jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This. The mutually assured destruction doctrine works because both parties knows that the party which does the first strike will be obliterated by the other party's second strike, so neither party wants to be the one to strike first. However, if party A should get too good of an ICBM defence system, mutually assured destruction would stop functioning; party A could conceivably fire a first strike with the knowledge that party B wouldn't be able to retaliate with a second strike. This would make it in party B's interest to do a first strike before party A's anti-ballistic missile systems are functional (EDIT: or something like that; essentially, it breaks the entire MAD mechanism, I shouldn't make it sound like any particular outcome is likely.)

There was a whole anti-ballistic missile treaty which banned the US and the USSR (and then its successor states) from developing anti-ballistic missile systems. George W. Bush withdrew the US from the treaty in 2002.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
Yup, something like 1/3rd the entire US arsenal is there. Also, it’s kinda wild/fun to look at the vastness of the bunkers they have by the submarine pens; there are multiple rail lines going North/south that all link up to the pens.
Furthermore, I said "cross platform", not "ships from the factory with standard installations". If you don't understand the difference between these...

For your edification, the conversation went like this:

Me: DVD ripping is not mainstream in part because tools are not mainstream.

Someone: Linux distros have tools

Me: Linux isn't mainstream

You: Cross-platform

Me: No, mainstream

You: Cross-platform!

So with that I'll let you carry on alone.
Oh, hello mrdoob.

My doubt is about authorship. If I make a texture with texgen, can I claim to be the author? Probably yes, but where do we draw the line? If I create a Minecraft world by selecting a single seed, and take a slice of the world as a 2D image, can I claim authorship? What if I didn't even change the seed, just pressed "create"?

I think it depends on the country, but thinking about authorship over procedural generators is weird.
No, but it doesn't mean they _can't be_ either. Which is my whole damn point: naturalness is irrelevant.

>Not everything in life is under our control.

Who cares!? Are you going to spend your time repeating trivially useless facts? You have said nothing at all that allows you to distinguish between what can and can't be controlled. 'Naturalness' isn't it, for what should be obvious reasons.

You do not know what is under your control until you try to control it.
Incredible. Do you think it will become available to watch at a later time ?
Why do you need an escape system? Doesn't it just add tremendous cost and complexity for a, possibly imagined, modicum of safety?
Was it a Commodore 64? That's what I had.

I attribute my code reading abilities to navigating my own GOTO spaghetti while trying to recreate ZORK.
Slicehost has definitely plunged into irrelevance, as many predicted after the Rackspace buyout (and Slicehost vehemently denied would happen). I use VPSFarm as well; for $21 per month I get 1 GB RAM and a lot more transfer included. It's been pretty reliable so far; a little downtime but nothing out of the ordinary.
One very important difference between PS3 and WU is that, in the PS3 case, the signing keys for firmware updates are actually known, as I understand it.
I currently have openings in the catapult and elephant divisions.
I think it's centralised, so you don't need to either have all your machines on one subnet or configure your routers (if you can) to forward DNS-SD packets between all your subnets, probably creating a small broadcast storm at scale.
Uh it looks like there are at least holes where the tie downs can fit. The glass roof is kinda nuts for sure though. Those high walls are also annoying if you want to put tool boxes in your truck. It might be possible to still be practical by making some changes to how you might store things for easy access like on a normal truck but it probably can't use current existing solutions. :/
I'm with you. If this article was titled, "unbroadcasted footage of Nixon speech found in archive" I would've bought that headline 100%.

This is too good.

This is going to cause problems. Many, many problems.

We already have issues with what is real and what isn't, when you can still trust video for the most part. I am not excited to see what this does to society.

It's one of those - just because we can, does that mean we should - sort of scenarios.
Anti-flood infrastructure, and water supply infrastructure including desalination plus cleaning, and rework their farming practices completely, likely reduce no longer available seafood intake, and expand power grid to supply additional power to air conditioning... And more. Mind you, poor will be hit first and hardest.

It's the tip of the (soon no longer extant) iceberg. Flooding is the relatively easy part. Water, food and power are hard.
> March used to be the first month of the year. It was changed to January hundreds of years before Caesar came along

Depends on your perspective. In the US (really, in Britain), this change occurred during the lifetime of George Washington, who arguably lived hundreds of years after Caesar.

;p
>How is that surprising?

It's pretty surprising because the comment seemed to imply that the same Audi might also end up on a track.
This instantly became my favorite weather site. The line graphs are a surprisingly intuitive way to quickly get an idea of where the weather is going in the next few days without hiding the actual numbers.

Are these guys on HN?
I don't particularly object to $15-25 ebooks. I do object to $250 ones.

http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Germany-ebook/dp/B000Q360KK/

http://books.google.com/books?id=0Sdo1gNF4D8C

Can we stop charging consumers library prices for nonfiction? I'd appreciate that.
If they pay you and let you buy the MacBook, it's after tax.
Edit: Wow, really weird. If this response seems to not make sense its because I responded to another comment that got deleted, and this somehow got transferred under this comment. Sorry for that, but I'll leave it here.

I think this is not gold rush mentality taking place. I think quite the opposite, deciding to work on these problems may be hurting this community. For starters, this is not traditional startup community we are talking about, which I think is really important to realize. This is what the Mac indie community has morphed into (now the iOS indie community), which is very rarely looking to flip (not that they won't when given the chance of course, just trying to point out the context these apps are being created in).

On that note, most people are trying to make popular apps that generate profit, not some long term vision like Facecbook or something. And given that, I find it very hard to believe that it makes economic sense to work on these sorts of things: the author said it himself, the economics of making a weather app seem to be the number one thing holding him back, because there are just so many. These apps take a long time to make and a lot of care, and if you're going to invest that into "calculator", the returns probably won't be great. The opposite side of the spectrum is often the web world: hugely ambitious idea churned out super quick (with an unfortunate lack of attention to detail).
On a recent engagement I prototyped a scalable content generation backend. Technically, it is an extension of the Rails build-a-blog project that everyone does in a tutorial, and it is trivially within the reach of every other Rails developer with 4 years of experience. The value I add above and beyond being able to implement a scalable content generation backend is a) knowing why you'd want to do it in the first place, b) creativity in applying it to whatever business is under discussion, c) being able to describe in detail what process one would need to use to use it in production, and d) being able to convince the relevant people that a + b + c = money.

Consulting engagements also have a number of risks associated with them. Providing the perception of diminished risk is worth value to the client. Many developers could implement A/B testing, for example. (And they should, because it potentially prints money for the right clients.) There are a variety of ways a hypothetical developer could cause a client to believe that an A/B testing engagement with them is less risky than it could be. One is to have written a widely used A/B testing framework.
Care about your business. Care about your people. Care about your people. Care about your company. I mean really care. Obsess. That is what gives you the best possible chance at building something great.
I do not want to rehash all the points covered under "Worse is better" - [A] largely because I dont think I could ever write as eloquently as Richard Gabriel. You are right C has "won" for some value of won - in the sense that most large systems currently in existence have C at their core. From another point of view lisp has "won" because at least in the circles I roll the languages used today are closer to lisp (dynamic languages with garbage collection) than they are to C. In any case neither you or me could take any credit for what our language ancestors (Kernighan, Ritchie, Steele, Pitman etc) accomplished in their day.

[A] - http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
No doubt they'll run off to Congress to demand more visas to make up for the workers who they turn down despite knowing they're capable of doing the world needed.
I'm not sure that is a bad thing, actually. Although I do not like spam and botnets, at least they are willing to stand up for their customers and require due process. Others will cave on bogus DMCA notices and assume that the customer is guilty.

I would actually call pulling the plug without due process irresponsible.

Also, I question your claim about it happening only after "immense pressure." Your own link praises them for their response, and some googling suggests similar wording in all coverage I can find.
Send me an email and you'll get your $2 of account credits. Yes, I'm serious.
I'd argue that is it neither, but is instead so that both Apple and Google can eventually offer localized and personalized marketing dependent on the area that your phone is reporting that you are in or have been in fairly frequently. An example would be giving you a discount code for that restaurant that you have passed by 4 times in the last 2 weeks at around dinner time. This is part of my theory about why apple is building the enormous data center in NC.
Scrolling the scroll views in this demo is unusably slow on my macbook pro (Safari 5, OS X 10.6).
You're right. I didn't intend on coming off bitchy but can see how my choice of words made it seem so.

Anyways, my point is just that the team ought to work on their message to potential users of their library. It's a small price to pay to reap the rewards of their hard work.
Wow, that's certainly one way to do it. I'm still not seeing an issue with 'grep -v grep'.
I can confirm that the Android cache.cell and cache.wifi lists are very limited. I just checked mine using your parse.py, and was only able to see 50/200 total records respectively. My cell data only went as far back as 13 days ago.

"The unlimited size of Apple's cache is probably just a mistake."

I think this is what concerns people most. This "mistake" has your triangulated location based on cell towers tracked for years and years, across multiple devices, when there really is no recognizable need to store/cache this much location data for this long. It seems, judging by the above linked source-code, that Android has it right on this one.
If i remember correctly Jeremy Ashkenas wants to release a new version before jsconf.
if you don't mind me asking, what package are you using on prgmr.com and the level of traffic it handles.

I've been looking at some VPS options and I wanted to make sure I select the right one that is not oversold + performs well.
> you’ll find that almost all work creates new wealth.

Not necessarily for the person doing the work, though.

Personally I find it scandalous how we treated "essential workers" during the pandemic. But I'm afraid I'm digressing here.
Spotify is a monopoly.
I guess I wasn't wrong to keep using Angular, all alternatives eventually become as complex, with lots of little libraries to keep track of.
Except that as masklinn writes above, methane gets converted into CO2 and so over its full lifecycle is worse by about a factor of 25.
Complain to the agencies that are/should regulate them. FTC coverse false/misleading advertisements generally, but maybe just FDA for mediciney things?
The closed border approach had fascinating consequences.

Little impact on many factors that had previously been put down to population growth.

It decisively proved that overcrowded infrastructure and inflated house prices were definitively supply side problems, rather than demand side problems.
> how can you be so blithely supportive of rule-by-decree in supposed democracies

Because that is the reason we life in a democracy with checks and balances implemented. In Germany some decrees were canceled by our (up to the highest) courts, others were declared to be in line with the constitution.

We elect officials (setting the policy) every four years to rule us in our name. So we hand them the right and the power to "rule-by-decree" as long as they do not leave the grounds of the constitution (and we have courts to check against that).

> for the purpose of running "social experiments?"

I actually think (and believe) that most politicians in most countries tried to safe people. As much people as possible while also taking other factors like the economy and the health sector and stuff into account. And yes: They overshot sometimes. Yes, they made massive mistakes. Yes, they sometimes filled their own (or buddies') pockets. Yes, the more this pandemic progresses the less I think our politicians really know what they are doing.

But I never felt, that policies were implemented for the purpose of running an experiment. But the different implementations now offer the possibility to learn from them for the future. Like scientists looking at different implementations of daylight savings time and learning from that. Or different implementations of regulations regarding wearing helmets while driving motorcycles, regarding seat belt usage or even regarding the ability for contraception and abortion.

The fact that we are allowed to disagree and publicly argue against restrictions, to challenge them in court imho shows that we are living in a democracy.

But yeah - keep going on arguing about a straw man (that nobody but you put in place) like:

> Running "experiments" on a non-consenting populace is at least the definition of dictatorship or oligarchy, if the word tyranny doesn't work for you.
kickstarter.com is full of people and projects that need many small investments like that. You usually get lots of goodies from them in the process, too. Good luck, and thanks for your generosity!
> The energy of our most violent explosive--nitroglycerine--is less than 1,500 calories per gramme.

Well, part of it is that you don't really want "violent explosives", you want a controlled combustion. Once you take that limitation out of the way, turns out that explosives don't have very high energy densities, they are actually, for the most part, less energy-dense than food. Take a look at this table: http://physics.info/energy-chemical/

(Funnily enough, was discussing this over lunch just now).
Did you read the article? It directly addresses that issue.
Please make your substantive points without crossing into name-calling.

This is not a comment on the underlying issue, just the need to follow the site guidelines in conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Incidentally, since https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rayiner is an appellate lawyer, his credulity seems unlikely to be wide-eyed.
It makes me chuckle thinking about machine intelligence being able to solve a captcha when humans can't.

I get a mental image of a future where computers try to keep us pesky humans out of their websites.
> We find the best gifts each month to show how much you care.

Apparently, the subscribers of this service are only expected to care about their partner approximately $50/month's worth. Plus whatever small amount initially signing up for this service is worth.
This is important. The idea that some sort of methodological silver bullet exists that will solve your projects problems "for you" is as pervasive as it is naive.

A big part of a good PM's role is knowing what approach is appropriate for which project(s) and knowing how to implement it practically with the team(s) they have.
Honestly these are such lame points that I hear again and again. I lived in Toronto, bad bike infrastructure, and now live in Amsterdam with great infrastructure. People here with limited mobility use electric wheelchairs in the bike lanes and therefore have more and cheaper and safer mobility options than in Toronto. A person in an electric mobility scoter can safely go from the city centre to the airport on the edge of the city. They also have the option to take a cab or a car of course, cars are still an option but they are not priorities over bikes here — you’re also totally ignoring that it’s dangerous for some disabled people to even use cars — but mobility scooters can be a safer option. Deliveries come in the morning on trucks, but that’s less necessary with more electric cargo bike being used every day.

Cars suck.
Nice one, I like it.
This is almost more exciting than church numerals
I'd like to point out that this is just a first working version, and there's still some work left to do, but I'm very relieved this is finally merged!
I've been into coffee for a while now. I've been lucky enough to know people in the industry. You can absolutely tell the difference between brewing methods, beans, roast levels, cleanliness of the machines, etc ... I can't say what method is better or worse, that is up to the individual, but there is a difference.

The beauty of coffee, is that you can brew multiple cups quite easily and do proper experiments.
And here are the docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/
It's a nice article, but I think there are some important things to note here:

Typically, what we call "FM synthesis" is implemented as phase modulation -- instead of modulating the frequency of the carrier, you modulate a phase offset. That way, the amplitude of the modulator won't have to be scaled with the frequency of the carrier for a uniform timbre over the whole frequency.

My second note is that most FM synthesizers (the whole Yamaha range, basically) don't define the frequency ratio increments in octaves or quarter octaves, but simply as multiples of the base frequency, producing a harmonic series. Most implementations do this in integer increments, but others like the DX7 and TX81z let you use fractional frequency multiples.
XML isn't too bad in itself but, a bit like Java, it appears to be one of the favoured tools for those who wish to build the eldritch abominations of the enteprise software world.

I've seen people do terrible mind rotting things with XML (e.g. encoded XML documents as attribute values in other XML documents and nested a few levels deep, using XML documents as keys in databases, using formats that aren't quite valid XML and then there is SOAP....)
I do not understand the "paradigm" column. Labeling C++ as OO is not fair, especially since the standard library is rather "Generic Programming" than OO. Most of the languages do not fit into one paradigm anyways.

Also, why does Go have "Native with runtime"? All the other native languages have runtimes as well.
If you do the math, it becomes obvious they cannot treat everyone that sets of the explosives detectors in this way, given how many ways there are to trigger false positives. They just don't have, and could not possibly have, the manpower.
It's clear to me that our current unprecedented interconnectedness is sending us into a dystopia anyways. 50 more years of this, I simply cannot imagine.
Let's check the terms they agreed to when we, the people, gave them a monopoly on fiber service running through extremely space-constrained boxes under our streets.
It's actually a little dangerous; what happens when you hit "^C" and the process dies before getting a chance to clean up? It's safer to do:

some_cmd >foo.tmp && mv foo.tmp foo

The mv will do an atomic rename(), so that you either get the fully formed contents, or nothing at all.
Most ordinary people either don't understand the cycle, or even if they do, they're powerless to do anything about it.

If what happened in Korea is any indication, the first generation of apartment buildings will be demolished after 20-30 years, homeowners will be "asked to leave" with as little compensation as the construction company can get away with, and a new block of condos will go up that the previous homeowners just can't afford. In Korea, at least we let the previous homeowners file complaints and protest for a while before we send in the bulldozers. In China, the bulldozers will probably go in first, and the GFW won't let anyone else know what happened next.
Very nice... I think this is a feature that's had some increased demand, since it's been in the box for Azure Storage for some time... It's really nice to see more and more feature parity with cloud providers.
Only if you change line to a different operator, and there are transfer rebates.

Last time I lived in Tokyo, my hourlong commute that took me literally across the city (Yoyogi-uehara to Nezu) cost all of Y240 one way. This was on the cheaper side, but I'd wager the average commuter pays somewhere around Y500-600 (private railway plus metro), plus it's normally the employer that pays for the teikiken (commuter ticket) anyway.
The link is http, https also works.

Even if it is only http, so what? PGP signatures exists too.
Yeap. There were bad conditions at the time in apartheid SA: violence and crime. (It's still pretty bad considering most middle-class homes have security guards and enormous gates, similar to Brazil.) I don't remember the precise specifics. IIRC, it was okay at the time of relocating but it deteriorated.
"Jig. Gets you from CTO to CEO"
> haveibeenpwned is the only one you should trust

Why? Troy is monetising as everyone else.
Warning. Sixty symbols is a black hole. It will devour all your free time.
Something like Vim still benefits from the composability of the command line interface. I can write and read buffers to/from other processes, asynchronously run commands and pipe the output into Vim, and of course I can always put Vim in the background at any time which immediately drops me into my shell, where I have complete and full access to the entirety of the machine.

These are the main reasons I stick with terminal based editors over something like VS Code with Vim bindings. Using a separate GUI breaks that deep integration with the shell, which for me just creates too much friction for not enough benefit.
> Like for example the usage of @, which AFAIK was only used for e-mail because there was no other free char on the developers keyboard available.

'@' meant 'at' looong before e-mail was invented.
Automation and population shrink and aging. What are we going to do about them? Japan has been dealing with pop reduction and aging and to a lesser extent automation; however automation and pop drop and aging have dovetailed quite complementarily. What happens when automation exceeds the drop in pop?
What reasons are there to give Amazon benefit of doubt?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-go... - and that's not some poor Joe McConsumer, but financial sharks.
This comment on reddit has me in a very gloomy mood for the last 24 hours https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwate...