jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Let's examine typical examples of authoritarianism: Stalin, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Franco, to name a few. Note these are people, not nations, yet they they instantaneously identifiable with the USSR, Cambodia, Chile, and Spain. This is a key aspect of authoritarianism - the origin of laws and their enforcement are from a person or cabal, not from the people of that nation. Dictatorship is not synonymous with authoritarianism, but they have a large overlap.

All of my examples are universally considered extremely immoral. However, there are also some countries that are mostly authoritarian, but are arguably not immoral (some middle eastern sultanates come to mind). There is an enormous body of though on the morality of laws. This starts in Greek time with Plato and The Republic, and has had contributions from Aquinas, Hobbes, and more recently MLK. A non-authoritarian state can easily pass immoral laws, too.

Finally, the degree of enforcement of law is a concept which I consider separate from the system of government and the particular laws of the society.

So my objection is that the post commingled three separate ideas: the origin of law within a society, the morality of law, and the rigor of law enforcement. I think the commingling was incorrect. I think some of this is so obvious that not recognizing it can be fairly characterized as stupid. Hope that I hope that clarifies things.

To offer my opinion, the US is not close to being an authoritarian state. However, it has some immoral laws. That can be rectified via a democratic process. I think the enforcement of those laws in this case was actually fairly lax, because he clearly committed crimes and it would not have been difficult to have made a case for treason which would have been eligible for capital punishment, as another commenter noted.
We did it to scratch our own itch primarily. It also gave me an excuse to play w/ the Twitter API and lots of really interesting technology (full blog post on how Proxlet is architected soon). Not desperate to monetize it, it can handle many many thousands of users at a cost of $10/mo to us, but we do have some ideas.

Paypal donate?! Probably should add that for satisfied super-fans :)
Though I would think if you want to get consumers rather than trucks, you would do it on Sunday becuase that is the day most truckers take off.
So called 9 axis inertia guidance units exist (3 linear accelerometers, 3 axis gyroscope, and 3 axis magnetometer). The magnetometers are particularly useful for dealing with gyroscope drift. Once you reject stuff like mains hum, in most typical situations, human scale magnetic fields tend to be pretty constant for many timescales in most human situations.
Argentines already have free university education in their own country. (Look up the "Reforma Universitaria"). The options in the EU - for a student speaking Spanish or English - aren't free, even if they may be more affordable than the US.
The University of California has already cloned itself. There are 10 campuses, 280,000 students, 227,000 faculty and staff. There is a common top level administration. There are grand goals for inclusion. Many undergraduate classes use common syllabus. California guarantees CA students with specified GPA will get into a campus, possibly not the student's first choice. The campuses are different both in location and majors. They have specialties, and different public perceptions.
> Nope.....

> People are demanding that, when referring to another person, Stallman not impose names or pronouns he has chosen when he has been informed of the name or pronouns (if any; in some cases the applicable preference is “don’t use pronouns”) which the person identifies as labels for themself...

So in short...yes, they are demanding someone else to only use the words they deem tolerable.
Do you have any data for this? Last I checked, about a year ago, there was a recent news article referencing a couple year old paper referencing a couple year old industry release referencing an older paper. It turned out a critical assumption was way out of date.

Definitely interested to see new data on this if you have it.
I'm quite tired of Americans saying - but I NEED a car. I mean, maybe YOU do. But most people can live in a lot of different areas, if not cities & states.

You chose to live a lifestyle that requires a car. Which is fine. But it's a choice.
I really loved the tutorials, learned a lot. However, I'm not rich enough to pay $495 :( Maybe if it was a little less I would pay for it. Yeah I know he has to pay his bills, but so do I. :(
there's somewhat of an issue going on with your site: all slide overlays are showing when using firefox, safari only shows half slides and chrome isn't able to load the website at all…
It's worth questioning why "proper use" of the file system is never done in practice. The filesystem is the wrong abstraction for this kind of problem, purely because it only offers one-to-many relationships, bar hacks like symbolic links which are rarely used where they'd be suitable, and because it's just simpler to dump metadata into a "container" with the media, and call it a file.

Nearly all real-world data has many-to-many relationships - for example, in music, we have several artists for the same song, and of course, artists perform multiple songs. The container formats we use for music are really shoddy and try to force these organic relationships into a limited set of tags, and then our filesystem doesn't even have knowledge of this information unless we add plugins for specific file formats - another messy area.

MusicBrainz and similar services organize music "the right way" in a RDBMS, and also includes support for things like multi-language tagging, which is sorely lacking in our filesystems. Instead of trying to come up with "one name to rule them all" for a piece of media, each object is just given an identity, a uuid, then all the metadata is related to the uuid.

If we wanted to keep metadata and media separate, the obvious solution here is to dump the media in blobs in the same database - give each piece of media a uuid, and create a new relationship table to link the uuid to its metadata. I'd personally like this solution for my music. To do the same for files, we'd have an explosion of symbolic links to map the relationships, and no tool to really navigate through them effectively because we're missing a query language. If we sat these indexes on the filesystem, we'd have a big loss of performance because of the extra layers of indirection and searching, for which no optimization is done.

A filesystem is really just a limited kind of database, but where we have a more powerful tool available, why not use it? Well, one reason is backward compatibility - our programs are written to look for files on filesystems, rather than streams from abstract sources. Perhaps what would be ideal in this kind of situation would be a FUSE layer which can expose the MusicBrainz database as a filesystem, but the underlying storage be the postgres db.
Why not in the code ? As I see it we're not trying to fend off Mr Über attacker, just avoid that your keys become public by mistake.

And instead of a secret key which is easily searchable, your method could just do some substitutions, something a bit more complicated than a Caesar cypher. Yes it's really weak but it beats an unencrypted secret key.

I know security minded people are not gonna like it, but until we have a real battle tested solution it's better than nothing.

A determined attacker will almost always win against our best defenses.
I think we have to do our best to make their job hard, but at one point we have to accept that offense is really easier than defense.
"Ideas are more important than code" -- Unknown

Therefore, I'd rather have a sketchbook for ideas :)
Not sure why you got downvoted - his resume is not a lie. Some other aspirational document, that he calls a resume (but which is never used as a resume) is full of stuff he wants to be true.
Most Chrome and Firefox releases (in my experience) have been relatively minor, and focused on security and bugs.

Serious security issues should be fixed as soon as possible anyway. This has absolutely nothing to do with a regular schedule for planned releases, and all of the major browser developers will already issue an immediate out-of-band update for a sufficiently dangerous vulnerability.

What argument could be made that longer release cycles would mean less bugs?

Well, for one thing, you can't regress something if you don't change it. Both Firefox and Chrome typically introduce a bunch of breaking changes every update. Sometimes these are unintentional bugs. Sometimes they are deliberate policy decisions, and in this case newer features are at far greater risk of backward-incompatible changes, as with the CSS syntax and multimedia controls examples I mentioned in another post to this thread.

The thing is, if your site/app used to work and it doesn't work any more after your customer updated their browser, and now you're getting paged in the early hours to be second/third tier support, it is highly unlikely that you care about niceties like whether the browser developers consider the change to be desirable. So if nothing else, every time every browser pushes out a major update, a lot of people building sites or apps need to be testing that their own projects still work, which is clearly a much greater overhead if you do it eight or nine times per browser per year than if you only have to do it once or twice.
You are sort of making my point. They store the data on their devices and leave encryption up to me. How is this better than dropbox? It looks basically as easy to use as dropbox but how is it a step up?
It would be really great if they do more work on compatibility and memory management(Currently chrome kills the system)
The main issue here is the lobbying component of the dealerships. A lot of states have mandatory purchase the car from the car dealer mandates, thereby requiring a system in which the dealer makes enough money to continue their efforts.
Song subscription services do seem to be displacing some percentage of digital purchases. According to the Financial Times yesterday: "The US saw 9 per cent fewer digital albums and 12 per cent fewer digital songs sold over the year, according to Nielsen Music data. In contrast, US audio and video streaming increased more than 50 per cent, with 164bn songs streamed."

Personally, I both make purchases and stream and I expect we'll continue to see a combination. And probably subscription plans that include some number of included downloads. (I think I've seen such plans in the past although I'm not aware of any major services offering this today.)

Subscriptions work better for software that people use day in and day out. The big issue for me is with things I use now and then and don't really care if I'm up to date or not. Or I need the software to access archived files in a particular format even if I'm not actively creating new ones any longer.
"But probably they won't stay democratic for long."

The word "probably" is precisely my point. To my knowledge, nobody ever tested this. We have police to deal with mess, which is under public scrutiny. Why SS should be exempt is not clear at all.

"Remember that this works for the WBC."

Not being American, I don't know what you refer to, sorry.

"Free speech does not mean speech without consequences"

I don't follow. I don't understand why speaking about what happened to you in the past should have any consequence to you. It may have consequence for the other people involved, that some may learn they are not so squeaky clean, and they will lose their authority, but that's precisely what the article was about.
Come on people. What about thousands and thousands of disease model lab rats, genetically engineered to suffer cancer and other horrible illnesses? Should we stop biological and drug research? Misery is electrons flying in the brain.

Would you empathize with a computer program simulating pain model, when pain level is increased, or when computer is powered off? Animal is a mechanism.

Canidae in nature have no problem with killing or inflicting suffering btw.
> "there were several times where we got you the right result even though it didn't have the exact words you asked for"

How do you know that? Just because I click on a result doesn't mean it was the correct one. I usually click on A LOT of results just to check if MAYBE there is something relevant (which is mostly not, especially with Google lately).
Keep in mind, the browser can do more than 8bit sounds.
What could these other means be to manipulate the currency in an open market?

I haven't noticed any policy changes and RBI, is primarily selling dollars, in low quantities though.
It is a large company that opened a new office in a different city, but there are no salaries online from positions in this new office.

I can get an idea of how much a software engineer at the same company in, say, San Francisco makes, but of course I'll be making less here because of the difference in the cost of living.

My default number would be the median salary for a software engineer in my area, but to be honest, I'm a more valuable employee than the average engineer in my area, and think that after this lengthy interview process, my prospective employer agrees.

I've been in the awkward "I need a number situation" and have missed out on a lot of money because of it. One time, I even gave $X, and my interviewer came back with $X - ($X * 0.05). After a month of working at this place, I realized that I could have asked for twice as much money.
>Is there a way I can archive this to keep it forever and laugh until I die?

You could just set yourself on fire while reading it
Yes, they let you send inter-carrier MMS and you can also transfer your number between carriers.
They should buy some plastic chairs.
If you get along give it a shot. No one else can really tell you who you will connect and work best with (despite the point rank system comments here).
Reminds me of a story I read years ago (can't find a working link) of how the IT staff at a hospital would routinely wipe hard drives by just taking them into the MRI room.

Once, one of them decided to save time by not removing the drive from the PC first, and you can probably guess the rest.
Hunchentoot, behind lightty.
Without reading the article (and ignoring the captions), you'd think the left side was better.

Ordered and color-coded, as opposed to flying around.
Not true at all. Sites can be configured to respond to arbitrary subdomains.
Dear EFF,

Is this seriously your official position? That far from taking a hardline stance against censorship, you're instead in agreement and commend this coordinated censorship and slippery slope?

If this is the case, you are not the EFF that I or the internet know or loved.

This is not about whether or not we like Donald Trump or anything. This is about the fact that social media platforms just censored the President of the United States of America for no other reason than their own political views.

We saw this happen before with the stasi.
The issue here is not whether Sunstein's being centrist, but whether he's making sense at all.

Who are the experts who get to decide what counts as a "falsehood"?

For example, how many of us really know the details about how polls operate in each of the 50 states to know whether or not fraud could have occurred on such a level to affect the outcome.

For my part, I don't really care all that much because the bigger problem in this country is not whether Trump or Biden becomes our next president in a few days, but for how much (in terms of corporate campaign donations) this new administration was purchased.

Until we remove corporate donations from the election process, a lot of the candidates' campaign promises, on both sides, is just a bunch of empty rhetoric.
The word “or” separates the qualifying conditions in the definition linked. Disorder or a disturbance of the peace is enough to qualify an incident as a “riot”. Given the quoted incidents were illegal acts that required authorities to spend time and money to respond to, they were of course a disturbance of the peace, disorderly, and therefore were indeed riots.
There hasn't been a post with the words "twitter alternative" in 3 weeks [0]... but this probably has nothing to do with Twitter banning Donald Trump today.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Are you stating that as an unrelated hypothetical, or are you claiming that Trump forced Twitter to censor himself?
Ruby can’t be compiled easily due to the very dynamic semantics of the language. If you wanted to compile it, it would probably start behaving a lot more like Crystal, which looks similar but behaves completely differently.
Yes, the raid on the capitol was very frightening.
The Mozilla blog post you are replying about is suggesting increasing transparency, not suggesting more censorship.
Leaders convinced people to do terrible things before newsfeed algorithms, seems like it’s only a contributing factor, but not the fundamental issue.

Feels like it’s a ‘mind of humans’ issue.
"Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world's largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to 'catastrophic' errors."
I'm referring to the open Hotspot which almost everyone uses, not some specialized JVM products which are closed-source. You do bring up an interesting point though.

As for the type of hypervisors you're referring to, those things are effectively half-baked operating systems. That's why something like KVM is better -- you're not pretending to be a non-OS while slowly reinventing a wheel that the *nixes have and always will do better.

I think we're beginning to wander massively afield though! :)
You're taking a personal feeling and extrapolating onto others. Not everybody finds sitting on leetcode 3 hours a day a fun task. I'm one of those people. It's absolutely mind numbing.

A few hundred coding challenges is months and months of preparation if you're actually trying to internalize everything very well. Kudos to those who can do it and have the willpower to, but I can't seem to get past 3 weeks tops before my body starts physically rejecting these problems.

It also seems to skew towards recent grads and single people that can spend all of that time on these problems.
I agree. I have a small app that has about 1,200 users and I make $30 per day in iAd revenue. Assuming similar numbers, Instagram could easily have $25k per day in revenue.
Karma's probably more useful than most people would think, even those who are "above it". That's what the little evolutionary psychology that I know seems to indicates, in any case...

Remove karma from HN and it'll probably have a significant impact on behaviour, and not for the better on average.
Sure. Here's a vacuum test study I performed on this very subject. Looks at the relative effects of words in URL, Title, Headings, and Body: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/the-round...

It's a little TLDR, but the point above is spelled out near the end in the final "conclusion". Cheers.
This is something that I've already tried, I mean using iSSH to connect to localhost running OpenSSH, but in the default system there's really nothing to play with. And I haven't found how and from where to install any UNIX-utilities, editors or applications for iPad. Any pointers on where to get these?
As I said, perhaps it was just me. But how hard is a footnote?
The author of the blog post considered bookmakers as the ones laying the outcomes. What if one considers the layers as other bettors in a betting exchange?

This scenario would be more interesting than trying to arbitrage bookies. Many bettors do bet based on emotion or some voodoo magic. Betting exchanges like BetFair are not laying anything, so they don't care. If some smart bettor is arbitraging the other bettors, the betting exchange is more than happy to collect a fee off the arbitrageur's profits.
I was more thinking of DIY firearms/firearm modification. That would seem very dangerous to me.

It is quite common for criminals in the UK to "re-bore" replica or deactivated weapons. It is also very common for these guns to backfire, killing the shooter.

The idea of gun hacking simply put me in mind of these sad occurrences.

I'm not suggesting anyone is a mouth breathing redneck, or an inept criminal for that matter, lets put it this way: when I think of some of the things I've hacked in the more conventional sense, I wouldn't feel safe if those things had been potentially lethal :)

EDIT: before anyone else brings this up, it has just occurred to me that the category of "potentially lethal" includes every object in existence, especially cars, which people love to hack and I would never anyone accuse of being reckless for hacking. So feel free to disregard my whole point.
That works OK until you hit a site that has a weird method of processing payments, and now you can't pay for your order from email+weirdsite@mail.com because your paypal address is email+paypal@mail.com and they have to "match" (and ofc you had no way of knowing this before signing up). Or the sites that don't think "+" is a valid email address character. Or the sites that strip out the "+blabla" because they've decided they're too special for filtering.
Space launch systems are so deeply dual-use it's not even funny. Orbital rockets are very similar to early, low-readiness ICBMs - modern systems prefer solid fuel, since they can be safely kept fueled for longer periods of time, but aside from that the biggest differences between a Falcon 9 and an ICBM is how ridiculously overpowered the Falcon is, and its lack of re-entry countermeasures (MIRVs, decoys, etc.). Which is why anyone working at a company like SpaceX is subject to the same technology export restrictions as weapons companies.

For example, if SpaceX can get e.g. the Dragon capsule to land with a reasonable accuracy on thrusters, and then put a warhead in it (or multiple warheads) , that's quite a capable weapons system right there. In fact, it's even capable of fractional orbital bombardment, which was considered so destabilizing during the Cold War that it was specifically banned in SALT II.

tl;dr - Elon Musk will, within a couple of years, control a system that can be adapted into an ICBM within a very short period of time and with minimal investment.
Please, no. Advertising is like drugs: There‘s always a demand, and if it‘s not satisfied legally and transparently, it will find a way through other means.
I already can’t trust most influencers or any other "independent" reviewers.

Pushing ad dollars into prohibition will make the problem much worse than it already is.
Threadripper is a consumer grade part with no certified support for ECC memory Save the UDIMM variety! AMD's New Threadripper Pro Branded parts are Actually what Servethehome calls WEPIC(Workstation Epyc). And the Epyc Branding has supplanted AMD's Opteron line of Branding in AMD's Server/HPC market products since the arrival of AMD's Zen CPU micro-architecture.

Threadripper Pro is really Workstation Epyc as that comes with the full 8 memory channels per socket and 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes support as well as fully certified by the Motherboard suppliers ECC memory support for all ECC memory types and that includes ECC RDIMM support and 2TB memory capacity as well compared to the non Pro Threadripper consumer variants that only support 256GB or ECC UDIMM memory on motherboards that are not necessarily certified for ECC Memory support even if the consumer Threadripper has ECC memory support enabled.