jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Think we could frack with corn syrup? Inject that carbon back into the ground?
VCs dont care about users. They care about exit, and that usually involves bigger sucker buying you out.
It only seems opaque because the article is so shitty. They bury the actual basis of the sentence in the middle:

> He ultimately signed a plea deal on three lesser charges: transmitting a threat, trying to hide a laptop computer during a raid, and to being "accessory after the fact in the unauthorized access to a protected computer."

The factual stipulation justifies each of these: https://freebarrettbrown.org/files/BB_factualresume.pdf.

1) He didn't just report on the HBGary hack, he emailed the CEO acting as a go-between for Anonymous.

2) His threats in YouTube were not taken out of context. They were directed at a specific person, that person's kids, and mentioned being armed and responding with violence multiple times.

3) He coordinated with his mother to conceal two computers from the FBI during a search pursuant to a valid warrant.

This is not someone who got prosecuted just for reporting on a criminal organization. He got prosecuted for getting involved, then flipping out and threatening agents when he was investigated.
I don't agree that a reduction in growth (recession or depression) is a deflationary spiral. Yes, there was deflation, but it didn't go into an uncontrolled tailspin.

The problem was the old canard of irrational exuberance and excessive bad debt. Which must be cleared by letting bad choices come home and businesses go broke so that resources can be reallocated. The measures to 'fight' it, like confiscating and refining the price of gold, and other measures, most likely prolonged it.
MUDs were ridiculously fun. In college I was starting an LPMud of my own and somehow stumbled into using lex/yacc to alter the room and dialogue descriptions depending on point of view. For instance, a character would leave town to visit a cursed place, and then when they came back to town, they'd find it completely abandoned and threatening. But meanwhile, the other players in the town would experience the character speaking in with bizarrely altered words and speech patterns since the character was possessed. (I did this by taking the Swedish Chef filter and altering it.) But then the university admins found it and deleted it. Argh.

I had a friend whose character figured out how to put on a hockey mask, take out a chainsaw, and then hack off your limbs and give your limbs back to you - this was by coding from within the game, sort of.
No large organisation do auto update so does it matter if say a critical patch is release so their IT department can test that right away and push it?
It so happens that I found zbackup in the list of apt packages just yesterday. It doesn't have network support like attic, so you have to transport the entire repository of data to the backup server in order to make a backup.

In practice that's impractical for anything big. You can use rsync to do the transfer to a local clone of the data on the backup server but then the whole thing still needs to be ingested each time.

It has a rolling checksum splitter just like attic, which is unbelievably effective way to split files into chunks for deduplication. It'll work really well for database dumps, which is something that fixed-size chunking fails at miserably.

A big advantage over bup is that you can remove old backups.

Other backup software worth looking at is rdiff-backup, duplicity, burp, and obnam, all of which are in apt.
In order to release a new version to the appstores, both Google and Apple require a certain minimum version for the app to be compiled against.

Historically, Apple gives you about a year before you have to compile against the latest SDK, and Google gave you a lot longer.

However, recently, both have become more aggressive about requiring new versions to be compiled against the latest SDKs.

Thus you can't do a "proper" release without moving up to the latest SDK.

Compiling against the latest SDK often breaks things, especially for an app which does a lot of things in the background.

This is part of the "cost of staying still" in mobile app development, which is both hard to predict, and can be very expensive.
The best approach I’ve seen is separating State and Views and having some form of property diffing.

struct LightState {
var isLightOn: Bool
}

class LightViewController {

let lightView = UIView()
}

class StateDirector<
LightState,
LightViewController> {

let lightState: LightState

init(state: LightState) {
self.lightState = state
}

func bind(
view: LightViewController
) {

// Every time is turned on changed call this
LightState.add(
listener: self,
for keyPath: \.isTurnedOn,
handle: .method(Self.handleLightChange)
}

func handleLightChange(isOn: Bool) {

view.lightView.backgroundColor = isOn ?
.green : .red
}
}

This allows clear separation of State, View and Changes.

You can then just model your state in your reducer and “simulate your views” inside Unit tests
>So from my, completely egocentric, perspective it would be ideal if companies demand on-site one or two days a week,

Pretty much all the surveys I see suggest that this will be the most common outcome. Maybe roughly 20% fully remote and 20% mostly back in the office. Though doubtless not uniform across companies. (I expect my company will tilt more towards remote given that we were relatively heavily remote pre-pandemic.) Which implies that most will probably remain in the orbit of a larger metro; many of the jobs aren't in the city anyway. And many people will want to stay accessible to a metro for other reasons.

I had about a 45 mile commute most non-travel days at one point for a while. (I did take the train some days.) It was pretty doable 1-2 days per week but wasn't sustainable on a daily basis.
Have you considered Godot? You can use wrappers.
> The internet was no longer a safe place for self expression, which was the whole point of the internet.

He means for himself, certainly not anyone else, apparently.

The entire approach in this article is awful. It just builds up a boogeyman, demonizes it, sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph, a lot of strong words, yet with virtually no substance.

It seems like copypasta written by AI that’s been digesting Facebook.

Not sure why someone would spend effort on dropping a turd like this into the world. I guess his aim is to elevate himself by tearing down something else? Become a source of truth by attacking a source of truth?
> We truly do live in a world of abundant excess in the modern era, and we should appreciate it.

We do, as in you and I, sure. But isn't the point here that those making things like mass-market t-shirt for very low wages are not sharing in that world of excess. At least not in an equitable manner.

Why is it that these people should work for low wages so that you and I can enjoy cheap T-shirts, but I'm not expected to produce websites and computer programs for low wages so that people can enjoy cheap business tools?
I really enjoy his interviewing style and calm voice. It is a conversation rather than a list of prepared questions. I get much more from these than say a techcrunch interview.
more than that as they have to use old tls libs no longer maintained and no longer receive security patches ouch!
FairEmail puts some of it's features in a pro version only. Which is fine, I support developers getting paid to work, but in this case I would rather help crowd fund K9 which can offer these features to anyone - whether they can pay or not.
Good response.

But incorrect, I think. While it is true that "the human story" does endure (c.f. Shakespeare, Beowulf, 1001 nights et al.), there is nearly always a context that affects how the characters behave. Even though both the best and the worst of human behavior may never change, the range of possible actions, and their side-effects and implications, change accordingly to the technological context.

Consider a world where technology allows you travel around the planet in minutes. How does this affect the relationship between place and human activity? When you can have lunch in Paris even in you work in Tokyo, what does that mean? How does it affect the notion of communities, and in turn, child-rearing? [0]

Yes, even with that far-fetched scenario, humans will still be humans. There will be jealousy, love, murder, greed, tenderness etc. etc. But that still leaves plenty of scope for people's actions and choices to differ dramatically, even if they are driven by the same old emotions and allegiances. That's what make sci-fi interesting: what would you do if <X> was possible? what would you do if <Y> was now impossible?

Stross' objections to ST are really along the lines that these questions are meaningless in the sense that the characters' actions are essentially identical to what they would be in a time with totally different technology. Nothing about the sci-fi setting has any real impact on what choices they make. I might not agree with this entirely (transporter beams do open up some possibilities that would otherwise be unavailable), but I think Stross has a point that there's really no sense to sci-fi if it's literally just a retelling of an existing story with the tech doing the tech-tech tech thing.

[0] the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer
You seem to be forgetting the porn industry if filled with women from Western countries. Not to mention the large number of US, Canadian, British and Australisn creators on OnlyFans.
APL should've been much more popular if prestige by intimidation was a major factor.
As a Brit, I feel that the BBC is considered pretty legitimate as a respected news source, despite being old and decidedly non-hip. They normally seem to report impartial facts, which works for me (but seemingly not the likes of Fox/MSNBC).

We also have shows similar to the Daily Show (e.g. Have I got news for you) which come along and take the mickey out of the news as well, just to be on the safe side.
What happens to your flight tickets in this situation? Do the airline give you a ticket to the next flight or do they just think you are too late for the current one and bad luck?
Correct. At present the only solution for pre-4.4 devices is to avoid using WebView to display untrusted content. If you're an app developer using WebView you should make sure it's only displaying trusted content which means either local content or remote content from trusted sites with non-broken SSL. I recommend using Google's recently-released nogotofail toolkit to test for SSL breakage (https://github.com/google/nogotofail).

The ideal fix for this problem is for OEMs to update devices to 4.4.
It's not too hard to figure out. He/she's on Twitter and admits that he/she hasn't been great with the OpSec. :-)
My god man, totally unclear?

I bet you could find five or more recent peer reviewed studies on it working quite well.

You realize most science isn’t double blind, right? I’ll grant you thats it a gold standard for long term drug use but saying “totally unclear it will work” is absurd.

And we still do useful work relying on simple correlations, r values, peer review. We have all that now supporting some of these drugs. In a crisis and last resort that seems like plenty.
"Wow"

They have only been lying about this since the beginning and never stopped. So has Spotify.

Were you also paying for gold-plated HDMI with built-in virus scanner?

I thought people were voluntarily buying in to this bullshit, because they feel the obligation to financially support the content industry. I mean that's what everybody who thinks this is important is going on about all the time. None of them are seriously arguing you actually get a good deal out of it.
Fellow Hammerspoon user here (great tool). Yes, I'd be interested to see how you did this. Please share!
Unlikely. One reason the Great Depression was so bad because there was an environmental catastrophe (the Dust Bowl) which made agriculture very hard at a time when agriculture was still a really, really big deal. The virus does not make normal economic activity particularly hard; we are avoiding economic activity for mostly humanitarian reasons, and we can resume economic activity either when everyone gas been infected anyway (yay pandemics), or when testing and treatment is more readily available.

Another reason the Great Depression got worse than a normal depression was that the Hoover administration unwisely decided to make money and credit less available during the crash. Today's policy response is more about throwing money at people (sometimes just at the politically connected, sometimes fairly). One can and should question many specifics (the response is not super coherent) but at least it is the opposite of fiscal and monetary tightening.

Another reason the Great Depression stayed so very bad for so very long was as a consequence the FDR administration's unprecedented intervention into the economy. I don't mean Social Security, either, I mean things like the National Recovery Administration, which explicitly sought to turn the US into a planned economy, with minimum and maximum prices for everything, run by local politically-connected cartels with their own police powers.

When the NRA was declared unconstitutional, its practices were shifted into other places. A few of the more ridiculous practices led by other agencies are still around. For instance, the Supreme Court only killed the USDA's Raisin Board in 2015 when a raisin farmer objected to them seizing 89,000 tons of raisins (30% of his crop) to give away for free in school lunches. (The USDA of that time was also great at encouraging the big agribusiness factory farming and pushing out what small farmers were still able to operate.)

None of this planned-economy stuff is on the table today — not in the US, not with this administration anyway, and not with the current US senate. There's an outside shot of a fully nationalized health system if Bernie Sanders wins and Democrats take the Senate, and that's the most ambitious plan, and even if we assume the taxes to fund it were quite stultifying indeed, it's unlikely to be as harmful. No one is coming for our raisins.
>I don't know exactly what 'OP' means, but there are other ways to do ML in for example C++.

I think Flux really excels when you're trying to do ML as "differentiable programming" (e.g. model-based reinforcement learning), because it can differentiate so much control flow via Zygote, which hooks into the compiler and differentiates the AST: https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl
I really enjoy using Julia too but I have also been disappointed with how the updates have played out. Just a few weeks ago I rolled back my installation from v1.2 to the LTS version because of silly errors in the plotting package not allowing me to plot.

Otherwise it really is a pleasure to use, and I have found that the LTS install has zero compatibility issues thus far.
Dumb question: infusing someone with antibodies-containing plasma from a recovered patient will help the receiver develop their own antibodies ?
I was wondering, once you've abstracted from the GA bits enough, is there any point of using GA at all? I like GA as well, just wondering what it gives you once you've abstracted it away. Or in other words, are there aspects of GA that cannot be abstracted away like that?
Naturally, there's never been a bigger rent seeker...
what i was getting at is, that i can't really tell where the mixing stops and the kneading starts :-)

"mix roughly" gives me a hint though...
The reason the math doesn't work out is that you're using the wrong math. If my job expected 55 hours/week from me, I'd look for another job. If life balance is really important for you, look for a job that allows you to achieve it.
No, that uses a single process for all tabs.
Initial reactions:

1. If Google did something like this, we'd be hearing from their competitors about privacy implications from products that read your messages.

2. Autocorrect (or SwiftKey for that matter) is already obnoxious enough, not that I would purposely go without. I can only imagine getting spurious ratings injected to my chats being MORE frustrating.
> There is currently very little they can't produce for themselves

You forgot food
I volunteer with a U.S. Scout troop. I see boys that don't know whether or not they can go on an activity/campout because they have to ask their parents if they're free that day/weekend. I try to tell them their old enough (most are teenagers) that they should start deciding for themselves what activities they participate in. Most all of them just seem apathetic.

I'm sure their parents are trying to do what is best for their children, but it doesn't seem to be working.
There was a show called The Net:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)
Will it be as terrible as their job listing service they already have?
also, git stash is your friend. and after you stash, it isn't always 'git pop', but possibly 'git apply'

There are times when I have three (or more) stashes stacked up on any given branch. I know I have reached a cohesive set of changes when I am ready to 'git stash drop' every one.
Japanese media pointed out that TSMC’s plans to set up factories in the United States may be difficult. (Schematic, Reuters)

[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] TSMC announced in May 2020 that it will set up a 5-nanometer factory in Arizona, USA, with an estimated total investment of US$12 billion (approximately NT$337.8 billion), arousing public attention. The current Japanese media pointed out that TSMC’s plan to build a factory in Arizona may be difficult because of the high construction cost and the expansion that was several times the original expected. There are also many issues in the supply chain maintenance to be solved.

Japanese media "Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun" quoted industry related sources, saying that TSMC’s Arizona factory seems to be very hard. It pointed out that although TSMC is currently in the stage of obtaining quotations from industry players, the quotations obtained are likely to be huge compared with Taiwan. It is reported that the construction cost alone is as high as 6 times.

In addition, the local laws and regulations and various controls in the United States are different from those in Taiwan and Japan. TSMC may find it difficult to move the entire supply chain over. In addition, TSMC is also facing problems in the preparation of the supply chain, because for suppliers, the risk of following TSMC to the United States is high. Based on risk considerations, many suppliers are deterred from moving to the United States.

(Google translate —— sorry, didn’t have the bandwidth to translate myself)
>My Sculpt is now a useless piece of plastic.

Have you considered making it wired?
We're probably a programming language revolution away from these kinds of CPUs being practical. Isn't parallelism complicated and practically dangerous in most mainstream languages?

Is there any language where you can just go:

parallel-for:

do-my-stuff

and have the programming language Do The Right Thing with no further hassle? The right thing usually being blocking execution until every parallel do-my-stuff finishes execution, in my experience.

In most programming languages I've seen this is a 20+ line boiler plate full of caveats and risks.
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Well, the first 4 books are some of his best writing, I think... The final 3 suck terribly, and were a great disappointment (to me, of course, maybe some people actually liked them)
Just to provide a different perspective - the page is perfectly UNreadable on my fairly normal 1080p phone with Firefox and if I wasn't browsing HN on my Mac atm I would've closed the article immediately for that sole reason. Yes, I am that petty. I value my time, even my lazy browsing time.

Also, a couple lines of CSS would be enough, no need to load 70 MB of JS.
I don't think capitalism is incompatible with government run services. Some services are so fundamental that everyone needs them and thus demand is very easy to predict. Adding profit incentives to basic needs just adds friction and inefficiency since the transaction is involuntary.

Private industry is really, really good at innovation (e.g. discovering new drugs and treatments) and providing optional goods and services but most people just want a basic level of service and they want a funding structure that does not misalign incentives.

For example, optional basic health insurance doesn't work because poor people will quit the insurance program while they are healthy and then only unhealthy people will stay and bear the full cost. This raises the cost for poor unhealthy people and then they quit insurance and get denied access to care. Finally only the wealthiest people will have health insurance.

Capitalism is just a tool that's used to achieve certain outcomes. It just happens to work more often that it fails. Nothing more, nothing less. If a different tool works just as fine or better then it can be used selectively in areas where it's superior. Blind faith to any tool is stupid.

Communism on the other hand tends to fail by default and because it requires external forces to make it work, it breeds authoritarianism and then everything goes bad.
If you feel poor at 1.5x the local average, imagine how the pople making 1x that or below must feel.

BTW, why do you feel poor if you don't mind me asking?

PS: I'm also a dev in Austria now. You can reach out to me for a post-pandemic coffee if you want, would be cool to meet another dev. My email's in my profile. Cheers!
Remember that hospitalizations take at least 2-3 weeks post infection to occur, and that you don’t see protection from the first dose for at least five days or so.

So you’d expect hospitalizations to lag 18-26 days or so. Also the chart is not saying all those groups had vaccines: those under 60 largely haven’t been. The labels could have been clearer.

It’s just a chart of change in hospitalization by age from a starting date.
Yes, voip apps can also be relaunched in the background.

The focus of this article was location-based apps, but there are also interesting behaviors with voip and audio applications.
Because for most people, marriage and children are the high points of their lives. Even the most successful businesspeople, when they reach the end of their life, rarely lament missed business opportunities, but frequently lament lost time with family.
Since they only had two groups, one of them HAD to come out ahead.

I also noted it listed MEAN score instead of MEDIAN.

This would allow for a small number of people to spike the score. For example, a group of friends, or a study group. I have tutored students from a 60 or 70 to close to 100% in the space of a single math test.

If the divvying up happened to put a few more brainiacs in one group and a few more dullards in another, this could account for the entire swing.

The specifics of dividing up the groups is very important. For example, if one entire classroom got Essay A and another got Essay B, even if there were equal numbers of bodies, it would only take one good study group to account for the discrepancy.