teachings of the Buddha as preserved by the Theravada linage are almost entirely devoted to practical instruction on how to accomplish this very feat.

In closing I suppose if the article linked above is true, and ergot was a major component of the Western (greek) Mysteries then it occurs to me that perhaps it's this process of inward reflection, and it's fruits, which unite the ancient western with the ancient eastern mystical traditions.