jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I didn't see anything about the migration path for servers using the CloudPrint API. My medical records/pharmacy/invoicing software uses CloudPrint to reach printers. What are the alternatives for SAAS?
The problem I had that cloudprint solved was printing from a Linux machine to a local non-Linux-compatible printer. With CUPS and driverless printers, this is no longer a problem. I don't generally need to print remotely to my printer.
You're right in that the, say, 20 min saved per person is going to go to some other activity.

And certainly some of those activities can involve driving, like going to visit friends. But many other activities will just be spending more time at home -- e.g. coming home straight from work instead of running errands, or staying home Saturday afternoon to read or play video games.

To your point: in areas where traffic congestion is already extreme, it may not make a difference because there's so much pent-up demand for car trips. But in most of the rest of the country (suburbs, rural, etc.) that doesn't suffer from congestion, I think package delivery would have to result in reducing traffic to some measurable degree.
This comment kinda scares me, because it is exactly that panicky reaction that makes all these stupid regulations come to life, and you are reminding me that it's not really "just stupid politicians", but in fact scared, easy to manipulate crowds behind them.
Why didn't I think of that?

So all you need to do is manually specify the volume driver to overlay2 when your FS is ZFS, and this just works?
While not good, what's the connection to this story?

The article says some LinkedIn data was scraped, but I don't see anywhere that it specifically says a LinkedIn security flaw was used in the scraping. Although it is vague about what data was scraped and how, so it doesn't preclude that either.

In other words, are you saying a LinkedIn vulnerability was exploited here, or suggesting that it probably was, or are you just mentioning LinkedIn because it's tangentially related?
Kernighan and Pike's "The UNIX programming environment"[1] is still my favorite despite being old and certainly not up to date.

The book teaches the UNIX way of approaching problems with a set of simple tools that complement each other.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
Same story here. I can read any piece of python without looking online or in a book, whereas I always had to look up if a particular notation was dereferencing a pointer to an array or an array of pointers in perl.
Taxes paid can go up even if your income does not. Tolls, car registration fees, property taxes, etc are all taxes. Therefore, they are very relevant when discussing CPI, as it directly affects your bottom line.

I specifically wrote the "goods and services I want" so real estate that I'm not interested in doesn't concern me. I have to plan my life around buying real estate that I want, and so if the price of that real estate is increasing, then it's once again affecting my bottom line.

Education and healthcare being social and fiscal policy issues is irrelevant to me for budgeting purposes. All I am concerned with is the price to achieve the life I want for myself and my kids.

I am predicting that the items I am interested in buying are worth $x in year 2021, but will be worth $y in year 2030, and the difference in $x and $y will be more than what is predicted by official CPI numbers. This has proven true for the last 15 to 20 years for me.
Right before he was banned from Twitter, didn't several of his tweets specifically and emphatically urge protesters to avoid violence and respect the police presence?
From the page you linked:

> I'm not going to stop reading, and I'm probably going to make the occasional contribution.

And looking at the history of submissions for the domain of the OP article we find that he is still commenting too. Most recently about 18 minutes ago in fact. So I think there is a good chance that the author will see the comment of the person you responded to :)
As I wrote in my comment, I hadn't seen the details of that story yet.

(Also, before calling me a fool, consider that your own link says that it's not confirmed whether these devices were real bombs, or fake ones.)
This reminds me how ML forms of AI are indirectly forbidden around here for government use, due to the lack of transparency.
> Does anybody have a solution

Yes. Get rid of newsfeed algorithms that optimize recommendations for engagement.

It won't solve our current problem, but that's what cause it. They took pg's Fluff Principal and weaponized it.
The cyberpunk future is here - a giant corporation that doesn't even make money is censoring the sitting president.

All we can do is laugh.
I mean there's already been lots of politically-motivated mass shootings, murders, and murder attempts in recent years, so it's really just making it official.
This exists. The government provides the President, the executive departments, and each Senator and Representative with their own websites. They may issue any kind of communications there, including setting up blogs or microblogs.
Does it tho?

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Arguably one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment, particularly its first section, is one of the most litigated parts of the Constitution, forming the basis for landmark Supreme Court decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) regarding racial segregation, Roe v. Wade (1973) regarding abortion, Bush v. Gore (2000) regarding the 2000 presidential election, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) regarding same-sex marriage. The amendment limits the actions of all state and local officials, and also those acting on behalf of such officials.

I fail to see how Twitter acts on behalf of government officials.
Any leader inciting insurrection against their own country should be banned.

You know what? I don't think anyone I would support has a problem clearing that very low bar.

Maybe people should be less concerned that Trump got banned for being a lying, traitorous piece of shit and more concerned that he was ever president in the first place.
Bingo. Think back to 2015 and how Twitter was doing back then. I don’t know how many millions of real users they’ve added since then, but the Trump presidency has been a boon for them. Way more people on the platform, and tons of them will stick around even after the ban.
Every newsreader was speaking in very emotional terms about this "shameful attack on democracy." It's fine to express emotions - but these were people reading words that were written for them from a teleprompter.

It was a bunch of institutions that agree with each other and enjoy the status quo saying predictable things about things that threaten the routine. It was not a bunch of random people spontaneously agreeing with each other.

Is there a word for a not-conspiracy theory? A word for when supporters of powerful institutions insist that no one has ever coordinated with anyone else, that massive intelligence agencies with budgets in the billions don't do anything, and that if nobody openly talked about it in an email, it didn't happen?
I think the reason all the comments are referencing old OS ideas is that people who understand your question can't answer it.

Recognizing a novel OS idea requires familiarity with the state of the art and history of OS research and someone like that wouldn't be answering from a "all knowledge tossed out of the window" perspective. Also, the very notion of "OS" is pretty loaded and brings along a lot of conventional thinking.

I guess a serious attempt could have some computer culture-oblivious people generating ideas and then some veteran people filtering out the reinvented wheels. It would still be hard to tell any worthwhile ideas from the garbage.
Notwithstanding all the questionable aspects of crytpo inclusion in Signal, it might in the end open a precedent, whereby, by inclusion in other messaging apps as a matter of course, crytpo coins finally reach mass adoption ...

Think the "WeChat model" finally making it here in the west ...
Liking people's bodies isn't creepy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210324065459/http://doc.cat-v....
No one is saying it's not legal. Most people here understand what libel is and what freedom of expression is.

The point is that it's still a bit weird, creepy and unpleasant. This man can continue doing it, and I can continue thinking he's quite damaged.
My parents consciously moved away from the city and big roads to have their kids.

Which I reversed in my infinite 20 something wisdom.

If you ever experience a skin condition that seemingly won't go away and is surprisingly painful, you'll get hip to the scam that are cleaning products quite quickly.

They can all be made at home, with 3 or 4 ingredients. The supplies will last a lifetime and you don't produce any non recyclable plastic bottles (another scam!).
It's funny that he mentions Google as an example of a company that gets the paradigm, but most of Google is C++ and Java. C# has better functional paradigm support than both of those.
I'd forgotten about that, thanks for posting!
Different strictness analysis results in using memory differently. Note that some of Don's references are embedding a DSL that gives a high-level interface to very low-level code (e.g. CUDA) specific to this problem. They should have control over strictness.
Learn Scheme in 20 minutes, because it's that simple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAHA0nJv8EA
My takeaway:
-I don't like the privacy ramifications of these scans.
-I don't like being bombarded with additional radiation for no good reason, regardless of whether people think it will harm you.

Just as I will get an x-ray for a good reason, but decline getting one for a silly reason, I would decline this if able. Maybe taking an aspirin a day is bad for you, maybe it's not, but I'm not going to start doing it for no reason.

So one more reason I don't like the scan.
This is probably true. But then again, if you know that most of your resumes are thrown out at random, you know you need to send out a large population of them in order to have a just few of them end up being read.
but a big part of the point of college is to perpetuate the class system.

so, uh, yeah. Trade school is great, if you just want to make money. but your earning power has little to do with your 'class' I think; in many ways, getting a degree that doesn't qualify you for a job is conspicuous consumption.

What could be more conspicuous than spending a hundred grand on "self actualization" - the only outward effect basically being more interesting at parties?
At the risk of disagreeing with the great Charles Bukowski, this is defeatist bullshit. I doubt there's a writer alive who has never had to struggle to put words on the page; who hasn't had to edit and revise and throw out and rewrite to produce something worth reading; who hasn't plodded through the writing process thinking "This is rubbish" only to go back and look over it and realize that it has added up to something good.

Writing is hard. There's no need to make it harder by instilling a false, romantic sense that writing which doesn't spring fully formed from the writer's forehead isn't worth putting onto the page.
It is MySQL running on Amazon. I like it because you can scale a hot database up or down.
Why not just give the answers you want to give if they are free form questions?

Mark's point is that the person who is talking is not learning anything. If discovering more about the other party's needs, constraints, and objectives is your goal then you have to ask questions (and listen (patiently)), not answer them.
"Dunlap believed that the primary goal of any business should be to make money for its shareholders."

I've seen that sentiment echoed here countless times.
I give my projects a deadline of about 6 months of part-time work. That doesn't mean Google has to buy them within 6 months, but they have to be profitable after that time. Profitability is my ultimate gauge of success and determines whether or not I'm continuing the project.
Hmmm, I thought the TV networks had a policy of buying domain names mentioned on the air. Didn't NBC have to buy a bunch of unregistered domains that Conan mentioned a few years back?
I agree. I don't see how one could claim Vishal is unable to focus on a task at hand when he is able to devote hours to perfecting his filmmaking.
Which companies are you referring to? Would you be able to elaborate?
You're comparing Microsoft to the guys who made this tablet? Yikes..
1) the site was not live when the domain was mentioned.

2) DNS needs to propagate or it will still not be live for people for a period of time (not sure what real delays for that are nowadays, but surely minutes to hours.
It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.
I'm neither a yahoo nor a hotmail user.
We have few ideas that shall not look like yfrog ;)
Thanks, it's been very exciting for us! :)
- John
This reads like a self parody. "We're making the world a better place...[1]".

The modern capitalist society is not designed to "make the world a better place". It's designed to justify the status seeking behavior inherent in mankind, and allow the few winners to enjoy their wealth without being vilified.

Want to make the world a better place? Start thinking about a steady state economy, a steady state lifestyle and a minimal consumption, minimal destruction society. That means minimizing energy usage, consumption and waste. This the complete antithesis of everything modern capitalism stands for. I'm sure this isn't gonna go over well here, as we have quite a few dyed-in-the-wool Randians, but its the truth.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
Fortran is still going strong. At a High-Performance Computing seminar I attended a few years ago, the speaker said that around 50% of high performance computing applications are written in Fortran (you know, these shiny little programs that can hog a million CPUs for a few hours or weeks or months). The other half being mostly C and C++.

However, programming in Fortran is uncomfortable. Just like programming in C. The advantage of Fortran over C in High-Performance Computing is that it's less uncomfortable to write maths and things with arrays in Fortran.

If you ever need to handle enormous arrays without breaking a sweat or solve systems of equations with hundreds of thousands or millions of variables, you can give Fortran a try. The syntax has come a long way since FORTRAN 77.

Fortran's strength has always been speed. In the early days most Fortran programs would run faster than C programs. The trick is to intentionally leave out features that bloat the language such that all there's left in the language can easily be optimized by the compiler. Only after the C99 standard (I think), C caught up to Fortran in most applications due to stricter aliasing rules.
Except in this case, it's the people in power continuing to impose restrictions on the international movement of labour to keep wages in the developed world artificially high...
> The challenge in this case is that "what it is" matters less than "where it's going" or "why it exists".

To care about "where it's going" or "why it exists", we NEED to know "what it is". There are some things for which their purpose or direction is completely unimportant, there are some things for which they are important. To know which "this" is, it is essential to know what "this" is.

The page describes this as the result of blue sky thinking - it seems to me that this is not the result of blue sky thinking, but is itself blue sky thinking. There seems to be no solid description of what it is or does, just some very vague sentiments.

There is talk of it working offline; how powerful must one's personal computer be in order to perform the magnitude of calculations required to accurately predict future actions from past actions?

Do you propose me personally selling the predictions of my future actions to others? And/or sharing these predictions with my friends/family? What purpose is there for me to do either? Other than monetary gain, is there some greater purpose that I might wish to sell predictions of my future actions?

The whole thing seems extremely vague. I think some more concrete examples of how the system would work, and what the benefits are, would be useful.

As a sidenote, the site suggests that the sole purpose of many "free" products is to sell your details and make money from you; perhaps this is the case for many products, but I would like to believe that in at least some cases, the main focus is providing the best product possible, for the best price possible. Meaning money has to come from somewhere, and advertising is the only real way to monetize a free product right now.
Excellent, thank you very much for sharing this!
This is super cool! Shameless plug. If you're looking for street-level reverse (or forward) geocoding, we offer[1] a super affordable API and CSV upload tool.

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It looks like it intentionally didn't have any protections in place. The edit page has the comment
<!-- Feel free to take advantage of the lack of CSRF protection -->

It also has <h1>What could possibly go wrong.</h1> go wrong in the default editor source.

Was it irresponsible? Yes zq should have put a warning for sure. Still a cool experiment. Twitch Plays Pokemon with bigger repercussions.
Not only that, but...humans are humans right? What makes human A more entitled than human B just because they were born in the right country? What we really need is global wealth redistribution (e.g. more foreign aid).

And, it is not necessary that we would just raise salaries without cheaper labor available through immigration. Many jobs at the lower end would simply be automated or a service might disappear altogether (e.g. gardeners are a luxury, too expensive you just do it yourself).

I hope someday we'll be able to think more globally, maybe we can in a future post scarcity economy.
If you are willing to use /proc, you basically have Linux, and can assume just as well that your shell is bash.

If so, $$ is the easiest way to get the PID of the current shell. That works in several other shells, too, but I am not sure sh is guaranteed to have it (FreeBSD's sh has it. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sh)
There's non-native apps that are not as bad as Signal so that doesn't really explain that.
Yeah, "terrorist" is kind of a floating designator. The YPG should be distinguished from the PKK in this instance. The UK takes occasional erratic action against the YPG: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/terroris...
Sure but the point is that you always pay the monthly rent no matter what instead of having to pay 40k one month because of the roof. Also, in some places, it’s actually cheaper to rent because properties are overvalued.
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts.html

A luddite? What a ridiculous allegation. Sounds like you stopped reading because your cognitive bias wouldn't let you continue, frankly.
> that’s not how it works in credit card processing

Let's change that, then.
First hand experience retargeting gets <1% CR. But it's so cheap, like honestly so so cheap to run and forget about it that people just don't bother with the fine tuning.

Thank you for the input, this is something that I would say is at the top of my list.
I guess it depends upon the crime rate in the local area.

Realistically, at the time, I'd be carrying between $500 to $1000 in my pocket, cash, from delivery payments.

And usually -- from 11am to 2am, it was very slow. Generally one person in the pizza place, in a strip mall, with every other business closed. It would be just as easy to walk in, and demand the cash then.
What's your point? That the US government would default on their loans?
Signal's inability to sync its history to somewhere else (e.g. their server, encrypted) and its rather inaccessible backup processes[1] are a pain. It makes me use something else for anything serious sometimes.

[1]: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
I agree that these terms have a meaning (though hard to pin down), but on the other hand, both blockchains and decentralisation have been proven many times in the past to be of limited use to ordinary people. I don’t need or want a decentralised currency with trustless consensus and irreversible transactions, I’d contend very few need that.

There are so many disadvantages that flow from the choices made in Bitcoin as a currency, and many of those choices are inherent to the things people claim are good about it. Try to remove them and you are completely reworking it. Just as one example you can’t have instant confirmations in a fully distributed system which shares a ledger because there are n sources of truth, not one, and eventual consistency is a terrible idea for a currency.

In any financial transaction I want to verify the identity of the counterparty, I want to manage risk by having a known third party manage the transaction and disputes, I want instant confirmation and low stable fees and prices, and I certainly don’t want to have any uncertainty (even for minutes) about whether a transaction worked.

I too would love a truly supranational currency, but would want a very conservative one with light inflation built in (i.e loses value v. slowly) controlled by a transparent governing board with a financial stake in stability and low fees, decentralised records on the level of institutions, not the entire ledger, and not one which enriches early adopters.

For this reason alone I think the built in advantages for early adopters in bitcoin was a terrible mistake - it attracts the wrong kind of people and encourages shilling and irrational exuberance when the value goes up quickly, which is deadly to a real currency.
Oh man, that is so awesome. Hopefully this is real and not a false alarm. I'm off TWC and on this the first day it's possible.
What OpenSSH vulnerabilities?
> Actually, last time I looked at NixOS, you could also install things the imperative way, but that's a silly thing to do.

Actually not, because if you do, you will find these changes added to a file declaratively describing all the changes you have committed to the system (or user-context) as a whole.

It's a good way to build a config if you're not fully comfortable with nix-syntax.

I don't remember where the file ends up, but it is there.
"Properly paranoid." So far the most apt term I've seen for the state we ought to be in.
IMO apart from namespaces, the other biggest convenience provided by OO is inheritance. In some problem domains, there are naturally emerging inheritance hierarchies. And when you need it, manually coding virtual dispatch in non-OO languages is going to be hairy.
Sorta yes. In order of wild-west to stable, it's:

Hackage - live packages get uploaded and released fast

Stackage - a rolling tested release. It promises that all packages will compile together. (There are a few flavors of this).

and now LTS Haskell. A snapshot of Stackage that doesn't roll very quickly (every 3 months). It won't do upgrades to packages at all, except for bug fix & patch releases. So your own application code can pull down the LTS today, and again tomorrow, and be relatively sure that everything will work the same.