jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the long game of this is. If an attacker does too much damage (like disabling NYC or Chicago financial centers), they cause significant financial disruptions globally - some of which will negatively affect people close to the attackers.

If an actual armed conflict arose, then I could see how it might be useful. But an armed conflict between those two countries would be highly destabilizing, meaning it would create a lot of financial risk to people with big financial interests. So in other words, it's probably not worth doing.
>Do you think I'm doing that just because Charles Babbage also had a penis?

Lol. Well what I've noticed is that it is women who obsess over their gender, men far less so.

Freud got it right I think - penis envy is real!
Great! Right now I'll be building a simple project for a job application, but hopefully next week I'll have some time to start some of my own projects.. I'd also love to hear about freelancing, how you choose the technologies you use, how you bill for your time, etc!

And the pun was not intended, heh
NoScript mostly fixes those, and there's also this[1] if you want to try something less drastic.

[1] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
Reminds me of the Fry's Electronics Employment Application:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200130175501/http://homepage.s...
The recommendations about binoculars are definitely worth considering.

However, if you're ready for the telescope, my advice is to spend as much money as your budget has on getting the biggest aperture you can buy.

More light = more better.

Auto-tracking is nice, but learning how to find objects in the night sky is a fun and worthy exercise, and if you have a big aperture you'll actually be able to see the things your telescope points to.

A few things to keep in mind:

* You're not going to see DSOs (Deep Sky Objects, like nebulae and galaxies) from the middle of a major urban area. You need access to a dark site. (Search for "light pollution map") Planets are easy to see from anywhere, cities included (though the viewing is always better the darker the sky is).

* Many objects in the night sky will look like little fuzzy gray spots to your eyes, no matter how awesome your telescope is. Don't expect a Hubble experience from a 6" scope (or 8, or 12+).

* Don't expect to take photos through your telescope, either. You might manage to get some cool shots of the moon (which looks _amazing_ in a telescope, btw), but true astro photography is a whole 'nother beast (both fun and expensive).

With all that as background, I'd recommend a 6" or 8" Dobsonian if you've got the budget. Something like an Orion Sky Quest XT8 or XT6.

My favorite book, by a light year, is "Turn Left at Orion". It'll help you find thousands of cool things in the night sky, and it's great for beginners on up. — https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Left-Orion-Hundreds-Telescope/dp...

P.S. Definitely checkout r/telescopes for additional advice and info.
I'm getting kinda old and miserly but I still am deeply in love with stargazing.

I recommend to anyone who wants to try it out: get a phone app with VR so that you can easily spot where a star you want to see is, by waving it over your head. This will give you a transparent Earth and you can start to get a bit of a cadence for when stars are rising and setting.

Tracking the sun with a VR app as it sets, even if sitting inside your house on a chair, is such a cool way to sew together some concepts that sound obvious but only may be after this improvement to your vision. Seeing the orbit of Venus dotted around the setting Sun, you will quickly understand why we call it the Morning/Evening Star as it barely scopes above the visible horizon.

Learning why we call it the Dog Days of Summer is also a delight that a VR app can sew together for you as well.

I'm a novice, an absolute one - I love this hobby regardless. Spend 4.99 on a nice VR app and see if it only entices you further to open your wallet for a telescope.
haXe nightly binary builds are provided here:
http://haxe.cmt.tc/
http://builds.haxer.be/

source build instructions are here:
http://haxe.org/doc/build
It feels like you didn't critically read the review, and are just trying to impose your own interpretation on top of it.

Processes and lack of agility come into place in a mature company as risk-aversion. If the company is scared to fuck up, they introduce processes to prevent fuckups, even though those processes also dampen remarkable innovations.

Judging from the Glassdoor review, Netflix's firing strategy has the same effect--individual employees don't want to fuck up, so individual employees adopt a risk-averse cover-your-ass strategy, which also happens to dampen remarkable innovations. A culture like that has the same lack of agility and infestation from parasitic lifers, they just happen to add heaps of politics, stress, and unhappiness on top of it.
It is rare to see a truly performance-based employment system at a company because, as this post (and the comments) show, in order to execute well you have to continuously cull the low performers from the herd. This creates a culture of fear, especially in those likeliest to be culled. This is not unique to Netflix -- each year General Electric culls the bottom percentile of its management. The trick is to have performance criteria that are clearly understood so that the process is not arbitrary and capricious. Companies that do not cull low performers tend to attract low-performers who ultimately ensure that the company itself gets culled. It's a tough world out there.
The cynic in me is cynical of your attempts to find grand conspiracies where "standard-ass disgruntled ex-employee" would suffice.

If I could short a company and then collapse its stock price by posting "wah this company sucks to work for" rants on glassdoor.com, I'd be very rich by now.
Like I said, if MSNBC likes them, and they're working for MSNBC, it's hard for outsiders to be damning them.

Still, I'd agree they probably should shorten the title to be focused around two or three key terms they want to be found more. I think it would be a more attractive headline that would encourage clickthrough.
I don't know about Tumblr unseating Facebook but I think it's interesting to note the popularity of Tumblr amongst the younger crowd and ask "why?" It's interesting that Tumblr is pretty feature poor compared to other blogging services like Wordpress but is still popular. It's basically "grandma easy." However, grandma's are clamoring towards Facebook (which in my opinion is a much more difficult interface for a non web-savvy user) while the younger crows is clamoring towards Tumblr. If I were Facebook I would be more worried about dumbed down, feature-poor subsections of itself being implemented and taking away market share than another social network trying to outdo them. Even though the younger crowd is supposedly more tech savvy, I'm noticing a trend of them leaning more towards technology that has a simpler UI, oftentimes just because it has less features/options.
If that were the case, then working in any sort of technical field disqualifies you from commenting on any company working on anything technically related.
It loaded for me just now, took a minute or so.
Ahhh, the joys of working in silicon valley where it can be assumed that every individual in Starbucks is going to comprehend you "brother's" start-up idea.

Also, if I tried this method in my local Starbucks, I'd end up interviewing people just looking for a complimentary cup of coffee.

Kind of reminds me of the Encyclopedia Britannica "get a free thesaurus" promo where you'd sit through an hour long sales pitch just to be able to say "no thanks, can I get my free thesaurus?"
>When a person "has the concept `7`" they can reason thus: "6 eggs would be fewer", "7 is an odd number", "7 is a whole quantity", "with 7 less of 10, i'd have 3" etc.

I just input this into GPT-3. Its responses are in italics, this is first try no rewriting or retrying anything:

This is a test of understanding of the concept of "the number 7".

Question: Is 7 odd?
Answer: Yes, 7 is an odd number.

Question: Is 6 eggs fewer than 7 eggs?
Answer: Yes, 6 eggs is fewer than 7 eggs.

Question: With 7 less of 10, what would I have?
Answer: I would have 3.

Question: Is 7 a whole quantity?
Answer: Yes, 7 is a whole quantity.

This is mostly a joke because I think I understand where you are coming from (and that you are hypothesising that gpt3's responses are an elaborate trick of sorts). But I don't believe AI has to take the same route as human intelligence, and I don't think we really understand what a concept is or how it behaves from a signal/data perspective, but I think that may be inconsequential for creating general AI.

Also people are can be really stupid sometimes and also have failures, and the concepts that people hold can be incorrect or flawed etc. So it may be useful also to compare human failures with AI failures, rather than just AI failures with human successes.
#betterposter is a great format. Really helps folks get the key message across in a crowded poster hall.
Downloaded a free version iPhone app.

Immediately did setup prompt.

Several setup prompts later, it wants to charge me.

No way out. No Cancel button. Its OS prompt blocked me from “swipe-up”, “hold on an app tile”, “swipe up” to kill.

Only a force power cycle (via long hold press side buttons on each side) can get me out.

Grrrr.

If that isn’t a form of ransomware, I don’t know what to call that.
A few data points:

> It’s capped at 1% of total assessed value

Sort of. The California property tax bill has many line items, one of which is "General tax rate". That's the one everyone talks about and it is 1% of the assessed value. However, all applicable jurisdictions can (and thus, will) add all kinds of add-on percentage fees to the property taxes and those are not subject to any limitations.

My property tax bill (California) which I just paid two weeks ago, was actually 1.4% of the assessed value.

> that value can only go up 2% a year (i.e. way less than market)

True on average over long term. Good to keep in mind though that it goes up 2% every year regardless of market. So when the market is up double percentages like 2020-2021, it only goes up 2%. But when the housing market crashes, it also goes up 2%. Which is fine, it's basically a damping function so that instead of having the taxes swing wildly up and down year to year, they just go steadily up.

Also be aware that the 2% increase is on the "general tax rate". The additional fees which are included in the property taxes, those have no cap on increase rates.

There have been many years when my property taxes have gone up quite a bit more than 2%.

I feel that because the housing market has been on such a long bull run, people have either forgotten, or are too young to have experienced, that housing markets can also crash hard. Having an increased zestimate value of your home is not actual wealth unless you sell it, and the valuation on paper can evaporate any moment when the next housing crash comes. I've been through three market crashes in my current house, two of which left me underwater for a few years.
What is the canonical coordinate system of a roll of tape?
The original was all Flash intro.
Think of subreddits as modern analogies to local clubs (chess, fencing, etc.). Just because it's happening on the internet doesn't mean the members (and especially organizers) don't have real world interfacing responsibilities.
I have recalled related post[1] and relevant NH discussion[2] from 2020. Also just ran across another recent related article [3] and its Reddit discussion [4].

[1] https://chris-said.io/2020/06/18/everything-ive-learned-abou...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580362

[3] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sun-solar-storms-earth-h...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/lt7tnd/solar_storms_...
What does the absence of (static) types have anything to do with the issue here?
Apparently it's closer to Toronto and Ottawa than NYC.
IIRC, cold climate specific (Mitsubishi Zubadan series for example) have COP of about ~2 at -20C. Even cheaper cold climate pumps do function at -30, albeit with COP barely above 1. So resistive heater should also be present, but it won't be used often.
...Not at all? The very definition and distinction between deductive and inductive reasoning is in and of itself a matter firmly tread in the annals of philosophy. Every realized science is just a topical offshoot of natural philosophy, where the corpus of the eventually named science are all the axioms and techne that the particular field concerns itself with.

Even the distinction between that most vaunted science, physics, and it's far more fluid, subjective sibling, metaphysics is squarely settled in the philosopher's forum rather than the scientist's academy. To the scientist, the epistemic question is settled by your choice of field by necessity.

Another way to think of it:
The Art to good Philosophy is to learn to cope with and identify those patterns of reasoning that degenerate down to navel gazing.

It is why the very tool by which we interlocute and communicate is in and of itself a matter of great philosophical concern. The ability to elicit a shared understanding of a purportedly common world phenomema is still hotly debated within philosophical circles. The question of what the essence of meaning is and what it means to be all happen far outside the borders of any science's capability to operate or even exist as standalone rational framework.

A science is a rational workshop, which is what is because of the collection tools and products of philosophically established ground states that render the space conducive to ongoing thought and reasoning.

Seriously. If yoy think philosophy is all deductive, crack open some books. Enrich thyself, and marvel.
> The goal of the SEC is to ensure confidence in the stock market, to protect the stock market and the whole economy in general.

Well, that's the official goal.

In practice, public choice theory suggests some additional motivations.
What happens to Griddy customers? Do they just lose power until they can be onboarded with other providers?
They might cache it if the server allows them to cache it.

But evil servers don't.

Example: gravatar.com gives an expiration time of 5 minutes.

curl -q -i --output - https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/70d9b050bfe39350c234d710fadf... | grep -a xpires

expires: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:54:40 GMT
Forgot to refill my ADHD medication
Nobody talk about doskey. When I started working in windows I missed my aliases that I had in linux. Doskey is a great tool to mimic the functionality. Some example of my aliases:

edit="%EDITOR%" $\*
kbs=ag $\* --file-search-regex "\.md$" "C:\Users\my\Dropbox\MyNotes"
pg_start="C:\My Program Files\Scoop\apps\postgresql\current\bin\pg_ctl" start -D "C:\My Program Files\Scoop\apps\postgresql\current\data"

I load the file with the aliases like this:

doskey /macrofile=C:\Users\me\doskey.cmd
... Final Fantasy XIV
This is not the first time. The government previously tried to ban companies from not investing in coal companies.

This is just the next iteration of the Australian government trying to prop up the failing business models of their mates businesses
I wonder how ancient aliens moved it, maybe it was Hitler all along ...
This is why no language is "just faster" than another. The languages that are commonly associated with being "fast" can be way slower than any "slow" language if written wrong.

Yes Rust, C, C++ can be fast. Really fast. Impossible-to-beat fast - if you know what you're doing. If you don't, it's going to be worse than any trivial python, lua or js that does the same thing.
Well, I'd rather Google set a price, however unreasonable, at the beginning. Free services provided by Google have a tendency to be taken out back like Old Yeller, no matter how devout a following.
Looks like the project was just deleted from Google Code. I always get a "403 Forbidden" page each time I try to access the project page.

Fortunately, the binary extension is still downloadable at this URL: fb-exporter.googlecode.com/files/fb-exporter.crx
I'm not sure if you read the article but this is monitoring after the individual has served his/her time.
Been a fan of his work for a few years now. He let me use a couple of his pieces as album art. Seems like a cool guy and it’s great to see his continued success.
I'm also highly sceptical of economics as a discipline, but still can't think of who would be more appropriate to work alongside an ecologist in order to design practical policies.

Economists aren't a monolith. As the other poster in this thread mentioned, there's such a discipline called ecological economics.

Besides, even if all of them do have a terrible understanding of ecology and the importance of biodiversity, that's the reason we need a multi-disciplinary team to tackle the issue. Ecologists by themselves won't know how to align incentives or create practical policies, and economists without ecologists will be lost.

Would climatologists be able to design an effective emissions trading scheme by themselves without working with an economist/policymaker?
It would take a lot of manpower to find all those zero day exploits and reverse engineer proprietary code to enable its functionality on standard processes.

It is similar to stuxnet in that regard.
Sorry I am not sure I follow. What do you mean?
CEO mentioned in the article, apologizing for using student chat records on Reddit.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/01/ceo-o...
West Aros. Like... Westeros? Is that where they got that from for GoT?
Because duplicity is an ethical norm for the entire Legal sector.
That's because they glossed over the part that actually determines weather "concious" is true or false. They also skipped the content of flyto(base). But those may just be composition of many more simple things.

The art of programming is combining simple things to consisstently produce desired results during general usage.
This represents so much of what is wrong in the US right now.
Ah music, and how to make it earn. Born of arguing, for a near century, over unfair royalties, copyright, copyleft, illegal sales, legal sales, bad contracts, exploitation and greed on all sides. It is no wonder related articles can often be run of the mill. We know how things can be designed to reward fairly. But we do not seem to mind when major players, known and unknown, in any industry make trillions. Isn't this a pickle?
Of course, it is inevitable.

Not from Ukraine though. Neither side wants war, and since the Cuban Missile Crisis, both sides have learnt the dangers of brinkmanship.

A Russian invasion of a poor Eastern European, ex-soviet country, with Western-backed military opposition... Change a few things around, and this would be a pretty average Cold War conflict. Think Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan.

We didn't have WW3 then, with much higher tensions. We won't now.
City centre racetracks also come from the nature of electric power.

Such tracks are usually much slower, which means that much less energy will be lost by means of air resistance, and the cars won't have enough space to reach top speed.

This means they can run for longer, or with higher power.
To me, they both sound like they are the future. They play different roles and have different strengths. A project like v8worker sounds exciting to me because we could use both in an application and get the best of both worlds.
See if http://eloquentjavascript.net works for you. It doesn't focus on OO, but that's okay, because trying to model everything as OO in JS is going to be painful.
Still better to put a jack (facing down!) into a surface mount box and patch into the camera. When you are working with outdoor gear, put the surface mount box into a waterproof jbox. Even if you are going into gear with a gasket that requires you to crimp an end on a patch cable, it's still better to do it this way. Jack-to-jack lasts so much longer and is so much more reliable, I will almost never allow crimped ends anywhere in my networks. Patch cables are a commodity, horizontal runs are an investment.
There's a long history of conservatives co-opting liberal ideas and techniques. During the 2000s the right played both identity politics and deconstructionism to great effect. The deconstructionism went into play in areas like the "intelligent design" assault on evolutionary science -- if you read the IDist arguments they are basically deconstructionist attacks on the validity of induction and reason in general. The right has always done identity politics better than the left.
Have you tried opting out? When my dad did, he ran into a mess of broken links and incorrect support pages. Eventually he got someone to opt him out over the phone... only to have the "xfinitywifi" network pop back up the next day. It took a few more tries to have it actually disabled once and for all.

I imagine the less technically-inclined would have given up a lot earlier in the process.
Or just not pay the fines. Companies can't "force" countries to do anything, the idea is hilarious. Countries have police and jails and armies. Corporations have got nothing.

They may nonetheless choose to pay the fines because they feel the overall framework is generally beneficial even if they chose to feel the pain in that specific case. Namely, their citizens want jobs and a growing economy, and companies want a predictable and stable business environment. In particular one thing they do NOT want is to spend years building a business in a country and then discover that some politicians have decided to try and grab a few quick votes by quickly passing some badly thought out "anti-Foo" law. See: UK and their new set of "anti Google" laws.

That's the fundamental idea behind all this: countries and their trade negotiators know that their political masters are seen as flaky and unreliable by CEOs, which discourages trade and investment. So tribunals where companies could get compensated seems like one way to try and tackle that problem.
TCP congestion control fundamentally depends on packet loss to know when to slow down. If the outer TCP makes sure packet loss doesn't happen - because if it does, it retransmits - then the inner TCP won't know what's going on, and will send as fast as it can, creating a mess.

The trick with sshuttle is that you terminate the TCP sessions at the server, and just send the raw data over the multiplexed link; there are no inner TCP headers anymore. Then you add them back at the other end by reconstructing a new TCP session. This eliminates the second layer of TCP congestion control inside the tunnel.
And/or to build a local competitor. The more Github is down, the more it is considered "anti-China" in China, the easier to build a local competitor.

Or even globally. GitHub is, as you say, very important for the IT industry. Maybe China thinks it's too important. Make Github unusable for everyone else in the world and people, even outside China, might start looking elsewhere.
Thank you - I was about to go looking for this, although I wasn't sure that Jim Johnson was still doing the survey (last one I saw was 6 or 7 years ago).