jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As someone who a few years ago worked for a broadcaster and had a small amount of experience with building applications for television, Sony were always ambitious for their UX and would make good decisions such as going with what was at the time Android TV.

Sony had a couple of issues a few years ago:

- they would always produce televisions with underpowered hardware for the software experiences
- their operating systems would have as many as three competing interfaces in different parts
- Android Apps
- weird XMB evolution for settings etc.
- separate third party interface for digital tuner that also had a duplicated wrapped XMB interface

I wonder if they've managed to remedy some of that mess, as they would have been some of the most solid sets if it weren't for the bloat and chaos.
Maybe someone can answer this for me:

having worked for the US gvt, though not in legislature or dept of state, PIV cards were always required to access a gvt machine, and leaving your PIV inserted while absent from the room was, in theory, a serious offense.

Are congress critters and others not required to use ID cards when accessing gvt networks?
Passively learning survivalist skills by watching Survivorman.
I'm bh, the guy you just played a few times! (Guessing you're "mit.") Keeping score and viewing a history of your past games with someone would be cool.
This is how to do it. Clean separation of road vehicles from bikes, none of this painted line in the parking lane nonsense. Engineer for the most vulnerable, give space for everybody.

Even as a driver, this is how I want things to be.
This would be really good to apply to watching spin on various verticals.

Such as entertainment and financial articles...

Recall during the banking crisis of 2008 there was the article stating that the EU was about 16 TRILLION in debt crisis, but then that was too alarmist and they didnt. Want that getting out, so they edited the title, but they forgot to change the UrL which had the original title in it.
im actually in japan now and my budget is running low but when you can snag a guest house for like £5-6 a night its probably not worth being on the net, my budget isnt that low
I long for voice, for playful humor, for that je ne sais quoi of good writing! Robert Anton Wilson wrote a marvelous book called Quantum Psychology, where he uses the insights of quantum physics to upend the prevailing Aristotelian view of is / is not logic in psychology and in scientific thinking generally. It was a genuine pleasure to read, as I sensed the intelligent, interested, living being doing the writing all throughout. It felt intimate despite its serious nature. I just don't understand why writing about a scientific subject, even in an obscure and rarified field, gives you a pass on crafting a piece of writing someone might actually want to read, might actually connect with on an emotional level.
I have bought single things using self-checkout that quickly, but I think the difference would be when you buy 5 or more things. Then the time to scan becomes noticeable.

Another, more subtle feature is that I never wait in line because I have trained myself to never go at peak times. I waste a certain amount of time thinking about it.

That said, I find the idea of a cashierless store super-creepy and will be among the last adopters.
The New England climate that I've lived in for the bulk of my life is very close to Copenhagen's. I also love the winter and I exercise vigorously almost daily, working up a sweat out in the woods. Amazingly enough, most people during the course of human history didn't have access to fancy fabrics, yet we managed to not get "killed". Living in a city has the added advantage of having any number of heated establishments that you can step into if you're about to die.
There is a big difference between a resident (=student) and say a specialist with 30 years experience.

I'd like to see the threads where senior oncologists are complaining.
That is the central problem of the postmodern. It is a framework that inevitably dismisses itself when you go enough meta-level up.
I would say the ability to eagle-eye bits of code is useful only to a point. Deductive reasoning will always be available when dead reckoning isn't.
Because they came up with it.
I can't speak for the author, but in my own case it's being so far removed from the actual end user that the problems being solved start to look less like problems and more like glorified yak shaving. The size of the company also starts to affect the size of the feedback loop - the sheer amount of people involved drastically increases the time to market, so to speak, for a given feature or 'deliverable', which can cause frustration. Over time this frustration builds up into a sort of 'death by a thousand paper cuts' situation.

I will soon be going down the route of leaving a rather large company in favor of a start-up and I am largely driven by wanting to feel that what I am doing matters to someone other than my manager or manager's manager. Here's a quote that I haven't seen in this post so far:

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying." ― Studs Terkel
Obviously, if Alice is writing to Bob, repudiability is weakened in two ways:

1. She can't convince Bob she didn't write the message: it's written right there on Bob's phone, and he'd remember if he'd tamper with it.

2. If Bob starts showing Alice's message around, she can't pretend he misremembered, as would be possible with an oral conversation. She'd have to flat out call him a liar.

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> using a system that is deliberately designed to allow you to say something then deny having said it might also cause extra suspicion.

Not if everyone used such a system. There's a difference between building & using your own obscure deniable chat application, and WhatsApp and Signal themselves enabling this.

> In practice [repudiability] has very little value. It is unlikely that the feature is worth the extra risk of the complexity it would take to implement it.

Deniable schemes are not more complex.

There's just one simple condition: use Diffie-Hellman key exchanges instead of signatures. The result will likely be simpler than a scheme that relies on signatures. I've implemented both key exchanges and signatures with elliptic curves (X25519 and Ed25519 specifically), and I'm telling you, key exchange is significantly simpler and harder to get wrong. (For the anecdote, I screwed-up once in my cryptographic work, and it was the signatures).

See https://noiseprotocol.org for fairly simple key exchange based protocols, with various properties one might care about (key compromise impersonation, resistance against replay-attacks, anonymity to third parties…).
Every for-profit media company makes content decisions based on revenue. OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart, AM talk radio, etc. aren’t shielded by Section 230 at all and they have been some of the strongest amplifiers of conspiracy theories and misinformation. Suggesting that the problem of right-wing extremism is going to be solved just by repealing Section 230 is crazy.
I have to wonder if Trump intended the DOD to send in troops and use those troops to shut down the certification, and they refused.
this is old thread and I can't edit, but now that more info has come out for the record part #1 I don't believe anymore. The videos are shocking and disgusting.

This was 1000% a failure from the top, there are lots of videos of these poor uniformed officers on the outer lines outnumbered 1000 / 1 with no gear, no tear gas or other riot weapons, fighting back but just getting trampled, shot with tear gas, hit with bat things, etc. It looks like instead of refusing to respond they didn't have the equipment to.

While the many were brave, there are definitely still some sympathizers and participants for instance WaPo has quotes that there were off duty officers of the law flashing their badges to get in.

i think good chance we'll see the evidence it was intentional negligence denying support/materials/gear and intentionally delaying a response on the part of Trump's DOJ etc.

Send out the subpoenas, and interview this weekend -> vote Monday.

these and so many more, but this focuses on the outer 'rings'
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/134696651499014963...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOgGsC0G9U
I honestly don't know, is that (progressive taxation) not the case in e.g. Ireland?
> In isolation they aren't

Hold on there, we're still talking about Twitter, right?

A content business that limits the length of a statement on its platform to 280 characters is now arguing that statements on its platform must be read in a broader context?

Seriously?
It is anti-democratic to make a democracy more representative ? What kind of backwards logic is that.

The Democrats have ran the country like idiots, where they have repeatedly made good faith assumptions about the republicans and been betrayed every time.

When the system is broken, the least you do is fix it.
When you say 'reputable' IP do you mean non-residential or is something like AWS, Linode, etc enough?

Edit: duplicate to sibling, apparently I had this tab open longer than I thought.
> One of the basic tenets of the founding fathers was that small groups can have out sized power.

That's what the Senate is supposed to be for. We aren't talking about the Senate.

> Without the electoral college, all the left would need to do (which they are trying to do now), is to flood California with poor people from mexico,

People aren't cattle, and nobody is 'flooding California with them' to win elections.
Sure, but there's a lot of other things you're looking over:

- We support selenium with the same version of Chrome as puppeteer's. Everything is versioned together.

- Queueing/Concurrency and notifications. Arguably done in other efforts, but works.

- Numerous other APIs built on top of puppeteer to do core cases. No need to write your own integration.

- Monitoring and more.

People do pay for this in order to not think about the burden of supporting it. Managed databases are a thing, even though they are freely available to download and run.
I've never understood why legislatures don't move to something more like modern code review. It would have to dramatically simplify their lives.
We ship a C++/Qt/Go application at $DAYJOB. The C++ and Go parts communicate by IPC so I would love to get down to a single language - Qt is the main reason why C++ is involved at all. A Go binding for Qt (Widgets) would seriously solve a lot of issues for us.

But this binding is LGPL, so

- we can't include it in a closed-source statically-linked Go application as-is;

- this binding plans to offer a commercial license but it isn't available yet;

- dynamic linking of a Go package (i.e. `-buildmode plugin`) is possible on Linux but not on Windows.

There's also the similar https://github.com/kitech/qt.go that works by LoadLibrary/dlsym'ing the Qt dll/so files, that has the same LGPL + no-commercial-alternative license.
In the UK at least, that's not really how it happens. Representatives in a representative democracy are representatives in name only, they're the "chosen voter" for that constituency (in parliamentary votes), but usually they're voted in because they represent a particular party and we have first part the post. Their representation of the constituents is tenuous; and often only extends to doing enough to get elected.

Such a system can work well: some MPs are noble, forthright people, genuinely working for a better society. Plenty are just in it for themselves and private interests so far as I can tell, and happy to pay off the electorate with promises of milk & honey, better services and simultaneously low taxation.

Before Brexit I was very much for a more direct democracy, but honestly it seems that too many voters won't put in the work needed to wade through the mire of misinformation; really they are voting for three benefit of themselves only; or just lack the intellect to properly address the complex issues.

Until we get lobbyists and politicians locked up for lying, or purposeful misrepresentation then things can't improve.

That all said I still think something like the Swiss system (other places have similar) whereby referenda can be triggered by the people without backing of "representatives" is necessary.

Also, greater reflection of the breadth of the population through proportional representation is essential (but because it weakens the power base of those already in power is very hard to achieve).
That's one possible outcome, yes. It is not the only one. I'm not even sure it's the one I would assume would happen.
AFAIK the dedicated servers (at least the "server grade" ones with ecc ram) are all now "un-metered 1 gbps". If you get/buy 10gbps uplink, there's a quota again 20TB included (which is lifted if you commit to paying 1 euro/pr TB over).

They basically increased the included bandwidth to the point where it was hard to hit the limits om 1gpbs uplink (although 1 gbps maxed out 24/7 is theoretically 10 TB/day 300/month).

"Traffic usage is unlimited and free of charge.
Please note that our unlimited traffic policy does not apply to servers that have the 10G uplink addon. In this special case, we will charge the usage over 20TB with € 1.00/TB. (The basis for calculation is for outgoing traffic only. Incoming and internal traffic is not calculated.) There is no bandwidth limitation."
From my experience working at US Airways, they will never buy whatever it is you are building, even though their business is crippled by the 70's era software that the entire operation depends on. Do you have any background or connections in the airline industry? You need to talk to someone at the airlines, and soon.
Having worked at a company running Docker swarm at... medium(?) scale... I have witnessed a truly shocking variety of bugs in its network stack. I always wondered if it was something specific to the company setup, but the result is that we just couldn't stay on a platform that would randomly fail to give containers a working network connection to each other.
You make a lot more money off parking tickets than you make off of parking meters.
I've heard some second and third hand accounts of environmental problems such as asbestos, lead paint, mold, etc causing mysterious long running health problems for people so I was thinking the same thing. Not sure a week vacation is enough time to test it out though. If he's been in the same place for the duration of this problem it probably wouldn't hurt to get it tested if all other options are not providing results. Who knows? When I was younger I had lyme disease for almost a year and after 8 months of nearly weekly doctor appointments and endless tests my parents had to ask the doctors to test for it before the doctors figured it out. Since then I think it's never safe to rule out anything. Without more details it's hard to know if that type of problem would be applicable here but it's definitely something worth considering.
To be careful giving medical advice, and not sounding like I'm a holisitc nutjob. This is completely a personal experience and YMMV...

I have Hashimoto's Throiditis as well. I've spent ~15 years struggling with Synthroid - constant sensitivity to heat & cold, exhaustion, etc. I went through constantly fluctuating dosages, etc. My doctor tried mixing Cytomel in which helped a bit but not completely. I've had a lot of trouble with other synthetic drugs in the past (I don't seem to metabolise them well) and switched to "Natural" thyroid (quite literally dessicated thyroid gland from a pig - it contains the exact hormones the thyroid can't make with Hashimotos). It has made a HUGE difference for me. There have been some supply problems in the last ~12 months which seem to have smoothed over (It's available in a few brands - generic is I think just "thyroid", there's also Naturthroid and Armour).

I am not a doctor, and by no means a homeopathic nut - in this case the difference between this and Synthroid is it's an exact copy of the hormones you need rather than a synthetic analog (before Synthroid came around, for ~100 years this was the standard thyroid treatment). It has made a big diff for me after years with no luck.

It may help - in the last year I've had a big improvement from switching (weight loss, sleeping better, etc etc).
I've been doing mindfulness based meditation (vipassana and zazen) for several months now. I'd say that it does help in a number of ways.

For one, it is an excellent way to hone the practice of focusing your mind on your immediate activity. In Buddhist mindfulness practice you will focus your mind not just while sitting meditation, but also while walking or doing chores. Eventually you will be able to bring this focus to every activity you engage in during the day.

So in a way you move into the zone on a semi-permanent (or even permanent) basis.

The broader Buddhist philosophy is also an excellent way to eliminate distractions from your mind. In that philosophy, thoughts and feelings arise almost exclusively due to internal processes, and an important aspect of mindfulness meditation is letting those same thoughts and feelings go. So instead of distracting you like normal, the thoughts and feelings will "run their course" and dissipate much more quickly.

This is how the practice has benefited me the most. I now know that my normal distractions (e.g. checking HN compulsively) are not going to provide anything for me -- they are not a source of happiness or contentment. The mindful focus is my source of that happiness and thus preserving it is what I naturally want to do.

All that said my practice is far from perfect, as I do find myself here reading and answering questions. YMMV :)
Does San Francisco not have pay by phone parking meters?

We've had them in Vancouver for awhile now, and it's so handy (after you setup an account the first time). They text you 10 minutes before your meter expires and you can just call and add extra minutes if you're going to be longer than expected.

http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/parking/paybyphone.htm
Unwillingness? That's a big assumption.

Not that I'm defending it. And I also expect Apple to do better and not just pay lip service.

On the other hand, who is doing as much or more? Again, not saying that to excuse them but just point out there is likely far more going on than them just making an arbitrary decision here. Just saying...
If your claim is that a severe nuclear meltdown with widescale radiation release is literally impossible -- a claim you couldn't even get the NRC to make -- then I'm going to point to actual experience, starting with 3 mile island, fukushima, chernobyl, etc, and a series of very close near misses with widespread radiation release. So it turns out to be quite possible.
"...libtool, a solution that is a hundred times more complex than the problem it solves."

http://www.fortran-2000.com/ArnaudRecipes/sharedlib.html

Remember, almost all of those systems had someone "thinking deeply about the problem space".
Don't blame the systemd wart on Linux - it's user level madness that can abuse any kernel, even your precious illumos ;-)
They started with MySQL. Replacing that with MariaDB is a whole lot simpler (not to mention, less risky!) than replacing it with something completely different like Cassandra.
I believe accessibility integration is still on the to-do list.
Lots of assumptions and generalizations.

There are countless reasons for why these things happen.
Well if we want to be like that, then everything requires violence to maintain.

The Empire State Building takes violence to maintain because without the threat of violence someone might carry away all the rocks. Your local library takes violence to maintain because without the threat of violence someone might burn all the books. Your own life requires violence to maintain, because only the threat of violence from the state prevents someone from killing and eating you.
Build software that improves some clunky or inefficient process common in the space industry, then sell it to the space industry. Voila, you now run a bootstrapped space company :)
> And the leaders of tech censorship isn't in China, it's in the US since major tech companies are in the US.

This is like saying Iran is the biggest polluter because they produce oil.
Rest assured, things have considerably changed in Germany since then.
They don't mind if DWM is only ever used by a handful of people if only a handful of people agree with the principles behind it.
Hi, I'm Dredd developer and here are my comments on Dredd - API Blueprint testing tool:

- Dredd does not perform any validation against the siren response beyond the first key level. For example, it does not validate if the class-name is user-events, or usr-events

This I can't confirm, presence of object keys is validated on any level.

- Dredd does not make any difference between Action parameters and Resource parameters. Then, an action POST to create user-events will have undesired url parameters. E.G: POST /user-events?take=0&skip=2

This is true, but it’s by design. In Dredd URI parameters are inherited from resource to action, but there is no way how to filter out unwanted parameters from resource under action section.

In this case I assume that `skip` and `take` parameters belong only to GET action (retrieving collection), so its imho a non-sense to discuss them on the resource level because they will be propagated to any action under that resource.

Thank you for very interesting feedback!
You didn't address the Galaxy Note part of the comment.

Also, I think you're exaggerating. I'm sure http://timeinvariant.github.io/gorescript/play/ would work fine with VR.
This is a silly argument. You're all assuming this type of integration will be have the UI quality of your dishwasher.

Of course context switches and irrelevant information will be distracting if done poorly. This is a UX challenge—not a reason to abandon the idea.

Having the focus you need during concentrated tasks such as coding, while also enabling the integration of other tasks—such as high-level team context awareness and collaboration—is the key design challenge. Done well, it would be a killer app.

Done poorly, as with anything, it will fail miserably.

Programmers have a poor reputation for UI design prowess, and programmers tools are sadly usually made by programmers, and thus carry the same reputation. Very few amalgam programmer/designers exist to bridge the gap of motivation and ability to design a better toolset. But they do exist.

Let's be optimistic, shall we?
> I'm developing a new responsive web app and wanted to test it on both my iPhone and iPad.

This is already easily done just by configuring port forwarding from your host to your guest in your vagrantfile.

e.g.:

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 8080, guest: 80
CapEx is probably significant robotics infrastructure. You can't automate everything in the plant. Yet.
It looks like 5 1/4” drives themselves are getting quite rare, not many on eBay, while there are lots of 3.5”. So even with a controller, getting a drive is not simple.

I’d say the main reason, is that 3.5” drives are much more common, and they overlapped USB They are much more standard than 5 1/4” drives too.
no they don't need to be treated like anything, they are completely new thing, so if you think that their dominant market position is an issue, they can be forced to implement public api(open standart), therefore unlocking their userbase and allowing infinite competition
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