jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been using OpenBSD for about a year now. It's still not quite my daily driver (it's running on one of my three main workstations - a PowerBook G4 - but not on my desktop or my other laptop, both of which are still running GNU/Linux - Slackware and openSUSE, specifically and respectively), but it's certainly the OS of choice for my servers.

OpenBSD appealed to me as a Linux user for the same reasons why Linux appealed to me as a Windows user. I was tired of bugginess, and just wanted things to work. Unfortunately, I still have the same obstacles migrating to it from Linux as I had migrating to Linux from Windows - namely, hardware support and gaming - that keep it from being my dream OS; however, it's still the OS I like to use when I need to get real work done (just as GNU/Linux was the OS I liked to use when I needed to get work done, back when I was still a Linux/Windows dual-booter so many years ago).

Even with those shortcomings, my PowerBook G4 is currently my favorite machine. There are some kinks, to be sure (power management is non-op, so I can't put the laptop to sleep), but with OpenBSD and WindowMaker, it's pretty rock-solid despite its age.

The nice thing about OpenBSD is that the devs aren't afraid of breaking backwards-compatibility if needed. They've already solved the 2038 problem as of 5.5, for example; with Linux's policies on backwards-compatibility, that'll be a nightmare to fix on 32-bit Linux systems (and even other BSDs, if I understand correctly). To me, that's awesome; I'll take a minor flag day to clean-reinstall my servers now over a major flag day to hack together some kind of band-aid "fix" later any day, and it's nice to know that, should I setup a server right now, it won't spontaneously vomit all over itself in 20 years or so due to it suddenly thinking it's 1970 again.
Uh, I actually said is "there is virtually zero low-level corruption", which is entirely in line with that.

I'm just taking exception to the rather glib claim that high salaries eliminate corruption at higher levels, because quite clearly they do not, even in Singapore. But this is not the kind of thing that affects perceptions in day-to-day life, while the Malaysian cop asking for an on-the-spot fine or the Indonesian immigration dude finding a "mistake" in your visa does.
I've never experience that, but then if I'm paying cash, I ask for the specific amount of change I want back.
Or presumably use a VPN to a server in another country, then hop on Tor. Any obvious problem with that?
Every single person in the video is wearing Nike socks and shoes. Is this just a coincidence or is Nike somehow related to this project?
Oh man, I remember Ross and Irma, but I got my Roy Rogers and pool from the Anchor Inn. If I recall correctly, the Sportsman's is actually older than either the Buckner Building or Beggich Tower
You do know that this is the first time a lot of people that do not live in the UK are hearing of the ICO
I'm curious as to why this project is using Django templates (as opposed to Jinja2)? Django is a heavy dependency if you're just planning on using Django templates. Also, from what I've read, it appears that Jinja2 is more extensible.
There are many very nice places to live in the world that are not afflicted with suburban sprawl and provide houses to live in, yet are not tiny villages

Absolutely, but they either suffer from rapidly rising houses prices or no appreciable population growth. If you stick to a population ceiling of say 50k or so then many problems are easy

But we are talking about about places that are seeing up to a million new people show up in just a few years. Building everybody a nice house is neither realistic nor, in my opinion, desirable. We've either got to re-think the whole "everybody gets a nice house" or try to reverse urbanization in favour of lots and lots of small town capped at around 50k population.
Not to mention the higher maintenance costs associated with the Urea and the turbo on the engine.

In my area the price of gas has gone down very much. Even the premium I use in my car has decreased significantly. Diesel on the other hand has stayed the same more or less. If these lower gas prices are here to stay then I dont find it beneficial to buy a diesel engine.

Diesel Price + Price for Diesel Engine + Extra Maintenance > Gas powered car + associated costs
The target audience for MBA is not workstation/professional users, for that it was underpowered when it launchaed (current Macbook is the same). That's fine, because the normal or mainstream user does not need that much power to browse facebook and ebay.

On my 2012 Thinkpad T-series (8 GB RAM, SSD, shitty display) Idea runs very nicely (Java, Python). But then, we cannot compare Thinkpad and MBA, as they are entirely different weight categories.
You're right, good that someone is familiar with ZODB!

We plan to make it a full-scale database. For that, we obviously require to have some convenient query language (similar or even compatible with Mongo's).

We've talked to original developers of ZODB and they (independently) suggested that having a language-independent query language is something they constantly thought of :-) In fact, it seems like many of them dream to take ZODB (or a db based on it ;-) where Mongo is now.
Closed source database? Good luck with your acquisition!
Url changed to that from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html.
Hah! That's my repo!

Also, the only emulator for anything written in Io, as far as I know :p

Not that it was good, mind you. But I do highly recommend DCPU-16 as an emulation launching point. It's a really easy to understand system :)
The challenge for an incompetent dictator is, then, to fool the public into thinking he is competent. He chooses from among a repertoire of tools – propaganda, repression of protests, co-optation of the elite, and censorship of their messages. All such tools cost money, which must come from taxing the citizens, depressing their living standards, and indirectly lowering their estimate of the dictator’s competence. Hence the trade-off.

So these states edge towards using soft-power, influence, and PR balanced against the cost of this which must be obtained through taxes to "fool" the people into thinking the leadership is competent if it is in fact not (which if successful will be indistinguishable to the common citizen from actually being competent)?

It seems that like the corrupt mafioso that edges towards legitimate business as his income swells these political systems creep towards something an awful lot like the western "democracies" we have now. As a citizen, how the hell would you be able to tell the difference?
Wow. Congrats!
I'll fix this so that invalid expressions are reported and car and cdr of () are errors.
Actually, you could make this stuff up. And it was. But seriously, this was a hilarious article, and a great (and sadly fairly realistic) explanation of the breakdown of the music industry "costs".
I think this looks a lot like the Apple II-based one:

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/

It's lacking style, IMHO. A PC will never, ever match an Apple II in that ;-)
such as from CVS/Walgreen? I guess yea! Any kind of delivery from a business - customer I guess
Is CESU-8 a synonym of WTF-8? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#WTF-8 ; https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
One way to check if you took it, is to choose a song with a strong beat that you've heard thousands of times, for reference. If you took your stimulants that day, the tempo should sound slower than if you didn't.
Oulu, Finland is way further north than most cities and handles it fine: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.euronews.com/amp/2021/01/22...
Tools like prettier have gone a long way to standardizing formatting in JS.
Doesn't that mean that while it's actually happening, it's not, in fact, an acceptable development process?
The tech reporter of my local paper made an interesting comment today that he really didn't think the reviews of the Playbook were as bad as they read.

Customers are probably not selecting a device based on the design of a power button, or if it has a decent native mail client (particularly if they are teaming the playbook with a blackberry).

There is definitely a very strong level of nit-picking in the tech reviews, not that it isn't well deserved, but maybe just too much to affect the average consumer.

I wouldn't have expected Apple sized numbers, as BB isn't a very effective hype machine, now I'm curious how many returns there will be?
In particular, I always find the inclusion of the computer architecture somewhat useless. Do we really care that there might be 25 software applications running on your computer?

I think the reason for this is that it moves the patent from an idea/algorithm to one that runs on a physically manifested device.
The FBI has my FBI file and only the FBI file. By this logic, I shouldn't FOIA for my FBI file because someone could break into my house and steal it.

Also, I carry a lot more sensitive information on my phone than the cellphone towers it talks to-- I suspect this is the same for most people. Anybody that's installed, say "Mint" on their iphone, has used the "email" application, or sent the occasional drunken SMS message probably has a lot more to worry about than the location data stored on their phone.

I guarantee you I protect the data on my phone a lot more than Apple does. Apple sells it. Here's an opportunity for me to sell it too.
There are many server-side applications that do exactly what you just described and JavaScript is starting to move into that space. So this is quite relevant and will become even more so over time.
In the USA, software patentability has always been dubious. But you can patent a complete physical setup that also runs software.

So software patents are usually written as if one had invented some special-purpose device, that just happens to consist of hardware that looks remarkably like a standard PC, running software.
That subscription fee is rooftop level stuff, I know it's NY Times and all, but they need to slash that fee!
So here we go again. Last time there was a highly voted fosspatents article here it was completely bogus. And everyone chimed in about how this guy had ulterior motives:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355056
You call it a folder, not a directory, seems you aren’t immune from the rot.

Does anyone know why directories were renamed around the win95 time?
I actually had to use this about a year ago to build a SOAR system at a Fortune 500 company. The Tines team was pretty responsive to questions and requests for help, and they even sent me a nice box of swag. The box arrived after I resigned from that job, however.

No matter how many niceties you put on flow-based programming, the tools I had to use (all serverless) were the wrong ones for the job, and management was unreceptive to feedback (they wouldn't even give me a github repository).

I think Tines has potential but it's going to have to invest more into mitigating its shortcomings, not just further improvements on what it already does well. For example, as of March 2021, it was still far too easy to misclick and break something in production with no confirmation. You could export your setup as json, but IMO there was too much friction/manual work with that approach for it to be useful. To be fair, the company was pretty early stage at the time, maybe it's improved since then.

I don't blame Tines for what was the worst job I ever had (which I still have nightmares about to this day), but maybe someone else can be avoided the same fate with this feedback.
How does the custom script syntax work? E.g. ‘on click call some_func()’

Is there really a JS script parsing all of that? Seems like there would be performance penalty.
There are many CAHSR related problems.
Yeah, in my opinion they shouldn't have called Vue 3, Vue. If its such a breaking change that most your ecosystem isn't compatible then it should have become its own project and tried to gain adoption by being better rather than brand value.
Yes, essentially, though you may create models of interactions etc., but the main idea is to extract information from various aspects of the cell.

As far as in silico, I think absolutely there are probably opportunities here. Generative models might be useful for some type of counterfactual (automated) reasoning with respect to disease course/treatment. I think we're in the relatively early days of collecting high resolution cellular data, so I think in silico approaches like this will be more and more relevant.
Programmers need to stress more about their own brain's memory speed and optimization that the pc's..
>"Yes, in theory this is a problem in lots of languages which are weakly typed."

Minor pedantic correction: Python is dynamically typed, and strongly typed. Those are separate concepts.

Strongly-typed vs weakly-typed
Statically-typed vs dynamically-typed
Q&A is the new spam.

Quora is full of it, and so is LinkedIn.

A shill asks "a question," followed by all these "answers," recommending a particular site, product or technique (that has a backer).

I have had to leave quite a number of forums, because they became completely taken over by Asian spammers; doing exactly this. They rendered the groups useless.

TBH: I did fall for it the first time I encountered it. It's a fairly effective technique, if done right.
> Lol, that's a pretty good strategy to get people to come back to your site without having to generate new content.

It's a good strategy to make users hate your product. This isn't clever - it's just value extraction from a product people used to find useful.
OTOH, if you're small, you are not as interesting a target as a huge cloud provider that hosts everyone. Which means, while small practice's security should be good, it doesn't actually have to be as good as the big cloud behemoth.

It's why your gmail account is more likely to get hacked than my piddly self hosted imap server. Google's network security is unarguably better than mine, but you are never going to social engineer your way into changing my password, which is actually doable with gmail (happened to my sister in law).
You can write your own TOTP application - its open source and works offline, you don't need Google Authenticator, there are dozens of applications available.
You can add Medical to that list. Need a USB thumb drive for a Medical Device? That'll be 10x the cost of the exact same one you can buy on Amazon. OK, so maybe the vendor guarantees traceability. So now you just paid 10x the price to be safe in the knowledge that you and Amazon are buying from the same guy in a basement in Shenzen.
Employers and quality prospects are a market. Trend or no trend, law or no law, unless the rest of the market overwhelmingly approves of "rating services" like this, I'm never going to interview with a company that threatens to do this to me. I'm suggesting that the market may correct for this solution to "resume spam".

And, again: stop trying to hire people by reading resumes. Resumes are worthless.
to some extent, I decided to use couchdb because I trust apache with server stuff. I've slotted mongodb in for testing next time I have the luxury of time, though.
One technique I had success with when I was freelancing is designing on spec. Find a genre of business and look for bad websites. Restaurants and hair salons are good for this because there are usually really good ones, and really bad ones. Redesign one of the sites, using the content from the site (menus, directions, about us, etc). Then contact the business, and offer to sell them the site. Send them examples of their competitors' sites (the good ones) as leverage. If they don't go for it, you can easily swap out the content with another business in the same genre. You can repeat this several times, and when you are done, you'll have a nice portfolio, and several paying customers.
I'm not sure why your comment is a child of mine. I was just clarifying the post title which left some things out. You're commenting on the unrelated issue of how accurate the prediction is.
The sky map app is and amazing piece of software.
If there is an intermediate server involved (probably a STUN server), it just helps set up the connection. The actual UDP packets don't go through any middle man. This is how residential VoIP services have been working without requiring any firewall/router configuration by the customer. It's also the same thing when you set up an iChat or Skype video call with both parties being behind a NAT.
I find that an interesting perspective - most people I know have always had some tie to their handle - even if they later discarded it or attempted to keep it as a completely anonymous gate - but to be completely anonymous with random id's I haven't come across before.
Amazon is a product: Bezos built a website and logistics tail to be the world's largest bookstore. When you give Amazon $$, you are paying for a book.

In a services business, when you give someone $$, you are paying for a person's time.
I played with a Nook Color and with an iPad 2 at Best Buy last weekend. The Nook felt like it was worth approximately half an iPad, which is about how it's priced.

Granted, that's a great niche to be in. My reservations: it had a weak speaker, it felt a bit bendy, and it didn't seem to rotate the screen too often when I switched from horizontal to vertical orientation. I don't think its software was designed to rotate as often as iOS does. I can definitely see having one of these around the house to hack on but it's got flaws.
I'm not sure I like the whole "updates will be pushed to WiFi conncted Nooks" thing. However, given the way the NookColor recovers from failed boots (by restoring the system from a couple of ROM-"protected" zip files), there is at least a mechanism in place to do a remote full-system update in a sane way.

Even with Froyo, I'm still looking to turn mine into a non-Android tablet. (Or perhaps a hybrid...?) Especially since it's so easy to run a system from the μSD card. $250 toy indeed. Yet so well-built for the price.
Indeed. rhizome's quote is taken out of context. The google docs example isn't about word processing, it's about collaborative editing. When your options are using a tool like google docs or emailing around a file, only staunch idealism would make a person side with email. That was Alexy's point. Mainstream pragmatists aren't going to dump a technically superior tool because a seemingly crazy idealist told them it is the Right Thing to Do.
Congratulation to Barnes & Nobles. They are one of the few brick and mortar retailers that was able to embrace the Internet age instead of fighting or ignoring it. Their agility would make a great business school case study.
That's not really a useful comparison. Of course a cube of the world's gold wouldn't really do anything. But a cube of soil and gas stations would be pretty useless too, without some work by humans. If humans worked the gold, it would return to being used for a purpose. That purpose is "trustless" accounting, which is certainly valued by some. Instead of relying on ledgers, and paper, and accountants and bankers, gold provides you some control of the money you have saved.
and do that for every project, even small throwaway experiments?
GitHub was blocked completely by GFW. But many developers in China complained, because GitHub is too important. Now it becomes available again.
I think they choose Baidu just because its scripts are widely used.
Personally I think the pollution in China is one of the biggest finger-pointing games in history.

The main reason for the pollution in China, and Asia in general, is, above all things, consumer demand. In other words, it's us as a world population, taking up consumerism so fast, from wasting energy at home to rampant manufacturing of useless consumer products (for the whole world, which demands them!) at under-market prices, to meat production, to added to a a local increase in car-centric culture in China built on an unsustainable fuel source. While all this was fine for the USA to some degree, which, mind you, is driven on 39% coal and 67% fossil fuels, this model of energy production simply does not scale and that's why it's failing in Asia. Every time you take a car over public transit in Beijing, every time you leave an electronic device or light on, you are contributing to the pollution problem. Which is, unfortunately, pretty much everyone nowadays.

As much finger pointing happens at the Chinese government, in my opinion the true solution lies with scientists and engineers, not politicians. We need to completely re-visit even the most basic aspects of how we design cities, how we achieve mobility, how we live, work, and everything else, from the ground up. This is the first time the world has had 7 billion people, so history will not teach us how to cope with high population densities. Some kind of game-changing, modernized thinking on the most basic levels of civilization needs to happen.

This isn't to say the government is completely absolved of fault. However, their job isn't to "fix" the pollution issue -- what do you expect them to do? Cut everyone's electricity? Force everyone to use only Tesla cars overnight? Cut all manufacturing exports to USA? Doing any of these would fix a good chunk of the pollution issue, but will cause quite a lot of upheaval and unrest. Rather, their job and focus should be in empowering those scientists and entrepreneurs with funding, space, tools, and freedom to come up with fixes that are sustainable in both environmental and business senses of the word.
I have seen this article [1] being thrown around among my conservative friends, and while I do not have the statistics background to understand the detailed analysis, it seems to suggest some strange behavior around the reporting of mail-in votes. Not exactly evidence, but something that may have warranted investigation at the time.

[1] https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-...

edit: I'm looking for folks to give their take on this analysis since I nowhere qualified. A good summary is the final two sections of the article.
This is a compelling argument for social media being something funded by the government as a public good, rather than run for profit.
I see there's a wikipedia entry about social media as public utility (which I take to be what you mean by 'social utilities' in the sense of regulation). To my knowledge, though, this is just a theoretical construct, not a legal one, yet in this thread it's seems to be taken for granted that treating Twitter as a utility is just another tool in the (U.S.) government's toolbox. Is there any reason to think it actually is? Seems offhand like a stretch, but I'm no legal scholar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_public_utili...
I'm not saying these people who stormed the Capitol did the right thing. Far from it.

What we're seeing is this being used as a blunt instrument to suppress the non-extremist components of that disagreement.

That "non-extremist" component is patriotic. It is extremely large and also very angry. Treating them as if they are the same as the people who did this is ill-advised.
that's really interesting. I used to have this problem all the time but I just realized that I haven't really seen the problem on my device in at least a year or so.
You have to prove ownership of a domain to publish to maven central fwiw.
Where I am ATM, it's pronounced 'cock'.
How would one call tar `xvjf` then?
I just have to reply here because it's so wrong.

Signal doesn't even have a web app. They have a desktop app that works great and that I use every day, all day long for all kinds of communication. On my desktop and laptop.
Thanks for the tip, the chrome beta didn't prompt me so I used the QR code.
"to play sports"

Ever notice how many of the highest performing athletes in the world tend to come from exactly the kind of environments where parents don't have a lot of money to spend on things like sports?

So, maybe it's possible to play sports without spending a ton of money?