jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've watched the video and I agree. My take:

there's a large security perimeter that's already been breached, and the video shows one chokepoint of the perimeter that hasn't yet been breached.

The officers at that checkpoint know what the situation is: They aren't going to do any good in an open space surrounded by a mob of thousands. They are moving back to a more defensible position (presumably where they can buy time to evacuate the Congress floors). They are calmly walking because breaking into a jog could incite the mob further.

I don't see them opening the gates.
Even with this problem, using the keys for U2F is safer than SMS two factor auth. Possibly also safer than authentication app on phone, which could be compromised in various ways.
I'd love a citation on that if you have one, I have seen no evidence the two are connected. The money was printed to counter deflationary pressure. This succeeded, and the rate of inflation is tracking at 2% per expectations.
Race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation are protected classes. Anything that is not a protected class is fair game.
The first time I ever really felt like 2 monitors was an improvement over one huge monitor was after wide screen monitors were ubiquitous and monitor rotation support was rock solid.

These wide monitors are really not very good for watching logs, or other status displays. Rotating a second monitor and dedicating it to showing lots of logs or several rectangular monitoring screens tiled vertically hugely reduced the amount of window management I had to do.

In fact I kind of wonder why all my monitors are horizontal again. Probably because horizontal works better for personal computing, or I have my monitors arranged wrong, or both.
> The version that came with MS-DOS definitely had extensive help on the language as well as the editor.

Are you sure about that? I may be wrong of course, but I remember pressing "F3" (which I think was meant to invoke help?) and getting nothing. That's actually why I bought a book, I think this one: http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Course-Qbasic-Greg-Perry/dp/1565... (quite a nice one! I remember reading it cover-to-cover during summer break on a beach, without any computer in at least 20km radius...)

But it's absolutely possible that I either had some ripped version or just couldn't find the right options. I mean, I was 8 at the time, knowing very little English, so that wouldn't surprise me at all :)
DDoS attacks are a dynamic and changing problem. It's usually like playing whack-a-mole.

There's no way GitHub is going to develop a solution that magically "prevents all DDoS attacks".
Thanks. Will do after some time.
There also is the void and cluster method, which gives nice results comparable to error diffusion while not suffering its data dependencies, i.e. it's as parallelizable/GPU-friendly as ordered dithering.
My marketing strategy is basically give away ebooks for free at launch and promote on social media. A few readers still pay for them (which is what I wanted from donation model). I write short books (about 100 pages), so I end up doing 2-4 a year (but losing interest now). Then bundle related books. And so on. You can find book links from my profile.
I think the duration for each changeset just depends on the number of map elements it touches. Every map element gets 1.5 seconds. Every individual yurt is a map element so that changeset gets a lot of "airtime", but a changeset that just adds one building is only visible for 1.5 seconds.
His arguments are always interesting to read, even when I disagree with them -- in that spirit, could you link to the essay where he says this?
> And when you read the linked page[0], what Scott writes concerning Murrary seems perfectly inoffensive. He divides political views into quadrants, Competitive/Collective vs Optimistic/Pessimistic, then says "The only public figure I can think of in the [Collective + Pessimistic quadrant] with me is Charles Murray." This is what is described as aligning himself with Murray.

Well there's some more in that paragraph you quote. He then goes on to say "Neither he nor I would dare reduce all class differences to heredity, and [Murray] in particular has some very sophisticated theories about class and culture." (Emphasis kept from the original.) Which I think the NYT writer reads as being at least a partial endorsement of Murray's belief that some class differences reduce to heredity. I do too, since this seems roughly in line with what I understand from Scott's writing. It is also true that Murray takes that idea farther and goes in some directions I find to be both scientifically unsupported and inflammatory.

You can agree or disagree with the NYT here, I don't care. But I think you should quote more from that paragraph before you characterize it.
Financial Times is ok.
Informally I was told I could get a 40% instant raise by joining a company like this. I bet it can be more than that though. I haven’t pursued it yet because I don’t think my skill is enough.
This attack vector should not exist in 2019. i.e. card skimming should not still be a thing.

Chip/paywave is strong enough w/ online backed by a 2fa (3D secure?). It's just annoying companies don't want to replace their terminals because they own them (rented ones get replaced by force) so it costs money to do that. Thusly we're all stuck with this problem still being very real.
Oh, I didn't even know about that! That's great!

Also, it reads straight from command-history variable (another thing I didn't know about). You can preview and browse it via C-h v command-history. Or, write your own elisp operating on it (perhaps interactively, by IELM - the elisp REPL).
> Just realize it's not going to be anything like a giant tech firm, where you don't realize they actually do 99% of the job for you.

This. So much this.

All those teams of devops people, the SREs, the QA people, the network engineers and all the other unsung heroes don't exist in a startup yet the people who only ever worked at BigCo assume that they do and so forget about all of the problems involved in building a codebase that can scale in a meaningful way because it's always been someone else's job and they have been focused solely on their KPI or singular deliverable.

All that build infrastructure or coding standards or documentation or monitoring systems that you took for granted at Google or Facebook? None of it exists. Not only that - you won't be rewarded for building it, instead you'll be asked why the next person to come behind you got their work done faster than you did.
I recall a friend of mine (when we were teenagers in the 80s) whose parents had a physical lock on their phone to prevent the dial turning (to prevent their kids running up phone bills I assume). Unlike his parents, my friend was aware of the "trick" you describe.
Frequently-used interpreted code is probably interpreted more than it is read. Most of the code in a large codebase is likely compiled more than it is read. One-off code is often written, compiled, and executed once, and read never.

If a piece of code is read more often than it's interpreted, written, and compiled, it's probably example code.
google, amazon, fb, netflix, apple...these are not "startups"
Spacemacs isn't a meta-package. Its just a config file and some of its own packages. All package it uses get updated through melpa at their own independent cadence.

I'd recommend just switching to the develop branch. Honestly they should just make it master.
Good thing "/s" tagged remarks barely qualify as sarcasm, then.
> Do you also think that introversion and extraversion are opinions shaped by the environment?

I don't know how intro/extroversion might be shaped or not by the environment, never gave that a thought.

> Does really bother you so much if so many people intrinsically prefer a different lifestyle than what you believe it to be the best, that you are basically willing to call them brainwashed by the environment?

I don't get bothered by the comment, but rather by the implications. I just describe it: car over anything else, as an opinion, is largely a side effect of cheap-gas + city-sprawl approach to development, which is the archetype of urban unsustainability [0]. It's no surprise that the US leads (along with Australia, guilty of the same sin) per capita fossil fuel consumption, close to an order of magnitude higher than the European average, and doubling Germany, the industrial powerhouse of the continent.

People in the US are car centric not unlike in North Korea they're Juche-centric: it's often (or always) the only option.

> It's the same everywhere across Europe outside of strict city centers, just replace Walmart with a local shopping center (Spar, Aldi, Leclerc,...). If you'll ever visit one, you're guaranteed to find them packed with people.

Maybe we've lived in different parts of Europe? There's like 2-4 levels of proximity in all major conglomerates (e.g. Carrefour > Carrefour Market > Carrefour Express, Monoprix > Monop', etc).

Even though the smaller the more expensive, they're invariably cheaper than even just starting the car, and a no-brainer if you value your time at minimum wage.

Spar is largely just proximity shopping so I doubt you'll see it crowded, Aldi is hard discount so they tend to just build big where it's cheap (causing the problems you describe), and Leclerc has no proximity to my knowledge but has more central and bigger locations than Aldi.

Check locations of AhorraMás/DIA in Spain, Carrefour in France, or Фора and Сильпо in Ukraine (or at least Kyiv), to name a few I'm familiar with. Every neighborhood has them, even residential ones, and you only need to go to a mall or a big hypermarket in exceptional cases.

The closest thing I can compare Walmart to, in Europe, is Auchan, with roughly the same ratio of supercenters/hypermarkets to neighborhood stores (3:1). Interestingly, Auchan is losing money because as Europe becomes denser, people shop less and less at hypermarkets.

[0] https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-charac...
SARS and MERS didn't reach anywhere close to spreading through the population, so cross immunity (if it's strong, which we don't know), wouldn't have done much. The fact that you bring that up as a rebuttal is telling.

One difference with those is that their governance and infrastructure to tackle a pandemic already existed, which counts. You could write that off to existing 'public health', as you have tried to stretch from the paper, but that is a disingenuous of that research.

A quick search implies that you are also not looking very hard to find studies that don't find linkages. "The results presented in this paper suggest that policy interventions may well explain the majority of cross-country variation in officially reported Covid-19 deaths."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-020-00466-5
If there are only a handful of people capable of doing this or even just one then 10x or 10000x doesn't make sense because that is a productivity metric. 10000 normal engineers wouldn't be able to do it just like 10 juniors can't do the job of one senior.
Musicians Union?
> we can no longer coordinate on large-scale projects, or produce beauty

This is some incredible malarkey.

> The aqueducts are still standing, but we can't build new ones.

SpaceX, Tesla, Moderna, Apple M1, Nvidia, OpenAI, Google Brain, James Webb telescope, the new Perseverance Mars rover ... what the heck are you talking about?

> The Chinese system works very well

Not for Uyghurs or political dissidents. Also, we just voted out the Republicans wholesale (!!) Can you do that in China?

I'd take our system any day of the week over being disappeared for disagreeing with officials.

As much as I dislike the anti-maskers, we have freedom. And that's so much better.
Economic and political disasters often trail policy changes by months or years as well so no doubt the next administration will be taking the blame for lots of other stuff this admin intentionally screwed up in their last year.
Service issues do occur but ISPs are getting better at uptime because of the competition. A bigger issue is network saturation, especially for 4G networks. With fiber, on the other hand, some ISPs are offering upto 10-15% more than the quoted bandwidth just because there's plenty of spare capacity. Not sure if that will be the case in a few years.
I'd take a technology hit to break from Google, but the McMorality of the author was certainly nauseating.
There's always https://www.changedetection.com that will let you know...
By developing the argument. The correct answer isn't nearly as important as forming a strong argument, at least in the process of learning, as a well written argument will naturally lead you towards the correct answer.
Its the reason why "showing your work" is taken so strongly. The flaw being that you're not showing your work so much as you're showing your ability to follow a defined series of actions.
The grade school test doesn't ask you to think of a procedure to resolve some stated question. It asks if you already have it memorized, as the formula was handed to you in a prior lecture. Ideally, the test should ask the student to form an argument, thus showing mastery over the knowledge that precedes its creation. This would be judged, and of the students ability to consistently dot the i's and cross his t's, expected but given a minor role (as it is in "real life", mistakes are inevitable and its why we check our work twice, and then give it to others to check again.)
Be sure that your mfgr isn't running off extra for AliBaba, free markets or other channels. Contract mfgrs are notorious about ripping off IP and product.
I share similar sentiment. This documentation needs to be better structured, perhaps more like the bootstrap documentation is, with clear examples of style class usage throughout. E.g.:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/alerts/

Perhaps a gallery of example websites & apps could help a lot. That was the first thing I was looking for. Couldn't find any, so I had to drill into the docs in hopes of finding some case-by-case examples of each UI element. It really helps me to get going on frontend design, especially on a new framework, when I can see a completed sample that has some similarities to what I want layout-wise in my design.
I implemented a graphical drill-down on relational data with similar functionality to pivot tables. You could bring up an aggregate view on a table, like calls per day, then right-click on a bar in the bar-graph and choose an AND of a relationship. As an example, let's say it's "representative." Right-click choose "representative" and all of a sudden, you're looking at a graph of calls per day per rep.

The cool thing about that program, was that it was based on an OR framework, so all we had to do was to map it to a particular schema, and it could work with anything. It was implemented in Smalltalk running in a web plugin. It would be easy to do as a webapp in any dynamic language with a good OR framework and chart graphing framework.
1. Be dazzled by the innovation of something as ordinary as wage arbitrage, and yet

At the end of the day, most innovation has wage arbitraging as a major component of it when all is said and done.
This is not the same. Once a company has sold stock it does not gain money from the ups and downs of the market. If it made agreements contingent on its stock maintaining a particular value then it has chosen a separate risk. A company cannot go out of business because its stock price is low. It can be bought by others but this also does not drive it out of business.
Why not? Yes, to the sibling comment, there's the potential issue of pay adjustments that may (or may not) leave employees better off. But, in general, some percentage of employees do seem to want full remote and the majority want to work from home at least half the time. I agree that it's a negative for people who want to go back to an in-person office most days before time. But I assume that there will be many companies that lean in that direction.
anecdotal counter-evidence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647166

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638063

This is probably because people often conflate SFTP (ssh-based protocol) with FTPS (FTP over TLS) eg. royal bank which says "secure ftp" (which suggests SFTP), but also mentions SSL (which suggests FTPS).

https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/ach/cid-212563.html
> In San Francisco proper, prices fell, because supply and demand are real,

Source on real estate prices in SF falling?
Why's that? I haven't looked into it but thought I might someday.
Looks like you get through once and then it blocks you. Ctrl-F5 fixes it.
It depends how you look at standards of care. Despite medical coverage gaps the US still has the highest or among the highest 5 year survival rates for most forms of cancer.
They have to rip the government off to stave off inflation? How's inflation been looking, oh, these past 40 years or so?
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1346940524603858944

She initiated the interaction by quote tweeting him
One way would be to tie property rates for everyone to inflation. Not sure why just because housing prices double, that the government needs twice as much money.
How do you do taxes for something like this?

Like lots of employees working in lots of different states/countries, no “home base”.

Is there an easy way to do it?
The rule you reference no longer exists. You can run an interpreter as long as the code you're going to interpret is part of the app you submitted for review (i.e. you aren't allowed to use JavaScriptCore to run scripts off a web page, but your app can use any kind of interpreter it wants internally). The rule was horribly misguided and never really enforced — many of the top apps have always embedded scripting languages.
1) Rim will probably bring Tungle to the grave with them
2) They'll probably change the service to benefit Blackberry users rather than iOS, Android, or even web users.
3) I doubt the product will get the attention it needs to remain useful
For science fiction geeks, remember that research into algae-produced fuels was the setting for Hal Clement's 1950s novel Needle. The idea has been around a long time. Admittedly, the actual research has been pretty sporadic, but there has actually been surprisingly little progress made.
I would like Sony to tell us why they have not co-ordinated with the credit card issuers to issue replacement cards, or cover the cost of replacement cards.

and a question: could the solution be as simple as changing the CVV on the back of the cards?
I am just speculating here but my hunch would be that the value of Google stock exchanged could pose a difference between the time the deal was agreed upon, and the time at which the deal closed.
Yeah. Still waiting for a linux apple-like-hardware machine. I have heard the Thinkpad X1 is a very close competitor to the rMBP.
I am so glad this happened. A step in the right direction. This section of the IT law with its vague wording was often misused by political parties in power. Good riddance.
there's a lot of action going on in zsh at the minute, see: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
I used an Aeropress for quite some time. I stopped using it because it wastes a lot of coffee. I used to need a lot more grounds in an Aeropress for the same strength and quantity of coffee. And it was a pity to waste good coffee beans.
Iranian government officials have repeatedly stated that their goal is to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Even if you don't believe them, their nuclear weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists who do have that goal.

If you support the US allowing Iranian nuclear scientists to return to Iran, you are supporting that policy.

As a side note, an advanced Iranian nuclear state would likely entail a massive war in the Middle East to stop them, so there's also that.
Mute is the problem. Or ignorance of it.

Part of this is because most meeting software (Webex, Zoom, etc) deprioritizes it.

The single most important 2 functions of any meeting software should be: (1) Am I currently muted? (2) Can I toggle my mute status?

This used to be solved by a devices called an LED, coupled with a button, back when we had physical phones. Thankfully, we've moved on to more effective solutions. /s
If it looks like a whale, swims like a whale, and spends like a whale, then it probably is a whale.

These companies have created an entire industry on identifying, tracking, and incentivizing whales, at the cost of wrecking casual gaming "for the rest of us".

Maybe I'm just selfish, but I want these companies to go fishing, target MY consumer behaviors, set ME in your sights. My wants, and perhaps the wants of a vastly larger player-base, are being ignored in favor of whales.
For example, AVX-512 neural net inference: https://NN-512.com

Only interesting if you care about price (dollars spent per inference)

For raw speed (no matter the price) the GPU wins
We bought our whole team Plantronics Voyager Focus UC headsets. They cost around $250 each but are well worth the background noise cancellation and have excellent sound quality.
When you have websites like hackingwithswift and you see Chris lattner (who is some genius because he made a new language) endorsing it with lavish praises, you tend to believe that it’s easy. But then every time I tried to make a 10% decent app, I had to look up the documentation and used to be confronted with (gatekeeping?) jargon like concurrency and background thread. I even paid for raywenderlich’s annual subscription but now I realise why these websites are so flashy and captivating.

There are also a lot of resources which sound as if they would be great as they have big name authors but they actually make you more depressed. I had many such experiences most notably with Stroustrup’s books. The one called Programming - principles and practice is a hopeless soup of complicated syntax and lousy pedagogy. It’s aimed at beginners but really anyone who’s read chapter 6 of the book where he seeks to teach ‘what programming is actually about” using a calculator program as an illustrative example, he really makes it appear as if recursion is some exotic and esoteric thing, whereas it is a recurrent theme in the domain of programming. I say this because before this chapter he never used recursion and it becomes very unintuitive, unlike SICP, where from the beginning this is identified as one of the central ideas in all programming.

I was fortunate I used to read e-books and didn’t spend too much on purchasing flimsy books, turns out, as far as CS is concerned, the best stuff is actually free (and accessible as pointed above in the link)