jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Of all countries? I doubt that. Many people don't seem to realize the scope is the main problem here, and they are equating spying on one person in targetted surveillance, with spying on 4 billion people and saying "NSA has already been doing that!". No they haven't. So stop confusing the message.

Another big problem is that NSA has started undermining crypto. Before 2001 you could maybe actually trust NSA that they're releasing crypto that is safe because you thought they actually have an interest in "security". Not anymore. Anything and everything NSA has touched now has to be considered corrupt.
This is something that I've toyed around with a CANbus hacker called CANiTM (which is open source hardware) -- while I have Nationwide Insurance, I did call up Progressive and ask for a snapshot; they sent one to my house, and I was able to save me driving around a farm at reasonable speeds.

I then tweaked the CAN bus parameters a bit -- making the VIN number match the VIN of my current vehicle, and replaying that a few times during the trip so that it would seem like I'm a very patient, slow driver, who drives less than 5 miles a day at 8:30 and at 5:15, monday through Friday, and then sent it back to Progressive at the end of my 30 day trial.

Progressive quoted me an insanely small number for my auto insurance -- probably around $22/month -- which is about half of what Nationwide charges me for the same insurance.

It's my understanding that Progressive now is collecting GPS data with their snapshot tool, so I'm not sure that the same attack/replay would work for their system.
I'd be interested to know who you think is a threat!

The US has two borders. One with Canada, one with Mexico. Neither of these countries are likely to invade.

The US has the largest naval force in the world. I believe the Coastguard is also the 13th largest. Again, nothing to fear.

Of the countries that are "enemies", most would quite like to improve relations, for instance Cuba and Iran. Iran in particular has extended many an olive branch over the decades.

The US keeps these countries around as notional enemies, in part because of political incompetence, and in part because of a lack of incentive to fix things. Who wants to be the President who made friends with an "Islamic Republic"?

Either way, it's hard to see what particular danger the US is in.

Compare this to any of the countries I mentioned, which are much less defended, and have active disputes with neighbouring countries.
No. The program parsed the word "Google" from the question, used an algorithm to determine that the word was the subject of a "What is?" question, and then returned you a link to a website or a paragraph that was specifically related to the subject word "Google" in a database. That is not AI or self-awareness. That's simple programming.
I would remove it again, because if you don't already have an x201, you may as well buy an x220 instead of an x201 + replacement screen + labour (and the low risk you'll damage something in the swapover). You'll get slightly better specs in the deal. Looking on ebay now, x220s are only AU$100-200 more than x201s.

Anyway, if you're going to mod laptops to say that they're good, then many laptops will re-enter the fray :)
You should practice programming. Learn a structured programming language, even something as simple as Basic. Then you would not feel this way.
"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
I presume this was many years ago. There aren't any border checks I know of between the North and South or Ireland these days. I take the bus and train to Dublin all the time and drive there quite often and have not seen a checkpoint since the 90's.
The reference -- and the concern about tinkering with the tree of life -- goes a bit further back:

"And YHVH said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now -- lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -- let us send him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." -- Genesis 3:22-3:24

(Nb.: Citation of religious text does not imply endorsement thereof.)
He's arrogant and rude about it, which is bad enough when someone is right and worse when they're wrong and trying to teach beginners. In particular he doesn't understand object oriented programming (look at the piece he wrote about .each vs for in ruby), but is too arrogant to realise that there's something he's missing, so he goes on these sweary rants about how OOP is nonsense/useless/evil/what have you. In any programmer that would be bad. In someone who purports to teach beginners it's disastrous.
So you agree with the Chinese government and think we should just censor the Internet for all Chinese citizens?
I wonder if this work has any link to what Carmack and the Oculus Rift crew are doing with Android?
It is digital technology specifically where we are seeing accelerating progress, largely because the progress compounds, using one generation's machines to design and produce the next generation's.

Also, most digital technology is developed outside of the government procurement / military industrial complex, so all the problems inherent to those systems do not apply.

If the Singularity is reachable, it doesn't depend on the ability to create aircraft or weapons of any sort, whereas it would be impossible to reach the Singularity without digital technology.
I beg, tell us more!
Every evaluation technique will be mostly filled by people that cant code

The industry tries them all

Its the wrong conclusion on the efficacy of the technique
Doesn't work if you live abroad. Certification is only possible in the US.
This is cool, but you know what would be even cooler? Instances with SSD storage. It's so annoying to have database queries run an order of magnitude faster on my MacBook Air than on a cloud server.

I don't know of any major provider that offers SSD instances. It really is an untapped market.
A good example of how to get press when you have a good story. In this case: Ex-Facebook employee.
These machines hold their promises, they are extremely fast, the networking between the instances in fast, as is their connection to the outside world. I'm eager to see what people do with these.

And the pricing... to quote from the other article[1] on the GPU instances that's on the front page right now:

"An 8 TeraFLOPS HPC cluster of GPU-enabled nodes will now only cost you about $17 per hour."

[1] http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/11/cluster_gpu_inst...
Balancing the budget is trivial. Balancing the budget AND getting re-elected, that is tricky part.
Yes, America is off my list for the moment. I guess it's a luxury not everyone can enjoy. I'm starting to worry that my own country is moving in the same direction. It's not healthy that a government has so much control over it's people. They are there to serve the people, not the other way around.
The real key for Apple is they already had a huge customer for their new chip - the iPhones and iPads have been using it for years.

This means they do not have to be dependent on Mac sales to support M1 development - they can amortize it over the largest phone manufacturer in the world.

And every time they do a successful architecture switch they make it easier to do it again in the future. If the IntAMD386 becomes the best chip of 2030 they can just start using it.
There is a similar problem with digitized photos, for instance from glass plates. Often they had notes in margins or on the backside, but many scanning efforts didn't take these into account. So a lot is lost forever, either because the originals are destroyed, or forgotten in some archive.
We did the same at Fabrix Systems back in 2007-8 - the real winner for OP might be giving the boxes away for free and setting up an ad auction system.
Then how can Macs be charged if they are fully exhausted?
I need to update my 8 year old T520 with quad core i7.

I've been looking at the system76 series all year but can't really make myself pull the plug on anything. I can get a two year old T580 with similar specs for probably $600 on ebay.

But honestly, I'm tired of using Intel laptops (been doing that for over 15 years). Really hoping something more promising (and with better linux compatibility) from AMD powered laptops pop up soon. Lenovo already has some AMD stuff in their smaller T series lineup, but almost nonexistent in the used market (for now).
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I'm guessing it's been since 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_in_the_Unit...
> So we haven't been experiencing inflation? I guess it's just me seeing all the real items in the economy skyrocket in price.

We have not. Your impression of prices doesn't necessarily correlate with actual inflation.
That's exactly right and journalistic standards have been a reflection of the zeitgeist, for better or worse. It's never tended to be fair to those who have no power at all. Historically, the fairness and honesty part has skewed more towards the white middle class, shifting to the upper white middle class. The window has been shifting more toward the upper end. It's almost in the realm of competing propaganda.
Just for sharing: my setup is something like the following exactly because, even though I like google photo, I always felt it was too good to last.

I have 2 NAS (one a old custom build running freenas, the other a QNAP) in 2 different continents. I use resilio sync to sync between them, and to automatically download photos from my phones to the two NAS (when the phones are charging and connected to wifi).

The two NAS also expose a network volume with all pictures, that is mounted on the PCs I use lightroom on. This is also how pictures from regular cameras can be ingested. Lightroom database backups also end up on that network volume.

Each one of the two NAS takes hourly snapshot of their FS (to protect against accidental deletion/overwrites). As data is rarely updated, these snapshots can be kept for years while using negligible space.

In addition, the qnap NAS backs everything up, encrypted, to glacier, just in case everything else fails.

Finally, the phones also sync to google photo in "high" quality, just as a convenience. If I don't care about quality, i can share from google photo. Otherwise I can share via the qnap NAS in original quality.
I've been using Org for a little over a year, and it's actually quite nice. To support a blog post last year (https://reindeereffect.github.io/2020/05/05/index.html) I did my own quick and dirty rendition of chunk labels, chunk chain navigation, and clickable references.

Lately I've built a faster, mostly drop-in replacement for org-babel-tangle (that doesn't unnecessarily clobber files that haven't changed); and I'm finishing up a more complete chunk formatter for HTML export, along with usable chunk index generation. Once that's done, I'll quit nerd sniping myself on literate programming systems for awhile and finish up a missive on programming a Turing machine to solve the Towers of Hanoi.
The issue with this is if you don't know what a fighting game is, explaining the genre would take up a lot of space in an article targeted at gamers that know the genre. Sure they could have opened up with "A fighting game, like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat", but you might not know what those are either. This is like an article about React getting posted and complaining that you don't know what a UI or Javascript is. At some point Google is probably better at filling gaps in assumed information than the article itself.
What isn't touched upon are the descriptions of the various attributes in mbti. Because each of those is a bit questionable. Like can't you be both thinking and feeling. Maybe according to the test you can't but that doesn't intuitively follow from those descriptions. That's why I like big five more. It just slaps you in the face with how bad your personality is.
My favorite thing about the language is its flexibility, if i want to have pure imperative java style code i can do it. I dont think everyone should blame it just because there are so many haskell fans. I think ZIO is a good sign
CE, as far as I can tell, is self certified. Meaning that any company can simply register in the EU and slap the logo on their product. Otherwise, in the US, the same thing happens with FDA registration. Mask companies claim FDA approval when they mean that they simply have registered their product. Registration does not imply approval or certification, its means that the company declares its selling goods of a certain type. I’ve had the issue of mask sellers even provide bogus registration information for unrelated product categories.
Video calling, over 3G, has been available for a long time now. One of the providers I know here in Austria introduced it sometime around 2003.
Nobody uses it, it's going to be interesting if Apple is able to change this but I highly doubt that.
Hi, Tim from Realm here. We’re trying to improve the file size on Android: we know many apps are downloaded on devices where every MB count and we take that seriously. Can you post more details about the crash here or on GitHub? We’d love to help. tim@realm.io
I mean, no offense, of course some people like you will bike in all weather, but the reality is that a lot of people will not. See this study, and that's for the Netherlands, not NA winter.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11116-012-9398-5
I can absolutely see the objectives of US foreign policy (enable citizens of foreign powers to evade domestic surveillance) conflicting with domestic policy (bulk communications collection).

It doesn’t necessarily compromise Signal, but simply highlights that government isn’t always internally efficient or consistent.
Such a lazy "article". How many audits have Open Technology Fund bankrolled? Are all those companies "Linked to Government". Seriously, it reads like someone who found that RFA started OTF and wants to ride the "Signal = bad" wave. Literally, zero value.
Unions have no value for 'actors making millions'.

The union is basically irrelevant to them.

The various unions and guilds in film/tv production are there to protect the regular workers who operate in often very irregular and ad-hoc circumstances.

Also - acting is a hugely oversubscribed job, most actors don't do acting full time. There are 10 actors for every role. Even good one's.

Even just 'working actor' - let alone 'millions' - is a very lucky position.

'Famous' actors are not helped by the union, they have agents who manage their deals, much like athletes and their comp. is a function of totally different things.

'Athlete's Unions' are actually advantageous to them, because they can leverage power against owners, but in that case it's 'rich' vs. 'rich' entities fighting over surpluses, and nothing is gained or lost for the rest of us, it's not a helpful basis of comparison for working-class unions.
And I just droppped my 4 month old new Pixel and it's broken.

The new experiment begins, I guess!
I'm not sure what you are saying here. That Open tech fund is not related to the CIA or to Radio Free Asia or that Radio free Asia is not related to the CIA? There's no doubt what agenda Radio Free Asia has and who runs it (U.S. Agency for Global Media). Something doesn't have to be directly under the CIA to do their bidding (that would be real bad spy agency work).

>Why would I or anyone of the other hundreds of projects, work with OTF if somehow it was a CIA front?

Im not saying they are or aren't (I have no idea) but how would you know if the CIA were behind something if they didn't tell you?
> Signal was developed by Open Whisper Systems, a for-profit corporation run by “Moxie Marlinspike,”

- OWS was disolved for one. Signal is now developed by the "Signal Foundation" which is a registered 501(c)(3)non-profit.
- Brian Acton (ex-WhatsApp) paid $50m startup money also

> Moxie began partnering with America’s soft-power regime change apparatus — including the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (now called the U.S. Agency for Global Media)

- So what. The Senate has literally approved Signal for use as a means of communication.
- The US Govt. is not unified by any stretch of the imagination, there are plenty of competing interests. Some agencies want to support freedom of information, some want to suppress it.

This smells like a hit-piece. Also, both the client and server source-code is freely available for review and has been reviewed independently.... https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/review/signal
Realistically only the client matters, as it promises end-to-end encryption regardless of how secure/non-secure transport is.

The NSA etc doesn't need to "buy" apps in this manner anyway. They just go to the manufacturer of the devices/chips/components, throw them a National Security Letter and get ring-0 exploits (or hack their way in).
This assumes that the NSA and CIA are partners, not adversaries.
Ha! I'm a keen runner, and one of the things I love about it is that, as long as you invest in a decent pair of shoes (I'm a fan of Altra), it's pretty much cost-free. I really don't get all the super-expensive stuff unless people are getting towards Olympic level.
Can you please substantiate that point?
At the risk of appearing stupid, I just have few simple questions

1. What exactly holds the counter weight in position?

2. Such a long rope, which the article says is around 62000 miles, won't it function more like rubber band than function like a rope? Due to mere stretching/elastic effect?

3. I'm sure traveling 62000 miles is nothing like fuel efficient especially when you travel in the direction of highest friction(Up). So how do you store the fuel and of what weight that would be? Will such a vehicle be even practical?
> Buffet's results are unlikely (though likely the result of many different strategies, some successful, others not...), but in a market with so many investors, it is perhaps not so surprising that one so successful arose?

Quite correct, in fact, in an equities trading community the size of the present one, successes like Buffet's can and do result from chance. This is not to claim that any particular one does result from chance, only that this possibility is the first one that a scientist or statistician would need to consider.
It's closer to Light Table than Sublime Text: http://www.chris-granger.com/images/060/full.png
We already monitor very small debris (anything 1cm or larger), and move things out of the way if needed. The ISS moves about 6 times a year, mostly to maintain a very large margin.

Orbits are quite predictable, and moving the tether around isn't all that bad--after all, it makes getting fuel to LEO altitudes cheap. Also, I would expect active sats to avoid the tether, and the presence of a tether will make removal of dead sats both desirable and much easier.

One would also expect the tether to be multi stranded (which is not so hard once you already have one). You would want at least two, up and down. If erosion or collision in LEO looks problematic, you could run even more stands in that area. It's only a few hundred miles.

My main concern is the lack of a good market to justify investing in a tether. It's only a good deal if there are enough trips to amortize the cost. Hopefully we'll see rockets become cheap enough to help develop larger uses in space that will justify something like a tether.
You can also use xkcd.com/now
This is even greater! Text editors are not about code only, you know. Remember this¹? Released less than two weeks ago: Github now renders prose diffs. Why?

What if Github is going for an Office (or at least a Word) replacement? Author your blog, thesis, paper, novel, whatever, in a single polyvalent multiplatform editor, with the auto-versioned source stored in the cloud (Github’s), then use it as a feed for your blog, newspaper production flow, or other automated publishing environment…

Hope the fine people at the likes of Draftin.com, Etherpad.org, Penflip.com, Prose.io, et many alii, will survive this. The much acclaimed Editorially.com closed its doors already. Maybe the visionary folks at Substance.io might consider to start negotiating an acquihire.

I feel both exhilarated and a bit jealous: I know for sure I’ll need to put another side-project of mine down.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7240122
Last year a group of companies and institutions created a working standard.
https://homomorphicencryption.org/standard/
People oversimplify to a binary. Yes, it's pretty much impossible to halt climate change at 1.5 degrees. So therefore they think we should do nothing -- why bother if it's going to happen anyway? But it's not anywhere close to binary: the more we do the less change that happens - we can't stop it from happening, but we can definitely stop it from getting worse.
Of course it will be spent on financial markets and derivatives. Why else do you think Al Gore is pumping out teenage enviromental activists?
Wish I could just pay an annual fee for a Twitter name like I do for domains so I don't lose them.
Stulta lex sed lex.
If the application is well-structured, you can run many types of tests without ever touching the UI. You can also run things like linters and static analysis tools (although those are usually platform-agnostic).
People were interested in Hawking more because of his disability and public outreach efforts than his scientific papers. Most people who are interested in him can't understand his work, and the people who do understand his work have higher regard for scientists that the general public shows no interest in.
Clojure is heavily dependent on the host (JVM, JS) for such things, vs. a Scheme like Racket which is ground-up Lisp, or even a naive s-expr interpreter, which allow greater flexibility in this area.
OK, but isn't it the other way around? A re-design may be a good idea, and a particular design may imply that you want a different size.