jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Australian government will fail to censor the web next year. It has failed every year since 1996, when it first announced its intention to do so.

This is smart politics. The government tells Australia's religious kooks that it's on God's side. Meanwhile, the civil liberties mob focuses on something the government can't do, and it gets up to worse bastardry with less embarrassment.
This. The open content web is beginning to disintegrate, being displaced by siloed apps which only incidentally happen to involve HTML and HTTP.
We're going to be running into the same problem as we're planning to roll out thousands of new Gmail & other google app accounts over the next couple of months.

Has Google made any statement about whether these will be operable or not?
These are all on enterprise grade SSDs. At 10GB of storage, you likely have more raw IO capacity than you'd get on an EC2 instance with EBS. Right now, it's built for high performance Postgres users, not databases with a whole bunch of cold data and a minimal hot data set.
One of the main devs of Z3, Leonardo de Moura, is acutally working on a new, dependently typed, theorem prover called "Lean": http://leanprover.github.io/
In the location bar, arrow down to the entries you want and then hit delete (or shift delete?) and it should clear them.
Books by women. Books by people of color, and as many different continents and nations as you can get your hands on. Come to terms with dictatorship through Bolano, discover what it means to be an outsider with Kelly Link and Karen Russell, cry your heart out with Baldwin, Junot Diaz is required reading for all young boys who are going to break hearts (and have their's broken) someday, subvert every expectation with Morrison.
Probably, but not by much -- you'd add the size of the data header. Depending on the compression block size, that could be repeated multiply to the file as a whole.

But yes, compressing random values makes little sense. Doing it losslessly increases data size. Doing it lossily decreases randomness.
Even though that is patently false, even if they were only "collectables" then you could still tie them to a dollar/euro amount.
The author (and his those who agree with him) are not asking Stallman to censor himself. On the contrary, they are asking him to express himself more effectively.
When someone says murder most people think 'subset of killing humans' — that's how people come into play. I don't ink you are really referring to a mainstream vegetarian argument there.

There is even vast common ground between meat eaters and vegetarians. Most people agree that killing primates it morally clearly wrong.
For early adopters, it's all about product endorsements. As someone who isn't from Silicon Valley, but reads all the major tech news sources and thought leader blogs, I set out on a mission to meet as many thought leaders as possible....Long story short, one tweet from a single thought leader converted to 500+ clickthrus to my site at product launch. Another product got 90 signed up alpha users from a single tweet. People who follow tech thought leaders are voraciously looking to find the next best thing in their space.

It's not easy, but once you establish those relationships, they continually pay dividends, if you don't abuse them.
Gold is relatively stable and has physical backing.

Up to 4% of China's gold reserves could be fake. Gold fraud article: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/worl...

Bitcoin is open source and completely auditable in an instant.

As the price of gold goes up, the quantity supplied goes up. Bitcoin's issuance protocol is fixed and unchangeable unless the network agrees.

The cost of securing or transporting $1b of gold bars is magnitudes higher than the cost of securing $1b of Bitcoin.
Possibly he is still alive but just lost the keys.
There have been five hundred separate BLM/Antifa-related riots, and the most recent one was the night before the Capitol protest. They have, in fact, lasted several months.
So there is a regulation to prevent people from gathering. These two go to a remote location. How are the police to know that they aren't going there to gather.

I hear the same argument applied to closing the beaches "BuT wErE JuSt At ThE BeAcH DiSTanCeD!"

The intent is to prevent groups from getting together and unknowingly spread. It sucks but we're still in an emergency crisis because people have been gathering and refusing to distance.
Is it possible to find, say, a private doctor that is able to give more personal care than a GP at a typical hospital? Whenever I talk to a doctor about my symptoms it feels like they're just doing triage. I can't really blame them for that, but I would happily pay $$$ for an experienced professional who truly cared about my health. I have no idea if such a thing exists though (outside the sphere of the very wealthy, of course).
I was trying to be inclusive. My point was that everything 2020-related will be dead by 2024.
Wait, aren't we all privacy advocates here? Who here doesn't say certain things in private that they wouldn't say in public? Any time I see anything like a leaked e-mail story, I remind myself of this simple law of human nature. If private communications do end up coming out of this, we need to all remember this.
Only if you reduce ethics to a math problem.
Thanks. Good to hear that!
i think adverts embedded in flash aren't as well handled, for example (things like youtube). (i'm a chrome user, but only switched recently).
I don't use Dropbox because their app on my computer have access to my computer.
The data I could send to Dropbox are as secure as the data i send to a host or email server.
... or may I wrong. :)
This blog showcases some awesome little UI features - http://littlebigdetails.com/
There is really no way to know. Your product might be just one iteration away from making it big. There are products which take time to hit the up-curve on the hockey stick - case in point gmail.

This is the hardest part about entrepreneurship and as Ben Horowitz puts it in one of his posts - no amount of pattern matching can help. These decisions can only be made from the gut - and basically need to align the entrepreneurs longer term motivations with 'his' understanding of the individual merits of the business.
It's not the kind of company where managers or departments hate each other, and use their roles to conduct political warfare.

It's not the kind of company where bad mistakes are frequently made, and no one is held accountable.

These are aspects of "culture" that are really easy to boast of but hard to actually prove that you have. Some more data on how Netflix avoids inter-personal conflict between those with power would be really interesting.
Yes, but they haven't made $4 billion in profits. That's "just" their revenue from the contracts. Compared to a software company, they have huge capex and huge operating costs.
I interviewed for a role on the website UI team in spring of 2013. I thought the interview process was one of the best I have experienced. My would-be manager initially reached out to me (not a recruiter) and we had a few nice phone conversations about what they were looking for. They flew me out for a two day interview. If they know it isn't a fit on the first day, they don't have you come back for the second.

I met with 3 developers, a hiring specialist and a development manager on the first day and they asked very domain-relevant questions within my area of expertise. No silly programmer brain teasers. I had plenty of time to ask questions of my own.

On day two I met with non-developers. Business, designers/UX, etc. I was able to get a very good idea of the people I would be working with and the types of problems I would be solving.

I ended up deciding to take another offer, but it was a very positive experience overall. I didn't encounter any jerks like some others have.
And nothing that explodes.
Don't write a game engine: write a game. You won't really know what features your engine will need until you have specific requirements. The generic parts - the "engine" - can be extracted via refactoring once you have a working system.
well the moderators are part of the community (voted in!), and have decided its off-topic. So the community did decide to keep the question out.
Well, yes, but there's an argument to be made that while your cycle is certainly correct, the starting and ending points aren't necessarily fixed.

Why not:

More ads -> more $$ -> more information -> more organization -> more people online (and, thus, more freedom, more intelligence, etc.)
My T410 has vents on the bottom and on the left side.

So, when it's on my lap it doesn't get enough airflow and burns my leg.

So much for 'sensible' design.
_Generic makes it easy to implement things like tgmath yourself.
I think editors solve that problem pretty well. I usually only have to type something like "fo"<TAB> part of my collection name and another <TAB> or 2 before I get down to business, no matter what language I'm using.
tldr: Intel's remote management capabilities are obscurely baked into every chipset. The ME has out of band access to the network card and main memory. Since ME also has its own flashable memory in principle a machine could be compromised in a nearly undetectable way. The presentation shows that a lot of interesting details of ME have been brought to light but it has also withstood a first round of attacks. No rootkit has yet been shown to be practical.
I find it disturbing that languages are now adopting promotion strategies because not enough people are using them.

For fuck's sake, focus on improving the language and this will come organically. This isn't a competition as to who has the most popular language, and the most popular languages are always going to be total shit.

Just write good code, marketing departments are the bane of the entire IT sphere, you shouldn't be trying to create one for a niche language.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but I will assume not. If they made the changes you suggest golang would be come useless to me. That isn't to say what you want isn't valid, only that it gets to the heart of all these arguments. Every design decision comes with trade offs and you can't please everyone.
You're not supposed to run benchmarks on anything but the 'performance' CPU governor.
The "poor suckers" in this case are people donating to charity, and the unconditional gifts are, in fact, actually unconditional gifts, specifically set up that way so the effects of them can be studied.
You know what makes birth rates drop? Higher standards of living.

Families who don’t have to raise their kids to work a harsh unrelenting subsistence living, who don’t need to birth twice as many infants knowing half of them will die of malnutrition and disease long before they reach adulthood, who have access to family planning and reliable birth control, have the luxury of choosing quality rather than quantity. Others don’t.

Look back in your own family tree (or stump, in your case), and it’s only three or four generations since us westerners did the same, for the same reasons. So if you’re going to sit up there on your high horse, consider what your ancestors had to go through to put you there, and show some basic consideration for others still struggling on that road.
> PG is defining "matters" as "what can make money"

Did Newton or Darwin make a lot of money?
A comment like "obese vehicles to carry around obese, useless bodies" is not neutrally discussing "per-capita consumption in the US" or any "facts". That was a slur. If you keep posting flamebait, we're going to have to ban you. Actually you did it again with this reply, but I'll consider that an offshoot of the GP.

Really though, why not follow the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart instead of getting serially banned? It's in your interests for at least three reasons. First, those rules are what keep HN interesting and prevent it from burning to a crisp. Scorched earth is no good for anyone, and there aren't that many places like HN on the internet, which for all its faults is worth preserving. Second, if you just blast the things you dislike with a flamethrower, it only discredits your positions. Keeping your cool, staying neutral, and explaining your point of view in a positive way would be more effective and have more dignity. Third, following HN's rules takes discipline and self-control, classical virtues which we all profit from cultivating.

Btw, I'm not an American. Normally I wouldn't say that because the rules don't depend on what I am, nor is "American" somehow a bad thing to be. I mention it because you said "clearly". A lot of things—maybe most—that people perceive "clearly" on the internet are actually untrue. This is what happens when users function in flamewar mode. If you switch to thoughtful mode you are more likely to get your facts right and to help other people do the same. Basically the idea is to learn from each other. Don't you think that's worth doing?
I don't know of any project that was ever cancelled because of poor class design or lack of unit tests either. Sure they were hack jobs but if they met the needs of the customer then they were successful. Likely successful enough to be worth hiring you to fix those shortcuts. And allow you the free time to complain about craftsmanship on a public forum.
For anyone interested in this stuff, I highly recommend the KMZ file for Google Earth Pro from:

https://www.fccinfo.com/fccinfo_google_earth.php

Be sure to get the Google Earth Pro desktop version, not the Chrome version:

https://www.google.com/earth/versions/#earth-pro

The open the KMZ file linked on the fccinfo page above and start exploring!

What is neat is that they show you the point to point path for the microwave links. (Select Broadcast Microwave in the sidebar.)
IIRC Tunnelbear is known to sell info on the clients. It's not a fringe story to my knowledge, but alas I don't have links on me currently.
Very useful article. Learned a couple of new things here.

While reading the idea that I know most of this, would that made me a data scientist? Jumped at me.

But then I quickly recovered from that thought that surely knowing some of the tools someone could use for a certain domain does not make you expert at that domain.

Might just be the case of same ingredients, different recipes.
I saw that, I'm interested but not sure how the gameplay feels

The original was very cerebral and suspenseful
Yes, I would be very upset.

Yes, it would be allowed in the US.

If it was removed for anything other normal violations of an Apps Stores TOS it would be violating several portions of the the First Amendment including freedom of speech, for the right to assemble, and the right to petition the government.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#F...
It didn't. Advertisers like to think that they have a moral right to track people unless explicitly told not to stalk people. In that framework, changing the default means that a DoNotTrack header doesn't necessarily show intent on the part of the user.

Instead, the appropriate framework is that advertisers do not have a moral right to track users unless the user has consented to it. By having the DoNotTrack header be on by default, it means that a user removing it shows consent to be tracked, where previously its absence could also have indicated that the user was unaware of the header.
> That's how big a statically-linked executable needs to be to run natively without dependencies on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and BIOS.

* on x86.

There was a time period when it was reasonable to just assume everything that mattered was x86. It started sometime in the early 2000s, as non-x86 servers died out and Macs switched to x86. And it ended last November, when Apple announced Macs would switch to ARM.

The author has suggested sticking with x86 and handling other architectures using emulation. But x86 is the worst possible architecture to emulate, because its strong memory ordering model means that emulators on other architectures essentially must limit the emulated process to a single core. (Unless you have special hardware support like M1 Macs do… for now.) Also, any hardware CPU architecture is going to be slower to emulate than a purpose-built bytecode – and we already have a good enough bytecode, WebAssembly.

Emulating x86 might make sense anyway if you assume that x86 is and will be the norm, and non-x86 an edge case that can afford to take a performance hit. But that sure doesn't seem to be the way the wind is blowing.

[1] https://justine.lol/ape.html
You can read the relevant history here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44095

Short summary:

First delay was ecosystem breakage; many people had defined their own functions with the same name. We're allowed to make these changes but tend to try not not unnecessarily break people.

It then sat for about a year. The original author was a bit tired from all of the work to get to that point, and reasonably let it sit.

There was then a small discussion about taking individual parameters vs ranges.

Six months after that, it finally actually landed, thanks to some other changes that would help mitigate the breakage.

It then sat for a while, until the libs team proposed merging. That brought up a lot of the previous design questions, which some people thought weren't resolved to their satisfaction.

It then finally got stabilized in October of last year, and then it had to wait for the release trains.

So, TL;DR: a surprising amount of details for such a small feature, which can lead to burnout, along with not enough people wanting to push it over the line.
I got an email from Credit Karma advertising for TurboTax. This plus the glitch that exposed into [1] leaves me very little confidence in CK.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20699410
The problem is not random() itself, it's constructs like random() % n. Even if you replace random() with a CSPRNG, misuse won't go away.
I'm definitely not 1%, and sympathize with/understand somewhat some of these claims. Bail-outs and unchecked government spending or borrowing from future generations worry me. However I'm also pretty aggressive at investing. I feel like in general my retirement and taxable investing has benefitted me financially, though I'm solidly middle class. I feel (with data to back me up) like I'm upwardly mobile, though still not "financially independent". I have had limited success in "side projects" and feel like it's been pretty easy to start a side business.

In general, my attitude has been "yes, we should work to better help those in poverty move up, but I don't begrudge the Musks, Gates and Bezos of the world as long as I am free to start my own businesses and cheaply invest in index funds to share in the profit." In other words, I am not rich, but see a path available to me and don't see the barriers as being significant. The main barriers to me personally are not billionares, but myself and my goals.

I understand those below the poverty line may not have the luxury of opening a IRA, stock account, etc. or immediately starting their own online business. Certain people may feel additional barriers based on culture, education, etc. and those situations should be addressed. But for the majority of middle-class Americans, isn't greater access to markets and small/online business creation a big factor missing from this conversation? At no time in history has it been easier or cheaper for an "average joe" to start or invest in a business. For that matter, while getting a degree is expensive, self-education has never been easier.

I guess what I'm curious from the HN crowd: Make this article relevant to a middle-class person on track to retire in their 60s, who tinkers on weekends with a few startup ideas, and generally thinks their kids will be better off if they continue to have the same access to education, business and investing. Why should that person be personally concerned about income inequality? I'm genuinely asking here. (Again, assume some level of care for poor/underprivileged- we can agree some baseline should be assisted more.)
[author] It wasn't. The plan at the time was to deprecate Power Editor and build a new version of Ads Manager. We undertook both projects simultaneously, with the plan being to keep Power Editor going until AM v2 was ready. Unfortunately that took too long, and since Power Editor was the only product that could ship all the new ads features, by the time it came that Ads Manager V2 was ready, Power Editor had 50% of revenue share and Ads Manager about 20%. So, in effect we rebadged PE as Ads Manager, pulled over some of the new features from AM V2 and called it done.
> you’re suggesting that we should determine access to the vaccine based on how much money you have?

No, I'm suggesting people should get the vaccine based on how much money they are willing to spend on it. Just like everything else. This would in effect reduce demand (most people would decide a mask is enough protection or to simply wait) and make sure that only people needing the vaccine (or their sponsors) would spend the money for it.

The free market works for even more essentials like food, clothes and shelter, but suddenly is not for vaccines?!

Only Moderna is a US company. BioNTech and AstraZeneca are European. The vaccine's very existence is owed to the free market and private enterprise. The failure to distribute and use the vaccine is solely due to governmental intervention.
The medical field is currently supported by clinical intuition much more than by hard data, or anything included into the common definition of "science". We should absolutely work to make medical information systems available to machines. Actually, "AI" won't work well until this happens.
Based on polling there are plenty of folks in both parties who think things were fishy with the election. I am confident that if you took each claim and systematically argued it out in public you would have seen that number go down drastically to an insignificant one.

I think GOP lawmakers had the right idea to hold some kind of public audit of it. Giuliani had a lot of incorrect / blatantly false facts and so he was dismissed out of hand, but many of his witnesses came across as credible and describe things very differently from your explanations.

Logistically I don't think anyone wanted to back the election fraud argument for political reasons but there is still very much a need for it because plenty of people feel like it was stolen.

As for the President - whether he's making it up or whether he's among those who believe it was stolen, nobody reads minds so you cant know one way or another unless you add your own personal bias into it.

Now you can be very angry about the fraud claims because they are baseless etc and be emotional about it or be a problem solver and recognize that those people are fellow citizens and there is no divorce option. Railing against Trump 24x7 actually makes the problem worse because nobody is going to be persuaded. You can also call me also irresponsible for bringing their concerns up, but what you can't really do without being dishonest is to deny that there are millions who believe this stuff, out of whom a few dozen got mad enough about it want to break in to the Capitol, and succeeded.

The fact remains that the media does a tremendous disservice to the public by not casting a wide tent, and the President capitalised on this because frankly what other option is there if you want to win? The American media hoaxed the public into thinking he called Nazis very fine people when he instead said they should be condemned totally, and was said in the context of the broader debate about statues of controversial historical figures.

Now you can again cheerlead for the media and say they are the finest journalists on the planet, but the fact is that more than half the country doesn't believe them. You can dismiss them all as brainwashed or stupid or whatever you like but they're going to be around for a very long time.