jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A near-simultaneous dup does divide discussion. It would be better if only one was allowed. Quite often, breaking news is divided among two or three posts.

Dups that are distant in time are more complex. One aspect is that
people might not have seen the previous stroy - so it would be good to show it again. Another aspect is that the previous discussion is lost, leading to the same points being repeated, instead of (possibly) being built upon - so it would be better to resurrect the previous submission and therefore discussion.

One solution is to detect and combine dups, but enable them to launch the story fresh, if sufficient time has passed.

There is in fact already a discrete implementation of this: stories over a year old (I think that's the period) can be resubmitted as a new story. So I'm suggesting a continuous version of this idea, where the "newness" of a story gradually increases, til it becomes completely new after a year. "Newness" could be implemented with a factor on the story-score. This would enable old stories (and their discussions) to return to the front-page.
I disagree. If car and cdr and cons are bad, it's because they don't look or sound like what they do, and they have good replacements, like first and rest. defn is a macro that makes it simpler to def, which sounds and looks like "define", a binding to a fn, which sounds and looks like "function". I don't think you get any clearer than that without writing "define-function" everywhere. And I don't want to write "define-function" everywhere.

Do you think that every index variable in a loop should be called "index"?
Why does it say "Signup For Free Now" if I'm not signing up for the service? You should make it "Signup For An Invite" or something. (I just noticed it says next to it about invites, and on the right on the next page - but no one reads that.)
No you don’t. That was quoted out of context. You grant them the license to evaluate the algorithm in connection with the contest and to use your algorithm for promotion in connection with the contest. This license doesn’t give Microsoft the right to use your algorithm anywhere else.
Fancy scroll-linked effects like "text being blurry until it's centered in the page" break when I use page down, and see some text on-screen, wait 3 seconds, and it remains blurry. It seems like whoever designed this page completely neglected to take into account the reading experience of people who use pagedown to scroll, not just the mouse wheel.
You might have been joking but yes that type of question is being asked because a child friendly channel, if so classified, may see huge revenue cuts depending on how the regulations finally fall out.
> All those links that you mentioned in the Github api responses are named and you as a client can use them, where the actual url can change.

I think that's a good idea, just like REST and HATEOAS are both ideas trying to solve problems.

I'm just skeptical that it'd work in practice. It seems vanishingly unlikely that consumers will use it correctly enough that changing the URLs in that mechanism wouldn't result in making the breakage even more mysterious.

When I say "it only makes sense if you've got a browser on the other end," the issue is you need a client approaching the complexity of a browser to do all the redirection and such that makes this level of flexibility for the API implementer to work.

I believe something like that is possible, but this isn't the way.
Yup! It's Trix alright. I was pretty amazed out how heavy and complicated most rich text editors are. But then again, it's a pretty complex interaction they have to design around.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that the 'natural' speed limit of a freeway is a death sentence in the event of a crash.

I have zero sympathy for this. If you're doing 20 mph over the limit, you shouldn't be driving, whether it comes from taking away you car, or from putting you in a cage for a few weeks.
I recall there was an article of mental models to make the most in life, knowing that their time on Earth is limited. For example one would try to live like they are the protagonist of their own life movie, living like a rock star. Does anyone recall an article like that?
I'm not sure where any of these ideas were proposed.

Generally speaking what happened was that Rachel Levine became a 4 star admiral not because of any achievement but appointment because of being trans. Then became a woman of the year for... Babylon Bee made a joke and got banned for political violation. Just another example of twitter's bias against conservatives.

Elon went and did a massive poll on if Twitter follows free speech. The answer is obvious and maybe his idea is that fixing this would return big profits.

Mind you, buying Twitter seems stupid to me. Since 2019 twitter is looking bad and unprofitable and even more interestingly all your key people exited twitter in or before 2019. Probably unreleased insider infos.

Elliot management was similar to Elon and probably because of their involvement twitter basically went undefended. It wasn't even a hostile takeover until Saudi prince said no go. It's now hostile but im not sure anyone can really oppose Elon. It also seems that the Saudi prince incorrectly believed he still owned Twitter stock? The idea that a failing undefended unprofitable business can defend against a purchase like is quite laughable. All the institutions have to go to proxy vote.

Overall, in a non-profit motivation must be Elon's real plan. He's not scared about it being a money pit. He's scared about society itself. Most of his other ventures fail if society collapses. Civil war, ww3, whatever. He is incentivized to fixed these issues more than most.

So what he really wants the most is to get everyone talking to each other again. Though communication and understanding is how the huge polarization issue is solved.

You will see features around solving this problem.
I don't appreciate the sarcasm. If you're confused then say so, save the snark for someone else. If you're asking a sincere question then you can go outside and watch a few animals navigate the world. Squirrels are a good one, as are crows and ravens. Or as the kids say these days, you should touch some real grass instead of virtual ones.
It probably spies even more than regular windows 10, it just reports the results to someone else.
actually, I don't think their business model relies on the ads.

They mentioned a bunch of other features, I think this is a pretty clear-cut freemium SaaS model. They send you the 20 pics a month, and try to upsell you with nicer ones. They'll probably say "only $5 a month and your 20 prints can have rounded edges, $10 a month and you get 40!"

The ads on the back of pictures seems almost like a ruse to convince people that this is a real business (because upselling is a lot harder to explain to people than "ads")
This map shows the relatively few number of countries still using 12-hour time (instead of the more common 24-hour).

http://www.talkstandards.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/12-h...

The term 'military time' is funny. It's not a military thing. It's more like most people on earth has switched, including the US military -- better if both Alpha- and Bravo-squads attack at 07:00 instead of 7 pm/am respectively :)
I wonder if a Python JIT could do the same thing... Has anyone thought about this? It seems that since Dropbox's Pyston uses LLVM, it would be a perfect fit.

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston
This sounds a lot like sociopathy. I've read that sociopaths are not scared like normal people are in frightening situations. Maybe dysfunction of the amygdala is part of that too.
In the part of the US I'm in (California) they omit the insulation step, but otherwise yeah pretty much.

Folks in the US do produce real homes, but it's in very small numbers as a pseudo-artisanal thing. http://www.vermontframes.com are pretty neat, for example. The trend in timber framing has been to use structural insulating panels (which are actually pretty good and also, funnily enough, insulate) for infill between the timbers. Technically you can make the entire house out of SIPs, although they're not amazing looking.
A Passivhaus should be designed to allow for similar ventilation as older houses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house#Ventilation

I haven't actually examined one in person, so I don't know how well it's been executed in practice, but thought was given to this issue.
The houses I like the most in Germany are the Fachwerkhäuser which have lasted a while and are made of wood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing#German_tradition...
Is that not true?
Idempotency is a pretty critical concept in system design, and I think most developers have run into issues related to it even if they aren't directly familiar with the term.

To give another simple example as the OP - Suppose you have a product that relies on time series data. For demo purposes you might create a curated data set to present to clients, but the presenter doesn't want to show data from 2019 as the "most recent"

Naturally, you decide to write a script. Do you

A) Write as script that moves the data forward by 1 week explicitly, and simply run this once per week or

B) Write a script that compares the current date to the data and moves it forward as much as it needs

At first glance, these two approaches work the same, but what if (A) triggers twice? What if it runs once every 6 days by mistake? (B) is idempotent however - subsequent executions won't change the state. It's usually impossible to predict all of the ways that software breaks, but designing with idempotency in mind eliminates a lot of them.
2 hours of running at 4:45/km keeps your heart rate nice and high.

When I ran a marathon in 3:24:xx my average heart rate was 170bpm.
The same context as RTFM
It's not good to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. I noticed in my own comments sometimes when I don't come of as genuine I usually get a bunch of down-votes (usually it's clumsy written shorter comments).
First off, you'd have to steal the actual device. Then you'd have to break the device encryption itself to then extract a an encrypted version of a private key. (the private key itself can be encrypted with a password not stored on the device) You pair the 3 sigs plus a blockchain to track timestamps and photo hash signatures and maybe pair that with a different blockchain app to report lost or stolen devices...and you've got yourself as secure of a system as you can conceive in the age of deep fakes.
It's not that weird. People often write iterated composition as f^k, and this is especially true with matrices, where composition and multiplication mean the same thing.
>No end users were benefited by the removal of ALSA support

Don't be dishonest.

Maintaining things requires time and effort. Time and effort are limited resources.

* Nobody was maintaining ALSA support

* Nobody from the community stepped up and offered to maintain ALSA support to prevent it from being removed

* The ALSA backend poked a massive hole in their sandbox, which hurts users. Rewriting the ALSA backend to make it compatible with sandboxing would have required a lot of time and effort for little payoff. That hurts users by wasting developer time that could have been spent more productively.

* You cannot compare a Free Software project removing support for something that nobody volunteered to maintain to anti-semitic persecution, don't be ridiculous. If Gentoo (or whoever) wants to keep ALSA support then they can carry the patch to do so.
Bad idea all around. Could have easily been frozen or asphyxiated even if the trip was on a quick single flight. Nobody looks at a crate if there's a decompression event. Not even an emergency escape in the crate. Oof.
Yes, this is standard in the forgery business - dust and speckle filter, drop the res, ensure the light is balanced, and maybe blur if you can get away with it.
yeah what if that was an etherum or cardano smart contract?
Only issue I have with tailscale is the requirement for all users to share the same Google/Microsoft team account, which makes it insanely expensive if you don’t care about either. Also really annoying for using it in opensource or side projects because of this.
How does it address misinformation and disinformation?
Seems highly irresponsible if it’s not designing for this.
A node shrink is going to help AMD by 15% at best, they are much farther behind than that on performance per watt.

AMD has done mobile CPUs that look as if they are close to or even ahead of the M1 in performance, but they all use 2x to 4x as much power. When higher core count versions of Apple Silicon are available, they will be able to have double the core counts of AMD chips at the same power levels.

And each those cores are significantly faster than individual AMD cores.
Yup, that's why I left reddit and now read/post somewhat regularly on thedonald.win. The last straw for me was when I was banned from a few subs on reddit. People on reddit don't want to have a debate. They just want confirmation bias to be reinforced.

Also, there will be no unity. Everyone on the right-wing is doubling-down to oppose anything Biden plans on doing.

This Jan 6th march was actually planned weeks prior and many people were calling "for every able bodied man" to go to DC for the march.

Many more are planned.
>But free will doesn't fall in the realm of "things to research". It's an escape mechanism devised by religious people wanting a perfect mechanistic universe designed by God with an escape hatch from it in the form of "free will" that somehow enables us to sin. Nothing more, nothing less.

I don't think so. If anything it's the opposite: free will is a direct experience we all have (whether true or illusionary).

The idea of no free will, on the other hand, is pure rationality. It's us ignoring what we empirically experience, in favor of the theories we have devised to explain the world.

So, it's the latter (no-free-will) that is more religious in nature, to the extend that is ideological and not empirical in origin. At best it's based on a distillation of isolated empirical observations into general laws.

But while any empirical observation is enough in itself to support its own existence (if I feel X, I feel X - there's no two ways about it. X might or might not exist, and I might have felt it because I took drugs or whatever, but there's no denying that I felt X), any general law cannot be proved logically by any number of empirical observations (see e.g. Russel, re: the problem of induction). Heck, it can't even be supported, except in an uncertain degree (what if you see 1 million white swans and the 1.000.001 is a black one?).

>If you are willing to claim "but the universe isn't even causal" then you don't even need free will anymore since the sole intent for it was to claim independence from causality.

Well, I'm not bound by some rational neat ordering of things , where the universe follows our rational bias, things go by the simplest explanation, and so on (Occam's razor is just a heuristic, not a law of nature).

I'm not saying free will necessarily exists. But if it existed, it could exist whether we "only need it to claim independence from causality" or not. Casuality for example could not exist AND free will could be a thing. The same way two physical objects can XOR exist, not the same way two inter-connected exclusive theories do. Or there could be zero, or 10 different mechanisms alonside free will that are all independent from casuality in different ways.

>- Nor can anyone claim that they "feel" free will - that is such a blatant non-truth.

Well, we do. Whether correct with the "world as such" or not, it's only an ideological rational bias that says otherwise, not felt experience.

>- Nor you can "prove" free will by raising your hand. You can at most just point to the fact that you raised your hand. Through your existence, reasoning, internal and environmental pressures.

Well, the same is true for causuality. It's not something provable.

Which is why Wittgenstein once quoted "causality is a superstition".
Thank you.

From a non-medical, "just following the news" perspective, there was a pronounced shift. A few simple google news search will show this.
I think everyone knows what we mean about "running code backwards" and I was sticking to the OP's choice of language for simplicity. I don't disagree with your (nevertheless pedantic) observation, however. I agree we should be more precise in our terminology.

Anyway my bad, I guess you can think of many cases if you try a little. I apologise. I was not in my programming mind today.
It isn’t about information diversity. Diversity is sought to counteract the real problem, which is that news isn’t news. It’s entertainment. Journalism no longer presents fact. They present an interpretation of facts, ostensibly spun and sensationalized toward the ideology of their viewers. 30 years ago this didn’t happen. You could watch any of the nightly news shows and walk away more or less with the same understanding of current affairs. That’s not true anymore. Why did this happen? Because infotainment generates more viewers and therefore more ad revenue. It’s also a means for politicians to galvanize the electorate and stir up hysteria to their benefit.
Police, like everyone else, are not perfect automatons... there is always the possibility of any, physically possible, behaviour occurring in any place and in any time.

Of course it is always possible to modulate people’s behaviour through incentives and so on, to achieve a very high probability that they will behave in certain ways.

In this case it seems that the balance was in favor of the protestors.
>It is also inherently insecure

How is it inherently insecure when it provides encrypted chat?

Defaults are a powerful way to influence user behavior and there is good reason to have the chat not encrypted. It facilitates quick searching of keywords which for many chat users is an important feature. Many people chose to write things down or have discussion in text so they don't have to remember.

If users want E2E by default they are free to use another service or just coninually use Secret Chat.
For sure, but why does it matter here?
> If you wanted the infamous "five dollars a day," you had to let management make sure you were living decently at home, including the wife staying at home if she had a husband.

This is something I'd happily put up with if I could find this mythical job that pays well enough to support a family on a single income.
> Can you point out some "hive mind" ideologies here on HN?

Sure. See any comments relating to "idea guy" vs "hacker" or "founder" vs "employee."

The hivemind attitude that I see on HN could be summarized by "People who can write code should be given preferential treatment."

Which makes sense, given by and large, people who participate here have some sort of coding capabilities, so that mentality is clearly self serving. But hardly makes this balanced, and not hive-minded.
Well...there's "insecure"...and then there's really insecure.

DES (and by extension 3DES) isn't, per se, "insecure" at 56-bits except that technology has progressed from the mid-1970s such that an exhaustive search of the keyspace (e.g. brute force) is now practical in reasonable time. DES is resistant to differential analysis and even more modern techniques that could seriously reduce DES security are theoretical exercises at best (like those requiring terabytes of known plain-text to derive a key, or those only applicable to reduced-round implementations).

Yes, I'm aware that to a cryptographer, "theoretical attack possible" == "OMFG insecure cipher", and that attitude is a good thing. If DES was an AES candidate we'd never pick it. But from a practical standpoint, baring implementation mistakes or operational missteps, no one using known 2015 tech and technique is cracking 3DES before the heat death of the universe (or at least before we're long turned to dust).

That said, can you provide a reference to a practical (that is, not the linear cryptanalysis stuff from Davies) attack which reduces 3DES to 80-bits of effective security? If it's there, I missed it, and would invalidate what I've said.
The Apple TV doesn't have voice recognition. I wish it did, Siri to control it would be brilliant (and it's a lovely machine regardless).

> Pre-authentication seems insecure.

Do you mind explaining how? Because I can't see it.
Not all games have permission to be archived.

Nobody here on Hacker News or the Internet seems to care about copyright of old DOS Video Games and permission to download and play them. It is like they are being given free candy, and they enjoy it, even if technically it was stolen.

But there is a DMCA takedown page that copyright holders can request their games be taken down.

I figure some of the video game makers that have games on Steam and Gog.com will issue takedown requests.

Enjoy it while you can. The Underdogs did an DOS video game abandonware archive 10 years ago and had to take games down as well.

We are all into this playing old games on modern systems craze, so much that we don't really care about copyright and permissions anymore.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit and claims to use the library defense. The Pirate Bay once did this as well, but it didn't work.

Some games like Prince of Persia got released to the public so no permission problems there.

BTW some of the games are really porn, beware if you got your sons and daughters looking into the old DOS games.
Imagine Half Life without 3d graphics

It'd probably a fair bit like this:
http://doom.chaosforge.org/

Ascii Dreams Roguelike of the Year 2009
Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.
Imagining you know what I have or haven't done in my community to help the needy is a critical thinking error. Attributing bad motivations to me unjustly doesn't just make you wrong, it makes you a bad person.
Are you saying masks dont help in preventing ingestion of airborne viruses? That sounds like horse shit. Yes you can still get sick by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching your face...
I do not want to debate the fairness of it, because it is way too complex for a comment.

But there is another downside of pay cuts for remote workers: A remote worker does not have access to the same market as someone living in a hot cluster like The Valley.

A real-world example from Europe: If I take my Berlin salary and live just 50km out of the city, I am easily one of the top-earners in that area. Naturally, I lose easy access to many offerings of that city, but that's part of the deal, I think. Now if I ever wish to switch employers, I can look in Berlin, but I am at a disadvantage if many companies insist on on-site work. If they don't, I compete on a much larger market with many more would-be employees. This problem should be reflected in payment, I think.

So from my, completely egocentric, perspective it would be ideal if companies demand on-site one or two days a week, so I can choose the best spot for living in a larger area, but still only compete in a limited market.
Same. I own a 100+ year old home, and I often think “what if some rich eccentric stashed gold in the walls?!”

I’d go the brute force method, personally. That safe would get opened . . .
I think the problem is that you have two markets that are inaccessible from either. The business buy from one market, then sell on another market. And make a profit based on how inaccessible the two markets are to each other.
For example clean water can be very expensive where there aren't any, while basically free where there's plenty. So the business takes water from where it's free, then sell it where there's demand.
Comparing everything with nazis and Hitler is old and tiresome. Waiting for people who don't believe in unions respond you with nazi labor org German Labour Front and how they were socialists and you're back at beginning.