jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I went cold turkey.

I live abroad, in one of my trips back home, I installed Telegram in my parent's phones and showed them how they can call me (mom started spamming me with stickers immediately), asked each friend that I met in person to do the same. They all did except one friend.
I posted on facebook that i'm quitting it and left my contact info. Some got in touch, many didn't. Life went on.
> even though the utility function doesn't make a ton of sense.

What if it never makes sense?

One thing I didn't realize until embarrassingly too late in life is that savings should only function as a buffer for emergencies. Anything else is just burning your money since there haven't been savings accounts that consistently beat inflation even in the US.

I was fed these same myths as a kid, and earnestly believed that part of success in life was to have a huge savings account one day. I remember well all those "power of compound interest" talks in grade school, about how working hard and saving was the path to wealth. But that's all a complete myth.

The real irony is that anyone who has built themselves serious amounts of wealth typically does so by making high risk/high reward choices. Teaching kids to play it safe and building saves, different desires to the future etc. doesn't make any sense in the world we live in. It's ultimately bad advice. No one I know who ended up very successful did so by living conservatively and within they're means. They're people who aggressively pursued improving their conditions, often times because they were forced too precisely because they didn't have a savings.

The lesson of "save money, life within your means and make conservative choices" sounds nice, but in the world we live in today this is a recipe for short terms austerity and long term decline.
FireJail does at least some isolation
Klax was actually a very good game. I spent many hours on it as a kid, as it came on a dodgy 60-in-1 Gameboy cartridge someone brought me from Asia.
Very relatable quotes from that piece. Here are some others that follow the quote from the title:

It feels as if I made it myself, as if it were my creation.

I identify with the director.

I identify with the actors.

Well told stories have incredible power in the human mind.
I mean, it's just as trivial for netflix to make periodic requests to fast.com fron their streaming apps if ISPs were using that as a metric to throttle their traffic.
The mathematical certainty of the issuance of BTC won't really mean much if nobody wants to trade it for goods. BTC's volatility is not just volatility w.r.t. USD.
> crypto as a concept is very interesting in many ways.

The examples you give mean nothing to me. What real problem is being solved by any of your examples of 'interesting'?

We already have something that allows you to bootstrap an idea on a shoestring budget: the cloud.
It's pretty amazing how much of modern video editing tech is still powered by ffmpeg under the hood. Highly recommend that people donate if you can:

https://ffmpeg.org/donations.html
She's also not well-known inside computer science. I certainly don't know her. Wikipedia isn't a reliable source, so I am not sure what she has done. It appears that she was part of a team that might have developed one of the early loaders/linkers.
I think this should be the standard for identification and signature. Pen and paper signatures are not very reliable and are inefficient none-the-less.

We can put these keys on cards or phones and have them distributed across services and state boundaries.

Seems far more reliable to me. And verifiable!
I get ads past the adblocker sometimes that say "visit Michoacán to see the butterflies". Hmm, disrupt the butterflies and travel to one of the most dangerous areas on the planet? Sure thing, if it comes with Lloyds of London kidnap insurance and triple death payout. (I know someone from the coast that has stories of rural life from about two decades ago, however it's far worse now.)

The TL;DR action item (wrong species of plant) needs a blog article (how to identify the right and wrong ones with pictures) to get linked into the news. That might happen, but I won't hold my breath.
His link talks about the top 1%.. which starts at a net worth of $8.4m [0]. It's entirely possible you are both correct.

0. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-t...
By what definition of "rich"?

Googling turns up lots of people quoting that statistic, but none of them provide more details on who was surveyed or what methodology was used, so it's kind of meaningless.
oh yeah, I remember that image too. I guess I'm ok with them selling my info because I freely gave it up and I knew that was going to happen. Not saying it's right, but also not saying I was duped.
But definitely a valid reason for leaving.
Why 21M bitcoins? Wikipedia doesn't explain.
If you can spare a measly $20/month, you can get a really decent VPS more than capable of running a lowish-traffic Django or Rails site. If you shop around, you can get one for about $15/month.

If you don't want to admin Linux, for five lousy bucks a month asmallorange.com will set you up for Django (if it isn't already setup on the shared host) if you just ask nicely. They advertise Rails 2.3 support by default.
Will take a look at that right now.
a) Not everybody has a smartphone

b) Most people don't want to download another damn app just to be able to eat at your restaurant.

c) Being able to order before you arrive usually isn't really a big advantage -- otherwise places would have done it long ago by phone.

Might be useful for take-out food during the lunchtime rush, though -- order and pay for your lunch from the office, and then stroll down to collect it. But some places already have an web-based system for this, with no need for a separate app. Still, I guess the app-based idea might make life slightly easier -- just show the screen of your phone to pick up your order.
amen to that!
The signal-to-noise issue really bothered me too.. I hated only being able to send a status message to EVERYONE, and setting up groups would've been too time consuming.
Yeah, Terminal.app doesn't support a mouse

FWIW, iTerm2 supports "mouse reporting", allowing you to position the cursor in vim or emacs (for example) with a click:

http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home
The “we’re winning the corona war” coverup begins.
I wish it had more dedicated IDE besides the atom/electron based ones (like GNU Octave has its own). I think Julia's performance deserves an equally performant IDE.
The Trump administration is neither plaintiff nor defendant in the court case you refer to.
Fuck yes to paul graham. Funding America's best amid this crisis.
Wow, thank you for sharing. I assume you're thankfully fine now? Can I ask how long it took, how bad things got, etc.?
Perhaps putting the word 'Fiction' in the title you suggested (clickbait or not, I think it is utterly relevant to the content) would help? It would be great if this story made it to the front-page!
I suggest to look into https://ifcomp.org/ - the annual interactive fiction competition is running for 25 years now and there are some great games and resources over there.
I actually thought that was a good speech. I can't comment on Germany's policies on this as I haven't been following them that closely.
For me the biggest downside of OneNote is that I can't use it on Linux/Unix (Wine doesn't always work). I didn't know fedwiki, looks interesting and I'll look into this, thanks for that.

Do you have categories in which single entries are grouped or you just add new thing and search for it later?
If I produce something and you want to consume it, and I ask for money, then I deserve to get paid. Just because someone produces something doesn't mean you deserve to consume it.
Why is it so unreasonable for an artist to ask for money in exchange for his work? Are you saying that because it's digital, it not longer has any value? If I make music or a game, I wouldn't stop someone from listening to my music or playing the game (I would encourage it), but if they want to own a copy of it, it seems reasonable for me to ask for a payment. That social contract has been around for thousands of years. Now that there happens to be technology that makes it easy not to pay for it, it's suddenly ethically okay?

You can consume as much media as you want for free: you can rent music, books, movies, and games at the library. But if you love it so much that want your own copy of it, shouldn't you show your appreciation to the artist by just buying it?
Greenland is an autonomous region within Denmark, a Nato and EU member: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

There hasn't been a political coup within the Nordic countries during the last 50 years, and I'm quit sure the last 100 too. That is, unless you count the coups during WWII reacting to outside invasions. Compare that with the number of coups in South America during the same time.

As stated, Denmark is a Nato and an EU member, so an actual invasion is simply unthinkable within today's political system.
Have a source? That seems like an awesome way to recycle grocery bags.
This isn't in the building, it's way that municipal utilities retrofit pipes in the street that are leaking. If they catch the leak before it collapses, they are able to inject this sleeve and basically put a plastic cast inside the pipe.

They did it on my block when I was telecommuting from my front porch. The smell comes from the excavation holes. It's loud process and they use high pressure air to do it. It smelled like somebody stained a deck, and lasted about a half hour. There was some residual smell that mostly went away after they covered the hole. You wouldn't know it had happened a few hours later.

If you've ever dealt with the public with stuff, people freak out about anything smelly or any visible involving radio.
Your superscript got eaten. 2^32
title:

> Vanilla JavaScript and HTML – No Frameworks. No Libraries. No Problem

article:

> All we get to use are HTML, TypeScript/JavaScript, CSS, and the browser DOM (document object model).

since when typescript is considered vanilla js?
This is super weird. The "job queue" example made me facepalm, I'd probably use a one-liner like-

ls -1 *.mp3 | xargs -P4 -n1 -i ffmpeg -i "{}" "{}.ogg"

(yah the filenames would end up .mp3.ogg, but so does the example...should throw basename in there somewhere)
I'm late to the party. Hoping you can answer a question. On the one hand, you're lowering the bar to do useful statistical work, which is awesome. A new set of people will be able to do better analysis. On the other hand, you're baking in assumptions which this new set of people won't understand, so you aren't necessarily lowering the bar to do correct statistical work. That seems challenging, and I'm curious how you think about it.
I don't know about the US, but where I live the encircling land will have to open a road for the locked ones.
I can't recommend the author's novels highly enough. Terra Ignota, the first book being Too Like the Lightning.
A 'Faraday Cage' should also help.

edit: No idea why the downvotes. Faraday cages have long been thought of as a way to protect electrical devices from the electromagnetic waves which can be a result of solar flares.

I even chatted to someone from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory about it in the past.
While I will admit ignorance about the details of Rust, what you described doesn't solve my problem. We do not believe in mono-repo here, and have broken our system down into lots of small repos with custom tools to manage that. Checking in a copy of the dependency tree into each repo is not the right answer. I'm sure I can make this all work, but everything I've heard about Cargo is it will fight the way we have setup our system. We are not changing, while there are things I'd do different (use Conan - but that didn't exist until just after we rolled our system out, and is just enough different that it will be hard to switch), the system works for our needs.
The worst part of this is that software is typically a collaboration. It's fine to want to work just enough to provide for whatever it is you want to provide for. Morally (I guess?) it's not right to drag a bunch of teammates down with you as you try to make software.

I know some artisans that do this exact thing. I'm sure a lot of people on here know people exactly like the ones that I do. I know a cabinet maker who has been doing it for over 40 years. He'll make a fantastic set of cabinets for someone and then not work a bit for 3 months. Then he'll do it again. I know another guy who makes custom offroad accessories. He'll do a run of whatever, working hard for 2 weeks, and then fuck off for 2-4 months at a time. Repeat as needed. Do more when you need more money, do less when you need less. It's a healthy pattern if you can pull it off.

I think it's fine if you want to do the software development version of that, but you need to be in a situation where you're doing freelance or project based work and not negatively affecting your peers.
In short, vaccine passports hurt the disadvantaged and help those already well off. But couldn't the same be said about travel passports? How about voter ID? I feel like everyone is all over the spectrum on those three with very little consistency (myself included).

If vaccine passports can help this pandemic end earlier it's hard not to get behind them for a number of good reasons not even addressed in the article.
> he bravely staked out a new claim

Culturally, sure. Legally, Signal becomes open season for law enforcement the moment this feature is implemented. And there will be zero law protecting them or any data they may have retained, properly or improperly, on their users. Given the MobileCoin's venality, I doubt they'll get public sympathy.
The approach here would be to declare the dependency on the git repo directly. Vendoring is still going to copy the stuff you're building into your project, but you'd keep those patches in the repository of the dependency, not on your vendored copy.
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The Chief Investigator of Georgia's SoS had this to say in a sworn affidavit:

https://news.yahoo.com/georgias-top-election-investigator-de...

I'm all for transparency, verification, and audits, and think we need to ditch all electronics and go all paper, with tons of observation, but there's no there there in all this "fraud". If you are propagating this now it is because you have an agenda oblique to democracy.
Right, putting your time into working for a struggling company isn't taking any risk, and the executives deserve further rewards than just their salary.
Seems like a perfectly legitimate fallback to me. If the DNS server of my ISP is down again (happens once every decade) and then my computer connects to a fallback reasonably trusted by my distribution or otherwise won’t function, then I’d rather have it function. Fedora comes with a huge mirrorlist, and I don’t have to opt-in to every one of those for a functioning computer either.
I know, but NYT is western media. My point was that they have too low of a bar for classifying "poverty".
For what it's worth, this is slowly changing. BattleBorn has certified their LifePo4 batteries to lower temperatures. Been a while since I watched this. [1] Just slower charge rates, but no longer unsafe due to charge controller changes. Previous versions would shut off the charge below 0C. So charging slowly over night may still be useful, but speed charging in cold weather would not.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywn-vBjKblI
Damn, this looks nice! Especially the procedural stuff.

I did use Blender roughly 10 years ago for school projects, and I would like to get back, anybody has a good tutorial lying around? :)
Devil advocating attempt: they obviously did a measure how much of their userbase will allow the app to serve personalized ads and how it will impact their revenue. Even if it is in a ballpark of 10%, it is still a ton of money and, as a commercial enterprise acting in the interests of its shareholders, FB should do it's best to avoid or reduce potential damage.
the problem here is that every single one of these alternate OSs requires advanced knowledge. Granted, it's not difficult to flash your phone via a USB cable + web interface but consider that the average smartphone user isn't even interested in removing bloatware like facebook.

The advanced knowledge i'm referring to is to first know that GrapheneOS exists, know how to enable OEM unlocking, know how to select the correct factory image and so on.

People don't care and cannot be expected to care. Apple, as much as i dislike several of their practices, provide a phone that works when you need it to. AFAIK, the iphone's primary purpose as a phone - has never had an incident where a software bug prevented someone from placing a call.
Just use anesthesia before the execution. If they can do surgery on you without even a passing sense of time, why not use it in this case?
Very interesting concept. That would definitely be worth looking into. It would be very valuable to consider this before changing old content.
So does using these new devices mean they will be using the flash bangs less? They should be able to see who all is inside and realize a child or person that is not the suspect?
I'm sorry I can't really give a straight answer to that question because it really depends on the context and risk-reward calculations. If the entire design revolves around that specific part and it's specialized, it's much riskier than if the part is more commoditized (e.g. power or ethernet) and there is money in the budget to risk a partial redesign based on part availability. If there is an experienced supply chain gal on the ground in China with a Rolodex of contacts, who speaks the language, and knows how to spot fakes the enterprise is much less risky than if you're doing the shopping yourself (or remotely which is a crapshoot). If it's a low margin product you might not have a choice but if it's a high margin product you probably don't want to risk the reputation. If it's a part that requires software such as a driver on the microprocessor, then you're in a whole other world of risk management dependent on manufacturer software quality and support. So on and on. Unfortunately, I don't know of any great resources that exhaustively detail this thought process (although I'm sure some are out there), although you can always look into systems engineering, which is a whole field dedicated to understanding how to manage complex engineering projects.

Electrical engineering is all about trade offs and constraints which range from physical board size to manufacturing/assembly cost to R&D deadlines to software support. I would err on the side of investing more money into proper part selection and designing from the start with part swapping in mind because unlike with software, success or failure can be very binary with little room for error. The Shenzhen markets are great because I usually have to work under extreme deadlines that don't gel well with the pace of suppliers and my deliverables are at least several steps away from full production.
I've run such operational teams, and the benefits of monoliths are immense.
This site is good for some analysis of exactly that type of fingerprinting

https://amiunique.org/
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Pytorch, C++, Python, Machine Learning, Speech, Vision, k8

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/3tqJk8H

Email: accio.arjun[at]gmail[dot]com

Looking for a Senior/Staff level Individual Contributor role in applied Machine learning domain, have extensive experience in building end to end products in Speech, Vision which server millions of customers per day.
Same, that was a nice touch.
The keywords in your post are these: "Strong Procedures".

Most startups/tech companies don't necessary have that.
Demo account is jetsons1962@yahoo.com with a password of jetsons
I think whether you work best in a one kind of ambient atmosphere versus another (a place of social interactions versus a place of quiet) depends on whether you are an introvert or an extrovert.

Introverts and extroverts are equally able to function and enjoy both environments, but an introvert has to "turn it on" in a social atmosphere, and therefore needs quiet alone time to recharge his batteries. An extrovert is the opposite; he has to "zone himself in" to make use of quiet alone time, and needs social time to recharge his batteries.

I think extroverts are the people who enjoy the ambience of the coffee shop, drawing energy from the hustle and bustle around them. Introverts find this more taxing; they're just as able to do work, but they'd probably be more productive in a quiet study room.
Thanks for the tip, LaunchBar's inability to handle snippets has been my only complaint.

I loved me some QuickSilver in days of yore, but I'll never switch back; LaunchBar is too excellent, and it's burned into my brain at this point. :)
High school calculus barely scratches the surface of what calculus is, though to be sure, I've only personally encountered one person who got that far with calculus without school.
About this: "CEO to average employee income was around 80:1, now it's closer to 250:1."

I think that is nearly equivalent to saying that the average company is now 4x larger. CEO pay is strongly related to the size of the company.

If this is a problem (not saying it is or isn't) then the solution would be to make companies smaller. We could break them up. Nothing else is required, certainly not income confiscation.

Something feeding this change is that companies now operate across borders more. That makes companies bigger. A trouble with breaking up large companies is that other nations might not do likewise. Nations that don't break up companies could have an advantage over those that do, with their companies having greater economy of scale.
The rate may end up the same in many situations, but it’s still helpful to control the timing on when you pay long term capital gains. With dividends you’re still paying now rather than later, or perhaps never. (There’s no capital gains on donated stock or inherited stock.)
Copyright infringement was also always illegal (and still is). That doesn't mean that Napster, BitTorrent, etc. didn't massively increase access to music outside the control of the copyright system.
I still use Visual FoxPro almost daily for a number of things. It really does have charm in it's simplicity and some very robust out of the box support in it's GUI and DB engines.

One thing that maybe a more technical person can explain is how exactly FoxPro accesses it's (free) tables over a network share. Given that there's no central server component, I have the impression that the whole table is loaded over the wire when it's first opened.
> actual rich people make most of their money not as income, but as unrealized capital gains.

Technically, they make most of their wealth as as unrealized capital gains. It doesn't become money until they realize the gains, at which point it is taxable income.