jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And successfully turn that into a shared vision. In one of my startups a personal vision unfortunately never translated across and so didn't affect much in terms of culture, emotion, or dedication.
I don't disagree with the general premise of this article but I find it ironic that Friedman says "Cooper also pointed out that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the entire war effort in Afghanistan was costing about $190 million a day and that President Bill Clinton’s 1998 trip to Africa with 1,300 people and of roughly similar duration, cost, according to the Government Accountability Office and adjusted for inflation, about $5.2 million a day," without mentioning that this CBO report specifically excludes the costs of the Secret Service and that the security costs after the 9/11 are likely significantly greater than what they were previously. $5.2 million/day is likely just as bad a number as $200 million/day, yet Friendman repeats is without stipulations, just like Bachmann did.
> if someone can round up 51% of Bitcoin's miners and hold them at gunpoint, then they have full control over Bitcoin's rules.

This is not true. Most of the rules are maintained using cryptography and game theory.

For someone to break bitcoin, they need to be irrational. i.e spend more than they will benefit from an attack.

And even if such an attack happens, it's very trivial to roll back & undo the damages.

It's not a democracy, it's a game.
A VM is not the best environment to test speed and compare it to a native environment speed.

I noticed that certain operations take longer on a VM, and e.g. disk performance may differ a lot (and sometimes be faster than the host FS's!)

Also, things being in the page cache can speed up the second and subsequent runs much faster.
Interestingly I think novelists can get better with age, see Ursula le guin or octavia butler. Or even now, jeff vandermeer and nalo hopkinson and nisi shawl.
When can you actually buy and drive one though? You can buy a Tesla today, for a fraction of the price the Hummer will cost in 2024. Tesla built and delivered half a million EVs in 2020 alone, and they're going to double production again in 2021.
Hah. Sounds familiar. My neighborhood was originally created to give successful Italian and Jewish folks a place to live since the toniest neighborhood named River Oaks had explicit bylaws that prevented sales to those races. This was the 1930s well before the Civil Rights Act.

Then one very successful black cattleman had his white secretary buy him a house and sell it to him. Within a few years white flight emptied the area (to the point there's a documentary about it) and suddenly TXDOT decided it was a great place for a freeway.
oho. Sounds a bit odd that both Airtel and ACT have decided to cap 3.3 TB as FUP limit
Thats still smaller when the entire population is considered. Also lack of security will erode the trust in digital banking which is terrible for a developing country like ours
In this day and age of covid are subways and mass transit really that safe / healthy?
Very simple: first you showed him a complex, abstract, adult world boring thing.

Then he found out how to apply code to immediately impact his real life. Code became _useful_ and _fun_.

Aim for immediate practical application.
An involution played a rather important role in this programming context:

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-gam...
> Two pre-authenticated sources are a management record signed using DNSSEC or a TLS certificate signed by a recognized Certificate Authority (CA)

So 1. if it's DNSSEC, then verification is handed over to every registrar and government involved in the DNS chain, right?

2. Isn't necessarily bad, but so far the biggest CA implementation is a mess.

Dark Mail needs to publish a simple one-page overview and explain how they fixed things. Because it seems either you end up with a PGP-like mess and web-of-trust and basically make it unusable, or you end up pretty much handing off trust to a 3rd party (like everyone in DNSSEC) and hoping for the best. For a system dedicated to the NSA, the latter doesn't seem feasible.

I'll continue to read it but the fact they don't start off with "here's how we solved the well-known issues" worries me.

Edit: OK so I gave it mostly a read. It seems to me that the organisation is the main unit of trust, as far as I can tell. That is, the TLS keys are tied to the CA/DNSSEC for the org, and the user signets rely on the org. So... what does Dark Mail provide over using SMTP with policies, like companies already do? If a client requires TLS to its SMTP server and the SMTP server knows which policies are allowed for each destination (like from OrgA->OrgB, TLS required, with CA restrictions XYZ), that's most of the work right there. Seems like they could get most of the same benefit with a few custom headers and policies required of SMTP. And they wouldn't need to publish a spec with a predefined field for "vision statement".
Absolutely fascinating. I've been crimping my own RJ45s for a while now, surprised that I'm not quite getting the speed I'd hoped for with CAT6. Lesson learned. Thanks!
Yea, hopefully there will be more education loan forgiveness opportunities in the future. I'm ~$160k deep on school loans. Yay US education system!
That is a huge bug. I hope it's been fixed.
You do realize that if this was any other website you (or others making this comment) would be up in arms all over the internet over it, including these very HN comments?

Is this really the same HackerNews community that goes ape shit over the smallest usability no-nos on random Joe's website, but is perfectly fine with NYT practically stonewalling their entire website behind a login screen?
7000 writes per-second is pretty low for many high-volume time series needs.

Though it's not usually write throughput that most of these technologies are worried about. It's usually compression using dsp methods, aggregate stream folding computations, etc... that matters.
Reddit has a great selection from /r/booklists which I've added below.[0] It would be just as worthy having a list of books to avoid.

[0] 'Top Books Derived from 11 "Top 100" Lists', http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1iw3jq/top_books_deri...
Less enlightened? HN sadly has never been very politically enlightened when it comes to America and geo-politics.

Edit: And I think that's because HN has a heavy American user base, and I don't think Americans get very good news (or are even very interested in the complexities of modern geo-politics). Good or bad, I think that's a fair assessment. So what you get are a lot of: "America is in Afghanistan and Iraq for altruistic reasons that have nothing to do with the resources under these people's feet."
Yeah man. Maybe you should zoom out on Google Maps and see who lives nearby, especially anyone who might have (say) the world's largest standing army, and then come back and explain how it's a wise idea for the US Army to start seizing Chinese assets in Afghanistan ..

Sorry for the snarky tone but seriously, it's this kind of ridiculous macho attitude that got the US into so much trouble in the first place.
Speaking as a Nexus One owner, it's not quite useless, it's just harder to use. Froyo's automatic brightness adjustment makes it quite usable in direct sunlight, though it's obviously not going to compete with an LCD. However, the display is just beyond gorgeous, and given that I work very hard to stay _out_ of the sun, it's a great fit for me.
Alternatively, make it illegal to only offer shipping to the lower 48, so that the fringe states don't end up in the third world.

This (I believe) is what the UK does with Northern Ireland.
> Mob actually materializes and several people die - Twitter sure they now have to take him literally

Angry groups of protesters and resulting deaths are not a thing that started happening this week. Twitter are pathetic and have taken a stand once the writing was on the wall.
Indeed. I was frustrated to learn that a 1871 paper [0], referenced previously on a HN thread [1], wasn't freely available online.

[0]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1478644710864060...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372871
That's so patently untrue. These people have been using social media to spread nothing but disinformation. And their one and only reason for revolting is their mistaken belief that the election was stolen. Nobody needs to listen or sympathetize with their nonsense and giving them a platform has been far, far worse for the country than censoring them.
Thank god we have unelected billionaires telling the proletariat what it is safe for them to read.
My understanding is that censorship is currently the only known way to tackle untruths leading to violence on a platform that enable viral sharing of information.

In any other instance, censorship should be (is?) inconstitutional.
> One is "Verify your login" with no option to verify, only skip.

The idea is to verify the new login on ANOTHER session, if available. This is required for reading encrypted messages. When you see this message a notification will show up on all of your other Element devices asking you to verify that new session (using a QR code or a bunch of emojis). You can also select "This wasn't me - your account may be compromised", which gives you a hint what to do next (change passwords, etc).

My best guess here is that you have some old sessions lingering around, which you should remove from your account once logged in. However you do need your Security Phrase or Security Key to recover your account, which creates a new verified session and then you can read your old encrypted messages, too.

> "Help us improve Element", which doesn't accept a no and keeps asking again and again.

Can't reproduce this, sorry.
> Is that relevant?

Of course it's relevant. If there are no actual reserves, the whole thing is a scam and certain to collapse sooner or later.
I agree wholeheartedly with your assertion that "calling a populist movement with millions of supporters, terrorists is very short sighted".

I do, though, flinch at your use of language when you refer in the second paragraph to "the left", as if it is some rigidly defined thing or set of attitudes. That seems to me like a set-up for binary politics; an us or them thing.

My active involvement with political things has always been issue-based, often to do with local affairs - roads, planning, preservation or redevelopment of areas/historic buildings. These things have never been, at local level, "left or right", and I have found such labels, especially when applied before the subjects have been discussed/examined, to be unhelpful.

FWIW, I prefer issues to be debated on merit, rather than their labelling broadly as left or right, and this is largely because of experience of such debates at the local level - where it really does matter to people.

edited for a typo - correcting "beenn" to "beem". More may follow.
Upper-funnel marketing is good for driving awareness, and brand recognition, and maybe even installs. That said, upper-funnel marketing is generally less good at driving revenue in a short timeframe.

As such, Uber may have decided that they were going to optimise their display advertising solely based on installs, and not a lower-funnel action like rides booked, because they didn't expect to get much data for the latter.

Uber is NOT there to get rides. Uber's business model is a scam designed to skim money from investors and drivers alike.

That money goes into the pockets of the principals.

The reason that Uber can sell cheaper rides is that the investors are subsidising it, and the drivers are subsidising it. Once the investors and drivers wake up, Uber will collapse. In the meantime, however, the company principals will do extremely nicely, thank you.

There's a reason that taxis are more expensive, they actually have to break even or make a real profit to survive.
To add to that, Chinese military spending is (if you consider accounting differences) rapidly approaching US spending - and they don't have lots of legacy equipment to keep going. They also leach off of Western R&D by simply stealing it through hacking.

I agree on the Europe comment. Very few countries meet 2%, with an average of 1.3% of GDP in the EU. Britain, France, and Germany (in that order) have the largest defense budgets but Germany's budget goes nowhere due to ludicrous procurement and general incompetence. And of course, Germany is currently doing as little as possible on Ukraine because it recklessly (intentionally?) got itself dependent on Russia. Also worth noting that while they have the largest by gross spending, percentage wise Germany is just 1.3%.

It's just a joke. The problem isn't the EU, to be clear. Europeans don't want war: WW2 is still in living memory and the Cold War split the continent in two. But we've helped finance our social services through neglecting defense, and when you're under the nuclear umbrella of the US, Britain, and France... Why bother? What are they going to do, stop protecting you? The Ukraine war seems to be demonstrating that conventional capabilities still have a place, even if you don't plan on leaving your own borders and are protected from invasion by someone else's conventional military and nuclear weapons.

This comment is becoming an incoherent stream of my thoughts, but it really annoys me when Europeans mock the US for its spending when they could be enlightened like us Europeans and have generous social services, not considering that the US is subsidising Europe's welfare states. And I'm not even American, I'm British. I have nothing against the rest of Europe, but the discourse is in many ways as ignorant and condescending about the US as the US discourse is ignorant and condescending about Europe.
This is so true, the constant churn of frameworks for desktop apps has left me very skeptical of anything they offer.
There was a long series of articles about building a computer from the circuit board up, s-100 bus if I recall correctly.

And an article on lisp that blew my delicate 12 year old mind.

Edit- check out the April 85 issue on AI, and look at those authors. Quite the lineup.
http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/issue/145.en.html
What on earth does it mean to "html and css your way through MIT or Stanford?" It seems like you're trivializing degrees from top universities, as well as overstating the difficulty of HTML and CSS.

If your ideas are so great, take a few weeks and learn a programming language. Then, build your app yourself. You don't have to be a technical whiz to build something that runs. When you have some users your idea will be validated and maybe people will be more inclined to meet with you.
The FCC is way out of its league on this one. Basically, it is a creature of statute. It can do whatever Congress has authorized it to and no more. Nothing in its authorizing statute expressly permits it to impose the rules now known as net neutrality. Therefore, it sought to justify its ability to do so under the doctrine of so-called "ancillary jurisdiction," meaning that it had an implied power to do so in aid of its expressly granted powers. Unfortunately, a definitive federal appeals court ruling held that no such ancillary jurisdiction existed, leaving the matter for Congress to decide. Rather than deferring to Congress, the FCC chose to adopt a new rationale for its assertion of this authority. Congress overwhelmingly balked at the idea of any broad assertion of such authority and, in the back and forth, the FCC came up with the toe-in-the water approach just adopted to the satisfaction of almost no one. Even this assertion of jurisdiction will certainly be challenged in the courts in cases that will take years to decide, leaving this whole issue in a pathetic state of uncertainty for all concerned. Nothing good will come of this except for lots of employment for the lawyers who will be litigating whether this or that action is "reasonable" and whether the internet is really like a public utility or not. All in all, a royal mess.

This article, and the comments on this thread, attempt to address the principled issues relating to net neutrality both pro and con. The sad reality is that, at the moment, principle has little to do with any of what has been implemented and only lawyers and lobbyists will be driving this process for the near future.
Do you think Comcast should be prohibited from offering asymmetric broadband connections?

Suppose Comcast offered the following packages:

- 6 megabits down, 2 megabits up for $50/month

- 10 megabits down, 4 megabits up for $80/month

- 10 megabigs down, 4 megabits up, 20 megabits to youtube.com for $35/month

You're telling me that package 3 reduces consumer welfare and threatens the internet?

Suppose another package were added:

- 2 megabits down, 2 megabits up, all requests matching bing.com?q= redirect to google.com?q= ... price FREE.

How is consumer welfare being harmed? Any consumer who would choose this package values free internet more than the "right" to use Bing.

Or, suppose there is a mainstream movie about bittorent and suddenly Comcast decides to offer the following:

20 megabits down, 20 megabits up, no torrent traffic: $30/month. (with bittorrent it costs $80/month)

I'd argue that protocols have evolved to exploit network neutrality. Why should your ISP pay for Skype's supernode? Why should bandwidth hogging protocol users hog all the bandwidth?

Residential bandwidth sales are speculative, since the ISP doesn't have 20 megabits for every customer who is paying for it. The system works b/c people don't max out their connection and rarely use peak bandwidth at exactly the same time.

I think under this usage pattern, it's reasonable for prohibitions to exist. I also think that there should be higher tier bandwidth (like if you buy your own OC3) where you are buying all the bandwidth whether you use it or not. For such services non-neutrality makes no sense whatsoever.
I too stayed with Speakeasy for years solely because of their high quality tech support. Since switching to Comcast, all of my tech support have been pretty much like the AT&T transcript in the linked article.
I find most of these 'minimalist' renditions are vastly less attractive than the original ones, to the point where I think I would stop buying them in favor of a more attractive competitor (if I would be buying them; I never buy most of these products). However, true minimalist designs are often more attractive than 'decorated' counterparts. So I think these aren't minimalist renditions; just bland renditions.
School is a part of how that vision formed
It's happening. There is an automated DMV kiosk in my local supermarket. Vehicle registration is actually faster there than it is online!
"exploited" is a subjective judgement that means some earns less than the speaker thinks they deserve.

Flat cleaners and programmers have different notions of how much each deserves.
I also have similar questions. What did you end up doing about this feeling? I don't believe my own intelligence was (or is) on the same caliber as yours, but I do feel like it has atrophied somewhat since joining the working world, and that is in spite of doing a CS masters. Honestly I believe if I hadn't done the masters I would've gone crazy from the deterioration.
Much appreciated.

And thank you to killjoywashere for selecting out the part of the paper that answers my question; gowld for reformatting appropriate to my mobile device.

Apologies for not replying directly. I have a commenting rate-limiter applied to my account.
Isn't that what Google does on Google Sheets? I can only imagine the ungodly amount of work to get something like that working.
> It is pretty obvious that it does at times, even if we are aware of the biases.

...well gee, let's look what I wrote...

> ...I'm pretty sure that "sex sells" as a general statement has been debunked a while ago

See that bit about "as a general statement"? I never wrote that it _never_ sells.
Every college math class I took gave me a sheet with those kinds of identities on it. If I was doing the kind of work where I actually had to do calculus involving trig functions, you can bet I'd pull up a similar sheet while I was working. Sure having it memorized would be a bit faster, but that's true for far more things than I can actually memorize.
We built apps for Yahoos connected TV platform (it was based on the Konfabulator widget engine) back in the day. Getting API support from clients (broadcast networks) for niche platforms was next to impossible and trying to aggregate all the data via multiple calls on constrained devices wasn’t feasible either.

We used pipes to aggregate multiple services into a single API a few times at Yahoo’s recommendation and it worked pretty well. Also helped get around some CORS issues IIRC.
> The most influential journalist ever, his reputation smeared and possibly being slowly murdered.

Journalists don't edit source material to fit their narrative. I long ago lost faith in Assange when he released edited footage of journalists being shot by a US military helicoptor with an edited audio track. The video with the original audio was damning enough, editing the video prior to release was the beginning of the end for Assange in my eyes. Since then rather than releasing any and all information Julian started to "curate" what was released. It's one of the many reasons many of the original members of wikileaks left the organization.
Don’t forget rtl_airband. Listen to live air traffic communication and/or stream to other listeners.

https://github.com/szpajder/RTLSDR-Airband
+1 for heroku. What exactly is RDS? I know its a relational database, but I couldn't figure out exactly what it was from its site.
do you know whether they affect seasonal depression?
Interesting. I sometimes have trouble waking up in a dark room as well, but I've found that increasing the volume of the alarm clock and the distance I have to travel to get to it normally solves that problem.
It is mind-numbingly stupid, because there wasn't much thinking involved in coming up with the policy. The companies who post this policy are simply codifying what individual resume screeners have done for eons now.

People who screen resumes tend to assume that you are unemployed because of one or more other undesirable traits you have, like a tendency to be irresponsible or violent and antisocial. This assumption is a mix of broken societal wisdom and an association fallacy. FWIW, there's another fallacy committed when they themselves become unemployed; everyone else unemployed is a antisocial lunatic, but they are a good person who has simply fallen on rough times -- total cognitive dissonance, but they don't notice, even when it is pointed out to them.

It is not necessarily true that a company that is employing this philosophy is necessarily cutting out the best from it's hiring pool; but the inverse isn't necessarily true either. My suspicion is that the mean quality of the unemployed applicants to a company might be slightly worse than the employed applicants, but not enough so to represent anything significant.

What I can more confidently say is true is that most companies, and for that matter most individuals, haven't thought about this at all. What we do right now is the default, and they haven't yet been fired for relying on it, nor have they been rewarded for not doing so. Until they are, nothing will change.
Nobody said he didn't deserve a lot of credit. It's the 'single-handedly' they are objecting to.
Compared to other sleep-aids I've tried, melatonin is much, much better. I took Ambien for a while (both 5mg and 10mg), and while the onset is much, much faster than melatonin (15 minutes vs. 1 hour), I grew a tolerance to it rather quickly. Eventually, it just wouldn't put me to sleep. Instead, I experienced wild hallucinations, amnesia, and hangovers. Wild and crazy dreams are nothing, really, compared to actually hallucinating.
> Everything the company does is something done "single-handedly" by Steve Jobs.

Would you like to see a rolling list of the names of all Apple engineers every time you turned your iPhone on or off?