jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Huh. I read about this the other day as well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842602:

> If only [Oracle] hadn't sued Google, Java would still have been the pre-eminent language for Android development. Sadly Android is stuck at legacy Java 8 permanently now. So, modern Java is stuck as a server-side language with dozens of competitors.

A reply argued that Android is on Java 11 now, and then you noted (hi!) that it's "a subset". Huh.

I'm trying to get a handle on understanding the ramifications of the legal/licensing situation, and the actual concrete impact on Java's use in Android. The subject seems somewhat murky and opaque. Is there possibly a high-level disambiguation about what's going on published anywhere?
OK, maybe "Turing test" was a bad hint because too often its extension turns into a philosophical rabbit hole of defining intelligence.

I want to get back to your initial statement about uncovering and structures, which I think is still grounded in the empirical realm. I think a less ambitious new test could be about the "uncovering" between analog data and the structures. To be real uncovering, the structures must be symbolic, not just transformed analog representation, and the symbolic structures must be useful, e.g. provide radical reduction of computational complexity compared to equivalent computation with analog data.

The point is to test if the machine can make the right abstraction (real uncovering) and also connect the abstraction with the data, not just games with words.
Yup. I used to have a hole in my left lung. I don't anymore.
This is good insight. Storytelling over function.
Write up and timeline of fixes reported by a Python core dev: https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/urllib-query-str...

bugs.python.org tracker issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue42967
Lol, an anti-slavery law? Better not tell Montana that, it would become a human rights atrocity overnight. They are not an at-will state.
This is a pure puff piece for a new webmail app. I'd love to know how the BBC (of all outlets) came to publish this article.

If I may say so, the mnm project also deserves coverage like this. It prevents spy-pixels, and phishing, and provides unsubscribe (from threads, or senders, or whole sites). And a heck of a lot more :-)

mnm, an open source project to replace email & SMTP:

https://mnmnotmail.org

https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
You seem to underestimate the pressure from the market.

At one point the younger generation does not even remember there was a local-first software.

Sadly the relentless efforts of the corporations are paying off.

That doesn't mean people are okay with it. It means their choice is made for them.
Very cool!

What made you choose LaTeX for the tool?

It seems like it wouldn't be too hard (maybe?) to get a proper algebra engine to assign variables. Currently you can do `x = 10` but you can't do `x / 2 = 5`. I feel like this would be very helpful since you're using this for scientific calculations.

It could then be possible to extend that further and leave the variable undefined if it doesn't (yet) have enough information to solve it. Then it could theoretically be used to solve simultaneous equations.
It does match my experience. I have a personal mail server with every bell and whistle working and my emails arrive to gmail addresses. My IP address was used by a spammer in the past, and took me some time cleaning it up in a bunch of dnsbl lists. But it reliably works now.
Great points really appreciate your thoughts here.

Data export is what we've been working on right now. What would be the first integration point you'd like to see? We've been discussing internally where to put our focus right now.

Fully agree with what you mentioned on search.
Nope.

The reason that Excel remains the dominant spreadsheet software is that it's the best spreadsheet out there, and it's almost universally installed on all school and business computers.
I love it! Is it possible for you to add other markets, like Forex or hedging foreign stocks? Putting stuff that you would usually have to write yourself is very welcome, but I think there's a lot more that could be done here.
Along with what everyone else has said some vendors such as Meraki and Ruckus have separate radios just designed for monitoring the spectrum and making changes accordingly. Groups of APs will automatically decrease their power and channel swap to avoid channel overlap etc.
Might be just me but once I saw that "x tips to get better" ebook, the offer lost credibility in my eyes. It just feels more believable to me that there might be some guy who knows so much about colors and the corresponding theory that he can actually can come up with a theme worth 100 bucks than that there is a guy who can do this _and_ give me tips on random semi-related topics.
It does not imply "wealth inequality is the result of federal policies". It implies that the current transfer of wealth is a result of federal policy.
Here’s a fun thing that happened to me on LinkedIn:

A few years back, I was job hunting, using LinkedIn at bit to find leads. During this ongoing process, my father, who’d been receiving chemotherapy treatments passed away.

Being the “technical one” it fell to me to manage his various accounts. I logged into his gmail from the same browser I’d used LinkedIn, and started to contact people he knew but was out of touch with.

The next day, I started receiving email, from my dead father, from LinkedIn. Claiming he’d just joined the service and wanted to connect to me.

I still don’t have the words for this, years later.

What exactly is wrong with these folks at LinkedIn? They seem like caricatures of actual humans to me now, and I no longer even bother to visit the site.

If anything positive comes from cancel-culture, canceling LinkedIn would be my preference.
It's kind of odd that Anandtech seems to make a lot of fuss about Samsung's tax break whereas Anandtech's recent article on TSMC's Arizon plant mentions virtually none of the same tax break highlighted for Samsung there. Is Apple still hiring away Anandtech's key editors?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15803/tsmc-build-5nm-fab-in-a...
The OS was stock Ubuntu, I believe. It was not intended for this purpose.
Most of the time it's a matter of distilling to simplicity. No so much building a better mousetrap, as much as needing only a mousetrap instead of an Animal Processor 5000.
Can you point to somewhere which makes the case for D vs C++ as of 2020 or so?

I always had the sense - without seriously looking into it though - that D was about avoiding some of the mistakes/mis-features of C++, but C++ is always getting new stuff, which doesn't sit exactly well with what D has chosen, and then it plays somewhat clunky catch-up. But I may be very wrong.
I think it's just a corrolary of Congress's extreme slowdown in passing bills. When new programs are always part of a massive omnibus touching a thousand things, it becomes pretty hard to draw links between specific programs and specific tax increases.
I wonder if Posterous is also aggregating all "views" of a post, not just individual page views to that post. So, for example, the "Page View" count in Posterous could include views from your homepage, archives, rss and permalink page.

I have noticed this as well, but haven't looked too much into it. I trust Google Analytics more anyways.
Meanwhile to sit somewhere where a 75" TV in my living room takes up a corresponding field of view to my 27" PC monitor I think I'd need to knock a few walls and sit in my neighbours
I would recommend keeping an eye on Emcell - they have been doing research using donated fetal tissue (there are an estimated 50mm+ abortions per year) for 30 years, and they've recently been able to ramp up their research efforts due to demand and exposure increasing for their existing treatments.

Free documentary on the clinic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRcmDySFyE
If you want good filters at a fair price, and don’t want to risk counterfeits open Amazon, I’ve had good luck ordering directly from Nordic Pure. Not a shill, just someone who is leery of ordering anything that’s high margin and easy to counterfeit on Amazon.
I just use telegram - it has ptivate messages when I need them but it's a great chat app to begin with.
RNA is very promising.

A person with multiple sclerosis told me after seeing the first COVID vaccine that in the future RNA tech could help her. Not long after I found this: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/biontech-ceo-turns-co...
Aren't those measures of distance?
Asphalt shingles. They degrade over time and can’t be replaced piecemeal. They’re cheap and easy to lay down. I think the original idea behind them was that the home owners could DIY cheaply every 10-15 years but both houses and people have moved away from that being considered an option. If you have a low pitch roof without a lot of valleys it’s still easy to do though.
I mean, MyPy does have some core PEP support, but remains optional for Python.

If something as core as type checking can be an optional feature, I'd be surprised if a heftier brain than mine can't get most of the way to a C++ borrow checker optionally.

Doesn't C++ famously fetish complexity? Wasn't pi once calculated at compile-timel with a C++ template? Where is my Obfuscated C entry that looks like an ASCII Robotron game and borrow-checks, say, the Linux kernel?
I think "people" would be the typical language to use in such a situation.
The thread topic is now: top the linked email’s exaggeration and make a programming language’s community sound even more like a revolutionary force. Go!
Sorry for the belated response ...

I said parts of the YC universe have a reputation of being uncomfortable with women. It's an overwhelmingly-male environments and a lot of the guys who hang out in that world are more comfortable with men than with women. If you're trying to recruit women, you want to actively signal that you're not like that.
I tend to not carry a card anymore, just my phone (Romania). I don't remember the last time I went to a shop that didn't accept card. Everyone who accepts cards accepts contactless.
Same for Poland, and what I've heard, Sweden.
I was careful to say individuals - my point was that there is no reason to doubt the possibility of those sympathetic individual(s) being decision-makers in the force. I was careful to not suggest it was a group decision.

However, it is no secret that the FBI has long-reported (2006!) on white-supremecist infiltration of police forces[1] - this is not crazy talk. If someone joined the police as a rookie in 2006 to enforce their personal agenda, how far up the leadership hierarchy would they be now?

1. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...
As I was saying, this is still sinking in for many. I'm not saying these things won't be listed in some encyclopedia page, obviously history will give a thorough account of his time in power.

However, children who are born this year won't be spending a lot of time in history class covering Trump's mundane policy victories in school. They'll be looking at the bullet points, and the first one will be about his incitement of a mob to sack the US capitol and shed blood in his name.
> I agree with the more open approach, but shouldn't her office have a simple keycard or combo lock on the door?

Congressional offices are frequent meeting spaces with people who do not work there. Their job, after all, is to represent the public. Locking the public out of their offices is kind of antithetical to the job description.
The concept of a vocation is a fairly recent invention, mostly arising out of the Protestant brand of Christianity. Work has been disdained throughout most of history [1]. Therefore, I would say that liking your work or finding your calling are not things that everyone can even do or has to do. The idea of a vocation strikes me more as intellectual rationalizations arising in tandem with the current economic mode of life.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-History-Work-Richard-Donkin/dp/023...
I'm pretty sure everyone hates their congresspeople, if they are of the opposing party.
It's also incredibly ahistorical.
That's not all LinkedIn is for though. If it was a submit-your-resume-for-recruiter-screening website, your suggestion to remove the pictures would make sense. But it's used in a very different way which is why I don't think the pictures are a problem.
So this must be why Bitcoin has no inflation.
> the constant stream of negative comments from unhappy and rude users during the work week and outside of it was extremely draining

This is because mozilla is an open source aberration. The actual developers are super humans, but they are being led by people with the wrong incentives. This is what cause "rude emails from users". the opposite would have gotten you a nice balance of polite and rude patches/reports from contributors.

Open source organizations should focus on fostering the community and educating users. Not trying to champion new versions and rewrites themselves.

Mozilla at first focused on selling the default search spot (and spent that money on exec salary and moonshot projects not related to the browser at all). Now they are focusing on getting mobile users in order to sell their attached products.

When you pay for developers, and make your projects even more closed, you call that on yourself. You are now a company competing on the freemium market.

Case in point, i was an early contributor to Gaia (the mozilla phone OS). I could build and change the browser with ease. I would send in detailed bug reports. Now on android, I can barely get a decent build with the google libraries baked in, let alone make meaningful changes. I just hold off updates and hope somebody else do the work for me (for a while f-droid folks did :)

And I will not even get into my worse petty peeve which is the recent android addons non-techcnical-totally-political-whitelist. sigh. or the changes on every revision to the bookmarks. keywords, folders, etc. can't keep my data consistent for a while now :(

But to close in a good note: mozilla is not representative of opensource! it is much better elsewhere. thank you!
> The right of exit, as they say, is still there.

The existence of rights does not obviate the possibility that they will be infringed upon.

> There is also freedom in the security of living in a content and happy society that isn't setting up guillotines because massive underclasses have been pushed to their breaking points. The price you pay for civilization, and so on.

So I’d really like these leaders to quit pushing us to the breaking point but they keep doing things that benefit themselves and their cronies and telling me its for my own good. So I’m not really sympathetic to the idea that civilization requires central banks run by oligarchs or tax laws (written for the benefit of oligarchs) that punish productivity and reward sloth.
> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

- C. A. R. Hoare
The parent claims Bitcoin is not using the power for useful work. Which is entirely true. The vast vast vast majority of electricity for Bitcoin goes to hashing random numbers where the output has no value.
Can you provide a tutorial on how a dev would use your framework?

Thanks
So FFDOs "must be able to maintain sensitive security information as a condition of the FFDO program."

Apparently this includes not saying that security theater is exactly that. Alternately, it means that the TSA is very sensitive about the security theater slur.
Back in the 80s one would be very excited to find a BBS that supported enhanced Apple IIe Mouse Text for drawing graphics, symbols, and menus at 1200 baud.

I suppose this is the Stanley Kubrick 2010 version of that.
They get paid less; they don't get to set their pay; but it's somehow their fault that they get paid less?
The Adobe AIR Application Installer seems to launch automatically. I hadn't decided whether or not I wanted to try the app at that point, but I definitely didn't want to see my CPU usage shoot to 100% and have my browser lock up. So I decided to force quit the installer and close the website. Maybe it's a great app, but the AIR experience immediately kills it, for me at least.

Chrome on OSX btw
I'd bet that a brilliant marketer with additional schooling was behind that.
Sales people are really really good at selling themselves, and really really bad at actually DOING stuff.

I would suggest that you hire an actual sales person as opposed to a sales manager. Even if they're going to manage a team in their first year, it's better to have someone who isn't afraid to go out and close deals because they will have to do so in their first year.

Most of the sales people we met at our last company had been managing sales forces for so long that they forgot how to go out and close.
It says Bose donated a majority of the shares. How much is Bose (private company) worth? And how much in dividends can MIT expect from Bose on an annual basis?
What in the name of Albert Hoffman has the title got to do with the actual article? They talk about a couple scientists and a symposium on LSD.

How is this a 'geek wonder drug'? CAFFEINE is the geek wonder drug. LSD probably contributes less than 5% of the world's drug-induced geek accomplishments.
Yeah, let the authors sidestep the publishers as time goes on. They'll incur less overhead (dozens of unnecessary salaries that don't exist), keep more money and sell their product cheaper. The publishers will have to fall into line and sell the product at a price more in line with its value.
Out of curiosity - do you ever drink wine with a meal? Have a beer with friends? Sip coffee discussing exciting new projects or dissecting a problem?

These are all "drugs". Anything we put into our body, food or otherwise, is a "drug" and serves to alter us in some way.

You will always have "external dependencies". You are dependent on food and water to live, social interaction to love and to feel friendship, and other humans to make your life possible through manufacture, farming, and medical care, among other things.

We all have external dependencies. One of the beauties of ingesting hallucinogens is that this is the first realization you will likely have.
Folks like to rag on Bose products (and from a pure sound quality standpoint they are overpriced IMO) but Amar Bose was the best professor I had and his enthusiasm for engineering and acoustics showed in all of his lectures.

He's been good to MIT over the years (MIT students, faculty and affiliates get substantial discount) and this is another example of him giving back. I hope this encourages MIT to resurrect some of their acoustics programs (aside from a couple of projects coming out of the Media Lab and a telephony class or two, acoustics has been dead at MIT since the late 1990's) but I suspect they'll just use it as a cash cow.
Yes, good point about the refactoring.
I know Frederick and am very glad to see that he's making progress. Many don't understand how much social disconnection to the outside world contributes to recidivism and even to social degeneration. It's a problem because its hard for the people who love these inmates to keep them abreast of their lives easily. This product is likely to change this issue in a major way.
I do agree with you - I already learned this lesson with MtGox! Thankfully the amount I have stranded at Coinbase isn't enough to lose sleep over.
So, I took a look. You said that they share the contests of your messages. Looks like that's simply wrong.

Messsages

"We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Instead, your messages are stored on your device and not typically stored on our servers. Once your messages are delivered, they are deleted from our servers."

Photos

"When a user forwards media within a message, we store that media temporarily in encrypted form on our servers"

Automatically Collected Information

Usage And Log Information, Device And Connection Information, Location Information and Cookies.

What am I missing? What exactly is WhatsApp doing wrong? Once again, I hate shady shit, but I'm not seeing anything crazy in here.
Thing is they're all tied in together. If you have a class of folks in low socioeconomic standing, leading to criminality, that's costing real dollars - in terms of the legal system, in terms of prisons, in terms of lost income, in terms of healthcare, and jobs. The argument I'm making is they're all the same thing.
There is a list of other affected keys at the bottom of the article.
That is not an accurate reading of what I wrote.

To spell it out: prior to 9/11, institutionalized use of torture was anathema to our national mores as reflected by American cultural products. Only ad-hoc extra legal violence (various police shows) was on the entertainment menu.

After 9/11, institutionalized use of torture was promoted as "necessary" and "acceptable" and cultural products were duly modifed to represent that radical shift in American ethos.

American children who grew up post 9/11 are likely not even aware that as recently as 1992, use of torture was systemically held up as a sign of a repressive system. I merely bring up TV given that it is the main source of social conditioning for the masses. We could discuss academic and political content not on TV and see the same abrupt shift in our national value system.
I'm not sure what you mean then. What power or abilities have changed?
I'd guess at the same time we accept the stock market is a scam when it shuts down when trading goes full crazy? Helps prevent runs on them?
Kraken does not support users in New York as well as some other states.
Tell me the other side's misinfo.

And the thing is, the reality of the situation is so apparent that I don't even have to specify which side I am talking about!
Dylan Thomas

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas

http://www.poemhunter.com/dylan-thomas/
To make an analogy, most places ban entering with a weapon unless you are law enforcement on official duty. Not because any Joe that has a gun has killed someone with it.

But the danger is that he/she can. Thats why guns are regulated. Information is not a harmless dingus. Its a weapon, just as the gun was in the last century. Do we need a war to discover this?

The web is still a gunslinging wild west. We need regulation. EU is light years ahead in this regard and might just save us all from the tyranny of the Greay whom we trust to act in good faith - because they say they will. This strikes me as quite naive on our part.
There's a big difference between a system for submitting and collating issues. You want to be really flexible with inputs on this kind of thing, and specifically to allow anonymous (which means non-electronic) means. Free form text is also a benefit, because trying to put enough dropdowns for someone who is not a security expert to classify the thing they saw that might be wrong, but they don't really know, is a great way to put people off / misclassify things. The submission system is also going to have security/classification issues up the ying yang in terms of wanting lots of people to use it, yet storing highly sensitive data.

You can have really rigorous procedures without putting them on a computer. You can also have really rigorous procedures without needing a special computer system to manage them.
Isn't this what E-1 and E-2 visas are for?
What do you think "slur" means? All of these words are slurs, and they detract from discourse while adding nothing.

No one's banning "words" here. They are discouraging misuse of language that drags down the quality of discourse.