jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why it has to be trained on encrypted data. Isn't it faster to train on the cleartext data (and of course use the same instruction set, the unencrypted counterpart of it)?
Instead of killing machines, the terminators would be lawyers. That could be a very interesting plot.

"Are you Sarah Connor? ... You've been served."
As someone who has a speech impediment, I really speak too fast too, but then thinking back to my speech therapy, there the emphasis was on breathing, with the focus on diaphragmatic breathing, which has the effect of softening the face and jaw, the relaxation of the shoulders and the chest. When I do this, my cadence drops, my words flow better and I can impart what I want so much easier.

Now I have written that down I really should do that more often ;-)

Interesting article too.
>Unfortunately, no legislation appears to exist anywhere in the world...

I think you'll find a couple of countries, including China and Russia, have very effective methods to prevent foreign influence on their own citizens, all while they run very effective campaigns against the naive internet citizens of Western countries.

IMHO this is highly asymmetric warfare.
Any update in it's availability? It says late 2014 but nothing else.
Agree with this. It's the current thing I am hating about every single music player application. There just isn't that much data to manage - why do they all insist on a binary blob for playlists and organization?
> I believe SQLite also has to write the data twice, using the WAL. Maybe there is an optimization to avoid that though.

If I understand correctly, it writes the data twice if you're not using WAL. With WAL, it only writes the data once [1].

[1]: The "Performance Considerations" section of https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
> I'm sure some teams work longer hours than others.

That's actually a point I implied but didn't expand.

If you don't set a standard, any one employee's experience is going to depend on the local subculture.

So it's a lottery. Maybe I'm in the team composed of grizzled 3-4 year veterans, who've seen it all, some of whom have young families or hobbies outside of work.

Or I fluke into the team of whizkids who moved to Palo Alto 3 months ago, straight out of college, and who have no social life and nothing to do except work at the most exciting stuff they've ever done in their lives.

Alternatively, I can work at a company where 40 hours is always 40 hours, no matter what project you're on, no matter what your life situation is, no matter how long you've worked there -- and regardless of when the Big Project Is Launching.
http://www.sikuli.org/ (it's a better library IMHO)
That's not how management sees talent like programmers and engineers. Management sees them like another commodity labor resource.
>Yes he became really rich but the net sum of wealth he provided in return has made everyone else much richer than him.

Prove it. This is just neoliberal dogma and is contradicted by empirical research that shows that economic growth is awarded to the super rich while the middle and lower classes slip backwards.

Class warfare means that Elon Musk is lowering my wage. I don't give a fuck about paypal or spaceships. I want affordable food, housing, healthcare, childcare, and other basic necessities. These are no longer available to the majority of the population because of an artificial scarcity imposed on us by the ownership class run by neoliberal ideologues like Elon Musk.
Is Limbo the only language you can use to create programs for Inferno, or are there any others?
It hasn’t been discussed on this site yet so I don’t have a problem with the post
> easily controllable, different speeds

This is why I like having not just ^f/b full page, {}() paragraph and sentence, and of course j/k line scrolling but also ^u/d half-page scrolling so much that I mapped them it U and D in Zathura and Pentadactyl just for the centimeter of finger movement that saves.
But only if the user goes on to visit another page. You don't see how much time they spent on last page they visited, even if they only visit one page, by default.
Would be interesting to see the numbers for the least wealthy nations.
Because he mentions the TSA by name multiple times and ends his post with a sentence dedicated to it.
you're expecting competence from HE?

i colo'd at HE until last year when they ran ~400V through my racks which had 110V circuits, several PDUs and servers were damaged. that was the cherry on top of the sundae though, there had been 2 power outages at that point and 2 other outages after that point.
The attendees at Hacker News Meetups are some of the smartest, most interesting, most courteous, and most entertaining people I've met. It's true that the software running this site may need to adapt a bit, but the community itself is still thriving.

(Plug for Hacker News DC meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/JoinHNDC)
After all this, you don't think the TSA is strict on their policies?
We did an experiment in class, where we drank sodas blindfolded. Not only did we fail to distinguish Coke Cola and Pepsi, we couldn't even tell sprite from coke!

I would have never believed that they taste so incredibly similar without the experiment.
It's not about maximizing utility or ROI: it's about learning delayed gratification.
I've had a Linode 360 since Jan 2010 and love it! rock solid performance, create customer service and community.
If the men know that the girls are willingly being paid to watch, I think that takes some of the fun out of it for them.

Sure, they probably like showing their penis to girls in general, but a lot of the thrill probably comes from showing it to unwilling/unsuspecting girls.
Hmm... Looks like they made the memory easier to upgrade, but the hard drive more difficult.
No you're totally right, there's nothing that says it has to be that way. But since it seems that all of the elementary particles coalesced out of a relatively homogenous energy field after the Big Bang, it doesn't seem unlikely that all of the particles could be explained by tiny permutations in an underlying universal field.
"That's the official line, anyway. The whole issue of who is a citizen, and who has merely been there for years is part of it."

It's not a difficult issue at all, you're a citizen if the law says so. No one promised guest workers citizenship and I doubt they expected it. Only westerners subscribe to the novel idea that anyone they let into their countries are also owed a part of it (citizenship, welfare etc.).

"the Saudis gave them what looked like a marginally better option."

There are five million guest workers, a lack of horror stories would be surprising. I'm not convinced coercion to stay is widespread before I see some statistics, if coercion to stay is not widespread then I trust that most of the five million guest workers know what is best for them.
Storm on Demand (by LiquidWeb) and GigeNet are pretty good. Storm starts at $50/mo for dedicated CPU core and 2GB, GigeNet starts at $10/mo for 384MB and shared CPU
This actually shows a difference in how fascists and nationalists use words versus how the rest of us use words. For most people words are a truthful declaration of intents and ideas. But fascists often use words for a different purpose. They don't use them in their common meanings, but rather as tools to inflame and to denigrate others.

Take use of the word "socialism" or "nationalism." I've seen a disturbing tendency on the right to call anything they don't like "socialist." Nothing makes that clearer than Trump's call to the Cuban expatriates in Florida to vote against the "communist" Joe Biden.

If you know anything about Biden's policies you would recognize them as pretty standard Progressive policies. I have never once heard him discuss taking private property and distributing it as a public good. He's not once talked about erasing private enterprise. He is manifestly not communist. So the only conclusion I can draw is that Trump is using "communist" to mean "person you don't like" so he can fan the flames.

Given that, I don't think we can take anything he says at face value. This is actually a common tendency on the right, and it's why they're so good at fanning the flames. They see what our words mean and they disregard that meaning.
Agreed, I've been using an MSI Prestige PS341WU, which is a so-called 5K2K, so a 4K but wider, and I have no complaints.

I use Moom to create three screen regions (there's an undocumented command-line switch to allow a 36-based zone, which I broke up 11-13-11), and it resets everything when I plug in or out. I do have to juke the text magnification for that, which I have on macro keys on my Ergodox.

Now if only I could get focus-follows-mouse, everything would be perfect... I've only been complaining about that for fifteen years though, so I'm sure it'll happen one of these days.
Why would the media need to "vigorously look into them" if judges already threw out the cases?
That seems quite the choice to make: learn about group chats or send all your data to Facebook.

It seems quite one-sided.
I've been pondering this.

I think an MBA will help you be a better manager if you want to be, because at least there's some clue about what a "good" manager should look like.

I've met sooo many bad managers. In most cases they were bad because they didn't really know what they were doing and they felt they couldn't look "weak" or not be in charge. There's always the urge to authoritarian leadership because it's the default (for some reason).

If the MBA course is any good, it will at least have exposed such a person to other leadership styles and some management theory. They might reject it, of course, but at least they'll know it.

So, yeah, I don't think having an MBA makes you a better manager or leader automatically. But I think a manager who wants to get better could be helped by doing an MBA.

Of course, there are lots of managers who are convinced they don't need to get better, and so won't/can't be helped. And there are lots of people who get MBA's because it's a ticket to promotion and don't really care about the learning.
But limited in a different way than radio spectrum.
Interesting idea.

Or hook up eliza on your end and see what happens.
> You could do some weird things that just made every language feel, to some degree, non-idiomatic.

Could you elaborate on this?
I've used and love the Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L for the past two years and absolutely love it.
https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Design-Everyday-Backpack-Camera/...

Originally I was on the fence because it's an expensive purchase ($289). Honestly wish I purchased this sooner.

One of the major reasons I purchased this was for work/work travel so I could carry a camera with me. It's my entire mobile office as I've worked remotely. It's lived through ~100k airline miles, 60k driving miles, and the last 6 months living out of a van.

I typically am hard on my gear, but all the Peak Design gear holds up really well. It actually looks better with age.

From the top of a mountain shooting pictures to walking down any street in a major city. It's not out of place, which is really nice.

It's very modular and with a pouch or two, it fits everything I could ask to fit in with room for more.
There is a forthcoming NanoVNA version 2 that will have improved dynamic range due to better down mixers and added audio op amps.

I think the whole NanoVNA eruption (including the clones and alternatives) is outstanding. I believe there is a large unsatisfied demand for low performance instruments that are sufficient for experimentation below ~3 GHz. There are a lot of used instruments around that are large, heavy and usually need service, and there are a number of built-down-to-a-price entirely proprietary instruments from Asia, but nothing beats a device that fits in your hand, runs free code from GitHub and costs so little that you can fry it accidentally and not care much.
I think it's because historically NZ had terrible access to media. Often you wouldn't even be able to buy movies or TV series even if you wanted to, and TV shows would air 6 months to a year behind the USA, now it's usually within the same week. I remember sometimes even torrenting DVD rips for movies before they were even in the cinema.
Dreamhost had the best response of all of them (at the bottom of the article).

Anecdotally, I've used Dreamhost for years as a domain host and have had nothing but positive experiences.

Originally I switched to them for being very vocally against SOPA, and they've consistently been on the right side of various Internet legislative issues.
A similarly interesting study: ability to create sentences using prepositional phrases, like "left of the red wall", predicts performance on a disoriented search task.

https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/home/ashusterman/ConferencePos...
I run a paid service called Kopi that lets you do a similar thing, but it lets you avoid being locked in to your mail provider.

One of the reasons I started building it was so I could transition off GMail to something else like Fastmail. I worried that I needed to get off GMail sooner rather than later because the GMail address was slowly spreading out across my online presence and I was getting concerned about the massive hassle that it would be if some Google automated process decided to close my account. But I never got around to it because I couldn’t decide on a mail provider and didn’t want to go through the hassle of changing over all those addresses. Instead I was able to slowly transition all my accounts, etc. over to Kopi addresses. Now that I’m running my mail through Kopi though, I’m not really worried about a Google account shutdown - though I should probably still get off GMail, just feels less urgent now.

Kopi works by acting as a “mail forwarder” in between the sender and whatever mail provider you want to use. Of course, you’re still locked in if you use a shared domain like kopi.cloud, kopimail.net, etc. - but you can bring your own domain if you want - you don’t have to be locked in to Kopi.

https://kopi.cloud
Maybe they plan to quit hating developers with violent-to-use dev tools soon! :) That would be a plus!
I don't believe it needs to be that way. Why was one of my personal heroes, George Green able to do what he did?

Through Thomson, Maxwell, and others, the general mathematical theory of potential developed by an obscure, self-taught miller's son would lead to the mathematical theories of electricity underlying twentieth-century industry.

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Green.ht...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green

I think I have learned myself a decent amount of calculus.I suggest anyone interested in self learning calculus to to try Infinitesimal Analysis first as its more intuitive. Epsilon delta becomes easier after. And for differential calculus, consider implementing a Higher Order Multivariate Automatic Differentiator able to deal with Jacobians and Hessians efficiently. That hands on learning helps a lot.
Well, to be fair, we don't think it's shit, we just don't think there are enough potential customers for the investment. It's not just "build to another store" - my servers have to have yet another push notification service route, I need to coordinate another App Store release schedule, I have to implement another IAP framework, implement another signing path, and buy and test another set of devices.

That's money, baby. Lots of it. And unlike Mr. Bezos, I don't have thousands - let alone millions - of dollars to burn.

It's the same reason we don't build to Windows app store or Blackberry app store without incentives from Microsoft or Blackberry to help get us there.
mmmm... soldat
Yup, the dynamic reservations are going to hopefully make it into the next release 0.23. Really excited to use this for data stores such as Kafka, Cassandra, Postgres, etc.
This is a great step, one that I've been hoping for. Of course encryption without authentication is much worse than true encrypted transport (as in, with authentication), since it only prevents passive adversaries, but any sort of encrypted transport is better than plaintext. I'm also hoping this will ease the transition to TLS, since you can get it up and running without worrying about mixed-resource problems, then fix those one at a time.
>dictating changes in SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and even the company's organizational structure.

Why should the Air Force have any say in a company's organizational structure?

The Falcon 9 is already good enough for NASA cargo missions.

The air force has been dragging their feet through this whole process and their regulations seem to be created to be so narrow that only ULA (United Launch Alliance) is able to achieve certification.
Maybe drug usage shouldn't be considered a "moral" decision....
Why not both? Google's pioneering approach (TOTP, SMS, automated phonecalls, and offline backup codes) is so thorough that I've been disappointed by almost every other implementation.
Your comment makes me think of a "Warrant canary" which we could set up to inform our customers that we have been served with a government subpoena:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Thanks!
Not mention Japan's massive cultural exports, e.g. Godzilla, Nintendo, anime, samurai and ninjas, you could go on and on.
Perhaps, but rejecting math instruction as being "irrelevant", "boring", "not cool", is a choice.
> Glad this exists. Still does not replace imgur. You just need a free tier. No way out of that.

Having a free tier is what turned imgur into the mess that it is now. When it start it was a no-bullshit image host. But how do you host images for free?
> But why should they do this? MS Office 365 is 150 USD per year per user.

As someone in the Linux/Debian/Ubuntu area of my organization, the main headache with licensing from what I can see as an 'outsider' is not so much the price as the auditing/compliance overhead.

We can spin up/down as many Deb/Ub/CentOS systems as we want and not care, which as much RAM and (v)CPU as needed.

Trying to do the same with Windows and/or VMware seems to be something else.
They are not so shut-off to immigration as it is commonly imagined.

Also we might argue that the Chinese "self-migrate" with a huge amount of students that go for studies outside China but return later.
Have you ever spent any time south of the Mason-Dixon line?Conservative "austerity" is the bastard stepchild of Jim Crow and it's pretty much been the central party plank for decades.
https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/are-property-taxes-ac...

> But California’s effective tax rate is even lower. The effective tax rate is based on the market value of the home, and the most recent property tax bills for the county. In 2018, the state had an effective tax rate of 0.76%, according to Irvine, California-based ATTOM Data Solutions.
California’s effective tax rate ranked 36th in the country, with the average property tax bill coming out to $5,354, according to ATTOM’s data.
That lower effective property tax rate is because so many properties do not change ownership for decades or for generations, while property values have posted healthy increases, Mr. Soroy said.
Here's another reply so you can down vote this one too.
I laughed hard at this one! The Hamptons is basically a vacation destination in eastern New York state for very very wealthy people, who don't want any riff-raff cluttering up their picturesque vacation views. 'The Wicker Man' is a film (+ a remake) about a police officer who goes to investigate a crime in a remote idyll where everyone knows everyone else and runs into...problems. Translation: let's ensure that the 'wrong' people stay away.
I think you're getting downvoted for the perceived negative tone, which I'm not sure if you intended. It's true, but I don't see anything wrong or sinister about it. If I was in charge of SpaceX, I would have done the same thing.

Even without the video, several news sources jumped into calling the mission a failure, even though the actual mission of resupplying the ISS went perfectly, and the landing was a long-shot experiment. Those calls would only be louder with a flashy explosion video with no backing explanation on hand, ready to go out with the news of the landing failure. By the time more info was available, the story would be gone, and the explanation would be ignored. This would damage SpaceX's brand, ability to get Government missions and private contracts, etc.

It's also entirely plausible that they didn't bother to install a high-speed data link from the barge to the mainland for the purpose of getting the video instantly. It would probably be an expensive and finicky way for them to instantly distribute video that would more likely than not be damaging to their brand.
I'm pretty sure biology falls within the S in STEM. "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a pop-science book, surely you could have used a more literary example to represent "the arts."
Over-enthusiastic mortgage lending was fueled by the securitisation of that debt through CMOs, which create this situation in which those who work in mortgages retail couldn't care less if the mortgage is ever repaid - all they need is to find someone who will buy the security. Who created CMOs? Who made billions from them - until the collapse? Who was opposed to any form of regulation in financial markets?
Just like a marxist you keep coming back to “you need to learn more”.

I already know a fair bit, that is not the issue here. And I’ve lived long term in places as diverse as Japan, Russia, China, the Middle East and Scandinavia, so I don’t lack experience of the world. That’s why I know that normal people don’t care about trustless or decentralized money.

As to bitcoin alternatives, there are plenty, both with crypto and without. Many other cryptos are technically far superior to bitcoin, but go almost unused because that’s not the point.
"My take on RAFT is that it's basically Paxos"

You're right that Raft is Paxos for the leader election phase, in the same way that VR is Paxos for the view change phase, or that Paxos is basically VR's view change but for deciding a value.

But a better way of saying this would be that Raft is Multi-Paxos (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123701), because Raft is much more than Paxos (in the same way that VR is more than Paxos because it not only decides on a value/leader but is also a protocol for replication). I think this is where our misunderstanding came in.

Yes, I've read the linked "Vive La Difference" paper. As the excerpt makes clear, one of the key differences is active replication (Paxos: with multiple concurrent processes that want to decide on a value) vs passive replication (Multi-Paxos variants: VR and Raft and ZAB all protocols with a single leader elected for a given term/view during which multiple rounds of replication take place).

The name Multi-Paxos just means that the first round of Paxos for leader election is reused for multiple rounds of replication, driven by a single leader instead of competing processes always using the minimum two-phase Paxos.

"I have this thing for underdogs"

Yes, me too, and that's why I tried to show that VR is no less than Multi-Paxos in my original comment, and that Raft is not newer than Multi-Paxos in my follow-up. It would be great for VR to receive the recognition it deserves.