jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately both parties on this are horribly bad. The Democrats just as bad as the Republicans. In their seal to not seem weak against the Republicans they have accepted the basic premises this foreign policy was developed.

Unlike Saudi, Qatar, Israel, UAE and others Iran has no lobby in the US. Because there is are no commercial ties, US buissness don't have existing relationships with Iran anymore.

While US companies like Boeing certainty would like to establish such commercial relation with Iran. Their far bigger intensive is to continue to support the Saudi/Israel vs Iran conflict and to sell massive amounts of weapons both to the US government and the governments of Saudi/Israel and allies.

Since there are no large factor to push the US a different direction the status quo has basically been established in the post 1979 world and things only changed minimally.

There is not genuine democratic support for these changes, mostly because most people simply have no idea of middle east politics and don't know the difference between Iran and Iraq or anything like that.

There is a broad based anti-war movement from both the left and the right, but it has very little politician influence outside of the presidential elections. In the presidential elections generally the more anti-war presidents wins, but usually once in office, everybody around is not of that opinion. In congress election foreign policy is usually not important enough of a factor.

Just considering that it was most Saudi bombers at the WW2 and the waste majority of issues and terror bombings have been by Sunnis has not changed the US political output in the least. Despite Iran actually reaching out to the US post-911 (threw the Swiss Embassy) putting a lot of issues up for debate but Bush categorically refused to even consider any engagement.

Its really hard to see what strategically could change so this policy direction could change anytime soon.
Well, given that the interest rates are negative, it's kind of hard to tell if 5% downpayment is better than 40% downpayment..

Afaik, the norm is 20% down, but the banks will loan you another 15% at a higher rate if you want that.
I would highly recommend First Round Fast Track program. I was a mentor in the last cohort and it was an amazing experience. More here, https://fasttrack.firstround.com/
Mind expanding on why you think this is so?
Liquidate criminal corporations and you have 2 simultaneous outcomes:

Shareholders lose their investment

Investors that didn't invest in the criminal corporation get to buy the assets for pennies on the dollar.

Perfect harmony.
That sounds plausible, though I thought any power running through it would've caused it to burn out. I was actually going to do a full disassembly with a mate of mine who was an EE, but never got round to it. We attempted to do it with my iPhone (which was dunked into a toilet in an unrelated incident), but even cleaning everything with isopropyl alcohol it wouldn't work. I didn't hold high hopes for the MacBook.

And no, water damage wasn't covered by warranty, but it was out of warranty anyhow. I just didn't want to pay another $2K for a MacBook Air (maxed out specs at the time).
hledger (http://hledger.org) author here. Here's what I wrote about this a few years back: http://hledger.org/faq.html#hledger-and-ledger . One user said "hledger is an easier-to-use implementation of the ledger accounting system".

The basic file format is the same, but there are differences - with a little care you can keep a file that works with both. Abandon and beancount's file formats are more different.

I'm happy to answer questions here or on #hledger. I've been using and growing hledger steadily since 2007; I just released 0.24 and we are thinking about a 1.0 one of these months.
Wow. That's impressive. Only a factor of 1.2 slowdown for full capture of execution history on a program the size of Firefox. This could, if properly used, eliminate the closing of bug reports as "can't reproduce". It may mean sending in gigabytes of bug trace data, though.
Citation needed please. Ian Lance Taylor, a core member of the Go team has revised and replied to many of the generics debates on go-nuts.
> Can you really use the S3 API to spin up EC2 instances?

No. My guess would be credential with allow:* service access.
I'll see if I can re-work the documentation a bit to make this clearer - I think in the hope of making it easy to understand I oversimplified a bit too much.

Each secret has a unique key generated for it on the machine uploading the secret. The unique key is also uploaded to the server, but encrypted (initially for super users and the owner only), and it's this unique key for the secret that's shared. This means that the server cannot read the secret (it never gets the decrypted key), but the secret can be shared with clients without having to maintain lots of copies of the secret itself (which could potentially be large).
The sharing mechanism is a bit involved, as it has to happen without any decryption on the server, but I'll try document this properly.

To get into a situation where secrets were unrecoverable, you'd have to lose all your super-user keys and all the admin/client keys with access.

Does that clear things up at all?
There are humans all over the world with neanderthal and denisovan ancestry. They may have gone extinct, but their relatives definitely live on.
If you don't mind, could you share a few details of what you put in that file? Or a well-documented published version if it exists. Very intrested in doing something similar myself, thanks.
You inspired me to go and look to see if my old Digimon fansite was still on Tripod. Turns out it was. [0]

Showing off my classy classy Jasc Paint Shop Pro 5 skills, my marquee tags, pixel fonts, badly repeating background, 88x31 buttons for affiliates, links with underline and OVERline hover.

I am truly sorry, internet.

[0]: http://digiauk.tripod.com/index2.shtm
Thanks for your feedback. I might run the DB on the host then, and just use containers for the app server. I'm not at the scale to warrant a separate host for the DB.
It's simple: I'm mad at everything all the time. Everything sucks and we should change it.

See! Easy! ;)
I tried to double check whether this was the one, but got lost reading Mike Hamburg comments to verify it.
I'm currently building a website with this kind of rectangular design language and I'm really digging it.
That's why I say "seems" instead of "was". I don't want to assume it's on purpose. But I'm sure they had control over the speed of the animation. If they didn't make it look frenetic on purpose, they were incompetent in their attempt to make it describe reality.

If they didn't mean it to seem that way, the responsibility is on them to fix it. This is only my opinion, but I'm sure I'm not alone.
This is an interesting thought experiment. The space of all consistent and potentially useful mathematical constructs is gigantic, so I think there would be a good chance that two alien species would share almost no mathematical constructs, and would require decades or hundreds of years to discover - so in this sense, there is a large element of invention to mathematics as a human endeavor.

Even for physics, there are often many mathematical theories that can be used to model the same physical observations (talking about equivalent structures, not about competing theories). For example, many problems can be described equivalently using vectors, complex numbers, or linear algebra. There is a good chance that there are many (perhaps infinitely many) other systems that we haven't thought about that could be used equivalently.

So, while I agree that ultimately the structures in mathematics exist independent of our use of them, so we are only discovering pre-existing structures, I would also say that new mathematical theories are developed using a process that is more similar to invention than to discovery (i.e. you can't explore the space of mathematic theories to discover new ones, as it is infinite in every direction - you can only explore the properties of a structure you essentially invent for yourself).
This was what I wondered too. When I’m using good ANC, I can hear my body really well. It’s like when you go under water and suddenly hear those sounds instead of terrestrial sounds - ANC is like going in my body rather than under water, though.
John Ogbu, a Nigerian-American anthropologist, conducted research on this subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-American-Students-Affluent-Subur...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/30/arts/why-are-black-student...

"No matter how you reform schools, it's not going to solve the problem," he said in an interview. "There are two parts of the problem, society and schools on one hand and the black community on the other hand."

Professor Ogbu's latest conclusions are highlighted in a study of blacks in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent Cleveland suburb whose school district is equally divided between blacks and whites. As in many racially integrated school districts, the black students have lagged behind whites in grade-point averages, test scores and placement in high-level classes. Professor Ogbu was invited by black parents in 1997 to examine the district's 5,000 students to figure out why.

"What amazed me is that these kids who come from homes of doctors and lawyers are not thinking like their parents; they don't know how their parents made it," Professor Ogbu said in an interview. "They are looking at rappers in ghettos as their role models, they are looking at entertainers. The parents work two jobs, three jobs, to give their children everything, but they are not guiding their children."

For example, he said that middle-class black parents in general spent no more time on homework or tracking their children's schooling than poor white parents. And he said that while black students talked in detail about what efforts were needed to get an A and about their desire to achieve, too many nonetheless failed to put forth that effort.

Those kinds of attitudes reflect a long history of adapting to oppression and stymied opportunities, said Professor Ogbu, a Nigerian immigrant who has written that involuntary black immigrants behave like low-status minorities in other societies.

Not surprisingly, he said, the parents were disappointed when he turned the spotlight on them as well as the schools. Peggy Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the Shaker Heights City School District, said that minority families cared deeply about their children's academic achievement and the district was working with education experts to reduce the racial achievement gap. She noted that while Professor Ogbu called most of the black families in the district middle class, 10 to 12 percent live in poverty.
Am I wrong in taking the cheese sandwich from Hitler if it's a very good cheese sandwich? After all, I'm writing this on a Mac, a platform owned by a company that has interesting views on what people should and shouldn't be able to do with their own kit. I buy Windows from Microsoft (which according to many Usenet postings is clearly the closest thing to accepting a cheese sandwich from Hitler, especially in the Linux groups).

I think Zed's fallen wide of the mark here. He's failed to address the technical failings with Tor, instead opting to launch his own ad hominem attack on Jacob Applebaum (who's done more than just work on Tor and Wikileaks) and the history of the project as a US Navy tool.

If he has such a problem with Tor then it's worth auditing the code and seeing for yourself. It's not perfect, but Tor has it's uses. If you really need the kind of anonymity to protect something life threatening then don't use Tor (due to it's failings in the cheese sandwich quality department, not because of it's history or contributors).
How about a third option: they use a method of communication that wont get them killed. You're presenting a false dichotomy.
So you're telling me that psychotropic drugs have essentially zero scientific support as treatment for psychopathology?
Way to go. Google should make something like this available as a Gmail lab add-on.
Thx for the mention.

Mike was my thesis advisor at Cal, and had enormous influence on all sorts of things beyond databases, including (I believe) the founding of the CS department and the negotiation of how Ingres technology spin off from Cal (which owns the IP), which became the prototype for how others would create companies like Inktomi and many more.
A good tour of casual criticism of basic income. Its couched in 'if everything were the same as today' terms, ignoring other changes that would have to be made to implement BI nationwide.

Some issues are fake, like suggesting that different states could afford different levels of BI. Who says its a state program? That's a red herring.

Suggesting its supported by taxation is another red herring. Inflation would be slightly affected; but given that 99% of the money is hoarded by a few, what the other 1% get is actually a small piece of the pie. Inflation would be a small issue. So issuing new money to cover the BI would be a simple approach, which also serves to counter (in America at least) the huge inequalities present.

Lastly, there's irrelevant discussion of means testing to 'deserve' the BI. That shows the author must have some fundamental misunderstanding of what a Basic Income is, and it isn't a means-tested welfare benefit. Its a break from that model, by design.
One thing that seems most related to income of any type is health care, yet this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. I would love to see a country that provided UBI and healthcare where the countries citizens were not enslaved to the system for years to pay for these two things.
Since 'code.google.com' is shutting down, this, most likely, will be the official repo.
Yea what's up with that? Sounds like a pretty terrible practice to me. Is that something that c++ forces you to do?
That was created by vim creator and maintainer Bram himself. Link to where he made a post about that: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_dev/Io5A_Zir--k/fa...
I’ve noticed this too. I’ve found myself iterating on a nice extended form control library where I try to extend the native inputs and forms in the most minimal, yet complete, way I can.

There are actually a lot of nice improvements being discussed in the CSS level 4 specs, but some of the issues are last tagged as updated in 2012...

But basically we just need a consistent value interface (two-way data binding), and a more finely-grained validation/state lifecycle where we can plug in our own custom validation functions.

Colleagues and I always joke that every web developer gets the idea to write a form library at some point, and suffering through trying to implement it is the only way to dissuade them of the idea. Now the joke is on me as I’ve come full circle back to writing one.

I’ve spent so much time on it now I’ve been considering reaching out to help contribute to the spec. But I have no idea how receptive the working group is. This may just become my eternal project, there’s always more edge cases to find.
Haha in the original draft of this post I had "make more money/work on yourself" as one of the points but took it out - most people seem to know the big stuff like don't make big purchases you can't afford. What seems to be less common knowledge amongst my friends at least is how much little things like eating out often has a financial impact on them since it's harder to see. We aren't programmed to understand compounding very well so I wanted to highlight that in the post somehow. This could just be my very young self talking since I haven't seen very many different financial profiles out there.
What about the hippies from the 60s? Surely there are more sample populations.
> At those Texan speeds, managing to stop a sixteen wheeler on ice would be a miracle.

So what you're saying is they should have been going slower due to inclement weather?
> Then you can hire a family member, deduct home office expenses and even if you lose money operating the business, you'll save money on taxes.

This entire sentence is “top things the IRS has seen before and will not be amused by.” Sure, you can put this stuff on your Schedule C and get more money in your refund, but just wait until the IRS audits you in 5 years and determines that your family member is not engaging in activities that make them a legitimate employee, your living room is not a home office just because you have a desk in the corner, and since you’re making continuous losses and not operating in a “businesslike manner” your ‘business’ is actually a hobby; and then sends you a bill for back taxes plus interest and penalties.

(Sure, those are all actual deductions, but if your mindset is “legal tax evasion” and not “this is a business expense” you’re probably not qualified to take them.)
This doesn’t add to your credibility :). Your net worth is peanuts right now but as long as you are thinking about it this hard you will have a whole truckload of peanuts in 20 years.
Yes, all of those things aren't representative. I have no idea why people use the last fifty years, that is roughly your investing life-time, and you are using that as your only sample. That isn't investing, that is rolling the dice and hoping to get lucky.

Dimson, Marsh, Staunton is the only representative long-term study of global returns. One, that sample still has selection bias (a couple of years ago, they found an issue with calculations for a market that went to zero, that knocked 10% off their estimates). Two, very bad events happen infrequently so you have a sample of a few thousand years across many countries: German hyperinflation is one year, Austro-Hungary is two years, China is a few years, etc. So there isn't a huge sample of very bad things given that capital markets have existed inconsistently for two centuries only. Three, there is a discontinuity between how finance professors look at the past, how investors today percieve the past, and how the past actually was. As an example, after WW2 equities did very well...one problem, the US had to issue a tons of govt debt, and forced everyone to own bonds. The sample doesn't really show that most people couldn't own equities. Equally, transaction costs are often not well understood (i.e. the assumption is that you can produce a market-cap weighted portfolio, and these effects are correlated to returns: when you can't produce a cap-weighted portfolio, returns are high because participation is low). But yes, their number is ~300bps real...I would emphasize though that you should actually read about market history, and understand the risks.
Some songs and artists I like it is so bad at recognizing that I learned to just preload everything in advance. Honestly, it is vetter that way- voice controls are frustrating enough to soak up too much attention, even though your eyes don't leave the road.
I see a lot of DIY air purifiers — you don’t see many household appliances with a big DIY scene since the Walmart price/quality point is hard to beat. Any reason why the market hasn’t filled this niche yet? What is the advantage of DIY here?
Good question! It seemed to me that we were discussing something like the last 4-5 years at minimum, because the author identified a prior and continuing decline in surveyed trust of government and institutions, with especially low reported trust during that period. So I would think it helpful to look at homicide rates over the last decade or so for context.

If we think 538 is a reputable source, maybe we could try this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-u-s-murder-rate-is-...

It seems like there was a gradual decline from a ~9.7/100,000 in 1990, to about ~4.8/100,000 in 2014, followed by a smaller but sharp uptick of about %9-%10, to 5.3/100,000 as of 2016.

Edit: bad math.
An API that maps to the underlying data-structure (btree, ranges, cursors), is bar-none simpler than an API that abtracts the underlying data structure away (like any SQL does).

The web was built by taking existing systems, and cutting away at them until they were so simple they barely worked. But because they were simple they could spread.

IndexedDB isn't the simplest spec it could be (I think they could do-away with transactions if they were willing to require MVCC semantics) but it is admirably simple for a database.
Local storage is just key/value queries, IndexedDB allows you to make range queries against indexes you define, so you can get eg: recent blog posts, etc.
Having read the original paper I can tell you a couple things:

1. The technique used to visualize synapses is awesome.
2. This quote about molecular switches comes out of nowhere. It's related but not really part of this study.

More importantly though the idea that these are switches and that there are way more of them than transistors in the world misses two important points.

1. Are the molecular switches relevant to the computation performed by the brain?

Only in so much as to build a transistor you need materials with certain specific properties, and to build a calcium channel you need proteins with certain specific responses to the environment. Comparing the computational unit of one to the building blocks of another isn't quite accurate.

2. Even if they were computationally relevant are they comprable in terms of key metrics like performance?

Two important things to remember about the brain are that its slow and very very efficient. Silicon logic on the other hand is very very fast and inefficient. Even if there were a thousand fold increase in the number of computational units assigned to the brain the processing speed of a modern transistor decimates synaptic level computation.
> No kidding. Right place at the right time.

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
(attributed to Woody Allen)
i suspect that many people on HN have the skills to break into quite a few computer systems, and travel to places that are hotbeds of computer crime such as New York, SF, and of course internationally.

does that mean we should all be detained and have our computers ad phones taken away and searched whenever we go within 100 miles of a border?
Sneakernet from internet-infected machines, via USB drives.
I bet he had a pretty good idea. Looking back on the way products were introduced, I think it’s the theory that best fits the facts. (Of course there was also some luck – Jobs is smart but not magic.)
i'm for it
People live on highway one. Maybe not the best example. I think the Blue Ridge parkway or that road in Rocky Mountain National might be better.
The opposite of using Amazon Smile is not using it. It costs you nothing and benefits charities.
no, the answer is to use nuclear - a scalable technology which we have spent decades developing and operating. France gets 75% of its electricity from nuclear.
> So you are saying that the difference is such that one group should not be prosecuted and the other group should? What criteria are you using to differentiate? Storming government buildings other than the Capital is OK?

I said nothing of the sort and I don't know how you would interpret my words that way.

From the poster I responded to:

> The other kind of insurrectionists seem to also have little to fear from the law

My response was about the notion that protesters and rioters this summer were "insurrectionists", they were not. At least not as a general rule. Some of them, maybe, probably always are in political protests. But most of them were there to either create havoc (rioters) or protest for change to the way policing is conducted in the US (the protestors).

The people who went into the US Capitol Building on 6 January, 2021 were intending to prevent the carrying out of a legal process to certify the results of a democratic election and, in their minds, prevent the succession of the presidency. That makes them insurrectionists, not just protestors anymore, at least as regards the US Constitution and democratic process.

Besides, protestors and rioters in 2020 were prosecuted. And it's moronic or ignorant to say they weren't.