jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
These are all great points and I appreciate you adding these details.

I do still think a Japanese speaker would see "sen" at the end of that word and notice the connection to a military root word.

When you say partially true about the radicals, I'm a bit surprised. Is it really the case that this is only for some words? I believed it to be true for most words; that the radicals almost always influenced a thought, usually a thought that was true at the very least when the character was introduced. The thought might be archaic and sexist (that's a good point) but that it would be understood and noted by the reader. You are saying that's not the case with most radicals, or in the rare case more often?
> and a lot of small business owners do have a lot of unavoidable outflows like, say, other people's salaries

As if that matters. It's not like they are taxed before they pay salaries. Small business people pay taxes on the amount of money they have left over after all business expenses are deducted, i.e. profit, not revenue, so what point exactly are you trying to make here?

> Just taxing everybody with a high income is not necessarily a good idea

Small business people, if near broke after paying all outflows, wouldn't qualify as people with high incomes even if their business was pulling a billion dollars a year in revenue, and wouldn't be paying any additional taxes on the rich because they wouldn't qualify as rich.

The whole small businesses would be hurt by taxes on the rich is a red herring, it's simply not true, and is just rhetoric from the right meant to distract from the real issues. It takes advantage of the fact that most people don't know how taxes work and don't separate gross income from net income. Businesses don't pay taxes on all they money they make, they for the most part, pay taxes on profit, which is by definition, extra money above and beyond operating expenses.
This is why I prefer the New Hampshire model of no sales tax and no income tax. Instead, a large property tax and a (small) capital gains tax are in place.

This is far from the whole story, and NH isn't perfect, but the model of these four taxes seems to hurt the poor much less.
No, he seems to get tripped up by the open world assumption, which is a limitation of Haskell's type system. It allows separate compilation of different modules, for example.

But nobody said that Haskell's type system is without limitations, right?
What part of Linux' greater immunity to malware comes from the more logical permissions, and the more free-form naming?

By that, I mean that "executable" comes from a permission, not from an "extension", and that "extensions" in Linux are really just naming conventions.

I also note that every one not leveraged to the hilt into Microsoft technology acknowledges the effect of the Windows monoculture.
How well will Android's advertising-centric app economics work with these devices?
Scott Adams writes:

"Before you break out the tiny violins for my hypothetical doctor, allow yourself to imagine that he's got a mountain of college loans, his mortgage is underwater, and he's supporting three grandparents (one on his wife's side) who all need some form of senior care, and the doctor's parents, and his wife's parents, have no spare cash. The doctor's parents might also need help in a few years. Oh, and the doctor has two kids of his own, one of whom needs some sort of special care. That's what the real world looks like for the so-called Sandwich Generation. For this imaginary doctor, any extra tax burden takes money from four generations of his family who needs it and distributes the cash to strangers."

Imagine that instead of a doctor, we are talking about a hard working carpenter who makes about $40,000 a year, and of whom we could say "his mortgage is underwater, and he's supporting three grandparents (one on his wife's side) who all need some form of senior care, and the carpenter's parents, and his wife's parents, have no spare cash. The carpenter's parents might also need help in a few years. Oh, and the carpenter has two kids of his own, one of whom needs some sort of special care."

Why do the woes of the hard-working doctor demand more sympathy than the woes of the hard working carpenter?
Except the rich man in this case is still drinking beer (benefiting from government services) while not paying any of the bill.
I'm sorry but you're arguing a political opinion as if it were fact and not offering anything to justify your argument. A good half the country believes that tax cuts ARE a great stimulus and you could get conservative economists to give you Ronald Reagan based examples until you're blue in the face.

(Please note I'm not even on the conservative side here. I think the tax cuts should have expired. But I can see both sides of the argument)
Giving access to my Gmail access is way over the line, but if at least this was working.
Maybe you broke Facebook
In short, it’s painful :)

Looking into a Stripe plugin like https://www.quaderno.io/

I really enjoy using Stripe, and their support is great, but sales tax compliance makes me a bit jealous of those using Paddle.
I walked away from fb a year and half ago, and I don't miss any of it.

Hope it stays down, it would be an overall net gain for humanity.
same, and can't visit the site at all
I’m not sure if 16 hours in coach is too different from 16 hours in a box. Except for the heat, I suppose.
> Having seen it work I believe PKI can be practical at scale. And this is why I'd hoped a chat app might break some ground here.

If you believe that this webpage was delivered securely to your computer, then PKI might be practical. Of course, there are a few implementation details with that PKI.
mbasic.facebook.com was also down in New Zealand. Thought it was a company firewall issue at first, but checked https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and confirmed that it's happening to others.
This is a misunderstanding of why "drug dogs are bullshit".

Yes, dogs are capable of sniffing out people, animals, and substances. This has been made use of for centuries.

Dogs are also capable of "hitting" on the trunk of a car, just because they guess that their master wants to look inside it. Plenty of evidence that this happens all the time.

Which undermines the right protecting against unreasonable search and seizure. All you have to do is be the wrong color, or driving in a "suspicious" way (which means whatever police want it to mean), and they can bring a K9 by, the dog will dutifully point at the trunk, and the cops get their search.

It's no different from the "I smelled pot" routine: there aren't any penalties to the police for doing an "I smelled pot" search and not finding cannabis, and there are no consequences for a K9 'hitting' on a trunk which turns out to have nothing more interesting than a gym bag.
jslinux as well, it's more of a cool demo than anything useful but the "cool" factor is super high. And led to tinyemu (which underlies the current jslinux implementation). The current version can run Windows NT inside QEMU inside JSLinux. In your browser.
Given that mortality comes usually between 3 to 8 weeks after infection it makes total sense.
> These hypothetical scenarios are not anchored with the language that most businesses will understand: cost.

If a CEO or other high level management doesn't have a sense of how to answer those questions, they have no business running a company in the 21st century.

There are plenty of stories of ransomware literally holding a corporation's entire business hostage. Software security is an existential threat for pretty much every business these days.
Since which time this has been fully forseen.
> Why are they not releasing them?

I believe that releasing that data would be in contravention of GA state law.

> It was a Settlement Call,

That is a lie. If it were a settlement call, there should have been lawyers from all parties involved. All of the live cases in Georgia regarding the election have Marc Elias present as co-intervenor, and that he was not on the call means that it cannot legally be a settlement call: https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1345887358101688320
I'm very glad the author actually said this:

```
You don’t need Wordpress, or Hugo to put a blog online, or Angular, React or Next.js to put a web page online. Raw HTML and CSS do the job.

That being said, you’ll need to pick up some tooling or framework if you want to build a web app or add more interactivity or customization to your web pages.
```

So often people forget not everything sitting on the web has the same needs. saying 'you don't need a framework' ignores that, maybe i do infact need one, because otherwise i'd have to write it myself.
We're very, very niche so we don't even have a presence on the web yet - route to market will be through corporate advisors so it's not something we'd expect clients to sign up for online etc. Very happy to do demo or share more information though. I'll send contact details on Slack.

The application is to do long term financial projections for life insurers. Currently market dominated by applications such as FIS Prophet and Risk Agility - but we believe that we're a) faster and b) better integrated with other data / analysis tools. These jobs can be enormously compute intensive (eg see [1]) so being able to do them faster / with less resources can be very valuable.

Glad you're keeping your sanity. Very impressed with the utility of what you're doing.

[1] https://integrate.milliman.com/-/media/integrate/pdfs/azure-...
Yep there are definitely some differences, especially once you start to go off the beaten path by including HTML in the Markdown, or using whatever flavor of template language the SSG provides.

I've got some older posts that use Jekyll's {% highlight %} directive, and I know that won't work if/when I change SSGs, but to me that's a small price to pay for not having to author those in raw HTML! :)
The problem with prohibiting hate speech is that you can prohibit any speech by calling it hate.
> Asking to leave WhatsApp is like cancelling your contract with your ISP and going offline just because you don't like the company.

If I choose to stop using my ISP, I have no need to "go offline". I can simply switch ISPs and I still get the exact same internet. This is why we must not fall for this "critical social infrastructure" trap. No one company deserves our business. We can and should go elsewhere.

Messaging should be like the internet. If I don't like my messaging provider, I should be able to switch and still message everybody. Ideally, I would be able to bring my identifier with me. Luckily, SMS already provides this. I therefore recommend old-fashioned SMS/MMS for messaging. If you want something more "modern", I would recommend Matrix, as it is the only "modern" messaging system that wants to allow people to switch providers while still messaging the same people.
Nah. You need to donate real money.
The subtle ways that platforms choose to shape our ideas of what is acceptable, and through that, our culture.
signal is a messaging app. telegram is a damn nice platform for a lot of stuff, messaging included :)
Not only that, but I think a lot of people would be skeptical that your software could even do all those things. While Excel can be dangerous in the hand of the wrong user it is also pretty magical sometimes.
FYI: The official exchange rate (according to Google) is:
1 Singapore dollar = 0.71623 U.S. dollars

Perhaps it's no surprise that Singapore is the 3rd least corrupt country - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#Ra...
Do you know of any who were able to improve their speaking? If so, do you know how?
You would be getting into a very crowded market with large network effects and economies of scale.

Your skills may be more fruitfully applied elsewhere.
One advantage of this approach is that it lets you not care about the order of definitions if you don't want to. Doing things the usual way, ruby's execution model can have you tied in knots if you're not careful.
Mediocrity is not only a worse-case in startups. A 'comfortable' standard of living, a 'comfortable' desk job which pays the bills and doesn't encourage much development... that's the worst.
I'm not a programer. But I write business plan in xmind tool.
I do Branding - meaning I rewrite business idea for the market and implement strategy as a manager.
I can be a co-founder with reasonable spendings plan.
I have 2 projets that are commodities as well as digital products.
And have few good domains for all sorts of business. So considering your startup idea is of a business kind, would you like to attend a meeting with me?
All best,
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A nice and friendly way to explain a concept that has a scary-sounding name. One little correction, though: your example for "alt" function says

>>> iforwhileorfor = alt(matchstr('if'), matchstr('while'), matchstr('for'))
>>> if_while_for('if')
('if', '')
>>> if_while_for('while')
('while', '')
>>> if_while_for('for')
('for', '')
>>> if_while_for('foof')
None

You need to either rename the variable to "if_while_for" or modify your function calls accordingly.
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
The whole point of determining the lower bound is measuring the sensitivity of the input of the sound card. If you don't know the exact sensitivity of your device you have to measure it. The author evaluates the quality of the different sound cards inputs as a byproduct: note that he for example measures:

"(Creative Labs) Extigy has astonishingly poor input sensitivity. It’s about 5 times worse than a typical cheap sound card, and about 100 times worse than a decent 24-bit soundcard, as you can see from table 4."

The sensitivity is the first column of his table, demonstrating some products being unusable for this purpose and obviously unusable for any quality recording too.

It would certainly be good to have the database of the measurements for different products. It's amazing how little we know about the consumer products being sold unless we measure them.
Looking forward to the event! This will be my first time
Correct. When I said 'rewrite', I mean 'update of some'.
Good news, this really had to happen. One of Microsoft's biggest problems is one of PR - too many people, particularly in the media have just hated Microsoft for years, and Ballmer is not charismatic enough to ever recover from that position. They need new blood, and to shake off the "old Microsoft" image if they want to win hearts and minds again.
Well, here is my theory. Could well be missing something, or a hell of a lot, but here goes....

First thing is that my impression has been that the Independent has so far been pretty much parroting the Guardian articles. Now, I read this article as a "good spying" article. Its there for the government and GCHQ to show that spying is good, or had a good side. From a British security POV, if we believe the terror threat, this article actually shows spying as useful or worth while, and to Brits, good. Arabs wont like it, but to those who matter to the UK and US, I assume they know, and comply. Well, don't want to be bombed back to the stone age or be invaded, right?

Next, why the Independent, and not the Murdoch Times, Telegraph (Known in the UK as the Torygraph), or one of the tabloids? Well, the story needs the weight of a proper newspaper, so that's the tabloids out. That leaves the broadsheets. Pro conservative papers are too obvious, so that leaves the Independent.

Looks to me like a divide and rule thing. So far, the Independent and Guardian have been in step. Now we have the Guardian pushing "bad spying" and the Independent is the "good spying" advocate. The two step has been split.

I say the Independent has been used and somewhere along the line, we will see what they got for it.
It is rather unlikely that people were asking questions about any language on stackoverflow before stackoverflow existed.
i wonder if they are going to try and preserve the multi-headed monster that is microsoft today, or whether they are going to break it up into constituent parts. i know that the temptation is great to try and compete head to head with google on the plan to totally annihilate each other, but i wonder if that makes any sense. google docs has been around for six years and i've never encountered it in a corporate setting. so does office need to be tied to bing? (and vice versa). will be interesting to see what they choose to do next.
> One interesting thing to note from that chart is their Beta (a measure of link to market volatility) is less than 1, which is very low for a high tech stock.

Not really, Looking at my Bloomberg terminal shows that AAPL US Equity has a beta of .944, YHOO US Equity has a beta of .748 and GOGO US Equity has a beta of .894.
Uber is considerably more expensive than a cab in DC and there are a variety of apps that let you request and track cabs.

The Uber cars and drivers are pretty nice though. Sometimes I'm willing to pay a premium for that.
It seems unlikely he had the keys to the files, he says he did not know what was there and it would make no sense to give the keys until he arrived.
Nitpick: it’s not really a paper, but an editorial.

Also, it’s two papers: a model for solar activity, plus predictions for what that will mean for temperatures on earth.

Both fit within the very broad scope of this journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=a...: “The journal's logo is "Temperature is life." While the primary focus is on the medical physiology of body temperature regulation, research in all scientific disciplines and at all levels of organization - from submolecular to biospheric - is of interest to the journal. If your paper deals with both temperature and life, it belongs in Temperature!”

But yes, I think the first part would be more believable if it appeared in a journal more focused on the sun.
She's a professor in Maths at Northumbria: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/z/professor..., with a PhD in astrophysics. Recent publications on the same topic in what appear to be good journals (latest in Astrophysical Journal Letters, which has an h of 129).
The set of operations you have access to as a designer affects immensely what your cipher will look like. If your alien CPUs had a very different instruction set than ours, their ciphers would look very different.

Back in the old days memory lookups were as fast as computation, and S-box based designs were very popular. That is no longer the case, to an extent, both for security (cache-timing side-channels) and performance reasons. S-box designs are still common, but the S-boxes are usually <= 4-bit wide, mostly there to facilitate analysis (counting active S-boxes), and usually implemented as boolean logic instead.

Without S-boxes, the other main approach is to mix operations from incompatible algebraic domains. Like add and xor. When composed many times together, hopefully this results in a very complicated nonlinear expression of very high degree on any of these domains. One of the first popular ciphers to do this was IDEA, which mixed addition, xor, and modular multiplication to pretty good effect. The challenge then is to figure out a set of these operations that is both efficient at eliminating input-output structure (linear, differential, etc characteristics) and efficient at being computed in the widest possible range of machines. This restricts your options to a common set of operations, like add, xor, shift, and so on. Multiplications can be useful, but they don't do very well at the low end, and tend to complicate analysis.

This is only at the very lowest level of the design phase, where you're picking your mixing/diffusion building blocks. You still have to decide on a higher-level structure such as the various Feistel variants, Lai-Massey, SPN, etc, which comes with its own set of tradeoffs.
I hope they don't, but to be honest I'd pay/donate a few monies to them. VLC has definitely proved its usefulness to me over the last many years.
Yeah learning Latin is motivated partially by my attending TLM (at least, before covid). Picking up some old Biblical translations is a good idea, thanks for the tip.
Or you walk over the street and the police thinks you have nice usd in your wallet .. and just take it all .. until you can proof these dollars came on a legal way to your wallet.

(A bit black humor, but since it's not a serious topic anyway, I think it's ok for HN for once).
> it becomes more and more important to plan before you write.

I'll counter that with a real-world experience.

I worked at a well known company that did system design & documentation first, without doing prototyping, etc. My first day working on the UI I pointed out that the web app had so many menus that the actual content would barely fit on a 15" laptop screen.

The team debated and debated on how to fix it, but ultimately it kept getting trumped by the documentation team who said the docs are done so we couldn't change anything.

I left after a couple of months. They worked on it for a year before finally tossing it out.
The paper was later redacted against which the author protested.

https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Valen...

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mini-ice-age-hoopla-g... gives some other criticisms of the paper.

TL;DR: Author draws parallels to historic episode with similar initial conditions and concludes we will see the same cooling effects. However in whether that historic cooling effect was just because solar irradiation changes (rather than that there also was volcanic activity) is disputed.
I use https://github.com/phw/peek on i3wm on Manjaro without any problems. For full screen recording, OBS feels the like the best option.
Sure, but a few days of intense dedicated discussions /white boarding with a handful of senior engineers can save you from throwing a bunch of different prototypes at a wall to see which one sticks.
That's what I thought it would be by the abstract, but it seems like it just swaps out one of nine or so images depending on where your cursor is, rather than actually encouraging you to direct your real face toward your cursor.
No, I don't remember specifically but I likely shared them with a bunch of people and after all we were LimeWire...
The taxi service in London is generally quite robust. Drivers have to pass a rigorous exam prior to certification, and the cars used are just awesome. Visiting there from the states and using their taxis was quite a pleasant experience I wish we could replicate.
I share your feelings exactly.

When I was in London, the ease of ordering a ride with your smartphone was a reliable comfort in a foreign land.

Maybe if I hadn't undergone shitty experiences in Paris et al. being swindled by the train operations, I wouldn't be taking Uber's side, but it just is that Uber has just worked for me so many times when other options failed.
Pointing out the environmental impact of having biological children is always unpopular here. A lot of HN-ers are pretty attached to the 'three kids and a white picket fence' lifescript.

Interestingly advocates of veganism (which has a similarly massive impact on your carbon footprint) are much more welcome, but I guess for most people the drive to reproduce is more inherent that the desire to eat meat.
Not a problem with metric units.
I feel the same way. I can hardly decide whether I dislike Uber or the taxi industry more.
That too. Several objections to Galileo's model were based on real observations, which means science. There were sound scientific reasons to reject his model despite the fact that the core of it was a vast improvement. It's an interesting scientific contradiction.
It's called Nala, but I am afraid she is a Ragdoll not a Maine Coon. We do have another one which is a Maine Coon but it is too shy for pictures.

Thanks for the upvote though!
What aren't I tricking myself into thinking?.. That I would like to make the news as non-biased as possible, that I'd like to use bullet points, or that I'd like to use facts?