jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How do you know what Steve Jobs would have done? Wouldn't Cook, Ive, and others who have worked next to him for over a decade be better equipped to make product judgements than any of us?
Thanks for the kind words! Come say hi on 10/6 http://onoffmix.com/event/33885 or https://www.facebook.com/groups/realmkr ;)
Nope. It's a local (geographically speaking) slice of a huge database of hotspots. There is a concentration of points downtown, a few points at the local airport, others at touristic destinations nearby. Most are places I've never been at.

It is nothing but a very neat cache. The nerd in me is sad to see it go.
Would you mind giving a rough translation of that? Google Translate is doing a terrible job, and I speak absolutely no Japanese.
Excuse me if I'm just being naive, but how could the above point 8 ever be reconciled with

1. Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone?
Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.

If you are "collecting anonymous traffic data" that means that you have to collect a phone's position and velocity, as well as time. That sounds like tracking to me.

Sure, it is probably anonymized and encrypted and aggregated into some probabilistic model, but it's still tracking the users' movements. I wouldn't be surprised if it's all stored somewhere server-side, that we only will find out about when something happens to Apple like happened to Sony's PSN network a few days ago.
which wouldn't have been patched had the story not been uncovered

That's a pretty cynical reaction. Why would you make that assumption? Do you think that if someone had alerted Apple privately to the bug they never would have gotten around to fixing it?
I think Lego wouldn’t need to spend too many resources on throwing out 4Chan ideas
Yes. They sell wallets with Faraday cages. I have been so far able to push off contactless cards, so I just assumed that other people who care about avoiding realtime tracking also insist on chip only.
Like you, I'm quite fascinated by the apparent massive frustration and time sink that is apparently happening due to formatting discussions. Been working nearly 25 years in software at all levels, rarely using auto-formatted code, literally can't remember having one of these discussions. If anything I might even say I wish people cared a little more.

I do quite often artisanally craft formatting of specific code sections to highlight the intent of the algorithm or design. I assume black would merrily destroy all my hard work.
I wish there were a one-time fee I could pay for permanent access to pro icons.

Currently it's $99/yr for (almost all) icons. Whereas the free plan icon selection is the same as, or less than, other free icon libraries.
I seem to recall Lego had figures that fit those chairs in Technik back in the 80-90 that where not minifigs. Does anyone remember that?

Edit: yes, they where called "Technic figures" and would fit better with this set than minifigs.
We're witnessing the bio century. CAR-T gene therapies have been demonstrated to "cure" cancer. And the coming Bio Cloud will liberate genomic experimentation for the masses. I found Eric Lander's intro course to be great. But it's a few years old now, and was wondering if there wasn't something more contemporary, with the latest state of the art techniques such as AlphaFold. Best of Luck ;)

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...
Your last sentence made me laugh out loud as I imagined them announcing the space bar was now a touchbar.
Presumably LEGO will raise the limit if they get swamped, but 10,000 is just the bar to get considered by the staff, it confers no guarantee of success and hence isn't super worth gaming.
No. There are too many other people who deserve some of the credit.

I would, however, support the first Nobel Prize award to a conglomeration of people: the editors of Wikipedia.
I use AdBlock Plus not because I don't want to see ads...I actually don't mind ads. I use it because I don't want auto-starting audio, ever. I have 30-60 tabs up at any given time. When an ad starts playing audio, it disrupts my entire workflow, possibly disturbs my partner sleeping next to me, etc.

In short, auto-start audio in ads is quite simply so far outside of what I consider acceptable behavior, that I'm willing to burn the whole goddamned business model to the ground to stop it. I disable AdBlock Plus for sites that I know to behave responsibly with regard to their ads (reddit, probably a couple of others). If there were a list of Advertising Good Citizens who never use auto-starting audio ads (such a list would probably need to demand a few other things, like a good privacy policy, no popups/popunders, etc., but audio is the single reason I installed AdBlock Plus), that could be dropped into AdBlock Plus, I would happily use it. I don't mind ads, but the second somebody disrupts my work, my conversation on Skype, my partner's sleep, my music listening, etc. is the second I grow to hate the site and the advertiser.
If you want to use a journaling system digitally, I would suggest starting a slack chatroom for just yourself. It's designed for teams, but using the simple chatroom interface for just yourself works surprisingly well.
Rust will be nice to play with. That is all.

What the Rust devs are doing is great, but so far system programming languages only succeed when OS vendors adopt them into their SDKs. Otherwise they are just another language to write business applications.

Even if that does happen to Rust, it surely won't be in right away in 2015.
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Lord of Light, Shockwave Rider. Not exactly what you're looking for but I would be remiss not to mention Book of the New Sun.

Hugely influential to these types of works is Starmaker.
Hey, our intention is not to reveal your BTC activity with your real identiy. The BTC is simply used to deposit and withdraw money as an alternative to the man, aka PayPal. We're huge supporters of BTC and the Ethereum project and tying in BTC was our way of opening it up to a community that does not look fondly upon fiat currency. The 90 day waiting period is only for accounts that are flagged by our security protocol. Rarely will we hold money for the full 90 days. Thank you for sharing this bug with us, we will be working through this and adding in a standard login process in the next two days. If you have any questions, please email me at sagar@koalah.co
You may be behind a transparent proxy, or have a user-agent string not in P0f tool database.

Vardump: notice that you get almost the same uptime for your Mac and your Windows PC: 19 days 18 hrs 10 min. It appears your router (NAT) is handling / modifying the tcp/ip timestamp.

Btw, even if the timestamp is wrong, it can provide some entropy (=measure of uniqueness compared to other users).
Just tap the end of the stalk. Or auto works well. I’ve never manually adjusted them and it’s rained damned near every time I’ve driven it (Oregon, February).

Sounds like how happy people are with the auto setting varies greatly.
Art is nice, but why isn't the browser loading bar accessible in js?
This is interesting to me because Diego Gambetta wrote a book called Codes of the Underworld about how mobsters and mafia members often depict themselves as utterly incompetent and incapable at doing anything other than being a mobster.

Their purpose: to signal that they have no desire to take over businesses because they lack the capability to run them. As long as you, the business owner, pay the mobster, you know that the mobster will not eventually take 100% of the profit because the mobster can't run the business effectively. And if the mobster tries to extort 100% of the profit, he knows that you'll quit or do something extreme, like go to the police or fight back or find another mobster.

The book has a lot of useful and subtle points and is much recommended: http://jseliger.com/2010/01/07/codes-of-the-underworld-how-c... . I leave it to the reader to imagine how this aspect of the book might apply to the situations being discussed.
And that teaches me not to post before reading the entire thread. :)
Then you shouldn't be giving advice on how to fire a cofounder.
The article is misleading. The original finnish piece of news says the _use_ of unsecured wireless networks is going to be legalized. Having an unsecured home network has never been illegal.

The legislators are justifying the legalization with the relatively small harm caused by the 'lending', ease of securing the network and the difficulty of figuring out what is actgually meant to be public and what is not.
Seeding land to foreign entities is always a touchy subject.
Is the answer "less people"? Because that's basically the solution. Unfortunately, people like to fuck.
this is exploitable both ways. humans will always be able to outsmart themselves.
I really don't understand how an error that fundamentally fails the target use-case can stand for a decade. And how they just can't figure it out. That just seems insane.
I like your analysis, but bear in mind Joel wrote this in 2004. MS did waste time and resource trying to extend Windows to the internet, or somehow wish away the internet. Exactly in what year did MS realize this? Only interesting in so far as history is interesting.
> When you encounter a token that is the same token as a keyword, you need to use context to determine if it is actually a keyword or part of an identifier.

You're presuming here that a space delimits tokens. In this language, that may not be the case. The lexer may create a single token from "a b c".
It is a massive datacenter in addition to having office space. Plus, so many VOIP and Web companies are already there, it is a perfect place for Google to interconnect fee-free (or nearly so) with them.
I am a scheme neophyte. In my personal experience it has been a very thought compressible language.

By that, what I mean is this: if you give more thought to a program one tends to be able to say more and more but with less and less, and without making the code incomprehensible or complex.

Interestingly, when I show my code to a scheme veteran, he would often re-write it to make it even shorter and clearer. So I have a long way to go.

So line for line , yes it takes me more time to churn out scheme, but if I give the same amount of time to c++/java it doesnt compress as much. But, and here is the cool part, if it does, I can often trace it back to scheme way of thinking. This has happened a lot when programming with C++/STL.
What you're actually saying here is: Overflow issues are not trivial to fix if the only approach you try is guessing how much space the user is likely to want and hoping you're right.

That's because guesstimating a length is not really fixing the issue. The flexible layout algorithm you describe in your "Without…" clause is the right thing to do, and it's been a solved problem for decades now.

Anyway, even if they don't want to fix the root problem, it would still be trivial to do better than they are doing now. Instead of passing the buck with their "I went over the print preview with a fine-tooth comb" checkbox, it would be pretty close to trivial to algorithmically check whether you're oversetting the type and throw an error along the lines of, "Hey, we didn't allow enough room in the form and aren't competent to make it work right. You'll need to fix this."
Maybe one way to approach this would be to have the box expand dynamically vertically until the max word count is reached. Then the text is always going to fit.
There is a Linux distro that builds packages with newer instruction sets and compiler flags for performance reasons. It's Clear Linux: https://clearlinux.org/
> Do you see many people who say that 6 year old kids should vote?

There are indeed disagreements on the appropriate voting age.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/takoma-park-grants-16-y...

https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/125-democrat...

> We can put an arbitrary delimiter at first and argue about specifics later.

We're in specifics territory, though.
The existance of a problem requiring censorship is never critically examined. The need for AI mediation between humans is never questioned. The author himself is captive to this most insidious meme without the slightest awareness.
My commute is 10km, I do it with an ebike so I don't need to shower because I do not sweat, sure I don't have kids, but I do it on any weather heavy rain, snow with appropriate clothing
No you don't understand, the plant didn't trip.

The nuclear plant's turbines were literally on the "roof" of the reactor complex completely in the open. Nuclear regulations only require the reactor itself to be enclosed and protected.

No shit the turbines froze over. They ignored reports advising them to fully enclose the plant for years.
<robot voice>We _understand_ you're having a negative experience waiting on hold to speak to a human in our call center. Here at Evil Corp we believe negative emotions are best dealt with through long reflection. To better serve you we will be adding 10 minutes to your hold time. Let's hope you're in a better mood then.</ robot voice>

(>_<)
The Runnaroo search website says "I've taken Runnaroo down due to the ever increasing number of bots scraping the site. Not sure if it will be back. Thank you to all of those who have used Runnaroo over the last year! I'm going for a run. - Chris"

Edit: post by the Runnaroo creator is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26731477
Yes! I am surprised there isn’t a definitive source for common sequencer beats and grooves.
Maybe I'm bitter and biased because I like SSC, but based on the author's social media profiles and his new book description, he's purely jealous that he wasn't allowed to be the man to "expose" SSC and how LessWrong and SSC played role in some events in his upcoming AI book "Genius Makers" (jeez what a name...).
If you have the IP address, you can look for MNC and MCC using the IP2Location database.

The free lookup is at https://www.ip2location.com/demo
To say the least, the number of recommended options here which are not supported on the version of openssh which comes with OS X is disappointing.
I would disagree - Consumer Reports is easily the most objective independent consumer product review organization that I've ever seen. It's not hypocritical to point out flaws in a product and chastise the company behind it for putting out spin while simultaneously viewing that product as excellent overall, despite its flaws.

One of their big things is holding companies accountable and trying to promote truth in advertising and shame those that violate that trust, so if they see a company spinning as hard as Apple does, they're likely to call them out for it.
Aren't those, with the exception of Elm, much younger and less mature than Dart?
I think a language has to reach a certain level before the majority of people will use it in production. And the tooling should be stable also. I think PureScript looks great but it has a different syntax (Haskell like) which may make it a hard sell and I'm not sure they have any debugger at all. When you use a compile-to-js language I think the debugger and editors are important, at least if your language is not very close to js (which Dart is).
Interesting question though - is there more sand or sandstone in the world?
Did you take a Discrete Mathematics course at all? At Georgia Southern Discrete Mathematics is a required course for all IT and CS Majors. Struggling with my other math classes (College Algebra, Survey of Calc) that class created a good bit of anxiety for me, until I actually got into and realized to me at least it was not like any of the other math classes.
Haha nice. Is there finally a proper nap room? :-)

I'll never forget the phone booth naps at WeWork.
I think you're reading too much into the parent poster. It's possible to point out negative properties of something without advocating for a radical shift, or any shift.

Business incentives stifle creativity; even in creative products. It may wax and wane depending on context, but it's a pretty uncontroversial idea. From the high end of LA creativity-through-the-sausage-machine film and tv, all the way through to the low end, where nobody wants to attend my one man show.

But the parent poster used the HN tigger word "capitalism" when discussing the idea, so lets down-vote the shit out of him! /s
Does anyone know if Perseverance is capable of recording video? I know it has several cameras but I can't figure out if it can actually record footage of Ingenuity taking flight.
It seems the whole world will have to relearn why forgiveness was once a virtue the hard way. In the near term, it's causing a bifurcation of society into people who exist and had an opinion versus those who didn't, or those who didn't _yet_. In time it seems like the former is just getting larger and larger.

Imagine how the field of mathematics would have evolved if we simply cast aside those who had ever failed to solve a math problem correctly. It needs to be okay for people to make mistakes, otherwise we will never grow as a race.
What does this mean for My Brother, My Brother, and Me... Griffin's gonna be bummed.
It is! If you have severe enough allergies to count as a disability, you should ask your employer for reasonable accommodations, be prepared to provide medical documentation if they’re not obvious and win your own suit like this if you don’t receive those accommodations.

The ADA is really quite amazing.
I got my Yahoo Mail address in 1996 because teenage me thought my address @yahoo.com would be so cool. Nowadays I use it just for online shops, etc (I also use it for Facebook, which is a bad idea, because online shops upload their customer info to Facebook and, tada, guess whose profile matches for targetted advertising). Today I logged in and a stupid ad popped up (I wish I can remember what it was for). When I do a password reset on one of these shops, Yahoo also recognizes those kinds of emails and recommends LastPass or whatever password service they bought.

Incidentally, they've also lost all my mail from before year 2001, when I actually use them for personal communications, meaning all those emails are now lost (well maybe I have a backup somewhere...). What a fucking useless company.
Hopefully their editors are operating on principles other than increasing sales.
Humans create works, not copyrights. Copyrights spring into existence from nothing every time an original work is created.

And IANAL, but I think that strategy could fall under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frivolous_litigation.
Can I also be a stakeholder if I'd like to live in a particular neighborhood but have been priced out by their "local control"?
Thanks!

So assuming this followed the physical art model, and in the absence of any kind of 'on chain' royalties, you're literally just buying to say "I own this"? Except you don't own the copyright, and, being a digital file, thousands of other people could have an identical copy?

Am I correct in thinking this is kind of 'digital bragging rights'? Like - without a physical copy, short of us all living in a 'Ready Player One' style virtual world that someone made it explicit that "XYZ owns this art by ABC" - there's not actually much you can do other than own it (and maybe sell it later)?
I very much believe SIDS is a real thing. I also think that many cases of SIDS are babies being smothered by soft cloth that bunches up and constricts their breathing and by accidentally smothered by their parents while they're deeply asleep. When kids are small I think co-sleeping is a great thing (where you have a small basinet or something similar next to your bed where you can reach out and touch your baby but they're safe from accidental crushing/smothering.
Income doesn't equate to wealth. You have to look at the other side of the equation, outgo, to determine what someone's net worth is.

In addition to student loans, there's the house payment. People tend to buy a house based on what they can be approved for, not based off of a budget number they developed before talking to a bank. A 300k salary will get you pre-approved for a a lot of house in the US.
Docs and Lawyers also fall into the trap of buying practices, so that's another factor.

The biggest factor you're missing in your assumption, though, is that personal finance problems are largely behavioral. There's a parallel with personal health. The difference is that people know more about how to lose weight and be healthy - and still don't do it - then people who actually know how to make good financial decisions. Even those who know they shouldn't buy things they can't afford, routinely do so for whatever reason they have been told or have invented.

For what it's worth, the study by Ramsey Solutions says that the top 5 careers for becoming a millionaire are engineers, teachers, CPAs, attorneys, and management. While some of those are vague and capture a large range of professions, Docs are conspicuously missing.
I don't really agree with that comment. I think all of the megaclouds have undesirably complex pricing structures, but they also all provide pricing calculators. AWS has one here: https://calculator.aws/

If I punch in the services I want to use, I can quickly see how much they will cost, and it's easy. I recommend clicking "Advanced" inside services on the calculator if you want to be sure you're not going to run into an edge case that costs lots of money unexpectedly.

If you use any of the megaclouds without first understanding the price structure, good luck.

Personally, I think a lot of companies would be better off using DigitalOcean or some other medium-size cloud. The pricing is much simpler, and pretty much all medium-size clouds charge $0.02/GB for egress bandwidth, either globally or in the US, depending on the provider.

In contrast, the megaclouds make shocking amounts of money off of their extremely pricey egress bandwidth, among other highly profitable aspects of their business.

Even still, AWS is a solid cloud platform, and they really do seem customer obsessed compared to what I've seen happen on GCP.
Any word on support for Google Cloud? Looks interesting so far!
Hi all, jumping in here as the CEO and co-founder of Manara just to say that all the Palestinians that Repl.it interviewed came from Manara (I think). We have in place a very intense vetting system and a training program to teach these CS grads how to interview effectively. At Google our referral-to-hire rate is 67%. That probably explains this experience.

The talent in the Middle East & North Africa is very strong. We believe it's the next Eastern Europe, which used to export refugees and is now a hub of world-class talent.
Sorry. I know some personally. I respect them deeply. I know they're yokels. They know it too. We're not all prideful hipsters here in the midwest. We can actually be proud of our heritage and condition. Its something to do with our independent streak.
Ok, that’s a shame, I wrote my thesis in Latex so am familiar with its ... issues.

The only alternative I can think of is copy the paragraphs to html p tags and then any equations written in latex could be converted to images with LatexIt! (if that’s still a thing)

That all assume it’s enough if a deal for you, understand if it’s not and thanks for the reply
To gloss over the effect of introduced disease and how the people of time had no understanding of immunity is to present a disingenuous argument.

The treatment of the first people’s was horrible, and still isn’t ideal. But to act like the USA was responsible for everything since 1492, centuries before the USA existed, while ignoring immunity, is to show that no serious debate will be possible.