jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There have been multiple calls for violence against the police and against ICE coming from the left. Hacker News played a role in disclosing the home addresses of ICE employees shortly before a sniper shot through the windows of one of the locations at the address. Go read the stuff the John Brown Gun club is putting out.
> Otherwise depending on how long you have been employed you will get more than someone just starting because experience is valuable.

This is exactly the problem with unions. Pay for time under your belt is a stupid idea. Experience isn’t actually worth more to anyone beyond an adequate amount to do the job competently.

A police officer with 10 years of experience is not going to actually prevent more crime than one with 7 years. Additionally, an ambitious officer that takes training seriously, etc can be a much better officer than one with twice the experience.

Rewarding seniority rather than merit is literally an incentive to do the bare minimum for as long as possible.
Part of the problem is that at the moment any government trying to force Signal to break the e2e security model is clearly interfering with speech.

By incorporating cryptocurrency/payments, governments are being handed a massive lever to force Signal to comply with the financial monitoring requirements that governments have in place.

This has a negative impact on those of us who just wanted a secure communications platform.
Did I work with you!? I also worked on the COBOL backend for TR. And yeah, I'd also be HIGHLY surprised if it ever got open-sourced.
Does anyone know of any such projects, or what they might be described as? None of the queries I've tried produce the intended results.

I guess it's because you're looking for "obfuscators" while such programs are usually known as "automatic code formatters"... and any decent IDE is going to have the functionality to do this.

For something standalone, look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_(Unix)
Trying to install this was the worst PITA since a very very long time.
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It's not that hard to think of reasons why, even as effective vaccinations go up, deaths/cases may not decline in perfect symmetry. For example, certain groups may start caring less once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated, restrictions may be eased as more people are vaccinated, certain groups may be less likely to want vaccinations so a local epidemic occurs... etc.
It's funny how this goes. Capitalism is great because it promises individual freedom and giving everyone what they wants, while also holding 70% of Americans at economical gunpoint, justifying that with "well if everyone truly got what they want, nobody would produce and civilization would collapse".

Perhaps the capitalists should drop the talk about freedom and voluntary trade. Or we need a new word for "freedom" that doesn't classify structurally coerced choices as "free".
> they payed more per vaccine, thus guaranteeing the supply needed to be able to mass vaccinate

Who could have guessed that paying the right price would guarantee the supply of a rare commodity everyone would want? :)
Yea but that's for first dosage given until end of June. That's still 4.5 months away. A long time considering thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths.

Maybe paying a bit more would have been more intelligent (see Israel) than negotiating for months on end.
Are they? Didn't the EU put up a vaccine export ban? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55860540
It's a no-go for this use case. Simply because we cannot manipulate the SVG's attributes (at least not as easily) when using them within img tags. Can when they are "inlined". We reluctantly adopted PNGs and convinced designers to provided assets for a whole spread of sizes and colours which doubled or even trippled their workload, just because we were stalling and trying to find alternatives (we have begun building an automation chain for PNG colour conversion etc). Moving forward, I'm going to experiment with one/some of the SVG optimisers and try going back to build/run-time SVG attribute manipulation. It's what SVGs were built for.

Using inline SVGs also reduces our caching complexity _dramatically_. I'm now "just" caching markup with no binary asset caching.

Moving forward I'm going to experiment with
I would argue that the recent uproar is over both the pat downs and the scanners.

The fact that the poll, as you point out, 1) only mentions the scanners and not the alternative and 2) doesn't fully indicate what's really happening should be further reason to call them out for citing it.
To end poverty we need a gov that does not lie when it says it supports affordable housing for people.

Affordable housing does not mean a 0% down FHA loan on an overpriced home costing the person 2/3 monthly income with some jacked ARM.

Affordable housing is to quit jacking with MBS and let housing fall to its proper market prices at which point it becomes affordable and buyers come in.

People need to understand that renting is just fine and home ownership is NOT for everyone.

It's fairly obvious that gov action in regards to home ownership has impoverished many people this past decade while making a killing for the banking elite. This trend continues to this day.
A smart airline would flag few people that do this and put them in a high-touch queue where the airline confirms if they intend to stay on for the final leg of the flight. If no, the airline modifies the passenger's flight details and makes it an A-B flight, and the seat on the B-C flight is marked available for purchase (maybe at a discount last-minute type price). If Yes, nothing changes. This way the airline can still sell that ticket. Savvy customer is happy with high-touch customer service, airline makes more money.
Let's think about this once more : "global postmodern nihilistic meta-state"

ouch !

stF
Chaos Group does some cool work in Haskell: https://www.chaos.com/all-products
It's doing a lot more than OCR + translation. It's doing OCR + translation very very quickly, on a very limited platform, then re-injected the translated form of the words back into the stream in real time.

If I could point my macbook at something and get the same thing, then I might be a bit fascinated...the fact that I can do this with something that fits in my pocket is what is so amazing.
Or just remove the pedals and tape one of the cranks to the chain stay so they don't spin and catch the trousers. Did this with my daughter's bike and it held up fine for the month she pootled on it until she was ready to pedal.
Black on pickle green isn't at all that readable. And neither is light pickle green on dark pickle green.
To Downvoters: So there is something wrong with saying 'cool'? What is the problem this time? There is nothing malicious or 'offensive' than reacting to something by saying 'cool'. Come on.

Care to explain yourselves this time?
No, it's the initial submission, not a comment.

This also confuses the hell out of me, I always "read" them as "heavily downvoted comment" only to realize "hey, no, that's a question! Why does HN style it like that?".

Every time.
It is authorization (as opposed to authentication).
It varies widely by company and by person. The unhelpful senior trope is not a myth.
The other aspect of discounting image evidence in this way would be to produce multiple conflicting versions and then argue a jury can never be sure which is real (where deepfake quality is comparable to the law enforcement original). This would have a hurdle for admission in a criminal case, but I would be able to very easily argue an acquittal if it was presented to the jury.
"I wish there was an app like find my iPhone but “find my glasses” because fuckers keep getting lost"

Argh, can relate. Terrible catch-22 when you can't see well enough to find your glasses. Also, for reasons I don't understand, my wife owns a zillion pairs of cheap readers that sort of look like my glasses.
Cranelift is licensed Apache 2 https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/crane...
The LGPLv3 is implemented as a set of additional permission on top of the GPLv3. The library is LGPL.
> Basically, once you grok AWS, things become more productive

> OTOH, that's not nearly the case with Postgres. I spent a day and a half tuning the version I host, switching to RDS, then switching back because RDS was too slow

These two statements are contradictory.

You would have been better off just renting a dedicated host for your DB and doing the tuning yourself (either in person or getting someone to do it) - because the AWS offering is slower than your own instance, and database is a service thats often ripe for easy optimisation by using a dedicated host/cluster of hosts vs virtualised host(s).
I have an open anonymous wifi setup that doesn't allow eavesdropping.

I have an ADSL/wifi router as my primary access point. It provides a WPA2 encrypted network for my own laptops. Then I have an old secondary wifi router plugged to that one over ethernet. It offers another passwordless network and has some bandwidth-limits in place, does NAT, and provides another subnet over dhcp to anonymous users. You can't use the secondary network to eavesdrop on what happens on the primary router.

When I'm out travelling and find an anonymous wifi myself, I just ssh to my account at a unix box, forward the connection to a remote http/s proxy to my laptop and thus route all my web traffic over ssh via a trusted exit node.
I'm glad you pointed this out to your teacher. It is worth noting, though, that if it weren't for the arbitrary "If it's exactly halfway inbetween, you should just round it up" rule taught as received wisdom in school, your teacher would've been on stronger ground. And it is reasonable that they were attempting, in their way, to convey (or even fully come to terms with themself) the understanding that the nearest integers to a value are always also among the nearest integers to the nearest multiples of 0.1 to that value (and all the generalizations of this); it's just that sometimes there are other nearest integers to nearest multiples of 0.1 as well.
> There is also the choices made by the art directors at the publishers to consider; they were aware of current trends in SF/F book covers, as well as other genres, and would select artists based on how well they worked with those trends. Or against them. Consider for instance Richard Powers (http://www.richardmpowers.com/1970s) who did a ton of psychedelic SF cover work in the 60s, and less work in the 70s as things swung to a more realistic look.

Powers' work definitely evokes that particular era, but (to me at least) it seems a bit... dour, I suppose, and a poor fit for lighter hearted works from then (Laumer's Retief, Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat novels). Definitely a case where ADs were conforming to a trend, although the later examples in those series aren't as jarring.
Cause they don't have access to Reddit and HN.

Imagine prisons had internet access.
I get your point, although I think references are not that easier ; if one doesn't think what's happening underneath when using refernces, nasty bugs can occur.
The oculus rift purchase was listed as a major factor in football predicted revenues in the next few years in an impressive book I read over Xmas

I was knocked sideways by a book this Xmas - "The secret footballers guide to the modern game". It's a really good read especially for those of us who thought / think brains and insight vanish at the boundary of real life and sports. It's written by a top class footballer with current links to top flight commercial and sporting people.

And he mentions Facebooks acquisition of Oculous Rift. It's part of how the current commercials are tipping in favour of clubs and how leagues will stop dancing to the needs of TV schedules

Expect one club in 2015 to do a Louis CK - put out a self published "view from the pitch" via oculus rift and make more money directly than they would from traditional TV rights. Then everyone else will follow once contracts expire.
I thought the same thing.

While it is kind of odd that one can go out with someone for 6 months, live in the same city as them and never visit their house.... this guy was actively lying.

Its entirely possible, wanted to visit his place all the time, and gave a laundry list of bad excuses until she finally broke up with him for being dishonest as the relationship was becoming increasingly serious in her mind.
If she had won would you have felt the same way?
Amazing that after I present actual data you try to deflect by replying to my post with a criticism of something someone else wrote, completely ignoring the subject.
You got downvoted so now I'm confused. Which was it, because they are two very different things.
What are ppl?
The mathematical term for dropping letters is taking a "subsequence", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsequence . This is not the same as taking a substring, which is understood to be a contiguous subsequence.
Not quite a work freeze. There is a subtle difference in that only the most critical code fixes will go in, we'd just document everything else and come up with solutions for the rest.

So this isn't exactly a 100% code freeze. There are still critical fixes that might go in with managerial understanding and approval.

The downside is people then start saying things like "my fix doesn't require any code changes, only SQL changes." I am not trying to be pedantic and say SQL is code, which it is, Rather, if the change could be done better in C# but we do a workaround in the database layer, that isn't exactly ideal.
It's not a matter of "sacrificing" education.

Gifted programs are largely NOT tailored to the students because they are still pegged to the grade level. They are mostly pricey busy-work masquerading as education.
Courts. Even USA has laws against libel and slander, it's not like the status quo is that you can just say whatever you want with no fear of consequences.
I'm torn. On one hand, I wish I got the joke sooner, because I needed a laugh today. On the other, I'm glad I missed the context that would have made the joke clear. Overall, I'm thankful I can read HN comments without hearing Trump's voice reading the words.
It’s not anonymous, but anonymity isn’t equivalent to privacy.
I have launched " Disable Touch" a simple app which allows you to listen to movies or even the online classes when your phone is in your pocket without the worry of accidental touches by disabling the touch using our touch-control-panel .It can be also used over popular apps like YouTube,Amazon Prime Videos and even over Netflix to 'binge-listen' movies. Would love to hear what you people think about it !!!
John Stewart spend many years talking about how CNN was built for 9/11.

It's there to treat everything as 9/11 and blow every story put of proportion
But would it be reasonable to call Vim an obscure text editor? Of course not.

Just because a software company isn’t a household name doesn’t make it obscure.
There's the demo server which has a simple web UI where you can input text to be spoken, but in regards to setting it up locally it's not that suited for a non developer

https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/tree/master/TTS/server

https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/wiki/Build-instructions-for-s...

There's also a version in docker: https://github.com/synesthesiam/docker-mozillatts

And various Colabs too, which are fairly easy to get going with: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/wiki/TTS-Notebooks-and-Tutori...
Well, flour isn't a unit...
Been in this situation in a start up, it didn't work for me due to other commitments. I was laid off due to lack of commitment etc. Best think that happened to me as I was able to kick off my consulting career in a much more suitable company. If you don't fit the company accept that you may need to move on, they're not going to change for you. Hope it works out for you.
You wouldn't be saying this if it was BLM protestors doing the exact same thing.
Here's what Telegram has to say to that: https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

Seems like an okay compromise to me, but I'm no security expert.
What is the alternative are your social circles using? SMS is the only alternative with a wide install base and the experience is inferior to WA,Telegram etc.
I don’t think I’d enter at this point, but if you’re a sceptic, Preston Pysh on The Investors Podcast (We Study Billionaires) is a good source for the bullish case. That podcast is consistently good, if you’re into active investing at all.
On my MPB M1 everything feels exquisitely responsive with the exception of the first time that apps that need to be translated by Rosetta. So it appears something might be off on your install.
Does feel that way sometimes. Senate not impressed, house is filled bunch of jokers so they aren’t doing anything.
> From this point of view you can switch anywhere.

The point isn't to not give Facebook more data; it is to not give anyone more data. Which is the case with Signal, but not with say Discord or Zoom.

Telegram uses homebrew crypto and for some reason doesn't have E2EE enabled by default.
I've recently switched to using Whatsapp in an emulator, which is kinda similar. I even almost got a virtual camera working so I can share my desktop screen via whatsapp call (would be super useful for parent tech support). Laptop cameras should work fine though.
my gut says the moment trump is not in office he starts a news channel or some sort of media company, I bet he even still have rallies. he'll leverage his supporters to influence elections and politics.

i think he's addicted to the attention and the chearing throngs.
That statement as written is trivially true. The question is whether it is what is occurring, which isn't going to be possible to ascertain. I don't think anyone really has a firm grasp on what it is possible for an average child to learn, which would be a prerequisite to answering the question.

(There is some idea what an average child can learn in our current system but that's such a small part of the possible state space of educational systems I don't pay much attention to it.)
The new themes, in my opinion, do nothing more than set back the look of Ubuntu a few years.

Only one I agreed with him on. I had a custom panel on my laptop, and the upgrade from 9.10 -> 10.04 and the new theme completely hosed the appearance -- including all of my application launchers retaining the old background.

But one of the big selling points of Linux is that, upon installation, you have everything you need to work.

The less that is installed by default the better, in every case. The big selling point of Linux (to me, anyway) is choice, not kitchen sink.
I think that the white outline with such a light background has the effect of making the text appear blurry and hard to read.
I grew up in Reston. When I started elementry school (1985), the furthest the metro rail went out was Vienna, though they were talking about running a line out along the Dulles corridor.

I visited home last year; the furthest the metro rail went out was Vienna, though they were talking about running a line out along the Dulles corridor, and they have a website[1]. Now that's progress!

1: http://www.dullescorridorrail.com/
> Not All Kids Can Learn The Same

Supporting reference: Your Child's Growing Mind http://books.google.com/books?id=V1wfk_l2Ch4C

This is the classic practical book on brain development in children and adolescents. One of its main themes is that children mature in different areas at different rates, and that teaching them something before they're ready is fruitless, emotionally risky, and actually damages their later ability to reason naturally.
"The North Koreans aren't religious fanatics with some "higher cause" that would motivate them into a protracted insurgency."

No, but the North Korea regime is based upon fanatic nationalism, which isn't really that different.
I guess VMware itself is soon an interesting target to buy in.

Consider the cloud computing business is dominated by Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft and Google, other companies with even more money on the bank need to buy in on a strategic perspective.

Maybe Apple should buy VMware? Or what about HP or Dell?

It's hard to tell and maybe the buyer will split VMWare again into an infrastructure and software/framework part.

For us Ruby developers it's cool if they keep sponsoring the Engine Yard Opensource efforts (JRuby, Rubinius, and so much more) and the professional services.

Personally I thought that Amazon might take over EY and Heroku and put them together into one business. Both are dead without EC2. As Dropbox would be without S3...
It's not just generically "missing" without context, like they might have ducked out to visit some friends - it's "went out for hike scheduled [I assume] for substantially less than three days and did not return." If they need help, they need it quickly.
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> I know I'm old fashion, but I still don't like it when JavaScript and HTML is mixed

Why not? I don't like it when UI logic is needlessly split up and seperated. I like it when things of the same concern are in the same place.

> Frankly the tooling around JavaScript is horribly confusing

I wonder what you think of the tooling and ecosystem for other languages is like? Python, Go, Swift, Rust, C#, Kotlin, C++, etc.
If I believed in crypto, a digital currency controlled by a government seems exactly like the wrong answer.
Does the web app not work on mobile?
Griffin is a good book then (as well as his intro to qm)
> clearly culture screening needs to happen before you hire someone

No, it doesn’t. An actually strong culture at a company is something that that will be adopted by new employees regardless of whether they completely fit preconceived notions or not. Over emphasis on culture fit during the screening process generally leads to mono cultures that only appear to be strong, but are actually quite weak because they are never challenged.
Why should he care about your user experience, for his own personal apps?
Is this timed with the Supreme Court decision? Would we be seeing this if the decision had gone the other way? Obviously they didn’t put all this together since Tuesday, but the timing makes me wonder.
I don't know. 6000 covid unemployed in Finland compared to 13,000 deaths in Sweden does not seem so bad.
> I can block a sender or his domain in a single click from webmail. Couldn't do that on gmail.

Omg, yes, I really miss such a feature.
Speaking from a googler's pov, our interview training explicitly instructs us to recommend hires based on "Culture Add", not "Culture Fit", which is a much more enlightened approach. It's a core component of our overall DEI initiatives, and I respect the fact that our organizational development folks think cultural diversity is such a notable hallmark of strong teams to reinforce the messaging across the board.