jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's true that American series run for a long time. In many cases it's really bad for the story - but for comedy,i find that the story is of less importance and good jokes at a rapid pace are the core - and good comedies can do quite a few great seasons before they lost their charm.
Do you think that the NSA would bother breaking CA keys? We know that they have shadow certificates and have much success infiltrating CAs to steal their keys and that they have been able to forge them without having to break the keys (via the previously unknown MD5 collision - as they did for Stuxnet. Seems to me like there are more valuable certs to go after (diplomats' certs, smartcard certs, OS update certs, ...).
Please don't use the word functor to refer to C++ function objects. It already has a well defined and widely used meaning in mathematics and computer science which bears almost no resemblance to its C++ counterpart.
Perhaps something to look into is the science of how intrigue is cultivated. We like to work on puzzles, things that get our wheels turning. If you could learn to be interested in a task, you wouldn't need "motivation", as problem solving is motivating in itself.
All of this makes seems and is well sourced. But there is a huge difference between inciting revolutions that are beneficial to the US in foreign countries, one of the stated purposes of the intelligence community, and "shilling" comments on hackernews or reddit. Covert US involvement in swaying public opinion against opposing ideologies is a proud tradition that goes back to at least the 1930s and beyond. Using social media is just an extension of that. Most of the sources you provided are about creating fake social media sites to be used in foreign countries or broad discussions about psychological influence techniques that mention social media. There are no detailed plans that mention hackernews, reddit or any other online social news aggregator. It would be incredibly costly for the NSA to have agents posting pro-government comments on every thread that pops up on the hundreds of online tech communities and I don't see how they would benefit from it in any way. The idea is frankly laughable.

It's fun to think that we're so important that the US government cares enough to intervene in our political discussions. But we are not, not a single one of us. If pg himself called for open insurrection in his next essay, no one in the NSA would lift an eyebrow or raise a finger. Until this or any community becomes known as a hotbed for muslim extremism or communist agitation we're simply not on the radar in any way. As far as hackernews and reddit are concerned, "shill" is a synonym for "someone who disagrees with me" and always will be.
But the Static Electric Shock in winter is terrible...
3. What numeric bound should YouTube have placed on their view counter (in the case I linked earlier)? 2 billion? Why? If the answer is "Because that's all that fits in an i32" then we're right back where we started: overflow takes many programs directly from a valid state to an invalid one.
I doubt that. I'm going to school right now for finance. At the school I attend, it seems every serious finance student not only knows the basics (Excel, Bloomberg, Powerpoint), but also statistics packages (R, Minitab), and several programming languages (everyone knows SQL and VBA, most know at least one of Python, Java or C++). Knowing how to create trading algorithms is required knowledge.

On top of that, everyone knows how to do a sales pitch, most are comfortable in a suit talking to execs, and classes in marketing, management, accounting, and computer science are all mandatory.

Finance courses at a proper business school are highly demanding, and the technical abilities of the students who attend are on par with any STEM major...
Fat cats and drug cartels are currently doing great job of laundering money using banks. So the question is: was anything of value lost? Also - does this mean that Bitcoin will democratize tax evasion / money laundering?

There is also a matter of complex tax codes. Today they predominantly used by large businesses and wealthy people. With Bitcoin as a very democratic tax evasion / money laundering mechanism, is there any chance that we will see clear and simple tax codes in Bitcoin future?
Simply because indexes into a 1TB dictionary would require 40 bits just for the position, rather than the 15 bits for a 32kB sliding search window. You would also have to implement some sort of indexing system to improve the speed of compression.

That's not to say it isn't possible - rsync does it when updating the contents of a file. I wrote (about five years ago) a program that does it too. What you get is a file that can reconstruct the original file assuming an exact copy of a reference file is present. I use it for my incremental backup system.
Most engineers are GS-12 positions. GS-11 used to be the standard, and in some areas GS-13 is a standard engineer rate. It changes over time. Many use alternate pay bands, so it's hard to compare. Anything near GS-15 and above is pretty unusual, I agree.
There are a whole host of possible insensitivities (many people are surprised by nightshades for example: potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant. They all share a plant family). Pay attention also to any products you’re directly applying to your skin as there might be ingredients in there that are being absorbed.
sure, i'm not saying indians aren't asian. but in the context of this article, when the attacks are based on people looking a certain way, indians don't fit that mold.
yep, while i don't have full blown RSI/carpal-tunnel issues, the 3 decades of computer has been taking its tall on the wrists, especially the mouse one, and the pull-ups do help here as well as letting my wife practice jiu-jitsu on me, specifically those wrist handling techniques, to the extent of inducing low level pain which works as a kind of strong firm massage :)
(I didn't downvote). For comparison, imagine you signed up with the username "Oracle" and posted "Fellow data storage sufferer here. I understand and share your pain. There isn't any magic pill yet but until someone invents it I can tell you I've found great comfort using the Oracle database" and a link to a "purchase Oracle" page.

You might be a well-meaning person, but you're hard to distinguish from a bot pushing a fad diet with online courses, a for-pay app, a shop, "find a dietician" services, certifications, etc. Preying on offering hope to the sick and desperate is common and people are cynical and wary of it, and even genuine well-meaning people are prone to sharing dubious alternative medicine suggestions which they honestly believe help but aren't proven to do anything more than the placebo effect. If you were a long-standing HN commentor, you'd probably get more benefit of the doubt; signing up as "fodmap" to link to an apparently for-profit fodmap service with an emotional message makes it easy to assume bad faith astroturfing at a glance - focused username, commercial link, fringe/alternative/woo treatment, claims of health cure for incurable condition, SEO style message ("As a fellow sufferer, believe me, I know, I've been there, trust me, just one easy credit card payment").

[I wrote this for your deleted comment;]
"'Fraid not, kiddo."
"Phase Estimation" -- is my key phrase; my key takeaway -- from this article...

Using that as a starting point, I found this:

https://web.stanford.edu/~yzliao/pub/master_thesis.pdf

>"The estimation of the frequency and phase of a complex exponential in additive white
Gaussian noise (AWGN) is a fundamental and well-studied problem in signal processing
and communications. Its numerous applications include carrier recovery in a communication system [1], determination of the object position in radar and sonar systems [2, 3],
estimation of the heart rate of a fetus in biomedicine [4], and carrier synchronization in
a distributed beamforming system [5]. Regardless of the application, poor estimation can
lead to disastrous results. For example, in communication system, with the poor carrier
frequency estimate, the down-converter may not be able to demodulate the passband signal
to baseband [1]. In the smart antenna system and speech processing system, a poor phase
estimator may cause the system to fail to identify the direction of arrival of the signal [6, 7]."
There are attractiveness signifiers that are not culturally mediated (e.g. clear healthy skin is valued everywhere, extreme obesity or thinness is very rarely valued, being very short is very rarely valued, etc.)

Intelligence also seems to have plenty of culture-independent aspects.
Because the ratio of land to cost was better. And because right now Weyerhaueser owns a ton of timberland up here but won't part with it until after they've harvested it.

In my mind, returning some land to natural forest and placing a small spot to go camping or hiking through it would be an incredible gift to future generations.
Fortunately, ublock origin does most of the targeting for me, although it focuses on ads not content. I'm pretty sure those people work night and day to keep the filters accurate. As for my filters, I've set them over the last couple years and haven't needed to change them since. Changing them probably corresponds to UI overhauls of the site. If it is too difficult or costly for me to filter, I usually just block the site outright.
Why do people use the zoom app on linux? It works fine in the browser, where it is forced to behave itself.
I have been using Fivebean (http://fivebean.com/) and had a great experience so far.
buy a book from Paul Carr - Confessions of the media whore - there is quite a bit written on Alex Tew there - quite an entertaining book I would say :)
Thanks a lot for your detailed comment!
Yep - I've got a 10x10 pixel slice of history on there. The link it points to is down now - my first attempt at earning money via the internet. First 3 or 4 months it generated a 800 - 1000 CTR. After that, headed south quite quickly.. No reason to visit after the news/PR died-down.
Thanks a bunch! Great HN username, btw :-)
I believe the author makes several interesting points about the aspects of Joost's business model and corporate culture that might of lead to its failure, however, one aspect not touched on is the user experience of the product itself.

When compared against its main rival Hulu (as in this post http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_reasons_why_joost_fa...) it becomes clear why Joost's user experience also encumbered its own success.
Yes. I remember. I have created a first clone of this in my country (Czech republic) and raised few grand for charity. It was my first business (if you can call this business) and a great learning experience. Unfortunately I let the domain expire by mistake - it would be great to have it still running just for a piece of internet history :)
Same here, for http://transitfeeds.com
You can't complain when they send you a .docx file.
Hi Richard.

Please add paypal payment and I'm in.

Thanks.
Unfortunately, it is sometimes the case that the remaining unprovable part is the most epistemologically dubious part.

See, for instance, "Coq in Coq", by Bruno Barras and Benjamin Werner, http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~barras/publi/coqincoq.pdf , in which the Calculus of Inductive Constructions is used to prove the consistency of the Calculus of Constructions.

See also John Harrison's "Towards self-verification of HOL Light", http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/papers/holhol.pdf , and Gentzen's consistency proof, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentzen%27s_consistency_proof , which use similar strategies (by assuming the existence of an inaccessible and assuming recursion up to epsilon_0).

Sometimes one can get relative consistency results. For instance, I believe it is provable in ZF that if ZF is consistent, so if ZF+AC+(V=L)+GCH.
Would it be open-source? With an open development process? I could see paying for a library, but I can't see building on top of something maintained by a single developer that I can't fix myself.
So they really had your money then?
same, but oh there's hate (further down)

Stupid nerds that felt mislead and needed to express disdain that 'personal website' and 'shell' isn't useable as a full shell to hax0r on. smh
It's really hard to design secure systems that do not harm convenience, serviceability, etc., since someone trying to compromise the system is... "servicing" it.
Accessibility to non-programmers though as a good and inspiring learning tool? Or is that not an intended purpose?
Looks awesome. Taking an Uber or Public Transit from Manhattan to JFK has usually been a pretty severe time-cost, while Ubers and Taxis are also not too cheap.

This service might actually be worth it, from an economic point of view -- it probably cuts between 30 and 60 minutes commute time depending on the time of the day, and it also cuts another 30-45 minutes of security time. Depending on how much you value your time, this could be worth it. Doesn't seem too scalable though, which is unfortunate.

Given there are many people who value their time quite highly in Manhattan, I expect seats on the helicopter(s) will actually be sold out most of time.

(One more aspect to consider in the utility-calculation: what's the probability the helicopter crashes?)
Wow. I want so many more of these kind of things for my kids. It's so close to using code to solve real problems. How about an assembly line version where many parts have to come together in the correct order? Or an air traffic control one? Subway scheduling? Pizza delivery? More please!
Is the distinction between web sites and web apps really valid, though? No matter how dynamic your site is, you still have certain responsibilities to your users, including giving them the best user experience you can, but also things like accessibility, sane SEO, bookmarkable resources, and, in the long run, maintainability. Is a highly dynamic site really a "get out of jail free card" for best practices?
> Someone (I think uncle bob) said that good code is self-documenting, which is bs in 95% of the cases

Agreed. For example, comments about Why-do-this, and Why-Not-do-that can be necessary, even if the code shows what happens.

Imagine you're in a taxi, and it suddenly takes the wrong turn, now instead heading towards Surprise-City. Then — you know what is happening. You're going to Surprise-City.

But would't you also want to know Why?

So then it's nice if the taxi driver explains Why: "I buy milk to kitten."

I think the 'Linux kernel coding style' explains comments pretty well:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
I don’t know why you’re so upset about this article.

The experiment basically just proves that wine “science” doesn’t live up to scientific standards and therefore shouldn’t be considered science.

I do agree though that every wine tastes differently and that therefore wine drinkers have preferences.
Nice resources. Thanks
>I think I originally started reading his stuff because he had informed and humorous takedowns of some extremist libertarian/fascist ideas like neoreaction and dark enlightenment, but I guess to know that much about the topics probably is a reflection of the circles he's moving in.

So you read and liked stuff that confirmed your likely ideological priors, but you disliked stuff that questioned them.

Do you actually expect a less-partial observer to agree that the fault here is with Scott rather than you?
Including parts that relate to Linux, have nothing to do with C++ and apply to any programming language.

You also skipped the section where Rust in its present state doesn't has any kind of recovery, it just panics.
A language that will share Groovy's fate, when Google gets fed up with Android and uses either ChromeOS or Fuchsia to take its place.
Hey, that sounds quite reasonable. Thanks.
Just remember, the good part about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
I realize it's unlikely to happen of course. I just wanted to know the actual arguments justifying it. Even the most corrupt politician wouldn't come out and say "I'm pro-lobbying because my good buddy Megacorp says I should be, and he's paid me an awful lot to believe that."
I think sites like HackerNews can give readers like me a bit of a romanticized view of how startups work. Most of the startups that I read about on HackerNews are the ones that are successful enough to, you know, get written about and publicized via HackerNews (or TechCrunch, or whoever). We don't hear much about the numerous failures.

I can imagine that if I ran off and joined a startup solely based on the rosy outlook that I got from reading all these success stories, and then found out the hard way how things really are, I might be a bit cynical too.
Working for my first startup, I was their first hire 21 months ago and it's been great. A wonderful atmosphere and I've learnt tonnes about web development, entrepreneurship, networking and whatnot.

Good pay and long hours.
It's like the people who think they're displaying their above-average understanding of probability by choosing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 for their lottery numbers. It will be a very happy then a very sad day for a lot of people if those numbers ever hit!
You can hire the developers of mongodb, 10gen, themselves, they provide commercial support / consulting for mongodb.

http://www.10gen.com/
Voting is not the point. The point is to bring to people's attention things they will be interested in. HN/Reddit/etc do this through voting. Twitter does it through retweeting, which is similar to how it happens offline.

So, it's acceptable because it's part of the medium.
I loved BYTE, back in the day. At one point, I lugged around ten years' worth of back issues, before giving them to the local library.

I'm not very hopeful for the new edition. From the press release: the new BYTE "will serve as the professional’s guide to consumer technology, providing news, analysis, reviews, and insight across the media gamut."

Not reaching very high, are they? This doesn't sound like the publication that gave us in-depth articles on every bus type from S-100 on, languages such as Forth and Smalltalk, and Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar ...
> And they remain straight people unrestricted by the status quo

As I implied with my first sentence, some folks making that argument are not straight, so they don't "remain straight".

Yes, most folks making that argument are straight, but since most folks are straight....

> Do you have a point?

My point is that your gaydar is broken at least wrt this issue.
Here's an excerpt from the article. The very first words of the article:

> A day after Google publicized a flaw in Windows 8.1 before Microsoft could do anything about it, [...]

I stopped reading after this, for obvious reasons.
This is horrible, and the abuses of police and security personal in the US are egregious. In addition, US foreign policy as of late (late being the the last 150 years or so) is also pretty lame.

That said, I often suspect there is more to stories like this than is being told. More than the book and flashcards. A suspicious look. Furtive eye movement in the TSA line. A "look" that might be interpreted as capable of violence. And lastly, pissing someone with a gun and a badge off with an insolent attitude.

None of which makes what happened right of course. But maybe there is more to the story.
I attended one of those workshops back in 2010. Their not understating the competitiveness of getting in to one, especially if you have a commercially-successful writer as one of that year's instructors. You can end up with several hundred applications, and a class size of 17-18.
A few years ago I wrote a minimal lisp in erlang using pg's paper. I called it erlisp[1]. I did it in order to learn Erlang while reading the original Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book.

If you want to learn the basics of a language, I highly recommend writing a lisp in it using only the Roots of Lisp paper and the target language's reference guide. It's a fun challenge.

[1] (yes, it's a pun) https://github.com/breckinloggins/erlisp
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, SQL, Git, Gurobi, familiar with GluonTS (mxnet) for ts forecasting

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-rodelo-aaaa18159/

Email: nmrodelo@bu.edu

Background primarily in economics, with 3 years of general programming experience. Significant work experience in finance/policy, decided in the past year to go towards data and software.

Recently left a role where I was responsible, solely, for designing and implementing a production scheduler for an industrial client in Gurobi. Also designed the backend of a demand forecasting platform, using Amazon's GluonTS, from scratch.

Currently working on https://github.com/PolicyEngine/openfisca-us in my free time, helping to research and design a comprehensive tax and benefit simulation for policymakers that doubles as an eligibility calculator.
The shoe was on the other foot in 2016. Many on the left claimed election fraud, including the Green Party filing lawsuits demanding recounts. Their disputes were with the same states in dispute in 2020 (Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin). [0]

The courts dismissed their lawsuits for lack of standing, not on the merits of their case.

In 2019, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobishar and Ron Wyden wrote a letter to Congress warning about vulnerabilities with three voting machine vendors, one of which being Dominion. They point out the same things that Sidney Pollock did in her complaint. [1]

[0]: https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2016/12/06/election-...
[1]: https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/letters/warren-klobu...
> Which, it probably goes without saying, should scare the shit out of anyone who cares about the principles of the free Internet

Big tech companies are largely left-leaning internally (which isn't surprising since California is the most left leaning state), so there is nothing to fear as long as you lean left yourself, (i.e. I guarantee you won't be censored for left-leaning speech any time soon).
Stability is why I took the job at $MEGACORP.

In the past 3 years I haven't worked a full year due to the companies I worked for going out of business.

$MEGACORP isn't all bad. The pay is about the same, but I have much better benefits. For the first time in 5 years I have a 401K.

I've decided that I'm not going to work for another startup, unless I'm a founder. That way I have enough potential upside to make it worth the risk.
What I would prefer is removing moderators, aggressively fighting bots, and putting reasonably neutral parties in the moderation position.

The second part of that is hard/expensive, but it is a path forwards to some level of discourse between the people using these subreddits and everyone else. Driving these communities to different sites means that people get in much stronger filter bubbles, that's probably not a good thing.

To take the example of /r/conservative on reddit right now, the subreddit currently bans anyone who says anything at all critical of Trump, and mostly only let's people who have a history of saying supportive things talk. That's not good for reddit, or the country as a whole. But if reddit just removed the current batch of moderators and those rules, and had someone enforce some reasonable standards of discourse but not enforce politics, I think it could turn into a force for good.

To put it in your own terms, my preferred solution is to try and make it possible to "have intellectual discourse with people who are fabricating reality or deeply believe in conspiracy theories", instead of just making it so those people go fabricate their reality elsewhere.
Right, like when I see yet another news article which questions Dominion voting machines in Georgia, that is hard evidence to me that they do not care about representing an honest picture of what has been evaluated.

There was a hand recount.

There was a hand recount.

There was a hand recount.

The impact of this has absolutely not filtered through to many "news" sites.