jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'll second Scott's question about whether you've considered keeping your gun outside the house.

Since you know that you react like that and are hopefully doing what you can to change that even if the VA is a mess, it seems to me that the responsible thing to do is also to preemptively mitigate the impact of those reactions, since you already know that your decision-making in the heat of the moment is going to be somewhat hard-wired in a bad direction by past experience.

Hell, even just keeping the guns in a gun safe well away from the bedroom would make a big difference. You with a gun become a target, do anything you can to avoid being that target because dead men can't use the video evidence in court.
I'm assuming justification for GoF research wasn't "we want to make a bioweapon". What are the arguments in favor of this type of research?
Yes, we're all keyed into morality, which is why it's such a powerful lever for companies to pull.

Whether it's water, shoes, or software, they're keen on 'using the right language to make us happy' and how that lines up with actual practices if often a different thing.

Also - it's used internally at companies as well. Everyone wants to think they are doing some kind of 'good'.

It's a weird artifact of a few modern companies in countries where culture is variable or the rules are less established by society, so you see this more in the 'New World'. Or rather, I should say, it's just more apparent there. 'Old World' companies do this but in much more traditional ways.

It's complicated and also easy for young people to get 'too skeptical' - I find this happens when at the age we start learning the world isn't as nice as we were taught growing up and then flip to cynicism. The reality is that it's always grey and it takes actual insight to try to make any sense of it.
I would have thought that that had already happened to every Usenet group by now, or even 20 years ago.
There is unfortunately no magic crystal ball that delivers absolute truth and filters out all lies, mistakes, and misunderstandings. There is no substitute for thinking.

In the case of global warming I used to be a skeptic but was brought around as I saw more evidence of actual physical effects instead of just models. With COVID we are still under a bit of a fog of war, and it won’t be totally clear which statistics were right or which mixes of approaches were best until 10 years from now.
> Reading comprehension: I said I am not anti BAC,

No, you did not.

Yes, reading comprehension is important. You said, literally quoted:

"I am not "anti-vax" -- but this shit is unprecedented."
Of course - if China knew more, earlier, wouldn’t you say knowing this should affect policy in future?
yes vimscript is awful, and I wanted to share a way of dealing with it.
Evil is an emacs package that "implements vim on top of emacs". By using that you basically exchange vimscript for elisp (At least I, just started 'using vim' and didn't have any problems). I'm not saying it will fit everybody, just that I didn't actually knew that the possibility existed - so I'm mentioning it.
If iodine is the reason, probably from seaweed rather than shellfish.
Did I miss the memo that startups were suppose to be easy and instant successes?
Why use a dispatch queue at all? You don't use an Executor on Android. Example usage of MMKV doesn't seem to show putting it in queues.
"Economist Milton Friedman has compared the monetary role of the stone money to the reserves of gold held in Fort Knox for foreign governments"
I did my first graphql/flutter/dart development live coding session today: https://youtu.be/TnTOksZ3lUs

My intent is to stream development of both the libraries I develop/contribute to (graphql_flutter, built_graphql, gql), as well as complete examples that I will deploy and release
I don't know. When you're trying to build a team in a market where there are more jobs than qualified applicants, telling them that you have to 'rescue' an app is a turn off and won't get you anywhere.

Also, when the real value within the app is a simple product, breaking it out and re-engineering based on what you've learnt takes about roughly the same time as it does to walk through the code line-by-line and add in valuable tests.

Refactoring legacy code by multiple vendors is always a risky proposition (and much much harder to sell to clients who want a deadline for delivery).
BS. Like what? I've yet to hear a compelling argument for misusing the table tag that CSS can't do just as elegantly.
One would imagine that this isn't even remotely close to what government agencies have in terms of crypto breaking power. Don't underestimate what a basically unlimited budget can buy you.

For every instance you an go out and get they probably have a football field sized room full of stuff twice as fast.
One of the easiest today is using universal default. If you happen to pay your water bill late then that tells me that you're having money problems so I can expect other bills to start to falter. Some CC companies will actually raise their rates on you proactively assuming you're about to default. I think that's crap, but it's part of having everything so connected.

Other big ones that we found are simply changes in behavior. The person who pays their bill late every month is fine, and if they pay late enough to get the late charge even beneficial. The person who pays on time every month, but is suddenly late, big red flags. A person who suddenly starts using their CC card for groceries, but never did before is another example.

People also tend to live near similar people. If you're a company providing a service to many people you can start to build models of neighborhoods. If both my neighbors foreclose on their house there is a higher likelihood that I'm also going to be running into money problems.
Blame realtors.
Thanks for this. :) Learn something new every day.
IE6 still has a surprisingly large user base according to my analytics reports. some of my clients' sites are seeing above 30% still using IE6. hopefully IT departments will go to windows 7 or something, because seriously - what year is this?
More like cognitive dissonance. Windows is built for a mouse, same with Mac.

If it coulda worked, Steve would have done an OEM and slapped Axiotron with a lawsuit.
I just have a "startwork" script that uncomments my etc/hosts files.

#!/bin/sh
bash -c "awk '{sub(/#127/, "127")};{print}' /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new; mv /etc/hosts.new /etc/hosts;"

And my etc/hosts looks like this:

127.0.0.1 www.onemorelevel.com
127.0.0.1 onemorelevel.com
#127.0.0.1 www.hulu.com
#127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
#127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
#127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com
#127.0.0.1 www.netflix.com
#127.0.0.1 mail.google.com
#127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com
127.0.0.1 www.techcrunch.com

Once I run the startwork script, sites are blocked by uncommenting the sites. There is no "startplay" script or "stop work" script, since I want to make it more painful to undo. To undo, you simply comment out the sites you want to visit.

It's been pretty effective so far. The mere fact of putting up barriers to the things that you don't want to do more of, and lowering barriers to those that you do want to do more of goes a long way.
This is a sweet post. In an ideal world, work would be infused with joy rather than stress.
I'm not actually sure we need government to enforce trademarks. All a trademark system is is a central registry. Seems like the private sector does just fine with that (domain name system, github, npm, twitter, etc).
Don't do this. The easier you make it for people to download music, the harder it is for youtube-dl to continue to exist freely available.
> not possible as of yet

Never. The Safari team already (wrongly) feels that their Safari-specific "content blocker" API is adequate, and moreover, Google Chrome has announced the deprecation of the webRequest blocking API used by uBlock Origin, so it almost certainly won't be ported to Safari, and it's an open question how long uBlock Origin will even last on Chrome in the future.
Yes, but it isn't useful. A conversation also has three outcomes (neutral, you like the person more, or less) and yet it doesn't make conversations similar to chess.
Well, the rail line is behind schedule.
Arguably, three people paid a heavy toll. Escaping prison because of suicide or having heart attack while waiting for your trial aren't exactly get out of jail free cards.

Aside from that, totally agree. Many of the people who benefitted from the Enron disaster walked away without consequence. Very unsatisfying end.
HappyOrNot buttons also count multiple taps
Well, I can't talk about Geneva or Zurich because both cities are very expensive. But generally, prices are going up, the down payment is normally 20% of the price. This is one problem, another one is how they calculate the risk. The "law" is you have to be able to pay the mortgage at 5% and that 5% cannot be more than 1/3 of your income.

So if you buy a 1.25m house and take a 1m mortgage 5% is of that is 50k, so your salary has to be 150k.

Point 3) is wrong, they make still a lot of money with loans, a lot of people still take 10 year loans for somewhere between 0.6% and 1%.
Good to know. Id experiment before a full shift.
Title! “Why Cannot Intel Compete Against ARM by Sticking with x86?”
Can those who believe it's ok for languages (cultural diversity) to die out be saved ?
Love it, but I can't shake the feeling that the people who I want to show this to would not dig the zombies vibe. Maybe I just hang around too many people who do Real Serious Business (TM) programming. :)

It's neat as hell though.
Well, that's not all he's said:

http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/18/apples-wozniak-calls-the-w...
This is a wonderful in-depth article and the PostgreSQL team deserves a lot of kudos for the work they put into this. I'm looking forward to using it. The thing I find interesting that MySQL offers is multi-master and circular replication. Cal Henderson noted that Flickr uses multiple masters replicating to slave servers in their setup during DjangoCon 2008 (a great presentation if you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk).

Granted, multi-master setups aren't needed for most sites and PostgreSQL's new WAL replication and the fact that it makes sure that the WAL is written on the slave before the transaction is committed on the master means that data integrity should be top notch. It's exciting to see PostgreSQL's development progressing so well.
Atomic clocks have the same problem. They use caesium atoms, which are hard to trap, and they want them moving very slowly so that thermal, doppler, and relativistic effects don't screw up the frequency signal you get from them. Hence caesium fountains, which fire the atoms upwards so that they come to the top of their gravitational parabola at about the time they drop a hyperfine energy level and emit the magic microwave photon.
In 'the facebook effect' it talks about how Mark was up for a week writing the first version
I'd misread it as 'Fred Books'. Sorry.
I share a washing machine with this dude; Way to go Dallas!

Y'all [the HN community] have great taste.
Actually, I felt this line hurt Paul's case. It's one of those lines that sounds clever on the first hearing but falls apart on examination -- like "Why don't they build the plane out of the same stuff as the black box?".

The reason they search pilots is because the only obvious things distinguishing a pilot from a non-pilot are a fancy uniform and an ID. If pilots are exempt from screening, then your method of determining who is a pilot needs to be at least as effective as the screening itself. Otherwise, an adversary needs only to steal or forge the proper credentials to bypass screening.

Either Paul is aware of this and is being deliberately misleading to make his case, or he hasn't given the issue enough consideration.
What matters is being in the right place at the right time.

If you are in exactly the right place at the right time, you can gain huge traction with a 24-hour project.

If you are in a workable place at a workable time, 1000 hours may well be a good benchmark.

If both time and place are working against you, there's no telling how long it might take. You might never get traction. It's just you and your tenacity.
Why shouldn't they read about packets? Kids are a lot savvier these days.
We learn that 13 very different looking datasets can all have identical X and Y means, X and Y standard deviations, and correlations. This is very insightful.

What are the real world applications and/or implications?
So, did they lower the price? No? Shrinkflation, Tesla edition. Getting less for the same price to save the manufacturer money.

Especially since L3 FSD - when and if it comes - requires the second motor.
Probably the best answer here. Need to work on distancing myself from work psychologically
How does it compare with ZeroTier, Tailscale and Nebula?
Much quicker than migrating to log4j 2.x. Besides, why would I want to migrate log4j 2, a project at the source of log4shell?
All great except the price for such solution.
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Depending on where you are and what specific laws are in place that someone (the police maybe?) may not be able to get more whacking past a judge. I think this could work reasonably well in such situations.
I wish they sold this in the US
In business environment terms, I see anyone who takes a "you're either with us or against us" position as promoting a "mostly-cheating-allowed game." You're gonna let things slide for people on "your team" much more than you would if everyone is for themselves. That's one of the more convincing arguments against traditional unions, to me.
It is very uneven across industries. Gaming (non-gambling) has had a big 2020, and bonuses went out.

I have also seen up to a 20% boost in hourly rates for consultants across the EU.
Because not everyone can move around as easily as a corporation.
(it's not a clock)
> How is an "antivirus" superior to a sandbox?

This. If you really care about protecting your system and not about security theater, consider security through compartmentalization, like Qubes OS does.
I think we disagree on that.

I think that a lot of awfulness that causes measurable harm [1] can easily spread through social networks and I think that YouTube or Twitter should be allowed to delete or block it if they think it's harmful. I'm fully ok with the people promoting this stuff make their own website, or move to a website that's more accommodating to their harmful beliefs.

Obviously YouTube and Twitter can be a bit overzealous with who they ban, I think there's been some overcorrection for the fairly "laissez-faire" mentality that they had towards neo Nazis from ~2014-2017, and I've seen plenty of people get banned from these platforms for bad reasons as a result.

But I feel like we're arguing two different points; I think the issue isn't that the companies are allowed to ban whomever they'd like, I think the issue is that these companies shouldn't be so big as to where a ban from theme is so devastating.

As it stands, I'll fully admit that my default response of "you're free to build your own platform" is a bit silly; building something that has the potential to distribute a message as well as Twitter or YouTube would be almost impossible for anyone without a lot of funding behind them to do. ActivityPub-esque systems have a nice potential to change this, and as stated, I'd be on-board with making these companies use open protocols so as to increase competition.

[1] fake COVID Cures, "alternative" medicine like drinking bleach or injecting yourself with ozone, HIV denialism, etc...
In the town that I live in, Red Bull is the sponsor of what they call "The World's Toughest Hard Enduro Rallye". Every year it draws a crowd of tourists to the city and produces some great entertainment.
https://www.redbullromaniacs.com/
To reinforce your point, I started Paxil many years ago and had terrible side effects that pushed me away from ssris altogether leading to a long struggle before giving in and trying Lexapro which has given me my life back.

If one doesn't work, try others before trying nothing.
What technology is google producing for the military?
I'd be interested to hear what you move to, what the set up looks like there, and what you pay for it.
Paper: http://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/socioplt/papers/oopsla201...
I've brought this up before, but those passwords are more vulnerable to dictionary attacks: http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=11551&sid=14...
Nobody can offer such an example, because the boom-bust (depression) cycle itself is caused by the interventions of central bankers.
I don't say it as if it is a moral failing, I say it as it is a comic lack of perspective.

Or, put another way: chill.
All communication with people would be done via teams (that isn’t face to face) and that would include all meetings.
Here's an example of the kind of research illustrating the gap between the priorities of complexity theorists and those of people who just want efficient algorithms:

It's a hard problem to approximate the volume of a convex body in n-dimensional space, given a membership oracle. (An oracle is an O(1) function that tells if a point is in, or not in, the convex body.) Is it exponential time in the number of dimensions (e.g., requiring an exponential number of calls to the oracle)? This is a fundamental question, and turns out to be important in lots of applications.

The following 1991 paper:

http://www.stat.duke.edu/~scs/Courses/Stat376/Papers/Converg...

caused quite a stir in the field. It has 380 citations. It proved, without explicit construction, that there is a (randomized) approximation algorithm that is order n^23, with a huge, and unknown, leading constant. It was totally useless in applications, but totally exciting for complexity theorists.

Since then, people have been plugging away. The most recent result I can find is by Laszlo Lovasz, appeared in 2003, and shows an O(n^4) algorithm. It's also randomized, very complex, and let's just say that the constant has got to be huge also.

The problem for practitioners is, you never know when all that plugging away is going to produce a good algorithm that is easy enough to implement. It it happens, it can totally change the computational landscape.

The FFT is my favorite example; its discovery has revolutionized all sorts of computations.
It would still run about as well as Tcl. [ducks]
Depends where you are I guess. When I attend conferences these days--which to be fair tend to be open source-oriented although not exclusively--I see very little Windows in use and, to be honest, more MacOS than Linux in general.

To the topic at hand I've used Teams a couple times. Don't remember it being especially good or bad and probably wouldn't otherwise be a deal-breaker on a job I really wanted to take. But I probably prefer either Zoom or Google Meet.
The difference is that once your plagiarized paper is accepted, you can't go around threatening the other students with F's on their papers if they don't pay you off.
I don't know about CL, but it is commonly believed that Perl cannot be parsed by anything except Perl. I'm not sure about the nuances between "undecidable" and "cannot be parsed without execution", but this page seems relevant:

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393
Yes, as discussed in the article, the shapes are not piecewise smooth curves (i.e., not the sort of shapes you can construct by making a finite number of straight and smoothed cuts). Furthermore, as also mentioned, the areas of the shapes are non-measurable, so the perimeter is probably non-measurable too.
I'd argue that's because your use-case doesn't match that of billions of users. Microsoft has to make judgment calls based on user experience of billions of end users on both kernel and front-end parts whereas the the Linux kernel developers can care only about the power users, which makes for a great kernel with superpowers, but you also need superpowers to wield it.

Yes desktop Linux is probably better these days for casual users of many degrees, but those users should probably be using ChromeOS (disregarding privacy questions, only UX) whereas the Linux desktop gives you the choices of boatloads of desktop environments and configurability. There's a reason Windows is the most used "computer operating system" (disregard android and ios).

I'm very happy on Linux myself just to be clear, but there are reasons why we're just a few percent of the market, and using free as in Libre and gratis software mostly.
Yeah Google was getting as bad as Yahoo was in the 90s before I switched. I just think they’re in the phase of trying to suck as much money as possible out of each search.
DigiCert bought Symantec's TLS/PKI business, to quote wikipedia:

> including brands GeoTrust, RapidSSL, Thawte and VeriSign
I had several interactions with governmental agencies and local police regarding cybercrime recently and in all cases each group said they had no resources to help. My local deputy sheriff was really nice though...
The website, and roku channel are not much better. Seems to get worse with every update.
I ve come to find these arguments about pc vs mac are neverending and very polarised. They re not very rational either. Just like all arguments about aesthetics
The Information, a great Silicon Valley news site, keeps track of FAANG profits and revenues per employee:

"Still, even with the declines, Facebook continues to generate by far the most profits per employee among the Big Five tech companies—$141,552 in the third quarter. In second place was Apple, with $99,898 per employee. Facebook’s core advertising business carries significantly higher margins than Apple’s business, which is based primarily on hardware sales."

That's $140k of average annual profit per each and every one of Facebook's ~40k employees, not just engineers.

However Apple still takes the lead when looking at revenue rather than profit:

"On a different metric, revenue per employee, Apple tops the list at $467,445 in the third quarter, higher even than Facebook’s $410,225 in revenue per employee (see chart above). Apple’s headcount for the quarter was 137,000, including workers in its retail stores."

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/after-hiring-binges-...
The regional search in DDG is awful. I usually have to add the country to the search as well has enabling the toggle for it to work somewhat reliably.

That said, I do 99% or my searching on DDG.
Solution to this is privacy-based wallets and/or second layer payments (e.g. lightning network).
Because the term applies to vehicles that don't necessarily use gas. Diesel, LNG, CNG are also ICE.
The GPLv3 specifically requires copyright notices to be kept in tact on verbatim copies. Other popular Open Source licenses have more stringent attribution requirements. Plagiarism is definitely not inherent to Open Source, though it may be inherent in some licenses.