jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> At that rate I am guessing the network doesn't have to deal with rain or snow or customer issues cause obviously the budget for all that is not required because how can it even exist?

There is no such issue that ISPs are unable to solve with the infrastructure they have deployed at least for now. Keep in mind that what I am saying is anecdotal but I have a strong feeling it is the same for most Indians. In fact it was worse off earlier when they charged exorbitant rates but failed to deliver proper connectivity. Now things have improved multi-fold! Connectivity issues are now only evident when you travel to remote areas of the country. Earlier we had connectivity issues in the City/Town limits.

You are forgetting that it is at a scale of multiple hundreds of millions and potentially billions of customers that these ISPs are charging cents from. Every single day. That with value added services, which they charge extra, would mean they make a fortune!

Cost of labour is cheap in India. Land area being small is an added bonus as that would mean lesser cable laying work and lesser infrastructure. And since we skipped a generation of DSL/ADSL lines and jumped straight into 4G and Fiber we won't be facing much of the same issues that first World countries are facing today. Fixing network issues would be easier than say USA (you can fit 3 Indias (3.287 million square kms) in one USA (9.834 million square kms)).
I will add, though, that lately it seems to me Qt has acted as though they wished that agreement did not exist.
This makes me wish I paid more attention in my virology and Recombinant DNA classes. Reminds me of how strange biology actually is.
In the town I live, the speed limit is 40 km/h unless otherwise posted. i.e., you'll never see a 40 sign, because that's implied!
There must be some sort of psychology that kicks in when somebody tries to pass you, that more or less forces you to speed up. It's like, "oh, I didn't realize I was going slow until I saw you try to pass me...let me speed up a tad." This seems to happen in any passing situation, whether on a two lane road with a passing lane or an eight lane highway.
For anyone searching for a blocking solution on OSX, the name is actually Glimmerblocker. It still works on Yosemite.
A computer "stuffed" into a USB-like drive would be cooler still.
minimum balance fees
Because SpaceX's end-goal isn't to land humans on Mars to conduct a bit of science. It's to start self-sustaining off-world colonies in order to increase mankind's prospects of surviving in the universe.

You can literally put an infinite number of rovers on Mars and still not have this.
"Just because he set up a scholarship in his name doesn't make the things he did any better."

I don't think I was suggesting that it did.
Some people are addicted to power and control...California has I believe the 8th largest economy in the world...that's plenty reason to want to be governor at any cost...Note, people like Whitman were essentially molded from their childhoods to pursue more and more success, the more the better...Haven been a successful CEO and earned billions is just not enough, there is always more to accomplish for these types. Harvard/Princeton/Stanford...do you see a pattern here?...
They pretty much have to do something about ARM; x86 has seen its peak. By fostering a broad and robust RISC-V ecosystem they will help create some serious competitors for ARM and challenge the whole notion of paying licensing and royalties for hardware IP (see also Thunderbolt 3). They are a product-centric company that is building towards being the non-geopolitical-powderkeg fab of choice. ARM has no plans of making their own fab, nor is going to be capitalized well-enough to do so even if their IPO goes above expectations. That leaves them reliant on outpacing innovation from open source hardware. In principal this seems like a decent state of play that will probably accelerate RISC-V to its potential and make ARM better in the process.

>"IFS is, Intel boasts, the only foundry optimised for x86, Arm and RISC-V." Typical Intel marketing BS. Some things will never change.
You can also use visual block mode to highlight a range of commands and change in one go. Eg

C-Ve}c

So that’s set visual highlight block.

Move to the end of the word.

Move down to the end of the paragraph.

Change the highlighted text in one.

Once you think like that it trips off the fingers from muscle memory.
> Actually how could you possibly deliver secure messaging if it doesn't work with simple identifiers you already have like your phone number? Everything should be secure, that's Signal's thesis.

It's tying my Signal identity to my phone number. To speak in US terms, you're safe from your comms being intercepted by the KGB, but now you're a person of interest to the CIA :)
Thank you for sharing this. I think we should add such organizations' links to idefine website. In this case, I'm guessing not all Australian parents would know about this org.
During covid, my 70 y.o. mom started going on long walks (like five miles) and fasting. Mostly out of boredom, she self-isolated.

I noticed that she is a lot sharper now. Previously, she would forget something in a conversation or ask twice. Now she is absolutely here and if we for example discuss some video, she mentions details that I overlooked.

That was quite a change.
I recently needed to start pumping out complex diagrams for work, so I spent a few hours learning mermaid, realized it couldn't output to SVG, and then spent another hour learning graphviz. Now I can barf out ugly but functional, version controlled diagrams of arbitrary complexity.

While I normally use openSCAD when modelling objects for 3D printing, I recently fired up the web version of SketchUp and knocked out some curtain rod bracket stiffeners in about 15 minutes.

Visual point-and-click tools are great for learning, and continue to be useful for simple, ephemeral things that don't need to be better than arbitrary. As soon as you reach a high level of complexity, or need to iterate on and optimize something, having the text based description language seems to become orders of magnitude more productive.
There is a specific formula to compute fret widths, that is something like that:

Dn = [(L – Dn-1) ÷ 17.817] + Dn-1

I implemented it in my guitar learning software, because, I agree with you, visual perception is important in my opinion:
https://www.fachords.com/guitar-learning-software/
Because our society would fall apart without a social credit system. How else are we going to judge flight risk, loan risk, apartment lease risk, employment risk, etc?
There are a number of other (generally much cheaper) visual data transformation tools competing with Alteryx. For example: Easy Data Transform, Easy Morph and Knime.
Thank god for Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ :)

Nice thought experiment though
> "Is this important that I'm willing to die to leak it?"

In an ideal world, people should not be confronted with the do-The Right-Thing-and-die-for-it vs. business-as-usual dilemma. Not even after military training.

> he took specific oaths to protect his country and his fellow soldier.

Couldn't politically sabotaging this war (by leaking embarrassing videos and criminal backdoor political deals) be interpreted as making his country and colleagues safer by sending them home sooner? The invasion of Iraq is totally wrong, messed-up thing that in a reasonable world would never happen. Iraq was a mess before the war, but now it is a huge bombed-back-to-stone-age mess that badly needs cleaning. And I doubt a continued invading force can help with that. What Iraq needs is schools, law enforcement, separation of church and state, a functioning, modern, justice system and, hopefully, in one or two generations they will be back where they could be five years ago had a competent intervention been executed.

I am not advocating treason and I am not going into his apparently childish motives. It's unclear if people would really die from his actions. If you leak supply-run schedules for two months in the future, this hardly puts any lives in danger - the schedules just have to be changed (and if it becomes known the schedules were leaked, it creates a good opportunity to expose your military opposition)

As far as crimes go this whole war is an endless supply of them. If the US had to invade someone else random for what Afghanistan was supporting, it could as well be Mexico. It would, at least, make shipping tanks easier. Saddam was a Very Bad Person, but he wasn't stupid. It's safe to assume it would be possible to bend him to reason with a far smaller human price than an invasion.

And I think this is why we try not to discuss politics here...
Wrong NaCl, which would have been obvious if you'd read even
literally the first sentence
In kind... probably not. Perhaps if you'd have said 'fix some electric work that I couldn't do', in that case it'd be different as this article describes work that anyone could do. e.g. they'll talk about expensive $5.000 a month apartments having awesome functional kitchens installed, yet everyone orders food.

In scale... well the handyman is a one time thing. But it seems a lot of new tech workers making $100k a year are fine spending $5k on ordering dinner 5 days a week for $20. That's kind of weird compared to all the centuries before. But at some point it might become more like the drycleaner: a service outside your home that's more expensive, but more convenient and not necessarily much fun. Perhaps cooking will become a once a week hobby type of thing, with everyday food not becoming a case of preparing lunch or dinner, but rather a case of choosing fashionable and exotic lunch or dinner, much like shopping for clothing. Who knows.
Can mail server operators other than Google opt into this?

It would be an administrative simplification for me if China would block itself from my port 25.
That depends on the crop.

Most tomato plants picked commercially are short plants that have a relatively low density per meter squared (at least where I lived at in the mid-west).

Now when I grow my own plants I can grow them at much larger heights and in higher densities than can be effectively machine harvested. Plants that I grow myself have a much higher yield than the average field crop, but at the cost of much more intensive labor.
>clarky07 tried to make it sound like I said that 35 years was no big deal, but I didn't say that.

>35 isn't even half a lifetime. He was born in 1987 (geez, he's younger than I am)

How is this not minimizing the severity again? At the very least it's more than half his remaining lifetime, and possibly all of his remaining lifetime. He also gets to miss out on pretty much any chance at having a family. His only friends will be other convicts. I hope he at least manages to get out on parole, but there is certainly a chance he doesn't.
This wastes time and cost 5$. More than once a driver has not been able to find me at the airport (despite me giving directions as to where I am) and then cancelled the ride. This weekend I needed a ride after I missed a flight, the driver shows up and after 15 minutes of me walking around the garage looking for them the ride is cancelled and I get a 5$ charge. I’m sure you can dispute this, and they’ll likely side with you, but it’s 5$ and I’d bet they bet on most people thinking their time is worth more than 5.
Netscape produced a browser that could be crashed by a malformed page.
I started playing Factorio and fell in love. Then I started to watch tutorials on how to make better iron smelters and the guy said he has 1000 hours of Factorio gameplay. I quit Factorio right there. I decided to spend my time learning something IRL and started learning how to make DAPPs.
None of this was called into question as far as I understand.

The problem in the initial critique was that the author of the book misattributed the epidemic claim to WHO. He subsequently admitted that he misremembered and really it was the CDC. He provided a source to back this up on the blog.

The poster above then seemingly called the veracity of that into question, based on a brief investigation.

This prompted me to do my own investigation, because I wanted to know what was true after all. Up to that point I was unconvinced of any malicious intent on the author's part.

And it turned out that the author was not lying. That's all.

***

As for the use of the word "epidemic" I agree -- it might have been an exaggeration/hyperbole or colloquial use (a bit out of place then) on CDC's part. This is probably why they eventually changed it to "problem".

The article was online however for close to 6 years under the original headline and even though it was updated long before the book was published, I would not hold it against the author, because the book was most likely written over a long period of time.

That there are mistakes and errors, shows to me that it might have been a bit rushed towards the end.

None of these significantly alter the validity of the message and the author admitted and corrected them -- a revised edition of the book is apparently in print. To me this means that he cares.

***

On a personal level, I feel the message of the book comes from a good place. It does point to real problems that are systematically overlooked/ignored/marginalized/ridiculed and it is completely plausible to me that taking steps to fixing them might significantly improve society. Some exaggeration might be in order.

I read the book and the information did contribute to substantially improving my life. I verified some data in it by self-experimentation. It is harmless and scientifically-sound enough to offer people looking for solutions to their sleeping problems.

For the unfortunate these are absolutely not trivial and incomparable to bad posture. Bad sleep can make one's life absolutely miserable. A lot of miserable people makes for a miserable society.

Hope you sleep well.
Why they don't charge any fees? I don't use clubhouse (Android) but if I were user I would be happily paying 1-2% fees and would rather prefer seeing service has source of income.
Interesting. Elixir builds are the fastest builds in my CI pipelines. I make sure to cache the builds/ folder; usually only a small amount of files need to be re-compiled, which is very fast. This was actually improved even further in Elixir 1.11 [0]. Compared to TypeScript + React and Java, Elixir build times are significantly better.

[0] https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.11/CHANGELOG.m...
I don’t understand this studied attitude of worldly nonchalance here. ‘Oh of course, everyone should know there are dozens of rare book experts with alpine rescue skills operating in London. Everybody knows that’s the obvious business to get into given the ridiculous cost of commuting from zone C. It was only a matter of time before one of them went rogue and joined a Romanian criminal gang.’

Does the fact someone carried out this crime, in this way, not surprise anyone even a little bit?
Very confused. Why would a plumber need magic to be able to estimate a job? I had one come by my apartment and all he needed was a flashlight.
As a non-clubhouse user, is this just for supporting creators, or is there something a user might expect in return for sending money?

If I just wanted to support someone, I would think a venmo or cashapp handle is preferable since those are already hooked into my bank account and won't incur fees. I'm guessing this is just a first and necessary step towards adding payments elsewhere in the clubhouse platform though.
Not to criticize but that is, or should be, bog standard in any writing. (Assuming the acronym isn't widely used and the words that it embodies essentially a trivia contest answer).
The 128-bit storage of ZFS reminds me a bit of TeX.
As far as I can remember reading the TeX book, Don Knuth also wanted to play it safe. Internally, everything relies on integers (no floating point operations), and the smallest internal unit of measurement is less than the wavelength of light (don't remember the color ;-) ).
Although… on second thought, it would be good training for startup founders.
"The value the person is bringing to Google was never close to $6m, otherwise she would have already been getting that (or close to it)."

This is rarely true, unfortunately. Salaries are determined when you join a company, before you've had a chance to bring any value to it. After you've joined there's usually just the annual increment to look forward to and maybe some once-off bonuses for exceptional achievements. It's very unusual for salaries to be adjusted otherwise, no matter how much value you've been bringing to a company... unless you indicate that you might be leaving - which is what seems to have happened in this case.
It bugs me when I read these Rejection Therapy stories and I see them using it as an excuse to be a jerk, like lying to a taxi driver and asking for a free fare.

In one of the other stories, they said that it's about making a human connection with people you otherwise wouldn't have. I think that's a beautiful idea, and makes me want to try it. But this "I'm going to try to exploit your goodwill and see if I can get away with it" thing? No thanks.
This guy must be living in one of those areas of China with massive pollution. Lead poisoning would explain this kind of delusional logic.
I could see this as being useful for the horribly timid, but it would be annoying if it was employed by the general population. There is the underlying idea that if you aren't being rejected, then you aren't asking for enough.

I know plenty of self-centered people who ask for too much and people oblige them. Do we really need to celebrate this? Every person doing this is putting at least 30 people into the somewhat awkward situation of having to reject someone. I know I don't particularly like having to tell people "no, you can't do/have that".

How about a therapy where instead of asking for our every whim to be satisfied until someone says no, we spend 30 days thinking about what the people around us would want? Perhaps we can call it Empathy Therapy and start a blog movement!
Whether or not this is true, Apple should add something like File Vault to iOS. Encrypting your backups is redundant if you're already encrypting your whole home directory, but none of that matters if they have access to your unencrypted phone. Check out the police downloader devices the ACLU is investigating: http://www.aclumich.org/issues/privacy-and-technology/2011-0...
i thought the same thing until i read the actual instructions:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Washer-Dryer-Laundry-Alarm-u...

it uses an accelerometer to detect the motion of the washer. no need to dissect your large home applicances!
Is there documentation that I am missing?
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14327802 and marked it off-topic.
I've used an Arcteryx Granville 20 for the past 3 years. Its waterproof and has a has a nice padded laptop sleeve inside it.

https://www.arcteryx.com/us/en/shop/granville-20-backpack
My understanding is that Phase 0 features the ability to lock up eth and take it out of circulation.

You might consider if perhaps the parties in control of that system have a different idea of its point than you do.
Your defense mechanism is actually the exact thing described as protection against a simple DDOS attack.

With a REAL ddos attack you will get so many incoming traffic that your bandwidth is saturated before any software will come in effect. A real ddos is a hardware problem, and it cant therefore be solved by software.
I agree that irrational fear, extreme aversion, discrimination not rooted in sincere religious/moral beliefs, and dislike simply for the sake of dislike should be incomprehensible.

This, however, is compatible with the uncontroversially true belief that disagreement outside of the conditions stated above exists.

Obviously, there is absolutely no sense in revising definitions such that they fail to account for the actual use of the terms. So, I get your point.
Yeah:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/05/europe/ireland-airbnb-hidden-...
This is part of why democratic norms are as important as law: it norms as a kind of cartilage leaving the law to be relatively simple and strong. If you lose the cartilage, it's painful bone-on-bone (that is, you are forced to try to pass unambigous laws with norms baked in which tries to replace norms with laws, and the downside is in a complex, slow system, which is it's own sort of peculiar horrible injustice).

There are too many examples in the US and Australia where LEOs ignore all norms, seeing them as an unjust limit on just power, and manipulate the (asymmetrically well-known) law to retroactively justify any action. Even when LEOs are legally challenged (a rare enough act of courage, and risks further victimization) and time and again get away with it anyway.

And yet, the people who should be clamoring for stricter, fairer justice against LEOs are LEOs, because every time they get away with it, they win the battle but lose the war for legitimacy. When LEOs lose legitimacy, it leads to a cynical world where laws like this password one are expected to be pushed to their absolute limit by LEOs, and it will be, once again, up to the courts to enforce the norm.

I fear that the modern smartphone is just too big of a temptation for centralized authority, because of their universal appeal and potential for as close to a (retroactive AND realtime!) panopticon as we can get without the palantírs from the Tolkien universe.

Why don't we force people to put cameras in every room of their home with full access given to the law enforcement? And if you resist this, do you have something to hide? I think it's interesting how strong this argument is, even in it's most obviously oppressive form. Coming up with an equally satisfying counter-argument is our #1 priority as privacy advocates.
Good luck searching for "go" in the internet.
It's all in the books. Gang of Four, etc. Learn from good books instead of bloggers who have a type called "Backend" and make brilliant discoveries that DI and nominal typibg are bad despite the whole industry using them successfully.
I wonder if there might have only been the appearance of unbiased trustworthy journalism, as the "thought bubble" of a society was so much smaller just 20 years ago, and journalists could get away with much less knowledge on a topic since readers couldn't really fact check them.
I agree, I could tell. The shadowing was wrong, he looks like a bobble head. That being said, it was too close for my comfort... it won't take long before they can fool anyone.
Or the intermountain west. Utah is the home of the Diesel Brothers. If you want to feel like garbage, go down that hole.
It reminds be a lot of the DeLorean.
The SEC should have a chat with Elon about that. He already put one of his cars in space, and owns a company trying to get to Mars. That puts it at about 80% joke in my mind.
This is way to coherent to have been written by Bohr.
Ah ok, I do not know the name for that particular tool but I've seen them in use for sheetmetal bending in large quantities.

The device the OP linked to is meant to be hand operated and only for small series. Setup takes forever and then some, redoing a setup for another batch is impossible because it will all come out slightly different.

That 'press brake' uses a tool-and-die style mechanism to deform the sheet, very accurate and highly repeatable, quick as well, cycle time is a few seconds.
I assume parent poster was being sarcastic
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is actually my favorite. Hope you get to it! Some of his later books, as you note, just got so preachy and overwrought, I couldn't get through them.