jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And the fundamental truth that we are too scared to accept: death is just another disease. Death is just another way to say we did not have the technology or ability to save a life. That the limits of modern medicine were, unfortunately, reached.

We accept death as a “reality” today, because we have no choice. But tomorrow, humans will look back on our age with horror - that self-aware beings were doomed to an eternal abyss, barely having a chance to live to begin with!

In the far future, I imagine that the unintentional loss of even a single self-aware sentience would be both newsworthy and devastating. I envy the children of tomorrow that will have a choice in the matter of their mortality, much as I would envy the luxuries of people of today were I to be born centuries ago.

I envy their consciousnesses, distributed amongst computers scattered throughout space, operating on timescales that make our own lives look like a blink of an eye, able to live out whatever reality they desire for however long they wish to live, barring the heat death itself.
We ordered food maybe three weeks ago using DoorDash. There was food missing on a $70 order plus tip. I have no idea if the driver kept it, if the restaurant messed up, or if the system didn’t even properly give them my order.

Recently I stopped using Uber. In my city, I’ll get paired with a 4.9 or 5 star Uber driver who accepts the trip but then will drive past the street or drive in a weird pattern just a few blocks away but never actually stop to pick me up. Four out of five times I cancelled and got charged a cancellation fee. I disputed and Uber refunded me. The fifth time I didn’t cancel and waited to see how long this driver would screw around. Eventually HE cancelled and then I got an email from Uber saying that I was reported for not wearing a mask.

The service industry is ripe with scammers. I’ve basically stopped using it. And Uber has gotten legitimately expensive enough that it’s cheaper for me to buy a new Corolla and pay for insurance and gas.
The best for who? This is a ridiculous take, nobody wants to roll their own TV UX except HN users looking for a weekend project.

What usability / long-term reliability perk does your own software running on a RPI have over an Apple TV plugged into a dumb TV / monitor?
There was at one point a couple of years ago when I had to attend more meetings at work that I would the be the one presenting something on my thinkpad only because everyone else had a macbook and forgot their dongle. It could be solved by buying dongles for each room possibly, but this was a persistent problem anyway. (Thankfully, there is fewer meetings and they are just online now :) )

I don't need the ports that much, but it is nice when the needed ports are just there, because it is usually a selection of ports I need. Maybe other people don't need what I need, but I prefer having some occasionally port present, knowing its there when I need it.

I think this project takes a novel approach to the problem, sort of like what expresscards offered. Here, you can just add the ports you need if you need as your defaults.
2-factor authentication allows you to bias yourself towards suspecting malevolence.

It's reasonably believable that they leaked their password because. Interns.

And the second factor?
I envy you Geoff (as you know!), and my plan is to do the same later this year.

I'm not sure how my wife and I will go long term, but living in campervan has always been a dream - so only one way to find out! :)
Im praying my pre-android Sony 55" will live another 5 years. Wifi is disabled and i will never run sw update. Works with AppleTV now, sound via AV receiver.
well, with the "white-label" TVs mentioned in the article you don't have this problem, because they don't even have these features.

Said that, the advertised brand just looks like the usual bottom of the barrel chinese TV set. And these usually have substantially worse specs than what you get from NEC and Co. for around 25% more than the equivalent TV (viewing angles, coating and brightness come to mind in a conference room application).
Yep, you can do that 8 more times, total.

And you can't reuse a fingerprint if an account that you use a fingerprint as the user account for has been compromised.
You have provided a very detailed rationale for homeschooling here.
for JavaScript devs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

also http://overapi.com/regex
As a Dart user, I already knew this in my heart.
The trackpad and keyboard are not stats, they're marketing that you've just successfully regurgitated like you were meant to.

If you want to complain, complain that it took almost a decade before anybody else could put together a competent Air beater, even given manufacturing, pricing and supply chain advantages.
This is why I never upgrade my phone to the first couple updates pushed to the device.
The minimum parking requirements in Houston are absolutely insane. It's 7-10 spaces per 1000 sq ft of business. A small 2000 sq ft restaurant would need about 20 parking spaces directly next to the business. It's just unbelievably wasteful and makes developing a walk-able city next to impossible.
Isn't it simple? Microsoft is sinking a huge pile of money into improve Bing, getting market share and making acquisitions (altough I guess these wouldn't be expensed directly against income).

Whether or not that's a wise strategy is another matter but there really is no mystery here.
Disclaimer: I do not speak for Microsoft, I am simply an employee - these opinions are mine and mine alone.

As someone working in the online services division I have to say that this analysis is extremely simplistic. Would they be saying the same thing about Facebook? It was in the red for many years before it became profitable. That was the plan.
Because they are not. Colonizing other worlds is.
I agree. Then when Trump wins a second term we need to put other national socialists in prison - like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC.
I would say it's even a bit more pessimistic than that: it's the assumption that the application _can't be relied on_ to provide robust logic around connecting to a remote service. You can address that problem in a library or in an intermediary service of some sort, but in an organization with a heterogeneous collection of languages, versions, and stacks, the library solution becomes expensive.

I'm not sure what you mean by "instances had a local HAProxy running" but if you're thinking about a bunch of reverse proxies handling incoming requests, be aware that service meshes are handling both inbound _and_ outbound traffic to/from your service. For example, you might use a reverse proxy in front of your instance to terminate TLS, but you cannot implement something like two-way TLS authentication between your services unless you're putting something in at the client side as well.
Option (b) is of course regulatory capture whereby googbrick innoculate themesleves from any meanigful future competition. They'll definitely try that and will embrace totally if they can make it work in some financially meanigful way in their favour.

Does Berners-Lee have any form in policy? Did he have genuine inventive insight or just right place right time permissive license? These are genuine questions I'm asking to which I don't have answers - maybe he's saved the web before, and his inventive insight was utterly brilliant for all I know?
> The fact is, Wayland is the only viable X11 successor

There's at least one other option in the running, Arcan: https://arcan-fe.com/
> In my view, governments should impose an immediate ban on targeted political advertising to restore trust in our public discourse.

I hope this happens really quickly. It’s truly critically important.
It sounds like you've never worked in a restaurant, movie theatre, or supermarket, because I don't know a single person who has worked at one for an extended length of time who hasn't had to deal with people being an asshole and then arguing that they weren't being an asshole.

Of course most people can manage not to be an asshole on a day-to-day basis, but to deal with the small minority of bad apples who could ruin a whole barrel, it helps to spell out specific banned behavior in detail to quickly shut down arguments about whether a specific behavior is being an asshole or not.

The last sentence is pointing out that just because you've only ever seen someone be a nice person, doesn't mean they've never been an asshole when you weren't there.

Also, I didn't write that sentence. Everything after the first sentence is quoted from the link I provided.
The Rivian is so uninteresting though. It's small and dainty and looks like a Honda, which isn't a good thing for a truck.
OSM data doesn't contain an easy way to find the top 1000 cities. You'd end up with 100.000s. Looking for wikipedia tags, population (which often comes from Wikipedia) and 'admin' tags might be a good guide.

(I work on a OSM geocoder, not offline but has a Python library http://geocoder.opencagedata.com/)
Blockchain - what types of contracts work well and what kind don't? Could you share a Devils Advocate viewpoint of the blockchain -- major assumptions, pitfalls, etc?
I don't see any "mass deplatforming and censorship". Trump and his supporters have had massive airtime and been given ample opportunity to say their peace on mainstream media in the last few years.

Some people will criticize and ridicule that, yes. That's part of free speech. And if everyone is ridiculing you, then perhaps there might be the possibility you're saying ridiculous things?
> Two years is an eternity for a team's headcount not to grow.

Teams do not expand until infinity. In fact, it is often better for teams to not expand.

If you are expected to be leader after two years, because the teams are expanding regardless of whether more people are needed and because everyone else is fresh new, then there is issue with managemet
In fact, in every modern JavaScript framework or rendering library I'm aware of, you have to go out of your way to make links that don't work with middle-click or page navigations that don't work with history and bookmarks.
People invest massive amounts of time to build a following and create content on those platforms. It seems reasonable to ask that it can't be taken away from them at a whim. However, in theory, they should have read the contract before entering it. If they accept those terms, perhaps they should have to live with it.

An analogy would perhaps be a musician signing a contract with a record label? I think they expect some reciprocity, like if they owe three albums to the label, the label also owes them marketing for those albums.
Let me say that this is the best thing that I ever saw in science: people using art to explain extremely complex findings that might change the future in a bit. I laughed a bit on 'I don't know you anymore'.

When I was younger, I remember to read cyberpunk comics quite a lot. They explain a vision of the future that is improbable, but in many ways it get stuff right. Imagine aligning this with real word science. Imagine hearing from a superhero how his powers came to him. Imagine having a scientist name on the movie credits.

It doesn't need to make everything scientifically accurate, but explaining the fundamentals can engage more people to enter science.

Yesterday I was watching a new movie from Netflix called 'hacker'. The movie is awful, but it starts showing how Stuxnet should work, and that is pretty awesome. This is cool because I know the fundamentals of Stuxnet.

If they break the 4th wall and show something that could happen for real, it could bring more emotions to the movie.
"Some special circumstances" can also mean where stock prices go down low enough to bring employees below their compensation target. It doesn't happen much lately at tech companies because the stocks are soaring, but it used to be more common. In those cases, many employees can receive more stock to bring them up to target. It puts a real and meaningful floor on stock price risk and is a nice fringe benefit for companies that do this.
Check out the following twitter thread : https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/137983433288654029...

Renowned hacker Inti De Ceukelaire informed facebook of this breach in 2017, but FB just sat on it for a year and did nothing, ultimately claiming it was scraped from publicly available data at the time.

So while we do not know and can only assume deleted data is merely indicated by a flag and not really deleted, this exploit does not include data from closed/deleted accounts.

FB doesn't allow user access to/control of/deletion of shadow account data, which is in violation of the GDPR.
> If I understand what you are saying and what Signal says, Signal anticipates this problem and provides a solution that is arguably optimal

Yep, this is what I meant when I said "This is where a technology called Intel SGX comes into play". :)

And you're right, SGX is better than nothing if you accept that people use insecure PINs. My argument mainly was that

- the UI is designed in the worst possible way and actually encourages people to choose a short insecure PIN instead of recommending a longer one. This means that security guarantees suddenly rest entirely on SGX.

- SGX requires the server code to be verified and published (which it wasn't until yesterday). Without verification, it's all pointless.

> uses a key derivation function to maximize the master key's entropy

Nitpick: Technically, the KDF is deterministic, so it cannot change the entropy and – as the article says – you could still brute-force short PINs (if it weren't for SGX).

> I'd love to hear from a security specialist regarding this scheme. I'm not one and I had only limited time to study the link above.

Have a look at link [1] in my previous comment. :)
Oh I don’t know, I think it was that mob of people who were spurred into literally storming the US Capitol building?

Ya know, that mob that followed the beck and call of a man who still refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy and results of democratic election?

Yeah I think that was the one...
Will do!

Edit: It seems like uBlockOrigin prevented the subscription flow from working.
It sounds to me like you are just not the target for something like tailwind. My impression is that you are likely building displays that only require a few different UI components (and probably the ones we all see regurgitated over and over). The kind of UI where the star of the show is the information you are displaying rather than its behavior (of course there is a balance).

But for the kinds of applications I build there simply does not exist a “UI toolkit” that could save me any amount of time worth the hassle of ingesting another library and finagling it to my needs for what? Maybe 15% of my UI? The value in the tools that I build is partly in the UI I make to interact with them.

There is nothing more frustrating than the 5th or 6th time you just need the padding to be a little different to make your component pop, and you have to slog through the docs/source figure out how to adjust 2px...
The cost of raising a kid right now if you want them to have a typical upper middle class upbringing is somewhere between 800k - 1.6M (2007 dollars) from birth to age 17. The exact figure depends on whether you want to send them to private school, whether you are feeding them all organic food, and a couple other things. Even the most basic middle class (no after school sports, summer camp, etc.) upbringing costs $500,000 - $635,000 from birth through college, with the range mostly depending on whether they go to a public or private university.

source: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117288281789725533-WZ...

edit: The second set of figures was from p.6 of Parenting, Inc., which I believe come from here: http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/CRC/crc2009.pdf

You can actually read the entire opening of Parenting, Inc. for free on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Inc-Pamela-Paul/dp/B003V1WDF...
The results in the article are slightly skewed. They are presented with a "space" between "site:" and "domain". For example, "site: plos.org" has advanced at 86% and "site:plos.org" has advanced at 71%. It looks like the difference is the "spaced" form is doing a document term search and the non "spaced" form is doing a site search.
Oh definitely. I didn't know we were allowed to count that :)
Kuro5hin has long had comments on its ads, as if they were stories, though ad buyers can choose to disable that if they don't want them.
Flickr's upload limit and 200 photos (on the free plan) limit wouldn't allow you to complete the 365 project, specially if you use flickr for other photos outside the project as well.
I find your list sort of strange, because you didn't include the car in it. You have a, b, c, d and a _car_.
<video> isn't ready yet because the implementations are very young, and they still have pretty basic bugs. We don't yet have a good comprehensive test suite for the API, and the API in fact is still in active flux (I'm literally changing parts of the API as we speak -- I have an incomplete edit that changes how the timed track API works that I'm still working on). And of course there's the issue of the codec, which is still unresolved.

Deploying a site with <video> and Flash is twice as much testing, implementation, and encoding cost as just <video> or just Flash.

Using <video> today (late 2010) is fine for experimental purposes, demos, or for people who are on the bleeding edge. But for mainstream sites who need to reach even people who use IE6, or who don't have much in the way of resources to spend on this kind of stuff, or who simply aren't interested in being the pioneers of new Web technology, then I wouldn't recommend using it yet.

This kind of stuff moves really quite fast, though. Six, twelve months from now? Who knows. Maybe it'll be deployed widely enough and with good enough quality of implementations that using a proprietary plug-in for video will seem positively anachronistic.
Like a lame pep-talk from your Wall-Mart manager after he fires you.
I arrogantly procreated in my bid for total world domination until I was defeated by my arch nemesis, The Urologist. We're all condemned to preach from our own unique positions.
Why would you wait for him to ask before you provided that information? I wish you had originally formulated this reply, into a reply to the article, as to spare us all of one-liners.
Good feedback. The subscription details aren't listed because carrier negotiations are still taking place to get the lowest possible price. It will likely be between $19-29/mo, depending on how much you plan to use the hotspot feature.
Perhaps not having meaning is the meaning, although I do not know. What would you have thought of Inception Center?
While we're asking each other silly questions, let me ask you this: if my ISP says that they're providing me with "internet access" but actually only provides me with "most of the internet minus a few people we'd like to shake-down access", this is OK?
The team was incredibly invested in the project, and put in unheard of efforts to complete the project while sacrificing personal health and family life.

I wonder if this is "invested" as in, had a substantial equity stake and it was worth the sacrifices of health and relationships because they and their families were setup for life afterwards and retired to a beach in Malibu, or some other meaning...
Being a world-changer doesn't imply being a hacker ... adapting the world to your needs, that's just human nature and it's what people always did.

Hacking really means going against the status quo, and that's a different thing altogether.

Example: building something like Facebook is not hacking. That's just good engineering and opportunistic use of human nature.

The simplest test you can have to call something a hack or not: did other people laugh or got angry when hearing about it?

Of course you can still call yourself a hacker, for feeling good and all that, but I like how ESR puts it: you're not a hacker until other people start recognizing you as one.
true. whenever Im building, (I know php and mysql), I always can get stuff to work, and make it work decently well, but i'm never sure if i'm doing stuff properly. I barely ever create OOP functions and hierarchies, etc. Does anyone else ever feel this way?
There is no excuse for this tragedy. When did Hollywood replace common sense?
So every result of a mathematical formula is true because it's math, right?

Common sense can't be true, because there is no formula for it?
In Washington DC, the nations capital, there's only Verizon and Comcast, as far as I know.
This holds for everyone, not just elderly scientists. Impossibility proofs are by their nature more difficult than existence proofs.
I'm pretty sure he meant sneakers.
Hackers love to experiment in public.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought that number was too low to be credible.
I also think the OP has an awfully limited definition of hacker. I'm not allowed to have a sense of theater? I'm not allowed to also be a designer?
> After testing it (and soliciting test user feedback), their genius is simple -- don't suck in a category of products where everything else sucks.

If you are a non-technical user, they will look like magic. But there were still lots of cases (lots of government sites, integrating with custom programs to pass areas of the screen into so I could run a captcha solver against it, React-heavy sites were the edge cases I ran into) where I could not get UiPath to work for me when I tried it a couple years ago. If they've changed a lot since then, then I'll give them another shot. At the time, I gave up, buckled down and scraped the cursed sites using a variety of means.

I really, really wanted to champion them for the solution at the time. It would have drastically increased the value-add of my deliverable, as the subject-to-change web GUI part that we simply could not get around for the client other than scraping could be updated by the client themselves instead of looping me in for another custom coding session simply because some intern decided it would be cool to change the field names at the same time they added the nifty new UI animation/widget du jour.
> This page doesn't load for me, which is a pity.

It only loads in browsers written in a purely functional language!
I know this is kind of the opposite of the (mostly joking) point I made that you replied to. But the thing I find bizarre is that people can't understand why other people oppose change in the place they live in. Most people choose places to live because they like those places. I think it's safe to say that the things they like extend beyond the four walls of the residence they buy or rent. They might like the walkability, or the views, or the diversity of the neighborhood, or the proximity to friends and family. All of these are things that are subject to change over time, and are more likely to change as the demographics of the town do. The shops you liked to walk to get priced out and replaced with Starbucks and Lululemon. The views get blocked by new buildings. The diversity goes away as people are priced out. The friends and family move because rent went up too much.

How can you possibly be surprised that people don't want the things they like about the place they live to change? This doesn't mean they "own" the city, but it does mean it's quite understandable for them to try to do things to prevent the change if they can. I'm not arguing that this is good, or even completely rational in all cases, but it's far from surprising.
> not made out of cheese,

You mean those intrepid explorers Wallace and Gromit lied?
I wouldn't want to be part of any Clubhouse that'd have me as a member.
lol ok elon