jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps part of that is music changed a lot from the 1950's to 1980, but 1980's music hasn't changed that much since.

It could also be that, before the internet, music from earlier times simply wasn't that available. It wasn't played on the radio, and you had to work fairly hard to find an older album to buy.

These days, older music is just a click away, though I find that pre-CD music is still often hard to find.
That's odd. I actually unselected some lists and white-listed some sites and the problem persisted. I disabled the extension and all sites started working as usual again. I am running Chrome 39 on Windows. I'll give it another try now - will uninstall / reinstall to make sure the default lists are being used.
I don't follow. These hipster JS frameworks have to work well on phones and various inconsistent browsers. Targeting the desktop and one JS environment seems feasible.
> If that were the case, and amazon was sufficiently interested, they'd do the trivial/intelligent thing and simply prioritize essentials for shipping over other things

This is exactly what Amazon is doing, as mentioned in the linked article. Hence why the gp's musical instrument is taking a month to arrive.
I think a good lower bound for the number of COVID19-related deaths in the USA without proper measures is somewhere in the millions, not hundreds of thousands. And that includes a very large blow to our medical system.

This is one of those cases where the disease is far worse than the cure.
Hasn't Google Now (and now Assistant) always required a button/icon press before the mic turned on? And they only understand "OK Google" until after you say "OK Google?"
A few years back Amazon.com got hit with a pretty massive DDoS attack. Because of their reliance upon AWS and the massive resources available through their cloud, they simply out-scaled the attack.

Now Amazon is getting he with a new kind of DDoS that requires them to scale--this time from legit customers wanting their orders delivered in a reasonable amount of time. Pretty crazy to watch all the supply chain disruption happening at the moment.
True, I used zoom about a month ago and it's still running a process in the background.
So I was invited to speak at Goodwood FoS in 2018 and I ended up using a simulator that I could actually sorta almost drive by feel - it had a specific rail to let it rotate around the nose (to simulate the tail getting out) and bladders in the straps (to simulate braking.) But normally, when I try tracks I am used to, I go off in places that I normally have zero trouble with.

(What did you race?)
Or Brian Josephson
I brought up the same question and here is what the response was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491863
Just because the rule exists doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Adding oddities to a language that could be small and simple creates these ongoing controversies. What are PHP developers _still_ talking about? SQL injection. What are Rails developers _still_ talking about? How to use REST properly. What are JavaScript developers _still_ talking about? Semicolon's or not.

This all points to poor design decisions in my mind. And we're at a loss to change the language unless we do something like CoffeeScript.
The fourth link on that page reinforces the 'write-only' image of Perl: http://www.samuelkaufman.com/blog/2011/04/29/lazy-sprintf-in...
I don't understand anything about the stock market, but giving someone a large portion of stock with the agreement that it can never be sold seems like the wrong thing to do when people need to spend more to bring us out of a recession.
How is this different from xulrunner? In reading the description it sounds like a way to make a webapp behave like a desktop app but it's a little unclear.
Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point.

Completely agree with this, but I would two more factors -- a relevant selection from the outset, and the reliability and legitimacy of iTMS.
> Do you mean they should have pre-encrypted the CC number before encrypting it again in the standard SSL transaction? Would that have helped? Because if the PS3 knows how to encrypt and you own the server, decrypting is as trivial as just looking at the plain text

You are wrong; They could have done that. That's the whole premise of public key cryptography (google/wikipedia if you are not familiar). It's possible, (and easy) for the client to encrypt something that a client cannot in general decrypt, nor can anyone else without the decryption key. And it is actually a good idea to not put the decryption key on the server you talk to - only on a server that actually talks to the payment gateway.

> And how would you use that hashed CC number on the server? Unhashing (impossible)? Send the hash to the CC company (good luck)?

Many credit card processors let you do something similar - i.e. you register the CC details once, get a "reference id", and then use that reference id to charge. I'm sure Sony could have used one of them if they cared.

> For people who don't own the server and are listening in SSL is enough and for people with access to the server neither SSL nor any other encryption is enough.

That is true. However, that is just one facet that needs defense, and one that has had almost no attacks in the last 5 years -- because SSL (if practiced correctly, which it rarely is) solves that problem, and attacking the server is usually easier than listening on the pipes.

> They have done a lot of things wrongly, but this IMHO is not one of them.

Everything they have done about this is wrong. And the fact you think they didn't, implies that you shouldn't be working on systems that have any sensitive information in them. I sincerely hope you don't, for the sake of your users.
Yea, the error author was seeing is a beginner one, because he was importing local_settings in settings, and settings in local_settings. Most circular import issues are a little more interesting.
...if you think a chainsaw is expensive and/or not necessary I'm sure you're going to have a great time...

I'm visualizing OP trying to fell a tree using one of those survivalist wire saws. "Should be done some time next week!"
Have you seen their lockdown? their lockdown laughs at Europes lockdown.
I had to explain that we basically don't work at all on Friday afternoons because we're too busy drinking,

This also sounds like a major bummer -- aside from the fact that does smacks (way too heavily) of bro culture, it's incredibly off-putting to anyone who doesn't drink (or who does, but thinks drinking in the office -- or drinking heavily in the afternoon on any kind of a regular basis -- is basically pretty stupid).
This is really cool, but I'm kind of wondering when Microsoft will cancel the project. Because, you know, that's what they do.
Which creates a two-tier society. Those with antibodies get to go about their business, go out to cafes and pubs, get hired for jobs which antibodyless people can't do.

Those who don't have the antibodies are stuck under house arrest, so decide "ahh screw it, I'm going to go and get infected".
It can imply junior engineers/interns doing the work as well hence cheap and slow.
Had to address the unclean bathroom comment. My company is a large insurance provider. Billions of dollars under management so money really isn't a big deal. You know how bad our cleaning us?

They have one guy per floor responsible for cleaning four large restrooms, vacuuming, dumping trash cans. The one who does my floor is a lazy idiot. The cleaning company tolerates this because they pay crap wages; they save their best employee for the 4th floor where the VPs and higher work. Everyone else gets a shitty bathroom. Once, a dude had explosive diarrhea in a stall. A year later, there were still shit stains on the wall...

Don't be surprised at how cheap even big successful business can be.
The study took their samples in May and June of 2020.
Your attitude is really rather appalling and it seems you're even suggesting that you did lose your driver's license to a DUI.
People on my broader distributed team accept that periodic multi-day weekday off-sites are part of the deal. Can't really avoid some weeknights traveling. But, then, all of us normally do a lot of business travel anyway. Periodic F2F is important and there's no way to do it just on company time if everyone isn't in the same location. If someone really can't, they can dial in but that's inevitably not a great experience when everyone else is in the same room.
Hi!

I'm the CEO of MobileCoin. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask here. We've been working on this project for four years and it has been a labor of love. There's a lot of new technology here.

We exist in a highly regulated space so it's possible some questions will require reaching out to lawyers to make sure we answer them in a way that's compliant so please don't feel offended if a response takes a while to come back.

The best set of docs for how the whole thing fits together is our book "The Mechanics of MobileCoin"[0].

We'll be around here and on our forums [1] to answer questions. Please also check out our foundation website[2]. The github[3] is also a lot of fun, especially the section on Fog[4].

[0]https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin/blob/maste...

[1]https://community.mobilecoin.foundation

[2]https://mobilecoin.foundation

[3]https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin

[4]https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/fog
"build" can be a synonym for "compile".
If we agree to flip a coin for $20, and you obstruct my view while you're tossing the coin, you can be sure you're not going to get my $20 no matter what you say afterward, unless you have earned quite a lot of my trust beforehand. Of course if it comes up the right way for me, I will be happy to take your money. Do you think that's unreasonable?

There is far too much opportunity for the election workers to cheat for me to trust them if they aren't closely observed, no matter what they say afterward. That's why observers were put there in the first place.

If the elections workers are not good at cheating, they may leave behind evidence, but a lack of evidence would not be convincing to me, because not all forms of election fraud will necessarily leave behind evidence, and there is too much opportunity for them to get rid of it.
> IMHO there are things that are much more scary than some trespassing into government buildings or a riot.

Yeah, like, some people trespassing into government buildings in the middle of officially declaring the next president, with an intention to disrupt the procedure, at the urge of the current outgoing president. Now that is some scary shit.
As a rule, the further from centrist the person lies, the longer they have been disillusioned with Fox News.
I know. It’s almost like these companies are run by people who are members of society or something. /s
Jessica Doty-Whitaker shot for saying all lives matter.
Lately I have discovered that progressive web apps can work quite well on mobile devices, to the point that they can be undistinguishable from native apps. I wonder if PWAs will become more common as a result of the divided political spectrum.
This assumes a lot about the underlying process, particularly independence. Whilst assuming independence might hold reasonably well for low numbers of samples, the assumption might be increasingly (and dangerously) misleading. The intuition expressed by GP captures that.
Jared Diamond talks about dead trees: https://www.openculture.com/2015/08/jared-diamond-underscore...
I feel like a lot of this is just... bullshit. Yes, if a security guard literally decided to ignore every sound as the wind they would probably be useless - as long as their role is literally only fast response. Except they don't, and it isn't. Their role is just as often to politely escort someone out, or remind someone of their manners. So there's that but also, maybe over time the security guard doesn't ignore everything as wind, maybe the security guard...learns quite well what wind is like. If I hear a vague rumbling on a monday I know it's my neighbour bringing the bins out. Similarly, the security guard probably can go from 5 false positives a day to 0.01 false positives a day without increasing their false negatives at all.

It's like, it's a nice thought, but if you really apply attention to it, it doesn't hold up for long.

>Fast, fun to read, and a 99.9% success rate. Pretty good, especially compared to everyone who “does their own research” and sometimes gets it wrong.

I would wager the "do your own research" crowd hits much lower than 99.9% success rate, so what's the argument here? The person who accepts mainstream view - which is apparently what this article calls a skeptic - is no better than a rock. But that actually, the people who contradict the skeptic are no better than a rock thrown in a glass house.

In my experience though, the skeptic is far more likely to be a "skeptic" of the mainstream view and to advertise themselves as that (see: literallly thedailyskeptic.org) and in reality, they're taking the bad side of the bet, by this logic you're 99.9% right by dismissing contrarians and accepting the mainstream view. if you're constantly endorsing the contrarians, you're basically taking the 0.01%. And this isn't theoretical, the skeptics I listed earlier literally posted an article today telling us how global warming is fine, because the earth was warmer... 50 million years ago when no human life was viable. The problem with skeptics isn't their skepticism, it's where they choose to apply it.

There is value in there being contrarians, in order to hold people's feet to the fire, but that doesn't really apply if they're just bringing up dumb arguments and are no more complex than the people they're questioning.
The newer 787 model comes with a dedicated block for the faulty MCAS system.
For those that like videos more than text, there is a youtube video from last year [1] that explain the feature (unless it's changed since ,but it seems not to be the case).

One downside that I see of this approach, if I understand it correctly, is that the data already present on disk will not take advantage of the extra disk per slice. For example, if I have a raidz of 4 disks (so 25% of space "wasted"), and add another disk, new data will be distributed on 5 disks (so 20% of space "wasted") but the old data will keep using stripes of 4 blocks, they will just be reshuffled between the disks. Do I understand it correctly ?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF2KgQGmUic
Do they have a contract with penalties for non delivery?
The odds of a rocking accident are known and fixed?
I would add: and bad actors would not be stopped by this, it is easy (and cheap) nowadays to buy identity with document scans enough to pass verification in payment systems. I doubt that any package registry could implement more stringent checks.

And a fee is just a small bump in the way of bad actors that would like to monetize their misdeeds.
Ive been using wayland and sway for about 2 weeks now.

My experience is this.

If it's compiled to run for Wayland. Fan f-in tastic. No hiccups, no random screen tears or visual glitches of any kind. My logs are surprisingly sparse and when there is a configuration issue it's something trivial i overlooked and easily fixed.

Now here is the issue. When it comes to X-Wayland. Well lets just say that my opinion of X-wayland can be boiled down to two major criticisms.

1. It's turning into another X11. I've been trying to get apps that should just work out of the box when running on gtk like Google Chrome. And frankly looking at the bug reports and hack ass solutions to get things like Video Hardware Acceleration to function using X-Wayland... Nightmarish to say the least and glad it's not my job.

2. I think history has shown time and time again with debacles like Apple trying to retain backwards capability for powerpc MacOS or Windows ensuring your archaic MS-DOS application at work doesn't end up need an expensive update.... that any time you try to not throw things away that need to be thrown away, regardless of how sentimental they might be, you always end up a dead hoarder buried somewhere in your house where nobody can find you but they can sure as hell smell you; so they know you are in there somewhere... Where ever the hell that may be.

My attitude when it come's to the critics of Wayland is to say build something better or shut up and just not use it and keep letting X11 make the desktop experience on Linux suck on two fronts.

The first where nobody who is working on it actually knows how the entire thing works except maybe a handful of people. (all of whom are btw wayland core developers).

And the second, where things just don't work like they should out of the box on whichever desktop environment circumstance you may be in. When you have such a complicated API you end up with 50 million different ways 50 million different developers can write bugs into the 50 millionth reimplementation of your system.

There is a reason why Unix was the most ripped off and successful operating system in the world. It's not because it had X11...
What is it that AI has done for all those fields that you mentioned?
Meme culture has been massive this decade and it's not just online. I regularly see memes in street art or stickers on light posts. I also think it's just that we haven't had enough time to judge yet. In another 20 years when things have changed you can reflect on them instead of it being the current reality.
Because when you are too big, you start changing the market conditions with your investments. This makes investing harder since the ground starts moving under you that much more.
> The other thing that we do all the time in everyday life is a quotient, and as far as I know no programming language has a good way to represent that: something as basic as a fraction

How would the implementation of a general equivalence relation work? Just defining the equivalence relation does not yield a method for chosing a representative. Would you check the equivalence at each operation?
Where is this happening?

I don't think I've had a math teacher say "memorize it" since Geometry in middle school, where we had to memorize pretty useful things to generally know, like SOHCAHTOA.

Basically every math test I've had since that has required nearly any type of memorization has been open note.

Also, at the end of the day, some memorization is necessary to advance in mathematical complexity. If you can't remember solutions to basic differential equations or the integrals of trigonometric functions, it will severely limit your ability to build useful things out of that basic knowledge.

I'm not saying I remember what the integral of arctan is off the top of my head, I'm just saying that there are practical reasons why teachers may require certain things to be memorized.
Of all the key/value stores out there, why did they choose memcached to emulate? Compare-and-set doesn't cut it, you need a better API than it offers to get any benefit from InnoDB transactions. And if any value should happen to grow beyond 1 MB, some legacy memcache clients will just start blowing up.
I might be missing something here, but it seems to make the future computers to be really power hungry. Are we sure this is not a waste of electricity?
Why not just modify the Redis code to modularize the server part, and define a user friendly API? It seems like a waste to re-implement all of the data structures, since they will eventually do exactly the same thing.

This seems like a bad case of NIH syndrome.
I'd volunteer to do it but I don't own a Mac to find out how Paw is.
> And as far as what this might look like under socialism,

“Late stage capitalism” and “socialism” is a false dilemma. We can see the known, evil effects of late-stage capitalism, and it is appropriate to pin the blame on the systems which encourage this behavior even while acknowledging the benefits of those systems and while holding accountable actors within these systems.
Author of this article here! I definitely want to know if there's anything anyone thinks I missed - I wound up doing a pretty deep dive into how "DevOps" is being defined and applied, but it was largely from the perspective of people hiring, and I suspect that people with different perspectives will also have different opinions.
Sounds like manufacturing struggles. Hope they work their way through them and are able to deliver.
https://www.openbook.social got into trouble for this exactly.
The towing capacity is as follows for the Tesla truck, 2WD $39K=7K lbs, 2Motor AWD $49K = 10K lbs and 3Motor AWD $69K = 14K lbs
Why?

This is a real question. This is not a thing that has existed in the past; why is it necessary that it exist now? If you look back to the founding of the US, political discourse was done frequently through pamphlets. The government didn't provide some "uncensored" pamphlet distribution service, and I find it unlikely that print shops of the time did not occasional reject orders that they didn't like.
Well a rich person and a poor person are both going to keep the plunger, so here we are again starting at 0. You're not really making any sort of point.

If you haven't used your printer in 18 months you're probably okay getting by with the one at the library.
As much as it pains me to say it, Cloudflare seems well positioned to eat ngrok's lunch. AFAIK they offer everything ngrok does plus auto TLS certs, CDN, domain name registration, and tons of other features. They also have way more edge servers for terminating tunnels close to the origin devices. And they can afford to do all this for free as a loss leader product. It's the AWS bundling effect. Oh and the client source code is available.

I don't want to see Cloudflare completely take over this space, but Cloudflare Tunnel is tough to compete with.

One knob ngrok could still turn is adding auto TLS certs which are managed on the client side. Then you can offer e2ee which is something Cloudflare will probably never do.
It's really just a matter of balancing the difficulty of creating a new "identity", so that legitimate users can occasionally use multiple identities to partition their traffic and make it harder to get doxxed, but are still deterred from creating identities cheaply to engage in sybil attacks or escape blocks. There are various ways of committing real-world resources to an identity to deter such abuse. Actual meatspace identity is of course one way of doing this, but there are probably others.
>You get upvotes for answering leading questions with utter conviction, (whether you are correct or not) and generating emotional responses, usually outrage (whether deserved or not).

I miss slashdot's moderation system that was more nuanced: you could classify comments into a few buckets. Unfortunately reddit is so heavily gamed by people who want karma for profit that moderation and meta-moderation would be gamed as well. Not to mention people who troll simply to troll or advance a viewpoint or political agenda. I generally stay out of the main subreddits because there's just no point in interacting with people there any more.

There is some value in niche subreddits (which I won't mention here) but once they become "too" popular it draws the wrong sort of attention and they too lose utility.

Edit: Oh yeah, if someone would like to invite me to lobste.rs, please e-mail me at my username @ yahoo.
Same method as certain mainstream Linux distros has been using the last few years? Or has Mac been doing this for even longer (I cannot remember how it worked back in 2012, the last time I used Mac.)
Safari on iOS kind of has devtools, but they're not available on the go, since you still need a desktop computer to access them. Enable the "web inspector" setting in iOS safari and the "show develop menu" in macOS (both in the advanced settings section). When you plug in the iOS device directly into the Mac, it'll show up in the Mac's Safari's develop menu. Unfortunately, this is completely useless if you don't have access to a mac or are away from your computer.