jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> "Frankly I think it's kind of ridiculous to propose you can't ever give one grimy, muddy, bloodstained inch without being overrun."

Yet, what reason would we have to give this one, grimy, muddy, bloodstained inch?

Besides, Niemoller's point (though in this case unnecessarily melodramatic) is valid here. There is no shortage of sexual kinks in this world that will shock and/or disgust many. There's also no particular rhyme nor reason why this one was targeted over any other, and as such there's no reason to expect that other suitably controversial kinks aren't at risk of having its fiction banned.

The puzzling thing is why so many people are quick to judge and raise moral outrage over something that has absolutely no effect on themselves (the reading of fiction). It reeks of puritanism.
It seems like I'm in a minority, but I don't think there's anything wrong with choosing Zuckerberg over Assange - Facebook has been hugely influential on society, in a way that Wikileaks has so far only promised to be. (I'm not saying that Wikileaks doesn't herald some kind of revolution, but said revolution hasn't happened yet IMO).

I was going to draw parallels to Bill Gates getting the award, though it turns out that was in the '00s, for his philanthropy, not in the '80s for Microsoft. The '82 award to "The Computer" and '06 award to "You" are in the same vein, though (even if the second one was a bit silly).
You guys beat me to it (launching something similar this week). Very nice, indeed.
It's an urban legend that predates the movie; see here:
http://www.snopes.com/risque/porn/porntape.asp
Doesn't matter. Google's got the feature I want. It respects my most preferred form of payment and it damn fast.
Yes, but a debian version from several years ago (with gnome!) is also still very useful and would probably not demand more resources than xp.

The question was - why is it legitimate in this argument to use an old version of windows but nut an old version of linux?
Vi Hart has a great video which takes the Ulam spiral as its starting point: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Vihart#p/u/0/Yhlv5Aeuo_k

If you don't know her work, you should. She's so much fun...
Illegal downloading hasn't robbed the industry from profit, Avatar/Inception/The Dark Knight box office sales have disproven that.

So, you have the box office numbers from the parallel universe in which there was no pirating to prove this claim?

Just because they didn't tank doesn't mean they didn't loose profit.
I found that the constant stream of "hell", "freaking", "dumbass", "crap" distracted from the content. I appreciate the sentiment behind them, but I'd hope you can find a way to make your points without such language.

(Side note: A lawyer once told me that he would "never use language on a website which he wouldn't use in court" -- I think this is probably a good guideline to follow.)
Odds that the filmmakers made their production costs back before being ready to claim they are happy it has been pirated...?
Primes are the "atomic" blocks of the natural numbers. Given the prime factors of a set of natural numbers, you can trivially computer the greatest common divisor and least common multiple. Primes are extremely important.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmet...
Whilst I agree that no intellectual property whatsoever promotes progress, I think that intellectual property protects the interests of people whose main asset is their intellect. Think about someone who have spent years to develop some innovative product: doesn't he/she deserve to make a profit from it? Or is it better for some other people who are just smarter about business to make gobs of money over the effort of somebody else?
Just changed this so that it fades out too. Yes, you could cut the irony with a butter knife :)
As use of a resource becomes more efficient the rate of consupmtion actually increases not decreases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
In the background, the SNB was printing francs and purchasing Euro's to keep the EUR/CHF at the 1.2 Peg. They stopped doing that two days ago.
When the narrative is broken it is flagged to go down.

Can't have non normative narratives as in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26074044

Feels like similar.
And this is how I find out that macOS no longer includes telnet.
This reminds me of something I read here a long time ago "At Apple we know what users want, and we give it to them good and hard."
Ah, good advice. That gives me an even better ROI for my eth mining!
since it's using virtual desktops you can just win+tab and do that
If they don't want to do their jobs, then hire other people who actually will.

Reagan did this with the air traffic controllers in 1981 (which I'm not saying I agree with in terms of policy, but it was both legal and effective). They went on strike, and Reagan said, look, federal workers aren't allowed to strike, and if you don't report to work we'll fire you. ATC took a hit, flights were slowed, but they found other people who were willing to the job and demanded less than PATCO demanded.

Which is ultimately how unions should work. They aggregate the bargaining power of the employees into a unified voice, nothing more or less. If that combined bargaining power is low - e.g., because the employer is willing to risk the work not getting done, or because potential workers don't actually want to combine their individual bargaining power with the union - then the union has no additional magical power. Unions just make it logistically easier/possible to negotiate things that the workers could in theory but not in practice negotiate on their own. They don't have any power to negotiate benefits for workers that the market couldn't theoretically support.

If a (say) truckers' union says "We want a 20% pay increase and more time off," and other potential truckers agree with those demands and the logistics companies can manage it without going out of business, then they'll get it. If the trucker's union says "We want a 10x pay increase and we want you to take all legal accountability for anyone we hit with our trucks," they would rightly lose that negotiation - any company that said "yes" would not last very long, and the company would do just fine saying "no."

If a society has no public safety resources without the cooperation of a single union, such that it's less of a "negotiation" than an acquiescence to whatever that union demands, then that is the thing that's caused us to be a failed state. So I agree. Fire them all, at the very least ban them from being rehired, and start over.

And it's mostly amazing to me that Reagan felt comfortable firing 11,345 air traffic controllers, who are clearly operationally needed to put planes in the air and get them down again (unlike police, whose role in public safety is much more indirect), at a time when he had himself acknowledged that ATC was understaffed... and meanwhile, there is basically only one story of a US local government (Camden, NJ) that felt comfortable firing its police department and starting over.

Or maybe put another way - I don't really understand why the PATCO decertification prompted the weakening of private sector unions in the decades since then, but police unions, who like PATCO are public sector unions in safety-critical roles, only seem to have gotten stronger.
I think the challenge is it's pretty difficult to be customizing instruction to 30 different students at wildly different levels.

Having some students help instruct others can work, and when it works, I think there's a lot of positives. But, it can also be socially akward, and lead to a lot of negatives (especially outside the classroom).

I think there are real issues with equal access to advanced classes, but making it equal by ending the program seems like the wrong thing to do.
To some extent, yes. But I think it's better to emphasise the fact that we're ignorant rather than what we know because people really like abusing IQ test results.
> You might as well just call everything rhel-$project.

Is this a bad option?
My point is that the status quo is not educating students to the best of their individual abilities. It's neglecting the education of some — in ways that heavily correlate with class and race — and then, when those students unsurprisingly do worse, saying "well, they're not as smart, so they can't have the gifted education."
Like most conversations with WFH, this wouldn't need to be an all-or-nothing proposition. I wouldn't want to live on the road forever. But I'd love to take three or four weeks a year and live somewhere entirely new and learn about a new culture. I'm sure there are some people that would want to travel more than that, and some that would want to travel less. The key is providing flexibility to allow people to live the life that they want for themselves.
Grandparent never pointed to what law they were talking about. They just made an offhanded, unverified remark. I also pointed out that a lot superfluous pork was included in Covid funding. "Pork" was never outlawed. It's not even a formally defined thing. If you think politicians can't figure out how to wiggle pet projects into huge multi trillion dollar spending bills then you really ought to tune into C-Span more often.
As an American I'm standing in a glass house when I ask this question but how does an Australian end up voting for these politicians? How do they get elected? There have been a couple of baffling laws that have passed and I'm wondering if Australians by and large are ok with them.
In 2014 Firebase, Stackdriver and DeepMind (who then made AlphaGo). There's also Waze from 2013. The only thing I could call out after that is Kaggle in 2017. Maybe they will make something out of this year's Fitbit acquisition, but that's a bit early to tell.
I think there are 3 reasons I can think of why newspapers are demanding more from FB/Google:

1) Ad-spend has gone digital and especially local newspapers have had a hard time transitioning. FB/Google have captured the growth here over the past decade or so.

2) Changes in the FB news feed has large affects on their traffic, something which they have no control over.

3) They can't build a subscriber-only moat if they have to give away stories for people to click through on sites like FB.

I think number 3 can be worked around with summaries, or offering limited full story views/month, and number 2 is unfortunate, but better content will win out and help with number 3 as well.

Number 1 is where they have the strongest case to want a profit sharing agreement, and that's what FB/Google are basically doing. Whether this will help those organizations that actually need help is to be seen. I hope it does, especially local newspapers. If stories like these are true, then $1 billion is only 1/5th of the captured value: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/business/media/google-new...
Anyway to see the UI for people who don’t know anything about code but looking for a investment alternative
Facebook now is full of uncontrol advertisements and trash
I don't like it either
Any suggestion of a better social network?
Time doesn't matter, because you probably interacts with many more normal text fields than browsers URL fields. And since they look the same, and act mostly the same, you won't learn to handle it correctly.
It needs to strike a better balance imo, the old trucks are so iconic they could use an equally aesthetically appealing successor.
I'm glad they changed it from "insert your hands between two blades of air" to "put your hands under ONE blade."

The old design would just push your hands into one side or the other, where the bacteria-laced water from the last person still remained.
I have to agree with this. I have a Miele bagged canister and my partner has a Dyson bagless canister. The Miele is superior (often significantly) in every measure, including price. Granted I do have to buy bags but it'll take decades of bags to negate the price difference.
Looks pretty cool, but how is this different from Scale AI?
Tesla: “People keep buying our cars, must not be an issue”
Fan People: “Tesla is the future”
Silent Majority: “Yeah, I’m just gonna keep waiting for a normal car maker to release an electric car”
> You cannot expect corporations to act benevolently or morally

You absolutely can and should expect good behavior of corporations. You can't rely only on that expectation so agree if it's important, legislate it.
Do I understand from a quick Google that you don't support Wayland (or at least Solus doesn't)? If you're using mutter you should presumably have the core of the capability available I believe?

I use Fedora and one of the big reasons is Wayland. I understand there are some usecases for which it doesn't work well for people and that's exactly why I think it is important to use it as much as possible to help get those ironed out. We need to move on from X.
Not a book, but we've built a website for project-based C++ learning: learncppthroughprojects.com — The only Project we offer at the moment is about optimizing passenger crowding on the London Underground using WebSockets and graphs. We focus on two things: Producing a working implementation and then making it production-ready (as we think this is often overlooked!).
To answer this, we would need to know what you mean by random(). You haven't provided any language, library or other context.
> we devs don't have root on our workstations

What's the justification for this... while at the same time allowing the use of containers?
oh great, it's this thread again
I think the best metric is to sort by number of comments on a particular changeset. More comments, more wide spread discussion, more people involved => more impact.

WireGuard for example is only a relatively small changeset, but has an huge impact for many uses, you can find many comments, posts, write ups, about it all over the internet. Many knew that this feature was going to be huge, well before merge into linux.

On the other hand, if almost no one is discussing a particular change (e.g. the removal of 20k lines of driver code), then the impact will either be very low and unimportant or it will unexpectedly become important, but there was no way you could have known it beforehand.
People do hold USDT. I hold some myself. If you are going to buy crypto again it saves the hassle and expense of converting into fiat money and back again.

The majority of exchanges can't actually hold fiat money due to regulatory issues.

Also I imagine some people are hoping to avoid the taxman by keeping it in crypto though that's legally not kosher.
>The second example capped off a paragraph about curfew measures to prevent daytime protests from being overtaken by nighttime looting. Therefore it could be an empirical statement about tragedies that tend to and have followed looting and is using that to justify his preventive measures. If he meant it normatively and wanted to shoot people he probably wouldn’t have pushed preventative measures.

The second example was a blatantly racist dog whistle[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_looting_starts,_the_s...
I disagree with calling this a riot. It's hypocritical for the media to call this a riot, yet "fiery, mostly peaceful" is jus ta protest.
Well, for Android at least, the one I mentioned, Conversations ?

BTW, I use it with my mom. And even though I was the one that set up her XMPP account at https://jabber.lqdn.fr/my/create.php , as you can see it's quite straightforward to do ! (And other servers might have an even easier, more mobile friendly version by now, IIRC Conversations itself is suggesting one ?)

As for Matrix, see this other comment of mine :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25683697
macOS actually comes with Bash 3.2, which is from 2007. it is the last version released before they switched to GPL. this is actually why they switched to zsh.
I admire Google, but as a China-based technologist with years in Beijing it has been clear to everyone I know for a long time that Google China was an organizational and strategic disaster.

Levy paints this as a political problem. But really it is an organizational one. The decision to hire Kai Fu Lee was a lurching move made impetuously from the top. And when they pulled out it was a lurching move made impetuously from the top.

The biggest challenge for Google China was never improving Google's core algorithms and services (that stuff was sensibly walled off). It was justifying long-term involvement in China. But Google China didn't innovate. It didn't compete. And it failed to produce or champion a single project interesting or "non-evil" enough to persuade its disconnected Mountain View overlords that a public dust-up with the CCP might be a bad thing.
It's nice (and rare) to see VCs being humble.
Looks nice.

There's also OneWed (http://www.onewed.com) which has a directory of all types of wedding vendors as well as their sister site, Nearlyweds (http://www.nearlyweds.com), which makes beautiful wedding web sites. I highly recommend them (disclaimer: I'm also friends with them. :)).
When I was learning C++ I subscribed to a great magazine called the "C++ Report". I first read about expression templates and template meta-programming in that magazine (Todd Veldhuizen's articles on Blitz). I blew my mind that people could use templates that way. Too bad it took many years to get my hands on a compiler that could actually handle templates well enough to use those techniques :-)

I'm not necessarily recommending reading those articles today - they are pretty dated. Still, it was wonderful to read about the techniques as they developed.
Its a matter of finance more than anything - if the people of the United States are paying you to protect national interests that is exactly what they should be doing. I can't speak for your specific situation but my time on the internet leads me to believe they have bigger fish to fry. Sorry though man I know that had to suck.
I'm running a small Exhibitor/Zookeeper cluster dockerized (5 nodes, several hundred clients), and its extremely straightforward. Etcd isn't what we'd consider production-grade yet.
This is the original title, but it's not descriptive at all. I guess that I should try to find a good title from the transcript, but I failed. I propose to use the title of the Vessel page linked in the description: "Early access to Veritasium, MinutePhysics & MinuteEarth's new videos & more"
The question was not "why is this impossible?" but "why didn't someone remote control the GW flight"? Because, although all the required technological pieces are currently available, remote control is not actually implemented in any commercial aviation aircraft.

As to "why is it not implemented" - because it would create far, far more problems than it would solve, without a measurable benefit.
Ubiquitis mFi line of products. Each wall outlet cost ~$60, little over your budget but it's a great product. https://www.ubnt.com/mfi/inwall/
I don't think there is a need for another one. As you guessed, there's a pretty good reddit sub for that: http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions
You must be referring to monthly payments, which are one of the smaller hurdles in the path to homeownership.
Finally, tracking video views beyond what agencies and clients pay for
Cold reading is certainly not the only kind of fake psychic scam. For example, hot reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_reading

However, a skilled cold reader will in fact get specifics (though they'll also have bad guesses), by making further general guesses based on the information you've already confirmed for them. For example, military service is very common for men in a certain age range, who were drafted to Vietnam. Clothing can be pretty uniform for people who you know to be/can guess to be in a certain demographic. Most people (beyond children) have scars.

If your comment was intended to suggest that some people actually can communicate with dead people: dude, no. It's not true. Your emotions are being preyed on for someone else's profit.
If you can describe an acceptable algorithm with enough detail in words, you can code it.

If some guy had a good employment history, maybe a GitHub with some examples of their skills and described an algorithm to me... Why would I doubt their ability to write it in code?
That's still really surprising I think. I would have imagined that it would have been off by many orders of magnitude. The fact that these models are within a factor of 3-10 of the human consumption is pretty impressive.

That being said, these models are training only for very specific tasks whereas obviously the human brain is far more sophisticated in terms of its capabilities.
It may be. As far as I know GraalVM can compile it AOT, but I don’t know about it’s performance characteristics.
Those silicon lids are great! My mom had a set long before the existence of KS, validating your belief in this case at least.
> cli is available everywhere

I guess that's part of what I was getting at though. Where are you doing your development that isn't your workstation?

I work on a whole bunch of different things -- from personal stuff running on my laptop or VMs in my house to cloud services deployed across dozens of AWS services -- and things have just got to a point where I have no need to do a commit anywhere but my workstation. (Well, technically, I have two: one personal, one work).

I definitely used to do it years ago, but now I don't remember the last time I had to use git on a remote system.
> There's literally nothing different about deepfakes.

That's a bit disingenuous don't you think?
Apparently the language was renamed at some point, google/puffs redirects to google/wuffs?

Puffs was discussed few years back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15711767
Even genetic diseases sometimes need environmental influences to develop.

For example, some people are prone to alcoholism in a hereditary way. But if they live in a society that has zero alcohol, they won't ever become alcoholic. Upon moving to a society where alcohol is sold freely and frequently, they may sink into alcoholism without having any obviously alcoholic ancestor.
A large number of sales of said device. That's pretty much what drives any manufacturer.
You're the one making the causal claim that unions are responsible for this. You need to prove your claim; I've already provided evidence that would refute the argument you would make.
Is it a peltier-based cooler? (Really cold side and really hot side) Then this would make slightly more sense.
I’ve become throughly convinced that the only way to dethrone Facebook is by creating the Next Big Thing and being crazy (and well-funded) enough to reject any acquisitions on the way up. “Delete your Facebook” social movements are doomed from the start.

Social trends seem to come in waves, and people get bored quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the world tires of today’s brand of social media in a decade or two. The Facebook Killer will thus be something completely different, not merely a better or more ethical version of contemporary social media.

Or maybe I’m just being too optimistic.
One of the big problems many of these stores have is that the mobile coverage actually is bad inside due to the building's structure. Many of them are reinforced concrete buildings wrapped in metal cladding (take an IKEA store as an example). So many larger supermarkets in some countries barely have coverage at the cash register so you can pay with a phone but you'll lose coverage as soon as you enter further. They mostly don't offer any solution for this, like WiFi APs or mobile base stations. There's also the much higher density of people at that spot which crowd the same base station.

I'd wager MediaMarkt faced the same issue, wanted to give some internet coverage, and found WiFi to be cheaper or easier to implement and maintain. They may have realized in the meantime that they can extract some useful data too.
You can rent out other collectibles too