jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's what I'm talking about: real stories of regular people are cynically used to negotiate new porn profit deals.
> I am very glad to see this. Having a “you can abuse copyright to have proprietary control over an API” precedent on the books was a chilling effect for programmers.

It was always possible to release APIs as open-source. There's as much chilling effect about proprietary software as there ever was being careful about using licensed work, and that was never a problem.

On the other hand, the hunting season on companies providing software is now open. You're a startup providing a new database, or a well-thought library? Shit, you better take the VC money before someone else does and puts you out of business. And when a company like Amazon comes with an offer, you better not be in a bargaining mood.
The question is why you couldn't just have "${prefix}-${JWT}" as your format.

Then you can just strip the prefix before parsing. Which means don't need to worry about checksumming or entropy and you have the ability to embed large amounts of data as well as plenty of client support and libraries.

Would be curious if this implementation is somehow more performant.
Totally, but JWT-like blobs can be detected (see sibling comment), and parsing attempted, so for the automated scanning use case, if I understand correctly, it can be done with perfect accuracy, just at a larger computation expense and worse security exposure due to the complexity of the scanning and the need to parse.

The more interesting side to me is the benefit to humans, from the prefix technique.
Yes, I get that. But:

> one or more parent commits identified by their hash

The reason that matters is because you need that information to do merges. So merges are integral to git. They are not "porcelain". They are, arguably, the whole point.
They don't want to fly it with the rover nearby. It needs to get to a safe distance before they can fly it.
Thanks for the kind words! Us guys & gals will be working hard to make this something everybody wants to use.
If you tax carbon, the invisible hand of the market will incentivize creation of greener alternatives. Much cheaper to administer and less likely to have crony capitalism than subsidies.
if you assume that the server can lie to you, then it's physically impossible. Any query could be answered by interrogating a copy of the github version of the server and returning the answer.
Calling children 'prisoners of society' is ridiculous.
In fact, I would say apps would get a lot more revenue by switching to a paid model. I don't know the exact numbers, but I think I've heard monthly revenue from tracking is less than a cent per user.

Now imagine they charge $1 monthly for their app subscription. Hell, even a couple of cents would be an improvement. Or even better: they charge a one-time payment to buy the app.
While people can argue swift could be Golang, it's built with focus on iOS ecosystem. You have to manually handle reference cycles. The language is quite complex as well, and compiler is among the slow ones. Copy-on-write is generally despised these days even in C++. Just to keep in mind that this may give space for a next expressive general purpose language that improves in these aspects, we can be optimistic.
I'm with GP, some closure about the opening would have been nice.
The app Dark Sky (on iOS at least) sends pressure data from my device.

If you want to be a more active weather participant check out the mPing project.
Here's a fun glitched one; exactly 11 meters regardless of what you do; you don't get to jump, and the line itself is incredibly thick:

http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=SPYG.MX&currency=MXN&name=SP...
Looks like they were on the ball and started developing their tests way back in January, when the virus's gene was first sequenced. I haven't been able to find a detailed timeline of their test production, though: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/south-korea-coronavir...
> So why does ~25,000 deaths one year goes practically unnoticed, yet less then 5,000 deaths send the economy into a death spiral and the government to essentially strip all rights from the population?

Because one is an annual total, and one is a subannual total of a number that is increasing exponentially, so they aren't comparable.
> regulation is also retarding useful action in non-global-pandemic crisises

This is a given, and doesn't mean it's not worth the tradeoffs. We shouldn't have a system that is always adapted to be ready for global pandemics, because most of the time, we don't have one. If we didn't need to change anything, it probably meant we were making poor tradeoffs in peace time.
Thank you for the correction, I misremembered the definitions

27 states are "right-to-work" states [1]
The remaining 23 allow "Union Security Agreements" between employers and unions where all employees are required to be members. [2]
The 23 states without right-to-work allow agency fees.
However, these 23 states also allow "union shops", where non-membership is not an option, so everyone can be charged for political activates.

Another big change since I last looked is that the US supreme court struck down agency fees for all government employees in 2018, including the 23 states.

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/right-to-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_security_agreement
oops! I rotated my private key a couple years back and never updated that. Fixed!
Once we invite you from the waitlist you'll be able to sign in. We'll prioritize anyone who signs up today, and invite them in shortly.
I think that's the key, people think they are FAANG and hence those unnecessary long hiring process.
And deliveries were historically mostly for a small class of food items where it made sense--mostly pizza and Chinese--for various reasons.
They have local employees. Probably like the regional MD or something.
"it's scarce, therefore its worth something"

That's not the argument being made. My paintings are scarce but they're worthless. Lots and lots of scarce things are worthless, and rightfully so.

"bring people some measure of joy."

Right, so there's some aesthetic value there. Why can't BTC be like the Ancient Egyptian artefact that's valued purely on aesthetic grounds? I could plausibly see it as a historical artefact in 200 years time, given its novelty and role in tech history. I have an old stamp collection and some BTC, and I get much more pleasure from the crypto due to its novelty, role in culture, etc.
I haven’t read the entirety yet (will do after work, and it’s great to see coherent long form). The analysis at the beginning sounds close to spot on. The prescriptions sound wildly off.

Republicans legislating against the ability of businesses to hire on the basis they see fit? Making the unpalatable racists unwelcome? I don’t see Democrats trying to limit colleges to the upper class only, but rather to extend it to more people.

Going against the upper class also goes against the best-funded of the donor class. That would be interesting to watch.
The parent implied that quality content was at a disadvantage by the algorithm when that is just not the case. I believe that quality content is correlated with its entertainment value.
That is a liability. Imagine if every word you have ever uttered to anyone is permanently recorded and can be used against you any time in the future, forever.
I just checked out http://thedonald.win/ and it has gotten a lot more extreme since it was moved off Reddit. I think it would have not gotten as extreme if it were in the Reddit ecosystem still.
What part about "deleted" don't you understand?
Ownership of the house changes every couple of decades, might want to consider what rules you want to be customary once someone else has the deed.
Isn't BG 2 under copyright still? There even was a remastered version a few years ago [0]. The third game in the series was released this year.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/257350/Baldurs_Gate_II_En...
That's the danger in going to such lengths to shut down disagreeable viewpoints. People say "make your own website", but that becomes a race to the bottom when we start politicizing server hosts and ISPs. When you completely shut people up, that doesn't mean they're gone, and now you don't know what they're thinking. Meanwhile you're actually tyrannical because a monopoly on information makes the mass 80% believe that everyone thinks like the MSM, which isn't true, then everyone is surprised when it turns out there's lots of people who don't support the establishment.
No, I understood. I chose this format because I'd rather be funded by more, and smaller, contributions than one large sponsor. That might not always be the case, but I think that's where the project is right now.
Because it will free up them to focus on what they're good at and free up 'real' programmers to work on harder problems more appropriate to their background. At work I see many people struggling with 'simple' programming problems in all kinds of strange ways (often involving abusing excel) that could so easily be done in a dozen lines of python.

Occasionally they end up coming to me to ask for help. Now they have to spend their time teaching me the intricacies of their domain, and then I have to spend my time coding up a solution, which might be wrong because of some subtle detail they felt was too obvious to mention. And now we're both stuck in a situation where every time something changes instead of just fixing it, they have to come to me and first explain exactly what they need to change and then wait for me to have time to fix it.

At the end of the day this isn't productive use of anybodies time.
I think you and ANTSANTS have both missed the point of the article. It's not about puritanism, though there is plenty of that to be found in American culture. It's about objectification.
Would be great if it worked in IE instead of just "Loading..." indefinitely.
Because I'm a gamer.
Further proof that social engineering is, as always, far more effective than direct hacking at getting through security with a payload, even when that payload may not be bytecode.
How dumb are people to not realize it's radiation one way or another? Do they think it's "magic" they can see through your clothes?

How can there be a class action lawsuit against printer ink, but not against radiating you for no reason with devices that have no track record?

Where are these devices for entering Congress or the Whitehouse if they are so safe?

So would the President choose the radiation naked picture method or the deep groping method for his daughters? I'd seriously like that question asked at some point by the press.

ps. Even if you opt-out, you are probably being exposed to whatever radiation method they use.

Note how in this photo the person in line, not just the person in the scanner is being exposed:

http://i.imgur.com/NycwX.jpg
I don't think it'd actually work, since it sends all of the calls to an Array. Array doesn't respond_to exec.
Never underestimate the potential for convincing an underpaid federal employee to cut corners. If you make this stuff too inconvenient for the guys on the ground, the policy gets eroded from the inside.

Until Napolitano cracks down. But that's several moves ahead.
Steve Jobs would have said: "Android update will replace credit cards". And that's the difference between Google and Apple today.
If you expose your local media over HTTP (doesn't even need to be world-accessible), a Chromecast on the same network can play it.
It took 7 years to go from a primitive orbital capsule to a manned lunar landing.

With 1960s technology.

Don't use the pace of NASA progress within the last 2 decades as some sort of benchmark, it has no meaning and no correlation to anything other than government handouts to important congressional districts.

What is possible and what will be possible within 10-20 years is a great deal more than what has been done.

SpaceX is seemingly capable of building a Saturn V class launch vehicle in less time and for far less money than was done historically. Given that I don't doubt that they'll be able to do amazing things.
WSB made Martin Shkreli an honorary mod after he became infamous for jacking up the price on that medicine. They are self acknowledging greedy assholes and always were.
> I'm aware of (and along with many of its other users annoyed that) AWS only permits a single authenticator. If there are other popular sites that do this, this is no worse a place than any other to say so.

Just to clarify, AWS only allows a single authenticator for their IAM users. If you are using AWS SSO then you can have multiple authenticators. And yes, I am very annoyed and frustrating to think that IAM is forced into a lower security profile that it needs to be.
That's not the same thing. As a simple counter-example to what you're saying, given a 3D cube you can colour every vertex with either red or blue such that adjacent vertices are different colours.
You can still do that, I always do.
There's a difference between doing it out of self-interest (Kodak, Apple) and providing a user service. It would be perfectly possible to provide automatic backups of photos via the user's choice of cloud (Dropbox, OneDrive etc) with the cloud service copying them to the user's chosen personal storage (PC, NAS, whatever).

That would work except for the people who don't and/or won't have any personal storage. However, if people won't look after their own data, I'm unlikely to be too sad when they lose it.
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And if not 2015, I think we're certainly only a few years away from some groundbreaking stuff in that space.
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Show up in OR, WA & CO with a briefcase full of money?
@deftnerd Thanks for the appreciation!

I understand the deficiencies are major ones, but I am gonna continue working on it.
Welcome to VC funded businesses. They literally don't have to worry about creating money for now
> You said it leads to "You end up with a kid who is really bored in school and not using the time to build good study and homework habits."

They do show up in the study I posted, and there's about 60 years of literature on a high prevalence of later underachievement, increased truancy, etc on students that enter school above academic level.

You can even find individual very alarming data points, like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713445/

(Please don't jump on me for it being 1920's era education; I understand the limitations, but if you want results from a lifelong study, the early data points need to be a long time ago).

> but I don't think it's fair to say that parents should discourage their kids from reading early because they'll get bored in school and do worse.

I've never said that. Indeed, again, I've said mine read early. If I had it to do over again, I might lend a little less support to reading in particular and choose other things to spend time on.

> you've certainly been saying that there are disadvantages, and I don't agree that those are much beyond anecdotes.

I haven't been trying to say that. Based on both the literature and my experiences, I personally believe that it's quantitively neutral with respect to later academics, and that there are some qualitative downsides and upsides. In the parent community at my school, there are some that very aggressively push reading at their 4 year old, and--- given the literature and my experience, I believe there is no reason to do this and it may create harms.

This is just an anecdote, but... I have 3 kids that are incredibly academically strong according to the assessments of their teachers... who are also way quicker than most of the students I teach to burst into tears at the first sign of difficulty, and are able to get away with much lower levels of attention given to their work than peers. There will be a reckoning, at some point, when they end up facing appropriately challenging material in school and don't know how to deal with it.
Apple Pay Cash (the one in the Messages app), Google Pay take $0.00 for person-to-person payments. Given Clubhouse isn't formally introducing some sort of monthly payment or "pay me for access to Clubhouse streams" thing, they can probably argue they're just creating another P2P money sending service.
Since I have no experience with GNU/Linux phones (only Android/Linux) but you're also interested in desktop answers: just look at what other paid software does that runs on Linux. When I go to sublimetext.com I just click buy and it gives me the option of paying for it with credit card or paypal. Or Atlassian's on-prem option: you just go to the site, pay for it, then get what you paid for. Keep it simple, no need for anything novel. Another example is factorio: again just an up front cost (though they should have offered at least the option to pay towards upkeep costs because they do a superb job and the game is already really "done" and they keep releasing more and more minor features for free).

If it's a subscription, the ongoing cost really needs to be worth it to me. I might donate much more easily than take a subscription, for example I pledged iirc 1% of K-9's (the email client) funding goal for a few months because I would like to get it out of its current stuck position even if I don't believe we need a person on an already-perfectly-functional email client working full time all the time. (I suppose here's at least one app example, though donations are of course not a business model. Then again, this is also about open source software, not a commercial app.)

Paid support would be interesting pretty much exclusively to businesses, from my experience. In general I'd like to say that good support is worth money also for private people, but looking at how often I've paid out of pocket for software support of any kind... After buying a product I just expect it to work, and if it doesn't, then either they fix it or I get the money back and stop being a customer. Feature requests would be something to pay for, but then the rates of that compared to spending a few hours hacking it together myself are again not worth it. You'd need some sort of crowdfunding model where people pledge together towards features, and I fear that might be over-engineering it.
There is no “should”. Service providers can do whatever they please. Look up Masterpiece Cake Shop.
How could that even work in practice? Everybody who is visible in a video has to do some kind of VideoIdent and clearly state their consent? YouTube should have to do the same, btw.
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Are you being deliberately obtuse?

You're the one being obtuse here.

I introduced four databases, three of which use more complex replication models than PG, all of which are easier to admin than PG. And I'm asking PG to make their (simpler) replication as easy to use as these other databases.

If that's too confusing then just use Redis for reference and ignore the other three. Redis is plain master/slave and spinning up a slave takes a single command ("SLAVEOF foo"). That's exactly how it should be in postgresql as well. Not more, not less.
Not trolling, but for various reasons I don't want my employer linking these comments to my real account.

We spent a lot of time and money trying to get OrientDB working and we ran into so many problems that it was impossible for us to continue with it. It is buggy beyond belief, distributed mode is deeply flawed, transactions are not transactional, it's super easy to hang the database and the explain keyword straight up lies, the backup strategy is non-existent, the documentation incredibly poor and riddled with typos and outright mistakes. When we finally thought we'd got over these issues, we imported our data and the system ground to a halt, just weeks before a major product launch.

Luckily we were able to move to Postgres pretty quickly, but choosing OrientDB nearly sank the company, choosing it was an inaffordable mistake.

Also, look at this list of issues closed as "invalid/wontfix", it seems like you're a lot keener to close issues than to actually fix them - https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/issues?utf8=%E...
You are missing the point.

I was paying $20 for a product that in reality is worth $8 to produce.

Now, I am paying $12 for a product that is equal in quality and has an increased quantity.

The only difference is that with the first product, I was tricked into thinking I was getting a better value. The description was fancier, the name of the recipe was exotic, there was an image on the menu, it was at the top of the page.

The other one was simply "chicken rice", on the back of the menu, squeezed between meals that had names that sounded better. Don't judge a recipe by its name.

In fact, I was paying more for less.

Edit: Yes, I was happy with the first recipe before knowing that I was paying premium for a meal that was in fact, very simple.

The issue isn't my overall happiness. It's the fact that I was tricked into buying a product only by its description and position on the menu. Since it had a picture and I am always in a hurry, I picked it over the more simple "chicken rice" that was in fact just as good (same ingredients, same spices, same chef) while being cheaper.

Was I happy with the original recipe? Yes. Was I wasting money on it? Yes.

Am I as much happy with the new cheaper meal as I was before? Yes. Am I saving money? Yes.
The really sad thing is that by using something (like this) to veil singleness, one cuts off any genuine interest from a genuine person. Few will initiate a date with someone texting their (unbenownst virtual) "significant other".
Comparisons to D or OCaml would be interesting (it'd be good to see that "new language for 0install" post redone with nim as one of the candidates). I think people are shoehorning Rust into the "compiled, typesafe, but strict and impure general-purpose programming language" niche, just because there aren't as many nice options there as we'd like.
So now all my domains have a "permanent record". I am having grade school flashbacks.
In practical terms, under scale, it's pretty much the case. If you don't have enough memory to have your entire dataset in memory, the performance degrades to a point where it'll be too slow to do anything, so it might as well not work at all.

Similar problems with MongoDB. Anytime your indexed data starts hitting disk, kiss your site goodbye.

Sharding seems like the proper workaround though, so maybe you could take the same approach of flockdb and shard the redis social graph.
Leather pants turn a good story into a great story.
> [REDACTED] takes their real-time user numbers and multiplies them by a randomly generated number. Whereas before, it would say “6 users online,” it would say “68 users online.”

This sounds pretty much like faking, maybe even cheating.
If you password protect the keys it's essentially the same at your end as if you were using a password. The only difference being that they need to copy the keys if after compromising the password they want to log on elsewhere.
So, the resulting algorithm would be O(n^2) not O(n) where n is the length of the string. The table based solution is exactly like keeping the exponents in an array.