jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That was my reaction too, but given all the reading of late I've been trying to do in order to understand WTF GamerGate is, I am reminded to start out by saying that we should be careful not to come across as questioning the validity of this author's experiences at all. I've read a few "GG" pieces written by men saying something along the lines of, "hey this sucks, but it's really not that bad WTF". Saying things that I could've written. For example, I get annoyed at the ALL OPEN SOURCE DEVS ARE ARSEHATS characterizations because I happen to have been involved in a few over the years which honestly haven't been this way. There, I tried to recruit (as did fellow developers) and offer commit access regardless of gender and (in at least one case I'm aware of) non-conventional gender identity. And we weren't code-snobs: this includes doc-only and other community contributors. But this was a "boring" project mostly maintained by $dayjob people, so perhaps all the obnoxious jerks found other havens. Additionally, as a white english-speaking male, perhaps I'm poorly placed to make this assessment and perhaps there were injustices that I just couldn't see as such.

Then there's the reactions to these (insensitive? ignorant?) pieces. The main take-home point I've learnt reading @freebsdgirl is: just because a few of us rich white english-speaking males have had a good old time and barely any insurmountable problems in our particular corners of the internet... is great, but completely irrelevant to the fact that a lot of women are disproportionately having a bad time.

Back to the article, I still feel compelled though to share just how odd it felt reading that making was a male thing. By the time I was 5, my parents' farm had failed - the next 10 years were a struggle for them, but for me it was a time that cemented my curiosity and creativity by having to improvise everything. I am forced to rethink this: if I was born a girl, what else could I have done with my time? Didn't my own father constantly find ways to express his view that real men didn't sit around all day on computers? Is it just a fluke that my younger brothers' girlfriends could weld better than me? And when we were 14, being shown by a girl I knew how the primer worked (she was fixing a routine blockage) on a quirky, ancient diesel stationery engine? Is being a rich white male warping my perspective that much?

There were terrible gender imbalances at the time. Some too depressing to write about. But being able to make, modify and repair stuff was a universal skill that I hadn't - until now - considered genderized.

My daughter loves helping me take apart and repair things, just as I did when I was her age. But now odd thoughts occur: were the girls I knew growing up so equipped with "maker" skills because we lived in a poorer area? Or was it the rural living? Perhaps both? If this is the case, does that mean my daughter will have fewer opportunities to pursue these skills without the same pressures I grew up with?
Preserving data for future historians is a good thing but why is it so important to preserve your own data? Do you really think that's what will be the most valuable to them? It seems better to contribute to projects like the Internet Archive.

Also, the value of data depends partially on its scarcity, and I expect data about us won't be particularly scarce. More data is better, but when doing a bulk analysis, 10 terabytes of family pictures will not be all that different from 10.1 terabytes of family pictures.
Few days ago, there was a post here on HN on an add-on board that lets a raspberry pi control a copter[1]. I think your idea would be a very good use case for it, because it's capable of running opencv, can control camera position, and avoids downlink latency since all processing is happening on board.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874144
That's what I was thinking too. Also, isn't this sort of thing pretty common now? As in, aren't there startups that have drones that follow you to take cool video of you [1]. I'd imagine they are doing some sort of realtime tracking.

[1] https://www.airdog.com/
It's right up there in quality of advice with "don't dress sexily if you don't want to be raped."

Or, as the bible puts it "Women should be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves"|
I know, I'm talking about the mnemonic used to remember this date.
ryanlol already mentioned you could have ran a curl to check what's being delivered.

But, you can also use the Web Archive and check every domain yourself within their waterfall chart: http://web.archive.org/web/20150126072317/http://www.malaysi...

Looks like a bunch of static assets delivered by:
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, pbs.twimg.com, and www.youtube.com. Looks similar to what I saw post-defacement/pre-fix.
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting / that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Having read and enjoyed the Kevin Mitnick books, and based on the fact the target is extraordinarily high profile, I thought the social engineering side was interesting and others may feel the same.
I think her video is supposed to be more a psychological coping mechanism for herself and other victims, not a solution to the original problem. And it might actually be more important - you need to be mentally stable first and then you can do something about it.
I guess this is an old discussion, but WhatsApp seriously threatened the dominion of Facebook, a company that is valued at $209B simply for owning a significant amount of the daily attention span of consumers world-wide.

Essentially, the value of WhatsApp is based more on what it could have destroyed than on what it could have created. Advertising is kind of funny like that, since it's not a product that consumers actually want. No value is lost to consumers by switching to a platform without advertising, even though the economic damage to advertisers can be huge.
Send a pull request to mdo.

https://github.com/mdo/jekyll-snippets
The best thing you can do is look at the existing engines out there, and gain a grasp on the subject. The fact is that a lot of the major work behind these engines has already been done - again and again - so in the case of the open source engines, you have a lot to gain by reading code.

Crank out the code for OGRE 3D, Minko, Irrlicht, Torque 3D, and Maratis 3D. Heck, even looking at the code for a 3D game like WakeBreaker (demo game for PowerVR) can give you a lot of insight needed to do what you want to do.

Code reading is a very powerful way to make progress with your goals - and so too, is it good for you to be contributing to these projects wherever you can. I'd suggest a program of discovery whereby you go through these engines in multiple passes - get them all installed/set up, run the demo's, order them by complexity and how much personal effort you feel it takes to gain insight into how they work, and then do another pass from top to bottom on your list, adding features if you can, and so on. In a matter of 4 - 6 weeks of discovery, you can learn a great deal - and may even contribute valuable features/bug fixes too. All too often these engines are fantastic but lack some trimming around the edges - test cases, documentation, sample models, demo games, etc. You can gain a lot of experience by filling in these holes in other peoples' projects, and within a few months you should gain enough of an understanding - if you're serious about it - to venture on your own. But you may find that the existing engines give you what you want anyway .. a way to learn the subject and understand the field productively.

Good luck!

(And in case you're interested in game engines in general - I'm particular enamoured by MOAI, which is 2D game engine albeit built on a core 3D engine - it can do 3D as well, so maybe you want to have a look and see if your interest in the subject can help push MOAI into more 3D-specific territory too..)
> Traditionally, we like to think of animals as serving humans, but in a case like this, isn't the opposite true?

As someone who's lived in a household with dogs and a cat, I never saw it that way. After all, most pets do not provide any practical service to their owners. When I threw a stick over and over to have the puppy bring it back to me, I may have been the one running the show, supposedly the master, but I always thought of it as my service to her; sure, it was enjoyable to me to have something to do outside, and to watch her speed and grace, but humans get tired of repetition a lot faster than dogs (and teaching her to do more interesting things than catch would have been quite a lot of work). Inside the house, it might have been nice seeing the older dog around, and to initiate play when I felt like it, but on the many, many occasions she decided to plop a filthy chew toy next to me on the couch (in the hope that I'd throw it - any attempt to remove the toy from the couch counted as a throw, resulting in her fetching it back to the couch!), I'd hardly associate the resulting exasperation with the feeling of having a servant. And I didn't have many actual duties myself - I'm sure this was felt double by the ones who dealt with their food and daily exercise.

But there's no need to be verbose. A pet is simply a lite version of a human child. Physically, the parent does everything for the child; the reward is emotional, and quite high to make up for the former...
Not to forget the more controversial, but immensely influential figure of von Krafft-Ebing, an German-Austrian psychiatrist who was a true early bird in the empiric sexuology with his "Psychopathia Sexualis".

The good about him: he was one of the first to adopt an empiric approach in sexual science and sexual medicine (which influenced Hirschfeld's thinking). The bad: he is also responsible for the link between sexuology and medicine, which led to the thinking of "treatable perversions", even if he had a lot of compassion for the subjects of his book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing
Have u tried with NetFront
I'm not sure why the mho is a strange unit. It is just another name for the siemens (a.k.a. ampere per volt).
> Create a platform-independent machine language which is designed to be translated into arbitrary other machine languages.

> The point here is that it isn't a VM at all. It's just an intermediary platform-independent binary code.

PNaCl ?
> The Federal Government is also not going to generally worry about applying anti-trust to the only pizza parlor in a small town or worry about forcing it to operate under competition and behavior agreements designed for giant monopolies.

Reality suggests otherwise.

The biggest companies have the most money to throw against enforcement and lobbying to protect themselves.

It's why the IRS pretty much stopped auditing the big fish and only goes after the little fish now.
The way leftists approach fixing systemic issues is fundamentally incompatible with actually changing anything. The smart leftists work towards positive change by doing disgusting things like engaging in compromise and working with people who aren’t ideologically pure; when they do such things they inadvertently reveal themselves to be something far more horrible, like a liberal or a progressive-but-not-progressive-enough.

Can you explain what exactly you want to see and how burning anything or tearing down statues accomplishes that? As far as I can tell, all it accomplished was status quo, with a lot more people feeling threatened by leftists.
Okay, I'll rephrase what I said in the flagged reply.

Could you please rephrase what you wrote here, but without using the word "problematic" when describing a person? Thank you very much.
They are trialing it. That seems to be the natural path. The ultimate goal of totalitarian regimes is to control every aspect of their citizenry; what they can say, what they can worship, what they can see and who they can hangout with. Boiling the frog so to speak.
I like these, but I think consumption tax is way too complicated to collect fairly. The simplest tax is literally no tax at all, just prudent spending on bond issuance. It works if the deflationary effect of greater productivity outpaces the monetary inflation. It fails when the money is wasted.
> Corporate taxes also create huge incentive to offshore jobs to tax havens

That's why Yellen is proposing a global minimum corporate tax.
Transit companies are barred by law from asking in advance if a passenger has a service animal. Drivers are just expected to handle it. There is no special facility needed in a car to hold a service animal - they are trained to sit on the floor.
If a corporation owns my house and doesn’t charge me rent, then imputed rent is a taxable benefit. Same with a car.

If my corporation owns a biz jet, then there has to be a purpose to the travel it offers. The IRS is going to look askance at trips to Hawaii with your spouse and kids being explained as “for business”. Best case, they identify it as a taxable benefit and then you pax tax, interest, and penalties.

In general, I think there’s an overestimation of what the IRS hasn’t already cottoned to WRT people trying to live within a corporation.

Now family trusts are different, but that’s not the subject of discussion.
I wonder if that is really necessary. Sure, some accounts (like politicians) may need to be preserved until their words may are no longer significant, but why keep the random tweets of irrelevant accounts.
Did you actually read the linked article? It's about not-from-concentrate orange juice, so your entire comment is basically irrelevant.
The article has nothing to do with thinking. But in the scope of the article, it's an interesting legal conundrum. I expect the end result is that the class of software which can perform illegal actions autonomously will have to be brought under warranty and the creators held responsible.

"Acme Inc. Warrants that under Factory Conditions and Standard Programming, Software Agent R2-D2 will not conduct illegal actions".

This is not out of the range of possibility and even feasibility today, but it will require genuine engineering mentalities to create such systems.
% of GDP spent to predict future jobs for comp sci graduates.

That makes the outright wrong assumption that the major cost of Military is personel...
Does this also work for Firefox on Android?

EDIT: it seems that it's not compatible with Firefox 35 on my Android. Oh well, more patience required :-)
Seems to be this issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/547
They seem to have blocked this option, as well as the Google link in the top level comment.
About the Chinese solution you referred to: to a certain extent this is practiced in San Francisco, but it's not widespread. See for example this article [1] about the ParkMerced redevelopment, where existing tenants' rent control was grandfathered in to replacement units, with the developer getting their profit out of the remaining units.

A similar (maybe more interesting from the public policy perspective) is the TAMA 38a/b system in Israel. For background, this is a market in which ownership of individual apartments in a condo arrangement is very common. Developers are allowed to renovate buildings to add floors and sell off the new units for their own profit, under the condition that they pay for renovation of the building to new safety standards (earthquake and bomb shelter), and usually whatever other upgrades the existing owners can squeeze out of them. It's kind of a use of the government's virtual "asset" of the economic benefits of easing zoning/height restrictions in order to pay for public safety/infrastructure improvements.
Thanks so much for the response! Unfortunately, I'm probably less concerned about the prettiness about more about the ease of install and (maybe) mouse support to fallback to when I'm feeling lazy.

I'm looking to avoid learning Vim plugins (again...again), setting up an environment, and learning keybindings for sidebars, filenav, etc...
You can drop the term "colony", or "colonizer" et cetera. At this point the term means nothing more than "person who deserves to be displaced owing to his ethnicity and present location."
A more informative source:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2021/2/22/22295471/grand-t...
wow, this is making me tear up for some reason. thanks for sharing. i guess i've never seen such a clear case of tech making a life saving impact before.
I have only gotten a virus once on my computer, and it was because IE was harrassing me with dialog boxes on a regular basis, and one time when it was asking me a yes/no question about downloading code, my brain went into "SSL Warning mode" and didn't say "wait!" until my finger was descending on the OK button.

I only had the virus for ten minutes, but it reconfirmed everything I knew about dark UI patterns.
To be honest, the baby’s most important resource is the parents themselves. Sunlight and fresh air is good for that at least. Similarly, let somebody else take care of your baby every now and then so you can connect with your partner!
There's also a hardware ecosystem problem. Apparently we live in a world where people expect a TV to have a web browser with Adobe Flash on board.

I have a 30-year-old amplifier that still works just fine, despite having been built before CD players and MP3 players came along. Sure you could buy an all-in-one device that integrated the amp and the tape deck, but a lot of people avoided those because they wanted flexibility, expandability, and robustness.

Similarly, back in those days it was quite common to see little TVs with an integrated VHS player. But if you were the sort of person who bought individual audio components, you probably also avoided those things, because you recognized that the function of projecting a moving image on a screen was independent of the function of reading a signal from a strip of magnetized tape, and so keeping them in two separate devices bought you flexibility, expandability, and robustness.

Now, apparently, those old lessons are still useful. I'm not very much into TVs, so I don't know, but to me the real "ecosystem" problem here is that the TV apparently is not just a display device. It's pulling double duty as a web browser also (and who knows what else is in there). Unfortunately, a year and a half is a long time in terms of web technologies, so a perfectly good device for projecting moving images onto a screen is now deemed obsolete.
Never saw anyone use Uighur. I thought it was typo.

Anyway I think Uyghur is more widely used one
Doesn't Der Speigel have access to different documents and a second leaker? Or are these also Snowden documents?
> That. Things _that_ aren't magic.

"Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."

Clearly Flask is Caesar's ;-)
The multiples of ½ were arbitrary, just an illustration re: denominators.

Also, your points above are well taken; I was simply trying to come at the matter (and my previous points) with a bit more precision than I had previously, but I cut my elaborations short as I needed to run out the door.

So with my idea above, you would basically have two notions for assigning magnitude to evil. Absolute evil would be defined as the complete absence of good in a person or other locus of circumstances and acts. So the greatest real evil would a fixed value, "zero good", and "negative amounts of good" would be a void construct.

The other notion of evil, "evil considered", would be a metaphor for understanding how evil gets compounded according to our usual perception that some lives and acts are more evil than others. It's basically a "score" which doesn't correspond directly to any substance.
this might be of your interest https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010139...
I think he builds them out slowly since he's done so many of these. Taking in feedback on the structure along the way. He really did an excellent job with c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
Open "Data Structure" instead of "Open Data" Structure.
It's true, that besides specs one usually will wants to take into account opinions. At the moment, the site is more about giving you an overview of what is available then to help you with the final decision. Because that is what I feel is missing on the market. There already are a lot of review and rating sites out there.

If I come up with an interesting idea for ratings or opinions, I will add it to the site.
> cloudflare who have censored content numerous times in the past

Besides Stormfront[0], what else did they censor?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_%28website%29
Measuring temperature and air pressure.
Sport sims help with mental strategy and positioning aspects. Being good at something isn't one dimensional.
Presumably ginko means a lottery between people who've provided IDs
That statement about the funding received by SpaceX via Starlink is a revelation to me. I hadn't thought that particular thing through.

According to a very cursory search, SpaceX's revenue in 2018 was around $2B. NASA's budget in 2018 was around $20B.

A tenfold increase in money flowing through a company would bring its own challenges, but assuming SpaceX navigates those OK then they'll be able to fund massive projects.

I wonder what the space exploration landscape would look like if all that happens? Would NASA focus on probes and research, launched from SpaceX vehicles? Thus leaving the launch business to SpaceX, who could concentrate on throwing as many humans out of the gravity well as possible?

Would $20B/year allow SpaceX to build bases on the Moon and Mars? I wonder if SpaceX would get into the asteroid mining business, mostly to prevent having to heavy lift quite so much stuff from the bottom of Earth's gravity well.

Exciting times! Hopefully this all happens in the next 40 years or so, I'm 45 now and would love to see humanity step out of the cradle for good.
Uber competes against local cab firms more than it does 'Black Cabs', which tend to be significantly more expensive. Since Uber came to prominence, two local cab firms that I used to rely on a lot have ceased trading, leaving me with only app-based entities such as Uber.

Uber has its advantages, but as I've moaned about here on HN in the past, its drivers tend to slavishly follow whatever automatatically-derived route it is that Uber spoon feeds them, often meaning they set off in the wrong direction (based upon which side of the road they pick up from) or use routes that anyone who knows the local area (or has The Knowledge) would do their utmost to avoid.
That’s kind of an unreasonable solution to this problem. I don’t think the 15% rate has changed any in the last multiple decades. I think many people tip 20% because the math is easier.

Tipping doesn’t need to be a source of anxiety. If the act of figuring out your tip is the sole reason you don’t go out for a nice meal on a special occasion, I think this is something to talk to a therapist or confidant about.
Exactly... nothing further for me to contribute! Thank you for listening!
Very toxic but also very effective? Why not use it outdoors only?
Years ago in Texas I wrote a simple selenium webdriver script to check on the status of available camp spots in a popular state park and notify me when one became available. Kind of a last ditch effort to camp as people would book months ahead of time but would sometimes cancel their reservation when they realized they can’t make it. I think they’d do it before their small deposit became non-refundable.

The alternative of manually checking every day would have likely resulted in never getting a spot. I was using my skills to hack together a solution for myself in a crappy situation.
Not really. I mean that cells are cheap, so the increased density offers higher speeds (less sharing) and possibly new organizational structures due to a lower entry barrier.
Maybe because children are somewhat ingrained in us a species. Also, just because an idea is unpopular doesn't mean it is good.