jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The thing is: your use case and wants seems to be different than like, 90% of Whatsapp users, as they expect to never lose their history. So... Signal is not a replacement to Whatsapp
On OS X you can achieve something similar using ipfw

For example,

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 500KByte/s

Limits all network on your box to 500kb/s

sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 443

To direct all traffic through port 443 through your slow pipe

sudo ipfw delete 1

When you are all done delete
See Guided Access.
Neat!

I wonder how they handle shipping and warehouse...
Well, the iPhone is expensive because Apple can collect fat pure profits in rent from the cellular carriers.

Unsubsidized, the iPhone costs $800 when the iPod touch costs $200. The cell modem that differentiates them costs a tenth of the difference in price.
I honestly assume my equity will give me absolutely nothing, and aim to get pleasantly surprised. Lots of things can happen. You could leave before you vest much. They could close yet another round of financing, devaluing your shares.

Oddly enough, in my personal experience, the most equity I ever got was when a company decided not to go public, but who's parent company was quite valuable. They offered to buy back our shares at a pretty nice price, since our shares were effectively those of the parent company.

Nearly everyone I know has had equity in all of their jobs for the last ten years or so (SF Bay Area), and not one of us has had any lifestyle-changing equity come out of it. Surely we all hope our current or next jobs will have a nice big financial event during our tenure, but I don't plan or anticipate it.
There's one in Fremont, another in Kirkland.
aka exactly what straw man means
I’m charging my portable batteries with the power left on my Macbook.
The solution that everyone goes on Zoom, regardless of whether or not they are sitting next to each other. Pretend the team is fully remote, but still take advantage of organic, local interaction to skill up new developers. We were coincidentally doing this in my workplace 6 months before COVID took off.
If anything, the poorer people will be the ones going to 68. So your grand plan is to let the poor freeze while the rich stay warm?
While I agree with the sentiment, don‘t forget the elephant in the room is vaccine supply. It‘s just not arbitrarily scaleable and most vaccination centers in my EU country are sitting around idle.

What some describe as smart moves by Israel is also rather selfish. It’s made possible by the fact that they are a rather small country that has a large support by major powers for historical reasons, but they made a pact with the devil here: They simply outbid everyone so the vaccine goes to them INSTEAD somewhere else (including Palestine). They sold all kinds of patient data on top in order to get where they are now.

Vaccinating the 100x larger EU is simply a different beast. If the EU had been as "smart" as Israel here and bid as much, don‘t forget we‘d all be stuck at 5% vaccination speaking in absolute numbers of vaccine availability.
It may depend on the particular country, and jurisdictions on the internet are gray areas... That said, in the US if you are paid with stolen money and then informed of that fact then you are knowingly in possession of stolen money and would have to return it. If you no longer had the money (used it to pay bills, live your life, etc) then it probably gets more complicated.
It isn't right, but the authorities truly believe that these leaks are aiding terrorists to evade their surveillance. They see Miranda in exactly the same way in which they see a drug mule. Not knowing what the documents are that you are carrying is not an acceptable excuse. In their opinion he is carrying stolen property.

It is perverse, but it is these warped authoritarian beliefs that the public is up against, and sadly, most of the public don't care.
Seems cool. HTML5 games can now have their Atari/Nintendo tracks.
As a fellow Englishman I can confirm that the title and the article are laced with sarcasm.
I think you mean some more engineers with world-class expertise in network storage: the fact that EBS/S3 have worked as well as they have at scale should indicate they have some already.

Sure, they have failures/slowdowns etc, but they are pioneering the space of providing massive infrastructure to heterogeneous clients at low cost, and still manage to keep it working enough that companies entrust their business to them.
Hey thanks for those. I hadn't noticed them as a whole, but I'd stumbled across a few of them from search results, and now I open the site and realise it looks quite familiar!
Except that planned economies invariably fail to deliver the needed goods and services. There is a reason why overproduction is the foundation of capitalism's success.

I even recall a paper that demonstrates that the market problem (balancing supply and demand perfectly) is NP-complete.
One thing I've been asking myself is how much fresh meat gets thrown out from western supermarkets because of expiration. It might be possible to reduce a lot of waste simply by requiring meat to always be sold as frozen.
Why are there no integrated anaerobic digesters for home biogas production? I have a small home-made one and its truly surprising how much gas is generated that can be used for cooking and running a small generator
There's the question of what inputs are used to provide the feed to grow the fish.

E.g. for salmon

> On a dry-dry basis, 2–4 kg of wild-caught fish are needed to produce 1 kg of salmon. The ratio may be reduced if non-fish sources are added. Wild salmon require about 10 kg of forage fish to produce 1 kg of salmon, as part of the normal trophic level energy transfer. The difference between the two numbers is related to farmed salmon feed containing other ingredients beyond fish meal and because farmed fish do not expend energy hunting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_salmonids
There's a "translate-shell" package for Linux that provides a "trans" command. It makes for the most fun lossy pipeline, though there's no compression.

$ echo "It’s Handy That I Have My Library Card Because I’m Totally Checking You Out." | trans -b en:vi | trans -b vi:en
Completely free when you need to inspect the fish and the whole country to check the water. report.
France got rid of their monarchy some time ago. They still get plenty of tourism. I can give plenty of other examples where the royal family was let go and tourism continued to flourish. The important thing is that all of the palaces and castles would still exist and become open to the public as museums. If anything, tourism would improve if people could visit Buckingham Palace like they visit the Palace at Versailles.
”Kind of a lot to keep up with sometimes.“

Indeed! It’s striking what a difference there is compared to the 70s/80s when all tech in utility computing was proprietary and owned by IBM. These days companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook provide a lot of building blocks as FOSS libraries. The innovation rate is amazing.
Sigh, don't presume I "don't understand", and then feed me self-serving VC rationalizations that are essentially propaganda.

> " Immediately after taking the investment founders could sell the company for the value of the cash and profit handsomely while the investor loses the bulk of their money."

That's nonsensical on the face of it. If the company is worth $10M and an investor puts in $2M for %20, then the remaining equity is $8M. I don't consider selling a $10M asset for $2M (and netting %80, or $1.6M) to be "profit[ing] handsomely". It's giving up %84 of the company.

Plus it's trivial to prevent this by requiring, as part of the deal terms, that a sale of the company have investor approval.

Your second point presumes that there's only one class of stock. There can be preferences, such as the anti-sale clause I mentioned that common shareholders don't have. That's completely different from liquidation preferences.

Your third point is silly, I'm focusing on being denied a fair deal in a liquidity even and you're talking about "Donswide protection". It is true that treating people fairly works better on the downside too.

But your comment "what are you starting a company for in the first place?" makes me think you're naive and reacting as if I've dared to disagree with the common wisdom of our lords and saviors the VCs.

I've been starting companies for 30 years, this is experience talking, kid.
What does that have to do with social media?
> I think they would be pretty pissed off to know that they've been banned for months or more because they said something that rubbed the mods the wrong way at one point.

We know, but some of us enjoy reminding Ian Murdock's friends-in-need of what they did.

Preferably before it's their turn to ask for help...
The ventilators were a death sentence. Many of the people who died early on, died not due to COVID, but due to their lungs getting damaged by high pressure vents. Some were kept on high pressure for much longer than is normal.

There was a lot of bad advice coming from doctors in Europe, and also there was the idea if you had them on a vent, they were on a closed air system and couldn't spread COVID in the hospital. This was disastrous.

Doctors do not use them unless necessary today, but it's no doubt this is why many of the early death counts, especially among younger people, was so high in places with high vent use.
iOS doesn't let any apps run in the background. That's "fine" though, because the app can receive push notifications via Apple's push service, and that wakes up the app when you receive a message. That's supported by practically all public XMPP servers these days.
Places where I've seen it, people who have the right of way take that to mean they get to play "traffic cop". E.g., at a 4-way stop the "extra polite" person who gets there first, instead of going through the intersection first, waits and waves the person who does not have the right of way to go through first, which makes that person (and everyone else) confused, and then causes a lot of slowdown, frustration, etc. Of course only happens in certain locales, where it's part of the local driving culture.
I live in Europe, and the universal reaction I saw in my circle was shock. People don't think the US is perfect, but the events of yesterday are completely outside the range of what they expect to see in the US.
>Being told that you are unwanted in a community and shown the door is not censorship.

Didn't claim it was.

>That said, claiming that only right-leaning folks are being mocked or told to leave communities is highly disingenuous. Think about being a liberal/left-leaning gun owner and trying to participate in the vast majority of gun forums online.

I didn't claim this either, and quite frankly your eagerness to put words in my mouth is telling. In any case I'd be surprised if most gun forums that aren't on Reddit will just straight-up ban you for being liberal. But Reddit's viewpoint-based moderation goes much deeper than in subreddits that have ancillary ties to politics; for example it's very common for regional-based subreddits to have viewpoint-based discrimination that excises conservatives. If this is egregious enough it can cause schisms where you get left-wing/right-wing versions of the same sub, but usually that doesn't happen.
I have never seen such an accurate image in all of my life. I honestly don't get why Ruby has the hype that it does.

"Elsif" - a Ruby statement that makes you think, "Why the hell didn't they just bother to put the other 'e' in there? There's already one in the beginning..."

The OOP in Ruby is confusing to many, as well - it just ruins the relationship pattern of language orthogonality.
You could have said the same for the initial releases of Chrome and Firefox
AIDS has actually become manageable, and most HIV+ patients in the developed world die of other causes (cancer, aging, etc.) instead of AIDS. So I wouldn't be too sure.
Except Magic Leap is only a concept video right now, publicly at least. This is a product ready enough for reporters to try.
But then you can take one brick from the bottom, throw it out, and you launch into space.
> Brian Greene who wrote The Elegant Universe says he thinks Einstein's original papers would've been round-filed if submitted today.

I'm not sure that tells us very much, the field has changed a lot in the past 110 years. Would other papers of the time be rejected today also? He could have been on par with his peers.

I don't think it was his thought experiments so much as predicting the precession of Mercury's perihelion that got everybody's attention. "You have a vivid imagination? We all do, kid." And then "You figured out the Mercury problem?!?!? Tell me about those thought experiments again?"
2 years ago I would've gone with a vanilla 3 tier app in AWS with cloud formation... Now I'd pick DO with a CoreOS cluster running Docker containers for each service... or maybe Atlas by Hashicorp [1]... No vendor lock-in, still flexible and fun to build... =)

[1] https://atlas.hashicorp.com/
I wish I was fat and trying to lose weight so that I could fast and walk. Instead, I'm skinny and bulking and need to stuff myself sick during my precious hour of freedom. I sit alone at my desk with my office door closed.
I've worked in groups where we've had mid-afternoon "walkies," and about eight of us would participate (not all on the same day). We got a lot of interesting engineering issues out of the way (in addition to the usual bantering and social interaction that helps glue a small team together).

When no one else wanted to go on a walk, I would still go. Got some interesting designs out of it (for instance I designed an MMU, http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383 ).

Don't know if the sewage plant paths east of Sunnyvale are still walkable, but they were pretty nice a few years ago, once you got past the main plant's icky smells :-)
> Philosophers can not seem to comprehend how a mass of meat can create consciousness and take leaps to try to rule out the mass of meat, regardless of the fact that they all know that when bad things happen to said mass of meat bad things also happen to said consciousness.

Neither can anyone else, so far.

> Insight into intelligence will come slowly, and it will come from examining, categorizing, and eventually understanding the internal workings of the human brain.

Insight -- yes. AI -- not so certain. Here's why: it's plausible that intelligence in the human mind emerges as a consequence of an intractable process. We might not be able to understand that intractable process. But suppose that instead of understanding it, we mimic it: we build a replica of the human brain, and it works! But this is not quite artificial intelligence but a replica of natural intelligence. This is not just a semantic difference: even if this mimicry works we may not be able to direct it in any way. For example, we won't necessarily be able to give this brain replica super-human intelligence, without, say, giving it a mental illness at the same time.
Josh has a part 2 in the works :)
I watched the live demo and was really excited about this and Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thurrot got to use it and are really excited about this. They also mentioned that it will be released this year. They talked about it on TWiT. Paul said that it looks as good as the pictures on the holo website.
It may be worth reviewing cybersecurity insurance policies with your legal team!

At a former company, we had a nasty case of BEC with a vendor that ultimately cost us well over six figures - over 90% of the loss was recouped by filing a claim with our insurance.
Well, you can also have both. Most tools should be prescriptive unless you have to go really deep and do your own. If you have the expertise, it might be ok for you to choose the rules of what you are doing. If you are not, being guided it's much better. I agree with the general idea of the article, but I also think it would have been interesting to discuss more in depth where each approach can be relevant. Making things accessible doesn't only require knowledge and features, but years of insight and clarity of thought. You want to benefit from that while you are new, because it will make your life much easier until you reach the point where you really want to choose on your own.
I'm hard-pressed to think of any example where a unionized labor force killed a viable industry (or even a single company).

Look up the British car industry, specifically the antics of "Red Robbo" at British Leyland. Carmaking is a viable industry in the UK and is doing well now that it is all foreign-owned with minimal union interference. There would probably still be coal mining in the UK if it were not for the NUM, we import coal now.

Then again this is specific to Britain, German unions are completely different, and I would be pro-union if ours were like the Germans.
That's super interesting, I am in the same boat. Do you mind me asking what graphics format(s) you're using?

We're using a sort of hybrid Asciidoc/S1000D approach, Asciidoc markup with S1000D architecture (filenamers, publication modules, data module codes, etc). The art is SVG brought over from CGM, with conditional content (applicability) controlling the images via a new module type we call "illustration control files" that toggle the art based on "applicability" aka asciidoc document attributes and ifdef/ifevals.

PDF is via DocBook-XSL, but it's a scheduled process and not "on-click", which I am positive would break things. I am not even sure how to fire fopub from this company's web architecture; they wouldn't let us post html to a network directory (argh?), so any hopes of doing something more advanced are pretty low. In my off time I am looking at Antora pretty hard, and web-pdf is going to be the default pdf tool for that build platform. One thing I am wondering is how Antora's playbook files are going to relate to the "Ascii1000D" Publication Modules, which overlap a wee bit.
> There are also interesting innovations that become more possible as more and more vehicles become "smart" and connected - imagine a metro area that is influencing smart vehicles +/- a few kph to smooth traffic, or route vehicular traffic like networking traffic around outages/problems.

And this "differentiation" will be easily retrofitted to every other vehicle since there is nothing inherent to vehicle construction that is required for that.

Well, the idea itself is not bad, and I'd see this being as the one, and only way any form of "self" driving will appear — as some kind of centralised "air traffic control" for car traffic, instead of each car doing the very fragile SLAM based navigation, and complex sensor suite based driving, which is one dirt splat away from the crash all the time.
The same principle applies, and for the same reasons mentioned in the portions I excerpted above.
> Wouldn't a "Next" button do pretty much the same thing, though?

I wondered the same thing, and decided no, the scrolling is something different, and to my surprise, it is better than a Next button, which would have been easier.

Scrolling is more work, which is why I was wondering how to avoid it. But the work adds a quantitative linear dimension to the presentation, like walking the halls and corridors of a gallery.

Would the Met be a better experience if you could sit in a chair whilst the paintings were brought to in front of your face, one by one, at the click of a button?

I don't think that would be better, even though it would be less "work".

Firstly, effort expended contributes to my appreciation of the value.

Secondly, the spacial context of walking through the Met is a key factor in how I remember my time there. Place gives context to the art. Curators are highly mindful of this. Viewers are less mindful when the curation is done well, but they leave more satisfied because they are more able to take in the components of a collection which is well organised specially and temporally.

Scrolling isn't as powerful a rendition of place as walking halls is - but it goes some amount in that direction. I think it adds to the experience.
I am currently fighting one of these 'sane defaults'. It is sane for one of the programs the output data goes into. Yet for a different program (and per spec) it is a different default expected. Hey they have a spot to change that default (sweet!). Except all of the plugins, and mainline code itself does not use that (ugh!). It is a ranges from hard coded, to using a different default, to using the configurable one. So here I am writing yet another plugin to override what these other plugins did. Usually like you said though 99.9% of the time it is just fine the way it is.
First, responsible disclosure.

And second, I think (but cannot prove) that people need time to adapt to technological progress, which is also driven by software. For example, we cannot figure out how to integrate Google Glass into our social norms over night. And we needed time to respond to the Snowden revelations. Who knows how we will handle drones and the IoT? Accelerating progress has upsides and downsides.

(I feel this is more about hardware than software, though. More efficient Big Data might be scary? )
It's really not that difficult to get certified for export as a mass market crypto product. We did this for SpiderOak years ago. Took about an hour and I think a small fee.

Also requires sending the NSA the source code, but we're shipping easily reversible Python anyway, so hardly a concern.
The wikipedia text was copy/pasted to the channel about page so there would be some fiber for search-engine optimization.

Andy Warhol is the default page because it was intended to be an obscure reference to Paul Graham's "Hackers & Painters" when I applied to Y Combinator. I need to do a default "Home" channel, which I'm working on right now. The delay with that is I also need to do some work with apache mod_rewrite for simpler channel url's.
Forget FMS, check out Wowza.
What I'm saying is, on top, the speculator is playing with numbers. He wins some and loses some. But at the bottom, very high prices could squeeze workers into homelessness and poverty. Living check to check (business or person) leaves little room for large price swings in necessities.
You'll get used to it. Give it time.
What is the advantage to using FMS over Wowza Media Server?

Wowza licensing appears more reasonable and flexible.
I just received my Wakemate a few days ago. My sleep has been improving ever since.

I'm slowly starting to feel less groggy every morning therefor enjoying more my days. This, inevitably makes me be more productive during the day which in turn makes me spend more energy feeling more tired earlier, thus going to be at more reasonable hours. A good vicious cicle if you will.

Also, I started swimming for about 45 minutes around two to three hours before bed time. Guaranteed Knockout.
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But it's correct to say that the criticized handling of probability is illogical.

Wait, I can phrase that better. OP said that this verdict is evidence of bias. Responder says conservation of probability means that, if the not-guilty verdict is evidence of bias, a guilty verdict must be evidence against, which is illogical. "Illogical" is a correct characterization of this use of probability.
> non-expressions

I think "statements" is the usual term, with "sentences" being the general term which encompasses both (a "sentence" in this context is something recognized by your formal grammar).

Can your Lisp variant handle unrestricted continuations?
He seems to think things through and come to a lot of his conclusions logically. The parent comment illustrates this well. Just as PG is respected for opinions that aren't directly related to VC, people can be knowledgeable about things outside their main field of work.

Also, nobody said Adams was an expert about feminism and the wage gap.