jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I expected shennigans to occur with Google Photos over time, which is why I've been using Dropbox to backup phone photos now. Dropbox immediately syncs to my hard drives at original quality. And while I'm at it, I still backup with Google Photos at a lower quality. Not as a failsafe, but just for that fast ML searching of subjects like, "dog" or whatever. And if I ever lose that search functionality, no big loss.

I would have gladly given Google my money over Dropbox, but Google has become an untrustworthy and unreliable brand in my eyes recently. Plus I still have control over my Dropbox data via hard drive syncing.

Oh and Picasa for local face tagging is still an option! That gem of a software still works. Although in all honesty, I haven't run it in a while so my tag database is extremely out of date.
> This article has been cross-posted on Ars Technica. - The infil site

> Ricky "Infil" Pusch is a long-time fighting game fan and content creator. He wrote The Complete Killer Instinct Guide, an interactive and comprehensive website for learning about Killer Instinct. This article was originally published there. - ArsTechnica

Both sites clearly reference where the original source came from. Nothing has been stolen.
My Mac is old. I just want to be able to move the file pane to the right LOL. Looking forward to v4 though!
Well, what regulates the amount of available spots in professional football? Why can't people create additional teams and play exciting matches that draw paying audiences? Is the bottleneck that spectator attention is already maxed out?

But yes, the analogy is faulty if the bottleneck in football is the availability of the spots, because in programming the bottleneck is rather the availability of good enough new hires. We may be around the point where CS programmes have grown so much over the years that the marginal additional student may not have that good potential any more (out of a combination of motivation and talent). But a potential reserve talent to tap into could be women, but attracting them to programming has been an uphill battle and is a can-of-worms topic why.
The people who are doing the work in programming are not assertive on average and are prone to be taken advantage of.

This is not a criticism; in a way you need to isolate yourself from realities of human politics to be successful in the field.

So in the last decade many socially dominant people who smelled the money have invaded open source. They have realized that you can make a living by posing as team leads and not doing much.

The real workers have let them in, have given them power and are now facing the consequences (ha, finally we can use that term, too!).

Other professions like law and medicine aren't remotely as naive. They are acutely aware of power struggles, protecting their professions and won't let this happen.
The really frustrating thing is that the gap hasn't only been growing. Firefox was far slower than Chrome for a long time, and over the past couple of years pulled off a pretty impressive catch-up, which is why I and others finally went back. Now Mozilla's laid off most of the team that executed that very catch-up with Servo. Either my anecdotal experience of the speed bringing people back is an overestimation, or Mozilla's management really are as inept as everyone seems to think.
+1. It is absurd to simplify intellectual energy to a measurable quantity as if our brains are batteries hooked up to one giant electric motor. Brilliance is a mysterious thing, but we know it comes from unexpected places. An intellectual jungle of games, arts, and culture seems more fertile than the homogenous, sterile ivory tower.
Well, it was my own company with 2 other folks. There was no reasonable alternative in 2001, really.
Does anyone know of a quality, comprehensive book that enumerates all the things to watch out for and problems to proactively prevent when operating Postgres at scale?
Why would you want to remove it though? Every OS needs a default browser. If nothing, you need it to download Chrome!
I think it does, but I also think it sharpens it.

I have been helping one kid with a programming class and one thing I've noticed is that they often lack a certain approach to problem solving that I personally developed by playing video games. They also played video games but far fewer and definitely less of the harder problem solving ones. It is entirely possible I liked the games because I already had the talent and the games didn't build the talent, but until we get a definite study on the correlation and causation my bet is going to be on them sharpening the skill.

After a certain point it does begin to sap. This is the nature of all entertainment. A few good books can enlighten a mind but too many books can result in someone who reads but never does anything with the knowledge. Even one doing math for fun can end up spending all their time solving math puzzles that are created just to be math puzzles and which don't tie into any greater discoveries.

I think this is fine. First, the system is far too hard to control so I don't see any way to improve it that wouldn't wreck the system. Maybe minor suggestions to diversify entertainment a bit and to be sure to share your experiences with a like minded community, but these are small tweaks and not massive overhauls.

I also don't think we can predict when something will produce the best results. Even if 9 of every 10 kids who get heavily drawn into math problem solving end up just wasting time solving math problems that exist just for the sake of math problems, that last 1 might get into applying the problem solving to novel fields of math that expand the total knowledge of humanity. If one is too heavy handed in optimizing that they'll risk destroying the ability for that 1 who goes further. I doubt we can be sure that trade off is worth while.
"The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century [...]"

Please excuse my quoting from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

So using 18th century people to illustrate that hereditary factors were not dominant pre-IR is a bit strange.
If you want to teach someone a lesson, you don't start out by telling them they are stupid.

I think it depends on the person. Let's consider two scenarios.

1. "Never fill in your details on suspicious sites."

2. "You recently filled in your details on xyz.com. Now I know that your credit card number is 1234."

In response to (1) I would nod, but would it register deep enough? Not so sure. Now if someone actually shows me that he duped me into giving out sensitive details, I would be way more impressed and remember the lesson for longer.
They are one of the best immigration lawyer teams that I have dealt with. They are the only firm where every member of the team seems to understand all the fine nuances of immigration law and how it can be used to your benefit. Having a bad or just an OK lawyer is expensive in the long run when it comes to immigration.
$1,400/month for a family of 4?! Lucky you! The cost greatly depends on the oldest person in the family, not on the health status. I'm 46 and the premiums are nearly $3,000/mo for my family, but, glory to God, we almost never have major issues, but I'm sure there are young people who drain the insurance more with risky lifestyles and unhealthy behaviors. How is this fair? Also, isn't age a protected class to penalize based on it in pricing? Meanwhile, I can't recall seeing a senior citizen discount in many years. I know long ago they removed "free entry" and other benefits for which only women were eligible for. I was finally offered a high deductible plan with HSA so I don't lose all the money when I don't use it.
A quick search gave me that as an average for a family of 4 in California. I agree with you and was trying to give a conservative number.
And i imagine there were lots of folks involved in all phases of doing this at Bostons Dynamics that consciously or unconsciously thought of her as just another hired person to promote their technical brilliance.
You think people would comply?

People from out of county are already violating Covid travel restrictions.
That may have been just what they needed to detain him. I suspect they can add other more severe charges once they have more evidence?
Neither oil field worker nor steel factory worker will work at the exact place where he is having bedroom. Both have to travel further away regardless of how human-scale their houses/flats are in.

Once they are home, they both benefit from shops, restaurants, gyms, green spaces and what not within walking distance. Their kids benefit from the same. They themselves benefit from not having to drive their kids everywhere.
Were you doing research sponsored by CIA by any chance back then? Did NSA jointly with CIA (Office of Research and Devepment & Community Management Staff) provide seed capital for your company under MDDS program?

Read up on Highlands Forum, DLI, OSD, ONA, CMS, ORD, MDDS. And no, its not a conspiracy.
Not an open letter - but a manuscript of 30ish studies - I assumed there were probably ~3 doctors on each study.
> Usually it's the equivalent of a smash-and-grab job; break in, download everything of value within minutes

Is that still the case? I was under the impression that these days, account/identity access has black market value. People sell each other lists of accesses. That means there is a certain -- maybe even significant -- amount of time between when somebody has cracked your password and when somebody will make use of that access.
I was thinking, one could use switch.ch as a DNS. They claim to be based in Zurich, but seem to have an emphasis on educational sites.
The hijacked DNS has not propagated everywhere yet. Mine are still working. If anyone has last minute business to do on these sites, such as cashing out before the FBI steals your money, add these to your hosts file:

$ host pokerstars.com

pokerstars.com has address 77.87.179.116

pokerstars.com mail is handled by 20 mx20.pokerstars.com.

$ host absolutepoker.com

absolutepoker.com has address 66.212.244.175

absolutepoker.com mail is handled by 10 mail.absolutepoker.com.

absolutepoker.com mail is handled by 5 mx1.absolutepoker.com.

absolutepoker.com mail is handled by 5 mx2.absolutepoker.com.

$ host fulltiltpoker.com

fulltiltpoker.com has address 91.211.98.20

fulltiltpoker.com mail is handled by 200 mit-mx00.fulltiltpoker.com.

fulltiltpoker.com mail is handled by 100 mx00.fulltiltpoker.com.

$ host ultimatebet.com

ultimatebet.com has address 66.212.244.148

ultimatebet.com mail is handled by 100 mailb.ultimatebet.com.

ultimatebet.com mail is handled by 200 mailc.ultimatebet.com.

ultimatebet.com mail is handled by 10 mail.ultimatebet.com.

$ host ub.com

ub.com has address 66.212.231.205
> A good feature that leads to a bad situation is a bad feature.

Pretty much every technological advancement ever has made it easier for people to get themselves into bad situations (and some people have indeed gotten themselves into bad situations). Cars enable you to move very fast, which enables you to crash and die, and many people have done just that. Clearly, cars have "led" to car accidents, which are surely "bad situations". But would you recommend eliminating or crippling cars for this reason? I don't think so. The solution is for the people who use these tools to become mindful of these dangers, not to get rid of the tools.

... Perhaps you could find some way to make the tools safer without crippling them, and, sure, that would be nice. But what you said was that it was a "bad feature", implying that in the absence of any creative alternative ideas (to remake the feature so that the risks are mitigated while the functionality is retained), it should be thrown out. And in that case, my rebuttal stands.
Indeed. I'm quite disgusted by the principle of the thing. Something about being deprived of property without due process of law.

My primary domain is a .net. I'm loathe to part with it since the TLD is a useful descriptor in this case, but now I'm very seriously considering registering and switching over to the .eu equivalent, which is only a couple bucks more per year.
For example, after some research I think it greatly contributes to MS's anti-trust crimes.
Unless you are also verifying that the signed commits are from particular users, and don't allow any tooling to create unsigned commits, that might work, but many of the issues we found weren't even about the code itself.
I heard that the main issue with decompressed assets was audio, not video (granted, video is image and audio so one is a strict superset of the other). One game - Titanfall or a CoD game, IIRC - had something like 20 GB of uncompressed audio in a 35GB installation footprint. Rationale was saving CPU cycles.

Meanwhile here I am with a sound card in my desktop PC for no real reason anymore :\
As someone suggested in a different comment: handshake with one certificate, then send a new ClientHello that contains the desired hostname and "re-handshake" with the real cert?
I keep one always plugged into my computer (like a Nano model), and one on my keychain. You don't usually need more than that as there are ideally other ways to recover your account (printed recovery keys etc).

If your laptop gets stolen with key inserted, and you didn't have time to invalidate the key, one still has to access your local account, and find out saved login information in order to leverage that key, and that's until you notice that your computer's stolen and invalidated your key everywhere. Otherwise, it's just another random key for the thief.

I don't find that part of my threat model, and I've got my laptop stolen before with key plugged in.
Isn't that because CNAMES may not be combined with other records and SOA and NS are required on whatever.com?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2181
Telegram is not better than WhatsApp in the very important aspect that it is not end-to-end encrypted. You can balance up the risks of facebook inserting malicious code into their client against the risks of your data being accessable at rest on Telegram's servers, but it's not at all clear Telegram is in a better spot there.
The worst time to buy or sell anything is a when everyone else is rushing to do the same...
I wish I had $8M dollars and a bunch of really dedicated people to build a company to >$1M ARR and then get rid of all of them. At that price you are looking at a company at roughly $X0M value already.

Most companies end up having to work tirelessly to grow because they have baggage of money that needs return. If you can get rid of that baggage it's relatively easy to just slow down and reap the rewards. FANG could all probably afford to pay 10x what you do for 1 hour of work a month if they stopped trying to grow.

If this post is saying "Hey I got this $X0M company for free come hang out with me and I'll give you some of the insane money we are making. You don't even need to work much, the people before you already did most of work but I'm not giving them anything. By writing stuff like this we will get people to buy our coolaid and more of our content, by telling them they can also get the same life. More money for us." Then that's amazing and more power to you. It really is a pretty good deal for the 25 people at gumroad.

Genuinely curious if gumroad was started again from scratch with no investment if it could get to any kind of scale with the kind of work and pay structure referred to in the post.
Not all companies desire to be acquired, even when offered. Not all deals go through, even when desired. We often hear of those that do get acquired, more rarely those that don't - Facebook has notably failed making attempts. Those companies are still going strong. Facebook didn't kill them.
I don't know how you can realistically expect startups to invest in employee training.
>That's just price control, which always works great in market systems.

It's not a price control. Price controls are like minimum wage laws which regulate the price at which market participants can sell goods and services, and are generally broken because they lead to a shortage or surplus (depending on whether the price control is set higher or lower than the would-be market price).

This is effectively a tax. Taxes are an extremely effective method of behavior modification. Their primary economic consequence is to discourage the taxed activity, which is undesirable in the case of e.g. employment, but in this case is exactly the desired outcome.

>If you did that, squatters would just lease out domains instead of selling.

Are you serious? Nobody is going to lease a domain name, because the minute the lease expires after you've put all your marketing efforts into telling everyone what "your" domain name is and having them use it, the squatter could just raise the price by a factor of a thousand and have you by the short hairs. And a lease that allows perpetual renewals should be considered a constructive sale for the purposes of the fee and require immediate payment.

>Or you know, take this gift of bitcoin in thanks for free transfer to me.

That would be fraud and could be subjected to criminal penalties. Also, the fee would apply to the seller, so the non-repeat purchasers just buy the domain name pursuant to whatever covert payment method the seller is using and then report the squatter to the authorities which costs the squatter the $20,000 plus penalties and gives the buyer the satisfaction of sticking it to the jerks who were squatting on the domain they wanted.
Sorry that's a type-o on my part. 3TB of storage.
I've been following all the COVID related studies (via /r/COVID19, which is one of very few Reddit subs I've found worthwhile) and there is an incredible abundance of garbage studies about COVID19 in general. Tiny sample sizes and ridiculous methodologies run wild. It's unfortunate because some of them get reported on by lazy media and muddy the waters on several things that might reduce the diseases severity.

I hope some bored science writer someday makes a book compiling and critiquing some of the ridiculous "studies" that got written during the pandemic.

I appreciated the linked article's subtle shade-throwing:

> As for Vitamin D administration to hospitalized COVID-19 patients reducing ICU admission, the best one can say about the Córdoba study is that nothing can be learned from it.
The fair solution is surely that the rich should consume less, not the poor.
> cases are skyrocketing

And comments like yours are one of the reasons.

The study shows that masks do little to protect the wearer - which is kind of obvious as it’s not going to filter incoming air very efficiently, that has never been the purpose of surgical masks. They don’t protect against airborne pathogens and every medical professional knows it.

You need a crítica mass for masks to start reducing transmission rates. Mask use is nowhere near what it should have been, so you cannot take any conclusions out of that.
Trump is already impeached - which is not removal, but a judgement at the impeachment trial that he is not fit for president. Unfortunately, the senate did not act on the impeachment judgement and thus did not get removed from office.
I don't think there's a "proper framework" for that because it's not valid reasoning.

This viewpoint disregards the flux of the brain in favor of a vague, static "psyche". The brain is plastic, vulnerable, and swimming in a hormonal soup that it's also responsible for regulating. It can fall into feedback loops because of this.

E.g.: stress damages the hippocampus, the hippocampus loses some capacity to mitigate stress, leading to more stress that damages the hippocampus further.

In that hippocampus example, we know that SSRI drugs can reverse this damage. On the other hand, they can also lead some patients to experience increased thoughts of suicide. An anxious/depressed mind can become a suicidal mind or a healthy mind in reaction to the same stimulus. Things can happen to healthy minds that send it to those corners as well. We can't just assume that someone who died of suicide was on a fixed track to get there or that their advice from a healthy mind lead to an unhealthy mind.
Contractors can buy the public option are actively discouraged from doing so because they are on the hook for both the employer and employee contribution. Also ofc there is the "if you have ever been privatly insured you cannot simply go back to public". But for contractors with 2-3 kids public might still be cheaper than private.
I'm not sure the big bang is always testable. The question I'd ask myself is, "How satisfied are we with the velocity of our business, given my goals?" The goals here are important. One person's goals might be around lifestyle, low-effort income, etc. Another person's goals might be around big $ liquidity or getting enough traction/growth to attract angel funding.

If growth/success is not measuring up to one's goals, you have two choices. You can A/B test your way up or you can do something dramatic (hire a salesguy, pivot your product or positioning, etc). I think a lot of startups with big dreams and crappy growth dive in with A/B tests when they should be figuring out how to change how people talk/think about their product(s).

You're right about being expensive. The scarcest fuel for most teams is optimism and confidence. One or two failed pivots can be devastating.
> First, what max line width do you choose?

The whole point of an opinionated formatter is to have opinions about these sorts of things.

> Second, where do you break a line if it's too long?

It depends on the context. Yeah, writing the algorithm to make these decisions is a little complex, but it's also well-understood.

> doesn't get in your way more than necessary

What is "necessary"? It seems like you're trying to say "it makes decisions on the things I think it should make decisions on" which is fine, but it's not like choosing between `struct {` and `struct{` is objectively more critical than line wrapping.
Yeah, but as a beginner, you don't need to see the complexity.

Mind you, I'm not comparing HTML to other languages for learning, I'm comparing it to QBasic as a "first try at programming" language. The basics had their own problems.
And frankly, were it not for differences in talents and interests, the world really would be a boring place. I've said it elsewhere, but it is the unique combination of our talents that gives us the opportunity to contribute something truly unique (and potentially valuable) to the world. I would argue that Derek contributes more value to the world through fantastic writing and the ability to capture truth from the world around him and illustrate it through word than his music ever did. But that's just my perception, so maybe my reality is different than his.
Yeah, another one would be nice, I'm planning on taking a vacation in Japan in late July, but I won't be able to make it down there this time.
Usually I would agree about quitting the job and just going for it. Like you said, time is finite. But, one does have to consider the details of one's situation.

what exactly is the day job buying you?

In the OP's case, US citizenship, which means a lifetime of opportunity to build businesses in a free country which he/she likes living in. Two years of steady income, while still working on your business on the side, sounds like a good bargain.

Of course, your situation must be different, so you would have to decide accordingly.
Lacking one eye really doesn't matter that much. You move your head a bit, you instantly know where everything is in 3D.
What's amusing is not only knowing the words, but being able to make a good guess about their most frequent contexts. I bet "Comity" is almost always used in a story about the U.S. Senate, for example.
Fortunately there is a difference between "cultural ignorance" and "spoils my enjoyment of the game".

It's not a very "nice" sound (on TV anyway)
We can even pose a question into the ether without even knowing which friend will know the answer and respond.

And how many of them Google it for you? ;)
Is this an April fools? These are not "3D" pictures. There's nothing 'amazing' here IMHO.