jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Twitter had an XMPP gateway to send tweets. They were never built on XMPP.

Google still uses XMPP. On Android phones this isn't exposed as a service to other apps (if you want that, use Rene Treffer's excellent https://github.com/rtreffer/AsmackService).

Android's XMPP bits use a proprietary binary protocol to communicate with their XMPP server farm. Probably to reduce power consumption. You can still use any 3rd party XMPP client to connect into google's XMPP cloud.
Oh, interesting idea. Sorta like how common lisp does it?
This is a perfect example of how the negative liberties implied in "free markets" can destroy our actually experienced liberties (particularly in the case of free speech), and thus underscore the importance of positive liberties (i.e., one's ability to influence the world around him/her).

http://science.jrank.org/pages/9967/Liberty-Contemporary-Con...
The food packaging loses a lot of meaning. The original Nutella, Nesquick, Toffifee, Corn Flakes, Lindt and Pringles packaging all show what's inside or a "serving suggestion". If I didn't already know what the product was, it'd be a lot tougher to know what I was buying.

The same applies for the Durex packaging. I assume that Durex Select condoms are fruit flavoured or scented, because there's fruit on the box. I can't make that assumption with the "minimalist" packaging.

I think they do look good, but design isn't a synonym for modernist aesthetics; it has a goal and I don't think the goal is being met by these.
Ahh yes, I misunderstood what he was trying to say.
If you can compromise someone's account -- someone who doesn't have superuser privileges -- you could then exploit the querystring trick to try to get access to additional information. And potentially compromise the account of someone who does have superuser privileges.
The original title, "The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation", is more descriptive and helpful. And it doesn't need to be prepended by 'Cato Institute', as that's already indicated by the domain.

BTW, here's an HTML version at the Cato site, albeit annoyingly paginated:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/html/pa-626/pa-626index.html
Related question: does anyone know of any no-baseband devices?

I've been unsuccessfully looking for a wifi-only phone, ideally a relatively modern one which comes with an unlocked bootloader and can easily run Cyanogenmod.
I will be interested to see the results, on one hand i am not a fan of quotas, on another, I am sure a large listed company cam find at least one qualified woman
Have you seen the crap that people believe and the shitty sources that they're accepting the information from? The Facts AKA barely plausible bullshit is being served to anyone who wants to believe in an alternate yet more interesting reality fitting their own beliefs.

Social media has given everyone a soap box, a megaphone and a repeater and the ability to piggyback on other people's shouting directly into people's ears and eyes. Do you think this is a good thing? No one is vetting anyone seriously, no one is being consistently judged on their honesty, accuracy, track record or motives.

It's not entirely about being dumb, more and more it's turning out to be about how much time people are able to commit to understanding what they're reading. This is why people are known as experts in the first place. Do you really think everyone is capable enough to handle the highly nuanced planning and decision making necessary for governing millions of people on the balance of thousands of existing laws and regulations?

Sometimes you can't boil information down into something that everyone can understand in a short enough amount of time which would be what is necessary for each person to play a role in democracy. Just like we pay someone to fix our plumbing we should be paying our politicians to figure this stuff out for us.

We don't have the time or attention span. It's impossible.
I think s/he might be referring to COVID but it is pretty unclear.
When empty maybe, a loaded truck isn't going to have many issues with a wooden tiara over the cab
Many people look at these cases and see they were not allowed to be heard. How many of Gore's supporting court cases were tossed for lack of standing etc?
This gets repeated again and again, but is just wrong.

The USA is both a representative democracy and a republic - the same as most other democracies on this planet.

Republic just means that the government is a public affair - there is no monarch. It's the opposite of a monarchy.
Was this "Misinformation"?

https://twitter.com/JermaineLong93/status/149108386670644838...
Maybe if you're nude in front of the camera. Maybe for a sloppy fit, but the purpose of tailoring is defeated.
".. always amazed by the little clues that are behind by otherwise proficient non-native speakers."

could you elaborate?
Working through SICP is massive chore. Paul Graham's book is far easier, but still heavy going.

Lisp VMs have been around since the 70's in various forms. The core is rather simple to implement. Unless you have a reason to start with a clean slate, you might be better off looking at some stuff that works well already. I have three suggestions:

1. picoLISP - the 64 bit version is well thought out and could give you ideas for your VM.

2. newLISP - whilst it's a bit different from Scheme and CL, it implements a complete Lisp ecosystem in a single executable. Runs equally well on all major platforms. I would give it serious consideration for bootstrapping.

3. http://losak.sourceforge.net/ - is one of several Lisp OS projects out there.

It might also help to read up on some Lisp Machine, etc history. Could spare you reinventing the square wheel.
- get rid of the Comic Sans in the presentation

- move the title of the slides to the top left

- move the logo of the slides to the bottom left or right or delete entirely

- The business model slide needs work. Showing the entire business model canvas is overkill.
No, because 99% of the time these labels have no basis in reality and those who use these labels don't bother to even try to prove these accusations. They became just fighting words for dehumanization, used without a second thought.
Dear Mozilla, don't route all our dns request to Cloudflare. We don't need more centralisation like Facebook, but decentralisation like Mastodon.
would be good to hear what they plan on doing instead.

YC China was a bet at doing something different. With that gone—and idk if it should have stayed or gone.. sometimes experiments fail—what is YCs plan?

Invite 200, 300, 500, 20,000 companies to SF? maybe it is the best option, but also maybe not the best thing to do. YC Seems stuck in an innovator's dilemma. Reminds me of Apple under Tim Cook. Keeping a good thing going, but nothing innovative.
> Strange optics not to mention the elephant in the room.

Not so strange to me. Don't companies usually come up with inoffensive BS for public statements like this?

> Instead its... the new guy is busy?

Maybe he wanted to spend more time with his family, too.
Understandable. But frankly, if you've ever seen how banks operate their technical infrastructure you'd want to store all your money in a matress. I'm confident Facebook has much smarter people working to make sure their products are secure.
Right on. Netflix forked out a million for their contest, and they have market cap that's puny compared to Microsoft.
edward@shopify.com is the right person to talk to. We add new API's constantly as it's by far our biggest development focus. I'd also love to hear your thoughts, you can reach me at tobi@shopify.com
She's not wearing the IT uniform though (khakis, polo shirt, dockers, and lanyard with ID badge). Maybe that's sold separately in an accessory pack?
The problem with this reasoning is obvious: given that "idea patents" are now commonly awarded, these guys are much more likely to be sued by a troll who has already acquired a patent on the idea, than they are to be able to defend their IP by threatening a patent suit against someone else. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

Patents are no defense against patent trolls, because (by definition) the patent trolls don't actually produce anything. There is no defense against patent trolls, except lobbying to narrow the scope and duration of technology patents.
Let's hope they spend it on finding a way to actually make money (other than receiving donations) so I can keep using Tumblr. I like it.
We've already got theories which say that the universe is spatially infinite and quantumly branching. One more level of infinity on top of that isn't going to make much of a difference. I suggest you regard all events not part of your decision-theoretic future (those you have no influence over) as part of the generalized past, and ignore them.
I hope you get paid more than a $10,000 prize for working at Microsoft.
The controller generally accepts requests and fires an action. i.e. You may request index.php/admin/users/view/id/123

Your controller in the above example is Users firing the view Action it got from the request (usually another object).
echo -n "A long sentence I can recall. site_name" | openssl dgst -sha1

For those with openssl.
Newgrounds is still alive and kicking. They’ve even ported all their Flash games to be playable on modern devices to boot!

That said, I’m not going to pretend like I go there frequently either. I just don’t have time to blow on popcorn experiences anymore.
That's temporarily one less handbag that could be sold for profit to someone in the target market.

I think the 'magic' analogy is still a bit more apt because of the difficulty of quantifying that temporary lost opportunity. Maybe it could be about using your own 3D printer to duplicate a product exactly.
Nike is claiming brand dilution:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210330/09283346519/nike-...
Why are you hung up on these uses of the words "seeing", "showing"? What would you expect as a better alternative.
Yeah, I don't think Nike "got played like a fiddle" at all. This was an absolute win-win for all involved. That art collective got tons of press, and now their limited edition shoes are worth even more as "those illegal shoes!"

Nike got to save face in court and pretend like they really cared about not being associated with "satanists". Their "edgier" customers probably think it's cool that Nike's shoes were the base for this, and their conservative customers saw them as fighting against cultural decadence.

This was marketing genius all the way around.
imagine being able to talk to GPT-3 in your brain. It would make you superintelligent although without being completely sure that anything it said to you was actually true.
Still subpar display :(
>Nike found themselves in the position of being associated with Satan, which isn't a good look to many people. They defended their brand while keeping a relatively low profile and that seems like a good place to keep it.

I wonder if Nike ever had any intent of winning this case, had it reached court. Given the First Sale Doctrine, I don't know what Nike could do to prevent their customers (MSCHF included) from reselling modified Nike apparel.

(Cannot emphasize enough IANAL)
You're still seriously inconveniencing some guy, and doing something highly significant to him without his consent.

But it was mostly a quibble :) I agree with your central argument.
you can do whatever you want to a product you own, and you can modify and resell it as you please

Not if companies like Apple and Tesla had their way...
Banana smoothie.
Except mock-ups != prototype.
Well, you're making decisions about someone else's mortality. Maybe they wouldn't want to live forever with everyone else that they knew dying? Maybe they would want to have a physical existence in the form of a human body. You're denying them that.

There are a ton of similar questions.
Object oriented programming grew out of simulation of real world objects.

Turns out, good OO design requires objects to NOT be like real world objects, at least in some parts, and the OO field has moved past it. However the terminology is still all bound up in simulation type objects, and people are often confused by examples used in schools and books about animals and dogs and barking.
I told my 2 and a half year old that the "S" key is the snake key, so now he always asks "can i press snake?". He's also found a second snake (the 5 key).
Have to use McAfee at big corporate day job. It's amazing how much faster a full-blown development environment runs on the same hardware when dual-booted into Linux.
The original was make that heap big enough to require multiple pages (about 8 MB, in this case

You are arguing that it has to be 4 KB. timr is arguing it has to be big enough, and that it is 8 MB. The implication is that it is big enough to qualify, without commenting on how big is big enough.

The wording was misleading, and you made the mistake of focusing on what you saw to be an error in expression and taking it to be error in meaning, even after debate. Sadly, that's a very easy mistake to make, especially if you haven't argued with people very much, and it is only exacerbated by a textual medium with memory that can be referenced. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation again, try to read the whole offending paragraph for context. A lot of people make inaccurate statements that can only be correctly understood by identifying their frame of thought (which can be in error, muddled, or just presuming).
Just release it. If you succumb to your own self doubt, it will self perpetuate until you're lost all desire to work on the project anymore. The faster you see that people like what you did and want to use it, the faster your motivation will come back and you'll be able to keep on working.

This is coming from a guy who struggles with the same stuff, so take it as you will
People who make 10-20k a year still pay FICA. I did some rough calculations and someone making $400 a week in California will pay 20% in federal and state taxes, medicare and social security.
Clojure: (reduce + (map face-value dice))
The beauty of doing this with SSI is that you can include the same script multiple times, but with different parameters, and get: different effects.
Something I've wondered about is whether people would craft music that either exploits quirks of mp3 encoding (perhaps making the compression artifacts work as part of the music), or craft music designed to compress well, maybe by avoiding certain frequencies or timbres.

I read an interview with Brian Eno where he said that when mixing a record he would go drive around and listen to it on a car stereo to hear how well it worked. I wonder if producers listen to their recordings after being encoded in, say, whatever format Amazon delivers.
I've come to really enjoy the error on unused variable/import.

It's so easy to add/delete imports with GoSublime plugin.

Everytime I write Java now, I seem to end up with loads of unused imports as I prototype and it just feels messy.

Once you get used to it, it's kind of nice.
My understanding (from when I worked at Qualcomm until 2011) is that the apps processor was master in new chipsets from that time forward.
The majority of the programs do not really need to guarantee latency.

That being said, it is well known that Golang's present GC performs poorly. It presently fails to free memory in certain cases, and has pretty high overhead. There is work done on improving the GC to be fully concurrent, but that is still probably still 2-3 major versions away.
If you read closely the fare rules of the ticket, it's not allowed.

It's like going to Amazon and buying something but the terms and conditions say "You may not buy this item."

The mainframe computer systems are so utterly complicated that it's nearly impossible for their complex fare calculations to easily detect all the manifestations of these accidental bookable fares. IMHO, that's the airlines fault... and probably that way for any sensible person looking at the situation.

But, it's still cheaper to spend millions suing bloggers and anyone who tries to make the practice well known than it is to fix the system. Same with other fuel dumping techniques.
I am starting to think they'll be recommending we use `go generate` to do handwritten templates before too long. It saves them the hassle of building generics into the type system and they clearly want it to be part of the build cycle.

http://blog.golang.org/generate
Public LinkedIn profiles (which is many of them) are open to scrapers and they lost a court case about it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
You could have made a simple search and found more confirmation than I could possibly provide. Even the USPTO has top-level search results to that effect.

https://www.google.com/search?q=failure%20to%20protect%20tra...
You're right. But man, they tried really hard to sell it as a tech startup. From their S-1 filing (emphasis mine):

"We pioneered a “space-as-a-service” membership model that offers the benefits of a collaborative culture, the flexibility to scale workspace up and down as needed and the power of a worldwide community, all for a lower cost. Through iterative product development at scale and significant investment in technology infrastructure, we have demonstrated that we can build better solutions for less money. We are changing the way people work globally and, in the process, we have disrupted the largest asset class in the world—real estate."

Edit: I just noticed that it continues with a MUCH better statement on the next page:

"Technology is at the foundation of our global platform. Our purpose-built technology and operational expertise has allowed us to scale our core WeWork space-as-a-service offering quickly, while improving the quality of our solutions and decreasing the cost to find, build, fill and run our spaces. We have approximately 1,000 engineers, product designers and machine learning scientists that are dedicated to building, integrating and automating the complex systems we use to operate our business. As a result, we are able to deliver a premium experience to our members at a lower price relative to traditional alternatives."

So uhh, honest question. What were they trying to build with those 1,000 engineers/designers/ML scientists? The company literally leases (not buys) office space to then lease out to their customers. I never understood why this business model needs "significant investment into Tech infrastructure"
But I suppose that the amount of citations can be large even if the underlying research outcomes approach a horizontal asymptote.
> It was

It is still there:

"And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
I wish they covered more. My work has a plan like this, but it does not cover family law.
> North Korea, Syria, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic are republics and among the most tyrannous societies.

I don't know about every single country on the list, but at least the one I am somewhat informed about (North Korea) is a republic only in name, as it is pretty much an authoritarian dictatorship state controlled by the military class.
The Windows 10 computer I'm using right now has 4 different audio settings screens, all stock, all equally accessible, and it's not at all clear from the names and menus which screen will set volume and which will switch audio devices (those are different settings screens).
To be fair, GitHub Actions is a relatively new thing and I'm not even sure it was already opened to the general public (that is, to anyone who didn't signed up for the beta). It's understandable if GitHub Actions isn't yet a part of the general public's mental landscape.
Once you look at Korea, all those rules are only the basics...
Beautiful! Made to my libs list for upcoming projects.
Nowhere did I bring up different laws for difference classes. What I was addressing was that the courts are perhaps not the way one should be supposed to handle the liability of persons in the government. How it should work is that we make and hold elected officials accountable through a functioning democratic process.

Biased legal systems are biased towards the affluent. That is an uncontested tell for problematic democratic legitimacy. Because it's difficult to remove that bias entirely, qualified immunity is a tool to defend from wealthy parties.

I made the link to libertarianism because this is a stated goal in most of their thinking: courts over democracy, and it's up to you to be able to afford it. Affiliated think tanks are quite lucid as to why [1]: precisely because it stacks the system in favor of the affluent. And that is thus precisely why I'm against any move in the direction of a litigious society, even though I can imagine and recall cases where I'd certainly like to.

[1] Some thinking from these property rights supremacists (read: unapologetic in their favoring of 'freedom' over democracy): https://fee.org/articles/freedom-and-democracy-are-different...
I did some basic research on fingerprints 15 years ago.

Fingerprints have a "birthday problem." The metrics cluster around certain values because fingerprints ARE NOT RANDOM. This is why your gym likely takes your fingerprint and your phone number for access.

Same with DNA actually. There are many, many humans whose DNA appears to be the same to our primitive tests.

You will run into this problem anytime you assume the underlying data is distributed well, but it is not, actually.
I think YC has to be reserved because they are linked to all of these companies they have invested in. A bad statement could potentially harm some of their portfolio companies.
Increasingly people don't care about productivity suites running locally. Office 365 and Gsuite work just fine with Linux.
Step 2: globally orchestrated sanctions on a fascist dictatorship

Step 2b: hopefully we avoid WWIII
I think that you're thinking of the cost of turning the CO2 (and water) back into fuel, which can be argued along thermodynamic and irreversibility lines to show that unscrambling that egg always requires more energy than obtained from combusting. However, I don't think there is a similar thermodynamic argument on the energy costs of mere capture. It's not a priori impossible that a fractional distillation column with a clever configuration of heat exchangers, for example, could capture all the carbon released by the fossil-fueled plant that powered the column in the first place (and more).

Arguing that mere capture would require more energy than is released would be akin to arguing that cleaning the fireplace would require more energy than was released by the fire, on the mistaken grounds that ash removal took as much energy as regrowing the wood that was burned. Both the ash and the CO2 are in a lower energy state, so there's thermodynamic room to maneuver.
Yes. The best camera is the one that’s with you. That’s what’s so great about the smartphone era—we have good cameras with us at all times.
Even YC got screwed by China. This is an intentional pattern: Lure US money and then use backroom dealings to coordinate an outright theft.
There's no point responding with anything other than derision to this kind of deliberately obtuse and bad faith deflection.
That works but to learn to avoid these "bad" things, in the setting you describe, the agent has to first make those mistakes and learn from them. There are mistakes we don't want the agent to make, ever. That's what safe RL is about.
Is JetBrains even Russian? I thought they were Czech.
Is that the new angle to attack bitcoin with?
I’m really glad to see this as the top comment: I think your analysis is spot on.

Anecdotally I’ve been reading a lot of old news (60s-90s) and it’s amazing to read as a retrospective. It has given me context for how we arrived to present day and it’s funny to see some of the same social phenomenons repeating themselves.