jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gerard Manley Hopkins:
God’s Grandeur

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

I don't actually liken the poem to god's grandeur... more the seemingly unending bounty of the world, and its perseverance in spite of a harsh and unforgiving universe.
Wow, I go on holiday away from a decent internet connection and next thing you know, HN front page. Urk.

Hope it all works well for everyone. As mentioned, the source is all on github (https://github.com/thingsinjars/8bitalpha) so if there are any improvements, fork away.

I'll try and keep an eye on it in case something breaks but I'm a bit limited to an iPhone SSH client on a foreign country's network so play nice. :D

I'm glad people are finding it useful, though.
Normally, I'd say if you're the dumbest person in the room, you thank your lucky stars you get to learn so much.

But the problem here isn't that you're dumb. The problem is you're in a toxic (for you) culture. Get out of there! I don't know if it's them, or if it's you, but it doesn't matter. Clearly, you're not suited for the environment. Quit, and be conscious of the culture you're stepping into at the next job.
check out https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox
I'm surprised the author (and no-one here) hasn't worked out the starting date of the automated price war based on the original RRP of the title :)
Any 3rd party tools available to 3rd party sellers?
Offering something that beats the current algorithms could be a good deal (if its not illegal).
Still, it reminds me of Snuffle. Remember the lawsuit?
The advantage of a solution like this is that you don't have to find the cable (or in the case of a docking station, the place to put the laptop), the cable finds you. So you could put your laptop down anywhere in the office, and in theory, a cord would eventually wind its way over to you to plug itself in.
Is it possible (and effective) to enlist the services of a debt collection agency in these cases?
>...decentralization...

Let's call it de-specification. Utilizing cloud services, you can no longer specify where that data resides, apart from the tag we use to identify the provider; 'Gmail', 'AWS', etc.

You can specify the provider of the container for your data, but you cannot specify or define the container in which that data resides.

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This article is great, I have been following these trends for some time. Starting with the CyberPunk RPG game, which interestingly is based in 2020 which we played in the late 80's-early 90s..

The premise is that in CyberPunk the world is run by global corporations and technology is an integral filiment in the fabric of life, if not life itself. Machines and technology and information operate outside of and on top of humanity and increasingly requires less and less of human individuality to exist and profit.

M2M communication is something I wrote about while at Lockheed - where the premise was that RFID based communications was a layer of data that had yet to reach maturity. We were talking about the capabilties of autonomous sensor networks that monitor and report on all aspects of their nodes, with respect to military hardware you have weapons which are IDd and tracked for location. They are in containers which are monitored for environmental conditions and security. If a container with a certain type of munition has too much Gshock the munition arms itself - thus the location, environment and events are all monitored and reported on with alert thresholds being set to escalate alerts to appropriate parties. Inventories are gathered and stored on tags for lookup - and a complete view of all resources is accessible.
Flickr at least has a decent revenue stream - http://www.zitzsolutions.com/2009/08/19/social-media-website...

The link is 1.5 years old, but (IMHO, and anecdotal) Flickr's growth has been steady since about then.
A similar thing happens here if you post an identical link. Your submission is disallowed and acts as an up-vote for the original.

But too many URLs are different, sometimes subtly, sometimes not so. I've seen submissions with just an extra hash on the end. There are the submissions with all the feedburner crap cluttering it up, and so on. This was an attempt to be more thorough about detecting duplicates, doing "more properly" a job that's already done, and therefore presumably desirable.
If you remove the smoothing it looks more spiky then cyclical: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=i+love+you&ye...

It's possible that's more to do with the distribution of books Google has scanned than anything.
I presume you are attempting to imply that this one of the 'leet' FBI backdoors that the Perry email discussed. It would help if you actually said why you thought this patch was interesting when submitting it to HN.

I hope we are not going to get a rash of inarticulate HN submissions for every minor patch to openbsd which may have security implications.

I doubt this is in anyway related to the recent drama.

The initial bad patch which broke things looks like v1.63 of the file. This was committed in 2001 by angelos.

Note:
- angelos has a greek email address (for what it is worth)
- 1.63 was committed in 2001; the allegations of backdoors seem to be from 2000 and 1999
- it appears to break things for all non-ipsec aware nics. This seems to broad an error for an intentional backdoor

It also looks like the code didn't make it to a release branch before being fixed - so if it was an attempted backdoor, it was not successful.

Disclaimer: I have no experience with BSD kernel code nor with IPSEC.

Edit: I initially thought that angelos also commited the fix as well. I think I need to get my eyes tested
> Also, taking that stuff off looks like it would be just as much work as putting it on.

If you have a good pair of snips it'll take you literally a second or two to get them off. However if you're using a crappy dollar store pair of scissors, it'll take you 5 minutes.

Given that you should be storing enough non-perishable food for 2 weeks in case of an emergency, there really shouldn't be a reason to go out if you get freak weather beyond your local norm.
There are people (perhaps not the denizens of HN who make high 5/low 6 figure salaries) who are very sensitive to price. This really screws them.
All of Facebook was built in PHP long after the bells had started tolling for PHP's demise. People still vociferously defend its use. Predicting the death of a programming environment is a sucker's game.

Avoid jobs that require you to be an expert at a particular framework in the door.
I've worked with plenty of people who seem to believe that. It's really frustrating when someone derails an informative, productive, asynchronous email discussion with "let's just have a meeting" or "here, let me just call you" as though dropping everything and sitting around waiting for people to finish their sentences will somehow make the underlying problems easier to reason about.

I guess it must work for them, and I have gathered over the years that I must be something of an outlier in my comfort with and preference for communication via writing, but god I wish we could just cancel all meetings forever and just solve things simply and quickly via email.

This is one of the reasons working for Microsoft was an exercise in misery. People who haven't worked there have trouble believing me when I describe the amount of time people there routinely waste in bullshit status meetings. It was maddening.
No, it is very true in an absolute sense as well. It's just that border keeps on shifting but underneath that there is a very real finite amount that exists, and not all of that will ever be extracted.
How is that cheating? That's just how you program without allocations.
| The ultimate frictionless experience would be for coffee capsules to be delivered before running out of them

But it's not like people can't be this, without much mental overhead. If I know it takes two days to ship something, and I use it daily, and recognize I'll be out in three days - I'm gonna push that button.

It's frictionless because it integrates perfectly with the use of the product.

How long before automatic cat-feeders automatically purchase cat food for you?
You can use the `Rc` or `RcMut` types in the standard library. They're just smart pointers, like C++ `shared_ptr`.
Am I right that this makes it trivial to deploy a new version of my server with zero downtime? I can just start the new server to handle new connections and tell the old one to stop accepting connections and quit when existing requests are completed, no need for another layer routing?
YC companies always have the worst link-baiting lines to get you to click on their job offers. Just put them in a standard template so we know who is looking for what before clicking on the link. I propose:

{company} ({yc season}) looking for {role}

Role should be the actual function title and if applicable mentioning the language-stack (i.e. RoR, node) the candidate should master.
You could have done without the first three paragraphs.

Other than that...I'm not sure what else to comment. Of course you can't fix people. If we could, we'd live in a utopia where everyone was happy and operated efficiently.
Hey. I'm an Australian Mining Engineer, (co-incidentally employed by Rio Tinto, although obviously I'm no spokesperson and have no idea what the higher-ups are doing, or even blokes on other sites). While I don't have any knowledge of the autonomous truck project, pensions & workman's comp have basically nothing to do with it.

The mining industry in Australia is on the tail end of the biggest expansion in living memory, and it turns out it is near-impossible for love or money to move Australians out into the desert to work in mines.

It was not unreasonable to have trucks parked up because there simply was no human to drive them, and the salaries for a truck driver were in the $150,000+ Australian dollars, plus food, lodging and plane flights. This doesn't represent a scary cost for a mining company - it represents a scary lack of worker supply. A parked truck is an unhappy truck.

In addition, we have very strict OH&S laws and the site mangers can be raked over the coals for the wierdest things. Eg, if I saw a light vehicle parked on non-level ground without wheel chocks, it would probably be escalated to the site Manager (not a pit supevisor, not the Manager of Mining, but the person responsible for the entire site) and someone being sacked would be an option on the table. Getting rid of the humans is a huge benefit from a safety perspective, which we take very, very seriously.

Finally, automated trucks will provably do the right thing, all the time, without getting fatigued or taking breaks. Humans just cannot compete from a utilising-the-very-expensive-asset-properly point of view.
Thank you for an excellent illustration of the sort of negativity that the author is attempting to point out.
I love this list. If you follow James Altucher for some time, this is basically all his experience very much condensed.

As with all advice, it certainly does not apply 100% all the time for your context. But this is some sound advice from someone who has a bit of experience building business, both successful and failing.
I'm not so sure on-sensor autofocus has been cracked for use in wildlife and sports photography just yet -- it's pretty good for slow-moving subjects, but I've not seen an on-sensor autofocus system that can make a 400mm f/2.8 lens keep a jockey's eyes in focus. It's only a matter of time though.

As soon as it is though, I also expect that mirrorless cameras will rapidly infiltrate the pro sports and wildlife market. Burst mode will become as irrelevant as loading film -- sports photographers will simply record full-resolution RAW video and pick out the frame that they want in post.
Would be quite inefficient for municipalities to have plows and salt/sand spreaders sitting around for a decade not being used. Similarly for garages and distributors to carry winter tires.
Parts of Highway 17 in South Carolina were recently upgraded to exactly this type of road. I've noticed many other highways (not Interstates) using this exact design. Admittedly, they do not always have a steel barrier.

Traffic circles are another thing going in all around where I currently live. Unfortunately many people still do not know how to use them, but they are learning.
Please don't do this here, even if someone's argument is bad.
Just because the government permits itself to do something unethical, doesn't make it any less ethical.

You can do morally corrupt things without breaking the law. Even laws can be morally corrupt.
> Intel has better software engineers for high-performance math it seems.

Intel has software engineers for pretty much every application. AMD has very few software engineers.
Yup. Taking a complex, multidimensional space of ideas and beliefs (and by multidimensional I mean something like 100+ dimensions, not 3 or 4) and projecting it into a number line is one of the things that bewilder me about the world the most. Doubly so in countries that don't have a two-party system like the US.

And if anything, I think that this classical projected political spectrum isn't a line, it's really a circle. Extreme left and extreme right are the same thing; the particulars of the beliefs don't matter (if you think they do, you can always imagine this being a flat strip of paper glued into a Möbius strip).
So, if the government had nationalized all paper products in the US, and then put strict content standards on newspapers, would the courts (and you) be like, "oh, well, that's not really a violation of the First Amendment, because the public owns the papers"?
When did we switch the emphasis from tracking deaths, to tracking infections?
> You’ve effectively deleted the server logs, claimed your system is perfect and impenetrable, and are now asking anyone with questions to prove otherwise.

I'm all for auditable, verifiable processes, paper trails and all of that. Thankfully election security officials do work on that! But the people standing up to claim massive fraud are not claiming that because they have evidence, it's because they lost and they are pissed off about it. What they are proposing for remedies is to just throw the whole process out and declare Donald Trump won. Interestingly, they are not challenging any Senate results (Georgia TBD), House results, or even local results.

People are claiming massive fraud because of complete lies. They aren't claiming "something might be fishy here, let's check, recount, etc." Because we did that. All of the swing states recounted their votes, some twice, by hand. They went into the signature verification, observation process, the whole show. No, instead, the crazies go right to the rails and the people who yell the loudest are out there right now showing us exactly what they think of the US Constitution, the law, and this whole process.
You can try locking down the app, it's not ideal but it is better than nothing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664130
I agree, but I think there is now a non-trivial group who are either a) in total denial about the virus or believe it's a conspiracy, b) overwhelmed by news of it and unable/unwilling to process anything new, or c) believe in herd immunity and might even welcome a faster spread on that basis.

Arguments about exponentials mean nothing to anyone in any of these buckets— they'll be flaunting a lockdown up until and perhaps beyond the point where it is administered by force.

I don't know how to deal with this reality, but it feels like the greatest threat at this point.
Signal has all of those features except the final one, which is of debatable value.
And yet we still have idiots here in the UK saying things ranging from:

* coronavirus is invented as a government power grab

* the government locking down is a deliberate ploy to kill small businesses

* the government should just let this run its course, it’s Just A Flu TM

* hospitals are actually empty (the “proof” being people recording empty waiting rooms in outpatient departments on bank holiday weekends)

* coronavirus doesn’t exist (!)

Maybe this will be a bit of a wakeup call.
I'm not a designer, but a musician. You can find pairings of performances, where if you put them side by side, the public will choose the one on the left and the musicians will choose the one on the right. The musicians may have funky tastes, but in addition, they're informed by the terminology and theory of analysis.
Registered or transferred domains.
Of course, you can also take the approach of building using sand that has been turned into a convenient construction material by the forces of nature:

http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/r_sites_cra.html
It's HN, I'm here same as you, to opine and argue. Why are you applying a double standard? :-P
http://topdesigninspiration.s3.amazonaws.com/websites/2779/t...
In Australia when hitch hiking, if you aren't walking you won't get picked up because obviously you don't really want to get there.

Pick fruit, cut grass, clean pools.
See also (maybe) Runtime-Compiled C++ https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledC...
I don't understand this. Apple has thousands of programmers--aren't some of them addicted to Vim keybindings or something?
I think that the whole idea of asking someone else to explain "where the fun is in coding" is somewhat of an oxymoron. If you cannot find the fun yourself, it is hard to believe that you will be able to find it by someone else telling you about it.
>We'd like a thank-you note right away.

They want a thank-you note for doing their job? Does the interviewee also get a thank-you note for taking time out of their day to go see them?
What gave me confidence that this could work, is that Google Buzz already does a little bit of grouping, and it seems elegant enough to me.

But, yes, I didn't explore the details too much about the "show more" feature. Would you list a count of the "unread items" from friends? Or would you need a slider that says "Show updates from the last 48 hours?" Then, would you need to couple this with some algorithm that bubbled up to the top the friends that you clicked "show more" on frequently? I'm not sure about the answers to all these questions, so I'll leave up to developers to figure it out.
Let us hope that someone involved sends the truth to WikiLeaks! We can't expect to get it from Obama or from BP.

Now that the buck stops with Obama, we can expect him to actively work to prevent the public from getting outraged.
What is considered normal? Are there database and graphical libraries available yet?
Of course, as long as you stay in the realm of measurable things. However, we still need to explain how and why the perfect abstract mathematical objects are of any use in the real world (as opposed to other abstract objects such as patonician ideas, or more commonly gods).
I like the feeling when a script executes and does what would take me 10 hours to do, in 2 seconds.
Wont you always be trackable by an heuristic approach?

I would expect that a fuzzy hash of your ip,location,language settings,resolution, browsertype, average mousespeed, your computers speed to draw a circle, calc a prime etc etc etc will always identify you.
Buyback is alternative to dividend. It's a way to give money to shareholders. Stocks bought are usually canceled.

In other words, those stocks bought don't show in the company balance sheet as assets they own. They are gone, they are not investments.
Maybe they should use your house to do the testing?

[Since you have no problem taking other people's property].
There is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to Venezuela.
Before AirBnB, you just had BnBs. In England at least they were often farmhouses, and the owner literally makes you breakfast if you were staying in their main house (this was a large part of it). I’m not sure what if any regulation applies if you are a BnB like that. In fact, it’s such a part of British culture, there is a game show where 5 BnB owners stay at each other’s places and see who is ranked best. The show airs every week. AirBNB are parasites.
Good point. A discussion about relative elasticity of demand and supply for college tuition, rents and eg face masks would be enlightening. Most of higher education is about signalling.

Hoarders and scalpers don't drive up the prices, they just reveal a market clearing price. Attempts to restrict market clearing mechanisms make scalpers and hoarders spring up in the first place.

In a less restricted economy, producers of masks would capture the price increases. And that would serve as a good incentive for them to keep extra capacity around.

If your ration coupons for face masks were freely tradeable, the resulting system wouldn't look that much different from letting the price of face masks themselves freely fluctuate; and giving people the right amount of money. (It would still be a bit more awkward in comparison.)
This article is very confusing, the video is clearly an ad by Apple, but it only seems to appear in this article, and the article itself is not marked as an ad. What is actually going on?
> If you die of Covid-19 you were already dying.

No, this is simply untrue. For some patients the comorbities were things like diabetes.

Also, death is only one outcome. We know covid-19 can affect the lungs, fertility, and can cause neurological damage.
It's still going to be a scam message, but they can use your Facebook ID to see everything public on your profile now, as well as the other fields in the leak like full name, location, bio, birthday. So whatever the most convincing scam message somebody can come up with is combining all of that data. Off the top of my head, "happy birthday here's a gift from us" messages from companies leading to phishing pages and personalised fake register to vote pages relating to upcoming elections in your area.

It's not really new data, it's just scam SMS I've received in the past has never shown any sign of knowing anything other than my phone number. Now you can buy phone numbers and pull personalisation data unrestricted from your copy of Facebook's database for each of them. I'm sure sophisticated scammers already were, but now everyone will.
Really? I disagree. I believe most of the time people are acting. Most of the time people are in a role they would not care to hold if the choice were theirs.

Facial expressions are a terrible indication of emotional state because humans are multi-layered: what's to say the person with a grimace does not have a tooth ache, or a bad back - yet otherwise is in completely normal state for them, if asked they'd say they are good.

I perceive the majority of people considering this situation to only be considering 1st level effects. I have seriously considered this as a professional ambition, scientifically investigated the situation and discarded the concept as unreliable at best and a fraud engine in reality.

Think about this a bit more, use your scientific method training. you'll come to the conclusion this is not science, this is pseudo-science and fraud.
It shields them from civil liability for wrongful arrest, as the courts will apparently go "there's no established law that you can't arrest someone for no good reason on Thursday at 9:53pm on Third Street".

We have friendly prosecutors who "could indict a ham sandwich" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich#Cultural_impact) mysteriously failing to get an indictment to handle the criminal side of it.
Feetbook.com? Instafoot?