jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> 230 is safe

Both sides have said 230 needs fixed/removed, if for different reasons. to think 230 can't be removed/fixed now is laughable.

https://www.businessinsider.com/obama-section-230-tech-firms...

> President-elect Joe Biden has said that he wants to revoke Section 230. When Biden was vice president under Obama, the administration was largely hands-off when it came to the tech industry.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/biden-wants-to-get-rid-of-te...

> Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told The New York Times editorial board that tech’s legal shield known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be revoked.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/01/04/trump-biden-p...

> Democrats, including President-elect Joe Biden, urged Congress to revise Section 230 to force tech companies to remove hate speech and extremism, election interference and falsehoods. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Section 230 a gift to Big Tech. "It is not out of the question that that could be removed," she said in 2019.
Is a social thought experiment anything but asking the reader to project their own beliefs and biases?
Either that or autonomous quadracopter bike drop ships.
That occupation was nothing like typical colonialism, though. The occupation was there simply to ensure their transition to democracy, and then they left.
The constitution allowed for the government to coin currency. Literally out of metals. That was gamed with tickets for gold, aka dollars. That was gamed even further by removing it from the gold standard. That causes weird things like the metal value of the coin being worth more than the face value and a bunch of news stories about how it is illegal to melt down your worth less coins. We now effectively have communist economic spending where the banks get to print and loan currency to the government and other groups that get to front run the inflation it causes and massively pull forward demand in a way that would not be naturally possible without the ability to skim from everyone. This system is what devalues all capital savings by 3-6% per year, effectively shutting down the ability to save capital and hence real capitalism. Technology by definition causes deflation. Everything should be getting cheaper, not more expensive. The inflation sucks those gains away from the workers and society like a vampire. It is why my generation makes on average half as much as my parents generation, which on average made half as much the previous generation. A hard currency removes that burden. The minimum wage in 1950 was $30/hour in today's purchasing power.
Their approach to moderation is unusual in that they don't even pretend to be a neutral platform and as such it's a powerful differentiator to businesses that are rooted in a "free speech" culture.

Shadow-banning individual posts ("Visible to self") is relatively unusual and acts as a demotivator to publish controversial content because such content doesn't drive engagement, as is actively demoting entire classes of content (like critical commentary on politics) from the start.

This approach seems to help ensure that there won't ever be a subculture on their platform that grows, becomes controversial and at some point considers it their right to use the platform for their controversial content, avoiding all the outrage that late introduction of moderation brings with it. (see Twitter)
i imagine its one room in a certain hotel, the rest will be normal, this is just a way of getting advertising cheaply as its gotten them on countless worldwide news sites
I run a WP website with 500k monthly page views (~800 blog posts). How would you go on implementing a static site (Gatsby would be my choice) knowing that there are WooCommerce and Sensei (Courses) installed? WP-REST?
delete Object.prototype.__proto__;

Fixed.
ah the 90s were a strange time for the internet (if memory serves this popped up in about 97-98)
Why make such a broad statement at all? There are laptops for nearly every need - yes there are some which will throttle very quickly and are only good for light work, but there are laptops in every size that have decent enough cooling that they can run at max load 24/7 without any issues. As to why someone would do this - can you really not think of a single reason?
Well, it seems to me that they can only get more likely from here?
Indeed. This view is also compatible with the emerging Bayesian Brain theory
Something is missing here: HTTPS links and SSL.
Either website.com hands over its certificate to dnsdelegation.io (which is unlikely and definitely not a 2 min trust-less process) or dnsdelegation.io has the ability to generate any certificate like a certificate authority which is really terrible (and also unlikely).
nginx has a "good enough" caching system for most use cases.
We’re fortunate to have some politicians and officials who believe in anti-trust measures in the European Union. Margrethe Vestager is the current champion and I’m glad I’m under her wing rather than her American counterpart, Ajit Pai.

I’m optimistic that regulations will come, sooner or later.
I don't see the insane part. Making cars is very capital intensive and it's virtually impossible to ship a high-volume car without large amounts of capital. I think that Tesla's demo of a small volume roadster with private money sets the stage for a larger future offering.
You can also do this with a chocolate bar.
Amazing photo.
I was thinking of the Rackable stuff, not the supercomputing stuff. They actually acquired SGI, but took the SGI name.
http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009...
Suggestion: anyone should stop listening to what Manning says about 2 years ago as this kid was brainwashed to extreme [1]

After all, give me the toughest of the toughest, 3 years sleeping naked and being woken up every 2 hours to a loud music and put me behind closed door, and I will make him swear and admit he went back in time and killed Jesus Christ himself.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UR8OWtcj9Y
Should be no different from getting your physical legitimation stolen.
IMO finance is not a good idea for this sort of thing - it would only encourage people to buy something they can't really afford.
This is a luxury even in the modern era of smartphones being commonplace, nobody needs to have it.
Kara Swisher said on her Twitter account that the full video will be available next week: http://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/15236579970
Never used it. As much as i don't like user account as a concept, and don't like implementing it either, implementation of any Oauth, Facebook login or any other is just nightmare. No users no problem i guess :)
What exactly is the manageability problems you foresee? 562 seems kind of a pointless change which doesn't address any of the named issues. The first paragraph:

> The framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights intended that the total population of Congressional districts never exceed 50 to 60 thousand. Currently, the average population size of the districts is nearly 700,000 and, consequently, the principle of proportionally equitable representation has been abandoned.
This is essentially just a co-located box, that you connect to your virtual network over a VPN/interconnect. Why is it not inside the virtual network? Why is the pricing hidden behind a sales person? That seems like the first cloud instance to have hidden pricing...
The DoD has it's own private internet. Anything truly important isn't exposed to the public.
Therayes
In any decent language, all functions are first-class, so if you want to use them as callbacks, you need that to work.

That's still true even if the API takes a separate context pointer that is given to your function as an argument.

There is still a function pointer there, and what you'd like to use as a function pointer is a function in your local language, and that's an object with an environment. Even if some instances of it have no environment, the FFI mechanism might want to tack on its own. For instance, the FFI needs to be able to route the callback to the appropriate function. Whatever function pointer FFI gives to the C function, when the C library calls that function, FFI has to dispatch it back to the original high level function. That requires context. Now that context could be shoehorned into that context parameter, but it could be inconvenient to do so; that parameter belongs to the program and to the conversation that program is having with the C API.
I picked my phrasing carefully.

As the old saying goes, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."

Actively plotting this outcome? That's a movie plot, sure. But negligence - even willful negligence - and microaggression? We know this happens all the time.
signal, sigaction.
> One of the basic tenets of the founding fathers was that small groups can have out sized power

This all sounds very reasonable, but if this is the case, why was the House of Representatives ever supposed to be proportional to population size?
In what way does LPtHW not teach programming in your mind?
Consensus is not typically necessary.

Consider a global scale e-commerce application. You may have a handful of operations that absolutely need to pull consensus across the entire system (i.e. adding/removing nodes, creating new accounts, authenticating and creating sessions).

Everything else could be left to a per-node basis without compromising the integrity of sensitive transactions.

If you look at this from a physics perspective, I think it gets really simple. You want to minimize your user request latency. More consensus = more participants = more latency.

If the grain of your consensus mechanism is your datastore and everything in your business requires pulling a majority of votes over the cluster, you cannot leverage this philosophy. I think the biggest mistake out there right now is trying to abstract this stuff under the datastore and not allowing the business logic to access it directly. Whether or not something needs to pull consensus should be a business question, not a technical question.
> This was touched upon - the point is that XMPP's extensibility means we aren't "stuck at the lowest common denominator".

To echo the sibling comments - with security you are stuck at the lowest common denominator. If anyone in your ecosystem can negotiate down the security (because they don't support it) then the system as a whole is vulnerable. There are UI things you can do to highlight this ("messages to this destination are not secured") but it becomes complex and confusing for users (what happens if you have a group of people with secure features and you add someone without?).

In summary - I can see where Snikket is coming from. It gives a common name to talk about - a new lowest common denominator feature set.
Yeah I mean, totally fair enough, so long as you're able to use two separate SSD/HDDs - which isn't a given for laptops?
It would be pretty easy with a keyboard like this - just add a key that, while held, activates a seperate layout.
Can someone tell me what this brings to the table? Isn’t there already a gazillion keyboards like this and already open source stuff if anyone want to build a keyboard like this?
I cannot find the source, but the folklore says a Linux kernel developer wrote a USB tutorial with his USB VID/PID, years later, he found he became the manufacturer of all sorts of gadgets he never heard about.
Yep, exactly this is what I meant.
Kudos to the maker here. This looks gorgeous, and very close to the datahand ads I remember.

The datahand was a keyboard fetish of mine, although I always wondered of actually usable it would be, especially considering the learning experience. Keep in mind this keyboard requires chording to obtain all normally usable symbols readily available on a traditional keyboard.

Making a clone of my advantage pro (my current and favorite keyboard) is somewhere in my todo list.

I'm still trying all sorts of weird keyboard/mice configurations. I have probably at least 10 really exotic keyboards in my collection.

Years ago I strapped the two sections of the split ergomagic keyboard section to the armrests of my chair, for a startrek-like experience. At least for me, it didn't turn out to be a great ergonomic experience.

At home I'm using a foot mouse.
Make an effort man.. jesus christ.
In an era of relatively perfunctory airport security, Mohammed Atta's hand luggage (which was held up after being checked on a connecting flight) reportedly contained a letter outlining, in the abstract terms, what he was to do, his will, a flick knife and details on operating and navigating a Boeing 757...
>Using the terms a two year old will use when she discovers it is funny and gets attention just for saying dirty words.

So, preffering what a prude 50 year old from some place with a strong puritan culture would want to see.
A question someone like me has, is how do you get the attention of these investors? I have a few ideas for products, a couple of which I've done preliminary coding for on the side. But the problem I have is

a) I have no connections

b) I work full time, so I have very little time other than late nights to work on the things I'm really interested in. I feel like I'm missing huge opportunities because I can't work on the things that I find really interesting because I'm doing someone else's work.
Thank you for your advice. Luckily, I was never logged into their systems; simply remote viewing via screen share with an authorized user.
Thanks for the anecdote.

Free-to-play mobile game makers (some from casino gaming) analyze the behavior of paying players and have been financially successful at using Facebook demographics to isolate and target those likely to pay for F2P games.

Since Facebook also has access to Axciom offline purchases, it may be possible to correlate movie attendance with online and mobile activity profiles. If so, it will eventually be possible to segment incremental audiences who seek artistic films. Cineplex in Canada created VIP theaters with seat-side waiters, alcohol/food and selected films -- their attendance data will also be useful.

http://stratechery.com/2014/dependent-digital-whales/

Edit: fixed link, thanks mikeyouse
I hope that I have shown that mathematics is not the thing it is often assumed to be, that mathematics is constantly changing and hence even if I did succeed in defining it today the definition would not be appropriate tomorrow.

I think this kind of intent requires some seemingly superfluous amount of wording to carry a nontrivial flow of narrative to be persuasive if to avoid dullness in expression.
A bit of a late reply, but NASA (established by the US government) is not allowed to turn a profit. Probably so that it does sell innovative high tech to the highest bidder.
I know a CFO who tells me he's a natural accountant, in that he says he gets intuitions about numbers, can spot problems in spreadsheets straight away, and generally outperform his staff on snap judgements on numbers. He says he thinks he was born with it.
This has potential. When drop.io died nothing filled the gap. If you want some help with this feel free to reach out to me: rrggrr@gmx.us
The Ars Technica guide is still there. Here's the most recent one: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/guides/2009/10/ars-system-gu...
I expect people who write low-level, security relevant things are in rather short supply and so they have a pretty hefty workload. Unfortunately, that leaves little room to explore and research new technologies. Moreover, very, very few people look to improve their efficiency by learning entirely new tech stacks.
Note though that GTK has no accessibility support on Windows and Mac. If you're only targeting GNOME, then that's fine. For something that's more or less accessible cross-platform, I'd go with wxWidgets or something Web-based.
Perhaps you could set flags to disable all optimisations except the ones you specifically enable.

Unless the compiler promises to handle the various forms of undefined behaviour in specific 'safe' ways, this approach isn't going to be robust. GCC doesn't offer a way to safely handle all instances of UB. That would be a significant undertaking.
Also, we probably have a lot more footage of 1985. Since video recording equipment got cheaper, more videos got made. Since many of those videos still exist, 1985 is still "present" in 2015 to a much greater degree than 1955 was in 1985. The same holds true for audio recordings.
Really excited about this journal. Especially the high standards for code submission.
Probably true. I'm not a big fan of the term ML due to the hype associated with it. Statistics however, which is pretty near the same thing most of the time, has proven itself quite often.
Even before 2008 it's an issue. I bought in 2008 and cash offers were still preferred over 20% down, which was preferred over less than 20% down. It's because when you make the purchase agreement, the buyer can get a bunch of outs, many of which are based on financing not getting approved. The more difficult your financing situation, the more chance there is of it falling though.
In practice it already costs about half that price.
So, basically applets / flash?
Amen. DDG has weaker results on local searches but has better, more diverse results than Google on general topics. I use it all the time now.
Any of you use honey medicinally today? E.g. put it on a cut before bandaging? Swallow it to help an unhappy gut? (This is not medical advice; I'm curious.)
What a stupid thing to say about someone you do not know.
It runs IE.
Don't forget Akka!
I think the wave pattern is just do to how the web is structured and the way people find new interesting articles. Nothing about the culture of HN.
So the idea is to give everyone a thorough pat-down on the way through along with an even-more-intensive bag search? Not that I'm opposed... it would be way more 'action' than I normally get, but somehow I don't see everyone seeing it the same way.
this isn't related, but do you by any chance work at Mississippi State?
That's just rubbish. US bombing missions were not in any way targetted strikes compared to the UK's night raids. Have a look at what was achieved by the British pathfinder system guiding first Mosquitos then specialist heavy bombers to target mark the main raids.

The USAAF conducted firebombing of German cities, notably Hamburg.
And did the fee go up after the drop? That's right, there's no basis for your claim.
I tried out Lisp sometime around 2009 or so and immediately realized it was a toy language. Interesting for it's unique approach to structuring code, but ultimately designed for a certain kind of mathematical elegance over practical functionality. It grew especially popular with ai researchers, because they were searching for beautiful answers to the messy problem of intelligence, and didn't think performance was as critical as ideas. And it grew fans here and there for certain low-performance applications because it was one of the first languages with productivity enhancing features like garbage collection.

Lisp may have been "mind blowing" before untyped scripting languages were a dime a dozen, but these days the only thing mind-blowing about it is that people still use it when there are much better alternatives.
There's no guarantee the mask would last another 2000 years. Depending on where it's stored, there's no guarantee of another 20 years. Had we left the mask alone, and stored it somewhere, it's entirely possible it would have been destroyed by some random process without us having learned a damn thing from it.
I can't figure out why you're arguing against standard unix tools/idioms in the name of supportability and extensibility? It defies logic.
Still, I think, that Japan directly attacked the US at Pearl Harbor made a big difference. Germany was also seen as having a bad regime with war criminals, but they started the war with the US not with such a carnage. So, I think politicians and parts of the US people in this time saw Japan as the worse "beast".
Yes, but he still keeps the awkward Awk code with the substr and such. I haven't benchmarked, maybe that's faster than the pretty regex matches.
Thanks for the clarification! Best luck with the project.
The skill of "getting something done without breaking anything" which is basically our profession.
Obviously YMMV but in 2021, every tech video I commented on would get these replies, which all had 18+ profile pictures. Clicking their profile every account had the exact same "playlist" with a porn site ad inside, and the channel header had the exact same website link. I kept getting these for months.
Interesting idea. We will think about it and see what we can do.

It's not the most requested feature, but I do agree that is solves a huge paint point.

Also, maybe some of you big data use-cases could be handled by a custom batch job? https://docs.stacktape.com/resources/batch-jobs/
Those statistics are surprising.
If typing speed is the bottleneck in your programming, you are doing way too easy and trivial stuff. Start thinking about how to make more advanced tools/frameworks/architectures/whatever-it-is-you-do that allow you to think more and code less.

OK, I do see that it will never be a bad thing to be a fast typer. However, spend a year learning to type faster or spend a year learning more math, logic and advanced progamming concepts ?
Personally I don't think that programming can be compared to sushi making or any other craft. I know this goes against majority thought in HN, but I think intelligence is the most important thing for a programmer, followed by domain/language specific knowledge, followed by appropriate choice of tools.

I think the market reflects my assessment, where young smart developers can get paid a lot more than much more experienced developers. My view is also consistent with the common advice I see on HN, which is to develop deep expertise in a popular language/technology, and ensure this knowledge is always up to date (as opposed to mastering the art of programming in general).
I assume you'd get them in a pawn shop, still set in whatever they were set in when they were pawned.
Spot on.

...however, its also fair to say studies like these work their way up into the Japanese government policy think tank.

The 3 billion yen in match making & services is no joke.

The government is obsessed with the issue, which is more troubling than the reality of sexuality in Japan.
"Buy a mechanical watch!

It will cost you significantly more than a lifetime supply of quartz watches.

It will require more maintenance than a quartz watch.

And it will keep less accurate time."

Where's the value?
Can I guess that you are a tech yuppie, whose social circle consists mostly of other tech yuppies? Most people around the world are not tech yuppies in a recession. Try asking a dropout or a convenience store clerk about the sex they're having and you might get a less outrageous answer.
second part of the series; the first is at https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836...?
Do you mean the first episode? I think they can be viewed freely online http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/
There's exceptions in the other direction as well: Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland aren't EU members, but Schengen visas are valid there.
> Google's very business model is analyzing your bits and selling what that reveals about you.

Do you really think that? What do you think would happen if you called up Google's sales team and said, "Hi, I'd like to buy your analysis of Mike Schiraldi's bits. How much will that cost me?"
For one, libraries that aren't written in Java. :)

Startup times less than seconds.

The dead simple ability to execute any lisp in any editor with a few key presses.

A really good integration with REPL environments.

A somewhat nice way to treat a shell as a REPL.

A mail client I like. (Hard to say that is good for others...)

And, it is overstated, but org-mode really should be looked at. Literate Programming. Task management. It has it all.