jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's also worth remembering, no one on board the Enterprise was a member of the public, per se. The Federation is a quasi-military organization, and I don't think anyone wouldn't expect the military, or even a defense contractor or high-tech lab, to at least make sure they know where personnel are at all times ... and in that light, the surveillance on the Enterprise seemed almost lax.

In one episode, crew and officers were being transported while they slept to a pocket dimension and having their organs rearranged by sinister aliens. You would think at the very least, that would set off some alarms. But the computer never seems to keep track of people's whereabouts unless someone asks (for drama's sake, obviously, but still) or even that the first officer apparently was missing a kidney they had only twelve hours ago.

I don't remember getting a sense that the computer was actively keeping track on everyone's position, and constantly recording their movements, keystrokes and conversations.
Yeah, what does that mean? You've hacked together a POSIX-ish layer in Javascript? Or you've actually ported one of the many open source Unixen?
High performance, makes me wonder how it deals with the GIL (global interpreter lock).
"whatever it is"

You want your people to face something that you can't even face?
Re "whether this is important in real world scenarios", in the context of high-end audio, there are four types of products:

1. Those that make clearly audible and measurable differences. Speakers, headphones, and upgrading from total rock-bottom near-broken electronics.

2. Those that make measurable differences that probably aren't audible. Various super-low distortion figures on amps and DACs, or going from 320kbps MP3 to FLAC. Almust certainly not detectable by human ears, but instruments can see a real, measurable improvement.

3. Those that make unmeasurable differences that are not audible. These are obviously worthless and snake oil.

4. Those that make unmeasurable differences that are audible. These are either magic (none that I've seen so far), reveal limits to our previous understanding of audio measurement (these probably have existed at some point, but I'm skeptical that any current products qualify), or are actually #3 in disguise.

I think the worst you can say about Schiit is that their stuff falls into #2 -- measurably, but not audibly, an improvement over some other thing -- and since they relentlessly refuse to make official claims about the audible properties of their products, I think that puts them into solid respectability as an audio company. The worst you can accuse them of, really, is unnecessary metaphorical gold-plating.
That and the temptation to ban more and more for an ever widening definition of wrong thought will be impossible to resist. Every time some entity gains this type of control, the use of it always ends up expanding until it reaches a breaking point. After that, things get really messy for everyone involved.
Twitter should let everyone talk freely, but that isn't worth being a party to an attempted insurrection.

Being an absolutist about this means being okay with violence based on those lies, just as we saw in Myanmar.
The 9/11 takeaway is that we should be especially skeptic of making large policy decisions and/or restricting civil liberties after an emotional event, because it's usually an overcorrection that goes unredressed for the next two decades.
I think what really annoys the far right is how the far left seems to get an easy ride.

There's plenty of left-wing conspiracy theories. The current ones seem to be that the Capitol Police were allowing it to happen (not just through incompetence). This is given a huge amount of credence, but I'm willing to bet that it will mostly be proven to be conspiracy thinking and hysteria.

It's actually a bit exhausting.

It's not at all clear that the police are "opening gates" on that one shakey zoom shot (hundreds of people, but it's just one zoom shot that shows it, hmmm). It looks to me like an officer has their hand forced aside as a large number of protesters push the barrier, which looks a bit like they are "opening the gate" (it's not a gate). And they do abandon the post once they're outnumbered and no longer have a barrier, so what? If there's a shot from another angle that makes the police look better, I expect very few people on the left will want to share it.

I don't expect any real thanks for pointing this out. Rather, like hysterical conspiracy theorists, I expect people will then say "Yeah, well ... how about the selfie?" (You mean, the cop who was encouraging criminals to post evidence of their crime?). That's what conspiracy theorists do, they don't stop and critically reassess their position when they're shown that a piece of evidence is weak. They don't realise that they're caught in a bubble where poor evidence is amplified as long as it supports their position, they just assume that the debunker is a bad guy and reach for a new piece of evidence to use as a weapon.
that's not much safer than an e-mail link unfortunately. Ideally, the security of the tool would be comparable to GPG encryption
TL;DR article (and Musk) says the extra battery required to do this is dead weight 99% of the time.

I guess the question is if Tesla stumbled on a feasible battery technology that double energy per weight, would they choose to make an 800mi car that weighs the same, or a 400mi car with half the battery weight?
particularly nasty pathogenic component for that population, yes :).
People were being mummified with tape kind of stuff. They used similar techniques thousands of years ago.
> why is the absolute overwhelming majority of stuff in the universe (and 100% of things outside of special lab settings) made up from 1st generation matter?

The first generation have the lowest mass, and there are interactions between generations. Since physical systems like to explore the local energy space and find the lowest one, it follows that more energetic systems will quickly stabilize to lower energy configurations.

You might rightfully have two follow up questions at this point:

1. Why do the first generation fermions have the lowest mass?

2. Why do physical systems like to find the lowest energy configuration?

I don't believe anyone has the answers to those - so far as we can tell this is just the way the universe is. Maybe some day someone will figure out why.
If this is the case, I would recommend a stronger word than "affiliate". My data is always being sold to marketing affiliates.
I have marked CNNIC root cert untrusted on all of systems I can control. It bothers me sometimes when some providers with "good" reputation uses them, like azure china. I had to manually add the server certificate to trusted list, just to manage my vms. Otherwise, I barely notice the issue.

It looks that even CNNIC certs themselves weren't widely deployed, correct me if I'm wrong, most of Chinese sites who wants to employ TLS doesn't do it right, for example, 12306 has its own root and some sites I use daily has a self-signed CA with random input in all of the fields.
I was more of a Compute! / Compute!s Gazette guy.. But man, does this bring back memories..

Hayes modems. Compuserve! The 80's were so simple. Every computer back then was awesome and it was all about getting your hands on them and just trying stuff. Aka, hacking - before it was 'illegal'.

I'll never be able to impart on my kids what it was like pre-internet. (Btw, it was great!) But, like anything, you can bring these lessons forward and present them with some context that makes sense.

When I was young, this was all positive and all inspiring. I guess that was possible through the 6502. If someone could invent a time machine - what a magical time...
Oops, sorry. Edited to add http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax#Growth_...
GitLab CEO here, thanks for posting this swaroop.
What we had feared for years happens.

In China (mainland), the genuine certificate of google.com/gmail could not be verified from time to time (possibly due to inaccessibility to intermediate CA that signed these certs), adding up to the speculation that a mass surveillance using Man in The Middle attack is drawing near.
Ahh Redhat, the distro which chose to symlink a bunch of binary lib files from Apache into the etc directory.

"Why is grepping /etc taking so long? Binary files in /etc?!? WTF?!?"

Coming from Debian, Redhat seems to make a lot of irk-worthy choices.
Earlier item in this series:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401117
That rock is a form of marital financial insurance policy, should she decide to bail on you for whatever reason.

It's small, portable and relatively fungible.

She definitely knows that, too.

And yes, you could call it a reverse dowry.

Or a spousal hedge.
Good thoughts.

Yes, that happens often with shared hosts.

However, the screenshots I'm hosting don't really get much traffic so it's fine at the moment, unless of course something gets slashdotted then it's a different story :)

Since the screenshot hosting provided is complementary, I don't think it's possible to provide a SLA similar to that of paid hosting in the long run.

Unless of course if customers start telling me that they'd want reliable image hosting, then I'd offer to host their screenshots on a more reliable host (which also means higher costs) like Amazon S3.

An uptime monitoring tool like pingdom can help to alert you if the site's down and so far my dreamhost account happens to be hosted on a pretty reliable server (YMMV on different servers)

I recently launched another project called Storyteller:

http://storyteller.freshlog.com

that I've gotten pretty good feedback from fellow HN readers:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347513

The nature of multiple screenshot hosting is slightly different for Storyteller, since I'm targeting folks who want to create multiple screenshot guides easily for online faqs, guides, documentation (another pain point of mine, Freshlog is more for one off communication) that requires more reliable hosting.

Hence the images are hosted on S3 and I intend to bill monthly for that.

Hope that helps =)
"Yet the fact that that link is providing uncomfortable information contrary to that provided by Jobs has caused it to be annihilated by downvotes"

No, I think it was mostly the irrelevancy that got you downvoted.

"you successfully made the connection between Adobe and Apple."

Umm, what you posted was a link to something about Apple, so yeah, I think I could be justified in believing that was the connection you were trying to make.

"I bet there was never an Adobe Flash related security posting on the front page of HN."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164725
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1105508
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801713
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164725

"Apple is also not free from issues with its platform. Yet these never make it to the front page of HN."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876334
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=684743

"It's pretty rare that any of them show up on the front page of HN."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129882
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=692036
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690592
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872533
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709869
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393009

"the only conclusion one can draw for having a security notice show up on the front page is that there are a lot of Adobe haters out there."

The only conclusion? Really? Some people might be interested because it is an unfixed vulnerability actively being exploited in software that's on 95% of PCs. Just a thought.

"Apple wouldn't provide the necessary APIs"

You're certainly not approaching this from a standpoint of hating Apple, if that's the interpretation you put on the abysmal performance of Flash on OS X for many many years. I should note that Silverlight has always had stellar performance relative to Flash on any Mac I've used them on.

"unwanted counter information"

Or again, complete irrelevancy.
and that's bullcrap

the really important part of html5 at the end of the day is for CONSUMER, not developers.

Here Apple doing exactly what dumb people did when they started the browsers war 10 years ago "this site is best viewed with X",
which later degenerated to "if you don't have browser X, go f*ck off" (you know wars ... people pick a side).

A browser is not here to guarantee an experience, it's here to guarantee you to browse content, and wether this browser support whatever version of HTML, this browser should not be blocked in any arbitrary way because the HTML should gracefully degrade, yeah even with Lynx on a command line.

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abfaq.html

that's what people don't get about HTML5
and the article make a good illustration of it.
Grab has been around since NEXTSTEP. Was it really not in pre-10.4 OSX?
note: Flash required to view this
Taster of the analysis to come:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404347
This is actually pretty cool.

From the article:
Not too bad for a passphrase like “bolt vat frisky fob land hazy rigid,” which is entirely possible for most people to memorize. Compare that to “d07;oj7MgLz’%v,” a random password that contains slightly less entropy than the seven-word Diceware passphrase but is significantly more difficult to memorize.

At one trillion guesses per second — per Edward Snowden’s January 2013 warning — it would take an average of 27 million years to guess this passphrase.
Writing Qt-flavored C++ was a lot of fun last I tried it (some five years ago). And now there's QML. Have you tried writing your entire project in Qt? It may be a smoother experience than you think.
Because US laws have all sorts of rigid, incomplete, flawed, and contradicting provisions around whom is legally allowed to kill whom and under what circumstances.
It was released in 1990, a bit younger, 30 years.

More than enough to be aware of its existence, specially when ISO C first release is from 1989.

Also all ISO Pascal issues were fixed in ISO Modula-2, released in 1978, 42 years ago.
My game has been taking advantage of the GAE free tier for approximately 10 years now, only having to pay a few cents per months when there's a bump in activity. I probably could have avoided those cents by adding a little bit more caching.

I highly recommend it.
In my 30s here but I think I more or less remember. For a year or so I worked as a temporary admin assistant in a few locations, the details on some of those are getting a little fuzzy these days. But if anything I remember the feeling of working there a lot better than what the workplace looked like.
Yeah not sure why this is downvoted. The US has WAYYYY more colleges and Universities, and in many cases there is no filter on admissions for them. If you can pony up 3 letters of recommendation and a cheque, you're in.

Many of these kids shouldn't go to Uni, and end up taking 5+ years to graduate.

In Germany most of these kids would go to a trade school or apprenticeship.
The SLS seems a boondoggle if it's judged as a space exploration program. But the SLS is most likely a weapons production know-how maintenance program. As such, the only objective is to maintain a force of competent rocket engineers at a reasonable price (measured in billions, to be sure). Launching is not an objective, or not an essential one.

Consider this: the US military procures between 100 and 200 Tomahawk missiles per year ([1] p 95). In the last 18 years it has fired in anger about 17 per year. During the 2003 Iraq invasion, it fired 800 in a month only. In a confrontation with a near peer it's likely that bigger missiles will be fired, and a production surge capability is needed. The SLS workforce may be called upon just for such an eventuality.

[1] https://www.secnav.navy.mil/fmc/fmb/Documents/19pres/WPN_Boo...
Guilty, or embarrassed?
So basically some folks just told you how you can be the CEO of InfoClone? How big are these deals, how skilled are the folks and how many people do they have?
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> Getting caught blackmailing a Congressman would be very, very bad for them

Isn't it common knowledge big corporations "buy" congressmen all the time with insanely big "contributions"?

Why wouldn't the NSA do exactly the same thing?
I don't think this is about javascript, any more than Kamp's article was about C, or any other specific language. It's about the culture of speed, and the whole notion that getting something working as fast as possible is the primary virtue to be encouraged. I see this viewpoint engrained in lots of the younger developers I work with today, but I don't think it's their fault, and I don't think it is something whose DNA we can trace back to the dot-com bubble. It's been going on longer than that.

Some of you may be old enough to remember the days when managers attempted to measure our output with KLOC/day metrics. That goes back at least to the early 90's and maybe the late 80's. I believe the reasons for this are more fundamental than these articles hint at.

The problem arises, imo, when you have management in a position of relying totally on people whose work they don't understand at all. They are educated to manage risk, and yet they are paying us large amounts of money to essentially function as a black box, out of which comes something that works and makes them heroes, or doesn't and loses them their jobs, and they have few ways of measuring which way the battle is going.

The response is to try to manage ever more closely, treating the process as one of production: X number of people sitting at their computers working hard will produce Y amount of software. Those are the kinds of processes they are trained to deal with in the management schools. They aren't trained to manage inherently risky processes of creation, rather than production. The word "craftsmanship" as used in the linked article is exactly right, but "craftsmen" don't fit into the modern world of value production and they never have.
>Don't worry about downloading these closed dev tools with piles of transitive dependencies. It's totally ok, we trust the vendor.

At this point I trust armature software developers more than commercial ones.
So roughly one death for every thousand people in Iowa. That's sad, but the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.
He said it multiple times this morning on The Ellipse, before he instructed his supporters to go to the capitol.

He has tweeted today his displeasure at Mike Pence if he doesn't reject the Electoral College votes.

And he has tweeted moments ago, yet again, that he won in a landslide and that he and his supporters have had the election win viciously stripped away from them.

Whether it's delusional or some malicious intent to incite violence, I think doesn't even matter. He should be impeached, removed from office, and banned from ever holding office again. The priority must be, counting the state certified Electoral College votes, and certifying the result. Following that, Congress could impeach and remove Trump from office in half a day, if they want. Their normal speed is glacial, but that's institutional momentum. They can move very quickly, if they want to, they just usually don't want to.
You contradict yourself when you identify a problem then ask that problem to kindly solve itself.
https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/currently-hospitalized...

hospitalization by state:

342 per million FL

569 per million CA

444 per million PA

442 per million NY

Can anyone point me to similar chart for death per million, by state, over time?
Work places remain open. People continue not to wear masks with impunity. Closing schools will help a bit. But I doubt it will reverse the spread, it wasn't enough for the old covid 19, let alone the new strain.
>So you're proposing a natural selection strategy that would

I didn't say that, I listed multiple measure that can be taken.

What I'm saying is, if for some reason the government refuse/unable to do those, at the minimum no lockdown is better.

>on the evidence so far, probably kill around 1 million people

1 million out of how many ? How many million people who going to suffer from lockdown?

>that we don't fully understand yet

Right, its not fully understood yet, so its not a justification to implement a measure that is harmful for million of people such as lockdown.

>or example by evolving a mutation that severely affects other demographics in the same way that the current known variations of the virus affect elderly or otherwise vulnerable groups and/or that can withstand the treatments and vaccines we have available so far

New mutation generally evolve into something that spread more easily but less deadly.

>And it's also making the obviously false assumption that the NHS has the resources to offer the best possible care to everyone

I never made assumption that the NHS has the resources to offer the best possible care to everyone.

>I don't think most people would agree that such a strategy is either ethical or likely to be more effective at controlling the virus than the lockdown measures, under the present circumstances.

I acknowledge that everybody has their own preference, if you like to live in the place with lockdown then to each their own. I'm just trying my best to everybody people I know. If I can choose I would much much prefer to live where the government handling this without lockdown. I ready to move to place with less lockdown, if the government in my place decided to increase the lockdown.

That being said I think each of us lives in their own preferable place is probably only thing that going to work for both of us.
ICU capacity is ALWAYS at or close to 100% in Canada's most populated province in ALL YEARS. Many of the beds have people in them for months.
There's a link in a sibling comment pointing to data from 2019 January where 151 out of 1033 adult critical care beds in London were free (14.6%), and in January 2020 146 out of 1034 were free
"Our educational institutions used to be a bastion of free speech where tolerance for disagreement was treasured."

Do you have a specific citation for that? There was Kent State. Before that they were racially and earlier, sexually, ethnically, and religiously, segregated.

What specific time period are you thinking of?
Renting a car is not expensive in most of Europe. It's absolutely normal and affordable here in NL to rent a van/trailer when you have a large haul.
I echo this. While 2.0 initially made me happy building some models from scratch, as soon as I needed to write my own optimizers, losses, class weights, etc. it became a nightmare. Also not to mention the data pipeline for large imagesets required you to serialize the data first into tfrecords. Please just stream AND shuffle images in a folder tensorflow.
Just create a private list on Twitter, put all people you follow in there. Bam, done. Reverse-chronological order, no ads.
Also: try out Clojure (... the programming language created by Rich Hickey based on this principle).