jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was a Firefox user from the Phoenix/Firebird days and I keep trying to make it my primary browser again and reduce my Chrome usage to fight the monoculture. I am probably about 50/50 between them. One of the few Chrome plugins I use is QuickTabs and I it is bound on ctrl-q ofcourse. That works out about as well as you would expect.

Firefox is still a fantastic browser but it can be frustrating in many small ways.
It's certainly possible to do, whether or not the controls are in place to prevent re-identification is a different matter...

The document I linked says they do have these controls in place but having done my fair slog in the NHS I'm doubtful.
It's a full-company culture problem where ~everyone has personal responsibility.

Behavioral properties are end-to-end, like speed, security, customer success, uptime, etc. Everyone and everything on the hotpath for that has to be on board, as just one violator means nobody is achieving it. Operationally, part of achieving that means company norms, such as when collaborating, planning, executing, etc.

It's 100% fine not to provide any of these, and is even reasonable given it's hard to change one's DNA end-to-end... but better to be an explicit decision. Likewise, if starting a company... a lot easier to pick & ingrain these habits ahead of time.
Yes, and it could even stand to be cut down more, which I find exciting.

This is not going to be anything approaching the complexity of something like Vim. Think more like Notepad2. I spent basically the last 20 hours putting together this POC just to see if the rendering was even going to be clean enough to bother going further. And it looks like it is!
One of the things that really bugs me with comparing to the flu is it turns out we could have prevented many deaths, but didn't. We just accepted the number of people dying from influenza as status-quo.

We now know we can actually do a much better job of controlling the spread of viruses, if we choose to. We could aim for higher vaccination rates, especially in younger people and those working in close proximity to others. We could increase ventilation standards. We could change attitudes (and compensation) around people coming to work sick.

It doesn't mean pandemic-style protocols, but small adjustments have a compounding effect. Even societal attitude shifts like considering it as disgusting for an unmasked person to cough in public as it is to spit in the floor can change things. Influenza has an R0 of 1.3 [1]. Every bit closer to 1.0 that gets would save thousands of lives.

[1] https://www.qps.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-versus-the-seasonal-...
What if I said the pandemic is more of a political issue than an epidemiological one? A year of restrictions (or not) for a .5%-1% IFR disease is a political decision.
This makes me want to go out and take some pictures and print them now.

I know people load up their icloud with photos and videos. But someday will that data get lost and with it your pictures?
This is an unhelpful attitude, IMHO.

Your best chance, as a privacy-conscious, tech-savvy individual is to push for mass-market adoption of strong encryption and good government privacy regulations that will help everyone.

Lacking those, you will stand out like a sore thumb as one of a tiny number of "weirdos" using Matrix, or Brave, or Tor or GrapheneOS or whatever other hardcore self-hosted, federated niche tools you favour. Any interested spooks can focus their considerable resources on the user base for these tools. Merely having these things installed becomes suspicious in a way that WhatsApp or Signal is not.
Don't you loose out on potential customers though? Since they will also be unaware it exists.
That's one of the biggest problems with Wikipedia. "Reliability" is based on perception and PR rather than any objective metrics. Which is due to the bigger problem that there really is no objective way to measure it. I don't know if there's any better way to do it, but right now the opinions of the most active users are the opinions that get accepted as facts.
TL;DR - he breached 'ethical standards' of journalism by stealing papers from Ellsberg. There's one person at NYT then and now whom I grudgingly admire, and it ain't Sheehan, it's Seymour Hersh.
The iPhone 12 User Guide warns about this.

From the online version at https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/important-safety-info...:

>Medical device interference iPhone contains magnets as well as components and radios that emit electromagnetic fields. These magnets and electromagnetic fields may interfere with medical devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators.

>Though all iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models, they’re not expected to pose a greater risk of magnetic interference to medical devices than prior iPhone models.

>Consult your physician and medical device manufacturer for information specific to your medical device and whether you need to maintain a safe distance of separation between your medical device and iPhone. There are many types of medical devices, and manufacturers often provide recommendations on the safe use of their devices around wireless or magnetic products to prevent possible interference. If you suspect iPhone is interfering with your medical device, stop using iPhone.
Good one, that showed us Brits the right of it.

#Cough# Civil Forfeiture #Cough#
> did people take payment in gold?

No, but prices were denominated in gold, effectively, as the price of gold was fixed. That was the whole point.
One of the comments in the Twitter thread was "I've been measuring the grid for 10 years and have never seen anything like this".
I don't think "sensationalistic post" is an appropriate label for a guest editorial by Heiko Maas, Germany's Foreign Minister, published in one of the largest news magazines in Europe with a distinctive reputation for revealing political misconduct and scandals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel

I was surprised it was flagged and it goes to show how hard it is for a US-centric audience to evaluate foreign news sources.
> the point being that an importing country should be held at least partially responsible for the emissions of the manufacturing country.

Ok, so Saudi Arabia is responsible for America's emissions. Russia is responsible for Europe's emissions. America is responsible for China's emissions.

But let's just keep playing word games to deflect responsibility from China and make sure it's all America's fault.
> We are talking about companies which have plenty of assets and strong businesses.

We are also talking about companies that are leveraged to the tits to juice their return on equity. What is glossed over in all of these discussions about bailouts is that the managers of these corporations respond directly to financial incentives, and the existence of a "lender of last resort" such as the Fed ensures that corporations will tend to leverage their balance sheets far beyond a level commensurate with the actual risk of the underlying business.

> We are talking about companies which have plenty of assets and strong businesses.

Except that those assets are owned with borrowed money. Someone has to eat the losses, and in an actual free market there are two options: the equity holders, or the bondholders. Now, the Fed provides a third option: the holders of U.S. dollars, whose currency is devalued as money is printed to paper over the void which was opened up by the pandemic. And so the charade will continue.
Also see the "Heidelberg Spiking Datasets": https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/heidelberg-spiking-dat...
The iPad has a massive touchscreen. I can think of several clever ways to visually 'build' queries by dragging-and-dropping query building blocks, column names, etc. into place.

Designing iPad apps around the idea of typing everything in is quite wasteful of that big touchscreen. Also, it doesn't give anyone a reason to purchase your app when they can just type the queries into their laptop/desktop with great efficiency.

Leveraging the touchscreen to turn a typing task into a visual, tactile task is a great use of the iPad.
s/kittens/women without burkas/ or even s/kittens/people with the 'wrong' skin color/

Does that still fail to leave a bad taste in your mouth?
Sure, for inefficient businesses likely to have their lunch eaten by wiser competition.
I can't disagree with that nonsense enough. When he refers to polish, he is referring to code which he has already thought out which will eventually not be repetitive, so applying DRY is easily dismissed as not applicable in that instance. Applying DRY never usually means that you will create branches, etc. You do that if you are writing modular code. The whole point in DRY is that you do not repeat yourself. Good OO DRY code never commonly suffers the need to do what he is describing.
Writing DRY code is actually faster than copying and pasting whole chunks but only if you have a very good understanding of the code. A good reason I can see to not use DRY techniques is if you do not have the skill level required to write DRY code because you are unfamiliar with an included library of classes for instance.

As far as scrubs, he's referring to someone as doing a job which he thinks he is above when it would benefit his project if there where many eyes on the same thing instead. If he understood his libs and tools well enough, he wouldn't need a "Scrub." What use would they be anyway if they are new to the language? How are they going to spot that cross site scripting hole you've copied and pasted five times everywhere? Most people doing the job which he describes make a poor effort because it is well known that developers who are not adding new features are largely disinterested in their work.

My point is that if you learn properly how to write DRY code, you avoid large fixes that involve searching through the entire code for particular strings. If you use OO DRY techniques, your fixes are in one place and are made quickly. There is nothing slow about writing DRY code and very few real disadvantages (None of which he has pointed out.) So if you learn to write DRY code properly you should see your development time slashed by sometimes by as much as three quarters. You will also have considerably less code to maintain.

It's nothing personal. My experience tells me that he is yet to use DRY techniques correctly and if he needs a "Scrub," to tighten up the code, it is almost always faster to just re-write the entire project using DRY techniques instead. If you write code and then try to make it DRY, you have completely misunderstood the point of DRY.
ad networks thrive on volume because of the margins involved, so it's difficult to succeed without locking in large players, especially because high volume sites are probably already leveraging existing networks.
I've read many anecdotes about exercise improving sleep, but research seems to show something else:

In a representative study that he led several years ago, for instance, college students — some athletic, some sedentary — kept detailed sleep and exercise diaries for months. At the end of that time, the researchers cross-referenced the diaries and found no notable correlation between exercising more and sleeping better or vice versa. Meanwhile, in a second part of the same study, a group of adults wore monitors that recorded their movements and sleep patterns. The participants also filled out activity diaries. Using the objective data from the monitors, together with the diary reports, the researchers found only marginal impacts on sleep from exercise. The most active volunteers tended to fall asleep about a minute and a half faster than those who were the least active. Otherwise, their sleep was virtually identical.

From http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/phys-ed-does-exerci...
On a similar note I was wondering if anyone had experience (as an advertiser) and had an opinion on the most cost effective advertising network for text ads?

Google Adwords seems overly competitive for certain keywords and seems to result in overpaying for traffic. As an alternative, Microsoft AdCenter has been effective - but I was wondering if anyone else has had experience on other networks?
I've tried it at home, on my own. You're right about the value of getting instruction in person. I'll look into it.
> Real analysis was very satisfying, in somewhat the same way that building low-level software or libraries is satisfying -- I got to understand the guts.

That is exactly the reason why taking a course in real analysis made me switch majors. I was trying to get that feeling from physics, but only found it to my satisfaction in math.
Reported here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1923880

Many comments.
That's... how I want to see things. Thank you. :)
Its only alarmist if it doesn't get worse :-) Seriously though, alarmist or not, its serious. This fire is growing and not contained. There exists a non-zero chance of it creating a serious impact into the available clean water supply. And this is to a county not exactly known for its fiscal responsibility or ability to respond well to crisis.
If you are interested, contact me at brad at ClickBrain dot com.
I think Twitter's own system for doing this is a bit eager. I registered a new account the other day, followed the obligatory number of people they make you follow on signup, put in some basic profile info, then logged out to finish set up the next day. Logged in the next day.. account has been suspended for being suspicious. Ha!
For reference here are the production budgets for Rian Johnson's films:

Brick: $500,000

The Brother's Bloom: $20,000,000

Looper: $60,000,000

The obvious thing that is seen here is that Special Effects and High Profile Actors significantly increase the cost of films. If you had little to no CG (like Brick), you might be able to pull off a ~1M film with new-er talent (like JGL was at the time).
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the 3D.
i like this post/article/statement. it reminds me that as technologists we tend to want to reduce things to algorithms.

that just doesn't work when you get to aesthetics and the human side of the equation.
Most actually believed this was the start of the Storm and that they would force Congress to overturn the election
well with this growth rate it could mean that in a few months with have dozens of c# companies with abusive managers.
I mean the minority, which I'm not sure "some" implies. The factors you describe: cheaper, control, health can be seen as the same as cost. More expensive places might taste better, be healthier etc. While I'm sure a lot of people enjoy cooking, I'm not sure many would recreationally cook as often as they need food.

> context

You can have fun imagining the payoffs, only to find they do not appear. Have you ever seen a movie and been disappointed, or played a game and found it lacking. "fun" is not an absolute measure, and review doesn't necessarily capture how fun something is versus how fun you think it ought to be - plenty people give things higher value than their "fun" value, despite claiming to only have done it for fun - the missing value is ideological.

> there is little value in assigning a dollar-value for time that I am going to spend doing something that _I want to do_

Only if there is, some some reason, literally only one thing you want to do. But if there are competing things you might like to do then comparing them makes sense. One way or another, if you choose to watch a movie, or build a sandcastle, you are comparing the two to decide which. Using monetary values is just a more formal way of doing that for larger, less impulsive, projects.
KeyKOS (and relatives) somehow got my attention a little while back, and seem like they might be somewhere in the space of things you'd find interesting.

I'm not sure how available/installable they are nowadays, but some of their ideas live on in L4 microkernels, apparently.

(enjoying the talk; thanks!)
I think it’s a bit of a disingenuous example because Hasan has enjoyed TREMENDOUS success since then as well. Like, I think he got a few day ban (which is nothing long-term if you already have a following) and is now a top streamer in terms of subscribers and viewership.
The article appears to be complaining that free services don’t have good support, so the solution is to spend $55. Major providers do offer support plans. If google/Apple/Microsoft is so critical to your life and data, perhaps it’s worth paying more than zero dollars for?
That's fair, I know Minneapolis is one of the top cities for bike infrastructure in the US. Possibly the top city, at least for bigger cities.

If you search "Minneapolis war on cars" you can definitely find some people complaining, though.
There is no indication whatsoever that the messaging service will see any of the end-user cryptocurrency addresses.

What makes you make that assumption? They have a perfectly good e2e messaging channel to use; the only party seeing the payment address would be the one paying.
> No one individual is billions, millions, or probably even thousands of times more productive than any other able-bodied individual.

That isn't correct. Compare Einstein to an able-bodied laborer. How long will it take the laborer to figure out relativity, assuming an infinite lifetime?

Being "able-bodied" isn't much of a consideration in modern times, and in the future, when robots do all the manual labor, it will become completely irrelevant. Not to say we won't exercise for health and enjoyment, only that we won't dig ditches.
The issue is they would have to give the dealer a cut- direct to consumer they can keep the price lower and the margin higher.
We're building something very similar, aiming to have demos and beta by new year.

(Bad) signup page here if interested: http://www.lexasapp.com/
Author of blog post here: I believe JavaScript is another example where the problems (not sure if I'd call it complexity, but problems they are) can be understood by looking at the history of the language. Brendan Eich himself has said: "I created JavaScript in 10 days in May 1995, under duress and conflicting management imperatives."
Does any other company get so many straight press releases consistently voted up on HN?

BTW this is old, the referenced bills did not pass.
mmm a "zoo" project
yeah, crowdsourcing science like this is actually pretty popular. They use it for determining galaxy types and finding planets... unfortunately it's often highly biased
once you get to the realm of Machine Learning failure, you end up in a regime of false signals that can easily fudge amateurs

like galaxies, crowdsourcing science found that that most (like a significant portion of most) galaxies spin clockwise or something, but it should be purely random. This was a big blow to the galaxy-zoo project from like 8 years ago. crowdsourcing science is hugely powerful, but I don't think it should be tackled or implemented by amateurs really... crowdsourcing should really be in the form of spare CPU cycles like BOINC projects...

Although.
Asteroid detection does basically operate on the algorithm this guy proposes. emphasis on _basically_
there are literally thousands of types of variable objects that can flicker out and thousands which can flicker in. and a pure random background which gives strong positive signal on an instantaneous timescale.
what he's doing is basically 1960s tech with a million grad students.

I also want to blow a load on this guy's burger for this fucking statement: "A year ago, I set aside my doubts and started to innovate in the space industry as a complete outsider." Give this fuck 3 hours at CfA and see how confident he is of innovating anything. The real people (CSCI People) changing astrophysics are the deep machine learning guys, the data structure guys and the mapping algorithm guys.
not the bloggers.
>I wonder if they have anything to do with the bandwidth caps we've seen over the last few years.

That is an amazing thought. How could we find out about this.

"We can only subcribe the surveillance system to XK/user/month -- tell the Telcos"
I never said anything suggesting that all the companies were untrustworthy. I was responding to the idea that Bitcoiners are patient - I was pointed out that wasn't the case, but that some very large players in the industry have backed their customers into corners with little way out.
not sure if your math is right. actual price on 1/1/2000 was $116, $43 adjusted for dividends and splits -

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=MSFT&a=00&b=1&c=2000&d=07&e=...
wow. amazing. you're absolutely right. it's on every page but the homepage. Woops. We just built a new homepage, and I forgot to make sure it was up there. Every other page has it. I've made myself a to-do item to fix. Thanks!
#1 Totally makes sense. But what constitutes a resource to you? img, script, css? And from my perspective. The challenge for me to overcome is bandwidth. Also, define blocking. You mean long download times, or literally blocking the browser, script-wise?

#2 Any transactional test would obviously maintain cookies across each step. I would definitely want to bring transactional tests into the picture. V1 might be a URL sequence. V2 could be actual browser simulation.

#3 That's be easy, for sure.
A popular meme that's going around the Clojure community right now is that Clojure's types and protocols are "dynamic type classes". Clojure's offering does not provide all of the same things that Haskell's type system gives -- like say, return type based method selection.
I'm smallfry and do $3-4k/month through AdSense for about 10 minutes/week effort tops from a handful of sites.
Well, the "Unix Philosophy" is a big part of what is widely regarded as "hacker culture" so you might give this a look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

There's also the "Hacker Ethic" to look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic

And his stuff doesn't necessarily have a name, but Eric Raymond's writings have been pretty influential to a lot of hackers.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/
Your transparency has probably generated more good will than you know. My wife and I are planning on relocating some time in the next year, probably to the Seattle area. As part of this I've already started to take a look at what jobs are available and just yesterday I came across your craigslist postings. While having spent the last three years working for a marketing company and dealing with some sleazy SEO people I would have normally just bypassed any ad with SEO anywhere in it, but seeing that it was seomoz I actually took the time to read it.

You are probably fighting an uphill battle. Last year I had to do a technical integration with another company and it turned out they were actively paying something like $30k per month to an SEO company to keep them in the top five results on the big three search engines. All of that money was going to black hat methods such as link farms, paid links, cloaking etc. These tactics were all working and for a very long time their sites were the number one and two links for dozens of relevant terms with the big search engines. As those tactics worked, my employer very much wanted us to start employing them, ignoring the objections of the design and engineering team. About six months later we were heavily involved in a project for another company that was supposedly run by an SEO expert. His expertise turned out to be having read a three year old E-book on the topic. While I've provided two anecdotal examples, from everyone I've talked to these types of examples seem to be the most prevalent. Or maybe people only talk about their negative SEO experiences. It's not even cut and dry for those companies that appear to be doing things right. Look at some of the backlash on reddit when people figured out that oatmeal used to work at seomoz.
If you don't know he's a relatively successful (if you count citations) author (seems previously) from Salesforce research.

He has worked on YOLO (computer vision) and NLP related problems.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AolIi4QAAAAJ
FYI, enable hyper-v and you don't need Vbox.