jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Throwing away a project that is clearly working is depressing. can't Heroku/GitHub/37 signals or someone sponsor a week of dev time to automate a system that runs the suite on latest?

It's just such a better outcome, nobody needs to change workflows its just that information gets reported upstream earlier in a much more useful time.
Rate limiting is not effective. Having copied many terabytes of data do/from usb devices, I can tell you that it is not a consistent throughput. The speed of transfer depends on an inverse square of the file size of sorts. ( sensitive to the block size on both devices I'm sure )

Try copying 100gb of 2k-200k files ( all randomly sized ) It's a huge pain in the butt and works terribly on every system I've tried to do this on.

It would be way more awesome to have a utility that can after the fact forge a scenario directly into an existing tarball. Then, you can simply pick a "model to emulate" and click go, and wham you have a forged tarball.

Even if you did use a VM, it would be slower imo than a real transfer due to both the emulated system and the usb passthrough ( which is typically limited to USB 2.0 ) Show me a VM that is capable of USB 3.0 passthrough with reasonable speeds.

Unless you truly forge the dates in a carefully modeled way, it would be possible to tell that it isn't a real transfer.

Speaking of which; who steals data using USB 2.0? That's dumb. Use a modern USB 3.0 external 2.5" SSD. If you must use something small, use a cheapo 256gb USB 3.0 drive. The throughput on those is not bad. If no USB 3.0 ports are available, bring your own PCI Ex USB 3.0 card and open the system and install it. The BIOS may have intrusion detection... so be aware...

It is much more likely than direct system transfer that data is leaked slowly through an un-monitored network channel ( DNS tunneling... email... etc ) Hence the need to make things appear to be local; to distract from looking for the real method of transfer.
serious, modern, WYSIWYG HTML / CSS / JS editor.
> I wish Linux would replace dynamic libraries (especially ones referencing specific paths) with a system based on the library's hash.

This is how NixOS works: http://nixos.org/
I am dismayed that Connect Four has a below-average rating. Still a great game in my book ... I burned many hours in Thailand playing this on the beach, Beer Chang in hand.
Allowing the car to be charged with no human interaction in paramount to creating a system of driver-less cars. Imagine the car drops you off at work and then parks itself in a charging area a few blocks away where it can plug itself in. (this is just a theoretical example of course but I hope it demonstrates the value of a system like this).
It is trendy to hate C now, but if you want to understand a Unix-like OS I think it is mandatory and they go hand in hand. Otherwise, you will have no idea what kind of interface your higher level language is abstracting.

It's ok to not like it, but don't let that dislike be due to lack of understanding.
I feel like I can answer the second question, the reason why they are using the unknown coin is because thats how they make money, they get into a shitcoin (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mobilecoin/) that they already have mined a good amount, using Signal popularity, then pump it to the moon(like they say) and sell their positions.
Homes have been pumped up, partly due to low rates. If rates go up, home valuations would drop considerably as mortgage payments become more expensive. I suppose if you get productive land or something away from high cost metro areas
> Companies can't simply dilute away their shareholders like you're suggesting. The money raised by selling shares doesn't simply disappear.

Yes, they can and yes they do, all the time. That's not only precisely how VC funding works in the early stages of a startup raising seed money and subsequently doing Series A, B, etc. that's also how public financing works via new share offerings on a public marketplace like NYSE or NASDAQ.

GameStop is about to do precisely this very thing: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/gamestop-finally-a...

The cash they receive has no forward value. $1 will be worth $1 in 10 years. When you buy shares, you are betting on future value. When a company trades new shares for cash, it is trading some portion of its future value for cash today.

Not only that, but the cash on hand can disappear rather quickly (after all, they are raising it to spend it) depending on the company's expenditures, cost of new customer acquisition and whether its growth strategy is working or not.

Also, shareholders are the last to be compensated in the event of a bankruptcy or liquidation. Bondholders take preference.
The memories! POKE 36879!

I learned originally on a VIC-20 by typing in games out of books from the public library. At some point we upgraded to an XT and a friend sold me a copy of Power C for $20. It came with a beautiful hard copy library reference and the rest, as they say, is history!
That's fair.

In extremely competitive situations, the slightest edge matter. Arguably test prep is less of an edge than spending a summer on some community project would be but even a relatively small point jump is an edge for someone on the bubble. And, of course, elite schools have become hyper-competitive. I have very few illusions that I would have the school choice I had when I went to college--especially given that that about an eighth of my class went to the school in question.
Helium is a much better, faster alternative. It offers fallback to Selenium WebDriver.

https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
Tesla's future infotainment will have an AMD 6xxx GPU so that will take some supply away from gamers.
It sounds like you're saying that a more diversified economy will, by definition, need a more complex tax code. This is an interesting idea I don't think I've come across before. The one exception I can see to this is an extremely simple tax code e.g. a flat tax, which has a host of its own issues, including de facto regressive taxation.
I've been thinking about BASIC a lot, as I've been looking for "the easiest programming language for a non-programmer to learn". I'm not exactly sure that rewriting these in Python/Ruby/JS/VB.NET using "better coding patterns", because a lot of the things programmers take for granted are really tough for complete newcomers. Examples:

- I remember when I started, using BlitzBasic, I had a really hard time understanding the concept of arrays.

- A friend of mine, when showing him the statement 'x = x + 1' was confused; surely, x cannot also equal x+1.

- When teaching Python, the concept of function parameters and variable scope is always a struggle.

To some degree, having spaghetti code and all globals is useful for teaching because it 1) gets people excited to program and see something working and 2) demonstrates why you don't want to do those things. I remember when trying to write my first text based CYOA game, I was so excited to add content to it and see it on screen, but also learned very quickly that having to scroll through 20 pages of if statements was not fun, and why functions would help. I'm not sure if someone explaining "encapsulation" to me would have really taken root.

I think there should be a rewrite of the book, for modern languages and development environments, but keep the complexity extremely low, like 70's BASIC was intended.

EDIT: Just looked at https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/m... , it actually looks like a pretty good blend of original but with mild improvements.
You’re right for cities and counties (and the state itself) in California. None are allowed to operate at a deficit, hence the creation of the state “rainy day fund” by Gov. Brown after the 2008 recession which has worked very well in tempering the current fiscal issues in the Covid pandemic, at least at the state level.
I suspect it's to save power. Even mobile phone cameras are very power hungry.
Getting a mortgage isn't purchasing a home, paying off a mortgage is purchasing a home. The bank owns your home when you get a mortgage, and they have the right to sell if you miss even your last payment.

If the housing market crashes 30% tomorrow it'll bankrupt everyone who signed on for a 30-year mortgage in the last 10 years, unless they've overpaid substantially. Very few leveraged first time buyers who bought since 2008 own their homes yet.
btw "gaz" is a perfectly harmless way to address a mixed crowd - the men hear "guys" and the women hear "gals" and not even the worst griefer would pick on a speech impediment
This sounds good but the only way to actually fix the problem is to hold individual police officers criminally liable.

Currently they avoid criminal liability in a number of ways:

- They are never arrested - other police simply fail to arrest them

- They are never indicted - DAs across the country are extremely reluctant to press charges

- Charges are dropped by grand juries - in some states, like NY, all felonies must be confirmed or dropped by a grand jury unless the defendant waived their right. A DA has full power to effectively force a drop by portraying a weak case to a completely secret grand jury, publicly washing their hands of the decision while still getting the result they want.

Then, when a DA is elected who actually says they will hold police accountable they often simply will not (as in Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles’ previous DA) or if they make basically any strides toward actually investigating police they will be stonewalled and face a recall with support from the local PD and/or SD (as in LA’s current DA, George Gascon).

Police are given unbelievable rights: we will see over and over again that officers with complaints will never actually see them investigated and even sustained complaints have barely any consequences. Additionally if they are implicated in a serious crime on the job they often have union rules barring them from being interviewed / interrogated until after a cooling period (this blew my mind).

Compare this to basically any other profession, even so much as yelling at a client or failing to help customer who asked would be a final strike almost anywhere else.

The biggest problem may be that the US justice system is so unbelievably cruel that police refuse to ever put one of their own through that type of hell.
What's the tune?
This nightmare is so common that I'm worried people will never move away from it. The whole 'Agile everything' mentality has totally stuffed normal productivity where I work, and the entire programming and innovation floor is open plan with no set desks, meaning I have to pack up everything at the end of the day and put it all back at the start of the next. Give me a quiet office where I can leave my notes and stuff and let me work...
watch is one of the great unsung heroes of unix tools. Discovering it was one of those "I wish I knew about this years ago" moments. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have spread much beyond GNU/Linux platforms.
They should be over 100k commits apart by now.

A lot happened in those 2 years.
They could divide the space with cubes/walkways using a BSP algorithm [1] and provide Roguelike movement between openspace areas (we'll call them "rooms")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning
Glad people still read poetry!
Surprised no one's mentioned Byron yet:

Lo! where the Giant on the mountain stands,
His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun,
With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands,
And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon;
Restless it rolls, now fixed, and now anon
Flashing a far,—and at his iron feet
Destruction cowers to mark what deeds are done.
For on this morn three potent nations meet,
To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.

Also only one rapper?
You're actually demonstrating the point of the blog post, which is that the Boring RDBMS had a well-understood failure mode that "everyone who really knew better" would've recognised.
are you agreeing with the "instead of" in that post?

Through symmetry if a player is expelled from a league for doping, a manager who arranged/encouraged it should face the same, probably.
@CyberFonic

Do you have any experience with Geek Squad or customer support tickets?
Bijective functions are of interest to me for practical purposes in data binding, UIs and the like. Having a reversible function translating data from one form to another makes creating bindings more declarative, as you don't have to prove that the getter and setter halves are equivalent (the usual alternative), if your function to begin with is bijective.

And for this practical purpose, I also don't care about preserving functional and relational structure in the mapped sets - isomorphism is not particularly relevant.

So what I'd like to know is why exactly you think this is "concerning". What bad ramifications are you afraid of?
That does require that the right way is right! Harper is quite intelligent, but I think his particular views on what constitutes the "right way" to do programming are decidedly minority ones, even among academic computer scientists. Some have relatively large minority support (his views on FP are common among PLs researchers), but others get more and more into small-minority territory. He essentially believes that ML does things right or close to right, while every other language is horribly broken (Haskell somewhat less broken than others, but still fatally flawed), which isn't a very common view. His views on dynamic languages, OO, automata theory, and anything else that isn't FP are also quite partisan and often not widely held.

I'm a bit uncomfortable with a partisan approach to an intro-level course, that presents the "correct" way to do things according to one particular professor's views. That sort of partisan-indoctrination-as-curriculum is something people rightfully complain about in some humanities departments. I don't think we'd do well in CS to follow their lead, with different universities teaching different partisan versions of CS 101, trying to convince their students that the "ML way" or the "Haskell way" or the "OO way" or the "Lisp way" is the one and only right way to do programming.
But isn't ARM to be blamed if the standard designs (which apparently almost everyone is using) are inferior?
I think this is mostly a problem with how the modern operating systems work. Your point is still definitely valid for the real world consequences of this, but i think that theoretically things could be way more simpler.

1.) Click "download" to get a piece of software you need (a static executable)

2.) Put said piece of software in a folder called "/apps/$APP_NAME"

3.) Run said software and have it persist all of its data to "/apps/$APP_NAME/data" or some other convention like that.

Perhaps that'd need to be enforced with sandboxing and limiting access to directories, which would then make sharing data across them more difficult, which would end up with something like "/data/$APP_NAME", which brings us back to the horror of Windows' "AppData" and "Documents" and "Program Data", or other folders like that, resulting in what can only be described as an Eldritch nightmare, in which you don't have any idea in which of the 20-30 different folders which particular stores its data...

But theorethically things could be simpler, i've heard people mention how easy installing apps used to be on Apple devices back in the day. And recently, after running the Godot game engine ( https://godotengine.org/ ), which is literally a single executable, i'm inclined to agree somewhat.
Instead of settling down at the age of ~25 and combining two incomes to pay off the mortgage

The problem for young people wanting to but a house, at least in Sweden, isn't so much the monthly costs of paying the mortgage (which is often less than rent), but being able to put up the 15-20% 'cash' that the bank wants to see to even give you that mortgage.
At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow or customer issues cause obviously the budget for all that is not required because how can it even exist?

It's following the now classic Facebook model of pointing at scale achieved and outsourcing all the issues that scale produces to someone else namely govts, parents, teachers, the healthcare system, the police etc etc and then blaming all of those idiots for not being hip enough to handle it.

After all the networking are empowering women at 4c/GB.

We are nearing 20 years of this false narrative of the magic of "free" scale/magic companies with 10k employees handling a billion customers.

Given all the issues that have accumulated, keep track of how many more years its going to take for the chimp brain to figure out it was never possible.
> America will be rolling out the red carpet for the CCP.

Why so?
Because despite so many people claiming Trump will create a dictatorship, it turns out US courts do actually have power, and the seperation of powers does actually work.

The president isn't the be all and end all power in the USA, as some people would like to think.
Very surprised to see Grammarly on a privacy oriented list. Aren't they shipping off everything you type to their servers?
Yes, the initial distribution was the only time Nano could be minted. Additional Nano will never be minted.

Nano uses something called ORV (open representative voting). If you hold Nano, you can delegate the voting weight of your Nanos to any representative you want at any time. Representatives that get a certain amount of voting weight delegated to them become Principal Reps. If bad actors have 51% of voting weight delegated to them, they could block transactions from happening. But if this happened, Nano holders would just delegate their voting weight to different reps. If the bad actors actually owned 51% of the Nano supply, then they could block transactions indefinitely, but this would crash the value of the coin and since they would be holding 51% of the Nano supply they would lose money by doing this.
But you can write Fortran in any language! :)
Phone charging kiosks http://www.tema.ru/travel/uganda/4F2C3936.jpg
> That is exactly what weev was arrested and convicted for.

Please don't spread this misinformation, the USA justice system doesn't work (... like that). Weev was arrested for having a (very, very) loud mouth and pissing off the wrong, powerful people/businesses/corporations.

If he'd have enumerated customer IDs for a smaller, lesser-known company such as Moonpig, reported it to the media like he did, without being all inflammatory and trollish[0] about it (or without having a history of allegedly doing such things in very different contexts), he'd have gotten a slap on the wrist, a fine, or something (if anything), but not been thrown into prison as he was.

Your post makes it seem like Weev was convicted "for" doing something that is illegal in the USA and that the justice system worked "exactly" how it is supposed to, equally as it would apply to anyone.

[0] stating this as a fact of how it happened, not judging him about this, at all
To be honest, 50% probability is the definition of "I have no idea" ;).
here is an interesting talk that will make you better see the doublespeak of this old hoax:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6574_-_en_-_...
Crisis story can be looked at as advertising or setting the table. You leave your old company with a reason and everyone feels better. Your image is safe and your backstory.

If anyone feels like this is dishonest what do you tell your new employer about why you are truly leaving the old position. Do you tell them the owner was rude and you told him off or do you say you left because of a bad personality fit? You are not lying but perhaps a little dishonest. You can have a personal crisis and that could be the new job.
I recognized it as sarcasm. But I've had people quote movies I love and I completely missed the sarcasm/citation because things are really just so crazy.
It might be easier to survive on earth engulfed in a dust cloud than Mars.
http://www.vintagephone.com/HBcradle.htm
> which I why I only considered 2 ants.

dammit now you've got me doing it too!
That criteria pretty much rules out Android, iOS, Windows, and Blackberry. That leaves you Symbian out of the major players.
Another idea was that we hold competitions within a community eg, a university setting, and give away cool prizes to top teams. This would not only get the word out about the game, but also get us a set of players who will take the extra effort to be good at the game.
yeah I was reading up on a solution which sounds pretty much like what you're talking about.

Trouble with these things is that if you think you've solved it, there's no way to find out without spoiling it if you haven't. (apart from thinking about it longer and harder)
Ahh, Firefox is finally catching up to Opera. ;)
Security.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26140809
It seems you don't understand what a strawman is.

In any case, we are talking about grade school kids, from a few years old to maybe 12. You cannot just plop them in front of a computer to view content at their own leisure, and then expect them to come up with intelligent questions to fill in the gaps. That's what you do with university students.

I have both of these in my household, and I can assure you that while it works for the master's student, the kids have a tough time without interaction.
https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

A world wide map of rail tracks run by (german) rail enthusiasts.
I love this talk. Also as a sidenote, whenever I watch it, I am reminded, surprisingly, of Mitch Hedburg.
I think that people tend to fuse two different things in their designs. The first is the model that represents the real world and the second is the structure needed for software to work.

"RaceCar extends Car" is perfectly ok for modeling the entities involved. But writing a paint() method into Car or RaceCar is stupid. You need Visitors, Actions, Dispatchers, DAOs and whatnot for your programs to have a sensible and maintainable structure.
©1996 Microsoft Corporation (?)
"...will apparently include a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extracting and organizing the text."

Hrm. Sounds a lot like Instapaper.
For those with a deeper interest in the topic, I suggest Rudolf Arnheim’s 1969 book Visual Thinking.
> How do you think the WT knew to look for this specific document?

That's your argument? That no one does trial balloons through WT? How do you know that bigger sources were not also informed and decided to sit on it? (I found out about it through a line of contacts that had nothing to with WT.)

Suppose we accept your "it's not a trial balloon because it wasn't intended to test public opinion". That leaves us with "it was intended to slip under the radar and to pop up later as a done-deal".

Are you happier with that?

I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt and call it a trial balloon. You're free to assume malign intent on their part.

>> Do you have any idea how many regulations are added each year and how many bills are introduced?

> I don't see your point here at all.

You claimed that the mass of published proposals was somehow evidence against a specific proposal being a trial balloon. Since there's a comparable mass of things that actually become law and/or regulation, that claim doesn't make any sense.