jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If I understand this correctly, he's pulling back from offline comments he's made about Hollywood (vis Jewish people) and of course years of negative Jewish stereotypes in his work.

Before this, he "bent the knee" with his portrayal of Eli Cohen. Wasn't a terrible film but his reverence for the character was a bit much.

FB is a dumpster fire, I don't think anyone argues otherwise these days. But differentiating between freedom of speech and "reach" is just as dangerous as saying we need to treat freedom of speech on a case by case basis.

We either have freedom of speech or we don't. If we don't, sooner or later we're all fucked.

There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous. If people are easily convinced to hate other people, the problem is not dangerous speech or ideas. The problem is a breakdown in fundamental education, i.e., those people are dangerously ignorant.

We need to work on the fundamental issues, not grant more power to groups with specific political / authoritarian agendas.
If you haven't seen this talk; watching it will make you a 10x better programmer. This is what I take for my definition of complex and it applies broadly in a very practical manner.
Mad Max notwithstanding, you can only store gasoline less than a year, so it's not like the alternative is really any less reliant on civilization.
This is not about a company closing down. Its about a company deciding to close their services for a user, arbitrarily, at their own discretion. Files you upload can be permanent deleted, at any time, at the whim of the service provider or any of their employees. You have no rights and no appeals.
> (normal JS is faster on 3, matched on 1, and slower on 1).

And I would be really skeptical about that 1 where they say dart2js is faster.

They removed a layer of indirection in DeltaBlue when they ported it to Dart (not due to any Dart language feature, just for no reason), then crowed about how dart2js made DeltaBlue faster than the original. Despite being made aware of it years ago, they never fixed this! But the JavaScript VMs got better enough to be faster even though running code with more indirection than the dart2js version based on the optimized port.

So when the one benchmark dart2js is faster on is one they say they rewrote because a direct comparison would be "unfair" it sets off alarms.
This is hardly unexpected. My response is "well, duh!".

There is a large minority of law enforcement that is the meatheads and bullies from high school. They enjoy asserting their authority over those they perceive to be "low lifes". The last thing they want is for cameras to be recording their interactions.

OTOH professional police officers should welcome the CYA that a constantly on body camera provides.

Imagine how different the whole Ferguson shooting would have been if we had incontrovertible video evidence of exactly what happened.
Please don't do this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you think a comment doesn't belong on HN, some options are to flag it, downvote it, and/or email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look.
Well, sorry for misspelling, that wasn't intended.

I think you deserve some explanation from my side. I don't know what it is about in USA, but here, in Russia, "Jehovah's Witnesses" is just a pyramidal sect. They spam, they visit other people's homes, they annoy you on the streets, and once someone gets to become a Jehovah's Witness, you won't see him again.

That's also a reason why I wasn't really surprised by low levels of their incomes. Mostly because after you drop your job, you don't usually earn much.
First just so you know you have more than these options. If you're committed though to getting a degree though option 1 is your absolute best bet.

Both options are exhausting. I've done both at times but you are way more likely to persist and actually finish doing option 1. A lot of people are able to take classes at night and actually get something out of it but it is a lot harder because by the time you get there you are already tired from having worked all day. That's not even taking into account school work outside of class.

You will make more money working 40 hrs a week but that also means you will get tempted to say screw school, especially if you start make a decent wage. And while it is completely possible to live a great life without a degree you will definitely be limiting some of your options.

Lastly going to school full time as a student is a much richer experience. It's a lot easier to meet people and feel apart of the campus. This is by no means a prerequisite but it is an underrated part of the college experience. And even if you're not in it for the social aspects financially it can also be rewarding. Those random clubs all have scholarships they give out, as do a lot of the greek and student government orgs.

Look for scholarships. Carefully consider loans. But either way you go good luck.
I know this is not the main point of your post, but the part that I feel I can comment on:

> I also have evidence the "inspiration" whe[n] you [are] on drugs is false, and actually it's more like a delirium.

What does that mean, "false"? The way some of us usually perceive reality might not be true either. Just ask someone suffering from serious depression. It's often a problem of perspective, but they can't simply change that. Being stuck in a particular view also applies to most ordinary people, although this does not necessarily cause suffering. The people who claim LSD is mind-expanding refer to just this: That it might allow you to make such a change of perspective that you otherwise can't.

(I don't mean to say drugs are the way to go if your depressed, by the way. Maybe try meditation.)
For now, you have a write API being built at
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Concentration camp and extermination camp are widely distinguished. It is fair to call concentration camps "concentration camps."
I completely agree with this ...
At McDonald's, there's a very obvious causal relationship between paying some money and getting a hamburger, so of course people pay. With nginx, you just apt-get install your hamburger, and you're done. Donating would hardly ever come to your mind in that process.
It would be awesome to see this turned into a library for dynamically generating aperiodic Wang tiles[0] for one "idea". (ie: grass or cobblestone that doesn't appear to repeat)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile
But Intel has a P/E of 9.91, they must be teetering on the brink of bankruptcy!
> The D-K effect does exist, but it isn't what D-K said it was...

You are claiming an effect exists, and no one--and certainly not the author of this article, who seem to be fully bought into your very different statement of the effect (and so maybe we shall call it "the pdonis effect")--is disagreeing with you on that point; however, your insistence upon calling this effect "the Dunning-Kruger effect"--while simultaneously admitting that Dunning and Kruger described a different incorrect analysis as their "effect"--is what is unreasonable. Put simply: "the Dunning-Kruger effect" is the thing that Dunning and Kruger claimed to be true, not some other random property of the data that their same experiment could have backed up, if only they had realized; and it is this effect--the actual Dunning-Kruger effect, as described by Dunning and Kruger in no uncertain terms--which does not seem to exist.
> Wickard v. Filburn

At the risk of exposing just how much I am not a lawyer, doesn't that decision rely on the interpretation that the farmer's activities did have a plausible effect on the wider market? Wouldn't that be a tougher sell in the case of cannabis, where there is no national market?

> remains precedent

The current Supreme Court really seems willing to toss aside precedent. I wonder what direction they'd go on this issue.
Any and every horror is possible under a dictatorship and much less likely in a democracy. If you want to continue to be "not concerned because I don't live outside the US," then you should be alarmed at anti-democratic trends here and start putting real work into protecting our checks and balances -- even if it means "your team" doesn't win as many elections.

A good example is rampant gerrymandering, which is unacceptable whether it's Democrats or Republicans doing it.
So true. My son was born with severe hearing loss, and for 5 years we have heard treatment was on the horizon.

His hearing has now declined to the point where he needs a cochlear implant, and I worry that if we do that and a treatment is eventually developed, he might not benefit from it. However, I think it would be foolish to wait. Gene therapy seems like the only hope, and I don't think there have been great developments in that area.
I think the official figure is, more that 99% of old money was presented to banks for conversion; but this might spill into a political or controversial conversation, I will not be pursuing it because of lack of energy.
Oh, I thought you were saying that you couldn't build something in Unity to test the market without paying for it.
I was referring to the barrier of entry for the consumer, not the producer.

I think we may be in agreement.
Yes, a large crowd of ~~50,000 will have a large number of cell phones = dropped lines, queuing to voicemail etc, or lack of completion. This is well known.
The cure is also well known, the venue buys a few extra cell sites from the providers - which will languish unused 95% of the time, or asks the cell providers to supply them. Both solutions add costs to various , yet neither the cell companies nor the stadium is able to benefit in terms of $$.
If stadium calls were charged at 10-20 cents/minutes - who would use them.
So we tolerate the losses. I get a text message for any voicemail - which is a low b/w use = it gets through = I act on the priority of each - usually I text them.
I see that as being largely a non–issue. Either you use your own computer and share your screen with the interviewer, or you use a pre–prepared machine. An ideal interviewer would have three laptops ready to go, one each for Windows, OSX, and Linux, and would ask you which you prefer to use. Or three types of VMs to remote into, or whatever. (The upfront cost of that is miniscule if you’re asking a bunch of candidates this question over a few years.) If the interviewer can’t provide that much then they have failed your interview of them, and if you can’t be productive under those conditions then you will likewise fail. This is beneficial for both parties.

I think that this is actually pretty obvious to most people. Arthur only mentions this to say that getting a working build environment wasn’t part of the test.
> Here's the thing about the IV: it's conceptually

> ciphertext. It's a public value. Anybody can see it.

> The only thing it's not supposed to be is predictable

> or repeatable.

You don't need the IV to be non predictable, as long as it is a different string every time it's all ok. The outcome of the encryption is also related to the first block of real plaintext, so your IV can just be a few random bytes with a decent distribution: no need for a cryptographically secure random number generator.
Good for AA. Cutting out middlemen is what the Internet is for, and Sabre takes a healthy cut. Good luck. I'm looking forward to cheaper rates when the other airlines pile on. For those that didn't read the Chicago Tribune article, AA will let Orbitz sell their tickets only if they talk directly to AA, but not through Sabre.
Yes, as the device kept telling him it could last for longer. If I had a car that I found only really went 100 miles on a full tank, but kept telling me it was half full still, I would be pissed, and I would focus on that.
This is a gadget review, not a life review. You dont see their other reviews taking on how items affect your life, just the quality and appropriatness of the product. Why did you think this would be different.
> I think some people might be reading "Born to Run" and jumping full on into barefoot running and VFFs without taking the time to get their feet used to the minimalist style!

There is often an evolutionist explanation for it that goes something like "the human leg and foot evolved to run barefoot", but isn't there a flaw in the explanation that running usually happened on dirt, grass, and not on the paved streets of New York? In other words our feet won't do well running barefoot on concrete or asphalt.

I am not a runner but just wondering, how many people use VFF for marathons successfully without injury? Is it a high number or it is still very very small minority?
Are you really working on FaceCash? It sounds like a parody.
To those focusing on the battery and issues raised by reviewer...

Yes, as the device kept telling him it could last for longer. If I had a car that I found only really went 100 miles on a full tank, but kept telling me it was half full still, I would be pissed, and I would focus on that.

This is a gadget review, not a life review. You dont see their other reviews taking on how items affect your life, just the quality and appropriatness of the product. Why did you think this would be different.

In all, if I were reviewing a car that had this many issues I would not focus on what the drive is like, I would not be doing my job if I didnt address the failings of this item. It seems loads of people here want the reviewer to just ignore these issues.

What do YOU want from your reviewers?
The environmental cost per viewer is infinitesimally small, so I don't buy that argument. An argument about it leading viewers to carelessness would be a sad statement about humor.
"Five years out"
As someone who uses bricklink from time to time, I believe Lego is trying to control counterfeits. I know it’s becoming easier to replicate Lego products especially minifigures.
On a quick read of the relevant statute [0], seems like they'd have to show the Facebook ad buys were made with actual intent "to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor of the debtor" -- which might be a tough lift when the ads were to promote enrolment and therefore intended to improve the ability to repay creditors? Also sounds like Facebook may have been a "good faith transferee" in receiving the payments.

[0] http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/1336
I'm not sure where you are from, but when I encountered one of these bridge in Kawaii, Hawaii a few years back it had specific instructions to follow the car in-front of you. I always admired whomever had the foresight to design such instructions and never realized it was not like that elsewhere.

From a quick google, looks like this is the the norm throughout Hawaii:

https://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/2014/01/08/one-lane-bridge...

https://vacations.hawaiilife.com/blog/misc/one-lane-bridge-e...
30 years
JSON is pretty ubiquitous for transferring data between web resources, compressing the data with a novel method is always welcome.
>I think we need pragmatism more than anything right now.

Why? What’s the emergency? BK raising their profits? They laughed at us not so long ago now they just realize there’s an opportunity here, i’d rather support local vegan eateries. It was as simple as putting a disclaimer in the ad “vegan burgers are cooked on shared equipment and can contain traces of meat”.
You are correct, I don't know if they controlled for screen glare. :)

The road signs are an interesting question. I know there's a lot of work, and occasional controversy, over the typefaces used. If I had to hazard a guess for the color choices, though, it might be the signs have to be very visible in the dark, too -- that's now generally done by using reflective paint for the light part of the sign, but older highway signs, at least in America, used reflective dots in the letters. So that might be a tradition born less out of legibility studies than practicality.
IANAL, but my understanding is that as long as there is any meaningful human input, then it's copyrightable in the US. If you see something and say "that looks cool" point your phone at it and take a snapshot, you own the copyright. This is something found entirely through natural phenomena, but your recognition and framing of it count for copyright.
>I see no good reason to do this. Secure communications and secure transactions can be separate apps,

The reason is pretty clear. Transactions require two parties to both be using the app. If you spin out a separate app, then most people won't have it installed nor be able to use it, and therefore won't be able to transact with it. This leads to a chicken and egg problem: if no one is using the app, then there's no point downloading and becoming familiar with it. By integrating with an existing, popular app in an adjacent space (messaging apps traditionally enable payments as well), they avoid this bootstrapping problem.

That said, it seems quite dumb to pick a premined currency to enable all this. That will inevitably raise questions about who stands to gain from the success of the system. Someone should come up with a way to make cryptocurrencies that are worthless for speculators, and only good for paying for things. Then, any new crypto project would have an easy way to avoid accusations of being a pump-and-dump.
> which would make the barely profitable parts of Amazon worse for everyone

Would that not benefit the competition? And isn't that a good thing?
Most mirrors are in Germany: https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/rc3/h264-hd/rc3-r3s-20-eng-W...
> I don't believe this until proven otherwise with actual data.

I don't remember the last time that a piece by Uncle Bob or Martin Fowler—and they're just two examples, I've seen quite a few more who are generally met with agreement every time they're posted—was heavily criticized or disagreed with here.

And when I do see disagreements, they tend to come from people who don't seem to have nearly as much experience as those guys do or who might have misinterpreted their point (much like how the idea of agile has turned into something that only reflects the manifesto tangentially, and accidentally at that) and who are, perhaps not coincidentally, likely to fall in the "programming is easy" camp.

And even then, "controversial in hacker news" is hardly representative of what's controversial in the field at large (which I also understand goes against my own first point).
> HTML is unpleasant to write.

Is it really, though? HTML is a very deep toolbox, but to write blog articles you really only need a handful of tools on the surface level. If you were previously using markdown, all you need to do is review the basic syntax[0] to figure out the equivalent HTML tags. Writing HTML is hardly any less pleasant, albeit a little more verbose, if you just stick to those tags.

I think primary value of languages like markdown is input sanitation. If a user makes a mistake in their markdown syntax, there's no risk of it breaking other elements on the page. But when you as the host are the only user, I say pure HTML is the way to go.

[0] https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
a joke about Cambridge Analytica scandal / facebook leak which happened few days ago most likely
Many of the rules that are considered best practices in Tour of C++ or C++ Core Guidelines are no go for Google.
I'm immensely annoyed every time I read—or worse, listen—through a book and it's peppered with critical notes instead of simply contextual ones (which explain obscure things that the author's contemporaries wouldn't need explained). “For Hesse this and that is a symbol of death...”—bah! Maybe I want to read through the book first and then think about foreshadowing or symbolism, how about that.

The worst is when these notes give out the story that is yet to come, sometimes even the ending straight away. I do wish bad luck to certain producers of audiobooks.
This is still an issue even if you're a contractor! The company should know who has access to their internal resources and codebase. If you are upfront about it, then of course it is fine. Make sure it's in the contract.
If that tool shipped as part of iOS, were on by default, and silently sent the full message history plaintext to Apple (such as if Apple iCloud Backup stopped respecting the storage class of apps and just backed up EVERY FILE), I think it would be fair to call that a backdoor (in iOS).

What if iCloud Backup started including in the backup a snapshot of device RAM? I think we are splitting hairs here.

The desire of users for message history in backups is entirely orthogonal to whether or not iCloud Backup is a cryptographic backdoor, in the traditional "plaintext escrow" sense. Indeed, the FBI would not have torpedoed Apple's e2e encrypted device backup system if not.

Really it boils down to the fact that it's on by default and the users were never asked to consent to their full chat history being transmitted to Apple effectively in the clear. I imagine most users are unaware of the fact that the FBI has warrantless access to every iMessage they have ever sent or received.
I don't really believe most of articles like this

I think most details are lost in translation, or the level of seriousness of things ("Is Mall Santa the real Santa?"/"Do Santa Actually exist?") coupled with a certain American exaggerated feelings of self-importance and self-centeredness

Or, as someone told me, a kid was told "this is not the USA, we don't celebrate Halloween!". This was in Ireland
And now they do again...
Now the title has been truncated even further, from "Reasons to choose your reading carefully" to "Choose your reading carefully". Just use the original title, which was fine. In fact, it was better, because "three thousand reasons" refers to the number of books left in the author's reading-lifetime. This context has now been stripped, for no good reason.

This sort of questionable title editing is a recurring theme on Hacker News. I might be willing to help with this issue if there's an easy way to get involved. I think the kind of editorial judgment required to make good title changes is right in my wheelhouse.
It's radar. So it is emitting radio waves, with a tiny tiny percent of them bouncing back to the detector. So it can be detected and/or jammed.

Assuming these devices work on a very narrow frequency range, it shouldn't be too hard to passively hear them coming. If detectors appear, these devices would become a serious liability for anyone looking to "storm" a residence.
We don't inject and never have done anything like injecting ads into a publisher's own.

Why did you write this? Where did you read it? It's false, and you can check this by running Brave, even old versions that are still available. Please check your facts.

On collecting contributions on behalf of creators without their knowledge, the collection was a blunder but the funds were ours, from our token user growth pool. We were not taking funds from others. We fixed this as soon as I caught it, and I'm sorry I didn't catch it sooner.
Also, i am looking at ways to make pulling the content the fastest way possible using cdn cached files where possible and things like that..
I wonder why you posted that, since it shows him clearly not proposing injecting bleach. That quote shows him wondering if there is some way some disinfectant can be injected into the bloodstream to destroy the virus, and that it would be interesting for doctors to look into that. He was obviously told that UV light is a disinfectant that has been used to directly treat blood (which is true).

I really dislike Trump, but I feel like I end up defending him quite often against people who are just completely uncharitable in their interpretations of everything he's ever said or done.