jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Posterizing, which I guess is a type of low-bit dithering, or not dithering at all, has been popular of a long time. There's the famous Obama "Hope" poster with him in front of a French flag that was really popular in 2008.
chubot, I have to say I really admire your dedication! I only follow oilshell to the extent that I read your articles and dip in to the wiki, but even that is a joyful learning experience.
Rightly said. Can we not push "good articles" running in HTTP towards transitioning it to HTTPS? Definitely we may lose those articles during that phase, but a probable security risk can be avoided. A thought.
Cryptopals is great.

I use it when I want to kick the tyres on a new language.
First you presumed that I gentrified those neighborhoods when I did not. Now you fail to address the logic of my point about your contradictory views. Then you shift the goalpost from tech to all powers. Then you presume that I ignore systemic prejudice. Lastly your argument relies on the religion that everything is due to systemic prejudice.

If you were to look at actual facts, the picture is far more complex than your Disneyland view of the world. Go look at achievement rates or ethnic groups by generation from immigration. Go look at who from those ethnic groups immigrated. Go look at education levels of Nigerian-Americans. Go look at effects of poverty and cycles of poverty and how discrimination drove poverty. Go look at the rapidly increasing income of Latinos.

Your argument is strongly reminiscent of the political Disneyland as described in https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html. Everybody is either all good or all bad. Things are binary.

Good bye. Feel free to live in your own Disneyland.
Man. So many comments responding with more descriptions of the world tech companies created. Fascinating how much even us tech folk don't realize how much of our work environment is subject to design.
Sure, but is your argument that I should enjoy great art simply because it’s considered great? Surely there are reasons even for art.
> Information Theory is the ur-science.

Eh, this can be said about a lot of foundational disciplines/studies/theories. Philosophy of science (or philosophy of mathematics), logic, category theory, model theory etc would all fit the description. I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that information theory isn't unique in this respect.
I'm not quite sure what are you getting at. Would you say the same about gold or silver? Gold is not backed by anything, in itself it has absolutely no use for me, I can't really buy a piece of bread with it, but it's still valuable.

> Is this the case for Europe and the US? Hell no.

You've basically described Post-WW1 Germany and similar is true of Eastern Europe under Soviets, so it's recent stuff.
That’s fair tbh. Implementing this server side has let us iterate faster and get this out the door. I think implementing it client side is better however. Till we get there, we let you turn this feature off entirely and just use client side features, which still lets you utilize extensions.
Also, "3 Nov 21" works only as long as everyone speaks a language in which "Nov" actually stands for November. Abbreviations can have false friends in some languages. It's the reason most EU personal documents try to avoid using text as much as possible because it's impractical to write it in 20+ languages.
Looks very similar to https://github.com/pinterest/snappass
"Look at what Mayor London Breed of SF just announced yesterday - redistributing $120m in taxpayers’ hard-earned money away from law enforcement and towards a slush fund for “black communities”, in one of the most crime-ridden and unsafe cities in the US (https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-pl...)."

In the context of homicide, SF has one of the lowest homicides in the country, with 2019 being the lowest homicide rate in 60 years, and 2020 (post BLM) being very low. https://sfist.com/2020/01/01/san-francisco-homicide-count-20...
EU is light years ahead in propaganda, that's about it. It has its mouth full of GDPR while it's quietly preparing China-style firewall, tracked digital money and encryption ban.
My friend was the one with the working pokedex and boy was I jealous. Lots of Pokemon nostalgia thinking about all the gizmos and toys I bought, trading cards, video games, marbles, action figures, you name it.

Fun time to be nostalgic since tomorrow is the 25th anniversary too.
Ever notice that these factory images always have as their focal point a pretty or even beautiful Asian woman? They're definitely selling something . . .
ahh yes, the job fair I was rejected from. sigh..
Key paragraph:

Without a strong hypothesis and problem statement, there’s no reason to get feedback. Asking a friend, "What do you think of my idea?" is almost completely useless. Asking a friend (or someone else who isn’t as biased as your friend, "Do you have this problem, and how painful is it?" is a much more useful query
... except that's not recursion.
All the major search engines have servers that can run autonomously in most major data centres around the world.

Granted their caches will run stale fairly quickly but they won't be inoperable.
It infuriates me that my browser keeps this big cache of web content, but refuses to show it to me when I don't have an Internet connection! This is the main reason people keep asking for an app, when all they really want is offline access.
I haven't tried the app yet, but I think there's a difference.

With the browser, you browse a page, and it caches it. But you have to browse it first.

With an app, you could specify that you want the latest homepage? x-page(s)? and let the app poll for you.

So there's definitely place for innovation, I guess.
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Plot confirmed cases and deaths vs. date on a log scale for countries with more than N cases/deaths.

You'll see USA following similar pattern to Italy, and other European countries, without significant slowdown of exponential trend yet.
Radio is a public broadcast and people get sued for tuning in. Like the NFL Super Bowl party limitation and screen size of the past. These rules drive me nuts and should be reviewed in my opinion.

So your recommendation to all the street performers? If open mics are "stealing" from the artist then street performers are at a whole new level. We will have no art or performance in our society if we continue these down these roads of copy right and performance.

Only one's that can do anything reflecting to society will be satire and that is only because of the Supreme Court.
Update -> We have NOW edited the posts, so they all have times :)
Turning into a 1984 society one bad idea at a time.
I put together a simple map of all coworking spaces in NYC I could find. I also separated out some of the spaces that are trade specific, such as artistic leaning ones.

Other findings include average price is $425 for an individual desk in a shared space.
Brooklyn is conspicuously bereft of spaces, even though it is the home of many in NYC tech.

The map is editable, please feel free to make any changes necessary/add any new spaces not pictured.
Let me try to de-baffle you -- it is the shitcoin-oh-god-yet-another-ICO aspect, not the monetize-aspect which is causing friction.

If Signal switched to a 'Lite' vs 'Pro' model, or other incremental features, or had more donation related nagging, I doubt it would raise the slightest bother.

Many people switched from other messaging apps on princple, much of that signalled (pun intended) by actions of the founders. This moves seems to be incompatible with many people's principles.
If shipping cost is important to you, then indeed why not just go out and buy it directly?
Where I live (Philadelphia) I see a lot of advertisements for hospitals, and for treatments for serious conditions like cancer. Not so much "we'll do it for $whatever", but certainly language like "we are the best hospital in the region for (issue)".
Just because things are not as bad as they are in Syria or Egypt, doesn't mean we should not be seriously troubled by the conduct of our government. We should not have to wait until citizens are getting murdered in the streets by our government before we get concerned.
In Britain for many years the main security measure at Heathrow was for security people to simply interview passengers on check in and ask them about their bags, where they were traveling, etc. -- the main purpose was to look for behavioral cues and not so much obtain answers to the questions. I believe this is one of the things TSA officers are supposed to receive training in.

I took the earlier post as referring to the events that happened after he was detained. I'm not arguing against the idea of "behavioural indicators", I meant to say that someone becoming upset at being detained, grilled, denied water, etc., isn't such an indicator.

As for TSA officers in particular - these are people who would be asking "Would you like a hot apple pie with that?" if it weren't for the existence of the TSA. Not exactly America's "best and brightest". I have serious questions about their qualification to make any kind of valid assessment based on subtle psychological / behavioural clues.

You've led a sheltered life.

Not so much.
If the goal is to celebrate the free market, food production is probably not a great analogy. In the US it's heavily subsidized, regulated, watched and manipulated to ensure that the market doesn't act too much like a free market. [1]

Housing and Utilities are that way too. When you get right down to it, every vital fundamental service is backstopped in similar ways. At least inasmuch as disqualifying them from being great examples.

Which rather deprives us of a simple analogy between "How Health Care Might Be" and some other current market for a vital human need.

[1] Which may well work itself out in the end, but is given to trouble in the short run from things like fraud, bubbles, panics and crashes -- things society has voted that they like less than government manipulation of the market.
For a bet like that, it doesn't matter if the score difference results from random chance and not any underlying difference in skill or ability. The NHTSA is in the business of assessing car safety though, and it makes little sense for tnem to rank cars within a category if they don't think the difference is actually meaningful.
I went looking for more info, and found this link: http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/com...

"DCA is known to cause nerve and liver damage, as well as some other side effects. It may also be able to cause cancer in humans, but that has not been proven." - from the link above.
You can have a house or a business on a public street and ban certain people from visiting it as well. Why does it seem strange that the same law applies online?
When we got engaged after 7 years I was still not allowed in the pics. Not until I was married. It caused family issues and they changed it next year for the favorite cousin and her fiancé.

He also goes back and very badly crops others peoples heads onto her steps sisters exes. It was awkward as hell when her niece was old enough to notice her dad being cropped over last year.

Taking pics without letting SOs is is understandable. Refusing to get to know someone because you might be gone is not. It goes much deeper but it’s too much to type.
First, it looks good like you declare who you are. Many VPN providers seem to want to hide their real identities which is a big red flag.

I couldn't see from the website what your VPN is based on in terms of protocol? Or home brewed? OpenVPN?

Have you had 3rd party audits?

Have you considered alternative payment forms? Such as Bitcoin or other?

From your Terms of Service 'What we do not allow on or from our network...' how do you track these? Do you provide a transparency report summarising legal, copyright etc requests made, action taken?

Also from ToS 'What we need our customers to do:
- Use responsible disclosure in the event any security vulnerabilities occur in our website, software or infrastructure.' Do you have a public disclosure policy notifying of vulnerabilities?

Choosing a VPN involves placing a lot of trust in a 3rd party. Hence questions.
I can't believe it doesn't even define what JWT means...
JSON Web Tokens
That's like a free child pornography host pass, I'd rather not.
Previous discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042085
f20 selects this discussion (the 20th link), but I used f4<Enter> to select threads (the 4th link); j,D, and <Space> scroll down by a line, half-screen/page and full-screen/page respectively; fr4 selects the correct reply (the fourth link whose text begins with r); gi goes to the first input field and enters insert mode.

In insert mode I may use the simple mixture of emacs/readline and CUA bindings — like ^w to wipe the last word, ^a to go to the beggining of the line and ^e to go to the end (eg. when inserting a > before a blockquote, then appending my commentary) — to write a straightforward comment from beginning to end, or I may use ^i to pop the field open in my $EDITOR (vis), where motions like m to mark my place, G to go to the end, o to open a new line, and M to return to my mark are useful for comments that might be written non-linearly, eg. if they have footnotes. I can save and exit vis (if I use it) with ZZ, and submit the comment with standard CUA <Tab><Enter>.

If I reference any other material then Pentadactyl’s browsing bindings like go«character» to open a quickmark, s to search, p or P to paste my X11 primary selection as a search term or the url of a current or new tab, b to fast-as-you-type search through tabs, y to yank the current website, ;y«number and/or title of link to yank» and d to delete a tab are useful (along with standard X11 Shift+Insert to paste the primary selection in insert mode).

Ideally though, I should use Pentadactyl only for browsing — for scrolling through and reading web documents — and have a dedicated newsreader that understands what posts, comments, etc. are and could make this several times more efficient. I’m currently dipping my toes in evil-mode emacs, which should enable this. I’ve recently spent less time on HN and more on IRC where I do have a dedicated native client that makes things orders of magnitude more smooth than trying to use a web client in my browser.
Years of tier 1 experience and trying to replicate those workloads on DO to see what the fuss is about. They are not remotely the same. How is the user experience better? Third party support like Terraform is objectively worse for DO
A round trip is a round trip. Software can’t beat physics.

If you want to do requests in parallel, http 2 and 3 can do them just fine. If it’s sequential, you won’t see a huge difference between something on websockets and http/1.1.

The only thing you can save are a few header bytes. And it’s up to you how many headers you use
Democrats definitely do try to expand the reach of colleges to all, including the lower classes, but I imagine that a lot of lower classes would feel excluded at the institutions (not knowing the lingo, how to dress, etc. all the things talked about in the blog post previous to this one in the series).

I think he wants Republicans to come at the solution from another angle: instead of college for all, make college not a pre-requisite for things that it's obviously not a pre-requisite for. Like a lot of things in this essay, this is one of those ideas that's been percolating and growing in popularity in the grey-tribe blogo-substacko-sphere that Scott Alexander belongs to which he is proposing Republicans graft onto their platform. Another example from the essay where he's doing this: advocating prediction markets over credentialism (this one is the most laughably unlikely to actually become part of the Republican platform, IMO).
Better to do delivery of groceries and food than to go to a store and swap air with others.
If you are unable to find out that 90 percent of people can't use a major feature that you thought would differentiate your product, you are missing all forms of feedback, including much more important sources besides analytics.
For a number of years, Mirtazapine helped me sleep, although it reduced dreaming to nil. Interestingly, the antihistamine sedation effect of it decreases at increased doses.
Sure! But "other industries do bad things too" does not excuse these companies doing bad things.

The Italian government can't do much when a Chinese factory pours chemical waste into the ocean. They can stop Uber Eats from screwing over Italian delivery drivers.
> and in fact they've been drifting further away from that ideal over time.

Can you provide a source where "open hardware" was touted as an ideal for the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

It's a cheap education platform built on Broadcom hardware. I don't think there was ever much chance the Broadcom h/w was going to be open. And that's maybe sad for some people but it won't stop the Foundation achieving its actual goals. Open hardware enthusiasts can vote with their wallet, for all the impact it'll have. It must be one of the best selling novelty products of all time.
Js will never have types.Ever.It could have had type back in 2007, Microsoft creator of typescript said NO.
It wasn't meant to discount it, I just happened to watch it without sound and found it amusing and thought others would enjoy both the technology plus a little humour :)
> This differentiation is superfluous with EVs, and I believe we will not see this living much longer.

Am I understanding your statement correctly? Are you implying that FWD/RWD/AWD doesn't matter for an EV? Because from a handling and safety perspective, it matters just as much in an EV as it does in an ICE.
> My experience dealing with militant vegans is that there is no amount or type of evidence that would convince them that a diet that includes ANY amount of animal products is healthy. It's a religion to them, and that's that.

This does not correspond at all with my experience. I know many "militant" vegans, but none of them says that a vegan diet is healthier in itself. They simply don't want to kill animals. Even the most militant of the bunch has this clear. I was explaining to him that my kids enjoy vegan dishes, and he warned me against the dangers of a solely plant-based diet for children. Apparently they'd need some dietary supplements for a correct growth (I didn't really care, because my kids eat a lot of meat and fish, just not every day).
It would depend on the author. Some even write their manuscripts in cursive on paper!
And yet it's not, because this is an article about token formats, and not about entire authorization schemes.
TIL

I've been using Glide for years. Going to throw it all out today. Thanks for the info
It’s good point: right and left aren’t parties. Unfortunately it’s increasingly feeling that way in America; Independents (among which I count myself) don’t play a meaningful role and polarization as measured by congressional voting patterns seems to be the highest it’s been in decades.

I think it’s unfair to say they support policies that favor the already wealthy. Certainly they do sometimes, but they’ve opposed tax cuts, supported minimum wage increases, etc. I’m ready to be proven wrong but I haven’t got that impression when I read it.
It would be nice if we could view trade, commerce and intermingling of Northern-Latituders as a positive prospect for humanity, rather than an opportunity for conflict.
In the long run, range could be less of an issue if we had electrified roads that allow the cars to charge while moving at freeway speeds.

(This isn't needed for all roads, just the major highways and interstates, since those are the roads where people typically are driving long distance.)
So I agree that TBL himself did a great job designing HTML for exactly what he concieved: distributed documentation. It was not however a system designed for web applications. Almost immediately after it gained popularity, people wanted to represent shopping carts. Even the places where Roy Fielding's thesis on REST are well understood and applied, it is very difficult to turn documents into applications without implicit client server state.

Just because TBL is brilliant doesnt mean his work can be misapplied. Of course, i also blame the people who thought of scaling thousands of existing client server applications for a fraction of the cost: things like shopping carts and online banking. True, it drove the web to what it is today, but at great cost.

Here is another thought: if the web is so great, why are so many companies creating their own tablet/mobile app experience instead? It cant be because it requires less dev knowledge and effort?
That's impressive. But I think we're working with different notions of suburban. For a suburban high school to have a graduating class of 500, you were presumably around a large population center? Where I grew up, that was the size of the high schools in the city (of about 120k).

My school district, an amalgamation of suburban enclaves and small towns, only had about a third of that. I think being close to a larger city means probably a more sophisticated suburban population (I don't think I'd ever met anyone who'd been to an Ivy-ish school prior to college) and larger schools, which allows for more stratified educational tracks.
Agreed about the extremely small attack, but one pi couldn't have done it. You'd need at least two or three. A pi will only get you to ~3Mb/s sustained ethernet. That's because ethernet is tacked onto the USB subsystem in a funny way.
That service only extends to the MPAA /s
http://bgp.he.net/AS36459#_peers
Yeah, there needs to be some maturity. It's rare, but it exists. I once worked for a consulting company where they chose their methodology based on the cultural environment of their client. It prompted me to put this post together - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=d84dff2a-c5cd-463...
What percentage of the medias audience cares about GitHub?
If you have that much trouble disconnecting sometimes, you need help.

I'm a loner by nature and I find it extremely easy to get alone time even without 'disconnecting'. My computers stay on, my phones stay on, everything stays on.

-I- am in control. I don't let devices or other people control me. I make the decisions on what to do and when.
Maybe that rate isn't too bad but it seems like too much because I never go to the doctor / hospital. I'm very healthy.

I did incorporated myself (as a freelancer). Does that change anything? Maybe I could add my brothers and do a small company group plan or something?

Thanks for your help, and for the link! :) I've been asking around and this was the first even remotely useful thing I've found! :D
So if a class if students decides to throw the exam they can get the teacher fired? Sort of a middle school cousin of jury nullification.
That'e the name of the blog, not the post. The post is about GenY and some tips for them to be happy.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible,
you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Brian Kernighan

my fav :)
Compare pointers rather than compare strings: convert all words in a dictionary to a trie structure. Then, each leaf of the tree (a word) is a pointer. A phrase or sentance can be a list of pointers. Pointer compares are mondo-faster when comparing two pointers than walking down two strings.
When you are experimenting, u (undo) and Ctrl+R (redo) are invaluable.
wait... I had that clock on my Amiga 500! And Reversi! And notepad! ...or something like it. So what gives?
Here is a relevant article about how when interviewing programmers you should actually test if they can program: http://www.richard-banks.org/2009/08/some-developers-just-ca...
Traffic data from sensors in the road has always seemed fairly accurate to me.

I also like the idea of using millions of iPhones' locations to get comprehensive traffic data.

However it's vaguely reminiscent of the cell phone sonar surveillance system in The Dark Knight.