jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The bottom line with both of these technologies is that their usecases are simply too narrow to inspire causal use.

The radar-gadget is useful if you're about to storm a house full of armed adversaries - in most other cases, you can just peek through the window or knock on the door and get much the same information.

The laser-bouncer is great for eavesdropping on people who take some effort to hide their communication - if they don't, hiding a wireless microphone or a high-capacity dictaphone is orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper.
I like it. Less distracting than an IDE for beginners.

The GUI is based on tkinter. It looks surprisingly good.
They should do a human-sized version of Amazon Snowball.
I think that the site is trying to visually demonstrate different framings
Experience as an activist in Prospect/BECTU in the UK (this is the union for technical professions and film and telly)
Notably the US had high summer covid cases in the AC belt, in contrast to the northeast and also in contrast to canada and europe, where hermetically sealed environments are less common.

I’d be curious to know what flu and cold season is like in the south.

There may also be seasonal changes to hvac systems in milder climates. They all have varying degrees of recirculation vs bringing in outside air. If you are running heavy ac or heavy heating, it costs more to bring in outside air. So there may be seasonal variations in recirculation settings even within the same sealed environment. I’m less confident on this point though as I don’t know hvac’s very well and they are supposed to filter viruses.
I think it's more important to focus on is the rationality of enforcing copyright law against music captured in the background of a video. Fair use should be much more broad.

So long as the video isn't produced for profit, the producer isn't unfairly benefitting off the presence of the music in the video, and the quality of the audio doesn't compete with that of a commercial recording, I don't see the issue.
I see this a lot but I find that it can't be true on the whole for many many.

We buy ads for political clients. On FB I could get a positive immediate roi for donations. Scaling huge is hard (i got one client to over $1 million last cycle for context). Admittedly but you could go a lot bigger if you look at ROI down the line with email donations.

And we're not alone. I don't think the many many direct to consumer brands would spend so much money on FB if they didn't get a positive ROI.

Maybe some PE or other funded brands are trying to grow over profit spending more than they make. But there are a ton that are profit seeking and get good value. FB is definitely an exception though unless you are an app install ad on mobile.
async/await is for the concurrent stuff and threads are for the parallel stuff. Two different things. If your code is I/O-bound, use async/await. If your code is processor-bound thing, use threads.
The argument was of the form "tyrants do this, therefore it's bad."
> the IT team is really great at creating work and justifying their existence.

Once you said this, the is no longer a neccesity to say more. I could not agree more.
You're obviously correct in the de jure sense, here. But there is also a matter of relationship expectation.

An unstated assumption of using any "free" product is that it's not actually free. Canonical screwed up, to be sure, but I do think many of us just expect getting harassed by salespeople to be the cost of using a "free" product.

Microsoft, on the other hand, charges me by the hour for using Azure. They've taken their pound of flesh, so my business expectation is that I'm going to be left the hell alone for anything other than billing matters. Them sharing the data in the first place, for something I've paid money for, FEELS like the bigger violation to me.
For now it appears so [1][2].

[1] https://itsartlaw.org/2020/05/11/case-review-allen-v-cooper-...

[2] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-877_dc8f.pdf
Companies that attack and manipulate 1A to their advantage in every place they hold power have no reason to support 2A, that's definitely true.
Also see Normal Accidents[1] which discusses "human error" as a PR cover for systems that are simply too complicated for unaided humans to monitor and understand.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192408.Normal_Accidents
The 'good' news is that with deepfakes everyone will (soon) at least have the veneer of plausible deniability. I know there will always be ways to determine whether something is a deepfake via adversarial detection but perhaps in the future so much content will be faked that unless it is a head of state or other renowned person, only then would it then be worth checking.
>The belief that Earth was flat only existed up until around eight thousand years ago, [...]

Can you give your evidence for this assertion?

I think this is a modern interpretation as an attempt to demonstrate that we are somehow advanced beings now. IMO the person of 8000 years ago was probably as capable as the modern man, given the same nutrition and with the same access to reference works and technology I don't think we would outshine them generally. Quite possibly the opposite.
The article lost me at "Let me ask you this. Do you think Chinese medicine would have survived for more than 3,000 years and spread to every corner of the globe if it wasn’t a powerful, complete system of medicine?"... asked on the 151st anniversary of the publication of origin of species, no less, in a world still full of religion.
So in theory, a compact enough data store could have an explosive potential.
Maybe it comes down to the definition of 'long', I don't know if there is a well-established one. But since these people who the options were bought from presumably have contractual valuations of these options, it seems to me that there is no risk in the deal, except for the valuation at IPO of Facebook stock. Thinking of it, maybe it's the same as a 'regular' long, i.e. a non-naked one (I guess there's a real term for it ;) ) I originally had a mental comparison with naked longs in mind, in which case the risk profiles would deviate much more from the construction in the article; but yes if you compare it to a long on an asset someone already has, it may not be that different.

Then again it seems to be that the scary stories and the bad image of shorts and longs are about the naked variants, and that this is implicit in the article. That may just come from my lack of grasp on the subject.
Thanks for the reply patio, I haven't heard of the issues with delegation before.

Phishing attacks could definitely be a big potential problem. I'd be interested in seeing how much of the phishing and usability problems could be solved via good browser support for OpenId.
Scientifically proven beneficial substances are called medicines. They are FDA approved for the purpose of treatment.
This might help if you're nervous about being in front of people:

http://ask.metafilter.com/146250/How-Do-I-Manage-My-Fear-of-...

http://ask.metafilter.com/100629/How-do-I-get-over-my-terror...
This list is missing sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

sshuttle is a transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin access. Works with Linux and MacOS.

Avery Pennarun is a Hero :)
When it comes to the atrocious American diet, smaller fast food portions could be as much a feature as a bug.
> this could go wrong

Then scrap the idea, because that "could" changes to "will" on a large enough time frame.

This just clearly gives traditionally influential people a disproportional amount of power over information. All the more ironic considering the usual groups advocating against "fake news".

The companies that you gleefully and probably rightfully try to penalize have large legal departments that can get really bored and will hit you twice as hard.

At this point it is just like asking for it.
The discussion in the post, the description of what a technical user had to do to switch, the problems encountered, the X11 problems mentioned (tearing, etc), and the suggestions and workarounds in the comments, should be mandatory reading before someone calls Linux "ready for the desktop".

For some reason Linux discussions are bimodal: in some everybody chimes how perfect everything works, and what peace they found switching to it. In others, like this one here, it's all about all kind of problems, hacky solutions, tinkering with system settings, and so on, and still having serious issues.
> If AMD and Intel can dedicate resources to maintain their Wayland implementations with no complains why NVidia can't?

nVidia shares the driver with Windows, AMD/Intel don't. So AMD/Intel always give you a driver that's significantly trailing the Windows versions on features and stability (you can read a lot about this on Dolphin blog for example) while adding more maintenance costs.

> Because they could use the time spent on maintaining NVidia proprietary API adapter writing open-source software that will benefit all parties.

What do you mean "all parties"? They're excluding at least one party - nVidia users.
Very interesting, I wish there were some more pictures of the inside of the shop itself. Knowing Google, I'm sure everything in there is top of the line.
I guess you could say that about almost all of its acquisitions: Drop.Io, FriendFeed, Parakey, Beluga, etc.

They call them "talent acquisitions."
Also, what is a "Solutions Architect/Infrastructure Architect"?
I'm glad to hear it won't be going away - I built a huge api-based service off Delicious that my whole team uses, and I really like how it works.
So far, that has been my thinking. It has helped me build quite a few IRL skills.
True: intelligence is speed of processing and the capacity of the person's working memory.
Even they admit the study is flawed:

“Another caveat is that many people in our study broke blind and they figured out what condition they were assigned to,” van Elk added. “This is a more generic problem for this type of research: the effects of psychedelics are so obvious — even at lower doses — that it is difficult to prevent people from figuring out what condition they are assigned to. If people subsequently figure out that they are in the active/experimental condition (e.g., based on subtle side-effects), this in turn can contribute again to the placebo response.”

It's not hard to figure out you've taken actual mushrooms.

Also

The study included a carefully screened sample of 75 participants who attended a microdosing workshop.

They are apparently testing people with normal levels of depression and anxiety, people who are functional enough to attend a microdosing workshop. Perhaps normal people won't benefit from microdosing, but I don't think this study is conclusive.

I took from the title they were attempting to treat people with clinical or major depression and anxiety where the actual therapeutic research interest lies., but that's not the case.

I'm not advocating microdosing, but it's interesting.
Health insurance and seatbelts are comparable concepts, that is what the seat belt comment was about.

Seat belts and 3 months of Shanghai style quarantines are way different.

The other points raised are like asking someone if they like hot sauce and when they say yes, spraying bear spray in their eyes and their kids eyes and their dogs eyes because “it’s the same conceptually” in an absurdist way since both are spicy. Hence back to the earlier point, people aren’t anti-libertarian but rather find much of what is espoused in the name of libertarianism is too absurd to take seriously.
The title could really use a (2017).

But I think it's a very interesting submission. At least I didn't know such a version of Windows 10 existed. I wonder if Microsoft would do such a project again in the current situation.
can't seem to figure it out on chrome 29 on windows7. maybe I have a conflict or need bleeding edge chrome.
I was fascinated with LIGO when I learned about it. It seems the best plans for such devices exist in the planned space-bound installations, such as LISA (http://lisa.nasa.gov/)
Honestly, I would find a better place to work and live. When you live paycheck to paycheck with a good salary, you're going to become tired very soon.
Absolutely. Or parenthesis coloring, that would be even better.
> Which is worth more a company with 5 employed engineers or 5 oversea contractors?

This is a false dichotomy. You could have 5 on-site contractors or 5 overseas employed engineers.

(However, the rest of your post contains very valid points.)
Thank you for preformatting :P Mathler seems a little less chaotic. I think I could actually enjoy nerdle if it had some limitation on one of the many variables to account for. Mathler seems to do exactly that
Google already scans drives for copyright infringement.
No linear algebra?
Not to talk you down, it is never-the-less good thing to build things.

But claiming is as alternative is overblown, people choose those two frameworks because the rich ecosystem and support behind it, for which, except probably Angular, there are no way around them.
Soros?
Terrorism cannot be stopped (by definition). The affront to freedom is the response to terrorism.
it helps the public view its government as fallible, corrupt, and absurd

This is in agreement with the author's assertion that "WikiLeaks’ motivation is that of a court jester, to mock and ridicule the contradictions of a state."

What the author is saying in the post is that this is not what his motives were for doing analysis on prior leaks.
You might like this http://www.dshed.net/william-gibson

It's a talk he gave on his new book Zero History. I found it really cool hearing his opinions on how fast technology is advancing.
I have seen this problem with my own eyes. My parents own several (small) restaurants and despite my tech background I struggle to get them to to adopt any sort of technology. The main issue is the lack of data/guarantee that making the leap in technology will result in greater sales. Sure a huge chain has smart business execs at the top who are trained in cost/benefit analysis but for the vast majority of small business restaurants the owner is the chef who knows about food and perhaps the local community.

For example my father is an extremely talented chef but he didnt own a cell phone or a computer until I bought him one 3 years ago. Yes, 3 years ago! He had run a very successful catering and restaurant operation for ~15 years with pen, paper, and a land line phone. And I am not talking a 50k a year operation -- this is around $1M in revenue. I convinced them a few years back to simplely accept credit cards instead of cash only and their lunch sales increased almost 50%. I pushed them to pay for yelp local advertising (after years of resistance) and their sales went up almost 20%. Next I am working on them adopting integrated point of sale registers and integrating them with loyalty cards. I think the cost savings + increased loyalty is game for another 10-20% profit increase. The overall point being that small to medium size restaurants are woefully behind the times and are extremely slow to adopt new technology. I have kicked around a startup idea focused on collating and seemlessly making restaurants like this be able to move into the 21st century. The problem to solve here is creating software to scale so it's not simply a consulting company.
The corporation that makes/develops the phone would be a co-op with equal ownership/profit sharing between all workers.

No capitalist would steal the surplus labor value of the workers involved in making the phone.

It would be hard to get the entire supply chain to fit this model without first creating an organization like Mondragon. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
An important question is "what is inflation?"

A ton of the discussion of inflation ties it in a 1:1 way to money printing. Like the government says "I'd like some more money please", prints money, and this evenly inflates the price of every good and "steals" from people's bank accounts. While this can be a component of inflation, the truth is much more complex.

Looking at the published CPI numbers it becomes extremely clear that inflation is extremely varied. Natural gas way way up. Medical commodities up only a small amount. Prices can rise for an absolutely enormous number of different reasons and the price of a good going up obviously cannot be considered "theft" in the abstract. The people who insist that governments are unjust if they allow any inflation above 0% are being unreasonable, in my opinion.

That said, it is also the case that public policy, especially public policy in authoritarian or failed states, can cause a currency to collapse and wipe out any wealth their citizens hold in that currency. But I'm not even sure I'd call this "theft". It is a different sort of abuse entirely and it comes in many more forms than just devalued currency.
"exploit"
Bing delisted rdrama too. I think it is related somehow (?)
Yup, thanks for the tip. Just fixed both.
Neither. I was responding to the parent comment, which was implying that OP was somehow shirking his duties as a Linux user by not using hardware with broken driver support.

I was suggesting that OP has better things to do than fix drivers that Apple couldn't give a damn about supporting.
Last i read on LWN the cgroups kernel dev was backing away from the idea of having a singular cgroups management daemon.

And no, its not just for fun. RH is betting big on competing with Amazon and MS on cloud services. It would not surprise me if they are trying to get old RHEL server customers to move their servers onto the RH cloud with the switch to RHEL7.
Do you have a write-up/blog post or article about pocketsphinx? How do you create/train the vocabulary models? If you use Text-to-speech too (CMU Flite, eSpeak), maybe you know some good resources there as well?
Yet no one has been indicted, apart from Snowden (well 'criminal complaint', not an indictment, but even Obama mixed them up).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12...
Mind of a Mnemonist is a nice book about this. It's not specifically about learning, it's about something else, but there are some rather interesting notes in it.
Schools massively vary in learning strategies though. Saying to stick to schools rather than teaching yourself, as a learning strategy, is a bit like saying to stick to food from shops rather than trying to grow your own, as an eating strategy.
That's an interesting point. Assuming that the Windows monopoly imposed hidden costs on the public in the First World, to what extent does Gates' philanthropy offset those costs? If it hadn't been funneled to Gates (and eventually, his foundation), where would it have been used? If the public had known during the antitrust "Micro$oft" era that Gates would donate most of his fortune to fighting disease in the third world, would attitudes have been different?

Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to know the answers to these questions, but it's an interesting door to open.
This is a really great guide to db context pitfalls. Entity Framework has a lot of really awesome features. It's object tracking is akin to React's virtual DOM(in a way) and the way unit of work is rolled for you is super handy. Unfortunately it's also quite massive and you might end up all over the internet searching for how to do something the best way. Idiomatic EF is hard to locate, if it even exists. One of those difficulties is when to use proxy objects and when/where to create your db context. If you don't utilize the same context within your "unit of work" you'll end up with errors about the connection being closed(for lazing loading) or that your object can't be tracked in multiple trackers.

I'm hoping to try out the project linked to from this guide to help with better utilizing the context in a clean fashion.

Now if I can just find a better way to handle createdAt/updatedAt time stamps, validation, and other things usually handled in life cycle hooks I'll be a happy camper:)
It's not really a primitive, but I'll concede the point. Similarly the one about 50 iterations, that was somewhat silly (there is a reason I have that number in mind, but I won't bore with details).

However. Mythical situation? Try a good portion of shared PHP hosting; why do you think the most popular software in the world (i.e. stuff like Wordpress) still supports MD5/Sha hashing?

I realise this is not a problem you may have come across before; but don't imagine it does not exist :)
Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true, but the problem is that people abuse this framework to support all kind of weird accusations. It's very convenient, because it frees them from the burden of supporting their claims with evidence.

"It's a conspiracy, of course there is no evidence!"
Is there any independent confirmation of this? Parts of it sound made up.
Password? Use your brain to memorize it all!
Really, I've been memorizing hundreds of password with just a simple key, hint, and reminder. Rather than using a password manager that actually a computer programmed system. You'll only forgot your password if you lost your brain!

Okay, for a serious situation, I'm using a basic text storage then encrypt it with a trusted modern encryption system, high bit level.And some cloud computed storage web app that already moving on the new way to store and encrypt your password. That's it? Nope, it's useless.

But for real, there are lots of another way to store your password than using a password manager or a computer. Sometimes we can do it manually. For your life, use your idea. Peace.
Right, but you have to take their word for that (not exclusive to LastPass, goes for any service like this). So ultimately, you still have to trust them.
Walking and talking is nice because it actually seems like the conversation moves figuratively to match the literal movement of the walk. My conversations are less likely to get stuck at an impasse or wallow in minutiae. While walking and talking on the street or sidewalk conversational "goals" or "points" seem to be met or solidify at major landmarks. This is in no way quantified, but just something that seems to have happened enough for me to notice and find it curious.
October Sky. This is one of the inspirational movie i can think of now.
I agreed with the substance of what you said, as it appears that many others in this thread do as well. Though I did not down vote you, I'm guessing that the quality of your English may have contributed to some down votes.
Or perhaps some other female aspect instead of (or in addition to) face...
Given that Prateek has mentioned that he is unfamiliar with lisp/arc I do not think he intends to extend the code. But that would be great, particularly if such extensions are communicated upstream or released in the open.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913505
so wait, you don't even know how the code works? You just grabbed it as is, registered a domain, and hoped for the best?
Cucumber is not really a native DSL. The scenario files are simply text files that are parsed (pattern matched) by Cucumber, which is a parser that's written in Ruby. It could well be written in Python, too.

If you look at Steak (https://github.com/cavalle/steak), however, this is a real native Ruby DSL, and such a thing is impossible to ever do as elegant in Python.
Actually that's really interesting. How can you keep the https connection open?
One of my all time favorites. It's not computer nerd, it's rocket nerd -- but it feels similar to stories of Woz building his own computers from cheap chips.
'The World's Fastest Indian'