jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>does a lot of small-scale aggression

Most states do, and many do much much worse, and still have great relations with their western allies (if not being directly funded to do so). Heck, they were hunky dory with Germany, merely a few years after they started a World War that killed 30+ million people, burned 6 million jews, etc., because "Cold War".

>e.g., they just confiscated a Korean ship on free waters

After Korea seized some billions of their assets in its banks.

>They also pursue nuclear weapons

That's because any state without them is toast when the big dogs decide.

Plus, they remember their history, like outsiders toppling their democratic leader, because he was getting too "socialist", and establising a lackey into power to play the king.

Or outsiders funding their neighborhood country to go into war with them, praising their leadership, and then come back a decade later, do a u-turn, to invade them, hang their leader that was their ex ally, and occupy the country (that thet turned into a civil war hell-zone).

Plus they have another country nearby with ample foreign support that's used as a proxy for foreign power in the area, and which has nuclear weapons itself.
No apologies necessary. I just wanted to make sure you saw it in case there was a hole you needed to close.
1. Early adopters of ideas is not the same as early adopters of gadgets & services

2. That said, some new gadgets & services are stand-ins for others which are more expensive or less accessible

3. Except for #1 and #2, Yes, early adopters are male white privilege
I don't like to nitpick, but I have some different guitars with the same pickups, and they do sound quite different.
please be a joke, with bootstrap it's so hard to tell what's real anymore
i didn't rtfa, but this is nothing new, i've been in shanghai since 2007, afaik, google services (including gmail) have been hard to access, it was really after eric schmidt put the assault on china by making things public (circa 2010) that things started to get to really bad. from memory, 50% of the time, google services (search, gmail, apis, compute engine, office apps, etc) would not work back in 2007, in 2010 probably 80% of access would fail, and recently in the past year and a half, it's been almost 99% to now 100%.

i've already started a backup strategy long ago (about 8 months ago) as the frustration was just started to drive me crazy, I migrated all my services to either local equivalents or microsoft (outlook.com), but there's only a matter of time before those perhaps also get blocked.

of similar relation, ever since the snowden leaks, it seems that china has started looking to ban or outright limit foreign technology services used by the china government which is basically almost like everything, the nickname is qu ioe, qu which stands for out/oust, ioe stands for ibm, oracle, and emc.

note that vpn still seems to work, and if you're traveling on a roaming mobile service, you can still access google services (and others like facebook, twitter, youtube), but if you're plugging into the hotel wifi without vpn, good f'ing luck. note that i also work at a foreign national software company in china, the office can access these services uninhibited since we have an mpls to the main office in the valley.

if you're living in china and dependent on foreign services/apis like google then it's really hard because you must have vpn or some equivalent. i suggest even using a jumpbox.
Here's the video of the talk that Guillaume Delugre did on this pdf at 28C3 in 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lYU0VMCoY

It's both fascinating and frightening.
There are so many vulnerabilities in the baseband that it's not even funny

Are you saying these are remotely exploitable, as in over-the-air?

It seems only the complexity of the protocols involved are what stops the majority of attackers, and perhaps the illegality of broadcasting on licensed spectrum (although illegality never really stopped anyone...)

I looked at the 3GPP specs before and the amount of complexity in them is overwhelming.
as far as i can tell, guile's windows support is still an afterthought, which limits its possible uses. it would definitely not to do have a posix-only scripting language as the default in gimp, for instance.
Okay so you encode the brightness of pixels as the amplitude of the complex FFT results. What do you do with the phase?
See eg http://americanloons.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/1018-steve-erin... and http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Steve_Pavlina
Probably I should pause before I post stuff. However, if I could probably write a very critical article about Canadian culture (being a Canadian) and have it printed by a Japanese news service. I really don't think it would be helpful to anyone.
> I specifically remember being banned for saying that people should wear face coverings.

May I ask: what was the venue? HN?

I generally agree with your overall point here.
This looks great but.... I’m not going to buy the paperback and I hate reading extended stuff on tablet/phone/laptop - I read books on kindle, kind to my eyes, distraction free, lightweight and comfortable.

Anything plans that address this?
Great Britain literally enslaved innumerable colonies. Global activism pressured them to declare their own slavery illegal, though they could’ve also just listened to the people they enslaved. And you say that the slaves should be praising their slavers for deciding to stop slaving them? Amazing.
> If you are to converve a set of traits, as you would like to think, (to me = proxy for species), so they will not disappear (= go extinct) how will you define this set?

To you, perhaps, but my point is that this is not how species are defined in practice.

There is no consistent way to define species, whatever specialist working with it will define it however he sees fit at the moment with little consistency, and different specialists will come to different conclusions as to A) how many species there are among any population of organisms and B) what organisms should be placed under what species.

> The cutting edge way of doing this is to look at the evolutionary distance between species and weight those species (sorry, sets of traits), that contain unique evolutionary tradjectories higher.

Given the extremely common occurrence of horizontal gene transfer in actual reality, the concept of “evolutionary distance” itself is a nonsensical one.
Ah yes...I'm "hurting people"...by asking questions and talking about evidence. An illustration of the major intellectual tragedy of 2020.

If we cannot ask questions and discuss them rationally without being accused of "hurting people", science is dead. This is a fundamentally anti-intellectual reaction, it is a way of villainizing people who question your opinions, and pointing it out is not unkind.
The idea that it's somehow better to have your newborn baby be denied nutrition for their first days of life is a very dangerous one in my opinion.

There have been several cases in the U.S., even in recent years, of children becoming very sick and/or permanently disabled because of mothers waiting too long to give up on breast feeding.

And, honestly, infant mortality is a real thing. People talk about breast feeding at all costs because that's what humans did before formula and "it worked out just fine". It only worked out just fine for the children that survived...
Indeed, this didn't pass the sniff test --- SVG on the web was well-supported a year or two ago, too.
Looks nice! And I don't want to always be that Emacs guy, but for anyone interested, you can (of course) have a similar setup, here's some packages:

https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs (haven't tried, but clean look and defaults)

https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti (writing environment)

https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode (screenplay writing)

https://github.com/alphapapa/org-sidebar (sidebar)

https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode (markdown, with preview too)

https://orgmode.org/ (of course, org-mode for everything)
I'm curious on you describing the 5+ types of services fdb requires. In my world it requires 1.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check them out.
> you turn off a lot of non-engineering scientific programmers.

I think you mean "non-CS engineers". CS is a minuscule branch of engineering. Plenty of chemical, mechanical, civil (and so on) engineers had their whole education doing maths and programming with 1-indexing.

> I'm a weirdo in that I don't seem to mind either one though.

You are not, as an outsider this is one of the less appealing parts of practical CS, endless bickering about non-substantive issues which most of the time boil down to a matter of personal preference (see also tabs vs spaces, vim vs emacs, react vs vue, golang vs rust and on and on and on...)
You should be able to afford major city if you are able to split the fixed costs of living with someone. Its more likely that people on UBI without any supplemental income would live in a suburb of the major city.

A true UBI would make abuse of low wage workers difficult as they can easily leave the job without worrying about being able to eat.
Rather, I found that to be the most relevant point

That's what editorializing is. You can point out the thing you found salient in a comment, you can find another piece that better represents the interesting thing, etc. You can't make up the title, though.
Thanks, I wasn't aware this existed!
I'd argue that what matters is human time.

If writing this in JS took an hour to deliver acceptable performance, and writing it in Rust took 6 hours of reading documentation and googling to produce a similar or faster by a few milliseconds result, then JS is the clear winner here.
Wouldn't that be startups? Maybe a hardware startup since you are a MechE.
Nobody ever accused the git command line UI of being user-friendly and well thought-out.
Yes, sending a friendly note to github seems like a good idea. But don't expect too much apart from the satisfaction of seeing his current account banned.
> Now take it a step further: your mind is now a part of a collective globally connected network.

I think you just described the Borg from Star Trek
How is this significantly different from CouchSurfing.com?
Thanks for responding. This is supposedly a HD video clip taken on the iPhone 4, as you can see it is 1280x720. So the guy's estimate was conservative.

http://vimeo.com/12671233?hd=1
I'd almost be more concerned with essentially getting DDOS'd with spam traffic to the posting address.
no ideas on this one... ?
So all post URLs share a single global namespace, regardless of ownership? That's not a very clever design IMO.
>Some months ago I started an 8 core Mac Pro machine at work on breaking this key. It ran for 70 days non-stop and was close to a break when I had to use the machine for something else.

Might also be not true, or the author did find the key but doesn't want to get into any legal trouble.

>If I can do that, pretty much anyone can. And those people will be able to forge mail from Facebook. Facebook has a simple solution, of course, just change the key length.

When that happens, Facebook changes the key, problem solved.

>The owner of a spam botnet could factor keys like that very quickly. Imagine having a few thousand machines that can be used for key factoring.

Or just paying for a dozen of EC2 instanced for a week (not sure how parallel this thing is, but I assume you could distribute it somehow).
This sounds a lot like questions someone whose experience of start-ups consists mostly of reading Hacker News would ask. I wouldn't be offended if someone I was interviewing asked me those questions, but I sure as hell wouldn't answer some of them, given that things like detailed financials wouldn't necessarily even be revealed to current employees. If sound basics like "we're profitable" isn't enough, that's a no-hire.
I can access both https://cryptbin.com/ and https://snipt.net/ from MTNL Mumbai.
- Release two books
- Commit to some OSS projects
- Get a mobile app on the app store
- Get my startup side project up and running
Scarface: "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."

Slashdot formula for startups: 1. Idea. 2. ?? 3. Profit.

What I think it is: 1. Users 2. Power. 3. Profit.
Indeed: http://www.acm.org/membership/insurance-programs
Note that there are two designs of roundabouts, and they have pretty different safety outcomes.

The European design has roads enter from an angle (close to the tangent of the roundabout), which forces traffic to slow down. The other design (used here in Australia and I think the UK) has traffic enter at right angles to the roundabout. This increases traffic flow but is much less safe (especially for cyclists).
I've recently watched a video titled "on the purpose of Life"[1], from YouTuber Robert Murray-Smith, who usually posts videos about tech and science, mostly graphene-related stuff.

He makes a nice point that trying to assign a purpose to everything we do, and to Life itself, may be a mistake. He takes animal behavior as a comparison. Animals usually don't act in order to achieve a high-level goal. They do things because that's what they are built to do. Most of their actions are consequences of basic impulses, emotions and instincts. Now I understand we are highly sophisticated mammals with big brains, and as such we are capable of acting on a rational basis towards an abstract notion of a goal often simplistically called "happiness", for instance. Yet we are still very much animals, so it may be very wrong to think all our actions should be based on this mode of behavior. If we do we may face the absence of a definitive answer to our quest for purpose, which would explain our tendency to jump into goals made up by religion, or into philosophical wanderings which can sometimes be quite unsettling.

1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=xc7kM0mSVfw
I can remember my days before emacs, it was about six months of vi back in 1990. Been emacs ever since :)

I don't know much about imgix, looks like a service to add to or possibly enhance images? Demo looks neat though! I do use emacs as an asset browser for quick looks at images to verify content in web apps, but I'm not sure I'd use something like this personally.
Or the ending of 1984.
This Asus is the same size as the 13" MacBook Air (324x226mm vs 325x227mm), not the new MacBook (280x196mm).
.. and how much does Coinbase charge in fees and order spread? How do they make their money in this environment?
I’ve been looking at housing prices periodically and it’s discouraging to find people wanting 200k-300k for mid-century houses in places you’d never find another job if the telecommuting trend ever reversed and so far it is just a trend driven by forced circumstances. Companies may be all for remote working while the alternative is shutting down, but what happens after the pandemic? Does everyone get recalled to the nearest office the first down quarter? Does your New York salary turn into a New Mexico salary to prop up profits?
Are you still working from home if you are working in your apartment located exactly where your office used to be?
Is the plan to hide Perseverance behind a hill or something in the event the flight becomes uncontrolled? Last thing they need is a flying blender slamming into it...
I don't disagree on the reality, I am just saying that in my personal reading of various subreddits, forums, etc. I have seen countless posts and pundits saying what a great Job Trump and Kushner did on these agreements. It was clearly being used to show off their accomplishments in the region, real or not.
That isn't quite true. Money business laws only apply to people doing it as business, so your friend is in the clear de-jure as well as de-facto. One of the things a prosecutor would have to prove as part of the case is that this was in fact a business. Typically this would be done by showing that he had been listing both buy and sell on localbitcoins.com and/or by setting up a test purchase that showed he was dealing with anyone who showed up.
Or you can burn your DRM songs to CD, then rip to DRM-free MP3.
And the relative rarity of floppy disk drives in machines in the last 10 or so years.
Windows 7 is my preferred modern OS. For a time in work I was using a windows 8 machine and I found it bafflingly bad. What were the 2 steps forward you mentioned? I'm curious. In my experience it was just 2 steps backward, period.
How is the fan noise on these?
I love it. Just a few nits -- wording that struck me funny -- all of which are eventually addressed within the article:

1. "An object is a behavior." This is a meaningless or misleading use of "is" to me. I prefer "an X with behavior" or "a thing distinguished by (considered for?) its behavior."

2. The statement that not all Java classes define objects (for example, ones with lots of fields), and that saying this is in keeping with common ways of speaking. No, a programmer would call any object in Java an "object." I get that the point is to say that a struct does not make an object, but the point seemed overstated in that case.

3. Objects must have "recognizable identity," but you don't have to be able to compare the identity of two objects (really it should say two object values or two references). "Recognizing" is being used in a very abstract way here, to avoid invoking state to explain the potential difference between objects. I think it's a little too subtle, even if the point is elaborated on later. If you have any other way to articulate what gives objects identity even if you can't detect it directly, I think it would help. To most readers, I think "recognizing" identity would mean being able to check whether you have a reference to a given object or not, which means being able to compare references. Are there OO languages where you can't? I'm not objecting to downplaying identity.
In the escape to Linux, I encourage looking at Fedora. Fedora 21 marked the start of an effort to create a developer-focused "Fedora Workstation" version of Fedora (alongside Fedora Server and Fedora Cloud products). I've been using it since its first release last month and I've been really impressed. Check it out: https://getfedora.org/
What's not wrong with them? Terrible write speed. Terrible read spead. Exceptionally low information density. High error rates. Short lifespan.
My first thouvht on hearing the name "libOS" was that someone had gotten Linux running on an exokernel, which is in some ways a variation on the microkernel theme.

Linux on a microkernel has been done before. The MkLinux projext is one example, though it also doubled as a port to PowerPC. I haven't heard of any exokernel attempts, though.
So what happens if a user defaults this via a user script to all pages on the NYT?
Slack doesn't strike me as the kind of company that would do that. So many of the users of the general group slacks also use it at their place of work. Slacks pricing model doesn't work for this in the sense that if they wanted to charge for everybody then every user would have to once for every slack that they are a member of which would kill the large public slacks.
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Another commenter mentioned DMA, so I'll expand on that.

If the device has only USB, network, and display outputs, not a lot. Modern systems are pretty hardened with this config.

However, if it has Thunderbolt, ExpressCard, PCMCIA, or even FireWire, it's hosed.

This kind of attack has been highly researched by intelligence, for example the 'Sonic Screwdriver' attack revealed in 2017 [1] targeted Macs by tampering with boot parameters, and was installed over thunderbolt.

There have also been some PoC exploits for extracting BitLocker encryption keys out of memory using FireWire [2], though I'm not sure those have ever been widespread attack vectors.

Basically, the old adage still holds up - physical access is full access. The only thing you can really do is fill up any ports that could be used for DMA sidechannel attacks with epoxy, then hope nobody attacks your TCP stack or USB controller...

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[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/new-w...

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/2516445/blocking-th...
> I would then recommend they not have an option for "real" if they can't get it right. Users will expect it to work (unless the docs point out it is unreliable).

You should be suspicious of using floats and expecting the solver to detect if a solution is real. Consider the polynomial $x^2 + C$ for $C \approx 0$. Are all of its roots real or complex? The problem is that even a very small change in C, maybe caused by rounding errors, can easily change a root from real to not real.

When solving polynomials, either use complex numbers throughout or insist on exact solutions and don't use floats.
I believed it was like war games growing up. I knew it wasn't like hackers but still enjoyed it. I knew the takedown story and it didn't represent the whole community but presented a real slice from one person. Mr Robot is a show but played like a movie and represented a shared vision of what many secretly wanted until everything fell apart.

From my experience hacker culture is more like the movie: The King of Kong with all of the drama/bragging/pettiness of a high school musical fight.
Please share your rationale to further the conversation. Certainly each of us are responsible for our own decisions.
Yes the eviction moratorium really drove up rents.
Interesting that PaulMendoza and rvz advocate different approaches.
What's the back of the envelope math on that 6-7% number? I'm super curious...
At least there it's not really any different than shipping a WPF application that's tied to Windows. It's a desktop application, people are used to desktop applications being vendor-specific. I don't like the idea of people getting used to web apps being vendor-specific though. That's not okay. We have a chance to make it right this time. If it runs on your desktop and is vendor-specific, that's a shame but that's expected. If it runs in a browser and is vendor-specific, that's setting a bad precedent that we worked for years to overcome with IE6.

Of course, that's just my personal philosophy. Everyone is different.
There's warnings even in the description of the package:

"name": "rimrafall",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "rm -rf /* # DO NOT INSTALL THIS",

How would you accidentally rm rf yourself with this?

A github issue "should" have sufficed, but it often doesn't. A practical demonstration is powerful enough to trigger immediate action.
Sure, but then the idea is, to deter complete novices, all you need is prominently placed signs and decals.
That's not she's saying. She's saying that the job market is broken and that people are trying to fix it. In fact, the method has worked well in other settings, outside the hot SF job market.
Why would they insure the online bitcoins, or at least--why do that without insuring the offline bitcoins?

The offline bitcoins are more secure, by almost any measure, and so should be easier and cheaper to insure. Further, they're the overwhelming majority of the bitcoins, and a 98% loss would sure hurt worse than a 2% loss.
I work at an agency that used to have an office bistro for breakfast/lunch. We moved to a new office and lost the perk because it didn't have the space.

Now people just sit at their desk and check Facebook/reddit/etc over lunch — or they break into cliques. As a junior employee, I found that free lunch leveled the playing field. Senior managers couldn't hide out with only other senior managers when you all eat at the same place.

They say that the family that eats together stays together and I think that's just as true for work families.