jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel like reddit used to be used to be an amazing social media platform where you could connect with strangers and learn so much, find tons of interesting discussions where people acted fairly civilized. It was basically the complete opposite of twitter. Many online/worldwide trends also seemed to be born there. If you went on reddit, you were ahead of the curve. You knew what was going to become trendy months before anybody else had even heard of it.

However, the management has shown a ridiculous lack of transparency, and they've just kept making the user experience worse and worse. It makes me sad. Reddit is an amazing resource, and the people who run it are basically shitting on a goldmine. It's like they're hell bent on destroying their asset. Is it because they fundamentally misunderstand what they have? Because they don't care? Because they're greedy, or just plain incompetent?
"Want to go to Little League this year little Timmy?"

"Why, yes please, dad."

"I'm sorry, we live in an RV on a Mountain View side-street without a street address, so not this year, son."

"Awh, that's okay, dad."

So not only does this harvest personal data, it discriminates against homeless families.

They want as much information as getting a passport or Real ID identification card.

Shady.
He-3 being natural, and therefor required to follow the various laws that allowed it to come into existence. Energy going into creating something useful. BTC on the other hand is just difficult to control supply artificially.
How is that relevant to the question of why Muslim-majority countries aren't sticking up for Uighurs?
I did a detailed comment a while back summarizing the issues and the convoluted history of this case (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230340).

In 1996, Novell sold UNIX-related rights to SCO but specifically excluded all copyrights and all patents from that sale - meaning that Novell continued to own all such rights.

Less than a year later, though, the parties did an amendment that described what Novell was holding back as follows: "All copyrights and trademarks, except for the copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell as of the date of the Agreement required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies."

The wildly ambiguous language here ("except for the copyrights . . . required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies") - together with SCO's greed and venality - is what spawned years of wasteful litigation. Weak as its claims were, SCO was able to use "rights" it claimed from this language to derive equally weak claims that its supposed rights were being violated by this or that trivial element within Linux so as to constitute copyright infringement.

This final judgment in a key trial, then, is a tremendous outcome for the open source community. It kills all cases at their root by imposing a definitive judgment that SCO acquired no UNIX copyrights of any kind and, without that, its foundation for mounting assaults against Linux and the rest is completely undone (without regard to what details of Linux are alleged to infringe).

Two caveats:

1. Apart from SCO's dire financial condition, there would be nothing preventing it from appealing and continuing the mess on the multi-pronged fronts on which it has been fought. SCO (in its current form) is essentially an investor-backed operation that sought in recent years primarily to capitalize on this series of lawsuits and it could theoretically continue to do so if the investors had the appetite to continue funding the mess. It is widely believed that this is now a venture that is spent, however, and let us hope this is true.

2. This matter is now safe as long as Novell or some other trusted party continues to hold the UNIX copyrights. But Novell itself is in trouble and its assets may soon be acquired by private equity firms who might in turn sell such assets to trolls (see http://url4.eu/3p37m). Again, let's hope not.

That said, this victory does appear to be complete and is cause for celebration.
I think a twitter hashtag is essential here. The quality is great, and the dj's talented. The mixes I listened to I found on the mixlr twitter feed. I hope you plan on eventually having some way to search these mixes or some kind of directory.
My guess is that they used to be 1900x1200, but someone got the clever idea that they could save a few bucks and market it as HD (it does have the number 1080 in it!) at the same time.
One Word: Symbian.

Make that two: Ewww
I was going to put cornrows in my hair and one of my cofounders basically forbid it (I'm not black). He was right, I would have looked like a ass.
That seems a little futile to me. It's like trying to ban "google" as a verb. Or "xerox."

NY Times' standards editor Phil Corbett can set whatever rules he wants for the paper, but his disdain for this verb isn't going to influence all of the blogs, the social media, and other publications in using it.
But the point was that insiders say that most resources are working on iOS now (on the software side). It just sounds like Apple is going to have fewer and fewer announcements for OSX -- especially as it pertains to developers targeting OSX.
I think we can do better than c, but it's a lower bound: it avoids your concerns and is still a large improvement over the status quo.

I'm rather unconvinced that's an improvement over the status quo... you've just granted the government the power to euthanize people. And you just know that they're going to find a way to abuse that. They'll start by giving extensions to really valuable people we don't want to lose; great scientists, artists, writers. And then it'll be "gee, I guess politicians are pretty awesome as well, perhaps politicians should get another hundred years too..." Pretty soon it's effective-immortality for political favours. No thanks, I'll take my chances with old age.

The best solution is:

(d) Build starships and expand into space.

But I worry that curing aging might come first.
"Oh, what do you do for a living?" -- "I'm a spy at McDonald's"

What an existence. I'm sure there are more pathetic and cruel jobs, but imagine selling your soul for hamburgers.
Would you call a library inefficient? Miles and miles of books that no one is reading right now? And all that concrete and rebar that no one can read :)
99.9 percent uptime for pods? That's 10 minutes downtime per week. We use simple VMs (on Google Cloud) at work and deploy services to them using Nix, and they have much less downtime than this. Does Kubernetes make it so difficult to do better than 99.9?
If we actually got enough USB-C ports to make up for all the removed ports (like, 8 or so?) then I'd agree with you, and be willing to put up with the temporary pain of dongles for the sake of a glorious future where everything's USB-C. But we've ended up with the worst of both worlds: say I bring out my laptop for movie night and I want to plug in power, projector, surround sound, a DVD drive, and a mouse, that was easy 5-10 years ago and it's impossible now.
No, it is not a typical Register headline, it is a half of a typical Register headline. However, HN has limits on headline lengths and it has been cut instead of being editorialized which afaik is another HN guidelines violation.
Exactly, I've worked for a couple of start-ups that focused completely on growth hacking. Product was 2nd simply because of tech debt build up. A lot of people assume reading GA data you can unearth these hidden gems, it's nothing more than gambling.

The issue with me being the reality checker is that I am considered 'negative', 2 years down the line after I'm long gone and reality bites, I look like some sort of messiah. Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

Doing my SEO volunteer work with small shop owners in the UK during lockdown opened my eyes. As you said the average business is hammered with SEO, PPC, growth tips (snake oil) to the point you have to try it. But they don't have the time so it's half baked mostly and they feel disheartened. Honestly, ad-tech is nothing more than going to the casino and thinking you can win against the house.
> Compared to Walmart, Target is absolutely abysmal on many fronts. The amount of wasted fuel caused by their horrifically inept logistics makes Walmart look like the Sierra Club.

I suppose this explains why my orders from target.com always seem to come in an absurd number of separately shipped boxes. Once I ordered a small set of nonperishable grocery items and they were delivered in maybe 7 boxes - including one toasted sized box that held only a single can of tomato paste and an air pillow. It seems to me like they must lose money on many orders.
Dokku is "it" for me, but I'm sure there are others. Works pretty well, but it's (to the best of my knowledge) for one node only.
Exactly, my point wasn't some hashtag filter. But some new checkmark that this may be political [or controversial or start a flamewar] etc.

Sometimes people like starting one with warning, I see it all the time. I don't see how Twitter can't create a simple filter like that.

I could go through all my tweets and instantly choose which category it goes in.
probably the images it downloads for the backgrounds it shows while idle? 500mb is a lot even for that thou
> Pretty much everything here is wrong. The Fed is every bit a government agency as NASA.

Longer explanation (and citation) needed.
> live comfortably for the rest of your life just on the interest from low-risk investment.

50-100k/yr is a comfortable life in most places. That's 1.2-2.5 million in capital. Definitely don't have to start a company of be in a start-up for that at all.
I was scanned the comments looking for suspects. My best guess are: osipov, usaphp, and ibi7.
I imagine to myself LikeALittle.com pitch deck slide:

Total Available Market: "A bunch of horny college students in a confined location, i.e. a campus"
Righteous indignation? You defaced their site. The least you can do is say, "hey, I fucked up your site, here's how". Otherwise you are basically a 4chan script kiddie.

Nice delete.
The U.S doesn't invade, sheesh, rather "occupy", and having company is a priceless cure for loneliness... Although looking at the U.S. National Debt, someone is trying to put a price on keeping other places company.
The vast majority of modern websites use JavaScript for trivial purposes. Like adding advertising, or auto focusing on fields. Most of them still work fine without JavaScript.

Some bits of github don't work unless you enable JavaScript, but most of it does. So I only enable it when I'm using those bits.

I also make sure I log out of github before I start browsing other websites.
If you're referring to Desk quoting Gruber on their home page, they quoted from Gruber's "thank you" post which, while it borrows a lot from the original sponsor-written post, is still written by Gruber himself.
> the person who writes 1,000 lines in 2 hours of code that is buggy and unmaintainable

> the person who gets the same assignment, does nothing but sit in his cubicle thinking for a week. And then over the course of a day writes 100-200 lines that does %90 of the assignment, and with no bugs.

I think you're leaving out the person who writes the buggy and unmaintainable version in 2 hours, in order to discover any pitfalls they failed to imagine before starting the project, then spends the remaining 38 hours of the week thinking about the proper solution to both the foreseen and unforeseen problems.
Yeah it's an odd choice considering they cannot be at a scale where they'd need the supposed benefit of sharding. Any real ACID database would work fine. Not that this means they have problems, just that they need more code to deal with things they could trivially have their DB enforce otherwise.
To add to this, I'm a developer and I have relatively little knowledge what is really happening with the machine. Where a layperson knows something like 0.1%, I know instead something like 1%.

The level of detail exhibited by some in the recent "what happens when you type google.com and hit enter" thread made me further realize just how little I understand.
The package has now been removed.
Can you recommend some episodes to start with?
There are some common themes off the top of my head:
1. Pantheism: everything is one, evil is only apparent, so don't let stuff stress you out (ties into my previous quote).
2. Eternal re-occurrence: everything has happened before in a cycle, so whatever bad stuff is happening will eventually pass.

It's essentially a bunch of thought patterns to keep people calm during bad times. Believable? Like I say it helps me, but I don't believe it that much.
I wasn't speaking literally about the XBox.

Other approaches would limit the utility of the SD card (in the phone) and needlessly expose to users the difference between "flash" and "SD" storage. This is awkward and counterintuitive for users, who will wonder why they can't install more than x GB of apps on their phone sold with x + y GB of storage (where x is flash and y is SD). Such is the current state of Android.

I'll stop here, but basically, in this case none of the activities you mentioned are hindered (all can be accessed via USB). The DRM simply helps ensure that all storage on the phone can be treated equally as trusted. It allows the OS to assume all storage is the same, and enables it to use all the storage on the phone for all purposes.

Luckily, there are many options in the market, and users can vote with their money :)
Pull syncing wouldn't use any more bandwidth then "push" syncing. As I mentioned, the only downside is the upload speed for most ISPs is much worse then their download speeds. However, you have this same problem with push syncing. The only difference is that for push syncing, by the time you need it, it's most likely already been pushed up, and then down again.

I mentioned two things that solve for this:

1. Local network syncing. Much of my syncing occurs between my desktop and my laptop. Syncing shouldn't require an outbound connection (send up to dropbox, send down from dropbox).

2. Beyond large media files, most files people want to sync are still fast on high speed internet. Most pictures and documents aren't large enough to be a concern.

Finally, while most people's internet connections might be lousy, then they will suffer with the syncing regardless of the method used.

So yes, I do realize upload speeds are an issue, but it's not a big problem.
scares the bejeezus out of me

as it should.
There's no excuse for a dedicated blog to have 4 stylesheets, sure. But this is a subpage of a big website. The stylesheets are based on logical separation, with more sheets getting added in as you go to more specialized pages. On the frontpage, which is really more of our focus, there's a single CSS file.

CSS doesn't get anywhere near as much benefit from being minified as JS does. There's much less scope for transformation of the code to make it smaller, so if you're serving your CSS gzipped (which we do) then the difference is minimal at best.
google James Golick http://jamesgolick.com/
He has some amazing conference lectures about how he scaled his 1.5million page view website.
Restaurants deal with that by getting rid of the smoking section, which I think nearly every US state requires by law now anyway.
Yeah, that reminds me of my Thinking Machines experience. I later heard it took them another two tries to fill the position I was applying for, I think I heard the second guy timed out on them as well.
Please actually read about the Therac. It was not used improperly! Software errors combined with sloppy design caused the machine to malfunction under normal use conditions, delivering the wrong dose and/or wrong type of radiation, with victims perceiving flashes of light, feeling heat from the radiation, and dying.
> The actions weren’t referred to as sedition and most media outlets avoided words like mob, treason, etc.

"Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/william-barr-...

This is about the protests over the summer, not the recent insurrection. Yes, I'm calling it that. I think functionally it matters a bit more if the USAG is using words like "sedition" compared to media outlets or internet posters.
You'd never see any of it. Depending upon who it damages, it either (a) wouldn't be published, or (b) it would be suppressed by media outlets for violating some obscure policy.
This is the video that really got me thinking about this: https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/kt2u9v/conf...

Not sure what happened, I hope we find out, but this video is especially damning.
Yeah, I use IB so I'm sub-1% now. IB also lets you simply withdraw more cash than you have in your account so you can use it for whatever.
if you are talking about 'suspend' generally, this really depends on the model (read: drivers), not sure on hibernate itself (since i just sleep)
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good"?

I'm not claiming this is a perfect solution, I'm sure you're right there would be complaints, and I'm also sure that no perfect solution exist. It's just not that easy to deradicalize people, and it's just not that easy to deal with people actively attempting to deceive and radicalize the public. I do think it would probably be a superior solution to what is being done right now, where there are even more complaints, and you get increasingly "strong" filter bubbles.
My suggestion is: work your way through the Matasano Crypto Challenges. They're free, just sitting there on a static web page, with no signup required.

Actually implement cryptographic attacks before trying to design crypto.

That's not just my recommendation; it's also what Bruce Schneier has been writing for decades.

The problem with my suggestion is that most people who work their way from block cipher attacks through RSA error oracles are "scared straight", and lose the desire to plunk fancy crypto into their applications. Once you see how subtle some of the most devastating attacks are, you start to see why so few crypto engineers write chat apps.
Can you blame them? One way or the other, it was probably one of the only strategies available and ended up being successful.

Unlike larger companies, they had to solve the chicken-and-egg problem to distribute the product.
Six seconds? What were you doing that was so time-consuming?
I must be very old or very paranoid, but I wouldn't for one second think of developing from scratch using only public infrastructure.

If I want to learn rail, I'd start by installing it and running it on my local PC. What's the point of relying on heroku, aws, etc for just everything? What's the point of using github as the main hub for everything? I'm synchronizing stuff to github explicitly and carefully, my casual, day-to-day operations are all running on my own hardware, network and services. Even my most simple websites run first at home, then are sync'ed to the web after I've checked everything works fine.
It took a while to realise just how serious this site is, at first glance it looks a bit like a domain park landing site.

I should be able to click on "Latest Infractions" "Highest" etc to go to the full ranking.

In firefox: hovering over the links in the grey bar you have under your logo, the hover background image (light gray box) is larger than the normal image. Makes all content below it move when I hover over the links.

Over all, I think the site is too muted, either make it less grey or brighten up the red. Since you are dealing with transparency here, why not go for something more clear? eg, blue?

I think it's an awesome project though, and wish my local government was more open.
> BSD is fully integrated (it's a full system, not just a kernel) and there are compatibility guarantees.

That's true of Debian, too, though. We can disagree on which project does a better job at it, but they're both full systems, compatibility tested and with long-term support for stable releases.
I got a notice from teamhint, very pleased as I wasn't sure which email I used for posting to Gawker/Valleywag. I then changed my main logins under that email.
I don't think he means books in general, but ebooks, as compared to paperbacks/hardbacks.

I recently bought a Kindle, and every ebook in the Amazon store, without exception, is more expensive than the cheapest paperback version available at Amazon.

That's just ridiculous, and no matter how "close to zero" any marginal costs of a printed book might be - and I'd like some proof of that, because I find it hard to believe that handling, shipping, storage, printing, testprinting, typesetting, missed shipments etc, are so cheap - an ebook should never be more expensive than the same physical paperback.
A short primer in unconstrained, high-dimensional, non-linear
global optimization (over time!)

You can't do it.

So you need more than just testing.

Unconstrained and high-dimensional means that your search space is IMMENSE. Non-linear means that the optimal designs may be arbitrarily twisty, very small, fractaline and chaotic, and, most importantly, unconnected. Temporal dependence means that even if you magically find a good solution, it may fade with time.

Fortunately, we never have to do that because we use an incredible amount of prior design information (craft) to ensure that our search spaces are much smaller. This page provides an overview of that information (and even includes a call to test) which will hopefully put you somewhere in the neighborhood of a useful page and inform you of what direction to go.

If you "just had to test" then there'd be no need for art, science, literature, stock markets, language, thermodynamics, technique, craft, effort. Computers would have already solved everything (not that we would have ever invented them).

My opinion is that testing is vital because it's your only consistent, trust-worthy way to measure your value function (conversion rates). It's how you put a stick in the water to measure depth. That is only one tiny part of a complete solution no matter how important it is.
I agree with all of this, but what bothers me is that the record industry is using a form of reverse pie fallacy in which they claim that they would have had X amount of sales, if only those darned pirates hadn't stolen the music. A more sophisticated (but still fallacious) version goes: Album Y has been pirated Z times, therefore we lost Z * (retail price of the album).

This is blatantly wrong. They do not know that they would have sold X albums if it weren't for pirates. Furthermore, if a person pirates an album, it does not mean that they would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it or if they were more ethical.

The people I know who horde large amounts of music do it exactly because it doesn't cost them - if they had to pay for it they simply wouldn't have even close to that much music. They wouldn't go and buy all the same albums. They also wouldn't be enthusiasts at that scale.

tl;dr: Fallacies exist on both sides.
I'm still pretty happy with Monaco, and on Windows I usually install Proggy when I install Vim.
The movie The Final Cut has some interesting commentary on a similar concept. In it, a neural implant installed before birth records every moment of a person's life: waking, sleeping, dreaming, etc.
I like the idea, but instead of watching desktops, why don't you try monitoring web activity instead? At least for me, procrastinating means browsing the web.

For privacy concerns, you could open source the monitoring tool, but still charge for the service. With the log data you mine, you could generate productivity reports and the like.
Simple: You wont get computer help from me anymore if you try message me on WhatsApp. Install the messenger i tell you to install.
He literally stood outside near the Capitol and said, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore” and then encouraged the crowd to go to the Capitol.
Lol, yes.