jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I hate how the Foundation has handled the VSCode thing. Slipping in a Microsoft repo with a post install script, making it difficult for Raspberry Pi OS users to opt out, and silencing people's complaints on the forums. Everything to make them look like jerks short of declaring the backlash an alt-right conspiracy. Why not just... put VSCode in their own repo, where all the other proprietary gubbins like Mathematica live?
> Which half is, of course, an open question, eh?

This approach would of course favor species that thrive in toxic waste, radiation and trash mountains.
There are a lot of similarities between classic Elo and Bayesian statistics. You essentially construct a prior for each comparison and update your prior by its deviation from the observation. Does true skill just do this in a more rigorous fashion according to Bayes' theorem?
If I'm understanding properly Cubbit is not based on some blockchain solution.

The coordinator decide where files goes and the cell works as storage unit. This solution is distributed but no decentralized.

https://berty.tech/blog/decentralized-distributed-centralize...

At least for storing a file I don't have to mine a coin. /s
Intel has done some work on this front that can hypothetically be used this way, but I wouldn't say it's practical, for various reasons.
It was definitely stupid to storm the US Capitol Building. No argument there.

But she was shot and killed for breaking a window.

Thank God she was put down before more glass was harmed!
The Onyx Boox T68 6.8 inch e-reader runs Android 4.0: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/onyx-boox-t68.html
Sure, there's some shady folks trading some spreadsheets for $20. No multibillion-dollar company trades data that way.
That would be nice! What I really want is a forum as good as HN but for EEs.
My only argument is that you can't first imply that Zoom is malware and then claim that you didn't say Zoom is malware.
Looks like Clevo L141CU [1]

[1] https://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodetail.asp?id=1264&lang=en...
In some states, yes, but not for much longer.
One thing I like about Facebook, evil aside, is how Zuckerberg-centric it seems. They spent two billion on Oculus because Zuckerberg liked Ready Player One and thinks the chance of that is awesome. Zuckerberg publicly released a machine learning project in college and now Facebook is spending more on machine learning than anyone.

If you had effectively infinite money to make any idea you can think of into reality, would you use it building cool things that you are personally interested in, or would you use it to start another cloud company dedicated to prices so high it's practically highway robbery?

It would make sense if Facebook was ran by Larry Ellison, but money is pretty pointless as an end itself.
To add context to this, I ran a calculation of simple interest and compound interest you'd receive for an initial investment of £4.31 over the 294 years from 1720 to today. I assumed a 3% return.

Simple interest, not reinvested: £42.32
Compount interest: £25,622.49

As the parent poster pointed out, the actual return for a bond bought in 1720 depends on what the holder did with the returns.

Whereas with gold, merely holding £4.31 worth of gold from 1720 would yield £768 of gold today.

I found this calculation interesting in that it demonstrates the true power of compound interest if maintained. Of course, such a return is actually very hard to maintain over a 300 century timespan.
It's safe for male consumption - do not worry ;)
Not a problem, should be on it's way.
What are the legalities of scraping someone's site, effectively removing potential income from the website?
That should be on it's way.
sorry I didn't mean to appear to disrespect Bruce Schneier, I've met him, gone to his book signings, own all his books, I even buy his books for gifts to my friends. I'm a huge fan of his work. We need people like him who have done highly advance studies in the security field; he is the best and an amazingly lucid writer. I never said he was a random academic or that his overall research should be disregarded. I really don't think you understand my original comment. Theory is not practice; they are two separate things. I guess I should have just said that. do you see my point now?
"At [the] time [homeopathy was introduced: in the 18th century], mainstream medicine employed such measures as bloodletting and purging, used laxatives and enemas, and administered complex mixtures, such as Venice treacle, which was made from 64 substances including opium, myrrh, and viper's flesh. Such measures often worsened symptoms and sometimes proved fatal." [1]

In this context, giving a patient instead a medicine, which while doing no good, did no harm either, could be a very advantageous.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#History
Snarky! For people wanting an explanation of what homeopathy actually is, I've got a short version and a long version.

Short version: it's sympathetic magic, similar to stabbing Voodoo dolls or divining the future from chicken entrails. They dilute a substance to the point where there's almost certainly none of it left -- not a single molecule -- and use the resulting pure water as "medicine."

Long version: courtesy of James Randi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWE1tH93G9U
LOL, indeed, came here to point that out. It's like saying "he's a pedophile because he's into grannies".
Android is ultimately intended for OEMs. If Google was not dealing with corporations that have billions of dollars at stake, they might be more likely to be more open. But honestly, the difference is the product. A browser is free to the final customer, has no real hoops to jump through before release, and since all browser makers have been heading to the same basic goal for over a decade and (mostly) adhere to a standard, there is not really anything to gain from secrecy. A phone/tablet costs money to the final user, has to go through OEMs, carriers, and the Feds before it can be in anyone's hands. Not to mention that we are in the infancy of mobile computing and secrets can give a real advantage. I wouldn't be surprised if they are much more open in five years.

Basically, I'd like them to be more public, but there are real reasons not to be currently and a code dump is better than nothing.
It would have been wiser to post a message saying "I'm done committing Gingerbread." It was inevitable that announcing it beforehand would cause enough traffic to bring the server crashing down.
That's a 575 increase in one year. Another 17 years and the whole planet will be solar powered!

(Yes, that's a terribly naive bit of maths, and there are reasons why it won't be that simple. But still :-> )
Luke, thanks for your response. I don't want a refund. I will email you.
The fork won't last long I guess...
And the "fork" has been gathering dust for two weeks now, with zero activity and "followers". Plus the name is a bogus as well.
I agree with everything you wrote. My post was meant to be a reaction to GP's post that implied tailgating to be equal with driving in a way that minifies cars cutting in front of you. I maintain that there is a sweet spot that is both safe as long as you're alert as well as keeps the traffic around you in sort of a steady state where everyone can just keep following. If you let the gap become larger, others will start cutting in - if you then have to use the breaks you basically rely on the guy behind you doing the right thing as well, thus increasing the risk of accidents.
The page is not available for me.
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> 80% meat-based diet

That can't be right, is that a typo or you mean the percentage of meals that have some animal products?
In the immortal words of Michael Bolton: "Why should I change, he's the one that sucks."
As long as the debt is payable only in dollars and dollars are available only through fractional reserve banking, it's impossible to ever truly reduce the debt owed to the Fed through any means other than default. We can shift it around (and have been for some time now), but it still exists.

The real kicker is that our economy is dependent on the nonstop creation of new debt. Without it, the money supply dries up and we enter a deflationary recession.
Alabama up until recently offered a prepaid tuition program that you could pay into, and then it guaranteed to pay your tuition at any Alabama public university. This was a public trust, and I don't know how similar other states' implementation is, but if there are any companies that offer the financial management of such a program, it would make sense to invest in that.

I suppose if you were really serious about making that bet, you could form a company that offered a similar investment service. Sell the product at a price that assumes the current rate of tuition inflation, and then rake in the cash when it doesn't happen.
Couldn't foragers remember food sources perfectly well, but still not exclusively visit them? I don't see how these results necessarily implicate memory. Habit, sure, but not memory.
Fries aren't cooked in the same oil as the fish fillets and nuggets because of vegetarian concerns. Never tried the fries in any oils other than its oil (mainly because they were in different areas in the building).

The oil of the fried chickens (the nuggets, McChicken patties and Crispy Chicken patties (maybe more or less different types depending on what country you are from)) are kinda interchangeable.
We've got a lot of people who call in remotely for our weekly team meetings, and in general I think conference calls are torture - but not because of the sound quality (putting everyone on mute except the person speaking seems to help). The thing that drives me crazy is waiting for people to call in so that the call can start. I've been hoping someone will build a Twilio app (I work for Twilio, but haven't hard time to make this one) that will call out to all the participants of the conference call, and drop them into the call when they answer so that they have to be on time.

Another cool solution is the recent feature 37Signals added to Campfire for conference calling, which posts the call transcript back into the chat - nice for people who can't be on the call, or couldn't hear very well.
Color me confused. The new app notification policy would explain less growth, but that doesn't explain losing millions of users.
I don't think there is a keyboard shortcut for a timed screen grab, however, which is what I use most often.
It'd be neat if it pre-populated it with existing game scores (Will it?) Obviously it can't just yet but that'd make it easier to play with.
> Of course things change.

Except they don't. The clients are frozen in time forever. There's no change happening here. It doesn't matter if they should be changed, they aren't being changed. Printer firmware does not get updates.

> New attack vectors are discovered in protocols and need to be fixed.

IF that ever happens, which is super duper unlikely, then kill it since the clients are unfixable. But this is not an ongoing cost. There's no continuous change aspect to that at all.

> New devices with new capabilities are created and need API integration.

That's not change, that's new features. As I said, simply tell those things to go do their own thing. That's unrelated to leaving Cloud Print on life support.
"massive development" underestimates the mentally ill. "Some just want to watch the world burn", and they will do everything to mess up the world around them. It's best to simply enforce laws and ensure they cannot do that, or at least not downtown. Let them mess up the desert.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

go to the shell key and replace it with whatever you want.

This has been supported since at least Windows 2000!
I get bank statements, job offers, party invitations, and lately a bunch of lets say very questionable email verifications from euro 'dating' sites- I've identified the guy in the UK but its too much (and getting embarrassing now) to keep forwarding his stuff to him.

Downside of getting in early on popular email services.
Commiting a timestamping hash is not a privacy nightmare, as you don’t need to reveal the evidence until you need to use it for proving what happened.
"Video can be used to mislead" is nothing new, but I'll still argue that we're watching a very specific new door open. From the first days of high-fidelity video to the recent past, there has never been a time when someone could fake this type of content.

Faking a clear, unbroken closeup of a recognizable person has never been a serious option before this. Even when Hollywood had likeness rights and massive budgets, it resorted to rewrites and old B-roll footage when actors died mid-shoot. When people wanted to slander politicians, even state actors with Cold War budgets, they edited photos, faked audio recordings, or staged candid, hard-to-see footage. In the modern era of CGI and digital video editing, bad actors still resorted to misleading edits and out-of-context clips. This, though, is 20 seconds of clear, closeup video of an incredibly famous face. And the fake was good enough that even placed in an art exhibition centered on something that never happened, some viewers thought it was real footage.

I don't share the popular paranoia that deepfakes of politicians are going to start upending democracy; there have always been plenty of people fervently convinced by manipulative video, altered pictures, or simple "somebody said so" lies. What's new is the increasing difficulty of proving truth in the most trusted contexts. Validating even a very narrow claim like "at some point in the past, for some reason, the President said this exact sentence in front of a video camera" is increasingly difficult.
Jokes aside, can you really file FOIA requests to get personal driver details from DMV? I thought FOIA would only apply for stuff that is meant to be public, but isn't due to difficulties of hosting, putting it up, etc.

Mind you, I didn't research the topic of what can or cannot be requested with FOIA, so I might be totally wrong.
Yes, and similar issues still exist with public MongoDB instances even though the defaults are secure.
The Join by Browser feature was also discussed a bit in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657949
To sibling bobthechef, whom the site will not let me reply to directly:

Your question assumes a frame of atomized individual decision making, and forgoes the possibility of changing our political economy so that children don’t have to work.

This is easily doable from a production standpoint (i.e., we could all still have enough if children did not have to work, perhaps Bezos would have to give up a little).

That we don’t do this is an entirely political decision.
How does it handle scrolling? This is typically very fast and smooth (performed by bitblt and redrawing only the newly exposed part on every frame), but in immediate mode you'd have to redraw the entire screen on every frame.
In some sense it already exists, the kids with severe developmental challenges have their own schools for example.

I guess the real problem is that nobody wants to send their kids to the "cheap" school, which is likely going to be filled with kids from affluent parents because study outcome is to first order just a function of parent income.
Nope! If we rank stress from 0 = sleeping to 10 = getting diagnosed with cancer, the amount of stress I feel in a meeting (including important ones I lead or that include bigwigs) is in the 1 to 3 range, with maybe the occasional 4.

My level of stress in a technical programming interview is usually in the 6 to 8 range. Even recently negotiating with my boss for a raise (which I know he was positively predisposed to because he is the one who brought it up) was a 5, which is significantly more than any regular meeting.
Well yes, and I'm no gun-rights advocate (quite the opposite), but approximately 0% of guns (in the US at least) are actually used to kill people, and this is telling me that 80% of dark web activity is used for pedophilia. That seems like a very big deal.
> It still wasn’t a good app to be in the App Store.

aka it was bad PR for Apple, so it was removed.
Or the actor/martial artist?
I don't think Apple pays normal bandwidth fees for updates.

A family member was working at a telecom company when the iphone was first announced. One of the big worries from the cell providers was all the bandwidth required to push OS & App updates to all the phones. Apple finally agreed to deploy proxy caching POP servers to various locations, and pay to maintain them. I don't know for sure if these still exist...

However, one of the only ways that I can fully saturate my 1gbps FiOS connection is to download Apple updates.
There should be a clearly defined way for doing this. Right now there are a ton of “maybe” options. Maybe tweeting about it will help, maybe calling will help, maybe having a friend at the company will help, maybe somebody at the Apple Store will help. Or many times, nothing will work and you are screwed.

There should be a clearly defined way for doing this instead of a faceless, opaque bureaucracy that regular people can’t understand. In this sense big tech is very similar to US healthcare. As user you are pretty much at their mercy. Maybe they feel like helping, maybe not.
This is just BS. As customer you shouldn’t have to know how the company works.
Absolutely this. While I'm mildly curious what will come of dokku + kubernetes (and maybe a little excited, though have tempered expectations), actually setting up some simple scripting that points to dokku means I can be fairly sure that when I've set up a dokku box, the databases are backed up, should the box go down and all the backups get fried, I can have a new box set upp they will be back up and running in much less than an hour from the point that I notice.

So the only reason I might want something like Flynn is in the case of unexpected uptick in load. And unfortunately, in my first experience with Flynn, things went bad and I wasn't able to restore from backups, which scared me off more than I was scared about load balancing (read: ran out of time for the experiments and vowed "one day I'll try again. Maybe."). That said, overall flynn did seem reasonably polished, so I'm sad about the announcement.

Maybe, some day, someone will take on this middle ground between Dokku and Kubernetes. But until then, Dokku has definitely proved itself.
> Scott made ethical commitments as a psychiatrist, both to his clients in particular and his profession in general. The NYT made ethical commitments both to their readers in particular and to journalistic standards in general. In the SSC controversy these commitments conflict.

I'm sorry, what "ethical commitments" did the NYT have that required them to reveal Scott's identity? They have—over the last few years—systematically abused the privilege of anonymous sources. If this was some sort of manifest reversal of said abuse, I could maybe understand. But that's not what this was. It was a partisan choice to "out" him in a direct or incidental attempt to cancel/silence him.

They hold absolute secrecy for other sources that seek anonymity. (Or, in some cases, when revelation of that source wouldn't be a good look for their paper.) I cannot fathom any sort of ethical purpose—to their readers or to journalism—that necessitates his reveal.

Maybe you can help me understand the gymnastics of contorting ethics in such a way that this makes any logical sense, I would appreciate it. Because—from my vantage point and from innumerable other examples—the NYT has tossed every ethical framework out the window for the sake of their ego, id, wallets, power, and agenda.

They try to maintain the aire of integrity in their rapidly crumbling empire, but the emperor has no clothes. So please help me see what I'm missing.
I played soccer in HS. There were rumors of aspiring players parents renting apartments in different districts to make them eligible for a certain league or district.

I'm guessing this takes aim at parents who are trying to easily forge eligibility of their child.
> Instead, it's that on balance, by far most managers don't beat the S&P 500 on an after-fee basis.

Interestingly, most managers actually do match the S&P500, but before fees. I don't have a link handy, but there have been some academic papers on their performance.
First off, don't rely on History lessons from "Dan Brown" :-) The topic of decline of "Scientific Temper" in the Islamic World is a complex and nuanced subject with contributing various factors. Here are some major points;

* Much of the "Golden Age of Islam" is actually attributable to cultures which were originally not Islamic at all eg: Persia, The Levant, Mediterranean, Central Asia, Indian subcontinent. The decline started with the "Islamization" of these cultures by the Arabs who were far more "primitive". This is the worst of brawn over brain.

* The rise of "fundamental" Islam; most notably the Ash'ari within Sunni sect (al-Ghazali was just one of the most well known of this group) to the detriment of all the other "forward looking" sects in Islam.

* The Mongol invasion which wiped out a unified Islamic empire leading to more internecine strife within Islam.

* The Christian Crusades.

* The general ossification and fossilization of beliefs in Islamic cultures causing them to turn away from the "Modern Scientific Enlightenment" movement which started in Europe.

Note that similar decline of cultures have happened before due to similar (but not same) reasons; most notably with Ancient China and India though not to the same degree.
They are about the same age, Python was more popular in the US/Europe prior to Rails catching on (which I guess contributes to it still being more used outside of web dev).
"distracting" and "intruding" are your words. Before a crew goes in, there is a lot of explanation about who should act how and what is off limits. im not saying some crew folks don't mess up stuff, but it is a very small minority. most crews just do their jobs and follow the rules.
This is misleading. When using WPA the client and access point perform mutual authentication. This means that if you don't know the password, you cannot set up a rogue access point that "copies the target access point's settings". Because you don't know the password! And if you'd use a random password, the client will refuse to connect to the rogue AP.

The tool is actually creating a second, unencrypted network. On Windows it will give you a warning that the configuration of the network has changed. On Android you'd have to manually reconnect to the unencrypted network. So their method doesn't automatically perform a man-in-the-middle attack. A decent setup will warn you about this. Sure, if a user ignores all OS warnings, connects to an unencrypted network anyway, and feels the need to type his password in random fields s/he never saw before, then this will work [3].

What would be more interesting is to jam the target network, using an actual jammer [1], and then perform a KARMA man-in-the-middle attack [2]. The idea is to listen for probe requests to unencrypted networks, and then clone that unencrypted network. In this case the user would automatically connect, making the attack more likely to succeed...

[1] http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~mathy.vanhoef/papers/acsac2014...

[2] http://www.theta44.org/karma/

[3] Perhaps I'm a bit cynical, but I suppose it might actually work some of the time... :(
Apache Solr is also extremely good. I use it at work for enterprise search and know it meets all but your last requirement (emacs integration) but a search for "solr emacs integration" suggests even that is possible.