jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I cannot believe people bring up Israeli airport security as an example of a system the U.S. should model. The security agents are neither intelligent, nor well trained, nor polite. The entire system is based on racism and I would take TSA security over the Israeli model any day. People were complaining here about a pat down search in public by a TSA agent equaling sexual harassment. I was actually taken to a public bathroom by an El Al agent and strip searched, purely because my last name "sounds Turkish".

From my anecdotal experience, El Al has security personnel that appears trained to a naked eye, but in reality is extremely ineffective, flawed, and unethical. I had the misfortune to go through El Al security four times. These all occurred in a span of two weeks, roughly in the same circumstances (I had to fly into Israel, fly out, fly back in, and fly back out). I can tell you that the outcome of their screening is heavily inconsistent and highly dependent on the prejudices of the particular agent doing the interview, and not necessarily on advanced training procedures.

I had the same answers for their questions every time. Two of the times the agents were Israeli jews who immigrated from Russia. Since we share a common background, both let me pass after very few questions because my trip details seemed perfectly reasonable to them. The other two times, I was interviewed by jews of clearly middle-eastern descent - both had no understanding of my cultural background, and both thought my trip details were extremely suspicious, subjecting me to a detailed search. So the outcome of the interviews was effectively random, which means they might as well perform random searches.

The interviews were highly unethical, inappropriate, and degrading. Even more importantly, they were completely ineffective, resulting in a random outcome highly dependent on each agent's personal prejudices. I don't know what good security looks like, but I can tell you that this most certainly isn't it.
HN is often slow due to load issues; at least it has been that way in the past. What makes you think it's intentional?
(and a decent photographer)
It's pretty silly that Hotpot doesn't use the geolocation feature in some browsers.

Also, it's kind of bizarre that even with the non-standard design, you can just tell this is a Google product by the colors, font, and spacing of elements.
I guess everyone has to have one of these too :/

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of seeing the same features being developed on different platforms? Can't google and Facebook fill different spaces?

Buzz was late. Hotpot is late. Where is the innovation Google? Slept on Gmail unification. Wave was awesome but released the wrong way.

Google is starting to make the same mistakes Netscape made. They should stop trying to be another Facebook and continue doing what they do best.

I already have Facebook and Twitter. Give me a better online office app and keep kicking ass with Gmail and Search!

I'm just saying ;)
Are you sure that you can just starting using this name?
In the US season tickets (in my experience) are only slightly different from other tickets, in that they're paper with a coupon that may or may not be torn off when you enter. Season tickets have nicer printing and logos and come in a nice folder.
An influx of Americans migrating to New England might incur a spillover north of the border into Montreal and Ottawa, which would only exacerbate their own housing booms[1][2] along with the rest of Canada[3].

[1] https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/real-est...

[2] https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawas-housing-ma...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/canadas-rate-hikes-jeopardize-h...
This myth just will not die. Apple doesn’t listen to users’ opinions but they sure as hell observe user behavior.
Block megacorps from acquisitions of smaller companies as well.

When a corporation is large enough to wield significant political influence, allowing them to buy up and coming disruptors makes it even easier for them to, as the article writes, make a mockery of democratic norms. And thus, by the same token argument, the acquisition of smaller entities should similarly be blocked.
Yes of course - like I said, they solve different usecases. Caddy has way, way more features overall to make up for the bigger binary.
How does Chalmer's view differ from dualism? I'm a dualist and agreed with Chalmers on most points if I remember correctly.
I'll try it out (installing app on phone now), but can't see it coming close to replacing either Skype or WhatsApp. Skype because in many of my circles is the de facto for business communication, WhatsApp because it's so simple (no need to add new contacts - they're already there!)

On the subject of telegram's "dedicated to security from the start" - I'm sure I remember (though could be either wrong or outdated) that it's encryption was mocked by experts when it launched, which is (I think) why I never bothered with it before now. Is it actually as secure as it wants to be?
Should rename to "diff two HTTP(S) responses" instead of requests.
Why not for some subviews?
The -e is what tells perl that "this is code, not a filename." One I regularly use (with perl) that doesn't seem to be mentioned yet is -p -i -e to inline modify files line-by-line. This is very nice for global search/replace actions on files found via find, grep or ack.
I did read that. It just seemed obvious enough that I didn't feel the need to include it in my comment.
Interesting fact for the day: 75 million accounts is a new world record for information theft.
No need to purchase. Just put the "Password Gorilla"[1] binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac on your Dropbox be done with it.

[1] https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/
Godel's incompleteness theorem.
I would argue the cost of the RRoD was a heck of a lot more than $1B because of all the lost sales. People didn't want to invest in hardware that was going to break 5 times over.

The direct damage from this won't be $1B (still tens of millions at least). But what about the impact of the lost sales and customers from the loss in credibility and trust? That is what could be huge.

It was relatively "easy" for Microsoft to replace broken hardware. How easy and how much is it going to cost Sony to replace broken trust?
Linux installation is easy piece of cake to HN audience, but nightmare to normal people.
By my count, none of VC 2015 RTM's C++17 features will have been proposed by MS. N3922 auto and N4086 trigraphs were proposed by Googlers. Same for another Core feature that might be checked in. In the Library, I just checked in void_t, invoke(), and trivially copyable reference_wrapper, none of which I proposed (or anyone else at MS). I did propose auto_ptr/etc.'s removal which was voted into C++17, but it's too late for me to remove that stuff from 2015 RTM.
While this is an amazing and thought-provoking article, I can't help but feel it missed the obvious answer to the question it presented.

Phones should be programmed to accept or reject calls by the owner, because it is a really dumb idea to be able to wake people up knowing only their phone number. Notably, this is already the case: cellphones have mute/vibrate switches, and if you have a smart phone you probably have various "do not disturb" modes that do more advanced routing.

As a followup and to actually resolve the question for the call placer, phones could broadcast their availability status and this status could be queryable by phone number.

Stardates have their own problems but I'm not convinced those problems are harder than the problems we have with timezones now. We've built up a terrible amount of infrastructure around timezone handling, we should not be scared off when stardates require unique infrastructure projects.
Many of these people are probably beyond the stage in life where they're able to adapt to something new.

I feel like there's a whiff of discrimination in people who call for Facebook to be shut down. I'm sure it's easy for young people in cities to switch. Not everyone is as mentally nimble.
>I see the problem as being with the entire hypothesis testing framework, with the idea that we learn by rejecting straw-man (or, as Dave Krantz charmingly said once, “straw-person”) null hypotheses, and with the binary true/false attitude which leads people to believe that, once a result is judged statistically significant (by any standard) and published in a good journal, that it deserves the presumption of belief.

That is too simply brushing off decades of statistical work. While over reliance on p values is a problem, especially if the p values reflect garbage models which don't properly fit the data. We can't just throw out theory because we don't like it. Setting up proper statistical testing is still a powerful tool for experimental data.
I don't think you have to balance out your criticism. But you can stay polite and keep attacking the work only.
> Can't have collectible coin stores, gaming stores, beer brewing stores, makerspace, none of that without cars

Strongly disagree. In Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, there's a block with not one, but two shops that sell only chess sets and things related to chess. Old, walkable downtowns (the ones that have survived the advent of the car, at least) have just as much diversity of retail businesses as the homogenous suburbs (where you have your Best Buy, your Walmart, your Olive Garden, and so on), if not more.
The article is wrong. It absolutely does cost money and time to test on old browsers. You need multiple computers or vms set up. You don't build websites using old computers running ie6. so you have load the site on that old browser after you write the code.

It's an obvious fact to anyone who does front end web development.
I agree 100%. That’s why I don’t think statements like “$X amount is really not that much” are very useful.

In many places in the US $200k is doing really, really well. Sometimes those arguments are still used in those areas, but I think it says more about lifestyle inflation than the ability to live on that income. (E.g., it’s not much IF you get a new car every few years and IF you have a mortgage on a 4K Sqft home and IF you send your kids to private school). The tone deaf comment relates to how those self-imposed lifestyle constraints are out of touch for most people anyway.
If you doing nearly anything in physics, you have to know and use Fortran. (And, in fact, modern Fortran is not a bad language -- it is something like Matlab or Numpy, but much faster).
I'm generally against the idea of banning subreddits because they just move elsewhere. However, if this is going to be the official stance of Reddit admins, I encourage them to take a look at /r/sino and a few other communities that regularly violate the rules.
There is even a special word for that in Russian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat
> it’s an example of an act the speaker would approve of if it happened

Oh, will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest!

I've probably engaged way past where I should, as you aren't here to discuss calmly and rationally, but what you describe is an extremely common rhetorical technique. The streamer all but said, "will no one rid me off these meddlesome protestors?"
Interesting, what markdown editor do you use on your phone?
Isn't qualified immunity applies only to police?
If not, then the solution should be to end qualified immunity for police only.
There is a difference between health department inspector and police officer, no reason to apply the same standards in both cases.
Isn't it more accurately called 'Miranda warning'? The point is, there are no new rights being granted, the notification is merely informing someone of their existing rights. The fifth amendment was ratified back in 1791.
yep, thanks to Zoom all this idiocy suddenly became transparent

https://twitter.com/peteskomoroch/status/1359627374745116674
Knowledge - expands,
Space exploration knowledge - expands,
Sub atomic exploration - expands, (muon and we may even find its sub atomic particles as well)
Space - expands,
Number series - expands,
Fibonacci - expands.

Be warned when something expands, you can never reach.

Its not the destination, its the journey :D
If you're at the point you're spending money on ads and need to track them, you can spend $10 on a domain name? Lots of these platforms also give away free domain names.
Counter example: I worked with a woman who was such a team player that after literally every email she sent me she would walk over to my desk and disturb me to check that I got it and get my response. Maybe she had only ever used a one way email system. I could have done with a little less teamwork in that situation.
What do you mean by "stop tolerating"? Declare war?
Which country are you from? If not from Canada or Australia, then unless you get into school in the US and get your OPT, or unless you join a U.S. based company that you can internally transfer, your chances are slim. You need to get work authorization which is very hard and most U.S. employers won't hire someone outside of the US except in the above situations.
There is an enormous reason if you work on, or use, systems designed for massive parallelism.
One does not compete with Game Center. One integrates with Game Center.
The commenters picked up on that right away, and one of them was "highlighted" by a NYT editor, so I'm hoping Pogue follows up on it.
What is an accident? Why was the recent spill the result of negligence rather than an accident? The difference is a matter of some bureaucratic definition, not of reality.

Offshore drilling is always a gamble. Any diffusion of the risk to the public / taxpayers shows that the firms used their influence with regulators to stack the deck in their favor, and that regulators complied.
Thanks, highly appreciated! I've updated the main image hoping it better conveys what the framework is about.

Before: "Flock is an easy-to-use social gaming network for Android and iPhone"

Now: "Flock is the easiest way to connect users on Android and iPhone to multiplayer games."

That's really the core functionality right now. The social part is rather peripheral.
Researchers from the Bartholin Institute at the Danish national hospital have found a correlation between intake of refined sugar and type-1 diabetes. There is still quite a bit of controversy over whether an increased intake of refined sugar does lead to type-1 diabetes, with researchers from the Danish Diabetes association dissenting.

Unfortunately, the only information I could find about this research was in Danish, but feel free to read the (translated) newspaper article here: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
If this works on Windows, I'm hooked.

How come I didn't read anything about PyFilesystem earlier? It is perfect for both quick and dirty tools and complex applications.

EDIT: Ok, I just reached the part of the video where you mount a directory, a virtual folder and the contents of a zip file under the same "mount_fs" object as if it was a folder. This is officially awesome.
But what about a new customer with no rollover minutes?
very well, but wouldn't life be easier if you could just start out with 3000 rollover minutes when initiating the contract? Why must mobile plans hinge upon users making miscalculations and mistakes? You have been lucky (or are a rare case of low usage).
Good to see Visual Website Optimizer (http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/) mentioned. Go Paras, go!
To be fair, not just the President but also any Congressperson/Senator that is interviewed for the rest of the year on any program.

Which one do you want your mother/children experiencing, naked picture radiation, deep groping, or would you instead choose the $10,000 fine for leaving (and possibly being put on the no-fly list forever)?
The hardest part of becoming an Android developer is the steep learning curve - Google doesn't exactly do you a lot of favors with it's documentation there. However, relative to the learning curve, it's no more difficult to pick up the requisite bits of software and start learning than it is to become, say, a Rails developer (I've done both professionally).
Spending a thousand or two on a computer is a hell of a lot easier to justify than spending several hundred on a harddrive. Particularly when you can find less fancy harddrives for a fraction of that. SSDs are far more of a luxury item than laptops.
"Where are these devices for entering Congress or the Whitehouse if they are so safe?"

Jackpot. Part of the trouble is that the policy makers don't have to swallow their own medicine. They have private jets and political connections that place them above their own laws. It's not even that they are "above" the law. They simply write laws that won't involve them.
I did have this problem in the past. I fixed it by switching to a Microsoft Natural keyboard (the $40 one). That got rid of the problem for me after about three days.

At first I thought the improvement was due to the ergonomic form of the keyboard, but after using my MacBook Pro's built-in keyboard for months with no pain, I now think that my problem was just that my original cheap, foam-sprung keyboard was just awful for typing. So maybe the answer is to just get a better keyboard.

Additionally, posture and angle of forearms to the keyboard surface is also a factor with any keyboard. Your forearms should be parallel to the ground and your keyboard flat, at least that's what works for me. If your chair is too low this might be forcing you to contort your hands in order to type.

For example, my MacBook Pro's keyboard works fine for me, but the external Apple wireless keyboard (with the same type of keys) causes RSI very quickly. Since the keys are essentially the same on both, I'm sure that this is because the external keyboard is angled (higher in back where the batteries go) while the laptop's keyboard is flat.
Backscatter radiation delivers a more serious payload on the skin.

Also you are assuming the machines are working properly and not overdosing people.
Funny, from my experience i'd have said the exact opposite. Then again I started out on J2ME feature phones, so "difficult" porting is a pretty relative term for me ;)
Right – their first was the Mighty Mouse, introduced in '05. It's just interesting to me that Jobs was consistent enough in his beliefs supporting one button mice that he even used one himself. His use of a computer is certainly frequent and deep enough to benefit from a more powerful mouse.
Seems like scope creep. Just do the corporate bailouts in a different bill. Ship that $$$ for the working class immediately.

And seriously fuck Boeing. They did this to themselves. No bailouts, only loans. $50 billion bailout when they spent billions buying back stocks to enrich their top investors and execs. Should have saved for a rainy month. I’m sure without a bailout they’ll learn a lesson and figure shit out. It’s not the first time. AirBus is hit just as hard.

Basically we should ensure people have enough to live by and get through this period. Everything else will take care of itself.
Also: Airbnbs.

Toronto rents were getting quite high pre-pandemic, but once tourism dried up, and Airbnb unit owners needed to pay their bills they seem to have released a lot of stock. The overall average rent dropped 16% YoY:

* https://www.torontorentals.com/blog/toronto-gta-march-rent-r...

Toronto has/had a lot of international students as well, and there's a lot fewer of those as well.
Some of the scenarios described here sound dangerously like kickbacks.

"Hey, I know there are a bunch of other stakeholders who aren't in the room. Our competitor might actually be offering a better deal for them. On the other hand, we're going to make sure that you personally benefit more from taking our deal instead."

This is a classic conflict of interest. Ethically, the correct thing to do would be to walk away. I'm not saying that I wouldn't succumb to the temptation, but I'd sure have a hard time looking those other stakeholders in the eye afterward.
Life, or intelligent life?

We can infer life based on atmospheric compositions NOW, but only if that planet fits an extremely narrow margin... meaning, Earth. Earth three and a half billion years ago had life on it, but you'd be hard-pressed to tell it from orbit.

If you want to move to unambiguous (intelligent) life then.......

The largest radio telescope we have (the 305 meter diameter Arecibo) would need to have it's sensitivity increased by around two orders of magnitude JUST to pick up our TV/FM/AM signals from outside the solar system. So, the crap we pump out the most couldn't even be detected by Voyager 2, if we had strapped a giant dish to it.

If we move into the narrowband signals then, depending on the source-strength, Arecibo could potentially pick up signals at up to a few thousand light years... if it happened to be pointed in exactly the right direction at exactly the right time.

So, our most sensitive instrument is only capable of measuring a fraction of a percent of the spectrum in a fraction of a percent of the possible-directions-it-could-be-pointed if the point source happened to be sending a strong enough signal (aimed at us) at exactly the right time (which would be anywhere between 2 and a few thousand years ago).

I haven't done the math, but I suspect that regardless of the frequency and amount of energy we dump into sending out a signal (within the realms of not being scifi, anyhow), it would be impossible for anyone to detect us a thousand or two lightyears out (using EM radiation) without knowing when/where to look. They also wouldn't be able to "see" that for quite a long time yet. I couldn't find a list of "when did we start sending out signals at X frequency" (and I suspect it doesn't exist), but if we take 50 years ago as a guess and we assume we pumped out noise at a frequency that could make the distance at a power level sufficient to be noticeable and that there wasn't anything to get in the way of the signal then we're only looking at something like 2000 star-systems.
I'd like to split the difference and say that sure, IQ means that a person does have more ability to solve these sorts of problems -- but the fact that it doesn't actually prompt you to apply it is a serious deficit for IQ, and an under-recognized problem.

Smart people get lots of things badly wrong lots of the time. The fact that they're smart can make others (and perhaps themselves, too) assume that they won't be badly wrong, and thus broaden the error.
This works for me, I used to have a file I would create with 'to do', 'doing', and 'done' values on each of the steps. But someone here on HN pointed out that I could use Trello for that which I tried, and it was absolutely the best for this. Make a board,, think of the top few things that have to be done, pick one, move it over to 'doing' it will spawn a few more things, start picking them off one by one. And putting them into the done column.

To whomever suggested that, I owe you a beer or something :-)
They sometimes have bourbon too. This might be fun to look at: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/04/26/kfc-japan-serves-chick...
> did you miss the bit in my post about FFI and GC?

No. It's a huge pain, but much less of a pain than calling between two GC'd languages. (I haven't tried calling directly between e.g. Perl and Haskell, but I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon. The handles alone would bury me.) If there were one obvious GC solution, then all GC'd languages would use it, and C would not be as useful. But we've had the JVM and countless other abstractions, yet none has managed to be a higher common denominator than C, so it looks like human labor for the foreseeable future.
Oh no .. It's so sad when people leave us too soon... :(
Cool! The sysprof website says that there's a command line tool included, but I can't find it. Do you have any info on that?
I had a glossy 15" and now the semi-glossy 11". It's really not very glossy at all. I barely ever notice my ugly mug staring back at me. Really, the best of both worlds.