jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the big picture, extremely flawed military and political leaders ordered the killing of innocent people. Lower ranked military personnel found interesting ways to carry out those orders. Should we ignore the big picture?

In addition, there are two sides to this story.
1) A misguided US Military found ways to kill innocent people.
2) The Vietnam Military found a way to defend themselves without killing anyone.
Which side should we communicate as being more clever?
> there should be a feature request for Github to provide a prompt in case Github detects sensitive information in the code hosted.

Sure, just enumerate any and all possible types of sensitive data, the format they may be in, regex / matching functions to account for them (supported across 20+ programming languages) and I'm sure Github will have that done asap.

Alternatively, don't commit passwords/API-keys/sensitive-info to your repo.
millions of times. but with magit and a complete disregard for commit messages you can cure yourself of the crud-making habit in an afternoon!
Upon reading the title, the first thing that comes to my mind is: "why not?".

If we treat AI just like any another artist's tool, I don't see why it should stop the owner/maker of said AI from copyrighting what it comes up with. As the article point out, as it exists, even AI needs significant human involvement to actually get something done.

I guess one argument that one might make is that those upon whom the AI is trained have might have rights to claim authorship, but think about it. If I, as a human, am inspired by your work, you still don't get rights to my work. Why should it be any different with the AI I use, as long as the resultant artwork is sufficiently different from yours?
The canonical URL in the meta data is wrong, points to localhost:4000.
Just got slapped with a huge stackdriver bill yesterday. Kube_node went haywire, trying to get some funds back

Migrating to Prom/Elk/grafana now..
Which quilt? I agree, but I'm not certain what your point is.
My understanding is: Mosh can't scroll because it doesn't send you the full output of the terminal. It only sends you the current "window" (visible terminal contents) at the current time. ET sends you everything.

So if a program suddenly outputs a massive number of lines, mosh will discard the beginning and only send you the visible end of the output. ET will send you everything - which might bog down slow connections, but provides natural scrollback.

Different tradeoffs.
hmmm... are they trying to do Google (and loose their social mojo)?
I definitely don't think the existing governments are fine, there's tons of things that make me rage about the state of things. My point was that if you want to (unpatriotically) give up on your country instead of trying to improve it, and you're rich, and you ignore language and culture (like the seasteading idea does), you have many other countries to pick from.

Now if out of all the other countries in the world you can't find one that's even close to your ideals maybe there is a reason for that, maybe your utopia is not possible. Thiel as a CEO got to tell people what to do, he seems to have this idea that he will setup his government and people will just follow his rules. So I guess he's thinking of being some kind of benevolent dictator. In some other of his social writing* he has said he doesn't believe in democracy anymore. But even in a dictatorship you have to get consent from at least your security.

In his effort to escape politics he doesn't seem to realize that politics is what happens when you get a lot of people together making decisions. What happens when charismatic socialist or conservatives leaders rise up in his country? What happens when special interests start competing with each other?

If he were somehow able to solve the technical, economical, security and legal issues the whole thing would just devolve into the same political mess that every society goes through. How do I know? Because that's what happens everytime a government has been formed, it's what's happened to every single other country in the world.

* http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-educa...
Free as in beer that you can only consume at the brewery.
The color of the top bar. Users over a certain karma level can change it.
Many of those crimes are drug crimes, which are only a crime because we've chosen to make them so. It's not all that hard to change a law to make a certain group of people whose habits you dislike criminals.
Wow that's a noisy video.

Anyway, this is just about extracting aluminum oxide from clay, instead of bauxite. You still have to smelt it, and they're proposing using the Hall-Heroult process, which is dissolving aluminum oxide into cryolite, and electrolyzing it.

This is heavy industry! Cryolite melts at 1000C, and isn't a terribly common mineral, and the electrolysis consumes a lot of power, and is about as environmentally friendly as a not at all friendly thing. This is in large plants, with modern emissions controls, and they're saying that a small open cycle plant is going to be green, with a straight face?

Meanwhile, you can smelt iron in an open pit fire, without acids, molten cryolite, or electricity.
You seem to be saying that if we got rid of all the blacks and muslims we'd have far less crime. Did I misread you?
Does anyone here switched from Emacs to Vim? Comments?
The '25%' number is a red herring and not worth debating. The US has over 6 times the number of inmates (per capita) as the average Western European country[1][2]. How could that be, other than because of a seriously fubared justice system?

[1] http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-pris...

[2] http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r234.pdf
Pretty amazing. My tips to anyone else trying this out:

* Remember that cd was spelled chdir in v6

* "stty -lcase" will make it stop putting everything in caps
Thanks for the compliment! This is actually not the idea we applied with. This is something we hope will WOW the panel (hopefully one of them is reading this right now...)
tl;dr: Apple puts "Apple" first.
Yes, that's true. So YouTube probably has far fewer than 2k people uploading at any given time, since most people can upload faster than realtime (though some are probably slower than realtime).

Doesn't really change my point though.
We definitely need to make it more clear what exactly we are going to do with your information and make sure people know that there is NO spamming. Everything is done at the user's discretion.
GR! Dang addslashes()....
We should have something set up that does allow bug submissions... but until then feel free to email me if you see anything else wesley.zhao@gmail.com
would be a good text "host" but needs clones, so that when it disappears in a few years I can still easily convert my urls back into the document therein. that's the one problem these text host sites have. they never last. this gets around this by hosting nothing, merely converting, but still.

and using bit.libya. i dont trust it.

isn't this also somewhat censorship resistant. since the hashify url without its bitly can be put anywhere on the web that is writable, thus making multiple copies available in a covert way.
Glad he had fun because that's kind of an expensive boarding pass. When I've printed posters at Kinko's before, it usually comes out to about $40 for a 1 meter^2 poster.
This sounds exactly like my experience with a phone interview with a Facebook engineer.
I will never forgive him for butchering Solaris, he changed the ending from one of the most beautiful, tragic and haunting in all sci-fi to a simple and idiotic twist. Lem, who wanted to make sci-fi into serious literature was a harsh critic of american pop sci-fi and especially such twist endings.
In Finland it's "we think you owe X amount of taxes, if you agree, do nothing".
> Tangentially, neither did the tradition of dubbing foreign films by just having a single guy read every character's lines without even removing the original audio track, but just trying to talk louder than the actors' original audio.

There's another reason for that I think. The first movies pirated to USSR were dubbed in "underground" conditions by enthusiasts (and their translations were in many cases more exact, closer to the original than "official" ones made later). Some people get used to that style and really prefer a single voice, but proper translation with much of an original sound, intonations to a hollow "official" "professional" dubs.
I strongly disagree. e.g. in the Pfizer trial, during the entire time period from dose 1 to dose 2 VE was 52.4% (95% CI 29.5, 68.4) and almost the entirety of infections happened in the first 10 days; maximum likelihood efficacy rises to 90% if you look at days 10..21. And, of course, there's figure 13. https://i.imgur.com/wEcClPr.png

I think the Israel data is being misinterpreted. Your likelihood of being hospitalized 15 days after the vaccine is not affected much, because you were probably exposed between a few days before to a few days after the first dose. And as pointed out-- there's an obvious confound: people may rush out and partay after getting their first dose in the days before protection starts to kick in.
The problem is it's the coldest night in about 30 years.

Here in Austin, it's just past midnight, and it's already down to 13°F (-10.5°C). It hasn't been that cold here since December 23, 1989.

Also, a lot of Texas homes have electric heat (except in the northern part of the state). Winters are relatively short and mild.

Many homes use electric heat pumps as the heating source. They're energy-efficient and easy to install in a home which has AC, so generally a good choice. But they get less and less effective as the outside temperature drops, so a backup electric heating coil kicks in, which uses way more electricity.
"This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: How should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer traveling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved."

He goes on to say this work may have some galactic relevance and that the force is with him.
You need to meet more 15-30 year olds. I'm part of that demographic, and many of my friends view Spotify as the first stop and Youtube as a backup if Spotify doesn't have the desired content
Been kinda building a trello-like app myself. But it's far more simplistic in features, and i'm trying to build it so it's way more mobile friendly. I have the front end as open source, and the web back end as closed. Not sure why I am doing it this way, but I hope to put out a proprietary iOS app for it at some point.

More or less started it to learn ReactJS. http://gitub.com/agmcleod/desert
Which is why it should be done in the most outrageous fashion by someone who cares about privacy.

Maybe that's what is needed to get people to realize just what the next decade or two have in store.
That’s my personal opinion but I prefer when line spacing isn’t so massive to stretch the page count. I’d rather have smaller line spacing with less pages overall than thinking I’m getting a 120 pages book only to find out each page only has ten lines.
Fair point, should probably have removed that. Still it's so much easier to stay warm if you're out of the wind, with doors closed, and can wear a jacket that doesn't turn you sweaty like biking 20min in warm winter clothes often does for me, due to not working out.

To me the biggest downside to all these electric vehicles over bikes is that walking and biking is super healthy, and a city focused on infrastructure to accommodate it (with public-transport for larger trips) is a net benefit. The average American gets 3500 steps or so per day because they get transported everywhere by a vehicle, meaning probably a hundred million Americans get just 1000-2000 per day, when we ought to really be somewhere in the 5000-10000 range. If these things displace (ICE) cars, great. But I've never owned a car in my life and just bike/walk, but with electric vehicles becoming so convenient, cheap and useful, I see it displacing that very soon. A washing machine or water faucet displacing manual labour to clean clothes or get water from a well is great, a machine displacing even just walks and bike rides... not so much.
I'm working at a company that does realtime content generation for emails/website, generally those are images but we are trying to do video now. The big problem we have are the cost of bandwith, specially for video (we are speaking about ~20MB video send to 1M users over 2-3h, you can eyeball it at ~2k$ just for the bandwith).
So we decided to migrate to dedicated servers (still ongoing), better performance for a fraction of the cost (you can find 80e/month servers with 12cpu/64G ram at OVH for example) and no bandwith cost.

We already had experience with running bare metal infra (hashicorp stack), currently evaluating how to deploy it (currently using GKE). Althrough it should be straight forward since its mostly stateless workload, we it need to be able scale x10 in less than 1h sometimes so we might throw an node autoscaler that provision from cloud.
Social justice seems like a distraction from these issues to me. It is focused on the past, not the future.
Thank you so much Faris! It was such an amazing experience interviewing at Repl.it and I am glad I got to know you. For sure, I will come back and reapply to to join your team :)
The (billion dollar) company I work for in Europe has a policy that they hire twice as many women as men. Women also get twice as long contracts and better career paths. They are also trying to hire a lot more people of color. Statistically you have an extremely higher chance of getting hired as a black female than a white male.
I suspect that the author of this post simply paraphrased Hal Abelson's introductory lecture to MIT's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKRVNQ_MqE
I'm guessing you knew that Android has a cache that rolls over prior to posting - were you just trying to stir up discussion/controversy with the misleading headline?
I interviewed at Apple once. In the second technical call on codepad I was struggling with something really basic in Python (which I have 15+ years experience with) due to nerves and the general weirdness of the situation. My struggling stressed me out, which made it harder to concentrate, which stressed me out, etc. While I was struggling the interviewer said "come on, if you can't answer this then how am I going to convince anyone you're a good programmer?".

That spun me out and I crashed even harder. In his eyes I'm one of those 199 people who "can't even code".

Fuck 'em, if coding is knowing how to implement weird palindrome-related algorithms in a completely alien browser-based IDE (if you can call it that) over a call with a several second delay in your kitchen at 9pm local-time after a hard days work then maybe I can't code.
And those scratches, dents, or even more could be entirely not your fault. Heck, they could even happen when you're not in the vehicle.

So effectively it's a bet against you, other people and more generally the world.
> SNOW is unique in their portfolio because it is the only investment in tech.

In addition to the 1.72B in Snowflake, I see 1.74B in Amazon and another 117.7B in Apple.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012321...
The sociological/anthropological aspect of this are interesting.

1991: 100MB = serious work

2021: 100MB = so tiny you can't buy storage that small, can't be serious
Indeed; both EA and Blizzard had some of their earliest successes on the Amiga.
There are, but this article isn't terribly accurate. (It's not bad, but it's not as good as the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism)

Stuff like this:

> Indeed, since we live in a post religious world now, they will become gods themselves. Transhumanism is a contemporary version of a modern project of human self-deification.

is mostly just sensationalism; most transhumanists I know of don't think like that.
Not about ECS, but speaking of components: I’m developing an unreal engine game and component based programming has been a dream. You end up with the opportunity to create so many pieces of code that are able to be dumb and that don’t need to know about the rest of the system. Then you add come control code that is also as dumb and blind (in a good, decoupled sense) as possible and the whole application comes together in 1/10th the effort of a more coupled and fragile inheritance heavy approach. You can actually change things without breaking everything and you can actually understand what something does by reading 1-2 source files instead of 40.
If we're using the door analogies... it seems like the solar winds attack came because someone figured out how to sneak-in the "doggie door" (hacked the auto-update function, maybe call it the "delivery door" like homes had 50 years).

And problem wasn't so much that this happened (cause indeed, shit happen). The problem was all these key enterprises (Microsoft, government agencies, etc, etc) had "doggies doors" when really they should have only had the most secure doors themselves.

And sadly, unlike the retail situation, where a bank can decide they want only a secure door to their vault, today's enterprises have basically decided the benefits of giving multiple access to other enterprises trumps the security costs, since they never pay the costs of bad security anyway.
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons : Sam Keam - http://samkean.com/thetaleoftheduelingneurosurgeons.html
Quite liked the writing style - neuroscience book written in a story format

Other good books in similar genre

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales : Oliver Sacks http://www.amazon.com/An-Anthropologist-Mars-Seven-Paradoxic...

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science: Norman Doidge - http://www.amazon.com/The-Brain-That-Changes-Itself/dp/14915...
yea and?

I shave because i don't know how to give myself a proper haircut by myself. Shaving is much easier, takes me about 15 minutes.

Not quite sure what point you are trying to make.
It's somewhat true for me. I may be poor, but I dispute being an engineer.

In fact, sometimes I'm surprised by what I did 7-14 days ago. But yes, I can get back into that code much more quickly than if I hadn't written it myself.
To non technicals the 'cool one word' branding seems to be misleading at times. The crazies pushing the limits of Tesla's autopilot & such. It's mostly autopilot from what I hear, then again I've never heard of airplanes landing on actual autopilot or avoiding birds - the assumptions seem to be built in with catchy names unfortunately. Is it a branding or human problem....
"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong."

-Voltaire
I use TextWrangler and several text files along with Chrome bookmarks.
I'm minimalist and run a very simple operation so this may not be appropriate for many.

To organize the text files; over time I build an index of categories at the top in CAPS, and each category heading below is also in CAPS. Then when I save / retrieve / cull information I search the category "Case sensitive" to locate it quickly. Once major groupings can be identified and corralled, I separate those into independent text files. It's work.

For Chrome bookmarks I build similar categories but this can get unwieldy if not maintained and subdivided on the regular.

If it matters; all my local files reside in one of two folders (or downstream of them). One is for current "in flux" files & the rest goes in the other "archive" folder. I do encrypted backups on the "in flux" often and the "archive" far less often to external drive(s) & the cloud/online. I have a third "clients" folder but all the files there are temp and go back to their respective servers and I don't backup any of it.

I concur with sp3n concerning over-collecting, often I get back to something and it's already obsolete or maybe not at all.
As a result I end up in a data cull session from time to time.

Don't like paper and would love to migrate all to 100 percent online one day.
You mean cease all opposition to those in power, forget about the security of our information systems, and be glad that the NSA is working hard to catch the real dissidents?

Silly me, should have stayed in Russia.
I said that they make the majority of their money within a few years. Also the question is whether they would have produced Seinfeld anyway, if copyright only lasted 10 years. I think they would have.
Site looks horrible on an iPad.
Think of the internet like a tree, where the root is you and all other IPs are the leaves at the end. IPs close together tend to share more path of the tree as you attempt to reach them from the root. If you are sending an overwhelming amount of packets in one direction for too long, you have a higher chance of harming nodes (i.e. routers) along that path. Randomizing your end goal on the tree, by definition, equally spreads the packet spray accross the tree.

This is how they can claim: "... it'll only melt your own network. It randomizes the target IP addresses so that it shouldn't overwhelm any distant network."

Note "shouldn't", this was probably added due, in part, through use-case. If I were not scanning the whole Internet, and instead just scan a small section. Masscan has less of a space to randomize through, which means the tree is smaller and the shared paths are more frequent.
Yes. With great power comes great responsibility.
"What do we do now? No seriously, what do we do?"

In addition to encouraging the NSA (and equivalent agencies in other countries) to change its approach, developers will do what we always do and build new secure protocols and tools with the lessons from previous attempts in mind.

It is a cat-and-mouse game that will never cease.
Misleading terminology alert: I would have said that a basketball doesn't have a hole, for the same reason that a tire doesn't have a hole: if it did, it would deflate.

But he means that a basketball is in airtight container, so it has a sort of two dimensional hole. By his definition, when you put a cap on a tube of toothpaste, it creates a hole rather than closing a hole.
I think the advantage is it can hover and perform a pinpoint landing.
Too many lucrative subscribing users for the business to be closed and dissolved. They’ll right the ship before positioning themselves for acquisition.
It's unfortunate the only mature open source alternative[1] went on a path to seriously expensive subscriptions, 5x of a tailscale personal subscription.

[1]: https://inlets.dev/
I ran into the same issue. It was a sad moment for me because I backed them during their crowd sourcing days but ended up cancelling both their VPN and "Plus" mail service. What solidified my decision was after cancelling the mail service I was no longer able to export all of my email. I ended up having to temporarily reactivate the subscription so that I could export to mbox.
I'm not sure why anyone would draw the conclusion that they are losing Facebook because of an EU mandate, when all other competitors continue to work for them.

And if they dig into it even slightly they will probably be even more horrified at Facebook once they find out they lost Facebook because it considered transferring their data to the US more important than having them as a user.