jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So the FBI knowingly attacked a civilian communications network, potentially causing a great deal of harm to the entire network in order to catch a few bad apples.

Like nuking a city because you're pretty sure you'll get a few bad guys.
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This is amazing! I have always been baffled by the ever more convoluted parking signs. This is especially useful since very often you have to figure out if you can park while driving by, so you don't have much time to analyse the signs.
Assumption: the platform limitation is that it's not allowed to run an app (continuously) in the background, which is required for WhatsApp web
They thought said they'd never do this :)
I believe the word is legitimate to describe laws which people can believe in.
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So maybe he was living under a rock. Is that a crime?

What is the alternative hypothesis, that when he joined he had an understanding of the ongoing horrors? That seems harder to believe than "he was in fact living under a rock."
Then there's the issue with Ghostery itself being owned by Evidon.

I think this is more heat than light. The "Ghost Rank" functionality, whereby anonymous usage data is uploaded to Evidon is opt-in with recent versions of Ghostery, and they have to pay for the engineers that created the tool and keep it up to date somehow...
That's roughly where I stand, though I don't think he deserves as much jail time, will get early parole, and was mistreated during his pretrial detention.
What is the differentiator with iDoneThis? It seems to be what most people are using, if they are paying for this sort of service.
In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a) universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
It's a benefit if your team uses a mix of Mac/Linux/Windows.
I cared a lot more than usual about the bug because iOS is generally my go-to advice for "secure web browsing platform", and because I personally use iOS and OSX, and the slow response on OSX patching. I expect people care about Apple products in the media for this reason -- Microsoft bugs would have similar reach (as did the Android RNG bug), but Apple bugs are relatively rare and thus more a dog bites man story.

Flash I know to be insane. I don't use Firefox. So, less reason to care.

But yes, Schneier has become the USA Today of security advice. A lot of people read USA Today, so it's important, but it's probably not where you go for deep or substantial analysis. (and, generally a week after everyone else has discussed an issue to death)
Being able to link to and follow links to specific content is a defining feature of the web that has been disrupted by single-page JS and mobile apps that don't support it.

I always find it frustrating when I run into this, so I'm glad to see people are trying to fix it.
I think "very poorly" is quite an understatement...
I have no idea how often they swap, but generally speaking, Federal agents unholster their weapons in public very rarely. So, there is probably not as much need for frequent rotation compared to the military.
There's probably a better way, but I bought a pedal that was for transcriptionists, which came with software that allowed you to bind it to a keypress. Then I made sure that key was mapped to push-to-talk on a per app basis.
Think of the availability of decentralized services that are hard to ban as a pressure relief valve for good and bad things. If we we ultimately make it to hard to share legitimate things those things go underground long before they go away.

If we look and find that freenet and tor hidden services are only full of kiddie porn, drugs, and crazy we haven't swung to far towards censorship.

Right now the crazy is right in the open and hidden services are only for things that are actually already illegal like child porn so it is premature to suppose we are being too restrictive. Based on the fact that we almost lost our democracy we probably need to Crack down more on the hate, lies, and inducement to violence.

When you have to go somewhere secret to hear someone suggest we need to massacre some jews we may be approaching an actual balance.
I think the same, and I very much doubt US general staff being inept to a point of holding war plans on a computer.

Intel reports? Again, most real deal intel sources would be either kept real deal secret, or really not being such.
That isn't the point of the exercise.

Suppose you're an officer responding to a shootout between two randoms. The tape signals whether either of them are police.

(This is why I would never carry a gun in this country. Suppose you do stop some sort of crime in public at gunpoint-- any trigger-happy idiot who walks in is going to see you as the aggressor.)
Grinding Leetcode to land a job in a different domain, on a different stack while working full time.

Just don't get enough time to Leetcode -> I'm not confident enough to apply -> stuck in the same frustrating job -> Makes me want to quit

Just can't seem to be able to break the cycle.
(self-)governance is big topic in crypto. I predict that crypto will reinvent all the societal structures and processes to form a digital market+government+jurisdiction because a currency alone can't address all the problems you mentioned.
A song of his came on the radio today. I thought wow, haven't heard that name in a while. Good memories from my youth... I grew up in a house of musicians. Now I know why. :-(
His 84th birhtday was very recent 31st Jan

Glassworks is such a seminal piece of work. Passages (with Ravi Shankar) is on my playlist for today

Thanks for the article!
I was really saddened to hear this. I've always loved his music, and I didn't know he was ill.

He will be missed.
Thank you, I just got hooked to John Coltrane but my view of the jazz world was very limited, glad to see so many new names.
I rarely have to but since about 1991 I log into my bank (in 1991 it was via quicken and at some point became through their website) and type in their address and the amount. The bank sends a check.
Conversely, it's problematic for me - my Twitter account is up for grabs and someone might impersonate me, assisted by several mentions of the account on old pages.
Thats what I like about lisp environments, and sadly after trying out Clojure, it can do no such thing (as of the time I tried it, about a year and a half ago), continuing at point 9f exception after allowing the user to change state interactively.
I’m in Georgia and Kaiser’s website says there are 26 locations throughout Metro Atlanta.
Another film about the windmills:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv3Pn2DFkDw

From the International Wood Culture Society, who have a ton of other wood-related content:

http://iwcs.com/allSubject.cfm
Steve Sanderson (creator of Blazor) is working on something similar that doesn't use Electron:

https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighte...

From Blazor roadmaps a few months ago, I think the idea is that Blazor will become the recommended .NET Core cross-platform UI choice sometime after .NET 5.
Missing all but the first picture, but all the text is there: https://outline.com/26TYrk
Let’s ignore all the complexity surrounding facts and just assume facts are obtainable and 100% objective. With 100% objective facts, media outlets still wield a huge amount of power through cherry-picking and spinning.

Example: You live in a group A (party, country, etc.) echo chamber where every day you’re bombarded with news on evil thing X group B just did, which is a fact. What they don’t tell you is that group A is also doing X, or doing some more egregious thing Y. They didn’t lie to you, they just omitted the full picture. After a while, you’ll inevitably believe group B is the root of all evil, and even if you’re then presented 100% facts about how group A did all the evil things from a group B publication, you’ll probably dismiss those.

In short, not necessarily agreeing with gp, but it’s certainly very complicated.
I'd miss the gravitational effect it has had on normies and boomers. I don't want those people joining Mastodon and stinking up the place.
If we were in a simulation and the time between steps was a million years we’d never know?
Excellent point.

A thought experiment (since we lack hard data)
Step A) eliminate all neonicotinoid and systemic plant pesticides

Step B) eliminate all light pollution

What happens to insect populations with either step?

I'd bet that A would do much more to restore the populations.

Any other bets, or better yet, some hard data?
I guess my point is: it has at least all the features that make other trucks functional. Why wouldn’t this be functional? Because of the way it looks?
Wow, thanks for sharing this! It’s so cool to see these things are still around and enjoying new uses. I remember them fondly from my youth. At my church, we had one in addition to the normal photocopier and I was fascinated with how it worked in comparison.

At the time, it was significantly cheaper to print on the Risograph, but only if you were printing more than say, 100, because of the fixed cost of the stencil it had to create.

The quality of the output was different, not necessarily worse, but not as black and with a more official feel than a photocopy. They had a distinctive smell and came out slightly wet for a few seconds.
It doesn't matter if it's 50 nested ifs or not if we're talking about a recent generation jet fighter - it's going to be hell to test no matter what. Even with provable control systems you're still at the mercy of cutting edge technology and the whole point of the jet is superiority over a yet unknown adversary with high tech capabilities so the system has be overengineered with that in mind.
Half-OT: Anyone knows how hard it is to come by AWS (Activate) credits when you are building something and not have founded a company yet?
Neither extreme is viable.

OOH, interest groups exist and restrictive zoning can cause illogical cityscapes with way too little housing. OOH, no planning, no zoning and laissez faire dynamics don't really get you to a logical metropolis either. Both tend to fail at density.

High density cities need as much investment in difficult infrastructure as they do in real estate. A lot of successful examples in the world at large are pretty highly planned. I'd also note that most are guided to some extent by national-level agendas. A purely local agenda isn't generally going to select fast change. All sorts of vested interest to the contrary. Property scarcity, but also other things. More people usually want their towns to stay the same.

IMO, there really is no way around the need for competent, well intentioned decision making... on average. There's also now way around a need for intention. What's the actual goal for Berkeley? Where do they want to be in 30 years.
> Not quite, prices capped first. Then when that was not enough rolling blackouts where implemented

Again, no. The cap was in place before the floor, but was never binding: they did blackouts before the price hit the maximum, not after.

> As rolling blackouts where implemented by people paying wholesale rates they obviously have an incentive for excessive blackouts

The decision to do blackouts was made by ERCOT, not by transmission operators or power retailers. (Retailers are the only ones who have an incentive to do blackouts, though transmitters generally also have a retail operation.)
"... we're co-sleeping with our 17 month year old daughter and it feels more intuitive."

Good for you. Not only should you do what works and is healthy for your own family but the first two years of your first child is really a magical time. Why not optimize for peace and tranquility ?

I will also add that in addition to the western compulsion to kick kids out of the bed there is also a western compulsion that married partners should be sleeping together every night or something is wrong with their marriage. I strongly advise all parents to at least be open minded to the idea that sleeping in different rooms could dramatically improve their sleeping and parenting logistics.

YMMV.
Is MAMR energy assist similar to SMR - requiring nearby information to be rewritten?
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(Slightly tangential)

> I have recently read an article about calculating the Nth Fibonacci number in O(log N) arithmetic operations.

Either you assume fixed-precision integers, in which case you just use a lookup table and call it O(1), or you assume arbitrary-precision integers, in which case you cannot have anything less than a O(n) algorithm, as the number of digits of the Nth Fibonacci number is O(n) (as the Fibonacci sequence is exponential).

I see this all over the place, and it's frustrating every time.
I find it interesting that you know me well enough to know what my innermost thoughts on a matter are.

Tell me, are you okay with this website being associated with illegal activity because the media is lazy and you'd rather just shrug your shoulders than correct that misconception? How would you like that used against you in real life? You're a member of a scary "hacker" forum, after all.

Words matter. Take this attitude when we're talking about "kek" vs "lol", not when we're talking about something that's being used to denigrate entire groups of people.
Have spare time!

If you're spending all day in the office or with your clients you're going to be burned out and you won't have the energy to get down and dirty into the denser parts of your own project.

Be religious about setting aside your own time
I'm glad you acknowledge the problem, but I think you're understanding it through a narrow lens yourself: there are many cities worldwide with the the same levels of homeslessness as San Francisco (or higher), none are as filthy. Hell even in the US Portland has methheads everywhere: they don't shit on the street. SF has a unique problem.

Your claims about for profit prisons may be true, but they don't change the fact that San Francisco is uniquely filthy.
Damn right. For anyone who hasn't figured it out y et, it is NOT ever ok to use your phone in a cinema during a film, even without sound. I find it unbelievable that so many people haven't figured this out yet. If you can't stand being disconnected for the length of the film then watch it at home.
Yahoo maps Japan is much better than google maps because it follows the Japanese system of numbering buildings not streets more closely.
Most people I know with ADHD got taken to a doctor, diagnosed, and put on medication as a consequences of their grades. I'm sure this quirk in the distribution of human psychology has existed for a long time, I just question the sudden popularity in its medicalization.
> ...but people seem adamant that they are somehow exceptionally evil.

They are more directly responsible for keeping people in a mentally toxic {outraged, angry, upset} state than most other companies. Their reach far exceeds Twitter (2.5B active users vs about 180M for Twitter), so I'll consider them "more evil" in that they have a far greater reach. While I may have plenty of bones to pick with Google, Amazon, etc, they don't directly influence mental state for their own profit like Facebook does.

> What do you mean by taking user-generated content and repackaging it?

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, etc, do not (meaningfully) generate their own content (yes, you'll see an occasional Facebook blog post usually saying "We're sorry for getting caught this time..." but that's not their primary purpose). They take content that their end users generate (photos, posts, links, etc), and repackage it, reorder it, inject ads, and deliver it to other people.

This is distinct from other content producers (news sites, blogs, etc) in which the site owners/employees/etc are the primary generators of material. I write content for my blog, and while I host and deliver the occasional user comment, the primary purpose of my blog is for me to communicate my thoughts to other people. I also, after several years of experimentation, now do so in an ad-free manner, because the small returns weren't worth the hassle, and I'm increasingly opposed to an ad-supported internet, so I now self-host my content and pay my hosting fees out of pocket.

> For me this is HN

Yes, but HN doesn't matter. It is also neither ad supported or, to the best of my knowledge, a public company (at least the HN interface). It's exceedingly low bandwidth and I quite like it as a remnant of an old style of internet that no longer really exists.

> Follow-up question: do you view Fullstory as evil?

I don't know what Fullstory is, so have no opinion on it.

> But yes, efforts should be made to limit the tool's possibility for evil usage.

Or to respond meaningfully when it's demonstrated that the tool is being used for it. Facebook tends to the minimum required to look like they've done something, and when someone else points out that the people the filters are aimed at have trivially bypassed them by changing the spelling of a word, Facebook throws up their hands and says, "Well, moderation is hard, we can't afford humans, and AI sucks, so... sorry!"

If you're too big to have meaningful human moderation that can understand nuance, maybe you're just too big as a forum/site/community/etc.
Aside: If anyone here has some spare time as the pandemic ends, here is the BoP guide to volunteering in prisons:

https://www.bop.gov/jobs/volunteer.jsp

Volunteering can take many forms including:

-Vocational training

-Alcoholics Anonymous

-Narcotics Anonymous

-Tutoring

-Leisure-time activities

-Spiritual counseling

-Religious services

-Marriage and family issues

-Preparing/participating in mock job fairs

Additionally, you can donate to help those in prison. Book donations are especially popular and appreciated:

https://prisonbookprogram.org/donate-books/

Please, contact your local prison to find out more and what they specifically are interested in.

https://www.usa.gov/prisons
This also leads to people not taking it seriously when they grown up, double whammy.
The commenter is leery of entering their phone number into the article link.
I've been very curious to explore this type of use case with askgit (https://github.com/augmentable-dev/askgit) which was designed for running simple "slice and dice" queries and aggregations on git history (and change stats) for basic analytical purposes. I've been curious about how this could be applied to a small text+git based "db". Say, for a regular json or CSV dumps.

This also reminds me of Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt which I believe has been on HN a couple times
RC aircraft are distinguished by weight restriction, direct line-of-sight operation, and purpose. The latter is what kills commercial drones. If you offer a commercial service, it isn't hobbyist RC.

It's like ham radio in the sense that you have very limited and specific rights to use a shared medium so long as you don't interfere with the professional users.
My favorite part - "anyone looking to buy one would get more bang for the buck by setting it on fire for warmth. "
It's worse. The download is 3.5 GB now, and it does not include any previous SDKs. Every project file you have has to be switched over to the current SDK to even compile.
>>now proven false, according to Code Complete 2 as well as lectures I've seen at Georgia Tech

>[citation needed]

That's a citation...

>"You write real C applications completely differently than you write C++ applications, a fact few C++ advocates admit or understand"

Perhaps, but this article again goes on about C being a subset of C++, which besides being somewhat untrue, it also means he's implying correct C is a subset of correct C++. It isn't. You structure things completely differently, and most C++ programmers have never written large scale C programs before.

Other citations:

http://archive.oredev.org/download/18.5bd7fa0510edb4a8ce4800... Slide 21

The particular lecture was in 2000 around July by Dr. Mark Guzdial which was citing other research which I don't remember over a decade later.
How is the periodic table not in there?
Unless you include AppleTV, which today is getting an iOS 4.1 update http://www.macworld.com/article/155879/2010/11/appletv.html
Yes, I'm quite familiar with Tangle and Bret Victor's other work.

While it provides an okay experience on the reader side, it's jut not usable on the writer side—in terms of composition, it's not much better than any other JS framework.

What I really need is a way of letting non-technical writers create interactive stories. Probably the most successful example of this is Excel.
I apologize for the communication error.

My family pushed hard for it. They were discriminated against, and wanted me to be successful no matter what/do anything to get any edge.

If it meant looking and acting "white", I need to do it.

It was a strong moment of realization, that in America I'm an "other", that I am not white.
If you are pedalling equal to the rolling resistance, you must be doing so in a vacuum.

Do you cycle in space? That sounds awesome.
Put your finger, or a piece of paper over the little line that protrudes, and bisects the bottom horizontal line on the
left flyer. Look away, and judge the two flyers again. The difference between the two wasen't as stark as before--for me? I'm looking at them on an ipad. (I know I will always make sure my lines match up in the future.)
That might be because Rust might not eat its own dogfood in that department, and build some of its own functionality out of its macro system.

But I can see just "knowing" at a glance if it's a macro or not.

I think the answer would basically be determined by how much of the language itself uses its own macro system AND what type of macro system it actually is. If it's significant, having special syntax would just look weird.
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What language would you recommend to be the most fun to work with?

Whats the best way for a beginner to learn that (I know by practice, but which books, websites, tutorials, and in what order) ?
I want to see if they are set up to do remote work, or are they landlocked?

I love this term. Maybe I'll use it on my resume.