jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the Chinese government works more like a gang than the kind of government you are familiar with. The only politically correct thing is to maintain the ruling, and the real motivations are nothing uncommon: power and money, and most of the time the latter.

The great firewall project is a big business for a lot of people (e.g., billions dollars business if not much more). Hardware providers look for the deals. Professors in universities look for funds (for themselves and for their students). And the biggest cut would be bribes for officials and commissions for pimps. The worst part is this business is sort of under table and there is not much control.

All these people want this business to stay and grow under the name of glorious "reasons", and there is just zero motive for people to get in its way.
>Attitude is what separates good bankers from bad bankers.

I don't disagree, although arguably M&A requires less specific domain knowledge for a new starter than say what might be required within structuring or DCM teams. Also I'm curious as to why you left banking?
> Now it's porn. Isn't it time we grew up? Aren't we more mentally prepared for change than the victorians?

It's been porn for many decades already. As a child combing my parents book cases for interesting stuff at some point in the mid 1980's, one of the things that initially got me excited because of a rather misleading title (and then disappointed, but still fascinated by lots of weird case studies) was a book from the 1970's about research into the psychological impacts on porn.

The internet has just re-ignited a many decades old argument by arguing now that it isn't porn per se, but the sheer amount of porn and ease of access, this time.
there is a documented one: upgrade_oh_my_zsh
What about the money from the legal defense fund? What happened there?
Well I'm chilean and I don't want to be rude but if you've got those $40k USD for Wedoist I think the government is dilapidating our money.
I agree with point #2. I use karma points when scanning comments and read a selection of "pre-filtered" comments. ...user names don't provide much value and I am always slightly disappointed when the most popular comment was made by a popular user.

Valuing ideas should not be a popularity context.
Has anyone else reached their threshold for giving yet another startup access to _all_ your actually useful social/webapp sites?
I'm not knocking arbitrage as an abstract concept.

But in this case, 6buk is clearly stealing from Fiverr -- the "featured" image is a prime example.

It's also not making any sort of effort to be "cooler" than Fiverr -- its entire business model entails scraping Fiverr's content, presenting it as its own, and hoping no one is the wiser.

It's one thing to copy-cat a concept -- look at Groupon and LivingSocial and all the other deal-a-day sites.

But imagine if every day, LivingSocial sent out the same exact deal that Groupon was offering, but for $1 more. And imagine if LivingSocial also stole design elements from Groupon's site.

You're cool with that?
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population : http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
IBM's Metronome[1] advertises maximum pause times in the hundreds of microseconds range. Cliff Click[2] cites a 10MB max heap for it so definitely not a cure-all but definitely something I'd like to play around with.

[1]http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/page...
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2D3qzHtqY
It seems that many people forgot how and why Amazon began to market its cloud computing solutions. Amazon had to build its infrastructure to support the Christmas rush, and its platform is idle most of the rest of the time. So they decided to sell these available computing resources.

Of course, this platform may fail, but whatever infrastructure you're relying upon it may fail at some point. Even when you're relying upon trucks to ship your products in time, having a backup rail plan may be a good idea.

However, I hope you business is mostly idle around Christmas, because there's little doubt that Amazon will serve its own applications first, so you'd better have a serious backup plan...
There's a boneyard right outside the airport where Scaled Composites is located. Scaled is the company that invented and produces the tech of Virgin Galactic.
Yesterday I removed flash from my Mac Internet Plugins folder.

I can't say I'm missing it. Nearly all website work, a lot of ads are gone. Strangely, html5/h.264 is often the fall back for flash, I really would wish they did that the other wise around.
On a somewhat peripheral note I found this a bit disappointing:

According to the Times, eight out of the ten job categories that will add the most employees during the next decade—including home-health aide, customer-service representative, and store clerk—can be performed by someone without a college degree.

I was kind of hoping we'd be able to use advancing technology to reduce our need for people in the customer service/store clerk fields.
Yes but OP did not say "low barrier". Had they said that, then you would be correct.
Regarding email, I spent some tens of hours setting it up, including implementing DKIM, DMARC, SPF and getting my mail delivered to Gmail and O365. That was over a year ago and things mostly just work with the occasional upgrade or configuration change. You could also save a lot of time by going with a pre-packaged solution. I understand if you don't have time for that, but at least in my experience, self-hosting email isn't the impossible task it's sometimes made out to be.
Syncthing is great! Are you using zerotier for transport security. Or does it improve speed as well? Off-site syncs are far too slow for me. Luckily, it's very rare that I have to do them.
Have y'all looked at RiotJS? My current favourite, not in my way, easy to reason about JS toolkit for building (all or part) of web-interface
Yet it's obvious there's something very very wrong happening with American culture that began around the time of social media platform consolidation.

I can only guess at what you're referring to, but do keep in mind that American culture had wrong things happening from the start through today. From when they colonized the land, to slavery, through the KKK, Japanese internment camps during WWII, violent union busting, manufacturing consent for pointless wars and so on. You're just more aware of it now because of the Internet. Yes, it is hard to come to terms with knowing that people you know, or even love and respect, support things you consider inhumane, but sticking your head in the sand isn't going to make it go away or change this, though.
I don't see a way out of this without the ability to selectively block or fake browser APIs and detect tracking with heuristics, just like old antivirus and spyware blocking software.
They're not killed by guns, they're killed with guns. They're killed by other young black men.
macOS doesn't use the BSD VM (UVM), it uses a heavily modified Mach VM.
IBM has a very long history of diligent notetaking, maintaining several journals dedicated to internal development stretching back into the 50's. While I certainly haven't read everything, I've read enough to feel comfortable saying that the quality has had a sharp decline as transparent marketing replaced useful engineering. I suspect I'm not the only one who felt that way, because they recently shuttered those operations and tragically handed everything (from what I can tell) over to the paywalls. I generally don't feel much one way or the other about corporations, but seeing IBM decay like this genuinely makes me gloomy.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1109/4.45001
https://sci-hub.se/10.1147/rd.342.0416
https://sci-hub.se/10.1147/rd.342.0428
Little League is a very US institution, but even in places with socialized healthcare there are non-medical costs of injuries and potential liability attached to them, and anyway, while universal coverage is common outside of the US, many nations acheive it without socialized medicine.
> I think we'll see this happen with Facebook Messenger. Both the apps and the website have become slow and painful to use and get worse every month. I think we'll start to see engagement numbers dropping because of this.

In fact, I think the iOS app for FB Messenger did get a redesign due to problems and it’s rewritten from scratch? I remember being pleasantly surprised after the big update… It became lightweight, integrates well with iOS and supports platform features.

On the other hand, the desktop app or the website is a shitshow :-(
That's not what fraud means. If that were fraud, then any lie to anyone would be fraud.
Serious question: Why do you feel the need to pay a few bucks less for an item and wait 1-3 months for an unreliable vendor and questionable quality vs buying from a local and reliable maker or merchant?
You'd presumably want that limit to also extend to subcontractors and suppliers as well. It would be a wonderful human achievement to substantially raise wages in Bangladesh, for instance. Presumably we'd need garment price assistance for lower-middle class people in Western societies to partially offset the disproportionate impact on their lifestyles.

I like the sentiment, and we shouldn't let fear of unintended consequences prevent all human progress, but there are significant risks with regard to unintended consequences and concentrating government powers on wages and social programs beginning to approach failed utopian experiments of the past.
For a salary of $0, someone who's already uber successful, doesn't need the money and is into it for the challenge.

$5M someone who just wants to make a boat load of money.

Is a parameter missing from your thought experiment? Are you thinking of corruption?
C++ has wider options managing resource acquisition. Scope is just one case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer#C.2B.2B_smart_po...
...so basically no. Soylent was vegan from day one, in comparison.

This is a definite advantage of engineered food -- you're not stuck in the past pulling embryos out of birds living in torture conditions.
The statement does not refer to how states may pay their debts - it refers to their power to issue currencies.

"...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts... " means states cannot issue their own currencies as legal tender. They can only make gold or silver legal tenders for debts. The federal government can make paper dollars a legal tender, and the states can pay their debts in that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_Clause#Legal_Tender
Elephant in the room- shell is a bizarre language
Glad that you find my opinion helpful.

One more piece of advice that came to mind. Maybe you can negotiate that part of your current responsibilities be offloaded to a more junior engineer with the right balance of knowledge and attitude. This would serve the dual purpose of releasing some of your time for more "research oriented" activities while simultaneously providing you with the intellectual challenge of having someone to mentor for the next 3-4 months. Hopefully after that time you will have a better idea of what you want to do next in your career.

This all of course depends on you having a boss that actually listens and is interested in having the company's personnel grown into the professionals they are meant to be, vs extracting the maximum amount of labor each quarter.
It's enabled exactly when you have 500 karma. One of my colleague just got that.
I am very impressed by the photos of the landscape. India is rich in having flora & fauna like that and India is rich in having a sentence like the one mentioned in the introduction in its Constitution. I do hope India will be able to hold on to all of these riches while modernising.
Ctrl + Shift + B
Run Command has been removed, What the hell.!!
set -u is good. set -e requires to change a lot of code. See for example

https://github.com/icy/bash-coding-style#set--e
(not your parent poster)
I used P5.js for an Asteroids clone and an add on (P5.game) for a Galaga clone. Both had good primitives and it wasn't too hard to write a game-tick for-loop that ran the game logic.
So long as Fox News is on the air and people remain willfully, stubbornly in denial, nope.
The rocket ran out of power for its control fins at some point during the descent, so this is indeed partially out of control. The engine is doing a lot more than was intended during this video.
Merry Christmas break everyone... wish that your new year kicks atleast as much ass the old one! =)

Cheers,
- V
Interesting point- I was about to comment that I loved this recent trend in intriguing data posts by Facebook. While I do understand the PR concerns in these sorts of posts, I believe Facebook should do more. They have so much rich information, it's incredible to consider the psychological and sociological research that could be done with it.
Yes. It's not very exciting, just kind of fun.
That wouldn't work well, because you need to take into account the relevance of a keyword for those web pages.

Check out the Tf-Idf weight for getting an idea on how to do that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf

A useful trick based on the technique you describe: build vectors where each dimension represents a user in the system (1 means the user visited that web page); since people are interested in a narrow array of topics. Furthermore you can extend this to find similar users.

Amazon does this to find similar or complementary products.
For what it's worth, here is a thread I started on the Wikipedia mailing list in May 2005, which I believe was the first public debate about this:

http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=111502457428025

There are a ton of interesting posts from Jimbo, SJ, et al. Here are a couple of key comments by Jimbo about where his beliefs came from:

http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=111503845405275&w=...

http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=111521774525655&w=...
This is actually a really cool example for those who want to learn dynamic libraries in C.
So true, Rick. So boring those downvoters.
They upvote "Thanks!", "Merry Christmas!", "Topbar is red!" and downvote criticisms on karma distortion and off-topicity. Mmh...
The relationship with Japan and China definitely has some intense animosity, however Chinese netizens can see far through the propagandist bullshit. In fact, the Chinese love and rave about many aspects of Japanese culture, however only among other Chinese and in comparison of themselves.

Explaining China's propagandists and their effectiveness is complicated. They are very effective, but also they really don't have to try hard at convincing the populace, it is much akin to American exceptionalism, except there are racial and cultural tints to it.
Yeah, that's an interesting point.
If you're truly wondering, you're in luck. Someone already asked that question and it was answered:

https://github.com/google/gxui/issues/65
Corporations aren't people but they are groups of people and hence have some rights as an organization.
As an analog from the electronics field, look at the Forrest Mims notebook series. That is a superb example of how to take something insanely complex and converting it to no bullshit.

The example I saw on the website looks like just another dry math textbook. I've seen high school math books with more color and engaging concepts than this.
The ones from Mt. Gox have been traced.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/01/01/mt-gox-bitcoin-theft-insid...
+1 to the Dune analogy.
He basically spoke what the people wanted to hear.
And it's Hitler/Stalin all over again.
My guess (and it is just a guess) is a continuing stagnation and transition into a south american situation, where everyone is either connected to power, poor or trying to look poor. As it becomes increasingly clear that the rules are unstable, subjective and enforced arbitrarily, people will turtle up.

As far as what I'd recommend, well, first I'd recommend not listening to me.

After that, I'd recommend getting as lean as possible. Mr. Money Moustache has some good tips on this, with two caveats: I think he is too optimistic about equities and I don't mind spending money on a few high quality things that I can give to my kids. For all his talk about mindless index-fund investing, he did pay off his house when the chance came up, so do as he did, not as he says.

The nice thing about this minimalist approach is that it's probably the right thing to do anyway, when it comes to being happy.
Instead of all this complexity, why not just treat phones as data devices and voice is just another IP protocol that runs on them?

They had a chance to do that with LTE. But the entrenched players decided instead to greatly increase the size of the specification (and the over-the-air protocol) to specially support voice (VoLTE).

Granted, handoffs from 2G to 3G to 4G are quite complicated, and then throw in roaming on top of that and it gets really complicated.

However, if I had a magic wand or time travel device, I'd rather have seen LTE be data only (with good quality of service support) and IPv6 only. That would have made the protocol vastly simpler, and then it would be possible to un-bundle voice altogether... eventually.

I don't know that such a design would be in the carrier's best interests though, so who's to say it could ever have happened, even with magic.
Are there any success stories from these events?

My intuitive suspicion is that trying to found a company with someone you've just met is likely to be doomed.
ok. any advice on licenses? i don't want some big company coming and taking my source and putting it into their product even if they do credit me.
Sorry for the delay in the answer, here is the link to the European History - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/PHE/the-penguin-hi....

Given the delay here is a bonus link to the Lost Civilizations Series by Chicago Press - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/RB-LC.html
This is why I like Lyft a lot more. They don't take a cut of the surge portion of the fare - and removes the incentive for them to override the surge multiplier for profits' sake.
I quickly learned that batching database and web service calls instead of making them inside a loop is generally not a premature optimization. It is one of the few performance considerations I consider while writing and reviewing code.
Not absurd, just human. People are generalizing and deliberately misinterpreting each other. That's why I find this so odd. It's _easy_ to find out if an SSD is right for you or not. Why are people's identities so tied to spinning metal vs flash storage?
I think you're confusing the parent's use of "primary" + "source" with the lexical item "primary source". The parent presumably meant "one of the most main sources [to use as one's only or first point of research]".

Sort of separately, but as threeseed points out, Wikipedia is frequently used as a corpus for primary research, so technically it's that kind of "primary source" too.
I've actually never run into Secrets! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I will certainly be adding more to it over time. Do you have any specific suggestions?
Tried to use Wayland earlier today on Ubuntu 18.04 for fractional scaling support, but sadly there is no support for nvidia drivers. This does not seem well advertised so posting as a PSA to save others from trying to debug the login loop!
Lights have been with us 60-100 years, but in the last 40 there have been some remarkable changes from day and night to day and simulated day. Only going back to 1980-1990:

+ Street lights used to be low power sodium, and 2 in 3 were turned off around midnight (in a major city). Villages might get 4 or 5 street lights only, near junctions, again often only on partial duty. There might be one or two running 24/7 by the village green, junction and bus stop. Being deep amber, and pretty dim, they kept your vision in night mode pretty effectively than the current crop of daylight lamps -- no idea if insects would get the same effect from lamp colour.

+ After 3 or 4 rounds of lighting upgrades my semi-rural residential street now has street lighting more suited to a major highway. I'm not joking. In 1980 on a taller pole, they'd have suited the M1. No lights are turned off any more, ever. The major highways used to only illuminate the congested bits and around complex junctions. Unlit sections have become more and more uncommon - they used to be the vast majority of motorway miles.

+ Many retailers, business parks, car parks, warehouse and whatnot have floodlighting permanently in the hours of darkness, whether in working hours or not. Most businesses have illuminated signs and gimmicks running 24/7. In 1980 a flat painted or printed sign, with a light or three for when the street lights turned on was most common. Turned off when the business closes for the day, maybe leave a dim bulb in the window or in premises for visual and security.

+ None of the 500w halogen PIR floodlights (and LED equivalents) common in many drives and garages try to limit spread, or upward light pollution. In 1980 you used the headlights to put the car in the garage, then turned on a 40 or 60w lamp if need be to open the house door. No one had two dozen gimmicky super-bright solar LEDs scattered around the lawn and drive.

+ Buildings wouldn't include lighting as part of the design, or use floodlighting unless a major national monument or of great historical significance. Now every ratty lawyer office, takeaway and hotel wants to light up their building through the night. New buildings come with LED colours as a bloody feature.

If you want actual darkness (that few actually experience any more), or need of taking a torch walking the dog, or see stars properly, you need to get miles away from the nearest road and human.
I had to write a script to be able to find an opening for Yosemite *Pines campgrounds. It was really the only way to find anything without booking months in advance (which all get snapped up immediately anyway.)
Nobody ever got fired for adding another street light. (Or adding another traffic light, for that matter)
> Maybe I should rent a seaworthy boat at some point and go overnight (not sure how much preparation that would take, I've only heard of sea dangers from fiction, no clue if an inexperienced person can just do that with a decent rental boat these days).

From my experience living in the Caribbeans, you shouldn't do that alone or inexperienced to begin with, I'd recommend hiring a skipper to take you and a few friends for a couple days, and mention you want to ride by night to see the stars. Prefer a moonless night, or close enough.

I truly realized what the galaxy was, sailing at night. It's a sight that you never forget indeed. Whenever I think of times before the modern era, when everyone could see that at night... so many stars, such wonder just above... kinda makes you glimpse at a very different perspective. Maybe more 'magical', less about us people and animals and more about the cosmos in its entirety... I don't know. It's humbling and inspiring. These glorious first sights of our galaxy stayed with me to this day, some 25 years later.
I've tried this argument before but it seems to upset people. If the queen of another country is on your money, you are not fully independent.
That code is wrong. Its obvious why its wrong when you think about the closure representation. Forcing a developer to understand the implementation is not inconsistent with the C++ mentality (see: everything having to do with inheritance and parameter passing).
True! Like Houston, TX ... which looks a little like the flying spaghetti monster ... http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=3675...

The poly files that you get from the process outlined in the readme file will include islands/voids. It's pretty cool.
If I had a crystal ball, I'd bet it'd depend on the Docker Host and what the canonical union filesystem choice is.

What I've found is that the answer/preferred answer to your question is ultimately quite fragmented across organization and application types.