jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am hopeful that after a couple months of egregious overreach by the TSA, the bipartisan outcry will be enough to prompt action. I don't think that Paul's "enough is enough" position on this issue is itself far outside the mainstream (but: it is currently outside it).

All I'm saying is, if there's an inference to be made about the legislative fate of the TSA's screening program from a Paul bill, it's probably not the inference we'd like to make.
Why should radiation be much more of a concern than for rockets? (Couldn't you just add shielding?)
Move over, I'm hoping for a service-optional editor, also run locally hopefully. I don't mind adding cloud features, but not solely based on, as it creates the same problems closed source editors have.
Except that, from the limelight, it probably is worth $100,000 now.
But what percentage of "real world" functions work on completely generic types? In reality most useful functions take more specific types, and those types allow many more operations to be performed on them. In general, it's not really possible to tell what a function does just by looking at the type signature.
Interestingly, the First Hundred were sent on a one-way mission to Mars as well, thus making the original question not quite so off-topic. Once you send someone that far, the thought of not bringing them back seems like an eminently reasonable approach.
None, because it's not an X-ray device. These particular images are millimetre-wave radar.
It's interesting the extent to which apple is pre-emptively trying to avoid anti-trust actions by allowing apps like opera and gv and backpedaling on ad network competition. I assume that's because they see it as a real possibility that an EU remedy could be something like forcing them to natively support competing app stores. That would be a huge blow to apple revenue.
This is where tabbed browsing would shine. Open a page on wikipedia, open a bunch of links in other tabs, and by the time you're done reading the first page, all the others are loaded. Rinse & repeat.
Eating anything 20-30 minutes beforehand will do that. Even eating a meal more slowly will result in eating less due to feeling sated sooner. The first bullet point here is relevant: http://zenhabits.net/5-powerful-reasons-to-eat-slower/
Georgia was one until two weeks ago, at least de facto. The language wasn't quite as clear as California's, but it was essentially impossible to enforce non-competes. A bunch of big companies managed to get an initiative on the Nov. 3 ballot to overturn that, though, and it passed, partly due to misleading language that's currently being litigated. The ballot question read, Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to make Georgia more economically competitive by authorizing legislation to uphold reasonable competitive agreements?, which is a bit, uh, indirect about the fact that its main impact will be to legalize noncompetes in GA.

It caused a bit of ruckus within libertarian-leaning circles in Georgia, with some people lining up on the pro side, arguing freedom of contract, and other people lining up on the anti side, arguing right-to-work. It was probably the only major issue where progressive groups and tea-party groups actually had the same position (against), but they were both greatly outspent by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and business-Republican groups.
FWIW, I hated Red Mars as a novel. It had some interesting science in it but as a story it was way below par. The characters were not fleshed out well, the bad guys had no motivation, the chapters seemed strung together haphazardly with plot threads constantly left dangling. The "exciting finale" felt completely forced with a silly chase sequence that didn't seem to matter in the overal scheme of things.

Bad, bad book.
The inbox is incredibly slow to load up ("refreshing conversations...") compared to the native SMS app or even Whatsapp (iPhone 4, 4.2, 3G 3 bars). And while it loads up, it doesn't seem to be possible to switch from the inbox to the dialer or the "Menu"...
It's also crashed twice when opening after receiving a text notification.
(disappointed sigh).
Human consciousness is entirely arbitrary. There's no definition that will include all humans and only all humans.
Do they set the user agent?
Can someone explain why Americans call it "math". If the word is a shortening of Mathematics, shouldn't it be called "maths"?
> Wish we’d all agree to one templated configuration format.

I'm going to post the obligatory XKCD comic because your comment is exactly what this was created for: https://xkcd.com/927/
>how accurate are polygraphs?

Somewhere between zero and very depending on how good the person doing the interrogating is and how much the person being questioned knows about the techniques being used against them.

It's basically a good cop bad cop routine without the expense of the good cop and half as many human factors to screw it up.
I recently read “The One Straw Revolution” by Masanobu Fukuoka [1] and a lot of the technique seems to be around making sure the soil is cultivated for letting mycelium and bacteria do their thing. Mycorrhizal fungi seems to play a huge role in soil carbon storage, which is disrupted in modern agricultural practices [2].

[1]https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-one-straw-revolution?varia...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_fungi_and_soil_c...
...you really had to throw a 'pigs' in there?
It can be hard to finish a complete sentence when drunk. In case it wasn't clear for anyone, you still shouldn't do it.
There is a giant market for fake mattress reviews and a tiny market for real ones. You see the same basic paradigm across a range of industries where reviewers make more money from advertising deals than their customers. That or just early access only being handed to people with positive relationships resulting in a lot of bias.

Net result, consumer reports maintained a solid reputation over time and most independents end up selling out at some point. Well that and several billion dollar snake oil companies.

PS: Fill in the blank: The water cooled ultra X get’s an extra 2 FPS ___ . (meh save yor money.) or (which is so amazing!)
Building some wooden trays out of plywood with sloping sides. Turns out it's pretty complicated trigonometry, and very hard to adjust correctly with a cheap table saw with a floppy miter gauge.
There are plenty of articles but that doesn't mean they are correct. Here is a peer reviewed study demonstrating that masks are helpful.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133551...

Masks provide two benefits. They protect other people from you when your are ill but currently asymptomatic and they protect you from "splashes" caused by people coughing and sneezing without covering their mouth.
A "application browser" based on p2p technologies like bittorrent.

Its based on a (heavily modified) Chrome codebase, and the application sdk its in Swift and later also one for C++.

Apart from the application process use to remote render the UI, i have a "instance" process that run for the "apps" that works for handling the RPC messages (which is in gRPC).

The instance process, will expose the RPC interfaces as in a background service, where the RPC is designed by the app developer accordingly to its needs. (For instance it can even control when to launch the app window).

The RPC can be exposed to the outside or only internal, and im using the bittorrent DHT as an update service with a constant address that the app developer can share so others can install and update the apps.

The application is container like, where you can have key-value databases and files already there. So when you launch the instance process (aka. the service process) it can use this persistent layer as its state. Files, databases, assets, applications and the shared module to be loaded by the instance process will be all there already (as in zip, git or docker).

On top of that there will be the common window, the same as browsers, only that its shared by installed applications that was synced through torrent.

The cool thing is that giving theres a instance/daemon process for each app, they can run and handle RPC' s or network in the background and notify you about events, where you can optionally launch the app UI to see them.

(Eg. a messenger can receive messages via RPC, handle them in the instance process, and persist them without any UI, than let you know about it through the common window, where you can launch the new UI)

(Im also planning to let install in "standalone mode" where
it will install and be exposed as a ordinary app in the native OS)

The SDK will have direct access to the web layer, and it will be easy to develop a web browser for instance. The rendering layer is the same used by chrome and blink.

The biggest motivations to this, was not only something i've always wanted to have, but also political, as in civil rigts, giving it will give us more control of our digital lives.

Imagine a search index like Google only being able to index your contents if you allow them, and only what you want. Or the capacity to have your personal list of friends and the social networks will have access to the list if you want and not own them like they do now.

Im about to launch it in about a month, but giving i was already in a bad financial shape (because i have dived all the way for this project), now with the pandemic, i dont know if i can launch something really stable and finale, be it for health or the world economy nosediving (i hope it wont affect me that much and i can do at least this).
Thanks, got 806.82 at this stock :D
They threatened to block a fork before. It just removed Google dependencies as far as I know.

[0] says use outside Signal is unsupported. And it's only for Java, Swift, and TypeScript.
And yet, just like the guy looking for a new job and unable to find one, you have to find someone to pay you for the work. Except now you have to do it constantly instead of once every few years. For most people, that's not an improvement.

Even if all skills were suitable for freelancing (which they're not), not everyone is cut out to freelance. It's high risk, the income is uneven, you have to pay unemployment insurance but are ineligible to receive it, and you have to market yourself (which is difficult and eats up your time) and do collections (which also eats up a lot of time and is too often unsuccessful). You also take a hit on self-employment taxes. In the US you're also screwed on healthcare, which is a big deal if you have a family. It's very easy to end up working longer days as a freelancer and taking home significantly less pay than a full time employee would for the same type of work.
It's a good talk, but if you go read the research he's citing, he took a great deal of liberties. :-|
I was there. Enjoyed the talk.
I can see how it would be a great conversation starter! If someone started a chat with "women can't help but braid my hair" then I'd be hooked.
Don't forget the anthropic principal: the reason we haven't yet encountered any civilization-destroying black balls is because we wouldn't be here to wonder why if we had.

Similarly, there's a probabilistic argument that we actually are on the cusp of some humanity-destroying event. If human population grows exponentially until it faces a civilization-destroying crisis, then a large fraction of the people who will ever be born will be born in the last lifetime before the cataclysm, because this is the nature of exponential growth. Hence, for any given observer, chances are they see the end of civilization.

(Changing population growth rates can alter this prediction somewhat: I've read that only about 10% of all humans who have ever lived are alive now, because we had several millenia of relative stagnation & steady-state population. That implies that if we don't see a cataclysm, though, there will be more stagnation ahead.)

Finally, don't rule out the possibility that the definition of "consciousness" may shift. Is a bacteria self-aware? Nobody's ever really asked one. They do communicate via chemical signals, though. [1] What if in the future, humanity's role is essentially like cells in a great planetary-scale organization, and we have planets asking each other "Do we need to worry about the destruction of the galaxy?"

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16212498/
John Boyd and the defense reform movement pretty much predicted this outcome from the beginning.
Why wouldn't they use SFTP?
I have an interesting old book (which is falling apart, sadly) about the F-16 and it's an interesting comparison with the main competitor at the time, the YF-17, which ultimately became the basis on which the F/A-18 was developed. Both very successful designs.
I agree, post is very focused on customer support and getting the credits, not at all on product usability. I didn't start building on either AWS or GCP with the expectation I'd have a human to talk to, and from that perspective, GCP was much, much more usable. I found (and find) AWS's interfaces and documentation to be a maze.
Generally agree, except I’m not sure there is a bright line between the obviously-worthwhile precautions you mention and the paranoid overprecautions that might themselves carry harm.

Seatbelts... yes. Choking first aid... yes.

Healthy eating, talking to them frequently... probably?

Lots of sunlight and fresh air... maybe?
It's a mindset change--make writing flow as freely and easily as typing up a reply in gmail. Think about how many paragraphs you can bang out quickly getting a point across in gmail's editor. It doesn't feel like you're authoring content in a CMS, but if you squint that's really what gmail kind of is--just a CMS for writing content directed to a small (or large) set of people through direct e-mail as opposed to published on a web page.

You're not in a fancy CMS editor with all these whiz-bang blocks and components--those are just noise that give you more anxiety (should I be making this paragraph a hero/lead element? wait no, what about a side-by-side with a graphic? oh, but what graphic? ... hrm, time to go waste 30 minutes looking at unsplash... oh wait, what was I writing again? oh nevermind, I guess I'll come back to finish this tomorrow when my head is clear).

You're not writing content in something that feels like a programming language filled with special characters, an IDE yelling at you for every little misplaced indent or space, etc.

You're just writing text with some light formatting to emphasize structure and key elements. Maybe some lists or bullet points thrown in. A graphic figure or two. It's just like composing an e-mail, something you've done thousands and thousands of times already in your life. There's no pomp and circumstance, no steep learning curve... just writing.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/06/finding-great-deve...

Interview processes are significantly biased towards seeing large numbers of non-hire-able people over hire-able people. It's not surprising that someone with few connections and just starting their career could perform well against the biased view of an unfiltered interview pipeline.

oh, nostrademons beat me to the punch.
The author of this article has a site where he summarizes his suggestions to slow aging http://agingadvice.org/
No. Because, first, I'm a gnu/linux user nowadays, and second, even if I was a Mac user I would need more than 4 PNGs to convince me to use a software I encounter for the first time.

edit: ...and, as the app for Github is not missing, the third reason for not using the app is that its web page is shamelessly lieing* .

* One may well see this as «lying», but I reject to spell like that.
You were replying to laurent92, who didn't say anything like that (picking on employees or embarrassing them); that was this other comment, which was replying to laurent92:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26286183
Approach it like a mid 90s demo coder. Alphas, light maps, shadow casting.

The coolest 80s trick was rotating the palette to get moving water.
> This misses the entire point

No, it doesn't- it rejects, on purpose, the idea that bitcoin is decentralized with no central authority, except in a hazy theoretical way that is irrelevant for day-to-day consideration. Because Bitcoin is dependant on copious resources only available under a system with central authority, whatever authority that exists has copious leverage to shut Bitcoin down, if it chose to do so. Therefore, a system such as the one Taler proposes where a central authority is intentionally legally and technically limited to the narrowest role possible- solving the double spending problem- can be assumed to be feasible, bringing most of the benefits and none of the downsides of Bitcoin.
I understand the spirit of your comment, but I want to point out

> It is easier to blame a single person

There is only one person to blame. The CEO.
A key to changing this is to invest in public research universities that release research papers publicly & emphasize reducing the cost of manufacturing & distribution.

Another key is to fund nonprofit foundations that act as custodians of science & engineering tech released under open source licenses.

Software startups are possible because manufacturing costs have been minimized to near zero & key tech is effectively public domain. Hardware is about 20 years behind the curve, but open hardware licenses are appearing & patents expire quicker than copyrights.
It may be our lack.

When I read your comment, my mind mused about perspective and context.

Maybe they were telling us, others in the future about how the big animals were dying. People surviving.
To be constructive here, if you care about these matters and have technical know-how, invest in the future and mentor the younger generation on how to build decentralized systems. Give them knowledge, blue prints, and tools. They'll crack the generational social code on their end.
I live in Germany, so I never had the advantages of the US situation with fry's, radioshack or microcenter.

And companies sending parts remotely always existed, all that happened is now some have less access.
I mean all the anecdotes I have come from electricians and county paid groundskeepers and who also happen to be my close friends so I'd have to say your assertion if not false in totality is false in this case for certain.

Edit: Oh and a general contractor or two.
More like {thing} is {negative adjective}, but check out my totally new and improved {thing 2} that fixes all the problems!
Sadly that's not an email client, but rather a Gmail client.
I too deleted my Twitter account. And because I too also want the upside of reading what interesting people there are saying, what I now do is simply save their profiles in a browser bookmark folder. Every morning I open each profile in a new tab and skim what they’ve shared since I last visited. The added benefit is that this friction has forced me to keep the list small, thus optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio.
Looks like a great machine! I wish it had Ryzen 5000 option instead of Intel.
Transferring it to your wallet takes the energy equivalent of burning like 20 gallons of gasoline or something, instead of just updating a micro penny database transaction.
Just had a look - I don't think I would describe it as a pretty machine, more kind of "inoffensive" :) But it is 14", fairly light, and replaceable parts is nice. Looks like it maxes out at 16GB, which is a deal-breaker for me tho.
It's a huge difference for me though. Most of the items here are quite interesting to me and not all critics are stomped into the ground relentlessly. It looks like there is some strange level of respect.

I have written mistakes and apologized for them. It seems most of you accept that. Or maybe it's so heavily moderated i only see the stuff i'm allowed to see. I don't know.

I've tried Twitter a few days and decided it's not for me. Same with Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, forums, irc, etc. Some parts of them are quite useful, but for the most they are a very stressful environment to participate in.
While I agree that this article is frustratingly light on information, I don't think that one is any better, and it's certainly no less political. The article you linked isn't even attempting to quantify how much of their income people pay in taxes. Its primary goal is just to show that some comments by a particular politician reflected real statistics, not to analyze the actual lot of the poor in society.

The only part that even goes near the issue just seems to be summing tax rates, not considering how much of their money they actually have to pay (e.g. I keep more of my income than summing tax rates would lead you to believe because I have a 401k plan).
Too few people are personally affected by this issue to allow you to kill PayPal. A better way to kill them would be to do what they do, but better. A lot of companies are already doing that, so your wish will be granted in time.
It is a little weird that Apple's "ratings" for age appropriateness of apps is totally based around sex, drugs, "strong language" and violence, but doesn't take stuff like this into account. While I don't think the app store should screen material based on ideological grounds, marking something like this as "4+" seems like they've taken an unreasonably narrow view of what's inappropriate. Really, the craigslist app I used to look for apartment listings is marked as 17+, but homophobic propaganda is appropriate for kindergarten kids?
It's worth pointing out that their website is very well done, especially the reordering process. Once you establish some favorites, it's a breeze to access previous orders and replenish the cupboard.
Twitter and eBay both had significant web presence and community before their APIs took off. So did Facebook. Only once you have something worth getting at will people want to integrate with you.

To be fair, a lot of Twitter's success was due to their API, but without a decent minimal web presence, nobody would have signed up. Remember, everybody's first Twitter client was the web. If that sucked, or didn't exist, nobody would have bothered to pick up an API-based client.
I'm going to assume you've never stayed in a European hostel.
The "end of history" bit is Hegel, really. I could see Marx being considered Orthodox in some History and English departments, but his viewpoint is definitely a minority among Economists, and society is not broadly structured in a way that reflects his thinking. The social nets we see today come nowhere near a from-each/to-each narrative. The workers do not own the means of production. Wealth is more concentrated than ever.
where there any images with people?
We have a cluster of four nodes that were all setup and brought online within hours of each other. The entire cluster could blow up within a couple hours if not patched.
> Seriously... https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha... .

The key words I used were "most" and "simple". I'm well aware of the pitfalls of regex and have seen many horror stories myself but I'm not talking about parsing HTML nor other complex documents and nor am I suggesting you write the entire parser in regex. I'm talking about simple find and replaces for common static tags when you're only supporting a subset of BBcode. eg:

form := "this is just a [b]crude[/b] example"
rx := regexp.MustCompile(`\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]`)
form = rx.ReplaceAllString(form, `<strong>$1</strong>`)
fmt.Println(form)

(https://play.golang.org/p/GK7OGt2mHb6)

You could even use string find/replace but that wouldn't capture missing closing tags.

Things obviously get more complicated if you want to support some of the BBCode supersets like:

click [url=example.com]here[/url] to load example.com

...but by that point you're dealing with a reasonably competent contributor who might feel better at home with markdown anyway (I know I would).

> And this piece of computer trivia archeology http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

Doesn't feel much like archaeology to me because I used to work a lot in Perl in the late 90s and 00s :) Though, and at risk of re-igniting old flamewars, I always preferred vi to emacs even despite having a fondness for LISP.