jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That link is transparently pushing something, and what it's pushing definitely isn't "the truth."

The only thing, and I repeat: the only thing that absolutely ridiculous, fearmongering, slanderous article even says outright that they do, rather than just blatant speculation, is PDF downloading.

Then, over a weekend (when spikes in usage are less likely to come to the attention of publishers or library technical departments) they accessed 350 publisher websites and made 45,092 PDF requests.

What's the harm in this? There's none! They're literally just requesting PDFs. The article insinuates murder but doesn't even try to substantiate their claims of "Oh maybe they're doing something, just maybe, maybe maybe maybe they're doing something evil, yes indeed, maybe they are!"

They aren't even trying at this point.
droplets are cattle, not pets.
No matter where you decide to draw the line that delineates which part of health insurance is paid by you vs. by employer - the amount of money that employer parted with, the amount of money in your pocket and the amount of money in healthcare budget remain the same.
I use only USD and didn’t even know that happened, so it seems like a bad example.
You do then need to find somewhere to store an offsite backup of your encryption keys. That said, since those change far less often than your backups, options like a safety deposit box are a more realistic place to store keys than the backups themselves.
I am still considering moving but this is a worry. Might just have to start a local Wikileaks Party.
I guess the problem here is there is no way to cache this css injection. Maybe FF devs should do something about it instead of just whining about how an add-on is unable to handle the browser's shortcomings.

We could say the same about jQuery or bootstrap. You could have pages with many iFrames to other pages using the same js or css files. Right now these pages waste memory on the browsers too...
Yes, there are a lack of non-commercial IDEs for Lisp that are purpose-built and give a great "Out of the Box Experience".

However, don't dismiss SLIME due to emacs. It contains all the nice IDE functions - symbol completion, attaching (and editing!) long running processes, function tracing, stack tracing, find references etc.

Access to a REPL in a running system image is an amazing and productive experience.
> When I worked on a student newspaper, it was pretty common for the advertising manager to rush in to the editorial offices and say things like "I've just sold another full-page ad, so we're going to be printing extra pages - do you have any copy to fill them?"

Perhaps at a student paper, though that's considered a pretty huge ethical breach. I can attest that the New York Times definitely does not do that; they take this separation very seriously. Even at their headquarters, as of relatively recently, business and editorial enter through separate elevators, as they are on opposite sides of the building.

There definitely are publications without such strong and heavily enforced senses of editorial ethics, but the New York Times is not one of them.
Separate issues, I think. Octal was used because that's what most everyone used at the time (a holdover from machines like the IBM 70xx and GE600 series which the early Unix folks were used to). Even in V6 & V7 and later, you see much more octal than hex. Unix perms just happened to be 3 groups of 3 bits. Said another way, we'd likely have used octal to represent them even if perms were 2 bits or 4 bits each.
I don't really see a problem here, I think it is a strength to have a big female audience. It's a unique selling point for pinterest.

Personally, I don't find social news/streams etc. very interesting anyway. For regular visits I much prefer sites that group content around certain subjects, not people.
If you are getting a PhD in the US, and you aren't getting paid for it, then you shouldn't be in that program.

Technically my program charges tuition, but everyone gets a paycheck every month, and the department pays itself your tuition fees. I just owe the school $20 a semester for "student fees".
University (degree level) cost != PhD cost

In the UK, in the sciences, a PhD place comes with funding from a research council. An institute gets funding for places, which they award.

For arts subjects (I believe), an application by the student for a particular project is made to a funding body. It is possible, however, to fund yourself if you cannot get funding. I know a very dedicated person who did this, funding with part time work. He's now a lecturer in a good university in the UK.
I deal with that kind of anxiety feedback loop in interviews, especially when I feel like I have no other edge besides my interview performance and resume, i.e., no personal connection. At my current job, they gave me the questions on paper and left me alone to answer them. I did well with that. (I also had a personal connection.) Later, I did a phone interview with Google based on having come up on one of their LinkedIn scans, and it went terrible.

How a person does on a pressure interview certainly tells you something, but it would seem to put a high priority on a particular skill at the expense of others. It probably effectively screens out anxious types. I'm not sure you can generalize what you learn too broadly, though.
I chose Git over Mercurial because Linus made it, not because of some hosting startup that can be pwned by random guy with no previous experience in hacking.
This claim/link is worthless spam and I hope you feel bad about it, and repent by never posting such a waste of bandwidth again.
All out.
I bet a number of porn movies are filmed already when these scanners are used in story :)
What if it just means that IE9 takes 21 more milliseconds to complete a "real" test instead of the "optimized" one?</silly question>
You should do things in this order: Change the site name. Wait for PG's response.
Exactly. Personally I wish that, legally, using the Nuremberg ("just doing my job") Defense would get you a much more severe sentence. If no one were willing to do evil things because "it's their job" most of the biggest atrocities we can think of couldn't have been committed and we would have never heard of many of the most evil people in history. None of them could have accomplished anything all by themselves.
Until they can prove that there is no danger with these machines

It's impossible to prove such a thing, just like it's impossible to prove the sun will rise tomorrow.

The fact is that experts in the field have said,
unambiguously that more research needs to be done on these
things

Yes, and other 'experts' have deemed these machines safe and noted the amount of radiation is far less than involved in frequent flying. That's why I'm referring to the majority opinion. You can always find an 'expert' with a different opinion. There are thousands of people that can call themselves experts on this subject. There are Nobel-prize laureates promoting the strangest parapsychological theories. It doesn't mean a bloody thing to invoke 'some expert'. The dosage facts are crystal clear.
Perhaps the government did avert a short-term disaster. But it's unremarkable that they distributed billions to companies who effectively held taxpayers hostage, threatening "if we go down, you go down with us." There was no way to not give out money without incurring intolerable short-term pain.

I'll write a thank you letter to the government when the future of our nation isn't tied to the bad judgement of a few irresponsible companies.
Large consulting firms deliver low value at high prices. The clients hire them to cover their ass. The partners in the firm rake in huge incomes. You will only learn how to work that system. Not bad if high income, high status are your priorities.

If you want to make the world a better place in some way, then just jump in the deep end now! You will learn more by doing. Keep reading HN, there's a ton of great stuff to learn.
Google Voice is kind of the wrong product for the wrong time. It improves voice telephone calls exactly at a time when that's no longer very interesting.

The only semi-interesting thing would be cheap international calls - but I have Skype for this already.

Voice mail, I don't use. If it was improved like with GV - I'd still not use it. SMS, I have plenty of free texts, never exceed my limit - though I wonder how they get away with making them free, given that carriers make lots of money with that.

One number to rule them all - that would be cool - except if it's controlled by one company which will eventually seek to monetize. Those chefs and massage services cost money... I don't, by the way, see how being available on the phone to anyone at any time, no matter what number they call and no matter where I am - as a feature. More like a bug. I am already easily reachable on my phone, via SMS, via emails. I don't need to be any more available.

Anything that I'm missing? Why would I want GV?
I'm not all that new around here and, yup, sounds pretty off-topic to me.
I prefer the contract-to-hire model, but I say this as an employee. It's hard to know whether I'll like a place, but if the place is open to 3-6 month contracts, I can find out and can make it work. Unfortunately, this isn't the way things seem to work.

Also, the duration of 6 month is short enough that, even if I don't like the place, the incentive is there to put the best foot forward to get the best recommendation possible to go somewhere else.
Scientists are supposed to ask GOOD questions.
Wonderful description and (from what I've heard from people who definitely aren't me) completely spot-on what the experience feels like.
I have no idea. I got interested by their "culture" but didn't dig that far in the "paycheck" realm.
That's a non solution. Giving them nets and fishing nets will only make then sell the fishing nets and using the mosquito nets for their fishing needs.

One solution is to look for another solution. Like a genetically modified mosquito that is inhospitable to malaria and outcompetes regular mosquito.

Other is to try stabilizing the region.
Yeah, rackspace-provided unit.
The video of someone jumping out a window was the main point. While LSD's effects aren't as acute as salvia, they're both psychedelics. A bad trip can get you into a freakout frame of mind.

The situation is that LSD usage has been suppressed and denigrated by authorities, and now we're seeing a backlash against draconian drug restrictions. But it's easy to swing the pendulum too far the other way and downplay the negatives.

Drug usage should be a personal choice, and the only way to make good choices is to be fully informed. So I was trying to make sure everyone is informed about the risks. Specifically, you'll see things which aren't actually there, and if you freak out, you may make some decisions which turn out to be embarrassing at the least. That's where your responsible sitter needs to do their job.

There's nothing wrong with doing LSD. It sucks that there's a social stigma and it's hard to find a responsible sitter. But why go through all the trouble when there are some seriously scary downsides? The goal was simply to remind that there are pitfalls to watch out for.

All of this is just what I wish someone would've told me when I was a teenager. They warn everyone about peer pressure, but you tend to ignore those warnings as a teen. Anything your parents or teachers warn you about is de facto cool. So if they warn against peer pressure, you naturally want to rebel. "And besides, it seems so fun and harmless."

But peer pressure is very powerful. For example, whenever LSD threads pop up on HN, everyone talks about the wonderful experiences they've had, along with some impressive people who did LSD, like Jobs. And people often want to emulate Jobs.

That's a powerful distraction. It makes you forget what should be obvious: this is a personal choice, so make sure you're making the choice for the right reasons. Ignore what other people are doing, ignore the list of people who have done LSD, and weigh the risks appropriately.
Who said you weren't "allowed to voice" your opinion? Only the government (or terrorists) can stop you.

That's very different from social pressure. You have a right to speak, and to not be physically restrained from doing so, but you don't have a right to be free of any social consequences that follow. You're free to talk your way into a job, or out of one.
They are showing off that their laptop unfolds flat, but what is the use case for that?
Never did fullscreen video calls before? I'd love to have 1080p front face webcams.
Feels good enough. I'm not going to take pictures with it, just communicate.
To be honest you're overcomplicating the whole thing by involving Docker in the build process. Assuming you have Rust installed (which is only one `apt-get` or `curl` + `sh` invocation away) and your project does not depend on any external C libraries (except libc) then building a fully-static Linux executable is as simple as those two commands:

rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo build --release --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

There are no hoops to jump through here. I can totally understand using Docker for something which can be a pain to setup a toolchain for or install all of the dependencies for, but for the Rust compiler I see very little reason for running it inside of a container except in a very few very niche cases.
I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say here. Are you saying that many people only poop at home?
Apologies if this is a dumb question. I glanced at the linked document and it is not obvious to me if this is for testing bash or for testing bash scripts.
As someone with little knowledge of the history of this conflict, could you explain your position a little further?
> If you have one hundred billion dollars and find a $100 million opportunity

Why would they always be finding one opportunity. Can't they find 100 $100 million opportunities. Why doesn't "finding opportunists" model scale ?
Billionaire investor’s Pure Alpha Fund down 20% after coronavirus-induced market turmoi
https://www.ft.com/content/6addc002-6666-11ea-800d-da70cff6e...
Are they not storing enormous quantities of people's data in the cloud?
I have yet to come across such an organisation, actually, and I'm a security consultant. The scenario is usually if an employee's systems get hacked, very few "serious organisations" seem to have procedures for rogue employees, at least seen from an EU perspective (perhaps the culture is different in the USA or in poorer parts of the world).
Edit: as pointed out by xearl, I accidentally copied the README from github user https://github.com/rui314 and attributed it incorrectly to jart.

That's what I get for browsing HN on my phone late at night.
Normal people value their social standing and their relationships, bragging rights etc. higher than abstract principles. It's only loners who will resist. Popular people will be on board because they manage their brand and image instinctively. Wannabe popular too.
My problem is not with SolarWind but with the analysis that keeps raising the password as the one and only problem. “If only they had good password hygiene then the company would’ve been totally safe against the Russian intelligence services!”

That is just not how things work.

To go further. The password was on GitHub from 2017 to November 2019. The first test build to see if they could backdoor things was in October 2019. If the password was the problem, why wasn’t SolarWind hacked in 2017 or 18?

The only explanation is that it wasn’t an operation that existed back then. It wasn’t a target for the SVR at that point in time, or they weren’t able to service it with their operational capacity. But regardless, the critical factor here is that the RIS started this operation, not that the password was bad or available on GitHub. (Or whatever the issue is with the password.)

Let’s discuss whether the operational concept (CONOP) of hacking a civilian target to get into the supply chain and hit other targets is acceptable in cyber espionage. It seems to be acceptable because that is a methodology that everyone uses.

My point has not been that you just can’t win against Ho Chi Minh, or that SolarWind was particularly negligent (or not, their security posture was abysmal but also irrelevant)... my point is that we should focus on what actually matters — the CONOP. Because if the US sanctions Russia for this operation then the US is locking itself and it’s allies into a position when this CONOP is off the table. If that is what everyone agrees with, fine. But it’s the real discussion to have. Not what sort of security SolarWind did or (realistically) did not have.
Yes. This article is about how to read a lot of books. In the author’s Youtube channel, he has Tim Ferris talking about speed reading. If the author is holding up that con artist as an exemplar, I will take the risk of skipping this post.
Transcript and video here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668841
It makes it easier to get to a particular clock speed. The geometry, interconnect lengths etc are all tightly controlled, the noise is less because you're not on the main PCB and you have interconnect options that aren't whatever your PCB process is (e.g. commonly gold wires).
Wait for them to ask the why, tell them as succinctly as you can that fb is evil and there are alternatives.
If I was him I would abide by their rule and then promote my new channel that is hosted somewhere safer/distributed/etc.
There is some browser plug-in to redirect you there if that helps.

I don’t know how smile works on the mobile app. Perhaps it doesn’t.
The clown prince of social media.
I hadn't heard about that before. In fairness, she did hit several officers with her car, and was actively attempting to run one over when she was shot.

It's still a shame. I do wonder if there's something else they could have done. I don't know anything about how hard it is to stop a car.
You can easily distribute hardware around the globe for redundancy, it’s harder to have redundant clouds.

Cloud services allow you to easily and cheaply get to reasonable levels of data integrity and security, but suppose you want a higher threshold. If the data is as important as say the specific text of the US Constitution a single cloud service is clearly inadequate. Presumably your data is less important than that, but plenty of stuff is very important and or valuable.
i think the issue is how the video was worded.

"please respect the police"

and then

"you are completely right to be angry, it was stolen. i love you and you're special"

the first comment is def a calming attempt, followed by an immediate call to action.
Compared to provisioned IOPS SSD, it's about the same. Compared to regular "burstable" SSD it's much much better. The gp2 EBS SSD is not actually meant to be used for data storage, something which AWS hasn't done a good job of making clear.
It's actually become less about wrote manipulation of symbols and more about a deeper understanding of actual math concepts.

The latter is, indeed, harder.
You are not comparing like to like. Those are individual experiments; this is a meta-analysis. In fact, the first study you mention was included in the analysis.
I would probably use DO for the password validation example. It's strange to me that people think of DO as complicated; there is a little complexity there, to be sure, but much less than for LOOP. Once you understand that the inits and updates are done in parallel, and you get where the exit test goes, you've got it; there are no more rules to learn.

I understand that LOOP seems simple in simple cases, but that simplicity is evidently deceptive, as attested by the comments I was replying to.
The number on the back is generated by an algorithm with secrets that are not very secret (though apparently "secret enough").
Oh great, another Bitcoin rant about how the common person just doesn't get it, but Bitcoin really is a great technology - they laughed at Galileo!

Maybe, just maybe, Bitcoin actually is a shitty technology and that's why people don't trust it?
I benchmarked borg and restics deduplication on a few datasets and restic was the winner (1-2 years ago). Did you do any comparisons with other deduplicating backup solutions? (Benchmarked the efficiency not the speed. Test data set was a few 100GB)
Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova are a good resource for this sort of demography and epidemiology of aging. [1] In particular they have a lot of material on season of birth effects. [2]

Tangentially related to the seasonal effects is data suggesting that solar cycles also influence longevity, possibly through quite indirect responses to levels of UV exposure in pregnant women. [3] You can see how this might be relevant to season as well, but it is only one of a number of mechanistic theories on the subject.

This sort of thing ties back in to application of reliability theory to aging [4], wherein to make the models fit the observed data individuals have to be born with a preexisting non-zero damage load.

[1]: http://longevity-science.org/

[2]: http://longevity-science.org/Season-of-Birth.pdf

[3]: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1801/2014...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory_of_aging_an...
Ignoring the fallacies of distributed computing in web applications is akin to technical debt. You're going to have to pay it eventually, and as the metaphor suggests, it's cheaper to pay it off sooner rather than later.
And note that's the range between "decent" and "cheap" within a specific bracket of varietal and region. Anyone who drinks wine regularly can pick out a high-end Burgundy Pinot from a collection of mid-range California reds.

And here the analysis starts to break down, because if you're looking for the characteristics of a great Burgundy, you probably can't source them from California for $20 a bottle; you can get "cheap" French imports in that price range, but the price gap between "acceptable" and "good" is wider. In short: you're not going to get what you don't pay for.

(I'm using Burgundy as an example only because a restaurant blew my mind with one a couple years ago; someone more wine-literate can substitute better examples --- for instance, the same "much larger gap in price between decent and good" may exist for California Bordeaux-style "Meritage" wines).

And should this surprise anyone? Does anyone here think there's low price/quality correlation in beer?
Good luck building a company around a spell-checker, no matter what level of quality, in a world where most people already have Office.
Simply stating "More comments here..." then showing the additional submissions may have a better response. HN isn't so much a discussion among a few friends (although it feels that way at times) as much as large public park where people come in and out at all different times. The fact that topics repeat (at least some) isn't such a bad thing.
While I wouldn't want to discourage hacking and alternatives, that sounds like duplication of effort to me. What do you plan to do that http://pinboard.in/ isn't doing already?
They may be numbers, but each new number has awesome new features.
I use my To-Do List on my iGoogle homepage to store links (normally short term for later blogging/sharing). Every few weeks I'll go through them and clear them out.