jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This isn't the same thing. That's just a hard-wired DNS server, which can be easily forced to use your own servers at the firewall. GP is talking about DNS over HTTPS, which can't be fixed in this way.
Many of these details, along with other extraordinarily shady activities on the part of Tesla, came out in a longform Bloomberg article earlier this year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
Yes, but www.website.com cookies won't be sent. But you'll have to crack open devtools to figure out which one each website is doing.
In 1998 Jon Postel briefly "hijacked" the DNS root zone. Formal control over DNS had always belonged to the US government, but Postel commanded such universal respect from the internet community that they were willing to follow him, as head of IANA, over the government contractor that "officially" ran the root at the time.

This of course is why ICANN was created, to bring governance of the Internet closer to the community that developed and maintained it. But now ICANN has become just as remote and unaccountable as the bureaucrats and contractors it replaced. And Postel is long gone, and the Internet community has grown so big and fragmented that no one person will ever have anywhere near the towering position he once did.

So now what do we do?
Interesting, at my Trader Joe’s they always ask, and when I do say I couldn’t find something they just shrug and apologize. Ironically this is the TJ’s up the hill from the new Go store mentioned.
The ends justify the means. You're benefiting from ages of actually cruel animal experiments, they got us to where we are today.

Nobody loves them, but they're important in this case to help parralyzed humans maybe with ALS or some other disease communicate with loved ones
The majority of those mid-level workers are going to be mid-level workers at another company in the next couple of years. Encouraging ease-of-replaceability via telecommuting (which also will likely be a lower-cost for the org) isn't in their interest, because when they go for their next position, the culture of the area may be more open to remote workers, making it harder to get a job, or make as much as you were making before.

From an investors standpoint, of course they'd like to spend less, but many no doubt get a thrill out of bragging about how they're able to attract the top-paid talent, stealing person X away from company Y, etc. Few investors would likely be bragging about how they've achieved 20% cost savings by introducing a culture of remote US workers.

Similar to most dept managers, if you show you can get the same results with less money, you'll get less money in your budget next year. No one likes to do that, so while there's incentives to save money, there's also incentives not to save money.

I don't think this is something most people there obsess and strategize about day after day. I do suspect some of the savvier ones do understand that the easier they make it to bring in remote workers, the easier they will be to replace. When you stress the whole culture of the region as being 'the place to be', you make it harder to justify remote workers because "they're not here, they don't 'get it'".
I'm not saying that they want to prove coronavirus is literally not real, I'm saying that oil prices generally track with the kind of economic activity that a pandemic messes up [1]

> As economic activity slowed sharply across the globe, demand for petroleum and petroleum products plummeted. The drop in demand, coupled with an unexpected increase in supply, led to a collapse in crude oil prices and subsequent impacts on prices for refined petroleum products and other downstream items, notably gasoline. As economies reopened, the initial price downturn gave way to reduced oil production and some renewed demand. As a result, prices for oil products partially recovered.

so they would prefer a world in which the coronavirus is not a serious problem that merits shutdowns.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/from-the-barrel-to...
I once seen one used in risk evaluation for line of credits
Noam Chomsky has an agenda himself, I would not use him as a factual reference for any such perceived bias.
So add neighborhood wireless networks for last mile.

Lay pipe later once the city is forced to cough up a license to dig.
My speculation: they took their PDP-11 assembler and modified it to make an x86 assembler. Using a PDP-11-inspired syntax, instead of Intel syntax, reduced the number of code changes required.
What's the tool used to make this diagram?
I'm confused by this argument re: credentialism because I can't think of a high paying career with less credentialism than being a software engineer. And yet the gender imbalance is larger here than in way more credentialist careers -- see law, medicine, etc.
Agree. There’s a sort of woo popularity thing with a large tranche of mindfulness which is a bit too goal oriented and westernised for my tastes. I mean, each to their own but for me it’s a bit like abridged classic novels or pseudo classical renderings of Beethoven: it may have the essence of the real thing but in simplifying and “making easy”, it’s also loses much of the depth and richness. Proust and Beethoven aren’t meant into be “easy” or “accessible”, but if you make the effort, your life is richer because of that. Feels the same to me with meditative practice. I’m all for more people doing it but it all too easily feels transient, a passing fad, something that will only be popular with people while it’s fashionable. I’ve found the deeper parts of my practice by persevering through the hard times, by beginning to understand how grasping the human (particularly western) mind is, and by just sitting.
Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Quantum Physics, Python, Golang, Javascript, Mathematica

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qo2hepipjzvimbl/AAAFlsvYkssMtRaDr...

Email: kapawlak@ucsb.edu

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Not sure if this is a "thing" here yet, but I am a newish Ph.D. looking to learn and grow in Quantum Computing. Would love to get into simulations on the hardware end or algorithms on the software end. I am a self-taught programmer, but I do Coursera classes regularly to stay as fresh as possible and learn useful tricks.
Yes, I use one email address on my domain for everything. I have no need for a more nuanced email setup.
It wont have an immediate affect. What it will do is enable people to sue spammers that they couldn't previously sue. This may have a good long term affect. Not just for Canada but for the World in general.
I'm surprised this has so many yes votes. I thought that in tech circles people tend to give out different email addresses for each online service they use...
I have not tried, but I can not see why it should not work to spin up two separate VMs and connect them. The distribution between phones is however tested and works.

CouchDB have a git repository with Erlang/OTP for android: https://github.com/apage43/otp (Switch branch to Android).
Is the extension available to the public? I'd love to be able to see my own stats.
Thanks! Do you think it's really a good idea to be looking at LISP based stuff? I've barely begun to wrap my head around python.
Can someone help me with the argument here? I understand the part about showing that solving Schrodinger's equation is NP-hard and thus extremely difficult for large inputs (ie large physical systems). But when we make a statement such as "Problem X is NP-complete," we're making a formal claim about solving that problem with a particular symbolic model of computation.

Is it obvious that such a model of computation applies to the universe?

My layman's understanding is that there's still debate about whether the physical universe is fundamentally discrete or continuous. If the latter, then all the time the universe is effectively performing infinite-precision calculations, which we know to be impossible under the standard symbolic model of computing.
That's just great! Thank you.
There's also an issue with maternity leave.

Maternity leave means that women effectively cost more than men for the same amount of work, in the long run and on average. This can be mitigated by laws, but cannot be eliminated without addressing the underlying social issues. And no, mandatory paternity leave doesn't eliminate it, as there are more single mothers than single fathers.

The logic is simple. Companies survive by making a profit. In order to do so, they attempt to cut costs for a given amount of work done. Currently, females on average end up spending more time on paid leave. Hence, there ends up being a bias.

And I'm not sure if it is one that can be fixed through legislation. Attempts in that vein tend to be counterproductive at best. It's more of a social issue.
[IANAL]

If the source code is publicly accessible, it seems ipso facto legally infeasible to assert closed source license terms up in it. That's not to say that the terms could not prohibit compilation, interpretation, and other forms of machine execution. But the source is open by the author's choice when the terms and conditions of Github are accepted.
hmm, it seems to me that the author confuses NP-hard and NP-complete in a couple of places. Typos perhaps, or just poorly written.
while javascript is not my most favorite language, I think the opportunity to keep pretty much your whole stack in one language is worth alot. node / io.js let you do this; at the end of the day you can't "really" get around JS on the browser anyway.
I tried blender once, it was taking too much time so I gave up. I wanted to make animation movie. Would you mind sharing your stuff with blender?
Apparently it happened a lot at Disney after Walt Disney was gone.
Because it sounds good rhetorically. It is similar to the tendency to declare someone who's really good at X "the god of X".
Was it the letterforms that bothered them, or the curled yellow paper?
Airplanes were very dangerous at first, but here we are today.
https://support.smartbear.com/swaggerhub/docs/apis/generatin....
you have to fit into the company's software ecosystem, if everyone uses php or python there and you do Haskell it does not matter if you're a MIT PhD that happens to be a Haskell core developer that can rewrite chrome in Haskell in a month, it just does not fit.

That been said, there are definitely companies need Haskell developers, it just has less positions for a smaller pool of developers.
Is your text modeling a text document or is it sending instructions to a terminal?
I work for companies that create things I find valuable. Currently I work for a company that makes electric vehicle chargers. Previously, I worked for a company that was making software to help streamline medical approvals. Profit is a requirement for these companies to exist, but they are creating things that do good in the world.

That said, to me the purpose of life isn't in work. It's more that I want to feel that the amount of effort I put into work isn't going to negative outcomes. So I find jobs that i believe are a net positive for society, but still only put in my 40ish hours a week and go to find my meaning in my personal life.

I'd say that no matter where you wish to find purpose my advice will be the same. Find a company that you believe is a net good to the world, and then put in however much effort you wish to that company. It does limit the amount of companies you are able to work for, but there are so many openings available for good people in software that you'll probably find plenty of opportunities regardless.
> I don't really know what drives people.

WHO do you want serve? Think potential end-users or clients.

Is there a community or market niche that might best benefit from your experience and expertise?

The portfolio companies at Lowercarbon Capital are doing interesting mission-driven work. > https://lowercarboncapital.com/companies/
> Several of the reports of this story have been flagged off the home page, probably because of the horrible comments that appeared in the discussions.

I was wondering why I hadn't seen that flamewar here yet. Could you link me to some of these? As someone who occasionally reads YouTube comments for fun, I actually am interested in getting a more concrete sense of what such people are saying.

> There is a need for a startup to encourage smart and empathetic comments, and discourage anonymous bile you can find pretty much everywhere, including places where real names are required.

http://engage.cs.washington.edu/considerit/
It's not like that, they get used, and in most important way when you get involved with others: CYA (cover your ass).
You see, when you are that time called annual performance review, these are the most important thing for your team leader/project manager/group leader, you know those who will decide to give you a Xmas bonus or bump your pay with 1%, to use to prove you don't deserve any of bonus/bump because you are full of mistakes on said documents. And if you do get any bonus/bump is shown like they make you a huge favor with the promise that you need in the future to become even more of a spineless monkey. Which is why currently we have this situation where coders jump ship at slightest increase from rival, because any loyalty that was embedded in us by our parents went out the window when we dealt with above situations.
They didn't backdoor it. It was back in 2013 when they were new. Everyone was going "whoa, your encryption is weird" and they were defending themselves by saying "we have 6 world champion programmers".

Anyways, something like 6 months after launch a Russian guy found that they were seeding their secret chat keys with entropy from the server, meaning the server could trivially MITM any secret chat. Pretty embarrassing.

Iirc it got quite little publicity since most of the discussion was in Russian, and the disclosure was in a forum post in an obscure forum.
> I completely agree with you but this will take decades, at best.

Yup. I lived most recently in Atlanta, where they're on the right track with new projects (and a Microsoft campus to the west), so I expect it to be a much nicer place to live 20-30 years from now. But I'm 25! I don't have time to wait until retirement to enjoy my life!

Seattle is streets ahead of Atlanta, with some promising light rail expansions planned in the future. Again, on a 10-20 year timeline.

I have grown to despise cars so much that I thought it was time to give Japan a try. If I ever leave Japan, I'd sooner move to Germany or the UK than return to America.
Yep. Matz disabled TCO in Ruby because it was incompatible with some alternative implementations like JRuby.
Corporations, policy makers and markets are often shaped by public will. Where we do or don’t give money and what we do or don’t express support for as a collective will shape the future. You can’t save the world alone. But working with a community, being an example for others, donating to effective efforts, seeking and speaking truth loudly - this stuff isn’t always just virtue signaling or self soothing. It’s actually the way change gets made over time.
> Too much noise

I think people that make this argument against apartments fail to appreciate the difference that a quality construction makes.

I lived in early 2000's apartments where I could hear my upstairs neighbour blasting drum and bass in the stairwell. However, I could hear literally nothing once I closed my apartment door.

I have also lived in a 1930's terraced house where I could literally hear my next door neighbour coughing.

Construction quality matters a lot more than how cramped or not your housing conditions are.
Back when I was in school, we used BlueJ [1]. I still think it's an extremely approachable IDE that has all the basics but not much more.

1: https://www.bluej.org/
vtune can also do wonders
Boeing's fine is essentially nothing more than a one-time 10% rebate to their largest customer.

(Reference: In 2017, Boeing booked over $22 BILLION in revenue from the US government. https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/01/02/ho... )
A few years ago, I watched a documentary about the making of the movie Fitzcaraldo. One section that made me chuckle was when the narrator said that scientists predict that the Amazon rainforest will be totally gone by the year 2010. Obviously that didn't happen.

I wouldn't feel too hopeless about things just based off of a study whose timescale is roughly the same as cold fusion research. We still had the rainforest in 2010 because people changed their behavior and the rate of deforestation decreased. There's still time to change things.
He just trying to point out what is media agenda now. Keep people in fear. Which is true and last two years are proof of it.
Eh, I don't really see that Coachella cares one way or the other if people are aware of Krazam LLC.
And HTTPS so I can sleep at night knowing noone MITM'd my stupid internet content.
If he really wanted to, he could have written it as a JIT and generate ASM directly. Writing an executable page is quite trivial in Go.
Perhaps don't use intensifiers when research doesn't excuse the use of them? :)

"Very low" minimizes the risk people associate with it and it's not appropriate for things that:

- needs more research

- current research doesn't support it's usage

In the context of assessing personal risk factors of readers in the midst of a global pandemic. I think it's kinda irresponsible.
This meme won’t die. Heck, I'm thinking how to build the next version of this site!
While I find just about everyone participating in this event contemptible (including Nixon) there are reasonable points made about the challenge that China presents.

A few of the potshots that are taken at "the woke crowd" bear commenting on since there is some extreme revisionism going on.

- The progressive left opposed China's admission to the WTO citing human rights (Tibet in particular) and the effect on US workers

- The progressive left yelled and screamed about human rights for Uiygurs and supply chains in general for years. The Trump administration ignored it for most of his term, not mentioning it until the pandemic and scapegoating China for "Kung Flu".

- The progressive left would embrace a carbon border price in a heartbeat. Pompeo's former boss of course said the opposite, calling climate change a Chinese hoax. Biden would do well to propose a border tax.
Even when a community has herd immunity, there are still individuals who won't have immunity within that group. Anyone who comes into the community with the virus can still spread it locally to the people around them - herd immunity only affects community spread, not individual spread. So when there's a pandemic raging on outside the country, free movement of unvaccinated people across the borders will necessarily mean that there will be cases domestically affecting the domestically unvaccinated. Until the entire world has herd immunity (a long time from now), if a community wants to drop caseloads to ~0, travel restrictions for the unvaccinated are one way to accomplish that.

Whether that's just or fair or good policy, certainly up for debate.
> It is tempting to regard fundamental physics as a study of "Why are we here?", but it is really a study of "How are we here?" The difference is subtle but substantial. If "Why?" is what you're seeking, you are more likely to find that answer within, rather than within the study of physics.

I don't want to know why, I just want to know the complete set of rules at the lowest level.
Thanks for sharing! These presentations are awesome.

As you point out, the topic is not about programming languages or technologies at all. It's about how you handle and benefit from innovation.
I got mine because it cam with the internet.

"How much is internet?"
"40 euros"
"How much is internet with a phone contract bundle?"
"40 euros"

I was perfectly happy with my Nokia. Battery lasted a week. I could bounce it off the ground.

The smartphone can be useful at times, but at other times it is so frustrating to use it cancels out the benefit. And since everyone else is using whatsapp, I might as well join in.

I take my pleasure in life from things outside a 4 inch screen.
Would be really interested to chat to you about Codebox + Docker, email is ben at talkingquickly co uk or talkingquickly on twitter
For ESL:

NIMBY
Not In My Back Yard; someone who opposes anything built right by where they live.
NIMBYs cause a lot of things to not get done.
I'm not convinced many people would volunteer to destroy their deposits just to punish a fraudulent seller.

For reference, say you're trying to buy a widget valued $100. Both the seller and you deposit $150, you pay, the seller never ships. At that point you're out $100. You can punish the seller, at no use to you whatsoever, and increase your losses to $250. Do you opt to double (or more) your losses?

What if the seller were to offer $50 back? I know I'd rather be out $50 than $200.
I don't think internet bravado has ever been very intimidating to anyone.
Rather than paying a particularly good programmer 10x
as much, you can just hire 10 mediocre programmers,
and they will probably get more done.

Not in finance; let me tell you from my experience poorly building a bitcoin trading bot over a few weekends, I lost money (play money) from silly off by one mistakes and not having a proper grasp of the statistics I was using. In this type of situation, only a real quant is likely to make money, and the 10 other guys will lose everything in fairly short order. Likewise in crypto: how many average programmers would you have to put in a room to write a secure storage system like Tarsnap?

But, I will agree with you in the general case: CRUD apps. There are lots of features and no one person can quickly crank them out no matter how "x" they are, so in these types of jobs, you really can get much more done with 10 average programmers.
> In your world company A should be responsible for making company B's service work?

If I'm paying Company A? It used to work, and it doesn't now? Yes.

Why should users care whose fault it is? This isn't even about fault; the only fault is failing to adequately test with something so widely used. Just fix it.
How many employees did Mt. Gox have? This seems pretty polished for a company that I thought had ~10 employees.
K-9 Mail is great indeed. Particularly that it is available on F-Droid as I don't want to create a google account so won't/can't use their playstore.
> are so sophisticated

Their password was "SolarWinds123".

Everyone who gets pwnd tells a story about sophisticated state actors to make it sound like some unstoppable force has hit their impenetrable defences.
There's no loss until the stock is sold. Personally, I'm holding mine and I'm only down a bit right now. I see no reason to sell. MSM badly wants the stock to tank so the shorts get covered. Won't happen.
They are fascinating :)

Also, flipper EOS switches are leaf switches, not microswitches.

Through the early 90s the flipper button switches were also leaf switches. In the early 90s some time after the introduction of the Fliptronics system by Williams/Bally, they switched to using a plastic opto-interrupter and U-shaped opto(s) rather than a leaf switch.

Games with upper flippers often used ganged leaf switches and later dual optos to allow independent "staged" control of lower and upper flippers on the same side of the machine. That allows you to press the flipper button in half way to engage only the lower flipper, and then all the way to also engage the upper flipper(s).
In some respects HN is a Gopher server adapted for today. Focused on content, links to information, and just enough detail to keep you going.

As a protocol, Gopher is straight forward. Whenever someone talks about the "semantic web" I'm always reminded of Gopher has been doing since 1991. It is in no way perfect, but worked well.