jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"You can help correct the misunderstanding simply by making a distinction between security breaking and hacking—by using the term "cracking" for security breaking. The people who do it are "crackers". Some of them may also be hackers, just as some of them may be chess players or golfers; most of them are not."

Well, in golf, being a hacker is an insult.
From http://golf.about.com/cs/golfterms/g/bldef_hacker.htm

Hacker:

A very bad player. Somewhat synonymous with "duffer" in that they both apply to poor players. But "duffer" is sometimes used to denote weaker players in general, while "hacker" is often applied to a single golfer as an insult. Hacker is a little bit stronger than duffer, in other words.
There's a red bar across the top of the site linking to their article - is this new?
Looks very similar to legofy

https://github.com/JuanPotato/Legofy
These are concentration camps.
Google could allow user to select from which sites they like to see hits in paywalled or otherwise blocked content.
You can’t even begin to compare these things. Cryptography is used for both, but these systems have completely different goals.
Which is why you can’t just break up one component of an oligopoly.
Tech "hubs" like the Bay Area are rare: most software developers earn far less, and our salaries shouldn't be taken for a typical salary.

The vast majority of software developers will never see six figures (adjusted for inflation) unless they move to management, just like most of their white-collar peers.
> Try viewing this from the TSA’s or an attacker’s perspective instead

Those are two very different ones, though. Of the TSA I hear nothing but "theater", so I don't know if they're a for-profit, an organisation to make people feel safe, or just implementing the letter of the law; regardless, the attacker's perspective would be entirely different.

And if you read a few of the comments, most of them do view it from an attacker's point of view. Nobody is going "my precious water has to be thrown away", but rather arguments about what kind of attacks it stops and doesn't stop.
This coming from HN that posts 1000 NY Times articles a day.
Nicely done!

This made me think of the old-school Atari 8 bit computers. There was a certain memory location you could POKE that would reverse all the text (I believe this was intended for stand-up arcade games where the screen would be seen in a mirror). It was a fun prank to do this to someone's computer when they weren't paying attention (no permanent harm done, of course -- pushing the reset key put things back to normal).
I don't know that people are avoiding the use of calculus where it's appropriate. Rather, they believe that they will never encounter a situation where calculus is the appropriate tool and thus claim that they don't need to learn it.

It's a shame, because understanding differentiation and integration has had a tremendous impact on the way I think. It literally was a gamechanger for me, and it's worth it even though I only use it in thought exercises now.
I had pretty much this exact same idea some time ago and never really started to work on it. Very happy to see it coming to life! Best of luck!
Works fine with me with amdgpu. It's included in Firefox by default and it works great after enabling it.

My current papercut is that 4k@60hz does not work with an Lenovo Gen 2 USB-C dock, while it works fine in Windows:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1317

(I didn't report this, but am running into the same issue.)
I don't think he's arguing that.

Just that a simple stack that's boring can work well for a SaaS whose success is not contingent on huge traffic.

For many successful SaaS companies, if their model is not monetizing huge traffic through ads, traffic is really not a metric of success. And they can be financially successful handling only paltry traffic.

Lots of business-problem-solving apps fall into this space. Sure, maybe you only have 60 customers using your app. But if each one is paying you $1,000 a month...
Think about it this way. Let’s say you’re a company with 500 engineers. Heroku is still a fantastic abstraction to provide to product teams, but the economics may make sense to have a 5-person team owning and maintaining that infrastructure over paying Heroku to do it. This makes even more sense if you’ve got your own data centers and need data locality.
Homelessness is often seen as a situation, rather than a consequence or an outcome of certain events. Giving people housing isn't always an answer. A lot of homeless people ended up being homeless because of addictions, psychological problems,and some unfortunate circumstances. Unless those things are addressed first and foremost,while also placing people in some sort of housing, whether it's a temporary hostel,or longer term social housing, there won't be any improvements in this situation.
>Sometimes high intensity stop all other thoughts is exactly what the brain needs.

HIIT has been great for the rest of the day as long as I don't overdo it, but yeah, completely focused on the workout during that.
As I've gotten older, and am not having to pinch pennies quite as badly, I just buy Apple expansion hardware from the places that specialize in it. I was refurbing one MacBook Pro of some era (2012 maybe?), and it simply would not play nice with an ADATA SSD (recognized it, but data transfers were so slow the OS wouldn't install - known issue, apparently). I saved a bit compared to the OWC option, except I wasted an afternoon of messing around and had to buy the OWC option after all.
There wasn't a country prior to 1900 where >97% of the population wasn't dirt poor.

The American South - AFAIK - is unique in the percentage of families that 1) had wealth, and 2) had slaves.

Most of those people were independently wealthy immigrants, or descendents of them.

Beside the American South - you're not going to find any group that can be considered a majority that directly benefited from slavery.

Finland indirectly benefited from slavery - at the very least - by not DIRECTLY being enslaved in the slave trade. Sure, maybe not as indirect as New York City or London, but there were benefits...
It seems crazy to me that it's even possible to accidentally pay "payroll" taxes on your income an not pay the extra self-employment tax. If you use any kind of tax preparation software, it's completely calculated for you. You just enter 1099s and W2s and everything comes together.
It's understatement, a form of irony. Think, "'Tis but a scratch," or, "It's just a flesh wound," from Holy Grail.
No, you are misinterpreting the situation. Blood lead levels have a linear relationship with decreased cognitive function. The least detectable levels of lead have measurable impact on mental development. You can't say that "one molecule won't harm you" because you don't know that and all the evidence we have indicates you are wrong. 1 molecule may very well equal 1 fucked-up synapse.
I've been surreptitiously rick-rolled by myself ... funny but kind of evil at the same time ;-)
The thing that would make the most sense to me for smoothing out irregular income is to have progressive taxation with the bracket based on cumulative lifetime earnings so far, not on current-year income.

I should also note that even our current tax code admits that the setup with marginal taxes we have is kind of insane. See "Schedule J: Income Averaging for Farmers and Fishermen" which allows those occupations to do exactly what you suggest: average income over multiple years for tax purposes (can average with the previous 3 years). Why only farmers and fishermen? And why do you not get to do the averaging for AMT purposes? That's back to the "insane" part....
You are evil!!! I've just rick-rolled myself :D
Weird. I'm more-or-less sure about Valkyrie being the past default. At one point I discovered with dismay that Century Supra was used instead, for me. But now, I even checked in a private window before posting the above comment, and it was Valkyrie again.

Perhaps the font is selected quasi-randomly depending on the visitor's ip. Anyway, I stand by the word that Valkyrie is the best for the site.

(Also the mobile version seems to have lost the font switcher, so there's a chance readers on their phones don't and can't get the Valkyrie experience.)
I mean, Netflix in the Anglosphere isn't much different. A sizable chunk of the "Netflix originals" are just licensed (Snowpiercer, The Good Place) or bought after gaining attention (Black Mirror).
OK, here's one British person who refers to themselves as European. As that's probably not enough for you to win Today's Dumbest Comment on Hacker News, here's one of the above actors who definitely considers herself European:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/helen-mirren-brexit-trump_n_5...

and here's another:

https://time.com/4354959/patrick-stewart-brexit/
Certainly not always, sometimes you need the story context because it's about some particular thing happening.

But for a story about how chemical X is bad for your health, you don't need to read about Suzy and Michael, their new house, what they're going to name their baby and how they decided on painting the house in Suzy's grandmother's favorite color... to learn that some paint includes a chemical that is bad for your health.

I get the impression that there are multiple things at work: some people really like those side-stories, and they're very easy to write. You'd have a much, much harder time filling a newspaper with facts, which makes it much more expensive.
Personally I see Yelp as an extortionary business that hurts the businesses more than it helps, and as a consumer I refuse to use them.
Healthcare in Canada is the responsibility of provinces and each province has their own independent system. You need to be a resident of a new province for a few months before you can switch to a different provider. Healthcare doesn’t need to be federal
Alt+F4 or "the X button", shurely?

(I'd probably answer with HTAs - handy, compact way to distribute small JS-based tools/apps if you work in a Windows-based office and can eat the IE9 restrictions)
Free is subjective. They won't be free, but Google could subsidize stations and add ads.

IoT companies can create through own hardware and pay bulk rates.

Cellphone companies certainly have the option to get on the boat too, if the hardware necessary to communicate to satellites is small enough to go in a smart phone, as have the option to make an emergency call(or most likely SMS/Email) nearly anywhere in the world is a pretty killer feature.
C) SpaceX also has considerable risk of failure so you have to factor this into a valuation and investment. Whatsapp has eliminated much of this risk and is already a developed and implemented product.

I am not saying Whatsapp has anywhere near the potential value of SpaceX but it is important to factor the amount of risk given the stage a project is at.
You know that it is just a slippery slope away from supporting violence against charlie hebdo, right?
Down thread there are a lot of numbers thrown about, some slightly wrong or only in miles, so let me summarise them! The values are taken mostly from wikipedia, with some data double checked against [1]

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

altitude: 160 to 2,000 kilometers (99 to 1,200 miles)

orbital period: ~88 to ~127 minutes

latency: 20 to 40 msecs

Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO)

altitude: 42,164 km (26,199 mi)

orbital period: 1 day (approximately 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds)

latency: 240 milliseconds

[1] http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall99/Coffey/INDEX.HTM
Same experience with that chief talent officer. I think it was supposed to be a pure sell interview, but it ended up being super tacky and uncomfortable. She went on and on about how much money they had. She went on and on about firing 51% of the people every year - which is not only unsustainable, but not supported by any kind of evidence of routinely culled NF engineers looking for work in the Bay Area. She was so busy congratulating herself and being smug I don't even know why I was in the room. The rest of the interviewers were great.
Not sure what you're trying to learn? There is basically no intrinsic rhyme or reason to early-stage valuations. Figure out how much money you need, how much equity you're willing to give up for it, and find an investor that agrees to those terms. That's it.
To me a boring movie is one that is mostly a constant flux of extremely predictable events with near zero content to analyze (e.g. a Marvel superhero movie). Tarkovsky is nothing like that, in fact I think his movies are the exact opposite of that.
It isn't sufficiently researched if asymptomatic, vaccinated cases still spread the virus in the same amount. The virus load spread by a vaccinated person can be expected to at least be lower, maybe even negligible or nonexistent.

Also, see the sibling comments about the difference between asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic.
> The revenues earned by Joker’s Stash can be estimated from the value of incoming cryptocurrency payments to its wallet, as seen on the blockchain.

Why wouldn't you have a receive wallet per transaction for something like this? It sounds like the owner wants people to know how much they have made.
Many of the big ones do ignite, which is believed to be caused by electrostatic discharges from friction as the eruption starts. Three of these have been witnessed and they confirmed a bright flash accompanying the eruption.
Out of curiosity how did you qualify for the vaccine? I work for the NHS but as I'm not frontline don't qualify for it. Not that I disagree with the decision but the internal talk I've heard is that the government has been extremely strict about only vaccinating those in the priority groups.
> That's because the unskilled stays unskilled for a reason: they can't or won't dedicate the amount of focus necessary to learn a technology to any meaningful degree.

The entire history of computers and software betrays this argument.

Every time we transitioned from a blank, text-command driven UI, to a visual one, we dramatically increased the percentage of the general population able to use something.

Think the transition from MS-DOS to Windows, UNIX to OSX, etc. By representing concepts visually, humans find them easier to understand.

In fact, I’d argue, most software innovation today is just making visual UI’s better. Think the single doc mode (photoshop) to artboard mode (sketch, figma). Single purpose (excel, word) to multipurpose (notion). Etc.

Notion is blowing up with 13 year old kids on Tiktok because it’s an easier UI to do spreadsheets and create documents and websites with. Which are fundamentally valuable things. In software, what is valuable, will be made easier over time.

Most B2B Saas tools are just crud apps. Not only is there no reason coding these apps has to stay complicated, but there’s economic incentive in making it easier.

Unfortunately, many people have a vested interest in keeping things complicated. Like people who get paid to create CRUD apps.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Can’t we just argue that using the * wildcard is just a great feature when you are writing sql queries on test data. I personally use it a lot when writing joins to eventually get the data I want or to execute a aggregating function like count().
But I think it is interesting to know if writing down all your table column names also delivers faster queries in other DBMS systems.
A Norwegian web-store is famous for its "design" and is being showcased in all kinds of design talks and presentations. (Of course in the "How not to do it" category)

http://arngren.net/
They tried that. What came out was Perl. Lots and lots of layers of syntactic sugar layered on syntactic sugar layered on more sugar, so you now have lots of sweet ways to do the same thing. But between all the sugar it's becoming harder and harder to see the real substance which it was about. The computer doesn't have any problem crunching through the sugar (it doesn't have any teeth to worry about), but as a programmer it doesn't become easier to recognize the vegetables if your cauliflower is sometimes covered in marshmallow, other times drenched in syrup, and the third time someone made a half hearted attempt to caramelize it. (Of course nobody servers the cauliflower as just plain cauliflower anymore.) So yes, you cook for the computer first, innocent bystanders don't need to know what went in to your program.

In the real world, the innocent bystanders matter, code is written as much for other people to understand as it is for computers to execute. I think that instead of plastering over all your content with sweeties, languages should be designed in such a way that the sugar is not necessary by choosing the right fundamental concepts, so programmers can understand what's going on. Learn to cook with the right ingredients, and learn when to add spices. And when not to.

For another example of a syntactic sugar friendly design, have a look at C macros.
I've lived & worked in Ireland, New Zealand and the UK and I can categorically say that the UK online banking system is by far the worst.

My biggest issue is the time delay between making a purchase and that purchase reflecting on your account. The EFTPOS system in NZ is incredible. Almost all transactions are reflected within an hour on your account.

I think a lot of my issues are probably specific to my current bank so forgive me if this doesn't apply to the company you work for but one thing that really winds me up is that I have to physically attend a branch if I want to print of an official statement. On my online account I can print off a list of transactions but only after the transactions have been exported to an excel worksheet.
How hard is it to pop up a PDF document with the banks header & footer and my transactions in between that I can print off on the spot?

/rant
more here: http://konamicodesites.com
Their intentions don't have to be malicious. Even if Hanlon's Razor applies, the mere stupidity of this move is enough to decry it.
The issue is that even if she did shout NO during this whole frisking business she might have caused much more trouble.
that's fantastic, I'm so going to make one
A couple of years ago Carnegie Mellon used to have a student led course on DOTA, although I am not sure intense and mathematical that was. My friends an I only joked about the course's existence.

I am curious, is anybody aware of any other video game related courses at other universities?
A little aside about being (and not being) salarymen:

My current landlord probably would never have rented my apartment to me if she had met me in my current state. However, when I first started living here, all I had to do was slide over my business card. The logo on it implies "This man will be no problem for you. He is of the finest character or he would never work here. If he is hospitalized, our CEO will walk his rent to your door and apologize for the inconvenience. Should you have any other issue with him, one call to us and he will wish he had been hospitalized. Guaranteed by the good name -- and virtually limitless capital reserves -- of $COMPANY."

Salarymen do not typically make a lot of money, but in a very status-conscious society, salarymen at particularly well-known companies didn't just draw a high card, we drew a straight flush. And we've got the next best thing to a signed promise from God Almighty that that status will never degrade in any material fashion.

I was once introduced to the mother of a young day I was seeing at the time. She was less than enthusiastic about me, mostly because of the one inalterable way in which I will never be ideal Japanese husband material. However, when I mentioned what I did for a living, you could practically see the gears turn in her head: "My grandchildren will go to only the best grade schools. They will always have enough money to pay for cram school. They will test into the best high schools, then universities, and then they will get jobs as salarymen just like their father and they will be set for life. Don't let him get away!" (She actually may have said that last bit out loud.)

I have a lot of sympathy for your point regarding materialism, but I have never begrudged the lady in question that thought process.

So anyhow: I have all manner of practical ideas on how to market a startup like it is really a soulless Japanese megacorp.
An example of a "provocative thing" expediting the security process is given in another of Les's stories (copied from Sukotto's comment).

http://yarchive.net/risks/mongrel.html

"The lesson was clear: if you want a clearance in a hurry, put something on your history form that will make the investigators suspicious but that is not damning. They get so many dull backgrounds to check that they relish the possibility of actually nailing someone. By being a bit provocative, you draw priority attention and quicker service."
NOT the best way to vouch for someone: "'Yes, we just celebrated Guy Fawkes Day together.'"

Note also the author is an example of "oh, that's easy" WRT to the programming required to fix the real problem. I can well believe it was worth their while trying to get him to change his official race instead of trying to modify a program when no one on their IT staff was familiar with it and he was the only exception (so far).

Note WRT to Linus Pauling, a) he was indeed an inspiring chemist (his books are still very useful) and is considered to be the best of the 20th century. b) He was also willing Communist/Soviet tool.
I wonder if that has changed recently? I recall hearing about this issue in the past in regards to Office and Wine.
because you have the skills necessary?
> SpaceX has launched just two rockets successfully in its history

Their three most recent launches were all successful.
You know, I think it's a good thing that people are afraid to start a business, up to a certain point. Success requires so much determination that anybody put off by reasonably small barriers to entry probably wouldn't make it anyway.
They were prison camps due simply to the fact that you were not permitted to leave (without permission). It might have been a gilded cage, but it was still a cage.
That's the interesting thing about this type of predicting: they usually fail to account for certain technologies being pushed out by others. You probably won't send a fax because faxing is nearly obsolete. Everyone uses email instead. And you probably will use your tablet to send email.

It's the same as with the phone booth. The same technology that lets the guy send a fax from the beach allows him to make calls from almost anywhere, (even video conferencing if you have an Evo or similar phone) pushing the phone booth out of common use. And, when everyone has a computer with an internet connection, why would someone have to go to a cash machine to buy concert tickets?

It is almost impossible to get everything right, and if there are certain key technologies that aren't predicted correctly (like desktop computers, high-bandwidth cell signals, internet everywhere, etc), then it has a cascading effect of invalidating many of the other predictions.
Yet what we get, each time someone decides to be "tough on crime", is "tough on criminals", because that's easy and short-term, and to the tabloid reading masses is mistaken for "tough on crime".

The closest we ever got that closest religious fruitcake Blair saying "tough on the causes of crime" but he turned out to be like the rest[1].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-has-not-... and much more
We have no no fan/low fan support on our firmware backlog - basically reducing the SOC TDP to the point where the laptop becomes a passively cooled and does not require the fan. So you can have performance when you want it, and silence when you want.
He definitely has opinions. I found the history useful, but he has an viewpoint that he argues for.

Happy to hear recommendations for contrasting viewpoints if you care to share.