jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Three months is not much time at all to deal with a situation of this magnitude. Be patient with yourself, and give yourself a lot more time. In my own personal experience, it took 2 years to deal with losing somebody close to me. Even after that of course, things were never the same as before, but I eventually felt myself again, and could enjoy the memories I held.
Again personally, but I found keeping a journal a great release. Good luck
fyi, Black is also not a very strong player.
As long as the fish is not dangerous (often not the case here apparently), I'm okay with not eating tuna. It's just a real shame they try to fool diners. It's time for the FDA to get involved.
> It also seems that they were caught with their tail between their legs in the late 90s which may have been the call to arms after 9/11:

Yes, that among other things. NSA had details on one of the hijackers, FBI had other details, but there were institutional barriers between them cooperating about it, and in any event there was no real clear directive for either NSA or FBI to be pursuing counter-terrorism.

In fact Bush was well on his way to winding down what existing efforts were in place toward counter-terrorism, to instead prioritize on saber rattling with the large-scale military forces.

As a result of 9/11 (which elicited its own Congressional investigation) the NSA, along with the rest of the nation's intelligence community, was charged with ensuring that they connected the dots on all future terrorist acts before they happen.

But unfortunately Congress still has yet to engage with proper oversight or accountability measures, nor to force the installation of transparency measures commensurate with the scale of the intelligence activities they directed.
things like these and also those similar to having googled words such as "pressure cooker" and "bomb" at some point on my machine in the US and being thwarted by a SWAT team at some point, really scares some one to even be in the US because he would have all the convincing signs like a beard, being a Muslim and might actually have to fast.
Nova is the best 3rd-party launcher by far. I love your work with it.
I hope that Luvit[0] is what will bring Lua to the forefront of web development. It has such remarkable potential. It could completely (and should completely) replace node.

[0] http://luvit.io
Speaking as a dotCloud employee: yes, it's also our opinion that aufs is still the most viable option in a production setting. Finding a permanent solution to the clusterfuck of union filesystems in linux seems as likely as peace in the middle-east: those with a viable solution are powerless to impose it; those who could change the status quo seem paralyzed by bias, personal feuds or simply having other fish to fry. Meanwhile the rest of the World has thrown their hands up and stopped waiting. Aufs works in production, moving on.

Speaking as a Docker maintainer: we'll add support for whatever our users want most, and makes it easy to run docker everywhere.
I'm not so much worried about the man, (I've given up on that battle) as much as I'm worried about the people out there who like to stick it to the man by whatever neferaous means of looting and pilliging they see fit.
No. You can't put statements in this, only expressions. It's a limited special case instead of a generic tool (and putting a sequence of conditionals and actions is not going to look good, though I'm sure you can coerce them into it using the "," operator, as long as you don't need to have an iteration as well).

There are languages which have pretty much exactly what he describes (Smalltalk for instance), but "many mainstream languages" don't.
If you choose to believe that the world was created by an all-good, all-knowing God then you must believe that the world God created is the best possible of all worlds. God would be capable of nothing else in that scenario. Whatever your beliefs I've always thought that was an interesting concept to illuminate 'what if' discussions.
is it making any money at all?
Like quanticle said, social networking.

My problem is that is not a real thing which can be monopolized. I promise I'm not being (intentionally) obtuse here. I don't understand which piece of an online offering requires Facebook. Maybe an example would help me.
Culpability goes all the way to the top. So the top ranking official who orders use of the machine is to blame, which could very well be the president. And it goes deeper than that, because the society that elected the president endorses its use if it doesn't recall him or her. Since recalls are rare, collateral damage from thinking machines is basically inevitable and I don't think most people have any idea what is coming.

That said, I expect that AI is going to transcend the way people solve problems to such a degree that it may even alleviate the underlying causes of war like artificial scarcity and ignorant intolerance.
It could move to the exchanges moving around IOUs. It's not like actual gold moves around every time I buy some on the internet, someone just moves data in a giant excel somewhere.
No idea really, but it must happen to some extent all the time basically... like people ordering then rejecting pizzas, things like that.

I can't imagine it's a hugely significant number just because places do just take phone orders (barring some covid-related changes where some don't take in person payment at all). Plus if you actually like the place you can only pull something like this so often before you get blacklisted... And it's not like you're even ending up with food if you do this, so what's the percentage in it for you?

Still, I assume if you're putting in a big order some (most?) places would want prepay or some other "skin in the game" or something. Not that it helps if the "customer" uses a stolen card and/or just charges you back, though, as we see in this article.
I would love to see demographic data on chargebacks in the US
Your use case is definitely more interesting, but it still seems relatively pointless. I love the idea of NFTs acting as a kind of capability to unlock functionality in a piece of software (like a game), but in the particular case of just one game, the value of the token is linked to a single, central authority (the company producing the game) and implementing transactions on an open blockchain seems somewhat superfluous.

The key detail of Bitcoin's use of blockchain is to enable mutually distrusting groups to agree on some state in the absence of any centralized authority. In the above case, as in so many buzzy uses, the use of some blockchain to transact seems redundant since the value of tokens being exchanged are entirely dependent on a central authority, and could much more easily be facilitated by that authority (this is just the common "99% of blockchain uses could just be a database" argument I guess).

Another aspect is that when the central authority is also the sole issuer of tokens, no counteracting forces exist to drive a meaningful market dynamic. No matter how much price pressure exists from users, the authority can always act to restrict issuance or increase issuance to force a particular price, and over the long term in the absence of that authority (due to bankruptcy, obsolescence, ..) the value of all issued tokens drifts towards zero.

On saying that though, there seems to be some promise one step removed -- tokens that activate functionality in software produced across a wide range of vendors. In the case of a game, that could perhaps be realized as something like a common set of power ups tied to NFTs that could be reused in multiple games. The question is how you'd incentivize multiple vendors to buy into the same set of tokens, given doing so is likely to have some real world cost attached to it, and obviously introduces a creative limitation to game design.

Meanwhile, can't help but agree, the current NFT applications (million dollar web site clones, weird eBay for JPEGs clones, ..) seem entirely pointless and more a symptom of something than a solution to anything.
A place I used to get takeaway from started requiring ID to pick up orders, which I’ve no problem with if they want to just look. But the last time I went to get an order, the employee turned down my passport card. The manager on duty said they require an ID with a scannable code, like on the back of state-issued cards.

Problem is, I don’t drive and don’t carry a state-issued ID. Just a passport card since they became available about a decade ago. No scan, no order.

I walked away and haven’t been back since. This whole situation sucks but that’s a bit much.
...and that would only play Apple content.
How it was recorded and that it was recorded correctly seem like separate issues (which I don't feel equipped to decide).
Buy some real estate that someone else lives in, maybe through a REIT.
The Mercedes AMG C 63 S costs USD $76,200 (MSRP) in the US according to https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/model/c-class/sedan/c63ws
Excited for more research in gut health.

I know HN hates to entertain any lay science, but I wonder if scraping my tongue, as I do with a copper scraper, is good or bad for your oral biome?
In the video (which hadn’t been taken down, contrary to the headlines) the officer does what you suggest: He calmly states that he can’t continue to engage the person recording in the same conversation over and over again.

This doesn’t appear to be a simple case of the police ignoring someone’s first question. The person recording the police appears to be following them around, recording them, badgering them with accusations and taunts, and posting the videos for social media clout.
> You can see for yourself both in terms of rate per population and total(!) prison population:

Right, but the US has many differences that could factor in to those numbers being different. How do you determine the signals from the noise?

> Even, otherwise it suggests something is wrong with society that needs to be fixed.

I agree with the idea that large discrepancies require investigation, but I don't see how you could expect extremely large, different groups (defining those groups being a massive challenge alone) of people to have the exact same outcomes. That seems statistically nearly impossible.
> Admittedly our company is small (~5 fulltime devs), but we have: mac osx catalina, debian buster, debian bullseye, and ubuntu bionic beaver. So precompiling .debs won't work here. Docker gives us all a common ground, minus some wonky mac docker issues with DNS.

That does make it more difficult. Docker does sound like the common ground then.

> Again, this is a strawman. You can butcher things with docker, or without docker. The same can happen with i.e. Ansible & Terraform (which we also use). I can, and do, analyze our images to see what we can reduce to. Most of our images are either on Scratch or Alpine Linux, thanks to multi-stage builds.

It's a related argument. My point is that Docker allows you to take shortcuts too easily compared to other methods. And when you are faced with figuring out how to make your software work with widgetlib 1.0.4 provided by the system instead of widgetlib 1.0.5 which is what you originally built it for, you have a choice of packaging 1.0.5 yourself and potentially doing that improperly (make && make install inside a Docker container, paying no attention to dependencies or upgrades), or properly (by creating a standard reproducible build you can track). Docker allows you to take the shortcut easily. It's a powerful tool and it does allow you to create good images, but I have also seen some terrible ones (just like I've seen bad examples of .deb packages, but a lot fewer of them).

Regardless, it's about how you work and how you structure things. I am coming around to Docker as a workflow, but I doubt I'll be creating 120 microservices to run one project anytime soon. Too many things to keep track of and update.
> Historically, we've always consumed all these things. Meat, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, seeds, human lineage ate all of this for a very long time. Why would any of it be bad for us?

Because evolution trends toward living long enough to reproduce. People often die of heart disease once they're old enough they weren't having kids (although exceptions certainly exist).

Evolution doesn't give a fuck if fruit suddenly becomes poisonous to you on the day you turn 65. Youve passed on your genes, your survival is now irrelevant.

So the things that will help us live a long time are not driven by evolution. "We've always eaten it" is a terrible argument because it should be followed by "but the average lifespan was like 40 up until a few decades ago".
Listening is what I would pick.

Learn to actively listen to what people are saying, what they don't say, and, most importantly, what they mean.

This will serve you in any career, but software devs who can grok what is meant rather than what is said are especially valuable.

Why? Because so much of what we deal with are abstractions that can be slippery and mean different things to different people. Getting a firm grasp on everyone's meanings is crucial to bridging divides and delivering value.
I found one (A1242) in the office surplus last year and have been using it since.
Have an effect at runtime.
Yeah, that solves it neatly.

Reduces to a protoactinium problem, it decays to U-233 with a half-life of 27 days. The article claims there's so little protoactinium in the total mass of salt and stuff that it's not practical to isolate it, at least not without detection, and failing that, not quickly. This gets into fine details beyond my level of expertise, but I agree the problem is much reduced. Although very possibly still greater than for current LEU designs.
> I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example.

Strange, that strategy doesn't allow me to get past challenge 2 (just going to every floor one after the other).
I inferred that you thought that gdubs was not doing their best. You used the phrase "strongly disagree". I'm not sure which part you strongly disagree with. Nor can I tell why you think gdubs is not doing their best.

For what it's worth, I definitely agree with gdubs point of view. I'm less clear on what you're saying though. When you say "unwilling to make personal sacrifices", does that mean unwilling to ever make any sacrifice? Or does it mean unwilling to make some under certain circumstances?

In my experience, my kids' sleep seemed to actually improve when engaging in the "extreme" practice of sleep training. That seems consistent with gdubs. How then, am I not "doing my best"?
This greatly oversimplifies how it actually works to be a foreign Corp in many states. You might be able to get away with this for a year or two but you will eventually be in a world of hurt. Once you have an employee in a state and you are making sales on that state, the tax and regulatory bodies will come after you. Your customers and partners will be reporting you, your payroll provider will make mistakes, and disgruntled employees will make claims in that state and it will be a significant drain on company resources.
This is pretty universal advice, yes, in most (all?) skywatching tutorials. The astrophotography rabbit hole is deep, infinitely expensive and the learning curve is steep. It's a lot more sensible to start with visual observation.

(That said, I ignored the advice because really wanted to do photography more than anything else.)
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> I'm sure microsoft would've made the same argument in their anti-trust case

OK, let's talk Microsoft then.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/19/21296657/microsoft-apple-...

Microsoft is making exactly the same argument as Epic Games, in fact, but they're not racing to allow third-party app stores on the Xbox either. This is a one-way street, these companies want to sell locked-down hardware but be allowed onto their competitors' platforms.

Similarly Facebook runs similarly exclusive stores on their Oculus Quest platform, which they also argue they should not have to open up.

This is purely down to companies who themselves employ similarly locked-down stores, which they feel should not have to be similarly opened, wrapping themselves in the language of openness and using it to attack their competitors' business models while arguing they themselves should be excluded. They are not making a good-faith argument for openness, they are using the legal system to take down a competitor.

Frankly I have much less problem with Microsoft opening up, since we don't do day-to-day business on our game consoles. How about they go first, model for us how an ethical company is supposed to behave?

> And also, your mum isn't going to be using third party app stores,

Yeah, actually, she will, that is the point. If she wants to use Facebook, she will use a third-party app store (where the application is not subject to Apple's rules about permissions and datamining). This is an immediate race to the bottom, won't even be a year and the superior privacy of the Apple ecosystem will have been completely undermined.
> humans have to deal with the consequences of "dumb" actions (e.g. by looking through their spam folders for false positives)

Email programs generally have a mechanism for reviewing email and changing the classification. I think your "pure-AI" phrase describes a system that doesn't have any mechanism for reviewing and adjusting the machine's classification. The fact that a spam message winds up in your inbox sometimes is probably that low-confidence human-in-the-loop process we've been talking about. I'm sure that the system errs on the side of classifying spam as ham, because the reverse is much worse. Why have two different interfaces for reading emails, one for reading known-ham and one for reviewing suspected-spam, when you can combine the two seamlessly?

Perhaps you've confused bad user interface decisions for bad machine learning system decisions. I'd like to see some kind of likelihood-spam indicator (which the ML system undoubtedly reports) rather than a binary spam-or-not, but the interface designer chose to arbitrarily threshold. I think in this case you should blame the user interface designer for thinking that people are stupid and can't handle non-binary classifications. We're all hip to "they" these days.
Unfortunately user-configurability seems to be a out of fashion these days.
Once all great programmers get a job they like they don't switch, even if you have the money to pay them more. They like what they are working on.

If a great programmer is working on the next Google, and you pay them more to work on something boring, they won't switch.

The limit is the total number of great programmers.
The post you link to points out that the IQ values are estimated from SAT or GRE scores, and that most of the difference is explained by the quantitative section of the SAT. What that ends up showing is that social work and education are low-paid, low-prestige fields, which tend to employ more women.
Not all BBC sitcoms are like that, look at Not Going Out (which I do love), Citizen Khan and Mrs Browns Boys. While not as sickeningly produced as American sitcoms they do follow a common pattern not dissimilar to the one in the article.

I do agree with you though, I'm just playing devils advocate. The Office isn't a great one to choose because the American and English versions cannot really be compared as they are very different beasts, and while the American series shares inspiration it is trying to be something completely different while the English series is a one off stroke of genius (and not really a sitcom).
This sentence leapt out at me: "That includes borrowing that may have been used to compensate slave owners when slavery was abolished."

You mean to tell me that after the horrors of slavery finally ceased, it was the slaveholders that got reparations?
Interested in what web server they're using with Rails. Unicorn/Puma? Didn't see it mentioned.
Yes and given that I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen any docs talking about breaking 1024-bit RSA. That should have been their bread and butter, at least as far as DNI is concerned, a few years ago.
Evidently you are not familiar with the sort of humor common to

alt.sysadmin.recovery

And next you'll be telling us that http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php isn't fiction/satire/parody.
An nginx redirect based on user agents to an apology and a list of download links to WebP friendly browsers. I used to include a link to a Firefox fork that supported WebP natively, but no one bothered.

I made a sort of Google+ companion to the site which I'd bump them onto but I still haven't gotten the hang of not getting banned.
Oops. I had meant to link the survey. His lecture[0] on the subject is quite approachable, for those who prefer visuals to papers.

[0] http://youtu.be/ebWVLVhiaiY
> You can restrict the visual warning to the first load only, it would be pretty distracting otherwise.

How would this work in practice while still showing it when you want it to be shown?
Or you could just use a password manager...
I remember Guru Meditation from the days of the Amiga. Didn't know about the Grim Reaper though!
what is Impact Engine?a js library for games?
youtube-dl is great, and I find it to be well-maintained also; if ever it doesn't work, I just go see if there is a new version, which there invariably is, and which invariably works. It seems to have a decent feature set, too.

I've had problems with every other youtube downloader I've tried, and none with youtube-dl.
Reading this, and other recent events, gives me the realisation that we need the successor of UNIX. Nowadays, everything runs UNIX. My iPhone, Android, my Mac, my Ubuntu laptop, my Debian or BSD server, even my e-reader runs some Linux.

On recent systems like iOS & Android applications run pretty isolated. You can't read and write the whole file system (afaik), and you need to have the user tap "yes" to use many system API's (like microphone, camera, etc).

Using UNIX for a desktop computer, you don't really utilise the user system. Everything I run is either as my own user, or as root (when adding/remove packages or doing system updates). Otherwise, it's a singe user system. So any program I run can read all permanent data stored by other programs in my home directory. In effect, all programs have 100% access (except for changing system settings, but why would they care when there is only one user to own?

When I encrypt my drive, I encrypt it all but also unlock it all when logging in. It's inherent to the system that my whole home dir is open when using (except for things I encrypt manually, like GPG mail or other user land things). Defaults matter. That's why Ross's documents were readable to the American government.

I think we need a new OS to take over after UNIX. One that is built up of sandboxed modules. Where each program gets it's own file system, where they can do whatever they want. That file system is, if I wish, encrypted until I chose to open it. It could be encrypted with a public key system, so I can have many FS's opened with one key, or derive keys from a master key.

These small systems could even be virtual machines, I can't say anything about the eventual overhead that would bring.

In short, UNIX is bad because the file system is bound to my user, and anything my user runs has 100% access to everything else I run. The user system is nice, but not practical. If it was, Ross would be a free man.
What was your motivation behind not using JSX?
This viewpoint is puzzling to me. It starts from the assumption that all people want to live in highly dense central areas. This is clearly and completely untrue.

Most people who live in the suburbs because they want to live in single family homes in low density areas.
I thought about that back in the 90's - a drug dealer who wanted to accept credit cards for payment could easily set up a porn site with very little content, accept credit cards for subscriptions, and just keep track of which of their actual customers was associated with which subscription account.