jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. I believe that good software and abstractions should take little training to use - everything unintuitive is a design failure and should be fixed. "Reasonably secure" should be the implicit default, not something you need to explicitly added. E.g., it's better to force authentication and force the administrator to add an account than let everyone in by default. Or it's better to bind to 127.0.0.1 than to 0.0.0.0 by default, like most web servers built into frameworks I saw do.

Unfortunately, instead of good intuition, Docker is built on caveats, be it networking, storage, caching, image sharing, container/image distinction, authentication, deployment or building a cluster. Every subsystem I experimented with "works", but fails in weird ways in some situations. In my opinion, that means that Docker is a good idea, but has terrible UX/functionality/error handling. I kind of think the same way of Git.
> Contaminated beefs

I’m not that into cycling, what’s this about?
I really enjoyed this article. For me, I have two main ones. Professionally, it is four freedoms computing and ways to empower people with it. Privately though, since I got out of the military, has been an obsession with geopolitics and geostrategy. You might be surprised how interrelated I increasingly think the two are.
:D Sure
What is it, how do you build it, and what does it need to have?

Let's look into MVPs, a thread
An old Heathkit radio set had a red wire that you put a tag on that said something like "Do not remove this wire, or this radio set could broadcast on HAM radio frequencies which would be illegal unless properly licensed!"
When a few billion is at stake, you think they'd make the effort to memorize the keys. Or at least encrypt them.
"a competitive advantage against incumbents"

Where did the DOE say this?
The countries without military nuclear programmes still made use of knowledge and technology that was developed in military programmes elsewhere. As with the bomb itself, just knowing that it can work will save a lot of time.

Your list of countries doesn't look very "clean" to me.
Are you seriously comparing docs in a different language to a colour scheme you dislike!? That is an utterly ridiculous comparison.
Damn, I really should have included JoJo as an example of straight male manga fans being totally cool with ludicrously flamboyant male characters.

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121201210751/jjba/image...

http://animebot.everyboty.net/pix/2994.png
This is a pretty neat concept. I'd like to start hacking on wearables soon.
How can they claim this text file applies?

There is also a file with the industry-standard name LICENSE (https://github.com/facebook/fbcunn/blob/master/LICENSE), with a standard looking BSD license in it.

Surely somebody using it could claim that was the file that applied, and this other non-standard whimsical "PATENTS" file was irrelevant?

Or can people just bury random licenses deep inside copyrighted works, and expect them to apply?
If your startup doesn't have an assumed hit-rate in the hundreds-of-thousands (or you are not in some computationally-intensive industry), ask yourself why you need to build on the so-called "cloud"? (which is meant for "scaling").

If you don't need the scale, don't build for it. It is like part of the last 10% of the 20% incremental changes you need. Focus on the 80% for now.

Buy yourself like 5 DO (or some VPS) servers, spin up your Docker (other easy-devops tool) containers and push your code.

Then focus on the really hard part, marketing/sales.

Note. I've also heard that AWS is quite expensive (comparatively speaking).
Cheers for good sleep!

Do you believe that the USG can get access to nearly any telecommunication record in close to real time for emergencies if it needs it, and to nearly any telecommunication record history up to some amount of time later for investigations? If you do not, could you defend this belief - it runs counter to conventional wisdom.

Presuming you do believe that access to telecommunication records can be made post hoc and/or on demand: do you believe this is because of weak crypto (KASUMI, A/5, etc) or because there is no encryption for there to be escrowed for large or critical parts of the infrastructure? Or is it something else?
Yes another super useful trick you can use with this scope trick is to get the length of a file (or its last line) just do:

for i,v in enumerate(open(f)):
pass

now 'i' is the number of lines in your file and 'v' is the last line. This is also blazingly fast, especially useful when you have ~several GB large log files to parse.

Great article!
It looks like there are a few things blocking (slowing) the loading of the page - could be fonts or some social-media stuff.

Great project! :)
> First of all, I'm not sure where this "10 years" is coming from. I know many/most "senior" developers who reached that level long before 10 years out of university.

That's because it's a near-meaningless title that has been watered down. Everyone is a "senior" now by their second year working.
It seems to be even more complicated than that actually, on second glance. Also from the Wikipedia article:

> Supervision and control of D.C. National Guard was delegated by the president to the defense secretary pursuant to Executive Order 10030, 26 January 1949 with authority to designate National Military Establishment officials to administer affairs of the D.C. National Guard. The Army secretary was directed to act in all matters pertaining to the ground component, and the Air Force secretary was directed to act in all matters pertaining to the air component.

> The National Guard may be called into federal service in response to a call by the president or Congress.

So control is apparently shared in some way between the president, secdef, congress, and secretaries of the army and air force. But it does seem that the Army secretary's authority is delegated by the president, who remains the "commander in chief" of the guard unit.

Of course the president is commander in chief of all guard units when they're called into federal service, but I wonder if service in DC is considered "federal" in that sense. DC is a federal entity, but a guard unit serving its home jurisdiction isn't usually what's meant by "federal service".

Military organization is weird.

In any case, it's not controlled by the mayor of DC. She can only request an activation (which she did).
It's the practical erosion of Free Speech. Liberal (small "l" liberal) democracy and liberal science thrives on members:

1. Being willing to admit they may be wrong

2. Having access to a diverse information diet

But the past two decades have shown erosion of not only legal Free Speech, but practical free speech:

* Whereas previously they were just ignored (or even rebutted), today employees, students, and professors are all punished administratively for saying something that contradicts the narrative of the predominant members, or that may be offensive to someone. "If the federal government won't do it, let's restrict free speech on the ground-level."

* It is difficult to broaden your information diet, even intentionally. The platforms of yore that provided a place for free debate are empty, with everyone having migrated to social media where they can form disjoint sets defined by their ideology. Ever try having a dialectic on Twitter with someone of an opposing ideology? Haha, good luck.

* Expanding on ^, folks that aren't actively seeking diversity of thought have no natural avenue of exposure to information that contradicts their ideology. Whatever information delivery mechanism they choose today is, by default, going to agree with them.

* All of the above results in: staunchly maintaining your correctness in the face of opposition is rewarded far more strongly than admitting the possibility of wrongness

* Online radicalization makes in-person dialogue even harder; there are fewer and fewer opportunities for two moderates to debate when the possible participants are further across the spectrum than ever

Although restricting offensive speech has the upfront benefit of not hurting our iddly-widdly-fweelings, this is the price we pay for abandoning free speech.

For further reading, I recommend Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703086.Kindly_Inquisitor...
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Which has nothing to do with the content of the video where the person is seen admitting to essentially have committed election fraud by allowing thousands of people without a fixed home address to vote with a false one.
This is a link to a post that was not crafted specifically for HN and submissions are often reset to the contents of the html title tag automatically even if the post is not given that text to begin with.
But it my bring in someone fed up with and unengaged from The News. Some non-watchers may become watchers of Al Jazeera if they think there's finally something to watch.
Iran? Argentina?

Until someone discovers a mine that doubles reserves over night. Gold can be just as bad as paper with modern mining technology.

Zimbabwe kicked their inflation problem by dollarizing. Note they have plenty of gold to mine in that area.
VB6 had structs - they were called user-defined types. VB6 does not autodeclare global variables when you forget to type "var". And, if you use Option Explicit and avoid Variants and Objects, you can have some limited degree of type safety.

VB6 is by no means a good language, but JavaScript is much, much, much worse.
Once you lie to the government, it has something real to charge you with, for a change.
> ...the USA seemed like heaven: transparency, procedures, basic rights, free speech, accountable officials.

That last part is interesting, and I think it may play a bigger role here. It is difficult to hold people accountable for actions that are hidden, and not well understood. James Clapper lied to Congress in his testimony, and has had little more reprimand than us bitching about it on the internet.
I think you might be misunderstanding what's happening here. The prekey is nothing but a public signed ECDH message. An attacker would need to compromise that message's corresponding private key in order to decrypt any ciphertext that was encrypted with it. It is only used once to start a conversation and then destroyed, so the attacker would have a very small window in which to compromise the private key. Just as if it were a synchronous conversation.

This is identical to a situation where a client initiates secure sessions with 100 different people who happen to be offline. When they come online, they respond with their key exchange message and continue.
I'm curious - what are examples you've seen that differ from what exists in less efficient platform layouts?
4 hour? Wow. Longest I've ever had at Heathrow Terminal 5 was 15 minutes or so (it's been a decade or more since I last went to any other Heathrow terminal) — and I fly through both there and Amsterdam a fair bit. Typically quicker than Amsterdam, in my experience.
> onboard onto

Another way to say this is: "learn".
I'm not sure I agree with pushing responsibilities on customers. If you miss some security item or if you make my account a super admin on signup I shouldn't have some responsibility to help you fix it.

What we need our customers to do:
- Use responsible disclosure in the event any security vulnerabilities occur in our website, software or infrastructure.
If you think that's crazy, then remember the CM-5 machines in Jurrasic park? A real 90s supercomputer.

Anyway, each of those lights was "on" when a core was utilized, and "off" when a core was off.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Frostbur...
> You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI

> And yeah, the UI is trash

Uh, so what exactly is the argument in favor of your service again?
Somehow, "having to sell photos of your vulva" doesn't have the same comedic beat to it.
At first glance, your coin looks like a copy and paste bitcoin clone with some tweaked parameters. If something like that was going to make a difference, I think we would have seen it happen in 2014 when a lot of copy and paste coins were being created.

I was involved with Dogecoin back then. I advocated for inflation for the same reasons you want it. It has not led to Dogecoin having any great breakthrough in usage.
I wish I could use LibreOffice, but as a scientist the PowerPoint clone is awful. Editing and importing PowerPoint is very buggy and clunky. For example, sometimes bits of slides become uneditable. Also, the default kerning and anti aliasing is pretty poor.
Nutty article. After the US exploded the first atomic bomb, every other country that had been working on one knew it could be done, and that was the last "secret" of the bomb.

The reason the US did it first was due to its industrial capacity and commitment to doing so. None of the technology involved was particularly unknown or difficult, the only "hard part" was for each nation interested in the weapon to determine how to obtain the materials for one in a reasonable amount of time and without destroying their economy to do so.

Even Nazi Germany had an atomic bomb program, they just had no hope of completing it before the country with the largest industrial base in the world.

There weren't any "secrets" to share with the USSR in the 1940s about the bomb. Hiroshima announced to the entire world that it was possible to do, and the bits and pieces of the program that couldn't be hidden (the methods used to produce materials) told them the rest. At that point, it was just a race to be the second nation with the Bomb, and that race was won by a large industrialized nation with a command economy that wasn't completely in ruins from the war.... which is no surprise at all.
Exactly, so 21 days + how long the appeal process and outcome takes time. And the end result may as well be them being given a new temp. license.
With half the cores of the upcoming (early 2020) 3990X ...
So much this. I like the metaphor of tree-trunk learning https://lifehacker.com/elon-musk-on-learning-new-things-view... — every bit of knowledge you can't connect to first principles or internalized second principles just falls down.

The mentioned memoization techniques are like synthetic trees for real leaves, but these tend to rot extremely quick.

Point in case:

I had two history teachers I can remember. One only because he was the most boring teacher I ever had and because of him I dreaded history forever. I can't recall a single thing about his class other than he talked about stone age people once. He made us remember lots of dates with weird mnemonics and I forgot every single one of them.

The other teacher was the best I ever had. She visualized the international politics leading from the age of industrialization in Europe to WW1 and WW2 so vividly in causalities, entities and relationships that I can recall the important development over 300 years of central European history any time. I don't have any year numbers for it, but it's one clear, coherent and logical story.

It's been 20 years since I sat in her class.
They have server and workstation parts up to 28 cores, but their enthusiast-oriented product line is 10, 12, 14 or 18 cores while AMD offers 16, 24, 32 and soon 64.
I don't know the answer to this, but I suspect it may have something down to the difference in penalty for fraudulent behaviour.

At the very least, if the only penalty is getting booted off the 'platform', getting added to Uber's platform is relatively cheap. Getting added to the black cab 'platform' requires getting licensed, which takes years and costs a lot of money.

I'd imagine that fraudulently impersonating a black cabbie comes with significantly more penalty than getting 'booted off the platform' (license revocation).
Submitted because the portable considerations are really interesting.
> "€œWe sold everything we have and decided to find, as we put it, our American dream," says Josiane Simpson. She, Jared Holfeltz, and their son Gabriel are currently living out of their car.

The American dream is a delusion that makes people pursue wrong objectives.
It does have a cost. Humans can't just copy/paste it and hit send.
Sign me up for the private beta. :)
Making providers pay back part of the tuition if graduates default on their loans would at least make them market useless courses solely to people who can afford them, so I suppose that's a positive.

I can think of two other things we could do to fix the problems with tertiary education:

1) Force providers to publish detailed statistics stating the average salaries before and after tuition and the employment prospects of graduates afterward. This would (hopefully) keep people from choosing to undertake useless courses even if they can afford them.

2) Remove the federal backing and bankruptcy protection attached to educational loans. If students aren't likely to be employable after going to one of these for-profit courses then no one would be willing to lend them the money.

These would also serve to curtail non-profit universities that have been foisting overpriced and worthless degrees on students.
Checking it out now...thanks for the steer.
I agree with avoiding contact with the thief -- it's tempting to try some advanced tech solution, but lots can go wrong, including accusing innocent people.

Have you talked to the hotel staff? I'm sure theft is something they are used to dealing with. If no response from them, maybe you could call the hotel corporate HQ. It's a long shot, but maybe the hotel can reimburse through insurance. Also if you have a credit card sometimes they will provide limited travel insurance.
Yes, and I see fresh faced engineers and programmers going unemployed for over a year out of school, all the time.

Seriously, pretty much the only field right now with a serious demand > supply condition is nursing, and MDs willing to do general family practice rather than higher-paying specialties.
https://easylist.to/ here is adblocking rules to get rid of many cookie pupups. If we never give our explicit consent they're not allowed to track right?
> Do you all not hear the stories of people working multiple jobs and still not being able to pay their bills. Is this entitlement?

Except paying the bills and achieving something are only weakly correlated concepts in many cases, especially when salaried.

If you don't care about the particular ethics/concerns for humanity, what OP wants is definitely possible.

A lot of it also comes down to incentives. What percentage of employees have any stake whatsoever in whether their own project succeeds or fails? Or even the company they are with?

So many projects/companies are essentially relying on individual altruism to choose to take action rather than not.
> Also video calls still don't synchronize orientation.

This is insanely annoying in real life.
is this wrong? most tech support people I know work off and on during the day, sometimes busy sometimes not. It seemed quite laid back to me.
Interesting, that’s informative. Well that sounds like a big advantage for the chiplet approach.
it's part of the language, but not of the core language
> My job allows me to go back stage at Glastonbury and track-side visits at the Olympics, front seat views of royal weddings, orchestral pit on last night of the proms, and I have a fairly sedantry job of mostly pushing buttons.

Cool.... so what do you do?
The robots are coming for you and all of your slovenly kin.
That's phenomenally backwards...
Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. Many uninsured in the US go to the hospital ER for minor care, such as for colds and other temporarily ailments. I suspect that these sort of cases far outnumber the visits involving serious care cases.
>You asked for a situation where the lifetime of a resource can't be directly tied to the lifetime of a single storage location.

I don't think I asked for that but correct me if I did (maybe I'm just not understanding your point).

Anyways, could you elaborate why shared_ptr, unique_ptr, and weak_ptr don't work in that case?
Remember mode is like a very small subset of what org-mode does, right?

I wasn't an org-mode believer until a few weeks ago, and then used it to bookmark and track notes for a large software project I had to audit, and it was amazing.
>"...if I shared my 960+ LinkedIn connections with you - a total stranger who has nothing to offer me."

It never occurred to me that someone could have so much self-worth tied up in their LinkedIn connection list.

Funny thing is, it's actually reassuring that this is notable enough to go viral and universally decried.

Just swap jobseeking for technology help, 960 connections for 27,000 posts and you're looking at one of millions of noob scorchings that have been taking place since BBS. Being smug, needlessly nasty and aggressively dismissive isn't just ignored in these circles - it's often applauded.
His basic thesis can be summed up as:

The American political system (especially Congress) is very corrupt. This is due to the fact that it is almost impossible to be elected without raising a lot of money, and even harder to get reelected without doing so. This requires Congresspeople to spend a large fraction of their time contacting potential campaign contributors and convincing them to give money. It also makes them very very aware of which positions on which issues will bring in money. It also leads to large proportions of ex-Congresspeople and former Congressional staffers becoming (very well-paid) lobbyists.

And that because of this, nothing substantial to improve the current corporate/financial domination of American society can be done until the influence of money in politics is removed.

The poll statistics he quotes are worth noting:

1) 96 percent think that lessening the influence of money in politics is important.

2) 68 percent think that this is very important.

3) 91 percent think it's unlikely, and therefore not worth spending any effort on.
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I'm not sure what you think you're proving, but to me it seems like you have a restrictive conception of human meaning and spirituality that you're trying to forcefully ascribe to Marx.
How do you see that it was flagged? This looks like a normal post to me, but I see this "flagged" comment frequently, but don't understand what people are seeing. Thx.
There are many other OpenJDK vendors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#OpenJDK_builds
I mean, if someone gives you a few hundred million dollars and you completely ignore costs and sustainability of the business, and I’m sure you could make it seem like you knew what you were doing for a few years too.
Agree, the media is really putting this "long covid" fear into younger people to just scare them to not congregate and spread the virus. Long covid can be substituted with long pneumonia, long flu etc. I had long flu back in early 2018, was extremely sick for 3-4 weeks, and went to the Dr. 12 times in 2 months, after almost 3 months was back to normal somewhat, still had cough and fatigue which finally went away after the 3rd month. Very scary times.
Some of it may be B2B vs B2C, and volume of usage.

I am B2B. My server costs are like 1% of my revenue using Django. Okay, I could shrink this by 95% by using raw C.. but who cares?

Now if I were an image hosting CDN and Django bill was 50% of my revenue.. it might be a different story.

I think it's the classic right tool for the right job story..
Everyone thinks of WeWork as this huge failure, but WeWork is still worth 8 billion dollars!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/WeWork-Spac-ipo....

Yeah, their valuation is down a lot from what they were going for with the initial IPO, but it is still providing a very valuable service. This isn’t like Enron or Theranos where the company is fraudulent, it’s a real, valuable business that was overvalued for a while.

Overall, WeWork is a success, not a failure. If it were in Europe, it would be one of the most successful European startups in years.