jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The general idea from that is: computer systems that know a lot about you can provide personalized services for you or about you. Those services can be to your benefit or detriment, depending on who controls the data, their intentions and their priorities (e.g. quick cash grab vs sustainable customer relations). If you want better examples: Google maps knowing your location allows you to navigate in places where you don't know the surrounding area or where you are exactly; Gmail reading all your mails allows you to filter crud out of your inbox and pretty much solved the spam problem that plagued the 90s; Facebook makes a lot of your life transparent to corporations, but it also does allow you to keep up with the lives of friends in distant places that you don't meet often. Now, I am all for solutions that make your private data more opaque to the services that consume it, and the way they consume it more transparent to you. But services based on your personal information will not disappear, and the reason is not some dark evil conspiracy to monitor your every step (or, at least, not just some dark evil conspiracy to monitor your every step) but the fact that people find this services useful. Like the industrial revolution, the issue is not that we are going forward with this new uses of energy/information, but that we are doing so largely without consideration of their harmful externalities (pollution in the case of the industrial revolution, misuse of private data in the case of the information one).
Growing up in rural Arkansas I never considered raccoons cute or cuddly. The ones you meet out in the forest there are basically nature's version of the ninja. Vile things that will hiss at you and attack animals of any size.

It wasn't until I moved to California that I saw the suburban variety of raccoon. I was taking the trash out to the dumpster when I came upon this fat, slow raccoon waddling across the parking lot. Seeing me made it waddle slightly faster, at a point where it tried to go underneath a Civic. It was too fat to do that and got stuck halfway and squealed a little bit before it glanced back at me and waddled around the car.
love that first graph, one can clearly read the geographical differences in social behavior.
Clojure is continuing the LISP subculture that has existed for a long time, nothing new here.

OO will continue to be successful for accessibility reasons, and it's demise will continue to be predicted to have arrived.
so, does doing these make you a good manager? interesting.
I always presumed "mm" was an abbreviation for "mille mille", which is Italian for a thousand thousand.
> Britain has given a back-door bailout worth around £10 billion to the Republic of Ireland in an arrangement that was never explicitly approved by Parliament, it can be revealed.

How alarming! Aaand in the very next sentence:

> The money has been pumped into Ulster Bank, a subsidiary of the state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland which was rescued by a public cash injection of £45 billion five years ago.

Somehow your glorious Times seems to have confused the Republic of Ireland with RBS's subsidiary Ulster Bank.

An analogy should not be necessary. The difference between a country and a subsidiary of one our own country's banks should be quite obvious to you.
Almost certainly the M1 is still "vulnerable" to the same attacks that other current gen CPUs are. The M1 is of course a speculating CPU (and quite a deep one at that), and there doesn't appear to be any rollback for modifications to L1/L2 during that speculation when a branch miss occurs.
Gradle: Inexcusable API churn and arguably worse spaghetti builds than Ant ever had, with loads of undocumented "magic".

Maven: BACK TO XML? Awful. Maven's common directory structure is about the only positive it brought, and I still wince at "src/main". They should have flattened more. Also the pedantic "coordinates" or "artifacts". These are jar names and versions, people, not some cyber virtual reality.

Maven, while it did push forward on pulling dependencies from repositories, didn't separate the dependency download from the code build, so build reproducibility became dependent on the repository access/status/completeness.
Not a protester; A rioter and an insurrectionist.
Its like saying: "Why you still on internet, there are dozens of BBS available"
"Musk who's never run a profitable company."

Isn't the profit of a private corp. like SpaceX an unknown variable? They do not have to publish any financials and they don't.
my parents had an intercom system in the house when I was a kid. they regretted it as soon as my siblings and I figured out how to operate the phones!
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There's no built-in mode for constant power. (Nor could there be, on the original Bike that I have, as the resistance control is manual.)

The new one might have it.

At a hardware level I'm not sure how well it would work. Out of the box, the tablet only queries the bike for cadence/power/resistance every 100ms, one query at a time in round robin, so your power reading is only coming every 300ms. However, the bike responds to queries much faster - on the order of 200-300us (https://ihaque.org/posts/2020/12/26/pelomon-part-ii-emulatin...), so an external device could certainly ask for updates faster. I'm not sure how rapidly the micro on the bike itself actually updates its own measurements and what ultimate time resolution is possible.
> Element's client is not "nice": we can fix it.

We can, but part of the selling point of Matrix is choice and I've found that not only is Element not "nice", but it actually has different goals as a client (it seems more Slack-esque in focus, than WhatsApp-esque to me).

What we need if the aim is to advocate for an alternative to WhatsApp is to find something that solves the same problems. There's a few options on Matrix.org[0]: Nio[1] seems very nice but it's iOS only and still alpha, but I've been using FluffyChat[2] and I've found it good sofar. Much much nicer than Element at least.

[0] https://matrix.org/clients/

[1] https://nio.chat/

[2] https://fluffychat.im/
Everything I hear from friends at MS was positive (atleast until they shuttered the lab in Mountain View). More than anything else the rise in morale among Softies has been almost unbelievable.

Steve Ballmer hurt Microsoft in many insidious ways that may not be visible in the numbers - but hurt Microsoft he did. I once had the opportunity or misfortune to hear him speak about the cloud (~2011) and it was clear to everyone there that he had no-firckin idea what he was mouthing about - it was cringe-worthy. He was the epitome of Hubris & Cluelessness.

Satya seems to be making the right moves embracing open source, making MS office for tablets, Windows 10 for free upgrades, Substantial investments in Azure, A new Device focus - I heard the Microsoft Band team were given a Blank slate and told to go nuts (mostly).

There seem to be a number of other interesting things brewing...
It's probably more along the lines of the same data being processed within the same chip. Not actual memory bandwidth. This HPU they are talking about is processing depth information and eye lines (probably quite a bit more often than 60hz), it's quite possible they are processing the same data multiple times over achieving theoretical bandwidth in the TBs. It's disingenuous sure but it's like saying a network with 20 100GB routers can handle terabytes of data.
7075.471698 technically rounds to 7075. Less than 0.5, round down. 0.5 or greater, round up.[1]

But saying "what's the least" and then "round your answer" at the same time is silly. If you ask a student "each bus holds 10 people; how many buses do you need to move 32 people?" the answer is 4. I would hate to be asked to "round" that answer.

7075 rupees is too few; 7076 is the first whole number that is "enough."

The real meat of that question comes down to the student being able to figure out "do you multiply by 0.96, or do you divide by 1.04?" And the sample exchange with the fee is pure filler to distract the student.

EDIT Rerad Blackjack31's link, and you will find the original question, which isn't as butchered as it seems at The Atlantic. The present the example rate because they first ask the student to calculate the exchange rate. END EDIT

Plus, what about fluctuations in the daily exchange rate? The student is supposed to assume that isn't changing, but then why in the world are we talking about the daily exchange rate? Say it's a fixed exchange rate.

[1] I had a third grade teacher who insisted you could round to the tenths position and then the unit position, and always get the same answer if you just immediately rounded to the unit position. This is the test case that proves her wrong, but for some reason she didn't want to hear it.[2]

[2] I was in some ways a prat.
> Why not just use the SR2 servers to trick the vendors?

Thank you.

We must assume that the FBI is a rational and intelligent adversary (even if we have a difference of opinion on specific public decisions or press releases that impact our perception of their intelligence).

They're not going to expend the resources (or, as The Grugq might say, burn a valuable capability) to compromise a server when they already had a man on the inside (Cirrus).

I would be willing to accept that it's possible they were on a dragnet fishing expedition around the same time to see what they could sweep up, and they just happened to use this information to confirm the efficacy of their Tor attack. This would also explain Doxbin going down, but so would Doxbin and another target of theirs being on the same bare metal server.

> At first glance, it's an awfully big coincidence to write off, but there are mitigating factors.

Agreed. Given what is already public knowledge, it's far from the most likely explanation.
This is hardly new. In college, we had a guest lecture from a mechanical engineer at $POPULAR_MOTORCYCLE_MANUFACTURER. He described how his team cooked up a new engine design that achieved some significant performance increase over the old design. Only problem? It didn't sound like a $POPULAR_MOTORCYCLE.

The new engine was delayed for a year while they cooked up a mechanical noisemaker to adjust the sound.
This author makes a good case that current approaches toward producing AGI are misguided:

> The Skynet misconception likewise informs the hope that AGI is merely an emergent property of complexity, or that increased computer power will bring it forth (as if someone had already written an AGI program but it takes a year to utter each sentence). It is behind the notion that the unique abilities of the brain are due to its ‘massive parallelism’ or to its neuronal architecture, two ideas that violate computational universality.

But I don't think he's done a very good job of supporting his assertion that thinking (in the AGI sense) is a computational process. The closest he comes is:

> But that’s not a metaphor: the universality of computation follows from the known laws of physics.

That's it? Because physics?
To be more specific they are dictated by the hashing algorithm and how it is set up.

Say you have something like a straight md5/sha256/etc. It's fairly likely that there exist rainbow tables that will insta(for some reasonable value of insta) crack any reasonable password.

On the other hand, if you use a salted hash you arn't vulnerable to rainbow tables, but an attacker can still try an altogether silly number of passwords per second given enough hardware. (or again, more specifically GPUS against most common salted hashes).

On the other other hand, if you use a memory hard key derivation function (scrypt/etc.), you can quite easily set things up such that even with a ridiculous amount of hardware it is infeasible to launch any sort of attack. The problem then, is that the harder you make it for attackers to attack your passwords, the slower normal logins are for you, affecting scaling.

So at the end of the day you need to weight off how much of a problem this is in the specific circumstances you are in which will then dictate the solution you can provide.
If causality is broken, how do you know it wasn't the first thing on our minds? :P
There's also the tendency among lispers to shoot for the right solution, instead of the working one. I've encountered that a few times in #lisp.

When I write Lisp, I am trying to Get Stuff Done. The Right Way matters, but not until it matters (Everything is fast when n < 10).

So I'd rather advocate by - in due time - rolling out working projects for people to use, pointing, and saying, "Look, this is useful software in Lisp".

c.f., Worse is Better, Worse is Worse, and Worse is Still Better, by rpg.
Can you really get an original paper written at a price that's at least conceivable for a high school student to pay?

It might be difficult, but that's not even the whole problem. Worse is that parents, who do have the money, will sometimes fund their students efforts to cheat (or even do it behind their backs).

I've spent a long time as a tutor (SAT, GRE, subject tests, and most of the math/science courses at high school and college level) in a relatively affluent town, and I've been approached on a few occasions by parents that wanted me to help their kids cheat in various ways (including asking me to pose as their student and take the SAT for them, write college essays, do take home tests and homework assignments, etc.).

It's by no means common; I've had hundreds of students and only a small handful of requests like this. But it does happen - never underestimate what some rich parents will do to buy their children success in spite of academic laziness!
Using a grammar and a dictionary of common words I can see attacks on 3 or 4 word passwords being somewhat feasible although I should do some back of the envelope calculations.
Ugh, I don't have the time/focus to wade through all of this. With that qualification, a few comments:

# Crafts-men (-persons) used to be a mainstay of useful products. There was an aesthetic, but they were also successful because they made the best that was available in a locality.

# A significant portion of "craft" is creation and maintenance of tools. Good craftsmen spent considerable effort acquiring and maintaining the best tools for the job. And many were rather inventive in coming up with their own tools an processes. Some caught on and spread; some never escaped their locality and isolation. Many were replicated independently and frequently.

How much of this sounds like today's software industry? A lot, to me.

Programming is a craft. Anyone who's had a brush with e.g. UML, automated systems, etc., knows it's not a hard science (the underlying mathematics is, but we're talking about "programming", here).

I'd say that craft begets artisans beget art. It's a continuum, not an either/or (XOR, as it were).

P.S. Artists would be lost -- at least, to perpetuity -- without the "craft" of their profession. How to make and choose materials that provide for expression and for durability, for example. Canvases, pigments, binders, instruments, notation, sociological/anthropological (whether formal or otherwise) studies (folk songs, dances, etc.).
Some universities have very strict punishments for cheating - sometimes including kicking students out of the school, permanently. Having due process in place in order to ensure that those punishments are meted out fairly is a good thing.
The danger with semantically meaningful passphrases is that they have a lot less entropy than you think they do. I still use them for everything, but it is something to be aware of. (You can get more by e.g. padding it with a number, doing the usual l33tspeak tricks, etc.)
Funny thing: I would pass his interview, I know everything he asked and have opinions on everything he asked, but I am so terrible at javascript + html + css. I HATE doing that kinda work. Those three freaking languages man.
You seriously created a service to help guys find other guys to help them pick up women?

As an industry we already suffer from being viewed as not being very inclusive to women and being misogynistic. This does not help at all.

Edit: And it really doesn't help when you say that you're active in the "daygame/nightgame community". You're essentially saying that you're a pick up artist.
Ahh yes. Climate Depot. Brainchild of Marc Morano, whose previous career highlights include (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Morano):

"He began his career working for Rush Limbaugh from 1992 to 1996, during which time he was known as "Limbaugh's man in Washington".[1] After 1996, he began working for Cybercast News Service, where he was the first to publish the accusations from Swift-Boat veterans that John Kerry ... Beginning in June 2006, Morano served as the director of communications of Senator Jim Inhofe."

This is totally the person I trust to get an unbiased perspective on science reporting.
Request your invite at this page:
http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/

Your email address will match your public username, for example:

Profile: facebook.com/username

Email: username@facebook.com
It's strange to me that some people don't use email. It seems unavoidable at this point in time.

Some of important things that go through my email In box are my order statuses from online stores, bill reminders/confirmations, password reset emails from website.. It's seems so hard to avoid email unless you don't do any of those things.

It doesn't seem to be really merging communications, but trying to separate it out between friends and other. It seems dangerous that any important emails go to your fb account since it might get dumped into the 'other' folder and possibly not get looked at for along time or never. People won't be getting rid of their other (work/personal) accounts, so fb is really just another account that they'll have to check.
This seems to be a frequent comment, which completely underscores why Wave failed.

Wave's sophistication was in it's "protocol-ish" nature, with more in common with SMTP than with "Email".

Of course telling end users how cool SMTP is by providing an ugly, slow email client is going to have predictably bad results; which is exactly what happened to Wave.

I would argue that Facebook's new "thing" is the opposite of Google's Wave; it is a slick finish on a cobbled-together collection of communication mechanisms instead of a robust general-purpose collaboration protocol with a shoddy "alpha-class" UI.

Unfortunately guess which approach typically gains commercial success?
FAQ page is also up:
http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=new_messages
Not only bad lighting conditions but repeating patterns, low-contrast backrounds and large areas of a single color. Kinect is far more robust than any kind of stereo vision, and at the same time far less CPU intensive.
I hadn't seen the SECWatch site. It looks like there is a lot of potential there, thank you.
My question too. I don't get the comparison to Wave.
>Very utopian without the least bit of practical sentiment.

Yeah. Welcome to the Internet. :)

My point is _that_ most answers to this question will be off topic.

>It's a question of copyright and how to enforce it properly

Many of our answers amount to 'Not at all!'
I think that this exact post, a few months ago, could get very different comments, possibly along the lines "wow, so what the hype about NoSQL is at all?".

Instead here I see tons of comments that are to the point, that show how we are evolving as the hackers community about the ability to understand tradeoffs with database systems. This is a huge win.

Also I bet the reverse is true, that the "magical features" about NoSQL systems to be fast, scalable, handling huge data sets, fault tolerant while distributed, everything at the same time, is hardly believed at this point.
I think you may be mistaken.

These guys were acquired by Google "after a rejection from YC".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940386
2010 MBP were very good, 2011 MBP had the issues highlighted in the article, 2012 MBP seem to be ok.

2012 Retina MBP are generally good but have some known issues (eg LG display losing pixels). Mine's currently getting a bunch of things fixed which will probably end up being a new keyboard, logic board, and another LCD.

2013-2014 rMBP seem to have the 2012 issues fixed.

Airs are ok so long as you don't intend on flogging them. They can have overheating issues too.
Yeah, here in Canada the magstrip has all but gone the way of the dodo - it's chip-and-pin or tap everywhere here. IIRC vendors here stopped taking magstrips before the Americans even.

Cards still have magstrips on them but I can't remember the last time one got used. Maybe a gas station.
Given the success of the framework, you just might need sone more time before it clicks
Given the context of the conversation you'd have to intententionally misinterpret the message to assume I was talking abut breasts in a non-sexual context. The core takeaway is very much still the same: A child in 2022 will likely be exposed to extreme amounts of sexual content online, far more than most humans in history have had the ability to see their entire lives.
It's not even enough to build one fab, not to say about an umbrella project. It might help to screen future Carl Zeiss or Applied Materials though.
These examples remind me why Elixir's pipe operator is so beloved.
They’re white, they’re supported by right-wing money and the provincial leaders don’t really want to do anything against them (as they’re conservatives pandering to their base). The protest is misguided in Ottawa as most covid restrictions and mandates are set at the city and provincial level. Our federal government controls planes/trains, returning to Canada and possible/probably the federal workforce.

But this supposedly started due to being unable to enter the us, which is controlled by the us government. Not a damned thing Canada can do to change that. Basically, it’s revealed itself as our 1/6 moment - the right could not win an election so they’re resorting to alternate methods. And showing various us or European flags during the protest isn’t helping garner support.

I’ll stick with public health over mob rule. I’m disappointed when right wing politicians totally change their commentary based on who is protesting. Not surprised, just disappointed. The only freedom they’re fighting for is their own and they don’t care who or what turns into collateral damage.
A DAO could just as easily decide to do the same, but it'd need to be built into the smart contracts.
On macOS, you get both the ribbon and the hierarchical menu.

Heaven help you if trying to navigate the "ribbon" on an iPhone though.

That said, I actually do like the simplified ribbon on Office for the web - once you figure out that it too is different.

I do kind of have a bone to pick about complaining about change for its own sake though. You could say the same -- all the earlier resources are useless - about the move from Windows NT to XP to 7 to 10 to 11 (we'll pretend 8 doesn't exist) when buying a new computer. Why not complain that your Active Desktop is missing, the desktop sidebar from Vista was a poor imitation and gone in just one release, Netscape Suite doesn't load webpages due to SSL errors and you can't publish webpages from your web browser like you used to, and you have to double-click folders to open them instead of single-clicking them like back in the old days of Windows ME? Sometimes change is just change and you have to adapt to the times.
The article talks about fairness. But there is much more sides to fair salaries. I wrote about it some time ago

"The reason for discontent and thoughts about unfairness is that people have very different ideas about what is fair. They base salary fairness on different things. Some think it’s fair to base salary on past performance, current performace, past performance and future potential, needs, equality, experience or current market demand."

https://svese.dev/fairness-in-salaries/