jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Likewise, wealthy nations also have vested interests in certain poor nations staying that way."

No, they don't. Heard of China? Growth in China? That shit makes capitalists giddy. And when the guys at Goldman Sachs are happy, your political elite smiles too. Would they like 800 million africans to become another china? Yes, they would. Industrialization of a nation does not make it's raw materials more expensive. Africa's cheap labour is of little use to the west (or china) (extraction of raw materials is not labour intensive, africas commercial agriculture is underdeveloped). Growth in africa would not hurt the evil imperialists.

Considering the catastrophe* de-colonization in africa has been the smugness of those who dismiss all ideas carrying the faintest whiff of colonialism is nauseating.

*Africa is the only continent on earth were falling levels of gdp per capita has been the norm in several countries. THis picture becomes bleaker if you consider the fact that the increase in gdp per capita is from resource extraction that brings little benefits to the people. De-colonization was a disaster on the scale of maos great leap forward.
Ontrack
Oh for goodness' sake move on!

I'm struggling to think of any capitalist adventure that won't go against the ire of 4chan. Which is great 'n' all, but one should know one's target audience.

Target appropriately and you will succeed. Fix someone's problem, and you'll get money for it. Even 4chan users' money... I hope.
Although we are naturally superficial, I think that looks actually have very little to do with getting the girl. How many times do you see guys with women that look a lot better than them? A lot in my area. Some of the most "popular" guys in high school and college wouldn't stand a chance in a modeling competition but they certainly were confident.

I think the most important traits to develop are confidence, mystery (not being predictable) and humor. Take care of yourself and try to keep looking nice, but don't hone in on that aspect.
Ah, I wish the laptop designers/manufacturers would read this so they'll have a fear that Jobs is going to review their design before it goes to market.
Maybe a lawyer who would like to work fewer hours, live anywhere in the world, make his own schedule, etc
It's Heroku's free plan, so there's only one worker. When someone's doing a big import, everyone else gets backed up behind them. I just added another worker, getting me out of "free" but into "functional". :)

You can do a bookmarks export from Chrome to HTML, then import that HTML file. All the browsers use the standard Netscape bookmarks file format, AFAIK.
Should have quantified my statement, mobile software wasn't hot 10 years ago.
I agree that spending $100 to create $80 is wealth destruction. However Microsoft justified it at the time by taking a cut of game sales. If people bought enough games, then they made a profit per unit.

Later generations of the console had much better profit margins for them.
> In which case it would very probably reduce laptop theft.

Or just increase the availability of used parts...
I've not seen anything saying it can be disabled. And given the recent way US companies have reacted to Wikileaks, say, could you imagine running Tor on a computer with a chip like this...?

Edit: Or, say, the RIAA automatically disabling anything exposing a torrent.
It's not in the best interest of the usually seen computer viruses to brick a computer this way. A bricked computer cannot be turned into a spam zombie or a node in a botnet.

However, considering the implications of Stuxnet, I can see a lot of uses for processor kill switches. Imagine not only having to replace all your centrifuges, you also have to replace all desktop computers in your government offices, as well as the servers running your supply chains. To make it more interesting, try to do that during an invasion.

To be fair, you may want to brick a stolen computer, but that only guarantees it will never show up on any authorized dealer who can check the serial number against a list of stolen computers.
I use a great little tool called PasswordMaker that I actually found in the comments of a thread here a long time ago. Here's a brief summary: http://blog.rapin.com/better-authentication-password-managem...
I don't so much "not like him". But, compare cite records:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Serge+Vaudenay&hl=en...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hans+dobberton&hl=en...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=eli+biham&...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=bruce+schneier...
This is far too forward looking to ever happen in the U.S.
In other words, it’s better architecture. If anything this makes it seem more impressive to me.
You mean catching a falling knife? Truth is, nobody knows when a good time is.
You will get all kinds of advice! My short answer is buy quality used equipment if you can. Assuming you've outgrown binoculars:

If you're broke, get on craigslist and get a used 6" or 8" dobsonian.

If you have the budget, my advice is to get on craigslist and look for a used name brand telescope with at least 6" of aperture and an equatorial or computerized fork mount, and a pile of eyepieces and other accessories. This will probably be a Celestron 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain (there are a number of models, and there have been even more) and will cost $500-$2000 depending on its age, condition, accesories, etc. Yes, new ones more or less land in that range but expect to get a good deal on the bundle of accessories. It's not what I chose, but they're popular because they're at a sweet spot of portability and versatility.

There are many other options. I like the approach in the book Real Astronomy with Small Telescopes, but I live where it's usually cloudy and like to be able to bring a small telescope with me when I travel.
https://www.amazon.com/Astronomy-Small-Telescopes-Step-Step/...
I find it weird how little we know about our own martial arts. For example the last official US Army sword manual was published in 1913 and was written by George S. Patton. He even designed the sword to be used with the manual.
This is a restatement of the Cassandra docs paired with the usual misunderstanding of CAP. An AP system is not a choice of "I'll have availability and partition tolerance, please". It's the choice of availability given a partition. The whole point of CAP is that when partitions occur, there is a forced choice -- this is why it's incorrect to ask for a CA system.

The Minio team are manifestly excellent engineers, but insightless posts that contain subtle misunderstandings of CAP do nothing to showcase that competence.
>Why poo poo it? That's what I don't understand.

I think many people take a certain comfort in the assumption that we basically have the universe and the nature of reality figured out. They can accept the possibility that there may be some microbes buried deep on Mars, because it doesn't disrupt their world view or understanding of the nature of reality. But to consider the possibility that there are actually "alien" intelligent beings from other worlds, other dimensions or places unknown flying around on earth shatters their entire understanding of how the world works. It turns all of their assumptions about the universe, the history of our planet and the nature of life itself on its head. Its too much for many people to even contemplate, so they reflexively look for mundane explanations that fit into their perceived understanding of reality. For those predisposed to cling to the safety of what they think they know, the further idea that the government could have been aware of this phenomenon for decades while lying about it and covering it up is just another bit of paradigm busting trauma. The possibility is just too frightening for some, so they refuse to consider it (consciously or not).
When I started enjoying autocomplete Java did not even exist!

C and C++ development on VC++ on Windows and XEmacs on UNIX.
I understand that. But the context of this thread was

> there shouldn't be a profit motive attached to basic services like electricity
I don’t agree with this at all. It sounds like bullshit. And bullying.

“whether the speaker intended to or not“, is the really messed up line here. Intent is pretty important. In fact, IIRC it’s the pretty important even when deciding if there’s a violation, legally speaking.
See, that last insult is exactly what I was hoping to avoid. "Hey, this particular field of endeavor has a poor track record of making bad predictions of doom" is a verifiable fact, and you just turned it into partisan shit-flinging.

Nobody's attempting to own anyone here, but thanks for lowering the standard of discourse substantially.

>Temperatures have topped 100 at the North Pole

No they have not. The highest temperature ever recorded was 56. Cite your sources.

sep_field silently edited their post to change "North Pole" to "the arctic".
Most communication is performative these days, and it's breaking society.
Radio has different UIs for setting up (finding) stations, making lists of favorites etc. Great on a touchscreen. Just cycling presets doesn’t need a touchscreen and I’d assume almost all modern cars even do that on the steering wheel (volume up down and track/channel step).
I would be just like Harry Potter, when it would be possible to print moving photos on a paper or a wall. With a sound preferably. I liked the idea of an moving image of Harry Potter repeatedly saying "Eat dung, Umbridge". Wouldn't it great to paint a graffiti saying obscene things to a passers-by? Then you could hide behind bushes and record a video how people react. Oh, and you could draw another graffiti which might answer to the first one. The city would become a different place, I'd stop using internet and start using reality again. It would be so much fun. Not for a long I expect, then morally wounded citizens would ban moving graffiti to make world boring again. But for a few years we could have a lot of fun. And then move to underground.
It would be awfully useful if both sandwich-eaters and sandwich-makers could learn the signs for, for example, spinach, chipotle, mustard, mayo, wrap, ciabatta, red onion, and so on. At my favorite sandwich counter, a full year into the pandemic, people are still communicating with the staff by yelling at them from 3 feet away from a plexiglass barrier, while everyone is wearing masks and everyone else in the store is yelling as well.

Seriously, they haven't even tried to come up with a better system. Like.... pictures on the glass that you can point to? A form with checkboxes that you can hand over? Nope, we're going stick with yelling our lungs out.
I did the same, but then recently picked up Davinci Resolve which feels a lot friendlier to use. It also has a free/lite version, though it's not OSS like Blender.
Is there an entity out there trying to solve the design issue around cars? Like, why is it possible to do the erratic behavior you describe when you leave room for the car ahead of you? How can we change the design of either cars or roads to inhibit dangerous behavior? I'm sure most people who read this have driven on an American highway and observe dangerous behaviors from other drivers. It's curious why, as a society, we ignore this as a given for independent transportation.
Also see the tesla wiper speed case - touchscreen caused crash when driver tried to adjust wiper speed, but ruled to be his fault as using the touchscreen while driving was illegal [0]. Those touchscreen controls are not only dangerous, they are gonna be outlawed. Something to consider when buying a new car; Even if you don't value your safety, might value the lost value of the car...

[0]: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/tech-zukunft/tesla-unfal...
IEEE units are base 10. 10Gb/s is 10,000,000,000 bits per second.
I'm guessing every language ruins something for everyone else.

Around this part of the world, almost everyone calls tea by some variation of the word "chai". But not us. In Polish, it's herbata!
Unfortunately not because most shops in Germany opened at 10am. It's much better nowadays in that AG least grocery stores are open to 10pm.
Which I believe violates HN rules
Location: Berlin

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: VR (C#, Unity), IoT (C/C++, MCUs, MQTT, CoAP), Data Science (User studies, Scikit-Learn, Python, R)

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I have 5 years of experience of prototyping and deploying IoT and VR application. Half of those are industry and half academic experiences.

I am good at solutions engineering (taking a human-centered approach) and at prototyping initial concepts. Take a look at my website to see some of my projects!
Also better than Amazon's internal tool.
Thanks, I'll try to fix it.
I second learning to cook - it’s a skill valuable in good times and bad and really helps you to eat cheaply and healthily if you are mindful of your ingredients.

There are tons of helpful videos to get you started. I recommend Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen on YouTube
> You cannot infect yourself outside if you keep a distance of 5m to everyone.

Depends what you touch while you're out.

> You also very unlikely to infect yourself if you go to a hotel without air conditioning, clean the room yourself, don't go to breakfast and just use the room as an isolated office and keep a frigging distance to everyone.

Sure but if everyone starts going to hotels, you're putting the staff there at risk.

I don't think anybody disagrees that if you isolate yourself you won't get sick.

But if a bunch of people from these shared apartments start fanning out to try to get away from eachother, some of them will already be carriers and will spread the disease further.

People have to stop moving around.
and right away find a local repeater and get accepted into an operators net, thats going to be crucial...

there should be some rep among operators to avoid bad apples that would try to take or make advantage with black comms
love this, thank you
Do you have any evidence that cleaning subways is an effective way of preventing infection? From everything I have read the main vector of infection is by direct droplet infection during personal contact with an infected person. Sure, maybe if you disinfect surfaces everywhere you may decrease the spread a tiny little bit, but everyone's resources are probably better spent elsewhere right now.

You also can't just protect people above 65 and let the virus spread amongst young people. Have a look at the Imperial College study published a few days ago, where they modeled the effect of different interventions in the UK and US. Even if you could perfectly isolate all old people (and ignoring the mental health cost of that) the young people needing medical attention would still vastly overwhelm the health system.

And I agree that widespread testing would be great, but there are simply only so many tests you can do with the resources available. It's easy to say "you should test everyone" but nobody ever has an answer for how.
Whiteboards - I still find that no software can beat a room of people and a shared whiteboard for talking through certain things. It’s such a simple yet effective tool for so many things.
or learn how to make your own beer
Not you to be fair - but a fair few other people are.
If you were in school and had a bet with your roommate about final grades, you wouldn't call off the bet as a draw if you both got A's but you got a higher numeric score than he.
I can understand your thoughts on many of your opinions but I also disagree with some of them.

For example, if you're not generating revenues and your incurring expenses. Then that would result in losses. Losses would provide you refunds and additional funds to keep your startup going to slow the burn rate.

Alternatively, you could also save the losses for the future to offset any income.

But, if you dont take care of it presently, then you'd take huge losses that you'd be unable to recoup in the future. What's your opinion on this issue?
Why on Earth does anyone need JavaScript to deliver text through HTTP? NoScript users aren't the guilty party, here.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2495775

Compares One Vote, Instant Runoff Voting, Acceptance Voting, Ranked Choice Voting, Condcorcet Method and various methods of Rated Voting via simulation testing for maximum voter happiness with the result.
I can hear that they're using GPG to encrypt end-to-end everything. For now, I think I trust them.
Validate your idea by getting users. Site building tools are ubiquitous now if you want to test out anything ecommerce.

For everything else, you can use a Google Form or just go out walking around town surveying people and seeing if they'll sign up to your list based on telling them your idea.

Ideas are not valuable unless you can show that you can execute on them and you don't need much money to show that, at least to start.
To many of us, Trump's election felt like some kind of discontinuity in the timeline - sort of like the train had jumped tracks and now was on a different course.

I wonder if it always feels like that during stressful times, or whether it's a product of multiple worlds being a prominent sci-fi theme.

As for your original point, we've yet to see whether Roe v Wade is overturned, whether the rule of law will prevail, and whether the tide of isolationism, authoritarianism and nationalism will corrode the liberal internationalism that emerged after WW2.
i wonder if this truck car will be just as bad for the other guys it hits as it would be hitting a truck.
Sorry, I didn't understand because what you meant seems so strange. I can't believe anyone without a major psychotic breakdown would take personally what an obvious recording says about a virtual character you're just happening to be controlling.
On another topic, someone recently posted this youtube video of a Norwegian engineer explaining her views on tech worker ethics, how we've got here and maybe a way to fix it or atleast improve on the current situation. I'd recommend showing it to your commute buddies.

It really resonated with my thoughts, how I've viewed the tech world and my (tiny) part in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNIiitVFtc
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/sec...
I wouldn't ask. This is what eminent domain is literally for.
Is it really based on devops culture? To me it always made sense to be able to say I want to do X, Y and Z... figure it out. Even distributions that have state-based procedural package managers could at least keep a list of things I actually want to use. I never understood Debian doesn't provide this by default, at the very list let me see the list of packages I explicitly installed. If I accidently install Gnome 3 and then remove it I'm left with a lot of useless junk everywhere bloating up my system.

PS. I know there are some really fickle and obscure commands to get the list of explicitly installed packages

PPS. Maybe Gnome 3 isn't the best example, except that it would definitely be an accident if I installed it.

PPPS. The useless junk floating around probably shouldn't bother me that much, but it does.
The "rules" for a good domain are not hard - eg, not exhaustive and in no particular order:

- pronounceable,

- memorable

- spellable (by a muppet)

- contextual (eg somewhat related to you or your product)

The hard part is coming up with a domain name that meets those rules and is not already taken. This gets harder every day.

My particular bugbear of late is the (mostly) recent trend towards .co (columbia) names for those that missed out on the .com name they wanted. Just means if you want to catch this traffic you need to register yet another duplicate name for your site!
Do bear in mind that just writing tests using business language in cucumber doesn't make then run. You still have to use some sort of test library underneath it to power the steps. In my current work I'm using the selenium API to do this, which hopefully is creating readable tests which re-use test execution code that makes updating them to UI changes far easier than just using a recording tool.
Is it used for indexing or at the moment query hits the search box? (I am interested in how this process works in more words than 4 and less than in that tech spec that i am illiterate about, sorry for that)
>if we took all capital letters, all numbers, and 6 punctuation characters, we'd end up with ~67 unique characters, for a combined 82 billion permutations.

82 billion may sound like a lot but it is not. Suppose you had a few multi-core machines that could collectively get up to 1 million crack attempts per second. Now you can crack that password in 82,000 seconds, or under one day.
The reason Ron Paul will never win a Presidency. It's too bad though. Granted some of his views are counter cultural and thus risky but I'd say it's a risk worth taking.

At least in the end you could say we tried. Right now, I guess we can say opps.
Nothing can keep the RIAA off you; if they want to sue, they'll sue.

The main difference between lending CDs and "lending" digital files is that copies are being made in the latter case, and The Man will say that those copies are not authorized, are not necessary for playback, and are not fair use. The Man also sometimes takes the position that an individual cannot "outsource" their fair use rights, so even if it's legal for you to personally make a copy in some situation, they claim it's not legal for you to authorize a third party (especially a for-profit company, e.g. a music locker) to make that same copy on your behalf. So some things that might be legal in a P2P implementation (as long as it's not called "P2P", they hate that) would be seen as illegal in a centralized Web 2.0 implementation, and since it's so hard to make money from P2P people just don't bother.
That's more or less what the rules for any Pen&Paper RPG and lots of different sports (e.g. soccer) say.
The "hack" is to wrongly define "move down, move left" to be the same as "line ending". It isn't. The first are commands to a machine, the second are elements of encoding text in binary storage.

Or more general, the "hack" is to act as if ASCII was a character encoding, when it's actually the encoding for a set of commands to a machine.
If there was a decent WYSIWYG editor (like Typora) bundled with Pandoc with a myriad of customizable export options, included with a bunch of high-quality themes and templates, while also having a one-click service to upload to a server for static serving, then I don’t see why not. Maybe the technology stack is not the problem, it’s the presentation of it that makes non-tech people gawk at the complexity.

Though the biggest problem with this stack is that everything breaks down when you’re doing anything serious with images or layouting.
Wrong. If there's an issue with public safety Spotify has 51%+ responsibility. Joe less. If no issue Young is talking about a non problem. The rest of your adjective laden diatribe is off topic.

Get in the game. There a wide limits to what you can opine; it's finite and large and a few things have consequences. Narrow: Spotify kicks Joe off; Joe walks elsewhere. Or legal. Nobody said consequence free.
Imo the poor state of the GPU market competition-wise is the only way NVidia is able to get away with this, otherwise competitors would just eat their lunch by doing exactly the same thing without the arbitrary market segmentation.
Oh my god, this, this, this!

I've basically trained myself not to click links anywhere, because I know the macOS window manager will f* up my virtual desktop order and I'll have to fix it.