jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
http://www.mylovecal.com - a site I've made with a friend back in 2008. It requires absolutely no maintenance and earns a few hundred bucks a month. Tried selling it, but the best offer we got was somewhere around 10k $, which is way below our expectations. Now actually working on renovating it and probably adding some new content and features.
perhaps you missed a little sarcasm
ML - Miranda - Haskell???

Perl to PHP?????

Smalltalk with no descendents?

That language diagram is crazy.
I use both professionally, and Blender isn't even close. But I do love the direction it's going, for sure.
Exactly same configuration here and exact same result.
I honestly don’t know, but I know it is not 24/7.
The storming of the Capitol was another 9/11 type of event, we are now in the same climate that lead to the Patriot Act, war, torture and countless other abuses.

People are cheering on the bans and new laws without thinking further of the massive negative consequences the slippery slope will likely lead to.

Glenn Greenwald did an excellent interview yesterday where he explained exactly why acting hastily after traumatic events while in rage is so damn short sighted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMVS9tfNyjc

I'd also like to highlight this comment, the content of which is so damn important to think about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691709

Rage is never a good long-term solution.
You can run an instance where you can post whatever you want. That's the decentralised part.
I was opposed to banning anyone anywhere, public or private, until Wednesday. He inspired a mob that threatened two Vice Presidents and the entire legislative branch. Guns and bombs were found at the capitol. People had zip ties, seemingly wanting to take hostages. This is yelling fire in a crowded theater, plus Twitter can do what they want on their platform. No sympathy here. We'll see what the repercussions of this are, but its not hard to understand the reasoning. Don't be tone deaf.
Is this some kind of a joke? And mastodon purports to be a decentralized, censorship-free platform?
With any of those alternatives they won't be able to get notifications on mobile.
I have seen it quite a bit over the last year in particular. Are the views being expressed popular? No. Are they "legitimate"? Yes. (what ever in the world that is supposed to mean, outside of being unlawful I would consider all speech legitimate even if I disagree with it, but not many people seem to like Voltaire these days I suppose.)

I'm very disappointed that the rhetoric has devolved into "but they all deserved it so it's ok"...

your filter bubble is showing.
So who is game for setting up a repository site of json hash files?
Can you imagine the places where video cameras this small (1.5 cubic mm) are being designed in now? It's intended for endoscope probes, but consider the all-aspect imaging capability of fifth-generation fighter jets, and imagine that in mobile devices.
> Just wait until he starts hiring people. He'll need those people who are satisfied when their work life is 'mediocre' by his terms.

I think this is the best point brought up so far. He doesnt realize that others have different ideas about what success in life is. You cant be at the top looking down on your employees as just people who work for you and who are happy with mediocrity. It's a team effort, some have more responsibility than others.
Absolute positioning is exactly what you describe: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-p...
Can anybody actually produce working code at the same pace as they touch type?

I can. Actually, when I learned touch typing I realized how much was I slowed down by typing before.

You might argue that I need to think for a time before I start typing. That's right. But:

1) Once I start, it flows and it's like I'm reviewing the code as I type, correcting and expanding.

2) Writing fast somehow makes me think faster for the next "pre-typing" thinking cycle.
The linked article is from February 2018 -- almost 3 years ago. How relevant is it now in 2021?
And for good reason. It's the operating system that should offer a 'certified secure' keyboard if the app requests it though. A bit like Windows' account password entry screen that is sandboxed from the rest of the OS (if I understood it correctly).
I very much dislike it when people see conflict and automatically assume symmetry. If someone pries open my car, pulls me out and starts beating me, and a cop comes over and sees "a fight" and arrests us both, is that fair?

In the same way, you say that there are two "radical opinions" about voter fraud. This is false. There is only one radical opinion. It is similar to a flat earther claiming that schools need to "teach the controversy". No. They do not.

Regarding the current conflict, there is deep asymmetry here. Trump has been claiming election fraud prior to the election since he was elected. When the election finally happened, Trump had over 60 chances to show evidence. Hefiled and lost over 60 lawsuits, including ones in front of judges he appointed, and in front of 3 supreme court justices he nominated. They all took his claims seriously, looked at them, and rejected them. These were his own appointees. That's where it should end.

To continue to believe that "the election was stolen" under these circumstances is the only extreme view. Trump, and his GOP/Fox enablers, have been pushing this view as fact, and his followers have acted consistently, and violence has ensued. The violence, and the treason, falls squarely with them.

And if you have any doubt that Trump's motive is about anything other than Trump wanting to keep power, then listen to that phone call to Georgia's (Republican) Secretary of State.

But yes, I'm tired of hearing people say, when talking about Trump, that "both sides are bad" and "all politicians suck". No. I get the desire to avoid conflict, but those statements are simply false. Trump has broken his oath to the constitution, repeatedly and egregiously, and his misdeeds have not been matched. There is no symmetry here, there is only a traitor-in-chief and his cronies.
open source time series database for an open source medical ventilator, it make sense!
Far fewer people are shadowbanned these days. And I think if people are commenting reasonably without realising they are shadowbanned, dang will try to get in touch to let them know they are banned.
People keep saying email has encryption, but in the rare cases when email is encrypted with pgp, only the contents of the messages get encrypted. Not the metadata. And apparently the metadata is the most valuable data for government snoops. They don't care as much what you've been saying, but knowing that you've been emailing back and forth weekly with some person of interest over the last 5 years is what they're really after.

Also pgp doesn't support any of signal's key ratcheting or deniability. And the web of trust leaks information publicly about who your contacts are! (And its vulnerable to Sybil attacks.)

Don't get be wrong, I love email and think its great. But it doesn't hold a candle to Signal when it comes to secure communication.
> My experience is that the stance the Democrats take is the opposite of the stance the Republicans take, and vice-versa. If one party flips on an issue, the other almost immediately flops.

I’m sorry but that is way too reductive. For one thing, there’s a bipartisan consensus (for better or worse) on a lot of foreign policy, which is a pretty huge area.

And, your comment obscures the meaningful differences in ideology between the groups of people each party represents. And the different interests of those groups.

The Democrats are far from perfect. But it’s not a “both sides equally bad” situation.

Well, maybe it is when it comes to corporate money in politics. But even there you see bipartisan consensus on the fringes, I think, plus iirc the Republicans were basically all about Citizens United.

But yeah money in politics is a big problem on both sides. To be fair, it’s been a big problem in all of politics throughout all recorded history.

Which doesn’t mean we can’t (and haven’t) made some progress.
If you just want to _look_ at signals, a RTL-SDR kit with a basic dipole antenna (rabbit ears) and the USB dongle is like $35USD and readily available.

I would 100% recommend starting there. If you actually find yourself using it and/or enjoying it, then look at spending some more money.

If you do enjoy playing with SDR stuff, could also recommend getting an amateur radio license. Basic license is ridiculously easy to get and gives you access to legally transmit on a whole bunch of different frequency ranges and put you in contact with some other RF geeks.
Terrible. I recently switched to T-Mobile and was pleasantly surprised to find out I'd have free data and text while on vacation in Holland. Wifi is pretty ubiquitous though so hopefully you'll be able to get by.
What about all those friends and relatives we do tech support for. Most of them have not installed their addons on their own.
Oh I can name a few more dysfunctional cities, Detroit comes to mind. Is a city dysfunctional because it fails one segment of its population? Lets face it, high speed internet is not going to appeal or be used by many in any city. Yes there are those who will, but we tend to vastly over estimate the impact the net has on those who are poverty line or lower.
learning the facets, quirks and customisations of a text editor can't really be likened to the 'pick-up and go' model like a search engine.
Enlightenment is beyond words. It's not to be intellectualized. So I believe science will never truly understand enlightenment, because science is intellectualization. Besides there are several grades of enlightenment, don't think you meditate a few years and you get it.

As for meditation, although it is the best path for enlightenment, turns out there's alot of benefits for common people. When you bring your thoughts to a halt, your true mind manifests. The true mind is unimpeded - it is effortless - and this true mind allows you to solve your daily problems more easily. You shut off your "stupid" brain, and the true wisdom starts to manifest. You won't become a zombie; you will naturally discard your stupid habits and become better focused at whatever is that you do.

What this means is that throughout the day we are able to gain a better understanding of ourselves and our environment; we will become gradually less scattered (due to the meditation process) and we will focus on what is important to us, wheter its programming or science or anything else. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but I think it's a good basic description.
Allow me to ask what I'm certain is an incredibly naive question, so please bear with me. But it's a question that the average / non-tech folks ARE asking, and I'm not looking to be attacked, I'm looking for an intelligent answer (or corrections if my assumptions are wrong.) Base scenario:

We have adversaries. Our adversaries are plotting something objectively bad - to blow up things and kill innocent people. They are plotting and coordinating these bad things via communications with one another. Historically, we have been able to intercept those communications, read them, and interrupt our adversaries from the bad things they are plotting.

If our adversaries' communications are completely impossible to intercept, we have lost one of the most valuable tools in our ability to prevent them from doing bad things. How are we supposed to prevent them from doing these bad things?

Again - please don't attack me - just looking for a smart answer here.
Just so you know, it looks like your account is shadow banned - all of your article submissions since 248 days ago show as [dead] (I have showdead on).
Doesn't SMS have that property ?

I hate it, and I hate that people use SMS instead of email, but isn't it fully asynchronous ?
Tiling is too esoteric to be the future of desktop computing IMO. Luckily that doesn't matter, and the people who enjoy it can use it while others can continue to use stacking WMs or whatever else people might prefer.
> * Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email address if you have an associated phone number.*

> Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy when in the context of scary privacy violations. It would seem to me you're just encouraging republicans to buy this phone. Surely, the privacy conscious people in this community want privacy for everyone regardless of political affiliations, right?

It's frustrating when people unnecessarily politicize things— like when they express righteous indignation over their inaccurate accusation of political discrimination in a thread that's literally just pointing out its association with divisive partisan political groups.
Just because you don't think you've had organ scarring doesn't mean you haven't. The difference is that most people don't worry about organ damage that is mostly negligible and never talked about. You don't automatically get diagnosed with a chronic disease in the presence of the smallest amount of scar tissue on any one organ and with (one number I found suggesting) 40% of industrial nations deaths having fibrosis as a contributing factor, you can bet that many people have organ scarring that is negligible.
> think being republican associated is noteworthy

I think a phone associated with a specific political party is noteworthy.
Yes it does show precisely that. Norway and Sweden has this arrangement. Richer alcoholics plan and hoard alcohol in their house and poorer alcoholics are severely limited by the firm opening hours and marketing-ban on alcohol and tobacco.

Interestingingly in Norway and Sweden the alcohol stores are also nationalised, run by the government.
Pixmap / raster fonts, with no antialiasing, at a somewhat large size are great light on dark.

White on dark with fuzzy fonts on non hidpi screens is terrible indeed.
Nowadays people are lucky if that entry level retail job will give them 40 hours a week, never mind 60.
Yet another reason to get an electric car.
The number and the article is also almost a year old.
Heh, I suppose I was being too polite. I'm not sure holding that mental model in the head can be taught. I think it's a key driver of excellence in innovation and insight across a variety of industries, not just software development, and whether nature or nurture, seems to be formed very early--through avid reading or story telling, perhaps?

I agree with your linked comment about teaching. One university teacher told me that to lead someone to your point of view, you must first put your arm around them making you start the discussion from where you can see theirs.
Well, I disagree that you have to sift through it. Normally, I am a "completionist" and don't want to miss anything, but I've come to accept that most content on social networks is transient and I couldn't read it all even if I tried. Even Facebook's "full" feed doesn't include everything.

I think, though, that audience targeting is the weak point of Facebook and Twitter right now. I think many times people post something with a few people in mind or at least a subset of their social graph. For example, when I post technical articles that probably are interesting and relevant to my technical peers, my HS friends and family will see them also. I don't think you can blame users for doing this or chalk it up to vanity. Their posts are probably relevant and interesting, but just for a subset of their graph.

A Googler made an interesting presentation describing this problem: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
Well, for someone like me, spending a few $ per day was an inexpensive way to push my app into the charts so that people see it in search.

The system is gamed, but not by the little guys. It's the big studios that do it.
At my workplace, this completely freaks out our corporate proxy, so no go :(
It's a proverb. That means it's old, from back when losing a leg was a downgrade, not an upgrade.
> ...when we are alone in a public place, we have a fear of "having no purpose". If we are in a public place and it looks like that we have no business there, it may not seem socially appropriate. In coffee-shops it is okay to be there to drink coffee but loitering is definitely not allowed by coffee-shop owners, so coffee-shops patrons deploy different methods to look "busy". Being disengaged is our big social fear, especially in public spaces, and people try to cover their "being there" with an acceptable visible activity.

This reminds me of http://lesswrong.com/lw/2qv/antiakrasia_remote_monitoring_ex... - 2 guys using VNC to simulate the patrons of the coffee shop. You can't help but feel that someone might be watching & judging you, and that prods you into doing something more creditable.

Why does it work? My own opinion is that it's a hack on hyperbolic discounting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting): we are wired to over-value short-term gratification, so small penalties or shifts in difficulty can put our desires back in whack to where they should rationally be.

Hence, melatonin can help you maintain the right sleep schedule & not stay up on HN all night because it makes you sleepy (http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin.html#self-discipline); but this perspective cuts both ways - if you can make yourself do things with small shifts in penalties/rewards, small shifts in penalties/rewards can stop you from doing things, hence you should 'beware trivial inconveniences' (http://lesswrong.com/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/).
I agree with your final conclusion, that Base64 is an encoding, but it is also a hash function and hash functions can very well be two-way. In fact, the trivial hash function just maps data to itself, which is trivially reversible. However, we do want our cryptographic hash functions to be trapdoors to be of use.
It's as if every politically correct statement should be prefixed with the pre-amble:

"Since I know that you are all racist/sexist/homophobes and think that Straight White American Males are superior to all other beings, I am going to use one as the person in this narrative who commits a negative act in order to avoid further reinforcing your beliefs!"

Since you are from the middle east and do not believe that Straight White American Males are superior to all other beings, the political correctness seems ridiculous, as it does to most people from non white-majority countries. In fact, it seems that the white people who have the strongest underlying beliefs that they are superior to other races and that they should constantly remind themselves to feel guilty about it are the strongest advocates of political correctness.
Probably not, sadly. The technologies currently in use (such as M-PESA in Kenya or bKash in Bangladesh) seem to be corporate and proprietary which to some extent is necessary given the need for lots of physical places to offer cash-to-mobile-money exchanges. There seems to be little involvement from charities so far, except maybe GiveDirectly, though so far they're just using M-PESA.
Part of the experiment actually involves using this thing for microgravity experiments (also gaining knowledge about operations of space labs). Unless you have an antigrav generator handy or suggest science should be done in a vomit comet, I'd say it's important.

BTW. one of the important research done in orbit I recently learned about is figuring out how plants sense gravity. There were some cool results wrt. that, and this is the kind of research that is both important and hard to do on the surface.
Should whack one of those "Fork me on github" ribbon things on there.
Sailfish itself is much better than anything I have ever used - it's clearly designed for touchscreens. For hackers it's awesome because it's actually a Linux, and you can access shell (as a root, too).

Android support is a bit buggy though - for example Skype sometimes breaks (can not send messages), but Spotify and WhatsApp have worked perfectly fine.

If you are interested in it, they dropped the price a while back (down to 250eur).
> but not necessarily at city speeds as the speed is low

No, but often enough for it to be a factor. As a pedestrian I don't assume I can hear an engine.

> (and a stationary car makes no tyre noise but combustion engine still makes some engine noise)

Unless you have a start-and-stop, and it's approaching insanity to require that stopped petrol cars have speakers that make engine noise if they turn off the engine.
Does Telegram have an app for J2ME?
> The EU is run by the Commission. Where does EU law come from - it comes from the Commission.

The Commission propose the laws. I agree that this is problematic, but since Lisbon, it's been a lot better in terms of directly elected representatives making decisions.

Regardless, nothing the Commission propose becomes European laws/directive without the assent of both the Council and the Parliament.

It's rather democratic, as a matter of fact, especially given the use of proportional representation for EP members in many of the member states.

> If the Council ran the EU then EU law would come from there, but it never does. The power to make law is the ultimate power, the source of all government power. The Council is in contrast a sideshow. Nobody even knows what they talk about.

I personally follow the council discussions, as they are where things actually get decided. I'm not unique.

> And the Commission is entirely undemocratic. How was von der Leyen selected again? Nobody can say. Oh, there was a vote. It was a vote in the EU Parliament in which vDL was the only candidate on the ballot sheet. That's not a democracy, is it?

Von der Leyen was selected by the Council of Ministers. They refused to go along with the proposal from the groups in the EP that whatever candidate they proposed should become the Commission President. Again, not a fan of that decision on democratic grounds, but it's what happened, and it rather puts the lie to your comment that the Council is powerless and nobody even knows what they talk about.

Literally all of the consequential decisions made by the EU have been decided by the Council of Ministers. Those overnight summits that are particularly characteristic of the EU, are summits of the Council of Ministers.

> Are you aware that the Commission was condemned by everyone across the board including its own diplomats? The order wasn't proposed, it was made and the only possible interpretation was for a hard border, hence the immediate and strong objections. That, after 4 years of the EU constantly claiming a border in NI would create terrorism and must never happen at any cost.

Yes, because I live in the Republic of Ireland. It was super bad what happened there, and the proposal literally lasted 8 hours before being buried.

And with respect to terrorism, there's no easy way out of that I'm afraid. The irish government lobbied for the EU to take NI into account in the negotiations, and that happened.

Unfortunately, with the situation in Northern Ireland, any border anywhere was going to create tension (and the potential for smuggling/terrorism). I'm unhappy about the sea border as it's a provocation to Unionists, but it is maybe 100 times better than a land border.
I'm not sure if the Swift type system is half way decent in terms of machine learning applications. At least not without a lot of work. The data tends to be in specialized in-memory formats that tend to be opaque to the type system. The actual matrix operations involve dimension parameters that are likewise opaque to most type systems. So you still need to run code for the actual tensor graph compilation to validate if everything is correct. Python in notebooks does that instantly, Swift I suspect has a much longer delay.