jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you’re interested in donating to Signal, your employer might offer matching your donation. Something to look in to.

Edit: Non profit 501(c)(3) donation matching is a common US employee benefit.
> Twitter is a conduit, not a publisher.

Twitter is a publisher except for purposes of civil liability, and that only because Section 230 specifically, in an effort to promote largely automated, highly scalable, actively curated publication online, specifically exempts them and other similar online publishers from the liability treatment otherwise applicable to publishers.
That was a fantastic answer. Just to add a bit to onion2k's excellent response:

1) You have a lot to learn about refactoring and working in codebases that aren't great. I have never once been upset with a junior developer who went above and beyond a task to try to make something better, especially those who ask questions along the way. Don't do the tasks they are for. Do accomplish the same result they are hoping for in a better way! And learn from it. (Refactoring, better tests, better OO or functional principles).

2) I have worked in very very large companies which have part time intern spots that pay much better than restaurants and grocery stores.

3), 4), 5) here here! Well said.

On the Edit note: I want to point out that three of my very best software engineer colleagues started their careers in construction. One moved rocks at a quarry, one was a roofing and framing assistant, one did concrete contracting. All have a work ethic unlike any I have seen in a life long engineer. Not only are they brilliant coders, they have immense problem solving skills, fantastic people skills, and they don't complain nearly as much as everyone else.
I don't know about you guys but my Kindle paper white shows footnotes in a pop-up dialog box. No page fumbling. I thought DFW's books were great on Kindle.

But yes, learning-oriented Ebooks I always read on my laptop. Nothing can compete with the power of cmnd/ctrl+F and multiple windows IMO.
If you're able to provide enough training data, there's no reason Ocropus couldn't do this. If you're open to using a commercial OCR program, FineReader is excellent.
I've also seemingly paradoxically found that scarcity seems to have a dramatic effect on this.

Immersion, the sense of losing hours to a good book (or a good movie, or video game, etcetera) I seem to find more difficult as availability increases. There's a constant nagging feeling that I could be making better use of that time, that perhaps the next book on Gutenberg would be 'better' (whatever that means).

It's very difficult to really pin down why that is. If I were fantastically wealthy and could buy books by the truckload without even thinking about it, would I feel detached from them all in the same way?
Wouldn't Paypal be the first proprietary mover of sending money over IP, and Bitcoin being like SMTP/POP/IMAP/whatever? Or maybe I misunderstood something
Looks like it works by posting an image-of-text on Twitter.

Example: https://twitter.com/HammeIAm/status/556617997255966720
I wouldn't say that Ocropus is well-documented (this blog post was partially intended to address that). But it's at least written in easily hackable Python, whereas Tesseract is 30 year old C/C++.
It's a huge annoyance when sites do this. Typically it means that I won't see all of the content and that's never a good user experience.
Yeah, I think we're on the same page. I just hacked together a quick example at this gist: https://gist.github.com/boie0025/ae9697eed61cbf5342a6
Using the menu item for automatically organizing imports, or the equivalent keyboard shortcut, surely.
> whenever I say I'm a programmer

It's funny to see how different reactions in different cultures are.

In India, being a programmer will be looked at with exhaustion and judgement. Sorta,"Oh you too? Get in line."
Is "I don't even like Infinite Jest" the new "I don't even own a TV?"
NY will be using a vaccine/test pass for large events. CA may plan the same?
That’s cool! The issue is that when you’re selling to a massive legacy institution, the infosec on a new Linux distro that self updates to new patches is really no bueno. We lost many months on this piece and on key deals. I heard from the grapevine that they ended up having to port DCOS to Ubuntu after all, soon after I left.
Yes, at some time in the future, but it is not usable yet.
Ugh, what does "half as slow" mean? Twice as fast? Half the speed?

Any comparison to "slow" is generally the wrong direction.
nobody, and I mean nobody, is irreplaceable. anyone that thinks they are should see what actually happens in the hours and days after 'irreplaceable' people leave...somehow organizations manage to move forward. and within a week or two they are forgotten (with the possible exception of tiny teams).
We must have read a different article.

> Gebru has said the company wanted to suppress her criticism of its products and its efforts to increase workforce diversity.

> Bengio had defended the pair, who co-led a team of about a dozen researching ethical issues related to AI software.

From his email:

> "how difficult yet important it is to organize a large team of researchers so as to promote long term ambitious research, exploration, rigor, diversity and inclusion"
Shorting treasuries in 2010 was a popular sentiment. I'm sure you could have found a similar suggestion in the WSJ at the time. It is extremely unlikely, given Taleb's background as an options market maker, that he would have expressed that trade simply as an unhedged position in cash treasuries or the futures while he sat bleeding money for five years straight. It's an important distinction to make and I think it comes back to my original point about risk management. It is one thing to make a prediction and it's a separate step to then formulate a trade that captures upside if your prediction is correct and limits your downside if your prediction is incorrect. From a trader like Taleb, I think that's implicit in his statement, but maybe it wouldn't be so obvious to a layperson.
The RPi blog post about it [1] says about 10x improvement in performance over an ARM version. I haven't tested it myself but it seems reasonable.

1: http://www.raspberrypi.org/new-qpu-macro-assembler/
It's rare that it causes problems for anyone except newly infected pregnant women.

That is, by no means, a fact. It's believed that toxo infected humans take more risks than non-infected ones. I'd say that is a problem.
> If programmers were paid like doctors, you would start to see the tech equivalent of nurses, lab technicians, orderlies, and physicians' assistants.

What do you think business analysts, testers, non-developer IT specialists, etc., are?
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290487.
"Give me
The 'Serenity' to accept everything,
The 'Courage' to change nothing,
The 'Wisdom' to stay indifferent".
Ha, yea good memories... well sort of. I only worked there for a few months but my manager wouldn't let me near the Xenix main terminal in the back as he knew I was a little familiar and didn't want me messing with it. He assured me that Tandy had the tape backup drive custom made for them, lol. Still, he was a nice guy.

I remember discovering that we could generate reports of all clearance items in the store, led me to tracking down stuff I had no idea was hiding in there like ISA slots and various other parts already antiquated by the late 90's.
What should I make of the basically terrible reviews of "Light"? I am curious to read it to see what you are talking about, but 3.2/5 on Amazon usually amounts to "really quite terrible".
Maybe Helium?
I wish Google would sell me a letter mail with my Gmail recovery passwords on a nice durable laminated card.
Yep, I love this kind of thing and it's waaay more similar to my actual job than the little self-contained problem on a "whiteboard" style.

The similar but different style question that I got (at Stripe, fwiw) in my recent job search that I also really loved was: Here's a failing test against a complex codebase; figure out what's wrong and then fix it. This flexes similar muscles I think: figure out enough of the flow of a complex codebase to understand where the problem manifests, and how to modify things to fix it without breaking other stuff. The really nice thing is: if all the tests pass at the end, you've done it. Then, time allowing, you can go work on improving the fix; making it more consistent with the architecture, etc.
Right, they are not a monopoly, they *have* monopolostic practices: have been caught giving advantage to their own ads on top of others, are scraping information from websites so people stay on search pages instead of opening links.
> What kind of blockchain would actually be able to deal with the expected transaction count? According to [1] Ethereum peaks out at 15 transactions per second, but [2] claims around 6.000 tweets per second on average.

Admittedly, the only way to be able to achieve that level of throughput would be to require zk proofs for assured transaction finality, on top of being a Layer 2 scaling solution.

Currently, that level of throughput can be obtained by using a specialized ZK-rollup network like
StarkNet [3] if it needs to be deployed right now. Otherwise, zkSync 2.0 [4], an EVM-compatible general ZK-rollup, is currently in its testnet stages & is currently the desired goal for scaling Ethereum's TPS up to the desired amount.

The technology is currently still in it early stages, as demonstrated by zkSync & StarkNet, the capability to reach that level of throughput is possible.

[3] https://starkware.co/starknet/
[4] https://v2-docs.zksync.io/dev/
It’s possible, sure.
Some feedback:

1. Having to wrap each column into a `div.block` AND then inside a `div.inner` is too verbose. Are you sure you can't find a simpler solution for your grid system?

2 Reading the about page and the documentation, I don't see why/how this is different from the Bootstrap and Foundation, so why I should switch from robust framework to yours.

3. Overall it looks nice, good work :)
Quite the opposite, and, quite simple: engineers over-engineer thing in order to make things generic. and generic make solutions robust. that's basic science. Unless the problem and solution are well understood, your investment won't guarantee a return at all.
> daily emails ("push") to various "pull" strategies.

I guess push is notifying the user, but what's pull?
Andrew Mason is having the last laugh, all the way to the Bank. Last time I checked, despite being fired from the Company he created out of a Wordpress Blog, his nett worth was $200 MILLION.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100512677
That's one claim that Greenwald makes slightly differently:

> there is also little in the released portions about Assange using an "encrypted Internet conferencing service" to talk to Manning or specially creating a "dedicated server" for Manning to use.

I think that this is a minor distinction -- whether the server was specifically made for Manning, or pre-existing, and only "made available". Details like that rapidly get made up as the news passes around.

However:

> Lamo's claim -- that Manning told him that he physically dropped off a disk with classified information to WikiLeaks' "intermediaries" in Boston -- is nowhere to be found in the chat logs released by Poulsen.

I certainly can't find this portion.
Thanks for these. Never thought about doing this...or that anyone would do it.
Wasn't clear to me in what you wrote that you were attempting to objectively summarize the article.

You missed at least one other, that part where Poulsen "refuted" Greenwalds accusation that Poulsen notified the NYTimes re: Lamos breach and then wrote an article about it by correcting Greenwald in that Poulsen actually notified the NYTimes about Lamos breach and then wrote an article about it ... with a quote from the NYTimes.

Thanks for your summary, though.
Greenwald has been talking about this since Manning got arrested, this is not the first article he has written about Wired.

One of the issues Greenwald brings up is that the logs are the only evidence to understand what happened in the Manning case.

Greenwald that Lamo makes statements to the press, regarding his interactions with Manning. He points out that some statements made have even contradicted themselves.

The only evidence are the chat logs themselves, which are not available.
newly created passwords remain invulnerable to a similar disclosure, as they employ SHA-512 with per-user salts to store hashes.

I don't know how long it will take for people to figure this out. SHA-512 with a salt is not the right way to store passwords. Yes, it's better by leaps and bounds than storing the plaintext. Yes, it's better than crypt(3) as gawker used. But come on, just use bcrypt already.

And the fact that they calls SHA-512 with salts "invulnerable" ... I don't even know what to say to that.
Makes sense. Any idea ballpark what a trademark of a company name would cost in California?
I also left out that Mark Rasch wasn't actually a bona fide Wired contributor, and I'm sure a bunch of other stuff. I was responding to 'grandalf's insinuation that Wired was having a nitpicked temper tantrum, when in fact they were condemned publicly in Salon for serious journalistic ethics lapses.
Indeed. I didn't mean to suggest that it was, if I did.
I've been using the admin_data plugin on both 2.3 and 3.0 projects.

https://github.com/neerajdotname/admin_data
Are you extrapolating that the key was not the technological edge, but strong central government? I'm not persuaded.

(a) Some of the colonial powers were small tribes or collections of tribes themselves. England is one example, as you say, but Belgium and Portugal are surely the poster children for this. Spain is still a vast collection of tribes more than anything else.

(b) Some of the colonized regions had strong central government, notably the Inka empire Tawantinsuyu.

(c) Forms of strong central government have existed in many times and places in the past (Carthage, the Roman Empire, arguably the Roman Catholic Church before Westphalia, ancient Egypt, Axum, China at some periods, Tawantinsuyu, the Maya empire) without kicking off an industrial revolution. Indeed, the argument has often been made that it was precisely Europe's lack of strong central government, together with the current state of philosophy, that permitted the Industrial Revolution to begin.
Wow, that's a pretty rare behind the scenes at someone who is so public, you'd think there wasn't that much that Fred hasn't talked about already.

Didn't know Fred was almost broke before the Geocities sale went through, or that he started in VC at 25 but didn't make any real investments till 30. Perhaps tenacity/persistence is not just a desirable quality for entrepreneurs but for VCs as well...

EDIT: Wonder if he ever thought about giving up and/or trying something else pre-Geocities? and what made him keep going?
One problem we're seeing is Sweden at least is that it turns out that offering world class education is simply not a cost effective way to attract lots of students. Offering free laptops, no homework, lots of high tech gadget for students to play with and free trips to Spain turns out to be a far more effective way to attract customers.

At the end of the day most of their potential customers aren't that interested in education, and as such it doesn't make financial sense to spend too much on that aspect of the business.
While the article has pretty clearly outlined what the problem is, it's not obvious to me what the proposal is for how to fix it, other than "staffing labs with permanent career employees".

As a PhD student myself, one of the attractions was the broad ability to set my own intellectual and scientific course. I think a majority of my colleagues feel that way too. While I think more places like Bell Labs or Janelia Farms are probably a good thing, I think the industrial culture has, by and large, shifted away from that being really feasible, and I'm not sure anyone knows how to shift it back.
Well then looking on webhostingtalk.com, the retail value for this is about $60-$75/month, not $200. There are quite a few tricks the dedicated server market plays to keep costs inline when over-selling. Small hard drives, slower processors, overloaded routers, limits on usage (like how dreamhost won't let you use your 500GB of storage as backup), multiple tiers of bandwidth (I wouldn't be surprised if these servers are put into a specific prefix where all outgoing bandwidth from that bandwidth is sent over a mixture of low-end providers like Cogent/HE/Bandcon, and creative prefix announcements send most of the incoming bandwidth over one of those three providers as well).

There are at least a dozen things an operator could do in order to make an offering like this cost them nothing on the books, and on the same note they would still sell these servers in their closeouts/specials section, or use them as freebies in larger deals.
also, http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/pcbchecklist (much less photogenic)
Civ IV.

=(
You might get more responses if you posted in Stackoverflow. But here is what I wanted to share:

You can keep the OS X as is. Load current JVM on all of them and connect them to a network.

Then write a program that uses Hazelcast (http://www.hazelcast.com/) that gives you a pseudo-distributed JVM cluster. It actually gives distributed Maps and Queues.

Then mount a bunch of Jetlang (http://code.google.com/p/jetlang/) Fibers into the distributed Map. The Jetlang fibers provide thread-less concurrency.

Then develop a simple function-independent task framework, to which you can pass a function and a parameter map as two arguments, which calls a Callable and returns an Object.

Now create a bunch of tasks, mount them into fibers and mount the fibers into the distributed map.

Finally write a simple countdown latch based task runner, you can safely run four per core, and run them on each mac, sit and watch.

Be careful, you can easily destroy a few database servers..
This is why I come on HN, I always learn something useful.
You have been kind from the very beginning, but the sort of open ended questions and wishful thinking is rage inducing and makes me feel like a bad person and makes people turn on your harder when they upset you.

"Surely there is...why don't you just....there has to be...that sounds terrible what would help?" etc NEVER F^%#$ HELP! They are vague, obvious, useless advices or ideas. Things I have usually made directly clear I have done. The direct answers to needs are never heard. You answer questions and nothing...like it was all just to satisfy someone's curiosity. People give you absurdly obvious "advice" they have never enacted, and certainly not in such circumstances, and then tut when you don't accept it or it doesn't work. The truth is there have been many systems and people who could have helped...really helped...and they said "no". THEY decided that not me. I had my agency stolen.

Yes I have PTSD amongst many issues but that like the rest has been scoffed at and said to be "playing victim" or whatever other excuse. Yes the judges, "advocates, doctors etc have mostly been shit but people won't accept that because it's easier to say it's my fault and pretend that it was just an edge case and would never happen to them. I am NOT setting a deadline....THEY are!!!! I have no idea when the threats and drama will appear again or when they will be realized. I live in constant fear of it and have been pointlessly F&^%# screaming HELP ME for years now. The ONE, MAYBE actionable plan was derailed by MORE BAD THINGS. I need support....stability....it's not coming. It never comes. It's like some trickster god is playing with me seeing how far he can push me. And when you say "I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMORE" you get "hopes and prayers". I wish I had never made this F&%^# account or ever talked to anyone about this as it just brings more pain on already unsurvivable pain. F&%%& everything.
Well, you're just asserting the causal relationship goes the other way.

And..just because Alaska isn't that bad doesn't mean it couldn't support the hypothesis. It's not California. Of course, California has a lot of resources too, so one could also say it's not New Jersey, or New York.

I suppose that Alaska does make a case that giving away a "citizens dividend" can be done without attracting the world to move there and making it unmanageable.
Weren’t thousands of people summarily executed in extrajudicial killings?
I think that business owner should realize by employee 12 or 13 they probably need to diversify a bit in order to stay legally compliant. It is not a complicated or difficult thing to handle.
The UK is pretty much a world leader in lead reduction:

> The percentage of homes in the US with a lead service line, lead pipe or lead gooseneck has been estimated to be between 3 and 6% (Triantafyllidou & Edwards (2012).

> The UK has the most accurate information and understanding of the extent of lead concentrations in drinking water as a result of widespread sampling at consumers' taps for over thirty years.

> In contrast, many other European countries have very little knowledge of the extent of the problem because they have not routinely monitored at private residences, or have done so only after flushing the pipework (CIWEM, 2012). However, on the basis of evidence gained by an international research network (COST Action 637) it appears that problems with lead in drinking water are widespread in Europe (Hayes, 2014; H. C., 2009).

> Estimates suggest approximately 25% of houses in the EU have a lead pipe, putting 120 million people at risk in today’s 27 member states. Overall, it has been estimated (IWA, 2010) that up to one in four children in Europe could be at risk from lead in drinking water (CIWEM, 2012).

p. 13: https://www.hamilton.ca/sites/default/files/media/browser/20...

No idea how things are outside of N. America and Europe.

Given that you can install a machine at your water treatment plant to pump in orthophosphates to build a protective layer on supply/household piping to get a 90% lead reduction (takes a couple years), I'm not sure what the excuse is for any water system that has lead pipes/solder/brass fittings.
This is how imperialism works.

> If you had build the most successful retail business, in 1900 you would own the market in your town; in 1950 in your country; in 2020 you'd own the world (or a big part of it). The opportunity is just a lot bigger now than 50 years ago and that trickles down.

In 1900, thousands would own the markets in their respective towns, in 1950 dozens would own the the markets in their countries, and in 2020 one person would own the entire market. This is not trickling down, this is flooding up.

It's no different than being the big man in your small island culture before the British navy rolls in. If there are no protections in place to preserve you, you will disappear and the Empire will expand.
Your personal website is a blank page with JS disabled.
That's a valid, but still weird take to me. Academic publishing takes a very long time. Every paper I was involved in took many months from submission to eventual publishing (completely ignoring the time it takes to prepare a submission).

Ioannidis published something extremely controversial (if not even flawed) and one of the main authors he attacked responded with a lengthy explanation so that this manuscript would not remain unchallenged. I found that aspect way more important than the venue of response. Would you prefer to leave Ioannidis' work unchallenged for potentially months instead?
With that logic, Oracle didn't create Java either. It was purchased by Oracle from Sun in 2009, after Google had already created the Android API.
Thanks for the insight, what would be the danger of the happy path solution where these effective vs nominal rates arent factored in. Some countries have a huge advantage in certain industries?