jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Who needs gopher when you can just ftp to places and download lists of what they have? And lists of what they know that other people have.

Hmm, right. That got tiresome after a bit, so "telnet archie.mcgill.ca" and do an archie search.

I remember that by 1992 the index overflowed signed 32 bit int and started giving "-45%" complete.

Of course we're not old. Those were the ones who could replace a VAX disk pack, and who had to log in via dedicated terminals instead of dial-up via a PC. :)
I feel like this deserves its own post. I wonder if the resulting comment thread would end up there.
It works reasonably well for me for most normal, constant background noise. It's not perfect obviously.
I rather prefer these to splash screens, they evoke the opposing page to the beginning of a magazine article; splash screens feel more like studio logo animations before a film, only much less rewarding.

Your source's UX qualifications also seem a bit... dubious.
They way I understood it, it does change because it simplifies the server. There is no need for one top level listening process/thread. Each separate process/thread can open the listening socket independently.

(Btw, there is another interesting forking-for-client-connection pattern in Erlang. Instead of forking off and handling the client connection in a separate process, instead handle the client connection in the accepting process but fork-off another process to continue accepting. In general, just a process pool, that should be easier to set up with this new feature).
I guess, connect on a computer using your phone VPN ability, and launch wireshark.
Do you mean the RX1? http://duncandavidson.com/gear/sony/rx1/

I have one, and it's pretty impressive.
Now you got some time to agitate for better labor rights so your now-ex-boss can't do that.
Why does the blog posting only mention fork and prefork as options? A very common way to design servers is to do multiplexing IO. The one-connection-per-thread/process isn't the only way.

That being said, this option can simplify things -- removing the necessity of having some moving part to distribute connections across completely independent processes.
for me, these tools just underline how horrible regex syntax really is.
Quality of service. Like when the iPhone 3G first came out you could only buy it in areas where 3G service was available. AFAIK, most carriers already do this on all their handsets but their data is restricted to just a few days to a a few months.
It's certainly not new but worth sharing though.

I've been using it for a long time, yet I come across people that don't know about it in each consulting gig I do.
Had no idea Stalin wrote poetry. His poem listed in the article would fit right in with the shitty paintings by Hitler.
Since the backups are unencrypted it would be trivial to steal the data exploiting a Flash hole or worst case an email virus.
Completely off-topic, but that sounds very similar to approach taken by RISC CPU's. Be very good at doing smalls things very, very fast and then compose those operations in to higher order operations.

Just saying.
Wish I was in school looking for an internship.
If the aim is to help conversation during a first date, as the post implies, then why not. If such an imprecise tool is used to determine your employability, or pay grade, or career path, or access to some vital services or housing, etc. then it's unacceptable.

The fact that HR professionals seem to love it is a strong indicator that it is bad and harmful.
Sic transit, Gloria!
Thanks for commenting, Tom. I can't tell if you're making an honest uninformed statement, or a troll and I'm feeding, but I choose the first.

If you're the race (or in this case a group) that's the oppressor (not the oppressed), you're not a victim of racism. Maybe this article will help clarify it: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/09/can-white-people-experience-r...

Additionally, the reason why I say "white male" instead of just "white people" is because white women are also presented with less opportunities than white males. I'm trying to make this a better opportunity for minorities.
IMO, a python script should not reach 1500 lines, unit tests would be much better.

I don't like typing mainly because any code with it looks ugly XD, and if I really care about typing, I would use a different language.

Now we are pushing all languages to be able the same. Instead of having a few languages excel in different domain, we want to use one language to do everything. Each of them will come with their own eco-system, and we use library for every little simple things, then we have hundreds of dependency resolution solutions, I personally don't find it appealing.

There are programming languages better than Python on something, maybe don't use Python for something it is not good at.

to be clear, I am not against having static typing as option
I have had to take the DISC inventory for one of my jobs, although it seems mostly derivative of antecedent personality inventories. I didn’t gain dramatically more insight into my own personality style from the DISC than I did from any other metric.

I’ll add to that the Strengthsfinder inventory. It’s clearly a consultancy gimmick, but I did find it somewhat meaningful in figuring out how to relate to colleagues with divergent ‘strengths’ from my own. It’s probably neither more nor less meaningful than any other personality inventory.
He's got an interview somewhere where he notes the trick comes down to the fact that lightning mode exists in Melee.

It's all fun stuff - the dev discord is also open for people who enjoy this kind of stuff, some really knowledgeable people in there.
... I forgot it :D

I'll fix that. Thanks to point it out :)
The fact is that this person did not use the word alien in their original "joke" - they wrote "That's assuming Einstein was even human." They then proceeded to act like a bully or abuser would act - "Oh, it was a joke! I meant it as a joke and I forgot to drop the punchline until almost an hour later! You are so dumb for thinking otherwise!" As an older sibling, this is something straight out of older sibling 101 and I picked up on it immediately when I saw the interaction between sillysaurusx and oldstrangers.

There is no weird conspiracy here, there was just someone acting in an uncivil manner who was called out on it and who then kept things going.

I was actually expecting the joke to fall back on the fact that he was indeed a completely legal alien. Because he was, and that is humor.
That's what I mean. If it were the case that coordination can't be done, it violates every normative expectation.

Keep in mind, I lump in people's behavior with normative restrictions of the First Amendment. If the Government can't do it, and the Government is us, we shouldn't be doing it. So businesses doing it because business doesn't hold for me either. Especially if it happens as a method of indirection to work around literal interpretation.

So if there is a restriction on shareholder coordination, I don't see how our legal system in this case can be taken seriously as anything but a tool utilized by those in positions of influence capable of more tightly coupling to other people of influence.
He owned <10% at the time so it’s a little bit of a mischaracterisation to say “most” as if it means he lost control because of it. He did not lose a meaningful amount in the context of a conversation about control, he lost a few % of the company.
Cool. It's changed twitter completely for me.

My list is far too long to memorise, though.

And having it separate helps keep me honest (I think my memory would suffer biases) and out of my head.

Mainly though - the act of having to physically click a few times to get to the list gives me a moment of pause where I'm able to wake up and recognise whether I'm about to make good use of twitter or habitually jump into the time-worm-hole we all know.
> First of all, the government paid $4.5B for it, which makes it literally impossible for them to have overpaid by $7B.

On one hand, I stand corrected on the cash paid. On the other hand, you're wrong, its actual market value may be negative, so the strongest criticism is that I pulled the -2.5B real valuation out of my butt.

And yeah, they're tied up in court because their attempt to steamroll the first nations and skirt environmental regulations is probably illegal, but we'll see what the courts say.

And no, the world doesn't need more oil. Nor does the world need oldgrowth lumber, nor does the world need unsustainably caught fish. We need to stop tapping new wells, leave that shit in the ground, to prevent climate disasters. We need to transition to managed forest products. There's no easy solutions on fish. We probably just need to eat less of it (and yeah, that's going to be difficult for me too)
> This can't be supplied by third-party labeling of faces

Yes it can. You get enough labelling and it overcomes the unreliability of detection by any single human.

Get 70 people to label the same face. A random distribution over the 7 Ekman emotions[1] will give 10 each, and any non-random variation from that is a signal. Do that over enough faces and you'll get something to train on.

(Also, no reason why it needs to be face pictures. It could be 2 second video snippets for example).

[1] https://www.paulekman.com/blog/darwins-claim-universals-faci...
Surge protector but the spikes were huge. My drives we're actually fine what got killed was the PSU and it was a case integrated PSU, in a system I had been meaning to upgrade for a while anyway. So this gave me the kick in the butt to finally do it. I also went to NVMe for the root drive wow what a difference.
The system that died was not out of date software wise it had been dutifully upgraded with every major Debian release so starting on a fresh install, adding packages and copying conf files from my backups, and adding my data drives really wasn't bad. Couple of days after work to do the hw build and restore.
Because of shortages / cryptomining / covid I couldn't get the HW I really wanted, that was frustrating.
> Again, this assumes both that there were no errors made in the experiment

This is worth repeating a lot when explaining sigma (even in a great and comprehensive explanation such as yours): Statistical anomalies are only relevant when the experiment itself is sound.

Imagine you are trying to see whether two brands of cake mix have different density (maybe you want to get a good initial idea whether they could be the same cake mix). You can do this by weighing the same amount (volume) of cake mix repeatedly, and comparing the mean value for weight measurements of either brand. That works well, but it totally breaks down if you consistently use a glass bowl for one brand, and a steel bowl for the other brand. You will get very high units of sigma, but not because of the cake mix.
> And New Zealand has only vaccinated 0.9% of the population to date, so this is going to drag on for a while to come.

They're waiting for vaccine delivery - expected in July. Australia and New Zealand both had shipments blocked by the EU and US.

Also the lockdowns we experienced over the last month have only been for a few days and only for a small region to ensure the outbreak is contained.

1% contraction for countries usually thought to entirely depend on international trade and tourism doesn't really seem major. But sure, your version of my country is probably more accurate than my own.
Everything you wrote above disproves everything you wrote in your first comment and reinforces everything I said in my comment. TK didn’t order for the medical records to be gotten. A subordinate got them on his own and then shared them with TK. TK shouldn’t have looked at it, but he probably didn’t understand the long term consequences of the optics of doing that.

Also, TK and Uber never publicly accused the victim of anything according to all of your links. Did they have closed door meetings where they questioned whether or not the victim was faked by Ola? Maybe. But publicly they didn’t even hint of that. If you are accusing TK of a thought crime, for going through the exercise of figuring out if there was a motive, then you are engaging in totalitarian beliefs at this point. How many horrible things have you thought or said in your life behind closed doors but were never brought to light because the media isn’t gunning after you?

After everything Uber had been through, was it so crazy to think they Ola would bribe someone to fake a sexual assault to hurt Uber? Of course not. Was it right to obtain a victim’s medical records? Of course not. And Eric Alexander was fired for it. Did Uber ever even hint publicly that maybe the sexual assault was fake? No, and all your links say the same thing. Publicly, in every single link you provided, Uber and TK decried the assault and paid a settlement to the victim.

I know people that worked on Greyball. It was a tool created because competitors in areas like France, were calling Ubers to locations and then physically attacking them. Greyball was used to protect these drivers. Subsequently, police officers would also call Ubers and then try to ticket them. Whether or not you agree with the legality of that is your own right, but it was a way of protecting drivers from getting huge tickets or fines. To qualify that as a mechanism to subvert regulators, well I guess I disagree with you. And in the end Uber ended up being right.

I have plenty of female friends and coworkers that would vouch for Uber as a safe, progressive and supportive environment for women. If any company like Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc went through as thorough a review as Uber did, I would wager much worse things would come up. I’m glad Uber went through it, to rid our ranks of people who sexually harassed women or worse, but only 20 out of 15,000 people were fired. I don’t think that qualifies as “system discrimination against women.” I think that Uber is/was largely a great place to work.

And I know you have an agenda against Uber, so everything you want to believe is going to reflect that agenda. I frankly don’t care what you think of me, and my words speak clearly for themself.
The MobileCoin Foundation only publishes software, the nodes decide whether they want to run that software or not. Ultimately all of the nodes can run whatever code they want and call it MobileCoin if they can agree upon it.

The governance is actually quite simple: a set of decentralized nodes individually choose what software to run and who to peer with. Consensus is an emergent property of that trust graph.
I bet there are probably a handful of government-adjacent contractors/companies that do offensive hacking on a clandestine basis that would pay a lot for them, possibly while promising legal legitimacy.

If so, they wouldn't want the public to know why they are or that they are "buying and using cyberweapons" - both to stay effective and for political/international relation reasons. So probably hard to find or contact them.

I wonder how often unsolicited emails are sent to *@cia.gov with subject: "I have RCE on ___, wanna buy it?" and how they respond.
The key word here is "support". Will it run? Probably. Is some IBM support engineer going to help you if you tried it on some other distro? No.
Tweetdeck is showing all tweets as 365-364 days old in the stream, but has an accurate date when you click for the full view. Web Twitter seems to be unaffected. The forced mobile signouts started about a half hour ago (~7:20PM ET) based on what I've seen in my feed.
I think it used to be pretty common to use metals instead of currencies to denote debts, for reasons mentioned in this thread.

I have a friend who once lent me money in one currency, but denoted the debt in "in X Euro or (X Euro in Yen at lend date), whichever is worth more", which I'm pretty sure is the best way to deal with inflation problems as a lender.
/Savage Continent/ http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Continent-Europe-Aftermath-Worl... is a popular-level book on the subject that came out recently and has been well-reviewed. (I've also read a bit of it, and it looks good.) The first episode of the BBC /History of Modern Britain/ series with Andrew Marr, "Advance Britannia", covers the UK in the 1945-1955 period, and it's very entertaining.
Nope. If you're not signed in on a desktop/laptop you will get the same message
Unless it's a y2k bug company, and it's October 1999.
You can write a small python script that does the flat text thing you're talking about.

Python scripts can run from the command line.
Dropbox has native clients, right? There seems to be no technical reason why they don't already have encryption.
That's correct. And they abandoned that code base and did a complete rewrite.

Dynamics and Kinect are two good recent examples of success. FoxPro and Visio are also excellent examples although that was a heck of a long time ago.
USA population is concerned about privacy much less than
let's say European population. No wonder they do not see this a serious issue.
I personally firmly believe - no privacy => no freedom.
I think its more than just a population issue. The legal system is not quite as developed as it could be.

For example, the courts don't have a working appeals process. People can appeal, but they have to go to Beijing to plead their case. And the central government punishes the provinces when too many people from their province do this.

So what do the provinces do? Why, they kidnap people in Beijing, of course.

They seem to keep track of people when they try to get justice, but not who's ripping them off.

If they are smart, those in charge would make reforming this situation a top priority. They have a lot of internal dissent. Improving the legal system would help.

Of course, that's probably a very tall order.
On your note [1] - could you explain more about using a 3rd party? I currently use auto-withdrawals, but it sounds like I should switch before I get in a bad situation like you mentioned.
There was no “if convicted”
Muilenberg became president in 2013, and the 737 MAX certifications happened in 2017, when Muilenberg was CEO.
It's not that the media should have given credence to the election fraud allegations - they are obviously bullshit. It's that they should have also been just as skeptical and censorious of other allegations without any evidence, such as Russiagate. Dozens of people were accused of colluding with a foreign power, which is crazy, and not just Republicans - Bernie Sanders was accused as well. And the impeachment report by Mueller did not reveal a single piece of direct evidence of any collusion. Even the people convicted during the trial were not convicted of collusion but of other crimes. The problem is that you can't pick and choose what you will censor or control based on political preference. The crazy right wing extremists might be ignorant and on the wrong path but they sense unfairness just like anyone else.
Private companies are compromised by visitors every single day. Outsiders on-premise are one of the largest attack vectors after insiders.

This is why both the local network and endpoints are no longer trusted in security models.
You can't hurt people with the color of your skin, but you can hurt people with your actions.
There is the off chance we will discover a way to deactivate them before they pollute
The self-driving taxi fleets of tomorrow are just today's Uber without the exploitation of gig workers.

As many cities have observed, cheap on-demand rides are not an improvement on traffic congestion, quite the opposite.
I only knew they were in active development and supposed that's were the action is, it's not my area at all. Most scientific use is also with version 2 then. Then I can't think of any problem domain were you should go with version 3 in practice. I would be interested in what the other recommendations here are based on, other than "I like it for my own stuff".
Boredom, as they say, makes you creative.

So you can of course use your phone to cope with boredom — install a couple of good drawing / painting apps, music creation apps, study-something apps. Use them when bored.

Just stay away from the endorphin-pedal games which teach you nothing and are not a work of art to be experienced.

With that, a conscious act of putting down your phone and looking around is important. You can make it a habit without abandoning the phone altogether.
While firing may be a bit drastic, I do agree that getting over the standard silicon valley new grad idealism ("company is my family, we are changing the world") as early as possible is always recommended. And this applies equally to Google and a random 5-person startup.
Fair, I just don't see how my acquiescence to one thing is an endorsement of a distinct, if similar, thing.

I guess I reject the idea that policy (a well considered and debated, long lasting decision) would actually fall for something like a slippery slope.

The proverbial boiled frog just jumps out of the pot when the water gets too hot, in reality.
I'm using Static Marks, a tool I wrote. I consider the slightly increased effort of adding new bookmarks a feature, so there's a low noise ratio.

https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
While I think it's totally fair to be in a position where you don't care about the work, I'd also encourage you to look for workplaces that seek to provide additional compensation in the form of additional flexibility, freedom, and your time rather than just in additional money.

The company I started is a software consultancy where we try and focus on giving everyone a 20-hour work-week and consider that a full-time job. We're remote first, and work mostly when your schedule allows (sometimes we have to have a meeting, or some task requires a bit of collaboration). Our absolute monetary compensation isn't what you could get full time at a FAANG, but is designed to be a full time job.

We've written about this core philosophy here: https://www.apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably, and I've slowly seen more companies that have started to take this same approach toward viewing employee freedom, flexibility, and mental health as an important part of compensation.

So, my advice is try and find a company that views your freedom, flexibility, and mental health as a first class concern. They exist (even if they aren't the norm), and it can be a very satisfying way to get work done, earn enough to live comfortable, and also have other passions that are your primary focus.

I'd say we tick _most_ of the points on your list (it might be more like 3-4 hours in the morning, then chilling, and we do have high expectations for the quality of the work). Just another idea for something to look for.
How do you guys interface with X11? Do you use something similar to cairo_xlib_surface_create, but for Skia? What about font rendering? XFT?
People love to slag on recipe sites, and most of them are terrible, but the platonic ideal of the recipe site already exists. It's AllRecipes, provided you have UBlock Origin enabled. Even if you don't, the printer version of their recipes is perfect, and exactly what I would want.

Example: -> https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/242040/egg-salad-with-chop...
Masks work, masks are low impact on daily living, masks are used successfully overseas by countries that didn't lock down their society (tawain / Singapore etc) - huge empahsis on masks including govt run websites with live maps showing where to get them, masks in all post offices for distribution etc and BIG production increases.
Ha. Good luck getting paid when people are about to run out of money.
I'm living on my savings, so no, I'm not ok with prices rising.
I bet all of the survivalist guys are sitting guys are sitting in their bunkers with their prime rib MREs and laughing at us right now.

At least people are panic buying a range of items, usually it’s just milk, eggs, and bread. What is the grand plan there? French toast three meals a day for a month? Custard? Really runny scrambled eggs on toast? You might want some raisins if your going all-in on bread pudding. I bet a lot of it ends up getting thrown away.