jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think he refers to the fact that there's been (supreme)court cases about this that generally rule in the polices favour saying they're under no obligation to protect, etc.

And repeated examples of disregard for collateral damage and proportionality during enforcement like: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ups-driver...

Protocol changes are made like ones with regards to high speed chases but often only after a lot of hubris in which police and/or bystanders die
Bitcoin looks equivalent to shorting the US (steep rise in presence of perceived instability) with the implication of becoming long China (since that’s where most miners are located, and miners are required for transactions to work) in a sense.
I think [Tonara](https://tonara.com/academy-manage-music-school/) does something like this.
You could just as well have complained that those criticising feudalism were still eating food and wearing clothes and using weapons built under it.

Capitalism isn’t trade. It is a system of production where the means of production are privately owned (by capitalists/the bourgeoisie) and are laboured with by those that don’t own property (the workers/proletariat), while the owners appropriate a portion of the value of that labour as profits.
>my gut says the moment trump is not in office he starts a news channel or some sort of media company, I bet he even still have rallies. he'll leverage his supporters to influence elections and politics.

You're right, no doubt. Though technically all the previous presidents do that. even Michelle Obama is on book tours and such. George W Bush does stuff with Michelle Obama as well.

>i think he's addicted to the attention and the chearing throngs.

True even before potus.

Here's the reality though. The political divide in the USA is at like 30+ year high. It used to be just democrats who divided. Republicans hadnt really changed much over the last several decades.

With platforms like twitter pushing republicans off their platform. It means the echo chamber will be becoming much worse. The political divide just begun for the republicans. The divide will become much larger than it is today because there's even less intermingling.
The killer feature missing from all those is group video chat. This is what Messenger offers and why I will never be able to move my family away from it unless there is an equally smooth alternative.
I'm a Googler opinions are my own.

While Google is the main implementer of RCS servers and clients, a few larger carriers have done their own implementation of it, with no need for Google.

Client side, I believe Samsung had their own implementation for it? And Apple could make iMessage RCS compatible, they just have chosen not to at this point.

Edit: to add, RCS does support 1:1 encryption now, though I don't believe it's fully rolled out yet. https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21574451/android-rcs-enc.... I'm really hoping this is the last step to get Apple on board with implementing it.
The everything happens for a reason line of thinking always holds, sort of in a form of a question: is there such a thing as free will?
Im also wondering if both vehicles had 4 wheel drive engaged. I'd love to see these 2 vehicles really square off.
The keyword here is "friendly", which cgo really isn't.
I paid a bit more for 4GB. With 2GB investigate using zRAM (compressed swap in RAM). My pre-built Ubuntu image came with it configured. Many say it can help running many instances of the same applications (browser tabs).
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ruby+tz+regression#!/story/forever...
geez lol. I am envious!
GP didn’t conclude “therefore it is ok”.
I would add it's not sending telemetry/usage/typing suggestions/etc. data back to US/China company as other desktop / mobile operating systems.
The USD is backed by military might and risk of invasion, this is known as the petrodollar it currently requires a US military that uses the equivalent resources as 140 countries.

If you consider 98 million barrels per year used by the military to protect 1.5 trillion USD, every million in the bank uses 65.5 gallons of oil per year.
Being old... I read the article quickly, and had the same
thought. Yes, C pushes arguments in reverse order... and
we never cared if arguments were "under specified". Or over.
Just needed to know where the first argument was, and how
to get to the second, and how to return to the caller. The
caller, of course, is then responsible for argument clean-up.

Made sense 50 years ago... makes sense now.

FredW
School closure efficacy has been well researched, you found the same links I did when I researched this years ago. We were talking about lockdowns, so why switch to school closures? No need to answer.

Viral family, Flu or CoV, is not material to the modeling work as far as I can tell. The models consider respiratory viruses and attack rate and other such parameters.

No authority that I know of has suggested lockdown in the past for anything similar in mortality to Covid-19. If it's severe enough... but it isn't. Please focus on this. The CDC IFR estimates show Covid-19 as worse for older cohorts, much less severe for younger, than Flu.
He's been doing this a long time, and from what I've read he takes a pretty hands on approach to much of his foundation's work. By "hands on" I mean he puts in the effort to learn quite a bit of the underlying science relevant to the areas his foundation funds.

The impression I've gotten when I've seen or read interviews with the experts that have worked with the foundation is that they don't have to dumb things down for him. He's not going to writing research papers in the field, but he can read them with good understanding.
If you find this level of density interesting, it may be illuminating to know that there are programmers who work with code that is as dense if not more so, every day as part of their job, not even trying to be dense or win the IOCCC.

Of course, I am referring to the users of APL family languages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25902615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

If you are not ready for APLs, then you can inspect this, not "obfuscated", but still dense, self-compiling C-subset JIT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746054
Yeah I think the older HN was way more organic. These days it seems more curated, but perhaps that's OK since older HN was way less popular with the mainstream internet than today - making it attractive for gaming the algo and vulnerable to behaviors you see on sites like reddit. I'd guess it's also a challenge to keep the site on-topic versus veering off into becoming a political or populist site.
I think you are referring to the custom TLD's, which are currently available, if you have the huge amounts of money to acquire one.
It's in the google groups link above.
I had this idea for a "swear jar" for the internet. Every time you go to a site like news.ycombinator.com or click your gmail tab, it puts 50c in the "swear jar". And you get the money back at the end of the month.

Users would be able to choose the list of sites, and the disincentive (50c, $1, $2 etc) for each one. The aim would be to subtly change your thinking patterns from: "I'm bored, check x" to "Maybe I should use this time for constructive thinking".

I'd like to build a company based on this idea...the company makes a profit from investing the money in users' swear jars.
!#@!@^% deletionists are ruining Wikipedia. They’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
> This is experienced as consciousness, and as far as we know, only humans do it.

That's simply entirely not true. As far as I know, the only ability uniquely found in humans is the ability to think about thinking, everything else we do can be found in the animal kingdom.

Consciousness is not a binary state, there are many levels of it and while we sit at the top of the pyramid, it is not a feature unique to us.
Yeah, good point. I considered this before posting but figured why not? It's fun/interesting to think about this stuff and I figured people on HN are pretty smart/thoughtful. it's like sports in a way, I love hockey more than loving just my favorite team; I watch the Stanley Cup finales even though I don't follow either team. Aka still fun/interesting.
Ah, I misunderstood.

Regardless, URL shorteners cannot be described as beneficial for users (except those who want to track clicks on their links). They make it take longer to get to the page. They are an extra point of failure. They are bad for users. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done, but it isn't altruistic by any measure.
Congrats on the new job! I never really dabbled with Go, but a team I was on recently worked with a backend written in Go, and I was present in lots of discussions :) For current project I'm using Starlette/asgi, but I'm sure Go would have some advantages
This is my favourite demo from the same competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3T1-nadehU
I agree with you. I will read Jacques Ellul today. Thank you for the recommendation.

You may want to check out Timothy Snyder (both his books and YouTube discussions). He talked about Big Tech in creative ways, like how to deal with it.

I am personally American and Croatian by citizenship, but I am culturally American. I live in Croatia and I am enjoying it. Social media is evil (in my opinion) but it is toned down here in Europe, which we are lucky. But, I am so worried about America.
Can you elaborate? I've been using it for years and it mostly does what I want. It's an ORM and obviously sometimes generates unefficient queries I need to manually amend/refactor but otherwise I don't see any major issues with it?

In contrast I've looked at SQLAlchemy with Flask and I couldn't even wrap my head around declaring models (which inherit from the DB connection object if I remember correctly, so potential for circular imports) and manually managing transactions/sessions seems unnecessarily complex.
The only thing I don’t like in the ORM is that it doesn’t force you to use transactions.
Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I feel that when Apple pushes an I/O standard, it’s been because there isn’t really a better option with wide adoption. When they pushed FireWire, it was at least 10x faster than the SCSI interfaces it replaced while being a significantly smaller connector.

Lightning and the iPod dock connected are the only ones that are proprietary. But from all accounts Apple is planning to get rid of the port altogether, which would leave Bluetooth as the audio connector of choice.
It is really cool we're getting (slightly) closer to the understanding how memories work.

It is still basic research, but if I understand the significance of this correctly having a confirmation there are specific physical changes neurons undergo when forming some kinds of memories allows at least theoretically extraction of those memories from pieces of inactive tissue. As a layman in the subject I've been always very much interested how much of our personality and consciousness is "encoded" in the electro-chemical activity (software) vs how things are connected and formed together(hardware). The more of "us" is in the hardware the more likely someone in future will come up with a way to "scan" features of dead tissue to recover (in a simulation perhaps) the person lost to death.

We're currently probably as far from that as a medieval battlefield "surgeon" from modern heart transplant, but at least we're moving in the right direction.
There are still things that can shock people. Anything can be called art. Therefore, yes, "art" can still shock people. QED

Here I'll give an example: create a vending machine which only accepts $100 bills. Then instead of vending anything, simply spray the face of the buyer with cold water. Watch, as they kick the crap out of that vending machine.

To be fair, I am not a fan of modern art. I prefer more quant things that require more skill. Painting a human face is difficult. Painting it such that it expresses an emotion that the viewer can recognize and sympathize with is orders of magnitude more difficult. Throwing feces at a wall or screwing a few boards together, for the most part, is not difficult or unique. IMO of course.
I might be in the minority here but it seems to me they need not release their own version.
see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948934
An FN SCAR .308

Hrm, oh wait, you're asking two completely different questions here.
In general, you should not use PHP, but, If you must, you should be using a framework that handles this kind of stuff for you.

Input sanitisation has been solved thousands of times by people smarter than you. Do not reinvent the wheel (poorly).
That is true, but I think he meant he was expecting it to be worse. I think most of us were actually.
For a moment, I thought you were going to say that someone was using Google trends to see if there were any interesting trends in people searching for information about how the leaks had spread and which of them were interesting to whom.

Of course, someone is probably doing that now....
In short: cables are the official record and communication tool of the diplomatic corps. As several other replies have pointed out, cables are a form of electronic communication, but they aren't emails. That may sound like a meaningless distinction, but in the everyday business of the department it is real. If you work at DOS, you usually have two email addresses--one on the unclassified and one on the classified network. Additionally, you can have access to a system to read, review and send cables. Think of them as official inter-office memos, or something like that. They're formatted in a specific way, and they do not, under any circumstances, travel on any communications systems not completed operated by the US Government. You get the sense of what I mean by format if you look at some of the documents on the NYT site (or sit down, as I have, and read a few thousand cables in a row). If you're the Ambassador to Country X, and you have a meeting with the President of X, you write a memo, in a particular format, with each paragraph classified U/SBU/C/S/TS, and in a pretty particular tone. That memo (cable) then gets sent to, who knows, the Assistant Secretary for the Region X is in, an Undersecretary or two, the OPs center, the Deputy, etc.
I have seen the future of job placement.
Rated 'F' by the Better Business Bureau.

http://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/business-reviews/sunglasses...
A quick Goog search will turn up some notable mentions, but yes, Snapchat, Twitter...
I mean citation needed from the people attributing this to systemic racism.

I’m willing to believe them, frankly, if there’s any data or responsible analysis to back it up.
"On Monday, workers announced the establishment of the Alphabet Workers Union" .. So now, as well as your manager telling you what to do, you'll have your Union Organizer telling you what to do. Neo-Sovietism with a coating of Wokism is coming to America.
Toronto is a good example where you can decent density without high rises.

The fact that so much land was wasted building low-density (North York, Scarberia) sub-divisions (not even getting into McCallion and her disaster of Mississuaga) now means there is high demand but limited supply. Of course now the regions of Peel and Durham (etc) have 'found religion' with regards to density.
I don't think ISPs should be in the business of deciding what content is allowed or disallowed. If there's illegal content, that's a different thing. But politically disagreeable content? Infrastructure and utility services should not be permitted to make decisions about that even if they are private entities. And I extend this to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. since they all are so big that their ability to censor and control speech is comparable to a government's power. And if you can't exercise speech on those platforms, which are now the public town square, then you effectively don't have that right. Put another way, they are utilities and should be regulated/treated like a public entity.
Unfortunately, it seems we've literally run out of options at this point. Social media companies can either act to silence violent insurrectionists (and hopefully prevent them from organizing) or they can turn the other cheek and risk allowing them to overthrow our government. And do we really believe that a Trump-led dictatorship would be more friendly towards dissenting views or permissive of media platforms that broadcast them?
Well, perhaps that should be revisited, given that there's history and precedent.
I don't have any stats so I don't know how large is this population who want to rotate through their Steam library with high cadence who lack fast internet. About the lack of fast internet - It feels like streaming and remote work have normalized "fast enough" internet connections of 100mb and up but I might be completely wrong here.
If tether is functionally doing a fractional reserve scheme, then we should expect a run on the tether bank sooner or later.
I totally feel you (no pun intended). same thing here.
GitHub https://github.com/DRMacIver/hypothesis
Might be more useful pointed [here][1], perhaps?

[1]: http://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
I think I've bugged you plenty on IRC. :)
They must have used something "exciting".
Training data is nice, but I think its important not to underestimate capacity for crawling.
IMO one of Googles strengths is that they crawl large quantities of new content. Smaller operations like DDG can't crawl at that scale.
If I want discussion new bugs, search the articles at my favorite newspage (where the inhouse search is unusable), or just want the newest blogpost on some subject - Google is hard to beat.
It's x86 so probably? Enjoy your downvotes for being antagonistic, though.
Welcome! Now have a look at this: https://github.com/logicchains/Levgen-Parallel-Benchmarks/pu...
The original was running upto 8 goroutines (my runtime.NumCPU() is 8.)
I’m always confused by this opinion because this applies to literally every single instance where collective decision making is required or desired.

Who gets to decide how much we pay in taxes? You? Me? The Government? Bloomberg?

Like if you think deciding what constitutes hate speech is too much power then the people who decide the conditions someone is locked up must be gods.
I’m downvoting you because the person said the comments were a swamp, not that they shouldn’t exist. You interpreted it as the letter which is clearly incorrect.
I lived in a ~3k sq ft 5 bedroom 2 story house with a total of 6 to 7 inter generational family members for a few years and it had an intercom in all the rooms. It was cool when we moved in, but after a few days no one ever used it.

Yelling was easier than going all the way to the intercom button, but even then it’s not often that you need to communicate with everyone that would justify installing an intercom system.
The "slippery slope" / "free speech" arguments are boring, and come into play almost anytime Facebook gets mentioned on HN.

"Slippery slope" is also most commonly a fallacy, which a lot of people seem to ignore.

> the fallacy of arguing that a certain course of action is undesirable or that a certain proposition is implausible because it leads to an undesirable or implausible conclusion via a series of tenuously connected premises [1]

Anyone arguing these points, especially related to Facebook, are arguing just for the sake of it. Playing devil's advocate is not a noble cause, and doesn't really add anything to the discussion at large.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/slippery-slope-argument [1]
"The logic" for me is that private censorship IS free speech whether I agree with it personally or not.

The point of free speech protections are to protect the stuff you don't like. Don't like a private business censoring? That's free speech.
I have a 2017 nTB 13" Pro, connected to a 4K LG (the USB-C one released with the USB-C Macs), and it runs just fine. It doesn't get warm (not quite, but pretty warm) until I fire up a Zoom meeting
No perfect forward security. It's a feature, not a bug.
The counterpoint to this is all the people throwing a fit over having to use phone numbers.
This is coming from the figures the other anti-lockdown guy gave for the number of deaths they expect - 2% deaths of the UK population is ~1.32 million people. If you don’t get covid, you don’t die of covid. If you lockdown, you don’t get covid. It’s a simplification but it’s a start.

What you have said is that people will suffer under lockdown - but you haven’t really tried to quantify that. You’ve decided that’s a lost cause and have moved onto “lockdown causes death” ! Amazing.
Pan fried apples are quite good and not hard to do. A little nutmeg and cinnamon. A sprinkle of brown sugar. Maybe a dash of cooking oil.

Yum-my.

Also, you can go looking for historical dishes. Early Americans had recipes that were heavy on things like cabbage and apples together because it might be all you had left in the cellar towards the end of winter.
I don't know where you got that. I never said that it's not normal for women to want to do programming. I only said that it may be that most women prefer other professions. Just as most men prefer other professions than being, for example, accountants (most accountants are women). That being said, there are quite a few women programmers I really admire. Bodil Stokke comes to mind, for example.
Isn't graphite designed specifically for time series data? Or is there another use case to use Cassandra over Graphite?
I kind of ignored all Internet advertising (adblock plus makes it fairly infrequent, the only exception being on mobile, which I'm working on fixing myself...), but I've been seeing how effective retargeting is firsthand -- the "Tile" bt4.0le tracker tags have retargeted me ~everywhere, and it eventually was enough to make me purchase.

I was curious how one would do this kind of thing as a startup, and this customer case study is really informative. I was assuming it would be a several thousand dollar minimum investment, but it's on the order of an adsense trial, so a lot more approachable.
javascript:location.href='https://9xbuddy.in/'+document.location.href;

BOOKMARK that can help you download videos from many web sites
Post from 2005. That said, MS did pull a few things from their download centers recently, which broke a few winetricks rules.
Why introduce counterfactuals? Flash existed, it had a full JS-variant language. It was taking over restaurant and other sites due to the IE monopoly stagnating HTML/CSS/JS. We don't need to appeal to an imaginary Turing-incomplete no-JS world to argue that JS didn't contribute enough. Flash was clearly the answer! Right?
Eh, I built one GWT app by myself in 2011-12, maybe 40K lines of GWT code. First web app I'd ever worked on - all my existing experience was desktop (C#, C++, Java, Python). It worked as advertised, and let me build something useful. Another team has a GWT app that we are just now finally working on migrating. Anecdotally, I've seen user group discussions of very large enterprise GWT apps. So, the technology does actually work as advertised.

Having said that, GWT stagnated while the modern JS ecosystem evolved. GWT's debugger plugin died, and JS build and debug tooling kept getting better. React is a fundamentally superior approach to building UIs. And, while I'm biased, the React+Redux+TS combo is a solid toolset for building apps, and the ability to actually develop and debug code is way better than what GWT ever provided.
This doesn't justify torture, but I can imagine many situations where it physical violence can be good. I would say it is ethically good to physically harm someone if that harm prevents then from harming others, for example.

There are tons of questions surrounding when it is OK, but to say that physical violence is never appropriate is to live in a fantasy world where evil doesn't exist. There are some forms of aggression that cannot be successfully resisted without resorting to violence.
Please, put a link to the github somewhere near the top of the site.