jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In some mountain huts without tap water and only disconnected solar electricity you can't have espresso machines. You'll get filter coffee from melted snow. It's heartwarming, though.
"Toilsome" is probably the most kindly yet still accurate thing one could say about exposing HATEOAS to the real world, at this particular point in time.
Doing TDD one should have a strong preference to write the test first. But really, in this discussion, which frequently happens on this forum the most important thing is often left out. What people are not talking about is that there also is a refactoring step in the cycle. To qualify something as TDD or not TDD the presence of the refactoring step is actually the most critical.
I can't read it, paywalled.
I can't even imagine being small-minded enough to think that only tech-savvy people have anything interesting to express (and I say that as someone who thinks pretty highly of internet culture prior to its mainstreaming)
You're in good company with Jonathan Blow and, it appears, John Carmack. Teams pushing TDD might be a good smell test for whether they know how to efficiently code.
AKA off campus dorms. This isn't targeting the urban professional, it's for those who want to continue the dormie lifestyle. One of the biggest universities in the country is just a couple stops away on the light rail.
I run a tiny carpooling site (not for profit) snowpool.org . If they turned around and upped the fees to 3K a year or something, it would basically force me to shut the service down.

This is an incredibly awful move, I'm completely astounded that it was allowed to happen.
You can't see the change in the overall economy, but you can see if the people who you gave the tax cut to are investing or spending more.
At least one study purports to do exactly this.

http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/...

(I haven't read it myself, so I'm not endorsing it. It's not exactly uncontroversial.)
You've made a better argument for revisiting the AMT than you have for revisiting the structure of ISOs.
I think the JS k demos are pretty interesting to say the least... it's amazing what can be done with a few K.. though the original vs. final code doesn't always bear much resemblance.

The point is, too many people don't spend any* time thinking of how what they write is inefficient or not... Even mobile devices are becoming mobile powerhouses. It's a bit of a shame really.
Completely agree.

Sometimes I read an article and think the same way as some comments I read before reading the article, and a couple of days later, I will randomly think of the article in a different view. Then I understand the "anchoring" that you and others said.

Still, I enjoy reading the comments. High quality, oftentimes summarizing or explaining the article's ideas etc, and always having interesting points of view.
No.

Hopefully they used something designed for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt

SHA-256 and SHA-512 where designed for hashing speed, lovely in a hash, terrible in this context for security.
So what you say is that it is good to incarcerate drug addicts, not because they have committed a crime, but because they may commit a crime.

I see your point...
"Secure or not" is not a meaningful distinction. "Secure" means a lot of different properties which may be of varying importance to different people and applies to the whole system, not individual components. So the only meaningful interpretation of 'secure' for a subcomponent is "Does it achieve the security properties it aims to?". It does not excuse from learning what those properties are, what they mean, and their implications for the security of the system as a whole.
Is this a local server or is a remote service?
Is there a goal to add speech processing atop this?
Spending time and effort on AI "20-50 years down the road" is a waste because:

(a) statistically based, but obviously not (or not obviously) intelligent systems are going to change the legal and practical landscape well before Ultron gets up and starts walking around, and

(b) the kinds of things they're worried about are almost certainly going to appear silly when the real thing does roll around.

The moral responsibility for a bot that orders drugs certainly belongs to the person who set up the bot to order from the "black market"; for a drone that kills the wrong people, it belongs primarily to the officer that ordered the mission knowing that the statistical software wasn't perfect. In my opinion. The supreme court may differ.

Also in my opinion, the dangers of "singularity" AI are overblown due to a soft, fuzzy, but very real upper limit on "intelligence".
The fundamental reason is that most people see the state as a protective entity. People don't give their information to someone they don't trust (at least not for free). But they fundamentally trust the government as a whole, even if they may mistrust individual parts of it [1].

This is a hard notion to combat because the government is a protective entity. It's arguably the most important function of any government: protecting its citizens. Even corrupt and dysfunctional governments can still protect their citizens from external threats.

In Western nations, one of the biggest threats to the average citizen, particularly his or her rights, is the government itself. Separation of powers is supposed to keep it in check, but at least in the U.S., the slow and steady increase in the power of the executive branch in the past century combined with technological developments has meant that it now has the potential to exercise tyrannical levels of power over virtually any person or class of person.

People don't need to understand the web or even how the technology of mass surveillance works. Citizens as a whole don't make political decisions based on detailed information anyway. Surveillance reform can only be accomplished by getting a large enough people to distrust the government itself. Skepticism won't be enough--fear of being vulnerable to terrorists (or any of the other usual fears like child pornographers and such) will trump skepticism.

In the U.S., the constitution is a document which gives limited powers to the federal government and justifies each of them. People today generally think of government power in opposite terms: it gets power by default and only has to give it up if that power later proves to be unnecessary. This is the real change that needs to be made, one of mentality not just of laws. The laws will follow if the mentality of the citizenry as a whole changes. The great deal of skepticism that younger Americans show towards government compared to their elders is encouraging, but that will only lead to change in the long run. I'm not sure what the sitution in the UK is like.

The basic problem with the main media narratives surrounding surveillance is that most (but not all) look at mass surveillance by the government and only conclude (correctly) that mass surveillance is bad and that the government better have very good reasons for doing it. Government fearmongering follows, placating the skepticism.

Mass surveillance needs to be seen for what it really is: the signature of an embryonic tyranny. Even if we presently have saint-like politicians who will only use such power for good, our government was set up so that we would not, and indeed should not, need to trust it.

[1] The surveys that regularly show high public disapproval of Congress come to mind.
Does anyone know if there are any Go libraries for collision detection yet? I'd like to use some.
That's quite interesting but the overall picture is the same in both CPI and PCE. It's just another way to measure inflation in consumer goods and services. Compare that to the usual Bitcoin advocates talking about inflation of the dollar relative to Bitcoin. It's measuring something completely different.
So, basically, you just don't like what you think people would do with their time, if given the chance because they're not chained to a job? Sorry if this sounds overly confrontational, but I couldn't think of a more civil way to say it.
> you steal from the poor and give to the rich

At this point it's really future generations who are being stolen from.

I'm older, own a house, and paid for multiple degrees years ago. Inflation is good for me personally, but destroys young people. Salaries just can't keep up with how fast housing and education (and healthcare) costs have risen.

I do not think the fed is solely to blame though.
What does it mean “the street took their profits and ran”? Who did they sell the stock to?
You could swap Dutch with Danish and the video would be mostly the same. I still need to learn how to bike and Copenhagen isn't really kind to newbs.
Out of curiosity, what kind of read and write concurrency is your application dealing with?

In my experience, sqlite performance becomes problematic quite quickly, even with settings you mentioned (WAL etc).
I'm not the biggest Chick Corea listener, but his piece "Spain" is partly what got me into Jazz back in the day!
>Public utilities are regulated as such because of the high capital costs to deliver to everyone and the need to gain the right of way to serve people.

In other words, they're natural monopolies which we regulate because market dynamics don't work when you have a natural monopoly. The same reason we highly regulated and then broke up Bell Telephone and Standard Oil before it.

App stores and online infrastructure are also natural monopolies, but they become so due to agglomeration and network effects. Regardless of the route, the end result is the same.

>So now an iPhone is a “necessary tool”?

A smartphone and its associated app ecosystem is, yes. Google's system isn't much better. And there doesn't seem to be much room for many other players.

Again, regular home telephones were deemed necessary enough to regulate and break up. So was oil refining and finance.
Has it been legally established that twitter should be treated like a government platform when governments use it? Can twitter be used and enforced like C-SPAN?
The comparison to Black Lives Matter rioting is important. I find it very bizarre that the media correctly calls these idiots rioters, but they call the Black Lives Matter idiots doing the same sort of thing protestors.
I recently noticed that about reddit. I thought it was just a time wasting site with a political bias. But actually it is a site for spreading false information. Maybe it doesn't get called out often because it's a bit smaller than FB. But for its 50M+ DAU, I presume that false information must be harmful.
To be fair, didn't the police and govt let protesters take over an entire section of Seattle this summer in which multiple people were killed?
I live in London but I went back to Paris where I'm from for Christmas. Here in Paris it was the norm: everyone got tested before driving to their families for Christmas. The days before Christmas there were white tents every couple of blocks where you could get tested without an appointment. You're probably right that's what lots of people in London did as well.
This is an interesting point, thanks. I definitely perceive an increasing lack of personal responsibility across the board honestly. A lot of the identity politics/victim one-upmanship stems from this IMO, but I'm glad you presented the other side of it, that people don't want to take any responsibility for when they are actually an asshole either. Not to "both sides" it, but I believe it's deeply concerning how people seem to have fallen away from proper introspection. Which can manifest in bad ways on both sides indeed.
Lots of comments are being voted down disagreeing with the literal definition of censorship.

Whatever your position on this issue, it is certainly alarming that on hackernews intellectual arguments over the meaning of a word are sent down the memoryhole.

Doublespeak is really becoming an issue in our society, and a subset of our population is censoring those that point it out.
Fair point. I guess I wasn't much older than seven when I began my Nintendo addiction.
So not sure then do lockdown anyway?
And Boston Dynamics just sold for only $1B. Something is not right.
> And when politicians call each other Nazis, or when Joe Biden claimed that Mitt Romney wanted to re-enslave black people?

Name calling isn't incitement to violence. Can you point to the specific instances of violence you are talking about and the speech that inspired them?

The issue here is that this isn't theoretical. Trump actually spoke to a real mob, in person, told them to march to the capitol, and then praised him once they had invaded and sacked it during a joint session of congress. Given that, yes, we look at his speech with much less tolerant criteria. He wasn't just spouting off, he is at least a proximate cause of a direct attack on our seat of government.
When people who get censored on all media platforms, ridiculed, ignored, and aren't allowed a day in court to even present their evidence. They're going to feel like the game is rigged.

I don't think it was a good idea to go inside the capital and it will cause very negative and counterproductive blowback.

Media coverage of this will be biased, compare it to the "mostly peaceful" protests happening all summer. It will be used as an excuse to further censorship and sideline sympathizers. The reaction will increase polarization and decrease our ability to communicate.

I'm not saying election fraud happened but I completely understand their frustration.
I work for a large SaaS company with hundreds of engineers and a very healthy revenue. It's widely acknowledged that the company would continue to function exactly as it is now for a very long time if they fired 95% of the staff. Heck stability and uptime would probably improve due to fewer deployments/no new feature adds. So the graph with declining expenses and increasing revenue isn't at all surprising.

The problem with this model is that you are coasting on the work done by your full time staff in the initial few years, whom you fired and replaced with part time contractors who get no benefits. Even putting the ethical issues with this aside, if a competitor takes interest in your space and has a large war chest, you'd be powerless to compete with them. And when your tech is dated and current/new customers want innovation, your low-price contracting firms working a few hours per week certainly aren't going to be able to offer that.

So while I'm happy things are working in this case, no new company that starts with the environment you are describing is going to be successful.
As another commenter mentioned, we are adjusting to a new form of information flow now in the post social media age. What was easily disproven and dismissed 20 years ago, now is amplified by radicals. I don't think banning the speech is the right choice but we need someway to counter misinformation. Its 100x easier to come up with these lies then it is to dispel them. The information war is already heavily on the side of misinformation. Clearly with the rise of Qanan, antifa, and even yesterdays events, our current approach is not work. I am all ears to hear better solutions but trusting people to be able to navigate the sea of misinformation to the island of truth leads to many shipwrecks.
> No, GP means, literally, who put the cage policy in place. It was not the Trump administration.

The policy of deliberately maximizing use of the cages by maximizing family separation and using the induced psychic harm as a deterrent is a policy adopted by the Trump Administration.

The policy of requiring segregated detention of children, when actually detained, which caused the cages to be necessary was a judicially-imposed policy.

The policy of minimizing detention of children so as to minimize the use of the cages, including not detaining adults accompanying children without reason beyond illegal crossing, was a direct response to that judicially-imposed policy by the Obama Administration that was abandoned by the Trump Administration.

So, if one is using “built the cages” with the peculiar meaning you suggest of “adopted the policy for their use that is the subject of the objections”, Trump “built the cages”.
I've had some contracting experience as a freelance dev. In my experience even smaller companies (not Google, FB etc.) tend to have high budgets. I ended up with gigs anywhere between $200-300/hr, but that was 40 hrs week. Of course you have to pay for insurance, get your own retirement plan and a bunch of other logistics stuff, but it can make you a lot of money.
SeeQR is an open source tool to help test the efficiency of Postgres databases and help developers design the most optimal db schema!
Or that there's no way to maintain social stability while optimizing other people's speech for maximum engagement and profitability.
Is this really what people want in the news? A biased political stance?
it's a woman
> It's not a great move to assume that conservatives are dumb, racist, and unsophisticated.

I don't love labels, but I don't think "conservatives" are simply any of those things.

This isn't an original thought, but I think they are mostly afraid of losing their community if they change their mind.

Fear of disconnection is innate and biological. When my trump supporting friends say "I believe it" to somebody suggesting that the Capitol Hill rioters were antifa pretending to be trump supporters, their lack of interest in challenging their own beliefs stems from the risk incurred with disagreeing with their friends and loved ones.

This effect is so strong that our brains give hits of dopamine whenever our beliefs are confirmed. We are not weird to change our minds.

So no. "Conservatives" aren't dumb. Just like the rest of us, they biologically afraid of social disconnection. And all that shouting across the isle makes it harder for them to see "progressives" accepting them.
That argument is as valid as arguing that jumping off cliffs for no reason and admitting that breaking into congress is bad are equivalent.
This is what Google thought Google+ would be, but users were more about connecting to anyone and everyone and it became too messy for Google to want to deal with.
That's almost entirely opposite. Entire classes of vulnerabilities have been discovered since PDP days, such as format string vulns. Programs written in that era are practically guaranteed to have such vulnerabilities.
The books did not shape the interviews, and we were careful to tell candidates that they shouldn't treat them as homework, and they could probably do just fine without reading them at all.
Apple does collect a lot of analytics though.
Any popular technology that's controversial has this problem on hacker news. Every discussion becomes a debate on the same old topics. It's like Go generics or Rails scalability.
Social media is anything but. I nuked mine because the signal was low and the positive/negative ratio wasn't good.

Online participation needs changes to be more worthwhile:

1. Micropayments to participate.

2. Names, verified identities, and pictures. 37signals did a whole article about how people treated each other when there was too much anonymity.

3. Elimination of karma and other gamification. Promotion based on anonymous interest of others.

4. Automatic recognition of insults, crybullying, hate speech, dog whistles, and personal attacks.

5. 7 random people moderation.

6. Less deplatforming, more civil debating.
How do I sign up without giving my phone number?
It is more than OK because it does not affect you and your family. If it did, you would not think the same.
One of the problems is that hashtag usage evolved into a form of signaling for emphasis (#your-slogan-here) instead of a useful way to tag a topic, to the extent that it can read as obnoxious if you do it at all in a serious way.

Another is that it's another moderation headache. Anyone can insert a hashtag for any reason, so anyone will. If you don't police it, it becomes useless; if you do police it, it becomes heavy.
Something being a lepton has nothing to do with whether it's a point particle.

Pontryagin duality of position/momentum (which comes from both QM and Relativity, depending on your perspective) rules out the physical existence of point particles. It would require infinite momentum to have zero extent.
This is great in terms of UI. Does anyone know if you can use Mail.app with Gmail and keep all emails on the server? I'm currently using Mimesteram which has a great UI and doesn't keep a local copy of all emails. But, I would rather use the native mail app if possible.
"a simple but useful vi-adjacent editor called qe (written by myself)"

Oh, that would be nice as a standalone thing for my plain old CP/M Kaypro.
The point of an analogy is to point out that certain aspects of two things are comparable in a certain context. It's true that there are significant differences between cars and software, like, say, the presence of wheels, but those aren't relevant to the specific point I was making. What is it exactly that makes the development of regulation of car safety so different from the development and (potential) regulation of software security?
We're well into thoughtcrime territory here, and projected thoughtcrime at that in this case.
For me, no, I don't think I can do that. For years I've been doing the "Electronics is cool, I should learn more about it but not today" routine. Now, I started doing some heavy research into solar energy, for purely practical reasons, and I'm finally actually interested in electronics and learning. I can't seem to summon interest in something unless I see at least a little bit of practical use for myself. I think one of the reasons is that learning is too abstract, unless connected to a particular problem I'm trying to solve.
With electronics, the issue is that yes it sounds very cool but I just didn't see what I could do with the knowledge. Sure, I'll buy an arduino and have it water my pot flower but that's utterly boring and useless.

But with solar energy systems, there are a lot of intricacies and compromises and learning electronics is very rewarding.

The downside is that I seem to lose interest very quickly, once I solve my particular problem. But I still learn a lot and have fun in the meantime.
It's unlikely that both yout iOS device and your PC will fail at the same time. Backing up an iOS device to a PC is as good as any other backup.
If you haven't tried it yet, give original Gnome 3 / Gnome shell a go. You might like it even more than Unity. I get a feeling that by jumping straight to Unity, they will cause many people to be excited about it, not knowing they've lost something at least as good.
Total number of people who are potential customers * amount your product could sell for / number of realistic buyers * 10% == more realistic outlook.

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there are 7500 hospitals in the US which could buy my product for $100,000 dollars per hospital, but only 25% of them would actually be able to purchase it for various reasons of which I only have the ability to produce/call/sell to 10% of those in the first year == ((7500 x 100,000) x .25) x.10== ~$18,000,000 addressable market.

Then I would get even more pessemistic and assume that you'll have an exceptionally long sales cycle getting out of the gate and that you'd only land say 10% of those customers in the first 12-18 months. while not hitting your stride fro say 36 months.

Calc out your opex and this gives you an idea of the funds needed to support your runway.
> Tripping the time bomb will get you sued, not paid, and you will lose.

Not if it was in the original contract.
I'm still a fan of the hypothesis that trees send their waste to the leaves, and then cut them off.

tl;dr as a child, you jumped into big piles of tree poop.