jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, if by "good guys" you mean the NSA, I think we've crossed some wires. :)

But no, it's not terrorism, especially not merely because they say it is. There's no violence, and the perpetrators not only don't want to be found out, they don't even want people to realize that something happened. Not all evil is terrorism (but all terrorism is evil).
zMUD. :)
> Apple does R&D on technology, its just done with the goal of being utilized in a product that is viable enough to have real business value.

It's not basic research then which is what most people understand under 'research'.
It's not that Apple is a freeloader, it's that those companies were terrible at allocating capital. Apple does R&D on technology, its just done with the goal of being utilized in a product that is viable enough to have real business value. It's not R&D for R&D's sake, which was the example companies' mistake. That R&D wasn't being done out of charity for the public good, that was shareholder capital being risked for the prospect of reaping returns from it.
Pretty much this. Go to Habitat for Humanity and if you live in a city they'll generally be doing something local.
It is definitely the weight loss and reduction and materials that would make this a big deal. Imagine cutting the cost of the vehicle by 20-30%. Would be massive.
The nature of science is disappointment, no? Maybe this will work... Nope. Maybe this other way? Nope.

Now and again there's an actual advance and we rejoice, but if you keep an eye on cutting edge stuff it's got to happen a lot that some promising lead leads nowhere.
Prioritization is the hardest thing for me. If you follow GTD, working on Horizons 2-5, especially 4&5, make a big difference by recognizing what your purpose and visions are for your life.

With that, prioritization has become much less challenging for me.
That's right, observations were made that do not fit with our current understanding of physics (equations). That means our understanding is wrong. So instead of assuming the equations are wrong physicists invented an invisible type of matter. That is not science. Dark matter is nothing more than modern day aether.
> People will think you're a wizard if you simply learn how to use Java's telemetry. It's an invaluable skill.

People who want to hire me to fix their Java app think already think I am a wizard. The problem is, they stop believing me the moment I tell that Java is not a good language completely stop listening when I say that I will not work with it as long as I have other options.

> Java uses finalizers as a last resort, not a first line.

At the time it was the only option. Or, reading the JDK source revealed the undocumented feature that destroy() closes the pipes too.

> Have you measured to see if the caches you have are improperly sized? Have you made pull requests/change requests to said libraries to fix it if it is?

Wasn't the point of using JVM and pre-made libraries that they would work out of the box? Anyway, I have found out that terrible libraries are terrible because their authors either genuinely want them to be that way or because they do not recognize good code when they see it. If you have managed an open source project you should know that pull requests out of nowhere are mostly pure nonsense and tend to be ignored.

> Do you know how C++/Rust/D solve that problem?

I do, thank you for asking. As far as I understand, Java does not allow moving objects any more than copying a shared pointer or moving unique one does, but it pretends that objects have no ownership.

> perhaps it's a better route to learn the idiomatic way of handling resources and use that?

It does not solve the problem. The actual solution would be more like "magically make the CTO's nephew and all authors of the zillion libraries the app depends on learn the idiomatic way of handling resources and then rewrite everything using those".
>here is no highway where driving the speed limit is actually dangerous

That's only true if you're oblivious to other traffic to the point of being dangerous to said traffic.

I used to zip down I95 in my personal car, get in a commercial vehicle and then proceed to get in a commercial vehicle and be a rolling obstruction at 55-60. The latter was way less safe than just being another ant in line like I was in my personal vehicle.

Sure, if someone clipped me while I was driving the truck it would have been their fault but I was though my actions still creating a bunch of unnecessary danger. There was a constant stream of people having to merge to go around me. It was all the problems you get at an on-ramp with merging traffic. I will cut some slack to heavily laden vehicles, big slow trucks and shitboxes that can't maintain traffic speed. But some self-righteous jerk in his Camry or whatever has no excuse.

>There is no highway where driving the speed limit is actually dangerous and there certainly isn't a highway where the norm is 20 over.

I95, literally every weekday morning and evening just before and just after rush hour clogs things up. Sign says 55. Most traffic goes 75+/-5 with the occasional fast and slow vehicles well above/below that speed.
Depending on where you are in Australia, that could mean year 10 or year 12, or some other year?
Sure, but I agree with parent's comment that it's a... weird turn?

When one introduces transition systems, I usually expect "yeah, now he's going to define a labeled transition system, then introduce modal logic, maybe temporal logic, definitely bisimulations, maybe Van Benthem".

Obviously one can do proofs of elementary algorithms with that formalism, it's just a bit unusual, that's all.
Although now playable yet. Github project for interested ppl https://github.com/citra-emu/citra
At the very least, Schiit seems to be pretty upfront that it probably doesn't help with audio quality in most cases:

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Sonic benefits? That’s a lot of hoo-ha!

You’re right. There’s no reason this should make any system sound better.
Although we can measure the difference in USB power supply noise, it really
shouldn’t matter. Despite this, some listeners have said that there are sonic
benefits from using Wyrd. Us, we remain Swiss on the matter—we don’t do the
hard sell by promising sonic nirvana.

Are you saying I need to get this thing if I have a USB DAC?

Nope, not at all. Most USB DACs work just fine when running on computer power,
without any hitches, glitches, or strange noises. However, if you have USB power
problems, this is a great way to eliminate them. Especially if it’s a USB-powered
DAC.

Well, I could just buy a $20 powered hub if I’m having USB port power
management problems, right?

Yep you can, and yep, that would solve that problem.

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There's plenty of snake oil to go around in the audiophile community, but Schiit has always seemed to be especially forthright about what their products can and can't do.

(Disclaimer: I own a fair amount of Schiit gear and am a very satisfied customer, so I'm definitely biased positively towards the company)
Awesome! Does clicking on "RT" mean 'sort by RT rating'?
Enterprise access points typically look for APs that are not theirs but are using the SSID and send deauths for that. That's an actual legitimate use of deauth. (If you're using encryption, then a rogue AP can't impersonate the real network without knowing the encryption key. But public networks tend to be open for convenience. So some trickery is necessary to provide a little extra safety for users.)

Wifi clients are notoriously awful at roaming. You would think they would prefer the strongest signal, but they seem to select randomly, no doubt depending on driver/firmware versions and bugs. If you've ever used an enterprise WiFi network where roaming works, it's because the APs talk to each other, make a selection as to which AP is best for you to talk to, and then deauth you from the APs that you shouldn't be talking to. So deauths are actually essential to making Wifi work well. The problem in this case is that Marriott is going above and beyond industry best practices and is just trying to kill _everyone_'s Wifi, presumably for their own financial gain. That's a violation of FCC rules, so they're trying to have the rules changed.

Meanwhile, I can just operate my network under Part 97 instead of Part 15 and it would still be illegal for them to intentionally or unintentionally interfere. Though Part 97 Wifi is a bit of a grey area.
Imagine you're sitting in a cafe trying to read nytimes.com. You're not worried about some Cyber Police kicking in the door, you just want a way around the block.
http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html
“L’esprit de l’escalier” is also similar.
The texture template images come from [1], a collection of textures categorised by "description".

[1] https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/dtd/
This article grossly overplays the importance of such places. Back in the day these types of discussions were commonplace, even on the internet. Now that the internet is increasingly sanitized of opposing speech, and the media serves as the arbiter of allowed discussion topics and (most importantly) allowed thought, communities like this just stick out.

They say this is an important and unusual place, but really what they mean is that it’s a different place than what’s allowed.

Even their use of language like “neo-fascist” is telling. As if labeling people a regular fascist doesn’t inflict the same type of cultural damage it used to have...
Nonono. We absolutely should recommend having at least 2. See also: car keys, house keys, any other physical lock you can get comes with at least 2 keys.

The default product sold should be a two key bundle.
Need a segmented cache to keep out items only accessed once.

Really this bowl needs 2Q instead of LRU.
So Roman Elizarov is the Lead Language Designer, and also 1/3 of the Language Committee, so the Language Committee has to be united against him in order to block any design decision.

I have no idea whether that's a good idea, but it looks a little funny.

Also, is UT Austin officially involved, or is it just William R. Cook personally? This is ambiguous from the text.

Anyway I hope this gets them whatever they want out of it, I quite like Kotlin and might learn it "for real" some day.
Seems 2002 is just a tad too late for some real diversity - I was expecting a lot more different OSes. Irix, SunOS, HPUX, etc.

I would love to see a collection like this all the way back to the 70ies.
Genuine question: I thought that operating systems only have one shell, but that can be accessed by multiple terminals? So this should be alternative terminals?

I'm not trying to be a pedant I just thought I understood something, now Im not so sure.
No, EUR is needed by hundreds of millions of Europeans as the only legal way to satisfy their Euro denominated debts, taxes or other payment obligations. So one can safely assume that demand for EUR is linked on actual need to hold it

Some people have devised contracts whereby they owe others Bitcoins, but those obligations are comparatively tiny in comparison with the quantity of Bitcoins out there, Bitcoins are not legal tender anywhere, and the issuing of new Bitcoins is not backed by BTC-denominated debt, or anything else.
Linear algebra got a lot easier for me when I realised that matrices are just linear functions, and matrix multiplication is function composition.

Abstract algebra and category theory give you incredibly useful program and API structuring techniques; you can get lots of nice properties for free by following these well-worn existing patterns, even more so than OOP design patterns. We make use of them a lot in Haskell, but they’re basically language-agnostic.

Even simple algebraic manipulations, like noticing that “return” is distributive over a conditional:

if x then return y else return z

return (if x then y else z)

Are very useful for restructuring programs to be more readable.
At this point in my career I start all head-hunter conversations with "I work 100% remote as a W2 employee (not contractor) with full benefits. I travel 1 - 2 weeks a year, work 40 hours a week, and make $x. If you can meet or beat that let's keep talking, otherwise thanks for your time."

It keeps the conversation short which is nice for both me and the recruiter. And if they have something interesting to say then I know it's worth my time.
Wouldn't it be even more ironic of both groups of people discussed ice balls because they mildly enjoyed the physics problem, and the perception of condensation was one entirely fabricated in the mind of some more sensitive observers?
Animation is an illusion of motion caused by a sequence of still images. The way a physics engine works is by computing those still images -- the frames -- for each iteration in a mathematical model (the physics you want.)

If you want 60 frames per second for a smooth animation, you have to compute the whole frame less than 1/60th of a second. The more complicated your physics model is, the harder it is to do this.

>I just wonder why AAA games use pretty much the same math? Are there no better math?

The math they use is just standard physics, often using some simplifications or optimizations to speed up the calculation. "Better math" is a curious term. If you want more accuracy, you have to give up speed. You can't have both. You either get jittery/jerky motion or you get unrealistic effects. Of course, running on a faster machine or finding a better optimization will help, but that also requires a ton of expertise and is sometimes plain infeasible.

>I mean CAD systems obviously do something better... Is that the same thing as with drawing triangles vs. raytracing?

CAD systems with physics engines do the same thing as above, and they have to make the same kinds of decisions. Usually, CAD software is meant for design, so it would opt for higher precision. This isn't suitable for games except on very high-end machines, which would exclude a lot of people from buying your game.

As for ray tracing vs rasterization: Yes, it is the same kind of trade-off. Ray tracing can be made very accurate and do some amazing things, but the frame rate is usually so low that you have to pre-render the whole animation beforehand. That is, if you want high quality.

Rasterization gives medium-low quality at very high framerates. It is very common because it is 'good enough looking' for most purposes, where an equivalent quality ray tracer would be very slow. Of course, a physics engine is independent of your rendering method: you will have to compute physics for your scene whether you use ray tracing or rasterization, so you have to take both into account for determining how jittery your animation will look.
Intelligent Design doesn't imply a belief in any particular god(s) or even necessarily a supernatural being. Just that life and/or the visible universe was created according to some intelligent rules and not by random chance.
Calls for location-blind "pay based on my value" share a remarkable parallel with the desire for house prices that track a house's uninflated intrinsic value: The market doesn't care what you think it should pay.
Lockdown sucks for you, clearly. But consider that even if your position (something like collateral damage), you're better off than the true victims: people who have been forced to move into a multigen housing situation as a result of this. Especially those who have "essential" jobs.

Lockdowns were designed to cause, and have caused, the most acute spread to occur in the most marginalized populations, instead of the lowest risk populations.

It has played out precisely as Ioannidis, Gupta, Katz, Baral, and nearly every other decent and compassionate expert warned, from the beginning.
The risk of dying for the 70+ crowd is significant and much, much higher than for regular influenza. The risk of dying for the below 50 crowd is negligible and on par with regular influenza.

Prioritizing the elderly literally saves lives.

Jumping the queue if you belong to a group that is not at risk is incredibly selfish and immoral. You can wait a couple of months, it won't kill you.
Sorry, OT. But this makes me think of my conclusion made a few years ago; we are not rational beings.

We're swamped with biases, and emotion tends to lead the direction to where we seek our "facts". And it sounds like I mean it politically. But I don't. This feature is overwheling with us except for in the pure natural and measurable sciences. 2+2=4, done. But it ends there when it comes to rational decision making based on objective arguments.

Everything you do privately, what phone you buy, car, where you live, how you pick your spouse, strategy for kids and all the other important things. Also at work, who you hire, where you decide to work, how you rate your colleague, technologies, business strategy, relationship with your boss.

I've almost given up on rational argumentation and objective truth - and have identified the emotional and irrational as being the true battleground for decision making in our existence.

Rant over. Sorry. Argdown is great im sure :D
Make a dark web[1] site? Basically make it impossible to link what you're doing to who your infra providers/internet connections are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web
Yes; however, prioritization lets us speed up the effects of population-scale vaccination by either...

1. Vaccinating people who are the most likely to get sick

2. Vaccinating people who are the most likely to spread the virus

Option 1 makes the death and hospitalization rates fall quicker, so that anyone we miss is more likely to still have a hospital bed to get treated in. Option 2 reduces the total number of people exposed to the virus.

The whole point of vaccination is to keep people from having to go to the hospital or dying - protecting the weakest first achieves that better than random vaccinations. Someone like me who basically lives in his room and works remotely can afford to wait for shots - someone who works in retail and has 1000s of exposures per day needs their shots yesterday.
What science? The scientific consensus is that there is such a condition as gender dysphoria, that is, people who perceive themselves as a gender different from their biological sex.

In my experience, the phrase "I was just stating basic biology" is a dogwhistle for transphobia.
SCOTUS ruled last December Federal law allows suing government agents who violate Constitutional rights.

https://ij.org/press-release/u-s-supreme-court-rules-unanimo...

Cities should start suing on behalf of their citizens.
From a strictly rational perspective, wearing a mask in public transit is always the correct decision, you are statistically less likely to contract airbourne diseases with a mask on. You're free to attach emotional significance to the act of wearing a mask, but maybe it has the desired effect - I personally would rather not interact socially with anyone on public transit, so maybe we are both the better for it.
he should mention that playing air instruments while listening to music, helps keep body, spirit and mind in shape. air instrument playing has health benefits. :-)
I suspect tptacek will come in with some sound advise. But bcrypt seems to be the way forward.

cf. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
I didn't explain the situation well. It didn't show up as an organic result, it showed up as a "videos for xxx".

But, the product pages are a much better example. I should have left it at that. They are showing links to their product pages that are essentially a page of aggregated search results. This is something they actively try to prevent when the aggregated search results pages belong to someone else.
I had a very similar reaction - "is this because my email address was in the gawker database or because someone used my password from the gawker database and did weird things with my account?"
Is this true for all of the Covid-19 vaccinations? The page only references the 'Pfizer mRNA vaccine' one.

Curiously, does this mean that the Pfizer vaccine is the only one Australia is using/has access to currently?
> I am afraid to put my name/email/github id in support of RMS because some mob in future ...

That's exactly what these totalitarian wokists aim for: to make people afraid to oppose them. The only way to stop it is not cave in to their absurd demands. Be strong, live without fear, and do the right thing.
> How free is the press in South Africa?

Freedom of the press has been built into our constitution since the end of Apartheid in 1994.

This freedom has proven to be pretty robust since then, but there have been some issues along the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_South_Africa#Pre...
> But making it available online to the general public is no longer exploration.

Why not? I'd argue the opposite: that making something available online to the general public is the first step toward maximizing exploration - in particular, enabling exploration beyond the limits of your own imagination/ability.
How long will Chrome hold out as a neutral pipe for websites? Does anyone here think it's unthinkable that Google would block parler.com on Chrome?

It seemed unthinkable a couple years ago, but at this point I would put even money on Chrome having a "radical" website blacklist within a year.
It's almost like there was some sort of catalyst event that occurred very recently that would provoke such a response. /s
It claims that one of the top international routes is MCO-SJU. That's a domestic connection. That's Orlando to Peurto Rico. That's a US territory and you don't need a passport to go.
Excellent questions, completely unsure why the downvotes
People are so afraid of such silly things sometimes, like those people afraid of a U.S. government run twitter.
Who has more freedom to express their opinions a normal person at work whose boss can fire them for any reason, or a government worker who has legal guarantees for their speech?
Who is less likely to start a war by banning a dangerous world leader from a platform, Twitter, or an independent non-profit entity run by the state.
If you believe in Tesla enough to put everything you can spare into the stock, then bears are only helping you by increasing the amount of time you have to buy in. If you don't believe in Tesla, then why worry about other people who don't?
The HN title is missing (2012), mind you.
All this at the same time? Did they have a Godfather-esque technocrat meeting?
That's not BLM's account. This is:

https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter

For proof that's official, see https://blacklivesmatter.com/statement-from-black-lives-matt...

It's not suspended.
Imagine if the contents turned out simply to be the last thing that went in, ie. the universe could no longer resize that particular array so just had to overwrite the contents each time.
I don't have a driver's licence, because I've lived most of my life in a city where I haven't felt the need for a car.
Puzzling in a way, though right? I mean this administration didn't hesitate to give AIG and Goldman Sachs very public tongue lashings. What's different about an oil rig company that screwed up?
If a large sector of the populace became tech entrepreneurs, would life be better? I suspect this is the case.
I suspect that having a business model makes it much easier to also have real value to users.
I feel I'm becoming smarter from reading Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach.

It's a good, gentle introduction to some maths and logic topics that I really ought to learn about. It's also very artistic and touches on many different intellectual matters (music, painting, language...). Very thought provoking, and has already given me some good ideas for projects. Also pretty inspiring in that it shows what even a very young person can/could achieve by putting their mind to something, thinking systematically and writing expressively.

Of course the central premise of the book ("how does a mind/self/consciousness arise from inanimate matter?") is profound... and great fodder for dinner parties! (ie. showing off)