jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Twitter is just a portion of the information warfare going on in the media:

https://mobile.twitter.com/TS_SCI_MAJIC12/status/11820084279...
Agreed, though ActionScript's lines are pretty interesting. Up up up.... and flat for two years.
Hmm..Hacker News' love of A/B testing also applies to laws, apparently.

Also, isn't one of the arguments for stronger state laws and weaker federal laws very similar to this proposal? That is, if you give states greater autonomy, it's easy to test the effects of laws and give citizens choice over which laws they'd like.
How/where did you order it?
Yep, while hiding and calling the cops is generally safer during a robbery, the attitude that causes people to defend their property is the same one that results in gun ownership. Add in people being shot with their own weapons and the home protection benefit becomes very complex. There is an idea that gun ownership deters criminals but at the same time it promotes criminals buying guns escalating the situation.

PS: For a somewhat less contentious example, video games have been linked with a significant drop in crime. However, because that does not agree with their biases people focus on the direct effects to support their argument.
From the article:

Free software is sometimes low quality. It is sometimes unreliable. It is sometimes inflexible.

Swap "free" for "proprietary" in that quote, and the statement is no less true. (Voice of experience, here) Continuing:

If people take the arguments in favor of open source seriously, they must explain why open source has not lived up to its "promise" and conclude that proprietary tools would be a better choice.

No, they need not. If even a handful of free or open source software meets the standards of quality one sets for proprietary software -- and I would argue not only that such a handful exists, but the so-called "standards" must be rather low to pass some of the proprietary software I've dealt with -- then open source has indeed kept its promise. Nor does the existence of some "bad" open source software imply that proprietary is better. If that were the case, we must also accept the reverse, that the existence of some "bad" proprietary software implies open source is better. Examples exist in both categories, so clearly each is better than the other.

Here's the deal: An open source package, once "in the wild", can become very hard to kill if it gains any traction to speak of. As long as someone keeps the source available, anyone else can not only acquire and use it, but build on and improve it. Not so, proprietary. With the source kept to the strict confines of a few personal or company machines, its growth and development are limited to what its owners see fit to pursue or permit, and they can choke it off at any time. As a consequence, we tend to see more "bad" open software roaming the net as abandoned projects are left to anyone who cares to pick them up, while proprietary packages that either don't make the grade or lose their luster meet a quiet demise behind closed doors. That's what makes proprietary software look better: the "bad" stuff just gets killed off more effectively.
Thanks for the reply :)

Whether you charged developers or not, at some point you charged someone for something.

While free dev accounts are great, I'm still not going to learn a tool and recommend it to clients without knowing if it's something that they can actually afford. Twilio has made it known from day 1 what the pricing is - whether people liked it or not is a different matter! :)

<i>Fortunately it's easier to simplify features than to add new ones.</i>

Possibly in tropo's case it may be. That's not always the case - I would say not even usually the case with software. Witness MSOffice - much easier to add new features than to simplify the interface. The 'ribbon' effort pissed off as many people as it helped. :) Don't give us a tropo 'ribbon' equivalent please!
Clustered is directly related to the physical order of the records. Non-clustered is a logical order that uses pointers to the physical location. Only one clustered is allowed per table.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(database)
What sort of applications do you run on, or what do you do with a computer 50k times faster than the average pc?
I run a database that does not fit in memory on AWS with great success. Generalizing is dangerous. If you work with and understand the constraints imposed by the environment you can do some pretty amazing stuff.
FYI: Android deletes corrupt DBs
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756653)

If you have an Android phone and care at all about your ever-growing message history, install SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel or an equivalent ASAP. (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus)
It is left as an exercise for the reader to show how to determine whether the other publisher actually does have a copy, or is indulging in similar behaviour.
> I live in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains...If all of Silicon Valley were depopulated I think my neighborhood would still be a perfectly fine place to live.

Humboldt Country is a beautiful and high poverty part of the state with poor municipal services. I have no reason to believe the Santa Cruz wouldn't be the same without expensive urban infrastructure, not to mention the money we do and need to continue spending to minimize the risk of fire to your property.
Try getting laid after giving your girlfriend a necklace made from bitcoin
If you want to change their minds, and change housing policies in major US cities... you may want to try harder to understand why people want single family homes, and why they don't see zoning as evil. You've got a lot of minds to change!

Both sides are understandable to me because those hypothetical future residents have the entire rest of the country to choose from. I don't know why the current residents shouldn't be able to expect to make the rules they want. Yes, it's what they want versus what other people want... that's unavoidable! It's the other side of the "if you want to continue living in a less dense area, go move somewhere more rural (until we pick it for densification too)" coin.

Some folks think the tiebreaker here is that cities are more sustainable, but that doesn't avoid the problem that if you want to move more people into denser housing, some people aren't going to be able to get what they want.

I find both sides understandable because I don't expect anyone to be happy when people more powerful than them tell them they can't have what they want.

Can you really not understand why someone would be unhappy with someone else coming in and saying "I have the right to change your life?" Why "well you better be rich enough to own the land for the entire neighborhood" is a hollow response?
> This is going to kill SF and to a lesser extant, NY, to no longer have these high tax paying employees.

Sounds like a simple market correction, since those two cities have been extreme outliers for quite some time.
It’s much easier with nomad as you are not forced in to a ”black box” with networking layers and surrounding requirements.

Bare metal nomad - use with consul and hook up traefik with consul backend. This would be the simplest, most ”zero conf”, way to go.

I’ve used this setup for a few years heavy production use (e-commerce & 50 devs)

As consul presents SRV records you can hook up a LB using those, or use nomad/consul templating to configure one.

Service mesh with mTLS is actually rather approachable and we’ve deployed it on selected services where we need to track access and have stricter security. (This however had us move off traefik and in to nginx + openresty)

Now if you want secrets management on steroids you’ll want vault. It’s really in many ways at the heart of things. It raises complexity, but the things that you can do with the nomad/consul/vault stack is fantastic.

Currently we use vault for ssl pki, secrets management for services & ci/cd, and ssh cert pki.

These things really form a coherent whole and each component is useful on it own.

Compared to k8s it’s a much more versatile stack although not as much of a “framework” and more like individual “libs”.

I always come back to the description: “more in line with the unix philosophy”.

In a mixed environment where you have some legacy and/or servers to manage I think using the hashicorp stack is a no brainer - consul and vault are tools I wouldn’t want to be without.
Some cryptocurrencies are trying to fix that by moving to proof-of-stake, which does away with the mining effort entirely.
What's wrong with ads for drugs?
Great, by definition a drunk or sleepy person can have their hands on the wheel to prove they are focused.

This system is very powerful indeed.
Perhaps they are waiting for someone to buy them. Even though most of their software is open source, the crucial parts are still closed IP. If it is really better than the current LKA systems and has the potential to handle even more driving scenarios in the future, it will be an easy decision for a big auto company that needs to quickly catch up.
I think the biggest change Tim made from Steve is that Tim’s decision and management style seems more committee/group based, whereas Steve was much more autonomous; this is how it is now do it. I know he didn’t want everyone thinking what would Steve do, but I do often wonder what someone with Steve’s authority would do.
Well, in that respect De Telegraaf isn't like the National Enquirer at all.

What is De Telegraaf like then? It puts an emphasis on gossip, fear mongering, photos of barely clad women, fringe science, the national pastime (soccer), political scandal, the Dutch royal family, murder and sexual abuse cases, and immigrants suspected of crimes.

I doubt that Woz knew what he was getting himself into when he was interviewed by De Telegraaf.
StartSSL (http://www.startssl.com/) is super rad. Basic certs are free; wildcards are only $50; their validation isn't a joke; and they are a trusted CA on Firefox, Safari, and IE.
Big web companies killed open protocols (remember reading news via RSS?) in favor of exploiting and evolving web technologies as a way to push effectively proprietary UIs with spyware builtin.

The whole web was based on the premise server (media provider) and client (media consumer) could be created by different parties and should therefore assume nothing and rely on protocols - that’s not what happens today since with JavaScript the same party effectively “takes over control” of the user agent.

My radical opinion is that open protocol based web was killed the moment JavaScript adoption became standard, the same way an open web wouldn’t be possible with Macromedia Flash becoming a standard.
My original point is that corporation do not pay as much tax as they should. The come down from progression should be gradual - as corporate tax holes are plugged, the higher tax rates could be reduced. So that wouldn't affect the poor. It only slightly changes who pays for it.
Snow and cold weather performance is critical where I live. The game changer will be if I can start an EV at -20F after it’s been sitting out all night and safely drive it through a blizzard.
Thank you. I think this is a reasonable strategy. Requiring every driver to accept dogs against their allergies and PTSD on the other hand, I don't agree with, as that would directly endanger lives.
You’re suggesting the Economist is open about its globalist bias, but meanwhile they also have another secret bias, which is white supremacy?
It's called the cost of doing business.
It's not the service animals that are the problem, is the "emotional support" animals, or more specifically, their owners.
guest@sif ~ % vi about.txt
Command not found : 'vi'. Type 'help' for available commands.

Very cool site. Looks great! It felt so much like a console that I tried to tab for auto-complete! (^_^)b
It's chronological, although I did want to emphasize this issue in recruitment.

First impressions count.

It's hard to know what a company is really like without knowing some insiders. Searching on the Internet may find opinions pointing every which way. And then, you meet their recruitment team, and get your first -- and maybe last -- firsthand exposure to the internal workings of the company.

Hiring the right staff is obviously very important. So any issues with the hiring process that cannot be fixed is deeply worrying. Does the company not value hiring? Why can't it be fixed? Who will my co-workers be? What else is broken? etc.

I regret that I didn't walk out during the misaligned interviews, to save everyone's time. I did eventually tell recruiters not to contact me anymore, but that seemed to make them more interested, and I was handed to a different team. (In the end, I picked Netflix anyway, and am very happy I did.)

Netflix recruiting was awesome, and I think other companies can do the same. Don't put up with recruiting problems -- help fix it. It may be your company's first and last impression.
This is a huge step in the right direction.
Well, yeah, if the company isn't doing well and leadership changes, obviously that'll trickle down to employees and culture. No one said it'll be like this forever at Netflix, but it does sound like they put a heavy emphasis on "culture" now.
That's because geostationary orbit is at 22,000 miles. These will be more like Irridium, which is at 485 miles. You can go lower, but it's more expensive because of extra fuel costs.
Are there any react infinite scrolling examples that support arbitrary row-heights?

Like if you need to inline images which might be variable sizes.

I think it's probably possible, with some clever caching of row heights and recalculation of some sort, in order to maintain a correctly sized spacer element at the top/bottom. Not seen any examples of it.
I think maybe Musk should consider releasing a social app and then selling it to bankroll the future of humanity.
> WhatsApp is used by billions of people daily

To be pedantic, more like hundreds of millions of people monthly.
Not taken, but don't get me wrong. I don't mean friends/family/coworkers. I've got plenty of those that I can and have trusted.

I mean Bosses and people that I've done business with on a you pay me level. In those cases there was almost nothing I could do besides filling a lawsuit and spending large amounts of money, time and sanity. I settled with the understanding that they had the upper hand and I was a fool for trusting my money/time to them.

One case:

Owner "Shit you are leaving??? Who is going to do XXX? Can't you stay at least until xxx so we can deliver xxx and save our asses? That is our only client right now."

Me
"Hum... I really need to start next week, but I will do my best"

I stayed for one month more that I needed in contract, my new employer was pissed but agreed with it. In the end the Owner didn't pay me my leave that was due and was agreed to be paid and delayed the pay of that last month for 15 days. I had to threaten them with a lawsuit to get that last month payment.

For me that is about people being scumbags.

But valid points nonetheless.
Soft AI can then be considered Amazon's (and later Netflix's) recommender systems, which most people run into all the time. I guess you can even view Google's page rank system as a form of Soft AI as it is just a useful result from the analysis of big data.

Once we go into Soft AI, there are tons and tons of examples of useful results. But what is the definition of Soft AI and where does it stop being AI, and just number crunching -- I guess that is a problem with defining AI in general.
Can't remember the precise details but there was another instance of this somewhere here in Cleveland... Ah, here it is: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment...
Multiple dispatch solves the expression problem so intuitively and straightforwardly that it's often hard to remember why it was a problem in the first place. In Julia, for example:

abstract Exp

immutable Lit <: Exp
value::Int
end

immutable Add <: Exp
left::Exp
right::Exp
end

evaluate(lit::Lit) = lit.value
evaluate(add::Add) = evaluate(add.left) + evaluate(add.right)

If you want to add a new operation, it's straightforward:

view(lit::Lit) = string(lit.value)
view(add::Add) = string("(", view(add.left), " + ", view(add.right), ")")

If you want to add a new type of expression, it's also straightforward:

immutable Mul <: Exp
left::Exp
right::Exp
end

evaluate(mul::Mul) = evaluate(mul.left) * evaluate(mul.right)
view(mul::Mul) = string("(", view(mul.left), " * ", view(mul.right), ")")

That's all there is to it. Of course, it's actually the external dispatch that's crucial, not the multiple dispatch. (But multiple part is very handy for other things, especially in numerical work).
Hypothesis: Because the solution to "hard AI" isn't actually "general".

Ie, what humans view as "intelligence" isn't actually an emergent property of the right set of rules. Rather, it's a massive and hopelessly self-intersecting set of ad-hoc solutions and special casing all jumbled together over millions of years of evolution, producing something that looks general, but only because we're looking at it from within itself. An easy example: Having a computer identify all images of a thing called a "cup". That's an arbitrary category that has no definition reducible to actual physical properties. What makes something a "cup"? A human saying it is one.

For something to look like "full, general AI" to humans, we'd need to either: Build something that replicates all that specialized hyper-meta-spaghetti-code mental processing of ours to a level of fidelity that's beyond both our current understanding of our brain's structure and the level of complexity tenable by human computer science. Or leave out those evolutionarily-discovered "optimization circuits" and require far, far more processing power than we'll have access to for a good, long time.
> "The overlapped images: are these simply because the film didn't wind a fill frame?"

Yes - it's hard to appreciate how far camera tech has come since the 40s, and presumably also a typical soldier isn't bringing a high-end 35mm camera into the field.

More specifically, if there's play in the gears of the winding mechanism then you'll get a lot of variance when it comes to inter-frame space.

> "I have doubts about this statement. Can someone with more expertise in this matter explain?"

It doesn't have to be nefarious - they can assert copyright over the scans of the film without asserting copyright over the original images themselves (though in this case it does look like if you donate film they want the whole shebang).

It's like recording a cover - your recording itself has a separate copyright regardless of the copyright status of the song upon which it is based.

Like a cover song there could be some legal issues between the scanner and the copyright owner of the original film images, but presumably they sort this out between themselves.
> but I find it disingenuous as it avoid talking about the real reason (volatility) and it hides the big picture

I don't think a consistent drop over a year can be attributed to volatility.
The title is "U.S. quietly paying millions to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine, contrary to SpaceX claims", which, of course, already triggered anger of many people towards Musk. The government paid $3M, yet the content of the article actually said "On Thursday, USAID spokesperson Rebecca Chalif said in a statement that the “delivery of Starlink terminals were made possible by a range of stakeholders, whose combined contributions valued over $15 million and facilitated the procurement, international flights, ground transportation, and satellite Internet service of 5,000 Starlink terminals.”

So, how can I trust WaPo, the so-called conscience of the US?
I don't agree that there is something as punching down. Jokes are jokes. Doesn't matter who makes them or who or what the joke is about. This is once again you thinking that your ideas are the norm. It's clear why you think that though, people who disagree get canceled and thus fringe ideas like punching down get pushed into the mainstream even though most people disagree with it.

> Do I have to point out how silly this excuse is? People also spent centuries yelling the n-word as Black people. Should that still be acceptable today?

You misunderstood, it's not an excuse, I'm saying there is no taboo on jokes about mental illness. Except in the progressive part of society, which is only 8 % of the US. There is nothing cruel about making jokes. They are just jokes. Don't like it, don't listen. It's not that hard.

> Mocking people who have historically been oppressed and who want nothing but the end of that oppression is punching down.

This line of reasoning doesn't even apply in this case, non-binary people haven't been historically oppressed as it didn't even exist 10 years ago, it was invented on tumblr by teens. 99,99 % of non-binary people are under 30, it's brand new.
Let's be objective here. Ukraine is the second largest country (by area) and seventh largest (by population) in Europe. They have a powerful and well trained army with extensive combat experience in the last 8 years. They have strong dug lines on the front and fortified lines around and in largest cities.
My issue with the thought process is the general picking of uniform distributions to show random data that follows DK. Uniform distributions are kind of uninteresting in this case because they're pretty artificial. It's not like competence is actually measured in the range 0-100 in anything that actually matters.
Sure, but that isn't what we're talking about.

The comment that this thread branched off of is about the relative difference in danger of 10mph with a modern vehicle, not 20, 30, or 40mph. I don't think I agree with that user's overall point, but I also didn't think your response to it was particularly on point either.

I think our transportation infrastructure needs a massive overhaul to be more pedestrian, bike, and even motor-vehicle friendly, but I think speeds limits are such a poor answer to that problem that arguing about +10mph is merely a distraction.
Three problems : while you're trying to stream missiles in slowly, the opposition is going to mass launch against your silos, cutting off your stream.

Nukes produce broadband noise. Improved radars let you get much better signal to noise and see through it anyway.

And the warheads you're streaming in need to actually detonate to give noise. Otherwise you just get a debris field.
In addition to every other rank
I don't get it. What's the difference? Designing and growing are not antonyms.
http://www.museoscienza.org/approfondimenti/documenti/gamb_d... Milan had something like this.
Ffs I hate the Internet nowadays. It’s all cookie notices that make you sign your soul away.
How is a "You can't lead an organisation and be a role model if your views hurt a significant amount of people in the organisation" a non-judicial punishment? If you can't read or write you would also probably not lead a large organization, and it's not punishment. Can you rejoin if you have learned reading and writing? Yes.

Stallman is not a janitor but in top management (I have the highest respect for janitors but they are not required to be a role model of the organization).

"Thus, they are bound by the Americans with Disability Act and other applicable law to make accommodations for a handicapped employee."

Totally agree, but I won't make a blind person the watchout guy on a ship. There are limits to inclusion.

[Edit] HN you made me giggle this morning. This gets quite some downvotes and for a short time was Karma negative - so people try to cancel me with downvotes for my opinion because they think RMS is cancelled for his opinion. Believing two different things at the same time - or believing one thing by doing the opposite is the real turing test. Nice insight, thanks.
It’s called Autism Spectrum Disorder for a reason. There are many different ways an individual’s personality can be impacted by it.