jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
His name wasn't private to begin with. There are huge threads on HN about this from the time it happened and numerous ways to have easily stumbled across his real name, including the fact that he wrote some of his better known pieces first under his real name. Repeating over and over again that Scott Alexander's name was private using different words each time won't change that fact.

What was happening in this story was that Scott Alexander was demanding everyone else's assistance in maintaining his pseudonym and pretending the real identity behind it was unknowable. That's a reasonable request to make in a community of peers (it's why I'll keep using "Alexander" on HN, for instance). It is not remotely a reasonable demand to make of strangers, let alone journalists.

This is another instance of message board thought seeping into the real world, and it's always alarming to me to see that, because while message board thought is fun, it's also deeply weird and dysfunctional.
Firefox is a dead browser. #ChangeMyMind
Meh. These aren't great tips. One of these tips is for class components, which while still relevant, aren't exactly new as of 2021. I learned that class binding trick in 2017.

Using hooks and useMemo? That's essentially stolen from the React tutorials.

Pure functions? Sure, that's useful but the example is ridiculous. How would you have an impure comparison function?

In general not a huge fan of these filler content marketing front end posts. If you're gonna advertise your company, at least provide some interesting content.
> no backdoor access for federal agencies

Tragically, I have to strongly doubt this is secure against the almighty warrant-backdoor for physical security. And once they have their hands on the bowl, the content is freely accessible.
Your comment lacks any content. You make vague claims of "effect on the ecosystem" without mentioning what that is. Give an example. Can people not create web frameworks? Can people not create products hosted on the web? Can people not use AWS or Azure for all their computing needs?

You can't just claim "everything they touch sucks" without a single example or evidence to back it up. You look like a hater.
That's part of the necessary practice of being "conspicuously upset"[1] about things, that SSC points out. It's not enough that I am upset by White Supremacists (I am). I must conspicuously post over and over how upset I am about things, lest someone confuses a brief period of silence with acceptance of something awful.

1: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
I came across some slides once which compared bugs in Linux & BSDs. Overall it found that bugs per lines of code was relatively consistent across projects, but OpenBSD came out ahead since they tend to have less lines of code

But it definitely wasn't zero
The Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast media. I guess if it still existed it could be amended to include cable but that would be a tough thing to do since cable companies don't lease the public airwaves.
You could do a pretty good job of bubbling yourself up starting in the 90s with talk radio + Fox News... tons of fun vitriol towards Clinton... my parents have been on that train for a while now.
What would you point to as a sign that they take foreigners' IP seriously?
They will, but those not eligible will just get an automatic passport.

They need that system anyway for babies too young to be vaccinated, people with health issues making the vaccine inadvisable, etc.
If you, for example, want to do addition of four 8-bit integers within a 32-bit register, you have to use similar techniques to stop the carry from propagating.

For example, when x and y are 32-bit integers holding 4 8-bit integers, you can do

z = (x ^ y) + (x & y) & 0x7f7f7f7f;

Now z holds four 8-bit integers which hold the sum (modulo 256) of the integers of x and y. The bit mask is to stop the carry from propagating.
It would be redundant of me to rehash my thoughts on this, so I'll simply link my reply to this same assertion in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916129

To summarize: bullshit. Depression and 'feeling sad' were what kept me from accomplishing anything of merit for over a decade.
WhatsApp by comparison is a stable, very popular, growing and strategically important messaging platform.

I'd rather phrase that as "WhatsApp by comparison is a currently stable, currently popular and growing generic platform implementable and implemented by thousands of companies and hobbyyists worldwide with nothing unique about the company except the current user-base, a (mostly free-loading) user-base which has shown great willingness to flock to the next great thing should this service ever do the wrong moves".

You know... The sort of statement you don't make about 20 billion dollar companies. They should have a more solid footing than being trendy right now. To put it in the dryset terms possible: They have no unique value-proposition.

SpaceX is doing real shit which might make an impact on the future of mankind. To me just comparing them in the same context seems offensive.
I think he means traveling and working at the same time. Working remotely while living abroad.
A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http:/Father_of_All_Bombs is less dangerous than you might think. Lots of energy sure but it’s poorly directed and there is no poison afterward.

Cluster bombs’ are generally a bigger threat vs people. (ex: football stadium) Bunker busters are more useful vs. hardened structures. (Command center)

I have heard a suggestion that the world trade center would have likely survived a hit from a Father of all Bombs. Though the building would likely need to be condemned afterward.

PS: Aparently they are vary useful for cave systems though.
It looks like the Lollipop Smart Lock can unlock your phone when it's in proximity to your PC, whereas nearlock will unlock your PC when it's in proximity to your phone.
The cited source says that in a Markov matrix the columns sum to 1 which Wikipedia reports is a "left stochastic matrix" whilst the rows summing to 1 makes it a "right stochastic matrix" - I'm not sure on the definition of Markov Matrix specifically but then it doesn't seem that http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StochasticMatrix.html knows either. The term returns no search results at http://www.encyclopediaofmath.com/.

http://blog.stata.com/2011/03/09/understanding-matrices-intu... came up here before and helped me visualise eigen-stuff.
frustration is what lead to innovation.
I wrote: "shared open standards ... so that devices can work together". Context matters.

The whole concept of a multi-platform framework is anti-innovation, anti-diversity: Its only purpose is to generalize, to make make everything uniform and the same by removing everything special, removing that which differentiates, that which makes the difference. It's about "think alike", "Move together".

Small wonder Apple doesn't accept it.
I've been looking at this qualitative vs quantitative tradeoff for a recent analytics project.

We've adopted the general framework in Getting to Plan B - using 'Leap of Faith' questions to hone various hypotheses using qualitative data. Eventually when you characterize enough assumptions from qualitative inputs, you are left with a set of concrete measures you can use quantitative analytics to measure.

Would be curious what approaches others are using to balance this relationship.
How does the Facetime brand alienate developers exactly?
.net doesn't mean anything these days. .com is still mostly limited to companies (that is, .com, .org, .edu and .mil partition the space of real-world organizations), but .net has always meant "a computer network", which, these days, could be attached to any or none of these organization types. ISPs have never really favored .net over .com either. (They stick their users' IPs' reverse-resolution names under a <provider>.net domain, but they could just as easily put them under the .com, since they always already own it as well.)

I really wish all the current .net registrations could be shunted into the .com namespace, and then .net redefined to mean social networks. That is, every .net domain would be expected to have a public Diaspora/other social-networking-mesh-server running, in the same way that every .com is expected to have a public web server running.
This video is working fine for me with Chrome on Linux.
How does it work? I installed it but I can't find a way to activate it.
Facetime is a widely adopted contraction of Face to Face time; which is in itself a widely accepted concept in the digital age (I find it mildly ironic that it has been adopted for this form of communication as well - because it defies the original meaning of the word :))
Large companies are not total systems. The auditors and the setting of accounting standards are external. The police, courts, and law making are external.

In the 90's big companies developed the technique of paying the big accounting firms for consultancy work which subverted the independence of the auditors and paved the way for Enron. The accounting treatment of leases and uncancellable suggests that there have been similar "successes" in subverting the setting of accounting standards.

Elsewhere we see big companies having sufficiently close ties to political power that they can subvert the police and the courts and even the law making process. This also ends badly.

I don't see any prospect of researching how large companies work and then turning that into a blue print for socialism 2.0. Large companies seem to be viable because of a separation of business and government that is fundamentally incompatible with the common ownership of the means of production.
"I know plenty of self-centered people who ask for too much and people oblige them. Do we really need to celebrate this?"

This is Steve Jobs in a nutshell. And, yes, we celebrate him enormously.
So why's it work for the Chinese? A little window dressing and a slightly different organization and it's no longer authoritarian central planning?
I would also recommend incorporating in your home state. I incorporated in Minnesota and it was ridiculously easy, simplest government form I've ever seen.

However if you're going to be seeking VC then it probably makes sense to incorporate in Delaware. However if you're like me and bootstrapping it, there is no need to go with a Delaware Corp.
Among non-geek german kids "lol" works almost like a normal adverb in everyday conversation...
lxml is great if you need any XPath, XSLT, or BeautifulSoup HTML parsing, which libxml does for you. If you're just interested in fast (really fast) XML parsing, cElementTree is just great. It's even faster than lxml and consumes considerably less memory; and, like lxml, it supports the .iterparse(...) interface.

Python 2.5 and later even ship with cElementTree, so it's always preferable to minidom, and (depending on taste) most of the time, preferable to lxml.
Classic Dunning-Kruger effect.
Different states have different tax rates.

Delaware wouldn't be my choice though.

Nevada, Washington, and Wyoming do not have state corporate income taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/230.html

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/corp_inc.pdf
When you work in a large company you have to deal with many more people than a small one.

For example in a small company, if you have issues with pay, you go speak to the boss/owner, or if you're big enough, the book-keeper/accountant type. In a large company there will be a whole department for your problem - be it HR helpdesk, your local accounts/payroll clerk, etc.

In the big company, you should make the effort to learn who is who and what do they do. You will soon start working out what qualities these people have that make them great, average, or terrible at their job.

In a small company, if you hire someone with the wrong qualities, at a pivotal time in your growth, it will be like contracting a disease.

Big company experience shows you lots of mistakes, which can be covered over by co-workers, PR department, caught by the QA team hour before shipping, etc. etc. If you don't get exposure to these sorts of mistakes, whilst they may not kill your startup, they will cause you some big-time stress. Stress in those quantities is not good for the survival of your business.

You can, however, mitigate some of these risks by having good mentors around, and hiring smart and experienced staff at the beginning. Successful startups like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. didn't survive on hiring graduates alone. And if they did, they were lucky or smart enough to hire the right people in the right roles.
From most anything I've read, they've for the most part (yes, with some exceptions) tracked the overall inflation rate very closely, up until around the year 2000, when ratios and charts in the US and much of the world started to massively deviate from extremely long standing trends.

I think part of it is credit (money) creation out of thin air, and it has to go somewhere. Another part is the massive productivity gains of past decades, that also has to go somewhere, and it isn't going into rising prices of consumer goods for the most part.

To me, it seems logical that the ratio between median housing prices and median wages has to be rather constant over time, and if it isn't, there should be a measurable offset somewhere else, especially when the housing is by far the largest purchase 90%+ of people will ever make - yet, I see no proportional offset (of decreased spending) elsewhere.
Ads can get location from IP.
Just switched to studded tires on my bike today (Schwalbe Marathon Winter). They make a HUGE difference. With my old tires I nearly hadn't any grip at all today. With the studded tires I can break on black ice and it feels like breaking on dry concrete.

Yes - they've been somewhat expensive. With shipping I've payed about 110 Euros. But I'll prefer investing some money in good tires, compared to crashing and landing under a car.
That was my first assumption too, but Wireshark doesn't show anything going across the network as I type, and nothing that looks incriminating when I click "donate" with text in the password box. It looks like it's entirely client-side JavaScript as it claims to be. Kind of disappointing, actually.

edit: ...Unless it's clever enough to only be evil some fraction of the time. I didn't actually check through the code.
The oath is to protect the U.S. Constitution, not the nation's secrets (except as follows under general orders and the UCMJ).

> "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

Is it necessary to leak these cables to support and defend the Constitution? Probably not. But there is clear precedent that illegal orders (contradicting either the UCMJ or the Constitution) are not supposed to be obeyed.

Espionage charges are laid out in 10 USC 906a: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_10_00000906---a000...
and conviction has to prove "intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation", and the death penalty requires one of a number of aggravating circumstances that don't seem to apply.

He certainly will be locked up, undoubtedly for quite some time, but he's not going to be executed (if the law is followed).
Its funny, my advice would be the exact opposite. Don't join a big company if you are the kind of person who's ethusiastic and ambitious about what he or she does. It'll more than likely crush you. It'll feel like you're back in 2001, your co-workers will likely be average to poor, you won't have a choice in technology, you'll notice that being a shill is more important than being good.
I've been personally swooped there. Not fun. It only lasts a few weeks a year. Pretty much only in September.
There's no way that I'm putting my password in there, but I did make up a password that mimics mine to see how secure it is.
Sure. I was talking about Reddit the business rather than the founders. It's clear these days you barely need a company or business model to be able to cash out as a founder if you get lucky or know the right people.
This is true, and I think this is a good attitude to have when you're in a bad situation. That said, some things are more educational than others, and you need to think about the opportunity cost of choosing a particular path.

This is how people justify things like learning Latin in high school (which I did). Sure it helps you learn where English came from and helps you learn other languages, but surely learning German or French would teach you the same and you would actually know a useful language.
How many times have you called back?

Generally, every time you call, you'll have another shot at it. Even if they're taking/referencing notes, if your case truly is reasonable, someone will make it happen on their end. In every case, that's always worked for me.

The phone is the secret for everything - customer support, making sales, getting jobs, etc. :)
Is it April 1st?

http://web.archive.org/web/20060412183431/http://www.nethash...
Only a small share of people who use twitter actually tweet and yes a smaller share of those people tweet on a specific subject. I'm no sure how this is news. "Only a small share of U.S. adults product majority of tweets on ______." Fill in the blank.. only those interest in a topic will tweet about it.
> Isn't journalism a pillar of democracy?

No. Journalism isn't a pillar of democracy. The ancient greeks who invented democracy didn't have journalism. When the US was founded, we didn't have journalism. Also, dictatorships have journalism. Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Communist China all had journalism.

> The well educated professionals who deep, lengthy dives into corruption, raw data, etc.

Do you think really think this is what journalists do? The older I get and the more I learn about the history of journalism, the more skeptical I get about this claim.

> How will democracy survive if no is being paid to spends weeks, years, to go deep on a subject and citizens can't be fully informed?

How did democracy come into existence without journalism?

You could argue free speech/free press are one of the pillars of modern democracy. If you look at who is attacking free speech/free press, you'll notice it is idealogically driven corporate journalists.
Yes but the vast majority of folks on the Internet, including HN, don't get to directly experience the effect that headlines have on engagement.

I never said it was a good idea, just interesting. :)
I had the same impression of the one in Seattle. Small, weird, good quality, suspiciously great prices.
As a developer in publishing, I would support that bill in a heartbeat. Tracking means you can target a niche market without paying for niche content. It’s terrible for publishers and consumers. It’s good for ad people.
Gary Bernhardt prophecy from his The Birth and Death of JavaScript[0] is coming true.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Tracking the increase in number of SF311 "Human/Animal waste" reports over time isn't as meaningful as it seems...because a larger number of poop reports are duplicates!

You need to the Open311 API and not just the DataSF 311 case dump to see this unfortunately. But SF311 closes a large number of tickets with "duplicate of SR #<....>"

So without this data it's unclear if the poop is increasing, or if it's just that SF311 usage is way up and duplicate reports are increasing.
Thanks sir/ma'am. Scribd is blocked at my job.
The protest group has no interest in helping the community. They would lose their relevance if people started to improve their situations.

The other theory is that they tried to shakedown Trader Joe's exactly like Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition does.
Wrong. Any sane capitalist would produce the cheap bread if it sells just as well and pocket the profits.
Wow. I've had cheap items with free shipping from Hong Kong to the UK take less time than that to turn up. That really is amazingly slow shipping.
I switched to HTML5 video for youtube because I don't have flash on this machine. Initially I couldn't watch about 30% of videos because "flash player is required". Now it's closer to 90% - either because "flash player is required" or "this video is unavailable" - and yet the youtube-dl script still works. Stop lying to me, Google!
My Z-Shell predicts and auto-completes everything I do often perfectly, thus typing 2-3chars not only get's me deep into directories, but also do actions I need. But maybe the idea of folder bookmarks can still be useful, idk.
True, I will update the blog post so that it feels less misleading. Source code for Solaris zones is indeed available; but I wouldn't consider it widely deployed. Of course, some people are using it in public hosting environments (the most notable example is probably Joyent); but I don't think that it's significant compared to the installed base of VServer, OpenVZ, or LXC out there.

I mean — it's trivially easy to get access to a Linux VPS, for a ridiculously low price (sometimes for free). Now compare with something equivalent based on Solaris zones.

But yeah, I'll definitely update the blog post, thanks!
The people are the police of the government.
I like the RealCrowd idea, its one I've thought about off and on several times, especially when it comes to 'specialty' commercial real estate like data centers and startup incubators. This is something that has worked well for REITs but getting into a fund can be difficult and understanding risk is even more challenging unless you know the properties the fund buys or develops.
James already has. https://actualbudget.com/

It's personal budgeting software that's local-first.
I'm using a Surface Book 2 right now, and it's -- by far -- the best laptop I've ever owned.
I feel like they have to use a third party at this point. The friction between Musk/SpaceX, Blue Origin, and the FCC makes me think that Kuiper needs to get on orbit ASAP to begin testing. Starlink is rolling out quickly, and if Amazon doesn't get moving now they are really going to be in a tough spot.
Linodes support is great; I can't say much about DO because I haven't had to use them.

Around the time I switched there was a lot going on. DO had released their $5 droplets. Linode was still stuck on their old, clunky UI, and the migration to the new "Cloud UI" wasn't executed well. Then there was a few DDOS attacks that took stuff down, and the multiple serious security vulnerabilities that they did a -horrible- job managing.

I've been at DO for a number of years now and it's been solid. I have a few dozen servers and take advantage of a few of their services. Their Managed Databases are incredibly well executed.

I've been happy over all so no reason to look elsewhere.