jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I ride a bike, around 2000 miles/year and I'd love to be able to spout the statistic their claiming. But please, /they are also stating that driving a car 10KM has the same carbon footprint as sending 800 emails. That kind of claim makes the whole article suspect.
I recall hard to debug issues due to compiler silently dropping everything past col 80 ...
I think the parent comment is trying to point out that the people who were deciding who was a "witch" in Salem back then could be the same type of people who are deciding what counts as "racist" or "hate speech" these days when it comes to "canceling" others.
Yikes, did you have it on UPS? How did a power issue kill your server? A big spike? Most filesystems like XFS should be able to fsck even after a power drop, especially with RAID. (I prefer RAID-10 for speed of rebuilds.)
Company taxes are also 30% over here typically, flat rate. It is quite a lot I think, for small businesses at least. They don't have economies of scale or fancy setups and owners will pay a tax on profits then income taxes for themselves (I think dividends can work around this with franking credits), it can hurt margins, not to mention compliance overheads for GST etc.
Presenting a screen/dialog to the user at first login asking for permission to access contact data does not sound like "forcefully harvested". Users rarely understand the consequences of their decision, which is why I would love to see iOS and Android eliminate the option of wholesale contact access, but use of Facebook apps is not predicated upon receiving your contact data.
Don't mistake the hubris in these communities for factually correct knowledge. These communities tend to cherry-pick whichever research provides the answers they want to hear, while dismissing everything that disagrees.

I know an endocrinologist who sees a lot of men in their 30s and 40s who never fully recovered from even short anabolic steroid cycles. The online communities tend to promote the idea that the suppressive effects of anabolic steroids can be reversed with "post cycle therapy", but the reality is that a lot of men never fully recover natural production regardless of which combination of medications they use after the steroids.
That sounds really unorganized to me at least, I mean the linux kernel is large and there's only one guy at the end of the day merging all that stuff.

I would think that in larger projects a better practice would be a distributed hierarchy of merges until a PR finally got submitted to master, not a massive blob of just send everything to master as a PR and let various maintainers merge whatever at will.
I was mainly speaking to the anti-aircraft weapon's addition shrapnel, rather than the drone itself. It's pretty hard to shoot down a drone without, ah, having the drone fall down. You can try some sort of hack, or radio blackout, but those are pretty easy to defeat.

But most modern AA weapons have tremendous velocities and are often explosive. Even after losses due to air resistance, AA shrapnel can come with with lethal velocities. I was told by somebody I trust that the Baghdad suffered more damage in financial terms from AA fallout than the actual US air strikes in the first US/Iraq war.
Yes, minus the whole WoT part.

Note also that support for ECC is already there in the latest GnuPG, and Ed25519 is already supported for signatures. The rest is coming:

https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#ecc
In a folder labeled "TorChat," Ulbricht's computer holds years' worth of chat logs.

Felt the same way when reading this. Seriously - three years worth of chat logs? I don't think he wanted to get caught, he just felt that a clueless investigator could never decrypt his data, a clueless prosecutor could never understand let alone describe his operation and a clueless jury would never understand it.

So far we know he underestimated the investigator and the prosecutor. We'll know soon if he misjudged his chances with a jury.
Man, I used to LOVE Zork (all of them)...I still have my hand-drawn maps of every single area. Took me months to make them.
What we consider "decent" today is not always "decent" tomorrow and things like personal blogs go down all the time or change their URL structure. Also not everyone has a community/family that will keep their work online after they are gone and I don't want to lose content because someone's hosting lapsed after their death.

Looking back I wish I had archived some of the forums that I used as a kid as a number of them are just gone, no wayback machine, no cache, no archive, just gone.

Sidenote: I'd love to work or just use on a service that can will allow for community funding of both hosting/domain reg so that you could add a widget on your site and have it stay online even after your death as long as people donate, maybe even make the site static if no one can pay and use proceeds from other sites to float the cost. There is a chance that you could die and your close friends/relative would either not have the access (password/key) or technical know-how to keep your site online even if they had the funds to do so
seeing other languages can help you understand other paradigms better. Canonical example is people learning Haskell or Lisp and then going back to C++ and making much more stateless (and thus more maintanable) code.
You don't think that "not wanting the GAFAMs to own the Internet" might also be a reason?
I don't think this is realistically achievable when you have all kinds of distortion and echoes.
You'd also need a way to identify the exact position on the song and correct that if it was wrong because it was in the refrain.
Wait, really? I had to look that up. From their share price chart, get AAPL as being ~0.33/share then vs ~133 now and market cap $2.2T, which backs out to ~$5-6 billion in mid-2001.

I can't easily find the valuation of Sony BMG or EMI at the time.
> - Snap: mostly failing

As much as I hate Snap and remove it from my Kubuntu systems, I don't see where it is failing. I frankly see a lot more non-linux-focused vendors support to snap than flatpak. Could you expand on that point?
What purpose would realizing the absurdity serve, again?

It might be absurd that someone is shooting bullets at you but you should shoot back if that's the case.
I wouldn't mind some targeted advertising. If it were contained in a single place, to visit whenever I wanted to.

Double gain if it would eliminate tracked advertising on the rest of the internet.
How does FN enter here? I thought they're owned by the Belgian government?
Wokeness is much closer to religion then it is to logic. This is why you can not make sense of it through the lens of rationality*. Part of being in a religion is doing things that to outsiders seem silly, but serve as a virtue signal to fellow acolytes. An example, there are certain magic words that you must either say or not say. (Lord's prayer is good, god-dammit is taboo) When practiced with restraint, virtue signaling is a normal and useful part of group social dynamics. The problem comes when virtue signaling gets out of control. This is called a purity spiral. The church of woke is currently experiencing a purity spiral. What makes this particular spiral novel is that you can watch it happening in real time on the internet. That and many of the woke do not recognize they are in a religion.

*Note that it can be a rational decision to adhere an irrational religion. Excommunication has consequences, in this case, the guy got fired.
I'm not sure whether I would call "munging the cookie header with regexps" "cookie handling" ;).
Thanks for the comment. Did you have a chance to see how the dashboard of screenshots works at the moment? Is this what you're commenting on?
Does anyone know of the TPM equivalent for this? I found this [1] but when I tried it, the Windows Hello prompt only accepts USB security keys and not the fingerprint sensor in my laptop (already set up for login).
My knowledge of WebAuthn is limited but their invocation of the relevant API seems like it should work for fingerprints also.

[1] https://github.com/tavrez/openssh-sk-winhello
I have never seen a convincing argument of the claim that decentralization creates worse outcomes for fighting disinformation.

I think decentralization/federation [1] strongly improves systemic stability by enabling diversity and a hearty turnover of a variety of different curation approaches towards content. The way I see it, even if there’s no powerful central authority (supposedly exploiting economies of scale) controlling the spread of disinformation, the lack of a curatorial monoculture intrinsically limits the reach/damage of parasites (and also reduces the value of “hacking” that oversight process, since the payoff/reach is limited). The monoculture of a large platform with homogeneous policies creates the problem in the first place, and then needs to solve it.

On top of this, especially when the fundamental problem is enforced homogeneity against the wishes of the people, centralized governance is never going to be a satisfactory solution, even with a constitution — because that requires the underlying values to be shared, and the population on the internet is too diverse for that.

[1]: Protocols rather than platforms https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a...
Agreed, you should flesh that out into a blog post, a reminder to people to stop losing sight of the forest for the trees.
Someone needs to make tumblr for front page/business card websites.
I like rock so any band that has three or four consecutively good albums that I can just push play and listen to hours of good music is a must.

Examples, Tool, Pink Floyd, Rage Against the Machine, In Flames, etc.

edit: also, almost any station from SomaFM http://somafm.com/
Watson reminds me greatly of Proverb, a crossword-solving program. It works in a similar way: a number of different heuristics come up with possible clue solutions, then a ranking algorithm prunes them by probability. Like Watson, some heuristics just do raw text search, while others are specialized to common kinds of wordplay.

Proverb is able to solve about 90% of the clues in an average week of New York Times puzzles. Of course, Proverb has an advantage over Watson: the letters of intersecting clues are dependent, so the probabilities of different clues reinforce each other, giving better estimates of likely letters.

http://www.oneacross.com/proverb/

(http://www.oneacross.com/ has a limited version of Proverb online which can guess at individual crossword clues -- invaluable if you get stuck on one.)
It's sad that some investors & retirement plans will get hit... On the other hand, when you invest in a company, you're not just getting a share of the profits, but you also get a share of the liability as well.
Just so you are aware that storage solution is a bad idea as it is being kept on the same machine and the only real problem it solves is simple and extremely limited version control.
Not sure if I missed it in the API documentation but what happens if I PUT a file with a file name that already exists?

One thing that drives me nuts about a lot of backup services is that they say that the data is encrypted. It is important to recognize the two places where data can be intercepted:

* In transport, unless it's done over TLS/SSL. Most services provide this.
* Once stored. This is done very rarely and if it is done, the provider is the one that has the encryption key.

With your service you can actually take care of both by simply instructing your users to encrypt the file before uploading it.

Another bits of functionality I'd say you are missing are "diff" backups. I don't necessarily want to upload my entire 300GB multimedia library each day when I want to back it up (especially if I'm being charged for traffic). I'd rather upload a small diff.

A very cool use of this technology would be a FUSE plugin for browsing your storage area.
I suppose you could think of it as an opportunity cost debt. If you don't take the best opportunities, you'll end up paying for them later (and then some).
Not only that but you can probably parse a jeopardy "answer" into a series of roughly independent clauses, and then try to predict classes that rank high in these clauses. For example, in the "answer" "This action flick starring Roy Scheider in a high-tech police helicopter was also briefly a TV series" you can get it right just by looking for things that correlate highly with "action flick", "Roy Schneider", "police helicopter", and "TV series".
Completely true. However it is extremely rare for multiple startups to go for _exactly_ the same niche.

Also, most customers you approach will never have heard of either of you - unless you are in a tiny market your competition has very little effect on you (other than encouraging you to work harder)
Oh I see - you are talking about a la carte pricing. Interesting question - as a user my gut reaction is I would be happy to pay $5 for 5 features, of which I only use 3, so that way you get an extra couple of bucks out of me. But, again the key thing is that $5 has to seem reasonable to me. If you were charging $100 for 5 features and I only use 3, I would definitely want the choice to only spend $60, or else I might decide not to spend any money at all.
I would think the personal/commercial legal position will be, umm, clarified when insurance companies start denying personal insurance claims because the operators were "operating in a commercial activity". As I see it, never give insurance companies a chance to deny you coverage as they will if it's in their economic interest to do so.
Maybe because that would give an advantage to people using faster languages, and they want it to be more about the machine learning algorithms
Can you explain in more detail what you mean by "limited instruction count execution that is machine independent"? For example:

- Is it measuring the count and making sure it doesn't exceed some threshold, or is the client API designed to actually give each client a specific number of instructions and terminate if that is exceeded?

- Does "machine independent" mean it needs to run outside of x86/amd64?

- Would it offend your sensibilities if CPU cycles used by C programs counted the same as those used by JVM programs?
I stumbled upon Ted Chiang's stories completely randomly about 10 years ago -- perhaps it was a periodical like Asimov's or perhaps someone linked a story to me online in an IRC chat. I read 'Understand' and instantly fell in love. Ted Chiang is nowhere as prolific as other writers, but he writes really excellent short stories. It's exciting how 'Story of Your Life' is being made into a film!
Relax, the submission is a troll.
The built-in keyboard shortcuts cover my use-cases:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361
Along those lines, I recently encountered this project that enables the use of SVG to design maps etc for games developed with the Rust language game engine Bevy: https://github.com/carrascomj/bevy_svg_map

"The properties of the lines (color, opacity, fill...) can be used to programmatically add functionality..."
There's even a musical based on the high school version named "Funky Winkerbean's Homecoming" which probably would confuse readers of the current strip, as cancer, alcoholism, and suicide don't play a part.
As a Canadian, I think it is time to be rid of the monarchy and become a republic.
Thought Bubbles, Echo Chambers, Circular Sources, Communal Reinforcement, Epistemic Closure, Errors Of Omission, False Consensus Effect, Groupthink, Opinion Corridors, Sleight Of Mouth, Talking Points... all sophistry ("the art of making the lesser argument appear the greater"), call it by whatever name you will, fake news, propaganda, "speaking with a forked tongue" -- or just plain disingenuity...

Media is dead!

Long live the media!

(In case you forgot that old saying, "The King Is Dead... Long Live The King!"... oh forget it! <g>)
These are arguably features not bugs. Except for your 1. which has already been solved by multiple POS cryptocurrencies.
I'm not so sure I agree. My old laptop (still in use) is a Dell Precision m4800. It has a quad-core i7, and is so thick and heavy the word "laptop" is kind of a joke. It has massive heatsinks and fairly loud fans. Still it will throttle back after ~90 seconds of "make -j 4" or other heavily parallel jobs.

If you have a laptop that will run at 100% load indefinitely, it's only because the manufacturer has chosen a low power CPU.
Regulating freely consented exchanges _you_ don't like out of existence will not actually make them disappear, just push them underground, out of society's eye and where the REAL exploitation takes place.

That's why adults actually working in those domains militate for legalization and that's why totalitarian societies require so much surveillance just to avoid collapse.

Because people WILL do the deals they need to do to survive or get ahead. Your laws will just provide the reason to catch and incarcerate them afterwards.

See the marijuana legalization mess.
Do you have a link/reference that explains this?
The rich get richer in proof of work, too. It's not like those giant mining rigs are free.

It's also true in bank accounts; the more money deposited, the more interest you earn. At least in proof of stake everybody gets the same interest rate regardless of deposit size. Banks generally give better rates to larger accounts.
How about insidious? It's the banal sort of evil that doesn't realize the harm it's causing, or doesn't see a way to survive without causing that harm.
I have landed a new job recently and during the job search I also did statistics.

For context I am 30 year old french, had my one and only job for 6 years doing
PHP (sf2, postgres, redis, solr, rest), I have a 2 year degree where in europe
most people have a 3 to 5 year degree.

Here is my statistics to applying to ads on indeed:

France:
- application: 40
- noreply: 20
- phone screen: 7
- interview: 3
- landed: 1

Luxembourg (french speaking):
- application: 18
- noreply: 9
- phone screen: 5
- interview: 1
- landed: 1

Remote (europe):
- application: 7
- noreply: 5
- interview: 0

Spain(5)/Portugal(2)/Uk(2)/Switzerland(1):
- application: 10
- noreply: 1
- phone screen: 5
- interview: 3
- landed: 0

My takes over are:

- Cover letter doesn't increase my chances of having a reply.

- Changing my CV after the feedback of a recruiter (he asked me to lie by
omission) didn't improved my chances.

- I don't apply to company I recognize the name. If I do lots of people do too
therefor there is a lots of better candidates than me and the company can
afford to run me through many interviews.

- I don't apply to company that do more than 1 interview, they have too much
time on their hands to find a reason not to hire me.

- I don't apply to company that specifically ask for a 3 to 5 years degree even if
I fit the rest of the requirements.

This last job search (the one that landed my first job 7 years ago wasn't a
bliss either) made me feel extremely under-confident in my capacity to grow my
career even having a job.
Let's not resort to the appeal to worse problems as a reason to give up on solving problems closer to home.
As someone from a very large, impoverished family, this is an easily falsifiable statement...

I mean, being poor sucks, and it does make you more likely to commit crime, but talking about it like it's an inevitability is inaccurate and not in good faith.
In the US we had it for a brief period of time. Then we got an FCC chair who not only took it away, but actively trolled people who were angry about it. (And that's before we even get into the issue of the public comment ballot box getting stuffed by copypasta spam in favor of killing net neutrality and wink-and-nudge blind eye turned away from it.)

That's the double edged sword in the US of having executive level departments with wide latitude to set regulations with the weight of law behind them but not the same high barrier of changing them as it takes to change a law. Technically this allows agencies to be more nimble, or as much as possible in any lumbering bureaucracy. On the other hand it means that very important pieces of public policy are even further removed from election accountability and subject to the whims of different administrations.

Whether you're for or against it, the Keystone pipeline is a prime example of the insanity that results from this. It was approve & construction begun on one administration, a final portion for it put on hold by another, then opened again by a third, a fourth stopped it again resulting in its backers cancelling it (seemingly) once and for all. Forget about the difficulties of generation-long projects, this makes anything longer than 4 years highly uncertain.
Netflix can literally implement fast.com to do the exact same operation as when streaming and then measure performance of the stream.

Yes you could do a timer, but that would mean e.g. first 30s of all Netflix streams to be much faster and then slow down just in case they were in fact speed tests. Also would be difficult to differentiate between running a speed test vs a stream that gets its connection closed and reconnects.

All of this is an order of
magnitude for ISPs to deal with than unthrottling traffic for specific domains. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but making it prohibitively more expensive helps a lot.
If you’re happy, great. But you might want to figure out what’s interfering with your wired bandwidth, because wired 1G ethernet should basically win every time compared to current WiFi standards. Maybe not ax under ideal conditions. But that’s a maybe.
If I had to chose between developer signed packages and TLS, I'd go with signed packages, because at least then I know I get what the developer intended to give me, no questions asked. TLS guarantees security in transport, yes that's true, but a package signed by the developer guarantees that even if the mirror itself been compromised and still has a valid TLS connection, my system won't install a rogue dependency.

Luckily in our real world, we can have both of them, and that's of course best :)
I agree, a business should have a roadmap from management not the other way around
I'm not sure that judging a retail sales strategy by change in sales between January and April of 2009 -- exactly the period when consumer confidence plummeted to match the tanking Dow -- is a great idea.

For comparison, line up this chart

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI+Interactive#chart1:s...

with the one in the article...

I guess the test will be whether sales will shoot up when they reverse this policy.

(The article also doesn't say anything about whether they tested this approach in some stores before converting all stores; Walmart has a long history of mining their sales data to try to pick out patterns in store performance, so if this was done as abruptly as the article says, I'm surprised.)
Windows (certainly 7) handles this perfectly well - try and type a character that isn't allowed in a file name and it pops up a tool tip saying it isn't allowed, along with a quick list of other characters that are disallowed. It also throws that key press away, so it doesn't have to be deleted and can't cause another kind of issue.

This is the difference between products which have undergone long rounds of user testing and ones that haven't. For me this is one of the biggest issues facing Linux based operating systems today, because this is generally not an itch that people working on the project feel like scratching (see: design, documentation, etc.) With commercially backed projects like Ubuntu, it can get there over time, but I would look at a user testing result summary like this and say "we have a LONG way to go" if it was a product that I was leading.