jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry if I wasn't clear, that's what I intended to convey.

In the public sector we mostly consider employment solely based on its benefits because under US law there is only so much bad shit that your employer is allowed to cause you to endure.

Employment with the US Military or associated intelligence services MUST be considered with the stark fact in mind that a core tenant of your employment is signing over your life. Not to die nobly for just causes. Simply to give over your life for nearly any purpose deemed fit by your superiors.

What fool would take that bargain?
Also messed up on my screen.

Would be nice if users could load a background image.

You could extend the idea to other kinds of common form templates.
I can't help but think this blame mentality is the root of a lot of problems with the intended discourse, here.

The issue at hand isn't whether or not Facebook has the power to do this, but rather that the system is intrinsically moronic in that it involves no checks and balances. It is trivial to abuse.

You don't like a company's Facebook fan page, and you can have it removed with a little effort into building an email. You don't actually have to prove anything, just wave your hands.

In essence, you seem to be defending the right of Facebook's public users to disable accounts and pages on Facebook on a whim. Is that correct?
Yup, pretty much spot on, except we have a dishwasher!

The caterer is great about not repeating meals very often (we probably go 2-3 weeks before seeing the same thing twice). Most everything is healthy, there's always a vegetarian option, salads, etc.
I had already read Joel Spolsky's article in the past and it has come to mind several times these days. I agree with Spolsky but this is a different thing: I have to maintain and expand the code we have and I want to steer the website in a new direction.

I also liked Steve Yegge's list of essential features of software systems (thanks for the pointer), of which my legacy system has none.
Don't Sony and friends have Facebook pages? Since they're the ones that insisted that this weapon be built, it would be ironic if it were deployed against them. (not that I'd advocate such an action, mind you)
They have always been fairly transparent in how this happens. The problem is they say they have to put these things through an extensive testing process before release...and then never release it. But hey, here's a new phone you can buy with the latest release!
I don't know enough Scala... "flatten" seems to be equivalent to "join" from Haskell/math - is "flatten" specialized to lists? For that matter, is "map"?
It probably would be a lot more dangerous if cops weren't so risk averse.

There's essentially no penalty for being a cowardly cop. The las Vegas cop who chickened out of confronting the shooter got fired, for instance, but even he was reinstated.
MPEG1 over WebSockets: https://jsmpeg.com/
What happened was that Kenneth Reitz socially-engineered his way into the PyPA to get his tool blessed. The community lashed out (since the tool had obvious shortcomings and a somewhat dubious development process) and recommendations were softened. Eventually the PyPA had to take over pipenv when Reitz had other issues, and they are now forever burdened with what is a bit of a dud.
Which tool was used to convert the logos to ASCII text?
> It's a 5 minute drive or 30 minute bus ride to get to the light rail centre from my location (others are closer, some are farther). Some are content to take a bus, but many others drive. There are some who cycle but it's a tiny percentage.

That's simply not close enough. The station must be within a 10-minute bike ride to disrupt the car-centric commute. Ideally the rail stops must be spaced about 3km apart, then there's a corridor 5km wide that lets everyone inside use their bikes to commute.
Google analytics users have to specifically opt in to share their data with Google.
Bing is a search engine.

– edit: Just for kicks I only now tried all searches I mentioned above and it seems to me like Facebook is already integrating with Bing in some way. I searched for “100g pasta calories” and three Bing results showed up.
Why would I tell that to Google? I use Firefox :).
I misread your question as sci-fi novellas, but I still think you'll enjoy these (Three Worlds and Prime Intellect are both quite long, anyway).

Three Worlds Collide

http://robinhanson.typepad.com/files/three-worlds-collide.pd...

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiall.html

The next few are short stories:

The Last Question

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

The Last Answer

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/

Let's Help Germinate This Seed

http://www.thrivenotes.com/lets-help-germinate-this-seed/

The Egg

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
The article lists several userspace libraries (OpenSSL, SecureRandom) and then says not to use them. I had the same question as weavejester.
This page doesn't load for me, which is a pity.

Why limit the question just to functional programming?

This applies just as much if not more to imperative programming, at least in functional programming you have the option to execute any pure function in parallel on some independent chunk of hardware.

Whether imperative programming can be 'liberated' from the von Neumann bottle-neck is a much harder problem.

In the end both will still have to deal with Amdahl's Law, so even if you could get rid of the 'looking at memory through a keyhole' issue you're going to have to come to terms with not being able to solve your problem faster than the sequential execution of all the non-parallizable chunks.
I considered the `c=='\0'` case bogus anyway, so I was OK with a partial function. (I wouldn't have been for production code, though.)
Very inefficient for commands such as find.
When these articles say "losing millions of users" they mean losing millions of active users, which in the case of Facebook is the sum of all new and returning users over a given time period.

They're not talking about registered users.

Losing notifications hurts both your new user growthand your retention, so you see a reduction in active users. It remains to be seen whether these apps are just settling to a new plateu of activity or if they're actually dying.
But do you know for a fact that searching the apple tree every day until failure, and then traveling elsewhere, is any better and in fact not worse than a combination of randomness and memory?

After all, one of the first things you learn in hunter-prey environments (capture the flag, online fps, etc) is you want to be somewhat unpredictable, whether you are hunter or prey. When you are always in the same place, it decreases your survival chances. Considering wild animals are ALWAYS in a hunter-prey environment, it doesn't seem a stretch that this randomness might benefit them in this fashion.
Please refrain from posting link-bait titles. That's neither the actual title nor the theme of that blog post.
Welcome to delayed-phase sleep (maybe). Here are some of the exciting things you can experience:

- working midnight to morning in dead silence

- sleeping through an overly hot day

- watching sunset, then watching sunrise

- being temporarily timezone-synchronized to friends halfway across the globe

- viewing people's absurdly high energy levels in the morning, while you are already sleepy

- being questioned by police for being outside at 3 AM, on your own property
>Fries aren't cooked in the same oil as the fish fillets and nuggets because of vegetarian concerns.

That seems unlikely, considering that the fries still contain "natural beef flavor."
What a long strange ride it has been for both companies. I remember back early in my career supporting Attachmate 3270 mainframe cards - clearing print queues in Netware 3 print consoles, and marveling at the release of an object registry in Netware 4's NDS.
I think it depends on the attribution. If I see I, but no personal name, it seems weird. If there's a name, and we is used, it should be clear who the other people are.
In a somewhat related note, see also Venti: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/
Drew applied as a single founder but one of the conditions for his acceptance was that he recruits a cofounder, if I recall correctly.
Multitasking shouldn't change much for you on iPad. Single app still takes the screen. If others are restored from disk or just go to foreground when you activate them shouldn't matter much.
Curios about last iPhone update: was it 4.0? Because 4.1+ run OK on iPhone 3G.
You can enable non-AirPrint printers by sharing them through iTunes 10 (PC) or Mac OS X 10.6.5 (Mac).
If you lose your iPhone 3G or 3GS, they don't want you to find it... They want you to buy a new iPhone 4!
Junior devs can absolutely mis-architect a system if you give them enough leeway because they’re described to you as senior developers.
TLDR: Year in review without any mention of genocide [1], election interference [2] or privacy leaks [3].

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/how-facebook-is-complicit-in...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fired-employee-memo...

[3] https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/facebook-admits-thousands-of...
So the incidents described in eg https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellig... (40 thousand breach attempts related to industrial espionage, in a single case in Germany) never happened?
For killing off the legionellas it's sufficent to heat the water tank to 140 once a week. The exact time could of course be chosen according to the currrent energy price.
Wow, that's seriously off topic for a post about build systems, isn't it? :)

The Rust ecosystem does not support "compiler plugins" well (by contrast, this is a first-class concept in Kotlin). What is being actively pursued is "procedural macros," but we're running into the limitations of those - we're moving away from them for deriving lenses, for example.

I'm sure it would also bring up lifetime issues, but, to be fair, those are probably similar to issues for async, and that only took a couple of years or so to land. But people are actively thinking about using generators for UI.

I do think this is one of the open questions. It might be that really first-rate reactivity does require language support in some way. But this feels like like increasing the scope of an already possibly overambitious problem.
No, your scenario suggests you migrated platforms because one stopped being useful and one was more useful, which is just a clear example of network effects, and sensible.

It would be silly if your reason for quitting FB was because you were opposed to them, and then you ran onto IG anyway. Sort of silly when that happens.
I'll try this out, but in XPS's case it is very much a Heisenbug.

For some people it triggers only when a secondary monitor is attached (that's me, usually - right now I don't think it is on, but then again the fans are going so they may be covering it).

For others, it immediately goes away if you switch off the backlight (didn't work for me).

I don't recall if someone has mentioned this in the XPS coil whine bughunt, but I'll give it a go the next time my laptop starts whining. Thanks!
the sum of all positive integers is -1/12, and other such nonsense

Sure sure, but do know that a lot of all that hacky regularization stuff can be made mathematically sound after all --see for instance [1,2].

[1] http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~tp/talks/casimir.pdf#page55

[2] http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin...
I'd agree, same experience.

But see the dependency confusion hack.
> the guys on the factory floor were aware and happy with it. It made their job more convenient too,

Oh, I don't doubt that :).

> the supplier was marketing its solutions as secure

... but I very much doubt the truth of that marketing :).

I think it's still a ticking liability timebomb. At some point some external auditor will discover the backdoor to the plant and heads will roll.
I've used Ruby and rails for close to a decade and have never seen/experienced something like what they're describing, so I doubt this is really that common.
Well presumably under that threat model you'd run your own package cache. But in practice that doesn't really seem to be a thing that happens. Python hasn't had the equivalent of left-pad yet as far as I know.
discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088455
Kayak is silly expensive for me, maybe it’s my origin city.
And the multiple airline for international is just messy
Either I'm not reading this correctly, or this cannot be accurate. As an example, in the UK, Virgin Media has a coverage of 96.98% for speeds greater than 24Mbps. A far cry from Netflix's 3.6 Mbps figure.
I agree, Al Jazeera is worth a watch, DW News (German) and France 24 are also alternate source of what's happening elsewhere - all English language, BBC is another alternative.
I'm not sure one has to be CS major in order to understand Common Lisp. The language has almost no syntax and is multi-paradigm. I bet modern C++ and Rust would be much harder for them compared to CL.
Indeed, back in the early days if you bought a PC it was known you either had to decrapify or do a complete new install.

Problem with a new (legit) install was your key only worked for that specific OEM brand- ie Dell key for dell install disc, then hiding the drivers behind more crapware exe's. Not everyone at that time had multiple OEM install CDs, and I think this right here led to the massive spike in cracked copies between win 98-win xp.

Or everyone using the infamous ms key FCKGW RHQQ2 YXRKT 8TG6W 2B7Q8.

Now here we are facing the same bullshit with cellphones, and their solution is to prevent rooting and bootloader unlocking to remove our only way to combat this shit.

How is this not only still happening 20+ years later, but getting worse?
http://s3.amazonaws.com/pbblogassets/uploads/2014/10/Brainst...
Whether I use Chrome or Firefox individually, the fact that two major browsers already support it is very, very good for the internet as a whole.

It means it is likely to be supported by all the major browsers eventually. It means I can assume the implementation in the other major browsers will be fairly close to what I'm seeing right now. And most importantly, I can confidently recommend to my team that we add <meta name="referrer"> starting today.
>We’ve been asked to use the HGST name and we have honored that request. //

Intriguing - that suggests some sort of advertising deal? Which calls in to question the impartiality of the report.

Who asked them? In what context? Why accede to a third parties interference in the report?

Are Backblaze getting reduced price HGST drives now?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nex-3.c...

You can get the google cache for any url by searching for that url prepended with cache:
Very interesting read. I'm really looking forward to this whole thing being resolved and it actually being revealed who did what and what their intentions were. The prospect of a significant proportion of Playstations being bricked from a malicious firmware update is kinda scary / impressive.
Maybe I've become an Rdio fanboy, but I think it serves all of my needs when compared to the other services. I never really liked Grooveshark because of its incomplete interface. I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem as though there's enough money from a free service to support the artists. I'm also not a fan of cloud storage because I really don't "own" much music, and there's currently not an iPhone app for the Amazon store.

So why do I love Rdio? Well, for $10/month I'm able to stream and locally cache pretty much any song I'm into at the time. They've also done a stellar job at signing indie labels, especially the ones here in NC. It also has my network of friends, so I can see what they're into.

Like I said, I'm really biased but hopefully you'll find some useful info there. :-)
One suggestion: lose the 'the'. Just: 'Deskbook.' It's cleaner.
FF4 is rock solid too on x64, under Linux that is.
Not sure about Chromium though, I have it but hardly use it.
Hi, Tim from Realm here. Absolutely agree with the sentiment :) We have a nice MVCC model underneath and have already built some functionality to ship deltas around so we’ll be working to add sync functionality soon.
I'm a big fan of using long, multi-word phrases for passwords because:

- they're easy to remember

- it's possible to have 'topical' phrases for the particular purpose, this encourages me to use a wider variety of passwords'

- They're good cryptographic seeds

- They're never going to be in your rainbow table

That is why I really hate web sites with rigid password rules (e.g: Yahoo). Why the hell should I have an uppercase char or a numeric if my password is, "if jullian assange is a terrorist then so is my mum".
Simple as that, my friend. Well said.

One time I was watching HGTV with my sister. A couple bought a new house because they wanted a kitchen witha view of the ocean. She was incredulous, but I told her that's the very point of money-doing whatever you want to do.
You'd think that someone within the company's customer support would be allowed to show a little initiative and realise that not writing off extortionate bills for soldiers in Iraq just might be bad publicity...
That's a very cool idea - we'll add support for that as well : ).
It doesn't. The author is simply wholly ignorant of any and all facts. This is ZDnet after all. He also attempts to directly compare Azure to Ubuntu, which is simply a basic category error.

Dear CBS, owner of ZDnet: I can churn out ill-informed garbage too, probably at a higher WPM than this guy, and I am willing to work for 75% of whatever you're paying him. I can be contacted via the URL in my profile. Thanks.
If you care for game centric libraries that use canvas, then only the following are valid choices.

In my personal favorites order with random remarks:

* https://github.com/kesiev/akihabara - arcade game centric
* https://github.com/oberhamsi/gamejs - (my lib) port of PyGame; commonjs
* https://github.com/biilly/doodle-js - scene graph
* https://github.com/batiste/sprite.js - simplistic but fast sprite handling
* https://github.com/fairfieldt/xcjs - coffeescript
* http://easeljs.com/ -
I disagree. He makes two unsupported claims that reek of cargo-culting:

"1. The optimal wake feature reduces daytime grogginess only in the sense that it puts you in a better mood in the morning.
2. Yes it is very unlikely to have adverse effects. You are just waking a little bit earlier at a point where your body feels more inclined to wake up."

Two claims. No data from either published literature (from other studies) or their own data. How do they even know it works? Why should we treat it any differently than claims of magnets improving your sleep? A free pass shouldn't be granted just because they are YC.
I believe this refers to the TCO which includes the up-front purchase cost as well as the operating costs, over the lifetime of the equipment. The up-front costs are already sunk and need to be repaid, hence they have to keep paying the ongoing costs in order to recoup as much as possible of their up-front debt.

Of course sooner or later, due to Moore's law and the way bitcoin works, the operating costs themselves will exceed the value of bitcoins mined. But that is years into the future.
Yes there is an obvious advantage to fuzzyness in writing as it lets the readers make their own path in a story. But not everybody likes that, lots of readers enjoy being taken for a guided tour.
>Clojure has a strong opinion on immutability and functional programming. I'm not sure those Schemes do.

Scheme programmers emphasize the very same things.

>I would do Racket for it's significant community within the larger Scheme ecosystem.

Yeah, Racket would make sense, though I'm personally attached to Guile.
RFS 2: New Paths Through Product Space

Offline catalogues have/are being duplicated again and again online yet the Internet is capable of so much more than paper.
Interesting to note that he starts of with saying he wasn't at Microsoft in 1985 and then talks about a bunch of similarities between Google of now and Microsoft of 1985.
FYI, the videos are generally the video-out of the Keynote presentations with a voiceover. So the HD versions are not particularly worthwhile IMO, and the files are really pretty small. Random ones include video of the stage though, so those are massively larger.
else ?
another invite please, I really want to compare this to aardvark which I've become quite addicted to
I am reading through some comments they marked as "abusive" and I just don't see how its abusive...

http://adaptivesemantics.com/demo
As a UChicago grad, congrats!

Question: what differentiates you guys from another past NVC winner, PrepMe (http://www.prepme.com)?
supporting the fork with updates to the opt outs is good, but the change to the add-on seems gratuitous.

a more user friendly approach would have been to give them the 'downgrade' update, and opened a tab offering the 'enhanced' abine privacy add-on. the update behaviour feels more appropriate for a scammy toolbar, than a useful privacy extension. among their target audience wouldn't this be a turn off?
Whats the point when everyone drives the same hardware?
I was more going for those old late night informercials, Ron Popeil, etc. "But wait, there's more!"
Knowledgeable here and happy to help
The phrasing "While ICE does manage immigration law enforcement" seems to suggest that enforcing immigration law is a bad thing.

Exactly what about managing immigration law is something worth rallying against?
Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but accounts in collections are typically sold at about 4% value. They'd expect to get about 26k back from that debt. Perhaps they felt the good PR was worth that much?
It’s not enough to lose your investment. You should lose your share of the penalty. The idea of limited liability is heinous.
We've found MCreator to be a great way to get into modding Minecraft. It has block programming like Scratch. https://mcreator.net/
My experience is that DDG still isn't as good as Google historically was, but Google itself has actually gotten worse, to the point that they're now about the same.

The main problem seems to be that Google will no longer surface anything that isn't on a major site, so even when you know that the thing you're looking for exists, it can't find it. Obviously this also implies that it's missing a ton of stuff you didn't know existed but would have wanted to see.
You can read about the architecture in their docs:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/gpu_features...

It's a fairly generic TBDR architecture based on it's slowly-replaced PowerVR heritage and it still has fixed function hardware in the core of the architecture.
> Cloud has somehow become a surrogate for competent understanding of basic internetworking? cloud-init cant provide a DNS server? provider DHCP isnt a good enough default?

Exactly. If you can’t deal with basic DNS, that’s a good sign you’re not qualified to manage a bunch of cloud infrastructure.
Is the Houdini Engine useful without having purchased a copy of Houdini?
Due to the subscription model, the UI is getting actively WORSE as well. You have to push new features to justify a subscription, and most of those seem to be taking the form of useless UI clutter and cruft. There hasn't been a truly valuable new feature in PS since around the CS2 days IMO.
I guess keeping different Mu instances in sync, which is a valid point.

However, I still find Mu and Notmuch TUIs quite different.